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folder icon 2 James M. 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.

 

folder icon 4 Judge Paul G. Hyman
The "Honorable" Paul G. Hyman is establishing an interesting case law record.  What is black and white in one case becomes pure white in another case.  In other words, it appears that Judge Hyman will embrace ridiculous legal concepts when required in order to protect certain lawyers, and punish whistleblowers.  We need to have a Federal Special Prosecutor examine all sources of income for Hyman as well as his treachery against the Constitution.  There may be an interesting overlap between his income sources and his opinions regarding attorney misconduct, also known as Bankruptcy Misconduct.
folder icon 3 WorldCom

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 DOJ lawyers and Federal Bankruptcy Judges 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.  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?

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.

Worldcom where the bankruptcy court became the vehicle where money was diverted under the eagle eye of Marcia, Money, Marcia

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.

 

folder icon 8 eToys: Preet Bharara

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.  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. Bharara.  Below are a number of eMails to Preet from the whistleblower in the eToys bankruptcy scandal appear.  As stated in the emails themselves, they were sent by blind copy to a number of 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 document.

 "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."

folder icon 13 eToys Cover-Up

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.

folder icon 3 WebSci
     R. S. Tare is a software engineer of great capabilities who built a successful technology firm named WebSci. 
     BankruptcyMisconduct can not state whether the alleged acts of crime and corruption by numerous officers of the court against Tare and his firm were motivated by greed, racism, or some combination of the two.  BankruptcyMisconduct can state for certain that the bankruptcy case, and any subsequent related criminal proceedings or legislative investigations will be covered. 
     Like peeling an onion, the stench grows more intense the deeper you get into it as you peel away the layers.  Mr. Tare has shown us how easy it would be for a Federal Special Prosecutor to automate a nationwide conflict search for bankruptcy firms employed by Debtors' estates with respect to parties for which such lawyers and lawfirms appeared in Federal courts.  Expanding the conflict search to include conflicts related to legal services evidenced by fee payments would be an elementary exercise in data mining, such data already available to the Federal government for example under the Patriot Act.
folder icon 6 HBD, Oaktree Capital, & Aureal

Got Madoff?       ....  OK, that was a Ponzi scheme.

How about when a multi-billion dollar hedge fund does a takeover of a public company, takes all the money and leaves nothing for minority stockholders?  And all the while the same lawfirm simultaneously represented the hedge fund doing the hostile takeover and the public company takeover target.  Numerous SEC violations and false sworn documents.  This is beyond a no brainer as being not only unethical, but blatantly illegal. 

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, a 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.

folder icon 7 Baron's Stores Fraud Upon the Court
Yet another story of undisclosed conflict of interest.  When that happens in a bankruptcy case, it is a fraud upon the court and a felony crime.  Incarceration is mandated when a lawyer defrauds a court.  Consider what happens when false testimony is given by non-lawyers:  Martha Stewart was put in jail.  That is also what happened to Little Kim.

Oh, but there is more.  Failing to disclose a conflict is a serious crime even if everything else was kosher.  Oh, but there is moreDan Rather would have spotted the fabricated documents that were also filed in this case by the same lawyers.  The truth is a stubborn thing.  So are a number of people who will never rest until the organized crime operators in the bankruptcy industry are brought to justice.

  All of the documents here in the Baron's Stores category are part of a simple and obvious scandal which will not go away.  Have you seen the television show "The Mole"?  Well, the reason why Congress wrote into law that lawyers for a bankrupt entity can't have any conflicts, and must disclose them, is that otherwise those lawyers could steal the company and give it to their conflicted clients.  You see, a crooked lawyer could pretend that they are working for their bankrupt client, when in reality the corrupt lawyers efforts could be to benefit an opposing party (their conflicted client).  Such sleezy lawyers would be acting like a spy, like a secret agent on the inside, violating all of their oaths to the Courts, the bar, and the Constitution.

   Look at the documents as filed in the Baron's Stores related matters.  There was a plan prepared under the direction of management, agreed to and signed by management/owners in which they would have received something and preserved their rights against other third parties.  Apparantly, that plan mysteriously disappeared and instead was secretly replaced with a different plan by their hired lawyers who simultaneously held secret undisclosed loyalties to conflicted partiesThe unauthorized plan eliminated any recovery for the management/owners and eliminated their chances at pursuing their claims against certain third parties.  Sure, in some bankruptcy cases it can happen that management is removed from power and replaced by an official trustee.  But that didn't happen in the Baron's Stores case!   So there was no authority for the estate's lawyers to file a Plan which management did not authorize.
   You don't have to believe Baron's Stores management that a fraudulent plan was filed with their fabricated signatures, and you don't have to believe bankruptcyMisconduct.com - Just read the sworn testimony (we have it here) of the hired document expert who states that the plan which was filed by the conflicted lawyers and then approved by the Court was a fabricated document.
folder icon 6 Notable
Relevant Documents, research, editorials, comment, academic, news, etc.
folder icon 1 FOIA
A Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) submitted to a federal agency, or similar disclosure of information request to any federal, state, governmental, non-governmental, self-regulating entity.
folder icon 5 Transcript
Text of discussions or court hearings of a bankruptcy professional, judge, federal or state judicial officer, or other investigator.
folder icon 2 Decisions regarding bankruptcy matters, misconduct, ethics, etc.
The good, bad, and the ugly decisions regarding bankruptcy misconduct, ignoring it, FAQs on how to thrust your head into the sand for fun and profit, and related documents.
folder icon 2 Federal Inquiries
Documents which relate to inquiries on behalf of a Federal power into allegations & issues which are of interest to BankruptcyMisconduct readers.  Many whistle-blower allegations have been buried by related parties to the misconduct, but continuing publication of the truth of government corruption and how persons within the government have been assisting organized crime in the form of long recognized bankruptcy rings has caused other governmental officials to take notice.  We are presenting documents regarding inquiries by the Legislature, Congressional Committees, Academia, the OPR, the GAO, the FBI, or even the DOJ itself which we have not otherwise been forbidden to reveal.  These documents may relate to the early stages of what may become more comprehensive, or specifically targetted investigations by a Federal Special Prosecutor.
folder icon 3 SEC
Documents related to the Securities And Exchange Commission.  This includes filings, administrative rules, related law, correspondence, complaints, investigations, prosecutions, penalties.  Documents which related to issues involving hedge funds may be referenced here.  We will also try to include information regarding Congressional oversight of the Commission, as well as career tracking of the most senior officials of the SEC with respect to their roles in the administration of justice as such intersect with misconduct in Federal Bankruptcy Courts.
folder icon 2 Traub & Petters
This category of documents related to Traub & Petters.  Acts, ommissions, consequences, & cover-up that may be of interest to bankruptcyMisconduct readers related to either Petters or Traub individually, together, or by related firms are being made available for your download here.  Please feel free to forward additional documentation.  Many thanks to all who have contributed so far.
folder icon 4 Traub & Dreier
This category of documents related to Traub & Dreier.  Acts, ommissions, consequences, & cover-up that may be of interest to bankruptcyMisconduct readers related to Paul Traub, Marc Dreier, or Dreier, LLP, individually, together, or by related firms are being made available for your download here.  Please feel free to forward additional documentation.  Many thanks to all who have contributed so far.
folder icon 3 Bar Filings
Documents submitted to a State or Federal Bar Association.
folder icon 2 Pleadings
Motion or other filing submitted to a state or federal court.

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