11-05-21 Profiting from Racketeering in the Courts // Aprovecharse del crimen organizado en las Cortes // 从敲诈勒索获利在法院

Profiting from Racketeering by Countrywide's Sandor Samuels - Rabbi Robert Wexler of American Jewish University refuses to respond

Widespread corruption of the justice system is at the core of the current financial crisis. However, refusal of the US government to take action is no excuse for the Los Angeles Jewish community to provide the front for racketeers.
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Rabbi Robert Wexler_ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _  _Sandor Samuels
American Jewish University, Los Angeles _ _   Countrywide
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies _ _  _ _ _ Bank of America


Los Angeles, May 21 - "I have known Rabbi Wexler and his family for a few years," says Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO).  Regardless, Wexler, who heads the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies refuses to respond on Zernik's Jewish ethics question: [[i]]

Should Robert Wexler, the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies be considered direct beneficiaries of gains from racketeering by Countrywide's Sandor Samuels, who lists himself as Member of the Board?

Rabbi Wexler is not alone.  Others, who have refused to respond on related questions included:

• The Anti Defamation League's (ADL) National Director Abraham Foxman, [[ii]]
• Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard and Adat Ari El, Valley Village, [[iii]]
• Rabbi Sharon Brous, Ikar Synagogue, Los Angeles
• Rabbi Chaim Nochum Cunin, Chabad, Los Angeles
• Rabbi Susan Leider, Temple Betham, Los Angeles
• Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, UCLA Hillel [[iv]]
• Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun Magazine [[v]]
• UCLA Law Professor Richard Steinberg, who heads the UCLA Human Rights Forum [[vi]]
• University of Chicago Law Professor and US Circuit Judge Richard Posner [[vii]]

"The roaring silence of the ADL is particularly surprising," says Zernik "They are not gun shy..."

In recent years Zernik has documented corruption of Bet Tzedek, the Los Angeles "House of Justice", an affiliate of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, where Samuels is President, and repeatedly reported that it has become a front for a racketeering enterprise.

Sandor Samuels, President of the Bet Tzedek, is the former Chief Legal Officer of Countrywide, where he described himself as "responsible for all litigation matters." He is also former Associate General Counsel of Bank of America.

"Any intelligent person, living in the US and following the news should recognize what is taking place in front of our eyes," says Zernik:

• In January 2008 Countrywide collapsed, following the publication by the New York Times Pulitzer prize winner Morgenson of fraud by Countrywide's counsel in the US Court in Pennsylvania - filing of "recreated letters" as evidence. [[viii]]
• In March 2008 news was published that the Hon Jeff Bohm, US Bankruptcy in Texas, issued a 72-page Memorandum Opinion, based on a yearlong study by the US Trustee's office, detailing fraud by Countrywide in courts across the United States. [[ix]] According to the Memorandum Opinion, Countrywide promised the Hon Bohm to cease such conduct.
• The evidence shows that Mr Samuels nevertheless continued the same conduct in the courts as Associate General Counsel of Bank of America until very recently. [[x]] 
• Fraud in the courts against homeowners across the United States by Bank of America has been repeatedly reported over the past two years.

The report of the Hon Jeff Bohm from Texas is unique, because it is a case, where a US judge stood up to the corruption.  However, the report documents that judges across the United States collude in the corruption.  Likewise, the evidence produced by Zernik documented collusion of numerous Los Angeles judges, many of them Jewish, in the corruption.

"Sandor Samuels is central to one of the biggest frauds in history against homeowners, against shareholders, and against the US Treasury," says Zernik, "Widespread bribing of state and US judges by Countrywide and Bank of America is most likely a key part of it." [[xi]] 

Of note, California and US judges have refused in recent years to file statements on the record regarding benefits to them from Countrywide or Bank of America: [[xii]]

• US Judge Virginia Phillips
• US Magistrate Carla Woehrle
• California Judge Terry Friedman
• California Judge Peter Meeka

Samuels has most likely been the central figure in such large-scale bribing of judges by Countrywide and Bank of America.

"Samuels has been using Bet Tzedek - the Los Angeles 'House of Justice' - as a front for a racketeering enterprise," says Zernik, "and the Greater Los Angeles Jewish Federation has been aware of it in recent years."

A highly decorated FBI veteran opined fraud and recommended FBI investigation in a case, which was in part perpetrated by Samuels in his capacity as President of Bet Tzedek on the grounds of Bet Tzedek. The case involved collusion by current and former officers of Bet Tzedek: [[xiii]]

• SANDOR SAMUELS, current and former President;
• DAVID PASTERNAK, former President (possibly current member of the Board of Directors)
• TERRY FRIEDMAN, former Executive Director.

The same FBI veteran explained that FBI would not take action against the perpetrators, since they were part of the widespread corruption of Los Angeles judges. [[xiv]]

Evidence pertaining to corruption of Samuels and Pasternak was also part of the evidence that led to the 2010 Human Rights Council of the United Nations report, which stated "corruption of the courts and the legal profession" in California. [[xv]]

The New York Times Pulitzer prize winner Morgenson has repeatedly questioned the failure of the US government to prosecute banking executives in the ongoing financial crisis. [[xvi]] 

"Given the widespread corruption of judges, banking executives are effectively immune," says Zernik, "The widespread corruption of the justice system is at the core of the current financial crisis. However, refusal of the US government to take action is no excuse for the Los Angeles Jewish community to provide the front for racketeers."

LINKS
[i] 11-05-18 Request for Jewish Ethics Perspective by Rabbi Robert Wexler, President of the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, regarding his benefits from racketeering by Countrywide's Sandor Samuels
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55748695/
[ii] 11-05-05 PRESS RELEASE: Anti Defamation League's Abraham Foxman is asked to opine on allegations of Public Corruption, Racketeering in the Los Angeles Jewish/Legal Community
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54666630/
[iii] 11-05-18 PRESS RELEASE: Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard and Adat Ari El, Valley Village � willful beneficiaries of Sandor Samuels� criminality
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55687476/
[iv] 11-05-13 PRESS RELEASE: Los Angeles Rabbis Sharon Brous (Ikar Synagogue), Chaim Nochum Cunin (Chabad), Susan Leider (Temple Betham), Chaim Seidler-Feller (UCLA Hillel) are Asked to Opine on Fraud/Racketeering in the Courts by Jewish attorneys and judges
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55314602/
[v] 11-05-10 PRESS RELEASE: Tikkun�s Rabbi Lerner�s Response on Additional Jewish Ethics Questions Related to "Corruption of the Courts and the Legal Profession�
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55222710/
[vi] 11-05-07 Press Release - UCLA Law Professor Richard Stein Berg, A Human Rights Expert, Is Asked to Opine Regarding Human Rights in Los Angeles, California
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54839618/
[vii] 11-05-09 PRESS RELEASE: Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law Professor, Asked for Ethics Opinions Regarding Racketeering in the Los Angeles Courts, Bet Tzedek, and ADL
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55006209/
[viii] 08-01-08 Case of Borrower Hills (01-22574) - in the US Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Countrywide's Three "Recreated Letters" and a Transcript
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25003494/
[ix] 08-03-05 Case of Borrower William Parsley (05-90374), Dkt #248: Judge Jeff Bohm's Memorandum Opinion, rebuking Countrywide's litigation practices, Countrywide's false outside counsel scheme - appearances by counsel who are not Counsel of Record, with "no communications with clients" clause:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25001966/
[x] 10-07-06 Complaint Filed with US Attorney Office Los Angeles against Sandor Samuels and others, alleging Racketeering
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33971099/
[xi] 09-00-00 Pahis, S: Corruption in Our Courts: What It Looks Like and Where It is Hidden, The Yale Law Journal, 118:1900 (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55677431/
[xii] 11-04-12 PRESS RELEASE: Bribing of State and US Judges by Bank of America Must be a Serious Concern!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52846502/
[xiii] 07-12-17 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) David Pasternak: Grant Deeds in re: 320 South Peck Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, opined as fraud by James Wedick
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24991238/
[xiv] 08-08-21 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) Email letter by highly decorated FBI veteran James Wedick regarding  FBI�s refusal to provide Dr Zernik equal protection
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29713733/
[xv] 10-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NG0) submission to the  United Nations Human Rights Council  for the 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report, with reference to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
[xvi] 11-04-21 PRESS RELEASE:  NYT: "In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures" - Because of widespread corruption of the justice system, they are effectively immune
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53520603/
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
 
Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice systems of the State of California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Human Rights Alert focuses on the unique role of computerized case management systems in the precipitous deterioration of the integrity of the justice system in the United States.
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."    
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 /
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
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