Rereading looks like a long post. Hope it’s sequential.
If NP was a public defender here, I would think there would be paperwork to show the appointment. If not, certainly a bill presented by NP to the state to get paid. No state agency pays a bill without an invoice. Paper trail. Auditors would croak.
FD lying under oath about his finances doesn’t make the SOURCE of the funds criminal. It’s a crime, yes, but not linked to the money. So can’t get to it that way.
Lying about not knowing who is paying is crime, but not as to SOURCE of the funds. Is the funding itself legitimate. Is it income from olive oil produced in Greece? Or some other business? Tourism? Fishing? Transportation? Like Onassis? Again. Guess all we want, need evidence to show that the money was “earned” illegally.
Same with filing false mortgage liens. Crime. But doesn’t refer to the source as being illegal.
Basically, was the money earned by legal or illegal means? Like the $75000. That’s the closest I can get to illegally “earned.”
Then, does the transferring raise doubts to its illegal beginnings? Does Greek benefactor sending money to NY developer raise questions in NY developer’s mind as to the legal/illegal means the money was “earned?” If so, problem. If not, again not revealed. And how much due diligence is required by NY developer? And it just spirals out of control.
BUT receiving funds for payment of non legal representation expenses would seem to be fair game. To pay living expenses. Insurance. Credit card bills.
EDIT added: what if NP receiving all the funds and distributing to FD’s expenses directly as part of his retainer agreement with FD. Is that covered under attorney client privilege? Meh. Probably so. More hurdles. The bills have to be subpoenaed directly from the companies to see who’s paying what. And how it’s being paid.
No question, FD has this laid out to his advantage for at least the time being.
There should be bank transactions. It’s not too difficult to fly in with $100,000.00 a trip. Private airstrip. No customs. But flying in with the kind of money we’re talking about, is not one suitcase.
Again, so what? If I don’t report earning a $100,000 from a fishing expedition, fishing is legal. Unless I’m poaching. Tax evasion is a crime. Poaching is a crime. So the money earned from poaching undersized fish, crabs, lobsters, is illegal. And if passed along to FD, a crime. And his attorney or whoever is in the chain must reveal it. But with multiple layers of transfer, it becomes harder and harder to prove from illegal source.
IMHO, I’d send in informants to gather the info without assistance from the court system. Get the fact that it’s illegal first. Then figure out how to prove it’s illegal and get it into evidence. From there, it can be exposed for what it is, and how it came into the possession of the Greek benefactor. Don’t hold your breath. Everyone in the line of transfer will lie. And if it’s millions, as we suspect, there could be more dead fish in the sea.
There are easier ways to get FD for not paying the Farbers back for the money that was loaned to him. Get the judgment first. Foreclose all the properties. Sort out what’s left. Then squeeze the last of the blood out of the turnip. By attaching book and movie rights before FD sells them off to a legitimate book publisher and production company. If he hasn’t done that already.
Have to prove he sold to thwart creditors to get it back. Pretty easy at this point.
And the plot thickens. This would be a series of movies. A trilogy. Too much for one alone.
He did too much of the dirty work himself. That will be his undoing.
Blood on his hands, under his nails. On his clothes if on Albany Avenue. His DNA in JD Suburban. Or MT. Or any other players named so far.
