The Beginning of Justice

This is one that we have to share! The final defendant has been found guilty on all charges. Joyce Allen, responsible for bringing us into the Ponzi scheme, was found guilty by 9 women and 3 men on all 11 counts of financial fraud including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.

Read some about it here.....knoxnews.com .

At this time we don't know if the judge will allow Joyce Allen to remain free until the sentencing in January. Perhaps this will bring a little amount of closure to some. Now we can pray for continued justice to be served for the victims.

So with this posting - ALL defendants have been found guilty or plead guilty.

An additional note.... Joyce Allen's sentencing hearing has been set for Jan. 13, 2015. Although prosecution requested her to be held pending her hearing the Judge Varlan struck a compromise and has allowed her to remain free but ordered her to submit to electronic monitoring and to be largely confined to her house. He also warned her that should she decide to flee, the odds are high that the U.S. Marshals Service will find her.

Growing Group of Defendants

We just received information that a new case has been filed as: United States v. Defendant(s) Joyce Elaine Allen, Sharon Kay Thomas, Brian Murphy, Tiffiny Thompson, Paulynn Wright, Dona Rector
Case Number 2011R00662 and Court Docket Number 12-CR-00090.

The interesting part to us is that it names more defendants than Joyce Allen and Kay Thomas - namely Brian Murphy, Tiffiny Thompson, Paulynn Wright, and Dona Rector. The lead prosecutor for the case is Frank Dale and the main charge is categorized as Securities Fraud. 

According to information we received, there are several court sessions scheduled including:

1) a pretrial motion hearing June 4th at 9:30 AM in Knoxville Federal Courthouse, Courtroom 3A for the defendants including Joyce Elaine Allen, Sharon Kay Thomas, Brian Murphy, Tiffiny Thompson, Paulynn Wright, and Dona Rector.  The judge appointed is Judge H Guyton. Our information is that the purpose of this hearing is to clarify any outstanding issues prior to trial.

2) a status hearing is scheduled before Judge H Guyton for June 4th at 11:00 AM in Knoxville Federal Courthouse, Courtroom 3A for defendants Brian Murphy and Tiffiny Thompson. The purpose of this hearing is to determine if there are issues that the Court needs to address and to schedule any necessary future court dates.

3) a status hearing is scheduled before Judge H Guyton for June 4th at  9:30 AM in Knoxville Federal Courthouse, Courtroom 3A for defendant Paulynn Wright and Dona Rector. The purpose of this hearing is to determine if there are issues that the Court needs to address and to schedule any necessary future court dates.

4) a trial is scheduled before Judge Thomas Varlan on June 18th at 9:00 AM in Knoxville Federal Courthouse, Courtroom 3C for the case which involves defendants Brian Murphy, Tiffiny Thompson, Paulynn Wright, and Dona Rector.

We'd love to hear from anyone knowing anymore.  Keep us all posted!

By the way......here's some a few great links to get more information on who and when indictments, etc were made -

US Deptartment of Justice

WATE Story

Knoxnews.com

WUOT Radio

New Court Date

According to information from U.S. Magistrate in Knoxville, TN, the trial date for Joyce Allen and Kay Thomas has been reset to June 4th, 2013.  I don't know if others are keeping track but that's nearly a year from their arrest date and nine months from the first trial date.  Let's hope that justice can also be brought even if slowly.

All's Quiet

Thus far we've found no information from the trial that was supposed to have happened January 7th.  In fact, we don't even know that a trial actually happened.  There's no word on it on the internet or from sources such as the prosecution....government or otherwise.  So much for victims rights.