A Look Back: Joel’s Sentencing Brief, Part 4

This post is the last in a multi-part series on Joel’s sentencing brief which was filed on the criminal case docket back in September 2015.  I’ll tag the posts with “Joel’s Sentencing Brief” so if you miss a part, you’ll be able to find it easily. As usual, all page numbers listed are the PDF’s page number, not the page number listed at the bottom of the printed page.  It’s easier for you to jump to the appropriate page this way. Part 4 – Saint Joel aka Saint Dickwad Attached to the sentencing brief was a long list of letters from people who love and support Joel.  Being perfectly honest here, I read them but will not be commenting on every little thing in them.  They’re highly repetitive and I… feel bad for most of them. Joel was vouched for by lawyers, long-time friends, business owners and family members.  There are a number of positive adjectives used to describe Joel, including loving, caring, dedicated, trustworthy and honorable.  They really have nothing but good things to say about him. They tell stories of how Joel supported them through tough times, like the illness or passing of a loved one.  Actually, there’s

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A Look Back: Joel’s Sentencing Brief, Part 3

This post is a multi-part series on Joel’s sentencing brief which was filed on the criminal case docket back in September 2015.  I’ll tag the posts with “Joel’s Sentencing Brief” so if you miss a part, you’ll be able to find it easily. As usual, all page numbers listed are the PDF’s page number, not the page number listed at the bottom of the printed page.  It’s easier for you to jump to the appropriate page this way. Part 3 – Security Through Obscurity HA!  NASI set the bar really low for Ponzi schemes if their own lawyer called the whole operation “primitive.”  I realize that the lawyer was really saying that they weren’t trying to hide anything, that they didn’t use shell companies or anything, but they kind of did. They invested money into Fuel Doctor, another scam.  They loaned a fuck-ton of cash to Oasis and then the loan just kind of disappeared.  They also funded Oasis, bought trailers and then moved those assets around.  I don’t know the details on that.  The Receiver is still working on it. As some of you have read before, I’m a bookkeeper.  Been doing it for fifteen years, even during my

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A Look Back: Joel’s Sentencing Brief, Part 2

This post is a multi-part series on Joel’s sentencing brief which was filed on the criminal case docket back in September 2015.  I’ll tag the posts with “Joel’s Sentencing Brief” so if you miss a part, you’ll be able to find it easily. As usual, all page numbers listed are the PDF’s page number, not the page number listed at the bottom of the printed page.  It’s easier for you to jump to the appropriate page this way. Part 2 – Joel Invents New Math I’m skipping forward here since they’re just bleating about corporate veils and stuff.  And then Joel invents a new form of math! It sounds to me like Joel is saying that if you used re-invested with prior winnings, then that re-investment shouldn’t come off the amount you’re due. Bullshit. These re-investments he’s talking about are essentially the victim giving him back some of the winnings – so why should they still owe that portion of the winnings? How the hell does he even think the math works on that? In the off chance that you think that Joel is making some kind of sense. I want you to sit down with 30 pennies.  We’re going

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A Look Back: Joel’s Sentencing Brief, Part 1

I started writing this post when I discovered Joel’s sentencing brief on the criminal case docket back in September 2015.  It’s been quite a project since the brief is 249 pages, more than half of which are exhibits.  So, I’ve decided to chop this up into several parts.  I’ll tag the posts with “Joel’s Sentencing Brief” so if you miss a part, you’ll be able to find it easily. As usual, all page numbers listed are the PDF’s page number, not the page number listed at the bottom of the printed page.  It’s easier for you to jump to the appropriate page this way. Part 1 – Too Old to Die in Jail 75 is the new 60. Coincidentally, 60 is about when he started screwing people over. And he continued screwing them while he was 74. I highly doubt that he was in perfect health at 74 and then suddenly doing poorly at 75.  He was scamming the living shit out of people right up until he was stopped from doing it anymore.  I’d hazard to say that he would have kept it at it right up until the moment he keeled over and bit the big one. While

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