Auditors And Attorneys Exposed In Scam To Rob $1/4 Billion.

A new shot was fired against all the co-conspirators in the rip-off of Newsday from its founder, Daniel Chookolingo and a few of his siblings. While the rip-off involves ¼ billion dollars from the family business, it also involves an undisclosed amount from him, personally. A legal matter was filed and is before the PM and President requesting their action into the corruption that implicated the judiciary itself.  The initial complaint was against former high court judge, James Aboud, who was accused of openly taking sides and making injudicious remarks. Justice Aboud was then promoted to a Court of Appeal judge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Castagne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dawn Ford, now T&T 2nd most notorious criminal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CJ Ivor Archie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justice James Aboud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PM Dr Keith Rowley

 

Chookolingo’s attorney, Raj Joseph, compromised himself as he denied that he hardly ever knew the CJ at all, but Chookolingo discovered after-the-fact that they knew each other very well and the CJ had appointed him to a couple of legal investigative committees. Raj Joseph has now been appointed as the Ombudsman after he ‘threw’ the case.

The following letter from Chookolingo was sent to another complicit attorney, Mr. Coppin, attorney for Dawn Ford who is challenging Daniel’s possession of a Maraval house left in his case as executor for his sister Francesca Sutton. He makes the point that Ford is a megalomaniac who was always a troublemaker who firstly deprived her siblings about $100 million in dividends plus another $100+ million in stolen assets. The newspaper press was sold for $20,000. (twenty thousand) and other prized assets were sold for a couple thousand. The case stinks to high heavens with the cooperation of the judiciary, auditors and attorneys to name a few. A number of shareholders took $500,000 (1/2 million) since they were left broken and destitute and a few others unscrupulous siblings received payments from Ford’s crooked slush fund.

The case clearly shows how almost the entire judiciary has now collapsed under corruption.

The first letter, reproduced here was sent to attorney, Coppin and the 2nd letter is to Daniel Chookolingo’s siblings, many of them complicit. None of them have replied for fear of exposing their part for $500,000 dollars.

Incredibly, none of them have been able to sue for libel even though these remarks have been put in writing, signed and circulated widely.

It is circulating in certain quarters in the family that the oligarchs have promised them immunity from prosecution since that matter has been reported to the police, DPP, BIR who have not shown any interest in the report that no annual financial reports were filed since 2011, and the people behind the massive rip off – the oligarchs. It stands to reason that they are perpetrating the same crimes in their own business which should be a cause for concern for the Government and the near empty treasury. The authorities must be in a quandary as to which PNM big boys to prosecute while the small man must still pay his PAYE, NIS and other contributions and face increased taxes and fees almost every month. The smallest speeding ticket is now $1,000.

The sickening thing is while world-wide the planet is being refashioned by war, climate change, AI and overpopulation, jobs for the masses are being made permanently redundant. People who don’t have money stashed away, like the ¼ billion dollars stolen from the Chookolingo clan, will be left jobless and homeless. They will have to face the uncertainties while the planet reconfigures itself with many penniless masses becoming extinct.

It will be no consolation to say that they had the funds and let Dawn Ford steal it and spirit most of it away to her friend Steve Castagne while they refuse to answer for her crimes.

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The Legal Letter to Ford’s Attorney:

21 September 2023

Mr. W. Michael Coppin

Attorney-at-Law,

Level 2 Invaders Bay Tower,

Port of Spain.

 

Mrs. Dawn Ford,

Dear Sirs,

I refer to your letter of August 18, 2023 entitled ‘Intermeddling with the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo and Trespass Upon Lands’

I hereby note the following facts which you ought to be aware of. 

1. Francesca Sutton is the bona fide proprietor and occupier of the property known as the ‘building No3, No 9 Third Street, Maraval’.

Miss Sutton wrote to Mrs. Dawn Ford originally on 21 September 2020. This was followed up by two detailed letters dated 4 February 2021 and 23 March 2021, outlining pertinent facts as to the ownership of the said property and other interests of the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo.In the letter dated in 23 March 2021, Ms. Sutton made somewhat detailed enquiries and requests from Mrs. Ford, one was to secure the property from potential fire and perils for the purpose of insurance.

Mrs. Ford very brief reply on 27 March 2021 was “I would let you and all beneficiaries know as soon as possible any information on Mom's estate ”.

Then on 6 April 2021, Ms Sutton lamented the lack of a reply and outlined eight (8) reasons to Mrs Ford, whose previous reply confirmed Mrs Ford assumed status as the person in charge of the Estate. A request for a copy of the Will was also not supplied.

Mrs Ford was informed despite the fact that it is also common knowledge with family members, that Ms Sutton has been occupying and / or renting the building since around 1990, therefore for more than 30 years, except for a brief period that Mrs Cecilia Chookolingo personally resided there. Since 1990, Ms Sutton has spent vast sums of monies on up keeping the said property out of her own funds, a fact which her sister Cindi Da Costa ought to know since Cindi DaCosta then managed her funds and Da Costa paid her son-in-law tens of thousands for maintenance / repairs. In fact it is now incumbent for me to inform you that Cindi Da Costa has recently blocked parking to her nephew, David Chookolingo on common grounds of the two (2) properties (the subject property and Cindi’s property) and instructed David to park on the compound belonging to Ms Sutton which was then reserved and occupied by Ms Sutton’s tenants. Da Costa indicated that she had the authority of Mrs Ford to park cars on the property of Ms Sutton. Therefore, if what has been said by Ms Da Costa, it is Mrs Ford and/ or Ms Da Cost who are the persons intermeddling with the property of Francesca Sutton. These facts were relayed to Mrs Ford by Ms Sutton herself without reply from Mrs Ford.

Mrs Ford, who has taken on full responsibility for the Estate, was informed that the ownership of the subject property was never in dispute or contested even by Mrs Cecilia Chookolingo herself. Indeed, Mrs Ford was reminded that Cecilia Chookolingo told the high court in proceedings, HCA # 294 of 1994, that she, Cecilia, admitted she was merely the custodian since the property was put in her name by her husband, Patrick Chookolingo, and she was only carrying out her husband’s wishes which she promised to both her husband and Ms Sutton.On what authority is Mrs Ford attempting to alter that? By malice?

It is most convenient that Mrs Ford never saw it fit to answer Ms Sutton in 2021 and now that she is dead Mrs Ford has suddenly found her voice. Mrs Ford silence on the matter is negligence and / or acquiescence if there was ever a case of ownership by Mrs Ford.In the absence of any reply from Mrs Ford, Ms Sutton continued to spend vast sums of money on the property to upkeep and maintain it, some of it was borrowed. In fact, she personally told me she was using monies she had earmarked for medical treatment to maintain the building.

Please note that as executor of the Estate of Patrick Chookolingo I can personally confirm those instructions regarding the subject property and it is Mrs Ford and Da Costa who are illegally intermeddling with the properties of Ms Sutton, Mrs Cecilia Chookolingo and Patrick Chookolingo. Ms Sutton felt secure in this position since Cecilia Chookolingo had already admitted in court proceedings that she is just title holder for the property which legally belonged to Ms Sutton. There were never restrictions which Mrs Ford has now invented. Indeed, Mrs Ford since her marriage over 40-years ago, was never on any good terms with her father Patrick Chookolingo and was at arm’s length with her mother, and therefore has no authority to introduce restrictions regarding Ms Sutton’s property since she was never in the loop as it were. These are the facts that all members of the family have been operating under for over 30 years and as Executor of the Estate of Patrick Chookolingo, I can attest to those instructions specifically regarding the subject property. Anything else Mrs Ford is seeking to introduce now after remaining silent and / or acquiescing to Ms Sutton’s letters for almost four (4) years, is very disingenuous and suspicious to say the least. But this targeting of Ms Sutton is purposeful since all other children of the family were previously given properties or cash without pre-conditions. It is suspicious, to say the least, that Mrs Ford now claims that the Estate of Cecilia was not probated, through the delay of Mrs Ford herself, according to the Probate Registry, and therefore Ms Sutton is not entitled to it.

Mrs Ford’s refusal to engage Ms Sutton when Ms Sutton had asked for answers on the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo andCHL (the mostly family business) while she literally ran them into the ground through incompetence, misappropriation and outright theft of funds is now well established and in the hands of the authorities. Mrs. Ford simply refuses to engage or reply to any valid and lawful enquiries for fear of exposing herself more. Instead Mrs Ford continues to provide false information with the knowledge that she had the majority of voting shares secured through the use of an infamous slush fund, fraud, intimidation and misinformation. But now that Ms Sutton is dead she is clearly trying to steal Ms Sutton’s property by the use of her equally complicit lawyer (see below).

To reiterate, Francesca Sutton was always in sole possession and control of the subject property for 30 plus years without objection and appointed me as her power of attorney (POA) and also Executor of her Will. Both her Will and POA were signed on the same day.

Pursuant to those instructions, I have employed our nephew, Fabien Chookolingo, to assist in carrying out her wishes. Fabien has told me he is quite aware of Ms Sutton’s instructions and after her death even had to lodge a police report when Ms Da Costa illegally removed Ms Sutton’s documents and other items from the hospice. It is my considered impression that Ms Da Costa was acting on your behalf since she testified on your behalf in the Estate court matter with Rex Chookolingo and even further, she is your co-conspirator in ripping off and misappropriating millions of dollars from Ms Sutton. These facts have been relayed to you and are before you and various parties of interest.

Please note, Mr Fabien Chookolingo is purely in my employ and I’m sure if he feels unable to do the task he was assigned, he will return the keys to me for the subject property. He has recently changed the locks to the two apartments to keep them safe specifically from Mrs Ford’s possible illegal incursion to them.

Further, when Ms Sutton’s documents are presented to the probate offices a copy will be sent to Mrs Ford if / when it is found to be proper. By way of observation, it is amazing that Ford is now seeking to have Ms Sutton documents sent to her “immediately” when Ms Sutton, as undisputed and unchallenged owner of the property for over 30 years, could not elicit a reply from Mrs Ford based on previous enquiries since 2020.

 

​    2.  Besides the above incontrovertible facts, Ms Sutton wrote a letter to certain beneficiaries of the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo lamenting the fact that since her initial queries as to the status of the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo, there has been absolutely no information from Mrs Ford to the beneficiaries to the best of her knowledge and thinks that in the absence of her requests, she feels that Dawn Ford stole the funds of the Estate. In fact according to the Probate Registry, Mrs Ford applied on 30th April 2019, yet she took no further steps until June 2023, a lapse of more than four (4) years. It is not surprising that Mrs Ford saw it fit to insert a clause in the new Will which Cecilia could not comprehend or dictate since it was admitted by Mrs Ford herself that Cecilia was in and out of consciousness and comas, stating that if Fran predeceased the grant of probate, she will not be entitled. Make no mistake, you are hereby informed that all other children / beneficiaries had already received real estate or money, and therefore this clause was targeted at Ms Sutton and it is well known that Mrs Ford had a lifelong feud with. The family is fully aware that Mrs Ford feud can last a lifetime as is evidence with the feud she had with her father up until his passing.

Based on these facts, Ms Sutton informed Dawn Ford, as the Chairman of Choko Holdings Ltd (CHL) of which Ms Sutton owns 6.25 percentage, has opened flouted many laws and refused to account to Ms Sutton. Mrs Ford various illegal activities were properly outlined in writing to her. Her attorney, Mr Coppin, has said many times that if Ms Sutton didn’t like the answers of Mrs Ford or lack therefore she could take it to court in what is sure to be a very expensive case. She likens Ford mismanagement of the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo to her unlawful activities at CHL, where Mrs Ford ran the company for over 10 years without providing annual financials ... until in 2022 when illicit documents were supplied after-the-fact through inappropriate emails not intended for presentation of documents of this kind. Ms Sutton quite legitimately said she viewed these various accounts as fraudulent and not worth the paper they were written on. Ms Sutton is adamant that the said auditors should be brought up for breach of their duties and ethics. There were never any opportunities for Ms Sutton to ask for details and transparency etc when the reports were legally

due in person as opposed to the way they were presented, via email in bulk.In fact, Mrs. Ford and Cindi Da Costa’s breaches of the laws in the mismanagement of CHL are legendary and it is noted that Mrs Ford has admitted in so many ways to have pocketed the monies of the company for the latest 4 consecutive years. And to rub salt in the wound, the reason she gave was that there were no funds to do the lawful financials required by law but nonetheless boasted to have unlawfully paid what she termed ‘dividend’ for those same 4 years. Those are the facts as incredible as they sound and attorney Mr Coppin was part and parcel of this where they both admitted to the breach of various laws. At one AGM when I attended, Mrs Ford (accompanied by Mr Coppin) simply laughed off the question that she was supposed to answer with humility, honesty and transparency. Mr Coppin, who is Ford’s latest attorney-at-law and a former PNM Senator, personally sat in the very meeting when she openly boasted to have broken the laws and Mr Coppin refused to comment when asked and referred members to his letter dated 10th September 2021. Indeed he was obligated to respond since he had previously written Ms Sutton outlining the “dividends’ which Mr Coppin claimed were paid for the very same 4 years where they both admitted (Ford and Coppin) that financials did not exist due to ‘lack of funds’ Ford and Coppin subsequently attempted to amend the company rules allowing them to change the way ‘dividends’ were paid, to prevent a severe jail term for them both for conspiracies etc. However, being present at that meeting, I protested this proposed change as being improper and illegal. Mr Coppin’s letter dated 10th September 2021, clearly shows the duplicity when he once confirmed payment of dividends without the financials. Reports have been made to the police and other lawful authorities like the DPP, police and Board of Inland Revenue concerning wanton breach of the laws of Trinidad and Tobago.Of course Mr Coppin himself must not forget his ongoing part when he suggested the entire board was suffering from dementia when he stated that all members of the board conveniently forgot their part in the illegal sale of company for $8.5 million dollars even though all the documents were before them. Therefore, Mr Coppin is now a co-conspirator with Mrs Ford and her various fraudulently and criminal activity. Just for the records, Mr Coppin is obligated to act by law in the interest of all shareholders and not only those of the directors.

     3. Added to that, it very much seems that the auditors of the company are also co-conspirators when they produced out-of-time financial reports for 4 consecutive years when such activity is prohibited and unacceptable by the auditing standards for one (1) compelling reason; people are not expected to remember the many intricate details 4-years after-the -fact. At the very least a representative of the  auditing firm, whose names were not given in the draft, were supposed to be present at the AGM meetings when the reports were presented with a compelling explanation as to the previous non-compliance for so many years. They were supposed to issue statements, notices and disclaimers regarding these lapses. Added, to the best of the information I received, Dawn Ford fired all the accounting staff long before any of these annual financials and one wonders who kept these accounting documents if there were even any at all…since Mrs Ford has created a slush fund with the company’s income apparently since she became chairman. Is there any reason to believe that what is going on at the Estate of Cecilia is any different as said by Ms Sutton?

These facts will now be brought to the attention of the Probate Division who will be informed that Mrs Ford is legally unfit to be appointed as an executor of the Estate of Cecilia or any Executor for that matter. In fact, Mrs Ford has managed to compromise the company’s attorney or attorneys, accountants / auditors, other directors, employees and shareholders of the company, most of whom have been unwittingly paid off by Mrs Ford’s through her fraud, deception and breach of the laws.All this was done with the intention of depriving shareholders including Ms Sutton of assets and dividends worth well over $200 million, about ¼ billion dollars . Part of these assets worth well over $100 million were eventually and sold for $8 million through a series of manipulations of naïve and / or complicit individuals who were apparently willing to accept illegal payments off the books from her slush fund. Proof of the slush fund is well established which were used inter alia to pay many shareholders and or beneficiaries for their silence and complicity.

    4. Additionally, there is even a malicious and false affidavit attested to by Mrs Ford dated 14th July 2014, which was filed in court in my ongoing legal battle that ought to have landed her in prison but for some strange and unknown reason, the judge in the matter, Justice Aboud, accepted it and ruled in Mrs Ford favor. That fact is a matter of record. Need I go on with this incredible litany of events that resulted in the theft of a 1/4 billion dollars as was outlined by Ms Sutton and which attempts to evade liability are now continuing by Mrs Ford under the guise as pending Executor of the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo?

   5. It is now open that Ford most likely did the same thing with the execution of the Will of Ms Cecilia Chookolingo as she did with auditors, attorney(s), directors, shareholders, employees and probably many others. This case is too bizarre for comprehension.

As you know, based on the written judgment of the case between Rex Chookolingo v Dawn Ford and Glenn Chookolingo, HCA # 00509 of 2016, it is admitted by both parties (both Rex and Ford) that Mrs Cecilia Chookolingo had been very poor health as she was going in and out of comas, when her thumb print was placed on the two Wills that were before the court.One Will appointing Rex Chookolingo as the executor and the other appointing Dawn Ford and Glenn Chookolingo as executors.As far as I know, Cecilia Chookolingo was incapable of agreeing to put her thumb print to any of these two (2) Wills due to the state of her physical and mental condition. Based on Mrs Ford and her co-conspirators ongoing fraudulent activities and shenanigans, she got professional persons to compromise their professional integrity by signing off on clearly bogus documents. The statements of attorney Annabelle Sooklal, attorney for Mrs Ford, appears to have fallen into the category of the other aforementioned persons who were prepared to sign-off on reports or documents that no self-respecting professional ought to engage in.

To be clear, statements by both Rex Chookolingo and Dawn Ford, agree on one thing; they both state what poor health Mrs Cecilia Chookolingo was in as she drifted in and out of comas in her advanced years. In fact she was in poor health since the early 1990’s as per Cecilia’s own confession before Justice Margot Warner in court action, # 294 of 1994, where Mrs Chookolingo confessed she was in poor health since 1992, twenty three (23) years prior to her ultimate death. I am convinced that the judge in the Estate matter, Justice Quinlan-Williams, misdirected herself and should have found that both Wills of Cecilia Chookolingo were disqualified.

I now refer to a meeting with the late Patrick Chookolingo, Cecilia Chookolingo and myself. It was agreed with all present that Cecilia Chookolingo ought not to appoint an executor but would die intestate, meaning without a Will. Patrick insisted on this because he knew there would be infighting between the siblings, as there always is in these matters. He insisted this would allow the children to agree by consensus on the appointment of an administrator(s) of the Estate of Cecilia who held most of his assets. I believe why the judge agreed to recognize Dawn’s case over Rex is because the judge was not presented with any other option and or misdirected herself. But she should have ruled that Cecilia died intestate and I am guided that a proper case before a new court would decide that Mrs Cecilia Chookolingo indeed died intestate. If she died intestate then the children of Cecilia and Patrick will have to agree on the appointment of who should administer the Estate.In which case, the process of probate will take an entirely different approach instead of one that continues whereby Mrs Ford can pocket all funds without replying to enquiries from beneficiaries as indeed she has done by her before…and lying to cover up her criminal activities. Her track record is well known.

Further, as Mrs Ford knows very well, contrary to what Mrs Ford has been saying, the details of the of Estate of Patrick Chookolingo were filed in court when a number of siblings contested my appointment of Executor, but Mrs Ford still continued to promote fabricated stories. Now, the shoe is on the other foot and she refused to complete the long overdue grant of probate and account for the multi-million dollar Estate of Cecilia which she refuses to disclose to the beneficiaries or at least to Ms Sutton and Neil Chookolingo who are the latest two who have both personally told me of not being informed of anything. And the depravity of it all, after Mrs Ford procrastination in the matter of the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo, is now demanding that I immediately present the Will of Francesca Sutton who passed just 3 months ago and that I must produce any documents that I may have belonging to Ms Sutton.How sick is that!
   6. I am told that a few of the persons with interests in the said Estate and CHL are very concerned  for their own welfare and safety since there are ‘unseen’ forces guiding the Estate of Cecilia, CHL and Newsday, that have a deadly and evil agenda. I now recall the suspicious deaths of the following people most of who were all in contact with me to expose Dawn Ford that started off right after the untimely and equally suspicious death of Wayne Chookolingo and the bogus offer presented by Mrs Ford of $64 million in matter of days after his death. …all without any negotiation, valuation or documents.

   i. The death of Susanne Mills, former editor of Newsday and daughter of Therese Mills. Suzanne actually contacted me complaining of death threats against her life by persons involved in a court matter that directly involved Dawn Ford and a false affidavit. 

   ii. The death of Michael Hart, a minor shareholder of Newsday and my long standing friend, who stated he had several meetings with ‘representatives of Newsday’ who continually harassed him to buy his one (1) share in Newsday.  Hart mysteriously suffered a stroke that same day he had a meeting and drinks with Newsday representatives.

   iii. The death of Frank Thompson, long standing employee of Mirror and a shareholding employee, who personally told me of a number unlawful events he observed while in the employ of Mirror that implicated Mrs Ford in several illegalities. He died mysteriously and suddenly before he got a chance to sign a statement to that effect.

   iv. According to Neil Chookolingo, the death of Pedro Chookolingo was no accident. Neil claims that as soon as Pedro came to his senses and refused to continue supporting Mrs Ford criminal agenda, he suffered a stroke (s), which was soon after Mrs Ford asked him to sell his home to Mr Castagne, the man who Dawn Ford illicitly sold almost all of the other assets to for pennies on the dollars. We suspect if is Mrs Ford herself who wanted the property for herself. I have no further information on that allegation except to say that Neil does not believe this is a coincidence and feels it was no stroke that killed Pedro. What I can say about Mrs Ford dealings with Pedro is that they were unholy to say the least.

   v. The death of Francesca Sutton who felt very strongly that she was targeted for death that she accused Cindi Da Costa of poisoning her meals because she dared to present credible allegations of the fraud aimed against both Mrs Ford and Da Costa regarding Cecilia’s Estate and CHL that could and should have resulted in both of them being charged and imprisoned.  Mrs Ford is well aware of these events since she spoke to Ms Sutton in June 2023 and attacked her ostensibly for her disclosures concerning her criminal activities.

   vi. There are many police reports I have personally made where various people were shadowing me etc, etc which started from the early days of when I formed Newsday.  Fortunately for me I started to put things in place to protect myself from Ford and /or he co-conspirators desperate bid that eventually robbed so many persons. I must admit, that in the early days of her plotting in the 1990’s, I was not aware of the extent of the lying that was taking place to steal the said assets and the level of fraud that Mrs Ford would stoop to achieving this.

The point is that many people have been threatened and / or killed which points to a massive cover up of the activities concerning the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo, CHL and Newsday and one need not go into proof of those threats or the deaths themselves since the fraudulent activities that were publicly exposed speak for themselves and are self-evident and show enough facts to convict Mrs Ford and her co-conspirators of various conspiracies. Mrs Ford has never replied to any of these disclosures and continues to remain silent.

The multitude of circumstances and criminal activities against Ford and others are ample proof and so overwhelming that I don’t see any way Mrs Ford and her co-conspirators could avoid the consequences of their acts.

In fact, all of her siblings know who is behind Mrs Ford illegalities, since she has been known to be lacking in skills to plan an operation of this magnitude and complexity, but she constantly insist she is not a members of her favorite political party, the PNM, to the point where two years after her appointment on the Newsday board, she openly claimed she had never met Mr Steve Castagne, the primary beneficiary of all her illegal activity and known as the main oligarch in T&T. Of course we all know why oligarchs do world-wide; they do illegal things for money. Mr Castagne is no stranger to these allegations. A newspaper article dated 25 January 2000, list some of these activities.

However, it would be remiss of me not to mention the similarity between the activities with Dawn Ford and the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo, CHL and Newsday and Mr Castagne. In that instance a very senior professional in the independent Insurance association was last seen to be promoting Mr Castagne’s insurance company over all others. He was called to answer for his actions since he represented all insurance companies and was never heard from again. Did he resign or did something else happen to him? Did Ford mention any of these unethical activities to her hapless victims? I intend to find out more as they appear to have a bearing on the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo.

Mrs Ford has repeatedly told siblings, some in boldfaced writing, that she is happy to follow Mr Castagne directives which allowed him to acquire the prized assets. Ms Sutton legitimately asked Mrs Ford if these payments she has been paying people were from assets of the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo. So, I repeat Ms Sutton’s questions again.

There is a lot more about Mrs Ford and Mr Castagne in the public domain for those willing to google it. His attempts to injure me in many ways have not worked to date and will eventually backfire. But the main casualties are the siblings of Dawn Ford who she has robbed blind. Mrs Ford used the well-known modus operandi of the PNM, which is to unjustifiably attack, demean and cause shame and scandal to force their opponents and supporters to retreat. Of course that strategy has run its course and has been over used over the past few decades. This is the same tried strategy the PNM uses at every election: get unnamed people to do the attacking and create bacchanal.

Ford is just like her leader, Castagne, who I can say is no stranger to making false reports to the police against Mrs Therese Mills in this matter.

So, many, many persons who have been left destitute by Mrs Ford’s fraudulent and illegal activities and are left with no other option but to support her to buy food.  So, in conclusion, given all that I have said, I must ask Mrs Ford to withdrawn her application for probate of the Estate of Mrs Cecilia Chookolingo.

If this is not withdrawn immediately, I will initiate the process to have her debarred as being a potential Executor of the said Estate. I invite her to inform all children and / or grandchildren of Cecilia and Patrick Chookolingo and ask for a nomination for the appointment from each family. This will obviously exclude Mrs Ford, Cindi Da Costa and Glenn Chookolingo who fall into the category of co-conspirators and are wittingly or unwittingly complicit. But their respective families may nominate their choice of administrators to the Estate of Cecilia Chookolingo.

I await your reply.

Sincerely,

Daniel Chookolingo

 

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The following letter is from Daniel Chookolingo to those who sold out the empire for a measly $500,000, listing at least 15 major infractions of the law.

 

DAWN SHAME AND SCANDAL SET TO BACK FIRE ON ALL OF US …COURTESY MR CASTAGNE.

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How $ ¼ Billion Dollar In Intellectual Property Gift Was Squandered.

 

I have received a legal letter from Dawn Ford which is the final straw in her quest to protect herself and Mr Castagne from taking you all for a bunch of fools and simpletons. She has told me to ‘cease and desist’ the occupation of the building at # 9 Third Street, Maraval, on Fran’s behalf. This is being done with the express request by Fran. Dawn gave me 21 days to comply.

I think you all know that Cindi took Fran as a house guest and then booked her in a hospice after 1 month. Fran claimed her health rapidly deteriorated due to the spiking of her food and had put things in place to move to her own apartment. Fran’s reason for going to Cindi in the first place was because Cindi promised to get Dawn to use some of the monies (they both stole) to pay all her medical expenses and then some more. That never happened. This rest of Cindi’s behavior has been said already so there’s no need to repeat same.

Now, in her legal letter crooked Dawn Ford, as Fran usually referred to her, wants me to hand over all documents that belong to the Estate of Fran. After grabbing Fran’s CHL millions she now wants to grab the Fran’s property which was left for her and in her possession without encumbrance like the rest of the siblings and has been so for over 30 years.

Dawn’s legal letter has now forced me to write a legal response (see attached) outlining the legal position which ought to guide any proposed executor of Mom’s estate, which application I now intend to challenge.

As you already know, Dawn is supported financially and legally by one Mr Castagne from the vast sums of money she stole, approximately $1/4 billion and counting.. Dawn and her group of lawbreakers and misfits continue to play most of you so these assets would not have to be returned to CHL by a court …as supported by law. Dawn’s uses of these vast sums of looted money are being used to buy the silence of most of you... to be sure the majority who suffer from brain fog and lacking clarity and  only believe in their self-importance.

But, for those who don’t know who Steve Castagne is, he is the main oligarch in T&T who has all his tentacles in the operations of the government and is known to run the PNM’s election campaigns for the past few decades. Some of these things may be quite legal but is not our business per se.

Continuing on Mr Castagne, he has launched a malicious campaign against the Chookolingos which is akin to the one that is unleashed on the T&T public every election time by his notorious PNM. This campaign is to create maximum bacchanal which they use to tarnish the opposition (that’s equivalent to us) and make sure the opposition supporters (the Chookolingos) stay away from voting. Their favorite lame refrain they peddle is “who we go put?”

Why? The answer, initially, was to get Dawn to transfer the valuable assets to him (Castagne) but now it is to make sure that no legal action is commenced for their return and to prevent the exposure of the con job performed on all of you.

Like with the T&T public, his sick actions worked.  The microcosm that is the Chookolingo family (being just 15 persons) could not see thorough what the general public obviously now knows about their tired tactics.

But then, according to Dawn and her previous lawyer, Mr Quamina, who though it fit to tell me after a meeting, that something is very wrong with the entire Chookolingo family. Before that I never met this guy for him to be telling me that. It seems that Mr Quamina could only have gotten that ‘theory’ from Dawn. As it turns out it was largely correct and the proof of that is when most of you took illegal money from her slush fund which she brazenly stole from you. These facts have been outlined many times before. She refuses to sue Fran or me for revealing those damning revelations and peddled some rubbish that she has already given answers…and states she refused to stoop to the level to answer Fran and her bacchanal. But, the main two question are: (1) what is the value of the Newsday assets (which is worth well over $100 million) that she ‘sold’ for $8 million and (2) what did she do with the other approx. $100 million dollars in dividends she got from Newsday. Newsday company financials don’t lie even though CHL never produced any.  So that’s over $200+ million. She managed to convince many deprived siblings with a few hundred thousand dollars (literally) to keep their mouths shut so she could continue with her unholy scheme to rip off the rest who didn’t participate including Fran, Vanessa, Frankie, Neil, Mohammed etc.

 

Dawn’s answer to the $1/4 billion theft is to laugh out loud  at meetings.

 

That’s the primary shame and scandal we are dealing with. The other shame and scandal is that most members of the family with the notable exception of Da Costa, wants nothing to do with the PNM…so Mr. Castagne / PNM push Dawn to the fore with her shameless and criminal stories. Dawn’s trademark is to laugh out loudly at questions instead of answering them at meetings. She looks around at the few attendees as if to say no one should contradict her. That’s what meetings have degenerated to. She expects people to laugh with her and that is the sign that they are in agreement or else the slush funds payments to them will cease. She correctly figured that those who accepted the slush money were desperately in need of few thousand instead of $10 to $20 million each (totaling approx. $1/4 billion) she has ripped-off from every single shareholder. Are you people for real? So, maybe Paris and Glenn are exceptions, both who have both managed live abroad (in style) with their alleged pittance from Dawn’s slush fund. We all know that Paris has never worked and Glenn has not worked for a couple of decades to the best of our collective knowledge. Cindi can also fit into this expanding group of people who never worked but live comfortably off the slush fund. A couple of the others that we don’t know their financial status to say if they are living off state pensions or continue to live off Dawn’s vast slush funds.

 

‘Some’ of the recent grievous sins of Dawn are as follows:

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1. Signing a false affidavit to steal the Newsday assets. Justice Aboud mysterious accepts her affidavit instead of committing her to prison for this very serious offence. The case is standing by to be revived.

2. (a) Refusing to present annual financials for over 10 years at every single AGM … without protests by the majority of her siblings, many she had bought out and silenced.

  2. (b) The receipts / sales of the above were used to set up a slush fund for her many illegal activities. Those she paid from the slush fund were told that the other shareholders who refused to cooperate, were called ‘minority troublemakers’…that were listening to me, the creator of the $1/4 billion Ford stole. While we all had our behavioral quirks, we all know the real trouble makers were Diana, Paris, Rex, Dawn and Pedro…not in that order.

   3. Manufacturing false complaints against Wayne’s term at the helm of CHL  …. even though Wayne presented financials that were filed to the authorities every year. The hearsay crimes presented against Wayne were readily accepted by some while she paid the others with illegal slush funds. Now I understand that Wayne’s grandson is the latest recipient from the slush fund. He is paid to keep the family in check and report back to Dawn.

   4. Tried to sell both Mirror, Sunday Punch and Newsday assets to persons who she refused to name for $8.5 Million on 23 July 2013. Vanessa and Mohammed blocked the sham, crooked sale. When Mohammed wrote a couple of shareholders about what was going on, Lisa, the person who boasted her super intelligence when she wrote a Mensa column, could only reply that she trusted Dawn more than anyone else in the world. What a reply! We didn’t know she had a very busy life to live and didn’t want to be bothered with the details on how to manage her vast wealth that Dawn was giving away and stealing. So she took $500 thousand for her part in assets worth over $1/4 billion that I personally built in an enterprise called Newsday. This $1/4 billion excludes the Mirror operations which she personally valued at $9 million and then zero after she closed it because she didn’t know how to manage a soft drink stand.

   5. Telling sibling shareholders that Wayne left the company, CHL, in debt as a pretext to reduce dividends and eventually to stop paying them altogether.

   6. Cooking up false stories against Newsday founder, Daniel (that’s me), but refused to present any of the facts. Shareholder Mr. Mohammed, had repeatedly asked her for the proof of her accusations but she refused without explanation. Which begs the obvious question: why refuse to show Mohammed the proof of what she was saying? Mohammed, who was your father’s appointee and actually ran the company for decades, could easily see the Dawn’s bull from a mile. But, truth be told, Dawn’s accusations were another gross violation of the law, the law she is so accustomed to breaking with impunity and covering up with the slush fund.

   7. Firing all accounting staff so she could use the company’s funds as bribes and other criminal activities without any questions. Her slush fund was used to keep a few shareholders loyal to her besides helping herself to the rest.

   8. Telling the family blatant lies that the company was operating illegally (and in typical style never saying what laws were broken) and under her astute leadership it was now making a good profit from the lease-to-sale of Mirror to PNM propagandist, Maxie Cuffie. No one ever saw any of these so called invisible profits.  The sale price to Cuffie was $9 million, Dawn’s figure, which many of her enablers objected to at first- Rex and Glenn can take a bow. It is commonly known that the worth of assets like newspapers is worth as much as the management or lack thereof. She eventually closed it due to a lack of skills of any kind.

   9. Officially closing down the Mirror after making it a PNM mouthpiece and never explaining to gullible siblings she had been lying all this time because she never even got a black cent from Cuffie for his 1-year “trial” buyout. No monies were paid by Cuffie before or after the collapse of the suspicious deal despite several protests by Mr Mohammed that this bogus deal was not in your interest. And eventually on closure of the Mirror, used the name of our beloved father to evoke sympathy for herself … stating to the public that she tried to save the great Choko’s paper. After 50 years she suddenly faked a little respect for him even just for a day as we all remember the personal attacks against our father since her marriage to Ashton Ford.

   10. Refusing to provide lawful valuations to the few siblings who didn’t buy into her con, for the Newsday assets worth well over $100 million which she ‘sold’ to Steve Castagne for $8 million. But instead of providing facts and figures, she waged an unholy war against me in 2012 for starting a company that was gifted to you by me that was then worth astounding monies. 

   11. Refusing to account for the dividends from Newsday worth another $100+ million and telling everyone it is better just to sell the company since the dividends had dried up.

   12. Aligning the newspapers, the last bastion of freedom and truth which was to provide the checks and balances to bad governance, to the very oligarch Steve Castagne that the papers were born to oppose. This is the same Castagne who had been unceremoniously removed and disgraced for misbehavior as chairman of Newsday in the early 1990’s…and he vowed to take revenge against me. These facts are on record. 

   13. Dawn paid off many people! But those who were not paid off became casualties. Starting with Suzanne Mills who openly complained that people from Newsday were trying to kill her because she refused to continue with the lie they had propagated against me in court. Mills died mysteriously soon after that. Several other people suffered the same fate as Mills as the biggest T&T con of the century was underway with many of the Chookolingos supporting it. Others fatalities to succumb to the Newsday scam included Michael Hart, Frank Thompson, Fran etc, etc who all died broken all with the help of criminal Ford and her new found criminal friends and associates from attorneys, auditors, directors, employees and most importantly some complicit shareholders.

In August 2023, Neil said to me that he feels Pedro's death is another casualty. He thinks that Pedro refused to continue to be part of Dawn’s scheme and claims to be in agreement that people are dying because they opposed Ford and Castagne. In fact, like the others, Wayne included, were simply said to have a stroke. And my advice to anyone who decides to oppose the CHL / Newsday corruption, please make sure that your food and drink have not been exposed or tampered with. Otherwise you can all carry on with what you do best; eat, crap and sleep.

My own unique ability as the founder of Newsday to expose Dawn and Castagne has resulted in many attempts on my own life. My ongoing and consistence business in exposing Dawn and her co-conspirators is the reason they want me gone…since she with all the stolen millions have not able to respond and defend herself or her co-conspirators. Filing a case in court for libel is a very simple exercise since all she has to do is disprove the damning statements. Her inability to do this is why she is deadly quite and why healthy people are dropping like flies?Yes, to reiterate, Dawn has been accused of murder, directly or indirectly, to cover up her massive crimes. By the way, in case you missed it, Dawn is the first person in the family who has these very, very credible accusations made against any member of the family.

   14. Dawn gave away the multi-million dollar press for 20 thousand dollars ($20,000) and the other multi-million dollar pre-press machinery for much less. Several requests for a list of names and amounts were denied. Total shame on all those who accepted a few hundred thousand dollars to be part of this. Rex once called names of these co-conspirators but I think Rex was mostly right except he didn’t identify himself as the latest addition. It’s a dead giveaway that this is an evil operation when Rex, the dissenter, is force to take petty money to pay his bills. Did he tell people that he begged Dawn for the CEO job at Newsday and was laughed at? Anyway, we must thank Dawn profoundly for showing us that even Rex can be brought to his knees.

   15. Dawn’s lesser crime, or greater crime depending on how you look at it, was when billionaire Jack Warner wanted to buy the newspaper(s). Instead of sending a highly paid professional team, Dawn sent her accomplice and simpleton Pedro, empty handed, allegedly to negotiate a deal with Warner. What madness was that? But, in any event the assets were already pledged to her other political boss in waiting, Steve Castagne. Then on the subject, when a series of lectures were hosted on Choko on his legacy by one Lennox Grant who is a known opponent of Choko, she again sent Pedro to address a crowd. Based on the report and the TV camera footage, Pedro was trembling like a leaf and his ‘contribution’ was some rubbish about how Choko used to line up all 15 children to discipline them. He obviously didn’t know he was sent into the lion’s den for the slaughter just so Dawn and her main co-conspirator could destroy the man’s positive impact on journalism... while they proceeded to steal the company and re-fashion it to support the oligarchs instead. Luckily a few members of the public also went to those lectures and said their positive piece. After that, I had to write the newspaper primarily to do damage control which resulted in firing of one of the hatchet men, Raymond Ramcharitar. I’m sure Dawn’s story to her hapless, ignorant siblings who couldn’t take time from one of their 3 main activities (eating, crapping and sleeping), was quite a different story. But, her attempt to destroy her father once again failed even though on that occasion Dawn was helped by people who were hell bent on destroying his positive legacy. Our father later ended up in the T&T Hall of Fame. Take that Dawn!

And this lecture episode should have been a fitting end to a bitter, crazy lady, Dawn Ford. Many of you still did not know her part in these damning lectures as she employed the spin doctor once again to spin her lies. For those who don’t about know about Dawn, you must have been asleep for the past 50 years. The same tired strategy she unsuccessfully used to bring down her father, she now used to bring down the creator of Newsday. Even Newsday had to publicly admit that I am the founder so that is something Dawn will have to live with after recording at meetings that I had nothing to do with Newsday. It’s there in permanent records.

But, she has had to live with worse as we ought to know that a person’s innate duty is to their ancestry and birth name first and foremost. Please never forget that.

 

For those who know anything, the most important thing all species truly have is their genes for loyalty to family. While in many families, there’s always one or two who distances themselves from family and chart their own road, Dawn is one of the few who have gone to the extremes to destroy that God given genome attributes. She does not see any benefit to her heritage. Even the turtles through their genes can find their way back home after decades. But, saving our birth name cannot be my job alone. As it turns out, what Dawn wanted all along was to be the chief beneficiary of all the goodies and damn everyone and everything else. Her bitterness will surely get the better of her and sadly she has now infected a number of you for just $500 thousand. None of us remember our father in the light Dawn portrayed so Dawn is really an aberration that cannot be saved. She is just like her leader, Castagne, hell bent on destroying the valuable Chookolingo name for self-gain. It is a disgrace that shareholders of CHL, who were given 3 cents on the dollar (3%) would sell out institutions in T&T, and continue to remain quite today. You have all disgraced and scandalized the name of your father so many times.

 

If all that I have said is not true why hasn’t she taken action to sue me? Instead Rex is always responding for her, interjecting with some deliberate untruth which she uses to spin her stories to keep up the pretenses. Keep it up Rex! His most glaring false story is that he asked the court for an injunction against Dawn. When I asked Rex why he is adding rubbish statements to help Dawn, he laughed. I think I know Rex who once boasted of his incredible wealth. Dawn has reduced him to a beggar where he can’t even pay his rent….so he rely on little handouts from Dawn’s grand theft. Rex is a perfect example of what Dawn is; talk a lot and say nothing. They belong together…essentially because they have nothing to say. Whatever Dawn has to say (or mostly not say) is crafted by her attorneys and designed to evade liability for her fraud. The object is to poison the well so she can keep the ill-gotten benefits…another PNM ploy.

 

Suffice it to say, Rex should know that pensions are available for all seniors and there is no shame in collecting it.

 

But back to Dawn and her co-conspirators. She knows if she circulates her crazy, false allegations against others that she’ll be in court right away and that’s the reason she is notoriously quiet in the open. So, what does that say about those of you and Rex? Rex who was ready to take $500,000 and forego untold millions she stole from Fran and others who couldn’t figure how to defend themselves. 

 

Just to remind Rex who says he knows I’ve lost the Privy Council case. This apologist for Dawn has recently disclosed that the case is closed and Dawn and Castagne won. Well, that case is now before the PM, according to law. And I’m prepared to go on with it as long as I can breathe even through judicial interference.

 

Some of you don’t know Steve Castagne and was just content in receiving the pittance from Dawn’s slush fund. There was a story in the Mirror a couple of decades ago, 25th January 2000, that gave information of his illicit dealings up to that point in time. Obviously, that old story obviously needs to be updated.

 

Everything crooked she peddled was fed to her by the crooked attorneys and auditors that are described in the letter attached. It has always been obvious that these so called professional co-conspirators who Dawn paid good money for advice should be disciplined and removed by their respective professional associations for mal-practice. These people sign-off on fake documents and were most probably forced or bribed and are referred to in the response attached. They remind me of the other professional from the Insurance Institute who signed a certificate promoting Castagne’s company and disappeared when exposed. We ought to know these accountants, auditors, attorneys etc, have been given directives to breach their ethics to make shareholders to betray your own oath to your birth name and country. All that is going on now is that Dawn and Mr Castagne are engaged in saving Mr Castagne’s extremely poor reputation after decades of illicit activities and of these ongoing exposures made here.

 

Your Children Robbed From Their Trust Fund

 

But it seems that many of you who accepted the few thousand dollars are more desperate for immediate gratification than the millions that Dawn and her co-conspirators pocketed. So, it’s a lost cause saying anything more is just to expose the shame and scandal that Dawn and co-conspirators called down on everyone.

 

The blunt truth is that a ¼ billion dollar gift that I gifted to CHL shareholders was given away for $500 thousand from a slush fund. It’s not a question of not wanting my money or rejecting the gift (as a couple of you have said) since the $500 thousand was part and parcel of that gift which was accepted. Dawn and Mr Castagne, the prime benefactor, had no qualms about taking advantage of the loot.

 

Intellectual Property

 

These ¼ billon dollar assets otherwise known as intellectual property (not brick and mortar assets) were not in existence before 1993. Intellectual property is like Google and Microsoft which coveter-in-chief was Mr Castagne. For the brainless, every cent of increasing dividends since 1993 (when increased dividends started) was made from those intellectual assets. Prior to 1993, the dividends were miniscule and Pedro managed to plunge the Mirror into financial losses from his stint there. Wayne and finally Dawn finished off the job because they all became megalomaniacs and power hungry with no abilities. None of them can even read the annual financial.

 

The real casualties of the giveaway of this intellectual property was your children / grandchildren who may have failed to get a proper education and lost the trust fund that you could have established.

 

Anyway, the police duty is to arrest Dawn unless they have succumbed like the accountants, auditors, and attorneys etc who have all succumbed to either a bribe or threat. I must remind that the duty of all shareholders, including the professionals and police, is to expose lawbreakers regardless to any threat to own safety.

 

Dawn has been reduced to practically begging for support from siblings so they will disregard the few dissenters…but, thankfully Rex has already said who these recipients of the blood money are.

 

In the end evil must be dealt with.  We will see where that ends up as we now proceed to the shame and scandal that has unleashed.

 

To summarise, Dawn has ensnared the better part of her siblings with money and has obtained your silence to your own detriment. She cannot sue to clear her name nor can she publicly repeat the lies that got her to manage the multi-million dollar company for fear of going to jail. She is forced into silence where her only defense is to laugh off the accusations and get Rex tell us what a waste of time it is to oppose her, for example the blatant untruth that he already asked the court for an injunction against Dawn. That truth is in itself is a giveaway since it shows she has resorted to use Rex, her one time nemesis; to cover up her fraud with untruths by Rex. 

 

Yet, the complicit siblings continue to eat, crap and sleep…and do nothing so as not to expose their own participation.

 

Most of you know anytime Dawn talks she is off to jail but you ignore your father’s cardinal rule that let the chips fall where they may. The only decent thing left for the rest of you is to change the name Chookolingo to avoid further embarrassment. While my previous grievance was aimed at Dawn and her sidekick Castagne, it has moved beyond that after I cannot accept the complicity of those who accepted bribe and blood money while they continue with their 3 favorite pastime; eat, crap and sleep.

 

I now stand proud to oppose the king mastermind of all sorts of illegality in T&T and the facts of this case are now recorded in the history of Trinidad for posterity.

 

It’s not just about ¼ billion and all the other crimes perpetrated described above (numbers 1 to 15 and a host of lesser crimes) but for what these newspapers stood for; the last checks and balances against a corrupt system which is why your father, Patrick Chookolingo, went to jail... the same man Dawn personally fought all her life. She openly voiced her hate for her father to all family members. If I also have to proudly sacrifice my freedom for the same causes then so be it while you coconspirators remain quiet. You have betrayed the name and legacy of your father so many times.

 

My apologies to the innocent family members who were forcefully dragged into the Dawn Ford conspiracies who thankfully kept your dignity and distance from Dawn.

Daniel Chookolingo