This has got to be one of the saddest things I have read about in awhile, the whole article is here:
“It’s all gone,” he said Monday. “Everything.”
Still, Sessions was so mesmerized by the well-spoken West Africans that to this day he does not think he was scammed. He ignored police warnings that the deal was bogus and instead blames his losses on corrupt foreign governments. He has not filed a complaint with authorities, and he keeps on his coffee table the carved wooden elephant and antelope given to him by his “associates.”
“I consider them my friends,” he says. “They’re not criminals.”