Per our telephone conversation, following is a narrative describing the suspicious circumstances relating to non-profit entity CaliforniaALL (FEIN Number 51-0656213), Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, United States Department of Justice's Tony West, Department of Housing and Urban Development's Ophelia Basg… Read full post »

As public service to the community, The Leslie Brodie Report publishes an ethics complaint YR submitted against John Keker, Jon Streeter and Chris Young, below:

Jayne Kim, Chief Trial Counsel
Office of the Chief Trial Counsel/Intake
State Bar of California
1149 South Hill Street
Los Angeles, Califor… Read full post »

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Barack Obama's man in Canberra was asked to relinquish his position as ambassador, sources seeking anonymity informed TLR.

Jeffrey L. Bleich, a Berkeley-based attorney, is a close personal friend of President Obama who served as founding member and co-chair of Obama's national finance committee in… Read full post »

 

CaliforniaALL-- Team Barack Obama (L-R) USDOJ's Tony West, Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, HUD's Ophelia Basgal, Judy Johnson… Read full post »

 

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Mr. Jeff Novitzky, an FDA agent better known as the government's "steroid cop.â€Â  Novitzky i… Read full post »

It now appears that RICO defendants Alan Rothenberg and Eric George (owners of Los Angeles-based 1st Century Bank) will be represented by the law-firm of Abelson & Herron in litigation filed against them and others in Orange County Superior Court.

Abelson & Herron sells itself as "a small firm with… Read full post »

A longtime champion of justice is gravely ill at a San Francisco hospital, The Leslie Brodie Report has learned.

Phil Kay, who has been clinging to life for the past month, is still on life support and is surrounded by family.

Kay, a well-known plaintiffs' attorney, gained famed for… Read full post »

The Elliott Building, 1530 J Street Sacramento, CA 95814. The building is owned by Mark Friedman of Fulcrum Properly Group.  Currently, the Elliott Building is occupied on separate floors by the offices of Howard Dickstein of Dickstein & Zerbi, Fulcrum Property's Mark Friedman, Arlen Opper, D… Read full post »

Howard Dickstein, a widely-known but controversial figure within California's Tribal Gambling industry, has been named a defendant in a suit seeking unspecified monetary damages. Also named as defendant is Dickstein's wife, Sacramento-based lobbyist Jeannine English.

The lawsuit alleges that Dicks… Read full post »

Using a law originally enacted to combat the mafia, a Marina Del Rey-based legal scholar recently took the rare step of suing "Bet Tzedek," a Los Angeles-based Jewish non-profit entity, under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law ("RICO").

Also named as part of the allege… Read full post »

 

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Mr. Jeff Novitzky, an FDA agent who has been called the government's "steroid cop.â€Â Â … Read full post »

California Governor Jerry Brown today announced the appointment of Judy Johnson to a judgeship in the Contra Costa County Superior Court.

Johnson, 63, of Rodeo, served as the executive director of the State Bar of California from 2000 to 2011 and previously served as chief trial counsel from 1994 to… Read full post »

Following on the heels of a controversial decision by the State Bar of California to admit into the practice of law an undocumented resident, a unanimous California Supreme Court ordered Wednesday the licensing agency to justify the decision.

According to The Recorder, a San Francisco-based legal p… Read full post »

Using a law originally enacted to combat the mafia, a Marina Del Rey-based legal scholar recently took the rare step of suing "Bet Tzedek," a Los Angeles-based Jewish non-profit entity, under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law ("RICO").

Also named as part of the allege… Read full post »

 

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Mr. Jeff Novitzky, an FDA agent who has been called the government's "steroid cop.â€Â Â … Read full post »

In our original report, below, we erroneously predicated that Pierce O'Donnell would spend his prison time in the cushy confines of The Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Lompoc, California – a low security facility housing male inmates located 175 miles northwest of Los Angeles. … Read full post »

Pierce O'Donnell, who pled guilty last fall to funneling illegal campaign contributions to former Sen. John Edwards, is expected to surrender today to the custody of The Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Pierce O'Donnell (image courtsey of ZUMA Press / Newscom)

O'Donnell is expected to spend his p… Read full post »

 

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Mr. Jeff Novitzky, an FDA agent who has been called the government's "steroid cop.â€Â Â … Read full post »

 

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Lance Armstrong, Andre Birotte, Tony West, Keker & Van Nest, Elliot Peters, John Keker, Jon Streeter, Angela Davis,… Read full post »

(L-R) Messrs. Gary MacDonald, Raoul Kennedy and  "Champion of Justice" Thomas Nolan (AKA Wayne Gretsky) of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.  As was stated by California Senate President "very little bar discipline reaches the big firms." (Image:courtesy photos)
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Pat Fong Kushida has changed her mind and decided she won't become president and chief executive of the Sacramento Metro Chamber, according to the Sacramento Business Journals.

Ms. Pat Fong Kushida CEO of Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce (Image:courtesy photo)

Kushida, a longt… Read full post »