Dallas Federal Judge Sentences Weatherford Cattle-Ranchin' Swindler to Six Years, $10 Mil
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Which worked out OK for a while, from about 2004 till '06, as Black, who was also a director of the First National Bank of Weatherford, paid back his investors out of the ranch's profits. He even mailed his unintentional backers phony monthly account statements, showing folks that their investments were earning interest and then some. But soon as the ranch started losing money, well, the game was up: Black had defrauded investors of more than $3 million and two banks of more than $3.5 million, and he was in front of the feds pleading guilty to mail fraud in May 2008. One year later, says the U.S. Attorney's Office today, he was back in Dallas federal court to learn his sentence: more than six years in prison. And U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay told Black he owes $9,669,697.49 in restitution. For what it's worth, Black's attorney always claimed his client wasn't involved in a Ponzi scheme -- he just made some, ya know, "misrepresentations."
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