Georgia Prisoner Accused of Running $3.5 Million “Protection” Racket
Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Asaad Amir Hasuan, 43—also known as “Dante Frederick”—was indicted by a federal grand jury in Delaware on November 14, 2024, for allegedly scamming at least $3.5 million from friends and loved ones of fellow prisoners to whom he gave bogus promises to provide physical protection or legal help.
Hasuan allegedly used a contraband cellphone from cells at Glynn County Detention Center and later Telfair State Prison to call and text an unnamed Delaware victim with a promise to get a witness in a prisoner’s case “to recant her statement in exchange for a $40,000 payment.” He threatened the same victim that the prisoner would be killed unless additional money was sent. All together he is accused of swindling the victim of $3.5 million between November 2021 and November 2022.
Eight non-incarcerated Brunswick residents were also charged with acting as “money mules” in the scheme, laundering the pilfered funds through a car rental firm called One Way Auto and using it to buy property, mobile homes and cars. One of those, Audrey Gibbons, 64, sits on the Glynn County Board of Education. Charged along with her were Deborah Daniel Stunstill, 73; Destinee Lecount, 27; Penny Hunter, 58; Beverly Frederick, 59; Lakisha Easton, 40; Jasmine Warren, 31; and Manuel Joseph Rocha, 53.
The United States Attorney for the District of Delaware is also seeking any additional victims. See: United States v. Asaad, USDC (D. Del.), Case No. 1:24-cr-00040.
Additional source: WSAV
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