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CARSON CITY, STATE
OF NEVADA
Defendants.
AFFIDAVIT
OF PROBABLE
CAUSE
IN
SUPPORT OF
CRIMINAL
COMPLAINT AND ISSUANCE
OF
WARRANT
STATE
OF NEVADA
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I, KRISTEN
SIMMS, do hereby
swear under
penalty
of
perjury
that
the assefiions
of this
affidavit
are true:
1.
That I
am
an investigator in
the employ of the
State of Nevada,
Office of
the
Attorney
General. In
such
capacity, I observed, heard, or
obtained knowledge
of
facts
and/or
information
or belief relating
to the existence of
probable
cause concerning
the felony
offenses
of, Theft,
in violation
of NRS 205.0332(1Xc);
Forgery, in violation
of
NRS
205.090;
and ldentity
Theft,
in violation of NRS 205.463(1XaX4),
which
occurred
on
or about
June 20,
2013,
to on or about
January
16, 2014,
in
Carson
City, State of
Nevada,
which investigation
revealed
the following facts:
2.
On March
22,2013,
Federal Bureau
of
lnvestigation
(FBl)
Special
Agent
(SA)
Sherwin
Chang received
information
from FBI Miami
of an
attempted wire fraud
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being
perpetrated
by
an
individual
named GEORGE
JONES, based out
of the Los
Angeles
area.
FBI
Miami
was
contacted by security
representatives
from the
National
Basketball Association (NBA)
and representatives from the Miami Heat
basketball
team.
FBI Miami
was informed
that
JONES
was attempting
to sell a minority interest
in
the
Miami Heat
to
several NFL
and
NBA athletes. In
an attempt to
perform
multiple
schemes,
JONES contacted
representatives of former NFL
players,
Warren Moon
(David
MELTZER),
Charles
Woodson
(Steve
BUCKMAN),
and
Jarvis Green
(Eric
EISENBERG),
and
also made
contact
with
other
high
profile
clients, such as
Janine
MCLEAN,
Nick
CANNON,
Russell BERMAN, and
John
PRUTCH.
3.
This
case involving
JONES
is currently
a
joint
investigation
between
FBI
Los
Angeles
and the
Los Angeles
Police Department's Major
Crimes
Division.
The
investigation
is based
on
the belief that JONES and his associates
prepared
schemes
to defraud high-profile
professional
athletes and clients under
the
guise
of the
sale of a
minority
portion
of
a
professional
sports team and/or 2A14
season
floor
seats.
4.
SA Chang
contacted me in regards to Megan KLEIN
impersonating
Ashleigh
FISCARO
during
her
affiliations
with
JONES' schemes, and
allegedly
conducting
criminal
activity
while being located in
Carson City, Nevada.
SA Chang
had
been
apprised
of information
about my recent state case
concerning
felony
insurance
fraud
against
KLEIN
and multiple
dealings with KLEIN during my
case investigation.
SA
Chang
provided
me
with his
case information and
requested
an
interview
with KLEIN to
determine
her
potential
involvement.
5. lt was
discovered
by the
FBI that
JONES had misappropriated
approximately
three hundred
fifty
thousand dollars
($350,000)
by
developing
false
companies (Lavern
LLC,
Falcon Trust,
Havenhurst Capital, etc.)
and
representing he
had access
to sell a
portion
of shares
to
the Miami Heat Professional
Basketball
team.
6.
JONES would
gain
victims' names
through a magazine
tailored for the
wealthy
called
the
"Rob
Report,"
a
publication/magazine
for luxury lifestyles.
JONES
found
contact
information
for David
MELTZER
(victim
1)
and Russell
BERMAN
(victim
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2) on the lnternet
and sent
both an e-mail
indicating he had access to a
portion
of
the
Miami Heat.
JONES also represented
he
had
access to
floor
seat season tickets
which
would
be considered
as
partial
down
payment
for
those shares
if
purchased
through
JONES.
JONES convinced
MELTZER and BERMAN to
put
money for the
tickets
in
the
fraudulent
business accounts
(MELTZER-Lavern
LLC and
BERMAN-Falcon Trust
Company), which
were both
solely controlled by JONES;
he explained they would
get
the tickets when
the money
was funded
to
the account. JONES then took the
money
from
the
accounts
and did not
provide
tickets to either victim. During the course of the
fraudulent
dealings,
all communications
and
transactions were done online or over the
phone,
so
JONES was never
physically
seen. JONES
later indicated during
an
interview
with
the
FBI
that in
both of these transactions
he had
associates working with
him
before, during
and after
the money was stolen.
7. According
to
the FBI investigation, JONES developed several associates
(real
and fictitious)
to
act as a
principal
paft
in
his
schemes. The following are the
associates
known
by the FBI
to be involved
in
the actual theft transactions of
victims
David
MELTZER
and Russell
BERMAN.
A.
ASHLEIGH
FISICARO
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The name
Ashleigh Morrison FISICARO
was later
found
to be unlawfully used by Megan Marie KLEIN during the
fraud
of both David MELTZEH and Russell BERMAN. KLEIN,
using the
name FISICARO.
was
in contact
with MELTZER
and BERMAN before and
after
George
JONES
had taken their money and wasn't returning it.
KLEIN/FISICARO
initiated
severaf e-mails
with
MELTZER and
BERMAN
saying
that she was
associated
with
George JONES, and/or Phillip
RODGERS,
and/or
Samuel GOLDSTEIN,
and that
she would help
MELTZER
and BERMAN
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fraudulent
identification/identity
produced
by KLEIN
(later
admitted) through an lnternet resource.
This is
a fictitious
person
and the seller of Miami Heat season tickets
during
the
MELTZER
transaction.
C. PHILLIP
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aka GEORGE
JONES and
the
seller of Miami
Heat season tickets during
the
BERMAN
transaction.
Unknown if
these
are fictitious
people.
D.
STEVEN BERNARD
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JONES'previous attorney who represented
JONES during
a stolen
vehicle
case in
Santa
Monica,
California.
BERNARD
is referenced
as a
paftner
to
JONES
during
the MELTZER
transaction
and was
supposed to
receive
approximately
fifty thousand
dollars
($so,OOO;.
BERNARD was interviewed
by the FBI and is
a
real
person.
8. The
following
were
found by the FBI to
be
victims
defrauded
by JONES,
FISICARO
aka Megan
KLEIN,
and/or other associates:
VICTIM
1:
DAVID
MELTZER
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On
August
5,
2013,
DAVID MELTZER,
principal
of
Sports
1 Marketing
and
representative
of former NFL
player
WARREN
MOON,
was
interuiewed.
The FBI
interview was summarized
as such:
JONES
represented
to MELTZER that he
could
get
MELTZER four
courtside
seats;
Row AA,
Seats
22-25.
JONES told MELTZER
that the seats
could
be sold
to him for
the
2013-2014
Miami Heat
season
for
two hundred
thousand
dollars
($200,000).
On June
25,2013,
MELTZER wired
$200,000
to
JONES' bank account,
under
the name
LAVERN
LLC, at Academy
Bank in Denver,
Colorado
from
an
account
MELTZER
controlled in
the name
of STEINBERG
SPONSORSHIP LLC,
maintained
at Partner's
Bank.
MELTZER
said that he wired the
money to
JONES
based
on the
representations
that
Samuel GOLDSTEIN had
the seats
and
they
were
legitimate.
JONES
also
provided
a
written
guarantee,
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purchase/sales
agreement, and wire transfer agreement
to
MELTZER
guaranteeing
the
seats; also included with the documents were copies
of
JONES' driver's
license
and
passport,
and
a
copy of GOLDSTEIN's driver's
license
(these
documents
and GOLDSTEIN's
license were all
allegedly
produced
and/or signed
by Megan KLEIN).
MELTZER
says he
also spoke
with
a
person
identifying herself
as
"Ashleigh
FISICARO"
aka Megan KLEIN
in
Carson City,
Nevada,
who
said she
worked
for
JONES and the
seller
of the fake tickets,
Samuel GOLDSTEIN. SA
Chang
provided
to me
several e-mails
from
an
"Ashleigh
FISICARO"
whereby
she lulls
MELTZER into
thinking that she
will help
get
his money
back.
MELTZER
provided
his
purchase
agreement,
"notarized"
by a
Megan
KLEIN
(aka
FISICARO),
the
only
document that has that name and how
the
FBI
eventually
determined KLEIN
and FISICARO
were the
same
person.
(This
document has
the
signature of
Samuel
GOLDSTEIN, which KLEIN admitted to
signing
during my interview
on March 20,2014.)
As
of August
5,
2013, MELTZER had not received the tickets
and was
promised
a refund
from
JONES; to
date MELTZER has not received
anything
from
JONES.
JONES had
continued
to
provide
excuse after
excuse as to
why
he hadn't
returned
MELTZER's
money.
On
August
11,
2013, MELTZER
informed the FBI
that
JONES
had
indicated
he
wired the
$200,000
back
to MELTZER. MELTZER
provided
a copy
of
an incomplete
wire
transfer agreement
(this
document has the signature
of
Ashleigh
FISCARO,
which KLEIN admitted
to signing).
On August
20, 2013,
the
FBI contacted RAQUEL
LIBMAN,
General
Counsel for the
Miami Heat,
to confirm
whether these seats
did in fact
exist
and
whether
they belonged
to
GOLDSTEIN
or JONES. LIBMAN stated
that Row
AA,
Seat #25
was never
owned
by GOLDSTEIN
or JONES and
appears to be
a
made
up number.
LIBMAN
advised
the FBI that
Seats
22-24
were not
owned
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JONES
and/or
GOLDSTEIN and
were not for sale, and were
licensed
by the
Miami
Heat,
who actually
owns them.
MARK BROWN,
Vice President of
Premium
Seating
for the Miami Heat,
indicated
that the Miami
Heat
had no
relationship
to
licensed
seats with
GEORGE
JONES, ASHLEIGH FISICARO, SAMUEL GOLDSTEIN, PHIL
RODGERS,
or
MEGAN
KLEIN.
VICTIM
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BERMAN
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On January 31
,
2014, the FBI interviewed
RUSSELL
BERMAN,
who is an
attorney
in Miami,
Florida.
The FBI
interview
was
summarized
as such:
BERMAN
stated
in
late November
2013, he
spoke
to
a
person
named
RON
WILLIAMS
who claimed he had
access
to tickets being sold by Miami Heat
player
CHRIS BOSH.
BERMAN
said WILLIAMS
put
him in
touch
with a woman named
Ashleigh
FISICARO
(aka
KLEIN),
telephone
numbers
917-769-7640
and 702-605-1657.
BERMAN
said that he
communicated with
FISICARO via
telephone and e-mail at
regarding
the
sale of a number of tickets to the Miami Heat's 2014
season.
BERMAN
said that in
a
number
of e-mail
correspondences with
FISICARO, she
represented
that
she
had
a client who was
liquidating
several tickets
to the
Miami
Heat in
the amount
of
$150,000.
BERMAN said that based on his
conversations
with FISICARO,
the ticket
sales
were facilitated by an individual
named PHILIP
RODGERS.
RODGERS
represented to BERMAN that he
could sell BERMAN
eight
courtside
seats to the Miami Heat's 2014 season. BERMAN was
provided
with
the
bank wiring instructions
through an
e-mail
from
a.f isicaro
@
falcontrustcompanv.
com.
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lt is
believed by
the
FBI
that
RODGERS
and JONES are the
same
person,
as they
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December 2013,
BERMAN
wired one
hundred fifty thousand
dollars
($150,000)
to an account at TD Bank
in the name of
Falcon Trust
Company,
account number
4289122792
(this
account
was owned by JONES). To date,
BERMAN has
not received his tickets and RODGERS/JONES
has continued
to
provide
excuse
after excuse as to
why he is unable to
return BERMAN's money.
BERMAN
contacted
the Miami Heat organization,
who
told
him
that they do not
have
any relationship with
JONES
and
referred
BERMAN to the FBl. BERMAN
provided
the FBI with
several e-mails
from an
"Ashleigh
F|S|CARO" whereby she
sent numerous
documents
regarding
the Miami Heat
financials
and bank
wiring
instructions.
The FBI
investigation obtained
state
registration documents for
Falcon
Trust, listing
both KLEIN and JONES
as the
principals.
According to my
interview
with KLEIN
on March 20,
2014, KLEIN as FISICARO
is
still
in
contact
with
BERMAN, misrepresenting
that she
will help
get
his money back.
SUSPECTS 1:
GEORGE
FRENCH
JONES.
JR.
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On
February 21, 2014,
George
JONES, date of
birth
October
9,
1968, was arrested on a
no
bail
probation
violation
warrant
by Los
Angeles Police Department
(LAPD)
Officer BEARD and
Detective
BRYANT.
The warrant
was
issued by
JONES'
Probation Officer, Robert
SALE.
JONES was arrested
at LAX Airport and
transpofted to LAPD Major Crimes
Division
to be interviewed.
SA Chang
was also
present
during the
interuiew. The FBI
interview
with
JONES was
summarized as follows:
JONES
first described his scams as such: JONES stated
he would look up
his
victims in
the
"Rob
Repoft"
publication
(magazine
for the wealthy).
Generally,
he would
then look
up their contact
information online and send an e-mail.
The
e-mail
would state
that
JONES
had access
to season ticket holders of a
successful
professional
sports team
(such
as the New
York Yankees,
or
the
Miami
Heat).
JONES
would
represent that a
person
died or was recently
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and was interested
in selling their season tickets
(between
two and four
tickets
at a time).
JONES would
typically offer the tickets for
$75,000
each.
JONES
said he would
then advise the
victim
to
put
the money in
a third
pany
escrow
company
that
JONES actually owned. JONES explained
to the
victim
they would
get
the
tickets when the money was funded into
the third
party
escrow.
JONES then
took the money and ran.
JONES stated all meetings and
transactions
were
done online
or over the
phone,
so that he was never
seen.
JONES stated he
would
get
ten names and mass e-mailthe
ten
names
regarding
this scam.
JONES
stated,
"Allyou
need is
one."
JONES
advised
that since a
prior
arrest
for
the stolen rental
car
(current
probation
violation
he was
arrested for), he had attempted
to
do legitimate
and
legal
business.
JONES advised he wrote business
prospectus
and business
plans
for new
businesses.
JONES
advised that Falcon Trust,
Lavern LLC, and
Cleola Global Holdings
are all businesses JONES made up to legitimize
his
resume.
During
the FBI interuiew,
JONES' cellular
phone
rang
and the screen
displayed
the
call was incoming
from
"idiot."
JONES
advised
it
was Megan
KLEIN
from
Nevada.
LAPD
Officer BEARD
looked through
JONES' cellular
phone
and
obserued
two
photos
of two driver's licenses with the
same exact information for
Samuel
GOLDSTEIN,
but
two
very different
photographs
attached,
One
photograph
was
a thin, male
Caucasian.
The
second
photograph
was a
heavyset,
male with
a Middle Eastern
ethnic
background.
JONES advised
KLEIN from
Nevada
made
these fraudulent
identifications.
JONES stated the
identification
with
the thin,
male
Caucasian
was used to defraud
MELTZER
out of
two hundred
thousand
dollars
($200,000).
JONES stated KLEIN had
also
signed
GOLDSTEIN's
name
on
documents
for
the
fraudulent
deal.
JONES would
misrepresent
to
potential
buyers that
GOLDSTEIN was the
seller of the
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couilside Miami
Heat tickets.
JONES stated to
the
FBI over and over
that
GOLDSTEIN
"Doesn't
exist.'
JONES stated the Miami Heat deal started out as a
legitimate
business
deal
and later
became an opportunitylo,"hitthem in
the head,"
(which
was his
expression
for fraudulently
taking their
money).
JONES initially
stated
he was
only
implicated in the scam to take
MELTZER'S
$200,000
but KLEIN and
Attorney
Steven
BERNARD
came up
with
the
plan.
JONES stated he
then
made a side deal with
Attorney
BERNARD to
keep
the
$200,000.
JONES stated
BERNARD told him to
give
him
(BERNARD)
$50,000
and he
(JONES)
could
keep the rest. JONES stated BERNARD worked
it
out
so they could keep
the money. JONES
later
stated,
"He
(Bernard)
didnT do
shit, ltookthe
money."
JONES
stated
he
also
paid
a
$10,000
court restitution
fee
on KLEIN's
behalf for
her cut of the
$200,000.
JONES stated
there
was
another
Miami Heat deal that involved
a
lawyer
in Florida.
That
lawyer's name is Russell BERMAN.
JONES said
KLEIN met
BERMAN
in
Las Vegas,
Nevada and discussed buying a
percentage
of the
Miami
Heat.
BERMAN
agreed to the Miami
Heat
deal and wired one hundred
fifty
thousand
dollars
($t
50,000)
to JONES'
Falcon
Trust TD Bank account.
JONES
explained he initially
retained
Attorney
Jeff LASMAN in order to
purchase
Carver
Federal
Savings Bank.
JONES
stated Attorney LASMAN wrote
up
an
agreement
(for
Miami
Heat),
signed
Matthew KAMENS'name
and notarized that
document.
JONES
also stated Attorney
Jeff
LASMAN was
paid
$30,000
for
his
assistance
in defrauding
BERMAN.
[Note:
A check for
$3,000
from
JONES
to Attorney LASMAN
was
photographed
on
JONES'cell
phone.l
JONES revealed
he
hired a
lawyer
(Angela
OWENS) and
is
currently
trying
to settle
a civil
case with BERMAN to return money owed
($150,000).
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On
March 5, 2014,
I Kristen
Simms,
Nevada
Attorney
General
Criminal Investigator, received
this FBI
case
referral after being
contacted
by
SA Sherwin
Chang.
After I reviewed the
FBI
case
information for
George
JONES, it appeared
the
dates in the FBI investigation
and my
previous
investigation
of
Megan
KLEIN for
insurance fraud were during the same approximate time
frame
(throughout
2013),
According
to
the FBI documents, all of the
alleged fraudulent incidents and
transactions
occurred sometime
between
March 2013, when KLEIN began employment
for
JONES, and February
21,2014,
when George JONES
was
arrested by LAPD/FBI.
My case involved
Megan
KLEIN doing
business as Lee's
Auto
Body
Repair
and
Paint
Shop. I began
an investigation
on the case
on
January
2,2013, and
received
an
arrest warrant
on Augusl
28,2013, where she
was
subsequently
arrested
for
thirteen
felony
counts on
September 23,
2013.
During the course of
my investigation, KLEIN
ultimately
admitted
to committing
twelve
counts of
insurance fraud
and one
count of
grand
theft when
she received
money from
vehicles needing repairs and not completing
the repairs
before the
business
closed
in
October
2012.
On
March
18, 20'14,
Megan KLEIN
pled
to one count of insurance fraud for my
case, in the
Second
Judicial District
Court
of the State of
Nevada.
She
was sentenced
to 12-32 months
in
the Nevada
Department
of
Corrections
and
given
the opportunity
of
five
years
of
probation,
and
ordered to
pay
restitution
in
the amount of approximately
$30,000.
Prior
to the
sentencing
hearing listed
above, KLEIN was interviewed by the
Nevada
Division
of Probation
and Parole
(NVP&P)
where she told them
that
she
was
employed
in
Los Angeles,
California
by Havenhurst Capital
and Falcon Trust
companies,
and had
an income
of approximately
$5,000
monthly. When her
boss,
George
JONES, was arrested
he had two debit
cards for TD bank in the name of
Havenhurst
and
Falcon Trust,
and
he admitted
both were fictitious corporations.
According
to
JONES, he used
KLEIN
to run interference
for
people
that they
had
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scammed and indicated
KLEIN
was the
mastermind during their
scams
together
throughout
2013.
On
March 19,2014,
I
traveled to
Platinum+
Salon
in
Carson
City,
Nevada
and
conducted
an interview with
Ashleigh
O'Hara
FISICARO
(previously
MORRISON), date
of birth November
15, 1980.
I asked victim FISICARO
(actual
person)
direct
questions
about
the companies
(Lavern
LLC, Havenhurst,
Falcon Trust,
etc.)
and different
names
(JONES,
RODGERS,
MELTZER,
BERMAN, etc.)
involved in the
FBI
case
file. At first,
victim
FISICARO
appeared
completely confused
about the sporadic
information I was
providing
her.
Ultimately, I mentioned
the
name
Megan KLEIN and
prior
aliases I knew
she had
used during my
previous
investigation.
Victim FISICARO explained she knew
Megan KLEIN
as
Megan
REDICAN and she
had recently
communicated
with her
regarding
several hair
appointments. Victim FISICARO showed
me her
calendar
of all
appointment
dates with
KLEIN/REDICAN and all online conversations
from May 24,
2013, to
September
11
,2013.
I explained to
victim FISICARO I believed her name had
been used to
commit identity
theft.
Victim FISICARO immediately became
tremendously
concerned
for her identity and
the
use of her name
in
possible
financial
dealings.
I explained
to victim FISICARO
that
KLEIN had allegedly
impersonated
her in
e-mails
and
phone
calls
only in dealings
with the businesses mentioned. Victim
FISICARO
told me she had
never
given
anyone
permission
to
use
her
personal
identifying
information
and was
under the
impression she had done something to cause
her victimization.
In an
attempt to calm her concern,
I
explained to
FISICARO
that
KLEIN
may have
used her name
because of
previous
contacts and I had no information
to
demonstrate KLEIN
had opened
any
accounts, or had used her social security
number
or date of birth. I
showed Victim
FISICARO
a copy
of
the alleged signature
which
she said was
not hers. Victim FISICARO told me she checks her
credit often
and
has
not seen
anything out
of the ordinary. She
also
ensured she would complete any
other avenues
to ensure her identity
had
not
been compromised and agreed to
keep
in
contact
with me if anything
abnormal was located.
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Following
further
review of the FBI case
referral
and
the interview of victim
FISICARO,
I made
contact with
Megan
KLEIN which
is
summarized as
follows:
On
March
20, 2014, l, lnvestigator Simms,
interviewed Megan Marie
KLEIN
(aka
REDICAN),
date of birth
November
11, 1974, at NVP&P, 475
Valley
Road
in Reno,
Nevada. I advised
KLEIN of her Miranda rights and
began
questioning
her
after her understanding
and consent. KLEIN told me she was
hired
by George
JONES in March
2013, after replying to an online
posting.
KLEIN
said
she began her
employment
as a
personal
assistant to JONES
through
the lnternet,
by
building
company websites
(specifically
for Havenhurst
Capital,
Cleola Global Holdings, Falcon
Trust,
and
Wonderland
Capital),
proofreading
legal
documents
(later
admitted to also drafting
false
legal
documents),
and sending
e-mails
while located in
Carson City,
Nevada. KLEIN
noted
she was under
the impression JONES
had legitimate
access to shares
and/or
season tickets
to the Miami Heat
BasketballTeam.
Initially,
KLEIN insisted
her only
involvement was
after each wire transfer
was
complete
and
she spoke to
victims David MELTZER and RUSSELL
BERMAN,
in an
attempt to help them
get
their
money
back.
KLEIN
later
admitted that
in all
of the communications between
MELTZER
and
BERMAN
she
had
represented
herself
as Ashleigh
Morrison FISICARO. KLEIN
advised
me
she
personally
knew
the real Ashleigh FISICARO from her childhood. KLEIN
said she had
recently
seen victim FISICARO but maintained the idea that
JONES
had told KLEIN
to
use the name.
(KLEIN
explained during the interview how
JONES wanted
her
to use multiple names which became confusing for her and
she had
chosen
to stick with FISICARO because
she
knew
the
name from her
past
and
could remember
it well.) KLEIN explained she had hair appointments
during
summer/fall
2013 with Victim FISICARO as
she
is
a cosmetologist at
Platinum+
Salon in
Carson
City,
Nevada.
On
August
8,
2013, KLEIN
forged a
wire
transfer
document
by
printing
and signing Ashleigh FISICARO. The
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was ultimately
sent to
David MELTZER
in regards to the
$200,000
transaction. KLEIN
also
admitted
that on June
2A, 2013, she
forged
Samuel
GOLDSTEIN's
signature on a
written
guarantee
and on a
purchase
agreement
for David MELTZER.
Included with the documents
sent to MELTZER was a
countedeit
California driver's
license for Samuel Joseph GOLDSTEIN
which
KLEIN
admitted to
producing
through
an online applicalion.
KLEIN
felt she had not
done
anything
wrong because she
never
received
a
percentage
or commission from the
$200,000
MELTZER transaction or the
$150,000
BERMAN
transaction.
KLEIN indicated she did think she
would
ultimately
be
paid
wages
by JONES
for
her hard work. KLEIN advised me she
was
paid
approximately
$15,000
throughout
several transactions
from
JONES
with
the largest
transaction
consisting
of
$1,000.
KLEIN said she
was
paid
with
either
Green Dot Money
cards or
deposits directly
into her TD bank account
(unrelated
to company/JONES' TD Bank accounts).
KLEIN told
me
she
considered
the
payments
as
her wages and
reported those wages on her 2013
taxes but noted
she thought
the
$15,000
had come from the
$150,000
BERMAN
transaction.
KLEIN
explained her only access to
any company accounts
was
through
an account
she opened with a
$100
Green
Dot Money card
for
Havenhurst
Capital at Bank
of the West in Carson City,
Nevada.
KLEIN said
she
first
obtained
a business license from the Nevada Secretary
of
State
with a tax
identification
number
she had
received from JONES.
KLEIN told me after she
opened
the bank
account she
had FedEx send all
the documents to
JONES.
After
JONES had
conducted a
few
transactions
the account
was left insufficient
by
$gg+
and
sent to collections where it currently
remains.
KLEIN
admitted
to using
seven e-mail
account names and four
phone
numbers
involved with
communications
to JONES, BERNARD,
MELTZER,
PRUTCH,
and BERMAN
which KLEIN acknowledged
were
all
her as herself or
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Ashleigh FISICARO.
KLEIN
said she
has e-mail log in
for
each account
and is willing
to
provide
all
e-mails and any text
messages
she still
has
access
to.
On
April
2,
2014, I
met with Megan KLEIN at the Nevada
Attorney
General's
Office
in Reno,
Nevada. KLEIN
provided
me a
USB date
storage
device with various
documents
and e-mails
from her
duration of
employment
by
George
JONES.
The documents included a
purchase
agreement
dated
September
19, 2A13, to Don WEIDENFELD and Gregory
GLENN from Havenhurst
Capital,
LLC, and signed by
Ashleigh FISICARO
aka
Megan
KLEIN.
KLEIN was
very
cooperative
throughout
the entire
interview
and
expressed
she
is willing
to
cooperate with
all
agencies
involved through whatever means
necessary.
KLEIN
ultimately
admitted to
drafting fraudulent
legal documents,
producing
fraudulent
identification,
identity
theft
(by
impersonating
FISICARO), forgery, and theft,
but
maintains
that
the majority
of her involvement
was
strictly under the
direction
of George
JONES.
KLEIN
indicated
to me
she
understands the consequences of
her
actions and
accepts
she has implicated
herself
as a result of
her
own actions, even
if directed
by
JONES.
WHEREFORE,
your
affiant assefis
that there is
probable
cause to believe
that
on
or about
June 20,
2013, to
on or about January
16, 2014, MEGAN MARIE KLEIN
committed
the felony
offenses
of, Theft,
in violation
of
205.0832(1)(c); Forgery, in
violation
of NRS
205.090;
and ldentity
Theft,
in
violation
of
NRS
205.463(1)(a)(a), in
Carson City,
State of Nevada.
WHEREFORE,
your
affiant respectfully requests that a Warrant of Arrest be
issued
and
that said DEFENDANT
be dealt
with according to law.
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AFFIRMATION PURSUANT
TO
NRS
2398.030
The undersigned does hereby affirm that
the
preceding
document,
AFFIDAVIT
OF
PROBABLE
CAUSE
IN
SUPPORT OF
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
AND ISSUANCE
OF
WARRANT,
filed in Reno Township Justice
Court, State
of Nevada
v. Megan Marie
Klein,
does
not
contain the social security
number of any
person.
DATED this
25
day of April,2014.
CATHERINE
Attomey
By:
SUBSCRIBED and
SWORN
to before me
by
KRISTEN
SIMMS,
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