NM: Sex offenders targeted in Scam
Another “clearmycase” type scam is targeting registrants and some victims in New Mexico have filed a lawsuit.
According to the Albuquerque Journal,a lawsuit was filed aganst CSNA and Jimmie Rae Gordon and Gloria Letcher.
Gordon is the owner, president and CEO of CSNA, and Letcher is his step-mother and a manager of the company, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit says the business sent fliers to New Mexico convicts and sex offenders offering them assistance was in reality a scam.
The lawsuit says the corporation has been mailing postcards to inmates at a New Mexico prison and asking the inmates to get their relatives to enter into contracts with the business, Correctional Services Network of America LLC.
We are all to familiar with these scams. Be weary of unsolicited solicitations for legal services.
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https://www.abqjournal.com/95562/con-man-will-be-released-15-years-early.html
Here’s the article, since it is a pain to read because of the paywall:
Con Man Will Be Released 15 Years Early
BY CHARLES D. BRUNT / JOURNAL EDITORIAL WRITER
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 12:05am
Updated: Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 10:50pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Hobbs con man sentenced in 1996 to 30 years in prison for bilking dozens of elderly people, including longtime neighbors, of more than a half-million dollars is set to be released next month after serving 15 years.
Jimmie Rae Gordon Jr. , 39, used scams like faking cancer to get money for phony chemotherapy treatments and seeking investments in a nonexistent Christian television network.
He is to appear at a parole hearing Friday. Under current state law, the state Parole Board must approve his parole, board executive director Ella Frank said Wednesday, but members will set the terms and conditions. Should Gordon violate any of those conditions, the board can revoke his parole and return him to custody, Frank said.
Jeff Robinson, a Texas resident whose now-deceased grandmother, Clara Veronen, fell for Gordon’s story that he had cancer and needed money for chemotherapy, said he would like to see Gordon stay in jail.
“I want him to serve the full 30 years, but I understand that in New Mexico 30 years means 15 years,” Robinson said.
State Corrections Department spokeswoman Cristina Rodda said that, under the state’s “determinate sentencing” laws, convicts are sentenced to a specific amount of time. But under the state’s “good time” laws, well-behaved inmates who were not convicted of a violent crime can have one day taken off their sentence for each day they serve.
Another state law grants inmates up to 30 days off their sentence for completing various courses taken while they’re in prison, such as vocational or recidivism reduction classes.
After befriending Robinson’s grandmother — an 83-year-old retired teacher who lived next door to the Gordons — Jimmie Rae scammed her out of about $136,000, according to court documents.
Robinson doubts that any of Gordon’s victims will ever see a dime of their money, even though the judge who sentenced Gordon ordered him to pay his victims — some of whom have since died — $627,164 in restitution once he is paroled.
Facing up to 116 criminal charges, Gordon pleaded guilty in September 1996 to 15 third-degree felonies, ranging from fraud to being an unlicensed broker and selling unregistered securities — charges that could have gotten him 45 years in prison.
Some of Gordon’s victims had known his family since they moved to Hobbs in 1979 from Louisiana, when Jimmie Jr. was in first grade. Some were neighbors, some knew him through school or church. One was his former mother-in-law.
In March 2008, then-Gov. Bill Richardson denied Gordon’s application for clemency, saying through a spokesman that the denial was “a result of strong opposition from the victims of his (Gordon’s) fraudulent activities and after carefully considering his conduct while in prison, which includes discipline for major infractions.”
Gordon in 2007 had sent several of his victims legal-looking “agreements” in the mail, asking them to support his request for early release in exchange for restitution payments — compensation some victims said he can’t possibly pay. Gordon’s father, Jimmie Rae Sr., had offered to put up $50,000 for the restitution fund.
A corrections department spokeswoman said in 2008 that Gordon had been involved in two incidents that erased some of the “good time” credit he had built up, and that he had been transferred to an out-of-state prison which, for security reasons, she declined to name.
According to the state Corrections Department website, Gordon is being held at the Penitentiary of New Mexico outside Santa Fe.
Source: https://www.abqjournal.com/95562/con-man-will-be-released-15-years-early.html