Chris Mintz

Christopher "Chris" Mintz is a member of the North Carolina Democratic Party and a former candidate for the North Carolina Senate. Mintz unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for the North Carolina General Assembly in 2006. He lost to former State Representative Ty Harrell in the primary. In 2007, he was briefly a candidate for North Carolina State Treasurer
Education, personal life, and career
A native of North Carolina, Mintz was born in Goldsboro, NC, and remained in Eastern NC for most of his youth. The son of a single mother, he was raised by his grandparents. He moved to Raleigh to attend North Carolina State University. He earned his B.S. in Business Management at North Carolina State University and went on to become a financial advisor, and ultimately President of Mintz Investment Companies in Raleigh.
2008 State Senate Campaign
In December 2005, Mintz changed his political party affiliation from Republican to the Democratic Party
On May 6, 2008, Mintz won the Democratic primary for state senate in North Carolina senate district 15. He later lost the election to incumbent State Senator Neal Hunt.
Federal Investigation & Fraud Conviction
During Mintz's time working as a financial adviser in Cary, North Carolina, he was a representative of a Boston-based brokerage, and he maintained accounts for his clients and himself. Between December 2005 and October 2008, he embezzled more than $1 million from the brokerage accounts of with two elderly clients, authorities said.
"Financial advisers trusted with control over their clients’s property owe those clients great duties of care," United States Attorney George Holding said in a statement.
In 2009, Mintz pled guilty to defrauding his own clients in his financial services business. He is currently serving a prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Beckley, West Virginia, a medium security facility housing male inmates. FCI Beckley is located in Raleigh County, approximately 51 miles southeast of Charleston, West Virginia, and 136 miles northwest of Roanoke, Virginia. He was released from prison in April 2012.

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