Several indicted in fraudulent will case
A second indictment has been unsealed in an Arkansas federal court involving the survivor of an oil rig explosion and an allegedly fraudulent will.
Donna Christina Peterson Herring, of Camden, Ark., was initially indicted by a federal grand jury in November for allegedly creating a fake will leaving the estate of Matthew Seth Jacobs, who received a large settlement after being injured in the 2010 explosion of Deep Water Horizon oil rig, to her daughter, Jordan Alexandra Peterson, who goes by Alex. While Herring was the only defendant named in the November indictment in an El Dorado federal court, search warrant documents filed in a Texarkana federal court and a civil lawsuit filed in Ouachita County, Ark., Circuit Court implicate Alexandra Peterson and Herring's sister and brother-in-law, Marion Diane Kinley, who goes by Diane, and John Wayne Kinley Jr., in a conspiracy to defraud Jacobs' rightful heir, a son who was 17 when Jacobs died, of all but $50,000 of an estate worth nearly $2 million.
A superseding indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses Herring, Peterson, Diane Kinley and John Kinley of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The second count of the indictment alleges Herring, Diane Kinley and John Kinley committed wire fraud. Count three accuses Herring, Diane Kinley and John Kinley of aggravated identity theft and count four accuses Herring of money laundering.
In May 2012, Jacobs used a Century 21 real estate agency in Camden, Ark., to help him purchase a home and several investment properties. It was through the real estate agency that Jacobs became acquainted with Donna Peterson Herring, a real estate agent who assisted in Jacobs' purchase of a home just a few blocks from her own.
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