Shmueli appeals in Corcoran client list case
February 01, 2010 03:00PM By Candace Taylor
Corcoran executive vice president Tresa Hall (left) is a target in the Corcoran client list case, brought by Sarit Shmueli (right)
Aiming to send a message to the real estate industry, former Corcoran Group agent Sarit Shmueli has filed to appeal a recent court ruling stripping her of punitive damages a jury awarded her after she claimed the company stole her electronic client list.
Three years ago, the New York State Supreme Court found in favor of Shmueli, who had sued the company alleging that Corcoran, and in particular, executive vice president Tresa Hall, had stolen her client list "deliberately and maliciously" from her computer after Shmueli was fired. Shmueli was awarded $400,000 in compensation and $1.2 million in punitive damages.
Corcoran appealed the decision, and the Appellate Division in December 2009 upheld the compensatory damages ruling, but decided to vacate the punitive damage award on the grounds that "precluding a terminated employee from having access to its computer system does not evince a high degree of moral turpitude," according to court documents.
On Jan. 6, Shmueli filed a request for the case to be heard by a higher court, the New York Court of Appeals. In the request, Shmueli's attorney, Herald Price Fahringer, argued that the Appellate Division made a mistake when it referred to her as an "employee" of the Corcoran Group. Rather, like most city real estate agents, Shmueli was an independent contractor, he said.
This "misapprehension was absolutely critical to the outcome of the case because there are vast differences between the rights of employees and independent contractors," Fahringer argued in court documents. "The law is clear that customer information -- such as client lists -- stored on a computer leased and utilized by an independent contractor remains the personal property of the independent contractor -- not the computer's owner."
Moreover, the denial of access to the computer was "only one of many acts involving moral turpitude inflicted upon Sarit Shmueli by Corcoran," Fahringer's request said.
Shmueli was an agent at Corcoran from 1996 to 2002. In 2002, her suit claimed that Corcoran asked her to "falsely testify" in response to a lawsuit alleging that the company had failed to disclose material information to the purchaser of the apartment. When Shmueli refused, she claimed, she was fired, and prevented from returning to the computer where her client list was stored.
"Corcoran unconscionably and flagrantly retaliated against Shmueli because of her refusal to commit perjury for Corcoran in a separate civil lawsuit," Fahringer argued in court documents.
Corcoran has since claimed that Shmueli was fired because she swore in the office.
Fahringer told The Real Deal that the case has far-reaching consequences for the real estate industry, and that Corcoran should be publicly punished for its conduct.
"The whole purpose of punitive damages is to warn the public that we won't tolerate this," he said. "This is an important case to stress to realtors that you can't behave in this way, and if you do, you're going to be punished."
Corcoran said it could not comment on pending litigation, and its attorney, Lawrence Eagel of Brager Wexler Eagel & Squire, did not respond to phone calls from The Real Deal.
Fahringer said he's asked real estate organizations to file "amicus briefs," stating that they have an interest in the outcome of the case, in support of his request that it be heard by the New York Court of the Appeals.
The closely-watched case has also attracted attention because Hall, Shmueli's former manager, won a lifetime achievement award in October from the Real Estate Board of New York for "outstanding achievement in the residential real estate market, but has also displayed outstanding ethical conduct in the profession."
After the December ruling, Shmueli and others in the industry called for Hall to be stripped of her award.
Hall "should absolutely return the award, because she was found guilty," Shmueli told The Real Deal by phone.
Hall was not immediately available for comment.
But Real Estate Board of New York President Steven Spinola said the organization is not considering such a move.
"Her peers gave [Hall] the award for a lifetime commitment to our industry," he said. He added that the outcry surrounding the case "can't take away the respect and love she has earned along with that lifetime achievement award."
Shmueli said she believes Corcoran has "a monopoly" in REBNY decisions because its parent company, NRT, also operates a number of other New York real estate firms, including Sotheby's International Realty.
Hall's award likely won't have much impact on the facts of the case, Fahringer said, but it does demonstrate that Corcoran has considerable influence in the industry.
"What I think is under the surface of this case is that these large organizations feel they can do whatever they want to do," Fahringer said. "They forget they have to abide by the law as everyone else does. They're so accustomed to having things their own way that they can sometimes form some very bad habits."
Shmueli said she now has her own real estate company, called Sarit, Inc. But she said it's been difficult to rebuild her business.
"I'm not as active as I used to be," she said. "I don't have my clients -- Corcoran has my clients."
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Anonymous
56,581 licensed Real Estate Brokers and 58,400 licensed real estate Salespersons across the New York State will be affected by this highly publicized and controversial ruling.
Comment #1 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Sarit Shmueli brokered deals for the likes of actress Julie Andrews (“the sounds of music”) producer Blake Edward (“Pink Panther”) and “James Bond” producer Albert Broccoli and architect of the Kennedy Center Edward Durrel Stone (among her 1400 clients stolen by Corcoran).
Comment #2 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
The Jury also heard testimony that two discharged Top Corcoran’s brokers Harve Senequier and Leonard Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, which Corcoran had seized from them. So vital are client lists to a broker, this underscores how critically important these lists are to brokers, as well as the recurring nature of this issue. The record established that Corcoran actually exploited the confiscated client lists. Furthermore, the legal issues presented by this case may directly affect the 56,581 licensed real estate brokers and 58,400 agents across the state of New York.
Comment #3 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
It is imperative that proper actions be taken against the Corcoran Group and that Ms, Sarit receive the proper compensation due her as a result of the lifetime recpient awardee Ms. Hall. As a long term broker in the industry we rely on the respect and trust of our elected officials, and legal system to properly emply the nature of our indepedent contractor status and our intellectual property. Furthermore REBNY who is commonly a lobbyist for us is suddenly finding itself in an administration that really does not cow down to lobbyist, hence they are in the awkward position of collecting millions of dollars of our yearly dues yet they cannot properly advocate on our behalf. For that matter neither can Ms. Hall. This is a very visible situation and we independent contractors are monitoring this from all firms to see that Corcoran and REBNY do not violate us any further. Go get em Sarit!
Comment #4 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Sarit, AKA: The Thing That Won't Go Away.
Comment #5 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
How cowardly of Steve Spinola to pass the blame onto the real estate community for selecting Tresa Hall for REBNY's lifetime achievement award. Those of us in the room that night when Hall was announced the "winner" heard the audible gasps of disbelief from the attendees, and the many comments of some highly respected REBNY officers - One of whom (a previous recipient) was heard to say "How could they give it to that idiot?"
Comment #6 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
NRT-Realogy the parent company of Corcoran, monopolized NYS and REBNY, they own the Corcoran Group, City Habitats, Sotheby’s, Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA and many other sub companies. Now, the real estate prices - “Price Fixing”- and the REBNY -“voting system”- are in great jeopardy. The interests of NRT, Realogy, Corcoran, will always take precedent in NYS. As a result of this Monopoly: Tresa Hall who was found liable in this case by the NY Supreme Court Jury that concluded “Tresa Hall and Corcoran deliberately and maliciously stole the valuable client lists of Shmueli”, but in October 2009 Hall was elected by REBNY for “Life time achievement award for ethical work”. The NY real estate brokers clearly demanded that Tresa Hall must return the award to REBNY, as she was found guilty by the NY Supreme Court Jury.
Comment #7 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
The credibility of the Corcoran Group has been in steady decline for a long time, due to to main factors: (1) The room-temperature IQ's of it's "leadership" team, and (2) the brain-drain caused by the hundreds of top brokers who fled Corcoran for other firms. The exodus of Herve Senequier, Leonard Steinberg, Lisa Lippman, Irene Lowenkron, Shlomi Reuveni, and countless others attests to Corcoran's tarnished image.
Comment #8 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
REBNY and Spinolla are slaves to those who pay them the most amount of fees, hence Corcoran. Until everyone stands up and agrees not to pay the extortion fees that REBNY demands we will have them running the back end.
Comment #9 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
As President Nixon said, “When the President does it that means it is not illegal”. Corcoran adapted same view: If Corcoran does it, then it's not illegal. However, the six jurors unanimously recognized that big companies, such as Corcoran, are not above the law. The jury unanimously found that Corcoran and its executive Tresa Hall’s course of conduct evinces a high degree of moral turpitude.
Comment #10 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Spinolla – you are aware of the fact that two discharged Top Corcoran’s brokers Harve Senequier and Leonard Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, which Corcoran had seized from them. Corcoran actually exploited the confiscated client lists! Spinola are you defending Hall and Corcoran???
Comment #11 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Here's some more fabulous brokers who fled Corcoran in search of sanity & professionalism at competing firms: Paula del Nunzio, Wendy Maitland, Margaret Velard, Jared Seligman, Nancy Teague, Jean Michaels, Frosty Montgomery, Scott Moore - and there are many others as well..
Comment #12 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Tresa Hall's prior employment positions (airline stewardess & bar tender) were the arenas where she honed her performance "skills" as she demonstrated in her "professional capacity" at Corcoran. Ifsomeone had too much drink, she threw them out -- so she figured "same thing if a broker misbehaves - just throw them out, and find some better-behaved drunk to take their place." Clearly this woman has no ability or skills to guide the careers of talented real estate brokers. The real blame for this mess belongs with Barbara Corcoran (a total sucker for flattery - Tresa used to fawn all over her...) and to Pam Liebman, who should have fired Tresa years ago for her incompetence. BUT, Pam's just as vulnerable to flattery, and is most comfortable surrounding herself with less intelligent people who won't threaten her in any way.
Comment #13 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Tresa Hall can't walk & chew gum at the same time -- ditto for the managers she hires at Corcoran. If you're a broker here, you'd better know what you're doing, because there's nobody here who can help you!
Comment #14 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Adding to #12 - majority of all the brokers mentioned went to BROWN HARRIS STEVENS (not a part of Realogy). BHS a class operation.
Comment #15 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Tresa Hall epitomizes the "suck-up" culture of the Corcoran Group. Everyone better suck-up to Tresa, and Tresa better suck-up to Pam, or else...
Comment #16 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Corcoran's marketing needs a boost. They think they know so much better than everyone else by marketing their brand in Vogue and Vanity Fair, meanwhile 99.9% of VF's audience couldn't care less about them.
Comment #17 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Corporate conglomerates like the Corcoran Group will now be free to continue their terrible policies of confiscating the client lists of agents who are discharged; unless a clear message is sent, once and for all, that such malicious acts will not be tolerated, every realtor’s client list and livelihood is in jeopardy.
Comment #18 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
The credibility of the Corcoran Group has been in steady decline for a long time...
Comment #19 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
The importance of the legal issues presented by this case, which underscores the need for a final and definitive consideration by the Court of Appeals, as it involved 56, 581 brokers and 58,400 salespersons across the New York State.
Comment #20 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
#20 Case law is already established IN FAVOR OF THE INVIDIUAL BROKER/AGENT - stating that - client/customer lists belong to the INDIVIDUAL BROKER/AGENT NOT BROKERAGE. This appeal filed by Sarit is for the Court of Appeals to overturn the decision once in her favor to be awarded the punitive damages of $1.2M (which was overturned when Corcoran appealed). Sarit is fighting for her punitive damages of $1.2M as originally awarded and should WIN!
Comment #21 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
#21- the case law will not mean anything if the companies would not be punished for their actions, by punitive damages. The Punitive Damages award would stop the companies from malicious actions, stealing client lists. Further, without punitive damages companies like Corcoran will continue to demand their brokers to suborn perjury for them, if the brokers will refuse to commit perjury, the company will RETALIATE, terminate the brokers and steal their client lists. Punitive Damages award is the KEY to stop Corcoran and other companies from stealing client lists, in the future. Yes, this involved 56, 581 brokers and 58,400 salespersons across the New York State.
Comment #22 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
The Punitive Damages against Corcoran is very important! If the Court of Appeals will not reinstate the Punitive Damages award, nothing would stop Corcoran. Corcoran will continue to steal the client lists as they stole the client lists of Sarit Shmueli, Harve Senequier, Leonard Steinberg, and others…
Comment #23 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Corcoran’s executive Tresa Hall demanded that Ms. Shmueli suborn perjury for Corcoran in an unrelated case, the “Coffaros” case. Ms. Shmueli refused to suborn perjury for Corcoran, and in retaliation Corcoran terminated Shmueli and stole her (1400) client lists. Ms. Shmueli was called into Corcoran’s management office and summarily terminated; while Ms. Shmueli was being detained in the management’s offices, Corcoran’s personnel entered Ms. Shmueli’s office and changed her computer codes so that only they could access its information.
Comment #24 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Not true. If this happens again, and another agent commences a law suit, this case will be used in support of any facts that are similar and Corcoran and/or any other company that decides to steal or withhold client lists that may be on their computer or files will have tto release them to that agent. Punitive damages would be beneficial to make them PAY for their misdeeds, THIS WAY THEY THINK TWICE BEFORE SHUTTING DOWN THE AGENT FROM ACESS TO THEIR LISTS.
Comment #25 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
#25 you are wrong - The Appellate Division's decision states: "precluding a terminated employee from having access to its computer system does NOT evince a high degree of moral turpitude."
Comment #26 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Steven Spinolla – how much are you involved in this case and the decision of the Appellate Division? How far would you go to help Corcoran and Tresa Hall? Spinolla, do you have any integrity?
Comment #27 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Hey Mr. Spinola - Now that your REBNY "Lifetime Achievement Award" winner has been branded a thief by the high courts, how can you disassociate yourself from the award by saying her colleagues awarded it to her? If Ms. Hall's "admirers" didn't know before the award that Ms. Hall was a convicted thief, they sure know it now, and SO DO YOU. REBNY is tainted for leaving that award in her hands -- and only you have the power to take it away from her. So, tell us all: ARE YOU A MAN OR A MOUSE, STEVEN SPINOLA?????
Comment #28 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
He's a mouse. No way is he going to risk Corcoran pulling out of REBNY and taking all their dues money with them... He'd give the REBNY Lifetime Achievement award to Saddam Hussein if the thought it would pour money into REBNY's coffers.
Comment #29 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
Is it true that Corcoran’s lawyer Lawrence Eagel, at Bragar Wexler & Eagel, is a personal friend of the Chief Clerk of the Appellate Division, John McConnell? (McConnell writes ALL the decisions for the court…) If this is true, someone must report this important fact to the Court of Appeal’s judges in Albany!
Comment #30 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
I hate paying rebny a yearly due membership fee, they have never done anything for me actually i dont see what they really do and this guy spinola I hear his name all the time but what does he do exactly?
Comment #31 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
REBNY: if you had any integrity, you would yank Tresa Hall's award away for Lifetime Achievement. You must set an example that this behaviour cannot be tolerated. Otherwise, Steven Spinola and the Board of Directors should resign and let some new blood clean up your organization.
Comment #32 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
#27 obviously that would be the defense, since brokers/agents are NOT EMPLOYEES they are INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS. I would assume same applies all electronic information, not only the client lists stored on the company computer hard drive, e-mails also, which are stored on the company's server, or any mail that is received by the company addressed to the agent. That all should be released and/or forwarded to the broker/agent. LESSON: new agents or seasoned agents - KEEP ALL YOUR FILES/INFORMATION ON YOUR OWN LAPTOPS. CONTROL ALL YOUR E-MAILS AND KEEP A SEPARATE E-MAIL (PERSONAL) AND ALSO USE YOUR OWN PERSONAL PHONE NUMBER. OTHERWISE, THE COMPANY WILL SCREW YOU IF YOU EVER GET RETALIATED AGAINST AND TERMINATED. BROKERAGES ARE NOT FAIR IN THEIR PRACTICES, AS PROOF BY THIS LANDMARK CASE.
Comment #33 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
In giving Tresa Hall their lifetime achievement award, REBNY has been caught red-handed in a pay-for-play scandal -- which is the lowest behavior any such organization could display. Offering real estate firms the REBNY shield of credibility in exchange for dues, (plus "awards" for supposedly maintaining their "ethics") simply means that REBNY "credibility" can be purchased. Hey REBNY, can you go any lower than this?
Comment #34 Posted By: Anonymous 02/01/10
Anonymous
#30 why don't you report this relationship with the Corcoran Lawyer and judge to Albany? If not let us have the proper address so we can.
Comment #35 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Where are Tresa Hall's "admirers"? Supposedly there were plenty of them to vote her the REBNY lifetime achievement award? Well...then why aren't they supporting her here? Per above, none of them have stepped up to the plate to defend her -- if indeed they exist at all...
Comment #36 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#33 - Your advice is only for Corcoran brokes. No other firm stoops that low.
Comment #37 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Hey Tresa & Pam, get out your dictionary and look up "turpitude". It's not a disease - it's something you've been accused of.
Comment #38 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Steven Spinola - from now on the brokers will NOT respect REBNY’s “Code of Ethics and Professional Practices”! First you must request Corcoran and Tresa Hall to comply with this rule.
Comment #39 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Steven Spinola - Corcoran and Tresa Hall must comply with REBNY’s rules “Code of Ethics and Professional Practices”! If you can’t control Corcoran and Hall to comply with your rules, do not ask brokers to do anything different than Corcoran and Hall. Your “Code of Ethics and Professional Practices” no longer exists!!!
Comment #40 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
New York State courts have now convicted The Corcoran Group of racial steering, theft, supression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to purjure themselves. So Mr. Spinola is trying to convince us that REBNY members conveniently forgot all that and voted a lifetime achievement award to a member of Corcoran's management team? Does he think we're all fools? Hey Steven, I want my dues refunded - NOW!.
Comment #41 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
You can write to - Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, New York State Court of Appeals, 20 Eagle Street, Albany, New York 12207-1095. Tel: (518) 455-7700, or (518) 455-7758.
Comment #42 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
We See You
Oh hi Sarit. Wow, you really came prepared to make the VAST majority of comments again. Did you hire a writer this time?
Comment #43 Posted By: We See You 02/02/10
Anonymous
#43 - The Corcoran suck-ups are at it again...how pathetic.
Comment #44 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Speaking objectively as an insider, Sarit was a high-ranking Corcoran broker, not only in terms of volume and income, but also she was highly regarded amongst her peers. Many of us were sorry to see her go. She was well liked around here, and Corcoran management wouldn't tell us why Sarit was fired. As a broker and colleague, she was fair, reasonable & hard-working, and in every way an asset to Corcoran. Her departure was mysterious, to say the least - and left many of us wondering when we might be next. Sad to say, these court rulings will be a wake up call for many of us here at the Corcoran Group.
Comment #45 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Oh hi Sarit, my your up early Girl! Slow day?
Comment #46 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Speaking as someone who sat near her, Sarit was a NIGHTMARE and that is a vast understatement. Class A Basket Case.
Comment #47 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Highly regarded? Name one Corcoran broker who holds her in such 'high regard'???? Step right on up and speak out.
Comment #48 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
43,46&47: Pam & Tresa, you'd best quit writing comments, and prepare your legal briefs. As you know, you've got several other court cases coming up (many that the public isn't aware of yet), so Sarit is the very least of your legal problems. You've already lost this case, and the damages award will soon be reinstated. If you weren't so arrogant & foolish, you would have paid off Sarit a long time ago to make this go away. Too late now...
Comment #49 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit, do you really think Pam and Tresa spend their day like you typing all these silly comments?
Comment #50 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit Shmueli brokered deals for the likes of actress Julie Andrews (“the sounds of music”) producer Blake Edward (“Pink Panther”) and “James Bond” producer Albert Broccoli and architect of the Kennedy Center Edward Durrel Stone (among her 1400 clients stolen by Corcoran).
Comment #51 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit, it's "The Sound of Music", not Sounds.
Comment #52 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#51 and 53 Tresa Hall: do not change the subject: give back that REBNY lifetime achievement award, because the NY State Supreme & Appellate courts have branded you a thief.
Comment #53 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Amazing, but true: When Corcoran has no more use for someone, they demonize that person. They're so busy demonizing Sarit in this blog, they haven't even bothered to write any words in support of Tresa. Perhaps even Corcoran realizes it's simply too late to do that (and too useless).
Comment #54 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#37 yes there is another, Prudential Douglas Elliman is on the same level as Corcoran a bunch of idiots for managers who sleep to get their positions. And they do stoop that low.
Comment #55 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#37 yes there is another, Prudential Douglas Elliman is on the same level as Corcoran a bunch of idiots for managers who sleep to get their positions. And they do stoop that low. They are just luck that they haven't been served with a suit YET!
Comment #56 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#37 yes there is another, Prudential Douglas Elliman is on the same level as Corcoran a bunch of idiots for managers who sleep to get their positions. And they do stoop that low. They are just luckY that they haven't been served with a suit YET!
Comment #57 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Who do the Elliman managers sleep with? Yuck....
Comment #58 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Corcoran management is intentionally changing the subject here. Corcoran was on trial not Douglas Elliman! The NY State Supreme & Appellate courts have branded Corcoran and Tresa Hall a THIEF. Corcoran and Hall were charged with THEFT! Do not help Pam & Tresa to change the subject.
Comment #59 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
I would never hire a broker named Sarit Shmueli, you are just asking for disaster
Comment #60 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
I guess Tresa Hall's supporters are all hiding under rocks somewhere, wondering how they could have been duped into voting her a lifetime achievement award.
Comment #61 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#59 are you part of the Douglas Elliman management that is hiding a quilty pleasure. Stating facts is not changing the subject it is making everyone aware of the truth, that it is not only Corcoran in this equation. The only reason why Corcoaran is being discussed at this very moment, is because they were served with a law suit and therefore it is public notice. Elliman will be the next shoe to drop.
Comment #62 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
THEY ALL SLEEP WITH BIG FAT FRANK PERCESEPE.
Comment #63 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
...^ Now that is truly a disgusting thought.^
Comment #64 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Frank is hot.
Comment #65 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#60 - if you will bully Sarit to commit perjury for you and then steal her clients, YES you are in a BIG trouble! In March 2002 Corcoran’s management knew that Sarit (and her 1400 client list) was going to join Douglas Elliman...
Comment #66 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit..as a former Corcoran agent I applaud you wholeheartedly. You should be proud of what you have done. This is a very special day indeed. I was used and thrown out and tried as hard as I could not to be vengeful or bitter. Many times however, I felt very hurt. This is an enormous victory and even though I am still trying to get over it...I am proud to have you amongst the ranks as a colleague. Lots of Luck!
Comment #67 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Listen, #67 - it's an HONOR to be an ex-Corcoran agent. That means 2 things - #1 you're a survivor, and #2 you're not a suck-up. Many of us did very well after leaving that place, and you will too!
Comment #68 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit, as a former Corcoran agent I can't begin to tell you what a nightmare you were in the office.
Comment #69 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#60 AKA Sarit, it's 'you are in BIG trouble', not 'you are in A Big trouble'. Don't type so fast Sarit, slow down and get it right so you don't look like an idiot.
Comment #70 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#70 - Corcoran's so obsessed with spelling & proper English, but they don't give 2 hoots about the law! Stop kvetching about Sarit's command of English, and spend sometime learning about morality, decency, and proper legal behavior.
Comment #71 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit, calm down. Go outside and harass someone. That should make you feel better.
Comment #72 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#72 - All you Corcoran matrons had better go study Law, particularly the laws you so flagrantly violated which have put the Corcoran Group in such deep legal trouble - from which it will never recover. The lack of professionalism & brain-power (i.e., airline stewardesses & PMS'ing bardenters for leaders) has sunk Corcoran beyond the pail.
Comment #73 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit what's a bardtender? an exchange student?
Comment #74 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit always minds her own business, and always was busy doing deals! However, the agents that were sitting next to her were busy talking about other agents in the office, and hardly did any deals. They obviously were (and still are) jealous when Sarit closed deals of Julie Andrews and Blake Edward, Albert Broccoli, and architect of the Kennedy Center Durrel Stone… Sarit always was top 10 brokers… One of the agents were sitting in Sarit’s office is the crazy Anne Young… Jealousy is very DANGEROUS thing!
Comment #75 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
REBNY: if you had any integrity, you would yank Tresa Hall's award away for Lifetime Achievement. You must set an example that this behaviour cannot be tolerated. Otherwise, Steven Spinola and the Board of Directors should resign and let some new blood clean up your organization.
Comment #76 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Suborning perjury is a crime! Corcoran’s executive Tresa Hall demanded that Ms. Shmueli suborn perjury for Corcoran in an unrelated case, the “Coffaros” case. Ms. Shmueli refused to suborn perjury for Corcoran, and in retaliation Corcoran terminated Shmueli and stole her (1400) client lists. Ms. Shmueli was called into Corcoran’s management office and summarily terminated; while Ms. Shmueli was being detained in the management’s offices, Corcoran’s personnel entered Ms. Shmueli’s office and changed her computer codes so that only they could access its information.
Comment #77 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Pam & Tresa, you and sarit are not disputing two things: 1. you are a bully that push people to commit perjury for Corcoran, and you are a thief that were convicted by the Supreme Court and the Appellate Court. 2. Sarit spelling is not great. So I prefer wrong spelling than a THIEF a BULLY and a LIAR! New York State courts have now convicted you of racial steering, theft, suppression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to perjure themselves.
Comment #78 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Calm down Sarit, no one is disputing that you need professional help on a clinical level. Have you tried any of the popular anti-harassment medications?
Comment #79 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Everyone, please ignore # 79 – Tresa Hall you are mentally VERY sick! Why so many brokers hate you? We hope that by now, you know the answer.
Comment #80 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
I think all of you old bitties (especially #79) need to get help. Immediately. Sarit seems to be the only sane person that took action against a dishonest firm and its' managers. When it happens to you #79 you will be thanking Sarit.
Comment #81 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Sarit you are hilarious! Seriously, you are so funny that you should do a one-woman show. Something like: "The Delusional Menace" where the audience is invited to believe what you make up as the truth. Tough gig, I know, but you have to admit, it's funny!
Comment #82 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
I am looking forward to the day the Real Deal gets all the IP addresses for these posts and #82 you will be the first to be exposed. Could the IP be associated with Tresa Hall or even the top Pam Lieberman. I get such a comedic high when I go to read this blog (and I am not Sarit #79). It is actually quite amusing when someone loses, how much a sore loser they become and try to continue to abuse someone that did NO wrong, but stick up for herself and make it known for the entire public and established case law against a major brokerage. Yes, Corcoran has been badly blemished to its' peers and the entire public. An iPhone app cannot earse that. This is also for the other brokerages that continue on the same path as Corcoran.
Comment #83 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
You know what Sarit, you're right, an iPhone app cannot earse that. I don't think anything can earse that. Is that correct?
Comment #84 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
I have to agree with #82, What a joker, she actually believes that other people believe what she's saying. Wow. Hilarious. Good show.
Comment #85 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Who knows who the idiot is wasting her time here poking away at Sarit (there are several candidates one could think of...) but surely it's someone who simply doesn't get it: No amount of demonizing Sarit can revise or reverse History: CORCORAN LOST. Sarit won. Case closed. Sore losers dig themselves even deeper...
Comment #86 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Lord knows Corcoran wasn't demonizing Sarit from 1996 to 2002, during which time Corcoran lined their pockets with big deals Sarit negotiated for her 1400 clients. But now Sarit's a bad girl, because she's against us, so let's all DEMONIZE her ! ! ! (With such a corporate strategy, no wonder Corcoran is in the crapper...).
Comment #87 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
YEAH, Sarit made us look bad! OK, so Corcoran was accused of theft, but that's Sarit's fault, right? The courts had nothing to do with that, right? Corcoran's behavior had NOTHING to do with that, right? IT'S ALL SARIT'S FAULT ! ! !
Comment #88 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
That's what I miss about working for Corcoran -- where the lunatics run the asylum...
Comment #89 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Yea, don't DEMONIZE her! C'mon, cut it out all you no-good knuckle heads, she's really not such a bad person, just highly delusional so cut her a break!
Comment #90 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#86 they will GET IT when it happens to them. For now they are obeying the herd and once they are booted out, they will FEEL IT.
Comment #91 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#85 you are 82! who are you kidding? Corcoran lost, lost lost...
Comment #92 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
They're just living who they are! Devious, greedy, inept, incapable & nasty - that's the Corcoran management team.
Comment #93 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Again, I prefer wrong spelling than a THIEF a BULLY and a LIAR! Tresa & Pam, New York State courts have now convicted you of racial steering, theft, suppression of evidence, and bullying your brokers to perjure themselves. Go prepare your briefs!
Comment #94 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
I'm with the Big Guy. I'm calling for a Sarit vs Teresa hot oil-wrestling match. Hold it downstairs at REBNY....
Comment #95 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Tresa, you are talking about harassment??? You took from Sarit 1400 clients, and her livelihood!
Comment #96 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Hall testified that she terminated Ms. Shmueli because brokers told her that Ms. Shmueli used the word “B.S” in the office. Hall also testified that she “never heard Ms. Shmueli use any foul language or act unprofessionally”. Indeed, Corcoran’s malicious act terminating Ms. Shmueli and stealing her client lists was premeditated, in retaliation for her refusal to commit perjury for Corcoran. Ms. Hall, are you expecting Ms. Shmueli to like you, and be nice to you? (and I am not Sarit - I am an attorney that read the file).
Comment #97 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
Again, Sarit always minds her own business, and always was busy doing deals! However, the agents that were sitting next to her were busy talking about other agents in the office, and hardly did any deals. They obviously were (and still are) jealous when Sarit closed deals of Julie Andrews and Blake Edward, Albert Broccoli, and architect of the Kennedy Center Durrel Stone… Sarit always was top 10 brokers… One of the agents were sitting in Sarit’s office is the crazy Anne Young… Jealousy is very DANGEROUS thing!!!
Comment #98 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Psychos-R-us
Sarit, would you mind my business? You sound like a professional.
Comment #99 Posted By: Psychos-R-us 02/02/10
Anonymous
All the Shmueli blogs to the negative...you are jealous. I think this is so cool for real estate agents. pooh pooh on you. Shmueli has guts. you just blog ;) what a loser are you. Shmueli in 2012!
Comment #100 Posted By: Anonymous 02/02/10
Anonymous
#101 and #102 too bad for you. Boo hoo. Corcoran = the face of evil Tresa Hall. An exceptionally bad potatoe. That's a spud who lives who she is.
Comment #101 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Only Pam & Tresa and the 3 agents that were sitting in Sarit's office are active on this blog to trash Sarit! We the Corcoran brokers love Sarit!
Comment #102 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
In giving Tresa Hall their lifetime achievement award, REBNY has been caught red-handed in a pay-for-play scandal -- which is the lowest behavior any such organization could display. Offering real estate firms the REBNY shield of credibility in exchange for dues, (plus "awards" for supposedly maintaining their "ethics") simply means that REBNY "credibility" can be purchased. Hey REBNY, can you go any lower than this?
Comment #103 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
The Jury also heard testimony that two discharged Top Corcoran’s brokers Harve Senequier and Leonard Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, which Corcoran had seized from them.
Comment #104 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – The Jury also heard testimony that two discharged top Corcoran’s brokers Senequier and Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, that seized by Corcoran. Corcoran actually exploited the confiscated client lists. Spinola, Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #105 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – your “Code of Ethics and Professional Practices” rule is gone down the drain, unless you immediately make Hall and Corcoran to comply with this rule.
Comment #106 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Coach
Ahh.... good morning Sarit. Have you had your coffee yet? What's on the agenda for today? Any new material or just more copy and paste? Might want to work on the spelling and less UPPERCASE so as to better conceal your blatant identity, OK? Now lets start off with POTATOE. We worked on this one last time remember? It's P-O-T-A-T-O with no E. Now you try it.
Comment #107 Posted By: Coach 02/03/10
REBNY
Dear Ms. Shmueli, Please address me as Mr. Spinola. Thank you.
Comment #108 Posted By: REBNY 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola - New York State courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of racial steering, theft, supression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to purjure themselves.Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #109 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola - Yes, are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #110 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Hi Sarit. What does your new company Sarit Inc. do? All of us brokers who love and respect you want to work for you. Please tell us more. Thank you.
Comment #111 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
I agree too - Spinola, are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #112 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
#113, there are alot of us who admire Sarit's bravery. What does her company do?
Comment #113 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
#115, I believe landlords hire her to harass tenants out of their apartments so they can jack up the rent.
Comment #114 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola - are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers? We are waiting for your answer. You want our dues don't you?
Comment #115 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Brokers – do not let Hall control this blog with stoop. She is trying to change the subjects of “Spinola’s responsibilities”, as she is doing it in the past three days.
Comment #116 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – Again, the New York State courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of racial steering, theft, suppression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to perjure themselves. Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #117 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – unless Hall and Corcoran comply with REBNY’s rules, no broker in this city is obligated to comply with your rules!
Comment #118 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
what is stoop?
Comment #119 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Brokers - you can write to - Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, New York State Court of Appeals, 20 Eagle Street, Albany, New York 12207-1095. Tel: (518) 455-7700, or (518) 455-7758.
Comment #120 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Dave
Sarit, Spinola's not here.
Comment #121 Posted By: Dave 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, there are no Brokers here.
Comment #122 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – unless Hall and Corcoran comply with REBNY’s rules, no broker in this city is obligated to comply with REBNY's rules!
Comment #123 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
It appears someone is blogging to themselves in support of this issue. Is an symptom of a paranoid delusional also schizophrenia? Discuss.
Comment #124 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
The facts of this case are so shocking & damaging that there is absolutely no reason for all this "venting". A major firm was convicted of theft and -- with exquisite irony -- REBNY awarded that same executive a lifetime achievement award. NOTHING MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID.
Comment #125 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
NO SARIT! Don't stop now, I'm having so much fun watching you blather on to yourself. Please don't stop!
Comment #126 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
I am an attorney, and I suggest: in order to avoid favoritism to Corcoran, and to report that you are not going to comply with REBNY’s rules as it has two sets of rules, one for Corcoran and one for the rest of the brokers. You write to Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, and COPIES to Judge Carmen B. Ciparick, Judge Victoria A. Graffeo, Judge Susan P. Read, Judge Robert S. Smith, Judge Eugene F. Pigott, Jr. Judge Theodore T. Jones. New York State Court of Appeals, 20 Eagle Street, Albany, New York 12207-1095. Tel: (518) 455-7700, or (518) 455-7758.
Comment #127 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Moore
SAY MORE SARIT! SAY MORE!
Comment #128 Posted By: Moore 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, now you are an attorney? When did you pass the bar? Two minutes ago?
Comment #129 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Good one Sarit, keep em comin!
Comment #130 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Flava Flav
I want to avoid flavoritism. Sarit, can you help me?
Comment #131 Posted By: Flava Flav 02/03/10
Anonymous
Dear Mr. Attorney, would you please post your contact information here so we can contact you? We need your help to avoid favoritism. Thank you.
Comment #132 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Who is this loser with nothing better to do but sit on this blog all day attacking any comment she thinks might have been written by Sarit? Get a life! And why do you express hatred towards a person who won both the case AND the appeal? That's no small feat: In the appeals process, 5 judges independently review the case and issue separate judgements. ALL FIVE JUDGES independently upheld Corcoran's conviction. So, is your hating Sarit some sort of sport? Are you her jilted lover? What's your problem?
Comment #133 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Oh no! not the dreaded favoritism! SAVE US ALL!!!!! Please Mr. Attorney, what is your name and phone number?
Comment #134 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Loser
Sarit I'm not THIS loser, I am A loser. OK?
Comment #135 Posted By: Loser 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, please don't be so hard on yourself. We don't hate you because you won, we depend on you to provide high quality 'blog-to-yourself ' entertainment to break up the mononoty of the daily grind. We're countin on ya so please don't let us down. Many thanks.
Comment #136 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, some new material please? What time do you break for lunch? We don't want to miss anything. Thanks.
Comment #137 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – unless Hall and Corcoran comply with REBNY’s rules, no broker in this city is obligated to comply with your rules! REBNY-your rules went down the drain, and to Albany!
Comment #138 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
That wasn't exactly new material Sarit, c'mon step it up.
Comment #139 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Hey loser! Your obsession with Sarit is touching, to say the least, but she's simply NOT going to do the nasty with you. So, try Tresa - you might have better luck...
Comment #140 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
that's better! keep em comin girl!
Comment #141 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
146 posts and not one positive word in support of Tresa Hall. That's a statement in itself...
Comment #142 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
That's because no one else can stand to be on here with you for more than 2 seconds.
Comment #143 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, when's lunch?
Comment #144 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Tech Support
Can someone get Sarit a backup keyboard? (don't want to take any chances)
Comment #145 Posted By: Tech Support 02/03/10
Anonymous
OK, now it's my turn: As a loyal Corcoran broker for 15 years, I'm sure I speak for many of my colleagues who feel betrayed by Corcoran managements's behavior as exposed in Sarit's case. It's bad enough that the brokerage company we've trusted for so long has been so publicly humiliated (deservedly so, as it turns out) - so the petty, catty remarks of a certain blogger on this site do nothing to remedy our tarnished image. GIVE IT UP, hon -- you're just making a bad situation WORSE.
Comment #146 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – unless Hall and Corcoran comply with REBNY’s rules, no broker in this city is obligated to comply with your rules! REBNY-your rules went down the drain, and to Albany!
Comment #147 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
#150 and your other comments on this blog - this is not going away, involved REBNY, Corcoran/Hall and Albany. We will find away to get your IP address. This is a promise!
Comment #148 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
#151 - How true, Corcoran's attitude towards this matter remains defiant, arrogant & bullying. As this case becomes more publicly known, it's becoming more & more embarrassing to be associated with Corcoran.
Comment #149 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, what would you do with an IP address, sue for favoritism? By the way, it's 'a way' not 'away'. I promise.
Comment #150 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
#150, 156 and your other 20 comments: You will have to testify that you are trashing Sarit for one reason, to cover-up for Tresa Hall - This matter will be in front of 6 judges, and you will be asked to testify. This is a promise! Your comments here are not appreciated! Now, let us do business with Albany's judges.
Comment #151 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – unless Hall and Corcoran comply with REBNY’s rules, no broker in this city is obligated to comply with your rules! REBNY-your rules went down the drain, and to the Court of Appeals in Albany!
Comment #152 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – the New York State courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of racial steering, theft, suppression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to perjure themselves. Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #153 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Only 6 Judges? C'mon Sarit I don't even get out of bed for less than 9. Listen honey, I have to run out for awhile so can we pick this up later? What works for you?
Comment #154 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola – The Jury also heard testimony that two discharged top Corcoran’s brokers Senequier and Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, that seized by Corcoran. Corcoran actually exploited the confiscated client lists. Spinola, Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #155 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
If Corcoran were a responsible firm, they would (1) admit wrong-doing, (2) fire Tresa Hall, and (3) apologize to the brokerage community. If REBNY were a responsible organization, they would retract the award they gave to Tresa Hall. However, both organizations remain defiant on these matters -- which simply exposes how phony they are.
Comment #156 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
#160 - we will see you in court, on the witness stand!
Comment #157 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, how are you going to explain to the 6 Judges that you claim here to be an attorney?
Comment #158 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola 1 – REBNY has TWO SETS OF RULES, one for Corcoran and one for the rest of us.
Comment #159 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola 2 – The Jury also heard testimony that two discharged top Corcoran’s brokers Senequier and Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, that seized by Corcoran. Corcoran actually exploited the confiscated client lists. Spinola, Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #160 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola 2 – The Jury also heard testimony that two discharged top Corcoran’s brokers Senequier and Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, that seized by Corcoran. Corcoran actually exploited the confiscated client lists. Spinola, Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #161 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola 3 – the New York State courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of racial steering, theft, suppression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to perjure themselves. Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers?
Comment #162 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola 4 - unless Hall and Corcoran comply with REBNY’s rules, no broker in this city is obligated to comply with your rules! REBNY-your rules went down the drain, and to the Court of Appeals in Albany!
Comment #163 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
what a bunch of spinola!
Comment #164 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Sarit, can we go back to more original material and less copy and paste?
Comment #165 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola: 1) REBNY has two sets of rules, one for Corcoran and one for the rest of us;
Comment #166 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola: 2) The Jury also heard testimony that two discharged top Corcoran’s brokers Senequier and Steinberg broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, that seized by Corcoran. Corcoran actually exploited the confiscated client lists. Spinola, Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers;
Comment #167 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola: 3) The New York State courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of Racial Steering, Theft, Suppression of Evidence, and Bullying Their Brokers to Perjure Themselves. Are you or aren’t you going to protect your brokers? ;
Comment #168 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Spinola: 4) unless Hall and Corcoran comply with REBNY’s rules, no broker in this city is obligated to comply with your rules! REBNY- your rules went down the drain, and to the Court of Appeals in Albany!
Comment #169 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Pam Liebman is still in deep shock. NEVER did she dream Corcoran would lose this case. She led her NRT bosses down the garden path, and they trusted her that Corcoran would prevail. It never occured to them that Pam was covering up for Tresa's stupidity - and in fact she was USING Tresa for that very reason, because Tresa was no threat to Pam's authority. Pam doesn't defend superstar brokers - in fact she let's her idiot managers fire them on a whim. BUT, Pam defends her dim-wit managers to death! Small wonder the Corcoran Group is caving in.
Comment #170 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
The New York State courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of racial steering, theft, suppression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to perjure themselves. All these Court Cases against Corcoran are HIGHLY DELUSIONAL??? When Corcoran commit a Crime, it is not illegal !
Comment #171 Posted By: Anonymous 02/03/10
Anonymous
Corcoran also STOLE the client lists of two discharged top brokers Senequier and Steinberg, who broke into Corcoran’s offices in the Middle of the Night to retrieve their client lists, that seized by Corcoran. Is this "HIGHLY DELUSIONAL" too???
Comment #172 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
As a loyal Corcoran broker for 15 years, I'm sure I speak for many of my colleagues who feel betrayed by Corcoran managements' behavior as exposed in Sarit's case. It's bad enough that the brokerage company we've trusted for so long has been so publicly humiliated (deservedly so, as it turns out) - so the petty, catty remarks of a certain blogger on this site do nothing to remedy our tarnished image. GIVE IT UP, hon -- you're just making a bad situation WORSE.
Comment #173 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
If Corcoran were a responsible firm, they would (1) admit wrong-doing, (2) fire Tresa Hall, and (3) apologize to the brokerage community. If REBNY were a responsible organization, they would retract the award they gave to Tresa Hall. However, both organizations CORRUPT.
Comment #174 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
There is a broadway play out these days about Enron...I am looking for support to do one on Corcoran. Starting with Pamela Liebman and her deranged managers. Mel Brooks we need you now. THe Liebman Follies. Reinventing stupidity on a grand new basis ending with the Live Who You Are logo.
Comment #175 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
#182 I like that. Tresa Hall can come out looking like Mrs. Potatoe head, Pamela in diapers for not having experience and the managers can come out in their regalia from their past jobs. Frank Percepepe can be a pocket sales person in drag, Elaine Dean can be ms. Kindergarten...this is too good.
Comment #176 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
#182, 183 don’t forget this part for “the Broadway Play”: Corcoran’s PRESIDENT, PAM LIEBMAN cheated the judge and the jury, she was on Corcoran’s witness list, and was sitting in the courtroom, hiding behind the taller people in the courtroom audience, learning the testimony of the witnesses, prior to her testimony! Liebman violated the court rules by cheating the judge and the jury! When the judge found out, he asked Liebman to leave the courtroom… Liebman only testified in the one day trial for the Punitive Damages amount, in which she bagged the Jury not to award Punitive damages against Corcoran because “it will affect the BONUSES” for her and her managers… (Court Transcripts pages 499-500, 541-543)
Comment #177 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
Corcoran’s Management: If you were to familiarize yourself with the American court system, you'd know that it's designed so that "Liars" don't get very far, and neither do mud-slingers. So instead of shooting from the hip (in true Corcoran style) why don't you just read the court record online, and learn the truth of this case? The system has already spoken in Sarit’s favor - only after reviewing reams of evidence and the vote of an impartial six Supreme Court Jurors and impartial five Appellate Court judges. The American justice system works - it's the system under which we all choose to live, and in following due process of law, justice always speak through in the end.
Comment #178 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Your Best Friend
Good morning Sarit, sorry Hon but I have quite a bit of work today so you going to be all alone on here today. Remember what we said about copy and paste, proper spelling and less UPPER case, ok? Have fun!
Comment #179 Posted By: Your Best Friend 02/04/10
Anonymous
REBNY, we are waiting for your answer.
Comment #180 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
CONCLUSION
If Corcoran were a responsible firm, they would (1) admit wrong-doing, (2) fire Tresa Hall, and (3) apologize to the brokerage community. If REBNY were a responsible organization, they would retract the award they gave to Tresa Hall. However, both organizations CORRUPT.
Comment #181 Posted By: CONCLUSION 02/04/10
Anonymous
#182 - your idea is BRILLIANT. "The Corcoran-Liebman Follies" - a show about a real-estate firm run by bartenders, kindergarten teachers, airline stewardesses, blond narcissists, and PMS'ing shrews -- all of whom control REBNY! It will win a string of Tony awards, with a Hollywood movie to follow. Yes, Mel Brooks -get on this right away ! ! ! (Or maybe Monty Python...)
Comment #182 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
Why does anyone care about a client 'list' anyway? A good agent is protected by the relationships they create with their clients. Isn't the information on a client 'list' property of both the agent and broker? Isn't the client going to follow where the relationship is? In some cases the firm but in most cases with the agent they have been dealing with on an ongoing basis personally? Thus the client ultimately decides? Why does a court need to decide?
Comment #183 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
You're right 191. In addition, what kind of a moron puts their ENTIRE client list on a company owned computer without a back-up somewhere else? I don't know ANYONE that stupid. oh wait, there is one person...
Comment #184 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
An independant contractor is responsible for their client list. So lets say you have all your contacts on one computer at home as opposed to keeping them all on a company computer (which is stupid to begin wiith) and your home computer implodes. Who you gonna sue then, the computer company? Get real.
Comment #185 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
This case did set a good precedent for both sides. 1. Don't be stupid enough to leave all your client files on a company computer. 2. As a company, at the time of hiring, make it clear who owns what on a company computer. Case closed.
Comment #186 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
oh, and 3. Screen who you hire more throughly.
Comment #187 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
Yes, and hire Tresa Hall... the thief, who will steal thousands of clients from agents, to the company...
Comment #188 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
The facts of this case are so shocking & damaging that there is absolutely no reason for all this "venting". A major firm was convicted of theft and -- with exquisite irony -- REBNY awarded that same executive a lifetime achievement award. NOTHING MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID.
Comment #189 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Host
#197, If nothing more needs to be said, why are you (or others on your IP address) posting 78% of the above? What's that all about?
Comment #190 Posted By: Host 02/04/10
Anonymous
The New York State courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of racial steering, theft, suppression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to perjure themselves. All these Court Cases against Corcoran are “HIGHLY DELUSIONAL”??? When Corcoran commit a Crime, it is not illegal!!!
Comment #191 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
Isn't it is a well established fact that highly delusional individuals: make extensive use of UPPER CASE; copy and paste the same comments over and over; overuse "??? !!!" and misspell 'potato'? It's not illegal but it certainly is disturbing.
Comment #192 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
REBNY: Suborning perjury is a crime! Corcoran’s executive Tresa Hall bullies Corcoran’s brokers to suborn perjury for Corcoran. Hall is a THIEF a BULLY and a LIAR.
Comment #193 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
watch the UPPER CASE and slow it down a bit...
Comment #194 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
#201, #203 and the other numbers you are writing under. You need to immediately turn yourself in to a mental treatment for your disorders. I don't know of any, however, I took the liberty of googling and came across this one for you. It is outside NY which is better for us New Yorkers to have you far away from here. www.skylandtrail.org. I suggest you contact them ASAP and stop harassing Sarit on this blog. You are an a sick individual.
Comment #195 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
Now this is getting interesting, how does one turn themselves into a mental treatment? Anyone? Who is harassing this Sarit person on what blog? Does she own the Real Deal? I thought this was a comment section on The Real Deal. Am I mistaken? Where are we??? WHAT"S GOING ON????
Comment #196 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
#204 - Thank you! You are the best! This person #201, #203 and the other numbers she is writing under is very sick and not a broker, as she does not want NY brokers to be protected by REBNY, that Corcoran’s management could continue to steal from brokers as they stole from Sarit, Senequier Steinberg and others!
Comment #197 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
There's no business like show business....everything about it is appealing, Tresa Hall is gonna really flop, Pamela Liebman really bit her own tail off, I know its tough but its worth a bluff.... Lets go on with the SHOW!!!:)
Comment #198 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
We are the managers my friends,.,,and we'll keep on fighting till the end.. we are the managers, we are the managers, no voice for brokers cause we are the managers of the world!
Comment #199 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
Sarit - don't take the bait. Just let these biddies act-out with their rants, until they burn out!
Comment #200 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
# 211 - Thank you! You are the best! It's about time we got some professional help in here. This is a very sick case, what do you prescribe?
Comment #201 Posted By: Anonymous 02/04/10
Anonymous
Corcoran’s management - you will not be able to stop NY brokers from fighting for their Rights! REBNY will not have a choice but to change its policy to protect brokers from managements who steal their client lists and bully them to perjure themselves. We are New York Brokers have VOICE, we will fight for our RIGHTS, we are big community and REBNY must protect us, as we pay dues over $10 million a year!
Comment #202 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
REBNY - Corcoran’s former Chief Technology Officer, Charles Olson, Specifically testified that cutting off access to someone’s computer “was usually at a time of unfriendly termination. When a broker left the company, they were usually going to a competitor, so we would cut them right off” (See Transcript page 249-50)
Comment #203 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
#215: ALL Corcoran "terminations" are "unfriendly". HOSTILITY is Corcoran's primary management tool - All Corcoran managers use hostility as a control mechanism (because they lack management skills). Leaving Corcoran is viewed as a "hostile act" by these managerial idiots, who are always out to "get'cha" anyway, so when you leave, they've gotta "get'cha" ! !
Comment #204 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
The powerful testimony of Corcoran’s former Chief Technology Officer, Charles Olson: “SO, WE WOULD CUT THEM RIGHT OFF ”. Olson well established, “THIS WAS CORCORAN’S POLICY!”
Comment #205 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
REBNY: the Jury heard testimony that Corcoran stole client lists from many discharged brokers, Sarit Shmueli, Harve Senequier, George Steinberg, Irwin Shanha and others… Corcoran distributed the stolen clients to Corcoran’s brokers to increase sales. Stealing the livelihood client lists of discharged brokers, is a BILLION dollars business from THEFT, for Corcoran.
Comment #206 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
# 219 - and this is a crime!
Comment #207 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
CONCLUSION - If Corcoran were a responsible firm, they would (1) admit wrong-doing, (2) fire Tresa Hall, and (3) apologize to the brokerage community. If REBNY were a responsible organization, they would retract the award they gave to Tresa Hall. However, both organizations CORRUPT.
Comment #208 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Is repetitive posting a sign of psychosis?
Comment #209 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
REBNY - we are waiting for your answer. Corcoran’s management - you will not be able to stop NY brokers from fighting for their Rights! REBNY will not have a choice but to change its policy and start protecting their brokers from managements who steal their client lists and bully them to perjure themselves. We have VOICE, we are not going anywhere, and we will fight for our RIGHTS. REBNY, you must protect us, as we pay you dues over $10 million a year!
Comment #210 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Dr.Klein
CONCLUSION - apparently repetitive posting is a symptom of paranoid delusional behavior. Let's watch this one closely to see if it continues...
Comment #211 Posted By: Dr.Klein 02/05/10
Anonymous
#222 and 224 Corcoran Management: You will not be able to stop us! Yes we will repeat the crucial facts over again until REBNY will hear us. And you must turn yourself immediately into a mental treatment and far away from NY. There is no room for your sickness here, we can't help you, we are not Doctors we are Brokers.
Comment #212 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Corcoran Management - REBNY will not have a choice but to change its policy and protect brokers from managements like you, who steal their client lists and bully them to perjure themselves.
Comment #213 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
If REBNY were a responsible organization, they would retract the award they gave to Tresa Hall. REBNY is CORRUPT organization.
Comment #214 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Dr. Klein
This is what I was afraid of. This case is very serious. Beyond meds or therapy as a possible course of action. Deportation is perhaps the only solution.
Comment #215 Posted By: Dr. Klein 02/05/10
Anonymous
What I see here is compulsive RDS (repetitive diagnosis syndrome) from an idiot with no medical credentials who is thoroughly obsessed with Sarit and feels compelled to analyze & diagnose her excessive postings. And Hey, Sarit - Cool off! You won the case. NO reason for you to further defend yourself, us, or anybody else against these hot-air baloons who have nothing better to do than write silly blogs.
Comment #216 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Corcoran Management - We the New York brokers are not going anywhere! This matter will continue for the next several months, and we will not stop until REBNY and ALBANY will be involved. Did you contact the mental institute?
Comment #217 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
No we didn't but I'm sure you have their phone number, what is it?
Comment #218 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Bravo to Shmueli, and to the court for showing the entire world what Corcoran is all about.
Comment #219 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Corcoran has been losing dozens of agents every month this year. After working there for 5 years, it is a great feeling of validation knowing there is justice for the little guy after all. Thank you Sarit.
Comment #220 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Corcoran's Management vs. ALL New York Brokers
Comment #221 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Corcoran is simply reserving the right to "live who they are" -- i.e., PETTY and LOW.
Comment #222 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Sarit Shmueli is not in NY, she is in Albany and Washington D.C for several days! She can only be reached on her cellular! If you have anything to say to her, call her cellular.
Comment #223 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Corcoran’s Management – Remember, Sarit’s friends and supporters are here in NY!
Comment #224 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
or at least in her head.
Comment #225 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Supporters? Really? Name one.
Comment #226 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Tresa Hall ever get hired elsewhere - because no reputable firm would touch her. Ditto for 99% of all other Corcoran managers: They better cling to the Corcoran gravy train, because they'll never get into any other firm.
Comment #227 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
Finally Tresa Hall is getting a taste of her own medicine. Fortunately, most of the brokers she fired went onto brilliant careers in other firms, but NO WAY will Tresa Hall ever get hired elsewhere - because no reputable firm would touch her. Ditto for 99% of all other Corcoran managers: They better cling to the Corcoran gravy train, because they'll never get into any other firm.
Comment #228 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
Anonymous
In giving Tresa Hall their lifetime achievement award, REBNY has been caught red-handed in a pay-for-play scandal -- which is the lowest behavior any such organization could display. Offering real estate firms the REBNY shield of credibility in exchange for dues, (plus "awards" for supposedly maintaining their "ethics") simply means that REBNY "credibility" can be purchased. Hey REBNY, can you go any lower than this?
Comment #229 Posted By: Anonymous 02/05/10
CHA
OVER 236 POSTS by ANONYMOUS... That should speak or itself.....:) Nobody dares to identify themselves.... hmmmm
Comment #230 Posted By: CHA 02/05/10
Sarit
I double dog dare ya.
Comment #231 Posted By: Sarit 02/05/10
Anonymous
If Corcoran were a responsible firm, they would (1) admit wrong-doing, (2) fire Tresa Hall, and (3) apologize to the brokerage community. If REBNY were a responsible organization, they would retract the award they gave to Tresa Hall. However, both organizations CORRUPT.
Comment #232 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Corcoran Management: you corrupt, and as we see on this blog, your actions are indefensible!
Comment #233 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
#238 is Corcoran Management - you CORRUPT, can you go any lower than this? Your actions are indefensible! You must (1) admit wrong-doing, (2) fire Tresa Hall, and (3) apologize to the brokerage community.
Comment #234 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
No one on this blog in 241 comments could defend Corcoran and or Tresa Hall!
Comment #235 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
# 237 and 238 posted by PAM LIEBMAN and TRESA HALL - this is their defense!
Comment #236 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
“President” Pam Liebman and Tresa Hall can you go any lower than this?
Comment #237 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
When Esther Kaplan left Corcoran in 2000, she took her honesty with her, and left us in the hands of these criminals…
Comment #238 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Barbara's lenders sold the Corcoran Group out from under her to NRT for $27M, and handed Barbara a bill for $3M to cover her $30M debt. Babs didn't have the $3M, Pam's family offered to pay it for her if (a) she fired Esther Kaplan, (b) stepped down herself, and (c) installed Pam in the top job. What they didn't tell her is that once Pam was the boss, Barbara would be ousted. Donald Trump went on record saying "As I understand, Barbara Corcoran's exit from her company was most unpleasant for her."
Comment #239 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Chapter 11 was Barbara's only option once her debt went over the $30M mark. But NO WAY were her lenders about to let her do that! SO, they quietly shopped the Corcoran Group to interested buyers, NRT offered them $27M, so Bab's lenders took that money and then chased her down for the remaining $3M. Taking Pam up on her offer to cover the short-fall was the dumbest thing Barbara could have done, and it cost her the very position that she so desperately clung to.
Comment #240 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
#237 - it's more like 247 posts but not one supportive word about Corcoran Group, Tresa or Pam. That doesn't look good...
Comment #241 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
and she left us in the hands of these criminals Pam and Tresa, that their actions are indefensible!
Comment #242 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Imagine the almighty Corcoran Group sending 8 lawyers into courtroom to try & stop little Sarit Shmueli. So Corcoran spent upwards of $3M trying to avoid paying Sarit $1.2M in punitive damages.
Comment #243 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Corcoran already spent $5 million legal fees on this case alone - from 2003-2009 (including the 17 day trial)… keep going...
Comment #244 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
After Leonard Steinberg left the Corcoran 10th Street office a huge exodus followed: Darren Sukenik, Holly Parker, Peter Belmonte, Dee Simonsen, Mary Ann Cotter, Jacqueline Fopiano, Viviane El Yachar, Julie Owen, Victor Cino, Paulette Demers, and several others.
Comment #245 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Here at Corcoran we are in the hands of morons, Pam and Tresa, who are not to be trusted, and they are taking this company down, with no return.
Comment #246 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
The order came from Hall and Liebman: Corcoran stole client lists from many discharged brokers, Sarit Shmueli, Harve Senequier, Leonard Steinberg, Irwin Shamha and others…Finally Tresa Hall and Pam Liebman are getting a taste of their own medicine.
Comment #247 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Congratulations Sarit. It is completely an honor to work in a profession with someone like you. I applaud you for your victory, shame on your former firm for their dishonorable conduct.
Comment #248 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
#246, 247 – I agree, it was the dumbest thing Barbara Corcoran could have done. She left this company in the hands of Pam and Tresa, whose actions indefensible, and who took this company down to a point where is NO RETURN!
Comment #249 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
#252 - it's true, top brokers Leonard Steinberg & Harve Senequier, whose client lists were stolen by Corcoran’s management, left the Corcoran, and a huge EXODUS followed: Darren Sukenik, Holly Parker, Peter Belmonte, Dee Simonsen, Mary Ann Cotter, Jacqueline Fopiano, Viviane El Yachar, Julie Owen, Victor Cino, Paulette Demers, and several others.
Comment #250 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
#238- was written by Tresa and Pam: That’s what Corcoran management does best, perjury! If they can’t bully their brokers to commit perjury, they do the fraud and perjury themselves.
Comment #251 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Tresa Hall should go back to tending bar or being an airline stewardess, where she would get into less trouble. Somehow the amazing skills she acquired in those jobs didn't serve her well as an EVP of Corcoran. Hall, go back to the friendly skies, serve coffee tea and peanuts.
Comment #252 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
The March 17th, 1997 issue of New York Magazine quoted super- broker Robby Brown, who called his client Arnold Scaasi "a garmento, a jew, and gay". Robby was an Elliman broker at that time, but the publicity caused Barbara Corcoran & Esther Kaplan to chase after Robby & hire him for Corcoran! (Twice, actually - because he quit Corcoran the first time around after only a few months...). BUT, Corcoran fired Sarit Shmueli for saying "bull s..." in the office! So, apparently at Corcoran, it's OK to trash your clients in the press, but don't say "BS in the office....because that's a no-no. What hypocrisy!
Comment #253 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Indeed, Hall testified that she terminated Ms. Shmueli because brokers told her that Ms. Shmueli used the word “B.S” in the office. Hall also testified that she “NEVER heard Ms. Shmueli use any foul language or act unprofessionally”. Corcoran’s malicious act terminating Ms. Shmueli and stealing her client lists was premeditated, in retaliation for her refusal to commit PERJURY for Corcoran.
Comment #254 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Frankly Corcoran didn't care if Robbe Brown was an ax-murderer just as long as he was making money for Corcoran.
Comment #255 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
In the past, REBNY's lifetime achievement award went to some truly distinguished individuals, all of whom earned & deserved it (Peter Marra, Diane Ramirez, Betsy Dean, John Wollberg, etc.). That REBNY's awards committee could have even considered giving this same award to Tresa Hall begs the question "What were they smoking?"
Comment #256 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Corcoran management style is all about "shooting from the hip. However, their actions in this case are indefensible, and on this blog, not even one supportive word about Corcoran Group, Tresa or Pam. That doesn't look good...
Comment #257 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
The courts are being kept busy with Corcoran Group cases - Anybody at Reaolgy paying attention here? How about hiring a competent management team, and giving the legal system a rest?
Comment #258 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
CORCORAN was charged with THEFT, stealing the client lists of agents, upon termination, and the case became a LANDMARK and a MAJOR PRECEDENT IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM: The ownership of the client lists of the agents was AWARDED to the AGENTS, not the company. The law protects the computerized client lists from THEFT. This case became A LANDMARK!
Comment #259 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Do the NYC real estate agents understand the magnitude of this landmark decision? This case became a landmark and major precedent THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, to protect the client lists of the agents!
Comment #260 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Kudos to TRD for permitting this discourse… Speaking as an insider, this info is terribly disconcerting, to say the least. (We're not told any of this at Corcoran, obviously). I'm preparing my resume now, as are many of us.
Comment #261 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Give credit to Sarit Shmueli for not only winning a jury verdict and Appellate Court decision, but also winning a Landmark Decision against the largest real estate agency in New York City, the Corcoran Group, who was represented by top attorneys. Sarit represented herself.
Comment #262 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
REBNY gave Hall a lifetime achievement award? HAHAHA!
Comment #263 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Well, sinking Corcoran into a case they lost thru a wide-reaching landmark Supreme Court ruling is indeed a lifetime achievement!
Comment #264 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Sarit Shmueli is one of many ex-Corcoran brokers to have suffered such indignities from Corcoran's inept & thuggish manager-ladies (yes, sadly 95% of them were female). No abuse was off limits to them - everything from bullying, yelling, threats, intimidation, kick-backs - they were shameless. Finally it's all coming to a boil, and it's about time. Thanks, Sarit, for having the guts to haul Corcoran into Supreme Court for some long overdue justice - which many others were just too beaten down to do.
Comment #265 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Prior to Corcoran, Tresa Hall was an airline stewardess. So, having appointed an army of light-weights to key management positions (all of whom later plotted her ouster), Barbara Corcoran shaped the disastrous course of The Corcoran Group. Finally, they are now all suffering the ripple-effects of Barbara's pathetic character judgements & shoddy decisions. They were all hired for the same reason - Barbara thought they were no threat to her, but in hindsight she truly underestimated Pam Liebman.
Comment #266 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
How horrifying to think that I put my career & good name in the hands of an airline stewardess, and that I'm at the mercy of such people. GET ME OUTA HERE!!!
Comment #267 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Corcoran is truly "Living who they are" -- a wild pack of bullies & bandits, out to hoodwink whomever they can. What they sent around truly came around, and the reality is far more than they can handle. This mega exposure of their abuses is well deserved and long overdue. Every profession has its share of trailer trash, so let's hope the public won't damn the entire brokerage community for this bunch of rotten apples.
Comment #268 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Corcoran cannot bully anyone. They are actually sitting around trying to not get noticed right now.
Comment #269 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
The problem with REBNY however, is that they have their own agenda, and therefore will more than likely not go the route of the agents. Thank goodness our current administration in Washington does not take to lobby groups in the manner of prior administrations....something to think about next time you owe dues. Are you listening brokerages?
Comment #270 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
REBNY - Membership in REBNY means we adhere to your standard of ethics, so how do you expect the public to take REBNY members seriously when you allow this to happen?
Comment #271 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
In today's transparent world most interest groups such as REBNY would never take the interest of corrupt management such as Corcoran/Cendant. If anything let this be a loud warning for all that we the actual salesmen and women will not tolerate this behavior from management. Either start respecting our intellectual property or close up shop!
Comment #272 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Yeah, Corcoran blows $3.5M on legal fees in a hopeless attempt to rehabilitate Tresa Hall, and they spent money on a full-page TRD ad to proclaim how proud they are of Tresa winning the REBNY award. How disgusting.
Comment #273 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
At least Corcoran is good for something in this economy, legal expenses and advertising...we appreciate that based on gross national product and spending.
Comment #274 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Does REBNY really value their friendship with Corcoran (and all the dues they dump into their coffers) over the rulings of the Supreme Court? It sure does look like it....
Comment #275 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Corcoran is sinking, and they're pulling REBNY down with them. But if that's what it took to expose the hypocracy & corruption of the brokerage community, then a true service has been rendered.
Comment #276 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
I have no ax to grind, here. All I know is that whenever I called Sarit Shmueli to show my clients her exclusive listings, she was exceedingly gracious, accomodating, & professional -- and in every way an asset to The Corcoran Group.
Comment #277 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
I looked around the room and saw many heads shaking with disbelief when the REBNY lifetime achievement award was announced. This inexplicable award should be revoked from Tresa Hall and given to Sarit Shmueli.
Comment #278 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
#286 - I concur. REBNY, prove to your brokers/agents that you stand by them and rescind the award and give it to a someone deserving - Sarit Shmueli.
Comment #279 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
REBNY: if you had any integrity, you would yank Tresa Hall's award away for Lifetime Achievement. You must set an example that this behaviour cannot be tolerated. Otherwise, Steven Spinola and the Board of Directors should resign and let some new blood clean up your organization.
Comment #280 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
REBNY has always valued their relationship with the big firms over any standard of ethics, because let's face it, "ethics" don't pay dues.
Comment #281 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
The past award winners were more shocked by this year's winner (Tresa Hall) than anyone else was. Having spoken to 3 past winners, I assure you they were completely insulted.
Comment #282 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Sinking Corcoran into a case they lost thru a wide-reaching Landmark Supreme Court ruling is indeed a lifetime achievement! REBNY, this inexplicable award should be revoked from Tresa Hall and given to Sarit Shmueli.
Comment #283 Posted By: Anonymous 02/06/10
Anonymous
Why did Tresa Hall object to Sarit saying "bull s--t"? Corcoran West Side manager Elaine Dean says bull s--t all the time, and also she frequently refers to people as "A-holes". This foul-mouthed manager has driven a slew of agents to other companies - many of them are superstars who left a huge dent in Corcoran's bottom line.
Comment #284 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
WOW! Nearly 300 posts and almost all by Sarit! I think we have a new record holder! Go Sarit, Go!
Comment #285 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
#293 Pam and Tresa- this is your defense? Your style was all about "shooting from the hip”. Now your actions are indefensible, a bully - a liar - a thief, so you no longer could “shoot from the hip”! On this blog, not even one supportive word about Corcoran Group, Tresa or Pam. That doesn't look good… We all know all the horrible things you did to Barbara Corcoran and Esther Kaplan. Who is next on your list? See comments 246, 247.
Comment #286 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Liebman kicked out Barbara Corcoran and Esther Kaplan… and the Donald Trump’s reaction, “As I understand, Barbara Corcoran's exit from her company was most unpleasant for her." You must read comments # 246, 247. This is really fun!
Comment #287 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
REBNY, you must know by now that Corcoran and Hall’s actions indefensible! Prove to your brokers/agents that you have integrity, stand by them, and rescind the award and give it to someone deserving - Sarit Shmueli, who changed our life, and gave us a GIFT of Landmark Decision -our client lists are now protected by law, by the Landmark decision.
Comment #288 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
The only GIFT Sarit could give us is a lobotomy.
Comment #289 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Sarit, you must've been up all night posting all these comments. So tell us, WHY are you posing naked in your photo?
Comment #290 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
#297-298 Tresa & Pam, this is your defense?
Comment #291 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
#246 and 247 is a great story! The true face of Pam, Tresa and Corcoran!
Comment #292 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
REBNY, Prove to your brokers/agents that you have integrity, stand by them, and rescind the award and give it to someone deserving - Sarit Shmueli, who changed our life, - our client lists are now protected by law, by the Landmark decision.
Comment #293 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Over 300 comments from New York brokers, not even one comment supports Hall, Liebman and Corcoran! WOW! You took Corcoran down to a point where is no RETURN!
Comment #294 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
WOW, Multiple posting disorder, paranoid schizophrenic behavior, and terminal victim mentality. I guess you are right, there is no RETURN!
Comment #295 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Corcoran is sinking, and they're pulling REBNY down with them.
Comment #296 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Thanks for all this information! It's now possible for us Corcoran brokers to separate truth from legend (there'a little too much of the latter around here...). It's now perfectly clear what Corcoran is all about - and it will be up to us to decide whether to tolerate it further, or seek out a more sane place to work.
Comment #297 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Oh hi Sarit, what time is the game on Hon?
Comment #298 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Corcoran - a bunch of PMS'ing shrews trying to bully & intimidate their brokers and the industry. It's all so pathetic...
Comment #299 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
We should all be grateful to Sarit for setting the record straight. This Landmark decision is meant to protect us from theft. As for REBNY you should take that award back and stand by the landmark court ruling!
Comment #300 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Does anyone know which losers at REBNY were on the committee who chose to give the Award to Tresa Hall knowing fully well of her conviction?
Comment #301 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
REBNY- in giving Tresa Hall your lifetime achievement award, you had been caught red - handed in a pay - for - play scandal -- which is the lowest behavior any such organization could display. Offering real estate firms your REBNY shield of credibility in exchange for dues, plus "awards" for supposedly maintaining their "Ethics". Simply means that REBNY "credibility" can be purchased. This is CORRUPTION! Hey REBNY, can you go any lower than this?
Comment #302 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Corcoran management - folks who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks. HUGE E-X-O-D-U-S everyone! Where all these Corcoran brokers going to?
Comment #303 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Pam & Tresa - Don't you get it? You STOLE! Didn't mommy tell you that stealing is wrong? Supreme Court Judge & jury and Appellate Court judges say you stole - after a long trial. So get with the program, ladies - no awards will camouflage your misdeeds.
Comment #304 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
No doubt the Corcoran press office is reading this blog. One wonders what must be going through their heads as they pick through all these entries in a vain search for one Corcoran-positive comment, and as they read all the truths that negate the "spin" they've been paid to spew all these years...
Comment #305 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
REBNY, stand by your brokers /agents and rescind the award and give it to someone deserving - Sarit Shmueli, who changed our life - Our client lists are now protected by law, by a Landmark Decision.
Comment #306 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
THE FACTS: Ester Kaplan was Sarits' benefactor and gave her 70% of her business. After her exit from Corcoran Sarit's business was non-existent. She had no client lists to steal. The catalyst for her meltdown was the result of a lawsuit by one of her customer's for material misrepresentation. After her termination a dozen brokers who sat near her hired a healer to smudge her desk. NRT in their arrogance is resposible for losing this scam artist case.
Comment #307 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
#315 here here
Comment #308 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
Sarit probably posted 300 of the 315 comments herself shes a sleaz
Comment #309 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
No doubt Sarit is the only one posting to this 'blog.' One wonders what must be going through her head as she picks through all these entries in a vain search for sanity and she reads all the self produced fiction that she's spewed all these years...
Comment #310 Posted By: Anonymous 02/07/10
Anonymous
NRT-Corcoran had 8 attorneys in the courtroom...
Comment #311 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
HUGE E-X-O-D-U-S everyone! Where all these Corcoran brokers going to?
Comment #312 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
This Landmark decision is meant to protect us from theft. As for REBNY, if you have any integrity, you should take that award back and stand by the landmark court ruling, and by your brokers!
Comment #313 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Corcoran Brokers - What your management did to Barbara Corcoran, Esther Kaplan, Sarit Shmueli, Leonard Steinberg, Harve Senequire and others, they sure will it do to you. On this blog alone you can see clearly their controlling and nasty behavior! Their actions are indefensible!
Comment #314 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Amazing to me is how many of these entries WERE NOT written by Sarit (pretty easy to distinguish between the writings of foreign & native English speakers). There are entries here written by present (or former) members of Corcoran's administration - because there are details emerging here that were never supposed to make their way into print... So clearly some folks woke up & changed their loyalties.
Comment #315 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
That IS amazing. She says POTATOE you say POTATO.
Comment #316 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Yes, taking Pam Liebman up on her offer to cover the short-fall was the dumbest thing Barbara Corcoran could have done, yes, it cost her the very position that she so desperately clung to.
Comment #317 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Corcoran Brokers - what your administration did to Barbara Corcoran, former President Esther Kaplan, Sarit Shmueli, Leonard Steinberg, Harve Senequire and others... They sure will do to you...
Comment #318 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
What do you mean, they are going to have more parties?
Comment #319 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
#328 (sorry not #329) you are very stupid! You continue to cover up for your administration, whose actions are indefensible…
Comment #320 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Corcoran Agents - what your administration did to Barbara Corcoran, former President Esther Kaplan, top brokers Sarit Shmueli, Leonard Steinberg, Harve Senequire and others... They sure will do to you:
Comment #321 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
1) Barbara's lenders sold the Corcoran Group out from under her to NRT for $27M, and handed Barbara a bill for $3M to cover her $30M debt. Babs didn't have the $3M, Pam's family offered to pay it for her if (a) she fired Esther Kaplan, (b) stepped down herself, and (c) installed Pam in the top job. What they didn't tell her is that once Pam was the boss, Barbara would be ousted. Donald Trump went on record saying "As I understand, Barbara Corcoran's exit from her company was most unpleasant for her."
Comment #322 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
2) Chapter 11 was Barbara's only option once her debt went over the $30M mark. But NO WAY were her lenders about to let her do that! SO, they quietly shopped the Corcoran Group to interested buyers, NRT offered them $27M, so Bab's lenders took that money and then chased her down for the remaining $3M. Taking Pam up on her offer to cover the short-fall was the dumbest thing Barbara could have done, and it cost her the very position that she so desperately clung to.
Comment #323 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Sarit you will have to start selling real estate again to make money You can't do it sitting in front of this blog all day. You allready made 400 K more then you would have sellling property
Comment #324 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
If Corcoran were a responsible firm, they would (1) admit wrong-doing, (2) fire Tresa Hall, and (3) apologize to the brokerage community. If REBNY were a responsible organization, they would retract the award they gave to Tresa Hall. However, both organizations CORRUPT.
Comment #325 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Corcoran is sinking, and they're pulling REBNY down with them.
Comment #326 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
New York Supreme courts have now convicted The Corcoran Group of Racial Steering, Theft, Supression of Evidence, and Bullying their brokers to Purjure themselves.
Comment #327 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
Sarit, your not still angry, are you? I get the feeling you are still upset about this 8 years later.
Comment #328 Posted By: Anonymous 02/08/10
Anonymous
#337 you don't mean 8 years later... You mean 8 years of litigations to get Justice!
Comment #329 Posted By: Anonymous 02/09/10
Anonymous
We are not surprise what our administration had done to Barbara Corcoran, former President Esther Kaplan, top brokers Sarit Shmueli, Leonard Steinberg, Harve Senequire and others... it is outrages.
Comment #330 Posted By: Anonymous 02/09/10
Not Suprise
I am Not Suprise. Not outrages.
Comment #331 Posted By: Not Suprise 02/09/10
Anonymous
Let's add to that list a bunch of other brokers who have been vexed by Corcoran. They run a corporate shop where they have even less respect for brokers than Elliman does.
Comment #332 Posted By: Anonymous 02/09/10
Anonymous
TOP BROKER SARIT????? in which lifetime are you talking about?
Comment #333 Posted By: Anonymous 02/09/10
Anonymous
#340, 342 - Why should you be surprised, you are one of Corcoran's managers! In fact you steal client lists of top brokers ONLY, because they are great clients!!!
Comment #334 Posted By: Anonymous 02/09/10
Anonymous
340, 342 - you are one of Corcoran's airhead!
Comment #335 Posted By: Anonymous 02/09/10
END
We are not going to respond to Corcoran's airhead - END!
Comment #336 Posted By: END 02/09/10
END!
THIS IS THE END!
Comment #337 Posted By: END! 02/09/10
Ditto
Really? You are NEVER going to post again? AWESOME!!! Thanks Sarit! Bye!
Comment #338 Posted By: Ditto 02/10/10
Anonymous
#347: You are an outstanding example of what those Corcoran ladies are all about: a bunch of catty, silly, sore losers who got caught red-handed (multple times) in criminal activity. Get a life! Go do some ractial steering, steal somebody's client list, terrorize your fellow Corcoran brokers, or commit purjury - but get your idiocy off of this blog.
Comment #339 Posted By: Anonymous 02/10/10
Outstanding Example
Ractial steering? Thanks for the tip but I don't even drive. The end.
Comment #340 Posted By: Outstanding Example 02/10/10
Anonymous
Corcoran: losers who got caught red-handed in criminal activities... Hey Mr. Spinola - Now that your REBNY "Lifetime Achievement Award" winner has been branded a thief by the high courts, how can you disassociate yourself from the award by saying her colleagues awarded it to her? If Ms. Hall's "admirers" didn't know before the award that Ms. Hall was a convicted thief, they sure know it now, and SO DO YOU. REBNY is tainted for leaving that award in her hands -- and only you have the power to take it away from her. So, tell us all: ARE YOU A MAN OR A MOUSE, STEVEN SPINOLA?????
Comment #341 Posted By: Anonymous 02/10/10
Anonymous
Corcoran, criminals / losers are sinking... and they're pulling REBNY down with them...
Comment #342 Posted By: Anonymous 02/10/10
The Final Word
Here's the lesson: When you are wrong, humbly admit it and when necessary, pay the price. But most importantly, learn from the mistake and don't make it again. If Corcoran would have accpeted their fault and paid the price without appealing, all this mudslinging would not have further tarnished the Corcoran name (which by the way was built by a classy lady named Barbara).
Comment #343 Posted By: The Final Word 02/10/10
Anonymous
I thought the lesson was don't leave all your client contacts on someone elses computer. Problem solved.
Comment #344 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
Corcoran, you do the crime, you do the time! Hey Mr. Spinola - Now that your REBNY "Lifetime Achievement Award" winner has been branded a thief by the high courts, how can you disassociate yourself from the award by saying her colleagues awarded it to her?
Comment #345 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
Spinola - New York Supreme courts have now convicted The Corcoran Group of Racial Steering, Theft, Suppression of Evidence, and Bullying their brokers to Perjure themselves. If Ms. Hall's "admirers" didn't know before the award that Ms. Hall was a convicted thief, they sure know it now, and SO DO YOU. REBNY is tainted for leaving that award in her hands -- and only you have the power to take it away from her. Do you have any integrity?
Comment #346 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
Sarit, what happened to THE END? Enough is never enough? Chill Hon.
Comment #347 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
#343 - Huh? FYI, it's that "classy lady" who hired these idiots who have sunk the Corcoran Group into all this litigation. Barbara only hired administrative ladies with 2-digit IQ's, and now the damage is being felt - BIG TIME.
Comment #348 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
Yeah, and one of those room-temperature IQ morons lives on this blog, poking away at Sarit as though it might accomplish something. That's sooooo Corcoran.....
Comment #349 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
#348, you are right on target. I'll bet Barbara regrets the day she hired a broker who put all their contacts on a Corcoran computer resulting in all this litigation. What a nightmare for sure!
Comment #350 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Room Temperature
# 349 Time to get a clue-phone. My-o-my, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black! Living on this blog posting endlessly as though it might accomplish something? Now just who do you think that most closely represents.., hummm, let's see now, its a tough one..I don't know, Ms. POTATOE head?
Comment #351 Posted By: Room Temperature 02/11/10
Anonymous
PRESS RELEASE: Barbara's lenders sold the Corcoran Group out from under her to NRT for $27M, and handed Barbara a bill for $3M to cover her $30M debt. Babs didn't have the $3M, Pam's family offered to pay it for her if (a) she fired Esther Kaplan, (b) stepped down herself, and (c) installed Pam in the top job. What they didn't tell her is that once Pam was the boss, Barbara would be OUSTED. DONALD TRUMP went on record saying "As I understand, Barbara Corcoran's exit from her company was most unpleasant for her."
Comment #352 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
Additional Press Release: CHAPTER 11 was Barbara's only option once her debt went over the $30M mark. But NO WAY were her lenders about to let her do that! SO, they quietly shopped the Corcoran Group to interested buyers, NRT offered them $27M, so Barb's lenders took that money and then chased her down for the remaining $3M. Taking Pam up on her offer to cover the short-fall was the dumbest thing Barbara could have done, and it cost her the very position that she so desperately CLUNG to.
Comment #353 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
350, 351: Corcoran unconscionably and flagrantly retaliated against Shmueli because of her refusal to commit perjury for Corcoran in a separate civil lawsuit. Stealing the client lists was only one of multiple criminal activities by Corcoran involving moral turpitude inflicted upon Shmueli by Corcoran.
Comment #354 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Anonymous
#350-351 - You are bunch of catty, sore losers with 2-digit IQ's, who got caught red-handed (multiple times) in criminal activity. Get a life! Go do some racial steering, steal somebody's client list, terrorize your fellow Corcoran brokers, or commit perjury - but get your idiocy off of this blog.
Comment #355 Posted By: Anonymous 02/11/10
Loser
Whoa, hold on partner, is this YOUR blog? I thought for sure it was an open comments section on a story posted by The Real Deal and a real fun one at that, no? Are you in an alternate Blogosphere or perhaps just highly medicated? What gives? do i really have to go.... or is this THE END?
Comment #356 Posted By: Loser 02/11/10
Anonymous
#353: Barbara's lenders really had her over a barrel. If she dared to protest their short-sale of her company to NRT, all they had to do was make one phone call to the press, & Barbara would have been permanently ruined. So she quickly came up with what she thought was a face-saving plan - getting of rid of Esther, appointing Pam (as long as she covered her debt), etc. And for a while it worked, but now the truth comes tumbling out...
Comment #357 Posted By: Anonymous 02/13/10
Anonymous
#357 - Sad ending for Barbara Corcoran and Esther Kaplan! When Esther Kaplan left, she took her honesty with her… then the top brokers Sarit Shmueli, Harve Senequire, Leonard Steinberg and others client list were stolen by Corcoran’s management. Seneqiure and Steinberg did not have a choice but to break into Corcoran’s office in the middle of the night to retrieve their client lists from Corcoran’s computer. Shmueli sued Corcoran’s management to get her client lists back… Now the damage is being felt - BIG TIME, Corcoran will never be the same. Corcoran sunk and they took REBNY with them!
Comment #358 Posted By: Anonymous 02/13/10
Anonymous
Hey Mr. Spinola - New York Supreme courts have now convicted the Corcoran Group of Racial Steering, Theft, Suppression of evidence, and bullying their brokers to Perjure themselves. And your REBNY "Lifetime Achievement Award" winner has been branded a thief by the high courts. If you had any integrity, you would yank Tresa Hall's award away for Lifetime Achievement, to set an example that this behavior cannot be tolerated.
Comment #359 Posted By: Anonymous 02/13/10
Anonymous
How cowardly of Steve Spinola to pass the blame onto the real estate community for selecting Tresa Hall for REBNY's lifetime achievement award. Those of us in the room that night when Hall was announced the "winner" heard the audible gasps of disbelief from the attendees, and the many comments of some highly respected REBNY officers - One of whom (a previous recipient) was heard to say "How could they give it to that idiot?"
Comment #360 Posted By: Anonymous 02/14/10
Anonymous
Corcoran is sinking, and they're pulling REBNY down with them!!!
Comment #361 Posted By: Anonymous 02/14/10
Anonymous
A company managed by a pack of nasty, imperious, PMS'ing shrews with 2-digit IQ's can't survive. Wake up, NRT - Corcoran needs a shake-up from from top to bottom. What are you guys waiting for - more court cases? Do you really think that their stupidity will someday evaporate? Are you as stupid as they are? The Corcoran Group is the laughing-stock of the brokerage community - as are their owners.
Comment #362 Posted By: Anonymous 02/16/10
Anonymous
Press Release: Louise Sunshine sued the parent company of Corcoran, Cendant Corp. in New York Civil Supreme Court Index Number: 602837/2006 Case Name: Sunshine, Louise vs. Cendant Corporation. Case Type: Contract. The case started on 05/24/2007 in front of Justice Fried Bernard. Law Firm on record: Skadden Arps - Tel: 212 735-2504
Comment #363 Posted By: Anonymous 02/20/10
CHA
SARIT when do you have time to go to a movie, eat, work..??? so far you posted upward of 350 posts here... Hay get a life. No I do not work for Corcoran...but I did.
Comment #364 Posted By: CHA 02/26/10
CHA
Sarit did you go to the bank with Barbara? NO.... How do you know what her net was after the sale of corcoran? YOU DONT..... You are right about one thing only, Barbara was generous and she did care about the people. The team running it - not 1% as generous, they do not give a chit.
Comment #365 Posted By: CHA 02/27/10
Me2
CHA, I think Sarit took a few days off. Watch out if you go outside.
Comment #366 Posted By: Me2 03/01/10
Anonymous
Me2...LOL :) Maybe she went to the movies? and I do a great disguise when I go outside...LOL
Comment #367 Posted By: Anonymous 03/06/10
CHA
#367 post read my mind Me2 , SO....there in lies your answer....Disguise not a bad thing.... LOL Sarit, well she is gearing up for round 2 so she had to go eat, sleep and get ready...LOL I guess time will tell....
Comment #368 Posted By: CHA 03/06/10
Anonymous
Anyone who places a bully, hypocrite , out of control temperamental jealous truck driver witch like Elaine Dean to manage the Westside office…. is truly incompetent! Oh… I almost forgot, Hall loves to bully….. Hence, she needed another bully to handle the Westside office!
Comment #369 Posted By: Anonymous 08/15/10