Former Florida Democrat Senate Candidate Anis Blemur Sentenced in $1.6 million Investment Scam involving Haitians
Tallahassee, Fla. – The Florida Office of Financial Regulation announced that Anis Blemur has been sentenced to more than 7 years (92 months) in federal prison and 5 years of supervised release for his role in an investment scheme that stole more than $1.6 million from victims in South Florida’s Haitian community. Anis Auguste Blemur was a 2014 and 2016 Democratic Party candidate for District 38 of the Florida State Senate. District 38 represents Miami/Dade County.
Alex Toledo, OFR Acting Bureau Chief of Financial Investigations, said,
“Thank you to the investigators and our partners for their efforts in bringing this criminal to justice, and putting a stop to these scams. We will continue to aggressively fight to protect Floridians from financial fraud.”
In April 2019, Anis Blemur pled guilty to charges of wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft for his role in the scams.
Blemur claimed he was raising money for real estate investments through the sale of promissory notes that were secured by real estate.
However, a joint OFR-FBI investigation revealed that Blemur used investors’ money for his personal expenses.
The investigation exposed an additional scam, where Blemur solicited homebuyers and persuaded them to place their down payment money in an escrow account.
In fact, there was no escrow account and Blemur used the money for his personal benefit.
In addition to these scams, Blemur used victims’ personal identifying information to apply for 26 credit cards.
Florida’s thirty-eighth state senate district is currently represented by Democratic Senator Jason Pizzo.
There is much more investigations that need to be done in the haitien community they’re bunch of thieves who pray on there on people bravo, besides this is not Haiti my friend , we have laws .