Edward Davis "Ed" Fagan (born October 20, 1952) is a former American reparations lawyer who was dismissed for his behavior involving dishonesty, deceit, fraud, or misconduct. Fagan lost its license in New York and New Jersey for failing to pay court fines and fees and to steal clients' money and collect trust funds from Holocaust victims. He currently lives in Prague.
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Fagan was born in Harlingen, Texas and grew up in a Conservative Jewish home in San Antonio, Texas and has two children. Before starting his legal career, he traveled to Israel to take part in the Yom Kippur War. Upon his return to the United States, he enrolled in Cardozo School of Law and graduated in 1980. Initially he worked as a personal injury lawyer, then worked with a large law firm, representing the defendants of the company, before he started an exploration club for the wealthy in the 1980s. allowing wealthy customers to visit exotic locations, entertained and accompanied by scientists and environmentalists. A business nonprofit, the Odyssoe Foundation, was created in 1991, but collapsed with the entire company.
Clients and partners have publicly and in court, that Fagan often fails to represent the interests of his clients, he generally takes on "too many clients", "goes far beyond his [ed] resources", and "often absent for combat laws". According to Burt Neuborne, professor of law at New York University, who had worked with Mr. Fagan before breaking his relationship with him, "The filing of Mr. Fagan in the Swiss bank case is so inadequate that a judge asked him to rewrite it... This is an ordinary person who is drifting in trouble bigger than himself."
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Careers
1995 Holocaust lawsuit against Swiss banks
In 1995, Fagan filed a lawsuit against Swiss banks who refused to pay back the money that belonged to the Holocaust victims. The banks settled claims out of court, generating payments of US $ 1.25 billion.
According to news reports, Ed Fagan even held the final official signing of German slave laborers because he wanted more money for himself. While several hundred people and German and American representatives are waiting, Ed Fagan, still wearing the ABCNEWS 20/20 microphone, can be heard "bargaining over costs, and then boasting of his success". He recorded it by saying, "I got legal fees,... We did great things, we're great, we just got another, we just got more money."
Among the many critics of Fagan is the University of New York law professor Burt Neuborne, who says on the note: "We are basically working around him,... I mean, he's there, but, but he's playing, if I say zero , I mean a zero role in developing legal theory, in presenting legal theory, and participating as a lawyer. "Neuborne, a prominent human rights lawyer, believes it's time to straighten out the notes:
It did not surprise me at the last minute that the only lawyer, the only lawyer who thought he could hold this deal was Ed Fagan. That's why a barometer of how much you care about yourself, and how much you care about the victims. I think it's right for, telling the truth about him. One hundred percent of his activity in this case, including press activity, was designed to get his name there so that others would sign up with him so he could get more and more people in the fold and then show up in court and say, "I am a lawyer best because I get lots of clients. "
In 1998, Mrs. Gizella Weisshaus, a plaintiff named in a lawsuit against Swiss banks, opted out of the historic settlement because he felt that his lawyers were more interested in paying millions of dollars, even before some survivors had received any money.. On April 8, 1998, Ms. Gizella Weisshauss filed a lawyer ethics complaint, claiming that Edward D. Fagan, her lawyer at the time, held her $ 82,583,04 from the treasure of the late cousin Jack Oestreicher. It R. Lieberman, Esq. from the Department's Discipline Committee, the Supreme Court, the Appeals Division, responded on May 6, 1998, that in this "ongoing criminal process", the outcome of disciplinary investigations should be awaited.
In 2000, Fagan represented about 82,000 Holocaust victims and family members (many of whom later accused him of negligence), sued governments and companies in Germany and Austria under the Foreign Tortoise Act Tort.
class action lawsuit slavery year 2002
In April 2002 Ed Fagan filed a class action lawsuit against eighteen companies, including FleetBoston, CSX Corporation, Aetna, Union Pacific Railroad, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and Lehman Brothers, accused the company of "unfairly enriching (themselves) obtained either directly or indirectly from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery between 1619 and 1865, and post-Emancipation slavery through the 1960s. " In January 2004, Judge Charles R Norgle rejected the lawsuit because Fagan failed to establish a clear relationship between the plaintiff and the company.
2002 Apartheid's claim against Swiss and US banks
According to news reports by CNN, "maverick lawyers" sought to file a $ 50 billion class action lawsuit against Swiss UBS and Credit Suisse and Citicorp Inc. who was based in the United States to provide funds for the South African apartheid government during 1985 and 1993. Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Ruedi Christen dismissed the lawsuit with the following words: "This is another unfair attack on Switzerland," the opinion shared in Switzerland where residents told Fagan to "Go home!" and "Wash your dirty sheets elsewhere", when he held a press conference at Paradeplatz in Zurich, home to two of Switzerland's biggest banks: Credit Suisse and UBS.
2003 Apartheid's Demands against Anglo American
In 2003, Fagan and South African law firm Ngcebetsha Madlanga, Lawyers attempted to sue Anglo American, the second largest mining company, De Beers diamond producer Sasol Ltd., which supplies about 44 percent of South African motor fuels, and Fluor Corporation, a Company a California-based technique, claimed that the companies benefited from South Africa's racial discrimination policy that ended in 1994. The claim was rejected by a federal district judge in November 2004, Fagan was not allowed to represent the case.
Artwork Lawsuit 2004 against Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG
In 2004, Fagan filed a federal suit in Manhattan for a group of no-one called the Holocaust Association of Sacrifice Victims for Restitution of Artwork & amp; The masterpiece (AHVRAM) against the Austrian Bank Creditanstalt AG and other European corporate, government and financial institutions for $ 6.8 billion. The suit allegedly was theft of artwork and other properties during the Holocaust of World War II, but was rejected by US District Court Judge Shirley Wohl Kram on August 19, 2005, as Fagan failed to declare any basis for "reckless" federal court jurisdiction and "bad faith". Kram notes that "the AHVRAM plaintiff organization does not exist," lack of "Fagan's preparation and professionalism," its inadequate filing, "and the fact that it deceives the court". Fagan's failure to pay more than $ 350,000 in fines and litigation fees to the Bank of Austria Creditanstalt AG led to bankruptcy and disruption.
The 2004 slave trade suit against Lloyd's of London
Claiming that the descendants of American black slaves are still suffering, Fagan sued the UK's oldest insurance market, Lloyd's of London to insure ships used in the slave trade in the 1700-1800s. Fagan's interest in financial compensation was immediately criticized by Kofi Mawuli Klu, Chair of the Pan-African Taskforce for Internationalist Dialogue (PATFID); The Movement of Anti-Slavery Learning on Religious Conservation and a member of the Pan-African European Reparations Coalition (PARCOE): "We must ensure that the focus does not shift from a broad and deep understanding of reparation to only one of the financial compensation,... We see action for more reparations as an educational issue to bring the masses of people into a war against racism. "
2005 Kaprun disaster lawsuit
Fagan attempted to represent the plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by the relatives of six Americans who died in a mountain rail disaster in Kaprun, Austria, which killed 155 people, but in August 2007, the Southern District of New York Judge Shira Scheindlin disqualified Fagan from representing the plaintiffs. , after noting that Fagan, who had filed for personal bankruptcy, had a personal interest in the outcome of litigation and made a false statement to the court. Scheindlin slapped the lawyer with a $ 5,000 fine. Fagan continues to seek victory in this case with his former partner in case that through a failed Florida partnership they represent victims in Louis J Pearlman's fraud, allowing Fagan to retaliate to sell his services to the victim of the fraud. Fagan eventually left these clients after severely hurting their chances for any recovery due to his dishonest and dishonest involvement in their case.
2005 Indian Ocean tsunami victim casualties
In 2005, he initiated a lawsuit on behalf of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The lawsuit was directed against the Thai government, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Sofitel French hotel group, blaming them for insufficient earthquakes and tsunami warnings.
2006 Borat's lawsuit
In 2006, Fagan began legal proceedings, demanding a $ 30 million filmmaker Borate: Cultural Learningings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, on behalf of two Romanian Glod villagers. , DÃÆ' Â ¢ mbovita for human rights violations. He plans to file a lawsuit in the courts of New York and Florida, as well as in Frankfurt, Germany. Fagan said he hopes to "teach Hollywood a very expensive lesson." The lawsuit was issued by US District Judge Loretta Preska at a hearing in early December 2006 on the grounds that the allegations were too vague to stand in court. Fagan plans to refill.
Malpractice
Fagan has been accused of leaving personal injury clients in favor of more profitable Holocaust reparations cases. One personal injury client sued Fagan, and won a $ 3.2 million malpractice award. Fagan is accused of spending more than $ 500,000 of his client's money.
In 1998 Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of the Federal District Court dismissed the federal suit from Mr. Ortiz, noting that Mr. Fagan, his lawyer, has "failed to prosecute" it for three years and ignores court orders. The demands of Mr. Ortiz, then a 49-year-old truck driver involved in a traffic accident, began in 1994, when Mr. Fagan filed a $ 35 million suit in his name in federal court in Brooklyn and the Supreme Court, but Fagan failed to pursue the case after 1996. After that Fagan did not see, visit, or talk to his client.
In another case, Mr. Fagan failed to file a claim for Mr. Tom Giron to the New York state fund that compensates the non-insured motorists. Mr. Giron was hit and severely wounded in 1992 by a car reportedly stolen, but received no compensation whatsoever, because, according to Jeffrey Rubinton, the president of the fund, the claim was never filed and "his record shows that such an action has never happened." chased and that the restriction laws make one long over. "Another client, Offer Salmoni, won a $ 167,000 malpractice assessment against Mr. Fagan, because Mr. Fagan repeatedly failed to make court appearances in his eviction case, and therefore the restriction law ended without refilling.
New Jersey ethics officer filed a complaint before the complaint committee. Fagan on behalf of Diane Gibbons, another former client, who complains that Mr. Fagan failed to submit the required documents in the case of his personal injury, which resulted in his dismissal. During the trial, Fagan was forced to admit that he did not withdraw from a lawsuit that he could not pursue, forgiving himself with the words: "I am over my head a lot of time."
Investigating sexual harassment
The Jewish Daily The Forward reported in October 2005 that Ed Fagan was involved in a legal investigation into published allegations and sexual contact with an underage prostitute in Austria. Austrian print and broadcast media reported that the prosecutor in Vienna was looking for Fagan contacts with a prostitution ring involving underage girls from Eastern Europe. Fagan confirmed the sexual relationship with a 17 year old Lithuanian prostitute named Inga but claimed that he believed the prostitute was at least 22 years old. Although prostitution is set in Austria, it is still illegal to consciously hire a prostitute under the age of 18. The maximum penalty, according to Ã,§ 207b (Adolescent sexual abuse) of Strafgesetzbuch Austria (Criminal Law) is 3 years in prison.
Termination in New Jersey and New York
In 2005 Fagan was subject to ethical investigation by the New Jersey Law Office, accusing him of "knowing the abuse" of clients' money. On April 2, 2007, the Appeals Division, Department 1 stated that Fagan had "violated a number of disciplinary rules that prohibit a lawyer from ignoring a court decision, engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, misinterpretation or fraud, and gaining interest in ownership in the subject of litigation."
On December 11, 2008, in "Edward D. Fagan, M-2732, M-3148, M-3193", a round panel of the Appeals Division, Department 1, decided that Fagan's failure to pay sanctions and money owed to the Bank Austria, "previous sanction patterns for unprofessional behavior" and "lack of regret" make it unfeasible to practice law. Fagans will be "beaten from lawyers scrolls and counselor-in-law in New York State." The next day, Fagan was fired in New York for failing to pay court fines and fees due to Bank of Austria.
Following the 2008 recommendation of a special ethics specialist of the New Jersey state board of discipline decided in January 2009 that Fagan should be fired and barred from training in the country because he abused hundreds of thousands of dollars entrusted to him by Holocaust survivors.
Bankruptcy
Finance and business Fagan began to collapse in the 1990s. According to public records and newspaper articles, Fagan began to owe a large amount of federal income tax. In 1996, Nynex Corporation filed a $ 228,000 lawsuit against Odyssoe in a New Jersey court for an unpaid advertising service, a bill that, according to Verizon's spokesman, Nynex's successor, was not even paid in 2000. Facing expulsion due to unpaid rent, forced Fagan in 1997 to leave his office and lease space from a law firm at the World Trade Center.
In 2005 Fagan has 28 awards and extraordinary court lien of more than $ 4 million against himself and his company, Fagan & Partners, including three from clients who alleged that he was ignoring their case. In February 2007 he filed for protection under a federal bankruptcy law in Tampa, Florida. Court documents are said to show that he owes about $ 9.4 million to creditors.
See also
- List of unloading in the United States
- Christoph Meili
- Holocaust industry
References
External links
- Ed Fagan case
- Holocaust Lawyer Fights Allegations of She Employed under Austrian Prostitutes
- Con Man and Snake Oil Salesman Ed Fagan Tries To Shut Down Parentadvocates.org. Lewenstein Serves Subpoena at Gizella Weisshaus
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