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Former Title company owner indicted in yet another Ohio prosecution.
To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily. In a press release from Columbus, OH, Attorney General Marc Dann and Licking County Prosecutor Robert Becker today announced the indictment of Donna Lemmon Perkins for mortgage related crimes.
The Licking County Grand Jury indicted Lemmon Perkins on multiple counts of theft, money laundering, and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity. This indictment is part of a continuing crackdown on mortgage fraud by General Dann’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission in cooperation with county prosecutors’ offices and local, state, and federal law enforcement authorities.
This case was investigated by the Central Ohio Mortgage Fraud Task Force, which is led by the Columbus Division of Police; Economic Crime Unit. The task force worked with the Heath Police Department, Granville Police Department, and Licking County Prosecutor’s Office on this case. Other task force members include detectives from the Upper Arlington Police Department, investigators from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office, the Ohio Department of Commerce, the Ohio Department of Insurance, and agents from OIG for Housing and Urban Development, US Postal, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Lemmon Perkins, (pictured below) 43, of Granville was the owner of the now-defunct To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily.which went out of business in February 2006. She surrendered her license to the Ohio Department of Insurance in December 2006. She has not conducted title agency business since then.
Upon closing the business, it was discovered that money was missing from the title agency’s escrow account, a result of the alleged theft by Lemmon Perkins. Six victims reported that they received “bad checks” from Lemmon Title after loan closings.
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The victims’ loss is estimated at just under $400,000. Two victims were senior citizens. Charges for crimes against children for the elderly carry a stiffer penalty under Ohio law.
To view links in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. Your post count is 0 momentarily.reveals a Donna Lemmon Perkins has a connection to Keller Willaims Realty in Columbus, Ms. Lemmon Perkins is pictured on that website
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