Ropes & Gray, the lawfirm of John Hanify’s father, Edward Hanify, also appeared in the case. John Hanify’s father, Edward Hanify, also represented Ted Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick trial. Judge Edward Harrington was nominated to the federal bench by Ted Kennedy and Edward Hanify flew to Washington to speak on Harrington’s behalf at his confirmation hearings. All of these matters were clearly known to Judge Harrington when he accepted this case from John Hanify who was mandated by law to decline the case, but did not and never removed himself from the case. All the orders obtained in this case were obtained from this Judge.
After Judge Harrington’s son went to work for John Hanify, Judge Harrington then issued orders of “eviction.” There could not be a clearer case of collusion or acting without legal authority. Harrington was mandated to recuse himself on the basis of the appearance of impropriety and clear conflict. He acted without authority. Your eviction order is unlawful and you know it.
2. There was No Mediation:
A. The First “Mediation” was a Put-Up Job and the Sweeneys were not Notified: You claim there was a mediation set up by Congressman Tierney, FDIC and Schlichtman. Charlotte Caplo commented the other day that Tierney is the FDIC’s boy. Tierney and the FDIC did in fact set up -- and I use “set up” in the truest sense of the word -- a mediation with Schlichtman, an attorney who had coincidentally and conveniently “volunteered” his services and set up this “mediation,” without the Sweeney’s knowledge or authority, at a time when the Sweeneys were unable to leave their home. The last time FDIC had claimed to be setting up “mediation” and the Sweeneys had left their home in reliance on these representations in 1994, the FDIC’s attorney, Joe Shea, went to the property in their absence and conducted a foreclosure sale of the property. This once established that the FDIC’s representations about “mediation” were nothing but a ruse to get the Sweeneys to leave their house and that the FDIC’s word is worthless. In any event, because the Sweeneys could not leave their home and did not know about this supposed “mediation” until apparently Schlichtman and FDIC were sitting at a table demanding the Sweeneys show up, nothing whatsoever occurred. So for the FDIC to claim this was “mediation” is completely feigned and really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
B. The Second Mediation Ended Before any Negotiations occurred with FDIC and to Prevent Independent Assessors Chosen by the Mediator from Presenting their Findings that the RTC and FDIC’s Lawyers Committed Fraud:
I was present and representing the Sweeneys in the subsequent so-called “mediation” that began on August 6 at the request of the U.S. Attorney’s office and the U.S. Marshal’s service.
Unfortunately, the Judge appointed as mediator, David Mazzone, officiated at the marriage of Ted (“Edward”) Kennedy to his present wife. He also had a virtually identical FDIC case in which he, too, had thrown out a substantial judgment won in another court by a prevailing party. He did not recuse as mediator in this case.
In August, we had one meeting with the judge at which Asst. U.S. Attorney Pearlstein, U.S. Marshall Nancy McGillivray and her assistant, Bane, Bishop Mark Dyer, the Sweeneys and