CLARKSON CO. LTD. v. SHAHEEN

No. 76 Civ. 1373.

533 F.Supp. 905 (1982)

The CLARKSON COMPANY LIMITED, as Trustee in Bankruptcy, appointed by the Supreme Court of the Province of Newfoundland, of the Property of Newfoundland Refining Company Limited and Provincial Refining Company Limited, Plaintiff, v. John M. SHAHEEN, Roy M. Furmark, Albin W. Smith, Peter L. Caras, Paul W. Rishell, Shaheen Natural Resources Company, Inc., Newfoundland Refining Company Ltd., U. S. A., and Founders Corporation, Defendants. The CLARKSON COMPANY LIMITED, etc., Petitioner, v. FOUNDERS CORPORATION, Macmillan Ring-Free Oil Co., Inc., Shaheen Natural Resources Company, Inc., and John M. Shaheen, Respondents. The CLARKSON COMPANY LIMITED, etc., Petitioner, v. SHAHEEN NATURAL RESOURCES COMPANY, INC., John M. Shaheen, Macmillan Ring-Free Oil Co., Inc., and Ian W. Outerbridge, Respondents. The CLARKSON COMPANY LIMITED, etc., Petitioner, v. Martin RUBIN and John M. Shaheen, Respondents. The CLARKSON COMPANY LIMITED, etc., Petitioner, v. John M. SHAHEEN, Brown Harris Stevens, Inc., and 642 Park Avenue Corp., Respondents, and Barbara T. Shaheen, Michael Shaheen, and Bradford Shaheen, Intervening Respondents.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White & Case, New York City, for plaintiff/petitioner The Clarkson Co. Ltd.; Jeffrey Barist, Allan L. Gropper, Edna R. Sussman, Kevin Ashley, New York City, of counsel.

Saxe, Bacon & Bolan, P. C., New York City, for defendants/respondents John M. Shaheen, Shaheen Natural Resources Co., Inc. and Founders Corp.; Thomas A. Andrews, Filip L. Tiffenberg, New York City, of counsel.

Trubin, Sillcocks, Edelman & Knapp, New York City, for respondent Macmillan Ring-Free Oil Co., Inc.; John Trubin, Roger R. Crane, Deirdre Kessler, New York City, of counsel.

Kornstein, Meister & Veisz, New York City, for respondent Martin Rubin; Ronald W. Meister, New York City, of counsel.

Patrick J. Rohan, Bronxville, N. Y., for intervenors Barbara Shaheen, Michael Shaheen and Bradford Shaheen.

Spengler, Carlson, Gubar, Brodsky & Rosenthal, New York City, for respondent Ian Outerbridge; Thomas H. Sear, J. Edward Meyer, III, Cynthia M. Brill, New York City, of counsel.

Netter, Dowd & Alfieri, New York City, for respondents Brown Harris Stevens, Inc. and 642 Park Avenue Corp.; Howard J. Adler, New York City, of counsel.


OPINION AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

This opinion addresses itself to various recent attempts by the Clarkson Company Limited ("Clarkson") to realize on a $50 million judgment awarded by a jury in this Court in July of 1980 against John M. Shaheen and certain of his various corporations, including Shaheen Natural Resources Co., Inc., ("SNR"), and Founders Corporation ("Founders"). That judgment essentially was founded on frauds of Shaheen and his corporate...

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