Mortgage Business Owner Arrested
Posted: May 31, 2005 at 2:27 p.m.
(KRON) -- Contact 4 recently reported about a Bay Area business promising it can get you out of paying your mortgage and about the victims left behind. Since then, authorities have gone after the owners who've left a trail of some angry people and a lot of broken promises.
When Contact 4's Joe Ducey confronted the Dorean groups's Scott Heineman, he claimed there were no risks and that for a fee, he would help anyone get out of paying their mortgage legally.
Dorean claims banks make money on promissory notes you sign to get a mortgage. So that pays your debt, and you owe nothing more. Contact 4 did not understand it. But Gayle Bradshaw thought she did.
"I stand to lose everything, my business, my home, everything in here."
Gayle paid for Dorean's advice and stopped making her mortgage payments. The bank foreclosed. She's now fighting for her home.
"I take full responsibility for my own stupidity," Bradshaw said.
You may also call it stupid or naive, but thousands of people have paid thousands of dollars to have their mortgages wiped away and people from around the country are in trouble.
Now Utah authorities are doing something about it. They've issued arrest warrants. Scott Heineman is now behind bars at a local jail. They're still looking for his partner Kurt Johnson.
Both men are being charged with numerous felonies including racketeering, communications fraud, theft and conspiracy. The FBI also raided the companies headquarters and continues their investigation.
Meanwhile, Contact 4 was there as the Dorean group recently moved out of its Union City offices.
We waited to ask Heineman some questions but were told he had already left out the back door.
Sofas and desks, boxes of records, all of it loaded on trucks after the Dorean group was evicted for not paying rent.
Dorean's Kurt Johnson spoke about it during a conference call on a related website.
"We're in a batttle for our lives when it comes to taking on the banking industry. The FBI has made it real clear they want to put us out of business."
Attorney Alex Grab is talking about the bizarre series of actions Dorean's taken to fight eviction and hurt his clients, the landlords.
Heineman and Johnson even filed three grant deeds to take over the buildings.
"They proport to transfer this $15 million office complex from Hanover properties to themselves.
They then filed a lawsuit to enforce the deeds and even tried to get tenants money.
"They sent letters to each of the tenants of clock tower commerce center telling tenants they bettter pay rent to Heineman and Johnson. This rises to the level of absolute fraud and the gall these people had."
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