HOA defrauded of millions accuses law firm of facilitating scheme – Las Vegas Review-Journal: " The homeowners association is trying to convince a judge that the fraud ringleaders could not have embezzled millions without the gross malpractice committed by a law firm that was hired in 2006 to protect the integrity of the Vistana HOA board elections.
The firm, Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw and Ferrario, did the opposite and concealed illegal behavior from its client, attorney Richard Haskin, who is representing the Vistana HOA, told a Clark County judge Tuesday.
Judge Mark Denton heard opening statements Tuesday in the civil case the Vistana HOA filed against the firm, which since has changed its name to Kaempfer Crowe. Only one of the firm’s lawyers, a first-year associate, ever faced criminal charges."
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The saga of the massive Las Vegas HOA fraud ring continues.
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"the fraud ringleaders could not have embezzled millions without the gross malpractice committed by a law firm"...“Only one of the firm’s lawyers, a first-year associate, ever faced criminal charges.”
In 2011, law professor Glenn Reynolds ( Instapundit.com ) interviewed his colleague, law professor Benjamin Barton, about Barton’s new book “The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbs_3lePAjE
PJTV: Bias! The Case Against Lawyers and Judges
uploaded on Jan 27, 2011
Reynolds (08:50): My favorite example was what happened to all of the people in the Enron affair. Because the accountants get in trouble. They go out of business. Some go to jail. Of course the people at Enron… Who basically skates away with almost no penalty? The lawyers. How does that happen?
Barton (09:08): This was one of the ways I tried to tie up the end of the book. I wanted to show where the rubber hits the road. And the Enron thing is just a perfect example of that. Arthur Anderson is this ongoing concern, that employed thousands of people all over the world, and existed for almost a hundred years at the time Enron happened, and it’s just demolished overnight. Obviously Enron is completely destroyed. A bunch of people at Arthur Anderson and at Enron end up serving prison or facing criminal charges. Yet the two main law firms that worked for Enron, and the in house people, and the lawyer at Arthur Anderson — all of whom were very complicit in all of the various things that went on — all of them basically skated. The law firms paid a small, depending on how you look at it, they paid less, a lot less, than they earned from Enron in a penalty, which to me is small. None of them got disbarred. None of them spent any time in jail. Basically, they paid a fine and moved on.
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