Ron, do you know the outcome of the bankruptcy trustee's lawsuit against Campbell? It alleged some very serious misconduct, and reading the transcript of hearings with the trustee it was pretty obvious Campbell had indeed acted as detailed in the pleadings.
A negotiated settlement was approved on 10 August 2000. As you can see from the attached, Campbell agreed to a settlement of about $25,000, paid in increments of $562 per month. The agreement stated that no judgement would be entered (in the fraud and perjury lawsuit), unless Campbell failed to make the monthly payments.
Curiously, the Trustee's Final Report shows the payments starting a year later (August 22, 2001) than the settlement date. This may merely reflect the change in trustees about that date.
Initially, the monthly payments were made. But a year later, he missed a month. When payments resumed, they were from the Aero News Net checking account.
After that, the missed payments started to mount. By mid-2003, they were made only every other month. He finally quit entirely in April 2005.
The Bankruptcy Trustee closed out the account in July 2006. Campbell had paid $18,561 of the $25,571 owed. The Trustee did not enter the judgement on the fraud and perjury suit, as she could have. Probably considered it too much of a hassle; the Trustee at that point wasn't the one who had been lied to in court and would therefore have less interest in re-opening the case.
A common thread in his dealings with authorities is the incredible amount of obfuscation and hyperbole. I imagine after listening to his nonsense for a while the trustee had a barely controllable urge to find a 2 X 4 and whack him over the head...
No doubt, but what happens is that it makes officialdom *very* cautious. Campbell will typically claim violation of his First Amendment rights as a journalist. This is unfamilar ground for most bureaucrats and even the police, so they become very cautious in their actions. This works to Campbell's benefit.
Ron Wanttaja