LOUISVILLE, KY – Last week, a federal jury convicted Robert J. Bondonno of Henderson, NV, a suburb of Las Vegas, for defrauding victims of investments money that was to be used for drug rehabilitation centers.

On March 9, 2020, a jury returned a verdict of guilty after a seven-day trial.  Bondonno was convicted of five counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy to launder money, and 27 counts of promoting money laundering.  The jury found Bondonno not guilty on four counts of money laundering concealment.

According to records admitted into evidence and other court documents, Robert J. Bondonno, age 66, created and distributed investment materials to potential investors containing materially false statements and omissions regarding investment opportunities in the Wichita Project LLC and BHD International, Inc., also referred to as the Phoenix Project.  He and co-defendants contacted would-be investors and made false representations about returns on investment and how the investment funds would be used.  The materials purported to fund the rehabilitation for drug and alcohol in Wichita, Kansas and Phoenix, Arizona.  Between 2017 to 2019, Bondonno, John Ainsworth, Gregory Dawkins, and Courtland Van Oden, contacted investors to solicit investment funds, and they split the proceeds between themselves and Bondonno, with no money going toward the stated purpose of the investment.  Oden, Dawkins, and Ainsworth all previously pleaded guilty to felony offenses associated with the fraud.

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