KELLEY LYNCH ANNIVERSARY SERIES: ONE READER’S OPINION

Kelley Lynch (Bolder PD booking photo)

It has been one year since—following her bannage from these pages— we first posted about the controversial former Leonard Cohen manager Kelley Lynch. (See here.)

To commemorate the one year anniversary of almost daily harassment by Ms. Lynch consisting of multiple daily emails (over 4,000 to date) sent to the IRS, the FBI, the media, attorneys, governors, mayors, the State Bar, local police agencies and many others—all accusing us of multiple criminal offenses—we have invited various persons (including Lynch’s own family) to guest post here.

Here is the first in a series of such posts. These views do not necessarily reflect our views and we are not responsible for third party content, such as this post.

Bloggers Beware

Opinion

By Susanne Walsh

To those of you who have not yet been "lucky" enough to meet Kelley Lynch on the internet, you are herby warned that she is a very disturbed woman so filled with hate and need for revenge that I believe she can be dangerous to anyone who gets involved with her and her crazy rants.

Ms. Lynch was indeed Leonard Cohen’s personal manager for several years. However a few years ago Leonard Cohen discovered that Ms. Lynch had stolen and mismanaged his entire savings. Cohen fired her, sued her and won a judgment of $7.9 million.

However Ms. Lynch vanished and never made an attempt to pay back the money she stole from the old poet, instead she (from wherever she was hiding) started to harass Mr. Cohen and his attorney (e-mails and phone calls). In 2008 Leonard Cohen obtained a restraining order against Ms. Lynch which she accepted, but she then started a vicious hate campaign against Leonard Cohen by targeting every newspaper/magazine forum that would bring a favorable review of a performance by Mr. Cohen.

Ms. Lynch has in the most disgusting manner slandered and lied about Mr. Cohen and his family; she has falsely accused him of every crime in the book from tax fraud, thief, liar, perjurer, child molester and much more. Any blogger who will respond and disagree or object to her brutal attacks, she will verbally abuse and even threaten to “report” to The Department of Justice or even at one point to Department for Humanity in Haag, for making her look and sound “not credible” and for "obstructing justice".

She will also turn things around and play the victim, accusing all who in a disagreeable way reply to her postings, that we are all insane, stupid liars that are harassing her and her children and parents and destroying her life. In the past few years Ms. Lynch has sent several hundred e-mails to the IRS and other public offices with her claims punishments for especially Leonard Cohen, but also everybody who does not agree with her, as she for years has been “waiting” for Bruce Cutler or some other high profile lawyer from Phil Spector’s legal team to come knock on her door and take her case against Cohen and the rest of the world who she believes have a conspiracy against her.

It should be noted that Leonard Cohen has never been arrested, charged or prosecuted of any wrongdoing as well as he has never responded to Ms. Lynch’s slanderous hate campaign and since the legal matters were finalized has never publicly spoken of Ms. Lynch and her betrayals

Susanne Walsh

PUBLIC DEFENDER CHOKES PROSECUTOR OVER COURT DATE

This just in, from Above the Law:

“A Cook County prosecutor was hospitalized this morning after being choked in a hallway of the 26th and California criminal courthouse, allegedly by an assistant public defender, police said.

“The 50-year-old assistant state’s attorney “might be injured very badly,” an official could be heard telling prosecutors at the courthouse. But another source said the prosecutor was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital only for observation.”

Reading between the lines here, and as a veteran defense attorney once exclaimed to the undersigned—as we sighed “I hate victims” as a witness made his way into court on crutches:

“You have been doing this too long”.

Jim Wagner was right-we just did not realize it until 20 years later.

Read more:

Lawyer of the Day: Public Defender Needs Defending (Above the Law)

TOO SEXY FOR CITIBANK FIRED WOMAN ALLEGES

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NY Post

Is it possible that a woman could be so sexy, even in a conservative business suit, that no men in the office can get any work done?

That is precisely why Debbie Lorenzana claims in her wrongful termination suit that she was fired from her job at Citibank-- her bosses told her they couldn't concentrate on their work because her appearance was “too distracting”.

Lorenzana, a 33-year-old single mom, pointed out female colleagues whose clothing was far more revealing than hers:

"They said their body shapes were different from mine, and I drew too much attention," she says.

"Men are kind of drawn to her," says Tanisha Ritter, a friend and former colleague who also works as a banker and praises Lorenzana's work habits.

"I've seen men turn into complete idiots around her. But it's not her fault that they act this way, and it shouldn't be her problem”, a Village Voice story reports.

Lorenzana's gender discrimination suit was dismissed last month because her deal with Citibank called for any disputes to be settled in private arbitration. She's pressing on with her case there.

"Are you saying that just because I look this way genetically, that this should be a curse for me?" she told the Village Voice, which first reported her case.

In a statement, Citibank said, "We believe this lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously."


View Slide Show (Villiage Voice) [please refrain from shouting "Yea, Baby" if viewing at work].


Read more:

Woman Claims She Was Fired for Being Too Attractive (Above The Law)

Woman says she was from Citibank for being too hot (NY Post)

Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker? (Village Voice)

Curvy Banker Says She Was Fired for Being ‘Too Distracting’ in Business Suit and Heels (ABA J.)

Is This Woman Too Hot To Work At Your Office? (Deal Breaker)

Maggoted

I had a beer tonight and I just had two cold and flu night tablets, which you shouldn't take with alcohol. Things are going to get cra-zy.

I expect to wake up in my frontyard with no pants on.

Economy of Awesome

Today I did a talk in a primary school where I ate a chocolate éclair as part of my opening illustration. Because of that all the kids thought I was amazing and mobbed me afterwards.

Chocolate éclair eating leads to celebrity status. I'm living the fatties' dream!

ATTORNEY FINE DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS (JAIL)

Much as happened (Fine-wise) since we reported that a State Bar judge recommended the disbarment of notorious adjudicated legal bully Richard L. Fine—likened by the State Bar Court to a “gladiator”—and not in a good way.

For one thing, Fine has been disbarred.

For another, Fine has been incarcerated for the last 12 months over his refusal to appear at an Order of Examination and truthfully state what all of his assets are so some of his scorched-earth litigation victims can collect some of the court ordered fines that Fine was ordered to pay.

Then things really went downhill for Fines.

As reported by Legal Pad, quoting the LAT:

“The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Fine's petition to end his confinement. Fine has filed habeas corpus petitions, from his jail cell, at the district, Ninth Circuit and California Supreme Court level. Fine alleges that Yaffe is biased against him because of his work on advocating against judicial perks.

“According to the LAT, Fine intends to continue his battle, despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to take up his petition "effectively [puts] an end to his dogged legal quest.”

Qanda

I went to see Q&A getting filmed last night with Howie and Dingo in Studio 22 at the ABC.

On the show was Liberal Senator Corey Bernardi, Clare Bowditch, Miriam Lyons, Mitch Grady and Maxine McKew. They were a good group. Everyone spoke rather well. Bernadi and McKew just sounded like politicians who can never say anything much except for the party line. Bowditch spoke like an artist about "listening to your inner ear" and "speaking from the heart", but I generally agreed with her. However, the winner of the night, in my view, was Mitch Grady. He's an "aspiring Liberal" whatever that means, but he was smart, persuasive, and spoke very well. I hope he doesn't become a politician because he won't be allowed to speak well anymore.

It was a rather rowdy crowd. I had some young Liberals in front of me who would only listen to Bernardi and spent the rest of the night muttering that everyone else was an idiot and should shut up. I wanted to kick them in the back of the head. But I didn't because Jesus would not be pleased.

The largest applause of the night followed Corey Bernardi's explanation of why he wants to ban the burqa: "If we think that we’re not going to have a problem in 20 years as the burqa becomes more prevalent, I think we’ve got to think again and we’ve got to nip it in the bud now and say, “Enough is enough. We have a different culture, a different society here, one that is open where you can see people’s faces and you can communicate effectively with others."

He says his argument stems from people using the burqa as a disguise to commit a robbery in Sydney. It seems like a rather absurd reason to ban a burqa, it's not like there's a campaign out there to ban ski-masks and motorcycle helmets. This has to be about more than just public safety. Otherwise you can just ban the wearing of face coverings in banks, police stations and at airport security screening.

It worried me that there was such a depth of approving response in the crowd to the idea of banning the burqa. I'm disturbed by any attempts to limit religious freedom in our country. Just because I'm not a Muslim doesn't mean I want to stop them expressing their faith in the way they believe is right.

Mitch responded pretty well when he said: "I think there’s a very fine line between a country who, through a law, interferes with somebody’s choice by banning the burqa and a country who, through a law, interferes with somebody’s choice by forcing them to wear a burqa... When we’re having these debates, we need to go back to first principles. When do we ban something in a western liberal democracy? ...We have to accept that in a Western liberal democracy we all have rights and freedoms and choices and that those rights are not granted at the whim of the state but they’re granted to us on the basis that we have innate integrity as a human being and so what it essentially means is that rights in our society must apply axiomatically. You don’t need a reason to give somebody a right but you do need a damn good reason to take it away."

The issue of Rudd's back flip on using government funds to pay for political advertising in the mining taxes debate came up. Corey scored some easy points in that one, because poor Maxine is stuck trying to defend something which is clearly the result of Rudd's lack of integrity and by trying to make it out as being in the public interest.

Once again Mitch put it well: "What I find interesting about this debate is that the government seems to think that if somebody expresses a point of view that’s different to theirs, then that is misinformation. That’s not - it’s not misinformation, it’s an argument and as a government you need to be prepared that other people are going to have different points of view. Now, the government has no shortage of mechanisms available to get its message out there: political journalists and what not. If you want to air a political advertisement, then that should be paid for by political parties and nobody is stopping the Labor Party from submitting an ad defending that policy. But the government should not be - whether it was Howard and WorkChoices, whether it was Labor and the mining tax, the government should not be spending money to defend policy and it’s very different to swine flu, which had a clear public benefit. This is a benefit that only serves to try and keep Kevin Rudd in power."

To which the Liberal Senator responded "Hear, hear!" I think he may have only listened to the last line and missed the bit where Grady stuck the boot in Howard.

All up it was a fun night. Probably most fun was being part of live television, I love live TV. And I love politics. But live TV is 1000 times better.

I think I might go back.