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Jun 20, 2012 · The Ponzi scheme, which continued for 15 years, landed Merriman behind bars, and his investors out of money. What Merriman did is considered affinity fraud — where a perpetrator tries to...
Jun 23, 2023 · Dreamers and Schemers’ features financial fraudster Shawn Merriman who swindled nearly a hundred people out of more than $21 million with his Ponzi scheme. He operated from June 1994 to February 2009 from his Colorado home, defrauding his congregation, family, relatives, and even his mother.
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Sep 15, 2010 · DENVER – Shawn Richard Merriman, age 47, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced late yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 151 months (over 12 years) in federal prison for implementing a mail fraud Ponzi scheme that defrauded 67 investors.
Jun 9, 2011 · Shawn Merriman was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison and $20.1 million in restitution for cheating at least 67 investors out of more than $20 million.
Sep 14, 2010 · Admitted Ponzi-schemer Shawn Merriman was sentenced Tuesday to 12 1/2 years in prison in an emotion-filled hearing that included an appeal from his mother, one of his victims, to “make him...
But unknown to clients, the devout money manager was running a Ponzi scheme. Merriman lived a double life for 15 years, deceiving his own family, church and clients…and left a path of...
Sep 20, 2010 · In a federal courtroom last week, Shawn Merriman, the man behind the Ponzi scheme spanning 14 years, received the maximum sentence of 12 and a half years behind bars and $20.1 million...
