Monday, September 16, 2013

The Fifth Anniversary of the Petters/Vennes Raid

A week from tomorrow,  September 24, 2013 will mark the fifth anniversary of biggest raid by Federal law enforcement officials in Minnesota history. The raid was part of the investigation into the $3.6 billion Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Tom Petters. Tom Petters was arrested, tried and convicted and is now serving a long prison sentence in Leavenworth Prison (release date: April 25, 2052).

But another man was the target of that raid five years ago.  Tom Petters' self-described financier Frank Vennes. Unlike his cohort, Frank Vennes has managed to stay out of prison all these years.

How did he do it? It certainly has been a long, mysterious tale....