Memorandum to File
RE: Petit
FROM: REP
DATE: 1-02-96
Re: Conference with Paula Silsby / Petit criminal referral
- Provide Paula with background information.
- My representation covered period from 2/82 through early part of 1985
- Outline history of her acquisition of amusement park and Old Orchard Ocean Pier and other assets in 1979.
- Represented by Bernstein Shur, mainly Herbert H. Sawyer
- Bride endorsement 1979
- Marco De Salle and Lenny Nelson ____ in April, 1979 re: ownership interest and Petit assets in return for further financing from Depositors.
- Key Bank Pepperrel Trust/Mitchel loan, September, 1982; our counterclaim, December, 1982;
- Pier construction in 1979-1980, loans from PPI/SBA
- Forclosure by Pepperrel Trust, September, 1982; our counterclaim, December 1982;
- Repossesion of amusement park by Pepperell Trust, 3-15-83
- Chapter 11 cases, 1983
- Global settlement, November 1, 1983 leaving Petit with ownership of the Pier and her 4th Avenue property in Old Orchard Beach subject to outstanding mortgages and liens.
- Initial Poazi scheme involving grocery store franchises working with Leroy Ellison, Peter Bishop and others, and also engaging in other highly speculative business ventures with Simpson, Yorks and P&M Associates, Inc.
- Major lawsuit against Bernstein Shur, Key Bank, November, 1986 with Looney & Grossman and paul Redman as Key lawyers. Poulos joins legal team in April, 1988.