The Allegations: How the Record Was Manipulated

What began as a routine divorce became a blueprint for how a few legal professionals can quietly rewrite the facts inside a court record.

Through documents, billing entries, and verified exhibits, the evidence shows that Alyson Varvel, her attorney Carol Glassman, and accountant Jay E. Freedberg, CPA/ABV/CFF collaborated to create and use false financial evidence that changed the outcome of a Colorado court proceeding.

Between June 15 and July 17, 2023, these actors inserted ghost-written reports into the official record, disguised authorship, and concealed the money trail that paid for it.

Their actions triggered years of additional litigation, appellate review, and ongoing ADA-accommodated proceedings now documented under C.R.C.P. 60(b) (final paragraph)  Colorado’s rule for addressing fraud upon the court.

• June 16, 2023: Glassman filed a “witness disclosure” falsely naming Jay Freedberg as Charles Bell’s expert.
  Mr. Bell had never met or retained him. This single filing made it look as if there were two experts when the court had approved only one.
   
• July 12–17, 2023: After a mortgage broker confirmed the existing loan could be assumed, Glassman, Varvel, and paralegal Michele LaPlume worked with Six Consulting and Freedberg’s firm to draft two new “expert” reports Exhibit JJ (valuation) and Exhibit OO (income). These reports raised Mr. Bell’s income to $197,200  a number reverse-engineered to match mortgage qualification thresholds.  They were served “for service only,” unsigned, and never authenticated under Colorado’s expert-witness rules.
   
• August 14, 2023: Nine days before trial, the same reports were filed into the record without any expert packet or sworn signature.
   
• August 21, 2023: Glassman filed Exhibit III, a heavily redacted billing statement that hid the authorship of the reports and the payments from Mr. Bell’s own company, Tool Studios, LLC.

At trial on August 23, 2023, the Court was led to believe that both Jeremy Harkness and Jay Freedberg were qualified and approved experts. Freedberg took the stand as a “regular witness” but was presented to the Court as an expert, giving the unauthenticated $197,200 income figure the appearance of legitimacy. That number became the foundation for rulings on maintenance, property division, and Alyson Varvel’s refinance approval.

Subsequent record review established:

• Freedberg’s testimony confirmed authorship of the July 17, 2023 reports (JJ and OO) but no C.R.E. 702 qualification or Rule 26(a)(2)(B) packet was ever filed.
   
• Unredacted billing (Exhibit III-UR) proved those reports were actually drafted and formatted within Glassman’s office, not by Freedberg.
   
• Tool Studios LLC, a company solely owned by Mr. Bell, paid over $80,000 of Ms. Glassman’s legal fees without authorization or court approval.

 Even after these facts surfaced, the same pattern reappeared at the June 11 2025 remand hearing.

Glassman re-used the same tactics, introducing a new report (Exhibit DD) without foundation and invoking the wrong procedural rule (C.R.C.P. 50) to block cross-examination of Freedberg, who was subpoenaed but never took the stand.Tool Studios LLC a company solely owned by Mr. Bell  paid more than $80,000 of Glassman’s legal fees without authorization.

This is not about a difference of opinion or an accounting error.

It’s about intentional deception directed at a tribunal, the very definition of fraud upon the court.

Under Colorado law, once such fraud is verified, the court has a mandatory duty to act to preserve its integrity.

(First Nat’l Bank of Telluride v. Fleisher, 2 P.3d 706 (Colo. 2000); Buckley Powder Co. v. State, 70 P.3d 547 (Colo. App. 2002).*)