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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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it right now. Eight hundred five to two zero one
five three four. Welcome to handle on the law marginal
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legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case. Ooh,
I love. What's going on with our president? I would
say our new president. It's our new old president, Donald
Trump and his campaign against DEI initiatives. And I'm sure
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you are aware that the administration is going very hot
and heavy against all DEI programs to the point where
actually not funding many programs, schools, et cetera. But he
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can't do anything about private companies nothing, because federal government
does not subsidize Amazon, for example, or Walmart. So how
do you stop those companies from moving forward? With DEI programs, well,
the way you do it. And this is a legal
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issue because you're now talking money, you're now talking business.
And Target has been sued for concealing the risks of
its diversity and social and initiatives. It's DEI programs that
had had it, and it concealed it, and there was
a huge backlash where people stopped buying Target because of
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their DEI programs and the stock price therefore dropped. That's
the basis of a lawsuit. It's a proposed class action
shareholders by a police pension fund in Florida, because quite
often institutional investors by chunks of big time stocks, so
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it's a lot more than just individuals. There are pension
funds or investor groups that buy into Walmart, Amazon, et cetera.
And the shareholders saying the Target defrauded them into paying
inflated prices for the stock and unknowingly supported management's misuse
for investor funds to serve political and social goals. And
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that's not what a company should do. It shouldn't get
involved in those kinds of politics. And when it does,
and we lose value, which is what happened here. Their
allegation we sue you, and that is what is exactly happening.
According to the shareholders, Target concealed backlash from a May
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twenty twenty three Pride Month campaign, and there was such
backlash it led to the retailer Target to remove some
LGBTQ themed merchandise after there was in store confrontation with employees.
Employees were being nailed and confronted by customers. Because of that,
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Target share fell twenty two percent in twenty twenty four
in November, wiping out about fifteen point seven billion dollars
of market value, and it forecasts disappointing profit and holiday sales.
And the shareholders are saying that's the reason it dropped
because let's look at Walmart where its prices went up. Now,
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is this going to go any place? I don't know.
But this was after Target said it's going to end
the DEI initiatives and one of them is supporting black
owned businesses that adopted following the murder of George Floyd
in twenty twenty and so these companies are dropping out
of these programs and shareholder lawsuits. They're dropping out because
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of the politics of the world right now, and the
shareholders are saying when you had them. It costs the
value of the company to go down. Therefore we've been screwed.
Interesting lawsuit to say, to say the least. Okay, back
we go more. Let's take some phone calls here. Oh,
here's a kind of interesting Chris. Hi, Chris, welcome. Hello, Chris,
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you're there? All right? Once again we're glitching, so Jacob
put on Chris if you would line one Hello Chris.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Hello, Yeah, there you are.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Chris. Sorry, we're glitching a little bit. Let's go on.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I'm involved in a lawsuit.
My mother was living in an assisted living facility. She
had her own one bedroom and she died a couple
of years ago. And twice before she died, the assisted
living had dropped her while she was in the shower,
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and the second time she dropped her chef, she actually
broke her femur and she passed away, and my sister
was the executor of my mother's will. My sister went
to a lawyer and he offered to take the case
pro bono. And I don't know, it's been probably a
year and a half now, and I'm just wondering if
I should get my own lawyer, or if I should
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just kind of wait and let things play out and
see what happens or what you thought.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's Yeah. My question is why would a lawyer do
this pro bono? That one? I don't know. That's for starters.
It sounds like a pretty good case. So I how old?
How old was she? She was seventy eight, okay and
in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, she wasn't on her deathbed. I mean she would
still be alive today as far as we know. If
you know that they didn't drop her all right, she
was paying for the care to get helpy.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I think yeah. And I don't understand number two things.
Number one, why someone would do this pro bono because
it's a fair amount of work. That's for starters. It
was Was there a relationship between the lawyer and her
your family?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
None whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And okay, I don't get why a lawyer would do
that for free. And there's something amiss on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's the largest care facility in the United States. Does
that make a difference the large?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, no, not just no. That just means deep pockets,
that's all it means, which is good stuff. It's time
you know what. It's time. It's time to get It's
time to get a lawyer, another lawyer who's not gonna
do this for free, but who's gonna take it really seriously?
Which lawyers get for free? Really don't? And that is Yeah,
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that's the problem. So I suggest you go to you
know what, Yeah, you get to find a medical malpractice attorney. Uh.
That's where you go. There's no other place to go.
Try that. Okay, okay, okay, Now before we break real quickly,
let me tell you about the Pain Game podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
This is a podcast about pain. Pain Game podcast, and
it's about chronic pain. It's about people who live in pain. Uh.
And the case in the case of the host, Lindsey,
who happens to be my wife, she is she suffers
from a lot of chronic pain and helps people with
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a pain game podcast. And I really admire her for
doing that. And the question is Bill, do you do
these commercials for free? The answer is yes. Is this nepotism?
The answer is yes. And when you ask can I
get some commercials for my serviceer product for free? I
say no? And well how do you do it? You
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marry a talk show host. The bottom line is a
Pain Game podcast helps people, gives them advice, helps deal
with pain, which so many people go through, and it's
about giving pain a purpose. I know how weird that sounds,
but people who are in pain suffer from it. It's
worth going to because it really does help. That's the
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Pain Game Podcast. The Pain Game Podcast, Susan and Hello Susan.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Hi Bill, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's always a pleasure listening to you. So I have
a question, Kay, I haven't established f corporation for over
ten years and also a revocable trust. So originally my
husband and I were going to put all the three
propitis we own into the corporation, but it ended up
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putting them into the trust. But for years the accountant
filed our income tax as if the properties were in
the corporation. And now I wish to dissolve the corporation.
So I want to know where are there ramesifications of
doing this?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
There are none. 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, so you've got complete power
across the board. So there really are any ramifications into
whatever tax ramifications there are, you're changing it from the
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property owned by a bus this to a property owned
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 aunt. But if you own everything,
if you own everything, you're fine. There's not a problem
at all on that one, Laurie, I luri, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
This is a difficult question that has to do with
the immunity of a judge who's not on the bench,
and the judge does not wear a black robe.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
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? Sure in
state or ceter Sure.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Immunity that a judge has that the bench has does
not include a judge committing crimes. That judge is held
to whatever gonna acts as an individual. So that's not
a problem. Now did this happen to you?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, so or federal doesn't really matter. But let me
ask what were you in front of the judge for
And what did the.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Judge doug This judge was never.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
My judge, okay, just a judge, all right, judge, all right?
What kind of criminal acts did the judge do?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Posting phony websites about me under my name, tacking into
the online computer system changing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh okay, so yeah, you've got
criminal acts going on in his mind. Have you been damaged?
Have you been damaged? How have you been damaged?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Well, in my personal life, my professional life has been
ruined by your.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Okay, how is your professional life. You've lost you've lost clients,
you've lost business.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Prove that that's a lawsuit. Yes, that is a lawsuit.
But the answer is yeah yeah, so yeah, so hire
a lawyer and go for it. Yeah, judges are not immune.
What if a judge commits murder? Well, I've got immunity.
Uh that's uh. I can do that. Or rob a bank.
Well I'm allowed to do that because I'm a judge.
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Now it doesn't matter the judges in a black robe
or not. No. Oh okay, alex Hi, alex Hi Bill,
Me and my girlfriend are big fan, So thank you,
thanks for all you do. Sure.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, yeah, so my I was involved in the Eaton 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. The evacuation
order was dropped. But we don't have any running, We
don't have any electricity, and the gas isn't on yet.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Icon protected 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.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They said that, They said that we're.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Still going to have to pay the full rent.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
There isn't going to be any credits because okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
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 6 (13:32):
It was uninhabitable I want to say, probably for like
five days or.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Okay, and how long okay, then you move back in,
and how long is it that you don't have gas
for electricity? How long have you been in.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
There since the seventh.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Okay, so you've got you've got a few weeks. Now,
is the landlord supposed to collect rent? No, because you
can't live there, all right. 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
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to pay rent or quit. The landlord will not win.
You will win the case. Now, let's get practical for
a moment. If, per chance, one in one hundred, the
landlord does win, and now you are evicted, and the
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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. But how long
does that continue on? I don't know. So how much
are you paying in rent?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's nineteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All 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 in then one week's one week out of
nineteen hundred wherever that is six hundred bucks. Do you
have any place to go?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Right now, I'm staying with family, kind of just couching.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, now, let me ask you this. If you don't
have an apartment, you're not gonna get one, not in
the Eating fire area, not in the Palisades fire area.
And then you have to just 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
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and wants you out. Yeah that's now, that's the practical.
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 6 (15:53):
What do you do exactly?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
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 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. Some
people homeless, some people living in shelters. I mean people
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A Hi Bill.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
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 1 (18:17):
Okay, I don't understand. Was the home and a trust?
Speaker 7 (18:21):
It isn't a trust, all right?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Who is the trustee? Is it your dad?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Well, they were both listed as the trustees. Because this
is not the first marriage for.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Them, It doesn't matter. I just asked. Was the property
in the trust's name?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay? And what kind of power did they have under
the trust? Could they sell it and keep the money?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Or who?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let me ask you, who's the beneficiaries under the trust?
If they both die?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Well, he had his beneficiaries listed as his children. She
had her beneficiaries listed as her children.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Okay, So the property should go to the kits 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, yeah, okay,
in violation of the trust instrument, I'm assuming, right, Okay.
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How much money do they keep and how much did
they sell it? For Alicia?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
About seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars okay.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
How much money do they put in their pocket?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Not sure the house was paid for?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Okay? 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 beneficiaries under the trust. What he what he and
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his wife did is violate the terms of the trust
and kept money when they shouldn't have or if the
money 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 allowed to do if
the trust allows them to do it. Do you have
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a cop have you seen the trust?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I have, yes, okay, and say specifically, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, it may allow them to do it, which is
why you want to talk to a trust and a
state lawyer and show the lawyer of 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. And I don't know, Kelly, how unusual. I
don't know. Hello Kelly, welcome, Hi Bill.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I am the lead plaintiff in a privacy case against
a hospital for basically selling information for 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 plaintiffs who's getting
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sued by you know, 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 medical group and all the things that.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
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 8 (21:31):
No, I have private insurance, but they just say.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We don't want we don't want you as a patient.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Okay, yeah, no, that's what they're saying, we don't.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
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. I don't know. You didn't do
anything wrong, you didn't 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
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may be some liability on that part if they bounce
you just for having filed a lawsuit. You using your
legal rights. 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 9 (22:23):
Yeah, sorry, go ahead? Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Yeah, I am sixty five years old, officially certified handicap.
I have paul neuropathy and the back issue you post
lamanectemy syndrome. Anyways, I decided to go to a get
a pedicure here like thirteen months ago, and over roughly
an eighteen nineteen month period, I went maybe ninety ten times,
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and my feet to be bleeding every once in a while.
Once I'm I got home, I felt felt pain. Later
that night, okay, looked and saw that it looked like
sugar grind into it. Anyways, take a long story short,
I got infected and I had to go December first,
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to the prompt Care that put on antibiotics. I had
just soak my feet three times a day and it's
just starting to get better.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Okay, and you have a case. Do you have a case?
All right?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
First of all, my first question is are you are
you straight? Just a curious question.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You mean my gay?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh? Well, no, okay, because I've never I've never seen
a straight man have a pedicure in my life. You
know that, don't you. That's for sure. 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 9 (23:59):
Even they hooked me up with some girlfriends.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh okay, and you're and you're the pedicure, the pedicares,
the manicures. Tried to hook you up with a girlfriends?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Uh do you speak Vietnamese?
Speaker 9 (24:12):
I'm telling too.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Okay, all right, fair enough. Uh, this is a little
bit problematic for 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 when we
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talk about it got infected? How serious and infection? Because
you're doing fine now or starting to heal? How long
were you not healed?
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Oh no, I got I got pictures?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Bill?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, Well, you know what, I don't know if
you have a case.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
It's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, hold on, I understand. It's one of those things where,
uh there may be negligence and they this cause injury.
Uh I don't know. But even if they did, are
the day images strong enough for a lawyer to pick
it up? 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 they'll tell
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you and they're very good. They're very honest. They're very
honest about saying, now you don't have a case. I
know them, And so go to handle on the law
dot com and just just see where they go there.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
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 (25:34):
Now?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
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a bit. Hello Jacob, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Hey Bill, how are you horrible?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
But let's go on with your question.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
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, I've taken
to the hospital blah blah blah. They said my neck
was out by six millimeters and now I'm having trouble.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, medical trouble and originally when you went to the
hospital the first time out, the doctor diagnosed you with
blah blah blah, got it, all right, what were you
doing on a roof working for the county. I'm just curious.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
Well, I was a field engineer and some all.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Right, I was just wondering, that's it. I mean, just
you know, make sure 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. Correct? Right, yeah, yeah,
I think you definitely have an issue with the disability.
There's no question you need a disability attorney because that's
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pretty solid. How old are you two? Oh wow? Well yeah,
because you're right.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
No, no, no, no, I think it's great. No, no,
don't misunderstand. Are you working? Are you working now? No? Okay,
you're retired. To see that is the oh wow part.
And because you're disabled and you can't work is what
disability is about. Okay, either permanently disabled or you've got
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a short term disability workers compartcetera. But you're not working.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
So what you have and I will be employed by
FEMA yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well yeah, but if you're going to be employed, you
can't argue that you can't be employed. So I think
the disability part is a little tough. And as far
as any lawsuit, you can't because disability. At least this
is federal, No, this is county, right, and I don't
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know about the government private industry. It's no fault where
it doesn't matter, you can't sue, especially in this case
for damages against the state, which is where chrisconton disability.
Theoretically you could see the homeowner for the injury, but
as far as the homeowner or a previous roofing contractor
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or who screwed it up and caused your injury, you
know your way down the line, the statue of limitations
is over. So at the bottom line, you're kind of screwed.
What are you gonna do for FEMA, I'm.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
Not sure yet. Just do some filled observations and damage assessment.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
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. Yes, hi.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
This case is about identity theft and basically someone stole
my identity and actually my contractor's license, and they went
out did a job project and they basically stole seventy
thousand dollars cash from the homeowner.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Okay, when I.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
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
around around explaining to him.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
They did.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
They didn't buy it. They they prosecuted me. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Wow, hold on a minute. And so there it is.
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,
(30:47):
or the homeowner never met you and would say I
don't know who you are. None of that happened.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, my signature isn't even he didn't even fake my signature.
He used another.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Come okay, that's that's weird. And how about the homeowner.
The homeowner recognized you.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
The homeowner was in on it too.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Oh boy, yeah, you've got you've got you've got problems.
What if the homeowner was in on it. To wait
a minute. Uh, the seventy dollars was stolen from the homeowner.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't understand how it turns out. That turns out
that's the the spadster was duped her.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And okay, all right, well all right, so you were prosecuted.
Were you convicted? Were you convicted?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There's more?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
No, I don't have time for more. I assume. Okay,
I got it. It was all set up. Were you convicted?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It was all set up? So I appealed, I went,
I won.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted of a crime?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Okay, So it was an administrative decision made by the
contractor's license board. All right, you appealed it, and what
happened and.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I won in superior court.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Good?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So now what now? There? Now there because I had
to pay the seventy thousand to keep the license in Okay,
now what?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So now I'm going after the Attorney General Contractors Board
for the money.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, you can try it. Crickets, all right, So you
wait to meets crickets on their side. If you file
a lawsuit against them, they can't be crickets. They have
to answer.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, that's what that's what's next now? But just trying
to make everyone, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You're doing anything. You're doing everything you're supposed to do.
So what's your question, Paul.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
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 1 (32:46):
As a general rule, they falsify.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You know that in cases they falsified information.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, in two cases they did. I don't know what
to tell you about that. 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
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 2 (33:14):
When we went to Superior court, the judge wrote a
whole okay, I get it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So that's what you go after. Okay, you see them
for that, and you take the judge's opinion. I mean,
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(00:44):
legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case. Ooh,
I love. What's going on with our president? I would
say our new president. It's our new old president, Donald
Trump and his campaign against DEI initiatives. And I'm sure
(01:05):
you are aware that the administration is going very hot
and heavy against all DEI programs to the point where
actually not funding many programs, schools, et cetera. But he
(01:25):
can't do anything about private companies nothing, because federal government
does not subsidize Amazon, for example, or Walmart. So how
do you stop those companies from moving forward? With DEI programs, well,
the way you do it. And this is a legal
(01:46):
issue because you're now talking money, you're now talking business.
And Target has been sued for concealing the risks of
its diversity and social and initiatives. It's DEI programs that
had had it, and it concealed it, and there was
a huge backlash where people stopped buying Target because of
(02:10):
their DEI programs and the stock price therefore dropped. That's
the basis of a lawsuit. It's a proposed class action
shareholders by a police pension fund in Florida, because quite
often institutional investors by chunks of big time stocks, so
(02:32):
it's a lot more than just individuals. There are pension
funds or investor groups that buy into Walmart, Amazon, et cetera.
And the shareholders saying the Target defrauded them into paying
inflated prices for the stock and unknowingly supported management's misuse
for investor funds to serve political and social goals. And
(02:55):
that's not what a company should do. It shouldn't get
involved in those kinds of politics. And when it does,
and we lose value, which is what happened here. Their
allegation we sue you, and that is what is exactly happening.
According to the shareholders, Target concealed backlash from a May
(03:17):
twenty twenty three Pride Month campaign, and there was such
backlash it led to the retailer Target to remove some
LGBTQ themed merchandise after there was in store confrontation with employees.
Employees were being nailed and confronted by customers. Because of that,
(03:40):
Target share fell twenty two percent in twenty twenty four
in November, wiping out about fifteen point seven billion dollars
of market value, and it forecasts disappointing profit and holiday sales.
And the shareholders are saying that's the reason it dropped
because let's look at Walmart where its prices went up. Now,
(04:02):
is this going to go any place? I don't know.
But this was after Target said it's going to end
the DEI initiatives and one of them is supporting black
owned businesses that adopted following the murder of George Floyd
in twenty twenty and so these companies are dropping out
of these programs and shareholder lawsuits. They're dropping out because
(04:26):
of the politics of the world right now, and the
shareholders are saying when you had them. It costs the
value of the company to go down. Therefore we've been screwed.
Interesting lawsuit to say, to say the least. Okay, back
we go more. Let's take some phone calls here. Oh,
here's a kind of interesting Chris. Hi, Chris, welcome. Hello, Chris,
(04:52):
you're there? All right? Once again we're glitching, so Jacob
put on Chris if you would line one Hello Chris.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Hello, Yeah, there you are.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Chris. Sorry, we're glitching a little bit. Let's go on.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I'm involved in a lawsuit.
My mother was living in an assisted living facility. She
had her own one bedroom and she died a couple
of years ago. And twice before she died, the assisted
living had dropped her while she was in the shower,
(05:35):
and the second time she dropped her chef, she actually
broke her femur and she passed away, and my sister
was the executor of my mother's will. My sister went
to a lawyer and he offered to take the case
pro bono. And I don't know, it's been probably a
year and a half now, and I'm just wondering if
I should get my own lawyer, or if I should
(05:56):
just kind of wait and let things play out and
see what happens or what you thought.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's Yeah. My question is why would a lawyer do
this pro bono? That one? I don't know. That's for starters.
It sounds like a pretty good case. So I how old?
How old was she? She was seventy eight, okay and
in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, she wasn't on her deathbed. I mean she would
still be alive today as far as we know. If
you know that they didn't drop her all right, she
was paying for the care to get helpy.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I think yeah. And I don't understand number two things.
Number one, why someone would do this pro bono because
it's a fair amount of work. That's for starters. It
was Was there a relationship between the lawyer and her
your family?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
None whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And okay, I don't get why a lawyer would do
that for free. And there's something amiss on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's the largest care facility in the United States. Does
that make a difference the large?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, no, not just no. That just means deep pockets,
that's all it means, which is good stuff. It's time
you know what. It's time. It's time to get It's
time to get a lawyer, another lawyer who's not gonna
do this for free, but who's gonna take it really seriously?
Which lawyers get for free? Really don't? And that is Yeah,
(07:23):
that's the problem. So I suggest you go to you
know what, Yeah, you get to find a medical malpractice attorney. Uh.
That's where you go. There's no other place to go.
Try that. Okay, okay, okay, Now before we break real quickly,
let me tell you about the Pain Game podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
This is a podcast about pain. Pain Game podcast, and
it's about chronic pain. It's about people who live in pain. Uh.
And the case in the case of the host, Lindsey,
who happens to be my wife, she is she suffers
from a lot of chronic pain and helps people with
(08:04):
a pain game podcast. And I really admire her for
doing that. And the question is Bill, do you do
these commercials for free? The answer is yes. Is this nepotism?
The answer is yes. And when you ask can I
get some commercials for my serviceer product for free? I
say no? And well how do you do it? You
(08:25):
marry a talk show host. The bottom line is a
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with pain, which so many people go through, and it's
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but people who are in pain suffer from it. It's
worth going to because it really does help. That's the
(08:47):
Pain Game Podcast. The Pain Game Podcast, Susan and Hello Susan.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Hi Bill, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's always a pleasure listening to you. So I have
a question, Kay, I haven't established f corporation for over
ten years and also a revocable trust. So originally my
husband and I were going to put all the three
propitis we own into the corporation, but it ended up
(09:17):
putting them into the trust. But for years the accountant
filed our income tax as if the properties were in
the corporation. And now I wish to dissolve the corporation.
So I want to know where are there ramesifications of
doing this?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
There are none. 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, so you've got complete power
across the board. So there really are any ramifications into
whatever tax ramifications there are, you're changing it from the
(09:57):
property owned by a bus this to a property owned
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 aunt. But if you own everything,
if you own everything, you're fine. There's not a problem
at all on that one, Laurie, I luri, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
This is a difficult question that has to do with
the immunity of a judge who's not on the bench,
and the judge does not wear a black robe.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
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? Sure in
state or ceter Sure.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Immunity that a judge has that the bench has does
not include a judge committing crimes. That judge is held
to whatever gonna acts as an individual. So that's not
a problem. Now did this happen to you?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, so or federal doesn't really matter. But let me
ask what were you in front of the judge for
And what did the.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Judge doug This judge was never.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
My judge, okay, just a judge, all right, judge, all right?
What kind of criminal acts did the judge do?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Posting phony websites about me under my name, tacking into
the online computer system changing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh okay, so yeah, you've got
criminal acts going on in his mind. Have you been damaged?
Have you been damaged? How have you been damaged?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Well, in my personal life, my professional life has been
ruined by your.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Okay, how is your professional life. You've lost you've lost clients,
you've lost business.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Prove that that's a lawsuit. Yes, that is a lawsuit.
But the answer is yeah yeah, so yeah, so hire
a lawyer and go for it. Yeah, judges are not immune.
What if a judge commits murder? Well, I've got immunity.
Uh that's uh. I can do that. Or rob a bank.
Well I'm allowed to do that because I'm a judge.
(12:17):
Now it doesn't matter the judges in a black robe
or not. No. Oh okay, alex Hi, alex Hi Bill,
Me and my girlfriend are big fan, So thank you,
thanks for all you do. Sure.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, yeah, so my I was involved in the Eaton 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. The evacuation
order was dropped. But we don't have any running, We
don't have any electricity, and the gas isn't on yet.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Icon protected 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.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They said that, They said that we're.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Still going to have to pay the full rent.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
There isn't going to be any credits because okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
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 6 (13:32):
It was uninhabitable I want to say, probably for like
five days or.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Okay, and how long okay, then you move back in,
and how long is it that you don't have gas
for electricity? How long have you been in.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
There since the seventh.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Okay, so you've got you've got a few weeks. Now,
is the landlord supposed to collect rent? No, because you
can't live there, all right. 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
(14:10):
to pay rent or quit. The landlord will not win.
You will win the case. Now, let's get practical for
a moment. If, per chance, one in one hundred, the
landlord does win, and now you are evicted, and the
(14:31):
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. But how long
does that continue on? I don't know. So how much
are you paying in rent?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's nineteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All 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 in then one week's one week out of
nineteen hundred wherever that is six hundred bucks. Do you
have any place to go?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Right now, I'm staying with family, kind of just couching.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, now, let me ask you this. If you don't
have an apartment, you're not gonna get one, not in
the Eating fire area, not in the Palisades fire area.
And then you have to just 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
(15:32):
and wants you out. Yeah that's now, that's the practical.
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 6 (15:53):
What do you do exactly?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
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 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. Some
people homeless, some people living in shelters. I mean people
(16:18):
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I mean it was a disaster. So there is the answer.
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A Hi Bill.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
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 1 (18:17):
Okay, I don't understand. Was the home and a trust?
Speaker 7 (18:21):
It isn't a trust, all right?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Who is the trustee? Is it your dad?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Well, they were both listed as the trustees. Because this
is not the first marriage for.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Them, It doesn't matter. I just asked. Was the property
in the trust's name?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay? And what kind of power did they have under
the trust? Could they sell it and keep the money?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Or who?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let me ask you, who's the beneficiaries under the trust?
If they both die?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Well, he had his beneficiaries listed as his children. She
had her beneficiaries listed as her children.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Okay, So the property should go to the kits 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, yeah, okay,
in violation of the trust instrument, I'm assuming, right, Okay.
(19:25):
How much money do they keep and how much did
they sell it? For Alicia?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
About seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars okay.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
How much money do they put in their pocket?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Not sure the house was paid for?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Okay? 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 beneficiaries under the trust. What he what he and
(19:59):
his wife did is violate the terms of the trust
and kept money when they shouldn't have or if the
money 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 allowed to do if
the trust allows them to do it. Do you have
(20:21):
a cop have you seen the trust?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I have, yes, okay, and say specifically, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, it may allow them to do it, which is
why you want to talk to a trust and a
state lawyer and show the lawyer of 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. And I don't know, Kelly, how unusual. I
don't know. Hello Kelly, welcome, Hi Bill.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I am the lead plaintiff in a privacy case against
a hospital for basically selling information for 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 plaintiffs who's getting
(21:12):
sued by you know, 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 medical group and all the things that.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
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 8 (21:31):
No, I have private insurance, but they just say.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We don't want we don't want you as a patient.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Okay, yeah, no, that's what they're saying, we don't.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
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. I don't know. You didn't do
anything wrong, you didn't 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
(22:02):
may be some liability on that part if they bounce
you just for having filed a lawsuit. You using your
legal rights. 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 9 (22:23):
Yeah, sorry, go ahead? Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Yeah, I am sixty five years old, officially certified handicap.
I have paul neuropathy and the back issue you post
lamanectemy syndrome. Anyways, I decided to go to a get
a pedicure here like thirteen months ago, and over roughly
an eighteen nineteen month period, I went maybe ninety ten times,
(22:53):
and my feet to be bleeding every once in a while.
Once I'm I got home, I felt felt pain. Later
that night, okay, looked and saw that it looked like
sugar grind into it. Anyways, take a long story short,
I got infected and I had to go December first,
(23:14):
to the prompt Care that put on antibiotics. I had
just soak my feet three times a day and it's
just starting to get better.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Okay, and you have a case. Do you have a case?
All right?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
First of all, my first question is are you are
you straight? Just a curious question.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You mean my gay?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh? Well, no, okay, because I've never I've never seen
a straight man have a pedicure in my life. You
know that, don't you. That's for sure. 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 9 (23:59):
Even they hooked me up with some girlfriends.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh okay, and you're and you're the pedicure, the pedicares,
the manicures. Tried to hook you up with a girlfriends?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Uh do you speak Vietnamese?
Speaker 9 (24:12):
I'm telling too.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Okay, all right, fair enough. Uh, this is a little
bit problematic for 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 when we
(24:36):
talk about it got infected? How serious and infection? Because
you're doing fine now or starting to heal? How long
were you not healed?
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Oh no, I got I got pictures?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Bill?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, Well, you know what, I don't know if
you have a case.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
It's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, hold on, I understand. It's one of those things where,
uh there may be negligence and they this cause injury.
Uh I don't know. But even if they did, are
the day images strong enough for a lawyer to pick
it up? 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 they'll tell
(25:11):
you and they're very good. They're very honest. They're very
honest about saying, now you don't have a case. I
know them, And so go to handle on the law
dot com and just just see where they go there.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
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 (25:34):
Now?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
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,
(25:56):
treated these people, and the host, Lindsay Soprano, deals with
chronic pain twenty four to seven. I've known her for
seven years now and she has this hell of a
pain Game podcast, this podcast, and every episode ends with
a message of hope. Now I would tell you your life
is over, just suck it up. She doesn't. She actually
(26:17):
gives a lot of hope and really does a lot
of help. Season three is about to happen. So listen
to the Pain Game Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts,
The Pain Game Podcasts. Jacob, you've been up there for
a bit. Hello Jacob, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Hey Bill, how are you horrible?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
But let's go on with your question.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
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, I've taken
to the hospital blah blah blah. They said my neck
was out by six millimeters and now I'm having trouble.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, medical trouble and originally when you went to the
hospital the first time out, the doctor diagnosed you with
blah blah blah, got it, all right, what were you
doing on a roof working for the county. I'm just curious.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
Well, I was a field engineer and some all.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Right, I was just wondering, that's it. I mean, just
you know, make sure 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. Correct? Right, yeah, yeah,
I think you definitely have an issue with the disability.
There's no question you need a disability attorney because that's
(27:49):
pretty solid. How old are you two? Oh wow? Well yeah,
because you're right.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
No, no, no, no, I think it's great. No, no,
don't misunderstand. Are you working? Are you working now? No? Okay,
you're retired. To see that is the oh wow part.
And because you're disabled and you can't work is what
disability is about. Okay, either permanently disabled or you've got
(28:20):
a short term disability workers compartcetera. But you're not working.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
So what you have and I will be employed by
FEMA yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well yeah, but if you're going to be employed, you
can't argue that you can't be employed. So I think
the disability part is a little tough. And as far
as any lawsuit, you can't because disability. At least this
is federal, No, this is county, right, and I don't
(28:49):
know about the government private industry. It's no fault where
it doesn't matter, you can't sue, especially in this case
for damages against the state, which is where chrisconton disability.
Theoretically you could see the homeowner for the injury, but
as far as the homeowner or a previous roofing contractor
(29:09):
or who screwed it up and caused your injury, you
know your way down the line, the statue of limitations
is over. So at the bottom line, you're kind of screwed.
What are you gonna do for FEMA, I'm.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
Not sure yet. Just do some filled observations and damage assessment.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
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. Yes, hi.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
This case is about identity theft and basically someone stole
my identity and actually my contractor's license, and they went
out did a job project and they basically stole seventy
thousand dollars cash from the homeowner.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Okay, when I.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
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
around around explaining to him.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
They did.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
They didn't buy it. They they prosecuted me. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Wow, hold on a minute. And so there it is.
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,
(30:47):
or the homeowner never met you and would say I
don't know who you are. None of that happened.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, my signature isn't even he didn't even fake my signature.
He used another.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Come okay, that's that's weird. And how about the homeowner.
The homeowner recognized you.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
The homeowner was in on it too.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Oh boy, yeah, you've got you've got you've got problems.
What if the homeowner was in on it. To wait
a minute. Uh, the seventy dollars was stolen from the homeowner.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't understand how it turns out. That turns out
that's the the spadster was duped her.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And okay, all right, well all right, so you were prosecuted.
Were you convicted? Were you convicted?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There's more?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
No, I don't have time for more. I assume. Okay,
I got it. It was all set up. Were you convicted?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It was all set up? So I appealed, I went,
I won.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted of a crime?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Okay, So it was an administrative decision made by the
contractor's license board. All right, you appealed it, and what
happened and.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I won in superior court.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Good?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So now what now? There? Now there because I had
to pay the seventy thousand to keep the license in Okay,
now what?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So now I'm going after the Attorney General Contractors Board
for the money.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, you can try it. Crickets, all right, So you
wait to meets crickets on their side. If you file
a lawsuit against them, they can't be crickets. They have
to answer.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, that's what that's what's next now? But just trying
to make everyone, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You're doing anything. You're doing everything you're supposed to do.
So what's your question, Paul.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
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 1 (32:46):
As a general rule, they falsify.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You know that in cases they falsified information.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, in two cases they did. I don't know what
to tell you about that. 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
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 2 (33:14):
When we went to Superior court, the judge wrote a
whole okay, I get it.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So that's what you go after. Okay, you see them
for that, and you take the judge's opinion. 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
(33:42):
know within an hour or two it's just horrific again.
So let me suggest looking at Zelman's lt Zelman's Minty
Mouth mints because that fresh clean flavor, the taste, the
bad breath, well, that fresh clean taste lasts four hours
because Zelmans works that well. And it's a little capsule.
(34:03):
You pop two or three in your mouth. It's a
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