Clarelle Dieuveuil\u2014Alexandre\u2019s wife and the listed chief financial officer of EminiFX\u2014along with Pastor John Edvard Maisonneuve and his wife, Sophia D. Maisonneuve, now face fraud charges in connection with the $260 million Ponzi scheme. Separately, a civil court found Alexandre liable for $228 million and the court-appointed receivership has returned approximately $88 million to investors.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK\u2014A civil court judge ruled last Tuesday that EminiFX and CEO Eddy Alexandre are liable for $228 million in restitution to defrauded investors and that Alexandre must turn over $15 million in profits he may have reaped. In a related effort to recover more funds amassed in the\u00a0$260 million Ponzi scheme<\/a>\u00a0Alexandre\u2019s wife and a prominent church couple are also facing accusations of fraud and demands to return funds from the\u00a0company\u2019s receivership<\/a>.<\/p>\n Attorneys for the government-appointed receiver now seek to recover at least $538,000 from Clarelle Dieuveuil, Alexandre\u2019s wife, and $5 million from Pastor John Edvard Maisonneuve and his wife, Sophia Desrosiers Maisonneuve, that never made it into any EminiFX financial accounts. The couple is prominent in the Seventh-day Adventist Church\u2019s Haitian worshippers networks, and the pastor currently leads\u00a0New Eden SDA in Neptune, N.J<\/a>.<\/p>\n All three defendants face civil allegations of unjust enrichment and aiding and abetting fraud in a complaint, filed in May. Dieuveuil is also accused of breach of fiduciary duty for her alleged role as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).<\/p>\n Dieuveuil\u2019s attorney denied most of the allegations in court documents, admitting only that she was interim CFO while a permanent one was being sought and that she received a $200,000 payment from the company.<\/p>\n \u201cMs. Dieuveuil unequivocally denies the allegations in the complaint and steadfastly maintains that she was not involved in any fraudulent conduct,\u201d her attorney told\u00a0The Haitian Times\u00a0<\/em>via email Saturday.<\/p>\n The Maisonneuves did not have a legal answer on file nor return an email message seeking comment.<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks like they won\u2019t get away with it,\u201d said Will Petion, an Allentown, Penn. investor who claimed the Maisonneuves pressured congregants like him to invest. \u201cHe needs to face prison [time] to give up the money.\u201d<\/p>\n The developments are the latest in a 3-year-old judicial journey that began in May 2022, when the FBI\u00a0arrested<\/a>\u00a0Alexandre at the Valley Stream, N.Y., home he shared with Dieuveuil and their three sons.<\/p>\nAffinity fraud via SDA Haitian church network<\/strong><\/h4>\n