The promoter of a bogus investment offering involving distressed business assets was taken into custody this morning on federal mail and wire fraud charges that charge him with running a Ponzi scheme in which he raised at least $12 million from victims across the United States.
Peter Jerald Frommer, 34, formerly of Malibu and currently believed to be residing in Carpenteria, surrendered this morning to special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and IRS-Criminal Investigation.



