hamptons, that christopher defrauded an elderly couple of at least $100,000 in a real estate deal. and the canadian mounties got the man that everyone else was looking for, arresting christopher at this seaside hotel. a simple charge of fraud relating to business transactions and financing schemes. christopher eventually pleaded guilty to scamming that elderly couple in canada and agreed to return to the u.s. here, he also entered guilty pleas to the l.a. charges of gun possession and to bribing passport officials and to fraud charges in the hamptons. his sentence, five years in prison, and court-ordered restitution of $1.2 million to the few victims who d come forward. i do believe christopher got a pretty good deal. too good a deal, says l.a. detective, george mueller, who d pursued christopher for years. i believe he probably defrauded closer to $5 million, but there are a lot more victims out there. a lot of people just haven t come forward because of the embarrassment to
and once again, as he bragged he could always do when the law got too close, christopher disappeared. left the hamptons, left new york, left the country. even left his wife and son. it s christopher. he s unpredictable. he had posted his $45,000 bail and he d fled. that was the last we saw of him. it was only after christopher disappeared that the story of the phony rockefeller spread like wildfire and made for sensational headlines. that s when the local police found out that christopher was a fugitive, wanted in los angeles. l.a. detective george mueller wasn t surprised to learn of christopher s latest exploits and escape. and he expected christopher would soon be up to his old tricks again. the game s not done. he still wants to play that game. and he needs that, he thrives on that. and he wants it. the question was, where would christopher wind up next? the answer, canada. it was april 2001, eight months after he ducked out of the