Tag: Charles A. Murray
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Bowdoin Blames Former Attorneys, ‘Single, Lone Judge’ For His Legal Predicament; ASD Patriarch Now Claims He Was ‘Crucified’ By Prosecutors, Secret Service — After Earlier Comparing Them To ‘Satan’ And The 9/11 Terrorists
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is based in part on the content of a video released last night in which AdSurfDaily President and accused Ponzi schemer Andy Bowdoin appeared. A group known as “Andy’s Fundraising Army” is seeking to raise at least $500,000 to pay for Bowdoin’s defense on criminal charges related to the alleged ASD…
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Government Scores Clean Sweep In ASD Forfeiture Litigation, But That May Not Be The Biggest News: Is A Separate Legal Drama Playing Out In Background?
UPDATED 11:57 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Federal prosecutors have won the second forfeiture case against assets tied to Florida-based AdSurfDaily, meaning the government now holds title to 100 percent of the money and assets seized in the autosurf Ponzi scheme, wire fraud and money-laundering investigation. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer issued a final order of forfeiture…
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AdSurfDaily’s Bowdoin Says He’s Appealing Forfeiture Order Issued By Federal Judge; Notice Filed 6 Days After INetGlobal Raid; Riddle Of Bowdoin’s Competing Affidavit Claims Unsolved
The president of a Florida-based autosurf company implicated in a Ponzi scheme by the U.S. Secret Service says he is appealing a forfeiture order that gave the government title to more than $65 million seized from his personal bank accounts in 2008. Notice of the appeal by Andy Bowdoin of AdSurfDaily was filed by his…
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BULLETIN: New Affidavit Filed By Andy Bowdoin Appears To Be At Odds With Claims He Made In September
A sworn affidavit filed today by AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin appears to make claims that are the polar opposite of claims he made in a sworn affidavit witnessed by a notary public and filed in federal court Sept. 15. Separately, Bowdoin’s lawyer, Charles A. Murray, filed a brief that may be the opening volley in…
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Bowdoin, Prosecutors Clash Anew In August 2008 Forfeiture Case; Dispute May Explain Government’s Announcement Last Week That Separate Case Could Be Delayed For ‘Several Months’
UPDATED 2:03 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Two attorneys for AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin are asking a federal judge to vacate orders she issued granting a default judgment to the government and granting a final order of forfeiture to tens of millions of dollars and a home seized in the case. Attorneys Charles A. Murray and Michael…
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BREAKING NEWS: Bowdoin Tries To Have Judge Collyer Disqualified; Collyer Says She Will Not Step Down From Ponzi Forfeiture Case
AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin has filed a motion to disqualify U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer from hearing the civil-forfeiture case against tens of millions of dollars seized from ASD last year. Collyer reponded by issuing an order in which she refused to disqualify herself. Collyer said Bowdoin no longer had standing in the case. “If…
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BREAKING NEWS: Bowdoin’s Attorney Files Motion To Permit New Attorney To Appear In DC Federal Court
UPDATED 7:51 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) An attorney for AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin has filed a motion to permit another attorney to appear in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the venue of the civil-forfeiture complaint against ASD’s assets. The attorney was identified as Michael R.N. McDonnell of Naples, Fla. Murray’s motion was dated…
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BREAKING NEWS: Bowdoin Attorney Says Client ‘Not Happy’; Claims Government’s Position ‘Indefensible’
UPDATED 4:58 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) ASD President Andy Bowdoin is “not happy” and recent filings by the prosecution and the U.S. Secret Service are “indefensible,” Bowdoin’s lawyer said in court filings today. Charles A. Murray, Bowdoin’s attorney, argued again that Bowdoin had been ill-served by a previous attorney when he agreed to surrender claims to…
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BREAKING NEWS: Prosecution Says Bowdoin Trying To Recontest Forfeiture So He Can Use Case As ‘Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free’ Card; Calls Bowdoin’s Assertions Against His First Lawyer ‘Insidious’ Lies; Says New Lawyer Engaging In ‘Fantasy’
UPDATED 12:38 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Andy Bowdoin is trying to lie his way back into the civil forfeiture case involving tens of millions of dollars seized from him last year and now has a lawyer engaging in “fantasy” to help his client pull it off, federal prosecutors said this morning. Meanwhile, prosecutors made a veiled…
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BULLETIN: Bowdoin Blames Lawyers, Continues To Fight
UPDATED 6:34 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin has informed a federal judge that he intends to continue to fight the civil forfeiture case. Bowdoin has filed a five-page affidavit in which he claims his defense counsel lied to him and manipulated him, prosecutors asked him “to provide statements which I did not believe…
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BREAKING NEWS: Andy Bowdoin Negotiating With Federal Prosecutors In AdSurfDaily Inc. Forfeiture Case
UPDATED 1:23 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin — through his attorney — is negotiating with federal prosecutors. Charles A. Murray, Bowdoin’s attorney, has advised U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer that the negotiations “could result in an agreement resolving the matters in dispute either in part or whole.” Prosecutors have consented to Bowdoin being…