By JOSH BOSWELL
- Bill Garlock and Gina Rodriguez will be sentenced in March on money laundering and mail fraud scheme charges involving a home linked to Paul Pelosi Jr., 55
- The two are accused of duping investors out of over $1M for supposed real estate ventures – but instead used the cash for their own expenses
- Speaking to DailyMail.com, financial crime experts question how Pelosi avoided charges himself, pointing to DoJ’s history of ‘protecting powerful political elites’
Two fraudsters linked to Nancy Pelosi‘s son are set to be sentenced over a money laundering and mail fraud scheme, DailyMail.com can reveal.
It is the seventh federal case that Paul Pelosi Jr., the 55-year-old son of the former House Speaker, has been embroiled in, documented in an extensive investigation by DailyMail.com.
The charges leveled by federal prosecutors against fraudsters Bill Garlock and Gina Rodriguez, include shady dealings over a San Francisco flop house that Pelosi Jr. claimed to own.
Garlock and Rodriguez have cut a plea deal and are scheduled to be sentenced in March.
The latest law enforcement bust on the real estate dealers linked to Pelosi Jr. has led financial crime experts to question why Nancy’s son avoided indictment himself – even after he was identified by documents reviewed by DailyMail.com as paying bribes to get building permits on his Mission District flop house.
Seamus Bruner, vice president of research at the transparency think tank Government Accountability Institute, said Pelosi Jr.’s links to multiple federal cases, without any allegations leveled against him, raises concerns that he was getting preferential treatment due to his last name.
‘The US Justice Department has a history of sheltering and protecting the family members of powerful political elites,’ Bruner said…
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