Kendra Bernal Sentencing Postponed Until Feb 3rd .

BERNAL , KENDRA AMELIA Report and Sentencing
02/03/2005 AT 8:30 AM DEPT. 64 ACTIVE RCDA
SPS0204056 11/12/2001 PC 487(A) 11/12/2001
Case RIF103811 Defendant 75187 - BERNAL, KENDRA AMELIA

Custody N/A

Filing Type Certified to Superior Filing Date 05/31/2002
Ordered Bail $0.00 Posted Bail $0.00
D.A. S. Counelis Defense PVT-T. Wagner
Next Action: Report and Sentencing
02/03/2005 AT 8:30 AM DEPT. 64 Deputy Report

Many leasing brokers lost their commissions, their clients, their vendors, and one popular attorney never got paid for representing the woman with a conviction record as long as his arm. Leasing News sent out many alerts and posted complaints until she was arrested, and then later her company reportedly driven from Nevada by the AG who reportedly said to her former company, “We don‘t want California problems moving to our state! “

This is the fourth postponement of the sentencing of Kendra Bernal, now scheduled for February 3, in Superior Court, Riverside, California. Some how she found a job working for the State of Utah working on tracking those with inheritances and lost in the system. When her California employer learned of her background, not on her application, plus reportedly involved in several questionable activities, the employer dismissed her, telling Leasing News they have filed a grievance with the Riverside district attorney's office.

After working with Growth 1, she set up two companies in Southern California, then when the State of California Department of Corporations closed her down (she had a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was on parole, and no Finance Lender's License.) This is an example of a company working without a California Finance Lender's license where those involved lost their recourse to lessee's on transactions put together or half-put together as they leases were considered “finance” and usurious because the originator was no licensed.

The company acquired a new “president,” apparently in name only, then moved the operation to Nevada. The Nevada Attorney General caught on pretty quickly, reportedly catching the company engaging in the same practices here in California: collecting advance rentals, but not funding leases. He told us off the record, “ I don't want any of these California leasing companies operating in my state. Tell your readers these type of people may operate in your state, but not ours.”

Her own attorney, active is several equipment leasing associations, was stiffed by her for $15,000 in non-payment for defending her. When the well-known leasing industry attorney complained to the judge about the money owed, he instructed him to continue in her defense on this case without pay. Later he was able to excuse himself from representation for reasons of “prejudice because he had not been paid for neither costs nor his time.”

He normally gets a retainer, but she was so good at postponing
the money, he was deep in time in the case until he began to
realize he was never going to get paid or reimbursed for
the costs involved. He became another one of her “victims.”
Here is what she is being sentence for this time:

http://www.leasingnews.org/PDF/Bernal.pdf

Here is her public criminal history:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/kendra.htm

Here are a four year collection of news stories about Kendra Bernal and the Funding Tree:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/
Funding_Tree-Kendra_Bernal-main.htm