Michael Winans Jr. is trying to get out of the nearly 14-year prison sentence he received for being convicted on a $8 million dollar fraud scheme.
“There have been a lot of things said about that are just not true,” Mike Winans said. And I wan to clear some of those things up. I was charged with wire fraud, and on Feb. 27, 2013 I was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison. There are numerous stories out there that claim I stole millions of dollars from innocent people. That is not true.
Now, I’m not blameless. And I’m willing to take responsibility for my mistakes. But I am not willing to take responsibility for what others did in my name. Let it be clear: I did not start this investment. My name was used without my permission to solicit money by a lot of people – including Tim Hunt, the creator of the fraudulent oil investment.
“Much of the money that was collected by others that was supposedly going to me never even came to me. I didn’t even get the money. And if that’s not enough, to make matters worse, my attorney failed to do his job for me. He told me not to comment at all on the case – even though that I wanted to explain that i paid back a lot of people.
My attorney…he failed to make an objection to the claim I was responsible for losses by people I didn’t know and money that I never even received. He failed to tell the court about the 75 percent – actually more than that – that I paid back to investors. And in order to do that, I had to use my own money from the music business at the time.
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Michael Winans Explains Why He Shouldn’t Have To Do His 14 Year Prison Sentence was originally published on praisecleveland.com
