Zach Avery

Early life Avery was born Zachary Joseph Horwitz in Berkeley, California. Avery grew up in Tampa, Florida, and moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was raised by his mother and a step-father. In 2005, he graduated from Carroll High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana).

Avery attended Indiana University Bloomington, graduating in 2010. Avery claimed to have played intramural football in college, and would later claim that an injury kept him out of the National Football League. During his college years, he met his future wife, Mallory Hagedorn. In 2011, while in Chicago, Avery heavily invested his money into his first enterprise, a juice bar called "Fül”. The business closed after just a few months of operation. He supplemented his income by selling Quickbooks software door-to-door. One of the company's projects of note was a new film fund to produce and finance two to three elevated genre films under $5M per year for global audiences.

In 2015 Avery had told investors that he had acquired and distributed dozens of films including titles like the documentary Active Measures, the Italian comedy-drama and Director’s Fortnight selection Lucia's Grace, the Canadian Indigenous-focused zombie film Blood Quantum, and the French drama La Melodie, Avery had not secured any distribution rights, but forged hundreds of distribution contracts as well as correspondence between himself and both HBO and Netflix in order to allay the scheme's investors' concerns. ) on 6 April 2021, On 4 October 2021, Avery pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud. On 14 February 2022, Avery was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $230 million in restitution. Horwitz is currently incarcerated at FCI Terminal Island.

Victims' impact The largest source of investor funds for the scheme were raised by JJMT Capital. JJMT Capital had formed when Avery notified friends and fellow Indiana University graduates of his proposal to acquire licensing rights. The group had sourced investors for Avery's promissory notes, including their family, friends and professional contacts. Hagedorn stated that Avery was “deceiving and manipulating me and everyone around him, and he is not the person that I believed he was.”

Filmography Film Avery's screen debut was claimed to be in the 2009 film G.E.D. However, doubt has been cast on the veracity of this claim, with Ivan Parron, a lawyer for Cess Silvera, the director of G.E.D., saying that Silvera had never heard of Avery. Thug SS medic Laughing Man 2020 Last Moment of Clarity Jaime Cowan Mike