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Arizona Pedophile Targets Modesto Businesses By Suing For Disability Discrimination
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http://weaselzippers.us/197549-arizona-pedophile-targets-modesto-businesses-by-suing-for-disability-discrimination/
Each year since 2001, except when incarcerated, Robert McCarthy has left his Arizona home for short trips to California. That’s where the money is when you want to sue for disability discrimination.
McCarthy is a 59-year-old pedophile who stole his dead brother’s identity to illegally obtain food stamps and disability payouts, and to keep the alimony flowing from his ex-wife. He also posed as his brother in suing 57 California businesses before he was caught and sent to prison for fraud and sex crimes.
As he has done in numerous other California communities before and since, McCarthy rolled through Modesto, Ceres and Turlock on a four-day trip in May 2013, spending $500 on hotel rooms, alcohol, an ashtray and other items. Six months later, he sued 13 of the places he’d visited, saying they did not accommodate him and his wheelchair.
He passed through Merced County in January 2013, staying in an Atwater hotel and buying a quart of motor oil at a Merced Buick dealership. Three months later, he sued both businesses. He also sued a Los Banos hotel and a Merced restaurant on other occasions.[...]
McCarthy’s San Diego attorney, David C. Wakefield, said such lawsuits are “noble efforts” to help the disabled and criticized media for having “a bias towards the business community.” His office had filed McCarthy’s lawsuits using the identity of McCarthy’s late brother 13 years ago, and Wakefield is accused of fraud in an unrelated civil lawsuit for suing on behalf of allegedly blind and wheelchair-reliant clients.
Wakefield’s former partner, Theodore Pinnock, signed some of McCarthy’s early lawsuits, before McCarthy was convicted in 2004 on theft and child pornography charges and sent to prison for 14 months. Pinnock later was disbarred for pocketing money that should have gone to a disabled child client.
Via MODBEE
http://weaselzippers.us/197549-arizona-pedophile-targets-modesto-businesses-by-suing-for-disability-discrimination/
Each year since 2001, except when incarcerated, Robert McCarthy has left his Arizona home for short trips to California. That’s where the money is when you want to sue for disability discrimination.
McCarthy is a 59-year-old pedophile who stole his dead brother’s identity to illegally obtain food stamps and disability payouts, and to keep the alimony flowing from his ex-wife. He also posed as his brother in suing 57 California businesses before he was caught and sent to prison for fraud and sex crimes.
As he has done in numerous other California communities before and since, McCarthy rolled through Modesto, Ceres and Turlock on a four-day trip in May 2013, spending $500 on hotel rooms, alcohol, an ashtray and other items. Six months later, he sued 13 of the places he’d visited, saying they did not accommodate him and his wheelchair.
He passed through Merced County in January 2013, staying in an Atwater hotel and buying a quart of motor oil at a Merced Buick dealership. Three months later, he sued both businesses. He also sued a Los Banos hotel and a Merced restaurant on other occasions.[...]
McCarthy’s San Diego attorney, David C. Wakefield, said such lawsuits are “noble efforts” to help the disabled and criticized media for having “a bias towards the business community.” His office had filed McCarthy’s lawsuits using the identity of McCarthy’s late brother 13 years ago, and Wakefield is accused of fraud in an unrelated civil lawsuit for suing on behalf of allegedly blind and wheelchair-reliant clients.
Wakefield’s former partner, Theodore Pinnock, signed some of McCarthy’s early lawsuits, before McCarthy was convicted in 2004 on theft and child pornography charges and sent to prison for 14 months. Pinnock later was disbarred for pocketing money that should have gone to a disabled child client.
