Listen to an ex ABI executive director get tips from Jackson Lewis on mass firing employees #QVC

Until a few days ago, when I was locked out of the website of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), I had served as a Coordinating Editor, International helping authors publish educational articles about bankruptcy law in the ABI Journal.

After I was locked out of the ABI website I came forward as a whistle blower, requesting help from my government requesting an outside audit of the ABI as I believe my lockout of the website may have been in retaliation to concerns I have expressed to the ABI Presidents and Chairman of the board and other at ABI leadership about management and cash flows in and out of the ABI and other international bankruptcy related not for profits registered in the United States including ABI and INSOL as well as the International Insolvency Institute.

I have also questioned why the organizations are not for profits when they seem to basically run like private clubs or drug cartels on the show Breaking Bad, with members passing work back and forth, for profit.

I have been put in communication with lawyers at the firm Jackson Lewis who represented they are outside counsel to the ABI.

I now understand the Jackson Lewis law firm has been working with ABI at least since this podcast was made over 15 years ago, facilitating mass layoffs of employees in bankruptcy with ABI members, in cases where typically the lawyers' fees need to be court approved by the bankruptcy court or court authorized as ordinary course professional fees.

And I believe Jackson Lewis has been helping QVC handle downsizing, from news indicating Jackson Lewis provides these services to QVC, which is in international QVC bankruptcy proceedings pending in Houston, at a time when, reportedly, QVC hosts are trying to unionize.

I welcome help from people who want to help QVC employees and whistle blowers like me who volunteered at US not for profits - especially people who know more about not for profit governance than I do and QVC downsizing.

I am a former unionized Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) attorney advisor and journalist and editor for the American Bankruptcy Institute's flagship publication the ABI Journal, as well as a member of the EPA alumni association, an independent newsletter writer on Substack, and an independent podcaster under my website domains at The Center of Main Interests (The CoMI).

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