The Government’s list of possible witnesses and individuals in the upcoming criminal trial of GPB Capital Holdings owner and sole partner Scientologist David Gentile and his co-defendant Jeffry Schneider has now been made a public court document and so we publish the list of names below. 

The list includes three Scientologists who worked at GPB Capital:

1. Brian Marshall –  Former Sea Org member
2. Dustin Muscato – Former Sea Org member
3. Manuel Vianna – Long-time public Scientologist who has an earned Harvard MBA. Vianna is multilingual and worked for Craig Jensen and Matt Feshbach when they had big companies and money. 

We have added notes to some of the names on the Government’s Witness list: 

1. Roger Anscher

2. Kyle Brengel – Santo Gentile’s business partner at the old CPA firm of Gentile, Pismeny, and Brengel LLP.  Santo Gentile is the father of David Gentile. Santo’s other partner Bernard Pismeny and David Gentile invested together in Dor Biopharma. An excerpt from our earlier article on Dor Biopharma, a firm with ties to Ghislaine Maxwell and the suspiciously unalived Jeffrey Epstein: 

As part of our work in researching the origins of Scientologist-owned GPB Capital Holdings, our previous article documented a 2002 investment Bernard Pismeny and David Gentile of the accounting firm Gentile, Pismeny & Brengel made in Dor Biopharma. The Chernaya sisters and their father Michael Cherney’s US business agent Robert Kessler also invested in Dor Biopharma. Future GPB Capital Holdings insider Evan Myrianthopoulous was the CFO and a Director at Dor Biopharma at this time.  DOR Biopharma shows us where several future key GPB figures, including CEO David Gentile, first appear together in legal documents. 

3. Michael Barbagallo
4. Brian Brown

5. Jeffrey Browne
6. Sixto Campano
7. Keith Canter
8. Karen Shoen Canter
9. Jeffrey Cohen

10. Matthew Crafa
11. Randy Cox
12. Joseph Dattolo
13. Daniel Diamond

14. Patrick Dibre – He was the first person to publicly call GPB Capital a Ponzi scheme and sue GPB. Why Gentile and Schneider chose to fight Dibre in court instead of paying him what he was owed shows the self-destructive belligerence of the two co-defendants. Dibre filed a motion for summary judgment and won his case against GPB Capital. What Dibre will testify to at criminal trial is of immense fascination to us, particularly as he was an insider and Gentile and Schneider made him an enemy. 

15. Kent Ellington
16. Steven Frangioni
17. Deborah Gage
18. Joseph Ghabour
19. Morey Goldberg

20. William Jacoby
21. Marvin Jones
22. Macrina Kgil
23. Thomas Kobalynski
24. Sarah Kowalski

25. Lydell Lach

26. Jeffrey Lash – One of the founders of GPB Capital Holdings, he signed a plea deal with the US Government in which he plead to one felony count of wire fraud and accepted a sentence of 120 months. He allocuted in open court as part of his plea deal and implicated David Gentile in one count of wire fraud which carries a maximum sentence of 240 months. Lash provided indisputable evidence of a bank transfer. We believe Lash’s testimony alone can put David Gentile away for 240 months. 

27. Anthony Lagiglia
28. Alex Lawler
29. Brian Marshall – A former Scientology Sea Org Member

30. Al Matarazzo
31. Craig Merkt

32. Dustin Moscato – A former Scientology Sea Org Member

33. Scott Naugle
34. William O’Herron
35. Mike Petron
36. Trent Schneiter

37. Jovan Sijan
38. Scott Silverman
39. Kevin Smith

40. Charles Syburg
41. Joshua Teeters
42. Jonathan Twidwell
43. Joanna Venetch

44. Manuel Vianna – A public Scientologist. Worked as an exec at GPB Capital. Vianna has an earned MBA from Harvard. 

45. Brian Weisenberger 
46. Zach Zachary

Notably absent from the list is David Rosenberg whose relationship with GPB Capital began in 2017 when he sold Gentile’s then fast-growing firm a majority ownership position in his Prime Motors for $235 million. The purchase was made by GPB Capital’s Capstone Automotive Group. The acquisition allowed GPB Capital’s Automotive Fund to become the tenth largest owner of car dealerships in the US.

Following the sale, Rosenberg became an executive at GPB Capital. Rosenberg thereafter reported violations he saw internally at GPB Capital to the authorities, Gentile allegedly retaliated by firing him and refusing to pay $30 million the firm owed to Rosenberg. Rosenberg sued and won.

Less notably absent from the list Michael Cohn, the former CFO of GPB Capital who was arrested on a felony charge of illegally accessing government computers when he worked at the SEC. The allegation was that GPB Capital paid Cohn a big salary to hire him away from the SEC. However, on his way out Cohn is alleged to have obtained data in what the Feds had on GPB Capital.  Cohn plead to a misdemeanor charge in September 2020 and received house arrest. Our opinion is that the Government precluded Cohn as he could easily be impeached by the Defense. Cohn appears to have skated away and escaped any serious penalties for what he did.

From the proposed voir dire questions: