assertion_id,filing_id,assertion
717,43,"Pohl conspired with his wife Dona, paralegal Edgar Jaimes, and three Mississippi runners (Walker, Seymour, Ladner) to illegally solicit clients"
718,43,"Walker, Seymour, and Ladner hired other runners to go up and down streets knocking on doors to solicit BP clients for Pohl"
719,43,"Pohl paid Precision as much as $1,500 for every BP client obtained and referred to Pohl"
720,43,"For auto accident cases, Pohl paid runners as much as $7,500 per client plus up to 33% of attorney's fees on the back end"
721,43,"Walker considered himself 'a pass-through for barratry money' and Walker, Ladner, and Precision received over $5 million in barratry pass-through money"
722,43,"Pohl used Google Alerts to identify catastrophic accidents and dispatched runners to hospitals, homes, and funerals"
723,43,"Dona Pohl owned Helping Hands Financing, LLC (Texas), a sham lending company, and Jaimes ran day-to-day operations"
724,43,The GM Settlement Verification Team was formed to look like an official GM entity to trick victims into hiring Pohl
725,43,Santana testified Pohl told her minorities 'were especially vulnerable' since 'they tended not to know that the law prohibited barratry' and 'were easier to sign up'
726,43,"Pohl paid Santana $50,000 in cash delivered by Jaimes in three bags marked 'trick or treat' to sign a non-disclosure/gag agreement"
727,43,Santana testified she felt 'forced to sign' the agreement while 'under duress' and Jaimes told her to state she only received $100 nominal consideration
728,43,"Talley solicited over 20 auto accident cases and over 800 BP claims for Pohl, carrying up to $1,000 cash to pay victims"
729,43,Talley carried blank contracts to solicitations and followed a checklist instructing him to bring flowers to hospital visits (max $50) and ensure HH Texas funding schedule was properly filled out
730,43,"Talley was paid $1,400 plus expenses per auto accident case by Pohl through Walker's entities"
731,43,Over 400 illegally solicited clients contacted The Kassab Law Firm and requested representation
732,43,Kassab was required to notify the Texas State Bar pursuant to Rule 8.03 mandatory reporting duty
733,43,Pohl's lawsuit is characterized as 'frivolous and without merit' brought solely for retaliation and harassment
734,43,Kassab did not steal or purchase anything belonging to Pohl; Pohl is not the owner of documents received from Precision
735,43,Pohl abandoned all alleged documents and never requested their return from Kassab; documents still sit in a warehouse unattended
736,43,Pohl judicially admitted barratry is not legal malpractice and Discovery Rule does not apply to barratry claims
737,43,Kassab has been assigned barratry claims on behalf of 242 claimants as counterclaims
738,43,Shepherd may have intentionally failed to protect Pohl's interests in the Mississippi settlement to secure future lucrative employment representing Pohl
739,43,"Walker testified under oath that he, through Precision, owned all assets/property transferred to Favre and had legal right to sell them"