Unethical Attorneys In Ohio

If a sneaky Lorain County attorney works in collusion with an Erie County attorney and two financial institutions to change the irrevocable Trust of the Erie County attorney's elderly client without the knowledge of three of her family members when the client is seriously ill and totally incompetent only a few months before her death----would this be considered unethical or illegal?

If the Lorain County attorney hides a forged power of attorney prepared with a different middle initial in the Lorain County Recorder and falsely states it's on file in the Erie County Recorder  under the correct name to transfer an elderly, incompetent person's property without the knowledge of all the beneficiaries on a TOD deed............and then prepares a "new" TOD deed that defrauds one of the four beneficiaries out of his already given rights would this be considered unethical or illegal?

In corrupt Eeerie County it's the NORM.

Another dirty Ohio lawyer down. This particular lawyer is from Huron, Ohio. This is part of the ongoing federal probe in corrupt Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

"Armstrong has paid $1.5 million in restitution and $551,231 in back state and federal income taxes on the illegal income he received from V.A.S."....."He was a former prosecutor, he knows better.....But Armstrong's crime took millions of dollars out of the pockets of Cuyahoga County residents and eroded the public's trust in elected officials, Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette Bacon said. ...."He betrayed the public trust for nearly a decade," Bacon said. "He could have ended it and turned in his partners at any time. He didn't."

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/02/lawyer_tim_armstong_gets_3_12.html

Very lenient sentence in my opinion for nearly a decade of crime and millions of dollars out of the pockets of Cuyahoga County residents.

There sure were enough dirty lawyers involved in the Cuyahoga County corruption. I'll bet before it's all over there will be a lot more added on. One might have to wonder how the dirt bags got away with it as long as they did. 

 I never heard of this Armstrong attorney from Huron before. Only attorneys I knew from Huron were also judges. They were my mother's attorneys.

There are two sides to every story. It all boils down to who is telling it, and what, if any, are the "hidden agendas" of the story tellers.

It would appear that, if you are in a position of power, your story becomes more "factual" than the story of some "small, insignificant" person telling their side. Without money and power behind your story, and the unlimited resources it takes to hire someone to present your side, your rights and the ability to get justice are just ignored or negotiated away.

It becomes worse when those in power use their positions to manipulate the justice system for their own benefit. I find that, if you are an attorney, and you want to continue working, you must sacrifice your own values and beliefs to "cooperate" with those in power. It becomes especially severe, when judges ignore their responsibility to be "blind" to any case and act based on their relationship with, let's say, the prosecutor. In this case the prosecutor's story becomes "fact" while a defendant's story becomes, well, a "story." Let's face it, if the prosecutor wants to ruin your life, it's pretty easy in the present system. Prosecutors don't really mess with those who can afford true justice (how do you think Bernie Madoff lasted as long as he did?)

Now that Old and New Testament values have been removed from our society, there is no need to conform to them. When our leaders (judges, prosecutors, and lawyers) no longer see the need to administer justice as God demands, then the entire system decays into one that weighs money or power against individual rights.

Unethical lawyers, dishonest prosecutors, and bad judges are not the "root cause." They are symptoms of the greater problem. I have learned to trust that God will ultimately handle those who corrupt justice for their own designs. God will not be mocked. 

I noticed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer's article about the Huron attorney that there sure were a lot of comments made about the Cuyahoga County prosecutor,  Bill Mason,  being just as dirty and corrupt as the rest of them.

Wasn't Mason involved in Erie County's case against Elsebeth Baumgartner?

Julie R,

You are correct in that Cuyahoga County Ohio Prosecutor Bill Mason was involved with the Elsebeth Baumgartner case. Here is an interesting web link about Bill Mason.

THE 'HEART' OF THE DEMS
"Mason is at the heart of county Democratic politics," says Chris Link, the executive director of Cleveland's ACLU. "That isn't a good thing because you then don't really have an independent prosecutor. It's very difficult to be critical of people in your own party."

On July 28, nearly 200 agents from the FBI and IRS raided the homes and offices of Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and County Auditor Frank Russo (both Democrats), as well as area construction companies. Three U-Haul trucks were used to cart away documents and other evidence. Agents descended upon the county at 9 a.m. Until then, almost nobody else in Cuyahoga County had any knowledge of the impending raid. Not even Mason. FBI spokesman Scott Wilson told Scene at the time that the county prosecutor was given no advance notice.

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/bill-masons-mean-machine/Content?oid=1521066

Did you also know that Dan Kasaris, the Cuyahoga County Assistant Prosecutor that tried Elsebeth used to work for Kevin Baxter?

What do you mean? You mean Kasaris worked in the Erie County prosecutor's office? 

The Two Sides to Every Story was excellent.

Dan Kasaris worked for Erie County before going to Huron County.

Thereafter, he went to Cuyahoga County.