CONNECTING THE DOTS ON LAWYER FOR RUSH ACCUSER

various | 10/3/03 | self

[STARWISE]

Don't know if there's anything here, but in trying to get information about Ed Shohat, quite an intriguing web is revealed. He's the attorney for the alleged "maid" to Rush Limbaugh who's reported turning him in for illegal prescription drug purchasing. His Democrat Party ties are known .. but there's more.

Shohat is also the attorney for Eduardo and Hector Orlansky, whose financial intrigue is described here:

Miami Herald Article about Espirto Santo Bank and the Orlansky brothers

It just show happens that Espirito Santo Bank formed a partnership with the Orlansky brothers for the purpose of funding their lucrative factoring business.

"One client of Bankest's was Stratesec, a Washington-area security company. In its financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stratesec acknowledges that E.S. Bankest's money was the lifeblood of its financing."

"Stratesec Incorporated (formerly known as Securacom Incorporated) provides comprehensive technology-based security solutions to large and medium sized commercial and government facilities. The company provides consulting, planning, engineering, designing, systems integration, maintenance and technical support services. The solutions provided by the company include integrated security systems, comprising a command center managing one or more subsystems, intrusion detection systems, closed circuit television systems and fire detection systems. The services include security consulting, integration and implementation of the security systems. The clients of the company include Washington Dulles International Airport, Hewlett-Packard Company, EDS, Wachovia Bank, MCI WorldCom, Inc. and Alltel Corporation. The company became publicly held in October 1997."

That information on Business.com has a url shown, but it's not in sync with the name. It's http://www.bpm.it for Banco Popolare di Milano, an obviously Italian site all in Italian.

The brothers Orlansky are being repped by Shohat as a result of their defaulting on some $170M owed to Espirito Santo.

Google search on Eduardo Orlansky:

Google here

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MORE ON DAVID BOIES IN PALM BEACH... Check this out...

The Carl Hiaasen/Elmore Leonard Rip 'n' Write Section

In August, an appeals court heard arguments on a third contempt of court order by judges against a Palm Beach lawn-care company owned by a cast of characters including superstar New York lawyer David Boies, who has been supplying legal firepower, unsuccessfully, against a rival firm (whose owner is representing himself in court). Boies' company, Nical, alleged that rival Scott Lewis broke a 1996 contract, and the sides have struggled since then, with another Nical owner apparently violating multiple court orders. Boies' co-owners are a convicted top-drawer Miami marijuana smuggler and the frisky ex-wife of a Guatemalan textile manufacturer (a woman described by one California clothing buyer as a "sex nazi" because she used him sexually in exchange for overlooking various invoices).

These are people who would get along fine with Maid Cline. Is she from Guatamala maybe? Where's Rush's maid from?

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MORE ON DAVID BOIES IN PALM BEACH... Check this out...

The Carl Hiaasen/Elmore Leonard Rip 'n' Write Section

In August, an appeals court heard arguments on a third contempt of court order by judges against a Palm Beach lawn-care company owned by a cast of characters including superstar New York lawyer David Boies, who has been supplying legal firepower, unsuccessfully, against a rival firm (whose owner is representing himself in court). Boies' company, Nical, alleged that rival Scott Lewis broke a 1996 contract, and the sides have struggled since then, with another Nical owner apparently violating multiple court orders. Boies' co-owners are a convicted top-drawer Miami marijuana smuggler and the frisky ex-wife of a Guatemalan textile manufacturer (a woman described by one California clothing buyer as a "sex nazi" because she used him sexually in exchange for overlooking various invoices).

These are people who would get along fine with Maid Cline. Is she from Guatamala maybe? Where's Rush's maid from?

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My last search on David Boies WHO WAS WITH THE DOJ. Wasn't someone's wife at DOJ currently?

Here's his case against Microsoft to look for clues.

12:02 PM EST Tues., Sept. 21, 1999 A government attorney Tuesday morning intoned a litany of what he called Microsoft Corp. offenses against antitrust laws Tuesday morning before a packed courtroom.

David Boies, the lead attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in its quest to reign in Microsoft practices, focused particularly on a June 21, 1995 meeting at which, he said, Microsoft tried to divide the browser market with Netscape Communications Corp., pointing to notes by then-Netscape chief technology officer Marc Andreessen as proof. "Look at the documents," said Boies.

As has become his custom, Boies spoke fluidly, without notes, calling up documents at will to reinforce his points.

He highlighted e-mail messages from Microsoft senior vice president Jim Allchin that talk of the company's need to use Windows as a competitive advantage. "We must use Windows, it's the one thing they do not have," Allchin wrote. Boies said Microsoft was so intent on using its Windows monopoly that it was willing to hold back new technology from OEM partners, even if those partners-and by extension their customers-would suffer as a result.

In an e-mail message, Allchin wrote that the company should withold certain other technologies in Windows 98 so the company could get its Internet Explorer browser integrated with the operating system.

There was a market for a separate browser and an operating system, but Microsft not only integrated the browser into Windows but "welded it so that OEMs and customers couldn't change it," Boies said.

Before a crowd of spectators both and statues of famous lawgivers of the ages from Moses and Solomon to Hammarabi, Boies hammered home three points: That Microsoft monopolized the operating systems market and attempted to do the same with browser, both in defiance of Section two of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and that it practiced unreasonable constraint of trade, a violation of section one.

Toward the latter point, he said Microsoft entered into exclusive deals with Internet Service Providers to distribute and maintain its browser and to refrain from distributing Netscape Navigator.

"In the end this case should be about the real world, not creative legal arguments or creative economic arguments and what the real world demonstrates is shown by Microsoft's documents, what OEMs said and what their customers said," Boies noted.

Observers lined up on both sides of the issue. "It's a scary situation when lawyers are telling us what the real world is. It ignores what really happened in terms of 100 million plus browsers being distributed by Netscape," Jonathon Zuck, president of the pro-Microsoft Association for Competitive Technology.

Ken Wasch, president of Washington-based SIIA called Boies' closing "simply marvelous."

"It's clear Microsoft employed tactics not designed to improve its product but to kill competition," Wasch said.

But, William Kovacik, a professor of law at George Washington University said the government strategy is a gamble. They are relying so much on the June 21 meeting, the result could boil down to whether that meeting "had a single and unambiguous purpose, if there was a single unmistakable aim and purpose you might have a violation but it will be hard to prove that."

Microsoft will have its turn to present its key points later Tuesday afternoon.

I also found out that CBS OWNS VIACOM and MTV. And, he's National Enquirer's counsel and for some reason, he was involved in the Spike Lee case against TNN's Spike network arguing against Johnny Cochran for Spike Lee. So, I guess that means Boies was representing TNN/Spike TV.

[cyborg]

Smell a demoRAT BTTT

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Two other players-- the pharmicist and his wife-- in all their beauty:

"Meet Louis Beshara and his wife, Gloria Rodriguez. The Florida couple are at the heart of the drug scandal now enveloping radio superstar Rush Limbaugh. Investigators allege that the duo illegally sold hundreds of thousands of prescription painkillers from a Palm Beach-area pharmacy they owned. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's search warrant affidavit, Beshara provided Hydrocodone, the powerful and addictive painkiller, to middlemen drug dealers like Joseph Coppola who then resold the pills to users. It has been reported that Limbaugh scored some of the Beshara pills via Wilma Cline, a former maid at the radio star's West Palm Beach mansion. Beshara and Rodriguez, who each face two felony drug trafficking charges, are free on bail, though Beshara is under house arrest."

From The Smoking Gun

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So Boies' Palm Beach "lady friend" is Amy Habie. I wonder what other "important lawns" she services?

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Wonder how a lowly maid is able to afford an expensive sleazy lawyer like this one ? ;) Could a demoncrat be behind this? Hmmmmm? ;)

[Swanks]

This is fantastic. The Rats have met their match w/the web. In five minutes reading you can find potential trails and connections that otherwise would never see the light of day.

[Swanks]

There's enough here for Roy Black and Ruchbo to drop a donation to FR; saved 'em tons of work on who's behind the curtains. Granted, piles of wood and brick dumped on the front lawn. But enough to build a holding pen for a few Rats.

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There's enough here for Roy Black and Ruchbo to drop a donation to FR...

Maybe someone should mention it's pledge time to one of them...LOL

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More on Boies:

He has another good buddy in NY: Judge Lewis Kaplan who handed him the Christies/Sotheby collusion case on a platter after numerous other firms spent tens of thousands competing for the job.

From the NY Observer:

"But Judge Kaplan was unmoved. The process remained intact, and on May 26, after a mere 24 hours reviewing the bids, he awarded the case to Mr. Boies.

What remains particularly galling for the other lawyers is the apparent close relationship between Messrs. Kaplan and Boies. That association is typified, they say, by what happened just after Mr. Boies won the case. Judge Kaplan placed a personal call to Mr. Boies, they say, telling him he had won. Meanwhile, he left it up to Mr. Boies to fax the other attorneys. Some of those lawyers, many of whom had committed months of labor and tens of thousands of dollars to the case, learned they had been cut out only when they read about it in newspapers.

[CyberAnt]

Okay - I agree Gore's lawyer was Boies - so where am I getting Kendall. The name is ringing all kinds of bells. I have been searching Google but I can't find anything.

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Here is an Federal Election Commission report of illegal campaign contributions (in other people's names) that fines Boies and "lady friend" Amy Habie $50,000 each in civil penalties.

http://www.fec.gov/press/mur04142000.htm

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Kendall was Elian Gonzalez' American relative's attorney but after Reno kidnapped Elian Easter weekend, everybody thought Kendall was actuall in on it.

I can't remember his first name but Kendall is also part of Janet Reno's S. Fla. crowd of attorney pals.

How far fetched would it be that Maid Cline's husband actually worked for Boies' lawn service which was how she hooked up with the National Enquirer? Or, worse yet, what if Boies' lawn service mowed Rush's lawn and met the maid that way.

I'm just speculating but who knew that Boies was part owner of a lawn service run by top drawer marijuana dealers as noted in an article I mentioned above. Boies' lawn service = drug ties S. Fla. Maid Cline drug ties S. Fla.

We need to find out what line of work Cline's husband was in. If he was in the lawn business, eureka.

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Ewe, it looks like the so-called pharmacologists used all the drugs themselves. Yeah, how many lawns did Amy mow? Did you notice that her hubby from the lawn service also served as CFO or something like that for Boies' law firm? Isn't that sweet?

What I'm wondering is this... What did Maid Cline's hubby do? Was he in the lawn business and if so for whom?

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How's this for a coincidence? Today at the Marriott in D.C., the demrats held their Fall Meeting. I'm sure it will be on c-span again later tonight.

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IT LOOKS LIKE BY REPPING CBS AND NATIONAL ENQUIRER, both are on the same page to try to bring Rush down. This is from a web page re: CBS today. Check out the name of the Editor of the National Enquirer. I bet he's buds with Boies.

Limbaugh did not address the drug investigation reports in his speech.

The Enquirer had interviewed Wilma Cline, who said she became Limbaugh's drug connection after working as his maid. She said Limbaugh had abused OxyContin and other painkillers.

Ed Shohat, a Miami lawyer for Cline and her husband, said Thursday, "The Clines stand by the story." Shohat said neither he nor his clients would comment further.

National Enquirer Editor in Chief David Perel declined to say whether the Clines were paid for their interview, but said the tabloid does "pay for interviews, photographs and exclusives - as long as they can be proven to be true." Referring to media reports saying the Clines were paid six figures for their story, Perel said, "People are just making things up."

CBS' Byron Pitts reports media analysts say this latest controversy could do real harm to Limbaugh's image and his career.

The conservative pundit - whose fans call themselves Dittoheads - once said the government should "send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich and let's be rid of them."

"When you've built a career on preaching what a good life is and law and order and toeing the straight line. When... that line that you've been on is not so straight anymore, it's clearly a touch of irony here," says media analyst Donny Deutsch, in a CBS News interview.

CLEAR PATH FROM THE NE TO CBS imo. They just happened to find a media analyst today.

Wilma Cline's husband, we need to find out what he does for a living besides the alleged dope stuff.

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Comments attributed to Rush don't even sound like him. She kept a ledger of the pills approx. 5000 in 47 days. I'll provide the link. This is pretty detailed. I think this woman is a pathological liar but if Rush called her that, she'd sue him for slander next.

http://www.nydailynews.com/10-02-2003/front/story/122839p-110349c.html

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David Cline is listed as a "handyman".

[lewislynn]

I'm not liking Rush hiring a sleazy attorney. This does not say "i'm innocent" does it?

If you ever need an attorney, no matter what your position is in the case, you'd better think about getting the sleaziest son of a bitch you can afford to represent you.....

[DouglasKC]

The Enquirer had interviewed Wilma Cline, who said she became Limbaugh's drug connection after working as his maid. She said Limbaugh had abused OxyContin and other painkillers.

How stupid do they think Rush is? He has something like 80 gazillion dollars. He had no need to hire a maid to go find him prescription drugs. He could hire a differenet doctor every day of the year to write him a perfectly legal prescription if he wanted to. It didn't happen.