Posted on 09/15/2010 10:05:22 PM PDT by MamaDearest
California is so broke it is being compared to Greece. But the Orange County Board of Supervisors gave away 4.3 million dollars to an illegal Mexican alien who is also a child molester. Why did the supervisors do it? Answer: “The lawyer made me do it!”
The first chapter in this distasteful story begins with Fernando Ramirez, a 24-year-old illegal alien, being caught molesting a 6-year-old girl in a park. He was duly convicted and sent to the Orange County Central Jail. The second chapter is predictable.
Inmates in prison for murder, bank robbery, mugging old ladies, and other assorted thuggery agree on at least one thing: They hate child molesters. So when Mr. Ramirez was finally incarcerated, his life insurance company should have been quick to cancel his policy. That the California court allowed Fernando to plead guilty to “battery against a child,” instead of putting him on trial for child molestation, did not impress his fellow inmates. They beat him to within the proverbial inch of his life.
In the third chapter a California lawyer takes over. Attorney Mark Eisenberg is not an ambulance chaser. Let’s face it, that’s a tacky vocation that is not really cost-effective. Instead, lawyer Eisenberg seems to have discovered that being a noble defender of downtrodden child molesters is just the ticket. By some means, Mr. Eisenberg was mysteriously advised about Fernando being roughly used by the other gents in the Orange County lockup. If he did have an informant somewhere in the county system, no doubt Eisenberg would have simply thanked him, and assured him that his reward could only be in heaven. Then Eisenberg swung into righteous action.
Bringing a case before the Orange County Board of Supervisors, the kindly attorney claimed that Ramirez had suffered brain damage because of the beating, that he needs help walking, and that he now has the intellect of a four-year-old child. Luckily, that age was two years less than the six-year-old child he had molested, so the supervisors must have been very saddened by his alleged condition.
In the fourth chapter, the supervisors take stock of the dire financial straits of Orange County. They then conclude that county taxpayers can still find it in their hearts to hand the child molester and his lawyer the largest settlement ever given to anyone in county custody: $3.75 million, plus $900,000 for medical expenses. With a wave of their wands, Orange County Supervisors made Fernando one of the richest non-citizens in the country!
You might ask questions about that award, but you will get no answers. The case was heard behind closed doors, and the supervisors have absolutely and wisely refused to make any comment on the matter since Joshua Jamison broke the story on The Raw Deal blog. It was later picked up by The American Thinker.
We should remember that lawyers who do not chase ambulances, like Mark Eisenberg, do their work for free. Just like we see advertized on television. What we do not see on television is that lawyers like Eisenberg work on a “contingency fee” basis. That means that if they take your case (and they will not take it unless they reckon they will win), they will take a share of the winnings — usually at least 30 percent. In this case, that means Eisenberg took home over $1 million of Orange County taxpayer money. Not bad for a quick closed-door decision by the supervisors. The final question is: Did the Board of Supervisors also let millionaire Fernando out of the hoosegow? They must have. It is the only way he could spend his new-found wealth and be the financial stimulus Orange County needs so badly.
Chet Nagle is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the author of IRAN COVENANT.
Damn.
“All the rope in Texas and tall oak tree...”
(paraphrasing Willie Nelson, the dope smoker).
Is this what I fought for?
K.
Words fail.
IIt appears California is nearly bankrupt, but has a stash set aside for illegal alien entitlements. Do you suppose putting this man in a full-care facility for the duration of his life would cost anywhere near the amount awarded to him?
God help us if we can’t clean up the culture; where is the justice? The fact this guy is illegal is a secondary issue to me, albeit extremely important.
Sorry Cali FReepers, you just need to get out of the State before it gets smited, smote, (whatever the past tense is for God’s wrath).
I tried to pull the ejection seat handle but my wife got in the way. Now I’m trapped in an airplane that’s on fire and it going down with all aboard. Google/YouTube “Sewer Soon City” (California).
It would have been better to through him back in the general prison population and let the inmates finish what they started. Throw the attorney in there too.
$578,000,000 high schools, too...oh, that’s in Los Angeles.
Now the family of the real victim needs to get an injunction attaching the money before he can send it back to Mexico; then sue him for every dime of the settlement, on behalf of their daughter.
The concept of making jails and prisons safer from assualt and rape is not only sound, it’s the hallmark of civilization. Civilized peoples don’t throw prisoners into pits with wild beasts.
On the other hand, such an extreme award to such a person is literally obscene. I wonder if the award was actually given so that people would be so outraged, they’d slam the door on the whole idea of prison safety reform. Baby and bathwater thing.
Such insidious calculation wouldn’t surprise me (as if much does anymore).
Ping!
Some “men” aren’t even worth the food they eat.
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