It will now be up to attorneys for Mr. Henry and the IRS to prove that Rick and Lisa Rizzolo participated in a sham divorce and fraudulent transfer of assets (with the help of Clark County District Court Judge Steven Jones, and attorney
John E. Dawson, the brother of U.S. Judge Kent Dawson, the judge who presided over the trials of 16 Crazy Horse Too defendants).
Case 2:06-cr-00186-PMP -PAL Document 415 Filed 02/28/11 Page 1 of 4
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the foreclosure sale by Canico Capital Group, LLC, is
a sale for all purposes, including the plea agreements (emphasis added) and the Order amending the Second Amended Order of Forfeiture which substituted Canico Capital Group, LLC for
Security Pacific Bank (link added) and ordered that Canico Capital Group, LLC retain Security Pacific Bank's priority position.
DATED: February 28, 2011
PHILIP M. PRO
UNITES STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
FULL ORDER ATTACHED
The judge who signed Rizzolo's Divorce Decree
"Defendant Lisa Rizzolo maintains that the divorce decree was not collusive and was in accordance with considerations allowed by Nevada state law regarding the division of marital property." - Mark Bailus, attorney for Lisa Rizzolo, March 2, 2009
INSIDE VEGAS by Steve Miller
AmericanMafia.com
March 16, 2009
LAS VEGAS - For over three and a half years,
unpaid beating victim Kirk Henry has been inferring that Rick and Lisa Rizzolo's divorce was a collusive
sham to allow the couple to hide their ill begotten assets from seizure by creditors.
If Rizzolo's divorce was a "sham" as asserted in a
Las Vegas Sun Editorial, what kind of judge would have allowed
Rick Rizzolo to transfer most of his criminally derived assets to his wife three weeks before he was to begin plea negotiations in a
widely reported racketeering case involving his former topless night club, the Crazy Horse Too?
None other than the Honorable Steven E. Jones (left), a highly rated Clark County District Court Judge. And if a picture was ever worth a thousand words, this is it!
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