N.Y. process server charged in fraud case

Associated Press - April 14, 2009

NEW YORK, April 14 (UPI) -- A New York company failed to provide notification to thousands of consumers facing debt-related lawsuits, causing them unknowingly to default, officials say.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said in criminal charges filed Tuesday accuse American Legal Process of Long Island and Chief Executive William Singler of perpetrating a fraudulent business scheme in which process servers didn't do their jobs in alerting consumers they were being sued, thus denying them a chance to respond.

As a result, Cuomo said, thousands of judgments were allegedly obtained against unsuspecting New Yorkers, many of whom first learned they were being sued when they found their bank accounts frozen or their wages garnished. Prosecutors alleged that ALP covered up the fraud by falsifying sworn affidavits of service in state courts across New York.

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Cuomo launches probe into process servers

BY ROBERT E. KESSLER | robert.kessler@newsday.com
12:53 AM EDT, April 13, 2009

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched a wide-ranging investigation of possible fraud in the process-serving industry, in which thousands of people may have had their financial accounts frozen or wages garnished without any knowledge of court proceedings against them, according to officials.

A spokesman for Cuomo, Richard Bamberger, confirmed the existence of the probe and said it's an important issue in a time of increasing economic hardship. He declined to elaborate on the scope of the investigation or on firms under scrutiny.

Sources familiar with it, however, said that the investigation includes practices on Long Island and around the state. There could be as many as tens of thousands of people statewide affected, the sources said.

Two people said last week they were victims of so-called "sewer service," a term used to indicate that a person was not served and the summons could just as well have been thrown down a sewer.

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Liddy can run but he cannot hide

The Courier - 04/08/09

New complaint charges cover-up by government officials and AIG head Liddy runs from Process Servers. AIG shareholders class action amended to include Geithner, Paulson and Cox as defendants.

(Los Angeles, Ca., April 8, 2009). Freedom Watch, the government watchdog that protects individual liberties over government and corporate illegalities, today amended its $200 billion dollar class action derivative shareholders suit today against AIG and its directors to include two successive Secretaries of the Treasury, Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, as well as former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, as defendants in the lawsuit. The suit is pending in Los Angeles federal court.

The inspiration for this amendment was information disclosed by University of Missouri professor, William K. Black, on the Bill Moyers' PBS television show last Friday, where he implicated these government officials in a massive cover up of the banking scandal, mostly for the benefit of Goldman Sachs, the former employer of both Paulson and Geithner, in which they held a significant financial interest. As for Cox, his reckless and intentionally impotent oversight at the SEC is the basis for the claim against him.

The complaint charges these defendants with violating the constitutional rights of the shareholders by denying them the right to their property; the shares themselves. Under a Supreme Court case, United States v. Bivens, they can be sued in their individual capacities, even though the acts took place during their tenure as government officials.

Finally, while the company AIG was served with the initial complaint, CEO and Director Edward Liddy has on three occasions "run" from process servers trying to serve him with the complaint, telling AIG security not to allow the process servers into his office suite. "This is an absolute disgrace," stated Freedom Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. "It shows the complete lack of respect AIG and its directors have for the Rule of Law. Liddy can run but he cannot hide. It's only a matter of time before he and his co-horts, along with Geithner, Paulson and Cox, will be held accountable by the American people, not compromised politicians in Washington, D.C., like Barney Frank Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, who yesterday refused to answer a legitimate question from a Harvard student who inquired why he and his committee failed to oversee the banking scandal" Klayman added.

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