Indiana Recently Honored Paralegals, becuase now what I did to lose my law license is okay? You Can’t Make This S**t Up

A TROUBLING INDIANA BAR ASSOCIATION RECENT SOCIAL MEDIA POST

NYC – Introduction of Newest HE Journalist and His Opinions (Part 2 of a 3-Part Introduction Article Series by Doug Bernacchi, MBA, JD, proudly suspended former 27-yr. Indiana lawyer. Part 3 of 3 will be published by Juneteeth and will discuss a related topic. See https://www.hoosierenquirer.com/post/the-indiana-supreme-court-currently-has-no-african-american-justices-while-the-indiana-bar-associat)

On May 29th, a so-called “Paralegal Appreciation Luncheon” occurred in Indianapolis. How festive! How thoughtful, not; But You Can’t Make This S**t Up. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ, RE-READ AND SHARE THIS TRUE STORY OF INDIANA INJUSTICES.

Where was the Indiana Bar when I got railroaded out of the practice of law in Indiana in 20167 for hiring a paralegal? Crickets/silent by and with intent. They're all afraid they could be targeted next. It is a shameful process of chilling legel innovation and silencing opposition.

Don’t tell me the Indiana Bar, speaks for the legal profession in Indiana or care about the well-being of their bar members. The don't care.

I was a member the bar for years, one of them, and I was active and a sustaining member.

I practiced law for 27 years. Crickets, and now, it is okay what I did?

Inbar.org could have cared less about justice for one of their members.

If they can turn a blind eye to what occurred to me, and they did, or if Chief Justice Loretta Rush and her Indiana Supreme Court are able to do what they did, no one should ever go to law school or waste their work years as an Indiana lawyer.

SEE https://www.hoosierenquirer.com/post/revisiting-a-questionable-ethics-case-v-former-hoosier-lawyer-doug-bernacchi

In the law in Indiana, it’s every man for himself, since they seem unconcerned with the struggles full-time, career male lawyers face. Women may care about other women, but they give a rat’s behind about what happens to male lawyers.

They go crickets.

Male lawyers in Indiana are paying for the sins of the fathers and grandfathers, and it is wrong. No male should ever go to law school and spend a career fighting courts against women lawyers in front of women judges. The system is broken, and Loretta Rush broke it. Some have called this reality in many of Indiana’s 92 counties (about 91 county courthouses) a “lesbian mafia.” They question if the law has gone too far?

I can tell you a female hearing officer ruled in my case wrongly and disallowed me due process, allowing perjury unrebutted as to the only measure of damages, a required element of every legal dispute, except in my case where justice was being rigged by a complacent Judge Sheila Moss of Lake County, Indiana. She refused to allow testimony and witnesses, even in rebuttal. Did any law school teach that was legal? Hell no, it’s not, except in Indiana’s bogus legal ethics tribunals overseen by no one with a clue, perspective, common sense, or legal ethics. These people in charge in Indiana aren’t just illegal; they are criminals, and THE FBI IN INDIANA IS AWOL.

So, where do the paralegals and their nice appreciation luncheon come in, you ask? Well, let me quote the completely fake news media called The Indiana Lawyer:

“A northern Indiana attorney who made false statements to a trial court then harassed his client in an attempt to get her to dismiss a disciplinary complaint against him has been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana for at least one year. In a Monday (October 16, 2017) disciplinary opinion in In the Matter of: Doug Bernacchi, 46S00-1512-DI-694, Michigan City attorney Doug Bernacchi was hired by a grandmother to represent her in a child support case against her grandson’s parents, including her adult son. Bernacchi agreed to take the case for an $800 retainer, which the grandmother was instructed to pay in full to Mario Sims, an independent contract paralegal.” (Emphasis added.)

Mario Sims was never allowed to testify.

You Can’t Make This S**t Up. They knew the truth but didn’t want to hear or make a record of it. That is not a legal system.

In Indiana, wasn't a legal system, but an illegal system that I encountered, and Paralegal Sims, who clearly was once also railroaded himself, only helped me on less than 1% of my client files. Occassionally, Sims and Associates Paralegal Services located on the Westside of South Bend was contracted just like a ND law student when they weren't available becuse of finals or out of school for the summer. Importantly, none of the other lawyers and judges for whom Mario Sims worked regularly as a contract paralegal were ever charged or prosecuted—only Doug Bernacchi, when he was the GOP candidate for St. Joseph County Circuit Court Judge. See https://www.hoosierenquirer.com/post/corruption-unveiled-indiana-ex-cop-tim-corbett-s-sinister-plot-framing-innocents-hunting-whistle

It is well-known that the SB police tapes sealed from public airing by an illegal court order contain discussions of the framing of criminals, including the framing of Mario Sims for raping his own wife, a white democrat activist, when he was running for mayor as black man on the Republican ticket against former Governor and then-South Bend Mayor Joe Kernan.

Mario's exwife later recanted before her death, but he remains a convicted felon who served a long ISP prison sentence where he studied law everyday in the law library for a decade, making him a knowledgeable and able paralegal after serving is debt to society for seeking public office, being the wrong color, marring an angry white female liberal and facing off with ruthless Joe Kernan. Lt. Gov. Kernan succeeded Gov. Obannon after he died in a Chicago hotel room, before losing his bid for election to Mitch Daniels.

Indiana politics demand an FBI probe. It is also rumored that sealed tapes discuss ther murder of that former Governor's mistriss who's body was found in a dumpster in South Bend.

Selective justice is Lawfare, court abuse and a weaponization of the legal ethics system.

But first of all, please know, I never harassed any client AND certainly not one who had filed what seemed to be a completely frivolous and factually inaccurate Request for Investigation against me.

In fact, the exact RFI was investigated and dismissed, but reopened when I ran for Judge in South Bend for the court with jurisdiction over the highly controversial South Bend Police Tapes, which must conceal something serious to remain sealed from the public and avoid all open document requests for over a decade. There is a web of cover-ups and corruption, and that much is beyond clear. And there is no FBI, no DOJ, or oversight of any kind.

This finding that I harassed someone is incredibly false. I was harassed by her, illegally taped, and extorted for money by the Michigan-based client regularly, and the Commission told me to refund her $800.00 the first time she started this practice, even though she had never paid me a dime, not any retainer as she had promised. She offered me $1000 to help her, and I said, “$850.00 is fair.”

Until this day, I have no idea where the “$800.00” number came from. Regardless, the facts never mattered to the Indiana Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Commission or the SCOIN.

In fact, I stopped taking Ms. Perry's calls, but she had already recorded some --nothing that hurt me the least- I was kind. Her recordings were admitted but were in violation of Michigan wiretapping laws, and I suspect that she was told to call and illegally record me by Aaron Johnson, a young Black Indiana DEI lawyer, who was telling my other clients that I was racist and they should help him—since he, if investigating at all, had no evidence against me.

None did lie and help, except Sharon Perry who was driven to court and depositions and taken to breakfast, lunches, and likely had her rent paid, too. Instead, they told me, and one Black lady even signed an affidavit that he was suborning her perjury and being himself a racist. But he worked for, and still works for, the State of Indiana, somehow.

Second, I was hired by the grandmother, Sharon Brown Perry of Kalamazoo, MI, on an emergency basis to represent her son and get a continuance. She said that he would be held in contempt for failing to appear due to his suffering a disease called “sarcoidosis” (which he likely acquired from smoking drugs).

She blamed her grandson’s mother for ruining her son’s potential football career when she got pregnant, fought paternity, and only later took the child across the state line. I never saw in the files where she was even awarded custody of “J.P., a minor.” Ms. Perry was her son’s SSDI payee, and his bed was in her living room. She only wanted the 17-year-old grandson’s mother in jail, which had occurred 3 times already when I got involved. The mother was a nurse with 4-5 other children and a chronically ill first husband.

Why would she do this to me? I was told anonymously that Indiana was paying her rent in Kalamazoo, and I know that they drove her to testify against me in Crown Point when she would have never come on her own, having missed 2 hearings where she collected thousands of dollars.

She wasn’t credible or truthful, but for money/rent… okay. They used her, and I forgive her, too. The facts did not matter.

There was no investigation, or they would have known she lost her home before she hired me. It was not possible that I caused her to lose her home, which the poor lady shared with her grandson, as Rush wrote in the order she signed on October 16, 2017.

But if you now want to try to support the court’s view, give the dumbest CJ the benefit of the doubt. Well, you would have to believe, like Rush must—somehow—that Ms. Perry was hiring me to collect child support from her critically ill son or put him in jail for nonpayment of the $25.00 the Social Security Administration would allow to be garnished from his disability. Is the Indiana Supreme Court that crazy? Yes, they were and are. I have been canceled not for one (1) year, but for 8 years so far.

The system is so broken. Exclusively broken without anyone’s oversight by the other branches. Why doesn’t the Governor file a Writ of Mandamus? Because, like former Gov. Holcomb, who kissed Rush’s backside, Governor Braun may also prove to bow to Rush or be just be less-learned elected "leader." Time will tell.

I did my best, but she never came to court, nor did he, and also failed to make any agreed-to meeting time, lied to me, and failed to appear in court even though I served her with the subpoena that the 4D child support prosecutor in St. Joseph County served on me at my law office for her.

If you aren’t a lawyer and don’t understand, that’s fine; the Justice didn’t understand either. What is clear is that it’s very likely that I was being set up by this awful “client” who never came to court and eventually told me to withdraw as it was all her fault. But I got her money… lots of it.

I had gotten Ms. Perry, in just 8 short weeks after filing my appearance on May 25, 2013, and withdrawing on July 31, 2013, after she told me to withdraw rather than pay me. It was an old 17-year-old juvenile case, and I got Ms. Perry $8,000.00 in back child support, and she never paid me or Mario Sims or anyone.

One of her prior lawyers, a Democrat Party activist, had told her to call me and told her what to say. Her RFI/complaint form was ghostwritten for her.

In the past, she had filed bankruptcy on legal fees owed to her prior lawyers.

She never paid any paralegal or me for my services. And I never met her, but in the end, Ms. Perry, not even an Indiana citizen, took my luxury home, my cars, my law office, and my Indiana, Illinois, and Utah licenses, and my legal career from me, as well as my impeccable reputation.

Fair, right?

Courts are about fairness, but not in Indianapolis, Indiana. My case has eroded public trust with many lawyers and my clients who knew me.

No one can respect the creeps in power in Indiana anymore after my case. Don’t hold your breath, either, for them to act to correct their seriously costly errors, not in Indiana. They are that mean, stupid, and unfair. But God knows.

The judges will be judged. I forgive them while I spread awareness of their ways.

Sharon Brown Perry was one of many, many thousands of clients, and I was canceled without review or hearing on the merits. “Railroaded” out of business as a small-town lawyer in Indiana, wrongly.

Yes, Loretta Rush should be embarrassed. If she isn’t, she is a more awful human being than even her worst enemies can even imagine.

So, The Indiana Lawyer further also wrote on October 16, 2017, published before the Order was served on me, and within just minutes of the Order being issued (curious timing, right?):

“The high court then found Bernacchi violated six Indiana Professional Conduct Rules, including 1.1, 1.5(a), 5.3 and Guidelines 9.1, 5.4(a), and 8.4(d). Those rules relate to competent representation; collecting unreasonable fees; using a nonlawyer legal assistant who is not an employee; improperly sharing legal fees with a nonlawyer; and engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.” (Emphasis added.)

Clearly, I could not share nothing--in the way of a legal fee-- with anyone, not even a nonlawyer. It is impossible. I never shared a legal fee even with my wife or any nonlawyer. Clown's could do better Loretta Rush's high court. Look in the mirror if you want to see who is engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.

Truth can't do that ever.

Indianapolis is not an island of innovation. It is the capital of a corrupt state and an epicenter of governmental misinformation and propaganda, picked up by their controlled fake news media sources like The Indiana Lawyer, The South Bend Tribune, and Indianapolis Star.

When someone calls you incompetent, you must consider the source. I did, and I find them unworthy and unholy, and even much worse. Bless them. They can all shove my law license where the sun doesn’t shine, and they can twist on it. That is why you need to share these posts.

In contrast, HE is Indiana’s independent news source, and as a new HE journalist, it is intended to show why the Hoosier electorate needs to stop being sheeple and stop trusting the fake news sources and lawfare court orders. Lawyers are not whales; the public will fight to save the whales, but when you live in rural Indiana today and cannot find a lawyer when you need one, you know the consequences of the public’s silence.

I used a non-lawyer legal assistant who was not an employee, a “paralegal?” That is what I was prosecuted for? But wait, now other paralegals in the State of Indiana today get an appreciation luncheon from the Bar? It hardly seems fair, especially since the U.S. Constitution, which Indiana did not recognize in my case, allows me the Constitutional Right to Contract.

Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush not only needs to be very embarrassed, but she needs to resign/retire. Governor Braun needs to file a Writ of Mandamus in my case and others.

Oh yeah, $800.00 never even collected, then refunded—only in Indiana—is an “unreasonable legal fee” for two court appearances 30 miles away in a neighboring county court.

In NYC, where I am now on most days, $800.00 buys an associate lawyer for an hour, maybe.

You Can’t Make This S**t Up.

Vote with your feet like I did. Leave Indiana, too, like I did, and certainly, don’t ever let your children go to Indiana University Law Schools or Purdue Global Law School online.

If you are a lawyer, please learn from me and don’t waste your money paying bar dues to Inbar.org or get suckered into donating $500 a year to their Bar Foundation to be a Sustaining Member—so some paralegals can get a free lunch. It’s all a fraud. And that’s a fact.

Be well. This concludes Part II of my Introductory Series of Articles, and stay tuned for my next article No 3 in the series, which promises to even more of a Rush-embarrassing Moab Bombshell of TRUTH.