A mortgage broker in Wisconsin and a dentist in Nebraska have become the latest perpetrators of Grenada-based offshore financial scams to be dealt with by the U. S. legal system.First, Daniel Thomas TePoel, 57, a resident of Barnes, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 136 months in prison and ordered to pay $775,000 in restitution at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on June 4, 2008 - less than three months after a jury found him guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, four counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and one count of filing a false statement.
Investment managers who promise investors returns on a "best efforts" basis must prove they did their best to effect such returns if they want to avoid liability in the event of a loss, a judge has ruled.Judge Brian Alleyne, in Grenada, issued his ruling earlier this year in legal proceedings involving a group that promised a 100 per cent return on $1.4 million for ten consecutive months and failed to deliver.