The Diligent Virginia Attorneys - Dog Bite, Medic, State Farm and the deserting member of the Virginia State Bar + Vandalism (1995-2000)

In 1995 a neighbors dog bites girlfriend, the owner was a Medic whose insurance was State Farm.
After five years and four attorneys the divorce and suit was finished. In May 1995 a neighbors dog bites my girlfriend, the owner was a "medic" he treated the injury, promised to see that it healed and asked that the dog not be reported. Two weeks pass, the injury was getting worse and the "medic" never showed up, the dog was loose again so I took my girlfriend to the ER where they treated the injury.
  • The medic/owner never showed up to treat the injury caused by his dog.
  • The "medic" did notify State Farm, his insurance company of the injury.
  • The dog was always loose, days after the injury the dog was roaming the neighborhood again.
  • We did not care too much for this neighbor as after the dog bit my girlfriend she claims that he slugged the dog. In the past we had observed his daughters hitting the dog also - possibly a reason that the dog bit my girlfriend. At this time we had enough enemies, we did not need another "crusade".
  • Dog bite resulted in skin grafts and nerve damage.
  • The attorney did get a tape where the State Farm Insurance agent admitted that we had a case.
  • The attorney told us that State Farm was telling him that they lost their client and needed another interview.
  • Did State Farm pay this attorney an out of court settlement ? The case spanned five years, just how far back did the Virginia State Bar go ? We do not know, the Bar does not respond.
The Dog Bite attorney - Mr. Thomas E. Burks was retained in 1995 by my girlfriend as a probono counsel, this was because in 1994 she was bankrupt. Mr. Burks instructed my girlfriend to see a specialist to identify why her leg continued to collapse after the skin grafts had healed. This specialist was to be paid at settlement time. This attorney seemed to be pro-active and he told us that the excuse the insurance company used for not settling was that their client had moved on, this attorney claimed that he intended to file a bench warrant for the "medic". However in the year 2000 the psychiatrist that the fourth attorney had instructed us to see, called us up and pointed out an article in the Washington Post, Big-Spending Lawyer Leaves Clients in Limbo (June 1, 2000).

In 1995 the dog bite attorney was retained we had asked him to look into the "abuse of process" that the Fourth Attorney had started. This attorney instructed us to wait till the injury issue was resolved, this seemed reasonable at the time. We did not expect that the injury would take five years or that he would desert. Five more years had passed, my girlfriend was unemployed, bankrupt, injured and owing a specialist for diagnosing and treating the injury and lastly unrepresented by counsel.

My girlfriend was represented by Mr. Burks for five years (1995-2001). Given the charges by the Bar, we cannot help but wonder if Mr. Burks made the settlement disappear and maintained the illusion of an active case. We knew that Mr. Burks had a tape where the State Farm representative stated that we had a case. After the tape, Mr. Burks told us that the medic, the owner of the dog, disappeared. He told us that State Farm would not pay up because they wanted another interview so for five years we waited on the case.
  • Did State Farm pay Mr. Burks in an agreement outside of court and Mr. Burks make it disappear in his "lifestyle" ?
  • Did the Virginia State Bar use my girlfriends settlement to pay off the other clients ?
  • The Virginia State Bar "claimed" that the case was active, was it ? or the illusion maintained ?
  • Just how far back did the Virginia State Bar go ?
  • How diligent was their research ?
Again we trusted the institution, the institution does not appear to be interested in maintaining the integrity of the profession.
In 2000 the Virginia State Bar went after the attorney, Mr. Burks. Since my girlfriend was a pro-bono client they sent her records and dismissed her. The only thing that mattered to them was the money the clients had paid to this attorney and the settlements that he had stolen. There was no concern for the damage caused to the cases of the deserted clients. By the time that we managed to get an attorney to even consider it they just spouted the party line about what they could not do. A year of being laid up, a bum leg, another five years of dealing with the courts and this time an insurance company - was lost by my girlfriend. Would it have been that painful for the Virginia State Bar to assign an attorney to address her pro-bono case ? Such an action would have demonstrated that the institution was pro-active in ensuring the sanctity of the courts, the industry and damage caused by their failed membership.

Failing all other endeavors I wrote a certified letter to the author of the Washington Post article in an attempt to address our attorney problem through the press, that letter disappeared, didn't even get the delivery slip back. Damaged by a crusading attorney, a medics dog, deserting/failing attorneys, a history of being stalked and vandalism with no solution in sight - through these years I was worried that my brakes would get cut, house burned down and we had no resources.
The Washington Post on our attorney....
1994 to 1996 the vandalism.

Locals or Stalking ex-husband seeking revenge - When the divorce was awarded to the husband for half the community property the husband's attorney filed his suit and had the courts force us to release our street address. Within months the husband appears at his ex-wife's work thirty miles away, this is documented in a letter from the the husband's attorney explaining his appearance as coincidence. we did not know whether the terrorism in Reston would continue in Manassas. We knew from Reston, the courts and the police stupidity/responses in the past that they could not be depended upon. We purchased dogs because we had observed the husband pinned in by a dog in one of his stalking excursions in Reston, he was afraid of dogs. The dog in Reston had him pinned for about five minutes, his excursions were interesting we would see him in the woods, I had been trained by both the USMC and NRA, it was tempting to confront him. The problem was applying a non-lethal method to stop the stalking and the assaults, the phone call solution stopped the stalking and assaults but was a failure. We needed allies and associated with the neighbors, like we did in Reston.

Years pass, the suit goes on and we have a falling out with the neighbors, rather than just drinking too much they started stealing from Annaburg Nursing Home where one worked and consuming something they called "Green" which had a very strange effect on them. The suit was dropped and then the vandalism to the car I bought for my girlfriend started.

We were not sure who was vandalizing the property. Was it the husband who had terrorized families, abused his own family, stalked and assaulted his wife for years, who may have been upset because the suit was dropped, we knew that he knew where we lived ? Or were the locals who had started consuming something they called "Green" and we were trying to disassociate from ?

Those that were consuming threatened me on my answering machine, unlike my call to the husband in 1989, there was an explicit threat against me on my tape by a violent felon who had chased both the cops and another individual around with a knife after cutting all four tires of their vehicle. Unlike the husband I called the police when I heard the phone call, within an hour. The officer that responded to the death threat against me was willing to address, however when the individual called up after his threat and apologized I dismissed it - I did not realize that what would follow would be obscenities and vandalism. When we called the police to report the vandalism they told me to contact the Prince William County Magistrate.

The Prince William County Magistrate told me that since two months had passed since the threat "too much time had passed to address the 'death threat'", when I got upset and told them that I was going to contact their supervisor, they told me to "take your best shot", their supervisor threatened me with "6000 law enforcement officers if I stood guard at my home with a shotgun". We turned into hermits, my girlfriends "dog bite" injury helped, the world turned, I was concerned that if we went away the house would be burned down, my other vehicles made inoperable (brake lines cut)....

What was of interest was the inability to get law enforcement to do anything, vandalism they walked around blamed kids and left. One would have expected that the police reports would aid in dealing with the Prince William County Magistrate but the office told me that the police reports were irrelevant as I tried to use the availability of calls as supporting argument for some sort of action.
After a yearWho we were suspicious of
  • Cat died because of a punctured radiator.
  • Dog died of unidentified poison while on a runner in a secluded backyard. One of the problem neighbors had talked about knowing poisons and practicing witchcraft.
  • Car purchased for girlfriend was trashed - Prince William County Police contacted with each event.
    • Windshield smashed on five different occasions.
    • Radiator punctured.
    • Wires cut
    • Four tires had punctures in them.
  • The Witches yelled obscenities at us from the road as the police were at our house for one complaint, the police did follow and returned claiming that they could do nothing. We found this ironic at several levels, we had experienced vandalism, called with complaints of harassment, others had called with complaints on these people and we knew that they were growing pot in their home - this was not a big deal for me but allegedly there is a "drug war". The woman's parents were executives for the Manassas IBM plant and the man's adopted parents worked for the State Department. So just why did the Prince William County police leave them alone ? Was it because they practiced "Witch Craft" ?
  • The neighbor who threatened me was a felon, who sold drugs, assaulted someone and even chased the cops around with a knife. (He spent less time in jail for actually assaulting a police officer than I did for the CVS pharmacy incident). By the way someone said that he committed suicide by hanging, although I doubt it was suicide.
  • We believe those doing the vandalism were actually the women, girlfriend of the felon and the witches.
  • These people were actively distributing drugs, they had them in their houses, growing.
  • The felons girlfriend worked at Annaburg nursing home and was stealing medication from the patients - a major reason to disassociate. This upset us because Annaburg Nursing Home kept this individual who was stealing medication. Yet because my girlfriend missed one question on a written she was not allowed to do something she enjoyed.
  • We had called child protection on a couple of occasions because of the violence at the felons home, at one time they had trusted us enough for the child to come to our place when the fights got too bad. Like with my girlfriends situation, Child Protection did nothing - the institution does not "protect" the marginalized children - only those whose parents they can profit off of.
  • The "Neighborhood Watch" cover  The witches used "Neighborhood Watch", as a cover to snoop. They would go through the mailboxes, they also purchased white pickups/vans so that they could steal from construction sites. When we first met them they told us that they owned the community. If they did not like someone they would harass them out - with one family they had a border dispute, another they cut the padlock on their gate letting their dogs out and then calling Animal Control. The Prince William County Magistrates response was to provide a letter to give to these people telling them not to trespass - what a joke as no record or file was kept. These guys had marijuana plants that were about two feet high growing in their house.
  • Still the husband, that had abused, stalked, assaulted and harassed his ex-wife, that the courts had forced the release of the street address which was followed soon after by a visit at the ex-wife's employment requiring that a co-worker run him out. We had moved to a remote community, dirt roads, got dogs (because the ex-husband was afraid of them) and associated with "questionable people" because "law enforcement" is a joke - what we did not expect the stupidity of the courts when they accepted the coincidence excuse from the husbands attorney for showing up twice thirty miles from home, in the opposite direction from work at an isolated fast food restraunt in a small shopping center that his wife worked in.
This is how Virginia, Prince William County "Law Enforcement" serves their community a direct reflection on the Magistrates Office, Police and in the context of what follows the courts. Drug War ? Family ? Terrorism ? Just whose "law's" do these people enforce ?
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