Biography
Judge Gonzalez received an undergraduate degree in accounting from Fordham University in 1969 and a masters degree in education from Brooklyn College in 1974. He received a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1982. He also received an L.L.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law in 1990. Judge Gonzalez was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and earned the Chief Counsel's Special Achievement Award for three consecutive years. Thereafter, he entered private practice. Judge Gonzalez was appointed Assistant United States Trustee in the Southern District of New York in 1991.
He was appointed United States Trustee for Region 2 (Second Circuit) in 1993 and served in that position until his appointment to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in 1995. He presides over many large complex corporate reorganizations, including the Enron and WorldCom cases.
Prior to beginning his law career, Judge Gonzalez was a teacher in the New York City School System for 13 years.
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Chrysler Bankruptcy: Motion Denied, To Be Appealed; Fraud Complaints To Be Made
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Chrysler Bankruptcy, case of judicial fraud? Dealership Attorneys to appeal Motion denial"
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Totally corrupt judiciary.
Good bye rule of law. Welcome to the United States of the Banana Republic of America.
(By the way...The same judicial corruption is occurring with the birther cases.)
I never understood how closing down dealerships was going to help Chrysler (or GM for that matter) to sell more cars? If you want to sell more of anything you want to increase your sales force and sales outlets, not reduce them.
It has been noted that the dealerships picked for closure (for both Chrysler and GM) were the folks who did not support Obama. That's all the more reason why I will no longer support either of these brands. As a matter of fact, if we could get all conservatives to boycott them they'd go bankrupt like they should have instead of us bailing them out.
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Donofrio explains his intent to appeal on behalf of Chrysler dealers...
Donofrio, once again, misses the point. If Judge Gonzalez got the testimony wrong, that issue could have been raised on appeal. The case was appealed, and that issue was not raised, so it's too late to raise it now.
Donofrio tried to rely on a narrow exception that lets you raise issues late if they are based on a "fraud on the court." The idea is that if, for example, one party submits a forged document into evidence, and the fraud isn't discovered until later, you can raise the issue late because it couldn't have been raised on appeal-- nobody could have known about the forgery. Here, the evidence of what Donofrio calls "fraud" is right in the transcript, so it could have been raised on appeal, and Donofrio is too late.
Sorry, folks, but Judge Gonzalez is right and Donofrio is wrong.