[12017] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Star 57 Warning about Mr. Green Card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Mon May 2 14:25:43 1994
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 10:54:25 EDT
From: stpeters@bird.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: Eaco@world.std.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>From: Eaco@world.std.com (Eaco + Associates)
> On the subject of fax mahines, it is not unheard of for a machine
>to malfuntion and send page after page after page of blanks... gee, I
>guess I must have sent 400 formfeeds with my computer generated fax...
>I'll have to check on that (*&('ng software.
Instead of blank pages or black pages, it might be more interesting
to fax copies of this Usenet posting:
>Hey, I am not sure how many people saw this in n.a.p already, so I thought
>I'd crosspost it here:
>
>The brief summary: self-satisfied schmuck lawyer Larry Cantor has not been
>asked in any of the interviews I've seen about his legal malpractise
>charges in Florida. Mind you, getting a lawyer drummed out on legal
>malpractise is a challenge. I think this is worth bringing to the NYT's
>attention as being worthy of a follow-up interview:
>
>
> For Immediate Release
> October 13,1988
> Contact: Bonnie L Mahon
> The Florida Bar
> Tampa Office
> Telephone: 813/875-9821
>
> SUPREME COURT GRANTS ATTORNEY'S PETITION TO RESIGN PERMANENTLY
>
> TALLAHASSEE, Oct.13-- The Florida Supreme Court has granted attorney
>Laurence A. Canter's petition to resign permanently, effective November
>7,
>1988.
>
> Canter, of 240 North Washington Boulevard, Sarasota, was charged
>with numerous violations of the attorney disciplinary rules including
>neglect, misrepresentation, misappropriation of client funds and perjury.
>
> Several of the complaints against Canter involved his failure to
>file the necessary or appropriate documents with the United Stated
>Immigration and Naturalization Services in matters of permanent residency
>and work visas. In addition, Canter refused to refund clients' funds and
>neglected to notify his clients that he has been suspended from the
>practice
>of law as a result of a previous discipline.
>
> The Florida Bar further alleges that Canter committed perjury by
>filing a false affidavit with the Bar and while testifying under oath in a
>deposition. These charges resulted after an audit of Canter's trust account
>by the Bar showed that trust funds were held in Canter's account during the
>time period when he denied any funds were present.
>
> Canter was born in 1953 and admitted to The Florida Bar in 1980.
>
> The resignation without leave to apply is not final until time
>expires to file motion for rehearing and if filed, determined. The filling
>of a motion for rehearing shall not alter the effective date of this
>resignation.
>
> As an official agency of the Supreme Court of Florida, The Florida
>Bar and its Department of Lawyer Regulation are charged with the
>administration of a statewide disciplinary system to enforce Supreme Court
>rules of professional conduct for all lawyers.
>
>--30--
>
>Peter
>bell@minerva.cis.yale.edu
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
