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Mr. paduano SUES HIMSELF
MR. PADUANO IS SO CONFLICTED THAT HE SUES HIMSELF. ACCORDING TO HIS 286 LLC AGREEMENT - HE OWNED 51% OF BOTH COMPANIES.
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***EVERYTHING*** THAT MR. PADUANO DID, SAID, OR WROTE AFTER MAY 5, 2014 WAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?
MANY TIMES I TOLD MR. PADUANO THAT I WANTED OUT OF THE LAWSUIT IF IT COULD NOT BE SETTLED. BUT, HE JUST BRUSHED ME OFF LIKE I WAS NOT THINKING CLEARLY.
I was not better off..."by A LOT" as his 286 LLC Agreement proves. I believe he was really thinking "A LOT" about himself.
ON MAY 23, 2014 HE CLAIMS I OWN 100% OF WINE & ROSES
insurance fraud
ON MAY 29, 2014 HE CLAIMS I OWN 49% of my bar
Mr. Paduano puts only "me" in jeopardy of "mortal" financial ruin because the insurance company will 'decline' a future claim that will be sure to arise one day. Todd and I are the only signatories and guarantors on the lease, so it is only Todd, myself, and my 100% owned W&R LLC that would be liable.
- Mr. Paduano claims I own 100% on every other business and government record that Mr. Paduano created.
- Mr. Paduano claims he has a liquor license! - Mr. Paduano never had a liquor license.
- Mr. Paduano claims 286 LLC is in business for 1 year. It was 'never in business' before or after this application. It was not even registered until May 13, 2014.
- Mr. Paduano claims he is a passive investor! He appointed his office manager from his law firm to be "the controller" of W&R LLC
- Now, I had to report to both Mr. Walsh and Mr. Paduano because Mr. Walsh worked for Mr. Paduano, not me.
HE WILL NOT EVEN SPEAK TO INTERESTED BUYERS.
$400,000.00 IN FEES ???REFUSES TO LET ME SURVIVE IN MY BUSINESS BECAUSE HE "GETS NOTHING?"
Mr. Paduano clearly states his reprehensible intentions: he was only in this for himself and Mr. Weinstein and won't even consider looking at a proposal in which my business stays open. He is maliciously destroying my livelihood because he won't get his pro bono money back - taking over the bar was the only chance he had.
He would rather close the bar so I would not make anything. His greed was as strong as his hatred.
Without owning a single share, Mr. Paduano rejects lease offers, investors proposals, and closes the bar.
He did not own a single share by his own choice. He never bothered to officiate anything. That was his 'only' responsibility as W&R LLC lawyer.
He thought breaking the NYC Liquor Authority's 'primary reason' for being in existence - was just a technicality.
I was responsible as the current official legal 100% owner to report his malfeasance to the Liquor Authority after 'ten days' of his failure to follow strict laws to become licensed. I could have lost my license because of his duplicitous conduct.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
"I AM NOT HER ATTORNEY TODD." HE NEVER INFORMED US. WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN EXACTLY? HOW COME HE TOLD THE LANDLORD AND SO MANY OTHERS HE WAS OUR ATTORNEY, WHEN IT SUITED HIM? IF HE WAS NONE OF THE BELOW
- NOT OUR ATTORNEY
- NOT W&R LLC'S ATTORNEY
- NOT OWN STOCK
- NOT ON THE LEASE
- NOT ON THE LIQUOR LICENSE
THEN WHAT 'LEGAL RELATIONSHIP DID HE HAVE? NONE. HE WAS OUR AVAILER CONTROLLING OUR BAR.
MEA CULPA
WANTED TO close the bar since may 30, 2014.
In this email he clearly admits he wanted out of the bar since he stole it on May 5, 2014.
How were we ever going to be able to open and successfully run the bar knowing our only partner with controlling interest was hellbent to close it down?
What real investor would ever do such a thing? What kind of human being?
All he did after May 5, 2014, was to commit further frauds to cover up his prior frauds and conflicts of interest.
He sabotaged the bar to make it fail. He wanted out, and that is the only thing he really ever talked about. Besides telling us how to run the daily operation of the bar including scheduling of the employees.
We were very severely depressed. I could not get out of bed. He was committing fraud in my name to everybody. He was jeopardizing my liquor license and ruining my reputation, what were we supposed to do?
( see to do list.)
"Playing the hero" to his wife, Ruth, for 4 years who thought he was helping us.
"Poor decision to help us" we never asked for his help in the first place. We asked Ruth for her help to have a meeting with my investors and reunite us because she was one of the most reputable business leaders in the world,
We did not want to threaten a lawsuit that would just further 'unite them against us.' which is exactly what Mr. Paduano did. He poured gasoline onto the fire.
Behind $20,000." according to Mr. Walsh's email displayed here we were one month and approximately $3500 behind.
In any event, Mr. Paduano should have had the sense to start over with a new LLC, instead of buying an unaudited failed company (the only way he could slip his illegal takeover past the eyes of Judge Coin).
See list of expenses that were inherited by Mr. Paduano's intentional gross negligence >.
"impossible lawsuit" that he suggested I stay in even though I repeatedly wanted out and even wrote him so. He did not want to quit because "there would be nothing in it for (him)."
He was "prepared to invoke the (illegal) operating agreement" in front of the judge that he perjured himself for four years. I wish he did.
IRS TAX FORM 1065
Mr. Paduano improperly files a K-1 tax return stating that I own 49% of the business when he proliferated on every other business AND government document that I was the 100% owner.
IN JUNE 2016, over a year after Mr. Paduano closed the bar, I received a knock on my from door from a NYST&F agent trying to STRAIGHTEN OUT THE CONFUSION AND COLLECT BACK SALES TAXES THAT MR. PADUANO NEGLECTED TO PAY.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST - VIOLATION OF AGREEMENT
MR. PADUANO TAKES COMPLETE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING
MR. PADUANO, AGAIN, EMAILS ME TO HIRE HIS LAW FIRM'S CONTROLLER, MR. TOM WALSH, WITH NO RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE - FOR ME TO TRAIN IN REAL TIME - BECAUSE MR. WALSH WILL NOT WORK WITH THE MOST VALUABLE PERSON HELPING ME...WITH WORK HE COULD NOT DO.
I HAD TO FIRE CHARLOTTE TO MAKE ROOM FOR MR. WALSH.
Mr. Paduano defames Charlotte without knowing her or what she was doing for me.
Charlotte was one of the most knowledgeable back-office managers in the business. She was providing her professional help for free in her spare time while managing the back office of the Red Farm, widely rated as the one of the best restaurants on the Upper West Side. She was the opening manager on its first day and had worked there ever since.
Charlotte was good enough for the Red Farm, but she was not good enough for Mr. Paduano.
Yes, she was a big drinker. So was Mr. Paduano.
P&W law firm had no business being in the restaurant business. Mr. Walsh could not possibly perform 100th of all the restaurant tasks I needed charlotte to do. Charlotte did not even have to follow my lead; she knew what to do better than anybody.
We had a very hard time going to Mr. Paduano's bar. There was nothing in it for us except humiliation and heartbreak.
JUST 4 DAYS AFTER SIGNING HIS AGREEMENT MR. PADUANO BREAKS IT, TELLING US TO HIRE HIS OFFICE MANAGER
- May 9, 2014 "Hire Tom to do it." hire his controller Mr. Tom Walsh to do it? To do what? He did not have any experience opening a bar! Now Mr. Paduano expected him not to just be my bookkeeper - but my controller.
Telling me to hire him was in direct violation of Mr. Paduano's own operating agreement that clearly stated I was in charge of the operation 'without interference.'
***I initially welcomed Tom with open arms, being as positive as possible. I had hoped he might be "helpful" assisting with the bookkeeping because I knew that is what Mr. Paduano wanted. ***
I had to keep Mr. Paduano happy. He was my boss. I did not know who Mr. Paduano was anymore or the extent of his plans. I was still in shock that he took my bar away from me after four years of promising to get it back for me.
STATE LIQUOR AUTHORITY LICENSE FRAUD
MR. PADUANO FRAMES ME FOR HIS ACTIONS
In the midst of his daily harassment, Mr. Paduano finally publicly exposes his secret long journey to get rid of me so he could take over my bar completely.
How could he go to a community board meeting to get an approval? He couldn't. The landlord refused to 'ever' give him a lease.
Todd and I were the only legal signees and personal guarantors on it for the past ten years. (there was one former investor that was absolved from any liability and was supposed to be removed according to the settlement).
The landlord said several times: "Mr. Paduano is the worst person he ever had to deal with in his thirty years managing buildings."
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