The Case of Lawrence C. Agee, MD

This story begins in May 1997, after a 7 month "marriage," my "ex wife" robbed my home while I was at work. $20,000 of property was stolen. Simultaneously, three illegal wire transfers of money were made from my bank accounts. Each wire transfer was done without my knowledge and consent, but with the help of a lawyer, John Durrance. The wire transfers were for sums of $7200, $7633 and $8300. All of this money and property was protected by a prenuptial agreement as my "separate property."

In March 1998, I went to family court hoping to recover what was stolen from me. The presiding judge was James Morse, a state Supreme Court judge. What was he doing in divorce court? Morse conducted the "trial" in such a way that I was not able to present my evidence. I was repeatedly and rudely cut off. The opposing lawyer was allowed to speak at will, and present phony evidence, which was readily accepted as valid. I was not allowed to object. One item of fake evidence was a sham appraisal of my home which created $50,000 of value out of thin air. Using legal tricks and phony accounting, I was not only cheated out of the money above ($43,000), I also had a "lien" placed on my home for over $27,000. This lien was not only procured via fraud, it was impossible to pay, as my money had been stolen. A rate of interest of 12% has more than doubled this lien, which is now about $70,000. They put a similar lien on my rental property, also listed as my separate property. If I sell my home, the money is automatically seized. I refuse to pay this "lien." I refuse to pay con artists.

When all the money is added up, I was cheated out of in excess of $110,000, just from the divorce action. This "debt" continues to accumulate, and will drive me to bankruptcy. Apparently, this is how this criminal enterprise operates. This was for the privilege of being married for 7 months. The sham marriage was used to obtain jurisdiction over my property. This "judgment" was in direct conflict with my prenuptial agreement. It took one hour to cheat me out of my life savings. I was given 2 ½ minutes to defend myself.

I then discovered that the opposing lawyer, John Durrance, was married to Amy Davenport, who was the presiding judge in the Chittenden Family Court. Davenport will steer her husband's cases to judges who would give him favorable rulings. There is little question that Morse allows Durrance to draft his own judgments. He just signs them. Durrance can thus take whatever he wishes, and can draft himself "attorney fees" even when the prenuptial agreement prevents this. He even drafted himself a provision for "all future attorney fees" to prevent any sort of appeal. Durrance can operate this enterprise by knowing he has the support of Morse, Sorrell and Davenport. He knows he will not be punished or investigated. I can verify they all refused to do an investigation.

I complained to the office of the Attorney General. Nothing was done. I complained to the legislature. Nothing was done. I went to the police. Nothing was done. I went to the judicial conduct board. Nothing was done. I went to the board of Realtors. Nothing was done. There was no investigation. Each agency ignored my complaints.

After using the traditional means of registering a complaint, I sued this judge for defrauding me. The judge never denied he rigged my case. He simply said he was immune. Sorrell provided cover for the judge, as did the firm of Welsh, Graham and Mamby. As an aside, Peter Welsh is running for Congress. When my case went before the US Supreme Court, it was August 1999. That same month, I was blacklisted in the National Practitioners Data Bank by Fletcher Allen Hospital with a bogus "adverse action report." I later discovered that in August 1999, Morse's wife was on the board of directors of FAHC. The entry in the NPDB was false. I can prove this. I was set up.

In November 1999, someone by the name of Ed Olsen placed a phone call to the California Medical Board. The objective of the phone call was to induce the California Medical Board to prosecute me based upon the bogus "report" from FAHC. Olsen also made other derogatory comments about me that were kept secret. I never met Ed Olsen. Olsen worked at 109 State Street. He was directly tied to Joseph Winn, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Winn works directly under William Sorrel.

By December 1999, I found myself "under investigation" by two licensing agencies in Vermont and California. All that California had to go on was the sham FAHC "report" and Ed Olsen's phone call. When I was put on trial in California, the only "witness" was the guy who took the call. He had no personal knowledge of me. I was thus prosecuted based only upon hearsay originating from the office of William Sorrell at a time when I had a suit pending against one of Sorrell's buddies, James Morse. I can clearly tie Morse to Joseph Winn. I can prove that they spoke shortly before my prosecution began in November 1999. Winn, who is Sorrell's Assistant, orchestrated my prosecution to deprive me of my medical license. One of his tactics was to use the media to smear me while I was not even living in the state. I was smeared on TV and in the newspaper with false information and misrepresentations. I found this tactic extremely malicious. I was tried in the media. I was defenseless. The newspaper refused to do a retraction. My libel suit against them was dismissed without a trial.

After my license was suspended in California, based upon Ed Olsen's phone call, Vermont suspended my license "based upon reciprocity." In other words, Vermont hearsay was used against me in California, which was then used against me in Vermont. Later, Joseph Winn conducted a trial against me when I was not even present. I had no lawyer. One of the witnesses called was the divorce lawyer, Durrance, who was the husband of judge Davenport. Durrance and Davenport were two of the direct beneficiaries of the illegal seizure of my money in the divorce action. Another "witness" was a cop who worked under Sorrell who knows nothing about me. Once again, I was set up.

Another extremely malicious method of harassment used by Sorrell and his deputies to discredit me was the use of false allegations that I was "mentally ill." This scheme was used to try and coerce me into "seeing" a psychiatrist who worked for the state of Vermont. Had I been stupid enough to comply with this scheme, I would have been labeled with a "disorder," publicly smeared, and then deprived of my rights. They used this tactic to hold my medical license hostage: comply or else. Any intelligent person can see this as a very malicious form of entrapment orchestrated by Sorrell and his "deputies." If Sorrell can use this option for prosecuting doctors, then he could use this method to prosecute virtually anyone who holds any sort of license. There is no possible defense to this. We are all at risk of being cheated out of our property and livelihoods under William Sorrell.

I have now been unemployed for 5 ½ years. I have never had a fair trial. My money was seized, my livelihood was taken from me, and now, they will foreclose on my home because of the fraudulent judgment lien. This scam was all done under the nose of William Sorrel, who used the resources of his office to facilitate this crime.

PS. The fact that I am a doctor made me an easy target. I was presumed to have gobs of money (I don't), and assumed I could obtain money from the tree in my back yard to satisfy everyone's desires. The fact that I was unrepresented in divorce court made me an easier target. The fact that I had a professional license made me an even easier target, because virtually any false allegation can be used to justify a prosecution against a doctor. A pristine record is irrelevant.

The primary role of the office of the Attorney General is to establish justice, not to protect their buddies who want to commit crimes. When I contacted the office of William Sorrell to report a crime, nothing was done. What does this say about Sorrell? Then I was retaliated against after the same criminals communicated with Mr. Sorrell. When I told Mr. Carver about my situation, he spent hours listening to me and reviewing my evidence. He did not ignore me, as Sorrell did. Mr. Sorrell has forgotten what his role is; to protect innocent people from crimes, not to protect his buddies. His role is to establish justice. Mr. Carver is aware of this role. Sorrell is not.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein

From: Lcagee
May 27, 2008

My Own Experience Filing a Complaint In Vermont Against a Judge

When I tried to file a complaint against a judge, I was told to attend the judicial conduct hearings, which occur every 6 years. I did attend, and was given all of 3 minutes to speak in a room crowded with lawyers anxious to take the podium and praise the fine judges. I was the last speaker. After I spoke for my 3 minutes, there was stunned silence. The only thing that happened after that was the moderator declaring the hearing adjourned.

I then attended a session of the legislative committee on judicial performance. I entered a room with several legislators who spoke of administrative things. When I thought I might have my chance to speak, the meeting was adjourned.

I went to the office of the AG to speak to him directly. I was told he would not meet with me, but I could write a letter.

I wrote a letter outlining my grievances. The letter was forwarded to the judicial conduct board. I received a letter saying they would look into my complaint. Weeks went by, and no one contacted me to see my evidence or to speak with me. Then I received another letter telling me that a determination had been made that there was no evidence of wrongdoing, case closed. But no one had spoken to me. I didn't' understand.

Then I decided to go ahead and sue the judge in federal court. He was provided a lawyer by the state. I was not provided a lawyer. The law firm that represented him now has one of the founding partners sitting on the US Congress (he ran on a platform of looking out for the little guy).

The lawsuit was filed, and his defense was, "I'm immune." They filed a motion to dismiss, and guess what? Dismissed. I filed a motion to reinstate and guess what? Denied. I filed an appeal to the Second Circuit Court. Guess what? Denied. I then appealed to the US Supreme court. Guess what? Denied.

Each denial was based upon "absolute judicial immunity." I tried to point out that the judge helped a lawyer steal a huge sum of money from me. They didn't care. I tried to point out that the judge violated his sworn oath of office. They didn't mind.

The week that my case was DISMISSED from the US Supreme court, I leaned that I was now "under investigation" by 2 state medical boards. This initiating party of this prosecution can be traced to the same building where the judge sits on the bench. Paperwork in my possession proved the judge and the lawyer who took my money both spoke to the prosecutor around the time this prosecution began.

I am now unemployed. The lawyer referred to above recently participated in a foreclosure action against my home.

Lawrence Agee, MD

Lcagee@aol.com

PS. My original case involved a divorce after a 6 month marriage. The judge ignored my prenuptial agreement. What about my "right to contract" guaranteed by Article 1 Section 10 of the US Constitution? Don't judges take an oath to uphold the Constitution? Is this oath meaningless?

"It’s The Economy, Stupid"
By Lawrence Agee

Some people wonder what the heck is going on in America. They wonder how this great experiment in freedom and democracy could have gone so wrong. Homes are being foreclosed on in record numbers and people losing their jobs, while fat cats who drove their businesses into the ground are walking off with staggering bonuses. Why is this happening?

In order to understand the big picture, we must first look at the little picture. What is the real story behind the job losses? What is the real story behind the foreclosures? Is it a domino effect? If so, what is the first domino, and what can we, the people, do to correct this?

Two of the three branches of government have been stumbling over each other to "draft a solution" to this problem. The solution de jour is bailouts, i.e. government programs where the government prints money and gives it to various entities. The first chunk of money went to AIG and the banks to keep them out of bankruptcy. The second chunk of money went to the auto companies to keep them out of bankruptcy. Bank of America got a big slice of the pie. What did they do with the money? They acquired Merrill Lynch, assumed their massive debt, and Merrill Lynch paid out 4 billion to their executives. So the

politicians, who say "were for the little guy" actually helped the fat cats get year-end bonuses. We all know what AIG did with their bailout money; they had a nice retreat to a spa. The auto companies flew in on their corporate jets to beg Congress for cash.

But what about the little guy? I'm talking about the little guy who can't get a job. Well, I am one of the little guys who can't get a job. I also had my house foreclosed on. So lets find out what happened to this one little guy, just as an example of the bigger picture. So here is a tiny bit of my story.

Ironically, Congress, the very same Congress that just passed the 820 billion dollar economic stimulus bill to "create jobs" is actually directly responsible for putting me out of work. And this is how they did it.

You would think that an American citizen, a graduate of an American medical school, would be able to find a job. There are plenty of foreign doctors out there who practice medicine in America. So why can they get jobs and how come I, an American doctor, can't? The reason is this: my name appears on a blacklist, a federal blacklist created by Congress about 20 years ago.

When this federal blacklist was created, the intention was to "weed out" all of the "bad doctors" and put their names on this list. It became common knowledge if your name was on this list, you were never going to work ever again. This is great news for the "general public" who will be protected from all these "bad doctors" out there.

So the fact that my name appears on this blacklist would indicate that I must be a "bad doctor" and I must be punished like a bad dog. One might assume I had multiple malpractice suits or multiple patient complaints. But this funny thing is, neither of these things is true. My name appears on this blacklist because someone who does not know me said I had PTSD. [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – a diagnoses of a high percentage of our military men returning from Iraq].

Now if it was true that I had PTSD, I would wonder why such a diagnosis would prevent someone from working, and why such information should ever appear in a government computer. But in reality, the person who said this about me, a secretary from a hospital I barely set foot in, lied. They just flat out lied.

Now you would think that if this information was a lie, that I could easily get it erased from my record. But this is not the way it is. Once my name appeared on this blacklist, fiction became fact, as if etched in stone. Guess what happened next? I was prosecuted just like I was a felon. Actually, I was treated much worse than a felon. A felon has the presumption of innocence, gets assigned a lawyer, and gets a fair trial before a jury of peers.

A doctor [however] enjoys the presumption of guilt, is not entitled to a lawyer, has no jury of peers and gets all the "benefits" of "administrative law" where hearsay (i.e. fiction) is evidence.

I was prosecuted in two states simultaneously for PTSD (which, by the way isn't a crime). I was put on trial in two states. I had my license suspended in two states. I was fired from my job. I became unemployed.

You would think I could just "file an appeal" and get it all straightened out. I tried to hire a lawyer. One of them said "this is going to be very expensive" and wanted a $250,000 "retainer" before he would even look at my case. So, once again, I was forced to go the appeal alone.

My first effort to file an appeal was returned to me with the following words on the top of my papers "wrong court." This is all they said. No one would tell me what the "right court" was.

Eventually, I filed a lawsuit in the federal court in Sacramento. The lawyer for the California medical board immediately filed a "motion to dismiss." …. and my case was "thrown out." And that's where my life was left. Out of work. No job. No prospects. It was pretty easy for them to do this to me.

I tried to get a job somewhere doing something, but no one wanted to hire a "suspended doctor." It was as if I had the plague. I tried to get a volunteer job at a free clinic in Baja California. Even they didn't want me. The woman I spoke to only wanted to know "where are you currently licensed." When I tried to explain my situation, she laughed at me.

So overnight, I went from being in the top 1% of wage earners in America, to the bottom 1%. A doctor from India could work in America. A doctor from Iran could work in America. But I couldn't. …. I had no source of income, and no savings. The next thing to go was my retirement account. Of course, there are late fees and penalties. So that lasted a few years, now that is gone. Once the money is gone, the foreclosure process begins.

Finally, after 8 years of complaining, this "data bank" removed the false information from my record. However, this did nothing to remedy the 4 other "adverse action reports" that resulted from the first false report.

So now, here I am, involved in yet another lawsuit, still trying to clear my name from this blacklist. How many years will this one take? And of course, the government will file a "motion to dismiss" or a "failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted" or maybe the classic "res judicata" and my case will just go away. And I will still be unemployed.

And this is what is going on out there. In this case, Congress was not the solution. Congress created the problem when they created the blacklist. The courts are not there to correct the mistakes, they only seem concerned with keeping people like me out of court. The executive branch oversees this data bank. They have demonstrated zero motivation to fix this, even when it is glaringly obvious they made a grave error.

The three branches of government are tossing gobs of money (our money) at this employment and foreclosure problem. But they are failing to see the big picture. Congress created this blacklist. If it isn't working, then they can do away with it. They chose to ignore the problem. Furthermore, the courts can

fix the problem by allowing litigation to proceed without blocking our access.

Unless we can get into court, how can we fix this? The courts would rather dismiss us. The executive branch could see to it that such problems do not happen. They also ignore the issue. But no one is actually addressing the problem. They are borrowing money from taxpayers, transferring the money to fat

cats to pay bonuses and little guys like me remain out of work and we lose our homes. This one problem could be fixed with the stroke of a pen and I could go back to work. It does not require money. It requires a change in their stupid policy.

Lawrence Agee, MD

Lcagee@aol.com

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