Sam Mangel | |
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| Born | February 25, 1963 |
| Occupation | Prison consultant |
| Years active | 2000 – present |
| Website | https://sam-mangel.com/ |
Sam Mangel (born February 25, 1963) is an American federal prison consultant. [1] [2] Mangel served 20 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in an insurance fraud scheme. [3] [4] [5] Mangel is also a CNN and NPR contributor on the topics of federal incarceration, white-collar crime, [6] [7] [8] and the federal clemency system in the United States. [9]
Mangel was indicted in 2016 for wire fraud and illegal insurance business practices in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. [6] Through his company Rumson Capital Inc., located in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, Mangel operated a life insurance policy brokerage that facilitated the sale of existing life insurance policies to life settlement providers. His charges related to falsifying and forging life insurance policy disclosure documents in Pennsylvania. [10] [11]
He was sentenced to 60 months in prison but returned home in 2020 after serving 20 months at Federal Correctional Institution, Miami. [3] [12]
Mangel established a prison consulting practice after his release from prison, [13] [14] which has serviced well-known clients including Steve Bannon, [15] Sam Bankman-Fried, [13] [16] Peter Navarro, [7] British businessman David Price, [17] and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. [18] [19] [6]
In part due to his work for Bannon and Navarro, Mangel is known for his work with the Trump administration in regards to federal clemency. [20] [21] Clemency is a process which has seen a sharp increase in demand and public interest since Donald Trump took office in his second term. [9] [22] Mangel claims to have helped dozens of people with their pursuit of clemency. [3]
Mangel is a media personality generally invited on CNN and CourtTV when there is celebrity criminal activity in the news, like during the legal proceedings of Sean Combs, [23] [24] [25] [26] Hunter Biden, Luigi Mangione, [27] Caroline Ellison, Scott Maddox, and Donald Trump. [28] [29]
Mangel was born on February 25, 1963 and raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1985. He was married in 1989 and has one son and one daughter. [30]
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