Posted On: April 11, 2007 by Joel A. Schoenmeyer

The Andrew Kissel Estate: Another State v. Federal Problem?

You may remember the case of Andrew Kissel, which I discussed here and here.

A quick refresher (taken from this article):

Andrew Kissel was found stabbed multiple times and bound hand and foot in the basement of his 10 Dairy Road mansion the morning of April 3. His body was found days before he was scheduled to be sentenced to five years or more in prison on federal bank fraud charges.

Police have declined to discuss possible motives, but have investigated the theory that Kissel may have hired someone kill him so his children could collect a hefty life insurance payout....

Now, according to this article, the attorney for Mr. Kissel's estate is running into problems as well:

A motion filed by two creditors, Fidelity National and Chicago Title Insurance companies, asks that Patrick Gil, appointed to handle Kissel's heavily indebted estate, be held in contempt and blocked from using $235,682 gained by the sale of Kissel's interest in Epona Stables to pay his [Kissel's] ex-wife an allowance awarded in Greenwich Probate Court.

The motion, filed in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, complains that Gil violated a 2005 federal court order giving the two companies the right to garnish Kissel's assets up to $10.3 million, according to court records.

The problem appears to be that Mr. Gil has an obligation to comply with the probate court order giving Mr. Kissel's wife an allowance. The article goes on with the following:

Furthermore, the money in question was generated by selling Kissel's half-interest in Epona Stables on Riversville Road, which a state Superior Court judge had ordered be distributed through the Greenwich Probate Court, [Mr. Gil's attorney, David] Moger said.

"Mr. Gil is caught between conflicting orders," Moger said. "As an administrator he has relatively little decision-making power and does things at the direction of the probate court. I have been looking in vain for an order which he directly violated."

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