...fraud criminal on probation? Hi, my family and I run a small business in the entertainment industry. We are independent contractors and we have signed an agreement with a guy who is developing a relationship with a major network station (he is acting as a median/agent between us and the network). This guy started to show heavy strange behaviour (eccentric, arrogant, megalomania, compulsive lying) and we have just shockingly discovered that while conducting business with us he went to jail for fraud to the US for one year and has been (and still is ) on probation. He defrauded hundreds of people (twice), and has been also ordered restitution of millions to the victims. When he went to jail he told us he was going to be ospitalized for cancer treatment. Because of that he declared that he was putting everything under his brother's name to give her all the proceeds of the business in case he would die of cancer. Now we are discovering that he is using his brother's name to avoid appearing as the owner of the company conducting the business. He's just declaring to be a sort of employee of his brother's company while he is acting as the owner and conducting business at his own pleasure. This probably allows him not to declare all the earnings but to show only a small portion of income as an employee and pay almost nothing to the government to repay the victims back.
Due to all lies and current behaviour this guy is showing, we have reasons to believe he will possibly find a way to commit another crime, fraud more people, and not pay his past victims.
Should we talk to his probation officer? Is there any way to prevent this guy from harming people and businesses before he strikes again? Are there any precautionary measures that the law can take, since he seems to be able to scam the system on paper?
Thanks.
J.
We already have a lawyer. The problem is, how do you bust this guy if he is using his brother's name on paper and through this he gets a legal chance to scam other people?
He found also a perfect way to avoid paying the government and not declare his real income. That's the dilemma.
Due to all lies and current behaviour this guy is showing, we have reasons to believe he will possibly find a way to commit another crime, fraud more people, and not pay his past victims.
Should we talk to his probation officer? Is there any way to prevent this guy from harming people and businesses before he strikes again? Are there any precautionary measures that the law can take, since he seems to be able to scam the system on paper?
Thanks.
J.
We already have a lawyer. The problem is, how do you bust this guy if he is using his brother's name on paper and through this he gets a legal chance to scam other people?
He found also a perfect way to avoid paying the government and not declare his real income. That's the dilemma.