Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox
Friday, August 13, 2010
Vault.com Votes Greenberg Traurig top regional law firm in Miami - Talk About Full of Shit, Flat Out Lies.
Vault.com Votes Greenberg Traurig top regional law firm in Miami
http://www.atlantagaattorneys.com/2010/08/vault-com-ranks-greenberg-traurig-top-regional-law-firm-in-miami/
Vault.com is Flat Out Lying. Read Folks, Look Deep the Facts are the Facts Greenberg Traurig Law Firm is Corrupt. Vault.com is in bed with other bad guys like Ropes and Gray ... even though the Galleon Crimes are .. well Vault.com just Forgets to Mention the TRUTH...
So with Vault.com Lies on Greenberg Traurig there Fails to be any mention of Greenberg Traurig and their direct connection to a 900 Million Dollar Ponzi Suit? Hmmmm..
And what about Greenberg Traurig involved the iViewit Stolen Technologies ... Does Vault.com know about that One?
Wasn't the Movie "the Firm" about Greenberg Traurig? Yet Vault.com tries to convince you that Greenberg Traurig is the "Top Regional Law Firm" - what region is that.. ??? HELL..
Vault.com Sucks and is Misleading the Public.. Dig Deep Folks .. I am not asking you to believe a word I say about Greenberg Traurig ~ I am Simply Saying Think for Yourself, Read... Look Deep and Find your Own Facts..
Vault.com You are a Disgrace.... and the Number One Fan, In My Opinion.. of Attorney Corruption and Judicial Hell Holes...
Posted here by
Investigative Blogger
Crystal L. Cox
Monday, June 21, 2010
Why Is Greenberg Traurig Law Firm interested in this Post Today?
How is Greenberg Traurig Connected To Alpine Partners, Crossbow Ventures, Matthew Shaw, René P. Eichenberger?
West Palm Beach, Florida, Greenberg Traurig interested in the Above Link to and Greenberg Traurig is Interested in WACHOVIA PRIVATE PLACEMENT MEMORANDUM - so what is Going on over At Greenberg Traurig in Palm Beach Florida ?
Is Greenberg Traurig getting sweaty palms in fear of the pending Trillion Dollar Iviewit Technologies Lawsuit coming there way?
I mean how long can Greenberg Traurig continue to hide, cover up, pay off the Florida State Bar, pay off Florida Supreme Court judges and stay in bed with Proskauer Rose to hide a Trillions in Liability from Shareholders and Insurance Carriers in regard to the iViewit Stolen Technologies...
More on the Iviewit Stolen Patent at
www.DeniedPatent.com and
www.Iviewit.TV
posted here by
Investigative Blogger
Crystal L. Cox
Monday, June 14, 2010
Mark McCombs’s Overbilling Costs Greenberg Traurig $3.2 Million ? hmmm.. More to This One???
He was charged with bilking the village of over one million dollars, money he allegedly sought not for personal gain, but to impress his Chicago partners with his book of business.
Greenberg Traurig has reviewed his overbilling and discovered that it was actually in the multi-millions. The Southtown Star reports that the firm has reviewed McCombs’s billing of Calumet Park dating back to 2002, when he joined the firm, and will be returning $3.2 million to the village of Calumet Park. That takes a chunk out of Greenberg’s PPP this year.
Village records show McCombs billed the village for tens of thousands of dollars each month for work that apparently never was done.
He helped himself to property tax revenue that flowed into accounts of Calumet Park’s five tax increment financing districts.
After the jump, Greenberg Traurig managing shareholder Paul Fox says there is an upside to all this, and we have an UPDATE from the firm…
The firm fired McCombs when his potentially felonious activity came to light. From the Star (via the ABA Journal):
“The only silver lining in any of this is for us is that money is going back to people who need it,” said Paul Fox, managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig.
“We’re helping a community and some school districts.
We thought that the appropriate thing to do was return all the fees.”
Will Greenberg be helping out other communities this year?
McCombs was the attorney to at least nine other villages, though a few precede his time at Greenberg. A firm spokesman previously told us that the firm is “reviewing all of Mr. McCombs’ billings and will make prompt reimbursements if we find that any overcharges occurred.”
UPDATE: A firm spokesman tells us, “Although we have not finalized our internal investigation, our initial review leads us to believe that this was limited to Calumet Park village, which was Mr. McCombs’ home town.”
Greenberg Traurig associates, if your bonuses bite this year, here’s one person you can blame.""
Source
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/mark-mccombs-overbilling-costs-greenberg-traurig-3-2-million/
My Guess is that Greenberg Traurig knew of Mark McCombs activities all along and that Greenberg Traurig was part of the whole cover up .. pay off.. activity in order to create illusions, by off judges, by off politicians, and quiet the Truth as Greenberg Traurig was part of in the iViewit Trillion Dollar Stolen Patent ( www.Iviewit.TV and www.DeniedPatent.com ) in My personal Opinion and well Cuz I can Read... I believe that Greenberg Traurig is a VERY Corrupt Law Firm ... one that would do just about anything to hide the TRUTH...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
"Notice to my federal judge of Greenberg Traurig Ponzi scheme" Greenberg Traurig Corruption
Subject: Notice to my federal judge of Greenberg Traurig Ponzi scheme lawsuit
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
ORLANDO DIVISION
JUDGE DUDLEY H. BOWEN, JR.
JOHN B. THOMPSON,
Plaintiff,
v.
Case No. 6:10-cv-442
THE FLORIDA BAR,
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT,
and NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
Defendants.
PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR COURT TO TAKE JUDICIAL NOTICE OF A FEDERAL COURT
FILING COMES NOW plaintiff, John B. Thompson (Thompson) and moves this court to take judicial notice of the following:
The American Lawyer is reporting today, May 13, 2010, that the law firm of Greenberg Traurig has been sued for its willful participation in and facilitation of what it knew to be an illegal Ponzi scheme.
Attached hereto as Exhibit A is the American Lawyer article.
Note that by going on the Internet to the following link one can access the electronic version of
this article, embedded in which is a link to the actual Ponzi scheme complaint filed against Greenberg Traurig in federal court:
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202458105019&src=EMC-Email&et=...
al&bu=Law.com&pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire&cn=NW_20100513&kw=Ponzi%20Investor%20Suit%20Targets%20Greenberg%20Traurig%2C%20Quarles%20%26%20 Brady .
It can be accessed by the PACER system as well, of course, Case 2:10-cv-01025-JWS.
Plaintiff asks this Honorable Court to take judicial notice of the formal filing of this complaint because the allegations therein corroborate the shocking culture of corruption that permeates the Greenberg Traurig law firm, which was retained by the defendant Florida Bar because
of, not in spite of, this firm-wide, top-to-bottom corruption.
The Florida Bar wanted a law firm that would be willing to do and say anything to protect its corrupted lawyer disciplinary system which the American Bar Association itself says is fatally flawed and highly susceptible to Corruption.
What a surprise (not) that Greenberg Traurig has insinuated itself onto the Board of Governors of the Arizona State Bar in order that that lawyer disciplinary entity might look the other way.
No lawyer in the Office of the Florida Attorney General, which should be representing The Florida Bar as the "official arm" of the Florida Supreme Court would be willing to do and say what The Bar's private sector law firm, Greenberg Traurig, has done to protect The Florida Bar from Thompson's rightful claims and the claims of others.
The Bar has Greenberg on permanent retainer to handle such claims, when it should be using the Office of the Attorney General of Florida.
If Greenberg Traurig enters a formal appearance on behalf of The Bar in this case, then plaintiff will file a motion to disqualify that firm, as certain lawyers therein will be indispensable fact witnesses herein.
That is one reason for this request of judicial notice.
For example, it is not a coincidence that Greenberg Traurig advised The Bar, as asserted in the First Amended Complaint, to waive all insurance coverage as to Thompson. It was so that Greenberg Traurig, without any insurance industry oversight, would be free to violate state and federal laws to harm Thompson.
It was The Bar's carrier that shut down The Bar's earlier illegal acts against Thompson.
The Bar had in Greenberg Traurig, as the federal lawsuit filed in Arizona District Court indicates, a corrupted law firm, ready, willing, and able to deprive Thompson of his constitutional rights just as it is alleged to have ripped off investors in Arizona.
The four million dollars paid out of Florida Bar members dues over the last several years bought a lot of lawyerly corruption-unavaialbe to it if the Florida Attorney General had been properly representing The Bar. Thompson can prove that The Bar certainly got its money's worth of corruption from Greenberg.
I hereby certify that a copy of this motion has been provided this 13th day of May, 2010, to all of the parties directly, as plaintiff is waiting to hear whether they will waive formal service of the summons and first amended complaint herein.
JOHN B. THOMPSON
Plaintiff pro se
5721 Riviera Drive
Coral Gables, Florida
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor
does truth become error because nobody will see it." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I and others have ample information suggesting that this particular law firm has been swimming for quite sometime in a culture of corruption that makes your allegations in the aforementioned suit plausible. When you see and can prove a lawyer lying in open court, in federal court no less, it is at least probative of what concerns your clients.
This law firm, for example, by virtue of its improper and illegal relationship with The Florida Bar, has helped turn our state's lawyer disciplinary machinery into a means by which corrupt law firms and lawyers are protected and innocent lawyers who are whistle-blowers are targeted illegally.
The Florida Bar, as a result, looked the other way when it knew or should have known that Scott Rothstein, who authored a huge Ponzi scheme here, had insinuated himself as an operative in The Florida Bar's disciplinary machinery to buy protection from The Bar.
The Bar was even skimming some of these Ponzi scheme monies to fund certain of its pet projects. ""
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Greenberg Traurig - Ponzi Investor Suit Targets Greenberg Traurig, Quarles & Brady
- Greenberg Traurig
"" The American Lawyer
By Susan Beck
May 12, 2010
This article first appeared on The Am Law Daily.
When the U.S. Supreme Court last year rejected the concept of aider and abettor liability in its Stoneridge decision, it was a huge win for law firms that might otherwise be sued by angry investors. But that doesn't mean that firms are completely insulated from lawsuits like these.
On Tuesday, for example, Greenberg Traurig and Quarles & Brady were named as defendants in an investor class action filed in federal district court in Arizona for allegedly aiding and abetting a Ponzi scheme run by a real estate loan company called Mortgages, Ltd. and a financing company called Radical Bunny. In an attempt to bypass Stoneridge, the defendants are accused of violating Arizona state securities laws. A copy of the complaint is here.
The case was brought on behalf of 2,000 investors who claim to have lost more than $900 million. The plaintiffs are represented by Richard Himelrick of Phoenix's Tiffany & Bosco and Andrew Friedman of Phoenix's Bonnett, Fairbourn, Friedman & Balint.
Mortgages Ltd. was an Arizona company that made loans to real-estate developers and then sold most of the loans to investors. Radical Bunny helped raise money for Mortgages Ltd. by illegally operating as an unlicensed securities dealer, the complaint alleges.
According to the complaint, Mortgages Ltd. adopted a Ponzi approach in which new investor money was used to cover operating expenses, investor interest, investor redemptions, and the lavish lifestyle of company CEO Scott Coles.
The company filed for bankruptcy in 2008, and investigations followed by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Arizona regulators. Earlier this year the Arizona Corporation Commission issued a cease and desist order against Radical Bunny, and the SEC found that a Mortgages Ltd. affiliate had willfully violated securities law.
The law firms, according to the complaint, "played an integral role in facilitating the fraudulent scheme." The firms are accused of violating Arizona securities laws, negligent misrepresentation and nondisclosure, and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty.
The plaintiffs have also sued auditors CBIZ Inc. and Mayer Hoffman McCann, and several former executives at Mortgages Ltd. and Radical Bunny.
Mortgages Ltd. hired Greenberg Traurig in April 2006, the complaint states, and over the next two years the firm, led by partner Robert Kant, prepared 11 private-offering memorandums for investors.
The complaint alleges that from at least December 2006, "Kant was fully aware that Mortgages Ltd. was being funded with proceeds collected from Radical Bunny’s illegal securities sales.
The illegality of this fundraising was so apparent to Kant that he told Coles and [Radical Bunny executive Tom] Hirsch (during a meeting with lawyers from the Quarles & Brady firm) that 'people go to jail' for such misconduct....
Kant’s concerns about the illegal securities sales were so great that he admonished the Radical Bunny managers in late 2006 to obtain securities counsel, so that their pictures would not wind up 'on the front page of the Arizona Republic.'"
The complaint further alleges that a Quarles partner "even questioned in a file note whether Mortgages Ltd.’s relationship with Radical Bunny had 'a Ponzi scheme feel' to it."
The Quarles lawyers later stated in SEC testimony that they told Radical Bunny’s managers to stop selling the securities and to contact the SEC and Arizona securities regulators to admit they had violated securities laws, according to the complaint.
But the client said he didn't want to talk to regulators and disclose past securities violations, the complaint alleges. The firm did not disassociate itself with the client, the complaint alleges, and continued to assist in new securities sales.
Quarles & Brady gave us this statement from Jon Pettibone, the managing partner of its Phoenix office: "During a portion of 2007, Quarles & Brady represented Radical Bunny, but we have not represented it since.
At no time have we represented Mortgages Ltd. Both federal and state enforcement authorities have thoroughly investigated the dealings between Mortgages Ltd. and Radical Bunny and brought enforcement actions against Radical Bunny and its principals. Quarles cooperated fully with both investigations.
No enforcement action has been brought against our firm or any of its lawyers and we do not expect any such action will be filed. Our conduct was at all times lawful and ethical....We will defend ourselves against any claim that we acted improperly in any way." The firm is represented by Robert Gooding Jr. from Howrey.
Greenberg Traurig likewise maintained it acted properly.
"These claims are without merit," the firm said in an email. "We believe our representation was appropriate in all respects. The firm is prepared to vigorously defend against these unfounded claims." The firm said that it expects it will be represented by Williams & Connolly. ""
Source of Post
http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202458107106&Ponzi_Investor_Suit_Targets_Greenberg_Traurig_Quarles__Brady&hbxlogin=1
Speaking of Investor Class Action - Intel Corp. , Warner Bros., Time Warner Inc., Sony, Lockheed Martin, AOL, IBM and more involved in the Stolen Iviewit Technologies Patent - you will be next - when investors find out how long these companies have KNOWN and failed to disclose a TRILLION dollar liability WELL I don't think these Smart, Savvy Investors will be to Happy.. and those Millions hand over fist the CEO's of the Company made - well they will lose it. .. as there are over a thousand documents of proof online of their guilt, and their Knowledge of the Iviewit Stolen Patent and they continue to this day to violate licensing agreements, and to make billions off of the Iviewit Technology..
Guys life Bruce Sewell, Jeffrey Bewkes, Paul Otellini, Kenneth Rubenstein, Christopher Wheeler and tons more... will soon face and Investor Class Action Lawsuit of their Own.. as the PROOF is Plentiful to anyone who Can READ !!!
Oh and don't forget to note that in the RICO complaint and lots of documentation... the CBIZ connection... see CBIZ bought Goldstein Lewin Company RIGHT? and they were directly involved in the Iviewit Stolen Patent. I thought it ridiculously risky for CBIZ to make this purchase, they were all over my blogs before and after the purchase...
Now I believe, from what I am seeing.. IN MY OPINION.. that CBIZ, Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. and Steven L. Gerard knew exactly what they were getting and they bought Goldstein Lewin to protect them and to hide corruption and illegal activity.. they are all in Bed Together just as the RICO Complaint by Iviewit Technologies Owner - and One of the Iviewit Inventors Eliot Bernstein has documented so well in his RICO Complaint.
Just my thoughts.. as all this is adding up to
a VERY solid and Well Laid Wall Of Corruption.
http://www.ethicscomplaint.com/2010/01/goldstein-lewin-company-mayer-hoffman.html
http://www.federalricolawsuit.com/
http://www.whistleblowerreport.com/2010/03/eliot-bernstein-of-iviewit-technologies.html
http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/rico/CRIME%20ORG%20CHARTS%201.htm
Iviewit Stolen Patent Crime Chart.
More on the Iviewit Techonologies Stolen Patent and Greenberg Traurig 's role in it go to www.DeniedPatent.com and www.iViewit.TV