ILLEGAL 286 COLUMBUS PARTNERS LLC OPERATING AGREEMENT below:

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 to my many requests for a meeting about the crimes committed on its letterhead and in it's name  Paduano and Weintraub LLP committed several breaches of legal ethics and potential crimes against Jennifer Klein in the 286 LLC agreement. 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."

• "Lack of negotiation: Klein has been forced into accepting the terms of this agreement without any negotiation. P&W has rolled Klein's debt into this settlement, which is an unreasonable burden to place on Klein."

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

• "Undue influence: P&W is providing the $80,000 loan to Klein, which she needs to finalize the settlement. However, in exchange for the loan, Klein is required to give up 51% of her ownership  interest in Wine and Roses to 286 Columbus. This is an example of undue influence, as Klein is being pressured into giving up a significant portion of her business in exchange for a loan."

• "Fraud: The agreement specifies that Klein is to receive a loan for $80,000, but P&W is actually taking ownership of 51% of Wine and Roses in exchange for the loan. This misrepresentation could be considered fraudulent."

• "Usury: The agreement requires Wine and Roses to pay off Klein's 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, which is the practice of lending money at an exorbitant or illegal return."

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

Additionally, it is reasonable to assume there is a very high likelihood that in order to assert this agreement that multiple additional frauds would have been committed to maintain it's secrecy.

I had never seen the secret, illegal, and unconscionable 286 LLC operating agreement until the day of the trial. Mr. Paduano took me to a back room of the courthouse where he coerced me to sign it in under ten minutes.

The 286 LLC agreement was his first "initiating" fraud. It, alone, murdered the bar on the very first day. "everything" that went wrong afterwards was a direct result of it.

Nothing could absolve Mr. Paduano of writing it, invoicing me for it, and violating it. His blackmail, extortion, and larceny in his attempts to cover-up his frauds just made it that much uglier.

The agreement stated I consulted another attorney. How could i possibly consult with another attorney within the ten minutes that i was in the room with Mr. Paduano?

***the whole reason Mr. Paduano so unethically coerced me to sign the agreement within ten minutes was so that I would - not be able - to consult another attorney.

Mr. Paduano knew I trusted him and thought he was a good friend. He knew that I would never insult him by questioning anything he said. I always did everything he told me to do.

When he handed me the 286 LLC agreement it was already signed by:

• Mr. Weintraub, on behalf of their P&W law firm.

• Mr. Paduano, on behalf of their shell 286 LLC.

The secret 286 LLC illegal agreement outright lies that I "owed" P&W LLP $400,000.00 for past services. They were unquestionably pro bono. And everybody knew it.

There was never any retainer even mentioned in the four years from July 19, 2010, to May 5, 2014. Ruth procured him pro bono for me, in the first place.

When I walked into the courthouse on the morning of May 5, 2014, I did not "owe" Mr. Paduano, 286 LLC, or P&W LLP law firm any money, whatsoever.

When I walked out of the courtroom in the afternoon, i owed him $400,000.00 for past pro bono services; plus $80,000 obtained under false pretenses, plus losing 51% of my stock.

***his agreement states that he would provide me $80,000.00 to acquire 100% ownership "for me" - not for himself.

His illegal agreement should have stated that he 'loaned' me $80,000 so i could obtain "my" 100% ownership ("and keep it!") as was the whole purpose for four years!

*for what reason* did Mr. Paduano think he, his P&W law firm or 286 LLC had any rights, whatsoever, to also take 51% controlling ownership in perpetuity. In addition to the $400,000.00, that i did not owe him.

My new "boss" gave me an "unlivable" salary to split between Todd and myself, totaling $96,000 per year. That was before taxes.

I had no hope of getting any distributions and *zero* upside. I had to pay back his pro bono $400,000.00 at the rate of $8,000.00, per month out of net profits - which was impossible. There would be nothing left to distribute to me.

So, what were Todd and I supposed to live on for the next five to ten years? Why would we want to? It did not matter. We could not survive on $96,000.00 per year. Mr. Paduano told us we would not starve. We could always eat bar food. Maybe we could get comped by other bar owners.

Nobody in their right mind would sign his agreement. I only did it because I thought I would become partners with Ruth in some way and she would help me start a chain.

His agreement stated I now owed 49% percent of the hidden past debt of the former investors and 49% of all new debts. Mr. Paduano negligently did not collect monies owed from the shady investors who were currently under a 'final eviction notice' because they could not pay their bills.

Within a few days we were inundated with approximately $75,000.00 of hidden unpaid bills causing Mr. Paduano to wake up to his gross negligence.

This is what gave him instant cold feet. That and all his other frauds to date.

Three weeks after getting the keys back he wanted to close the bar or sell it. He could not sell it. He did not own it. The transaction would have been problematic for him.

I had already spent four years paying back my former investors their whole investment of over a half million dollars plus profits. Now Mr. Paduano "controlled it."

Ruth jokingly said: "I guess we are partners now." but it turned out to be an afterthought. She was soon to be the new CFO of Google / Alphabet.

I did not want to bother her with my problems "with her husband" in the middle of it. Todd and I were also being blackmailed. When i finally did reach out to her, it was too late. Mr. Paduano had already poisoned her with slander.

I know Mr. Paduano did not show her that deplorable 286 LLC agreement. How could he explain the $400,000.00 i had to pay to him for the pro bono she arranged?

Even if i "could" pay him off at the rate of $8,000.00, (impossible) during the next "5" years, Mr. Paduano was quite clear he would never give up his 51%. If I could pay it off at the rate of $4,000.00 per month it would take me "10" years. How could my own lawyer do this to me? How could any normal person?

From day one my "passive investor" violated the agreement by harassing me every day about everything. Even to absurdly open my *wine bar* at 8.00am and cut staff at the same time.

I had no choice but to "yes" him, as always. He made desperate irrational demands. I had zero control. I had to keep him happy. He was going to close my business causing me unbearable humiliation for a 'second time.'

Mr. Paduano violated the agreement making his law firm office manager my "controller." he took control of the books and records and everything else, including me. I had hesitation hiring him as my bookkeeper, and now he was my "controller?" how could he be my "controller?" he already had a full-time job.

Mr. Paduano 'emailed' me that his office manager:

• "will run the business his way."
• "which will be very different than yours?"
• "there is nothing you can do to stop him."

I had tried to make Mr. Paduano happy by hiring Mr. Walsh. I had no other choice. They made me fire 'my' choice who was already working with me. She is the best there is and had already worked for me for years. She was quitting her job as the back-office manager for the busiest Chinese restaurant on the upper west side: "red farm." it was so busy you had to have a reservation and could not get one.

I spent four years hanging fire while Mr. Paduano promised over and over to get my bar back for "me." not for a job working under Mr. Paduano's knowledge-less micromanagement.

DURING THE ENTIRE EXISTENCE OF W&R LLC, THERE WAS NEVER A SINGLE TRANSFER OF STOCK THAT WAS A "SUBSTANTIAL" CORPORATE CHANGE BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER A TRANSFER OF MORE THAN 80%: 

• IN 2005: I OWNED 100% OF W&R LLC STOCK.

• IN 2006: I TRANSFERED 78.9 TO MY INVESTORS.

• ON MAY 5, 2014:  MR. PADUANO TRANSFERRED MY INVESTORS 78.9% STOCK BACK TO ME. 

• ON MAY 5, 2014:  MR. PADUANO STOLE 51% OF THE CONTROLLING INTEREST.  BUT FRAUDULENTLY NEVER TRANSFERRED THE STOCK.

May 9, 2014: hire his controller Mr. Tom Walsh to do it? Do what? Clean out dead rats? He did not have any experience opening a bar! Now Mr. Paduano expected him to not be just my bookkeeper... But my "controller."

He tells me to "hire tom to do it" was in direct conflict to Mr. Paduano's own operating agreement that clearly stated I was in charge of the "entire" operation - without any interference. 

Mr. Paduano told me almost every day to hire tom. But I did not have to, Mr. Paduano already hired him.

In that same short email, Mr. Paduano tells me to ignore the thousand things needed to resurrect the broken-down bar. 

He is already hassling us to "make money!!!!!!!!" (his exclamation points) in complete disregard of 'reality.' see t0-do list >

Mr. Paduano's illegal and unconscionable May 5, 2014, 286 LLC agreement:

• Offered no hope of distributions because I had to first work off my new illegal half million debt. No medical insurance (I have Lyme disease since 2001). No vacation pays. No control ...and I was the only employee to have no escape.

• Required me to actively lie, keep secret, and hide Mr. Paduano's illegal ownership from appearing on every single record: lease, bank, insurance, liquor license, state and federal government, private vendors, credit bureaus...making me his accomplice.

There is a difference between a "silent" investor and a "secret" investor. As a "secret investor" with no stock he:

• Provided me with 100% legal liability for 'everything.'

• Provided me with total confusion in my understanding of which laws to follow: Mr. Paduano's laws --or -- city, state, and federal laws. I could not get out of bed in the morning without violating one or the other.

• Provided me with not a single reason to ever want to step into "his" bar again.

He threatened to sue me into bankruptcy if I quit following his illegal demands.

NONSENSE. HE WAS IN CHARGE FROM DAY ONE. THIS WAS JUST MR. PADUANO'S 'BACKHANDED' WAY OF TRYING TO HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE, RETROACTIVELY, FOR HIS HORRIBLE DECISIONS AND HORRIFIC FRAUDS HE COMMITTED FOR THE MONTH OF MAY. 

OF COURSE, MR. PADUANO EMPLOYED A 'FALSE NARRATIVE' TO HIDE HIS FRAUDS. IS THAT NOT WHAT LITIGATORS AND CRIMINALS RESORT TO WHEN THE 'FACTS' AND THE 'LAW' ARE AGAINST THEM? MOST LAWYERS HAVE THE MOTTO WRITTEN ON PLAQUES HUNG ON THEIR WALLS: 

"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table." 

AND IN MR. PADUANO'S CASE: 

"If facts, laws, and pounding don't work: MAKE UP YOUR OWN LAWS!

'TAKE' CONTROL? MR. WALSH WAS IN CONTROL SINCE WE SETTLED ON MAY 5, 2014. 

I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL AND CHOOSE MY OWN "BOOKKEEPER," WHO'S APPROVAL WILL NOT BE UNREASONABLY WITHHELD."

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HIS OFFICE MANAGER REPLACED MY CHOICE FOR A DAYTIME OFFICE WORKER. Charlotte was so much more than a "bookkeeper." She was the most capable person to ever run a restaurant back office. She managed the back-office operation for RED FARM RESTAURANT for years (Critics called it the second-best restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan).

She was good enough for the Red Farm, but not Mr. Paduano and his law firm's (and now my) controller, Mr. Tom Walsh. They did not understand an iota of the work she was doing for me, and they did not care. She was in Mr. Paduano's WAY TO 100% COMPLETE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. 

I needed to open the bar QUICKLY, as Mr. Paduano demanded, because he was afraid that Judge Coin would find out his lies to reopen the bar "SEAMLESSLY" the "NEXT DAY" after the settlement. 

It was true that Charlotte had a drinking problem. SO, DID MR. PADUANO.  So what? He went to work with hangovers. Once, in the middle of a deposition, he wrote in BIG letters on his legal pad for me to see: "I AM SO HUNGOVER."

Mr. Paduano had me fire her immediately. She was the only person helping me with the most important matters that needed a deep understanding of the unique ins and outs of the 'restaurant industry.' Plus, she had worked under me for years. We still feel ashamed of speaking poorly of her to ingratiate ourselves to Mr. Paduano. 

Todd and I just agreed with everything he said after his July 19, 2010, phone call to Todd threatening to blackmail him with an extraneous article he found from 1978. We did not care about the subject. We were 'freaked out' that Mr. Paduano clearly had used it to have power over us, and never forgot.

Why was he blackmailing Todd? Todd was not the owner of the bar, I was. Clearly, as we later learned, it was to control me.

We could not fathom his phone call on the very day we were traumatized by our investor’s onslaught. He told Todd about the article and then wrote “I’m saying nothing” he would not tell Ruth or anyone. We were scared of Mr. Paduano. We still are. His father was the Chief of Police in Neptune New Jersey

Mr. Paduano was the 51% controlling interest now. I ALWAYS followed Mr. Paduano's DIRECTIONS for MANY REASONS other than his growing hints of blackmail and extortion. HE WAS NOW MY BOSS FOR ONE. Todd and I had remained locked in his Stockholm Syndrome for 5 years already.  

HE LIES.   COURTS WOULD NOT EVER  *ENFORCE* AN  ILLEGAL AGREEMENT.  HE COULD NOT SUE ME: 

RUTKIN VS. REINFELD: 1956

• "A member of an illegal partnership is not entitled to enforcement of any right depending on the partnership agreement."

JANKE V. JANKE 1975.  

• "1T HAS BEEN HELD THAT ONE WHO HAS FAILED TO REGISTER HIS NAME WITH THE STATE LIQUOR AUTHORITY IN OBTAINING A LICENSE, THEREBY VIOLATING THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW, CANNOT INVOKE THE POWER OF THE EQUITY COURT TO IMPOSE A CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST ON HIS SHARE OF THE PROCEEDS OF THAT BUSINESS BEING CONDUCTED IN VIOLATION OF STATUTE"

MR. PADAUNO BEGAN ACTING LIKE A MOBSTER WITH A LAW FIRM.  FOR OUR PROTECTION, TODD AND I WERE FINALLY FORCED TO RECORD MR. PADUANO'S BLACKMAIL AND EXTORTION.   

IN THE CONVERSATION ABOVE HE TALKS IN CIRCLES FOR 20 MINUTES 'THREATENING' US TO TRANSFER MY 100% OF STOCK TO HIM, IN ADDITION TO GIVING HIMSELF A UNILATERAL RELEASE  FOR HIMSELF AND HIS LAW FIRM.  HE REFUSED TO GIVE ME ONE.  THE IRONY WAS THAT I DID NOT NEED ONE.  ONLY HE DID.  

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MR. PADUANO TOOK MY LICENSE OFF THE BAR WALL AND REFUSED TO RETURN IT TO ME:

IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT WAS MR. PADUANO THAT APPLIED FOR ME TO OWN MY 100% LICENSE PER MY 100% OF OWNERSHIP OF W&R LLC, AND THEN HE NEVER CORRECTED IT, 

WHAT DID HE THINK HE WAS ACCOMPLISHING BY ILLEGALLY TAKING MY LICENSE OFF THE BAR WALL AND OUT OF THE BAR INTO HIS SOLE POSSESSION - OTHER THAN TO COMMIT ANOTHER FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THE LAW THAT WAS PRINTED ON THE LICENSE, ITSELF, SAYING THAT IT:

 "COULD NOT BE REMOVED FROM THE PREMISES."

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HE REMOVED IT AND TOLD THE SLA THREE TIMES  IN WRITING THAT I REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM TO RETURN.   WHO KNOWS WHAT HE AND HIS ASSISTANTS TOLD THEM ON THE PHONE? 

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THE SLA WOULD NOT LET HIM RETURN THE LICENSE BECAUSE HE WAS NOT MY LAWYER OR THE BAR'S ATTORNEY, AND HE DID NOT OWN A SINGLE REGISTERED SHARE!

THE SLA TOLD HIM THAT I WAS A 100% SHAREHOLDER AND 100% LICENSE HOLDER.  JUST AS HE PERPETUATED ON OF ALL HIS CORRESPONDENCES WITH THEM FOR 18 MONTHS.  

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MR. PADUANO WROTE THAT HE:

•  "CONTROLLED" (AN UNNAMED CORPORATION) THAT CONTROLLED WINE AND ROSES." THEY TOLD HIM EVERY TIME THAT ONLY I COULD RETURN IT.  JUST AS I BEGGED HIM A "HALF DOZEN" TIMES IN WRITING.

LAWS JUST DID NOT APPLY TO THE HIGH-HANDED MR. PADUANO >.  

IN FACT, HIS WHOLE FALSE NARRATIVE TO THE SLA ABOUT THE SIMPLE RETURN OF THE LICENCE - WAS TO FALSELY BLAME ME FOR HIS AVAILING. 

I FINALLY SPOKE TO THE SLA ABOUT THE MATTER. THE SLA LET ME RETURN A COPY I HAD BY FAX, BECAUSE MR. PADUANO WOULD NOT LET ME RETURN THE ORIGINAL LICENSE AS REQUIRED.

I solved the insurance the day Mr. Paduano and his law firm office manager (the new controller of my bar) came to me, and I received insurance for $13,000 instead of the $90,000 quotes they received,

Weeks later, Mr. Paduano told me to adjust the scheduling and pare down the staff before I even hired anybody. At the same time, he wanted wine & roses to be open 18 hours a day, if not more. 

He made me fire my brother-in-law "for nepotism." I was paying him $500 a week to be at the bar in the daytime to receive daytime deliveries, do inventories, clean, and do handiwork. 

How could we ethically hire serious new employees to work in a bar that we thought would be closed any day? Mr. Paduano did not 'get that.' he had no clue about the workings of a bar and no concern for ethics.

We had to hire completely inexperienced staff to stop Mr. Paduano hassling me daily to open sooner than was possible to satisfy his lies to the judge that we would open "seamlessly" the next day >. 

Todd's thinking that he might be able to accomplish opening earlier to satisfy Mr. Paduano, did not help matters. It made them worse. Todd had been dancing to Mr. Paduano's tune for 4 years now, trying to satisfy his every wish. Talk about being a blackmailed Stockholm Syndromer, Todd regally called him "sir." with a smile.

He could not believe that Mr. Paduano would fatally stick a knife in our back. It could not happen - again - with Mr. Paduano. He was our knight in shining armor.

Todd thought Mr. Paduano would come to his senses and do the right thing. He believed that ruth would save us if he didn't. Lastly, Todd’s master plan was - if we just did every single thing that Mr. Paduano wanted, there would be no reason for Mr. Paduano to ever turn on us. But of course, he already had.

A few months later, Mr. Walsh informed me that he 'discovered' that the inexperienced 'first time bartenders' who we were forced to hire were stealing. 

We would have never hired them in the first place had not Mr. Paduano illegally taken control of my bar and ordered me to immediately open or he would close it down. 

At least we did not feel unethical for giving them a job. Nobody else would hire them. Good bartenders already had jobs and you had to offer them a better one for them to be interested. 

If we opened with my friends in the media giving us lots of buzz in September, we would have been able to hire the wonderful bartenders we always had. 

We had no security cameras, no viable computer system, and dozens of other untenable circumstances Mr. Paduano created. Of course they were stealing. Although we never ran into that problem before. Even so, it was hard for us to believe. At first, we thought Mr. Walsh was making a mistake. 

We never had a problem with stealing when we ran our bar. But this was not our bar, and our new employees knew it. We had no security cameras. We could not hide our lackluster enthusiasm, nor the fact that Mr. Paduano threatened to close the bar any day. We were seriously depressed. We had no future. We did not even have a present.

Todd and I recovered every penny that was stolen, plus 50% more. Not Mr. Walsh, nor Mr. Paduano helped recover a penny. Although, Mr. Walsh absolutely was the first to discover it.

When I was done auditing, armed with the evidence, Todd negotiated with the bartenders’ parents. When he was finished, Todd informed Mr. Paduano to put the simple release paper together with their lawyer. 

That is all Mr. Paduano did regarding the matter - besides showing off his sherlock Holmes skills to ruth. 

Without telling us, he took her to the bar to show the young ladies stealing, which we already knew about, and we were in the process of auditing and getting evidence. Todd later said to me, judging from ruth's face that she probably gave them a hundred-dollar bill and they kept the change. 

Mr. Paduano's goals were clear: defame me, then blame me, so he had an excuse to take over the bar 100% in attempt to satisfy his P&W law firm partners, including Mr. Weintraub, to get their pro bono back. Mr. Paduano had always said 80% of it was soft money for the time his legal trainee spent on his very first assignment: me.

In November 2014, in a Japanese restaurant, Mr. Paduano offered me $40,000.00 for my stock. I refused. Todd and I held hands. He was shocked that we held hands. He got up without a single word and left.

He never cared an iota about his victim's feelings. He only cared about his own. He went home and wrote me a letter within ten minutes saying he was going to immediately close the company.

He already closed the company the day he made me sign his illegal agreement. He was his own victim. 

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If Mr. Paduano had simply done what he was supposed to do, get my bar back for 'me,' he would have shared in the successful opening of a chain of wine & roses' like ruth and I spoke about. 

The midst of his daily threats, Mr. Paduano finally gives public notice of his years long agenda to get rid of me so he can take over my bar 100% for himself.

The November 23, 2015, poster announces a community board meeting determining whether it was acceptable to the community board for Mr. Paduano and his partner to own and operate the bar without me.

He never attended the meeting because the landlord refused to give him a new lease.

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On May 5, 2014. By virtue of his 286 LLC, Mr. Paduano turned everything he did prior (supposedly for me) on its head. 

He completely erased any and all alleged good intentions and good deeds. Everything he supposedly did for the previous four years were null and void. Mr. Paduano had thrown the baby out with the bathwater. 

Now, the stark reality was that he did nothing for me all those years. By choice, he 'ended up' doing it entirely for himself, causing me irreparable damage. 

Simply put, Mr. Paduan0 stabbed me in the back on May 5, 2014. Then he proceeded to twist it for the next eighteen months. 

His illogical, immoral, irrational excuse was that he spent so much time on his quest to get the bar back for me, he deserved it more than me. He is the one that extended the case for four years causing his own expenditures. I told him over and over that i wanted out of it. 

Mr. Paduano:

• Led me on with "impossible" false promises for 4 years.

• Did not let me out of the lawsuit because "there would be nothing it for him." 

• Took control of my bar in violation of nays availing laws.

• Lied on his written agreement that i already owed them $400,000.00 and fraudulently billed me for it in addition to taking 'his' 51% controlling ownership.

• Closed the bar to cover his frauds. 

• Tried to reopen the bar under his 100% ownership. 

• Despicably 'blamed the victim' (me) and framed me for all his frauds. He wrote that he "played the hero" for his wife, not me. 

Everything that went wrong after May 5, 2014, was clearly as a result of Mr. Paduano illegally taking over my bar.

After taking control of my bar - claiming i did not follow his instructions is moot. And absurd. Proven by his own irrefutable emails displayed on this website. 

Once Mr. Paduano stole my bar 'and' made me pay for his own majority shares, how could he think there would be a happy ending? He couldn't even get past the first day without committing perjury and fraud. *** 

Todd and my continuing good faith and naivety are what he preyed upon. We were trapped in a 24 by 24-foot bar cage with an admirer of Tony Montana. (he always requested to my bars hosting his law firm's annual Christmas parties to play “SCARFACE” on all my big TV screens).

How in the world did Mr. Paduano 'ever' think i should be working for him? How did he ever think it was acceptable or even possible for me to agree to be his humiliated indentured servant?

I went into shock and denial the minute he handed me that agreement in the courtroom. I rationalized he would come to his senses and ruth was going to be my partner or mentor to start a chain. 

On June 3, 2024, ruth signed a $25,000.00 check to help the under-financed bar's restoration. ($80k went to the former partners, only $45,000 had been given to the bar).

Mr. Paduano accused us of "vaporizing the $25,000" when in fact, it was spent the next day on rent and other essentials as was itemized in Mr. Walsh's response to Mr. Paduano's shocked email asking how the money "disappeared." 

To say Todd and i were confused was not only to say the least - but Mr. also Paduano put me in the hospital. 

Read his emails!

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 **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."