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Students for Trump co-founder gets 13 months in prison for posing as lawyer in fraud scheme By Stephanie Weaver Oversight board upholds Trump’s Facebook suspension Though the board upheld the ruling, it scolded Facebook and said the company must decide for itself if the former president's ban will remain indefinite. NEW YORK - John Lambert, a co-founder behind Students for Trump — a youth group whose mission was to re-elect Donald Trump for president — has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for posing as a lawyer and scamming consumers and businesses out of $46,000.  Accordin...

‘Students For Trump’ Fraudster Sentenced To 13 Months In Prison Daily News, the judge called him a "cold blooded fraudster" before sentencing the MAGA-inspired liar. It seems that Lambert pulled in tens of thousands of dollars from people seeking legal advice by lying to them about who he was and the level of experience he had. "He falsely claimed to be a graduate of NYU Law School with a finance degree from University of Pennsylvania and 15 years of experience in corporate and patent law." Sounds like he would have fit right in to the last administration. Lambert was living...

Caproni said Lambert‘s work to promote former President Donald Trump on college campuses was “a wonderful thing” because it kept young people engaged in government, but she said the leadership skills he used to do good in that role were used to do harm when he created a fake Manhattan law firm to lure victims online. Lambert, 25, of Bristol, Tennessee, was a “cold-blooded fraudster who cared not a whit about the victims of his fraud,” the judge said. Prosecutors said Lambert from August 2016 through April 2018 advertised himself on the internet as a prominent New York attorney and g...

A co-founder of 'Students for Trump' during the 2016 presidential campaign has been sentenced to 13 months in prison for posing as a lawyer to cheat people he found on the internet out of thousands of dollars. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni in Manhattan slammed John Lambert as a 'cold-blooded fraudster' and rejected defense efforts to portray him as a naive victim of a co-conspirator whose 'youthful exuberance' made him think he could create a fake persona to learn the law and help others.  Lambert pleaded guilty to wire fraud in August 2019. 'This crime took a lot of thought,' sh...

Caproni said Lambert's work to promote former President Donald Trump on college campuses was “a wonderful thing” because it kept young people engaged in government, but she said the leadership skills he used to do good in that role were used to do harm when he created a fake Manhattan law firm to lure victims online. Lambert, 25, of Bristol, Tennessee, was a “cold-blooded fraudster who cared not a whit about the victims of his fraud,” the judge said. Prosecutors said Lambert from August 2016 through April 2018 advertised himself on the internet as a prominent New York attorney and gra...