1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:06,080 In this episode of American Greed, Keisha Williams owns a product that 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,860 revolutionize healthcare and fuel a billion -dollar industry. 3 00:00:10,580 --> 00:00:14,540 She was a big dreamer, and she was very confident that she would be successful. 4 00:00:14,980 --> 00:00:19,740 This charismatic con has investors certain they'll be raking in the 5 00:00:20,180 --> 00:00:23,900 She would tell people, I'm a millionaire, I'm a multimillionaire, and 6 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:24,799 believed her. 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,320 She flaunts her influence by living like a pampered temptress. 8 00:00:30,530 --> 00:00:33,910 vacationing in Bora Bora or Jamaica or Tahiti. 9 00:00:34,250 --> 00:00:37,310 She would rent the largest villas on the island. 10 00:00:37,530 --> 00:00:41,530 She brought a personal chef with her and she traveled in style. 11 00:00:41,970 --> 00:00:47,190 Keisha has a reputation for making it rain and finding men who'll feed her 12 00:00:47,190 --> 00:00:48,350 craving for power. 13 00:00:48,730 --> 00:00:51,510 She promised them things that she knew they wanted. 14 00:00:51,810 --> 00:00:56,850 Keisha Williams' main purpose in life was to make people subservient to her. 15 00:00:58,940 --> 00:01:00,220 It was a fantastic scheme. 16 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,620 I didn't realize what it was until now. 17 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,840 That money, that over $5 million, is gone. 18 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:11,480 It was a level of greed that I've rarely seen. 19 00:01:28,620 --> 00:01:33,300 It's a warm October evening, and there are fat tips looming on the horizon for 20 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,160 the staff at an upscale steakhouse in northern Virginia. 21 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:41,220 That's because Keisha Williams just rolled up in her sleek new Mercedes. 22 00:01:42,260 --> 00:01:45,900 You go to a lot of these places around here. Believe me, everyone knows Keisha 23 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:46,900 Williams. 24 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:50,380 She was always staying at the Ritz -Carlton, and she was always at the Four 25 00:01:50,380 --> 00:01:54,120 Seasons. And not only would she stay at these hotels, she would stay in the 26 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:55,120 Presidential Suite. 27 00:01:55,380 --> 00:01:57,800 Keisha Williams demands only the best. 28 00:01:58,220 --> 00:02:00,360 Her liquor is exclusively top shelf. 29 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,440 Her cigars, hand -rolled in Cuba. 30 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,360 When Keisha walked in, she wouldn't even have to say, I want. They already knew. 31 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,520 They knew the exact type of ice, the exact type of drink. 32 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,040 Tonight, she's meeting Harry Singh, a Wall Street investor who's interested in 33 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,160 Keisha's newest enterprise, a healthcare -based software system. 34 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:28,380 Keisha tells him that she's already put $30 million into the software called 35 00:02:28,380 --> 00:02:33,000 Zydechron. And other big investors are beating down the door. 36 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,780 She told me that the prime minister of Dubai was thinking about implementing 37 00:02:37,780 --> 00:02:39,680 platform in all of Dubai. 38 00:02:41,860 --> 00:02:48,120 One big problem with that, there's no such thing as prime minister of Dubai. 39 00:02:51,620 --> 00:02:52,620 Uh -oh. 40 00:02:53,050 --> 00:02:54,690 Keisha's story isn't adding up. 41 00:02:55,090 --> 00:02:58,610 And her dinner companion is an undercover FBI agent. 42 00:02:59,030 --> 00:03:02,650 And he's getting it all on tape. Even though I'm a numbers guy, there's some 43 00:03:02,650 --> 00:03:04,230 qualitative aspect in a relationship. 44 00:03:04,610 --> 00:03:09,230 Prior to the FBI, I worked on Wall Street as an investment banker. 45 00:03:09,430 --> 00:03:11,330 I could talk the talk and walk the walk. 46 00:03:11,810 --> 00:03:14,750 What's the dollar amount? How much capital are you requesting there? 47 00:03:17,010 --> 00:03:21,990 When I met Keisha, I could... 48 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,980 easily tell this was someone who was trying to portray an image of someone 49 00:03:25,980 --> 00:03:26,980 she may not be. 50 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:32,280 In fact, authorities suspect she's using her powers of persuasion to drain 51 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:33,600 investors of their money. 52 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,640 Assistant U .S. Attorney Grace Hill investigates white -collar crimes in the 53 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,940 Eastern District of Virginia, where Keisha Williams resides. 54 00:03:43,580 --> 00:03:44,980 Keisha Williams' M .O. 55 00:03:45,260 --> 00:03:51,100 was to start with a kernel of truth, then build up a layer of lies around 56 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,820 It's a question of running down many different rabbit holes and finding out 57 00:03:56,820 --> 00:03:59,060 something actually did occur that was a crime. 58 00:04:00,780 --> 00:04:06,220 Arthur Robinson first met Keisha Williams years before at a gym in 59 00:04:06,340 --> 00:04:07,340 Virginia. 60 00:04:07,820 --> 00:04:12,800 Once Art and Keisha realized they're both from the South, their friendship 61 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,920 off. She was very independent. 62 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:20,260 And to me, that's Southern roots. I mean, you take care of home, take care 63 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,010 family. Take care of business. 64 00:04:22,370 --> 00:04:25,150 That's what ooze out of her pores as far as I'm concerned. 65 00:04:26,310 --> 00:04:30,690 The former Pentagon police officer had been among the first responders in the 66 00:04:30,690 --> 00:04:31,970 aftermath of 9 -11. 67 00:04:32,790 --> 00:04:36,330 Everything was law enforcement to me and helping, helping, helping. 68 00:04:37,390 --> 00:04:39,030 That was my life. 69 00:04:39,530 --> 00:04:41,370 And in my heart, it still is my life. 70 00:04:42,610 --> 00:04:46,690 But by 2005, his life is in a downward spiral. 71 00:04:47,870 --> 00:04:49,050 I started gambling. 72 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:55,270 And I ended up losing my condo. And I got really, really, really 73 00:04:55,270 --> 00:04:57,610 financially screwed. 74 00:04:58,290 --> 00:05:00,130 I was really depressed about it. 75 00:05:00,710 --> 00:05:05,990 In Arthur's mind, he's fallen from grace. But Keisha promises to help him 76 00:05:05,990 --> 00:05:07,050 rebuild his life. 77 00:05:07,590 --> 00:05:12,550 I wanted to start a nonprofit in my mother's name, you know, for kids that 78 00:05:12,550 --> 00:05:15,010 victims of domestic violence. 79 00:05:15,690 --> 00:05:19,070 And she kept saying, oh, bro, you got all these skills. You don't need to 80 00:05:19,070 --> 00:05:22,070 that. So she really got into my world. 81 00:05:22,530 --> 00:05:26,130 And I've always been very careful about who I allow in my world. 82 00:05:28,190 --> 00:05:33,850 People who know Keisha say it is her uncanny ability to form a mutual bond 83 00:05:33,850 --> 00:05:35,690 makes her seem so trustworthy. 84 00:05:38,730 --> 00:05:44,370 In the fall of 2013, Northern California businessman Christian D 'Andrade is 85 00:05:44,370 --> 00:05:48,330 looking to take his 20 -year -old IT company to the next level. 86 00:05:48,810 --> 00:05:54,530 It was growing, very vibrant. We were doing extremely well. I was looking for 87 00:05:54,530 --> 00:05:58,570 person to help me do some business development in Washington, D .C. 88 00:05:58,830 --> 00:06:03,970 He hopes expanding his business into Northern Virginia will give him a slice 89 00:06:03,970 --> 00:06:09,070 the billions of federal dollars doled out to tech companies like his each 90 00:06:09,430 --> 00:06:14,550 On a business trip to D .C., a colleague puts him in contact with 36 -year -old 91 00:06:14,550 --> 00:06:15,550 Keisha Williams. 92 00:06:16,470 --> 00:06:21,050 Keisha tells him that her consulting business, Keisha Williams and Associates, 93 00:06:21,210 --> 00:06:23,810 specializes in information technology. 94 00:06:24,210 --> 00:06:29,090 And her resume includes work with big government contractors like Lockheed 95 00:06:29,090 --> 00:06:34,950 Martin. She told Chris that she was very well educated, that she had a J .D. 96 00:06:35,420 --> 00:06:40,500 that she had a master's degree, and that she was fluent in several languages. 97 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:45,240 It's not just the credentials that sealed the deal for Chris DeAndrade. 98 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:46,960 It's Keisha. 99 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:50,000 She's very charismatic, and she's very warm. 100 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:52,640 She's very down -to -earth, you know. 101 00:06:53,780 --> 00:06:55,620 She's like a little magnet. 102 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:03,360 We agreed that normally small black companies can't seem to work 103 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,360 together. 104 00:07:04,650 --> 00:07:07,330 And we decided we were going to work together. We're going to make this an 105 00:07:07,330 --> 00:07:10,490 example to black organizations working together as a team. 106 00:07:10,810 --> 00:07:16,690 Chris says he agrees to pay Keisha a $200 ,000 consulting fee to land the 107 00:07:16,690 --> 00:07:19,290 federal contracts he's looking for. 108 00:07:19,890 --> 00:07:24,930 I look at her as an investment that I was willing to make to grow the 109 00:07:27,370 --> 00:07:28,630 Three months later. 110 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,360 A different opportunity comes knocking when Chris gets a tip from a friend 111 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,180 a CEO at a California hospital. 112 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:40,760 He tells him about an Austrian tech company that's going bankrupt and is 113 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,940 to sell its telehealth software patent to a U .S. buyer. 114 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:51,420 The software Zytochron would enable patients to be examined remotely by 115 00:07:51,420 --> 00:07:54,020 doctors and to communicate with their doctors remotely. 116 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,680 Telehealth is a buzzing topic. 117 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,700 Many see it as the next huge trend in the trillion -dollar U .S. healthcare 118 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:06,660 industry. The same exact software that the VA is using right now, just the 119 00:08:06,660 --> 00:08:10,620 software, but at that time, no one had it available to them. 120 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:15,760 To Chris, the Zydechron software technology smells like big money. 121 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:19,120 I thought this could be a billion -dollar product. 122 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:24,620 He sends an email to float the idea by his new business consultant, Keisha 123 00:08:24,620 --> 00:08:25,620 Williams. 124 00:08:25,870 --> 00:08:28,550 And she called me back and said, it's awesome. 125 00:08:28,890 --> 00:08:31,610 What can we do to get this thing? We really need to have it. 126 00:08:33,470 --> 00:08:35,250 Next on American Greed. 127 00:08:35,610 --> 00:08:39,270 She would say, well, we need this money so bad. Just offer them double their 128 00:08:39,270 --> 00:08:43,110 money. And I would say, sure, double their money. She'd say, yeah, no 129 00:08:43,230 --> 00:08:44,290 We'll have money to give them back. 130 00:08:44,970 --> 00:08:46,970 But is it a deal with the devil? 131 00:08:53,390 --> 00:08:58,330 In October of 2014, entrepreneur Chris D 'Andrade and his new business 132 00:08:58,330 --> 00:09:02,470 consultant, Keisha Williams, are hoping to turn a revolutionary new software 133 00:09:02,470 --> 00:09:06,570 program called Zydechron into a billion -dollar business. 134 00:09:06,970 --> 00:09:13,250 It was a medical software that enabled patients to speak with doctors over the 135 00:09:13,250 --> 00:09:16,290 Internet and also to transmit medical data. 136 00:09:17,420 --> 00:09:21,860 A few weeks later, Keisha comes back from a trip to Austria and says she's 137 00:09:21,860 --> 00:09:25,640 purchased the Zydechron software through a bankruptcy auction. 138 00:09:26,140 --> 00:09:31,300 So that's when I said, well, okay, let's figure out how much money I owe. 139 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:37,040 She told Chris that she had paid over $3 million for the software and that they 140 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,120 would have to raise $1 .7 million together in order to pay the taxes and 141 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,800 interest that had accrued on the software purchase. 142 00:09:45,450 --> 00:09:50,410 Keisha Williams declined to speak with American Greed. But Robert Jenkins Jr. 143 00:09:50,710 --> 00:09:55,510 is Keisha's former defense attorney. He says it's all a win -win for Chris 144 00:09:55,510 --> 00:10:01,570 DeAndrade. Chris was expecting to get a 50 % ownership stake in the new company. 145 00:10:01,890 --> 00:10:07,910 So he certainly was motivated by what he believed was going to be a very, very 146 00:10:07,910 --> 00:10:09,490 profitable company. 147 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,580 So I started looking for money. 148 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,660 So I took my retirement money. 149 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,180 Maybe not a smart move at that point, but I did. 150 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,680 So I came up with like $600 ,000. 151 00:10:27,780 --> 00:10:30,180 Then Keisha wants more. 152 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:37,900 At that point, I couldn't raise enough money on my own, so I went to friends, 153 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,080 a lot of friends. 154 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,260 Chris gets his girlfriend to lend him money for the software. 155 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:47,280 He also convinces a friend who's recently retired to invest. 156 00:10:48,220 --> 00:10:53,260 She took every dime she had out of her savings and she gave it to me. 157 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:59,080 They each chip in with the promise they'll get a healthy 30 % return on 158 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,740 investment. Chris isn't the only one on a mission to find investors. 159 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,420 If anything, Keisha seems to be hustling harder. 160 00:11:07,260 --> 00:11:11,500 There was constant communication between us four, five, six times a day. 161 00:11:12,190 --> 00:11:16,610 I would be on the phone with her till 8, 9 o 'clock at night, almost every 162 00:11:16,610 --> 00:11:21,750 night. Her father has a construction company in Atlanta, and he's borrowing 163 00:11:21,750 --> 00:11:24,970 money to help us, and I totally trusted her. 164 00:11:25,790 --> 00:11:30,590 Then Chris reaches out to a longtime friend in Virginia named Joe Sanders. 165 00:11:31,610 --> 00:11:35,890 She used to work with me for quite a few years, and her and I were like brothers 166 00:11:35,890 --> 00:11:36,890 and sisters. 167 00:11:37,010 --> 00:11:39,590 Joe has recently been diagnosed with cancer. 168 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:41,860 and she's about to undergo treatment. 169 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:45,260 But she ponies up nearly $100 ,000. 170 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:52,160 I explained to Keisha that Joe was ill, but she's willing to help us with this 171 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:58,560 money. And I don't want to gamble with her money because I know how expensive 172 00:11:58,560 --> 00:11:59,580 is for cancer treatment. 173 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,520 And she said, oh, no, no, no, you don't have to worry about that. 174 00:12:04,140 --> 00:12:08,420 Joe was a loving mother, and she... 175 00:12:08,970 --> 00:12:10,930 Had a pretty successful career. 176 00:12:11,610 --> 00:12:15,750 Tom Dillon is a retired business executive and Joe's former husband. 177 00:12:16,030 --> 00:12:19,670 He remembers when Joe first told him about the software venture. 178 00:12:20,390 --> 00:12:26,290 Joe was not financially savvy, and she trusted Chris. That was the bottom line. 179 00:12:26,450 --> 00:12:28,970 She trusted him completely. 180 00:12:33,150 --> 00:12:35,010 Next on American Greed. 181 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:40,620 Chris's gold star reputation makes him the ideal front man for Keisha Williams' 182 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:41,900 plan. 183 00:12:41,980 --> 00:12:47,120 Christie Andrade was perfect for her because once she had that, then she 184 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,940 have money coming in without people having to trust her. 185 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:51,960 All they had to do was trust him. 186 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,880 By January 2015, 187 00:13:00,620 --> 00:13:05,700 Keisha Williams and her partner, Christie Andrade, have plans to revamp 188 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:10,320 telehealth software they purchased in Austria into a billion -dollar 189 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:18,040 We were looking for a venture capital who would help us to market 190 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,019 it. 191 00:13:19,020 --> 00:13:23,920 And even though Keisha is their primary contact in Austria, Chris remains 192 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,640 committed. In fact, buying it had been his idea in the first place. 193 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,840 I'd never gambled like that before. 194 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,020 But I knew that product was there. I was excited. 195 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:42,300 But Keisha says that each day the software sits in escrow, the fees 196 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,420 along with the price of their investment. 197 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,880 Text exchanges show how Keisha kept the pressure on Chris. 198 00:13:52,260 --> 00:13:55,600 Remember now, the software is in Vienna. 199 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,660 I have a lot of people's money at stake. 200 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:00,880 Everything that I have was at stake. 201 00:14:01,730 --> 00:14:05,390 That's when Keisha Williams introduces a new big money investor, 202 00:14:06,190 --> 00:14:10,010 John the Texan, a supposed billionaire oil tycoon. 203 00:14:11,170 --> 00:14:17,470 And she said John is willing to lend us $68 million to not only get the software 204 00:14:17,470 --> 00:14:20,870 revamped here, but also to pay off all our debts in Europe. 205 00:14:21,150 --> 00:14:22,150 John was it. 206 00:14:22,330 --> 00:14:23,830 John was a saving grace. 207 00:14:24,350 --> 00:14:27,270 But Keisha says there's just one catch. 208 00:14:28,929 --> 00:14:34,250 John wanted to give them $68 million, but they had to pay to play. They had to 209 00:14:34,250 --> 00:14:38,770 raise a certain amount of money to show John that they were able to do so and 210 00:14:38,770 --> 00:14:41,450 that he would then release the money to them. 211 00:14:42,590 --> 00:14:47,470 She would say, well, we need this money so bad, just offer them double their 212 00:14:47,470 --> 00:14:51,540 money. And I would say, sure, double their money. She said, yeah, no problem. 213 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,240 We'll have money to give them back. We're getting $68 million. 214 00:14:54,580 --> 00:14:58,000 You know, we'll just make sure we get them back their money. They'll be 215 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 satisfied. 216 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,100 And Keisha stays in constant contact. 217 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,020 Text messages seem like every couple hours. 218 00:15:05,780 --> 00:15:10,420 Emails and conversations daily, hourly, seem like it. 219 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:17,560 She wrote to Chris. 220 00:15:17,950 --> 00:15:23,670 Texted him many times in order to get him to go out and put the screws on his 221 00:15:23,670 --> 00:15:25,630 friends and family to raise the money. 222 00:15:26,310 --> 00:15:30,150 Joe Sanders invests another $13 ,000. 223 00:15:31,010 --> 00:15:36,190 Keisha would tell him to go out and seek people's Social Security benefits, seek 224 00:15:36,190 --> 00:15:40,070 their disability checks, get their retirements out of them. 225 00:15:40,710 --> 00:15:46,230 Everybody that was willing to lend me and their breathing, I borrowed money 226 00:15:46,230 --> 00:15:50,640 from. Keisha is begging for money from everyone she knows, too. 227 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:52,640 Or is she? 228 00:15:54,080 --> 00:16:00,820 Next on American Greed, investor money takes flight in a strip 229 00:16:00,820 --> 00:16:01,820 club. 230 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,500 It was a lack of conscience that was verging on sociopathic. 231 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:20,520 In Northern Virginia, Tyson's Galleria has been called the Rodeo Drive of the 232 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:21,940 Washington, D .C. area. 233 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,920 And it's Keisha Williams' playground. 234 00:16:26,780 --> 00:16:32,440 In late 2015, it's been a few months since Art Robinson has seen Keisha. He 235 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,060 catches up with her at the Galleria. 236 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:39,220 She appeared to have become very successful. 237 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,040 I mean, she was driving her... 238 00:16:41,290 --> 00:16:45,670 Really, really, really big Mercedes. I think like $250 ,000 car. 239 00:16:46,550 --> 00:16:51,870 Inside an upscale restaurant, Keisha's favorite booth has a plaque with her 240 00:16:51,870 --> 00:16:52,729 on it. 241 00:16:52,730 --> 00:16:57,690 She went on a really, really expensive watch. And I can see the diamonds from 242 00:16:57,690 --> 00:16:58,690 across the table. 243 00:16:59,050 --> 00:17:03,910 She's drinking top shelf bourbon to the tune of 50 bucks a shot. 244 00:17:04,349 --> 00:17:07,069 And she's bragging about her recent acquisition. 245 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,819 I asked her, let it change. She said, well, I bought a telehealth company in 246 00:17:10,819 --> 00:17:14,240 Austria. She said I paid $60 million for it. I'm like, wow. 247 00:17:15,180 --> 00:17:20,680 She tells Arthur that her company will be like the Facebook of telehealth. And 248 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,200 by all appearances, she's already living the dream. 249 00:17:24,060 --> 00:17:27,000 She enjoyed nice things. No secret about that. 250 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,980 But also, Keisha understood that in order to attract people to her business 251 00:17:32,980 --> 00:17:35,500 venture, she had to give the appearance of success. 252 00:17:36,330 --> 00:17:38,730 And having nice things often did that. 253 00:17:39,190 --> 00:17:43,910 Arthur soon learns that Keisha's not living large by her lonesome. 254 00:17:44,230 --> 00:17:46,310 Keisha, she had a girlfriend, Danielle. 255 00:17:46,650 --> 00:17:51,390 I liked Danielle, but I wasn't fond of her because I think Danielle definitely 256 00:17:51,390 --> 00:17:52,390 was a gold digger. 257 00:17:52,670 --> 00:17:58,750 Arthur says Keisha and Danielle, a former NFL cheerleader, spend time at 258 00:17:58,750 --> 00:18:02,470 Galleria or the strip of trendy bars in Ashburn. 259 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:03,930 Right here, straight ahead. 260 00:18:04,430 --> 00:18:06,610 Down there, or this Bar Louie right here. 261 00:18:06,870 --> 00:18:09,590 She'd be there just drinking, day in and day out. 262 00:18:10,770 --> 00:18:15,510 Keisha often stays at the Ritz -Carlton Hotel, even though she owns a home 263 00:18:15,510 --> 00:18:16,510 nearby. 264 00:18:16,970 --> 00:18:21,690 I knew one time for certain Keisha stayed at the Ritz in Tyson's for 51 265 00:18:24,490 --> 00:18:28,930 The Ritz that she likes to stay at is attached to this Galleria. 266 00:18:29,870 --> 00:18:33,390 I used to call her base of operation is everything is right in one central 267 00:18:33,390 --> 00:18:34,390 location. 268 00:18:35,810 --> 00:18:41,230 Guys with her car, they knew Keisha was a big tipper. She was always giving out 269 00:18:41,230 --> 00:18:43,310 what she called blue bills, which is $100 bills. 270 00:18:43,970 --> 00:18:46,790 She was just flat, just throwing money away. 271 00:18:47,390 --> 00:18:51,450 Keisha enjoys the good life, but who's paying for it? 272 00:18:52,620 --> 00:18:54,440 By January 2017, 273 00:18:55,180 --> 00:18:59,340 Keisha Williams' name pops up on the FBI's online tip center. 274 00:18:59,860 --> 00:19:02,520 Agent Jamie Vera opens a case. 275 00:19:03,060 --> 00:19:07,720 The FBI received a number of complaints from individuals who believed that they 276 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:12,200 had been defrauded by her business, Keisha Williams and Associates 277 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:17,720 The complaints suggest Keisha has a history of conning business owners into 278 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,960 investing cash, then disappearing into the wind. 279 00:19:22,010 --> 00:19:27,310 As Agent Vera digs deep into past bank records, she sees large sums paid to 280 00:19:27,310 --> 00:19:31,790 Keisha's account by an individual in California, Christian D 'Andrade. 281 00:19:32,230 --> 00:19:37,230 I see money coming in, which says it's for fees, for KWAC fees, but then I see 282 00:19:37,230 --> 00:19:40,970 her spending. And it doesn't look like a normal business would be spending their 283 00:19:40,970 --> 00:19:41,970 money on. 284 00:19:42,730 --> 00:19:47,610 It was things like travel, which could be a business expense, but travel to 285 00:19:47,610 --> 00:19:49,930 exotic places like... 286 00:19:50,410 --> 00:19:52,070 Tahiti and Jamaica. 287 00:19:53,910 --> 00:19:59,130 Then there are luxury shopping sprees at stores like Chanel and Gucci and 288 00:19:59,130 --> 00:20:00,350 Bottega Veneta. 289 00:20:03,230 --> 00:20:08,730 You would see $50 ,000 come in and then just boom, boom, boom, the money going 290 00:20:08,730 --> 00:20:13,410 out on things like her staying at the Ritz -Carlton the four seasons. 291 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,320 Agent Jamie Vera observes other large deposits. 292 00:20:19,660 --> 00:20:24,520 These made by a 71 -year -old Virginia resident named Joe Sanders. 293 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,540 They arranged to meet at a local coffee shop. 294 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,680 Joe was, she was a very sweet lady. I learned that she had cancer. 295 00:20:32,780 --> 00:20:36,880 She was very close friends with Chris D 'Andrade. 296 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:42,560 So I asked her, Joe, did you invest with an individual or loan money to an 297 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:43,880 individual by the name of Keisha Williams? 298 00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:48,360 Her face changed, and she looked at me, and she said I had a bad feeling about 299 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,360 her. 300 00:20:49,460 --> 00:20:51,940 At that point, I knew I was on the right track. 301 00:20:52,740 --> 00:20:55,900 The FBI decides to ratchet up their investigation. 302 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,020 We want to see the money, and we want to follow the money, because that's the 303 00:21:00,020 --> 00:21:01,020 answer to everything. 304 00:21:02,060 --> 00:21:06,060 Unaware of prying eyes, Keisha's not done with Chris DeAndrade. 305 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:12,820 Texts later used by prosecutors show that in September 2017, Keisha sent him 306 00:21:12,820 --> 00:21:17,620 frantic text, allegedly from Austria, where she is slated to appear in court 307 00:21:17,620 --> 00:21:19,540 about the unpaid software fees. 308 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,160 She had went to Vienna. 309 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,220 While she was there, they took her passport away. 310 00:21:25,420 --> 00:21:30,040 She texts, I need to get out of here and looks like I'm going to be locked up 311 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,120 and unable to go anywhere. 312 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,540 Chris frantically replies, I've been awake. 313 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,760 Where the hell am I going to find money? I keep looking all the time. 314 00:21:39,580 --> 00:21:43,700 Keisha tells Chris, I've lost everything as well, including my freedom. 315 00:21:44,340 --> 00:21:48,040 And ain't no way in hell I'm getting out of here anytime soon. 316 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:56,000 By this time, I, you know, I was totally out of it. I was thinking about 317 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,860 all the people that I owed money to and wanted to make sure that we didn't lose 318 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:03,360 the software so we can pay people back their money. 319 00:22:04,330 --> 00:22:09,430 According to Keisha, they need to come up with another half million or risk 320 00:22:09,430 --> 00:22:10,890 losing the software entirely. 321 00:22:11,510 --> 00:22:16,030 So she kept moving the goalposts on him, changing the reasons for why they 322 00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:17,230 needed to raise more money. 323 00:22:17,590 --> 00:22:22,570 Over the next several weeks, Chris believes Keisha is detained in Austria. 324 00:22:23,250 --> 00:22:28,230 In this call recorded by Keisha that will later be confiscated as evidence of 325 00:22:28,230 --> 00:22:31,770 her tactics, she relentlessly berates him for more. 326 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:54,680 Bank records and text messages suggest Keisha is traveling and spending 327 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,500 extensively during this period, but not in Vienna. 328 00:22:59,820 --> 00:23:04,560 Photos later confiscated from her phone by prosecutors will confirm she's 329 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,240 touring Jamaica and Tahiti with her girlfriend. 330 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,180 Just by looking, I think this woman has a great life. She lives a life of 331 00:23:12,180 --> 00:23:13,560 luxury, the life of the rich and famous. 332 00:23:13,940 --> 00:23:16,300 And she really did live that way. 333 00:23:17,540 --> 00:23:22,500 In Northern Virginia, Keisha Williams has employed Arthur Robinson as her own 334 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:23,880 private security detail. 335 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,800 Most days, he's fulfilling the role of Keisha's driver and errand boy. 336 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:35,060 What I did for Keisha, it should be more like what I didn't do. I drove around, 337 00:23:35,420 --> 00:23:42,120 carried shopping bags, cut grass, washed cars, everything. You name it, I did 338 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,120 it. 339 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:48,720 Arthur doesn't recall any trips to Austria during this time. But Keisha and 340 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,900 girlfriend are taking plenty of luxury vacations. 341 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:55,780 Trips to Italy, Bora Bora, and Miami. 342 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:01,610 At the Cavalieri Hotel in Rome, Keisha Williams complained in a text to friends 343 00:24:01,610 --> 00:24:06,290 that the Mercedes that picked them up was too small and not her style. 344 00:24:07,570 --> 00:24:11,450 Everyone knew her, from the general manager to the groundskeeper. And she 345 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:12,450 sit at the pool. 346 00:24:12,970 --> 00:24:15,970 And they just catered to her. 347 00:24:16,410 --> 00:24:21,510 Keisha spent $75 ,000 on a surprise trip to Jamaica for Danielle's birthday. 348 00:24:22,350 --> 00:24:26,470 And $16 ,000 staying at the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Florida. 349 00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:32,640 According to Art Robinson, Keisha found ways to keep the party going strong at 350 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,080 home in Virginia, too. 351 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:41,200 Keisha and Danielle enjoy going to strip clubs. That was their thing. He 352 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,440 recalls one night in particular. 353 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:50,460 So we get to this place and when we get in there, it is. 354 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:57,200 laid out with liquor and glasses and sofas. And then I see these two girls 355 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,020 in. Both of them got these stacks of $1 bills in each arm. 356 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:07,160 Keisha opened one of the stacks and grabbed a stack like this and just threw 357 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,720 in the air. And I'm thinking, oh, my God. 358 00:25:10,260 --> 00:25:13,080 I know she didn't just do what I thought she just did. 359 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,760 And then Danielle grabbed one. 360 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,120 There was so much money that you literally could not see the floor. 361 00:25:20,830 --> 00:25:24,870 Because they were just reaching and grabbing a handful and just, and 362 00:25:25,090 --> 00:25:28,310 I get what they say, make it rain and whatever. It was snowing, for real. 363 00:25:29,150 --> 00:25:34,370 Keisha Williams displayed absolutely no empathy whatsoever for her victims and 364 00:25:34,370 --> 00:25:35,930 the positions that she had put them in. 365 00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:40,630 It was a lack of conscience that was verging on sociopathic. 366 00:25:41,470 --> 00:25:46,450 And while Keisha's pulling the wool over the eyes of her investors, she runs an 367 00:25:46,450 --> 00:25:49,110 entirely different play on Arthur Robinson. 368 00:25:49,820 --> 00:25:54,200 It was always, we as black people don't stick together, and we have to stick 369 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,780 together. And she was real big on that. 370 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:02,600 In the winter of 2016, Keisha takes Arthur out to dinner, and they party it 371 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,980 with sushi, cigars, and bourbon. 372 00:26:05,580 --> 00:26:10,320 While they celebrate, Keisha asks Art to help her out of a jam. 373 00:26:10,940 --> 00:26:15,440 She said, listen, I loaned these guys millions of dollars to start a hedge 374 00:26:15,620 --> 00:26:17,260 and I can't get my money back. 375 00:26:18,020 --> 00:26:22,520 I said, well, I tell you what, give me the guys' names, give me a couple days. 376 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,960 I want to do some background on these guys before I even talk. Plus, I've been 377 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:26,960 drinking. 378 00:26:26,980 --> 00:26:31,640 But later that night, Keisha calls one of the men in California, and she adds 379 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:36,660 Arthur in on a three -way call and announces him as an FBI agent. 380 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:40,380 The way she introduced me was, this is Agent Robinson. 381 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:46,900 Because I know, being a personated federal agent, it's a federal crime, and 382 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:47,900 a felony. 383 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,660 Over the next several months, Arthur Robinson uses his military background to 384 00:26:52,660 --> 00:26:54,800 pressure the California businessmen. 385 00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:58,460 I'm a very staunch protector of women and kids. 386 00:26:59,140 --> 00:27:03,300 And she knew that, because that's what a Southern man is supposed to do. You 387 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,000 take care of the womenfolk in their life. 388 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:11,800 He contacts both men by phone and via text messages in an attempt to demand 389 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,960 than $54 million, money that Keisha insists they owe her. 390 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,720 She knew Art Robinson had this background in law enforcement, and I 391 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,200 just knew that he was very vulnerable. 392 00:27:24,980 --> 00:27:29,720 In Northern California, Christian D 'Andrade has resorted to his own 393 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:35,220 measures. He begins to lie to new investors about where the money is going 394 00:27:35,220 --> 00:27:37,140 how quickly it will be paid back. 395 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,880 I won't mislead people, not intentionally. 396 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:45,200 Well, I did it intentionally because my back was against the wall. 397 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,520 It's always 24, 48 hours. We ought to come up with money. 398 00:27:50,180 --> 00:27:56,340 Next on American Greed, just as Christy Andrade starts to run dry, Keisha finds 399 00:27:56,340 --> 00:28:00,680 another willing mark with connections to a fresh pool of investors. 400 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:06,500 She was just going to keep going from person to person, bringing them 401 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:09,140 dry of resources and then moving on to someone else. 402 00:28:16,460 --> 00:28:21,980 By 2017, the world is running dry with Christy Andrade and his circle of 403 00:28:21,980 --> 00:28:22,980 trusting friends. 404 00:28:23,260 --> 00:28:26,040 Keisha Williams has devastated their savings. 405 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:33,340 One of her victims, she knew to have stage four cancer, and this woman could 406 00:28:33,340 --> 00:28:35,160 afford Christmas presents for her grandchildren. 407 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:42,160 Another victim texted her that he was unable to buy milk for his baby because 408 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,360 all the money that he had taken out. 409 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,040 For Keisha Williams. 410 00:28:46,540 --> 00:28:52,060 And even though Christian DeAndrade is defeated, broke, and demoralized, Keisha 411 00:28:52,060 --> 00:28:53,420 still has him on a string. 412 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:58,060 She tells him they've reached the finish line and that John, the Texas 413 00:28:58,060 --> 00:29:00,280 billionaire, has finally come through. 414 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,620 Keisha's telling Chris that this money was actually sitting in an account at 415 00:29:04,620 --> 00:29:09,660 Bank of America and that the $58 million had actually come in from John, but 416 00:29:09,660 --> 00:29:12,340 that it was stuck. And it was stuck in this ghost account. 417 00:29:12,810 --> 00:29:16,090 I worked in banking before. I had never heard of a ghost account. 418 00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:22,310 It's a classic fraudster move to keep moving the goalposts, to keep investors 419 00:29:22,310 --> 00:29:26,850 hoping that their returns are just around the corner, that if they don't 420 00:29:26,850 --> 00:29:28,970 a little bit more money, that everything's going to be lost. 421 00:29:29,410 --> 00:29:32,350 The FBI is wise to Keisha's game. 422 00:29:32,650 --> 00:29:35,410 They just need enough evidence to convict her. 423 00:29:35,650 --> 00:29:37,910 We had bank records showing... 424 00:29:38,460 --> 00:29:42,560 how much money Keisha was getting, what she was spending it on, and we had Joe 425 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,560 Sanders' statement. 426 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:49,500 What we were lacking was something from Keisha, either in writing or on a 427 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:50,500 recording. 428 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:56,580 That's when FBI Special Agent Varinder Singh asks Joe Sanders to introduce him 429 00:29:56,580 --> 00:29:58,780 to Keisha as Harry Singh. 430 00:29:59,460 --> 00:30:03,840 I needed to figure out what persona I was going to portray in meeting Keisha. 431 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,280 What I decided on was to portray myself as a wealthy investor. 432 00:30:08,270 --> 00:30:14,110 At the same time, FBI agents fly to Northern California to speak with 433 00:30:14,110 --> 00:30:15,670 D 'Andrade in person. 434 00:30:16,010 --> 00:30:22,130 It wasn't entirely clear. So we wanted to establish, does he actually know what 435 00:30:22,130 --> 00:30:23,130 she's doing? 436 00:30:23,310 --> 00:30:25,310 I said, why is the FBI calling me? 437 00:30:25,790 --> 00:30:27,950 I hardly even got a damn parking ticket. 438 00:30:28,270 --> 00:30:29,850 Why is the FBI calling me? 439 00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:36,020 Meeting with Chris, it doesn't take Agent Vera long to realize that he is 440 00:30:36,020 --> 00:30:37,720 oblivious to Keisha's lies. 441 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,140 He said, I trust her with my life. 442 00:30:41,780 --> 00:30:48,480 And we were just so taken back by why he would trust this woman so much. And we 443 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:55,120 got to a point where we asked Chris, we said, Chris, where do you think Keisha 444 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:56,120 was last week? 445 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,820 He thinks she's in Vienna. 446 00:30:59,630 --> 00:31:00,990 I said I'd talk to her every day. 447 00:31:02,310 --> 00:31:06,830 According to Keisha, we had everything done. The money was going to be released 448 00:31:06,830 --> 00:31:09,470 that next Monday. 449 00:31:10,470 --> 00:31:12,990 Agent Vera breaks the bad news. 450 00:31:13,870 --> 00:31:19,290 We had information that told us that weeks before this interview, Keisha was 451 00:31:19,290 --> 00:31:23,210 actually in Italy with her girlfriend on a very nice vacation. 452 00:31:24,650 --> 00:31:29,070 He was so shocked by the fact that she would lie to him. 453 00:31:29,310 --> 00:31:32,990 And it's like in that moment, we became the bad guys. 454 00:31:35,230 --> 00:31:41,790 This is UCE 7606 initiating op approximately 7 .40 p .m. with Keisha 455 00:31:42,210 --> 00:31:48,990 On October 12, 2017, with Chris still in denial, the FBI moves forward 456 00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:50,090 with their original plan. 457 00:31:50,570 --> 00:31:53,490 Harry Singh prepares to meet Keisha Williams. 458 00:31:54,170 --> 00:31:57,270 I originally planned to have dinner at Capital Grill, a quiet establishment, 459 00:31:57,670 --> 00:31:59,430 high -end steakhouse. Hi, how are you? 460 00:32:00,190 --> 00:32:03,690 My name's Harry. I'm meeting Keisha Williams here. 461 00:32:04,550 --> 00:32:06,950 She changed the venue to Eddie B's in Tyson's Corner. 462 00:32:07,530 --> 00:32:10,950 She's introducing me to everyone, the bartender, the hostess, the waiters. 463 00:32:11,670 --> 00:32:13,890 She wanted to make sure that I knew she was a hotshot. 464 00:32:14,770 --> 00:32:18,270 Over dinner, Keisha talks up the other investors. 465 00:32:32,159 --> 00:32:37,540 She told me she had some large oil and gas investors willing to write a check 466 00:32:37,540 --> 00:32:41,660 for any amount she wanted, people she had known for years, and yet she wanted 467 00:32:41,660 --> 00:32:46,260 move forward with Harry Singh, someone who she just met an hour ago. That was 468 00:32:46,260 --> 00:32:47,360 absolute red flag for me. 469 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:49,840 Then she explains her dilemma. 470 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,340 Her asset is in hock to the banks in Austria. 471 00:32:54,740 --> 00:33:01,520 One of the first figures that she threw out at dinner, which was the fact that 472 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,160 there was $1 .3 million accruing interest at 14 % compounded daily. 473 00:33:07,130 --> 00:33:12,770 Just to give you an idea, $1 compounded daily at 14 % for $360 a day is $600 474 00:33:12,770 --> 00:33:18,650 quadrillion. That's $600 with 18 zeros behind it. So it's one of two things, an 475 00:33:18,650 --> 00:33:22,290 outright lie or he or she has no idea what she's talking about. 476 00:33:23,090 --> 00:33:27,230 I knew this would give the prosecutor what they needed in order to have a slam 477 00:33:27,230 --> 00:33:28,230 dunk case. 478 00:33:28,930 --> 00:33:30,390 I like those sheets. 479 00:33:30,730 --> 00:33:31,930 Oh, thank you, thank you. 480 00:33:33,070 --> 00:33:34,650 Next on American Greed. 481 00:33:35,230 --> 00:33:37,130 The FBI closes in on a bust. 482 00:33:37,430 --> 00:33:40,190 So what is Keisha Williams' next move? 483 00:33:40,890 --> 00:33:44,090 I'm thinking, is she going to destroy evidence? Is she going to flee the 484 00:33:44,090 --> 00:33:46,750 country? Those are the things that always start running through your head. 485 00:33:54,310 --> 00:34:00,230 On February 13, 2018, an arrest warrant is issued against Keisha Williams. 486 00:34:01,020 --> 00:34:05,000 who agents suspect pleased more than 50 investors out of their savings. 487 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:12,760 She took almost all of that money and spent it on lavish vacations, 488 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,659 expensive clothes, living in hotel rooms. 489 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:20,120 It was a level of greed that I've rarely seen. 490 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,600 But the charismatic Khan has gone missing. 491 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,860 We had agents that would just go sit outside our house. 492 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,960 There was never any activity showing her coming in or out of the house. 493 00:34:32,540 --> 00:34:36,000 They'll later learn Keisha prefers to stay at the Ritz. 494 00:34:36,460 --> 00:34:40,940 But agents track Keisha's credit accounts and see that she's booked on a 495 00:34:40,940 --> 00:34:46,159 Mexico and scheduled to leave Reagan National Airport at 10 a .m. on February 496 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:48,860 15th. At that point, I really wasn't sure. 497 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:54,080 Is she fleeing the country because she's concerned that we're on to her? Or is 498 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:55,940 she just going on another lavish vacation? 499 00:34:57,770 --> 00:35:00,890 Agents arrive to stake out the gate at 7 a .m. 500 00:35:01,650 --> 00:35:06,250 8 o 'clock rolls around and 8 .30 rolls around. 501 00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:07,870 She's still not there. 502 00:35:08,570 --> 00:35:13,830 And it must have been 30 minutes or so before her flight was scheduled to 503 00:35:13,830 --> 00:35:19,230 depart. And here comes Keisha and her girlfriend just in a hurry, rushing into 504 00:35:19,230 --> 00:35:20,670 the airport to catch their flight. 505 00:35:21,650 --> 00:35:24,410 But she's not going anywhere exotic. 506 00:35:25,310 --> 00:35:30,110 I think she really was shocked when she, in her mind, she's about to go on this 507 00:35:30,110 --> 00:35:33,070 luxurious vacation to Mexico with her girlfriend. 508 00:35:34,450 --> 00:35:40,010 Keisha did not believe that what she did in this case really was anything that 509 00:35:40,010 --> 00:35:43,470 was illegal or wrong in any sense of the word. 510 00:35:44,490 --> 00:35:48,970 Keisha's belief was that any monies that she was using for personal purposes 511 00:35:48,970 --> 00:35:52,770 could easily be repaid once financing came through. 512 00:35:54,090 --> 00:36:00,070 But once the FBI seizes Williams' phone, they discover an unexpected jackpot of 513 00:36:00,070 --> 00:36:01,070 physical evidence. 514 00:36:01,350 --> 00:36:06,050 We see that there are 195 ,000 text messages on this phone. 515 00:36:06,570 --> 00:36:09,290 And that's a lot of text messages. 516 00:36:09,770 --> 00:36:11,990 Keisha Williams lied to everyone. 517 00:36:12,570 --> 00:36:16,950 But texts and photos on her cell phone provide the critical evidence for 518 00:36:16,950 --> 00:36:21,630 prosecutors. So this time period, this was October 2017, and at this point, 519 00:36:21,710 --> 00:36:26,170 Keisha was telling Chris that she was being detained overseas in Austria. This 520 00:36:26,170 --> 00:36:29,850 is a text message from Keisha to Chris, and she says, I'm frustrated, I'm 521 00:36:29,850 --> 00:36:35,170 pissed, I'm angry, I'm mad, I'm tired, I'm upset, I'm confused, I'm a lot of 522 00:36:35,170 --> 00:36:39,690 things, but came up with 90 ,000, so I need you to come up with the 57 ,000 523 00:36:39,690 --> 00:36:45,670 ASAP. That text message was 7 .56, and then within 30 minutes, she texts her 524 00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:49,390 girlfriend, and she says, I'm waiting on they asses now at Applebee's having a 525 00:36:49,390 --> 00:36:50,650 quick $3 Jack Daniel. 526 00:36:50,950 --> 00:36:56,070 So she clearly was not in Austria. She was at Applebee's having a drink, and 527 00:36:56,070 --> 00:36:58,590 there are not any Applebee's in Austria that I'm aware of. 528 00:36:59,010 --> 00:37:03,930 Days later, on October 10th, while Williams was still allegedly stuck in 529 00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:08,710 Austria, texts revealed she was actually in Jamaica with Danielle. 530 00:37:10,090 --> 00:37:16,390 This was a picture of her ATV in Jamaica with money that was sent to her by 531 00:37:16,390 --> 00:37:17,610 some of the victims. 532 00:37:19,590 --> 00:37:23,670 There was a series of text messages where Keisha was telling Chris that she 533 00:37:23,670 --> 00:37:26,910 sick in bed, and minutes later she was texting her girlfriend saying, we're at 534 00:37:26,910 --> 00:37:30,610 Rick's Cafe, and then we found this picture showing that she was there. 535 00:37:31,310 --> 00:37:36,570 On another luxury vacation with her girlfriend in Bora Bora, Keisha texted 536 00:37:36,570 --> 00:37:42,930 friends bragging she just spotted after Tracy Morgan, then added, I still have 537 00:37:42,930 --> 00:37:44,490 the biggest villa on the island. 538 00:37:45,050 --> 00:37:50,350 You would see Chris frantically trying to go find this money for her. And then 539 00:37:50,350 --> 00:37:54,970 at the same time, within minutes, he's texting her girlfriend about renting a 540 00:37:54,970 --> 00:37:59,070 yacht or going on a vacation to Tahiti or Jamaica. 541 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:05,520 It provided in Keisha's own words all of the lies that she had been telling 542 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:06,520 Chris and investors. 543 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:11,880 Texts revealed how she told Chris D 'Andrade she was broke and struggling to 544 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,620 deal with financial and medical emergencies. 545 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:23,600 Every single day for a two -year period was just her lies. 546 00:38:24,540 --> 00:38:29,320 Williams is accused of swindling more than $5 million from investors for the 547 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:34,800 revolutionary health care software program she told them she'd bought. But 548 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,200 only sent just over $200 ,000 to Austria. 549 00:38:39,340 --> 00:38:44,360 Texts show that a month before Williams' arrest in February, DeAndrade sent her 550 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,040 his social security check. 551 00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:51,840 In retrospect, it could have been worse for me if she had thrown her phone away. 552 00:38:52,540 --> 00:38:55,000 I would have been in jail for 16 years. 553 00:38:56,420 --> 00:39:01,660 Christian D 'Andrade is charged and pleads guilty to felony wire fraud for 554 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:02,660 part in the scheme. 555 00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:08,000 At my age, now I have a record and have nothing. I have my health. That's the 556 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,000 only thing I have left. 557 00:39:10,020 --> 00:39:13,880 Keisha's girlfriend, Danielle, is not charged with any wrongdoing. 558 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:19,440 Arthur Robinson is charged and pleads guilty to impersonating a federal 559 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,060 and gets probation. 560 00:39:23,180 --> 00:39:25,020 And I was being lied to the whole time. 561 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,380 And I should have freaking seen it. 562 00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:35,300 On October 15th at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, 563 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:36,600 Williams' trial begins. 564 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,040 She pleads not guilty. 565 00:39:39,580 --> 00:39:45,920 Keisha always intended to pay back every investor, every nickel, every dime that 566 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:46,920 she promised them. 567 00:39:47,220 --> 00:39:51,580 But much of that was contingent on the company being successful. 568 00:39:52,270 --> 00:39:56,510 The prosecution claims Keisha induced people to lend her money by telling them 569 00:39:56,510 --> 00:40:01,870 lies. But 71 -year -old Joe Sanders is the most damaging witness to Williams' 570 00:40:02,050 --> 00:40:04,930 case. The cancer had progressed. 571 00:40:05,270 --> 00:40:10,170 She barely could go to the trial, and she had to go in a wheelchair. 572 00:40:10,510 --> 00:40:17,190 It was very emotional for her, and I'm sure that the jury saw her as a real 573 00:40:17,190 --> 00:40:18,190 victim. 574 00:40:20,670 --> 00:40:23,890 literally dying of cancer throughout this whole case. 575 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:27,010 And Keisha knew that, and she did not care. 576 00:40:27,590 --> 00:40:31,030 I think the judge really got to see Keisha Williams' character. 577 00:40:31,670 --> 00:40:37,250 The next day, Keisha Williams decides to change her plea to guilty of 14 counts 578 00:40:37,250 --> 00:40:38,610 of fraud -related charges. 579 00:40:39,450 --> 00:40:44,550 The prosecution's most damning evidence never makes it to court. The loot that 580 00:40:44,550 --> 00:40:46,790 was confiscated from her Ashburn residence. 581 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,980 So these shoes cost $670. 582 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,200 These are all Jordan. 583 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,940 They were all brand new. They were all in the boxes just like this when we 584 00:40:56,940 --> 00:41:00,120 them. This is $1 ,495. 585 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,040 $350. 586 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:04,240 $895. 587 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:09,280 Keisha Williams spent over a million dollars of investors' money on luxury 588 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,000 shopping. This is just a portion of it. And again, this was all investor money. 589 00:41:14,830 --> 00:41:19,850 The hardest part of a lot of these white -collar cases is the conversation that 590 00:41:19,850 --> 00:41:23,910 we have to have with victims where we tell them, your money is gone. 591 00:41:24,330 --> 00:41:26,690 That part is always heartbreaking. 592 00:41:27,970 --> 00:41:30,230 On October 17, 2018, 593 00:41:30,950 --> 00:41:35,890 Keisha Williams is sentenced to 15 and a half years in federal prison. And the 594 00:41:35,890 --> 00:41:37,690 judge adds a final caveat. 595 00:41:38,750 --> 00:41:41,150 The brazenness that... 596 00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:46,020 Keisha Williams displayed could be seen in the fact that she brought with her to 597 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:52,520 trial and to her sentencing a leather portfolio from a luxury Italian 598 00:41:52,660 --> 00:41:55,020 Bottega Veneta, retailed for $1 ,900. 599 00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:00,740 And at the sentencing proceeding, the judge ordered her to forfeit that 600 00:42:00,740 --> 00:42:06,220 portfolio. So the contents were dumped out and the portfolio was handed over to 601 00:42:06,220 --> 00:42:10,580 the government because, as the judge said at the time, She wasn't going to 602 00:42:10,580 --> 00:42:11,580 that where she was going.