Office Of The Chief Trial Counsel Enforcement California State Bar; CalBar; Russell G Weiner Interm Chief Trial Counsel CALBAR AKA MAFIA; AGAINST THE PUBLIC PROTECTING THEIR CRIMINAL MEMBERS NO MATTER WHAT! Los Angeles California

The California State Bar (CalBar) is responsible for their members’ behaviors, ethics and morals in respect to these attorneys practicing law. In other words, if their attorneys don’t perform and act responsible as Officers Of The Court they are disciplined and or disbarred. Well so their website claims; so the public believes and the media hides what is really true so I guess it’s my responsibility to show you, the people, what happened to me, which merely means it could happen to you next if it hasn’t already, unless there is a stop to it, starting with exposure! I’ve made it easier for you to check out the CalBar’s Professional Rules Of Conduct below with a link to them all. These change only slightly between state bars across the country and as the years pass, however they are basically covering clients’ rights and attorney’s responsibility and the really serious acts of moral turpitude never change. My attorney Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. violated almost every one of these rules; see for yourselves;

rules.calbar.ca.gov/Rules/RulesofProfessionalConduct.aspx

And here below is consumer information on how and when you should file a complaint with the CalBar

calbar.ca.gov/Attorneys/LawyerRegulation/FilingaComplaint.aspx

Below is my favorite; it’s the California State Bar mission; please compare what you read on these three links to what follows, which is my personal experience but I’m confident I’m merely one victim amidst thousands of others.

.calbar.ca.gov/portals/0/documents/reports/2009_Annual-Report-2008.pdf

I filed a complaint with the California State Bar on December 23, 2008 concerning Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. an Anaheim, California attorney who represented me in two lawsuits. The list of his moral turpitude and federal crimes listed below;

1)   He unethically recommended that I sell my $2,000,000.00 home to him, temporarily, for half it’s value as a protection from dooming foreclosure, like the next day; he would then return the home to me upon completion of my cases and quoted this in his Contingency Fee contract. What’s more he forged my signature on the Buy/Sell Agreement to make it appear that I sold the house to him just days BEFORE he became my attorney, unbeknownst to me until months later.

2)   Withheld pertinent documents of proof from the judge both in a Michigan trust case and an Idaho illegal foreclosure case.

3)   Filed the Michigan case in the wrong court; should have been probate court as it involved my trust being embezzled by my trustees and a number of financial institutions.

4)   Filed the Idaho illegal foreclosure case in the wrong state. This is very provable since the “personal” loan KeyBank was illegally using to foreclose on my “trust” owned property, with no loan against it, was drafted in Ann Arbor, Michigan. What’s more this personal loan wasn’t in default.

5)   Lied to me about the laws and from the way my cases turned out it appears Catanzarite filed my cases like this on purpose with an ulterior motive.

6)    He performed no depositions or interrogatories on either of my cases concerning millions of dollars in funds and real estate.

7)   He never subpoenaed my account statements from Paine Webber when he was representing me concerning my allegedly embezzled, extorted and laundered trust account which had an estimated value of 80M$s

8)   He dismissed defendants from these cases calling the actions great legal moves.

9)    His business website; catanzarite.com was found to be full of pages with untrue CV’s; this is advertising fraud.  Since August  2006, (when I faced him with questions about this) it has been removed but you can still access it at “Wayback” In fact he lied about having two CalBar Specialties which he no longer had, when I hired him, and it had been many years since he did.

10)                   He didn’t show up in court in Michigan for the trust case and the judge dismissed it.

11)                   He held a mandatory mediation for the KeyBank case BEFORE the judge ruled in my favor on a Summary Judgment and here he tried to settle with my giving him my three million dollar property, which KeyBank was illegally foreclosing upon; which he was representing me against? He claimed giving him my property would pay his costs, on his Contingency Fee unconscionable contract. Of course this was not a factor in his contract. It was his “shoot from the hip” idea for which he laughed as he suggested it! Not to mention he hadn’t at this point done more than maybe ten thousand dollars worth of work on my cases and the FRAUD he was committing pretty much canceled that out.

12)                  Catanzarite then unethically withdrew from representing me on both cases for no reason but because I refused to give him my Sun Valley, Idaho property worth $3,000,000.00; owned free and clear.

13)                   Catanzarite evicted my partner, Larry and I and our six dogs from my home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado after allegedly conspiring with Judge O’Hara on Route County Colorado to dismiss my day in court.

14)                   After withdrawing from my cases Catanzarite remained in contact with defense attorneys for KeyBank; huge ethical violation;; discussing the case and refused to turn my file over to my new attorneys claiming I owed him money when in fact he hadn’t used up his $45,000,000.00 retainer on my cases when he withdrew?

15)                   It’s ethically, morally and very dishonest business practice to have a contingency fee contract and charge a retainer plus costs, yet Catanzarite did this, which goes against the CaBar Professional Rules Of Conduct amidst all his other crimes and ethical violations.

16)                   At settlement with KeyBank, which was caused by Catanzarite allowing all discovery time to lapse Catanzarite, took almost every cent of my $650,000.00 settlement, calling these costs, after he had already taken my property with over $800,000.00 in equity in it. He also took, my share, of a piece of Sierra Nevada property which had been in my family for over sixty years and potentially valued, with improvements, $12,000,000.00, calling all this costs. I had no choice but to accept this as I had no vehicle, home or employment and was literally starving. Catanzarite actually caused our demise with his moral turpitude. I was confident the CalBar would in the end clear it all up by charging this criminal and ordering restitution; his crimes were so egregious!

Today my family and I are on our tenth year as homeless, penniless and unable to retain decent employment, mostly because of our ages in relationship to last being employed; we have always been self employed and all the unaddressed federal crimes that destroyed our lives and business also destroyed our fine credit. We have spent years selling our belongings in order to eat; lost five of our precious family of dogs; have no vehicle and we’re soon at retirement age. The public, in general, has no clue to how corrupt the law is, especially the California State Bar which is actually a Mafia protecting criminals, and so the criminal acts and ethics’ violations we the victims complain about come across, to them, as if there weren’t any and therefore the victims are “nuts” hence we the victims often lose our families and friends as we struggle to survive in less than poverty level. My case has produced exactly this.

The fault now, besides upon Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. belongs to the California State Bar for refusing to charge this criminal.

Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. practices law all over the country; he belongs to many state bars, or did when I was his client. He was in bad standing with most of them, unbeknownst to me at that time, (2005-2007) and while I was in Colorado as his client he represented me in Colorado, while he was suspended from the Colorado State Bar? He was charged by the CalBar in 1998 for something bad; they not only won’t share with the public what this was but have hidden the case so you’d have to be an expert at the CalBar website to find it.  Instead, he’s considered an attorney with no disciplinary actions? Please look up his charge in 1998 on the CalBar “Court Dockets". Most in the public don’t look here because these attorneys listings on the bar often won’t mention ethical and criminal acts.

The CalBar does not hold these criminals, they call attorneys or Officers Of The Court, to any ethical standard; in fac, it is my experience, that these attorneys break more serious laws than the worst criminal in the general public while the state bars protect them. And, there are no Professional Rules Of Conduct being adheared to. Look at the list above. The CalBar refuses to even think of charging this criminal while our lives are destroyed; I would go as far as accuse him of our murders; if things don't change soon, we will die in the streets.