Barrett Smith Schapiro Simon & Armstrong by Frederic W. Parnon, New York City, for Merrill Lynch Futures, Inc., Rosenman, Colin, Freund, Lewis & Cohen, New York City, pro se., Fox Glynn & Melamed by John Horan, New York City, for Roger L. DeVille., Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner & Smouse, P.A. by Ransom J. Davis, Baltimore, Md., for Richard L. Vogel and Seneca Min. Corp., Kensington, James & Ressler, New York City, by Stuart M. Bernstein, for various petitioning creditors., Rudolph W. Guiliani, U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y. by Sarah Thomas-Gonzalez, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City., Robson & Miller by Morton Robson, Kenneth N. Miller, New York City, pro se and for W.L.W. Funding Corp., Angel & Frankel, P.C. by Bruce Frankel, New York City, for Robson & Miller and W.L.W. Funding Corp., Stuart R. Ross, pro se., Harold Jones, New York City, U.S. trustee.