Wang’s lawyers have filed a million-dollar, Federal lawsuit against Hana Fuchs, a 75 year-old retired, single woman living by herself on a fixed income in New York City.
Hana was my CFO at WonderWork and Smile Train. She did a magnificent job at both charities. Despite this, she has been treated very poorly.
After 11 years of working 60 hour weeks at Smile Train, Charles Wang fired her personally because she was “redundant.” She did not receive a penny of severance. He cancelled her health insurance.
Seven years later Wang ‘s lawyers caused Hana to lose her job again when they forced WonderWork into bankruptcy. Again, Hana received no severance.
For almost a decade, Wang’s lawyers have threatened Hana and sued her forcing her to spend enormous amounts of her limited funds on lawyers.
After Wang’s lawyers forced WonderWork out of business, they persuaded the judge to put them in charge of the WonderWork Litigation Trust. This meant they were now supposed to be in charge of “protecting” WonderWork – after nearly a decade of trying to destroy WonderWork.
But what it really meant was another opportunity for Wang’s lawyers, who had already been paid tens of millions of dollars, to make even more money. Wang’s lawyers filed this federal lawsuit against Hana, and lawsuits against me, every member of my Board of Directors and our auditors, KPMG.
These lawsuits, like every other lawsuit that Wang’s lawyers brought against, were based entirely on lies and false allegations. The big difference this time is that Wang’s lawyers are now in front of a very smart, very experienced federal judge and it is not going well for them.
Almost a year has gone by since Wang’s lawyers filed these lawsuits and requested jury trials and yet no trial dates have been set. No discovery has been allowed. And the judge seems to be losing patience with Wang’s lawyers as he just dismissed the majority of charges in their complaints.
All of us are cautiously optimistic that these baseless, vindictive lawsuits will soon be dismissed and it will end 10+ years of senseless litigation.
Litigation which has generated $25+ million in fees for Wang’s lawyers and all of them were paid for by charities.