The Urgent Reality: 29 Days Remain
On October 29, 2026, I am ordered to surrender to federal custody to begin an 11-year prison sentence handed down by the Southern District of New York.
While spending over a decade behind bars for a manufactured case is excruciating, it is not what keeps me awake at night.
What terrorizes me as a father is knowing that the government’s sweeping, weaponized civil and criminal asset forfeitures have stripped away everything my family has ever worked for. If I am taken behind bars next month, my wife, Nikki, my 14-year-old son, Chase, and my 11-year-old daughter, Reese, face total financial ruin and the very real threat of homelessness.
My children are at the age where they need their father’s presence and guidance the most. Instead, they are watching the administrative state seize our home and stability—punishing a family over a business where accredited investors suffered zero net realized losses under our management.
The Manufactured Narrative vs. The Sworn Truth
The government flooded the press with headlines branding StraightPath Venture Partners a "fraudulent Ponzi scheme." But behind closed courtroom doors, the government’s own sworn testimony disproved their entire case:
- Sworn Proof of ~98% Share Backing: In civil depositions taken under oath, the SEC’s lead senior forensic accountant, Doug Smith, admitted that StraightPath’s master ledgers were approximately 98% share-backed with real, top-tier private tech equity (including SpaceX and Palantir). The alleged discrepancy was an operational variance of roughly 2% to 3% across multi-year private secondary aggregations.
- Zero Realized Losses: Across seven completed liquidity events under our management, accredited investors were paid out, generating returns over 100% with zero net realized investor losses.
- Summation Violations: Lead prosecutor Adam Sloan Hobson withheld that sworn accounting from the jury, repeatedly shouted the uncharged word "Ponzi" in direct violation of the judge’s strict in limine orders, and claimed an investor lost his retirement when no such testimony existed on the record.
- The $30 Million Siphon: While claiming we sold air, a court-appointed receiver dismantled our performing assets, fire-selling SpaceX shares at steep discounts to drain roughly $30 million directly from the fund in outside legal and administrative fees.
Punished for Exercising Constitutional Rights
The double standard inside the SDNY is breathtaking:
- A Holiday Pass for a Marketer: On September 16, 2026, Mario Gogliormella—an external marketer who ran a secondary boiler-room markup operation and pleaded guilty—was sentenced to just 54 months and granted a delayed surrender date to February 2, 2027, letting him spend Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s at home with his loved ones.
- The 11-Year Trial Penalty: Because I refused an arbitrary $75 million regulatory shakedown, proved ~98% share-backing, and demanded a trial, prosecutors demanded 11 years.
- The First Amendment Tax: When I went on Diamond and Silk to expose how administrative lawfare targets independent entrepreneurs, prosecutors ran to the judge, who tacked on an entire extra year to my sentence explicitly to punish my speech.
Where the Oversight System Failed
When we presented these documented facts to the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), they issued a written refusal on September 3, 2026, stating that under internal policy they will not investigate prosecutorial misconduct unless a federal judge sanctions the prosecutors first.
The judge defers to the DOJ; the DOJ defers to the judge. This circular wall of immunity allows rogue prosecutors to destroy lives without consequence.
Why Your Help Is Needed Today
With 29 days left before my surrender date, our resources have been depleted by years of relentless litigation, asset freezes, and predatory forfeitures.
Every dollar donated to this GiveSendGo campaign directly provides:
- Family Survival & Housing Security: Ensuring that my wife Nikki, Chase (14), and Reese (11) have shelter, basic utilities, food, and stability when their father is taken from them.
- Appellate & Constitutional Legal Defense: Retaining specialized federal appellate counsel to bring our Brady/Giglio violations, in limine trial breaches, and First Amendment retaliation claims before the U.S. Court of Appeals.
- Public Exposure & Clemency Action: Advancing our formal clemency petitions and Congressional whistleblower disclosures before the House Judiciary Weaponization Subcommittee.
No family should be evicted and made destitute because an independent entrepreneur refused to bow to a federal shakedown.
If you believe in due process, if you believe the government should never have the power to punish free speech, and if your heart goes out to two young kids fighting to keep their home, please stand with us.
If you cannot give financially, please lift our family up in prayer and share this page with your network. Thank you, and God bless you for your generosity.
