John Mathewson

The USA has filed a complaint against the Estate of deceased former offshore banker John Mathewson in an attempt to collect on an unpaid judgment for $11.3 million in 1993 that has ballooned to $39 million. The defendants include two Bahamas companies in which Mathewson allegedly "kept most of his money hidden".

Amended Complaint filed by the USA against the Estate of John Mathewson, Linda Mathewson, Martin O'Neill, Texas NOM limited Partnership, d.b.a. Garrison, Ltd.; Texas MON, LC, FMBL, Inc., Enster Corporation, and Marlborough Investments, Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Default Judgment against FMBL, Inc. in a case brought by the USA against the Estate of John Mathewson, Linda Mathewson, Martin O'Neill, Texas NOM limited Partnership, d.b.a. Garrison, Ltd., Texas MON, LC, FMBL, Inc., Enster Corporation, and Marlborough Investments, Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Answer of the Estate of John Mathewson in a civil complaint filed by the USA against the Estate of John Mathewson, Linda Mathewson, Martin O'Neill, Texas NOM limited Partnership, d.b.a. Garrison, Ltd.; Texas MON, LC, FMBL, Inc., Enster Corporation, and Marlborough Investments, Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Complaint filed by the USA against the Estate of John Mathewson, Linda Mathewson, Martin O'Neill, Texas NOM limited Partnership, d.b.a. Garrison, Ltd.; Texas MON, LC, FMBL, Inc., Enster Corporation, and Marlborough Investments, Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Former Cayman Islands-based banker John Mathewson, who infamously turned in his bank's clients to the United States Internal Revenue Service in return for leniency on tax evasion and money laundering charges in the 1990s, is the target of a new investigation into tax fraud.

The Imperial Consolidated fraud has taken a further turn for the bizarre with the distribution in September of several press releases, masquerading as news stories, by a newly incorporated British company called Matrix International (Management) Ltd., whose commercial address is

A civil lawsuit filed by Leon Denning against his former Cayman Islands-based banker, John Mathewson, has been moved from Denning's home state of Illinois to Texas, where Mathewson resides.

A businessman who has been criminally indicted for alleged tax fraud in the United States is suing former Cayman banker John Mathewson for turning him in to the IRS.It is believed to be the first time that a client of the now defunct Cayman-based Guardian Bank and Trust has sought damages against Mathewson for handing over the bank's records to the US authorities.Leon Denning, who was indicted on eight counts of tax fraud at the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on March 29, 2001, filed a civil suit against Mathewson at the same court on August 9.

Ned Richard Hart, who was criminally indicted on February 23, 2000 along with Nevis based offshore provider Raymond David Finzer and Christian G. Cooper, pleaded guilty to one count each of fraud and money laundering on May 21, 2001 at

A man who is under criminal indictment in the United States for alleged money laundering and fraud is no longer involved with Nevis-based Guardian Trust Company, said the firm's manager, Jessica Huggins. Even though one of Guardian's web-sites is still registered to Baron D. Abboud, of Omaha, Nebraska, Huggins said: "He no longer has anything to do with the company."

Former banker John Mathewson claims that a member of the Cayman Islands government once asked him for a pay-off of $250,000, plus shares in an offshore bank that Mathewson controlled. Mathewson, who owned and managed the now defunct Cayman-registered Guardian Bank & Trust, made the allegation on the first of three days of United States Senate hearings into money laundering.

Offshore regulators act against banks named in U. S. Senate's 'Correspondent Banking: A Gateway to Money Laundering' report, Marc Harris denounces attempt to strip him of Panamanian citizenship, David Voth comes up with a novel excuse as to why he can't make investment pay-outs, complaints about Morrison Cross Financial Investments start coming in, details of relatively-recent lawsuits involving Jerome Schneider and/or related entities, U. S. court approves settlement plan between Heartland Financial Services and investors who received "false profits", Pittsburgh travel agent Roy Davis Jr. becomes latest victim of John Mathewson's co-operation with US authorities, sset freeze order issued against Midpoint Trading Corporation, Euro Bank Corp. 'Preliminary Inquiry' hearing starts in Cayman Islands.

In February, Offshore Alert reported about stock manipulation allegations involving Bermuda Stock Exchange-listed Mezzanine Capital; Viktor Kozeny, the 'Pirate of Prague' who allegedly defrauded his countrymen in the former Czechoslovakia of tens of millions of dollars before fleeing, buying an Irish passport and going to live in the Bahamas, has apparently fallen out with the Grenada government, according to Grenada Today newspaper; A letter to the editor that was published in the Caymanian Compass newspaper on August 20, 1999 caused rum amusement in knowledgeable law enforcement circles; and In the ten days after we posted the Harris Organization/OBNR libel judgment on our web-site, 638 people had downloaded the entire 17 pages, making it the most popular document on the 'Free Documents' section of our web-site.

Former Cayman banker John Mathewson has kept his freedom as a reward for turning in his clients to the US authorities. Mathewson, 71, was sentenced to five years of probation, 500 hours of community service and a $30,000 fine at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on August 2 after previously pleading guilty to money laundering, and tax evasion charges brought not only in New Jersey but also at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Eight defendants in a criminal indictment filed in Nebraska recently appear to be the latest victims of former Cayman banker John Mathewson's decision to help US authorities investigate his ex-clients.David Abboud, his brother Gene, son Baron and nephew Joseph, Susan Germer, United Imports Corp. (d.b.a. M. D. Electronics), G&A Distributing Inc. (d.b.a. Broadway Enterprises) and Infinite Electronics were charged on April 26, 1999 with 15 counts of Mail Fraud, 11 counts of Wire Fraud, seven counts of Unauthorized Reception of Cable Television Service, one count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, and 13 counts of Domestic Money Laundering.

Global Village Market and the World Investors' Stock Exchange, Global Prosperity Group charges attendees $17,000 each for its get-rich-quick conferences, John Mathewson and the FBI, Cayman bank officer lived in home owned by client, says source; Harris Organization tries to subscribe to Offshore Alert, journalists seek information on Michael Ashcroft, Harris Organization officer Alan McAloon professes ignorance over Florida property ownership.

Former Cayman banker John Mathewson's sentencing hearing for helping to launder the proceeds of crime has been delayed yet again. Mathewson was due to be sentenced on April 30 by a court in New Jersey in the US but the matter was adjourned until later in the year; If figures compiled by The Wall Street Journal are to be relied upon for accuracy, the Cayman Islands is not the world's fifth largest financial center, as it claims, but is actually the eighth largest; Six months after US$9 million of its assets were frozen in British Columbia as part of an investigation into fraudulent trading, the Cayman-based broker/dealer Harris McLean Financial Group has filed a lawsuit in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands against one of its principals, Richard Harris, and his mother, Ana Harris; and Those of you who have been following our articles on The Harris Organization of Panama might like to read a three-page article on the subject that appeared in the June 1 edition of Business Week.

The liquidator of Cayman-based Guardian Bank & Trust (in liquidation) has lost a petition he filed against the US government for the return of a computer tape containing details of accounts held at the bank.John Mathewson, the former chairman of the bank, handed over the tape to the FBI in June, 1996, as part of a plea bargain agreement after he was charged with money laundering offences in New Jersey.