Disturbing Questions about Chantal’s Case  

By Len J. Forrester

The Federal government have confiscated between 11 and 12 million dollars in money.  They have also taken the 2 million dollars William & Chantal paid in Taxes.  The million dollar special fund set up at the government’s wishes for monetary refunds still has about $700,000 left in but the government are not giving any refunds out of it.

The money William & Chantal made never came from drugs or organized crime where there is no way of tracing where it came from.  It came from a Telemarketing Business that employed 400 genuine employees.  There are cheques & credit card stubs to prove where nearly every dollar came from.  

If this money is really illegal and every person who sent for the program was a victim as the government says, whether they asked for their money back or not, why have they (the government) not returned the money to whom it came from?  If a bank robber were caught with the money it would be returned to the back.  If an insurance fraudster were caught, the money would be returned to the insurance company.   

Even if Chantal & William had been sued in a civil action (which this should have been) and been found guilty, people would have got their money back.  But because the Government prosecuted the case, they have taken all the money.  Who are the thieves in this case?  

Again I stress this is not organized crime; this is Telemarketing, which is a way of life in the U.S.A.  

Another part of their sentence that escapes all rational understanding is that the majority of William & Chantal’s sentence is reached at by the 30 money laundering charges that were doubled up under two different statutes to make 60 charges all carrying their own number of years punishment.  My question is what would their sentence have been if instead of transferring the seven million dollars to the Cayman Islands in 30 transactions, William had transferred the amount in one lump sum.  Would this have made just two charges of money laundering instead of 60?