Investors Ignored Doubts On Troubled Pilot

Young, handsome, confident, smooth talking. That's how some commercial pilots described financial planner Marcus Schrenker, the runaway pilot who authorities say bilked investors out of millions and tried to fake his death in a plane crash. "You could trust this guy. He was a pilot, and he understood us," one said.

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