BankruptcyMisconduct is limited in its ability to comment on non-public or unsubstantiated events. Please feel welcome to deliver any documents regarding Ellen Slights, any other current or former DOJ employee, or any matter related to the bankruptcy industry which you believe may be of eventual interest to readers of our site.
As always, we appreciate anonymous tips and will maintain confidentiality consistent with the profession of journalism.
Sadly, our DOJ is merely an opera house shell which plays host to a revolving door masquerade of pretend defenders of our Constitution. Too many of these lawyers’ true allegiances remain solely to their associates in private practise law operating as the most profitable and unreported form of organized crime. Note to readers whose understanding of the real world is limited to TV and film: the largest chunk of organized crime is alive and well and built upon a foundation of BigLaw attorneys and their firms with the stalwart symbiosis of members of the Big-Four accounting Oligopoly. Sorry to disturb the racist sensibilities molded by the media which has defined all mafia as Italian American, all you need to do is follow the money.
Al-Qaida could not have assembled a more effective strategy to plot the eventual demise of the U.S.A. than to plant seeds of corruption as deep as the selfish careerists and racists which hold sway over our DOJ. Shakespeare, Napolean, and Sun Tsu would be proud of such forward thinking planning, the destruction of an enemy at such low cost and such little effort - corruption has destroyed many more governments than the sword. Methinks this current hissy fit exercise shows that the lady protest too much.
How do these Feds justify themselves having indicted Barry Bonds for lying about steroids, and for incarcerating Martha Stewart when the multi-Billion dollar bankruptcy industry of false declaration filing BigLaw firms and their conflicted hedge fund clients thrive by organized periodic fraud upon the court by oath violating attorneys who are in turn protected by their relations within the DOJ? Only a Federal Special Prosecutor stands a chance at unraveling the web of organized crime which binds the abuse of prosecutorial discretion employed by corrupt public officals such as Eliot Spitzer (thou shalt protect thy prostitution ring and their bankruptcy ring affiliates who employ death threats), the DOJ, the SEC, and the “self regulating” state bar associations. The eToys pyramid of criminality and cover up is just one slap in the face to former U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft who said “there is no more important area in the fight against corruption than the challenge for us within the law enforcement and justice sectors to keep our own houses clean.” There are many more such blatant frauds upon the public whose stories will never be silenced in this new age of the internet. Comment by David O'Donnell - July 11, 2008
The conduct of public companies such as Countrywide is nothing more than a set of risk reward gambles undertaken by corporate executives emboldened by the quid pro quo assurances that their selection of bankruptcy counsel will deliver an unspoken loyalty by the bankruptcy professionals. “You bring us the fees, and we will protect you, and the U.S. Trustee’s office is filled with our brothers so we are all safe.” Read more about it at www.bankruptcymisconduct.com as this story of Countrywide is a common tale. At some point, there will emerge a critical mass of public servants whose sense of duty will transcend the easy comfort of complicity. Surely, crooks have always been able to silence people of honor when their numbers are small. The emergence of truth is inevitable. Comment by David O'Donnell - January 16, 2008
Learning that the Office of Inspector General performed an audit of criminal referrals is an odd development. Having witnessed numerous instances of Bankruptcy Judges and Trustees failing to refer conduct that any sentient person would have to conclude was criminal, or at least suspected to be criminal, as required under Title 18 USC § 3057 - I sent a Freedom Of Information Act request to the DOJ requesting any documents reporting on criminal referals by U.S. Trustees. Their responce was they had no documents and performed no tracking. An odd claim given that one of their own U.S. Trustee manuals clearly stated that performance evaluations of staff includes review of criminal referrals. An X-files theorist might conclude that the best way for a U.S. Trustee to win a top evaluation is to ensure that NO criminal referrals are made which might implicate top law firms (a source of and destination for many DOJ lawyers), former DOJ lawyers currently in bankruptcy practise, or any of their respective well financed clients such as hedge funds and private equity firms. Sorry if I'm not at all impressed with the "bankruptcy crimes" involving mom and pop restaurants and similar small time players, with a rare small time lawyer thrown in for good measure. Why the dearth of action on the professionals involved in the big bankruptcy cases? Comment by David O'Donnell - November 10, 2007
BankruptcyMisconduct must first make it clear that we believe the
majority of the hard working lawyers within our DOJ are honest public servants whose true loyalties are to the Constitution.
It is only the few attorneys within the DOJ who act to enrich their
relations and affiliations while otherwise pretending to act as loyal
public servants that we detest.
Unfortunately, as the complications of
the real world become better known to the American Citizenry, such as
is entertainingly presented by reality shows Survivor & The Mole, there is a constant tendency by man to seek advantage over others. That is, to gain something of value by means other than merit. The reality shows have athletic and other challenges, but we all see time after time that the "winners" of the contests are never determined by merit, but instead by the ability to conspire, to setup allegiances. Just a TV show version of an organized crime family.
Players in any sort of "game" figure out that there is always a shortcut
around the absolute measure of virtue, production, or hard work. The word "Game" does not imply
simplistic or childlike, but merely a contest where something of value
is distributed. Thus, there has always been public officials who view
their role as in a game, and seek to enrich themselves or their
associates. Our founding fathers knew this, and our laws already have
numerous prohibitions against such. We don't hold a grudge against sport stars or rock stars who make many millions of dollars based upon merit.
But there are countless neo-clever members of our society whose hunger for riches far exceeds their talent and willingness to work hard. Absent corruption, our economy is fairly efficient. However, there is an evil and selfish segment of our society who want wealth at any cost, and they see the easiest shortcut to wealth is the utilization of centuries old techniques of corruption. And many of them probably really believe their own hype, and believe that they are smart. No, they are just of very low morals and deceive that nation as they engorge themselves on ill-gotten gains.
Sadly, the DOJ has a history of this very type of corruption. In fact, the DOJ's leader Attorney General John D. Ashcroft states:
Remember: there are only a few bad apples in the DOJ bunch. Just as there have been a few bad apples in our Legislature. It is only a matter of time before honest members of Congress and within the DOJ start to ferret out and punish the corruption within. And this process is already beginning as you can see by clicking on the Conyers, Nadler, Watt demand to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey
.
Q: (We have been asked)
"What is a government lawyer currently, or formerly, within the DOJ supposed to do when there was absolutely no
benefit received or role played in the decision process of witnessed
conduct that looks, in retrospect, to have been corruption?"
A: First, we are not lawyers and you probably ought to get legal
advice independent of your DOJ hierarchy. Failing to report a crime
against the government is itself a serious crime, as is assisting,
inducing, or any stage of a coverup. See Title 18 U.S.C. §§'s 1001, 2, 3 & 4 You should cover the bases for yourself! Laser Haas is accepting anonymously, and forwarding, evidence and facts related to government corruption involving the huge
bankruptcy industry:
Anyone that wishes to provide me with personnel or persons that
desire to assist in the War on those that are assaulting our
Constitution and Laws may do so by the following protocol;
Set up a dummy email free account, doing so at a Kinko's or internet cafe. (for my emails and files are monitored).
email me at
or
Send me an email, with a "that day" pay phone number to call not
connected to your work, home or cell. As you can see, over the years,
the name of helping parties is never revealed and I am already at high
risk. You do not even have to reveal your name, etc, if such extra
protection is necessary.
You can do so from a public internet site
anonymously, just keeping a record of the eMail name from which you
sent the materials. We believe that you will have a defensible
position as having disclosed, and done so anonymously under fear of
retribution from the organized crime participants, as has been
established by the death threat advice in the Worldcom Bankruptcy. If
nothing comes of it, you are safe. If Federal Special Prosecutor comes
around and you don't have any CYA notifications to someone like Haas,
bankruptcyMisconduct, a Congressional Committee, or the OPR, then you
might as well prepare to find a new lover in prison. If you don't give
up the big dogs, you're going to go down yourself.
BankruptcyMisconduct.com continues to be impressed with the role that
Laser Haas has taken in bringing down the house of corruption as he
declares the emporer class of DOJ lawyers "naked". We have reproduced
on of his targetted eMails below, with emphasive added to highlighted
the parts you absolutely must read.
********** Update ************ Mr. Tare's continued research has uncovered additional undisclosed conflicts, in this instance he has found that the Judge hearing his case failed to disclose her conflicted stock ownership of companies in the proceedings before her. See proof of Judge Rosemary Gambardella's stockholdings here. This mushrooming bankruptcy misconduct scandal related to WebSci now has its own download category in BankruptcyMisconduct's Documents section. ***********************************
David O'Donnell sent the following Haiku he wrote after reading the
internet posting by R. S. Tare (a copy of which appears at the end of this page) :
Just because they could conspire deceive and pillage
under false court oaths
tragedy's merchants feigned fair settling as they snatched
farmer, artisan yield
good men dare divulge lawyers frauds upon the court
sunlight kills all germs
gentlemen of sword
raise pen spread truth unyielding
inquest coming soon
Mr. O'Donnell further states:
"No, I don't really consider myself any sort of poet. However, Tare's description of the ease with which he was able to uncover fraud on the court by lawyers really inspired me. It inspired me to say something, because the more I look and listen, the more I learn how many bankruptcy crimes are known to more people who will stand up to corruption, and how easily the government can clean things up once the public demands it.
Apparantly, Tare downloaded the electronic court docket information for some bankruptcy cases. This lists lawyer's names and the clients that they represent in each matter. This is some sort of "computer data" which the government already has. So, the government could generate a list of every firm which has represented every client, because they already have the data in this federal PACER system which taxpayers have already funded.
So now, it is all making sence how a Federal Special Prosecutor could easily look at one aspect of the pervasive bankruptcy fraud in our country. That is, lawyers filing false sworn declarations which hid their financial relationships with conflicted parties of a federal bankruptcy case.
(Martha Stewart went to jail for a false statement, so did Little Kim.) As Tare describes, the Special Prosecutor can do a "join" on their data and get a quick list of all conflicts.
The technique was described in my internet research and it sounds very straightforward. Apparantly, a "query" is made to get answers from a database which links two or more lists by a common field. I got excited thinking the government's special prosecutor could use this technique.
First, the prosecutor could determine if Smith & Jones (a made up lawfirm name) had GE as a client. Then the government could see every bankruptcy case where Smith & Jones was hired by the estate and had to submit a declaration that they had no conflict. Bankruptcy law is clear that a conflict is not waivable. The special prosecutor could have a field day just by looking at every case where GE (or any client) had been represented by one of the Debtor's professionals. If the lawyer wasn't removed from the case so that every possible issue concerning the conflicted creditor was handled by an un-conflicted lawyer, we have two or more crimes for each occurence. One crime being bankruptcy fraud, the other being perjury, each time the lawyers submitted a bill there is a separate count.
Some businesses call this type of data analysis "data mining". But
we already know much more involved and sophisticated techniques have
been used against Italian-American mafia, ordinary taxpayers, fathers
who are behind in child support, parking ticket offenders, etc. Data
Mining is used against every one of us every day to make sure we pay
our fees, fines, taxes, car registrations, insurance, real estate
taxes, report our credit, and so forth. Data Mining is also used
against us to target what junk mail and cold phone calls are made to
us. There is no reason why the government couldn't have been using
Data Mining to keep the bankruptcy courts clean. (But we understand
that lawyers tend to avoid investigating other lawyers.)
Solving the Deficit - RICO saves our economy
What's more, when there is a pattern of fraud which is committed using the mail or wire (telephone, fax, eMail, internet) then the crimes fall under the RICO Statutes. This law was created by one of the famous Kennedy's in order to fight organized crime in the US. RICO essentially allows the government to take all money that every member of an organized crime syndicate has. There is a lot of money out there, and many many hedge funds and their corrupt lawyers have enough to fix our hurting economy as they forfeit their criminal enterprise funds to the feds.
It is simple, it is easy. It is better than raising taxes on wage earners, it is better than reducing social security benefits, or cutting programs for our children. It is fair to make criminals pay for their crimes. Thank you Tare for finding out how easily this could be accomplished.
Below is the relevant text from R. S. Tare regarding the WebSci bankruptcy case and his simple technique for discovering fraud by lawyers who hide client relationships from the bankruptcy court:
Blog
Bingham McCutchen associates sequentially victimized by Date Rape Drug
