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There is such as thing as too good to be true. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crim...-investors-of-millions-prosecutors-allege.ece
He told potential investors he had a secret source who tipped him off about a Walt Disney theme park and resort coming to North Texas.
But Thomas W. Lucas Jr. [photo below] refused to identify his Disney “insider” even when questioned under oath by those suing him in court. When the FBI caught up with him, Lucas gave them the name of a dead man — a Hurricane Katrina transplant he had met in drug rehab, federal authorities said.
Lucas, 40, a member of a prominent Dallas-area real estate family, is accused of faking the Disney story to trick people into investing millions of dollars in land in Collin and Denton counties while he pocketed commissions from the sales. His federal fraud trial begins Monday in Sherman.
He told potential investors he had a secret source who tipped him off about a Walt Disney theme park and resort coming to North Texas.
But Thomas W. Lucas Jr. [photo below] refused to identify his Disney “insider” even when questioned under oath by those suing him in court. When the FBI caught up with him, Lucas gave them the name of a dead man — a Hurricane Katrina transplant he had met in drug rehab, federal authorities said.
Lucas, 40, a member of a prominent Dallas-area real estate family, is accused of faking the Disney story to trick people into investing millions of dollars in land in Collin and Denton counties while he pocketed commissions from the sales. His federal fraud trial begins Monday in Sherman.
