When Lawyers Lie

Boyd Richards Firm Fabricated Judge’s Orders

A terminated building services worker who accused his employers of discrimination, has sued their attorneys in civil RICO lawsuit alleging the lawyers engaged in racketeering practices in order to protect their clients, including fabricating the orders of a Federal Judge.

“It’s a rare lawsuit because there is no question about the evidence, these attorneys made and were granted motions by fabricating Judge Oetken’s orders, and you can see plainly the judge never instructed any of this stuff.” Said a government attorney familiar with the matter.

The lawsuit, Lagerstrom v. Boyd Richards, et al., demands over $25 million dollars in damages from the law firm Boyd, Richards, Parker & Colonelli, a “boutique” firm that has about 50 attorneys, all of them listed as partners or associates on their website.

The complaint plainly displays Boyd-Richards attorney Bryan Mazzola having reviewed three short orders from Judge Oetken, and then immediately making motions to sanction the self-represented plaintiff, claiming he violated the orders by seeking to reopen the case.

“It’s incredible they would do this.” Said the attorney. “They asked the Judge to sanction and punish Mr. Lagerstrom on the basis that the judge had censured him and ordered him to stop filing documents, but nowhere in the judge’s orders did it say that. They are basic, to the point orders, the attorneys put words in the judge’s mouth.”

The suit alleges the Boyd-Richards attorneys, along with a labor board, an arbitration services company, and their defendants from an attached Civil Rights lawsuit, Lagerstrom v. Orsid et al., conspired to commit fraud by rigging the arbitration process of the building workers union, SEIU 32BJ, in part by filing four motions citing the fictitious orders. The vice president of Orsid Realty, Robert Mellman, informed the worker he would sabotage the arbitration process because he sat on and had friends on union committees; unbeknownst to Mellman he was participating in a controlled phone call.

In the attached lawsuit the Boyd-Richards attorneys argued that arbitration, instead of trial, should be had, in part claiming they were never afforded the opportunity to arbitrate the discrimination matters by the union contract. However, Mr. Mazzola and Boyd-Richards were the registered attorneys to the EEOC investigation of the claims. “The EEOC is required by law to give them a chance to arbitrate and they did, twice, and they declined it. When I sued, they claimed they were never given the chance. They have delayed this for almost three years, and now they want more delays.” Said Lagerstrom, adding “This is what happens when lawyers lie. Now I’ll call them on the carpet. This is my pension, my livelihood, and they are going to be held accountable.”

RICO stands for Racketeer and Corrupt Criminal Organizations Act, and imposes penalties for two or more persons who knowingly conspire to commit fraud and other crimes for financial gain. The lawsuits reveal that the Boyd Richards attorneys had close connections to the company that selects the arbitrators, as well as their defendants sitting on a committee belonging to the labor board that selects the arbitrators.

Recently it was confirmed the labor board, responsible for the vetting and selection of the arbitrators to the union contract, chose four deceased arbitrators for the 2018 panel, two of them having died many years prior, including as far back as 1999.

“These were well known people in that field.” Said Lagerstrom. “Their funerals were covered in The New York Times, they were celebrated, and this means no vetting process occured, this is a violation of the union contract, a major one. It’s corruption, and the working men and women suffer the most.”