Another blow had come in October when the state suspended Aletheia's business license because the firm had failed to pay $2 million in taxes from 2008. It didn't file its 2008, 2009 or 2010 returns until 2011, according to an Aletheia court filing. In court documents, Eichler and Peikin blamed each other.
One client, CIBC Asset Management, yanked its money after discovering the departure of a top Aletheia executive through a Google alert. That was proof, CIBC wrote in a Bankruptcy Court filing, of Aletheia's "overarching operational dysfunction."
