Will Courthouse Shenanigans Ever End?

LIBERTY, December 14, 2010 - An interesting legal action has been filed in State District Court in Jefferson County by Beaumont Attorneys Reaud, Morgan & Quinn LLP.

The action seeks to have the court order that Liberty County Judge, Phill Fitzgerald’s secretary, Lisa Fregia and Liberty Attorney Mark Beausoleil give depositions as to their knowledge about libelous statements made about petitioner during calendar year 2010, according to court documents.

The action also claims that, Beausoleil and Fregia may have knowledge regarding fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud against Reaud Morgan & Quinn LLP.

The suit also claims that the court is the proper venue to hear this action because a substantial part of the acts or omissions made the basis of legal action and damages suffered by Petitioner, took place in Jefferson County.

This action is being brought to the court to investigate a potential claim by Reaud, Morgan & Quinn.

So the real question at this point is, what incident involving Reaud Morgan & Quinn, Liberty County Courthouse people,,that occurred substantially in Jefferson County happened in 2010, that would give rise to the legal action filed by Reaud Morgan & Quinn, LLP?

In all likelihood one incident that would provide a possible but speculative explanation for the legal actoin would be an incident that occurred shortly before the Republican Primary in the Spring of this year where it was alleged that 253rd District Court Judge, Chap Cain’s mail at the courthouse was tampered with.

Liberty PD investigated the incident and later turned all of their information over to Postal Authorities for continued investigation.

What we do know is this.

A check for a political campaign contribution to District Judge Chap Cain’s campaign arrived at the Liberty County Courthouse before the Republican Primary Election in the spring of this year.

Lisa Fregia sorts and distributes the mail at the Liberty County Courthouse.

The check for Judge Cain’s campaign was in a standard window envelope and was from Beaumont Attorneys Reaud Morgan & Quinn.

With some manipulation of the envelope the written amount on the check could be seen through the window in the window envelope. That written amount was $6,500 dollars.

What could not be seen without opening the envelope was the numeric amount written on the check on the far right side. That numeric amount was $6,000 dollars.

When Judge Cain received the letter and opened it, he immediately realized that a simple clerical error had been made in making out the check. He contacted the attorney’s who sent the check and they replaced the original check with a new one that was correctly written with $6,000 dollars as both the written and numeric amounts on the check. Judge Cain included this contribution made by Reaud Morgan and Quinn on his campaign finance reports for the Republican Primary Election.

The maximum amount that someone may contribute to the Campaign of a District Judge by law is $6,000 dollars. But remember, the only thing that could be seen through the window of the envelope was the written amount of the original check which was $6,500.

Based on this information person or person’s unknown created an anonymous document accusing and slandering Judge Cain and others concerning illegal campaign contributions and accusing them of wrongdoing. Investigation revealed that this document was distributed to all sorts of persons in Liberty and Chambers Counties including members of the news media from a FAX machine at a public, office services store in Beaumont, TX. Obviously someone had tampered with Judge Cain’s mail at the courthouse and with only half the story, or the story as they thought it to be, manufactured the document that was FAXED from Beaumont in an attempt to hurt Judge Cain’s chances in the Primary Election.

So how does Mark Beausoleil come into being a party to the legal action filed in Beaumont by Reaud Morgan & Quinn LLP?

There is no official public knowledge as to why Mark Beausoleil is being requested to give a deposition, unless Reaud Morgan & Quinn have information that as of yet is not publicly available.

We’ll just have to see just how all this pans out.

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