Dillon Dean, courtesy photo
Longmont’s Dillon Dean, founder of Longmont’s The Entrepreneurs Headquarters, is pictured in a screenshot from his YouTube video.
A Longmont man accused in a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme has eluded being served papers by the federal agency suing him for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $1 million.
Dillon Dean and his company, The Entrepreneurs Headquarters, in January were charged by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for conducting a “fraudulent Ponzi-style” scheme, misappropriating funds and failing to register with the agency.
But the feds have been unable to serve Dean the summons and complaint because “he is attempting to evade service by concealing his whereabouts,” according to court documents. The CFTC has asked the courts to allow them to use “alternative forms of service,” including emails to one of four accounts associated with Dean and his businesses.
In the filings, the agency details the lengths it went to serve Dean, including one visit to his parents’ Longmont home, eight visits to another address in the city, phone calls and texts, emails to multiple accounts and through social media.
Source : Denver Post
