We are very near the end of the two year Billy Martin/Natura
Bankruptcy debacle. Yesterday, May 19, another hearing was held for
the attorneys to proffer their costs.
Present were 4 people from the Park, four [4] attorneys, the Federal
litigation Trustee and the Court appointed CCI Trustee.
What was to be a fairly simple procedure turned into quite something
else. Billy Martin had another pile of motions that he wanted attended
to. So they were dealt with according to his wish.
Martin first objected to a past due tax certificate that was lying
over the Park. For the five years of Billy’s non-stop Court remedies
the Park has been polarized. There is now four years of taxes due. In
this county all yearly unpaid taxes are auctioned off. One year is up
for foreclosure and Billy wanted to make sure that he was not going to
have to pay it. Apparently Martin wants the Park, for which he claims
to be the rightful owner, but wants some else to pay the taxes. His
motion was denied.
Billy’s next motion was to object to the Court appointed Trustee.
Martin wanted the Trustee removed. Billy’s first grounds were that the
Federal Court had no right to appoint the Trustee in the first place.
Billy’s second grounds were that the Trustee had damaged Natura by
committing “Gross Waste”. His third ground was that, while ole’ Billy
boi always operated in a truthful and transparent manner, the Trustee
was not open and operated in secrecy which was a violation of the
Constitution and Billys personal religious beliefs. Martin mentioned
that anything he uttered, at any time or in any place, was a protected
religious communication persuant to his religious belief's. The motion
was denied.
Billy went on to say that Natura had 30,000 electronic members. The
Judge questioned Martin about the size of his so called ministry on
the basis that Natura’s internet site, Naturist-Christians, was an
offshore entity, was not paid for by Natura, that Martin did not know
where the actual server was located, could not remember who operated
the site and that Billy had no proxy to prove that his so called group
of ‘members” even knew that he was representing them … which in any
case he would need a lawyer to do the representing, which he no longer
has. If there was some point to this information that amounted to a
motion .... the motion was denied.
NOTE: [ Did Billy not argue endlessly on rec.nude and another related
but monitored site that he/Natura was not the owner of Naturist-
Christians, Billy was just a contributor …. Yes, yes he did. [Those
contradictory entries to rec.nude have been copied and are being
provided to the Court].
The Judge then made a comment that no one cared whether Continuing
Care or any of the other Martin so called Company’s were dissolved or
not. It was quite a self righteous rant by Martin. The Judge finally
interrupted Billy and, once again, if there was motion attached tohe
rant ... the Motion was denied.
Martin responded by saying that he was filing an Appeal. The Judge
responded by saying that he welcomed a second opinion on his
decisions.
The Court then moved into the matter that was on the docket in the
first place … accepting or altering the attorney’s costs. All
presentations were accepted as submitted. Martin then jumped up and
objected to any of the attorneys being paid any money at all.
The objection seemed to be based on Martin feeling that none of the
Lawyers had done what he wanted so they should not be paid. His
objection was denied.
Then Martin demanded a special hearing to canvas his personal costs to
litigate this matter over the last to two [2] years. Billy even
mentioned he was entitled to mileage considerations. The Judge,
appearing somewhat astounded again, agreed that the Court would be
available to hear what Martin has to say and a special ½ hour hearing
to let Billy argue his point has been set for May 29, at 11:30 in the
morning.
Michael T.
www.Fairwindflakes.com