{"id":51664,"date":"2022-03-06T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/06\/marine-veteran-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-for-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:24:57","slug":"marine-veteran-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-for-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/veterans\/2022\/03\/06\/marine-veteran-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-for-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine veteran sentenced to 6 years in prison for fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALISPELL, Montana \u2014 In order to convince the wealthy Whitefish, Montana, philanthropist Michael Goguen to fund bogus covert military operations across the globe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2021\/11\/16\/marine-veteran-pleads-guilty-to-2-million-fraud-scheme-involving-bogus-rescue-ops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew A. Marshall<\/a> spun one elaborate deception after another while portraying himself as a high-ranking intelligence official on a hero\u2019s crusade to quash terrorism, even going so far as to get a tattoo of the U.S. Marine Corps \u201cForce Recon\u201d insignia and send his unsuspecting victim a string of prayer beads he claimed to have removed from the body of a dead terrorist, a flourish engineered \u201cto add color to his claimed CIA affiliation,\u201d according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of it was true, but the 51-year-old Marshall grew more duplicitous as his fictions unraveled, contriving a system in which he used a smartphone app called \u201cBurner\u201d to send himself emails and text messages purportedly from the famed counterterrorism official Cofer Black, an effort to prop up his fictions and keep the money flowing into his personal bank account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That money arrived in the form of wire transfers from Goguen, whose payments to Marshall and his securities firm Amyntor Group totaled $2.35 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday in U.S. District Court in Missoula, with Donald W. Molloy presiding over the three-hour hearing, Marshall was sentenced to six years in federal prison and three years of supervised release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Molloy also ordered Marshall to pay restitution in the amount of $3,254,327, including the $2.35 million to Goguen as well as nearly $900,000 to the Internal Revenue Service for tax evasion. In delivering the sentence for three counts wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, Molloy accepted a plea agreement in the case and dismissed eight other counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2021\/11\/16\/marine-veteran-pleads-guilty-to-2-million-fraud-scheme-involving-bogus-rescue-ops\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635695463470389701-photo-gaveljpeg.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marine veteran pleads guilty to $2 million fraud scheme involving bogus \u2018rescue ops\u2019<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Matthew Anthony Marshall, 51, of Whitefish, Montana, pleaded guilty Nov. 10 to wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion after claiming to be a former Force Reconnaissance Marine conducting &quot;off the books&quot; rescue missions for the CIA, according to court documents.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 72-month prison sentence hews closely to what prosecutors requested in a case that has spanned years, dating back to April 2013, and it represents a significantly longer period of incarceration than the 24 months requested by Marshall\u2019s private defense attorney, Justin K. Gelfand of the St. Louis firm Margulis Gelfand, LLC, who implored the judge to \u201ctemper the punishment with mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But prosecutors and Goguen himself characterized the depths of Marshall\u2019s deception as \u201cdisturbing,\u201d and with seemingly no end to the lies he was willing to manufacture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Court is well aware of the elaborate lies Marshall told about serving as a Force Recon Marine, including claims he was awarded both a Silver Star and a Bronze Star, which he now acknowledges were entirely false,\u201d according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Racicot. \u201cIt is not clear whether he intends to cling to the lies about working for the CIA, though the record is replete with evidence \u2026 that he was never associated with that agency in any capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to prosecutors, Marshall received an \u201cOther Than Honorable\u201d discharge from the Marine Corps Reserve in November 1999 after accumulating 82 absences from inactive duty training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, Marshall\u2019s apparent lack of respect for the law and for the sanctity of the military seemed to have an influence on Molloy\u2019s sentencing disposition, much of which is determined by inflexible federal sentencing guidelines, which attorneys on both sides spent the first hour of the hearing debating. According to Molloy, the facade of lies that Marshall constructed surrounding his military and government bonafides was part and parcel to the overarching scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt seems to me that he gets nowhere with this fraud without the connection to the government,\u201d Molloy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/he-told-investors-he-a-spec-ops-war-hero-prosecutors-say-it-was-a-ruse\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/derek-hamm-20220125.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">He told investors he was a spec ops war hero. Prosecutors say it was a ruse.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Derek Robert Hamm, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison for 33 different charges against him, including wire fraud and stolen valor.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, the judge said Marshall violated an established line of trust he developed over the course of years with Goguen, working for him and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI guess what I can\u2019t wrap my head around is how does a billionaire get sucked into this without the fraud having some high level of sophistication?\u201d Molloy said in response to prosecutors\u2019 request for an abuse-of-trust enhancement to Marshall\u2019s base offense level. \u201cYou just can\u2019t get people to give you $2.5 million without some level of sophistication.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to federal investigators, Marshall\u2019s schemes dated back decades, beginning when he deceived the Indiana State Police in order to get hired in 1996, failing to disclose he had resigned from another police department in Marion, Indiana after he was named as a suspect in a residential burglary there. He lied again in 1998, court documents state, when \u201che parlayed his fake military service into a coveted position on the state police Emergency Response Team,\u201d resigning from the Indiana State Police when \u201chis duplicity was discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when Goguen grew suspicious and the pressure mounted on Marshall, who Goguen hired in 2013 to run security for his family, the defendant claimed he had a life-threatening medical condition, using the Burner app to send himself fabricated text messages allegedly from neurologists at the Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMarshall used the same Burner app to send himself fake messages from alleged CIA colleagues that essentially claimed the CIA operative in the movie \u2018Sicario 2\u2032 was based on him,\u201d according to federal prosecutors, who first unveiled their grand jury indictment against Marshall in July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appearing for the sentencing in a dark suit and tie, his head clean-shaven, Marshall apologized for his misdeeds and the \u201ccollateral effect it has had on many people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m a man and I will fall on my sword, which I make no hesitation in doing,\u201d said Marshall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Molloy was unmoved, instead prescribing a punishment that falls on the high end of the federal sentencing guidelines. The judge, himself a veteran, described the defendant\u2019s range of deceit as disturbing, particularly as the federal investigation revealed that he not only lied extensively about his military background, but also about relatively inconsequential matters, such as having earned a soccer scholarship to a college he never attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMr. Marshall describes himself as someone who is respectful of the law, but when you drill down into it he doesn\u2019t really have a respect for the law other than to figure out what the margin is and then get as close to the edge as possible without being caught,\u201d Molloy said before imposing the sentence, allowing Marshall to self-surrender to federal prison officials once he\u2019s assigned to a facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is not a superficial one-off instance of someone who misrepresented himself,\u201d Molloy said. \u201cThis is someone who engineered an elaborate Walter Mitty world, which he lives in but which is all predicated on lies about off-the-books military operations and misrepresentations about himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Molloy conceded that Marshall appears to be a caring father, with an 18-year-old daughter he raised with his wife, as well as two \u201cvery young\u201d daughters from another relationship. Both of the women wrote letters of support for Marshall. However, prosecutors said those qualities were not enough to absolve him of \u201cthe lengths he went to to cover up his fraud, which knew no end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Racicot, those lengths are \u201cfurther exemplified by his efforts to manipulate law enforcement officers,\u201d including leveraging his friendship with the former Whitefish Police Chief in order to exact revenge on Goguen, but only after Marshall\u2019s one-time benefactor caught wind of the scheme and reported him to the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe sidled up to the police chief in Whitefish, cultivating a friendship that he later used to his benefit whenever possible,\u201d Racicot wrote in a sentencing memorandum to Molloy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it relates specifically to this case, and to Marshall\u2019s attempts to \u201cundermine the victim\u2019s credibility at any cost,\u201d Racicot said Marshall worked with the chief to set up another officer for alleged bribery for accepting Goguen\u2019s invitation to participate in a guided hunting trip outside Montana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marshall and the chief exchanged strategic text messages over the course of two months and the officer they targeted eventually resigned. Before the resignation, however, Marshall texted the chief that he was worried \u201cif you spill the beans to (officer) before the hunting trip he won\u2019t go. For what it\u2019s worth I\u2019d slow roll it a bit and not do anything to spook him before the trip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, Marshall asked the chief: \u201cAre you going to give me a break and take a deep breath and let (the officer) go on this trip Friday? I\u2019d offer you a year of free golf but that might be bribery. If you let him go that\u2019s going to help the overall cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201coverall cause,\u201d Racicot said, was \u201cto denigrate the victim from multiple angles in the hopes Marshall\u2019s fraudulent conduct went uninvestigated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMarshall\u2019s willingness to capitalize on a relationship with the head of a law enforcement agency in order to exact revenge against the victim \u2014 and end another officer\u2019s career in the process \u2013 is an astounding example of his lack of respect for the law,\u201d the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The indictment outlines a scheme beginning in April 2013 in which Marshall fraudulently convinced Goguen, referred to in documents as a businessman and employer to Marshall named \u201cJohn Doe,\u201d that he was an ex-CIA agent and member of an elite Force Reconnaissance unit in the U.S. Marine Corps. Marshall told Goguen he had \u201cengaged in covert missions around the world\u201d and asked him to fund an \u201coff the books\u201d paramilitary mission in Mexico, according to a Nov. 4 offer of proof submitted by prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Believing Marshall, Goguen agreed and wired him $400,000 on April 25, 2013. Marshall subsequently asked Goguen for money for four other purported missions between October 2013 and March 2016 \u201cbased on Marshall\u2019s material misstatements that he would use the money for the missions,\u201d according to the offer of proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goguen said he \u201cnever would have given Mr. Marshall a dollar\u201d if he\u2019d known the truth, and that his story was so elaborate he couldn\u2019t imagine anyone exerting the time and energy to construct it from whole cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s almost beyond belief,\u201d Goguen said. \u201cIt was unbelievable to me at the time that someone would engineer such sophisticated mechanisms to defraud me. That someone would create false phone numbers and seemingly text himself for hours just to maintain the deception.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the scope of the textured case, its resolution on Thursday drew praise from federal investigators and Montana\u2019s U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMarshall promoted a fantasy world filled with fake missions carried out by fictitious operatives for clandestine agencies in faraway lands for phony purposes. It was all fake, but unfortunately it was paid for with real money from a real victim. And the money never went anywhere except to Marshall\u2019s personal accounts,\u201d Johnson said in a prepared statement. \u201cThe lengths to which Marshall went to carry off this fraud can hardly be overstated. He used a phone application to send fake text messages; he created false emails; he sent the victim prayer beads collected during a fake mission; and he got a tattoo to falsely signify that he was a member of \u2018Force Recon,\u2019 etc. The list goes on. I want to thank Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tim Racicot and Ryan Weldon, Trial Attorney S. Derek Shugert, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice, and the federal agents who poured countless hours into uncovering this scheme and bringing Marshall to justice,\u201d U.S. Attorney Johnson added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMr. Marshall devised an elaborate scheme layered in lies to defraud the victim,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge Dennis Rice of the Salt Lake City FBI. \u201cLike most fraud cases, Mr. Marshall\u2019s motive was simply greed. The FBI\u2019s Salt Lake City Field Office would like to acknowledge the many special agents across the country, the intelligence community, and witnesses, who worked together to hold this accomplished fraudster and manipulator accountable and seek justice for the victim.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Racicot, who firmly opposed any leniency outside the upper end of the federal sentencing calculation, the length and velocity of Marshall\u2019s deception leads him to believe that a period of incarceration is the only way to prevent the defendant from concocting another scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI actually do worry that we would see Mr. Marshall back in court,\u201d Racicot said, noting that Marshall\u2019s crimes in Montana occurred after he\u2019d already resigned from two police departments in Indiana, where he also lied about his credentials as a Marine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until after he\u2019d gotten caught [in Indiana] that he came to Montana and got the Force Recon tattoo,\u201d Racicot said. \u201cHe doubled down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew A. 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