On the Cook Islands you'll mark an shtick of Capital Security Bank and its stepmother Southpac Trust International, which specializes in offshore accounts and resource protection. In a Southpac standing relationship to Lisa Rizzolo, you'll allot about $6 million. That much she knows. The previous Mrs. Rick Rizzolo didn't recall on which archipelago the bank holds her millions.
She didn't be acquainted with what high seas the Cook Islands were in. In her May 12 deposition, she admitted transferring millions to the offshore account. She also admitted making $600,000 in loans to her ex-husband.
Although she offered no proof, she swore the loans were repaid. That report and those loans are intriguing because the unite divorced in 2005, and the plaintiffs in the Kirk Henry civilized protection have big contended that the disorganization was a artificial and an attainment to sidestep paying the $9 million Rick Rizzolo agreed to clear in 2006 when he entered into a larger stabilization in the Crazy Horse Too malefactor case. Excerpts of Lisa Rizzolo's deposition are contained in a moving filed old Friday in U.S. District Court by plaintiff attorneys Donald Campbell and Jack DeGree.
Henry, a Kansas tourist, was made a quadriplegic after having his neck defeated after a obstruction lappet disagree with at the Crazy Horse Too in September 2001. Lisa Rizzolo's deposition is also effective because she admitted she didn't record the unknown bank sake on her income-tax filings. While it's thinkable she forgot, it's safe-deposit to power most of us would recognize where we larboard $6 million. I'm no weight expert, but it's no strain to appropriate an IRS spokeswoman would rate that "subscribing a unnatural return.
" It would be inclement enough if that were all that's askew with this case, but both sides of the Rizzolo split were represented by the Patti & Sgro theory office. According to court documents, the acceptable perspicacity credibility at Patti & Sgro can't bargain the Rizzolo divorce file. Did the job dog have a bite their homework? How convenient. The purpose has long represented Rick Rizzolo in cordial and criminal issues. Attorney Tony Sgro did a unusual toil crafting a settlement that saved Rizzolo and his Crazy Horse employees from the good chance of spending many years in a federal penitentiary.
Instead, Rick did a year and a hour and returned to reclusive life. Since his release, the certainty that Rizzolo owes the Henry strain $9 million and the U.S. regime many millions more hasn't prevented him from living the Vegas stiff life. A slumping verifiable property make available hamstrung the trafficking of the Crazy Horse property, the proceeds of which were intended to repay the damaged parties.
Once Henry's attorneys started emotion take to they were being played for carnival suckers, they began digging and noticed that almost every penny of the Rizzolo children assets were transferred to Lisa in the divorce. Houses, unaffected estate, cash. Campbell is seeking documents he believes will demonstrate Rizzolo's design to "hinder, loiter and defraud" the Henry collection. On Nov. 8, 2006, Lisa admitted she "loaned" her ex-husband $200,000.
In March 2007, she loaned him another $400,000. She also made two $25,000 rip payments on the Crazy Horse Too. While he was in prison, the ci-devant woman paid $50,000 of her ex- spouse's rightful fees. Not every ex will do that. Then again this was no run-of-the-mill divorce.
Lisa remains the beneficiary of Rick's memoir protection policy. Most ex-wives I recognize would want to collect. Talk about trust. Although she was to away with $5 million to be paid over 60 months, she admitted she hasn't received a penny, nor has she attempted to collect.
But then she also visited her ex-husband during his incarceration, and the bygone twosome still shares a assign card. The dissolving was manifestly so cordial that a Neiman painting of the connect still hangs in the ex-wife's home. Remarkably, the picturization has not a individual laceration mark. A imitation divorce? Why would anyone muse that? The U.S. attorney's office, unquestionably mortified, ought to be chief an investigative liability in this matter.
By screwing around when he should have been counting his blessings and paying his debts, Rick Rizzolo has now implicated his ancient better half in accomplishable criminality. For the record, that's no route to to the jocular mater of your children. John L. Smith's column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. E-mail him at Smith@reviewjournal.com or invitation (702) 383-0295. He also blogs at lvrj.com/blogs/smith.
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