ZUMA Press Denny Hecker Defense lawyers for Denny Hecker – the man who’s been accused of defrauding lenders out of millions of dollars to fund his lavish lifestyle – have resigned because he can’t foot their bills. Simultaneously facing a bankruptcy proceeding to address a $700 million-plus debt load as well as criminal charges of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering, the Minnesota businessman must employ bankruptcy and criminal defense attorneys. But the latter, Bill Mauzy and Marsh Halberg, on Friday asked a federal judge to remove them from Hecker’s criminal case. “I don’t have the money, so they both resigned,” Hecker told the Minneapolis Star Tribune . “I will have to get a public defender. I have no money. Absolutely zero. If I had money stashed or if I had a lavish lifestyle, I would not have lost Mauzy.” If Hecker gets a public defender, he’ll find himself in the same shoes as girlfriend Christi Rowan. Hecker said Rowan has had to obtain such an attorney after receiving notice that she’s now a target of the federal government’s investigation into fraud scheme Hecker’s alleged to have run, to which he’s pleaded not guilty . Hecker, the former owner of more than two dozen car dealerships and the Advantage Rent A Car chain, had recently asked the state judge handling his divorce to help him with his legal bills by returning to him $100,000 of the $125,000 he was ordered to pay ex-wife Tamitha, which the judge denied. “Tamitha and [the judge] thought we were kidding,” Hecker told the Star Tribune. Hecker had also turned to his friends for cash, but he said they turned him down because they were afraid of angering his ex.
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Hecker’s Defense Attorneys Resign