Excerpts related to attorney misconduct in this situation as well as a link to the full Nevada rules for professional conduct. Here is a link to the ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions which also should weigh heavily in the Court’s decision to appropriate level of discipline to impose.
The elements of a civil claim for damages caused by racketeering are:
1. Defendants, and each of them, engaged in conduct which constitutes a pattern of racketeering activity pursuant to NRS 207.360, including (9) taking property from another under circumstances not amounting to robbery, (18) Grand larceny; (29) Perjury or subornation of perjury; (30) Offering false evidence; (35) Any violation of NRS 205.377;
2. Defendants, and each of them, engaged in conduct which constitutes a pattern of racketeering activity in violation of NRS 207.470;
3. Defendants, and each of them, committed at least two separate crimes relating to racketeering constituting a pattern of racketeering activity. (the “Predicate Acts”);
4. Defendants’ crimes are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents but are a part of a pattern of criminal activity;
5. The Defendants, and each of them, violated NRS 207.400;
6. Plaintiff Nona Tobin has suffered damages;
7. Plaintiff Nona Tobin is entitled to treble damages against Defendants, and each of them. NRS 207.470(1);
8. Plaintiff Nona Tobin is entitled to an award of punitive damages; and
9. Plaintiff Nona Tobin is entitled to an award of attorney fees and costs as damages. NRS 207.470(1).
A partial list of the Counter-Defendants’, Cross-defendants’ and third-party defendants’ Predicate Acts
Red Rock Financial Services recorded false claims on 12/14/12, 3/12/13, 4/3/13, 4/8/13, and executed the foreclosure deed Thomas Lucas recorded on 8/22/14.
Attorneys for Wright, Finley, Zak, aided and abetted mortgage servicing fraud of both Bank of America and Nationstar Mortgage by filing into these quiet title civil actions statements known to be false and disclosing false evidence Edgar Smith (NV bar #5506) on 1/11/16, 4/12/16 DECL, 4/12/16, 5/10/16, 6/2/16, 6/3/16, 6/10/16, 3/27/17 DECL , 3/27/17, 11/9/17, 2/9/18, (Dana Johnson Nitz NV Bar #0050, Michael Kelly NV Bar #10101).
Detailed allegations against Nationstar are delineated in these publications
This fraud on the court publication has nine videos that show exactly how the attorneys tricked the court into letting Nationstar and Joel Stokes steal Nona Tobin’s house without ever putting on a case, meeting their Plaintiffs’ burden of proof, or refuting Nona Tobin’s claims against them.
Documentary evidence of abuse of process, fraud on the court, conspiracy, and racketeering are in linked exhibits to the Nevada attorney General & to the Mortgage Lending Division
This publication of the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure will be updated to highlight relevant rules related to proposed sanctions and proposed civil court reform
Nona Tobin’s Cross-claims vs. Nationstar and Wells Fargo and counter-claims vs. Red Rock Financial Services and motions for attorney sanctions in Nevada district court case A-21-828840-C are found in this publication
NRS 207.360 “Crime related to racketeering” defined.
NRS 207.360 “Crime related to racketeering” defined. [Effective July 1, 2020.] “Crime related to racketeering” means the commission of, attempt to commit or conspiracy to commit any of the following crimes:
9. Taking property from another under circumstances not amounting to robbery;
NRS 205.377 Multiple transactions involving fraud or deceit in course of enterprise or occupation; penalty.
NRS 205.377 Multiple transactions involving fraud or deceit in course of enterprise or occupation; penalty. [Effective through June 30, 2020.]
1. A person shall not, in the course of an enterprise or occupation, knowingly and with the intent to defraud, engage in an act, practice or course of business or employ a device, scheme or artifice which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon a person by means of a false representation or omission of a material fact that:
(a) The person knows to be false or omitted;
(b) The person intends another to rely on; and
(c) Results in a loss to any person who relied on the false representation or omission,
Ê in at least two transactions that have the same or similar pattern, intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are otherwise interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents within 4 years and in which the aggregate loss or intended loss is more than $650.
2. Each act which violates subsection 1 constitutes a separate offense.
3. A person who violates subsection 1 is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.
4. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order a person who violates subsection 1 to pay restitution.
5. A violation of this section constitutes a deceptive trade practice for the purposes of NRS 598.0903 to 598.0999, inclusive.
6. As used in this section, “enterprise” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 207.380.
