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Quote:Scott Kennedy says he only wanted to be loved, but the FBI says the onetime financial executive of a north suburban drug company gave a professional escort access to his company credit card.

Less than a year and a half later, the two had run up unauthorized charges of nearly $5.8 million, according to the FBI.

A court filing obtained by the Tribune lays out the spending in spectacular fashion, including about $24,000 for movers to haul the woman's potted plants from Illinois to her new 6,500-square-foot mansion in San Diego, where she planned to open a spa — all with company cash.

"I'm the only person who has to answer for being stupid," Kennedy, 43, said in a telephone interview this week.

The allegations are detailed in a warrant to seize $36,229 from the checking account of the spa business allegedly started up by the onetime escort. The document was recently unsealed in federal court in Chicago.

Neither are named in the court filing, but Kennedy himself, his criminal-defense lawyer and his former company all identified him as the business executive, called Individual A by authorities.

The former escort, referred to as Individual B by authorities, is identified in the court filing as president of K & K Enterprises, the spa business she tried to open in San Diego. The filing also gives specifics on when she filed for bankruptcy in Rockford in 2009. Public records on both fronts confirm her identity to be Crystal Lundberg, 31. She did not return repeated messages seeking comment.

The court document, filed under seal in mid-May, says both Kennedy and Lundberg are under investigation for fraud and money laundering, but records show criminal charges have not been filed against either.

In the court filing, the FBI said Kennedy has been cooperating in the investigation, and his attorney, Sami Azhari, confirmed that they were working toward "an amicable resolution." The FBI filing said Kennedy has no known criminal history.

Kennedy's former company, France-based Nemera, where he held the top financial post at its U.S. manufacturing plant in suburban Buffalo Grove, said it fired Kennedy in March after an internal investigation confirmed suspicions of improper financial activity. The global company, which makes drug delivery devices, said it quickly notified law enforcement and has fully cooperated in the FBI investigation.

A spokesman for the FBI's office in Chicago declined comment on the case, but in the court filing, the FBI said Kennedy told agents that he first met Lundberg in mid-to-late 2012 online through the classified ad website Backpage.com, which advertises sexual services.

"At the time Individual B was working as a professional escort, and Individual A solicited her services approximately eight to ten times between approximately 2012 and May 2015," the FBI said.

The two also communicated socially by text from time to time, according to the filing.

By May 2015, Lundberg texted Kennedy seeking financial assistance, the FBI said. Sometime before the following November, she, her two young children and their pets moved in with Kennedy at his suburban home, according to authorities.

It was that November when Kennedy first gave Lundberg access to the company credit card after she asked for help buying Christmas gifts for her daughters, the filing alleged.

Over the next 16 months, the two churned through $5.79 million of company cash, authorities alleged.

Much of the spending came after Lundberg moved with her children, pets and potted plants to San Diego a year ago. The company unknowingly footed the bill for the $12,000-a-month rent at the mansion.

According to an analysis provided by Nemera to the FBI, Lundberg spent some $585,000 on the medical spa, called the Royalty Room.

Among the litany of additional charges allegedly run up mostly by Lundberg were plastic surgery during a stay in Miami; two Rolex watches at a cost of a combined $60,000; a personal driver for her daughters at a cost of $8,000 a month; a $2,500-a-month maid; two purebred dogs that cost as much as $6,000; and trips to Bali; France; Costa Rica; Hawaii; Santorini, an island in the Aegean Sea; and Bora Bora and Fiji, both in the South Pacific

In the interview, Kennedy said he was duped by Lundberg because "I wanted to have a family.

"I wanted to be loved and cared for. My heart kind of overrid my head and said, 'Take a chance,'" he told the Tribune. "Well, it blew up in my face."

While Kennedy largely blamed Lundberg for the spending, the FBI filing said he admitted using the company credit card to pay for travel and rent for a hotel he was living at when Nemera uncovered the fraud. He also acknowledged to the FBI that he bought gift cards with the credit card to pay for day-to-day expenses after Lundberg had allegedly maxed out his personal credit cards, authorities said.

Kennedy also maintained to the FBI — as well as in the Tribune interview — that Lundberg had led him to believe she would eventually reimburse him. Lundberg claimed to Kennedy that she had been adopted by a wealthy family as a child and had a trust fund in her name worth $4 million that she could access at 30, according to the FBI filing.

But the FBI document notes Lundberg's bankruptcy filing in 2009 when she reported only about $100 in a checking account and income of about $200 a month. In addition, the bankruptcy filing made no mention of any trust funds, the FBI pointed out.

"My mistake was trusting her," Kennedy said in the interview. "At this point, I have very little faith anything she told me ever was true."

In its statement, Nemera said it became aware of possible improper financial activity by Kennedy earlier this year and hired an independent accounting firm and outside counsel to lead a review. Kennedy was fired in March, the company said.
The FBI later confronted Kennedy and he agreed to cooperate with authorities, including making undercover recordings of face-to-face and telephone conversations, according to the court filing.

Nemera's analysis of the pair's spending found more than 8,800 improper charges to the company credit card between November 2015 and mid-March 2017. That included $970,734 on travel; $606,887 on clothing and accessories; $552,662 on home décor and improvement; $441,312 on lodging; $315,117 on entertainment; $279,231 on jewelry; and $253,019 on health and beauty.

In March, while Kennedy was vacationing in Fiji on a trip he had expected to take with Lundberg, she texted him that she was "seriously freaking out" over just signing a $24,000-a-month, five-year lease. She said creditors wanted money and a payment was coming due, apparently for salon equipment.

"I'm going to have to start selling myself again," Lundberg texted in a series of fragmented messages. "I was so close to (being) financially free. And u miss using ur Corp card scares the (expletive) out of me."

Kennedy tried to reassure her, saying that if they get "5mm" from her dad "all will be good."

"Do NOT sell yourself," Kennedy wrote. "We will find a way."

By May, not long after prosecutors in Chicago had filed under seal the warrant to seize Lundberg's business checking account, FBI agents raided her San Diego mansion. News reports said dozens of agents in full gear with guns drawn converged on the residence, seizing a Jaguar and white grand piano, among other things.

At the time, the mansion was the site of an estate sale advertised online with the headline, "Unexpected move for Chicago Heiress with Designer EVERYTHING!" The posting promised that there would be more than a quarter of a million dollars of goods for sale.

"THIS IS TRULY THE SALE OF A LIFETIME AND WE ARE GENUINELY EXCITED TO HAVE ALL OF YOU JOIN US ...." the posting read. "Those of you who showed up the day of the FBI raid, again, we apologize profusely and hope you agree that it was all WORTH THE WAIT!!!!"

This guy had an MBA in finance, so theoretically should know how to handle money. Thinking he could start a family with a fat and ugly hooker? The relationship was started on her taking money from him and through 8800 transactions and $5.8m he never "realized" she was playing him for money.

The thrist is real.

Post: #2

Nothing to see here. Not an alpha, just a simp with money.

Post: #3

This has to be the leading SIMP of the year nomination.

Post: #4

The real simp here is the company. How does your company card accumulate six MILLION dollars of debt over a year and a half and you don't even notice it?

Post: #5

That is some serious Beta (Omega?) Bucks! Damn.

Post: #6

Pics? Or link to original article so I can check out this trainwreck?

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(08-03-2017 12:57 PM)not_dead_yet Wrote:  Pics? Or link to original article so I can check out this trainwreck?

Yep. She's a million dollar whore for sure.. Where's that puke gif when I need it?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...story.html

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(08-03-2017 01:09 PM)Baphomet Wrote:  

(08-03-2017 12:57 PM)not_dead_yet Wrote:  Pics? Or link to original article so I can check out this trainwreck?

Yep. She's a million dollar whore for sure.. Where's that puke gif when I need it?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...story.html

"Better" photos:

Standard fake ass and tits, plastic surgery on already downhill girl getting fat.

You can see the cottage cheese starting to form on her legs on the boat pic.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...credi.html

Post: #9

Beta bucks cautionary tale.

Post: #10

Simp gonna simp.

Dat (fake) ass do...

Post: #11

WNB

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What is amazing to me is that the accounts at this company didn't see these outrageous charges and question them sooner. What accountant worth their salt doesn't reconcile receipts of $100k+ worth of monthly expenses? Honestly, if I was the board and just now found out about this waste, I'd move to fire the accountants that didn't do their job. This should have been stopped over $5m ago.

Post: #13

Simpin' ain't easy.

Post: #14

Ugh. That face. Vomit.

Dumbfuck could have spent $10k in Vegas, or anywhere for that matter, on way hotter. 21 yo pornstar quality with perfect fake tits dressed in a schoolgirl outfit for a 3 day bender for a fraction of what he spent.

Or holed up in a room near Soi Cowboy with a steady parade of Thai girls fulfilling every whim.

There really is no rhyme or reason in the simp mind. They're worse than women.

Post: #15

I wouldn't Fuck that chick if she paid me. She was an escort? Is this why Seeking Arrqngment is full of ugly girls thinking they'll get paid?

She's worse than some of the whores I walked by earlier today in downtown Santos. I remember thinking wow those whores are fat and ugly. Who would pay them?

Post: #16

The only thing unusual about this example is he essentially had a blank check to get her whatever she wanted. I see the same behavior in men everywhere; the only difference is they're limited in how much they can spend. What's the difference between this guy and a celebrity marrying a chick with no prenup? At the end of the day, a lot of money will be lost.

If economists can figure out how much money is spent in the black market, can they figure out how much money is spent in the name of love?

Post: #17

Quote:The former escort, referred to as Individual B by authorities, is identified in the court filing as president of K & K Enterprises, the spa business she tried to open in San Diego. The filing also gives specifics on when she filed for bankruptcy in Rockford in 2009. Public records on both fronts confirm her identity to be Crystal

Post: #18

(08-03-2017 12:30 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

The real simp here is the company. How does your company card accumulate six MILLION dollars of debt over a year and a half and you don't even notice it?

I thought that at first too. Then realized that they are a Pharma company. So they have so much money coming in that they can't keep track of it.

Post: #19

Has anyone ever met a woman named Crystal who wasn't a total slut? Serious question.

Post: #20

Praise to her. She found a loaded simp and rode him for everything he had.

Slut game recognized.

Post: #21

This is what $5 million bought? Not only is she a whore, but she's a busted single mom whore with a BMI of at least 25. Someone put this guy out of his misery...

Post: #22

(08-03-2017 02:45 PM)Veloce Wrote:  Ugh. That face. Vomit.

Dumbfuck could have spent $10k in Vegas, or anywhere for that matter, on way hotter. 21 yo pornstar quality with perfect fake tits dressed in a schoolgirl outfit for a 3 day bender for a fraction of what he spent.

Or holed up in a room near Soi Cowboy with a steady parade of Thai girls fulfilling every whim.

There really is no rhyme or reason in the simp mind. They're worse than women.

He could have spent $300 and gotten a hell of a lot better.

Post: #23

(08-03-2017 03:59 PM)Synezthetic Wrote:  Has anyone ever met a woman named Crystal who wasn't a total slut? Serious question.

Crystal
Tiffany
Ashley
Brittany
Nikki
Lexi

we need to make a list!

Post: #24

Don't forget Candi and Roxi.

Post: #25

(08-03-2017 03:59 PM)Synezthetic Wrote:  Has anyone ever met a woman named Crystal who wasn't a total slut? Serious question.

NO