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Fraudster Albert Vilar in SDNY UN Echo Of
Real Estate Corruption, Now Christov
Letter
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 20 – The saga of
fraudster Alberto Vilar in the
Southern District of New York
is well known, including his
re-sentencing to ten years for
refusing to pay his victims,
and more recently claims he
can't, living off a $2,200 a
month Social Security check.
But the
United Nations connections, we
had not known until
now. And now we
know more.
First, the
present, Judge Richard J.
Sullivan's order of July 30:
"Minute Entry for proceedings
held before Judge Richard J.
Sullivan: Oral Argument as to
Alberto William Vilar, Gary
Alan Tanaka held on 7/30/2021.
The Court held oral argument
via ZoomGov videoconference on
the government's motion to
dismiss several third-party
petitions filed in connection
with the Court's August 2,
2019 and December 9, 2019
Preliminary Orders of
Forfeiture as to Substitute
Assets...The Court reserved
decision on the pending motion
to dismiss. The Court directed
the Pension Scheme and the
government to submit a joint
letter by August 13, 2021
proposing a schedule for
discovery, summary judgment,
and an ancillary
hearing."
Docketed on
August 20 is a letter from
Laurie Christov, amplifying
what she said in the July 30
proceeding: "I feel my oral
arguments at the hearing on
July 30 feel woefully short...
the condition the arbitrator
put on my husband's award was
the worst case of unjust
enrichment, leaving the burden
of removal to Vilar and
Tanaka, which of course they
did not do, why would they?"
Why indeed.
Digging
back through the docket, Inner
City Press came upon Judge
Sullivan's order (Docket
Number 537) denying bail to
Vilar, and specifically
declining to credit the
declaration of of Walter
Pfaeffle "asserting that
Defendant Vilar is not a
flight risk."
The underlying
declaration by Walter
Pfaeffle, a United Nations
correspondent when Inner City
Press was there and apparently
still there, in the
unresponsive UN Correspondents
Association, said that
"I am a
German-born freelance
journalist... Early on I
invested successfully in
residential properties. I live
in one and rent out the
other... I met Alberto Vilar
for the first time in June
2005 following his release
from the MCC. At the time,
Alberto's then lady-friend
helped arrange his $4 million
bail package, to which I
contributed... We often had
dinner together and sometimes
attended the opera... I was,
somewhat by default, left in
charge of emptying his
apartment at 860 United
Nations Plaza."
But now on
August 10, still awaiting the
August 13 filing (and staring
at a BOP site saying "ALBERTO
VILAR Register Number:
57828-054 Age:
80 Race:
White Sex:
Male
Released On: 09/10/2018,"
here's more on Pfaeffle, from
another
case, Ackermann v.
Levine, 610 F. Supp. 633
(S.D.N.Y. 1985) -
"present at
the meeting was a friend of
Mr. Bauer's, Walter Pfaeffle,
a West German journalist
living in New York who spoke
both German and English and
who Mr. Bauer referred to as
his "financial consultant," a
status not supported by the
proof. (Tr. 463) At the
conclusion of the meeting, Mr.
Bauer agreed to keep in touch
with defendant after he
returned to West Germany; the
two were to communicate
through Mr. Pfaeffle (he
possessed a Telex machine).
(Tr. 306; 308) It was
defendant's understanding that
Mr. Pfaeffle would share in
the commission. (Tr. 334)."
Ah, the UN -
where the correspondents are
supported by real estate
speculation, as landlords, and
bail out fraudsters who refuse
to pay their victims. We'll
have more on this. The
case is US v. Vilar, et al.,
05-cr-621 (Sullivan).
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