James Catledge
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208 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Yeah, it's all about what they would like to do and the narrative they can create with the jury.
I didn't end up going. I was convinced by my lawyer to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud. Which was how long? I pled guilty to a five-year cap, meaning no matter what the judge says, I cannot be sentenced to more than five years. So that's what I agreed to. Okay. And mail fraud has up to 20 years in the statute, but I wasn't gonna be open-ended in my plea.
I pled to a cap of 60 months, and I went in and told the judge that I felt horrible about what had happened. This is called your elocution. horrible about what happened. I had no intention whatsoever to harm anybody. I didn't need to harm anybody. There's no motivation for me to harm anybody. I would have made more money had the project continued forward with no harm.
But we find ourselves in a situation where responsibility has to be taken. I'm willing to take it. I'm willing to do time on it. And so I played guilty to one count of mail fraud and allowed myself to be sentenced to 60 months in a federal prison. And I was very blessed.
They don't come get them. You use them to defend yourself. Uh, you, you, you, you end up in eight years with no cashflow living. Did they hit you for restitution on all this? Sure. Sure. Yeah. I have a restitution agreement, which I honor with the U S government, which is a manageable, uh, situation, which anybody that's got restitution, it can be structured where it's manageable.
And I, and I have one and I honor it. Uh, But I did 14 months is the bottom line. That's what I want to get to. I did 14 months inside. And, and I will be honest if, if I compare my mission to those 14 months, those 14 months changed my life forever. The guy I am right here today could not. I like me today.
Okay. Now I like me then too. I was happy guy. You meet me then you you'd like me then, but I have a depth. of compassion and sensitivity that simply was turned off prior to going inside. I don't know when it got turned off. Maybe it got turned off as a kid when dad pulled out, but it got turned back on inside. And I was able to help a lot of guys. They changed my life. I made a difference.
I had influence on the yard. And you lead wherever you go, by the way. I don't care if you're inside, outside, leaders lead. And my life is, I am friends today with a fraternity of brothers, some guilty, some not, most are, and it doesn't matter inside. It doesn't matter. And that fraternity to this day is important to me. They'll call out of nowhere and I'm there for them.
And I would never met these men. I've never been in their neighborhoods. I'd never known them. And many, many, Very high net worth, very successful entrepreneurs also inside that there's a lot to learn. So what's the focus now? Well, I'm a consultant today in the very space that I had all my success in. I helped several local financial services firms and then some that are national.
I've developed a piece of technology that's quite profitable, a subscription-based model that scores clients on their... retirement readiness and tax efficiency, AI-based subscription model for financial planners so that they've got my brain in every appointment. So if they're sitting with someone and they're maybe new or maybe have a lot of experience, literally the AI was inferenced on me.
It was trained on me and how I would handle an appointment, what I would do, what I'm looking at, the questions I would ask. So that's what I'm doing today. That's what you're doing today.
Totally. Because of this. I was naive to many things there, and I'm not blaming anything that went on to naivete, but I did not know enough about cash controls on a real estate venture to be that deeply involved. I was basically their sole source of capital, and we were very proficient at our part of it. Yeah. Too proficient to not know enough about the other side.
I just didn't know enough about the other side.
Absolutely.
Fundings everywhere.
And that was one of many things we were doing. We were still running the big financial services firm. This was a division of that company. This was extra money. This was extra. It was extra.
And we were good at it. They loved us. They...
you know what i don't know how much it made me think this goes on a lot and we just don't know it as long as the project finishes nobody asked the questions see i think skimming goes on a lot i think of all these big buildings that get built in my mind i'm thinking there's probably guys like me that raise the funds to build these big structures and the guys building it have everything padded and invoiced way beyond reality and this thing's getting skimmed on the whole time as long as it gets finished nobody's got the questions rule rule number one of
Yeah. Right.
riot yeah yeah let me let me deal with this because this was hard it's such a great question this is a great this is a great question let me once once it's destroyed and it doesn't take long to destroy it you have to come to the and this is really important to get you have to come to the reality that you didn't build your reputation what you actually built was your character
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