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Picardsterlingletter.Pdf Get Morning Home Delivery of the Daily News for up to 70% off. Call (888) 393-3760 manufactured a flawed legal theory for the "empty Lawyers for Mets suit" he filed in December against Fred and Jeff Wilpon and Saul Katz, lawyers for the Mets' owners told the Daily News, and has unfairly portrayed them owners fire back at as crooks and thieves. Madoff trustee, call David Caplan of Davis Polk Wardwell LLP told The News Wednesday that the suit filed in December lawsuit against Fred, against the Wilpons and Fred Wilpon's brother-in law Saul Katz by Madoff trustee Irving Picard is a Jeff Wilpon 'empty' "strong-arm" attempt to squeeze hundreds of millions of dollars out of Sterling Equities, the firm controlled by Fred Wilpon and Katz. BY Teri Thompson AND Michael O'Keeffe "We believe the complaint is baseless, both factually DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITERS and legally," Caplan said. "We have conveyed that to the trustee's counsel. Fred Wilpon, Saul and the Originally Published:Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, other partners did not know that Bernie Madoff was 8:10 PM running a Ponzi scheme." Updated: Thursday, February 3rd 2011, 12:27 AM Caplan and another attorney from his firm, Karen Wagner, were responding to reports in The New York Times the last few days that they believe were the result of leaks by Picard's office of the contents of the sealed lawsuit. The Times and other news outlets have filed a motion to unseal the suit and both sides filed briefs on the matter on Monday. The Times' reports have portrayed Wilpon and Katz as close friends and associates of Madoff and suggested that they knew or should have known about the massive fraud. The reports, which claim Picard could seek up to $1 billion from the Wilpons and Katz, have also said t hat Madoff played a wide role in the Mets' finances, an allegation sources close to the Wilpons believe is designed to coerce Fred Wilpon and his son, Jeff, Theodorakis/NewsLegal representatives for Mets owner Fred Wilpon say any rumblings that Wilpon had the team's COO, into an unfair settlement. advanced knowledge of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme are completely unfounded. "This is total extortion," said the source. The reports suggest that many of the accounts that The trustee representing Bernie Madoff's victims Advertisement Get Morning Home Delivery of the Daily News for up to 70% off. Call (888) 393-3760 appear in the lawsuit are Mets accounts and may be related to Madoff investments. The News reported Sunday that some deferred money from player contracts may have been invested with Madoff but that those deferred payments are not in jeopardy and have not been associated with Madoff accounts for several years. Major League Baseball requires an accounting by each team of its total deferred compensation in July of each year and the Mets have satisfied that requirement, according to a baseball source familiar with deferred money issues. "Their accounts are segregated," said the source. "They're 100% clear." According to another baseball source, it is not unusual for a team to invest deferred compensation. On Friday, the team announced that it was seeking an investor to put in 20%-25% of the team's value but said that it would not include its cable TV network in that offering. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night that the Mets would consider selling a portion of the network to attract an investor, a possible indication that the lawsuit and the reports of its contents were affecting the Wilpons' ability to attract investors. The team had been quietly trying to line up an investor before reports of the contents of the lawsuit were made public. Advertisement Lawyers: Sterling Defendants Don't Owe Madoff Trustee Money DARREN ROVELL, SPORTSBIZ, SPORTS, CNBC, CNBC.COM, BLOG, SPORTS BUSINESS, LAWS, LEGISLATION, REGULATION, MADOFF, METS OWNERSHIP, BASEBALL, BOBBY BONILLA Posted By: Darren Rovell | CNBC Sports Business Reporter cnbc.com | 03 Feb 2011 | 12:23 AM ET Lawyers representing Sterling Equities, whose principals Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz also own the New York Mets, said Wednesday that the lawsuit that is being built against their clients by Madoff bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard is without merit. The attorneys, David Caplan and Karen Wagner, from the law firm at Davis Polk & Wardwell, told CNBC that Wilpon and Katz knew nothing of Madoff's $65 billion scheme, as it has been alleged. Caplan and Wagner also say that more than 700,000 pages they turned over to Picard failed to show a connection. Picard has filed hundreds of lawsuits against banks and investors who profited off Madoff's made up numbers. He has so far recovered almost $10 billion in these so-called clawback suits. But Sterling Equities, Wilpon and Katz, who had many accounts with Madoff and referred others to him, don't owe any money, Caplan and Wagner told CNBC on Wednesday. "The customer of the broker is not subject to clawbacks, even if the broker has engaged in fraud," Wagner said. "Since customers no longer hold physical securities, they rely on the broker to provide them with accurate account statements. The law is clear, even inside of bankruptcy, that the statement provided to the customer constitutes a legal obligation of the broker to pay that amount." Wagner says that even if it turns out that the money isn't being really earned, as was the case in the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the customer is still owed the amount that the broker said the customer was due and has the right to withdraw whatever is reflected in the statement. Mets LLP, owned by the defendants, reportedly profited off its Madoff accounts. The bankruptcy case before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is currently sealed, revolves around the definition of net equity. In other words, in this particular case, is a client owed what he or she has really earned or what Madoff said they had earned? So called net winners argue, like Sterling Equities, that they are owed what Madoff said they made even if those accounts turned out to be ficticious. Other ponzi schemes have resulted in clawbacks, but Wagner said that they are argue that those ponzi schemes involved being an equity investor in a product. That wasn't the case here, they say, because Madoff was a registered broker and the account statements are legal obligations that the broker promises to the customer. Due in part to the negotiations with Picard, the Mets ownership held a press conference earlier this week to announce that they would be exploring taking on minority partners and would be willing to sell up to 25 percent of the team. The team hired Allen & Company to reach out to potential investors. Sources close to the situation say that the Mets ownership believes that they can sell a minority piece without giving up the rights to own a majority share of the team in the future. Sources also say that it's not necessarily a fait accompli that the team will take on new partners if another form of financing can be found. A story by the New York Times that was published on Tuesday suggested that the Mets ownership sometimes put money that was owed to players in future years into Madoff's fund to grow until the deferred payments were due. That is inaccurate, a source close to the team, said. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that teams defer money to save money. If the Mets had all the money to put into the account, they would have simply paid the player at the time he signed the contract. The Times also reported that players, Bobby Bonilla was the only one specifically named, would sometimes agree to put the entire money owed to them into the account so that the Mets could win on Madoff's returns and easily pay off the interest when it came time to pay the player. If that were the case, Bonilla would have lost the $30 million owed to him as a result of Madoff's downfall. Bonilla was due to be paid $1.2 million a year from 2011 to 2035. Bonila's agent Jeff Borris declined to comment. Sources close to the situation also said that the entire principal of the deferment was not invested in the Madoff accounts. Questions? Comments? [email protected] © 2011 CNBC, Inc. All Rights Reserved URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/41400668/ . © 2011 CNBC.com .
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