Yes that is odd, but then, everything about Al is very odd.
Home of the Whoppers
Odd things and stories, happening before Al filed the lawsuit. Based on Urban's whopping lie about trillions in a secret fund. As per Kevin West letter to Urban, Jan 2009. Indictment per Urban sealed May 2009. Unsealed Sept 17, 2009, Shortly after, rumors hit the boards, Al was filing a whopping lawsuit. Selecting plaintiffs.
Nothing is normal or legit at any time lol
This weirdness has been posted before about his taxes. Al told the Tax Commission, Swarthout was an ex judge and attorney, in Michigan. Al's looking for Russell Swarthout in Switzerland and everywhere.
Where would you start looking? Ummm, maybe Michigan?
Bad Debt Deduction On or about February 10, 1986, petitioner and Mr. Russell Swarthout, allegedly an attorney admitted in the State of Michigan and former judge, executed a document entitled "Memorandum Agreement" which provided that Mr. Swarthout would represent petitioner and Clayton International Investment and Holding Company Limited2 during the fiscal year ending January 15, 1987 The Memorandum Agreement further stated that Mr. Swarthout was to receive a "general legal retainer"3 in the amount of $25,000, and that such retainer included Mr. Swarthout's prepaid business and travel expenses. Petitioner testified that Mr. Swarthout had been retained to secure European loans, so as to enable petitioner to purchase real estate in southern California. It was petitioner's belief that if Mr. Swarthout was unable to obtain the financing, petitioner's retainer would be returned, minus actual expenses.
Petitioner testified that during 1986 petitioner paid Mr. Swarthout a total of $20,000.4 Petitioner obtained a receipt for an initial payment of $12,250; however, no receipt was obtained for the remaining payments allegedly made by-petitioner. Moreover, petitioner testified that because he owed the Government several hundred thousand dollars in back taxes
from 1982, he did not have a bank account in 1986, and, therefore, the payments to Mr. Swarthout were in cash. Moreover, the cash transfers were allegedly made in London, England.
Petitioner further testified that, in early 1987, it became apparent to him that Mr. Swarthout would be unable to obtain the financing for him, and shortly thereafter, Mr. Swarthout disappeared. Petitioner and an associate, Mr. Colin, attempted to locate Mr. Swarthout during the remainder of 1987 and most of 1988. As part of his endeavors to locate Mr. Swarthout, petitioner met with an attorney in Century City, California,5 and contacted another associate in Switzerland,
I looked up Swarthout and he was in Michigan practicing law, as suspected, all that time.
Al's Mr. Swarthout, in Al's personal case about his taxes, was disbarred in 2010. Treffry, saltydog Pat Cluney, Reece Hamilton all made reasonable requests for evidence, proof and left the lawsuit when not supplied. They wrote about it and mp3 and in paltalk, to shareholders. It's a valid reason.
Detroit attorney disbarred
Margaret Lucas Agius Detroit Legal News Examiner October 29, 2010
ADB Tri-County Hearing Panel #14 has disbarred Detroit attorney Russell L. Swarthout effective Jun. 24, 2010, the Attorney Discipline Board reported Wednesday.
The panel found, by default, that Swarthout failed to seek his client's lawful objectives, failed to keep his client informed about the status of his matter, failed to comply with reasonable requests for information from his client, failed properly to account for funds he received from his client and entered into an improper agreement to split fees with a non-lawyer. The panel also found that Swarthout knowingly failed to respond to a lawful demand for information from a disciplinary authority, failed fully and fairly to answer a request for investigation and failed to answer the formal complaint.
The panel revoked Swarthout’s license to practice law in Michigan effective Jun. 24, 2010, and ordered him to pay restitution of $55,100.
Swarthout filed a petition for review. Upon review, the Attorney Discipline Board affirmed the hearing panel's order of revocation and restitution and ordered him to pay costs of $4,341.09.
Attorney Discipline Board records reflect that at the time of Swarthout’s disbarment, he had been SUSPENDED from the practice of law in Michigan since July 18, 2006.
Source: State of Michigan Attorney Discipline Board
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But the jury at his original trial never heard Spitz's testimony, and Boak said that and other mistakes by Swarthout sealed Zavoda's fate.
"It was as if there was no one sitting there with Mr. Zavoda," Boak said of the representation, according to a transcript from the appeals hearing. "He would have been better off defending himself because (Swarthout) advanced on his behalf a defense that was doomed from the start."
"There was no investigation done by anyone. The witnesses were not interviewed. Even the ones that Mr. Zavoda suggested," Boak said during the same court hearing. "No interview. No investigation."
Swarthout died in 2012, two years after losing his law license.
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