Tagged: racketerring

“Systemic lying involves the cooperation of multiple actors in the legal system who lie or violate their oaths across cases for a consistent reason that is linked to their conception of justice…Through a series of case studies, it shows that systemic lying emerges as a saving mechanism that mediates between culture and law. Rather than allow the law to take its course and deliver what would be perceived as unjust outcomes, participants lie and preserve the facade of a system that delivers results consonant with popular moral intuitions. Systemic lying is both persistent and powerful because it achieves a type of licitness that individual lies or underground deception lack. At the same time, it poses a unique threat to the legitimacy of the system by signifying that truth is not paramount in the courtroom.”

Source: Julia Simon-Kerr. Systemic Lying. pg. 1. September 2014.

“And now, with Holder about to leave office and his Justice Department reportedly wrapping up its final settlements, the state is effectively putting the finishing touches on what will amount to a sweeping, industrywide effort to bury the facts of a whole generation of Wall Street corruption. ‘I could be sued into bankruptcy,’ she says. ‘I could lose my license to practice law. I could lose everything. But if we don’t start speaking up, then this really is all we’re going to get: the biggest financial cover-up in history.'”

Read the article to find out what happened to whistle-blower Alayne Fleischmann. I find it interesting that judge James C. Francis IV — the magistrate judge in both Rowe and Washington — served as the magistrate judge in the case against JP Morgan Chase and prevented Fleischmann from testifying in that case. The article states:

In October 2013, one of those investors — the Forth Worth Employees’ Retirement Fund — asked a federal judge to force Chase to grant access to a series of current and former employees, including Fleischmann, whose status as a key cooperator in the federal investigation had made headlines in The Wall Street Journal and other major media outlets.

In response, Dorthy Spenner, an attorney representing Chase, told the court that Fleischmann was not a ‘relevant custodian.’ In other words, she couldn’t testify to anything of importance. Federal Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV took Chase’s lawyers at their word and rejected the Fort Worth retirees’ request for access to Fleischmann and her evidence.

This sheds light on how judges can arbitrarily deny litigants of their due process, particularly when the judge has the power to grant or deny a party’s request to have the opposing side produce pertinent evidence during discovery.

I know that had the case been allowed to proceed in the federal court, Francis would have denied any and all of my discovery requests to obtain the underlying e-mails to “Exhibit 31” and like Loeb & Loeb LLP, he would have mirrored the false statements made by Republican appointed federal judge Robert P. Patterson when he granted judgment in favor of William Morris, Creative Artists Agency and others in his January 2005 Final Order (he stated that “Exhibit 31” was an “unidentified and unauthenticated document” that essentially, was both irrelevant and not admissable).

Source: Matt Taibi. “The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JP Morgan Chase’s Worse Nightmare.” RollingStone. November 6, 2014. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106.