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SUPERINTENDENT OF INS., ETC. v. FREEDMAN

No. 74 Civ. 5686(GLG).

443 F.Supp. 628 (1977)

SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE OF the STATE OF NEW YORK as Liquidator of Knickerbocker Insurance Company, Plaintiff, v. Jay M. FREEDMAN, James L. Hamilton, Mori Aaron, Schweitzer, Charles F. Raymond, Francis R. Salazar, Westland Minerals Corporation, and Petroleum Credit Corporation, Defendants.

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

December 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Regan, Goldfarb, Heller, Wetzler & Quinn, New York City, for plaintiff; Kenneth S. Knigin, Thomas A. Holman, New York City, of counsel.

Robert L. Kassel, New York City, for defendants; Anthony V. Labozzetta, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

GOETTEL, District Judge.

When Sir Walter Scott wrote "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive," he must have foreseen the Knickerbocker Insurance Company. The transactions that caused the demise of Knickerbocker, and which form the basis of this action, were indeed a tangled and fraudulent web, and they have made uncovering the facts of the company's downfall a most difficult task.

The New York Superintendent of...

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