Former Investview CEO Joseph Cammarata has been hit with a superseding indictment.
The indictment is dated September 8th, and adds wire fraud and money laundering charges to Cammarata’s alleged rap sheet.
Whereas Cammarata’s original indictment detailed one count of conspiracy, the superseding indictment details twelve counts of fraud.
one count of mail and wire fraud conspiracy
four counts of wire fraud
one count of money laundering conspiracy and
six counts of money laundering
General allegations against Cammarata (right) remain the same; that he and two accomplices filed bogus recovery claims in SEC securities fraud settlements.
The claims were filed through Cammarata’s company Alpha Plus Recovery. Once received, funds were laundered through various US bank accounts.
Of note are four sealed filings accompanying Cammarata’s superseding indictment. I don’t know what these filings pertain to.
Cammarata was arrested in November 2021. He was initially released but,
following a bungled attempt to flee the US
, was sent back to custody earlier this year.
The official reason for Cammarata’s detention was “alien smuggling”.
There is probable cause to believe that the defendant, Joseph Cammarata, has committed a federal crime while on release, that is, alien smuggling.
There is clear and convincing evidence that the defendant has violated the conditions of release.
There is a preponderance of evidence that the defendant is unlikely to abide by any condition or combination of conditions of release.
The smuggling pertained to Cammarata’s girlfriend, who Cammarata, while on release, assisted with illegally entering the US.
In July
Cammarata had a meltdown
and requested a bail hearing, with the aim of securing release from custody again.
On September 14th, the DOJ filed an emergency motion requesting Cammarata’s bail hearing be reopened.
In his push for a second release from detention, Cammarata denied the DOJ’s allegations.
This is from the DOJ’s September 14th emergency motion filing;
In its supplemental brief following the September 1, 2022, hearing, the defense derided the government’s claim that Cammarata had sneaked his foreign-national girlfriend into the United States without inspection while on pretrial release:
The government has no direct evidence that Mr. Cammarata helped Ms. Beltran get into the United States in January 2022 in violation of the conditions of his release.
What prompted the DOJ’s emergency motion was “new evidence”.
The government has obtained new evidence that refutes the defendant’s representations to this Court and conclusively establishes that Cammarata broke the law by smuggling his girlfriend into the United States while on bail.
The evidence?
a June 27th recorded phonecall between Cammarata and his girlfriend, during which Cammarata “stated that he was in jail because he wanted to see her and admitted that
‘I never should’ve brought you to the country.'”;
and
testimony from an unidentified in
🤖 Quick Answer
What charges did Joseph Cammarata face in the superseding indictment?The superseding indictment, dated September 8th, added twelve counts of fraud against former Investview CEO Joseph Cammarata, including one count of mail and wire fraud conspiracy, four counts of wire fraud, one count of money laundering conspiracy, and six counts of money laundering, significantly expanding the original single conspiracy charge.
How did Cammarata allegedly conduct the fraudulent scheme?
Cammarata and two accomplices allegedly filed bogus recovery claims in SEC securities fraud settlements through his company Alpha Plus Recovery. Following receipt of funds, they were systematically laundered through various United States bank accounts to obscure their illicit origins and ownership.
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