Fraudulent Filing
First Fraudulent Chapter 11 Filing: Non existent corporation, and no tax id#
Second Fraudulent Chapter 11 Filing:
Tax id # of a different corporation.
This case deals with a conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud by a wealthy real
estate developer, Jack Lefkowitz, a Rabbi; Abraham C Steinwurzel, their legal counsel, Backenroth, Frankel &
Krinsky, LLP; (BFK) and other John & Jane Doe persons, known and unknown to creditor, Helen-May Holdings, LLC. (HMH)
Together, they have conspired in the voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy cases listed above. A tax exempt religious corporation, Kolel
Mateh Efraim, (with Abraham C Steinwurzel as its trustee) and a purposefully created shell corporation: Mateh Ephraim, LLC;
a/k/a Kollel, Mateh Efraim, LLC; (with Jack Lefkowitz as its managing member) entered into a conspiracy to defraud a senior
citizen couple, (and the only non-insider creditor, Irene Griffin and husband, Paul Griffin) of their life savings. Together with
selective funding from Maskil El Dal, Inc., a tax exempt corporation, incorporated in the state of New York, with its
headquarters in Jerusalem, Israel...this is yet another alter ego of the debtor and of which he stated that he is a trustee. (Lacking
Attorney General approval as required by law, a document transferring title of a property owned by a non-profit corporation, Maskil
El Dal, Inc. of 1526 52nd Street Brooklyn, NY was made to Bluma Lefkowitz, (his wife) of 1526 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY .) Lefkowitz
and Steinwurzel have conspired to abuse and manipulate the bankruptcy system in order to fraudulently occupy, and wrest ownership
of the creditor's resort property. in the town of Cochecton, Sullivan County, New York. During the four years of a bankruptcy
stay, that denied the creditor's, Paul & Irene Griffin access to their own property, the debtor continued to subvert the course
of the proceedings, while managing to distract the court from the basic issues of their bankruptcy. Their strategy has been one
of legal gamesmanship:
Their bankruptcy filing was legally flawed from the very beginning, (so they filed another! and another!) and amazingly, they still managed to distract the court's attention from any, and all of their legal impediments. They filed under several similar, but different corporate aliases in an attempt to confuse the identity of the true debtor, and to shelter the tax exempt religious corporation from breaches and violations. It is important to understand that by filing in the name of a non-existent entity, the debtor was free to commit all manner of fraud with impunity since it does not legally exist! The court was served with documentary evidence of this in December of 2004, but chose to overlook this fundamental fraud. At court hearings they claimed not to have any money, while they provisioned for, and populated the resort property with "hundreds of paying guests!" Indeed, in their first two months of occupancy, they reported taking in over $300,000.00. Yet, the debtor's bankruptcy schedules are wholly, and fraudulently vacuous. However, bankruptcy fraud is rarely committed in a vacuum, and this case is not lacking for conspirators. Most notably the debtor's legal counsel of Backenroth, Frankel and Krinsky LLP has knowingly and willingly conspired in this sanctionable dance of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. (RICO)