The State - News from April 22, 1988
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Two Southern California men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas on charges that they ran a gold mine scam that bilked investors nationwide of more than $1 million. Five other people were also named in indictments as being salesmen for four companies who allegedly sold worthless shares of a gold mine supposedly located near the California-Nevada border, FBI spokesman Tom Nicodemus said. “It didn’t exist. The whole thing was a scam,” Nicodemus said. Charged with 26 counts of interstate transportation of money taken by fraud were the two alleged principals in the scheme, Genoveva Marks, 47, of La Habra and Lynn William Johnson, 48, of Mission Viejo.
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