All Episodes

January 18, 2025 33 mins
Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice. 
Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight hundred five to zero one five three four. Eight
hundred five to zero one five three four is the
number two call.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
And that is of course.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
For your marginal legal questions, and I give you marginal
legal advice.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is handle on the law where I give.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You marginal legal advice for your marginal legal questions and
tell you have absolutely no case. Now new president is
kicked in, and it's absolutely fascinating as to what Donald
Trump is going to do.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
During the course of the campaign, a couple of things
that just happened after the election. One is that the
president wants to take back to Panama Canal, just take
it back.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
He wants to buy Greenland.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now, you wonder, okay, and there are some national security
issues involved. We really do need Greenland, although Greenland is
certainly an ally, and then there's mineral rights.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
There's a lot of.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Natural resources, so it'd be good for the United States
to have Greenland. Unfortunately, it is independent and part of Denmark,
which is an ally. So in light of that, okay,
let me let me go into a more local story,
and that's Iowa. Now, there are parts of Iowa that

(01:27):
are on the border of Minnesota that actually would do
better if they.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Were in Iowa.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, So you have a Republican senator who wants to
buy nine Minnesota counties and make them part of Iowa,
straight out by them.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Here's a check, or maybe they mortgage them. I don't know.
And you go, wait a minute. And his argument is
his name is Mike lot or A or however pronounce.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
It, proposes a built at the Land investment XO expo.
And he comes up and he posts on X make
Minnesota Iowa again. Our new Iowan's former Minnesota residents will
have lower income, lower sales business taxes, a more farm

(02:21):
friendly state, a better managed state.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
All right, Even if that argument.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Is true, I have never heard of a state buying
another state's land or counties or cities. So that's kind
of interesting. You know, this is we're in for interesting
four years. I have to tell you where we're going
to maybe invade Panama?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know, how do you take back Panama? Here?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
We want it back without invading Panama? What if Greenland
says it's we're not for sale, what do you do?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
And the President was asked, would you invade Greenland?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh that's not off the table. You wouldn't commit to
not invading. So I mean, just the bills that are
introduced are so insane.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Is any of this going to happen? Of course not.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
But one of the things about President Trump is his
philosophy of you shoot for the moon, you make ridiculous,
you put a ridiculous position as a negotiating ployee, and
you know what seems to work because when he talked
about twenty five percent tariffs, sixty percent tariffs against Canada

(03:37):
across the board, Canada caved instantly. The caved, Well, let's
make this workout whatever you want. And that's based on
an insane premise. All right, Let's go ahead.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
And phone calls, phone calls, phone calls. Carol, Hi, Carol.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hi.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yesterday somebody called me and asked me if I were me,
and I said yes, And subsequently they also wheedled my
birthday out of me. And now I'm afraid that I'm
put myself up for a sm and I need to

(04:24):
know how to Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Maybe, but all they got was your birth date, which, Carol,
if I had your name, I can figure out who
you are because I know approximately where you live.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know, a city or estate, because that's out there.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I certainly have your phone number because I just called you,
and so all right, So let's say you have a name,
and I have an idea which county you were born in,
and I go to that county, I pull birth records,
and therefore now you have a date there.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
You know. I think you're okay because he didn't give
them all the information, but they're gonna have it.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
They have it anyway, Carol. They have my information, they
have your information. And all you can do is make
sure you don't give anybody who calls you any information
on the phone, because legitimate people asking for information will
not call you unless you know they're calling you.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I just got a call from the bank.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
I just did something on a docu serve and I'm
a LifeLock, I'm a member of LifeLock. I'm a customer,
and they immediately contacted me and on text.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
But all they said is yes or no? Did you
apply for this? Yes or no?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Just confirm same thing with bank transfers. My bank will
ask me if it's a substantial transfer. Bottom line, Carol,
is you're okay. I don't think you were any more
danger than you were before the phone call.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
But it's a lesson. Or let me go the other way.
Do you have a house. Do you own a house?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, it's gone, yeah, because they have your phone number,
you're going to be living in a dumpster.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay. Do you have a car?

Speaker 6 (06:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Okay, good, so they can't get your car. Do you
have any money in the bank? Lots? Okay. Come Monday morning,
if you check, you won't have any money left.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
They've taken at all. Just kidding you, Carol, don't worry
about it. Okay, You're going to be fine. You know,
if Carol, you see, I told her, just kidding Now,
if Carol was not one hundred and forty years old,
I would have gone right to the edge on that one.
But you know, today I have a heart. I mean,

(06:38):
can you imagine I actually have a heart?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
All right?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Talking about having a heart and caring about people who
live in chronic pain. And the reason I care is
I happen to live with someone who lives in serious
chronic pain. And she has a podcast about pain. It's
called The Pain Game podcast, and it's about people who

(07:02):
deal with treated people that live in pain all day long.
And she has pain all day long and deals with
it and heroically, and every episode ends with a message
of hope. I would do it differently, but she does
it in terms of there's hope for you, hope for
the people you.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Know and love.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
So listen to the Pain Game podcast wherever you listen
to podcasts, the Pain Game Podcast. All right, let's get
through more handle on the law phone.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Calls here Susan and Hello Susan. Hi Bill, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
There's always a pleasure listening to you. So I have
a question.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Please that right, okay?

Speaker 6 (07:43):
I have an established s corporation for over ten years
and also a revoke google trust. So originally my husband
and I were going to put all the three problems
we own into the corporation, but it ended up putting
them into the trust. But for years the accountants filed

(08:05):
our income tax as if the properties were in the corporation.
And now I wish to dissolve the corporation. So I
want to know why are there ramestications of doing this?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
There are none.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
You can dissolve the corporation easily, and that's for one thing.
And you can taste take whatever property that you transferred
into the trust since it is revocable, and change the
trust completely.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
So you've got complete power across the board.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
So there really are any ramifications into whatever tax ramifications
there are, you're changing it from the property owned by
a business to a property owned.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
By a trust or not a trust, or goes back
in your name. I think it really doesn't matter. And
you want to ask your account if you own everything.
If you own everything, you're fine. There's not a problem
at all on that one, Laurie, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
This is a difficult question.

Speaker 8 (09:04):
That has to do with the community of a judge
who's not on the bench, and the judge does not
wear a black.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Robe, that doesn't matter.

Speaker 8 (09:13):
Okay, okay, Well, if you have proof that a judge
is committing criminal acts that are not part of the
scope of their employment as a judge, tacking into websites,
you know, can you see them for damages?

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Sure?

Speaker 9 (09:28):
In state?

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Sure?

Speaker 8 (09:31):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Immunity that a judge has that the bench has does
not include a judge committing crimes. That judge is held
to whatever criminal acts as an individual, So that's not
a problem.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Now did this happen to you?

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, so the stake court or federal doesn't really matter.
But let me ask.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
What were you in front of the judge for and
what did the judge do?

Speaker 8 (10:00):
Then this judge was never my judge.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Okay, just a judge. All right, all right? What kind
of criminal acts did the judge do?

Speaker 8 (10:09):
Posting phony websites about me under my name, tacking into
the online computer system changing.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and uh okay, so yeah, you've
got criminal acts.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Going on in his mind. Have you been damaged? Have
you been damaged? How have you been damaged?

Speaker 8 (10:28):
Well, in my personal life, my professional life has been
ruined by your.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, how is your professional life.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
You've lost you've lost clients, you've lost business. Yes, you
can prove that that's a lawsuit, Yes, that is a lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
But the answer is yeah yeah, so yeah, so we'll
hire a lawyer and go for it. Yeah, judges are
not immune.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
What if a judge commits murder, Well I've got immunity,
that's uh.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I can do that. Or rob a bank, Well I'm
allowed to do that because I'm a judge. Now, doesn't
matter the judges in a black robe or not.

Speaker 6 (11:03):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh okay, alex Hi, alex.

Speaker 10 (11:11):
Hi Bill, Me and my girlfriend are big fan, So
thank you, thanks for all you do. Sure, yeah, yeah,
so my I was involved in the Eton fire, I
had an apartment. It didn't burn down, but it was
in the immediate evacuation zone. Our our unit now is
deemed safe to you know, go back.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
The evacuation order was dropped.

Speaker 10 (11:34):
But we don't have any running, We don't have any electricity,
and the gas isn't on yet. I contacted our landlord,
the management company, to see if we're still if we
can get the rent pro rated for the amount that
we were you know, displaced and like evacuated, and they

(11:54):
said that, they said that we're still going to have
to pay the full rent.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
There isn't going to be any credits because okay.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
You're talking about the management company said that, all right,
So how long? So how long it has a place
been uninhabitable that you couldn't get in at all? And
now how long is it you're allowed in but you
have no gas, you have no electricity.

Speaker 10 (12:15):
It was uninhabitable I want to say, probably for like
five days.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Or okay, and how long okay, then you move back in,
and how long is it that you don't have gas
or electricity? How long have you been in there? The
seven Okay, so you've got you've.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Got a few weeks now is the landlord supposed to
collect rent?

Speaker 2 (12:36):
No, because you can't live there, all right.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
So with that being said, the law says that the
landlord isn't collecting or cannot collect rent. And if you
stop paying the rent, then the landlord may end up
filing a three day notice to pay rent or quit.
The landlord will not win. You will win the case.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Now, let's get practical for a moment. If, per chance,
one in one hundred, the landlord does win, and now you.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Are evicted, and the landlord is going to be able
to get three times as much rent for the property
or more rent. I mean, there's certain you know, the
state says no more than ten percent because that's price gouging.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
But how long does that continue on? I don't know.
So how much are you paying in rent?

Speaker 3 (13:29):
It's nineteen hundred, all.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Right, And let's say you're out for three weeks okay,
before it comes back to your normal. So now effectively
you're only within one week's one week out of nineteen
hundred wherever that is six hundred bucks. Do you have
any place to go?

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (13:50):
Right now, I'm staying with the family, kind of just couching.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, Now, let me ask you this.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
If you don't have an apartment, you're not going to
get one, not in the Eating fire area, not in
the Palisades fire area.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
And then you have to just.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Figure out a practical approach. And let's say you win,
which you will, Okay, you will prevail. Now you have
a landlord that hates you and wants you out.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, that's now, that's the practical.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Do you suck it up and pay twelve hundred bucks
in rent, especially when it's not costing you any money
because you're living with family legally, I'm telling you you're
on solid ground practically speaking.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
What do you do exactly? Yeah, so that is so
it's uh, yeah, you're gonna win. But you know, winning
may not be the best thing in the world either.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Either way, you're screwed, you know. Yeah, yeah, either way.
But you know, the good news is you have your place.
You kept all of your belongings. You're not out there
scrambling for a place to live.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Some people homeless, some people living in shelters. I mean
people who have money who had never live in a shelter.
I mean it was a disaster. So there is the answer.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
All right, let me tell you a little bit about
LifeLock and stolen identities. Last few months, two point seven
billion records were stolen by cyber hackers from a company
you've never heard of, National Public Data. It provides background
checks to employers and other entities and records we're stolen online.

(15:27):
We are so vulnerable to how our online identity is.
We have zero control over how well are identity is
protected by third party companies like National Public Data.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Two point seven billion records.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
So let me suggest a way to protect yourself is
with LifeLock. LifeLock monitors millions of data points a second
for risks to your online identity. It detects alerts you
to potential identity threats you may not spot on your own.
I just had to do a docu serve with my bank,
and literally within seconds of that docu serve going through LifeLock,

(16:04):
contacted me.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Is this yours? That's what LifeLock does, and if they.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Spot a problem, well you immediately they get in touch
with you. If you become a victim of identity theft,
they will fix it guaranteed or your money back. Certain
terms apply. So protect yourself with LifeLock. Join save up
to forty percent off your first year.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Sorry with handle as your promo code go to eight
hundred Alisia. Hello Alisia, Hi Bill.

Speaker 9 (16:37):
I have a question about my father and his wife
sold a property and kept the proceeds from the sale
of the house, and he didn't tell the adult executor
or the beneficiaries of the home.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Okay, I don't understand. Was the home and a trust?

Speaker 9 (17:00):
Its all right?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who is the trustee? Is it your dad?

Speaker 9 (17:07):
Well, they were both listed as the trustees. Because this
is not the first marriage.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
For them, it doesn't matter. I just asked, was the
property in the trust's name?

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (17:22):
And what kind of power did they have under the trust?
Could they sell it and keep the money?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Or who?

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Let me ask you, who's the beneficiaries under the trust?
If they both die?

Speaker 9 (17:33):
Well, he had his beneficiaries listed as his children. She
had her beneficiaries listed as her children.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, So the property should go to the kids if
one dies. Well, if one dies depends on how the
property is held. But so they sold the property and
kept the money and you're one of the beneficiaries, yes, okay,
in violation the trust instrument, I'm assuming right?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay? How much money do they keep and how much
do they sell it for Alicia.

Speaker 9 (18:09):
About seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars?

Speaker 6 (18:12):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
How much money do they put in their pocket?

Speaker 9 (18:16):
Not sure the house was paid for?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Then they put seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars
in their pocket because it was one hundred percent equity, right, yeah,
I would you know the particulars. Since I don't do
trust in a state, it's certainly worth calling a trust
in a state lawyer that there's enough money there that
the beneficiary is under the trust. What he what he
and his wife did, is violate the terms of the

(18:40):
trust and kept money when they shouldn't have.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Or if the money.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Is if the if the property is sold and the
money is put into the trust as opposed to them
taking it personally, that they're.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Allowed to do if the trust allows them to do it.
Do you have a copy? Have you seen the trust?

Speaker 9 (19:04):
I have?

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (19:04):
Okay, and say that specifically.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Okay, Well, it may allow them to do it, which
is why you want to talk to a trust and
a state lawyer and.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Show the lawyer the trust. Hey, here you go, and
here's what happened, and you'll get the answer pretty quickly
and you may you may have a case.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
And uh, I don't know, Kelly, how unusual.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't know. Hello, Kelly, welcome, Hi Bill.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
I am the lead plaintiff in a privacy case against
a hospital for basically selling information from the hospital's websites
to Facebook and Twitter and Meta and all these different things.
So my question is that is where my medical group
is through that hospital as the lead plaintiff who's getting

(19:51):
sued by, you know, a big law firm for big
money because it's a big hospital, would they say, oh,
you can't use us anymore so I lose my doctors
and my meta full group and all the things that.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Okay, well, let me ask this. Do you have insurance
through that hospital? Do you have private insurance? Or they
just say we don't want you as a patient.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
No, I have private insurance.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
They just say we don't want we don't want you
as a patient.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Okay, yeah, that's what they're saying, we don't.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Want you as a patient. I mean they have the
right to say no to any patient. That's not a problem, however,
because they're being sued.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I don't know. You didn't do anything wrong, you didn't.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Act out, So I don't think they would say. No,
I don't think they would. It would just the optics
of it are horrible, and there may be some liability
on that part. If they bounce you just for having
filed a lawsuit, you using your legal rights.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
So as far as I'm concerned, I don't think so.
But then again, do I practice that kind of law?
Of course? How does that work? Greg? Hello? Greg? Welcome?

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (21:03):
Sorry?

Speaker 11 (21:05):
Oh yeah, hello?

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 11 (21:09):
I am sixty five years old, officially certified handicap. I
have pauline neuropathy and the back issue post lamb of
acamy syndrome. Anyways, I decided to go to a get
a pedicure here like thirteen months ago, and then over
roughly an eighteen nineteen month period, I went maybe ninety

(21:31):
ten times, and my feet to be bleeding every once
in a while. One time I got home, I felt
felt pain. Later that night I looked and saw that
it looked like you sugar grind into it. Anyways, take
a long story short, I got infected and I had
to go December first to the prompt Care. I put

(21:56):
on antibiotics. I had to soak my feet three times day,
and it's just starting to get better.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
Okay, and you have a case.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
There, you have a case, all right.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
First of all, my first question is are you straight?
Just a curious question.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
You mean my gay?

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Oh well, no, okay, because I've never I've never seen
a straight man have a pedicure in my life.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
You know that, don't you. That's for starting then you
can't know if you get pedicures. You can't know. If
you get pedicures, you can't be straight. I'm sorry, I
mean I think that's it.

Speaker 11 (22:39):
Even tried to hook me up with some girlfriends.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Oh okay, and you're and you're the pedicare the pedicares
the manicures? Tried to hook you up with a girlfriends?

Speaker 11 (22:49):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Do you speak Vietnamese?

Speaker 11 (22:52):
I'm I'm telling to okay, all right, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Uh, this is a little bit problematic for you.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
You because as it gets infected, as it hurts, you
could put on antibiotics yourself. And you've got to connect
the what they did to the infection, which isn't hard
to do. And how long we talk about it got infected?
How serious and infection? Because you're doing fine now or

(23:20):
starting to heal, how long were you not healed?

Speaker 4 (23:23):
I got bill?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
All right, well, you know what, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
If you have a case.

Speaker 11 (23:28):
It's one of those things.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Sure, yeah, hold on, I understand it's one of those
things where there may be negligence and they this cause injury.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Don't know. But even if they did, are the damages
strong enough for a lawyer to pick it up?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Let me suggest go to handle on the law dot com.
And these are personal injury lawyers and they would handle
this sort of thing, and.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
They'll they'll tell you and they're very good.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
They're very honest. They're very honest about saying, now you
don't have a case.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I know them. And so go to handle on the
law dot com and just just see where you go there.
All right? If you notice what he sure insisted that
he was straight a lot, didn't he? I mean, he
was adamant. Now protests too much? You got that.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
I want to tell you a little bit about pain.
If you hurt or you know someone who hurts and
hurts all the time, chronic pain, let me suggest listening
to the Pain Game podcast. The Pain Game podcast is
about people living in pain or those that have trauma
that cause pain, and the guests have lived with, dealt with,

(24:36):
treated these people and the host, Lindsay Soprano, deals with
chronic pain twenty four to seven.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
I've known her for seven years now and.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
She has this hell of a pain Game podcast, this podcast,
and every episode ends with a message of hope.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Now I would tell you your life is over, just
suck it up. She doesn't.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
She actually gives a lot of hope and really does
a lot of help.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Season three is about to happen, So listen to The
Pain Game Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, The Pain
Game Podcast. Jacob, you've been up there for a bit.
Hello Jacob, Welcome.

Speaker 11 (25:15):
Hey Bill, how are you horrible?

Speaker 2 (25:18):
But let's go on with your question.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Okay, I was injured while working for the County of
Los Angeles. I fell off of a roof and sustained
some injury on my neck and so forth.

Speaker 11 (25:34):
I've taken to the hospital. Blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
They said my neck was up by six millimeters and
now I'm having trouble.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Okay, medical trouble.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
And originally when you went to the hospital the first
time out, the doctor diagnosed you with blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Got it all right? What were you doing on a
roof working for the county. I'm just curious.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, I was a filled engineer and.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
All right, I was just wondering that's it.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I mean, just you know, make sure that that it
was a legitimate county business that you were doing, which
certainly sounds like. All right, So this is years later, right,
and all of a sudden this thing goes south on you.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Correct?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Right?

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, yeah, I think you definitely have an issue with
the disability. There's no question you need a disability attorney
because that's pretty solid.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
How old are you? Oh wow? Well yeah, because you're ready.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, no, no, no, I think that's great. No, no,
don't mis understand.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Are you working? Are you working now?

Speaker 4 (26:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Okay, you're retired. To see that is the oh wow part.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
And because you're disabled and you can't work is what
disability is about. Okay, either permanently disabled or you've got
a short term disability workers COMPETCA.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
But you're not working.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
So what you have and I will be employed by FEMA?

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah well yeah, but if you're going to be employed,
you can't argue that you can't be employed.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
So I think the disability part is a little tough.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
And as far as any lawsuit, you can't because.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Disability at least this is federal.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
No, this is county, right, and I don't know about
the government private industry.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's no fault where it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
You can't sue, especially in this case for damages against
the state, which is workers disability.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Theoretically you could sue the homeowner.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
For the injury, but as far as the homeowner or
a previous roofing contractor or who screwed it up and
caused your injury, you know your way down the line,
the statue of limitations is over.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
So at the bottom line, you're kind of screwed. What
are you gonna do, FEMA, I'm not sure yet.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Just do so filled observations and damage assessment.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay, Well, here's okay legal advice to you. Don't get
involved in going on roofs because that's not a good
idea for you. Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yes, Hi, this case is about identity theft and basically
someone stole my identity and actually my contractor's license, and
they went out and did a job project and they
basically stole seventy thousand dollars cash from the homeowner.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
When I explained to the CSLB that this was I
didn't do this, that he stole my license. They didn't
believe me. Basically, they met the California State Attorney General.
So I went round around explained to him. They didn't
they didn't buy it. They they prosecuted me. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Wow, hold on a minute. And so there it is.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
There's a contract, there's the license, and there is the
contract itself with the homeowner that that signature was so
close to what your signature is that you can't easily
prove that, ain't you or you never did the job,
or the homeowner never met you and would say I

(29:29):
don't know who you are.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
None of that happened.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, my signature isn't even he didn't even fake my signature.
He used another company.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Okay, that's that's weird. And how about the homeowner, the
homeowner recognized you.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
The homeowner was in on it too.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Oh boy, yeah, you've got you've got you've got problems
if the homeowner was in on it too. Wait a minute,
the seventy dollars was stolen from the homeowner. I don't
understand how.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
It turns out that that turns out that the the
the fraudster was duped her and me.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Okay, all right, well all right, so you were prosecuted,
Were you convicted?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Were you convicted?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
There's more?

Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, I don't have time for more. I assumed.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Okay, I got it. It was all set up. Were
you convicted?

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, it was all set up. So I appealed, I went,
I won.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted of a crime?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Okay, So it was an administrative decision made by the
contractor's license Board.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
All right, you appealed it, and what happened?

Speaker 4 (30:40):
I won in superior court?

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Good?

Speaker 4 (30:43):
So now what now? There? Now there because I had
to pay the seventy thousand to keep the license in Okay,
now what? Okay? So now I'm going after the Attorney
General Contractors Board. Uh for the money?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (30:57):
You can try it, all right?

Speaker 2 (30:59):
So wait, you mean it's crickets on their side.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
If you file a lawsuit against them, they can't be crickets.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
They have to answer.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, that's what that's what's next now. But just trying
to make everyone.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah, you're doing anything, You're doing everything you're supposed to do.
So what's your question, Paul.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Here's here's the key thing I want everyone to know
of public awareness the contractors Board falsifies information in order
to wait a second.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
As a general rule, they falsify.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
You know that in cases they falsified information.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Okay, in two cases they did. I don't know what
to tell you about that.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
So here, all right, you've gone public and you've said
the Contractor's board falsifies information. You've said that on the radio.
I can't prove it.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Because this is an allegation you made. It could be true.
By the way, I'm not arguing it doesn't do you
any good.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
When we went to Superior court, the judge call wrote
a whole Okay, I get it.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
So that that's what you go after. Okay, you see
them for that and you take the judge's opinion.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I mean, you're doing everything you can do. Now if
you have bad breath, there's not a whole lot you
can do. Well, that's not true. You can brush your
teeth and you can suck on a mint, but that
goes away pretty quickly. You know the bad breath is
still there, and you know within an hour or two
it's just horrific.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Again.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
So let me suggest looking at Zelman's Zelton Zelman's minty
Mouth mints, because that fresh, clean, flavor, the taste, the
bad breath, well, that fresh clean taste lasts four hours
because Zelman's works that well.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
And it's a little capsule. You pop two or three.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
In your mouth, you suck off the mint and then
it goes into your gut where it really gets to work,
where so much bad breath happens. So here is their offer,
and this is until February twenty eighth. You buy three
packs or more automatic fifteen percent off done. There's no code,
just you get the fifteen percent until the twenty eighth,
and that's a three pack or more. Go to Zelmans

(33:07):
dot com z L M I N. S. Zelmans dot com,
Zelmans dot com.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
This is handle on the Law
Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know
Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.