Council woman Lana Wolff's family finances and husband's indictment on insurance fraud are issues in Place 5 City Council Race.

By Faith Chatham - DFWRCC - May 9, 2009
Arlington City Council Woman, Lana Wolff's family finances hit the news this year.
Despite her husband, Jimmy Wolff's multiple indictments for Insurance Fraud, racketeering, and filing false financial statements, the Arlington Police Association endorsed Council woman Wolff for re-election in today's election. The Arlington Police Association did not respond to our inquiries about the reasons for their endorsement.

Ms. Wolff stated on her League of Women Voters Survey that the only legal problems she has is "One frivilous lawsuit not followed up."
Records show that she is named as a party with husband Jimmy Wolf in a multi-million dollar lawsuit by a party who received a judgement in the couples previous bankruptcy. The judgement has not been paid so the lawsuit was filed attempting to get payment.

Ms Wolff has two opponents in today's City Council race. Attorney Terry Meza's campaign says that Ms. Meza is running on her own qualifications. The media and individuals who were burned in the melt-down of TriUnion Insurance and other business enterprises of the Wolff family are vocal about the business enterprises run out of the Wolff family residence on Norwood Dr. in Arlington. Ms. Meza prefers to discuss her vision for neighborhood revitalization, economic development and job creation in the historic original town, east Arlington and central business district around the University of Texas at Arlington. Experienced in neighborhood revitalization, Terry Meza headed non-profit community development organization which was instrumental in revitalization of historic neighborhoods in Fort Worth. Ms. Meza has been endorsed by DFW Regional Concerned Citizens in this race. In making the endorsement, Ms. Wolff's and Ms. Meza's many years of community service and governmental service were weighed. Meza has less financial and adverse legal baggage than Ms. Wolff and exceeds the incumbent city councilwoman in education and professional experience specific to the challenges facing the city council district which spans the entire width of Arlington from the Grand Prairie City Limits to Pantego City Limits. The northern boundary is Division and the southern boundary is Pioneer Parkway. Both candidates have lived in the district at least 20 years. A third candidate, Mr. Driscoll, has not shown up at debates and does not appear to be a serious contender for the seat.

Steve Goss of Frisco issued a press release this week in which he claims that the Wolff's children's trust was used to hide funds transferred from the TriUnion Insurance Company. Mr. Goss contends that "Ms. Wolff had to be knowledgable of some of Jimmy Wolff's insurance dealings. The family's residence was listed as business address and two of the Wolff's grown children are employed in the family trust."

Mr. Goss sent his press release to DFW Regional Concerned Citizens as a Letter to the Editor.
This letter is from Mr. Goss. It has not been fact-checked by DFW REGIONAL CONCERNED CITIZENS.
We have included articles from numerous publications and the Oklahoma Attorney General's website below Mr. Goss's article. We urge voters to use discernment and weigh the sources.

INSURANCE AGENT QUESTIONS ARLINGTON COUNCILWOMAN’S COMMENTS
FRISCO,TX. MAY 6, 2009: Multi-state licensed insurance agent Steven S. Goss is questioning the involvement of Arlington City Councilperson Lana Wolff and her family into the disappearance of millions of dollars which an attorney for the State of Oklahoma says were “looted” by Jimmy Warren Wolff of Arlington, Texas and partner Rodney Alfred Williams of Fort Worth, Texas. Goss says recent newspaper articles in the Fort Worth Star Telegram regarding the debate between District 5’s Lana Wolff and former Arlington councilman Dick Malec has raised some genuine if not additional criminal issues. While Goss believes Malec is right to question Wolff and her husband’s prior $97 Million bankruptcy with only about $300,000 in assets, he contends there is far more to this story than is being told about the Wolff family.

Goss believes Wolff’s husband’s involvement into mysterious Tarrant county real estate businesses may be benefiting from her position on the Arlington City Council. “As a person in the position to oversee real estate project developments, land swaps and the like, it would seem germane, even mandatory, to determine where her husband’s invisible real estate actually is and whose name the properties are owned under. Her husband signed documents, under oath, claiming their Children’s Trusts owned companies which had Tarrant county real estate, as investments, of over $4.3 million and even listed them by property address, purchase dates and amounts. We all know now these properties, specifically listed at non-existent Trinity Meadows street addresses, never existed.”

Goss also claims her family’s ties to the insolvent insurance company and its affiliate real estate development company, Triunion Financial Corporation, contain more involvement than just her husband. “Triunion issued checks for millions of dollars to the insurance company and deposited millions of dollars of checks from that company in order to facilitate their schemes” says Goss. “It is my understanding one daughter, a Patti Wolff, worked for the illegal insurance company’s very small staff and Triunion’s President is a Mark Wayland, Lana Wolff’s possible son in law.” Goss claims should Lana Wolff try and deny these allegations, he will gladly produce documents confirming both allegations. “Since Lana and Jimmy’s children are the beneficiaries of the companies involved in what appears to be many federal crimes, and one daughter worked for the company and one daughter’s husband was the President of the other company, this goes a lot deeper than has
been previously exposed”. Goss claims it is a violation of Federal law, specifically 18 U.S. 1344 (2), commonly referred to as bank fraud, to obtain funds from a financial institution by means of false or fraudulent pretenses and Wolff and other family members and employees have yet to be investigated or charged federally for their actions.

Goss also has written to Mr. Malec questioning some of Ms. Wolff’s campaign contributions from an attorney that filed many of the property deeds for Jimmy Wolff which he used to grossly inflate the assets of his company and contributions from a Fort Worth banker that loaned money based the deeds of trusts on properties illegally transferred from the insurance company which Wolff’s partner, Rodney Williams, used to obtain approximately $1.2 million in loan proceeds that were never paid back. “Mssr. Wolff and Williams have tens of millions of dollars of past unpaid judgments and liens by the IRS both personally and against many of their former and current businesses. They operate like viruses jumping from unsuspecting host to unsuspecting host. Goss says he was surprised the recent Swine Flu is now being called the H1N1 virus when a Wolff/Williams virus name would have been available. “Maybe if it was more deadly, they would have called it that.” Goss adds “I d
on’t know anything about the other candidates in this race but I don’t see why these people should be rewarded for engaging in criminal activities to further their and their children’s lives and lifestyles at our expense.”

Steven Goss currently owns and operates Stonebriar Insurance Group Inc. and One Stop Insurance Agency of Texas, Inc. located in Frisco, Texas. Steven served briefly as the Offensive Quality Control Coordinator at the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane Football team in 2005. Steven was also an adjunct professor of Accounting for Richland Community College of Dallas. To reach Mr. Goss for further information or clarity, please contact him at (469) 362-5300 or at steven@stevengoss.com

COURTS
Texans charged in insurance fraud
By NEWSOK - October 19, 2007
Felony charges were filed Thursday against two Texans accused of insurance fraud in Oklahoma, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said.

The charges, including conspiracy, racketeering and filing a false financial statement, were filed in Oklahoma County District Court against Jimmy Warren Wolff, 61, of Arlington, Texas, and Rodney Alfred Williams, 73, of Fort Worth, Texas, the controlling owners of Oklahoma-based Top Flight Insurance.

Edmondson said Wolff and Williams are accused of transferring money from another company they controlled, TriUnion, to make Top Flight appear solvent in insurance reports.

The pair allegedly bolstered Top Flight's books by issuing a check from TriUnion prior to Top Flight's deadlines for filing paperwork with insurance regulators. The next day, the money would be transferred back to TriUnion, Edmondson said.

Each man is charged with one felony count of conspiracy against the state, nine felony counts of filing a false financial statement and one felony count of racketeering. Read more on NEWSOK

by W.A. Drew Edmondson, Oklahoma Attorney General - 10/18/2007
Two Charged in Insurance Scheme

Two Texas men accused of inflating their assets in an attempt to keep their insurance business open were charged in Oklahoma County District Court today by Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s Workers’ Compensation and Insurance Fraud Unit.

Jimmy Warren Wolff, 61, and Rodney Alfred Williams, 73, were each charged today with one felony count of conspiracy against the state, nine felony counts of filing a false financial statement and one felony count of racketeering.

Wolff and Williams, the controlling owners of Oklahoma-based Top Flight Insurance, are alleged to have regularly transferred money from a second company they controlled, TriUnion, in an attempt to make Top Flight Insurance appear to be a solvent company in annual and quarterly reports filed with the Oklahoma Insurance Department. The state alleges the two men filed false reports on nine occasions between December 2002 to December 2004.

“Because of the false paperwork filed by Williams and Wolff, a company that likely would have been declared insolvent by the Insurance Department continued to take in consumer premiums,” Edmondson said. “We allege Williams and Wolff took in almost $4 million in premiums during this time.”

According to the attorney general, the pair allegedly bolstered the Top Flight books by issuing a check from TriUnion on days immediately preceding Top Flight’s deadlines for filing paperwork with the Insurance Department. The next day, the money would be transferred back to TriUnion.

In addition to their money transfer scheme, Williams and Wolff are accused of falsely reporting their real estate holdings to further bolster their financial standing with the Insurance Department. The company allegedly purchased 66 properties valued at $614,395, but the recorded value listed in Top Flight’s ledger for these properties was $10,500,000.

“This company was shut down by the Insurance Department in 2005,” Edmondson said. “Prior to that, consumers who relied on Top Flight for insurance coverage were unknowingly working without a net. In the case of a large-scale disaster, this company would not have had the financial holdings to cover all the assets it insured.”

Williams and Wolff were charged after an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Read more on Oklahoma Attorney General Website



Attorney general accuses two men of insurance fraud

By Associated Press - Denton Record Chronicle - 10/18/2007
Felony charges were filed Thursday against two Texans accused of insurance fraud in Oklahoma, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said.

The charges, including conspiracy, racketeering and filing a false financial statement, were filed in Oklahoma County against Jimmy Warren Wolff, 61, of Arlington, Texas, and Rodney Alfred Williams, 73, of Fort Worth, Texas, the controlling owners of Oklahoma-based Top Flight Insurance.

Edmondson said Wolff and Williams are accused of transferring money from a second company they controlled, TriUnion, to make Top Flight appear to be solvent in annual and quarterly reports filed with the Oklahoma Insurance Department.

The pair allegedly bolstered Top Flight's books by issuing a check from TriUnion prior to Top Flight's deadlines for filing paperwork with insurance regulators. The next day, the money would be transferred back to TriUnion, the attorney general said.

The company likely would have been declared insolvent by the Insurance Department but continued to take in consumer premiums due to the false paperwork, Edmondson said. He said Williams and Wolff took in almost $4 million in premiums due to the scheme.

In addition, Williams and Wolff are accused of falsely reporting their real estate holdings to bolster their financial standing with the Insurance Department.

The company allegedly purchased 66 properties valued at $614,395, but the recorded value listed in Top Flight's ledger was $10.5 million.

"This company was shut down by the Insurance Department in 2005," Edmondson said. "Prior to that, consumers who relied on Top Flight for insurance coverage were unknowingly working without a net. In the case of a large-scale disaster, this company would not have had the financial holdings to cover all the assets it insured."

Each man is charged with one felony count of conspiracy against the state, nine felony counts of filing a false financial statement and one felony count of racketeering. Read more in the Denton Record Chronicle

Attorney general accuses two men of insurance fraud

By the Associated Press - Dallas Morning News - 10/18/2007

Felony charges were filed Thursday against two Texans accused of insurance fraud in Oklahoma, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said.

The charges, including conspiracy, racketeering and filing a false financial statement, were filed in Oklahoma County against Jimmy Warren Wolff, 61, of Arlington, Texas, and Rodney Alfred Williams, 73, of Fort Worth, Texas, the controlling owners of Oklahoma-based Top Flight Insurance.

Edmondson said Wolff and Williams are accused of transferring money from a second company they controlled, TriUnion, to make Top Flight appear to be solvent in annual and quarterly reports filed with the Oklahoma Insurance Department.

The pair allegedly bolstered Top Flight's books by issuing a check from TriUnion prior to Top Flight's deadlines for filing paperwork with insurance regulators. The next day, the money would be transferred back to TriUnion, the attorney general said.

The company likely would have been declared insolvent by the Insurance Department but continued to take in consumer premiums due to the false paperwork, Edmondson said. He said Williams and Wolff took in almost $4 million in premiums due to the scheme.

In addition, Williams and Wolff are accused of falsely reporting their real estate holdings to bolster their financial standing with the Insurance Department.

The company allegedly purchased 66 properties valued at $614,395, but the recorded value listed in Top Flight's ledger was $10.5 million.

"This company was shut down by the Insurance Department in 2005," Edmondson said. "Prior to that, consumers who relied on Top Flight for insurance coverage were unknowingly working without a net. In the case of a large-scale disaster, this company would not have had the financial holdings to cover all the assets it insured."

Each man is charged with one felony count of conspiracy against the state, nine felony counts of filing a false financial statement and one felony count of racketeering. Read more in the Dallas Morning News

CRIME WATCH
Insurer The owners of Top Flight Insurance infl ated theircompany’s assets to keep it afloat, Oklahoma prosecutors charge. Jimmy Warren Wolff and Rodney Alfred Williams routinely transferred money from another insurer they owned called TriUnion, prosecutorssay. Twice they transferredthe funds the day before they filed financial reports required by the insurance department… Read more in Fraud Focus - The Coalition against Insurance Fraud