Attorney Kelly Gordon Rogers Indicted for Stealing $3.0 Million from Investors

The Kelly G Rogers Report

Law360, New York (May 14, 2012, 9:50 PM ET) -- A Dallas-area attorney has been indicted for allegedly stealing $2.8 million from investors in his oil and gas scheme and for failing to tell them he had been the target of suits accusing him of federal and state securities violations.

In a grand jury indictment filed May 1 in state court, Kelly Gordon Rogers, of Frisco, Texas, is charged with theft, money laundering and securities fraud in connection with the investment shares in Falcon Energy LLC he sold to investors between August 2007 and October 2011.

Kelly G Rogers used the funds — which include a $950,000 investment from Oklahoma City-based oil land leasing company Basin Management Group Inc. — for other purposes and disposed of the money “in a manner that made recovery of said property by said owners unlikely,” according to the indictment.

He never told investors that he had been sued in February 2007 in Texas for alleged violations of federal and state securities laws, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with his sales of investments in a Louisiana oil and gas venture, the indictment says.

Prosecutors say Rogers also failed to disclose that he was one of the defendants named in a July 2007 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit against Global Finance & Investments Inc. over a $9.9 million Ponzi scheme that preyed upon over 100 investors nationwide.

Kelly G Rogers was one of the alleged facilitators of Global Finance company head Charles Davis, according to the SEC. According to the suit, he created similar investment offerings and passed funds on to Davis.

Kelly G Rogers also solicited investors through Level Par Investments LLC, claiming to do trade in bank debentures, the government alleged.

Shortly after the suit was filed, Rogers settled with the SEC by agreeing to disgorgement of $100,000 and a civil penalty of $50,000. He was also enjoined from future violations of federal securities law.

Representatives for prosecutors and for Rogers could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.

Counsel information for Kelly G Rogers was not immediately available.

The case is Texas v. Rogers, case number 380-81033-2012, in the 219th District Court for CollinCounty, Texas.

--Editing by Elizabeth Bowen.

Bradley Dean vs. Land and Minerals and Carrie S. Rogers

According to the Collin County website, Bradley Dean has retained James Skinner as lead attorney in his case against Land and Minerals Corporation and Carrie Rogers.

To find this information, simply go to Collin County Courts Records Inquiry and click on "Civil and Family Case Records" and enter the case 366-00485-2010.

The Bradley Dean case is stereo-typical of a Kelly G Rogers deal. You end up getting to know Kelly Rogers from church, the local community or a friend of a friend. You think he's sharp and impressive. One day, he contacts you with this fantastic opportunity. He has a scheme, he comes out and pitches it and it sounds really good...so you invest.

However, over time, you begin to notice that NOTHING he promised in the original pitch is working out. You begin to ask questions and eventually it hit you up side the head--this deal is a scam. You scramble to get your money---only to find that it's long gone.

You file a lawsuit, hire expense attorney's and eventually run out of money pursuing justice. In the meantime, Kelly G Rogers represents himself or Carrie S. Rogers (his wife) at no cost. He simply drags out the process until you give up or run out of money. Cunning. Calculated. Crook.

According to the Collin County Court Records, Bradley Dean has retained James Skinner. Impressive.

Jim Skinner is a twenty-two-year law enforcement veteran who retired in June 1998 as Chief Investigator for New Mexico’s Ninth Judicial District Attorney’s Office after extensive training and accumulated years of experience in narcotics enforcement, complex white collar crime, public corruption, violent crime, and homicide investigations.

After receiving his Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston Law Center in 2001, Mr. Skinner worked as a complex civil litigator in Dallas before becoming an Assistant District Attorney and Special Prosecutor for the Collin County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.

Mr. Skinner entered the private sector in 2008, where he consulted for complex civil litigators and corporate entities on the discovery and investigation of financially motivated criminal activity. .

Mr. Skinner graduated from the FBI’s Narcotics Related Financial Investigative Techniques Training Program and the DEA’s Basic Narcotics/Dangerous Drug Enforcement School and worked as the Eastern New Mexico Narcotics Task Force Coordinator, conducting undercover and counter-drug intelligence operations throughout New Mexico with local, state, and federal law enforcement partners.

Mr. Skinner is a graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Fraud and Financial Investigations Training Program, the Advanced White Collar Crime Training Program, the Telecommunications Fraud Training Program, MCTFT’s International Money Laundering Training, and numerous other programs related to the discovery and investigation of complex financial crime and organized criminal activity.

Mr. Skinner was featured in the August 1996 Reader’s Digest article “To Catch Three Thieves,” which detailed Mr. Skinner’s actions in bringing to justice three men who stole over $58M from senior citizens throughout the United States and Canada by illegal telemarketing scams.

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Land and Minerals Corporation and Kelly G Rogers Involvement

Kelly G Rogers, a lawyer from Frisco Texas, has created another company called Land and Minerals Corporation.

Kelly G Rogers was indicted on criminal charges by the Collin County DA in July of 2009. Just prior to the indictment, Kelly G Rogers filed bankruptcy in an attempt to avoid paying 70+ individuals and entities over $4.6 million owed. Many of these creditors were contractors who entered into agreements with both Kelly G Rogers and Carrie Sewell Rogers as the Rogers continued their obsessive pursuit to add 10,000 square feet to their home on 8 Riva Ridge, Frisco, TX. Others creditors include the IRS, Tax Assessors and a variety of investors who are suing Rogers over investment opportunities gone bad. For complete details of creditors, click on Kelly Rogers files Bankruptcy II.

We ran into this new corporation strictly by accident as we poured over the multitude of Linkedin profiles established by Kelly G Rogers. When we revisited the bookmarked page identifying Kelly G Rogers as President of Generational Minerals, we suddenly were staring at a Linkedin profile describing himself as the President this Land and Minerals Corporation. According to the Controllers office, the corporation was established on July 29, 2008 using a third party out of Austin Texas.

Upon further observations, we found a multitude of Linkedin pages established by Kelly G Rogers. We searched Kelly Gordon Rogers and found 4 profiles identifying himself as a lawyer in the greater New York, Los Angeles and Dallas areas. How could this be? This is an excellent example of the ethical standards used by Kelly G Rogers. Do these ethical standards match those outlined by the State Bar Association;

"A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice. Lawyers, as guardians of the law, play a vital role in the preservation of society. The fulfillment of this role requires an understanding by lawyers of their relationship with and function in our legal system. A consequent obligation of lawyers is to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct".

As the creditors battle his "Ethical Conduct" and the District Attorney schedules a jury trial for Kelly G  Rogers, we'll all be keeping a close eye on this lawyer and his attempts to deceive those whom he calls friends and acquaintances.