General Update – Feb 9, 2022

On Jan 5, 2015 DP Schiemann misled the public by declaring a “sufficient cash flow shortage” as opposed to "we took your money, put it in some speculative real estate / business ventures, told everyone their money was safe, and then we ran out of depositor funds." Today my webpage monitoring software "bing"ed to let...

DIL Representative Action Update – 2022-01-05

The following update was just posted to the Sugden McFee & Roos LLP webpage. Update: December 8, 2021 NOTICE OF PARTIAL SETTLEMENT APPROVAL A Partial Settlement has been approved by the Court Sugden McFee & Roos LLP, Class Counsel for the DIL Representative Action Class Members, is pleased to advise that Mr. Justice Rooke ACJ...

CEF/DIL Updates – Oct 27, 2021

Hi Gang - Yes, I've been gone for a bit. Repeatedly pointing out LCC's ongoing and unrepentant bad behavior has gotten rather tedious so I've been working on other things. However - when news like this comes up, I had to fire up the old editor to get the word out. First - Sage Properties...

A Refresh on CEF, DIL, SVM, and Related Matters

With COVID 19 making a mess of things, the long delay since we'd last heard from Deloitte Restructuring, Sage, and KPMG, along with some accidental comments on past articles pertaining to "where are things" and "I've waited long enough for my money", I thought it'd be a good time for a refresh on where everything...

CEF/DIL: Monitor’s 38th Report – Update

In my prior post "CEF/DIL: Monitor's 38th Report" I surmised that this report pertained to an upcoming court case. I now believe that analysis is inaccurate because if you look at the report, it's dated Nov 26, 2019. My guess is that this report was originally generated and submitted to the Court last fall /...

CEF/DIL: Monitor’s 38th Report

Just when I turned in for the night, my alerting system told me Deloitte'd published their 38th report to their website.  This report was created to support a forthcoming application to the Court, as I'd discussed in "CEF: Deloitte Calling!" This report pertains to the Representative Actions and not a future distribution. Hopefully that'll appear...

The LCC / ASC Settlement and the Cost of Litigation

In the article My Response to the ABC District BOD Letter Regarding the ASC Settlement / Part 2 of 3 I posited some cost/benefit reasons why ABC District et al decided to settle vs going to trial. Recently I came across a video blog by David Freiheit - a Quebec based lawyer that does video blogs...

CEF: Update from Deloitte

Recently "Repicheep" on the CEF Investor's Forum asked Deloitte where things were given that the parsonage lot and the Tuscany properties since both been sold and the funds were still waiting to be distributed. Joseph Sithole at Deloitte responded as follows: The Alberta securities commission settlement is the reason why the final distribution has been delayed....