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(public domain pic, Mr. Steele)
I was recently reading the Arstechnica article: "Settle up: voicemails show P2P porn law firms in action" when I noticed this threat from a user named "John Steele"(99% sure it really is Mr. Steele):
++++"Unauthorized copying" is stealing and is why almost every judge we have been in front of throws out these goofy motions to quash you photocopy from each other. Sure, one judge in 10 doesn't like porn and kicks our case (and this causes ARS to act like this litigation is on its deathbed). [I wonder what the judge would say if he heard about how Mr. Steele thinks the only reason he tossed the case is because he doesn't like porn. The day that judge tore Mr. Steele a new one, must have been quite embarrassing for Mr. Steele]
Well, every couple of days we come here for fun to see what crazy things are written by armchair lawyers. I would be careful though, we were able to figure out one of the posters on an earlier 'article' and our client dropped him from the suit . . . and sued him directly the next day. Something tells me settlement will be tough.[I can not comprehend any reason why Mr. Steele would feel the need to try to threaten people for discussing their cases with each other. If they are just armchair lawyers, why is he paying so much attention? Also, I wonder what figured out refers to? If he tried to dox someone, I think it is only fair to return the favor]++++
After reading that comment, I decided to look into what might drive an attorney to try to threaten the Internet. I figured a person's blog is the most accurate representation of his internal workings, so I searched for a wefightpiracy_com blog. I couldn't find one, so I went with reviewing his familylawlifeline_com blog.
His familylawlifeline is intended to pertain only to his family law firm. However, I believe the statements contained within are accurate representations of the moral man that Mr. Steele once was(all of this is my opinion in case I need to clarify that for lawyers who may be reading this). The awkward highlights that emphasize how money can corrupt anyone, even a self-proclaimed "family man"
1) June 2008 "Even Attorneys can be bullies"
"I suppose I can see how being an ass might get you somewhere if you are up against a pro se party who has no idea of what is happening, or maybe a timid transaction attorney that somehow found themselves in a divorce case. "
----Being an ass does seem to be helping Mr. Steele force settlements out of people
"I am not sure why some Family Law attorneys purposely try to build up their mystique as a jerk."
----I asked myself the same question after I read the comment on the Arstechnica article
"Standing up to a bully, whether some blowhard attorney, or an 8th grader feels good.Try it sometime."
----I agree, Mr. Steele. Standing up to a bully(you) does feel quite good
see the rest here:http://familylawlifeline_com/archives/197(basically he says he enjoys beating bullies and stopping their "antics")
2)March 2010 "How to be (or find) a happy lawyer, Part 1 of 2"
"First, I started my own firm a few years ago. This means I don’t have to take on clients I do not like, or that I think are scum bags. And the associates in my firm know they don’t have to represent scum bags."
---Mr. Steele's firm is representing individuals, who make millions each year while simultaneously demanding $1000s from working class individuals. Mr. Steele's clients have acknowledged the fact that they have nothing to lose, which probably means they don't care about people's guilt or innocence so long as "the check clears". If you try to make millions by blackmailing the parents of some teenager who downloaded a porno that only cost you a couple grand to make....I think you are a scum bag
"While I know other attorneys who believe that “all money is green”, I respectfully submit that getting the “what the hell are you arguing?” look from a judge, or being known as a legal whore in the relatively small community of family lawyers is not for me. I admit I like to take the high road and drill opposing counsels who are argue whatever their client’s want them to say (assuming the check clears of course)."
---Mr. Steele works for free in order to exploit US copyright laws so that his client can turn low budget adult films into cash cows. None of the money goes to the models in the videos. Models who accepted a payment of a couple $1000 just so they could pay their bills. If that doesn't make you a legal whore, I don't know what does.
Mr. Steele likes to take the high road???Really??Can someone help me find evidence for that
see the rest here: http://familylawlifeline_com/archives/341
3)August 2010 "Liar Liar Pants on Fire"
Mr. Steele discusses how a new attorney attempted to claim that Mr. Steele had lied to the court. The new attorney claimed that Mr. Steele did not document the fact that he was refiling a case on his petition.
" Now the other attorney looked pretty stupid, because he either cannot read or he was too lazy to read my Petition (I bet the former)."
----Mr. Steele sent out signed pre-settlement letters with dates 4-5 years in the past and false statements about not being able to contact people. I wonder which of the two choices he would pick to refer to his actions
see the rest here: http://familylawlifeline_com/archives/542
4) August 2008 "Attorney's work for.....Money!"
Mr. Steele discusses how he feels that people should realize that lawyers need to make money and that you should not expect them to work Pro Bono.
"The moral of this story is don’t ask attorneys to provide free legal services, and be very afraid of those attorneys that would actually agree to such a request."
---So one should not ask a lawyer to work for free. I wonder how Mr. Steele feels about attorneys, like himself, who offer to work for free. I would be even more scared of individuals who volunteer to work for free. Part of the reason Mr. Steele is using mass mailing is so he can curb his costs since he works for free
see the rest here: http://familylawlifeline_com/archives/219
5)June 2008 "Courtesy Please"
Mr. Steele discusses losing his cool.
"People want to be respected. And when we do not get respect, we get indignant and lash out."
---I wonder if Mr. Steele was able to see the accused as more that lying thieves(his opinion), then would he be able to sympathize with the anger coming from the thousands of individuals his firm is disrespecting
see the rest here:http://familylawlifeline_com/archives/204
6) October 2009 "The Judge is always Right"
"1. Reputation is everything in the legal system. And attorneys and judges know which divorce lawyers will sell their services to the anti-Christ if he paid a retainer."
---The way things have been going so far, Mr. Steele's reputation is going to take quite the hit. Federal judges have "eviscerated him for abusing the legal system" and have called his cases "a fishing expedition"
see the rest here: http://familylawlifeline_com/archives/341
There are additional blog entries at: www.familylawlifeline_com
I would post more, but I'm not sure whether or not I have already posted an amount that will result in Mr. Steele trying to sue me.
According to the aforementioned Arstechnica article, Mr. Steele's firm made at least $43,000 last week. The ability for money to corrupt is amazing at times. Had I met Mr. Steele years ago, when he still stood by the morals he had as divorce attorney, I would have nothing but respect. Considering how his firm is acting these days, I must consider him to be a bully and will fight back. At least it is comforting to know that the old Mr. Steele would support me............(public domain pic, Mr. Steele)
I was recently reading the Arstechnica article:... more
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BUTNER, N.C. — Bernard L. Madoff said he never thought the collapse of his Ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction that has befallen his family.
In his first interview for publication since his arrest in December 2008, Mr. Madoff — looking noticeably thinner and rumpled in khaki prison garb — maintained that family members knew nothing about his crimes.
But during a private two-hour interview in a visitor room here on Tuesday, and in earlier e-mail exchanges, he asserted that unidentified banks and hedge funds were somehow “complicit” in his elaborate fraud, an about-face from earlier claims that he was the only person involved.
Mr. Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence, seemed frail and a bit agitated compared with the stoic calm he maintained before his incarceration in 2009, perhaps burdened by sadness over the suicide of his son Mark in December.
Besides that loss, his family also has faced stacks of lawsuits, the potential forfeiture of most of their assets, and relentless public suspicion and enmity that cut Mr. Madoff and his wife Ruth off from their children.
In many ways, however, Mr. Madoff seemed unchanged. He spoke with great intensity and fluency about his dealings with various banks and hedge funds, pointing to their “willful blindness” and their failure to examine discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information available to them.
“They had to know,” Mr. Madoff said. “But the attitude was sort of, ‘If you’re doing something wrong, we don’t want to know.’ ”
While he acknowledged his guilt in the interview and said nothing could excuse his crimes, he focused his comments laserlike on the big investors and giant institutions he dealt with, not on the financial pain he caused thousands of his more modest investors. In an e-mail written on Jan. 13, he observed that many long-term clients made more in legitimate profits from him in the years before the fraud than they could have elsewhere. “I would have loved for them to not lose anything, but that was a risk they were well aware of by investing in the market,” he wrote.
Mr. Madoff said he was startled to learn about some of the e-mails and messages raising doubts about his results — now emerging in lawsuits — that bankers were passing around before his scheme collapsed.
“I’m reading more now about how suspicious they were than I ever realized at the time,” he said with a faint smile.
He did not assert that any specific bank or fund knew about or was an accomplice in his Ponzi scheme, which lasted at least 16 years and consumed about $20 billion in lost cash and almost $65 billion in paper wealth. Rather, he cited a failure to conduct normal scrutiny.
Both the interview and the e-mail correspondence were conducted as part of this reporter’s research for a coming book on the Madoff scandal, “The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust,” for publication this spring by Times Books, a division of Henry Holt & Company.
In the interview and e-mails, he also claimed he had been helping the court-appointed trustee who is seeking to recover lost billions on behalf of his swindled clients. In e-mails, Mr. Madoff said repeatedly that he provided useful information to Irving H. Picard, the trustee trying to recover assets for the fraud victims. He met with Mr. Picard’s team over four days last summer, he said. The e-mails were written in December and January, but he only recently agreed that they could be made public.
In prison, Mr. Madoff’s access to the outside world is both limited and monitored. All visitors must be approved by prison authorities, who also screen his limited collect calls and his incoming and outgoing e-mails and letters, though interviews with lawyers like Mr. Picard and his colleagues are less restricted and can be conducted in private.
Asked about his cell, he described a room about 12 feet square with a big window looking out on the grounds; he said he had a roommate, the second since he arrived at the prison.
It was clear from the e-mails and interview here that Mr. Madoff closely followed news related to his case in December, the second anniversary of his arrest. He lashed out at what he called some of the “disgraceful” coverage of the suicide of his son Mark on Dec. 11.http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01822/madoff_1822378c.jpg
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"Lenders don’t modify the loans of borrowers at risk of foreclosure because to do so would likely mean having to reduce the amount of money the borrowers owe the bank, and therefore could potentially end up costing the bank money."
Thats Right. After receiving taxpayer bailouts:
http://www.financialstability.gov/impact/contracts_list.htm
then using Credit Default Swaps to insure Leveraged Instruments:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8634
You can fool people most of the time....
Lets see if they also figured the last line out."Lenders don’t modify the loans of borrowers at risk of foreclosure because... more
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Some excerpts of the default data: on initially-current loans, Countrywide modified $87M of loans but 59% had re-defaulted within 10 months (this is the worst performance of initially-current loans). Wells Fargo came in second, with 49% re-defaults on $334M of modifications.
On initially-delinquent loans, Wells Fargo came in 11th (tied with Ameriquest), with 70% re-default on $605M of loans. Countrywide came in first again, with 80% re-defaults, which ties it with WaMu (the two thrifts modified $388M and $566M of loans respectively).
The best record on initially-current loans was a "mere" 34% re-default rate after 10 months. By contrast, the best record for initially-delinquent loans was 62% -- held by (the non-WaMu part of) JP Morgan Chase.
REPUDIATE BAD DEBT!!!
DO NOT MODIFY OR REFINANCE LOANS YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BEGIN WITH THAT OR
PERMIT THE ECONOMY TO SUFFER.Some excerpts of the default data: on initially-current loans, Countrywide modified... more
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``It takes some pretty shameless lawyers and a rich culture of corporate stupidity for a company to sue itself. I hope Wells Fargo loses this case and ends up having to drag itself all the way to the Supreme Court"
- after the hit story "the emperors new clothes" now comes "BOZO the mortgage banker."``It takes some pretty shameless lawyers and a rich culture of corporate stupidity for... more
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Mathematically perfected economy™ (MPE™) 1 : the singular integral solution of 1) inflation and deflation, 2) systemic manipulation of the cost or value of money or property, and 3) inherent, artificial multiplication of debt into terminal systemic failure; 2 : every prospective debtor's right to issue legitimate promises to pay, free of extrinsic manipulation, adulteration, or exploitation of those promises, or the natural opportunity to make good on them; 3 : our right to certify, to enforce, and to monetize industry and commerce by this one sustaining and truly economic process.Mathematically perfected economy™ (MPE™) 1 : the singular integral... more
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The promise of the American Dream was abruptly cut short by a dose of abetted reality. Foreclosures induced by lending practices that steered borrowers into loans they couldn't understand and ultimately couldn't afford devastated individual homeowners, and by multiplying that effect by thousands the sub-prime mortgage crisis shall have drowned us all in debt.
Survival and growth can only be achieved if the strength of the law and the shield of truth
are used to break the Final wave before it engulfs generations into financial extinction.The promise of the American Dream was abruptly cut short by a dose of abetted reality.... more
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We need to get people involved with the July 4th Tea Parties. People must understand this is not a democratic or republican issue this is an American issue and we are getting our rights and wealth stolen. Show this video to a friend and lets get a million people to protest on July 4th.We need to get people involved with the July 4th Tea Parties. People must understand... more
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Bernanke claims that taking the monetary power away from the Fed and putting it back into the hands of the people (as the Constitution says) will cause "harm" to the economy. Well what has the Fed been doing to the economy all these years that hasn't been harmful?
As our beloved President once said:
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. ..."
BAN CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS!!!
Please read the US Declaration of Independence. May God Save America.Bernanke claims that taking the monetary power away from the Fed and putting it back... more
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There is a busy little private company
you probably never have heard about, but which you should. Its name is the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. See their website. Looks pretty boring. Some kind of financial service thing, with a positive slogan and out there to make a little business. You can even get a job there. Now, go and take a look at their annual report. Starts with a nice litte Flash presentation and has a nice message from the CEO. And take a look at the numbers. It turns out that this company holds 23 trillion dollars in assets, and had 917 trillion dollars worth of transactions in 2002. That’s trillions, as in thousands of thousands of millions. 23,000,000,000,000 dollars in assets.There is a busy little private company
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The government has no power over the DTCC. Officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has limited oversight, admit that they have no clue how the DTCC operates and that they visit the organization only once a year.
So, of course, the DTCC protects the criminals. It protects the criminals because it is owned by the criminals. That is, the DTCC is a quasi-private organization owned by Wall Street brokers – the very same people who serve the hedge funds who seek to profit from the destruction of our economy.The government has no power over the DTCC. Officials from the Securities and Exchange... more
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What's particularly interesting to me about this short article is that it highlights a problem I liken to "fleas killing a dog". Once a pregnant flea moves in and begins to reproduce, her offspring will, in time, overpower the immune system of the dog and will eventually kill him. The analogy couldn't be closer to what's being done now to the world financial system (the infested dog) by the opportunistic hedge funds (prolific and potentially lethal blood-sucking parasites).What's particularly interesting to me about this short article is that it... more
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Attn: California Unlawful Foreclosures and Illegal Evictions this one is coming to a town near you. Plausible deniability and fraud upon the courts causing people to lose homes shall end.
(http://avenue-s.us/antelopevalley.html)
A Springfield judge’s ruling has thrown the entire Massachusetts foreclosure market into disarray by bolstering
claims that lenders improperly seized thousands of Bay State homes.
Experts say Land Court Judge Richard Long’s recent decision to void two Springfield-area foreclosures over
procedural flaws has gummed up resale of foreclosed homes across the state.Attn: California Unlawful Foreclosures and Illegal Evictions this one is coming to a... more
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