Deborah Breuner Davis
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deborahbreuner@icloud.com
615-521-4077
September 24, 2023
Office of The Chief Trail Counsel
Attention: Intake
The State Bar of California
845 S. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, California 90017
California State Bar Case
# 09-O-10240
# 22-O-00559
Dear Sir/Madam:
This is my 5th attempt at contacting the California State Bar, “CalBar” regarding the illegal and fraudulent law practices of Kenneth Joseph Catanzarite Esq. “Catanzarite” (# 113750) of Orange County, California. My first attempt was by phone to the CalBar within a month of hiring this monster because he was so egregious. You could have stopped him then, but you chose not to.
I have recently been made aware of litigation against Catanzarite being conducted by another victim, in fact several victims. Your lack of attention to my matter for the past eighteen years is unconscionable and suggests that the California State Bar is responsible and in great need of investigation and/or litigation against them. I insist that my case be reopened and fully investigated.
Eighteen years have passed since Catanzarite’s “withdrawal” from my case. His “withdrawal” was made after little, or no efforts were performed on my behalf. The defamatory 13-page “withdrawal” letter written to me, shared with the CalBar, was unprofessional and included language and information that could have only come from contacting a bias party which would suggest a conflict of interest and perjury. His lack of evidence-based content and accusations have tarnished my reputation as well as defamed my character.
I allege that his handling of experts, mediator and arbitrator were also illegitimate based solely on the outcome of my legitimate filings.
What Catanzarite has done is worse than Girardi! Catanzarite owns my home, ill begotten, and threw my partner, Larry, our six dogs, and me into the streets homeless and penniless, but not before he had all our business equipment trashed into the mud.
First, what kind of attorney steals their client’s property, using fraudulent legal advice, and then withdraws from representing his client after little or no work done on the cases he took on? He ends up with a couple million dollars while his client is homeless and penniless. There’s absolutely no excuse for this. I should have, based on this outcome created by Catanzarite, just gotten in my car, which I ended up having to sell to eat, and driven on down the road, instead of hiring him. I have lost everything and Catanzarite either stole it from me or caused me to lose it.
To the extent that Catanzarite lies about me, in all his writings including filings, is to the extent he committed horrific crimes against me while I was in a very venerable state. He is manic to protect himself, and the CalBar chooses not to see this? The fact that Catanzarite went so far as to write 13 pages in his “withdrawal” is your give-a-way to his crime and corruption. What’s more distressing is everything Catanzarite say’s in these writings and filings is just this, writings and filings with no facts to back them up but, “I discussed whatever with whomever and they said”. You have 13 pages of this outrageousness in Catanzarite’s “withdrawal” alone.
It is against your Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 4-300; purchasing property at a Foreclosure or a sale subject to Judicial Review.
Additionally, Catanzarite committed the crime of Equity Skimming (Stripping) in Colorado (CRS 18-5-802) which is a Class 5 Felony, giving him one to three years in prison or up to $100,000.00 fine. And this is the law today in Colorado. Back when Catanzarite did this the laws were far more punishing. Interesting isn’t it how the laws change in this country to protect the criminals. However, as I understand it, the laws of 2005 are what govern Catanzarite on this issue and many others. During that same time, California laws for doing what Catanzarite did with my real estate were even more severe in punishment. The penalty was I believe three to four times the damage in fines and prison.
This is one smidgeon of the broken Rules of Professional Conduct Catanzarite enjoyed at my expense, amongst his federal crimes. The first crime Catanzarite committed was to strip $800,000.00 off the value of my home. I have the appraisal done in 2004 to prove Catanzarite stripped $500,000.00; I have another appraisal from 2006, before Catanzarite withdrew, in storage showing Cabalzarite stripped $800,000.00.
My question here, is why didn’t Catanzarite file a Lis Pendens on my Steamboat Springs, Colorado property? Instead, he demands, the only way to save it or at least the equity in it, would be to sell it to him temporarily. And who ended up with the equity? Catanzarite!
Is the CalBar aware that Catanzarite’s complaints to the courts are written in a way to avoid the truth? I cannot list everything here, but for instance Catanzarite claims I secured a $250,000.00 loan against my Sun Valley, Idaho property for my business; this is not true. I took out a personal loan to survive on because my trust assets were frozen by my divorce attorney. I noticed Catanzarite did this through most all his filings with the courts. At the very least he was misleading the Judge in both cases; making me look irresponsible was his purpose I believe. Likely he wanted my cases dismissed so he could take whatever I had left. Also, I was never in default on my loans; I was told to stop paying on the Bridge Loan when I hired an attorney, based on his instructions. My $250,000.00 personal loan was paid up ahead by 2 years as was revealed at settlement. By the way I sold my Sun Valley, Idaho property for 2.175M$s not 2M$s and I never had a problem selling it, KeyBank wouldn’t allow me to take the last two offers.
The play on facts and words technique would be considered one aspect of perjury and Fraud Upon the Court. Catanzarite did this in my case, and the CalBar has ignored it.
“Fraud on the court occurs when the judicial machinery itself has been tainted, such as when an attorney, who is an officer of the court, is involved in the perpetration of a fraud or makes material misrepresentations to the court. Fraud upon the court makes void the orders and judgments of that court.”
I asked Catanzarite why his, facts stated in his contract about my case and complaints were written incorrectly as based on the truth, and he said,” I just don’t know you or your cases well enough yet, these technicalities can be amended as the cases move forward. We need to get going now because of statutes coming up right away.” I believed him.
In the beginning of my relationship with Catanzarite, one of the first pieces of information I gave him was about my concern over the closing falling through on the sale of the Sun Valley, Idaho property. It didn’t make sense for many reasons, but 15 minutes before we were to close the buyer backed out. Unheard of in Sun Valley, Idaho, and I always felt there was some sort of corruption involved. Thereafter Catanzarite never addressed this or investigated. He doesn’t mention it in his complaint.
Judge Winmill even spits out, all the same incorrect information and facts about the KeyBank case (05-0198-E-BLW) through his response to Catanzarite’s complaint. Is this because he didn’t know any better or was he in bed with KeyBank and Catanzarite? The same thing happened in the Oakland County Court, Michigan with the Trust Case (05-070832-CK) lots of facts and information were in Catanzarite’s complaint that were not accurate, while Judge Young’s response followed suit.
What I have mentioned so far is enough to punish Catanzarite with losing his license and pay restitution to me.
In Catanzarite’s 13 page “withdrawal” email to me, he is manically covering up lies, “He thinks he protests too much.” Again, where are the documents of proof to what Catanzarite claims? Everything Catanzarite did over the year he represented me, was well thought out ways to cover the crimes he was committing against my trust and me. You can call these things bribery, extortion, misleading, lies, mens rea or perjury. They are all true in my experience and opinion. Catanzarite’s manic filibustering with a poison pen is the outcome. I can safely say, “the proof is in the puddin’”.
Catanzarite made-up things others said about me, while describing my demanding personality. Why? It’s inappropriate to get angry when you realize you just hired a shark that is in the process of destroying you further. Because Catanzarite knew I was calling the CalBar while he represented me because of the crimes, lies and lack of performance on my two lawsuits. I could see he agreed to represent me for one reason, take everything I still owned. You want to explain to me why I wouldn’t be angry and panicked? Not so much because of what Catanzarite was doing to me, but because the CALBAR wouldn’t listen, help and stop him.
Catanzarite claims he withdrew because I wouldn’t accept KeyBank’s offer. No,I wouldn’t. Why would I knowingly accept my property in Sun Valley, Idaho back, for one year, after several years of the huge black cloud KeyBank caused over it? Sun Valley, Idaho is a very small community. My property was in one of the most elite areas and foreclosure is unheard of there. I had sold my pristine property in 1999, for $2.175$s, very close to the appraised value at that time. It took two weeks to sell and went into a 3-month escrow; KeyBank offered a 1.4M$ Bridge Loan so my partner and I could move for our business to Colorado. Otherwise, the property had no mortgage on it. I did have a personal loan, NOT AGAINST MY PROPERTY, just a personal loan for $,250,000.00 which I was forced to take out since my divorce attorney, John F Schaefer Esq. froze all MY assets during my divorce, which was another trick of the trade; claimed to be needed when in fact this was a lie too. This prevented me from finding another attorney who wouldn’t be defrauding me. I had no funds by which to pay a retainer. I was locked into John F. Schaefer Esq. who I believe was not only on my soon- to- be- ex’s side, but likely part of what happened with KeyBank; Organized Crime. 15 minutes before I would sign the closing documents to the Sun Valley, Idaho property it fell through escrow. This is pretty much unheard of in Sun Valley, Idaho as well.
I had good reason to believe my ex-husband had something to do with this occurring, which I won’t go in here, but I can tell you there were many signs pointing to this fact; worth investigating anyway. I will tell you my ex is likely part of Organized Crime, (unbeknownst to me until all my daughter’s and my funds were gone) and when we married, he had no money, he was part of a third-generation family business in Detroit. I watched Catanzarite call my divorce attorney, John F Schaefer Esq. “Schaefer” who had proven to be on my ex’s side, not mine, or others who helped hide the embezzlement of mine and my daughter’s trusts, and benefit as well for the answers he sought, AGAINST me after I hired Catanzarite; it’s called “Bate and Switch”.
I moved on and put the property back on the market, and sold it two more times, KeyBank wouldn’t allow me to take the offers, and they were for more money. No, they just wanted to foreclose, non-judicially on a trust owned property using my personal loan.
So Catanzarite didn’t address any of this at the mediation, with Judge Peterson from Oregon who truly appeared to have Alzheimer’s. Catanzarite wanted me to take back my Sun Valley, Idaho property with no way to take care of it. I had no money, which Catanzarite was quite aware of, not to mention I would soon be paying Catanzarite over $8,000 a month rent on my home in Steamboat Springs, Co or I should say his home that he swindled me out of, and I couldn’t do this. He owned my current home in Steamboat, Springs, Co and had stripped at least $500,000.00 (an appraisal sought earlier when the home was not completed) of equity out of it, (I have another appraisal showing it was more like $800,000.00). KeyBank had also demanded several forbearances to be paid at thousands of dollars, while McDonald Investments, (worked for my husband while we were married, and was owned by KeyBank, totally unbeknownst to me until it was too late) was taking up to $60,000.00 a month out of my trust account, until it was totally empty. All this purposeful havoc created by KeyBank and all Hammond, (KeyBank’s counsel) can say is “I made a mistake advising KeyBank to foreclose? I don’t believe it was ever a mistake, it was more of a “Mafia Hit”
How was I supposed to pay back a loan for 1.4M$ in a year and pay Catanzarite’s rent, plus absorb the thousands of dollars that had been taken from my trust account, plus deal with the sale of my Michigan property, also worth 2.0M$s, which my ex- husband had been trashing as more attacks on me. I lost $500,000.00 on the sale of this home because of these acts, which Catanzarite knew all about, then he calls my ex to consult him about me? It’s unbelievable! Had Catanzarite gotten me a full Summary Judgment the outcome would have been more in my favor. Now why would he not do this? There was no question to the laws that were broken by KeyBank, but Catanzarite withheld the documents of proof from the judge. I was beginning to think Catanzarite had been bribed or extorted by my ex-husband.
To add insult to injury, when I realized Catanzarite did not buy my home to help me but to get a deal on a mountain retreat, I tried to sell it rather than end up with over $8,000 in rent payments, which clicked in after six months of him owning the property. I received at least one offer, as I recall . It may have been two, and he wouldn’t agree to these sales; it wasn’t because the price wasn’t right. I still had at least $500,000.00 of equity in this property, likely $800,000.00. I would have rather sold it and not landed in the streets. But, Catanzarite, was far happier with me in the streets and that’s exactly where my partner Larry, five of our six dogs and I landed…for ten years. Catanzarite was making it impossible for me to buy my property back from him, by manipulating my lawsuits to make money for himself and NOT me.
And ,”YES” I was angry as I watched Catanzarite destroy my life further with his Narcissism, lies, mens rea, perjury, crimes and annihilation of the Rules of Professional Conduct. But I always remained a lady at these mediations. I likely wrote some seething emails to Catanzarite, because I could see what he was doing…putting me in the streets, while the CalBar did nothing to help me. I also got up in a mediation and excused myself, so I could go out in the hallway and cry. I came back in a few minutes and prepared to be screwed over…again by Catanzarite.
My accepting back my property, and that’s it, would put me into a far more dire situation than I was already in because of KeyBank’s mistake? Larry and I had to sell my truck just to, get the funds, to attend Catanzarite’s mediation, without a full Summary Judgment from the judge. I’m pretty sure Catanzarite did this to keep my case out of court, and he likely was in bed with my ex-husband, Richard “Rick” Lynn Davis ll, John F Schaefer Esq. McDonald Investments and KeyBank. You are aware that McDonald Investments was recommended to me by John F Schaefer Esq during my divorce, and he sure knew McDonald Investments worked for my then husband, and KeyBank owned them. Sounds like a RICO plot to me, not a conspiracy of my making.
The only behavior I showed at this mediation, designed to help both KeyBank and Catanzarite, was anger frustration and serious disappointment in the offer, and said so, I just couldn’t financially do it. Catanzarite then told me to deed the Sun Valley property over to him instead. He doesn’t mention this in his “withdrawal”. Of course I said ,” No!” At this point I could see the only ones winning this legal game, many by now, was KayBank and Catanzarite. In fact, I could see much of Catanzarite’s criminal intentions soon after I hired him, and this is why I was calling the CalBar starting in April 2005 asking for help. In fact when I realized the CalBar wasn’t going to help I interviewed many new attorneys to take over for Catanzarite. Not one firm would even consider such, because as they all said, “This contract of Catanzarite’s is UNCONSCIONABLE, don’t want to get involved.”
The CalBar did nothing, as I continued to fight Catanzarite on my own, while he had far more legal knowledge than I did, which he used to attack me. I was watching Catanzarite call my divorce attorney, John F Schaefer Esq. and others who helped hide the embezzlement of mine and my daughter’s trusts, and benefit as well, for his answers about me, after I hired Catanzarite. Yes, I was angry watching this take place. I would tell Catanzarite how I felt and he’d answer with, “Schaefer is a stand-up guy, really like that man.” This after I told Catanzarite before I hired him that Schaefer had demanded $250,000.00 from me for forensic accounting of my trust and NEVER did it! Catanzarite investigated nothing about this, and instead enjoyed mocking me about Schaefer because he knew there was NOTHING I could do but forestall my demise. Unless of course the CalBar intervened which they NEVER did, and NEVER have through four complaints made by me to the CALBAR.
I am perusing Catanzarite’s “withdrawal” today and I’m shocked all over again, with the lies he wrote about the cases he took on and me. Tell me how do you make decisions about attorneys like Catanzarite without taking depositions or interrogatories from the complainant? Because the CalBar has never asked me any questions. I’m assuming this is because you already know the answers, or you trust since Catanzarite is a pin-stripe-suit-wearing attorney he would only share the truth? Well, I’m a 74-year-old woman who has lived a nice long life of experience, and I’m telling you Catanzarite is a hardened criminal, no less dangerous than a Ted Bundy, only Catanzarite is a financial and real estate Ted Bundy, and he has the CalBar all fooled? I think not, I believe the CalBar is merely protecting him.
Depositions and Interrogatories are expected in any lawsuit, however Catanzarite didn’t do so in mine. He merely called my enemies, those who had stolen from me already, to get answers about my situation and me. You know, like “The wolf watching the henhouse.”
There is nothing worse than trusting someone who claims they have come to the rescue, only to realize they have come to betray you, along with those who have already done so. Yet they wait until they know everything about you, then go for the kill with all the information you gave them in trust, another trait of a narcissist. In fact from my research and experience, Cartanzarite is likely a malignant narcissist.
This is deplorable on a human level alone.
When I met Catanzarite, I had already spent several years trying to find a law firm who would help me with the KeyBank illegal foreclosure and their interfering with escrow, to do so. I had also just found out that my ex -husband, Richard “Rick” Lynn Davis II had embezzled and laundered my daughter’s and my trusts into his failing business. My divorce attorney kept this fact from me during the divorce. I was suffering from PTSD. My nerves shot. Catanzarite used this to make things much worse and to steal more from me.
Let’s go through some of the false statements and perjury Catanzarite states in his “withdrawal”, not necessarily in order.
Catanzarite wanted me to turn my Sun Valley property over to him as the settlement. By that time, I had an appraisal for 2.7M$s. Now why would I give Catanzarite my home, when I hired him to stop the illegal foreclosure, which the judge agreed was illegal. Catanzarite just manipulated the case so he wouldn’t get a full Summary Judgment; easily obtained with proof my home was owned by my trust. Now why would he do this? Why would I hire an attorney to sue KeyBank for an illegal foreclosure to give my property to Catanzarite? Not to mention this option was not part of Catanzarite’s UNCONSCIONABLE Contingency Fee Agreement.
2) By the way through the whole “withdrawal” Catanzarite sent to me he boldly lavashes in his conversations with other attorneys; some on the other side, like KeyBank attorneys, some I hired and fired, and people, such as my ex-husband, and McDonald Investments who were in on all the financial crimes committed against me and who embezzled my daughter’s and my trusts. This is “Conflict of Interest” and the annihilation of the “Attorney Client Privilege”. I’m frankly shocked at how Catanzarite wallows in this behavior, like a jealous schoolgirl on the playground to annihilate another student he hates; in this case it’s me. Catanzarite always called me after his conversations with KeyBank attorneys, past attorneys, and others to tell me what they said about me, which was never good because they all had agendas. They either had stolen from me or defrauded me. And Catanzarite really got off on this; enjoyed watching me suffer. Catanzarite continued all this talking to the same people after he withdrew. And today I realize his betrayal led to still more issues with my three grown beautiful daughters and other family members. Catanzarite was playing right into my ex-husband’s hands by conversing with him, a man already trying desperately to hide the financial crimes he had committed against my daughter’s and myself. My ex would then take what Catanzarite told him about me and spread this amongst my family members. It’s a deplorable situation. And I don’t know for sure that Catanzarite called my ex-husband, but I’m confident he mingled with those in the know in helping Rick Davis hide the embezzlement and laundering of my girls and my trusts. And this would be enough to get back to Rick wherein he gossiped to the girls about me.
It's called defamation of character by mens rea and perjury.
Catanzarite highly resents me because I caught him right out-of-the-starting-gate.
3) This story Catanzarite spews about the judge returning my property, while I was inappropriately not accepting the gift, is not true. Catanzarite was calling a settlement conference BEFORE he got a full Summary Judgment. I questioned Catanzarite on this, he then got violent and vindictive. I do recall bringing up at settlement that because of the dark cloud KeyBank had created around my home, buyers would be seeing a “For Sale” sign as a “Fire Sale”. Additionally Catanzarite retained an appraisal of my Sun Valley, Idaho property, from a complete stranger to the area as a means to lower the value, when I had an appraisal from the Sun Valley, Idaho expert, stating my home, on ten acres, was valued at 2.7M$s. Catanzarite got his appraisal down to 2M$s, but his appraiser had to leave out square footage in order to do this. That’s Catanzarite, always scheming against his own clients, so I learned in my investigating him after the fact. Catanzarite then quotes that all the realtors he spoke to told him my property was overpriced and this is why I couldn’t sell it. Really then, is Catanzarite claiming my appraisal isn’t valid? I guess Catanzarite, and his so-called knowledgeable realtors, forgot that I sold the property in 1999 for 2.175M$s a good seven years before I received the 2.7M$ appraisal. The first sale fell through escrow three months later because of what I believe to be collusion with my ex-husband and KeyBank.
4) Catanzarite refers to how combative I am; no, I’m not, except when someone who has my whole life in their hands, is purposely trying to destroy me, and I recognize it as such, one would get scared and angry, especially when the authorities look the other way.
5) Catanzarite once said to me, “You’ve had money all your life, now it’s time for me; time for you to find out what being poor feels like!”
6). Catanzarite refers to how terrible it is that I implement a sitting Supreme Court Justice in the earlier financial and real estate crimes committed against me. At that time Anthony “Tony” M. “Kennedy” was just an attorney. Well, this SCOTUS represented me when my parents died and afterwards with selling my parent’s assets. I am related to him, and he represented me with my 1st divorce as well. Catanzarite doesn’t apparently know any of this. I found out last year by a simple phone call to the Placerville County Clerk that Kennedy cheated me out of my mother’s ranch property, by either keeping it himself or giving my share to my three older sisters. I was ¼ owner of an eight-thousand-acre ranch, The Diamond K Ranch in Roseville, California. I received the money from one parcel only. I have the proof. Most of these documents are held at the Placerville County Clerk’s Office. This shows that Catanzarite is not very smart, or he just wanted all I had left and didn’t care about handling my suits. He investigated nothing! This is the mortal sin of being an Officer of The Court.
Catanzarite didn’t show up in court in Michigan; the reason my trust embezzlement case was dismissed. He also filed a stop payment of any more funds to the Davis’ from Tesma International from the sale of the family business, because it is believed it was my daughter’s and my funds that made the family business profitable.Or at least I have the email Catanzarite sent to me claiming he had done this. So, what happened to the claim? Catanzarite also told me he had subpoenaed all my trust account statements, and then with a smirk of arrogance, in his voice, told me I’d have to figure out from which court.
How stupid does one have to be to steal pennies, from a single woman, compared to what Catanzarite could have earned through my cases.
It appears you haven’t investigated as well, from my eighteen years of filing against Catanzarite with the CalBar. However, you have NEVER asked for my testimony. As I understand it, a question not asked means the answer is already known.
7) I have spent my life warding off those who merely wanted my money, that’s what happens if you become an heiress with no parents at 20 years old. One would have thought I had the best legal representation anywhere. I mean Ronald Reagan selected Kennedy to be a judge, but this doesn’t mean Kennedy is a good and honest man; jealousy and greed doesn’t skip over someone like Tony Kennedy, I now understand. And many people get bent out of shape to hear that a 16-year-old, (the year I received my inheritance) had as much money as I had.
8) Now let’s address the comments the Arbitrator made about me. Obviously, all based on what Catanzarite told him to say, or more perjury. We went to arbitration based on Catanzarite taking my home, but the only discussion was about a 50% Contingency Fee, which I was happy to pay for justice and restitution of my daughter’s and my trusts. Again, my home was NOT part of a Contingency Fee. Mr. Merring, the Arbitrator, makes statements about my spending and with absolutely no knowledge of anything but what Catanzarite spread in rumors about me, or rather more perjury, releasing himself from being a criminal. First, where does Mr. Merring get his facts? I never gave anyone my financial records or statements. Catanzarite NEVER retrieved my account statements from Paine Webber, nor did he know what I earned in my business. Plus Mr. Merring doesn’t mention that all my assets were frozen by my divorce attorney, while I had two-multimillion-dollar homes to care for and a new business. A business created before my filing for divorce. He doesn’t mention how McDonald Investments was taking $60,000.00 a month, for many months, out of my account by forging my signature, nor does he mention that I had to write a check for $250,000.00 to my divorce attorney to complete forensic accounting, which he never did. I have documents of proof to this. Now let’s add Robert A. Lees Esq, my first banking attorney who was representing KeyBank, against me, (instead of representing me) and did nothing in research or investigation on my case, while forcing me to pay thousands of dollars in forbearances to KeyBank. All this and we find out later, though Catanzarite’s “withdrawal” that Hammond, (KeyBank’s Counsel) made a mistake in advising KeyBank to foreclose on my Sun Valley, Idaho property? And I knew this before I ever hired an attorney.
These kinds of financial attacks will very likely ruin anyone for a very long time, especially when the result amongst many other problems, is destroyed credit.
My whole financial life was a setup starting with Kennedy, unbeknownst to me at this time, my ex (also one of our trustees) trying to cover up his embezzlement of my daughter’s and my trusts and KeyBank’s antics. My own attorney, Catanzarite was taking all the jealous, greedy criminals in my life opinions based on covering their own crimes and using them against me. Why? To cover his malfeasance, moral turpitude, mens rea and federal crime.
This is an annihilation of Rule 1-300 of Rules of Professional Conduct. However, if you can suggest that your client is perjuring herself then you have the right to withdraw and report her. Only where is this proof? Catanzarite NEVER retrieved one document of proof, other than a fake letter from my divorce attorney John F. Schaefer Esq. which I still have a copy of, and Catanzarite obviously instructed him to write this letter: a fake with more perjury and mens rea. Consequently, if anyone is committing perjury it’s Catanzarite and those he extorts or bribes.
And should we discuss Mr. Merring’s presentation as an Arbitrator, a man weighing somewhere between six hundred and a thousand pounds, eating cookies through the whole Arbitration. He was paying more attention to his cookies than the issues at hand, and he displayed bad hygiene; smelled. My take on this was that Mr. Merring already knew how he was going to rule, based on what Catanzarite bribed or extorted him to do. Astonishingly, in my favor, the Arbitrator ruled that Catanzarite take his lien off my Sun Valley, Idaho property, but he never did. Then again this is like a liar who doesn’t want to get caught; leak out a little piece of truth and your victim will believe they have been told the truth; the giant lie NEVER gets told. “Yes give Ms. Davis a small win and she won’t realize we just screwed her over again”. However, Mr. Merring made horrific comments about what I was earning and spending. Interesting since he had no clue without financials. He refrained from ruling over the 2M$ home Catanzarite swindled me out of, which is why there was an arbitration in the first place. Catanzarite spent more time figuring out how to hide his crimes than handling anything but stealing.
9) Because Hammond, KeyBank’s counsel, made a mistake in informing KeyBank to foreclose on my Sun Valley, Idaho property, I should expect less in restitution for this so-called mistake? The mistake? I’d guess the mistake concerns foreclosing non-judicially on a trust owned property, with no mortgage. Also, it’s against the law to foreclose using a personal loan, especially when it was paid up ahead by 2 years. Then the black cloud left over this property ruined the next sale for sure. This after I had sold this home two more times for more money, but KeyBank, or was it Hammond, refused to allow me to take either offer. Anyone want to tell me KeyBank wasn’t hell bent to foreclose and destroy me financially? Sounds like my ex-husband’s Organized Crime plot. And it’s not a conspiracy theory if there are a number of facts pointing to this.
There really isn’t any more reason to continue picking apart Catanzarite and Mr. Merring’s perjury. One can see by what I have discussed above it’s serious enough already, so why would anything Catanzarite says, or writes be the truth, or that of his minions, such as Mr. Merring to name just one. Catanzarite even had Robert A. Lee's Esq. on a conference call with him and myself trying to gang up on me; force me to take my Sun Valley, Idaho property back despite the fact this would ruin me immediately. I had fired Robert A Lees Esq. for doing nothing to stop KeyBank a year or so earlier; he spent his time forcing me to pay forbearances, on a MISTAKE foreclosure. Catanzarite had warned him he was going to sue him, but of course never did. What could Mr. Lees possibly say to help me at this point? As it turned out, in no way, as he was now in Catanzarite’s pocket.
Also, Catanzarite knew, and accepted, all the allegations I made about what had happened in my life, and by whom. He wanted to immediately represent me and fix it all, so he said. Then the second I signed his UNCONSCIONABLE contract he turned on me like a viper. As I let him know I realized he was very dishonest, he went berserk with the defamation of my character, while turning all our neighbors against my partner, Larry, and me, when he joined the homeowner’s association after purchasing my home to help me? No, he was planning to stay. Today, our once best friends, the Valuseks, our neighbors, own my home in Steamboat Springs, Co.
Catanzarite is a jealous, greedy vindictive soul who uses his law license to destroy others.
As of today, Catanzarite owes me $700,000.00 from the KeyBank settlement; he owes me $800,000.00 which he stripped out of my home that he threatened if I didn’t sell it to him, I’d be in the streets. The penalty for this kind of real estate crime is I believe three to four times the loss; the California Law in 2005. He owes me at least $1,000,000.00 for the purposeful destruction of Larry and my business equipment, which caused the loss or our business; bespokebydeborah.blogspot.com; he owes me for the loss of everything I owned, all my furniture, designer clothes, jewelry, 2 cars, boat; antiques, art and my once great reputation. Loss of a great reputation would be worth a lot, especially when I suspect Catanzarite’s scathing perjury-filled “withdrawal” is listed on the court dockets, making it impossible to hire a new attorney to help me. What’s more I have many relatives and friends who are either attorneys, themselves, or work for the US Government. I’m positive they have seen what Catanzarite has defamed my character with, and more perjury. I know this by the way my family treats me; total abandonment, some because they were in on the original financial crimes committed against my trust, and my daughter’s trusts; others such as childhood, and longtime friends just believe it, because the defamation of my character fits with the rumors my ex spreads to offset his financial crimes as one of my daughter’s and my trustees. It’s the perfect scenario, people would rather believe that what my ex did, isn’t true and put me down because it’s easier, and they won’t have to admit they are wrong and sorry for treating me as they have. I was always one of very few people that had money at a very young age, and the truth is most people are pleased as punch for my struggles. They were jealous of my money and happy to see me poor.
Yet the truth is, like Doris Duke, Marjorie Jackson, Huguette Clark, Sonny Van Bulow and others like them. “Get that heiresses’ money any way you can, and run with it”, then blame her; she’s crazy, mentally ill, stupid, spoiled, behaves badly, perjured herself, lies, drug addicted; whatever. I’m an heiress to the John Breuner Furniture Company started in 1856, in Northern California, by my great grandfather. Look it up. Therefore, what I say happened to my funds before Catanzarite and after, is most likely true, worth investigating unless you’re Catanzarite.
I once said all in all Catanzarite owes me $5,000,000.00 (five million dollars) but now after living in my car and cheap motels for ten years, and the purposeful destruction of my reputation, perjury, mens rea and the trauma, while I had to continue to sell my belongings for several years, which I’ve experienced because of Catanzarite’s abuse. I lost five of my precious dogs. Catanzarite also destroyed both of my lawsuits and NEVER included in the KeyBank’s final settlement, all the money that went out from me to pay forbearances on Hammond’s foreclosure MISTAKE? Also, for an attorney with an Unconscionable Contingency Fee, who did almost nothing on my cases, then withdraws using perjury, he earns $700,000.00 in costs? And of course this doesn’t include the funds he stripped out of my property, the family owned Sierra Nevada property he stole from me that has legal guidelines protecting it, worth another $350,000.00 by now and all my other losses, such as my belongings.
Catanzarite needs to pay me big time restitution.
…and you know I have all these documents of proof, some on my computer, most in storage, which I can only get to with hiring help to move boxes. Just ask for the proof you need, and I will forward anything I haven’t included here if I have them. My Paine Webber account statements are purposely being kept from me by my ex, Richard “Rick” Lynn Davis ll; John F Schaefer Esq., and Paine Webber.
I also have Richard “Rick” K. Rufner’s “Rufner '', my malpractice attorneys, Declaratory Action amongst these documents. This is when he was on my side. Then suddenly he changed alliances to Catanzarite and didn’t show up at the pretrial hearing with the judge in Routt County for the eviction. And he never told me there was one. This may be why the original judge, Judge Michael O’Hara didn’t show up for my day in court, which he had ordered. Instead Judge Garrecht oversaw the so-called trial claiming he knew nothing about the case, so he ordered the eviction. Rufner said nothing. I feel secure in assuming Rufner was extorted or bribed by Catanzarite.
This Catanzarite has destroyed my life, not just financially, but his manically spreading rumors, while committing perjury to save his own behind by calling and speaking to those people whom he shouldn’t such as my ex, which just gave him more ammunition to keep my daughter’s believing I was lying about the embezzlement. My ex, to hide his embezzlement and laundering of my daughter’s and my trusts, told my daughters I spent all their funds, (which I gave them over the years, my ex had nothing to do with gifting them) got even worse by Catanzarite contacting Rick with his lethal swords of lying words strategically chosen. It’s outrageous for an Officer of The Court. The worst of all is we have lost our Alison, who passed away January 24, 2022, my oldest daughter because of the trauma in our lives, which Catanzarite recreated every day I spoke to him, as he shared the latest person from my past that he talked to in the effort to destroy me, emotionally, and my cases. My Alison died believing all the Catanzarite lies about her mother. By the way I had a fantastic relationship with all three of my daughters all the way through their college years and weddings. Rick destroyed this in his effort to hide his crimes, Catanzarite helped.
This behavior of Catanzarite is a breach of attorney client privilege along with the annihilated Rules of Professional Conduct, fraud, financial crimes, real estate crimes, bribery, extortion, mens rea, perjury RICO and the defamation of my character. It’s in the Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 3-100; Confidential information of a client. Catanzarite, of course, made statements in his “withdrawal” to cause other’s reading it to believe I was committing perjury; apparently the only reason an attorney can share this private information. So why doesn’t Catanzarite show proof of my perjury rather than spread rumors? This is because Catanzarite never retained any documents in my case other than file for a Summary Judgment; receiving a partial, for which the judge was waiting to give me a full, with more proof. Had Catanzarite retained documents in my cases, he couldn’t perjure himself over the proof. The other document of so-called proof was to get John F Schaefer Esq, my divorce attorney, to write a fake letter to me, claiming something that was never true; Catanzarite again busy perjuring himself.
Fortunately, my middle daughter, Alexis Kelly is a very smart young woman, and she gets what is going on here; even wrote a character analysis of me, included in this package. Yet, the love, comradery, joy, and everything a committed family shares with each other has been gone for over twenty years. Next to my ex, much is Catanzarite’s fault. My three daughters and I had, at one time, a wonderful relationship. Alexis and I do again now, Thank God. However, I have missed the growing up of my six grandchildren; most I have never met, while though I have seen my daughter, Alexis just two times over the last two years, my Larry and I cannot afford to visit her and her family, which includes two of my grandchildren. There are four more grandchildren and my youngest daughter who today still does not talk to me. And of course, my Alison is no longer with us. Her children are, but they have been fed so many lies about me, they still aren’t talking, while they could use a loving grandmother in their lives, with their mother’s passing.
The anger and despair I often deal with concerning Catanzarite , and those whom Catanzarite contracted to address on my behalf, is overwhelming, but I believe in justice and restitution; the bible gives us this promise.
My 1st question to the CalBar is, why didn’t you stop Catanzarite back in 2005 with my phone calls?
My 2nd question to the CalBar is what are the chances I’m a conspirator about the embezzlement of my daughter’s and my trusts, as we’re recently in the fifth generation of the John Breuner Furniture Company. Please do your homework. “YES” the company was sold in 1978, but it has since been owned by Marshall Fields and a couple of other high end retail companies before they declared bankruptcy. Catanzarite obviously knows nothing about a hundred- and fifty-year-old company that was valuable enough for Marshall Fields to purchase. So Catanzarite claims in his “withdrawal” that I’m a Conspiracy Theorist? Without documents of proof we have facts that lend themselves to; “if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and acts like a duck, it must be a duck”.
My question to Catanzarite,is, if my cases were so frivolous as he tries to claim they are, how stupid is he to have taken them on? Further, how stupid must he be to claim I had no cases when he retained no documents, just rumors spread by the other embezzlers and thieves in my life. One is not a conspirator until there is proof. And why do people refuse to believe crimes such as what has occurred to my daughter’s and myself, when it’s happened repeatedly in society, going back in time forever, where heirs or heiresses get defrauded.
Catanzarite even lies about what David K. Fox Esq. e-mailed me about my trust, and it’s worth as well as why his firm didn’t take on the cases. What Mr. Fox sent to me was in writing; what Catanzarite “says” are rumors he made up; perjury again.
Attorneys do nothing unless it’s in writing, nor do they say anything that isn’t in writing from the person who said it, unless they are trying actively to hide the truth. This must be why I still don’t have my account statements from Paine Webber, after several law firms represented me, over twenty years. Because the truth is purposely being hidden.
Catanzarite did get the judge from Oregon, Judge Peterson, to write a letter for him, but Judge Peterson appeared to have Alzheimer’s, and I don’t believe he knew Catanzarite bought my house as a remedy for foreclosure. I’m confident Judge Peterson did not write his own letter; he was barely able to stand up when I met him. Obviously chosen so Catanzarite could pull the wool over the poor man’s eyes. Oh, and I did ask the judge if he’d like to go check our puppy dog in the car; it was merely an ice breaker and considered a fun-loving gesture. I was just funning with him, and he laughed; I went out to check on our dog. You see my upbringing taught me how to socialize, and this is all I was doing with this sweet little fragile retired judge.
I have been reporting Catanzarite for years, since 2005 by phone, and thereafter three separate times, including the Verified Accusation. Do you think I’m not aware that those sanctions Catanzarite pays are really bribery and extortion payments to CalBar; blood money keeping you from charging him. Catanzarite filibusters all over white paper spouting about me committing perjury, when it is he who is, using this clause in Rule 1-300 as his excuse to breach attorney client privilege. Yet where is the proof of my committing perjury? Catanzarite NEVER retained my original trust documents, to my knowledge, or my Paine Webber account statements. Neither Catanzarite or Mr. Merring therefore have any idea as to how my trust assets were spent or cared for. We lived beautifully but not expensively, like 80M$s spent? My homes were purchased at no more than $500,000.00; they appreciated to million-dollar properties, because I know how to buy real estate and where. Yet Catanzarite and Mr. Merring both have so much to filibuster about on white paper concerning my funds, nothing but perjury again. And, where is the proof?
Above all I see now how Catanzarite even fixed it so I wouldn’t be able to sue him; his 13 page “withdrawal” has been posted in the court dockets, since 2007 full of perjury, and what attorney in the world would take on a client such as what he perjured himself to create on paper about me?
NO ONE.
Please do your job here, I’d really appreciate it and you’ll be protecting the many clients that won’t be hiring this Catanzarite. These kinds of criminals escalate over the years, like Bernie Madoff did for sixteen years after he was turned in to the proper authorities and ignored; 37,000 people he destroyed in 136 countries.
Frankly there’s enough here, in these 19 pages, to throw Catanzarite into prison; do you want me to believe, as attorneys yourselves, Catanzarite has done no wrong? If so then I fear for the CalBar; I’m concerned for the future of the CalBar; your jobs and reputations; you’re likely on the way to demise now, by the articles I’ve read; two of which have recently been published about me; so far you seem as if you are as criminal as Catanzarite, and I will pursue whatever I must to get justice and restitution.
Catanzarite’s goal was to put me in the position where I wouldn’t be able to get my home back, and lose everything I owned, by not handling my lawsuits, while the CalBar watched it all take place from 2005 through 2008, so the CalBar is responsible for many of my losses as well. You are also responsible for my having to live in the streets, my car, and cheap motels for ten years.
These problems in my life are the federal crimes committed by everyone that had their hands on my assets including family and Catanzarite and those who covered up the crimes, such as the California State Bar. However, the CalBar is treating this like Catanzarite broke the golden rule of wearing patent shoes after Labor Day!
Thank you very much for your time.
Best,
Deborah Breuner Davis
Cc; CalBar Intake
