A man who tricked a venture capitalist into believing he was a former CIA spy is on the verge of going to jail for embezzling more than $ 2 million of the billionaire’s money to escape private paramilitary missions “from the books.”
Matthew Marshall, 51, pleaded guilty to telegraph fraud, money laundering and tax evasion last November as part of a trial for his alleged actions on behalf of venture capitalist Michael Gowen, who himself has numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in books. and a civil lawsuit involving Marshall.
Gogwen, 57, is said to have sent Marshall more than $ 2 million for a number of missions between 2013 and 2015.
Among Gogwen’s tasks for Marshall, who was Gogwen’s security chief: a plan to lead assault teams on rescue missions and, according to court documents, to “hit Syrian terrorist leaders.”
Marshall, according to court documents, embezzled the money for himself and used it as “loans and gifts to friends and family.”
Michael Gogwen, founder and managing partner of Two Bear Capital, was photographed in Beverly Hills, California, USA, on Thursday, February 27, 2020. The billionaire claims that Matthew Marshall took more than $ 2 million of his money for private “paramilitaries” missions ”
Marshall (pictured right) serves as Gogwen’s security chief and uses several lies to convince Gogwen that he is a former CIA. Marshall did serve in the Marine Corps Reserves, but was acquitted of “other than honorary” responsibilities for accumulating absences.
Gauguin admitted The Daily Beast that he was caught by a former CIA spy.
“He was really pulling the strings of the character complex,” he said of their relationship.
According to him memorandum of sentenceMarshall is accused of using prayer beads, which he claims he removed the body of a dead terrorist to convince Goguen of his past CIA past.
He also used a fake text message allegedly sent to him by the long-standing official Black suitcase of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Marshall Starr told Gogwen that he had served in the Intelligence Force, a Marine unit. To further convince Goguen, he even got a tattoo on his logo. He went so far as to claim that the Hollywood film Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado was based on him.
The swindler served only in the Marine Reserves, amassed 82 absences and was fired by “non-honorary”.
When he began to reveal, Marshall created fake phone numbers to send messages from doctors at the Mayo Clinic. Fraud: He has received a “life-threatening illness”.
Marshall goes so far as to claim that the Hollywood film Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado is based on him
Marshall also forged fake text messages from former CIA Director Coffer Black to verify his identity
Marshall has a disgusting past: in 1996, he was hired as an Indiana soldier and “failed to reveal” that he had to resign from another state police station because he was suspected of burglary.
“Marshall’s crimes of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion go beyond mere theft of money,” a Goguen spokesman said. “They have degraded the dignity of the real victims of terrorism and desecrated the valiant men and women of our military and intelligence community who are risking their lives.”
Marshall’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comment, but a note on the verdict said the man was a 51-year-old husband and father of three who … is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a man who has devoted his adult life to public service.
The government recommended that Marshall serve seven years and three months in prison, while his lawyer requested only two years.
“If there has ever been a defendant standing before this court who is as remorseful as he is committed to never being in this situation again, it is Marshall,” the note said.
However, there may be another twist in history, as Marshall and three other plaintiffs are involved in a civil lawsuit against Gogwen, claiming that the billionaire had a “sex enterprise” in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana.
Gogwen’s lawyer said that “Marshall’s crimes of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion go beyond mere theft of money.”
However, there may be another twist in history, as Marshall and three other plaintiffs are involved in a civil lawsuit against Gogwen, claiming that the billionaire had a “sex enterprise” in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana.
They also allege that he used safe houses to carry out “illegal activities” and tried to kill his enemies.
The civil lawsuit was described as “fake” by Gogwen’s spokesman, who said Marshall “used the legal process to spread his false slander to the tabloids.”
Indeed, some of the allegations made in the case have not been substantiated, but Gogwen’s lifestyle has been the subject of several accusations.
Gogwen, a former partner in venture capitalist Sequoia Capital, who was fired by the company on charges of sexual misconduct in 2016, is also accused of paying a minor woman to remain silent about their sexual relationship, according to the New York Post.
“Ridiculous and slanderous, published in NEW YORK POST “Yesterday’s article was an attempt to inflict as much damage as possible on my family and me before the impending conviction of the recently convicted criminal Matthew Marshall,” Gogwen told Post on Sunday.
Marshall is one of four former employees of Goguen’s security contractor Amyntor Group LLC, who filed a 135-page lawsuit against his former boss in February.
The legal dossier alleges that Gogwen, who is currently married to his fourth wife, claims to have maintained a “harem” of “many women, including married women, strippers and prostitutes” for whom he bought homes and used them to “Illegal sexual activity”. ‘
Marshall, the former head of Amyntor, who quickly became Goguen’s “right hand man,” pleaded guilty to physical fraud and other charges earlier this month.
In the explosive process, it is alleged that the investor met with the women in various shelters or in a boom boom room in the basement of his bar in Whitefish, a small town in Montana where he lives now.
Gogwen was fired by Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, after being tried by Amber Baptist (above), who claimed she had been sexually and physically abused by him.
The married billionaire, who has two children, once asked his employee to arrange a coup against an ex-boyfriend who knows too much about his personal life, according to the case.
A retired Whitefish police chief now says Gowen, whom he compared to serial predators Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, “must be stopped.”
These are the latest accusations of sexual misconduct against Gauguin, who in 2016 was accused of “countless hours of forced sodomy” by his ex-girlfriend, the exotic dancer Amber Batiste.
Some of the meetings, allegedly involving underage women, took place in the basement of Casey’s, a bar owned by Goguen in Whitefish, Montana.
The technology investor appears to have moved to Montana to create a new investment intermediary after being fired by Sequoia Capital in 2016 over allegations by Baptiste
Former Whitefish police chief Bill Dale (center left) called Goguen “a billionaire like Harvey Weinstein and Epstein”, saying people in the community were “afraid of him”
The trial sets out a complex operation led by Gogwen to defend his concurrent cases.
The break-up of the operation and the staff who helped carry it out can be traced to numerous confessions of guilt from former staff and associates who threatened to talk about the alleged scheme.
The technology investor is worth more than $ 5 billion, according to the New York Post.
He flew some of the women on his private plane for $ 42 million.