The Trustee
3. Ron Sommers
May 24, 2006
First creditors meeting with Trustee Sommers. I am not prepared due to the fact my lawyer has left numerous documents out, and I am walking into something I am unaware of and fixing to get destroyed for lack of preparation. I hired Rogers to guide me, but she has left so much information out. When she told me the trustee would put me in the right bankruptcy and we would figure out what was mine upon arriving in the trustee office, I thought this was part of the process. I didn’t know my attorney was leading me into a disaster, to put it
mildly.
Exh. 59 p 3, Lines 7-8 The very first question I am asked is my name, and the stenographer types it in as Jimmy Glenn Sissom – later used to claim I falsified my own name. I asked them numerous times, as soon as I knew of this mistake, to go back and fix this because it was not true. We are already off on the wrong foot.
Exh 60 p 36 – I handed my accounts receivable over to Dixon Motors as instructed by Royal Oaks Bank - approximately 35-40 notes totaling around $400,000-$450,000 and gave the copies to the Trustee and let him know the bank still had a 46k CD. The bank still had additional notes on top of these. I revealed to Sommers my wife was not in bankruptcy, and he asked me to discuss my wife’s inheritance money Exh.1 p.24 Statement of Financial affairs, I explained to him to at the time everything I knew to the best of my ability. There was $46,000 most directly attributable to Susan, but he refused to recognize it ever.
I did not realize he did not want to assist me. I thought the courts would protect me from the fraudulent actions of the
bankers. Also, not all her money was listed because Rogers had told me she does not need to be on here because it is non-spousal filing. You can even see in Exh. 68, p. 30, #4 where she is asking me why I am putting my wife’s clothing down because she is not involved.
Exh 59 p.3, Lines 20-23 When Sommers asked me if I reviewed and signed my schedules, Rogers jumped in and cut me off
and stated: that is what you signed the first day in my office (that would have been Mar. 28, 2006). But that is not possible – the date on
the schedule I wrote was 3/28/06, but the one she filed was 5/3/06. I couldn’t have had a chance to go over hers. Rogers filed on May 3, 2006, and I was not there to review those schedules and don’t see how I could have signed them. As it turns out i did not sign them her paralegal did an electronic signing of my name and I am forced to deal with perjury even though the courts recognized that i did not sign them.
Exh 59 p.6 & p.18Sommers asks me about my F & S Ventures Inc. and how I arrived at the figure of $900,000 value. I told him the property was between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 and he asked if I took $2,000,000 minus $1,100,000 owed on it. I stated yes. (Actually, this was a
pre-construction appraisal and didn’t include income of $144,000 for the past year along with utilities improvements – therefore, it was worth much more. And, I had money and my time in the business that wasn’t included). I didn’t know that this was the value that would be affixed to the property. There was more to consider, but I couldn’t put all this together at the time. Now, I know why I couldn’t
explain fully – I wasn’t prepared – at all. My attorney sent me in there cold turkey with no clue how much information was needed.
She told me she couldn’t advise me on my businesses because she was a personal bankruptcy lawyer.
Rogers never intervened and this was what led to the first amended schedule Exh 2 . But, not only did Rogers omit the change instructed by the Trustee, she completely removed F & S Ventures Inc. Exh 59 p.7. Sommers starts asking for all my bank statements, Crown Financial bridge loan docs, company bank statements and other information and I did not know Rogers was to have already done that.
Nowhere on any docs had she ever ask for these. Even her initial application does not request these Exh. 68
August 2006
Attorney Craig Cowgill is hired and I do an emergency oral examination Exh. 61 p.1-8 and state what happened to put me in this position. I spent numerous hours with Craig Cowgill and his staff going over documents and trying to correct the schedules. Cowgill asked me to
bring all tax returns, bank statements, and all other documents relating to any transactions for the last several years.
Only then did I truly start to understand what Rogers did not do. Cowgill could not get the schedules correct either and I feel he was very competent and knowledgeable about the process. It was just a lot of information to go over. We amended the schedules several times trying to make them right. I thought that we were doing the proper thing.
October 2006
I am told to turn my wife’s Suburban in – I am still not sure why but the Trustee laid claim to it along with my wife’s separate monies.
Even when Susan asked about it in court, she was never given an answer. I was also accused of damaging the car. Pictures were
sent to me, and I was in trouble because they stated the car had body damage. It turned out they were referring to a photo of a weed in front of the fender that was not any damage after all. This caused a huge problem, and I was in trouble and had to appear in
the courts again for something I did not do. Then I was accused of the car being out of oil and missing floormats. I was ordered to bring to the courts - 2 or 3 quarts of oil and new floor mats.
2007
After months of harassment and enduring numerous hours and days in courts, I was told to pay Sommers $50,000. I was only able to pay
him approximately $43,000 before I was charged with fraud. But i never got credit for them taking my wifes car which put the payment well over $50,000.
So essentially the Trustee allowed the bank to trick me out of my 3.5 million storage, keep the 46k CD, ignored the notes that were transferred to Dixon Motors per the bank , take Susans car, charge me with over 100k in lawyer bills, and me to pay back 50k and never went after the creditors to seize the assets and stop all of this
May 24, 2006
First creditors meeting with Trustee Sommers. I am not prepared due to the fact my lawyer has left numerous documents out, and I am walking into something I am unaware of and fixing to get destroyed for lack of preparation. I hired Rogers to guide me, but she has left so much information out. When she told me the trustee would put me in the right bankruptcy and we would figure out what was mine upon arriving in the trustee office, I thought this was part of the process. I didn’t know my attorney was leading me into a disaster, to put it
mildly.
Exh. 59 p 3, Lines 7-8 The very first question I am asked is my name, and the stenographer types it in as Jimmy Glenn Sissom – later used to claim I falsified my own name. I asked them numerous times, as soon as I knew of this mistake, to go back and fix this because it was not true. We are already off on the wrong foot.
Exh 60 p 36 – I handed my accounts receivable over to Dixon Motors as instructed by Royal Oaks Bank - approximately 35-40 notes totaling around $400,000-$450,000 and gave the copies to the Trustee and let him know the bank still had a 46k CD. The bank still had additional notes on top of these. I revealed to Sommers my wife was not in bankruptcy, and he asked me to discuss my wife’s inheritance money Exh.1 p.24 Statement of Financial affairs, I explained to him to at the time everything I knew to the best of my ability. There was $46,000 most directly attributable to Susan, but he refused to recognize it ever.
I did not realize he did not want to assist me. I thought the courts would protect me from the fraudulent actions of the
bankers. Also, not all her money was listed because Rogers had told me she does not need to be on here because it is non-spousal filing. You can even see in Exh. 68, p. 30, #4 where she is asking me why I am putting my wife’s clothing down because she is not involved.
Exh 59 p.3, Lines 20-23 When Sommers asked me if I reviewed and signed my schedules, Rogers jumped in and cut me off
and stated: that is what you signed the first day in my office (that would have been Mar. 28, 2006). But that is not possible – the date on
the schedule I wrote was 3/28/06, but the one she filed was 5/3/06. I couldn’t have had a chance to go over hers. Rogers filed on May 3, 2006, and I was not there to review those schedules and don’t see how I could have signed them. As it turns out i did not sign them her paralegal did an electronic signing of my name and I am forced to deal with perjury even though the courts recognized that i did not sign them.
Exh 59 p.6 & p.18Sommers asks me about my F & S Ventures Inc. and how I arrived at the figure of $900,000 value. I told him the property was between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 and he asked if I took $2,000,000 minus $1,100,000 owed on it. I stated yes. (Actually, this was a
pre-construction appraisal and didn’t include income of $144,000 for the past year along with utilities improvements – therefore, it was worth much more. And, I had money and my time in the business that wasn’t included). I didn’t know that this was the value that would be affixed to the property. There was more to consider, but I couldn’t put all this together at the time. Now, I know why I couldn’t
explain fully – I wasn’t prepared – at all. My attorney sent me in there cold turkey with no clue how much information was needed.
She told me she couldn’t advise me on my businesses because she was a personal bankruptcy lawyer.
Rogers never intervened and this was what led to the first amended schedule Exh 2 . But, not only did Rogers omit the change instructed by the Trustee, she completely removed F & S Ventures Inc. Exh 59 p.7. Sommers starts asking for all my bank statements, Crown Financial bridge loan docs, company bank statements and other information and I did not know Rogers was to have already done that.
Nowhere on any docs had she ever ask for these. Even her initial application does not request these Exh. 68
August 2006
Attorney Craig Cowgill is hired and I do an emergency oral examination Exh. 61 p.1-8 and state what happened to put me in this position. I spent numerous hours with Craig Cowgill and his staff going over documents and trying to correct the schedules. Cowgill asked me to
bring all tax returns, bank statements, and all other documents relating to any transactions for the last several years.
Only then did I truly start to understand what Rogers did not do. Cowgill could not get the schedules correct either and I feel he was very competent and knowledgeable about the process. It was just a lot of information to go over. We amended the schedules several times trying to make them right. I thought that we were doing the proper thing.
October 2006
I am told to turn my wife’s Suburban in – I am still not sure why but the Trustee laid claim to it along with my wife’s separate monies.
Even when Susan asked about it in court, she was never given an answer. I was also accused of damaging the car. Pictures were
sent to me, and I was in trouble because they stated the car had body damage. It turned out they were referring to a photo of a weed in front of the fender that was not any damage after all. This caused a huge problem, and I was in trouble and had to appear in
the courts again for something I did not do. Then I was accused of the car being out of oil and missing floormats. I was ordered to bring to the courts - 2 or 3 quarts of oil and new floor mats.
2007
After months of harassment and enduring numerous hours and days in courts, I was told to pay Sommers $50,000. I was only able to pay
him approximately $43,000 before I was charged with fraud. But i never got credit for them taking my wifes car which put the payment well over $50,000.
So essentially the Trustee allowed the bank to trick me out of my 3.5 million storage, keep the 46k CD, ignored the notes that were transferred to Dixon Motors per the bank , take Susans car, charge me with over 100k in lawyer bills, and me to pay back 50k and never went after the creditors to seize the assets and stop all of this