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Renter of Jerome under scrutiny for Wall Street deals | Aspen Daily News Online
Renter of Jerome under scrutiny for Wall Street deals | Aspen Daily News Online:
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The Federal Housing Finance Authority, a government regulator, has named Verschleiser individually in its multibillion-dollar mortgage fraud suit against Bear/JPM.
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Two women return to the Hotel Jerome after shopping on Friday afternoon. The hotel is closed from Jan. 12-16, having been rented out by a family for their daughter’s bat mitzvah.
COLUMBIA | Ex-York Co. councilman Lindemann will sit in jail until prison term starts | The Herald - Rock Hill, SC
COLUMBIA | Ex-York Co. councilman Lindemann will sit in jail until prison term starts | The Herald - Rock Hill, SC:
Jan. 14, 2012 12:24 AM
Ex-York Co. councilman Lindemann will sit in jail until prison term starts
Judge: Former York County Councilman violated bond when he was arrested for DUI
- scetrone@heraldonline.com
COLUMBIA --
When Paul Lindemann was sentenced to prison for mortgage fraud, the judge cut him a break.
The former York County councilman wouldn’t have to serve his 18-month sentence until after his wife gave birth to their child, so long as he stayed out of trouble.
A month later, the judge revoked that privilege.
Courtesy of York County Sheriff's Office - Paul Lindemann
In federal court on Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Cameron Currie ordered Lindemann to sit in a county jail until he reports to federal prison for lying on a mortgage application.
By continuing to abuse alcohol and getting arrested for driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident on Tuesday, Currie said, Lindemann violated the conditions of his bond.
“All of these things together, with your prior record of DUIs, indicates to me that you are a danger to the community,” Currie told Lindemann. “I’m very sorry for your wife.”
Currie said she plans to move up the April 1 date Lindemann, 32, must report to the federal Bureau of Prisons. Until then he will remain in custody in the Lexington County jail.
The ruling is the latest in a string legal of troubles that have compounded the one-time York County Republican rising star’s fall.
Since 2008, Lindemann twice has been charged with DUI, has been sued by three people who claim he owed them money from business deals and has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit application fraud, for which Currie sentenced him to 18 months in prison.
In one DUI case, Lindemann pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. The second came Tuesday when a Highway Patrol trooper arrested Lindemann for driving drunk, crashing into a mailbox, then leaving.
Lindemann was ordered back to court so Currie could decide whether to allow him to remain free until after his child’s birth, which is expected in February.
Trooper Michael McAdams testified Friday that he responded to an accident at Commons Court in the Baxter community of Fort Mill around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday and found an unoccupied Lexus beside a mailbox it had struck.
According to McAdams’ testimony:
The mailbox owner said she was inside her home when she heard a crash and looked out in time to see a man and a woman walking away from the Lexus to a house across the street.
The homeowner said she heard the woman say, “I told you you shouldn’t have been driving, Lindemann.”
People at the home the woman and man walked to told McAdams that Lindemann had been there but got a ride home from a woman. When McAdams arrived at Lindemann’s, roughly two hours after the crash, he was asleep in bed.
Lindemann denied driving the car and refused to take a Breathalyzer test.
McAdams arrested Lindemann and took him back to Commons Court to interview the woman who drove Lindemann home.
She told McAdams that she saw Lindemann driving the Lexus, which the trooper later learned was Lindemann’s company car.
Lindemann’s lawyer, federal public defender Langdon Long, got the trooper to admit that no one else said they saw the former councilman driving and that Lindemann wasn’t given a sobriety test.
“My investigation led me to believe that he more than likely was (drunk),” McAdams said.
Currie decided the prosecution’s case was strong enough.
During the hearing, Lindemann’s bond supervisor told the judge that prior to the accident, Lindemann had requested permission to go to Las Vegas at the end of January.
Bond supervisor Gina Williams called that request a “red flag.”
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