First, their most recent missive, (kudos to them for at least trying to update their clients, and kudos to the clients for posting these notes, so all can read.) it is one of the very few regularly-issued update mechanisms working, replacing the Trust's complete radio silence for all of 2026 - zero town halls, zero communications directed to Scouts to explain what's been going on.

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August 14, 2026

RE: Claim Against the Boy Scouts of America (Privileged & Confidential; Attorney-Client Communication)

We are writing to you today with an update on your claim against the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Next Wednesday, August 19, we will be back before Judge Silverstein for the hearing concerning the approximately $211 million in interest earned on the insurance money that was held in escrow. As I have said before, we believe that money belongs in the Trust for the benefit of you and the other claimants, and we are hopeful the hearing will finally give us some direction on where that money is going.

Last week, many of you wrote to me expressing concerns about the Future Claims Representative issue involving approximately $480 million. Believe me, I share your frustration that we have not received more clarity from the Trust on an issue involving this much money. We expect to receive the official agenda for the hearing early next week, which should give us a much better idea of exactly what Judge Silverstein intends to address.

There is continued movement on the insurance side, with additional carriers beginning to settle and more money making its way into the Trust. As we mentioned last week, Munich Reinsurance America and Allstate are two recent examples of that progress.

We received the Trust's updated August numbers as well. Since last month's report, another 328 claim determinations have been issued and another 4,473 disbursements have gone out. Nearly 97% of the General Trust claims have now received a determination, and slowly but surely, the Trust is nearing completion of that process.

Next week should be an important one. We will be following Wednesday's hearing closely and will provide you with a full breakdown of what transpired in next week's update, including anything that may affect the Future Claims issue, the interest money, or future distributions.

Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I hope you and your loved ones have a good weekend, and we will be back next week with an update following the hearing.

Sincerely Yours,

Andrew Van Arsdale

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Now, the fraud here is simple - AVA is posturing as if THEY had anything to do with the issue being litigated, saying "we will be back before Judge Silverstein for the hearing". THATS A LIE.

AVA has had zero motions before the bankruptcy court, and has not even filed a "me too" document on any issue since their 2023 Three Stooges Film Festival of an attempt to get Scouts who opted for the "expedited $3,500 payout" reclassified as "matrix" claimants.

In the article linked below about that disaster of a motion, the key quote is:

>“How does that meet the Pioneer standard of taking immediate action?” she [the judge] asked him [Andrew Van Arsdale]. “Your clients knew that they had made a mistake two years ago.”

>“We thought we’d have an opportunity at a later point to do that,” Van Arsdale said. “We looked at it and saw nothing that would bar them from changing their election.” “Wow,” Judge Silverstein replied.

When a judge says only "Wow" in response to your answer, you have utterly failed to demonstrate a grasp of basic legal principles, or made a serous error, from which there is no recovery possible.

Here's the link to the article:

https://randr.law/publication/boy-scouts-claim-changes-raise-excusable-neglect-rule-law360/

Yet, AVA continues to posture and pose as if they were anything other than a mere spectator to the process, a middleman that did the clerical work of taking forms filled in by Scouts and merely uploading them to the Trust's website, something the Scouts could have easily done themselves.

This man is a parasite. Yet, like a good parasite, he knows that if he provides anesthesia when extracting the blood from his victims, they will not notice that he is a parasite. The "updates" are a genius approach to his grifting of every naive "client" he recruited from Facebook and other social media platforms.

We are told by the trust in the FAQ:

"As explained in FAQ 16.4, the Trust began with about $600 million of cash available to distribute to Claimants with allowable claims. And now that the Order confirming the BSA plan of reorganization (the “BSA Plan”) is final, approximately $1.65 billion that has been held in escrow has been released to the Trust."

So, $1.65 billion plus $600 million is.... $2.25 billion. Yet the total paid out to date is just over $1 billion, and there is an argument over paying out a tiny percentage in addition to what has been paid so far.

But $2.25 billion minus $1.08 billion means that there is still about $1.17 sitting in the Trust, ready to be paid out, but not paid out.

What am I missing here?

EDIT - Let me be more clear - we are talking about CASH here, cash that was held in escrow.