Cue the Sobbing Violins!

Continuing our journey from the sublime to the ridiculous, we reach Deutsche Bank's upcoming Motion for Relief of the Automatic Stay (in this case of the foreclosure of Aniko's property on Benedict Canyon Road.) as imposed by the bankruptcy filing. What Aniko (and her attorneys Abbott and Costello) are trying to do through their opposition, is keep the bank from foreclosing on the house on which Aniko has not paid her mortgage for over a year. Aniko swears in her attached declaration that the tenants have not paid their rent but that contradicts her sworn testimony given at the January 11, 2001 meeting of creditors. At that time, Aniko explained that the $5,000 she lent to Realtor Jan Caswell-Pastras came from rents she collected at the very same Benedict Canyon house. Hmmm. Aniko, how many times have I told you that a good liar has to have a good memory? And how is it possible that your esteemed attorneys fail to prevent (or do they fail to notice?) these conflicting testimonies that you give? Hmmm.

As well as blaming Deutsche Bank (which inherited the mortgage from Washington Mutual) for her current mess, she blames the recession and a "perfect storm of financial calamity" which (in summary of all the gobbledygook offered by Attorney Bryan Tyson) should absolve Aniko of any responsibility for her mess and justifies the arrears.

"She has been the defendant in a particularly vindictive lawsuit, and even though that suit has been settled at great cost to her, the vindictiveness has spilled over onto the Internet, where she continues to be the target of juvenile, but none the less appalling, efforts at character assassination."

Of course what Mr. Tyson is referring to here is this blog. Let me help you here Bryan. She was a defendant because she did unspeakable things as a slumlord, and she settled it, not out of the need to be free of the lawsuit, but because she was about to lose big and be found accountable for perjury at the same time. This blog is not juvenile, but factual and serves as a warning to future targets of her schemes, lies and deceit. Nor does this blog serve as an attempt at character assassination. Her character is self-assassinating through her campaign of slumlord activities, fraud, perjury, tax evasion, lies, deceit and her abuse of others for her self-gain.

The opposition goes on to infer that,as usual, nothing is Aniko's fault and the additional litigation she is now facing, as well as the pending IRS audit (Aniko apparently owes Uncle Sam several hundreds of thousands of dollars) are all part of a grand conspiracy to destroy her life.

My favorite line of the opposition is, "The foregoing is not intended to cue the sobbing violins...". Don't be ridiculous Bryan, of course it is. The entire opposition smacks of desperation and an attempt to avoid accountability. You've tried this tactic on several other motions in front of this and other courts before and you know that your attempts are fruitless. The Judge has got to be laughing every time you pull this "victim" crap as you are fooling nobody. So why bother throwing darts at the board? Well if the bankruptcy estate is going to be liquidated, then the debtor's attorneys might as well try and get as big a piece of the pie as possible. Right boys?