It seems that for investors looking for low -risk gainful opportunities and high financial returns, a pharmacist from Western Virginia has all the answers, he writes. Natalie Cochran (40) led two companies claiming to have lucrative contracts with the government, convinced of entrepreneurs, locals and even the family to give her their money. Since 2017, it has lured investment of more than $ 2 million (€ 1,831,100.00) with a promise of a large yield, but the reality was completely different.
Natalie, with his two children and husband Micheal (38), who participated in business, enjoyed a luxurious life full of holidays and real estate, jewelry, or buying a car for $ 37,500 (more than 34,000 euros). Like investors, Michael believed that the next money was on his way, but his wife was lying to everyone.
Natalie operated so -called. Ponzi’s scheme – the type of fraud in which investors pay the funds obtained from new investors. Every time she promised to invest the money, but instead persuaded other people in financial deposits to pay the previous ones.
At the end of 2018, Natalie was supposed to pay the original investors and took loans with high interest to earn the capital she needed to support her claims. Over the months, however, she justified the delay of shares with audits and delays in banking. The truth was that the money did not exist.
On the day of a private flight, when Michael and his wife were supposed to fly to a meeting with the bank’s staff to allow them to set up an account suitable for a large amount of cash, Natalie canceled the flight saying that her husband was sick. Michael wrote to his friends that he was not feeling well and Natalie later shared his photo as he lies unconscious on the floor.
Frightened urged to take him to the hospital but Natalie insisted that she didn’t like hospitals and that she would be okay when she sleeps out of it. Finally, Michael’s friend came and took him to the hospital where Doctors found that dangerously low sugar levels damaged his brain and organs, and and died for five days. While everyone was shocked by his death because he was healthy, practiced and rode a motorcycle, Natalie did not show any interest and continued to work on contracts. She told the medical staff that he was addicted to steroids, although no one was aware of it.
Investigators soon revealed Natalia’s fraudulent action and accused her of federal fraud and money laundering. In 2021 she admitted her guilt, but the investigators were convinced that she was also involved in Michael’s death. Experts exhumed Michael’s body for advanced tests of a judicial patologist and They found that he was killed by fatal insulin overdose.
After finding a bottle of insulin in their house, they accused Natalie of killing their husband in October 2023, So as not to know about her fraud, as she knew the fatal doses of drugs as a pharmacist.
