A bankruptcy malpractice adversary proceeding accuses Chapter 7 trustee Christopher R. Barclay and his colleague Jesse Finalyson of settling $75 million in claims for a total of $200,000, then approving a sale of the remaining estate claims to the very man accused of orchestrating the criminal enterprise -- for another $100,000. The law firm they worked for, Finlayson Toffer Roosevelt and Lilly LLP, appears to have dissolved.
A federal RICO complaint accuses D. Edward Hays, a Beverly Hills attorney at Marshack Hays LLP, of orchestrating a bankruptcy fraud scheme that converted a Chapter 11 reorganization into a Chapter 7 liquidation, settled $75 million in claims for $200,000, and engineered a sale of the remaining estate claims to the very man accused of leading the criminal enterprise.
Twenty-two months into a $200,000-a-year job as Chief Operating Officer of a thriving La Jolla software company, Joshua Paul Lintz allegedly began dismantling it from the inside -- downloading thousands of confidential files, deleting 130 client projects, and incorporating a competing company that would generate $12 million in its first year using the stolen assets.
A federal RICO complaint accuses Newport Beach attorney Scott R. Carpenter of weaponizing the legal system itself -- seizing a company's bank account through fraudulent wire communications, forging stock certificates for a company that had no stock, assembling perjured declarations, and using the threat of deportation to coerce a settlement from a foreign-born entrepreneur.
A 185-page federal RICO complaint names Tyler Brandon Davis of Folsom, California as the principal organizer of an eight-year criminal enterprise that allegedly seized a thriving software company through wire fraud, identity theft, and trade secret theft -- a scheme involving shell companies, corrupted attorneys, and $75 million in fraudulent transactions.
