Los Angeles, the Jewish community, the legal profession, and the financial crisis

Conduct of the California courts, California attorneys, and justice agencies in this matter was part of the evidence, which was submitted by Human Rights Alert (NGO) to the UN Human Rights Council for the first ever Periodic Review of Human Rights in the United States (2010). The submission was incorporated into the UN Periodic Review Report (2010) with the note: "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California". [^xi]

Conduct of the US courts in related matters is part of the evidence submitted by Human Rights Alert (NGO) for the Periodic Review Human Rights in the United States, scheduled for January 2015. [^xii]

The organized Los Angeles Jewish and legal communities vis a vis the financial crisis

The story is not unique. Millions of Americans have been impoverished in the ongoing financial crisis through a multitude of variations of the conduct, outlined above.

As one who also happened to be then a member of the Los Angeles Jewish community, and at times also participated in fund-raising for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, the rude awakening that was experienced by the victim in this case was one of the painful parts of the ordeal.

Throughout those years, leaders of Bet Tzedek, leaders of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, leaders of national Jewish organizations (e.g. ADL -- the Anti-Defamation League) were repeatedly informed of the conduct of Bet Tzedek and its senior officers. [^xiii]

Without exception, they failed to respond, and also failed to take any effective corrective action.

Likewise, senior rabbinical figures in Los Angeles and beyond were repeatedly informed of the conduct of Bet Tzedek and its senior officers. Regardless, Mr Samuels continued to be honored through membership on the boards of directors of key Los Angeles Jewish institutions, and Los Angeles rabbis refused to address his conduct, which I was reporting.

Rabbi Michael Lerner was and is a notable exception.

With today's request for compensation, hope was expressed that Bet Tzedek's new President would respond in a way that would document that conduct, which was documented in the request was only an aberration, and that the change of guards in Bet Tzedek indicated that the organized Los Angeles Jewish community and the Los Angeles legal profession were on a new path.

End-note: A transforming growth experience

My experience through the Countrywide/Bet Tzedek/Los Angeles Superior Court was a transforming life event. It forced me to expand my knowledge in fields, where I had no interest before. Eventually, I founded Human Rights Alert (NGO), and my research on related matters led to my recognition as an expert on human rights, particularly pertaining to banking and legal fraud, and the criminal foundation of the current financial crisis. [^xiv] My writing on such matters has been repeatedly included in UN Human Rights Council reports. [^xii,^xv] It was also repeatedly published by media and by peer-reviewed academic journals. In recent years, I have also repeatedly presented on these subjects in international academic conferences. [^xvi] My most significant, original contribution in these fields is probably in the employment of IT system analysis and data-mining as the foundation for human rights reports.

Any funds that I may receive in compensation from Bet Tzedek, would also assist in funding such ongoing activities for the general public good.

It remains to be seen if and how Bet Tzedek's new President and CEO and the Los Angeles Jewish community address the challenge...

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