IN MEMORY OF MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH - ANOTHER FORGOTTEN ABUSED ARIZONA SENIOR

 

IN MEMORY OF MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH WHO JUST PASSED AWAY ANOTHER FORGOTTEN ABUSED SENIOR

By: Mark and Carol Fairall – 10/28/2017

MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH

Millie Toedebusch was abused and defrauded at Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV). She went to Arizona law enforcement and agencies for help but she was ignored. Ms. Toedebusch often cried how SGRV collected a wrongful $4,872.80 judgment twice. Ms. Toedebusch paid the monies but SGRV's lawyer, Scott E. Williams, also garnished her checking account. It took months to get the illegal garnishment monies returned.

Ms. Toedebusch complained about the following SGRV's problems to law enforcement:
1. False advertising,
2. Altered contract,
3. Personal verbal attacks from SGRV's former manager,
4. The withholding of essential services,
5. Fair housing rights violations for complaining to officials,
6. Fire dangers at SGRV,
7. Unsafe puddles of water on walkways,
8. Confusing agreements,
9. SGRV demanded the withdrawal of her complaints, and
10. A lawsuit that she lost when her attorney failed to  appear at her trial.

Ms. Toedebusch was 102-years-old at her passing. She authorized the release of our private investigator's, Jacob Mueller, report of his verification of the SGRV crimes and the lack of justice that she received. God bless you Ms. Toedebusch for fighting for yours and others civil rights. It is no wonder that only 1 out of 23 elder crimes are reported because NO ONE CARES. The below private investigators report went to and was ignored by the Peoria police and the Arizona Attorney General. Justice? NO! Ms. Toedebusch is number 49 of our 66 documented SGRV elder abuse cases who have passed away without any justice in the Arizona Badlands.

THE CRIMINALS THAT SCAMMED THE DECEASED MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH 

Ms. Toedebusch died on 09/25/2017 a SGRV scammed senior that lost $4,872.80. We posted our private investigator's 08/29/2011 report about the elder abuse and fraud that Millie Toedebusch suffered at SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE (SGRV). It took three crooked former SGRV employees (Green, Duncan, and Nunley) and the SGRV's shyster attorney (Scott E. Williams). This is where they are now:

Scott Green, former SGRV manger, is back in jail for parole violations of his 2005 felony conviction #105-cr-10166DPW in Boston. Green falsified 2,679 bills to Medicare for services he was paid but never did the work. Green and Duncan received an award in 2009 from the former management company of SGRV. Crime did not pay for Green. Carolyn Duncan, former SGRV sales manager, is back at the old SGRV which now has a new name and owners. Duncan altered the dates on Ms. Toedebusch’s SGRV contract and she did the same on Carol Fairall's SGRV's contract. Crime pays well for Duncan. Karl Nunley, former assistant manager at SGRV, has retired out of state. The SGRV problems resulted in his bankruptcy and divorce. Crime did not pay for Nunley. Scott E. Williams, SGRV's former attorney, is still an attorney. Williams has a huge law firm that specializes in evictions and elections law. Williams is protected because he brags that many Arizona politicians are grateful to him that they have their jobs. Crime pays very well for Williams.

It was eight years ago today on 10/23/2009 that Carol moved from SGRV. Carol also suffered slumlord retaliation for complaining to officials about SGRV like Ms. Toedebusch. Carol had the delivery of her medications stopped, refusal to resolve the mold problem in her SGRV apartment, and was sued twice for a disputed unpaid $2,000 rent that was later forgiven by SGRV's new owners Fannie Mae. SGRV refused to repair Mark's broken SGRV apartment's air conditioning unit which forced he and his aunt to move. Both Mark and his aunt, Catherine Reinertson, were sued on Christmas Eve in 2009. Mark was sued twice by Williams in retaliation for filing complaints about him and SGRV. Mrs. Reinertson was evicted and paid the $3,000 in the SGRV scam under threat of going to jail. We lost over $8,000 in SGRV apartment upgrades, deposits, and illegal service dog fees. Ms. Reinertson died shortly afterwards in fear and a broken woman from the SGRV scam.

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MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH WAS TWICE DENIED HER DAY IN COURT

This week there is a memorial for the elder abuse victim, Millie Toedebusch. Ms. Toedebusch had her FAIR HOUSING RIGHTS violated by SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE (SGRV). Ms. Toedebusch had her essential services illegally withheld in SGRV's retaliation of her filing complaints with authorities. The silencing and failing to allow Ms. Toedebusch her day in court was done twice by Arizona Justice Court system. The Arizona Justice Court system is simply a rubber-stamp court which favors slumlords that uses non-lawyer judges who are often lacking in needed legal knowledge.

Ms. Toedebusch's first miscarriage of justice was when her Area Agency on Aging nonprofit organization's appointed lawyer, Tim Goddard (AG Goddard's brother), failed to appear at her trial concerning SGRV lawsuit for the nonpayment of rent. The second time Ms. Toedebusch had her legal rights to testify violated at our July 2010 justice court trial. Ms. Toedebusch was our witness in our lawsuit against SGRV in attempt to recover lost $5,000+ in apartment upgrades caused by SGRV's retaliation eviction and the recovery of the illegally collected $450 service dog fees. Mr. Toedebusch was thrown out of court by the judge, Melanie Deforest, because she whispered to her driver that she could not hear.

Judge Deforest was an incompetent justice court judge. Deforest was appointed as a political favor, had no formal education as she reported, and failed to complete required judge legal classes. Deforest threw out our evidence, refused to delay the trial when our witness was in the hospital, threw out our second witness (Toedebusch) from the courtroom, and gave a $9,999.99 damages award to SGRV on a $2,000 rent dispute that had been previously awarded. Deforest even awarded over $10,000 in legal fees to SGRV's lawyer, Scott E. Williams. Mark was sued for the Interference of a Contractual Relationship and SGRV won with a $0-dollar award plus $5,000+ in legal costs. SGRV's lawyer, Scott E. Williams, successfully ballooned a disputed $2,000 rent judgment into over a $22,000 SGRV judgment. Deforest did this for her buddy Scott E. Williams because he was also a part-time East Mesa justice of the peace. Deforest denied our lawsuit for any recovery of stolen monies by SGRV and violated federal service dog laws.

Deforest was forced to resign in 2012 by the presiding Justice of the Peace for Maricopa County, C. Steven McMurry, because she was dishonest about her educational background and failed to take required legal classes. Our efforts to reverse our travesty of justice were denied, this included our: Fraud of the Court Motion, Appeal, Judge complaint against Deforest, and Bar complaint against Williams. In fact, SGRV's former owner recently attempted to foreclose on our home with that wrongful ballooned judgment even though the previous debt was not his to collect and had been forgiven, violated fair debt collection laws with no efforts to verify the debt, and was past the five-year Statute of Limitations. This is why we want the Arizona law to require Justices of the Peace to be lawyers that follow the law.

 

           THE PEORIA POLICE DID NOTHING TO PROTECT MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH FROM CRIMES

We are remembering Millie Toedebusch this week because her memorial service is this Saturday. Most of Ms. Toedebusch's family lives out of state and were never aware of the abuse and fraud that she suffered in the last years of her life. We were in constant contact with Ms. Toedebusch and only could provide our shoulders for her to cry on. It is hoped that her elder abuse story helps to make people more aware of this vicious crime against the elderly.

Ms. Toedebusch was defrauded by our former senior housing, Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV). Her name was given to the Peoria Police in 2010 as a SGRV elder abuse victim. Officer Shari Howard told us the Peoria Police had no interest or manpower to worry about elder abuse. Peoria Police Chief, Roy Minter Jr, hung up on us when we requested the opening of our complaint and provided our private detective's SGRV crime report. Ms. Toedebusch had three more criminal incidents that the Peoria Police did nothing about in the last three years.

Ms. Toedebusch had her storage facility robbed at Vista Del Rio of her Christmas decorations and an expensive dish setting. The new scam by senior housing facilities is to hire caregivers from an outside firm so the senior housing is not responsible for licensing and thefts by the caregivers. Vista Del Rio's "GREEN GIRLS" stole Ms. Toedebusch’s jewelry. She hired a former SGRV employee, GEORGIO MORABITO, to help her move and sell some antiques. Mr. Morabito stole $1,000 and many boxes of priceless antiques. We traced Mr. Morabito to help Ms. Toedebusch. We discovered that changed his business name from Morabito's Antiques to Angelo's Antiques (his middle name) after his scam. The Peoria police never interviewed Mr. Morabito for his crime against Ms. Toedebusch. The Peoria police told us that they did not have the manpower or interest to worry about elder abuse and fraud.

We warned Ms. Toedebusch that Mr. Morabito was untrustworthy. Mr. Morabito was going to testify about SGRV's crimes at our July 2010 trial but he canceled the day before our trial. Mr. Morabito had been threatened by SGRV's manager and attorney that he would his lose SGRV job if he testified. We reported this WITNESS TAMPERING to the judge and Arizona officials, but that criminal activity was also ignored in the Arizona Badlands.

 

 THE ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL DID NOTHING TO PROTECT

MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH FROM CRIMES



SALLY BYERS

Millie Toedebusch was not the only elder that lived at SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE (SGRV) that filed formal fair housing rights violations charges. The other SGRV older resident was SALLY BYERS. In March 2009, Ms. Toedebusch and Sally Byers went to the Arizona Attorney General's Office to see TERRY GODDARD. Their complaint was that SGRV's manager was violating their fair housing rights. SGRV's Scott Green labeled residents that complained about the poor and dangerous living conditions as "MALCONTENTS." Both Toedebusch and Byers were labeled by Green as malcontents and were punished by withholding services, abusive verbal attacks, and exorbitant raising of rents. Mr. Goddard told Toedebusch and Byers to hire a lawyer and failed to stop the illegal landlord Retaliation, Arizona law ARS 33-1381. ARS 33-1324 is the failure of the landlord to maintain a fit premise.

After Toedebusch and Byers attempted and failed in their fight for their legal rights the SGRV RETALIATION escalated. They both were barred from the game-room and were blocked from playing bridge. They played Bridge on the patio but were told to stop otherwise SGRV would make them pay a monetary fine. Toedebusch's refrigerator broke and her food spoiled, and it took months to have it repaired. Byers had an additional $500 increase to her monthly SGRV rent. Sally Byers fell at SGRV and permanently injured herself. She lived on the second floor and had to use the slippery stairs since the SGRV elevator was broken. She had to move to her daughter's house back east and was forced to pay three months for her empty SGRV apartment (over $6,200). Ms. Toedebusch lost $4,872.80 from SGRV’s baseless lawsuit.

Ms. Byers recently passed away and was another victim of Arizona elder abuse. Arizona law enforcement did not to follow the state/federal laws and failed both Ms. Toedebusch and Ms. Byers. Ms. Toedebusch’s memorial service is this Saturday. We took these elder abuse incidents to several attorneys. We were told that you cannot make the police follow the laws. This is especially true in the Arizona Badlands.

It is interesting to note, that the Arizona Attorney General, Terry Goddard, that declined Ms. Toedebusch’s fair housing complaint is the brother of the attorney, Tim Goddard, who failed to appear at her trial. Ms. Toedebusch never had a chance for any justice in the Arizona Badlands.

PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR JACOB MUELLER'S
REPORT ABOUT MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH

CAROL AND MARK FAIRALL
MILLIE TOEDEBUSCH

 

 

 

 

 

 

PASS HB 2525 AND BANISH PHOTO RADAR FROM ARIZONA

IT IS TIME TO BAN PHOTO RADAR IN ARIZONA

Written by: Mark and Carol Fairall

Sun City West, Arizona

03/03/2017

The Arizona lawmakers are considering passing HB 2525 which would ban photo-enforcement cameras throughout Arizona. HB 2525 just passed the Arizona House of Representatives with a close vote of 32-28 to eliminate all photo-radar cameras in Arizona. It is being reported that there is momentum building at the Arizona Capitol to pass HB 2525 and banish photo radar.

Now the bill goes to the Arizona Senate for a vote. Arizona Representative Grantham calls the photo-enforcement cameras a modern "tyranny" and a "police state tactic." Grantham told his fellow lawmakers that the automated traffic enforcement violated basic constitutional protections ensuring people face their accusers. He and other lawmakers said the cameras were little more than a “naked attempt” for cities to squeeze revenue.



Mark Fairall road rage incident picture
taken by Redflex photo radar camera

We wrote a heavily documented report in October 2013 about how we failed to receive justice. We were victims of road-rage with a car bouncing off our car's rear bumper and sped up to protect ourselves. The judge failed to follow the self-protection law, Castle Law SB 1469, and refused to look at the picture of the road-rage we experienced. The interim city judge, B. Monte Morgan, was more interested in meeting his photo-radar revenue goals and not be fired like the last city judge, James Mapp, who failed to produce the "big bucks" for El Mirage. Our Redflex report was our most read internet report that received many compliments for its extensive details and heavy documentation. We documented the injustice online at:

http://stopelderabusepetition.blogspot.com/2013/10/be-careful-of-el-mirage-arizona-because.html

Representative Grantham is reporting that more citizens are becoming concerned about the Constitutionality of the highway photo radar system. Grantham is concerned about the fraud problems of Redflex bribery which has resulted in jails terms for former company executives, Karen Finley and Aaron Rosenberg, and a Chicago official, John Bills. Reflex has agreed to settle the Chicago lawsuit for the company’s illegal activities for $20 million. He is worried about the corrupt relationship between city leaders and the photo radar vendors. The solution Representative Grantham states is to ban the photo radar camera before that happens in Arizona like it already has happened in other many other states.

Some Arizona municipalities are paying big money for studies to justify keeping the photo radar cameras. Grantham is suspect of those statistics because the municipalities have a vested interest in their self-studies. Scottsdale reported that 42,290 photo radar tickets were issued last year costing drivers over $3 million and nearly half of that went to the city. The Town of Paradise Valley reported that 23,722 photo radar tickets were issued last year costing drivers over $2 million and nearly half went to that town. Of course, those municipalities want the photo radar to continue because they are addicted to the profitable robot cameras with quotas.

The Arizona Lawmakers need to know that Redflex Holdings is a dying company due to the cancellation of contracts caused by its scandals. The Redflex stock has dropped from its high of $4.15 a share to its present $0.70 a share. Stock analysts give Redflex a 55% chance of filing bankruptcy and highly recommends to sell the risky stock. Redflex just reported a $26.2 million loss for the first-half of this year and revenue dropped 8.9% in the USA. This poor financial condition of Redflex affects the company's ability to maintain its equipment and that puts in jeopardy the validity of its photo radar camera results. Arizona does not need another "Boondoggle" like Theranos! See Redflex's downward financial documentation at:
https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/51/5160.asp
 

There have been several lawsuits against photo radar won based upon the collection violations (New Mexico $3.5 million settlement) and the illegality of the drivers being unable to cross examine the robot cameras (Louisiana $7.1 million settlement & New Jersey $4.2 million settlement). The largest is a $90 million class action lawsuit which has just been a "green light" to proceed in Canada. The Canadian class action lawsuit against photo radar is for the refund of 70,000 tickets from 151 photo radar cameras in Quebec, which could be $90 million in refunds. The Canadian judge ruled that photo radar cameras is "Insufficient", "Inadmissible" and "Illegal" because no officer witnessed the traffic violation. Judge Serge Cimon concluded that the photo radar evidence was "Hearsay." What is so shocking is that Canadian Government is listed as one of the six defendants in the photo radar class action lawsuit. This could be very expensive for Canada for allowing the lawbreaking photo radar system.

Photo radar contributes to commercial "Blight" because motorists avoid areas where the robot camera speed traps exists. Grand Ave is not so "Grand" anymore because it has become known as a greedy "Speed Trap" for El Mirage. Cities are fighting blight. Grand Avenue is a prime local example how different cities are fighting blight, graffiti/litter, and closed businesses. Grand Avenue is 50 miles long and it goes through seven cities. Glendale looks to improve transportation and access to its “historic old town” businesses. Phoenix is creating an "arts district” that won a National Planning Achievement for Urban Design for its focus on business growth. Otherwise, Grand Avenue has a newly improved highway that runs through Arizona's biggest "Blight Route" in Arizona. The photo radar system has played a major role in reducing traffic and destroying business opportunities.

An extremely important point to make is that robot photo radar cameras do not stop dangerous highway crimes in progress; such as: road-rage, reckless driving, impaired driving, wrong-way driving, highway shootings, and extreme speeding. You need real police to truly protect the public not robot cameras!
 

Many other states and cities are banning the revenue robot cameras and are supporting their citizens' Constitutional Rights. Arizona needs to join the other enlighten leaders that view the photo-radar camera law enforcement as a SCAM. It is urged that Governor Ducey continues to reduce risks and promote business growth. Governor Ducey needs to support of HB 2525, the banning of photo radar, because it is one key to Arizona's increased prosperity.

The ARIZONA REPUBLIC newspaper just published our Opinion Letter:
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/letters/2017/02/27/unconstitutional-photo-cameras/98497906/

 It is time to stop illegal photo radar in Arizona otherwise our state will look like Red China. Redflex handles the spying for Red China. Redflex's partner is China Tell which is owned by the Red China Government. This is shockingly dangerous to our security!

http://thenewspaper.com/news/26/2658.asp

 

Mark and Carol Fairall

The Real Faces of Elder Abuse

Carol and Mark Fairall

Mark was forced in retirement from his vice-president bank manager career, at 43, because of a stroke. Carol ended her restaurant management career, at 57, because of a needed liver transplant. After we retired we met at our senior living facility, Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV). We saw the abuse and corruption there and we fought for the rights of our fellow senior residents. Our fight against elder abuse and senior financial exploitation has mushroomed into our being Elder Justice Advocates.  

We first reported in 2009 and 2010 the SGRV Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation Crimes to the Peoria Police and the Arizona Attorney General. However, the Arizona Law Enforcement failed to interview the SGRV abused victims and failed to discover that the manager of SGRV, Scott Green, confessed and was convicted in 2005 of Medicare Fraud. Scott Green was terminated on 08/28/12 from SGRV and reincarcerated for parole violations. We presented our documentation to the California Court concerning the mastermind of the Oakdale Heights/AREI Ponzi scheme, James Koenig. That Ponzi scheme defrauded 2,000 investors of $250 million and hurt over 2,500 seniors that were living in the 23 senior living centers destroyed in the Ponzi scheme. Based upon our evidence the judge sentenced James Koenig to 43-years in jail. The California judge said this was more than the money but it was elder abuse. SGRV was one of the 23 senior living facilities destroyed by the Ponzi Scheme. In 2015, the 20 investors of SGRV lost $4.5 million when it closed and filed bankruptcy. The US Senate – Special Committee on Aging had us post our report about the "The SGRV Elder Abuse Story" and about the 66 SGRV elder abuse cases, 47 seniors have died with no justice. 



Carol Fairall in the hospital for the
rejection of her transplanted liver

Carol's exposure to the SGRV toxic mold started her transplanted liver rejection. We speak from experience after being abused and seeing many seniors abused and financially exploited. We taught classes and write articles as THE REAL FACES OF ELDER ABUSE. Our emphasis is on how to avoid being a victim of elder abuse and fraud. Elder Abuse and Senior Fraud has become epidemic and the “CRIME OF THE 21^ST CENTURY” with a senior being abused in the US every five seconds. We taught that the key to stopping elder abuse is to prevent it before it happens with knowledge. We write a daily Facebook “Mark Fairall”, which has maxed out with 5,000 worldwide Facebook Friends. We share elder abuse stories, new senior protection law ideas, and tips on senior scams. Finally, we each volunteer about 5,000 hours a year which totals for the both of us for the past five years of over 50,000 hours in protecting seniors from elder abuse and fraud.

Mark has been recognized in 2013 by COVINGTON’S WHO’S WHO for his civic volunteer activities. Carol was the runner-up for ARIZONA AARP’S 2013 Andrus Community Service Award. Carol recently received letters from President Obama and the US Department of Health and Human Services thanking her for her volunteer work and wishing her better health.                               

THE STATE BAR OF ARIZONA IS BROKEN - PART THREE

Written by: Mark and Carol Fairall
January 07, 2017
Protected by Copyright

THE ARIZONA BAR BREAKS THE LAW BY USING RETALIATION

IMPROPER ARIZONA DEBT COLLECTION: The Arizona debt collection business is out of control with improper lawsuits from debt collectors who fail to follow proper debt collection procedures. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reported 74,000 complaints were filed for improper debt collection in 2015. The number one Arizona consumer complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2015 was for illegal and abusive Debt Collection. The FTC had 10,211 complaints about debt collection abuse violations filed by Arizonans in 2015 and most of the complaints were filed by the elderly. This problem has overloaded the court system in Arizona with junk debt lawsuits. In 2013, over 21,000 new junk debt collector Arizona lawsuits which represented 15% of the year’s total state lawsuits. The junk debt collection business is very profitable earning nearly $13 billion a year in the $100 billion a year industry.

One of the major problems in the Junk Debt Collection Industry is the failure of their lawyers to properly review the evidence before filing a lawsuit. It was noted that many debt collection attorneys spent less than a minute, often less than 30-seconds, reviewing a case before initiating a lawsuit. Their volume is so great and the attorneys are so greedy that they rush to illegal lawsuits. The CFPB requires the debt collector’s lawyer to contact the consumer to verify the debt and the consumer has 30-days to respond. Failure to allow the consumer 30-days to dispute the debt can lead to an unfair and costly lawsuit for the consumer to fight and it could cost the lawyer a $1000 fine plus repayment for the consumer’s costs and damages incurred in a FDCPA violation lawsuit.

The Arizona legal system and State Bar of Arizona (Bar) have failed to protect the homeowners from these vexatious litigious predators of the sick, elderly, and poor who illegally misuse the court system to steal homes. The State Bar of Arizona is failing to follow ARS Supreme Court Rule 32. It is no wonder that the United Nations HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH has stated in its 2016 report “RUBBER STAMP JUSTICE: US COURTS, DEBT BUYING CORPORATIONS AND THE POOR” the worst states that favor junk debt collectors was Arizona, Arkansas, and Tennessee.

BAR RETALIATION: The State Bar of Arizona refused to open our complaints against two slumlord attorneys, Scott E. Williams (filed on 05/13/2016) and Clint Goodman (Bar number #16-1633 filed on 05/28/2016), who have been previously found guilty of FDCPA violations. We feel our recent internet report about the broken State Bar of Arizona has caused this shocking Bar Retaliation and egregious Injustice! Our Two Broken Arizona Bar Reports can be found posted on the Internet on 08/13/2016 and 08/28/2016 at the below links:

Part One:
http://therealfacesofelderabuse.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-state-of-arizona-bar-which-oversee.html

Part Two:
http://therealfacesofelderabuse.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-arizona-bar-is-broken-part-two_12.html

We have been scammed by two corrupt attorneys and the broken State Bar of Arizona. We have had our Constitution Rights Violated by officers of the Court and the State Bar of Arizona (governmental entities). The Arizona Bar needs to be held accountable for failing to perform its duties and the crooked lawyers keep scamming people because of their favoritism. The State Bar of Arizona needs follow the law and investigate all attorney complaints.

Williams and Goodman break laws with illegal home foreclosure to make a quick profit for the cash hungry slumlord. These law-breaking attorneys make homeowners homeless with their illegal aggressive debt collection activities

SCOTT E. WILLIAMS

CROOKED LAWYER INFORMATION ON SCOTT E. WILLIAMS: Williams runs an evictions assembly line, Williams, Zinman, & Parham PC, which files 10% of the Arizona slumlord evictions every year (now over 8,000 evictions a year). Mr. Williams brags that judges and politicians are grateful for his efforts as an elections attorney because he helps them keep their jobs. Mr. Williams has boasted that he has processed over 100,000 eviction lawsuits in the past 20 years. Mr. Williams was a Pro Tempore Justice Court Judge, handled the evictions for Maricopa County rentals, and wrote the Arizona Landlord and Tenant Act. Mr. Williams actively teaches at the State of Arizona Bar and is a politically well-connected friend of the Bar. We are very aware of Mr. Williams because he represented the 2005 Medicare Fraud Felon, Scott Green, at our previous senior living facility, Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV), who defrauded the elderly. We wrote the SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE ELDER ABUSE STORY and sent it to the US Senate Special Committee on Aging, where it is being called one of the worst elder abuse crimes. A Fraud of the Court Motion was filed against Scott E. Williams, but it was declined. The judge that presided over the botched lawsuit, Melanie Deforest, was later removed from the bench for lying and incompetence. Scott E. Williams produces fake documents, tampers with witnesses, manipulates the court, and can make court records disappear.

The State Bar of Arizona refused to open our original 2010 complaint against Mr. Williams for his illegal activities. In the past seven year, 46 of our 66 documented SGRV elder abuse victims, have died without justice. Many of these elder abuse incidents were verified by our licensed private investigator, Jacob Mueller. Mr. Williams allowed the former SGRV manager to stop the delivery of my wife’s medication and refused a Reasonable Accommodations Request for continued medication delivery. Williams dummied up a fake SGRV “no mold report” that he obtained for free for a company that shortly went out of business so he hired the mold examiner for his lawyer group, ALTA. Williams aided the former SGRV manager, Scott Green, who was later discovered to be a 2005 Medicare Fraud Felon abuse and defraud the elderly. We were instrument to get Green back in jail for his parole violations. We were instrumental in getting a 43-year prison sentence for the Ponzi scheme, AREI/OAKDALE HEIGHTS, mastermind, James Koenig, because he defrauded 2,000 investors of $250 million and destroyed 23 senior living facilities which included SGRV. Mr. Williams told us he would get even for our filing complaints, but we had no idea it would include an attempted home foreclosure and attempted murder.

Our new 2016 Bar complaint is just the continuation of Mr. Williams’ HATE CRIMES against seniors who fight for their fair housing rights. It was reported to the Bar in my complaint that Scott E. Williams lied to HUD in my complaint #09-11-0405-8, Fairall v. Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV), which caused HUD to wrongfully close my fair housing complaint on 04/04/2011. Williams dummied up a “free no mold” report from a mold examiner that he later hired. Also, Williams lied when he said it was the policy of SGRV to deny medication delivery. This has been verified by court documents and our private investigator’s, Jacob Mueller, report dated 01/23/2012 stating that the refusal of medications was done as a slumlord’s retaliation. It was reported to the Bar that this documentation was in our 100-page report, THE SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE ELDER ABUSE STORY, dated 04/13/2013 and sent to the US Senate and posted online. The Bar’s Chief Counsel, Maret Vessella, refused to read our new 05/13/2016 complaint against Scott E. Williams stating the matter was closed in 2011 and refused to read the documented discovered illegal perjury activities of Williams.

MARET VESSELLA

The Chief Bar Counsel at the State Bar of Arizona, Maret Vessella, took the cavalier attitude in her 09/23/2016 letter stating: “I have not re-reviewed the allegations regarding Mr. Williams and do not intend to, as the matter was closed over six years ago and is not subject to further review.” It is against the law that Ms. Vessella did not even review our new allegations of attorney Scott E. Williams’ FDCPA violations. The State Bar of Arizona is a “Good-Old-Boy” mandatory membership quasi-union that favors its friends. The State Bar of Arizona is failing to properly protect the public from wrongful home foreclosures and is failing to properly investigate all attorney complaints. The State Bar of Arizona has failed to follow the law which oversees, regulates, and disciplines all attorneys. The Bar has breached its Legal Duties, damaging the honor and dignity of the legal profession while causing us losses. The State Bar of Arizona has become an accomplice to Williams.

CLINT GOODMAN

CROOKED LAWYER INFORMATION ON CLINT GOODMAN: We were forced into a bankruptcy to save our home from foreclosure because of a third-party attorney, Goodman, who failed to verify the SGRV debt. Mr. Goodman filed a new lawsuit on 07/30/2015 against us in his attempt to make us homeless by illegally foreclosing on our home with a ballooned slumlord lawsuit. The debt in question was passed on for any collection efforts by SGRV’s Fanny Mae lawyer on 10/30/2014 with its efforts to resolve our complaints and losses. Clint Goodman failed to timely notify us of the lawsuit until our mortgage lender informed us a month prior to the 03/23/2016 foreclosure hearing. We were forced to file bankruptcy on 03/22/2016.

The Ninth Circuit Court has stated that all multiple debt collectors are required to verify the legitimacy of the debt they are trying to collect with a Debt Verification Letter. This was a decision that reversed a previous judgment that Williams had won Hernandez v. Williams, Zinman & Parham P.C on 07/28/2016. Clint Goodman failed to verify the slumlord debt prior to filing the lawsuit #CV2015-094180 – HOAZILLA LLC V MARK AND CAROL FAIRALL. We were forced to file bankruptcy because we never had any opportunity the dispute the validly of the debt plus the lawsuit was not timely served. Our house would have been foreclosed on and sold before any legal action could have been taken to keep us from being made homeless by the shyster attorney Goodman who does not follow the FDCPA. Goodman is also a repeat FDCPA violator with the 11/04/2014 case #CV-13-02659-PHX-DGC Torrie v. Goodman Law Office

SGRV property went through bankruptcy and foreclosure. The company that recently sued us was HOAZILLA LLC which is the investment company that bought Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV) from Fannie Mae in 2015. The Fannie Mae attorney had written us in 2014 stating it they wanted to forgive our wrongful judgment for our removing our negative SGRV postings. We explained we had lost over $5,000 in apartment upgrade when SGRV refused to renew our 94-year old aunt’s, Catherine Reinertson, lease. This resulted in her death in next year when SGRV extorted $3,000 for her on top of making her move. Also, the fact that SGRV refuse to refund the illegally collected $450 fee charged for our licensed service dog. The Fannie Mae attorney did not continue demanding the removal of our negative internet postings and simply stated that they were not aware of the details of our SGRV grievances.

In 2015, SGRV was being remodeled and its name was changed to The Fountains at Lake Pleasant (FLP).

SUN GROVE RESORT VILLAGE
MOLDY FOUNTAIN

The FLP was remodeling and needed quick cash and had an INVALID ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGMENT signed and filed the lawsuit for $30,000+ and placed an illegal lien our home. The invalid assignment was signed by the former manager and investor whose group lost $4.5 million when SGRV went bankrupt in 2013 and closed. We had attempted to pay the $2,600 rental debt but SGRV refused it wanting more money and then ballooned it to over $30,000.

The State of Arizona Bar has violated our Constitutional Rights by failing to properly do its job. I have discovered that the attorney Clint Goodman illegally used an Invalid Assignment of Judgment dated 04/01/2015 to sue us. The Bar wrote on its 09/23/2016 letter wrongly stated the lawsuit had factual support and no Rules of Professional Conduct was violated. The Arizona Bar rushed to a refusal to open my complaint #16-1633 against Clint Goodman without a proper investigation.

Goodman failed to allow me the FDCPA 30-days to dispute the debt. Goodman failed to follow the law and failed to do his proper due diligence before he sued. Goodman did not have the legal right to sue us. Goodman should be disbarred for malpractice because he used an invalid assignment with no verification of the validity of the debt as required by law for his own personal gain. The Bar failed to properly investigate the authenticity of the Assignment of Judgment that was illegally used to sue me and make my family homeless in order to just raise money for a slumlord. Goodman violated ER 8.4 MISCONDUCT of Professional Rules of Conduct for attorneys by being dishonest in prejudicing and influencing the administration of justice with an invalid assignment of judgment while ignoring our Constitutional Rights.

It was reported to the Bar in my complaint that Clint Goodman broke the FDCPA law by failing to allow me the 30-days to verify the debt. Again, Maret Vessella denied to open my complaint stating she had reviewed the lawsuit and wrongly stated that all was proper. That was a lie because the lawsuit #CV2015-09418 against us was based upon an Invalid Assignment of Judgment which was signed on 04/01/2015.

We discovered this evidence in recent motions filed by our bankruptcy attorney attempting to get the illegal lien cleared from my home which should have been removed in our bankruptcy. On 04/01/2015, Melchoir Lumetta wrongfully stated that he was the Managing Member of Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV) when he assigned our judgment to Hoazilla. Lumetta lost that right because Fanny Mae owned the property after May 2013 because SGRV filed for bankruptcy (Two Years Prior). Lumetta was an angry investor in the SGRV property. His group bought the property in 2006 in the AREI/Oakdale Heights Ponzi scam. The 20 investors lost $4.5 million when the real estate collateral based investment Ponzi scam collapsed. SGRV was repossessed by Bank of America but the bank had a Fannie Mae guarantee of the SGRV loan. Lumetta did not have the authority to assign our SGRV judgment on 04/01/2015. The invalid document was signed by Melchoir Lumetta who lost that authority when:

1. SGRV went bankrupt in May 2013 and was repossessed by Bank of America and Fannie Mae,
2. SGRV’s property and assets were sold in the 2014 Trustee’s Auction,
3. the Fannie Mae attorney stated in its 2014 letter that they had no interest to pursue our questionable debt and that the previous SGRV owners had no interest or authority,
4. Blue Valley Apartments was the owner as of 06/14/2014, and
5. SGRV TERMINATED its corporation with the Arizona Corporation Commission on 03/31/2015 (which was the day before the invalid assignment of judgment was signed).

03/31/2015 SUN GROVE SENIOR LIVING, LLC - CORPORATION TERMINATION BY LUMETTA

04/01/2015 - INVALID ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGMENT BY LUMETTA

Closed corporations with no assets or authority have no rights to sue people. The lawsuit never should have been filed. It was just more harassment and an illegal attempt to obtain operating capital for a new owner slumlord that was remodeling for a reopening of the senior living facility as The Fountains at Lake Pleasant.

The BAR does not have to authority and luxury to refuse to read a complaint disclosing where a lawyer is breaking the law. The Bar does not have the right not to properly open an attorney complaint while making a biased and incorrect opinion that the lawsuit was proper when it was based upon an invalid assignment of judgment. The BAR is not properly performing its legal duty and has violated our Constitutional Rights.

We have spoken to many other victims of the corrupt Arizona Bar and they complain that it shows favoritism to friends of the Bar. The Arizona Bar should be reorganized into a voluntary membership organization that is fair to all attorneys and the public. The present Arizona Bar is a bloated overpaid group of lawyers who charge the highest membership fees in the United States while doing virtually nothing but harming people it does not like.

SUMMARY: This is the price for being Elder Protection Activists. SGRV was forced to file bankruptcy and closed because we reported its false internet advertising to the feds and it was forced to stop the scam. This was an “over-the-top” illegal Retaliation by a vindictive investor to get money and make us homeless. Melchoir J. Lumetta was the crooked SGRV investor and he was aided by the shyster attorney Goodman in this egregious elder abuse and senior financial exploitation fraud.

We have filed complaints and lawsuit requests with: the FTC, US Department of Justice, and other state and federal agencies against: Williams, Zinman, & Parham, Goodman Law, and The State Bar of Arizona.

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THE ARIZONA BAR IS BROKEN - PART TWO

THE STATE OF ARIZONA BAR WHICH OVERSEES ATTORNEY IS BROKEN -PART TWO

Written by: Mark and Carol Fairall
August 27, 2016
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THE ARIZONA BAR SALARIES ARE VERY HIGH

The Arizona Bar Association will soon be the most expensive Mandatory Membership Bar Association in the US with the soon to be annual membership fee of $690 a year. The second highest Bar Association with the Mandatory Membership fee is Alaska at $660. This inhibits economic growth because it is reported that new attorneys avoid Arizona because of the high cost of the quasi-union dues.

The Arizona Bar Association’s 2015 Taxes document the excessive compensation of eight key employees who earn over $100k per year before perks, which show:
1. $172k – Maret Vessella – Chief Bar Counsel
2. 214k – John Phelps – CEO (pictured)  

3. 141k – Kathy Gerhart – CFO
4. 173k – John Furlong – General Counsel/Deputy Bar
5. 146k – Amy Rehm – Deputy Chief Bar Counsel
6. 150k – Elizabeth Deane – Chief Member Services Officer
7. 146k – Lisa Fontes – Advertising Sales Manager
8*. 184k – Patricia Sallen – Director of Special Services
9. 131k – Richard Debruhl – Chief Communications Officer
TOTAL: $1.46 Million – 10% of Gross Income
* Patricia Sallen was terminated in 2015 and also received a $59K severance package.

To give you some comparison, the top paid Arizona leaders are:
1.$95k – Governor Doug Ducey
2. 90k – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich
3. 70k – Secretary of State – Michele Reagan

These are outrageously high salaries at the Arizona Bar Association. The Arizona Bar Association’s key people are taking advantage of the fact that the Arizona Bar Association has the highest Mandatory Membership Fees.

Source: 2015 Arizona Bar Tax Return

THE ARIZONA STATE BAR FAVORS ITS OWN WITH SPECIAL TREATMENT PROOF TWO CASES

1. Scott E. Williams (pictured): Mr. Williams teaches landlord/tenant law required for attorneys by the Arizona Bar to keep their attorney licenses current. Mr. Williams gets favorable treatment at the Arizona Bar because he volunteers his time at the Arizona Bar.

The Bar has turned down our 2010 complaint for Williams aiding a slumlord and convicted felon scam seniors. The Bar never responded to our 2016 complaint for Williams violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Mr. Williams handles 10% of Arizona’s slumlord lawsuits against renters. Mr. Williams brags that judge are grateful because his election law representation helps them keep their jobs.

2. Nancy Greenlee (pictured): Ms. Greenlee is an attorney that works out of her home just representing lawyers who have Bar complaints. Her annual income is listed between $100K and $500K per year. Ms. Greenlee represented our former attorney which we filed a Bar complaint against because of his mistakes and lies to the court. We filed a Motion to Dismiss Counsel which the judge granted and replaced the incompetent lying lawyer.

Ms. Greenlee worked at the Arizona Bar from 1990 to 1996 in the attorney discipline area. The Arizona Bar only recommended that our former bad attorney take Bar taught classes. The Arizona Bar makes $2 million a year with required classes rather than the follow normal probation requirements.

We should have realized that we would get no satisfaction from our bar complaints because the Arizona Bar favors its own with special treatments, protection, and referrals.

THE CALIFORNIA STATE BAR PROBLEM

THE STATE LAWMAKERS HAD AN AUDIT TO DOCUMENT THE MESS

The California Bar was audited by the state lawmakers to review attorney complaint backlogs, financial irregularities, and influence peddling. That audit resulted in the termination of the California State Bar’s executive director Joe Dunn (pictured). This has been a five-year process, but the California dysfunctional attorney regulation system has not yet been fixed.

California is a Mandatory Membership State Bar with over 200,000 attorney members. The California lawmakers are looking to split the Bar into two functions: one – to regulate/discipline attorneys and two – to a trade association which promotes lawyers’ interests. The California lawmakers created the “Public Interest Task Force” to study and correct the broken California Bar Association.

It appears that the solution to fixing the California Bar will take longer because their Supreme Court did not like some of the new ideas. The former CEO of the California Bar, Joe Dunn, was fired two years ago for misspending, nepotism, deception, and influence peddling. Dunn sued and his lawsuit was just dismissed.

California lawmakers started their State Bar clean-up with an audit. That is what our lawmakers need to do at the Arizona State Bar. An audit is needed in order to fix the expensive and prejudicial Arizona mandatory attorney “quasi-union” that is failing both attorneys and the public.

Source: http://www.modbee.com/opinion/state-issues/article93702967.html

THE ARIZONA STATE BAR BREAKS ITS OWN DIVERSION GUIDELINES

We wrote to the State of Arizona Bar recently informing it that the investigator, Hunter Perlmeter, broke the Diversion Guidelines. Diversion is the lowest attorney discipline level which requires an attorney to take an expensive Bar taught class. This is a $2 million money maker scam by the Bar to push attorneys into classes. The Diversion program is meant for low level poor office mismanagement which is minor and does not harm the client. That is not what happened to us. Mr. Perlmeter just hung up on us when we attempted to correct his illegal Bar decision.

We had our former attorney angrily refuse our monthly payment and then reported to the court that we had breached the attorney fee agreement contract. The attorney then lied to his boss and lied on the attorney billing statement stating we had refused to pay our monthly payment. We had emails to the contrary documenting the truth. That attorney was fired from the law firm after our Bar complaint was opened in August, 2015. However, the Bar recommended only a Diversion (class study) for our former attorney who:

1. lied to the judge,
2. lied on court paperwork,
3. disrespected and harmed us with his hostile anger,
4. lied to his law firm boss, and
5. lied on the law firm billing documents.

That attorney breached his own law firm’s contract. The Arizona Bar did not punish our former attorney for his lack of ethics and his “MAJOR” violation of Attorney Rules of Professional Conduct which harmed us. The Bar just sent the crooked attorney back to class.

The Bar failed to review all of our evidence before the bad decision. Our former bad attorney hired a lawyer, Nancy Greenlee, who only represents attorneys on Bar complaints. We suggest that our lawyer and Ms. Greenlee got preferential treatment.

This smacks because according to the Diversion Guidelines our former attorney was “NOT ELIGIBLE” for the Diversion Program because of his: dishonesty, deceit, misrepresentation, and lack of respect for the legal system. Who is the Arizona Bar protecting? It appears to be the lawyers. The Arizona Bar’s failure to follow the law, allowing preferential attorney treatment, and favoring the friends/past employees of the Bar is very shocking.

The Arizona Bar is not an impartial fair regulator of bad attorneys, but it is just a Mandatory “Good-Old-Boy” private attorneys’ club which fails the public. The public needs to know the truth about the broken and corrupt Arizona Bar.

We will keep you informed of the Bar’s answer.

Source: http://www.azbar.org
AZBAR.ORG http://www.azbar.org/media/66357/diversion guidelines effective 01-01-11.pdf

2015 STATISTICS FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS BY THE ARIZONA BAR

In 2015, the Arizona Bar received 3,127 attorney complaints but only investigated 21% (664 complaints) (pictured). The rest of the Bar complaints were eliminated by pre-screening with no investigations done. This eliminated 79% of the Bar’s investigative work in policing bad lawyers.

Only 156 (23%) of those lawyers received any disciplinary punishments of being: disbarred, suspended, reprimanded or received an informal sanction. The Diversion order (class requirement) is not considered a disciplinary Bar punishment.

 That Diversion Order or class requirement is not reported on the Bar’s information concerning attorneys. Last year, 86 lawyers received Diversion orders which was the most used Bar regulation for complaints. Bar classes are very expensive starting at several thousand dollars per class. The Arizona Bar makes $2 million on its classes in the Diversion Order programs. The public has no idea which lawyers are required to attend Bar classes because those complaint decisions are not posted by the Bar.

It is rare for any attorney to be disbarred in Arizona. Last year, only 12 attorneys last year were disbarred, which is less than 4 out of 1,000 attorney complaints filed. This is eight times lower than the New York Voluntary Bar Membership statistics.

We suspect the Arizona Bar does not disbar attorneys because it would lose their annual mandatory Bar fees paid by the attorneys. A Voluntary Membership Bar is more aggressive in disbarring attorneys and better protects the public from bad lawyers. A Voluntary Membership Bar takes away the incentive to ignore bad lawyers by just requiring more attorney education.

Source: 2015 Arizona Bar Annual Report

THE GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FAVORS THE VOLUNTARY MEMBERSHIP

FOR THE STATE BAR OF ARIZONA

The Goldwater Institute is one of Arizona’s largest and most respected conservative “public policy think tanks.” It has studied the debate about the Arizona Mandatory Membership Bar Association. It recommends the passage of HB 2221 which would make the Arizona Bar a Voluntary Membership Association for two reasons, which are: it makes the Arizona Bar records public and it protects attorneys’ free speech rights.

HB 2221 would increase transparency of the Bar records to public records laws. Presently the Arizona Bar is exempt from normal public records requirements that all of the other regulatory agencies in the United States have to obey. The Arizona Bar likes to document in secrecy and fails to provide the records for its decisions to the public.

HB 2221 would stop the Bar’s ability to coerce attorney members and violate their free speech rights by supporting the Arizona Bar’s political activities. It would stop the forced funding of the Arizona Bar’s lobbying activities in areas unrelated to the regulation of the practice of law. Many Arizona lawyers object to being forced to pay the high $490 annual dues which contributes to the Bar’s agenda supporting political groups, gay bashing, and many other very biased opinions.

The Goldwater Institute article states that the Voluntary Membership Bar is not a radical idea. The Arizona Bar has stated that the passage of HB 2221 would destroy the Arizona Bar by making it less effective. That is false because the Voluntary Membership Bar already exists in 20 states, which are: Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. Those 20 Voluntary Bar Membership states are functioning very well while being transparent and upholding the freedom of speech rights of its members.

Source: Rebutting the State Bar of Arizona about HB 2221. – Working for A Better Bar The Arizona Bar was once a Voluntary Membership Association, but that was changed in the 1930’s during the great Depression. A group of lawyers lobbied the state lawmakers because they saw an opportunity to profit from a Mandatory Membership Arizona Bar. It is time to end the “Profit Focus” of the Arizona Bar Mandatory Membership organization and make it a “Service Focus” with a Voluntary Membership organization that provides a fair and a less expensive method of protecting the public from bad lawyers.

Attorneys who want to practice law in Arizona must pay the State Bar of Arizona mandatory member dues. The State Bar of Arizona uses this money to regulate the practice of law and to engage in other activities, including lobbying Read More Rebutting the State Bar of Arizona about HB 2221.

SOURCE: WORKINGFORABETTERBAR.ORGhttp://workingforabetterbar.org/2016/03/02/379/

THE ARIZONA BAR IS LOBBYING AND THREATENING ITS MEMBERS

The Arizona Bar emailed all 24,000 members to oppose HB 2221 which would make it a Voluntary Membership organization. This was a drastic attempt to retain the unjust power as a Mandatory Membership Organization. Again, the Arizona Bar is using forced payment monies for a political cause, which is wrong.

The Arizona Bar reports the “drastic changes” would create a “Frankenstein” version of the Bar. The Bar threatened that if HB 2221 passed, it would have to raise the already excessively high annual dues. Presently, attorneys pay $490 per year, but that will soon go up to $690 a year. This will make the Arizona Bar the most expensive Bar Association in the United States. Studies show that the Arizona Bar is spending 125% more than other state Bar Associations of the same size.

The Goldwater Institute report states that HB 2221 should be passed. The Arizona Bar members should not be forced to join the Bar. The attorneys should have the Freedom of Speech Rights restored by not being forced to pay for the bizarre and illegal lobbying efforts of the Arizona Bar.

It is difficult to understand why the Arizona Bar needs the $200 raise of its annual dues to $690. The Arizona Bar is a “Non-Profit,” but it is not being run that way. In 2015, the Arizona Bar’s income was $15,941,413, with expenses of $14,672,809. That means the Arizona Bar had an 8% surplus of over $1.2 million which it banked. The only answer why the Arizona Bar needs a raise in the required dues is to increase the outrageous nearly $1.5 million annual salaries paid to its top eight leaders. The Arizona Bar is out of control with greed and excesses which needs to be changed to a Voluntary Membership organization.

Source: Arizona Lawyers Shouldn’t Be Misled: They Have Constitutional Rights, Too
Yesterday, the Arizona State Bar sent an email to the state’s lawyers urging them
GOLDWATERINSTITUTE.ORG|BY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE
http://goldwaterinstitute.org/en/work/topics/constitutional-rights/government-preferences/arizona-lawyers-shouldnt-be-misled-they-have-const/

HB 2221 “VOLUNTARY BAR” SHOULD NOT BE A POLITICAL ISSUE

The Arizona Senators who voted against HB 2221 are primarily Democrats. HB 2221 is not a union busting bill, but it is simply trying to reform the broken Arizona Bar.

It is interesting to note that 10 of the 20 states which already have a Voluntary State Bar Association are politically Democratic controlled. It appears more education is needed next year to fully inform the Senate lawmakers what the House lawmakers already know (it passed there). HB 2221 needs to be passed in order to restore Freedom of Speech Rights, allow better access to Bar records, and reduce the costs of the bloated and broken Arizona Bar.

TEN REASONS WHY ARIZONA SHOULD BE CHANGED TO A

VOLUNTARY BAR MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION

1. Voluntary Bars have a longer successful history than Mandatory Bars.
2. Voluntary Bars tend to have a lower cost.
3. Voluntary Bars have higher ethical standards and results.
4. Voluntary Bars have less conflicts of interest.
5. Voluntary Bars do not lobby for unrelated political issues.
6. Voluntary Bars allow the lawyer the freedom to join.
7. Voluntary Bars do not violate their members’ freedom of speech.
8. Voluntary Bars have programs that entice membership not just to control attorneys.
9. Voluntary Bars also help their members who have personal problems of alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental problems.
10. Voluntary Bars do not place the burden of their costs on taxpayers are run by the donations of attorneys who see its value.

In our opinion, the Arizona Mandatory Bar is illegal because it violates the freedom of speech laws and fails to publicly disclose its decisions.

Source: 10 reasons a voluntary state bar is better than a mandatory bar.
Voluntary bar jurisdictions: Have a longer history than mandatory bar jurisdictions. The so-called integration movement didn’t start until 1913. That’s when the now

Source: LAWMRH.WORDPRESS.COM
https://lawmrh.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/10-reasons-a-voluntary-state-bar-is-better-than-a-mandatory-bar/

THE STATE BAR OF ARIZONA IS BROKEN AND DANGEROUS

The attorney Jack Levine (pictured) wrote in the ARIZONA REPUBLIC NEWSPAPER on 12/29/2015 that the

Arizona Bar’s investigation process is wasteful, inefficient, and extravagant. The Arizona Bar investigations result in most cases being whitewashed focusing only on sole practitioners and new attorneys while ignoring egregious ethical violations by large law firms.           

Mr. Levine reports that out of the 3,000 to 4,000 complaints, only 3.5% have any disciplinary sanctions. Those Arizona Bar investigations cost $4 to $5 million per year. Mr. Levine believes the investigatory functions of the Arizona Bar should be turned over to an independent three-member commission which should be staffed by non-lawyers. Finally, Mr. Levine reports that the public has lost confidence in the Arizona Bar because it is being totally run by lawyers who favor lawyers and are over compensated.

We know Jack Levine because he represented us against our bad contractor. He was successful in helping us get paid from the insurance company. We found Mr. Levine very competent with over 50 years of experience. It was interesting that the Arizona Bar resorted in smear tactics against Mr. Levine in the newspaper by the Arizona Bar’s president, Geoffrey Trachtenberg (pictured).

Source:  http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2015/12/29/my-turn-truth-lawyer-discipline/78038634/

The Arizona Bar was so desperate that it resorted to public character assassination in the newspaper. Mr. Levine had problems with taxes and a previous partner, which resulted in disciplinary actions by the Bar. We

submit that Mr. Levine was a victim of the Arizona Bar’s selective prosecution against its perceived enemies. We see the Arizona Bar plays favorites in its investigations. That is a major reason to eliminate the present Mandatory Bar Association by making it a fairer Voluntary Bar Association.

We take the Arizona Bar president’s rebuttal “with a grain of salt” because Mr. Trachtenberg cannot even tell the truth in his newspaper article. Mr. Trachtenberg stated the Arizona Bar disciplined 51% (383 attorneys) out of the 751 investigations. That was misleading because instruction dismissals and Diversity (class) requirements are not considered Bar disciplinary actions. The actual number of attorneys that received Bar disciplinary action last year was only 156, attorneys which is less than half of the Bar’s numbers at 23% of the 664 investigations. Mr. Trachtenberg clouded and distorted disciplinary numbers which made it appear that the Bar is more effective in disciplining attorneys. This shows you that you cannot believe the Arizona Bar. It cannot report the truth even about the number of disciplinary actions by over half in the Bar’s favor.

The Arizona Bar is a vindictive organization run by overpaid attorneys desperately trying to keep their nonperforming jobs by lying.

Source: ARIZONA REPUBLIC NEWS PAPER: “Arizona State Bar’s Dysfunctional Discipline” 

December 29, 2015

Lawyer: The Arizona State Bar’s investigation process is costly and rarely results in sanctions. There’s a better way. AZCENTRAL.COM
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2015/12/25/arizona-state-bar-discipline/77850702/

SUMMARY

In the past seven years we had six Bar complaints (two for the same attorney) which involved being attacked and sued four times by our former senior living facility, Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV).

We had money stolen by one attorney. The SGRV attorney presented false evidence in court, threatened our witnesses, broke trial procedure rules, and had a conflict of interest. That attorney and another attorney sued us again with a foreclosure lawsuit which violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) by not properly verifying the debt, not properly serving us, and refusing to delay the Default Hearing when told by our mortgage company the lawsuit was improper. Lastly, we had two attorneys state in a hearing that they purposefully sabotaged our lawsuit, breached their contract, and lied to the court.

Not one of those five attorneys received any disciplinary punishments. In fact, the Bar informed us that it did not even review all of our evidence. The Bar investigator failed to listen to the Fee Arbitration Hearing recording where the attorneys admitted to their Egregious Misconduct.

The Arizona Bar is DANGEROUS.