Affidavit: Donisthorpe´s wife moved to protect assets
(WorldNews Mexico)

Federal authorities contend that about $100,000 in Desert State client funds were used in that Athens Ranch purchase in 2011. The FBI also alleges that client funds helped pay for Desert State’s Albuquerque office building and a “luxury lodge� in Angel Fire, which was put up for sale below appraised value in recent months. Liane Kerr, criminal defense attorney and ex-wife of Desert State CEO Paul Donisthorpe, at a change-in-venue hearing in April. (Joshua Bachman/Las Cruces Sun-News) The divorce of Donisthorpe and Liane Kerr, was meanwhile, completed last week in District Court in Sandoval County. Their settlement agreement made scant mention of Desert State, which...