He founded 'Students for Trump.' Now he could face jail time for impersonating a lawyer
According to the federal government, Lambert had another gig of sorts that summer. It was around August 2016, prosecutors say, that Lambert began setting into motion a highly profitable scheme.
In October, Lambert headlined a Millennials for Trump rally at Georgia State University alongside Milo Yiannopoulos, a protégé of Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon and at the time the tech editor of Breitbart News.
But he allegedly kept himself busy. Using “Eric Pope” and another alias, Lambert and his co-conspirator — who has been cooperating with the government — allegedly began roping in clients. Though prosecutors say he was operating out of North Carolina, Lambert allegedly used phone spoofing services to list numbers with New York area codes in order to further the perception he was operating out of Manhattan.
Meanwhile, Students for Trump was being scrutinized by the Federal Election Commission. As of February 2018, the FEC had sent the group nine letters seeking financial information the group was legally required to report, according to the“As you will see, all records are under John Lambert, who is no longer with SFT and hasn’t been with us for some time,” a spokeswoman told the Daily Beast at the time.
When Lambert stopped responding to communications, friends became worried. They learned of his arrest by Googling his name and finding a“He’s been a good friend to me, and I think overall he’s a nice guy,” said the friend who texted with Lambert the day before his arrest. “It kind of shocked me when I heard about this.”
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