He hired Tommy Burns to kill his show jumper Charisma in 1990 and was
eventually convicted of three counts of wire fraud a federal offense. I knew
him a little from "A" shows back in the day. Rich jerk that was the Cell One
heir he hired Burns and he electrocuted Charisma in its stall. The insurance
fraud was for 250K Finally, it was generally known at Cellular Farms that
both Lyman Whitehead and Molly Ash had ridden Charisma in competitions.
However, after Lindemann filed the insurance claim for Charisma's death, he
specifically told Reed and another employee to lie to the insurance
investigators by telling them that Lindemann and his sister were the only
people who had ridden Charisma. Lindemann then told the investigators the
same thing.

Charisma was a wonderful horse and had the basic talent to be as good as any
out there. Not the same horse that won a gold medal for New Zealand in 3 day
Olympics.

The sad thing is this happens every day. Lindemann was just greedy and
stupid thus got caught.




Tommy Crockett, loan officer
Mortgage America Reno, Nv
775-825-4008
www.MORTGAGERENO.COM
>
> "Please consider signing our petiton opposing reinstatement of U.S.
> Equestrian Federation membership privileges to the members who were
> suspended in 1996 for killing show horses in order to collect on their
> insurance policies. This petition will be sent to the FEI as well as USEF
> and the US Olympic Committee, so even if you are not a US resident, know
> that signatures from members of all FEI affiliates are very important.
>
> For those who may not be familiar with the case, here is some background:
>
> In 1996, the American Horse Shows Association ("AHSA"), predecessor in
> interest to the United States Equestrian Federation ("USEF"), the USA's
> national governing body for equestrian sport, suspended nine (9) of its
> members for varying lengths of time as a result of said members'
> conviction
> on various counts of fraud and conspiracy.
>
> Most, if not all of those suspended, had either killed horses, caused
> horses
> to be killed, or conspired with others for horses to be killed in attempts
> to defraud insurance companies. Most of the horses were electrocuted by
> inserting a clip into their anuses. One horse was killed by breaking its
> legs with a crowbar. The responsible co-conspirators have become
> colloquially known in the equestrian sports field as "the horse-killers".
>
> The complete list of USEF "horse-killers", together with the terms of
> their respective suspensions, can be found in a report of