A 51-year-old man from Texas who posed as a CIA agent managed to defraud around twenty people of nearly US$20 million.
Saint Jovite Youngblood also presented himself as an expert in quantum physics, even though he was a former used car salesman from Cleveland who did not finish high school.
Born Dennis Schuler, the father quickly became friends with his wealthy victims in an Austin youth hockey league where his son played.
For example, developer Eric Perardi’s relationship turned into a nightmare for the latter, when the brazen conman he was the target of a Mexican drug cartel.
To keep the cartel at bay, Youngblood convinced Perardi to pay more than $821,600 to keep his family safe, the New York Post reported Tuesday, citing The Statesman.
The fifty-year-old who gained the trust of another couple who owned a sports hall managed to extract US$200,000 from them which he promised to repay.
Having understood that they were being fooled, the three victims discovered the pot of roses, since the real Dennis Schuler had a past littered with criminal fraud.
The crook was unmasked by Perardi, after notifying federal agents who searched his home, before presenting him to justice, according to local media.
Police discovered that the 50-year-old, whose trial is set for April, spent more than US$700,000 in Las Vegas casinos, it was added.
