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A Virginia woman swindled $5 million in a healthcare investment scam so she could stay at the Ritz and enjoy a $200,000 trip to Italy

Published by Business Insider on Tue, 22 Jan 2019


Keisha Williams was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in federal prison on Friday after pleading guilty to 14 fraud-related charges.Williams was accused of swindling $5 million out of investors for a healthcare software program she told them she had bought.She never fully purchased the program, however, and instead spent the money on trips with her girlfriend.Williams took a birthday trip to Disney World, a $75,000 trip to Jamaica, a $200,000 trip to Italy, and more.A Virginia woman who swindled $5 million in a healthcare investment scam spent the money on extravagant trips to Europe and the Bahamas in one of the "worst cases" a judge said she had ever seen.Keisha Williams, 42, of Ashburn, Virginia, was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in federal prison on Friday after admitting to running a fraudulent healthcare software scheme that scammed more than 50 million people out of their savings, according to The Washington Post.She pleaded guilty to 14 fraud-related charges last year.Williams lived lavish life, traveling to the Bahamas, Italy, and Bora Bora, where she bragged about spotting actor Tracy Morgan and boasted she had "the biggest villa on the island."At her sentencing, Williams was ordered to hand over an $1,800 leather portfolio she bought on her trip to Italy and carried at the trial, along with a car, gun, watches, and other items."The way in which you spent this money ... is appalling," Judge Leonie M. Brinkema told Williams at the sentencing.At the start of her scam four years ago, Williams had claimed to have purchased Austrian software that would allow doctors to remotely talk to patients.Read more: 12 of the biggest money scandals and scams of 2018To supposedly buy the product, she convinced a California businessman named Christian D'Andrade to become her partner and raise $4 million, including $1.4 million of his own money. Another $1 million came from other victims.But Williams never fully purchased the healthcare software, and only spent $300,000 on the product, The Washington Post reported.The remaining $5.4 million she got from investors was mainly spent on her and her girlfriend, according to court records seen by The Post.Williams took a birthday trip to Disney World, a $75,000 trip to Jamaica, a $200,000 trip to Italy where she stayed in five-star hotels, and more.Meanwhile, D'Andrade lost two houses, a car and all of his savings while waiting to be paid back on his investment, The Post reported. After losing everything, D'Andrade sent Williams the only money he hada Social Security checkwhich he'd planned to use to pay overdue phone and utility bills.Several other investors lost their savings, too.According to court filings obtained by The Post, Williams allegedly told her family that if they wanted her to visit her dying grandmother, "they need to send some money if they want me there.Williams, who has degrees in electrical engineering and law, was eventually arrested in February 2018.It came after she was investigated following complaints from small businesses that had paid her consulting firm advances for jobs that were never performed.Read more:5 GoFundMe campaigns that weren't what they claimed to bePeople have been sharing a too-good-to-be-true Lululemon ambassador Instagram post and it's actually a scamA Minnesota man allegedly faked his own death by putting his clothes and ID on a dead body to collect $2 million5 signs the scholarship you're applying for may be a scamJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: This tiny building in Wilmington, Delaware is home to 300,000 businesses
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