'Cold-Blooded Fraudster': Founder of 'Students for Trump' Gets Time Behind Bars for Posing as Lawyer

[Judi Lynn]

‘Cold-Blooded Fraudster’: Founder of ‘Students for Trump’ Gets Time Behind Bars for Posing as Lawyer, Scamming ‘Clients’
Jerry Lambe 11 hrs ago

The founder of the youth political group “Students for Trump” on Tuesday was sentenced to more than a year in prison for posing as an attorney and scamming people seeking legal advice out of tens of thousands of dollars, the New York Daily News reported.

According to the report, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie E. Caproni, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, unleashed on John Lambert, 25, calling him a “cold-blooded fraudster who cared not a whit about the victims of his fraud” before levying a 13-month sentence.

Lambert in 2019 was indicted and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy in connection with a scheme in which he held himself out to be a high-powered attorney named Eric Pope from the fictitious New York-based law firm Pope and Dunn. He and alleged co-conspirator, Ryan Fournier, then sought and obtained freelance jobs, sometimes providing unqualified legal advice, other times just taking the money and leaving victims in the lurch. According to court documents, the scheme brought in at least $46,654 for Lambert between 2016 and 2018.

“Mr. Lambert took his money and did nothing,” Caproni said, per the Daily News. “Mr. Lambert did not even have the common decency to make up an excuse and tell the victim to hire another attorney.”

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. The co-conspirator Ryan Fournier gets away with no conviction, and continues in Trumpworld

Students for Trump co-founder and pugnacious MAGA Twitter star Ryan Fournier allegedly helped his friend create a fake law firm to bilk innocent clients, only to turn against his one-time partner to help federal law enforcement, according to records and statements made Tuesday by a lawyer involved in the case.
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While Fournier’s star on the right has been somewhat diminished since the first days of Students for Trump, he has a prominent platform in Trumpworld, including more than 950,000 Twitter followers.

Fournier has kept up a trash-talking attitude in the Biden administration, even to some of his critics on the right. Earlier this week, Fournier made waves on right-wing social media circles with a bellicose Instagram Live in which Fournier addressed his opponents within the GOP.

“If you don’t support me and you’ve supported Trump since Day 1, go fuck yourself, I really do not give a shit about you, because you are a peasant motherfucker,” Fournier said, raising a middle finger to the camera. “Because guess what? Fuck you.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/students-for-trump-founder-ryan-fournier-ratted-out-friend-to-feds

[AZ8theist]

2. He sounds nice...