Adam, the night manager at Autozone had given me her telephone number. The LA Times quoted an anonymous employee who wondered, Theyre saying were being kept open because were an essential part of the community How can we be essential when were not protecting the public? Though it does appear in this case that California voted for this insanity. Its happening here too we are learning the ropes: how to lie in order to get a GP appointment, for example. %PDF-1.6 % AlTrueSoft Geo-intelligence for data tracking & trend analysis. Several planed tracks were set out all to be based on Post-Modernism, Atheism, and hatred of Western Values to destroy us. For questions regarding the Department of Justice contact. That is to say, there is little meaningful distinction to be made between the government and the Democratic Party. He said that staff and leadership wanted to ensure the public was better protected, and that many reforms had been implemented after the Girardi case exposed deficiencies. In more than one-third of the cases we reviewed, the State Bar did not document its consideration of conflicts before it closed these cases., 26. The extent to which Bar funds were used for the trip is complicated somewhat by the deposit into a State Bar fund on April 3, 2014 of a $5,000 check from the Girardi Keese firm dated March 20, 2014, 31. If you believe that your lawyer acted unethically, you can download a complaint form from the State Bar's website at www.calbar.ca.gov. StopCorruptLawyers.com and its affiliates may not update any Writing after it is published. Girardi was once a top plaintiffs attorney and Democratic powerbroker who gained reality TV fame on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alongside his third wife, Erika. public v. the state bar of california and STATE, key filings against the state bar of california enterprise, THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA FACES FEDERAL RICO LAWSUIT, Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson in dissent (. Brilliant! They also protect their own. Southern California's "corridor of corruption" has yielded a new case of insider dealing - not the first and not the last. When I returned to the state in 2019, I put off the transfer of my vehicles (I have a lot of them) and drivers licence to California for as long as I could, knowing the rigours and uncertainties that awaited me in the attempt. (Added, According to Plaintiff's experience and the, PRESS RELEASE THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff alleges lawyers licensed and controlled by the State Bar associated with Catanzarite Law Corporation namely Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite (, (a) failing to make reasonable operational decisions in response to changes in statutory duty for State Bar and public employees acting in their official capacity for State Bar (, California Auditor's official reports from 2009 through 2022, Public employees acting officially for The State Bar of California have engaged in repeated violations of duty, corruption, fraud, systemic corruption, with at least reckless disregard for injury or emotional harm to members of the public whom they are bound to protect by law. In 2021, five employees at a DMV office in the Los Angeles area pled guilty to taking weekly cash bribes to process drivers licences for unqualified drivers. Shown repeatedly in this action through predicate, parallel, and ongoing acts threatening harm to U.S. citizens, [c]riminal mail and wire fraud involves: (1) a scheme based on an intent to defraud; and (2) the use of the mails or wires to further that scheme., Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice(1) to defraud a financial institution; or (2) to obtain any of the moneys, funds, credits, assets, securities, or other property owned by, or under the custody or control of, a financial institution, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises; shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both. Is this untrue of other states? In practice, this means competition for money from organised interests that fund the activist networks, which in turn translate those interests into various moralisms and thereby shape the vision of the party. (First Amended Complaint generally)(California Auditor Reports) 0 You expressly waive any and all liability against StopCorruptLawyers.com or any of its affiliates including Plaintiff by using StopCorruptLawyers.com. Covid turned out to be a godsend for the DMV. Lets look at the Ethics Hotline. 30-2021-01237499-CU-PN-CJC) ("Complaint") against The State Bar of California and certain employees including Supervising Attorney Anand Kumar, Trial Counsel Eli David Morgenstern, Special Investigator Joy Nunley, and Doe defendants 1-30. The State Bar has a lot of room to improve their policies to better protect the public from attorney misconduct.. The State Bar of California is touted as being the model and mother for other bars across the country, and there lies the problem in its Motherly Model form. Finally she approached me: a toothless matron who spoke only Chinese beyond a few key words in English such as odometer and VIN number. Good article though. Did The State Bar of California Dismiss Your Attorney Complaint Despite Your Injury? Supervisor RaceModerate GOPer vs. Moderate Democrat, L.A. Metro Crime Statistics Are an Absolute Horrorshow. The Bar has ethics panels to see if each attorney is working within the oath they took to become an attorney. In some states, you may be able to lodge your complaint over the phone or online. We investigated certain governance issues arising from promises of assistance to Board members or others. When the State Bar finally examined the client trust account, it found that the attorney had misappropriated nearly $41,000 in total from several clients, the audit states. These things must be accomplished with delicacy. Now-disgraced attorney Tom Girardi, speaking to the media in 2014, was the subject of a Times investigation that led to an audit of the State Bar. This has led to massive corruption. Meanwhile, Kulwinder Dosanjh Singh, a broker, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and identify fraud. Here broker refers to a provider of DMV services. Depressing stuff. If you are a member of the public looking for free or low-cost legal help in California and/or reliable information about common legal issues, please go to LawHelpCA.org. The California Whistleblower Protection Act authorizes the California State Auditor to receive complaints from state employees and members of the public who wish to report an improper governmental activity. An inoffensive post I wrote about how institutional and worker capture of bureaucracies is sufficient to introduce corruption even in the absence of the involvement of different cultures and sited post war experience in England got pulled and I have no idea when it will reappear. California BAR Corruption. Scandalised is the least of it. It is the same with the sanctuary cities where city resources are directed to illegal immigrants. Aside: from briefly living in Texas 30 odd years ago, the DMV there issued a non driving drivers licence for those simply needing an ID card (the drivers licence being the universal ID in the US at the time). What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? All rather unsatisfactory and the result of a safety bureaucracy. 375].) During the investigation, Girardi suddenly and unexpectedly appeared as counsel for Sonja Oehlerlaunched into an unprofessional tirade of threatsGirardi claims he became involved because our firm was rude during interviewshis involvement can also be explained because he perceives a threat to Dunn as a threat to his possibly favored position with the Bar., 32. This is a toll free number FOR ATTORNEYS ONLY that an attorney can call to see if either something they did, or plan to do, could get them a warning letter from The Club. If you want to get something done in the developing world, you often need to engage the services of a fixer. 1515, a bill concerning, 32. But after the collapse of his Wilshire Boulevard law firm, scores of clients came forward saying they were swindled by Girardi and The Times documented a trail of misconduct allegations going back decades. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. A lot of insinuation or satire mixed into this account. As Slezkine lays out: they are regarded as unclean, and in turn they guard their own purity against contamination by the host population, from intermarriage, say, or simply by accepting hospitality from them. By contrast, ties of kinship are easy to grasp, more robust, and make sense to more of the worlds peoples as the ground of cooperation, particularly in societies where the clan may be as far as trust extends. THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA, without separation of powers, despite control by active market participants purporting to regulate themselves after, 14. Plenty of waiting and bureaucracy but no bribes solicited or given, ever. 212 0 obj <>stream This lawlessness is not petty it is as destructive as the 1930s German military buildup it is one part of The Gathering Storm, it is engineered and intentional. There are different sorts of bureaucracies. Dietary restrictions and other taboos of self-segregation serve to keep the boundary intact. & Prof. Cod. The other aspect to this is that the employees and managers of organisations like the DMV seem to think they are free to make up the policies (to support social justice in this case), rather than execute the priorities (and laws) the electorate voted for. Another benefit of mass immigration. Please Contact Us. Following the United States Supreme Court decision in, Protection of the public, which includes support for greater access to, and inclusion in, the legal system, shall be the highest priority for the State Bar of California and the board of trustees in exercising their licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. I remember as a child being told to hush when my mother clandestinely bought eggs from a local smallholder down the road. Its a classic example of the decay part of Political Order and Decay what happens when the rule of law is weakened and meritocracy abandoned as any kind of principal. State Bar Member Corruption: Bar Member Disciple, Suspension or Disbarment, Probate Matters, Conflicts of Interest, Undue Influence, Elder Abuse, Exploitation, Negligence Events, Research Trends & Repeating Patterns Map. Ive been to the DMV dozens of times and had many smog checks here in California. What an irony. Better defined as, Foxes Guarding the Chicken Coop. To avoid a multiplicity of proceedings on behalf of the public, the Complaint seeks to remedy systemic unlawful taking and duty violations where The State Bar of California is knowingly permitting licensees of the State Bar to steal from, cheat, mislead, and harm members of the public. (Complaint, p. 79, . In re Kelley (1990) 52 Cal.3d 487 [276 Cal.Rptr. An "improper governmental activity" is defined as any action by a state agency or any action by a state employee . State Auditor reflects reality, e.g. 8. We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. I backed into a spot where I could watch both entrances of the Papa Johns Pizza parking lot, punctual for my rendezvous. (e) through Defendants negligent operational decisions as alleged, where Defendants are aware that their licensed agents with Catanzarite have already caused, together with Defendants as alleged in special relationships with Plaintiff as victim, more than one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) in damages under Defendants control, and Plaintiff alleges that government licensee or agents associated with Catanzarite have directed or engaged its clients in criminal acts including felonies that are known to State Bar, Nunley, Kumar, Morgenstern, and DOES, but that each of them unreasonably use their positions of authority over Plaintiff to protect Catanzarite, and not public interest, outrageously, in violation of law, and in violation of their mandatory or affirmative duty to protect, and that this is but a symptom of State Bars flawed pattern of negligent operational decisions; (f) that State Bar and DOES failed to align its staffing with its mission, and that State Bar discontinued operational changes that improved capacity, has engaged in understaffing, and has willfully abandoned plans to benchmark attorney discipline systems to cover up its negligence, recklessness, and corruption; (g) that State Bar has failed to sufficiently fix the conditions of its licensing, regulatory, and discipline systems in the face of overwhelming evidence that State Bar fails to protect public interest, and that public interest relies upon State Bar to protect; (h) that DOES have failed to design or implement a reasonable system of licensing, regulation, and discipline through a series of negligent, reckless, and/or corrupt operational decisions that systemically fail to protect the public, including Plaintiff, amidst a series of conflicted transactions for all times relevant; (i) that State Bar has willfully and recklessly ignored the law, enactments, and duties imposed by Catanzarite Cases, and that this evidences systemic recklessness together with the Auditor findings from 2009 to present and Tom Girardi case; (j) that State Bar does not understand CTCA [Government Claims Act] or its history applied to Defendants, and has operated as if it State Bar and public employees serving State Bar are immune from any and all liability resulting from any and all decisions, including those involving operational negligence, gross negligence, corruption, and violations of general, mandatory, affirmative, and special duties to protect, and that this reckless assumption was discarded as mistaken [and] unjust since 1961 in California. (Complaint, p. 15).