• JACQUES POUJADE; 63, of Irvine, Texas
In December of 2025, I ran into Anthony D’Anna, Vickie Dehart and Shafik Hirji at the Mayfair in the Bellagio in Las Vegas. During that discussion, Vickie Dehart told me how her former COO at EHB Companies, Brett Harrison, had cost her a lot of money.
From that comment, my research led me to the story of Jacques Poujade. From Vickie Dehart’s tone in her voice she had made it sound like she Brett Harrison were in a relationship that was was almost adversarial. But now they’v gotten together to use the same attorney, Mark Hutchison. I find that interesting.
A multimillion dollar lawsuit filed in Texas (Criminal Docket Case No. 8:23-CR-00084-MCS-1) that Vickie Dehart, Brett Harrison, and Harrison Capital LLC were plaintiffs in, involved their charges against defendant Jacques Poujade, 63 of Irvine, Texas, for fraudulently obtaining a significant amount of money from them. According to a Department of Justice press release on Oct. 30, 2023, Poujade pleaded guilty to securities fraud and subsequently was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
According to the release, From February 2015 to May 2020, Poujade sold unregistered securities to them by telling a series of lies, including about the timing and likelihood of Tri-Emerald Financial Group’s initial public offering (of which Poujade was CFO) and the resulting share price. The plaintiffs purchased shares in Tri-Emerald at $10 per share, after Poujade represented they were “securities” under federal law and would exceed the price of $100 per share once the company went public.
Poujade falsely promised the plaintiffs that Tri-Emerald was a pre-IPO opportunity that would provide high returns when the company went public on Nasdaq. In fact, Tri-Emerald had not completed the necessary steps to undertake an IPO, including filling out the required SEC paperwork or formally engaging the investment banks Poujade falsely told the plaintiffs he had engaged as underwriters.
Poujade admitted that he further lied to the plaintiffs by saying he estimated Tri-Emerald would “be a billion dollar company in under 16 months.”
It begs the question, did Brett Harrison of Harrison Capital, involve his brother, FBI Special Agent Glenn Harrison, in this process?
