{"id":8484,"date":"2015-01-13T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2015-01-13T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:38:32","slug":"man-judge-described-cruel-callous-sentenced-10-years-running-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8484","title":{"rendered":"A Man Who a Judge Described as &#8220;Cruel and Callous&#8221; Sentenced to 10 Years for Running a Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Insider-Trading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6172\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FBI-Insider-Trading-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FBI Insider Trading\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> \u2013 A Northern California man who defrauded 18 victims by selling website domains that he falsely claimed would generate substantial advertising revenue was sentenced \u00a0Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II<\/strong>, who called the defendant <strong>John Winston Boone&#8217;s<\/strong> conduct \u201ccruel and callous,\u201d also ordered him to pay $1.2 million as restitution to the victims who live in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>During today\u2019s hearing, Judge Wright said Boone \u201cshowed a lack of humanity that so base and so depraved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the facts and circumstances surround this case, according to the U.S. Justice Department:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boone pleaded guilty in November 2013 to two counts of wire fraud, admitting that he engaged in a five-year-long fraud scheme that targeted victims who wanted to own online businesses that would allow them to work from home.<\/li>\n<li>Boone offered the websites for sale in advertisements he placed on popular business websites, such as Bizquest.com and BizBen.com.<\/li>\n<li>When prospective buyers responded to his ads, Boone sent them phony financial records that falsely showed the websites had generated advertising revenue in the past.<\/li>\n<li>As part of his scheme, Boone lied about his employment background and falsely promised to provide training and other assistance in setting up the websites.<\/li>\n<li>After the victims paid money, Boone failed to provide any training or other support he promised, and the websites, with one small exception, never generated any income. When victims discovered the scam, Boone ceased all contact with them and he never returned their money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boone is a \u201cfinancial predator, a master manipulator and a pathological liar who will do or say anything to steal money from his victims,\u201d prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo filed with the court.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also cited Boone&#8217;s callous conduct, describing how he defrauded one victim knowing he was disabled, and defrauded another victim knowing he had large medical bills to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Boone displayed predatory conduct, according to the government&#8217;s sentencing papers.<\/p>\n<p>After a victim sued him for return of her $60,000 down payment, officials said Boone counter-sued her for the full amount of the $100,000 bogus contract and won, and then harassed her for payment with the knowledge that she suffered from panic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 30 years, nothing has deterred him \u2013 not criminal investigation or prosecution, not civil judgments, and not distraught victims,\u201d according to prosecutors, who described the defendant as \u201cextraordinarily charismatic and manipulative, while lacking any conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI investigated this case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 A Northern California man who defrauded 18 victims by selling website domains that he falsely claimed would generate substantial advertising revenue was sentenced \u00a0Tuesday to 10 years in federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fbi","category-home-main-slider","category-u-s-department-of-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Man Who a Judge Described as &quot;Cruel and Callous&quot; 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