Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ohio Prosecutors Seek Sentencing Of Fugitive In $2 Billion Corporate Fraud Case

Federal prosecutors have requested that a judge sentence fugitive convicted corporate fraudster, Rebecca S. Parrett, in abstentia. She was convicted for her role as the former Vice Chairman of now-defunct National Century Financial Enterprises investment fraud that cost investors nearly $2 billion. Parrett, who was convicted last March and supposed to be confined to her Arizona home, has been missing for several months. She was charged in May 2006, along with six other National Century corporate executives with 60 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. Dublin, Ohio-based National Century, a once leading healthcare provider, cratered in 2002. Others involved in the case include founder and former president & chairman, Lance K. Poulsen, 62, of Port Charlotte, Florida; Donald H. Ayers, former vice chairman and COO; Roger Faulkenberry, former director of securitization; Randolph H. Speer, former EVP and CFO; James Dierker, former vice president of client development; and Jon Beacham, former vice president of securitization.

Read FraudTalk's earlier post on this story here.

Read the story here, here and here.

Read the DOJ's original announcement on this case here.

3 comments:

Susan Golden said...

THIS NEEDS TO END! WAKE UP AMERICA! MORE PONZI SCHEMES?
JPMorgan and CITI were found GUILTY of contributing to the ENRON PONSI SCHEME. Both JPMORGAN CHASE and CITI PAID GOVERNMENT SETTLED AGREEMENTS FOR FRAUD in our nation's “LARGEST ‘PRIVATE’ FINANACIAL FRAUD CASE “ in our history! National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc. (NCFE) Federal prosecutors proclaimed “no one has ever heard of”. I believe that was intentional.
In the trial in Columbus, ALL executives except one, was acquitted. Who was this one and only executive acquitted? James K Happ. Mr. James K Happ was the CFO at Richard Rainwater's Columbia Homecare Group before arriving at National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc. NCFE.
BUT HOLD ON......Now, FEBRUARY 2009, even though NCFE case was supposedly CLOSED by the DOJ in the BUSH ADMINISTRAION, in 2008, is now back in the INVESTIGATIN OF :
Credit Suisse Seeks Sanctions against Lloyds
Law360, New York (February 03, 2009) -- Credit Suisse Securities LLC has asked the court overseeing litigation over the collapse of health care lender National Century Financial Enterprises Inc. to sanction Lloyds TSB Bank PLC for allegedly hiding a deal with Moody's Investor Services Inc. in order to manipulate a deposition in its favor.Credit Suisse, which is accused by Lloyds and others of committing fraud as an agent for National Century's note offerings, said in a motion filed Friday that Lloyds concealed an...

Susan Golden said...

Mr. James K Happ was the CFO at Richard Rainwater's Columbia Homecare Group before arriving at National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc. NCFE.
Why was James K Happ, the CFO at Richard Rainwater's Columbia Homecare Group, found not guilty? Per the jurors,” the PROSECUTOR did not do his JOB!” I wonder why. Remember Richard Rainwater, he was GW Bush's ex-partner at the Texas Rangers, you know the ‘man made billionaire.”

Susan Golden said...

Before ENRON, before the Mortgage Fraud, what about the Healthcare Finance Fraud?

JULY 10, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ohsn
SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT CHARGES FORMER EXECUTIVES OF HEALTH CARE FINANCING COMPANY WITH CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, MONEY LAUNDERING
"...superseding indictment charging eight former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) with conspiring to defraud investors by diverting millions of dollars in investors' funds, fabricating data in investor reports, and moving money back and forth between accounts in order to conceal investor fund shortfalls. NCFE, based in Dublin, Ohio, was one of the largest healthcare finance companies in the United States ..." before FBI raided the office in Dublin, Oh.

“This case is one of the largest corporate fraud investigations involving a privately held company headquartered in small town America,” said Assistant Director Kenneth W. Kaiser of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division.

JPMORGAN CHASE and CITI PAID GOVERNMENT SETTLED AGREEMENTS FOR FRAUD in National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc. (NCFE), the “LARGEST ‘PRIVATE’ FINANACIAL FRAUD CASE “in our nation's history

February 3, 2008- THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
By the numbers
All defendants, except for James K Happ, were initially indicted in May, 2006. United States District Judge Algenon L. Marbley will preside over the case which is scheduled for trial on November 5, 2007. National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE)

Friday, February 8, 2008- Business First of Columbus - Business First
Poulsen isn't the only National Century executive scheduled for a trial apart from the five now in court. James Happ is scheduled for trial in October because "he wasn't charged in connection with the company's failure until last May."

"All defendants, except for Happ...?"

At trial, the government presented evidence that the defendants engaged in a scheme to deceive investors and rating agencies about the financial health of NCFE and how investor monies would be used between May 1998 and May 2001.
Note: May 1998 James K Happ was the chief financial officer of the Dallas-based Columbia Homecare Group, Inc. and used NCFE to finance his divestiture of Columbia Homecare Group’s losing assets, homecare. . , "All defendants, except for Happ...?"

Mr. Happ, as chief financial officer of the Dallas-based Columbia Homecare Group, Inc., a home care company with more than 500 locations nationwide and more than $1 billion in revenue in 1997 directed the company through the challenging reimbursement climate, … and participated in the divestiture of all of Columbia/HCA's home care operations.

1998-1999 Who financed this divestiture? NCFE- National Century Financial Enterprises.
Where did James K Happ divest the losing assets of Columbia Homecare Group, Inc? One man owned company, Medshares, Inc. in Memphis, TN. A ‘private’ company financed by a ‘private’ financial institution, NCFE.

In July 1999, Medshares, Inc. filed the LARGEST Bankruptcy case in the history of Western Tennessee's bankruptcy court held all of the Dallas-based Columbia Homecare Group, Inc.’s home care units . All entities filed with the court were financed by NCFE. In this courtroom, documents reveal the uproar from scores of lawyers crying fraud in the bankruptcy court and the BANKRUPTCY JUDGE scolded the attorneys and forbade the ‘F’ word in her court. (NO FRAUD)

February 21, 2008 - Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A guilty executive told jurors she told investors "absolutely nothing" about National Century's practices of advancing cash to Memphis, Tenn.-based Medshares, a home-health care provider.

DECEMBER 2008- National Century fraud case produces 1st acquittal
Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:29 AM Prosecutors' case fell short, juror says
By Jodi Andes THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The "not guilty" verdicts that came in federal court yesterday were not so much a vindication of the last National Century Financial Enterprises executive to stand trial, a juror said.
Instead, they were more a belief that federal prosecutors had not done their job, the juror said after he
and his fellow jurors acquitted James K. Happ of five counts after 12 hours of deliberation. "He very well may have been guilty. A lot of us thought he was," said the juror who wouldn't give his name. "But if he was, you gotta have the evidence."

James K Happ was the chief financial officer of the Dallas-based Columbia Homecare Group, Inc. prior to arriving at NCFE and the ONLY executive of NCFE ACQUITTED.