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John Wrobel did not return Hearst Connecticut Media’s request for comment.īrooks said Wrobel “thought he was not doing anything wrong,” when he got involved in Bick’s affairs. Attorney’s office struck a plea bargain with Wrobel, according to Brooks, letting him plead guilty to a misdemeanor in Danbury for lying to bank officials in exchange for his cooperation and testimony. The two worked together to prosecute the case and amid their investigation, arrested and flipped Bick’s not-so-silent partner, John Wrobel. The case, along with a couple of boxes brimming with Brooks’ files, landed on Assistant U.S. With 37 victims and hundreds of thousands of lost dollars on his hands, Brooks decided it’d be best to consult a state attorney, who urged him to escalate it to a U.S. There was no way he was going to come up with all that money,” he added. “That would have been the same situation with Bick, but when I looked at the dollar amounts, that wasn’t going to happen. “You’ve got to remember one thing in larceny cases, any larceny can be resolved civilly, they don’t have to be charged … because the court’s rationale is that the remedy for larceny is restitution,” Brooks said. Danbury’s local investigation of Bick goes federalĪs complaints against Bick continued funneling in, Brooks said it appeared to be “either a pyramid or Ponzi scheme,” but since Danbury didn’t have a Ponzi statute, he had to approach them all as larceny cases. Did it turn out to be that way? Yes,” he later added. “Did I intend to set up a Ponzi scheme and defraud people? No.

“I wanted it to work so bad that I strayed away and started doing things the wrong way or not asking for help, which led to eventual fraudulent behavior,” he said, but “to say I’m a run-of-the-mill con artist, I wouldn’t think that’d be an accurate assessment.” Bick took about $480,635 from these people and lost it, often using it to pay for his own lavish lifestyle, including trips, shopping, jet skis and more, records show.īick told Hearst Connecticut Media his “unguided ambition” and success as a teenager promoting parties made him “really cocky and overconfident,” eventually leading him to screw up “big time.”

In 2013, Bick started several companies - one called W&B Wholesale and another, Planet Youth entertainment - using money from investors to pave his way.

He still possesses those rights and “volunteered to do the documentary at no charge for exposure for the sale of the rights,” which he plans on shopping around for the highest bidder, with the intention of using the money from any sale to pay off the rest of his court-ordered restitution.

The 10-episode series delves into stories of youngsters who took their hustles a little too far, often culminating in reluctant meetings with police or federal investigators.Īccording to Bick, HBO did not buy the rights to his story.

#Google voice sign in ian bick series