NEW YORK - John Lambert, a co-founder behind Students for Trump — a youth group whose mission was to re-elect Donald Trump for president — has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for posing as a lawyer and scamming consumers and businesses out of $46,000.
According to the Justice Department, Lambert, 25, went by "Eric Pope" and pretended to be a New York-based attorney at a law firm called Pope and Dunn.
Authorities said he created a fake website, which claimed he was a graduate of the New York University School of Law who had 15 years of work experience with corporate and patent law.
John Lambert, a co-founder behind Students for Trump (Fox Business)Between 2016 and 2018, Lambert allegedly raked in more than $46,000 with the.