U.S. Bankrupcy Court in the Eastern District. Photos: Black Star News
The Queens property owner, Ashmeen Modikhan, who claims she was a victim of a fraudulent loan modification scheme during chapter 13 proceedings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court claims the alleged scammers are now targeting potential proceeds from her personal injury lawsuit in an ongoing chapter 7 case in the same court.
Modikhan claims Judge Jil Mazer-Marino who’s handling the case, and the trustee Alan Nisselson, have ignored evidence she’s presented showing that she was the victim of a loan modification scam and that the parties currently seeking distributions from her assets presented “fraudulent” proofs of claim. They are not the parties of interest and they’re not entitled to payments, Modikhan maintains.
Moreover, she claims, since there are foreclosure judgments—albeit illegally obtained, she claims—in New York State Supreme Court, the proceedings in the bankruptcy court are moot. Modikhan claims her own lawyer, Darren Aronow, of the Aronow firm, was involved in the loan modification scam. She claims she was deceived into paying tens of thousands of dollars to the firm, the previous trustee Marianne DeRosa, and Rushmore Loan Management Services, servicers for Tiki Series IV Trust, an alleged creditor. The alleged loan modification scam was covered in a previous Black Star News article.
Before the Aronow firm allegedly steered Modikhan to the bankruptcy court, her two family…
