Vanguard Financial Service Corp. v. Johnson

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ROVNER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Vanguard Financial Service Corporation (“Vanguard”) has sued the twenty-two defendants in this case on claims of breach of contract, fraud, and racketeering arising from office equipment leases into which Vanguard entered with eight churches in Dallas, Texas. The defendants include the churches, the church officials who executed the leases, the independent contractor who supplied the office equipment, and four lending officers who allegedly supplied false credit references to Vanguard on behalf of the churches. All of…