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  • NOW TO A STORY YOU WILL ONLY SEE

  • ON WYFF NEWS 4.... HE STOLE

  • 57 MILLION FROM 798 VICTIMS IN A

  • PONZI SCHEME...

  • NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER RON

  • WILSON IS SPEAKING out from

  • JAIL. TONIGHT...THE NEW DETAILS

  • FROM OUR EXCLUSIVE JAILHOUSE

  • INTERVIEW.

  • HERE NOW IS WYFF NEWS 4'S MANDY

  • GAITHER.

  • FROM THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY

  • JAIL... RON WILSON TOLD US IT

  • ALL STARTED WITH A LIE...AND HE

  • GOT GOOD AT TELLING THEM...

  • WHEN JENA EISON...THE VICE

  • PRESIDENT OF HIS COMPANY

  • ATLANTIC BULLION AND COIN...

  • STARTED ASKING

  • QUESTIONS...WANTING TO SEE THE

  • SILVER VICTIMS THOUGHT THEY HAD

  • BOUGHT --WILSON HAD THE RIGHT

  • ANSWERS...

  • I said what is it you don't

  • trust me? Here you are vice

  • president of the company you

  • don't trust me she said oh no I

  • trust you and I said well come

  • on what is it and she said I'm

  • just trying to get more

  • information to be more effective

  • with the clients and I said when

  • you get to those questions bring

  • me in because I used to tell

  • them. I had a client she brought

  • in one day she said he said how

  • do I know the silver is there I

  • said you don't . he sat there

  • and he says what. I said you

  • don't know it's not in your name

  • it's in ours that's how I can

  • trade it. I said if you're

  • uncomfortable get out

  • we'll settle? out. Nobody did.

  • It was part of the arrogance. It

  • was part of the stupidity.

  • RIGHT BEFORE HIS ARREST...

  • WILSON SAYS HE BELIEVES EISON

  • FIGURED IT OUT... BUT SAYS HE

  • OCHESTRATED THE ENTIRE PONZI

  • SCHEME ON HIS OWN. NOT

  • WANTING TO TAKE A CHANCE...OR

  • TRUST ANYONE

  • BUT HIMSELF.

  • I'm not mad at the Secret

  • Service, I'm not mad the

  • receiver I'm not mad at anyone

  • I'm mad at myself. I did this. I

  • put myself in here. Nobody put

  • me in here I did this and it's a

  • horrible way to end up your life

  • WILSON SAYS IT WAS SHEER GREED

  • THAT LED HIM TO STEAL. HE

  • SAYS HIS BUSINESS WAS LEGITIMATE

  • UNTIL 2001.

  • HE NOTICED THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE

  • EVER TOOK ANY MONEY OUT OF THEIR

  • ACCOUNTS...

  • I started issuing statements

  • that had nothing behind it. I

  • even re-designed the statement

  • that was very good.

  • In fact the secret service told

  • me it was genius because ther'es

  • no way anyone would take a look

  • at that statement and h ave a

  • doubt THOSE CLIENTS...NOW

  • VICTIMS...ARE THE ONES WHO

  • BROUGHT WILSON DOWN.

  • HE SAYS ONE ASKED TO SELL HIS

  • SILVER AND GET HIS MILLION

  • DOLLARS...THEN A SECOND WANTED

  • TWO MILLION...BUT THERE WAS

  • NOTHING TO SELL...

  • hadn't been for awhile. And then

  • i -- when i hung up that phone i

  • thought this is the bullet with

  • my name on it. THOSE VICTIMS

  • AND SO MANY OTHERS NEVER GOT

  • THEIR MONEY...

  • WILSON WILL BE 82-YEARS-OLD WHEN

  • HE GETS OUT OF PRISON...HE'S

  • ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT HE MAY

  • DIE THERE.

  • I'd like to think that I might

  • through some - God's providence

  • that I might live to get out - I

  • would like to spend

  • some time with my daughter and

  • my grandkids and my

  • great-grandkids but that's not

  • likely to happen and so I have

  • to just come to grips with what

  • I've done and what's it's going

  • to cost me a lot. I'm sorry that

  • it cost the clients what it did

  • them but it cost them things

  • that are financial. It cost me

  • things that I'll never recover.

  • MANDY GAITHER WYFF NEWS 4.

  • WILSON SAYS HE DOESN'T REMEMBER

  • HIS FIRST VICTIM, BUT SAYS HE'S

  • HAUNTED BY SOME WHOM HE CAN'T

  • FORGET.

  • PREACHERS...FRIENDS...FAMILY

  • ...THOSE WHO GAVE HIM

  • EVERYTHING...AND THEN LOST

  • EVERYTHING. WILSON TOLD US HE

  • SPENT THE MONEY HE STOLE ON

  • BUILDING A HOUSE AND A FARM...

  • HE ALSO WENT TO AUCTIONS AND

  • BOUGHT WHAT HE WANTED...AND TOLD

  • US HE RELISHED IN THE FACT THAT

NOW TO A STORY YOU WILL ONLY SEE

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