The founder and lawyer's wife of AI startup company GAMEON were charged with $ 60 million to invest in fraud

The co -founder and former CEO of Silicon Valley AI startup Gameon Alexander Beckman and his wife lawyer Valer Lau Beckman have recently been sued by the federal prosecutor. Scams charges. The two were accused of deceiving investors and companies through falsification of financial statements from 2018 to 2024, involving a amount of more than $ 60 million.

According to the allegations of the California Federal Prosecutor, Beckman not only fictionally constructed the company's income and bank account balance, but also posted at least seven real people, including bank staff and sports alliance officials to obtain the trust of investors. In addition, as a lawyer of a venture capital company, Lao was accused of providing real audit reports for Berkman and forging a GAMEON audit report. She was also accused of submitting a forged bank statement to the bank to display the balance of the account with a false display. The real balance was only $ 25.93, and the forged statement claimed that it had exceeded $ 13 million.

Prosecutors pointed out that Beckman and Labor use investors' funds for personal consumption, including buying houses in San Francisco, paying tuition fees for private schools, and costs of wedding venues. They have been charged with multiple charges, including nine electricity exchange frauds, three securities fraud and one electricity exchange fraud. Each charges can be sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment. For labor, it may also face 20 years of punishment because of hindering judicial investigations.

According to reports, Beckman resigned as a CEO due to financial issues, and the company's financial situation has attracted serious attention from the board before his departure. The board of directors subsequently investigated the company's bank account, and the results showed that the balance of the company's account was far lower than the amount previously called, or even only $ 0.37. In the end, Gameon decided to suspend operations and lay off layoffs, and the company's future development was full of uncertainty.

At present, the current situation of Gameon is unclear. Although the company's website is still operating, social media accounts have not been updated for a long time. In this regard, the media tried to contact Gameon and their employees, but did not get a reply.