Subject: Point Roberts in the News<br/>
Date: Mar 24, 2005 @ 00:49<br/>
Author: Andrew T. Patton (Andrew T. Patton &lt;andrew@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2043789847">From Sunday&#39;s Washington Post<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
A Free Lunch Could Be Costly<br/>
<br/>
Frederick Gilliland was on the run from the scores of investors who<br/>
contended he had scammed them of nearly $30 million in an offshore<br/>
investment scheme. He was avoiding the federal officials who were<br/>
dying to prosecute him for fraud, and he was gearing up to fight his<br/>
extradition from his native Canada back to Florida, where he was due<br/>
to face charges.<br/>
<br/>
Must have taken a lot of energy. Because, apparently, he was also<br/>
really hungry. Last weekend, more than four years after he allegedly<br/>
fled north to avoid an investor lawsuit and subsequent FBI and SEC<br/>
investigations, the fugitive was lured back across the border by a<br/>
promise of a free lunch.<br/>
<br/>
A private detective who was supposedly one of Gilliland&#39;s victims<br/>
somehow sold him on the virtues of a two-for-one deal at a restaurant<br/>
in Point Roberts, Wash. Point Roberts sits at the end of a small<br/>
peninsula, more than 10 miles removed from the U.S. mainland across<br/>
the Straits of Georgia, and is reachable only by driving south from<br/>
British Columbia. So, perhaps, it seemed like a low-risk trip.<br/>
<br/>
But as the two drove across the border, they were followed by agents<br/>
from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who stopped<br/>
Gilliland, 53.<br/>
<br/>
He was charged Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle with wire and<br/>
securities fraud and conspiracy to launder money.<br/>
<br/>
-- Amy Argetsinger <br/>
--<br/>
Andrew T. Patton (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:andrew@...">andrew@...</a>)<br/>
Travelogues and Photos at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.andrewpatton.com">http://www.andrewpatton.com</a></div>