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Stephan J. Lawrence
The Daily Beast has just published another explosive news article on former Bear Stearns
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insider and billionaire convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein: Behind Pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein's Sweetheart Deal .
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The article, written by Conchita Sarnoff, a top notch investigative bulldog, states:
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"Documents obtained by The Daily Beast reveal how pedophile hedge fund
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's
mogul Jeffrey Epstein escaped a hefty jail sentence despite overwhelming
Accused Chief Intimi...
evidence of sex crimes with dozens of young girls. Conchita Sarnoff and Lee
Aitken on how the fear and intimidation experienced by victims during pre-trial What You Don't Know Will
Hurt You -- What Really
proceedings, combined with a ferocious, protracted campaign to undermine O...
the prosecution, culminated in a set of charges that became a virtual slap on
the wrist."

One of the alleged chief Epstein intimidators identified by the Palm Beach Police Department  is
William Riley. Mr. Riley was, and still is, an 'officer of court' in the local bankruptcy court in the
Southern District of Florida. He obtained 'officer of the court' protection under secret, off-the-
docket bankruptcy court filings.

Mr. Riley was secretly paid by Bear Stearns. His amazing 'red carpet treatment' and 'officer of
the court' immunity, granted by the local bankruptcy court, was arranged by Paul S. Singerman,
of Berger Singerman P.A., and his partner, James H. Fierberg.That bankruptcy court was the
local hangout of convicted Trustee Lewis Freeman and Trustee Marika Tolz (who is now also
facing Florida state charges).

Mr. Fierberg's and Mr. Singerman's backdated (nunc pro tunc) Riley filings (with an attached
perjured affidavit by Mr. Fierberg) and the resulting off-the-docket orders, were illegally kept off-
the-docket and sealed. They were never served on the U.S. Trustee's Office, just one of the
many missing prerequisites to legitimacy. For years, Mr. Riley's 'officer of the court' status and
protection remained a carefully guarded secret from: myself, my attorneys, the U.S. Trustee's
office, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and all reviewing courts. This continued until the district court
finally ordered the bankruptcy court to disgorge the secret record — an order that, even today,
has still not been fully complied with.

(The Riley court papers, including the Fierberg affidavit, related orders, and other documents are
posted at http://www.scribd.com)

What the secret off-the-docket court papers contained was shocking and repugnant:

Although the papers are misleadingly labeled as only an "application" to have Mr. Riley hired as
an 'officer of the court,' they were, in effect, much more than that. They show:

— a secret hearing was held without a court reporter and with no indication on the court docket.
Years later, the Riley papers and order were inserted on the docket as #1426 ..., which was the

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docket position at the date of the insertion, not the date the papers were submitted years earlier.
So, not even normal sealing procedures (as in the many other sealed documents) were followed
for the off-the-docket assignment of 'officer of the court' status to Mr. Riley.

— Mr. Riley's 'hiring' was backdated (nunc pro tunc). So obviously, by the time of the secret
hearing, he had already done some of his 'work' and could testify without a court reporter being
present (This pattern of 'nunc pro tunc' secret hirings and hearings was repeated many times
over the years)

— Bear Stearns' name is nowhere mentioned in the "application," even though they paid Riley
for his 'work.'

— There are no other traces of Riley, on or off the bankruptcy record, including bills, applications
to approve specific payments by the bankruptcy estate to Mr. Riley, orders approving any
payment for submitted bills. Mr. Riley's secret testimony and 'officer of the court' status simply
vanished from view. In short, Mr. Riley's 'hiring' was a sham designed to give him 'officer of the
court' status and allow him to testify against me without a court record and reporter, without a
chance to confront him, and without his identity ever being known.

— Mr. Singerman's lead co-attorney, James H. Fierberg, through his affidavit attached to the
Riley papers, and his unknown testimony at the secret hearing, became a principal sworn secret
witness against me. Those accusations were perjured. Mr. Fierberg swore to the testimony of
numerous witnesses that I threatened many people, including children, in order to force false
testimony from them. Every one of those purported witnesses was readily available for deposing
and the obtaining of sworn statements. If the many purported witnesses had really spoken to Mr.
Fierberg, then there is no reason they would not have given truthful statements and testimony
about those fictitious events.

— The correct (and required) procedure, in the face of the serious accusations made, was to
immediately refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office ... not to hire a questionable P.I. using
bizarre and illegal secret procedures.

At about the time the above events were occurring, I had informally been told by one of the key
alleged witnesses (my accountant and a personal friend for years) that he believed he was being
pressured to give false testimony by persons connected to the trustee. I never paid much
attention since the issue never went further and I did not know of the secret testimony that was
being given against me by Mr. Fierberg and Mr. Riley.

I have no doubt that the reason Mr. Singerman and Mr. Fierberg did not refer the Fierberg and
Riley secret testimony/information to the USAO — as required by law —  was their fear they
could themselves be facing perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

After I discovered the existence of Mr. Riley, I was in no way surprised that the Palm Beach
Police Department accused him of intimidating the child victims of billionaire pedophile Jeffery
Epstein — history was just repeating itself.

The Bear Stearns -- Jeffrey Epstein Hedge Fund Connections:

One unexplored aspect of the handling of the Jeffery Epstein case is Epstein's intimate
connections with Bear Stearns. He was both a former Bear Stearns insider and a mammoth
player in the Bear Stearns Cayman Islands CMO hedge fund scandal. Based on my intimate
knowledge of how Bear Stearns operated, I believe there existed an extensive symbiotic
relationship between Bear Stearns and Jeffrey Epstein: Bear Stearns promoting Epstein to
potential clients and Epstein, in turn investing heavily in Bear Stearns deals.

Was special inside information or treatment given by Bear Stearns to Epstein that wasn't given to
the public victims of those Cayman Island funds? The USAO, at least publicly, believed Epstein
to be a good asset in the criminal prosecution of the Bear Stearns' Cayman Islands hedge fund
managers. Indeed, Epstein was taking virtually daily, all-day long — and much criticized —
"furloughs" to his attorneys' offices ... purportedly to "aid" the Government in the hedge fund
prosecutions.

However, the sweetheart deal given Epstein does not square with the thousands of prosecutions
I saw at the FDC Miami. The USAO, almost without exception, is ruthless in placing pressure on
defendants to obtain pleas. Prisoners, looking to alleviate long potential sentences, regularly
scramble to turn on co-defendants. The type of threats against individuals at the USAO, that the

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Daily Beast article hinted at, would normally be met with immediate, ruthless, and extensive
reaction — through either new indictments or added charges.

In late 2004, after I first obtained access to the sealed bankruptcy court record, I began notifying
the USAO, through filings, that extensive protected law enforcement material had been stolen
through their office and funneled to senior Bear Stearns management — serious criminal
offenses. I identified Juval Aviv as being a key link in the theft and passing of the stolen
information to Bear Stearns management. Mr. Aviv is a mysterious self-proclaimed Israeli 'hit
man' cum assassin who had been indicted and prosecuted by the US Government. Mr. Aviv —
amazingly — had also become a secret, protected 'officer of the bankruptcy court' in the same
manner Mr. Riley had, and as a result, was supervising the USAO in the illegal phone
surveillance of myself, my attorneys, my family, my friends, and reporters I was in
communications with. He was also a key figure in secretly funneling the stolen information he
had access to, directly and indirectly to Bear Stearns senior management.

In 2006, I filed a federal court complaint (also sent to the USAO) that, again, clearly outlined and
supported allegations that Mr. Aviv was repeating crimes similar to those he had been previously
prosecuted for and other serious crimes for Bear Stearns senior management. I received no
response. I also notified the Office of Professional Responsibility and was met with a stone wall.
I filed a Freedom of Information Request to determine the full extent of the thefts of materials
related to myself. Again, I was met with a stone wall.

Whatever the extent of influence pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has, Bear Stearns has similar
influence to a much larger degree. Bear Stearns (through its successor) and former management
had, and continue to have, enormous incentive to protect Jeffrey Epstein from turning against
them — a very likely event if Jeffrey Epstein was facing 40 years in prison, as he should have
been. If, as intimated in the Daily Beast, the USAO responded to threats of embarrassing
disclosures with a sweetheart deal, Bear Stearns' and Berger Singerman's successful infiltration
of the USAO, to facilitate the theft and funneling of extensive law enforcement materials and the
results of unlawful wiretapping to Bear Stearns, presented a parallel embarrassing incentive to
take the pressure off of Bear Stearns by taking the pressure off the key potential insider witness
against Bear Stearns, Jeffrey Epstein.

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Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Accused Intimidator

Was Also A G-Man; And About What Happened To ABOUT ME

The 'Pesky' FBI Agents Stephan J. Lawrence

View my complete profile
We all know that designated federal law enforcement agents — the FBI, US Attorneys, DOJ
employees, etc. — are carefully trained (Quantico is world famous), vetted, identified and under
constant scrutiny to uphold the highest standards. Don't we? BLOG ARCHIVE

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Not really ... there is a back door ... a back door so wide that federal law enforcement "badges"
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were, PEZ mint like , dispensed willy nilly, in secret, to unidentified federal indictees, con artists,
Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's
and the like.
Accused Intimidator
Wa...
Any corrupt company or individual can use this back door ... as long as they have: a very fat
wallet (a few spare million to begin); enormous insider clout (Bear Stearns of Cayman Islands ►  March (2)
CMO hedge fund scam/fame); and a very special and politically powerful "insider" man to make
it all happen (Paul Singerman, of Berger Singerman P.A., of Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust
money laundering fame).

My last post showed how accused chief Jeffrey Epstein intimidator, P.I. William Riley, had
become a secret, protected "officer of the bankruptcy court." However, that was just the
beginning. He also became a federal law enforcement agent.

In late 2005, over a year after the district court ordered the bankruptcy court to disgorge the
secret bankruptcy record and after repeated denials, the court reporter "found" transcripts of four
of the secret hearings held 5 years earlier. 

The secret hearings and filings exposed a bizarre amalgam of wiretap and trial
hearings. No bankruptcy court has ever been publicly known to conduct a
wiretap hearing or issue communications surveillance orders. All
communications surveillance is controlled by the Wiretap Act ("Title 3"), a
criminal statute. The Government clearly and repeatedly stated this fact
throughout the hearings. Through those hearings, P.I. Riley and others became
"federal law enforcement agents."

In addition, the hearings were part of a secret trial in which unidentified "confidential agents"
testified against me ... not in person, but through the mouths of Berger Singerman attorney
James Fierberg (the sworn secret witness against me in the off-the-docket hearing described in
my last post) and the self-proclaimed Israeli "hit-man," Juval Aviv ( who I never knew existed
until years after he secretly testified against me). Mr. Aviv testified "over the phone," in
this "anything goes" secret trial — without being sworn in. He testified, HUAC style,
that he had in his hands my secret bank accounts! Every attempt I later made, to obtain the
papers, that Mr. Aviv had so effectively waved "over the phone," was met with complete,
stonewalled silence. Those obviously fictitious papers were never placed in the sealed record.

Some Background:
 
The wiretaps came about shortly after I was imprisoned at the FDC Miami for civil contempt. The

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basis for my long imprisonment has always been euphemistically based on "a finding of the
bankruptcy court" — a carefully cultivated phrase designed to give the false impression that there
was an actual judgment for liability for a completely lawful and disclosed 1991 trust settlement.
In reality, the "finding" was a single sentence tacked to the end of a discovery sanction order in
a bankruptcy discharge proceeding. It never could, under any known law, be considered a basis
for liability to a bankruptcy trustee for a legal transfer made 7 years earlier (see US Supreme
Court Petition for Writ of Certiorari). I never had even the remotest inkling or warning that I could
suffer such liability from a discovery hearing in a discharge proceeding.

The "finding" order resulted from one of the most abusive hearings ever
conducted in a U.S. courtroom (the complete details, with transcript, will be
fully laid out in a further post). Unsurprisingly, the sanction order was entirely written by
Paul Singerman, James Fierberg et.al.. At the discovery hearing, held on no notice, all of my
witnesses were ejected from the hearing, including Judge Herbert Stettin (the trustee in the Scott
Rothstein bankruptcy) who was the Trust's attorney in the long pending Bear Stearns federal
lawsuit that began in 1993. I was completely prohibited from introducing any evidence or
witnesses. Thereby, Berger Singerman's "factual findings" in the order were the opposite of
actual evidence and, in critical instances, completely fabricated — including the totally bizarre
"finding" that I had concealed the existence of the Trust.

In mid 1993, years before my bankruptcy case and only weeks after a Bear Stearns
judgment first became final, Bear Stearns named the 1991 Lawrence Family
Trust in Federal Court when it began execution on their judgment. In that lawsuit, critically,
Federal District Court Judge Lawrence King ruled that under Federal and Florida law, the Trust
must be sued to affect its assets. Bear Stearns then impleaded the Trust, which was
represented by Judge Herbert Stettin. A simple examination of  Judge King's order (including its
very existence) explains why the source of the bankruptcy "finding" has been so carefully and
continuously obscured ... the Trust was already in federal court and all Berger
Singerman had to do was enter the case or sue — if they really had a case. The
federal court case against the Trust was so weak that it was eventually closed
for lack of prosecution.

THE ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING, NEW G-MEN, AND INFILTRATION OF THE UNITED

STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE:

The roadblocks, to Berger Singerman (and Bear Stearns indirectly) obtaining the wiretaps and
other protected law enforcement materials, were unsurmountable. Just one of those requirements
was that access to the material was limited to law enforcement officers and certain Department
of Justice employees. Alan Goldberg, the bankruptcy trustee, is a private trustee and is not
considered a law enforcement officer or a part of the DOJ. The Government made that very
point at the secret hearings.

Moreover, the Government repeatedly stated that: providing tapes of my

recorded phone calls and law enforcement records to Goldberg violated
multiple laws and regulations, including the Wiretap Act ("Title 3"), privacy
laws and related regulations; that the phone tapes were recorded only for legitimate
Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) security concerns and were only accessible to designated law
enforcement personnel; and that the bankruptcy court had no authority to issue rulings on
communications surveillance matters:

"MR. DEAGUIAR (Attorney for FBOP): ... Your Honor, the Government feels that
compliance with the Trustee's request would violate both the Privacy Act
found at 18 USC 552 (a), I have copies of that statute as well if you would like,
Title 5, and also Title 3 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968 found at 18 USC Sections 2510 through 2522, and I have copies of
pertinent sections with me as well." Page 7 here.

THOSE PESKY FBI AGENTS:

Mr. Fierberg bitterly and successfully complained that FBI agents had to
screen the tapes: "I have been advised this morning that it is, unfortunately,
the law enforcement officers themselves, the F.B.I. agents, or whoever, come
in and sit down and go through the tapes" (Page 10 here) — Mr. Fierberg was
clearly looking ahead. So the pipeline of tapes torrentially flowed directly to Berger Singerman,
Juval Aviv, the other unidentified agents (which would include Jeffrey Epstein's P.I., William
Riley) ... some of whom then funneled the contents to Bear Stearns senior managing directors

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Daniel Taub, Mark Lehman, and others. 

The pesky FBI — who might ask embarrassing and serious questions about who
was actually getting the tapes and how — had been surgically removed from
the loop. The Government, without control, ended up conducting illegal wiretapping for Bear
Stearns while they were involved in extensive Florida state and Federal court civil litigation
against myself and my family. And, to boot, Juval Aviv, who the Government had earlier
prosecuted, was given control over the USAO and FBOP in directing the wiretapping and
obtaining of other, still unidentified, protected law enforcement materials!

Moreover, by removing trained law enforcement officers as screeners for the tapes, Mr. Fierberg,
Juval Aviv, Paul Singerman, and unknown others collectively became the tape "translators" at
the secret hearings. Nobody could verify if they were lying. During the hearings, Mr. Fierberg
and Aviv freely, without question, insinuated "discoveries" in the tapes that, according to them,
were essential in British and other foreign litigation. Of course, they always needed more (for
"European litigation" of course) — even though my attorneys and myself were constantly
discussing strategy over the phone for my contempt appeal then in the Eleventh Circuit (with
oral argument coming up), my failed habeas corpus attempt (it was ruled I had no right to
present a habeas claim!), and the extensive Florida State Court civil litigation with Bear Stearns
and Berger Singerman. This was pure hoax. None of the tapes were ever filed or sealed — just
one of the many ignored requirements of the Wiretap Act (Title 3).  It is no wonder that
Berger Singerman didn't want proper law enforcement officers screening the
tapes — and questioning why the tapes were going to Berger Singerman, in a
civil case ... who then funneled the tapes, their contents, and other protected
law enforcement materials to Bear Stearns. Anthony Pelicano, the infamous
Hollywood P.I. who was conducting wiretapping to get information for civil
court cases, received 15 years in federal prison for these very actions.

Years later, after I finally learned of some of the foreign litigation (to be related about in a further
post) I could not find a single direct or indirect reference to the tapes. When I raised the matter,
Berger Singerman admitted the tapes were never used in British or other foreign litigation —
confirming that Bear Stearns was always the intended recipient of the stolen tapes. To this day, I
have been stonewalled in every attempt to obtain the British Court records (which would confirm
the tapes were never used in Europe and much more), my own phone tapes, or a list of the
protected information about me (and everyone I communicated with) that was funneled to Bear
Stearns. All I ever saw, in limited foreign court documents I had independently obtained, was a
perjured affidavit by Juval Aviv in which he, again, falsely swore he had identified my (fictitious)
secret bank accounts.

Two or more off-the-docket wiretap hearings were held, and at least one order was issued
between the November 16 and December 5 secret hearings. On December 4, 2000 Paul
Singerman filed a sealed motion. It was not served on the Government.

The same day the motion was filed, an off-the-docket hearing was held without a court reporter,
as stated in the resulting sealed order from that motion.

However, Berger Singerman had made a colossal blunder when they filed the
motion. They had foolishly tacked on to the end of the motion the very phone
logs they claimed to be seeking at the hearing held the next day!

The next day, December 5, at the transcribed hearing for the bungled motion, a
script was followed. Mr. Fierberg repeatedly stated he and his firm had not
seen the very phone logs they tacked on to the motion being heard! The
bankruptcy judge conducted the hearing as though Berger Singerman did not
have those phone logs ... even though the motion, filed under seal, had those
logs attached (docket entry #1074 Case No 97-14687-BKC-AJC). In late 2004,
under order, Mr. Fierberg delivered to me an incomplete copy of the sealed record and for the
motion — the incriminating phone logs had been ripped off.

On November 16, the Government had refused to turn over the phone logs and had provided a
copy of the logs to the bankruptcy judge. There were only two ways Berger Singerman
could have gotten those logs by December 4: 1) the bankruptcy judge gave
them to Berger Singerman through an off-the-docket secret order issued
between November 16 and December 4 (when the motion was filed with the
logs), or 2) the Government delivered the logs under an off-the-docket sealed
order. Either way, the logs were delivered and findings were made that addressed all objections

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raised by the Government.

A key objection raised by the Government, was a private bankruptcy trustee's status respecting
the Department of Justice so that he and everyone associated with him could be considered a
law enforcement official entitled to access to government tapes. The off-the-docket order had to
resolve that issue in Berger Singerman's favor for Juval Aviv, alleged Epstein intimidator William
Riley, and all other unnamed "investigators" to come under the umbrella of being government
law enforcement officers entitled to access protected law enforcement tapes. So the
"investigators" had all become secret government law enforcement officers and thereby entitled
to the tapes.

Throughout the Jeffrey Epstein fiasco, everyone was aware of the importance of the Epstein -
Bear Stearns connection to building a case against Bear Stearns insiders and the pending Bear
Stearns Cayman Islands Hedge Fund trials. Epstein's constant "furloughs" to his attorney's office
was supposed to be for that very purpose. Yet, publicly unknown and concealed, were the
events that allowed Bear Stearns the extraordinary special treatment of taking control of the
USAO and FBOP, to illegally wiretap and steal protected law enforcement materials. This was at
least as embarrassing as the reported threats made by Epstein's attorneys to the USAO lawyers
and the simultaneous exposure of these events would have had heightened impact and further
charges of sweetheart deals for anyone connected to Bear Stearns.

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