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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Nathan Z.):

Thank you for sharing your very well written letter. I find it summarizes the situation concisely without getting sidetracked into the name calling that is all too common here. Rather than ask everyone interested in this matter to write their own letter, have you considered redrafting this as a petition? Judge Rakower will probably be more influenced by the number of owners responding than by the ad-hominem attacks on Eichner and gratuitous comparisons to Madoff. By the way, thank you for following the case and providing the link to the NYAG documentation. It should be required reading for anyone interested in their Manhattan Club investment.

robertb1802 wrote:

irenes93 wrote:

Here's the address to write to for The New York Attorney General versus The Manhattan Club case:

Justice Eileen Rakower, Supreme Court of the State of New York 71 Thomas St. Part 15 New York, New York 10013 The case number is 451536/2014 and the case title is Schneiderman v. Eichner. A few paragraphs about your story with TMC is fine. And the more people who write the better.

Here is the letter I'm sending to the judge. Everyone is free to borrow from it as needed.

November 27, 2015

Justice Eileen Rakower Supreme Court of the State of New York 71 Thomas St. Part 15 New York, New York 10013 Re: Case # 451536/2014 Schneiderman v. Eichner Dear Judge Rakower:

As you are certainly aware, The Manhattan Club is now the subject of an extensive civil and criminal fraud investigation by the NY Attorney General.

I wanted to write directly to you before you hear arguments from Mr. Eichner requesting that he be dropped from the AG's investigation. We feel that Mr. Eichner, members of his family, and close circle of associates have played a direct role in carrying on a huge timeshare fraud, and should be held personally responsible for the improper or criminal actions carried out on their behalf.

My wife and I have personally suffered from the fraudulent conduct of the Eichner family, The Manhattan Club, and its related companies. While still living in NY, we purchased 2 timeshare units at The Manhattan Club in 2005, and entered into a financing purchase agreement for one of the units through The Manhattan Club's finance arm, O. Park Central. Unfortunately, we learned right after we purchased that the sales pitch was blatantly false. Rooms were never available to us when we called to try to reserve, no matter how far in advance we tried to book. Rooms are literally NEVER available to owners. We were mislead by sales representatives during the purchase of our units and we have been denied the right to use our units for 10 years through a scheme to manipulate the issuance of room reservations which denied owners access while making rooms readily available to cash paying, non-owners through various Internet based hotel reservation sites.

My wife and I have excellent credit, and for 10 years we have diligently paid The Manhattan Club on time. However, we have come to realize that The Manhattan Club and its timeshare operation is nothing more than a "Ponzi Scheme." Proceeds from timeshare sales, per diem room rentals, and annual maintenance have been siphoned away from legitimate uses in the operation of The Manhattan Club, and paid to the Eichner family and other insiders through shell companies. We have decided not to be ripped off any longer. We have reached the end of a reasonable person's ability to accept such dishonest and fraudulent treatment. We have paid like clockwork for 10 years for the use of a timeshare which we have been routinely cheated out of.

As a result of the fraudulent conduct perpetrated against us by The Manhattan Club and its affiliates as well as the NY Attorney General's allegation of fraud and other criminal conduct, I urge you to hold all the parties named in the Attorney General's complaint personally responsible for their fraudulent actions in the improper sales and operation of The Manhattan Club timeshare.

Sincerely yours,

Robert A. Biello