You’re probably going to feel a lot less charitably inclined towards Sam Sethi after you read my comments.

First I’ll share with you the words from the administrator at Companies House who is responsible for maintaining the list of disqualified directors. In response to an inquiry made about Sethi’s disqualification status one Jason Scanlon writes:

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> I have been informed by the Insolvency Service that Sanjiv Sethi is disqualified and the order was made by Slough County Court. They have provided me with all the information relating to Mr Sethi’s disqualification. I will contact the court and request that they send me the relevant documentation. Once I am in receipt of this document and the record has been updated, I will let you know.
>
> I hope this is sufficient.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Jason Scanlon
>
> Jason Scanlon
> Subpoena Unit
> Companies House
> 02920 380073″

I hope you will update your blog post accordingly.

While you’re at it you might want to update your post to reflect the truth about my current status with respect to my suit against Sethi.

Initially I was awarded a default judgment when Sethi failed to appear in court on the day my case was heard. As such, the court did not rule on the merits of my case (or even hear my case at all). They simply noted that Sethi did not file a defense nor appear to defend against my claims and thus they awarded me a victory and also the amount I requested in my filing.

Sam subsequently filed a brief with the court requesting a hearing to set aside the default judgment and hear the actual case and give him an opportunity to defend himself.

While I cannot go into further detail since the new hearing is still impending what I can say is that it is completely untrue that a “Verdict was overturned” as Sam claims or that he is “closing the case” that I filed.

As it stands, Sam has to appear in court and explain exactly how it is that he doesn’t owe me for the work I did, the travel expenses I incurred on behalf of Blognation at his direction or the interest, damages and legal fees I have incurred as a result of his failure to honor my agreement.

With the literal mountain of evidence that Sam has left strewn throughout the blogosphere as well as on archived Skype chats, emails and SMS exchanges it will be interesting to see how he can explain why he suddenly isn’t obligated to pay me as he promised so many times he would.

Further it will be interesting to see how he can explain to the courts the fact that he has admitted lying to the Blognation editors about the funding situation and how I could have possibly confused his promises to pay me with that fact that I was apparently working for free (his claim). Of course it is strange that he would promise to pay me something if I’d agreed to work for nothing but then we’ll see how the courts like his explanation.

In any case, those are the facts.

I’m sure now you feel a bit pissed off at publishing what Sethi said to you considering so much of it was false. But don’t feel too bad. You’re in the same club as so many of us – simply honest people who Sam lied to without regard for what sort of pain or trouble it would cause them. Now you have some idea of how it feels to be lied to by Sethi, but at least you didn’t invest months of your life, thousands of dollars in out of pocket travel expenses or give up other high paying work based upon what Sam said. So if you’re pissed at Sam, just imagine how those of us that DID all of those things above must feel.

Oliver Starr