Virginia State Bar & E. Grier Ferguson protection racket

Exposing the Syndicate of the

E. Grier Ferguson Protection Racket (Part 3)

The Virginia State Bar protection syndicate is featured in the chart below.

Numerous complaints with hard evidence has been filed with the Virginia State Bar against E. Grier Ferguson for criminal and ethics violations concerning the from the Estate of Judge William Wellington Jones & the beneficiary Mary Margaret Jones. Click to read the E. Grier Ferguson criminal investigation

The Virginia State Bar's protection racket surrounds E. Grier Ferguson and consists of the following facts connecting the VSB protection syndicate to Mr. Ferguson.

In our previous posts we focused on the details of E. Grier Ferguson's abuse of the elderly and financial exploitation of his clients. Click here to read E. Grier Ferguson's abuse of his elderly clients

Lets look at how the Virginia State Bar protection syndicate is connected:

Karen Gould is the VSB Executive Director. Gould served on the VSB Counsel with E. Grier Ferguson before the VSB hired her to run the VSB protection racket. 

C. Phillips Ferguson, 

Suffolk Commonwealth Attorney 

is E. Grier Ferguson's brother who shields Grier from criminal charges. C. Phillips Ferguson has been an elected member of the Virginia State Bar Counsel from 2016 and shall serve through 2019. 

Edward L. Davis is the VSB bar counsel who is directed by Karen Gould to not process any complaints against E. Grier Ferguson.

EDWARD L. DAVIS

Christine Corey & Elizabeth Shoenfeld are VSB assistant bar counsel who deflect any investigations into E. Grier Ferguson's illegal activity.

James C. Bodie is the VSB Intake Counsel who also deflects any complaints & investigations into E. Grier Ferguson's illegal activity.

JAMES C. BODIE

David Gogal is the VSB Chairman of the Committee on Lawyer Discipline, who deflects any complaints on E. Grier Ferguson from being prosecuted.

DAVID GOGAL

John A.C. Keith is the Chairman of the VSB  Disciplinary Board and is the law partner of David Gogal.

                                                        JOHN A.C. KEITH


Richard Colten  serves on the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board and is the law partner of John A.C. Keith and David Gogal.

RICHARD COLTEN

VSB Investigators John Pucky & Ron Pohrichak are instructed by their bosses to close any investigations into E. Grier Ferguson's illegal activity.

While E. Grier Ferguson's clients go broke due to his criminal actions against them, E. Grier Ferguson's syndicate get richer by abusing the elderly and financial exploitation, all under the protection of the Virginia State Bar syndicate.

E. Grier Ferguson syndicate bleeds dry his clients

The Shameless Suffolk City syndicate financial abuse & exploitation of the elderly (Part 2)

The E. Grier Ferguson "Shameless syndicate" has leached on their elderly victim and has bleed her dry of her estate with enormous "legal" fees, commissions & other irregular expenses. 

Lets take a look at the facts:

• From 2011-17 (6 years) E. Grier Ferguson has charged the Mary Margaret Jones estate over $450,000. in legal fees.
• Over $100,000 is unaccounted for and has not been explained.
•  Estate assets transferred to outside investments.

Mary Margaret Jones (victim)

Trustee E. Grier Jones has neglected the Mary Margaret Jones home to uninhabitable conditions:

• 10+ year's neglect of 2007 fire/water/toxic mold insurance claim.
• Failure to repair & maintain elderly's home & property;
• Failing to re-mediate toxic mold in elderly's home, walls, cellar & crawl space;
• Failure to purchase correct home/property insurance for 10+ years.
• Paying insurance premiums for 10+ years for no coverage on home,  property or for liability coverage.
• Withholding or making late monthly allowance payments for living expenses.
• Allowing raw sewage to flood backyard, crawl spaces & bathrooms of the Jones' Residence, without any actions to sanitize the flooded areas.

"A picture tells a thousand words"

The Jones property before E. Grier Ferguson.

Jones property during E. Grier Ferguson

What do you think of the E. Grier Ferguson 

"Shameless syndicate"?

Lets review the syndicate who protects him, as they all have direct knowledge and benefit from the financial abuse and exploitation!

• Suffolk Commonwealth Attorney C. Phillips Ferguson is E. Grier Ferguson's brother who shields Grier from criminal charges. C. Phillips Ferguson has been an elected member of the Virginia State Bar Council from 2016 and shall serve through 2019. 
  
• The 1st Commissioner of Accounts, Whitney G. Saunders, who should have discovered commingling of the funds of Mr. Ferguson's elderly clients, failed to reveal it. Saunders served on the VSB Disciplinary Board from 2014-17. 
  
• The 2nd Commissioner of Accounts, William H. Riddick III, continues to cover up the E. Grier Ferguson's embezzlement of Jones' Estate funds. Riddick served on the VSB Council from 2010-13. 
  
• Carl A. Eason Sr. is the partner of E. Grier Ferguson's civil case defense attorney, Glen M. Robertson. Carl Eason Sr. served on the VSB Disciplinary Board and the VSB Committee on Lawyer Discipline (COLD). 
  
• Suffolk City Circuit Court Judge Carl E. Eason Jr. may be the nephew of Carl A. Eason Sr. Judge Eason served on the VSB Disciplinary Board. 
  
• Glen M. Robertson, E. Grier Ferguson's civil defense attorney, is a member of the Virginia State Bar, Litigation, Local Government and Trust and Estate Section 2011-2018. 
  
• Alison R. Zisso, another of E. Grier Ferguson's defense attorney's, is the law partner of John T. Midgett. 
  
• John T. Midgett was VSB Vice Chair & VSB Chair of the VSB Trusts & Estate Section 2015-17. 
  
   
• Nathan R. Olansen is a CPA and a law partner of Alison R. Zizzo. Olansen served on the VSB Council & was the VSB YLC President & VSB Trusts & Estate Section 2013-14. 
  
•  Karen Gould is the VSB Executive Director. Gould served on the VSB Council with E. Grier Ferguson before the VSB hired her to run the VSB protection racket. 
  

• Bill Bischoff  represents E. Grier Ferguson, Rawls & Rains PC, Bischoff is Kevin Martingayle's law partner. Virginia State Bar Professionalism Program, Past Faculty, Virginia State Bar Law School Professionalism Course, Past Faculty, Virginia Beach Bar Association, President, 2010

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• Kevin Martingayle Virginia State Bar (Member, President, 2014-2015, 2nd Judicial Circuit representative 2007-2013, Second District Ethics and Disciplinary Committee; 1999-2006, Committee Chair 2002-2004; Second Circuit Council Representative, 2007-present, Executive Committee, 2010-present.

In our previous blogs we featured:

• The criminal investigation of E. Grier Ferguson, Suffolk attorney E. Grier Ferguson under criminal investigation 
• E. Grier Ferguson's abuse of the elderly and financial exploitation of his clients. Click here to read E. Grier Ferguson's abuse of his elderly clients
• Suffolk City Protection Syndicate E.Grier Ferguson syndicate (Part1)

If you feel disgusted by this behaviour,share our exposure of this Suffolk City Shameless Syndicate so that they do not do this to others!

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Virginia State Bars $900,000 catering scandal

Virginia State Bar Food & Dietary Expense Scandal

The Virginia State Bar is a state agency but they spend money like it is a private company.

Lets look at the facts:

• 2013-14- $320,637
• 2014-15- $291,505
• 2015-16- $297,483

You ask how can this be?

The VSB has 92 staff

These state employees eat at the most expensive establishments!

Lets look at them:

• Boars head Inn          $36,878
• Sheraton Ocean         $38,231
• Virginia Museum      $27,653
• Hilton Hotel              $154,639
• Wintergreen              $36,105

In 3 years the VSB has spent more than $909,625 in "Food & Dietary supplies"

The last time the VSB was audited by JLARC was in 1995, 22 years ago!

It is long overdue that the VSB have a Forensic Audit!

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Virginia State Bar scandal- extravagant foreign travel.

Virginia State Bar overseas meetings in 

exotic cities!

The big question is why is the Virginia State Bar holding conferences in foreign cities?

Lets look at the years and cities:

2010 - Buenos Aries, Argentina 

2011 - Athens, Greece

2012 - Rome, Italy

2013 - Paris, France

2014 - Madrid, Spain
2015 - Israel- Cancelled for security reasons.

2016 - London, England - Dublin, Ireland

This is part of the Virginia State Bars conference expense which has reached over $1,401,282. in just 4 years. Lets add in the council, committee and board meetings which have also topped over $1,479,499.
Totals to $2,880,781.

Remember the Virginia State Bar is a state agency!

Lets look at the VSB Mission:

"The mission of the Virginia State Bar, as an administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia, is to regulate the legal profession of Virginia; to advance the availability and quality of legal services provided to the people of Virginia; and to assist in improving the legal profession and the judicial system."

Does extravagant travels to foreign cities fall under the VSB Mission?

It appears that the VSB operates as a private company!

The Virginia State Bar needs a Forensic Audit and serious changes need to be made!

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Virginia State Bar scandal- excessive salary-benefits tops $102,072 per staff.

Virginia State Bar average staff salary/benefits tops $102,072?

Remember that the Virginia State Bar is a state agency not a private organization, lets compare to their fellow state agency salaries.

State  Agency                                                     Salary
Attorney General & Dept. of Law                    $65,900
Office of the Governor                                      $60,000
Senate of Virginia                                              $51,000
Virginia House of Delegates                             $42,752

• What kind of benefits could sky rocket the VSB's average staff compensation to $102,072? 
• Why is this not listed in the VSB Treasurers annual report?
• Why is the VSB staff compensation almost double that of fellow state agency's compensation?

The VSB does not give stocks or profit sharing since it is a government agency.

Health care premium per employee is no more than $1500 per year.

Other possible benefits could be; Financial & Retirement, Family & Parenting, Vacation & Time Off, & Perks & Discounts. Would these "benefits" come to $40,000 per staff?

November 20th, 2017 Blog discussed the Virginia State Bar computer/technology scandal which exceeded $2,800,000 in just 5 years, see link below:

http://virginiastatebarcorruption.blogspot.gr/2017/11/the-virginia-state-bar-excessive.html 

Its time for a Forensic Audit of the Virginia State Bar finances!

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What to do with the Virginia State Bar $9,700,000 slush fund

The Virginia State Bars's $9,700,000 Slush fund, the real purpose behind it!

Lets look at what the VSB states and compare with the statistics.
According to the Virginia State Bar website:
http://www.vsb.org/site/public/clients-protection-fund

The purpose of the Clients’ Protection Fund is to promote public confidence in the administration of justice and the honour and integrity of the legal profession by reimbursing all or part of losses sustained by clients or those to whom a fiduciary duty is owed as a result of a Virginia State Bar member’s dishonest conduct. 

The bar has a strong disciplinary system for reprimanding, suspending or disbarring lawyers who violate the strict standards of Virginia’s ethics rules. However, the state bar recognizes that a disciplinary system alone is not enough, and that it is desirable to protect the public from lawyers who mishandle. Just how many lawyers were officially disciplined? From 1999-2016, only 1 lawyer that was from a "big firm".

• Each petitioner may receive no more than $75,000.00 for losses that occurred on or after July 1, 2015 or $50,000.00 for losses that occurred before July 1, 2015.
• The loss was caused by the dishonest conduct of the lawyer, not by negligence or malpractice.
• The loss arose from a lawyer-client relationship or a fiduciary relationship between the lawyer and the claimant.

One of the following applies to the lawyer:

• The lawyer has been suspended or disbarred from the practice of law for disciplinary reasons
• The lawyer has voluntarily resigned from the practice of law;
• The lawyer has died;
• The lawyer has been found mentally incompetent; or
• The lawyer’s whereabouts is unknown to the Virginia State Bar.

If you have any questions you may contact Vivian Byrd (VSB) at (804) 775-0572.

Lets look at the numbers:

How many lawyers are licensed to practice in Virginia? More than 29,000 lawyers are admitted to practice in Virginia. More than 45,000 attorneys are registered in all categories of membership, including associate, judicial and retired.


An active member pays $250 per annum, a non-active pays $125.
Full time Judicial, retired or disabled pay no annual dues.
There is also a $50 late fee for any dues not paid by July 31 deadline.
2016-17 Membership Dues 10,466,277.22 

The VSB charges $25 per attorney for the Clients’ Protection Fund.
2016-17 Clients' Protection Fund Assessment & Restitution 839,984.65

The Virginia State Bar’s Clients’ Protection Fund awarded $38,168.33 in reimbursements to former clients of 11 Virginia lawyers at a meeting Sept. 15. The CPF board approves awards to persons who suffer financial loss because of dishonest conduct by Virginia lawyers. The largest of the awards was $7,333.33

http://valawyersweekly.com/2017/11/06/vsb-pays-38k-from-client-protection-program/



WHAT MONEY HAS REALLY BEEN PAID TO VICTIMS IF THERE IS A $9.7 MILLION BALANCE IN THIS ONE FUND?

WHY HAVEN'T MORE VICTIMS BEEN MADE WHOLE?

WHY IS THERE ANY LARGE SURPLUS IN THIS FUND?

WHO OR WHAT (VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT OR THE ELECTED COUNCIL OF THE VSB) HAS AUTHORIZED THE VSB TO BUILD UP THIS $9.7 MILLION  SURPLUS?

It has risen over $700,000. IN THE PAST YEAR!!!!

THE VIRGINIA STATE BAR AND THE VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT SHOULD BE ASHAMED FOR NOT REDUCING ALL VIRGINIA LICENSED LAWYERS' DUES YEARS AGO IN 1995 WHEN JLARC TOLD THE VSB IT SHOULD REDUCE THE VIRGINIA LAWYERS' DUES. 


In effect, the VSB is taking money from all Virginia Lawyers who pay yearly dues to build up a Slush Fund for the VSB.

VSB Client Protection Fund Contact Info:
Phone: (804) 775-9426
E-mail: cpf@vsb.org
Administrator: Vivian R. Byrd
Counsel to CPF: Jane A. Fletcher
Deputy Executive Director: Renu M. Brennan

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