The Battling Yerushalmis are back, and Judge Mark V Holmes finds IRS is entirely reasonable in hitting Malka with a jeopardy assessment. Here’s the latest iteration of Malka Yerushalmi, Petitioner, Joseph Yerushalmi, Janet Baldwin, Next Friend, Intervenor*, Docket No. 5520-08*, filed 12/28/21.

Yep, thirteen (count ’em, thirteen) years and going strong. I’ve paid real money for whiskey younger than that.

Y’all recollect, no doubt, my blogpost “Ex Jersey Semper Aliquid Novi,” 9/8/21, where I described some of Joe’s and Malka’s NY real estate wheeling and dealing. Puts me in mind of some clients and some deals (and fights) from the old days, featuring lovable rogues who made the Pirates of the Caribbean look like The Love Boat.

You can follow Judge Holmes’ tracing through trusts that appear and disappear, trustees who switch in and out like hockey players doing a flying line change, with Malka as nominee or maybe not, and the US Bankruptcy Trustee suing all and sundry.

This long-running show brings more than a grimace to my battered visage, as I remember Tommy Moore’s classic words “Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime/Catch a glimpse of the days that are over/Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time/For the long-faded glories they cover.”

They don’t make ’em like they useta.

*Yerushalmi 5520-08 12 28 21