Last week, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency toured the landfill and visited with families of the children with birth defects in Kettleman City. That action came less than a week after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the State Department of Public Health and California’s Environmental Protection Agency to look into what he called “an abnormal percentage of birth defects” occurring there.

The town, a collection of single-level ranch houses and rough streets, is bordered by electric transmission wires and the California Aqueduct, which is sealed off from town residents by a barbed-wire, chain-link fence.

Emmanuel in Kettleman City

In case you think all this drama started when I moved up to Big Bear, think again …

On January 9, 2009, I launched a free, anonymous blog called Bad Biz Finder that reported on loan modification fraud and the illegal California leases of a large landlord.*

Within 6 months, it had amassed 185,000 hits because it dared to tell the raw truth about the fraud against consumers in foreclosure and landlord-tenant law.

The perpetrators of the loan modification fraud?  Attorneys licensed by the California State Bar.  At that time, Holly Fujie was the President of the State Bar, now Howard Miller is at the helm.

Did the State Bar monitor the activities of its attorney members?  No.

Did the State Bar prosecute its attorney members that violated the law? No.

Is the State Bar responsible for thousands of consumers who lost their homes (and a lot of money) who relied on their attorney members to provide ethical, competent services regularly monitored for illegal activity?  Yes.

Does the State Bar have a client restitution program?  Yes.  “The Client Security Fund.”  (See, http://www.calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/calbar_generic.jsp?cid=10177&id=1379) 

The California State Bar website text describing the Client Security Fund states:  “The fund may reimburse up to $50,000 for theft committed by a California lawyer.  It covers the loss of money or property resulting from lawyer dishonesty (but not because the lawyer acted incompetently, committed malpractice or failed to take certain actions).”  [Leave it to a lawyer to infer that there is a difference between dishonesty and incompetence, malpractice and negligence.]

Is the California State Bar paying out any money from its Client Security Fund to victims of loan modification fraud perpetrated by its attorney members?  No.

Why not?  Beats me.  But I just surveyed the California State Bar’s Board of Governors to see who might be willing to work with me to right the wrongs committed by their attorney members. 

I even offered to help, as a “consumer liaison” as I’ve been championing this cause for over a year and have lists of consumers harmed by California lawyers coming out my ears.  I used to get 500+ emails a day from consumers who had been taken in by the false sense of security one gets from “working with an attorney.”

I’ll let you know who steps up to the plate and who doesn’t.  Keep your fingers crossed.  Here’s a little background:

The California Foreclosure Consultant’s Act contained what I coined over a year ago as the “lawyer loophole.”   The law stated that lawyers could take fees in advance of services provided, but no one else could.  So, do you know what happened?

1.    Lawyers began lending their law license to ex-sub-prime mortgage businesses for a cut of the action so that the mortgage companies could get around the law about advance fees.

2. Lawyers, with no experience in loan modifications, opened up “loan modification law firms” and called themselves, “experts.”  Instead of hiring lawyers to do the work (which would have cut too far into their profits) they hired kids whose last job was serving coffee at Starbucks.  So the “law firms” had no lawyers.

I wrote over 300 articles about this subject and profiled 43 of the very worst offenders.  I also informed the California State Bar, the Department of Real Estate, the Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Trade Commission.  For six months they ignored me. 

Then my blog got shut down by one of those “worst offenders” (see About Us on this blog)* and then guess what? 

One month later … the California State Bar, the Department of Real Estate, the Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Trade Commission started announcing how they “could not believe how many lawyers were involved in the fraud against consumers in foreclosure.  Who knew???  We wish someone would have told us! ”   [And they're secretly thinking to themselves, "Good thing that Bad Biz Finder blog is gone"....]

They all became the knights on white horses galloping up to save the day and all the consumers (who haven’t already been defrauded) are screaming, “Yay for them!”  They all started changing their websites to “warn consumers about thos evil loan modification law firm scams.”  And then what happened?

On October 16, 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 94 that proclaimed:  “Attorneys can no longer take fees in advance of loan modification services rendered.”   Job well done, Governor!   Glad you thought of that – excellent!

Every Tom, Dick and Harry from the California State Bar, the Department of Real Estate, the Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Trade Commission held press conferences claiming their brilliance and and patting themselves on the back for “catching this fraud in time.”  Thank God.

But wait a minute … what about the warnings and pleadings and information from Bad Biz Finder and the tens of thousands of consumers who were scammed between January to October 2009?  What about when I was screaming at the top of my lungs about this problem and everyone was ignoring me?  Who is going to help those consumers?  And what about that six-figure judgment I have against me for telling the truth about one of the worst offenders?*  Who is gong to pay for that?

The State Bar started suspending attorneys left and right.  But a year too late!  What about the consumers who trusted the “clean-as-a-whistle” records of these attorneys found on the State Bar website, hired them, and then lost everything? 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Arnold sat down at that table and signed the Bill but what about the consumers who had already been screwed?  Those are the ones I’m talking about here. 

And there will be tons more a year from now if the Governor, the California State Bar, the Department of Real Estate, the Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Trade Commission don’t stay on top of it.  Yes, it’s all very exciting when they all get their little lying “moment in the sun” and their fraudulent PR sound bite.  But, it’s only a couple of months later and the issue has disappeared from the California State Bar website and one of the worst offenders is already advertising again in this area.* 

I’m going to start posting some on the articles I wrote during those ten months to show you that the California State Bar, the Department of Real Estate, the Attorney General’s Office, the Federal Trade Commission and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON and ignored it.

What then?  Well, later I’ll post the solution I offered to the California State Bar’s Board of Governors.  But first, I’m going to give each one of the 23 Board members a chance to really think it over before I jump to any conclusions.  Stay tuned.

*  Please note, I am prohibited by court order from writing about two specific business entities, because they were able to secure injunctions against my writing the truth about them.   Unfortunately, crime pays when it comes to certain judges.

Deedee Carlson, 33, of San Francisco, has been appointed to the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. In 2001, she founded the San Francisco Institute of Esthetics & Cosmetology and currently serves as president. Carlson previously was a spa consultant at the Villagio Inn & Spa in 2003 and held the same position at the Ritz Carlton in 2002. Prior to that, she worked for the Nob Hill Spa from 2000 to 2002, holding the positions of consultant, esthetician and sales associate. Carlson is a member of the American Association of Cosmetology Schools and serves on the Foot Spa Safety Task Force. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Carlson is registered decline-to-state.

Read the full article “Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announces appointments“.

First To Warn Californians Of Threat Posed By State Bar

It took seventy years of protesting by California lawyers that the State Bar was un-American before  any California leader decided to take decisive action.  Yet, another twelve years have gone by and only victims of State Bar abuse and corruption fully understand the nature and extent of the evils Governor Pete Wilson warned about.

Calling the organization the “ultimate political animal”, Wilson vetoed funding for the group in 1997.  Although this resulted in the closing of the State Bar for nearly a year, the arrogance  of State Bar officials has not only gained momentum, but spread throughout Sacramento and other parts of the State.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Jerry Brown

Conflict Of Interest Alleged For Failure To Investigate State Bar Members Who Support His Bid For Governor

as well as members of the California Legislature are making it their business to protect the perpetrators of such abuses.

Because the State Bar is able to censor and sanitize the news through the Daily Journal, Inc. publications,  and is exempt from providing disciplinary statistics under the State Public Records Act, little is know about the wide-spread political tampering which runs rampant through Office of Trial Counsel and the State Bar Court. What is clear from those members who have attempted to challenge the Bar’s policies is this:

1] State Bar lawyers and officials routinely use “moral turpitude” and other magic buzz words to disbar members who try to blow the whistle on State Bar corruption.

2] Even past presidents, like Sheldon Sloan have been accused of putting bogus discipline cases on opposing counsel to gain an unfair advantage in their own personal litigation – Free Richard Fine .

3] Attorney General Brown still refuses to investigate political tampering in connection with the dismissal of ethical complaints against himself and his top aides.

4] Brown has also turned a blind eye on allegations that a former president of the California District Attorneys Association framed an innocent Afro-American youth to cover up his own corruption – George Kennedy Papers.

5] Brown has not investigated complaints against Clinton-Gore lawyers arising from allegations that Democratic candidates violated federal campaign finance laws which are still buried at State Bar headquarters in San Francisco [State Bar Complaint 96 007049].

6] State Bar lawyers and officials conspired with State Bar members employed by the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Department of Education to cover up fraud and failures in the administration of Executive Order 12250.The civil rights of tens of thousands of senior and disabled Californians were impaired by this State Bar cover-up [Ibid].

7] Politically connected State Bar members with as many as four ethical complaints against them are never investigated or disciplined.

Term As State Bar President Marred By Controversy & RICO Allegations

8]State Bar President Howard Miller was less than truthful when he assured State Bar member he had addressed the concerns expressed by Governor Schwarzenegger in his Senate Bill 641 veto message [California Bar Journal, January, 2010].

9] Miller also gambled with the truth when he told State Bar members that Senate Bill 641 would be re-introduced with the same language [Ibid].

10] No witnesses have yet been contacted in connection with the investigation of State Bar Complaints 10-01702 and 10-01703. These complaints allege State Bar Lobbyist Anthony Williams and Legislative Counsel Saul Bercovitch violated the Rules of Professional Conduct when they slipped Senate Bill 55 past the Legislature over the objection of aggrieved State Bar members.

Contrary to the belief of some, this type of high-level corruption does not just go out of style like sideburns and bell-bottoms. It can only be eliminated through responsible leadership and respect for the law and people of California.

50 Reasons to Protect Infants from Vaccines: – Jagannath Chatterjee

Note: I have been corresponding with the Union Health Minister and his department on this subject since 2006. Neither the Minister nor the Ministry have any answer to these points.. Even when Dr Abdul Kalam, then President, raised the subject based on my inputs there was no sincere attempt to clarify the position. I have since then continuously educated the doctors on the subject. I have also written to the current President, Vice President, PM, Sonia, the NHRC, NCPCR, CM’s of various states, MP’s of various political parties and all the medical institutions I can think of. I have also written to the WHO, GAVI, UNICEF & PATH, premier institutions that promote this highly controversial medical intervention . Doctors sympathetic to the cause opine that unless the public realise the dangers from vaccines it will be very difficult to stop this industry sponsored menace. You will agree that there should be a public debate on vaccines, otherwise the unfortunate children do not stand a chance.

1.There is no scientific study to determine whether vaccines have really prevented diseases. Rather disease graphs show vaccines have been introduced at the fag end of epidemics when the disease was already in its last stages. In case of Small Pox the vaccine actually caused a great spurt in the incidence of disease before public outcry led to its withdrawal.

2.There are no long-term studies on vaccine safety. Very short-term tests are carried out where the vaccinated subjects are checked against another group who are given another vaccine. Technically the tests should be carried out against a non-vaccinated group. No one really knows what protocols are followed at such industry-sponsored trials.

3.There has never been any official attempt to compare a vaccinated population against a non vaccinated population to know what vaccines are doing to the children and the society. Independent private studies (Dutch & German) have revealed that vaccinated children suffer much more than their un-vaccinated counterparts.

4.The child receives not one but many vaccines. There are no tests to determine the effects of multiple vaccines.

5.There is no scientific basis for vaccinating infants. As per senior doctors quoted by the Times of India, “Children suffer from less that 2% of vaccine preventable illnesses but 98% of the vaccines are targeted towards them.” The vaccine pioneers who have recommended abundant caution before vaccinating the population have never advocated mass vaccinations.

6.Children are vaccinated simply because parents can be frightened to forcefully vaccinate their children. Vaccinating infants is the most profitable business both for the manufacturers as well as the doctors.

7.Infants, who are advised ONLY mothers milk till the age of six months and beyond because their fragile system will not tolerate anything else are given 30 extremely toxic vaccine shots, including booster doses, an act that defies both logic and science.

8.The Government of India has come out with a quarter page advertisement in The Hindu warning parents not to vaccinate beyond the Government approved vaccines. Parents have been advised against vaccinating in private clinics and hospitals.

9.The Orissa Chapter of the Indian Association of Pediatricians has admitted in a letter to the CM, Orissa, that private clinics and hospitals are ill equipped to store vaccines and warned parents not to vaccinate upon the advise of private practitioners and hospitals.

10.ALL THE VACCINE INGREDIENTS ARE EXTREMELY TOXIC IN NATURE.

11.Vaccines contain heavy metals, cancer causing substances, toxic chemicals, live and genetically modified viruses, contaminated serum containing animal viruses and foreign genetic material, extremely toxic de-contaminants and adjuvants, untested antibiotics, none of which can be injected without causing any harm.

12.The mercury, aluminum and live viruses in vaccines may be behind the huge epidemic of autism (1 in 10 worldwide as per doctors in the USA, 1 in 37 as per a private study by doctors in New Delhi), a fact that (vaccines cause autism) has been admitted by the US Vaccine Court.

13.The CDC of USA, the vaccine watchdog, has publicly admitted that its much-publicized 2003 study denying any link between vaccines and autism, is flawed. The Chief of CDC Dr Gerberding has confessed to the media (CNN) that vaccines can cause “autism like symptoms”. The Autism epidemic is found only in those countries that have allowed mass vaccinations.

14.In the year 1999, the US Government instructed vaccine manufacturers to remove mercury from vaccines “with immediate effect”. But mercury still remains a part of many vaccines. The vaccines with mercury were never recalled and were given to children up to the year 2006. “Mercury free” vaccines contain 0.05mcg of mercury, enough to permanently damage a infant. As per an American Academy of Pediatricians study: “Mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children and efforts should be made to reduce exposure to the extent possible to pregnant women and children as well as the general population.”

15.IN INDIA NO ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO ENSURE THAT MERCURY AND OTHER HEAVY METALS ARE REMOVED FROM VACCINES SIMPLY BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE VACCINES COSTLIER.

16.In a reply to then President Sri Abdul Kalam, the Health Ministry informed, “mercury is required to make the vaccines safe”. To the author’s query that “what are these vaccines that it requires the second most dangerous neurotoxin, mercury, to make them safe?”, there was no reply.

17.Mercury used in vaccines is second in toxicity only to the radioactive substance, Uranium. It is a neurotoxin that can damage the entire nervous system of the infant in no time.

18.Mercury accumulates in fat. The brain being made mostly of fat cells, most of the mercury accumulates there giving rise to the peculiar symptoms of the autistic children.

19.The mercury used in vaccines is ethyl mercury. According to Indian doctors this is an industrial toxin and is 1000 times more toxic than the usual methyl mercury.

20.The aluminum present in vaccines makes the mercury, in any form, 100 times more toxic.

21.As per an independent study aluminum and formaldehyde present in vaccines can increase the toxicity of mercury, in any form, by 1000 times.

22.As per a Tehelka article on Autism, if one considers the WHO limit for mercury in water, they are receiving 50,000 times the limit. The limits set, incidentally, are for adults and not infants.

23.Autism in India has emerged as the most rapidly growing epidemic amongst children. As per a private study done by doctors in New Delhi, from 1 in 500 it has steadily climbed to 1 in 37 today. As per Indian doctors, “You can go to any class of any school today and find an autistic child.”

24.Autism is a permanent disability that affects the child physically, mentally and emotionally. It makes the child loose social contact. It impedes both the physical and mental growth of the child. It destroys the brain causing severe memory and attention problems.The majority of symptoms displayed by autistic children match symptoms of heavy metal poisoning.

25.According to vaccine researcher Dr Harris Coulter, vaccines cause children to become pervert and criminal. Majority of the school shootings by the children in the USA have been committed by autistic children. Vaccines can cause more harm that even the medical community privately acknowledges.

26.Autistic children also suffer from severe bowel disorders. As per Dr Andrew Wakefield, this is due to the vaccine strain live measles virus in the MMR vaccine. Nearly all children become fully autistic after the MMR shot. As per a recent study the MMR vaccine has an adverse effect on the vital mucosal immune system. The very basis of trying to prevent childhood Mumps and Measles has been questioned in this study.

27.The DPT also causes children to regress giving rise to fears that multiple live virus vaccines are an important cause behind autism. If three live viruses can cause so much harm we can well imagine what today’s five and seven viruses vaccines will do to children.

28.Before the autism epidemic, it was already well known that vaccines have caused the cancer epidemic in today’s society. Both the Small Pox and the Oral Polio Vaccine are made from monkey serum. This serum has helped many cancer causing monkey viruses, 60 found so far (SV 1 to SV60), to enter the human blood stream. As per recent revelations these viruses continue to be in the vaccines.

29.It is also known that it is the use of green monkey serum in vaccines that has led to the transfer of the Simian Immune deficiency Virus (SIV) from monkeys into humans. The SIV and the HIV that causes AIDS are very similar.

30.Not only AIDS, a blood cancer in infants (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) that is affecting children in thousands may also be primarily due to the extremely toxic nature of vaccine ingredients injected directly into the blood stream.

31.Infantile jaundice and also infantile diabetes is also scientifically connected to the toxic vaccines.

32.The live polio viruses used in the Oral Polio Vaccine has caused Vaccine Attributed Paralytic Polio in more than 1,25,000 children (up to the year 2006) as per doctors of the Indian Medical Association and the Jana Swasthya Abhiyan. The OPV has also let loose a new strain of polio in both India and Africa. The OPV is banned in the USA & European countries.

33.Vaccines contain serum from not only chimpanzees and monkeys but also from cows, pigs, chickens, eggs, horses, and even human serum and tissues extracted from aborted fetuses..

34.Deaths and permanent disability from vaccines is very common and known by the medical community. They are instructed by the Government to keep quiet and not to associate such cases with vaccines.

35.Many doctors argue that diseases during childhood are due to the body exercising its immune system. Suppressing these diseases causes the immune system to remain undeveloped causing the various autoimmune disorders like diabetes and arthritis that have become epidemics today.

36.Vaccines suppress the natural immunity and the body does not have natural antibodies anymore. The mothers milk therefore does not contain natural antibodies and can no longer protect the child against illnesses.

37.By stimulating humoral (blood related) immunity alone vaccines have caused an imbalance in the whole immune set up leading to an alarming increase in auto immune disorders. This is acknowledged by the immunologists themselves.

38.In the USA vaccine adverse effects are recorded and the Government offers compensation of millions of dollars to victims (the most recent case in its Vaccine Court may have received upto $200 million in damages). The Indian Government simply refuses to acknowledge that vaccines can cause deaths and permanent disability.

39.It has been scientifically proven that vaccines cannot prevent disease. Vaccines try to create humoral (blood related immunity) whereas it has been found that immunity is developed at various levels, humoral as well as cellular. We still do not know enough about the human immune system and therefore should not interfere with it.

40.In the USA parents are informed about vaccine after effects and their consent has to be taken before vaccinating their children. In India the Government assures the population through massive advertising campaigns that vaccines are extremely safe. Parents refusing to vaccinate are threatened by the administration.

41.THERE IS NO SYSTEM OF TREATMENT TO TREAT A VACCINE DAMAGED CHILD. The parents have to run from one hospital to another. The Government turns a blind eye and refuses to even acknowledge the vaccine connection. Attempts by private practitioners worldwide to treat vaccine damaged children by flushing out heavy metals and toxins from the body have been frowned upon and discouraged.

42.Senior medical doctors have challenged even the vaccines recommended by the Government of India. The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis has been extensively tested in India as long back as 1961 and found to be totally ineffective. The OPV is causing polio and other neurological and intestinal disorders in tens of thousands of Indian children. The Hep-B vaccine introduced recently is not meant for children at all, it is a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease that should be targeted only at promiscuous adults. The tetanus vaccine contains both aluminum and mercury besides the tetanus toxoid. The doctors themselves avoid giving the DPT to their children and relatives as per a survey amongst US health care professionals. The measles vaccine is a vaccine that regularly causes severe adverse effects and the health workers I have interviewed want it out.

43.The pediatricians are introducing dubious vaccines in India, which are being opposed by the doctors, politicians, and public in American and European countries. The Rotavirus vaccine, Hib vaccine, HPV vaccine and the various multi virus vaccines being introduced without any kind of testing is only because the vaccine manufacturers and the doctors administering them want to ensure a good income from them. They care two hoots about medical ethics and the fate of the children who will receive these vaccines. Vaccines containing nano particles and viruses and also plant based genetically modified vaccines are being opposed by honest doctors worldwide.

44.Various independent studies, notably the Dutch and the more recent German study, comparing vaccinated with unvaccinated children have found that vaccinated children are prone to asthma, dermatitis, allergies, hyperactivity etc. The death rate amongst vaccinated children is much more than the unvaccinated ones.

45.Vaccines, being a mass medical program which is accepted without question, becomes the perfect launching pad for bioterrorism. The powerful countries can spread lethal epidemics by just polluting the vaccines with bio warfare agents. The USA has handed over vaccine research to a bioterrorism research unit called the BARDA which functions under the Pentagon. A warning to this effect has been sounded by the Vice President IAP in a letter to the DGHS.

46.Besides “investigating” into the small pox virus, it is reported that a “weapons grade” bird flu vaccine has already been devised by the Pentagon to be used as biowarfare agents.

47.Vaccines have also been used to ensure population control. A batch of the tetanus vaccine has been used in many Asian countries to make the female population sterile. This was done by introducing a hormone that by inducing antibodies would abort the foetus when it is formed. In India, Saheli, a NGO fighting for the rights of women filed a PIL against this when the fact surfaced.

48.Mercury, a part of vaccines, is known to interfere with the endocrine system and induce sterility in both males and females.

49.Through a new Public Health Bill that is being drafted the Government of India is planning to introduce forced vaccinations and threaten anti-vaccination activists with steep fines and jail terms. This is obviously at the instance of foreign (read US) vaccine giants who are shifting base to India reeling at the tremendous opposition to vaccines in US and European countries. The Govt of India is planning a “vaccine park” at Chennai where these vaccine MNCs will set up base. This itself is an act of bioterrorism which ironically the proposed bill seeks to oppose.

50.As per the IOM, USA, vaccine research for a probable link between vaccines and autism should not be conducted. The Institute of Medicine in its last report on vaccines and autism in 2004 said that more research on the vaccine question is counterproductive: Finding a susceptibility to this risk in some infants would call into question the universal vaccination strategy that is a bedrock of immunization programs and could lead to widespread rejection of vaccines. The IOM concluded that efforts to find a link between vaccines and autism “must be balanced against the broader benefit of the current vaccine program for all children”. What does this add up to? Infants should be sacrificed in order to perpetuate an unscientific procedure?

The above points are not exhaustive. For a more detailed article please write to me at jagchat01@yahoo.com.

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Wm. Gailey Appointed By Governor To Represent Public

Laura Chick Arnold's Financial Integrity Czar

Paul Kramer California Energy Commission Official

State Bar Board Members Wm. Gailey, Laura Chick and  Paul Kramer are being asked to meet with Network CEO Phil Stimac and United States Attorney Joseph Russoniello to discuss two bogus disbarments.

Both cases, involving Stimac and prominent Beverly Hills Attorney Fine, include charges of moral turpitude brought against them. Moral turpitude charges in such cases are inconsistent with the Bar’s stated policy as well as recent opinions rendered by the group’s officials. Neither attorneys had any prior discipline or criminal history. Both cases also involve allegations that opposing counsel and / or elite State Bar defendants tampered with the discipline system to gain an unfair advantage in pending litigation.

In addition to filing complaints against State Bar lawyers, Stimac also has one pending against Russoniello for stonewalling on his investigation of alleged federal racketeering activities by State Bar President Howard Miller and other top Bar officials.  As of this date, Office of Trial Counsel has not met with Stimac or reviewed his documents in the Russoniello disciplinary matter.

Is Howard Miller Leading State Bar To Truth About Itself?

Howard Miller and Sheldon Sloan have had a few things in common over the years.  Both served inter-locking terms on the State Bar of California’s Board of Governors.  Both men served as Presidents.

As top Bar officials they’ve rubbed elbows with each other at board meetings, on committees and at conventions. They have been active in Los Angles County legal groups and their offices are less than five minutes from each other.

Miller and Sloan also rose to power during the Post-Pete Wilson State Bar era, which began with the shutting down of the organization for nearly a year so its managerial problems could be fixed.

Richard Fine Case Continues To Haunt Former Bar Chief

Despite announcing lofty goals during their terms as Presidents, both men have a penchant for not commenting on one of the most controversial issues to face any State Bar Board of Governors: Was There Political Tampering In The Richard Fine Disbarment Case?

Come on, guys, tell us what you know.  You’re both role models for law students all across California.  I personally think this would be an excellent topic for KRLA’s Champions Of Justice program.

Governor Schwarzenegger and State Bar Governor Laura Chick

In face of new allegations which threatens the integrity of California’s courts and government leaders in the eyes of the nation, State Bar members are being asked to use any and all legal, legislative, media and online resources to stop the enactment of Senate Bill 55, the new State Bar Funding Bill.

At the center of the controversy is a complaint for ethical violations filed against former State Bar President Sheldon Sloan.  According to Ellen Dutton of Full Disclosure as well as other media sources, Sloan and attorney Richard Fine were opposing counsel in litigation which eventually led to Fine’s disbarment.

Accused Of Political Tampering In State Bar Court

“I have never met Mr. Sloan,” Network CEO Phil Stimac claims. “But like most State Bar members, I was very disturbed by what was being reported about him online and in the media. My first concern was to respect his privacy and make sure I had the facts straight. But in response to my inquiry, he simply e-mailed me back “No comment.”

“The State Bar Court’s official ruling in the Fine case was completely at odds with what was being reported.  So I asked State Bar President Howard Miller to inquire and participate in a video we are making about suspect disbarment cases, but he declined. Even when I informed him that I was trying to “bend over backwards” to simply get the facts straight in a way which was both truthful and fair to Mr. Sloan, I was instructed to remove Sloan’s name from my e-mail directory.

Denies Wrongdoing

“Now, I am hopeful State Bar Board Member Laura Chick will be able to use her position as a member of Govenor Schwarzenegger’s team to compel an investigation of the Fine case, prior to the Governor’s signing of SB 55.  Ms. Chick, who served as Los Angeles Controller was also named one of L.A.’s most influential citizens by Los Angeles Magazine in 2007.  Last year, the Governor named her as the nation’s first Inspector General of the American Recovery and Re-Investment Act.

As Los Angles Controller, Chick, like Sloan, had something to benefit by Fine’s disbarment.  In 2007, Chick told  Metropolitan News-Enterprise that she had “absolutely no recollection of any conversation with, or briefing by, the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel regarding Mr. Fine.”

“I have no reason to question Ms. Chick’s integrity or veracity,” Stimac noted, “However, the controversy behind the Fine case has escalated to the point where someone with her clout must intervene to assure State Bar members they are not being forced to fund an organization which secretly employs gestapo-like techniques against its own members.

“I am hopeful Ms. Chick will investigate,  then facilitate some kind of open public forum media event to review specific evidence which clearly indicates that bogus,  political and retaliatory in-house disbarments are being put on members by trusted State Bar officials in order to gain an unfair advantage in their own personal litigation.”

Although many State Bar members are reluctant to criticize State Bar officials and publicly come to the aid of politically targeted members like Fine, Stimac and others are developing a network which will allow them to voice their moral outrage against state bar corruption without revealing their identities.

In the meantime, he is urging all California lawyers to network, develop strategy, etc. informally at the county level.  “Time is on our side,” he noted. “We are lawyers and Americans, and like our founding fathers will answer the call.

“What an exciting time this is for all lawyers, judges, legislators, secretaries, paralegals and law students.  There is no limit to what we can and will do through the court and legislative process, as well as media and online outlets.

This is the dawn of a new awakening. The time has finally come for State Bar and our elected officials to lead, follow, or get out or our way.”

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Tell Em' How You Really Feel

Although the State Bar of California was founded by men and women with a noble vision, many bar officials, members and their clients, the media, public and our leaders in Sacramento are now contending the group has lost its way.

With the election of Howard Miller and every State Bar President before him, promises were made, but never kept.  Legislation secretly made its way to the Governor’s desk which State Bar members complained was oppressive, illegal and down-right un-American.  Resolutions were passed, studies and audits conducted which ignored or whitewashed legitimate and long-standing complaints by the rank-and-file members as well as the facts giving rise to the study and audit itself.

Maybe you’ve never had a chance to stand up and tell your colleagues how you really feel about compulsory membership. After all this isn’t the Elks or Rotary where dissatisfied members can simply cancel their membership.

What about you name partners in AV rated firms.  Are you aware and does it even bother you that solo and small firm State Bar members who risk their lives and careers to preserve and protect the civil rights of your children and grandchildren in pro bono cases become victims of bogus and corrupt discipline.  What about other bias among the various classes of State Bar members. Perhaps you object to the secrecy in the way the State Bar is managed or unfairness in how State Bar news is reported by Daily Journal, Inc. Publications.

To give you and your clients a stronger voice in State Bar governance, we have posted three new links on our Blogroll found on our homepage. At http://www.ca.gov/, you can gain direct access to the Governor 24/7 in the office or at home. By clicking http://www.legislature.ca.gov/ you can make your voice heard by your local representatives as well as the powerful Senate and Assembly Judiciary Committee members who fund and oversee the State Bar.

Have you ever wondered how the State Bar’s lobbyist in Sacramento can advocate and protect the interests of such diverse and conflicting groups of State Bar members such as criminal lawyers and prosecutors; plaintiffs and defense counsel; and State Bar officials and dissenting members in a single piece of legislation?

Would you like to see an Egregious Discipline Review Committee made up of rank-and-file State Bar members, the public, media and representative of the State Attorney General’s Office? Some California lawyers feel this is the only way to prevent political tampering in the  disbarment of Richard Fine, which arose from a case in which State Bar President Sheldon Sloan Fine’s opposing counsel.

Do you think State Bar lawyers should have to pay bar dues and be exempt from the Rules of Professional Conduct? Should State Bar member legislators be immune from State Bar discipline for legislative acts and omissions in connection with legislation State Bar members consider unconstitutional?

Have you ever considered drafting legislation  which would address concerns you have about the State Bar?  Do you favor an addition to the Business and Professions Code which would impose fines, imprisonment, treble damages and disbarment for State Bar officials who use their positions of trust to put bogus discipline cases on opposing counsel? By clicking www.clrc.ca.gov/can also share your thoughts about legislative State Bar reform with the California Law Revision Commission.

Having a legal education has conferred many benefits on us – financial, personal, professional, intellectual stimulation, etc.  What a great time to take a few minutes from time-to-time to share your ideas in an attempt to ensure the State Bar has lived up to the goals set by its founders.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY

Cordially Invites you to a Reception and General Membership Meeting/Presentation Featuring

Damon Dunn

Candidate for California Secretary of State

ON

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Reception:  630pm, Meeting:  7pm

AT

The Historic Mission Inn

3649 Mission Inn Avenue

Riverside, CA. 92501

HELP US ATTAIN VICTORY IN 2010!

All Registered Republicans Attend At No Charge

Light Refreshments, No Host Bar

For questions about the event or for information about The Republican Party of Riverside County:

http://www.riversidegop.com

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Ph. 916 445 2841 Fax 916 558 3160

In the Terminator 2 movie, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger played a cyborg sent to save the people of Earth. But that was only Hollywood with fake blood and guns.

As Governor, Schwarzenegger has mocked the special-interest legislators who run Sacramento – people he calls “girlie-men.” Now the Governor is about to play his most memorable role ever.  Will the world remember him as a strong leader or a political puppet to the girlie-men he claimed to be repulsed by?

Ph. 510 622 2100, Fax 510 622 4188

Since the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 641, the State Bar’s 2010 funding bill, members, the media and public have come forth with evidence – lots of evidence – that the corruption in the State Bar of California is much worse than Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown imagined or were advised of.  Falsely accused Californians are imprisoned.  California whistleblower lawyers are disbarred. Government corruption which threatens the lives, health and careers of Californians is covered up by faceless bureaucrats, and judges who have become blinded by their own self-importance.

Ph. 916 445 2841, Fax 916 558 3160

After vowing to meet the State Bar’s management problems “head-on” then claiming it had been done, State Bar President Howard Miller informed the 220,000 members he serves that Senate Bill 641 would be “re-introduced” [California Bar Journal, January, 2010].

Instead, Miller and the Bar’s legislative unit, which is headed up by Lobbyist Anthony C. Williams and Legislative Counsel Saul Bercovitch, secretly went to work pulling off a deceptive scheme whereby the language of  Senate Bill 55 was gutted and secretly passed by the Legislature under the guise of being an “urgency measure.” The voices of State Bar members asking for the right to be heard since Schwarzenegger’s famous caveat that the State Bar must be beyond reproach were muzzled.

This was all done with recently filed State Bar complaints pending against Williams and Bercovitch for ethical violations related to their attempts to pass a new funding bill,  cries of foul by State Bar members and Miller’s refusal to meet and address the crisis in a meaningful way as the lawyer and gentleman he purports to be.

Some might call this politics as usual. I call it fraud, suppression of evidence, obstruction of justice and prima facie evidence of predicate acts of federal racketeering which can only be remedied through member- initiated class action litigation.

Ph. 510 622 2100, Fax 510 622 4188

But getting back to the issue of the day. A piece of unconstitutional and oppressive  legislation now sits on the Governor’s desk. It would be gross negligence for Attorney General Jerry Brown and the  Justice Department State Bar members he plans to pack the State Capitol with next year to advise or permit Schwarzenegger to sign it.  Such action will enslave the citizens of California in a secret government to which there will be no escape.

The lights are on you, Mr. Schwarzenegger and the cameras are beginning to roll. Please don’t make the mistake made by the Legislature and State Bar officials and think the rest of California isn’t watching. Let your greatness shine.

California lawyers and members of the public are urged to phone, fax and e-mail Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown and demand the veto of Senate Bill 55 based on its unconstitutionally, illegality and fraudulent passage through the Legislature.

Hon. Arnold Schwarzenegger: State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814, Ph. 916-445-2841, Fax 916-558-3160, http://www.gov.ca.gov/interact#email

direct e-mail from the Governor’s official website.

Hon. Jerry Brown: 1515 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612, Ph. 510-622-2100, Fax 510-622-4188, info@jerrybrown.org

Republicans in San Francisco Should Not
Have to Vote for Democrats

Assembly Budget Committee for the Eighth Extraordinary Session Will Address California’s Worsening Fiscal Crisis

SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Nestande, R-Palm Desert, today announced that he has been appointed by Speaker Karen Bass to the Eighth Extraordinary Session Budget Committee.  The committee will hold hearings and work on solutions to close the estimated $21 billion budget deficit that California is currently facing.

“The Legislature’s priority needs to be getting our fiscal house in order,” said Nestande.  “Transparency and accountability are desperately needed so we never have to face this magnitude of deficit again.  I am pleased to be appointed to this special session budget committee so we can begin working on solutions immediately.”

Nestande’s Assembly Bill 1645 and Assembly Constitutional Amendment 28 have been introduced in the regular Legislative Session and will be introduced into the budget extraordinary session as well in the next few days.

The Governor’s 2010-11 budget proposal forecasts that California is facing an immediate $6.6 billion shortfall in the current budget year, and a projected $13.3 billion deficit next year.  In response to these projections, Schwarzenegger declared last week that California was in a state of fiscal emergency and ordered the Legislature to convene an extraordinary session to address California’s fiscal problems.

Assemblyman Nestande proudly serves the communities of Canyon Lake, Indian Wells, Lake Elsinore, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Riverside, Temecula, Perris, Wildomar, Winchester, Menifee, Hemet, Anza, Idyllwild, Bermuda Dunes, Mountain Center and Woodcrest.

Highlights and Analysis of the Governor’s Budget

Read complete analysis (PDF)

Executive Summary

When the Governor signed the revised 2009 Budget Act in July 2009, the anticipated budget deficit for 2010-11 was $6.9 billion.  However, largely as a result of continued economic weakness and because many of the budget solutions failed to deliver the anticipated savings, the budget gap has grown to $19.9 billion ($6.6 billion in 2009-10 and $12.3 billion in 2010-11) including $1 billion for a reserve.

The Governor indicates that $4.9 billion of solutions have been lost as a result of federal and state court decisions (e.g., In-Home Support Services program changes, sale of State Compensation Insurance Fund, and use of certain transportation funds to offset General Fund expenditures) – though there are several billion dollars more at-risk in other lawsuits that have not yet been acknowledged in this budget (i.e., state worker furloughs, use of Redevelopment Agency funds, several tax cases and Medi-Cal provider rate cases.)   In addition, increased population/caseload driven costs ($1.4 billion) and the “erosion” or failure to achieve some of the enacted solutions ($2.3 billion) such as the state prison and Medi-Cal savings have contributed to the increased budget gap.  Lower than anticipated revenues account for another $3.4 billion of the identified budget deficit.

In order to generate immediate action and focus on the state budget, the Governor proclaimed a “fiscal emergency” pursuant to his Proposition 58 (2004) authority. The Proposition 58 special session requires the Legislature to send the Governor a bill addressing the fiscal emergency within 45 days or it cannot act on any other bills.  The Governor has proposed about $1.2 billion of “special session” solutions for 2009-10 that grow to nearly $7.7 billion in 2010-11 (totaling $8.9 billion).  If the legislature waits until July 1, the savings would be reduced by over $2.4 billion – that is the cost of delay.

The Governor’s proposed 2010-11 Budget includes a combination of major spending reductions, some fund shifts and “other” revenue increases (e.g., sale of EdFund and sale-leaseback proposals), a new category called “alternative funding” that appears to be more new revenues and fund shifts (e.g., Proposition 10 and 63 funds, add speeding violations to red light cameras, Tranquillon Ridge, Emergency Response Initiative, etc.) and a considerable expectation for new federal funds– but no new general taxes – to make up the budgetary shortfall.

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