Friday, November 11, 2011

Property manager pleads guilty in Vegas HOA fraud scheme - FOX5 Vegas - KVVU

Property manager pleads guilty in Vegas HOA fraud scheme - FOX5 Vegas - KVVU
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -

A tenth person has pleaded guilty to a Las Vegas condominium homeowner association fraud scheme.

44-year-old Denise Keser entered her guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud Thursday.

Keser and her co-conspirators attempted to gain control of the condo homeowner associations in order to steer business to certain construction companies and a law firm.

Keser was a property manager at the Chateau Nouveau condominium complex and used her position to send email messages to homeowners to smear HOA board members in an attempt to take control of those boards.

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Another one bites the dust. How many more will fall, and how high will this go? Thanks to Shu for the link.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Keser and her co-conspirators attempted to gain control of the condo homeowner associations in order to steer business to certain construction companies and a law firm."

Presumably she had some financial incentive to do so.

Now another model that is used by at least one HOA vendor is to have a bunch of related subsidiaries. The relationship between the subsidiaries and the management company is not disclosed to the board or other homeowners. The management company then steers all the work to the affiliated subsidiaries to accomplish the same thing that Keser was accomplishing. Oh, and the management company counts the votes at elections. Not surprisingly policies about who can run for office tend to show up wherever this management company goes...

Anonymous said...

When will ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FNC, MSNBC, etc. start informing their viewers about this story?

Anonymous said...

Who will be the NEXT CAI'er to do the Perp Walk?

According to a google search, Ms. Denise Keser held the following CAI credentials:

CMCA, AMS, and PCAM