ONGOING BLACKMAIL

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.

Just 'one minute' later:

After Todd calls out his blackmail letter - Mr. Paduano restates his blackmail to change his previous email from "explain" to "point" as if that was not blackmail? 

I don't know how he "points" someone without "explaining" to them 'why' and for 'what' he is 'showing' or 'telling' them to read the article.

Mr. Paduano's correction suggests that this frivolous distinction absolves him of blackmail, even though he now just sent me two blackmail letters in two minutes. 

He is an alleged W&R LLC lawyer, 286 LLC’s lawyer, my lawyer and fiduciary partner. 

Mr. Paduano 'reveals' his own unethical conduct. Not Todd’s.

MR. PADUANO THREATENS, TODD RESPONDS.  THIS THREAT WAS MADE AS PART OF A 24/7 HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN TO COMMIT BANK FRAUD.

MR. PADUANO THREATENS MORE:

Todd could have gotten into very serious trouble trying to make google search results about indictments and convictions of Mr. Mantei's financial dealings 'disappear.'  

Surely the agents that arrested Mr. Mantei and monitoring Google posts about 'their' case would notice.  The newspaper writers, themselves, would take prompt notice.  

How dare Mr. Paduano to be so high-handed to make payment arrangements for Todd to tamper with an ongoing federal criminal investigation, in any manner, before even informing Todd of the matter. 

Mr. Paduano would not accept polite put-offs like "want to help ...but..."  Todd did not want to upset Mr. Paduano, who persisted for almost a month.  Why in the world would Todd even consider getting involved on the wrong side of a government criminal investigation?

*** WHY DID NOT MR. PADUANO NOT ASK RUTH TO "PUSH THE ARTICLES OFF THE GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS?"

MR. PADUANO WANTED TODD AND I TO LEAVE OUR POSITION (and give up our salary that was more than 'he paid us.') AT THE DAKOTA BAR BECAUSE MR. PADUANO WAS CONCERNED IT COMPETED WITH 'HIS' WINE & ROSES. 

WE WOULD HAVE QUIT OUR POSITION AT THE DAKOTA BAR IF WE OWNED WINE & ROSES, WHICH WE DID NOT.  MR. PADUANO DID.  AND, HE ALREADY TOLD US HE WANTED TO SELL IT OR CLOSE IT.

Mr. Paduano tells me to lie to Judge Coin in court on May 5, 2014, regarding Mr. Paduano's hair-brained lie that he made to judge coin.

He told Judge Coin that I could reopen the next day, seamlessly, without stopping operations. There was no ongoing operation. He committed fraud to the court.

IMPORTANTLY, My former investors were vacating the location. Their imminent eviction had been certain for months. They were not paying any bills. They were preparing for their exit from the bar, taking whatever they could, making unusable what they couldn't, and just trying to survive this court hearing to see if any options arose.

MR. PADUANO KNEW THIS. THAT IS WHY HE HAD TO MAKE HIS MOVE TO TAKE OVER BEFORE THE BAR WAS HANDED 100% TO ME BY THE LANDLORD.

Instead of Mr. Paduano forming a new company to take over the now rat-infested location, he took over the current 286 LLC with no assets, only unknown debts. He took over the location without forming a new W&R LLC like any

businessman would do. He did this because he told Judge Coin there would be no closure and no interrupted revenues. There were no revenues. (He did form 286 LLC to take over 100% of W&R when he drove it into bankruptcy).

I told Mr. Paduano it would take three months to open properly with my 'all important media attention and buzz.' now he expected me to actually fulfill his impossible promise to Judge Coin without any buzz in the middle of the hottest summer on record. I could not even get out of bed and walk down the street I was so traumatized, depressed and mortified.

Todd had discussions with Mr. Paduano about opening the bar and Todd said he thought we might be able open sooner than three months, but certainly did not want to. Todd only wanted to continue to appease Mr. Paduano trying to do 'everything' Mr. Paduano desired. No matter how dumb. Todd did not know what else to do. He had lived under blackmail for four years, and was used to it.

We did open sooner... As an entire humiliating mess because that is what Mr. Paduano wanted us to do. All our customers had gone to the Hamptons for the summer. As did all the available bartenders.

We had to open with whatever bodies we could find and hired completely inexperienced people - we would NEVER have hired - if we had opened properly with all our friends in the media who were just waiting to write about the bar's grand reopening. 

INSTEAD, WE OPENED LIKE A 9TH AVENUE DELI IN A HEAT WAVE.

The only two helping hands I had were my brother-in-law who I paid only $500 a week. Mr. Paduano made me fire him because of nepotism. He had left his wife and children in Arizona for an entire year just so he could wash dishes here. He also did handiwork, clean, take daytime deliveries, and do inventory.

The other person was Charlotte. She managed the back office of the "Red Farm" for several years. She was their most valued employee. But she was not good enough for Mr. Paduano.

We thought Ruth was going step in when she found out what was going on. She never found out. She just believed what her husband told her. He had slandered us to her from the first day and she was too busy transitioning to her new CFO position with GOOGLE.

Jennifer sent her a long heartfelt email in March 2015 asking her to meet and tell her about Mr. Paduano’s misconduct against her. However, by then Ruth dismissed Jennifer saying h want to get in the middle. That broke Jennifer’s heart.

Then Ruth moved to the West Coast in 2015, the media called her house "the most expensive house ever sold in Palo Alto." We had thought Mr. Paduano still stayed in their apartment at the world-famous Dakota building directly across the street from us. 

We were led to believe from what we saw and were told that they had an “arrangement’ in regards to personal matters.  More than once when Mr. Paduano saw Todd and I holding hands, Mr. Paduano told us he had not held hands with Ruth for very many years. He seemed disturbed by our love.

Mr. Paduano had taken away our future and plunged us into over a half million dollars in debt to him... And his solution was to close the bar to cover his tracks and take it over causing me as much pain as possible in the process.

What kind of person is Mr. Paduano?

What did we ever do to Mr. Paduano?

For him to just snuff out our lives?

At the time it was simply incomprehensible, we could not understand. We were fighting for our lives every day and that was all we thought about morning, noon, and night. 

What was so unnerving about Mr. Paduano's outrageous July 19, 2010, phone call leveraging us was that he did it to us for absolutely no reason at all. He did it only to intimidate, demean, and control us.

He called Todd at 7:30pm, on July 19, 2010, when we got home traumatized and in shock from the wine & roses reprehensible and dramatic takeover of our bar just hours before?

How could Mr. Paduano be so cruel to call Todd that same day just to tell him he dug up an extraneous incident in 1978 when Todd was a just a student.

Todd was running a fever from pericarditis just two weeks out of the hospital for open heart transplant surgery.

Mr. Paduano had ignored Todd’s request to have the incident expunged...so he could use the humiliation to control Todd and me.

***Todd was never for a moment embarrassed about what he did and did not do. The ancient burps of a straight a college student 40 years before means nothing to anybody, except blackmailers.

Mr. Paduano tells me to lie to judge coin in court on May 5, 2014, regarding Mr. Paduano's hair-brained lie that he made to judge coin.

He told the judge that I could reopen the next day, seamlessly, without stopping operations. There was no ongoing operation.

My former investors were vacating the location. Their imminent eviction had been certain for months. They were not paying any bills. They were preparing for their exit from the bar, taking whatever they could, making unusable what they couldn't, and just trying to survive this court hearing to see if any options arose.

Instead of Mr. Paduano forming a new company to take over the rat-infested location, he took over the current LLC with no assets, only unknown debts. He took over the location without forming a new LLC like any businessman would do. He did this so that there would be no closure and no interrupted revenues. There were no revenues.

I told Mr. Paduano it would take three months to open properly with the 'all important media attention and buzz.' now he expected me to actually fulfill his impossible promise to judge coin. I could not even get out of bed and walk down the street I was so traumatized and depressed.

Todd had discussions with Mr. Paduano about opening the bar and Todd said he thought we could open sooner than three months, but certainly did not want to. Todd only wanted to continue to appease Mr. Paduano trying to do 'everything' Mr. Paduano desired. No matter how dumb.

We did open sooner... As an entire humiliating mess because that is what Mr. Paduano wanted us to do. All our customers had gone to the Hamptons for the summer. As did all the available bartenders.

We had to open with whatever bodies we could find and hired completely inexperienced people we would not ever have hired if we had opened properly with all our friends in the media who were just waiting to write about the bar's grand reopening. Instead, we opened like a 9th avenue deli in a heat wave.

The only two helping hands I had were my brother-in-law who I paid only $500 a week. Mr. Paduano made me fire him because of nepotism. He had left his wife and children in Arizona so he could wash dishes here. He did handiwork, clean, take daytime deliveries, and do inventory.

The other person was charlotte. She managed the back office of the "red farm" for several years. She was their most valued employee. But she was not good enough for Mr. Paduano.

We thought ruth was going step in when she found out what was going on. She never found out. She just believed what her husband told her. He had slandered us to her from the first day and she was too busy transitioning to her new CFO position with GOOGLE.

Then she moved to the west coast. In 2015, the media called her house "the most expensive house ever sold in palo alto." Mr. Paduano stayed in their apartment at the world-famous Dakota building directly across the street from us. This situation still continues to be problematic every time I go outside our door.

Mr. Paduano had taken away our future and plunged us into over a half million dollars in debt to him... And his solution was to close the bar to cover his tracks and cause me as much pain as possible.

What kind of person is Mr. Paduano? What did we ever do to Mr. Paduano for him to just snuff out our lives?

Two weeks after the May 5, 2014, settlement, i paid Mr. Paduano $10,000.00 for his help with the Dakota Bar.

To my surprise, Mr. Paduano told Todd he 'wanted' to handle a slip and fall case, because the Plaintiff was the wife of a certified billionaire, and Mr. Paduano wanted to "mess with their heads." He said that, repeatedly.

I was happy to pay Mr. Paduano for his Dakota Bar services. He worked very hard. There was nothing wrong about his making me for a check in the middle of the night.

Unfortunately, it drained the Dakota Bar's coffers and I came up short on rent that month.

(Years later I found out that Mr. Paduano in 2017 sued my partner at the Dakota Bar for over a year’s worth of invoices in the range of $12,000 to $15,000 per month that I had never seen when I was working there.

Mr. Padauano sued phu case number

 It appears to me that Mr. Paduano 'might possibly'  have 'allegedly' back billed my ex-partner at the Dakota Bar in the same fraudulent manner he billed me. It did not make any sense that my frugal partner would agree to pay Mr. Paduano approximately $100,000 after I left.  I intend to find out more.)  

As can be clearly seen from the judge’s ruling above stating the obvious, nobody on Todd’s level ("a trainee cold caller") knew what the owner of the company was doing. There were over a thousand employees in eight offices coast to coast. 

The authorities assured Todd that the matter would be expunged - and it will be like it never happened. That sounded like a no-brainer offer to Todd. 

Mr. Paduano called Todd about digging up this article the evening of July 19, 2010, the very same day as the former investors' hostile takeover and sick with pericarditis from open heart surgery.

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