Jason Roper apparently not with Blumling & Gusky

Many readers have commented that Jason C. Roper is no longer listed on the roster of attorneys at Blumling & Gusky.  This may or may not relate to his bar suspension for three years for misconduct in Virginia.

Virginia State Bar versus Jason Roper – Roper Loses!

In this “misconduct” hearing, Jason Roper loses.   Significant acts of misconduct cause Jason Roper to lose his license in Virginia for three years (likely in Pennsylvania as well through reciprocity).

See http://www.vsb.org for the following:

“February 28, 2012

Jason Christopher Roper, 702 Lakeview Court, Mars, PA 16046

VSB Docket Nos. 09-021-080040, 10-021-080199, 10-021-080602

On February 17, 2012, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended Jason Christopher Roper’s license to practice law for three years for violating rules governing candor toward the tribunal; fairness to opposing party or counsel; respect for rights of third persons; confidentiality of information; conflict of interest: general rule; conflict of interest: former client; declining or terminating representation; meritorious claims and contentions; ; communication with persons represented by counsel; bar admission and disciplinary matters; and misconduct.”

Jason Roper’s License Suspended for Three Years by The Virginia State Bar

Taken from the Virginia State Bar website at http://www.vsb.org:

“February 28, 2012

Jason Christopher Roper, 702 Lakeview Court, Mars, PA 16046

VSB Docket Nos. 09-021-080040, 10-021-080199, 10-021-080602

On February 17, 2012, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended Jason Christopher Roper’s license to practice law for three years for violating rules governing candor toward the tribunal; fairness to opposing party or counsel; respect for rights of third persons; confidentiality of information; conflict of interest: general rule; conflict of interest: former client; declining or terminating representation; meritorious claims and contentions; communication with persons represented by counsel; bar admission and disciplinary matters; and misconduct.”

Attorney Jason Roper’s Bar License reportedly suspended for Three Years (unverified)

According to comments submitted to Rotted Apples and a flood of viewership, it is reported by one commentator as follows:

Jason Christopher Roper had his license to practice law suspended for three years by the Virginia State Bar, effective immediately. The Bar’s decison was based on a quite a litany of ethical and professional conduct violations. It is my belief that Roper is required to inform the Pennsylvania State Bar within 20 days of the adverse action taken against him in Virginia. It is also my belief that the Pennsylvania will reciprocate the action taken by the Virginia State Bar. Finis!

While these comments have not been verified, any verification will be reported when it is received.

 

Disbarred Attorney jailed for Promoting Prostitution – Heavenly Massage!

Disbarred Jersey City lawyer Francis Monahan Jr. is behind bars serving a 6-month sentence in Hudson County jail in Kearny for promoting prostitution in connection to a “massage” service, officials said yesterday.

“Mr. Monahan’s life seems to have spiraled out of control,” said Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Leo Hernandez of the former attorney who was sentenced by Hudson County Superior Court Judge Kevin Callahan on Thursday. At the end of the hearing Monahan was handcuffed and remanded to the jail.

In July 2005 Monahan, 53, pleaded guilty to swindling a 90-year-old Jersey City woman out of her home and savings in an unrelated case. Because it was his first offense, he was sentenced to five years probation, a suspended 364-day jail sentence, and ordered to pay restitution.

In September Monahan pleaded guilty to the promoting prostitution after he was found handing out business cards touting an enterprise called “Heavenly Massage” that included a phone number, but no address. His role was interviewing and hiring masseuses /prostitutes for the service which apparently arranged transportation for johns to rendezvous with the masseuses/prostitutes at hotels, officials said.

Monahan was snared after a female officer of the Jersey City Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit called the number on the card and asked Monahan for work, officials said. He was arrested on April Fool’s Day last year after meeting the cop in the Newport Centre Mall and interviewing her to see if she had the assets and willingness to perform the job’s duties, officials said.

Taken from http://www.nj.com.

The Core – Rotted Apples for 2011 – The Bailout, Congress, The Federal Reserve and Wall Street – A Barrel of Rotted Apples

The only group in the US worse than lawyers is this cast of criminals and thugs – namely politicians and the financial sector.Please see the Academy Award Winning film hosted by Matt Damon – “Inside Job.”

Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the financial crisis of 2007-2010 directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. Ferguson has described the film as being about “the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption.” The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011.

The subject of Inside Job is the global financial crisis of 2008. It features research and extensive interviews with financiers, politicians, journalists, and academics. The film follows a narrative that is split into four parts.

The film focuses on changes in the financial industry in the decade leading up to the crisis, the political movement toward deregulation, and how the development of complex trading such as the derivatives market allowed for large increases in risk taking that circumvented older regulations that were intended to control systemic risk. In describing the crisis as it unfolded, the film also looks at conflicts of interest in the financial sector, many of which it suggests are not properly disclosed. The film suggests that these conflicts of interest affected credit rating agencies as well as academics who receive funding as consultants but do not disclose this information in their academic writing, and that these conflicts played a role in obscuring and exacerbating the crisis.

A major theme is the pressure from the financial industry on the political process to avoid regulation, and the ways that it is exerted. One conflict discussed is the prevalence of the revolving door, whereby financial regulators can be hired within the financial sector upon leaving government and make millions.

Within the derivatives market, the film contends that the high risks that began with subprime lending were transferred from investors to other investors who, due to questionable rating practices, falsely believed that the investments were safe. Thus, lenders were pushed to sign up mortgages without regard to risk, or even favoring higher interest rate loans, since, once these mortgages were packaged together, the risk was disguised. According to the film, the resulting products would often have AAA ratings, equal to U.S. government bonds. The products could then be used even by investors such as retirement funds who are required to limit themselves to the safest investments.

Another issue discussed is the high pay in the financial industry, and how it has grown in recent decades out of proportion to the rest of the economy. Even at the banks that failed, the film shows how bank executives were making hundreds of millions of dollars in the period immediately up to the crisis, all of which was kept, again suggesting that the risk/benefit balance has been broken.

An issue that the film adopts which few others have addressed is the role of academia in the crisis. Ferguson notes, for example, that Harvard economist, and former head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, Martin Feldstein, was a director of the insurance company AIG and former board member of the investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co.. Ferguson also notes that many of the leading professors and leading faculty members of the economics and business school establishments often derive large proportions of their incomes from either engaging as consultants, or speaking engagements. For example, current dean of the Columbia Business School, Glenn Hubbard received a large percentage of his annual income from either acting as a consultant or through speaking engagements. Hubbard was also affiliated with KKR and BlackRock Financial. Hubbard as well as current chair of Harvard’s department of economics, John Y. Campbell, deny the existence of any conflict of interest between academia and the banking sector.

The film ends by contending that despite recent financial regulations, the underlying system has not changed; rather the remaining banks are only bigger, while all the incentives remain the same.

Article taken from http://www.wikipedia.com

126 People Searching for Jason Roper “lawsuit” or “bar complaint” this week

With the many comments, questions and searches this week, there must be something going on with attorney Jason C. Roper in Virginia. Many people have commented and asked questions, so can anyone shed any light on the current situation with Mr. Roper?

Blood Trail

Thieves often leave police-trackable trails from the scene to their home, but for alleged shoplifter Michael Barton, 29, of Venango County, Pa., the trail was of his own blood, starting at the Wal-Mart where he had cut himself badly removing razor blades from their packages in order to fit more into his pocket. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12-13-2010]

Least Competent Criminals

oe Colclasure, 25, was arrested and charged with robbing the bank located inside an Albertson’s supermarket in Palm Desert, Calif., in December. Several employees and customers had recognized Colclasure while he was committing the robbery, but it wasn’t over for him until he accidentally slammed the bank’s door on his hand during his getaway. The pain disabled him long enough so that an employee could hold him until police arrived. [Desert Sun (Palm Springs), 12-14-2010]

Anger Management

A News of the Weird Classic (January 1998)

A Police Officer’s Dream Come True: Vincent Morrissey’s police brutality lawsuit went to trial in New Haven, Conn., in December (1997), and West Haven police officer Ralph Angelo was on the witness stand, claiming that Morrissey himself had provoked the encounter by swinging at Angelo. Morrissey’s attorney, skeptical of the testimony, asked Officer Angelo to demonstrate to the jury how hard Morrissey had swung at him. Before the lawyer could clarify what he meant by “demonstrate,” Officer Angelo popped the lawyer on the chin, staggering him and forcing an immediate recess. [New Haven Register, 12-20-97]