Additional counterclaim filed in Mark Hanna court saga

Former Directors Mortgage coworkers Mark Hanna and Anthony Levrets, who filed lawsuits against each other in late 2023 and early 2024, have now also filed counterclaims to each other’s lawsuits.

The Review reported last week that Hanna, the company’s CEO, had filed a counterclaim this month to Levrets’ lawsuit, which alleged that Hanna had had tried to sexually groom his 16-year-old daughter (who served as a company intern) and the company fired him for reporting this misconduct. Meanwhile, Hanna and Directors Mortgage have their own lawsuit against Levrets and his new company KneXas, claiming that Levrets used company funds and time as he was working to start the new company.

Levrets filed a counterclaim to that lawsuit in Clackamas County Circuit Court April 4. The counterclaim alleges that Hanna and Directors Mortgage wrongly recorded a $390,000 promissory note they provided to Levrets as an employer grant to sell a mortgage to Chase Bank. Levrets had closed on a $1.9 million home loan with Hanna listed as an originator.

Further, the claim posits that Hanna and Directors Mortgage “unexpectedly” attached Levrets’ property to the promissory note and sent monthly invoices to Levrets in the form of mortgage payments on Levrets’ home and misrepresented the promissory note as a lien on his property.

Levrets asks in the counterclaim for $390,000 in damages and for the promissory note to be null and void.

“Directors’ actions in filing the present litigation in Washington County, Oregon and attaching the promissory note as a lien on Mr. Levrets’ Property in October 2022 represent deceptive and or fraudulent lending services and practices. Directors and Hanna caused confusion regarding their lending services when they then filed a deed of trust associated with the Promissory Note eight months after they made the representation that the $390,000.00 to Mr. Levrets was an employer grant. Accordingly, Directors’ and Hanna’s violations were willful as that term is defined under ORS 646.605(10),” the counterclaim reads.

Levrets’ counterclaim does not address Hanna’s allegations, however.

In Hanna’s counterclaim reported last week, Hanna and Directors Mortgage alleged that Levrets had tried to extort Hanna after having financial difficulties and receiving a loan from Directors Mortgage.

“Mr. Levrets began looking for ways to beg, borrow or steal additional money from Directors to pay his debts,” that counterclaim reads, adding that Levrets had insisted that his daughter be hired as an intern. “Directors did not know, and could not possibly have known, that Mr. Levrets would manipulate and take advantage of his own daughter to try to get out of paying his debts.”

Levrets’ original lawsuit claimed that Hanna talked with the minor about his sex life, his affinity for fellatio and losing his virginity while she served as an intern.