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NEW ORLEANS: U.S. Judiciary Subcommittee meeting, Court Systems, Nationwide Mortgage Crisis

*Foreword: As stated in earlier postings, I’m the sole writer and researcher for everything that is posted on this site, and I solely maintain my civil litigations. I do my best to catch typo’s and grammar, so please bear with me. I have never been to law school. For all such reasons, I continually make my national appeal for legal representation. I hope the information I provide outweighs proofreading faults.  As time permits, I go back and make corrections.

The White Collar Crime of Mortgage and Real Estate Fraud will not remain a delicious boon for unscrupulous companies and the attorneys who represent and / or abet them, namely: Wells Fargo, Freddie Mac, Herschel Adcock, Jr., Brett Furr, William M. Detweiler, Orleans Civil Sheriff Paul Valteau, the Dean Morris Law Firm, and Dangerous Dale Atkins (Not only have I posted on this site details and proof about each of these entities, more facts and proof will be posted. However, court records and media information contain even more corroboration of what I am accusing them.)

IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT events of nationwide foreclosure epidemic, it is increasingly coming to the public’s attention that something is amiss. UNFORTUNATELY, the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ U.S. Attorney mess is shrouding this serious problem of real estate racketeering for which the Justice Department has long ignored, despite the incredible FBI reports and indictments for White Collar crimes of mortgage fraud in various states throughout the USA.

To address with the atrocious New Orleans crime problem, incredibly, on April 5, 2007 the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary issued a press release entitled, “House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security” announced the New Orleans, Louisiana meeting that was held at Dillard University.

Ironically, the meeting comprised of certain persons who are somewhat responsible for the problems. And the discussion agenda was limited to specific topics. However, a mere perusal by the United State Judiciary Committee into improper edicts and activities within the New Orleans Judiciary would have provided glaring insight into which type of measures and investigations are needed for New Orleans situations the U.S. House of Representatives hopes to rectify.

How hard is it for the Judiciary Subcommittee to recognize the likelihood that scores of people received unjust rulings from the courts of these proven corrupt judges? In fact, countless litigants have questioned if their cases could be re-heard because their beliefs they did not receive justice became substantiated by the convictions of those judges. Again, how hard is it to not recognize corrupt court systems share blame for, fractured households, social angst –and even repetitive bankruptcies and business declines! (Poignantly, see a real life court case that was made into a movie staring John Travolta, “A Civil Action”)Additionally, is the sorry matter of people being put jail by New Orleans Municipal Court judges. Tulane Criminal Law Clinic Director Pamela Metzger along with the ACLU have filed a lawsuit against Judge Bruce McConduit and others for the ridiculous edict. Troublesomely, ruling for this lawsuit could go either way since Judge Lemelle is presiding over it, and his rulings, like some others, are not always grounded in established law.

Also, New Orleans federal Judge Kurt Englehart dismissed (as he also dismissed mine) the lawsuit by fired employees of the city of Kenner, who claimed they were fired for political reasons. Contrastly, the Caucasian employees who were fired for political reasons by New Orleans DA Eddie Jordan must have really incensed the racist federal; Judge Lance Africk. (Africk ruled repeatedly against me in favor of Sheriff Valteau’s deputy and debt collector Herschel Adcock and Adcock’s non-existence plaintiff, GE Capital Mortgage Services.) Africk told me that he did not like ’smart’ (non-subjugated Black) people; so I’m sure Africk’s dislike for the audacity of Jordan to fire all those Caucasian employees motivated Africk’s ruling in favor of the Jordan-fired employees who were definitely fired for political reasons. In this city renown for racism, of which the mayor, as well as U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, and many others have acknowledged, res ipsa loquitur is Lance Africk’s pattern of ruling against minorities. Thus, it does not take a law degree, nor a United States Subcommittee to recognize that judicial improprieties and inequality are starkly connected to New Orleans crime and violence.

Also, further illustrating the fact of New Orleans’ federal courts’ RACIAL BIASES, in like manner as the federal rulings in favor of White employees that were fired by DA Eddie Jordan, last week federal court favored White fire fighters despite Louisiana law only provides one year in which the fire fighters could have filed their lawsuit. Furthermore, in contrast to minorities whose lawsuits arrive in New Orleans federal court, yet become speedily dismissed merely based on some judge’s “spin” of the issues and to prevent subpoenas, depositions, etc., each of those white plaintiffs’ cases were not thrown out of court. Rather, the white cases received full trials, full weighing of whatever evidence they cared to present, and they were allowed to present open court testimonies and cross-examinations.

*Statistically, New Orleans federal court systems chiefly operate to favor Louisiana Caucasians –especially if the lawyer is Caucasian and named Clement Donelon. Donelon also received favorable federal results for Caucasian firefighters. Even more POIGNANTLY, in responding to the fact of Eddie Jordan’s appeal regarding the fired former city DA’s, attorney Donelon publicly said: “But you can’t just fire the white people and get away with it.”* As stated in the former paragraph, Whites are at least afforded opportunities to have their day in New Orleans federal court, which consists of not merely some judge utilizing his / her racist biased perspective and aims to further cronyims, not simply pleadings submitted to the ‘almighty’ judge, but rather testimonies, cross-examination, and evidence. Hence, if pleadings and perspectives was all that could win or loose a case, the-everybody-knows-he-did-it O.J. Simpson case would have concluded in an entirely different way.

*On a different note, CONSIDER the melee associated with the current judicial candidates to fill the seat of former STATE judge Carolyn Gill-Jefferson, who abruptly resigned from her bench almost immediately after she signed court orders in case 05-11458 for Clerk of Court Dale Atkins –despite that that case had become removed deceptively (**see Motion to Remand) to judge A.J. McNamara’s FEDERAL court; and fled her bench within days of the EXTENSIVE July 2, 2006 Times Picayune newspaper story which included Gill-Jefferson’s husband, entitled “WELL-CONNECTED;. . .” At the least, in light of expense to city revenue this lightly regarded election is costing, when judges quit the bench for personally gratifying reasons, they should pay the expense of the election. ASIDE FROM THESE FACTS, take notice of the CRONY STENCH as well as INFORMATION being provided to the public (see: Times Picayune news article: “Civil court race turns on experience” -May 2, 2007, by Susan Finch) by the 2 candidates themselves, who are affiliates of disingenuous Court Clerk Dale Atkins, and malfeasant civil Sheriff Paul Valteau. For more media about what took place concerning Gill-Jefferson’s husband, former council woman Gill-Pratt, Congressman William Jefferson, Mose Jefferson, moveable and immoveable transfers, see http://www.urbanconservancy.org/news/roundup/archive/527. And, see the July 8, 2006 Times Picayune newspaper articles - “Donated vehicles returned. . .” the November 19, 2006 article - “In a career knotted with family ties, Rep. William Jefferson has long been hounded by ethics questions.”*

In light of New Orleans’ infamous corruption and cronyism, further troubling about the court systems in New Orleans is the fact that appeals for Louisiana federal cases are decided by the New Orleans federal court; and the cronyism Louisiana Supreme Court also is located in New Orleans. Moreover, as proven and demonstrated throughout this website, the New Orleans branch of the United States Justice Department (also located in New Orleans) undeniably has committed multiple INjustices with its defending / protecting the cockamamie unconstitutional deeds of federal Judge A.J. McNamara. *Also, for more information about longstanding perks, delights, and unfairness within the New Orleans federal court system log on to www.tulanelink.com.

Another fact about minorities, Louisiana Family Court systems, and Orleans Parish DA Eddie Jordan –which is a doggone shame, is the fact that FAR too many minorities seek judicial remedies help for child support, and child custody, but those people rarely receive justice. With attorneys like Keith A. Doley, this same attorney who supplies the Jamaican Sunset CLE to the judges, and judges like Herbert Cade, justice is often a joke. Add to that fact, DA Eddie Jordan does not enforce the enacted child support payment laws.

Merely logging on to the Louisiana Department of Social Services’ website at http://www.dss.state.la.us/index.htm and clicking the link called: “LA Delinquent Payors” will produce the hall of shame list of child support deadbeats. The list of people who owe more than $5,000.00 in child support is shocking! But that despite it is the task of DA Eddie Jordan to take the required actions, Jordan seems to do nothing about deadbeats. In the meantime, the parents who are owed that money are extremely chagrined about justice as well as the ordeals they went through in Family Court simply to obtain a judge’s order of child support. Clearly, victims of laxed enforcement have motivation to function in society with apathy! Furthermore, the children are pit against the deadbeat parent and the parent viewed as the culprit for rightfully seeking financial support, rather than Eddie Jordan taking any such blame if only he would do his job. (Recall that Jordan did not even concern himself with the fact that his own former employee, Richard Chambers was over $11,000.00 behind in child support. Not until Chambers was running for office and his wife filed the lawsuit for arrears did the public find out about Chambers.)


Even worse, are the MYRIADS of problems that evolve from being in relationships with persons who are afforded reign to repeatedly scoff at laws, and who are coaxed by egotist / greedy attorneys to inflict suffering upon the parties and their offspring who dare seek a judicial order for well-established laws. Arguably facilitation of racism and apartheid subsists because “good government” ignores connecting the dots of domestic violence with information supplied by sources such as “Collaborative Divorce” as endorsed by Judge Fredericka Wicker and attorney Susan Neathamer (see: “Plan would decrease bitter court battles” Joe Darby, Times Picayune, 2/22/04.) Also, the article about Louisiana Family Court (Boiler Room Justice)(also posted at http://www.marysadvocates.org/parkerson.html and at , and who are coaxed by egotist / greedy attorneys to inflict suffering upon the parties and their offspring who seek a judicial order for well-established laws. Arguably facilitation of racism and apartheid subsists because “good government” ignores connecting the dots of domestic violence with information supplied by sources such as “Collaborative Divorce” as endorsed by Judge Fredericka Wicker and attorney Susan Neathamer (see: “Plan would decrease bitter court battles” Joe Darby, Times Picayune, 2/22/04.) Also, the article about Louisiana Family Court (Boiler Room Justice)(also posted at http://www.marysadvocates.org/parkerson.html and at http://www.la-legal.com.) Also, the article about Louisiana Family Court (Boiler Room Justice)(also posted at http://www.marysadvocates.org/parkerson.html and at http://www.la-legal.com.) Aside from the foregoing, is the shameful conduct of New Orleans Federal Judge Ivan Lemelle, one who enjoys perks of attorney Doley’s Jamaican Sunset perk. This week’s media reports tell of Judge Lemelle’s improper act of sealing the records of what amounts were paid to attorneys in a class action case he ruled. It is bad enough that Lamelle sealed information he has no right to seal, even more disturbing to me is the fact that Lemelle got to select the lead attorneys of Lemelle’s choice for that class action case which the settlement called for Shell to provide $6.875 million in attorney fees. Meanwhile, the maximum amount individual plaintiffs received was approximately $450.00. (For more info on Judge Lemelle, see article in Times Picayune newspaper: “Lawyers, gas and money” by James Gill, April 15, 2007.)

Recapitulating some stark facts about pre-Katrina New Orleans Family Court, Councilman Oliver Thomas’ statement –which drew enormous public backlash– about poor displaced returning people returning to New Orleans, seemed to require other cities and states to do what New Orleans DA Eddie Jordan’s or the Public School system’s ineptness and / or corruption refused to do. The point being, some of why New Orleans crime and violence is rampant is the direct fault of concocted rules that become mischaracterized as laws, and the fault of unenforced laws helping promote civil disobedience, social violence, anarchy, hatred and crime; as well as countless people abusing their political positions for personal gain. Pre-Katrina, Judge Herbert Cade’s Family courtroom is one such court whereby backroom justice goes down.

Furthermore, because of Cade’s history of contestable public activity, it will be good riddance if consolidation of both New Orleans court systems gets rid of Cade. ASIDE from the facts posted on this website about my personal ordeals in his courtroom and boilerroom justice; and aside from the incredible information contained in my December 21, 2006 “Third Request for Judgment” for my 02-8053 divorce case, here are a few articles concerning Herbert Cade:

*8/10/02 , by Stephanie Grace -All is quiet on the corruption front, Times-Picayune
*4/21/02, by Gordon Russell -Property fixed up, but lawsuit is a mess; City bureaucracy muddled seizure, Times-Picayune
*11/17/99, James Gill -When Campaigns Are Despicable, Times-Picayune*5/1/99, by Kristen Delguzzi -Boissiere-Cade Showdown Was Expensive, Times-Picayune
*3/14/99, by Lisa Ross -Boissiere Looking Forward To Session, Times-Picayune
*2/2/99, by Frank Donze - Boissiere Challenges Cade To Show Tax Returns, Times-Picayune
*2/27/99, by Frank Donze -Cade Pays State Week Before Vote, Times-Picayune
*2/8/99, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Morial foe, friend in runoff for state Senate
*1/26/99, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, staff reports -Opponents Drop Cade Challenge
*1/23/99, Court To Hear Cade’s Case, Times-Picayune
*1/20/99, by Frank Donze -Trial Probes Candidate’s Residency; Mom, Girlfriend Grilled, Times-Picayune
*1/15/99, by James Gill -Candidate’s Tax Payment Under Scrutiny, Times-Picayune
*1/14/99, by Frank Donze -Suit Challenges Cade’s 3rd District Residency, Times-Picayune
*1/13/99, by Frank Donze - Candidate Was Late On Taxes; Cade Had Owed N.O. $9,000 On Property, Times-Picayune*1/20/07 -WEST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, Times-Picayune
*8/18/06, by John Pope -Judge unseals files in suit against Tenet; LifeCare sought access to patients’ records, Times-Picayune
*7/15/06 -EDITORIAL: Do you like pi a coladas?, Times-Picayune ,
*7/9/06, by James Varney, and Jeffrey Meitrodt - Jamaica vs. work? Judges head for beach; Meanwhile, cases continue to pile up, Times-Picayune
*6/3/05, by Gordon Russell and Frank Donze -Attack-ad financiers revealed under deal; Morial allies backed anti-Irons TV spots, Times-Picayune
*3/20/05, Stephanie Grace -The home stretch, Times-Picayune
*11/14/04, by Martha Carr -Morial confidant blames IRS probe on divorce; Political ties played no role, Schultz says, Times-Picayune
*9/12/02, - THE CANDIDATES; Orleans Parish Civil District Court, Section K, Times-Picayune

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While it might have been the concept to allow apartheid to keep certain classes subjugated, and to yield an elistist group which enjoyed the many perks of politics, the post-Katrina New Orleans need for janitors, housekeepers, dishwashers. safe travel, (or not having spit served with one’s dinner); or not having stressed out medical personnel, police, and firemen means that good government is not simply a matter of focusing all misplaced time and energy on the criminal system without looking into who and what is creating certain criminals, nor is good government to refuse to target, investigate, and subpoena the New Orleans court systems.

Lastly, in conjunction with my March 26, 2007 posting on this website about the CURRENT nationwide mortgage foreclosure epidemic, here is some more information I’ve researched. On the MORTGAGE SERVICING WEBSITE, located at http://www.msfraud.org/index.html, see VITAL FACTS about mortgage frauds which are overtaking the USA. On their website, under “top articles” click on the links to various articles. In particular, Click on: “Limiting Abuse and Opportunism By Mortgage Servicers,” by Kurt Eggert -associate professor at Chapman University Law School” Click on: “Order Regarding Standing of MERS to Foreclose on Behalf of Others” In that lawsuit, Judge Walt Logan, dismissed 20 foreclosures because Mortgage Electronic Services were not holders of the note for which the foreclosures were filed.
*NOTE: In February 2007, the Florida Appeal Court “reversed and remanded for further consideration” those dismissed MERS cases. All the same, the lesson from Judge Logan’s and Judge Gordon’s adjudications is that foreclosures are void when executed by entities lacking standing and / or lacking existence –as occurred with Louisiana debt collector Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., and defunct GE Capital Mortgage Services.

Also, on see this statement issued 8/18/05 by Circuit Judge Jon Gordon:*From the transcript of evidentiary hearing - MERS v. Cabrera. Honorable Judge Jon Gordon, stated: “It truly concerns me, however, that thousands and thousands — thousands and thousands of mortgage foreclosure actions have been filed with these allegations. I am not certain what remedy, if any, these people would have were it to be determined that MERS was not ever the proper party notwithstanding that these folks [might] have been in default what their recourse, if any, would be. I’m not certain with the satisfaction of mortgages that have been filed on behalf of MERS how good those are and I am not certain how good title to property is that people bought at these foreclosure sales if it turns or becomes established that MERS was indeed not only not the right party but misrepresented by way of their pleadings and affidavits that they held something they didn’t own, so I’m not certain of the consequences but it seems vast.”

*From the transcript of evidentiary hearing - MERS v. Cabrera. Honorable Judge Jon Gordon, stated: “It truly concerns me, however, that thousands and thousands — thousands and thousands of mortgage foreclosure actions have been filed with these allegations. I am not certain what remedy, if any, these people would have were it to be determined that MERS was not ever the proper party notwithstanding that these folks [might] have been in default what their recourse, if any, would be. I’m not certain with the satisfaction of mortgages that have been filed on behalf of MERS how good those are and I am not certain how good title to property is that people bought at these foreclosure sales if it turns or becomes established that MERS was indeed not only not the right party but misrepresented by way of their pleadings and affidavits that they held something they didn’t own, so I’m not certain of the consequences but it seems vast.”*Also click on the www.msfraud.org site and see: “Private Property Rights Deferred: Has Predatory Mortgage Servicing Destroyed The American Dream” by Rawle Andrews, Jr, Esq., and Leroy Jones, Jr., J.D.