Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - Printable Version +- Cricket Windies (https://cricketwindies.com) +-- Forum: What’s on Your Mind? (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-3.html) +--- Forum: The Water Cooler! (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-4.html) +--- Thread: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing (/thread-15726.html)

Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - Captain - 01-24-2014 Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing JANUARY 24, 2014 | BY CHRIS | FILED UNDER NEWS Deowraj Buddhu Deowraj Buddhu Connecticut, US (courant.com) – A former Wethersfield man who swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars from people drowning in debt was to be sentenced Friday (today) to prison. Instead, Deowraj “Deo” Buddhu will be buried. The convicted felon died in prison January 16 and his funeral is today. He had been incarcerated since his arrest in June 2012. He was 71. The cause of his death was not available on Wednesday. Buddhu was convicted in U.S. District Court in Hartford in June 2013 of six counts of mail fraud and seven counts of passing phony financial instruments. He faced spending the rest of his life in prison. A jury took less than an hour to convict him after hearing nine days of testimony. The government said Buddhu preyed on unsuspecting Hartford-area residents who were saddled with mortgage payments, credit card debt and car loans. He promised to erase their debt, and in some cases, get them more money, by enrolling them in what he called a secret government program – one that prosecutors said didn’t exist. He provided fake bonds that he said would cover their debt, according to testimony. Like Buddhu, who was from Guyana, many of his victims were immigrants and were unfamiliar with American financial practices. “This defendant’s fictitious debt elimination scheme defrauded numerous struggling homeowners, many of whom were immigrants with little command of the English language,” U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly said at the time of the conviction. In 2005, Buddhu was sentenced to four years in prison for selling fake U.S. birth certificates to illegal immigrants. In 2009, as a result of a civil action by the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal judge permanently barred him and his daughter from operating a tax preparation business. The judge found that they had prepared thousands of false and fraudulent tax returns from 2004 to 2008, substantially understating their clients’ tax liabilities. The crimes, for which he was found guilty in June, date back to 2009. Dozens of clients who already were experiencing financial problems plunged deeper into debt, and some homes ended up in foreclosure, according to testimony and court records. His daughter, Sunita Buddhu, 43, of Wethersfield, was sentenced in October to 30 months in prison for helping her father with his fraudulent debt elimination scheme that victimized more than 125 people in Connecticut, New York, Wisconsin, Florida and Georgia. Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - ketchim - 01-24-2014 The PPP government should sue the US justice system ! Jeeezzzz man , the chap was 71 years old in a US jail... Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - ketchim - 01-24-2014 Anyone knows Uncle Deoraj ?  :-\ Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - mapoui - 01-24-2014 he picked the right time Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - ketchim - 01-24-2014 [quote author=The Captain link=topic=87136.msg545726#msg545726 date=1390570372] His daughter, Sunita Buddhu, 43, of Wethersfield, was sentenced in October to 30 months in prison [/quote] Sunita , wuh yuh do Gyal ?  :-[ Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - Kwami - 01-24-2014 All bullshit , Guyanese don't speak English? The cardinal rule is that when something sound too good to be true , it usually is . These " victims" were trying to con the system and got burned Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - ketchim - 01-25-2014 Was probably Hispanics.... :-[ Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - ketchim - 01-25-2014 hahahahahaha......Kwami , good luck in believing that shyte Chin posted above !  :-[ Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - Kwami - 01-25-2014 [quote author=Chin link=topic=87136.msg545959#msg545959 date=1390670145] Kwami ... He should have gone to Appellate Court , its the chance one has when convicted in the USA. Failure must have meant overwhelming evidence against him. Another option based on his age he took the fall for his family hoping for kindness of the Courts . An example is Conrad Black ,,he was convicted on numerous Charges but went to Appellate Court . In such a Court he won all charges except one ..ie receiving approx $197.000 from the Company with Directors approval ,if one reads the briefs from the Courts summation. Now think Black spent approx $30 million on his defense , the amount of funds noted above is less than a week pension that he receives . In Canada or England he would have been acquitted . The US  prosecutors wanted to nail him on something. [/quote] Are you saying that Lord Black of crossdresser is innocent?. This man is a financial criminal and it is only because of his money that he stole  which he used for his defence that he is walking the streets today. I remember when he stole the excess pension funds from Argus corporation in the late seventies and the theft from Hollinger corporation was only the latest in this man';s criminal history. Re: Guyanese convicted swindler dies before sentencing - Kwami - 01-25-2014 .. and  Chin Black troubles aren't over yet . He is still  facing the Tax man in  Canada in addition to being currently investigated by the Ontario Securities  Commission. As a corporate Lawyer please dont use Conrad Black as an example . This man is a criminal