Default Judgment against Freeman "Buck" Reed and Renee Reed

Buck and Renee Reed lived in my home at 515 South Hayley Court, Alpine UT from early August 2012 until the end of May 2013.  I have a default judgment against the Reeds for $6348.99 for non payment of rent.  I went through the process of having the Reeds evicted from my home.  Renee Reed has told me on multiple occasions that she is not going to pay the judgment. I am looking for a collection agency or an attorney that will help me collect the judgment from the Reeds. Please let me know if you are able to help me collect this judgment.
Currently, Renee Reed lives at 3467 Little Bessie, Park City, UT 84960.
I will be happy to give you her phone number and email, just email me at billhytek@Hotmail.com

If you have a judgment against the Reeds, feel free to send it to me and I will post it on this site.  If you have any factual evidence that can be backed up that you would like to share, feel free to send it to me and I will post it to this site.

Bill

 

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James H. Deans, #846

Timothy  S. Deans,  #13193

440 South 700 East, Suite 101

Salt Lake City,  UT 84102

Telephone:  (801) 575-5005

Facsimile:  (80 l) 531-8780

E-mail:  lawoffice@jamesdeans.com

 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

 

 

 

FOURTH  DISTRICT  COURT-PROVO   DEPARTMENT UTAH COUNTY,  STATE OF UTAH

BILL CONLEY Plaintiff(s)

AMENDED

DEFAULT JUDGMENT

(for cases of unlawful detainer)

 

vs.                                                            Civil No.   130400667  EV

FREEMAN  REED AND DIANE REED

Judge:   LAYCOCK

 

Defendant(s).

 

 

 

THE COURT FINDS the statements in the plaintiffs Complaint essentially true and that Judgment  should be given to the plaintiff.  If multiple claims for relief  or multiple parties  are involved in this case, it is expressly determined  there is not just reason for delay (Rule 54B, URCP), and that Judgment should be entered immediately  against defendant(s).

IT IS THEREFORE  ORDERED THAT:

 

1. Possession  of the premises at the address:    515 SOUTH  HAYLEY  COURT ALPINE UTAH  84004  , be delivered  to the plaintiff, and that the defendant(s)  and the property (and all persons claiming a right to occupancy through defendant(s))  be removed from the premises.   All rights to occupancy through defendant(s)  arising from the rental  agreement are terminated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  An Order of Restitution  be issued and served upon the defendant(s)  in accordance with Rule 4 Utah Rules of Civil Procedures  and 78B-6-812 Utah Code Ann.

3.  Plaintiff(s)  be granted Judgment against the defendant(s)  for the following sums:

a.   Unpaid rent from     5/1/13     to   5/6/13                                             $1.999.99 b.  Treble damages from    517113       to     5/16/13                                $3,999.00

c.  Court costs  to date of Judgment

 

d.   Attorney's  fees (if authorized by statute or contracted  for)

$100.00

 

$250.00

 

e.   Interest as provided by law from date of Judgment until paid

 

f.  Other: ~------------------

Total                              $6,348.99

 

Dated this                 day of                                                                _

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Court Judge

Freeman Carl “Buck” Reed Defrauded Victims of $1.3 Million Pitching a Bogus Philippine Gold Investment and Failed to File Tax Returns for 10 Years

Former St. Joseph Man Sentenced to More Than Seven Years in Prison in Philippine Gold Scam and for Failure to File Tax Returns
Freeman Carl “Buck” Reed Defrauded Victims of $1.3 Million Pitching a Bogus Philippine Gold Investment and Failed to File Tax Returns for 10 Years

U.S. Attorney’s Office August 15, 2014

Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404

GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Freeman Carl “Buck” Reed, 45, formerly of St. Joseph, Michigan, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for failing to file income tax returns and committing a fraud scheme involving gold bars he told investors were buried in the Philippines. He was ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution to the fraud victims, and more than $500,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. The Honorable Janet T. Neff, U.S. District Judge, imposed the sentence. U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles, Jr. said, “Reed’s failure to file tax returns or pay any taxes — particularly in light of his extravagant lifestyle — was an insult to decent, tax-paying citizens everywhere. The fraud he perpetrated was deplorable abuse of trust. This office will continue to vigorously prosecute those involved in these kinds of crimes.”
Reed was convicted of failure to file tax returns following a jury trial in February 2014. At trial, the jury heard evidence that Reed had not filed any tax returns — or paid any taxes — for almost 10 years, despite making more than $1 million in just a three year period and living an extravagant lifestyle that included five luxury vehicles and an expensive house.
Shortly after the tax trial, Reed pled guilty to the Philippine gold fraud. He admitted that, after his direct-marketing business failed, he engaged in a scheme to defraud investors by soliciting money from investors to recover “Yamashita’s gold,” a legendary gold hoard supposedly left behind by Japanese soldiers when they were defeated by the U.S. Army at the end of World War II. Desperate for money, Reed told investors that he and a co-conspirator had located the gold and would use their money to finance the gold extraction costs. He told other investors that he had access to “gold certificates” supposedly worth millions of dollars. Reed was able to obtain $1.3 million in connection with the two schemes. Instead of using the investors’ money as promised, Reed admitted that he spent it on himself so that he could maintain his façade of wealth.
“Mr. Reed was not selling an investment; instead, he developed an elaborate hoax meant to enrich himself. The prosecution and sentencing of Mr. Reed, who diverted investor’s funds for his benefit and then intentionally failed to file income tax returns, is a fundamental element in maintaining public confidence in our tax system,” said IRS Acting Special Agent in Charge Jarod Koopman.
“For nearly a decade, Mr. Reed failed to file tax returns and defrauded investors of well over $1 million, all while lining his own packets and living an extravagant lifestyle”, stated Paul M. Abbate, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. “The prosecution of Mr. Reed holds him accountable for his years of criminal conduct, and the FBI will continue to partner with the IRS to bring to justice those who commit these brazen financial crimes.”
The case was investigated by the FBI and IRS and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Clay Stiffler, Michael MacDonald, and Matthew Borgula.

Buck Reed, Man sentenced in buried gold fraud scheme, Aug 15, 2014

Man sentenced in buried gold fraud scheme

Aug. 15, 2014   |        

   

 

Freeman Carl Reed was sentenced to prison for running an elaborate buried gold fraud and failing to file income tax returns. / AFP/Getty Images

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GRAND RAPIDS — A former Michigan man has been sentenced to prison for failing to file income tax returns and a scheme involving the bogus recovery of gold bars supposedly buried by Japanese soldiers during World War II, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Freeman Carl Reed, 45, was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. He said he concocted the gold fraud scheme after his direct-marketing business failed, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Grand Rapids.
Money was solicited to recover Yamashita’s gold, reportedly hidden in the Philippines at end of the war. Investors were told their money was needed to extract it.
Investors also were told that Reed had access to gold certificates worth millions of dollars.
“Mr. Reed was not selling an investment; instead, he developed an elaborate hoax meant to enrich himself,” said Internal Revenue Service Acting Special Agent in Charge Jarod Koopman. “The prosecution and sentencing of Mr. Reed, who diverted investor’s funds for his benefit and then intentionally failed to file income tax returns, is a fundamental element in maintaining public confidence in our tax system.”
A federal jury convicted Reed in February of failing to file tax returns. Authorities said evidence showed he had not paid taxes for nearly 10 years, despite earning more than $1 million over a three-year period. His extravagant lifestyle included five luxury vehicles and an expensive home, the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a release.
Reed, formerly of St. Joseph in southwestern Michigan, pleaded guilty to the gold fraud after the tax trial.
“Reed was able to obtain $1.3 million in connection with the two schemes,” the release said. “Instead of using the investors’ money as promised, Reed admitted that he spent it on himself so that he could maintain his façade of wealth.”
He was ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution to victims of the fraud.

Buck Reed news article, August 15th, 2014, St. Joseph man headed to prision for tax evasion and gold scam

Posted: Friday, 15 August 2014 3:10PM

Former St. Joseph Man Headed To Prison For Tax Evasion, Gold Scam

Michael Arney Reporting

More than seven years in prison await Freeman "Buck" Reed, a former St. Joseph resident convicted of a fraud scheme involving gold in the Philippines. Reed was sentenced to 87 months behind bars this week in federal court in Grand Rapids, and will have to pay $1.3 million in restitution to his victims and another half-million dollars to the IRS. He was convicted of failing to file income tax returns along with the fraud scheme. In the latter, Reed swindled people by claiming he could recover "Yamashita's gold," which is a legendary gold hoard rumored to have been left behind by Japanese soldiers defeated by the U.S. Army at the end of World War Two. He admitted he cooked up the scheme after the failure of a direct marketing business, and used the money from investors to keep up appearances that he was wealthy

Buck Reed sentenced to 7+ years, new article, August 15th, 2014

St. Joseph businessman who stole from investors to fund 'extravagant lifestyle' sentenced to 7 years

 

By Rex Hall Jr. | rhall2@mlive.com The Kalamazoo Gazette
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A St. Joseph businessman who bilked investors out of more than $1 million was sentenced Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, to 87 months in federal prison for wire fraud.File photo 

ST. JOSEPH, MI – He was a self-proclaimed millionaire who lived "a lifestyle he could not afford," according to federal prosecutors.
And in the end, Freeman "Buck" Carl Reed funded his extravagance by convincing more than a dozen people to invest more than $1.3 million in a bogus Filipino gold mine and gold certificates they were told belonged to the country's former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff sentenced Reed to 87 months in a federal penitentiary for one count of wire fraud. He also was sentenced to concurrent terms of one year each for three counts of failing to file a tax return.
Reed, who was indicted along with Gary Edward Degler in July 2013 on numerous felony charges, was convicted in January of three counts of failing to file a tax return in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In March, he pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
The wire fraud charge, stemmed from $250,000 Reed obtained from an investor for the Filipino gold mine.
In exchange for his plea, four counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering were dismissed at Wednesday's sentencing,
In a sentencing memorandum filed last week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Clay Stiffler described Reed as a "Multi-Level Marketing Guru" who lived in St. Joseph, ran a successful business selling "various fruit juices and other elixirs" and received compensation from a number of different companies.
Despite his success, Reed stopped filing tax returns in 2002 and currently owes the Internal Revenue Service more than $565,000, plus $568,000 in interest and penalties.
"Reed lived an extravagant lifestyle and advertised himself as a millionaire as a way of inducing people to engage in business with him and purchase his training sessions," Stiffler wrote in the sentencing memorandum. "Reed's self-professed wealth figured prominently in his sales presentations and website, which featured numerous photos of his large house, five luxury cars, boats, and ... luxury vacations and extended trips to Colorado."
However, Stiffler said Reed's lifestyle was a façade and, in fact, "his expenses far exceeded his income." According to the sentencing memorandum, Reed had two mortgages on his home, all of his luxury cars were financed, he owed large credit card bills and he also owed taxes not only to the IRS, but to the state and local governments as well.
By 2007, according to court documents, Reed's financial situation became dire as his income from his multi-level marketing products fell and he was terminated from ViaViente, whole-food producing company that he had received compensation from.
That year, he reconnected with Degler, a former marketing associate, and the two set in place the gold mine and gold certificate schemes.
The duo told investors they had access to, and control of, a secret dig site in a mountain in the Philippines that contained gold bars left behind by the Japanese military during World War II. Reed showed pictures of the gold bars and the dig site and told them he and Degler needed money to pay for equipment, vehicles and workers to recover the gold.
They also promised investors returns of three to 10 times that of their investment, according to court documents.
Prosecutors said that as no gold was ever recovered from the bogus venture, Reed and Degler began pitching the opportunity to invest in gold certificates that once belonged to Marcos and were "worth billions of dollars" and could only be redeemed in Switzerland.
By 2009, Reed and Degler had raised more than $1 million through the bogus ventures, according to court documents. But instead of spending the money as they said they would, Reed's bank records show he only spent a total of $39,000 on the gold scheme.
He sent half of the ill-gotten money to Degler and spent the remainder – approximately $600,000 – on personal expenses that included his $6,000-a-month mortgage, $7,000 in monthly car payments, $14,000 for new tires for his Corvette, and $94,000 on a deck at his house.
He also paid for vacations, trips to Nordstrom and Louis Vuitton, cosmetic surgery for his wife, private school for his children and credit card payments.
Prosecutors said that as time passed and investors began questioning the legitimacy of the Filipino gold mine and gold certificates, Reed would "attempt to pacify them" with false statements "about having received funds and continue to promise returns on their investment that he knew were not forthcoming."
In addition to his prison sentence, Neff ordered Reed to pay restitution of $565.509 to the IRS, and $1.32 million in restitution to the investors he bilked. The court also recommended that Reed serve out his sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mass., or at a facility near Boston.
Rex Hall Jr. is a public safety reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. You can reach him at rhall2@mlive.com. Follow him on Twitter.