Denver Large, former owner of Mississippi Pines RV park
in Mississippi, was sued by the State of Mississippi for the Sale
of Unregistered Securities, Security Fraud by Misrepresentation,
and Violation of the Mississippi RICO Act. The Court found him
guilty in an order signed March 9, 2001.Mr. Large was sentenced
to serve a term of one (1) year in the custody of the Mississippi
Department of Corrections on each Count of the indictment (for
a total of 78 years), and pay restitution totaling $562,000.00,
to the his victims, or their estates if they are deceased and
pay all Court costs.The entire period of incarceration SUSPENDED
pending successful completion of a probationary period of five
(5) years. Any period of incarceration is to be served under
the provisions of Mississippi Code Section 47-5-138.Any period
of incarceration that is suspended is to be served under the following
terms and conditions:
(a) Commit no offense against the laws of this
or any other state of the United States, or the laws of the
United States;
(b) Avoid injurious or vicious habits and persons
and places of disreputable or harmful character;
(c) Report to the Mississippi Department of Corrections
as directed by it;
(d) Permit the Field Supervisor (Probation officer)
to visit the defendant at home or elsewhere;
(e) Work faithfully at suitable employment so
far as possible;
(f) Remain within a specified area, to-wit: State
of Mississippi and the United States of America, unless accepted
for supervision by another state and/or approved by the Mississippi
Department of Corrections;
(g) Support his dependents, if any;
(h) Possess or consume no alcholic beverages or
mood altering drugs, and possess no firearm or other deadly
weapon;
(i) Pay reuired fee during each month of probation,
by money order, to the Mississippi Department of Corrections;
(j) Submit, as provided in Section 47-5-603 of the
Mississippi Code of 1972, or applicable statutes of other
state where he may be transferred for supervision, to any
type of breath, saliva, or urine chemical analysis test, the
purpose of which is to detect the possible presence of alcohol
or substance prohibited or controlled by any law of the State
of Mississippi or the United States, or to tests recommended
by the defendant's Probation Officer;
(k) Participate in any recognized program available
and recommended by his Field Officer;
(l) Defendant shall pay his restitution and costs,
as set out above at the rate of $5,000.00 per month for 12
months beginning thirty (30) days after sentencing and one
final or 13th payment of the balance of the restitution set
out herein above or $ 502,000.00, the total restitution ordered
herein being $562,000,00. It be the order of the Court that
the entire amount of restitution be paid within 13 months
of sentencing, All cost and restitution payments are to be
made through the Office of the Circuit Clerk of Pearl River
County Mississippi. The defendant has agreed not to and the
court orders that he shall not file bankruptcy or take any
other action which would hinder or prevent the payment of
the above stated and ordered restitution payments. The Court
orders that a copy of this order of Conviction shall be placed
among the Land Records of the Chancery Clerk of Pearl River
County Mississippi to evidence that the defendant has agreed
that the ordered restitution and that the copy of this order
constitutes a lien on any real property or personal property
owned by the defendant in this county and the proceeds therefrom
and further that the lien shall apply to any real property,
personal property, funds, or other proceeds due to the defendant
from the pending bankruptcy in Texas which concerns the Mississippi
Pines property. The Court would not have suspended the defendant's
prison sentence except for there presentation of the defendant
that he could pay the restitution asset out herein and the
defendants agreement and his acknowledgment that inability
to pay the restitution set out herein above would not be reason
or defense or excuse not to revoke the defendants sentence
herein and that he waived any such defense or excuse against
revocation in this matter;
(m) Defendant shall not be out in the public
after the hours of 11 o'clock p.m. through 6 o'clock a.m.,
unless it pertains to his employment.
(n) Defendant shall not engage in the sale of
securities or real property or time shares or other interests
in real property except what may be needed to carry out this
court order.
The violation of any one of the above enumerated conditions
shall violate the terms and conditions of the defendant's Probation
and the Court shall have the authority to revoke the
defendant from Probation and remand the defendant into the custody
of the Mississippi Department of Corrections to serve all of the
remaining years left on the defendant's seventy eight (78) year
sentence.
SO ORDERED AND ADJUDGED on this the 9th day of March,
2001.
