REMEMBER THAT ALL LAWYERS ARE PREDATORS THAT OPERATE IN THE LAWLESS LAWYER CLASS WHERE THEY ARE ENABLED, ABETTED AND PROTECTED.
LAWYERS: THE PROTECTED CRIMINAL CLASS
But as detailed in an article this week by The Maine Monitor
and ProPublica, Pelletier repeatedly failed to discipline the lawyers whom he
contracted, allowing them to continue their work after being criminally
prosecuted or cited for legal or ethical malpractice.
When Letourneau invited Kerwin to the bar, she
had no idea that he had been suspended for past troubles managing his clients.
Soon after, Letourneau resigned from the commission,
according to disciplinary records.
She Was Afraid of Her Lawyer.
Then the Text Messages Started.
Leah Kerwin started receiving daily texts and videos
explicitly requesting oral sex or intercourse. They came from her
court-appointed attorney, who had already been suspended for other misconduct.
by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor Oct. 8, 7 a.m. EDT
Chloe Cushman, special to ProPublica
This article was produced in partnership with The Maine
Monitor, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
This story contains graphic allegations of sexual harassment.
In January 2016, attorney Paul
Letourneau arranged to meet his
newest client one evening at Sea Dog Brewing Co., a local brewpub in southern
Maine. She had a drug arrest, a shaky relationship and was struggling to hold
onto her nursing license.
Letourneau ordered a beer. They settled into a booth.
Suddenly, his phone rang. His daughter was having car trouble, he told her. He
asked the woman to wait for him. He’d be back in a second.
As Letourneau walked out, Leah Kerwin watched him with
unease. She was out on bail. She wasn’t supposed to be drinking alcohol. And
here she was, meeting him alone in a mostly empty bar.
After waiting 10 minutes, Kerwin decided to leave. Just as
she reached her car in the parking lot, Letourneau pulled into the spot next to
her, she said. He jumped out and strode over — standing so close that she could
smell the beer on his breath. Come back inside for another drink, she
remembered him asking.
She knew it was the last time she wanted to be alone with her
lawyer.
Problems in Plain Sight
At the time, Letourneau was working as a lawyer for the Maine
Commission on Indigent Legal Services. Maine is the only state in the country
with no public defenders. Instead, the commission contracts hundreds of private
attorneys to represent criminal defendants who cannot afford legal counsel.
John Pelletier, the commission’s executive director, is
supposed to supervise his agency’s attorneys. But as detailed in an article
this week by The Maine Monitor and ProPublica, Pelletier repeatedly failed to
discipline the lawyers whom he contracted, allowing them to continue their work
after being criminally prosecuted or cited for legal or ethical malpractice.
In some cases, these lawyers used their
positions of power to manipulate or harass their clients — often female, always
poor — at a time when their freedom was at stake.
Letourneau is a case in point, records show.
After passing the bar exam in 2003, Letourneau opened a solo
practice in South Portland, where he grew up. But it was not long before he
ran into his own legal troubles.
In September 2009, Maine’s Board of Overseers of the Bar, an
independent judicial agency that regulates attorney conduct, suspended
Letourneau’s license for seven months after he neglected to keep track of the
cases of at least eight clients and failed to supervise his legal assistant,
disciplinary records show. Six months later, the board again suspended
Letourneau when a ninth client came forward and more details emerged on how his
legal assistant “actively deceived” clients and Letourneau.
Despite his disciplinary history, Pelletier approved
Letourneau’s application in 2010 to represent poor criminal defendants for the
commission.
By 2011, a 10th person had come forward about bad legal
advice he received from Letourneau’s office, according to investigations by the
board. The board
didn’t require Letourneau to stop practicing law, but he was ordered to limit
his work to criminal defense.
Pelletier took no action against Letourneau, who was
appointed to represent impoverished clients in 470 cases between 2010 and 2016
while working for the commission. Pelletier did not respond to multiple
requests for comment and declined to answer written questions.
No public records indicate that Letourneau conducted himself
unprofessionally toward his clients — until he met Kerwin at a time when her
life had begun to crumble.
Kerwin was working days as a nurse at a hospice. Nights were
spent caring for the elderly at an assisted living home in southern Maine. She
had two kids. Things had settled into a comfortable routine when a new
boyfriend came into her life.
He introduced her to heroin and it seized her.
As soon as she used the drug, she couldn’t stop thinking
about it. Their use increased rapidly to the point that he was injecting her in
the parking lot before her shift and, at its worst, again during her breaks.
She began stealing jewelry from patients and drugs from the hospital to sell
for more heroin.
“In a period of six to eight months, I went from zero to 60,”
Kerwin said.
In December 2015, six months into using heroin, she wanted it
to end. She confessed to the police that she had stolen drugs and patients’
property. She was indicted for felony theft and stealing drugs. She was fired
from her jobs. The state began the process of revoking her nursing license.
Jobless and broke, she asked the court to assign her an
attorney. On Jan. 12, 2016, the judge appointed Letourneau to her case.
When Letourneau invited Kerwin to the bar, she had no idea
that he had been suspended for past troubles managing his clients. Strung out on heroin and taking
methadone every day, Kerwin was counting on Maine to protect her legal rights.
She said she felt “terrified.”
“Paul saw it too and he saw the vulnerability in me. He also
saw, I think, how naive I was, and he took advantage of the situation,” Kerwin
said.
Soon after the meeting at the bar, Letourneau began to
exercise orchestrated control over Kerwin. In daily text messages reviewed by
The Maine Monitor and ProPublica, he reminded her of meetings or offered rides
to court appearances, but he also sent photos of his genitals and repeatedly
asked his court-appointed client to meet for oral sex or intercourse.
The ding of Kerwin’s cellphone notifications filled the
three-bedroom duplex apartment she shared with the boyfriend who introduced her
to heroin, his teenage son and her 9-year-old son. Her older son, who was 20,
was no longer living with her.
She tried to ignore the messages. But the volume was
overwhelming: text and videos from Letourneau that graphically described his
desire to meet her again.
“I would turn him down. But then I would think, if I don’t
respond to him he’s going to destroy me. He’s not going to work as hard for
me,” said Kerwin, who provided images of the text messages to The Maine Monitor
and ProPublica. “The court doesn’t look at me like I’m a real person, they’re
looking at me like I’m a junkie. They’re looking at me the same way he is, and
he treated me like a junkie whore.”
Like clockwork around 8 a.m., Letourneau would send Kerwin a
message. “Good morning sweetheart,” he’d write. He demanded to know where she
was and what she was doing if she was silent too long.
“Hate to break it to you, but you[’re] going to have to meet
your lawyer soon,” he said. “Alone.” He ended the texts with a smiley face.
Letourneau did not return phone calls, emails or letters
seeking comment. In one court document, he alleged that she encouraged his
actions through a “mutual engagement of sexual texts.” He provided no evidence
to back his contention. Dozens of messages reviewed by The Maine Monitor and
ProPublica did not support his claim either.
“It was the most humiliating experience I’ve ever been
through in my life,” Kerwin said. “I had no control and I was just spiraling
downward and he was just the devil at the bottom waiting for me.”
Kerwin called the court clerk’s office to ask what she could
do to remove a court-appointed attorney who was acting inappropriately. She
remembers the woman saying it could take months for her to be assigned a new
attorney. And even then it was not guaranteed that a new lawyer would be
appointed to her case.
All Kerwin could picture was the clerk telling Letourneau
that she was trying to get away from him. How he would react by destroying her
case, allowing authorities to rip her from her children. She hung up without
reporting him.
She felt defenseless.
A Lost Chance
Three months had elapsed since the judge
assigned Letourneau to Kerwin’s case. He kept sending texts at a relentless
pace. On March 28, 2016, for instance, Letourneau sent 10 messages between 8:33
a.m. and 9:03 a.m., asking to meet for sex or for Kerwin to send videos of
herself to him so he could masturbate. Kerwin never replied.
Letourneau laced his texts with apologies — but never stopped
his behavior.
“I’ll stop sorry,” Letourneau apologized in one text. Eight
minutes later — still with no reply from Kerwin — he asked again if she wanted
to have sex or if she would prefer for them to tease each other.
“I keep secrets for a living,” Letourneau sent at 9:02 a.m. A
minute later, “Ok sorry. I’ll stop.”
“Haha that’s so true, never thought about it like that,”
Kerwin responded at 9:04 a.m.
“I’ve made up my mind,” Letourneau wrote back five minutes
later. “If you wanna no strings attached fuck buddy, I’m here.”
Texts between Paul Letourneau and Leah Kerwin. (Courtesy of
Leah Kerwin)
Kerwin decided she could stand it no more. She found a new
lawyer in the yellow pages. She was forced to turn to her parents, who scraped
together enough money to pay his $5,000 retainer in installments.
After Kerwin showed her new lawyer the messages, he reported
Letourneau to the board of overseers on June 15, 2016. Six weeks later, a judge
suspended Letourneau, saying his conduct posed “an ongoing risk of harm to his
remaining clients.”
Pelletier did not move as fast. After learning of the board
of overseers’ investigation, he agreed to let Letourneau complete his existing
court-appointed cases, according to an email on July 11, 2016. Letourneau would
decline new assignments, but he would be allowed to reapply to the commission
in the future. Soon after, Letourneau resigned from the commission,
according to disciplinary records.
Prosecutors had insisted Kerwin serve 18 months in exchange
for a guilty plea, Kerwin said she was told by Letourneau. Her new attorney
negotiated the jail sentence down to three months.
It felt like a chance, Kerwin said. But she blew it.
Police searched her apartment on Nov. 19, 2016, to make sure
she was complying with the terms of her bail agreement. Reports detail that
they found nearly 8 grams of fentanyl — a powerful heroin-like substance — in
her bag. She was arrested and charged with drug possession, violating bail and
drug trafficking, court records show. After being assigned another
court-appointed attorney, she was sentenced to nine months in the Cumberland
County Jail and was released early for good behavior.
Kerwin had served her sentence. How, she wondered, would
Letourneau be punished?
Punishment
Letourneau stared straight ahead as Kerwin sat at the table
next to him. The board of overseers asked her to testify in its case to
determine whether he’d violated professional standards. The judge listened
intently as Kerwin described how the unsolicited text messages started almost
as soon as she met him. How she hid the humiliating pictures and videos of him
masturbating from her boyfriend and young son.
She got halfway through before the words caught in her
throat.
“I’m trying to explain to the judge this story and he’s very
kind and listening to me and trying to be compassionate,” Kerwin recalled. “We
had to go into a courtroom that was half the size of a regular courtroom. So, this
guy is 5 feet, 10 feet away from me. It was so traumatizing.”
On Jan. 25, 2018, a state Supreme Court justice rendered a
decision. Letourneau would be suspended from practice for 20 months for
“sexting” his client. The justice counted the 16 previous months of suspension
as time served, disciplinary records show. Letourneau could seek reinstatement
as early as April 1 of that year. Letourneau did not testify or provide a
written statement to the judge in his defense.
Kerwin attempted to hold Letourneau accountable one more
time. She filed a civil lawsuit against him — but she dropped it when it became
evident she was unlikely to recoup much money.
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defender system. Instead, legal services for the poor are left to private
attorneys, who face disproportionately high amounts of discipline, and an
office that doesn’t supervise them.
Letourneau has not reapplied for reinstatement to the state
bar. He will be able to practice law again in Maine if the board of overseers
and a judge agree to end his suspension. For a time, he drove for Uber in
Portland. His LinkedIn profile says he now lives in Philadelphia driving as a courier.
News of the case troubled some of the board members who serve
on the commission.
Josh Tardy, an attorney and former Republican state lawmaker
appointed chair of the commission in 2019, said he was disturbed by
Letourneau’s conduct and Kerwin’s treatment when informed of the case by a
reporter.
“This sounds like this person was a crime victim,” Tardy
said.
On Tuesday, the commission began consideration of sweeping
rule changes for the hiring and firing of state defense lawyers. Among the
changes is a prohibition of “romantic or sexual contact between rostered
counsel and client.”
Kerwin said that she’s now sober with the help of Suboxone, a
medication for treating opioid addiction. Her youngest son lives with her. His
laughter punctuates the conversation from behind a closed door. She doesn’t
want him to hear parts of her story.
She worked a retail job until April when she was laid off due
to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, she is enrolled in a medical coding and
billing course at a local community college. She hopes to be able to return to
work as a nurse, though she knows that will be difficult given her criminal
record.
She may never be a nurse again. But Letourneau could practice
as an attorney.
The thought upsets her. It baffles her that Pelletier didn’t
immediately bar Letourneau from representing indigent clients in 2016.
“Does it have to get more severe than my case?” Kerwin asked.
“Is my case not severe enough in his eyes?”
She Was Afraid of Her Lawyer. Then the Text Messages Started.
Leah Kerwin started receiving daily texts and videos explicitly requesting oral sex or intercourse. They came from her court-appointed attorney, who had already been suspended for other misconduct.
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In January 2016, attorney Paul Letourneau arranged to meet his newest client one evening at Sea Dog Brewing Co., a local brewpub in southern Maine. She had a drug arrest, a shaky relationship and was struggling to hold onto her nursing license.
Letourneau ordered a beer. They settled into a booth. Suddenly, his phone rang. His daughter was having car trouble, he told her. He asked the woman to wait for him. He’d be back in a second.
As Letourneau walked out, Leah Kerwin watched him with unease. She was out on bail. She wasn’t supposed to be drinking alcohol. And here she was, meeting him alone in a mostly empty bar.
After waiting 10 minutes, Kerwin decided to leave. Just as she reached her car in the parking lot, Letourneau pulled into the spot next to her, she said. He jumped out and strode over — standing so close that she could smell the beer on his breath. Come back inside for another drink, she remembered him asking.
She knew it was the last time she wanted to be alone with her lawyer.
Problems in Plain Sight
At the time, Letourneau was working as a lawyer for the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services. Maine is the only state in the country with no public defenders. Instead, the commission contracts hundreds of private attorneys to represent criminal defendants who cannot afford legal counsel.
John Pelletier, the commission’s executive director, is supposed to supervise his agency’s attorneys. But as detailed in an article this week by The Maine Monitor and ProPublica, Pelletier repeatedly failed to discipline the lawyers whom he contracted, allowing them to continue their work after being criminally prosecuted or cited for legal or ethical malpractice.
In some cases, these lawyers used their positions of power to manipulate or harass their clients — often female, always poor — at a time when their freedom was at stake.
Letourneau is a case in point, records show.
After passing the bar exam in 2003, Letourneau opened a solo practice in South Portland, where he grew up. But it was not long before he ran into his own legal troubles.
In September 2009, Maine’s Board of Overseers of the Bar, an independent judicial agency that regulates attorney conduct, suspended Letourneau’s license for seven months after he neglected to keep track of the cases of at least eight clients and failed to supervise his legal assistant, disciplinary records show. Six months later, the board again suspended Letourneau when a ninth client came forward and more details emerged on how his legal assistant “actively deceived” clients and Letourneau.
Despite his disciplinary history, Pelletier approved Letourneau’s application in 2010 to represent poor criminal defendants for the commission.
By 2011, a 10th person had come forward about bad legal advice he received from Letourneau’s office, according to investigations by the board. The board didn’t require Letourneau to stop practicing law, but he was ordered to limit his work to criminal defense.
Pelletier took no action against Letourneau, who was appointed to represent impoverished clients in 470 cases between 2010 and 2016 while working for the commission. Pelletier did not respond to multiple requests for comment and declined to answer written questions.
No public records indicate that Letourneau conducted himself unprofessionally toward his clients — until he met Kerwin at a time when her life had begun to crumble.
Kerwin was working days as a nurse at a hospice. Nights were spent caring for the elderly at an assisted living home in southern Maine. She had two kids. Things had settled into a comfortable routine when a new boyfriend came into her life.
He introduced her to heroin and it seized her.
As soon as she used the drug, she couldn’t stop thinking about it. Their use increased rapidly to the point that he was injecting her in the parking lot before her shift and, at its worst, again during her breaks. She began stealing jewelry from patients and drugs from the hospital to sell for more heroin.
“In a period of six to eight months, I went from zero to 60,” Kerwin said.
In December 2015, six months into using heroin, she wanted it to end. She confessed to the police that she had stolen drugs and patients’ property. She was indicted for felony theft and stealing drugs. She was fired from her jobs. The state began the process of revoking her nursing license.
Jobless and broke, she asked the court to assign her an attorney. On Jan. 12, 2016, the judge appointed Letourneau to her case.
The Devil at the Bottom
When Letourneau invited Kerwin to the bar, she had no idea that he had been suspended for past troubles managing his clients. Strung out on heroin and taking methadone every day, Kerwin was counting on Maine to protect her legal rights. She said she felt “terrified.”
“Paul saw it too and he saw the vulnerability in me. He also saw, I think, how naive I was, and he took advantage of the situation,” Kerwin said.
Soon after the meeting at the bar, Letourneau began to exercise orchestrated control over Kerwin. In daily text messages reviewed by The Maine Monitor and ProPublica, he reminded her of meetings or offered rides to court appearances, but he also sent photos of his genitals and repeatedly asked his court-appointed client to meet for oral sex or intercourse.
The ding of Kerwin’s cellphone notifications filled the three-bedroom duplex apartment she shared with the boyfriend who introduced her to heroin, his teenage son and her 9-year-old son. Her older son, who was 20, was no longer living with her.
She tried to ignore the messages. But the volume was overwhelming: text and videos from Letourneau that graphically described his desire to meet her again.
“I would turn him down. But then I would think, if I don’t respond to him he’s going to destroy me. He’s not going to work as hard for me,” said Kerwin, who provided images of the text messages to The Maine Monitor and ProPublica. “The court doesn’t look at me like I’m a real person, they’re looking at me like I’m a junkie. They’re looking at me the same way he is, and he treated me like a junkie whore.”
Like clockwork around 8 a.m., Letourneau would send Kerwin a message. “Good morning sweetheart,” he’d write. He demanded to know where she was and what she was doing if she was silent too long.
“Hate to break it to you, but you[’re] going to have to meet your lawyer soon,” he said. “Alone.” He ended the texts with a smiley face.
Letourneau did not return phone calls, emails or letters seeking comment. In one court document, he alleged that she encouraged his actions through a “mutual engagement of sexual texts.” He provided no evidence to back his contention. Dozens of messages reviewed by The Maine Monitor and ProPublica did not support his claim either.
“It was the most humiliating experience I’ve ever been through in my life,” Kerwin said. “I had no control and I was just spiraling downward and he was just the devil at the bottom waiting for me.”
Kerwin called the court clerk’s office to ask what she could do to remove a court-appointed attorney who was acting inappropriately. She remembers the woman saying it could take months for her to be assigned a new attorney. And even then it was not guaranteed that a new lawyer would be appointed to her case.
All Kerwin could picture was the clerk telling Letourneau that she was trying to get away from him. How he would react by destroying her case, allowing authorities to rip her from her children. She hung up without reporting him.
She felt defenseless.
A Lost Chance
Three months had elapsed since the judge assigned Letourneau to Kerwin’s case. He kept sending texts at a relentless pace. On March 28, 2016, for instance, Letourneau sent 10 messages between 8:33 a.m. and 9:03 a.m., asking to meet for sex or for Kerwin to send videos of herself to him so he could masturbate. Kerwin never replied.
Letourneau laced his texts with apologies — but never stopped his behavior.
“I’ll stop sorry,” Letourneau apologized in one text. Eight minutes later — still with no reply from Kerwin — he asked again if she wanted to have sex or if she would prefer for them to tease each other.
“I keep secrets for a living,” Letourneau sent at 9:02 a.m. A minute later, “Ok sorry. I’ll stop.”
“Haha that’s so true, never thought about it like that,” Kerwin responded at 9:04 a.m.
“I’ve made up my mind,” Letourneau wrote back five minutes later. “If you wanna no strings attached fuck buddy, I’m here.”
Kerwin decided she could stand it no more. She found a new lawyer in the yellow pages. She was forced to turn to her parents, who scraped together enough money to pay his $5,000 retainer in installments.
After Kerwin showed her new lawyer the messages, he reported Letourneau to the board of overseers on June 15, 2016. Six weeks later, a judge suspended Letourneau, saying his conduct posed “an ongoing risk of harm to his remaining clients.”
Pelletier did not move as fast. After learning of the board of overseers’ investigation, he agreed to let Letourneau complete his existing court-appointed cases, according to an email on July 11, 2016. Letourneau would decline new assignments, but he would be allowed to reapply to the commission in the future. Soon after, Letourneau resigned from the commission, according to disciplinary records.
Prosecutors had insisted Kerwin serve 18 months in exchange for a guilty plea, Kerwin said she was told by Letourneau. Her new attorney negotiated the jail sentence down to three months.
It felt like a chance, Kerwin said. But she blew it.
Police searched her apartment on Nov. 19, 2016, to make sure she was complying with the terms of her bail agreement. Reports detail that they found nearly 8 grams of fentanyl — a powerful heroin-like substance — in her bag. She was arrested and charged with drug possession, violating bail and drug trafficking, court records show. After being assigned another court-appointed attorney, she was sentenced to nine months in the Cumberland County Jail and was released early for good behavior.
Kerwin had served her sentence. How, she wondered, would Letourneau be punished?
Punishment
Letourneau stared straight ahead as Kerwin sat at the table next to him. The board of overseers asked her to testify in its case to determine whether he’d violated professional standards. The judge listened intently as Kerwin described how the unsolicited text messages started almost as soon as she met him. How she hid the humiliating pictures and videos of him masturbating from her boyfriend and young son.
She got halfway through before the words caught in her throat.
“I’m trying to explain to the judge this story and he’s very kind and listening to me and trying to be compassionate,” Kerwin recalled. “We had to go into a courtroom that was half the size of a regular courtroom. So, this guy is 5 feet, 10 feet away from me. It was so traumatizing.”
On Jan. 25, 2018, a state Supreme Court justice rendered a decision. Letourneau would be suspended from practice for 20 months for “sexting” his client. The justice counted the 16 previous months of suspension as time served, disciplinary records show. Letourneau could seek reinstatement as early as April 1 of that year. Letourneau did not testify or provide a written statement to the judge in his defense.
Kerwin attempted to hold Letourneau accountable one more time. She filed a civil lawsuit against him — but she dropped it when it became evident she was unlikely to recoup much money.
Letourneau has not reapplied for reinstatement to the state bar. He will be able to practice law again in Maine if the board of overseers and a judge agree to end his suspension. For a time, he drove for Uber in Portland. His LinkedIn profile says he now lives in Philadelphia driving as a courier.
News of the case troubled some of the board members who serve on the commission.
Josh Tardy, an attorney and former Republican state lawmaker appointed chair of the commission in 2019, said he was disturbed by Letourneau’s conduct and Kerwin’s treatment when informed of the case by a reporter.
“This sounds like this person was a crime victim,” Tardy said.
On Tuesday, the commission began consideration of sweeping rule changes for the hiring and firing of state defense lawyers. Among the changes is a prohibition of “romantic or sexual contact between rostered counsel and client.”
Kerwin said that she’s now sober with the help of Suboxone, a medication for treating opioid addiction. Her youngest son lives with her. His laughter punctuates the conversation from behind a closed door. She doesn’t want him to hear parts of her story.
She worked a retail job until April when she was laid off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, she is enrolled in a medical coding and billing course at a local community college. She hopes to be able to return to work as a nurse, though she knows that will be difficult given her criminal record.
She may never be a nurse again. But Letourneau could practice as an attorney.
The thought upsets her. It baffles her that Pelletier didn’t immediately bar Letourneau from representing indigent clients in 2016.
“Does it have to get more severe than my case?” Kerwin asked. “Is my case not severe enough in his eyes?”
Samantha Hogan is a staff writer at The Maine Monitor and a corps member for Report for America. Email her at samantha@themainemonitor.org or follow her on Twitter @SAHogan.
SOCIOPATH LAWLESS LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS.
BEING AN ‘OFFICER OF THE COURT’ CORRUPT PROSECUTOR AND
ETHICALLY DEPRAVED LAWYER, KAMALA HARRIS HAS DEMONSTRATED A LONG RECORD OF
TURNING LAWS UNDER THE CARPET WHEN THERE IS A BRIBE TO BE HAD!
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/09/ethically-depraved-lawyer-kamala-harris.html
It is the handmaidens working for Planned Parenthood
who have joked about
selling aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala
Harris, when she was A.G. of California, who viciously
prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal, after she had received a
hefty donation from Planned Parenthood. DIANA MARY SITEK
Kamala Harris, like Biden, supports Planned Parenthood’s crimes
against the unborn and takes money and endorsements from the abortion
industry.
DANIEL JOHN
SOBIESKI
The best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario, she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor.
JESSER
HOROWITZ
Kamala Harris Failed to Investigate Client of Husband’s Law Firm
as California Attorney General
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-bribes-suckers-senator-dianne.html
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)
failed as California’s attorney general declined to investigate faulty
advertising claims against one of the nation’s leading nutritional supplement
companies, which also happened to be a client of her husband’s law firm.
As California’s chief law enforcement officer between 2011 and
2017, Harris racked up a record as a tough on crime prosecutor. From cracking down on school truancy to opposing marijuana legalization—with more than 1900 people
being prosecuted for possession of the drug under her tenure—Harris was
California’s self-acknowledged “top cop.”
That record, however, did not extend to clients of Venable LLP,
the law firm where Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, was a high-profile
partner. Harris, in particular, failed on numerous
occasions to investigate the nutritional supplement giant Herbalife. At
the time, Herbalife was a high-profile client of Venable, paying the firm
hundreds of thousands of dollars for its legal services every year.
The
Clinton Foundation’s record of exploiting natural disasters to source funds for
which they never account is as long as it is shameless.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/09/lawyers-lawless-class-case-against_30.html
Only six percent of
the billions of dollars the "Foundation" takes in goes to
charity. The rest subsidizes the lavish lifestyles of the Clintons
and their sycophants; those people who have sold their souls to rub shoulders
with unadulterated power.
Had
Hillary been elected, the Clinton Foundation would be raking in even more
millions than it did before. She would be happily selling access, favors
and our remaining freedoms out from under us. PATRICIA McCARTHY
"But
what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of
the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power,
use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and
venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear
to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy
"The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation" that began hustling in New York in 1998, while the Clinton's
and their lawyers needed vast sums to fend off impeachment, and pay overdue
legal bills.
Public charities must formally exist and cannot
be governed by one family or used to raise sums from corrupt donors looking to
purchase influence.
What
Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton have done in New York and internationally
with their many fake "charities" is far worse.
Ask
people in India, Asia or Haiti, what happened to billions of dollars raised
and, in theory, sent for natural disaster relief efforts overseen by the
Clintons. To this day there has never been an honest accounting of these
activities.
The critical element required
is a pattern of criminal or racketeering activity. This pattern
is proved by showing two predicate crimes were committed within ten
years. The list of predicate
crimes is extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement,
fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Kamala Harris Failed to Investigate Client of Husband’s Law Firm as California Attorney General
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/09/lawyers-lawless-class-case-against.html
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an investigation
into Herbalife in March 2014. In July 2016, the FTC won a $200 million
settlement against Herbalife. But Harris never even investigated the
company.
It is worth noting that those corporations in
question all happened to be clients of her husband’s law firm, Venable LLP.
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