Stone & Webster was a once proud engineering firm from Boston. 

At least as early as 1996, the firm believed that corruption was a worthwhile route towards winning large engineering and construction contracts.  To be sure, Stone & Webster did complete many seemingly impressive projects from nuclear power plants, infrastructure at MIT, and a helicopter pad in the back yard of Dick Cheney.  But the Mafia has always done a nice job at garbage hauling and keeping certain neighborhoods safe for honest citizens, when their arguably reasonable fees are paid.

It is no accident that BankruptcyMisconduct mentions "Organized Crime" so early in our coverage of Stone & Webster.  You see, Stone & Webster is organized crime.  And if you disagree with our analysis: as we post supporting documents here, simply register on our forum and share your opinion.

BankruptcyMisconduct has a certain bias.  That is to say, we tend to hone in on issues of conflict of interest.  Thus we were especially taken by this assertion:

One should also note that, at this point in the Cases, the Debtors, Joseph Warren, one of the executors of the Muriel Estate and the Entities were all represented by Stroock Stroock & Lavan, Judge Beatty’s former law firm. 

                       see Page 31 of Sturman_Reply_Supporting_Motion_To_Reopen_by_David_H_Relkin.pdf



We can only wait for the Federal Special Prosecutor to unravel the truth on this one.

This downloads section will provide free access to document related to the SONICblue , Inc. et al. bankruptcy cases, lead case No. 03-51775 (MM), USBC Northern District of California in San Jose, under judge Marilyn Morgan.  While only a Federal Special Prosecutor may ultimately have the power, chutzpah, free reign, and lack of personal career self-interest which could result in a complete unraveling of the web of crime and deceit on SONICblue, these documents are quite the irrefutable beginning.

A growing list of BigLaw firms profiteering in the murky bankruptcy industry including: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman ,  Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill  , O'Melveny & Myers LLP  ,  and  Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP getting a lot of attention for their apparent conspiracy to commit fraud upon the bankruptcy court in the Northern District of California.

The firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has boldly staked out its foundation for a prominent future on the pages of BakruptcyMisconduct by their early 2011 "amalgamation" with the entire bankruptcy team from Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP , since renamed Hennigan Dorman LLP, that was headed by former founding and named partner Bruce Bennett. BankruptcyMisconduct readers may speculate as to whether issues of P&L, client losses, state bar regulation, insurance coverage, or criminal in nature related to Aureal or SONICblue played any part in this dramatic move.  Reports are that Suzzane Uhland, Esq. is "in play" due to her implicit and explicit accessory to the SONICblue frauds upon the court.

Lehman Brothers et al. is the largest every bankruptcy in the U.S.A. as of 2008.

Of course, BankruptcyMisconduct.com readers will have the expectations of misconduct and fraud fulfilled.

Presiding over the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy case, and most spectacularly the Lehman FireSale Fraud we find the temperate Judge Peck.

These documents relate to the "Honorable" James M. Peck.  Formerly of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Duane Morris LLP.

Read about Judge Peck, a legal genius, and well connected member of the legal industry's Neo-Mafia by downloading these free documents.

Very Interesting!!  The website of BankruptcyMisconduct.com was attacked by someone who doesn't want you to see the police complaint regarding Judge James M. Peck so here is another link for you to get this document just in case we are unable to thwart these attacks.

Don't miss this downloads section devoted solely the Lehman, where you can get the Lehman Examiner's Report.

At the time, the largest ever, and for many years thereafter...

MCI WorldCom redefined the meaning of a Mega Case bankruptcy.  Congress and the Courts have long known of the inherent risks associated with our bankruptcy system, how conflict of interest can feed the corruption of Federal Bankruptcy Judges and DOJ lawyers by Bankruptcy Rings.

If any of us were to imagine that there were some corrupt lawyers in the bankruptcy courts... then just maybe we would find some of these corrupt lawyers running amok in the largest bankruptcy case ever?

Perhaps the criminal corporation which was running the largest series of corporate frauds would foster some amount of fraud and dishonesty in its resulting bankruptcy case...

There is no question that allowing criminals to profit while they break the law will only ensure that criminals will thrive and go on to even greater crimes.  Thus we find that MCI / WorldCom is no longer the biggest case ever.  Just as excusing fraud upon the court in Leslie Fay with a "10 cents on the dollar" slap on the wrist emboldened immoral executives and their lawyers to construct the WorldCom frauds, so has protecting the WorldCom post petition bankruptcy crimes inevitably brought us our current National Financial Crisis.  Allowing the evil pretenders to run wild on the playing field of the U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Court "system" ensured that Lehman, General Motors, and countless banks in our financial system would fail.  Feeding the evil who prey upon our nations failures makes them stronger and bolder.  

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. 

Let's consider the quiet truths in the WorldCom case.

Worldcom: a circumstance where a peculiar plan violating the basic premise of equal recovery for similarly situated claims was confirmed (in violation of Title 11 U.S.C. § 1129 among other statutes) which gave extra special payments to a certain small group of claims traders.

Who are these claims traders and what relationships do they and their relations have with the bankruptcy lawyers and DOJ lawyers?  How does this favoritism relate to the unaffiliated claims trader whose counsel sought Court approval to resign rather than bring this favoritism and related conflict of interest issues to the attention of the Court?  Notice how the Court, the U.S. Trustee, and Eliot Spitzer (at the time as Attorney General and Client #9 doing business with organized crime via money laundering) all take great pains to ignore the death threat advice acknowledged as accurate in the transcript sworn before the Court?

And how about this little tidbit, not previously disclosed to Bankruptcy Misconduct readers:

Worldcom: a circumstance where a special court order was sought, and granted, that set up a peculiar process beyond the established Federal Rules of Bankruptcy PRocedure (FRBP) which enabled a certain small group of claims traders to acquire a tremendous amount of claims without adhering to 3001(e) or the protections established for selling creditors.  This group of "business people" with alleged financial ties to lawyers running the WorldCom case where thus empowered to acquire hundreds of millions of dollars in claims, far more that we believe possible if the "claims trader favor" order was not signed.

The documents related to the WorldCom / MCI megacase in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan SDNY (02-13533 lead case number) cases will shed much light, and make a great starting point for a Federal Special Prosecutor.  Perhaps a prosecutor could start with the death threat advice as evidenced by a transcript filed before the judge and confirmed as accurate by the attorney who sought the judge's approval to cease inquiry into the conflict of interest and payment favoritism.

Mitt Romney is linked to Bain Capital first from his executive control of the hedge fund and secondly from the longer enduring financial arrangement where a portion of Bain's profits have been funneled to Romney.  Preet Bharara's time as a prosecutor in New York seems to indicate, at first glance, that criminals were actively prosecuted.  A closer examination of Bharara's actual record shows that certain connected persons like those involved in Wall Street's banking collapse got a free pass, not to mention the money laundering Eliot Spitzer.  This downloads category hosts a number of documents which we believe will help illustrate the free pass that the hedge funds and dirty lawyers associated with Mitt Romney have received from our government lawyers in the DOJ afflicted with "career distraction disorder".

    Hopes and Promises ran high in the U.S. Presidential election of 2008.  We were promised a new administration which would be honest and transparent.  We were promised that corruption would end.  And now the Southern District of New York has a new U. S. Attorney by the name Preet Bharara.

Welcome To The Jungle

Bankruptcy Misconduct has a page dedicated to Mr. Preet Bharara which contains a number of eMails to Preet from the whistleblower in the eToys bankruptcy scandal.  As stated in the emails themselves, they were sent by blind copy to a number of third parties for Preet's protection.

A wonderful set of nine detailed and illustrative documents were attached to one of the eMails.  For the convenience of academics, high school and college scholarship applicants, citizens, historians, reformers, legislators, any appointed Federal Special Prosecutor, legitimate journalists, and DOJ employees beyond the corruptive influence of money & promises ... We are hosting these documents in this special Preet / eToys document download section.  These documents are available without charge, and readers are urged to continue their research of the entire eToys docket.

 "Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

The Petters Company spawned several related bankruptcy cases as the conglomerate which was built on top of a Ponzi Scheme collapsed.  While there was fraud related to the Ponzi scheme, the Petters enterprise did in fact take ownership of a broad range of valuable assets including ownership of a number of companies include Polaroid.  As sad as the original fraud within Petters Company was, what is more outrageous is when lawyers conspire to steal from rightful creditors under Color Of Law, under the watchful and knowing eye of a Federal Judge. 

The U.S.A. does not operate under the principals of our Founding Fathers and the Constitution is in shatters, torn to shreds by treasonous lawyers within our government who place the private goals of themselves and their relations above their oaths of office.

    We will not be silent, nor will we let the treachery be forgotten.  Read from our free collection of documents and also our web pages.

eToys is one of the biggest and clearest bankruptcy fraud scandals involving BigLaw firms and DOJ officials.  The story is not going away, and may very well be the straw that breaks the camels back of entrenched corruption in the U.S. legal system.

There are a number of documents featured below. 

Documents are related to the eToys bankruptcy and frauds upon the Court, as well as the related cover-up including: conflict of interest by law firms which filed false declarations under oath, orders to disgorge fees by federal judges, communications regarding the failure to make mandatory referal for perjury / bankruptcy fraud regarding the false sworn declarations.

A multi Billion dollar hedge fund does a takeover of a public company, takes all the money and leaves nothing for minority stockholders. As this scandal takes place, the very same law firm simultaneously represents this hedge fund that is doing the hostile takeover as well as the same public company takeover target.

Can you ever trust a hired gun who is getting paid from both sides in a gun fight? You might wonder if there is some kind of law against this. Sure, there are several. From ethics laws in California (CRPC) to Federal Laws ranging from the criminal code (Title 18), the bankruptcy code (Title 11), as well as the judicial canons and various securities regulations.

The many instances of misconduct connected to the money grab and its cover-up is beyond a "no brainer" as violating written state ethics laws for attorneys as well as federal securities and criminal laws. Numerous SEC violations and false sworn documents before the SEC and the bankruptcy court, bankruptcy fraud and fraud upon the court.

So what do the State Bar of California do about it?

What does the DOJ do about it?

How could either of these corrupt organizations do anything against one of their own?

Yes, at least one former DOJ lawyer is deeply involved. And so is a big four accounting firm. The misconduct and crime here is well documented in these free downloads.

While this particular onion is only beginning to peal, there have already been official court orders finding misconduct even in the midst of an industry mindset in which all lawyers whether on the bench, in private practice, or as part of the "self-regulation" scheme strive to cover-up misconduct and crime by their BigLaw brethren.

BankruptcyMisconduct.com readers are not surprised to learn that the failures of the California State Bar, the California Attorney General, and the DOJ to address the unlawful business model used by a number of corrupt professionals - even in the face of sworn documented complaints - is resulting in further revelations of corruption in the legal industry of California.

Thus, there is no surprise that our non-functioning enforcement against legal industry corruption has resulted in additional bankruptcy cases with dirty lawyer acts:

The SONICblue case - features prostitution of justice by some of the same dirty law firm "professionals" as were involved in the Aureal misconduct.

Stay tuned as bankruptcymisconduct has already circulated documentation with the actual names of public officials who failed through cowardice, incompetence, and/or corruption to perform their officials duties in the Aureal matter. Soon, documents will be shared here, for free as always.

Tracking the careers of the criminal apologist bureaucrats who enable the corruption of our justice system is not merely fun, it is our obligation if we desire a stable country in which to live free.
                                                                     

Fallout Watch...

The firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has boldly staked out its foundation for a prominent future on the pages of BakruptcyMisconduct by their early 2011 "amalgamation" with the entire bankruptcy team from Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP , since renamed Hennigan Dorman LLP, that was headed by former founding and named partner Bruce Bennett.  BankruptcyMisconduct readers may speculate as to whether issues of P&L, client losses, state bar regulation, insurance coverage, or criminal in nature related to Aureal (or SONICblue) played any part in this dramatic move.