John R. Osgood

In 2011 I was indicted for federal wire fraud related to five homes I purchased in 2006 with the intention of flipping them. The prosecutor offered 18-24 months in prison, but I knew I had not agreed to anything that was false or fraudulent. Against the advice of Mr. Osgood, I proceeded to trial. ... The discovery materials were provided on a CD. The loan applications were images of copies of faxed documents. On these images you could not see the bottom of the forms where the originals I later obtained while in prison showed my initials were missing from every page with false information. Three of the witnesses who testified against me were former business partners who lied leaving the impression I had stolen some $250k from them. This could have easily been refuted with bank statements that Mr. Osgood had refused to obtain stating they would never be allowed to testify because it didn't pertain to the mortgages. This man refused to defend me because he had wanted me to plead guilty. There is much more that I could say that I won't. The bottom line is that this man is not to be trusted. I was ultimately sentenced to 87 months in federal prison because he refused to defend me at trial