Judge voids real estate records in Louisiana real estate fraud

New Orleans – An insolvency judge of the federal government ordered public records last week after finding the accused Haus Swindler Jonathan Burden, a frail woman more than 1 US dollar for her Central City Fourplex before submitting documents shortly after her death claimed he owned it.

The judge Meredith Grabill's judgment is the first time that a court ordered the municipal clerk to remove documents that were submitted by the load from the land documents, although similar claims for fraudulent purchase documents against the burden are made in at least six other cases became.

These cases were recorded in the “UN-Real Estate” study by WWL Louisiana. Another judge has found that the burden has used a fake document to take over the house of another dead woman.

The police from New Orleans and the FBI interviewed some of the Burden prosecutors, but have not pursued a crime against him. He is waiting separately for attempted murder with an apparently independent drive-by shooting.

Grabill's decision probably ends a two-year court battle to return a yellow classification element worth around $ 250,000 to the late insolvency area of ​​Lorraine Robinson.

After Robinson had suffered a stroke and a weak fall, she tried to pay for her mortgage. In December 2019, her Central City Fourplex faced enforcement. At that moment, burden appeared, flashed money and offer to help.

Burden has recorded a video with his cell phone with many of his real estate transactions and published it on social media. A video of his visit to Robinson played court in November during the court proceedings, and Burden said under oath that he paid Robinson worth 9,500 US dollars in December 2019 to take care of their increasing mortgage debts. He had her signed a purchase contract by stating that he would get ownership of the house as soon as he had paid for her credit balance and fees.

But approved in the Oath, he never paid the credit balance and fees.

Grabill quoted Robinson's bank documents from which show that she never deposits large amounts of money during this time and has repeatedly picked up money to continue living. She decided that Burden's testimony was not credible.

“Apart from 1.00 US dollars, the court found that Lorden Lorraine never paid money to sell property,” the judge wrote.

Robinson's health deteriorated with a burden after her meeting and she continued to be in the delay of her mortgage. She granted her brother Johnnie Robinson Power-of-Attorney and in 2020 he reported bankruptcy for Lorraine.

Lorraine died on January 18, 2023. Six days later, Burden submitted a certificate in the land documents in which they claimed ownership of Lorraine's house, followed by the purchase contract with his handwritten promise to have equipped their credit credit and fees.

After that, the burden of Lorraine's rent began to collect tenants and used the documents that he had submitted in the land documents to convince the police to step out of the property.

Johnnie's lawyer Jonathan Detrinis cheered Grabill's decision.

The judge “didn't believe many things he said,” said Detrinis. “For example, she didn't believe that he gave my client money for her house.”

She also believed the testimony of lawyer David Alfortish, the notary who stamped the purchase contract. Alfortish said he had experienced the agreement in Robinson with two witnesses who were already there. Burden said he drove Robinson to Alfortish's house in the West Bank to sign the document, and two random people who passed.

When Grabill found that Alfortish testimony was not credible, he found that he had already had an earlier ethical violation because he had not checked the identity of another real estate business that he had notarized.

Detrinis said that endurance was used for his client to get his sister's house back from the burden and to obtain the documents of Burden from the public records. As he submitted to him from other homeowners in other cases, Burden changed the lawyers in the run-up to the court procedure and did not occur for several court hearings, which caused Grabill at one point to issue an arrest for his arrest with US marshals.

Detrinis also said that WWL's “UN -Real Estate” series helped his customer to finally get justice.

“It is not something that is very wonderful (or) that many news reporters jump to bring this story out there,” said Detrinis. “But I think it really deserves to convey to other people … If it causes people like strain on a speed base or hurdle or an obstacle, naive people who are good people and then great. “

Burden's lawyer, Bob Marrero, called for a certain degree of victory because Grabill contested sanctions against the burden to pay Johnnie Robinson's attorney costs in Louisiana in Louisiana. In her judgment, however, Grabill stated that the law was not applied in this case because Johnnie represents his sister's estate so that he was not at all to assert this type of claim.

“He is only happy that the matter is over,” said Marrero. “I don't think we will make an appeal.”

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