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Friend's Investment Group
Julius C. Blackwelder
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- Company / entity
- Friend's Investment Group
- Industry
- Commodities futures investment pool
- How investors were recruited
- Members of his LDS congregation (Bridgeport Ward), where he was bishop, and others
- Pitch & red flags
- "safe, long-term commodities futures contracts"; "experienced and successful commodities investor"; guaranteed principal and a specific return
Pitch phrases from this case
Source
U.S. Department of Justice official
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