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I love the fact that a RICO case was allowed to go through, but we have a problem in Virginia as well.
Judge Moon (federal District Court in Charlottesville Va) seems to be holding our case to more of a criminal level than a civil case.
Joe M Miller, Doug Dye and Grant Colby versus Dogwood Valley Citizens Association. in a civil RICO case. Hopefully the attorney for these theives will be rolled into this case soon as a defendant.
If anyone in California can get their hands on the case file for the case against Peters & Freedman so we can take a look at it would forever be our hero!
We really need to start doing what these boards and their attorneys having been doing to the home owners, covering them up in lawsuits.
Posted Aug 7 2006 4:15PM CEST
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Stephen Miller
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Please provide contact information for the attorney for Ms. Colburn -- I may have information that supports her case.
Please respond to XXXX
AHRC Response:
Please click this link to email Melissa Colburn directly with information that supports her case
Posted Oct 20 2003 11:22PM CEST
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Peter Gutgarts
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Would love to see the first page and causes of action in this case. Since it is a public document, it should be forwarded to EVERY SINGLE JUDGE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. IF THE INFO IS POSTED HERE - I WILL PERSONALLY DO IT MYSELF!!!!!!!!
If this case is successful, what happens to all those previous cases against homeowners who lost against these litigator alligators? Will they get their homes back? Will they get their money back? Will there be restitution?
One thing is for sure - if this case is successful - and I pray to God it is, I hope I will be able to pay a visit to some alligators behind bars.
'P.Flamingo'
Posted Jul 23 2003 4:30AM CEST
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Any chance of posting or downloading a copy of the case?
Thanks...
Posted Jul 19 2003 8:04AM CEST
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Catherine Todd
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Comment #1: If you are trying to locate Pratt, contact the CA Bar Association. Attorney's must register their business address when thy move...probably so they can't hide.
Comment #2: Sounds like it's time to write Judge Vargas and plan a roadtrip to San Diego.
Comment #3: The owners of Desert Crest must be having a party about now. Cheers! Here's one for the good guys.
Comment #4: Ya, because Peters and Freeman will rat them all out to save their own butts. With 'ole white shirt/blue shirt Davis on his way out of office, who will be there to cover for the CAI and all it's lawyers?
My comment: God bless Judge Vargas!!!!!!
Posted Jun 27 2003 12:38AM CEST
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I would like to contact Charles Honeycutt of the Dessert Crest Homeowners Association. I would like to help him in his fight against Peters and Freedman,
We were involved in a lawsuit which they were involved in and if I can help them I would love to. Also Steve Solcich .
Thank you.
Chris
Encinitas, California
06/26/2003 12:24 PM
Posted Jun 26 2003 9:56PM CEST
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Peters and Freeman are not the only law firm conducting business like this..."others" are doing the same, foreclosing on the homes of senior citizens as well as HIV+ individuals in advanced stages of the illness.
This is particularly problematic in the Desert where retired senior citizens and ill persons have neither the emotional or economic bandwidth to fight off these evil monsters.
It is vitally important that if the RICO statutes are available and if this pattern of activity is seen ("attorneys creating financial levies, then acting as the "trustee" and profiting from the foreclosures - sometimes even taking title to the properties themselves or using a 'straw' buyer (non-arms length buyer) ) that you contact authorities and most importantly, network with others in your area, including posting a notice here on the AHRC web site so we are all keeping one another up to date on what is happening.
There's a strong wind of change in the air...it's going to be one hell of a battle...but if just one law firm tumbles, they will all follow shortly thereafter.
Another such firm is on the horizon...
Posted Jun 26 2003 12:35PM CEST
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Sharon, I understand you are in Palm Desert or Palm Springs a landmine for homeowners. The people and the authorities need to know this.
Cities give business licenses to management companies. We have been asking cities to license lawyers. Homeowner association lawyers come into cities , sue all our businesses and walk off with millions without paying any city taxes. They should pay taxes like every other business. They write tons of harassing letters just to empty out our maintenance dues, everybody's life savings and then take our homes.
The city should also know about Desert Crest seniors lawsuit. Print out the press release and articles from the AHRC site and give it the council members. The streets in Desert Crest are public. The club is outside the development. The private club should have a license from the city. How can the city license a private business which forecloses on homes to collect club fees?
Ask them to have the police department check into possible economic fraud on the seniors by auditing the association books and records.
The club owner was also the developer. He advertised cheap lots and seniors from Canada and all over the States flocked in to retire here in the sun in "affordable" trailer homes. The city has some responsibility. They should not license businesses that are fronts for home foreclosure scams.
The county supervisors, after reviewing the problems referred these victims to the District Attorney(DA). The DA told them, "We are busy with rapists and murderers". Tell the city that the DA's resources are depleted on the huge numbers of rapists and murders attacking Palm Desert residents.
Ask the city to provide some services for the property taxes you pay.
Four seniors died during this battle. Some gave their lots to the club for lawyers fees and walked away from their homes. A senior lawyer helping them also died. A activist victim among them has had a heart attack and now needs a kidney transplant. The club owner wants dues from several grandmothers in their late eighties and nineties who are house bound. live on social security and cannot afford the medications they need to live.
The Desert Sun did write a story after alot of persuasion. CAI lawyer Margaret Wangler of the Fiore lawyer group writes a "homeowner advice" column for the Desert Sun. Wangler refers everyone to CAI lawyers. The seniors called every CAI lawyer in town for representation and all said they only worked for homeowner associations.
Wangler is also the current Desert Crest Association lawyer. She replaced Peters and Freedman who went on to work for the private club foreclosing on the seniors after helping the association change the CCRs to mandate fees to the private club.
Desert Crest Seniors story
These are just some ideas for talks to local authories, public and media.
Good luck on writing your 3 minute talk for city council and cable TV.
Sue Chandler
Reprinted from the HOA forums on AHRC
Posted Jun 25 2003 6:43PM CEST
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ITS ABOUT TIME!!
I don't believe I have ever heard anything nice about these guys.
I sure hope justice will be served in this case and that this lawsuit is successful because I believe many other homeowners might come out of the woodwork and tell their own story about how this lawfirm has treated homeowners.
Russo
Irvine, California
Posted Jun 24 2003 5:41AM CEST
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Does anyone know why Jeffrey Pratt, a litigator with Peters & Freedman, suddenly left this company last year?
Pratt, along with David Peters, Simon Freedman and Laurie Poole of the Peters and Freedman law firm, was the lawyer in charge of the nasty home sliding case in the Palacio del Mar Homeowners Association in San Clemente, California. The homeowners have charged that Pratt knew that the association was seeking every oportunity to drive them out of the association, that the association selectively discriminated against them, and yet knowingly tried to portray the association at trial as a wonderful, law abiding organization.
Yet, a lawyer from Peters & Freedman tresspassed into the side yard of an adjacent vacant home and shocked the family by snapping pictures from over their back yard fence. Another homeowner from the San Diego area had a similar complaint about a Peters & Freedman lawyer
Homeowners charge that Peters and Poole devoted a great deal of time to threatening and intimidating them, and writing harrassing letters. Homeowners charge that they help hide books and finances, and change CCRs to keep rogue boards in control for their mutual benefit.
Have you had any experience with these lawyers?
Posted Jun 22 2003 7:17PM CEST
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