A Florida fraudster who once faked a federal pardon allegedly signed by Donald Trump will reportedly serve more than three decades in prison for numerous crimes — including fraud and murder-for-hire.
Alexander Leszczynski, 25, of North Redington Beach, tried to steal millions through numerous fraud schemes – then wanted to hire a hitman to kill two government witnesses against him, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
When the government seized and seized $337,000 from one of his accounts, the devious fraudster came up with another hair-brained scheme: Claim Donald Trump let him go.
“When he discovered the money had been frozen, he tried to get it out by presenting a fake pardon purportedly signed by former President Donald Trump,” the US Attorney’s Office said after his arrest.
The Fed isn’t buying it.
In April 2022, he was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering for using a fake charity to obtain two Paycheck Protection Plan loans worth nearly $200,000, the Tampa Bay Times said.
He also engaged in a “check kiting” scheme, and attempted to deposit $2.7 million in worthless checks into an account for one of his fake charities, the outlet said.
Alexander Leszczynski, a 25-year-old fraudster from Florida, will serve more than three decades in prison for fraud and other crimes. Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
The slick thief also tried to deed properties across the country that, combined, were worth more than $300 million, according to the newspaper.
When the real owners tried to correct the forgery, Leszczynski harassed them with threatening letters, emails and faxes.
He was indicted again in October 2022 for trying to hire a hit man for $45,000 to take out a pair of government witnesses — he was convinced that without them, the government’s fraud case would simply collapse, federal authorities said.
It didn’t work. Leszczynski doesn’t know he’s asked a confidential informant to link him to the killer — and the informant puts him in touch with an undercover agent who plays the part so the feds can lock him up again.
That’s when they charged him with murder for hire and obstruction of justice, the newspaper said.
He was sentenced to more than 17 years on fraud charges to which he pleaded guilty last November.
When he was arrested, Leszczynski tried to fake a pardon from former President Donald Trump. It didn’t work. Reuters
On Monday, he was given another 17 years and six months for the murder-for-hire case, to which he pleaded guilty in June.
Leszczynski will serve the sentences – which stack up to more than 35 years – consecutively, according to the newspaper.
But his ingenuity isn’t over, even though he’s now sitting behind bars.
Since his guilty plea, Leszczynski has written several letters in which he asks and threatens people to come forward and take responsibility for his crimes, federal prosecutors said in a press release Monday.
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