Winnett Insurance Joplin Mo

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By Derek Spellman

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dspellman@joplinglobe.com

A Neosho allowance company, forth with its admiral and its organizer, could face fines and conceivably bent accuse afterwards allegedly committing balance artifice accretion $300,000.

The appointment of Missouri Secretary of Accompaniment Robin Carnahan issued a cease-and-desist adjustment Monday adjoin Safe Harbor Financial Group LLC, as able-bodied as its president, Travis R. Winnett, and its registered agent, Erron L. Wright Jr. Safe Harbor was organized in August 2007 to appoint in allowance exceptional financing.

Wright and Winnett are accused of affairs about $300,000 in unregistered balance to a half-dozen Missouri residents, and of declining to annals as agents themselves. The men, both of Neosho, additionally are accused of declining to accumulation the investors with appropriate information, including the risks associated with the investments and a antecedent administration action taken adjoin Winnett by the Oklahoma Department of Securities.

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Cease, abandon order

The cease-and-desist adjustment halts those activities, and additionally seeks fines of up to $10,000 apiece adjoin Wright, Winnett and Safe Harbor itself. The three additionally could be ordered to pay for the amount of the investigation.

“Criminal accuse could be filed,” Laura Egerdal, a backer for Carnahan’s office, wrote in an e-mail to the Globe. “Right now, our appointment is focused on endlessly the actionable action and accepting abatement for investors. We will abide to alike with law administration agencies and we abide our investigation.”

A buzz bulletin larboard for Wright on Tuesday was not returned. Several efforts to access animadversion from Winnett by buzz and e-mail were unsuccessful.

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The secretary of state’s appointment alleges that Wright and/or Winnett abiding six association to alteration their money into distinctively created alone retirement accounts, generally able an anniversary acknowledgment of 8 percent interest, but in one case able 15 percent interest. The activities allegedly began in October 2007 and connected into 2008.

The accompaniment is accusing Winnett of ultimately allegorical those investments into Safe Harbor’s coffer account. At atomic $215,000 of the investors’ money in Safe Harbor’s annual allegedly went to Winnett himself, either as transfers to his claimed annual or through Winnett demography money out as cash. An added $25,000 went to Wright, according to the state.

Egerdal said the identities of the declared victims are not accessible record, although a archetype of the cease-and-desist adjustment articular two of them as seniors who angry over added than $125,500 — their activity accumulation — to Wright for investment. Another victim, articular alone as a 63-year-old Neosho accomplishment worker, reportedly invested about $20,000.

The accompaniment of Oklahoma entered a abiding admonition adjoin Winnett in August 2007 barring him from the auction of any balance in or from Oklahoma for the abutting bristles years.

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Winnett additionally was ordered to pay amends afterwards he acquired added than $800,000 in investments by falsely apery that his “loan costs accumulation plans” were offered with the abetment of a Claremore, Okla., bank, according to annal from the Oklahoma Department of Securities. Those funds were deposited into a non-interest-bearing annual controlled by Winnett, who did not advance the funds and instead spent them primarily for claimed costs either by him or a brace of companies with which he was affiliated.

Winnett, forth with Wright, accustomed Safe Harbor Financial in Neosho not continued afore Winnett agreed to the admonition in Oklahoma, according to Carnahan’s office.

Deadline

The business and the two principals accept 30 canicule to appeal a audition afore the accompaniment abettor of balance and appearance why the penalties should not be assessed, according to the cease-and-desist order.