International Law

A Statement You Must Read

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A reader writes to me about the pain being a victim of the Frank Castaldi Ponzi scheme.  Read this throughly to understand what it means to be the victim of a confidence criminal.

I know someone will tell you about this. Just in case you thought that we are "getting use to" what you have done to us let me assure you that we ARE NOT!

Because of you we have lost everything, our cars, ours homes, our security, our lives, our souls.

People are frantically trying to put their homes up for sale, sell anything they can in their houses, having to take money from their children who don't have much themselves.

You have left us dead.

Do you realize that we can do nothing else 24 hours a day but to think of what you have done to us?

You made us feel so stupid.

The first thought on our minds when we wake up is you, the last thing we think of when we finally fall asleep is you.

Day after day after day. It is NOT getting easier. You are actually killing all the older people that trusted you. Minute by minute.

I know that for sure because I am not that old and my mind and body dies a little, every single second that passes. I truly do not know how they are still holding on. I pray for them every day.

We are trying so hard to keep going but many of us are going to fail.

I hope you realize that people are really going to die because of YOU.

Die from a broken heart.

What in the world did you get out of this? Why in the world did you do this to us? Why would you hurt us like this? Was money that important to you?

I do believe that you did this because your "addiction" was the respect you got from people.

People loved you and thought you were so smart. You had a social life because of us. You went to our weddings, birthday parties, anniversaries and even funerals. You were the "big man" who cared about everyone and everyone loved you. That's what drove you.

You are a sick, sick person.

Why couldn't you tell us when you lost just half our money and at least gave us that? Have you had a good life living these lies all these years? Have you been sleeping good? What do your kids think of you? What have you done to their lives? Is there anyone in the world that you care about?

You can also tell that lawyer of yours to kindly wipe that smirk off his face next time he shows up on the news. We DO NOT appreciate that.

What in the world is so amusing to him? He's already making a mockery out of this. That just puts salt in our wounds. If you have an ounce of human being inside of you, you will admit to the lies you have told us all these years and get this over as soon as possible.

Give us at least a little piece of our lives back. Don't you dare lie about what you have told us all these years to get a couple years cut off your sentence. Our "sentence" will last a life time no matter what happens to you.

None of us will ever be the same or enjoy simple life like we use to. By the grace of God you will think about that.

I'm sure you thought that because the majority of your victims are elderly and do not speak English very well that they would just hide out of fear. I will do my absolute best to give them the confidence to fight and speak out because there is NOTHING to fear. We did absolutely NOTHING wrong and now these poor people are terrified because they have to talk to the FBI.

The FBI!

My God, this is something we watch in a movie sitting on our couches in our living rooms. This is not real life for us. How dare you put these people in these circumstances! Lastly, I will fight till my death to get every single penny out of you and every person that was involved with you.

I don't care about the amount, I just want everything you have.

You deserve NOTHING. They deserve NOTHING.

These victims deserve their money back. The deserve so much more than that but at least give them that. If you have any of their money left, I beg you to tell them.

Money will no longer give you the respect you have craved all these years.

Nothing will give that back to you but at least show us that maybe one time, even if it was years ago, you cared just a little bit about these people. Just give them that, even if it is not the truth.

For some reason it is still important to them.

Time is the worst thing for us right now but it is also the best thing. We are not just sickened and shocked anymore.

Time has allowed us to get MAD.

I look forward to seeing you in court. I want to see your face. I want you to look at us.

We need to know what you have to say to us. I want to see you go to prison so I can send you a note every day to remind you that we will never, ever forgive you or let you forget what you have done.

I will keep you up to date on how these peoples' lives turned out because of you. I will send you the funeral cards.

We are not on this earth long enough to begin with so the fact the you have taken years off our lives should forever be in the back of your mind. I will help remind you of that. I promise.

This is definitely not the last time you will hear from me. I will continue to inform the victims of any news as time goes on and keep them motivated to fight this to the end.

Right now my only wish for you is that your children do not have to carry on this legacy.

Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).