EXCLU: J. Nicholas Bryant told the Daily Beast that he feels like he's got the notorious swindlers beat. “My story might be more wild than theirs! I can almost guarantee it!” he said.
y the time he was 23, J. Nicholas Bryant was living a version of the cartoonishly opulent lifestyle he always wanted.
This month, federal prosecutors gave Eggemeyer and his friends an answer: Bryant fleeced at least 50 people in an elaborate scheme that involved booking goods and services and then sending fake payments through online payment platforms. On Nov. 9, Bryant pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a scheme prosecutors have described as reminiscent of some of the most infamous scammers in American history. He is now awaiting sentencing, where he faces up to 20 years in prison.
In all, prosecutors estimate Bryant stole approximately $1.5 million in the fraud scheme. But it wasn’t just businesses that were subjected to Bryant’s schemes, after leaving some hometown acquaintances feeling jilted after interactions.“I got him an Airbnb. I sent over money through Venmo and Cash App,” the woman, who did not wish to be identified for her own personal safety, told The Daily Beast. “I helped because I know what it’s like to be in a tough financial situation.
Bryant also convinced a developer to start building a home with a pool and workshop worth $980,000—and never paid. “He always seemed to have friends and talk about how his father was in the oil business,” one high-school friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of personal safety, told The Daily Beast. “But he was always a piece of shit too. There was just always something with him.”
By the end of 2019, Eggemeyer said that he returned home and was looking for work during the off-season—and reached out to Bryant about potentially working with him in the oil industry. For his part, Bryant told The Daily Beast he feels “terrible about how things happened” with Eggemeyer—whom he called “a good childhood friend”—and admitted that “Hayden was a victim of my crimes.”
“I told him he could run some equipment for me and I would pay him to get out of a pinch he was in,” Bryant said, adding that his friend worked “for about two weeks and then we took a two-week long trip via private jets to Trenton, NJ, Lexington KY, Nashville, TN, and South Padre Island, TX.” “We did the trip no problem and when I asked how I am going to pay for it, [the sales representative] said I could wire the money,” he said, noting he “just Googled third-party wire transfers” and learned that these systems would send over confirmation payments that he later learned could cancel.
“Bryant represented that he was interested in buying an airplane of the type the company chartered, and wanted a ‘demo flight’ to make the final determination,” a Nov. 1 factual resume states.
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