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Anyway, I'm posting this out here because I could really use a lawyer's assistance. I could really use any contact info you guys have for family law attorneys in either MD or CA. Preferably people willing to work on a somewhat complicated case and who give a damn about more than just money. *End pipe dream here*
Bro, when you tell the schmuck, be sure to let him know that his little mushroom filled dreams are about to come to naught.
Anti-Military Lawyer Damages Marine's Car on Eve of Deployment
Posted By Blackfive
This ought to make your blood boil. And this Marine should receive a commendation for not kicking the living crap out of the guy...seriously.
Marine Sgt Mike McNulty is on activation orders to Iraq (second tour). On December 1st, 2007, Mike went to visit a friend in Chicago before deploying to say goodbye. In order to get to his friend's residence, and keep in mind that Chicago is a myriad of diagonal and one-way streets, the front entrance (right way) to the one-way street was blocked. Mike, being a Marine, overcame and adapted by driving around the block to the other end of the street and backing up all the way to his friend's place.
While saying goodbye, at about 11am, he noticed a man leaning up against his car. Mike left his friend's apartment and caught the man keying his car on multiple sides.
After caught in the process, the man told Mike, "you think you can do whatever you want with Department of Defense license plates and tags". (In Illinois you can purchase veteran, Marine, or medal plates. Mike has Illinois Marine Corps license plates.) During the exchange, he made additional anti-military comments.
Mike called the Chicago police and had the man arrested. A citation against the man was issued for misdemeanor criminal damage to private property.
The police report (and I have copies if needed) states:
Victim related to P/O that as he walked back to his vehicle, he observed the offender leaning up against his vehicle and rubbed/dragged his left arm and hand across the passenger side. As offender walked away from victim's vehicle, victim observed a scratch along the rear trunk and passenger's door area where offender dragged his arm and hand over. Victim and witness stopped offender and confronted him. Victim has military plates and decals on his vehicle and offender made anti war and military comments to victim. Upon P/O's arrival to scene, offender denied scratch victim's vehicle, but did admit to rubbing past it. Victim at this time did not sign complaint, because he is leaving tour for military duty. Offender said they accused him of scratching the car because he is Jewish. Offender's statements/responses to P/O's questions unreasonable.
As it turns out, the man is Chicago lawyer Jay R. Grodner, who owns a law firm in the city and has offices in the suburbs.
After sending the car to the body shop, it was determined there is $2400 in damage, making this a felony. Mike went to court Friday morning to collect the damages against Mr. Grodner and file felony charges. Though the damages are over $300 (the amount which determines felony or misdemeanor) Grodner offered Mike to pay his deductible, $100, and have Mike's insurance pay for it.
The Illinois States Attorneys tried to coerce Mike into accepting the offer. Appalled, Mike said he wanted this to be a felony. The state told Mike that it was not worth pursuing felony damage against Grodner because they don't have the time. In addition, the state prosecutors told him that he would never it 'would be difficult to recover the damages' from Grodner because he is a lawyer.
Instead, the State asked Mike if he would accept probation for Grodner. Mike accepted, probation was offered to Grodner, and Grodner declined the offer, saying within ear shot of Mike, "I'm not going to make it easy on this kid". Mike's next court date is tomorrow, Monday, December 31st, to pursue misdemeanor charges against Grodner.
Mike's leave is over on January 2nd when he reports to Camp Pendleton before heading to Iraq.
Jay Grodner knows this and is going to file for a continuance until Mike is gone and cannot appear in court.
By account of the Illinois State's Attorneys, Grodner is likely to get away with defacing Mike's car with no penalty because, 1) Mike is about to deploy to Iraq and will not be available to appear in court, and 2) Grodner is a lawyer and can get out of this very easily.
So, does anyone have any ideas about how to proceed? All peaceful and rational ideas are welcomed. We are contacting the media about this, too.
Please pass this story on to anyone you know that might be able to help. Contact me if you have any information or ideas.
Thanks!
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/12/anti-military-l.html
Ya know, seriously. I understand being against the war and all, but what does keying a Marine's car and causing $2400 worth of damage to it prove? What kind of big anti-war statement is that? A lot of people don't like lawyers, either. How many of those people have keyed his car?
After coming back from Cali, I promptly informed my family that I don't want to hear one farking word about how disfunctional and drama like Randy's family is! True I could probably right a long running Soap Opera just off of the bullshit we went through with Randy's family our first few years of marriage but my brother's drama beats us by far!
I can't go into a lot of detail due to the lawyers, that is right LAWYERS, asking us not too. But here is the skinny.
My brother has 3 lawyers. One for his divorce and two for criminal allegations. I was sent out to keep brother in check and to see if I approved of the civillian lawyers. The Jag lawyer assigned to my brother consented to let me interview him over the phone. All three got high marks from me:D
Skank in Law's lawyer found a loop hole thus how she was able to file her allegations and divorce with out my brother being in country and deployed. Even though it is against Federal law that deployed soldiers can't have any legal papers filed on them. Got to love the farking state of CA. Can we say media will be alerted and massive law suites against the US Marine Corp, the county in CA, and possible the gov't:D
Anyway Skank in Law fuckered up big time. She filed allegations against the command, so now the command is proceding with a hearing just to cover their butts. Thus why we have 2 criminal lawyers. Jag and a civilian one. Both of them are more than happy to work with the divorce lawyer since the civillian criminal lawyer is poker buddies with the divorce lawyer. My brother's carierr in the military is officially over regardless if he is found innocent, and we know he will be found innocent when we already have 2 docs from the Naval Hospital telling NCIS that they think Skank has a mental problem.
Divorce Lawyer is working with us to find Skank's divorce papers from her previous 2 hubby's to use against her in a court of law. Not to mention all 9, yep NINE, DHS cases from NC, WV, and TX. My brother is intell (yes yes I know oximoron when he is a Marine:P) thus he had a two year investigation including friends and family before assigned to his school and job. And if we can't find the papers, the divorce lawyer has a private investigator that he will use. And it looks like my brother has a real good chance of raking the skank over the coals. Going to be a long fight but eventually he thinks he can get my brother full custody of my nephew.
But the state of CA is a FARKING dumbass state! Every lawyer we talked to including the one we are using for the divorce said why bother going for an anullment if skank was still legally married when she married my brother because there is a custody fight and it isn't worth filing criminal federal offense charges against her for bigamy. Thus once everything is done and over with why the county and some lawyers might have lawsuites coming from NE for breaking federal law! Federal Law suppercedes state law folks! So if we can prove she was married when she married my brother then, we will file criminal charges against skank when he gets home.
Divorce lawyer also told my brother to kick the Skank and hte kids out of Base Housing. And if Command had a problem with it tell them to contact him. Since Skank filed the divorce and isn't working why should she be living on Base and off my brother is what the lawyer said:D True my bro will have to pay child support for his boy but that is normal; if the skank can't handle living on her own and getting a job better for my brother to get custody. Plus the lawyer said let Skank run once she gets kicked out of the Base:D One thing the farking state CA does right is puts a restraining order clause into their divorce petitions stating: "Neither party with minor children involved can leave the state of CA till the divorce is over wtih:D" If she runs, we file kidnapping charges on her:D Again better for my brother.
Civillian criminal lawyer and Jag Officer both said that so far there is no proof of any thing Skank is allegigion and what she is saying goes back to 2004 and 2005 nothing from 2006 or 2007. And that is all I can say about that for now:D Oh and Skank in Law didn't even show up for the hearing! I was disappointed! I wanted to see her ass checks pucker when she saw me. Oh well it was just a continus hearing. After my brother filed a complaint with Base Housing about her having other military men at his house the Skank didn't have a babysitter because her lil 20 some boy ho couldn't help her out:D He is fuckered once the criminal and jag lawyers finds out his last name! My brother is pressing military adultry charges on his sorry corpman ass!
Will post some pictures of the drive out and back later when I tell you how dark I got sittin by the pool for a week and half:D
Long Post I am sorry......Look for Part 2 of this Post!
Okay here is the deal I am allowed to talk a little abit about what is going on with my brother and my skank in law. First, my brother is heading home on leave tomorrow! This is great news he really needs to unwind and be around family after months over in Iraq and also dealing with his soon to be ex wife!
Military folks and spouses on Mindsay listen up becuase this could happen to you or to friends of yours. Mindsay folks listen up real good because you probably know Military folks that have had this happen to them or know someone who knows someone that has this happen to them.
Two years ago my brother married his skank much to the family's displeasure. We could see that something about her and her behavior was not right. We didn't tell him not to marry her even though we tried to convience him that he did NOT have to just to gain custody of his son. The Skank is a "Base Bunny" a nicer term for somebody who loves to "f*ck" Military guys. According to her, her two oldest kids have two different daddies both Military. Both allegedly "dead". The Skank and all three kids, her lil Bastards and my nephew lived with my parents for about 6-9 months and caused issues between my brother and our parents. My parents were trying to help and she wouldn't accept the help, as soon as my mother came home from work left all care of my nephew to my mother, accused my dad of being an ass (which we all agree he is) but also tried to tell her that she is 30 some years old and he is 60 some years old and that she was living in our father's house and she would have to be respectful. There is more to that but you don't need all of that story. So Skank and the kids moved down to TX to be with my brother; where my family at the time was also at, in TX. We went to visit my brother and his family and she made the visit unbearable and my brother did say sorry finally over that.
Now on to the drama part now that you have some background information. Before my brother left Labor Day weekend of 2006 for Iraq, his family was moved to CA and everything was peachy keen! My brother was buying her things, clearing out her credit, cleared up her DHS/CPS bullshit that followed her from NC where they meet and married. They were talking peacfully with my parents and my sister. I of course was NOT talking to them because my brother KNEW that if I saw her again we would all have words about how piss poor of a mother, wife, and daughter in law she was. Not to mention how she gives women the world over a shitty name. Then my brother left for Iraq. Things were still somewhat okay with my parents and the skank.
As my parents talked to her more and more over the phone and internet, they came to realize that the Skank had another Corpman at her house constantly named Bob. The kids let it out. So my mom asked her who Bob was. According to the Skank, Bob was a close friend that she called cousin. This is how she writes men into her life. They are either brothers, cousins, or uncles. Stupid Bitch didn't realize we aren't stupid and found out she only had a few brothers and my brother served with 2 of them in the Navy and the Marines! So after that the next time my brother called my parents, my mother asked him who Bob was. My brother had no clue. This was in November. So my brother called his skank and his exact question was this: "Who the fuck is Bob and why the fuck is he in my house with my son?"
Next thing we know in December, my brother is calling my parents going the Skank has alledged allegations against my brother while he was over in Iraq. Rape, Domestic Assult, and Sexual Diviation! Needless to say we are all up in arms over this because my brother is Intel. They investigated him and the entire family! Including extended family and my sister's and my husband's family. Were in my extended family they promptly learned that I married into a Military family also. Now Listen Up folks that are in the Military or know someone in the Military this is where it gets interesting!
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