Homm recently published a book in German called “Rogue Financier: The Adventures of an Estranged Capitalist,” according to the affidavit.
‘Bimbos, Dogs’
In the book, Homm, who is about 6 foot, 6 inches (2 meters) tall, wrote that he had “$500,000 stashed in my underwear, my briefcase and my cigar box,” when he left Palma de Mallorca on a private plane Sept. 18, 2007. His “mule and friend Giorgio” was carrying another $700,000, according to the translation in the affidavit.
“As the jet climbed I was profoundly unsettled, my mind in a dense fog,” Homm said in the book, according to the court filing. “I was breaking all connections to my former existence: colleagues, clients, acquaintances, friends, bimbos, dogs, family and children, and annihilating my fast fortune in the process.”
Chief U.S. District Judge George King last month denied Homm’s request to dismiss the SEC’s claims against him. In his Dec. 19 request, Homm had argued that the SEC couldn’t sue him over foreign transactions between foreign funds.
‘Good Faith’
In a declaration filed with his request to dismiss the SEC’s claims, Homm said he lived in the U.S. for extended periods until the early 1990s and has only visited the U.S. sporadically since then.
“All of my activities were conducted in the good faith performance of my job, which was to increase the value of the relevant ACMH funds to the benefit of the ACMH funds’ investors,” Homm said in the declaration.
Guillermo Hernandez Sampere, who was formerly the head of trading at Absolute Capital, said on Bloomberg Television today that he met Homm in Frankfurt last week. Homm is suffering from multiple sclerosis, Sampere said.
Homm was convicted in 2004 in Germany of a minor trading violation and received a suspended fine, the lowest sentence possible under German law, Doris Moeller-Scheu, spokeswoman for Frankfurt prosecutors, said in an interview today. Her office isn’t investigating him now, she said.