A financial advice influencer was sentenced in an Ohio federal court Friday to six years in prison for wire fraud and aiding in a false tax filing.
Tyler Bosetti, 31, promoted his Boss Lifestyle LLC company on Facebook and YouTube from 2019 until 2023, promising people that they would get large returns on short-term real estate investments, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
He used social media to advertise the investment scheme, offering return rates as large as 30% or higher. Bosetti received $23 million in investments from dozens of victims, who in turn lost more than $11 million as a result, federal prosecutors said.
Bosetti also filed around 14 false Internal Revenue Service forms dealing with taxes for interest on investments. Bosetti said on the forms that he had reinvested the interest from the investments of his victims when, in fact, he had not done so.
Instead, Bosetti spent the money on rent for a condo in Columbus, Ohio, travel, a Mercedes SUV worth about $150,000 and a number of investments in cryptocurrency, federal prosecutors said.
Bossetti was first charged in April 2025, and he pleaded guilty to the charges against him in June 2025. He will begin serving his sentence in July and will also have to pay back his victims over $12.5 million in restitution, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
