A former John Kerry staffer was arrested on Nantucket late Friday morning for allegedly writing a foul examine to a on line casino for $1.5 million, simply sooner or later after his island mansion was offered at a foreclosures public sale.
Daniel Burrell was wished by regulation enforcement authorities in Colorado and Nevada after writing a $1.5 million examine that bounced at a Las Vegas on line casino, the Nantucket Present reported.
The arrest comes sooner or later after Burrell’s island property was offered at a foreclosures public sale for $12.52 million.
Burrell beforehand had warrants out for his arrest in Pitkin County, Colorado, the outlet reported, for allegedly defaulting on over $75 million in financial institution loans he used to repay divorce funds, purchase a yacht and buy luxurious properties.
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Daniel Burrell is escorted from Nantucket District Court docket by the Nantucket Sheriff’s Workplace in Massachusetts on Friday, September 20, 2024. Burrell was arrested on Nantucket late Friday morning on a warrant out of Las Vegas, the place he’s alleged to have written a foul examine to a on line casino for $1.5 million. (Jason Graziadei/Nantucket Present)
This arrest is the most recent in quite a few authorized troubles for Burrell, who served within the Clinton administration as a member of its Home Coverage Council from 2000 to 2001.Â
Burrell’s ties to Kerry embrace serving as a marketing campaign finance assistant to the previous U.S. Senator and Secretary of State throughout his presidential marketing campaign in 2004. He as soon as described Kerry as “an unbelievable mentor,” the Present reported.Â
“Dan was a younger faculty graduate employed as a marketing campaign finance assistant and in the end completed the 2004 marketing campaign as a regional finance staffer in California, earlier than heading to regulation college and beginning his personal skilled ventures,” a supply near Kerry instructed Fox Information Digital.
Final November, Burrell was sued by First Western Financial institution for allegedly defaulting on $56 million in enterprise and building loans. Then in April 2024, Alpine Financial institution launched authorized motion, in response to the Present, which alleged he owed $18 million on an $18.5 million mortgage. A web based foreclosures public sale was held for one among Burrell’s Aspen, Colorado, estates after he used it as collateral in opposition to the mortgage, which allowed the financial institution to accumulate the property for $24.6 million.
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Daniel Burrell beforehand had warrants out for his arrest in Pitkin County, Colorado, for allegedly defaulting on over $75 million in financial institution loans he used to repay divorce funds, purchase a yacht and buy luxurious properties. (Paul E. Saperstein Co. Auctioneers and Appraisers)
A spokesperson for Kerry issued a press release to Fox Information Digital on his behalf stating that “we hope that Dan and his household discover peace and therapeutic.”Â
Burrell is the founding father of the Burrell Group, an funding administration firm specializing in business places of work, multi-family, medical amenities, and pupil housing, in response to the corporate’s LinkedIn web page.Â
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Burrell’s on line casino debt case has been assigned to Las Vegas Justice Court docket and can be heard both Monday or Tuesday, in response to his lawyer, Andrew Frtiz. Burrell was unable to instantly present the $10,000 bail set by the decide in Nantucket and was held in a single day on the Nantucket Police Division, in response to the Present.
“My understanding is he was picked up right this moment on an arrest warrant out of Nevada the place he’s owing cash, presumably on these on line casino markers, to a on line casino in Las Vegas, Nevada,” Fritz instructed the Present on the time.
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Previous to Friday’s arrest, the Present reported Burrell was entangled in different authorized points on Nantucket over the summer season, starting from a petty theft cost to a dispute with a small enterprise property supervisor on the island.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Nantucket County Sherriff’s Division for remark, however has not but heard again.
