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Suit: Scam aimed to buy into Wild; Trevor Cook claims ex-associate Bo Beckman tried to finesse a $2.6 million mansion out from under him.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 17-OCT-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Suit: Scam aimed to buy into Wild; Trevor Cook claims ex-associate Bo Beckman tried to finesse a $2.6 million mansion out from under him.(NEWS)

Article Excerpt
Byline: DAN BROWNING; STAFF WRITER

Call it the legal equivalent of a hip check.

A Minneapolis money manager at the center of a federal grand jury investigation into a currency investment program has accused his former business associate of trying to fraudulently claim ownership of the historic Van Dusen mansion in an effort to buy into the Minnesota Wild hockey team.

Trevor Cook said in a filing in Hennepin County District Court on Thursday that the former associate, Bo Beckman, had phony property records prepared to make it look like he owned the multimillion-dollar mansion just south of downtown Minneapolis to "inflate the value of his personal balance sheet" as he tried to buy into the Wild.

Beckman, who played hockey for the U.S. Air Force Academy and the University of Vermont, adamantly denied the allegation through his attorneys.

"Desperate people do, and say, desperate things," Beckman attorney Andrew Luger said in a prepared statement. "In my experience, people faced with the type of allegations made against Mr. Cook (including...

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