Kent Lindemuth, who faces 103 counts of bankruptcy fraud for allegedly buying 103 pistols after he filed six petitions of bankruptcy, had thousands more firearms stored in a south Topeka storage site, a document filed Friday in the criminal case shows.

An inventory of the firearms disclosed 2,166 firearms "having a fair market value of more than $1.4 million," the document filed by a federal prosecutor said. That averages a value of $646 per firearm. Lindemuth, 65, is a Topeka property developer.

Existence of the thousands of firearms surfaced in a 37-page prosecution response to Lindemuth motions. Assistant U.S. attorney Richard Hathaway filed the response on Friday. As of Monday, no charges have been filed tied to the 2,166 firearms.

"Litigation consultants were employed by the government to inventory four 10-foot by 10-foot storage units filled with firearms," a footnote in the document said. A report of the inventory was disseminated on Jan. 31 to federal prosecutors and Kevin Babbit, one of two attorneys representing Lindemuth in the federal criminal case.

In the case tied to the 103 counts of bankruptcy fraud in the purchase of the 103 pistols, it is alleged Lindemuth "caused other (people) to conceal by not disclosing all his assets to his bankruptcy attorney and accountant," Hathaway wrote.

"Indeed, the defendant concealed firearms from Mr. Babbit until October of 2016 when Babbit emailed" another message to Hathaway, another footnote in the Hathaway filing on Friday said.

Besides two storage units in South Topeka containing firearms "previously owned or possessed" by Lindemuth, Lindemuth told Babbit on Oct. 14 there were two more storage units in the same facility, Hathaway wrote, quoting the Babbit email.

Babbit responded to prosecutors he and Lindemuth wouldn’t object to an inventory of the four storage units, the Hathaway filing said.

The Hathaway filing didn’t specify what type of firearms were in the four units, including whether they were pistols, rifles, or shotguns, and whether they were bolt action, automatic or semiautomatic firearms.

The 103 bankruptcy fraud charges initially were filed against Lindemuth, but on Dec. 14, the federal grand jury indicted Lindemuth on 12 more federal charges.

They were four more counts of bankruptcy fraud, six counts of money laundering and one count each of receipt of ammunition and receipt of firearms. In all, that totals 115 counts.

Elsewhere in the Hathaway filing, the prosecutor opposed moving the Lindemuth jury trial to the federal court in Kansas City, Kan., rather than trying the defendant in Topeka.

Lindemuth seeks moving the trial based on contentions that there has been "highly critical" newspaper coverage of the defendant and that Topeka residents have developed "extremely negative opinions" concerning Lindemuth and his business operations. Due to news coverage, it would be unlikely that an unbiased jury could be obtained, the defense wrote.

Most of the news coverage focused on the business and personal bankruptcy cases of Lindemuth and his wife, Hathaway said.

No stigma "per se attaches to bankruptcy filings in the modern era because it is so prevalent," Hathaway wrote. The prosecution examined the 10 points a court is to examine to determine whether to transfer a criminal case elsewhere and contended there wouldn’t be a problem for the defense, the prosecution said.

"The defense is only seeking a strategic move, which is not the purpose of a venue change," Hathaway wrote.

Lindemuth defense attorneys earlier have contended their client bought the 103 revolvers with money he thought was exempt from the bankruptcy proceedings. Lindemuth said he wasn’t required to report the pistol purchases because the guns were bought with proceeds from his non-real estate businesses, including the storage and truck rental companies, a defense filing said.

When filing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and while it is pending, a debtor is required to disclose all of his assets to the bankruptcy court so it can be determine whether the assets can be used to reimburse creditors and pay off or reduce the debt, Hathaway wrote.

Other than the value of the 2,166 firearms, cash in Lindemuth accounts in a bank and a credit union, the value of the 103 revolvers, and the value of two high-priced Ford Mustangs total $2.07 million in alleged concealed assets, according to figures in court documents.

Lindemuth’s trial starts on May 9 and will be handled by U.S. Distict Court Judge Daniel Crabtree.

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