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John Robert Leake

ReportedMar 10, 2025
LocationPlano, TX
Amount$8,129,000

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Industry
Promissory-note loans for luxury real estate and gold mines (Alaska, Ghana)
How investors were recruited
Solicited individual victims (six) to lend him money; former NFL/Clemson linebacker
Pitch & red flags
promissory notes "guaranteeing" repayment at fixed interest; claimed "lucrative luxury real estate investments, gold mines in Alaska and Ghana"

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Source

U.S. Department of Justice official

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