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U.S. Judge Orders Handover of Genocide Claim Documents
HETQ
14:29, May 4, 2011
A federal judge has ordered plaintiffs attorneys Mark Geragos and
Brian Kabateck to turn over a list of claimants and bank records
related to a $17.5 million settlement between French insurer Axa S.A.
and descendants of the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian genocide.
U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder on April 28 ordered Geragos and
Kabateck to turn over the list of claimants to the settlement board by
May 4 and bank records by May 12.
She also ordered them to submit a proposed order regarding
distribution of the funds to claimants and instructed them not to
destroy any files related to the case.
The order came after Vartkes Yeghiayan, former co-counsel to Geragos
and Kabateck, raised concerns about how the Axa settlement money has
been dispersed.
Geragos and Kabateck have raised similar concerns about a charitable
organization that Yeghiayan designated to receive some of the Axa
funds, and filed suit on March 11 claiming that he concocted that
institution, as well as another in a similar case, to pocket $1
million for himself.
From: A. Papazian
HETQ
14:29, May 4, 2011
A federal judge has ordered plaintiffs attorneys Mark Geragos and
Brian Kabateck to turn over a list of claimants and bank records
related to a $17.5 million settlement between French insurer Axa S.A.
and descendants of the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian genocide.
U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder on April 28 ordered Geragos and
Kabateck to turn over the list of claimants to the settlement board by
May 4 and bank records by May 12.
She also ordered them to submit a proposed order regarding
distribution of the funds to claimants and instructed them not to
destroy any files related to the case.
The order came after Vartkes Yeghiayan, former co-counsel to Geragos
and Kabateck, raised concerns about how the Axa settlement money has
been dispersed.
Geragos and Kabateck have raised similar concerns about a charitable
organization that Yeghiayan designated to receive some of the Axa
funds, and filed suit on March 11 claiming that he concocted that
institution, as well as another in a similar case, to pocket $1
million for himself.
From: A. Papazian