Study Treatment of Veterans diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder in judicial proceedings

JACK CUNNINGHAM VS. NEW JERSEY STATE CORRUPTION

Study Treatment of Veterans diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder in judicial proceedings

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Recently, John "Jack" Cunningham's New Jersey Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose presented a bill to establish a task force to study treatment of New Jersey's veterans diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder in judicial proceedings. Jack's State Senator Steven Oroho has proposed the same bill in the New Jersey Senate. The bill passed the Assembly Military Affairs and Veterans' Committee unanimously. Whether, this task force will study Jack's treatment in the New Jersey Supreme Court and Superior Court systems is still unknown. Please read the below details.

In New Jersey, the Supreme Court's Office of Attorney Ethics is responsible for investigating all attorney ethics violations. While serving on their local ethics committee, attorneys can also continue to practice law within their own district. These attorneys and their law firms carry some tremendous local and state-wide influence. Based on the way the system is currently set up, it is not hard that conflicts of interests can develop. Some years ago, John “Jack” Cunningham brought attorney ethics and legal malpractice charges against a law firm that once represented him during a Superior Court action. During the process, Jack Cunningham learned that one of the lawyers who represented him, Robert Correale, was also serving on the local, District X Attorney Ethics committee.

Cunningham's ethic allegations started with Robert Correale's and his law firm Maynard & Truland's gross negligence, over-charging per hour, false billing, lack of communications, coming to court unprepared and open perjury to the New Jersey Supreme Court and Superior Court systems. Evidence was the firm’s own contact, invoices, court-filed letters, court-filed documents, court-filed sworn statements and NJ Supreme Court attorney certifications.

Jack’s first step was to bring Maynard & Truland to Superior Court for legal malpractice. Robert Correale, who was an active member of the local, Supreme Court District X ethics committee, represented himself and his firm during this civil case. At the time of this court proceeding, the firm’s webpage, listed Correale as the vice-chairman of his attorney ethics committee. Being a disabled Vietnam veteran, living on veterans benefits and faced with the fact that no attorney wanted to represent him without a large, upfront retainer, Cunningham was forced to represent himself. Jack used the law firm's own contract, invoices, court filed documents, court filed letters as evidence.

Against the objections of Robert Correale, Judge Ronald Graves determined that Cunningham’s evidence warranted the Law Division for damages. When Jack brought the case to the Law Division, the court transcript from the earlier case went strangely missing. The Law Division case was later thrown out for lack of merit. Over the seven years since the court proceeding, Jack wrote numerous letters to Supreme Court and Superior Court judges, his New Jersey governors, his state’s attorney generals, but his letters went unanswered. Eventually, Jack's state senator's staff did an investigation and determined the transcript is still missing, but New Jersey’s Superior Court can do nothing about it. The state’s statute of limitations was now in play.

Jack did get some satisfaction, when he brought formal attorney ethics charges against Correale and Maynard & Truland. For months, the Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics insisted that Correale's own ethics committee carry out the investigation. After months and hundreds of letters, the Office of Attorney Ethics admitted to a conflict of interest.

Eventually, a lame investigation was done by a nearby Supreme Court committee. Correale and a fellow attorney were required to complete sworn certifications to District XI. The senior law partner supplied a cover letter. When Jack received the sworn certifications and the cover letter, he immediately wrote that they were filled with perjury, vague and misleading statements. For reasons still unknown today, within two weeks of Jack releasing his letters, Robert Correale resigned his Supreme Court Attorney Ethics position, 15 months before his term was scheduled to expire. Seven months after resigning his position, former New Jersey Supreme Court official Robert Correale and his law firm were cleared of all ethics allegations by the Office of Attorney Ethics.

The perjury-filled sworn certifications have never been addressed by state politicians, officials and judges. Nothing can be done about the missing Superior Court transcript and the statue of limitations are now in play.

All attempts by former client, veterans advocate, disabled Vietnam veteran Jack Cunningham to bring state and federal criminal charges against Robert Correale, his law firm and those in government, who have been protecting them, have failed.

In Vietnam, Jack Cunningham served in the Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP). It was small teams of Marines and Navy Corpsmen living 24/7 in peasant-farming villages. These Americans were taught that they could never surrender to the terrorists. During one of Jack's many combat actions, he was credited by his buddies to have saved three Marines' lives . With this same determination, Jack will not give up trying to bring New Jersey corrupt officials to criminal justice.

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Below is some evidence of perjury:

You don't have to be a lawyer to understand the below evidence.   However, corrupt lawyers and corrupt politicians and government officials, who support them, get confused...

(The following is just a small part of the evidence.)

Four of the major parts of the Maynard & Truland law firm's CONTRACT:     Date Signed, Agreed Upon Retainer, Attorney Fees and the CONTRACT's signatures.

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The Maynard & Truland retainer check hit against my checking account six (6) days after I handed it to Joe Truland on September 6, 2000.   My checking account's invoice is below.

Although my $750 retainer check was cashed immediately by the Law Firm, Maynard & Truland listed my payment date as Nov 1, 2000 on their Invoice.

Below the copy of my cancelled check is the first Invoice, the Maynard & Truland law firm sent me.

The Invoice notes my payment date is 11/1/2000. A month and a half after, the law firm cashed my check.   Also noted on the invoice is the law firm's Start-Work-Day of 11/14/2000.   This date was sixty-nine (69) days after the Contract was signed.

The invoice shows the amount per hour, I was being charged from the first hour. The invoice has $175 per hour, yet the law firm's Contract states $150 would be charged for each of the first ten (10) hours of work. The Contract adds that every hour after the first ten hours would be charged at the $175 rate. (See Contract Legal Fees paragraph above.)

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Below is my first complaint letter that I sent the Law Firm of MAYNARD & TRULAND.   The letter touches base on a number of Attorney Ethics Violations that the Law Firm had already committed.

Prior to my letter, I have added some of the New Jersey Rules of Attorney Conduct that the Law Firm had already violated.

Soon after my first letter was sent, the MAYNARD & TRULAND partners, without my authorization and knowledge, switched my attorney from Edward Busichio to Robert Correale.    At the time, although Robert Correale worked for the Maynard & Truland law firm as a general practice attorney, he was also the Vice-Chairman of New Jersey's Supreme Court Office of Attorney Ethics.   As you can probably guess, he carried tremendous power and influence (And still does) around the State of New Jersey.

Over two years later, the Maynard & Truland law firm finally admitted to receiving my above letter.    Representing his Law Firm to the New Jersey Supreme Court, Robert Correale, Esq. explained in his sworn statement, what he saw was the contents of my letter.

Although, my above letter to the law firm Maynard & Truland clearly highlighted my veterans PTSD disability and how much the firm's negligence and lacks of communications and diligence were aggravating my disability, Robert Correale choose not to mention them in his Supreme Court Certification...   Correale also choose NOT to mention that Joe Truland and Holly, the Office Manager received copies of the same letter.

Four months after I signed the MAYNARD & TRULAND Contact, I was still in Default due to the Law Firm's own negligence.

Robert Correale continued to over-charge and false-billed for his Law Firm of MAYNARD & TRULAND.   He even went on to commit other violations as well.

(ROBERT CORREALE WAS ALLOWED TO COMMIT ETHICS VIOLATIONS;   BESIDES WORKING FOR MAYNARD & TRULAND, ROBERT CORREALE WAS THE VICE-CHAIRMAN OF NEW JERSEY'S SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY ETHICS.

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For unknown reasons, 17 days after Robert Correale completed his above Certification to the New Jersey Supreme Court, he resigned his position from Attorney Ethics, 15 months prior to his scheduled expiration date.

After the Law Firm's divorce attorney negligence caused the father of two minor children to fall into Divorce Default; without permission of the veteran, the Firm's partners switched the vet's representation from their negligent divorce attorney to one of their general-practice attorneys. This general-practice attorney happened to be the local Vice-Chairman of New Jersey's Supreme Court Offfice of Attorney Ethics.

When general-practice, Vice-Chairman Robert Correale showed up for Divorce Arbitration at SUSSEX COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, he came unprepared. Whether this was one of his first divorce arbitration court sessions, it was unclear. However, it may have been his first by his reaction during arbitration.   He sat silently in his seat next to Jack Cunningham as Jack was forced to defend himself.

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A copy of the MAYNARD & TRULAND Law Firm's Invoice is below. Check how much Robert Correale, Esq. charged John "Jack" Cunningham for sitting quietly next to him during divorce arbritation.   The date of the arbritation was Feb. 14, 2001.

A segment of Robert Correale's Law Firm's Contract is also below. According to the Contract, Jack should have been charged $150 for the first ten (10) of representation. The Invoice clearly charges $175.

The list of ethic violations continued...

On 2/14/2001, Jack Cunningham was charged $612.50 for the work completed by general-practice attorney Robert Correale.    The Vice-Chairman of New Jersey Attorney Ethics probably listed his work that day as uncontested, because he spoke very little during the arbitration.

(For Jack Cunningham it was not uncontested. For Jack, the custody of his two minor children was at stake.)

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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
http://www.CapVeterans.com

ProudCapMarine@earthlink.net

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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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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