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Day of the Soldado

by Steve Balm••37
Matthew Marshall
Matthew Marshall

So this story has several twists and turns and we are not sure of the true villain.  We’ll lay it out and you decide.

It seems that Matthew Marshall, 51 (pictured above), successfully scammed billionaire venture capitalist Michael Goguen, 57 (pictured below) out of $2 million dollars by having Goguen believe that Marshall was a spy.  Goguen funded fictitious ‘off the books’ private paramilitary missions which included rescue operations.

Michael Goguen

 

Fake spy ‘conned a billionaire venture capitalist out of $2M for ‘off the books’ paramilitary missions overseas’: Ex-Marine is accused of posing as a former CIA agent who had a Hollywood film based on his life

Marshall old told Goguen he served in ‘Force Reconnaissance,’ a made up unit of the Marines. To further convince Goguen, he even got a tattoo of a logo. He went as far as to claim the Hollywood movie “Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado” was based on him.

The conman only served in the Marine reserves, accrued 82 absences and was given an ‘other than honorable’ discharge.

As he started getting found out, Marshall created fake phone numbers to send himself texts from doctors at the Mayo Clinic. The scam: he had contracted a ‘life-threatening medical condition.’

Later…

Marshall also produced phony text messages from ex-CIA director Cofer Black to verify his identity.

Goguen’s lifestyle has been under some scrutiny due to alleged sexual misconduct.

The ‘Boom Boom’ Room

The legal filing alleges that Goguen, who is currently married to his fourth wife, allegedly kept a ‘harem’ of ‘numerous women, including married women, strippers, and prostitutes,’ who he bought homes for and used for ‘illicit sexual activity.’

Marshall, the former head of Amyntor who quickly grew to become Goguen’s ‘right-hand man,’ pled guilty to wire fraud and other charges earlier this month.

The explosive lawsuit claims the investor met with the women at various safe houses or at a ‘boom boom’ room in the basement of his bar in Whitefish, a small town in Montana where he now lives.

Reading about all of this – Marshall’s story sounds a bit like Frank Dux with the ex-CIA angle, being a Marine Reservist, and having a movie made about him.  Then, Goguen’s story was compared to Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein according to a retired Whitefish police chief.

If pitched to Hollywood, it could be a “Frank Dux meets Jeffrey Epstein” slant to the story.

Anybody else heard of a ‘Boom Boom’ Room?  Is that like a VIP area or is it seedier?

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37 thoughts on “Day of the Soldado”

  1. So as his “Right-hand-Man” what was Marshall doing for Goguen? I am surprised a venture capitalist doesn’t do their checking!

    1. He was probably doing him in some weird psycho-sexual power dynamic tryst were

    2. That is what Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics told Psaul Of The Ballsack got canned. Life Hack (pun intended), when Phil Monkress tells you that he has your six, it means you will be hitting 6” of All Points Logistics shaft up your wazoo.

  3. We have a boom boom room at our local black strip club. I have never been but imagine it is used for the same purpose.

    1. He should ask the InTheVIP (or Cap’n Stabbin’) crowd– those dudes know all about that.

    1. I was remembering when after Hurricane Maria a contracting firm received the contract to sort out Puerto Rico’s electric grid, and the Dems raised hell because there were only a few full-time employees: wasn’t that company based in Whitefish, too? Any relationship? Gotta make it all Trump’s fault somehow!

      1. Don’t know about the contracting firm out of Whitefish Mont. Dave. Coney Island whitefish were the rubbers left under the boardwalk after the gent and his chic were done having you know what.

  6. Frankly I have little sympathy for a billionaire here. He has the means and should have the ability to figure out this guy was lying. Unless he’s that bad of a business man and makes money despite his ineptitude.

    I guess it’s true. A fool and his money are soon parted

    1. He couldn’t tell who was legit and who wasn’t (or at least call someone he knew who could) by this point?

    2. For real.

      Hello, I am a CIA Black Ops operative. Will you fund my next mission?

  7. My understanding is that both of these men were guest speakers at last year’s All-Points Logistics Executive retreat.

    Their similarities in philosophical thought to the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) made them the logical choice.

  8. I’m thinking that if either one approaches you to get involved in ANYHING, RUN, do not walk, to the nearest exit.

    Seriously. If Goguen is that big of a gullible fool, then how is he a billionaire venture capitalist. Unless he’s able to scam others that are even worse gullible fools.

  11. “Marshall told Goguen he served in ‘Force Reconnaissance’, a made up unit of the Marines. To further convince Goguen, he even got a tattoo of a logo.”

    Force Reconnaissance is a “made up unit of the Marines”? Who knew?

    Marshall’s thrilling tales of phony derring-do are certainly “made up”, but Force Reconnaissance is definitely not.

    As for that Force Recon tattoo, there’s also gotta be at least a motorcycle; a (tiger stripe) doo-rag; and a pair of dumbass-looking, white-framed, wrap-around, mirror-lens sunglasses somewhere there in Marshall’s steaming hot mess of POSerdom.

    There’s just gotta be…

    1. Don’t forget the dog, Mick…That will only attack when given a command to in a foreign language. 🐶

  12. “Piece Of Shit tossed from The Marine Corps for being a problem child and claiming Secret Squirrel experience and an expert on covert operations? It’s been done.”

    Jared Stern
    Prudential Associates
    Rockville MD

    1. These effing POSer’s always are involved in some kind of a scam or crime, even if they ever wore the uniform for real. Except that the ones who did invariably had substandard service.

      1. Shack.

        Re: POSers and scams or crimes, what’s that old TAH saying that we’ve heard here so often before?

        “Stolen Valor is the rancid cherry on top of the shit sundae.”

        Or something along those lines…

        1. Yup, that is the
          phrase that has become a truism that is proved up in practically every POSer case.

  13. The “Boom Boom” room was in Eddie Murphy’s movie “Life”. This guy seems to live in movie land.

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