Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Jerry Kassar has been part of a concerted effort to undermine the credibility of Staten Island Attorney Richard Luthmann for a very long time

Kassar has repeatedly echoed the FALSE NARRATIVE about Richard Luthmann’s wanting a “trial by combat”  as far back as June 2016  ---  long after that story was debunked in August 2015…..


THE REAL ORIGINAL STORY  ---  AND HOW IT >>>ENDED<<<

The entire Luthmann "trial by combat" meme started with this story by Frank Donnelly,  whose earliest version appeared in the Staten Island Advance on August 4th or 5th, 2015:  
" STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Broadswords at daybreak?...  Champions with shields and suits of armor?...   A Staten Island lawyer with a penchant for bowties and closely-cut beards is apparently channeling his inner 'Games of Thrones' by asking a judge to sanction a trial by combat to resolve a civil suit in which he's accused of helping a client fraudulently transfer assets....   'The allegations made by plaintiffs, aided and abetted by their counsel, border upon the criminal,' Richard A. Luthmann wrote in a brief recently filed in state Supreme Court, St. George. 'As such, the undersigned (Luthmann) respectfully requests that the court permit the undersigned to dispatch plaintiffs and their counsel to the Divine Providence of the Maker for Him to exact His divine judgment once the undersigned has released the souls of the plaintiffs and their counsel from their corporeal bodies, personally and or by way of a champion.'..."  (See "Real-life Game of Thrones: Lawyer seeks trial by combat to resolve lawsuit"  by Frank Donnelly,  8/4/15 [Updated 8/9/15],   SI Advance/  silive  [http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2015/08/real-life_game_of_thrones_layw.html]).
But in that very article, it is made clear that Mr. Luthmann thinks that his proposed "trial by combat"  is "ludicrous" and "ridiculousness in kind"  ---  "....  The attorney requested a lethal showdown to highlight what he perceives as ludicrous allegations against him....  'They want to be absurd about what they're trying to do, then I'll give them back ridiculousness in kind....  If these people want to insist on having it out, then we'll have it out,' said Luthmann...."  In a follow-up article by Frank Donnally almost a year later,  the Staten Island Advance writer reiterated Luthmann's initial explanation and disclaimer,   "....  The attorney has said he requested the lethal showdown to highlight what he perceives are ludicrous allegations against him. [But] He insists the request is not a publicity stunt...."   (See  "No 'Game of Thrones' throwdown: trial by combat nixed for lawyer Richard Luthmann"  By  Frank Donnelly,  3/28/16,  SI Advance/ Comment   [http://www.silive.com/news/2016/03/no_game_of_thrones_throwdown_j.html]).

For the record, according to a very brief article in the NY Post,  THAT CASE WAS SETTLED A SHORT TIME LATER  (See  "Lawyer who wanted ‘Game ofThrones’-style trial settles case"  by Mary Kay Linge,  4/10/16,  NY Post/  Metro  [https://nypost.com/2016/04/10/lawyer-who-wanted-game-of-thrones-style-trial-settles-case/]).


WHEN KASSAR JUMPED IN,  THE SO-CALLED LUTHMANN  “TRIAL BY COMBAT” CASE HAD BEEN FULLY EXPLAINED AND UNDERSTOOD BY EVERYBODY INVOLVED,  INCLUDING THE JUDGE  ---  AND THAT CASE HAD BEEN “SETTLED” IN NORMAL FASHION BY RICHARD LUTHMANN AND OPPOSING COUNSEL


You would never know that by the way Jerry Kassar wrote it up in his first mention of it in his column.
Two months after the case had been SETTLED,  Kassar continued the false narrative about Luthmann in his initial description of Luthmann as follows:   "….   Interestingly, an eccentric Staten Island attorney named Richard Luthmann — who dresses up in a cape and crown and advocates trial by combat...."   (See  "Common Sense: Speaking your mind"  by Jerry Kassar,  6/17/16,  Home Reporter/ Commentary  [http://brooklynreporter.com/story/common-sense-speaking-your-mind/]).


TOO BAD RICHARD LUTHMANN ISN’T REALLY UP TO THIS “TRIAL BY COMBAT” BUSINESS  ---  OR THAT,  WITH QUIRK CRONY ARTIE AIDALA ON HIS DEFENSE TEAM,  THERE WILL BE NO TRIAL OF ANY SORT  ---  TOO BAD,  LUTHMANN COULD HAVE BEATEN ALL THESE GUYS  ---  HOPEFULLY WITH THE MICHAEL PULIZOTTO CASES,  THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT

FUTURE POSTS ABOUT LUTHMANN,  KASSAR AND THE CONSPIRACY

YOU’LL  SEE  ---  That Kassar did not act alone  ---  he is part of a very large and complex conspiracy to cover up blatant corruption in the New York State Supreme Court  ---  in this instance because it involves  Kassar-Long crony Staten Island DA Mike McMahon  ---  AND  --- Marty Golden-Charlie-Joe Hynes crony Dennis Quirk               

40 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh boy

Anonymous said...

What this proves is Kassar is a tough guy and the reform party is a pack of wanna-beez

Anonymous said...

DA McMahon teamed up with the crew that got run out of brooklyn after they tanked Hynes.

Maybe McMahon will be the second DA to be defeated in New York City.

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "NO, IT PROVES THAT JERRY KASSAR IS ONE LOOSE THREAD THAT CAN UNRAVEL THE WHOLE JUMPER" EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 1:27 PM"

IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT KNITS, YOU'D KNOW THAT EACH AND EVERY "PULL" IS A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE GARMENT OR AT LEAST A BIG CHUNK OF IT --- AND JERRY KASSAR IS ONE VERY BIG PULL, INDEED


So, you think Jerry Kassar is a tough guy. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!

Name one person that Kassar has ever been tough with all by himself; now, tell me somebody that Kassar was able to push around, who is really tough themselves.

By the end, Jerry couldn't even push around Craig Eaton. --- Of course, that was after Craig had his falling-out with Marty Golden, so Jerry had only a little social leverage to use through Mike Long.

Anonymous said...

Gail
Get real. Kassar rolled over Capano last year

Anonymous said...

I tend to agree with 4:02

The only thread that unraveled so far is the reform party old ladies who pissed all over themselves when Kassar got Luthmann locked up. Luthmann caved and the reform party scrambled. I dont see anyone pulling this Kassar thread. If McMahon runs for congress the reform party will endorse him. They learned what happens when you don't fall in line.

Anonymous said...

Gale is off target again..Kassar destroyed Luthmann and capano..

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT" EDITION

TO: ALL THE COMMENTERS ABOVE THAT SAY KASSAR IS NOT THE LOOSE THREAD THAT WILL UNRAVEL THE SWEATER --- OR THE LOOSE CANNON THAT WRECKS THE INNARDS OF THE SHIP

WHEN DID ANYBODY FIRST IDENTIFY KASSAR AS THE "FREDO" OF THIS STORY ?????

Hmmmm !!!!! Any guesses ?????

Well, that loud music you hear might just be me playing Cole Porter's "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" on my own horn.

And as far as I know Kassar was only OUTED on this Luthmann thing very much in 2018, which is now only seventeen days old.

Galewyn Massey said...

AND NOW, A VERY IMPORTANT BIT OF BACKFILL: THE "SOMETIMES THE ANONYMOUS COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG DO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY" EDITION

THIS IS ANOTHER VERY TINY THREAD, BUT IT'S THERE --- IT MIGHT EVEN BE A KASSAR THREAD --- OR IT COULD BE SOMEBODY ELSE ENTIRELY

This was a comment that appeared on the thread following my December 16th post, "Luthmann..... That's enough for now --- just >>> 'LUTHMANN.....' <<<": "Anonymous said... Don’t know how many of you on here are familiar with Luthmann but you need like a minute to figure the guy has serious psychological problems and everybody on SI knows he’s psycho—as if that Post story about settling legal disputes with a duel wasn’t an indication.... December 16, 2017 at 3:25 PM"

It doesn't matter whether it's Kassar or not, because it is almost certainly somebody among the actual band of conspirators against Luthmann or one of their reliable dupes.....

The comment above is just one heavy-handed attempt to use the 100% false narrative about Luthmann to pound down anything that might be favorable to him, like my December 16th posting [which facially is actually quite neutral]. That narrative had been systematically and repeatedly put out there about Richard Luthmann by the SI Advance, The Daily News, the NY Post, certain blogs and social media for well over a year prior to Luthmann's arrest by the Feds. That particular version of the Luthmann story was being DRIVEN BY THE UNSEEN HANDS OF THE CONSPIRATORS.

BTW, one of my own December 16th comments, "RESPONSE & QUERY: THE "HOW MANY DEGREES OF SEPARATION GAME" EDITION ... at 1:39 PM", to that December 16th post was my first suggestion that it was very likely that Jerry Kassar was involved in the conspiracy, as a Conservative Party leader [although I didn't specifically mention "Kassar" by name].

Anonymous said...

Gale,
You are right. In the big picture some mixed meaning between loose thread and loose cannon. two very different things.
1- Yes Kassar shot his mouth off more along the lines of Sonny than Fredo.
2- Yes there is a grand conspiracy to jail and silence Luthmann which has worked like a well oiled machine.
3- and you have the obvious suspects right

But this is the question that unravels it all. The SI Advance mentioned an unindicted co-conspirator whose identity has not been revealed. This person had Luthmann and his co-defendants on tape for months. And Luthmanns wife and brother in law are on this guys tape. The question is who sent this informant in to Luthmanns orbit? My guess is it was one of DA McMahons first acts after becoming DA. Luthmann is small potatos for the feds. But he had the goods on McMahon and his wife the Judge.
It looks like this will fade into political folklore if it hasn't happened already.

Anonymous said...

So what happened to Pulizotto lawsuit?

Anonymous said...

Luthmann looked an acted like a cartoon character and for that he has been put in the gulag.

Anonymous said...

Here're three big unanswered questions, and they apply locally, statewide, across the whole country and even around the world: 1) Who investigates corrupt and/or overzealous investigators? 2) Who prosecutes corrupt and/or tyrannical prosecutors? and 3) Who judges the judges for anything and/or everything?

I'm sure you'll need a "life-line" before you can answer.

Anonymous said...

The FBI will come after corrupt law enforcement. I saw it in the movie Mississippi Burning.

Anonymous said...

On December 15, 2017 the Staten Island paper said for the first time, "The scam was launched in the summer of 2015, between Luthmann and Padula, 29, of Staten Island, and an unidentified co-conspirator, who sold scrap metals to overseas clients, said an indictment filed in Brooklyn federal court."

Also on December 15, 2017 the New York Law Journal said, "Prosecutors say Luthmann and one of his co-defendants, George Padula III, approached an unidentified co-conspirator in 2014. Luthmann allegedly presented himself as a family lawyer to the Padula family, which was in the garbage transfer business, and had connections to organized crime, prosecutors say. Luthmann, Padula and the co-conspirator allegedly went on to execute a scheme to defraud companies seeking to purchase scrap metal."

Anonymous said...

Gale can't stand his buddies Capano & Eaton are nobodies now thanks to Kassar

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "ISSUE IS..." EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 5:36 AM"

YOU MISS THE POINT COMPLETELY --- THE ISSUE HERE IS A CONSPIRACY TO SUBVERT (DIVERT, PERVERT, CONVERT) JUSTICE FOR PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ENDS THAT VERY MUCH INVOLVES JERRY KASSAR --- IT ISN'T ABOUT WHICH FRIENDS AND "BUDDIES" ARE SOMEBODIES OR "NOBODIES"

AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, EATON, GOLDEN, CAPANO, KASSAR, QUAGLIONE, MCCABE, BRANNAN, LONG, MCCREIGHT, CARROLL, REGINA-POTTER, SCHACK, SEMINARA AND VELLA-MARONE ARE ALL MY "BUDDIES"

Too bad "The Anvil" or "The Mineshaft" are now just a fond old part of NYC history..... I'm sure that the crew I named above would have had a great time there, in the day. After all they were places where you could treat your "buddies" exactly how you thought they needed to be treated --- and everybody would come-off happy (well, not always --- oopsie-daisy). Of course, a few of my "buddies above would need to strap-on and strap-up --- butt, who wouldn't be "UP" for that ?????

All this talk --- let's have a song for you and all the rest of my "buddies":

"L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very --- extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can...

Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you....."

--- NKC

Anonymous said...

Like Capano and Eaton ever mattered

Anonymous said...

Eaton and Capano are in hibernation for the foreseeable future

Anonymous said...

Gale you are great at exposing corrupt pols and thinking outside the box like you have on Luthmann.

But as far as being a song and dance man not so much

Anonymous said...

Kassar got rid of Eaton & Capano like putty in his hands.

Anonymous said...

11:28am

Where do you get your facts from?

Eaton left on his his accord by not running in 2015;

AND Capano is now the Reform Party Chair so Kassar didnt get rid of anyone.

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "LIMITS OF SONG AND DANCE IN THE S/M SCENE" EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 10:38 AM"

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO DO A "SONG AND DANCE" ROUTINE WHILE TRUSSED-UP IN A HARNESS AND RESTRAINTS WITH A BALL-GAG IN YOUR MOUTH ?????

I was channeling some West Village Rough Trade my readers' way --- and you make it ALL ABOUT some Nat King Cole song.....

The NKC song, "L-O-V-E" was put in my comment above as a counterpoint to the image(s) of my "buddies" getting their just dessert(s) at "The Anvil" and/or "The Mineshaft" --- Ah !!! Good times, good times !!!!!

Anonymous said...

Kassar is an old sick man who needs to go...

He has ruined the GOP in Brooklyn and has stolen every $$$ he could find.

Good riddance my friend, good riddance.

Anonymous said...

While Eaton & Capano are still looking for free invites to Cats events- Kassar is still controlling things

Anonymous said...

What's up with Gailybird? He seems to be getting weirder as he gets older.

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "FORGET ABOUT WHAT'S UP WITH ME --- WHAT'S UP WITH THE SI ADVANCE ???" EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 1:07 PM" AND OTHERS LIKE HIM/HER

YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE WRONG WEIRDO AND/OR THE WRONG STORIES ABOUT THE RIGHT WEIRDO.....


The story here is what's being done to a world-class weirdo, Richard Luthmann.

The most recent item on point is a piece in today's Staten Island Advance that was posted yesterday about this time by Frank Donnelly ( See "High-profile attorney heads lawyer Richard Luthmann's defense team; Luthmann's practice 'winding down,' says report" by Frank Donnelly, 1/17/18, SI Advance/ SI Realtime News [http://www.silive.com/news/2018/01/new_defense_team_for_lawyer_ri.html]).

After reading this POS bit of "reporting" I have only one question --- Is Frank Donnelly a bigger skell or is he a bigger shill. This guy is so IN THE TANK FOR THE MCMAHONS I feel like puking just thinking about Donnelly and the McMahons laughing it up, while Richard Luthmann rots in some holding cell between the Gowanus this and the Gowanus that.

Donnelly DID ABSOLUTELY NO REPORTING in today's article WHATSOEVER --- it was nothing but pure warmed-over BS put out there to make Luthmann look a little worse than he does already..... I'm only guessing, but I'd say most of this came straight from Dennis Quirk or some other McMahon gunzel; and it wouldn't surprise me if Donnelly himself is doing a little double-dipping action and getting some McMahon $$$$ on the side.

Here's the proof that Donnelly is IN THE TANK: his article talks about Luthmann's "winding down" his practice >>> but never mentions even a peep what is going on with the Pulizotto cases, which are cases involving allegations about the McMahons' corruption, along with a specific case against Dennis Quirk for damages. These cases rocked "The Rock" of Staten Island for three days --- until the arrest of Luthmann.

Anonymous said...

Gail, maybe you think you are doing journeyman work for big Dick Luthmann, but you probably haven't even read the indictment. If you did, this would have jumped out at you, Luthmann is specifically quoted in several of the paragraphs, covering multiple meetings over a year earlier. How can a Fed prosecutor use exact quotes without recordings of what's been said? If there's recordings, was there a warrant? If not, then there is going to be a real problem; without a warrant, people can ask, who made the tapes, when and how were they made, and why tape Luthmann at all?

Anonymous said...

Gale,
Will you stop slow dancing with a mannequin of Chuck Connors and keep up with the scandal in Staten Island. If the guy at the top goofs off so does the staff.
I saw the SI Advance piece and NY 1. They point out Luthmann had 11 complaints in six months but 9 of them were dismissed. The problem with that story is no record exists of complaints that dont go anywhere. Just sayin.

Anonymous said...

Hey Gale you seem to be sitting in the office doing to yourself what Bannon tried to do. I guess you didn't notice that Kassars tweets about Luthmann went out before the story broke in the press.

And this story about Luthmann cant get bail because he wanted to fill metal scrap containers with junk makes about as much sense as anything else coming out of this case.

Anonymous said...

metal scrap v junk

only on staten island

Anonymous said...

MCcall Eaton, Capano
All nobodies

Anonymous said...

Gale see what 3:37 said

They fear you

Anonymous said...

After reading the recent piece on Luthman I get the feeling Kassar may have been taken out to the tool shed for blabbing about Luthman arrest.

Anonymous said...

Kassar rules
McCall, Eaton. And Capano drool

Anonymous said...

Luthmann has disappeared.

Anonymous said...

To bad Luthmann didnt take capano with him

Anonymous said...

Kassar is nothing without Marty Golden and Mike Long. He’s also made so many enemies all over the place that he has no choice but to keep name dropping Golden and Long to scare people. It’s a boomerang effect because people who ordinarily wouldn’t have a problem with Golden and Long are aligning against them just to shut up Kassar.

Anonymous said...

A Conservative Party executive officer once told me that Jerry Kassar could succeed Michael Long as the Kings County Chairman, only because Long fixed it that he ran the New York State Conservative Party operation out of the party's Kings County Headquarters; and he could keep a very close eye on Kassar. Kassar once even thought that he might be the next NY State Conservative Party Chairman, and he once bragged that among Republicans, he was probably better known around the state than Mike Long was. BTW, that NYSCP Executive Officer said that more Conservative activists around the state hate Kassar than like him.

Anonymous said...

Someone needs to tell Quaglione he is not running for office anymore..check out his t witter account saying he is proud to stand with Marty Golden at this event or that event..it's more like there to hold Marty's coffee!