The Email Subject Line That Tipped Off the Feds to Alleged Fraud Scheme
- Cocoa suppliers accused of concocting fake collateral
- ABN Amro led lender group that may never recover $360 million
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The email subject line was a surefire attention-getter: “VERY CAREFUL -- DO NOT FAT FINGER FORWARD.”
The August 2015 message, sent to Peter G. Johnson, president of cocoa trader Transmar Commodity Group Ltd., by his son, Peter B. Johnson, and other emails implicated the men in an alleged fraud scheme linked to hundreds of millions in unpaid loans, according to a May 23 filing submitted to the Manhattan bankruptcy court.