And to you Coffey let me give you some unsolicited advice; if you want to claim your clients are private citizens and not public figures, try not to pose with them for publicity shots at a radio station while they engage in shameless self-promotion. Are you really a lawyer?
I told you I like this guy. Some highlights
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT Return Date March 7, 2011
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Time 1:30PM Albany Courthouse
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In re:
BARBARA J. BOUCHEY, Case No. 10-12207-REL
Debtor, Chapter 11
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CLARE W. BRONFMAN AND
SARA R. BRONFMAN, A.P. No.: 10-90156- REL
Plaintiffs,
v.
BARBARA J. BOUCHEY,
Defendant.
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REPLY TO OPPOSITION TO
MOTION FOR AN ORDER VACATING THIS COURT’S PRIOR TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING ORDERS ENTERED JUNE 17, 2010, INTERIM
ORDER ENTERED SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 AND
PREVIEWING ORDER ENTERED IN CASE 10-90156 ON JANUARY 5, 2011
18. The Debtor has had no part in creating any Blog and this Court should not be influenced by “Blog” discussions which have absolutely nothing to do with the legal actions taking place in this Court. That third parties are using their First Amendment rights is of no concern to this Court, as they are free to also disparage the Debtor, which has happened at times.
NEXT POINT
21. The Debtor’s “endless motions and affidavits about her former clients” are
prompted solely by the Bronfmans’ endless, unfounded, untruthful, and thus malicious
accusations and claims. Removing these Orders would truthfully, in fact, be the only way to
ensure orderly, just, fair, and lawful proceedings in this case, and hence lead to an expeditious
and economical resolution of the Bankruptcy – and this is indeed what the Debtor is focusing
on.
22. The Bronfmans, members of arguably one of the richest families in the world,
famously public personalities due to no fault of Debtor, manage to point out that they’ve never
contacted the press or made statements to them. This is simply not true. Of particular interest is
the highly controversial story wherein NXIVM’s Founder appeared on the cover of Forbes titled
“A Cult of Personality” back in 2003, which provided the original basis for the increased public
interest in the Bronfmans due to their strong affiliate status to NXIVM. And, in the context with
the Dalai Lama's visit to Albany, to whose organizing they were central; they gave numerous
public statements and interviews to promote their World Ethical Foundation Consortium with
NXIVM.
23. Privacy interests are diminished when the party seeking protection is a
public person subject to legitimate public scrutiny. Pansy v. Borough of Stroudsburg, 23 F. 3d
772, 777 (3rd Circuit 1994)
24. Arguably, the public heads of humanitarian organizations or non-profit
charitable foundations are subject to legitimate public scrutiny. Due to the growing concern regarding NXIVM, its affiliate organizations and public leaders, including the Bronfmans, in the
Albany Capital District area, as well as in other parts of the world, this has reached a level where
the general public has a right to know what is taking place in their numerous court proceedings..
25. One cannot expect to enter Bankruptcy proceedings as a Creditor, publically
launch adversary proceedings, openly claim that the Debtor, their former financial planner,
misappropriated funds, tried to extort millions, petitioning for over $5.8 million in monetary
damages, and then demand that your related financial information, which must and will most
assuredly come up, can never be a subject of discussion. That is totally lacking in rationality and
sense. As the court stated in Vassiliades v. Israely, 714 F.Supp. 604, 606 (D.Conn.1989), "Every
lawsuit has the potential for creating some adverse or otherwise unwanted publicity for the
parties involved. It is simply one of the costs attendant to the filing of an action."
26. The Bronfmans in their response to the motion claim that they need to be
protected from the Debtor, but they are truly the bullies, not the bullied, in their copious
disclosures, numerous subpoena demands to an entire army of witnesses in various litigations
over five years, where their personal as well as financial privacy increasingly became
public.This has not caused any hesitation in continuing to launch further litigation. The
particular vital concern appears to be reserved solely in relation to Debtor.
27. The longer this goes on, the clearer it becomes that it is not the Bronfmans
who require protection from the Debtor, but in fact the Debtor who has a vital need for
protection from the Bronfmans and their affiliates, as they have aggressively attacked her by
bringing four lawsuits against her within a ten month period!
I’m telling you the man is a poet.The whole document is here
Oh and let me give you some help advertising your pain party. I know, I know but you don’t have to thank me.
14 comments:
These people have no shame.
They bully others and then play the victim card. Total sociopath behaviour...I guess they are learning alot from their sociopathic leader, mr. "i've had people killed for my believes" raniere.
Brilliant, simply brilliant!
Wow - now I have a little hero worship thing going for two lawyers: Skolnik and Cohen. Nicely done, Mr. Cohen!
Note to heh, heh, heh:
Please add Susan Dones to your honor list of "lawyers". She has kicked Crockett's ass so badly in her bankruptcy case, that he now claims he's no longer involved in that case.
What's the matter, Bobby? Not use to dealinjg with a non-submissive woman?
I suppose at the party, attendees have to check their brains at the door.
I would honor Susan with the title Suppressive Supreme. And as regards that name - suppressive - I would say to the NXIVM mob (and Scientology), "you keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means." (Inigo Montoya)
Let us not forget the Clare and Sara Bronfman's shenanigans at the very beginning of the crusade against Ms Bouchey:
From the Times Union archives:
ALBANY -- Clare and Sara Bronfman, wealthy sisters who are major financial backers of the cult-like group called NXIVM, have employed a controversial private investigator to confront friends of a former NXIVM official who has been revealing embarrassing information about them in court.
The investigator, Steven Paul Rombom, 51, was once charged by federal prosecutors with trying to intimidate a federal witness and posing as an FBI agent, and was investigated for threatening a client, according to state and federal records. The charges ended up getting dropped.
more..
They have sonce supposedly fired that goon known as Rambo. The question is who have they hired in his place?
WHO has been threatening and harrasing and stalking John?
WHO has tried to lure him into traps?
WHO called in the terrorism threat that accused John of mass murder at Vanguard Week?
WHY has that call-in not been traced and the originator identified and indicted?
Question: will flogging whips and K-Y Jel be available at the party?
The Gimp wants to know.
Let's not get started with the gimps, otherwise I may be convinced to appear.
Seriously, does anyone take these people at face value ?
Raniere knows he's full of shit, how much longer can he keep the sharade going.
@Gimp, appreciate the post and you don't know the half of it yet...few do. Unfortunately, some of us have suffered the harassment, intimidation and threats first-hand and often unjustifiably so, ONLY because NXIVM needed to cover up a wrongdoing with another wrongdoing.
What, for example, did Kristin Snyder's family and loved ones do to deserve being the target of goons paid $1 million dollars wired to them by Clare Bronfman for the goons to harass them and create a flimsy drug ring story front to explain Kristin's disappearance? (Snyder committed suicide during a NXIVM intensive, Raniere needed scapegoats, the Bronfmans footed the goon bill.)
Bottom line, these Bronfman brats have and continue to finance an alarming amount of Raniere-directed criminal activities.
More and more evidence is emerging that they are not doing so altogether unwittingly, unless they truly are brainwashed zombies.
In any case, it is incumbent upon the Bronfman family to intervene and at the very least ensure that no further financing can be put toward NXIVM thug-hirings.
The next crime victims could well be themselves. Do not underestimate Keith Raniere, his loyal inner-circle, or how far they will go. And, with the huge amounts of money they are offering to desperate, criminally-minded people...
Sure hope no one involved with NXIVM has made anyone of them a beneficiary in their wills. That would be suicidal. Something NXIVM excels at instigating.
BTW, few interesting incidents involving NXIVM litigants have shown up on police dockets within the past couple of weeks.
Looks like Rambo HAS been replaced.
the little boy really needs steady uncomplicated love before he's much older. from secure people as soon as possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJGESRc3XfY
What the Bronfmans want is censorship. What does censorship reveal? FEAR
Just to let you know Coffet I'm one step ahead
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I took a NXIVM course and all I got was this lousy lawsuit.
I slept with Vanguard, I broke up with Vanguard I left NXIVM. All I have to show for it is a legal battle
NXIVM, the next great humanitarian movement, NOT
Screw Your First Amendment Rights and the lawsuit we rode in on
Got Money?
NXIVM, a prelude to Alzheimer's disease. Forget who and what you are.
I think Bouchey wrote the legal brief. Good for her. She's one tough cookie, and nxivm is in for a big surprise if they think they can bend her over.
The only one doing the bending over is going to be kristin keefe along with her legal team.
I sure hope Bronfmans like publicity, they are going to be big public stars in the very near future and not the kind that win academy awards.
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