A scheme that stretched across the globe Fraud cases raise questions about the work of attorneys whose clients later faced criminal charges The Albany Times Union by BRENDAN J. LYONS - October 26, 2008 SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — The money was supposed to come from overseas: a $100 million deal to finance a ski resort in Utah.
The wealthy investor on the other end of the telephone line listened closely to three men from Saratoga County, including an attorney, who cast themselves as international financiers with access to billions. The investor, Brent Ferrin, who lives in Park City, Utah, was skeptical. The men making the pitch were speaking in garbled sentences about Latvian banks, Patriot Act restrictions and shadowy European bank executives who, it would turn out, actually lived in Las Vegas. But Ferrin played along.
He questioned why the paper work for a major international loan was being handled by a ''personal injury lawyer'' from Saratoga Springs.
The attorney, John M. Hogan Jr., jumped in to defend himself. ''Let me tell you why,'' Hogan said. ''Because I, I am tenacious. I don't let go of things when I get my hands onto them.
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A scheme that stretched across the globe Fraud cases raise questions about the work of attorneys whose clients later faced criminal charges The Albany Times Union by BRENDAN J. LYONS - October 26, 2008 SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — The money was supposed to come from overseas: a $100 million deal to finance a ski resort in Utah.
The wealthy investor on the other end of the telephone line listened closely to three men from Saratoga County, including an attorney, who cast themselves as international financiers with access to billions. The investor, Brent Ferrin, who lives in Park City, Utah, was skeptical. The men making the pitch were speaking in garbled sentences about Latvian banks, Patriot Act restrictions and shadowy European bank executives who, it would turn out, actually lived in Las Vegas. But Ferrin played along.
He questioned why the paper work for a major international loan was being handled by a ''personal injury lawyer'' from Saratoga Springs.
The attorney, John M. Hogan Jr., jumped in to defend himself. ''Let me tell you why,'' Hogan said. ''Because I, I am tenacious. I don't let go of things when I get my hands onto them.