HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-20-09 (2)IN RE: ESTATE OF ROBERT M. : IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF
MUMMA, deceased :CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
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AUDITOR S INTERIM REPORT, October 19, 2009 AND REQUEST FO~I~~~tDF~ .,
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To the Honorable J. Wesley Oler, Jr.: .~ ,~, - ~ ~ ?
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Your Honor has appointed me Auditor in the above captioned matter and charged me
with reviewing the existing file and a multitude of prehearing issues raised by the parties and to
schedule and hold a hearing as soon as scheduling permitted. Ten days of hearings have been
held and five days of hearings are scheduled for October 26-30, 2009.
On September 11, 2009 Objector, Robert M. Mumma II, filed a Motion to Compel
Compliance with the Auditor's Ruling Regarding the Rule 243.3 Notice to Produce Issued to the
Executors/Trustees in this matter. Thereafter on September 16, 2009, Your Honor, ordered a
Rule be issued upon all interested parties to show cause why the relief should not be granted.
Thereafter the parties responded.
Prior to the August 3, 2009 auditor's hearing, Mr. Mumma served a Notice to produce on
one of the Executrices/Trustees, Lisa Morgan. These documents included:
A. A copy of the post-nuptual agreement between Barbara McKimmie Mumma
and the Decedent.
B. A copy of the Union Quarries consent agreement with the U.S. Justice
Department.
C. A copy of any correspondence between Mr. Boswell and the Decedent
regarding High-Spec, Inc.
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D. A copy of any correspondence between Mr. Boswell, the Co-Executrices/Co-
Trustees, and David Brown regarding High Spec, Inc. and Dauphin Deposit
purchase of the Dauphin Building.
E. A copy of the Dauphin Deposit loan documents pertaining to the 1985
transaction of approximately $184,13 5.34 between High Spec, Inc. and Kim
Company.
During the August 3, 2009 hearing the parties argued the merits of the Notice undersigned
directed the Executrice/Trustee to produce the some of the requested documents, but only if the
Estate had possession of the documents. The undersigned informed the Estate that they would
have two months until the next hearing dates to produce any documents which were found to be
in the Estate's possession (See attached Notes of Testimony pages 1483-1506). On September
30, 2009, the Executrices/Trustees filed a response to Mr. Mumma's Motion to Compel verifying
that after a reasonable search that the documents requested by Mr. Mumma were not in the
possession of the Estate or that any such documents could be located.
In so much as the undersigned had given the Estate two months to attempt to locate the
documents desired by Mr. Mumma, even though the Estate argued that some of the documents
may not have existed, the if they existed they were formerly provided or made available to Mr.
Mumma during discovery, or not in its possession or control; and given the Estate has verified
that it has made a good faith effort to determine whether it had the requested documents, the
undersigned believes the Estate has not violate the undersigns former ruling.
Thus, I recommend that the Motion to Compel Compliance with the Auditor's Ruling
Regarding the Rule 243.3 Notice to Produce Issued to the Executors/Trustees be denied.
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I recommend that if your Honor agrees with my recommendations, you enter an Order
accordingly and I have attached a recommended order to accomplish the same.
Respectfully submitted,
e h D. uckle squire, Auditor
Supreme Court ID# 3 8444
1237 Holly Pike
Carlisle, PA 17013
(717) 249-2448
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office received recently on a request to the
executrices?
MR. MTJMMA: Correct .
THE AUDITOR: And when did you send that
out?
MR. MUMMA: It's dated July 28. I'm sorry
for the late sending of it, but I believe we requested
all of this information back in the last hearing.
MR. GREEN: I'm not aware of any of that,
but I certainly don't recall having been requested to
provide a copy, for example, of the Union Quarries
consent agreement to the Justice Department. I don't
know what its relevance possibly could be.
THE AUDITOR: Again, I saw that as well,
and didn't you obtain these items during discovery?
MR. MUMMA: No. There was no discovery.
They have at all times refused to provide any
documents to anybody. There was no correspondence.
None of the Union Quarries stuff has ever been
determined.
MR. GREEN: This matter -- I mean, when he
talks about the consent decree, this goes back years
before Mr. Mumma's death. That's why I question the
relevance. I will say that I have no awareness and I
don't believe there ever was a postnuptial agreement
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between Mrs. Mumma and her husband.
MR. MUMMA: The postnuptial is specifically
listed in their own billing records.
THE AUDITOR: Did you request a postnuptial
agreement during discovery?
MR. MUMMA: No, not during discovery
because we didn't know about it. Remember, the
postnuptial agreement first surfaced when they turned
over the last batch of billing records, the first time
it was ever mentioned to anybody. It was in that
packet of the first 15 pages of redacted billing
records that they turned over.
MR. GREEN: We have produced, Mr. Buckley,
the documentation which shows that postnuptial
agreements were discussed and evaluated with respect
to the children of Robert Mumma after his death. The
billing records that Mr. Mumma is talking about don't
say it's a postnuptial agreement between Mrs. Mumma
and her husband.
That's what he wants to believe it says,
but it doesn't say that. The billing records don't
say that. We have produced those documents which
pertain to the discussion of postnuptial agreements
that were part of the estate planning and estate
administration following Mr. Mumma's death.
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That's what we have, and that's what the
record says.
MR. MtJMMA: That's not fair because we
don't know that. That's his representation. He
hasn't put anybody on to say what they were reviewing.
That's Mr. Green's representation. I want to see the
documents they're claiming they were reviewing on that
day -- that's all I'm asking for -- rather than have
him testify to something he knows nothing about other
than, oh, well, I' 11 just tell him what was these
other documents.
THE AUDITOR: Well, again, Mr. Mumma, I
looked at the billing records as well, and those
billing records don't say anything was prepared.
You're going on a -- you're asking them if --
MR. MLTMMA: Let's see what they were
studying; that's all I'm asking.
THE AUDITOR: Well, you're asking them to
produce something that you don't even know exists.
MR. MUMMA: It says it exists. It said
they were billing the Estate for reviewing a
postnuptial agreement. Where is it?
THE AUDITOR: Copy of Union Quarries
consent agreement with Justice Department. What does
that have to do with this matter?
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MR. MLTMMA: Well, don' t you think that
would have a lot to do with valuation of the Union
Quarry stock?
THE AUDITOR: I'm saying, what relevance do
you have, not what do I think. What does that have to
do with your matter?
MR. MUMMA: Right there. That consent
agreement could have all kinds of implications for
Union Quarries, Kim Company and the shareholders.
THE AUDITOR: And why would you not have
requested that during discovery?
MR. MLTMMA: Didn't know about it.
THE AUDITOR: You did not know about it?
MR. MUMMA: I found out about it reading a
footnote in an accountant's report.
THE AUDITOR: You're saying when you were
with --
MR. MUMMA: I was involved in that lawsuit
and I didn't know about the consent agreement. I was
sued as a director of Union Quarries, and I was not
told that they had entered into a consent agreement.
THE AUDITOR: And when was this?
MR. MLTMMA: That was in 1982.
THE AUDITOR: Again, I don't see any
relevance.
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MR. MUMMA: That's the relevance right
there; concealment.
THE AUDITOR: Okay. Your father concealed
this -- are you saying your father concealed that from
you?
MR. MtTMMA: He and Max Hempt concealed that
they had entered into a consent decree. A consent
decree implies something was done wrong and that they
have agreed with the government to take certain steps,
and I want to know what that was.
THE AUDITOR: Again, sir, what does that
have to do with the executors in this case, something
that your father failed to tell you in 1982, what does
that have to do with anything?
MR. MLTMMA: Depends on the terms of the
agreement.
THE AUDITOR: You tell me what that has --
MR. MLTMMA: What if that agreement says
that they're not allowed to --
THE AUDITOR: It doesn't matter what it
says. Why is that --
MR. MLTMMA: Because it goes to the value of
the stock of Union Quarries.
THE AUDITOR: And why would that have any
effect on this matter?
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MR. MtFMMA: Because it obviously restricts
what Union Quarries was doing.
THE AUDITOR: Again, what does that have to
do with this case?
MR. MLJMMA: Because -- I hate to get upset.
But, you know, it's so clear it has everything to do
with it. What if it says Union Quarries is going to
go out of business or going to be sold or going to pay
half-a-million-dollar fine over a certain period of
time?
THE AUDITOR: And?
MR. MUMMA: That affects the value of Union
Quarry stock.
THE AUDITOR: How does that affect it?
MR. MUMNIA: Well, if they got a $500, 000
fine that they have to pay the United States
Government, that would be 500,000 diminution to the
value of the stock in Union Quarries.
THE AUDITOR: In 1982. What does that have
to do with anything --
MR. MLTMMA: Maybe it's payable in the
future.
THE AUDITOR: What does that have to do
with anything --
MR . MLTMMA
It has to do with the
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value -- again, this is absurd.
THE AUDITOR: Sir, you're the one bringing
this up.
MR. MUMMA: Mr. Buckley, you know, you're
wasting my time and everybody else's time. It's
absurd to believe that a consent agreement has nothing
to do with the value of the underlying corporation.
Even my father agreed to pay the fine.
We don't know what it says. They don't
want anybody to see it, though. They've been hiding
it for all these years and don't want anybody to see
this. Another thing is, if there is an admission, if
there is --
THE AUDITOR: Mr. Mumma, stop right there.
MR. MLTMMA: Excuse me --
THE AUDITOR: No. You stop right there.
You stop. You are representing yourself in front of
me, okay? You don't have to walk around. You're
here. You answer my questions. You don't have to act
like that, okay? Just calm down.
MR. MLTMMA: No. The record that you're
trying to promote here is the one that you all could
match the decision that you and Judge Oler have
already decided. That's all it is. Anything that
goes into the record that's against that decision is
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not going to be allowed. It's clear to me that a
consent decree on a corporation that's making
$300,000,000 a year is an important issue. And it's
also clear to me that the fact that they were engaged
in some kind of an illegal activity -- well, it was an
illegal activity or the U.S. Department of Justice
wouldn't have been involved.
THE AUDITOR: Again, sir --
MR. MtTMMA: That they were engaged in
illegal activity that caused me to be drawn into a
anti-trust suit that cost me over $750,000
individually, much less what it cost the other
shareholders of Union Quarries is an important event.
THE AUDITOR: Mr. Mumma, are you saying
that you had an attorney and you were incurring costs
during this thing with the Department of Justice yet
you knew nothing about it?
MR. MtTMMA: There was an anti-trust suit, a
civil action brought by RSE, River Sons Enterprises.
It was held in front of Sylvia Rambo. It took eight
months to try the case, and the procedure lasted from
1977 to 1982.
Because I was a director of Union Quarries,
I was brought into that action, and it cost me over
$750,000 in legal fees alone to defend myself.
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THE AUDITOR: Now, and you're saying,
you're representing to me that your attorneys never
gave you copies of any documents that you paid
$750,000 for representation?
MR. MUMMA: I never said my attorneys never
gave me any copies of any documents.
THE AUDITOR: So you don't have a copy of
this consent decree?
MR. MtTMMA: I wasn't even aware of the
consent agreement. And I not only don't have a copy
of it, I didn't even know about it.
THE AUDITOR: You're saying you were a
named person and the Federal Court didn't give you a
copy of a consent decree?
MR. MUNIl~IA: That's exactly what I'm saying.
And not only that, we have to make a decision --
THE AUDITOR: Who were your attorneys, sir?
MR. MLTMMA: William D. Boswell and Richard
Franch (phonetic) .
THE AUDITOR: And did you seek a copy of
this from your attorneys?
MR. MLTMMA: I have yet to see it.
THE AUDITOR: No. Did you see it? Did you
ask them for a copy of it?
MR. MLTMMA: I didn't. I'm sorry, but I
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just said that five times; I didn't know about it.
MR. GREEN: But even to back up, I mean,
clearly it's entirely hypothetical this has anything
to do with anything. There's no evidence that the
executrices or any advisers, that this factored into
any decision-making, that"it played any role.
Mr. Mumma's extremely vague about what
footnote he saw this reference in or when the document
that he's referring to came into his possession. And
none of it could possibly tie to the administration of
the Estate which didn't occur until years after the
events that he's describing.
MR. MUMMA: That's not true. It could very
much be the whole reason that they decided to sell the
companies because they were guilty of illegal
activity.
I mean, once they sign that consent decree,
that opens up a Pandora's box where anybody else that
may have been in a position to file a suit against the
corporation or the Estate for their actions.
MR. GREEN: Well, I'll make it simple:
Union Quarries has never been sold so it couldn't have
been a motive to sell the Union Quarries stock. Union
Quarries wasn't sold to CRH, so I don't understand how
that this has anything to do with anything. It
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couldn't have been a motive to sell the business
because it wasn't among the assets that were sold.
THE AUDITOR: Ms. Mumma?
MS. MUMMA: Mr. Buckley, my Union Quarries
stock, I was told by Morgan Lewis, had to go into a
block of stock that would be controlled by the Estate.
Morgan Lewis presented to me that I needed to move my
stock.
So I'm kind of -= I mean, this is a first
time I've heard this, but I'm kind of concurring as a
stockholder that if I was given information by Morgan
Lewis advised to do something --
THE AUDITOR: Again, I don't know
what -- that's testimony.
MS . MLTMMA : I' m s o r r y.
THE AUDITOR: That's okay. I'll reserve
that.
MS. MUMMA: But I was a shareholder. I no
longer am. The Estate took my stock.
THE AUDITOR: Next thing, Mr. Mumma, you
want is a copy of correspondence between Mr. Boswell
and the decedent regarding High-Spec, Inc. Again, why
would you not have gotten that during any discovery
and then made a motion relative to that during your
discovery?
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MR. MUMMA: I made a motion in front of
Taylor Andrews. He never responded to the motion.
Those motions were turned over to you for your
decision.
THE AUDITOR: Which motion was that, sir?
MR. GREEN: I would just note that these
High-Spec documents are being sought in connection
with Mr. Mumma's ongoing litigation in Florida with
High-Spec, the ongoing shareholders' derivative
action?
They're also the subject of a federal
action he filed before Judge Rambo in which Judge
Rambo has now ruled. I mean, this is just Judge Rambo
says you can't get it so you come here and ask for it.
I don't know how we can possibly respond to these --
MR. MtTMMA: I don't know what he's talking
about when he says Judge Rambo.
MR. GREEN: I'm sorry. The High-Spec is
the Florida action.
THE AUDITOR: Is this the case that was
down in Florida that the Florida courts --
MR. MUMMA: It's a case that's right here
too in front of you.
THE AUDITOR: Well, no. Is this the case
that the Florida courts .ruled upon, you appealed it up
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and they made a ruling on that?
MR. MtTMMA: The only ruling that they made
was I asked for an injunction to keep them from
claiming that they were shareholders until this Court
made its decision on the probate.
Of course, they spun that all around to,
well, we made a filing that said this is the only
court of jurisdiction. And the Superior Court said,
no, that's not true, it could be another court.
But this is the court they chose, probate
court; they put the High-Spec stock in for probate
here. That's what the testimony of Joc O'Connor was;
this is the court that has jurisdiction to decide who
owns the High-Spec stock.
MR. GREEN: Mr. Mumma also has a lawsuit on
that topic that's pending in this court or up at the
Superior Court. I don't know the exact status of it
because our firm hasn't been involved in it.
But the whole High-Spec, the shareholders'
agreement, the inner-relationship with the Florida
litigation has been to the Superior Court. It's
another example of we just never make any progress
because we keep arguing the same issues over and over
again.
MR. MLTMMA: Mr. Buckley, the High-Spec
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stock is clearly listed as an asset of this estate.
It's listed in the inventory. I'm saying it doesn't
belong in that inventory.
'1'H~ AUDITOR: Is there correspondence
between Boswell and the decedent regarding High-Spec,
Inc.?
MR. MUMMA: Yes; from his billing records
there's substantial correspondence.
MR. GREEN: I have no idea whether that's
true.
MR. MLTMMA: He sent the shareholders'
agreement to my father.
MR. GREEN: And he also executed an
affidavit which Mr. Mumma showed his expert that said,
from Mr. Boswell, that the agreement had never been
signed, which is contrary to the argument that
Mr. Mumma continues to make.
MR. MITMMA: Mr. Boswell wouldn't know
whether or not my father and I signed the agreement in
the vault at Dauphin Deposit Bank. He wouldn't know
that.
THE AUDITOR: Again, does this go back to
that agreement that you do or don't have?
MR. MUNIl~IA: I don't have it. They stole
it.
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THE AUDITOR: Well, I understand you're
saying that someone, that it doesn't exist now. Are
you going to get some evidence on the record regarding
this information rather than argument? I mean, you
argue things, but I have not seen any evidence.
MR. MLTMMA: That's the whole purpose of
this. You're asking me to produce evidence that my
father received a shareholders' agreement from William
D. Boswell.
THE AUDITOR: No. Yeah, that's your claim
that he did do it, so where's the evidence that he did
MR. MUMMA: Yeah. And then when I say if
Mr. Boswell sent him this correspondence, I need to
see that correspondence, I want to see that
correspondence file, they say, hey, if we can keep him
from getting to the file, then he won't have the
evidence to put in front of the Court. That's why
they don't want to see any of this.
MR. GREEN: I'm so hard-pressed to
understand why in litigation among the shareholders of
this corporation in Florida since 1989 this hasn't
been requested, decided, or why this isn't res
judicata as a matter of -- I mean, if it was an issue
in the Florida case, how are we --
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MR. MLTMMA: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
This man right over here, Joc O'Connor, testified he
was running this estate, he testified that the
jurisdiction is in this court right here.
THE AUDITOR: I'm just asking you -- I
don't care what Mr. O'Connor -- do you want to come
back up here to hear me?
MR . MtTMMA : I j u s t want - -
THE AUDITOR: I don't care what he said
there; that doesn't matter. My question to you is, in
of this other litigation that you had, did you not
request it and get this information from Mr. Boswell?
MR. MLTMMA: My attorney, my attorney and
Mr. Boswell were in the courthouse in Florida, and the
attorney, in the opening arguments somewhere in the
beginning of this trial, said, Your Honor, there's a
shareholders' agreement.
Their attorney got up and objected to any
evidence being put on about a shareholders' agreement.
And the judge in Florida said, we're not here to hear
that, that's not part of this case and I'm not going
to hear it.
THE AUDITOR: I'm going to stop you right
there. Refresh my recollection as to why the
existence of that agreement is important to me.
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MR. MUMMA: Because that agreement says
upon his death, my father had to put, it was a put
agreement, that if a shareholder died, they had to put
their stock back to the corporation.
THE AUDITOR: Okay. And you signed that?
MR . MUNIl~IA : Yes .
THE AUDITOR: Where's your copy?
MR. MtTMMA: In the safety deposit box.
There was only one signed copy.
THE AUDITOR: Okay. That's your -- then
we're back to this agreement that may or may not have
existed.
MR. MUMMA: Well, we clearly have --
THE AUDITOR: Okay. Here's what I'm going
to say --
MR. MUMMA: There's no question the
agreement --
THE AUDITOR: I've heard enough.
MR. MUMMA: They'll stipulate the agreement
existed. Whether it was signed or not is their issue.
THE AUDITOR: Are you finished speaking,
sir? May I speak?
MR. MUNlNIA: Certainly.
THE AUDITOR: Thank you. Okay. On the
correspondence between Boswell and decedent, in so
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much as you have the copies, I want them, okay, on the
High-Spec. I want to see if any of those documents
say, Dear Mr. Mumma, Dear Client, enclosed is a copy
of the agreement you requested me to draft, please
execute the same, whatever, because it would -- I
mean, if he did do that, I want it if you have them.
MR. GREEN: All we can do is look.
MR. MLTMMA: What about the other
correspondence?
THE AUDITOR: Other correspondence for
what, sir?
MR. MtTMMA: There are letters from Boswell
directly to my father that I was not copied on
regarding High-Spec.
THE AUDITOR: I thought the agreement was
what you were after.
MR. MLTMMA: No. I'm saying all
correspondence regarding High-Spec.
THE AUDITOR: For what purpose before me?
I mean, I understand you might want that for other
purposes, but I don't see what that has to do with our
case.
MR. MUMMA: You know, I think I'm entitled
to it as a beneficiary of the Estate.
THE AUDITOR: But you're -- that was
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between -- I don't think that has anything to do with
the Estate because those are documents between your
dad, when he was living, and his attorney. If the
Estate has it, they have it; if they don't have it,
they don't have it.
MR . MUN.~IA: Mr . Boswell was also my
attorney. He was the corporate attorney.
THE AUDITOR: That's something you take up
with Mr. Boswell.
MR. MUMMA: Mr. Boswel l's dead.
MR. GREEN: Mr. Mumma deposed Mr. Boswell
numerous times.
THE AUDITOR: All I'm saying is if you have
it, I want to see it, correspondence between
Mr. Boswell and the coexecutors of the Estate and
Mr. Brown regarding High-Spec and Dauphin Deposit,
purchase of Dauphin Deposit building, and why haven't
we exchanged those before; if they exist, why haven't
they been given.
MR. GREEN: I don't know that they haven't.
I don't know if they exist. I mean, I guess I'm
somewhat at a loss when these things come up because
we have produced well over a hundred thousand pages of
documents. So it's a little hard to stand here and
then try to explain what was and wasn't produced.
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We did make a number of objections and so forth. I
mean, if you believe that this is something we should
produce, all we can do is take a look and see what we
find.
THE AUDITOR: Are you stating, Mr. Mumma,
these were not in all the things that they produced
before?
MR. MLTMMA: No, they were not .
THE AUDITOR: And can you identify them
with specificity as to what you need, I mean, so they
can find --
MR. MtTMM~: I don't know specifically what
letters or what those letters said to Mr. Boswell.
THE AUDITOR: But there were letters
between Mr. Boswell and the executrices?
MR. MUMMA: Yes.
THE AUDITOR: And Mr. Brown?
MR . MUI~~ : Yes .
THE AUDITOR: How do you know they exist?
MR. MLTMMA: From Mr. Boswell's billing
records and from conversations I had with Mr. Boswell.
Mr. Boswell, on behalf of High-Spec, sought to enforce
the terms of the shareholders' agreement, which is a
very important point because Judge Guido, not knowing
that, ruled that I had waived my ability to enforce
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the shareholders' agreement.
THE AUDITOR: And what's the copy of the
Dauphin Deposit loan documents, what's that have to do
with --
MR. MtTMMA: Because I went to Dauphin
Deposit Bank and I borrowed the $184,000 that Kim
Company used to benefit High-Spec, and Kim Company
received a note for $184,000 in exchange for the Rax
Roast Beef property.
THE AUDITOR: Okay. And why don't you have
the copies of those documents then if it was your
loan? Where are your copies?
MR. MtTMMA: It was Kim Company's loan. I
went on behalf of Kim Company as a vice president.
THE AUDITOR: And where are your copies?
MR. MLIMMA: They're Kim Company's copies.
MR. GREEN: This was the subject of the
lawsuit before Judge Rambo where Mr. Mumma sought from
Kim Company these documents. And an Order has been
entered, as far as I know, on that.
MR. MUMMA: And they haven't complied with
it. I mean, there was an Order entered to turn over
all this information, and they have not complied with
it.
THE AUDITOR: What does that have to do
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with this? What does that have to do with what's
before me right now?
MR. MLTMMA: Because they're trying to steal
that money from Kim Company.
MR. GREEN: A lot of theys in this, not
many names attached to this.
MR. MUMMA: The Estate is stealing the
money from Kim Company.
MR. GREEN: But your father stole it first.
MR. MLTMMA: Where did that -- I never made
that statement. When did I make that statement?
Right there; I never made that statement.
THE AUDITOR: Again, please, Mr. Mumma.
MR. MLTMMA: Don't you ever call my father a
thief, Mr. Green.
THE AUDITOR: Again, this is a 1985 action
prior to your father's passing, correct? These are
documents that you -- are these documents that you
state were in a lockbox, again? Is this part of the
lockbox?
MR. MUNIMA: No. These are documents that I
went to the Dauphin Deposit Bank, saw Buff Holly, he
had these loan documents, it was demand notes and loan
documents. I signed them, he gave Kim Company a check
for $184,000, I took the check and the documents back
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to the office of Kim Company, and the Rax Roast Beef
property was transferred to High-Spec.
THE AUDITOR: Okay.
MR. MLTMMA: High-Spec owed $184, 000 to Kim
Company. The note was written out to Kim Company.
They are now somehow claiming that the shareholders of
Kim Company were not entitled to their pro rata share
of those proceeds but that they go to the MRA I.
That is just not true. What they've
refused to acknowledge is that -- in fact,
they -- their own attorneys testified in court that
Kim Company never borrowed the money from Dauphin.
THE AUDITOR: I'm not listening to the
arguments; I'm just trying to figure out these
documents. The documents exist; obviously there are
loan documents somewhere in a file. Take a look, have
somebody take a look and see if there's a loan file on
that; there should be. And let's --
MR. MLTMMA: I might add, Mr. Buckley --
THE AUDITOR: No. I don't want any adds.
I don't want anything right now.
MR. MUMMA: But --
THE AUDITOR: Please, I don't need any
arguments right now.
MR. MLTMMA: Okay. We'll put some facts in.
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THE AUDITOR: Okay. Let's step back.
Thank you.
Also, gentlemen, if you need documents
prior to hearings -- I thought we had had an agreement
early on in the hearings that you were going to
request information early, not late.
And, again, I understand that both of you
are proceeding pro se now. However, you have to do
this. You can't all of a sudden say I want these
documents a couple of days before the hearing when
you've had weeks and months.
We've given a couple of months in between
time so that we don't have this problem, and please
try to stick to that.
And same with you, Ms. Mumma. If you need
things, the earlier you ask for them, the quicker we
can get them for you and there's not going to be any
delays. Okay?
Any other questions right now?
MR. GREEN: I had one other question. I
just was hoping we could get some outline of the
witnesses for the week. Mr. Mumma, through Mr. Gault,
was kind enough to advise that he intended to call
Mr. O'Connor today and have Mr. O'Connor here. But if
we could kind of know what the outline is.