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Michael L. Darland Accurate Profile

2012-02-29T04:00:00.001-08:00

IMHO, the comments picked up on this blog under article title ‘Michael L. Darland Contempt of Court’ accurately establish his profile. The various comments also explain away the pathetic personality of this pitiful character.

The comments are copied below:

Anonymous said...

Helpful info. Loads of factual evidence. Sincere thanks.

November 10, 2011 3:32 AM

Anonymous said...

LOL@Mosaix/Voicelink - Shame on you mickey - Jack Lemmon

December 2, 2011 3:26 AM

Anonymous said...

Unwanted at Mozaix - Michael try go work for HP. Looks like you must reinvent yourself. s/ Jack

December 12, 2011 4:29 AM

Anonymous said...

MLD glad to find you on this blog. Scanning thru it, I sense your problem follows you. Recall how years ago your colleagues & family used to curse when you were diagnosed a psychopath. Please, I beg you to follow the advice of your old shrink. For your own good, take your meds regularly. Only then will you be stabilized enough to reinvent yourself. I wish you a speedy recovery in 2012. Lokk me up on facebook. We can chat. It might help you.

Your pal Stephen.

December 26, 2011 11:09 PM

Anonymous said...

Please pray for Michael.

He is not fully accountable for his paranoid greed. It is a throw back from his childhood days.

He is to be pitied and pardoned.

It beats picking on him. His wife understands that.

She sets a most humble example to be followed.

Govindas

The last comment suggests that all those who have been robbed and irreparably damaged by Darland pity him, pray for him and pardon him.

Therefore, I pray that before Michael L. Darland dies, he abandons his false dollar god and finds the true One.

The same God his mother tried in vain to teach him to love.

That same God that taught his mother to love all and to give so generously.

That same God could teach Michael not to be jealous of his mother’s love for his brother and sister.

Only that God could also teach Michael not to be so envious of what his mother chose to generously and freely give to his deserving siblings in return for all the love they showed her.

Finally, that God alone could teach Michael to find within Him the strength he would need to repair all the wrong he has done to so many since he was personally sued in 1993 for defrauding shareholders of Digital Systems subsequently known as Mosaix Voice Link and Avaya.

Yes! Michael would gain much if only he could be cured and reinvent himself.

Lawyer Douglas War Nicholson, Attorney Ellensburg, Kittitas County

2011-10-27T03:59:00.000-07:00

Douglas War Nicholson, Attorney Ellensburg, Kittitas County – Practicing law at Cone Gilreath law firm – Ellensburg

Greetings.

Nicholson, you will recall that you acted as my attorney prior to me introducing Michael L. Darland of Bellevue to you.

Subsequently, you represented both me and Michael L. Darland jointly against SPUD.

We each have enough mails and docs to verify the above.

On August 6, 2011 I posted factual statements under the heading Michael L. Darland - Contempt of Court.

I also provided links to various documents and mails pertaining to our business relationship.

(See links copied below)

In accordance with some of those docs published on the web and others to be filed, I intend to:

Address a Malpractice Grievance Complaint against you to the WSBA.
File a Malpractice law suit against you in King County Superior Court.
File an Appeal to Judge Cooper’s hasty ruling when ‘he’ granted a TRO in open Court.

Judge Michael E Cooper retired from Kittitas County Superior Court in September 2011. He was likely eager to clear his desk from what the Judge himself qualified as an overburdening workload.

A month ago, on September 26, 2011, I addressed certified mail to Judge Cooper.

In that correspondence, I asked Judge Cooper to issue Court Orders regarding ‘Due Process’ and lack of Legal Service.

To date, I have received no comments from the Clerk in that overburdened Kittitas County Superior Court system which penalizes me and my ability to obtain timely justice.

Considering my health and limited energy level, please advise what are the time limits within which to file all of the above.

I will grant you that, IMHO, you have shown your ‘appreciation’ for all the trust I had placed in you and the money I channeled into your pocket in a very disappointing manner!

However, I trust that time, tide and prayers take care of all wrongs.

I wish you and yours a happy Halloween and gratifying Thanksgiving.

Louis Leclezio.

Links to various docs:

Snocadia Exhibits

Exhibit 1: Settlement owners defined Oct'03

Exhibit 2: Darland.Settlement.Draft.Owners defined 011405

Exhibit 3: Darland.Lec.Owners Summary Judgment Motion marked copy

Exhibit 3a: Snocadia Summary Judgment Motion Revision.Unmarked01-24-05

Exhibit 4: Snocadia Summary Judgment granted

Exhibit 5: Snocadia Darland-Moyer Comments 03-01-05

Exhibit 6: Snocadia RPC affecting Nicholson vs Mallove

Exhibit 7: Snocadia Doug Nicholson re Dan Mallove + Pressure on me to sign

Exhibit 8: Snocadia Critical.Mail.Sequence.Record.QCD092805

Exhibit 9: Snocadia.Darland.Leclezio.Owners.CLC 102405

Exhibit 10: Snocadia.Darland.Martin.Doug.Lecl 012606

Exhibit 12: Snocadia_Web.Brochure published by Darland

Exhibit 13: Snocadia.Darland.Web. Marketing published '07

Exhibit 14: Snocadia.Darland.Kittitas.available services Oct 6 2009

Exhibit 15: Snocadia.Darland.Kit Cets.availability 110209

Exhibit 16: Snocadia.Comp.Plan 76 Acres serviced since '73 061109

Exhibit 17: Darland instructs Nicholson to record Quit Claim Deed to 26 acres in Leclezio's name.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWd3o5wrw9-mk_NuuPQ6FWkWPu9zTefPG33tM0hIfK8/edit?hl=en#

Exhibit 18: Snocadia Quit Claim Deed Darlands July 28 2003

Exhibit 19: Snocadia Darland answers to SPUD Interrogatory 052905

Exhibit 20: Snocadia Darland The truth about Digital Systems

Exhibit 21: Snocadia.Darland re SPUD to Doug Nicholson

Exhibit 22: Snocadia Darland re Terry Lenihan and Takings to Doug Nicholson

Exhibit 23: Snocadia Darland to Doug Nicholson re Dan Mallove

Judge Michael E. Cooper - Kittitas County Superior Court - Re: Michael L. Darland - Bellevue

2011-08-20T18:51:00.000-07:00

Sent Via Registered International Mail and

Sent VIA e-mail:

Dear Honorable Judge Cooper,

Case #: 04 – 2 – 00411 - 2

Excerpts from a letter that I addressed electronically to you and to attorneys Jim McBride, Jeff Slothower, Dan Mallove, B. J. Dorsey and D. Nicholson on August 5, 2011 together with enclosed attachments.

“Michael L. Darland proposed to file pleadings on July 25, 2011 asking the Kittitas County Superior Court to find me in Contempt of Court. What was the outcome of those pleadings – if ever filed? If not – Why not?

In copies of those pleadings sent to me, one grief held against me is to be allegedly from Africa. If that were true, let my ‘Cry from my Beloved Country’ be heard by the Judge Michael E. Cooper. Let the Kittitas County Superior Court not discriminate against me just because I am alleged to be from ‘Africa’.”

“I am forced to live temporarily away from the US because in my country, the Republic of Mauritius, health care and all medication is totally free. Michael L. Darland knows this fully well. Darland has contacted me numerous times in Mauritius.”

“Using my temporary forced absence, as yet another vile opportunistic ploy to delay/deny me justice, Michael L. Darland is now proposing to depose me on August 29, 2011.”

“I desperately wanted justice to be done after six horribly lengthy years.

I want Darland to be deposed and confronted with his string of lies as revealed in correspondence Darland addressed to various Kittitas County officials.

I want Darland to be deposed and confronted with his lies, while under penalty of perjury, to Kittitas County Superior Court.

I want Darland to be convicted for perjury, fraud and coercion.”

“Darland has delayed/denied me justice and my due in the form of my Quit Claim Deed for six years, causing me irreparable damages and extensive grief and suffering since September 29, 2005.” (Emphasis added)

“Considering my condition, time was of the essence to me. I found it very hard to deal with an ‘in justice’ process where Darland endlessly exploits the system to postpone his ‘D’ day and deny me timely justice. Therefore, now some seven months later, in early August 2011, I view, the so called need for depositions, as just another red herring from Michael L. Darland whose prime proven goal is to forever delay/deny me justice.”

“For the time being, due to health and financial reasons inflicted upon me by Michael L. Darland, I obviously cannot and will not attend depositions on August 29, 2011 in the

Therefore, should any hasty judgment be reached to my detriment during my forced absence from the US Court, I wish to hereby advise all parties concerned that whenever I am in a position to travel again, I will appeal any decision that would only serve to further damage me while denying me due process.

Michael L. Darland has denied me justice for six years. Should God grant me another life extension, Michael L. Darland can join me and wait for another six years, if need be, for justice to finally prevail.”

That letter and attachments speak for themselves.

On Friday August 19 2011, I received a notice from my attorney Jim McBride.

It states: “I am sorry, but we can no longer represent you” /s/ Jim.

Jim’s ‘Notice of Intent to Withdraw’ is hereto attached.

This notice comes after Jim McBride fought for months in front of the WSBA for the right to represent me!

Also herein enclosed is a letter from Jeff Slothower dated August 15, 2011.

Unable to ever deal with the whole truth and nothing but the truth, Slothower conveniently ignores my mail of August 5, 2011.

Is this what American Justice, fair play, honesty, integrity and equity all about?

Trample on a man’s rights. Attempt to deny him justice and his due just because he is temporarily down!

Note: In addition to electronic mail addressed to all above mentioned, I published all correspondence on my Snocadia blog, http://www.snocadia.blogspot.com/ as a caveat for the greater benefit of the public.

‘Buyer Beware’ of predator, Michael L. Darland.

This letter is also being published on my blog. I hope it illustrates beyond the shadow of a doubt just how desperate Michael L. Darland is to pervert the justice process.

Evidently, Michael L. Darland will repeatedly commit perjury, coerce and corrupt anyone in his sustained efforts to feed his insatiable greed through fraud.

The exhibits below as well as contradictory statements made under penalty of perjury filed by Michael L. Darland with the Kittitas County Superior Court and the WSBA establish beyond any doubt that Michael L Darland is a repeat criminal.

This entire case should be referred to the Kittitas County Prosecutor’s office.

There is already enough hard evidence on hand for anyone licensed to practice law to be duty bound to hand this case over to the Prosecuting Attorney to charge Michael L. Darland of fraud, perjury and coercion.

After a thorough review of all my posts and exhibits on this blog by the Kittitas County Prosecuting Attorney, I would be glad to testify and supply any further information that may be needed to ensure that Michael L. Darland is convicted as a repeat criminal.

Snocadia Exhibits

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWd3o5wrw9-mk_NuuPQ6FWkWPu9zTefPG33tM0hIfK8/edit?hl=en#

1 Medical letters

2 Notice of Intent to Withdraw from Jim Mcbride,

3 Letter from Jeff Slothower dated August 15, 2011.

cc: Jim McBride,

Dan Mallove,

Jeff Slothower,

D. Nicholson.

B. Dorsey.

Michael L. Darland - Contempt of Court.

2011-08-06T22:55:00.001-07:00

To:

The most Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper – Kittitas County Superior Court.

Jeff Slothower of Lathrop, Winbauer, Harel, Slothower & Denison LLP. of Ellensburg, WA.

Jim McBride of Julin & McBride Redmond WA.

Brian J. Dorsey of Snohomish County Public Prosecutor’s office.

Douglas Warren Nicholson, Ellensburg attorney.

Dan Mallove, Attorney for Snoqualmie Pass Utility District.

Myrna Darland – Michael L. Darland’s e-mail address is unknown.

Michael L. Darland, Bellevue WA. aka Mike Darland has no credibility left. Michael L. Darland deserves to be found in utter contempt of the Kittitas County Superior Court. As a proven repeat criminal Michael L. Darland should have no further standing in front of the Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper.

Michael L. Darland proposed to file pleadings on July 25, 2011 asking the Kittitas County Superior Court to find me in Contempt of Court. What was the outcome of those pleadings – if ever filed? If not – Why not?

In those pleadings, one grief held against me is to be allegedly from Africa. If that were true, let my ‘Cry from my Beloved Country’ be heard by the Judge Michael E. Cooper. Let the Kittitas County Superior Court not discriminate against me just because I am alleged to be from ‘Africa’.

I am forced to live temporarily away from the US because in my country, the Republic of Mauritius, health care and all medication is totally free. Michael L. Darland knows this fully well. Darland has contacted me numerous times in Mauritius.

Using my temporary forced absence, as yet another vile opportunistic ploy to delay/deny me justice, Michael L. Darland is now proposing to depose me on August 29, 2011.

When will Michael L. Darland be finally deposed to establish beyond any doubt that Michael L. Darland perjured himself in front of the Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper, committed fraud and once again coerced a witness to lie under oath?

Upon conviction on all of the above, Michael L. Darland should be found in disgraceful Contempt of Court and should have no further standing in front of the Kittitas County Superior Court.

The hard evidence to support those findings is overwhelming.

The following facts represent all I have already disclosed and would assert in any deposition:

In January 2005, it suited Michael L. Darland’s game plan to represent to the Kittitas County Superior Court, under penalty of perjury, that plaintiffs Leclezio and Darland own 76 acres on Snoqualmie Pass.

That convenient representation in 2005 had two objectives:

It was then designed to get the Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper to find that Plaintiffs Darland & Leclezio own 76 acres on Snoqualmie Pass.
That finding, as part of a Memorandum Decision signed by Judge Michael E. Cooper on April 29, 2005 empowered Darland to pressure the Snoqualmie Pass Utility District to reach a Settlement Agreement to Darland’s complete satisfaction. That was achieved at the conclusion of satisfactory depositions and declarations on the matter.

On September 28, 2005, it once again suited Michael L. Darland’s game plan to agree unequivocally to record the Quit Claim Deed signed by Michael L. & Myrna Darland in my favor or that of my assigns. In exchange, Michael L. Darland wanted me to agree to stay the case for a maximum period of 18 months.

Thus on September 29, 2005, Michael L. Darland sent an e-mail to our joint attorney Douglas Warr Nicholson of Ellensburg instructing him to record the Quit Claim Deed in my name as per the agreement we had reached in presence of Nicholson the previous day in a Kittitas County Superior Court room .

Less than four hours after sending those instructions by e-mail to Nicholson at 4:52AM on September 29, 2005, Darland called Nicholson and got our joint attorney Douglas Warr Nicholson of Ellensburg to agree to backtrack. He convinced Douglas Warr Nicholson to use his position of trust as my attorney to arm wrestle me into signing the Settlement Agreement with the Snoqualmie Pass Utility District without the Quit Claim Deed being first recorded in my name. Douglas Nicholson agreed to be Darland’s puppet on a string and agreed to be used as such. In so doing Douglas Warr Nicholson obviously preferred one client over another. It is to be noted that attorney Douglas Warr Nicholson of Ellensburg never disclosed his conversation with Darland to me! Nicholson’s mail addressed to me on September 29, 2005 pressuring me to sign the Settlement Agreement speaks for itself.

On the one hand, I had Douglas alias ‘Judas’ Warr Nicholson pressuring me unduly to sign the Settlement Agreement without first getting Darland to live up to his agreement of September 28, 2005 with me in exchange for me to agree to stay the case; On the other I had Michael L. Darland promising me the moon if I were to sign the Settlement Agreement. Michael L. Darland represented himself as an urban planner with years of experience dealing with State agencies. As such Michael L. Darland assured me that he was the best qualified person to maximize our profits. Darland repeatedly assured me that I was much better off keeping my boat tied to his. To back up his verbal claims, Michael L. Darland addressed an analysis of values to me by e-mail in early October 2005. Therein, Darland claimed that he would see to it that my interest would be worth a minimum of $7 million!

In March 2006, I underwent cancer surgery followed by chemotherapy between April and July 2006. No need to get into all the details of all the empty promises Darland made to me while I was hanging on for dear life during the whole process prior to securing the Settlement agreement with the Snoqualmie Pass Utility District. At the time, I was fighting a five year old cancer and Michael L. Darland got me convinced on September 29, 2005 that he had my best interest and those of my eventual heirs at heart!

Therefore, the Settlement Agreement was signed in September 2005 giving all parties 18 months to fulfill well identified conditions. Starting in 2007, Darland, acting through our common attorney Douglas Warr Nicholson, sought a number of extensions from me to fulfill the conditions of the Settlement Agreement with the Snoqualmie Pass Utility District.

Once again, while still acting as our joint attorney, Douglas Warr Nicholson represented that I was better served to grant the requested extensions rather than “go back to court” as we had expressly agreed to do within eighteen months of signing the Settlement Agreement should Darland fail to fulfill its conditions.

I later discovered that at the same time Nicholson was requesting extensions from me, Michael L. Darland was copying our joint attorney Douglas Warr Nicholson of Ellensburg with correspondence whereby Darland was endeavoring to sell our whole 76 acres for at least $23 million to various parties! Known to Nicholson, who chose to never disclose same to me, in all correspondence, Michael L. Darland was representing himself to be the sole owner of the 76 acres supposedly free and clear of all and/or any encumbrance!!!

Once again, our common attorney, Douglas, alias ‘Judas’ Warr Nicholson, elected despicably to prefer client, Darland, over client Leclezio. Although I had dealt with Nicholson prior to introducing Darland to him; Although Nicholson agreed to represent us both; Although Nicholson considered it fit to pressure me, acting as my attorney, to sign the Settlement Agreement without the Quit Claim Deed being first recorded in my name as agreed, Nicholson elected not to disclose to me what his preferred client Darland was really up to behind my back and to what kind of use Darland was really putting the extensions that I was urged to grant!

That’s FRAUD!

That's MALPRACTICE

A number of documents on hand in my and in Darland’s possession verify and speak to the above.

Please check out hard evidence listed below for confirmation of my statements.

On August 29, 2010, Michael L. Darland decided that I no longer suited his game plan. I had been used and duped long enough.

In a brazen show of utter contempt towards Kittitas County Superior Court and as an insult to the intelligence and integrity of Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper, the very same Michael L. Darland who had signed, under penalty of perjury, a declaration in January 2005 that Plaintiffs Darland and Leclezio own 76 acres on Snoqualmie Pass, now signed, again under penalty of perjury, a novel declaration on August 29, 2010: “Darlands are the sole owners of the property”!

That’s PERJURY!

It would appear that just because untrustworthy Darland wished it to be so, unilaterally and arbitrarily, without any compensation to me or agreement from me, Darland by some magic wand had become the sole owner of the entire 76 acres free and clear of all encumbrances!!! AMAZING!!!

Indeed that must be the same sort of magic wand Darland comes up with at will. In a declaration to the WSBA in papers filed by Darland in a trumped up Grievance Complaint, Darland claimed that he never received a certain correspondence from Jim McBride’s office. Yet, by some magic wand, Darland had read and specifically replied to the mail he claimed not to have ever received AMAZING!!!

Darland cannot learn from his failures regardless how often he gets caught. Just like Darland had attempted to coerce a witness, I believe to be another individual named Mike in the employ of Digital Systems in 1993, in 2010, Darland coerced William Popp of William Popp and Associates Engineering of Bellevue to sign a false declaration as a favorable witness to Darland’s frivolous grievance in front of the WSBA.

That’s COERCION!

What do I want done?

I repeat:

I desperately wanted justice to be done after six horribly lengthy years.

I want Darland to be deposed and confronted with his string of lies as revealed in correspondence Darland addressed to various Kittitas County officials.

I want Darland to be deposed and confronted with his lies, while under penalty of perjury, to Kittitas County Superior Court.

I want Darland to be convicted for perjury, fraud and coercion.

Upon his conviction as a repeat criminal, Michael L. Darland should have no credibility left.

As a repeat criminal, Michael L. Darland should be found in contempt of Court for brazenly insulting Judge Cooper’s intelligence and integrity, lying to his Court while under penalty of perjury.

Upon his conviction, I want to file charges per all of the above against Michael L. Darland.

Upon his conviction, Michael L. Darland should have no further standing in the Kittitas County Superior Court of the Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper.

Upon his conviction as a repeat criminal, Michael L. Darland does not deserve his day in Court.

Upon his conviction, Darland only deserves his days in jail.

I want Michael L. Darland to be in jail.

I want Michael L. Darland to find out that, in the place where he has belonged for years, his money can buy nothing. From jail Michael L. Darland will no longer be able to cause irreparable damages to so many who have suffered by his hands.

Please, please, get on with the job of landing Michael L. Darland where he belongs.

What will I do?

Darland has delayed/denied me justice and my due in the form of my Quit Claim Deed for six years, causing me irreparable damages and extensive grief and suffering since September 29, 2005.

By the grace of God, my extensive cancer treatment since March 14, 2006 seems to be working.

Through the love of God, my heart is responding to medication over time and through much rest.

I attach two letters from two different doctors written about a year apart. They attest to the above and to my health condition.

Some seven months ago, at the beginning of January 2011, at the request of Brian John Dorsey, presently employed by the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s office, I made arrangements to be deposed in January 2010 by way of a video conference. I consulted with my doctor prior to deciding to proceed with depositions in yet another frivolous attempt by Darland to delay/deny me justice. As a result of that consultation, my doctor issued her attached letter dated January 11, 2011.

Considering my condition, time was of the essence to me. I found it very hard to deal with an ‘in justice’ process where Darland endlessly exploits the system to postpone his ‘D’ day and deny me timely justice. Therefore, now some seven months later, in early August 2011, I view, the so called need for depositions, as just another red herring from Michael L. Darland whose prime proven goal is to forever delay/deny me justice.

However, I am getting used to it.

For the time being, due to health and financial reasons inflicted upon me by Michael L. Darland, I obviously cannot and will not attend depositions on August 29, 2011 in the US.

Exhibit 2: Darland.Settlement.Draft.Owners defined 011405

Exhibit 3: Darland.Lec.Owners Summary Judgment Motion marked copy

Exhibit 3a: Snocadia Summary Judgment Motion Revision.Unmarked01-24-05

Exhibit 4: Snocadia Summary Judgment granted

Exhibit 5: Snocadia Darland-Moyer Comments 03-01-05

Exhibit 6: Snocadia RPC affecting Nicholson vs Mallove

Exhibit 7: Snocadia Doug Nicholson re Dan Mallove + Pressure on me to sign

Exhibit 8: Snocadia Critical.Mail.Sequence.Record.QCD092805

Exhibit 9: Snocadia.Darland.Leclezio.Owners.CLC 102405

Exhibit 10: Snocadia.Darland.Martin.Doug.Lecl 012606

Exhibit 12: Snocadia_Web.Brochure published by Darland

Exhibit 13: Snocadia.Darland.Web. Marketing published '07

Exhibit 14: Snocadia.Darland.Kittitas.available services Oct 6 2009

Exhibit 15: Snocadia.Darland.Kit Cets.availability 110209

Exhibit 16: Snocadia.Comp.Plan 76 Acres serviced since '73 061109

Exhibit 17: Darland instructs Nicholson to record Quit Claim Deed to 26 acres in Leclezio's name.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWd3o5wrw9-mk_NuuPQ6FWkWPu9zTefPG33tM0hIfK8/edit?hl=en#

Exhibit 18: Snocadia Quit Claim Deed Darlands July 28 2003

Exhibit 19: Snocadia Darland answers to SPUD Interrogatory 052905

Exhibit 20: Snocadia Darland The truth about Digital Systems

Exhibit 21: Snocadia.Darland re SPUD to Doug Nicholson

Exhibit 22: Snocadia Darland re Terry Lenihan and Takings to Doug Nicholson

Exhibit 23: Snocadia Darland to Doug Nicholson re Dan Mallove

To: Jeff Slothower - Re: Michael L. Darland - Bellevue WA.

2011-08-05T06:41:00.000-07:00

Why can’t some lawyers deal with the truth and the whole truth?

Hey Sloth,

Why are you trying to pull another fast one in front of the Kittitas County Superior Court and fool the Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper again through erroneous exhibits that you find necessary to attach to your pleadings?

On April 28, 2011, you wrote a letter to Jim McBride. In your letter you state: “For your information, we became aware of the blogspot in the middle of last week when Mr. Darland attended a business meeting with individuals he did not have an existing relationship with, who indicated they had ‘googled’ him and the first thing that came up was the Snocadia blogspot.”

Do you and your client suffer from discriminatory reading ability?

Please refer to my mail to you where I specifically provided you with the address of my blog on April 25, 2011. In that mail I referred you to my blog no less than 4 times!

I fail to understand why you would pretend to the Court that you only “…became aware of the blogspot in the middle of last week when Mr. Darland attended a business meeting”?

However I was delighted to learn that my blog is benefiting society at large.

If my dissemination of the truth about your client Michael L. Darland aka Mike Darland of Bellevue WA. has served to help but one person from being defrauded over time by Michael L. Darland, my efforts will have been well worth it.

I wish someone had warned me about that rascal before I met him.

May my continued truthful posts save many more from Michael L. Daland’s ruthless clutches.

In an effort to save you from him, I have gladly contributed freely to your past motions.

I will now give you some additional free advice:

If only…

If you still own a tiny bit of your conscience…

If you are not a proverbial hired gun…

If you own a lockable trash can…

Then, you should know what to do with your client.

For, only if…

If… Instead of the Court docket being sealed from public view in exchange for $8 million (eight million dollars) plundered from corporate coffers by Michael L. Darland, Michael L. Darland had been sent to jail for fraud, perjury, coercion and corruption in 1993, Michael L. Darland could not have defrauded again.

Additionally and to his benefit, today, in 2011, Michael L. Darland would ‘perhaps’ not find himself to be soon convicted as a repeat criminal for fraud, perjury, coercion and corruption.

But, then again, I’ll grant you that a leopard cannot change its spots.

Let justice finally prevail…

Let Michael L. Darland go to jail.

The business world will be somewhat sanitized.

I want Michael L. Darland to go to jail...

2011-07-25T20:43:00.000-07:00

I want justice.

I want Michael L. Darland to go to jail for fraud, perjury, coercion and corruption.

I want Michael L. Darland to go to jail for raping me of all that is most dear to me.

I want Michael L. Darland to go to jail to find out that there is a place where his money can buy nothing.

Michael L. Darland cannot deny me justice just because I am from ‘Africa’ as he claims!

Louis Leclezio.

Michael L. Darland, Bellevue, WA. sets himself up to add another failure to his already impressive list of failures.

2011-07-24T04:36:00.000-07:00

A desperate Michael L. Darland is now looking to the Court to deprive the public of the benefits of the truth.

That is just more of the same from a repeat criminal.

Darland is launching in yet another despicable attempt to circumvent the justice process and deny me that which he has owed to me since September 29, 2005.

My response is addressed to:

The most Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper – Kittitas County Superior Court.

Jeff Slothower of Lathrop, Winbauer, Harel, Slothower & Denison LLP. of Ellensburg, WA.

Jim McBride of Julin & McBride Redmond WA.

Brian J. Dorsey of Snohomish County Public Prosecutor’s office.

Douglas Warren Nicholson, Ellensburg attorney.

Dan Mallove, Attorney for Snoqualmie Pass Utility District.

On the one hand, Michael L. Darland never fails to attempt to defraud, perjure himself, coerce and corrupt.

On the other hand, Michael L. Darland keeps adding to his known already long list of shameful failures due to perjury, coercion and corruption.

A quick glimpse at Darland’s track record of persisting failures:

In 1993 Mike Darland was sued for fraudulently inflating the stock price of Digital Systems Inc. of Redmond, WA.

As the case evolved, Michael L Darland set himself up to face additional personal charges of perjury, coercion and corruption.

To settle the case, Michael L. Darland compromised and compounded his personal ethics problems. Darland failed to use personal funds to escape from a criminal record and save his neck. Instead, Darland tacitly dug into Corporate coffers to wish or swish the case away to the detriment of his employees and stock holders.

Not surprisingly, shortly thereafter, Darland failed to retain leadership of the public corporation he had founded. Darland ‘resigned’ from Digital Systems. Darland escaped to Southern Chile to go bury his head in the sand in search of peace. Ever since, to cover up his disgrace, Darland has worn a mask, has put on a bold and aggressive front and sought to point a finger at everyone else. But peace has persistently eluded Michael Darland’s troubled conscience.

Thus, in Patagonia, Southern Chile, at the Yan Kee way Lodge, distrusting everyone, Michael Darland has failed to keep any worthwhile manager for any length of time.

Years later, Michael Darland even failed to live up to his parents’ last sacred wish and long lasting desire to keep members of the family united. In a self righteous effort to shift the limelight from his personal criminal past, Michael L. Darland is alleged to have resorted to perjury, yet again, to literally and physically ruin his own brother and sister. Michael Darland did so with no compunction or compassion and boasted to me how he had succeeded to inflict irreparable damages upon his siblings down in New Mexico! What can you expect from a repeated criminal who will so cruelly stab members of his own family?

In the light of the above, Michael L. Darland’s relentless efforts to circumvent justice and deny me what he has owed me since September 29, 2005 should not come as a surprise to the Court or any one else.

Unfortunately, Michael Darland refuses to learn from his failures. Quite to the contrary, motivated by sheer downright evil and uncontrollable greed, Darland has displayed a tenacious propensity at compounding his failures. Darland will plod on and persistently plot as to how to further defraud his victims whether it be through more perjury, coercion and corruption.

IMHO, Darland’s blinding and wonton greed best explains Darland’s multiple failures.

Between 2003 and 2011, Darland has consistently failed to live up to any of his written agreements

with me.

In September 2005, Darland failed to follow through with his instructions to attorney Douglas Warren Nicholson of Ellensburg to record my portion of our joint property in my name.

Between September 2005 to the present, Darland has failed to fulfill the conditions of a Settlement Agreement he and our common attorney Doug Nicholson forced me into with Snoqualmie Pass Utility District under false premises.

Between September 2005 to the present, Darland has failed to put to good use the many extensions he repeatedly sought from me in order to perform his obligations under the Settlement Agreement.

Between September 2005 to the present, Darland, although on oath and under penalty of perjury, has fraudulently and consistently failed to tell the truth concerning his encumbered ownership of our jointly owned property to the Kittitas County Superior Court, to Kittitas County officials, to Washington State Government entities such as WSDOT, DNR, USFS and to the general public.

To add oil to the fire, Darland fraudulently failed, in his ‘web’ marketing effort of the entire property, to disclose to the public that Darland did not own the overall property free and clear!

Beginning on August 11, 2009 lasting through April 13, 2010, Darland has already once fully exploited the justice system to delay/deny me justice. On August 11, 2009, Darland filed a frivolous Grievance Complaint with the WSBA. On November 30, 2009, I received a mail confirming that Darland’s complaint was found to be without merit and had been dismissed. In a most distressed effort to play for time, Darland waited until February 3, 2010 to file an appeal with the WSBA. Finally on April 13, 2010, the WSBA Appeals Board again dismissed Darland’s merit less claim, opening the way for us to finally file our Cross Claim against Darland.

Although Darland has failed dismally and repeatedly in his frivolous attempts to deny me justice, Darland is at it again!

It is worthy of note, that Darland is trading on the fact that I have undergone cancer surgery and that I suffer from heart problems. Darland obviously appears to be banking on the fact that I might not last it out long enough to obtain redress. If any one of Darland’s many below the belt tactics were to succeed, Darland is hoping that eventually, even if not dead, I will be too weak to instruct my attorneys on how to put a stop to his wrongful enrichment through fraud.

Therefore, now, in 2011 Darland is launching in more of the same below the belt ploys to try and deny me justice and to defraud me of the property Darland had already instructed attorney Douglas Warren Nicholson of Ellensburg to record in my name on September 2005.

On April 25, 2011, Darland applied to the Court for a temporary restraining order against me. In his pleadings, Darland expected the Court to rely on ‘hear say’ to reach its decision. But, Darland failed to furnish the Court with any arguments or hard evidence to impeach my disclosures and dispute the veracity of my statements.

To date, Darland and or his latest new attorney, Jeff Slothower of Ellensburg have failed to provide me with a duly signed copy of the ‘Temporary Restraining Order’. That order was supposedly granted ‘blind’ with no due process or opportunity for us to be heard first!

Therefore, to date, Darland has failed to muzzle me up and wish the truth away.

So, now, in July 2011, Darland, acting through his attorney Slothower, proposes to file more pleadings dated July 12, 2011. The pleadings are due to be filed by Slothower on behalf of Darland on Monday July 25 2011. Yet they were only e-mailed to me on Thursday July 21, 2011, received by me on Friday July 22, 2011 in the evening! Could this have possibly been by design to afford me little or no time to assist my attorney in drafting our answers?

Be it as it may, Darland, through his attorney Slothower, is again resorting to another means of muzzling me up and concealing the truth from the public. Darland is looking to the Court to find me in contempt of Court based on an unsigned TRO!

In his latest attempt to muzzle me up, Darland is trying to frantically conceal the truth through more mere hear say. But, Darland fails once again to offer to the Court any hard evidence to contradict the information I have been offering to the general public about Darland’s profile!

The harder it is to argue the truth away, the more so, the general public has a right to know so as to be protected from the likes of such dangerous repeat criminals.

(Incidentally, may I respectfully point out to Darland and Slothower that Judge Cooper has in the past, always duly signed all his rulings. e.g. See Exhibit # 4 published on the web under my preceding posts whereby Judge Cooper found as an uncontroverted fact that Plaintiffs Darland and Leclezio own the subject property.)

Judge Cooper would appear to have already been fooled once by Darland. Note that in his above mentioned finding, Judge Cooper relied on a statement made by Darland, under penalty of perjury.

In a brief submitted to the Court by attorney Nicholson in January 2005 for partial Summary Judgment, Darland represented, under penalty of perjury, that Darland and Leclezio own the subject property. Obviously, Judge Cooper relied on that statement made under oath to issue his April 29, 2005 findings. Yet in a bold and flagrant attempt to fool the most honorable Judge, on August 29, 2010 ,acting through a different attorney, Slothower, Darland represents to the same Judge in the same Court, also under penalty of perjury, that Darlands alone own the subject property!

I doubt very much if Judge Cooper will allow himself to be fooled twice by Darland!

However, in his latest efforts to deal the truth away, is Slothower trying to jump the gun now by seeking a premature order for the Court to find me in contempt of Court without first providing me with a duly signed copy of the TRO?

Or, is Slothower doing more of the same? i.e. Slothower is expecting the Court to rule on more mere ‘hear say’ while providing the Court with half a deck and concealing critical hard evidence that is detriment to his client, Michael L. Darland from the court?

Or, is it simply just more sloppy work from a sloth?

In a country where foreigners, especially from Africa, are becoming increasingly used to see some lawyers auctioning their conscience to the highest bidder - In a justice system where enough money can ‘supposedly’ whitewash any criminal - In a country where perverted attorneys can either get cases dismissed by Judges or public prosecutors at their client’s attorneys whim – In a country where money serves to turn victims into criminals against whom sanctions can be obtained ‘ad lib’ to conceal the truth, nothing should come as a surprise.

Yet, I have been emboldened to spend much crammed up week end time on the above frivolous pleadings regardless of my health condition, because I have learnt in the past to rely on Judge Michael E. Cooper’s rulings and to respect same.

After yet another failure, where will Michael L. Darland run to this time to further bury his head in the sand in shame and deserved disgrace? May he find that ever eluding peace on earth… Wherever and whenever… if at all…

As I have already stated previously, if my posts can help but one person not to be defrauded by Michael L. Darland of Bellevue WA., they will have been well worth it regardless of the personal cost.

P. S.

Hey Sloth,

A late hour free contribution from me to attach to your latest pleadings seeking:

1. A finding of Contempt of Court.

2. An order for me to present myself to depositions.

I have addressed the matter of Contempt of Court in detail above.

As far as my deposition is concerned:

1. Your client, Michael L. Darland, a self proclaimed expert in real estate and graduate in urban planning, has already deposed me extensively through the years, to his entire satisfaction, about all pertinent facts of this transaction.

2. My health and financial problems, mostly brought on by Darland’s failures to live up to his numerous commitments, have had a devastating and crippling effect on me.

3. After 8 years of depositions, discoveries and interrogatories that have led to a Settlement Agreement to Darland’s complete satisfaction, neither the Court nor Darland have anything more to learn from me that has not already been learnt in the past years.

4. As a fully qualified expert, if he had to cry foul, Darland should have done so years ago.

5. It is too bad that it is only now that Darland is facing a substantial counter claim from me for failure to live up to any of his commitments 8 long years after getting into this transaction, that Darland chooses to raise the specter of impropriety on my part and the need for more depositions! That in itself should be quite telling to the Court.

6. My attorneys already hold 2 medical opinions, dated about a year apart, attesting to my poor health and the risks involved, should I be forced to travel to the US. I need say nothing more about my finances and the futility of engaging in such unnecessary expenditure based on the foregoing.

I repeat, this should be viewed by the Court as just one more shameful and frivolous ploy by Darland to subvert and try to pervert the justice process solely designed, to provide Darland with an escape hatch to run away from his obligations.

Sloth, I am sending you the above not in contempt of Judge Cooper’s Court. But most certainly in utter contempt for your vile ways of endeavoring to empower your client, a criminal with a lengthy past record, to defraud someone especially when he is down for major health reasons through tiny cracks within the system!

While I find it ironical that Michael L. Darland (aka Mike Darland) has the pretentious gall to appeal to the Court to protect his ‘good/bad reputation’, I hope that my free contribution proves useful to you. Through your 41 pages of diatribe, keep pounding on the table since you have no facts to pound on while pandering to Darland’s ill gotten gains.

Five pages from me backed by hard evidence should suffice to make the point.

Louis Leclezio.

Michael L. Darland, (aka Mike Darland) Bellevue, Washington State: Alleged perjury & coercion 1993 – Perjury January 2005? Fraud beginning in October 2007 – Coercion August 2009 – Perjury August 2010! Answer to his TRO Motion

2011-04-25T03:32:00.000-07:00

My Answer to Darland’s TRO Motion… I would be most surprised if a Judge with the integrity of Michael E. Cooper ever grants a motion strictly based on 'hear say' pretending that the info I am disseminating concerning Michael L. Darland of Bellevue, WA is "untrue". Moreover when the preponderance of hard evidence as to the veracity of the information I am offering to the general public is overwhelming!

See exhibits below:

To:

The Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper,

Jim McBride,

Jeff Slothower,

Douglas W. Nicholson – Ellensburg Attorney.

Gentlemen,

My doctor has urged me to avoid all sources of unnecessary stress due to my heart condition subsequent to my cancer surgery. Yet I want to see Justice done in my lifetime. I pray that I can use the valuable extension of life that God has granted me to do good, to fight evil and obtain Justice.

So, today, April 25, 2011, I finally mustered enough strength to download and review the Temporary Restraining Order Darland applied to the Court for, on April 11, 2011.

The sentence that jumped out at me in Darland’s Motion for a TRO is:

“Plaintiffs could be irreparably damaged as a result of untrue (emphasis added) information disseminated by Cross Claimant Louis Leclezio…”

The Motion submitted by Darland is unsupported by any kind of evidence. It is simply based on the outrageously wrong assumption that the information I am disseminating to the public at large concerning Michael L. Darland of Bellevue, WA., is “untrue”!!!

Yet, the overwhelming, compelling and glaring evidence in support of the veracity of all information disseminated by me concerning criminal acts committed by Michael L. Darland can be confirmed after a thorough examination of the Exhibits that can be found on my http://www.snocadia.blogspot.com/ dated April 9, 2011.

Let the evidence speak for itself.

In his Motion for a TRO, Darland pretends and would have the Court believe that he is (a) Not a Criminal offender; (b) That he did not commit fraud; (c) That Michael L. Darland did not commit perjury; for obvious good reason Darland avoids the subject of Coercion.

A timely review of the Exhibits provided in my post on http://www.snocadia.blogspot.com/ on April 9, 2011 will provide uncontroverted supporting evidence to establish as an unavoidable fact that Michael L. Darland is: (a) A repeated criminal offender; (b) that Michael L. Darland did commit fraud; (c) that Michael L. Darland did perjure himself and grossly lied to various Kittitas County officials; (d) that Michael L. Darland is guilty of coercion.

Exhibits 2, 3 & 3a will show that in January 2005 Darland asserted under penalty of perjury that Darlands and Leclezio are the owners of the 76 acre subject property.

Exhibit 4 will show that on April 29, 2005, the most Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper relied on Darland’s representations to find as an uncontroverted fact that Plaintiffs Darlands and Leclezio own the 76 acre subject property.

Yet, Court filings by Darland, under penalty of perjury in August 2010 fly in the face of the previous filings referred to above and more importantly attempt to nullify Judge Cooper’s written Memorandum Decision of April 29, 2005. Note that Darland never before objected to Judge Cooper’s findings regarding ownership of the property in 2005.

Yet, by some magic wand or unilateral and arbitrary contortion of Darland’s convoluted mind, in August 2010 Darland pretends to the Court under penalty of perjury that he and his wife are the sole owners of the very same 76 acre subject property!

If that is not perjury – What is?

Exhibit 4: Judge Cooper finds Darland and Leclezio to be owners of the subject property. Exhibit 8 confirms Darland’s instructions on September 29, 2005 to attorney Douglas W. Nicholson of Ellensburg to record the Quit Claim Deed dated July 28, 2003 in Leclezio’s name or that of his assigns. Viz. Darland’s instructions to Nicholson on September 29, 2005,: “This agreement should give him (Leclezio) all that he has requested in Bryan’s memo including the quitclaim of the 26 acres, as it was never my intent to not perform on the quitclaim deed release (emphasis added). Exhibit 18 is a copy of the Quit Claim Deed signed over by Michael and Myrna Darland in my favor or the favor of my assigns.

Yet, starting in October 2007 to the present, Michael L. Darland has been offering the 76 acres for sale on the web. Darland flagrantly does so as if Darland is the sole owner of the property and as if it were not encumbered by a Quit Claim Deed affecting the ownership of 26 acres out of the 76!

If that is not fraud – What is?

In March 2007, William Popp of William Popp Associates Inc - Bellevue, WA - Engineering Services, a neighbor, a close friend and an ex employee of Darland’s wrote to me: “I am considering the opportunity to make some additional money by stepping into your shoes and working with Mike.” Numerous other mails from Popp reflect his multi dimensional interest in the 76 acre subject property.

Yet, in 2009, Michael L. Darland brazenly filed a Grievance Complaint against my attorneys in front of the WSBA. That was just one more vile tactic used by Darland in his numerous desperate efforts to delay, subvert and/or deny me justice.

In support of that Complaint, Darland extorted an affidavit from traffic engineer William Popp of William Popp and Associates. Therein, Popp states under penalty of perjury that “Popp is a third party with no interest in the deal”!

If that is not Coercion – What is?

Darland took that case in front of the WSBA to the WSBA Appeal Board where he lost through a web of lies. However Darland successfully used that strategy to delay his ‘D’ day by at least one year and successfully inflicted unnecessary additional expenses on us while subverting the Justice process!

It is worth mentioning that in 1993, Darland had no option but to settle the Digital Systems Inc. Law Suit. In that case against Darland personally as well as against the Corporation, in addition to facing potential perjury charges as a result of Darland’s conduct and conflicting statements, it was also evident that Michael L. Darland had also conspired to suborn witnesses in his employ to perjure themselves along with him.

If that is not a repeated criminal – What is?

In the Digital Systems Inc. of Redmond, WA., case, Michael L. Darland plundered the coffers of his Publicly Trading Corporation to settle the case and save his neck. But Digital Systems ended up suffering a loss and its employees had to forego a portion of their remuneration. All had to pay the burden of Darland’s perjury accusation.

In my own case against Darland, there is overwhelming evidence already placed in front of the Court for the Court to find that Darland should be convicted as a CRIMINAL.

However, if the preponderance of evidence in my case were not to suffice, the Court might well decide to investigate whether Darland is a repeated offender deserving a more severe sentence. In such event, the Court should require that the suit against Darland and Digital Systems Inc., settled in 1993, on condition files were sealed, be now unsealed.

If my information is wrong, Darland could exonerate himself and validate his Motion for a TRO on the premise that my information is “untrue”. On the other hand, Darland could very well be exposed to additional CRIMINAL charges and deserve a much more severe sentence.

Should the Court not decide to order that the files referred to above be unsealed, I defy Michael L. Darland to willingly allow the files in the Digital Systems case to be unsealed in order to prove his innocence!

A gullible person who does not know Michael L. Darland as well as Steve Berman and I do, would be entitled to wonder how Darland could ever be so bold as to attempt to make a fool of the most Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper of the Kittitas County Superior Court by submitting such contradictory statements to the Court under penalty of perjury and then seeking a restraining order from the same Judge to muzzle the truth!

In his vain efforts, is Darland acting on the premise that the Honorable Judge Cooper does not read or remember statements made to him under penalty of perjury? Or even worse, does Darland believe that Judge Cooper can violate his own findings of April 29, 2005 in opposition to Darland’s more recent claims? In seeking a Motion for a TRO, Michael L. Darland makes it clear that he will stop at nothing in his efforts to conceal the truth and protect his mask so he may go on plundering.

Darland further claims in his Motion that my dissemination of “untrue” yet most TRUTHFUL information about him “will cause him irreparable damage.”

Darland has already caused enough irreparable damage to enough people for Darland to start, in turn, tasting the bitter flavor of the atrocious irreparable damage he has caused to so many others. I have enough witnesses prepared to testify to the foregoing statement.

From Mount Vernon in the northern part of Washington State to Yan Kee Way Lodge - A Southern Chile Expeditions destination point in Puerto Vartas, Patagonia, all the way down in Southern Chile, Michael L. Darland has left a trail of havoc ruining and damaging so many lives irreparably.

It is high time Michael L Darland be convicted as a despicable criminal for the overall public good.

If, through my courageous dissemination of the truth about Michael L. Darland, I succeed to prevent Michael L. Darland from defrauding, corrupting & ruining just one more person’s life, my efforts should an ill advised restraining order, ever be granted, will have been well worth it regardless of any personal cost to me.

IMHO, and as supported by hard evidence already in front of the Court, it is obvious that Michael L. Darland has NO CREDIBILITY LEFT. He should not be allowed to go on exploiting the endless labyrinths of the legal due process in his efforts to constantly obstruct and pervert the justice system.

It is high time to put an end to Darland’s relentless efforts to delay Justice long enough so that my family and I cannot reap the fruits of my twenty two years of work and financial investment through Justice finally prevailing within my lifetime!

However, should my case against Michael L. Darland be allowed to proceed in order to grant to that criminal the privilege of due process, I will be seeking a Judgment of Fraud, Coercion and Perjury against that utterly corrupt and criminal character.

Indeed after carefully reviewing the exhibits in support of the veracity of the information I am disseminating concerning Michael L. Darland, the most honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper should seriously consider granting me a Permanent Order to go on disseminating such valuable, factual and truthful information to the public at large for the common good of ALL.

P.S. I could not be bothered to review Darland’s additional complaint involving damages sought by Darland against me. I view it as a further vain attempt by Darland to legitimize the theft of the Quit Claim Deed Michael L. Darland and his wife Myrna signed over to me on July 28, 2003 and instructed our attorney Douglas W. Nicholson of Ellensburg to record in my name on September 29, 2005.

I am fully aware that the greater the truth, the greater the libel. That might well finally enable Darland to steal the Quit Claim Deed he signed over to me in exchange for value received. But Darland should have to reflect on his ‘hollow victory’ from the shade for a long time.

P.P.S. April 27, 2011.

Today I felt well enough to quickly glance through Darland’s Motion to add defamation claims to his original complaint.

a) I recognize that Darland was introduced to Slothower by Nicholson. I further recognize that birds of a feather flock together. Just as Ellensburg Attorney Douglas W. Nicholson chose to hide critical information from Dan Mallove on September 28, 2005 (See Exhibits 6 &7 at the end of my April 9 post); Jeff Slothower now chooses to delve in half truths and hide critical information from the most Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper.

Note that on April 8, 2011 I sent a mail to Jeff Slothower. In it I wrote:

Dear Jeff,

Glad I could contribute, at no cost to you or your client, to your upcoming motion concerning defamation.

What a golden opportunity to attach my letter to SPUD together with all its exhibits as an exhibit to your motion. (Emphasis added)

I will need to refer various parties to that public record in weeks to come.

Yours truly,

Louis Leclezio. (See ‘Darland Defamation Motion under ‘Snocadia Exhibits’ on post of April 9, 2011)

Too bad, Slothower felt it was appropriate that the most Honorable Judge Cooper should only be dealing with half a deck!

Thus Slothower elected to only follow half my advice. Slothower only attached my letter to SPUD as an exhibit to his Motion but shamefully failed to attach the vital exhibits attached to my letter to SPUD.

However, I understand that by withholding that crucial element of information from Judge Cooper, Slothower was emboldened to engage in ‘hear say’ in his claim that the information I am disseminating about his client is “untrue”.

I am glad, I anticipated that Slothower would consider the exhibits far too damning for his client and would therefore withhold them from the Judge.

But is that what honesty and Justice are all about for Slothower, Nicholson or Darland?

I am glad the essential exhibits are available to the most Honorable Judge on my blog post of April 9, 2011 at http://www.snocadia.blogspot.com/

b) Incidentally, I also find it amusing and very telling but not surprising that Darland would only fabricate and raise the ghost of “Fraud in the Inducement” only now some 8 years after the fact and only now that Darland is facing a major challenge. But true to form, Darland does not hesitate to sing whatever song is most opportune at any given time. Once again Darland’s novel song is in flagrant contradiction to all other hard documentary evidence!

Snocadia Exhibits

Exhibit 1: Settlement owners defined Oct'03

Exhibit 2: Darland.Settlement.Draft.Owners defined 011405

Exhibit 6: Snocadia RPC affecting Nicholson vs Mallove

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWd3o5wrw9-mk_NuuPQ6FWkWPu9zTefPG33tM0hIfK8/edit?hl=en#

Open letter from Louis Leclezio to Snoqualmie Pass Utility District re Michael L. Darland.

2011-04-09T18:57:00.000-07:00

To:

The Board of Commissioners SPUD Mr. Norm Craven; The Manager SPUD Mr. Terry Lenihan; The SPUD Attorney Dan Mallove Esq..

Gentlemen, Further to my mail of March 25, 2011, I hereto attach various documents and correspondence between Michael L.Darland, Douglas W. Nicholson, attorney Ellensburg and Brian Dorsey.

Some time in March 2011, Jim McBride told me on the phone that he had received correspondence from Darland’s latest attorney, a certain Jeff Slothower of Ellensburg. According to McBride, Slothower was requesting that we grant SPUD yet another extension until 2012.

After Darland has systematically and fraudulently failed to live up to any part of any of his agreements with me, I have no intention to be duped once again and be part of any other agreement involving Michael L. Darland.

As exhibits (link provided below) will reveal, over the years Michael L. Darland has accused SPUD Commissioners, SPUD manager, SPUD attorney Dan Mallove and I of fraudulent representations.

After you examine the attached papers, you decide who should be charged with fraud, perjury, corruption and who should pay the piper.

Indeed, I believe that due to the compelling and uncontroverted hard evidence, charges of corruption, fraud and perjury against Michael L. Darland will stick.

We will be filing such charges with the Kittitas County Prosecutor shortly. As a damaged party, SPUD also may well want to join me in leveling those charges against Michael L. Darland. Once the charges will have been validated, all agreements entered between Darland and SPUD should be declared Null And Void. Darland should be held liable for damages to SPUD. Additionally SPUD would be able to obtain market value for the 230 Certificates of Water and Sewer availability granted to Darland and I under the Settlement Agreement of September 29, 2005. I will establish below that SPUD was bulldozed and duped into entering into that Settlement Agreement under utterly false premises.

It is worthy of note that Michael L. Darland only had good things to say about me over some three years as various correspondences will establish. (See attached exhibit 5 for example). Unfortunately, from the moment Michael L. Darland was advised that I had cancer, Darland became intent to capitalize on my ill health. Past history would suggest that Darland appears to excel at beating a man when he is down. Today, Darland believes that just because I am sick, he can unilaterally and arbitrarily decide that by some magic wand or some takings without compensation, he is the sole owner of the 76 acres at Hyak.

This is nothing new for Michael L. Darland. I have it from reliable sources that in the past, Darland took advantage of another business partner who had also developed cancer. Steve Berman Esq. may be able to comment at length on that. Therefore, I am copying Steve Berman Esq. with this letter. I believe that Mr. Berman knows Michael L. Darland even better than I do. Mr. Berman knows best why Michael L. Darland had to settle the Digital Systems case filed by Mr. Berman in or around 1993. That case was filed against Michael L. Darland personally among other respondents. Mr. Berman would also best know why Michael L. Darland insisted that the files be sealed by the Court and why Michael L. Darland would never dare allow those files to be opened today.

Since I believe that Michael L. Darland is a repeated criminal offender, Mr. Berman may well be able to help SPUD and I in our case against Michael L. Darland through his testimony concerning that creature’s character.

Mr. Berman’s role could be two fold. On the one hand, Mr. Berman’s testimony may assist us to put Michael L. Darland in the shade as a repeated offender. On the other hand, Mr. Berman is a firm believer in the protection of the environment and wild life. His testimony may prove critical to the Cascade Land Conservancy Group. I am sure that attorney Konrad Liegel of K & L Gates LLP acting for CLC would love to hear from Mr. Berman as well.

Background History:

I became involved with Michael L. Darland in or around June 2003.

In October 2003 a Settlement Agreement was proposed to SPUD at Darland’s instigation. It states: “This AGREEMENT is entered into by and between the Snoqualmie Pass Utility District (hereinafter “District”), and Michael Darland and Louie Leclezio (hereinafter “Owner”) pursuant to which the parties agree as follows:…” (Exhibit 1 attached)

Nothing came of this proposed Settlement Agreement conceived by Darland.

Our attorneys, Nicholson and Dorsey believed that guarantees alleged to have been made solely to me set our case against SPUD apart from cases precedent viz. Funk. In that case the Courts had ruled that a District could not be held bound to reserve hook ups on the shelf ‘ad vitam eternam’ for developers just because they had paid for hook ups under ULIDs.

On January 13, 2005 and again on January 14, 2005, Michael L. Darland sent a ‘Draft of Settlement’ to Leclezio and to Nicholson. In it Darland states: “WHEREAS the DISTRICT has steadfastly refused to honor and deliver on its commitments to provide 230 water and sewer hookups to the 76-acre property and in so doing has caused immense financial damage to Louis Leclezio and his business partners, Michael L. and Myrna Darland (PLAINTIFFS) by rendering impossible the development of the property and the recapture of the value of the time, money and planning invested relative to the current zoning and planning effectively stymieing all further activities including forcing the loss of sales of the land,” (See exhibit 2 attached)

Subsequent to the above Draft of Settlement prepared by Darland, on January 13 & 14; In January 2005, Doug Nicholson advised Darland and I to file a motion for Summary Judgment against SPUD.

Of course, at that time, Darland and I were the owners of record on the 76 acre property at Hyak.

Darland revised the Motion for Summary Judgment proposed by attorney Nicholson twice before authorizing our common attorney to file it under penalty of perjury. (See attached exhibits 3 & 3a ) In that Motion filed by attorney Nicholson on behalf of Plaintiffs Darlands and Leclezio, Darland, under penalty of perjury, repeated the same assertion he made in October 2003: “Plaintiffs, Michael and Myrna Darland ("Darland") and Louis Leclezio ("Leclezio"), are the owners of approximately 76.8 acres of unimproved real property” (Emphasis added)

On April 29, 2005, Honorable Judge Michael E. Cooper issued a Memorandum Decision. (See exhibit 4) In his decision, Judge Cooper relied on representations made to the Kittitas County Superior Court by Darland under penalty of perjury in his Motion for Summary Judgment and Honorable Judge Cooper found as an Uncontroverted fact: “Plaintiffs (Understood to be Darland & Leclezio) own 76.8acres of unimproved property situated east of Snoqualmie Pass, Kittitas County…”

With that favorable decision under our belt, our attorney Nicholson proceeded to bring the case to trial. Eventually trial was set to start on or about September 28, 2005.

On that date, Doug W. Nicholson became privy to critical confidential information which he cunningly chose not to share with SPUD’s attorney Dan Mallove. Nicholson was informed by Honorable Judge Cooper’s secretary that the Judge was going on leave and that if trial were to begin on or about September 28, it would only last for a short day and would have to be continued. We could only expect getting back on the roaster two months later at best.

In withholding that critical information from Mallove, Nicholson chose to possibly violate rules of professional conduct (Exhibit 6) for a number of the following reasons. 1). Prior to trial, Mallove was requesting to view the deposition of Richard Kloss. “As is’ Nicholson did not believe it was strong enough to build our case on and refused to produce it to Mallove. 2). Nicholson did not want Mallove to have time to depose Kloss or myself. 3). Nicholson believed that depriving Mallove of key information would allow Nicholson and Darland to bulldoze SPUD and Mallove into a Settlement while they were not dealing with a full deck! (See most revealing related mail from Nicholson to me on September 29, 2005. Exhibit 7)

Pressured by Darland who promised me the moon if I would sign the Settlement Agreement and by Dorsey and Nicholson who promised me that they would see to it that I got my due, I very reluctantly signed the Settlement Agreement. (See most revealing Correspondence sequence of mail between Nicholson, Darland, Dorsey and Leclezio on September 28 & 29 2005 – Exhibits 17 & 8)

Six years have passed since. During that period Nicholson and Dorsey again pressured me at Darland’s request to grant extensions for conditions of the Settlement Agreement to be fulfilled. Finally sick and tired and broke I demanded that Darland fulfill his obligations towards me as he had agreed to do on September 28 & 29, 2005 and had instructed Nicholson to do on September 29, 2005. (Exhibit 8 Darland’s Instructions to Nicholson)

Six years have passed since. In or around June 2010, attorney Brian Dorsey filed a cross claim on my behalf against Michael L. Darland. Darland responded with a counter claim. (See Docs filed with Kittitas County Superior Court in Case No. 04 – 2 – 00411 – 2)

That Counter claim from Darland revealed much about his character or lack thereof.

For years, between 2003 and January 2006, Darland had stated to numerous parties that I was an owner of the 76 acres with him and his wife, and that he would do nothing without consulting with me first. (See exhibits 9 & 10 for an example) More importantly, in 2005, Darland never objected to Honorable Judge Cooper finding as an uncontroverted fact that we, the Plaintiffs own the 76 acres east of Snoqualmie Pass.

However in 2006 Darland learnt that I had cancer. Thereafter, like a repugnant vulture, Darland has ever since, attempted to feed off my carcass even before my death!!!

Beginning in 2007 Darland started committing a series of fraud dealing with the property, the County, the public, potential buyers as if the property was his alone!!! (See exhibits 12 & 13)

In 2010 Darland was emboldened by the passing of time and probably felt that six years after being diagnosed with cancer, my death must be imminent. Thus on August 26, 2010, Darland made quite a novel claim under penalty of perjury. In Darland's answers to Leclezio’s Cross Claim, Darland now claimed that the only owners of the 76 acres are Michael & Myrna Darland!!!

What a contradiction to all previous filings also made under penalty of perjury!!! (viz. 3.5 & 6.2 of Darlands answer and Counter Claim) (See Docs filed with Kittitas County Superior Court in Case No. 04 – 2 – 00411 – 2)

Furthermore regardless of Darland’s representations on January 13 & 14 2005 as stated above, on August 26, 2010, Darland answers Leclezio’s Cross Claim, and denies under penalty of Perjury that the Darlands and Leclezio are business partners! (See Docs filed with Kittitas County Superior Court in Case No. 04 – 2 – 00411 – 2)

Either way, in 2005 Court filings or in 2010 filings in front of the same Court of Honorable Judge Cooper, Darland has committed perjury.

No matter how opportunistic, Darland views any of his statements to be at any given time, Darland cannot make a number of contradictory statements under penalty of perjury in front of the same Judge in Kittitas County Superior Court.

As if the above were not enough hard evidence of perjury by Michael L. Darland and just in case SPUD is not yet aware that Darland has or can have water and sewer services as and when he elects to have them on the 76 acres, let us now consider the exhibits below.

They betray a series of utterly fraudulent and false representations made by Darland.

Darland’s fraudulent and false representations to various Kittitas County officials in 2009:

Exhibit 14: In a Memorandum addressed on October 6, 2009 by Darland to KCCDS Planning Department, KC Planning Commission, KC County Commissioners, Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and SPUD Darland claims at page 5 of 7: “The area removed from the SPUD water and sewer district is currently planned, zoned and serviced (emphasis added) with water and sewer to provide Commercial – Lodging facilities…”

Exhibit 15: On November 2, 2009, the same Michael L. Darland addresses a letter to Ms Cote. In that letter, at page 7 of 7, Darland states: “A number of red herrings related to the GMA decision, the availability of water and sewer and the fact that I am not trying to develop land under a rezone, but in accord with ‘exitin’ land use, zoning within a municipal water and sewer district for which I will have certificates of water availability at the time necessary to develop the lots.” (Emphasis added)

Exhibit 16: In Responses to Comments November 2009, at page 3, para 4, Darland is quoted stating: “There are existing sewer hook ups on the SnoCadia property (since 1973)!!! and there is a sewer trunk line and man holes on Coal Creek on the east side of the SnoCadia PUD.”!!!

Those representations as to availability of services to the 76 acres are absolutely false, fraudulent and contradictory to Darland’s filings under penalty of perjury on August 29, 2010.

On August 29, 2010, in Darlands’ answers to Leclezio’s Cross Claim, Darland asserts under penalty of Perjury that: “Performance under the Settlement Agreement was impossible…” & “The water and sewer connections even if issued by SPUD, are not and cannot be immediately available and appurtenant to the Darland property…” (See Docs filed with Kittitas County Superior Court in Case No. 04 – 2 – 00411 – 2 viz. 6.8 & 6.11)

When is Darland telling the truth – When is he not? Does Darland even know the difference?

Darland’s fraudulent seller’s misrepresentations to the public:

Exhibits 12 & 13: In Exhibit 13 Darland states to the public from whom he is seeking offers: “The current owner spent the four intervening years resolving outstanding legal, water, sewer and access issues which were precluding submission of official plans for development of the site. The project is now ready to proceed towards implementation”

Did SPUD ever know, that as of 2007 Darland had resolved all the issues Darland refers to above?

The question begs being asked: Was Darland intentionally misleading the public at large through his seller’s false and fraudulent representations? A Mail from Darland’s neighbor and close friend, William Popp would seem to provide the answer to the above question. Popp suggests that Darland was using that marketing ploy, his Blue Sky values and utterly false representations to lure Washington State entities such as WSDOT, DNR and CLC into paying him multi millions of dollars.

Popp qualified Darland’s web marketing as ‘clever test marketing!

At what fraudulent cost to the public, to Washington State entities and to me was Darland doing his so called 'clever test marketing'?

Note that in 2007 Darland was offering to the public encumbered land for sale which he did not own free and clear and could not have delivered. Darland has signed a Quit Claim Deed over to me for 26 acres of the land he is fraudulently offering to sell to the public.

Who wants to trust such a character and enter into any kind of an agreement with somebody with such a proven fraudulent track record?

(Note: If wanted, the originals mails referred to and sent by Darland to attorney Nicholson and myself can be forwarded and made available as additional exhibits)

As an additional kick for Steve Berman, I am attaching Darland’s characterization of the settlement Darland entered into in the Digital systems case in 1993. (See Exhibits 19 & 20) Please compare exhibit 19 to exhibit 20. Does that comparison of what actually occurred in the Digital Systems case settlement as opposed to Darland’s version in his proposed answers to SPUD Interrogatories confirm Darland to be a compulsive liar or not? Was the settlement paid mostly by the insurance company or did Digital suffer a net loss for its first quarter earnings as a result of settling that claim?

Likewise, for the fun of it, I am attaching Darland’s thoughts and comments concerning SPUD Commissioners, Manager and Attorney as addressed to attorney Nicholson on various dates. (See exhibit 21, 22 & 23) Coming from Darland that correspondence should cause a good laugh!

Interestingly Doug Nicholson always resisted attempts by Darland to file charges of fraud against Terry Lenihan. Was it because Nicholson truly thought Darland’s haranguing about Lenihan was off the wall or was it because Nicholson and Lenihan’s fathers were great golfing buddies?

After six years of intense pain and suffering during which I have shown much restraint and patience, this is the first of four bombs I intend to drop on Michael L. Darland. The three others will be addressed to different forums.

It will be interesting to see how Darland executes his threat to get any Court in America to restrain me from filing charges of perjury, fraud and corruption against him or to widely publish my opinion of who is Michael L. Darland!

Indeed, it looks like I should contemplate adding ‘Intimidation’ to my list of charges against Michael L. Darland. I just heard from Brian Dorsey that Michael L. Darland is threatening to sue me for defamation and that he will be seeking a restraining order against me. Darland must be trying to underscore the saying: “Truth hurts’. I hope for his sake that by the time he is done, his defamation suit will have also underscored the other saying: “The greater the truth, the greater the libel.”

At any and all cost, the truth deserves to be widespread in order to safeguard the welfare of all.

The more the truth hurts, the greater the chance for contrition and a redeeming change of heart.

Only cowards resort to restraining orders. It is a vain attempt at concealing their true identity.

White collar repeated offenders ought to face the limelight.

Granting them a restraining order would be equal to granting the likes of Michael L. Darland a passport to go on defrauding their future victims.

Ruined by Michael L. Darland some six years ago, let’s see what Darland will get to collect, if anything, other than the 26 acres he has been intent of defrauding me of since March 2006 after learning I had cancer !

Some men make money. But some money has not made a man out of Michael L. Darland.

If I succeed to prevent Michael L. Darland from defrauding, corrupting & ruining just one more person, my efforts and my courageous violation of a restraining order sought by Darland to help conceal the truth about him will all have been well worth it regardless of any personal cost to me.

To all parties concerned, I hope you find this Brief helpful in your dealings with Michael L. Darland. Yours truly, Louis Leclezio. All Exhibits referred to above can be reviewed:

Snocadia Exhibits

Exhibit 1: Settlement owners defined Oct'03

Exhibit 2: Darland.Settlement.Draft.Owners defined 011405

Exhibit 6: Snocadia RPC affecting Nicholson vs Mallove

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Snocadia - 76 Acres on Snoqualmie Pass - Washington State

2008-09-25T19:07:00.000-07:00

Copy of a letter addressed on September 25, 2008 to various parties with an interest in 76 acres on Gold Creek. Gold Creek is off I-90 at Exit 54 on top of Snoqualmie Pass along the Washington State Cascade Range.

Dear Honorable Judge,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Re Case # 04-2-00411-2 Kittitas County Superior Court – My intent to withdraw as a joint plaintiff from existing Settlement Agreement by December 2008 and my future options in the Case.

At the time of my mail to you dated September 17, 2008, one of my attorneys, Brian Dorsey asked me to submit a proposal to sell my interest to Darland. I understand that with a conciliatory proposal from me in hand, my other attorney, Doug Nicholson attempted to reason with Darland and help him come to his senses.

In the face of an insulting response from Darland which ‘de facto’ devalues our individual stake in the land and our joint interest in the Settlement Agreement in addition to my personal 21 year involvement with this property - More on that subject in the near future - I wish to inform you as follows.

On or about September 30, 2005, a Settlement Agreement was reached and entered into between SPUD as Defendant and Michael and Myrna Darland and Louis Leclezio as Plaintiffs. Darlands and I were represented by attorneys Doug Nicholson, Jim McBride and Brian Dorsey. In December 2008 a time extension granted in December 2007 to give all parties more time to fulfill the terms of the said Settlement Agreement will come up for review.

Background History:

On June 6, 2003, I assigned my interest in some 76 acres to Michael Darland and his wife subject to the terms and conditions contained in the attached agreement (1).

One of the conditions under which I assigned my interest in the land together with the water and sewer hook ups that I had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for, (Attached doc.2) was that I would receive some 26 acres together with 34% (thirty four percent) of all benefits/proceeds obtained as a result of any successful action against SPUD once certain conditions were fulfilled. (See attached agreement (3) drafted by Darland and signed by Darland and I in front of a notary on November 5, 2004)

At the time we were to commence an action against SPUD, our attorneys, McBride, Dorsey and Nicholson opined that it was critical for me to act as a plaintiff in the case due to very specific promises made to me by Mr. Richard Kloss, the Snoqualmie Pass Water and Sewer District representative. See Kloss Declaration (4). Our attorneys believed that those guarantees made solely to me set our case apart from cases precedent viz. Funk, where the Courts had ruled that a District could not be held bound to reserve hook ups on the shelf ‘ad vitam eternam’ for developers just because they had paid for hook ups under ULIDs.

Firmly believing and understanding that Darland would assume all legal costs in our joint action against SPUD and that Darland would thereafter and/or as a result of a settlement, transfer the 26 acres together with 34% (thirty four percent) of the benefits resulting from any settlement over to me, I agreed to join in the case as a plaintiff.

Finally, after months of sparring in Kittitas County Superior Court, a Settlement Agreement was drafted with much input from Darland and presented to me for my signature.

On September 28, 2005 I wrote the attached letter (5) to attorneys Dorsey and Nicholson.

Upon receiving the letter both attorneys Dorsey and Nicholson together with Darland put untold pressure on me to sign the Settlement Agreement ‘as is’! They assured me that if the terms of the Settlement Agreement could not be fulfilled, all parties would be back in Court seeking damages to be shared as provided in my agreement of November 5, 2004 with Darland or we would sell the property and the proceeds would be split according to the same agreed to ratio.

Both attorneys Dorsey and Nicholson guaranteed that there was ‘no way, I could ever lose my interest and that if Darland ever tried to worm his way out of our agreements, they would testify in Court if need be as to the additional verbal guarantees Darland gave them that I would get all my benefits in due course.

Note that over the years my previous partners and I had paid close to $500,000 in assessments, interest and penalties for water and sewer hook ups not counting lost interest to date! (Doc. 2.)

Furthermore please note that in contemplating the law suit, Darland wanted to piggyback on my $6 million claim for damages against the District. The District had misrepresented the status of my water and sewer hook ups to Trendwest, a ready willing and able buyer. (See Moyer Affidavit attached hereto (6).

On or around September 30, 2005, SPUD, Darland and I signed a Settlement Agreement. It superseded certain terms and conditions of the past agreements entered into between Darland and I. (See attached Settlement Agreement (7). A signed copy can be obtained from our attorneys McBride, Nicholson and Dorsey or from SPUD attorney, Dan Mallove, Esq.

At the time Darland and I started the law suit against the District, Darland and I had anticipated that my fast declining health might preclude me from actively participating in the law suit and the finalization process.

Hence the Settlement Agreement provided for Darland to get actively involved and Darland assured all parties that he would play a leading role in fulfilling the terms of the agreement. Hoping that Darland could be trusted, our mutual agreements provided that should I die prematurely, my heirs, successors and or assigns would benefit from any positive results flowing from our endeavors in court or out of court regardless of the extent of my personal involvement. I spent months regardless of my poor health, preparing Darland for the case and furnishing him with all information and documents on hand to facilitate his task.

Unfortunately shortly after we signed the Settlement Agreement, our worst fears were confirmed. I sought medical help and I was diagnosed with a cancer that had progressed over at least the past five years. It necessitated cancer surgery in March 2006 followed by a debilitating chemotherapy treatment after which I developed heart problems. I urgently need to take care of that NOW!

But! Most regrettably, immediately upon being advised of my medical condition,
Darland became intent to capitalize on my unfortunate circumstances.

Today, Darland appears to believe that just because I am sick, he can unilaterally and arbitrarily decide that all of his commitments and promises to me are worthless and carry no water.
Indeed, I learnt that some time in October or November 2007, Darland published a site on the web claiming: “The current owner spent the four intervening years resolving outstanding legal, water, sewer and access issues which were precluding submission of official plans for development of the site. The project is now ready to proceed toward implementation.”
Thus Darland asserts on ‘his’ Snocadia (a name I chose for ‘our’ project) site, that he alone
owns all the land, all the water and sewer hook ups together with any and all of the other
benefits that flowed from our joint Settlement Agreement with SPUD.

Link to ‘Snocadia’ as published by Darland on the web: http://www.snocadia.com/index.html

Since I found that out, I made numerous appeals to attorneys McBride, Nicholson and Dorsey to get Darland to live up to our agreements and to transfer the 26 acres plus record my 34% interest in the Settlement Agreement with SPUD.

To date, all attempts have remained unsuccessful.

Therefore, prior to the Settlement Agreement between SPUD, Darland and I coming up for review in December 2008, I wish to notify all interested parties as to my options should my attorneys McBride, Dorsey and Nicholson fail to get Darland to live up to his verbal, written and signed undertakings to me.

My possible options:

1). Allow the Settlement to lapse and go back to Court. This is what Darland, Dorsey and Nicholson represented to me we would do if any and or all parties were unable to fulfill the terms of the Settlement Agreement. Note that at the time Darland, Dorsey and Nicholson exercised untold pressure on me to sign the Settlement Agreement based on the above option.
2). Sue Darland for misrepresentations to me and for mishandling his duties under the Settlement Agreement.
3). Sue Darland for squashing my interest as a minority interest holder in the Settlement Agreement (34% interest only) while concurrently publicly misrepresenting his stake in said Settlement Agreement.
4). Sue Darland for failing to transfer to me the fair and just compensation I bargained for and Darland and I agreed to. Having received less than fair value for my interest, I would seek to declare the assignment of all of my rights pertaining to the 76 acres to Darland null & void.
5). Sue Darland for my health problems and pain and suffering over the last 3 years. Note that I delayed attending to my health and waited for Darland to be satisfied with the outcome of the law suit against the District before taking undergoing scans and obtaining medical help. I stupidly placed duty ahead of self. Where has that led me…? I was urged to keep going by Darland who repeatedly promised that he would take care of all my medical bills as soon as the case against the District was won or was settled!
6). Partner up with another interested party to pursue my claims for various damages.

Proposed Solution:

If attorneys’ opinion hold, and indeed Darland has no case against SPUD without me as a joint plaintiff, SPUD, WSDOT and Land Conservancy Groups could come together to buy my interest in 26 acres of the property and settle my claim for damages as a plaintiff in Case # 04-2-00411-2 in Kittitas County Superior Court for the sale I lost to Trendwest.

What is my interest worth?

Suffice to say that in 2003, my partners were content to sell their 50% share in the property and the hook ups for $700,000 (seven hundred thousand dollars). At the time my attorneys McBride and Nicholson and my accountants analyzed my personal investment of time and money in the property and in the sewer and water assessments. They recommended that I retain at least 1/3rd of the property together with at least 34% of the water and sewer hook ups. They concluded that the value of the above in addition to my potential to collect damages based on the $6 million offer of Trendwest could far exceed $700,000.

Today, in exchange for a fair, just and equitable compensation for my 21 years involvement and investment in this property and project, I would agree to dismiss the lawsuit against SPUD claiming damages. I would concurrently also forego my financial investment (exceeding a million dollars with interest to date) in assessments, interest and penalties for the water and sewer hook ups.

If nothing else, for health reasons alone I will be reasonable.

In my humble opinion this would create a ‘win-win’ situation for all parties.

Darland could get to keep all of the land he now claims that he alone owns with his wife free and clear of any commitments in spite of all written agreements and Darland’s answer to interrogatories in this very case. (See Attachment 9)

Should attorneys McBride, Nicholson and Dorsey’s opinion hold firm, SPUD would be free of any further liability for damages or burden to furnish the guaranteed additional water/sewer hook ups Kloss had guaranteed to me that the District would deliver to my property line at no extra cost to me.

WSDOT, SPUD and Land Conservancy groups would not have to come up with the millions of dollars claimed through ‘blue sky’ by Darland to the detriment of taxpayers.

On another note I would like to set the record straight regarding a letter Darland addressed to Mr. Darryl Piercy, Director of the Kittitas County Community Development Services. (see attachment 8)

The 1987, PUD that Darland refers to in his letter of May 7, 2008 was obtained by James Platt and me after we testified in front of the Kittitas County board. That 1987 PUD certainly made no provision for the kind of development Darland now proposes as ‘blue sky’ on the ‘Snocadia’ web site with respect to the whole of the 76 acres including the 26 acres now in dispute, that Darland still owes to me. Should the county wish me to provide further details, I will be glad to do so.

Incidentally it occurs to me that the water and sewer hook ups are vested in promises made to me by Kloss and that without the hook ups or a PUD in place, the 20’ easement access to the 76 acres is more than adequate.

Neither SPUD nor WSDOT nor the Environmental Groups should have any further concerns regarding easement condemnations or disturbing meaningful development on that property.

In ending I wish to thank the Honorable Judge Michael B. Cooper for having always given me a fair hearing and safeguarding my interests in the past according to the law throughout my 21 year saga around this property.

Over the last 21 years, I have paced every inch of that land and observed and photographed much endangered species. I noted that Darland, in his ‘blue sky’ marketing efforts, on ‘his’ Snocadia web site, is using, among others, one of my pictures of the bull trout that I photographed on August 10, 2004 swimming peacefully in Gold Creek. (Attachment 10) I have other pictures of wild ducks, bald eagles and hawks, a centuries old cedar tree taken on site if interested.

I look forward to your input and suggestions. Contact: snocadia@gmail.com

Yours truly,

Louis Leclezio.

Snocadia - Snoqualmie Pass - Washington Cascade Range

2008-09-23T03:45:00.000-07:00

Snocadia off I-90 along Gold Creek on top of Snoqualmie Pass in the Washington State Cascade Range offers a paradise like environment in its pristine natural state.
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