Broken Trust: The Onalaska Drug Plane Scandal
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- WFAA Investigates: A fugitive, a $350M fraud case, a lot of airplanes and one tiny Texas town
- In landmark case, trust company owner convicted of drug trafficking, putting U.S. registered planes in hands of cartels
- Foreign ownership of thousands of U.S. aircraft cloaked in secrecy
- WFAA investigation spurs federal probe that results in discovery of $560M Ponzi scheme
- Secret aircraft owners dodge responsibility after crash, attorney says
- Trial begins involving alleged $350M+ Ponzi scheme and planes put in hands of narcotics traffickers
More Onalaska Drug Plane Scandal
- Defense department official testifies that planes carrying cocaine into Guatemala dropped after aircraft trust company indictments
- Federal special agent testifies defendant in alleged Ponzi scheme told agents, 'I’m in too far'
- Aircraft title company owner pocketed nearly $5 million in escrow fees, alleged Onalaska Ponzi scheme prosecutors say
- 'Secret ledger' shows $75 million flowed to alleged accomplice accused of a Ponzi scheme involving fake airplane sales
- Special agent testifies businesswoman accused of registering planes on behalf of drug dealers failed to properly use background checks
- The owner of an aircraft trust company took the stand to claim she never knowingly registered airplanes on behalf of drug smugglers
- Jury deliberating in trial of aircraft trust company owner accused of registering planes used for drug smuggling
- Federal judge sentences former trust company owner to 16 years in prison in landmark case prompted by a WFAA investigation
