Jason and Eunjung Cardiff have as soon as once more been present in contempt of court docket.
Sadly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pair have been spared jail time.
The Cardiffs’ makes an attempt to undermine the FTC lawsuit filed towards them have confirmed a nicely of popcorn materials from the onset.
Seemingly unconcerned with the implications of flouting the legislation, at the same time as one of many nation’s high regulators bears down on them, the Cardiffs have continued to disobey court docket orders.
This prompted the FTC to file a second present trigger movement early final month.
Of their submitting, the FTC alleged
the Cardiffs proceed to disobey the Courtroom’s Orders by spending on leases for a Bentley, Porsche, and Vary Rover, in addition to eye-popping bank card payments for nonessential bills equivalent to personal elementary college tuition, restaurant meals, spa remedies and manicures, taekwondo classes, journey sharing (however their a number of leased automobiles), and canine grooming.
In an try to elucidate away their lavish spending, the Cardiffs alleged the funds had been sourced from Jason’s father.
Below oath nonetheless, Gerald Cardiff admitted he hadn’t labored for ten years and depends on Jason to pay his lease.
On March thirty first the court docket dominated on the FTC’s movement, discovering the Cardiffs had been in contempt.
The Courtroom simply finds the Cardiffs in contempt of the Courtroom’s TRO and PI.
The Cardiffs don’t dispute that they’ve incurred almost $17,000 per 30 days in bills, a considerable quantity of which the Courtroom determines are non-essential bills.
They don’t dispute that they’re utilizing funds from Gerald Cardiff to pay for these non-essential bills. They usually allege that, regardless of spending $38,604 over eight months on three luxurious automotive lease funds (seemingly for 2 adults and a second grader), they lacked the money movement to pay their $12,000 month-to-month mortgage.
The Courtroom has already decided that the Cardiffs are “completely unbelievable,” “lied” to the Courtroom, and “labored in live performance with one another and with others to keep away from, violate the situations of the orders of the Courtroom.”
Nothing concerning the Cardiffs’ conduct seems to have modified.
Getting slammed in court docket and referred to as out as liars. Ouch.
Below regular circumstances the Cardiffs can be despatched to jail till they happy situations set out within the court docket order.
Sadly we’re not presently residing below regular circumstances.
The Courtroom notes as an element weighing towards incarceration presently the unprecedented circumstance of COVID19 as a worldwide pandemic, and the rising concern of speedy unfold inside correctional services.
So for now the Cardiffs dodge jail time. Nonetheless, they nonetheless should adjust to the next orders;
- determine the precise supply of every deposit into their present cash-funded credit score account (together with alleged Gerald Cardiff deposits);
- flip over recognized property to the Redwood Receiver; and
- repay the Receivership for missed mortgage funds (~$12,000).
The court docket has warned the Cardiffs that ought to the above orders not be complied with,
any subsequent contempt order towards the Cardiffs might embody, however not essentially be restricted to, incarceration till they purge themselves of their contempt.
Will the specter of contracting COVID-19 in jail lastly see the Cardiffs play ball? Keep tuned!
Oh and so far as I do know, the Redwood Scientific Applied sciences trial continues to be on observe for October twentieth.
Replace sixteenth April 2020 – On April seventh the Cardiff’s knowledgeable the court docket they’ve filed an enchantment towards the contempt ruling within the Ninth Circuit.
Pending the end result of the Cardiff’s enchantment, keep tuned…