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COMPLAINTS

2009 July - Pritikin et al v. Comerica Bank: Complaint for: 1). Aiding and Abetting Breach of Fiduciary Duty; 2). Aiding and Abetting Fraud; 3). Violation of Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 17200 et. seq.; 4). Aiding and Abetting Violation of Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 17200 et. seq.; 5). Violation of 18 USC 1961(c)(d) (RICO); 6). Violation of 18 USC 1961(d) (RICO); 7). Civil Conspiracy [pdf]
U.S. District Court for Northern District of California, San Jose, Case No. C09 03303

2009 June - Notice Of Motion And Trustee’s Motion For Order: 1)Approving Settlement And Compromise Between The Chapter 7 Trustee And David Roberts; 2)Authorizing Payment of Compensation To Special Litigation Counsel; 3)Authorizing Reimbursement To Credit Suisse[pdf]
Case No. LA 03-37579 TD, U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2008 August - U.S.A. v. Mark F. Cohn: Government's Sentencing Position And Partial Concurrence With Presentence Report [pdf]
U.S. District Court for Central District of California, Los Angeles, Case No. CR 0701104

2008 May - U.S.A. v. Ronald I. Anson: “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States” [pdf]
U.S. District Court for Central District of California, Los Angeles, Case No. CR 08-00575

2008 April - U.S.A. v. Jack E. Garrett: “Aiding and Assisting Preparation of False Tax Return” [pdf]
U.S. District Court for Central District of California, Los Angeles, Case No. CR 08-00492

2007 November - Notice of Settlement of Class Action: Plaintiffs & Lipp Defendants [pdf]

2007 November - U.S.A. v. Mark Forrest Cohn: Criminal Minutes - Change of Plea [pdf]
U.S. District Court for Central District of California, Los Angeles, Case No. 0701104

2007 October - U.S.A. v. Mark Forrest Cohn: Information - conspiracy; wire fraud [pdf]
U.S. District Court for Central District of California, Los Angeles, Case No. 0701104

2007 April - Notice of Settlement of Class Action: Plaintiffs, Bank Defendants, and Wade Defendants [pdf]
California Superior Court, Los Angeles

2007 April - First Interim Application For Allowance And Payment Of Chapter 7 Fees And Reimbursement Of Chapter 7 Expenses Of Trustee Counsel[pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2007 March - Chapter 7 Trustee's: Summary Status Report Regarding Adversary Proceedings[pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2006 October - Burgess & Company Reply To Trustee’s Motion To Dismiss First Amended Complaint For Failure To State A Claim Upon Which Relief Can Be Granted[pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2006 October - Trustee’s Summary Status Report Regarding Adversary Proceedings [pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2006 October - Richard Marshack vs. Miles Woodlief: Notice of Voluntary Dismissal[pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2006 September - Declaration of Ronald I. Anson In Support Of Opposition To Trustee’s Motion For Order Directing Transfer Of Pending Case of Anson [pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2006 July - Complaint Objecting To Discharge of Debtor (Garrett) [pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2005 December - Declaration of Michael J. Plonsker In Opposition To Motion Of Trustee For Approval Of Compromise of Controversy With Anson: Objection To Declaration Of Richard Marshack - Part 1 (1 of 3 Parts) [pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

Part 2 of 3 – Plonsker Exhibits [pdf]

Part 3 of 3 – Plonsker Exhibits [pdf]

2005 November - Declaration Of Deborah A. Klar In Support Of Plaintiffs’ Motion To Compel Defendant Robert Lipp To Produce Documents And Appear At Deposition And Respond To Questions [pdf]
California Superior Court - Los Angeles

2005 November - Notice Of Motion And Motion To Compel Defendant Robert Lipp To Produce Documents And Appear At Deposition And Respond To Questions [pdf]
California Superior Court - Los Angeles

2005 November - Objection To Trustee’s Motion For An Order Of Approval Of Compromise With Anson By Creditors Rodney Minott and Jon Ferrara; Declarations of Rodney Minott and Jon Ferrara – Part 1 of 2 [pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

Part 2 of 2 – Minott & Ferrara Exhibits [pdf]

2005 November - Adversary Proceedings filed by Richard Marshack, Four Star Financial Services Trustee - Complaints Against: Delfino, Blitz, Condor, Pierson, Roberts, Lipp/Georgina Asset Management, Irell & Manella, Woodlief, Rosenthal, Sherman, Ungar [zip file -pdf]
U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Central District of California, Los Angeles Division

2005 April - Gilbert, Klein, Kraus, Gibson, Simon, Singer, White v. Cohn, Garrett, Anson, Lipp, Wade, Condor Investments, Anson, Garrett and Co., Cato, Georgina Asset Management, Capital One Investment Group, Inc., Ethel Wolfe, Steven Cohn, Alexis Cohn, First Community Bancorp, Pacific Western National Bank [pdf]
Second Amended Class Action - California Superior Court

2005 April - BizNiz,LLC v. Cubs Hotel, Cohn, Anson, Garrett - Motion to Quash Subpoena & Memorandum of Points & Authorities. [pdf]

2004 September - Answer of defendants Capital One Investment Group & Gail Cato to First Amended Class Action. [pdf]

2004 August - Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Anson and Garrett - First Amended Complaint for Breach of Fiduciary of Care; Breach of Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty, and; Accounting. [pdf]
- United States Bankruptcy Court

2004 July - Answer of defendants Mark Cohn, Garrett & Anson Investment Co. to First Amended Class Action Complaint.

2004 May - Ferrara v. Lipp, Seetoo, Georgina Asset Management - GAM Answer Second Amended Complaint

2004 May - Gilbert, Klein, Kraus, Gibson, Simon, Singer, White v. Cohn, Garrett, Anson, Lipp, Wade, Condor Investments, Anson, Garrett and Co., Cato, Georgina Asset Management, Capital One Investment Group, Inc., Ethel Wolfe, Steven Cohn, Alexis Cohn, First Community Bancorp, Pacific Western National Bank [pdf]
Amended Class Action - California Superior Court

2004 May - Ferrara & Minott v. Georgina Asset Management, LLC, Lipp, Seetoo, Jacob, Windermere Investment Associates, Inc. Second Amended Complaint for Fraud, Misrepresentation, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Conspiracy to Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Negligence. [pdf]
- Superior Court of California

2004 May - Court Exhibits, including emails and "finders fee schedules", from complaints filed against Georgina Asset Management (Robert Lipp, Joe Seetoo) and Four Star Financial Services (Mark Cohn, Ron Anson, Jack Garrett) [pdf]

2004 April - Maxmin Yield v. Cohn, Anson, Garrett.[pdf]

2004 February - Gilbert, Klein, Kraus, Gibson, Simon, Singer v. Cohn, Garrett, Anson, Lipp, Condor Investments, Cohn America, Georgina Asset Management [pdf]
Class Action - California Superior Court

2004 February 17 - Gantz v. Cohn, Anson, Garrett - California Superior Court

2003 November - Shapiro v. Anson, Garrett & Co. [pdf]
California Superior Court

2003 October - Michael Plonsker v. Four Star Financial, Anson, Garrett, Cohn, Cato [pdf] - California Superior Court

2003 September - Four Star Financial v. Global Endeavors, Gail Cato, et al. [pdf]
Exhibits: A-C | D-I | J-S (Containing Cato's felony record, copies of the bogus Argentina CD's, emails with Cato, etc. Some of the documents are virtually unreadable because of poor scanning.) - Georgia Superior Court

2003 August - Reservoir Capital v. Four Star, et al. Notice of motion and memorandum to amend judgment to include alter egos.

2003 August - Gevirtz v. Cohn, Anson, Garrett, Four Star - U.S. District Court - Central District of California (Federal)

2003 July - Norman Rips v. Four Star Financial, 900 Capital Services, Anson, Garrett, Wade, Cohn [pdf] - California Superior Court

2003 July - Suzanne Tikkanen v. Condor Investment Corp, Cohn, Anson, Garrett, Four Star [pdf] - Former top manager at Four Star alleging sexual harassment and a hostile work environment - California Superior Court

2003 May - Donald Passman v. Robert Lipp, Georgina Asset Management, Ryan Kavanaugh, Four Star Financial [pdf] - California Superior Court

2003 May - Four Star v. Internet Revenue Network, breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation, misrepresentation - LA Superior Court.

2002 March - Allright Realty v. Four Star, Communique 2000[pdf] - U.S. District Court, So. Dist. Texas, Houston Division - Final Judgment of more than $1 million against Four Star and Communique 2000

2001 August - Bret Michaels (Pamela Anderson Lee intervenor) v. Internet Entertainment Group, Four star, et al - Order Granting Motion to Enforce $4 million Settlement Judgment

2001 July - United States of America v. Mark Cohn, Four Star Financial Services, et al.

2000 August - Bret Michaels v. Internet Entertainment Group, Four Star, et al

1998 April - Internet Entertainment Group v. Pamela Anderson Lee [pdf]

1997 November - Pamela Anderson Lee v. Internet Entertainment Group [pdf]

DOJ PRESS RELEASES

2007 October - Cohn Charged in 'Arbitrage' Ponzi Scheme[pdf]
2004 February - Cohn & Four Star sentenced [pdf]
2003 October - Cohn Hatfield [pdf]
2003 June - Cohn verdict [pdf]
2002 August - Joel Katz
2002 June - Joel Katz
2001 July - Eight Indicted in Telemarketing

DOJ CORRESPONDENCE TO FOUR STAR VICTIMS

2007 November - U.S. Attorney Correspondence on U.S.A. vs. Cohn: Victim Restitution [pdf]

Court Orders

June 2004 - Court orders initiated by the Trustee to compel attorneys and other individuals hired by Four Star to produce documents and be deposed. The orders are substantively alike, but each order is available here nonetheless:
Sapperstein, Woodlief, Taggart, Jarblum, Fornari, Evans, Emerson, Beeton, Baron, Kogel, Capital One Investments [all PDFs]

2005 May - Motion by 4Star Trustee to examine persons most knowledgeable at Phoenix Hospitality; Special Hospitality Phoenix; Stuart Carson; Steven Cohn[pdf]

NAMER/900 CAPITAL/4STAR

1997 March - Securities & Exchange Commission suit against David Namer, et al.

1997 March - The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), "SEC Suing Memphis Securities Dealer".

1998 January - Court Docket - National Commerce Bancorporation v. 900 Capital, David Namer, Jack Garrett, Mark Cohn, et al., U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee.

2000 April - In re Ray & Ross, Sentinel Trust v. 900 Capital Services, et al., "Findngs of Fact And Conclusions of Law", U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada - Federal Judge's findings in case against 900 Capital & Four Star

2000 April - In re Ray & Ross, Sentinel Trust v. 900 Capital, et al., "Judgment", U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada - Judgment entered against 900 Capital/Four Star

2001 March - Court Exhibit from complaint filed against Georgina Asset Management - Memorandum: Georgina Asset & 4Star - Georgina Asset to raise $3.2 million for Ray & Ross deal- Includes Finder's Fee Schedule

2001 November - The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), "Broker In Namer Case Pleads Guilty"

2001 December - Declaration of Joseph R. Prochaska in support of motion by Sentinel Trust Company to disburse funds in payment of fees and expenses incurred while serving as indenture Trustee

2002 August - The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), "Namer Guilty of Swindling Investors; 'All The Lies' Snare Financial Adviser".

2003 May - Securities & Exchange Commission Litigation Release - David Namer sentenced.

OTHER

Mark Cohn's prison address

2004 July - Chris Evans' prison address, one of several Four Star attorneys suspected of using trust accounts to funnel investor funds in alleged Ponzi scheme. Also - the Virginia Bar revocation opinion

2004 May - Trustee's Supplemental Status Conference Statement

2004 May - Trustee's status report (Part A [pdf] -- Part B [pdf])

January 2004 - Mark Cohn Sentencing Transcript & Index for Sentencing Transcript

2004 January - Testimony of Miles Woodlief, Mark Cohn's attorney. Woodlief testified as a character witness for Cohn at his sentencing on January 30, 2004. Woodlief is questioned by the US Attorney about the Four Star "arbitrage" funds which were funneled through trust accounts belonging to Woodlief (and other attorneys).

2003 December - List of Four Star related lawsuits from 2003 bankruptcy filing.

2001 April- Mark Cohn & James Fornari fined - "Failure to Disclose Repayment Results in Attorney Sanctions," New York Law Journal.