Frank Parlato
Connecticut family law attorney Edward Nusbaum has filed a contempt motion against his client, Karen Riordan, to compel her to pay for arbitration in a case where he is accused of fraudulently billing her.
Nusbaum had billed Riordan $98,000 for series of emails and phone calls made over four months in 2020 in connection to a divorce case. Evidence suggests he made only one-third of the calls and about half the emails he billed Riordan while representing her.
At the center of the dispute is $64,000 held in Nusbaum’s escrow account.
Nusbaum is suing Riordan, asserting that in addition to the $35,000 she already paid, he earned an additional $64,000 through his services, billed at $750 per hour. Riordan has refused to sign off on the funds and demanded a jury trial to show that Nusbaum fraudulently billed her.
Her evidence, shared with the publication, includes Nusbuam’s invoices for several court hearings that were never on the docket, and dozens of phone calls and emails to the guardian ad litem (GAL), Jocelyn Hurwitz. Her invoices reveal that they did not speak on most occasions when Nusbaum billed Riordan for his time.
Hurwitz’s billing records, billed at increments of 1/10th of an hour show no time spent on dozens of Nusbaum-billed calls to Riordan – which indicated fraud.
Nusbaum, refusing to adjudicate the dispute in open court, has demanded Riordan resolve the matter in arbitration, which he claims is his right based on the original retainer agreement Riordan signed in 2020.
The proposed arbitrator, Antonio Robaina, charges $600 per hour. He declined to take the case after Riordan’s attorney, Tricia Lindsey, stated, “My client is indigent and unemployed. She cannot pay.”
Nusbaum then filed a motion with the Connecticut Superior Court, requesting that Riordan be held in willful contempt and ordered to pay both her share of the arbitration costs and Nusbaum’s fees. He seeks jail time for Riordan if his demands are not met.
Nusbaum had represented Riordan in 2020. In addition to fraudulent billing, Riordan says Nusbaum was disloyal and self-serving.
She claims that during a phone status conference with Judge Jane Grossman, which Riordan said she was not made aware of, Nusbaum agreed to stipulation agreements without Riordan’s consent.
One of these stipulated that Riordan, who had just agreed to sell the family home, would assign her proceeds to Nusbaum for his fees. As is standard in real estate transactions, the sale included a 72-hour cancellation clause, which Riordan invoked after discovering that the proceeds of the sale were meant for Nusbaum and not her and her children.
She rescinded her signature on the purchase offer within twenty-four hours. However, the judge – utilizing Nusbaum’s stipulation filed with the court without her consent, ordered the sale. After it closed, the money was held in Nusbaum’s escrow account – leaving it up to the attorney and client to work out their fee dispute.
Additionally, there was “Agreement #202,” which involved supervised visitation. The court never acted on this agreement, and there was no hearing. There is Nusbaum’s signature. Riordan had previously told Nusbaum that she would not agree to supervised visitation, and had a right to a hearing, but Nusbaum signed it regardless. Later, Judge Gerard Adelman attributed the absence of Riordan’s signature and the failure of the court to execute any order to a clerical oversight.
Lindsay has objected to Nusbaum’s contempt motion, labeling it retaliatory and filed in bad faith. She argues that there is no evidence of contempt, no willful violation, and that Nusbaum has not met the “clear and convincing” standard required by law for a finding of contempt. The contempt hearing is on Monday.
To be continued.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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“For the record, not everyone in Connecticut is a crook,” began a March 2003 New York Times article entitled, “The Nutmeg State Battles the Stigma of Corrupticut.”
Where is the duty of care for his clients? How has he been permitted to retain his license to practice law while blatantly stealing from those he is sworn to represent?
Over the course of the past several decades, a few of Connecticut’s most despicable state employees acting as state office directors, judges and legislators created laws and practices to allow stealing.
Meanwhile, Federal Rule 11 says:
“… Every pleading, written motion, and other paper must be signed by at least one attorney of record in the attorney’s name—or by a party personally if the party is unrepresented. The paper must state the signer’s address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Unless a rule or statute specifically states otherwise, a pleading need not be verified or accompanied by an affidavit. The court must strike an unsigned paper unless the omission is promptly corrected after being called to the attorney’s or party’s attention.
(b) Representations to the Court. By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper—whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it—an attorney or unrepresented party certifies that to the best of the person’s knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances:
(1) it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation;
(2) the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law;
(3) the factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery; and
(4) the denials of factual contentions are warranted on the evidence or, if specifically so identified, are reasonably based on belief or a lack of information. …”
I learned the art of billing, the first rule of which is that a lawyer spends much of his waking hours in conferences. Client conferences, phone conferences, conferences with opposing lawyers and judges and partners and insurance adjusters and clerks and paralegals, conferences over lunch, conferences at the courthouse, conference calls, settlement conferences, pretrial conferences, post-trial conferences. Name the activity, and lawyers can fabricate a conference around it.
News-ham. Blokes like Newsham use this kind of exposure as PR in certain oily -swine-y circles. I can just see him running around at home in his slippers and golden paisley Howard Hefner robe celebrating how many utterly loathsome clients will gravitate towards him once they see how he operates.
Hey Ed, did you advise your client on the fatherhood initiative in the state of Connecticut? Did you provide your client with the knowledge of how the Connecticut family court works? Did you advise your client that she would be painted as a malicious alienator because she went to family court expressing concerns about the children? Did you provide zelous representation or follow the memorandum of understanding for fatherhood? Did you advise your client that she would be engaged in long term litigation and painted as a crazy woman? Did you advise your client that the industry of family court professionals are supposed to engage the father in the lives of their children under even questionable circumstances? Did you advise your client that despite the fathers lack of involvement in the lives of his children he would be favored due to the economic growth and development of the state of Connecticut? Did you advise your client that the state of Connecticut was the leader of criminal justice reform and claiming to be a safe state for women and don’t like to acknowledge the sexual assault of children and child abuse exist? Did you advise your client that DCF is funding projects for experimental psychology and pushing parental alienation. Did you advise your client that the judges education is to push the narrative that women are lying? Did you advise your client that evidence is often ignored in the Connecticut family court house? Did you do your job or did you bamboozle an unsuspected Mom who went to your office for help?
Many times women do lie about abuse to gain a litigation advantage in divorce. Just google “the silver bullet” and you will find an article written this month in Attorney at Law magazine which highlights this issue.
CT family court is not about gender, race, or anything else but money. The goal of the family court system and the lawyers that practice within it is to stir up high conflict cases to drain the litigants and their children of their life savings. Using the silver bullet, and whatever other initiates are out there only further this goal. So, don’t make this about race or gender when it’s only about money in CT.
Many times the court ignores evidence. The studies of fatherless households are targeting poverty stricken population. Which would explain the educational claims. The financial aid to fathers is the United States far out weighs any money from Vowa and the crime victims. When you attempt to discuss issues with the reform movement and based on advance knowledge of some of the cases ( not Karens). There are important details missing. The promotion of safety appears to be unpopular. There is a strong anti motherhood campaign right now. The collection of data in the warrior group. Used to eleminate child support. Nothing into the investigation into cases. Volpe has demonstrated the ” parental alienation” silver bullets. Too many of these reform gentlemen and fathers rights supporters have silenced and attempts to control. Including the gender bias funding. So it suspect. No woman is safe at the court system when they express concerns. Does anyone think that 50)50 would solve the Ambrose v Riordan matter? Where do you think equal and shared parenting is getting their funding from? David Wegal alienation warrior has declared bankruptcy? Can afford to run the court warrior project? Who do you think is making charitable contribution? Going to Doge to stop child support and pretend like it’s the entire problem? Marsh, Marsha, Marsha promotion of equal and shared parenting. The AFCC and billions in funding. First of it’s kind studies for problematic fathers. In or about 2021. Several children landed in the hospital. Children psychiatric department after custody flip. . DV cases. Gotlibe is on tic toc twisting information with a direct line to the state of Connecticut. These cases will never be investigated for confidentialty reason. This is a wicked game these people are playing. In my opinion the article are to push fear on women because there is a push to arrest them. Gotlibe state that these parents are not refusing contact and can’t control children. The point is that no one is focusing on weather the relationship is healthy. No one is going to force their children to go with an unhinged parent. The children need one parent who believes them. My interactions with many equal and shared parenting ( not Karen) . Have engaged in some dirty and underhanded tactics outside of the court house as well. Including silver bullet coaching tactics. Referring dirty court system professionals.
Since the worst kind of legislators, bureaucrats and judges built Connecticut “family courts” for lawyers and NOT for families, the most destructive “family lawyers” have pushed whichever “silver bullet” makes them the most money.
Before the “therapeutic jurisprudence” replaced criminal proceedings in criminal cases, actual crimes and lies about crimes were “silver bullets” in family law cases.
After the worst kind of legislators, bureaucrats and judges changed the criminal codes to suit their preferences, things changed.
After Richard Gardner’s general term “parental alienation” made so much money for “family law” lawyers, HOW did Evan Stark NOT anticipate how much money the general term “coercive control” could make for the worst of the worst “family lawyers” in Connecticut — and other “blue states”?
“ … Under the Kelly Loving Act, parents who refuse to use their child’s chosen name or pronouns, even out of sincere concern for the child’s well-being, would be deemed to be exercising “coercive control,” and therefore liable to lose custody. …”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/colorado-kelly-loving-act-child-gender-pronouns
Two or more things can be true at the same time.
Connecticut “family courts” are about: race, gender (plus any other identity politics that divides, conquers and makes money) and money.
https://frankreport.com/2025/03/27/connecticut-family-law-attorney-ed-nusbaum-files-contempt-motion-against-impoverished-client-over-alleged-overbilling/#comment-263919
This issue raises interesting questions surrounding arguably unconscionable arbitration clause provisions in legal retainers and their enforceability.
Sure. So how many Connecticut bureaucrats have enough courage to answer interesting questions?
U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner described Pennsylvania’s juvenile court racketeering from 2003 – 2008:
“… tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions…”
A lawyer for the victimized children and families responded in this way:
“… To have an order from a federal court that recognizes the gravity of what the judges did to these children in the midst of some of the most critical years of their childhood and development matters enormously …”
Very few Connecticut residents and taxpayers know what happened to the Connecticut judges and lawyers who spoke that openly and honestly about the scandals of epic proportions in Connecticut family and juvenile courts — mostly because Connecticut mainstream news outlets can’t or won’t report the racketeering in Connecticut family and juvenile courts.
Most Connecticut judges and lawyers must notice the tragic human casualties in Connecticut’s family and juvenile courts.
Most Connecticut judges and lawyers must know about the CT AFCC Inc. group making lots of money in Connecticut family and juvenile courts with fraud, extortion and deception.
Around 2010, many parents and a few independent journalists started mapping the racketeering in Connecticut family court “child custody cases”. Back then, CT AFCC Inc. directors, secretaries, treasurers, members and associates weren’t registered to conduct for profit business in the state. They’d been making lots of money in child custody cases for years. Passing cases amongst themselves they committed fraud and threatened parents and children who protested CT AFCC Inc.’s criminal practices and procedures.
A few journalists wrote a few articles about CT AFCC Inc. crimes and CT AFCC Inc. seemed forced to registered to do business in the state. They registered as a “nonprofit”.
In 2013, members of The Connecticut Judicial Ethics Committee decided the CT AFCC Inc. group shouldn’t have been making money in child custody cases. The judges lawyers and associates shouldn’t have used their judicial authority and judicial immunity to commit crimes and make money.
Which individuals in AG and DOJ offices let Mr. Nussbaum get away with committing those crimes in the Ambrose v. Riordan case?
I must ask this question again. Where are Pam Bondi and Kash Patel? Why aren’t they investigating this RICO racket and holding judges, lawyers, and GALs accountable? Perhaps families adversely affected by the RICO racket should get together and find ways to draw the attention of the Trump administration to this systemic corruption. Trump knows first hand about the legal corruption going on in liberal states like CT, NY, and CA.
Pam Bondi’s in one location. Kash Patel’s somewhere else.
They two different people in two different offices.
Both of them are currently tasked with tackling ALL hardcore blue collar criminals and ALL hardcore white collar criminals in 50 states, a federal district, major territories and minor islands.
If YOU were Pam or Kash, what would YOU be doing right now?
You’d have a lot to do.
Maybe a few state employees in Connecticut can help Pam and Kash look into the racketeering in the state’s family court system.
That racketeering is a federal crime and the state DOJ offices received plenty of information already. The public defender’s office asked for records of Paul Boyne’s communications from the Connecticut prison, so the public defender’s office should know about the Liberti case. That means the public defender’s office should also know about how a Rob Liberti knows “Dr.” Marc T. Abrams. Is it the same Rob Liberti? Why were Maureen Murphy and her wife … and “Dr.” Kenneth Robson and his wife … seated like an audience when the “family court” judge read the final order in Sunny Kelly’s child’s case?
Maybe it would help for someone to write a letter to The Connecticut public defender’s office to ask them if they have records of the child’s signs and symptoms in that case.
So far, state DOJ offices let a few Connecticut judges, attorneys and accomplices got away with blatant racketeering and heinous crimes against children and families. Read Tom O’Neil’s book CHAOS to understand how important it is for regular citizens to monitor public servants and hold them accountable. Newspapers such as The Hartford Courant and The New Haven Register used to provide that service and no longer do.
Some could start by sending a letter to federal DOJ and HHS offices. The letter can ask the DOJ and HHS employees whether or not they know about the HHS funded “research” done on Connecticut children and families since the 1970s…
Another letter to those offices can ask why Gardner’s twisted practices (such as “threat therapy” has been used in Connecticut “family courts” for the past 40 years.
Another letter could ask why CT AFCC, Inc. executive officers and members were allowed to operate for profit across state lines (blatant racketeering) without registering to do business in the state.
The list of potentially helpful letters to HHS and DOJ goes on and on.
https://frankreport.com/2023/06/06/facebook-posts-and-sexual-misconduct-allegations-dr-abrams-role-in-catherine-kassenoffs-ruin-revealed/
Oh good lord, Eddy “Cialis Phallus” Nusbaum is still trying to defraud Karen? Fuck him! What a fucking piece of trash. $750 per hour? Lol. I wouldn’t pay this fucking cuck $75 per hour!! What a patgetic piece of trash. Fuck Ed Nusbaum.
In the Naidoo case, Judge Tindill issued a mittimus against a single mother who was waiting for funds to pay Gary Cohen based on a dubious court order. There was no clear and convincing evidence she was refusing to pay. She simply was waiting for the sale of real property to pay Cohen, yet she was sent to jail to pay Cohen before the funds came through a mere 3 weeks later.
In essence, CT family courts do not follow the 14th amendment nor any other constitutional protections unless you are the wealthy client of a connected attorney paying $850 per hour. This is a RICO racket with a small number of lawyers and judges over billing and profiting at the expense of families and children, who are trafficked to the spouse that pays the connected lawyer even if they are pedofiles. Corruption, ex parte contacts between judges, lawyers, and GALs, nepotism, and a lack of following the rule of law are rampant
WHEN WILL ATTY GENERAL BONDI INVESTIGATE AND SHUT THIS RICO RACKET DOWN?
Less than 50 individuals (judges, lawyers, and GAL,s) control this court like a mafia don, kapos, and foot soldiers control territories and industries. These individuals are nothing more than mobsters with law degrees.
Thank you fir your accurate summary of the racketeering operation Cash For Kids that runs rampant through CT family courts the players are incestuous and share deep connections and history which allows that to act boldly and with impunity They are criminals and child abusers operating in broad daylight AG Tong is a hypocrite and criminal himself because he supports the criminal conduct of attorneys and judges
And then he makes a press release against Trump- saying no one is above the law in CT
Family courts are lawless and the state is the most corrupt in the US
How can we get the Kash Patel and the DOJ to investigate this? Liberal states courts, judges and AG’s are corrupt and are not following the law.
How can we get Connecticut residents to start governing themselves?
Why do you think Chris Murphy, Richard Blumenthal and William Tong are ready to defect to Canada rather than face the crime going on in the judicial system. William Tong is shitting his pants over the thought of Pam Bondi showing up on the steps of his office.
Ct has a long string of incompetency, fraud and coverup. Tong is just another Blumenthal looking for making headlines and not looking at the real damage that has been able to go on here. So disappointed that we have no fighters here. We need CT DOGE. 90k state workers?
Years ago, Connecticut Avenue navigated the earlier crooks from Washington DC to “The Charter Oak” state.
Which state offices let Mr. Cohan and Mr. Nussbaum do so much harm?
Nussbaum is essentially retired and does not have many cases pending. I believe he stopped taking new clients about 2 years ago. Seems rather odd he is engaged in this sort of fight for his questionable fees given the high profile nature of this case.
Seems odd given the “high profile” of the case? In my opinion, that’s exactly why he’s fighting so hard. Why should he cut a break to a woman who has been smearing him online for years?
Koo-Koo dug her own grave.
Which creep wrote: the victim “dug her own grave”?
Sorry, but in this case none of that came into play. It was all a case of Koo Koo being her own worst enemy, second only to her enablers and the then the paid henchman she foolishly hired.
Your first name begins with a “C” and your last name begins with an “A”.
Your name starts with Dum and ends with Dum.
He doesn’t expect anyone to find out about it. He’s made a career and life savings from fraudulent billing and if questioned he’s cornered his clients to participate in what is an illegal contract whereby arbitration must be completed in a closed room, run by one of his Fairfield county connecticut court cronies, no recording permitted, and NO DISCOVERY allowed!!!
How can one prove fraud of Nusbaum eliminates discovery in violation of all due process. The very illegal contract he’s been operating under for decades allows him to throw his clients to the wolves and they have zero recourse.
It’s about time he gets exposed. He should have been arrested years ago right along with Alex trembicki and Daniel Portanova.
In going after Karen, Mr. Nussbaum could be trying to hide his crimes and he could be trying to hide the crimes his friends and associates committed in the state family courts for the past 40 years. That’s a lot of crimes.
After someone (Joette Katz and her circle of friends?) decided to try to silence Paul Boyne:
Nussbaum probably saw that getting rid of Karen Riordan would help him and his friends (Grossman, Adelman, Aldrich, Hurwitz and Horwitz etc.) get away with the crimes they committed in the Ambrose v Riordan case.
Which state and federal employees are investigating the crimes Mr. Nussbaum committed?
And how long will their investigation take?
Nusbsum, Alex Trembicki and Daniel Portanova have built careers of criminal conduct – where Nusbsum commits fraud – hundreds of thousands each year for decades- and then he forces unsuspecting clients to private arbitration- where he sets these conditions:
1 it must be held secretly by a family court attorney with offices in Fairfield county
2 no discovery is permitted
3 no transcript or recording is permitted
4 the fees of the Fairfield county attorney (usually Daniel portanova) are without limits and must be paid
5 the “loser” of the arbitration is responsible for 100 percent of the arbitration fees
6 Danial portanova’s or the Fairfield country family attorneys decision and billing is SEALED and sent to be rubber stamped by a family court judge – ususually their cronie – also in his 80’s like Nusbsum and portanova- judge kavanowsky who rubber stamps the larceny
7 Nusbsum, portanova and trembicki split up the proceeds of their fraud and larceny and all is under seal
Criminal pattern done to many many unsuspecting clients of Nusbaum
Nusbaum signs stipulations of supervised visitation and home sale without informed consent – he works for the gal and goes where there is the most financial reward
He can destroy his clients in private and illegal arbitration where he never had to turn over his records, there’s no discovery, no due process and no recourse
Nusbaum should be charged with fraud and arrested He’s a criminal and a bully
How many children and parents did Connecticut “family court” judges and lawyers harm since 2014?
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2014/JUDdata/tmy/2014SB-00494-R000331-The%20Connecticut%20Coalition%20for%20Family%20Court%20Reform-TMY.PDF
At the public hearing a few weeks ago, Gerard Adelman said he thinks the solution to the problems is: “more funding for more training”.
Unless and until the FBI and DOJ will come to CT and other left leaning states where family court RICO style corruption is rampant, nothing will happen. This is a big problem in many left leaning states and the mobsters involved (judges, lawyers, GALs) need to be prosecuted.
Connecticut legislators passed laws to allow fraud & racketeering in the state’s courts, because … “judicial immunity” is most important.
State legislators allow the corruption and the oldest, most corrupted newspaper in America keeps the public in the dark.
The mild-mannered governor probably knows about the Rockefeller cottage over the Canaanite alter on Jekyll Island where “The Federal Reserve” was planned and most graduates of Connecticut public schools don’t know what The Federal Reserve is.
Why should The Hartford Courant even bother to tell Connecticut about what Mr. Nusbaum did?
More about The Hartford Courant:
Family law weaponizes power against vulnerable clients.
Nusbaum padded hours, billed for fake hearings and nonexistent calls, then demanded arbitration his client couldn’t afford. When she refused? He filed a contempt motion to have her jailed.
This isn’t a legal dispute. It’s predation through process.
Judges signed off on stipulations the client never agreed to. The GAL’s records don’t match the billed calls. The arbitrator charges $600/hr. And the system shrugs.
This is a template. Not an accident.
Thank you for pulling the mask off. Keep going.
Too many have stayed silent for too long.
When will the DOJ investigate this RICO racket? Trump knows court corruption in liberal states first hand. He should send Kash Patel to investigate the CT family court RICO cartel.
Look up:
Michael Sussman’s activities in Washington DC … and Connecticut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sussmann
Filing 12 NOTICE of Appearance by Michael H. Sussman on behalf of Simon Hessler (Sussman, Michael) November 9, 2023
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
SIMON HESSLER
From in or about luly 2016 until in or about November 2018, in the District of Connecticut, the defendant SIMON HESSLER did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, and coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct …
… Upon conviction of the offense alleged in Count One of this Information, the defendant SIMON HESLER shall forfeit to the United States, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 2253(a), all right, title, and interest in any property used or intended to be used to commit or facilitate the commission of the offense, all property constituting or traceable to gross profits or other proceeds obtained, directly or indirectly, from the offense, and all visual depictions described in Title 18. …
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… Simon Hessler was sentenced in 2020 to nearly 30 years in federal prison on several state and federal charges related to the creation and possession of child pornography, including images he had taken on his cellphone as he sexually abused a girl under the age of 12, federal court documents said. …
… Mawhinney purchased the note for the mortgage and is now seeking payment from Hessler, who is in a federal prison in New York. The mortgage is for a home on North Park Street in Ellington that Hessler purchased in 2014 for $225,000, court documents and town records show. …
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Mr. Mawhinney and Mr. Markowitz helped Mr. Hessler establish New England Hospitality Management Inc. in 2010 and purchased the note for a home in 2014.
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December 12, 2018
Harford Courant
The wife of a man described by police as a self-professed dungeon master who sought sex with an underage girl said she was “absolutely stunned” to learn of her husband’s secret life. In a phone interview Wednesday, Laurie Hessler described herself as “devastated” when state police detailed the charges against Simon Hessler, her husband since 2003. … Hessler also said he had been training slaves for 20 years and had many customers between New York City and Boston, the warrant said. Police said they later found that Hessler’s dungeon was located in the Vernon business he owns, New England Hospitality Management, Inc., 615 Talcotville Road.
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“… Hessler states in his petition—but not in his affidavit—Pierre Hessler retained Kent Mawhinney to represent Hessler in his postconviction proceedings on November 9, 2020.
Petition, Doc. No. 1 at 25; Hessler Aff., Doc. No. 1 at 302 ¶ 29 (“My father, . . . and I were advised by Kent Mawhinney, . . . that Mr. Mawhinney was researching and developing a
collateral attack on my plea and sentence.”); but see Mawhinney Email, Doc. No. 1 at 562 (Mawhinney emails Pierre Hessler that he “need[s] to tighten up my work before meeting with counsel who specializes in post-judgment motions, ” suggesting that Mawhinney was not
prepared to represent Hessler for post-conviction proceedings). Mawhinney was purportedly Hessler’s cellmate, doc. no. 1 at 24, while Mawhinney faced criminal charges for conspiracy to commit murder.5
His law license was suspended at the time. …”
https://ecf.ctd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2023cv1270-49
This over priced attorney provided the royal treatment to part Karen Riordan of her money . He racked up bullshit billing added in the loose of custody. This is zelous representation in the great state of Connecticut. The bar association must be so proud.
Poor little narcissist
She needs the services of the great Gary Cohen to avoid a mittimus.