Felony Indictment (Wire Fraud Conspiracy) — U.S. v. Albert Weber, Jr. and Cyntrelle Lash (E.D. La.)

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A Felony Indictment for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Interstate Communication of a Threat, filed April 24, 2026 as Document 19 in Case 2:26-cr-00112, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. It names Albert Weber, Jr. and Cyntrelle Lash as defendants. Count 1, Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, alleges a conspiracy beginning at least as early as 2016 in which the defendants and others impersonated athletes and their relatives to obtain funds from the Victim Lenders. The indictment also includes forfeiture allegations under 18 U.S.C. § 982(a)(1) and Title 21, United States Code, Section 853(p), and it closes with a signature block naming United States Attorney David I. Courcelle.

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Case 2:26-cr-00112-DJP-EJD Document19 Filed 04/24/26 Page 1 of 16

FELONY

INDICTMENT FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT WIRE FRAUD, CONSPIRACY TO
COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING, AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT, AND
INTERSTATE COMMUNICATION OF A THREAT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA * CRIMINAL NO. o 6 om 1 j 2 a |
v. * SECTION: SECT. 2 M A 6.3

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

ALBERT WEBER, JR. * VIOLATIONS: 18 U.S.C. § 1343
CYNTRELLE LASH 18 U.S.C. § 1349
* 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)
18 U.S.C. § 1956(h)
* 18 U.S.C. § 1028A
18 U.S.C. § 875
# & # 18 U.S.C. § 2

The Grand Jury charges that:

COUNT 1
(Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud)

A. AT ALL TIMES MATERIAL HEREIN:

The Defendants
lL. The defendant, ALBERT WEBER, JR. (“WEBER”), resided in or around

Harvey, Louisiana, which is in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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Di WEBER was the manager of a Harvey company, A. Weber Music & Sports
Entertainment, LLC (“Weber Music & Sports”), registered with the Louisiana Secretary of State
on or about May 20, 2021.

3. WEBER maintained financial accounts at Capital One Bank (“Capital One”) and
CashApp, a money transfer service.

4, The defendant, CYNTRELLE LASH (“LASH”), resided in or around Metairie,
Louisiana, which is in the Eastern District of Louisiana.

= LASH maintained financial accounts in her name at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
(“Chase Bank”) and Navy Federal Credit Union (“Navy FCU”).

6. LASH was the mother of WEBER’s child.

te WEBER’s cellular phone number was saved in LASH’s cellular phone under the
contact name “partner in crime.”

8. LASH was the manager of a Metairie company, IPrestigio, LLC (“IPrestigio”),
registered with the Louisiana Secretary of State on or about April 22, 2019. [Prestigio changed its
name to IPrestige, LLC on or about June 24, 2020.

9. LASH maintained financial accounts in the name of [Prestigio at Gulf Coast Bank
and Trust (“Gulf Coast Bank”), Navy FCU, and Hancock Whitney Bank (“Hancock Whitney”).

The Victims & Related Parties

10. Football Player 1 was a college athlete who finished his NCAA career in 2017 and
was predicted in 2017 to be a top draft pick in the NFL.

11. Basketball Player 1 was a college athlete who finished his NCAA career in 2021

and was predicted in 2021 to be a top draft pick in the NBA.
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12. Basketball Player 2 was a college athlete who finished his NCAA career in 2023
and was predicted in 2023 to be a top draft pick in the NBA.

13. Football Player 2 was a college athlete who finished his NCAA career in 2025 and
was predicted in 2025 to be a top draft pick in the NFL. (Collectively, Football Player 1, Football
Player 2, Basketball Player 1, and Basketball Player 2 are the “Draft Athlete Victims.”)

14. Victim Lender 1, Victim Lender 2, and Victim Lender 3 (collectively, the “Victim
Lenders”) were businesses and individuals who provided loans and financing to athletes.

15. Victim 4 was a businessperson who helped basketball players travel to foreign
countries to play basketball games, including in a European league during the NBA offseason, so
aspiring and professional basketball players could gain exposure to teams and coaches from
professional leagues.

16. Victim 5 wasa sports agent who represented basketball players who sought to travel
on the overseas trips arranged by Victim 4.

17. Basketball Player 3 was a Texas-based aspiring professional athlete who sought to
play in a professional league outside of the United States.

18. Basketball Player 4 was a Florida-based aspiring professional athlete who sought
to play in a professional league outside of the United States.

B. THE CONSPIRACY:

Beginning on a date unknown, but at least as early as 2016, and continuing through the
date of this indictment, in the Eastern District of Louisiana and elsewhere, the defendants,
ALBERT WEBER JR. and CYNTRELLE LASH, did willfully, that is, with the intent to further
the objects of the conspiracy, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with each
other and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, with the intent to defraud, to knowingly

devise, and intend to devise, a scheme and artifice to defraud, and to obtain money and property
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by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, knowing that
they were false and fraudulent when made, and, for the purpose of executing the scheme and
artifice, transmitting and causing to be transmitted in interstate and foreign commerce, by means
of wire communication, certain writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds, in violation of Title
18, United States Code, Section 1343.

CG PURPOSE OF THE CONSPIRACY:

It was a purpose of the conspiracy for WEBER, LASH, and others to unlawfully enrich
themselves by, among other things:

1. Obtaining money by defrauding the Victim Lenders into providing funds to
WEBER, LASH, and their coconspirators and associates;

pn Moving the proceeds of the scheme between accounts and through cash
withdrawals to conceal and disguise the nature, source, ownership, and control of the proceeds of
the scheme.

3, Concealing the scheme by submitting false and fraudulent documents to the Victim
Lenders, notaries, and others involved in the transactions in which the defendants impersonated
athletes and their relatives, and misusing personal identifying information of the impersonated
athletes and their relatives.

D. MANNER AND MEANS OF THE CONSPIRACY:

The manner and means by which WEBER, LASH, and their coconspirators sought to
accomplish the object and purpose of the conspiracy included, among others, the following:

1. WEBER, LASH, and their coconspirators defrauded the victims by using multiple
identities and causing victims to enter into fake transactions through which the victims would

transfer funds to accounts controlled by the defendants and their coconspirators.
2. WEBER, LASH, and their coconspirators used multiple versions of their scheme,
described below. One version of the scheme involved using fake and stolen identities to deceive
the Victim Lenders into believing that they were making loans and transferring funds to basketball
and football players and their family members, when in fact the funds went to the defendants and
their coconspirators. Another version of the scheme involved using fake and stolen identities to
defraud athletes and businesspeople into sending funds to the defendants and their coconspirators
for fake basketball-related trips overseas.

Fraudulent Loans

3% WEBER, LASH, and their coconspirators created fake documents, deceptively
named email addresses, and fake driver’s licenses, which they used to enter into transactions, forge
documents, create accounts, and obtain funds as if they were the Draft Athlete Victims and their
family members.

4. Beginning as early as 2016 and continuing through at least 2025, WEBER, LASH,
and their coconspirators impersonated the Draft Athlete Victims and their family members in text
messages, meetings, and telephone calls.

on WEBER, LASH, and their coconspirators defrauded the Victim Lenders into
sending funds to accounts under their control purportedly for the benefit of the Draft Athlete
Victims and their family members.

6. WEBER, LASH, and coconspirators acting at WEBER’s direction moved the
funds from the Victim Lenders through multiple accounts and into cash to conceal and disguise

the nature, location, source, ownership, and control of the proceeds of the scheme.
7 WEBER, LASH, and their coconspirators then spent the funds for their personal
purposes unrelated to the Draft Athlete Victims and their family members without their knowledge
or authorization.

Football Player 1

8. Beginning in or around 2016, the coconspirators impersonated Football Player 1 to
defraud a victim lender. The coconspirators defrauded the victim lender into making two loans to
Football Player 1. The coconspirators falsely told the victim lender that the first loan was for
Football Player 1 to buy out his contract with his sports agent, and the second loan was to pay off
individuals the coconspirators described as “street guys” who had loaned Football Player 1 money
during his years as a college athlete.

9. Acting at the direction of the coconspirators, the victim lender sent several transfers
totaling approximately $300,000, to three accounts not in Football Player 1°s name. One of the
account Owners was an associate of WEBER who received a series of wire transfers into bank
accounts under the associate’s control between in or around December 2016 and January 2017.
Following receipt of the wire transfers, the associate withdrew most of the funds in cash and gave
itto WEBER.

Victim Lender 1 & Basketball Player 1

10. Beginning in or around 2021, the coconspirators impersonated Basketball Player 1
and his father. Using deceptively named email addresses created for the scheme, the coconspirators
defrauded Victim Lender 1, who believed he was communicating with Basketball Player 1 and his
father.

11. In response to Victim Lender 1’s attempts to vet Basketball Player 1 and his father,

the coconspirators emailed Victim Lender 1 the name, date of birth, social security number,
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driver’s license number, and address of the father of Basketball Player 1. The coconspirators also
signed a forged agreement on behalf of Basketball Player 1 concerning approximately $950,000
in funds, after which the coconspirators sent Victim Lender 1 a copy of the forged agreement
notarized in Orleans Parish.

12. The coconspirators transferred the funds they received from Victim Lender 1 to
accounts controlled by the coconspirators. For example, following a wire transfer on or about June
11, 2021, of approximately $50,000 from Victim Lender 1’s account to LASH’s [Prestigio account
at Gulf Coast Bank, LASH withdrew approximately $45,000 in cash.

13. On or about July 1, 2021, Victim Lender 1 made three wire transfers, totaling
approximately $300,000, from his bank account to LASH’s [Prestigio’s Gulf Coast Bank account,
LASH’s Chase Bank account, and an associate’s Capital One Bank account. From these funds,
between on or about July 2 and July 8, 2021, three separate cash withdrawals, each $30,000, were
made from IPrestigio’s Gulf Coast Bank account. From these funds, in or around July 2021, LASH
made two transfers to WEBER’s CashApp account, totaling approximately $4,000, and four cash
withdrawals, totaling approximately $84,000, from LASH’s Chase Bank account.

14. On or about July 26, 2021, the coconspirators emailed Victim Lender 1 a forged
letter purporting to be a line of credit letter on Capital One Bank’s letterhead, falsely confirming
that Basketball Player 1 would be provided a $20 million line of credit by August 2, 2021.

15. In or around August 2021, the coconspirators requested another $1 million loan
from Victim Lender 1 for Basketball Player 1. On or about October 11, 2021, the coconspirators
sent Victim Lender 1 notarized financial documents forged in the name of Basketball Player 1,

using a fake return address in Harvey, Louisiana, and the coconspirators emailed Victim Lender 1
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fabricated driver’s licenses (with correct information but photographs taken from another source)
for Basketball Player 1 and his father.

16. In total, the coconspirators defrauded Victim Lender | of approximately $850,000
by impersonating Basketball Player 1 and his father.

Victim Lender 2 & Basketball Player 2

17. Beginning in or around 2023, the coconspirators impersonated Basketball Player 2
and his father. Using deceptively named email addresses created for the scheme, the coconspirators
defrauded Victim Lender 2, who believed he was communicating with Basketball Player 2.

18. | The coconspirators also defrauded other victim lenders, including by impersonating
Basketball Player 2’s father and by electronically signing documents in the name of Basketball
Player 2 from IP addresses that LASH previously used to sign a lease and that WEBER previously
used to access his CashApp account.

19. On or about June 8, 2023, the coconspirators sent a forged financial agreement,
signed on behalf of Basketball Player 2, to Victim Lender 2. The coconspirators sent Victim
Lender 2 a Form W-9, dated March 18, 2023, with Basketball Player 2’s name, address, social
security number, and signature, as well as a copy of Basketball Player 2’s driver’s license.

20. | Using documents forged in the name of Basketball Player 2, the coconspirators
established an account in the name of Basketball Player 2. On or about June 9, 2023, Victim
Lender 2 sent approximately $750,000 to the account in Basketball Player 2’s name. In the
following weeks, the coconspirators transferred over $300,000 of those funds to LASH’s Navy
FCU account and then to WEBER’s Capital One Bank account.

21. On or about August 17, 2023, the coconspirators signed a wire funds authorization

using Basketball Player 2’s name and signature. On or about August 18, 2023, approximately
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$1,085,000 was transferred via wire from Victim Lender 2’s bank account to the account in the
name of Basketball Player 2. On or about August 18, 2023, the coconspirators signed a letter under
Basketball Player 2’s name authorizing a transfer of $430,000 from Basketball Player 2°s account
to LASH’s Hancock Whitney account for IPrestigio, which LASH opened earlier that month. On
or about August 22, 2023, approximately $430,000 was transferred from Basketball Player 2’s
account to IPrestigio’s Hancock Whitney account.

22 In total, the coconspirators defrauded Victim Lender 2 of approximately
$1,835,000 by impersonating Basketball Player 2. The coconspirators also defrauded other victim
lenders of approximately $332,139 by impersonating Basketball Player 2 and his father.

Victim Lender 3 & Football Player 2

23. Beginning in or around 2025, the coconspirators impersonated Football Player 2
and his father. Using deceptively named email addresses created for the scheme, the coconspirators
defrauded Victim Lender 3, who believed he was communicating with Football Player 2 and his
father.

24. On or about February 24, 2025, Victim Lender 3 transferred approximately
$150,000 to LASH’s [Prestigio account at Navy FCU.

25: On or about March 5, 2025, WEBER impersonated Football Player 2’s father and
forged his signature on a Deed of Trust for the father’s property in Texas in connection with a
$175,000 note, which WEBER had notarized in Jefferson Parish.

26. On or about March 16, 2025, WEBER impersonated Football Player 2’s father and
forged his signature on a second Deed of Trust for the father’s same property in Texas in

connection with a $100,000 note, which WEBER again had notarized in Jefferson Parish.
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ZT: On or about March 17, 2025, the coconspirators signed a promissory note in the
name of Football Player 2.

28. In or around March 2025, Victim Lender 3 transferred approximately $100,000 to
LASH’s [Prestigio’s Navy FCU account, from which the coconspirators then transferred
approximately $15,000 to an account controlled by an associate of WEBER.

29. In or around May of 2025, the coconspirators requested another loan of $200,000
from Victim Lender 3, purportedly for Football Player 2.

30. In total, the coconspirators defrauded Victim Lender 3 of approximately $250,000
by impersonating Football Player 2.

Fake Overseas Trip

31. WEBER used the alias “Chris Robert” to approach Victim 4 as part of a fake
overseas trip scheme. WEBER told Victim 4 that he trained basketball players and convinced
Victim 4 to help WEBER organize a trip for basketball players to Portugal in September 2025.

325 WEBER defrauded Basketball Player 3, Basketball Player 4, and Victim 5 to send
at least $45,000 to associates of WEBER in connection with the fake trip.

33. When Victim 4 informed WEBER that Victim 4 would report WEBER, along with
two of his associates who received money for the fake trip, to law enforcement, WEBER
threatened Victim 4 and Victim 5. WEBER told Victim 4 that WEBER had associates in the same
town as Victim 5 who would find Victim 5 and physically harm him. WEBER made these threats
by telephone and through text messages. WEBER also threatened Victim 4 and Victim 5 that
WEBER and his associates would physically harm Victim 4 and Victim 5 if WEBER did not
receive another $7,500 from Victim 5 for the fake overseas trip.

All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349.

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COUNT 2
(Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering)

A. AT ALL TIMES MATERIAL HEREIN:

The allegations contained in Count 1 are re-alleged and incorporated as if fully set forth

herein.

B. THE CONSPIRACY:

Beginning at a time unknown, but at least as early as 2016, and continuing through the date
of this indictment, in the Eastern District of Louisiana, and elsewhere, the defendants, ALBERT
WEBER JR. and CYNTRELLE LASH, and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, did
knowingly and willfully combine, conspire, and agree with each other to commit offenses against
the United States, to wit, to knowingly conduct and attempt to conduct financial transactions
affecting interstate and foreign commerce, which transactions involved the proceeds of specified
unlawful activity, to wit, wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343,
knowing that the transactions were designed in whole or in part to conceal and disguise the nature,
location, source, ownership, and control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity, and that
while conducting and attempting to conduct such financial transactions, knew that the property
involved in the financial transactions represented the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity,
in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(a)(1)(B)(i).

All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h).

COUNTS 3 THROUGH 8
(Aggravated Identity Theft)

A. AT ALL TIMES MATERIAL HEREIN:

The allegations contained in Count 1 are re-alleged and incorporated as if fully set forth

herein.

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B.

THE OFFENSES:

On or about the dates listed below, in the Eastern District of Louisiana and elsewhere, the

defendants, ALBERT WEBER JR. and CYNTRELLE LASH, did knowingly possess and use,

without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person during and in relation to a

felony violation enumerated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A(c), to wit, wire fraud,

in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, as detailed in Count 1, knowing that the

means of identification belonged to another actual person, in violation of Title 18, United States

Code, Sections 1028A(a)(1) and 2.

Count | Defendant(s)

Date

Description

3

WEBER

6/9/2021

Name and signature of Basketball Player 1 on a
contract increasing a $750,000 loan, from Victim
Lender 1 to Basketball Player 1, by an additional
$200,000, for a new total of $950,000.

WEBER

3/18/2023

Name, address, social security number, and
signature of Basketball Player 2 on a Form W-9, as
well as Basketball Player 2’s driver’s license.

WEBER

8/17/2023

Name and signature of Basketball Player 2 on wire
funds authorization transferring $430,000 from an
account in Basketball Player 2°’s name to an
[Prestigio account in LASH’s name.

WEBER

3/5/2025

Name, address, and signature of father of Football
Player 2 on a deed of trust for a $175,000 note.

WEBER

3/17/2025

Signature of Football Player 2 on a promissory note.

WEBER
LASH

5/13/2025

Signatures, names, address, and driver’s licenses of
two co-borrowers in financial documents concerning
loans to Football Player 2 and his father.

A.

herein.

COUNT 9

(Interstate Communications of a Threat)
AT ALL TIMES MATERIAL HEREIN:

The allegations contained in Count | are re-alleged and incorporated as if fully set forth

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B. THE OFFENSE:

On or about December 8, 2025, in the Eastern District of Louisiana and elsewhere, the
defendant, ALBERT WEBER JR., knowingly and willfully did transmit in interstate commerce
from Louisiana to Oregon, a communication to Victim 4, and the communication threatened to
injure Victim 4 and Victim 5, specifically, that WEBER would “knock [Victim 5’s] head off” if
they contacted anyone about WEBER’s fraudulent scheme, and that WEBER was going to “find
both of [Victim 4 and Victim 5],” especially Victim 5, “who stirred up this shit,” and that WEBER
had “gangsters right there in [Victim 5’s] town.”

All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c).

COUNT 10
(Interstate Communications of a Threat)

A. AT ALL TIMES MATERIAL HEREIN:

The allegations contained in Count | are re-alleged and incorporated as if fully set forth
herein.

B. THE OFFENSE:

On or about March 5, 2026, in the Eastern District of Louisiana and elsewhere, the
defendant, ALBERT WEBER JR. knowingly and willfully did transmit in interstate commerce
from Louisiana to Ohio, a communication to Victim 4, and the communication contained a threat
to injure Victim 5, specifically, WEBER stated that he had “gangstas right in [Victim 5’s] town”
who wanted to find Victim 5 and who WEBER had previously said would “knock [Victim 5’s]
head off,” and that Victim 4 and Victim 5 should not contact others in their attempt to recover the
funds that WEBER had as a result of his scheme.

All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c).

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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

i The allegations of Counts 1, 2, 9, and 10 of this Indictment are incorporated by
reference as though set forth fully herein for the purpose of alleging forfeiture to the United States.

Di. As aresult of the offenses alleged in Counts 1, 9, and 10, the defendants, ALBERT
WEBER JR. and CYNTRELLE LASH, shall forfeit to the United States pursuant to Title 18,
United States Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C) and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461, any
property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to said offenses,
including but not limited to:

2018 Bentley Bentayga, VIN SJAAC2ZVXJC018187.

Sy As a result of the offense alleged in Count 2, the defendants, ALBERT WEBER
JR. and CYNTRELLE LASH, shall forfeit to the United States pursuant to Title 18, United
States Code, Section 982(a)(1), any property, real or personal, involved in said offense, or any

property traceable to such property.

4. If any of the above-described property, as a result of any act or omission of the
defendants:
a. cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence;
b. has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third person;
io has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the Court;
d. has been substantially diminished in value; or
e. has been commingled with other property which cannot be subdivided without

difficulty; the United States shall seek a money judgment and, pursuant to Title 21, United States

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Code, Section 853(p), forfeiture of any other property of the defendants up to the value of said

property.

DAVID I. COURCELLE
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

/

NICGHOLAS/D. MOSES
CHRISTINE M. CALOGERO
Assistant United States Attorneys

New Orleans, Louisiana
April 24, 2026
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Filed 04/24/26

Case 2:26-cr-00112-DJP-EJD Document 19

FORM OBD-34
No.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
Eastern __ District of Louisiana
Criminal Division

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
vs.

ALBERT WEBER, JR.
CYNTRELLE LASH

INDICTMENT FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT WIRE
FRAUD, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY
LAUNDERING, AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT, AND
INTERSTATE COMMUNICATION OF A THREAT

VIOLATIONS: 18 U.S.C. § 2 18 U.S.C. § 1349
18 U.S.C, § 875 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)
18 U.S.C. § 1028A 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h)

18 U.S.C. § 1343

Filed in open court this 24" day of April A.D. 2026.

Bail, $

NICHOLAS D. MOSES
Assistant United States Attorney


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