I love BJ's take on this and think he has "laid" it out quite nicely. (pun intended) Thank You BJ! Okay now that I am done giggling like an altar boy who just farted in church I will stop with the sophomoric humor and proceed with my points.
First off I am surprised anybody has a problem with the time line for this issue to be made public. A year and half to get to the lawsuit stage is credible in my opinion. Initially Clonie finds out that there was a disbursement that she didn't receive. She then tries to settle it in house which is obviously going to take months before you can conclude that you are at an impasse. Then you get the lawyers involved officially (I am sure they were involved during the in house phase but not to such an extent). Once you get lawyers sending messages to and having meetings with other lawyers you can slow down any proceedings by at least 80%. (gotta get those billable hours up) So that is gonna take the better part of a year if not more. Then once all the back and forth lawyering is done and there is not an acceptable outcome the only choice given to either party is a public announcement/press release accompanied by a lawsuit. That easily adds up to 17 months or more in my book.
Secondly it seems this problem can/will be resolved fairly quickly once it goes to court. Not in an actual trial but in the pre-trial motions. If Clonie can get the Federal income tax statements admitted as evidence for those she says got a disbursement then it is game over for FT. Of course we have to stipulate that there was a contract of sorts but I think that is fairly obvious.
I am sure there is much more to the story but I would be very surprised if this ever went to trial.
Once again thank you to BJ and Andrew for your illuminating posts!
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