Vanessa Kachadurian on corrupt empire in Ukraine serviced by army of 102 lawyers

He became a billionaire before the age of 30. But now Serhiy Kurchenko is nowhere to be found by Ukrainian authorities, who accuse him of multibillion-dollar theft and embezzlement of public funds. Kurchenko is suspected of being a front for overthrown President Viktor Yanukovych

Amazing story by my friends who are attorneys in Russia, part of the former president of Ukraine, Vanessa Kachadurian analysis.

The following is an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which is based in Washington, D.C., a Kyiv Post partner. Kyiv Post staff writer Vlad Lavrov coordinates this project. The author, Denys Bigus, is a Kyiv-based journalist and television host for ZIK’s “Nashi Groshi” (Our Money) program.
At the end of March, the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, detained what it described as two key members belonging to the criminal gang of fugitive young oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, who is accused of embezzlement and theft of public money, and causing multibillion-dollar damages to the state, mostly through tax evasion. Kurchenko, suspected of being a front man for President Viktor Yanukovych, overthrown on Feb. 22 during the EuroMaidan Revolution, remains in hiding.
The two suspects were taken to the SBU's pre-trial detention center. One was Arkadiy Kashkin, the director of Gas Ukrainy 2020, a company that preceded Kurchenko's energy holding VETEK. The other, Denys Bugai, headed the supervisory board of BrokBusinessBank, also part of the fugitive’s business empire.
On April 24, Bugai was set free, but not Kashkin. Yet Bugai remained a member of the Justice Ministry's working group on legal reform, despite the fact that he – president of the Ukrainian Bar Association and co-owner of Vashchenko, Bugai and Partners, had worked closely with Kurchenko since 2013. He had overseen business deals for the most controversial oligarch during Viktor Yanukovych's presidency. Bugai, in his turn calls the charges against him "based on unverified information" and a "premature conclusion of the investigators."
"As a lawyer, I provided legal assistance to the business owned by Kurchenko. The hereby mentioned legal assistance, as a rule, dealt with consulting on the matters of corporate, antimonopoly and media law," Bugai said. "My consultations had nothing to do with budget funds."
According to shredded documents found in Kurchenko's office and restored by the Paper Division project, apart from those seized by the SBU, Kurchenko had an army of 102 lawyers working for him. Of those, 70 were employed by the legal department of VETEK and divided into several groups.
At least some of them understood that their role was to legitimize an illegal business. In particular, one document clearly recorded a “rehearsal of questioning” with one of the lawyers. According to journalists and volunteers of Paper Division, these lawyers could become precious witnesses in untangling the crimes allegedly connected to Kurchenko. But so far, investigators at the general prosecutor's office have failed to tap into their knowledge.
The documents found in VETEK's legal department were some of the least damaged, and offer a glimpse into the staffing schedule and job descriptions of the department's employees. The monthly budgets of various legal groups below do not include salaries of group leaders and department heads.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/billionaire-kurchenkos-allegedly-corrupt-empire-serviced-by-army-of-102-lawyers-360810.html

Vanessa Kachadurian author signing speaking engagement

Vanessa Kachadurian
#1 Criminal Attorney in the USA and now has his own show on CNN nightly called "Making the Case" MARK GERAGOS will be making a trip to Fresno as Keynote speaker for the Fresno County Bar Association March 21, 2014 annual luncheon. 
Vanessa Kachadurian recommends reserve your tickets by calling the Bar Association as this will be an action packed lunch with book signing.  There is MCLE credit for those that are members of the Bar (I am not-although most my friends are attorneys and judges)  

Reviews

 "Mistrial is three books in one: a memoir of celebrity lawyers, a primer on how to handle high-profile cases and a diagnosis of the ills of the criminal-justice system.... A win: engaging, enlightening and entertaining.”
—David Lat, The Wall Street Journal

"Mistrial is the story of extraordinary careers as the go-to lawyers for the celebrated (or notorious, or both) defendant. Don't miss it!" —Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times bestselling author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, legal affairs writer for The New Yorker, and senior legal analyst for CNN

“[Mark Geragos] is one of those rare lawyers recognizable everywhere.”
—Los Angeles Times

“[Geragos] is arguably the hottest defense lawyer of the moment.”
—Los Angeles Daily Journal

 Vanessa Kachadurian

Mistrial is part dissection of a criminal justice system riddled with issues, and part insider tale about the many well-known clients and cases the authors have had - Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, Chris Brown, Winona Ryder, etc.

Personally I agree with the general premise that the justice system overall is lurching towards the prosecution, at least for more serious crimes. The media seems to feed a public that salivates voraciously for vengeance, as though it frees the viewing individuals of any responsibility or blame for their own personal failings.

The book is written in an accessible and anecdotal style that cuts straight to the meat of the topic and pulls no punches when the authors have an opinion on something - Nancy Grace takes a riotous shellacking for example - but also has some substantive thoughts about how to fix problems.

All in all an insightful and fun read for anyone that's interested in celebrity court cases, criminal law or the justice system more generally

Vanessa Kachadurian and rules of professional conduct

This is a great book, how Attorneys have fudged to the courts, delayed due process and have set people up for being unlawfully arrested by manipulating the courts with faulty paperwork that lacks substantiation and back up. Vanessa Kachadurian recommends it
Our favorite attorney is at it again, and hopefully he will end up with egg on his face again with the embellishment of lies that are littered all over the internet and on his 100 alias e mail addresses, 5 facebook accounts and over 4 twitter accounts. 
Filing false paperwork with the courts or doctoring up court documents and putting them online about people is unprofessional and misleading.   It is also against the law to forge documents, alas that is why fake names like "Steamroller" are used.  Vanessa Kachadurian prevails
Hopefully the courts will catch up to him, and stop his nonstop nonsense.  There will never be celebrity stardom, he has a speech impediment and not very nice looking. 
America doesn't need another wanna be with comical photo shoots, and slick self advertising.
California has many more talented professionals that are handsome.  We do not need any more self-promoting lawyers from Rhode Island invading our state.  Vanessa Kachadurian

Vanessa Kachadurian, How much are you willing to spend on your Freedom of Speech?

First Amendment to the United States Constitution From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search "First Amendment" redirects here. For other uses, see First Amendment (disambiguation). United States of America This article is part of the series: United States Constitution The Bill of Rights in the National Archives.The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress. However, starting with Gitlow v. New York, the Supreme Court has applied the First Amendment to each state. This was done through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court has also recognized a series of exceptions to provisions protecting the freedom of speech. I propose a question to all of my readers on this blog. Would you be willing to spend chump change say $500.00 or maybe just $1,000.00 to insure your freedom of speech and the truth be spoken? When someone or some entity is trying to squash the truth and violates the First Amendment - Freedom of Speech and the Truth;is is our duty to oppose this nonsense censorship or should we just allow one opinion without fair balance? My answer has and always will be, Let Freedom of Truth ring on even if it costs $1.00 or $1,000.00 there is no price to be put on your rights to exercise your civil liberties. Sometimes Freedom isn't "Free" when there are people with deep pockets who wish to silence you. Stand tall and stand firm. Individuals get threatened all the time. Curious why the dozen of MSM that print articles never get a Complaint filed? Thank goodness that most judges in Federal Court protect our rights to the first amendment. This sounds like what the Ottoman Empire tried to do to their minority subjects, the would try and stop Armenians from printing the truth. Then tried to destroy us, in the end it made us stronger. Because we are now writers, lawyers and in the position of power to ensure the wheels of justice move for everyone not just those who have money, power or write with a poison pen. The Truth prevails now and will always!!! Reported by Vanessa Kachadurian

This isn't Turkey folks!!!