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From fighting to possible felonies...the Bravo curse has hit Real Housewives of Atlanta hard. The off camera shenanigans seem to be more dramatic than anything that has been taped. I know people love money, but when a person's value and self-worth are intrinsically tied to their networth...you will see all types of deviance come forth.

When news hit that Phaedra Parks's husband, Apollo Nida, was arrested, tongues wagged. Including my own...but it was not shock or disbelief on my end. I was disappointed and concerned. Everybody knows I go hard in upholding the value of brothas. Apollo is a husband and father to two sons. IF he is the mastermind of this scheme...he could have utilized his talents to work a business that would not land him in prison away from his family.

The scheme he is under suspicion for is elaborate, as detailed in this blog post  from www.straightfromthea.com:

36. ST JULIEN also admitted to using UPS mailboxes with some of these names in the scheme as well. ST JULIEN said that she used the stolen identity of Karen K. as well, and pointed to a signature from one of the fraudulent bank accounts, Signature Luxury Imports, and said that was me. ST JULIEN said that she opened and operated the Signature Luxury Imports, Bynum Financial, and Reliance Financial Tax Group bank accounts under NIDA’s direction. ST JULIEN said that she deposited and withdrew the funds from several auto loan checks that were provided to her by NIDA. ST JULIEN said that NIDA did all the paperwork to acquire the fraud auto loan checks, and that her role was only the executor. ST JULIEN described herself as NIDA’s “right hand b****” in executing the legwork of his fraud schemes.
37. According to ST JULIEN, the two locations NIDA used as fake business addresses to set up and gain access to the databases were on: 1) Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Norcross; and 2) Arrowhead Road in Jonesboro. ST JULIEN said she was familiar with Onyx being the business name NIDA used to set up and gain LexisNexis access when they were first introduced four years ago. ST JULIEN said that Reliance Recovery, at the Jonesboro address, was the other business name that NIDA used to gain database access.
38. ST JULIEN said that the last time she met with NIDA was the previous Friday, September 6, 2013 at a Kroger parking lot near Stewart Ave. in Atlanta. ST JULIEN showed us a picture on her cell phone that she took while meeting with NIDA recently. The picture showed NIDA putting gasoline into a new white 4-door BMW, that she said was his car. ST JULIEN said that at that meeting, she gave him $5,000.00 in cash from a bank account called Ferrari Autohaus with Wells Fargo. ST JULIEN said that NIDA provided her with the fake ID and bank card, and he gave her instructions to withdraw cash from the account to give to him.
39. According to ST JULIEN, NIDA only paid her “scraps” for her work, compared to the amount of money he made from the fraud schemes.
40. As described by ST JULIEN, the scheme begins with NIDA obtaining identities through his access to LexisNexis and other databases under the business name Onyx Collections & Locators. NIDA would then provide ST JULIEN with fake driver’s licenses with her photo and the personal identifying information of the individuals he illicitly obtained from the databases. NIDA would then provide the fake ID’s to ST JULIEN with instructions to open and operate fraudulent bank accounts. NIDA would provide ST JULIEN with the fake business name and the stolen identity to be used, along with the corresponding necessary documents including State of Georgia Secretary of State paperwork and the fake ID to be able to open the bank accounts. NIDA would then provide ST JULIEN with the items to be deposited which included fraudulent auto loan checks, stolen U.S. Treasury checks, stolen retirement checks issued to Delta Airlines employees, and checks in the names of real people that were owed unclaimed property from various state and federal government agencies. The following are some of the fraudulent bank accounts discovered in this investigation that included items from the above scheme types.
41. Signature Luxury Imports, listed in paragraph 17, is one of the bank accounts used in NIDA’s scheme to negotiate fraudulent auto loan checks. Five (5) fraudulent auto loans, issued in the names of stolen personal identities, were deposited into this account for a total of $277,000.00.
42. North Point Volvo Inc., listed in paragraph 15, is one of the bank accounts used in NIDA’s scheme to negotiate stolen U.S. Treasury checks. Twenty-two (22) stolen U.S. Treasury checks that were issued to individuals and businesses as tax refunds were deposited into this
bank account for a total of $271,165.02.
43. Bynum Financial Inc., listed in paragraph 13, is one of the bank accounts used in NIDA’s scheme to negotiate stolen retirement and family-care disability and survivorship checks issued to Delta Airlines employees and families. Five (5) of these checks for a total of $I 0,407.81 were deposited into this bank account, in addition to other funds which appear to have been laundered from other accounts.
44. Universal Tax Group Inc., listed in paragraph 19, is one of the bank accounts used in NIDA ‘s scheme to negotiate unclaimed property checks. Two (2) checks that were issued in the names of individuals that were owed unclaimed property by the State of California were deposited into this account for a total of $15,778.70, in addition to other funds which appear to have been laundered from other accounts.
45. ST JULIEN explained that a preferred scheme of NIDA that has continued since she started working with him in 2009, was to start a fake auto dealership, including having a website created for the fake dealership, opening a corporation through the Georgia Secretary of State in the fake dealership name, and applying for fraudulent auto loans in the names of stolen identities that NIDA acquired through the illicit access to LexisNexis and other databases. Then, NIDA would instruct ST JULIEN to open a bank account in the name of the fake dealership with a stolen identity and a fake ID provided to her by NIDA. Finally, when NIDA received the fraudulent auto loan checks in the mail, he would provide them to ST JULIEN and instruct her to negotiate them through the bank account and withdraw the funds.
46. According to ST JULIEN, one of the current fake dealerships that NIDA was using to obtain fraudulent auto loans was called Ferrari Autohaus.
47. In August of 2013, your affiant was aware of a bank account at Wells Fargo in the name of Ferrari Autohaus Inc. The bank account Signature Tax Collections Inc. at SunTrust Bank, listed in paragraph 18, had received two wire transfers from a bank account at Wells Fargo in the name of Ferrari Autohaus Inc. in July and August of 2013. The first wire transfer was in the amount of $25,000.00 and the next wire transfer was in the amount of $25,400.00.
48. During the recorded phone calls ST JULIEN made to NIDA, monitored by your affiant and SA Mike Paulhus at the Atlanta Field Office, NIDA discussed details of pending fraudulent auto loans that he had received recently through Ferrari Autohaus, auto lenders including Roadloans.com, and details of future auto loan checks that he was expecting to receive any day now from in the mail.
49. On 09/13/13, ST JULIEN and NIDA, during a recorded phone call, arranged to meet at a familiar store parking lot in Atlanta that afternoon. The meeting was arranged so that NIDA could provide ST JULIEN with the bank debit card to the account Ferrari Autohaus Inc., and ST JULIEN would then go to an ATM to withdraw some cash to confirm the bank account is still open. NIDA wanted to make sure the account was still in good standing before the next fraudulent auto loan check was deposited into it.
50. Your affiant obtained a federal search warrant for NIDA and his vehicle, and agents of the USSS executed the search warrant that afternoon at the store parking lot where ST JULIEN and NIDA arranged to meet. USSS agents seized several items of evidence, including a bank debit card in the name of Ferrari Autohaus Inc., cell phones, and a laptop computer used by NIDA in furtherance of his fraudulent schemes. NIDA was interviewed by your affiant and SA Mike Paulhus, post Miranda Rights Warning and Waiver, during the search warrant. During the interview, NIDA admitted to ownership of the laptop computer that was seized as evidence.
51. The laptop computer seized from NIDA was forensically examined by the USSS at the Atlanta Field Office. SA Alan Davis, Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program certified examiner, created an initial examination report with the results of his findings. The results of the initial report contained more than a thousand items of evidentiary interest including copies of fake driver’s licenses with the photo of ST JULIEN and the information of stolen identities that have been used in the scheme investigated by your affiant. Other findings include the following:
• Reports from Equifax, Microbilt, and LexisNexis databases were located on the computer that included personal identifying information of dozens of individua ls, some of which were known victims discovered previously in your affiant’s investigation.
• An image of a handwritten paper with the address of 217 Arrowhead Blvd. in Jonesboro, GA was located on the computer (address for Reliance Recovery where the GOCP conducted the undercover operation against ST JULIEN).
• A copy of a $40,000.00 auto loan check issued to Goodwin Automall Inc. was located on the computer.
• Wells Fargo bank account documents including statements and account information for Signature Tax Collection, Inc., Ferrari Autohaus Inc., and Randall M.
• A loan approval document, dated 08/26/13, from Roadloans.com for Katrina H. for the amount of $38,684.51.
• A copy of a State of Georgia used auto dealer license for Upstate Automotive Group Inc. in the name of April T.
• Copies of buyer’s order forms for North Point Volvo and Goodwin Automall.
• Copies of several fake driver’s licenses (2 with photos of ST JULIEN , one of which was in the name Tamai R.)
• An Equifax report with the personal identifying information of Molly P.
• A LexisNexis report with the personal identifying information of Angie R-C and Stephen C.
• A word processing document with apparent instructions to “CASH OUT !!!!”, followed with SunTrust bank account information for Ferrari Autohaus and Wells Fargo bank information for Euro Autosport, as well as bank information for other entities, including online account logins and passwords, and account numbers .
I'm struck by the use of LexisNexis. I didn't realize it was used by people other than those who work in the legal field.

Also, Apollo tweeted out that this all happened in 2008, when he was still imprisoned. Clearly this occurred after he was released.

I feel for the people whose identities were stolen.

When this all unravels...more people will be entangled...at it is sad. Apollo is no dummy...and Phaedra may not be the wearer of the pants in that family like they have led audiences to believe.  This is all crazy...

  1. Jan 25
    Holy shit! Bloggers time for an update
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  2. Jan 25
    Many thanks; but, was sifting through documents for hours! was on Feds radar since 2008:
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  3. Jan 25
    Dumb Azz I wasn't home in 2008
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