ALBAWABA - John Long, pig farmer and Trump voter, was scammed out of $20 million by a Ponzi scheme created by Marian Morgan – after she was sentenced to 33 years in prison, Trump pardoned her.
“We had justice and now it’s kind of like … ‘we’re going to let these criminals go out and do it again’,” John Long said, adding that Morgan is “criminally insane” and that “she’s going to suck money out of somebody.”
The 80-year-old Trump voter was first contacted by Morgan in 2006 where she and her cohorts presented themselves as part of a group of financial advisers promising huge returns with low risk through investments in Europe.
John Long and his son invested $500,000 at the time and when the returns didn’t show up they contacted Morgan who kept brushing off questions, saying she was “on a business trip” in Europe – meanwhile she was in a Florida mansion with her husband who was also convicted of conspiracy and money-laundering and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
As she was scamming, Morgan warned her victims not to go to the authorities threatening that they won’t get their returns if they did; John Long, who has already lost a substantial amount, decided to cut his losses and go to the FBI.
The investigation they opened ended in the sentencing of Morgan to 33 years in prison; Morgan is only one out of 1,800 criminals who were pardoned by Trump during his second term.
Peter Welch, Democrat senator of Vermont, said: “What this administration has done is create a pardon system where if you’re connected to the president’s inner circle or a wealthy donor, you essentially have a ‘get out of jail free’ card. That’s corruption at the most basic level.”
During Morgan’s sentencing, Judge Susan Bucklew said that she was not concerned about Morgan reoffending specifically because of her long 33 year sentence, “If you were out in the next five years or ten years, would I have a concern about recidivism? You bet I would,” she said.
12 years into her sentence, Morgan applied for compassionate release but her application was denied by Trump-appointed Florida judge Tom Barber who said “she would continue to pose a danger to the public”.
The next year, Trump pardoned her.
