Real estate developer Kent Lindemuth wants federal trial moved to Kansas City

Real estate developer Kent Douglas Lindemuth is seeking a court order to move his U.S. District Court trial from a Topeka courtroom to a federal courtroom in Kansas City, Kan.

As a real estate owner and businessman, who filed bankruptcy in 2012, Lindemuth has “constantly been in the news” with much of the coverage being “highly critical of him” and creating “extremely negative opinions” of him and his business operations, Lindemuth attorneys said in the motion to move the trial filed this week.

In a flurry of other motions filed this week Lindemuth attorneys Kevin Babbit and William Skepnek also sought dismissal of 113 of the 115 criminal charges filed against him and trying the remaining two counts apart from the rest of the case.

Lindemuth, 65, is charged with 107 counts of bankruptcy fraud, six counts of money laundering and one count each of receipt of ammunition and receipt of firearms, the latter while Lindemuth remained under indictment.

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