Quote from: Alphi on August 28, 2017, 04:07:44 AM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on August 28, 2017, 03:59:12 AM

I'm pretty sure that's not an alias - that's his brother.

and I'm pretty sure you didn't bother to read his rap sheet.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

MDOC Number:
781538
SID Number:
1390377K
Name:
BRETT MICHAEL CORLEW
Racial Identification:
White
Gender:
Male
Hair:
Brown
Eyes:
Brown
Height:
5' 11"
Weight:
160 lbs.
Date of Birth:
10/03/1969 (46)
BRETT MICHAEL CORLEW
Image Date:
3/26/2013
MDOC STATUS
Current Status:
Parolee
Supervision Begin Date:
10/21/2014
Assigned Location:
Lake/Baldwin/TRV
Supervision Discharge Date:
10/21/2016
Security Level:
Date Paroled:
10/21/2014
ALIASES
ERIC ALLEN CORLEW
MARKS, SCARS & TATTOOS
None
PRISON SENTENCES
ACTIVE
Sentence 1
Offense:
Operating Intoxicated/Impaired/Controlled Substance - 3rd
Minimum Sentence:
1 year 11 months 0 days
MCL#:
257.6256D
Maximum Sentence:
5 years 0 months
Court File#:
1211370-FH
Date of Offense:
11/20/2012
County:
Kent
Date of Sentence:
03/21/2013
Conviction Type:
Plea

This is a court document, at the time of his trial it was established that he used ERIC ALAN CORLEW as an alias. He probably did that because he had prior convictions and so he needed to use his brothers ID to register the business, have it listed on the exchange and borrow money etc.

They both lived in the same house and the business was run from there so either Brett was involved OR they both were. Either way there is enough evidence to go to the authorities with and so the courts can decide whether it was ERIC or BRETT who actually ran the company and defrauded their investors. They probably still live in the same house.

This is a clear cut Fraud case so there is no longer any need to hunt the guy down and confront him.. the law can take it from here now that the facts have been established and the recent rise in the price of BTC only makes it more likely that they will.
The SEC has already made it plainly clear that selling unregistered shares falls under their jurisdiction.

You're right, I didn't read over Brett's rap sheet - I don't think we considered the possibility that he might have used Eric's name though strangely, much later, another member of the forum identified some images of Brett I had posted as being the one he dealt with and I put if off as genetic similarity mainly because we had also been in contact with Eric's ex-wife. She claimed to know his whereabouts but she declined to help us locate him and she seemed to know he was trying to hide. Also, I remembered Eric celebrating his birthday (before any shit went down) so if Brett was trying to run bASIC mining as Eric, it was an elaborate ruse.
As far as the fraud - while it may seem clear cut, the operator (Ethan Burnside) of the exchange that listed bASIC mining was fined by the SEC and barred from trading but they apparently didn't dig any deeper since nobody else was sanctioned over this. If Burnside took any personal information from the guys who listed their companies, why weren't they also sanctioned? A small number of them were able to move to other exchanges even.