December 9, 2020

A man in Washington D.C. who ran a fraudulent diamond investment Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay $23 million in restitution to victims throughout the United States and Canada who were told their funds would be used to purchase rough diamonds that would be cut, polished, and resold at a profit.  To lure investors to the scheme, Jose Angel Aman and his co-conspirators promised that the investments were secured by Aman’s inventory of diamonds, allegedly valued at $25 million.  In fact, there was no $25 million inventory of diamonds, and the funds were used for interest payments to earlier investors and to pay Aman and his co-conspirators.  USAO SDFL

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