Attorney who extorted $1 million from clients gets 63 months in prison, Claims Bad Heart as Defense
This horrific story of attorney abuse is all too typical of the real world where attorneys get away with thuggery by making threats. How many of you have received threats from an attorney claiming that you were in violation of some law? The only real difference here is that the perp, Richard Breibart, made those threatsto benefit himself. I have seen similar tactics used against me, including threats of criminal actions that included charges of theft and threats against my job. Perjury, abetted by an attorney who knows there is perjury, is also normal as long as the attorney can assert she or he is doing what the client wanted. The attorneys involved defend themselves by claiming to be only acting in the interests of their clients or , on in one case, by claiming not to be acting as an attorney but as a legal advisor.
Richard Breibart, a prominent attorney in South Carolina negotiated a plea bargain in return for pleading guilty to extorting $1 million from clients received the maximum sentence Wednesday in federal court. Breibart was charged with ten counts including extortion, mail fraud and wire fraud after clients claim he threatened them with criminal charges or non-existent civil penalties.
Breibart’s penalty is reminiscent of “the send her to camp” treatment that Martha Stewart enjoyed after her convection. He will serve his sentence at a minimum security camp in Edgefield County, which is close to his family.
However, that is not good enough. Now Breibart’s public defender said his client is in “very poor health” and suffers from the effects of brain injuries, coronary artery disease, obstructive sleep apnea and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He requested a lowered sentence based on Breibart’s lack of criminal history. “Breibart is completely destitute now,” reads the document. “He has lost his business, his home and all of his personal property. “His practice was a cash flow monster,” it read. “Breibart needed to clear well over $100,000.00 per month just to make payroll on his employees. In total the firm needed to clear $300,000 per month before Breibart could get paid. … The Probation Office has determined that he has liens and judgements totaling well over a million dollars…It all came crashing down as his health failed in May of 2012.”
“The defendant is very ill and has substantial need of medical care,” the public defender submitted. “It simply makes no sense to provide that care within the Federal Bureau of Prisons…The defendant and society would be better served by a sentenced of time served, followed by a term of supervised release with a special condition of at least a year of home confinement.”
The “sickly lawyer” defense of a lawyer is farcical. The public defender say that this client is too ill to fulfil his responsibilities. The attorney would be able to claim that his illness defense even if farcical, is OK because it he is himself, a defendant. This story is horrific. Surely the punishment for abuse of the legal system ought to be higher, much higher, than the penalty for selling crack cocaine or insider stock trading. The idea that the public defender in South Carolina has nothing better to do than take oin this case smells of collusion within the legal protections to protect tis own.
The picture you misappropriated shows Raymond Burr playing paraplegic police officer Robert Ironside, whom you seem to have mistaken for Perry Mason.
For someone worried about Raymond Burr’s rights, the author of this comment ought to read the law on impersonating others and look into how easy it was for me to determine his real identity.
You got it veeditor!!! That’s right!!! Throw it right back at ’em. Hamilton needs to go get a burger at Hardees and quit looking at pictures. And it also states in the request for “lowered sentencing” that he has had “CLOSED BRAIN SURGERY”….what the heck is that? He will be living with the daughter in Edgefield, surely. You just might run into him at BiLo in Edgefield buying filet mignon, too. And don’t forget the Monday night “Wildlife Dinner” every week, enjoyed by a select few.