In an ongoing standoff over e-discovery, a software firm that Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein once financed is facing a fine of $5,000 a day if it doesn’t prove it has complied with court orders to produce data.
Burbank, Calif.-based Qtask claims that it has been trying to comply with requests for data and access to its proprietary information platform. The firm’s attorneys and software architect, Reichart Von Wolfsheild, insist that they are only trying to prevent inappropriate disclosure of data from innocent third parties who may have been associated with Rothstein’s law firm and may have used Qtask.
But, attorneys in the bankruptcy case of Rothstein’s former law firm don’t agree.
Charles Lichtman, the attorney for bankruptcy trustee Herbert Stettin, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Raymond B. Ray on Friday that he believed Qtask was being purposefully evasive.
“I regret to tell the court that … what has happened in the past month is that Qtask is playing games …. We’ve been played,” he said.
Stettin is seeking data from Qtask because it provided private interoffice electronic communication and project management for Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler.
But Qtask attorney Robert Buschel countered that the trustee has been seeking data on people who did not even work for RRA
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Source: bizjournals.com
By: Paul Brinkmann
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