UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTDISTRICT OF MINNESOTA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

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(t-8 u. s . c. s L343 )(re u.s.c. s 1es7)

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.]ASON MICHAEL MEYER,

Defendant.

The United St,ates Attorney charges:

Count L(Wire Fraud)

L. From in or about ,June 2OO7 through in or about October

2009, in the Stat.e and District of Mj-nnesota and elsewhere, the

defendant,

TASON MICHAEL MEYER,

devised and intended to devise a scheme to defraud and to obtain

money by means of false and fraudulent pretenses. For the purpose

of executing the scheme, the defendant did knowingly transmit and

cause to be transmitted in interstaLe commerce, by means of wire

communications, a writing, signal, and sound. Namely, on August

27, 2007, in furtherance of the fraud scheme, the defendant caused

the transfer of $150,000 of investor funds to be senL by wire based

on the representation that, the money would be invested in real

estate. In fact, Lhe defendant used that money to pay victim

investor A.N. as an inducement to continue to invest with

defendant.

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2. All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section

1343 .

COI'NT 2(Money Laundering)

3 . On or about 'Ju1y L7, 2009, in the State and District of

Minnesota, the defendant,

.IASON MICHAEL MEYER,

did knowingly engage in a monetary transaction by, through, and to

a financial instit,ution, affecting. intersLate commerce, in

criminally-derived property of a value gireater than $l-0,000, namely

a $L50,000 wire transfer from Meyer's 3 Hooligans Investment

Properties account to Excel Financial Investment, Inc. for .Tason

'Michael Meyer'S down payment for a personal residence, such

property having been derived from specified unlawful activity, that

is wire fraud (Tit1e 18, United States Code, Section 1343).

4. All in violation of Tltle L8, United States Code, Section

L957 .

FORFEITURE AI,IJEGATIONS

Counts 1 and 2 of this l5rforrnation are hereby realleged and

incorporated as if ful1y set forth herein by reference, for the

purpose of alleging forfeitures pursuanl to Tit,le 18, United States

code, sections g81(a) (1) (c) and gez(a) (1) , and Title 28, united

States Code, Sectj-on 246L(c) .

Upon convj-ction of the offense alleged in Count L of this

Information, the defendant shalI forfeit to the United States

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pursuant to Title 1-8, United States Code, Section 981(a) (1) (C), and

Title 28, Unit,ed States Code, Section 24e1 (c) , any property, real

or personal, which constitutes or iS derived from proceeds

t,raceable t.o the violations of Title. 18, United States Code,

Section 1343.

Upon conviction of the offense alleged in Count 2 of this.

Inforrnation, the defendant shall forfeit to the United States

pursuant Lo Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(a)(1), aII

property, real or personal, involved in said money laundering

violaLions and. all property traceable Eo such property, including

the sum of money j-nvolved j-n Count 2.

If any of 't,he above-described forfeitable property is

unavailable for forfeiture, the Unlted States intends to seek the

forfeiture of substitute property as provided for in Title 2!,

United States Code, Section 853(p), 4s incorporated by Title 18,

United States Code, Section 982 (b) (1) and by Title 28, United

States Code, Section 2461 (c) .

All in violation of Title

981- (a) (1) (C) , 982 (a) (L) , !343,

Stat,es Code, Section 240f (c) .

Dated: August 21, 201.2

18, United States Code, Sections

and 1,957, and Title 28, United

B. TODD JONESUnited States Attorney

I ft'"*ry1ilo,,4,,--: LAURA M. PROVINZINO

Assistant U.S. AttorneYAtty. ID No. A329691-

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