A four-time World Series of Poker circuit champion who claimed last year to have been kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and held hostage for 33 days in an Ohio basement as part of a seven-figure extortion scheme has now been accused of fraud.
That’s according to a newly unsealed federal complaint reviewed by The Independent, which says 42-year-old George Paul Janssen, Jr., scammed at least 20 banks out of more than $3.2 million before he vanished, using bogus loan paperwork to obtain the funds.
