Brett Sholtis
Investigative Reporter at LNP Media Group
Investigative reporter on democracy @LancasterOnline | prev: health reporter @WITF & for @NPR | 21-22 Rosalynn Carter fellow | ARNG vet | @brettsholtis.bsky.soc
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
lancasteronline.com | Brett Sholtis
About an hour south of Dallas, among the gas wells and pump jacks that dot the Texas prairie, there was a business venture some investors from Lancaster County couldn’t pass up. A company called Clean Energy Technology Association said it had developed a patented method for refining coal and had struck a deal to sell one of its products to ExxonMobil. Investors were promised quarterly returns and sizable tax deductions.
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2 weeks ago |
lancasteronline.com | Brett Sholtis
Lancaster businessman Daryl Heller was operating a Ponzi scheme, defrauded some of his closest business partners and should not be allowed to walk away from his debts, according to several lawsuits filed last week in New Jersey federal court. The claims come from several plaintiffs with ties to Prestige Investment Group, the vehicle that fed hundreds of millions of dollars from investors into Heller’s ATM network business.
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3 weeks ago |
lancasteronline.com | Brett Sholtis
A private jet loaded with bundles of cash. Creditors and vendors clamoring over unpaid bills. A company owner coolly insisting that needed funds would soon arrive. And company executives unable to say, under oath, that Paramount Management Group was not engaged in fraudulent activity. These are just a few of the takeaways from an 825-page document filed by attorneys, part of Heller’s personal bankruptcy proceeding.
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1 month ago |
lancasteronline.com | Brett Sholtis
On a Saturday morning in April, Randall Leaman, former CEO of a multimillion-dollar ATM company, walked into a Lancaster law office for a deposition. Leaman’s boss, Daryl Heller, was the businessman behind Paramount Management Group, which ran a network of cash machines all over the east coast. To pay for it, Heller and his salesmen got 2,700 people, including neighbors and friends, to invest their money. Heller was born and raised in Lancaster County.
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2 months ago |
lancasteronline.com | Brett Sholtis
Hanny is not her real name. Having her real name printed online, Hanny and her attorney said, could make her a target of federal immigration enforcement agents. And, seated in a conference room in the Church World Service office on East King Street in Lancaster, the 18-year old woman and her attorney explained that her real name could make her family in Honduras targets of the violent MS-13 criminal group that controls parts of her old neighborhood.
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