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Capital Blu investors’ $17M mostly gone, authorities say
By Orlando Sentinel
Investigators have found only a fraction of the $17million that investors poured into a Central Florida-based currency-trading scheme called Capital Blu, according to the company’s court-appointed receiver.
Less than $500,000 in cash has been recovered so far from Capital Blu Management LLC, whose operations began unraveling last year, said Lewis B. Freeman, the receiver and a veteran fraud examiner based in Miami.
Capital Blu’s money didn’t simply evaporate; authorities allege that the company’s principals spent at least some of it on striptease dancers, ritzy cars, island vacations, trips to Las Vegas and a private jet, among other things.
“We’ve seen testimony about money going to things like strip clubs and expensive cars, and we’re still looking into that,” Freeman said in an interview last week. “The question is, what money are we really able to recover? Getting money back from dancers and limousine companies is no simple chore.”
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