However the spokesperson instructed ThinkAdvisor after the life sentence was handed down solely that it’s “nonetheless an energetic pending case.”
The present U.S. Lawyer for the Japanese District of Texas, Damien M. Diggs, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark concerning the attraction.
Particulars of the Costs
Ashley, who was previously employed at Parkland Securities in Allen, Texas, acquired his life sentence on prices that he had dedicated as a part of a Ponzi scheme that the Justice Division mentioned he carried out for roughly seven years earlier than his arrest in November 2020.
Roughly two years after being taken into custody, he was discovered responsible by a federal jury of 17 felony counts regarding wire, financial institution and mail fraud and carrying a firearm in relation to a criminal offense of violence.
Ashley was a registered nurse who additionally started working as an advisor and life insurance coverage agent. In accordance with info introduced at his trial, beginning in 2016, he started stealing cash from his shoppers.
He promised his shoppers he would make investments their cash in monetary merchandise however as a substitute used the funds to pay different shoppers, to maintain his struggling brewery in enterprise, to pay his private payments and to fund a lavish life-style, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
In Could 2016, Ashley began stealing funding funds from James “Jim” Seegan, of Carrollton, Texas. The scheme included Ashley transferring the consumer’s cash into his private accounts and altering the beneficiary of the Seegan’s life insurance coverage to a belief managed by Ashley.
On Feb. 19, 2020, Seegan, then 62, was discovered by his spouse lifeless of a gunshot wound to the pinnacle, Carrollton police mentioned on the time, including: “Instantly subsequent to him was a typed notice indicating it was a suicide.”
After Seegan’s dying, Ashley went by means of elaborate steps to gather on the consumer’s life insurance coverage coverage, switch funds from the sufferer’s checking account to himself, and try and get hold of a replica of the sufferer’s post-mortem report, in keeping with the Justice Division.
Ashley was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 12, 2020.
Pictured: Keith Todd Ashley
