HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Southern California developer Bruce Cole initially arrived in rural Missouri with promises of an international business that would provide the town of Moberly with hundreds of jobs.

On Monday, the former Mamtek U.S. CEO was back in Missouri’s Randolph County, this time in shackles and an orange jail jumpsuit, too broke to afford a lawyer to answer criminal charges of theft and fraud connected to the failed artificial sweetener factory.