Simon Suspects Democratic Jurors Tainted Fraud Verdict

California Journal ^ | September 13, 2002 | David Lesher

[snopercod]

Sur-prahze, sur-prahze!

[cinFLA]

The SacBEE story this morning ran two interviews with jurors. One, a 38 yo real estate broker, was glad for the reversal. She got ONE paragraph! The other, a 22 yo female college student was outraged! She got SEVEN PARAGRAPHS!

[TexasCajun]

How much was he awarded on his counter-suit? I heard he got money for legal fees, but did not hear a figure.

[kellynla]

awarded $125K . The reversal of the judgment made the front page of the Left Angles Times...shall I post it?

[Lx]

Was the reversal on the front page?
Much as I try to avoid the Sacramento Pravda, I may have to get one today.

[hchutch]

Somebody is going to get canned for letting that article on the reversal get anywhere before page B28.

[Wphile]

I also read or heard that the judge said the one who committed fraud was the guy who brought the suit, not Simon et al. Ha!

[MamaLucci]

The other, a 22 yo female college student was outraged! She got SEVEN PARAGRAPHS

Yes, and did you notice that the 22 year old college student just happened
to know that the judge in this case was a Pete Wilson appointee?
No doubt in my mind that the Davis campaign got to her.

[joebuck]

This is a really dishonest headline for this Article. The headline the "California Journal" creates for this article reads thus:

"Simon Suspects Democratic Jurors Tainted Fraud Verdict"

But when we read the article, what we discover is this:

"It could be possible," he said. "Occassionally, there are outlandish jury verdicts. Was this a politically motivated verdict?I don't know. But it is not founded on the facts."

Simon never said that he suspected politics played a part in the verdict. When directly asked about it, he basically said "anythings possible". This was a set up question designed to create a misleading headline.

[NormsRevenge]

DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

Bill Simon will be on KSFO560 at 810 AM PT

[cinFLA]

Yes, and did you notice that the 22 year old college student just happened to know that the judge in this case was a Pete Wilson appointee?

Not surprised. The media are making sure that this is common knowledge.

[cinFLA]

Was the reversal on the front page? Much as I try to avoid the Sacramento Pravda, I may have to get one today.

Yes. Top Right. Top left was GWB. The editorial was about Iraq and how we should use war only as the last resort because we have to be afraid of how they will retaliate against us! The BEE still does not accept the fact that war has already been declared against US!

[MamaLucci]

I should have known....of COURSE the liberal media would automatically trumpet this fact.

[liberallarry]

Fraud Verdict Against Simon Firm Thrown Out

If this article is correct - and I'll believe it is until I see evidence to the contrary - the Judge found

1) Simon was believeable in his claim that he entered into a multimillion dollar deal with a man without doing a background check which would have immediately revealed that man as a convicted felon.
2) Simon's concealment of his plan to charge 1.5 million was "sharp" business practice but not illegal. Inotherwords, it was quite legal to defraud Hindelang.

No wonder the Left despises the legal system.

[kellynla]

front page LA TIMES above the fold and we checked last night and the SF Chronicle had it on their website front page. Of course you all know the Times, Chronicle and the rest of the left wing media conveniently omitted much of the claims by the Simon defense that the jury obviously ignored the fact that the drug dealing plaintiff was given opportunity to elect not to invest in any offer...there was no fraud on the part of Simon's company but the media did not mention that after the jury verdict...

[Hildy]

What I don't understand is why Simon does not either take out a one page ad in Major CA papers or put an ad on TV explaining what happened and then move on. His silence is deafening. The only ad I keep hearing is the one with Guilianni. It's old and it's getting annoying.

[kellynla]

Simon's concealment of his plan to charge 1.5 million was "sharp" business practice but not illegal. Inotherwords, it was quite legal to defraud Hindelang

This is incorrect. In fact a competitor wanted to charge 4.5 million for the same service and the drug dealer(plaintiff) was appraised of the cost and given opportunity to opt out of the deal if he didn't like it.

[kellynla]

Simon had a news conference on TV yesterday

[Coop]

The title and lead paragraph are terribly misleading.

[Coop]

From what I read, a background check was indeed conducted. But it only went back so many years, therefore not identifying the felony conviction. But it's cut and dried that Hildy lied about his conviction, thereby defrauding the investment firm. Simon's firm at worst could be considered sloppy. There's only one fraud problem in this case, and it ain't them.