I'm about to share a post on Facebook for all my mom and sister's friends to see. It will hopefully completely change their lives. I have no idea how big this blow out is going to be! TIME TO DROP THE BOMB!
HERE IS THE POST: (It goes live in 37 hours)
One year ago, my wife and I packed up and left Florida overnight without even telling almost anyone. I know a lot of you have been wondering what happened. Well - here it is. The story you've been waiting for.
My sister has been living with a man and engaged for almost a decade. A lot of you have probably wondered why they never got married. The answer is that he is a con artist, and I have proven it over and over and over again.
The first con started in 2017. Since then, he has run at least 6 fake real estate scams on me personally - possibly more, it always happened so fast and aggressively that I honestly lost count. He ran at least 4 on my mother as well. He claims to be a multimillionaire. He claims to work in Tampa covertly for the Dominican Republic government while living with my sister a few nights a week in Orlando. He claims his family owns a resort in the DR. He claims his mother runs all the orphanages there. He claims the US federal government has his family's money frozen do to tax evasion. He claims to have high-level contacts in real estate and business. I've proven that nothing he has ever said is true. My sister has never met his family in person, and I'm not certain she has ever seen his legal name in writing.
Many of you know that my wife and I were trying to adopt a baby for a several years, and that we were going down the proper channels. What you don't know is that he convinced us to walk away from the legitimate adoption agency we had already been working with and to give him all our money instead. He told us we couldn't use anyone else if we wanted his help, and promised his connections would make it cheaper and faster - that he could get us 2 babies for less than the price of 1.
We actually turned down real potential matches from our agency because of him. His fake lawyer found us at least 4 rounds of fake babies. Always twins that never existed. What the real agency would have cost us was a small fraction of what I lost to him. What he took from me over 3 years is a number I'm not ready to put in a Facebook post, but those who know me well know it was life changing, almost life ruining.
When I finally saw it clearly, I didn't just walk away - I built a case. I worked with local police, the FBI, realtors, bankers and goverment agencies from the US and the DR. I put together 8 pages of documented evidence and sat down with both my sister and my mother and walked them through all of it. They refused to believe me.
Since that day, I have continued the investigation, actively collecting more evidence, and am currently consulting with professionals about the next steps. Yet, my sister hasn't spoken to me since. My mother and I stayed in close contact for several months after we moved, talking almost every week. In November that stopped - she cut me off suddenly and completely, and I believe she was forced to do it. I've been keeping track, and the scams are still happening right now. My sister is giving him all of her money believing it is being invested, and my mother's retirement is being drained as we speak.
I don't know exactly what my sister believes at this point, but based on things said during our falling out, I wouldn't be surprised if she believes they are already married. They are not. I know she believes she owns multiple properties and business with this man. She does not.
My wife and I made the only decision we could to save our marriage. We sold our house and moved the next week to Chattanooga, built something new, and life is genuinely good. Over the last 6 months since my mother went no contact with me, I've had time to reflect. I've been surrounded by a healthy family environment and remembered how toxic my blood family environment was. Maybe that's why I no longer feel the need to keep this story quiet.
I have been legally advised not to include names in this post. Those of you who know me know exactly who and what I'm referring to. To those who have reached out or genuinely care about our family, thank you. If you want to connect, my inbox is open, but I ask for grace as I navigate this.
I debated posting this for a long time. It took a lot of effort and reflection for me to finally decide to share this openly. I'm posting it because silence protects the wrong person, and I'm done being an enabler. If there is anyone in our wider circle who you feel should know the truth about what has been happening, please feel free to share this post.
TL;DR: Last year I moved out of the state after my sister's fake fiance con artist stole all my money. I am about to expose the story to the world.