person:tom girardi

  • State Bar of California ; Voice of OC ; Joseph Dunn ; Michael Cabral

    To: joseph.dunn@calbar.ca.gov, “Todd, Mary Ann” <maryann.todd@mto.com>, schatterjee@mofo.com, Douglas.Winthrop@aporter.com, Alec.chang@skadden.com, nfineman@cpmlegal.com, echemerinsky@law.uci.edu Cc: “Robert.Hawley” <Robert.Hawley@calbar.ca.gov>, “starr.babcock” <starr.babcock@calbar.ca.gov>, Craig.Holden@lewisbrisbois.com, HRosing@klinedinstlaw.com, Luis.Rodriguez@calbar.ca.gov, krinskym@yahoo.com, ddean@riberalaw.com, jmendoza@theiplawfirm.com, djp@paslaw.com, mcolantuono@cllaw.us, mshem@bortonpetrini.com, hvera@publiccounsel.org, dtorres@lawtorres.com, pearlgmann@aol.com

    Dear Mr. Dunn and to whom it may concern:

    This will serve to address the following:

    1. Attached below for your reference is a courtesy PDF copy of a summons and civil complaint filed against your publication VOICE OF OC in Yolo County Superior Court.

    Please note that as an act of good faith and in order to protect the brand “State Bar of California” and the reputation of the judicial system, I tried as much as possible to keep executives and directors of the California Bar out of the suit.

    Nevertheless, as you know very well, strong circumstantial evidence provides that the California Democratic Party took advantage of California’s Energy Crisis to enrich itself in lieu of prosecutions, and that the chosen forum to engage in various financial machinations has been the California Bar Foundation and related entities.

    This is the reason many utility lawyers, CPUC executives and operatives were appointed as members of the BOG and as directors of the California Bar Foundation, to wit: CPUC Commissioner Geoffrey Brown, CPUC Chief Legal Counsel Peter Arth, Gwen Moore of GeM Communications, George Davis of Davis Broadband (and secretly of AARP), Jeannine English (of AARP and lobbyist for Ross Perot Energy System), Dennis Mangers (on behalf of energy senator Darryl Stienberg, Kip Lipper, and Lipper’s sister Donna Lucas of Venoco Energy), Jeff Bleich and Bradley Phillips (on behalf of Southern California Edison, Verizon) , Douglas Winthrop of Howard Rice / Arnold & Porter (on behalf of PG&E), Annette Carnegie (on behalf of El Paso Energy), Howard Miller (on behalf of Girardi & Keese), and Nancy Fineman (on behalf of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy).

    As you also know very well, clear and convincing circumstantial evidence provide that you, Martha Escutia , Tom Girardi and James Brosnahan launched VOICE OF OC with funds misappropriated (through the ad-hoc sham non profit CaliforniaALL) from the California Bar Foundation and in consideration for malfeasance by you and Martha Escutia stemming from California’s Energy Crisis by utility lawyers who were part of the California Bar Foundation/BOG such as Jeff Bleich (on behalf of Southern California Edison), James Brosnahan/Annette Carnegie (on behalf of El Paso Energy), Douglas Winthrop (on behalf of PG&E), non-lawyer/lobbyist Jeannine English (on behalf of Ross Perot System), and Thomas Girardi (on behalf of class-action lawyers who were prosecuting related litigation such as Pierce O’Donnell and Joe Cotchett in matters such as Continental Forge, El Paso, and SWEETIE’S).

    As you also know very well, in order to justify the existence of CaliforniaALL, you, Erwin Chemerinsky, Karina Hamilton, husband Robert Hamilton, and CaliforniaALL misled the public by various fraudulent means into believing CaliforniaALL was responsible for the launching of the Saturday Law Academy at UC Irvine ("SALUCI") in 2008, whereas SALUCI was actually launched in 2005.

    Later, as you also by now know very well , CaliforniaALL was also misused by various Obama for America actors (Jeff Bleich, James Brosnahan , Tony West, Kamala Harris, Laura Chick, and CHRIS YOUNG) as well as by the election campaign of Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson by Jeannine English, Mark Friedman, and CHRIS YOUNG.

    2. This will serve to confirm and to place you and members of the BOG on notice of the fact that Yolo County Assistant District Attorney Michael Cabral has stated on multiple occasions to me and to on separate occasions to various attorneys words to the effect of, “The State Bar of California doesn’t really want you criminally prosecuted, they just want you to go away”. On a separate occasion he stated that he wants me prosecuted and to have “State Prison” "hanging over my head" if I do not fulfill conditions of probation which will include not suing, complaining, or blogging against various wrongdoers. When I stated to him that this is an attempt to shut me up through misuse of the justice system and that it has no relations to any crime I committed, he stated “that’s the situation.”

    Michael Cabral has already stated to me, and later through my insistence to my attorney, that he “never” spoke to Jeannine English, that he spoke “only once” to Tom Layton, and that he only communicates with representatives from the State Bar of California.

    Mr. Cabral’s latest laughable and highly unethical offer, conveyed to me by my attorney, and which I caused to be placed on the court record, is that “if I want a misdemeanor” I have to agree to a “stay away order” not only against Jeannine English and Howard Dickstein, but also against all the people named in the search warrant, such as you, Tom Girardi, Holly Fujie, and others. When I inquired why would I have to agree to a “stay away” from you and Girardi, for example, I was told it was a “special” stay away order which would include conditions that for the next three years I have to agree to NOT FILE COMPLAINTS, “NOT SUE” and “NOT BLOG” about any of those mentioned in the search warrant and if I either file complaints, lawsuits or blog about those individuals, it would be considered a “probation violation.”

    3. This will serve to inform the State Bar of California Board of Trustees of the fact that I only recently discovered that former member George Davis has been secretly part of the AARP while concurrently serving as public member of the State Bar of California Board of Governors ("BOG"). As you know, on June 12, 2011 I filed a complaint with the entire State Bar of California Board of Governors against then BOG member Jeannine English of AARP stemming from her conflicts of interest, self-dealing, breach of fiduciary duties, and failure to discloses a $900,000 Cy Pres award to AARP courtesy of Tom Girardi and Girardi & Keese during the time period the BOG was investigating my allegations dealing with the matter of In Re Girardi. As you know, the entire BOG took jurisdiction over of my complaint dealing with the matter of In Re Girardi, and once I discovered that the State Bar of California appointed Girardi’s own personal malpractice attorney (Jerome Falk of Howard Rice) as “special prosecutor”, the BOG ceased all communications with me.

    4. If not a bother, will it be possible for you to please make certain State Bar of California employee Teri Greenman respond to my request for documents previously submitted.

    Very truly yours,

  • Pierce O’Donnell Convicted of Crime Involving Moral Turpitude — Headed to Federal Prison; Remains Under Scrutiny in Scheme Involving Democratic Party Operatives Joe Dunn, Tom Girardi, Jim Brosnahan

    As was reported HERE earlier, O’Donnel is still under extreme scrutiny in connection with the strong prima facie showing by which money
    which was “laundered” through and/or misappropriated from the California Bar Foundation was used to launch “Voice of OC” — a newly-created online publication which State Bar of California Executive-Director Joe Dunn had launched with the help of Democratic Party operatives Thomas Girardi of Girardi & Keese and James Brosnahan of Morrison & Foerster.

    Please see more @:
    http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2012/03/24/pierce-o-donnell-convicted-of-crime-involving-moral-turpitude-h

  • Tom Girardi Lashes Out at Victim as Girardi & Keese Sued for Legal Malpractice

    Demeter Energy, a start-up bio-fuel energy company, has filed a legal malpractice action claiming more than $600 million in damages against Los Angeles-based law firm Girardi & Keese and named partner Thomas Girardi.

    As was first reported by Alison Frankel of ThomsonReuters:

    “Demeter hired the famous Los Angeles plaintiffs’ shop Girardi Keese to bring a malpractice suit against DLA. According to Demeter’s new suit, Girardi drafted a proposed complaint asserting that DLA’s actions had damaged Demeter to the tune of $600 million. Girardi even sent the draft to DLA, allegedly with the hope of beginning settlement discussions. But when DLA refused to talk, Girardi supposedly failed to get Demeter’s malpractice suit filed before the one-year statute of limitations had expired – even though Demeter allegedly sent Girardi panicked emails about time running out.”

    Eventually, once the suit was filed by Girardi & Keese against DLA Piper in the San Francisco Superior Court, a judge dismissed most of the allegations, stating that they run afoul of the statute of limitations.

    Citing professional negligence on the part of Girardi & Keese, Demeter filed a legal malpractice action against that firm in Los Angeles Superior Court. Hermosa Beach-based Eric Maier of Maier & Shoch represents Demeter in the action against Girardi & Keese.

    According to Alison Frankel, Mr. Girardi admitted that Demeter did not have a viable case against DLA Piper, and that Girardi only filed the complaint that was subsequently tossed out because of pressure from his client (Demeter). Ms. Frankel reports that Thomas Girardi stated: “We investigated and could find absolutely nothing this guy [the former DLA partner] did wrong.”

    It is unclear whether Mr. Girardi further elaborated to Ms. Frankel about the reasons his firm nevertheless filed the suit against DLA Piper in San Francisco Superior Court if it lacked any factual basis, or whether his statements to Ms. Frankel were merely an attempt to shift blame to the victim.

    Separately, and somewhat ironically, the Los Angeles Times reports that Thomas Girardi expressed outrage after an attorney for the Los Angeles Dodgers suggested Mr. Stow may be found partly to blame for the beating that left him in a coma. Mr. Girardi stated: “Oh, so here it is, let’s blame the innocent guy for the lack of security at Dodger Stadium...McCourt’s taken millions out of the Dodgers and he and his attorneys know the end is near.”

    Interestingly, both Girardi & Keese and DLA Piper were subjects of our extensive coverage in connection with sham charity CaliforniaALL.