State Bar Of Texas, Texas Government Ilene Smoger, Sen. Florence Shapiro, Governor Perry, Fraud, Insurance Fraud, Forgery, Embezzlement, Obstruction of Justice, Death of an Attorney Dallas, Austin, Houston Texas

See http://TexasBarWatch.US.

I couldn't find an obituary for Mr. Stone?

Thank you for the heads up. I will never use this law firm!

Thank you for the link. I will contact and try to find out if they only deal with that one case or if they are willing to take on more cases. I hope they can sue the State Bar of Texas as a class action suit because of the amount of people who've been defrauded by the State Bar of Texas. Bryan Stone died in August of 2000. His former partner Webb Joiner is alive and practicing law in Dallas, of course. Bryan Stone was the patsy and got shot in the head. The lawyer who should have been disbarred, and still needs to be disbarred, is Ilene Smoger of Smoger and Associates. Her law firm also has offices in Oakland, California. Avoid her like the plague. She already got away with insurance fraud; she knows she can get away with defrauding her clients.

After 13 years of "Deedee", (not using her real name I might add), writing about me I finally decided to respond. Ms. "Deedee" filed a grievence against me in 1997 and had a full hearing with the disciplinary committee of the State Bar of Texas. The investigatory panel of the Grievance Committee, having held a hearing in the matter, reached a decision as to the appropriate disposition of the matter. The panel found that I did not commit any professional misconduct as defined in the Code and the matter was dismissed. In 2004 she filed the same grievance again and it was dismissed again.

I would post the documents involed but pursuant to the letter from the State Bar of Texas in August of 1997 those documents must remain confidential and may not be disclosed unless ordered by the court.

I am sorry to respond to this but after so many years regarding the same issue, I think it is unfair keep this going after she had her hearing day.

Ilene J. Smoger

You claim you can't show the documents because of confidentiality terms?  Interesting.  I can show all the documents, and I'm doing just so.
First, the two insurance checks in question.  Notice that both of them have Ilene Smoger's signature on their back.  http://nojusticeintexas.blogspot.com
The first check has both my name and Ilene Smoger's.  It was from the insurance to cover my expenses with Smoger's chiropractors friends.  However, Ilene Smoger told me to endorse the check to the chiropractors.  The check was in the chiropractors' office.  Notice how she also endorsed the check to them and they cashed it.  Check was cashed by Moses Chiropractor.  That is fraud.  I was the one who was supposed to receive that money.  Ilene Smoger lied to me and partook in insurance fraud by doing so.  That is called professional malpractice and state jail felony.  She should have been disbarred for what she did and sent to jail.  The grievance hearing took place in 1997.  During the hearing, the investigative panel stated in clear terms she stole my money.  She left in tears.  Imagine my surprise and shock when I received the letter from the State Bar of Texas saying this crook didn't do anything wrong.  they destroyed the tape of the hearing and refuse to expain why they, the State Bar of Texas, decided to break the law to protect this dishonest attorney who should have been disbarred and sent to jail for her crimes.
The State Bar of Texas doesn't protect the public, it only protects dishonest attorneys.
Now look at the second insurance check.  Notice Ilene Smoger's name is there, too, even though I had fired her and she no longer represented me.  Since I wasn't going to endorse this check to anybody, the attorneys cashed it by forging my signature on its back.
Again, the State Bar of Texas didn't want to do anything about this.  I had to contact politicians to try to get my money.  After almost a year, I got a refund for the second check, but they still refuse to refund me the money Ilene Smoger defrauded me from the first insurance check.  The State Bar of Texas continues to refuse to explain why they won't discipline her, and why they decided she didn't do anything wrong when fraud is a serious crime.
I have more documents, I'll post them.  There’s nothing illegal with posting those documents.  The only thing that is illegal is for lawyers to defraud their clients and the isurance companies, and for the State Bar of Texas and politicians to protect those dishonest attorneys at the expense of the public.
Bryain Stone was shot in the head the day before he was going to say what he did with the money from the second insurance check, the one both him and Ilene Smoger cashed with my forged signature.
If the State Bar of Texas ever gets sued for racketeering, this case is a perfect example to show exactly what they do.
If you want to get defrauded by your attorney and lose a lot of money, hire Ilene Smoger.  She knows she can get away with committing serious crimes, courtesy of the State Bar of Texas.  Take a look at the checks.

Here are the pictures of the two insurance checks I was defrauded by the lawyers.  Notice that Ilene Smoger's name is on both checks, even though I had fired her and filed a grievance because she defrauded me of the first insurance check.
Take a look at the first check.  It was cashed by the chiropractor, F. Lee Moses.  He's Ilene Smoger's friend.  Ilene Smoger told me to endorse that check to the chiropractor to pay for his services.  She endorsed it as well.  That constitutes fraud.  That check was for me to pay for my expenses with the chiropractor.  The chiropractors alrady had double-billed both my health and car insurance for the same services.  I'll post those documents shortly.  For Ilene Smoger to tell me to endorse a check to the chiropractors when that check was meant for me it's fraud and professional malpractice.  Because this is an insurance check and her chiropractor friends double-billed the insurance companies, those are considered insurance fraud.  Because the amount is over $2,000, it's a state-jail felony and she should have gone to prison for up to a year.  Besides the fact that she should have been disbarred.  This is according to the law, and Texas law.  A lawyer who defrauds her client and commits insurance fraud gets disbarred and sent to jail, and the money gets refunded to the client.
Not so in Texas.
We had the grievance hearing, I brought all the documents showing she committed fraud and owed me money, and the panel agreed with me.  At any moment they said I was wrong or that Ilene Smoger didn't commit malpractice.  They were very clear when they stated she stole my money.  Ilene Smoger left the hearing in tears.  I was sure I would get my money and she would be disciplined.
Imagine my shock when I received a letter from the State Bar of Texas saying they decided she didn't do anything wrong.  I requested, in writing, a copy of the taped hearing.  They wrote back saying they had destroyed all the tapes.  I requested, in writing, the names of the members of the hearing panel.  The State Bar of Texas flatly refused to give me the names of the people that stated Ilene Smoger stole my money and committed professional malpractice.  I asked repeatedly why is that they decided that a lawyer who committed fraud, insurance fraud, professional malpractice and should be disbarred in accordance with the law didn't do anything wrong, and they said they don't have to explain to anybody the reasons for their decisions.  Oh, and that their decisions are final.
In plain English, it's called a cover-up.  The State Bar of Texas is way too corrupt to discipline a dishonest attorney.  They shouldn't be the nes in charge of discipline, because they don't do it.  The State Bar of Texas is a waste of tax-payers money.

Now, take a look at the second insurance check.  Notice how Ilene Smoger's name is also on that check, and also her signature on its back?  Since I wasn't going to endorse that check to anybody, they cashed that check with my forged signature on its back and kept all the money.
Bryan Stone was shot in the head the day before he was going to tell what he did with the money.  His body was found inside his parked car on a bad part of town.
Forgery is a crime, isn't it?  Well, not according to the State Bar of Texas.

I tried the Client's Security Fund to refund me the money for that check, but they refused.  By law they had to, because Bryan Stone was dead.  However, the check with my forged signature was cashed by Ilene Smoger as well, and the State Bar of Texas refuses to discipline her.  I had to contact politicians to try to get my money.  One of them wrote a letter to the State Bar of Texas on my behalf.  The State Bar of Texas wrote him a letter "advising" him that I'd already contacted Senator Florence Shapiro, wife of attorney Howard Shapiro.  The politician who wrote the letter on my behalf got scared.  The State Bar of Texas then wrote a letter saying that because my lawyer Bryan Stone had recently passed away, then they would refund me the money from that check, but nt from the first one Ilene Smoger defrauded me.  the thing is, by the time they finally refunded my the money from the second check, Bryan Stone had been dead for four years.
That's not "recently deceased" anywhere in the world.

The State Bar of Texas doesn't believe that attorneys who forge their clients' signatures on insurance checks and cashed them are doing anything wrong.

If anybody really wants to sue the State Bar of Texas for racketeering, please count me in.  Use this case as an example of what they do, and how they break the law to protect dishonest attorneys.

Ilene Smoger should have been disbarred in 1997.  She's been given a free ride by the State Bar of Texas.  I lost my money and my confidence in the system.  I know lawyers can get away with stealing from their own clients and nothing will happen to them.

Back when this started there were no websites to upload pictures of checks and other documents.  I'm so glad these websites exist now, so I can warn others about Ilene Smoger.  She didn't get disbarred only because the State Bar of Texas is too corrupt to discipline dishonest attorneys.  Look at the checks, read my story, ask questions to other lawyers, especially those outside of Texas.
Everybody will tell you she should have been disciplined and most likely disbarred.
She should have been disbarred.
And I should have received my money back.

Avoid her.  She's a crook, and so are those in charge of the State Bar of Texas.

To the State Bar of Texas:

1- Why did you decide NOT to discipline Ilene Smoger, even though what she did is Professional malpractice, serious crimes, fraud, insurance fraud, etc. and if you had followed the law you should have disbarred her, sent her to jail for up to a year, and refunded me the money she defrauded me?

2- Why did you decide to disregard what the hearing panel said?  During the hearing, they stated in clear and unequivocal terms that Ilene Smoger stole my money and she committed all the crimes I accused her of committing.  She left in tears.

3- Why did you decide to destroy the tapes of the hearing and refuse to provide me the names of the people in the hearing panel?  Those are the people who stated in clear and unequivocal terms that Ilene Smoger stole my money and committed the crimes I accused her of committing.

4- Why did you refuse to refund me the money I was defrauded from the second insurance check, the one the attorneys cashed by forging my signature?  Don't you know that forgery is a crime, and so is embezzlement?

5- Why were documents removed from my file from Bryan Stone's office after his death and before you gave me that file?  Did you really thought I wouldn't find copies of the cashed insurance check, the one that was cashed by forging my signature?

6- What is the purpose of the State Bar of Texas Disciplinary Board if you refuse to discipline attorneys who commit crimes and defraud their clients?

7- How do you expect the public to trust you if you are the first ones to break the law in order to protect dishonest attorneys?

8- When are you going to refund me the money from the insurance check Ilene Smoger defrauded me by telling me to endorse it to her chiropractor friends?  In today's money it's $3,000.  Don't pretend what she did is not fraud.  Everybody who takes a look at that check and sees that it was cashed by the chiropractor knows that's fraud.

I'll keep writing until I get answers for my questions and my money.  Make sure none of your answers say anything about confidentiality or that you don't have to explain why you decide what you decide, especially when your decisions are breaking the law.  That's what all criminals do.

I am Ilene J. Smoger.  DeeDee (Deedee Dallas, Texas, who is really Diana Shor Malach) filed a grievance with the State Bar of Texas against me over 10 years ago.  She had her day with the Grievance Committee and the Grievance Committe found that I never did anything wrong and the grievance was dismissed immediately.  Ms. Malach has been writing about me for over ten years.  This is the only grievance that has ever been filed against me.  I can not understand why she is continuing to write false accusations against me all which were found to be untrue.  To set the record straight, I never received any compensation from this client nor did I ever forge any signatures regarding her case.  Please feel free to call me to discuss this further if you have any questions regarding my integrity.  Ilene J. Smoger