edited by me for emphasis. ..
Because Mr Gleeson, and Mr Jones are the Receivers.. ( appointed by the court ) .. it is their job to go down every dark alley and twisted lane in their court appointed task of gathering every single debtor Melissa has collected in her life. Going on 60 mins would require quite a bit of discussion , at $700 per 30 mins, ( just for Mr Gleeson ) ..
Once a person, or an entity, like a company or organisation is placed in the hands of the receiver it is very close to the end game. It is then a matter for debtors to claw back what they feel they are owed, and not a matter of the Receiver dispersing monies at whim and at will.
Of course, the poor investors also have to fork out for , say, Dom Calabrio as well.. and the other firm , Bridges, ...if they are joined up in a class action. They actually pay at both rough ends of the pineapple, this is the fate of those caught up in these kind of events.. lose your money, pay for a receiver to work out exactly who lost what, ( because the Receivers fee is paid out of the remnants on the estate. .... like the funeral director , they get first dibs on the money pool ) .. and pay for a barrister to argue your point in court to get back 2 or 3 cents in the dollar.
And Melissa would have known this procedure was the inevitable outcome of her house of cards collapsing. She was business-wise, she probably knew quite a few people who had wound up in the hands of the Receiver during her association with the financial services industry. Certainly she would have heard about a few.
