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Page 6 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023 Resnek’s Son Testifies: My Father States Falsehoods and Just “Doesn’t Care” Publisher’s statements suggest fraudulent bankruptcy fi lings By James Mitchell J acob Resnek, son of Everett Leader Herald publisher Joshua Resnek, delivered his witness testimony in a deposition in the ongoing Defamation lawsuit fi led by Mayor Carlo DeMaria against the newspaper, Resnek, Matthew Philbin, Andrew Philbin, Sr., and Sergio Cornelio. In his deposition testimony earlier this week, Resnek’s son and supposed business partner Jacob testifi ed that all of his father's sworn testimony and statements about his ownership interest in GlobeX Services and Solutions LLC and income from GlobeX were false. According to Resnek’s son’s testimony, therefore, it would appear that either the elder Resnek fi led fraudulent statements with the Bankruptcy Court, seemingly in order to conceal his assets from creditors, or he has been lying under oath, and otherwise, about his role in and income from a number of business entities. Resnek’s son, Jacob, does not know anything about his father’s Bankruptcy Court fi lings, he said, but stated that every time his father testifi ed or represented that he owned interests in these companies and was receiving income from them, he was lying. Joshua Resnek, who testifi ed that he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in revenue from various contracts given to companies that he owns with his son, Jacob, also has sent emails representing to family members and others that he owns these companies and has been receiving huge amounts of money from them. Resnek’s bankruptcy fi lings in 2017, which were fi led under oath (under the pains and penalties of perjury) with the United States Bankruptcy Court, disclose none of that income. Similarly, Resnek continues to state on his Leader Herald biography and Linkedin profi le that he is and has been the President of GlobeX Services and Solutions LLC, which he also omitted in his sworn fi lings with the Bankruptcy Court. In a March 17, 2021, email to his cousin, Frank Resnek, Joshua Resnek claimed that his son, Jacob, is a millionaire and they both share a company, GlobeX Services and Solutions LLC – receiving through the late BosNeed a hall for your special event? The Schiavo Club, located at 71 Tileston Street, Everett is available for your Birthdays, Anniversaries, Sweet 16 parties and more? Call Dennis at (857) 249-7882 for details. ton Mayor Tom Menino management contracts to place solar-powered barrels on Boston streets, netting millions of dollars. Resnek’s son testifi ed that it was not true and that he never received a contract from the City of Boston, and he claimed to have stopped paying his father in 2014 and that he only paid him less than $100,000 between 2012 and 2014. Jacob Resnek testifi ed, instead, that he was a subcontractor who placed advertising and maintains the trash barrels for another company, and that there never was any contract with the City of Boston. He then claimed that his company, which he alone formed in 2012, had the City of Cambridge as a customer, which he stated he received a few months ago but hasn’t received any business from. Resnek says he only gets paid when he installs an advertisement or fi xes the trash cans throughout the state, which belong to BigBelly Solar. When asked about his father’s statement to his cousin that Menino gave him (Joshua) and Jacob their management contract for 600 pieces; and that he (Jacob) has built the company to 19 communities reaping $1 million in revenue – netting $400,000 per year – Joshua Resnek stated to the mayor’s attorney that his father’s claims were “false.” The witness was then asked about a second exhibit of a copy of a letter his father sent him in 2019 addressed to a person named “Dick” with his father writing that he has “600 pieces of street furniture (trash receptacles) in Boston for the past decade. We have apprised Lisa of this in detail. She said she’d put our proposal in front of you after getting back to us yesterday.” “Was that a false statement?” asked Attorney Jeff ery Robbins. “Correct,” replied Resnek. “Did you contact your father and ask him why he makes false statements?’ asked the attorney. “No.” “Why not?” asked Atty. Robbins. “I don’t know, “replied Resnek. “Well, you’ve just – we’ve just seen four false statements that he’s made in two documents, correct?” “Correct,” he stated. The questioning turned to his ownership of GlobeX and when he stopped paying his father, by checks payable to his father, in 2014. The son stated that when he stopped paying him, they had a falling out, that he wasn’t happy with him. In the third exhibit, the mayor’s attorneys presented emails from May 2021 between his father and a friend, where Resnek writes that he and his son, Jacob, have reaped thousands in crypto currency, calling it the “new bullion” – saying that he and his son already have a “12,000% profi t since January.” “I am not adrift with the crypto thing,” Resnek writes. “It cost so little and we have so much that if its cut in half, who cares.” Resnek continues about the benefi ts of owning crypto, despite its instability, stating, “At the end of the day, I can tell my wife it was a nice day. We have $10,000 more in one of our accounts at the end of the day that the beginning! Very nice.” Jacob testified that he was aware that his father had purchased crypto currency on Coinbase but had no idea how much. When asked if he and his father shared any accounts, Resnek replied that they didn’t. But in his email, his father states, “…my son Jacob and I own 1,034,000 Doge Coin. Please allow me to enumerate. Jacob owns 1 million at.00002 per Doge which he bought seven years ago. I own 34,000 I bought at.02 three months ago.” Asked if this was a false statement, Resnek replied it was a false statement. “I don’t own anything with my father. Anything. Nothing,” he replied. Resnek was then asked if he was aware of his father’s bio listed on the Everett Leader Herald’s website. Resnek stated that he did and stated that it was full of falsehoods. In the bio, the paper states that “He is active presently and serves as the President of GlobeX Services & Solutions, LLC, a Boston-based media and management company owned by his son Jacob Resnek and which represents a variety of companies including Vector Media of New York and PassPort Parking as well as the city of Boston.” When asked what falsehood was printed in the bio, Resnek stated that his father was president of GlobeX. “Every bit of that is false?” asked Atty. Robbins. “Hundred percent,” replied Resnek. “It’s false.” Resnek testifi ed that he told his father to take that statement down, but he refused him, stating to his son, that “he didn’t care.” “Did you tell him you were angry?” asked the attorney. “Yes.” “And what did he say?” “He doesn’t care,” replied Resnek. Asked about his father’s claim of representing Vector Media of NY and PassPort Parking, Resnek stated that he fi xed trash cans for Vector Media and that PassPort was a venture his father may have had – but he was not sure – performing consulting work from approximately 20132014. “And was he earning income from that?” asked the attorney. “Yes,” responded Resnek. “Has your father ever worked at GlobeX Services & Solutions?” “No,” stated Resnek. In another exhibit, Resnek is shown his father’s LinkedIn, where he makes the same claim of being president of GlobeX Services & Solutions. Again, the son asked his father, only recently, according to Resnek, to remove that statement from his social media site. “Are you offended by his dishonesty of the representations here?” asked Atty. Robbins. “It bothers me as his son,” said Resnek. Atty. Robbins then reads his father’s testimony from his sworn deposition on June 3, 2022, where he confi rms that he and his son received a contract in 2012 from Mayor Tom Menino, and that they have received $500,000 in a year; $250,000 post pandemic. “Is that a false statement under oath by your father?” asked the attorney. “That is a false statement,” replied Resnek. When asked if his father’s testimony of receiving a percentage of each fee generated by Boston’s 10,000 parking meters through his arrangement with Passport Parking, the younger Resnek answered, “at one time” but the arrangement may have ended “some time ago.” Resnek was asked if he knew that his father had fi led for bankruptcy in 2017. He stated that his father confi rmed that but never showed him any of the fi lings. Resnek was then asked if had WITNESS | SEE Page 7

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