A Bankruptcy Court judge has denied a debtor’s discharge, citing a series of “misstatements” or memory lapses about financial transactions that served to transfer assets to the debtor’s wife or conceal them.
Among those transactions, Northern District Judge Robert Littlefield Jr. (See Profile) ruled In re: Darryl Carl, 12-10122, was the creation of an auto repair and sales shop in Melissa Carl’s name following Darryl Carl’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing for a similar shop he owned. Littlefield said that while Darryl Carl appeared to do much of the work in the new shop, he took no pay and Melissa Carl was paid $975 a week as owner. The pay rate continued even after Melissa Carl took another job and reduced her hours at the shop to 10 hours a week, the judge said.
