Westminster Hope & Turnberry

Judgment in Jonathan David Christenbury v. Keithley F.T. Lake and First Fidelity Trust Limited at the High Court of Justice of Saint Christopher and Nevis.

Judgment in Keithley Lake, Fidelity Insurance Co. Ltd., Alliance Royalties Inc., and Westminster Hope & Turnberry Ltd. v. Richard Vento, Lana Vento, Gail Vento, Renee Vento, Nicole Mollison, and First Nevis Trust Company Limited, as Trustee of Much Love International Dynasty Trust, Vita International Dynasty Trust, Loki International Dynasty Trust, and Founders International Dynasty Trust, at the Court of Appeal for Anguilla.

Writ of Summons in Richard Vento, Lana Vento, Gail Vento, Renee Vento, Nicole Mollison, Much Love International Dynasty Trust, Vita International Dynasty Trust, Loki International Dynasty Trust, Founders International DV Dynasty Trust, RVLP, LLC, NVLP, LLC, GVLP, LLC, DVLP, LLC, Total Trust Services, LLC, and Founders Nevis, LLC v. Westminster, Hope & Turnberry, Ltd., WH&T CDO, LLC, DMM LLC, and DMM Liquidation Account LLC at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

A receiver has been appointed over the assets of Anguilla-based attorney Keithley Lake by holders of a $7.4 million arbitration award who were swindled in an offshore tax planning scheme.

Sentencing Minutes & USA's Sentencing Exhibits in USA v. Duane Crithfield at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Receivership Order against Keithley Lake in Richard Vento, Lana Vento, Gail Vento, Renee Vento, Nicole Mollison, and First Nevis Trust Company Ltd., as Trustee of Much Love International Dynasty Trust, Vita International Dynasty Trust, Loki International Dynasty Trust, and Founders International DV Dynasty Trust. v. Keithley Lake, Fidelity Insurance Co. Ltd., Alliance Royalties, Inc. and Westminster, Hope & Turnberry, Ltd. at Anguilla High Court.

Notice of Filing Redacted and/or Corrected Exhibits in USA v. Duane Crithfield and Stephen Donaldson, Sr. at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Defendants' Motion to Suppress Evidence in USA v. Duane Crithfield and Stephen Donaldson, Sr. at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Anguilla High Court Judge Cheryl Mathurin has dismissed an application to enforce a $7.4 m foreign arbitration award against local attorney Keithley Lake and three offshore firms accused of swindling clients in a tax planning scheme.

Judgment dismissing application to enforce U. S. arbitration award in Richard Vento, Lana Vento, Gail Vento, Renee Vento, and Nicole Mollison v. Keithley Lake, Fidelity Insurance Company Ltd., Alliance Royalties Inc., Westminster, Hope & Turnberry Ltd. at Anguilla High Court.

Ex Parte Originating Summons by Charles J. D'Angelo seeking directions under Section 4 of the Confidential Relationships (Preservation) Law regarding a subpoena to testify in Richard G. Vento et al v. Duane Crithfield et al, filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Second Amended Complaint in David Mintjal and Therese Mintjal v. Professional Benefit Trust, Multiple Employer Welfare Benefit Plan & Trust, PBT Administration, LLC, Professional Benefit Trust, Ltd., Tracy Sunderlage, Linda Sunderlage, Sunderlage Resource Group Inc., Sunderlage Resource Group International Ltd. and Maven Assurance, Ltd. at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Nevis Court of Appeals issues bizarre ruling against Millennium Financial fraud victims and in favor of their alleged tormentor (Ian Scott, who is currently under indictment in California); in a separate action, asset planners in the US allegedly portrayed Nevis as the perfect place to hide money from creditors, according to a client who claimed to have been defrauded by those selling him the plan; The U. K. Serious Fraud Office suffers another reverse as a jury acquits former Imperial Consolidated principals Jared Brook and Lincoln Fraser on one fraud count and is undecided on another; and the SFO hopes to have better luck with recently-filed fraud charges against Terry Lindon and Giles Hutchinson, who were involved in an Imperial Consolidated spin-off known as Invaro.

First Amended Complaint in Richard G. Vento, Lana J. Vento, Gail C. Vento, Nicole M. Mollison, and Renee S. Vento v. Duane Crithfield, Stephen P. Donaldson, Keithley Lake, Alliance Holding Co., Ltd., Alliance Royalties LLC, Alliance Royalties Inc., Westminster, Hope & Turnberry LLC, Westminster, Hope & Turnberry Ltd., First Fidelity Trust Ltd., Fidelity Insurance Co. Ltd., Foster & Dunhill Ltd., Fortress Family Office Group LLC, Offshore Trust Services LLC, Citadel Insurance Co., Ltd., BPS International LLC, Waterberry Ltd., AXA Holdings Co., AP Holdings, Ltd., New Hope Holdings Ltd., Handler Thayer & Duggan, LLC, Handler Thayer, LLP, Duggan Bertsch, LLC, James M. Duggan, Thomas J. Handler, and Steven J. Thayer at the U. S. District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands.

A Kentucky-based husband-and-wife claim they were swindled after depositing US$1.9 million in an offshore tax planning and asset protection plan involving insurance, trust, and investment-management companies in Anguilla, the Bahamas, and Nevis. Dallen Wendt, 53, and his wife, Peggy Wendt, 50, were told the offshore products in which they invested during 2002 and 2003 carried "no-risk" and returned 8% and 8.5% annually, according to a complaint they filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on June 24, 2008.

A Cayman Islands-registered exempted insurer has accused a United States bank of withholding $467,582 of its funds.Star Insurance Company (Cayman) Ltd. claims to have been trying to gain access to the funds in six trust accounts at Wachovia Bank since March 4, 2003.