Are celebrating now?? LMAO! If not there cell mates will celebrate upon their arrival.<quoted text>
HaHa Ha Ha.lol! The Boys will be meeting the King very soon...
We will be celebrating...Dec 14th is right around the corner...
LMAO!!! LMAO!!!! They had no answer for that question from the judge.
"They used their charisma to sell snake oil and they wrapped it in religion," prosecutor Mark Moore said. "They did it so well, some people still think they are on the up and up."
In their pitch, the men told investors they had been through the flames of crushing debt and survived, thanks to their secret investments and the power of God.
But there was no rescue Tuesday as they stood before U.S. District Judge Margaret Seymour and took a scathing rebuke for using money given to them to buy luxury items such as a nearly $1 million motor home and a private jet.
"Were they called to buy a Gulfstream jet?" Seymour asked. "Were they called to buy luxury cars and condos?"
The scheme also relied on race, said authorities, who estimate that at least 90 percent of the investors were black, as were all three defendants.
"We were going to help people. The actual process was to get people out of bondage," said Pough, whose sentence was three years longer than his co-defendants because he was convicted of a felony in a prior fraud scheme.
The sentences for the men were so harsh in part because the judge found they tried to obstruct justice at every turn, hiding cars and other assets from authorities and filing rambling, quizzical motions that called prosecutors "civilly dead." The motions also called their convictions "an act of war" and referred to the judge as "that woman."
The men were more respectful Tuesday, calling Seymour "your honor," but they continued to assert the court had no jurisdiction over them.
"What they learned by going through the flames," Holliday said, "was how to burn other people."
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