Yes, 2010 was a busy year for FD.
I keep going back to the exchange in court (we don't have the full transcript to fully understand it yet) about FD taking the children to Greece as a threat to his FIL.
We've seen the threat of absconding with the children to Argentina and Greece before in Family Court to JD but hadn't heard about such a threat levelled at FIL Farber.
Why would you make such a threat to the goose that laid all the golden eggs and has the keys to the kingdom or the safe with the pot of gold?
Lot's to think about.
I do wonder if 2010 was a turning point because FD saw his marriage over but knew he was tied to FIL funding and didn't have a way forward with the business such that he could continue the lifestyle to which he had become accustomed living on the JD Trust Fund Income?
This was a bitter pill to swallow but FD being a planner no doubt put a plan in place to figure out his exit and worked diligently to amass as much cash as he could. The thing is that we don't see any large increase in FORE work being done and there really wasn't much of a push into Lower FF Country either other than a few houses. We know FD likes money, but perhaps FD also doesn't want to work to hard either? This is a conundrum from a strategic planning standpoint IMO. Not impossible for sure but such priorities typically send people in directions of illicit activities rather than mainstream business enterprise IMO. The land of the 'quick buck' is not for the faint of heart. Did FD go down this path starting in 2010? I'm pretty certain though that FD had no intention of actually working for a living or going down the path of expanding the building business as IMO that was simply a 'make work' job to give FD a way to spend a bit of time working and appear gainfully employed and it was fully recognised as such by his FIL.
Others have alluded here to prior attempts to harm or hurt JD by FD and this line of inquiry is relevant as well given what is known about his great and quick temper. Family Court saw the info about FD attempting to run JD over with the Porsche and we saw the story of the argument with the FD illegal gun that was brought up from FL were FD locked JD in a room. It seems like with a history like this that other attempts on JD might have very well have been possible.
I've never thought there was much mystery as to why GF had armed guards at her apt to protect herself and her children. There is a reason that GF wants ZERO contact between the 5 children and the "Greek Family" and while we aren't privy to the details it must be significant IMO to relocate the children to NY and request no contact from their father and his extended family.
Given the FD headed to NY to pick up the children on 5/26 I believe there must be something significant about the children, as I've never been convinced that FD has any attachment to the children as he never seemed involved in their care or raising, traveled a lot and post JD leaving 4Jx hadn't really spent all that much time with his children. We also don't even know whether FD has the capacity to simply care for 5 children on a daily basis.
We know that MT and FD seemed to want to gather as much information about the Farber trusts and wills as they could as we saw the deposition question about MT heading into the City to try to get info etc. Was the purpose of this searching to find out about the status $2.5 million FORE loans from FIL or JD direct assets that might pass to FD upon her death or perhaps even Trusts set up for the 5 children or even any direct bequests to FD in the FIL will? What were FD and MT searching for in NY Probate records?
Money as others have stated has to be on Motive list but I'm still trying to figure out how FD planned to access the money if JD assets and income were all wrapped up in Trusts? Was the end game to take the children and then take on their trusts? I'm not sure FIL would have made it that easy for FD, particularly if he saw through the veneer of FD civility and charm.
MOO
