He is accused of being responsible for managing an "outrageous" payment plan whereby the government would pay 240 million pesos that was owed by the printing firm Ciccone Calcográfica to a collection agency.
"[6] Specifically, the defendants were charged with involvement in a scheme whereby home purchasers receiving mortgages from the Hipotecario Bank were diverted to law firms that doubled or tripled their down payments.
[11] La Nación later determined, based on telephone records, that Resnick Brenner had signed two opinions both of which supported the provision of funds for a payment plan for Ciccone.
[8] Experts stated in August 2012 that Resnick Brenner was more criminally responsible than the director of AFIP, Ricardo Echegaray, because it was he who had acted to remove Ciccone Calcográfica's capital debt in November 2010, which was not a decision that he had any power to make.
He presented Lijo with a written statement in which he declared that Amado Boudou, during his tenure as Minister of Economy, had sent his chief adviser, César Guido Forcieri, and his friend José María Nuñez Carmona to meet with Resnick Brenner to inquire about the procedure for granting Ciccone Calcográfica a payment plan.
Clarin stated that Resnick Brenner's statement "seriously complicate[d]" matters for Boudou, who had sought to distance himself from the controversy surrounding lifting of the bankruptcy of Ciccone Calcográfica.
In addition to his address in Salta, Resnick Brenner continued to maintain his residences at Club de Campo Pueyrredón and on calle Carlos Pellegrini in Buenos Aires.
"From the moment Resnick Brenner took office in Salta," reports one source, he "launched a well-oiled machinery to squeeze entrepreneurs and farmers," and began collecting "millions in bribes," mostly in the vicinity of Oran, where officials of the Federal Court No.
The shakedown process allegedly involves the leveling of false accusations of operational irregularities, such as the use of slave labor, and the issuing of threats of severe sanctions that can only be lifted through the payment of bribes.
Among other activities, Resnick Brenner ordered a raid on a 16,000-hectare farm in the department of Oran, and issued a report maintaining that 157 employees had been found to be working in deplorable conditions.
In one case in which he claimed to have uncovered the use of slave labor, as well as "a 12-year-old working in very poor condition and people who did not eat for three days," Resnick Brenner refused to identify the employers in question, purportedly for reasons of "tax secrecy.