Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's Accused Chief Intimidator Was An Official Officer Of The Local Bankruptcy Court
The Daily Beast has just published another explosive news article on former Bear Stearns insider and billionaire convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein: Behind Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Sweetheart Deal .
The article, written by Conchita Sarnoff, a top notch investigative bulldog, states:
"Documents obtained by The Daily Beast reveal how pedophile hedge fund mogul Jeffrey Epstein escaped a hefty jail sentence despite overwhelming evidence of sex crimes with dozens of young girls. Conchita Sarnoff and Lee Aitken on how the fear and intimidation experienced by victims during pre-trial proceedings, combined with a ferocious, protracted campaign to undermine the prosecution, culminated in a set of charges that became a virtual slap on the wrist."
One of the alleged chief Epstein intimidators identified by the Palm Beach Police Department is William Riley. Mr. Riley was, and still is, an 'officer of court' in the local bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Florida. He obtained 'officer of the court' protection under secret, off-the-docket bankruptcy court filings.
Mr. Riley was secretly paid by Bear Stearns. His amazing 'red carpet treatment' and 'officer of the court' immunity, granted by the local bankruptcy court, was arranged by Paul S. Singerman, of Berger Singerman P.A., and his partner, James H. Fierberg.That bankruptcy court was the local hangout of convicted Trustee Lewis Freeman and Trustee Marika Tolz (who is now also facing Florida state charges).
Mr. Fierberg's and Mr. Singerman's backdated (nunc pro tunc) Riley filings (with an attached perjured affidavit by Mr. Fierberg) and the resulting off-the-docket orders, were illegally kept off-the-docket and sealed. They were never served on the U.S. Trustee's Office, just one of the many missing prerequisites to legitimacy. For years, Mr. Riley's 'officer of the court' status and protection remained a carefully guarded secret from: myself, my attorneys, the U.S. Trustee's office, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and all reviewing courts. This continued until the district court finally ordered the bankruptcy court to disgorge the secret record — an order that, even today, has still not been fully complied with.
(The Riley court papers, including the Fierberg affidavit, related orders, and other documents are posted at http://www.scribd.com/sjlawrence95)
What the secret off-the-docket court papers contained was shocking and repugnant:
Although the papers are misleadingly labeled as only an "application" to have Mr. Riley hired as an 'officer of the court,' they were, in effect, much more than that. They show:
— a secret hearing was held without a court reporter and with no indication on the court docket. Years later, the Riley papers and order were inserted on the docket as #1426 ..., which was the docket position at the date of the insertion, not the date the papers were submitted years earlier. So, not even normal sealing procedures (as in the many other sealed documents) were followed for the off-the-docket assignment of 'officer of the court' status to Mr. Riley.
— Mr. Riley's 'hiring' was backdated (nunc pro tunc). So obviously, by the time of the secret hearing, he had already done some of his 'work' and could testify without a court reporter being present (This pattern of 'nunc pro tunc' secret hirings and hearings was repeated many times over the years)
— Bear Stearns' name is nowhere mentioned in the "application," even though they paid Riley for his 'work.'
— There are no other traces of Riley, on or off the bankruptcy record, including bills, applications to approve specific payments by the bankruptcy estate to Mr. Riley, orders approving any payment for submitted bills. Mr. Riley's secret testimony and 'officer of the court' status simply vanished from view. In short, Mr. Riley's 'hiring' was a sham designed to give him 'officer of the court' status and allow him to testify against me without a court record and reporter, without a chance to confront him, and without his identity ever being known.
— Mr. Singerman's lead co-attorney, James H. Fierberg, through his affidavit attached to the Riley papers, and his unknown testimony at the secret hearing, became a principal sworn secret witness against me. Those accusations were perjured. Mr. Fierberg swore to the testimony of numerous witnesses that I threatened many people, including children, in order to force false testimony from them. Every one of those purported witnesses was readily available for deposing and the obtaining of sworn statements. If the many purported witnesses had really spoken to Mr. Fierberg, then there is no reason they would not have given truthful statements and testimony about those fictitious events.
— The correct (and required) procedure, in the face of the serious accusations made, was to immediately refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office ... not to hire a questionable P.I. using bizarre and illegal secret procedures.
At about the time the above events were occurring, I had informally been told by one of the key alleged witnesses (my accountant and a personal friend for years) that he believed he was being pressured to give false testimony by persons connected to the trustee. I never paid much attention since the issue never went further and I did not know of the secret testimony that was being given against me by Mr. Fierberg and Mr. Riley.
I have no doubt that the reason Mr. Singerman and Mr. Fierberg did not refer the Fierberg and Riley secret testimony/information to the USAO — as required by law — was their fear they could themselves be facing perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
After I discovered the existence of Mr. Riley, I was in no way surprised that the Palm Beach Police Department accused him of intimidating the child victims of billionaire pedophile Jeffery Epstein — history was just repeating itself.
The Bear Stearns -- Jeffrey Epstein Hedge Fund Connections:
One unexplored aspect of the handling of the Jeffery Epstein case is Epstein's intimate connections with Bear Stearns. He was both a former Bear Stearns insider and a mammoth player in the Bear Stearns Cayman Islands CMO hedge fund scandal. Based on my intimate knowledge of how Bear Stearns operated, I believe there existed an extensive symbiotic relationship between Bear Stearns and Jeffrey Epstein: Bear Stearns promoting Epstein to potential clients and Epstein, in turn investing heavily in Bear Stearns deals.
Was special inside information or treatment given by Bear Stearns to Epstein that wasn't given to the public victims of those Cayman Island funds? The USAO, at least publicly, believed Epstein to be a good asset in the criminal prosecution of the Bear Stearns' Cayman Islands hedge fund managers. Indeed, Epstein was taking virtually daily, all-day long — and much criticized — "furloughs" to his attorneys' offices ... purportedly to "aid" the Government in the hedge fund prosecutions.
However, the sweetheart deal given Epstein does not square with the thousands of prosecutions I saw at the FDC Miami. The USAO, almost without exception, is ruthless in placing pressure on defendants to obtain pleas. Prisoners, looking to alleviate long potential sentences, regularly scramble to turn on co-defendants. The type of threats against individuals at the USAO, that the Daily Beast article hinted at, would normally be met with immediate, ruthless, and extensive reaction — through either new indictments or added charges.
In late 2004, after I first obtained access to the sealed bankruptcy court record, I began notifying the USAO, through filings, that extensive protected law enforcement material had been stolen through their office and funneled to senior Bear Stearns management — serious criminal offenses. I identified Juval Aviv as being a key link in the theft and passing of the stolen information to Bear Stearns management. Mr. Aviv is a mysterious self-proclaimed Israeli 'hit man' cum assassin who had been indicted and prosecuted by the US Government. Mr. Aviv — amazingly — had also become a secret, protected 'officer of the bankruptcy court' in the same manner Mr. Riley had, and as a result, was supervising the USAO in the illegal phone surveillance of myself, my attorneys, my family, my friends, and reporters I was in communications with. He was also a key figure in secretly funneling the stolen information he had access to, directly and indirectly to Bear Stearns senior management.
In 2006, I filed a federal court complaint (also sent to the USAO) that, again, clearly outlined and supported allegations that Mr. Aviv was repeating crimes similar to those he had been previously prosecuted for and other serious crimes for Bear Stearns senior management. I received no response. I also notified the Office of Professional Responsibility and was met with a stone wall. I filed a Freedom of Information Request to determine the full extent of the thefts of materials related to myself. Again, I was met with a stone wall.
Whatever the extent of influence pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has, Bear Stearns has similar influence to a much larger degree. Bear Stearns (through its successor) and former management had, and continue to have, enormous incentive to protect Jeffrey Epstein from turning against them — a very likely event if Jeffrey Epstein was facing 40 years in prison, as he should have been. If, as intimated in the Daily Beast, the USAO responded to threats of embarrassing disclosures with a sweetheart deal, Bear Stearns' and Berger Singerman's successful infiltration of the USAO, to facilitate the theft and funneling of extensive law enforcement materials and the results of unlawful wiretapping to Bear Stearns, presented a parallel embarrassing incentive to take the pressure off of Bear Stearns by taking the pressure off the key potential insider witness against Bear Stearns, Jeffrey Epstein.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
What You Don't Know Will Hurt You -- What Really Occurred and the Effect of the Longest Running Civil Contempt Case in US Federal Court History
This blog is about the true, undisclosed history and the current state of the longest running civil contempt case in U.S. Federal Court history — now running over 11 years. It is far different from what has been publicly disclosed.
Some the events that occurred during an ongoing thirteen year scandal are presented in the following court documents:
U.S. Supreme Court Petition for Certiorari
Lawrence Appellee Brief #0710295 Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal
Petition for Reconsideration/Rehearing Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal
The above documents disclose just a small part of the extraordinary and bizarre events that took place. Much of the information previously published on this contempt case has been distorted and inaccurate because most of the actual events and procedural history have been left out or misrepresented. The events described on this site will all be fully documented with previously sealed or off-the-docket court papers, other documents, and hearing transcripts — many of which are from secret hearings that were concealed for many years.
For example, posted will be the details of the many, now known of, secret trial proceedings conducted in the local bankruptcy court — the total number remains undisclosed, but four hearings were discovered years later to have been transcribed and are posted; and how those hearings were so successfully hidden from myself, my attorneys, and all reviewing courts. Only the four known transcribed hearings were attended by the US Attorney's Office (USAO). Those four hearings — some of the strangest in Federal Court history — will be described in detail in later posts.
The posts on this site will fully document shocking events, none of which were ever publicized, including:
— how and why a self-proclaimed Israeli 'hit man' cum assassin, Juval Aviv, was secretly hired by Bear Stearns for the bankruptcy judge controlling my case — who solicited, indeed ordered, his hidden hiring; how Paul Singerman, of Berger Singerman, arranged that secret hiring; how that relationship and the Aviv's extensive illegal activities were concealed; how, using sham court papers, Aviv became an hidden officer of the bankruptcy court ... shortly after being prosecuted by the US Government; how a secret domestic/international plumbers/goon squad was created, operated, and its activities; how — in true Nixonian style — it was concealed for many years from myself, all reviewing courts, and the public.
— how Juval Aviv infiltrated and exercised direct control over the local US Attorney's office; how Bear Stearns' senior management and Paul Singerman, of Berger Singerman, admittedly used Aviv and others to secretly, illegally pass extensive amounts of protected law enforcement material for years to Bear Stearns for their private use.
— the bizarre methods used to trick the US Attorney's Office into taking orders from Juval Aviv, which included extensive illegal wiretapping of myself, my attorneys (including my appellate attorneys), my friends, my family, reporters, and others — including throughout appeals
— how the flood of stolen federal law enforcement materials were continually funneled to Bear Stearns Senior Managing Directors Daniel Taub and Mark Lehman while extensive Florida State Court and Federal Court litigation with Bear Stearns was continuing with myself and my family.
— the background of the 'officer of the court' Juval Aviv including: his prosecution by the US in New York just months before he began supervising the local USAO; his extensive reported relationships with mob connected and convicted Congressman James Traficant, Lyndon LaRouche, and an accused mysterious cult.
— of the bizarre, surprising connections with the Scott Rothstein bankruptcy, and with the Palm Beach Police Department's investigations and allegations against one of the many other secret "officers of the bankruptcy court" (who's existence and "officer of the court" status was also concealed for many years) for organized intimidation of the child victims of convicted pedophile and billionaire former Bear Stearns insider, Jeffrey Epstein.
— how a five million dollar gravy-train of fees, paid to Berger Singerman and others, was fueled by fraud, hoaxes and the secret hearings, in a Ponzi like manner. How the US taxpayer eventually paid those fees as part of the 30 billion dollar bill when Bear Stearns went belly-up because of the collapse of their Cayman Islands CMO hedge funds. How a worthless bankruptcy estate was used for what most citizens would consider to be the money laundering of many millions in payments for bribes, obstruction of justice, fraud, theft of protected government law enforcement material, illegal wiretapping and other serious federal and state crimes.
— why millions in payments were excluded from sham, unsigned, unverified official bankruptcy estate accounting statements filed every year — yes ... Lewis Freeman and Marika Tolz were not alone; why the bills of secret 'officers of the court', including those of Juval Aviv, were never filed, served on the U.S. Trustee's Office or the USAO. Why the bankruptcy estate's accountant stopped working for the estate just weeks after his hiring and produced no known reports. Why Paul Singerman and James Fierberg made sure no other accountant reviewed or prepared the bankruptcy estate's books and sham accounting statements.
— of the extensive, still undisclosed secret British Court and other foreign litigation. And why that litigation was concealed ... and still remains concealed.
More information will be provided about how Berger Singerman engineered a fictitious money judgment out of thin air — to benefit Bear Stearns (see the above filings for some details). How the money "judgment" was written as a single line at the end of a September 1998 discovery sanction order that came from one discovery hearing in a bankruptcy discharge proceeding — an event that is supposed to be completely impossible (and illegal), by law. How "execution" on the non-existent judgment, resulted in an illegal imprisonment for over six years, and a continually mounting 'fine' now totaling over $40,000,000 to enforce the "judgment" that never existed.
Other disclosures will be the details of what really transpired during and after the crash of 1987 and how those events were the precursors to the ongoing financial collapse of our economy, including:
— how Bear Stearns embezzled 10's of millions of dollars from my companies and other clients, in a Bernie Madoff type manner, by using backdated fictitious trades during the 1987 crash.
— how the Options Clearing Corp. and the Chicago Board Options Exchange, in written admissions, stated those trades never occurred, yet, along with the SEC, never stopped Bear Stearns. How similar, ever escalating frauds by Bear Stearns continued until the current collapse.
— how Bernie Madoff's decades long protection extended, on a much larger scale, to Bear Stearns.
— what really transpired at the arbitration at the NASD (Bernie Madoff was the NASD Chairman of the Board) that created a never explained judgment for backdated fictitious 'trades.' Including, why the former Chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange was prohibited from testifying — he was ejected from the arbitration when he appeared for testimony and it was disclosed he would testify that Bear Stearns was criminally liable. Why the arbitration panel refused to explain its award to Bear Stearns for the backdated, non-existing trades.
— how Bear Stearns' 1987 pricing embezzlement repeated and grew in size ... culminating in the largest Ponzi scheme in US history: the 2008, 30 billion dollar scam where the U.S. Government bailed out Bear Stearns insiders. Remember the Government's 30 billion 'non-recourse' loans for then known to be virtually worthless CMOs Bear Stearns had parked in their Cayman Islands Hedge Funds? Of course, Bear Stearns was a principal creator of those very same CMOs that inflicted such devastating damage to our economy — but created the billions in profits and bonuses Bear Stearns insiders pocketed.
— and much more
Some the events that occurred during an ongoing thirteen year scandal are presented in the following court documents:
U.S. Supreme Court Petition for Certiorari
Lawrence Appellee Brief #0710295 Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal
Petition for Reconsideration/Rehearing Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal
The above documents disclose just a small part of the extraordinary and bizarre events that took place. Much of the information previously published on this contempt case has been distorted and inaccurate because most of the actual events and procedural history have been left out or misrepresented. The events described on this site will all be fully documented with previously sealed or off-the-docket court papers, other documents, and hearing transcripts — many of which are from secret hearings that were concealed for many years.
For example, posted will be the details of the many, now known of, secret trial proceedings conducted in the local bankruptcy court — the total number remains undisclosed, but four hearings were discovered years later to have been transcribed and are posted; and how those hearings were so successfully hidden from myself, my attorneys, and all reviewing courts. Only the four known transcribed hearings were attended by the US Attorney's Office (USAO). Those four hearings — some of the strangest in Federal Court history — will be described in detail in later posts.
The posts on this site will fully document shocking events, none of which were ever publicized, including:
— how and why a self-proclaimed Israeli 'hit man' cum assassin, Juval Aviv, was secretly hired by Bear Stearns for the bankruptcy judge controlling my case — who solicited, indeed ordered, his hidden hiring; how Paul Singerman, of Berger Singerman, arranged that secret hiring; how that relationship and the Aviv's extensive illegal activities were concealed; how, using sham court papers, Aviv became an hidden officer of the bankruptcy court ... shortly after being prosecuted by the US Government; how a secret domestic/international plumbers/goon squad was created, operated, and its activities; how — in true Nixonian style — it was concealed for many years from myself, all reviewing courts, and the public.
— how Juval Aviv infiltrated and exercised direct control over the local US Attorney's office; how Bear Stearns' senior management and Paul Singerman, of Berger Singerman, admittedly used Aviv and others to secretly, illegally pass extensive amounts of protected law enforcement material for years to Bear Stearns for their private use.
— the bizarre methods used to trick the US Attorney's Office into taking orders from Juval Aviv, which included extensive illegal wiretapping of myself, my attorneys (including my appellate attorneys), my friends, my family, reporters, and others — including throughout appeals
— how the flood of stolen federal law enforcement materials were continually funneled to Bear Stearns Senior Managing Directors Daniel Taub and Mark Lehman while extensive Florida State Court and Federal Court litigation with Bear Stearns was continuing with myself and my family.
— the background of the 'officer of the court' Juval Aviv including: his prosecution by the US in New York just months before he began supervising the local USAO; his extensive reported relationships with mob connected and convicted Congressman James Traficant, Lyndon LaRouche, and an accused mysterious cult.
— of the bizarre, surprising connections with the Scott Rothstein bankruptcy, and with the Palm Beach Police Department's investigations and allegations against one of the many other secret "officers of the bankruptcy court" (who's existence and "officer of the court" status was also concealed for many years) for organized intimidation of the child victims of convicted pedophile and billionaire former Bear Stearns insider, Jeffrey Epstein.
— how a five million dollar gravy-train of fees, paid to Berger Singerman and others, was fueled by fraud, hoaxes and the secret hearings, in a Ponzi like manner. How the US taxpayer eventually paid those fees as part of the 30 billion dollar bill when Bear Stearns went belly-up because of the collapse of their Cayman Islands CMO hedge funds. How a worthless bankruptcy estate was used for what most citizens would consider to be the money laundering of many millions in payments for bribes, obstruction of justice, fraud, theft of protected government law enforcement material, illegal wiretapping and other serious federal and state crimes.
— why millions in payments were excluded from sham, unsigned, unverified official bankruptcy estate accounting statements filed every year — yes ... Lewis Freeman and Marika Tolz were not alone; why the bills of secret 'officers of the court', including those of Juval Aviv, were never filed, served on the U.S. Trustee's Office or the USAO. Why the bankruptcy estate's accountant stopped working for the estate just weeks after his hiring and produced no known reports. Why Paul Singerman and James Fierberg made sure no other accountant reviewed or prepared the bankruptcy estate's books and sham accounting statements.
— of the extensive, still undisclosed secret British Court and other foreign litigation. And why that litigation was concealed ... and still remains concealed.
More information will be provided about how Berger Singerman engineered a fictitious money judgment out of thin air — to benefit Bear Stearns (see the above filings for some details). How the money "judgment" was written as a single line at the end of a September 1998 discovery sanction order that came from one discovery hearing in a bankruptcy discharge proceeding — an event that is supposed to be completely impossible (and illegal), by law. How "execution" on the non-existent judgment, resulted in an illegal imprisonment for over six years, and a continually mounting 'fine' now totaling over $40,000,000 to enforce the "judgment" that never existed.
Other disclosures will be the details of what really transpired during and after the crash of 1987 and how those events were the precursors to the ongoing financial collapse of our economy, including:
— how Bear Stearns embezzled 10's of millions of dollars from my companies and other clients, in a Bernie Madoff type manner, by using backdated fictitious trades during the 1987 crash.
— how the Options Clearing Corp. and the Chicago Board Options Exchange, in written admissions, stated those trades never occurred, yet, along with the SEC, never stopped Bear Stearns. How similar, ever escalating frauds by Bear Stearns continued until the current collapse.
— how Bernie Madoff's decades long protection extended, on a much larger scale, to Bear Stearns.
— what really transpired at the arbitration at the NASD (Bernie Madoff was the NASD Chairman of the Board) that created a never explained judgment for backdated fictitious 'trades.' Including, why the former Chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange was prohibited from testifying — he was ejected from the arbitration when he appeared for testimony and it was disclosed he would testify that Bear Stearns was criminally liable. Why the arbitration panel refused to explain its award to Bear Stearns for the backdated, non-existing trades.
— how Bear Stearns' 1987 pricing embezzlement repeated and grew in size ... culminating in the largest Ponzi scheme in US history: the 2008, 30 billion dollar scam where the U.S. Government bailed out Bear Stearns insiders. Remember the Government's 30 billion 'non-recourse' loans for then known to be virtually worthless CMOs Bear Stearns had parked in their Cayman Islands Hedge Funds? Of course, Bear Stearns was a principal creator of those very same CMOs that inflicted such devastating damage to our economy — but created the billions in profits and bonuses Bear Stearns insiders pocketed.
— and much more
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