Sharp Elbow to a Brittle Place

Call him Mr. Cross.

Mr. Cross invested with my client’s son’s national business. Then the economy collapsed. The business crumbled. And Mr. Cross lost a lot of money.

My client’s son’s fortune crumbled with his business. Cross sued him, but he realizes that he’ll never get money out of my client’s son.

So, Cross looks to my client for his money back. My client was active with his son’s business. Cross thinks he has a case against my client.

Cross’s lawyer is untrustworthy. His states facts to the judge that aren’t true. Lawyers like that make a lawsuit hard – harder than it would otherwise be. But I turn from my point.

The battle is joined. And we find out that Cross has a felony conviction for bank fraud. And we find out that Cross has against him a restitution order for $15,000,000. Plus or minus.

Not that we want to harm a lawyer or his client who look for any chance to harm us and any chance to harm our client. Not that we bear a grudge against a lawyer who is willing to lie to do that. Not that we dislike a lawyer who withholds routine professional courtesies. Not at all. But if there is any lien on Cross’s assets, of course we want to get to the right place any money that we might have to pay.

So we send a letter to the federal probation office in New York that supervised Cross. We tell them about the lawsuit. And today, only days later, we get a notice of lien. It directs us to pay no money to anybody but the U.S. Marshal’s Office.

So if we win, our client pays nothing. And if we lose, Cross’s victims get money that otherwise would go to Cross and his lawyer.

It’s grand to do good.