LSF/IHR vs. Carto, Fischer, Vibet, Furr

Collection efforts

What the Cartos owe the IHR (updated sporadically)
What Liberty Lobby owes the IHR (updated sporadically)
A report on Willis Carto’s first judgment debtor examination (2/27/98)
The transcript from Carto’s first judgment debtor’s exam (2/27/98)
The transcript from Elisabeth Carto’s first judgment debtor’s exam (4/10/98)
Liberty Lobby files for bankruptcy (5/14/98)
Willis and Elisabeth Carto said ready to file for personal bankruptcy (5/15/98)
Willis and Elisabeth file for personal bankruptcy (6/8/98)
Transcript from Liberty Lobby’s 341 meeting of creditors (6/19/98)
Deposition of LaVonne and Lewis Furr (3/14/2000)
Judge rules that Carto and Liberty Lobby are in default (12/15/2000)
Judgment debtor examination of Elisabeth Carto (6/13/2001)
Judgment debtor examination of Willis A. Carto (6/21/2001)
Judge Maino assigns LSF all the good will and going concern of Liberty Lobby (7/30/2002)

The results

Judge Maino’s comments on the evidence and testimony (11/13/1996)
Judge Maino’s Statement of Decision (11/14/1996)

The appeals

First appeal (1/13/97)
Carto Misses Yet Another Deadline in Appeal (8/27/97)
LSF responds to Carto’s appeal (5/4/98)
Carto appeals the appointment of a receiver (5/19/98) Judge Maino’s comments about Carto are priceless!
Court of Appeal Upholds Multi-Million Dollar Judgment against Carto, Liberty Lobby (11/3/2000)

The trial

Pre-trial

What’s Behind the Carto-IHR Dispute? (from Christian News)
The text of the actual complaint against Carto, Fischer, et al (7/22/1984)
The IHR News Release about the lawsuit (9/14/1984)
A statement of fact by IHR director Harvey Taylor
What Has Carto Done with the Farrel Estate Millions? (from Christian News)
Hidden Facts Behind Carto’s War Against the IHR (from Christian News)
How Carto Deals with ‘Enemies’ (from Christian News)
Conflict, Controversy Surround Willis Carto (from the Orange County Register, 7/30/1985)
Day-by-day coverage of the trial
LSF/IHR News Release on the Court’s decision (11/18/1996)

Documents

Minutes of the LSF Special Meeting of July 6, 1979. There is no evidence to support Willis Carto’s claim to have founded the IHR. This document shows who did.
Letter from Jean Farrel to the Institute for Historical Review (8/19/1983). Farrel is contacting us to announce that she wants to leave her considerable fortune to the IHR.
Letter from Jean Farrel to Willis Carto (12/27/1983). Farrel says that she has set up NECA Corporation to hold millions of dollars of her assets. NECA Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LSF, so that on Farrel’s death, the assets in NECA Corporation are supposed to come seamlessly under our control.
Letter from Jean Farrel to Willis Carto (9/2/83). Jean Farrel makes crystal clear that the money is not for Carto personally, but for the IHR. Also note that Farrel confirms she is going to contact a person recommended by Carto to set up a trust. This trust proved to be set up incorrectly, thanks in large part to Carto, so that after Farrel’s death, funds that were supposed to go to the IHR instead went to a friend of Jean Farrel’s.
Letter from Jean Farrel to Willis Carto (10/17/83). Farrel has met with the person Carto recommended, and is thrilled to structure her affairs in a way she thinks will give the IHR the bulk of her assets, which at the time of her death were just over 24 million USD! Can you imagine what the IHR could have done with $24 million, plus the interest since 1985?
Letter from Willis Carto to Jean Farrel (10/27/83). Carto acknowledges having clout with a bank in Zurich (!), and admits to setting up an entity (CDLL), whose sole purpose it is to hold Liberty Lobby assets to defraud creditors and potential creditors.
Last Will of Jean Farrel, Edison (1/16/84). Willis Carto is not mentioned, but the LSF is.
Minutes of Special Meeting of Stockholders (9/16/85). Willis Carto signs this document, acknowledging that the Farrel money is held by a corporation that is owned by the LSF, that Jean Farrel meant for all of her money to go to the LSF, and that the LSF would take strong measures to protect these funds from anyone who attempted to take them from the LSF. How correct he turned out to be!
Letter from Willis Carto to Mitsui Bank (11/14/1985). Carto again clearly states that Farrel’s assets in NECA Corporation are wholly-owned by LSF.
Letter from Willis Carto to Swiss attorney Maurice Cruchon (11/16/1985). Carto makes clear that NECA Corporation, containing the Farrel assets, are part of LSF, and that he, Carto, is working on behalf of LSF to secure the corporation’s assets, not his own (as he now claims).