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Verizon Wireless - billing fraud

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Verizon motion for protective order and discovery stay

I just uploaded the 4/14/06 Verizon motion for protective order and discovery stay

It is absolutely fascinating that they go all out to protect Verizon Director of Financial Services Greg Fong.

The couldn’t care less about my press release, accessed over 85,000 times at just one outlet and reposted at MANY websites including at Collection Industry. You probably need a login to read Collection Industry, I subscribe to their daily digest.  As I scanned the headlines on 4/10, I was shocked to see that they picked up my Verizon release.  That’s what relatively big numbers do.  As I googled for Verizon suits, I saw that they got sued for BILLIONS.  A million dollars really isn’t what it used to be.

Why don’t they want me to depose Greg Fong and what’s with the PROTECTIVE order?

They’re sweating bullets because Fong will be under oath and they know that he’ll be exposed as the liar he is.  His friends, neighbors and family will find out how he makes a living.

My 1996 Moron of the Year Award still gets me e-mail from people who knew Nick Reale and they have nothing good to say about him.  Isn’t it surprising that years after this scummy mortgage broker / hard money lender died, people who knew him still search for him?

At BayHouse I still refer to Verizon as “GTE”, and that’s another reason why they don’t care about bad publicity.  All these Mafia type corporations just change their names when their reputation gets really bad. 

It’s not the government of Iraq on trial for murder and torture, it’s Saddam Hussein and his cronies.  We need to hold the PEOPLE responsible who give the orders - not some corporation that couldn’t possible care less.

Greg Fong verified the Verizon discovery responses and I have a right to depose him.

It’s NOT my fault that Greg Fong chose to lie and that he continued to collect a debt that he knew to be fraudulent.

I’m still waiting for a response to my notice of Verizon discovery deficiencies and while their attorney Rodrick Coffey insisted on a court hearing Tuesday or Wednesday, he doesn’t own me.  I don’t live on his plantation. 

It certainly doesn’t make sense to have TWO hearings, so I’ll wait till next week to file my response and if necessary, my motion to compel discovery responses.  (The e-mails with specifics) There’s a lot I have to say and I have a few exhibits of my own.  And, there’s a lot of research I need to do too.

Coffey informed me that he’s not available for the depo until 5/9 and I agreed to reschedule.  Am hoping to go to Dallas instead in early May for the deposition of Experian’s Kimberly Hughes.

Monday, April 17, 2006

$2.5 million suit in California for the loss of a cat

Wysotski v. Air Canada (2002)

Plaintiff’s Attorney:  David Blatte, Berkeley CA

Topic: Loss of Cat by Airlines

Jurisdiction:  CA - California Superior Court of San Francisco

Year Case Filed:  2002

If you can ask for $2.5 million for the loss of a cat, I wonder what Dorothea’s estate could sue Verizon for.  The SOL hasn’t even started to run since the estate has no idea what’s going on—yet. 

Friday, April 14, 2006

Scheduled the Verizon Director of Financial Services Greg Fong depo for 5/1/06

Was in town for my monthly shopping yesterday, but I did manage to set up the depo in Los Angeles.  I still don’t know where Fong actually is since Verizon attorney Coffey won’t tell me, he only advised that he’s in California.

I thought May Day was a good date.  Workers’ rights are going down the tube as it is, we sure don’t need to pay our bills TWICE.

The related e-mail and depo notice

I sent a $1,000 deposit for the depo and a full day is going to run about $2,000.  I have no ideal how long it’ll take.  That’s the least I can do for Dorothea and to try to ensure that nobody else dies because of Verizon’s determination to collect bills twice.

I’m hoping for some good excerpts to post on the web for legislators, something is really really wrong with a country where a corporation can kill someone over an uncashed refund check and despite numerous notices that the refund check wasn’t cashed.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Verizon is collecting the UNCASHED check, discovery deficiencies and depo

I started to post the e-mails at Fight Back:

My correspondence with Verizon attorney Rodrick Coffey

I’ve been so busy, still have to post some of the earlier mails, and I’m SO relieved that they finally admitted that I don’t owe them anything.  Well, actually, they insist that I DO owe because I didn’t send the uncashed check back to them.

Am I the village idiot? 

Don’t EVER do anything as stupid as giving ORIGINALS to creditors, attorneys, courts, etc.  Do you think a creditor or collector would be so stupid and send you the ORIGINAL check you bounced, your application, etc.?

If I had sent the original uncashed check back to Verizon, I would have no proof at all that I didn’t cash it and these criminals at Verizon would GET AWAY with collecting debts that don’t exist.

Fortunately, I can document that I notified Verizon REPEATEDLY that I didn’t cash that refund check since 1999.

It’s amazing that only a few weeks ago the Verizon Director of Financial Services Greg Fong DENIED my Request for Admission No. 10:

ADMISSION NO. 10:

Verizon admits that it attempted to collect the $90.42 GTE final refund check # 727569258.

Greg Fong DENIED collecting this check on March 17, 2006.

And in 2000 Verizon’s Kay Howe stated that Verizon had no records of sending a refund check in her response to my FCC complaint.  She’s no longer employed with Verizon, how do I find her?  I’d sure like to know what she’s doing now and why Verizon had no record of the check it is STILL collecting.

I’m sure glad that I know now why they claim that I owe them and this has to be the world’s most idiotic defense.

I am SO looking forward to the deposition!  Yesterday I wrote to Rodney Coffey:

“I also want to depose the most knowledgeable persons about the Verizon:

a) collection procedures (the handling of accounts that are returned from collection agencies as disputed.)
b) accounting practices (Verizon’s inability to determine whether a refund check has been issued or whether it cleared, what happens to those funds?)
c) record keeping (calls from customers regarding billing disputes)
d) credit reporting (the reporting of disputed accounts.)
e) regulatory, compliance (treat uncashed refund checks as valid refunds despite numerous customer disputes including with the FCC)
f) account setup / billing / collection procedures for accounts with cosigners and multiple account holders.
g) record destruction, storage (not a single document was provided with the discovery responses)

Please advise where and when I can schedule those video depositions.”

I haven’t received a response yet. 

I also sent Coffey an email with the specific discovery issues.

Verizon either destroyed the documentation since the account was closed in 98 when they were served or they are withholding it.

How can you send an account to THREE different collectors and not have a SINGLE document?  There MUST be documents relating to the assignment for collections, somebody must have done *something* when the account was returned by the collectors due to my disputes, etc.  I got the last collection letter in 10/02.  About half a year later Verizon was served.

Verizon operates like the Mafia.

Coffey told me that I have to take the depo at Fong’s location in California.  NOT A PROBLEM!  I’m ready.  If Coffey had only given me the city where Fong works, I could schedule the depo and then send the notice.

I could depose some people at Experian if Fong is in So. Cal.  Got lots of questions for them too.

Monday, April 10, 2006

Verizon is stalling and the press release is doing great

Got this e-mail from Verizon attorney Rodrick Coffey today:

Ms. Baker,

I received both of your recent e-mail messages.  Verizon Wireless will respond to those e-mails later this week.

Rodrick J. Coffey
Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP

And here’s my response:

Mr. Coffey, here’s my press release:

$5,000,000 lawsuit filed against Verizon Wireless for collecting a fraudulent cellular phone bill despite numerous disputes

It was accessed over 21,000 times in the first 14 hours, looks like there’s a lot of interest.  I will send out followup releases and my offer to give Verizon a paragraph or two stands.  Please advise your client accordingly.

I’m extremely anxious to find out why you and Verizon claim that I owe to Verizon over $105.  “Later this week” sounds to me like you’re just delaying.  How long can it take to get Mr. Fong’s and Ms. Howe’s schedule?  Even if Mr. Fong is on vacation, his secretary ought to have his calendar.

I don’t mind scheduling for their and your convenience, but if I get no cooperation, you’ll just get the deposition notices.

Please let me know their earliest available dates by tomorrow.

Christine Baker

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I had a full schedule this weekend, was supposed to do all kinds of stuff I didn’t do because this is really affecting my ability to focus on my work and the other defendants.  It sucks when you don’t have a staff and you’re not superwoman and you can only work about 14 hours/day on a daily basis.

Once I have the Verizon admission that I never owed the $105 I’ll feel a little better.  Although their entire filings, discovery responses and requests are so aggravating.

I wish I could hire someone to go through all my files to look for the Verizon contract.  I know I had it in 2003 and it’s highly unlikely that I accidentally threw it away.  It’s probably misfiled in one of my 8 or so file boxes related to litigation or maybe it even got mixed in with my bills or other paper.