Exhibit 24.1

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Osheen Haghnazarian and each of them, his true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities (including his capacity as a director and/or officer of Ascot
Funding, Inc.) to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this registration statement and any and all additional
registration statements pursuant to rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto each said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this registration statement was signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates stated.


By:  /s/ Osheen Haghnazarian
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     Osheen Haghnazarian
     Director, President & Chief Executive Officer
     Dated October 6, 2008


By:  /s/ Hasmik Yaghobian
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     Hasmik Yaghobian
     Director, Chief Financial Officer, Chief
     Accounting Officer & Secretary
     Dated October 6, 2008