Kevin McKeown claims to be a crusader against corruption in the New York and Federal Courts, the State and Federal judiciary, and the New York State Bar. In sworn testimony and filings in The United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, however, he claimed to be an unemployed writer who made zero dollars in the first five months of 2012 and that he had $281,802.60 in unsecured debt.
McKeown's case (12-12439-scc) was dismissed with prejudice for five years after McKeown offered conflicting and/or incomplete statements and documentation of his income, assets, employment, his use of aliases and other people's social security numbers, and even his ownership and registration of an automobile.
Filings in McKeown's 3rd Chapter 7 Bankruptcy case (all of which are available to the public on PACER.gov with registration and a small fee) and McKeown's testimony indicate that McKeown received more than $300,000 in 2011, which was deposited in a bank account under his name and that of The New York Bulletin, Inc. McKeown swore to the court that he could not spell the name of the source of these funds if his life depended on it, but that they came from a Serbian named Herb, whom McKeown called Tom.
McKeown swore to the court that he was the sole owner of The New York Bulletin, Inc., but that he had no personal obligation to the source of the $300,000 to repay it and that he used some of this money to pay his personal debts (although he couldn't say to whom or in what amounts), some to pay the rent of an attorney for the same office suite The New York Bulletin, Inc. listed as its address, and some of it was used to buy studio equipment and to secure newspaper boxes in New York to distrute the newspaper he was developing.
Interestingly, McKeown later denied he had secured the newspaper boxes, denied that he had any of the equipment that was purchased with the money except one camera, denied that any of the lawyers, accountants and writers whom he had testified were involved in the business were actually involved in the business, and denied having or keeping any records whatsoever of this "business" or what he did with the money, other than his bank statements (which the trustee had to subpoena at a cost of twelve dollars because McKeown claimed he could not pay the fee to get them.
During the pendency of his bankruptcy and after, McKeown did not pay rent and fought his eviction vigorously, attemptiing to remove it to Federal Court four times, each time filing as a pauper. Between his 3rd and 4th attempted removals of the eviction to federal court as a pauper, McKeown filed as "proposed intervenor" in the Phillip Marshall case and paid the fee for that filing.
An examination of McKeown's applications for pauper status show that these sworn statements to the court of his finances contradict one another, his bankruptcy and family court filings and testimony, and even the one tax return he claims to have filed in the past 10 years. (McKeown testified that he believed that he had filed taxes every year that he made enough to file. The IRS transcripts he produced for the court, however, show that he filed taxes once since 2001 and that the IRS filed one year for him, indicating McKeown made very little money for almost 10 years.
According to Paul Firestone, in the New York case Firestone v. McKeown, during that 10 years McKeown did solict funds from Firestone to start a publishing business and did solicit interest in a patent Firestone owned in exchange for monetizing the patent. Firestone demonstrated that McKeown did not perform as promised. The court apparently believed the testimony and documentation Firestone offered since it awarded Firestone with a money judgment against McKeown and a return to Firestone his 100 percent ownership of the patent.
After this suit, McKeown filed bar complaints against Firestone's lawyer, which were thrown out, possibly because he had filed such complaints against the lawyers who prevented him from taking any more money from his deceased mother's bank account and had at least on of his creditors paid at least part of what he was owed from the estate rather than allowing McKeown to receive inheritance. After McKeown's proposed intervention in the Anthony Marshall case was thrown out of federal court, McKeown filed complaints against a lawyer who was involved in protecting Brook Astor's estate against Marshall.
While McKeown sued the City of Chicago for millions of dollars for patent infringement, McKeown claimed the patent had no value when he next filed bankruptcy or a pauper's application to avoid filing fees in other cases he lost. McKeown swore in bankruptcy proceedings that this patent was transferred to a foreign entity, the name of which he could also not recall.
Likewise, McKeown swore that the copyright to his book was also transferred to a foreign entity, the name of which he could not recall.
A search for Kevin McKeown in the official federal court records at Pacer.gov produces many results, most of which were filed by this particular Kevin McKeown. Every single one of these cases was either dismissed or resulted in a judgment against McKeown. A search of New York's court cases produces the same results.
McKeown also attempted to represent Pamela Carvel in her bankruptcy in Florida, claiming to be her legal representative under a power of attorney, and sending an attorney who was not licensed in Florida to represent him on behalf of Carvel. The Florida bankruptcy court then issued a Writ of Bodily Attachment against McKeown and Carvel, seeking to bring them back to that court to face the consequences of their actions.
McKeown's bank statements showed in his own bankruptcy case that almost $100,00 of the $300,000 that came from the un-named Serbian to start The New York Bulletin, Inc. was used to pay Carvel's mother's nursing home bills. In Carvel's bankruptcy, it was revealed that McKeown claimed ownership in her New York properties, which caused the trustee to move against him for impeding the trustee from selling Carvel's assets to pay her obligations.
