Woman charged with targeting South Florida Haitian community in $4.6 million Ponzi scheme
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A separate civil lawsuit filed last week by the
Paris-Pinder, as president of
Paris-Pinder, 48, is accused of committing the fraud between
She targeted victims largely through word-of-mouth referrals from prior investors as well as from relationships with local Haitians and Haitian-Americans, the
She told investors that their funds would be used to make advance loans to personal injury clients of a prominent
In reality, Paris-Pinder “misappropriated investor funds and used investor funds to make Ponzi-like distributions to investors,” the
The Paris-Pinder accusations include falsely telling investors:
Instead of using the investors’ money to fund payments or loans to attorney or law firm clients, Paris-Pinder “falsely and fraudulently” paid investor returns by running a Ponzi scheme that paid existing investors using new investor funds, the criminal complaint states.
Prosecutors said Paris-Pinder also diverted more than
Paris-Pinder faces felony criminal charges of fraudulently using interstate wire communications. The federal criminal filing seeks forfeiture of
Her attorney told the
Charged by the
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