Roswell escrow manager to be sentenced for fraud scheme

Date: July 17, 2024

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ALBUQUERQUE - Former Roswell escrow company owner Christopher Adam Jensen-Tanner of Roswell, is scheduled to be sentenced for wire fraud on July 25, 2024, at 10:15 AM in Las Cruces.

In his plea agreement, Jensen-Tanner admitted that from January 2017 through October 2019, while owning and operating Roswell Escrow Services, Inc., he knowingly engaged in a scheme to defraud clients and obtain money through false representations. RES's business involved holding clients' funds for 1031 exchanges and servicing real estate contracts.

Jensen-Tanner made material misrepresentations to his clients about how these funds would be held or spent. Instead, on numerous occasions Jensen-Tanner used the funds for personal purposes.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico are seeking individuals who may have been victims of a wire fraud scheme involving Jensen-Tanner and Roswell Escrow Services, Inc. (RES) between January 2017 and October 2019.

The Roswell Division of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS CI) and the FBI investigated this case with assistance from the Securities and Financial Institutions Divisions of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department. Assistant United States Attorneys Ry Ellison and Richard Williams are prosecuting the case.

CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.