He adds: "Matthew Thole Racing is an exclusive group of like-minded private backers who all have the same aim of making consistent tax-free profits from backing racehorses and more recently sports betting."
"He's not a guilty man." But a jury at Lewes Crown Court decided otherwise, and yesterday Thole was sentenced to four years' jail.
McCracken and Thole were each jailed for four years and Brice was sentenced to five years.
| From left are John Brice, John 'Jock'' McCracken and the Matthew Thole website
Storm Thole with husband Matthew who has been jailed for four years after a fake scheme he was part of left victims penniless