"Mr. Paduano is a diSGrace to humanity." - W&R Landlord

 **DISCLAIMER**:  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 layperson's understanding of the definitions of the applicable statutes and torts in basic legal reference manuals and guides. “All statements are opinion-based allegations; no factual assertion has been adjudicated. All references to "crime" are alleged and used in accordance with its colloquial definition:  "A grave offense, especially against morality.  Reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful. Evil, shameful, or wrong." 

INTRODUCTION:

Welcome, dear reader, to the insanely dark world of DRUNK WITH POWER. This is a true story of one person's struggle against a powerful and unethical lawyer, Mr. Anthony Paduano, who was married to my once dear friend, Ruth Porat, CFO of Google & Alphabet, who controls a trillion and half dollar empire. 

You can find it on the shelf between Catch-22 and Rosemary's Baby (Mr. Paduano lives in the storied Dakota Building).

"Drunk with Power" is a satire of truth to power, betrayal, deception, and alcohol. It is a story about the pride of ownership, and the American Dream - to own your own business and control your own destiny.

It has all the drama you could want in a novel, much less a true story: Mobsters, chainsaws, nervous breakdowns, and a President that told the nation to drink bleach.

You simply can't make this stuff up - and such is the case in "Drunk with Power." 

We've got extortion, grand larceny, corruption, and a longer list of frauds than a CVS receipt. It is enough to make you cringe. Not for me. For Mr. Paduano and his law firm. They still refuse to acknowledge and take responsibility for his outrageous actions conducted in their law firm's name and on their letterhead: Paduano and Weintraub LLP. 

I had sent them several letters over several months to ask them if there was anything untrue, they wanted changed on my website promoting my book, and I will change "anything you want." I wanted to be able to publish my book and I knew he would try to prevent me. Their response was to ignore my letters. Complete silence. 

They chose to let me keep my website up, unchallenged, because there is nothing untrue on it. They knew that if they sued me for slander, the absolute truth is the only defense, and what could be better proof than Mr. Paduano's very own irrefutable self-incriminating emails and documents put on the record?

But don't worry, this isn't all doom and gloom. There are loads of laughs to be had in "Drunk with Power." So, sit back, grab a drink, or two, and enjoy the ride.  My plan is simple but juicy: Take life's lemons and turn them into books.

This introduction page addresses the background of my true story.

***The 'Illegal Agreement' on the menu bar is the most important page, as it is the initiating crime, and should be read first. 

The links served up on the website's 'menu bar' display Mr. Paduano's own highlighted documents and emails along with a detailed commentary of each 'alleged' crime. 

So, depending on your valuable time, read what you want, but allow yourself time to see Mr. Paduano's shocking emails that unveil nefarious motives and schemes so dark, even Machiavelli would be proud.

My website is being built to supplement my true story with the irrefutable self-incriminating documents and communications emails written by Mr. Anthony Paduano that are too voluminous to include in my book. It is a spectacle that will make your jaw drop. 

"Drunk with Power" is a continuing story. At this point in time, it has yet to have an ending. I am hoping for the best ...and preparing for the Four Horses of the Apocalypse to trample over me. There are four partners in the Paduano & Weintraub law firm, and they have yet to come out of the gate.

In writing "Drunk with Power" I hope to finally set the record straight and restore my excellent reputation by ending the defamation that Mr. Paduano has wrought, which continues to shadow my life and career. 

Just like any other human being, I have the right to defend myself. Especially from the rich and powerful. Nobody else can do it for me. Certainly not another lawyer. I could not afford the first, and he was pro bono. 

Unfortunately, I have not been able to tell my story until now. At the end of 2015, Mr. Paduano illegally closed my bar and gutted it. He said he did that so I could never again benefit from my bar that took me five years of hard labor to pay back my former investors over a half million dollars, plus profits. 

And get this, Mr. Paduano never owned a single share of stock, nor ever have any 'legal' relationship with Wine & Roses. How could his plan possibly succeed? Mr. Paduano was running my bar using his law firm's office manager.

His shameless attacks using the unrestrained power of his chainsaw and law machine was not just criminal, it was surreal. 

He harassed me to cover up his own terrible decisions, gross negligence, and serial frauds. He created a false narrative to blame me for them. He maliciously tried to have my liquor license revoked. What did I ever do to him?

It was not until the pandemic began in 2020 that I was able to walk out of my apartment... wearing a mask. Now the whole world was as agoraphobic as I was. Ironically, it cured my condition caused by Mr. Paduano living directly across the street. 

During the pandemic, I nostalgically began looking through my past emails and stumbled upon all of Mr. Paduano's self-incriminating evidence. It was like looking down into a fiery lava pit bubbling up to get me. Suddenly, it became clear, if I could not sue him, I could write a true memoir of Mr. Paduano's crimes against me. And so, I took a swan dive into the pit.

I could not sue Mr. Paduano during the pandemic because the court system was basically closed. Afterwards, I was advised, despite the undeniable damning evidence, Mr. Paduano's alleged crimes were past the statute of limitations and other excuses. 

I should have been advised that the judges were routinely and leniently discounting the years of the pandemic. But let's face it - no lawyer would ever jump into the pit to save me. 

In any event, I was not ever thinking about suing Mr. Paduano's law firm because I believed I couldn't. I was too afraid of him. I still am, very much so. Who wouldn't be? He is a 'super' attorney married to the CFO of GOOGLE. Talk about being hacked, I already felt like a Hunter Biden photo just thinking about it. 

Mr. Paduano ominously named his law office server: "BARRACUDA." His only request for his law firm's annual Christmas parties at my bar was to play the movie "SCARFACE" on all my TVs.

In June of 2010, Ruth had very graciously suggested that I use Anthony, pro bono in the dispute with my investors. She did not know what she had gotten me into.

Todd and I socialized with Ruth and Anthony for years. We were in touch regularly and invited to parties, to their Hampton house, and dined at my bars and other venues. Ruth drank our finest Barolo. Anthony, Tito's on the rocks.

• Mr. Paduano's "sole purpose" was to restore my original full 100% ownership of my bar back for "me." That was it. Nothing else. 

I could not have been more grateful for Ruth's offering his pro bono services to help me. There was not a day that I was in contact with Anthony, in four years, that I did not effusively tell him how grateful I was. I threw rose pedals before his feet.

I could not imagine in a "trillion and half years" that he would ever commit serious crimes against me. I trusted Mr. Paduano with my life. 

I 'always' did everything Mr. Paduano told me to do, without question. Sadly, he took advantage of my good nature and naivete. Even when it was obvious what he was doing, I still acted in 100% good faith. I have never done anything in bad faith in my life.

And, of course, my husband, Todd, and I did not want to upset our relationship with his wife. Mr. Paduano had told us not to discuss the case with Ruth, so we didn't. Dumb, in retrospect, but we had to do everything he told us to do.

Once, at their apartment I began telling Ruth that I had to sell my jewelry to stay afloat... She blurted out: "What!?" Whereupon Anthony grabbed her arm and whisked her away telling her it was "complicated." Complicated? Yes, conflicts of interest are very complicated. Ruth had been a dear friend until Anthony fed her a false narrative, slandering me. 

I never asked Mr. Paduano to start a legal action. In June 2010, I had asked Ruth for her business expertise to help avoid one. He insisted I needed one. I thought threatening a lawsuit against my investors would just further unite them against me. And guess what? 

But who was I to argue? Obviously, he knew better than I. So, I enthusiastically cheered him on. What else would I do? He was my knight in shining armor. 

On July 19, 2010, just a few weeks after Mr. Paduano's lawsuit letter to my investors in June, the group of them marched into my bar and kicked us out. 

It is hard enough to run a bar without the owners suing each other, and simply impossible if they were. But Mr. Paduano, like many lawyers, was not as smart a businessman as he was a lawyer. He came into the situation only as a wrecking ball. And it was my fault for doubting myself by listening to him in the first place. 

Most shockingly, the night of July 19, 2010, Mr. Paduano phoned my husband, Todd, about an article he dug up on the internet in 1978, when Todd was still a student. 

The extraneous long forgotten article he found in his search for dirt did not bother us. The fact is that he 'leveraged' my husband (and so myself) during the night of the same day that my investors dramatically took over my bar and we were seriously traumatized already. 

Then, after the phone call, he wrote us he "I'm saying nothing." and that worried us a whole lot! Why did he not ask to expunge the 1978 incident for Todd that Todd thought was already expunged, instead? 

Todd, who just had open heart surgery and was in the hospital less than a month before, finally cracked. I had never seen him cry before (except after watching "The Notebook") When we were finished, he consoled me, "Don't worry, if we do not ever disagree with him, then he would not ever have a reason to bother us." The simple plan was foolproof, but we were fools.

Mr. Paduano found a reason we never imagined:

• To frame 'me.' for 'his' frauds against me! He needed a scapegoat and so he played the age-old game of "blame the victim." 

'Perhaps' Mr. Paduano started out with good intentions the first week, but he did not proceed, nor end, with them. In an October 2014 email, he said:

• "My regrets go back to day one." Mr. Paduano also wrote he was only "playing the hero" for Ruth.

Over the four years, Mr. Paduano's secret "regrets" intensified. Unknown to me, he pitied himself, convincing himself that he was 'my' victim, for representing me. That I was "ungrateful" despite telling him every day about how grateful I was. I threw rose pedals in front of his feet to walk on, I was so grateful. 

But he convinced himself I did not deserve his considerable effort to pursue his frivolous slander lawsuit.

I repeatedly told him that the case was not worth his time, and we should settle on whatever they were offering, or just vacate it. I did not want to pursue the feckless lawsuit, and neither should he. 

After several months of humiliating failure, my former investors asked me to take over again. They promised to never interfere again. I won, big time!!! I would get my baby back! I was floating on air. I was in heaven.

However, Mr. Paduano would not let me go to the meeting. Even threatening me in an email after phoning me. I was not yet privy to his plot to recoup his pro bono services. Instead of caring about me and what I was good for me, Mr. Paduano said I could not settle the case without him because "there would be nothing in it for him." I was heartbroken again...for no other reason than Mr. Paduano's greed. At least that is what I thought.

In 2012, after asking him many times, I wrote him a 'formal email' that I did not want to continue the lawsuit. Period. He wrote back, I had to. He said he would not be my lawyer if I did anything to settle the case or end it without his permission, and I'd be "worse off if I tried."

Finally, on May 5, 2014, four years after my investors' takeover, we went to our first and only day in court before Judge Coin, who had been presiding over the case. Mr. Paduano proceeded to "settle" with the investors to return my stock back to me.

However, before the settlement hearing, Mr. Paduano had already taken me into a small backroom of the courthouse and secretly coerced me to sign his new 'surprise' 286 LLC Agreement that I had never laid eyes upon before.

He gave me ten minutes to read and sign it. I went into total shock. I simply could not comprehend him writing this. It was insanity, literally. However, I always did whatever he told me to do. After four years of his leadership, I was living in a town called Stockholm Syndrome. 

Despite what I was reading, I could not stop myself from believing he was still trying to help me. I was in complete denial. I thought that he was going to change his illegal unilateral 286 LLC agreement when he became rational again. I thought Ruth would eventually step in and save me. I wanted to believe anything but the truth right in front of my eyes. 

• On May 5, 2014, Mr. Paduano had stolen control of my bar for himself and his law firm partner, Mr. Leonard Weintraub.

• On May 30, 2014, just three weeks later, Mr. Paduano wrote me he was going to: "Throw me a curveball. He wanted to close and sell the bar." .

Like a thunderclap, he told me that he was going to immediately close my bar or sell his 51% controlling interest "intact" for $150,000.00. He did not want to let me have control even after he rode off into the sunset in his yellow limousine. I asked him if I could pay him the $150,000 over time. He said: "No." He went on:

          "that would allow you to stay in the business"

Every word I say on this website is corroborated by Mr. Paduano, himself, in writing. His documents and emails speak for themselves. They need to be 'seen' to be believed. Don't take my word for it. Read them. You be the judge.

• "The website hit me over the head like a sledgehammer." I do not doubt a word." - NY State Supreme Court Criminal Judge (2022).

Mr. Paduano never presented, nor did I ever sign any 'retainer' agreement - because he never gave me one. He was indisputably representing me pro bono, as Ruth had asked him. 

On May 5, 2014, the case was settled. Judge Coin presided over the transference of the W&R LLC shares back to me as the sole 100% owner of my bar that I created in 2005. 

But Mr. Paduano had already secretly assigned "51%" majority interest of Wine & Roses shares to himself and his law firm, Paduano and Weintraub LLP ("P&W LLP") by way of their illegal 286 LLC shell. 

Unbelievably, he was even "double dipping" - seeking a million-dollar value for his pro bono services? He stole my bar that cost me 5 years of sweat equity to pay back my investors, and now he wanted me to pay him. 

Why would such an exorbitantly wealthy man try so desperately to steal a tiny bar in such a foolish greedy way?

He never spent $400,000 on a case he himself wrote was: 

"Impossible to win." He paid for court room proceedings and and spent "time." Furthermore, Mr. Paduano's illegal 286 LLC Agreement alleges that I agreed to pay such an outrageous sum, which is insane. 

If Mr. Paduano was making me pay $400,000.00 for his pro bono services, for what reason was he also taking 51% of my stock...or vice versa? Why was he taking anything at all? The fact is that I did not owe him 51% of my bar, nor $400,000.00. 

There should have never been any "operating" agreement, at all. It should have been a "loan agreement" for $80,000.00 to acquire 100% of the stock, for 'me.' 

Instead, the 286 LLC Agreement fraudulently stated:

• "Klein owes P&W over $400,000.00 in legal fees and expenses (the “P&W” debt).” 

• "Klein shall pay back the 'P&W' debt at the rate of $8,000.00 per month." 

• I was liable for 49% of the debt, past, present, and future. However, I was really legally liable for 100% of the debt and everything else, because I was the only legal owner. 

Mr. Paduano stated and maintained for 18 months on all documents that I was the 100% owner of Wine & Roses to hide 286 LLC's existence. He was keeping his 286 LLC virgin. He used it to try to take over my location 100% for himself after he dumped all the debt onto my bar and bankrupted it.

His fraudulent 286 LLC agreement was an assault on decency and simply impossible to fulfill. It assured the bar's instant failure upon signing. 

I walked into the courthouse with no debts expecting to get 100% of my bar back. I walked out owing Mr. Paduano $400,000. losing control of my business, and assuming 49% (really 100%) of the non-disclosed debt caused by Mr. Paduano's gross negligence to not 'legally' reform the bar to avoid the bankrupt investors' hidden debts. 

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He transferred the stock in a duplicitous manner in order to 'sneak it past Judge Coin's eyes.' He emailed me instructing me to lie to the judge. 

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I had still thought Ruth was going to be my mentor to open a chain of Wine & Roses bars. Instead, Mr. Paduano put me in shackles. He made me into his "indentured servant." It was impossible to pay him $8,000.00 per month for five years. 

Even if I could pay him $4,000.00 per month, it would take me almost ten years - the entire length of the lease. Indentured servants buy their freedom, but even after I paid him $400,000.00, he told me that he would never give up his 51%. That's rich, considering he never assigned himself a single share.

It goes without saying that Ruth did not know about any of Mr. Paduano's immoral conduct. If she had known, she would have stopped him dead in his tracks.

In stark reality, Mr. Paduano had done absolutely "nothing" for me. He put me in an illegal situation and jeopardized my own liquor license for his own gain. He did everything for himself. He turned his lawsuit into a protracted pursuit for illegal proceeds to pay himself off.

His shameless self-entitlement had no bounds. He said in confession to me that he could get into serious trouble if he was caught. As if I should be grateful for his seizure of my bar? Why was he telling me? I was the person he was afraid to be caught defrauding!

He coerced me to sign his surprise shell agreement in just ten minutes, lying that I had consulted another lawyer. How? I had never seen his 286 LLC agreement before. 

Every crime Mr. Paduano committed on May 5, 2014, and every desperate cover-up afterwards was a direct result of his own initiating illegal 286 LLC agreement that facilitated them. Every circuitous illogical and false narrative afterward to shift the blame onto me for the bar's failure only highlighted his unwarranted acrimony. 

The fact is, no belated false accusation could ever go back and absolve him of his blackmail, fake invoices, and immoral illegal agreement that instantly destroyed my bar. Nothing could have saved my bar afterward.

Mr. Paduano pathetically claimed to the SLA that I had stopped him from getting a liquor license for a year and a half! That implied I had the resources and wherewithal to beat his powerful law firm in their diligent pursuit to obtain a liquor license. How is that even imaginable?

When trying to frame me for his 'availing' he so very, very dumbly wrote to the SLA: "I control the (nameless) corporation that controls Wine and Roses." He might just as well have walked into the SLA headquarters shouting: "I am an availer!" 

The SLA rejected all of his ignorant letters to blame me for his availing. Luckily, they did not investigate his nonsensical claims. The SLA would have come after me for not reporting him within ten days after May 5, 2014.

His plan to takeover my bar did not suddenly develop overnight. He had been planning it for years. Mr. Paduano would not let me settle the case or vacate it. He wrote if I did, "there would be nothing in it" for himself. 

I had felt guilty for his four years of spinning circles. I had no choice but to let him conclude the matter in court as he insisted would be "best for (me)."

My landlord had always made it clear that he would not renew my Wine & Roses lease for my former investors who ran it into the ground. He said he wanted to give it back to its rightful owner, the person that created it. 

Todd and I were still the only 'legal signees and personal guarantors' since 2005. The past investors wanted me to keep the liability while reaping the rewards. (Exactly like Mr. Paduano tried to do to me again).

My landlord had already served my investors with a final eviction notice. They were already in the process of abandoning their utter and complete failure. Mr. Paduano knew this very well. 

He also knew that if my landlord gave me a new lease before he settled the case in court, then Mr. Paduano and his law firm partner, Mr. Weintraub, would have no path for their own takeover of my bar.

I did not wait four years to be Mr. Paduano's indentured servant. Mr. Paduano had me walking around in a constant state of confusion, humiliation, and anxiety. I had to tell everyone that he was my hero who won my bar back for me. 

Todd and I had to force ourselves to even go to "his" bar. It was like a perp walk, a death march, we crawled there. Once inside, we were screaming to get out. It was killing us.

There are real laws and there are Mr. Paduano's laws. If I followed one, I broke the other. Mr. Paduano wanted me to only follow his laws.

I had a government-issued liquor license. I had to follow real laws because I lived in the real world. But Mr. Paduano did not care if I lost my license. Far from that, he tried to get it revoked.

We were in a deep depression. He traumatized us every day with some new attack. He violated his own agreement placing his own office manager to be my off-premises controller. His office manager already had a full-time job working for Mr. Paduano. All Todd and I could do was agree with big smiles and cheer them on. Mr. Paduano was our boss.

Every day, Mr. Paduano violated his own contract to not interfere making us open like a 12th Avenue deli, instead of the famous bar we had been.

On May 30, 2014, just three short weeks after getting the keys back, he told me he was shutting the bar down or selling it to anyone but me. I felt like every hour was the bar's last. I braced myself for it every morning I got out of bed. The pressure was unbearable.

I could not ethically hire any professional staff or really do anything purposeful because he was going to close the bar any day. How could any business function that way?

Mr. Paduano threatened that he would sue us if we did not do what he said. He lied that the courts would honor his flat-out illegal agreement. Courts do not honor illegal agreements.

With the utmost gratitude for his four-year-long quest to get the bar back for me, I had told Mr. Paduano that I would give him a small, but reasonable, portion of my stock, yet to be determined, to thank him for his efforts.

But apparently, that was not enough for Mr. Paduano. He wanted the whole enchilada.

Todd and I always showered Mr. Paduano with respect. Indeed, we bathed him with love. We were awed by what a beautiful person he was and how lucky we were to have him as a friend.

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On May 5, 2014, as if Mr. Paduano's 286 LLC agreement was not hurtful enough, he had the insolent audacity to hand me a copy of his newly prepare his outrageous HYPOCRITICAL opening courtroom speech to the jury chastising the former investors for taking over Wine & Roses, when he had already illegally taken it for himself, in secret, just a half hour before in by forcing me to sign his illegal 286 LLC agreement 

Everything he states in his opening speech to the jury about how immoral my former investor's were, he had already surpassed by a milestone. He coerced me to sign a surprise illegal agreement in ten minutes that I had never laid eyes on before. 

Displayed below is Mr. Paduano's original speech that he handed to me in the court room. I use it as the 'Prologue' of my book. I could not write anything more accurate to vividly portray his duplicitous conduct. 

Mr. Paduano, and Mr. Weintraub signed the illegal shell 286 LLC Agreement for P&W LLP law firm, incriminating their entire law firm with their actions. The partners of the firm refused to respond my many requests for a meeting about the crimes committed on its letterhead and in its name. Paduano and Weintraub LLP committed several breaches of legal ethics and frauds against me in the 286 LLC agreement above. Some of these include:

• "Conflict of interest: P&W represents Klein in the Court Action and the 2014 Action, yet they are also a party to this Agreement. This presents a clear conflict of interest as P&W's interests are now aligned with those of 286 Columbus, not Klein."

• "Professional misconduct: The $400,000 was for the current case settlement, and Klein did not owe P&W $400,000 which was pro bono. Additionally, there was never a retainer-ship agreement. By claiming that Klein owed P&W $400,000 Paduano & Weintraub LLP has engaged in professional misconduct. Furthermore, by failing to report the breach of confidentiality to the State Liquor Authority (SLA) also constitutes professional misconduct."

• "Lack of negotiation: Klein had been coerced into signing the terms of this agreement in ten minutes without ever seeing it before and without negotiation." 

• "Breach of confidentiality: The agreement stipulates that Klein is not to disclose the existence of 286 LLC as an interested party in Wine and Roses, which is not allowed by the State Liquor Authority (SLA). This put Klein in legal jeopardy."

• "Undue influence: P&W is providing $80,000 to Klein, which she needs to finalize the settlement. In exchange, Klein is required to give up 51% of her ownership interest, and additionally pay P&W $400,000 for his past pro bono services. This is an example of undue influence, as Klein is being pressured into a deal that only benefits Mr. Paduano, and to Klein's detriment.

• "Usury: The agreement requires Wine and Roses to pay off Klein's alleged $400,000 debt to P&W at a rate of $8,000 per month, which may be impossible for the company to do. This could be considered usury."

• "Breach of agreement: The Agreement specified Klein was to have full control of the bar, and that Mr. Paduano would be a silent investor. However, Mr. Paduano made his own law firm's office manager the 'controller' for Wine & Roses and had him report directly."

• To assert this agreement multiple frauds were committed to maintain its secrecy."

As usual, the initiating crime was nothing compared to the cover-up. Mr. Paduano emailed 3 weeks after stealing my bar that he "cannot stomach the liabilities anymore." Frauds solely of his own making. That is when he decided to blame me for them. 

From May 5, 2014, through the spring of 2016, Mr. Paduano perjured himself on official applications and documents, all sent by mail to the city, state, and federal government, NYS Liquor Authority, banks, insurance companies, ADP, and every entity with which I did business.

He committed wire fraud every time he licked a stamp. 

According to Mr. Paduano's agreement, I was supposed to keep "secret" his participation in my business, which was legion. However, there is a difference between being a "silent" investor and a "secret" investor like Mr. Paduano, lying on official documents and applications. That is not an investor at all - that is an availer.

• Fraud: Mr. Paduano belatedly manufactured a single list of fake monthly charges that were never sent to Jennifer, but which he claimed added up to exactly $400,000. He then sent copies of a fraudulent invoice for "$400,000.00" from the Law Offices of Paduano & Weintraub LLP. These actions are highly unethical and potentially illegal.

• Fraud: Mr. Paduano sent several copies of a fraudulent invoice dated April 23, 2014, for "$348,013.89" for his services from the Law Offices of Paduano & Weintraub LLP.  Since 2013, he had repeatedly told Jennifer that he had incurred $400,000.00 of expenses. However, it is unclear why he would send an invoice for only $348,013.89 on April 23, 2014, and why he would send the invoice for $400,000.00 only on October 27, 2014.

• Lack of agreement: Jennifer never owed P&W law firm $400,000.00 for its services. As a matter of fact, it was widely known for the length of the four-year-long lawsuit that Mr. Paduano's services were strictly pro bono.

• Overall, these actions constitute serious violations of ethical and potentially criminal standards.

DISCLAIMER:  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 layperson's understanding of the definitions of the applicable statutes and torts in basic legal reference manuals and guides.  All references to "crime" are alleged and used in accordance with its colloquial definition  "A grave offense, especially against morality... Reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful... Evil, shameful, or wrong. 

Mr. Paduano threatens to use the 'internet' to proliferate a 1978 extraneous posting to defame Todd. 

Mr. Paduano would "explain to them" his "basis" to proclaim Todd a lifelong sociopath that does not understand "right and wrong?" 

First of all, Todd couldn't care less about the long forgotten subject matter. He was only concerned that it existed, at all. It was supposed to have been sealed and expunged. 

Mr. Paduano threatened us to not contact 'my own' Wine & Roses landlord ever again.

***It is also perfectly clear from the 'subject line' of the email that all we did to deserve his blackmail response was to ask my fiduciary partners, Mr. Paduano and Mr. Weintraub, if they would just accept my landlord's 'overly gracious offer' to wipe out the $63,900.63 debt.