Date: March 17th, 2023 12:54 AM Author: coral range
I should’ve won 2023, but they still count bitch boi votes like any others, and I expect the bitch boi block will maintain sway on xo2023 has as it has since xo2016.
Date: March 17th, 2023 12:36 AM Author: lake yapping stead
Seriously, though, no details at all? So RT was found to be running a corrupt racketeering organization? What does that mean? He goes to jail? He loses his law license? He owes money to EPAH and a bunch of bodega owners that sell shady boner bills? He is legally required to create 100 alts on xoxo and use all of them to vote for EPAH in MPM while poasting, "I am a bitch boi and EPAH is my daddy" over and over again?
Date: March 17th, 2023 12:44 AM Author: coral range
Idk what you mean man. His firm was found liable for violating RICO for sending out 15,000 “demand letters” to corner stores around the country, and taking in $2.3M from the racket. But he’s broke af, so we’ll get a judgment for $45k in damages plus $1M in fees that won’t be collectible because he’s a bitch boi who like 100% of bitch bois is a deadbeat loser. Idk what to say beyond that.
Date: March 17th, 2023 2:13 AM Author: white curious roommate
you think you judge would even award you $1 mil on $45k of damages? thought there was case law re fees having to have some reasonable relationship to judgment
Date: March 17th, 2023 10:00 AM Author: up-to-no-good forum mad cow disease
Judges do look at ultimate recovery as one factor in determining what is reasonable. EPAH does have a public interest angle here though which could help
Date: March 17th, 2023 9:21 PM Author: lake yapping stead
I think you should offer to take $1 off the judgement for every time he poasts, "I am a bitch boi and EPAH is my daddy." MPM votes are worth more. Maybe each one takes $10 off.
Date: March 18th, 2023 10:56 AM Author: coral range
Had a WOC I know from San Marcos come over to smash. But now I’m getting in the plane for home. Really there’s not a whole lot to say about the trial since RT didn’t show and didn’t offer any witnesses. Afterward a couple jurors said I’m heroic to volunteer all my time to pwning bitch bois.
Date: March 17th, 2023 1:23 PM Author: Cruel-hearted exciting plaza
hey RT, why didn't you show up to the trial? do you think it's smart of you to brag that people aren't going to collect on an judgment entered against you?
Date: March 20th, 2023 11:03 PM Author: Electric Crystalline Mother Famous Landscape Painting
He can argue that the disciplinary committee can’t rely on the judgment because there was no evidence presented in his defense. Just spitballing here and in the end it won’t make a difference but it will slow up the train for a minute or two.
If I was his atty (and I’m not) I would press him hard on whether he was operating under a disability of some sort. ….
Date: March 20th, 2023 6:47 PM Author: Deranged Double Fault
what did he do that would put him at risk? I am having trouble following this storyline, it's pretty cryptic and I don't think anyone has actually said what the "judgment" was here.
Date: March 20th, 2023 9:52 PM Author: Deranged Double Fault
but yeah, I could see someone like that doing something subsequent that puts himself at risk, it's not a stretch as you say. I just don't know what that "subsequent" thing is...
Date: March 20th, 2023 7:18 PM Author: coral range
Found to have committed 15,000 instances of mail fraud (as the the predicate acts for liability under RICO Sec. 1962c and 1962d)
I can't imagine even the CA state bar tolerating that. If only we could find that he accidentally deposited $10 of trust funds into his operating account though; that would get them all worked up.
Date: March 20th, 2023 9:43 PM Author: pale pocket flask
piggy backing off a comment above, here is a provision for CA-licensed lawyers:
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California Code, Business and Professions Code - BPC § 6068
It is the duty of an attorney to do all of the following:
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(o) To report to the State Bar, in writing, within 30 days of the time the attorney has knowledge of any of the following:
(2) The entry of judgment against the attorney in a civil action for fraud, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, or gross negligence committed in a professional capacity.
Date: March 20th, 2023 10:59 PM Author: Electric Crystalline Mother Famous Landscape Painting
It’s not tortuous; it’s pretty straightforward. Tortious or not I leave to other judgment but it’s probably privileged if an atty barred in the applicable jurisdiction were to take action in any event.
Date: March 20th, 2023 10:20 PM Author: slap-happy partner
dumb question but if he just settled for the $10,000 or so that they won, without going to a jury, could he have avoided this? Then it wouldn't be a "judgment"
Date: March 21st, 2023 1:15 PM Author: coral range
You think my clients would just let $900k in attorneys' fees go? Maybe they would have, but he never offered. Lol, in fact he said he would let us out of his web if WE paid him $30K. Just a sec let me find that email
Date: March 20th, 2023 10:18 PM Author: slap-happy partner
just read the verdict from recap (linked to the original).
Rackateering, mail fraud, RICO against all three plaintiffs. Only $10,000 or so in damages total.
LAWYERS - do these kinds of judgments result in disbarment? As a non-lawyer I would think that this is the worst of the worst activity for a lawyer to be found by a jury to do.
Date: March 21st, 2023 1:53 PM Author: indigo parlor personal credit line
Pretty sure you can get disbarred for no showing a trial/abandoning a client matter. Sounds like his firm/someone else is the client and not him individually.
Date: March 21st, 2023 8:18 PM Author: up-to-no-good forum mad cow disease
In this branch of the case, he was the Defendant (well I guess his firm was?), so he may have been exercising 5th Amendment right. I am sure EPAH had him on his witness list EPAH clarify?
Date: March 22nd, 2023 1:18 AM Author: coral range
We did, but that doesn't mean he has to come. I suppose we could have subpoenaed him, but who cares? It's not like he gets to keep his license because he didn't come to trial.