tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57418278909362896852024-03-12T17:27:08.445-07:00JUSTICE FOR ABUSE OF HUMANITYOver the last 15 years being in the Family Court System and having a Stock Broker Fraud Case in Broward County, Florida. I have come across ATTORNEYS that I used. I'm sharing their names on my blog.
I became a Big Advocate of Child and Parent Abuse after many years of ABUSE MYSELF. I will be sharing many links on my blog that will hopefully EDUCATE and help you.
The ABUSE to HUMANITY needs to STOP
This post is my SOLE Opinion based on Facts, Documentation and Experience.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-7615591338568261272011-11-26T06:00:00.000-08:002011-12-06T02:14:45.888-08:00John Hamel The Florida Bar Card<div id="sites-chrome-header-wrapper" style="background-color: #2aabdf; border-bottom-color: initial !important; border-bottom-style: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: #414b56; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table cellspacing="0" class="sites-layout-hbox" id="sites-chrome-header" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 920px;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/johnhamelmoreemailthatprovesheisinsane" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Florida Lawyer John Hamel's goes over the top with his newest email</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/01GroganLetter.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Florida Attorney Supports Claims of Death Threats by Associates of Lawyer John Hamel</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/02SandyArnold.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">More Proof Supporting Death Threats byTampa Lawyer John Hamel's Associates</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/HamelDUIArrest.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Florida Lawyer John Hamel Arrest For DUI LOOK WHAT HE ADMITS TO yet a Judge lets this Florida Bar Card holder get away</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/Arrestpicture.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Tampa Lawyer John R Hamel Arrested For<br />
Grand Theft Auto State Attorney Mark Ober Does Nothing</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/HamelAutoTheftArrest.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Florida Attorney John R Hamel Arrest Report<br />
For Grand Theft Auto. Hamel Claims he was fixing the car for his auto mechanic client.</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/BrookstoneArrest.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Tampa Lawyer John R Hamel Arrested For Violent Mischief Because He Did Not Get a Refund</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/BrookstonePoliceReport.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Tampa Lawyer John Hamel Arrest Report For His Violent Malicious Mischief</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/floridalawyersassistanceprogram-is-bulls" style="color: #dc291e;"><span style="color: #551a8b;">Attorney John Hamel is living proof the Florida Lawyers assistance program is a sham that does not work, endangering Florida's Citizens</span></a>.<br />
John R Hamel Extortion Letter To Client To Force The Sale Of Property or defend against false criminal charges<br />
Two Judge Sign Court Orders That Prove Lawyer John Hamel is a lying extortionist<br />
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John R. Hamel Is Living Proof The Program Is <a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/floridalawyersassistanceprogram-is-bulls" style="color: #d84c39;" target="_blank">Bullshit</a></span><br />
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</a></div></span></h2><h2 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=761559133856826127" name="TOC-The-Florida-Bar-Protects-Its-Member" style="color: #d84c39;"></a>The Florida Bar Protects Its Members, Not the Public! </h2><div style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This Site Powered by The First Amendment & Truth</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">TAMPA ATTORNEY JOHN R HAMEL ADMITS UNDER OATH IN PUBLIC RECORDS HIS DISABILITY IS HIS LACK OF MENTAL COMPETENCE AND HE STILL HAS A FLORIDA BAR CARD.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Why not? John H</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">amel's public records also disclose <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>CAR THEFT</u>, <u>DUI,</u> <u>EXTORTION</u>,<u>STALKING</u>, <u>VIOLENCE</u> and...</span></span></strong></span></span></b></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=761559133856826127" name="TOC-John-Hamel:-I-ll-Blow-Your-Kids-Hea" style="color: #d84c39;"></a>John Hamel: <span style="color: red;"><em>"I'll Blow Your Kids Heads Off</em></span><em> if you tell my wife I am using crack cocaine again", per sworn police report</em>. And Lawyer John Hamel got away with every crime every time. <span style="font-size: small;">Way to go Mark Ober 13th circuit State Attorney, videos do not lie (but Mark Ober does) see below...</span></h2></div></div><table cellspacing="0" class="sites-layout-hbox" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 766px;"><tbody>
<tr><td class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-1" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">JOHN HAMEL Stalked, harrassed, and extorted the publisher of this website (and others) for years, the Florida Bar and State Attroeny did nothing, despite video proof.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: small;">ATTORNEY JOHN R HAMEL IS THE POSTER CHILD OF WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE FLORIDA BAR and LAWYERS. After obtaining no assistance from the Florida Bar or State Attorney this website was published...</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>John Hamel arranged a settlement letter to take down this website stating.</strong> "<em>This settlement is offered in order to prevent physical harm to the parties...</em>" Florida Lawyer or Mobster, what's the difference?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">John Hamel previously used the alias "<em>BeHomeDevil</em>" is he now using "<em><strong>HomicidialPayback</strong></em>" in order to terrorized and cyberstalk his victims? The content of his Charles Manson like YouTube posts suggest yes!<a href="http://www.youtube.com/FloridaBarCard" style="color: #d84c39;">www.YouTube.com/FloridaBarCard</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>THE BAR SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO SUPPRESS A LAWYERS DRUG ADDICTED INSANITY FROM THE PUBLIC per statute </strong></span><a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0397/SEC484.HTM&Title=-%3E2008-%3ECh0397-%3ESection%20484#0397.484" rel="nofollow" style="color: #d84c39;"><strong>397.484</strong></a><span style="color: red;"><strong> with the failed </strong></span><a href="http://www.fla-lap.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #d84c39;"><strong>FLORIDA LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM</strong></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>SHOULD THE FLORIDA BAR BE ABLE TO INSURE AND DEFEND ITS LAWYER MEMBERS AGAINST BAR COMPLAINTS WHEN THEY ARE CHARGED WITH PROTECTING THE PUBLIC FROM UNETHICAL LAWYERS?</strong></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=761559133856826127" name="TOC-John-Harkness-and-Florida-Lawyers-M" style="color: #d84c39;"></a>John Harkness and Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Florida Bar's Executive Director <em><u>John Harkness</u></em></strong> oversees all Lawyer discipline yet he also sits on the Board of<a href="http://www.flmic.com/about.cfm" rel="nofollow" style="color: #d84c39;"><span style="color: blue;">Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company</span></a> aka FLMIC.com the insurance company that provides malpractice insurance and insurance AGAINST Bar claims levied by Florida citizens against corrupt Lawyers. </span></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The motto of FLMIC is:</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"<span style="font-size: medium;">We built our reputation on vigorously defending yours"</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"<i>Aggressive defense of your reputation."</i></span></span></div><br />
<div></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do you think <strong>John Harkness</strong> is going let <i>his</i> insurance company take any kind of financial hit while controlling all Lawyer disciple proceedings? This is exactly why legitimate Bar complaints made by Florida Citizens go nowhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>John Harkness</em> and others straddling the Bar and <a href="http://flmic.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #d84c39;"><span style="color: blue;">FLMIC.com</span></a> is a Fascist conflict of interest causing a corrupt Florida Bar, damaging the people, while eviscerating the peoples trust. This Racket in violation of RICO and Antitrust laws must end!<br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">WHY CAN'T WE ALL GO TO OUR LOCAL SHERRIFF AND BUY INSURANCE AGAINST ARREST LIKE LAWYERS BUY FROM THE FLORIDA BAR?</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Florida is required to operate under the separation of powers, meaning the three branches of government are to be completely independent of each other and perform checks and balances on the other branch. The infiltration of lawyers into all three branches of government combined with the secretive over site of attorneys and judges via The Florida Bar and The JQC (Judicial Qualifications Commission) has destroyed our Constitutional Republic. Florida has fascist qualities most stemming from the Judicial Branch of Government. The Supreme Court's taking of the lawyer trade union known as the Florida Bar was the beginning of a new more powerful socio-economic class of citizen with special rights and privileges, including immunity from actual crimes. The Florida Bar operates in secret, as a protectionists racket for its members who commit crimes against the Citizens Of Florida. <a href="http://www.woodwardlaw.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #d84c39;">Anthony Woodward Tampa Lawyer</a>, is another prime example of how attorneys destroy the economy through mass perjury, and get away with it. Our courts cannot get to the People's business because they are plagued with too many unethical and drug addicted lawyers. Take the Bar out of the Courts hands and put <em>We The People</em> Back in charge.</div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=761559133856826127" name="TOC-THE-FLORIDA-BAR-S-LAWYER-ASSISTANCE" style="color: #d84c39;"></a><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE FLORIDA BAR'S LAWYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INSTITUTED TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC IS </span><a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/floridalawyersassistanceprogram-is-bulls" style="color: #d84c39;"><span style="font-size: small;">BULLSHIT</span></a></span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="sites-embed-align-center-wrapping-off" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div class="sites-embed-border-on sites-embed" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #414b56; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; width: 425px;"><h4 class="sites-embed-title" style="background-color: #dff2f8; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left;">John Hamel proves a bar card trumps DUI</h4><div class="sites-embed-content sites-embed-type-youtube" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="355" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-QpKkfRcpOY?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="425"></iframe></div></div></div>Above Tampa Attorney John R Hamel puts on an over the top display of intoxication and admits to being on medication that caused him to be dangerous on the road, fortunately for John R Hamel, he holds a Florida Bar Card, so he got away with endangering the public. John Hamel refused a blood and urine test because "he was afraid of what they would <a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/HamelDUIArrest.pdf?attredirects=0" style="color: #d84c39;">find.</a>"</div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=761559133856826127" name="TOC-Tampa-Attorney-John-Hamel-s-Threate" style="color: #d84c39;"></a><a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/hameladmitsheisinsane" style="color: #d84c39;">Tampa Attorney John Hamel's Threatening emails admitting he is an insane cybersalker yet State Attorney Mark Ober does nothing</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>How can a Florida lawyer get away with these threats?</strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/johnhamelandanthonywoodward" style="color: #d84c39;">Tampa Lawyer John Hamel's Second Round of threatening cyberstalking emails</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=761559133856826127" name="TOC-Tampa-Lawyer-John-Hamel-was-also-ca" style="color: #d84c39;"></a>Tampa Lawyer John Hamel was also caught driving a stolen car...</h2><div style="text-align: left;">, the car belonged to <strong>John R Hamel's</strong> client who could not pay her legal bill after her house "<em>mysteriously</em>" burned down (see video and links at left to supporting documents). No prosecution by State Attorney Mark Ober, State Attorney Mark Ober buried the case against Attorney John Hamel, because State Attorney Mark Ober has a policy to not prosecute lawyers who commit crimes, and fixes court case to help lawyers <a href="http://www.woodwardlaw.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #d84c39;">guilty of crimes</a>. The Florida Bar reviewed the iron clad documents and stated there is no probable cause to discipline John Hamel. John HAmel is under investigation again and his defense is that he is bi-polar.</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="sites-embed-align-center-wrapping-off" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><div class="sites-embed-border-off sites-embed" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial !important; border-left-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(181, 226, 240); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial !important; color: #414b56; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; width: 425px;"><h4 class="sites-embed-title" style="background-color: #dff2f8; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left;">John Hamel Client Car Theft</h4><div class="sites-embed-content sites-embed-type-youtube" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="355" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5fEnJr5wok4?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="425"></iframe></div></div></div>Attorney John Hamel has repeatedly extorted W.Trudelle by making false criminal claims of fraud. Two Judges signed orders proving John Hamel's claims were a fraud. Florida Bar Lawyer John Hamel then committed perjury against his client in favor of the people John Hamel was hired and paid to defend against with extortionist threats. Eyewitness testimony proved John R Hamel's hearsay in favor of his notorious drug addict henchman were again false. Letters discovered in the State attorney file proved John Hamel made false claims under oath to get criminal charges against those who expose their vast criminal enterprise. The Florida Bar does nothing, Mark Ober does nothing and as admitted by John R Hamel, " <a href="http://www.floridabarcard.com/hameladmitsheisinsane" style="color: #d84c39;">The Florida Bar does not care"!</a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">Tampa Lawyer John Hamel has made repeated verifiable extortionist threats but he has a get out of Jail Florida Bar Card. The Florida Bar Card, Don't Commit a crime without it!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">THIS IS WHY CRACK COCAINE ADDICTED LUNATICS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO PRACTICE LAW.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WHY SO MANY DON'T GET JUSTICE WHEN THEY FILE A BAR COMPLAINT, AS ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY... </span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">The United States Supreme Court unanimously held in <i><u>Keller v. State Bar of California</u></i>, 496 US 1 (1990), adopting the prescient of Justices Douglas' dissent in <i>Lathrop v. Donohue,</i> 367 US 820 (1961), that; </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #3333ff;">"Integrated state bars (like Florida's) must not venture into political and ideological waters but stick with the narrow, legitimate functions of integrated state bars.</span><span style="color: #3333ff;">To do otherwise these bars would become,"goose-stepping brigades" that serve neither the public nor the profession.</span></i>"<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Florida's Bar has too long ignored the Supreme Court's warning.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>We The People</b> must take the reigns of the Florida Bar's "<i>Goose Stepping brigade</i>", or Fascism shall become the political climate of Florida and soon the Nation.</span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Florida is ranked <a href="http://www.instituteforlegalreform.com/component/ilr_states/18/state/FL.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #d84c39;">42 out 50 States</a> for legal fairness per the US Chamber of Commerce. The legal abuses occurring here is causing businesses to leave or not consider Florida as a place to do business.<b>Interview of the US Chamber President:</b></span></div><div></div><br />
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Palm Beach Post Staff Writer</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Compassion is meeting capitalism as big companies move into the business of caring for children and the poor in Florida.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Since the state privatized its foster-care system, it has been at the vanguard of a national trend in outsourcing social services once monopolized by government and charities.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Providence Service Corp., an Arizona for-profit corporation traded on the Nasdaq, now cares for 2,000 abused or neglected children in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company operates here under the name of a subsidiary, Family Preservation Services of Florida Inc., and has amassed millions in state contracts. In Southwest Florida, a nonprofit agency managed by Providence oversees the region’s network of services for children in state care.</div><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_458" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 96%; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center; width: 240px;"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DCF41.jpg" style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-458" height="219" src="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DCF41.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" title="DCF4" width="230" /></a><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 13px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Corrupshine State</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Providence does the work once handled by the Department of Children and Families, finding homes for the state’s foster children and helping them toward adoption or reunion with their biological families. Social workers, once eligible for state pensions and union membership, now have stock options and 401(k)s.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Providence runs programs for children, welfare recipients, juvenile offenders and struggling families in 24 states and the District of Columbia. Company leaders say they are improving on state-run social services while making a modest profit.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But some critics are uneasy about the company’s involvement in Florida foster care. They worry that shareholders will demand higher earnings, forcing Providence to make cuts in programs for the most vulnerable children.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Others don’t understand how any contractor can make much money in the difficult field of social work. Nonprofit agencies in some parts of the state are struggling to break even, they say.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“If you can make a profit on anything we are doing, then that means we are doing something wrong,” said Evelyn Lynn, R-Ormond Beach, a member of the Senate Committee on Children and Families. “Because it’s not going to the children.”</div><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_459" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 96%; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center; width: 158px;"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Evelyn-Lynn2.jpg" style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-459" height="195" src="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Evelyn-Lynn2.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" title="Evelyn Lynn2" width="148" /></a><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 13px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Evelyn Lynn</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Others, even some who have reservations about for-profit companies, say Providence should be judged by its performance.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“One thing is clear,” said Andrea Moore, executive director of the statewide advocacy group Florida’s Children First. “Things couldn’t continue the way that they were. Because they were only getting worse.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Providence founder and CEO Fletcher McCusker said he hopes to gain business in Florida wherever invited. Company President Boyd Dover moved to Clearwater in 2004 to oversee operations and expansion here.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This summer, Dover stepped in to lead the Treasure Coast’s foster-care agency United for Families, after its first leader resigned.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Last fiscal year, the Providence subsidiary Family Preservation Services made $1.3 million in profits – about 7 percent of $19.2 million in revenue on state foster care contracts in Palm Beach County, the Treasure Coast, Gainesville and Southwest Florida.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company also has a management agreement with Camelot Community Care Inc., a nonprofit agency that handles $42.8 million in contracts all statewide.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Providence takes a fixed fee or 10 percent of Camelot’s revenue to provide management services including human resources, accounting and tech support. Providence took in $3.9 million in management fees from Camelot last year in Florida, and kept $142,000 in profit.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Camelot’s biggest contract is in Southwest Florida, where it earns $23.2 million a year to oversee programs for abused and neglected children. Camelot subcontracts more than $3 million to Family Preservation Services to provide therapeutic foster families, work with families who have lost their children and manage children’s cases in Collier, Hendry and Glades counties.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf51.jpg" style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-460" height="183" src="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf51.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;" title="dcf51" width="276" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Critics say that the company is essentially awarding contracts to itself, creating conflicts of interest and freezing out other qualified agencies.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">McCusker dismisses that criticism as sour grapes from contractors that didn’t win state business. The contracts were competitively bid, he said, and the head of Southwest Florida’s foster-care initiative reports to a local board.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">According to DCF statistics, the agency in Southwest Florida performed at or above most state measures of child safety and well-being in the last year.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">McCusker says his company makes money by slashing overhead, not by skimping. His biggest concern in founding the company, he said, was how investors would respond.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Wall Street loves profit. They love improvement in profits,” McCusker said. “But most private companies have been flashes in the pan. They enjoyed a year or so of success, but then state governments start terminating their contracts because in my opinion they just get greedy. We are trying to educate Wall Street that this is and will be a low-margin business. We are not going to make 15 percent profit.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">SLASHING CORPORATE COSTS</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">McCusker and Dover met nearly four decades ago while working at a nonprofit agency for foster children and single mothers. McCusker went on to found a health-care company; Dover was appointed to lead Arizona’s health and child-welfare agencies.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Both eventually worked for Youth Services International, the publicly owned juvenile justice company that McCusker says made 20 percent to 25 percent profit in its heyday.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In 1997, McCusker started Providence with $50,000 and $500,000 in loans from family and friends.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Providence won state contracts to provide therapy and case management to children with behavior problems and families on welfare or struggling with mental illness or drug abuse, and acquired similar companies all over the country.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company went public in 2003 and reported $97 million in annual revenue for 2004. Providence expects to take in at least $137 million this year.</div><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_461" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 96%; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center; width: 208px;"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf110.jpg" style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-461" height="254" src="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf110.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" title="dcf110" width="198" /></a><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 13px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">What Recession?</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many of Providence’s predecessors made their money off state contracts in part by dumping state pension plans and slashing or freezing wages for workers. A recent study requested by Florida legislators found that for-profit contractors pay workers who guard and mentor juvenile offenders about $18,000 a year, $2,000 less than nonprofit contractors.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“If you look at other for-profit companies,” McCusker said, “you will find there is an undercurrent of greed, and outrageous executive compensation.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But he said that Providence will not cut caseworker salaries or programs for children. Like most social service agencies, he said, Providence relies on a young, enthusiastic workforce. The company pays caseworkers an average $32,000 to $35,000 a year, comparable to state workers and local nonprofits.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company makes its money by lowering overhead and “blowing up the corporate office,” McCusker said. Its main office in Tucson has seven executives and three support employees.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">McCusker makes $250,000 a year, and owns 5 percent of the company.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">DOOR OPENS TO FOR-PROFITS</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When Gov. Jeb Bush introduced his plan to privatize foster care, he pitched it as a way to involve local communities. He touted a model program in Sarasota, where local nonprofits banded together to provide better care for foster children. He called it “community-based care.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The regional agencies that oversee foster care services must be nonprofits to receive federal money. But when legislators privatized foster care statewide, they left the door open to for-profit companies as subcontractors. And as counties faced deadlines to privatize, they found there were not many local nonprofits able to back large start-up costs, or risk large losses.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Providence, which registered to do business here in 1998, had plenty of capital. It offered hundreds of thousands of loans to fledgling foster-care agencies.</div><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_462" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 96%; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center; width: 285px;"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf112.jpg" style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-462" height="184" src="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf112.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" title="dcf112" width="275" /></a><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 13px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Also know as DCF Avenue</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Robert Barker, who founded Child and Family Connections, the private nonprofit foster care agency for Palm Beach County, said he initially had a bias toward nonprofit agencies. But when nonprofits such as Girls and Boys Town declined to take on big financial risks, he turned to Family Preservation Services.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company gave Palm Beach County’s foster-care agency a $125,000 loan and a line of credit.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Child and Family Connections paid back the loan and secured its own line of credit. Family Preservation Services still contracts to provide case managers for about half of the 2,000 Palm Beach County children in state care.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Leaders in the Treasure Coast, Fort Myers and Gainesville made similar decisions. And the effort that was touted as a way to give more control to local communities brought in board members and caseworkers who report to corporate headquarters in other states.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf113.jpg" style="color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-463" height="215" src="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dcf113.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: right; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;" title="dcf113" width="235" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Family Preservation’s local employees are dedicated and professional, Barker said, and the company is held to high standards.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The company’s contract in Palm Beach County requires one caseworker for every 19 children, and imposes fines if key positions are vacant for more than 30 days.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">PROFITS MAKE SOME UNEASY</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In an era where corporations are taking over charter schools, hospitals, juvenile lockups and psychiatric programs, some say it is inevitable that the care of the state’s vulnerable children would fall to a for-profit company.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But some find it distasteful that a company would be allowed to profit on the care of foster children.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nonprofits have overhead and administrative expenses too, said Palm Beach County United Way President Scott Badesch, but their primary responsibility is to the community, not to shareholders.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“I just kind of get in knot in my stomach when I think that we don’t have enough money to serve kids and somebody is making a profit,” Badesch said. “Let’s not make profits off the kids in this society.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Others said the company should be measured by results.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“I have no problem with a for-profit, if they do a good job and are accountable for the public dollars that are being spent,” said Nan Rich, D-Sunrise, a member of the Senate Committee on Children and Families.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em>The Associated Press contributed to this story.</em></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Copyright 2005 The Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc.<br />
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<h3 id="comments" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2 comments to Robin Jensen, Making Profits From Children’s suffering?</h3><ul class="commentlist" style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li class="comment even thread-even depth-1 clearfix" id="comment-19" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; display: block; height: 220px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="clearfix comment-container" id="div-comment-19" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="comment-author vcard"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-55 photo" height="55" src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0df85b52e628c196a82bce7f3d4902d8?s=55&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D55&r=G" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" width="55" /><span class="authorname" style="font-size: 14px;">Karl</span></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/robin-jensen-making-profits-from-childrens-suffering/#comment-19" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">July 4, 2011 at 9:00 am</a> <span class="comment-reply-link"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/robin-jensen-making-profits-from-childrens-suffering/?replytocom=19#respond" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">· Reply</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Robin Jensen and DCF workers how much will you make per child? Jensen and other social workers stand up for what is right and put this family back together.</div></div><ul class="children" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-1 bypostauthor odd alt depth-2 clearfix" id="comment-73" style="clear: both; display: block; height: 115px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="clearfix comment-container bypostauthor" id="div-comment-73" style="background-color: #ffecec; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 191, 191); border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 191, 191); border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 191, 191); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 191, 191); border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="comment-author vcard"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-55 photo" height="55" src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/a94d924d736571e34cf02881420f3ba5?s=55&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D55&r=G" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" width="55" /><span class="authorname" style="font-size: 14px;">Randy</span></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><a href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/robin-jensen-making-profits-from-childrens-suffering/#comment-73" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">July 14, 2011 at 2:49 pm</a> <span class="comment-reply-link"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/robin-jensen-making-profits-from-childrens-suffering/?replytocom=73#respond" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">· Reply</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Robin Jensen money is not the most important thing in the world family is. Jensen how would you like it if your children were taken on lies.</div></div></li>
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Sarasota, FL, USA27.3364347 -82.53065270000001927.2830927 -82.589942200000024 27.389776700000002 -82.471363200000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-24415008146656202532011-11-07T04:39:00.000-08:002012-01-07T10:32:49.696-08:00FLORIDA BAR vs MELODY R. FORTUNATO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4ejucoxvNNCwC0TtgRYJT9l7qDgKJPrCcICALyj2F8k1npWJKN92dZMr2P8H7lNXzIVZXWCXoSETuKfTd4iuY6WPBduPUy-cd2DLjE_MLwmdxkFrMfmNNY2XV_jPTAxjEvgE_9PR4Di5/s1600/Melody+R.Fortunato.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4ejucoxvNNCwC0TtgRYJT9l7qDgKJPrCcICALyj2F8k1npWJKN92dZMr2P8H7lNXzIVZXWCXoSETuKfTd4iuY6WPBduPUy-cd2DLjE_MLwmdxkFrMfmNNY2XV_jPTAxjEvgE_9PR4Di5/s1600/Melody+R.Fortunato.jpg" /></a></div>IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA<br />
<br />
<br />
THE FLORIDA BAR, )<br />
) Case No. SC96979<br />
Petitioner-Appellant, )<br />
)<br />
v. ) TFB Case Nos.<br />
) 1999-51,936(17I)<br />
MELODY RIDGLEY FORTUNATO ) 2000-50,097(17I)<br />
)<br />
Respondent-Appellee. )<br />
_______________________________ )<br />
<br />
THE FLORIDA BAR’S INITIAL BRIEF<br />
<br />
ADRIA E. QUINTELA, #897000<br />
Bar Counsel<br />
The Florida Bar<br />
5900 North Andrews Avenue<br />
Suite 835<br />
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309<br />
<br />
(954) 772-2245<br />
JOHN ANTHONY BOGGS, #253847<br />
Staff Counsel<br />
The Florida Bar<br />
650 Apalachee Parkway<br />
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2300<br />
<br />
(850) 561-5839<br />
JOHN F. HARKNESS, JR., #123390<br />
Executive Director<br />
The Florida Bar<br />
650 Apalachee Parkway<br />
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2300<br />
<br />
(850) 561-5839<br />
<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
<br />
<br />
PAGE(S)<br />
<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS............................................ i<br />
<br />
<br />
TABLE OF CASES AND CITATIONS ............................. ii, iii<br />
<br />
<br />
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT ......................................1<br />
<br />
<br />
CERTIFICATION OF FONT TYPE, SIZE, STYLE AND ANTI-VIRUS SCAN . 1<br />
<br />
STATEMENT OF CASE AND FACTS............................... 2<br />
<br />
<br />
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT...................................... 7<br />
<br />
<br />
ARGUMENT ................................................... 7<br />
<br />
<br />
I.<br />
SUSPENSION IS THE APPROPRIATE SANCTION FOR<br />
A RESPONDENT WHO PURPOSELY PROVIDES FALSE,<br />
MISLEADING, AND EVASIVE TESTIMONY DURING A<br />
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING ...........................7<br />
A.<br />
RESPONDENT LIED TO THE COURT<br />
TIME AND TIME AGAIN ABOUT HER<br />
REASONS FOR NOT COMPLYING WITH<br />
THE ORDERS ENTERED BY THE<br />
FOURTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS<br />
................................................8<br />
<br />
<br />
B.<br />
RESPONDENT AGAIN LIED TO THE<br />
COURT WHEN SHE STATED THAT SHE<br />
HAD PERFORMED SOME WORK ON THE<br />
ROBBINS CASE, AND THAT SHE HAD A<br />
FILE ...........................................10<br />
II.<br />
THE AGGRAVATING FACTORS REQUIRE AN<br />
ENHANCED SANCTION ...............................13<br />
<br />
CONCLUSION................................................. 15<br />
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE ...................................... 16<br />
<br />
<br />
i<br />
<br />
TABLE OF CASES AND CITATIONS<br />
<br />
CASES PAGE(S)<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Cibula,<br />
725 So.2d 360 (Fla. 1998) .................................. 11, 12<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Corbin,<br />
701 So.2d 334 (Fla. 1997) ..................................... 11<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Oxner,<br />
431 So.2d 983 (Fla.1983) .....................................11<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Lund,<br />
410 So.2d 922 (Fla. 1982) .....................................12<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Williams,<br />
604 So.2d 447 (Fla. 1992) .....................................12<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Saphirstein,<br />
376 So.2d 7 (Fla. 1979) .......................................12<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Neely,<br />
372 So.2d 89 (Fla. 1979) ......................................12<br />
<br />
Florida Bar v. Langford,<br />
126 So.2d 538 (Fla. 1961) .....................................12<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Rood,<br />
622 So.2d 974 (Fla. 1993) .....................................13<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Colclough,<br />
561 So.2d 1147 (Fla. 1990) ....................................13<br />
<br />
<br />
ii<br />
<br />
TABLE OF CASES AND CITATIONS (continued)<br />
<br />
CASES PAGE(S)<br />
<br />
Florida Bar v. Segal,<br />
663 So.2d 618 (Fla. 1995).....................................13<br />
<br />
Florida Bar v. Kleinfeld,<br />
648 So.2d 698 (Fla. 1994).....................................13<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Rightmyer,<br />
616 So.2d 953 (Fla. 1993).....................................13<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar v. Merwin,<br />
636 So.2d 717 (Fla. 1994).....................................13<br />
<br />
RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR<br />
<br />
Rule 3-4.2 .......................................................4<br />
Rule 3-4.3 .......................................................4<br />
Rule 4-1.3 .......................................................4<br />
Rule 4-1.5 .......................................................6<br />
Rule 4-3.4(c).....................................................4<br />
Rule 4-8.4(a).....................................................4<br />
<br />
<br />
FLORIDA STANDARDS FOR IMPOSING LAWYER SANCTIONS<br />
<br />
Standard 9.22(c) .................................................13<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Standard 9.22(e) .................................................14<br />
Standard 9.22(f) .................................................14<br />
Standard 9.22(g) .................................................15<br />
<br />
<br />
iii<br />
<br />
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT<br />
<br />
The Florida Bar, Appellant, will be referred to as “the bar” or “The Florida Bar.”<br />
Melody R. Fortunato, Appellee, will be referred to as “respondent”. The symbol “RR”<br />
will be used to designate the report of referee and the symbol “TT” will be used to<br />
designate the transcript of the final hearing held in this matter.<br />
<br />
CERTIFICATION OF FONT TYPE, SIZE, STYLE AND ANTI-VIRUS SCAN<br />
<br />
Undersigned counsel hereby certifies that the brief of The Florida Bar is<br />
submitted in 14 point, proportionately spaced, Times New Roman font, and that the<br />
computer disk filed with this brief has been scanned and found to be free of viruses by<br />
Norton AntiVirus for Windows.<br />
<br />
1<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND FACTS<br />
<br />
<br />
On November 9, 1999, The Florida Bar filed a two count complaint against<br />
respondent charging the respondent with the commission of several violations of the<br />
Rules Regulating The Florida Bar in connection with her representation of two clients,<br />
an Austin Scott, Jr. and a Francis Gregory Robbins. This matter was tried on March<br />
15, 2000. The Honorable John L. Phillips entered his report of referee on May 15,<br />
2000.<br />
<br />
COUNT I<br />
<br />
Respondent represented Austin Scott, Jr., in a family court dispute styled Scott<br />
<br />
v. Scott. As part of the representation, respondent filed a Notice of Appeal in the case,<br />
invoking the jurisdiction of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, after the trial court<br />
entered an order in the Scott case. Respondent failed to include the $250 appellate<br />
filing fee with the Notice of Appeal, or an Order of Indigency.<br />
On or about March 19, 1999 the Fourth District Court of Appeal entered an<br />
Order, sua sponte, and ordered the respondent to pay the filing fee or file an Order of<br />
Indigency within 10 days of the date of the Order. That Order, the referee found,<br />
clearly announced the fee was to be paid regardless of whether the appeal was<br />
voluntarily dismissed or adversely dismissed, and stated failure to comply with the<br />
Order would result in dismissal of the cause and may result in court sanctions against<br />
any party or the parties’ attorney. Respondent failed to pay the filing fee, to file an<br />
<br />
2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Order of Indigency, or to make any response whatsoever to this Order. A copy of the<br />
Order was admitted into evidence during the bar’s proceedings.<br />
<br />
On or about April 9, 1999, the Fourth District Court of Appeal entered yet<br />
another Order dismissing the appeal for failure to pay the filing fee and ordering<br />
respondent to show cause why she should not be held in contempt for her failure to<br />
abide by the March 19, 1999 Order. Respondent was then given ten (10) days to<br />
respond to that Order. The respondent also wilfully disregarded this Order and failed<br />
to make any response whatsoever to this Order. A copy of the Court’s second Order<br />
was admitted into evidence during the bar’s proceedings.<br />
<br />
On or about May 5, 1999, the Fourth District Court of Appeal entered yet<br />
another Order assessing a fine of $250 against the respondent for her failure to respond<br />
to the Court’s Orders of March 19, 1999 and April 9, 1999. The Order required<br />
respondent to pay this fine within twenty (20) days. A copy of this Order was admitted<br />
into evidence during the course of the bar’s proceedings. Respondent, for a third time<br />
willingly disregarded the Court’s Order, did not pay the $250 in a timely fashion as<br />
ordered to do so, and failed to file any response whatsoever to this Order, blatantly<br />
disregarding the Court’s directives.<br />
<br />
From the evidence submitted, it is clear that respondent willfully and<br />
intentionally disregarded three separate court Orders from the Fourth District Court of<br />
Appeal and never even attempted to file any response to the same.<br />
<br />
3<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The referee hearing this matter found that respondent gave no credible reason for<br />
her failure to respond to the three Orders of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, or her<br />
failure to comply with the requirements of the Orders. He found that the only<br />
explanation given by respondent for her willful noncompliance involved a vaguely<br />
described medical procedure which was apparently performed on July 21, 1999, well<br />
after the three court Orders were entered. The referee also stated that respondent’s<br />
“testimony was verifiably false, confusing and deliberately misleading.” RR at 3.<br />
<br />
Based upon his factual findings the referee found the respondent had violated R.<br />
Regulating Fla. Bar 3-4.2 [Violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct as adopted<br />
by the rules governing The Florida Bar is a cause for discipline.]; 3-4.3 [The<br />
commission by a lawyer of any act that is unlawful or contrary to honesty and justice,<br />
whether the act is committed in the course of the attorney's relations as an attorney or<br />
otherwise, whether committed within or outside the state of Florida and whether or not<br />
the act is a felony or misdemeanor may constitute a cause for discipline.]; 4-1.3 [A<br />
lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client.]; 43.4(<br />
c)[A lawyer shall not knowingly disobey an obligation under the rules of a tribunal<br />
except for an open refusal based on an assertion that no valid obligation exists.]; and<br />
4-8.4(a) [A lawyer shall not violate or attempt to violate the Rules of Professional<br />
Conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of<br />
<br />
4<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
another.] Despite his factual findings, however, the referee only recommended that<br />
respondent receive a public reprimand in front of the Board of Governors.<br />
<br />
COUNT II<br />
<br />
On December 18, 1998, Francis Gregory Robbins hired respondent to represent<br />
him in a contemplated modification of visitation or custody action. Mr. Robbins’ former<br />
wife moved to Atlanta, Georgia with his children and Mr. Robbins was interested in<br />
reestablishing his visitation rights. Mr. Robbins and his fiancee, Ms. Harry, met with<br />
respondent at her office, provided her with a $2,500 retainer, and signed a retainer<br />
agreement which stated in pertinent part as follows:<br />
<br />
a.<br />
Retainer for Professional Services. I agree to pay a<br />
minimum non-refundable retainer fee of $2,500.00. This<br />
retainer pays for the first $2,500.00 worth of work and effort<br />
(emphasis added) performed by your office. I realize that<br />
this retainer fee is only a minimum fee and that additional<br />
fees may be charged.<br />
Both Mr. Robbins and Ms. Harry testified that they met briefly with respondent<br />
and that Mr. Robbins specifically informed the respondent not to take any action until<br />
she heard from him. Mr. Robbins was not provided with any documents.<br />
<br />
Two weeks later Mr. Robbins contacted respondent’s office to advise her he did<br />
not want to proceed with the litigation and was informed by a member of respondent’s<br />
staff that he would be refunded his retainer. He proceeded to call respondent time and<br />
time again, but was not able to reach her instead only reaching a member of her staff.<br />
<br />
5<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
After not receiving a response from the respondent he began to write letters to her<br />
dated May 3, 1999, May 14, 1999 and June 4, 1999 (all of which were admitted into<br />
evidence at the final hearing) attempting to get his money back. He even had to hire<br />
another attorney hoping that the respondent would then call him back, but still he got<br />
no response. He never received a refund of his retainer nor did he ever have any work<br />
performed by respondent on his behalf.<br />
<br />
The referee found that at no time did Mr. Robbins discuss the proposed litigation<br />
with respondent or any member of her staff office after the initial meeting on December<br />
18, 1998, and that all discussion after the initial meeting was related to informing the<br />
respondent not to go forward with the litigation and seeking a refund of the retainer.<br />
RR at 5-6. The referee also found that respondent was “...not a credible witness, her<br />
claims of work done on Mr. Robbins’ file are not corroborated by any other evidence,<br />
and the undersigned has serious doubts about the veracity of this testimony by<br />
Respondent.” RR at 5.<br />
<br />
The referee, nonetheless, found that respondent was not guilty of R. Regulating<br />
Fla. Bar 4-1.5 [An attorney shall not enter into an agreement for, charge, or collect and<br />
illegal, prohibited, or clearly excessive fee.].<br />
<br />
The referee’s report was considered by the bar’s Board of Governors at the<br />
meeting which ended on June 2, 2000. The Board determined to petition for review of<br />
the referee’s disciplinary sanction and seek a suspension.<br />
<br />
6<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT<br />
<br />
<br />
The referee specifically found that respondent was not a credible witness, that her<br />
testimony was not trustworthy, and in fact, in certain instances, that it was verifiably<br />
false, confusing, and deliberately misleading, yet he only sanctioned her with a public<br />
reprimand. This disciplinary sanction given by the referee is totally inconsistent with<br />
the case law and the Florida Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions. A respondent<br />
who deliberately and continuously lies during disciplinary proceedings and to the court<br />
should receive no less than a suspension.<br />
<br />
ARGUMENT<br />
<br />
I.<br />
SUSPENSION IS THE APPROPRIATE SANCTION<br />
FOR A RESPONDENT WHO PURPOSELY<br />
PROVIDES FALSE, MISLEADING, AND EVASIVE<br />
TESTIMONY DURING A DISCIPLINARY<br />
PROCEEDING<br />
It is totally inconsistent that the referee found that respondent was not a credible<br />
witness, that her testimony in several instances was evasive, deliberately misleading,<br />
verifiably false, and confusing, yet he nonetheless only recommended a public<br />
reprimand. The case law is overwhelmingly in support of the proposition that a<br />
respondent who lies to the court warrants at a minimum a suspension. It is, in fact,<br />
respondent’s lies to the court that elevate this case to the level of a suspension. What<br />
aggravates the situation further is that there are numerous instances during the final<br />
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hearing in which the respondent’s testimony was at a minimum evasive and purposely<br />
inaccurate.<br />
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A.<br />
Respondent lied to the court time and time again about her<br />
reasons for not complying with the Orders entered by the<br />
Fourth District Court of Appeals.<br />
Respondent, throughout the proceedings, categorically changed her testimony<br />
as to why she failed to comply with the Fourth District Court of Appeals Orders. First,<br />
she states that the reason she did not comply with the Court’s first Order which<br />
required that she submit the filing fee or file an Order of Indigency was due to the fact<br />
that she could not reach her client. TT at 87. Later in the proceedings, however, she<br />
then changes her testimony to state that the filing fee was not paid because the appeal<br />
was voluntarily dismissed by her before it was dismissed by the court. TT at 88-89.<br />
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THE COURT:<br />
You dismissed it voluntarily rather than<br />
having it dismissed by the appellate court?<br />
MS. FORTUNATO: Exactly.<br />
Respondent attempted to mislead the court by testifying that her client was not<br />
prejudiced by virtue of the fact that she voluntarily dismissed the appeal prior to the<br />
court dismissing the same. This was purposefully a lie as the referee later found out<br />
that respondent’s Voluntary Dismissal was not filed until June 28, 1999, yet the Fourth<br />
District Court’s dismissal of the appeal was prior to that on April 9, 1999. RR at 3.<br />
This lie was only revealed after respondent had no choice but to provide the Court with<br />
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a copy of her Notice of Voluntary Dismissal. Had this document not been provided to<br />
the Court the referee would have been left with respondent’s deceptive testimony.<br />
Respondent continues to lie to the court in other instances of being questioned.<br />
For example:<br />
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Q:<br />
My question is going to be, that order applies to you in that it states<br />
Melody Ridgley Fortunato is to show cause why a fine or other sanctions<br />
should not be imposed on said attorney for failure to respond?<br />
A.<br />
Yes.<br />
Q.<br />
It also states that attorney shall respond within ten days of the date of this<br />
order?<br />
A.<br />
Yes.<br />
Q.<br />
Did you file a response to this order?<br />
A.<br />
I filed just prior to that (emphasis added) the notice of voluntary dismissal<br />
which is reflected in the last paragraph. TT at 111.<br />
In subsequent questioning, the respondent states as follows:<br />
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Q.<br />
When was your voluntary dismissal filed?<br />
A.<br />
Prior to that.<br />
Q.<br />
When?<br />
A.<br />
I don’t have the document in front of me. I’d have to get it. TT at 112 .<br />
Respondent then lied to the court again by stating, for the first time ever during<br />
the entire disciplinary process, that it was a medical condition which prevented her<br />
from complying with these orders. TT at 92. When questioned by bar counsel,<br />
however, respondent admitted that the only time she raised the issue of some vague<br />
medical procedure was when asked by bar counsel why she did not respond in a timely<br />
fashion to the bar’s investigative inquiry, and the medical procedure did not surface as<br />
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an excuse for the noncompliance with the Fourth District Court of Appeals Orders until<br />
the date of the disciplinary final hearing. TT at 108.<br />
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B.<br />
Respondent again lied to the court when she stated that<br />
she had performed some work on the Robbins case, and<br />
that she had a file.<br />
Respondent once again attempted to intentionally mislead the court during the<br />
Robbins portion of the trial. She testified that she had a “file” representing the work<br />
done by her on behalf of Mr. Robbins.<br />
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The respondent testified:<br />
The Bar has never requested and never come to my office<br />
to even look at my file. Had they requested the file I would<br />
have produced it to them....They did not ask for copies of<br />
my file. TT at 81.<br />
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The evidence, however, revealed that the bar wrote to respondent on several<br />
occasions -July 22, 1999, August 11, 1999, and September 8, 1999, TT at 95, 96<br />
(these letters were all admitted into evidence), and that respondent was specifically<br />
asked to provide her file in the letter dated September 8, 1999, yet did not provide the<br />
same as a response to that letter or to any of the bar’s prior correspondences.<br />
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Respondent’s testimony continued to be purposefully confusing, false, and<br />
evasive when she was further questioned on this issue:<br />
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Q.<br />
Now you stated during your direct testimony that the Bar never asked you<br />
to produce the file on the Robbins case, never asked you to produce<br />
billing records and that you would have been more than glad to make this<br />
available to us.<br />
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Do you remember testifying to us?<br />
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A.<br />
Yes. But I don’t remember that so maybe I probably did send you my file<br />
then.<br />
Q.<br />
Your testimony is that your sent me your file?<br />
A.<br />
I don’t know. I don’t know. My practice is extremely busy. I can’t<br />
remember what I sent to you. TT at 98.<br />
Obviously, respondent changed her testimony from first testifying that she was<br />
never asked to produce her file on the Robbins case, and then when she was caught in<br />
her deceit, changed her testimony to now state that she must have somehow produced<br />
the file previously. Neither version was true.<br />
It is axiomatic that lying to the court warrants a suspension. See The Florida Bar<br />
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v. Cibula, 725 So.2d 360 (Fla. 1998) [91 day suspension]; The Florida Bar v. Corbin,<br />
701 So.2d 334 (Fla. 1997) [90 day suspension]; The Florida Bar v. Oxner, 431 So.2d<br />
983 (Fla. 1983) [60 day suspension].<br />
In Oxner, the respondent in bar disciplinary proceedings in order to secure a<br />
continuance, lied to the trial judge by stating that he had excused a vital witness who<br />
now could not be contacted. Judge Fine (the judge hearing the proceedings) was able<br />
to contact the witness without any difficulty and found that Oxner had never spoken to<br />
the witness about the case. The court ordered a sixty day suspension.<br />
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In the instant case, like in Oxner, the respondent misrepresented facts to the<br />
referee. She first gave a number of inconsistent and untruthful reasons about her<br />
noncompliance with the directives of the Fourth District Court of Appeals, and she then<br />
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conjures up a file which she never produced nor could produce even during the final<br />
hearing because in truth and in fact, this file never existed and was merely created by<br />
the respondent to justify her charging Mr. Robbins a $2,500 fee and not doing any<br />
work on his behalf. See also The Florida Bar v. Lund, 410 So.2d 922 (Fla. 1982) [10<br />
day suspension in a case where the respondent was untruthful in his testimony before<br />
a grievance committee].<br />
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The court has emphatically stated that “Dishonesty and a lack of candor cannot<br />
be tolerated in a profession built upon trust and respect for the law.” The Florida Bar<br />
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v. Williams, 604 So.2d 447, 451 (Fla. 1992). It is for this reason lawyers are<br />
suspended for lying to grievance committees or for making false statements during the<br />
disciplinary process. The Florida Bar v. Saphirstein, 376 So.2d 7 (Fla. 1979) [Sixty<br />
day suspension for attempting to unethically influence a referee and making a false<br />
statement in his initial response to the bar]; The Florida Bar v. Neely, 372 So.2d 89<br />
(Fla. 1979) [Ninety day suspension plus probation for lying and self dealing in a real<br />
estate matter]; Florida Bar v. Langford, 126 So.2d 538 (Fla. 1961) [Lawyer suspended<br />
for eighteen months for testifying falsely before a grievance committee and for<br />
attempting to have another lawyer do likewise to corroborate the false testimony].<br />
While the referee found respondent guilty of the rule violations she was charged<br />
with in Count I, his findings that her testimony was not credible, verifiably false and<br />
evasive is in clear contradiction of his disciplinary sanction and to the case law.<br />
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The overwhelming precedent from cases where a lawyer has engaged in acts of<br />
misrepresentation or out right perjury during the disciplinary process are suspension<br />
cases. The majority of the cases are significant suspensions. See Cibula; The Florida<br />
Bar v. Rood, 622 So.2d 974 (Fla. 1993) [1 year suspension]; The Florida Bar v.<br />
Colclough, 561 So.2d 1147 (Fla. 1990) [6 month suspension]; Florida Bar v. Segal, 663<br />
So.2d 618 (Fla. 1995), [a three year suspension].<br />
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In Florida Bar v. Kleinfeld, 648 So.2d 698 (Fla. 1994), the court stated “Making<br />
a knowing misrepresentation to a tribunal is a serious ethical breach.” The court’s<br />
intolerance for a lawyer’s deceit is best illustrated in the cases where an attorney has<br />
been disbarred for his/her lies. For example, in The Florida Bar v. Rightmyer, 616<br />
So.2d 953 (Fla. 1993), the court ordered disbarment and stated:<br />
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We can conceive of no ethical violation more damaging to<br />
the legal profession and process than lying under oath, for<br />
perjury strikes at the very heart of our entire system of<br />
justice---the search for the truth. An officer of the court who<br />
knowingly and deliberately seeks to corrupt the legal<br />
process can logically expect to be excluded from that<br />
process.<br />
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See also The Florida Bar v. Merwin, 636 So.2d 717 (Fla. 1994).<br />
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II.<br />
THE AGGRAVATING FACTORS REQUIRE AN<br />
ENHANCED SANCTION<br />
Independently of respondent’s numerous misrepresentations to the court, a<br />
number of aggravating factors were present which the referee ignored and which<br />
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mandate that this case be elevated to the level of a suspension. (All references are to<br />
Florida Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions).<br />
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First, under 9.22(c), respondent’s pattern of misconduct should have been<br />
considered by the referee. In the instant case, there were not one, but three separate<br />
appellate Orders which respondent knowingly ignored. To allow a respondent to<br />
simply ignore the Court’s directives strikes at the very heart of our system, for if the<br />
court system is to continue to work we must ensure that lawyers respect the court and<br />
abide by its directives.<br />
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Other aggravating factors which the referee failed to consider and which should<br />
have enhanced the disciplinary sanction ordered include 9.22(e), respondent’s bad faith<br />
obstruction of the disciplinary proceeding by intentionally failing to comply with rules<br />
or orders of the disciplinary agency. Evidence was submitted which demonstrated that<br />
respondent failed to reply to the bar’s initial investigative inquiry and correspondence.<br />
TT at 96. It was also shown that respondent failed to appear at a status conference<br />
scheduled by the court and that she failed to comply with the court’s directive that a<br />
witness and exhibit list be prepared prior to trial. TT at 3. These instances point to<br />
deliberate disregard to the judicial process and to obstruction of the disciplinary<br />
proceeding. The referee, however, did not consider this aggravating factor when<br />
assessing his disciplinary sanction.<br />
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Under 9.22(f), submission of false evidence, false statements, or other deceptive<br />
practices during the disciplinary process is an aggravating factor which can be<br />
considered. At the risk of sounding repetitive, it has been shown that respondent’s<br />
testimony during the disciplinary proceedings was found to be false, misleading,<br />
evasive, and deliberately confusing by the referee. The referee, nonetheless, dismissed<br />
his own findings and while himself recognizing that respondent had lied to him merely<br />
ordered a public reprimand. Respondent attempted to make a mockery of the<br />
proceedings and to fool everyone, including the referee. She time and time again<br />
conjured up facts and when closely questioned on these facts and then caught in her<br />
own lies, changed her testimony or became evasive. To allow a respondent to escape<br />
unscathed from such reprehensible behavior cannot be allowed for it makes a mockery<br />
of the entire disciplinary process. For a referee to make a finding that respondent lied<br />
and then for that same referee to find her not guilty of Count II and to merely publicly<br />
reprimand her is totally inconsistent.<br />
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A further aggravating factor which must to be considered is 9.22(g), refusal to<br />
acknowledge the wrongful nature of the conduct. In the instant proceedings, respondent<br />
showed no remorse for her actions, provided no apology, and merely conjured a<br />
number of false and deceptive reasons as to why she did not comply with the appellate<br />
court orders. As to the Robbins case, despite the fact that the referee found it highly<br />
doubtful that she ever did any work on the Robbins case, she demonstrated no remorse<br />
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for billing this client, for not having done any work on his behalf, and for keeping his<br />
retainer.<br />
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CONCLUSION<br />
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The case law as so The Florida Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions clearly<br />
support that suspension is the appropriate discipline in this case. Respondent knowingly<br />
violated a court order and then lied to the referee time and time again to cover up her<br />
reasons for not obeying the court order. Respondent also lied to the referee about<br />
having a “file” in the Robbins case to justify the fee charged. Respondent’s conduct<br />
was deceitful. Her motives were corrupt and her actions demonstrated total disrespect<br />
and disregard for the grievance process. Such conduct cannot be tolerated in a member<br />
of The Florida Bar.<br />
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Based on the case law and the Standards, the appropriate sanction for violation<br />
of the rules set forth herein is a ninety-one (91) day suspension.<br />
WHEREFORE, The Florida Bar respectfully requests this court to enter an order<br />
suspending the respondent for ninety-one (91) days.<br />
Respectfully submitted,<br />
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Adria E. Quintela, # 897000<br />
Bar Counsel<br />
The Florida Bar<br />
5900 North Andrews Avenue, Suite 835<br />
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309<br />
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(954) 772-2245<br />
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE<br />
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing brief has<br />
been furnished by regular U.S. Mail to Melody R. Fortunato, respondent at 110<br />
Southeast Sixth Street, #1601, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 this ___ day of July,<br />
2000.<br />
<br />
Adria E. Quintela<br />
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17Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA26.1223084 -80.143378626.051560900000002 -80.2017806 26.1930559 -80.0849766tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-76789570255610779842011-11-05T23:44:00.000-07:002012-01-08T23:29:32.268-08:00PAULA D. SHAFFNER and HOWARD B. SCHERER<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Affidavit of Paula Shaffner is below.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Affidavit of Howard Scherer </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Paula was Janney Montgomery Scott's Attorney during the Mediation that took place September 26, 2003. it's VERY IRONIC how SHE ACCUSED me of Approving EVERY Trade Mr. Jeff Brook made on my account and Accounts....SHE didn't have 1 piece of evidence at the Mediation.....The 1 thing she did say is we have phone records that you spoke with Jeff everyday....YET....SHE NEVER Showed me them at the MEDIATION.....Ironically Mr.Howard Tescher who was the Mediator that day....Did NOT send me any copies of Evidence of those documents for that Mediation. He didn't send me any notes he took either....YOU want to know WHY....HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM DURING THE CAUCUS......HE LEFT THE ROOM AFTER HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF...... </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Paula signed an Affidavit I LIED about the Mediation too.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Howard B. Scherer was another 1 there. He signed the Settlement agreement. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> He EVEN signed an Affidavit I LIED about the Mediation.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">So did my SCUMBAG ATTORNEY JEFF GRUBMAN and SCUMBAG Broker Jeff Brook</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">ALL 4 LIED PERJURED THEMSELVES....AND GUESS WHAT...FLORIDA BAR STICKS UP FOR THEM.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">FLORIDA BAR DOESNT EVEN HAVE ANY INQUIRY REPORT ON JEFF GRUBMAN ON THEIR FLORIDA BAR PAGE.....BAD AZZ Attorneys</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">YET FINRA.....HAS MORE VIOLATIONS AGAINST JEFF BROOK'S AND TERRY METZGER.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">WILL FINRA SUSPEND THEM.....PROBABLY NOT.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">YOU SEE THIS MEDIATION WAS A SET-UP......PURE FRAUD....!EXTORTION OF MY CIVIL RIGHTS AND DUE PROCESS UNDER THE LAW...JUST MY OPINION!</b></span><br />
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</b></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Philadelphia, PA, USA39.952335 -75.16378900000000839.816841 -75.326059000000015 40.087829 -75.001519tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-40794841870857444892011-11-02T19:47:00.000-07:002011-11-02T19:49:07.448-07:00JANET-FREDERICK-WILSON-DEARBORN MICHIGAN ATTORNEY<h1 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, arial, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, verdana, arial, serif; width: 700px;"><tbody>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Con Artist Att. Janet Frederick-Wilson & The Detroit News</span></h2><div class="timedate" style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">10:46, Mar. 13, 2008 .. <a href="http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/36484/Con+Artist+Att.+Janet+Frederick-Wilson+%26amp%3B+The+Detroit+News.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Link</a></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="Apple-style-span">To: Delores Flynn / The Detroit News</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"> Hello, it has been brought to my attention that you have, most likely, been an unwitting participant in Attorney Janet Frederick-Wilson’s, Parents for Children Scam.</span></span> <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Confused? Allow me to explain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Parents for Children and Attorney Janet Frederick-Wilson, use any and all articles placed in print to promote their scam, even if they have to slightly alter them in some cases.</span><br />
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<a href="http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/21373/Attorney+Janet+Frederick-Wilson%92s+Deception+Continues.html" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/2137...inues.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> The article you wrote on February 6, 2008, Security outside court slammed, is just another piece of positive propaganda that they can use to make unsuspecting parents believe that they are indeed trying to help instead of just getting their money, which is their real objective.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> By exploiting your article with a catchy headline like “Wayne County Commissioners make $68,000/yr plus benefits for 15 of them - totaling nearly $1,100,000. But they can't afford one security guard to ensure the public safety of their own "Hall of Justice." “</span><br />
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<a href="http://parentsforchildren.net/00index.cfm" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://parentsforchildren.net/00inde...0index.cfm</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> The article, while innocent enough, and truly a problem issue, now becomes just another ploy that Parents for Children will use to gain parents confidence. Parents for Children will use this article to make people believe that they not only have media support, but that they are also actively trying to make a difference.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> I have personally done several blog postings exposing both Attorney Janet Frederick-Wilson, and Parents for Children and their scam. (see links below, these are just a few of the articles, I have many)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Of course since you do not know me, I wouldn’t want you to just take my word for it. Try this link to the Lawyers Rating site, and see just what other people think of this con artist.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tcvid=416" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://www.lawyerratingz.com/ShowRat...?tcvid=416</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Just once, I would like to see the media informing the people of a potential, dangerous, con artist, instead of promoting the scam and helping the con artist out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Are you worried about a libel law suit?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> If that were the case, as an attorney, even a half assed one, would surely have sued me already, unless what I am saying is the truth, and I could prove it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> I am posting this email to you on my blog, and would appreciate your response, you have my email address.</span><br />
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<a href="mailto:theoutlawwolf@hotmail.com" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">theoutlawwolf@hotmail.com</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Regardless of what you do, I just wanted to let you know, that you were supporting a con-artist.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Attention Readers: Since I personally think that these con-artist's should be exposed for the crooks that they are, if you or anyone has any information concerning Parents for Children or Attorney Janet Frederick-Wilson, maybe it would be a great idea to let Delores Flynn and or The Detroit News, know how you feel.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> You can reach Delores Flynn at (248) 647-7225 or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><a href="mailto:dflynn@detnews.com" style="background-color: white; text-decoration: none;">dflynn@detnews.com</a></span> <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> Robert W. Magee</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> The Outlaw Wolf</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><a href="http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/21359/The+Parents+for+Children+Scam.html" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/2135...+Scam.html</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/21357/A+Piss+Poor+Attempt+At+Blackmail.html" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/2135...kmail.html</span></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/21354/Contra+Costa+County%2C+California%2C+Parents+for+Children+Scam.html" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/2135...+Scam.html</span></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/21352/Another+Unhappy+Customer+From+Parents+for+Children+Scam.html" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/2135...+Scam.html</span></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/21180/Janet+Frederick-Wilson+And+The+PFC+Scam.html" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">http://outlawwolf.efx2blogs.com/2118...+Scam.html</span></a><br />
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<tr bgcolor="#bdd78f"><td align="center" height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=710649429613228249" name="26709" style="font-weight: bold;"></a><a href="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/flagRating.jsp?rid=26709" style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><img alt="Click to report rating" border="0" height="20" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/redflag.gif" title="Click to report rating" width="20" /></a> </td><td height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1/30/10</td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top">We hired her to represent us as foster parents. We were threatened by a social worker that she could and would take our biological children if we did not succumb to her ridiculous demands to interrogate our toddlers alone! After we had already overheard this worker asking leading and outright inappropriate questions of our foster children who were 4 and 6. This attorney played up and on our fears. Nothing she predicted happened. She took our money and then showed so late the day of that she missed the entire hearing and then had the nerve to get ticked for not getting paid for her time! We lost our foster children to the system because of gross accusations by the social worker but the judge realized that we were not the "BAD" people the worker was making us out to be and our family was left alone. No thanks to our well paid no show of an attorney. I am just grateful my husband did not pay her the full amount up front. I would not recommend her to my worst enemy! </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top" width="20"><img alt="RID: 26709" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/frown.gif" title="RID: 26709" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=710649429613228249" name="15395" style="font-weight: bold;"></a><a href="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/flagRating.jsp?rid=15395" style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><img alt="Click to report rating" border="0" height="20" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/redflag.gif" title="Click to report rating" width="20" /></a> </td><td height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1/29/09</td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top">Janet has been awesome. Her professionalism, ethics, and knowledge of family law are above reproach. I would recommend her without hesitation. And I AM NOT Janet, her husband, nor am I related to her in any way. I am a client of hers for the past 6 years. </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top" width="20"><img alt="RID: 15395" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/smile.gif" title="RID: 15395" /></td></tr>
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<tr bgcolor="#bdd78f"><td align="center" height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=710649429613228249" name="6237" style="font-weight: bold;"></a><a href="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/flagRating.jsp?rid=6237" style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><img alt="Click to report rating" border="0" height="20" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/redflag.gif" title="Click to report rating" width="20" /></a> </td><td height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 10/29/07</td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top">This Lawer has takein my family for alot of money. We hired her she was supposted to be the best to fight cps.And we still lost are grandchild it took all of are saving to hire her and we still owe 1000.00 to her she keeps adding money to our bill for no reason. We have not talk to her sence. But for some reason she keeps adding. she did not do her job all she did is stiff us. she took are saving and made us lose the greatest thing in are life witch was are grandson </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top" width="20"><img alt="RID: 6237" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/frown.gif" title="RID: 6237" /></td></tr>
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*</td><td height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 9/4/07</td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5 </td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top">Great Attorney, Helping me get My $28,000 in Back Child support,he will be going to prison soon for Felony child support, HE HE. The he won't be able to **** my kids anymore he is also having an affair with the Married women he lives with. </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top" width="20"><img alt="RID: 5624" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/smile.gif" title="RID: 5624" /></td></tr>
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<tr bgcolor="#bdd78f"><td align="center" height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=710649429613228249" name="5457" style="font-weight: bold;"></a> </td><td height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 8/20/07</td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top">On or about May 2007 I posted a negative report. I documented that the Court of Appeals judges found her representative of an innocent man so bad they though she should be disciplined. That evaluation was removed. Another evaluation on this site was also removed. It said that July 2006 her husband cruised I-75 stopping at rest areas putting up advertising with her picture on it. That evaluation was also removed. Most recently she and her husband have taken to selling 'antiques' at flea markets to get money. Does that sound like an attorney you want representing you? She is hopelessly in debt. She is such a bad attorney the Michigan Bar last year disciplined her for abandoning her clients. BEWARE, BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top" width="20"><img alt="RID: 5457" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/frown.gif" title="RID: 5457" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=710649429613228249" name="5139" style="font-weight: bold;"></a> </td><td height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 7/27/07</td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 4 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top">For an attorney to profit from the tears of parents is part of the "FIA GAME". When children are being ripped from families because of poverty, billing the parents at $200 an hour only guarantees the children will never be returned. The ethics of this attorney needs to be questioned. I suggest everyone file grievances with the Michigan Bar Association and have her disbarred. CPS takes the children and this attorney takes whatever dignity and last dollar from your bank account. She is just one example of why Michigan's child welfare laws need to be reformed. The glowing remarks posted on this rating site strike me to have come from her husband. http://www.agcmi.com/ Everyone should file a complaint if you have been (or continue to be)defrauded by Janet Frederick-Wilson. </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top" width="20"><img alt="RID: 5139" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/frown.gif" title="RID: 5139" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=710649429613228249" name="4063" style="font-weight: bold;"></a> </td><td height="32" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 5/21/07</td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> 1 </td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top">Personally to me it is a waste of time to rate this attorney. As soon as anyone does do a rating about her which reflects the true Janet Frederick-Wilson for the con artist that she is, her husband or herself does a post which claims that she is a goddess of some sort. That is just not the case. Janet is corruption at it's finest. I know this and can prove it. There are many other people out there that will tell you the same. She is a crook. She does not know her stuff. She will sell you out and leave you hanging as soon as she gets your money. She has very poor if any communication skills with her clients after she receives her retainer. She will hang you in the court room by filing bogusly on your behalve. Then she will excuse herself claiming that you are impossible to work with. And if you try to fire her first, she will try everything in her power to screw you and still get her fee. Plain and simple "SHE SUCKS" </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top" width="20"><img alt="RID: 4063" src="http://www.lawyerratingz.com/images/frown.gif" title="RID: 4063" /></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Dearborn, MI, USA42.3222599 -83.17631449999998942.2849444 -83.250007 42.3595754 -83.102621999999982tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-62230422362158728062011-10-15T16:25:00.000-07:002012-01-08T23:39:26.322-08:00PAULA D. SHAFFNER and HOWARD B. SCHERER<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Paula was Janney Montgomery Scott's Attorney during the Mediation that took place September 26, 2003. it's VERY IRONIC how SHE ACCUSED me of Approving EVERY Trade Mr. Jeff Brook made on my account and Accounts....SHE didn't have 1 piece of evidence at the Mediation.....The 1 thing she did say is we have phone records that you spoke with Jeff everyday....YET....SHE NEVER Showed me them at the MEDIATION.....Ironically Mr.Howard Tescher who was the Mediator that day....Did NOT send me any copies of Evidence of those documents for that Mediation. He didn't send me any notes he took either....YOU want to know WHY....HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM DURING THE CAUCUS......HE LEFT THE ROOM AFTER HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF...... </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Paula signed an Affidavit I LIED about the Mediation too.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Howard B. Scherer was another 1 there. He signed the Settlement agreement. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> He EVEN signed an Affidavit I LIED about the Mediation.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">So did my SCUMBAG ATTORNEY JEFF GRUBMAN and SCUMBAG Broker Jeff Brook</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">ALL 4 LIED PERJURED THEMSELVES....AND GUESS WHAT...FLORIDA BAR STICKS UP FOR THEM.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">FLORIDA BAR DOESNT EVEN HAVE ANY INQUIRY REPORT ON JEFF GRUBMAN ON THEIR FLORIDA BAR PAGE.....BAD AZZ Attorneys</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">YET FINRA.....HAS MORE VIOLATIONS AGAINST JEFF BROOK'S AND TERRY METZGER.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">WILL FINRA SUSPEND THEM.....PROBABLY NOT.....</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">YOU SEE THIS MEDIATION WAS A SET-UP......PURE FRAUD....!EXTORTION OF MY CIVIL RIGHTS AND DUE PROCESS UNDER THE LAW...JUST MY OPINION!</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com2Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA26.1223084 -80.143378626.051560900000002 -80.2017806 26.1930559 -80.0849766tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-9275594667700256882011-10-12T02:21:00.000-07:002011-10-12T12:41:03.826-07:00FLORIDA BAR DISBARRED OR DISCIPLINES THESE ATTORNEYS<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></b><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jack S. Carey, 635 19th Ave. N.E., Saint Petersburg, disbarred, following a Sept. 14 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1951) (Case No. SC10-1399) Carey violated Florida Bar rules regarding conflict of interest. Carey represented a client for many years and oversaw her will through several amendments. After her death, the court found that Carey took advantage of the business relationship he had with the client and procured substantial benefits for himself. (Case No. SC10-1399)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Darlene Fernandez Carus, 7234 N.W. 66th St., Miami, suspended for 30 months, effective 30 days from an Aug. 10 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2001) Carus allowed an attorney friend to use her Attorney’s Title Insurance agent identification and trust account to conduct closings because the friend claimed to have minor problems with her own membership. Unbeknownst to Carus, the friend’s Attorney’s Title membership had previously been revoked. The friend, an attorney who was later permanently disbarred, was not supervised by Carus and conducted numerous fraudulent transactions resulting in a loss in excess of $1 million. (Case No. SC10-1535)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michelle H. Clark, P.O. Box 173, Tavares, P.O. Box 173, Tavares, suspended for six months, effective 30 days from a Sept. 15 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1997) Clark</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was placed on probation for three years in February 2007. She agreed to sign a rehabilitation contract with Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc. and pay restitution of $5,500 to two clients. She failed to comply with the court order. (Case No. SC10-195)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fred Clinton Cohen, P.O. Box 13146, North Palm Beach, suspended for 90 days, effective 30 days from a Sept. 17 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1973) Cohen failed to properly supervise<em> </em>and shared fees with a disbarred lawyer who worked in his office as a paralegal. (Case No. SC10-353)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Robert Joseph Dorn Jr., 7815 W. Commercial Blvd., Tamarac, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Sept. 17 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2002) Dorn failed to respond to official Bar inquiries regarding a complaint. Also, the telephone number he provided to the Bar was disconnected with no forwarding number. (Case No.SC10-1491)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">James Bernard Hayes, 5301 N. Federal Highway, Suite 130, Boca Raton, permanently disbarred effective immediately, following an Aug. 24 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1978) Hayes misappropriated client trust funds and converted them for his own purposes. (Case No. SC10-939)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Robin Ann Hellman, 12000 N.E. 8th Ave., Miami, disbarred effective retroactive to May 14, following a Sept. 17 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1998) Hellman misappropriated client funds. She consistently transferred client funds from her trust account to her operating account. (Case No. SC10-1018)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Joel Scott Jacobi, 12555 Biscayne Blvd. #844, North Miami, suspended for 91 days, effective 30 days from a Sept. 21 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1997) While running for reelection to a city council seat, Jacobi made false or misleading statements under oath regarding his residency. He was issued a letter of reprimand and required to pay $3,500 in fines by the Ethics Commission. Jacobi later resigned his seat after an opponent filed a lawsuit seeking his removal from the council. In another matter, Jacobi failed to appear at a hearing in a client matter, resulting in a judgment against his client, which Jacobi subsequently satisfied after a bar grievance was filed. (Case No.SC10-400) </span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jussi Kustaa Kivisto, 1010 10th Ave. N. #2, Lake Worth, disbarred effective immediately, following a Sept. 28 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1983) Kivisto established a pattern of willful, deliberate disregard for the orders of the court. His behavior included lying to the referee in open court, frivolous objections to discovery, repeated failure to appear for deposition and filing a federal lawsuit against Bar counsel. The court found that Kivisto’s defiant and inappropriate behavior was premeditated and carried out with deliberate malice aforethought. (Case No. SC07-2281)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warren Jay Knaust, 530 49th St. S., Saint Petersburg, suspended until further order, following an Aug. 30 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1976) In August, Knaust pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, a felony. (Case No. SC10-1681)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Raymond Edmund Makowski, P.O. Box 551174, Jacksonville, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Sept. 14 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1974) Makowski failed to comply with the Bar’s subpoena for trust account records. </span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Case No. SC10-1363)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">James Robert Mann, 1220 16th Street, Miami Beach, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Sept. 30 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1997) Mann failed to comply with a subpoena by the grievance committee to appear and produce trust account records. (Case No. SC10-1632)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">J. William Masters II, 1229 Burning Tree Lane, Winter Park, disbarred effective Sept. 30, following a Sept. 14 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1973) Masters was retained to represent numerous clients and he failed to adequately do so. In some instances, Masters failed to communicate and keep clients apprised of their cases and he failed to timely respond to letters from the Bar. (Case No. SC10-415)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Joseph Barry Miller, 235 Porto Vecchio Way, Palm Beach Gardens, disbarred effective immediately, following a Sept. 15 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1973) Miller pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, a felony, in relation to money obtained as a result of fraudulent mortgages. (SC10-942)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michael Palmer Nido, Jr., 10055 N.W. 54th Place, Coral Springs, suspended for six months, effective 30 days from an Aug. 31 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1996) Nido failed to file an answer to a Bar complaint and failed to appear at a final hearing in May. He also submitted false statements about his representation of a client and he submitted a sworn statement to the Bar that included multiple fabricated attacks on the client. (Case No. SC09-642)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Samuel Edwards Oliver, 2005 N. Meridian Road, Apt. G, Tallahassee, disbarred effective 30 days from a July 8 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1997) Further, Oliver shall pay restitution of $7,500 to one client and nearly $1,200 to another person. In several instances, Oliver was paid to represent clients and he failed to communicate and made misrepresentations about the status of the cases. He also failed to refund unearned fees to clients. (Case No. SC09-1739)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Byron Gregory Petersen, 600 W. Las Olas Blvd., Apt. 1105, Fort Lauderdale, to be publicly reprimandedfollowing an Aug. 26 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1976) In March 2009, Petersen pleaded guilty in court to three misdemeanor courts for criminal mischief and stalking. Adjudication of guilt was withheld and he was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to enter a domestic intervention program. (Case No. SC10-582)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Henry Neil Portner, 1001 W. Indiantown Road, Suite 105, Jupiter, to be publicly reprimanded following an Aug. 19 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1991) Portner disseminated a misleading direct mail advertisement for foreclosure defense and loan modification representation. (Case No. SC10-288)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marc Benjamin Press, 6551 Arleigh Court, Apt. 102, Boca Raton, suspended for one year, effective 30 days from a Sept. 29 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1996) Further, as a condition of his reinstatement, Press shall receive a recommendation from Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc. Press was found in contempt for violating conditions of a November 2009 admonishment for minor misconduct. (Case No. SC10-1125)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">David Kenyon Richardson, 7911 N.W. 72nd Ave., Suite 109A, Medley, permanently disbarred, effective retroactive to July 20, following an Aug. 19 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1994) Richardson admitted that he received client funds and he failed to preserve or use those funds for the purposes for which they were entrusted. (Case No. SC10-1601)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Adam Serper, 20500 W. Country Club Drive, Aventura, suspended for two years, effective immediately, following an Aug. 5 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1996) Further, as a condition of his reinstatement, Serper shall receive a recommendation from Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc. In April 2009, Serper was suspended for 91 days and ordered to sign a rehabilitation contract with Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc. Serper failed to comply with the court order. (Case No. SC10-946)</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Henry Nissim Adorno, 2525 Ponce De Leon Blvd. Suite 400, Miami, suspended until further order, effective Oct. 28, following an Oct. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1973) While representing clients in a class action lawsuit, Adorno settled with individual plaintiffs to the detriment of other plaintiffs. Adorno also took an excessive attorney fee. (Case No.SC09-1012)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Mark David Swanson, 1521 Alton Road No. 684, Miami Beach, suspended for 91 days, effective 30 days from a Sept. 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1984) Further, as a condition of his reinstatement, Swanson shall receive a recommendation from Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc. In May Swanson was suspended for 50 days and ordered to pay restitution totaling $9,300 to two clients. He was also required to contact FLA, Inc. for an evaluation. Swanson failed to comply with the court order. (Case No. SC10-1402)</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; line-height: 16px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">April Ann Arendell, 5342 Lake Margaret Drive, Apt. 523, Orlando, suspended for 45 days, effective immediately, following an Oct. 12 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2006) Further, upon reinstatement, Arendell will be placed on probation for three years and sign a rehabilitation contract with Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc. Arendell entered into an employment contract that created a conflict of interest and did not provide the customer with the proper attorney-client relationship. Arendell's employment arrangement created a situation in which she assisted in the unlicensed practice of law and shared legal fees with non-lawyers. She also failed to complete and communicate loan modification case statuses with clients; and she failed to maintain minimum trust accounting records and comply with minimum trust accounting procedures. (Case Nos. SC10-1057 & SC10-1145)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Antonio R. Arnao, P.O. Box 1086, Clearwater, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Nov. 1 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1988) Arnao was found in contempt for failure to respond without good cause to official Bar inquiries. Arnao ignored numerous requests for a written reply or call to The Florida Bar's staff. (Case No. SC10-1341)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Louis Barbieri, III, 271 17th St. N.W., Suite 2400, Atlanta, Ga., to be publicly reprimanded following a Nov. 1 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2006) Barbieri was conditionally admitted to The Florida Bar and placed on probation for five years based on alcohol abuse issues. He failed to comply with the terms of the Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc. contract. (Case No. SC10-857)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Debi Fay Chalik, 10063 N.W. 1st Court, Plantation, is publicly reprimanded by an Oct. 12 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1999) Chalik is also a member of The Kentucky Bar. In June, the Supreme Court of Kentucky publicly reprimanded Chalik for failure to timely file an advertisement. (Case No. SC10-1917)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Ryan Thomas Fasso, 2007 S. Pebble Beach Blvd., Sun City Center, suspended for two years, effective retroactive to April 26, following an Oct. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2002) Fasso pleaded no contest in court to a felony charge of cocaine possession. As a result, he was suspended in April by the Supreme Court. In addition, Fasso was retained to represent clients in at least seven separate cases and he failed to communicate, missed hearings and oftentimes neglected to perform the work. (Case No. SC10-535)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Maurice J. Hall, 409 N. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach, disbarred effective immediately, following an Oct. 14 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1976) Hall admitted that over the past 10 years, he continually and systematically misappropriated client and third-party funds from his attorney trust account for his own purposes. (Case No. SC10-1953)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Jay Clifton Halsema, 4446-1A Hendricks Ave., Suite 378, Jacksonville, suspended until further order, following a Nov. 8 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1998) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Halsema is the subject of several Bar disciplinary matters. He was also arrested in October and charged with organized fraud. (Case No. SC10-2112)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Frank J. Ingrassia, 8931 Wiles Road, Coral Springs, disbarred effective 30 days from an Oct. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1997) Ingrassia admitted that he is the subject of an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with regard to his preparation of forged court orders. (Case No. SC10-2028)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Philip David Irish, 1920 N.W. 94th Ave., Miami, disbarred effective retroactive to Oct. 8, 2008, the date of his felony suspension, following a Nov. 4 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) Irish was adjudicated guilty in court of six felony charges involving drugs. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison. (Case Nos. SC08-1375, SC08-1552, SC08-1891 & SC08-2398)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Bruce Gregory Kaufmann, 1564 Oakadia Lane, Clearwater, suspended until further order, effective immediately, following an Oct. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1988) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Kaufmann appeared to be causing great public harm and is the subject of several pending disciplinary cases. Kaufmann engaged in an intentional pattern of obtaining fees, controlling assets and forcing individuals to pay him before he would resign as trustee. (Case No. SC10-1973)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Scott Kramer, 6650 W. Indiantown Road, Suite 200, Jupiter, disbarred effective immediately, following an Oct. 11 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1982) Kramer admitted that he continually and systematically misappropriated client funds held in trust, including projected attorney's fees in some instances, before the settlement money had been received. A Bar compliance audit of Kramer's trust account from January 1, 2005, through April 30, 2010, showed ongoing shortages. (Case No. SC10-1925)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Paul David Lazarus, 1 Financial Plaza, Suite 2510, Fort Lauderdale, suspended for 60 days, effective 30 days from a Nov. 4 court order. Further, Lazarus shall pay restitution of $2,500.00 and be placed onprobation for two years. (Admitted to practice: 1977) Lazarus handled two separate criminal appellate proceedings in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal and he failed to provide adequate representation. Lazarus was indefinitely suspended from practicing before both the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. (Case No. SC10-826)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Guillermo Napoleon Lopez, 759 N.W. 22nd Avenue, Miami, disbarred effective immediately, following an Oct. 19 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2005) Lopez facilitated the misappropriation of funds by his sister, Maria Teresa Lopez, a now-disbarred attorney. Lopez also served as the settlement agent for numerous transactions in which he failed to disburse monies in accordance with the Housing and Urban Development settlement statements, including mortgages that were required to be satisfied at closing. (Case No. SC09-1803)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gregory A. Meeks II, P.O. Box 353, Ocoee, disbarred effective immediately, following an Oct. 15 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2001) In November 2006, Meeks was suspended and unable to practice law in Florida. Meeks practiced law while suspended and he failed to inform the court or clients. In other instances, Meeks was retained by clients and failed to provide adequate representation. (Case Nos. SC09-437 & SC09-563)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Emmanuel Roy, 26 Court St., Suite 1503, Brooklyn, N.Y., disbarred effective retroactive to March 22, following an Oct. 19 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) Roy, who was also a member of the New York State Bar, surrendered his license to practice law in New York after being charged with 38 counts of misconduct. In October 2009, Roy was arrested and indicted by the federal government for his involvement in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scam. (Case No. SC10-806)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">James Patrick Tarquin, 1111 N.E. 25th Ave., Suite 501, Ocala, placed on probation for three years effective immediately, following an Oct. 12 court order. Further, Tarquin will participate in a program offered by Florida Lawyers Assistance, Inc., during the entire probation period. (Admitted to practice: 1991) The state of Florida charged Tarquin for driving while intoxicated; a misdemeanor, and for misdemeanor domestic battery. (Case No. (SC10-1918)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Sam Thankachen, 7144 Stirling Road, Hollywood, disbarred effective retroactive to February 17, 2010, the date of his emergency suspension, following a Nov. 1 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1997) Thankachen received money from clients and other persons in exchange for ownership in real property or other ventures. The complainants did not receive the real property or other items and they did not get their funds back. (Case No. SC10-712)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></b><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gabrielle Alexis, 4613 N. University Drive, No. 558, Coral Springs, suspended until further order, effective immediately, following a Nov. 15 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1996) Alexis was found in contempt of court. On multiple occasions, she failed to respond to investigative inquiry letters from the Bar regarding a client’s complaint. (Case No. SC10-1665)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">James Joseph Egan, c/o the Mailbox No. 5705, PO Box 523882, Miami, permanently disbarred effective 30 days from a Nov. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1985) Further, Egan shall pay restitution totaling more than $5,800 to four separate clients. In several instances, Egan was paid to represent clients and he failed to communicate, failed to process paperwork, made misrepresentations about the status of the cases, and was deceitful about arranged contract agreements. He has also failed to appear without good cause and without obtaining an order of withdrawal in some cases. (Case No. SC10-80)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Ninette S. Fletcher, 156 S. Charles Richard Beall Blvd., Suite 2, Debary, suspended until further order, following an Oct. 29 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Fletcher appeared to be causing great public harm. A Bar audit indicated that Fletcher misappropriated funds from her trust account and used the money for personal and business expenses. (Case No. SC10-2026)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Willie Jones, 1300 N.W. 17th Ave., Suite 261, Delray Beach, (Admitted to practice: 1993), suspended for three years effective 30 days from a Nov. 15 court order. Further, as a condition of reinstatement, Jones was ordered to pay restitution to the wrongful death claimants who were his clients. Jones settled a wrongful death case and made false representations to his clients about his own claims to the settlement proceeds and he was deceitful about the status of the litigation. He also failed to communicate with his client during the representation. (Case Nos. SC08-1234 & SC09-246)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Kurt D. Mitchell, P.O. Box 1055, Palmetto, suspended for 10 days, effective 30 days from an Oct. 5 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2005) Mitchell engaged in a series of e-mail exchanges with rival counsel that were disparaging, humiliating and discriminatory, and later engaged in a hostile confrontation with the same rival counsel at a deposition. In a separate instance, Mitchell made disparaging, humiliating and discriminatory remarks about his former landlord in the course of litigation between them. Mitchell also made a false statement of fact in response to a court reporter's complaint regarding his failure to pay for a deposition transcript he had ordered. (Case Nos. SC10-637, SC10-639 & SC10-1583)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Nicholas Francis Mooney, 201 E Kennedy Blvd., Suite 500, Tampa, to be publicly reprimanded following a Nov. 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1985) Mooney was found guilty of unlawful misconduct directed at opposing counsel. He engaged in a series of e-mail exchanges with rival counsel that were disparaging, humiliating, and discriminatory. Mooney also engaged in hostile confrontation with the same rival counsel at a deposition. (Case Nos. SC10-640 & SC10-1584)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Adam Ira Skolnik, P.O. Box 670583, Coral Springs, suspended for 90 days, effective Oct. 30, following an Oct. 6 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2004) Further, Skolnik shall pay restitution of nearly $5,000 to two clients. In one case, Skolnik entered into a business transaction with a client that presented a conflict of interest. In another case, Skolnik failed to provide competent representation to clients who, as a result, failed to receive a settlement in lawsuit. (Case No. SC09-960)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">John David Todd, PO Box 551563, Jacksonville, suspended for three years effective 30 days from a Dec. 1 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1991) Further, Todd shall pay restitution of nearly $3,400 to clients in three separate cases. Todd failed to adequately represent the clients after being retained. In some instances, he failed to appear in court, he failed to communicate and he failed to refund client fees. (Case No. SC10-960)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">The following lawyers received public reprimands at The Florida Bar’s Board of Governor’s meeting on Dec. 10:</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gary Arthur Benson, 2955 Hartley Road, Suite 101, Jacksonville, publicly reprimanded on Dec. 10, as a result of a Jan. 7 court order. (Admitted to practice: </span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">1975) Benson represented a client who owned real property and leased the property to another. The client sold that property to a third party and executed a title warranty deed and an affidavit of ownership. The affidavit stated that the client had clear title, that no other person claimed possession of the property, and there were no tenants, leases or occupancies affecting the property. The representations were false since the property was, in fact, occupied by the tenant. Benson as the attorney, negligently permitted his client to make that misrepresentation of fact. (Case No. SC09-2319)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">James Reginald Flynn, 1401 Riverplace Blvd, Apt. 2709, Jacksonville, publicly reprimanded on Dec. 10 as a result of an Aug. 31 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1977) Flynn was hired by a client to transfer the title of certain real estate to the client and her sister. During the representation, Flynn failed to answer or return most of his client’s phone calls. When he did speak with the client, Flynn promised to mail her a package, but failed to do so and then failed to communicate with her at all for the next four months. In another matter, Flynn was hired by a client in a child custody case. Flynn was ordered by a Judge to prepare an order for contempt regarding the case and he failed to do so. (Case No. SC10-517)</span></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></b><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gary Michael Appelblatt, 3610 American River Drive #112, Sacramento, Calif., suspended until further order, following a Dec. 30 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1991) The Florida Bar was notified by the California Supreme Court that Appelblatt had been disbarred in that state in April 2010 because of felony convictions. (Case No. SC10-2463)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Robert Frederick Bethea, P.O. Box 5215, Jacksonville, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Dec. 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1980) Bethea failed to comply with the terms of a report of minor misconduct issued by the Fourth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee in November 2009. He was required to pay restitution to a law office and attend ethics school (Case No. SC10-2036)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Harry Robert Bishop Jr., 8738 Belarado Court, Tallahassee, suspended for 91 days, effective immediately, following a Dec. 22 court order. Further, Bishop shall pay restitution of $3,000 to one client. (Admitted to practice: 1988) Bishop was paid a $3,000 fee to represent a client in a divorce proceeding. He failed to attend the hearing on her behalf and he did not file the divorce papers or file a notice of appearance on the client's behalf. (Case No. SC10-448)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Colleen Meghan Bratcher, 2674 W. Lake Road, Palm Harbor, placed on probation for 18 months effective immediately, following a Dec. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2000) The Florida Bar was notified by Bratcher's bank that a check written on her IOTA trust account had been returned for insufficient funds. In response to the Bar's inquiries, Bratcher produced records that were not in compliance with Bar rules pertaining to attorney trust accounts. (Case No. SC10-1290)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Allen David Brufsky, 475 Galleon Drive, Naples, suspended for 91 days effective 30 days from a Nov. 4 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1998) Brufsky represented a company with regard to certain claims to enforce intellectual property rights. He subsequently assumed corporate roles in addition to his role as attorney. Brufsky failed to advise the client of the conflict of interest and failed to obtain proper consent from the client for the assumption of those roles. Brufsky also failed to keep the client informed as to the progress of the litigation and took action on behalf of the corporation without proper authorization. (Case No. SC10-1765)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Byron T. Christopher, P.O. Box 55073, St. Petersburg, suspended for 91 days effective 30 days from a Nov. 24 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2005) Christopher represented a client in a divorce, but failed to keep her informed. In addition, the court removed Christopher from representing three criminal defendants and appointed alternate representation because of his failure to appear for scheduled hearings. (Case No. SC10-893)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Harvey Jay Goldstein, P.O. Box 240037, Milwaukee, Wis., disbarred effective retroactive to June 3, 2010, following a Dec. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1987)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">In April 2010, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin suspended Goldstein from practicing law for two years. Goldstein was charged with converting probate funds from three estates while acting as a personal representative, commingling funds, violating recordkeeping regulations and using trust funds for personal reasons. (Case No. SC10-1221)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Diego Handel, 149 S. Ridgewood Ave., Suite 220, Daytona Beach, publicly reprimanded and placed onprobation for one year following a Dec. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1984) Handel failed to maintain minimum trust account records and failed to follow the minimum required trust accounting procedures. His inadequate recordkeeping led to several checks being dishonored. (Case No. SC10-1165)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Suzanne Marie Himes, 825 N.E. 2nd St., Ocala, disbarred effective immediately, following a Dec. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1990) Himes failed to comply with the Supreme Court's suspension orders of January 27 and September 11, 2009. In a workers' compensation case in which Himes is the attorney of record, she failed to notify the presiding judge, the opposing counsel or her client of her suspension status and her inability to practice law. (Case No. SC10-718)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Philip David Irish, 104 Kimberly Lane, Kings Mountain, N.C., disbarred effective retroactive to Oct. 8, 2008, following a Dec. 30, 2010. (Admitted to practice: 2003) Irish represented a client in a bodily injury claim. The insurance company sent a $10,000 settlement check to Irish and requested it not be cashed without the signature of the client. Irish endorsed the check without permission and he did not disburse any of the settlement monies to the client. Attempts by the insurance company and its counsel to communicate with Irish were unsuccessful. (Case No. SC09-1473)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gregory A. Martin, 1925 Brickell Ave., Suite D202, Miami, suspended until further order following Dec. 13 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1981) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Martin appeared to be causing great public harm by misappropriating funds and/or diverting funds entrusted to him. (Case No. SC10-2210) </span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Shelley Goldman Maurice, 125 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, suspended for 90 days, effective 30 days from a Dec. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1984) In violation of Bar rules, Maurice had direct contact and offered professional advice regarding a pending case, while suspended. In another instance, Maurice failed to provide a client with competent representation in relation to a disability claim. (Case No. SC09-2124)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gregory Michael Nordt, 7501 N.W. 4th St., Suite 207A, Plantation, suspended for 15 days effective Nov. 18 and publicly reprimanded following a Nov. 10 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1995) Nordt disseminated a direct mail advertisement that was misleading and deceptive. (Case No. SC10-2137)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Alfredo Padron Jr., 8105 N.W. 155th St., Miami Lakes, disbarred effective immediately, following a Nov. 9 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1994) An audit revealed that Padron misappropriated client funds to satisfy personal obligations and other clients' liabilities.(Case No. SC10-1666)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Maria Teresa Rodriguez, P.O. Box 1155, Safety Harbor, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Dec. 29 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1999) Rodriguez failed to successfully pass the ethics portion of the Bar exam as required by the Supreme Court's order entered on Nov. 2, 2006. (Case No. SC09-2365)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Leonardo Adrian Roth, 201 S. Biscayne Blvd., Suite 905, Miami, suspended until further order, following a Nov. 8 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1988) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Roth appeared to be causing great public harm by the misappropriation and/or the diversion of funds entrusted to him. The auditor found numerous trust account violations and a failure to produce all the required bank records requested in the Bar's subpoena. Roth, along with law partner Mark Enrique Rousso and a non-lawyer employee, were involved in at least 44 business ventures unrelated to the practice of law. (Case No. SC10-2114)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Mark Enrique Rousso, 1000 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd., Hallandale Beach, suspended until further order, following a Nov. 8 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1991) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Rousso appeared to be causing great public harm by the misappropriation and/or diversion of funds entrusted to him. The auditor found numerous trust account violations and a failure to produce all the required bank records requested in the Bar's subpoena. Rousso, along with law partner Leonardo Adrian Roth and a non-lawyer employee, were involved in at least 44 business ventures unrelated to the practice of law. (Case No. SC10-2113)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Wallace Rosales Rozefort, 5685 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, disbarred for 10 years, effective retroactive to Oct. 25, following a Nov. 8 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2004) According to a petition for disbarment on consent, Rozefort appeared to be causing great public harm by misappropriating funds held in trust. Between September 2009 and January 2010, Rozefort transferred funds from his trust account to his personal savings account totaling $100,000. Since May 2006, a continuous shortage in Rozefort's trust account gradually increased to $530,000. In 2009, Rozefort's non-lawyer employee misappropriated approximately $16,000 from the trust account. (Case No. SC10-2166)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Nathaniel W. Tindall, 4012 N. Florida Ave., Tampa, publicly reprimanded following a Dec. 22 court order. Tindall is further ordered to attend a professionalism workshop and write a letter of apology to the judge. (Admitted to practice: 1974) Tindall represented a family that had lost a loved one as a result of a motor vehicle accident. He erroneously filed redundant claims in court and was charged with engaging in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice. (Case No. SC10-1616)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Lawrence Philip Zolot, 3864 Sheridan St., Hollywood, suspended until further order, following a Dec. 13 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1974) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Zolot appeared to be causing great public harm. An audit revealed that Zolot misappropriated client trust funds. He failed to follow proper trust accounting procedures and he failed to maintain minimum trust account records. (Case No. ASC10-2263)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></b><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Nathan Adler, 13620 Gulf Breeze St., Fort Myers, suspended for two years, effective retroactive to July 12, 2010, following a Jan. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1996) In numerous cases, Adler was paid to represent clients and he failed to adequately do so. He often failed to communicate, failed to remit fees paid by clients and failed to respond to Bar inquiries regarding client grievances. (Case No. SC10-1494)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gabrielle Alexis, 4613 N. University Drive #558, Coral Springs, suspended for 91 days, effective immediately, following a Jan. 26 court order, for non-compliance. (Admitted to practice: 1996) Alexis was placed on emergency suspension on August 4, 2010. She was the subject of several Bar disciplinary investigations regarding the misappropriation of client funds. Alexis failed to furnish the Bar with a sworn affidavit, as required within 30 days of the suspension order, listing the names of all persons and entities to which she gave notice of her suspension and provided a copy of the order. (Case No. SC10-2115)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Dania Arencibia, 5225 Linden Road, Apt. 7308, Rockford, Ill., suspended for 10 days, effective 30 days from a Jan. 25 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1998) Arencibia was arrested for Driving Under the Influence in Sept. 2009 after colliding with another vehicle. No one was injured. Arencibia was convicted of a misdemeanor and placed on six months of reporting probation, which included attending DUI school and performing 50 hours of community service. (Case No. SC10-2385)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Leon Becerra, Jr., 6780 Coral Way, Miami, disbarred for 10 years, effective immediately, following a Jan. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1999) Becerra misappropriated and/or diverted client funds. He absconded and did not participate in the disciplinary proceedings. (Case No. SC10-1435)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">John Lyon Broling, P.O. Box 2698, Lake City, suspended for 60 days, effective 30 days from a Jan. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1996) Broling, who was also admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, failed to comply with rules of the court and failed to respond with regard to three unrelated appeals. (Case No. SC10-1520)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Raymond O. Burger, 3200 Marilyn Drive, Moore, Okla., suspended for 15 days, effective 30 days from a Jan. 5 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) Burger was hired to represent a client in a workers' compensation matter, but he failed to represent the client with reasonable diligence and promptness. Burger also failed to keep the client reasonably informed and he failed to appear at a hearing. Burger did not respond to the Bar's inquiries regarding the client's complaint. (Case No. SC10-1521)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Patrick Cicalese, 129 Center St., Jupiter, disbarred effective immediately, following a Jan. 25 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1992) In June, Cicalese was adjudicated guilty in federal district court in New York, of three illegal gambling-related felonies. He was sentenced to three years probation on each count, fined $10,000 and assessed a $300.00 special assessment charge. Cicalese was also ordered to forfeit his interest in at least $4 million obtained as a result of the gambling offenses. (Case No. SC10-1331)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">David Gordon Cornell, 6510 Brava Way, Boca Raton, suspended for 91 days, effective 30 days from a Jan. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2001) Cornell was a defendant in a civil case in which he continually refused to respond or comply with court orders. He subsequently failed to respond to Bar inquires regarding the matter. (Case No. SC10-787)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Richard Mark Creel, 15275 Collier Blvd., Suite 201-218, Naples, disbarred effective 30 days from Jan. 11 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1987) Creel was retained to represent a client in a child custody matter. He stopped working on the case and stopped communicating with the client. When the client was finally able to reach Creel, she learned he had relocated to another state. Creel agreed to continue working on the case and handle the trial in Florida, but demanded an additional $2,250 to cover travel expenses. After accepting the money, Creel failed to perform any more work and failed to communicate with the client. He also failed to appear at the trial and failed to respond to the Bar's correspondence regarding the grievance. (Case SC10-1288)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">James Daniel Eckert, 447 3rd Ave. N., Suite 304, St. Petersburg, publicly reprimanded following a Jan. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1965) Eckert wrote a letter to a complainant threatening to sue him unless he withdrew his Bar complaint and apologized in a letter. (Case No. SC10-1308)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">George Michael Evans, 1500 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Fl. 2, Coral Gables, suspended until further order, following a Jan. 20 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1977) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Evans appeared to be causing great public harm. Beginning in March 2007, Evans misappropriated funds in at least three cases, including transferring client funds from his trust account to his operating and personal accounts. (Case No. SC11-91)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Brett Feinstein, 407 Lincoln Road, Suite 2A, Miami Beach, suspended for six months, effective 40 days from a Jan. 4 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1992) Feinstein, in a management role, expanded the law firm practice into the area of debt negotiation assistance. The firm contracted with a non-legal back office service provider to handle the administrative functions of the debt negation practice. That entity improperly engaged in the direct solicitation of clients. An audit further revealed that the firm engaged in improper fee sharing with the back office provider. (Case No. SC10-2374)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Thomas P. Fox, 3825 Henderson Blvd., Suite 604, Tampa, suspended for 45 days, effective 30 days from a Jan. 19 court order. Fox is further placed on probation for three years. (Admitted to practice: 1976) Fox failed to diligently represent clients in seven separate cases. In many instances, he failed to keep them reasonably informed about the status of matters, charged excessive fees and failed to communicate. He also failed to maintain complete trust account records. (Case No. SC10-937)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">David Eric Hammer, 1640 Wallace Road, Lutz, publicly reprimanded following a Jan. 21 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2006) While representing clients in two separate cases, Hammer acted contrary to his obligation as an officer of the court. In one instance, he failed to participate in discovery, submitted a proposed order without advising the court of opposing counsel's objection and without copying opposing counsel on the proposed order, and failed to appear at a deposition after the court denied his motion to withdraw. In another instance, he raised a meritless objection in bankruptcy court, without evidence to support the objection. (Case No. SC10-938)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Bruce Gregory Kaufmann, 1564 Oakadia Lane, disbarred effective immediately, following a Jan. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1988) Kaufmann engaged in an intentional pattern of obtaining fees, controlling assets and forcing individuals to pay him before he would resign as trustee. He committed multiple acts of charging excessive fees, conflict of interest and using information obtained through his attorney-client relationships to his benefit and to the detriment of his clients. (Case No. SC09-574)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Mark Howard Klein, 2263 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd., Suite 209, Boca Raton, publicly reprimanded following a Jan. 7 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1986) Klein failed to respond to any of The Florida Bar's official disciplinary inquiries in a timely manner. (Case No. SC10-1660)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Warren Jay Knaust, 530 49th St. S., Saint Petersburg, disbarred retroactive to Sept. 29, 2010, following a Jan. 11 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1976) In August 2010, Knaust pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, a felony. (Case No. SC10-1681)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Stanley Jay Lieberfarb, 270 3rd Ave. N., Naples, suspended for six months, effective 30 days from a Jan. 27 court order. Lieberfarb is further ordered to pay restitution totaling $185,000 to three separate clients. (Admitted to practice: 1974) Lieberfarb served as attorney and escrow agent in three separate real estate transactions that subsequently defaulted. In each instance, he had erroneously released the funds to the seller, so he was no longer holding the escrowed funds to return to the buyers. (Case No. SC10-1034)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Miroslaw Thomas Lobasz, 1106 N. G. Street, Suite D, Lake Worth, disbarred effective immediately, following a Feb. 3 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1994) Lobasz violated a suspension order of March 7, 2008, which prevented him from practicing law. Nevertheless, Lobasz practiced law after his suspension took effect by appearing at an immigration hearing on behalf of a former client. (Case No. SC08-1105)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Carolyn Dianne Olive, P.O. Box 13949, Tallahassee, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Jan. 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1984) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Olive is the subject of six Bar disciplinary matters, in which she abandoned her clients and refused to return phone calls, e-mails or letters. In some instances, Olive failed to file court documents or failed to create documents at all. (Case No. SC11-148)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Michael Tyron Rayne, 475 Harrison Ave., Suite 204A, Panama City, suspended for 30 days, effective 30 days from a Jan. 19 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2002) While representing a client in a personal injury case, Rayne executed an "Attorney Acknowledgment and Understanding" agreement with a Legal Finance company, but initially failed to disburse proceeds to the company in compliance with the terms. (Case No. SC10-1146)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Jodie Michele Siegel, 8845 Lake Park Circle S., Davie, suspended for 30 days, effective immediately, following a Jan. 25 court order. Further, Siegel is placed on probation for one year. (Admitted to practice: 1999) Siegel was arrested for shoplifting. Charges were dropped after she entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that required her to obtain mental health counseling, and complete an anti-theft course and 40 hours of community service. (Case No. SC10-2386)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Claudine Tanecca Smikle, P.O. Box 101084, Fort Lauderdale, disbarred effective 30 days from a Jan. 25 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2001) Smikle violated trust accounting rules regulating The Florida Bar. A client filed a grievance against Smikle alleging that monies being held by her were not properly forwarded. She was charged with trust account irregularities. (Case No. SC10-2384)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Douglas David Stratton, 407 Lincoln Road, Suite 2A, Miami Beach, suspended for 30 days, effective 15 days from a Jan. 4 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1977) Stratton's practice expanded into the area of debt negotiation assistance. The firm contracted with a non-legal back office service provider to handle the administrative functions of the debt negotiation practice. That employee improperly engaged in the direct solicitation of clients. An audit further revealed that the firm engaged in improper fee sharing with the back office provider. (Case No. SC10-2373)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">James M. Thomas, 1581 Main Street, Dunedin, publicly reprimanded following a Jan. 5 court order. Thomas is further directed to complete ethics school. (Admitted to practice: 2011) Thomas was found guilty of professional misconduct for failing to keep a client reasonably informed and reasonably consulted about mean's to accomplish the client's objectives. (Case No. SC10-1085)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Stephen G. Watts, 1446 Court Street, Clearwater, publicly reprimanded following a Jan. 25, court order. (Admitted to practice: 1969) Watts received a Conditional Guilty Plea for Consent Judgment for violating a rule regulating The Florida Bar. Watts allowed his legal assistant to prepare a trust document for a long-time client and friend who insisted on making bequests to him and his wife. (Case No. SC10-827)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Donald Louis West, Jr., 352 Baywood Drive, Newport Beach, Calif., suspended for one year, effective 30 days from a Jan. 25 court order. Further, West shall pay restitution totaling $6,400 to two clients. (Admitted to practice: 2001) West has been found guilty of violations including: lack of diligence, lack of communication, illegal or clearly excessive fees and costs, and engaging in dishonest, fraudulent and deceitful conduct. On multiple occasions, he failed to respond in writing to any official inquiry by Bar counsel. (Case No. SC10-1223) </span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></b><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Peter Stephen Baranowicz, 1797 San Silvestro Drive, Venice, suspended for one year, retroactive to Nov. 3, 2010, following a Feb. 9, 2011, court order. (Admitted to practice: 1986) In one case, a client paid Baranowicz $8,300 toward representation for an appeal, wherein he failed to respond to numerous court orders and keep the client adequately informed about the case status. He failed to respond to the Bar's inquiry in this matter as well as other inquiries, one alleging his failure to pay for process services, and another alleging lack of diligence and communication in handling a criminal matter. (Case No. SC10-1232)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Jacqueline Jeannette Bird, 254 E. 6th Ave., Tallahassee, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a March 4 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1988) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Bird appeared to be causing great public harm by misappropriating funds and/or diverting funds entrusted to her. Bird's offenses include writing herself checks on numerous occasions from clients' settlements, delaying delivery of client settlements, refusal to fully pay client medical liens and commingling personal and trust funds. (Case No. SC11-339)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Mark Irwin Blumstein, 4581 Weston Road #203, Weston, permanently disbarred effective immediately following a Feb. 9 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1986) In August 2007, Blumstein was disbarred for five years. Nevertheless, he continued to practice law and subsequently mishandled and/or misappropriated thousands of dollars in client funds. (Case No. SC09-1572)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Richard Timothy Cotter, 6100 Estero Blvd., P.O. Box 6868, Fort Myers, disbarred effective 30 days from a Jan. 25 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1976) Cotter abandoned his representation of a client in a probate case without notice and without leaving a forwarding address. The client's new counsel wrote Cotter requesting a final accounting and reimbursement for the client. Cotter failed to respond. He also failed to respond to the Bar's inquiries (Case No. SC10-945)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Todd Corey Deratany, 503 Fifth Avenue, Suite 102, Indialantic, suspended until further order, following a March 14 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2007) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Deratany appeared to be causing great public harm by abandoning his clients, failing to appear for court hearings and stating that he was unable to continue with the representation of his clients. (Case No. SC11-457)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Ryan Thomas Dosen, 108 Twin Creek Lane, Kennett Square, Pa., permanently disbarred effective immediately, following a Feb. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2004) Dosen pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one felony count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He acted as a settlement agent in two illegal real estate transactions in South Florida. His actions resulted in losses in excess of $2.5 million. (Case Nos. SC09-1613 & SC10-615)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Robert W. Frazier, Jr., 507 S.E. 11th Court, Fort Lauderdale, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a March 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1977) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Frazier appeared to be causing great public harm by diverting trust funds as evidenced by a Certified Public Accountant and a Bar auditor. (Case No. SC11-324)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Penny E. Grades, 6346-65 Lantana Road, #103, Lake Worth, suspended until further order, following a Feb. 21 court order. Grades is currently retired, therefore the suspension is effective immediately. (Admitted to practice: 1996) Grades failed to comply with a report of minor misconduct issued by a grievance committee in June 2009. It required her to pay restitution of $1,000 to a client within 30 days of the report. She also failed to respond to the Bar's inquiry regarding the matter. (Case No. SC10-2436)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Leo Greenfield, 1680 N.E. 135th Street, Suite 200w, North Miami, disbarred effective retroactive to Aug. 27, 2008, following a Jan. 25 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1948)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">In 1994, the Supreme Court granted Greenfield's disciplinary resignation (tantamount to disbarment) from The Florida Bar. In 2004, the Court entered an order extending Greenfield's disciplinary resignation for an additional three years. Despite being ineligible, Greenfield continued to practice law. (Case No. SC10-69</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Willie Jones, 1300 N.W. 17th Ave., Suite 261, Delray Beach, suspended until further order, following a Feb. 7 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1993) Jones neglected his clients and failed to respond to Bar inquiries. (Case No. SC10-1950) </span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Alan Kelman, 6439 N.W. 43rd Terrace, Boca Raton, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Feb. 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2005) Kelman repeatedly failed to respond to Bar inquiries. (Case No. SC10-1733)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Bryan Alexander Kutchins, 3974 Tampa Road, Suite A, Oldsmar, publicly reprimanded following a Feb. 9 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1973) A husband and wife were involved in a divorce in Tennessee. Kutchins was hired in Florida by the woman's brother, solely to help him purchase a Florida business owned jointly by the couple. The wife obtained some of her husband's emails and forwarded them to her brother, who then forwarded them to Kutchins. Kutchins said he received the emails but returned them and did not use the contents to his client's advantage. The business was never purchased by his client. Kutchins also wrote a letter to the judge in Tennessee, stating his client's position in regard to the business and he attended a hearing in Tennessee, but he did not speak. It was alleged that the letter constituted the practice of law in another state. (Case No. SC10-1675)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Jeffrey Andrew Luhrsen, 7430 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, suspended for 30 days, effective April 10, following a Feb. 9 court order. Luhrsen is further ordered to attend ethics school. (Admitted to practice: 1993) In one instance, Luhrsen represented a client in a personal injury suit. The client needed money to pay his basic living expenses, so he accepted a $4,000 loan from one of Luhrsen's employees who owned a company that contracted to perform office work for Luhrsen. The loan was later forgiven at Luhrsen's instruction. In another instance, Luhrsen disseminated a misleading advertisement that he failed to timely file with the Bar for review. (Case No. SC10-634)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Cecilia Carolina Maluje, 7850 N.W. 146th St., Suite 416, Miami Lakes, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Feb. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) Maluje repeatedly failed to respond to Bar inquiries. (Case No. SC10-2284)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Matthew Kimball McDowell, 13180 N. Cleveland Ave., Suite 111, N. Fort Myers, suspended for 10 days, effective 30 days from a Feb. 9 court order, and ordered to pay restitution of $1,725 to one client. (Admitted to practice: 1996) McDowell engaged in solicitation by supplying his business cards to the owners of a bail bonds company and by knowingly accepting employment as a result of their referrals. In a related matter, McDowell was retained by a client as a result of a referral, and he failed to adequately communicate regarding the status of her case. (Case No. SC10-2259)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Alan Martin Medof, 4355 N.W. 4th Ave., Pompano Beach, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a Jan. 26 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1969) Medof was found in contempt for failure to respond to official Bar inquiries and failure to show good cause for non-compliance. (Case No. SC10-2165)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Shawn Louis Michaelson, 7274 Bedlington Road, Miami Lakes, suspended for three years, effective 30 days from a Feb. 9 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2001) Michaelson made several misrepresentations to his clients and the court: in one instance, he fabricated a court order by cutting and pasting a copy of the presiding judge's signature from a different order. He then gave the order to his clients but later denied having much knowledge about the order. Michaelson also billed clients for work that had not been formed. In another instance, he failed to properly communicate and neglected to explain the true status of a lawsuit to his clients. (Case No. SC10-1496) </span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Gregory Ernest Monaldi, 200 S.E. 9th St., Fort Lauderdale, suspended until further order, following a Feb. 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1994) Monaldi is currently suspended, therefore the suspension is effective immediately. In August 2010, Monaldi failed to acknowledge investigative inquiries from the Bar requesting a mandatory response to the sworn complaint of a former client. In November 2010, a grievance committee found Monaldi in contempt. (Case No. SC10-2348)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Matthew Glenn Palentchar, 16 Caton Ave., Colonia, N.J., suspended for 91 days until further order, following a Feb. 9 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2004) Palentchar is currently suspended, therefore the suspension is effective immediately. Further, Palentchar shall pay restitution of $750 to one client. In several instances, Palentchar was retained to represent clients but he failed to communicate regarding the status of cases. Palentchar failed to properly maintain his trust accounting records, he practiced law while ineligible, due to delinquent Bar fees and he failed to respond to the Bar disciplinary inquiries. (Case No. SC10-1401)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Douglas Randolph Peacock, Jr., 111 2nd Ave. N.E., Suite 900, Saint Petersburg, publicly reprimandedand placed on probation for one year, following a Jan. 5 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2000). One case involved Peacock's neglect of his client's legal matter and his failure to respond to discovery requests and court orders, for which he admitted to the court that he neglected the case. In another instance, Peacock failed to inform his client of an adverse court ruling and he failed to respond in a timely manner to the Bar's disciplinary inquiry. (Case No. SC10-1432)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Pablo Perez, 6251 S.W. 58th Street, South Miami, suspended until further order, following a Feb. 7 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1988) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Perez appeared to be causing great public harm. The Bar received 11 different complaints against Perez from former clients. They alleged they retained Perez to represent them in various legal matters including foreclosure and loan modification for which they paid legal fees, but he failed to provide services and eventually abandoned their cases. Perez subsequently informed the Bar that due to economic problems, he was forced to close his practice, but he planned to reopen in the near future. Perez then failed to have any further communication with the Bar or respond to any Bar inquiries. (Case No. SC11-201)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Jaime Roberto, 16877 E. Colonial Drive PMB #192, Orlando, suspended for one year, effective 30 days from a March 3 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2006) Roberto created a conflict of interest by engaging in sexual relations with two clients while representing them in separate, unrelated criminal cases. He provided both with financial assistance on several occasions and he asked one of the women to refer prospective criminal clients to him for representation. He never entered into a fee agreement with either client and he never received monetary fees from them. (Case No. SC09-1929)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">James L. Soule, 7515 W. Oakland Park Blvd. #100, Fort Lauderdale, suspended for 91 days following a Feb. 8 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1994) Soule is currently suspended, therefore the suspension is effective immediately. In April 2010, Soule was suspended. Among the terms of the consent judgment, Soule was required to notify his clients, opposing counsel and the courts of his status and provide a sworn affidavit to the Bar listing the names and addresses of all persons and entities that received a copy of his suspension order. Soule did not submit the required affidavit. (Case No. SC09-2226)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"> MARCH 2011</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Eric Jefferson Tinsley, 2000 N. Dixie Highway Suite 4, Lake Worth, suspended until further order, following a March 4 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Tinsley appeared to be causing great public harm. An audit revealed that Tinsley misappropriated nearly $11,000 from his trust account. (Case No. SC11-394)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Sheila D. Turner, PMB 49043, Atlanta, Ga., suspended for one year, following a Feb. 9 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1994) Turner is currently suspended, therefore the suspension is effective immediately. Turner was the subject of several Bar disciplinary matters involving client neglect, to which she pleaded guilty. In 2008, her conduct resulted in a six-month suspension. (Case No. SC10-1433)</span></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></b><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Henry Nissim Adorno, c/o Yoss LLP, 2525 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Suite 400, Miami, suspended for three years, effective retroactive to Oct. 28, 2010, following an April 21 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1973) While representing plaintiffs in a class action, Adorno breached his fiduciary duty to the class by settling on behalf of the named plaintiffs only, to the detriment of the class. Adorno also took an excessive attorney fee. (Case No. SC09-1012)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Jon William Agee, P.O. Box 7358, Fort Lauderdale, suspended for 90 days, effective April 29, following a March 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1966) He is further directed to complete ethics school. Agee prepared a last will and testament for a long-time friend and client who insisted on making bequests to the attorney and his wife. (Case No. SC11-307)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Richard Lawrence Brown, 4440 P.G.A. Blvd., Suite 600, Palm Beach Gardens, suspended until further order, following an April 7 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1993) According to a petition for emergency suspension, Brown appeared to be causing great public harm by misappropriating client funds. An audit revealed that Brown converted at least $21,850 from his trust account and used it for personal and business purposes. (Case No. SC11-651)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Peter James Cannon, 3837 Northdale Blvd., Suite 367, Tampa, suspended until further order, effective 30 days from a March 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1997) Cannon was found in contempt for repeated failure to respond to official Bar inquiries and failure to show good cause for non-compliance. (Case No. SC11-130)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Theodore Ross Dempster, 801 Brickell Ave., Ph-1, Miami, disbarred for seven years, effective immediately, following a March 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1976) An audit revealed that Dempster misappropriated client funds to satisfy personal and business obligations, in a manner similar to a Ponzi scheme. Dempster has been found guilty of violations including: misrepresentation, and engaging in dishonest, fraudulent and deceitful conduct. The auditor found numerous trust account violations and a failure to produce all the required bank records requested in the Bar's subpoena. (Case No. SC10-1829)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Ryan Patrick Dugan, 12760 Stone Tower Loop, Fort Myers, suspended for 91 days, effective 30 days from a March 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2002) Dugan is further directed to complete ethics school. In representing several clients, Dugan failed to provide competent representation. In many instances, after being retained, he failed to communicate. He also failed to disclose to some clients about possible conflicts of interest. (Case Nos. SC10-1434 & SC10-1827)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Clint Johnson, 250 N. Orange Ave., Suite 550, Orlando, suspended until further order, following an April 11 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) According to an emergency suspension order, Johnson appeared to be causing great public harm by misappropriating trust funds for personal use. (Case No. SC11-622)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">R. Patrick Mirk, P.O. Box 18201, Tampa, disbarred following an April 7 court order. Mirk misappropriated more than $31,000 in client funds held in his trust account. (Case No. SC08-1423)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">James Edward Moore III, 33431 Washington Loop Road, Punta Gorda, publicly reprimanded following a March 22 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1969) Moore failed to detect that an employee had embezzled approximately $2 million from the firm's bank accounts over a period of approximately five years, which resulted in a loss of client trust funds. As a result, Moore failed to deliver trust funds upon demand made by certain clients. (Case No. SC10-1826)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;">Christopher Rumsey Qualmann, P.O. Box 940669, Maitland, disbarred effective immediately, following a Dec. 16, 2010 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1984) In September 2008, Qualmann was suspended and unable to practice law in Florida. Qualmann practiced law while suspended and he failed to inform the court or a client. He also failed to file any quarterly reports with the bar regarding his newly found employment, and failed to provide a written response about a matter after numerous inquiries from the Bar. (Case No. SC10-1929)</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; color: purple; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</strong></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Florida, USA27.6648274 -81.51575350000001724.3624974 -85.346048500000023 30.9671574 -77.68545850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-21590220614055712912011-09-29T16:16:00.000-07:002011-10-12T03:04:42.535-07:00THE LAW<table><tbody>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#99FF6F"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: purple;">The Law</b></span><br />
<div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: purple; color: #eeeeee;"><i>Frédéric Bastiat</i><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: purple; color: #eeeeee;"><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G001">The Book and Author</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G002">The Translation</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G003">Life Is a Gift from God</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G004">What Is Law?</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G005">A Just and Enduring Government</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G006">The Complete Perversion of the Law</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G007">A Fatal Tendency of Mankind</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G008">Property and Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G009">Victims of Lawful Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G010">The Results of Legal Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G011">The Fate of Non-Conformists</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G012">Who Shall Judge?</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G013">The Reason Why Voting Is Restricted</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G014">The Answer Is to Restrict the Law</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G015">The Fatal Idea of Legal Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G016">Perverted Law Causes Conflict</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G017">Slavery and Tariffs Are Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G018">Two Kinds of Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G019">The Law Defends Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G020">How to Identify Legal Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G021">Legal Plunder Has Many Names</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G022">Socialism Is Legal Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G023">The Choice Before Us</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G024">The Proper Function of the Law</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G025">The Seductive Lure of Socialism</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G026">Enforced Fraternity Destroys Liberty</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G027">Plunder Violates Ownership</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G028">Three Systems of Plunder</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G029">Law Is Force</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G030">Law Is a Negative Concept</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G031">The Political Approach</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G032">The Law and Charity</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G033">The Law and Education</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G034">The Law and Morals</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G035">A Confusion of Terms</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G036">The Influence of Socialist Writers</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G037">The Socialists Wish to Play God</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G038">The Socialists Despise Mankind</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G039">A Defense of Compulsory Labor</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G040">A Defense of Paternal Government</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G041">The Idea of Passive Mankind</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G042">Socialists Ignore Reason and Facts</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G043">Socialists Want to Regiment People</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G044">A Famous Name and an Evil Idea</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G045">A Frightful Idea</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G046">The Leader of the Democrats</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G047">Socialists Want Forced Conformity</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G048">Legislators Desire to Mold Mankind</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G049">Legislators Told How to Manage Men</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G050">A Temporary Dictatorship</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G051">Socialists Want Equality of Wealth</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G052">The Error of the Socialist Writers</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G053">What Is Liberty?</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G054">Philanthropic Tyranny</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G055">The Socialists Want Dictatorship</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G056">Dictatorial Arrogance</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G057">The Indirect Approach to Despotism</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G058">Napoleon Wanted Passive Mankind</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G059">The Vicious Circle of Socialism</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G060">The Doctrine of the Democrats</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G061">The Socialist Concept of Liberty</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G062">Socialists Fear All Liberties</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G063">The Superman Idea</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G064">The Socialists Reject Free Choice</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G065">The Cause of French Revolutions</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G066">The Enormous Power of Government</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G067">Politics and Economics</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G068">Proper Legislative Functions</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G069">Law and Charity Are Not the Same</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G070">The High Road to Communism</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G071">The Basis for Stable Government</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G072">Justice Means Equal Rights</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G073">The Path to Dignity and Progress</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G074">Proof of an Idea</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G075">The Desire to Rule Over Others</a><br />
<a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G076">Let Us Now Try Liberty</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G001"></a></span></span><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">When a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a book, he predicts that it will still be read "a hundred years from now." <i>The Law</i>, first published as a pamphlet in June, 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when another century has passed. Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before — and immediately following — the Revolution of February 1848. This was the period when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And he explained how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore his logic. <i>The Law</i> is here presented again because the same situation exists in America today as in the France of 1848. The same socialist-communist ideas and plans that were then adopted in France are now sweeping America. The explanations and arguments then advanced against socialism by Mr. Bastiat are — word for word — equally valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><br />
<div align="center"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: x-large;">Frédéric Bastiat</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><br />
<div align="center"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: x-large;">The Law</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.<br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This translation of <i>The Law</i> was done by Dean Russell of The Foundation staff. His objective was an accurate rendering of Mr. Bastiat's words and ideas into twentieth century, idiomatic English.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">A nineteenth century translation of <i>The Law,</i> made in 1853 in England by an unidentified contemporary of Mr. Bastiat, was of much value as a check against this translation. In addition, Dean Russell had his work reviewed by Bertrand de Jouvenel, the noted French economist, historian, and author who is also thoroughly familiar with the English language.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">While Mr. de Jouvenel offered many valuable corrections and suggestions, it should be clearly understood that Dr. Russell bears full responsibility for the translation.</span></div><div align="center"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><br />
<div align="center"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: x-large;">The Law</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!</span></em></div><div align="justify"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.</span></em></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G003"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G004"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every person has the right to defend even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">If this is true, then nothing can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause <em>justice</em> to reign over us all.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G005"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems to me that order would prevail among the people, in thought as well as in deed. It seems to me that such a nation would have the most simple, easy to accept, economical, limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring government imaginable — whatever its political form might be.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Under such an administration, everyone would understand that he possessed all the privileges as well as all the responsibilities of his existence. No one would have any argument with government, provided that his person was respected, his labor was free, and the fruits of his labor were protected against all unjust attack. When successful, we would not have to thank the state for our success. And, conversely, when unsuccessful, we would no more think of blaming the state for our misfortune than would the farmers blame the state because of hail or frost. The state would be felt only by the invaluable blessings of safety provided by this concept of government.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It can be further stated that, thanks to the non-intervention of the state in private affairs, our wants and their satisfactions would develop themselves in a logical manner. We would not see poor families seeking literary instruction before they have bread. We would not see cities populated at the expense of rural districts, nor rural districts at the expense of cities. We would not see the great displacements of capital, labor, and population that are caused by legislative decisions.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The sources of our existence are made uncertain and precarious by these state-created displacements. And, furthermore, these acts burden the government with increased responsibilities.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G006"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">How has this perversion of the law been accomplished? And what have been the results?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G007"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Self-preservation and self-development are common aspirations among all people. And if everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others. This is no rash accusation. Nor does it come from a gloomy and uncharitable spirit. The annals of history bear witness to the truth of it: the incessant wars, mass migrations, religious persecutions, universal slavery, dishonesty in commerce, and monopolies. This fatal desire has its origin in the very nature of man — in that primitive, universal, and insuppressible instinct that impels him to satisfy his desires with the least possible pain.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G008"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain — and since labor is pain in itself — it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G009"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws! Until that happens, the few practice lawful plunder upon the many, a common practice where the right to participate in the making of law is limited to a few persons. But then, participation in the making of law becomes universal. And then, men seek to balance their conflicting interests by universal plunder. Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general. As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder. (This objective would demand more enlightenment than they possess.) Instead, they emulate their evil predecessors by participating in this legal plunder, even though it is against their own interests.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is as if it were necessary, before a reign of justice appears, for everyone to suffer a cruel retribution — some for their evilness, and some for their lack of understanding.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G010"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In the first place, it erases from everyone's conscience the distinction between justice and injustice.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are "just" because law makes them so. Thus, in order to make plunder appear just and sacred to many consciences, it is only necessary for the law to decree and sanction it. Slavery, restrictions, and monopoly find defenders not only among those who profit from them but also among those who suffer from them.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G011"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is boldly said that "You are a dangerous innovator, a utopian, a theorist, a subversive; you would shatter the foundation upon which society rests." If you lecture upon morality or upon political science, there will be found official organizations petitioning the government in this vein of thought: "That science no longer be taught exclusively from the point of view of free trade (of liberty, of property, and of justice) as has been the case until now, but also, in the future, science is to be especially taught from the viewpoint of the facts and laws that regulate French industry (facts and laws which are contrary to liberty, to property, and to justice). That, in government-endowed teaching positions, the professor rigorously refrain from endangering in the slightest degree the respect due to the laws now in force." <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref1"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I could prove this assertion in a thousand ways. But, by way of illustration, I shall limit myself to a subject that has lately occupied the minds of everyone: universal suffrage.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G012"></a></span><br />
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<tr><td bgcolor="#CCFFB8" valign="top"><span style="color: purple; font-family: sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Who Shall Judge?</b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The followers of Rousseau's school of thought — who consider themselves far advanced, but whom I consider twenty centuries behind the times — will not agree with me on this. But universal suffrage — using the word in its strictest sense — is not one of those sacred dogmas which it is a crime to examine or doubt. In fact, serious objections may be made to universal suffrage.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In the first place the word <em>universal</em> conceals a gross fallacy. For example, there are 36 million people in France. Thus, to make the right of suffrage universal, there should be 36 million voters. But the most extended system permits only 9 million people to vote. Three persons out of four are excluded. And more than this, they are excluded by the fourth. This fourth person advances the principle of <em>incapacity</em> as his reason for excluding the others.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Universal suffrage means, then, universal suffrage for those who are capable. But there remains this question of fact: Who is capable? Are minors, females, insane persons, and persons who have committed certain major crimes the only ones to be determined incapable?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G013"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">A closer examination of the subject shows us the motive which causes the right of suffrage to be based upon the supposition of incapacity. The motive is that the elector or voter does not exercise this right for himself alone, but for everybody. The most extended elective system and the most restricted elective system are alike in this respect. They differ only in respect to what constitutes incapacity. It is not a difference of principle, but merely a difference of degree. If, as the republicans of our present-day Greek and Roman schools of thought pretend, the right of suffrage arrives with one's birth, it would be an injustice for adults to prevent women and children from voting. Why are they prevented? Because they are presumed to be incapable. And why is incapacity a motive for exclusion? Because it is not the voter alone who suffers the consequences of his vote; because each vote touches and affects everyone in the entire community; because the people in the community have a right to demand some safeguards concerning the acts upon which their welfare and existence depend.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G014"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I know what might be said in answer to this; what the objections might be. But this is not the place to exhaust a controversy of this nature. I wish merely to observe here that this controversy over universal suffrage (as well as most other political questions) which agitates, excites, and overthrows nations, would lose nearly all of its importance if the law had always been what it ought to be. In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Under these circumstances, is it likely that the extent of the right to vote would endanger that supreme good, the public peace? Is it likely that the excluded classes would refuse to peaceably await the coming of their right to vote? Is it likely that those who had the right to vote would jealously defend their privilege? If the law were confined to its proper functions, everyone's interest in the law would be the same. Is it not clear that, under these circumstances, those who voted could not inconvenience those who did not vote?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G015"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But on the other hand, imagine that this fatal principle has been introduced: Under the pretense of organization, regulation, protection, or encouragement, the law takes property from one person and gives it to another; the law takes the wealth of all and gives it to a few — whether farmers, manufacturers, ship owners, artists, or comedians. Under these circumstances, then certainly every class will aspire to grasp the law, and logically so.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The excluded classes will furiously demand their right to vote — and will overthrow society rather than not to obtain it. Even beggars and vagabonds will then prove to you that they also have an incontestable title to vote. They will say to you:</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">"We cannot buy wine, tobacco, or salt without paying the tax. And a part of the tax that we pay is given by law — in privileges and subsidies — to men who are richer than we are. Others use the law to raise the prices of bread, meat, iron, or cloth. Thus, since everyone else uses the law for his own profit, we also would like to use the law for our own profit. We demand from the law the <em>right to relief</em>, which is the poor man's plunder. To obtain this right, we also should be voters and legislators in order that we may organize Beggary on a grand scale for our own class, as you have organized Protection on a grand scale for your class. Now don't tell us beggars that you will act for us, and then toss us, as Mr. Mimerel proposes, 600,000 francs to keep us quiet, like throwing us a bone to gnaw. We have other claims. And anyway, we wish to bargain for ourselves as other classes have bargained for themselves!"</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And what can you say to answer that argument!</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G016"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose — that it may violate property instead of protecting it — then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious. To know this, it is hardly necessary to examine what transpires in the French and English legislatures; merely to understand the issue is to know the answer.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Is there any need to offer proof that this odious perversion of the law is a perpetual source of hatred and discord; that it tends to destroy society itself? If such proof is needed, look at the United States [in 1850]. There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty and property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world where the social order rests on a firmer foundation. But even in the United States, there are two issues — and only two — that have always endangered the public peace.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G017"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">What are these two issues? They are slavery and tariffs. These are the only two issues where, contrary to the general spirit of the republic of the United States, law has assumed the character of a plunderer.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Slavery is a violation, by law, of liberty. The protective tariff is a violation, by law, of property.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is a most remarkable fact that this double <em>legal crime</em> — a sorrowful inheritance from the Old World — should be the only issue which can, and perhaps will, lead to the ruin of the Union. It is indeed impossible to imagine, at the very heart of a society, a more astounding fact than this: <em>The law has come to be an instrument of injustice</em>. And if this fact brings terrible consequences to the United States — where the proper purpose of the law has been perverted only in the instances of slavery and tariffs — what must be the consequences in Europe, where the perversion of the law is a principle; a system?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G018"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. de Montalembert [politician and writer] adopting the thought contained in a famous proclamation by Mr. Carlier, has said: "We must make war against socialism." According to the definition of socialism advanced by Mr. Charles Dupin, he meant: "We must make war against plunder."</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But of what plunder was he speaking? For there are two kinds of plunder: legal and illegal.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G019"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. In short, there is a <em>legal plunder</em>, and it is of this, no doubt, that Mr. de Montalembert speaks.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This legal plunder may be only an isolated stain among the legislative measures of the people. If so, it is best to wipe it out with a minimum of speeches and denunciations — and in spite of the uproar of the vested interests.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G020"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his <em>acquired rights</em>. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G021"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now, since under this definition socialism is a body of doctrine, what attack can be made against it other than a war of doctrine? If you find this socialistic doctrine to be false, absurd, and evil, then refute it. And the more false, the more absurd, and the more evil it is, the easier it will be to refute. Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G022"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. de Montalembert has been accused of desiring to fight socialism by the use of brute force. He ought to be exonerated from this accusation, for he has plainly said: "The war that we must fight against socialism must be in harmony with law, honor, and justice."</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But why does not Mr. de Montalembert see that he has placed himself in a vicious circle? You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice <em>legal</em> plunder, not <em>illegal</em> plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">To prevent this, you would exclude socialism from entering into the making of laws? You would prevent socialists from entering the Legislative Palace? You shall not succeed, I predict, so long as legal plunder continues to be the main business of the legislature. It is illogical — in fact, absurd — to assume otherwise.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G023"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The few plunder the many.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Everybody plunders everybody.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Nobody plunders anybody.</span></li>
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">We must make our choice among limited plunder, universal plunder, and no plunder. The law can follow only one of these three.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><em>Limited legal plunder:</em> This system prevailed when the right to vote was restricted. One would turn back to this system to prevent the invasion of socialism.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><em>Universal legal plunder:</em> We have been threatened with this system since the franchise was made universal. The newly enfranchised majority has decided to formulate law on the same principle of legal plunder that was used by their predecessors when the vote was limited.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><em>No legal plunder:</em> This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate). <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref2"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G024"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And, in all sincerity, can anything more than the absence of plunder be required of the law? Can the law — which necessarily requires the use of force — rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to extend it beyond this purpose without perverting it and, consequently, turning might against right. This is the most fatal and most illogical social perversion that can possibly be imagined. It must be admitted that the true solution — so long searched for in the area of social relationships — is contained in these simple words: <em>Law is organized justice.</em></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now this must be said: When justice is organized by law — that is, by force — this excludes the idea of using law (force) to organize any human activity whatever, whether it be labor, charity, agriculture, commerce, industry, education, art, or religion. The organizing by law of any one of these would inevitably destroy the essential organization — justice. For truly, how can we imagine force being used against the liberty of citizens without it also being used against justice, and thus acting against its proper purpose?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G025"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should be just; it must be philanthropic. Nor is it sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual, and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat again: These two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other. We must choose between them. A citizen cannot at the same time be free and not free.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G026"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. de Lamartine once wrote to me thusly: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program. You have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first."<br />
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In fact, it is impossible for me to separate the word <em>fraternity</em> from the word <em>voluntary</em>. I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be <em>legally</em> enforced without liberty being <em>legally</em> destroyed, and thus justice being <em>legally</em> trampled underfoot</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">At this point, I think that I should explain exactly what I mean by the word plunder. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref3"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G027"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I do not, as is often done, use the word in any vague, uncertain, approximate, or metaphorical sense. I use it in its scientific acceptance — as expressing the idea opposite to that of property [wages, land, money, or whatever]. When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it — without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud — to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I say that this act is exactly what the law is supposed to suppress, always and everywhere. When the law itself commits this act that it is supposed to suppress, I say that plunder is still committed, and I add that from the point of view of society and welfare, this aggression against rights is even worse. In this case of legal plunder, however, the person who receives the benefits is not responsible for the act of plundering. The responsibility for this legal plunder rests with the law, the legislator, and society itself. Therein lies the political danger.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is to be regretted that the word <em>plunder is</em> offensive. I have tried in vain to find an inoffensive word, for I would not at any time — especially now — wish to add an irritating word to our dissentions. Thus, whether I am believed or not, I declare that I do not mean to attack the intentions or the morality of anyone. Rather, I am attacking an <em>idea</em> which I believe to be false; a <em>system</em> which appears to me to be unjust; an injustice so independent of personal intentions that each of us profits from it without wishing to do so, and suffers from it without knowing the cause of the suffering.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G028"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The sincerity of those who advocate protectionism, socialism, and communism is not here questioned. Any writer who would do that must be influenced by a political spirit or a political fear. It is to be pointed out, however, that protectionism, socialism, and communism are basically the same plant in three different stages of its growth. All that can be said is that legal plunder is more visible in communism because it is complete plunder; and in protectionism because the plunder is limited to specific groups and industries. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref4"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> Thus it follows that, of the three systems, socialism is the vaguest, the most indecisive, and, consequently, the most sincere stage of development.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But sincere or insincere, the intentions of persons are not here under question. In fact, I have already said that legal plunder is based partially on philanthropy, even though it is a false philanthropy.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">With this explanation, let us examine the value — the origin and the tendency — of this popular aspiration which claims to accomplish the general welfare by general plunder.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G029"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Since the law organizes justice, the socialists ask why the law should not also organize labor, education, and religion.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Why should not law be used for these purposes? Because it could not organize labor, education, and religion without destroying justice. We must remember that law is force, and that, consequently, the proper functions of the law cannot lawfully extend beyond the proper functions of force.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">When law and force keep a person within the bounds of justice, they impose nothing but a mere negation. They oblige him only to abstain from harming others. They violate neither his personality, his liberty, nor his property. They safeguard all of these. They are defensive; they defend equally the rights of all.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G030"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The harmlessness of the mission performed by law and lawful defense is self-evident; the usefulness is obvious; and the legitimacy cannot be disputed.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">As a friend of mine once remarked, this negative concept of law is so true that the statement, <em>the purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign</em>, is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that <em>the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning</em>. In fact, it is <em>injustice</em>, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But when the law, by means of its necessary agent, force, imposes upon men a regulation of labor, a method or a subject of education, a religious faith or creed — then the law is no longer negative; it acts positively upon people. It substitutes the will of the legislator for their own wills; the initiative of the legislator for their own initiatives. When this happens, the people no longer need to discuss, to compare, to plan ahead; the law does all this for them. Intelligence becomes a useless prop for the people; they cease to be men; they lose their personality, their liberty, their property.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Try to imagine a regulation of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property. If you cannot reconcile these contradictions, then you must conclude that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G031"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">When a politician views society from the seclusion of his office, he is struck by the spectacle of the inequality that he sees. He deplores the deprivations which are the lot of so many of our brothers, deprivations which appear to be even sadder when contrasted with luxury and wealth.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Perhaps the politician should ask himself whether this state of affairs has not been caused by old conquests and lootings, and by more recent legal plunder. Perhaps he should consider this proposition: Since all persons seek well-being and perfection, would not a condition of justice be sufficient to cause the greatest efforts toward progress, and the greatest possible equality that is compatible with individual responsibility? Would not this be in accord with the concept of individual responsibility which God has willed in order that mankind may have the choice between vice and virtue, and the resulting punishment and reward?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But the politician never gives this a thought. His mind turns to organizations, combinations, and arrangements — legal or apparently legal. He attempts to remedy the evil by increasing and perpetuating the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. We have seen that justice is a negative concept. Is there even one of these positive legal actions that does not contain the principle of plunder?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G032"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">You say: "There are persons who have no money," and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been <em>forced</em> to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">With this in mind, examine the protective tariffs, subsidies, guaranteed profits, guaranteed jobs, relief and welfare schemes, public education, progressive taxation, free credit, and public works. You will find that they are always based on legal plunder, organized injustice.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G033"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">You say: "There are persons who lack education," and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some persons have knowledge and others do not; where some citizens need to learn, and others can teach. In this matter of education, the law has only two alternatives: It can permit this transaction of teaching-and-learning to operate freely and without the use of force, or it can force human wills in this matter by taking from some of them enough to pay the teachers who are appointed by government to instruct others, without charge. But in this second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G034"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">You say: "Here are persons who are lacking in morality or religion," and you turn to the law. But law is force. And need I point out what a violent and futile effort it is to use force in the matters of morality and religion?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It would seem that socialists, however self-complacent, could not avoid seeing this monstrous legal plunder that results from such systems and such efforts. But what do the socialists do? They cleverly disguise this legal plunder from others — and even from themselves — under the seductive names of fraternity, unity, organization, and association. Because we ask so little from the law — only justice — the socialists thereby assume that we reject fraternity, unity, organization, and association. The socialists brand us with the name <em>individualist</em>.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only <em>forced</em> organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are <em>forced</em> upon us, not free association. We repudiate <em>forced</em>fraternity, not true fraternity. We repudiate the <em>artificial</em> unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility. We do not repudiate the natural unity of mankind under Providence.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G035"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G036"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">How did politicians ever come to believe this weird idea that the law could be made to produce what it does not contain — the wealth, science, and religion that, in a positive sense, constitute prosperity? Is it due to the influence of our modern writers on public affairs?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Present-day writers — especially those of the socialist school of thought — base their various theories upon one common hypothesis: They divide mankind into two parts. People in general — with the exception of the writer himself — form the first group. The writer, all alone, forms the second and most important group. Surely this is the weirdest and most conceited notion that ever entered a human brain!</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In fact, these writers on public affairs begin by supposing that people have within themselves no means of discernment; no motivation to action. The writers assume that people are inert matter, passive particles, motionless atoms, at best a kind of vegetation indifferent to its own manner of existence. They assume that people are susceptible to being shaped — by the will and hand of another person — into an infinite variety of forms, more or less symmetrical, artistic, and perfected. Moreover, not one of these writers on governmental affairs hesitates to imagine that he himself — under the title of organizer, discoverer, legislator, or founder — is this will and hand, this universal motivating force, this creative power whose sublime mission is to mold these scattered materials — persons — into a society.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">These socialist writers look upon people in the same manner that the gardener views his trees. Just as the gardener capriciously shapes the trees into pyramids, parasols, cubes, vases, fans, and other forms, just so does the socialist writer whimsically shape human beings into groups, series, centers, sub-centers, honeycombs, labor-corps, and other variations. And just as the gardener needs axes, pruning hooks, saws, and shears to shape his trees, just so does the socialist writer need the force that he can find only in law to shape human beings. For this purpose, he devises tariff laws, tax laws, relief laws, and school laws.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G037"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Socialists look upon people as raw material to be formed into social combinations. This is so true that, if by chance, the socialists have any doubts about the success of these combinations, they will demand that a small portion of mankind be set aside <em>to experiment upon</em>. The popular idea of trying <em>all systems</em> is well known. And one socialist leader has been known seriously to demand that the Constituent Assembly give him a small district with all its inhabitants, to try his experiments upon.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In the same manner, an inventor makes a model before he constructs the full-sized machine; the chemist wastes some chemicals — the farmer wastes some seeds and land — to try out an idea.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But what a difference there is between the gardener and his trees, between the inventor and his machine, between the chemist and his elements, between the farmer and his seeds! And in all sincerity, the socialist thinks that there is the same difference between him and mankind!</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is no wonder that the writers of the nineteenth century look upon society as an artificial creation of the legislator's genius. This idea — the fruit of classical education — has taken possession of all the intellectuals and famous writers of our country. To these intellectuals and writers, the relationship between persons and the legislator appears to be the same as the relationship between the clay and the potter.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Moreover, even where they have consented to recognize a principle of action in the heart of man — and a principle of discernment in man's intellect — they have considered these gifts from God to be fatal gifts. They have thought that persons, under the impulse of these two gifts, would fatally tend to ruin themselves. They assume that if the legislators left persons free to follow their own inclinations, they would arrive at atheism instead of religion, ignorance instead of knowledge, poverty instead of production and exchange.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G038"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">According to these writers, it is indeed fortunate that Heaven has bestowed upon certain men — governors and legislators — the exact opposite inclinations, not only for their own sake but also for the sake of the rest of the world! While mankind tends toward evil, the legislators yearn for good; while mankind advances toward darkness, the legislators aspire for enlightenment; while mankind is drawn toward vice, the legislators are attracted toward virtue. Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those of the human race.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Open at random any book on philosophy, politics, or history, and you will probably see how deeply rooted in our country is this idea — the child of classical studies, the mother of socialism. In all of them, you will probably find this idea that mankind is merely inert matter, receiving life, organization, morality, and prosperity from the power of the state. And even worse, it will be stated that mankind tends toward degeneration, and is stopped from this downward course only by the mysterious hand of the legislator. Conventional classical thought everywhere says that behind passive society there is a concealed power called <em>law</em> or <em>legislator</em> (or called by some other terminology that designates some unnamed person or persons of undisputed influence and authority) which moves, controls, benefits, and improves mankind.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G039"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Let us first consider a quotation from Bossuet [tutor to the Dauphin in the Court of Louis XIV] <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref5"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote5"><sup>[5]</sup></a>:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">One of the things most strongly impressed (by whom?) upon the minds of the Egyptians was patriotism.... No one was permitted to be useless to the state. The law assigned to each one his work, which was handed down from father to son. No one was permitted to have two professions. Nor could a person change from one job to another.... But there was one task to which all were forced to conform: the study of the laws and of wisdom. Ignorance of religion and of the political regulations of the country was not excused under any circumstances. Moreover, each occupation was assigned (by whom?) to a certain district.... Among the good laws, one of the best was that everyone was trained (by whom?) to obey them. As a result of this, Egypt was filled with wonderful inventions, and nothing was neglected that could make life easy and quiet.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Thus, according to Bossuet, persons derive nothing from themselves. Patriotism, prosperity, inventions, husbandry, science — all of these are given to the people by the operation of the laws, the rulers. All that the people have to do is to bow to leadership.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G040"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Bossuet carries this idea of the state as the source of all progress even so far as to defend the Egyptians against the charge that they rejected wrestling and music. He said:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">How is that possible? These arts were invented by Trismegistus [who was alleged to have been Chancellor to the Egyptian god Osiris].</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And again among the Persians, Bossuet claims that all comes from above:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">One of the first responsibilities <em>of the prince</em> was to encourage agriculture.... Just as there were offices established for the regulation of armies, just so were there offices for the direction of farm work.... The Persian people <em>were inspired</em> with an overwhelming respect for royal authority.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And according to Bossuet, the Greek people, although exceedingly intelligent, had no sense of personal responsibility; like dogs and horses, they themselves could not have invented the most simple games:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The Greeks, naturally intelligent and courageous, <em>had been early cultivated</em> by the kings and settlers who had come from Egypt. From these Egyptian rulers, the Greek people had learned bodily exercises, <em>foot races</em>, and horse and chariot races.... But the best thing that the Egyptians had taught the Greeks was to become docile, and to permit themselves to be formed by the law for the public good.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It cannot be disputed that these classical theories [advanced by these latter-day teachers, writers, legislators, economists, and philosophers] held that everything came to the people from a source outside themselves. As another example, take Fenelon [archbishop, author, and instructor to the Duke of Burgundy].</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">He was a witness to the power of Louis XIV. This, plus the fact that he was nurtured in the classical studies and the admiration of antiquity, naturally caused Fenelon to accept the idea that mankind should be passive; that the misfortunes and the prosperity — vices and virtues — of people are caused by the external influence exercised upon them by the law and the legislators. Thus, in his <em>Utopia of Salentum</em>, he puts men — with all their interests, faculties, desires, and possessions under the absolute discretion of the legislator. Whatever the issue may be, persons do not decide it for themselves; the prince decides for them. The prince is depicted as the <em>soul</em> of this shapeless mass of people who form the nation. In the prince resides the thought, the foresight, all progress, and the principle of all organization. Thus all responsibility rests with him.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The whole of the tenth book of Fenelon's <i>Telemachus</i> proves this. I refer the reader to it, and content myself with quoting at random from this celebrated work to which, in every other respect, I am the first to pay homage.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G042"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">With the amazing credulity which is typical of the classicists, Fenelon ignores the authority of reason and facts when he attributes the general happiness of the Egyptians, not to their own wisdom but to the wisdom of their kings:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">We could not turn our eyes to either shore without seeing rich towns and country estates most agreeably located; fields, never fallowed, covered with golden crops every year; meadows full of flocks; workers bending under the weight of the fruit which the earth lavished upon its cultivators; shepherds who made the echoes resound with the soft notes from their pipes and flutes. "Happy," said Mentor, "is the people governed by a wise king...."</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Later, Mentor desired that I observe the contentment and abundance which covered all Egypt, where twenty-two thousand cities could be counted. He admired the good police regulations in the cities; the justice rendered in favor of the poor against the rich; the sound education of the children in obedience, labor, sobriety, and the love of the arts and letters; the exactness with which all religious ceremonies were performed; the unselfishness, the high regard for honor, the faithfulness to men, and the fear of the gods which every father taught his children. He never stopped admiring the prosperity of the country. "Happy," said he, "is the people ruled by a wise king in such a manner."</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Fenelon's idyl on Crete is even more alluring. Mentor is made to say:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">All that you see in this wonderful island results from the laws of Minos. The education which he ordained for the children makes their bodies strong and robust. From the very beginning, one accustoms the children to a life of frugality and labor, because one assumes that all pleasures of the senses weaken both body and mind. Thus one allows them no pleasure except that of becoming invincible by virtue, and of acquiring glory.... Here one punishes three vices that go unpunished among other people: ingratitude, hypocrisy, and greed. There is no need to punish persons for pomp and dissipation, for they are unknown in Crete.... No costly furniture, no magnificent clothing, no delicious feasts, no gilded palaces are permitted.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Thus does Mentor prepare his student to mold and to manipulate — doubtless with the best of intentions — the people of Ithaca. And to convince the student of the wisdom of these ideas, Mentor recites to him the example of Salentum. It is from this sort of philosophy that we receive our first political ideas! We are taught to treat persons much as an instructor in agriculture teaches farmers to prepare and tend the soil.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G044"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now listen to the great Montesquieu on this same subject:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">To maintain the spirit of commerce, it is necessary that all the laws must favor it. These laws, by proportionately dividing up the fortunes as they are made in commerce, should provide every poor citizen with sufficiently easy circumstances to enable him to work like the others. These same laws should put every rich citizen in such lowered circumstances as to force him to work in order to keep or to gain.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Thus the laws are to dispose of all fortunes!</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Although real equality is the soul of the state in a democracy, yet this is so difficult to establish that an extreme precision in this matter would not always be desirable. It is sufficient that there be established a census to reduce or fix these differences in wealth within a certain limit. After this is done, it remains for specific laws to equalize inequality by imposing burdens upon the rich and granting relief to the poor.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Here again we find the idea of equalizing fortunes by law, by force.</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In Greece, there were two kinds of republics. One, Sparta, was military; the other, Athens, was commercial. In the former, <em>it was desired</em> that the citizens be idle; in the latter, love of labor <em>was encouraged</em>.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Note the marvelous genius of these legislators: By debasing all established customs — by mixing the usual concepts of all virtues — they knew in advance that the world would admire their wisdom.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Lycurgus gave stability to his city of Sparta by combining petty thievery with the soul of justice; by combining the most complete bondage with the most extreme liberty; by combining the most atrocious beliefs with the greatest moderation. He appeared to deprive his city of all its resources, arts, commerce, money, and defenses. In Sparta, ambition went without the hope of material reward. Natural affection found no outlet because a man was neither son, husband, nor father. Even chastity was no longer considered becoming. <em>By this road, Lycurgus led Sparta on to greatness and glory.</em></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This boldness which was to be found in the institutions of Greece has been repeated in the midst of <em>the degeneracy and corruption of our modern times</em>. An occasional honest legislator has molded a people in whom integrity appears as natural as courage in the Spartans.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. William Penn, for example, is a true Lycurgus. Even though Mr. Penn had peace as his objectivity — while Lycurgus had war as his objective they resemble each other in that their moral prestige over free men allowed them to overcome prejudices, to subdue passions, and to lead <em>their</em> respective peoples into new paths.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The country of Paraguay furnishes us with another example [of a people who, for their own good, are molded by their legislators]. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref6"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote6"><sup>[6]</sup></a></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now it is true that if one considers the sheer pleasure of commanding to be the greatest joy in life, he contemplates a crime against society; it will, however, always be a noble ideal to govern men in a manner that will make them happier.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><em>Those who desire to establish similar institutions</em> must do as follows: Establish common ownership of property as in the republic of Plato; revere the gods as Plato commanded; prevent foreigners from mingling with the people, in order to preserve the customs; let the state, instead of the citizens, establish commerce. The legislators should supply arts instead of luxuries; they should satisfy needs instead of desires.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Those who are subject to vulgar infatuation may exclaim: "Montesquieu has said this! So it's magnificent! It's sublime!" As for me, I have the courage of my own opinion. I say: What! You have the nerve to call that fine? It is frightful! It is abominable! These random selections from the writings of Montesquieu show that he considers persons, liberties, property — mankind itself — to be nothing but materials for legislators to exercise their wisdom upon.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G046"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now let us examine Rousseau on this subject. This writer on public affairs is the supreme authority of the democrats. And although he bases the social structure upon the will <em>of the people</em>, he has, to a greater extent than anyone else, completely accepted the theory of the total inertness of mankind in the presence of the legislators:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">If it is true that a great prince is rare, then is it not true that a great legislator is even more rare? The prince has only to follow the pattern that the legislator creates. <em>The legislator is the mechanic who invents the machine;</em> the prince is merely the workman who sets it in motion.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And what part do persons play in all this? They are merely the machine that is set in motion. In fact, are they not merely considered to be the raw material of which the machine is made?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Thus the same relationship exists between the legislator and the prince as exists between the agricultural expert and the farmer; and the relationship between the prince and his subjects is the same as that between the farmer and his land. How high above mankind, then, has this writer on public affairs been placed? Rousseau rules over legislators themselves, and teaches them their trade in these imperious terms:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Would you give stability to the state? Then bring the extremes as closely together as possible. Tolerate neither wealthy persons nor beggars. If the soil is poor or barren, or the country too small for its inhabitants, then turn to industry and arts, and trade these products for the foods that you need.... On a fertile soil — if <em>you are short</em> of inhabitants — devote all your attention to agriculture, because this multiplies people; <em>banish</em> the arts, because they only serve to depopulate the nation....</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">If you have extensive and accessible coast lines, then <em>cover the sea</em> with merchant ships; you will have a brilliant but short existence. If your seas wash only inaccessible cliffs, let the people <em>be barbarous</em> and eat fish; they will live more quietly — perhaps better — and, most certainly, they will live more happily.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In short, and in addition to the maxims that are common to all, every people has its own particular circumstances. And this fact in itself will cause legislation appropriate to the circumstances.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This is the reason why the Hebrews formerly — and, more recently, the Arabs — had religion as their principle objective. The objective of the Athenians was literature; of Carthage and Tyre, commerce; of Rhodes, naval affairs; of Sparta, war; and of Rome, virtue. The author of <i>The Spirit of Laws</i> has shown by what art <em>the legislator should direct his institutions toward each of these objectives</em>.... But suppose that the legislator mistakes his proper objective, and acts on a principle different from that indicated by the nature of things? Suppose that the selected principle sometimes creates slavery, and sometimes liberty; sometimes wealth, and sometimes population; sometimes peace, and sometimes conquest? This confusion of objective will slowly enfeeble the law and impair the constitution. The state will be subjected to ceaseless agitations until it is destroyed or changed, and invincible nature regains her empire.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But if nature is sufficiently invincible to <em>regain</em> its empire, why does not Rousseau admit that it did not need the legislator to <em>gain</em> it in the first place? Why does he not see that men, by obeying their own instincts, would turn to farming on fertile soil, and to commerce on an extensive and easily accessible coast, without the interference of a Lycurgus or a Solon or a Rousseau <em>who might easily be mistaken</em>.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G047"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Be that as it may, Rousseau invests the creators, organizers, directors, legislators, and controllers of society with a terrible responsibility. He is, therefore, most exacting with them:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">He who would dare to undertake the political creation of a people ought to believe that he can, in a manner of speaking, transform human nature; transform each individual — who, by himself, is a solitary and perfect whole — into a mere part of a greater whole from which the individual will henceforth receive his life and being. Thus the person who would undertake the political creation of a people should believe in his ability to alter man's constitution; to strengthen it; to substitute for the physical and independent existence received from nature, an existence which is partial and moral. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref7"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote7"><sup>[7]</sup></a> In short, the would-be creator of political man must remove man's own forces and endow him with others that are naturally alien to him.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Poor human nature! What would become of a person's dignity if it were entrusted to the followers of Rousseau?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G048"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now let us examine Raynal on this subject of mankind being molded by the legislator:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The legislator must first consider the climate, the air, and the soil. The resources at his disposal determine his duties. He must first consider <em>his</em> locality. A population living on maritime shores must have laws designed for navigation.... If it is an inland settlement, the legislator must make his plans according to the nature and fertility of the soil....</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is especially in the distribution of property that the genius of the legislator will be found. As a general rule, when a new colony is established in any country, sufficient land should be given to each man to support his family....</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">On an uncultivated island that you are populating with children, you need do nothing but let the seeds of truth germinate along with the development of reason.... But when you resettle a nation with a past into a new country, the skill of the legislator rests in the policy of <em>permitting the people</em> to retain no injurious opinions and customs which can possibly be cured and corrected. If you desire to prevent these opinions and customs from becoming permanent, you will secure the second generation by a general system of public education for the children. A prince or a legislator should never establish a colony without first arranging to send wise men along to instruct the youth...</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In a new colony, ample opportunity is open to the careful legislator who desires <em>to purify the customs and manners of the people</em>. If he has virtue and genius, the land and the people <em>at his disposal</em> will inspire his soul with a plan for society. A writer can only vaguely trace the plan in advance because it is necessarily subject to the instability of all hypotheses; the problem has many forms, complications, and circumstances that are difficult to foresee and settle in detail.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Raynal's instructions to the legislators on how to manage people may be compared to a professor of agriculture lecturing his students: "The climate is the first rule for the farmer. <em>His</em> resources determine his procedure. He must first consider his locality. If his soil is clay, he must do so and so. If his soil is sand, he must act in another manner. Every facility is open to the farmer who wishes to clear and improve his soil. If he is skillful enough, the manure <em>at his disposal</em> will suggest to him a plan of operation. A professor can only vaguely trace this plan in advance because it is necessarily subject to the instability of all hypotheses; the problem has many forms, complications, and circumstances that are difficult to foresee and settle in detail."</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Oh, sublime writers! Please remember sometimes that this clay, this sand, and this manure which you so arbitrarily dispose of, are men! They are your equals! They are intelligent and free human beings like yourselves! As you have, they too have received from God the faculty to observe, to plan ahead, to think, and to judge for themselves!</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G050"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Here is Mably on this subject of the law and the legislator. In the passages preceding the one here quoted, Mably has supposed the laws, due to a neglect of security, to be worn out. He continues to address the reader thusly:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Under these circumstances, it is obvious that the springs of government are slack. <em>Give them</em> a new tension, and the evil will be cured.... Think less of punishing faults, and more of rewarding <em>that which you need</em>. In this manner you will restore to <em>your republic</em> the vigor of youth. Because free people have been ignorant of this procedure, they have lost their liberty! But if the evil has made such headway that ordinary governmental procedures are unable to cure it, then <em>resort</em> to an extraordinary tribunal with considerable powers for a short time. The imagination of the citizens needs to be struck a hard blow.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In this manner, Mably continues through twenty volumes.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Under the influence of teaching like this — which stems from classical education — there came a time when everyone wished to place himself above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it in his own way.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G051"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Next let us examine Condillac on this subject of the legislators and mankind:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">My Lord, assume the character of Lycurgus or of Solon. And before you finish reading this essay, amuse yourself by giving laws to some savages in America or Africa. Confine these nomads to fixed dwellings; teach them to tend flocks.... Attempt to develop the social consciousness that nature has planted in them.... Force them to begin to practice the duties of humanity.... Use punishment to cause sensual pleasures to become distasteful to them. Then you will see that every point of your legislation will cause these savages to lose a vice and gain a virtue.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">All people have had laws. But few people have been happy. Why is this so? Because the legislators themselves have almost always been ignorant of the purpose of society, which is the uniting of families by a common interest.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Impartiality in law consists of two things: the establishing of equality in wealth and equality in dignity among the citizens.... As the laws establish greater equality, they become proportionately more precious to every citizen.... When all men are equal in wealth and dignity — and when the laws leave no hope of disturbing this equality — how can men then be agitated by greed, ambition, dissipation, idleness, sloth, envy, hatred, or jealousy?</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">What you have learned about the republic of Sparta should enlighten you on this question. No other state has ever had laws more in accord with the order of nature; of equality.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Actually, it is <em>not</em> strange that during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the human race was regarded as inert matter, ready to receive everything — form, face, energy, movement, life — from a great prince or a great legislator or a great genius. These centuries were nourished on the study of antiquity. And antiquity presents everywhere — in Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome — the spectacle of a few men molding mankind according to their whims, thanks to the prestige of force and of fraud. But this does not prove that this situation is desirable. It proves only that since men and society are capable of improvement, it is naturally to be expected that error, ignorance, despotism, slavery, and superstition should be greatest towards the origins of history. The writers quoted above were not in error when they found ancient institutions to be such, but they were in error when they offered them for the admiration and imitation of future generations. Uncritical and childish conformists, they took for granted the grandeur, dignity, morality, and happiness of the artificial societies of the ancient world. They did not understand that knowledge appears and grows with the passage of time; and that in proportion to this growth of knowledge, <em>might</em> takes the side of <em>right</em>, and society regains possession of itself.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G053"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Actually, what is the political struggle that we witness? It is the instinctive struggle of all people toward liberty. And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties — liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade? In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism — including, of course, legal despotism? Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire — learned from the teachings of antiquity — that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G054"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">While society is struggling toward liberty, these famous men who put themselves at its head are filled with the spirit of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They think only of subjecting mankind to the philanthropic tyranny of their own social inventions. Like Rousseau, they desire to force mankind docilely to bear this yoke of the public welfare that they have dreamed up in their own imaginations.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This was especially true in 1789. No sooner was the old regime destroyed than society was subjected to still other artificial arrangements, always starting from the same point: the omnipotence of the law.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Listen to the ideas of a few of the writers and politicians during that period:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">SAINT-JUST: The legislator commands the future. It is for him to <em>will</em> the good of mankind. It is for him to make men what <em>he wills</em> them to be.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">ROBESPIERRE: The function of government is to direct the physical and moral powers of the nation toward the end for which the commonwealth has come into being.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">BILLAUD-VARENNES: A people who are to be returned to liberty must be formed anew. A strong force and vigorous action are necessary to destroy old prejudices, to change old customs, to correct depraved affections, to restrict superfluous wants, and to destroy ingrained vices.... Citizens, the inflexible austerity of Lycurgus created the firm foundation of the Spartan republic. The weak and trusting character of Solon plunged Athens into slavery. This parallel embraces the whole science of government.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">LE PELLETIER: Considering the extent of human degradation, I am convinced that it is necessary to effect a total regeneration and, if I may so express myself, of creating a new people.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Again, it is claimed that persons are nothing but raw material. It is not for them to will <em>their own improvement</em>; they are incapable of it. According to Saint-Just, only the legislator is capable of doing this. Persons are merely to be what the legislator <em>wills</em> them to be. According to Robespierre, who copies Rousseau literally, the legislator begins by decreeing the <em>end for which the commonwealth has come into being</em>. Once this is determined, the government has only to direct <em>the physical and moral forces of the nation</em> toward that end. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the nation are to remain completely passive. And according to the teachings of Billaud-Varennes, the people should have no prejudices, no affections, and no desires except those authorized by the legislator. He even goes so far as to say that the inflexible austerity of one man is the foundation of a republic.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In cases where the alleged evil is so great that ordinary governmental procedures cannot cure it, Mably recommends a dictatorship to promote virtue: "Resort," he says, "to an extraordinary tribunal with considerable powers for a short time. The imagination of the citizens needs to be struck a hard blow." This doctrine has not been forgotten. Listen to Robespierre:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The principle of the republican government is virtue, and the means required to establish virtue is terror. In our country we desire to substitute morality for selfishness, honesty for honor, principles for customs, duties for manners, the empire of reason for the tyranny of fashion, contempt of vice for contempt of poverty, pride for insolence, greatness of soul for vanity, love of glory for love of money, good people for good companions, merit for intrigue, genius for wit, truth for glitter, the charm of happiness for the boredom of pleasure, the greatness of man for the littleness of the great, a generous, strong, happy people for a good-natured, frivolous, degraded people; in short, we desire to substitute all the virtues and miracles of a republic for all the vices and absurdities of a monarchy.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">At what a tremendous height above the rest of mankind does Robespierre here place himself! And note the arrogance with which he speaks. He is not content to pray for a great reawakening of the human spirit. Nor does he expect such a result from a well-ordered government. No, he himself will remake mankind, and by means of terror.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This mass of rotten and contradictory statements is extracted from a discourse by Robespierre in which he aims to explain the <em>principles of morality which ought to guide a revolutionary government</em>. Note that Robespierre's request for dictatorship is not made merely for the purpose of repelling a foreign invasion or putting down the opposing groups. Rather he wants a dictatorship in order that he may use terror to force upon the country his own principles of morality. He says that this act is only to be a temporary measure preceding a new constitution. But in reality, he desires nothing short of using terror to extinguish from France <em>selfishness, honor, customs, manners, fashion, vanity, love of money, good companionship, intrigue, wit, sensuousness, and poverty</em>. Not until he, Robespierre, shall have accomplished these <em>miracles</em>, as he so rightly calls them, will he permit the law to reign again.</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">(At this point in the original French text, Mr. Bastiat pauses and speaks thusly to all do-gooders and would-be rulers of mankind: "Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.")</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Usually, however, these gentlemen — the reformers, the legislators, and the writers on public affairs — do not desire to impose direct despotism upon mankind. Oh no, they are too moderate and philanthropic for such direct action. Instead, they turn to the law for this despotism, this absolutism, this omnipotence. They desire only to make the laws.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">To show the prevalence of this queer idea in France, I would need to copy not only the entire works of Mably, Raynal, Rousseau, and Fenelon — plus long extracts from Bossuet and Montesquieu — but also the entire proceedings of the Convention. I shall do no such thing; I merely refer the reader to them.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G058"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is, of course, not at all surprising that this same idea should have greatly appealed to Napoleon. He embraced it ardently and used it with vigor. Like a chemist, Napoleon considered all Europe to be material for his experiments. But, in due course, this material reacted against him.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">At St. Helena, Napoleon — greatly disillusioned — seemed to recognize some initiative in mankind. Recognizing this, he became less hostile to liberty. Nevertheless, this did not prevent him from leaving this lesson to his son in his will: "To govern is to increase and spread morality, education, and happiness."</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">After all this, it is hardly necessary to quote the same opinions from Morelly, Babeuf, Owen, Saint-Simon, and Fourier. Here are, however, a few extracts from Louis Blanc's book on the organization of labor: "In our plan, society receives its momentum from power."</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now consider this: The impulse behind this momentum is to be supplied by the <em>plan</em> of Louis Blanc; his plan is to be forced upon society; the society referred to is the human race. Thus the human race is to receive its momentum from Louis Blanc.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now it will be said that the people are free to accept or to reject this plan. Admittedly, people are free to accept or to reject <em>advice</em> from whomever they wish. But this is not the way in which Mr. Louis Blanc understands the matter. He expects that his plan will be legalized, and thus forcibly imposed upon the people by the power of the law:</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In our plan, the state has only to pass labor laws (nothing else?) by means of which industrial progress can and must proceed in complete liberty. The state merely places society on an incline (that is all?). Then society will slide down this incline by the mere force of things, and by the natural workings of the established mechanism.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But what is this incline that is indicated by Mr. Louis Blanc? Does it not lead to an abyss? (No, it leads to happiness.) If this is true, then why does not society go there of its own choice? (Because society does not know what it wants; it must be propelled.) What is to propel it? (Power.) And who is to supply the impulse for this power? (Why, the inventor of the machine — in this instance, Mr. Louis Blanc.)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G059"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">We shall never escape from this circle: the idea of passive mankind, and the power of the law being used by a great man to propel the people.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Once on this incline, will society enjoy some liberty? (Certainly.) And what is liberty, Mr. Louis Blanc?</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Once and for all, liberty is not only a mere granted right; it is also the power granted to a person to use and to develop his faculties under a reign of justice and under the protection of the law.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And this is no pointless distinction; its meaning is deep and its consequences are difficult to estimate. For once it is agreed that a person, to be truly free, must have the power to use and develop his faculties, then it follows that every person has a claim on society for such education as will <em>permit him</em> to develop himself. It also follows that every person has a claim on society for tools of production, without which human activity cannot be fully effective. Now by what action can society give to every person the necessary education and the necessary tools of production, if not by the action of the state?</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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<div align="justify"></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Thus, again, liberty is power. Of what does this power consist? (Of being educated and of being given the tools of production.) Who is to give the education and the tools of production? (Society,<em>which owes them to everyone.</em>) By what action is society to give tools of production to those who do not own them? (Why, by <em>the action of the state</em>.) And from whom will the state take them?</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The strange phenomenon of our times — one which will probably astound our descendants — is the doctrine based on this triple hypothesis: the total inertness of mankind, the omnipotence of the law, and the infallibility of the legislator. These three ideas form the sacred symbol of those who proclaim themselves totally democratic.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The advocates of this doctrine also profess to be <em>social</em>. So far as they are democratic, they place unlimited faith in mankind. But so far as they are social, they regard mankind as little better than mud. Let us examine this contrast in greater detail.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">What is the attitude of the democrat when political rights are under discussion? How does he regard the people when a legislator is to be chosen? Ah, then it is claimed that the people have an instinctive wisdom; they are gifted with the finest perception; their will is always right; the general will cannot err; voting cannot be too universal.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">When it is time to vote, apparently the voter is not to be asked for any guarantee of his wisdom. His will and capacity to choose wisely are taken for granted. Can the people be mistaken? Are we not living in an age of enlightenment? What! are the people always to be kept on leashes? Have they not won their rights by great effort and sacrifice? Have they not given ample proof of their intelligence and wisdom? Are they not adults? Are they not capable of judging for themselves? Do they not know what is best for themselves? Is there a class or a man who would be so bold as to set himself above the people, and judge and act for them? No, no, the people are and should be <em>free</em>. They desire to manage their own affairs, and they shall do so.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But when the legislator is finally elected — ah! then indeed does the tone of his speech undergo a radical change. The people are returned to passiveness, inertness, and unconsciousness; the legislator enters into omnipotence. Now it is for him to initiate, to direct, to propel, and to organize. Mankind has only to submit; the hour of despotism has struck. We now observe this fatal idea: The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, and so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward into degradation.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G061"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But ought not the people be given a little liberty?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But Mr. Considerant has assured us that <em>liberty leads inevitably to monopoly!</em></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">We understand that liberty means competition. But according to Mr. Louis Blanc, <em>competition is a system that ruins the businessmen and exterminates the people</em>. It is for this reason that free people are ruined and exterminated in proportion to their degree of freedom. (Possibly Mr. Louis Blanc should observe the results of competition in, for example, Switzerland, Holland, England, and the United States.)</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. Louis Blanc also tells us that <em>competition leads to monopoly</em>. And by the same reasoning, he thus informs us that <em>low prices lead to high prices;</em> that <em>competition drives production to destructive activity;</em> that <em>competition drains away the sources of purchasing power;</em> that <em>competition forces an increase in production while, at the same time, it forces a decrease in consumption</em>. From this, it follows that free people produce for the sake of not consuming; that liberty means <em>oppression and madness</em> among the people; and that Mr. Louis Blanc absolutely must attend to it.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G062"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Well, what liberty should the legislators permit people to have? Liberty of conscience? (But if this were permitted, we would see the people taking this opportunity to become atheists.)</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Then liberty of education? (But parents would pay professors to teach their children immorality and falsehoods; besides, according to Mr. Thiers, if education were left to national liberty, it would cease to be national, and we would be teaching our children the ideas of the Turks or Hindus; whereas, thanks to this legal despotism over education, our children now have the good fortune to be taught the noble ideas of the Romans.)</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Then liberty of labor? (But that would mean competition which, in turn, leaves production unconsumed, ruins businessmen, and exterminates the people.)</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Perhaps liberty of trade? (But everyone knows — and the advocates of protective tariffs have proved over and over again — that freedom of trade ruins every person who engages in it, and that it is necessary to suppress freedom of trade in order to prosper.)</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Possibly then, liberty of association? (But, according to socialist doctrine, true liberty and voluntary association are in contradiction to each other, and the purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.)</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Clearly then, the conscience of the social democrats cannot permit persons to have any liberty because they believe that the nature of mankind tends always toward every kind of degradation and disaster. Thus, of course, the legislators must make plans for the people in order to save them from themselves.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This line of reasoning brings us to a challenging question: If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G063"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The claims of these organizers of humanity raise another question which I have often asked them and which, so far as I know, they have never answered: If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind; if so, let them show their titles to this superiority.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G064"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Please understand that I do not dispute their right to invent social combinations, to advertise them, to advocate them, and to try them upon themselves, at their own expense and risk. But I do dispute their right to impose these plans upon us by law — by force — and to compel us to pay for them with our taxes.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I do not insist that the supporters of these various social schools of thought — the Proudhonists, the Cabetists, the Fourierists, the Universitarists, and the Protectionists — renounce their various ideas. I insist only that they renounce this one idea that they have in common: They need only to give up the idea of <em>forcing us</em> to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free-credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask only that we be permitted to decide upon these plans for ourselves; that we not be forced to accept them, directly or indirectly, if we find them to be contrary to our best interests or repugnant to our consciences.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But these organizers desire access to the tax funds and to the power of the law in order to carry out their plans. In addition to being oppressive and unjust, this desire also implies the fatal supposition that the organizer is infallible and mankind is incompetent. But, again, if persons are incompetent to judge for themselves, then why all this talk about universal suffrage?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G065"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This contradiction in ideas is, unfortunately but logically, reflected in events in France. For example, Frenchmen have led all other Europeans in obtaining their rights — or, more accurately, their political demands. Yet this fact has in no respect prevented us from becoming the most governed, the most regulated, the most imposed upon, the most harnessed, and the most exploited people in Europe. France also leads all other nations as the one where revolutions are constantly to be anticipated. And under the circumstances, it is quite natural that this should be the case.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And this will remain the case so long as our politicians continue to accept this idea that has been so well expressed by Mr. Louis Blanc: "Society receives its momentum from power." This will remain the case so long as human beings with feelings continue to remain passive; so long as they consider themselves incapable of bettering their prosperity and happiness by their own intelligence and their own energy; so long as they expect everything from the law; in short, so long as they imagine that their relationship to the state is the same as that of the sheep to the shepherd.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G066"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">As long as these ideas prevail, it is clear that the responsibility of government is enormous. Good fortune and bad fortune, wealth and destitution, equality and inequality, virtue and vice — all then depend upon political administration. It is burdened with everything, it undertakes everything, it does everything; therefore it is responsible for everything.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">If we are fortunate, then government has a claim to our gratitude; but if we are unfortunate, then government must bear the blame. For are not our persons and property now at the disposal of government? Is not the law omnipotent?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In creating a monopoly of education, the government must answer to the hopes of the fathers of families who have thus been deprived of their liberty; and if these hopes are shattered, whose fault is it? In regulating industry, the government has contracted to make it prosper; otherwise it is absurd to deprive industry of its liberty. And if industry now suffers, whose fault is it?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In meddling with the balance of trade by playing with tariffs, the government thereby contracts to make trade prosper; and if this results in destruction instead of prosperity, whose fault is it?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">In giving the maritime industries protection in exchange for their liberty, the government undertakes to make them profitable; and if they become a burden to the taxpayers, whose fault is it?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Thus there is not a grievance in the nation for which the government does not voluntarily make itself responsible. Is it surprising, then, that every failure increases the threat of another revolution in France?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And what remedy is proposed for this? To extend indefinitely the domain of the law; that is, the responsibility of government.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But if the government undertakes to control and to raise wages, and cannot do it; if the government undertakes to care for all who may be in want, and cannot do it; if the government undertakes to support all unemployed workers, and cannot do it; if the government undertakes to lend interest-free money to all borrowers, and cannot do it; if, in these words that we regret to say escaped from the pen of Mr. de Lamartine, "The state considers that its purpose is to enlighten, to develop, to enlarge, to strengthen, to spiritualize, and to sanctify the soul of the people" — and if the government cannot do all of these things, what then? Is it not certain that after every government failure — which, alas! is more than probable — there will be an equally inevitable revolution?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G067"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">[Now let us return to a subject that was briefly discussed in the opening pages of this thesis: the relationship of economics and of politics — political economy.] <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnoteref8"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnote8"><sup>[8]</sup></a></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">A science of economics must be developed before a science of politics can be logically formulated. Essentially, economics is the science of determining whether the interests of human beings are harmonious or antagonistic. This must be known before a science of politics can be formulated to determine the proper functions of government.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Immediately following the development of a science of economics, and at the very beginning of the formulation of a science of politics, this all-important question must be answered: What is law? What ought it to be? What is its scope; its limits? Logically, at what point do the just powers of the legislator stop?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I do not hesitate to answer: <em>Law is the common force organized to act as an obstacle of injustice</em>. In short, <em>law is justice</em>.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G068"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It is not true that the function of law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our wills, our education, our opinions, our work, our trade, our talents, or our pleasures. The function of law is to protect the free exercise of these rights, and to prevent any person from interfering with the free exercise of these same rights by any other person.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Since law necessarily requires the support of force, its lawful domain is only in the areas where the use of force is necessary. This is justice.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Every individual has the right to use force for lawful self-defense. It is for this reason that the collective force — which is only the organized combination of the individual forces — may lawfully be used for the same purpose; and it cannot be used legitimately for any other purpose.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Law is solely the organization of the individual right of self-defense which existed before law was formalized. Law is justice.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G069"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The mission of the law is <em>not</em> to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect persons and property.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Furthermore, it must not be said that the law may be philanthropic if, in the process, it refrains from oppressing persons and plundering them of their property; this would be a contradiction. The law cannot avoid having an effect upon persons and property; and if the law acts in any manner except to protect them, its actions then necessarily violate the liberty of persons and their right to own property.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">The law is justice — simple and clear, precise and bounded. Every eye can see it, and every mind can grasp it; for justice is measurable, immutable, and unchangeable. Justice is neither more than this nor less than this. If you exceed this proper limit — if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, literary, or artistic — you will then be lost in an uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it upon you. This is true because fraternity and philanthropy, unlike justice, do not have precise limits. Once started, where will you stop? And where will the law stop itself?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G070"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. de Saint-Cricq would extend his philanthropy only to some of the industrial groups; he would demand that the law <em>control the consumers to benefit the producers.</em></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. Considerant would sponsor the cause of the labor groups; he would use the law to secure for them <em>a guaranteed minimum of clothing, housing, food, and all other necessities of life.</em></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Mr. Louis Blanc would say — and with reason — that these minimum guarantees are merely the beginning of complete fraternity; he would say that the law should give tools of production and free education to all working people.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Another person would observe that this arrangement would still leave room for inequality; he would claim that the law should give to everyone even in the most inaccessible hamlet — luxury, literature, and art.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">All of these proposals are the high road to communism; legislation will then be — in fact, it already is — the battlefield for the fantasies and greed of everyone.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G071"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was confined only to suppressing injustice.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Under such a regime, there would be the most prosperity — and it would be the most equally distributed. As for the sufferings that are inseparable from humanity, no one would even think of accusing the government for them. This is true because, if the force of government were limited to suppressing injustice, then government would be as innocent of these sufferings as it is now innocent of changes in the temperature.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">But make the laws upon the principle of fraternity — proclaim that all good, and all bad, stem from the law; that the law is responsible for all individual misfortunes and all social inequalities — then the door is open to an endless succession of complaints, irritations, troubles, and revolutions.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G072"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Law is justice. And it would indeed be strange if law could properly be anything else! Is not justice right? Are not rights equal? By what right does the law force me to conform to the social plans of Mr. Mimerel, Mr. de Melun, Mr. Thiers, or Mr. Louis Blanc? If the law has a moral right to do this, why does it not, then, force these gentlemen to submit to <em>my plans</em>? Is it logical to suppose that nature has not given <em>me</em> sufficient imagination to dream up a utopia also? Should the law choose one fantasy among many, and put the organized force of government at its service only?</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Law is justice. And let it not be said — as it continually is said — that under this concept, the law would be atheistic, individualistic, and heartless; that it would make mankind in its own image. This is an absurd conclusion, worthy only of those worshippers of government who believe that the law <em>is</em> mankind.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Nonsense! Do those worshippers of government believe that free persons will cease to act? Does it follow that if we receive no energy from the law, we shall receive no energy at all? Does it follow that if the law is restricted to the function of protecting the free use of our faculties, we will be unable to use our faculties? Suppose that the law does not force us to follow certain forms of religion, or systems of association, or methods of education, or regulations of labor, or regulations of trade, or plans for charity; does it then follow that we shall eagerly plunge into atheism, hermitary, ignorance, misery, and greed? If we are free, does it follow that we shall no longer recognize the power and goodness of God? Does it follow that we shall then cease to associate with each other, to help each other, to love and succor our unfortunate brothers, to study the secrets of nature, and to strive to improve ourselves to the best of our abilities?</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G073"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice — under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty, safety, stability, and responsibility — that every person will attain his real worth and the true dignity of his being. It is only under this law of justice that mankind will achieve — slowly, no doubt, but certainly — God's design for the orderly and peaceful progress of humanity.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It seems to me that this is theoretically right, for whatever the question under discussion — whether religious, philosophical, political, or economic; whether it concerns prosperity, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, cooperation, property, labor, trade, capital, wages, taxes, population, finance, or government — at whatever point on the scientific horizon I begin my researches, I invariably reach this one conclusion: The solution to the problems of human relationships is to be found in liberty.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G074"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And does not experience prove this? Look at the entire world. Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal, and popular discontent the least excited and the least justifiable; where individuals and groups most actively assume their responsibilities, and, consequently, where the morals of admittedly imperfect human beings are constantly improving; where trade, assemblies, and associations are the least restricted; where labor, capital, and populations suffer the fewest forced displacements; where mankind most nearly follows its own natural inclinations; where the inventions of men are most nearly in harmony with the laws of God; in short, the happiest, most moral, and most peaceful people are those who most nearly follow this principle: Although mankind is not perfect, still, all hope rests upon the free and voluntary actions of persons within the limits of right; law or force is to be used for nothing except the administration of universal justice.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G075"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">This must be said: There are too many "great" men in the world — legislators, organizers, do-gooders, leaders of the people, fathers of nations, and so on, and so on. Too many persons place themselves above mankind; they make a career of organizing it, patronizing it, and ruling it.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Now someone will say: "You yourself are doing this very thing." True. But it must be admitted that I act in an entirely different sense; if I have joined the ranks of the reformers, it is solely for the purpose of persuading them to leave people alone. I do not look upon people as Vancauson looked upon his automaton. Rather, just as the physiologist accepts the human body as it is, so do I accept people as they are. I desire only to study and admire.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">My attitude toward all other persons is well illustrated by this story from a celebrated traveler: He arrived one day in the midst of a tribe of savages, where a child had just been born. A crowd of soothsayers, magicians, and quacks — armed with rings, hooks, and cords — surrounded it. One said: "This child will never smell the perfume of a peace-pipe unless I stretch his nostrils." Another said: "He will never be able to hear unless I draw his ear-lobes down to his shoulders." A third said: "He will never see the sunshine unless I slant his eyes." Another said: "He will never stand upright unless I bend his legs." A fifth said: "He will never learn to think unless I flatten his skull."</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">"Stop," cried the traveler. "What God does is well done. Do not claim to know more than He. God has given organs to this frail creature; let them develop and grow strong by exercise, use, experience, and liberty."</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="SECTION_G076"></a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! A way with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.</span></div><hr /><h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Notes</span></h4><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote1"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref1">[1]</a>: General Council of Manufacturers, Agriculture, and Commerce, May 6, 1850</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote2"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref2">[2]</a>: Translator's note: At the time this was written, Mr. Bastiat knew that he was dying of tuberculosis. Within a year, he was dead.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote3"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref3">[3]</a>: Translator's note: The French word used by Mr. Bastiat is <em>spoliation</em>.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote4"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref4">[4]</a>: If the special privilege of government <em>protection</em> against competition — a monopoly — were granted only to one group in France, the iron workers, for instance, this act would so obviously be legal plunder that it could not last for long. It is for this reason that we see all the protected trades combined into a common cause. They even organize themselves in such a manner as to appear to represent <em>all persons who labor</em>. Instinctively, they feel that legal plunder is concealed by generalizing it.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote5"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref5">[5]</a>: Translator's note: The parenthetical expressions and the italicized words throughout this book were supplied by Mr. Bastiat. All subheads and bracketed material were supplied by the translator.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote6"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref6">[6]</a>: Translator's note: What was then known as Paraguay was a much larger area than it is today. It was colonized by the Jesuits who settled the Indians into villages, and generally saved them from further brutalities by the avoid conquerors.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote7"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref7">[7]</a>: Translator's note: According to Rousseau, the existence of social man <em>is partial</em> in the sense that be is henceforth merely a <em>part</em> of society. Knowing himself as such — and thinking and feeling from the point of view of the whole — he thereby becomes moral.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=2159022061405571291" name="footnote8"></a><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#footnoteref8">[8]</a>: Translator's note: Mr. Bastiat has devoted three other books and several articles to the development of the ideas contained in the three sentences of the following paragraph.</span></div><hr /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><lang></lang></span><br />
<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://se1.com/ush/important/bastiat/law.htm">Found</a> on the site <a href="http://se1.com/ush/">US History resources</a> in the translation by Dean Russell for the <a href="http://www.fee.org/">Foundation for Economic Education</a>. Reformatted by <a href="http://fare.tunes.org/">François-René Rideau</a> for <a href="http://bastiat.org/">Bastiat.org</a>.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">On <a href="http://bastiat.org/">Bastiat.org</a>, you may also find <a href="http://bastiat.org/fr/la_loi.html">the original text in French "La loi"</a>, and other works of Bastiat, either in French or translated into English.</span></div><table><tbody>
<tr><td align="left" width="25%"><a href="http://bastiat.org/en/"><tt><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: purple;">Bastiat.org</span></tt></a></td><td align="center" width="50%"><b><a href="http://fare.tunes.org/liberty/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: purple;">Liberty, as it is</span></a></b></td><td align="right" width="25%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: purple;">A site by <a href="http://fare.tunes.org/">François-René Rideau</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com1Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA26.1223084 -80.143378626.051560900000002 -80.2017806 26.1930559 -80.0849766tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-2552992019689307522011-09-28T06:58:00.000-07:002011-09-28T07:00:18.942-07:00OBSTRUCTION of JUSTICE<h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; display: block; font-size: 22px; height: 52px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Obstruction of Justice is almost always a Criminal Complaint against Corrupt Judges</h1><div><br />
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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Obstruction of Justice is a criminal complaint pursuant to the omnibus clause, or "catch-all provision" of 18 U.S.C. § 1503, which provides:</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Whoever . . . corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be (guilty of an offense).</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Your state should have a similar statute.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">My experience is that corrupt judges do many things to influence, obstruct, or impede the due administration of justice. </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They obstruct justice by using various techniques to render decisions and issue orders that deny justice. They do this to favor certain parties and law firms. They may do it for money or other considerations, or they may do it simply because they favor certain attorneys. For our purposes now, why they do it is not as important as the fact that they do obstruct justice.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">These are some of the techniques the judges use:</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignore the Law</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One of the primary techniques used by corrupt judges is to simply ignore the law. One party cites the law and overwhelming case law. The favored party doesn't have the law on their side. The judge simply ignores the law and rules against the party that was legally right.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In one instance, I presented literally thousands of cases that proved that I was right. In fact, there had never been a case in any court where there was a ruling other than one that would be in my favor. But <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Orinda D. Evans"></a><a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Orinda D. Evans">Judge Orinda D. Evans</a> had one and only one motive, so she ignored the law and ruled against me. The same is true with Judges William S. Duffey, Thomas W. Thrash, Joel F. Dubina, Edward Earl Carnes, Rosemary Barkett, Frank M. Hull, James Larry Edmondson, Stanley Marcus, William H. Pryor, Gerald Bard Tjoflat, Susan H. Black, and Charles R. Wilson.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cite Invalid Law</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sometimes a judge will feel like citation of case law is needed to support their ruling. So, they claim a case applies when it doesn't. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge William S. Duffey">Judge William S. Duffey</a> has done this a number of times. He cites a case in his orders, and then when I review those cases, I find that they actually proved my position. But he ruled against me because he needed to in order to shield his good friend, <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Orinda D. Evans">Judge Orinda D. Evans</a>, from criminal prosecution and impeachment.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignore the Facts</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Judges don’t address points raised by parties who aren’t favored. I find appellate judges are even more dishonest than lower court judges when it comes to ignoring the issues, facts, statutes, and case law.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lie about the Facts in Orders</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lying under oath is perjury. Judges are always under oath, and a judge is supposed to never say or write anything that isn't true. So, when a judge knowingly lies in orders for the purpose of ruling against a party for the judge's criminal reasons, it is a criminal violation of perjury. Each such instance is a separate count. In my case, <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a> has committed hundreds and hundreds of counts of perjury. The record filed with the Court proves that she lied, but she gets away with it because the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ judges will lie to protect their fellow judge. I have many counts of perjury against <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a> and Judge Thrash as well.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignore Issues</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Another favorite technique is to simply ignore issues in orders. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a> has not responded to motions on a timely basis, and then she takes many motions at once and rules on them. This buries the fact that she ignored motions where her ruling could not possible be explained. So, rather than make up an explanation, she just ignores those tough issues.<a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a> often ignores the issues, and Judge Thrash always ignores the issues.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Conceal Evidence</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A really dishonest judge like <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Orinda Evans">Judge Orinda Evans</a> will simply conceal evidence. In my case, she has two documents that will prove fraud by the other party and their attorney as well as obstruction of justice by her. She simply conceals that evidence and refuses to allow it to see the light of day so her criminal efforts are not exposed. Approximately 12 other judges have aided and abetted her in this concealment.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Say Nothing in Orders</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One of the favorite techniques of Judge Thrash and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ judges is to say nothing. They corruptly call an appeal "frivolous" and dismiss it with no explanation whatsoever. Sometimes the Eleventh Circuit writes a page or two simply reciting history of the case, so it appears it is a real order, and then they write one sentence dismissing the appeal with no valid reason or explanation.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't Publish the Improper Orders</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Eleventh Circuit has NEVER published one of the orders in my appeals. When they are violating the law, they have protection by not publishing the order. This keeps it from the eyes of attorneys and other judges who would identify the wrongdoing. Publishing would also make their erroneous decisions precedents for other cases. The whole legal system would be turned even more upside down if this were to happen.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Block Filing of Motions and Evidence</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By allowing the favored party to file anything they choose and blocking the filings and motions of the pro se party, judges commit the worst form of obstruction of justice. The pro se party is denied the information needed to defeat the other party, and there is no record of this evidence and these arguments on appeal. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a>, <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a>, and Judge Thrash have done this to me repeatedly.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tamper with Evidence</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tampering with evidence is a crime. Judges commit tampering with evidence by causing evidence submitted for filing to disappear and not get added to the court record. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a>, <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a>, and Judge Thrash have done this to me repeatedly, in cahoots with the staff of the Clerk of the Court. I have proof that orders have been backdated. I suspect that we will discover that the two documents filed under seal in 1:06-CV-0714-ODE Docket #168 have been tampered with or destroyed. Maid of the Mist’s attorneys did a lot of tampering with evidence, and <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a> ignored it all.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Deny Constitutional Rights</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Constitution is meaningless to corrupt judges. They simply violate Constitutional rights with no regard for the people they damage. All of the judges that I have encountered have violated my Constitutional rights. I have been raped of my rights to due process. I have been denied the right to call witnesses, to testify under oath, to cross-examine witnesses, to introduce evidence, to file answers to motions filed by the favored party, to file lawsuits, to contact witnesses, and much more.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Violate and Ignore the Rules of Civil Procedure</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By violating and ignoring the Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules of Evidence, judges commit obstruction of justice. They allow the favored party to break rules and get away with it. For example, in my cases, the opposing parties have not filed a single affidavit as to facts for the last three years. The Local Rules of Civil Procedure require that all alleged statements of fact in motions and other filings must be supported by affidavit. This has not been done by the opposing parties since 2008, but every motion that I file has an affidavit or a sworn verification. Other rules are ignored as well so the favored parties can get away with just about anything.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Automatically Rule against Certain Classes of People</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Judges automatically rule against certain classes of people. The concept of fair and impartial judges is a fairy tale. I have proven that people who represent themselves as plaintiffs in the federal courts in Atlanta always lose. We have a right to represent ourselves in court, but we automatically lose. Judges are simply attorneys in black dresses, and they seem to uniformly hate parties who aren’t spending a fortune with attorneys, so they screw them.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Order Monetary Sanctions against Parties they want to Damage</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The criminal judges inflict damage on parties who aren’t favored by ordering monetary sanctions against them. They inflict financial punishment to break people. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a> has done this to me several times, and judges of the Eleventh Circuit have done it to me as well. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a> is about to do the same to me.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Refuse to Disqualify Themselves</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Constitution and case law clearly provide that we are supposed to be entitled to a fair and impartial judge, but the corrupt judges simply ignore the law. They refuse to disqualify themselves so they can inflict damage on parties who aren’t favored. This has happened with <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a>, <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a>, Judge Thrash, and every judge with the Eleventh Circuit.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Violate their Oath of Office and the Code of Judicial Conduct</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Like the rules of civil procedure, a judge’s Oath of Office and Code of Judicial Conduct READ great. But the judges pay no attention to the Oath or Code. When they intentionally violate their Oath and the Code of Judicial Conduct, they are intentionally damaging a party.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Conspire with their Fellow Judges and Judicial Employees</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The corrupt judges commit conspiracy with their fellow judges and judicial employees. They often need help from other judges as well as law clerks, the employees in the Office of the Clerk of the Court, and others.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Allow Perjury</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dishonest judges allow a favored party to lie and cheat. The felony of perjury is ignored. This is an excellent way for a crooked judge to allow a favored party who is dishonest to obstruct justice. When the judge knows the testimony is perjured, the judge is suborning perjury when he or she does nothing about it and accepts the perjury as if it was fact. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a> and <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a> have done this as have the judges of the Eleventh Circuit.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Deny Hearings</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the federal courts in Fulton County, it is extremely difficult to get a hearing. In six years, I gave never been granted a hearing. Hearings are dangerous for dishonest judges as courtroom observers, media, and the transcript of the hearing will force the judges to be a little more honest.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Practice Simulated Litigation</strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dishonest judges don’t issue valid orders, and they don’t maintain legal dockets. I guess this makes it easier for them to manipulate things. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a> and the Clerk of the Court have done this to me. None of Judge Thrash’s orders are legal.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dismiss Cases or Grant Summary Judgments</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dishonest judges ignore the law and violate the law by dismissing cases or by granting summary judgment. This is done regularly. This keeps the honest party from the right to have a jury make the decision.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Deny Jury Trials</b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Judges corrupt the judicial process by depriving parties of a jury trial. Juries can’t be controlled by the judges to ensure that their favored party wins, so judges end cases before the people who should win can reach a jury. <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/69-corrupt-federal-judge-orinda-d-evans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Evans">Judge Evans</a> and <a href="http://www.lawlessamerica.com/index.php/news/25-dishonest-judges/71-dishonest-federal-judge-william-s-duffey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Judge Duffey">Judge Duffey</a> have done this to me, and Judge Thrash is about to do it four times.<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Judges are Corrupt</strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Corruption is the abuse of power by a public official. A legal dictionary defines corrupt as “having an unlawful or evil motive….” As I see it, judicial corruption is dishonesty by a judge. Corruption does not have to be economic in character. A police officer who fabricates evidence against a person he believes to be guilty of paedophilia is not committing an economic crime; and he might do so because he believes the accused to be guilty, and does not want him to go unpunished. Economics is not necessarily involved as an element of the officer's crime or as a motivation. When police do wrong they are often motivated by a misplaced sense of justice, rather than by financial reward. Again, a person in authority motivated by sadistic pleasure who abuses her power by meting out cruel and unjust treatment to those subject to her authority, is not engaging in an economic crime; and she is not motivated by economic considerations. Judges and many of those who occupy positions of authority are motivated by a desire to exercise power for its own sake, rather than by a desire for financial reward. That said, bribery is generally regarded as the most serious form of public corruption.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Clearly, the federal judges in Atlanta are corrupt because they can exercise power for its own sake. They violate the law because they can do so and get away with it.</span></div><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Omnibus Clause -- 18 U.S.C. 1503</span></h2><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The scope of the omnibus clause has been a subject of dispute among the United States Courts of Appeals. Some courts have taken the position that the clause should be read broadly to include any conduct interfering with the fair administration of justice if that conduct was undertaken with a corrupt motive. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Saget</i></strong>, 991 F.2d 702 (11th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 510 U.S. 950 (1993); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Rasheed</i></strong>, 663 F.2d 843 (9th Cir. 1981), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">sub. nom. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Phillips v. United States</strong></i>, 454 U.S. 1157 (1982);<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Ogle</i></strong>, 613 F.2d 233 (10th Cir. 1979), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 449 U.S. 825 (1980);<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Baker</i></strong>, 611 F.2d 964 (4th Cir. 1979); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Howard</i></strong>, 569 F.2d 1331, 1333-36 (5th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 439 U.S. 834 (1978); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Walasek</i></strong>, 527 F.2d 676 (3d Cir. 1975); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Cioffi</i></strong>, 493 F.2d 1111 (2d Cir.),<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 419 U.S. 417 (1974). Others have construed the clause more narrowly, holding that the omnibus clause proscribes only conduct identical or similar to the types of conduct described in the earlier two clauses of section 1503. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Ryan</i></strong>, 455 F.2d 728 (9th Cir. 1972); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Essex</i></strong>, 407 F.2d 214 (6th Cir. 1969); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Haili v. United States</i></strong>, 260 F.2d 744, 746 (9th Cir. 1958).</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The United States Supreme Court appears to favor a broad reading of the omnibus clause. In<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Aguilar</i></strong>, ___ U.S. ___, 115 S.Ct. 2357 (1995), the defendant was charged with and convicted of endeavoring to obstruct and impede a grand jury investigation in violation of section 1503 by lying to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Although the Supreme Court affirmed the appellate court's reversal of a conviction under the omnibus clause, its decision did not turn on a narrow reading of the clause. Instead the Supreme Court focused on the government's failure to show that the defendant knew his actions were likely to affect a judicial proceeding. The Court observed that making false statements to an investigating agent who might or might not testify before a grand jury was not sufficient to make out a violation of the omnibus provision of section 1503 since such conduct could not be said to have the "natural and probable effect" of interfering with the due administration of justice. In other words, there was not a sufficient nexus between the defendant's conduct, i.e., lying to the investigating agents, and the grand jury proceeding. <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Id.</i><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">See also</i> <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Tham</i></strong>, 960 F.2d 1391 (9th Cir. 1991).</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The omnibus clause of section 1503 "makes an offense of any proscribed endeavor, without regard to the technicalities of the law or to the law of impossibility." <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Neal</i></strong>, 951 F.2d 630, 632 (5th Cir. 1992); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Williams</i></strong>, 874 F.2d 968 (5th Cir. 1989), citing <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Osborn v. United States</i></strong>, 385 U.S. 323 (1966). The clause was "intended to cover all endeavors to obstruct justice" and as such "was drafted with an eye to the variety of corrupt methods by which the proper administration of justice may be impeded or thwarted, a variety limited only by the imagination of the criminally inclined." <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Neal</i></strong>, 951 F.2d at 632.The principal limitation to the scope of the omnibus clause is the pending judicial proceeding requirement. Courts have given an equally broad reading to the nearly identical, but less frequently litigated, omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1505. <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">See, e.g.</i>, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Alo</i></strong>, 439 F.2d 751, 753-54 (2d Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 404 U.S. 850 (1971).</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Convictions under the omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1503 have been based on the following conduct:</span></div><ol start="1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Endeavoring to suborn perjury. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Kenny</i></strong>, 973 F.2d 339 (4th Cir. 1992); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Casel</i></strong>, 995 F.2d 1299 (5th Cir. 1993), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">sub.</i> <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">nom.</i><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jackson v. United States</i></strong>, 510 U.S. 1197 (1994); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Tranakos</i></strong>, 911 F.2d 1225 (10th Cir. 1990); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Falk v. United States</i></strong>, 370 F.2d 472 (9th Cir. 1966),<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 387 U.S. 926 (1967).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Endeavoring to influence a witness not to testify or to make himself/herself unavailable to testify. <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Washington Water Power Co</strong>.</i>, 793 F.2d 1079 (9th Cir. 1986); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Arnold</i></strong>, 773 F.2d 823 (7th Cir. 1985); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Harrelson</i></strong>, 754 F.2d 1153 (5th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 474 U.S. 908 <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">and</i> 1034 (1985);<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Partin</i></strong>, 552 F.2d 621 (5th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 434 U.S. 903 (1977).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Giving false denials of knowledge and memory, or evasive answers. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Langella</i></strong>, 776 F.2d 1078 (2d Cir. 1985), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 475 U.S. 1019 (1986); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Perkins</i></strong>, 748 F.2d 1519 (11th Cir. 1984); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Griffin</i></strong>, 589 F.2d 200 (5th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 444 U.S. 825 (1979);<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Spalliero</i></strong>, 602 F. Supp. 417 (C.D. Cal. 1984); or false and evasive testimony, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Cohn</i></strong>, 452 F.2d 881 (2d Cir. 1971), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 405 U.S. 975 (1972). False testimony may be a basis for conviction, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Barfield</i></strong>, 999 F.2d 1520, 1523 (11th Cir. 1991); however, false testimony, standing alone, is not an obstruction of justice.<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Suskind</i></strong>, 965 F.2d 80 (6th Cir. 1992), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">reh'g granted and vacated</i>, 975 F.2d 1206, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">opinion adopted in part on reh'g</i>, 7 F.3d 236, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 510 U.S. 1129, 1136, and 1192 (1994).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Falsifying a report likely to be submitted to a grand jury. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Jespersen</i></strong>, 65 F.3d 993 (2d Cir. 1995), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, ___ U.S. ___, 116 S.Ct. 1571 (1996); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Mullins</i></strong>, 22 F.3d 1365, 1368 (6th Cir. 1994); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Shoup</i></strong>, 608 F.2d 950 (3d Cir. 1979).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Destroying, altering, or concealing subpoenaed documents. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Ruggiero</i></strong>, 934 F.2d 440, 446 (2d Cir. 1991); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. McKnight</i></strong>, 779 F.2d 443 (8th Cir. 1986); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Brimberry</i></strong>, 744 F.2d 580 (7th Cir. 1984);<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Rasheed</i></strong>, 663 F.2d 843 (9th Cir. 1981), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">sub.</i> <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">nom.</i><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Phillips v. United States</i></strong>, 454 U.S. 1157 (1982); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Faudman</i></strong>, 640 F.2d 20 (6th Cir. 1981); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Simmons</i></strong>, 591 F.2d 206 (3d Cir. 1979);<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Walasek</i></strong>, 527 F.2d 676 (3d Cir. 1975); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Weiss</i></strong>, 491 F.2d 460 (2d Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 419 U.S. 833 (1974).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Endeavoring to sell grand jury transcripts. <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Howard</strong></em>, 569 F.2d 1331, 1333-36 (5th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 439 U.S. 834 (1978).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Offering to sell a guarantee of a jury acquittal to a defense counsel. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Neiswender</i></strong>, 590 F.2d 1269 (4th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 441 U.S. 963 (1979).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Endeavoring to influence, through a third party, a judge. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Glickman</i></strong>, 604 F.2d 625 (9th Cir. 1979), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 444 U.S. 1080 (1980); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Fasolino</i></strong>, 586 F.2d 939 (2d Cir. 1978) (per curiam), or a juror, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Ogle</i></strong>, 613 F.2d 233 (10th Cir. 1979), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 449 U.S. 825 (1980).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Deliberately concealing one's identity thereby preventing a court from gathering information necessary to exercise its discretion in imposing a sentence. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Plascencia-Orozco</i></strong>, 768 F.2d 1074 (9th Cir. 1985).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Obtaining secret grand jury testimony. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Forman</i></strong>, 71 F.3d 1214, 1220 (6th Cir. 1995); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Saget</i></strong>, 991 F.2d 702, 713 (11th Cir.), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 510 U.S. 950 (1993); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Jeter</i></strong>, 775 F.2d 670 (6th Cir. 1985),<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 475 U.S. 1142 (1986).</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Submitting false or misleading information to the grand jury. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Jespersen</i></strong>, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">supra</i>; <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Mullins</i></strong>, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">supra</i>, or the court, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Neal</i></strong>, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">supra.</i></span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Refusing to testify before the grand jury. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Banks</i></strong>, 988 F.2d 1106 (11th Cir. 1993).</span></li>
</ol><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Obstruction of justice requires acts designed to thwart some aspect of the government's judicial function. Investigations conducted by the FBI, Internal Revenue Service or some other governmental agency do not constitute judicial proceedings. <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">See <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Aguilar</strong></i>, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">supra</i>; <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Tham</i></strong>, 960 F.2d at 1400.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The passage of the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982 (VWPA) presented the issue of whether the Omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1503 continued to embrace witness tampering or whether witness tampering was covered exclusively by 18 U.S.C. § 1512. Although the VWPA deleted the reference to witnesses in the main body of the provision, it did not amend the omnibus clause. Most courts that have addressed this issue construe section 1503 as still reaching witness tampering. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Maloney</i></strong>, 71 F.3d 645, 659 (7th Cir. 1995); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Moody</i></strong>, 83 F.3d 1354 (11th Cir. 1992); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Kenny</i></strong>, 973 F.2d 339 (4th Cir. 1992); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Risken</i></strong>, 899 F.2d 728 (8th Cir. 1990); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Lestee</i></strong>, 749 F.2d 1288 (9th Cir. 1984); <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Wesley</i></strong>, 748 F.2d 962 (5th Cir. 1984), <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">cert. denied</i>, 471 U.S. 1130 (1985). <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But see</i> <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Masterpol</i></strong>, 940 F.2d 760, 762 (2d Cir. 1991) (defendant's conviction for witness tampering under section 1503 reversed on ground "congress affirmatively intended to remove witnesses entirely from the scope of [section] 1503"), quoting <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">United States v. Hernandez</i></strong>, 730 F.2d 895, 898 (2d Cir. 1984).</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Despite the finding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the enactment of section 1512 impliedly repealed witness tampering as an offense under section 1503, there is nothing in the legislative history expressly indicating that Congress intended to contract the purview of the omnibus clause. <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">See</i> S. Rep. No. 532, 97th Cong., 2d Sess., 14-22, 27-29, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">reprinted in</i> 1982 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2515, 2520-28, 2533-35; 128 Cong.Rec. H8203-05 (daily ed. Sept. 30, 1982) (section-by-section analysis of H.R. 7191); 128 Cong.Rec. H8469 (daily ed. Oct. 1, 1982) (House analysis of Senate amendments to House-passed bill).</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</span></div></div><div class="modifydate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Last Updated on Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:46</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.71289100000001310.70899 -156.97233250000002 63.47149 -34.453449500000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-13649588980837327372011-09-28T06:49:00.000-07:002011-10-13T17:28:05.464-07:00CATHERINE ZIPPAY-ATTORNEY-GALWhat does a parent do when you have an ATTORNEY-GAL appointed by the Judge who writes up a report that leaves out letters of EVIDENCE! A GAL who has a 2-3 hour meeting with the STEP-MOM,, Jill Epstein Parnes. JILL happens to be a LEGAL Secretary....(CONFLICT of INTEREST) YOU think?<br />
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If I remember correctly I was married to her HUSBAND Toby L. Parnes before she was! So can someone explain to me WHY she would be spending 2-3 hours in the GAL'S Office? mmmmmmmmm!<br />
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Ironically the ladies whose letters were not given to MY Attorney Melody R. Fortunato or myself at the time became friends with Jill. YOU see these ladies were MOMS on my son's Football team. I knew them both . Yet, they befriended me and became friends with JILL. Not really my Ex's Friends.....MMMM......JILL and My EX needed more people to USE against me. While I was very active with my son's football team. I never had any run ins with either 1 of them....1 lady told me she was questioned by JILL all the time......How ironic....<br />
Jill would come to my son's football games and sit with these ladies.....TRY to look at me, to say HAHAHA..got YOU good!<br />
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WHY would a GAL use a residence in her report.....WHAT does the living conditions have to do with the case....MY house...opposed to my EX's Apartment.....MMMMMMMMM...GUESS what though....THE GAL left out the fact that they owned a 2 bedroom condo.....WHEN MY KIDS went to spend the weekend with their Dad, they had to share the bedroom! A no-no, since my Twins are boy and girl teenagers.<br />
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OH....NO mention in the GAL report of the FALSE ALLEGATIONS by my EX and his wife against my son.....THEY Claimed! NO mention of the AFFIDAVIT that my SON signed against ME that I threw him out of house!....mmmmmmm! <b>That's CHILD ABUSE by the DAD and STEP MOM. USING A MINOR CHILD IN A DIVORCE CASE!</b><br />
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NO mention that JILL drafted the Petition and Affidavits that I was served and notartized in her LAW Office where she worked at the time......Ironically....MY EX didn't have an Attorney representing him at that time!<br />
I guess his Wife felt she could be his ATTORNEY! I sure HOPE BRESSLER Law Office doesn't stand by her actions.......That would be FRAUD. ....WRONG!<br />
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No mention of the fact my EX left me several threatening messages on our answering machine that he was going to take our son to court before the JUDGE!...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!<br />
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No mention that my EX worked for his Brother in Law under the Table for awhile before he told Child Support Agency and was given about $100,000.00 to run the BOOB JOB Business with his Brother-in-law and Sister Mindee. His Brother Mickey worked with them too!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did JILL tell </span>Catherine how SHE STALKS ME!....Searches for me on GOOGLE! NO. WHY would a STEP-MOM sign her name on my Classmates PAGE?.....SHE signed in under my name and had a picture.<br />
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Now what Step Mom do you know signs on a Mother's Classmates page? SHE sure isn't MY FRIEND!<br />
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I'm not the CORRUPT 1....Who USES her children against their DAD or anyone else.<br />
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The FACT she DRAFTED the Petition and Affidavit Against me is FRAUD.....Systematic Abuse.....Child Abuse.....PAS....All Against ME.<br />
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I KNEW IF BRYAN WENT TO LIVE WITH HIS DAD AND JILL.....THEY WOULD FILE FALSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ME.......CATHERINE AND YOU BELIEVED ALL THEIR LIES.....HOW SAD!<br />
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PS......I KNOW THAT PATTY ELLISON AND ANNETTE TINGLEY WROTE LETTERS AGAINST ME....SO CATHERINE YOU CAN SEND ME THOSE COPIES ......YOU REFUSED TO SEND ME OR GIVE TO MELODY FORTUNATO. HOLDING EVIDENCE IS A CRIME.<br />
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<center><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">FLORIDA JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE LAW<br />
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A Proposed Amendment to the Florida Constitution</span></span></b></center><br />
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<dl><dd><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">The J.A.I.L. initiative is a movement that first emerged in California on the heels of judicial scandals that saw many judges and lawyers indicted for corrupt practices. Popular sentiment to implement measures for judicial reform had been building for decades. It culminated with the drafting of a legislative proposal by Ronald Branson, Member of California's 38th Assembly District Republican Central Committee, who also proposed that similar legislation be adopted for every state and the District of Columbia.</span></span></b></dd></dl><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<dl><dd><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">The J.A.I.L. proposal would create special grand juries to investigate complaints against judges. These grand juries would have the power to discipline judges by levying fines, removing them from the bench and, where appropriate, subjecting them to criminal proceedings before special trial juries. Under present law, the judiciary is entirely self-regulated, and this has led, in many instances, to intolerable abuses of judicial discretion. These have involved conflict of interest, denial of due process, withholding of evidence, and other violations of individuals' constitutional rights, including arbitrary and unjustified fines, sanctions, seizure of property, and detention.</span></span></b></dd></dl><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<dl><dd><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">United under the banner of JAIL4Judges is a broad coalition of citizens from all backgrounds, professions, and political persuasions who are dedicated to the mission of reforming the judiciary. By means of petition, voters in Florida can compel the state legislature to place the J.A.I.L. proposal on the ballot for voter approval. Thus, the gathering of signatures for the J.A.I.L. ballot initiative defines the next course of action for Florida citizens who are determined to work for judicial reform.</span></span></b></dd></dl><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<dl><dd><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Only 48,869 signatures are needed to petition the Florida Supreme Court to rule on placing the constitutional amendment on the ballot, whereas with approx 650,000 signatures, the Supreme Court can be bypassed and the Florida legislature forced to submit the J.A.I.L. proposal for voter approval.</span></dd>
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<dd><ul><form name="navsel"><select name="whereto"><option>Select Links here . . .</option><option value="http://floridajail4judges.org/FL_initiative.html">Read/Print the Florida JAIL Initiative</option><option value="http://floridajail4judges.org/FL_petition.html">Print/Sign/Mail the Constitutional Amendment Petition</option><option value="http://www.jail4judges.org/">Go to JAIL4Judges main website</option><option value="http://floridajail4judges.org/news.html">Read Florida's JAIL4Judges State News</option><option value="mailto:JIC@floridajail4judges.org">Contact Fla JAIL4Judges Chapter JAILer-in-Chief</option><option value="mailto:victoryUSA@jail4judges.org">Contact National JAIL4Judges</option><option value="mailto:webmaster@floridajail4judges.org">Contact Web Master</option><option value="http://www.state.fl.us/">Visit the State of Florida Website</option><option value="http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/initiativelist.asp">Florida Department of Elections - Initiatives</option><option value="dead_link.htm">blank</option></select></form></ul><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="q&a"></a>QUESTIONS & ANSWERS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#what_is"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">1. What is Jail4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#what_do"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">2. What does the J.A.I.L. do?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#going"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">3. What can I do to help <span class="GramE">get J.A.I.L</span>. going?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#county_Directors"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">4. What can I do to become involved in JAIL4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#county_Rep">5. What happens if I become a </a><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#county_Rep">County Rep </a><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#county_Rep">of my county for JAIL4judges?<o:p></o:p></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#rep_todo">6. What do I do as a </a><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#rep_todo">County Rep for my county for JAIL4judges?<o:p></o:p></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#petitions"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">7. What do I do with the Petitions once I have 100 of them?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#collect"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">8. Where can I collect Petitions if I want to do more than just sign mine?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#why"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">9. Why are we collecting petitions instead of our state representatives taking up this issue for us?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#contact_state"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">10. Can I contact my state representative about the JAIL4judges bill?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#how_many"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">11. How many Petitions do we need to collect to get JAIL4judges on the ballot?</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#2008">12. What if we don't get them all in by 2008?</a><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#2008"> </a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/about.html#other_groups"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black;">13. Can I contact other groups or websites about JAIl4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="what_is"></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">1. What is Jail4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Our state representatives create bills or initiatives to be presented to the legislature and senate to make laws. If these bills or initiatives are voted on and passed they then have to be signed by the governor of the state, which makes the law official. Sometimes referred to as Judicial Accountability and Integrity Legislation, Jail4judges is a Bill or Initiative called the Judicial Accountability Initiative Law.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="what_do"></a>2. What does the J.A.I.L. do?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">The Judicial Accountability Initiative Law would remove a judge from the bench with three complaints from citizens within 30 days regarding violations of the law. The judge would then have to appear before a special grand jury. J.A.I.L. cannot be used against anyone else other than a judge. <a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/FL_initiative.html">Click here to read the J.A.I.L. Initiative.</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="going"></a>3. What can I do to help <span class="GramE">get J.A.I.L</span>. going?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Once you visit <a href="http://www.floridajail4judges.org/">www.floridajail4judges.org</a> website you can click "Petition" and print out a Petition form. On the petition form you sign your name, address, city, state along with your voter I.D. number OR your date of birth. Place your signature on the bottom and mail your Petition to the address on the bottom left hand corner of the page, which is <st1:address><st1:street> </st1:street></st1:address></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 2pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; word-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #a64d79; text-decoration: none;">Nancy Grant, Chairperson</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 2pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; word-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #a64d79; text-decoration: none;">Florida J.A.I.L. 4 Judges</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 2pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; word-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #a64d79; text-decoration: none;">P.O.Box 305</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 2pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; word-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #a64d79; text-decoration: none;">Arcadia, FL 34265</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="county_Directors"></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">4. What can I do to become involved in JAIL4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">The state of <st1:state><st1:place>Florida</st1:place> </st1:state>has 67 counties. Each county needs what we call a "County Rep". If you would like to become a County Rep for your county contact Nancy Grant, her contact information is on the website. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="county_Rep"></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">5. What happens if I become a County Rep of my county for JAIL4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">If you decide to become a County Rep of your county, your contact information may be placed on the page of your county. Click "<a href="http://floridajail4judges.org/counties/county_map.htm">Another County</a>" on the website and the state of <st1:state><st1:place>Florida</st1:place> </st1:state>will come up. As you click your county, your contact information will appear. <u>The listing of your contact info is NOT mandatory.</u> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">If you do NOT wish to be listed on the website, your contact info will be retained for our mailing list, for you to receive various emails, website updates, announcements, etc. from Florida's JAIL4Judges. The contact list is called "Friends of J4J". As a "Friend", your contact info will NOT be exchanged, rented, leased, or sold in any way. (<i>a prudent choice for lawyers and judges, and anyone else with sensitive jobs)</i>.</span></div></dd><dd><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="rep_todo"></a>6. What do I do as a County Rep for my county for JAIL4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">As a County Rep for your county you simply become the contact person for all those residing in your county who sign the JAIL4judges petitions. The residents in your county would mail the Petitions to you. You would hold on to these Petitions until you collect at least 100 of them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Every County Rep (<i>with exception to Friends of J4J</i>) must collect a minimum of 100 signed petitions BEFORE sending them in. This will help with postage costs, by sending them in batches of 100. Every time 100 signed petitions are collected, tell Nancy the number collected, then send them in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">We will keep a tally of the total number of signed petitions collected from each county. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="petitions"></a>7. What do I do with the Petitions once I have 100 of them?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">The Petitions are to be turned in to your local SOE, <u>S</u>upervisor <u>o</u>f <u>E</u>lections in your county. Your SOE then will verify each petition that it is signed by a registered voter. The SOE after that will forward a letter to the <st1:city><st1:place>Tallahassee</st1:place>, Division of Elections, stating how many verified petitions were received. Once the Division of Elections has the letter from your local SOE the number of verified Petitions will be added to the roster. Please contact Nancy Grant for the address of your county SOE.</st1:city></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="collect"></a>8. Where can I collect Petitions if I want to do more than just sign mine?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">You can set up booths at festivals, city and county meetings. You can go door to door at businesses because the JAIL4judges Petitions are not considered soliciting since you will not be collecting money. If you find someone who volunteers to donate while your collecting Petitions they are allowed to donate by check or money orders. We do not encourage cash donations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Our PayPal donations account has been temporarily suspended.:</span></div></dd><dd><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="why"></a>9. Why are we collecting petitions instead of our state representatives taking up this issue for us?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">There are many senators and state representatives that are attorneys. Realtors and bankers make up another large part of the remaining. JAIL4judges if passed into law will have a positive change on the corruption flowing from our Real Estate Brokers, Banks, and courts involving the taking of children, homes, property and over all lives. We believe JAIL4Judges is the ONLY ANSWER to our current economic problems. JAIL4judges has been presented to our elected officials, but so far, none have come forward to promote Judicial Accountability and Integrity Legislation. NOT EVEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="contact_state"></a>10. Can I contact my state representative about the JAIL4judges bill?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Yes, by all means do so. We encourage you to do so in writing and we would like to be informed of any response.</span></div></dd></dl><div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"> You may also go to the following link to find your state Rep:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"> <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/findyourreps.xpd?state=FL">http://www.govtrack.us/congress/findyourreps.xpd?state=FL</a><br />
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To find which congressional district you live in, just look on your voter's registration card. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"> Then go to this link.</span></div><dl><dd><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="how_many"></a>11. How many Petitions do we need to collect to get JAIL4judges on the ballot?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Only 48,869 signatures are needed to petition the Florida Supreme Court to rule on placing the constitutional amendment on the ballot. BUT, due to our belief that the Florida Supreme Court is completely untrustworthy, whereas with approx 650,000 signatures, the Supreme Court can be bypassed and the Florida legislature forced to submit the J.A.I.L. proposal for voter approval. This number is divided up into districts. To find out what district your county is in, contact the Rep of your county for JAIL4judges. If there isn't a county rep, contact Nancy Grant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="2008"></a>12. What if we don't get them all in by [the next election year]? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">The JAIL4judges political action committee is on-going, so petitions collected this year can be used in the following election year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=5234233273798533731" name="other_groups"></a>13. Can I contact other groups or websites about JAIl4judges?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Yes</span></div></dd>
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<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he CONNED ME and The Court out for a YEAR! SO </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">now I was ordered to get $600.00 for 2 children with Health Insurance in the payment...PLUS an EXTRA $100.00 towards the $8,000.00 he owed me.....SUCH a GREAT ATTORNEY YOU THINK? </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, did I MENTION he was friend's with a Paralegal or someone that was friend's with my X's Wife Jill Epstein Parnes.....DO we smell a CONFLICT OF INTEREST YET....? </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There's so much more....Let's see...HE DRAFTED MOTIONS after MOTIONS for WHAT? Made an appointment for JILL to be Deposed.....GUESS WHAT SHE NEVER SHOWED.....DUH....HE knew it but charged me.....Did he truly need to PRICE GAUGE ME $36,000.00?</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WOULD YOU USE HIM?????? I REST MY CASE!</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Boca Raton, FL, USA26.3586885 -80.08309839999998326.306615 -80.136799899999986 26.410762 -80.029396899999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-32175324914326539022011-09-26T16:31:00.000-07:002012-01-09T00:52:26.149-08:00GLEN DeVALERIO - Securties Litigation<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">COULD YOU EVER TRUST THIS ATTORNEY?</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WHAT would YOU think of a HIGH PROFILE ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTS YOU in a case and tells YOU " YOUR UNCLE TOLD ME TO EAT UP ALL YOUR MONEY, BECAUSE YOU ARE A SPOILED "BITCH".</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">HOW about "NEVER" returning YOU DECEASED MOTHER's LIVING WILLS that were on VIDEOS and USED as EVIDENCE in your case. How about Notes from your Grandmother and Uncle telling her DAUGHTER and SISTER ( MY MOM) she's CANCER TO THE COMPANY....</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then YOU later find out through the INTERNET that there was a Conflict of Interest</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> during your case....YOU see 1 Attorney for the Opposing side and MY Attorney have worked MANY times together on cases...WHICH MY ATTORNEY "FAILED" TO DISCLOSE TO ME DURING MY CASE.....MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WOULD YOU WANT THIS ATTORNEY TO PRESENT YOU? I REST MY CASE!</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com2West Palm Beach, FL, USA26.7153424 -80.05337459999998426.6179484 -80.138951599999984 26.812736400000002 -79.967797599999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-68167983236274724932011-09-26T10:56:00.000-07:002011-09-26T11:02:35.338-07:00BETSEY MILLER IONIA COUNTY ATTORNEY AT LAW<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #a64d79;">I am filing a grievance against Betsy Miller (P544929), Ionia County Attorney at Law. Betsy Miller represented my ex husband since January 2008 and she still represents him in our Family Court case. On June 28th, 2011 at 1:00pm, I spoke with a Friend of the Court representative and asked to withdraw my motion for a change in custody which was scheduled June 29th at 2:00pm. I no longer had legal representation. My request to withdraw my motion was granted.</b></span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;"><div id="AOLMsgPart_2_7db8da18-073e-42b0-86e7-e6624f19a9f0"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="background-color: #a64d79;"> Attorney Betsy Miller called me on my cell phone that same day at 4:28pm to inform me that in fact we WILL be proceeding with a hearing. Betsy Miller knew I had released my attorney and she used that time slot with the court to schedule an Ex Parte motion. I hung up the cell phone on her. She was verbally harassing me and my 2 youngest children were home with me.<br />
June 28th at 5:30pm, State Trooper Jeff Straub, Ionia Post #68 arrived at my home. He informed me that Betsy Miller had called CPS and informed them that I hung up my phone on her and she was concerned for my children. Jeff Straub also informed me that Betsy Miller wanted to make sure I knew about the Ex Parte hearing June 29th at 2:00pm.<br />
My oldest child, Katlyn was also charged by the prosecutor in Ionia County for Domestic Assault against me. Katlyn is mine and my ex husband, Kevin’s daughter. Betsy Miller, who still represents Katlyn’s father in family court, is also representing our daughter Katlyn in juvenile court. I do NOT agree with Betsy Miller representing my daughter. I feel there is a conflict of interest and I do NOT feel that Betsy Miller will get my daughter the help she needs.<br />
My grievance is Betsy Miller has abused the power of Department of Human Services to contact and harass me with the state police arriving at my home. She is also representing my daughter and my daughter’s father at the same time. </b></span></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Michigan, USA44.3148443 -85.60236429999997741.0098718 -89.749946799999975 47.619816799999995 -81.454781799999978tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-91958576651493457552011-09-26T06:26:00.000-07:002011-10-08T04:17:04.304-07:00LAWS CPS VIOLATES<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b></b></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Conspiracy Against Rights Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 241</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).It further makes it unlawful for two or more persons to go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another with the intent to prevent or hinder his/her free exercise or enjoyment of any rights so secured.Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 242</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.This law further prohibits a person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to willfully subject or cause to be subjected any person to different punishments, pains, or penalties, than those prescribed for punishment of citizens on account of such person being an alien or by reason of his/her color or race.Acts under "color of any law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under "color of any law," the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. This definition includes, in addition to law enforcement officials, individuals such as Mayors, Council persons, Judges, Nursing Home Proprietors, Security Guards, etc., persons who are bound by laws, statutes ordinances, or customs.Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both, and if bodily injury results or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire shall be fined or imprisoned up to ten years or both, and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Title 18, U.S.C., Section 245</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Federally Protected Activities Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 2451)</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>This statute prohibits willful injury, intimidation, or interference, or attempt to do so, by force or threat of force of any person or class of persons because of their activity as:</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>a) A voter, or person qualifying to vote...;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>b) a participant in any benefit, service, privilege, program, facility, or activity provided or administered by the United States;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>c) an applicant for federal employment or an employee by the federal government;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>d) a juror or prospective juror in federal court; and</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>e) a participant in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>2) Prohibits willful injury, intimidation, or interference or attempt to do so, by force or threat of force of any person because of race, color, religion, or national origin and because of his/her activity as:</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>a) A student or applicant for admission to any public school or public College;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>b) a participant in any benefit, service, privilege, program, facility, or activity provided or administered by a state or local government;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>c) an applicant for private or state employment, private or state employee; a member or applicant for membership in any labor organization or hiring hall; or an applicant for employment through any employment agency, labor organization or hiring hall;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>d) a juror or prospective juror in state court;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>e) a traveler or user of any facility of interstate commerce or common carrier; or</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>f) a patron of any public accommodation, including hotels, motels, restaurants, lunchrooms, bars, gas stations, theaters...or any other establishment which serves the public and which is principally engaged in selling food or beverages for consumption on the premises.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>3) Prohibits interference by force or threat of force against any person because he/she is or has been, or in order to intimidate such person or any other person or class of persons from participating or affording others the opportunity or protection to so participate, or lawfully aiding or encouraging other persons to participate in any of the benefits or activities listed in items (1) and (2), above without discrimination as to race, color, religion, or national origin.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both, and if bodily injury results or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire shall be fined or imprisoned up to ten years or both, and if death results or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be subject to imprisonment for any term of years or for life or may be sentenced to death.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1001</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Fraud and False Statements United States Code</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 47 -</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS U.S. Code as of: 01/02/01 Section 1001.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Statements or entries generally (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully -</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>18 USC Sec. 1203 TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 55 -</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>KIDNAPPING Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 1203 STATUTE</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person in order to compel a third person or a governmental organization to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person detained, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life and, if the death of any person results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>United States Code TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 109 - SEARCHES AND SEIZURES U.S. Code as of: 01/02/01 Section 2234.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Authority exceeded in executing warrant</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Whoever, in executing a search warrant, willfully exceeds his authority or exercises it with unnecessary severity, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year. U.S. Code as of: 01/02/01 Section 2235. Search warrant procured maliciously</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Whoever maliciously and without probable cause procures a search warrant to be issued and executed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year. Section 2236.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Searches without warrant</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Whoever, being an officer, agent, or employee of the United States or any department or agency thereof, engaged in the enforcement of any law of the United States, searches any private dwelling used and occupied as such dwelling without a warrant directing such search, or maliciously and without reasonable cause searches any other building or property without a search warrant, shall be fined for a first offense not more than $1,000; and, for a subsequent offense, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>This section shall not apply to any person -</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(a) serving a warrant of arrest; or</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(b) arresting or attempting to arrest a person committing or attempting to commit an offense in his presence, or who has committed or is suspected on reasonable grounds of having committed a felony; or</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(c) making a search at the request or invitation or with the consent of the occupant of the premises.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>More on Section 2236 Title 42 USC Section 1983Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 42 : Section 1983 Sec. 1983. -</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Civil action for deprivation of rights</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Title 42, U.S.C., Section 14141Pattern and Practice Laws: Cases and Codes :</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>U.S. Code : Title 42 : Section 14141</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>This civil statute was a provision within the Crime Control Act of 1994 and makes it unlawful for any governmental authority, or agent thereof, or any person acting on behalf of a governmental authority, to engage in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers or by officials or employees of any governmental agency with responsibility for the administration of juvenile justice or the incarceration of juveniles that deprives persons of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General, for or in the name of the United States, may in a civil action obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate the pattern or practice.</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Types of misconduct covered include, among other things:</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>1. Excessive Force</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>2. Discriminatory Harassment</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>3. False Arrest</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>4. Coercive Sexual Conduct</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>5. Unlawful Stops, Searches, or Arrests</b></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com0Florida, USA27.6648274 -81.51575350000001724.3624974 -85.346048500000023 30.9671574 -77.68545850000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-29706438644790749042011-09-25T12:11:00.002-07:002012-04-01T16:35:14.399-07:00LYNETTE ENSIGN -Family Law<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="background-color: white; color: purple;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: purple;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">My personal experience with this Attorney was tha</span><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">t very insulting. Lied to me. Barely returned calls. Then threw me out of her office after I requested she charged me for work she didn't even do. She was d my documents she claimed she was working.on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: purple;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: purple;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: purple;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">CHARGED ME $3,000.00 and didn't do a DAMN THING!</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
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</div></th><th style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold;" valign="bottom" width="20"><div style="clear: left;" title="Communication"><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> C </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> O </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> M </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> M </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> U </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> N </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> I </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> C </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> A </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> T </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> I </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> O </div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"> N </div></div><div align="center" class="novert" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.9; text-transform: uppercase;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com1Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA26.1223084 -80.143378626.051560900000002 -80.2017806 26.1930559 -80.0849766tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-62680421254894540712011-09-25T05:48:00.000-07:002012-01-09T00:56:26.744-08:00BRAD GUCCIARDO- SECURITIES ATTORNEY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0BsdTcrceD3TttqT5I8-ERhN8gZmdK1nxU7bMGGMSDjhc_4XK9DxlEUofP6BvT-VSjVlHk706dPDA9ICYU96KO7kuAxUv6fYk-VQ9yFDPsTMG4UMHKwY2AK1ZqvaptkofrQ0qRicuR_F/s1600/BRAD+Gucciardi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0BsdTcrceD3TttqT5I8-ERhN8gZmdK1nxU7bMGGMSDjhc_4XK9DxlEUofP6BvT-VSjVlHk706dPDA9ICYU96KO7kuAxUv6fYk-VQ9yFDPsTMG4UMHKwY2AK1ZqvaptkofrQ0qRicuR_F/s1600/BRAD+Gucciardi.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was a Client of Brad's....I have evidence to prove that he works for the Legal System and did not work for ME as his client.......I'm voicing my personal opinion on Experience ....VALIDATED documentation....Court Records </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b style="background-color: white;">Brad is the 1 with the Glasses on in the above picture</b></span><br />
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<tr id="specialties_section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 119px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=6268042125489454071" name="specialties" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span><br />
<h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Practice Areas</span></h3></th><td id="specialties_detail" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><div id="specialty_section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Chart?chs=124x124&cht=p&chp=4" id="specialty_chart" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=124x124&cht=p&chp=4.7&chco=76d0eb|f48026|ffeb73&chd=t:34,33,33" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; left: -11px; margin-bottom: -11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: -11px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br />
<div id="specialty_swatches" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 124px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="specialty" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="icon" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">34% Arbitration</span></li>
<li class="specialty" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="icon" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">33% Securities Offerings</span></li>
<li class="specialty" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="icon" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">33% Employment / Labor</span></li>
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<h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Contact Information</span></h3></th><td id="contact_information_detail" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><table style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="address_sort adr" id="address_131703" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="address_name" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Scarlett & Gucciardo, P.A.</span></div><div class="address_line_1 street-address" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">7700 Congress Avenue, Suite 3212</span></div><div class="address_city_state" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><span class="locality" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boca Raton</span>, <span class="region" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; 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<h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Peer Endorsements</span></h3></th><td id="endorsements_detail" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; 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color: purple;">Lawyers: <a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/33487-fl-bradford-gucciardo-1272649/write_endorsement.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Endorse this lawyer</a></span></div></div><hr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div class="endorsement" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 8px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472px;"><div class="endorsement_headshot" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/33445-fl-david-aronberg-1286059.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><img alt="David Thomas Aronberg" class="tinythumbnail_large" src="http://headshots.iavvo.com/avvo/ugc/images/head_shot/tinythumbnail_large/1286059_1299619713.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(221, 221, 221) 0px 0px 1px 1px; border-bottom-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: white; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: white; border-right-style: solid; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-color: white; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgb(221, 221, 221) 0px 0px 1px 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 44px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 33px;" title="David Thomas Aronberg" /></span></a></div><div class="endorsement_details" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="endorsement_preview" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(215, 218, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: rgb(215, 218, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(215, 218, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="body" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">I am currently working with Brad on stock investment loss cases. His firm has an excellent reputation in our community and I enjoy working with him... <a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/33487-fl-bradford-gucciardo-1272649/endorsements.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more</a></span></div><span class="endorsement_info" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: purple; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Endorsement from lawyer: <a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/33445-fl-david-aronberg-1286059.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">David Aronberg</a> , Delray Beach (FL), 8 months ago</span></div></div></div></td></tr>
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<h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">License</span></h3></th><td id="licenses_detail" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">8 years since Bradford M. Gucciardo was first licensed to practice law.</span></div><div id="license_section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><table class="data" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">State</span></th><th style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">License status</span></th><th style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Year acquired</span></th><th style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Last updated by Avvo</span></th></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Florida</span></td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Member in Good Standing</span></td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">2003</span></td><td style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">03/04/2011</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><hr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><div id="sanctions_section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="good_standing" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">We have not found any instances of professional misconduct for this lawyer.</span></div></div></td></tr>
<tr id="education_section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 119px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=6268042125489454071" name="education" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span><br />
<h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Education</span></h3></th><td id="education_detail" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><table class="data" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th class="school" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 170px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">School</span></th><th class="major" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Major</span></th><th class="degree" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 100px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Degree</span></th><th class="graduated" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 60px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Graduated</span></th></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="school" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 170px;"><a href="http://www.avvo.com/stats/school_detail/386" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">St John's University School of Law</span></a></td><td class="major" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Law</span></td><td class="degree" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 100px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">JD - Juris Doctor</span></td><td class="graduated" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 60px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">1997</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="school" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 170px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">University of South Florida</span></td><td class="major" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: auto;"></td><td class="degree" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 100px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">BA - Bachelor of Arts</span></td><td class="graduated" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 60px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">1994</span></td></tr>
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<tr id="associations_section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 119px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=6268042125489454071" name="associations" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span><br />
<h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Associations</span></h3></th><td id="associations_detail" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(189, 230, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 11px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><table class="data" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 472px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com2Boca Raton, FL, USA26.3586885 -80.08309839999998326.306615 -80.136799899999986 26.410762 -80.029396899999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-43091060678988728002011-09-24T22:43:00.000-07:002011-09-29T08:11:58.321-07:00Was There A "CONFLICT OF INTEREST"?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"></span><br />
<div id="AOLMsgPart_2_344941c0-9959-4897-bf2c-aebf987d23b8" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reference : Helman vs JMS LLC …….Case # 05-61097-CIV-ZLOCH</span></b></div><div id="AOLMsgPart_2_344941c0-9959-4897-bf2c-aebf987d23b8"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></b><br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>My name is Gloria Helman. I was involved in a Mediation-Arbitration Stock Broker case that had a Conflict of Interest with the Mediator involved with my case. The Mediator was an Attorney who was legal counsel for the stock broker I was up against. This Mediator resided over the Mediation. He also was representing the same Stock broker firm for another client during the same time period. My Attorney and the other Attorney’s for the stock brokerage pick this Mediator knowing there was a Conflict of Interest.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>My case went to Federal Court because opposing side filed a Preliminary Injunction where the Judge ruled in the Brokerage firm’s favor.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I lost the case and now I am forced to sell my house and I’m going broke.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Enclosed you will find enough evidence to prove that both my Attorneys did NOT represent me and violated my civil rights and breached their fiduciary responsibilities to me. (A Copy of the Court Hearing )</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>For the record while reading all these documents it has been my understanding that I had a Mediation NOT an Arbitration case that keeps being mentioned in this deposition.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Also, FINRA has it listed as an Arbitration. If it was an Arbitration, why was there NO panel of other representatives of FINRA present? Finra told me much later that my case was a Private Mediation. If that was the case, then WHY did I receive a FINRA case #.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What’s the difference between a regular Mediation and a Private Mediation through FINRA. Aren’t they all governed by the same rules of LAW?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>1-Copy of Confidential Mediation Statement- My Attorney stated on page 2 that he will demonstrate that there were certain improper mutual fund switches with no switch letters produced and JMS failed to supervise the accounts in accordance with its compliance manual.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>There were NO documents ever shown by any attorney or oppsing Attorneys during the Mediation. The above fact was never mentioned by my Attorney during the caucus. Plus the Mediator was not present during the Mediation caucus. He left the conference room.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Please read the whole document to see that what JMS, Mediator, my Attorneys did to me was morally and ethically wrong. The Florida Bar and FINRA rules were BROKEN by these people as well. This is my belief.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>2- Attached are documents from the Preliminary Injunction where the Judge ruled against me, because my second Attorney did not file evidential documents in court on time. He also stated that my Attorney did not show strong enough case laws to justify my arguments with my case. The Judges rulings are in the copy of this deposition I’m sending you. My attorney Mr. Gucciardo lied in Federal court that I asked Attorney Mr. Grubman at Mediation for a new mediator. That is a lie!!!!! That was never said by me at the mediation.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>3- I also have proof where Attorney #1 Grubman stated in Federal court under oath that he knew Mr. Tescher representated Janney Montgomery Scott. Block 9-Line 21-23.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Block 10- line 23-25. Mr. Grubman NEVER told me that Mr. Tescher represented Janney Montgomery Scott. See question- Block 11-line 1-4. I don’t know for sure. I thought that I had. I can’t say for certain. No, I really don’t recall. HE NEVER TOLD ME! The Judge is questioning Mr. Grubman in Block 11-starting with line 8- 25.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(Gloria)- Mr. Tescher introduced himself and told everyone he was the Mediator. He asked me if I knew what a Mediator was. I said yes. Then, after everyone introduced themselves, Mr. Tescher left the room.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Mr. Tescher NEVER told me while in the conference room his involvement as Janney Montgomery Scott’s Attorney.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(Gloria) –The mediation started at 8am. During the caucus my Attorney Grubman stated that I was a good Mother to my kids, that I was not well educated, nor had a degree. He also stated my spending habits during the years of 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. These were the years I believe he quoted. He mentioned amounts, but I don’t recall them. Then opposing counsel stated I approved each transaction that my broker made for me, said they had proof by the phone calls Jeff Brook( Broker) and I had everyday, but yet there was NO WRITTEN PROOF shown during the meeting.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(Gloria) I was in shock by the time we left the conference room when Mr. Tescher led me and Mr. Grubman to the back room. I was so shocked, devastated, depressed, under duress by all the LIES from both my ATTORNEY and Opposing counsel.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(Gloria) I did talk to Mr. Grubman about Mr. Tescher when we were in the back room. I told Mr.Grubman how mad I was at him for not telling me prior to the mediation that Mr. Tescher was an Attorney for JMS. The day of the Mediation after we adjourned to separate rooms, the Mediator then told me he worked for the Stock Broker Firm as their Attorney. FINRA states that is a “CONFLICT of INTEREST”. The Mediator or my Attorney didn’t ask me to sign any waiver or consent to keep the Mediator or stop the Mediation.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=4309106067898872800" name="OLE_LINK7" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=4309106067898872800" name="OLE_LINK6" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;"></a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Mr. Grubman and Mr.Tescher NEVER told me my options about continuing the mediation or getting another Mediator. I have notes on the mediation the way I remember and they were never entered as exhibits with the Federal Court. The OPIS report was never added to the exhibits as well. The letter I received from Mr. Grubman where the mediation was taking place was never added as an exhibit either to the court. See how many documents were left out by Attorney Mr. Gucciardo who was representing me during this Federal hearing.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Mr. Grubman said my losses were somewhere between $600 and $700,000.00. When the OPIS report stated I lost over $1.2M. Offer was $105,000.00, the only offer., read testimony of Mr. Grubman.(Gloria) This was NEVER told to ME , nor was I aware that the low settlement was a “KICKER” on JMS paying for my Attorney FEES. Sounds like JMS paid my MEDIATION case for a BRIBE! Sounds like perjury or subornation of perjury to me, but I’m not a lawyer.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I have documents that show when I signed the Margin contract with JMS that they forged the document to say I was an active investor. If you read the Claim by Mr. Grubman it was stated that my accounts objectives were for income and growth.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Mr. Grubman dropped my claim against Prudential Securities without having an OPIS Report done, but he did one for JMS. He just told me I didn’t lose that much money.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(Gloria)<span style="color: black;"> </span>Why didn’t Attorney Gucciardo file a claim against Prudential , since Grubman omitted the claim?<span style="color: black;"> </span>As my second Attorney, he should of filed that claim on my behalf. The only thing my Attorney(Grubman) said during the caucus was my spending habits. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="cursor: pointer;">He even sent a letter to the Mediator prior to the Mediation how he will prove during Mediation, that the Broker and Firm were wrong in handling my accounts.(Mentioned in paragraph 1) </span><span style="cursor: pointer;">The day of the Mediation after we adjourned to separate rooms, the Mediator then told me he worked for the Stock Broker Firm as their Attorney. FINRA states that is a “CONFLICT of INTEREST”. The Mediator or my Attorney didn’t ask me to sign any waiver or consent to keep the Mediator or stop the Mediation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="cursor: pointer;"> </span>My children’s losses were dropped from my case. They lost over $100,000.00 of their College money. My Attorney told me they didn’t lose that much money.<span style="color: black;"> </span>Then both stated that if I went to Arbitration I would likely lose everything. My Attorney and Mediator told me my case was weak. Ironically prior to the Mediation, my Attorney told me I had a strong case. Both the Mediator and My Attorney told me if it went to Arbitration, most likely I would lose because of my spending habits.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Page 4</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>My account was churned, put into risky stocks; bills were not paid in time on one account and were set up to be sent out automatically. I received a Letter from an Attorney in Maryland about my Mother’s account that the maintenance had not been paid in a year. My Trust account was mishandled as well…..I had payment on automatic withdrawal and for months some of my bills were not paid, because JMS had problems with their routing code…I was not told of this until weeks or months later…..</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I signed under duress, the preliminary agreement because I believe if I went to Arbitration, I would lose my case. When the real Agreement was sent to my house, I refused to sign it. I fired my Attorney and I looked for a new Attorney to take my case. I found 1, but it took months before they would take my case. They had a paralegal named Donny. He believed I was screwed (sorry for the language). He also told me that the Attorneys in South Florida were a close knit group. He even told me to be careful of these Attorneys he was working for. He convinced the Attorneys to take my case, but they procrastinated for about 4 or 5 months before they would even say yes. Then, since I fired my Attorney, counsel for the Broker Firm called me at home and wanted to know what my plans were. I told her I didn’t know, and I never called her back.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Then months later the Attorneys for the Broker filed in Federal Court a Preliminary Injunction to bind the Mediation agreement that I signed. It went to trial in 2005.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The final ruling came from the Judge almost 4 or 5 months later. The Judge ruled in the Brokerage Firms favor. If you read the depositions of both my Attorneys, it looks fishy to me. Especially, since the Judge caught a few lies then changed the subject.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I wrote letters to the Florida Bar against my first Attorney. They wrote me back, there was no claim against him….Even my EX-Attorney had the Attorneys for JMS and my Broker sign Affidavits stating the facts of the Mediation….and what happened…THEY are PERJURING themselves……Don’t you think it’s Unethical for a Former client’s Attorney getting opposing Counsel to sign an Affidavit against his ex client….. Then I wrote to the Judicial Bar, because the Mediator became a Circuit Court Judge under Governor Bush. The Judicial Bar told me I didn’t have a claim. The Mediator stepped down from the bench after my letter was sent to the Judicial Bar. I even wrote to NASD ( FINRA). They said my Mediation was a Private Mediation, but yet I have a letter from them with a NASD case #. My Attorney and Brokerage Firm picked the Mediator knowing there was a CONFLICT of INTEREST!</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5741827890936289685&postID=4309106067898872800" name="OLE_LINK9" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;"></a>I wrote to Governor Bush, Governor Crist, SEC, News Stations, President Elect Obama, and other Government Officials, etc. The 1 person who helped me was Governor Crist. His office told me to contact the Office of Financial Regulations. I did March 2008. I have been in contact with Russ Wilson from their <span style="color: black;">Ft.</span><span style="color: black;"> Lauderdale</span><span style="color: black;"> office. He will NOT give me any information to the case. All I know is they contacted my ex Accountant, because he was a Trustee on a Trust that was set up for me by my Mother back in 1983. My Ex Accountant should be investigated, because he didn’t even take care of his Trustee Fiduciary responsibilities as he should have in handling my Trust account.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>So here is the current situation. The Brokerage firm I was in Mediation with still had a Trust Account that was NEVER transferred over back in 2002, when I switched Brokerage firms. The Account has been sitting idle for 7 years and no 1 from their Brokerage firm contacted me in 7 years until recently. I have lived at the same house, had the same home # for 14 years. I had NOT received any broker statements from this account in 7 years. I just received them recently. I have a copy of the transfer of my accounts to be sent to Merrill Lynch….This account NEVER was switched over. I believed the account was switched over and put in another account when it transferred to Merrill Lynch back in 2002.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The Office of Financial Regulations just sent me a letter. Their opinion of my case was that they did not find any reason to investigate it further. The report in my OPINION were LIES…I never flew FIRST Class on any fights I took. They said I spent a lot more money they I actually did. They spoke with Mr. Brook, my ex Broker and he could not recall any facts. I can…….They spoke to my Accountant who was CO-Trustee on my Trust Account and he didn’t even handle my Trust Account with the Fiduciary Responsibility he was suppose too.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>It’s all a BUNCH of COVER UPS.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I’m going BROKE….I have to sell my house….Why these CORRUPT MEN get away with CORRUPTION…</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>PLEASE HELP….I’ve been diagnosed with Lymphoma, Vertigo, and I have a Heart Condition…..This CASE has RUINED MY LIFE…While these MEN get away with this</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>HORRIBLE injustice of my Civil Rights as an American.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What has happened to me is a LEGAL CRIME and because of this I have SUFFERED Emotionally, Medically and Financially. This has RUINED MY LIFE!</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I have so many documents as evidence. See in this packet.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>MY EX Broker ( Jeff Brook)is now working for his 4 or 5 Stock Broker Firm……EX Manager for JMS (Terry Metzger?) is not working there either…..FISHY don’t you think……Even the Secretary Kathy(she was Jeff’s secretary while my accts were there) is no longer there…..BIG COVER UP..</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>These people NEED to BE ACCOUNTABLE for the CORRUPTION !</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>FINRA, Office of Financial Regulations, Florida Bar, Judical Bar are ALL COVERING UP for EACH other…..THEY ARE DESTROY PEOPLES LIVES…..</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>THIS NEEDS TO COME TO AN END……….MAKE FLORIDA A STATE WITH JUSTICE…AND SUNSHINE AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE…</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
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</span></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com5Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA26.1223084 -80.143378626.051560900000002 -80.2017806 26.1930559 -80.0849766tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-56554100310540404222011-09-24T22:14:00.000-07:002012-01-09T00:57:42.769-08:00JEFFREY GRUBMAN- SECURITIES ATTORNEY- MEDIATOR<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
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Firm: Stollman & Grubman<br />
Zip Code: 33431 </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans; font-size: 12px;"><span class="rating">Rating: <b><span class="average">1.0</span></b> out of <span class="best">5</span> based on<b><span class="count">1</span></b> reviews.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06792257586710035500noreply@blogger.com3Boca Raton, FL, USA26.3586885 -80.08309839999998326.306615 -80.136799899999986 26.410762 -80.029396899999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741827890936289685.post-15862520747332672382011-09-24T21:32:00.002-07:002012-04-01T16:24:38.070-07:00MELODY R. FORTUNATO - Family Law<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: purple; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b>My experience with this <span style="color: purple;">Attorney</span></b><b> is that she's ALL TALK and NO ACTION......She price gauges....Drafts documents, doesn't use them. Tell opposing counsel if YOU file a claim against MY Client, your client will be SUED....EXCUSE ME.....WHO does she work for ME or Opposing Client?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: purple; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: purple; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b>We had a Hearing with Judge Birken on "FALSE ALLEGATIONS of CHILD ABUSE" Does she HELP MY CASE....HELL NO.....SHE EVEN Allowed Opposing Counsel to Refile their Petition to LEAVE OUT the FALSE ALLEGATION!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: purple; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b>I REST MY CASE!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: purple; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b><br />
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