Thursday, July 26, 2018

REPORTING CRIME: DEFENDANT'S REPLY IN OPPOSITION

NOTATION: This kind of crime is out of control in CALIFORNIA. Property tax financing is not well regulated and contractors like PETERSEN DEAN conspire with HERO FINANCING to take advantage of the lack of regulation. The section of the population they victimize most, the elderly and disabled are usually unable to pay to retain an attorney and legal aid is inundated by the epidemic.
    





Jennifer Marshall


Temporarily Self-Represented




SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

PETERSEN DEAN, INC.
                                         Plaintiff,
            v.
JENNIFER MARSHALL,
                                        Defendant
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Case No.: BC661819

DEFENDANT’S REPLY IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO STRIKE AND CONCURRENT DEMURRER
DECLARATION OF JENNIFER MARSHALL

Date: August 1, 2018
Time: 8:30 AM
Notice of Intent to Appear by Telephone by JENNIFER MARSHALL

TO THE COURT, ALL PARTIES, AND THEIR COUNSEL OF RECORD:
        Defendant JENNIFER MARSHALL hereby respectfully submits this REPLY in OPPOSITION of
PLAINTIFF’S DEMURRER, concurrently filed with a MOTION TO STRIKE.
                                                                   INTRODUCTION
        1. I, JENNIFER MARSHALL am the DEFENDANT in this action and I am currently forced to be in pro per but I am not qualified to represent myself and I am suffering mentally and physically due to the prolonged and illegal actions of PLAINTIFF. I am a victim of crime. PLAINTIFF has committed crimes that have destroyed my life and the life of my autistic son JAMES MARSHALL.
        2. DEFENDANT has failed to file and serve an OPPOSITION in a timely manner because to do so would have endangered the life of her autistic son JAMES MARSHALL. Our local police can be called upon to testify in court that JAMES MARSHALL has been suffering from toxic stress as a result of his living conditions caused by PLAINTIFF and that they, the police had to explain to new neighbors that JAMES MARSHALL is screaming nonstop, suffering insomnia, exhibiting severe separation anxiety to the extent that he screams if his mother is not visible to him and the police have witnessed JAMES MARSHALL in this state of toxic stress and have witnessed that the condition the house is in as a result of PLAINTIFF disrupting mold remediation and blocking DEFENDANT’S access to equity for JAMES MARSHALL’S badly needed DENTAL SURGERY as well as restoration of JAMES MARSHALL’S home so that it is safe to live in again. The state of the home is frightening for an adult and completely overwhelming for an autistic person. The police kindly asked DEFENDANT if there was anything they could do. DEFENDANT replied that doctors reported that they felt as if their hands were tied and they were at a loss what to do because the problem is environmental, being caused by an outside force and we are all powerless to make PETERSEN DEAN stop this immediately, we are trapped in a long process that is ripping JAMES MARSHALL apart. The police have witnessed the frightening looking environment that is distressing JAMES MARSHALL so badly and said they would explain to concerned neighbors that JAMES MARSHALL was not being assaulted, that he is in pain but unable to take pain medications and sedatives due to allergic reactions and that the source of his pain cannot be addressed until this legal case is resolved, allowing access to home equity to pay for his surgeries not covered by MEDICARE/MEDICAL. DEFENDANT and her son have to try to hang in and stay alive. The police can testify that they witnessed that it is impossible to have a complex conversation, to do paper work or read while JAMES MARSHALL is in this state and that to attempt to do so would be endangering JAMES MARSHALL’S life and a criminal offense of unjustifiable neglect. In this state JAMES MARSHALL attempts self-injury. The entire neighborhood is aware of JAMES MARSHALL’S suffering, his fear of his own home and his being trapped in limbo regarding his dental surgeries. When new people moved into the neighborhood, they called the police because the intensity and months of duration of JAMES MARSHALL’S screams frightened them.
         DEFENDANT’S son has had a few days of calm and DEFENDANT immediately called attorneys to request representation. With each call, JAMES MARSHALL showed signs of increased anxiety and began clapping his hands nonstop, which he does before he regresses into full on head-banging. DEFENDANT spoke to ROMAN E. DARMER of the law firm of JONES DAY. MR DARMER heard JAMES MARSHALL crying for DEFENDANT not to talk on the phone, not to talk about this case. The mere act of discussing this case drives JAMES MARSHALL to scream and hurt himself. He has also become terrified of people talking to his mother. He reacts as if everyone might hurt us as PLAINTIFF has. MR. DARMER of JONES DAY put us in contact with PUBLIC LAW CENTER. I reported to PUBLIC LAW CENTER that I was also beginning to show signs of toxic stress myself, that I was forgetful, experiencing shortness of breath, dizziness and constantly fighting off a feeling of  utter dread and panic that we will lose our home, that I felt I was also succumbing to the YEARS of unrelenting stress. While PUBLIC COUNSEL and BET TZEDEK has not been able to help us because they are inundated with homeowners who have been scammed like we have been, fortunately PUBLIC LAW CENTER was able to begin the intake process and will try to match us with a PRO BONO attorney. I am on my last leg. I will not survive without help. I do not know how my son JAMES and I survived approximately two years of this unjustified abuse from PLAINTIFF. LEIGH E FERRIN, Directing Attorney, Consumer Law & Pro Bono of PUBLIC LAW CENTER, 601 Civic Center Drive West, Santa Ana, CA 92701 told me that unfortunately she would not be able to match us with a pro bono attorney in time for the AUGUST 1, 2018 hearing. MS FERRIN said she would need several weeks. Therefore, I respectfully ask that the court grant additional time for MS FERRIN to process and match us with the correct attorney for our case.
        3. Furthermore, as DEFENDANT believes PLAINTIFF is guilty of serious crimes, she asks the court to consider that PLAINTIFF is so keenly desperate to avoid a trial by jury because PLAINTIFF knows full well that the discovery process will unearth those white collar financial crimes. PLAINTIFF has exhibited patterns of behaviors that suggest consciousness of guilt and a burning need to avoid discussing any of the details of the extremely strange and illegal financing of 2016. PLAINTIFF simply wants the court to fork over DEFENDANT’S home to them and be done with it. DEFENDANT has expressed her concern that GEORGE K MILIIONIS is guilty of crimes in a complaint to the STATE BAR which is attached as EXHIBIT A. DEFENDANT also begs the court to consider PLAINTIFF’S brazen disregard for human life, the eagerness to mow down innocent human beings to cover up a sloppy tax credit scam and avoid justice.
       4. In response to PLAINTIFF’S item 2 of DECLARATION OF SAM KARIMZADEH IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO STRIKE AND DEMURRER TO DEFENDANT’S THIRD AMENDED ANSWER, I JENNIFER MARSHALL agree that I did ask to communicate via email only because my autistic son JAMES MARSHALL becomes upset when this case is discussed verbally and because on many occasions in 2016, many different men who worked for PETERSEN DEAN began calling me and working on me verbally for many months and it was a horrifying experience. To avoid a repeat of such abuse, I felt it would be safer if everything was in writing. The court will notice there are no specific settlement offers presented to DEFENDANT by PLAINTIFF. If this had been done verbally, DEFENDANT strongly suspects PLAINTIFF would claim they made many good offers and that I turned them all down.
       5.  In response to item 3 of the DECLARATION of SAM KARIMZADEH, I did not understand the law well enough to make an informed response and that is why I asked the court for more time to search for an attorney. The saying that a person who represents them self has a fool for a client is based on solid truth. I am only representing myself until I can find help. I do not know how to properly answer a complaint. PLAINTIFF wants me to do the work anyway and pressures me to focus on doing work I am not qualified to do rather than use what precious few moments of time I have when my son is calm enough to search for an attorney instead. It is clear that PLAINTIFF does not want me to find an attorney. PLAINTIFF is also aware of what crimes they have committed and they know full well that most small firms cannot afford to take a case like this. PLAINTIFF is fully aware that they have harmed my son JAMES MARSHALL and that this also makes it harder to focus on searching for an attorney since the time needs to be spent seeking medical and emotional help. PLAINTIFF has discussed JAMES MARSHALL with their insurance CAP SPECIALITY (since they filled his lungs with stucco powder on November 2, 2016 and began engaging in deliberately frightening us) because they wish not to be liable to what is happening to him as a result of their actions.
        6. In response to item 4, the pressure SAM KARIMZADEH placed upon me to have a settlement conference to narrow the scope of the case when in fact justice can only be served by expanding the scope of the case was palpable. Again, PLAINTIFF is in a very big hurry to take our home away from us without getting into the details of what exactly happened in 2016. I did not want to be railroaded. I was very concerned about the lack of any real communication. PLAINTIFF wanted to publish in a newspaper instead of serving me a copy of the complaint. To this day the only complete copy of the compliant I have is the one I purchased with my fee waiver. I made the mistake of TRUSTING that the copy PETERSEN DEAN emailed to me THE DAY MY ANSWER WAS DUE was a complete copy. Since the copy I got from the court was a hard copy, I forwarded the emailed copy of the complaint to THE PUBLIC LAW CENTER when they requested that I send a copy. To my shock, I received an email from PUBLIC LAW CENTER informing me that the emailed copy of the COMPLAINT BC661819 was incomplete, most of it was missing. I told PUBLIC LAW CENTER I was sorry, that I never realized it was in incomplete copy because I never had occasion to rely on it because it was sent to me so late, on the very day my answer was due. I had used the copy I purchased from the court to answer the complaint. This is a prime example of the dirty tricks PETERSEN DEAN plays and played since 2016. PETERSEN DEAN is desperate to avoid a trial by jury because when all the dirty tricks are paraded out in front of a jury there will only be one conclusion to be had and that is that PETERSEN DEAN is in the business of dirty tricks and they don’t care if people suffer and die because of it. In 2016 PETERSEN DEAN employees BRAGGED about how GEORGE MILIONIS would mow us down, how it was hopeless and I should just sign the document they wanted me to sign.
       6. In regards to MR KARIMZADEH’s Item 5. Yes, the documents are forgeries. The electronically generated initials and signature were not my handwriting and the amount of money in the contracts the signatures were deposited on was not the amount of money I agreed to. Even after I found out about the incorrect amounts, PETERSEN DEAN employees engaged in more trickery and kept trying to convince me I was still getting the $10,000 off as part of the free roof for going solar package even if it didn’t look that way. It is forgery. I will swear to this under oath.

         7. In regards to MR. KARIMZADEH’S Item 6. I do not understand item 6 and have requested time to find an attorney because there is so much I do not understand regarding case filings. I cannot put my son’s life in further danger by neglecting him to attempt to do something I clearly am not qualified to do. I did not ask for months, I asked for until August 1, 2018 in my previous filing, praying to God that somehow, some way I would be able to take care of JAMES and seek an attorney too. I came very close to the deadline I asked for. PUBLIC LAW CENTER said they would need weeks, not months, to process my intake, review the case filings and find a match. Again, I must emphasize that most of the legal aid organizations are swamped with solar scam victims, tax credit scam victims. PLAINTIFF is aware of this and counting on it. PLAINTIFF has no intention of winning this case on the merits of the case because PLAINTIFF knows full well they committed crimes. The day I talked to JONES DAY law firm I apologized and warned them my son would grow increasingly agitated the longer I talked and that I couldn’t call back later because it would still happen. I told them I would email information and talk as fast as I could but I wouldn’t be able to talk long. JAMES screams for weeks on end. This started in fall 2017 when we were forced to move back into our gutted house because we ran out of hotel money. The first night we spent in the gutted house James screamed so loud the neighbors thought someone was being murdered. The doctors were at their wits end as to what to do about an environmentally caused stress with no end in sight. Since we finally have some hope, I respectfully ask the court to grant PUBLIC LAW CENTER time to process us.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed on this 26th day of July, 2018         SIGNED__________________________________
                                                                                               JENNIFER MARSHALL


 

















EXHIBIT A
























STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA
Complaint Review Unit
Office of The General Counsel
180 Howard Street
San Francisco, California 94105-1617

July 24, 2018
Inquiry Number 18-20383
Dear State Bar of California Complaint Review Unit,
I respectfully request a review my three separate complaints regarding three separate attorneys that got lumped together as one. I believe the more serious complaint is the one against Attorney George Milionis and that lumping him with less serious offenses was a mistake. Perhaps the mistake was mainly mine for reporting unprofessional behavior of two attorneys from the same firm at the same time I reported what I believe to be the criminal behavior of George Milionis.
Mr. Milionis is deliberately abusing the MECHANICS LIENS process and using the process as his personal tool to avoid detection of PETERSEN DEAN and HERO FINANCING’S multiple wrong doings and to cover up financial fraud PETERSEN DEAN committed with HERO FINANCING when they acted as HERO’S unlicensed broker.
As per the enclosed HOMEOWNER’S GUIDE TO PREVENTING MECHANICS LIENS, there is a LIEN REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST. Mr. George Milionis knows full well he did not meet those requirements. He is aware he is not using MECHANICS LIENS correctly for the purpose that they exist for. MECHANICS LEINS used to cover up a crime is nefarious and such an attorney should not be allowed to continue committing financial crimes with impunity.
Mr. Milionis knows that a job must be completed before he can place a MECHANICS LIEN. In June 2018 Petersen Dean paid a $500 citation (Copy of Citation enclosed) to the CSLB for not removing and replacing rotten wood, for covering rotten wood with new shingles, for not doing the work they were hired to do up to standard. That citation will remain on Petersen Dean’s record for five years and yet Mr. Milionis shrugs it off as if it is nothing because the fine was laughably small and he can still leave the work unfinished, still leave rotten wood under the new shingles, still remove the financing and demand more money than was agreed for the job and still file Mechanics Liens to cover up the financial fraud. Petersen Dean and George Milionis flaunt their lawlessness in your face, in the court’s face, in my face. Mr. Milionis clearly feels he may act with impunity and that the laws that apply to others do not apply to him and his client PETERSEN DEAN.
Mr. Milionis knows the CSLB Lien Checklist requires that the homeowner must accept the improvement and be using the improvement and he knows the job was never completed, that the homeowner did not sign off the completion documents with HERO FINANCING because was never completed in 2016. The solar panels were never turned on all these years. DWP never inspected the panels. Both HERO and PETERSEN DEAN agreed to remove the solar panels after H&R Block indicated that I most certainly would not receive $10,000 tax credit because as a senior citizen caring for my adult autistic son, we do not pay taxes. Mr. Milionis decided to withdraw the HERO FINANCING and pretend it never existed and he proceeded to deliberately misuse the MECHANICS LIEN process to cover up financial fraud that had become noticed by the homeowner’s tax preparer Mr. Martin of H&R Block.
I believe many of the actions of Mr. Milionis rise to a criminal level.
The other two SEPARATE complaints against Mr. Karimzadeh and Mr. Mendoza, (all three given the same INQUIRY NUMBER) are for unprofessional conduct and do not rise to a criminal level. Lumping all three separate attorneys under one INQUIRY served to water down the very serious complaint against George Milionis. Mr. Mendoza was toying with me. Mr. Karimzadeh was faking having communication with me just so he could say he tried but I wouldn’t’ cooperate. He made no real effort to discuss the case with me. Who sues a person then refuses to communicate with them?
Mr. Karimzadeh was unprofessional and did not make any true effort to have a legitimate meet and confer with me. He wanted Judge Murphy to believe true communication was offered but in his emails to me you can clearly see no real settlement offers were discussed, no mention of the financing was discussed. Mr. Karimzadeh limited his communication to trying to manipulate me to give up my right to a trial by jury. He refused to discuss any details of the case with me. That is not an opinion. That is supported by his emails, our only means of communication. The emails do not show any good faith discussion of the case and the financing. Mr. Mendoza asked questions about the incomplete work….questions he knew the answer to because the CSLB citation made it clear…and he was not the attorney of record. Mr. Karimzadeh did not discuss the incomplete work, the rotten wood under new shingles, the removal of the solar panels or ANY of the details of the financing and the case. He stubbornly refused to discuss the financing that had vanished into thin air. Where did the HERO financing go? Why is PETERSEN DEAN allowed to get rid of HERO and call for $34,000 cash ($10,000 more than agreed) without financing and without finishing the job?
Mr. Mendoza emailed me until I told him to stop. There was no reason for him to contact me at all, even once, ever. Mr. Karimzadeh is the attorney of record and it was his job to tell me anything that Mr. Mendoza told me. I only answered Mr. Mendoza because I thought he acted like he was taking over the case for Mr. Karimzadeh. These two men both behaved unprofessionally. I filled out separate complaints for each attorney because no attorney deserves to be lumped together and accused of another attorney’s behavior and actions. Especially when those actions of one individual rise to a criminal level.
I believe George Milionis is a criminal and that he has done great harm to many homeowners in the State of California. Please separate his Inquiry from the other two nuisance complaints for attorneys acting unprofessionally and take a second look at the actions of George Milionis.
It is my opinion that George Milionis should not be practicing law in the State of California in light of how he has blatantly, undeniably, deliberately abused the MECHANICS LIENS process. Mr. Milionis is making up his own MECHANICS LEINS laws as he goes along. He changes the MECHANICS LIENS law to suit his need and uses it as a weapon to control and intimidate people, wielding the threat of the MECHANICS LIENS in writing to force signatures from homeowners long before the job is finished, YEARS before the job is finished in this case. Mr. Milionis helps PETERSEN DEAN broker HERO FINANCING without a license and revokes the financing and demands instant cash payment in full, more money than agree upon and with no financing if someone (in my case H&R Block) discovers the property tax financing fraud in progress.
Please take a second, closer look at this.
Thank you for considering this matter.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Marshall








COPY OF LETTER SENT TO PETERSEN DEAN AS PER CSLB BOOKLET:

FROM: Jennifer E. Marshall


April 9, 2017

VIA CERTIFIED MAIL
TO: Petersen Dean, Inc.
39300 Civic Center Drive, Suite 300
Fremont, California 94538

RE: INVALID LIEN 20170093119
       INVALID LIEN 29170093193

Dear Petersen Dean, Inc,
I was not served a copy of the two liens in question. I purchased copies from the courthouse in El Segundo, California via check and have the receipt.
Both liens are invalid because they do not adhere to the strict time frames and lien requirements.
Both liens are invalid because the job was abandoned by you on November 2, 2016.
The work and necessary repairs were not completed. The stucco powder you refused to hire Building Cleaning Services or any other reputable cleaning service to remove has drifted and contaminated the entire house making it uninhabitable. Numerous contractors interviewed to rebuild the kitchen refused to enter the house until the stucco powder is remediated as it made them instantly feel sick. I suffered a bloody nose, sore throat and burning eyes. My autistic son James developed a severe lung infection. Assurant Insurance paid for air quality testing of the entire house. The powder you refused to remove from my son’s room on November 2, 2016 has contaminated the air vents and the carpeting and is everywhere now. The mold remediation being done in the kitchen by Assurant was disrupted by your abandonment of the job on November 2, 2016 and put on hold until you made the air quality safe again, which you still have not done.
The solar panels are not in use. You agreed in writing to remove the solar panels after H&R Block examined your figures and determined that I would not receive ANY of the savings, that it was a tax credit scam. You did not remove the panels as agreed. The roof is creaking and you did not fix that or any of the items you previous agreed to repair. A complete list of everything you didn’t finish and left in disrepair is attached to the CSLB claim and is being verified by the Contractors State Licensing Board Case Number: SF20169935.
I hereby request that you immediately remove both of the invalid liens. If I have to hire an attorney to make you remove the invalid liens, I am instructed to remind you that I am entitled to be awarded all reasonable attorney fees.

Sincerely,

Jennifer E. Marshall

















I SENT PETERSEN DEAN THE ABOVE CERTIFIED LETTER AS PER THESE CSLB INSTRUCTIONS:











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