In response to Law360, a Washington legal professional by the title of Shawn Harju has been sued for allegedly operating a cast bill scheme that led to $20 million {dollars} financing. Law360 supplies a duplicate of the lawsuit and a prison grievance filed by prosecutors in California.
The lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Courtroom in Seattle, Washington, the place Shawn Harju used to work as a building defects lawyer in her earlier agency. Equinox regulation agency and Shawn Harju have been escrow brokers for the financing transactions, based on the grievance and the Law360 article. The case is Highmore Financing Co. I LLC v. Equinox Enterprise Legislation Group PLLC et al., case quantity 24-2-14405-6, in King County Superior Courtroom.
Equinox, Harju’s earlier regulation agency and Shawn Harju allegedly accepted funds from a personal fairness fund and conspired with Harju’s purchasers to fraudulently disburse funds to a number of firms owned by or related them as an alternative of paying a pc gear provider, Law360 and the grievance alleges.
Throughout the due diligence interval, the alleged fraudsters submitted false monetary data, fabricated financial institution statements and fabricated company paperwork, based on the grievance. After Shawn Harju and her cohorts/purchasers received a maintain of the cash, they altered invoices for the pc servers and ancillary gear, together with falsely inflating the billed quantities by thousands and thousands of {dollars}, the grievance states.
Shawn Harju’s purchasers/associates, “Greig and Sparrow” have been indicted in 2022 on wire fraud and cash laundering prices in federal courtroom in California, based on open-source data. Shawn Harju has not been criminally charged.
The lawsuit in Washington state courtroom alleges Equinox and Shawn Harju knowingly processed the faux invoices and made fraudulent funds to affiliated firms and individuals.
In response to Law360 article and the grievance towards Harju, Shawn Harju “helped Greig and the Greig firms get Highmore to extend the road of credit score and supply extra funds, despite the fact that Equinox and Harju knew the Greig firms couldn’t afford to borrow extra money”.
Shawn Harju, based on open supply is a director and vice chair of the Federal Approach Chamber of Commerce in Washington state. She can be purported proprietor of Chrysalis Options PLLC, her authorized and consulting agency, and Three Timber Yoga, LLC and is affiliated with a Land Rover automotive restoration enterprise referred to as Defenders Northwest, LLC.
It’s this affiliation which will sign a sample of unethical habits – and maybe extra. Hidden in a lowly strip mall in Gig Harbor, a city of about 10,000 folks, Defenders Northwest is managed by Brian T. Corridor and his partner, Michele A. Corridor. The Halls and their enterprise can be being sued for fraud arising out of an enormous automotive restoration rip-off, alleged in a number of lawsuits filed in California. The lawsuits declare that Shawn Harju acted as a accomplice and enabler, and took part within the submitting of pretend liens to hide the alleged fraud.
Within the $20 Million fraud case, plaintiffs sued Shawn Harju and others for breach of fiduciary obligation, breach of contract, negligent and/or intentional misrepresentation, unjust enrichment and civil conspiracy.
Learn extra at: https://www.law360.com/articles/1853533/wash-law-firm-ex-atty-aided-in-20m-fraud-suit-alleges?copied=1