What inspired this Watchdog to Expose Dishonest Attorneys and Judges?

After I began to file ethics and/or criminal complaints against judges and/or attorneys in Ohio and other venues, the press began to refer to me as a Watchdog. I also began to investigate attorney, judicial and public corruption throughout the United States and numerous foreign countries.

Suffice it to say, that amongst attorneys, judges and public officials, I became their mutual enemy for having the temerity to publish the truth about the misdeeds and/or criminal conduct.

The main motive for my ongoing crusade at exposing corruption wherever I find it, is my personal experience with employing attorneys in Toledo, Ohio.

The following is a list of attorneys that I unfortunately employed beginning in the early 1980s.

• Joeseph William Westmeyer Jr.: suspended for defrauding a client
• Dale R. Crandall: permanently suspended for engaging in a variety of misconduct Case No. 022183
• David Romain Pheils Jr.: suspended for 6 months
• E.J. Liezerman: found guilty of perjury in Delaware Ohio court, reprimand by U.S. judge in Nashville
• Thomas Allan Yoder: suspended for one year for engaging in a variety of misconduct
• Michael David Portnoy: – Pheils/Crandall associate – suspended for one year for

When I subsequently hired attorney James Nooney of Eastman & Smith, he asked who I had previously employed. When I told him Westmeyer, Crandall, Pheils and Leizerman, he facetiously asked me: “Did you intentionally seek out the worst lawyers in Toledo?”

Imagine if you will, hiring six (6) attorneys in a row that unbeknownst to you were the worst of the worst. Furthermore, how would you feel if these so-called officers of the law intentionally caused you and your spouse untold pain and suffering along with the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And lastly, when I advised then Jonathan Walker Marshall, then Director of the Ohio Supreme Court Disciplinary Counsel of the egregious misconduct of attorney David Romain Pheils, Jr. in the late 1990s, his response was: “The Toledo Bar Association had sufficient evidence for Phiels to be disbarred, but because of his threatening nature and history of bullying his opponents, they chose to ignore said evidence.

So much for the so-called state attorney discipline systems, which are more interested in protecting their own than they are in protecting us.