Port Townsend News by Reverend Crystal Cox of Bringing Back Goddess Church. This blog is written upon my opinion, belief and knowledge. ReverendCrystalCox@gMail.com
Foley & Lardner LLP Attorneys are Corrupt, stealing patents from Inventors they were hired to protect... Foley and Lardner Stole a 13 Trillion Dollar Technology in a Massive Patent Scheme over the iViewit Technology Company and for over a Decade the Corrupt Law Firm of Foley and Lardnerhas covered up this by paying off Judges at every level of the Judicial Process, controlling the USPTO and well .. now even connected to the Office of the President as Obama use to work at Foley and Lardner when the Corrupt Attorney Michael Grebe was running the CorruptFoley & Lardner LLP Gravy Train.
"suspended or debarred" how funny as if Foley and Lardner Corrupt Attorneys have to worry about that when Foley and Lardner control the Courts and the State Bar... in ALL Stats that Foley & Lardner LLP Attorneys work in.
Here is a part of the Wes Strickland, Foley & Lardner LLP 's gibberish on Ethics..
"We are lawyers and we are going to tell you about ethics. Yes, we know it sounds funny, but seriously, hear us out.
Having a well-drafted and properly implemented ethics code is good business. It can help you avoid trouble, protect you if you get into trouble and in the end, maybe even save your company.
If you have any contracts with the federal government that exceed $5 million with a performance period of longer than 120 days, you are probably required to adopt a code of business ethics and conduct. Failure to do so could result in your company being suspended or debarred. "
A strong ethics code, staff training, and internal controls will be considered in mitigation of potential criminal liability and suspension or debarment from federal contracting.
An effective code of business ethics and conduct is a valuable asset that can enhance your reputation and stature in your business dealings. It can help you avoid ethical and legal pitfalls that could damage your business, and protect you from disaster if an ethics violation occurs.
Wes Strickland is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP's Tallahassee office where he focuses on insurance regulatory and corporate transactional matters, as well as administrative law. Contact him at NStrickland@foley.com. John Horan is a partner with Foley & Lardner's Orlando office and practices in the areas of business and administrative litigation and governmental relations. Contact him at JHoran@foley.com. " Blah ... Blah... Blah...
Source of Flat Out Gibberish and Corrupt Foley and Lardner Promoting..
Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel KNOWS how to WIN against Nokia, as Bruce Sewell participated in a Patent Theft, Technology theft over the iViewit Stolen Technology while Bruce Sewell was General Counsel at Intel Corp. Bruce Sewell did this Knowingly and still fails to disclose this massive shareholder fraud to Shareholders.
What Does Steve Dowling, Head Apple PR Guy have to Say about this PR Nightmare should APPLE choose to tell the Truth about their Corrupt General Counsel Bruce Sewell, formerly the Corruption General Counsel of Intel Corp. - when Intel Corp. Illegally Used the Iviewit Technologies Invention?
I mean Steve Dowling - PR Genius at APPLE surely knows that Bruce Sewell, their big wig attorney .. oddly enough defending APPLE in another Patent Infringement, Patent Theft - Guess Ol Bruce Sewell is pulling some strings on this one and Nokia doesn't stand a chance.. I mean Intel Corp. WILL back up the Corruption Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel - or elseBruce Sewell Apple General Counsel will Expose the Billions on Top of Billions of Shareholder Fraud that Intel Corp. Forgot to Disclose to their shareholder with a serious Fraud on the Iviewit Inventors.
I mean there is over 1200 documents of Proof at www.Iviewit.TV , and Documents atwww.CEOpaulOtellini.com - Bruce Sewell is a Criminal and NOW a Top Attorney defending one of the Biggest Tech Companies in the World, What a Crock.
Here is todays News on the Corrupt Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell
"Apple Lawyers Up for Patent Showdowns With Nokia
Steve Jobs made Apple Inc.’s iPhone one of the best-selling smartphones on the market with its touch screen, fast Web connection and access to more than 300,000 downloadable applications. Now he’s adding lawyers to the mix.
Apple is squaring off this week against Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, before the International Trade Commission. The dispute, in which each side alleges intellectual property violations, is also a precursor to Apple patent battles with Motorola Inc. and HTC Corp.
At stake is leadership in the U.S. smartphone market. Cupertino, California-based Apple is trying to protect its right to import the iPhone, while shutting out rivals, particularly those with devices powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system, the world’s most popular smartphone software. Android- based phones also are made abroad.
“These are very well-known, deep-pocketed, high-end manufacturers,” said Lyle Vander Schaaf, an attorney at Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Washington, who handles cases before the commission. “Usually you have one 800-pound gorilla going after a new entrant. Here you’ve got 800-pound gorillas fighting each other.”
Apple has been the most-sued technology company since 2008, the year after the iPhone was introduced, topping Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., according to LegalMetric Inc., a compiler of litigation data based in St. Louis.
Fire With Fire
Jobs, Apple’s chief executive officer, is firing back by recruiting lawyers who have fought for and against some of the world’s largest companies, including Microsoft, Intel Corp. and Broadcom Corp. Broadcom won a patent dispute with Qualcomm Inc. last year that ended with Qualcomm paying $891 million in cash over four years.
Nokia, based in Espoo, Finland, took the first shot in the case before the ITC this week. The company sued in October 2009, claiming Apple infringed Nokia patents, and filed the trade complaint in December.
“Apple was a decade late to market for mobile phones,” Patrick Flinn, a lawyer at Alston & Bird who represents Nokia, said in opening arguments today in Washington. “You can undercut competition when you use the inventions of others.”
Apple contends Nokia’s real motive is to force it to surrender access to proprietary technology that differentiates the iPhone from competitors, a charge Nokia denies.
“Apple’s explosive success, especially in the smartphone market, came at Nokia’s expense,”William Lee, a lawyer at WilmerHale who represents Apple, said at the hearing. “Having failed in head-to-head competition, Nokia turned to litigation.”
Staff Recommendation
The ITC staff, which acts as a third party in the public interest, has recommended that the judge find that Apple didn’t violate Nokia’s patent rights, said staff lawyer Rett Snotherly.
Apple has made its own patent-infringement claims that could result in Nokia phones, including those powered by its Symbian operating system, being blocked from the U.S. market. Apple’s claims against Nokia were heard by an ITC judge early this month. The staff also recommended that no violation be found in that case.
“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, said in a Dec. 11 statement on the Nokia case.
‘Clash of the Titans’
Sewell, who joined the company last year after almost 15 years at Intel, is leading Apple’s legal efforts. During his time at Intel, including as general counsel, the company was known to use lawsuits to bottle up rivals in costly legal disputes, said Rob Enderle, president of Enderle Group, a technology consulting firm in San Jose, California.
Before working at Intel, Sewell was a partner at Phoenix- based law firm Brown & Bain, which represented Apple in its copyright case against Microsoft.
While many of the technological features behind smartphones have been around for years, their surging popularity has led large companies to go after one another rather than upstarts, saidSteve Perlman, CEO of online game company OnLive in Palo Alto, California. He holds more than 100 patents.
“Patents are a form of market power,” said Perlman, a former scientist at Apple. “We’re seeing a clash of the titans.”
The International Trade Commission, a quasi-judicial agency, was set up to protect domestic markets from unfair trade practices. It has the power to ban imports of products found to infringe U.S. patents.
‘Stop Android’
“It’s really high stakes,” said Vander Schaaf. “It’s a ‘who’s going to blink first’ issue.”
Apple may have even more riding on ITC cases against HTC and Motorola, which use Android. Devices running Google’s software accounted for almost 26 percent of worldwide smartphone sales in the third quarter, compared with almost 17 percent for the iPhone, according to Gartner Inc.
“The effort here is to stop Android” through the trade commission, Enderle said.
In March, Apple filed an ITC complaint against Taiwan-based HTC, the world’s biggest maker of handsets using Google and Microsoft operating systems. Apple alleged HTC infringed several patents, including ones related to mobile phones. A trial, which will include additional claims against Nokia, is scheduled to begin in February.
Linda Mills, a spokeswoman for HTC, which has filed counter-complaints against Apple, declined to comment. Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson declined to comment.
IPhone Versus Droid
A unit of Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola filed an ITC complaint against Apple in October, alleging it infringed 18 patents. In response, Apple filed a case claiming the Droid and other Motorola smartphones are using Apple intellectual property without permission.
Apple has hired some of the nation’s top patent lawyers as outside counsel. They include Lee of WilmerHale in Boston, who successfully represented Broadcom in its fight against Qualcomm;Robert Krupka of Kirkland & Ellis, who negotiated a 2005 settlement in which Apple agreed to pay $100 million to Creative Technology Ltd., maker of the Zen music player; and Matt Powersof Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, who successfully defended the patent on Merck & Co.’s biggest product, the $4.7 billion-a-year asthma drug Singulair.
Oh and Isn't Time Warner Inc. in Bed with Apple with Movies on iPhones.. which uses the STOLEN iViewit Technology to Broadcast Movies On iPhone over the Verizon Network? Oh what a tangled web of fraud and deceit we weave.
This SEC Complaint, Anti-Trust Violations, FBI Complaint, and Federal RICO Lawsuit involves.. names Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel and there is massive Proof that Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel is without a doubt guilty and now here is Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel Defending APPLE for Patent Theft.. How ironic indeed..
Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel knowing committed Fraud while the General Counsel at Intel Corp. - Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel knowingly helped Intel Corp. to Steal the Iviewit Technologies Invention (Patent Pending) and then Bruce Sewell Intel General Counsel moves oddly QUICK to be Bruce Sewell Apple General Counsel.
"Philip FalconeFinds a New Way to Raise Money Harbinger's chief, facing investor redemptions, will use a shell company to pay for acquisitions
Philip Falcone, the hedge fund manager who made a fortune betting against subprime mortgages in 2007, has hit a tough patch. His flagship Harbinger Capital Partners Fund and another fund under his control have faced redemption calls from major investors anxious about the funds' investments in a wireless satellite network.
Harbinger Capital is also at the center of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office over a $113 million loan it gave to Harbinger Capital Partners founder and Chief Executive Officer Falcone to cover a tax bill, according to two people with knowledge of the probe. Falcone, who declined an interview request, said in an e-mail that the loan "was documented and audited by outside accountants and legal advisers."
Despite his troubles, the hedge fund manager has found a way to raise funds in a difficult environment. Falcone, 48, is selling stock and bonds through Harbinger Group (HRG), a publicly traded shell company.
On Nov. 15, Harbinger Group raised $350 million by selling five-year debt yielding 11 percent. Falcone plans to use the new capital to buy controlling stakes in industries from agriculture to telecommunications, according to a Nov. 1 filing by Harbinger with the SEC.
Most hedge funds raise money from institutional investors, such as pension funds, that can withdraw their money under certain circumstances. Owning a publicly traded company allows Falcone to pay for acquisitions by issuing stock. "Our corporate structure provides significant advantages compared to the traditional hedge fund structure for long-term holdings," Harbinger Group said in the Nov. 1 SEC filing.
Redemption calls are a worry now at Harbinger. Goldman Sachs (GS) plans to pull its entire $120 million investment from Harbinger Capital Partners following a 15 percent decline this year through mid-October and the disclosure about the personal loan to Falcone, according to people briefed on Goldman's plans.
Other investors such as Advantage Advisers Management, a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Asset Management, have also indicated they want out, according to regulatory filings. Falcone's New York-based firm's overall assets have declined to about $9 billion, as of September, from $26 billion in mid-2008.
Falcone has angered some clients by investing about 90 percent of his flagship Harbinger Capital Partners Fund and more than half his Special Situations Fund in wireless-telecommunications investments, as of September. He is trying to build a multibillion-dollar satellite wireless network that would take on entrenched players such as AT&T (T) and Verizon Communications (VZ) through a company he created called LightSquared.
Falcone is liquidating about 80 percent of the $2 billion Special Situations Fund at the request of clients, investors say. He's been trying since June to raise $1 billion to $1.5 billion for LightSquared from investors who would be willing to commit capital for several years, according to potential investors who have seen marketing documents.
In theory, Falcone could use shares of Harbinger Group, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYX), to meet redemptions in his hedge funds, says David Guin, head of the U.S. securities practice at law firm Withers Bergman in New York.
Harbinger spokesman Jeffrey Zelkowitz says the proceeds of the bond sale won't be used to cover redemptions or finance investments in LightSquared. "Rather, HGI is a permanent capital vehicle to house longer-term controlling equity stakes in companies that operate across a diversified set of industries."
Falcone created Harbinger Grouplast year, when three of Harbinger's hedge funds paid $74 million to acquire a 51.6 percent stake in Zapata, an oil driller with cash and no operating businesses that was co-founded by President George H.W. Bush.
Falcone reincorporated Zapata as Harbinger Group in December and later moved its headquarters to Manhattan from Rochester, N.Y. Having Harbinger Group gives Falcone a degree of freedom he doesn't have now, says Daniel Celeghin, a partner at Casey, Quirk & Associates, a Darien (Conn.)-based consultant to investment advisory firms: "Here is a pool of money you can manage indefinitely, and you don't have to worry about redemptions."
The bottom line: While dealing with investor redemptions, Falcone is raising capital through a public company he took over. "
Before Curtis Lu Left Time Warner, Curtis Lu Called Iviewit Founder Eliot Bernstein. How Much Risk Does Harbinger Capital Partners Investors Now Have ?
LightSquared now has Massive Liability in Curtis Lu as their General Counsel.
The Investors of Harbinger Capital Partners Will Pay the Price.
Do your Homework - it's YOUR Money ~ It's Your Life.
Curtis Lu Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Contacts Eliot Bernstein April 15, 2010, after OVER a Decade in which Time Warner NEW of the Iviewit Technologies Massive Liability to the Time Warner Inc. and Related Companies.
Time Warner used this Technology and Continues to VIOLATE Signed Agreements to This Day.
Time Warner has Violated Licensing Agreements with Iviewit Tech., and Violated NBA agreements. Curtis Lu - Time Warner IGNORES Massive Shareholder FRAUD then Conveniently Leaves Time Warner for the Harbinger Capital Partners - Philip Falcone investment of LightSquared.
Marc Garber of Flaster Greenberg and Eliot Bernstein of Iviewit Technologies Speaks with Curtis Lu of Time Warner Inc. About the RISK and Liability that Time Warner Faces over the Massive Fraud of the Stolen Iviewit Technology.
Curtis LU admitted he was familiar with the situation, and KNOWS all the Details and Liabilites and FAILED to Warn the Time Warner Board, Time Warner Shareholders.
"April 15, 2010 call prior to filing formal SEC Complaintand giving Time Warner a last chance to pay the true and proper inventor of Digital Imaging and Video Scaling Inventions and avoid further actions. "
After all is Said and Done, Curtis Lu Time Warner Inc. General Counsel - Now the General Counsel at Harbinger Capital Partners - Lightsquared.. well at the end Curtis Lu says he is Going to Go Back to His "Client" and Get THEIR "Reaction"
Well you Sure Gotta wonder what the Clients Reaction Was - I Mean that Next Month Curtis Lu went to some Convention where he talked about future issues and potential problems with Intellectual Property Rights - what a Joke that was.. and a few months later Curtis Lu, Time Warner Inc. Leaves Time Warner to be the General Counsel of Harbinger Capital Partners - Philip Falcone Multi-Billion Dollar Investment of a Company Called "Lightsquared" - which seems to think they will take over as the Leading Wireless, Internet Company in a couple of short years.
WHO Did "Curtis Lu" - General Council of Time Warner actual "Get Back To?" and what did THEY really say to Curtis Lu, Time Warner Inc. General Counsel.
Curtis Lu is Involved in the SEC Complaint and Suit and will CERTAINLY call Eliot.. well Curtis Lu never did get back to Eliot. So What REALLY Happened?
Why is the NEW Time Warner General Counsel Paul T. Cappuccio IGNORING this Massive Shareholder Fraud and Failing to Disclose this Multi-Trillion Dollar Liability?
Well this is Massive Fraud and it is Easily PROVEN though Mary L. Schapiro the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seems to so far Ignore over 1200 documents and 10 years of proof, it is still proven and the Shareholders of Time Warner Inc., AOL, Warner Bros., Sony, Intel Corp., Lockheed Martin, IBM, and Many more will pay Trillions.. oh WEll Right .. Jeffrey Bewkes and Mary Schapiro and all the Others at the Top will not pay,odds are they have already hid their assets, I mean they have known this was coming for a VERY long time and STILL they sit on it. .the MOTIVE?
TO make sure they get THEIRS before the Investors / Shareholders take the inevitable financial hit that they will indeed take. .
So what did Jeffrey Bewkes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer really have to say about the now famed call from Time Warner Inc. - General Counsel Curtis Lu to Eliot Bernstein Iviewit Founder and One of the Inventors of the Mult-Trillion Dollar Iviewit Technology that Time Warner has made Billions on Top of Billions on and all the while knowing they had STOLEN the Technology and Violated SIGNED agreements with Iviewit. Where is Jeffrey Bewkes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on this?
Jeff Bewkes KNOWS of Massive Fraud and Neglects to TELL the Time Warner Board. Jeff Bewkes is GUILTY of Massive Shareholder Fraud and WILL BE indicted. This is Criminal, this is Immoral and Folks.. there is over 1200 Documents of Proof on top of other massive information. This is Fact, Jeff Bewkes Time Warner KNOWS it and DOES nothing to Warner you THE board, the investors of Time Warner Inc. - Why?
Part 1 - Curtis Lu for Time Warner Inc.
Part 2 Curtis Lu - Time Warner General Counsel
Part 3 - Curtis Lu - Time Warner General Council FAILS to Disclose Massive Shareholder Liability.
So Curtis Lu, Ask Yourself, How Much "Risk" - Liability did you Bring to Philip Falcone and to LightSquare which is raking in billions of investors money to be the NEW "internet network" that takes over all others.
Yet Curtis Lu is their General Council and is named in a Federal RICO Lawsuit and an SEC Complaint and KNOWS of a Mult-Trillion Dollar Shareholder Fraud involving his Former Employer Time Warner Inc. - Well Curtis Lu, Lightsqared General Counsel is Sure in Deep on this.
Time Warner Massive Liability - There is Proof that Time Warner Inc. was Infringing on this Technology, tons of the proof, and Yet Time Warner Inc. DOES not have This Liability Reported on the Books, WHY?
"We Should Have Been Disclosing?" - Curtis Lu asks.. GEE .. umm.. hmm..
"So Uh, are we.. uh is Time Warner a Defendent in all this? "
Time Warner Inc. has a Massive Undisclosed Liability...
So What Does the Time Warner Inc. Board have to Say about all this?
Jeffrey L. Bewkes Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner Inc.
James L. Barksdale Chairman and President, Barksdale Management Corporation
William P. Barr Former Attorney General of the United States
Stephen F. Bollenbach Former Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hilton Hotels Corporation
Frank J. Caufield Co-Founder and Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Robert C. Clark Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University
Mathias Döpfner Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Axel Springer AG
Jessica P. Einhorn Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
Fred Hassan Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Schering-Plough Corporation
Michael A. Miles Special Limited Partner, Forstmann Little & Company
Kenneth J. Novack Senior Counsel, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC
Deborah C. Wright Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Carver Bancorp, Inc.
What Do the Senior Corporate Executives at Time Warner Have to Say?
Global Media Group, HBO - Home Box Office, Warner Bros. Entertainment,Time Inc., Turner Broadcasting System, AOL - ALL Liable for this Multi-Trillion Dollar Stolen Technology.
The Corruption at the University of Montana is Rampant, why?
George M. Dennison and the Entire U of M Staff and University of Montana Police have ignored my cries for help for over a year now. In fear of my life.. my business now ruined, I have been defamed and harassed for over a year and all PAID for by the University of Montana. I told the President of the University of Montana a year ago. And worked with the University of Montana Police Jim Lemcke and even today Sept. 30th 2010 .. The University of Montana is PAYING for Someone to watch my sites, email me, harass me, and threaten me.. and I have DONE nothing Illegal or Wrong in any way.
Check Out www.MontanaCorruption.com for my story on the University of Montana aiding and abetting this Montana Hate Crime, Montana Civil Rights Crime and Denying me Basic Human Rights and Safety for over a Year..
Here is Emails between me and Jim Lemcke - SUPPOSEDELY the Chief/DirectorOffice of Public Safety, The University of Montana.
I jumped through every hoop Jim Lemcke gave and the smart tech guys at the University of Montana just could not figure it out? BULL. They were Covering for Corruption in Ravalli and Lincoln County.
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Systems offered by V3RGE will include Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3 and PSP, and Nintendo Wii and DS.
V3RGE will also offer gaming accessories such as OEM controllers and hard drives.
V3RGEhas begun listing the products on Amazon.com with plans to expand their V3RGE eCommerce site as well.
The V3RGE retail stores will be located in Central Illinois, to be serviced by V3RGE 's East Peoria distribution center, and will also include games and software titles for the V3RGE systems.
V3RGE is an Online Company. V3RGE Sells Refurbished V3RGE Consoles, V3RGE Games and V3RGE Electronics. V3RGE is undergoing major, Positive Changes. V3RGE is undergoing expansion and positive action. V3RGE is striving for integrity and to build a quality online business.
