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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Retroactive Racketeering — Romney Kills Toys R Us

By Aaron Kesel


Let’s be blunt! I’m putting my reputation and career on the line, going where mainstream media won’t, to inform you, with a plethora of details, stating point blank, that Mitt Romney has benefited from organized crimes that certainly qualify as racketeering. Since last Christmas, this reporter has written an extensive Wall Street exposé series thanks in part due to one of the most serial financial whistleblowers in history, in this author’s opinion, Laser Haas.


It has come to the attention of this reporter that, intolerably, the criminals have been allowed to get away with it all because Romney is (retroactively/corruptly) immune to investigation, indictment or prosecution.


Mitt needs to be clawed back his many millions – retroactively!


Nobody should be above the law; but, alas, there are two different justice systems: one for the rich, and one for the poor and middle class.


Romney has “retroactively” retired from his rackets before and is likely to try do so again. Mitt remains a POTUS wannabe and a dangled carrot to career prosecutors or someone fresh out of law school. (Yes, it’s that easy of a case.)






Truth is, Romney looks like an angel compared to Trump; that’s because the devil is in the details – hidden from plain view.


Retroactively speaking of course.


If A=B and B=C, then it is likely that A=C!


Or, in other words, Romney owned Bain Capital, which is connected to many schemers and schemes such as Allen Stanford, Marc Dreier, Michael Glazer, MNAT, Colm Connolly, Roberta DeAngelis, Mark Kenney, Ellen Slights, Barry Gold, James Lackner, Jack Bush, Scott Henkin, or Tom Petters Ponzi; and all those mentioned, including Mitt, are being protected by a modern Frank Nitti guy named Paul Roy Traub.


According to reports, Mitt’s Bain Capital is now in turmoil. Guitar Centers is in restructuring Hell, and Clear Channel Communications (renamed iHeart) is in bankruptcy.


But the most noteworthy collateral damage is Toys R Us.


Reportedly, Toys R Us is closing what remains of 800 stores, which is going to put 30,000 people out of work.


The thing is, the closing of Toys R Us is to pay the creditors; and Romney’s Bain Capital just so happens to be one!


It’s not the first time Mitt’s Bain Capital has bled to death a nationwide retail toy entity.


Years ago, Romney/Bain Capital, along with Thomas Lee Partners and Goldman Sachs, damn near took down Mattel Toys, with the 1999 catastrophic deal of Romney’s ‘Learning Company” that was merged with Mattel (see my previous article on one of the worst corporate mergers of all time, which mainstream media missed – here).


Most media outlets also failed to report the facts that both KB and eToys have been in bankruptcy, multiple times; but, somehow, KB and eToys always wind up back at Bain Capital (once all the creditors are stiffed, again – and again – and again).


It is a great bizness strategy Bain Capital has. Put in a little (ill-gotten gains), such as $38 million to buy KB from Big Lots, and promise hundreds of millions more … later. Instead, you file bankruptcy after a stock maneuver, which is as Machiavellian as can be.


What appears to be what is really going on, is the bleeding out of as much cash as possible in management’s fees, then Bain Capital commits more fraud once the entity is in court.


Just before KB filed bankruptcy (to stiff all creditors, including Big Lots), the rackets were allowed to openly bribe KB CEO Michael Glazer with $18 million; and Mr. Glazer, in turn, blesses Bain Capital with $83 million (purportedly pre-bankruptcy petition management fees).


It’s a simple genius – “bizness” – strategy.


Doesn’t matter if it is legal (which it isn’t) because Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital have a super ace-in-the-hole. They own the federal prosecutor, Colm F Connolly, who was a clerk for a circuit judge, then the Delaware Assistant United States Attorney, who took a time-out.


Retroactively speaking of course!


Colm Connolly avoids doing prosecutions when he becomes a partner of Goldman Sachs/Bain Capital’s law firm of Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell (MNAT) at the very same time Connolly is supposed to be prosecuting Sachs and Bain for multiple Wall Street frauds/racketeering.


Being that Colm joined the MNAT law firm, the rackets are able to hide bribing Connolly by claiming Colm earned his (unjust) enrichment, due to expertise as a fed prosecutor.


This type of conspiracy is against the law!


MNAT represents Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital in Delaware; and Colm Connolly was a partner of MNAT from 1999 until August 2, 2001. (See my recent article on Colm Connolly issues – here.)


Neither mainstream media (dependent on Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital advertising revenue billions), nor the systems of justice agents (who saw USAG John Ashcroft and U.S. Attorney Debra Yang get $50 million dollar bribe (renamed as “Deferred Prosecution Agreement”) will do their damn jobs to hold MNAT or its secret clients of Goldman Sachs or Romney/Bain Capital accountable.


Included in that host of issues are corruption, mayhem, and even murder!


Goldman Sachs, as the most powerful Wall Street firm, often gets to plant their personnel into the federal system of justice, which guarantees willful blindness by the planted personnel to the many plots and ploys by Goldman Sachs.


Jay Clayton as SEC Commissioner is proof of point!


The Securities Exchange Commission continues to make sure there are no investigations or prosecutions of Romney’s RICO gangs and their partnership with Goldman Sachs, which also means Romney’s Bain Capital has to be “protected.”


Such things explain why the vindictive Donald Trump is now playing sweet and nice in the endorsement of Romney.


To see more details, let’s take further – retroactive – steps back in time…


Romney/Bain Surreptitious Retroactive Dealings


Bain Capital’s beginnings and successes are mired in controversy. It began with evil seed money and has sprouted to extraordinary heights and fiendish depths ever since.


Outside of the snide pics of Romney and gang holding up money to burn. Beyond the rubbing of salt in the wound of Bain Capital having workers of “SCM in Marion” build Bain executives a platform stage so that Bain executives could fire those SCM workers from that platform. Far past the dog carried on the roof incident. Or rumors of a Kennedy-type overseas car crash. Way past the specious issue of – whether or not – Mitt was having relations (and a kid) with a domestic worker. There are real serious dynamics of grand larceny, collusion, corruption, mayhem and possibly murder.


……Retroactively speaking


What budding, revolving door, federal agent would dare deny dear ol’ Mitt a favor (of willful blindness) for the unrelenting POTUS wannabe?


After all, Mitt Romney did come as close as possible to becoming President; which grants a greater license to try – again.


Congress made the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, into law, to address the issues of “prosecutorial gaps.”


Laser Haas has been providing federal agents, courts and reporters evidence of “prosecutorial gaps” all over the place since 2001 as a serial whistleblower.


A RICO charge only requires 2 felony acts over an extended period of time (most courts say more than 2 years) in order to be sufficient and conduct a successful prosecution.


Haas has documented (chiefly through public docket records) proof of more than 100 state and federal felony violations that have been transpiring for 20 years.


These are crimes Laser swore to the courts and even dared USAG Lynch to arrest him for should even one prove false. Haas has proof of crimes already perpetrated including, but not limited to, Obstruction of Justice, Bribery, Intimidation of Victim/Witness, Criminal Conspiracy, Mail and Wire Fraud, Perjury, Scheme to Fix Fees, Retaliation, Securities Fraud, Plots to Overthrow the Governments/Corruption, Collusion, Theft of Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy Ring Fraud, Destruction of Evidence, Interstate Commerce Larceny, Bank Fraud, and multiple issues of Murder for Hire!


It is cemented in docket records that Paul Traub and the MNAT law firm already confessed to 33 bogus Bankruptcy Rules in 2014/2016 Affidavits.


As a matter of fact, Paul Traub’s law firm has admitted that the lies under oath were intentionally left to deceive!


Unfortunately, the dynamics of fed agents participating in career advances by switching sides (revolving doors), or getting millions of dollars in bribe money via the perversions of justice such as the obfuscation of Deferred Prosecution Agreements have become the perverted general rule, rather than the occasional exception of law!


To get a better picture of the unrelenting, unremorseful organized crime spree, we have to go back where it all likely began, starting with the formulation of Bain Capital in the 1980s. Which, by the way, is beyond the “retroactive” time period that was reported by mainstream media during the 2012 Presidential Election campaigns, Romney’s Bain Capital began by separating from Bain and Company.


Then, Mitt got a reported $9 million dollars in seed money from Salvadoran oligarchs linked to death squads (yes, that’s a shocking fact).


Reportedly, Romney didn’t care where the money came from; and that mentality continued into the formulation of Stage Stores.


Corruption was so successful from the outset that Michael Milken’s junk bond millions were allowed to stay in place while Judge Pollack was presiding over Milken’s case; and Judge Pollack’s wife was partners in the Stage Stores formulation deal. (See Boston Globe details that is part of Matt Taibbi’s “Greed and Debt” Rolling Stone cover story, in 2012.)


Another pattern of the enterprise includes Romney’s ability to make much of the evidence evaporate into thin air like a magician.


Mitt purportedly bailed out the Utah Olympics, and then the paperwork that could possibly document details on the cronyism of Bain Capital was destroyed – oops!


Similarly, just as Romney’s Massachusetts Governor reign was over, despite the fact the law forbade destruction of paperwork for 25 years, Romney’s gang found an end-run by Mitt’s team buying up his Governor’s Administration computer hard drives for $100,000and crushing them, as reported by Reuters.


Just before that, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Delaware law firm of MNAT was able to pull off a major stunt of openly perpetrating obstruction of justice.


It’s another – simple genius – bizness strategy!


All the rackets need do is engage in conflicts of interest crimes. Though federal law forbids conflicts, mandating diametrically opposed counsels, Romney’s gang found a way to get around the law by owning its long arms.


Simply put, Colm Connolly was a corrupt federal prosecutor; and the racketeers were his puppet master.


In eToys, KB, Fingerhut or Mattel/Learning cases (that were all beginning or occurring between 1999 through 2001), Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital assured no federal investigation or prosecution by (secretly) having “undisclosed” relationships (conflicts of interests) with lawyers on both sides of the fence, while simultaneously owning the Delaware U.S. Attorney, Colm Connolly, (along with assistants Ellen Slights and Mark Kenney)!


MNAT openly asked another questionable federal judge in the eToys case (Mary F. Walrath) for permission to destroy the eToys books and records, early in 2001, which harmed several litigations that speciously remained open for more than 13 years, until – after – Mitt Romney lost the 2012 opresidential election (see NY Supreme Court docket evidence on destruction of books and records here).


What’s more, MNAT has an alarming history of destroying MNAT clients.


We can’t ask Howard Hughes how it is that his MNAT-affiliated Attorney, Franklin William (“Bill”) Gay, and Bill Gay’s brother-in-law (Dr. Wilbur S. Thain) were able to destroy Howard Hughes and Hughes’ companies (all placed in MNAT’s control under Summa Corp). But anyone can plainly see the historical fact that MNAT switched sides after Howard Hughes died (possibly murdered in Acapulco).


Upon the specious drug-related demise of Hughes, MNAT posthumously switches sides to represent Howard Hughes’ claim on Howard Hughes’ will – (here).


Dr. Wilbur S. Thain also was indicted for doping violations breaking federal drug laws in supplying Hughes’ drug habit. (See story – here.)


Bill Gay’s son was Bob Gay, who just so happens to have been Mitt’s Bain Capital partner for 16 years.


Coincidentally, Bob Gay quit Romney after Laser’s whistleblowing started wreaking havoc in 2005.


Gay is most likely guilty, as are dozens of Mitt’s other partners and lawyers, of having knowledge before, during and after the fact of the organized crimes (by the way, the legal term for such, is 18 U.S.C. § 4 – “Misprision of a Felony”).


That’s not the only way Romney’s rackets stymie justice.


Other schemes, beyond destruction and corruption, are the infamous “retroactively” retiring (from the racketeering).


Mitt got caught, many times, benefiting from the rackets and corruption, which has been documented in great part by eToys whistleblower Laser Haas (who this reporter believes, is the first, very well documented – serial – whistleblower exposing Wall St. crimes).


Laser also blew the whistle on Mattel/Learning, Tom Petters Ponzi, Marc Dreier, KB, Polaroid, Wells Fargo/Foothill, Playco, Cosmetics Plus and Fingerhut, which includes Romney’s version of Frank Nitti – Paul Traub (see my previous story, on Paul Traub being Mitt Romney’s version of Capone’s Frank Nitti – here).


More importantly (as it applies to current events) is the fact that Laser is the one pointing out the glaring coincidence about Romney’s “escape accountability” by a purported step back in time, i.e. the resignation that never happened.


Conveniently, Romney’s “retroactive” retirement coincides with Bain Capital/Goldman Sachs /MNAT law firm partnership of Colm Connolly (who switched sides as federal prosecutor, multiple times).


Back in 2012, MoveOn.org filed an official complaint (here) about Romney committing perjury with Mitt’s Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Presidential Campaign Finance 278 Form.


The very last page of Romney’s OGE Form 278 makes a bogus statement that Mitt did not have anything to do with Bain Capital, in any way, whatsoever, after February 11th, 1999.


Visibly, Mitt Romney committed perjury!


Evidence provided by Laser Haas, years prior, to the mainstream media and the federal systems of justice, provides much proof to the contrary. Haas’s allegations also have been corroborated by other sources that are undeniable (such as SEC records or McCain’s Presidential Campaign dossier on Mitt).


After Romney was “caught,” America was then conned by Mitt’s campaign manager (Gillespie), who went on national television attempting to obfuscate by stating Romney was “retroactively” retired from Bain Capital, as of August 2001 back to February 11th, 1999.


The glaring coincidence is the fact that Mitt Romney’s purported “retroactive” retirement is the same exact period of time as the RICO crimes spree, which also coincides with the time federal prosecutor Colm Connolly took a vacation from the DOJ, to be partner of Goldman Sachs/Bain Capital law firm of MNAT (Colm’s résumé notes he was at MNAT from 1999 until [Aug] 2001)


It’s against the law (and any semblance of common sense) for a federal prosecutor to become partners of the mafia his office is supposed to be investigating.


Could anybody else escape arrest or prosecution by “retroactively retiring” from their organized crimes?


Corrupt Federal Prosecutor Colm Connolly


There’s undeniable proof of Colm Connolly being a partner of MNAT in 1999 up through August 2001; because the previously redacted résumé of Colm’s is now posted permanently at the Department of Justice’s website (Office of Legal Policy – (here).


As Colm’s résumé details, Connolly has various, significant, and important case histories. Like the fact that Colm Connolly clerked for Third Circuit Justice Walter K. Stapleton (who also was a partner of MNAT).


Even more crucial are Connolly’s résumé facts of his “revolving door” eras of time as a federal prosecutor.


Specifically, Colm’s résumé states:



  • After clerking for MNAT’s partner, Walter K. Stapleton, Colm became Assistant United States Attorney, in Delaware, from 1992, until 1999.


Then Colm Connolly switched sides when he became MNAT’s (silent) partner from 1999 until August 2001.


Kelly B. Stapleton also was a federal prosecutor. When Laser asked if the two Stapletons were related, Kelly quit!


It was in mid-2001 that Laser Haas was appointed by a federal court to be head executive of eToys.


Resultant of a million dollar bribe offer that was turned down, and reported by Laser, all of a sudden Colm Connolly (conveniently) switched sides back to the DOJ after Laser blew the whistle on Sachs and Bain lawyers’ offer of the million dollar bribe.


Haas believed the attorneys for eToys were acting as if they were – secretly – working for Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital’s lawyers. (Turns out that the hunch was much more correct than even Laser could ever have guessed.)


For 7 years the eToys whistleblower was providing vast proof of more than one hundred (100) racketeering crimes to the Delaware Justice Department; but to no avail, all for nothing because they didn’t act on the documentation.


As is now apparent, Laser and the thousands of other victims were totally unaware that the Delaware Department of Justice was Connolly; and that Colm was a partner of the very MNAT law firm Laser was beseeching Colm Connolly’s office to investigate and prosecute.


Another key secret agent for the rackets is that of Mitt Romney’s Jumbo Sports, Stage Stores and Toys Industry pal – Paul Roy Traub.


Traub possibly holds the world’s record on how many fraud and Ponzi cases one can be affiliated with … and he still escapes prosecution.


Traub was visibly involved in the aftermath of Enron and Adelphia cases; and Paul also was key to Marc Dreier, Okun 1031 Tax Group and Tom Petters Ponzi (and Fingerhut, Metro Gem, Palm Beach Links Capital, Larry Reynolds, Playco, Kmart, KB, eToys – on and on).


Colm Connolly returned to the Delaware Department of Justice on August 2, 2001, to become the top dog federal prosecutor as the United States Attorney in Delaware.


At that esteemed position, Colm Connolly’s office aided and protected the rackets and their henchmen of Paul Traub and MNAT for the next 7 years, which not only assures the success of the schemes and artifice to defraud, it also emboldens the perpetrators to expand – nationwide!


If mobsters know the “fix is in” and no arrests are ever going to occur, then the obvious “bizness” plan is to steal bigger, faster, and from as many as you possibly can.


Sadly, not only does Traub expand from Tom Petters Ponzi into other frauds (like Marc Dreier and KB), it also appears that officials have allowed the RICO enterprise to get away with the corruption of our nation’s courts; and, quite possibly, allowed the rackets to get away with murder!


From 2001 through 2008, for his entire tenure as top federal prosecutor in Delaware as United States Attorney, Colm Connolly and his staff (including Assistant United States Attorney Ellen Slights) flatly refused to investigate, much less prosecute, MNAT, Paul Traub, Barry Gold, Michael Glazer, Bain Capital or Goldman Sachs.


Any failing grade first-year law student could do a better job!


Connolly was required by law and federal protocols to report his conflicts of interests to Laser, to the courts, and to the many victims/parties of interests of the various cases that Laser has blown the whistle about.


Previously, Colm was nominated by President GW Bush in 2008 to become a Delaware federal judge; which Laser was able to quash.


Now Trump has re-nominated Colm Connolly – again!


As a matter of law, Colm Connolly and his former MNAT partner, Maryellen Noreika (who Trump has also nominated for the Delaware Federal Court), also are breaking the law by their incomplete/deceptive info on their Senate Judiciary questionnaires.


Both Connolly and Noreika were specifically asked to disclose any potential conflicts of interest that might be a reason why they would be deemed unfit for the judgeship; but they both are concealing the facts.


Noreika and Connolly are being deceitful in their failure to disclose the eToys case and the fact that MNAT has many case connections to Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs. A list of other conflict issues that Colm and Noreika are required to disclose includes, but is not limited to, KB, Mattel/Learning, Fingerhut, Tom Petters Ponzi, Marc Dreier, Paul Traub, Allen Stanford, Bader Company and eToys.


In 2008, then-Senator Biden came to the aid of the quest for justice. Senator Biden prevented Colm Connolly’s nomination for the federal bench by the Senator simply refusing to sign the requisite Senate slip, normally utilized to process a judicial nominee, forward.


Trump’s Administration now cries foul about the Senate slip sign protocol, claiming it isn’t a law (see – here).


Unfortunately, as is now readily apparent, despite Trump’s claims to “drain the swamp” the President seems to desire to help Romney and Goldman Sachs escape justice.


On March 22, 2017, Laser sued Trump, Sessions, FBI, and the SEC to block Jay Clayton (who is directly connected to the big 3 criminal elements of Sachs, Bain Capital and the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm that represents Goldman Sachs).


The gripe being that, similar to the facts of Colm Connolly being unfit to be a federal prosecutor or judge over Sachs and Bain Capital cases, Jay Clayton is unfit to become head of the SEC, which has a reputation of never indicting Sachs!


But the D.C. Clerk of Court (illegally) prevented Laser’s complaint from being entered into the federal court docket record until May 24, 2017, which was 3 weeks after Congress voted and confirmed Jay Clayton.


Now Trump endorses Mitt Romney to be Senator, and Colm Connolly to be a federal judge!


Laser Haas argues, with great evidence, that neither Colm Connolly nor Mitt Romney should be allowed to walk the streets – much less become entrusted with political power.


Are we really just going to allow these guys a perverse end-run around the Constitution, so that they can “retroactively” retire from their organized crimes?


Laser certainly hopes not!


As a result of many federal agents and court betrayal of the public’s trust, witnesses are dead, including the untimely demise of a brother of a federal prosecutor!


Retroactive Retirement from Racketeering Crime Spree


Al Capone is turning over in his grave as racketeers, liars, and thieves are running for, and becoming, President!


Both Trump and Romney obviously have tax issues they seek to keep buried; and, as everyone knows, Al Capone failed in his endeavors to escape accountability for Capone’s tax schemes.


Not only is Romney able to keep his tax issues buried, there’s solid evidence that Mitt is worth far more than the $250 million Romney has led the American public to believe.


That is, of course, retroactively speaking!


Be that as it may, let’s take a look at how Mitt Romney got his hundreds of millions (or billions); and the rock-solid reasons there should be a claw back of his ill-gotten gains.


Ripping Off Toys Industry for Billions


Beyond the Salvadoran death squad’s $9 million and the hundreds of millions improperly allowed to stay in place from Milken’s junk bond money to formulate Stage Stores, there’s one case where Romney’s gangs did not have to do bankruptcy ring racketeering frauds.


The Learning Company was owned by Mitt and others, which was merged with Mattel in 1999. MNAT is on the official SEC record (here) as being involved in the merger of The Learning Company with Mattel in 1999.


As this reporter noted in my story (here) about the Mattel/Learning Company merger, Goldman Sachs aided Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and Thomas Lee Partners to get involved with “The Learning Company” in 1997.


Then, in 1999, Learning was merged with Mattel; and that catastrophic deal was reported (here) as one of “the worst corporate mergers of all time”!


Resultant of apparent cooked books fraud, Mattel investors instantly lost $4 billion dollars; and the bleeding was so bad, Mattel had to give away “The Learning Company”  for free – to Gore’s Technology Group.


There were no visible federal arrests or prosecutions; which, obviously, is due to the switching of sides of Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Colm F. Connolly who then became a partner of MNAT in 1999.


Obviously, it would be a massive perversion of justice to allow Goldman Sachs, Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and MNAT to claim exemption from prosecution by the statute of limitations.


They most certainly can’t be allowed to rig the case by a double-dealing federal prosecutor and claim there was a lack of prosecution.


eToys IPO and Bankruptcy Ring Frauds, including KB


Also in 1999, Goldman Sachs was the fiduciary agent for the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of eToys.com.


Unfortunately, eToys was defrauded of hundreds of millions of dollars when its stock price went to $85; but Goldman Sachs had eToys get less than $20 per share.


You can read my reporting on the eToys case (here) or see the March 2013 New York Times report by Joe Nocera, titled “Rigging the I.P.O Game.”


As part of The Learning Company/Mattel merger/fiasco, Mitt Romney’s contingency received a reported 12 million shares of Mattel stock. Being inside one of the top 2 toy industry empires (Mattel – Hasbro) provided a quicker pathway for Bain Capital to wind up owning Toys R Us.


With the insider information, Bain Capital was able to influence toy industry manufacturers’ auspices over retailers such as KB, FAO Schwartz, Zainy Brainy and eToys.com


This insider information also gave Bain Capital an unfair competitive edge to make “stalking horse” and other insider deals to lock out competitors’ bids, which would assure Bain Capital’s quest to get Toys R Us.


However, in order to achieve that lofty goal, Bain Capital needed more ill-gotten gains. That is where Paul Traub being a master of frauds, Ponzi and “New York bag man” – via bankruptcy rings – comes into the picture. (See this reporter’s story on Paul Traub being Mitt Romney’s version of Frank Nitti – here.)


It is a visible pattern of the RICO enterprise for Romney’s Bain Capital to put in some millions, then take out as much as possible in management fees or some other scheme.


Then the depleted entity is paced into bankruptcy!


Bankruptcy schemes work so well for Romney’s Bain Capital that it has been rinsed, lathered and repeated.


Both KB and eToys have been in bankruptcy multiple times, but they always, magically, wind up back at Bain Capital. This time, the remains of eToys and KB are also in bankruptcy – once again – under Toys R Us.


How that happens is, Romney’s minions move from one case to another, when they can, causing bankruptcy where needs be, to stiff everyone not in on the schemes and artifices to defraud.


Romney owned control of Stage Stores in mid-2000 when Stage was placed into bankruptcy.


Also in mid-2000, Bain Capital put down a deposit with Consolidated Stores (Big Lots), to buy KB.


Michael Glaser was CEO of KB, and Glazer was made a Director at Stage Stores.


Jack Bush of Dallas, TX also was a Director at Stage Stores.


Back at another Bain Capital company, Jumbo Sports, Paul Traub and Barry Gold were also involved; and they both were at Stage Stores under Glazer and Bush.


Further, as an investigation by the court presiding over Stage Stores later learned, Barry Gold and Paul Traub were at Luria Brothers with Larry Durant as well.


During the eToys bankruptcy case, Larry Durant was with R.R. Donnelly which was a bondholder of eToys; and two members of Donnelly’s Board were Goldman Sachs guys.


As soon as Laser cried foul about R.R. Donnelly’s conflict of interest issues, then Goldman Sachs and R.R. Donnelly ended their $300 million dollar partnership.


Paul Traub and Barry Gold also worked at an additional company, Witmark, together.


Barry Gold was the Director’s assistant at Stage Stores.


It was by Barry Gold’s direct signature, as Stage Stores authority, that the hiring of Paul Traub’s law firm of Traub Bonacquist & Fox (TBF) was made official for Stage Stores.


On top of all those schemes, the gangs of Stage Stores and Mattel/Learning moved over to the eToys and KB bankruptcy cases, pretending, by lies under oath or omission of material facts, that the directly connected parties were opponents of each other to enrich themselves.


There’s also an issue of Liquidity Solutions being Co-Debtor of Stage Stores; and afterward Traub snuck Barry Gold into eToys in order to usurp Laser Haas. Then Liquidity Solutions began to acquire the creditor claims in eToys. (That’s another article for a different day.)


The thing is, being that Barry Gold confessed they were partners (in Asset Disposition Advisors), and that Barry Gold was compensated by Traub’s law firm, compounded by the facts that Gold and Traub were at Stage Stores (that was co-debtor with Liquidity Solutions). All those parties were required to disclose their connections and failed to do so.


As a result by legal standards, any eToys creditors claims involving Liquidity Solutions, paid by Barry Gold (and/or approved by Traub or MNAT), are bankruptcy ring/racketeering crimes!


Like the Stapleton question, as soon as Laser pointed out the dynamics in the Stage Stores and KB cases, surreptitiously the court docket records were altered.


Fortunately, Laser took pictures!


As is plain to see by the eToys and KB court docket records, MNAT, Barry Gold and Traub’s TBF lied – extensively – to conceal their numerous conflicts of interest.


To this very day, whenever Laser gets close to any actual court hearings concerning the total lack of disclosure of Bain Capital conflicts of interest issues, a panic ensues among the racketeers.


If any decent federal agent or court addresses the collusion to defraud a federal estate, and the fact that MNAT and Traub are betraying court-approved clients – for the unlawful sake of secret clients – then MNAT would lose its malpractice insurance.


That’s how Laser helps compel law firms to disband!


Scott Henkin is another person guilty of knowledge before, during and after (Misprision of a Felony).


Back in 2001, like Larry Durant of RR Donnelly, Scott Henkin was the person most knowledgeable (p/m/k) at eToys bondholder Fir Tree Value Fund.


Henkin confessed to Laser in 2005 that there was a gathering of minds (purportedly off the record) to give blessing for Traub to plant Barry Gold into eToys despite the fact it was (secretly) known that Barry and Paul Traub were partners.


Then, when eToys is sold out from under the KB bankruptcy case to D.E. Shaw, Scott Henkin moves with eToys to D.E. Shaw, which becomes part of “The Patent Company.”


As is par for the course, Parent goes bankrupt; and eToys then winds up at Toys R Us and Henkin goes to KKR.


By the way, KKR is another creditor of Toys R Us; and Scott Henkin “was” there (until Laser pointed out the facts.)


This particular conflict of eToys, throwing out Laser to replace him with Barry Gold, is verboten; because Barry Gold was put in as CEO of eToys and Traub/TBF was the attorney for the creditors.


Furthermore, the parties asked the United States Trustee for permission to replace Laser. They were warned not to do so in a conflicted manner (see P. 18, 19 and 35 – here), being that Barry Gold and Paul Traub were secretly partners; and Barry was also a paid person of Traub’s TBF law firm. Compounded by the fact they were forewarned by the federal police (U.S. Trustee) not to do conflicts of interest, means the offenses are extensively heinous and egregious.


Congress has gone to great lengths to assure that conflicts of interest such as this do not occur. The parties are required by law to be diametrically opposed, as good faith, totally 100% “arm’s length” relationship between debtor and creditors.


As a matter of fact, one of the lies under oath is the perjury of Barry Gold which occurred once the perpetrators illegally locked Laser Haas out of eToys.


Barry Gold had the unmitigated gall to falsely testify – under penalty of perjury – that the eToys case issues were negotiated by “extensive” arm’s length negotiations between eToys debtor and creditors.


This, of course, is impossible to achieve being that MNAT and Barry Gold are the advocates for the debtor; and Barry Gold’s Declaration is put forth by MNAT, falsely claiming they are “extensive” arm’s length from their partner in crimes – Paul Traub.


To further guarantee the racketeers’ success, with the massive lies under oath and other schemes possibly failing, Romney’s gang needed to eliminate Laser and others.


Laser was one of the prominent sources for Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone September 2012 cover story “Greed and Debt: A True Story About Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.”


Regrettably, Taibbi omitted certain key facts from his story that Laser has expressed to this reporter. Including, but not limited to, the fact that Matt’s RS article was a “True Story”; but far from the whole story Laser had given him.


This reporter reached out to Taibbi multiple times but has not received any response from a number of mediums he was messaged on, including email and Twitter.


However, Taibbi did tell the truth about Romney’s Stage Stores beginnings, and the fact Michael Glazer paid himself $18 million and Bain Capital $83 million prior to Glazer filing bankruptcy of KB in 2004. However, the facts of the matter are that while Bain Capital’s gang was defrauding Stage Stores, KB, Mattel (via Learning merger) and eToys, all at the same time, Taibbi failed to note many things – including the fact that Michael Glazer also was at Stage Stores.


A goal of the eToys case,was for the racketeers to get the benefit of aiding and abetting the success of Goldman Sachs’ IPO fraud, and the 2-fer of Bain Capital’s desire to acquire toy entities as cheap as possible along with the destruction of “Laser the Liquidator’s” career.


The unjust enrichment included MNAT, Barry Gold, Paul Traub’s TBF and Michael Glaser getting millions for helping their Wall Street fraud masters steal vast billions from eToys, KB, Fingerhut, and Mattel.


The rigging of the eToys case didn’t stop with Paul Traub and Barry Gold after MNAT was approved as eToys debtor’s court counsel. Traub’s TBF was the eToys creditors’ attorney who was utilized to defraud eToys in the NY Supreme Court.


Laser was hired to run eToys; but MNAT and TBF along with the creditors and debtor beguiled Laser to use his company (Collateral Logistics, Inc. [CLI]) .


It wasn’t until years later that Laser realized the push for hiring CLI, instead of Laser personally, was so that MNAT could betray Laser and the racketeers end Laser’s career.


MNAT forged a “HAAS Affidavit” that the perpetrators claim was Laser Haas’s “waiving” of tens of millions of dollars in fees and expenses (obviously a preposterous notion to even entertain).


Originally, MNAT, TBF and Barry Gold planned to sell eToys for $5.4 million to Romney’s Bain Capital/KB (with Michael Glaser as CEO).


Laser halted the paltry sale and Laser had various deals structured to get back hundreds of millions. Including, but not limited to, mergers with Scholastic and/or Playco and the suing of Goldman Sachs for eToys IPO stock frauds.


When Laser turned down, and reported, the million dollar bribe offer; that’s when all Hell started to break loose.


Outside of Laser, the only other honest person was Mattel’s director of credit who also was Chairman of eToys Creditors Committee.


Totally unaware that Romney and Sachs gained undue power and influence over the DOJ (Colm Connolly) and Mattel (where the Learning merger got Mitt’s contingency a reported 12 million shares of Mattel stock, as part of the march towards Toys R Us), both the eToys Chairman of Creditors and Laser found themselves completely deceived and being forced out.


After the coup was successful, MNAT and Traub replaced Laser, making Barry Gold the new eToys CEO.


Once Laser was locked out, Barry Gold was illegally arranged to be the Confirmed Bankruptcy PLAN Administrator in charge of the $50 million plus that Laser Haas got back into the eToys cash accounts.


On top of the prior cases mentioned, of Barry Gold and Paul Traub working together, Laser’s smoking gun evidence compelled Paul Traub to admit that Barry Gold was his personal partner and that Barry Gold also was personally being paid by Traub’s TBF law firm.


Traub admitted on March 1, 2005, in testimony that is transcribed, to the fact that TBF paid Barry Gold four separate payments of $30,000 each from January 2001 through May 2001.


Barry Gold also confessed in his (previously hidden) eToys Hiring Letter, to the fact that Barry Gold received $40,000 per month once Gold was “planted” inside.


Back in 1994, US Attorney General Janet Reno put forth the Reno Reform Act, which made 18 U.S.C. 155 Scheme to Fix Fees a priority.


Traub’s TBF paying Barry Gold four payments of $30,000 each, and then planting Barry Gold into eToys where eToys then took over paying Barry Gold without the court’s permission, is a Scheme to Fix Fees.


Additionally, every time MNAT, Paul Traub or Barry Gold declined to do their fiduciary duty to protect their court-approved clients, the parties are guilty of a criminal conspiracy to defraud a public company and federal estate.


From 1994 until this very day, despite there being over 30 million bankruptcy cases transpiring, we can’t find a single prosecution of lawyers for a Scheme to Fix Fees!


MNAT also confessed the MNAT firm failed to disclose its relationship with Goldman Sachs.


However, to this very day, MNAT, Barry Gold, Paul Traub and all the other culprits (including Colm Connolly), continue to obstruct justice by covering up and evading disclosing their direct connections to Bain Capital. This is significant due to the fact Congress designed the conflict of interest laws in order to prevent this very thing from happening.


Also, betrayal of a court-approved client can only be done by an Attorney at Law violating his Oath to the BAR!


These confessions mandated that the Delaware Courts and Department of Justice shall seek the removal (Disqualification under Section 327[a]) of MNAT, Barry Gold and Traub’s TBF.


Colm Connolly made sure that did not occur.


Neither of those parties, nor U.S. Attorney Colm Connolly, have ever admitted to the facts they are all directly connected to Romney’s Bain/KB. Doing so would lead to a number of indictments and the end of the MNAT law firm; which has been in existence for 80 years.


Compounding those issues, the perpetrators kept the eToys bankruptcy case open for 14 years; and then they closed the case in January 2015 after the eToys v. Goldman Sachs fraud case was settled (see NY Times March 2013 article “Rigging the I.P.O Game”).


Once Laser was usurped, the parties reduced the sales price of eToys to Bain Capital/KB (serious federal felonies); and then Barry Gold and MNAT nominated their partner in crime (Traub/ TBF) to be the one to sue Goldman Sachs in New York Supreme Court.


In other words, it was kabuki theater; Goldman Sachs sued Sachs and eToys lost a billion dollars – again!


Also, there’s a Wells Fargo/John Gellene-styled $100 million dollars, pre-bankruptcy petition, fraud!


Though the victims have been deprived, for a decade plus, justice could still come…(retroactively speaking)!


KB, Dreier, Petters, Fingerhut Frauds


It is a public fact that Mitt and his son Tagg were involved with Allen Stanford (who is now doing 50 years in prison).


Of course, Tagg and Mitt claim they didn’t receive any ill-gotten gains; but that appears to be suspect. The Romneys deemed it necessary that their Solamere company hire many of Stanford’s executives (which could be a good way to assure their silence).


Beyond that, and the cases of Stage, Mattel, and eToys, there are many other instances of Ponzi and fraud schemes.


Fingerhut was being sued by eToys; but Paul Traub, Barry Gold and MNAT settled eToys v Fingerhut for chump change. Then Traub and Tom Petters bought Fingerhut with money from the Petters/Traub Ponzi!


Not to be left out of millions to be made, just before the FBI raided Tom Petters Ponzi, Paul Traub flew in and rearranged ownership, with Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital giving Fingerhut $50 million.


Intolerably, the feds never seized Fingerhut despite Traub’s documented involvement as the man being in “control” of the Tom Petters Ponzi (see Petters Federal Receiver Complaint against Paul Traub – here).


Though the feds did seize Polaroid, it was sold back, winding up in the hands of Petters “controlling” partner – Paul Roy Traub.


(Note: Like Colm Connolly = corruption/cover up for the RICO – the Petters Ponzi has the venal Fed prosecutor James Lackner who had a brother Marty Lackner in cahoots with Tom Petters Ponzi [that’s a story for another time]).


Polaroid was seized and sold (in a sham auction to the 2nd highest bidder) for $83 million back into the hands of Paul Traub’s other friends of the Gordon Brothers.


Edward Land, the founder of Polaroid, was the guy who funded Gordon Brothers into the distressed asset/retailer business; which meant the plot was to bring Polaroid home.


Then Gordon Brothers announced Traub as a partner, and also announced a miracle $2 billion license deal nobody else was made aware of during the sham auction.


Traub’s law firm of Traub Bonacquist & Fox was forced to disband. Michael Fox went to Olsham Fromme. Traub’s contingency became partners with Marc Dreier; and Harold Bonacquist remained as Counsel to the United States Consulate in Istanbul.


During the Ed Okun 1031 Tax Group prosecution, Traub worked the Okun 1031 side of the fence and Michael Fox worked the side of the creditors and Trustee.


Okun received 100 years; and he claims he was framed.


Marc Dreier got 20 years in prison.


As for Tom Petters, he got 50 years in prison; and – as in all other cases – Paul Traub got off ‘Scot Free’!


Unrelenting Pursuits for Justice


Laser has never relented in his pursuits for justice. Over the years the DOJ, FBI, SEC, many courts and even OIGs have responded to Haas, multiple times, promising some sort of resolution.


As usual, those promises were worthless!


Though the feds go out of their way to make sure Laser Haas never gets the credit, the facts of the matter are that more than two dozen perpetrators were put in jail; and 10 national fraud and Ponzi schemes were shut down (hence, my coin of the phrase – serial whistleblower).


Be that as it may, Laser got as close to the top of the DOJ as humanly possible (being a pro se independent).


Back in 2004 and 2005, Haas had direct communication with a DOJ Deputy Director (Lawrence Freidman) and Laser received more promises of solutions.


However, while Friedman was placating Laser, the racketeers were over at KB pulling another $100 million dollar conflict of interest fraud.


On December 22, 2004, there was an Emergency Hearing for eToys/Paul Traub/TBF perjury/frauds; and Friedman replaced the court policewoman, Roberta DeAngelis, on December 22, 2004.


In Traub’s TBF January 25, 2005 response to Laser’s allegations, Paul confessed intentionally lying under oath, which resulted in a February 15, 2005 Delaware Department of Justice Motion to Disgorge Traub’s TBF, for $1.6 million (for perpetrating a fraud on the court).


This Disgorge Motion also was to placate.


Fixing their messes, the DOJ removed Assistant United States Trustee, Frank Perch, after he wrote the Disgorge Motion; and then Delaware DOJ trial Attorney, Mark Kenney, openly granted Paul Traub’s TBF a purported immunity from further confessions.


As a matter of law, neither Mark Kenney, nor eToys case Chief Justice Mary F. Warpath have any legal authority whatsoever to grant Paul Traub immunity (bankruptcy courts [technically] aren’t Article III venues).


These perversions of justice and fake promises to arrest enraged Haas, who screamed at DOJ Deputy Director Lawrence Fredman.


Deputy Friedman responded with an email personal promise to Laser (here) that the case was being handled.


In short, it was all bullshit!


While Traub was (purportedly) being handled in eToys for conflict of interest crimes, the RICO gang continuously perpetrated other hundred-million-dollar frauds, including KB (as is documented by Laser’s whistleblowing in the KB case that Taibbi reported on in the Rolling Stone “Greed and Debt” article)!


To assure the “fixes” were completely “in,” the racketeers had Colm Connolly as the federal prosecutor, in their back pocket, keeping silent; but that plot was suffering because of Laser’s communications with DOJ Deputy Friedman.


So, with Frank Perch gone and Kelley Beaudin Stapleton replacing Roberta DeAngelis, other chess moves transpired.


MNAT openly represented Bain Capital of the $83 million gifted Bain Capital by Michael Glazer, prior to KB being placed into bankruptcy.


Nefariously, it was Paul Traub who then asked the KB court for permission to be the one to prosecute Glazer and Bain Capital (of course Paul did so without Traub disclosing he worked under Glazer and Romney/Bain at Stage Stores).


Laser filed proof of the fraud in the KB case, including an Affidavit from the eToys Chairman, which pointed out Traub was betraying his court-approved clients in eToys and KB.


It was also pointed out that TBF was actually of “Revoked” status by the Secretary of State of New York; which meant Traub’s TBF was lying, all over the place, about TBF being in “good standing,”


After Paul Traub openly confessed his TBF paid Barry Gold, prior to – planting Barry Gold (illegally) into eToys – DOJ Deputy Director Lawrence Friedman, took the easy way out – throwing in the towel – and resigning.


In order to aid Colm Connolly’s failure to prosecute, they needed to make sure the United States Trustee program, as police of the bankruptcy system, would neglect to do their job.


Clifford White took over as DOJ Deputy Director of the United States Trustee program and the removed Robert DeAngelis was – secretly – promoted to be top bankruptcy cases cop (as General Counsel for the Executive Office of United States Trustee program, in Washington, D.C.)


Roberta DeAngelis stayed at her cronyism/cover-up post, until – after – the eToys bankruptcy case was closed in 2015.


Clifford White and his nefarious agent, Mark Kenney, are still at their posts, betraying the public’s trust (as are Ellen Slights, James Lackner, and FBI Agents Paul Cavanaugh and Scott Duffey).


Multiple federal courts are openly breaking the law to prevent Laser Haas’s day in court.


Summing up the – Retroactive RICO – Crime Sprees


Colm Connolly was an extremely, visibly corrupt, federal prosecutor who buried dozens of Goldman Sachs/Bain Capital cases from federal investigation or prosecution.


Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, in partnership with Goldman Sachs, ripped off Mattel, Fingerhut, Dreier, Petters, KB and eToys cases for more than $5 billion.


Sachs and Mitt, through their attorneys, have done many overt acts to continue the obstruction.


Due to cronyism and corruption, including Colm Connolly, Mark Kenney, Clifford White III, Roberta DeAngelis, Ellen Slights, James Lackner and several FBI Agents (like Scott Duffey and Paul Cavanaugh) – those related dishonest public servants also are as culpable/guilty of the homicides being buried from federal investigation due to their betrayals of the public’s trust.


All the while, Mitt’s gang, including Traub, are confident the cronyism and corruption assures they will continue roaming around ‘Scot Free’ concerning their RICO crime spree of Obstruction of Justice, Bribery, Intimidation of Victim / Witness, Criminal Conspiracy, Mail and Wire Fraud, Perjury, Scheme to Fix Fees, Retaliation, Securities Fraud, Plots to Overthrow the Governments/Corruption, Collusion, Theft of Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy Ring Fraud, Destruction of Evidence, Interstate Commerce Larceny, Bank Fraud, and multiple issues of Murder for Hire!


Do you think for one second that Romney has/had no idea who Laser Haas is?


Really!


In 2015, Haas sued Romney, personally, in Los Angeles for racketeering, along with Traub, Connolly, Glazer, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs. (See article here.)


Perhaps predictably the new lawyers put forth the same old lies.


RICO only requires that two felony crimes be documented, and the law stipulates the documentation only needs to meet the lowest requisite standard of proof being “preponderance of the evidence.”


As noted above, the eToys whistleblower has pointed out over 100 state and federal felony violations; but that doesn’t seem to matter to any federal agent or agency.


Paul Traub is a key piece. His crimes are well documented far beyond “clear and convincing”; and Traub already confessed to deliberately lying under oath in eToys.


Beyond all reasonable doubt, Paul Traub and his minions are guilty of perjury, conspiracy, bribery, and betrayal of a court-approved clients’ trust.


Just because willfully blind courts and federal agents say they don’t care, doesn’t mean the racketeers are to remain above the law forever.


Surely one can’t claim protection by a statute of limitations if the rackets actually own a federal prosecutor!


As noted above, the RICO Act was made into law specifically to address “prosecutorial gaps”; and Laser is pointing out lack of prosecutions – all over the place.


KB and eToys went into bankruptcy multiple times; and they are in bankruptcy – again – under Toys R Us, which is now closing all remaining stores in order to pay its creditors.


One of those creditors are none other than Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital; but that flies in the face where there’s a legal standard that two wrongs don’t make a right. Neither can Romney, Bain Capital or Goldman Sachs claim entitlement to the recompense of ill-gotten gains!


If any decent federal prosecutor looked at the facts, along with Romney’s retroactive retirement, Colm Connolly corruption and Paul Traub’s partnership in a dozen other frauds and Ponzi schemes – then, not only would Mitt and gang not be able to get any money from the Toys R Us closings – Romney, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs would suffer billions of dollars in fines and clawbacks for past schemes.


Laser has worked with others to compel multiple law firms to disband or close; and MNAT is (properly) next on the list to go down.


Haas notes that he doesn’t care who goes to jail (other than Colm Connolly and anybody else directly involved in the homicides). His goal is to stop the crimes and get paid.


Laser knows, after the untimely deaths of Marty Lackner, Jack Wheeler, Michael Sesseyoff and eToys.com shareholder Robert Alber – that is a coin flip, whether or not, the racketeers will murder Laser, Paul Traub, or this reporter next.


Chances are, Paul Traub knows more dirt than even Laser knows, and that makes the “Brown Bag King of New York” a good candidate for the Witness Protection program.


Speaking Of WISTEC, Traub/Petters already had a pal there named Larry Reynolds.


Um, retroactively speaking, we mean, Larry Reserivitz.


Reserivitz/Reynolds laundered $12 billion for the Tom Petters/Paul Traub Ponzi; but most don’t know about that – due to the fact the Minnesota DOJ (where James Lackner was head of the Criminal Division) keeps lying to the press that the Petters Ponzi was a mere $3.7 billion.


Larry (Reservitz) Reynolds laundered his $12 billion while living in Las Vegas, and also being inside the Witness Protection Program.


As noted above, Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital were part of the Petters Ponzi Fingerhut schemes, which originated at eToys.


Though Mitt is good at destroying evidence, the one thing Willard Mitt Romney can’t escape is his public record of bragging how much Romney is worth. Many times Mitt boasted that he is, at least, worth $250 million, due to his ownership of Bain Capital. It is axiomatic that – if Bain Capital benefited from fraud – then Mitt Romney (and their partner Goldman Sachs) have benefited from fraud.


Robert Alber was an eToys shareholder who died after having to shoot/kill career criminal Michael Sesseyoff in Kingman Arizona; and Jack Wheeler was murdered then had his body placed in a Delaware Dump in typical mafia style.


Marty Lackner was partners of Tom Petters Ponzi; and Marty was found dead in his closet; and James Lackner was Marty’s brother.


That’s Minnesota Assistant United States Attorney James Lackner, who was head of the Criminal Division that never indicted Marty!


Now Mitt Romney wants to keep his unjust enrichment and become a senator (or even POTUS), and Colm Connolly has great hopes to become a federal judge.


Can we really allow racketeers to get away with all these documented crimes?


Whistleblower Laser Haas has done his job; and, as any of the victims of Stanford, Dreier, KB, Tom Petters, or many other cases too numerous to mention here, can tell you…


Ponzi/Fraud clawbacks are a bitch!


A federal task force is needed to investigate and prosecute how deep and wide this racketeering enterprise has infected the federal system of justice. Especially since disgraced attorney Paul Roy Traub is longstanding documented to have committed several acts of fraud many times in a court of law, as well as he traces back to Tom Petters Ponzi and many of the other cases of Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital.


Who says crime doesn’t pay? Paul Traub has been granted absurd settlements in Dreier, KB, Fingerhut, Petters Ponzi and eToys, by corrupted, willfully blind, federal agents/agencies; which was due to the fact that the cui bono, in the billions was for Sachs/Romney/Bain. Meanwhile, the courts choose to continue to punish the victims and whistleblower.


Should you think otherwise, perhaps you need to see the hundred other crimes this article hasn’t addressed. Upon Laser getting proof of corruption, by Colm Connolly’s résumé, Haas filed a report to the Public Corruption Task Force on December 7th (see time stamps here); and, then, several weeks later that task force was shut down and career federal prosecutors were threatened to keep their mouths shut (See L.A. Times article “Shake-up toils federal prosecutors.”)


Thousands of people have lost billions, federal corruption is rampant, and people have died (including victims and a brother of a United States Attorney).


When is it enough? – Enough!


If the Petters Ponzi Receiver can go after nuns to take back Tom’s gift of a handicap elevator, then the least any decent federal agent or court could do, is clawback Mitt’s 3-car-garage elevator.


Just sayin’….Retroactively speaking.


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Friday, February 2, 2018

Protecting Bad Faith Nominees FBI Threatens Whistleblower

By Aaron Kesel


For a decade plus, eToys federal case whistleblower, Laser Haas, has continued to pursue justice against rackets like a “Bankruptcy Ring” that is enjoying above-the-law status because the cui bono unjustly enriches the powerhouses of Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital personnel.


Protection is insulating billions of dollars from being clawed back, from harming thousands of people, trust, and investment groups.


To assure the culprits escape accountability, there are FBI agents betraying the public’s trust by issuing threats against the whistleblower.


The parties the stalwarts seek to protect includes judicial nominees and other cabinet positions already snuck into the Trump administration (such as SEC Commish Jay Clayton).


Additionally, the racketeering enterprise has many roaming managers to protect, including, but not limited to, Goldman Sachs current and past partners, along with Mitt Romney, his Sankaty & Bain Capital and their gangs of, Michael Glazer, Barry Gold and Tom Petters Ponzi “control” partner Paul Traub.


That being said, the most nefarious party, with the greatest amount of power and undue influence over the Department of Justice, able to obtain profuse refusals to prosecute, is the Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell (MNAT) law firm.


MNAT partners of Greg Werkheiser, Robert Dehney, Maryellen Noreika and their in and out associate, revolving door Colm Connolly, who was planted into the DOJ as the very federal prosecutor having auspices over the particular cases of KB, Mattel/ Learning, Fingerhut and eToys, as Laser’s documentation has proven.


Greg Werkheiser is a longtime MNAT partner who was court approved to represent eToys and file paperwork on behalf of Laser Haas’s CLI entity.


Instead, Greg Werkheiser and his partner Robert Denney betrayed Laser Haas and eToys with a forged “HAAS Affidavit” that they, in cahoots with Barry Gold and Paul “bagman” Traub, claimed Laser was waiving rights for Laser/CLI’s compensation for the millions of dollars in fees and expenses.


Once again, does anyone in their right mind believe Laser willingly waived his rights to millions of dollars?






The bad faith parties also unlawfully inserted Barry Gold into eToys at the behest of his secret partner, Paul Traub, which was aided and abetted by MNAT, to usurp Laser as the eToys court-appointed fiduciary.


Paul Traub was eToys court-approved Creditors’ counsel and MNAT was eToys case (DE Bankr 01-706) court-approved Debtor’s counsel, despite that those two parties were required, by numerous Codes and Rules of Law, to be diametrically opposed.


Once Barry Gold was “planted” into eToys, then MNAT, Paul Traub and Barry Gold locked Laser out of the eToys estate in December 2001; bizarrely doing so after MNAT put the phony “HAAS Affidavit” into the eToys docket record in November 2001.


This usurpation was deemed necessary by the adversarial parties because MNAT, Barry Gold and Paul Traub had offered Laser a million dollar bribe and chance to become a partner in their Mitt Romney roaming gang.


Originally, MNAT & Paul Traub sought to sell eToys to Bain/KB for $5.4 million; which Laser canceled and compelled the bids to go for tens of millions of dollars.


In 1999, Goldman Sachs took eToys public for more than $75 per share; but eToys received less than $20 in a classic pump-n-dump stock fraud “spinning” scheme (see N.Y. Times March 2013 “Rigging the I.P.O. Game”).


Also in 1999, MNAT worked the merger of Mattel with “The Learning Company,” which resulted in instant catastrophic $4 billion loss for Mattel/investors.


Goldman Sachs aided Romney/Bain Capital to be involved with The Learning Company (see the details in this reporter’s story about The Learning Company defraud of Mattel).


Then, in mid-2000, marching towards a Toys “R” Us ownership, Bain Capital acquired KB, with Michael Glazer as CEO of KB, from 2000, until – at least – 2005.


Around the same time, Stage Stores, owned by Mitt Romney, filed bankruptcy, with Barry Gold as the Stage Stores executive assistant who hired Paul Roy Traub for the Stage Stores bankruptcy case.


All the while Jack Bush and Michael Glazer were Directors of Stage Stores. (Glazer has since become CEO of Stage).


As reported by Matt Taibbi’s huge September 2012 Rolling Stone cover story (“Greed and Debt”), Taibbi stipulated it was a “True Story About Mitt Romney –.”


“Greed and Debt” details the facts that Mitt got the funding for Stage Stores from Michael Milken junk bonds.


Of particular note, Taibbi reiterated the Boston Globe story that pointed out the fact that the judge presiding over Milken’s case allowed the monies to stay in place, for Romney to use, when the judge’s wife was part of the Stage Stores dealings.


Also noteworthy is that, sadly, according to Laser Haas, Matt Taibbi skipped over the eToys case (inexplicably), as the “Greed and Debt” article points out the facts of Michael Glazer paying himself $18 million and Bain Capital $83 million, prior to Michael Glazer filing bankruptcy of KB.


The fact of the matter is that Taibbi was prompted to do the story by serial whistleblower Laser Haas; and, though Laser gave Matt permission to leave Laser’s name out of the bombshell article, that was done under the condition Taibbi told the “Whole” novel not holding anything back.


(Matt Taibbi declined to comment and did not return any messages from this reporter’s attempts to reach him, including a direct email where I introduced myself to him.)


One of the many things missed by Matt Taibbi and Rolling Stone is that Laser Haas was also the KB case whistleblower, who had an email from the Department of Justice Deputy Director, Lawrence Friedman, promising the DOJ was on top of the case.


Additionally, Barry Gold, Mitt Romney’s Sankaty, Paul Traub and MNAT are all there, in the KB case, pretending to be opponents of each other (in the same manner they were doing in the eToys case).


MNAT openly represented Bain Capital of the $83 million issue (here); and Paul Traub is also representing the Creditors of the KB bankruptcy case (here).


Further, as par for the course, neither MNAT, nor Barry Gold, nor Michael Glazer, Mitt Romney/Bain Capital or Paul Traub do their lawful duty to disclose the unwavering factors they are all connected to each other in the Mattel or Stage Stores cases.


Unfortunately, these racketeering/“Bankruptcy Ring” crimes have escaped being brought to justice as the DOJ Deputy Director, Lawrence Friedman resigned shortly after telling Laser he was on the case.


Prior to that, apparently to make sure there are no investigations or prosecutions, the parties arranged for MNAT’s partner – Colm Connolly – to be promoted and moved to the very Delaware United States Attorney office that was presiding over the KB, Mattel/ Learning, Fingerhut and eToys cases.


Even more shockingly, or perhaps not, Colm Connolly has never disclosed the fact that – for the 7 years he was in office as a top dog federal prosecutor – while Laser was beseeching Connolly to prosecute MNAT, Colm failed to disclose the fact he himself was a partner of Morris Nichols…


Prior to 1999, Colm Connolly was the Delaware Assistant United States Attorney, starting in 1992.


Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Colm Connolly clerked for Judge Walter K Stapleton (who just so happens to have been a partner of you guessed it… MNAT).


These facts about Colm Connolly are irrefutable. They are part of his archived résumé at the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy (here). (archived)


Another glaring coincidence is the fact Mitt Romney’s campaign is documented to have falsified the fact that Mitt left Bain Capital, and had nothing to do with Bain in any way – whatsoever – after February 11, 1999.


When Laser pointed out to everyone in the media, certain smoking gun proofs that Mitt was lying during his campaign run, Romney’s campaign flip-flopped on the issue, claiming Mitt was “retroactively” retired from Bain Capital, as of August 2001, back to February 11, 1999.


This era of time is also when the KB, Fingerhut, Learning Company and eToys frauds were occurring, which has MNAT involved.


You can see details about Mitt Romney’s Campaign Finance perjury, as detailed by MoveOn.org (here) and Colm Connolly’s DOJ/OLP matching timeline resume (here)!


Back in 2007 then-President, GW Bush nominated Colm Connolly to be a Delaware District Court Judge; but Laser worked feverishly to stop his nomination and, as a result, Colm’s chance for the federal bench was halted. (See items about Senator Biden blocking Colm Connolly – here).


Alarmingly, with all the other things transpiring, Laser sought to block Jay Clayton’s nomination for Commissioner of SEC recently; but that effort was unsuccessful, as the corruption spread across the country.


Washington D.C. Clerk of Court received Laser’s lawsuit on March 22, 2017, where Laser litigation was against the official capacities of Donald Trump, the DOJ, FBI, EOUST, SEC and Delaware Assistant United States Attorney, Ellen Slights (who was Colm Connolly’s assistant).


Enigmatically, further proof of how incestuous and systemic the rackets are – with undue power and influence over the Goldman Sachs, Mitt Romney and Bain Capital/MNAT cases – is the fact that the D.C. Clerk of Court illegally put Laser’s lawsuit into a desk drawer ignoring it until after Jay Clayton was confirmed on May 2nd, 2017.


Though every one of those agents/agencies received a copy of Laser’s complaint, it has now been a year since; but none of them are doing anything to arrest the organized well-documented criminal activity.


As a matter of fact, as the court records flagrantly show (see below), the D.C. Clerk of Court did not clock in Laser’s papers until May 9th, which was a few days after the judge signed an Order to dismiss on May 5th.


The thing is, as the docket record observably shows, the D.C. District Court Clerk did not make the documents viewable, in the public record, until May 24th.


That begs the question how does a judge order a case dismissed when the items are not yet filed into the record?


Perhaps it has something to do with the clicked in papers having a connotation on the right-hand side labeled “F-Deck”.




This reporter wonders if the “F” stands for what Laser thinks it stands for just missing the U?


Regrettably, this is not the first series of extraordinarily strange things transpiring, concerning Laser’s whistleblowing and his official court filings.


In Delaware, the eToys case judge, Mary G. Walrath, ordered the Clerk of the Delaware Court in December 2013 to forbid any future filings by Laser Haas.


Prior to that time, when Laser learned about Connolly’s smoking gun résumé proof that Colm was an MNAT partner, Laser then went clear across the country, to Los Angeles, to file a Complaint where the Public Corruption Task Force was housed.


You can see by the time-stamped 18 U.S.C. § 3057(a) filing of Laser Haas (here) that the Task Force United States Attorney’s office received the Complaint against Colm Connolly, and others, on December 7, 2007.


Then, straight out of The Twilight Zone or a horror film, the Public Corruption Task Force was surreptitiously shut down and career federal prosecutors were actually threatened to keep their mouths shut – or else (see March 2008 Los Angeles Times article “Shake-up tools federal prosecutors”).


Beyond that fact, this was when Romney was running for president, the 1st time, separate of the fact the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney, Tom O’Brien was a purported fly buddy of GW Bush (who some say didn’t fly as much as logs said he did). Aside from that, GW Bush and Mitt Romney are reported to be distant cousins….


The thing is, way back then, the FBI was already threatening Laser Haas to “back off” and stop his pursuits of justice.


Debra Yang was the United States Attorney, in Los Angeles, where the eToys corporate headquarters were stationed.


Upon being emailed, constantly, by Laser Haas, Debra Yang, as head of the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force, referred the matter to the Delaware Department of Justice.


That was the Delaware Department of Justice which had Colm Connolly as its top dog.


At that time, working with Ellen Slights, the Wilmington, Delaware FBI threatened whistleblower Laser Haas with a ridiculous prosecution for violating the Electronics Spam Act.


Imagine that! One could actually be prosecuted for informing federal agents about crimes being committed while the alleged criminals walk free.


Who would’ve thunk!


Debra Yang then left the DOJ, when she got her million dollar slice of the $50 million dollar pie, given to John Ashcroft by United States Attorney Chris Christie.


Apparently, it is no longer considered bribery when federal agents get millions of dollars to – forgo – federal prosecutions; because they are now relabeled to be okay as – “Deferred Prosecution Agreements.”


Al Capone must be turning over in his grave?


Sad to say the FBI threats against Laser Haas didn’t stop there. After the Public Corruption Task Force was shut Ddown and career federal prosecutors were threatened to keep their mouths shut, the Baltimore FBI actually called Laser Haas.


It appears to be the first time that the FBI actually called Laser. After about 30 minutes of taking in the Q&A of Laser’s case information, the Baltimore Supervisor FBI Agent (which supervises Delaware) asked Laser the following question.


Why should we spend money and manpower on a case the Justice Department is just going to toss in the trash?


Laser instantly responded by stating:


The best thing you can do, is resign from your position, being that your oath of office is worthless, and make way for someone who actually gives a shit.


This enraged the FBI Supervisor who then demanded Laser’s full name, DOB and SSN.


That Agent then hung up when Laser said he could have the affirmed information as soon as Laser was given the FBI “Special” Agent’s name and badge number.


In 2013, a NYC DOJ Investigator, Ron Gardella, working under Preet Bharara (who received multiple requests from Laser to do something) veiled a threat against Laser.


Then Gardella was promoted off these cases; and Gardella moved up, to be head of NYC OIG.


More recently, on September 26th, 2016, Laser’s fellow warrior – eToys shareholder Robert Alber – woke up dead.


Alber was also offered a bribe, this time by Jack Abramoff’s self-professed partner, Johann Hamerski (Alaska).


Reportedly, Johann Hamerski told Robert Alber that, “People like you, who turn down a bribe – usually wake up dead!”


Just a mere three days later after, Alber died; on September 29, 2016, Laser received emails and phone messages from Wilmington, Delaware FBI Agent Scott Duffey.


Thinking that the untimely demise of Robert Alber prompted FBI Agent Scott Duffey to call, Laser spent approximately 55 minutes and 58 seconds to speak with Scott Duffey.


To account for personnel doing proper case attention, there is a protocol mandating a case number and issues must be filed, once an hour of work is necessary, to review any case.


The phone call between Laser and the FBI abruptly ended when Duffey let slip the fact that he was calling and threatening Laser with federal prosecution unless Laser took down certain names from his letters and websites.


Laser then got vulgar with Agent Duffey.


After they hung up, Laser reconsidered who to focus his anger upon. He thought about it and realized this was the first FBI agent to give out a direct email, desk phone, and a cell number.


Therefore, Laser decided to send out a broadcasted email to various bad faith parties and the top-billed Ellen Slights, who is the name Agent Duffey accidentally let slip.


Furthermore, this email was copied to Ellen (who was still at the DOJ), and Colm Connolly at his new office of Morgan Lewis, along with various agents of justice.


Laser also copied and got vulgar with others voicing his frustration.


Laser’s point was that – perhaps – FBI Agent Scott Duffey did not realize as an agent of justice he was being duped into racketeering retaliation against Laser Haas for blowing the whistle on the whole scheme.


That email by Laser (that this reporter and others now have a copy of), brazenly accused the despots of being despots; and stated they should leave Scott Duffey out of their schemes.


Since then, Ellen Slights appears to have had a husband become a Delaware State judge.


Compounding those issues, Donald Trump has recently nominated the bad faith Colm Connolly to become a Delaware District Court Federal Justice for the second time, following his predecessor President George W. Bush.


Laser reached out to FBI agents Scott Duffey and his Supervisor in Baltimore (Paul Cavanagh); but they failed to respond to his pleas to block Colm Connolly.


During Laser’s 55 minute and 58 seconds phone conversation, the FBI agent acknowledged seeing Laser’s many filings concerning Colm Connolly.


Therefore, FBI agent Scott should have filed a case number; and he very well knows of Laser’s contentions concerning Colm Connolly.


It is a protocol that local FBI agents must do a background check on judicial nominees.


Laser is now greatly concerned because Scott Duffey’s new voicemail boasts about a promotion just like the rest.


Over this past weekend, a Twitter account purportedly belonging to Colm Connolly (@realprosecutor ) and a woman claiming to be his wife (@prosecutorswife ) veiled a threat by a man claiming to be an FBI agent (@DetectiveMark ) who is reportedly close by to Laser in Los Angeles.


Though there is some debate about the authenticity of the Connolly Twitter accounts, there can be no debate that Detective Mark and the Sherry woman claiming to be Colm Connolly’s wife, are on the record claiming Detective Mark is an FBI agent.


Both accounts then mocked Laser as being “scared” of them and the prosecutions to come for his attacking Colm Connolly’s reputation.


Then the account claiming to be Colm Connolly federal prosecutor also stated Laser is “scared.”


Those accounts have now gone dark (restricting to only permitted followers); but Laser was prudent enough to take screen pictures of the arguments and banter.


Apparently, now nobody can call local FBI offices unless you have the current name of agents; because the new protocol is to hand calls over to a West Virginia location.


As Laser started to detail the facts to the call center, they disconnected his call and called him names and also veiled threats against him, according to Laser.


To get a better picture that details the facts, there’s one particular email from Wilmington, Delaware, FBI Special Agent Scott Duffey.


Less than 15 minutes after Laser Haas sent out the widely broadcasted email accusing the autocrats of trying to corrupt FBI Agent Scott Duffey, Laser received a follow-up email that makes any silence by FBI Agent Scott Duffey, or other federal agents, to be extraordinary.


Specifically, FBI Special Agent Scott Duffey emailed Laser Haas, stating a remarkably noteworthy message…


Thanks, Laser. Keep me in the loop. Scott.


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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Trump Nominates Racketeer for Federal Bench

By Aaron Kesel


Very quietly, over Christmastime, President Trump nominated former Delaware United States Attorney, Colm F. Connolly, to be a Delaware District Court Justice (see Congressional – here).


Arguably, as the facts below will detail – not only should this nomination be denied – Colm’s BAR Card should be yanked, and Connolly should be in jail.


Question germane – are racketeers the ones promoting the nomination of Colm Connolly for the federal bench?


According to eToys whistleblower, Laser Steven Haas, that is exactly what is occurring.


Racketeers are influencing the system of justice!


In 2008, then-Delaware Senator, Joe Biden, intentionally blocked Colm Connolly’s 1st nomination for the federal bench!


That’s a very – big – deal!


Back in 2008, then-Senator, Joe Biden, prior to becoming VP, did overt, deliberate inactions specifically blocking George W Bush’s nomination of Colm Connolly to be a Delaware District Court Judge (see 2008 nomination announcement – here).


Below, you will see the facts, concrete, about Colm Connolly’s 2nd nomination; which, given the facts of Senator Biden blocking Colm and the betrayals of the public’s trust, means Trump’s renewing efforts is a horrific notion.


According to the eToys case whistleblower, Connolly is guilty of betraying the public’s trust, to aid and abet organized crimes benefiting Colm’s former law firm partners of Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell (MNAT); because the MNAT would be destroyed if their criminal works to benefit Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney’s interest were to see light of day in an honorable courtroom.


Making the saga extensively heinous and egregious, people are dead – untimely. Specifically, the undue influence is so far out of control that the FBI has threatened the eToys whistleblower, in this case multiple times, to get him to “back off” (currently, I’m researching the details of the FBI threats, for another major story, next week).






Colm Connolly Bad Faith – BACKGROUND FACTS


Laser Haas was the top executive of eToys.com federal case in 2001. Subsequently, he became a whistleblower when MNAT and Paul Traub offered Laser a million dollars and a chance to work as a roaming (criminal) manager for Bain Capital. In other words, a bribe.


This eToys-related case whistleblower has already documented to this reporter sufficient evidence of more than 100 state and federal felony violations – for the cui bono of Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital; and much of the crimes transpired during Colm Connolly’s tenure as the United States Attorney in Delaware.


Unfortunately, Mr. Haas was completely unaware of the nefariousness and about whom Colm Connolly was secretly protecting (Sachs and Mitt’s interests), until mid-2007.


For seven years, from 2001 until 2008, Colm Connolly betrayed his oath of office, as he declined to investigate racketeering crimes, in the billions of dollars, which were being perpetrated by the Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell law firm (MNAT), and their criminal co-conspirator, Paul Traub.


These facts of Colm Connolly being a “revolving door” (switching sides) prosecutor, partner of MNAT, and prosecutor once again, are indisputable because the Department of Justice – Office of Legal Policy – has permanently archived Connolly’s résumé, online (here). (archived)


Colm’s résumé states the following facts…


ITEM 1. Connolly clerked for 3rd Circuit Judge Walter K. Stapleton (and Stapleton just so happens to have been a partner of the MNAT.com law firm).


ITEM 2. In 1992, after clerking for MNAT partner, Walt er K. Stapleton, then Colm became the Delaware Assistant United States Attorney (and he remained in that post, until 1999).


Goldman Sachs appears to have begun its partnership to do criminal misdeeds with Mitt Romney/Bain Capital (and Thomas Lee Partners) in 1997; with the first documented specious act, being the merger of The Learning Company with Mattel, in 1999.


Connolly “revolved doors” with the Department of Justice, multiple times, as Assistant United States Attorney in 1992, until 1999.


Then, as his résumé details, Colm became an MNAT partner in 1999, remaining there until August 2001, which is when Colm Connolly returned to the DOJ.


Amazingly, this period of time from 1999 until August 2001 that Colm Connolly was a partner of MNAT, is the exact era of time that Romney’s 2012 Presidential Campaign claims Mitt was “retroactively” retired from Bain Capital (see the Campaign manager, Gillespie, remarks – here)


During this time period of Connolly switching sides, in and out of the Justice System, from 1992 until 2008, Colm’s DOJ office was constantly informed of more than 100 crimes by eToys case whistleblower, Laser Haas.


Mitt Romney’s Roaming Gang


As documented by eToys whistleblower, Laser Haas, evidence corroborates (chiefly through federal records), the facts that Mitt Romney owns Bain Capital, which owned KB, Stage Stores, Learning Company (= 12 million shares of Mattel), FAO Schwarz, Zainy Brainy and eToys.


KB and eToys are now part of Toys “R” Us.


MNAT is publicly documented to represent both Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital in Delaware.


But MNAT and Paul Traub lie under oath, even to this very day, concealing the major crimes, in the millions of dollars, concerning Traub and MNAT’s undisclosed relationship to Bain Capital/KB.


MNAT and Paul Traub defrauded their court-approved clients; and Delaware State & Federal authorities (including Colm Connolly and his Assistant Ellen Slights) refused to investigate and prosecute vast state and federal crimes.


Furthermore, Mitt owned Stage Stores, when Michael Glazer was a co-director with Jack Bush (of Dallas Texas); and Barry Gold was Stage Stores executive assistant, working for those directors.


Barry Gold inked the hiring of Paul Traub’s law firm of Traub Bonacquist & Fox (TBF), so that TBF would become the Stage Stores bankruptcy case, special counsel.


During 2000 through 2005, Michael Glazer also was CEO of KB; and then, Mr. Glazer has now become the CEO of Stage Stores.


In the KB case, $100 million was taken out of KB before Glazer filed bankruptcy.


MNAT openly represents Bain Capital, in the KB case (link here).


Also, MNAT was representing simultaneously representing eToys and MNAT was court ordered to supply Laser’s fee application paperwork, whilst MNAT was nefariously betraying the court-approved clients to secretly benefit Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, and KB.


If the public and decent courts ever became fully aware that the MNAT law firm has perpetrated sophisticated crimes to cover up the fact that MNAT deliberately betrayed its court-approved clients, then it would be the end of the 80-year-old MNAT law firm.


It wouldn’t be the first time Laser Haas’s whistleblowing and pursuits of justice compelled a law firm to shut its doors. (Which we will touch on later; this story isn’t just about Laser, it is about how serious it is that the rackets are spread nationwide while infiltrating our courts and agencies of justice.)


When A=B and B=C, then it is logical that A=C.


Mitt=MNAT and MNAT Colm, thus Mitt=Colm!


Similarly, Goldman Sachs=MNAT and MNAT=Colm thus Goldman Sachs=Colm!


Everyone knows that if someone dies during a robbery, all the crooks are guilty of the death, no matter what bit they play in the organized criminal syndicate.


It is called – transitive logic!


Therefore, in other words, Colm Connolly is just as guilty for the deaths of Robert Alber and Marty Lackner as the parties who tried the hardest to cause their untimely demise.


Such would also greatly embarrass the (DOJ) Department Of Justice!


This also means that Colm Connolly is guilty of all other MNAT crimes that Colm buried from the investigation as federal prosecutor in Delaware.


Such as Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney are partners; and Mitt owns Bain Capital.


And Bain owns KB, FAO Schwartz, Zainy Brainy and eToys.


Though Paul Traub worked under Barry Gold, who was under Michael Glazer, for Stage Stores that was owned by Mitt Romney, Traub continued lying under oath, in KB, eToys and other cases, pretending that Paul Traub, through hops around to various law firms (such as TBF, Dreier LLP, Epstein, Becker & Green and others) was an “arm’s length” / “good faith” 100% “legitimate” Bain Capital opponent.


Dirty deeds are then perpetuated by the deceivers – directly connected – such as MNAT, Paul Traub, Barry Gold, Michael Glazer and Colm Connolly. Doing so, for the unjust enrichment sake, of Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital/ Mitt Romney (and Wells Fargo).


Notably, the RICO Act of 1970, was designed to address these very issues of – what is known as – prosecutorial gaps!


In other words, crooks like Mitt’s gang and their crooked lawyers don’t pay corporate taxes by naming their enterprise as a public company like Toys “R” Us.


Instead, they become non-public – as “Racketeers ‘R’ Us”!


Goldman Sachs took eToys public, in 1999; and Sachs ripped off eToys investors for nearly a billion dollars by a classic pump-n-dump stock fraud “spinning” scheme.


In the eToys case, the stock went above $78; but Goldman Sachs only allowed eToys to receive less than $20 per, for millions of shares.


Goldman Sachs split the windfall profits, with hand-picked friends (see NYT March 2013 article “Rigging the I.P.O. Game”).


Also in 1999, MNAT handled the merger of Mattel, with The Learning Company; which resulted in an instant catastrophic loss, for Mattel investors, of $4 billion dollars (see this reporter’s story, on the Learning/Mattel, case – here).


Both the I.P.O. of eToys and Mattel/Learning merger transpired, in Delaware; which is where the MNAT law firm represents both Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital.


It also is where Connolly was either the federal prosecutor to preside over those cases (as well as KB and eToys bankruptcy fraud cases), or Colm was a partner of the MNAT law firm.


Lawyers are forbidden under the pretext of law against the betrayal of a client.


The gravamen of the issues, paramount, is the fact that attorneys swear an oath to the State Supreme Court and their BARs – that their duty of loyalty to the client is 1st and foremost – above all else.


MNAT betrayed its court-approved clients of eToys and Laser/Laser’s company (Collateral Logistics, Inc., CLI), for the sake of MNAT’s secret, more lucrative clients (G.E., Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital).


Likewise, Paul Traub’s law firms, as eToys creditors counsel, had a duty to those clients, above all else.


Every time Robert Alber and other eToys shareholders asked the eToys case Chief Justice (MFW) to be granted a lawyer, and equity holders committee, as permitted by law, then MNAT and Paul Traub’s law firms argued to the court that the shareholders were protected. It is now obvious MNAT & Traub’s associates were perpetrating blunt lies (as has been documented in previous articles in this series Romney’s version of Frank Nitti – is Paul Roy Traub (here).


This posturing of denying the eToys shareholders their lawful rights, created a far greater duty of loyalty to the eToys public company and shareholders such as Robert Alber – with a far higher duty of loyalty.


As a matter of fact, MNAT & Traub schemed to throw out Laser, from running eToys and they replaced him with Paul Traub’s personal friend and TBF paid associate, Barry Gold; because the racketeers wanted to guarantee the demise of the eToys public company – which would permanently doom the eToys shareholders.


It was later confessed, in 2005, of the fact Barry Gold was a paid member of Paul Traub’s TBF law firm, after Barry (purportedly) stepped down from working under Michael Glazer at Stage Stores (see March 1, 2005, Transcripts, pages 65 thru 69 – here).


Robert Alber suspected Barry Gold and Paul Traub had an undisclosed relationship; and Alber deposed both Barry Gold and Paul Traub, on the stand, in October & November 2002, in the Delaware court, where both Traub & Barry vehemently denied being associated with each other (but Laser compelled confessions that such was erroneous, in 2005)!


Sadly, Alber failed to look at the Stage Stores case; which is where the smoking gun proof of Barry Gold hiring Traub’s TBF, for Romney’s company, is part of the docket record (see Traub’s engagement letter, signed by Barry Gold, for Stage Stores – here.)


To cement the success of locking Laser out of eToys, so MNAT, Traub, and Barry Gold could fleece the tens of millions of dollars, Laser/CLI was able to get Bain Capital/KB to bid, for eToys assets. Barry Gold swore, in the fall of 2002, a huge lie, under oath, that Barry and Paul Traub were “extensive” arm’s length parties, negotiating (as is required by the Codes & Rules of Law). Furthermore, Barry stated that all negotiations were done in “extensive” good faith (see Barry Gold’s Declaration of November 2002 – here).


MNAT knew this to be false; but MNAT supplied Barry Gold’s Declaration, under penalty of perjury, to prove to the parties of interest that the eToys shareholders should be denied their lawful representation.


Meanwhile, MNAT, continues to commit perjury, concealing its secret representations of Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital, as MNAT nominated Paul Traub’s law TBF firm, to be the party to sue Goldman Sachs for the IPO frauds in the New York Supreme Court case of eToys v. Goldman Sachs (case # 601805/2002).


Making a good case that Trump’s administration has become a part of the ongoing criminal conspiracy, not only has the President nominated Goldman Sachs fraud protector, Colm Connolly, to be a Delaware Federal Judge (with Trump’s own sister a 3rd Circuit Judge – above). The President also nominated (and got a confirmation) of Jay Clayton, to be the head of the SEC, which continues to refuse to investigate or prosecute these obvious cases of fraud.


Here’s the rub: eToys sued Goldman Sachs in the New York Supreme Court; and the case is already rigged where Goldman Sachs law firm of MNAT handpicked Ponzi schemer Paul Traub to sue Goldman Sachs. Then, to make matters worse, Goldman Sachs another law firm Sullivan & Cromwell represented Goldman Sachs in the eToys v. Goldman Sachs case.


Jay Clayton was invested in Bain Capital, and a partner of the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm; which represents Goldman Sachs – extensively.


On top of all that, Jay Clayton’s wife (Gretchen) is a partner of Goldman Sachs, working in the very merger and acquisition division that would be held accountable, should justice not be stymied, any further.


Back to Colm Connolly’s résumé .


The third (ITEM 3.) in question is the fact, in 1999, Colm switched sides when Connolly became a partner of MNAT.


Speciously, there were no investigations or prosecutions of the Mattel/Learning merger or the eToys I.P.O. fraud cases.


In 2001, “Laser the Liquidator” became the Delaware Bankruptcy Court approved fiduciary, over the eToys case.


MNAT and Paul Traub conned Laser unto using his company, Collateral Logistic’s Inc., (“CLI”) to run eToys; which doomed Laser to the – must-have – of using a Delaware law firm.


It is a mandate of law, and case precedents, that a corporation can only be represented by an attorney at law.


No law lawyer, individual or firm, would dare challenge the undue power and influences of MNAT, Mitt Romney, and good ole Goldman Sachs.


Especially when those parties are (secretly known) to have the protection of handpicked federal prosecutors (like Colm Connolly, Ellen Slights or James Lackner).


Just a few months prior to the eToys case filing for bankruptcy, Paul Traub’s TBF law firm, was caught, in Stages Stores, for failing to disclose Barry Gold and other persons (see TBF 7-page Affidavit – here).


Traub’s TBF was compelled to file a Supplemental Affidavit, in Stage Stores; which details various previous case histories of Paul Traub and Barry Gold.


Susan Balaschak was a TBF partner, who lived in Houston, where Stage Stores was located.


Paul Traub’s TBF and Susan Balaschak were required, by law, to be disqualified from the Stage Stores case, in mid-2000, once the non-disclosure of a conflict if interest, was discovered.


Had that disqualification occurred, perhaps the nation would have been spared billions of dollars in material adverse harms upon the eToys, KB, Fingerhut, Marc Dreier and Tom Petters Ponzi-related cases.


Laser Haas ran eToys throughout 2001; but he has continued the fight against obstruction for 17 years.


In 2001, at that time, MNAT, Barry Gold, and Traub’s TBF deliberately usurped Laser, telling the courts and eToys parties of interest, under penalty of perjury, with 33 bogus affidavits – that MNAT, Paul Traub and Barry Gold were 100% – arm’s length/good faith – opponents again an obvious lie.


Due to Laser’s unrelenting pursuits for justice, MNAT, Traub’s TBF and Barry Gold were compelled to confess (some) of their bad faith deeds.


The Delaware Bankruptcy Court Ordered sanctions on Traub’s TBF & the MNAT, coupled with the court stipulating it would be “wrong to punish [plaintiff] and reward conflicted attorneys.”


And, yet, that is exactly what the Chief Justice over the eToys federal case did.


It is against the law for judges to rule against their own established doctrine; but the 3rd Circuit took the absurdity to a whole new level, ruling on Robert Alber’s Appeal to the 3rd Circuit (case 07-2360) that the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure doesn’t apply to the eToys case (see 7th page of 7-page 3rd Circuit ruling – here).


Arguing to the eToys court that she proceed to rule contrary to her own logic, resulted in Laser being throw out of the case and Judge Mary F. Walrath ordering the Delaware Bankruptcy Court Clerk (David Byrd) to permanently block Laser Haas from filing anything more.


Additionally, the eToys case judge, who was Chief Justice of the Delaware jurisdiction at that time in the Delaware Court that handles an estimated 50% of the biggest bankruptcy cases, the Judge MFW did rule that MNAT, Traub and Barry Gold could not hide any other disclosures.


When Laser pointed out there were additional deceits (specifically, the Bain Capital/ KB & NY Supreme Court frauds), the Delaware Department of Justice sat in complete silence and the eToys judge locked out Rule was applied.


This is a “Color of Law” civil rights violation!


It is also confessed by Paul Traub that his TBF firm deliberately left erroneous affidavits to remain in the court docket record (see the U.S. Trustee’s testimony, in paragraph 18 – here).


Paul’s deceits were for the sake of concealing conflicts of interest issues about connections to Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, Michael Glazer and Barry Gold (see the 2005 WSJ story – here).


Also, MNAT, as eToys court-appointed counsel for Laser & Debtor’s counsel for eToys, had deliberately concealed its conflicts of interest relationship to Goldman Sachs; which MNAT subsequently confessed (see Judge’s Opinion sanctioning TBF and MNAT – here).


Further demonstrating how rigged the Delaware Federal system of justice actually is, the Chief Justice let MNAT decide on its own, how much to pay, as a fine.


In similar fashion, though the Delaware Justice Department did a Motion to Disgorge Traub’s TBF for $1.6 million, there’s absolutely no Motion against MNAT.


Further evidence of how much MNAT is protected, the very first footnotes of the Delaware Justice Department’s 3rd Circuit Appeal, response brief, actually makes mention that the United States put forth no Motion against MNAT (see 3rd Circuit eToys Response Brief – here).


In 2001, Laser stopped Traub & MNAT’s plot to sell the billion dollar eToys public company assets, to Bain Capital/KB, for a paltry $5.4 million.


When Laser’s efforts started getting tens of millions of dollars in higher offers, the crooked lawyers panicked.


As reported by Laser, in court filings and letter to U.S. Attorney General (here) – the schemers adjusted by trying to offer Laser a bribe to let Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital completely destroy and devour all worth, and the existence of the eToys public company.


Though Laser desired, all his adult life, to become one of the nation’s big deal makers (that Bain Capital most certainly is), and despite the fact Laser Haas was offered a million dollars with the chance to become a Bain Capital roaming manager (like Jack Bush, Paul Traub, Barry Gold & Michael Glazer) – Laser flatly turned down the bribe (a movie moment if its own) and Laser reported it to the Delaware Department of Justice.


The fourth (ITEM 4.) of interest as detailed by Connolly’s résumé is the fact that Colm returned to the Delaware Department of Justice in August 2001.


This time Connolly became the top dog, as the sole federal senior authority over the Fingerhut, Mattel, KB, eToys, and cases – as THE United States Attorney over all of the Delaware federal cases.


Unaware of these issues of case rigging via corruption, of the federal prosecutors office, the eToys case whistleblower continued to provide the FBI, SEC & DOJ, in Delaware with the details of the bankruptcy fraud and other organized crimes, from Laser’s appointment in 2001, through his discovery of Colm Connolly’s résumé , in 2007.


Laser continues to fight for justice, for 17 years now, to this very day.


A few of the racketeering crimes reported, included, but is not limited to, Bribery, Mail & Wire Frauds, Collusion, SEC crimes, Obstruction, Perjury, Intimidation of Victim/ Witnesses, Retaliation, Extortion, Bankruptcy Fraud and Corruption (and unresolved cases of mayhem and murder).


It is noteworthy that the RICO Act only requires that there are 2 crimes occurring, which have yet to be addressed.


As previously remarked, Laser can document, chiefly through federal records, there are more than 100 instances of state and federal frauds/felony violations.


Sad to say, as is typical of organized criminals seeking to elude justice, those crimes also include multiple instances of mayhem and homicides that remain unresolved!


Being protected with their secret of Colm Connolly, the racketeers believed they could continue to get away with their crimes; and they expanded.


Some of the ongoing criminal escapades yet to be addressed are the Mattel/Learning, Fingerhut, KB and eToys cases (including Supreme Court).


To assure no one else would turn down a bribe, they simply tried to lie as little as possible and publicly flaunted their bribery schemes.


After all, who was going to arrest them?


Certainly not Colm F. Connolly!


Anyone can readily see how the rackets adapted, as it is in the papers for all to see. CEO Michael Glazer paid himself $18 million, and Bain Capital $83 million, prior to Michael Glazer filing bankruptcy of KB.


You can see some of the case-related facts in the Rolling Stone September 2012 cover story by Matt Taibbi (here), which details – some – of the Stage Stores & KB case bribes and corruption. Including the issue of Mitt Romney being able to form Stage Stores by Michael Milken junk bond fraud monies, which the judge presiding over Milken’s case allowed to remain in Romney’s hands, whilst the judge’s wife was an executive getting profit from the Stage Stores dealings.


Sad to say, Matt Taibbi has no staff, and that resulted in Matt/Rolling Stone losing out on a Pulitzer Prize.


Some facts Taibbi missed were simple ones in this case that this writer has been documenting as Laser provides more and more information of his thousands of evidence pieces to me.


An interesting fact, noteworthy, is the detail that KB CEO, Michael Glazer, was a simultaneous Director at Stage Stores.


Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi also failed to grasp the gravity of facts, such as the item of MNAT openly representing Bain Capital of the $83 million depleted KB funds, prior to bankruptcy filing.


This is an issue compounded by another huge detail Taibbi missed of the cases being rigged, so blatantly and flagrantly, where, whilst Paul Traub was being purportedly punished for his eToys crimes, Traub’s TBF (and also Traub’s Marc Dreier law firm) had the unmitigated gall to ask the KB’s case judge’s permission to be the party to prosecute Glazer and Bain Capital.


This petition by Traub was a crime, just by the asking.


As is par for their course, neither MNAT, nor Paul Traub would do their lawfully mandated duty to disclose their conflicts of interests of their being connected to each other, and their links to DE prosecutor Colm Connolly.


MNAT and Traub’s TBF also conspired against many more of their court-appointed “clients.”


One of the schemes and artifices to defraud includes MNAT asking for, and receiving, the court’s permission to destroy the eToys case financials (see MNAT’s filing – here).


It is noteworthy to point out the fact that the MNAT requested for destruction of eToys books and records was provided to Laser by Jeremy Bates, who was the Sullivan & Cromwell attorney that represented Goldman Sachs in the New York Supreme Court case of eToys v. Goldman Sachs.


After Jeremy Bates provided that (Brady materials) to Laser Haas, Sullivan & Cromwell removed him from the eToys v. Goldman Sachs case (be advised, after Bain Capital/KB stole the eToys.com domain name, the evolving eToys.com bankruptcy case renamed eToys – “ebc1”).


Laser couldn’t object to the item, because the conflicted, bad faith parties concealed this fact and many other of the deceitful deeds from him.


Similarly, to get the eToys 1000 employees to turn sour on their new head executive, Laser, the MNAT and Paul Traub law firms submitted another item (secretly) to the court so it would approve the doubling of the salaries of the 1000 employees.


It is absurd to do so while eToys is in bankruptcy!


Immediately, Laser started terminating the 1000 employees; and then his CLI staff also discovered the fact eToys was not – really – insolvent.


Millions of dollars were hidden and undisclosed all over the place, including $2 million dollars on deposit in London.


It is a crime to fail to report assets, in a bankruptcy case; which in a legitimate era of justice mandates an immediate prosecution to send a clear message.


Laser still is seeking for a legitimate system of justice for his eToys case, to this very day, with 17 years of racketeering, mayhem and homicides, ongoing.


Additionally, Romney’s gang received 12 million shares of Mattel, resultant of the Learning Company’s cooked books fraud.


It also was a plan of the racketeers to get Bain Capital to wind up with KB and eToys into Toys “R” Us, as cheaply as possible.


Bizarrely, both KB and eToys were put into bankruptcy multiple times (and they are now in bankruptcy, once again, under Toys “R” Us).


Bain Capital stiffed creditors and investors, over and over, again and again; and Taibbi never has detailed the YUUUGE fact that MNAT and Colm Connolly were Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital lawyers.


It is even more mindboggling how Taibbi, even now, doesn’t think his editors will care about Colm Connolly being Sachs & Bain law firm partner, who continued to bury the investigations into those parties, as the Delaware U.S. Attorney (Even more astounding that Rolling Stone is refusing to do a story on how Trump is nominating so many Goldman Sachs/Bain Capital affiliated parties who are in charge of vast Sachs & Bain Cap., cases).


Real strange! But the plot continues and doesn’t end there.


To be able to assure they get away with the racketeering crimes, KB & eToys are now at Toys “R” Us, which is also,currently in bankruptcy.


Paul Traub and MNAT usurped Laser, from eToys by a coup of planting a paid TBF member, Barry Gold (who was also a personal partner of Traub’s), into eToys; and then the fiends locked Laser out of the company.


At that time, the racketeers reduced the sales prices of eToys, to Bain Capital/KB, which is the very criminal act that can – this very day – bring down this mile-high house of untenable cards.


The laws on Bankruptcy Fraud are so stringent that Laser need not prove the schemes resulted in harm (though Laser most certainly can do so).


Congress noted the failure to disclose, by putting forth bogus affidavits, must result in disqualification; and it is presumed harm was the intent.


In a legitimate realm of justice, Traub, Barry and MNAT’s confessions would mandate prosecutions, disbarment and the end of the MNAT law firm (TBF and other firms are already closed).


Colm Connolly and his assistant, Ellen Slights (Ellen is still inside the Delaware DOJ, along with other snakes like Mark Kenney), went way out of their way, along with the Delaware abusive courts (and the MNAT friendly/infested 3rd Circuit) – to make sure nobody ever investigated, prosecuted, or even mentioned the dynamics that Colm Connolly, MNAT, Barry Gold and Paul Traub are connected to Bain Capital/KB.


Laser is now somewhat bizarrely blessed that the lying under oath, combined with confessions of deliberately doing so, and the profuse overt acts to block Laser from the case, made morose by the destruction/obstruction of eToys records, when those courts helped the parties who betrayed their court-approved clients to retaliate against Laser and eToys shareholders.


With the courts and DOJ aiding and abetting the bad faith parties, allowing MNAT, Barry Gold and Paul Traub by the court ordering the reducing sales prices to Bain Capital/KB, as the bad faith parties also betrayed their court-approved clients when they simultaneously rigged the eToys v NY Supreme Court case to fail.


Having evidence of the overt acts of obstruction, destruction, retaliation, and the removal of Jeremy Bates, after he provided the hidden document (a smoking gun) to Laser, along with the new evidence ferreted out by NY Times reporter, Joe Nocera, of the email bet by Goldman Sachs Lawton Fitt, on the advance knowledge that eToys stock would hit $80 – compounded with the fact that MNAT nominated Paul Traub – when MNAT was benefiting from acts of perjury.


This enough evidence that anybody else could get back hundreds if millions (perhaps even a billion) to the eToys estate. But Paul Traub, Barry Gold, and MNAT (in criminal conspiracy with Sullivan Cromwell and others) settled eToys v Goldman Sachs – once the eToys court permanently locked Laser Haas out of the estate – for a paltry $7.5 million (that the bad faith parties argued about how much Paul Traub would get to keep).


In such doings being protected from prosecution by Colm Connolly, and the corrupt courts refusing to address the eToys frauds of Bain/KB, then there remains an issue of fraud upon the courts by court-appointed “officers of the court.”


According to the U.S. Supreme Court case of In re: Hazel Atlas Glass v. Hartford Empire, a case can be reopened, even after nine years, when the issue of fraud on the court is by the “officers” of the court!  (Note: eToys has only been closed three years.)


Laser knows about Hazel Atlas, because the Delaware Department of Justice and the eToys case Chief Justice both cited the case of Hazel Atlas (see DOJ Motion, paragraph x and eToys Court Published Opinion, page 15 – here).


MNAT Forged Laser HAAS’s Affidavit


MNAT was both eToys court-approved Debtor’s counsel; and MNAT had two separate eToys case Court Orders to provide Laser’s CLI entity paperwork to the court for payment (see eToys case order with note to MNAT partner Greg Werkheiser – here.)


To assure their schemes would be 100% successful, MNAT forged a “HAAS Affidavit” to the eToys court (which was never served upon Laser).


According to MNAT, Barry Gold and Paul Traub, the HAAS Affidavit (a 2-page document – here) states what the racketeers claim, entirely waived the rights for Laser/CLI’s compensation for the millions of dollars in fees and expenses.


Would everybody who believes Laser actually waived his rights to be paid millions of dollars – please raise your hands?


Obviously, this notion is preposterous even to entertain!


Laser was entitled to a reward of “success fees” for getting back, more than $50 million, to eToys cash accounts (instead of the $5.4 million original sales price the bad faith parties plotted to do.)


According to Laser’s court-approved CLI contracts, Laser was entitled a 40% split of everything above the $5.4 million that MNAT and Paul Traub initially plotted to sell eToys for, to Bain Capital/KB.


It would seem the parties were fully confident that their having rigged the eToys case, from nearly every side, would prevent Laser from getting higher prices.


Another strange thing is that the Delaware DOJ and Court’s should have intervened on behalf of Laser, as a whistleblower.


MNAT and Traub’s law firms had already confessed their lies under oath, to the Chief Justice; but she accepted the absurd premise that Laser gave up millions of dollars in fees and expenses.


It is plain to see that the judge never actually read the 2-page HAAS Affidavit; because paragraphs 10 and 11 detail the paper was a settlement of expense protocols and it did guarantee Laser, and his CLI entity, the success fees.


Once the crooks locked out Laser – and Traub’s partner, Barry Gold, was planted into eToys – the parties continued to betray their court-approved clients, by reducing the sales prices of eToys assets, to Bain Capital and KB.


This is a major, federal, bankruptcy/racketeering crime.


Furthermore, Laser had properly approved the suing of Fingerhut (for botching millions of dollars in customers’ orders); and Laser pushed forward the larger case of eToys suing Goldman Sachs, for the I.P.O. fraud, in the New York Supreme Court (case# 601805/2002).


With Laser out of the way, the lawsuit against Fingerhut was cheaply settled; Paul Traub/Tom Petters Ponzi then acquired Fingerhut with more stolen millions.


MNAT and Barry Gold furtively nominated Paul Traub to be the party to sue Goldman Sachs.


In essence, Goldman Sachs sued Goldman Sachs, and eToys lost a billion dollars, again.


Colm Connolly & SHUTDOWN of Public Corruption Task Force


It was not until mid-2007 that Laser learned the truth about Connolly being a partner of the MNAT law firm, which was an issue of corruption because Laser had repeatedly asked Colm’s office to investigate and prosecute MNAT.


At that time, with the help of a former task force person who became a judge, Laser filed an 18 U.S.C. §  3057(a) Complaint (here), on December 7, 2007, against Colm Connolly and other betrayers of the public’s trust.


This filing was at the Los Angeles United States Attorney’s office, where the Public Corruption Task Force was housed, which was clear across the country from Delaware’s shenanigans.


Several weeks after Laser’s 3057 Complaint (during the same time Mitt Romney was running for president the 1st time) the Los Angeles DOJ Public Corruption Task Force was shut down and career federal prosecutors were threatened to keep silent about the reasons why (see L.A. Times March 2008 article “Shake-up roils federal prosecutors“).


It really is uncanny how no other mainstream media outlet picked up on this nationally significant and historic amount of financial misdeeds story.


Even more mind-boggling how no other media mentions a word about career federal prosecutors being threatened.


Unfortunately, there’s still more….


…much, much more!


…Colm Connolly 1st Nomination for Judgeship


Senator Joe Biden – Simply Said NO – Blocking Colm!


This reporter will do a detailed story, in the near future, discussing the dynamics of the 2017 case where the D.C. Clerk of Court, perpetuated bad faith manipulations, in essence rigging Laser’s 2017 case when he sued Trump, the FBI, SEC, and DOJ, to block Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton to be Commissioner of the SEC.


The basis for that filing against Jay Clayton were these Colm Connolly conflict of interest dynamics, and the similarities, of working both sides of the fence according to Laser Haas.


Apparently, to assure Laser’s Jay Clayton story issue would not go viral, the D.C. District Federal Court Clerk – unlawfully – blocked Laser’s lawsuit from being put into the public docket record (please see this picture of the extremely bizarre court docket below).


It was completely backward – the case docket records Laser filing the lawsuit against Trump and Federal agencies on March 22, 2017; but the Clerk of Court kept the case hidden from public view – until May 24th.


Staying in The Twilight Zone, Laser’s case against Trump’s agencies was closed by a judge’s Order on May 5th, 2017 (which just happens to be three days after Clayton was confirmed as SEC Commissioner, on May 2nd and three weeks before the Clerk entered the case into the public docket record).


This is germane to our Colm Connolly discussion because Jay Clayton was invested in Bain Capital, whilst also being a partner of the MNAT sister Sullivan and Cromwell law firm,  which represents Goldman Sachs in the New York Supreme court case of eToys v. Goldman Sachs.


Jay Clayton has now yanked down his résumé .


Laser alleges Sullivan & Cromwell are partners in the criminal enterprise success (as the Jeremy Bates dynamic corroborates).


Laser detailed the Colm Connolly issues in his lawsuit against Donald Trump to block Jay Clayton to be head of the SEC.


Therefore, the SEC, FBI, DOJ and Donald Trump’s staff, are already aware of the Colm Connolly betrayal of the public’s trust.


Those agencies and their key persons’ failure to act, continues the vulgar aiding and abetting of the criminal enterprise.


Even stranger that all of those high-level authorities have done – absolutely nothing – about the unlawful act of the D.C. Clerk of Court blocking the case from being entered into the record by the turning of a federal docket upside down!


Back in 2008, when the hullabaloo of – Romney for President – was simultaneously transpiring with the shutdown of the Public Corruption Task Force, it was around that time that eToys whistleblower Laser Haas reached out to Senator Biden (who also was running for president in 2008).


Before Joe Biden became the VP choice of Barack Obama, then-Senator Biden took steps to block GWB’s nomination of United States Attorney Colm F Connolly to become the Delaware District Court, replacing Judge Kent A. Jordan (see online article – here).


Senator Biden made no published comments on his not allowing Colm Connolly to become a judge; but the Senator flatly refused to sign the requisite Senate slip, to process forward a Senate vote of Colm Connolly to become a Delaware federal justice.


Colm was nominated to replace Delaware District Court Judge, Kent A. Jordan, who was promoted off the eToys case, to the 3rd Circuit Federal Court of Appeal.


This reporter has been working, for weeks, on another future story about the troubling dynamics of judges and other federal employees utilizing willful blindness and then being promoted off and up from the eToys cases – as a reward for ignoring Wall Street racketeering. (Unfortunately, a sudden illness gripped this reporter so that story is forthcoming with more details.)


For nine years, the Republicans refused to let Obama fill Judge Jordan’s vacancy.


Now, during Christmastime, while everyone is distracted by holiday joy, The Donald has nominated Colm Connolly, once more, to fill the very Delaware Federal District Court Judgeship, (where Colm or an affiliated party will replace Kent A. Jordan’s vacant seat and another empty seat (out of 4 seats).


It is, as if, it was promised to Colm Connolly, no matter what!


Arguably, as the facts above show, Senator Biden was completely justified in blocking Colm Connolly’s nomination.


Surely, our nation would never, knowingly allow Frank Nitti to become the Federal Prosecutor of Al Capone cases. It is common sense what the outcome is likely to be.


Beyond any doubt, Capone would get off, ‘Scot-Free’!


As the eToys related case facts show, Nitti being over Capone prosecutions is the same exact scenario of Colm Connolly being in charge of prosecuting Goldman Sachs’ partnership with Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital (racketeering enterprise cases).


Observably, Sachs & Bain continue to be Scot-Free!


Evidence shows that these issues of many federal crimes, protected by Colm Connolly corruption, might be the very reason Mitt’s 2012 Campaign claims Romney was “retroactively” retired from August 2001 back to February 11, 1999 (see the last page of Mitt’s 2011 Federal Campaign OGE Finance Form 278 – here).


Romney’s Affidavit also is a telltale.


As Mitt sought (seeks) presidency, MoveOn.org sent a request in 2012 (here) seeking an official federal investigation into the facts of whether or not Mitt Romney committed perjury to our nation!


Can our American economic security be maintained if we readily allow Romney & Goldman Sachs to benefit from billions in frauds because they successfully plotted to obstruct justice?


Does anybody believe the crooks stopped plotting?


Are we going to let them succeed in organized crimes, under the perverted premise that there are a statute of limitations, for failures to prosecute?


Really!?


No one can claim whistleblower Laser Haas is remiss about his claims. He has been unrelenting in his pursuit of justice for 17 years.


You can see Laser’s letter – here – dated July 30, 2016 (Senate named this Whistleblower’s Day), where Laser dared the USAG to arrest him, if any single one of 100 allegations are false!


Here is another/different reporter’s story by PoliticusUSA.com reporter Rmuse, back in 2012 (when Mitt was against Obama for POTUS), appropriately titled – “Meet the Man Battling Romney and Bain’s Bankruptcy Fraud for 12 Years.”


Specifically, Laser documents in a “clear and convincing” manner (a higher legal standard that is not necessary in a RICO case) in his naming Goldman Sachs as being in a 20-year rackets partnership with Mitt Romney/Bain Capital for getting billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.


Hence, the paramount issue, which was brought to my attention by [serial] whistleblower (eToys chief executive Laser Haas, also owns the Fighting-Corruption.com & Petters-Fraud.com websites) are the 100-plus crimes – repeating without remorse or relent – because it is not being prosecuted, while it is protected by despots.


Another question is, has Colm Connolly protected killers; or, at the very least, is Colm guilty of protecting those that have paid hitmen to do their bidding?


Transitive logic indicts them all, one and same!


Mayhem & Homicides


The facts provided to this reporter by Laser, about this Wall Street racketeering being protected also includes alarming dynamics of mayhem, threats and even convenient strings of homicides, while it lacks any type of investigation.


It is well established that everyone involved in a criminal conspiracy are just as guilty of any resulting homicides, even if they aren’t the ones actually pulling the trigger…


As the above items and remarks document, it is not as if the Colm Connolly issues are a single aberrant act of errant behavior.


For sure, these cases are not a question of missing many of the crucial details!


Culpability is well established.


Accountability is the real issue at hand!


Without remorse or relent, dozens of overt acts of obstruction and retaliation (all of which are RICO – “predicate act – crimes) by many of the schemers, continues to occur in order to prevent the eToys-related cases from being investigated and prosecuted.


At the barest of minimums, Colm Connolly is remiss for the failure to recuse himself and inform Laser Haas, the eToys and KB court cases, and all creditors, shareholders and other parties of interest, about Connolly’s many conflicts of interest and direct links he had to the targets of federal inquiry.


Then there’s the shutdown of the Public Corruption Task Force; and threats against federal prosecutors to keep their mouths shut.


Due to the many previous filings by Laser with the various federal agencies and courts, and the lawsuit against our federal officers, including President Donald Trump – then there must have been someone who has read Laser’s federal complaints.


As a matter of fact, Laser has several letters and emails, other than the Deputy DOJ Director, Lawrence Friedman’s 2005 – email promise (link) – of looking into these matters.


On top of the fact of the failures by Colm Connolly’s office to prosecute Paul Traub, after his TBF law firm confessed in 2005 about deliberately lying to a chief federal justice, it appears the failure to prosecute the racketeers emboldened them to  spread their enterprise throughout the country.


Paul Traub has since been listed as the “control” party of the Tom Petters Ponzi, and partner of fraudster Marc Dreier (see Petters Ponzi case Receiver’s 2012 Complaint – here).


Laser sued Romney, Sachs, Colm, MNAT, and Traub in the Los Angeles District Court for racketeering (after the eToys judge freed Laser from that jurisdiction when she locked Laser out of the eToys case; and nobody could – any longer claim – suing Romney was politically motivated).


Inexplicably and intolerably, Laser’s RICO case against Sachs, Romney & Colm was dismissed due to the false testimony of the racketeering parties, which was aided and abetted by the Department of Justice acting by willful blindness as if the criminals in these cases are above the law!


The Ninth Circuit ruled Laser’s case as “insubstantial.” (See the two-sentence pathetic ruling – here.)


When is enough – enough – to finally indict Wall Street?


If forcing several law firms to disband, getting dozens in jail and stopping many national fraud schemes (and helping make the public aware POTUS wannabe Mitt Romney is benefiting from such) is – “insubstantial” – then one has to wonder what will cause federal authorities to get off their seats –  to do their dang jobs!


Are issues of mayhem, threats, and murder insubstantial?


In the KB case, the Delaware Department of Justice came to the aid of MNAT & Paul Traub’s crimes, petitioning the court to strike and expunge Laser’s evidence (you can see the stymie of justice – here).


On top of all that, as previously mentioned Laser had a direct email correspondence from Deputy DOJ Director, Lawrence Friedman, promising to address the crimes.


Then, after Laser blew the whistle, a few weeks later in the KB case the DOJ Deputy Director, Lawrence Friedman, chose discretion over valor by resigning (see press release – here).


Enigmatically, Laser has had his life and liberty threatened, many times. Most recently, these past few weeks, by the FBI.


In 2008, when the Public Corruption Task Force was shut down, the FBI also made veiled threats against Laser, way back then….


Robert Alber was an eToys shareholder who joined Laser’s efforts for justice, back in 2005.


In mid-2010, Robert Alber had to shoot/kill would-be assassin, Michael Sesseyoff, in Kingman, AZ after Alber was told (by Jack Abramoff’s partner, Johann Hamerski) that “People like you, who turn down a bribe – usually wake up dead!”


On September 23rd, last year, eToys shareholder Robert Alber woke up dead – and now is in his grave!


Then, just 3 days later, Colm Connolly’s former assistant, Ellen Slights, caused a Wilmington, Delaware FBI Agent to call and threaten Laser Haas.


Oddly enough, the FBI wasn’t threatening Laser with prosecution for committing any crime.


No, instead, as if the FBI was the strong arm for the racketeering enterprise, Ellen Slights had the FBI threaten Laser with prosecution unless Laser completely took Ellen Slights name off his websites and blogs – and off from Laser’s submissions to the federal authorities.


Also, in 2010, the now-deceased mysteriously killed Robert Alber had worked with Laser to move Anna Schaeffer to Minnesota to become a private investigator for Laser’s Petters-Fraud.com website.


Anna Schaeffer also died later on Christmas Eve 2010.


Prior to that, Marty Lackner (a Paul Traub/Tom Petters Ponzi fraud connection) was found dead in his closet.


Marty’s brother is James Lackner.


That would be Minnesota Assistant United States Attorney James Lackner, who was the former head of the Criminal Division of the Minnesota Justice Department (see Minnesota news story – here).


Like Colm Connolly’s Ellen Slights still being inside the DOJ, James Lackner is still a federal prosecutor in Minnesota, who protects Paul Traub, Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital from prosecution on the Fingerhut deal!


The feds in Minnesota did seize Polaroid, but it was sold back to Traub for $83 million in a sham auction.


Then Traub’s partners announced a previously unknown $2 billion dollar license deal for Polaroid


Clearly, this is another hidden asset RICO crime!


Laser then kept harassing Gordon Brothers, which caused Paul Traub to exit Gordon; and harassing Epstein Becker & Green resulted in Train having to depart that firm also!


Traub has since started new companies.


Summing things up, until the next story comes..


Significant of 2010 as a possible reason why all these efforts ended by deaths, could be the fact that Mitt Romney would begin his 2012 presidential campaign only one year later.


Colm Connolly’s assistant, Ellen Slights, is still at the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office; and – rumor has it – her husband is a state judge.


As noted earlier in this story, Joe Biden blocked Colm Connolly before the mayhem and homicides occurred.


Obviously, since then, things have gotten far worse.


MNAT and Paul Traub settled the eToys v Sachs NY Supreme Court case for a paltry $7.5 million, which Traub publicly argued, as a Marc Dreier law firm partner, that it was Traub’s right to keep.


Surely we can’t have racketeers “retroactively” retiring from their organized crimes?


Also, there can’t be any notion of a statute of limitations when the crooks own the very federal prosecutors – like James Lackner, Ellen Slights, and Colm Connolly – who preside of the cases in question.


This saga is beyond extraordinary, and pure investigations and prosecutions are beyond long overdue.


Even more disconcerting is that the deaths don’t end there; on New Year’s Eve 2010, John (“Jack”) Wheeler was hit in the head and thrown in a Delaware dump.


Video now exists documenting that Jack Wheeler was in the Nemours Building at the time of his murder (see story – here).


The Delaware United States Attorney’s office is in the Nemours Building; and so is the current office of Colm Connolly at Morgan & Lewis (here).


In a legitimate era of justice, everyone should be screaming – Hell No – Colm F’n Connolly can never be allowed to become a federal judge.


These racketeering cases, with mayhem (Laser’s daughter was abducted after his own lawyer – Henry Heiman – emailed Laser, Traub’s warnings to “back off”) and unrelenting corruption, must be investigated!


The more important question is – how much is organized crime involved in the corrupting our federal systems of justice?


Is this renewed nomination for Colm Connolly to fill one of the two vacant judge’s seats, including that of the promoted off eToys case, Kent A. Jordan – quite possibly another racketeering crime?


The question is, who – how – and other “why”?


As if all the 100-plus racketeering crimes being protected by prosecutor and court corruption isn’t enough beyond the factor that the courts are illegally blocking Laser’s whistleblowing effort.


Laser can’t sue to block Connolly’s nomination in D.C. federal court; because, it is more likely than not that the Clerk would just refuse to docket Laser’s case, as they had done with the Jay Clayton lawsuit.


Nor can Laser sue in Delaware.


Beyond the factor that the eToys court has ordered the clerk to block Laser’s filings, it also won’t do any good to appeal above to the 3rd Circuit Court presiding over Delaware.


When Laser and eToys shareholder Robert Alber appealed the eToys cases to the 3rd Circuit – the Circuit proffered the absurd ruling that the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure do not apply to the eToys bankruptcy case.


On top of that, Walter K Stapleton, the man who Colm Connolly clerked for, was a partner of MNAT, is a 3rd Circuit justice.


Then there’s the issue of Delaware District Court Judge Kent A. Jordan, who threatened Traub and MNAT on October 16, 2006, which was followed up a few weeks later with Jordan being promoted off the eToys case to the 3rd Circuit Court that presides over Delaware cases.


There’s also the factor that the FBI is threatening Laser.


The reason behind the most recent FBI threats against Laser is the fact the local FBI must approve the nomination of Colm Connolly to become a Federal Judge.


But the local FBI said things are being handled by four judges.


Are the “4 judges” – unnamed by the FBI – the eToys judge, and District Court Judge Jordan who is now at the 3rd Circuit?


Also, there’s the 3rd Circuit former MNAT partner, Walter K. Stapleton, (whom Colm Connolly clerked for).


Finally, there is Judge Alito who has been at the 3rd Circuit since 1990. His Honor Alito has no excuse for not understanding the gravity and gravamen of the eToys related cases; because Alito was a prosecutor of organized crimes.


Another possibility for the 4th judge could be the fact that Donald Trump’s sister is also a 3rd Circuit Court Judge.


So the question is, where does one go for justice, when the racketeers have well-documented undue power and influence over our federal system of justice?


Nearly everyone Laser was aware of in the eToys case has died, or has joined the opposing side, or just walked away with a promotion off the case.


What do you do if Frank Nitti is going to be inserted into the federal system of justice; and there are no Eliot Ness’s to prevent it?


Our uncanny President has nominated a former crooked federal prosecutor who was blocked nine years ago from becoming a federal judge, so that stalwart may now become a Federal Judge over the very Delaware corrupt system.


Most certainly, the nomination – STINKS!


If the racketeers can get away with so much, openly, how much more are the perpetrators doing in secret?


The 3rd Circuit ruled that the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure does not apply to the eToys cases; and that is the problem with Laser’s eToys Wall Street racketeering and federal corruption cases, in a nutshell


Our Constitution is being assaulted by those who swore an oath to protect it; and our Laws, as they were written, are not being applied.


Now Trump wants a big assault on the Constitution, to swear another false oath to protect it!


Trump vowed to “drain the swamp;” but, with this appointing of Colm Connoly, Trump is effectively only filling the swamp with a big rig.


Trump is allowing for further corruption combined with the deregulation of Wall Street by his SEC director Jay Clayton and his Goldman Sachs cronies.


Colm Connolly betrayed the public’s trust, a dozen times. Colm allowed Goldman Sachs & Bain Cap to destroy the eToys public company and rip off Mattel of $4 billion. Connolly’s bad faith also includes aiding and abetting mayhem and homicides. As a bad faith federal prosecutor, Colm Connolly allowed MNAT, Paul Traub and Barry Gold to help Michael Glazer rip off the KB creditors of $100 million before filing bankruptcy.


Could any one of us 99% take even $1,000 of money out of our savings before we filed bankruptcy?


It is no small matter of coincidence that Colm Connolly’s tenure at MNAT was the same exact time Mitt’s Presidential Campaign claims Romney was “retroactively” retired from Bain Capital. This visibly corrupt federal prosecutor got paid at the MNAT law firm before and after Colm Connolly was a federal prosecutor protecting Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, Mitt Romney, Paul Traub, Barry Gold and MNAT from prosecution.


Even if Colm got paid a meager salary, those parties using their influence to get Colm a judgeship nomination is a quid pro quo in 2008 and 2018; because Colm Connolly has never confessed any of his conflicts of interest. Making the issues extensively heinous and egregious, is the fact that Laser’s daughter was abducted after his own attorney, Henry Heiman, emailed a Traub firm threat for Laser to “back off” or else. And Colm Connolly did nothing about it, as a Federal prosecutor.


Even after Paul Traub and MNAT were compelled by Laser to confess that 33 affidavits were bogus (and Paul Traub confessed his were deliberate), Colm Connolly’s office was so willfully blind that the crooked lawyers were aided to strike and expunge Laser’s evidence. As a result of Colm Connolly’s willful blindness and his assistant Ellen Slights remaining inside the Delaware Department of Justice, to make sure Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital’s racketeering acts are never prosecuted.


MNAT and Paul Traub’s partnerships in crimes resulted in Traub expanding the enterprise to New York Marc Dreier frauds and Minnesota Tom Petters Ponzi. With Robert Alber dead! Marty Lackner was involved in Petters Ponzi and Marty was brother of Minnesota Federal Prosecutor James Lackner; but we can’t ask Marty why he was never prosecuted – because Marty is dead!


Colm Connolly’s willful failure to prosecute and his scheme to become a judge are an ongoing effort of a criminal conspiracy against the United States. Colm is guilty of being a despot with domestic enemies and no one is doing anything about it!


There’s also solid, video evidence that Colm Connolly should be questioned about Jack Wheeler’s homicide; but the Delaware FBI is already corrupted by Colm Connolly’s assistant Ellen Slights!


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