DHECC - Fabworx...the plot thickens

Shortly after publishing the email chain which proves that the PSC lawyers were expediting their own claims, I stated that I believe the claim PSC attorney Calvin Fayard requested to be expedited in his email to Christine Reitano was for his cousin and business partner, Robert Maurin III.  The email chain I received had the claim # blacked out so there is no way for me to confirm who the company is but I have spoken to sources off the record who believe the claim was for Maurin's Baton Rouge based construction company, Fab-Worx.

Maurin has a large and labyrinth list of business registered on the Louisiana Secretary of State Database including businesses with both Calvin Fayard and his daughter Caroline Fayard

He was also in business with a man named Gregory M. Walker who was recently indicted by the Feds for a Louisiana motion picture tax credit scam...seems to be all the rage these days:

What's more, a company named Sodexo Operations has filed a motion to subpoena documents from Maurin for his companies:  Jamestown Gaming, LLC; Jamestown, Inc.; New Braunfels Healthcare Properties, LLC; Gulf States Meadows, LP; Gulf States Healthcare Properties of Dallas, LLC; Jamestown Healthcare Properties of Dallas, LLC; and B&G Healthcare Properties, LLC.

Essentially Sodexo is claiming Maurin has shifted finances from one LLC to another in order to hide money from a bankruptcy filing that could be used to pay back Sodexo for their monetary losses.  While Maurin has repeatedly blocked Sodexo's attempt to obtain said financial records, they claim they are privy to these financial documents under theories of "veil piercing, single business enterprise, fraud, conversion and civil conspiracy to commit same".

Calvin Fayard is not a registered agent in any of the companies named in the suit, however, Caroline Fayard is listed as a registered agent for another gambling enterprise along with Maurin, Safari Investments, Inc.

The time frame of Maurin's Gulf States Health Services (GSHS) bankruptcy is curious in respect to the claim filed by his other company Fab-Worx.  Obviously, Maurin's web of companies under GSHS were in financial distress around the time the Fab-Worx claim was submitted to the DHECC.  If Maurin was shifting money from one LLC to another, as this civil suit suggests, it could have been extremely fortuitous for him to have the Fab-Worx claim expedited ahead of everyone else in the BP settlement.

I'll be curious to see if the court does require him to produce the requested financial records and I would suggest that Sodexo counsel add Fab-Worx and Safari Investements to the list of Maurin companies listed in their motion to compel.  

Comment Bump - October 31, 2013

Kevin has left a new comment on your post "A dispatch from ghouls of Halloween past": 

I don't want to take the focus off the reprehensible conduct of Fayard and Sherman and how they may have caused more problems for the Donation than can be measured.
But, you should know Mr. Sherman's behavior extends to family members of those with whom he wants to curry favor.

Example: Just days before he and his team terminated W&W and hired the Fayards and their JV group, "Mike" and his team were busy helping Caroline Fayard, in-house counsel for the Junior League of New Orleans, get the records straight on the tax exempt status of the JLNO. Those pesky tax bills!

I've already posed the questions on here for Michael G. Sherman, but some bear repeating: 

Did Michael Sherman make any attorney or consulting fees (referral or otherwise) between January 1, 2011 and today in connection with the BP spill? 

Did Michael G. Sherman, his family or his businesses submit any personal or business claims between January 1, 2011 and today in connection with the BP spill?

Was Basile Uddo under contract to or employed by the City of New Orleans at the time he wrote the July 25, 2013 ethics opinion in connection with the JV attorneys?

Did you and anyone else do anything to constructively discharge Cathy Norman?