Posted on 05/09/2009 2:09:32 PM PDT by CutePuppy
A judge said Friday that she's referring a Los Angeles lawyer to federal prosecutors and the State Bar over his involvement in lawsuits that she found were part of a massive fraud by purported Nicaraguan banana workers against U.S. food giant Dole.
Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney said that attorney Juan Dominguez, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Dole, would be subject to charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, defrauding a court, conspiring to extort a United States company and possibly federal racketeering violations. She also ordered Dominguez to appear in her courtroom on June 15 for a hearing on sanctions for alleged contempt of court.
"All of the alleged actions by attorney Dominguez have criminal overtones," she said.
However, Chaney refused Friday to stop release of a documentary movie titled "Bananas," which Dole said is defamatory to the company and was instigated by the same lawyer.
... Last month, Chaney dismissed two lawsuits that she said were part of a massive scheme to extort Dole for billions of dollars, claiming that men who worked on Dole banana plantations in Nicaragua in the 1970s were contaminated by a pesticide that rendered them sterile.
She dismissed the lawsuits after an emotional three-day series of hearings in which witnesses, some of whom had their identities disguised, testified about recruitment of men who never worked in the plantations to lie about exposure to the pesticide DBCP.
The judge called the fraud "outrageous and profound."
Witnesses and investigators told of being in fear for their lives for exposing the fraud ...
... Dole attorney Andrea Neuman told the judge that a film purporting to be a documentary about Dominguez and another lawyer in the case is being marketed to U.S. film festivals. She said it is filled with falsehoods.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If there’s enough cheese, you’ll get rats.
Sounds pretty much like the list of charges that should be applied to Congress and Obamanation re: rape of taxpayers to hand to non-taxpayers.
Wealth redistribution is a criminal enterprise we're experiencing now, and for YEARS to come from the socilialist Democrats.
Yep! There is lots of cheese out there and correspondingly, lots of Rats are after it.
Sounds to me like Dole has an actionable case for Libel and Slander against the producers of this film, the distributors of this film, the theatres that show this film, why the list of possible deep pocket defendants in this is a very long one.
FTA: Michael Axline, a Sacramento lawyer who worked with Dominguez on the earlier trial, said he would advise the director to reconsider releasing the film.
And from an earlier version of same article http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=D982DON00&show_article=1 , it states Another lawyer in the case says he will seek to stop release of the film.
Right; and that's pretty much a summation of what the "Fairness Doctrine" is all about....their voterbase (the entitlements' crowd) is NOT a target of advertisers and their "liberal talk shows" lack legitimate sponsorship (other than agenda-based money like Soros, etc.), and thus they cannot fairly compete with Talk Radio that has a listenership of WORKING, EARNING, PRODUCTIVE American consumers.
The second rat gets the cheese.
My reply in post #6 was meant to include you.
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