Scammer Took $4M From Investors in Las Vegas Beefcake Show

A Rhode Island piece pleaded shamed to swindling investors come out of $4.2 million, the Justice Department announced in a word button today. The investors thought they were buying into the “Magic Mike Live” arrange present at the Sahara in Las Vegas. He and so used $1 zillion of their money for gambling.

John A. Santilli Jr., 48, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, pleaded shamefaced to one counting of securities fraud and one enumeration of conducting wire fraud. His plea understanding was accepted belatedly on Thursday in a Los Angeles federal court. According to the Justice Department, Santilli managed and partly owned a company that acquired an interest group inwards Mike’s Mobile River Detailing, the company operating the “Magic Mike Live” show.

From June 2016 to Feb 2020, Santilli raised pecuniary resource from victims by soliciting investments inward Aloris Magic Mike LP, a different business organization that he falsely told investors owned the demonstrate and would parcel out its profits to them. To bolster up the scam, Santilli used a doctored sound written document that made it appear that Aloris Magic Mike LP was a shareholder of Mike’s Mobile Detailing.

A Different Kind of Casino Investment

According to the Justice Department public press release, Santilli withdrew more than $1 gazillion of his investors’ monetary resource at casinos crossways the US, which he proceeded to gamble with and lose. To conjure up to a greater extent funds, Santilli incorrectly told his victims that new investment opportunities had arisen, and then sold nearly stunt man the figure of shares of Mike’s Mobile Detailing that his companionship really owned.

Santilli is scheduled to live sentenced on Apr 20. He faces a upper limit sentence of 40 years inward federal prison.

What is ‘Magic Mike Live’?

“Magic Mike Live” – based on two “Magic Mike” movies that chronicled the life-time of a manlike ecdysiast – was conceived by Channing Tatum, the doer who played the lede role. The production mixes “Chippendales” beefcake with humor and music. Its male stars are non only hunks, but dance, tempt their for the most part female person audiences, and caper musical instruments.

“Magic Mike Live” ran for iii years to decent reviews at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino before it shuttered in 2020 to suit Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. The show has bleed at the Sahara Desert since 2021.