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William Roy Stone. Jr Wiki – William Roy Stone. Jr Biography
The former FBI agent who pulled off a “secret probation” scam against an unsuspecting victim who ultimately lost hundreds of thousands of dollars has been convicted. William Roy Stone, Jr., 64, was convicted of eight federal counts in connection with the scheme to convince a woman in Granbury, Texas, that she was on “secret probation” for drug offenses in federal court in Austin, and that in order to protect himself, he needed to pay Stone and his co-defendant, Joseph Eventino DeLeon, 64, to oversee his case.
According to a Justice Department announcement, Stone and DeLeon were sentenced on August 10 after 12 days of jury trial and just four hours of deliberation. Stone, a retired FBI agent, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, five counts of wire fraud, one count of involvement in money transactions on property derived from illegal activity and one count of falsely impersonating a federal official. , and faces up to 158 years in prison. DeLeon was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and faces up to 20 years behind bars.
Prosecutors said Stone first convinced the woman, identified only as “C.T.”, in November 2015, that she was under the jurisdiction of “Judge Anderson’s court in Austin, Texas.” “He and Mr. DeLeon told the victim that the fictional federal judge had appointed the two of them to administer the conditions of his six-year ‘secret probation,'” the Justice Department announcement reads. “They demanded that he send them written reports of his daily activities by text message and that he compensate them for their supervisory services, as well as for the expenses they incurred.”
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The age of William Roy Stone. Jr is 64 year.
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According to the FBI, Stone had at one point told C.T. that he had incurred significant expenses in traveling to Austin to discuss the victim’s parole with the non-existent judge, “and he intimidated her into reimbursing him for the expenses associated with those trips.”
He collected additional “restitution” money from the victim, which he “secretly deposited into his own bank account.” Stone also convicted C.T. hand over enough money to buy a house and cars. Copies of “six-figure multiple checks” C.T. wrote that Stone and DeLeon were admitted into evidence at trial. “Over the course of eleven months, C.T. gave Mr. Stone over $700,000 and Mr. DeLeon over $50,000,” the ad says. In total, the scheme ran for around four years, from November 2015 to around August 2019.
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Stone and DeLeon told C.T. that she was not allowed to share her “probation status” with anyone and that she risked “being imprisoned and losing her children if she did not comply with the terms of her probation.” At some point, C.T. began to question the situation, the DOJ says, and recorded phone calls between her and Stone, who insisted that her actions were “legitimate.”
“To further convince her that the probation was real, the defendants monitored her cell phone communications, physically watched her, stated that they had discussed C.T. Center’ in a message asking for C.T., and even made fake calls between Mr. Stone, C.T., and the fictional Judge Anderson,” the Justice Department announcement reads.
The defendants also “urged her to distance herself from her family, alleging that her family members wanted to take her inheritance from her, and persuaded her to transfer her inherited assets from a trust.” to an account of hers to hers name of her” of her.
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At one point, the DOJ says, the defendants allegedly told C.T. that “Judge Anderson” would withdraw her probation if “C.T. she agreed to marry Mr. Stone. “Mr. DeLeon even carried a gun into C.T.’s home while he was allegedly providing ‘protective services’ to her,” the announcement added.Read More……
