Memphis Mayor Herenton Resigns; USDOJ Response to Neals Is Due

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MEMPHIS MAYOR WILLIE HERENTON announced today that he is resigning effective July 11.  The Neal family wonders if Mayor Herenton's resignation has anything to do with the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal in Shelby County Jail.  The lifelong mentally ill heart patient "disappeared" in mid-July 2003 and his family and social worker searched for him for nearly three weeks while police did nothing to help, but law enforcement denied repeatedly that Larry was incarcerated.  On August 1, 2003, 18 days later, Memphis police announced that Larry Neal was dead and that he had actually been arrested the entire period. 

Larry spent 20 years as an inpatient in Western State Mental Hospital until many such facilities were downsized or closed during the 1970's.  Since that time, Larry was arrested numerous times in Shelby County Jail for misdemeanors related to his schizophrenia, like disturbing the peace.  There was no doubt in the minds of Larry's family that his secret detainment was intentional.  One county employee had told a close relative of Larry's weeks before his "disappearance" that "people were getting sick of Larry."

Thanks to The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm contracting to represent Larry's survivors, Shelby County Jail was spared from public disclosure that the jail hid this lifelong mental patient from his social worker and family for weeks without his prescription psychiatric and heart drugs until Larry died of a heart attack.  The Cochran Firm only pretended to work on Larry Neal's wrongful death case while the law firm actually protected Shelby County Jail by doing no work on the case.  

After defrauding the Neals, the family's assigned Cochran Firm attorney, David McLaughlin, was selected as a 2006 Mid-South Super Lawyer. Only 5% of the lawyers in Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi are selected for this honor. Super Lawyers are chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. He is listed in a special December 2006 issue of Mid-South Super Lawyers Magazine, Memphis magazine, and on www.superlawyers.com.  See more about McLaughlin at this link:  http://www.cochranfirm.com/attorneys/dmclaughlin.html

Cochran Firm Managing Partner Julian Bolton was promoted to Treasurer of the Shelby County Commission and then to Chairman.  Bolton was apparently so certain there would be no media disclosure or any other repercussions from his firm’s fraud against the Neals that he even ran for Congress in 2006. 

It is a fact that mainstream media blocked out all news about the secret death of Larry Neal and The Cochran Firm's role as the Neal's fake lawyers.  Larry's family does not know whether mainstream media ignored news of The Cochran Firm's Atlanta office presenting in Georgia Superior Court that it did not exist under the identity used prolifically in advertising because media wanted to protect the Cochran Firm, government, or the media's adverstising revenue from carrying ads for the firm's 26 offices across America. 

The Cochran Firm and mainstream media may not have been aware of the import of citizens journalism. Thanks to independent online news companies like NowPublic.com, Care2 News Network, IndyMedia, OpEdNews, and Internet social networks, at least 100,000 people know about these events, despite constant interferrence by cyberstalkers.  Hopefully, each one will tell one.  Many of this writer's NowPublic articles are re-published on websites belonging to individuals the Neals never met.  Google "Cochran Firm Fraud."

On May 7, this writer, sister of Larry Neal, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the USDOJ, which was in overview of Shelby County Jail at the time of Larry's suffering and death in that facility.  A response to that Request is due this week.

The Memphis Flyer carried news of Herenton's resignation today, an excerpt of which is below.

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Memphis Flyer

Herenton Resigns, Effective July 11th
Jun 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM

http://www.memphisflyer.com/TheDailyBuzz/archives/2009/06/25/herenton-resigns-effective-july-11th

Mayor Willie Herenton said Thursday he is resigning as mayor after more than 17 years in office.







At a press conference in the Hall of Mayors in City Hall, Herenton, 69, confirmed what he said himself has been clear for a long time.


I lost my zeal," he said. "I'm the kind of guy, I got to climb mountains. This was getting routine."


Herenton framed his legacy as a child of wedlock, born in the public housing projects, who became school superintendent and, in 1991, the first elected black mayor of Memphis. He made it clear that his legacy will be the foundation of his campaign for the 9th Congressional District seat in 2010 in a race against incumbent congressman Steve Cohen.


In the meantime, he will join his son Rodney in business working with the private sector and government entities. He said he rejected pleas to remain as mayor while he campaigns for Congress because he feels that is wrong. He made only a brief reference to the ongoing federal investigation of his real estate dealings, calling himself "a victim" and saying reporters are obsessed with the story.

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This writer responded to the news report thusly:

More Shelby County Government officials need to resign. America is not Guantanamo. They should not have secretly arrested Larry Neal, a 54-year-old mentally ill heart patient who had been arrested in Shelby Co. Jail numerous times, then lied and pretended not to have him incarcerated for 18 days until he died without his vital heart and psychiatric meds on Aug. 1, 2003.

It is time to answer questions now about his murder, and maybe some more folks need to resign.  Equal justice and open disclosure, remember?

FOI Request to USDOJ re: Larry Neal and The Cochran Firm Fraud
http://my.nowpublic.com/health/foi-request…

If Shelby Co. Jail did more to kill Larry than hide him from his social worker and family while he died without his psychiatric and heart drugs, his family does not know. Like the Guantanamo detainees, Larry's family has been denied any excuse, explanation, full autopsy report, arrest records, and DENIED any investigation for almost six years.

Former County Commissioner Julian Bolton was managing partner of The Cochran Firm in Memphis, but Larry's mother and sister were not told that the law firm had that conflict of interest when the firm contracted to be our wrongful death attorneys on Aug. 8, the day following Larry Neal's funeral. The Cochran Firm proceeded to keep Larry's wrongful death case INACTIVE for the next 10.5 mo., until it was too late to find an honest attorney with no clandestine relationship with the jail. The County Commission owns and operates Shelby Co. Jail.

We sued The Cochran Firm twice for defrauding Larry's family to protect Shelby County Jail, but they managed to keep it out of mainstream news - planning what for the plaintiffs?

Google online for The Cochran Firm Fraud Videos 1 and 2 on YouTube.

The USDOJ and Larry's survivors communicated about his death after we discovered The Cochran Firm had done ZERO to represent our lawsuit against Shelby Co. Jail. But when Shelby Co. Jail applied for Release from federal overview regarding its Agreement reached in USA v. Shelby Co. Jail, the feds apparently allowed Shelby Co. officials to enter perjury into federal court by omitting Larry Neal's secret arrest and death. The Bush Admin. USDOJ did not protect prisoners' rights, as the world knows now.

The USDOJ reported that it never got ANY reports from Shelby Co. Jail about Larry, despite the fact that the jail was mandated to issue periodic reports to the feds under the terms of its lawsuit and inform the USDOJ about any inmate injuries or deaths. That means that any reports that Shelby Co. issued for Aug. and Sept. 2003 that omitted Larry Neal's secret Guantanamo-style arrest and death were FRAUDULENT.

Larry's survivors have sued The Cochran Firm twice for its fraud [since the firm substituted itself for the Neals' intended defendants]. But like Guantanamo, there is a cloak of secrecy around his death that is protected by higher-ups in responsible government postiions. We served the 1st lawsuit to The Cochran Firm's Atlanta office. It had no excuse for the firm writing Larry's mother and sister about work being done on their case while the law firm actually did nothing, so the firm simply denied it even existed in Georgia! The judge agreed and dismissed the Neal's lawsuit. Look online for the Atlanta office of The Cochran Firm.

Since they "did not exist in GA," Larry's family sued The Cochran Firm in USDC under the DIVERSITY RULE. Judge Tim Batten ruled that everything that law firm had done to protect Shelby Co. Jail from the Neals' lawsuit was "immaterial."

It may look like the higher-ups have it all covered-up.  I  have been chased, accosted at neighborhood stores, threatened online and in person. But after Duanna Johnson was executed, my 86-yr-old mom and I decided to stay home until Larry's death is fully resolved. [Duanna Johnson was the transgender woman who planned to sue Shelby County Jail after her brutal beating in its booking area was broadcast all over the world.  She was murdered on Nov. 9, 2008, a few weeks after the folks who came after Mary Neal did not get her at the Chevron station in Georgia.]  We live like Ann Frank in WWII Germany. Meanwhile, time is ticking down. The USDOJ must answer our FIOA Request on Shelby County Jail very soon, if it keeps to the timetable that President Obama mandated for responses. We will see what happens.

DON'T KILL MENTAL PATIENTS BECAUSE YOU ARE SICK OF THEM, POLICE.

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MARY'S COMMENTARY


What happened to Larry and his family's subsequent denial of due process of law and stalking events indicate that although Larry was a parinoid schizophrenic from early childhood, he was not nearly as sick as America's justice system and some of the people who work therein as police officers, lawyers, judges, and government officials.  Larry never would have done what these people apparently did.  Despite all of Larry's irrational thoughts and behavior, he was no sociopath. 

This writer spends up to 20 hours some days at her computer to ensure that having "arrangements" with State Bars, judges, and/or government officials will not mean that Larry Neal's death goes without due process of law unless the United States Government is ready to add a disclaimer to its Pledge of Allegiance clarifying that the "all" at the end of the pledge excludes mental patients and their families, especially if they are black. 

Although it is a tough sell in this age of prison profiteering, she works through her online organization, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, to try and get DOG JUSTICE for all of America's incarcerated mentally ill and engender support for their humane containment and treatment in mental hospitals or in Assisted Outpatient Treatment programs, depending on their offenses.  She has been joined in her efforts to decriminalize mental illness by 200 persons who care about the least of these, His brethren, and agree that psychiatric patients in America have endured enough homelessness, imprisonment, and death due to a common, treatable health condition. 

Just as Dorothea Dix delivered the mentally ill from cruel imprisonment in the 1800's, members of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill work to deliver the mentally ill from death by Taser or lethal force during lunacy arrests, being arrested for crimes when they had little or no understanding of their Miranda rights and could not contribute to their own defense - sick people who comprise 60% of America's 25,000 inmates who are tortured by solitary confinement with gas sprayed on them or deadly restraint chairs used for their control. 

If this online advocacy helps to change the perception of psychiatrically impaired persons and motivates the public to demand positive change in the living conditions of these suffering citizens and their families, then Larry Neal's death will not be in vain.  His elderly mother's tears over losing her "special" child and placing her trust in duplicitous attorneys who only sought to trick her will not be in vain.  This writer's endangerment and year of seclusion in her home for safety will have been wothwhile.

Over 800 people and organizations have joined the Neal family in requesting Dog Justice for Larry Neal on two petitions to the USDOJ.  Petitioners urge the DOJ to give this American with disabilities the same investigative effort that Michael Vick's pit bull dogs received when they were abused and killed.  View Current Signatures and read the comments on the open petition at this link:  http://www.petitiononline.com/Neal/petition-sign.html 


Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

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http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/sharebook/5…

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duo

God is able. 

Memphis mayor Herenton is resigning;

Lacey, the TN Bar president, resigned after he knowingly allowed David McLaughlin to enter perjury in defense of the Neal's complaint and dismissed our complaint without explanation;

Several Shelby Co. Commissioners went to jail on unrelated charges;

Julian Bolton left The Shelby Co. Commission and The Cochran Firm, then sued The Cochran Firm for FRAUD AGAINST HIM and lost;

DeKalb County's Police Chief Bolton was fired in Feb. for unrelated reasons after police ignored my 911 call in Sept.; and

The Cochran Firm is no longer on the list of 200 top firms.

The Lynching, by Mary Neal
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/lynching-mary-neal-wrongfuldeathoflarryneal-com

You go, God!  My judge is bigger than the Pharaohs' judges.  Some people call Him Big Bang.  I call Him Father.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. ~ Genesis 31:53

Happy is she that hath the God of Jacob for her help, whose hope is in the LORD her God. ~Psalm 146:5

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Spydermonkey

Please keep us updated on current events in Memphis !

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duo

Thank you, Spydermonkey.  I will keep reporting.  I honestly feel that if it were not for citizens media, I might not be here to report.  I was in some very threatening situations in 2008 before become a self-imposed prisoner.  But when police won't come when you call 911 and you are followed and waylaid in your neighborhood businesses, it is time to either hire bodyguards or stay home. 

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Someone asked me once if my family had contacted the various civil rights organizations about the atrocity of Larry's death and The Cochran Firm Fraud.  It may matter that Ben Hooks, who is a past president of the NAACP, had a nephew on the Shelby County Commission when Larry was secretly arrested until death.  I believe Hooks has a great-nephew on the Commission now.  One is in prison and the other one just got out.  I think they were connected with the Tennessee Waltz scandal described at this Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tennessee_Waltz

Another drawback is that many African Americans still think of The Cochran Firm as being Johnnie's firm, although he has been dead for years.  Johnnie Cochran partnered with an Alabama firm before death that likely supplied the financing for the firm's huge growth.  Before the OJ Simpson case, Johnnie Cochran had only one office in LA.  In case you wonder, I thought until my dealings with this law firm that O.J. Simpson's glove did not fit.  I always think folks are innocent, right?

An attorney who worked with the legendary attorney for 17 years gave an NPR interview when she was fired along with many other of Johnnie's employees after his demise.  You can hear Shawn Holley describe the changes in The Cochran Firm, which she sued for race discrimination, at this link:  www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=12171473
(The cyberstalker did not let me copy/paste that - I had to type it.  If he/she erases it, just Google "Shawn Holley NPR.")

I had several attorneys tell me that our case was so political that representing the Neals might negatively impact an attorney's future career choices if they decided to run for office some day.  Another lawyer said he did not think he could win a case that was so skewed that intervention by Georgia's Attorney General was required to force the GA Bar to just send us a complaint form.  Several law firms said that with the list of folks who did us wrong, it would be hard for attorneys practicing in this region to have no conflict of interest.  It is like our family has been gang raped.  That is how I wound up handling the lawsuits pro se

I had no idea what the attorneys meant until former attorney general Gonzales was indicted in Texas last November for taking kickbacks not to investigate inmate abuses in county jails.  I knew nothing about prison profiteering or even that mental patients were in prison instead of treatment nowadays.  We thought Larry was incarcerated because he fell through the safety net for acute mental patients and had no idea that 1.25 million other mentally ill people had already BROKEN the net, so there is none!  I believe most of my readers did not know that mental patients had become a business commodity in America until reading my research and that the country's TOP higher-ups own private prisons or are heavy investors.  That makes it hard to save mental patients from prison and get DNA tests or new trials for potentially innocent inmates.  Former Texas District Attorney Guerra gives details at his website at the "private prisons" tab:  http://juanangelguerra.com/

My brother surprised me as he drove me home from my television interview on May 14 by congratulating me on winning the case.  I reminded him that Judge Wendy Shoob threw us out of court saying there was no Cochran Firm in Georgia to sue  and that USDC Judge Timothy Batten had said everything The Cochran Firm did to us was "immaterial." 

My brother smiled at me and said, "That's what I mean.  If all they could do in the end was lie, then you won."

I smiled back at him and said, "Who says it ended?"  Fat ladies don't sing for free. 

I wish Memphis the best of luck finding a good mayor.

In the Spirit of Sojourner Truth,

Blessings!

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duo

Guess what the CENSORSHIP FORCE did?  They are so ridiculous.  They deleted my comment from Memphis Flyer and closed the Mayor Herenton article for comments.  See?

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It is pathetic for people to believe it is anything other than PATIENCE that allows them to keep Memphis ignorant of these illegal acts.  Larry has no less than 130 grownup close relatives in Memphis.  I went to high school and college there, and I have always been a friendly person. 

If broadcasting was the main objective, all such censorship would be useless except to add intrigue to the story.  We tell enough folks to hopefully be SAFE FROM SOCIOPATHS while we try to work out a reasonable SETTLEMENT in court that is fair and just for ONCE.

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duo

Guess what the Memphis Commercial Appeal did? 

It long ago deleted the articles from its online archives that have to do the federal hearings for  Shelby County Jail's Release from federal overview. 

GOOD THING I SAW THE ARTICLES WHILE I WAS AT WORK ONE NIGHT WHERE THERE WERE COPY MACHINES, FAX MACHINES AND EMAIL.  That is when I wrote the USDOJ this letter - while the hearings were underway in plenty of time for the USDOJ to see that the folks were omitting a DEATH.  Actually, I have the same technology at home like most people do.  See the letter here: 
http://www.wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/docs/ex11_%20usjdletter1andresponse1.pdf

(In case the cyberstalker stops the link from working, just go to wrongful death of larry neal and see the documents tab - select Exhibit 11)

Let me ask you something.  In your office, who keeps all of your records intact?  You, or your legal secretary?  That is what I am, only I am better prepared than your secretary ever was because I keep everything in triplicate and in different places with different people and ask that they do the same - give copies to people they trust.  You should know that from reading my emails at Yahoo.  And I learned from watching my favorite television lawyer shows to never ask a question unless you already have the answer.  Save lies from piling up on your eternal souls and be real.

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duo

And as far as knowing the government was involved, WE KNEW THAT THE MORNING AFTER DAVID McLAUGHLIN SENT HIS EMAIL CONFESSING HE HAD DONE NO WORK ON OUR CASE AFTER 10.5 MONTHS OF CONTRACT AND THAT LONG BLACK ON BLACK GOVERNMENT VEHICLE WITH 12 FEET LONG ANTENNAS JUTTING FROM THE HOOD AND TRUNK SAT IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING. 

We just did not know how the government figured in, but anyone who watches television or works with attorneys all day every day knows that no law firm risks its reputation doing something like was done to our family unless it feels like it has someone very powerful watching its back.  We did not know what exactly was going on in those early days, but anyone knows when things are highly unusual.  Attorneys don't usually stop communicating with clients who have a case worth millions. 

The problem with Pharaohs is that they equate humble economic means with stupidity.  Maybe some people are poorer than you because they are honest and their ancesters never owned slaves or got free land grants from the government.  Ever thought about that?

Or if what Shawn Holley said is true, maybe you think African American = stupid.  That may be what is meant by all of the "law firm for the common man" language that is in the early firm brochures.  Perhaps "common" translates "black and stupid."

I don't believe I ever worked with any law firm that would do something like this, period!  And then compound the offense with all of this STUFF that followed.  So who is stupid now?

Do you want to know what belongs on a television show for dumb criminals?  (Did you ever see that show?  They really had it on air.)  It was Cochran Firm attorney Angela Mason writing to USDC Judge Batten and telling him the COLOR of the vehicle that followed me most often even though I never told anyone the color.  Suppose Judge Batten had gotten sick and was not the judge hearing the case when that pleading was read?  Would all the judges have ignored that ADMISSION?

I am being real with you people because I figure stalking me in four vehicles and a USDOT truck means that you are already as teed off as possible.  That was a very evil and psychopathic thing to do, whoever did it.

NOW, UNLESS Y'ALL ARE READY TO GET THIS NEW WORLD ORDER ON THE ROAD AND PUT YOUR TRAINS WITH SHACKLES IN USE, YOU NEED TO START BEING MORE IN LINE WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND U.S. CODE, BECAUSE THE THINGS YOU ARE DOING ARE ILLEGAL, AND EVEN CATCHING ME AT THE CHEVRON WON'T IMPROVE YOUR OUTLOOK.  THAT HAS BEEN ADDRESSED ALREADY.

Do yourself a favor if you ever go into the restaurant business.  If a customer reports to you that there is a fly in her tea - just pay for her dinner and send her away happy.  You stand there arguing and trying to save $1.50 by not replacing her tea, and all your other customers will hear the dispute.  Pretty soon, YOU HAVE AN EMPTY RESTAURANT and you get to drink all your own contaminated tea - alone.

I am praying for God to bless y'all with some REASONING SKILLS.  Jurisprudence did not help you with that, obviously.

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duo

NowPublic, betcha that if I go to Yahoo right now, my email box would suddenly SHUT DOWN FOR MY OWN GOOD.  These people are getting predictable in their censorship.  I told you I could teach a class in it now, except I am tired of working. 

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duo

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I was going to wait and see if the Obama admn. planned to also help the Bush USDOJ cover-up Larry's murder in Shelby Co. Jail as The Cochran Firm and certain authorities seem intent on doing.  But then today, I read that Herenton may be resigning as mayor in order to run for CONGRESS!!!  I believe we have enough corrupt politicians in Congress.  We have Hastings there already with his H.R. 645.  We don't need a Congressman Herenton.  He can forget it.  Anyone who hides a murder is an accessory after the fact.  He needs to retire and go mountain-climbing as he said he would do.

These people need to recognize that Larry's death will be fully revealed.  Mainstream media can try to hide it, but it will not work.  It has not worked as well as they hoped, and it is up to Larry's family, and not the censorship force, when Larry's death gets full revelation. 

In the meanwhile, tell Herenton to forget Congress.  It won't happen.

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duo

Take a look at how the media tries to hide the Secret Arrest and Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.  This is the link to my comment which you see above in this article that posted at the Memphis Flyer.  The Memphis Flyer took the whole comment section down and closed it for future comments.  THAT IS SILLY.  All it takes is ONE video or other event to notify Memphis about their corrupt politicians.

Reaction to Herenton's Resignation | The Daily Buzz | Memphis FlyerReaction to Herenton's Resignation. Posted by John Branston on Thu, Jun 25, ... Mary Neal http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com ...
www.memphisflyer.com/.../reaction-to-herentons-resignation  - Cached - Similar

I commented today at the news of Herenton resigning at WREG News.  What the censorship force did to that comment was this:  They inserted a dash (-) in the word "news" so that the link would not take readers to the article.  See it for yourself below.

http://www.wreg.com/wreg-herenton-archive-graffiti,0,4170480,post.graffitiboard

How has Willie Herenton done as a mayor? What are his strong and weak areas?

From WREG.COM Memphis

  • Herenton's resignation made front page news at Care2 News Network this week with a likely reason that is generally censored in Memphis. www.care2.com/n-ews/member/51339-6753/1178009

    Mary Neal @ 2:52 PM CDT, Jun 27, 2009

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      This is the type of censorship that happens to protect the corrupt politicians in Memphis and those who were in Washington who helped them cover up Larry's death. Try posting the comment yourself and you will see.

      Folks who help cover up a murder are accessories after the fact. They are also guilty of the murder if they help to hide it. Not only do they need to resign, they should be sent to prison.

      These people who work so hard to censor news of Larry's death know that I am posting it on the Internet, and they know that it gets out to a limited degree anyway.

      That is why they planned to kill me, also.

      That is why they sent four vehicles and a US DOT truck after me last September 27. See my video about it at YouTube - Cochran Firm Fraud 1 and 2

      The judges kept our civil cases from going forward in court. Judge Shoob said there was no such thing as a GA office of The Cochran Firm

      Judge Batten of USDC said everything The Cochran Firm did to prevent our lawsuit against Shelby Co. Jail was "immaterial."

      Meanwhile, The Cochran Firm did not file any pleadings in the USDC case. during the entire six-month discovery period.  Then when I started staying home, they filed a flood of pleadings. 

      Maybe they thought initially it would not be necessary to participate in the court process. I was being stalked everywhere I went. Finally, I was waylayed at the Chevron station and called 911, and they likely arranged for the police to ignore me. No police came when all those men surrounded me.

      When I wrote about being followed everywhere I went, I had affidavits from others who witnessed it (I only go to very public places, because I know they are dangerous). Cochran Firm attorney Angela Mason wrote a pleading in USDC and said that law firm did not have a Caucasian man in a WHITE van hired to follow me.

      I never told anyone the COLOR of the vehicle. How did she know? Do they teach ESP in law schools?

      I wrote a pleading telling the Court that I never gave anyone the color of the vehicle, and there was only one way for that lawyer to know. Judge Batten ignored it.

      The authorities work together to suppress news of Larry's murder to protect the Bush USDOJ. That is also who The Cochran Firm was protecting when it took our case in order to let the time pass and do nothing  They still hope to suppress this news. That means to me that they still hope to get rid of my mom and me and any of our family that rises up and tells about Larry Neal's murder in Memphis Shelby Co. Jail.

      It is time to end their hopes of quiet containment.  

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      duo

      In case these Memphis politicians did not notice, the people  they trusted to protect them from exposure for the Secret Arrest and Wrongful Death of Larry Neal cannot even protect themselves from bad publicity.  Eventually, they will run out of judges to protect them from lawsuits, also.   Not that the judges in Neals v. The Cochran Firm case did that on purpose, you understand.  They were apparently just extra-gullible judges who were  unaware of how some lawyers lie like hell.  

      The Georgia judges we got probably never turned on a television with all those commercials advertising The Cochran Firm in Atlanta.  I was thinking somebody else was paying for the commercials to get that little Atlanta law firm in trouble, or something.  Really, it was quite shocking for Judge Shoob to dismiss our case saying the Cochran Firm had no Georgia office.  I thought -- what?  Someone must be playing a terrible and expensive game on those lawyers at 127 Peachtee St to buy commercials and say the firm is The Cochran Firm.

      Wonder why Judge Batten allowed Cox Enterprises, Inc. to IGNORE OUR FEDERAL SUBPOENA FOR THOSE ADVERTISING RECORDS? 

      I wanted to find out who was telling that lie on that firm in Atl. that claimed it was not a Cochran Firm office.  Somebody would have had to be spending lots of money to do such a thing.  But never mind now.  That law firm stopped telling that lie, and a week after Judge Batten dismissed our USDC case, The Cochran Firm did its own YouTube commercial for the Atlanta office.  You saw it, didn't you?

      QUESTION:  DO YOU THINK THE MEDIA CENSORS THIS NEWS BECAUSE THEY MAKE SO MUCH MONEY ON THOSE COCHRAN FIRM COMMERCIALS, OR DO YOU THINK THEY CESNOR LARRY'S DEATH OUT OF MAINSTREAM NEWS BECAUSE THE NEWSPAPER OWNERS ARE ALSO IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER?  Which explanation should I use in the book, since we really don't know?

      I sure hope they are not getting ready to crank out trains with shackles and widespread disease or have buided x-ray beams capable of shooting heart-stopping rays at folks, like Michael Jackson's conspiracy theory says.  Because if the NWO has all of that, I need to do like Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus and go into exile.

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      duo

      BIG SECRETS! (except the part that is in the Neals v. The Cochran Firm case on public record and available to all who get a free PACER account)

      IF ANY MEMPHIS READERS FIND YOUR WAY TO THIS ARTICLE, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT

      THE COCHRAN FIRM DENIED IT HAD A LAW OFFICE IN MEMPHIS ALSO - -

      IN FACT, IF YOU LOOK IT UP ON THE TENNESSEE SECRETARY OF STATE'S LIST OF TENNESSEE CORPORATIONS, IT IS/WAS REGISTERED AS AN "ASSUMED NAME."   I never saw anything like that before in my 15 years of doing searches of corporations with different Secretaries of State for different states.  I won't be surprised if that law firm really does turn out to be a HS agency - designed to keep up with blacks and Latinos.

      IF YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING REALLY STRANGE, THE COCHRAN FIRM WAS NOT REGISTERED IN GEORGIA AT ALL UNDER ANY NAME WHATSOEVER!  I always write about how that name the Atlanta office used in GA Sup. Ct. was not registered in Georgia - "Cochran Cherry Givens Smith & Sistrunk, P.C."  You can't be a P.C. without state registration, you know, but the GA Bar didn't have a problem with it!   If you are unemployed in Georgia, why not add "M.D." after your name and start treating patients tomorrow?

      THAT LAW FIRM WAS ALSO NOT LISTED WITH THE GEORGIA SEC. OF STATE'S OFFICE EVEN AS "THE COCHRAN FIRM."  NO LISTING!  DA, DUM!!!  Wonder how they pay their taxes -- or if they have to pay any?

      I checked at the Secretary of State's office, courthouse for a D/B/A, and I checked with the City of Atlanta -- no registration!  Yes, I have the certificate saying so.
       

      MUSIC, DRUM ROLL! 

      WHO IS THAT MASKED FIRM?
        Maybe that is why a USDOT truck was with the folks following me.  I may have uncovered a big secret - like folks in movies who stumble onto a big spy secret because they pick up the wrong suitcase at the airport.

      ON TOP OF THAT, GUESS WHAT? WHILE THE COCHRAN FIRM WAS IN USDC  SAYING THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A COCHRAN FIRM IN MEMPHIS, THEY HAD TO REIMBURSE MY MOM AND ME FOR SOMETHING BY COURT ORDER.  THE CHECK THE FIRM SENT US WAS DRAWN AGAINST THE ACCOUNT OF "THE COCHRAN FIRM - MEMPHIS OFFICE."

      SOME FOLKS JUST AREN'T GOOD AT PERJURY.  CRIMINALS NEED TO BE ATTENTIVE TO DETAILS.

      . . . not that it mattered much to Judge Timothy Batten, of USDC, Northern District of Georgia.  No matter how many times perjury was proved in our case, no matter that Angela Mason admitted to knowing the color of the van that followed me most often in violation of U.S. Code 18, 242 and 245, Judge Batten ruled it was all "immaterial."

      In fact, he ruled that everything The Cochran Firm did to trick my mom and me while the statute of limitations was running out on our case was "immaterial" to prevent our going to a jury trial.  

      I don't think it is only because Mr. Bush appointed Judge Batten to federal court, but some folks in my family think that.  Remember that the folks in Texas had trouble getting abuses in county jails investigated under the Bush Admin. USDOJ, too.  It was so bad there in Willacy Co. that the grand jury indicted Gonzales for prison profiteering - taking kickbacks to withhold USDOJ investigations.  Inmates  in Texas suffered. After the indictment, there was a prison uprising and that resulted in injuries and deaths.

      Do the blatant lies in Neals v. The Cochran Firm remind you of anyone?  I am more convinced than ever that all of the censorship was used to stall until folks could catch me out of the house - as though Larry does not have 130 other close relatives and about 100,000 others who know about his Guantanamo-style secret arrest and death in Shelby County Jail in Memphis in '03.  Better watch behind you.  Now YOU know, too.

      I THINK IT IS SHAMEFUL THE WAY THE COCHRAN FIRM TRICKED JUDGE SHOOB AND JUDGE BATTEN INTO THINKING THEY DID NOT HAVE A GEORGIA OFFICE.  MOST CHILDREN I TALKED TO ARGUED THAT THEY DID, BECAUSE KIDS LOOK AT SO MUCH TV AND THEIR COMMERCIALS WERE ON EVERY FIVE MINUTES TELLING FOLKS TO COME TO THE ATLANTA OFFICE OF THE COCHRAN FIRM.  BUT I SUPPOSE JUDGES DON'T GET TO LOOK AT MUCH TELEVISION.

      ALL THE LAWYERS AND JUDGES I WORKED WITH GO TO FUNCTIONS TOGETHER AND HAVE BALL TEAMS - BUT I GUESS IT WAS MY BAD LUCK THAT I GOT TWO JUDGES WHO DON'T MINGLE.

      AND I SUPPOSE THE SAME THING IS TRUE OF THAT LAW FIRM THAT DEFENDED THE COCHRAN FIRM AGAINST OUR LAWSUIT - CARLOCK, COPELAND, SEMLAR, & STAIR, LLP.  THEY MUST NOT GO TO BALL GAMES EITHER. 

      HOPEFULLY, CARLOCK COPELAND WOULD NOT DELIBERATELY PUT FORTH A LIE IN GEORGIA SUPERIOR COURT AND TURN AROUND AND PUT FORTH MORE LIES IN FEDERAL COURT.  Some regular working people who go to court would be incarcerated and/or fined for committing perjury in court.  Good thing the lawyers are what you call "upper crust."  The elite in America have special privilege and are very seldom held accountable for lawbreaking.

      If The Cochran Firm is a federal agent, I suppose other lawyers knew it already.  That is probably why we had to go pro se  on a breach of contract case I thought was open and shut.  Of course, although my mom and I paid USDC $350 to file a breach of contract case, The Cochran Firm and the court stopped calling it that last winter and started calling it a malpractice case, knowing that GA is a state that requires a lawyer's affidavit to file a malpractice lawsuit.  The Cocharn Firm certainly did all three, and all three were proved, but I want my $350 back.  Courts should not accept plaintiffs' money and then ignore [change] what they filed for and allow defendants to commit known perjury.

      LET ME ASK YOU ONE OTHER QUESTION -- HAVE YOU GOT GOOD TIRES ON YOUR CAR AND GOOD TRACK SHOES?  NOW THAT YOU READ THIS, YOU MIGHT NEED BOTH -- UNLESS YOU WANT TO LIVE TRAPPED AT HOME FOR KNOWING THESE THINGS LIKE MY 86-YEAR-OLD MOM AND I DO - AND HAVE CYBERSTALKERS FLASH PICTURES OF COFFINS ACROSS YOUR SCREEN AND CENSOR WHAT YOU WRITE ONLINE.  THAT'S THE PRICE OF HAVING AN INQUIRING MIND.

      I never thought this cover-up could last this long and through so many people, organizations, and government agencies being made aware of it.  I thought folks would apologize and repent and pay their damages.  If you had this much to hide, you would have done that, wouldn't you? 

      Sometimes I worry because the authorities don't seem to care about being discovered violating citizens' Constitutional rights or U.S. Code and state laws.  It seems that they think those laws don't matter - or won't be in effect for much longer.  That's why reading about Congressman Hastings putting forward a bill - H.R. 645 - for concentration camps in America alarmed me.  I wrote about the bill at this link:
      http://my.nowpublic.com/world/american-concentration-camps-proposed-congress-h-r-645

      We will know this week about the Obama USDOJ, won't we?  I am hopeful but not convinced that things have Changed.  When I called police about the cyberthreats to kidnap my family members, police promised to call me back and give me a report number, and they did not do that.  So we thought it was time to take advantage of President Obama's open disclosure laws improving government transparency and limiting the time government agencies have to respond to FIOA requests.  "Transparency in government" is a slogan connected with Obama's administration, yet the Neals' response to our FIOA is now overdue.  Furthermore, I got no response to my phone calls to the USDOJ in February and March.  The federal agency that can trace cyberterrorism did not respond to my request for assistance, either. 

      Our May 7 FIOA request asked the DOJ why in the world the agency had federal hearings to release Shelby County Jail from overview and allowed the jail to again omit reporting about Larry's secret death although the DOJ and I had corresponded about what happened to Larry in that "jail from hell" (a news reporter's description, and the reason the jail was investigated and sued by the USA, then placed under USDOJ overview). 

      The USDOJ wrote me back on May 28 saying my requests for records were referred to the two departments that have the records on jails the USA sued - the USDOJ Attorneys office and the Bureau of Prisons - and that they had 20 business days to respond.  Well now what do you think happened after that?  The USDOJ Attorneys office wrote me and asked where I think the DOJ attorneys should look for their own Memphis Shelby County Jail records!  I thought, "Oh oh.  What is up with these folks?" 

      DOJ attorneys certainly know where the Memphis Shelby County Jail is located - the Western District of Tennessee.  And they undoubtedly know where to look for their own records of federal lawsuits against jails.  What kind of new game is this that the Obama  and Holder DOJ is playing?

      It was a little discomforting for me to read that President Obama may be vacationing in Martha's Vineyard this summer and staying in the home of the Assistant Attorney General under the Bush administration.  Aren't some of those lawyers under that DOJ in trouble over treating the Guantanamo detainees the same way Shelby County Jail treated Larry - secretly arresting them and torturing or killing them?  Dozens of the detainees are still missing.  At least they gave us Larry's body to bury when they were done with him.

      Although the DOJ lawyers in Washington pretend not to know where to look for their own Memphis, TN records, the Bureau of Prisons did not write such a silly letter to me. Therefore, we look forward to finally getting some answers, according to the DOJ's own timeline, about Washington's part in the cover-up regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal, an American with disabilities who should have been protected, not murdered by our authorities. 

      I am sad to report that so far, our government has acted very Chinese about the wrongful death of Larry Neal.  "Missing" citizens coming up dead in government custody without explanation used to be something that did not happen in America.  Even in the 40's when they lynched black men, they would hang them in plain view so their families knew what happened to them. Those were the good old days.

      There was a time when Americans were not followed and waylaid by goverment vehicles like I was on Sept. 27, 2008, when my family had to save me at the Chevron station from four cars of men and a US DOT truck and DeKalb County police did not come help my six-year-old grandson and me. (See Cochran Firm Fraud 1 and 2 at YouTube.) 

      Now I suppose you realize why I always say we have a very criminal "justice" system.  This is also why I am concerned for the 2.3 million Americans who are incarcerated in these people's hands behind prison walls - especially sick citizens like my brother Larry was.  In my experience, the sociopaths were or are in charge, and inmates who are locked up for being mentally ill probably have more sense and a lot more decency. 

      We have two petitions for an investigation regarding Larry's death with over 800 signatures.  It is absurd to have to petition a government agency to do exactly what it is paid to do - protect the rights of institutionalized persons and the rights of Americans with disabilities.  It may be necessary to offer a reward for information on Larry.  Perhaps someone incarcerated when he was or a jail employee can be induced to give information about him - maybe even the DOJ officials might be moved to perform their job responsibilities.  Although Michael Vick's dogs did not pay for justice, Vick wound up broke, so there was definitely a transfer of wealth.

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      NowPublic, please check your security.  Cyberstalkers are preventing my comment.  The folks should have paid their damages instead of hiring all of these computer techs.  We'll have to give them another chance. 

      America will celebrate Independence Day this week.  I think it is time to qualify that "ALL" at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance, and the "WE" in the Cnonstitution.  Obviously, those terms do not apply to black families or to mentally handicapped Americans, who are in prison by the hundreds of thousands for being sick.  Maybe the terms refer only to Michael Vick's pit bullls and the country's healthy, white citizens.  Their deaths are reported and investigated.

      The week when the USDOJ response to our FIOA ends tomorrow.  They are overdue.  Mind you, this is the DOJ that is a part of the administration that has "equal justice" and "open disclosure" as campaign commitments and notable buzz words.  What's up?  Meaning no disrespect, I'll tell you something my Grandma always said:  It's time to pee or get off the pot.  The DOJ cannot protect criminals, even if they are supporters, best friends, or lovers.  To be in charge of law and order and fail to uphold the law is a WMD to your administration.  The lawlessness of the previous administration needs to be dealt with in open disclosure and equal justice applied.  There is disappointment that this is apparently not being done on several fronts.

      I recognize that my family did not donate $50,000 to the inaugural party like The Cochran Firm did, but don't hold it against us.  Perhaps if we had judges who recognized a law office just blocks from their courthouses, we could have.

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      Thanks for an interesting post.

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      Another classic example of people having rights on paper that are not actually recognized or enforced by those in positions of trust and power.  It is commonplace now.  When those in authority choose which laws to obey and which they will ignore, which citizens will be protected and which will not have protection under the law, and some citizens are denied due process of law after deaths of their loved ones, then laws become meaningless.  The legislative branch of government can draft fine laws that are fair and meant to apply equal justice and open government.  But unless the executive and judicial branches uphold those laws, they are essentially nullified.  That is what is happening in America.  The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and U.S. Code are arbitrarily applied; therefore, their power has been undermined and they are rendered meaningless.

      Today I left a message for the representative in the Bureau of Prisons who is charged with our FOIA request, and with the rep in the U.S. Attorneys office.  The DOJ wrote me saying that those two agencies have up to 20 days after May 28 to respond to my request for records.  That deadline passed a month ago.  How interesting that the Bureau of Prisons is over facilities that execute Americans for murder, but has difficulty answering a request for records about an American who was secretly arrested and died in government custody.  I wrote about it in my Care2 Sharebook, but today I discovered that my RSS feed from my Sharebook was deactivated three weeks ago.  All we discuss is decriminalizing mental illness, anti-death penalty advocacy, and ending police brutality.  Are those taboo subjects on Care2 - the network for people who CARE?   

      Mary Neal's Sharebook

      Thanks for your compliment.  We seem to have a good many criminals in government who seek to carry on their crimes in secrecy and are able to enlist help from others like themselves in other government offices, law offices, police departments, and the judiciary.  This is something they prefer to keep secret.  That is why I am censored and stalked.  Most people are aware of the criminal element in government but had hoped for CHANGE.  Just as you say, this whole affair is interesting. 

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