Gilbraith was military aide to 3 US presidents.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: The FBI is investigating a former top military aide to three different U.S. presidents over allegations he and his firm embezzled millions of dollars in a large scale Green Card scam, ABC News learned Monday.
The news outlet reported retired Air Force Col. Timothy Milbrath is embroiled in allegations of touting his White House ties and making promises of quick U.S. Green Cards to raise funds for a massive hotel complex in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Five years, a groundbreaking ceremony, and $16 million dollars worth of investments later, only a vacant lot exists where the hotel is supposed to.
The investigation revolves around a project established under a controversial U.S. immigration program known as EB-5 which allows foreign investors to obtain visas, and eventually Green Cards, if they invest at least $500,000 in projects that will create American jobs.
As ABC News reported earlier this year, an internal government review found that more than 30 EB-5 projects are being criminally investigated, including the one set up by Col. Milbrath and a business partner called Noble Outreach.
In a civil lawsuit, investors allege that much of the $16 million they invested with Noble Outreach ended up going to Col. Milbrath, his partner William “Bart” Hungerford, Jr., and companies they controlled. None of the foreign investors were able to receive Green Cards because of the project’s failure, investors said.
“We were duped,” said Terry Sumpter, a retired British police officer who says he lost the bulk of his savings investing with Noble Outreach. “It’s gut wrenching, it really is.”
He said he and other Noble Outreach investors now live in limbo. If they leave the United States, they have little chance of returning as anything more than a tourist, he said.
“I’m here because I want to be. I’ve done nothing wrong. I’ve only done everything by the book, what has been asked of me, and it seems I’m being punished for that,” he said.
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Here’s the Dirt patch (Oct 2014) that Brad Owen said would be opening as Potala Tower in July of 2014
Look how photo-ops are being used in sales pieces for “hotels” that remain nothing but DIRT!
And democrats like Brad Owen have traveled to China to speak with potential investors.
In May of 2014 Brad Owen informed Chinese that Potala Tower would open in Summer of 2014. Like the New Orleans project, the “tower” was nothing but dirt and still in mid-2015 is nothing but dirt.
Wonder if the Campaign contributions from Lobsang Dargey to Washington State Democrats (nearly $50,000 in the two years posted) had anything to do with why the Lieutenant Governor would state something that was simply untrue.