Showing posts with label Taibbi. Show all posts
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Friday, March 27, 2015

Victim of Mortgage Fraud sent to Prison for winning lawsuit against US BANK.

Mary Mcculley, who won a $6 million dollar lawsuit against US Bank for actual fraud, was labeled a
"danger to society' and sent to a maximum women's penitentiary April 24, 2014. Accused of
 impersonating a government employee, she was forced to take a plea deal with the Montana
DOJ in order to take US Bank to trial.  After proving that the complainants against her were
in fact co- conspirators in the fraud, and providing the government with undisputed proof, she requested to withdraw her plea based on the new evidence.
Senior Judge Sam Haddon ignored Mcculley's request and court appointed counsel was so stunned
they made no effort to argue. Attorney Lenore Albert of Huntington Beach, CA stepped up to the plate and will be arguing Mcculley's appeal on April 6th before the Ninth Court of Appeals.
Mcculley is expected to spend the last few weeks of her year in prison on home confinement.


United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Notice of Docket Activity

The following transaction was entered on 04/06/2015 at 10:16:29 AM PDT and filed on 04/06/2015
Case Name:    USA v. Mary McCulley
Case Number:    14-30099

Docket Text:
SUBMITTED ON THE BRIEFS TO MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN. [9484516] (SB)

Notice will be electronically mailed to:

Ms. Lenore Albert, Attorney
Leif Johnson, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Timothy John Racicot, Assistant U.S. Attorney



Monday, April 7, 2014

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

There is a new book out today by Matt Taibbi called :

 

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Everyday we hear about the '1%' versus the '99%',  thanks to the Occupy movement, but here Matt Taibbi refers to it as the 'Gap'. Be it called a chasm, gap, grand canyon, or a rift- the topic here is the uncrossable barrier between us and them.  The rich don't get punished -the poor do. The banks are untouchable, too big to jail, while someone lies on a loan application and goes to prison.  According to Matt, he taught himself about the financial industry, and has become somewhat of a legend to the thousands of foreclosure warriors in social media. His prior book, Griftopia, about bankers and politicians, was on the New York Times Bestseller list.  In his latest book, The Divide :

          "Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice—the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs".

He also delves into another disturbing trend in America ",  Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.

“These are the stories that will keep you up at night. . . . The Divide is not just a report from the new America; it is advocacy journalism at its finest.”—Los Angeles Times

I look forward to staying up at night and thank Matt for exposing the corruption at the core of our country. MM   buy the book here : http://www.amazon.com/The-Divide-American-Injustice-Wealth/dp/081299342X