A second superseding indictment has been filed in opposition to Richard Maike and the remainder of the Infinity2Global defendant scammers.
A primary superseding indictment was filed again in July 2018. As with the primary superseding indictment, there doesn’t seem like a lot distinction between the second superseding indictment and the unique (filed June 2017).
The second superseding indictment runs by way of Infinity2Global being a “$25 million greenback fraudulent pyramid scheme”.
The historical past of the scheme is detailed, proper as much as the “abrupt” name-change to World 1 Leisure in July 2014.
A number of examples of every of the defendants, Richard Maike, Doyce Barnes, Richard Anzalone, Faradar Hosseinipour, Dennis Dvorin and Jason Syn, committing fraud are cited.
This types the premise of the DOJ’s cost that the ‘defendants knowingly participated in a scheme and artifice to defraud’.
Counts in opposition to the defendants cited within the indictment embrace:
- conspiracy to commit mail fraud;
- cash laundering (8 counts);
- two counts of tax evasion; and
- securities fraud.
Counts 11 and 12 pertain to tax evasion by Richard Maike. The indictment particulars submitting of false tax returns, and Maike’s use of Infinity2Global investor funds for private bills.
The superseding indictment finishes with a Discover of Forfeiture, requiring the defendants to forfeit
- $153,850;
- a 2005 Rolls Royce luxurious automotive (Dennis Dvorin); and
- a property in Riley County, Kansas.
Wanting ahead, an arraignment has been scheduled for November twenty first.
Whether or not the second superseding indictment can have any impact on the presently scheduled early 2020 trial is unclear.
Replace 2nd December 2019 – Richard Maike’s arraignment occurred on November twentieth as scheduled.
Maike has entered a not responsible plea. We’ll proceed to watch the case docket for updates so keep tuned…