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From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,news.admin.policy
Subject: Canter & Sig Heil .sigs
Date: 25 Nov 1994 19:06:12 GMT

Somebody posted from an anon acount in Finland and said that the green card lawyers, Larry Canter and Martha Siegel are reading news.admin.policy and saving articles so that they can sue people for libel. So putting them in your .sig won't make much difference, unless you crosspost, as I have done here.

It doesn't sound very likely to me. When C&S last started yammering about suing anyone for net-related issue, the good folks from EFF and misc.legal were lining up to offer free defense services.

The RISKS digest had this news (in chevrons below) in May 1994. This is from 6 years ago, but it is interesting reading nonetheless. People who are wrongdoers often establish a pattern of continued wrongdoing.

> Subject: Green Card Con Artists Exposed!
>

>                                     For Immediate Release

>                                     October 13,1988

>                                     Contact:        Bonnie L Mahon

>                                                     The Florida Bar

>                                                     Tampa Office

>                                     Telephone:      813/875-9821

> SUPREME COURT GRANTS ATTORNEY'S PETITION TO RESIGN PERMANENTLY
>
> TALLAHASSEE, Oct.13-- The Florida Supreme Court has granted
> attorney Laurence A. Canter's petition to resign permanently,
> effective November 7, 1988.
>
> Canter, of 240 North Washington Boulevard, Sarasota, was
> charged with numerous violations of the attorney disciplinary rules
> including neglect, misrepresentation, misappropriation of client funds
> and perjury.
>
> Several of the complaints against Canter involved his failure
> to file the necessary or appropriate documents with the United Stated
> Immigration and Naturalization Services in matters of permanent
> residency and work visas. In addition, Canter refused to refund
> clients' funds and neglected to notify his clients that he has been
> suspended from the practice of law as a result of a previous
> discipline.
>
> The Florida Bar further alleges that Canter committed perjury
> by filing a false affidavit with the Bar and while testifying under
> oath in a deposition. These charges resulted after an audit of Canter's
> trust account by the Bar showed that trust funds were held in Canter's
> account during the time period when he denied any funds were present.