THE PERFECT CRIME
Committed By A Lawyer !!
And Former County Attorney Amy Klobuchar
AIDED THE LAWYER INVOLVED
TO ESCAPE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION !!
By Waiting For The 'Statute Of Limitations' For Prosecution To Expire !!
What you are about to find out about you won't read in any twin cities newspaper. You also won't see, or hear, what you about to read about reported on any twin cities television or radio station. The reason that this Website is the ONLY PLACE you'll be able to read about it is because the local twin cities media doesn't want to report the events that took place because that will embarrass Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar. And, even though I've personally contacted ALL of the major television stations in the twin cities, they, too, don't want to report the 'embarrassment' of County Attornet Amy Klobuchar and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office. I've 'given up' contacting the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis; apparently they have found a use for my communications to them that replaces the second use for the pages out of a catalogue.
The 'embarrassment' of the Hennepin County Attorney's Office consists of a covert 'cover up' of the criminal acts of a fellow attorney that I retained to represent me in a civil lawsuit.
It's no secret that local twin cities electronic media are all too concerned about 'ratings'. The higher a radio or television station's 'ratings' are, the more money a station can charge a company, business or individual that it advertises on their station. The higher their ratings,the more ads they sell, the more ads they sell, the more revenue the station generates. It's simply a snowballing matter of greed.
In order to 'report' the news first, electronic media in any 'market' have to be able to 'get the news first'. How many times have you seen (and heard) 'WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS' or 'WE'RE FOLLOWING A DEVELOPING STORY' on your favorite television or radio station? It is a continual 'dog and pony show'. I can't wait to see who covers the story wherein satellite trucks and news vans from all of the four major television stations in the twin cities converge on a 'breaking news' story and all arrive at the scene at once. It'll be a carnage of twisted metal that will rival the likes of the junk yards in northeast Minneapolis!!
It makes sense that getting the news 'from the source' would result in obtaining the most accurate facts. Well, we found out that isn't necessarily so with the reporting of the January 2006 mine disaster in West Virginia. For those of you that may not be familiar with what I'm talking about, thirteen miners were trapped underground. After several days, just about everyone, including the families of the trapped miners, was resigned to, and accepted, the fact that there were no survivors.
Then, one of the news media covering the 'event' heard, but didn't confirm, that twelve of the thirteen miners were alive! That brought joyous jubilation to all of the grief stricken families. And, wanting to be 'first', the other news media covering this tragic event, knowing that they couldn't be 'first' in reporting this new revelation of 'breaking news', REPEATED, without confirming, the grossly erroneous fact that twelve of the thirteen miners were alive, when, in fact, twelve of he thirteen miners had died!!
I'm interested in knowing how many people lost their jobs because of that unforgivable, insensative error that further traumatized the families of the twelve miners that had perished.
Same type of thing happened with Dan Rather of CBS television regarding the 'documents' that CBS had supposedly obtained that turned out to be a bunch of 'hogwash'. (No offense to pigs intended!)
Also, look at any newspaper and you'll see the ongoing 'CORRECTIONS' that are printed virtually everyday. Somebody isn't doing their 'homework' very well.
It is certain that news organizations have to take their responsibility of gathering news information, and reporting the facts of that news, seriously. I've just pointed out two instances above where that didn't take place. With virtually every major criminal case in that takes place in Hennepin County, we are assured that we can see the local reporters interviewing Hennepin County Amy Klobuchar about the 'facts and details' of the case. Think back: How many times have you been witness to it? Lots, I'm sure. Ever seen a 'deputy' county attorney providing information about a particular case to the news media? Not me. It's always Klobuchar.
So where I am 'going' with all of this is that the local media DEPEND on Klobuchar to provide them with information and details about cases that are noteworthy. Anyone that's ever been in an eighth grade civics class knows that if they get on the 'wrong side' of Klobuchar or her office, they can be instantly 'cut off' from receiving timely information about 'breaking news' and 'developing stories'. Suddenly, your station is 'removed from the loop', your station can't get reliable or worthwhile information and your station falls prey to your competing stations.
The result: Your station's rating drop, your station can't sell your advertising time for what you once could, your revenue drops and suddenly, your station's employees are shown the ever-present 'revolving door'.
So to avoid all of this, your station selectively decides what it wants to 'dig into' and report. Never mind what the viewers or listeners want; it's not their choice anymore! Money talks and $$$ talk loudly. Show the viewers and let the listeners see and hear what will make your station the most money. And, ironically, what will make your station the most money is showing the news stories (and other programming) that viewers and listeners want to see and hear. It's a 'vicious circle'!
So that's my 'complaint' against twin cities news media. While they pledge 'fair and accurate' news coverage and reporting, it isn't what they 'practice'. I have a story to tell; a very interesting story that involves the 'cover up', by Klobuchar and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, of the criminal acts against me by my former attorney. The information, details and facts are compelling; the evidence overwhelming. Plus, to further prove I was right and in an effort to recover some of the money that my former attorney swindled me out of, that he wasn't entitled to, I initiated a suit against my former attorney in Hennepin County Conciliation Court in November 2005.
You're no doubt asking yourself, "What plain, common, ordinary citizen would even attempt to sue an attorney all by him self?" The answer is simple: The same plain, common, ordinary citizen (just like YOU!) who had been financially 'raped' and who thoroughly knew a 'scam' when he saw one, also thoroughly knows all of the facts surrounding the case and can't be intimidated by somebody that wears a three piece suit and carries a skinny briefcase that calls himself a lawyer!
In addition to being a 'supposed' lawyer, he is, also, unquestionably, a thief, a crook and a cheat. Oh; did I fail to mention that he also is 'an officer of the court?"
Rather than making our appearance in court a 'cliffhanger', I'll tell you 'straight up' that the court RULED IN MY FAVOR and issued me a judgment for the FULL AMOUNT I was seeking PLUS the filing fee I had to pay to file my lawsuit!!
When you're right; you're right! CLICK HERE to see the court's ruling.
I am the victim of THREE CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST ME and this is my story.
My identity was stolen, my signature was forged TWICE, I had money stolen from me and I identified the person (a LAWYER!!) who committed these crimes against me, and, as directed by Klobuchar's Office, I reported this criminal activity to the local Police Department. All I've ever wanted is to have the person (a LAWYER!!) that committed these crimes against me, to be treated like any other common criminal and thief would be treated. He STOLE, he CHEATED and he LIED!!
But, because he is a lawyer, he is 'above the law' and Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar REFUSES to prosecute him!! That makes me a crime victim AGAIN !! Does It Take A Local Television 'Investigative News Team' To Get Justice Against A Lawyer In Hennepin County ?? Won't Happen; They're Too Concerned About Their 'Ratings' !!
Equal Justice
For All ??
LAWYERS PROTECTING LAWYERS !!
An Wholly Unacceptable 'System' That Just Doesn't Work !!
THE
'PERFECT CRIME'
Committed By A Lawyer Who Was, And Still Is, Being 'Protected'
By The Hennepin County Attorney's Office and The Minnesota
Office Of Lawyer's Professional Responsibility !!
Find Out About A Prominent, Well Known Lawyer From The Very Affluent Community
Of Wayzata (Minnesota) Who FORGED HIS CLIENT'S SIGNATURE(s) To
Allow Him To Control, Manipulate And Steal His Clients Funds !!
Also Learn About How This Very Same Lawyer Submitted Documents
To The Court Without His Clients Authorization or Knowledge
And Then LIED To The Office Of Lawyers Professional
Responsibility By Denying Having Ever Done So !!
(I've Got The Proof!!)
Learn The Details Of How This Lawyer CONCEALED THE EXISTENCE
Of A Second Settlement Check From His Client, FORGED
HIS CLIENT'S SIGNATURE For A SECOND TIME
And DEPOSITED IT INTO HIS OWN
CHECKING ACCOUNT !!
(That's Called 'Conversion!!)
Please Read On To Learn How Ineffective The Hennepin County Attorney's
Office And The Office Of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Are;
Two Agencies Within Our 'Legal System' That Are Supposed
To Protect Citizens From Unscrupulous, Unethical And
Unprofessional Lawyers, But How They Are
PROTECTING THE LAWYER
Instead !!!
And now, Hennepin County Amy Klobuchar, who REFUSES to prosecute this
common criminal and wants to be a U.S. Senator From Minnesota !!
I HOPE Not.
Read Why Below.
And then SERIOUSLY CONSIDER
Voting AGAINST Her For
U. S. Senator !!
As the victim of a crime, all anybody crime victim wants is for the person(s) that committed the criminal activity against them to be brought to justice. I, too, am the victim of criminal activity against me and I even positively identified the person (a lawyer) who committed the criminal acts against me to both the Wayzata Police Department and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office. However, in the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, as with the Minnesota Office Of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, lawyers come first; crime victims come second!!
I am a retired Deputy Sheriff from the Hennepin County (Minnesota) Sheriff's Department where, during my fifteen year employment there under Sheriff Donald J. Omodt, I attained the rank of Sergeant in both it Communications and Warrant/Fugitive Divisions. I 'worked' within the 'criminal justice system' for nearly TWENTY YEARS and am very familiar with how it 'works' (or how it SHOULD work).
If somebody commits a crime, they're supposed to be put in jail, then go to court and suffer the consequences of their misdeeds. I can't begin to tell you how many people I arrested during my law enforcement career but it has to be in the hundreds. (I even once arrested a lawyer who was an associate of the lawyer referred to above and that you'll read more about, below.)
You are about to read what happened to me when I retained an attorney from the very affluent city of Wayzata (Minnesota) to represent me in a wrongful termination suit against a former employer. Everything that is contained in this Webpage already has been, can be or is documented below.
It is worth noting that I met this attorney involved back in the late 1960's when I was a Police Officer for the City of Maple Plain. He was an attorney and/or a member of the law firm that the City of Maple Plain contracted with to handle all of the city's legal matters including the criminal prosecutions of individuals to whom I issued citations in my capacity as a Maple Plain Policeman. In addition to being the city attorney for the city of Maple Plain, he and/or the law firm that he was affiliated with, was also the city attorney for many smaller communities in the Lake Minnetonka area.
The professional relationship that we had established between us continued for the entire two and one-half years that I worked for the City of Maple Plain, and after I joined the Hennepin County (Minnesota) Sheriff's Department, our professional relationship continued, coupled with a personal relationship. We occasionally got together for lunch or dinner, (sometimes his wife would join us), I had been to his home a couple of times and I felt that, because of our long-standing personal and professional relationship, he was a person whom I could turn to that I could trust.
However, as it turned out, that was not to be.
I retained this 'friend' to represent me in a wrongful termination suit in approximately March of 2001. I sincerely believed that he would properly; represent me in my civil law suit against my former employer.
We went to trial and, to make a very long story very short, I prevailed in Scott County Court. My former employer appealed the Scott County court's decision the the Minnesota Court of Appeals. We likewise, prevailed there, too.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, I received an e-mail from the lawyer. The 'subject line' of the e-mail stated 'SWEET WORDS..AFFIRMED' and all the body of the e-mail said was 'Did you read the opinion?" As soon as I read his e-mail message, I dialed his telephone number in record time! He confirmed that he had been notified that the Minnesota Court of Appeals had upheld the district court's decision in my favor. I immediately asked him how much the award was for. He replied that the court had awarded me 'around $23,000.00'. $23,000.00 for over two years of hell and somewhere in the neighborhood of $60,000.00 that it had cost me?
I should probably have been ecstatic but how could I be when someone who I had known and trusted for thirty plus years thought more about himself than he did of his friend and client? What little was left of any friendship that we ever had was soon to be totally eliminated within the next couple of months. And, of course again, the Court of Appeals awarded him ANOTHER $2,100.00 that he had sought. And I got nothing more in compensatory damages or punitive damages because of his worrying about getting thousands and thousands of dollars for himself and to hell with his client.
Upon him telling me that I had been awarded $23,000.00, my next and most obvious question was 'When do I get the money?" His reply was 'in a couple of weeks'. I later learned that my former employer could have appealed the Court of Appeals decision to the Minnesota Supreme Court so the 'in a couple of weeks' remark was totally bogus. I also found out later that I had the right to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court but he never told me that which, I later learned, he should have.
That really didn't make any sense to me but what else could I do? Because my former employer was required to post a 'bond' as a result of their appealing the case, it seem logical to me that once the decision of the district court had been upheld by the Court of Appeals, it should be a very simple procedure of them giving me the check that was posted as the bond, or cash out the bond and write me a check. Then, once I received the settlement check, I would meet the lawyer in his office, during business hours, sign a 'Settlement Agreement' releasing my former employer of any future claims, write out a personal check to my attorney for his fees, and everything would be over and done with.
But, of course, even though that would be the logical 'progression of events', that's not at all how it 'worked out'.
Upon settlement of my case, my former lawyer REFUSED to give it to me and NEVER allowed me to see the settlement check. Instead of just a single settlement check, there actually were TWO settlement checks!! However, the lawyer NEVER told me about the existence of the second settlement check. It was only after my complaint about the lawyer's actions against me to the Office of Lawyer's Professional Responsibility and an investigation initiated, did I find out about the existence of the second settlement check. And, that was almost ONE YEAR after the lawyer had RECEIVED BOTH CHECKS, FORGED MY ENDORSEMENT SIGNATURES on BOTH CHECKS and DEPOSITED BOTH CHECKS INTO HIS OWN CHECKING ACCOUNT !! And here's the identity of the bank that allowed all of this to happen:
The attorney was then able to (present and) deposit the two checks on which he had forged my endorsement signature WITHOUT BEING CHALLENGED (or his criminal actions being detected) by the bank tellers because his bank (Anchor Bank of Wayzata) was LOCATED IN THE SAME BUILDING AS HIS LAW OFFICE and THE TELLERS ALL NEW HIM PERSONALLY !!
Talk About CONVENIENT BANKING !!!
Somehow, it seems logical to me that nobody, particularly lawyers because of the power, authority and supposed trust, should be above the law. But here's a true story about a lawyer who is. And this is also about the taxpayer supoorted Hennepin County Attorney that finds it MORE PREFERABLE to SHIELD A FELLOW ATTORNEY FROM CRIMINAL PROSECUTION rather than to uphold her OATH OF OFFICE by REFUSING TO PROSECUTE A COMMON THIEF, LIAR and CHEAT !!
A COMMON THIEF, LIAR and CHEAT that a private citizen took to court AND BEAT !!
Lastly, it is also worth noting that the Minnesota Office of Lawyer's Professional Responsibility also ADMONISHED my former lawyer for his unprofessional conduct and numerous violations of the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct. So, what we have here is an attorney that acted unscrupulously, forged his clients signature thus enabling him to gain total control of his clients funds, deposited two checks on which he had forged his client's signature into his own bank account, he concealed the existence of a settlement check belonging to his client, stole money from his client, was formally 'admonished' for his unethical and unprofessional conduct by the very agency that is supposed to protect individuals from crooked lawyers, and had the gall to charge his client nearly $12,000.00 to do all of these things against him.
And Hennepin County Amy Klobuchar REFUSED to criminally prosecute this common thief and criminal who is her fellow lawyer !!
February 14, 2005
Ms. Amy Klobuchar,
HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY
C-2000 Government Center
300 South Sixth Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55487
Dear Ms. Klobuchar:
I am in receipt of a January 21, 2005 letter from Deputy County Attorney Susan L. Segal regarding your office’s continual refusal to criminally charge my former attorney for his criminal acts committed against me. As you are aware, these criminal acts committed against me by my former attorney, and as determined by a criminal investigation conducted by the Wayzata Police Department, consisted of aggravated forgery, uttering forged documents and theft by swindle.
In the last sentence of Ms. Segal’s January 21st letter, she states, “While we know that you do not agree with the investigation of the Wayzata Police Department or our office’s decision to decline the matter, based on the evidence in this matter, we have no grounds upon which to reverse the decision or to question the investigation results.”
I take offense to Ms. Segal’s bold, brash, intentionally misleading and INCORRECT statement !!
At NO time, have I ever been critical of the results of the criminal investigation against my former attorney by the Wayzata Police Department. In fact, if Ms. Segal and others within your office familiar with this case, would have taken the time to review the matter thoroughly, I praised the Wayzata Police Department for the very thorough and impartial manner in which they conducted themselves. Further, because of the findings of their investigation and their belief that sufficient evidence existed to warrant criminal charging of my former attorney, the Wayzata Police Department forwarded the results of their investigation to your office for criminal charging of my former attorney!!
For Ms. Segal, or anyone else within your office to blatantly state that I don’t agree with the ‘investigation results of the Wayzata Police Department’ is wholly fabricated and done with the intent to discredit me. I made my complaint to them, they investigated my complaint and they sought criminal charges against the individual who committed these criminal acts against me.
How could anyone, except possibly the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, misinterpret my approval of and satisfaction with , the Wayzata Police Department? Is it too much to expect the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to do it’s job as well as the Wayzata Police Department did theirs? Apparently so.
In the interest of bringing an alleged criminal to justice, based on the facts of the case, in the interest of justice and to dispel any impropriety of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in this matter by refusing to prosecute my former lawyer, I once again respectfully request that my former attorney be criminally charged, by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, for his criminal acts against me.
And in the future, I ask that you, or your staff, not put words in my mouth that I didn’t say.
Sincerely,
Richard E. Odoms
9566 134th Street
Cologne, Minnesota 55322
Cc: Detective Mike Murphy,
Wayzata Police Department
COVER UP ?? COLLUSION ??
CONFLICT OF INTEREST ??
PARTIALITY ?? POLITICS ??
'GOOD OLD BOYS' (or GIRL'S) CLUB ??
CODE OF SILENCE ??
Yep; It's ALL of those !!!
Where Is 'Skip' Humphrey When We Need Him ?
To See The TWO Letters That Were Sent To Former Hennepin County Attorney
Amy Klobuchar (Who Is Now A United States Senator From Minnesota)
That She REFUSED TO ACCEPT (TWICE)
Please Check Back With This Webpage Frequently As It Is Being Updated. THANKS !!
