Samuel "Mouli" Cohen
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Mouli Cohen
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Samuel Cohen April 8, 1958 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli-American |
| Other names | Mouli |
| Occupation | Prisoner housed at Terminal Island, Federal Bureau of Prisons; ex-entrepreneur, executive, venture capitalist |
| Criminal charge | Wire fraud, money laundering, tax evasion |
| Criminal penalty | 22 years imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Incarcerated at FCI Terminal Island; Federal Bureau of Prisons Register #57613-112; projected release date: 16 November 2029 |
| Spouse(s) | Stacy Jean Stripling |
| Conviction(s) | 9 November 2011 |
| Partner(s) | Hari Dhillon |
Samuel "Mouli" Cohen (born April 8, 1958) is an Israeli entrepreneur, executive and venture capitalist, who has held the positions of president, chairman, and CEO of several public and private video game companies which, according to Cohen, "have generated over $3 Billion in shareholder value". The companies Cohen has been involved in since the 1980s include: Playnet Technologies, Voltage Capital, LAMIA, Aristo International and Ecast. In April 2012, Cohen was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for a conviction on 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering and three counts of tax evasion.
In the mid-1990s Cohen put together a team of veteran video game producers, engineers, marketing specialists, and executives for Playnet, a public company listed on NASDAQ. Cohen was President, CEO, and Chairman of the company. Employees included Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of Pong and founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese;Joe Ybarra, who worked at Apple before joining Electronic Arts in their startup phase as a producer, and was president of Infocom and Sr. VP of Cheyene Mountain Entertainment; and Glenn Sblendorio, former CFO of Sony Entertainment.
The company developed two main products: A touchscreen controlled "bar top", coin-operated video game machine and a digital jukebox, capable of storing an extremely large selection of songs and able to download new releases. Playnet, later Aristo International, had offices in San Francisco, New York, and Virginia. In October 1997 Playnet announced an agreement with Holiday Inn, a major international hotel chain, to launch a pilot program to install the video game machine in a minimum of six Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza locations across the US. Playnet filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1998.
Cohen was the founder of Voltage Capital, a company that Cohen claimed was involved in research and investments in solar energy and other forms of green technology.
Cohen was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He migrated to the USA in 1987. He is married to Stacy Jean Stripling, also known as Stacy Cohen, who is the author of the book "Kosher Billionaire's Secret Recipe" published in 2007.
Cohen was featured in the TV series American Greed. An entire episode about his scams were discussed in the Season 7 episode titled: "Dealing in Deceit".
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