Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins sent over $450,000 in signed checks to a now-defunct shell company, potentially breaking Texas law and providing grounds for disbarment.
Ongoing lawsuits related to the estate of deceased celebrity lawyer Brian “Strong Arm” Loncar have revealed that Jenkins, an associate of Loncar’s, sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney referral fees to a shell company allegedly used to hide money from Loncar’s wife.
Data retrieved from Open Corporates shows that KMA Capital was founded in 2009 and involuntarily dissolved in 2014. A man named Michael Press was listed as its director.
Beyond this scant information, very little is publicly available concerning KMA, what it did, or its relation to Brian Loncar prior to his death in 2016.
After his passing, however, Brian’s wife, Sue Loncar, sued KMA’s director, Michael Press, for money she believed was due to her per a financial partition agreement she had with her husband.
A forensic analysis of Brian Loncar’s finances, reviewed by The Dallas Express, stated that several people “acknowledged Brian told them he sent money to KMA because he would need money after his divorce.”
The report documented that a “total of $901,302 was diverted to KMA during the years 2012 through 2014. This amount was supported by checks sent by three law firms directly to KMA.”
The forensic investigation also revealed that out of all the firms to which Loncar referred cases, only the firms of Richard Laminack, Clay Jenkins, and W. Mark Lanier sent the checks to KMA instead of directly back to the Loncar firm, as would be expected.
Out of the three firms, Jenkins sent the most money to KMA by far, totaling over $450,000 in the span of three years.
Checks signed by Jenkins, one for $170,000, the other for $157,818.
Correspondence from Brian Loncar to the participating firms makes it clear that a large portion of the money being sent to KMA comprised the payment of referral fees that would typically be sent back to Loncar directly. Indeed, such payments could have violated Texas regulations.
Furthermore, Sue Loncar’s suit summarized the allegations, suggesting that “Brian Loncar instructed attorneys from other law firms to pay referral fees from certain cases to KMA Capital, Inc. instead of his own law firm’s accounts.”
Such activity has the potential to be unlawful as the state of Texas has specific rules for how referral fees may be handled.
According to Rule 7.03(e) of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, “A lawyer shall not pay, give, or offer to pay or give anything of value to a person not licensed to practice law for soliciting or referring prospective clients for professional employment.”
Sue Loncar requested that Michael Press produce all documents and correspondence regarding her husband’s involvement with KMA, including all “attorney referral checks being deposited in KMA Capital’s bank account.”
However, Press denied having anything “responsive to this request.”
In a separate lawsuit, Brian’s father, Phil Loncar, similarly alleged, “Clay Jenkins and his law firm has paid referral fees to non-lawyers and are personally involved in the KMA Capital issues. Jenkins has alleged that monies owed to the Loncar law firm were unlawfully diverted to KMA, yet Jenkins and his law firm paid ‘referral fees’ to KMA (non-lawyers).”
Furthermore, Phil Loncar suggested that Jenkins purchased the Loncar Law Firm in order to hide the transfer of funds to KMA.
“The disclosure of these unlawful payments could, therefore, have potentially catastrophic consequences for Jenkins, both as a licensed attorney and as the Dallas County Judge,” according to court filings.
The Dallas Express reached out to Jenkins for comment regarding the ongoing litigation pertaining to the Loncar estate and the checks he signed and sent to KMA Capital. As of the publication of this article, Jenkins had failed to respond.
Allegations against Jenkins continue to unfold and The Dallas Express will continue to report on them as further information becomes available. Updated coverage will be added below.
November 1: Jenkins allegedly sold himself a dead man’s law firm.
November 3: Jenkins allegedly abused his office to alter police reports and testimony.
It would make my day to see Jenkins behind bars.
What’s the point of all this? If he did it and it’s illegal, he’ll never be punished for it. Democrats never are. Unless someone decides to take thing into their own hands.
Why aren’t all those Republicans that assaulted the Capitol in jail?
Why isn’t Trump, his family, Bannon, and all the crooks Trump let off in prison? Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He filled it, then gave them pardons. They can’t convict him because what jury doesn’t have at least one white (oops thinking black lynching from when I was a kid). I mean they can’t convict him because what jury doesn’t have at least one Republican?
Biden is the swamp
Based on ethics, the Republican party has none and thus forms one big national swamp.
There’s no ethics in all of Washington DC! Their all out for what benefits them, not Americans. This country is going down the wrong path. What happened to serving Americans and then going back to work like normal people. They should be on medicare and social security like the rest of us. Bet they would fix social security then!
Will Jenkins be investigated???
I was hoping to see jenkins go because of his petty, tyrannical behavior with his lockdowns and mandates during covid. If the voters decide on him again, even after knowing this, our city is doomed.
Dallas has a high population density. That means you need lockdowns and testing mandates (Dems didn’t mandate vaccinations except for a small number of people; they just stupid by using Republican label). Just like they stupid not pointing to GLOBAL INFLATION!!!
Researchers at Johns Hopkins concluded that lockdowns did little to reduce COVID deaths but had “devastating effects” on economies. “A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality,” said lockdowns in Europe and U.S. reduced deaths by 0.2%.
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf&
Give an executive summary. Did they differentiate high population density (New York, New Jersey, Dallas, Houston, etc) where they have subways or rail transportation? Places where people are in each others faces on the streets and businesses.
From low population density areas where they at most have a lightly used bus system? Or nothing. Places that keep more than social distancing on the streets and in businesses?
People that want an outcome can make one. Base your metadata study using studies of places that are rural and of course shutdowns will do nothing. COVID can’t spread very well in rural areas where people aren’t near each other. People need to cough in each other’s faces.
Has this been peer-reviewed to examine those aspects of the source studies? And in what journals? QAnnon journal of pseudoscience? What was the result?
I know in every pandemic in the past that people didn’t run to the cities for safety, they ran to the countryside. I know the 2017-18 pandemic their primitive gauze masks saved lives, and people died at higher rates during the 2nd wave because people had grown tired of the mask and preferred dying.
You can see the complete list of 34 studies the researchers included in Table 1 on page 15, but if you feel more comfortable just wearing your mask, you do you.
What??????
Wolfman is right.
The best out of whatever happened to the corrupt Democrammunist? is that he’ll get to share a cell with his buddy Wile-E-Coyote John Wiley (Name Your) Price.
Oh wait that’s right John Wiley (Name Your) Price never went to jail either.
It is apparent that you don’t know the meaning of communism!!! Also, you must watch only Fox Lies Network since you are blind to corrupt Republicans — which would only be DEFENDED for their corruption with any of the facts supporting their corruption suppressed on Fox Lies.
I feel corrupt politicians on both sides should go to jail. Trump didn’t take tax payer money like the Dems do. Hunter and Joe should go to jail
Give a basis for Hunter or Biden going to Jail that wouldn’t put Trump in prison for life!!!
Trump in and out of office uses Mar-a-Lago, a place he contractually is not supposed to even live, as a way to extort money from taxpayers. Parties and secret service while in office, secret service out of office. Ditto for all his other resorts and properties. $1.7Billion is the number from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston who details the full extent of Trump’s ill-gotten gains from 2017 to 2021 in his new book, The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
His source was financial disclosures that Trump was legally required to make while he was in office. Despite the law saying that these disclosures had to be published, Trump had tried to keep the records private.
“Donald, in fact, asked through his lawyers if he could file financial disclosures without signing under penalty of perjury. He was told, no, you have to sign under penalty of perjury,”
A significant amount of the $1.7 billion that the Trump Organization made in those four years came from American taxpayers.
“Donald did everything he could to make sure the taxpayers were putting money into his businesses. Hundreds of millions of dollars,”
Wow!! Aren’t Brian Loncar commercials still on tv? Oh that’s Bill
Adler.
So this is all based on Loncar’s ex-wife because she is looking for more money? Seems legit tho. Lol
So he was hiding money that HE MADE because the SEXIST government gives an unfair % to women (much higher than they would give a man if the roles were reversed).
There is sure are a lot of right-wing whiners on here. Here’s an idea… can we wait for the investigation to conclude before we sentence this guy to prison? The only reason this article was even written was to trash the judge just before the election. I’ll wager we won’t hear anything further about it after the election is over. It will be a moot point.
I agree. The article show checks written by Jenkins and jumps to the conclusion it was for some sort of “referral” or illegal kickback, without knowing WHAT the checks were far. Let’s wait for the investigation and get to the TRUTH instead of ALLEGATIONS!
Read the memo in the checks. Those are client names of people who received settlements from their car accidents. The proof is right there.
I say we clean out all the career politicians and start over. Their all corrupt. Their all bought with dirty money. I’m so sick of all of them!
Make Dallas Great AGAIN, Jenkins for prision!!