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Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)

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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #30 on: July 22, 2012, 03:50:09 PM »
I thought I did make them available!? Maybe I never sent them to Matthew, or maybe they got lost in the shuffle.. I just resent them, hopefully we'll get them in the library..

Would it be useful to make available the 27-page file of complaints about Timothy McCormack first, kind of as a practice run?

I'm sure visitors to ELI would like to read that file as much as I would.
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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #31 on: July 22, 2012, 07:52:31 PM »
As per Mullignas request....Complaint file from the Washington State Attorney general concerning Timothy McCormack..

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100769974/Attorney-Timothy-B-McCormack-Complaints-Washington-Attorney-General
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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #32 on: July 23, 2012, 10:05:23 AM »
Ah, great. Thank you, Robert!

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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #33 on: July 23, 2012, 11:26:21 AM »
Gosh, if we could find grounds for a class action suit against Getty, this would be a nice repository from which to start finding members of the class.

Robert, I wish I came back from vacations as energized as you.  You Rock BuddhaPi!

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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #34 on: July 23, 2012, 11:31:29 AM »
I actually came back and was exhausted..but chomping at the bit at the same time...it's the damn kool-aid that Matthew makes me drink on a daily basis!

Gosh, if we could find grounds for a class action suit against Getty, this would be a nice repository from which to start finding members of the class.

Robert, I wish I came back from vacations as energized as you.  You Rock BuddhaPi!
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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #35 on: July 23, 2012, 11:36:07 AM »
Robert, I just read through the file (thanks again for uploading it), but I only found two complaints instead of six. Did my old eyes miss something or is this all the WSAG office send you?

What was in the file seems to confirm what we already knew... that Timothy B. McCormack and his paralegal trolls reply on FORM letters to try to demand absurd payments from people. As the second complaint in the above file says, lawyers who do this really should be barred from using their unethical practices.

Of course, what normal honest people regard as unethical, many lawyers regard differently.

I noted the result of the first complaint was to thank the individual for filing. The second result was "Resolution: CLOSED INQUIRY/INFORMATION.

Regarding the second complaint, I was appalled to read this in the response from the Attorney General's office:

"Consumer complaints regarding the actions of attorneys are exempt from the Consumer Protection Act and the informal mediation service our office provides. The State Supreme Court has given the Washington State Bar Association the authority to review and respond to complaints regarding Washington State attorneys."

No wonder collection lawyers can get away with murder.

No wonder Getty can get away with what it does.

Got a problem with a Washington State lawyer trying to shake you down for thousands of dollars? Then, according to the Washington State Attorney General's office, complain to other lawyers in the Washington State Bar Association who will then sanction one of their own.

Yeah, right, and pigs can fly.

Our system is so broken...
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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #36 on: July 23, 2012, 11:46:39 AM »
You said it Mulligan!

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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #37 on: July 23, 2012, 11:49:03 AM »
No Mulligan you're not losing your mind.. I started the confusion here..
as was stated in this thread, there were only 2 complaints available at the time of my request.

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/tomothy-b-mccormack-attorney-general-complaints/

The reference to 6 was in regards to Bar Complaints as referenced here:

http://www.extortionletterinfo.com/forum/getty-images-letter-forum/another-fine-example-of-timothy-b-mccormack-the-puking-out-garbage/msg7055/#msg7055

The Bar Association only makes complaints "public" if there is some sort of action taken or sanctions.. so we don't actually have these.. I apologize for the confusion, and I'm glad you called me out on it, because I just realized that the 1200 pages will now most likely contain many LESS complaints that I was originally estimating.
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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #38 on: July 23, 2012, 12:05:50 PM »
Robert, my bad. Now that you've jogged what's left of my memory, I recall the distinction between the two and six complaints.

I'd sure love to read the complaints to the bar association, but I fear none of them will ever see the light of day and that McCormack will go on about his merry way because the lawyers at the bar association will consider his work with letters demanding huge payments all perfectly legal and acceptable. :(

On another note, Robert, I hope wading through 1200 pages of the complaints to come doesn't turn out to be an exercise in futility since the result of many (if not most) of the complaints may well be on the order of... "Sorry, we don't handle consumer complaints."

If Getty's letter compaign in the eyes of the Washington State Attorney General's office (and other AGs as well) is always considered to be nothing other than a consumer complaint...



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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #39 on: July 23, 2012, 12:13:19 PM »
It may be a waste of time, but it will not be fruitless, at the very least I will have names, emails and phone numbers of those that complained..

In regards to the Bar complaints, I think if enough of them are sent in the bar will be forced into looking into them a bit more closely.. In the meantime any complaint that is submitted is brought to McCormacks attention and he has to invest the time and effort in answering them. He probably has a typo filled form letter for this as well, but again at some point someone at the bar will take notice.. This war is more like hand to hand urban fighting, as opposed to just dropping a nuclear bomb and ending it quickly..
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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #40 on: July 23, 2012, 12:32:06 PM »
Well, I plan on wading through the huge file too because one can often discover patterns in that much material that would otherwise be missed, and I'm sure there will be many interesting nuggets that we'll find useful.

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Re: Public Records Requests for Getty Images Update
« Reply #41 on: July 23, 2012, 01:43:00 PM »
This war is more like hand to hand urban fighting, as opposed to just dropping a nuclear bomb and ending it quickly..

Nuclear bomb = large class action suit victory over Getty

We may need to win many hand to hand battles on the way.  In fighting those battles we will unearth their weakness and the grounds for the class action suit.  I know that not because I am a lawyer (I am Not), I know that because Getty losing is the ultimate RIGHT result for the world.
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