2/13 Author's Note: This post has been updated.
Every time I read the news these days, I just want to bathe.
It's also a very small world.
The Greensboro News & Record reported yesterday that Alan Duncan, Chairman of the Guilford County School Board, is representing Reille Hunter (John Edwards' campaign-videographer-turned-mistress-turned-Mother-of-his-love-child) in the small matter of their (sex) "tape of a personal nature".
OBTW, Duncan also represents the News & Record and the City of Greensboro.
(If you haven't noticed, the News & Record is not allowing comments on most of its stories pertaining to the Edwards fiasco. Smells like conflicted interests to me. But I don't know nothing about journalism.)
Guarino noticed and had commentary . . . questioning the wisdom of the Chairman of the Guilford School Board representing any of the players in this sordid mess.
GSO's resident legal expert, Sam "People Lie in Court Everyday, So Shut Up About It" Spagnola, chimed in . . . Duncan's decision to represent Reille wasn't a big deal. After all it's not like we're talking about child molestation or kiddie porn.
It always amazes me how lawyers can rationalize some of the things they do. I begged to differ with the legally omnipotent Sam:
Joe is exactly right. This Edwardian sex tape fiasco is about as lurid as it gets. Moreover, the children involved are just as much victims as any child molester's prey. The unfortunate "love child" (how would you like to be called that for the rest of your life?) has to live with the stigma of who her parents are and how she was conceived - forever. Then there are Elizabeth's children, especially the younger ones, who sooner or later will have to digest that their Father slept with his mistress in their Mother's bed . . . and all but wished her dead.
Representing the principals in this sordid mess is not just something for the Chairman of a School Board to do. It's not an example to set.
But in the interest of full disclosure (and as I have blogged before), there is another reason I have no love for the law firm of Smith, Moore & Leatherwood (I just call them Smith-Moore).
You see, back in the day, when it was known as Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore, Randolph Hospital was represented by one of the firm's big-gun attorneys, Bob Wilson.
Bob Wilson is the legal genius and fine upstanding citizen who decided that it was okay to fire a Pediatrician just two weeks after she had defied the threats of a couple of idiot hospital executives in order to save a baby's life . . . the legal bottom-feeder who creatively fashioned a "non-compete" arrangement (not to mention a gag clause) out of an employment contract that did not have one (in defiance of a Federal agreement that said it could not have one).
He's also the guy, who after "considerable due diligence" could not find a copy of my agreement with the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) . . . which was REAL convenient, because RMA and Randolph Hospital had breached that agreement in every conceivable way. Wilson actually had the stones to argue that there wasn't any evidence that the agreement with the Feds ever existed (never mind the fact that my medical school loans - as well as Dr. Laurie Anderson's - were repaid in full by the state and Federal governments).
It's a good thing the N.C. Department of Rural Health had a signed copy of the NHSC application/agreement on file. Must have slipped "the collective's" tiny little minds.
When the agreement was produced, Randolph's big-gun lawyer back-tracked. It was a small oversight. No biggie.
(I mean, they couldn't have been lying. Not lawyers. Not in here in North Carolina.)
Oh, and that little "over-sight" (I expect the stupid, medically-clueless, uber-greedy trolls running Randolph Hospital - I'm not holding back anymore - did not even tell Mr. Wilson about the NHSC agreement before he crafted his despicable "notice"), only cost me a practice that I had slaved 3 years to build and the life I had planned to live in my hometown . . . not to mention any chance at switching gears towards a fellowship.
Getting fired and having the CEO of your hospital (the one that would have had you roll back over and got back to sleep . . . and just let a desperately-sick newborn infant die) tell the world that you're not a "team-player" (it's the worst Bob Morrison could say, but it was enough) . . . does WONDERS for your "employability". Just ask Debbie Crane.
Bob Wilson pulled every under-handed, nasty trick in the book in order to fulfil Mike Bridges' stated wish that I "just go away".
Mary would get tired of fighting and just give up. Better yet, she'd run out of money.
It's the reason reading the "core values" page on SML's website now makes me want to hurl (then bathe).
Bob Wilson is also the shyster who, when confronted with black & white evidence that Randolph's trial lawyers had suborned perjury, tried to convince me (through another shyster) that the trial lawyers handling the case simply made an honest mistake (talk about an oxymoron!?!). They were not "experts" on "non-profits", you see.
Of course, if Bob had been handling the trial, the "oversight" never would have happened.
Of course, the trial never would have happened if Bob Wilson had not been such an arrogant/thoughtless/inconsiderate/dishonest bully - and total tool.
The "unfortunate oversight" notwithstanding, "the expert" wasn't inclined to advise his clients to make amends. You see, despite all the noble blather about the ethics and integrity that are the cornerstones of Smith Moore's legal practice, right and wrong did not matter to this officer-of-the-Court.
The "expert" invited me to sue the hospital again. The rest is history.
Oh, I expect I'm gonna sue somebody real soon, Mr. Wilson. But it won't be Randolph Hospital.
But by the time this "dime-a-dozen" Pediatrician is done, you and your hospital might wish I had.
So, when you really think about it, we all owe the existence of "Dr J's Housecalls" . . . the blog that makes Fec-The-Cyberstalker's head spin and Ed Cone-of-the-Cones weep . . . to a high-dollar corporate lawyer who could not recognize when someone he'd screwed-over had had enough . . . meant business . . . and will NOT be going away.
Lawyers like Duncan and Wilson can represent people like Hunter and Edwards because their moral compasses are as skewed as their clients.
Something fundamental and basic is turned off in these people. And I just don't get it.
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Something fundamental and basic is turned off in these people.* Dr
It's called Greed with a host of Sins that makes the Devil a 3 rd rate Sinner.......If there is a Paradise on the other side, these people will be the fuel oil to keep it warm during the winter months.......
We shouldn't have to wait for our turn at Paradise to see some of these sinners roasted.
I've taken the opportunity to look back over all the old stories on the Internet (especially at the N&O) on the Duke-Nifong debacle.
It's amazing how many of the people now staring down criminal investigations had something high & mighty to say about truth and transparency and accountability in the N.C. legal system.
It's hard to digest given that in my case, the N.C. State Bar sneered and spit and barely cast a backwards gland at INYOURFACE perjury, subornation of perjury, contempt and fraud (not to mention gross-neligence on my own attorney's part).
The Bar has also let Garland Yates & company coast on "habitual intemperance". There simply is NO EXCUSE for the way-beyond-dirty way I've been done by the Randolph County District Attorney's office.
Meanwhile, the Bar/N.C. AG has done NOTHING since the Nifong ugliness - zero/zipp/nadda - to plug the holes that citizens can fall through (be they innocents wrongly accused, or victims trying to get a fair shake) in the criminal justice system.
It's shameful. And it's typical in North Carolina.
Lady Justice had her blindfold off and her skirt up over her ears for Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin.
I expect she'll have them off & up for the stinky cyber-stalker before it's all said and done.
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