assertion_id,filing_id,assertion
124,7,"Pohl conspired with his wife Donalda Pohl, paralegal Edgar Jaimes, and three Mississippi runners (Walker, Seymour, Ladner) to illegally solicit clients through barratry"
125,7,"Walker, Ladner, and Precision Marketing received over $5 million in 'barratry pass-through money' from Pohl and other lawyers"
126,7,Walker testified the payments were 'clear to [him] it was barratry' and considered himself 'a pass-through for barratry money'
127,7,"Pohl used Google Alerts to identify accident victims and dispatched runners to hospitals, homes, and funerals to solicit clients"
128,7,"Runners used sham companies including Helping Hands Financing, Helping Hands Group, Helping Hands Financial, and GM Settlement Verification Team to disguise barratry"
129,7,"Pohl paid runners $300-$400 per BP client and up to $7,500 per auto accident client, plus 33% of legal fees on the back end"
130,7,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'
131,7,"Pohl paid Santana $50,000 cash delivered in bags marked 'trick or treat' to sign a gag agreement, and demanded she state she received only $100 nominal consideration"
132,7,Santana testified she signed the gag agreement under duress and was 'forced to sign' it
133,7,"Talley solicited over 20 auto accident cases and more than 800 BP claims for Pohl, carrying blank Pohl contracts to solicitations"
134,7,Talley was told by a 'lawyer or policeman' that 'it was against the law what [he] was doing' and Pohl responded 'you've just got to leave...some people you can't help'
135,7,Kassab obtained information from federal court public records (PACER) and from Precision Marketing/Favre
136,7,Kassab sent advertisement letters approved by the Texas State Bar to potential barratry victims
137,7,"Over 400 individuals responded and retained Kassab, who filed four separate barratry lawsuits in Harris County"
138,7,Kassab filed grievances against Pohl pursuant to Texas Disciplinary Rule 8.03
139,7,Pohl has judicially admitted in his petition that he sued Kassab because Kassab 'solicited clients/prospective clients [of Pohl's] to act as Plaintiffs ... to bring cases against Pohl'
140,7,Favre testified Precision Marketing's marketing lists 'were and are solely the work product and property of Precision [Marketing]'
141,7,Pohl's counsel Reynolds Frizzell previously attempted to sanction Kassab in the Gauthia matter (involving Arnold & Itkin as client)
142,7,Frizzell attempted to create a conflict of interest by filing a third-party petition in the 55th Judicial District; Judge Shadwick denied the motion
143,7,"Pohl testified in deposition that the basis of his claims occurred in 2014 when Kassab's 'crew' allegedly broke into his office in Gulfport, Mississippi"
144,7,Pohl admitted he knew of the conduct in 2014 but chose not to act because he 'wanted to spend time to reflect on it'
145,7,A Precision Marketing secretary told Pohl in 2014 that his clients were being diverted to other lawyers
146,7,"Pohl sued Precision Marketing in the Mississippi Litigation for conversion, fraud, and unjust enrichment and settled with prejudice on April 21, 2017"