A former leader in the Villagers for Trump organization is heading back to federal prison.
Robert Rivernider Jr., 60, who has been living at Continental Country Club in Wildwood, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for violating his supervised release. He was arrested for the violation this past June.
Rivernider, once a top official in the Villagers for Trump group and a key campaign coordinator for failed Congressional candidate Laura Loomer, was sentenced in 2024 to 180 days in jail after he was found guilty by a Sumter County jury on charges of fraud and forgery. Rivernider was convicted of signing a vote-by-mail ballot for his father, Robert Rivernider Sr., according to an elections fraud complaint from Sumter County Supervisor of Elections William Keen. The senior Rivernider died on Oct. 19, 2020.
“By filling out the mail-in ballot for his father, the Defendant intended to defraud or injure the State by voting for someone who was no longer alive,” said Assistant State Attorney Joseph Church at the time of the trial.
At the time, Rivernider was on federal probation for a 2013 conspiracy and wire fraud conviction. He won a “compassionate release” from federal prison during the COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed his father’s life.
The federal conviction came after Rivernider, who had been working with other partners, coaxed millions of dollars from investors who were lured into fraudulent investment schemes. The investors used money borrowed against their homes or from 401k accounts.