North Texas Man Sentenced for Stealing Millions in Fake Disney World Scam

A man from Plano, Texas, has now been sentenced to 17 and a half years of jail time in a federal prison due to his fake Disney scam. Thomas W. Lucas, Jr., swindled millions of dollars from investors after convincing them that The Walt Disney Company was actually building a new park in Texas. Unfortunately for everyone involved, that Disney park is fake and doesn’t exist.

Lucas had convinced investors into believing he had inside and private information about a secret Walt Disney theme park and resort project that was being build in North Texas. There is no project and it has all turned out to be fake.

Between the years of 2006 to 2010, Lucas came up with his fake Disney theme park plan and defrauded 280 investors out of around $20 million. Out of that large sum of money, the US Attorney’s Office states that Lucas ended up keeping around $450,000 of that money.

Lucas showed his investors some documents for a project called “Frontier Disney Dallas-Fort Worth.” The documents included fake site plans, forged signed sketches, and a number of maps. He promised investors that the land would be turned for a profit after Disney officially made an announcement on the new theme park.

Not only did Lucas receive prison time, he was also ordered to pay back more than 8 million dollars. Something I bet he has no intentions of doing.