Syndicated radio host on Baltimore's WOLB indicted for mortgage fraud!

[MDCivilServant]

As a truth fighter, I felt an obligation to post this link. According to the WOLB website he had contact with Obama on a few occasions. If the feds can take down a billionaire like Martha Stewart then Warren Ballantine doesn't have a chance.

Sadly it appears Mr. Ballantine may go down as this generations Alan Christian!

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/...ortgage-fraud/

Ballentine, the owner of the Law Office of Warren Ballentine LLC., is accused of obtaining fraudulent mortgage loans by filing fraudulent HUD-1 settlement statements and occupancy statements about a buyers’ intention to occupy the home as a primary residence, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

[bmore_ken]

If he didn't do anything wrong he has no problem

[Omaha Beach]

If he didn't do anything wrong he has no problem

Except for legal fees well into six figures to prove his innocence.

[MDCivilServant]

If he didn't do anything wrong he has no problem

Tell that to Dr. Samuel Mudd.

[bmore_ken]

Tell that to Dr. Samuel Mudd.

The guy who helped a presidential assassin?

[MDCivilServant]

The guy who helped a presidential assassin?

He did help the man who shot the president. But he didn't know the Oswald shot Lincoln. Remember this happened before the internet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mudd

"Richard Mudd petitioned several successive Presidents, receiving replies from Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Carter, while sympathetic, responded that he had no authority under law to set aside the conviction; Reagan that he had come to believe that Samuel Mudd was innocent of any wrongdoing. In 1992 Representatives Steny Hoyer and Thomas W. Ewing introduced House Bill 1885 to overturn the conviction, but it failed while in committee. Mudd then turned to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records, which recommended that the conviction be overturned on the basis that Mudd should have been tried by a civilian court. The recommendation was rejected by Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army William D. Clark. Several other legal venues were attempted, ending in 2003 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused the case, stating that the deadline for filing had been missed.[16]"

[bmore_ken]

Why did he lie to investigators? This came from your link

During his initial investigative interview on April 18, Mudd stated that he had never seen either of the parties before.[8][9] In his sworn statement of April 22, he told about Booth's visit to Bryantown in November 1864, but then said "I have never seen Booth since that time to my knowledge until last Saturday morning."[10] He deliberately hid the fact of his meeting with Booth in Washington in December 1864. In prison, Mudd belatedly admitted the Washington meeting, saying he ran into Booth by chance during a Christmas shopping trip. Mudd’s failure to mention the meeting in his sworn statement to detectives was a big mistake. When Louis J. Weichmann later told the authorities of this meeting, they realized Mudd had misled them, and immediately began to treat him as a suspect rather than a witness

[MDCivilServant]

Why did he lie to investigators? This came from your link

During his initial investigative interview on April 18, Mudd stated that he had never seen either of the parties before.[8][9] In his sworn statement of April 22, he told about Booth's visit to Bryantown in November 1864, but then said "I have never seen Booth since that time to my knowledge until last Saturday morning."[10] He deliberately hid the fact of his meeting with Booth in Washington in December 1864. In prison, Mudd belatedly admitted the Washington meeting, saying he ran into Booth by chance during a Christmas shopping trip. Mudd’s failure to mention the meeting in his sworn statement to detectives was a big mistake. When Louis J. Weichmann later told the authorities of this meeting, they realized Mudd had misled them, and immediately began to treat him as a suspect rather than a witness

Do you think Steny Hoyer would be trying to clear Dr. Mudd if he were guilty?

[bmore_ken]

When you lie to investigators, it makes you look guilty. Steny Hoyer wasn't alive in the 1860's

[Baltimatt]

MDCivilServant--

Some folks may not know who Alan Christian is.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/199...ions-investors

The case against Mr. Christian and his associate, Grace M. Starmer, was initiated in 1988 by the Maryland Securities Division, which is part of the attorney general's office. It charged that Mr. Christian told investors he planned to buy radio stations NTC and make movies, among other enterprises, but that Mr. Christian and his associates engaged in a "desperate attempt" to get enough money to build Atlantic Coast Radio. Many of the investors placed just a few hundred dollars with Mr. Christian; several invested more than $10,000. A few members of one family put up about $22,000. According to case records, one of the first letters sent to investors in September 1988 assured them that "any money received toward this project will be deposited in an escrow fund and will not be released until the deal is completed."

But Mr. Christian and his colleagues began using funds from the supposedly inviolate escrow fund, exhausting it by early 1990. After pleading guilty to embezzlement and violations of the Maryland Securities Act in November of that year, Mr. Christian and Ms. Starmer, a vice president of Atlantic Coast Radio, were given five-year suspended sentences. Mr. Christian was ordered do 1,500 hours of community service work and pay $679,894 in restitution.

I'm going by memory here, but Alan Christian used to be the evening talk show host on WBAL. Then he moved to WFBR (now WJZ). When WFBR changed ownership and format, Christian was buying time on what is now WOLB (I don't recall if it used those call letters then) and was on, along with Les Kinsolving and Charlie Eckman. Kinsolving bailed when the financial improprieties came to light and wound up at WCBM, which he had previously derided as "Air Owings Mills" (many of the other WFBR alumni went there when it was revived as a talk station after being off the air for a while).

[MDCivilServant]

MDCivilServant--

Some folks may not know who Alan Christian is.

Did you write that to make me feel old? For those that do remember, Alan Christian was the host of a popular talk show in Baltimore. Like a lot of popular media personalities his fans trusted and respected him.

I thought the comparison with truth fighter Warren Ballentine was appropriate. Listeners hear a voice on the radio and that person becomes sort of like a friend. This gives them credibility and is like money in the bank.

That's why celebrity endorsements are effective. I cringe when I see conservative talk show host hawking gold. Where were they 5 years ago when gold was lower?

[Baltimatt]

MDCvilServant--

I don't know about you, but I am old! (58)

But I'm sure a lot of the young'uns around here have no idea who Alan Christian is.

[sigmalady]

I guess this is what he has been alluding to on his show.

[Informed Thinker]

I guess this is what he has been alluding to on his show.

Yup, the circumstantial evidence around this is not good. Warren is saying he participated as the closing attorney in multiple illegal transactions but maintains he didn't know that documents he encouraged people to sign were fraudulent. Some of the same purchasers were making repeat buys and he maintains he didn't recognize them from previous transactions. He was a neighbor of one of the main participants who Warren said offered him the closing attorney work to help him out. One of the other major participants had done some work for his mother. Their is a builder previously indicted. Warren would maintain he only made $300-$500 as the closing attorney. Which is hardly an amount to risk his law license for. What to me will be one of the most salient facts is that the DOJ is seeking $9.8 million in damages as a result of ill gotten gains. If in face Warren has that much money or more lets hope he can show clearly how he legally earned it independent of what he has been accused of. One of the participants has turned states evidence seeking a lesser sentence and that always raises eye brows. Evidently there was a builder involved in the fraud. I am curious about his partner and what he calls brother in his bankruptcy business and if there is any overlap etc etc etc. There are rumors circulating that his company Debt Stoppers has a C- rating with the Better Business Bureau. This is not true I am posting the link to the Atlanta BBB and the have an A- rating. There Chicago office has a C rating from the BBB.

http://www.bbb.org/atlanta/business-...ta-ga-27425834

http://www.bbb.org/chicago/business-...go-il-88004868

Warren is not listed as an attorney at Debt Stoppers Atlanta or Chigago any more.
http://atlanta.debtstoppersusa.com/l...y-1967005.html