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Spokane Diocese: Gloria Nagler Plan Trustee — An Appearance of Impropriety?
Tomorrow, Monday, February 22, 2010, at 1:30 pm Spokane Diocese attorney Greg Arpin will go before Judge Patricia Williams. He has been ordered to come to court to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. What did he do? He sent an email message to Gloria Nagler, the Plan Trustee of the Spokane Diocese bankruptcy. This is the bankruptcy wherein Kosnoff and Company are making millions in contingent fees in the processing of sex abuse claims. Some of the claims have just recently come in, and some of these have been approved.
Ms. Nagler has a duty to be certain that claims which are ultra vires are not paid out. She has professional liability if an ultra vires claim is paid. If a wrongful claim is paid the claims of those who are legitimately making claims will be paid less. Mr. Arpin advised her of her responsibility. She responds by getting the court to order Mr. Arpin to show cause why he should not be held in contempt and fined $10,000 (I think that was the amount.)
Kosnoff and Company make lots of money on claims paid out of the plan.
The attorney for Gloria Nagler is a Seattle attorney by the name of David S. Kerruish. I have been told by a reputable source that Mr. Kerruish may have represented a member of Kosnoff and Company on a real estate matter, his name is Michael Pfau.
It is possible that the Plan Trustee is using the same lawyer who advises a person who gains great benefit from the plan? Maybe we should all naively and hopefully say “isn’t it a small world.” But maybe we should all say a bit more. How does this sort of closeness portray the legal system in the state of Washington? It does not engender trust and respect for the system.
Of the 25,000 plus lawyers in the state could it be considered reasonable that Mr. Kerruish would be the one who would represent the Plan Trustee and also have some relationship with one of the men gaining enormous benefits from the plan and the distributions of the Plan Trustee? One’s credulity has to be a bit overtaxed on this one.