Les W. Burke, a USN veteran stole from me, a fellow Iraq veteran. Burke was previously affiliated with a company called Phoenix Renewable Energy, LLC. He used his relationship with this company to solicit money from other Iraq veterans for a supposed overseas energy venture in Turkey.
Unfortunately, I trusted him and "invested" money for what he assured me was a promising and lucrative opportunity.in hindsight, I think he just used my money to take an extended vacation. I expressly told him to not spend any of my investment without first informing me. When I determined that he spend some (or all?) of my money anyway, I demanded to see an accounting of his business expenditures and receipts. That's when he stopped taking my phone calls and answering my e-mails.
My only option was to sue Burke for fraud when it became apparent that he was no longer going to respond.
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