re: Game Coin… Biggest BR scam ever?

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don't understand crypto

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I still don't understand how there wasn't more criminal investigation of this whole scheme.

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David Mahler.

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Along the way, in December 2005, he bought H&O from his uncle with help from his grandparents and parents.

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Mahler started high school at Christian Life and finished at Broadmoor, where he played football and baseball. College? No desire. “I didn’t do college, which ties into my story, for sure,” he says.

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Google David Mahler sr.

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On August 30, 1997, Craig Zimmer attended the Venetian Isles Fishing Rodeo. At about midnight, a fight broke out in which Nicholas Mahler punched Zimmer. Later that night, Zimmer and several of his friends went to the Mahler camp where they met not only Nicholas Mahler, but also his father, Christopher Mahler, and his uncle, David Mahler. Shortly thereafter, Christopher Mahler armed himself with a shotgun while David Mahler retrieved a .25 caliber pistol from his truck. Ultimately, David Mahler shot Zimmer in the back.

After arriving at the scene, New Orleans Police Detective Beverly Gunter learned from witnesses that the incident had involved two groups: Mahler family members and Zimmer and his friends. Detective Daniel Wharton, Gunter's partner and the lead investigator of the shooting, arrived soon after and collected evidence, directed photography of the location, and interviewed twelve witnesses. At trial, Wharton identified pictures of the scene, the bullet retrieved during Zimmer's autopsy, Zimmer's shirt with a bullet hole in the left back area, the .25 caliber pistol that fired the fatal shot, and the shotgun confiscated from Christopher Mahler.

Several of Zimmer's friends testified at trial that they encountered Nicholas Mahler, Christopher Mahler, and David Mahler upon arriving at the Mahler camp. According to this testimony, after an exchange of words, Nicholas Mahler punched Terrance John (T.J.) Willis, a friend of Zimmer's, in the back of the head and then ran behind his father, Christopher Mahler, who was armed with a shotgun. At that point, while the shotgun was pointed at Willis, Zimmer entered the fray and pushed the shotgun away from Willis. As Zimmer turned away, David Mahler stepped forward and shot him in the back.

In contrast, Christopher Mahler testified that, after the punch was thrown, Zimmer approached him, grabbed the shotgun, and attempted to wrest it from him. It was during this struggle for the shotgun that, according to Christopher Mahler, David Mahler shot Zimmer. David Mahler's testimony corroborated his brother's version of events. According to David Mahler, he fired his gun in the direction where the struggle for control of the shotgun was taking place and, thereafter, saw Zimmer on the ground.

At the conclusion of the trial, the jury convicted David Mahler of manslaughter, and he received a sentence of twenty years in prison.

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