From: GMAX Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:38 AM To: 1 iep Subject: <no subject> Ian, Ghislaine, of all people, should beware of what is found on the web... In any case, that matter was fully and completely resolved a while ago. The=case was fully withdrawn by the plaintiff party during the discovery proces=, as they found out that they did not have a case against us at all, and we=e missing some important details, like the fact that it was not me who defr=uded them, but their own internal partner. We have not had the funds to get the article removed, which requires a lawy=r to go after that site. In proper context: What you saw was a press release (based on a one-sided Court pleading, not =n any facts, and where you can make any sort of assertion). issued after a lawsuit was filed against both myself and Isabel by Ensign Consulting,=a while back concerning some very expensive antiquarian books and an origin.' iconic portrait of Sir Isaac Newton that I had purchased some time previo=sly. The suit was easily and fully resolved during the discovery period whe= I was able to prove beyond any question that one of Ensign's own consultan=s Adam Gold (mentioned in the article) and a former friend of Isabel's and rine, secretly and without our knowledge, secured a personal loan for himsel= using my own valuable books and possessions as his own collateral! This wa= an amazing thing for us to have found out, as he was a friend of ours. While I was writing Adam telling him of my my own personal business purchas=s, he secretly told Ensign Consulting (I didn't know them or have an= correspondence or dealings with them and neither did Isabel) that these pu=chases were his own purchases, and he independently got a six figure person=l loan for himself using my possessions as his collateral, completely an= utterly unknown to us. When Adam default=d on his loan to Ensign, of course, they went ballistic, and naturally went=after me, as they thought I was