The director of the Justice Department’s U.S. Trustee Program has upheld the suspension of John Pereira, a long-serving bankruptcy trustee in New York, after finding Pereira failed to offer interpreter services to a debtor and berated other debtors with “almost cruel” comments.
“The trustee’s language and his tone were harsh, accusatory, demeaning and inappropriate,” Clifford White, director of the executive office of the U.S. Trustees said in his March 4 decision.
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