The suspect used about $85,000 from investors to put down a year’s worth of rent on a Manhattan home, federal prosecutors said.
A Manhattan woman was arrested Thursday over a scheme in which she allegedly siphoned nearly $300,000 from dozens of investors — and used the cash to bankroll her luxurious lifestyle, the feds said.
Hopkins, who was nabbed with the help of the NYPD’s financial crimes task force and the US Secret Service, allegedly conned 110 people out of $290,000 in the scheme, which lasted from August 2020 until about April 2021. Lakenya Hopkins is facing charges connected to an alleged scheme she used to trick investors, the feds said.While running Money Magnet Platinum Membership Initiative LLC, Hopkins promised astronomical — and unrealistic — rates of returns on investments, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. She marketed the fake “investment club” as a way for people of color to build generational wealth, US Attorney Damian Williams said.
But Hopkins never invested the money and in January 2021 she failed to dole out the first guaranteed monthly payment, instead telling clients she was pausing MMPMI and would return the money, according to the complaint.
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