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)

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A Va. State Bar $9.7 million Client Protection slush fund.

Who is the VSB protecting? Not the public!

November 03, 2017

Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund Board Awarded $38,168.33

The Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund Board awarded $38,168.33 in reimbursement to former clients of eleven Virginia attorneys at its most recent meeting on September 15, 2017.

Docket Number	Respondent’s Name	Address of Record	Amount Paid	Type of Case
16-555-003052	Stephen Joseph Fisher (Deceased)	Leesburg, VA	$1,800.00	Unearned fees/ Bankruptcy
17-555-003092	Tony Michael Hutchinson	Norton, VA	$   500.00	Unearned fees/ Bankruptcy
17-555-003097	John Arthur Sutherland, Jr.	Fairfax, VA	$7,333.33	Conversion-Theft/Personal Injury, Property Damage
17-555-003099	Jean Jerome Dandy Ngando Ekwalla	Woodbridge, VA	$1,600.00	Unearned fees/Bankruptcy
17-555-003107	Nnika Evangeline White	Richmond, VA	$   500.00	Unearned fees/Family Law
17-555-003112	Nnika Evangeline White	Richmond, VA	$1,150.00	Unearned fees/Bankruptcy
17-555-003113	John Fredrick McGarvey	Glen Allen, VA	$2,550.00	Unearned fees/Criminal Law
17-555-003115	Jean Jerome Dandy Ngando Ekwalla	Woodbridge, VA	$2,850.00	Unearned fees/Consumer Credit
17-555-003116	John Fredrick McGarvey	Glen Allen, VA	$2,900.00	Unearned fees/Criminal Law
17-555-003117	Kimberly Lisa Marshall	Poolesville, MD	$6,500.00	Unearned fees/Family Law
17-555-003118	Sara Elizabeth Chase	Henrico, VA	$1,000.00	Unearned fees/Family Law
17-555-003119	Michael Alan Bishop (Deceased)	Meadowview, VA	$7,500.00	Unearned fees/ Real Estate
17-555-003120	Michael Alan Ward	Fairfax, VA	$1,985.00	Unearned fees/Family Law

The Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund was created by the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1976 to reimburse persons who suffer a financial loss because of dishonest conduct by a Virginia lawyer.  Awards from the Clients’ Protection Fund are discretionary and are not a matter of right.  The fund is not taxpayer funded, but is funded by Virginia lawyers who are assessed an annual fee of up to $25. For more information on the fund, go to https://www.vsb.org/site/public/clients-protection-fund.

If you have any questions, you may contact Vivian R. Byrd, Administrator to Clients’ Protection Fund, at (804) 775-0572 or e-mail cpf@vsb.org

Updated: Nov 03, 2017

COMMENTS:

$9.7 Million Dollar Surplus in VSB Client Protection Fund

This post by the Virginia State Bar is deliberately misleading & intended to convince the Public & Virginia attorneys that the VSB is protecting the Public by paying out $38,168.33 to clients of eleven (11) attorneys.

Do the math:  

This is an average of $3,470.00 per client.

The VSB has a $9.7 Million+ Surplus (Slush Fund) under the control of the Virginia State Bar Clients' Protection Fund Board.

The VSB is not protecting the Public through the VSB Clients' Protection Fund any more than the VSB peotects the Public through its skewed VSB Disciplinary System.

The VSB is also continuing to collect $25 from every lawyer every year who pays dues to build up this Slush Fund for the VSB while  denying the majority of claims filed by clients who have suffered financial losses.

So much for the VSB Client Protection Fund protecting the Public & the Bar's dues paying members.

In 1995, the Virginia General Assembly (JLARC) Instructed the VSB to lower its dues.

http://jlarc.virginia.gov/reports.asp

The VSB has defied the Virginia General Assembly for 22 years.

Will the VSB explain this $9 Million Dollar Surplus to the Public & all Virginia dues paying attorneys?

No.

COMMENT

Verification of Virginia State Bar Client Protection Fund Data for Comments Posted Above:

http://m.vsb.org/site/about/the_clients_protection_fund_board_2017/

Virginia State Bar Only Suspends, Revokes & Imposes Public Discipline on Solos, Small-Firm, Minority & Female Attorneys Who are Not Well-Connected

Virginia attorneys need to unite to reform the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary System

VSB Only Suspends, Revokes & Imposes Public Discipline on Solos, Small-Firm, Minority & Female Attorneys Who are Not Well-Connected

Virginia attorneys need to unite to reform the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary System through the Virginia General Assembly. 

The VSB Disciplinary System must be modified to be  fair for all lawyers & to end the VSB's targeting of only solos, small firm members, minorities & women for Public Discipline, Suspensions and Disbarment.

Big-Firm and Well-Connected attorneys have NOT received any Suspensions,  Disbarments, Public Discipline in over 27 years.

As Virginia lawyers we can stop this targeting & deliberate malfeasance of the VSB by asking our General Assembly to remove the VSB Disciplinary from the control of the elected VSB Council and VSB Trade Association of the unified VSB.

Most States have already removed the Disciplinary Section from political control.

Since well before 1995, Virginia has moved in the opposite direction despite the last  1995 JLARC AUDIT REPORT of 27 yrs ago. http://jlarc.virginia.gov/reports.asp

We need to prevent the VSB from targeting certain these classes of lawyers & from protecting Big-Firms & Well-Connected  attorneys.

Help convince the Virginia General Assembly to act to protect all of us, not just some