Riddhi
Desai misconduct - update January 28, 2008
[New
update: February 24, 2008 (see bottom of page)]
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S***r L**d, T***s 7***8-1**8
January 20, 2008
State Bar of Texas
Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel
600 Jefferson, Suite 1000
Houston, Texas 77002
Re: Riddhi Desai, Texas State Bar No. 05656775
To whom it may concern:
Riddhi Desai was Yi Jian’s counsel in cause
number 06-CV-152649 before Judge Van Culp sitting in the 328th District
Court in Fort Bend County.
This matter was finalized on December 3, 2007.
On Friday, January 11, 2008, the following e-mail
appeared in my personal Hotmail inbox:
This e-mail is an automated response to another
e-mail fabricated and sent by Riddhi Desai using my personal information obtained
during the divorce proceeding. She impersonated me, using entering my e-mail
address and home phone number, and created an outrageous storyline to cause
me harm professionally, embarrass me personally, and establish an artificial
foundation for future harassing legal actions against me. I believe this to
be only one of several similar e-mails sent to various websites, agencies,
groups and individuals – I know about this one only because Ms. Desai is not
the sharpest tool in the shed and had no way of knowing the e-mail would be
auto-acknowledged to my e-mail address (since that was the one she provided
pretending to be me). Regardless, her actions constitute identity theft and
a host of professional ethics and conduct violations ranging from character
assassination to violating the rights of every party to this case as to their
privacy expectations regarding personal information provided to the court (an
e-mail transmission over the Internet is by no means private).
This is the kind of immature, asinine, self-centered,
and ignorant behavior only a 12-year-old would engage in, but the damage caused
by this and other activities (see below) Ms. Desai has engaged in since losing
ignominiously at every hearing and proceeding during the course of this case,
is very extensive and lasting, and therefore not a light or funny matter. As
you will see, it has resulted in loss of my (and therefore my daughter’s) credit
standing, and very nearly resulted in the loss of my (and therefore my daughter’s)
home.
I don’t wish to dignify the contents of Ms. Desai’s
forgery by responding to it, but I feel I should because the response will
give insight as to Ms. Desai’s motivations. First, I have posted every page
of the certified copy of final divorce decree online at http://www.ScreenSender.com/RiddhiDesai/DivorceDecree.doc.
From that document, you will learn that I am one of the few males (as far as
I know, the first and only) in Fort Bend County to be granted primary custody
of a daughter under three years old WITHOUT having to prove the mother abused
drugs or the child in question (my daughter was actually seven months old when
after presentation of the relevant evidence Judge Olen Underwood stepped in
to immediately end what up to that point in time had been a kidnapping by the
mother and her attorney). This should tell you something about what the testimony
revealed of my character, parenting skills, and love for my daughter. You will
also see that I have been given exclusive possession of the passport, which
should tell you something about the mother’s character and motivations. There
are also things you don’t see – the tremendous improvement in my daughter’s
health since I took over that responsibility, the happiness my daughter displays
when it is time to come home to me and my fiancée, the tears and screams she
exhibits when she is returned to her biological mother.
This case has drug on forever, but the divorce
decree and the temporary orders given before the decree are the results of
the following facts, most heard in the temporary orders hearing:
1. I went to China on business in August, 2004,
and had no interest in a wife at that time, Chinese or otherwise (I was, however,
interested in having a tour guide for my free time, and in learning the social
customs of the Chinese – when in China, this means you need to become friendly
with Chinese);
2. Yi Jian was a longtime prostitute in China (a
fact not known to me at the time of our marriage) trying to escape her crimes
in her homeland – to do that, she joined several websites specializing in introducing
Chinese women to Western men (she had been a member of the site I met her on
for over three years, and had “dates” with a number of men she met there);
3. Riddhi Desai is a gender bigot and a racist – her
comment (while pretending to be me in the e-mail above) about Chinese women
being submissive is reflective of her ignorance and racism. I have actually
been married to two Chinese women, and culturally they dominate the home and
affairs related to the home. The fact that Yi Jian struck me with an object
she picked up and hurled at me (a water bottle) is not unusual in Chinese households
(but it is not something a Pakistani gender bigot would know or understand);
4. Yi Jian came to this country for the sole purpose
of getting a green card and gaining a work-free future through a lucrative
American divorce (the stuff of legend in illiterate Chinese street mythology) for her and her
daughter;
5. Yi Jian became pregnant by turning condoms inside
out and inserting them into her vagina following advice she got from her friends
and fellow Chinese street prostitutes – I confronted her when I was emptying
trash and saw that several condoms had moved from the waste receptacle in the
bedroom to the wastebasket in the toilet room (inside the bathroom);
6. Yi Jian used the resulting pregnancy and my
own sense of my moral responsibilities to force me into marriage;
7. With the marriage, Yi Jian believed she had
satisfied all the requirements to extort alimony, child support, and my home
from me, and from that point on refused to cooperate in the marriage – these
culminated in the only physical incident of our brief marriage when on January
15, 2006 she struck me with a water bottle at four o’clock in the afternoon
in the bedroom when I went to ask her when her daughter Jiao Jiao was due to
return home from a friend’s home she was visiting. To my credit, and as shown
in the police reports and in examinations of all parties by EMS technicians
immediately thereafter, instead of responding inappropriately to the assault,
I immediately called the Sugar Land Police Department.
8. As established by testimony, I have never been
involved, or even accused, in any situation involving any kind of violence
or abuse in my entire 53 years of existence before, during, or since my relationship
with Yi Jian;
9. Oddly enough, the only person whose mental health
was in question in this case was Riddhi Desai’s. Her arguments in court were
meandering and nonsensical, she was never on time, she forgot her own commitments
and abandoned trains of thought during oral arguments. Dealing with her was
difficult for everyone (in other words, it wasn’t limited to myself and my
attorney, but seemed to include all males). She created problems for others
even when it was to her client’s extreme disadvantage. For example, I think
everyone would agree that it in a custody case it is advantageous to curry
favor with the child’s ad litem. But she treated Carel Stith (the ad litem
for my daughter) no better than she did me - conversations between Carel Stith
and Woody about Riddhi Desai refer to her as “the
dark side”.
10. Judge Ron Pope did in fact recuse himself from
this case, immediately after I wrote a letter to the Fort Bend County Recorder’s
office asking for the statistics of Judge Pope’s rulings regarding child custody
and access by gender. Judge Pope knows, and I knew, that Fort Bend County has
historically violated state law on gender bias regarding child custody and
access, and that Judge Pope in his relatively short tenure had become one of
the worst abusers. At some point after I had publicly accused him of gender
bias, Judge Pope’s wife (whom I’ve never met) retaliated by accusing me of
accosting her in a coffee shop in Sugar Land. After conversations with the
Texas Rangers over the issue, which included a background investigation of
my criminal history (or more accurately, lack thereof) as well as two hours
at my place of employment verifying my entries and exits to and from the building),
I was vetted by the Rangers. I am not sure the wife’s accusation (she identified
me as having a beard as shown in the only photo the court had of me from a
website I posted – I hadn’t worn a beard in two years) wasn’t specifically
intended to launch a fishing trip into my background, but whatever they were
looking for wasn’t there, and so Judge Pope recused himself. I do think the
research by the Rangers ultimately helped me, since after that investigation
I have been accorded respect by the court and we have been successful in the
matters put before the court. I believe it’s been firmly established that I
do not abuse people and therefore will not brook any abuse of me, my loved
ones, or persons too weak to defend themselves.
The subject of abusive people takes us back to
Riddhi Desai and her conduct. The aforementioned e-mail to the psychologist
was only one of several Riddhi Desai and/or her associates sent out to various
medical professionals – both before and after the e-mail. I received a number
of phone calls trying to set appointments or get more information about my “problem” from
health-care providers I do not know.
How do I know these were sent out by Riddhi Desai?
Because they occurred immediately after the following exchange between me and
my attorney (Douglas “Woody” Lyons):
It is not unusual for Riddhi Desai to make accusations or
statements that make no sense (neither Woody nor I have any idea what “You have forwarded your client's defamatory letters towards
me without any redaction to Child Support Agency” references). The website
she mentions has been up for a year (since January, 2007) and was last edited
in July, 2007, so it has been seven months since anything new was posted (I
will, however, be posting a copy of this letter after it has been completed).
What does appear on the website about Riddhi Desai is taken from other websites
or information available in the public record. I did not publish things that
spoke to other than her professional ineptitude and prejudices – for example,
I chose not to publish a written record available on the Internet that reveals
Riddhi Desai’s mercenary values extend all the way into her religion (her “religion” includes
things such as assigning fixed dollar and cent values to specific “good acts”,
and she was the one appointed to determine the prices in a chart she then published).
Finally, Riddhi Desai asked Judge Oren Underwood at the temporary orders hearing
to have me take down that website, and the judge refused to issue such an order – she
was certainly aware of the website and its contents at that time.
What
is clear is that Riddhi Desai perceived some kind of insult, it angered her,
and she and/or her associates decided to engage in more of the same harassment
she’d been practicing for over two months (see below). That resulted in the
identity theft e-mail sent by Riddhi Desai to the Psychology Today web site.
You
need not take my word for it. As soon as I received the e-mail, I sent an
e-mail to Psychology Today informing them that the e-mail would be the subject
of legal action and to preserve it. Even should they not, it is possible
to confirm the real sender’s IP address from the e-mail server, which is
not under Riddhi Desai’s control.
This
single incident, though egregious and actionable, may not be sufficient to
remove someone from the practice of law, which I am asking you to do for
that sake not only of the people she’s injured, but for the health, safety,
and welfare of her past, present, and future clients. Riddhi Desai is a maliciously
and criminally vindictive person who goes well outside the law to punish
not only her intended victims, but her clients when they do not do exactly
as they wish. Because of the consistency of her nature, there are many examples
of her incompetence and misconduct in my case alone.
I
intended to present Riddhi Desai’s offenses somewhat in reverse chronological
order, but several things she’s done overlap one another, and the effects
of some of them lag behind the actual causation. For the next item, I need
to present some background. Prior to the first temporary orders hearing in
January, 2007, with the help of a women’s shelter Yi Jian had kidnapped my
daughter from me beginning at the baby’s birth, a period of seven months.
During that kidnapping, Yi and her attorney staged an assault upon me and
the baby during what was purported to have been our first meeting August
19, 2006 – that assault is captured on videotape (complete with Yi Jian denial
that I am the baby’s father) and was a significant part of the temporary
orders hearing.
You’ll
recall that the Texas Rangers interviewed me for hours at my place of employment.
Therefore, everyone in this case was aware that I was at that time a self-employed
contractor earning $27,000.00 a year, and had been for some time. But Riddhi
Desai doesn’t do her homework – she came to the temporary order hearings
completely unprepared. First, she came asking for twenty percent of my income
child support plus $1500 per month spousal support plus $3500 in attorneys
fees (do the math against $27,000). Completely ignoring the laws requiring
gender equality and the fact the hearing was being held in the United States
rather than her pagan third-world gender-bigoted Pakistani homeland, she
tried to deny my daughter any of the time she needed with her father. She
had intimidated Yi Jian and Jiao Jiao into making up stories about what happened
during the marriage, but completely ignored the evidence and the circumstances.
First, we’d only been married two months, and at the time she hit me with
the water bottle to end our relationship, I had called the police, who took
extensive statements resulting in their telling Yi Jian to leave my home.
At that time, we were both asked if there had been any previous problems
and the nature of our lives together, and the responses recorded. Since Yi
Jian and I had no contact with one another through the baby’s birth and kidnapping
except for the assault on me and the baby in August, 2006, Riddhi Desai had
no place to fit her stories of woe. She left Yi Jian and Jiao Jiao hanging
out to dry when the stories didn’t hold up on the stand. During this hearing,
Riddhi Desai perjured herself on the record regarding the nature, intent,
and effect of various immigration matters, including status and application.
The
result of the hearing was a crushing repudiation to Riddhi Desai (and hopefully,
to others like her). I received immediate and equal access to my daughter
and I became the primary custodian, controlling medical care and education
for my daughter. No spousal support was granted, Riddhi Desai’s request for
attorney’s fees was denied. I did agree to pay a token amount ($50 per week,
though I actually wound up giving her $80 per week plus items for my daughter
simply because I wanted to) in “child support” (more accurately, “adult support” for
Yi Jian) because everyone recognized that Riddhi Desai had created a very
difficult situation for Yi Jian. Riddhi Desai had convinced her client that
she didn’t need to train herself for employment or make any other arrangements
for her own survival because, according to Ms. Desai, Yi Jian was going to
not only get my house for life (mortage-free, I assume!) but also a nice
monthly income (that just happened to exceed what I earned) for the next
eighteen years. I therefore agreed to pay her just enough to help a little
but not enough to encourage her to continue sitting on her butt, until she
could educate and train herself.
Riddhi
Desai then threw a childish temper tantrum. She threatened Judge Underwood
that unless she was paid she would quit on her client. My attorney queried
her as to her true intentions, and she reiterated she would abandon Yi Jian
unless she was paid for her time. Judge Underwood wasn’t about to be bullied
by Riddhi Desai, and denied her any compensation whatsoever. Unfortunately,
he was unable to sit at the next hearing in July, because if I read Judge
Underwood right, immediately upon seeing her face in the courtroom he would
have sanctioned her immediately and this letter would have been unnecessary.
The “final” divorce
hearing was in July, 2007. At that point, an agreement was reached between
all the parties, and another trial was avoided. My concern was that Yi Jian
could not and would not make it her in the US,
and would return to China – with
Sophia (my daughter). She had kidnapped my daughter before for seven months,
and her attorney Riddhi Desai) had no scruples whatsoever against aiding
and abetting such crimes. Therefore, I agreed to an extortion – even though
as the primary custodian I should have had no requirement to pay child support,
and even though the temporary orders support was to have been only until
Yi Jian could get a job (supposedly she had one by this point), I agreed
to continue paying the $80.00 per week I had been paying voluntarily as “adult
support” ($345/month) in order to prevent Yi Jian from kidnapping Sophia
again (I would be given sole possession and control of Sophia’s passport).
To
make all of this happen, we (meaning myself, Carel Stith, and my attorney)
had to get around Riddhi Desai’s criminal obstructionism. Prior to this Yi
Jian and I had once again developed a friendly relationship. Yi Jian had
told me that she was aware that some of her problems had been caused because
her attorney had convinced her to lie on the witness stand. Now she was deathly
afraid because she knew that she and Riddhi Desai had both committed perjury
using the same falsehoods in documents submitted to the USCIS (immigration
authorities). She was worried she’d be caught in the lie and not allowed
to stay in the US.
She was not interested in telling more lies, and she was not interested in
another trial. She had said that since the temporary orders hearing, Riddhi
Desai was out of her control. Since she was not being paid, Riddhi Desai
presumed as her compensation she would use Yi Jian’s case to pursue her own
anti-Caucasian, anti-male third-world agenda. She was no longer communicating
with Yi Jian at all. Yi Jian told me told me she’d be willing to let me keep
the passport, but that Riddhi Desai wasn’t answering her phone calls.
At
the negotiation, Riddhi Desai barred her client from the conversation, and
constructed a barricade of ridiculous demands and conditions to the frustration
of all involved. I had communicated to Woody that I knew Yi Jian’s wishes
weren’t being served by Riddhi Desai. Woody, being a really good attorney
and inventive in his own right, finally found an opportunity and without
Riddhi Desai’s permission sent a message to Yi Jian to come to the meeting.
Once there, Carel Stith and Woody joined forces to keep her there, and a
relatively short time later we had an agreement we then presented to the
judge.
Again,
Riddhi Desai was rebuffed dramatically in the presence of better minds and
higher moral standards. Unfortunately, however, the reading of the agreement
into the record was hastily thrown together due to the lateness of the hour,
and several portions of the agreement (including the passport portion) were
left out (oddly, my obligations under the agreement got read into the record,
but the part I was paying for got left out).
Riddhi
Desai then immediately reneged on the agreement – given the harassments she
was involved in outside the court system (see below), I am convinced she
did it solely to cost me the $3000 she knew I would be charged by my attorney
for the time in court, the letters to circumvent her obstructionism, and
the communications between me, Carel Stith, and my attorney. There was never
any question as to what the agreement was, as born out by the final divorce
decree, so other than harassment there was no reason to waste everyone’s
time. Riddhi Desai did not appear during this hearing, and it was her lieutenant,
a Jennifer Wilson, who presented for Yi Jian. During this hearing, Jennifer
Wilson perjured herself on the record regarding the Yi Jian’s immigration
status, and the standing accorded her by merely filling out an immigration
application. Filing an application, which is all that has been done at this
point, confers no benefits to the applicant (neither changes nor influences
their current status) and there are specific rules related to becoming a
public charge (which Yi Jian has been).
One
of the side effects of this was that since the divorce could not be finalized
due to Riddhi Desai’s objections, child support payments could not be submitted
through the Texas Attorney General’s office in Austin (no account number
could be established). Instead, I sent each and every one to my attorney
(Woody Lyons) who then sent them to the child’s ad litem (Carel Stith), who
then sent it to Riddhi Desai, who then sent it to Yi Jian:
Five checks were forwarded via this
route – the only problem occurred on one occasion when Riddhi Desai sent
my attorney an accusatory letter saying I had not mailed a payment, when
in fact her client when asked admitted the check had been sitting on her
coffee table unopened for two weeks – Riddhi Desai had never asked her client
whether she got the check before making the accusation.
In
any case, on December 12, 2007, the situation was this – the divorce and
child custody case was final. Riddhi Desai had been defeated at every turn,
had not represented her client’s wishes, and was angry. As for my part, I
had met every obligation, paid all child support, followed all laws, gotten
my baby’s health back under control, provided a quality and enjoyable life
for my daughter, and was looking forward to rebuilding my life with Sophia
and Jennifer (my fiancée).
Against
this backdrop, seven days after Riddhi Desai had been thoroughly embarrassed
yet again in court, I received a nasty letter (I consider words like “delinquent”, “action
of the court” “behind”, and any bureaucrat arrogantly “reminding” me of my
obligations to be nasty) from the Fort Bend County Child Support agency.
Riddhi Desai had intentionally and maliciously contacted the agency and lied
about Yi Jian receiving the payments from August through December, 2007.
This is the letter:
This is the letter my attorney forwarded
to the agency in response:
After
this letter was written, I learned from the Yi Jian, and confirmed with Fort
Bend County Child support, that the original complaint did not come from
Yi Jian, but instead came from Riddhi Desai, supposedly on behalf of Yi Jian.
In
short, Riddhi Desai had, immediately after her glaring defeat in court December
3, 2007, filed an underhanded complaint she knew was false but would sound
reasonable to the Fort Bend County Child Support agency. She, as everyone
else, knows that the child support system is an onerous, oppressive bureaucracy
targeting males which, once focused on a victim, is difficult to get off
your back. It was done as an act of pure harassment.
What
I did not know at the time was that the child support harassment was merely
the tip of an iceberg that Riddhi Desai and her associates had been building
since November. She had been submitting my name, personal information, and
contact data in response to junk and fraudulent e-mail she received on her
computers. I began seeing the results of these as e-mails I first received
as personal e-mail sent directly to me confirming my application for various
part-time jobs (which turned out to be money-laundering or stolen-goods forwarding),
credit cards, and various get-rich-quick-schemes. Most of these were obvious,
and not then knowing the cause, I just deleted them. I did not know that
Riddhi Desai had in effect submitted my identity to an international ring
of con artists, and that they were trading my information between themselves.
Because
of my legal bills, I had put up my 1977 MG Midget up for sale. When I received
an offer for the car, and ultimately a cashier’s check in payment for it,
I welcomed the good news and didn’t think that much more about it. However,
this was the end result of the chain of events Riddhi Desai initiated:
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L**e
S***r L**d, T***s 7***8-1**8
December 31, 2007
[The most recent version
of this document is available on-line at http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/FraudDetails.doc]
To whom it may concern:
During the holiday period of November 30, 2007 through the
present, my family and I have been the victims of two frauds in rapid succession,
one perpetrated by a consortium of international con artists in cooperation
with and under the protection of Capital One Bank in the amount of $13,000.49,
and a second fraud conducted by Capital One Bank alone in the amount of $6,500.00
(the second occurred without resistance from Chase Bank, which could have,
and should have, mitigated the loss). This amounts to a loss of nearly $20,000.00
immediately before Christmas without any notice and without any fault of
mine. As you will see, in the end the entire loss was caused by Capital One
Bank, since without their actions the crimes of their partners would have
had no effect whatsoever.
My name is S***t D****r. I am one of three officers in a ‘C’ corporation
by the name of Paper Trail Technologies, Inc. (as accountants, lawyers, and
especially bankers know, a ‘C’ corporation is a separate legal entity created
by a state filing, and shareholders are typically not personally responsible
for the debts and the liabilities of the business).
At the time Paper Trail Technologies was incorporated in July,
2006, I turned over the title of my restored 1977 MG Midget to the corporation
in return for 1,000 shares of stock at $1 per share, and a note against the
corporation for $10,000.00 (the corporation is the debtor, I am the creditor).
In December, 2006, the corporation released its employees
and began a process of dissolution. In August, 2007, the corporation completed
its last remaining contract (with Emerson Process Management) and started
liquidating assets. As part of that effort, the 1977 MG Midget was placed
for sale on several Internet websites (see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Midget)
through ITMotors.com.
During the evening of November 8, I received a text message
on my cell phone in response to that ad. The message was from a Frank Lampard,
who said he was a classic car broker and had an interested client who was
an officer in the US military
stationed in Spain.
I responded the next day to the e-mail address he provided (all e-mails exchanged
on either side of the conversation are available at http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/FraudEmail1.htm through http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/FraudEmail34.htm),
answered a few questions, and pointed him to the website that had the most
detail about the car, including a video test drive (the aforementioned http://www.ScreenSender.com/Midget).
On November 10, he indicated he wanted to purchase the car, and we discussed
payment arrangements. Between that time and November 30, I received e-mails
from him regarding delays of various kinds, but no check, and so I assumed
he was one of those whose stomachs were bigger than their wallets.
To my surprise, I received a cashier’s check, drawn on the
State Employees Credit Union of Maryland, from Spain (see the envelope at http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/OrigCheckEnvelopeRcvd11_30_07.JPG)
on November 30, and promptly deposited the cashier’s check that day. When
I saw the check had been cleared a few days later (December 3), I went to
the bank and had a cashier’s check drawn up from Paper Trail Technologies,
Inc. to me in repayment of the note owed me (http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/CapitalOneCashiersCheck.JPG).
I then deposited that cashier’s check to my Chase Bank personal account.
On the day following that deposit, the agency I contracted my services to
(Sapphire Technologies) was released from a project, leaving three of us
out of work just before Christmas. So, I paid several bills, including my
homeowner’s insurance, life insurance premium, house payments on both mortgages,
the taxes on the house for the year, and child support for my daughter (even
though I am the primary custodian and ordinarily it wouldn’t be required,
I pay what might better be termed “adult support” to my ex-wife because she’s
indigent and not a citizen). I was looking forward to a modest, but nice,
Christmas, the first I would have with my eighteen-month-old daughter since
gaining primary custody of her in a long legal battle.
On Wednesday, December 12, my daughter, her caregiver (who
is also my fiancée), and I went to the neighborhood strip mall to so I could
get a haircut for a job interview I had landed for the following day. When
I went to pay the $12 tab, not a single credit card or debit card of the
four I carry (a Capital One Visa, a Capital One debit, ad Chase MasterCard,
and a Chase debit) would go through…they all reported “cancelled”. My fiancée
took the baby and went home for her purse to pay the bill, and then we went
to the Chase branch across the parking lot to use their ATM, thinking maybe
the salon’s card reader was broken.
The Chase staff would tell me only that my account was “suspended” – they
wouldn’t tell me why - and that I had to call Capital One in order to get
it “released”. The entire concept that a bank could not only interfere with
unrelated accounts at another bank, but could effectively take everything
that customer had in those unrelated accounts without notice or explanation,
was foreign to me. I immediately went to Capital One bank, where I learned
that the $13,000.49 cashier’s check deposited November 30 was a counterfeit.
I learned that Capital One had not contacted any law enforcement authorities,
had not contacted me, had posted no information to the online account to
notify me, and had been aware of a problem with the check since being notified
by State Employees Credit Union of Maryland the previous Friday (December
7). Brad Herndon, the Capital One manager stated that Capital One was conducting
an “internal investigation” (without contacting the principal witness – me?”).
When I asked under what authority or by what mechanisms my Chase accounts
had been suspended, Mr. Herndon would not tell me, saying only that “Capital
One has the right to protect their assets” (no mention of protecting their
customer, obeying the law, due process, prohibitions against self-help, due
diligence when clearing the check in the first place, or full disclosure).
Mr. Herndon refused to tell me the rationale or means used to suspend my
Chase accounts, or provide me the means to access those funds that had been
received in my Chase account from sources such as my automatically-deposited
paychecks, or for that matter, why I was being forced to talk to Capital
One about any Chase matter. As in past conversations about other matters
(see below), the Brad Herndon was uncooperative, dishonest, evasive, and
arrogant (and as things turned out, a con artist in his own right).
By that time it was evening. I had no cash, no access to any,
no food in the house for my daughter and no gas in my vehicle. There was
$6500.00 in my Chase accounts, and I was completely unprepared to immediately
and without notice have no access to my funds. My fiancée (whose only source
of income is the salary I pay her to care for Sophia, my daughter) loaned
me the last $40 she had before she returned home to her apartment (see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/JennifersNote12_12_07.JPG).
For my daughter’s safety and welfare and because of the uncertainty of my
financial situation, I decided to use the money to put gas into my vehicle,
and take my daughter to her birth mother in Richmond (a
very difficult decision, I assure you).
On the following morning, December 13, I spent the entire
morning at Chase Bank trying to get answers, and access to those funds that
were deposited from my paychecks. All I got for my trouble was a runaround,
and my demands to speak to someone who could solve the problem resulted in
only a phone number (no name) – and that number was not a Chase number, but
a Capital One number (see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/ChaseNoteReCapitalOne12_13_07.JPG).
After 24 hours trying to resolve the problem, I had more questions
that I started with: Why was no one at Chase willing to take responsibility?
What was the relationship between Chase and Capital One? Why was a fraudulent
cashier’s check in the amount of $13,000.49 now known to be written by a
professional crime ring (that is, not me) resulting in a removal of $19,500.49
from my control (a debit against my account at Capital One $13,000.49 for
the original check, and a hold against my assets at Chase for reasons unknown)?
Why, with a crime of this magnitude (an international crime syndicate, interstate
wire fraud under the purview of the FBI, and postal fraud under the authority
of the US Postal Service) had no one involved the authorities? In other words,
why was Capital One covertly attacking me (the victim) while obstructing
justice to protect the criminals?
After returning from Chase, I called the Sugar Land Police
to file a complaint and find out how to get the appropriate authorities involved
to overcome the honor-among-thieves head start Capital One had given the
scam artists (I did not yet know about Capital One’s own fraud in this case,
but I did know about Capital One’s long ad sordid history as a parasitic
and predatory history as a credit card company, and also knew from my own
experiences – see below – and from Congressional testimony about their loan-shark-style
fee-churning practices).
The officer who took the complaint had similar questions.
He assigned a case number (see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/OfficerAndCaseNumber.doc)
and asked me to get the Capital One manager to provide copies of the counterfeit
check. He stated that with Capital One running interference for them, the
criminals had probably long ago covered their tracks and it was unlikely
that they would be caught. I called the Capital One manager, and he offered
to bring the information to my home, but not until the next day (December
14).
On December 14 – two weeks to the day after it was deposited,
and one full week after Capital One had been notified there were problems – Brad
Herndon, Capital One bank manager, allowed the first view of the cashier’s
check to anyone other than Capital One personnel since it was known to be
counterfeit. See the photocopy of the check as delivered by Mr. Herndon (with
Capital One staff notes) at http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/FraudCheckCopyWithCapitalOneMgrNotes.JPG and http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/FraudCheckCopyWithCapitalOneMgrNotes2.JPG.
Mr. Herndon also brought with him various images of bank software views of
transactions for the Paper Trail Technologies, Inc. account – see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/CapitalOneMgrScreen1.JPG through http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/CapitalOneMgrScreen4.JPG.
I asked Mr. Herndon by what authority he had used a counterfeit check issued
by a third party to the Paper Trail Technologies, Inc. account to interfere
with my access to personal funds in my Chase checking account – and he had
the nerve to tell me I had to take that up with Chase (two days before, he
had admitted culpability under the umbrella phrase “Capital One has the right
to protect their assets)! I asked him why he had given criminals a free pass
by not calling in the appropriate authorities, and again he ducked responsibility
by blaming Capital One’s “internal security” – when I asked for names and
phone numbers of those individuals, he refused.
After Mr. Herndon left my home, I downloaded the on-line view
of my account status in my Chase personal account – see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/AccountDetails1.aspx.htm through http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/AccountDetails7.aspx.htm.
Note that the account still shows the balance of $6,500.00, and absolutely
no indication anywhere of a hold, cancellation, or suspension. I also downloaded
the on-line view of the Paper Trail Technologies, Inc. Capital One account. – see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/CapitalOneScreen12_14_07.JPG.
By this time, Capital One has revised some history and added a debit of $13,000.42
back-dated to December 10 along with a service charge of $4.00 (that some
massaging has been done is belied by the fact that on the same day another
charge for $218.00 was accepted with a later transaction number than the
debit).
I cannot get a straight answer from Chase or from Capital
One as to the hijacking of my personal Chase account. It appears as though
by good-ole-boy I’ll-scratch-your-back-if-you-scratch-mine collusion they
want to hide from the authorities from me, Capital One and Chase have struck
a deal to transfer funds – including those unrelated to the sale of the ’77
Midget - from my personal checking account at Chase to cover the debit in
the Paper Trail Technologies, Inc. Capital One business account caused by
Capital One’s failure to vet a counterfeit cashier’s check with due diligence.
That would mean that through no fault of my own, without any public hearing
of the facts, and without being provided any notice or opportunity to mitigate
the damages caused by criminals Capital One has acted to protect (see below
for alternative resolutions), I am being charged $6,500.00 personally in addition
to the $13,000.42 debit assessed against Paper Trail Technologies,
Inc. That totals $19,500.42, $16,000.00 more than the $3,500 I personally received from the transaction
(the $10,000 cashier’s check deposited into my personal account less the
$6,500.00 I never spent).
Everyone I’ve spoken to about this matter – the police, IRS,
Texas Attorney General’s Office, and yes, a manager for another bank – has
said there is no legal way for Capital One to attach personal funds in another
account to a business debit, certainly not without judicial intervention.
So, how did they do it? I called several people looking for an honest banker
(i.e., someone working for a bank not held by a usurious credit card company)
and was introduced to a manager of an IBC Bank office. She looked into the
situation and determined that Capital One had committed a fraud of its own – they
did not report the $13,000.42 cashier’s check issued to Paper Trail Technologies
by the scam artists as being counterfeit to Chase, they instead reported the perfectly
legitimate $10,000.00 cashier’s check from Capital One to me personally as
being fraudulent!
For their part, Chase agreed to look the other way and accept
Capital One’s misrepresentation of the facts so long as Capital One didn’t
get caught. This is a blatant, deliberate, and criminal corruption of the
banking laws and practices by two malfeasant banks, and an immoral and illegal
assault upon an innocent consumer.
At the time the $10,000.00 cashier’s check was issued by Capital
One bank to me with bank manager approval, Capital One was in full command
of all the resources and all the facts. They had every opportunity, duty,
and right to validate the original $13,000.42 cashier’s check. They receive
daily updates from the FDIC specifically about counterfeit cashier’s checks,
and have for more than five years (see the example notice at http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/FDIC
FIL-68-2002 Special Alert.htm – note that these alerts are not made available
to the general public and I was made aware of them by the IBC bank manager).
For nearly all of the time that the Paper Trail Technologies,
Inc. account has been at Capital One, Capital One has placed holds on every
check (including payroll checks from Fortune 500 corporations) coming into
the account (sometimes purely for harassment). Brad Herndon, the Capital
One manager, and I have had more than half a dozen strong conversations about
inappropriate holds on specific checks, to no avail – every week my mailbox
would contain yet another hold notice for an Emerson Process Management (a
Fortune 500 company) check in the same amount ($2,153.20) for over a (from
July, 2006 when the account was first opened to August, 2007 when the officers
began shutting down Paper Trail Technologies, Inc. During the period August,
2007 through November, 2007, there was very little activity in the Paper
Trail Technologies account – in fact, for some period of time prior to the
deposit of the $13,000.42 cashier’s check, there had been a small overdraft
in the account.
And, it wasn’t until after Capital One, of its own volition
and for its own reasons, showed the original $13,000.42 cashier’s check cleared
in the on-line account view that I requested the $10,000.00 cashier’s check
from Capital One to myself. It wouldn’t have mattered one whit to me whether
the $13,000.42 cleared in four days or in four weeks. As shown by the activity
in my personal Chase account, over two weeks after having receiving the original
$13,000.42 cashier’s check, I hadn’t spent $6,500.00 of the $10,000.00 I
got as my portion of the sale of the car.
It was against this backdrop that Capital One bank issued
the $10,000.00 cashier’s check to me from the Paper Trail Technologies, Inc.
account. There was nothing fraudulent about it in any direction – because
Capital One had not done any due diligence despite copious information available
to them, no one could have been aware at that point in time of any problems.
But in any case, once they issued the cashier’s check, they were accountable
for it as a separate matter form any other consideration – for exactly the
same reason you can’t get out of paying the check you issued for the mortgage
just because your losses in Las Vegas turned out to be more an you thought
they would be.
I asked Brad Herndon, the Capital One manager, what he was
doing during the four days they did hold the original $13,000.42 cashier’s
check, and why with e-mail and instant electronic communications - and, for
God’s sake, free long-distance – and getting daily notices that counterfeit
cashier’s checks were out there in roughly the same dollar amounts, he didn’t
invest the trouble to verify the check, he made one of the most laughable
comments I’ve ever heard. He told me that they cleared the check quickly
as a service to a valued customer! This despicable shell of a man, working
for a despicable shell of a bank (neither of which had ever done anything
for anyone that didn’t immediately and directly put money in their pockets)
was trying to put after-the-fact spin on the fact he and his bank are incompetent,
lazy, and careless – as though not discovering a counterfeit check was somehow
a good thing for me.
Let’s clear up that last point. The damage Capital One (in
collusion with Chase) has done to me personally may exceed ten times the
$6,500.00 they’ve stolen from my personal Chase account to apply to a Paper
Trail Technology debit I don’t personally owe. To verify that those funds
have been unfairly converted and that it is the $10,000 cashier’s check from
Capital One illegally characterized as fraudulent rather than the $13,000.42
counterfeit cashier’s check (verifying the IBC bank manager’s findings),
see the Chase letter received December 24 at http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/ChaseRcvd12_24_07.JPG.
To verify that Capital One is showing a $13,000.42 debit against the Paper
Trail Technology, Inc. credit with no mention of a credit for the funds they
have stolen from my personal Chase account, see the Capital One letter received
December 31 at http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/CapitalOneRcvd12_31_07.JPG.
As to the latter, note that Capital One has turned the situation completely
around from Paper Trail Technologies, Inc. being the innocent victim of a
crime (that Capital One could have, and should have, prevented) to Paper
Trail Technologies now having intentionally over-drafted an account. That
kind of intentionally malicious and libelous defamation, slander, and dishonesty
from an organization as incompetent and corrupt as Capital One has shown
themselves to be throughout this entire situation is unacceptable (to say
the least) and one of the issues for which we are seeking the assistance
of legal counsel.
To start with, I have a personal direct loss due to Capital
One’s corruption and ineptitude in the amount of $6,500.00 (the $6,500.00
taken from my personal chase account, over and above the Paper Trail Technologies,
Inc. debit of $13,000.42 that fully covers the original counterfeit check.
But no event occurs in a vacuum. There was a reason that Paper
Trail Technologies, Inc. was being dissolved and that the ’77 Midget was
being sold in the first place – the business had not been successful, and
my personal situation was such that I needed the money. Before selling the
car, I had spent thousands of dollars on immigration issues, bringing a woman
from China and her daughter to the US. Shortly after
her arrival, the woman became pregnant and I married her. At that point,
she determined she could live off the proceeds of a divorce and welfare generated
by the baby, and after assaulting me with a bottle, left my home. After a
year and a half of investigative, legal, and recovery expenses totally multiple
tens of thousands of dollars, I was successful in retrieving my daughter
and was awarded primary custody. At the same time, I was being harassed with
nuisance suits by a spurned lover from several years earlier, also Chinese
and working in concert with my now ex-wife (they were of the belief they
could acquire my house). Ultimately, my retirement and other savings were
exhausted and I was forced into Chapter 7 bankruptcy in order to save my
home and to start fresh for the sake of my daughter. That bankruptcy was
still in the discharge process at the time the original cashier’s check was
received for the ’77 Midget.
[A side note regarding
the bankruptcy: As illuminated by recent testimony before Congress, lower-tier
banks like Capital One (and for that matter, Chase) churn fees by various
means against marginal accounts, generally by holding deposits but immediately
logging debits to create artificial overdrafts during the hold period,
and charging exorbitant fees on a per-debit basis for the resultant shortages.
At the time the bankruptcy was filed, I had a personal account at Capital
One, which Capital One began churning as soon as they received the bankruptcy
notice – they ran up hundreds of dollars in churned fees in a short period
of time. The charges so angered the bankruptcy referee that he allowed
us to belatedly add the personal Capital One account to the list of creditors,
and discharged all of those fees. Brad Herndon’s name and character came
up frequently during those discussions and I believe a significant motivation
for some of the illegal activities Capital One has engaged in relative
to the counterfeit cashier’s check is reprisal for the bankruptcy referee’s
actions.]
As noted previously, shortly after depositing the $10,000
Capital One cashier’s check into my personal Chase account in repayment of
my loan to Paper Trail Technologies, the project I was assigned to as a software
engineer was cancelled – myself and two other engineers were put out of work
because of a breakdown in the relationship between the client (Smith International)
and the agency we worked for (Sapphire Technologies), in large part due to
long-term misconduct by the project lead (Mark Seals).
Because I contract my services to clients based on specific
tasks to be done, changing jobs is not in and of itself unusual – I typically
work an assignment for six months to two years (I had been on this assignment
since August). However, in the eighteen years I’ve been doing this kind of
work, I’ve never been involuntarily unemployed, and therefore not during
the holiday season, and of course not when I had the primary responsibility
for an eighteen-month old daughter. While ultimately I will get work, I wasn’t
able to secure a position in the two-week run-up to Christmas or during the
week between Christmas and New Year’s.
I had intelligently and responsibly prepared for some of the
know issues (certainly discharge of the bankruptcy and taking over care of
my daughter) by arranging for the sale of the car and retirement of the $10,000.00
debt owed me by Paper Trail Technologies. The sale of the car was welcome
news, even more so when shortly after the project at work was cancelled.
So, at the time my debit and charge cards were denied on December
12, 2007 all of my resources were completely exhausted save for the funds
generated by the sale of the car – there was absolutely nothing left to cover
any more untoward events.
During the period when Capital One knew the original cashier’s
check was counterfeit and was negotiating a backroom scam of their own with
Chase, but I had not been notified by anyone, I wrote checks for bills, including
checks for two mortgages against my home, homeowner’s insurance, child support,
homeowner’s taxes, and a reinstatement of the payment agreement on my only
vehicle, a 2003 Toyota Tacoma pickup, and various other bills.
Because of Capital One’s malfeasance, in addition to the $6,500.00
stolen from my personal accounts, I have suffered (or will soon suffer) the
following additional losses:
1. Because during the suspension of my personal account, Chase
bounced not only the checks for the two mortgages (which in and of itself
would not necessarily have been fatal), but also the homeowner’s insurance
check, I have been told that I am going to receive a foreclosure notice.
I have no funds to pay any of those checks, and therefore stand to lose the
equity in my home, which is currently between $40,000 and $50,000.00. I have
no funds (or now, vehicle) to move or means to prepare the house for sale,
and even a premature sale would cost me the realtor’s commission ($18,000)
and whatever I would lose not having the home dressed up properly for sale;
2. On December 16, the bankruptcy discharged. Because the
check I wrote to re-establish the payment agreement on my Toyota Tacoma post-bankruptcy
bounced, the pickup truck was immediately repossessed, and I now have no
vehicle to drive (the ’77 MG Midget will not pass inspection because of a
failed brake proportioning valve is no longer available for the car, and
even if it were, I have no funds to pay for it);
3. I have for three years been paying on a $500,000 life insurance
policy – that policy is now at risk of cancellation. A December 17 payment
due through Paper Trail Technologies as part of my compensation as an officer
of the corporation was bounced, as was the replacement payment made through
my Chase personal account (as noted below, this policy may have had enough
loan value to pay for the counterfeit check had I been duly notified in a
timely manner – now I can’t get access to the policy to pay any of my other
bills);
4. Three checks (one I issued during this period, two others
that my ex-wife had squirreled away to cash for Christmas) for child support bounce,
placing me in severe legal jeopardy and causing major issues to my personal
credit and to my relationships with the court, my ex-wife, my family, and
ultimately with my daughter;
5. Yesterday my cell phone was cut off for a bounced payment – I
have no means to repay the check;
6. On December 29, a note was placed on my door that the water
bill payment check had bounced, and water would be cut off tomorrow – I was
able to borrow $70.00 from a friend, but I have no more sources for loans.
I am expecting similar notices for the electricity, gas, and land-line phone
(and with that goes my Internet connection, without which I cannot work and
my ability to get and respond to interviews by phone or e-mail);
7. I cannot pay the Cobra payments to continue my insurance
from work, which is a requirement of my child custody agreement.
As you can see, my situation is desperate. I am 53 years old
(which in and of itself has employment and health challenges) and everything
I worked for in 39 years of fulltime employment (I left home at 14), including
my home and family, I am about to lose because of the criminal activities
(including aiding and abetting fellow criminals) of Capital One Bank.
The truly terrible thing is that none of this was necessary.
First, Capital One could have done their job and either validated or held
the original check until the fraud was discovered. But even had Capital One
Bank not met their obligations, but kept their mistakes to that one and been
even minimally honest and forthright, the situation was easily manageable.
If Capital One had responsibly kept the loss to the Paper Trail Technology
account and reported the issue to the authorities and the officers of the
corporation as required by any standard of decent behavior, there is the
possibility the criminals could have been caught (or at least, future crimes
curtailed). Furthermore, at the end of the day, Paper Trail still has the
car (the criminals never picked up the car, no title was exchanged, and no
money was ever sent to them) so all that had to happen was for Capital One
to issue a loan to Paper Trail Technologies for the amount of funds that
were advanced on the counterfeit cashier’s check. Then, Paper Trail Technologies
would have made payments on that loan until the car was sold to a legitimate
buyer and the loan retired. Such a solution would have been painless, simple,
honorable, and businesslike.
But now we’re faced with the situation that Brad Herndon and
Capital One Bank have intentionally and unlawfully caused me personal harm
outside any obligation I might have had to Paper Trail Technologies, and
certainly outside due process and legal authority.
I am, therefore, seeking any legal and financial help I can
from any quarter it is available. It is said that mankind never solves bigotry
and racism, it just gets moved around. Therefore, because I am slender, Caucasian,
and male (as opposed to obese, black, and female) society provides no resources
from which I can draw to help me through what should have been short-term
problems at best. Instead, there is a good likelihood I will end up homeless,
certainly without credit, and without future prospects.
It seems my best hope is to find a really good attorney who
can hold the wolves at bay (at least long enough to keep my phone line active
to get work) while getting back my personal resources from Chase… and in
a perfect world, suing Capital One out of existence (I recognize the illogic
of the last item – where would slugs like Brad Herndon work?). Hopefully,
I can find someone willing to work on contingency.
In the meantime, I will send out copies of this letter to
as many people as I can, beginning with law enforcement, banking regulators,
state legislators, our Senators and Congressmen, the credit reporting agencies,
the child-support enforcement people, and the child custody judge.
If you are an attorney (or know of one) interested in this
case and believe you can help, please contact me at 281-240-8343, by e-mail
at scottdeaver@hotmail.com, or by postal
mail at the address in the upper right-hand corner of this letter.
Best regards and wishes for the New Year,
S***t D****r
Update January 5, 2008:
I still have not gained access to my Chase Bank
personal account, all checks written during the period described have been
bounced, and I cannot even recover any of the deposits made to the account
automatically (most critically, my last paycheck). I am down to my last $55.43.
I have sent out dozens of letters to every attorney who listed their expertise
as banking and finance on FindLaw, until I ran out of stamps and printer
ink. I sent letters to the Texas banking
regulators, FBI, FDIC, and the three major credit bureaus.
On January 4th, I received a notice
from First Power Electric that my electricity will be cut off January 14th (see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/FirstChoicePowerCutoff_1_4_08.JPG).
At that point, I will be effectively homeless, without heat or lights or
Internet access or even the ability to power my telephone answering machine
(my cell phone has been disconnected for a week, so the land line is my only
remaining communication link to the outside world). I have my baby this week,
and I am guessing this is the last week I will be able to see her for a long
while.
On January 5th, I received another
threatening letter from Capital One bank, again not mentioning their crimes
(the getaway driver is just as guilty as the Nigerian who robbed the liquor
store), or the $6,500.00 they stole from my personal accounts at Chase Bank
(in addition to the $13,000.00 they are dunning Paper Trail Technologies) – see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/CapitalOneLetterRcvd_1_5_08.JPG.
If my situation weren’t so dire, I’d laugh out loud at their threat to do
an “external investigation”. Gee, after a month, you think?!? Given they’re
going to spend a great deal of time explaining their actions to a number
of “external investigators” I notified myself (and hopefully, a lawyer who
takes pity, if not on me, on my family), I suspect that threat has been negated.
But the others haven’t. If by some miracle I can overcome all of the immediately
life-threatening problems Capital One has created for me, I face the rest
of my life fighting credit and other problems they have manufactured as well.
On January 8, 2005 – one month, eight days after
the fraud occurred and over three weeks since my personal Chase account was
hijacked by Capital One, I received the first on-line indication whatsoever
from Chase that there’s a problem with my personal account in the form of
a an online Chase account message re-iterating that I must go to Capital
One to get my Chase funds released - see http://www.ScreenSender.com/Fraud/ChaseBankRcvd1_8_08.JPG
At this point, with no resources left (including
time), I have no choice but to beg for help from anyone willing to give it.
Globally,
there are millions of advertisements out on the Internet and in print media.
The only way you could find my ad on my little website is by specifically
searching for “MG Midget” or my name (it is a collector’s car, and so that
limited exposure is by design). If this fraud had been the only incident
that had happened to me recently, perhaps you could make the case that the
con artist found me through pure dumb luck. However, against the backdrop
of the numerous harassments Riddhi Desai has engaged in against me (and given
that nothing like this series of events in toto has ever happened to me in
my entire 53 years of life), it is highly likely the fraud occurred because
her hand was in the mix. However, the proof that I was specifically targeted
is clearly shown in the events that immediately followed – I received ANOTHER
forged cashier’s check for the same car and ad from a different counterfeiter
(this one from Italy rather than Spain, much better language skills,
different twist on the need to send money):
Lightning of this kind didn’t strike
twice in the same place without a lot of help from a beady-eyed Pakistani
man-hater.
This
particular lightning has actually struck the same place numerous times in
the same month. Here are two “employment” contracts addressed directly to
my email address (that is, they did not arrive as bulk or “junk” mail, and
used my full name and other personal information in the cover letters) from
people I’d never had contact with previously (these are money-laundering
or stolen goods forwarding schemes):
The
interesting thing about the second letter is that is shows my Sprint PCS
cell phone number in the application information – that is not something
you get from Yellow Pages, which means it was submitted by someone who knew
me (or knew of me), but didn’t know me that well, since by December 14 Sprint
had disconnected my cell phone (because a payment check had bounced due to
the MG Midget fraud):
You’ll note that some of these initial
contact letters fraud letters use the name “Scott Deaver”. Anyone who knows
me knows that I always identify myself as “F. S***t D****r”. There is a W.
S***t D****r my age who is vice-president of Cendant (formerly Avis Rent-a-Car),
and years ago we agreed I would use the “F. S***t” designation because of
issues we had with our credit reports becoming entangled. Riddhi Desai would
not have known that when submitting these applications.
Since
the letter I wrote describing the circumstances of the original fraud, I
have gotten a new job with health insurance (because of the identity theft
elements of this complaint, I will not share those details until I can be
assured they will not be given to Riddhi Desai). I have worked with lenders
and gotten a new (actually used) car. I’ve made an arrangement with my mortgage
company and am working to salvage my life insurance policy. I obtained a
new cell phone through a different vendor, and I was able to borrow $345
from a friend to replace one of the child support checks that bounced while
the bank had my account suspended (I will replace the other this coming Friday).
I have been surprised and overwhelmed by the support of my friends and especially
Jennifer. Even Yi Jian has helped – I literally had no money to buy milk
or diapers for Sophia, and she agreed to keep Sophia during my week. We have
reached understandings on a number of topics, chief among them Riddhi Desai.
She is fearful that Riddhi Desai is putting her into an untenable and dishonest
position with the USCIS, she wants to correct any misstatements on her various
applications, and she would like to normalize the relationship between her
and me, as well as the relationship between her daughter (a US citizen) and
herself (a Chinese citizen with no status in the United States). However,
she’s afraid if she gets rid of Riddhi Desai or says or does anything Riddhi
Desai doesn’t like, Riddhi Desai will exact vengeance on her or sabotage
her immigration application. She doesn’t understand that her attorney is
supposed to work for her, rather than vice-versa. She sees what Riddhi Desai
has done to me, and feels threatened.
Riddhi Desai’s incompetence is in and of itself
extreme enough to present a danger to her clients, a drain on judicial resources,
and an embarrassment to the legal profession. But in addition to that Riddhi
Desai is a criminal - identity theft, inducing or participating in fraud, subverting
the interest of a client for her own personal gain, perjury before a District
Court judge and in documents sworn and submitted to US government agencies (Homeland
Security and US Citizenship and Immigration Service) are crimes.
I seek your help and assistance in correcting the
injustices described in this letter (to the extent possible) and taking the
steps necessary to prevent these problems in the future.
Thank you,
F. S***t D****r
See
February 24, 2008 Update
See
February 24, 2008 Update E-mails
See
March 3, 2008 Update (Identity Thief Caught!)
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