Pascoe to tackle Obeid trusts if appeal bid fails

PPB Advisory's Scott Pascoe.
Image courtesy PPB Advisory.

PPB Advisory's Scott Pascoe has agreed to act as trustee in bankruptcy to the estate of Moses Edward Obeid, in the event the son of former NSW Labor minister Eddie Obeid fails in his bid to reverse a $12 million debt judgment.

Pascoe consented to act after the City of Sydney Council commenced creditors petition proceedings against Obeid in the Federal Court on June 5.


 The petition is the latest in a series of bankruptcy-related applications the council has pursued since February, 2012, when the Supreme Court finalized orders from its 2011 judgment awarding damages in the millions to the Council in its dispute over smart poles with 41 year-old Obeid and his company, Streetscape Projects (Australia).

Obeid downgrade imminent as bankruptcy stay stalls

Moses Obeid. Photo Optus Zoo

THE woes of Moses just keep mounting. Already appealing a Supreme Court judgement which found he owes Sydney City Council more than $12 million, Moses Edward Obeid yesterday failed to set aside or delay the execution of a bankruptcy notice issued by the Official Receiver.

And Federal Magistrate Kenneth Raphael didn't mince words.

"I am of the view that it would not be appropriate to extend time for compliance with the bankruptcy notice until the determination of the appeal," he said.

Ed Hardy boss's bankruptcy boo boo

Gary Berman with Tara Reid.
Photo: Cameron Laird

BAD fashion transcends borders, which is why SiN can report on the bankrupting of one-time Melbourne clothing entrepreneur Gary Michael Berman.

Berman is the man who brought the Ed Hardy clothing brand to Australia. 

While this was not a crime, Federal Magistrate Daniel O’Dwyer recently pointed out that making an incorrect entry in a debtor's petition potentially is. 

“The details provided in a Debtor’s Petition are required to be accurate,” and “.…. should the requisite declaration that the details are correct made in support of the application prove to be false there is the potential of a criminal sanction of imprisonment for 12 months,” O”Dwyer wrote in his December 15, 2011 judgement.

O'Dwyer was commenting on the response Berman made to question 33 of his debtor's petition, which the former Ernst & Young accountant filed on May 17, 2011, almost 12 months after his stable of Ed Hardy outlets closed its doors. Question 33 requires a debtor to list transfers of assets and gifts made in the preceding five years.