JENNIFER KLEIN • WINE & ROSES

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I AM NOT A LAWYER.  MY OPINIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE EMAILS AND DOCUMENTS DISPLAYED ON THIS WEBSITE, AND MY CHOSEN NOMENCLATURES FOR THEM, ARE STRICTLY DERIVED FROM MY OWN LAYMAN'S UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEFINITIONS OF THE APPLICABLE STATUTES AND TORTS IN BASIC LEGAL REFERENCE MANUALS AND GUIDES.

DRUNK WITH POWER is a true story and satire.  It revolves around my wine bar, WINE & ROSES, on Columbus Avenue and 73rd Street, in the HEART of the UPPER WEST SIDE of Manhattan

IN JUNE OF 2010, my friend and neighbor, RUTH PORAT, now CFO OF GOOGLE very graciously offered me to use her lawyer husband, MR. ANTHONY PADUANO to represent me PRO BONO in a dispute with my former investors.  

It is my firm belief that RUTH DID NOT KNOW and STILL DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT MR. PADUANO'S CRIMINAL CONDUCT STEALING MY BAR, INVOICING ME FOR $400,000.00 FOR PAST PRO BONO SERVICES, AND COMMITTING MULTIPLE FRAUDS TO COVER IT ALL UP - INCLUDING BLACKMAIL AND EXTORTION. IF SHE DID, SHE WOULD HAVE STOPPED HIM.

MY INTENTION IN WRITING MY BOOK "DRUNK WITH POWER" IS TO FINALLY 'SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT' AND TO REGAIN MY FORMER EXCEPTIONAL REPUTATION BY ENDING THE DEFAMATION THAT MR. PADUANO HAS PROLIFERATED AND WHICH CONTINUES TO SHADOW MY LIFE AND CAREER.  

I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE.  NOBODY ELSE CAN DO IT FOR ME.  CERTAINLY, NOT A LAWYER.  

IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING A LAWYER IS SWORN TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST ETHICAL STANDARDS.  HE MUST MAINTAIN VIGILANCE TO NOT HAVE OR CREATE ANY CONFLICT OF INTEREST...OR EVEN HAVE AN APPEARANCE OF ONE.   

• THAT BEING SAID ABOUT LAWYERS, MY WINE BAR'S LANDLORD SAID "MR. PADUANO IS A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY, ITSELF."   

• A NYS SUPREME COURT CRIMINAL JUDGE SAID: "THE WEBSITE HIT ME OVER THE HEAD LIKE A SLEDGEHAMMER - I DO NOT DOUBT A WORD."   

• THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK POST SUMMED IT UP:  "FUCK ANTHONY.  HE'S AN ASSHOLE, MATE.  PROGRESS IS IMPOSSIBLE."  

FACTS MATTER.  TRUTH MATTERS.  LIES TO PERVERT THE FACTS, CREATING AN ENTIRE ALTERNATE REALITY ARE THE ACTIONS OF THE UNCONSCIONABLE.  LIES ARE HARMFUL NOT ONLY TO THE VICTIMS, BUT TO ALL THAT BELIEVE THEM.  "BLAMING THE VICTIM" IS THE MOST INTOLERABLE AND INEXCUSABLE OF ALL. 

THIS IS A TRUE STORY BASED 100% ON FACTS, IN THE FORM OF INDISPUTABLE SELF-INCRIMINATING EMAILS AND DOCUMENTS WRITTEN BY MY LAWYER, MR. ANTHONY PADUANO WITH HIS OWN 'TWO HANDS.'   

EVERY WORD on this website and in my book regarding my ALLEGED ATTORNEY AND FIDUCIARY PARTNER are corroborated and on display here.

It is the ENORMITY OF MR. PADUANO'S list of frauds that are so damning, and make vividly clear his limitless entitlement and total disregard for the law.  

     
Mr. Paduano filed a lawsuit against my former investors FOR ONE REASON ONLY: To compel the defendants TO RETURN TO ME ALL STOCK I had sold to them in WINE & ROSES, TO MAKE 'ME' THE 100% OWNER...NOT MR. PADUANO!

HIS FOUR YEAR LONG GASEOUS LAWSUIT WAS TO SET ME FREE of MEDDLING 'SILENT' INVESTORS so that I COULD CONTROL MY OWN FINANCIAL DESTINY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, TO OPEN A CHAIN OF WINE BARS AS I HAD ORIGINALLY PLANNED.  I DID NOT CREATE WINE & ROSES TO BE A ONE-OFF.  

ON MAY 5, 2014, DURING A TEN MINUTE RECESS IN A BACKROOM OF THE COURTHOUSE, MR. PADUANO HANDED ME A SURPRISE 286 COLUMBUS PARTNERS LLC AGREEMENT, ALREADY SIGNED BY HIMSELF AND MR. WEINTRAUB.

I HAD NEVER LAID EYES ON HIS SURPRISE AGREEMENT IN WHICH HE GAVE HIMSELF THE CONTROLLING 51% INTEREST OF MY BAR.  IN ADDITION, HE WAS MAKING ME PAY HIM $400,000 FOR HIS PAST PRO BONO SERVICES THAT I HAD TO PAY BACK AT THE RATE OF $8,000 PER MONTH, WHICH WAS IMPOSSIBLE.  I WAS NOW ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR 49% OF THE DEBT.

WHEN I PAID HIM BACK, HE WOULD STILL OWN 51% OF THE BAR.  I RECEIVED NOTHING EXCEPT A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT.

 
HE MAILED ME SEVERAL COPIES OF DOCTORED SUMMARY INVOICES AND REMINDERS.  LATER, HE THREATENED TO SUE ME FOR THE $400,000.00 IF I DID NOT PERFORM ILLEGAL ACTS TO COVER UP HIS PLETHORA OF FRAUDS.

I NEVER HAD CONTROLLING INTEREST OF THE BAR I CREATED FOR A SPLIT SECOND.  AND, NEITHER DID MR. PADUANO, BECAUSE HIS UNCONSCIONABLE 286 LLC AGREEMENT WAS HIGHLY ILLEGAL.

JUST THREE WEEKS LATER, ON MAY 30, 2014, MR. PADUANO WROTE TO ME HE WAS GOING TO THROW ME A "CURVE BALL."  HE WAS GOING TO SELL THE BAR OR CLOSE IT DOWN BECAUSE HE COULD NOT STOMACH THE LIABILITIES ANYMORE."  (FRAUDS OF HIS OWN MAKING). 

HE TOLD ME TO FIND INVESTORS TO PAY HIM $150,000.00 TO BUY HIS 51% CONTROLLING INTEREST 'INTACT.'  MR. PADUANO REFUSED TO SELL MY BAR BACK TO ME.  EVEN AFTER HE WAS NO LONGER INVOLVED, HE DID NOT WANT ME TO HAVE THE CONTROLLING OWNERSHIP.  WHY?

WHY WAS MR. PADUANO SO DESPERATE TO KEEP THIS VERY SUBSTANTIAL $63,900.63 OFFER HIDDEN FROM HIS PARTNER, AND INSTEAD BLACK MAIL ME TO NEVER SPEAK AGAIN TO HIS PARTBER OR MY LANDLORD, WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING MY DEPOSIT SINCE 2005 ON MY LEASE?  

WHY DID HE REFUSE THE LANDLORD'S MOST GRACIOUS OFFER TO ERASE THE ENTIRE W&R LLC $63,900.63 DEBT CAUSED BY MR. PADUANO BY HIS LOCKING DOWN THE BAR IN IT'S BUSIEST SEASON?   

WHY DID HE FINALLY DEMOLISH THE BAR, AS A LAST RESORT, DOWN TO THE SUPPORT BEAMS?  IT WAS SO THAT I WOULD HAVE TO REBUILD IT, AGAIN.

THERE ARE NO GREY ARGUMENTS HERE.  "NO HE SAID" - "SHE SAID."  THERE IS ONLY THE BLACK AND WHITE EVIDENCE WRITTEN BY MR. PADUANO, HIMSELF.

***THE DOCUMENTS DISPLAYED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE CATEGORIZED BY MY OWN LIMITED UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION OF CRIMINAL STATUTES, TORTS, AND THE 'THRESHOLDS' OF EITHER THAT I FOUND IN BASIC LEAGAL GUIDES AND MANUALS 

• ILLEGAL Agreement 
• Availing of Wine & Roses, and Liquor License   
• Blackmail
• Extortion 
• Grand Larceny
• Solicitation to Commit a Felony
• Corruption
• Invoice Fraud
• State Liquor Authority Fraud
• Bank Fraud
• Insurance Fraud
• Tax Fraud
• Contractual Interference & Lease Fraud 
• Defamation   
• Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
• Wire Fraud 

TODD AND I ARE THE ONLY SIGNATORIES AND GUARANTORS ON THE LEASE -  BECAUSE MR. PADUANO WOULD NOT SIGN ONE OR REPRESENT HIMSELF AS AN OWNER.

The SECRET SHELL '286 COLUMBUS PARTNERS LLC' is owned by MR. PADUANO and his partner, LEONARD WEINTRAUB in PADUANO AND WEINTRAUB, LLP."  

I WAS THE ONLY 'LEGAL' OWNER OF W&R LLC.  SO PUTTING THE LLCS ASIDE, MR. PADUANO AND I WERE REALLY THE ONLY TWO OWNERS INVOLVED.

WITHIN THREE WEEKS, Mr. Paduano STRETCHED THIS SECRET into LIES to THE NYSDT&F, NY STATE LIQUOR AUTHORITY, IRS, ADP, along with banks, insurance companies, vendors, credit bureaus, employees, landlord and EVERY SINGLE ENTITY with which I did business.

I TRUSTED MY LAWYER TO "LEGALLY" PERFORM ALL OF HIS DUTIES AND TO SUBMIT ANY AND ALL REQUIRED LEGAL WORK FOR 'HIS' NEW 51% OWNERSHIP OF THE BAR.  INSTEAD, he lied to ALL in his efforts to keep his name off of any record, anywhere.

FROM MAY 5, 2014 THROUGH EARLY 2016 HE PURPOSELY JEOPARDIZED 'MY' LIQUOR LICENSE TO BE REVOKED BY REFUSING TO APPLY FOR HIMSELF and 286 LLC TO BE APPROVED BY THE STATE LIQUOR AUTHORITY.  

FOR OVER A YEAR AND A HALF, MR. PADUANO COMMITTED THE CRIME OF 'AVAILING' WHICH IS THE CONTROL, WITHOUT HAVING A LICENSE, OF ANY ESTABLISHMENT SERVING ALCOHOL. 

HE CLEARLY BELIEVES HE IS ABOVE THE LAW BECAUSE HE MARRIED A BILLIONAIRE.  NOT TO MENTION HIS FATHER HAD BEEN A POLICE CHIEF IN NEPTUNE, NEW JERSEY, WHERE HE GREW UP.  

I HAD PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN HIM THAT I WOULD 'GIVE' HIM SOMETHING RESPECTABLE FOR ALL HIS HARD WORK GETTING THE BAR BACK FOR 'ME.'

  
BUT INSTEAD OF LETTING ME SHOW MY GRATITUDE, MR. PADUANO WROTE INT0 HIS 286 LLC AGREEMENT THAT I "OWED" HIM $400,000.00 TO PAY OFF MY PAST PRO BONO 'DEBT' STARTING IMMEDIATELY AT $8,000 PER MONTH.

 
AND APPARENTLY, I ALSO OWED HIM ***51%*** OF MY BAR.  FOR WHAT?  HIS PRO BONO WORK ALSO?  THERE WAS NO REASON  OTHER THAN SENSELESS GREED AND MISOGYNY.  MR. PADUANO COULD BULLY ME ALL HE WANTED - BECAUSE I COULD NOT FIGHT BACK AGAINST HIS LAW FIRM.

AFTER MR. PADUANO STOLE MY BAR, I OBVIOUSLY DID NOT EVEN OWE HIM MY GRATITUDE.  HE OWED ME FOR DESTROYING MY LIFE SO HE COULD TRY TO SCROUNGE BACK HIS PRO BONO EXPENSES.

BY NYS LAW, AS THE 100% LICENSE HOLDER, I WAS THE ONLY SINGLE PERSON THAT WAS "REQUIRED" TO "REPORT" MR. PADUANO'S ILLEGAL CONTROL OF MY BAR IF HE DID NOT SEND AN APPLICATION TO THE SLA  WITHIN TEN DAYS OF MAY 5, 2014.

 
BY NOT REPORTING HIM, THE SLA WOULD HAVE TAKEN AWAY MY LICENSE AND CLOSED THE BAR.  MR. PADUANO KEPT ME IN THIS NERVE RACKING ILLEGAL PREDICAMENT FOR A YEAR AND HALF.

MR. ANTHONY PADUANO WRITES A LETTER to the SLA STATING: "I AM A MAJORITY MEMBER OF A (NAMELESS) CORPORATION THAT 'CONTROLS' WINE & ROSES."  

HE MIGHT JUST AS WELL HAVE WALKED INTO THEIR HEADQUARTER AND  SHOUTED: "I AM AN AVAILER!!!" 

MR. PADUANO WROTE THREE(!!!) RATHER DUMB AND UNSUCCESSFUL FRAUDULENT LETTERS TO THE SLA PATHETICALLY LYING THAT 'HE' WAS THE 'POWERLESS' VICTIM." IN HIS OUTRAGEOUS SCHEME.  AND HE ACTUALLY MOST LIKELY TALKED HIMSELF INTO BELIEVING IT.  BY WHAT RIGHT DID HE HAVE TO EVEN "THINK" HE OWNED MY BAR?

IN 2008, WE HAD A MOB CREW OF SIX FROM NEW JERSEY COME INTO OUR BAR AND ACTUALLY TOOK IT OVER FOR A NIGHT FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS.  THEY WENT BEHIND THE BAR AND HELPED THEMSELVES, SCARING AWAY ALL MY CUSTOMERS.  

I HAD TO CALL MY FRIENDS AT THE POLICE TO COME AND SAVE US.  ABOUT A YEAR LATER I READ IN THE NY POST THAT THEY WERE ARRESTED FOR MURDER, EXTORTION, ARSON, AND MORE, IN THEIR EXCLUSIVE BAR SHAKE DOWN BUSINESS.   

THAT MUSCLING IN, IS AS CLOSE TO THE MR. PADUANO EXPERIENCE AS I HAVE HAD.  THERE TOO, I WOULD HAVE HAD TO KNUCKLE UNDER IF MY OFFICER FRIENDS HAD NOT SERIOUSLY INTERVENED THAT NIGHT. 

AND JUST LIKE AN ARSONIST, MR. PADUANO TOOK A SLEDGE HAMMER TO GUT MY BAR DOWN TO THE SUPPORT BEAMS, WHEN THE LANDLORD WOULD NOT GIVE HIM THE LOCATION.

SO FOOLISHLY, I PUT MR. PADUANO AHEAD OF MYSELF, SO HE WOULD NOT LOSE HIS LAW LICENSE, DESPITE HIS OUTRAGEOUS REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO HAVE MY LIQUOR LICENSE REVOKED.  

MR. PADUANO DESTROYED MY REPUTATION SO THAT HE WOULD HAVE AN EXCUSE TO TELL RUTH WHEN HE CLOSED THE BAR AND TRIED TO REOPEN IT FOR HIMSELF.  

• WHAT WAS MR. PADUANO'S EXCUSE FOR TURNING DOWN THE LANDLORD'S OVERLY GENEROUS OFFER TO ERASE THE $63,900.63 RENT ARREARS IF MR. PADUANO WOULD SIMPLY VACATE THE LOCATION HE CLOSED DOWN AND WAS HOLDING HOSTAGE... ACCUMULATING MORE ARREARS.

• WHAT WAS HIS EXCUSE FOR BLACKMAILING ME TO NOT TELL HIS PARTNER ABOUT THE $63,900.63 OFFER? 

• WHAT WAS HIS EXCUSE FOR BLACKMAILING ME TO NOT TALK TO MY OWN LANDLORD WHO WAS HOLDING MY $30,000 DEPOSIT ABOUT MY OWN LEASE?  

• I WAS ON THE LEASE.  NOT MR. PADUANO.  HE WAS OBVIOUSLY DESPERATE TO KEEP EVERYBODY SEPARATED TO CONTINUE TO PERPETUATE HIS LIES.

• WHAT WAS MR. PADUANO'S EXCUSE FOR COMPLETELY "GUTTING THE BAR," INSTEAD OF TAKING $63,900.63?

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:  WHAT RIGHT DID MR. PADUANO HAVE TO TAKE MY BAR IN THE FIRST PLACE???  AND WHAT RIGHT DID HE HAVE TO CHARGE ME $400,000.00 FOR HIS PRO BONO WORK AID? 

YOUR PRIVATE INSIGHT AND COMMENTS WOULD BE SO VERY MUCH APPRECIATED...AND KEPT PRIVATE.  I WANT TO BE AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE IN THE TELLING OF MY STORY.  I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT "THE TALES OF MR. PADUANO."

PLEASE FORGIVE ANY REPETITIVE NOTES UNDER THE EXHIBITS PRESENT NOW.  IT WAS NOT INTENDED.  THE DOCUMENTS WERE UPLOADED AS STAND ALONE, OVER A YEAR'S TIME, WITHOUT CONSIDERATION OF THE NOTES ON THE OTHER PAGES. 

MY HUSBAND, TODD, TO WHOM I HAVE BEEN HAPPILLY MARRIED FOR FORTY YEARS, IS MY CO-AUTHOR IN LIFE.  I COULD HAVE NEVER PUT UP THIS WEBSITE WITHOUT HIS ASSISTANCE IN EVERY ASPECT.  HE IS ALSO THE CO-AUTHOR OF THE BOOK, BUT HE LIKES TO GIVE ME ALL THE CREDIT.  HE SAYS I AM PRETTIER THAN HIM.  AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE HIM.

HOW TO NAVIGATE THIS WEBSITE:

• USE A COMPUTER ! THE SIDE MENU SCROLLS DOWN.

• DEPENDING ON THE DISPLAY SETTING ON YOUR COMPUTER, THE MENU MIGHT APPEAR WITH THREE LINES TO CLICK IN THE BANNER. 

• GO TO THE 100 PLUS EMAILS AND DOCUMENTS ON DISPLAY UNDER THEIR ALLEGED  CRIME GROUPING.  THE DOCUMENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELF.  THEY ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE WEBSITE.  DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR WHAT I WRITE HERE - SEE IT FOR YOURSELF.

• THESE EXHIBITS ARE ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF ALL THE ITEMS CURRENTLY BEING UPLOADED
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• YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF DOCUMENTS DISPLAYED ARE FROM TWO SEPARATE TIME PERIODS:

• -- MAY 2014 TO JANUARY 2015 --AND -- MAY 2015 TO JANUARY 2016 

• THE SUMMER IS THE LAYUP FOR MR. PADUANO'S FULL FRONTAL ASSAULTS DURNG THE FALL.  THIS IS MR. PADUANO'S FAVORITE TIMES TO ATTACK.  MR. PADUANO ATTACKED MY FORMER INVESTORS FOUR TIMES IN FOUR YEARS DURING THESE TIMES.  THEN, WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT, DID IT TO ME FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.  

• HE DID NOT COMMUNICATE WITH ME DURING OUR ONE AND ONLY WINTER SEASON THAT SEPARATED THEM.  

• WE NEVER BORROWED ANOTHER PENNY FROM MR. PADUANO OR ANYBODY ELSE AFTER JUNE 3, 2014.  WE COULD NOT INVOLVE ANY OTHER INVESTOR INTO THE MESS THAT MR. PADUANO HAD MADE.  MR. PADUANO COULD NOT SELL HIS STOCK, ANYWAY.  HE DID NOT HAVE ANY.  HE REFUSED TO BE ON A SINGLE W&R LLC DOCUMENT.

• BY THE SPRING OF 2015 I HAD SAVED ENOUGH MONEY TO UPGRADE MY LICENSE TO THE ALL IMPORTANT "FULL" LIQUOR LICENSE.  THAT INCENSED MR. PADUANO BECAUSE THE FULL LICENSE WOULD BE PROBLEMATIC TO HIS AVAILMENT.

• IT WAS MR. PADUANO WHO FILED FOR MY LICENSE TO BE 100% IN MY NAME IN THE FIRST PLACE, TAKING FROM MAY 5, 2014 UNTIL JULY 23, 2014. 

• THE EMAILS AND DOCUMENTS DISPLAYED MAY BE REPEATED UNDER MULTIPLE CATEGORIES BECAUSE MANY TIMES THEY FIT MORE THAN JUST ONE CATEGORY.  

• FOR EXAMPLE: THE DISPLAY OF A BLACKMAIL EMAIL MIGHT ALSO BE RELEVANT TO THE COMMISSION OF BANK FRAUD.  THE EMAILS DISPLAYED (SHOULD) HAVE DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS DEPENDING ON THE ALLEGED CRIME.  

• EVERY OFFICIAL DOCUMENT MR. PADUANO CIRCULATED AFTER MAY 5, 2014 WAS A 'CONFLICT OF INTEREST' AND POTENTIALLY 'WIRE FRAUD.'  HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?   

• THE DOCUMENTS ARE REDLINED AND MANY EMAILS ARE DISPLAYED ONLY CONTAINING THE RELEVANT EXCERPTS WHICH ARE HIGHLIGHTED AND EXPANDED - BECAUSE THAT BEST ILLUSTRATES HOW SHOCKING THEY LOOKED TO TODD AND I WHEN WE READ THEM ONE SHOCKING EMAIL AFTER ANOTHER.

• MR. PADUANO AVOIDED EMAILING ME AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY.  INSTEAD, HE WOULD WRITE TO MY HUSBAND, INCESSANTLY.  TODD HAD TO RELAY THEM TO ME.  SOMETIMES MR. PADUANO COPIED ME.  THERE WAS NO REASON FOR HIM TO KEEP ME OUT OF THE LOOP, OTHER THAN HE WROTE HE "REGRETTED REPRESENTING" ME "FROM DAY ONE."  

• HE WAS PUNISHING ME FOR HIS OWN DECISION: "TO PLAY THE HERO" TO RUTH.  

• IN EVERY COMMUNICATION TODD OR I HAD WITH MR. PADUANO, WE SHOWERED HIM WITH RESPECT.  INDEED, WE BATHED HIM WITH LOVE.   WE FOOLISHLY THOUGHT HE COULD NOT REALLY MEAN WHAT HE SAID...UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.  AND THEN WE STILL COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.  

• WHEN THIS WAS ALL HAPPENING TODD AND I WERE SERIOUSLY DEPRESSED AND ANXIETY RIDDEN.  WE DID NOT HAVE TIME TO  THINK ABOUT WHAT MR. PADUANO WAS DOING TO US.  WE COULD NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ANYWAY. 

• "AVAILING": WE DID NOT EVEN KNOW THAT THERE WAS A NAME FOR MR. PADUANO'S ILLEGAL TAKEOVER.  UNFORTUNATELY NONE OF THE LAWYERS WE EVER HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO DID NOT EITHER.  IT WAS NOT UNTIL RECENTLY THAT WE DISCOVERED THAT THIS WAS THE DOMAIN OF LIQUOR LAWYERS, OF WHICH THERE ARE FEW. 

•  IT WAS ONLY AFTER RESEARCHING THROUGH YEARS OF THOUSANDS OF EMAILS THAT IT BECAME SO VIVIDLY CLEAR.  MR. PADUANO WAS FULL OF RESENTMENT BECAUSE RUTH MADE HIM HELP ME.  SO HE HELPED HIMSELF, INSTEAD.  

• CLEARLY, MR. PADUANO IS A DEVOUT MISOGYNIST.  PERIOD.

• TO AVOID ANY CONFUSION, THIS 'WEBSITE' DOES NOT INCLUDE  THE DAKOTA BAR, IN WHICH I ALSO HAD AN INTEREST.  OF COURSE, THE DAKOTA BAR IS STILL IN ALL THREE BOOKS.  THE DAKOTA BAR IS THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE SECOND BOOK IN MY TRILOGY, "THE TWO DAKOTAS."  THE THIRD BOOK IS ENTITLED "W.A.R." 

• FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS 'WEBSITE' ALL THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTOOD ABOUT THE DAKOTA BAR IS THAT MR. PADUANO KNEW, VERY WELL, THAT HIS ILLEGAL CLOSING OF WINE & ROSES WOULD IMMEDIATELY CAUSE MY REMOVAL AT THE DAKOTA BAR.  AND IT DID.  THE SAME WEEK.

• THE EXPONENTIAL DISGRACE AND HUMILIATION OF LOSING TWO BARS AT ONCE DESTROYED MY REPUTATION AND GAVE ME A SEVERE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN WITH LIFELONG CONSEQUENCES.

• THAT WAS THE STRESS I WAS LIVING UNDER.   I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING TWO BARS THAT WERE ACROSS THE STREET FROM EACH OTHER WITH DIFFERENT MAJORITY OWNERS WHO VIEWED EACH OTHER AS COMPETITORS.

• MR. PADUANO LIVES ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME AND WE EACH LIVE WITHIN A BLOCK OF BOTH BARS.  IS THERE ANY DOUBT I WAS AN AGORAPHOBIC NERVOUS WRECK ABOUT TO CRACK?

• ALMOST EVERYTHING I DID TO APPEASE MR. PADUANO WAS, IN FACT, A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO AVOID MY INEVITABLE CATASTROPHIC HUMILIATION CAUSED BY HIS ABSOLUTELY PREPOSTEROUS AND "IMPOSSIBLE" TO FULFILL 286 LLC AGREEMENT.

• NOW MY REPUTATION WOULD CONSIST OF LOSING THREE BARS (W&R TWICE) BY IRRATIONAL, SHAMELESS, AND RUTHLESS INVESTORS.  

THE MANTEI JOB.  SOUNDS LIKE A CRIME MOVIE.  LAWYERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS WHO ARRESTED MR. MANTEI WERE CERTAINLY MONITORING GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS FOR ANY NEW POSTS ABOUT "THEIR CASE."

I AM SURE THEY WOULD WANT TO TALK TO THE HACKER ERASING THEM.   (ADDITIONALLY, THE NEWS PEOPLE THAT WROTE THEM WOULD ALSO FEEL VIOLATED .)

If not illegal, ARRANGING A FEE to pay Todd to TAMPER with anything involving an ONGOING GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL CASE is certainly FAR FROM ETHICAL.  Mr. Paduano would not accept (a half dozen politely worded ) "N0's" for an answer...for a month.  

Why in the world would Todd ever consider getting involved on the wrong side of a GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION?

HOW DARE HIM TO HAVE MADE PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS BEFORE EVEN EVER HAVING INFORMED TODD.  

IF IT WAS LEGAL - WHY WOULD NOT MR. PADUANO GO TO A BIG COPANY TO DO IT RIGHT?  

WHY WOULD HE NOT ASK RUTH?