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What follows in the below section comes from Season 4 of the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion.
Andy: What is Apollo’s job? Is he a repo man?
Phaedra: No, Apollo is not a repo man. I don’t know how that got started. He’s not a repo man.
Andy: He said it’s asset recovery, but isn’t that—is that what it is?
Phaedra: No, no, no, no, no. We weren’t talking about cars. He was talking about assets as far as recovering monies. People get monfey—I guess…
Andy: Like a bounty hunter?
Phaedra: No, no, no, no. Not like a bounty hunter. Unclaimed monies.
Andy: Like when there’s an ad in the paper that says, “You may have like—“
Phaedra: Yeah. “You might have unclaimed monies… uh… Call us.”
Kandi: Think about all the checks that you never cashed.
Andy: I cash my checks.
Nene: So do I!
Kandi: You know, maybe people got money from like and inheritance that they didn’t know that they had, it’s just sitting somewhere.
Andy: That’s asset recovery?
Phaedra: Well, I guess it’s different types, but that’s what he does.
WHAT HAPPENED
August 2013
Turning things to Gayla St. Julien’s narrative explaining how the business relationship between her and Apollo sprouted, I want to give a quick over-view of the timeline in which these things occurred. In 2009, the same year Apollo was released on his racketeering charges, he and St. Julien collaborated in a fake auto loan scheme in which they would create a fake auto dealership and website for the dealership in order to launder money from individuals and the government. From there, they would open a corporation through the Georgia Secretary of State using the name of the newly created dealership. Finally, St. Julien would apply for fraudulent auto loans in the names of stolen identities that Apollo would acquire. The scheme operated to negotiate stolen retirement and family-care disability and survivorship checks issued to Delta employees and their families. The criminal complaint in paragraph 37 reads, “Nida did all the paperwork to acquire the fraudulent auto loan checks.” St. Julien was simply the executor. This is true given what’s being detailed in criminal complaint against St. Julien, which is a completely different complaint from the one released about Apollo. St. Julien’s complaint, which is basically an ethnography of her yearlong activity, shows that she was simply the executor in the scheme. Sweet baby Jesus.
Apollo owns a business by the name of Reliance Recovery and Collections, a company that is involved in a few fraudulent auto loan payments listed in the complaint. Reliance Recovery and Collections is one of two fake businesses used to access and steal personal identity information. More important, Phaedra Parks is listed as a co-owner on this particular business.
While in custody, St. Julien revealed how she and Apollo were able to apply for fraudulent auto loans through illicit access to LexisNexis, a legal research corporation that provides services to academics and government professionals, and other secured databases, namely Equifax. Through illegitimate use of these services, Apollo and St. Julien acquired stolen retirement checks from Delta Airlines employees and stolen U.S. Treasury checks. What did Apollo and St. Julien pay for? According to St. Julien, she received scraps compared to all the money lining Apollo’s pockets. Her words, not mine. One account named in the criminal complaint suggests that Apollo’s bank account Signature Luxury Imports received deposits from stolen personal identities totaling $277,000. This particular points supports St. Julien’s claim that Apollo was involved in the scheme and, in some ways, suggests that Apollo masterminded it. Another account named in the document is Ferrari Authohaus, Inc., which, when located by the feds, was key to arresting Apollo and demonstrating his direct involvement in all this shit.
Do you remember the Pillow Talk episode of season six of Real Housewives? It was filmed in August. It’s the episode where Kenya’s girlfriend Brandon gets her ass whipped by Apollo. But before the fight, Apollo mentions that he has spent in the upwards of $8,000 in the strip club on women and drinks. Paragraph 57 of the complaint against St. Julien mentions an $8,000 amount withdrawn from a SunTrust Bank and wired from Signature Tax Collections, Inc. to an account called Heritage Recovery. I suspect that St. Julien was to keep $1500 of the $9500 as payment for her diligence, and the $8,000 was wired to Apollo to pay for his ventures down to Blue Flame Gentleman’s Lounge the coming weekend. ‘Cause you know Phaedra wasn’t gone spend a damn dime on those sins.
September 2013
The bank account Ferrari AutoHaus, Inc. sent two wire transfers in the amount of $50,400 to Signature Tax Collections Inc. St. Julien, then, engaged in a phone conversation with Apollo after the money settled into the account. It would be this particular transfer that would legitimate the claims that St. Julien made against Apollo. Why, you may ask? Because the secret services recorded the secret services recorded the damn conversation. Secret agent Mike Paulhaus at the Atlanta Field Office listened and recorded the conversation himself. While on the phone with St. Julien, Apollo had thoroughly discussed the details of pending fraudulent auto loans (the $50,000) he had recently received from Roadloans.com and Ferrari Autohaus, Inc. Apollo and St. Julien agreed to meet with one another at a familiar store parking lot (Footlocker or Wal-Mart maybe) in Atlanta later on that afternoon. He had intended to provide his right hand bitch with debit card information to the account Ferrari Autohaus, Inc. so that she could withdraw cold, hard cash from the ATM and simultaneously verify the bank account was open and active. In this way, Apollo would ensure that the account was prepared for the next large sum deposit.
September 13, 2013
Before the attempt to ambush Apollo, the US Secret Service obtained a federal search warrant for Apollo Nida and the vehicle he would arrive in, a white 4-door BMW. It’s important to note that Apollo, unlike most black men in Atlanta, was not driving his wife’s car or his homeboy’s; it was his own personal vehicle. With recorded evidence of Apollo working with St. Julien, the USSS was more than adequately prepared to confront Apollo and dismantle his auto loan fraud system. When Apollo arrived to the store parking lot, he did not meet St. Julien. Instead, Apollo reached his destination and met with the USSS; he was read his Miranda Rights by Paulhaus and questioned about his fraudulent schemes through an interview. Regardless of his responses to the questions, the feds seized his cellphones, laptop computer, and a bank debit card in the name of Ferrari Autohaus, Inc. These items were seized as evidence to help the government build their case against Apollo. The laptop is key to convicting Apollo and finding him guilty of these charges.
Apollo’s computer is filled with over one thousand different items that strongly suggest St. Julien was being honest about her partnership with Apollo. Included Apollo’s laptop are Equifax and LexisNexis reports, the address to his asset recovery company located in Jonesboro, GA, loan documents and banks staments from Roadloans andWells Fargo, and two fake driver licenses of St. Julien with misappropriate names. The most important document of interest is a word processing document with instructions to “CASH OUT !!!!” with bank account information linked to the Ferrari Autohaus, Inc. account.
Phaedra’s high-powered attorneys helping her in the Angela Stanton trial dropped her case exactly two weeks later (September 27, 2013). But, it’s important to note that a written request to withdraw was sent via postal mail and e-mail to Phaedra 10 days before (September 17, 2013) the actual paperwork to drop her as a client was filed and approved.
Apollo’s is set to meet in downtown Atlanta for his preliminary hearing on February 12, 2014.
