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| Author: | ladysurveil [ Thu 09 Apr 2009 15:59 ] |
| Post subject: | All the makings of a movie... |
A bond you don't want.. Jenifer Ex-fugitive convicted in $2.8 million identity theft Gene Anthony Franklin of Tustin even duped a convicted murderer so he could post bail, prosecutors said. By RACHANEE SRISAVASDI The Orange County Register A Tustin man who had tried to flee to Mexico was convicted today of committing a $2.8 million fraud by stealing the identities of more than a dozen people who hoped to invest in real estate. Gene Anthony Franklin Jr., 34, held himself out as a legitimate real estate investor to secure his victims' personal information, then used the data to buy a home, obtain credit cards and pay his bills, said Deputy District Attorney Yvette Patko. He also illegally transferred properties from a fellow jail inmate to post his own criminal bail and flee the country, prosecutors said. "He basically lived his life using identity theft,'' Patko said. In one case, Franklin got personal information from a victim in October 2006 while discussing real estate investment, prosecutors said. The victim gave Franklin his personal information, but then later decided against the venture. Franklin used the victim's information to purchase a $685,000 Huntington Beach home – without the victim's knowledge. Franklin also put the telephone line and the water bill in the victim's name. The victim later discovered the fraud and confronted Franklin, who lied and told the victim that his name would be removed from the home's deed. Franklin also scammed a convicted murderer. While in custody for this case, he was rooming in jail with Marvin Vernis Smith, who was convicted of killing his wife. Franklin became friends with Smith, and learned that Smith had transferred one of his properties to his daughter so she could pay for legal fees, prosecutors said. Franklin forged property transfer documents that showed that his ex-girlfriend – Iris Orozco – owned three of Smith's properties, valued at almost $2 million, around October 2007, prosecutors said. Using one of the properties as collateral, Franklin posted his $1 million and fled to Mexico with Orozco, prosecutors said. He was caught in March 2008, and brought back to Orange County. His trial, which was held in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge John Conley, started March 4. The jury of nine women and three men began deliberating Thursday before coming back with their decision. The panel found that Franklin was guilty of 46 felony counts including several identity theft-related charges as well as grand theft, conspiracy and forgery counts. He will be sentenced on June 19. Prosecutors say he faces a maximum of 73 years in prison. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fran ... formation# |
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| Author: | speezack [ Fri 10 Apr 2009 09:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: All the makings of a movie... |
Quote: He was caught in March 2008, and brought back to Orange County. interesting case and... from Mexico... be real interested how that took place.... we are working on a case that is believed south of the border also.... ... this guy really was a real charmer... it is hard to believe that all those forged documents would not be discovered along the way.... but I do know that most people do not look at official documents in any depth... you can put a supposedly legal document with apparently legal signatures and bogus or not... it often times will pass right under the radar... mostly because and I think you all would agree with this... most people do not want to admit that they haven't a clue what they are looking at... they would rather pass it on through than question it and take a chance on being the fool.............. that is not to say there are no capable people in positions of authority... only that lower management in many cases is filled with qualifiers of the 'peter principle'. I know of a case where a local bondsman several years ago, forged a circuit court judges signature on an important document that allowed him to practice his bonding trade for years... the forgery was only caught when the document surfaced in front of the judge that supposedly signed it and he obviously knew he had not.... that bondsman is presently residing in a local jail where he has '3 hots and a cot' for several years... so forged documents with important signatures pass through regulations on a daily basis...... |
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| Author: | KARMA [ Thu 16 Apr 2009 22:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: All the makings of a movie... |
There are scammers everywhere. |
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