One way he managed to do this act was by him cutting and pasting some of the clients signatures from authorizations for wire transfers and then reapplied them to different wiring instructions. The altered wire instructions ordered Merill Lynch to wire funds from the respective clients' accounts at Merill Lynch to a personal bank account under the name of D&D Real Estate that Martineau controlled.
Another way in which he defrauded the company and it s clients was by Martieau inducing some of his clients to invest directly in D&D Real Estate. He claimed that this company was created to provide capital to a group of corporate executives holding restrictive stock options in a company. Martineau then falsely promised his clients an 11% annual interest gain. After Martinaeu got the money from the clients in the D&D Real estate account he then transferred the money into another account hecontrolled.