An arbitrator who has decided several high-profile first responder discipline cases in recent years is under scrutiny after federal courts ruled he intended to defraud creditors during a previous bankruptcy filing, KSAT Investigates has confirmed.
An attorney for fired Bexar County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Roxanne Mathai said the county failed to provide an impartial and objective arbitrator by allowing Thomas Cipolla to oversee Mathai’s August 2021 arbitration hearing.
Federal court records from the Austin Division of the Western District of Texas show Cipolla attempted to claim a condominium he owned on South Padre Island was exempt from his creditors during a 2009 personal bankruptcy. The condo in question was purchased in early 2000 by Cipolla, who borrowed against a home he owned in St. Louis, Missouri.
Cipolla repeatedly appealed the decision, causing the case to be reviewed at several levels of the federal court system multiple times, records show. “Mr. Cipolla engaged in a pattern of profligate spending. He was up to his eyeballs in debt and I think the courts looked at some of his filings and found that he was motivated by a desire to defraud creditors and avoid some of the consequences of his financial irresponsibility,” said Mathai’s attorney, Mark Anthony Sanchez.
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