BULLETIN: Already Sentenced To 30 Years In California Ponzi Caper, Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Thanh-Viet ‘Jeremy’ Cao Gets More Time In Nevada False-Liens Case
BULLETIN: Thanh-Viet “Jeremy” Cao, the California Ponzi schemer and purported “sovereign citizen” who was sentenced in May to 30 years in federal prison for the Ponzi caper, now has been sentenced to an additional 41 months for a Nevada crime in which he filed false liens for hundreds of millions of dollars against government officials.
Under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service, the Justice Department, the SEC and the IRS, Cao reacted by filing 22 false liens against against “SEC attorneys, U.S. District Court Judges, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judges, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, USSS special agents and special agents of the IRS,” the Justice Department said.
Cao pleaded guilty to six counts of filing false liens in which he listed the federal officials as “debtors,” prosecutors said.
It was not immediately clear if Cao’s sentence in the liens case will run concurrently or consecutively to the 30-year sentence in the Ponzi case. In May, U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy of the Southern District of California described Cao as a “financial predator.”
The Ponzi scheme sentence was among the longest in the history of Southern California, and investigators said Cao kept his victims in a state of terror by telling them he knew people who previously had “chopped up” a baby in front of the baby’s parents, and then killed the baby’s mother,” prosecutors said.
As part of his liens fraud, Cao developed a “hit list” in which he promised to obtain certain personal information of government offcials “so he could ruin them financially,” prosecutors said.
Quick note: Cao, according to court filings, also filed bogus liens against the court-appointed receiver in the SEC case, the receiver’s attorney and attorney’s law firm.
“The Affidavit and Liens Are Patently Fraudulent And Are Part Of An Improper Campaign Of Harassment, Intimidation, Or Spite,” the receiver advised the judge.
One of the lien-related documents from Cao was styled an “Affidavit of Truth.” Others were styled as “Affidavit[s] of Obligation/Commercial Lien.”
The judge ordered the liens stricken.
Cao was the subject of both state and federal actions in California on matters pertaining to securities fraud. It looks as though he created some sort of prime-bank/Ponzi hybrid involving multiple companies.
Patrick