George Miller, the trustee for bankrupt American Business Financial Services, has more than a few thousand choice words for Boston Partners Asset Management. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Miller, of the Philly law firm Miller Coffey Tate, has sued the Boston hedge fund for engaging in a scheme to force down ABFS share prices, which led to the mortgage lender's collapse. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Miller claims Boston Partners followed a "vicious pattern of conduct" to harm the mortgage lender by, among other things, contacting regulators, the media and ABFS' investment bankers with charges that the company was engaged in a Ponzi scheme. In addition, Miller, who is trying to collect millions in investor assets, accused Boston Partners of naked short sales on about 30% of ABFS's available shares. Miller says, in a Web update on the case, that he's had to deal with some 8,800 phone calls and e-mails on the progress of the suit, a time intensive and frustrating experience. One thing he's decided: selling ABFS's furniture and fixtures are probably not going to make much of a difference, so he's scrapped the plan.