The Tabloid Edition

You’ve heard the tale of Kouri Richins? She’s the skeevy real estate agent and predatory house flipper whose business was going down the toilet. She was close to $2mil in debt on the day her husband died (with a big assist).

Unless you’re a Musk or a Bezos, that’s a wickedly worrisome amount of dough to owe – ya know, to say the very least. Girl seemed to have a real Trumpian head for business but lacked the financial luck of having a rich, slimy, KKK father, the NYC mob, and Russian oligarchs on speed dial. How unlucky for Eric Richins.

One of the things that stands out to me, before they got married in June of 2013, they signed a prenuptial agreement. Eric held 50% interest in C&E Stone Masonry. The prenup, amongst other things, specifically stipulated that in the event of divorce his share in the business would remain solely in his possession. He went even farther, noting that, in the event of his death, his share of the biz would not go to Kouri. Interesting, no?

Sounds like Eric definitely did NOT trust Kouri from the get-go and rightly so. Why did he even consider marrying her then? Maybe it's just me – I know I totally have trust issues – but I def would have made different choices.

In 2019 she somehow “borrowed” $250Gs from one of Eric’s accounts. They were just six years into the marriage. Eric met with a divorce lawyer and an estate planner.

In October of 2020 he had the little thief removed as beneficiary of his $500,000 life insurance policy. He also created the Eric Richins Living Trust so his estate and business would be under the control of one of his sisters with all money going to his three kids.

Good thing he did that but, given the obvious rising levels of distrust, why not a physical separation too? I know, I know, hindsight is always crisp and crystal clear.

More financial shenanigans

• June 29, 2021: To obtain a loan, prosecutors say, Richins submitted a falsified bank statement to a financial institution using balance details and transaction descriptions from her husband’s company. When a bank representative flagged that her credit appeared lower than expected, she said she was in the “process of separation” from her husband, documents state. 
• Aug. 2, 2021: Richins submitted another falsified bank statement to another financial institution to obtain a loan, according to charging documents.
• Jan. 29, 2022: Richins applied for a life insurance policy for Eric and named herself as the beneficiary, according to charging documents. Eric had “no affiliation with this account,” and his signature on the application is a forgery, prosecutors say. (source) 

AND, in 2020, while Kouri’s out flipping houses, she started an affair with one of her employees – Robert “Josh” Grossman. She’d been married to Eric for about six and a half years. Their youngest of three children was three-years-old.

It seems Eric didn’t tell Kouri that he put everything – his money, the business, AND the house they lived in – into a trust with one Eric’s sisters as trustee. On March 6th of ’22 Kouri assaulted another of Eric’s sisters, Amy Richins, in an argument about the house/trust issue. This was just a month after her first failed attempt to poison Eric (the old poison sammich trick) and a few months before the overkill five-times-the-lethal-dose poisoned lemon drop and Moscow Mule execution.

Kouri – NOT a bright murderer. I mean, bitch totally left a mile wide trail of breadcrumbs and put neon lights around herself.

• April 16, 2022: Prosecutors said that by April 16, Richins had used a cellphone to research “what happens to deleted messages,” “how do police and forensic analysts recover deleted data from phones,” and “signs of being under federal investigation.” She had also read an article titled “cause of death usually does not impact life insurance payment,” according to the charging documents.
• June 6, 2022: By June 6, Richins used the same cellphone to research “what is a lethal dose of fentanyl,” and “how long do life insurance companies take to pay,” among other things, charging documents state. (source) 

I only mention it but this, at right, is Kouri’s former attorney Skye Lazaro (GREAT name!). Does she look like a Disney villain or what?!!! Honestly, found with a bloody machete in my grip, I’d have full confidence of being found innocent of slaughtering a city full of baby kittens and puppies as long as this woman was defending me. She just looks THAT competent, capable, and dynamic. Also viciously focused. Admirable qualities in a defense lawyer (as long as you’re one of the the good guys).

Why is Ms. Lazaro her former lawyer? Because Lazaro's firm, Ray Quinney & Nebeker, withdrew from her case citing “an irreconcilable and nonwaivable situation.” I don’t know what that means but I’m guessing it translates as:

“She’s totally guilty. Losing this case will make us look bad. Winning this case would make us look worse. We quit."

Kouri was instead repped by a couple of public defenders. She's been sentenced to life without parole. Could be worse – she could have been sentenced to share a cell with Diaper Don or some other billionaire narcissist who thinks he’s god.