For nineteen years, Andrew Hamilton Jacobus mailed Venezuelan doctors, lawyers, and parishioners account statements showing money that was not there. In March 2026 a federal judge gave him twenty years. The statements were the machine.
A West Palm Beach company promised retirees real estate backed by a $450 million portfolio. Court records show most of the money never touched a building. This week, the sales agents started settling.
Brian Oliver, an 85-year-old Florida retiree, lost $200,000 to a fraud operation that built a fake world around him one screen at a time. The scam did not take his money. It convinced him to hand it over himself.