Posted by
LASER Haas on Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:44:35 AM
The TBF and MNAT law firms have confessed to filing false affidavits to the Federal Courts. They did these acts of Perjury while they were court approved parties in the Delaware eToys bankruptcy cases. As such they were Officers of the Court and trusted to be of the highest integrity. The party that makes sure they are to be trusted is the US TRUSTEE and Delaware Dept of Justice US Attorney's office.
The US Trustee is the policing agent of the bankrutpcy courts and the Watchdog of the professional applicationso of employment, specifically in public equity cases such as eToys. The US Trustee has no discretionary powers. By the Law they must Notify and Refer all acts of felony violations to the US Attorney's office.
Yet, somehow, even though the TBF and MNAT law firm have Confessed to the acts, 34 of them, that are Perjury efforts, while the firms involved that were complicit have received over $13 million in fees as they "planted" a paid associate of TBF, one Mr. Barry Gold, in as eToys wind down coordinator, who, upon that being successful, became President, CEO and Plan Administrator.
What is even more heinous is the perjury helped foster Collusion to Defraud the estate as TBF, MNAT and Barry Gold all have continous conflicts of interest with their "non-disclosure" of their connections to Bain. MNAT, TBF and Barry Gold negotiated the sale of the eToys assets to Bain/ KB for tens of millions in discounts. This type of collusion is so prohibited by law, even if they rec'd a billion dollars, the would have been guilty of conspiracy to defraud the estate. The Law by Congress takes the position if you have nothing to hide then why did you risk losing your fees by not Disclosing the connection.
Yet the Dept of Justice refuses to halt the mendacity and has even given implied blanket immunity that the WSJ reported upon
www.wjfa.net/bk/etoys.html
Additional items of malfeasance have been discovered as we learn that Colm F Connolly, the US Attorney's whose office has refused to intervene and do an investigation, is also guilty of non-disclosure. Colm F Connolly was a partner of the MNAT law firm in 2001, whne the fraud and perjury began. (for all we know he even worked on the case).
When we discover that tidbit of unethical behavior we reported it to the US Attorney's office in California, Tom O'Brien. Doing so with an official 18 USC 3057(a) complaint and 18 USC 3771 complaint the first week in December 2007. We were supposed to receive an answer within 8 to 12 weeks. When the answer did not come forth we began to press the US Attorney's office of Tom O'Brien for an answer.
The answer is, Tom O'Brien has now dismantled the Public Corruption Fraud Task Force.
When he did so, it was so unexpected, it caught all the Asst US Attorney's off guard. The Los Angeles Times has reported on the story and how the Asst US Attorneys were told if they reveal the Real reasons of the dismantling of the squad, they would be punished accordingly. See the L A Times Story Here
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shakeup20mar20,1,7868966.story
That prompted us to get more pro active as we called both the Asst US Attorney's and the FBI.
Special Agent "redacted" conducted the initial interview and has now sent it up the ladder to another Special Agent who investigates this type of malfeasance. While we have great faith in the FBI's integrity, we hope that they pay attention to the fact that the Asst US Trustee, Frank Perch, who motioned to Disgorge TBF resigned when the Attorney for the US Trustee's, one Mark Kenney, gave TBF the implied blanket immunity and slap on the wrist that the Wall Street Journal reported upon July 25 2005.
They must also pay attention to the fact that the Director of the Corp Fraud Task Force, Debra Yang, resigned.
And that the Director of the US Trustee's office in Washington DC, the EOUST office, did replace the Region 3 Trustee, Roberta DeAngelis as Trustee in Philadelphia and Delaware (please see DOJ press release
Here . After that occurred and we rec'd emails from Director Lawrence Friedman that the matters would be addressed. Mark Kenney put in the Illegal Stipulation to Settle with implied immunity and we discovered another $100 million in fraud. When we reported that to Lawrence Friedman he resigned also. (please see DOJ press release
Here )
Speciously, what you will not find a DOJ press release of is the fact that the person in charge of investigating the US Trustee's office issue, the Acting General Counsel of the EOUST office in Washington D C is non other than the former replaced Roberta DeAngelis.
She is in charge of investigating her own cases.
There is much more to the story as you can see in the postings below.
The nefarious horde needs to bury the facts.
Americans needs the Truth to be heard!