StableDAO scammer begs for help to return to US
StableDAO Ponzi factory executive Garret Blakeslee is begging for help to leave Dubai and return the US.
Blakeslee, a former California resident and BitConnect investor, was StableDAO’s Chief Commercial Officer.
StableDAO was an MLM crypto Ponzi factory run by notorious HyperTech scammer Sam Lee, aka Samuel Lee and Xue Lee.
Ponzi schemes launched through StableDAO include StableOpinion, VidiLook and We Are All Satoshi.
Lee, an Australian national, has been indicted in the US. Pending his arrest, Lee continues to defraud consumers from Dubai.
In a GoFundMe set up four days ago, Blakeslee (right) claims Lee sued him for speaking out.
I came to Dubai with hope and ambition, looking for opportunities to build a better life for myself and my loved ones, especially my 4-year-old daughter, who means the world to me.
I wanted to create a stable and fulfilling future for all of us, but instead, I’ve found myself in a nightmare.
My former business partner—a man I trusted—turned out to be an international scammer who stole $21 million from our investor community.
When I tried to warn investors, he retaliated by filing this false case against me. I’ve fought to prove my innocence, and every time, the courts have ruled in my favor.
Yet, despite being cleared, I am still banned from leaving.
BlakesLee claims he’s unable to leave Dubai unless he pays “legal and administrative fees”.
I have been stranded in Dubai for the past 13 months, fighting desperately to return to my family in California.
I’m stuck here due to a cruel and unfair criminal case filed against me by a former business partner, Sam Lee—a case that has been proven false in court twice.
Even though I’ve been cleared, a travel ban continues to keep me from returning home, separating me from my loved ones and the life I left behind.
My efforts to get assistance from the U.S. Embassy and my California representatives have gone unanswered, and I feel abandoned by the very institutions I believed would protect me.
I am exhausted—financially and emotionally drained—and I’ve been applying to hundreds of jobs just to survive, but under these conditions, finding work has been nearly impossible.
With nowhere else to turn, I am asking for your help. I need funds to cover the legal and administrative fees required to lift this travel ban, as well as a ticket home to California.
Lee’s legal troubles in the US thus far only extends to HyperFund, another MLM crypto Ponzi that predates StableDAO.
Neither StableDAO or Blakeslee have been named in US enforcement actions filed by the DOJ and SEC.
We Are All Satoshi has attracted regulatory attention in Australia, California, New Zealand and QC, Canada. Blakeslee is not named in either warning.
Upon returning to the US, Blakeslee claims he wants to “rebuild his life” and “start fresh”.
Dubai authorities have imprisoned Lee based on an Interpol Red Letter notice, and on Oct 17th Lee was administratively served, in prison, with the SEC’s summons and complaint.
On Nov 5th, The SEC reported this status to the judge in SEC v. Lee (1:24-cv-00296).
You’ll need to go to PACER to see the updates:
ecf.mdd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?552894
I imagine extradition proceedings will commence.
So Lee may no longer be defrauding anyone.
Freaking SEC case ffs. I checked the DOJ crim docket but there was nothing.
Thanks!
If you can find out, I’d like to know what country/agency initiated the Interpol notice. I’ve been to Interpol’s website and searched on Lee’s various names, but nothing comes up. Maybe because the notice is no longer active?
This is great news. Good to see Dubai playing a part in the process.
@Charles
Like you I also checked the Interpol website. Nothing came up under any name variation I could think of.
If the notice was on the website prior to Lee’s detainment we’d have probably known about it. Can’t say why but I believe the notice wasn’t made public.
Interpol doesn’t publish all red notices for public consumption FYI and it’s likely Australia and then a indictment from the US to Australia