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After Passing of SDNY Convicted Albert Vilar Traceability Oct 15 Amid Corrupt UN Echo

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 1 – The saga of Alberto Vilar in the Southern District of New York has been well known, including his re-sentencing to ten years for refusing to pay his victims, and more recently claims he can't, living off a $2,200 a month Social Security check.

On September 8, the Court was informed that "Defendant Albert Vilar passed away in his sleep on September 4, 2021 at his home in Queens County, New York." Noted. And now on September 27, more: "MEMO ENDORSEMENT as to Alberto William Vilar on re: [970] LETTER by Alberto William Vilar addressed to Judge Richard J. Sullivan from Michael K. Bachrach, Esq. dated September 8, 2021 re: Informing Court and the Government of the passing of Alberto Vilar. ENDORSEMENT: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT defense counsel shall submit a status letter to the Court by October 4, 2021 regarding the impact of Mr. Vilar's passing on the various matters pending before this Court and the Second Circuit."

Now docketed on October 1: "ORDER as to Alberto William Vilar, Gary Alan Tanaka: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the motions to dismiss the third-party petitions are GRANTED as to petitions filed by Shevitz and Christov, but are DENIED with respect to the remaining third-party petitions. In light of this determination, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT, by October 15, 2021, the government and the remaining petitioners shall submit a joint letter indicating whether any party intends to request discovery in order to assess the traceability of the petitioners' funds to the Additional Assets, as well as proposing an updated schedule for next steps in the litigation on the Second Preliminary Forfeiture Order."

 The United Nations connections, we had not known until now.   And now we know yet more.

 First, the present, Judge Richard J. Sullivan's order of July 30: "Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Richard J. Sullivan: Oral Argument as to Alberto William Vilar, Gary Alan Tanaka held on 7/30/2021. The Court held oral argument via ZoomGov videoconference on the government's motion to dismiss several third-party petitions filed in connection with the Court's August 2, 2019 and December 9, 2019 Preliminary Orders of Forfeiture as to Substitute Assets...The Court reserved decision on the pending motion to dismiss. The Court directed the Pension Scheme and the government to submit a joint letter by August 13, 2021 proposing a schedule for discovery, summary judgment, and an ancillary hearing."  

Docketed on August 20 is a letter from Laurie Christov, amplifying what she said in the July 30 proceeding: "I feel my oral arguments at the hearing on July 30 feel woefully short... the condition the arbitrator put on my husband's award was the worst case of unjust enrichment, leaving the burden of removal to Vilar and Tanaka, which of course they did not do, why would they?" Why indeed.

 Digging back through the docket, Inner City Press came upon Judge Sullivan's order (Docket Number 537) denying bail to Vilar, and specifically declining to credit the declaration of of Walter Pfaeffle "asserting that Defendant Vilar is not a flight risk."  

The underlying declaration by Walter Pfaeffle, a United Nations correspondent when Inner City Press was there and apparently still there, in the unresponsive UN Correspondents Association, said that

 "I am a German-born freelance journalist... Early on I invested successfully in residential properties. I live in one and rent out the other... I met Alberto Vilar for the first time in June 2005 following his release from the MCC. At the time, Alberto's then lady-friend helped arrange his $4 million bail package, to which I contributed... We often had dinner together and sometimes attended the opera... I was, somewhat by default, left in charge of emptying his apartment at 860 United Nations Plaza."

 But now on August 10, still awaiting the August 13 filing (and staring at a BOP site saying "ALBERTO VILAR Register Number: 57828-054 Age:     80 Race:     White Sex:     Male Released On: 09/10/2018," here's more on Pfaeffle, from another case, Ackermann v. Levine, 610 F. Supp. 633 (S.D.N.Y. 1985) -

 "present at the meeting was a friend of Mr. Bauer's, Walter Pfaeffle, a West German journalist living in New York who spoke both German and English and who Mr. Bauer referred to as his "financial consultant," a status not supported by the proof. (Tr. 463) At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Bauer agreed to keep in touch with defendant after he returned to West Germany; the two were to communicate through Mr. Pfaeffle (he possessed a Telex machine). (Tr. 306; 308) It was defendant's understanding that Mr. Pfaeffle would share in the commission. (Tr. 334)."

  On September 27 we add: Pfaeffle is listed, somehow, as a lawyer - while Inner City Press understands he took paralegal courses to stay in with Vilar. How did this UN "journalist" get the house and sort of law firm on the Hamptons? We'll have more on this.

Ah, the UN - where the correspondents are supported by real estate speculation, as landlords, and bail out fraudsters who refuse to pay their victims. We'll have more on this.  The case is US v. Vilar, et al., 05-cr-621 (Sullivan). 

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