Hawaii man, ex-wife sentenced in $29 million tour boat investment fraud scheme

A former husband and wife who led Hawaii-based Semisub Inc. were sentenced Wednesday for orchestrating a decade-long scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars.

Curtiss E. Jackson, 72, of Honolulu, and Jamey Denise Jackson, 62, of Colchester, Conn., and formerly of Honolulu, served as Semisub’s CEO and president, respectively. The pair misled investors by falsely claiming that the company’s prototype vessel, Semisub One, was close to beginning operations and that Semisub had secured lucrative agreements with government agencies and a private investment firm.

Work to build the unique, 149-passenger vessel began in Long Beach, Calif., in 2008 and continued in Hawaii for 10 years. The 72′ Semisub One entered service in 2019…

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