In January 2008, Countrywide collapsed, following the publication by the New York Time of fraud by Countrywide's Legal Department under the leadership of Sandor Samuels through the filing in the US Bankruptcy Court in Pennsylvania of "Recreated Letters" as evidence. [xi] The collapse of Countrywide was one of the events, which defined the onset the ongoing financial and socio-economic crisis, which resulted in bailouts in hundreds of billions of dollars from the US treasury to Countrywide and later Bank of America as its parent corporation, and misery for millions in the United States and beyond.
In March 2008, Sandor Samuels, in his capacity as Chief Legal Officer of Countrywide, was also directly responsible for the fraud by Countrywide and its Legal Department in the US District Court in Texas. That case resulted in a Memorandum Opinion by Judge Jeff Bohm, which was also based on a year-long study by the office of US Trustee of the practices of Countrywide's Legal Department in the courts from coast to coast. The Memorandum reads as a catalog of legal fraud practices. [xii]
On July 1, 2008, the merger of Countrywide into Bank of America, effectively enforced by the US government, was completed, and Sandor Samuels became Associate General Counsel of Bank of America, under Bank of America's General Counsel Timothy Mayopoulos. The evidence shows that with it, fraud in the Los Angeles Superior Court by Countrywide's Legal Department and Samuel's Bet Tzedek's colleagues, David Pasternak and Terry Friedman, came to a temporary halt.
However, in December 2008 Timothy Mayopoulos was abruptly dismissed and escorted by security out of the Bank of America headquarters. He was replaced by Brian Moynihan -- today Bank of America president. Within 24 hours, fraudulent retaliatory actions in the Los Angeles Superior Court were resumed, through Countrywide's Legal Department, now a subsidiary of Bank of America. Therefore, Sandor Samuels should also be considered a key figure in establishing in Bank of America the same corrupt legal fraud practices, previously established in Countrywide. [xiii]
The evidence presented here shows that the abrupt dismissal of Bank of America General Counsel Mayopoulos was tightly correlated with the establishment of corrupt legal practices in Bank of America. In contrast, investigations into the same matter by the New York Attorney General and the US Congress were unsuccessful...
Fraud in the California courts by Countrywide and Bank of America was one of the focuses of the 2010 Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) [xiv, xv] for the first-ever Periodic Review of Human Rights in the United States. The Human Rights Alert submission was incorporated into the final HRC Periodic Report on Human Rights in the United States with the note: "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California". [xvi]
Attempts to protect Civil Rights against conduct of Sandor Samuels and his Bet Tzedek colleagues in the US courts were futile. The US District Court, Central District of California, refused to issue lawful summonses in this case, and the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, summarily denied Emergency Petitions, asking to order the US District Court to issue summonses in this case.
Filing in the US Supreme Court of detailed evidence of the fraud in the courts by Samuels and his colleagues [xvii, xviii] was unlawfully "returned" by Supreme Court Counsel Danny Bickell with no authority at all. [xix, xx]
Likewise, all law-enforcement agencies, local (Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden), state (then California Attorney General Jerry Brown), and federal (Kevin Melson, then Director of US Attorneys Office, and Kevin Kaiser, FBI Assistant Director for Criminal Investigations), effectively patronized Sandor Samuels and his Bet Tzedek colleagues, regardless of congressional inquiries by Senator Dianhe Feinstein and Congresswoman Diane Watson.
The synergistic corruption of the US justice system and US financial institutions is at the heart of the current crisis, [xxi, xxii] and Sandor Samuels should be viewed as a prime example of a key figure in establishing such conditions.
With it, Sandor Samuels is serving as President of Bet Tzedek, the Los Angeles "House of Justice", an affiliate of Greater Los Angeles Jewish Federation. In parallel, Sandor Samuels served or serves on the boards of other major Los Angeles Jewish institutions as well:
* Adat Ariel Synagogue
* American Jewish University, Los Angeles
* Shalhevet school
* Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
None of the Board Members of Bet Tzedek, leaders of the Greater Los Angeles Jewish Federation, and the Los Angeles Jewish institutions, where Sandor Samuels is a Board Member, has ever answered on notices alerting them to Sandor Samuels' conduct, and urging them to take action. [xxiii, xxiv, xxv]
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