Corrupt Law Firm's Open Bill Led to Cover-Ups and Conflicts of Interest in Superior & Supreme Courts

JACK CUNNINGHAM VS. NEW JERSEY STATE CORRUPTION

Corrupt Law Firm's Open Bill Led to Cover-Ups and Conflicts of Interest in Superior & Supreme Courts

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Is it ethical for a law firm to use an employee attorney, who happens to be a Vice-Chairman of the state's Supreme Court Attorney Ethics, to represent the firm in a Attorney Ethics (Legal Malpractice) case?

It's ethical.

It's unethical.

It's a Conflict of Interest.

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It was easy for state's Supreme Court Vice-Chairman of Attorney Ethics Robert Correale to protect himself, and his own law firm Maynard & Truland from legal malpractice and attorney ethics charges.

It's understandable by most that a vice-chairman of the Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics carries a great deal of influence around the whole state.

However, for eight (8) years a disabled Vietnam veteran John "Jack" Cunningham has been determined to bring this to light...

Goverment corruption hurts everyone!

I bet other law firms wish that they had one of their own attorneys connected to the Supreme Court and representing them during legal malpractices and attorney ethics cases against them.

(Personally, I'm not a big fan of lawyers, but I don't think it's fair to other attorneys that Robert Correale and his law firm can get away with this for years...)

MISSING SUPERIOR COURT TRANSCRIPT

On December 17, 2002, the Maynard & Truland law firm filed through the collection law firm of Joseph A. Molinaro, a claim of an open bill in Superior Court: Sussex County Special Civil Part Judicial Center.   Maynard & Truland’s claim was for an open bill of $1,672 against John “Jack” Cunningham. The total claim was for $1,765.44, which included the open bill amount, court filing fee, court service fee and attorney fees.

Two days before Christmas, on December 23, 2002, the summons DC 4102-02 was served on John “Jack” Cunningham.

The reason the bill was still open was due to the fact that John Cunningham refused to pay the bill, because Maynard & Truland was not billing at the contacted rate of $150 and hour. Instead the law firm was billing at an inflated rate of $175 an hour.   John also had evidence of law firm attorney Robert Correale was billing for false charges and other Maynard & Truland’s ongoing attorney ethics violations.

On December 27, 2002, John Cunningham answered the summons (DC 4102-02) and countered sued for legal malpractice on the same docket against Maynard & Truland.

In January 2003, John Cunningham sent the collection law firm of Joseph A. Molinaro the above mention evidence of over-billing, false-billing, along with other evidence of Maynard & Truland’s ongoing attorney ethics violations. John also sent the same evidence to Honorable Superior Court Judge Ronald Graves, who was assigned to judge the Superior Court Special Civil Part case.

The court case was held on March 11, 2003, before (originally assigned) Superior Court Judge Ronald Graves. For reasons never explained to John Cunningham, on the same date of the court case, a ‘Substitution of Attorney’ was submitted to Superior Court, where Joseph A. Molinaro withdrew as attorney and Robert D. Correale became the substituting attorney. At the time of this open bill/legal malpractice case (Original claim and counter-claim), Robert Correale was a Maynard &Truland general-practice attorney and he was also the local Vice-Chairman of New Jersey’s Supreme Court Attorney Ethics. Local Attorney Ethics Vice-Chairman Robert Correale was representing himself and his law firm, since John’s evidence was against Correale as well.   (John Cunningham was never informed if this was a Conflict of Interest on Robert Correale and Maynard & Truland’s part.)

Since John couldn’t get a local attorney to handle his case without hundreds of dollars per hour upfront, John had to represent himself PRO SE. A number of local attorneys John called in an attempt to get representation just told John to pay the open bill and get it over with.

John soon learned by a courtroom assigned arbitrator that Judge Graves and the arbitrator both read his detailed evidence. Robert Correale agreed to drop his law firm’s open bill civil case, if John agreed to settle his legal malpractice counter-claim in the same courtroom. John refused Correale’s suggestion, wanting to bring his charges up to the Law Division. The law firm had harassed him too much he felt.

In the courthouse hallway, Robert Correale took John Cunningham aside and informed him that due to a Conflict of Interest, John should not push his ethics violation charges through the District X Attorney Ethics committee. John told Correale that it was not up to him, it was state law to file complains through the local committee. John asked Correale to please inform the main Trenton Office of Attorney Ethics of the Conflict of Interest.

Back in the courtroom, against Robert Correale’s objections, Judged Ronald Graves ruled that John Cunningham’s charges of legal malpractice ”warranted the Law Division for damages”. The case was closed for that level of civil court.

When John Cunningham tried to get a copy of the court transcript, he was informed that the part of the transcript, where Judge Graves stated that his "charges warranted the law division for damages" was missing.

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After years of letters to Superior Court judges, Supreme Court officials and court staff, trying to get answers about the missing court transcipt, John Cunningham wrote to his local members of the New Jersey Legislature.

UPDATE on what happened next will be posted soon...

Jack Cunningham's case is interesting, I have run into certain things in NJ courts myself…

Statute of limitations issue is bogus… fraud has no limitation in federal court, and Statute of limitations runs from the time the fraud is found… It is an act to deceive, an act of fraud, an act to manipulate due process, - sanctions should be implemented – One of many cases spell this out… Referring both to the objective and subjective elements, we have held that qualified immunity would be defeated if an official "knew or reasonably should have known that the action he took within his sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights of the [plaintiff], or if he took the action with the malicious intention to cause a deprivation of constitutional rights or other injury." Harlow et al v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800; 102 S. Ct. 2727; 73 L. Ed. 2d 396; (1982). (Emphasis added)

File a civil suit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (federal court) - file this Civil Complaint under U.S.C. 28 §1331, federal question, civil actions arising under the Constitution, under U.S.C. 42 §1983, a civil action for deprivation of rights, and U.S.C. 42 §1985 a civil action for Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights against all Defendant’s you can list (growing list below)… you can do it pro se and file an application to proceed indigent… all documents are on the District of New Jersey (federal court)’s web site…

State courts have concurring jurisdiction over this type of civil suit, it can be filed in state court BUT Federal Courts are more easygoing with Pro Se writings, minor errors in format and rules etc… And if a state attorney represented anyone, the challenge here would be if he was authorized to do so… i.e. an application filed for their service, defendant within the scope of employment… etc… if not.. it was fraud…

Check out the principles of the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine… first Amendment Rights… you may have further elements to build your case…

Void Judgments, move to vacate previous judgments for harmful errors, constitutional violations, fraud… etc… all forms and docs you need are on the court web sites.

Bill

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On December 21, 2000, I first wrote a letter to the New Jersey Supreme Court's Office of Attorney Ethics complaining about the Maynard & Truland law firm in Morristown, New Jersey and their attorney Robert Correale.   Maynard & Truland was a law firm that I retained to represent me in a Superior court case. We were four months into the contract, so I did not want to change the law firm; I just wanted Maynard & Truland and their attorney Robert Correale to act professionally. My complaints in the letter were Maynard & Truland's complete lack of professionalism, which included their gross negligence, their (Correale) overcharging me, their (Correale) false billing, their (Correale) inability to have me removed from a court default that they caused themselves and their (Correale) complete lack of communications. I no longer wanted to feel like I was fighting Maynard & Truland and their attorney Robert Correale, more than the real opposing parties.

I opened my letter to NJ Supreme Court's Office of Attorney Ethics explaining that I was a veteran from the Vietnam War and that I was disabled with PTSD, due to heavy combat from living and serving (24/7) in a Vietnamese peasant village. I added that I suffered from chronic pain resulting from a terrorist bomb blast that I received in the village. I highlighted how Maynard & Truland's lack of professionalism was greatly exacerbating my PTSD and chronic pain.   At the time, I was not looking for anything other than Maynard & Truland to represent me in a professional manner, yet understand I suffered from veterans disabilities. With the letter, I included a federal Veterans Affairs (VA) diagnose statement as well as VA medical progress reports, which clearly stated the impact Maynard & Truland ethics violations were having on my disabilities. I also supplied letters that I sent Maynard & Truland's attorneys begging them to act professionally. I supplied all this personal information in the hope the State of New Jersey would provide me with some reasonable disability accommodations and insure that the law firm acted professionally.
Six days later, the Secretary of District X Ethics Committee, Bonnie C. Frost wrote a return letter that stated, due to New Jersey Court rules, their office could not do anything to help me. She added I was free to get advice from another attorney.

Whether it was warranted or not, the Office of Attorney Ethics - District X's lack of support just added to the anxiety and even opened the door for Maynard & Truland to continue ongoing ethics violations. Their over-charging, false billing, negligence, lack of communications continued. At one point a Maynard & Truland attorney arrived unprepared at Superior Court for an arbitration, and I was forced to represent myself as their attorney sat quietly to my left.   I ended up getting charged over $600 for the attorney just sitting there. (Even this, he charged at the inflated rate.)

A little over two years later, when I refused to pay their open bill, Maynard & Truland attorneys brought me to Superior court for $1,700. I counter sued on the same docket for Legal Malpractice against the firm. During a break in the court proceedings, I learned that the Maynard & Truland attorney Robert Correale was the local Vice Chairman of New Jersey's Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics. He was himself responsible for bringing official ethics violations to New Jersey's Supreme Court for himself and his law firm, Maynard & Truland. This was the same Attorney Ethics Committee that I asked to support me two years before. (Major Conflict of Interest)

The detailed evidence, I supplied the Superior Court Judge Ronald Graves on the Open Bill/Legal Malpractice case that day was enough for the judge to decide against Vice-Chairman of Attorney Ethics Robert Correale and his law firm. Their open bill charges were dropped and the judge determined that my charges of legal malpractice warranted (merited) the Superior Court Law Division for damages.

When I brought the Legal Malpractice case to Superior Court Law Division, Judge Ronald Graves court transcript was missing and could not be typed. It actually disappeared. My Superior Court Law Division Legal Malpractice case against the Maynard & Truland law firm and Vice-Chairman of the New Jersey Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics Robert Correale was then thrown out of Superior Court for lack of merit. How convenient was this...

Vice-Chairman of Attorney Ethics Robert Correale and his fellow Maynard & Truland attorneys were later cleared by the Office of Attorney Ethics, when they swore to written Certifications to the New Jersey Supreme Court, which were filled with perjurious, misleading and vague statements.

This Superior Court transcript went missing in 2003. The State of New Jersey is still looking for it. Although, I have written numerous letters to the federal Department of Justice requesting they assist me in getting my Civil Rights and Due Process from the State of New Jersey, the Department of Justice insists this is a New Jersey issue and they refuse to help.   My years of certified letters to New Jersey governors, attorney generals, NJ federal senators, NJ court systems go unanswered.

In 2010, the Cover-Up still goes on...   Former Vice-Chairman Robert Correale, his former attorneys at Maynard & Truland and those politicians and state government officials, who protected them for almost ten years, stay above state and federals laws.

Currently, my State Senator Steven Oroho has been investigating this and has been since November 2008. I'm also trying to get my federal Congressman Scott Garrett involved in getting me my Due Rights and charging the State of New Jersey with denying me my civil rights for almost ten years and the violating the Americans with Disabilities Act for not giving me reasonable disability accommodations in the New Jersey Supreme and Supreme Court systems.
This still remains the biggest topic of my Veterans Affairs (VA) therapy sessions and the exacerbation of my PTSD and chronic pain continues.   But the one thing I know, I won't give up trying to get justice from the federal and state government.
I never want to see this happen again to another PTSD vet or regular citizen.

John "Jack" Cunningham
Proud Vietnam Veteran
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Jack Cunningham and his wife, Joan

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On March 11, 2008, my wife and I went to the F.B.I. office in Newark, New Jersey.

To be honest, I felt I was stonewalled by the two agents, who I spoke with from Public Corruption Squad 8.   The lead agent refused to review my evidence, unless I had original documents with me.   He told me I could have typed the documents myself.   Three of the documents were New Jersey Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Certifications, along with Maynard & Truland's Contract and Invoices). When I asked the federal agent, if it was a crime for me to make up false evidence and lie to F.B.I. agents, he didn’t answer me.



The discussion went down hill from there. However, I did get the two agents to review part of my evidence, including the part that they thought I may have typed myself   (The New Jersey Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Certifications, along with Maynard & Truland's Contract and Invoices).

      When I asked the lead F.B.I. agent, if my Civil Rights to Due Process were being violated, he said no.   I also asked, if the State of New Jersey should have given me "Reasonable Disability Accommodations" for my PTSD.   He just repeated that no federal laws were broken.

      Since the agents refused to review the New Jersey Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Certifications, along with Maynard & Truland's Contract and Invoices, because they were not the originals, I actually had to play make-believe.

      They looked through part of the Certifications of James Maynard & Robert Correale and compared it to the Maynard & Truland's Contract.   The F.B.I. agent admitted that all three contradicted each other when it came to the law firm's billing and Retainer paragraphs.   Without farther information, the agent said the Maynard & Truland contract was wrong.

      After the agent examined Robert Correale's certification pertaining to the day he first started work on my case and compared it to his law firm's invoice's start-work date, the agent brought up again that I may have typed the documents myself.

      What knocked me almost out of my chair was when the agent told me that Superior Court transcripts can get lost before they can be typed.    Just because Judge Ronald Graves' transcript went missing does not mean it is part of a Cover-Up.     Details at:   http://www.americans-working-together.com/id111.html



      In the end, I was told that my corruption charges against the State of New Jersey were for civil court in the State of New Jersey. Since no federal crimes were being broken by New Jersey State officials and politicians, I had to deal with the State of New Jersey. When I informed the agents that the New Jersey Governor’s office and his Attorney General’s office do not even answer my certified letters, I was again informed that they are not breaking any federal laws.

The center of my case are a corrupt law firm and Corrupt State Politicians, Judges & Officials. Press here for background details.

The below letter was sent to U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and a number of other U.S. senators and congressmen/congresswomen in September 2006. Senator John McCain was the only response I received. His letter stated that I must deal with my New Jersey federal senators.   Senator Robert Menendez and his staff have never answered this letter and have never placed anything in writing. ( Senator Robert Menendez phone:  202-224-4744 ) New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine continues to not answer my numerous letters to him.

    The federal Department of Justice, including the F.B.I., insist that I must deal with the State of New Jersey. The saga continues.

In Vietnam, Webmaster Jack Cunningham served (24/7) in a Vietnamese peasant-farming village.   At times, there were only four (4) Americans in a village of 2,000 homes.

Jack is holding his M-79 grenade launcher.   The weapon was nicknamed "The Blooper" because of the sound the weapon made, when it released a round.

Your "Due Process" under the law was violated. Perjury is also an issue which should not be over-looked.

Try communicating with the US Attorney and/or FBI.

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Having been a pretty good "street cop" for 35 years this December, I read carefully what you sent me.

If I was involved with this case and having the documentation that you and the courts have, I believe that I would approach a mid-ranking Officer in the police service in your area and inquire about "perjury" investigations.

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After spending 28 years in law enforcement, I've never seen such screw ups in my life.   Sounds like these lawyers had something going with friends in high New Jersey government places.

Theft of your constitutional rights and due process under the law, by deception.

Please contact Senator Robert Menendez (Information below) and demand that John "Jack" Cunningham get his Due Process from the federal government and the State of New Jersey.

Menendez, Robert- (D - NJ)
317 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
Web Form: menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

~~OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY'S OFFICE OF ATTORNEY ETHICS - VICE-CHAIRMAN ROBERT CORREALE

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UPDATE: FBI Agrees To Look Into My Corruption Charges Against The State of New Jersey http://www.americans-working-together.com/id519.html

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The below letter was sent to U.S. Senator Robert Menendez in May 2006, but he made no attempt to get the questions in the letter answered. He did his part in adding to this Cover-Up. This letter is just one of many different letters that were addressed to the listed politicians and New Jersey State Goverment officers. These questions were never addressed in verbal or written form by these parties.

Although this letter and a great deal of other evidence have been sent by certified mail to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and His appointed NJ Attorney General, both these government offices refuse to reply or respond to my phone calls.

Being the local Vice-Chairman of New Jersey's Supreme Court's Office of Attorney Ethics, Robert D. Correale, Esq. was able to do what he and his Law Firm of Maynard & Truland wanted. With all their friends and influence around the State of New Jersey, they were clearly above the law. At least, they were for the last 5 to 6 years.

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