More complaints filed by NADN estate

Kevin Rademacher

Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004 | 11:14 a.m.

Complaints have been filed against three more individuals affiliated with the a failed Las Vegas company tax services company, claiming that millions of dollars were fraudulently transferred out of the company before it closed.

William Leonard, trustee for the bankruptcy estate of National Audit Defense Network, has alleged in separate filings that former NADN General Manager Alan Rodrigues (also listed on the complaint as Alan Rodriguez), Lance Kerness and Robert Goetsch received improper transfers from the company.

Leonard alleges that Rodrigues and his affiliated companies -- including Alan II Inc., R and R Financial Inc., Diamond Marketing Ltd., M.J. Sales Inc. and Elite Solutions USA Inc. -- received $2.5 million in transfers.

Leonard also alleges that Goetsch and his company -- Free Trade Enterprises Inc. -- received $3.5 million in questionable transfers. A similar complaint said Kerness and his companies -- Galt Enterprises Inc., Zenith Development Enterprises Inc., Better Way America LLC, and Better Way Debt Services LLC -- received $270,000 improperly.

In each complaint, Leonard said that the transfers were made "with the actual intent to hinder, delay and/or defraud the debtor's creditors."

David Winterton, an attorney representing Goetsch's Free Trade Enterprises Inc., said the complaint did not provide sufficient information on which to make a comment.

Attorney's for Rodrigues, Kerness and their companies could not be reached for comment.

The new complaints mirror a similar allegations Leonard made last month against Weston Coolidge, the company's president and owner, claiming that he received $1.5 million in questionable transfers.

The liquidation of National Audit Defense Network, which began in May, came amid mounting legal trouble. Those woes culminated in April when the Internal Revenue Service sought a restraining order against the company claiming that some of the products it was selling were fraudulent.

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