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I have sensed for years that something was rotten in the state of Delaware’s Court of Chancery, in general, but also specifically as it relates to the TransPerfect case and the missing $250 million in legal, custodian and consultant related fees. I promised my loyal readers that I would find and pull on every loose thread of this case until my perceived web of corruption that belongs to Andre Bouchard becomes totally unraveled for all to see.

This new discovery is going to floor you, and what I believe is the attempted cover up will floor you even more!

Three law firms, from my view, made out like bandits when Bouchard started ordering TransPerfect Global and CEO Phil Shawe’s personal money be paid around to his friends and former law partners like a feudal lord in mid-evil times — and remember folks, no witnesses testified against either Shawe or TransPerfect. These three firms benefited to the tune of millions of dollars whose uncanny “coincidences” and connections to Bouchard warrant a State and Federal investigation of Bouchard and his Cronies:

1. Skadden Arps – The former partner at Skadden, custodian Bob Pincus, whose personal friendship I recall Bouchard bragged about when appointing him. Also, this is where outgoing Chief Justice Strine started in law, as Bouchard’s intern.

2. Potter Anderson – Perhaps, who I believe is the dirtiest attorney in Delaware, Kevin Shannon, who seems to win cases without providing evidence by attending tax-payer financed boondoggles with Strine and Bouchard (who I hear from reliable sources that he golfed with and additionally, traveled to New Orleans with, during critical points in the case!!!)

3. Kramer Levin – Whose seemingly outrageous lies to the Delaware Supreme Court were called out in a nationally televised advertisement. What was their penalty for all of this? A victory. What’s the Bouchard connection? Kramer, Bouchard, and Kevin Shannon all worked together on the infamous Walt Disney case years ago, where they argued against shareholder interests. I have heard from reliable sources, that Gary Naftalis is a named partner at Kramer Levin who comes down to hob nob with Strine and Bouchard; sometimes he’s the only non-Delaware lawyer in attendance at a Delaware conference?

4. Paul Weiss – The fourth firm who made out like John Dillinger — and had no apparent connection to Bouchard…UNTIL NOW!!!

The Fourth Firm—HERE IS THE RUB FOLKS :

This firm, which no one has spoken about until now, in August of 2016, as reported in the New York Law Journal, Chancellor Bouchard ordered Shawe to pay Elting’s lawyers an outrageous and unconstitutional fine of $7.1 million — an order un-related to any “harm” or “compensation” in the case, as the law requires — and the largest such sanction ever in U.S. history. Bear in mind: Shawe denies all claims and has maintained his innocence at all times. All witnesses testified for Shawe–clearly stating that there was no wrong-doing of any kind. How did Paul Weiss win? Keep reading.

Paul Weiss benefits immensely — and no one made the connection before now. Why? Perhaps an orchestrated cover-up on a grand scale?

Who was the most Senior Paul Weiss lawyer in Delaware at the time? Who gained the most in the Paul Weiss DE office? You won’t believe it when I tell you: Former Chancellor Steven Lamb. Bouchard’s first firm, when he left Skadden Arps (if he ever really left – it appears to me he still might have a financial interest in their success), take a seat before reading the next line: Bouchard’s very first firm of his own was: BOUCHARD AND LAMB!!!!

You may not believe me that this is the truth, because it boggles honest minds. Folks, I have done hours of digging and digging to establish the only remaining connection of Bouchard to all the law firm benefactors of the crazy decisions in the TransPerfect case. Irrefutable proof of the Bouchard-Lamb connection is in the link:

http://www.delawaretoday.com/Delaware-Today/November-2015/The-Business-of-Law-Meet-the-New-Leader-of-the-Court-of-Chancery/

So many dots are connected here. Andre Bouchard has, in my opinion, hit for the proverbial “corruption” cycle ( a baseball term for those of you who don’t know) by helping 4 different law firms, all of which he is intimately connected to! He helped them make millions upon millions of dollars by his seemingly biased decisions from the TransPerfect Global case.

The Cover-Up!!!

Chancellor Bouchard prior to his appointment to the Chancery Court was partners with Stephen Lamb! Stephen Lamb after serving on the Chancery Court himself then moved back into private practice with the law firm of Paul Weiss. Fast forward to the TransPerfect case in 2016 and Kramer Levin hires the Paul Weiss firm to work on the case representing Shawe’s former partner at TransPerfect– Liz Elitng. Specifically, they were hired to work on the allegation that Shawe spoliated evidence which, according to the testifying employees, were NOT able to prove in any way, shape, or form. The bottom line is that nobody needs proof if Bouchard’s court is corrupt and rigged for his cronies to win?

Yet when all the papers were served on behalf of Elting by Paul Weiss, absolutely no mention was made of former Chancellor Lamb’s name. It wasn’t until I was doing some research and saw an article where Paul Weiss was claiming victory, did I notice that one of the attorneys taking credit for the victory was Stephen Lamb! No other public document I can find anywhere even lists LAMB on the TransPerfect case!!! Another coincidence?? In Bouchard’s court, there seems to be a lot of coincidences. Yet, we know from this evidence he was on the team taking Shawe’s and TransPerfect’s money with Bouchard’s help.

HELLO — They brag about his specific role on the Paul Weiss website!?!?!

I will issue a challenge to all those mentioned, who have never denied these inferences: To Chancellor Bouchard, Former Chancellor Lamb, Kevin Shannon, various Kramer Levin attorneys, who in my opinion, boldly lied to the Delaware Supreme Court with no repercussions!

COASTAL NETWORK’S CHALLENGE: Prove to me there was no cover-up and no hidden agenda. Indeed, this is the appearance of impropriety. Show me one official court document other than the Paul Weiss Web Site, that mentions LAMB’s involvement in the TransPerfect case — and I will discontinue this line of inquiry. In my opinion, Bouchard had a legal duty to inform Shawe that he was formerly in business with Chancellor Lamb, He should have recused himself, but he did not! Folks, any reasonable man would see this as a serious conflict of interest.

This is the most damning evidence of corruption, in my opinion, an investigative reporter could find, as it proves to me that this coordinated group had the intent to hide their wrong-doing. There is no other explanation from my educated perspective. How long will we let this infamous boy’s club of incestuous characters operate by sucking the life out of Delaware’s corporations, Delaware citizens, and Delaware’s reputation?! On behalf of the Coastal Network and my 6,000 readers, I again call for a bi-partisan investigation of Chancellor Andre Bouchard by the General Assembly!

Would love to hear your thoughts on this stunning discovery. Your feedback is always welcome.

As I see it, TransPerfect & Shawe never had a chance at fair trial with this what I call “murder’s row” of Bouchard’s cronies…

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Delaware Supreme Court Affirms $7.1 Million Sanctions Award in Favor of Elizabeth Elting

“The Delaware Supreme Court upheld the court-ordered sale of TransPerfect Global, Inc. and unanimously affirmed the $7.1 million sanctions award in favor of Paul, Weiss client Elizabeth Elting. Elting and Phillip Shawe are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Transperfect, one of the world’s largest document-translation and discovery-services companies. Since 2014, they have been in litigation in Delaware and New York over the control of the company. Elting is represented by Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel and Potter, Anderson & Corroon in the corporate-control battle.

In late 2014, Elting tapped Paul Weiss when Shawe revealed that he had secretly accessed Elting’s lawyer-client communications. Paul Weiss then uncovered that Shawe had attempted to destroy files on his laptop, had failed to safeguard and produce text messages on his cell phone, which he claimed was destroyed when it fell in a cup of Diet Coke, and had repeatedly lied under oath about his conduct. Paul, Weiss tried the two-day sanctions hearing and represented Elting in her successful post-hearing briefs and in defending against Shawe’s sanctions appeal.

The Paul, Weiss team included litigation partners Eric Stone, Robert Atkins and Stephen Lamb, of counsel Gerard Harper and counsel Robert Kravitz.”

The TransPerfect saga has just taken a new twist, as the original plaintiff Elizabeth Elting, who through nefarious cronyism, which included her lawyer and the Delaware Chancellor, in the most controversial and biased corporate case in US history, was able to prevail, unjustly in my opinion, in the Delaware Courts (Chancery and Delaware Supreme Court). However, in New York where equity, justice, and the law are still alive and breathing, there is a different story brewing. Apparently when falsehoods are instituted in a court of law and damage is done to the harmed recipient (in this case Philip Shawe); and when it appears the Delaware Chancery case (where Elting had no witnesses) rested on Elting’s attorneys repeating these lies, fraud, and fallacious accusations as evidence has now been decided wrongly, you just can’t say, “Whoops, we now withdraw these offensive claims in the interest of judicial expediency!” As a matter of interest, I was told by an attorney friend, if Elting’s lawyers were aware of the falsehood of these filed claims, they could be disbarred. Indeed the stench I have smelled from the beginning is not emanating only from Bouchard, but also from the Elting camp, and her lawyers might have stepped in it in New York!   From my view, it also appears that Elizabeth Elting’s mental history could now come into question and be public record for all to see, considering her probable, false claims of emotional distress. Objectively, this writer and investigative reporter has to consider Elting’s claims and method of operation as to her unfounded attacks on Philip Shawe, her unreasonable positions, her refusal to settle amicably, and her captured-on-tape misrepresentations to the Delaware Courts and the New York Court as reprehensible. One must ask why has Chancellor Bouchard and his Custodian, Robert Pincus from the law firm of Skadden Arps, become an accomplice in her witness-less case? When something makes no sense, one must follow the dollars, and in this case, my opinion is that the money-trail will go all the way to the tailpipe of Bouchard’s Bentley!   In my view, If indeed justice is served, Philip Shawe should be vindicated and the Delaware decision will eventually be reversed and corrected. Her attorney makes malicious accusations, that in my opinion, a judge could only believe if he were in cahoots, and boom: The damage is done. Now that Bouchard relied on all those false stories, and in New York, she’s basically saying: “Well, I didn’t mean it, I can’t prove any of it, so now, I want to withdraw all my claims.” It’s outrageous.   Please read the fascinating piece in which Shawe’s New York attorney discusses the case. Stay tuned folks, this case is incessant in its fluidity and yours truly is going to be on top of it until justice is done.   As always your comments are welcome.   Sincerely Yours,   JUDSON Bennett-Coastal Network  

Philip Shawe’s Attorney Discusses Transperfect Co-CEO Liz Elting And Legal Team Seeking Permission From The Court To Discontinue All Offensive Claims Against Co-CEO Shawe in New York Supreme Court

NEWS PROVIDED BY

The Edelsteins, Faegenburg+Brown,llp

 

Oct 09, 2017, 17:40 ET

NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — After three years of contentious litigation, numerous motions and unyielding delay tactics, TransPerfect Co-CEO Elizabeth Elting and her Legal Team consisting of Kramer Levin, Paul Weiss and Gerald Lefcourt are now asking New York Supreme Court Judge, Debra James, to discontinue Elting’s claims against Co-CEO Philip Shawe. This comes after the judge made a recent determination that the exchange of discovery would proceed in the New York Tort case.

Shawe’s attorney Glenn Faegenburg of The Edelsteins, Faegenburg & Brown LLP said, “Elting’s legal team should not be permitted to unilaterally discontinue claims they have already presented and aggressively litigated in New York County Supreme Court, in order to avoid providing discovery regarding those claims.”

“Among Elting’s frivolous claims against Shawe, that she and her legal team now want to drop, are false allegations of defamation, assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress,” Faegenburg continued. “Absent the Court’s permission to withdraw their claims, discovery supporting Shawe’s contention that Elting and her legal team filed a false defamation action against Shawe they knew was untrue will likely be uncovered.”

Faegenburg said, “We believe that the false defamation countersuit is the product of a scheme by Elting, in concert with her advisors, to manufacture false claims against Shawe, and that many of those schemes are memorialized in Elting’s emails. If their motion to discontinue Elting’s counterclaims is denied, emails regarding these schemes may be required to be turned over to Shawe as part of the discovery proceedings in the New York Tort action.”

“Now that Elting and her team know that the discovery process may, in fact, reveal nefarious planning on their part, she is seeking to petition the Court to ‘take-back’ the claims she previously swore to and fiercely litigated,” Faegenburg said.”Notably, this same tactic was used in the Delaware case where Elting withdrew over 250 allegations from her complaint the day before an expedited trial was to begin. In that case Shawe alleged that Elting and her lawyers had fraudulently manufactured deadlock to convince the Chancellor to put the company up for sale,” Faegenburg added.

The court’s edict also subjects Ms. Elting’s mental and psychological history to the scrutiny of the Court. Elting and her attorneys know that by claiming physical, emotional, and psychological damages, Shawe will be entitled to copies of her medical records including mental health records. In light of the Court’s recent ruling to permit the discovery process to proceed, Elting’s only hope of keeping her personal records from being revealed to the court and to the public is to ask the Court for permission to withdraw the claims that she herself intentionally made against Shawe.

“My time is important. Mr. Shawe’s time is important. Elting and her lawyers have wasted our collective time litigating non-meritorious claims against Shawe for years. What really disturbs me is that the only reason they are backing out now is because they don’t want the discovery process to expose that they used an e-mail that I myself wrote in an effort to protect both parties, as a basis to file a knowingly false defamation claim against my client,” Faegenburg said. “Now, they want to just snap their fingers and make their prior misdeeds magically vanish without repercussion!”

Faegenburg said, “We find it laughable and preposterous that Elting and her legal team are now claiming in their motion papers that they want to ‘streamline and simplify the litigation, and to bring it to an expeditious conclusion.’ If that was their desire why did they bring and litigate these unsupported and false claims for years in the first place. The truth is that, this time, their plan is not playing out the way they wanted it to; now they are running for cover. We can only hope that the court sanctions them accordingly.

SOURCE The Edelsteins, Faegenburg & Brown LLP

              Please note new e-mail address, [email protected]     Please note new Twitter account, https://twitter.com/Judson_Bennett  [wpvideo AXkW29HA] The case of TransPerfect and the decision in the Delaware Chancery Court was unprecedented, and is believed to have been wrought with conflicts of interest and questionable dealings. This recording is an example of the hypocrisy in the courtroom meted out by Philip Kaufman at Kramer Levin.