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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAnother Pat sends us a link to the news<\/a> that Edward I. Campbell, who we discussed nearly a year ago<\/a> when he pleaded guilty to bilking his investment clients of over a million bucks, is on his way to prison. While he was taking their money he was pretending to be a Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n The Reynoldsburg man with his own investment firm always had a story for his nearly four dozen clients.<\/p>\n Edward I. Campbell, 41, said he was a former Navy SEAL with international business connections. He told investors his niece had been shot in the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.<\/p>\n He promised big returns on investments and when there were delays, he told of how international catastrophes or some U.S. agency was holding things up.<\/p>\n It was all untrue.<\/p>\n \u201cCampbell blatantly and repeatedly lied and violated the trust placed in him by the individuals who invested with him,\u201d said Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, based in Columbus. \u201cBesides falsely representing experience and expertise, he told contemptible lies about a tragic incident.\u201d<\/p>\n In federal court Tuesday in Columbus, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson sentenced Campbell to five years in federal prison on money laundering and wire fraud charges. Campbell earlier had entered a plea agreement to the charges.<\/p>\n As part of the sentence, Campbell also agreed to pay $1,408,854 in restitution – the amount of money he stole from 44 investors between July 2011 and June 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That phony SEAL training is going to come in handy in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"