A dead woman is still listed as their registered agent

CONFIRMED

Legally Mine’s Alaska operation runs through a captive company, LMRA Services, Inc. — the registered agent for thousands of asset-protection shells, with Daniel McNeff as its only officer. The person LMRA names as its own registered agent — legally responsible for receiving lawsuits — is Deborah Rogers, who died on January 28, 2024.

Yet on a State of Alaska filing submitted December 22, 2025, eleven months after her death, the company certified her, under penalty of perjury, as its live agent. No filing was made to replace her. A registered agent has one job: accept legal papers. Theirs has been dead for two years.

And here is why it was her: the founder’s high-school classmate

Why would a woman in Fairbanks, not in the agent business, be the agent of record for the whole Alaska operation? Because she had known Daniel McNeff since high school. Deborah Rogers, maiden name Vahlsing, graduated from Cañon City High School, Colorado, in 1976, and so did a Daniel McNeff. His own company’s 2015 press biography says he “grew up in small mining towns in Colorado” and lost his father young, and the Cañon City records bear that out: his father Dorvil Jay McNeff married there in 1957 (genealogy) and died in 1977 (buried in Cañon City). The agent meant to make the operation look arms-length was a personal connection from the start, and when she died the company kept filing as if she had not.

The fair counterpoint — that the dead-agent filing was knowing: the agent’s name carries over automatically on the form, and businesses sometimes fail to update it after a death. And there is nothing wrong with trusting an old friend; the point is what it reveals.

Sources: Alaska Division of Corporations, LMRA Services 2026 Biennial Report (entity #10045051); the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner obituary; Cañon City HS 1976 + Classmates.com + FamilySearch + Find a Grave. More on the operation in The machine and the connection map.

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