Legal Opinion
Bush v. Rewald
District Court, D. Hawaii
Decided January 14, 1986No. Civ. 84-0881PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
PENCE, District Judge.
In the summer of 1983, the investment house of Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dilling-ham & Wong (Bishop Baldwin) was revealed as a gigantic fraud, a “Ponzi scheme, upon those who had entrusted their money to it. Bankruptcy immediately followed.
The factual background of the firm, its absolute control by Ronald R. Rewald, its Chairman, and its collapse are reported in some detail in Sovereign Life Ins. Co. v. Rewald, 601 F.Supp. 1489 (D. Hawaii 1985).
The instant case, one of many arising from the collapse of Bishop Baldwin, is…
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