Mercenary, manipulative, and man-hating (poor Rahul!), this cold-hearted professional liar is more Yi Jian's pimp than her lawyer. Had Yi Jian not already lived life as a prostitute in China, Riddhi Desai would have suggested the occupation to her as a means to pay her attorney...none other than Riddhi Desai, of course.

Riddhi has never had a conversation with another attorney, a pleading, a mediation, or any other communication in this case that did not include as its first component her compensation. She's never missed an opportunity to complain that she's not being paid by her client. So how did a woman with such an eagle-eye for the bottom line get herself into such a position?

She was betrayed by her own greed. When Lawrence Victor Bush was facing sanctions, possibly even disbarment, for his ethics violations representing Yi Jian during the first six months of the kidnapping, he and the law firm he worked for saw Riddhi Desai as a way out of their dilemma. They simply told her they had a case about to go to trial involving a young baby, an accusation of abuse, a petite Chinese woman and her daughter stranded and abandoned in the United States with nowhere to turn. Riddhi Desai filled in the missing details with her own gold-embossed imagination.

Here stood a chance to make a quick profit using her usual tricks - hiding exculpatory evidence and other information, playing on "mommy factor", using her extensive knowledge of abusing the immigration system to temporarily bandaid Yi Jian's status, stick it to the man in the picture, and when all else fails, lie. Unfortunately, in her speed to greed she neglected to ask the notably dishonest Bush why he was giving up this plum situation to her (or if she did, she didn't bother to check on his answer). Too cheap to spend the money for a translator, she didn't check up on her client's story and took Jiao Jiao's imaginative stories as fact. When she became aware of the website at www.jiaojiaozhang.com, she dismissed it as the ravings of a crazed man (after all, all men are stupid, crude, and hormonal, right?), and actually believed the information there would work to her advantage. She made no effort to learn why the judge in the case had to recuse himself. She welcomed this case as quick in-and-out exploiting the pro-female bigotry latent in the system and with which she was very familiar.

Refusing to work with my attorney, she brought little to court other than a viciously mean attitude towards men - she spent much of her idle time actually glaring at me and my attorney - and a raft of tired anti-male cliches. She had prepped her clients with some standard story-padding commonly used by victims in abuse cases to amplify their empathy, without reading the police report or recognizing that no abuse had ever occurred or checking the timelines. She didn't seem to know that because of the political corruption surrounding this case, every law enfocement agency in Texas, including the Texas Rangers, had pored over the facts of this case in the seven months prior to trial.

The results speak for themselves - see the complete temporary orders transcript. The kidnapping that Riddhi Desai was attempting to not only exploit, but extend, was terminated immediately, and I was given exactly what the law demands: equal time and access to the daughter I hadn't seen in peace since her birth. Quite probably the most pathetic scene I've witnessed in a courtroom was her arrogant appeal, after having been exposed for her lies and manipulations, to have her legal fees paid by us (more accurately, from my daughter's college fund since at this point I had been driven into bankruptcy).

This is not a unique happenstance in Riddhi Desai's career. The Internet records a recent case where Riddhi's transparent greed so incensed a jury in a civil trial that they awarded the opposing party punitive damages even though the injured party hadn't suffered any actual money damages - see Marvis Ekhator Odia, D/B/A Odia Motors, v. Oscar Lopez and Flor Lopez. Because under Texas law, you must suffer actual damages in order to receive punitive damages, the decision was reversed on a technicality, but it's apparent juries are able to see through Riddhi Desai's manipulations.

The Odia case also exposes Riddhi Desai's racism and two-faced nature. Riddhi Desai has been quoted in various pages on the Internet spouting a lot of altruistic pablum about championing the needs of the "poor and downtrodden". Of course, the "poor and downtrodden" happen to be those caught abusing the immigration system and hardened criminals. Listen to this classic Riddhi Desai quote (note the emphasis on money):

"The people we represent come from a poorer background," says attorney Riddhi Desai. "Probation is expensive. There's the $140 supervision fee. The fines to be paid off. The random urinalysis they must undergo almost every month; they must pay for that." Costs usually average out to $100 a month, she says.

"These are people who do not have $200 to get out of jail on bond," she says. "And people don't want to be in jail. Once in the probation system, they are at the mercy of the probation officer who supervises them, the people who do the drug testing and the judge. Any one person complaining about them could wipe out all they've tried to do and start them back up."

And who do you think she's talking about? Felons busted for selling and using crack cocaine! Uhhhh, Riddhi...if people don't want to be in jail, and endure these horrific insults to their dignity, why don't they just quit committing crimes???

But even if you have a very active imagination and can picture Riddhi Desai as some kind of beady-eyed Mother Theresa protecting the poor of the world, you should know her sympathies revert dramatically as soon as one of her Pakistani countrymen is involved in a situation involving those same poor people. Odia Motors is a greasy used-car dealership that preys on those very people who need protection...but of course, in Riddhi Desai's opinion, Hispanics and Caucasian males are lower forms of life that don't really count.

See January 28, 2008 Update

See February 24, 2008 Update

See February 24, 2008 Update E-mails

See March 3, 2008 Update (Identity Thief Caught!)

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