Yesterday attorney Diane Dalmy was sentenced to three years in prison for her work on behalf of penny stock companies and insiders.
From the DoJ press release:
According to court documents and statements made in court, DALMY, an attorney, performed securities-related legal work on behalf of several public companies, including Mammoth Energy Group, Inc., a company that later became known as Strategic Asset Leasing Inc.; and Fox Petroleum, Inc. (the “Subject Companies”). Between approximately January 2009 and July 2016, DALMY conspired with others, including William Lieberman, of Boca Raton, Florida, and Christian Meissenn, of Suffield, Connecticut, to defraud investors through a stock “pump and dump” scheme. During the course of the conspiracy, DALMY acted largely at Lieberman’s direction.
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Finally, between February 2015 and July 2016, DALMY laundered a portion of the proceeds of the scheme on behalf of the co-conspirators. DALMY helped Lieberman to incorporate and open bank accounts for a private company, Queen Asia Pacific Ltd. (“Queen Asia”), which was controlled by Lieberman. These bank accounts were used to receive proceeds of the scheme from a brokerage account in Queen Asia’s name. DALMY periodically received money in Queen Asia’s bank accounts, transferred those funds to her IOLTA, and then transferred the funds again to Lieberman, Meissenn, and their network of stock promoters. In total, DALMY laundered approximately $825,000 on behalf of the co-conspirators through Queen Asia’s bank accounts and her IOLTA.
Dalmy has been prohibited from representing companies trading on OTCMarkets since September 2009:
Compared to how much money she made, Dalmy is being fined a lot:
DALMY’s total gain from her participation in this conspiracy, and related legal work for the Subject Companies, was approximately $30,000.
Judge Meyer ordered DALMY to pay $2 million in restitution.
On February 6, 2018, DALMY pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
The lesson we can learn from this: don’t commit serious crimes for small amounts of money, especially if you are an attorney.
Dalmy has less than one more month of freedom. She has been ordered to report to prison on June 14, 2018.
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