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Courage-Speak with a member of your family-Where exactly would you have begun your search – Re: Private
“tRIP” sic – My mother Zena
Subject: “tRIP” [sic] – My mother Zena
Date: November 18, 2016 at 9:55:20 AM PST
To: raz elmaleh <raztrip@hotmail.com>
Cc: rest; Ayala Weisel – Israeli lawyer and Guardian of Zena Gevisser Zulman <ayala@ayalalaw.co.il>, Eli Symon – Co-executor of Alan Zulman’s and Zena Gevisser Zulman’s estates <symonadv@netvision.net.il>, “Deborah Sturman Esq. – replaced Kathy Gevisser Danziger as executor of Alan Zulman’s estate on Zulman’s death bed.” <sturman@sturman.ch>, “Shmuel Rabi -American-Israeli lawyer practising Jewish Law in Israel. Nephew of Deborah Sturman Esq.” <devora0527678711@gmail.com>, Kathy-Louise Gevisser danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>, Neil Gevisser <neil@rhymedisease.com>, Emma Gevisser <Emma@EmmaElliott.com>, Melvin Gevisser <mgevisser@sbcglobal.net>, david danziger <davidd@albi.com.au>, Debra Danziger <debra098@hotmail.com>, Rabbi Abner Weiss <rab.ab@verizon.net>, Rabbi Luke Ford – First to out South African-American Rabbi Abner Weiss <lukeisback@gmail.com>, mail_co3547449_2728286@chabad.org, Guy & Muhammad – Israeli pharmacist friends of Zena Ash Gevisser Zulman <guy@merkaha.co.il>, Nicole Zulman Sarembock <pijonic1@global.co.za>, Barry Solomon <barrysolomon11@gmail.com>, ralph.cilevitz@facebook.com, Sam Schaffer <sam.schaffer@telkomsa.net>, “The coupon clipper is the Jeffrey Jack The Ripper Essakow – co-owner of the Marc Rich and Co. Flower Hill Mall, Solana Beach, California” <jessakow@proteaproperties.com>, “Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah – Star of Emmanuel’s Gift produced by The Coupon Clipper is The Jeffrey Jack The Ripper Essakow. Emmanuel is a FB friend of Gary S. Gevisser” <emefpchal@yahoo.com>, Roy Essakow – Marc Rich Lieutenant <ressakow@email.msn.com>, “Robert Citizens against the J.Essakow-Marc Rich and company Flower Hill Malls Excessive Expansion Vicino Vicino” <rvicino@fractionalvillas.com>, gino <gino49@zahav.net.il>, mallorca agent <uncle@mweb.co.za>, pini <pinicoolshul@hotmail.com>, loula <loulamolfesis@supanet.com>, Wally Stiller <stiller@mweb.co.za>, Trevor Barrett <tbphoto@eurobell.co.uk>, “Terry Gevisser – Ex sister-in-law of Gary S. Gevisser” <mrsterryg@sbcglobal.net>, Susan Barrett <slr33@hotmail.com>, stephen grolnic <grolnic@attbi.com>, NSeymour <NSeymour@Scholastic.com>, Norrissk <norrissk@aol.com>, MIKE1COHEN <MIKE1COHEN@aol.com>, MrLu <ningbo@instrimpex.com.cn>, LindanCourt <LindanCourt@aol.com>, DaoComm <DaoComm@aol.com>, deniseskitchen <Deniseskitchen@easynet.co.uk>, GWerbel <GWerbel@aol.com>, HonestReporting <HonestReporting@hotmail.com>, INorris <INorris@aol.com>, Mervyn Shneier <blamshn@bigpond.com.au>, liana k <lianak8@hotmail.com>, Korrigan <korriganplace@saol.com>, Kerry Anderson Molfesis <kerrymolfesis@hotmail.co.uk>, katherine courts <ktcourts@hotmail.com>, Julius Zabow <jzabowca@global.co.za>, “Hedda Gevisser c/o Jonny NORRIS brother-in-law of Alan Zulman and former executive of the Frame Group South Africa.” <jonor7@bigpond.com>, Jewish Telegraph Group of Newspapers <mail@jewishtelegraph.com>, “Dr. Barry Molk MD.” <blmolk1@mac.com>, “Dr. Leizer Molk MD Molk MD” <leizermolk@aol.com>, Ivan Ferkolj <ivan.ferkolj@kclj.si>, israel wiesel <polegisr@netvision.net.il>, Harry Heller <harryheller26@hotmail.com>, greg kentros <kentros@ioa.forthnet.gr>, francis andrew correial <franciscorreial@onetel.co.uk>, ETHSTAN <ethstan@mweb.co.za>, esther francis correial <esthercorreial@btinternet.com>, Clarasol <clarasol@gibnet.gi>, Christine Prefontaine <designcult@earthlink.net>, “Dave Osh – former Israeli Fighter Pilot now working with Vistage and supporter of the BDS movement.” <osh.dave@gmail.com>, “Tomer Tene – IAF Lt. Colonel + organic produce farmer.” <tene.organi@gmail.com>, “Major Tuvia Friling – Israel Defense Force, Deputy Commander Golani Brigade, Professor Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Negev Desert, Israel – Author of ARROWS IN THE DARK” <friling@bgu.ac.il>, “Jonathan Cooke – British author and Israel tour guide.” <mail@jkcook.net>, Haneen Zoabi – Muslim Arab member of Israeli Knesset <hzoaby@knesset.gov.il>, liwan.nazareth@gmail.com, “righteous.nations@yadvashem.org.il” <righteous.nations@yadvashem.org.il>, “Kathryne Anderson – Council of Europe, Defender of Human Rights” <k.anderson@coe.int>, Alan Dershowitz – Harvard Law School <dersh@law.harvard.edu>, Noam Chomsky – I AM movie <chomsky@MIT.EDU>, “Matthew Margo – Senior attorney CBS – 60 Minutes.” <matthewmargo@aol.com>, “Rod Margo Esquire – FB friend of Gary Gevisser. Rod’s father, South African judge Cecil Margo Esq. wrote, at the request of Ben Gurion, the blueprint for what is today the brutally strong Israel Air Force.” <rdmargo@att.net>, “Dr. Rod Smith Phd – formerly of RAND Think Tank – Principal Waterstrategist.com – Facebook friend of GG and also present at the Wetherly Capital Group board meeting on Feb. 8, 2002 held in the corporate headquarters of Arden Realty, the largest REIT trading on the New York Stock Exchange before being bought out by General Electric.” <rsmith@stratwater.com>, “Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker; FB friend of Gary Gevisser” <kbabies1@aol.com>, “Chief Rabbi of the United States, Rabbi Capers Funnye – close cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama, and Facebook friend of GG.” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>, cc-Ahackner <ahackner@netactive.co.za>, Cc-Alanditz <mandm@global.co.za>, cc-Bubs <bubs@netvision.net.il>, cc-Clive Bernstein <iti04598@mweb.co.za>, Cc-Colin Puterman <bdfabric@iafrica.com>, Cc-Elaine Zulberg <Hbar4@aol.com>, Cc-Lframe <alana@netvision.net.il>, Cc-Michael Arinov <aronz@earthlink.net>, cc-paulClapper <clapper@maaganm.co.il>, cc-Saul Basckin <deputygm@peninsula.co.za>, cc-Saul levin <slevin@nepa.org.za>, cc-Sperling <sperling@iafrica.com>, ccGrahamkluk <gkluk@attglobal.net>, ccLhack <lhack@home.com>, cc-Bergermd <bergermd@aol.com>, cc-Spberman <spberman@sabje.co.za>, “Zena Badash-Ash Gevisser Zulman [May 30 1929 – ] c/o Arnold Pollak” <arnold@signforce.co.za>, “Julian. Barnes” <julian.barnes@latimes.com>, David Lazarus <dlaz551469@aol.com>, David Levy <Disch1000@aol.com>, “Jody Perling – another quiet classmate of Gary Gevisser and his cousin, tortured to death ANC armed wing member, Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]” <perlingc@mtrmls.com>, “Radiologist Dr. Peter Chait MD – FB friend of Gary Gevisser.” <peter.chait@rogers.com>, “Colin Schneiderman – another quiet classmate of Gary Gevisser and his cousin, tortured to death ANC armed wing member, Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]” <colbren@live.com>, South African Air Force-RAF Squadron Eleven Wing Commander Colin Sinclair + Natalie Sinclair <sinclaircn@telkomsa.net>, “Jeffrey R. Krinsk Esq.” <jrk@classactionlaw.com>, Laurie Black <LJBlack612@aol.com>, “Showley, Roger” <roger.showley@sduniontribune.com>, Sandie Lampe – Celebrity TV Dog Show Host – San Diego <slampe1@san.rr.com>, Trevor Noah – Daily Show <closedcaption@viacom.com>, “Tracy Tomson – classmate of Gary Gevisser and his cousin, tortured to death ANC armed wing member, Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]” <ttomson@beitler.com>, “Shaun Tomson – 1977 World Surfing Champion – went to same high school and studied economics at university with GG. Both our father’s played on the same junior high school rubgy team; Shaun’s father was an Allied tail-gunner during WW II and GG’s father was a Fighter-Bomber-Pilot completing 71 missions.” <shaun@solitudeclothing.com>, Great surfer Paul Tomson <surfdaddyus@yahoo.com>, john.podesta@gmail.com, “Jean Figadera – Aerobatics champion.” <jeanfigadere@hotmail.com>, Rafa Zulueta – Spanish Central Bank official <rafazulueta@gmail.com>, “Barrie Spero – served time in the South African Apartheid Regime’s notorious the notorious Greefswald camp overseen by infamous Jewish medical doctor, Dr. Aubrey Levin and where Spero once witnessed up close the presence of high ranking American military officers.” <barriespero@googlemail.com>, “South African-British solicitor Ray Oshry – classmate of Gary Gevisser and GG’s murdered cousin Sandy Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]. R. Oshry remains a FB friend of GG.” <ray.oshry@haroldbenjamin.com>, Annabel Linder – South African Radio Show Host and FB friend of Gary Gevisser <hosts@1485.org.za>, Jay Lawler <jlawler180@gmail.com>, Puppet Master <Mosdefbb575@gmail.com>, Dave Fifield – Gerhard <monkeyboy264@earthlink.net>, Malcolm Ness <malcolmnessarchitect@gmail.com>, “Rafael Adolf – Brazilian Radiologist practicing in Germany.” <rafadolf@hotmail.com>, Doctors Without Borders c/o Miriam Ross – Survival International Survival International <Mr@survival-international.org>, Joe Ash <20015068@worldonline.co.za>, contact@criirad.org, Natie Kirsh <brittl@global.co.za>, Galit Tassi <galit.tassi@gmail.com>, Office for the Israeli Department of Defense Attache Israeli Embassy Washington DC <Att-sec@israelemb.org>, Jo Becker – New York Times journalist – Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal <jbecker@nytimes.com>, “Terry Rosenberg – Director of Uranium One [2006-2010] which is controlled by Putin and owns 20% of the United States’ uranium reserves. Prior was the top dog of failed Jonathan Beare’s Prefcor-McCarthy Holding Group-Avenger before Brand Pretorius took over on October 1, 1999, the same day the epic Revlon Corporation class action lawsuit was filed; the same day Russian forces invaded Chechnya following Russian false flag operation in the heart of Moscow.” <terry@oakbrook.co.za>, Jonathan Beare – founder Investec <jbeare@iafrica.com>, Peter Schweizer c/o Eric Eggers <Eric.Eggers@g-a-i.org>, “Geoffrey Rothwell Phd – Principal Economist at De Beers-Barclays Bank controlled, US Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, headquartered in Paris, France. Former 27 year senior Stanford University lecturer.” <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org>, “Joe Grundfest – former Commissioner of the SEC and Stanford Law School, who wrote Gary Gevisser on April 23, 2002, Could I stop you?” <grundfest@stanford.edu>, “Diana Henriques – journalist New York Times – Big Jury Award in Injury Case Over Keyboards – December 10, 1996, whose name is mentioned along with Gary Gevisser in the APPLICATION OF LAW TO FACTS in US Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s decision to overturn landmark repetitive stress injury award in April 1997.” <dbhenriques@aol.com>, “Michael Strauss – International Monetary Fund – former student of Grundfest. Met Strauss on June 20, 2006 at bottom of zipline at Simatai Great Wall, China. Most shocked was Strauss to hear that DeBeers had established retail shops on US soil.” <mstrauss0@gmail.com>, “BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM: MICHAEL FORSYTHE” <mforsythe@bloomberg.net>, Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister of Israel <bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il>, Tzipora Malka Tzipi Livni <zlivni@knesset.gov.il>, “Aharon Barak – President of the Supreme Court of Israel [1995-2006]” <barak@idc.ac.il>, “Donald Trump c/o Claire, Republican National Committee” <email@gop.com>, British Embassy – Israel <enquiries.consular@fco.gov.uk>, Office of the Public Guardian – United Kingdom <OPGAXIS100RegisterSearches@ipublicguardian.gsi.gov.uk>, “Tony Leon – Fomer head of the South African Oppostion Party to the current ANC regime. Immediate past ANC South African Ambassador to Argentinia. Tony wrote praising obituaries for both Harry Oppenheimer [1908-2000] and David Gevisser [1926-2009]” <southafrica@bigmedia.co.za>, “Mark Gevisser – author of autobiography of Thabo Mbeki former President of South Africa. Mark Gevisser is the son of David Gevisser male heir of American-German Charles W. Engelhard Jr. assassinated by the Mossad on March 2 1971 and buried at St. Mary’s Abbey Church Morristown New Jersey” <mark@markgevisser.com>
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To the bright human future – : Was interested-Average after love-making – Re: Can we start over? – Fwd: your mother Zena Zulman
From: gg <gary@2facetruth.com>
Date: November 17, 2016 at 11:05:09 AM PST
To: Deborah_NY Sturman <sturman@sturman.ch>
Cc: rest; Shmuel Rabi -American-Israeli lawyer practising Jewish Law in Israel. Nephew of Deborah Sturman Esq.” <devora0527678711@gmail.com>, “Major Tuvia Friling – Israel Defense Force, Deputy Commander Golani Brigade, Professor Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Negev Desert, Israel – Author of ARROWS IN THE DARK” <friling@bgu.ac.il>, Israeli judge Yocheved Greenvald-Rand <petachtikva@rbc.gov.il>, Galit Tassi <galit.tassi@gmail.com>, Kerry Anderson Molfesis <kerrymolfesis@hotmail.co.uk>, Guy & Muhammad – Israeli pharmacist friends of Zena Ash Gevisser Zulman <guy@merkaha.co.il>, “Esther K. Ilan” <esther@eki-law.com>, ורדה אפרת <vardaef5@gmail.com>, “Donald Trump c/o Claire, Republican National Committee” <email@gop.com>, John Boehner c/o Eric Cantor c/o Hillary Bill-De Beers-Rhodes Scholar-Marc Rich Clinton <Senator@clinton.senate.gov>, “Dr. Barry Molk MD.” <blmolk1@mac.com>, Bmoshal <bmoshal@brait.com>, brian.molk@colorado.edu, Mossad <mohr@tehila.gov.il>, “Geoffrey Rothwell Phd – Principal Economist at De Beers-Barclays Bank controlled, US Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, headquartered in Paris, France. Former 27 year senior Stanford University lecturer.” <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org>, “McKirdy, Euan” <euan.mckirdy@cnn.com>, Jo Becker – New York Times journalist – Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal <jbecker@nytimes.com>, “Terry Rosenberg – Director of Uranium One [2006-2010] which is controlled by Putin and owns 20% of the United States’ uranium reserves. Prior was the top dog of failed Jonathan Beare’s Prefcor-McCarthy Holding Group-Avenger before Brand Pretorius took over on October 1, 1999, the same day the epic Revlon Corporation class action lawsuit was filed; the same day Russian forces invaded Chechnya following Russian false flag operation in the heart of Moscow.” <terry@oakbrook.co.za>, Jonathan Beare – founder Investec <jbeare@iafrica.com>, Peter Schweizer c/o Eric Eggers <Eric.Eggers@g-a-i.org>, “Dr. Laura Family” <DrLauraFamily@drlaura.com>, “Oprah. com” <Membership@oprah.com>, Sunday@cbsnews.com, Jay Lawler <jlawler180@gmail.com>, jay.solomon@wsj.com, reservations@beitatzmaut.org.il, ulpan@ry.org.il, Cc-Lframe <alana@netvision.net.il>, cc-Saul Basckin <deputygm@peninsula.co.za>, Christa Clark-Jones <cclarkjones@gmail.com>, cc-Ahackner <ahackner@netactive.co.za>, Cc-Alanditz <mandm@global.co.za>, cc-Bubs <bubs@netvision.net.il>, cc-Clive Bernstein <iti04598@mweb.co.za>, Cc-Colin Puterman <bdfabric@iafrica.com>, Barry Solomon <barrysolomon11@gmail.com>, cc-paulClapper <clapper@maaganm.co.il>, cc-Saul levin <slevin@nepa.org.za>, cc-Sperling <sperling@iafrica.com>, ccGrahamkluk <gkluk@attglobal.net>, ccLhack <lhack@home.com>, cc-Bsmail <bsmail@xtra.co.nz>, cc-Bergermd <bergermd@aol.com>, cc-BermanJ <BermanJ@scmb.co.za>, Cc-Joanneazzil <joal2@erols.com>, Cc-Michael Arinov <aronz@earthlink.net>, “Radiologist Dr. Peter Chait MD – FB friend of Gary Gevisser.” <peter.chait@rogers.com>, “shaun@solitudeclothing.com” <shaun@solitudeclothing.com>, “Tracy Tomson – classmate of Gary Gevisser and his cousin, tortured to death ANC armed wing member, Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]” <ttomson@beitler.com>, “surfdaddyus@yahoo.com” <surfdaddyus@yahoo.com>, CC-Nataliefainsod <nataliefainsod@hotmail.com>, cc-Ronnie <Ronnie@crystal.com.au>, cc-Sir <sir@akamail.com>, “Disch1000@aol.com” <Disch1000@aol.com>, David Lazarus <dlaz551469@aol.com>, Bobby Buba Jacobs <bobbyj@gmail.com>, Gideon Frame <gnframe@shaw.ca>, Cc-Elaine Zulberg <Hbar4@aol.com>, “Jody Perling – another quiet classmate of Gary Gevisser and his cousin, tortured to death ANC armed wing member, Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]” <perlingc@mtrmls.com>, “Colin Schneiderman – another quiet classmate of Gary Gevisser and his cousin, tortured to death ANC armed wing member, Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]” <colbren@live.com>, bee <bee2@netvision.net.il>, derrick.beare@zenprop.co.uk, “Neil Gould – FB friend of Gary Gevisser.” <ngould@hkstar.com>, ralph.cilevitz@facebook.com, Sam Schaffer <sam.schaffer@telkomsa.net>, Trevor Noah – Daily Show <closedcaption@viacom.com>, elimer@hearst.com, Annabel Linder – South African Radio Show Host and FB friend of Gary Gevisser <hosts@1485.org.za>, “Marilyn vos Savant – born August 11 1946 is an American magazine columnist author lecturer and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under \”Highest IQ\”. Savant” <webmaster@marilynvossavant.com>, Marcia Kramer – Political / Investigative Correspondent WCBS-TV <mgkramer@cbs2ny.com>, “Dr. Norman Kane MD” <nkanemd@ljso.org>, “John \”Fish out of Water\” Reed” <john.reed@ft.com>, “pteirstein@scrippsclinic.com” <pteirstein@scrippsclinic.com>, Werner Herzog – Filmmaker <office@wernerherzog.com>, Tom Shadyac – Director-Writer I AM – c/o Janet Matthews <firststreetcp@aol.com>, “Steve Linde – South African-Israeli Editor in Chief of Jerusalem Post – I’m not saying anything about anything – July 31, 2015” <steve@jpost.com>, Jennifer Harris <jennifer.harris@vistage.com>, “Dave Osh – former Israeli Fighter Pilot now working with Vistage and supporter of the BDS movement.” <osh.dave@gmail.com>, “Tomer Tene – IAF Lt. Colonel + organic produce farmer.” <tene.organi@gmail.com>, “Jean Figadera – Aerobatics champion.” <jeanfigadere@hotmail.com>, Gary Barber – Co-Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of MGM <gbarber@mgm.com>, “Rod Margo Esquire – FB friend of Gary Gevisser. Rod’s father, South African judge Cecil Margo Esq. wrote, at the request of Ben Gurion, the \”blueprint\” for what is today the brutally strong Israel Air Force.” <rdmargo@att.net>, “Matthew Margo – Senior attorney CBS – 60 Minutes.” <matthewmargo@aol.com>, 60 Minutes <60m@cbsnews.com>, Rafa Zulueta – Spanish Central Bank official <rafazulueta@gmail.com>, “Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker; FB \”friend\” of Gary Gevisser” <kbabies1@aol.com>, Hlumelo Biko – son of Steve Biko murdered on 9/11/1977 – now running a Wall Street charity-investment portfolio <ali.ayala@endeavor.org>, “Jann Turner – daughter of slain white South African Richard Turner [September 21, 1941 – January 8, 1978] co-founder with Steve Biko [Decem,ber 18, 1946 – September 11-12, 1977] of Durban Movement.” <jann@jannturner.com>, “Jill Hogan – younger sister of ANC official Barbara Hogan who is the only white South African convicted by the South African Apartheid Regime for treason, and tortured during her captivity.” <info@mat.org.za>, Ronnie Kasrils – South African Cabinet Minister – mentioned in THE UNLIKELY FORESTER <intmin@mweb.co.za>, “South African-British solicitor Ray Oshry – classmate of Gary Gevisser and GG’s murdered cousin Sandy Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]. R. Oshry remains a FB \”friend\” of GG.” <ray.oshry@haroldbenjamin.com>, “Chief Rabbi of the United States, Rabbi Capers Funnye – close cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama, and Facebook friend of GG.” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>, Office for the Israeli Department of Defense Attache Israeli Embassy Washington DC <Att-sec@israelemb.org>, levpolice@gmail.com, “Mr. PAVAN KAPOOR India Ambassador to Israel.” <amblair@fas.harvard.edu>, “Jeffrey R. Krinsk Esq.” <jrk@classactionlaw.com>, Laurie Black <LJBlack612@aol.com>, “Showley, Roger” <roger.showley@sduniontribune.com>, Sandie Lampe – Celebrity TV Dog Show Host – San Diego <slampe1@san.rr.com>, “Aharon Barak – President of the Supreme Court of Israel [1995-2006]” <barak@idc.ac.il>, “Tzipora Malka \”Tzipi\” Livni” <zlivni@knesset.gov.il>, shaulm@knesset.gov.il, mmozes@knesset.gov.il, mnahari@knesset.gov.il, smoalemr@knesset.gov.il, mmizrachy@knesset.gov.il, amitzna@knesset.gov.il, amiller@knesset.gov.il, michaelim@knesset.gov.il, amichaeli@knesset.gov.il, ymargi@knesset.gov.il, emargalit@knesset.gov.il, umaklev@knesset.gov.il, llivnat@knesset.gov.il, ylitzman@knesset.gov.il, dlipman@knesset.gov.il, aliberman@knesset.gov.il, mickeylevy@knesset.gov.il, ylevin@knesset.gov.il, olevy@knesset.gov.il, alavie@knesset.gov.il, ylapid@knesset.gov.il, slandver@knesset.gov.il, ulandau@knesset.gov.il, akoll@knesset.gov.il, fkirshenbaum@knesset.gov.il, dhanin@knesset.gov.il, yiskatz@knesset.gov.il, hkatz@knesset.gov.il, ikariv@knesset.gov.il, zkalfa@knesset.gov.il, rilatov@knesset.gov.il, zhotovely@knesset.gov.il, nhorowitz@knesset.gov.il, rhoffman@knesset.gov.il, iherzog@knesset.gov.il, ahason@knesset.gov.il, “nancyspielberg@gmail.com” <nancyspielberg@gmail.com>, “jim@bulldogneon.com” <jim@bulldogneon.com>, Julian Assange – Wikileaks <gavin@tcij.org>, yossi menachem <yossi@miko-law.co.il>, “lauramalter@yahoo.com” <lauramalter@yahoo.com>, Menashe Cohen <mcohenenterprises@gmail.com>, katie.drummond@gizmodo.com, emerson.rosenthal@vice.com, diana.shi@vice.com, marc.lourdes@cnn.com, gemma.tetlow@ft.com, iaharon@knesset.gov.il, info@alexanderson30th.com, aagbariya@knesset.gov.il, tabuarar@knesset.gov.il, Brazil Embassy – USA <consular@consbrasdc.org>, Nobel Prize Committee <comments@nobelprize.org>, “Russian Defense Attache – Russian Embassy, Washington DC. Russian Embassy” Shmuel Rabi<defattru@msn.com>, liwan.nazareth@gmail.com, “Jonathan Cooke – British author and Israel tour guide.” <mail@jkcook.net>, Haneen Zoabi – Muslim Arab member of Israeli Knesset <hzoaby@knesset.gov.il>, Gsoros <gsoros@sorosny.org>, “bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il” <bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il>, “Guy Bechor – principal G.Planet.co.il” <guy.bechor@gmail.com>, Norma Fletcher <norma.fletcher@publicguardian.gsi.gov.uk>, Office of the Public Guardian – United Kingdom <OPGAXIS100RegisterSearches@ipublicguardian.gsi.gov.uk>, British Embassy – Israel <enquiries.consular@fco.gov.uk>
“No, no, not even a thought; she has her life; I am not part of her life.”
I must promise you I won’t let you go.
Do you have any idea how much I have learned from you?That you couldn’t be bothered to write to my siblings and ask them what is going on that they would hold my mother captive and not even let her talk with me over the phone.It is huge what you have done.You could have long by now got every member of your religious Catholic family [benefiting from] your moral value teachings to be included in the carbon copy section of that email including me.
I loved meeting your mother and seeing Marie and Mango and hearing you. Your mother is a beautiful woman. Stay with her and talk to her and make her happy.
On Nov 1, 2016, at 3:54 PM, gg <gary@2facetruth.com> wrote:Shmuel – Let me first of all say, that I believe, you are contributing to the murder of my mother Zena.I will kindly explain.You have heard of people doing the wrong thing for financial gain?You have even heard of conspiracies during the Nazi period where the Nazi bankers offered ransom monies to save Hungarian Jews from the gas chambers, even though nothing came of out it, other than the Nazi bankers knew who to silence when World War II ended.Maybe you haven’t heard of the Jewish Holocaust?Are you aware of Jewish people besides for the Jewish French Rothschild family who profited from The Holocaust?When you were studying law in the United States before becoming an American lawyer and then deciding to specialize in “Jewish Law” did you lose your common sense?Without common sense, what do you have?How much do you think your aunt who put you up to this would be earning today if my mother and I hadn’t engineered Deborah Sturman Esq. to go to law school, become a licensed lawyer in the United States and in no time gather billions of dollars in restitution for Jewish Holocaust slave survivors?How much do you think an out of worker French Horn player for the Cologne Philharmonic earns?Would you be taking direction from Deborah if you saw her today lining up at a food kitchen line?Is your fundamental problem that you don’t want to believe in conspiracies that don’t suit your agenda?I suggest you quickly get your head around Professor Tuvia Friling’s ARROWS IN THE DARK, either by calling him now, leave messages on the voicemail of every professor at Ben Gurion University as well as the Golani Brigade just in case he has decided to reenlist as deputy commander, or try reaching out to someone who knows what he wrote, because I want to assure you that you do not have the time to either order ARROWS IN THE DARK off the Internet even if Mr. Bozos hand delivers it to your front doorstep, or for that matter going to your local library. That is simply because my follow up response to your dribble below is going to come very shortly.When we spoke on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath, you said that you didn’t have time to do anything more for me personally, because you were up to your eyeballs in the practice of “Jewish Law” in Israel. What I read below is very different, even if you and your aunt Deborah Sturman Esquire disagree 100%.Morally, I believe you are on very shaky ground because I believe you are walking on very thin ice.Nor do I believe for a single moment that you were out to best protect my mother or Lance Zulman, but rather what is in your personal best interest; namely to appease your aunt.You never thought that I would dig further, and just go off “half cocked” at my Wicked Witch of the East [WWE] sister Kathy and her Israeli liar-lawyer Ayala Weisel. No doubt they are problematic but so is your aunt.If you haven’t figured it out, she is using you.She is not responding to my kind gesture to step forward and get directly involved herself because she wants it all to be smooth sailing so that when she gets court approval to be Alan Zulman’s executor, then she will also have a big say in my mother’s replacement guardian and that would have her socking it to both my mother and me as Deborah stirring the pot also dilly dallies, and inevitably deciding in her infinite wisdom, that unless all 4 of my mother’s children can agree amongst ourselves on the question of guardianship of my mother, then it should be a court appointed guardian.There is a reason why it is that you don’t want to hear that my British citizen mother Zena has spoken clearly and eloquently on why she wants me as her guardian.She doesn’t want you or your Rebbe Schneerson.My mother does not want your aunt Deborah Sturman Esq.My mother does not want Prime Minister Netanyahu as her guardian even if he didn’t have his personal problems.My mother is perfectly clear that she does not want my 3 elder siblings as her guardian.Do you not know how to listen?Have you been diagnosed as deaf or simply stupid?In the interim as you delay, delay, delay, not only will my mother’s health dramatically decline but then I will look more than stupid for going along with this circus, and that will in turn weaken my credibility to attack the billions of dollars in Holocaust monies that have been circulating amongst the hungry lawyers.How would you compare your logic to mine?Would you like to solve this dispute between your aunt and myself by a chess game?I am willing to do anything reasonable to expose all you flakes.It is very convenient for you all to have decided that my mother has “advanced dementia” as you worked her to the bone so that she couldn’t speak her mind in how atrocious are all you scum who are all about the money.But now you are royally screwed.All you can say with your kippah-skullcap no doubt on your head, is “was interested”.Who taught you to write sloppy English?You are putting on an act just like the Israeli judge Yocheved Greenvald-Rand did in court at my Restraining Order hearing on October 5. Both her and liar-lawyer Ayala Weisel’s eyes were bulging out of their eyes.9 minutes and 24 seconds, how many babies do you religious Jewish people have on average after love-making?Were it not for me bringing this “class action” you would be drooling over the monies pouring in from the legal and medical malpractice liability insurance carriers.You are an American but that does not mean you cannot speak normal and proper English or was that simply a Freudian slip?I want you when you come back to me, and I am only talking about a matter of how long it takes me to eat and digest my lunch, to explain yourself very clearly in terms what exactly “was interested”?Let me help you.Were you curious to see it again because you surely saw it the first time, or that after studying it and seeing how very exposed you all are, you decided that you were not longer interested?Would you prefer that the video did not exist?Do not answer these questions as though you are under oath in a sworn deposition.Only answer them based on what your conscience tells you is morally right.Now check out the last uploads on the BLOG of my website 2facetruth.com. [CLICK HERE & CLICK HERE].They are self-explanatory. You will also see me making mention going back to January 14 of this year, the day after I visited with my mother Zena of how convenient that my mother has been labelled as being in a mental state of “advanced dementia”.“Was interested” my arse!Anyone who has had anything to do with either the healthcare of my mother or her financial matters that you know directly impact an individual’s mental as well as physical health who has DARED to even suggest let alone tell the whole world that my mother has “advanced dementia” is a lying son of bitch.That is for starters.Anyone who mislabels someone with a most serious neurological disease, that has them losing their right of body and financial affairs, has a very nefarious agenda.Shame on you!PS – What were you thinking in calling the video of my mother a “movie”? You must be thinking it is a long amount of time to be lucid for someone who is in “advanced dementia”.[Word count 1317]On Nov 1, 2016, at 6:09 AM, דבורה לואיס <devora0527678711@gmail.com> wrote:Dear GaryI did indeed see the movie and was interested.regarding Nissim Shalem i spoke to him and he says there is of coursesuch a thing as a proceeding to change guardianship but that he feelshe cannot work for it in this case as he would have a clash of interestsas Arye’s representative. that goes for myself as well i am afraid and soi wish you good luck through this allwith regardShmuel
2016-10-31 16:58 GMT+02:00 GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>:Dear Shmuel – did you hear back from Nissim Shalem? What did you think of the video?ShalomGary
On Oct 30, 2016, at 1:23 PM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Deborah – We are talking about my mother’s care that should have everyone including you rising to the occasion, which explains why Shmuel is involved.I have now spoken with Shmuel. I did not realize that when he wrote to me that he was your nephew.He says that you still haven’t heard from Symon but that you have an Israeli lawyer, Nissim Shalem who has filed with the courts Alan’s final will, naming both you and Symon as executor.I have asked Shmuel to speak with Nissim, who he believes doesn’t speak English, to see if he can petition on my behalf to replace Weisel as my mother’s guardian for failure to perform her duties, as they leave it to Lance to pay the bills; another one to then blame as they drive Lance off his rocker.I am of course prepared to return to Israel to take care of my mother but only once I am appointed guardian. What we went through was nothing short of hell, and yes it was all premeditated when Weisel-Symon failed to inform me that Weisel had been granted guardianship 6 days before I arrived. They are now very wounded animals and would stop at nothing to have me arrested under false charges. For good reason, I have no faith in the Israeli justice system. That is reinforced by us having met with 4 lawyers and spoken with an additional equal amount. They are not incompetent, because they are total thieves. Every Israeli who hasn’t referred me to a lawyer friend says it is not possible to find in Israel an honest lawyer or judge. Bottom line, I’m not prepared to go through or have my French-Canadian wife Marie Dion ever experience again such malice by thieving lawyers acting on instruction from my sister.Again, had I known that the judge who presided over my restraining order hearing was the same judge who granted Weisel the guardianship I would have raised hell in the courtroom because the judge was totally blown away by the video of my mother that she wanted to see because curiosity got the better of her. Twice that video was played and you could see the judge looking back and forth at Weisel and I thought that the judge was going to come down on Weisel like a ton of bricks, but in fact they were both figuring the best way out of this total fraud. Then to my horror, the judge allowed Weisel to go into a rage in an effort to distract; and nor did the judge or my lawyers rein Weisel in.You cannot be medically diagnosed as having “advanced dementia” and then able to articulate so well, so calmly as my mother did in explaining the pros and cons about this issue of guardianship. The fact that they continue to protest that my mother is in “advanced dementia” should have long by now resulted in Weisel and my siblings’ prosecution; but where do you begin in such a systemically rotten system?It is absolute even if you have witnessed repeatedly my mother in a total state of lack of consciousness of what is around her. How would you react if you couldn’t trust the people around you and you were my mother’s age?I will tell what you would do. You would do exactly as my mother did, and ask me first to come to Israel and then you too would hope you are capable of being as clear minded, calm and so conscious of the world around her, and remember not a single “um” coming out of my mother’s mouth and how ladylike she adjusted her dress as I moved closer directly in front of her. Nothing in the least bit staged. Only purity of the highest order. There is no memory with advanced dementia. My mother not only remembers well all the pros and cons of her children, and so consistent with our phone conversations, but all the important places in the world she would still like to visit.How can my very good mother be treated so poorly.Also as I told Shmuel you only know part of the story behind me not seeing my mother in 15 years. After my and Alan Zulman’s fallout in December 2001, that very evening I walked to Minehead which is a 40 minute very slow drive from Wive and purchased a bed and breakfast on the ocean front without even entering the property. I spoke with the two owners, an English lady and her South African husband as they leaned out the living room area and I was standing on the street. They had taken down the FOR SALE sign that day. I only knew about it because I happened to ask a neighbor further down the street if he knew of a property for sale by its owner.The purpose was for my mom to have a place to go to in the event Alan went totally off the deep end. Nor did I think it important to blab my mouth to anyone. Bear in mind once Alan realized that he was clueless about my and my mother’s knowledge of the politics-economics of South Africa so he was smart enough to figure that all his fund raising efforts in South Africa for Israel had to be total bullshit given how my mother had encouraged him more than anyone. My mom even explained to him how exactly to go about shaming rich Jewish South Africans to give “until it hurt” without my mother mentioning that she was so very close to people who were publicly doing nothing short of advocating violence against Israel, starting with my mother’s very close friend, Indian Muslim activist Fatima Meer who made virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Israel speeches on my University of Natal campus, when I knew to be quiet.But Fatima Meer also stayed alive and had encircling her very untrustworthy people, no different to my mother, which allowed them to keep that much more careful watch of these “fair weathered friends” and many of them famous white South African names inclulding Alan Paton, who were simply very well paid spies, and not all that great actors. You should be able to follow all this. And this history is important because everyone is making a big deal about the 15 year gap, although Weisel said it was 18 years.I kept that very poor investment where I never stayed one full night; and nor did I receive more than a token couple hundred quid in rental income for more than 6 years.What is most important is how my mother proceeded to investigate my purchase of Seacrest. The investigation was an investigation of both Alan and more importantly Neil. She first sent Neil to look. Neil said that with the oceans rising Seacrest would soon be under water. Alan came along and couldn’t believe his eyes that the property was in “nick condition”, at least compared to anything else they had come across on the ocean. Alan knew that I was buying it at rock bottom price even though the property had been on the market a while, but it was at the end of the beach road leading in to a forest that walkers from all over England and beyond made, almost a pilgrimage for some as there was this Burgundy Chapel that people believe John the Baptist had preached at. My mother Zena knew exactly what I was up to, and then put on a whole song and dance agreeing with Neil that this would end up being a disaster and the sellers were just trying to steal my money. That was enough to distract Alan. Suffice to say the purchase went through very quickly, and now they all had something to talk about other than Fatima Meer. True to form Neil continued to visit the property reporting to everyone that the place was vacant and would soon be underwater.Yes, there is a streak to Neil that you probably didn’t know. Maybe you should take a closer look under the kimono of his young girlfriend.Remember, there is a whole bunch of cash-valuables missing from Wive and Kathy tried to prepare an alibi when having Neil tell Kerry Anderson that the house was not being lived in, and that Kerry should not let anyone know, as if Kerry didn’t know that my mother and Alan were in Israel. It should all be starting to add up.
Having me as my mother’s guardian puts to an end my siblings efforts to most of all place my mother in an early grave and grab the money.Smuel mentioned that he had yet to see the Youtube video I put up of my mother after I returned from our month long trip and which I filmed on Thursday, September 22.My plan is to write to Kathy soon asking-demanding that I replace Weisel as my mother’s guardian.Let me know if I have missed anything.Shalom,Gary
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From: דבורה לואיס <devora0527678711@gmail.com>Subject: your mother Zena ZulmanDate: October 27, 2016 at 8:13:31 AM PDT
Dear GaryI am writing to you on behalf of your mother Zena. I write to you as I understand that you may still be in Israel.As a friend of Arye zulman it has come to my attention that the funds he used to support your mother and her household were cut off and that he can no longer be involved in her affairs.This has been mentioned to your mothers guardian Ayala Vizel and i do know that she has funds enough. however so far she has not stirred herself in any way and i worry that now without Arye’s help your mother may be plunged into darkness by the electric company or some such thing.best regardsyours
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Holocaust hero or villain who collaborated with Nazis?
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John “Fish out of water” Reed – Re: Facetime
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: Fish out of water – Re: Facetime – Re: John Reed
Date: May 15, 2016 at 8:46:21 AM PDT
To: John Reed <john.reed@ft.com>
Cc: rest; Geoffrey Rothwell Phd – Principal Economist at De Beers controlled, US Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, headquartered in Paris, France. Former 27 year senior Stanford University lecturer, Rothwell is considered the world authority on the pricing of enriched uranium, but failed to include the military component and its aftermath.” <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org>, gili.diamant@yadvashem.org.il, Galit Tassi Military Embassy of Israel – Washington <galit.tassi@gmail.com>, “Jeffrey R. Krinsk Esq.” <jrk@classactionlaw.com>, “Claudia {I didn’t know the coin was gold} Seibel Esquire – (So why did she keep it?)” <c.seibel@iur-realis.de>, “Tomer – Israeli farmer and former Israel Air Force [IAF] pilot ותומר טנא” <tene@arava.co.il>, “Deborah Sturman Esq – Inspired by Zena Bardash-Ash Gevisser Zulman, played pivotal role in collecting billions from remnants of Germany’s military machine during WW II, but stopped way too short when realizing it was so close to the home of the German-South African Oppenheimer clan whose Lloyd’s of London Insurance have never once attempted to hide that they are the money launderers of money launderers, and figured the common herd would think themselves too smart to have it all smack in their faces” <info@sturman.ch>, “Matthew Margo – Senior attorney CBS – 60 Minutes.” <matthewmargo@aol.com>, Chris Giles <chris.giles@ft.com>, Daniel Halper <dhalper@weeklystandard.com>, Sarah Knapton <sarah.knapton@telegraph.co.uk>, Alan Dershowitz – Harvard Law School <dersh@law.harvard.edu>, Michael {TORDU-THE COWARD I Cannot forgive myself} Awerbuch <michael@asasin.biz>, Beverly Stacey – Lloyds of London Insurance <beverly.stracey@lloyds.com>, “South African-British solicitor Ray Oshry – classmate of Gary Gevisser and GG’s murdered cousin Sandy Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]. R. Oshry remains a FB friend of GG.” <ray.oshry@haroldbenjamin.com>, “Kenneth Standard Esq. – former 25 year in-house General Counsel of Bristol Meyers; most recently past President of the New York Bar Association – Harvard Law School.” <kstandard@ebglaw.com>, “Joe Grundfest – former Commissioner of the SEC and Stanford Law School, who wrote Gary Gevisser on April 23, 2002, Could I stop you?” <grundfest@stanford.edu>, “Diana Henriques – journalist New York Times – Big Jury Award in Injury Case Over Keyboards – December 10, 1996, whose name is mentioned along with Gary Gevisser in the APPLICATION OF LAW TO FACTS in US Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s decision to overturn landmark repetitive stress injury award in April 1997.” <dbhenriques@aol.com>, “Alain Passard – Paris, France across from Musee Rodin Paris” <arpege.passard@wanadoo.fr>, Noam Chomsky – I AM movie <chomsky@MIT.EDU>, Hlumelo Biko – son of Steve Biko murdered on 9/11/1977 – now running a Wall Street charity-investment portfolio <ali.ayala@endeavor.org>, “Jann Turner – daughter of slain white South African Richard Turner [September 21, 1941 – January 8, 1978] co-founder with Steve Biko [Decem,ber 18, 1946 – September 11-12, 1977] of Durban Movement.” <jann@jannturner.com>, “Jill Hogan – younger sister of ANC official Barbara Hogan who is the only white South African convicted by the South African Apartheid Regime for treason, and tortured during her captivity.” <info@mat.org.za>, “Mark Gevisser – biographer of Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa. Mark is the eldest son of David Gevisser, the male heir of American-German, RACIST SOUTH AFRICAN INVADER Charles W. Engelhard Jr. assassinated by the Mossad on March 2 1971 and buried at St. Mary’s Abbey Church Morristown New Jersey. Mark is a close cousin of Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997], Gary S. Gevisser’s classmate from Carmel College, Durban, South Africa who was found naked in the trunk of her automobile, tortured to death by fellow members, Mark Gevisser’s father, David Gevisser wrote in his 2006 memoir, THE UNLIKELY FORESTER, in the armed wing of the ANC, who would have eventually all known that David Gevisser was a traitor, as well as all those who curried favor with D. Gevisser [1926-2009].” <mark@markgevisser.com>, Neil Gevisser <neil@rhymedisease.com>, Kathy Gevisser-Danziger Kathy danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>, Melvin Gevisser <mgevisser@sbcglobal.net>, contact@criirad.org, Gary Barber – Co-Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of MGM <gbarber@mgm.com>, “Gary Malino – immediate past President & Chief Operating Officer Realty Income – NY Stock Exchange symbol O – Malino who is a FB friend worked with GG back in 1980-1.” <Gary.malino@yahoo.com>, “Chief Rabbi of the United States, Rabbi Capers Funnye – close cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama, and Facebook friend of GG.” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>, “Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker; FB friend of Gary Gevisser” <kbabies1@aol.com>, “Steve Linde – South African-Israeli Editor in Chief of Jerusalem Post – I’m not saying anything about anything – July 31, 2015” <steve@jpost.com>, South China Morning Post <scmplet@scmp.com>, Nina Wiener – Managing Editor TASCHEN <N.Wiener@taschen.com>, Editor-shanghai daily <editor@shanghaidaily.com>, Tzipora Malka Tzipi Livni <zlivni@knesset.gov.il>, Mossad <mohr@tehila.gov.il>, Office for the Israeli Department of Defense Attache Israeli Embassy Washington DC <Att-sec@israelemb.org>, Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister of Israel <bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il>
John – your actions are bizarre, but understandable.
The OSS had determined, however, that tons of diamonds were somehow reaching Nazi Germany. If the De Beers system of “elaborate controls” was as effective as the War Department held, how could such enormous quantities of diamonds be regularly reaching Germany? To answer this question, the OSS had proposed sending its own undercover agents from its field office in Accra to the Belgian Congo. Since the British Ministry of Economic Warfare was responsible for allied activities in the Congo, this OSS action had to be cleared in London. At first the ministry blocked the request, and then it had proposed a joint “diamond investigation.” OSS agents met with their British counterparts, but little was done to pinpoint the source of the smuggling. Finally the OSS chief in Accra reported to Washington, D.C.:
“We have now come to the conclusion (a) that our assistance was requested in this program so that the Diamond Trading Corporation might discover how much we actually knew of the ramifications of the De Beers world monopoly, and (b) that the OSS/Accra recommendations for a Security Committee were sabotaged, not by the British Government, but by the representatives of the Diamond Trading Corporation, Ltd., London, through their domination of the Diamond Committee of the Ministry of Economic Warfare.”
Fleming also worked with Colonel “Wild Bill” Donovan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s special representative on intelligence co-operation between London and Washington. In May 1941 Fleming accompanied Godfrey to the United States, where he assisted in writing a blueprint for the Office of the Coordinator of Information, the department that turned into the Office of Strategic Services and eventually became the CIA.
At the end of the Anglo-American War [1899-1902], he was a member of the small force which escorted Jan Smuts to the peace negotiations.
As the OSS pursued the investigation, it found that the diamonds were reaching the Axis powers through Tangier and Cairo. Its agents, posing as illegal buyers in these entrepots, found that industrial diamonds were being sold for $26 a carat, which was thirty times the official price. It became increasingly clear that enormous profits were being made on the millions of carats that were being smuggled into Germany. Tracing their way back through the chain of illegal sellers, an OSS agent code-named Teton reported back from Leopoldville that “the major source of leakage was the Forminiere Mines,” which had been under the control of the syndicate ever since they were developed. According to the OSS report, Teton, pretending to be an American official who had come to the Congo to register “all American males of draft age,” made highly productive “contact” in Leopoldville and eventually turned up evidence “that a full year’s supply of diamonds had reached Germany from Forminiere through Red Cross parcels.” The shipment of several million carats of diamonds through the parcels that were regularly sent from the Congo to Nazi-occupied Belgium required considerable organization and support in the intervening areas.
Following the outbreak of war in 1939, the Duke was given a military post in the British Army stationed in France. According to the son of Lord Ironside, the Duchess continued to entertain friends associated with the fascist movement, and leaked details of the French and Belgian defences gleaned from the Duke.[88] When the Germans invaded the north of France and bombed Britain in May 1940, the Duchess told an American journalist, “I can’t say I feel sorry for them.”[89] As the German troops advanced, the Duke and Duchess fled south from their Paris home, first to Biarritz, then in June to Spain. There, she told the United States ambassador, Alexander W. Weddell, that France had lost because it was “internally diseased”.[90] In July, the pair moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where they stayed at the home of Ricardo de Espirito Santo e Silva, a banker who was suspected of being a German agent.[91] In August, the Duke and Duchess travelled by commercial liner to the Bahamas, where the Duke was installed as Governor.[92]
The strategic importance of diamonds became acutely clear to both the Allies and Axis powers with the approach of the Second World War in 1939. Only diamonds were hard enough to stamp out the millions of precision parts that were necessary for mass-producing airplane engines, torpedoes, tanks, artillery and the other weapons of war. Only diamonds could be used to draw the fine wire needed for radar and the electronics of war. Only diamonds could provide the jeweled bearings necessary for the stabilizers, gyroscopes and guidance systems for submarines and planes. Only diamonds could provide the abrasives necessary for rapidly converting civilian industries into a war machine. Without a continuing supply of diamonds, the war machine would rapidly slow to a halt. Yet, nearly all the diamond mines remained closed, and De Beers controlled the world supply of diamonds. Obtaining these industrial diamonds thus became a paramount objective for both the United States and Hitler’s Germany.
In Washington, D.C., the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to hold emergency meetings about diamonds in 1940 when Hitler’s armies swept across Europe in a blitzkrieg and threatened to invade England. The possibility had to be at least considered that England, like France, might be overrun or surrender. In that event, the world diamond stockpile would fall into Hitler’s hands. Since the United States had less than one year’s supply of industrial diamonds, the loss of De Beers’ stockpile would make it difficult, if not impossible, to continue the war. The economic planners for the war estimated that the United ,States needed at least 6.5 million carats of industrial diamonds to convert its factories to war production.
When apprized of this critical shortage in diamonds, President Roosevelt ordered the War Production Board, which had the responsibility for mobilizing the American economy for war, to buy the necessary 6.5 million carats from De Beers. De Beers, however, had other interests to consider. Its entire system for monopolizing diamonds depended on its controlling the available stockpile. Transferring a large portion of the stockpile from London to New York City, where it would be out of its control, ran counter to the De Beers logic.
Even though the Americans persisted in the negotiations for the diamonds, they found that Sir Ernest Oppenheimer personally opposed any transfer of diamonds to the United States. He argued that if the United States had its own stockpile, and the war suddenly ended, it might release the diamonds and undercut the entire world order that he had so laboriously constructed. Moreover, he held that the United States had sufficient diamonds for present needs, and that De Beers would continue its delivery of diamonds to American manufacturers on a monthly basis. In one letter, he characterized the American demand for a stockpile as “farcical.”
The Americans were dismayed by this intransigence. In an official Justice Department memorandum, the War Production Board expressed incredulity at the fact that “the leaders of the syndicate are intentionally risking the war production of the allies.” President Roosevelt, disturbed by this development, ordered the State Department to intervene directly with Winston Churchill’s war cabinet in London.
The State Department found, however, that the British government was reluctant to press De Beers to part with the diamonds. An investigation by U.S. intelligence indicated that the division of the British government responsible for acting on the request was entirely staffed by former executives of the De Beers “syndicate.” In a secret memorandum, the War Production Board noted, “The diamond section of the government and the syndicate seem to be the same.”* After the Roosevelt administration had made continuing efforts to persuade the British government that the diamonds were of critical importance to the United States war effort, it ordered the State Department to play its trump card and threaten that the United States would interrupt the supply f airplanes that was vitally needed by the British to defend themselves against the Luftwaffe bombing raids. According to a confidential report in this Justice Department archive, dated April 16, 1942, “It was said unofficially that we would not give planes to England if the syndicate would not sell us the diamonds with which to make them.” This dramatic threat had the desired effect. The British government pressed De Beers to accommodate President Roosevelt, and De Beers yielded.
Oppenheimer agreed to supply the United States immediately with one million carats–14 percent of the American request—and deposit an additional stockpile in Canada for the duration of the war. This Canadian stockpile, which would remain under De Beers control, was meant to mitigate the American concern over the possible capture of the London stockpile.
The Roosevelt administration was not entirely satisfied with this compromise. It continued to apply pressure to the British government, demanding that De Beers supply the additional 5.5 million carats. By this time, the air of crisis had passed, and De Beers was able to procrastinate successfully. At first, it claimed that it did not have enough diamonds in its vaults to supply this amount. Then, after U.S. intelligence debunked this claim, De Beers advised that its vaults were bombed shut” in an air raid on London. A year passed. Then De Beers asserted that it needed additional time to prepare an inventory of the diamonds it had available.
By this time, American officials feared that De Beers, despite the pressure exerted on it, had no intention of allowing a diamond stockpile of any magnitude to be established, even in Canada. Moreover, manufacturers of. diamond tools in the United States had begun complaining to the Office of Price Control that De Beers had effectively raised its prices as much as 60 percent through the device of reducing the quality of the diamonds it delivered. So, though the official price per carat remained the same, manufacturers had to buy more of the lower quality diamonds to build the tools and dies for industry. Since it was exceedingly difficult for the price control officials to measure the relative quality of industrial diamonds, De Beers was able to persist in its claim that it had not raised prices. In any case, the Justice Department concluded that the De Beers monopoly, by manipulating supplies from the stockpile, could impede the war effort.
The Justice Department decided then to launch its own investigation into the diamond monopoly. It had the full cooperation of the War Production Board, which still wanted control of the diamond stockpile, and the OSS, the newly created U.S. wartime intelligence service. The Investigators were not held back by any inhibitions about intercepting mail, borrowing bank records or other such extralegal measures. They all shared a common objective: helping the war effort. In their roughshod manner, they soon began turning up bits of evidence indicating that De Beers had systematically stifled diamond mining in areas of the world over which it could not exert control. For example, intercepted letters from Oppenheimer’s associates suggested that litigation had been initiated in Venezuela to prevent Nelson Rockefeller and other Americans from developing diamond mines in that country. One such letter detailed the possibility of competition in Venezuela, and asked an intermediary to suggest to Oppenheimer that he be “ruthless in stamping it out.” Another intercepted letter from a Belgian diamond executive suggested that De Beers was intentionally exhausting the diamond mines in the Belgian Congo, while preserving its mines in South Africa, so that after the war was over De Beers “will have complete control over the market..” Justice Department investigators also looked into charges that De Beers had conspired to buy out and shut down potential diamond mining areas in the country of Guyana and the state of Arkansas.
In Arkansas, it was charged that after diamonds were found there, Oppenheimer bought control of the company that was to mine the diamonds. Then, when the separation plant built on the site failed to produce a sufficient quantity of diamonds per ton of ore to make the mine profitable, it was closed. Subsequently, it was charged that the separation plant had been designed by the engineer in such a manner that it could not possibly retrieve diamonds. It emerged that the engineer was in the employ of De Beers. The mine, which was bought out by associates of Ernest Oppenheimer, was ordered closed in 1921 after Oppenheimer met the mine officials in New York, and the mine’s records were ordered destroyed. “An inference could be drawn . . . “the Justice Department memorandum noted, “that the property was sabotaged and then closed at the insistence of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer.” The evidence was admittedly highly circumstantial.
Whatever were the specific tactics of De Beers, the justice Department investigators reached the conclusion that the singular effect of these efforts was to artificially restrain the production of diamonds. This, in turn, produced higher prices. A 1944 memorandum to the attorney general concluded, “The United States is paying monopoly prices for an essential material needed in wartime production.” If De Beers were an American company, the memorandum continued, “There would be no question as to [its] having violated the anti-trust laws.” Since De Beers was a South African corporation, the Justice Department had to demonstrate that it had some jurisdiction over its activities before it could consider prosecuting it.
The FBI was called in to interview the leading diamond dealers in New York to determine whether De Beers, which sold them diamonds, could be construed as transacting business in the United States. The FBI reported, “The domestic trade operates in relative secrecy…. The syndicate will sell only to a small group of hand-picked dealers.” It further noted that De Beers officials avoided coming to the United States, and all transactions took place in London. Further inquiry showed that De Beers had closed all its bank accounts in the United States at the outset of the investigation.
The assistant attorney generals at the Justice Department who had superintended the investigation realized that the antitrust division had little chance of ever bringing De Beers to court in the United States. Despite all the prodigious investigative efforts, the case was abandoned in late 1945.
None of these documents cast any light on the question of how Hitler continued to obtain diamonds for the duration of the war. There was, however, an investigation of this problem by the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
According to a summary of OSS documents, the OSS learned through its agents in Germany that in November of 1943 Hitler had only an eight-month supply of industrial diamonds. When these diamonds ran out, Hitler’s war machine would be crippled. It would no longer be possible to build V-2 rockets or other exotic weaponry. It was thus a crucial wartime goal to prevent Hitler from replenishing his supply of diamonds.
As all mines in South Africa were closed, the OSS reckoned that there was only one place on earth from which the Germans could get industrial diamonds in sufficient quantity to maintain their .military-industrial complex: the Belgian Congo. The Belgian Congo was, however, administered by the Belgian government in exile, which was in London and completely under British control. The mines themselves were supervised, and policed, by the De Beers syndicate. In fact, when the justice Department began to move against De Beers, the War Department objected on the grounds that it might undercut the security system that De Beers had developed in the Belgian Congo. In an exchange of secret correspondence between the War and Justice Departments (which was declassified under my Freedom of Information request), it was argued by an official responsible for maintaining the diamond blockade that “almost the entire [diamond] production of Africa is policed through the operation of elaborate controls extending through every mining area of the continent.” Further, De Beers, which administered this program, sent “this controlled production … in a closely guarded stream to London.”
What your article has accomplished is to give the public a false sense of security that diamonds are a good investment forever.
Hillel the Elder – If I am not for myself who is for me? And being for my own self, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?
On May 15, 2016, at 3:47 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:Hi Gary –
Listen, I am putting aside this topic for awhile. However, I will contact you if I return to it. Thanks for being in touch.Best regards,John
On 15 May 2016 at 16:29, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
If a lady answers, her name is XXX. She speaks a pretty good English but her native French is better.
She will bring me the phone.We could bring Geoffrey Rothwell on to the line as I am in touch with him today, but I think that can wait. Of course this Diamond Invention touches closely on nuclear.On May 15, 2016, at 3:21 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Can you please remind me of who I will be talking to? I can call in half an hour.
rgds,
On 15 May 2016 at 15:44, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I’ve been holding on to the landline phone here, but I just returned it to our host as another call came in for her.
Could you tell me when you will be calling?
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From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: Re: Facetime – Re: John ReedDate: May 15, 2016 at 1:48:17 PM GMT+2To: John Reed <john.reed@ft.com>
the number here is France 33 -XXXXXX
On May 15, 2016, at 1:44 PM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I am going to see if I can use our host and friend’s landline phone which I don’t have the number for. I will get you that number as I would prefer not to burden her with the expense, if that is okay with you.
While I try organize that take a look at the hyperlink belowtaking you to the free Internet edition of THE DIAMOND INVENTION book.When paging through I suggest you spend a little more time on both chapter 9, DIAMONDS FOR HITLER and chapter 16, WARRING WITH ISRAEL and note there the power and influence of Harry Oppenheimer who was my direct report during my year long interviewing process with De Beers and when it ended, my liason with H. Oppenheimer was through Martin Rapaport of the Rapaport Report.Are you familiar with the Rapaport Report?Most important is chapter 18, THE AMERICAN CONSPIRACY. Scroll down until you get to the following paragraph:Just as the Justice Department was about to file antitrust actions, Engelhard relinquished its right to be exclusive distributor of De Beers’ abrasive diamonds in the United States and devolved the distributorship to three industrial diamond dealers in New York, all of whom had close ties to De Beers. Engelhard arranged for Oppenheimer to buy a controlling interest in his far-flung empire, since he had no male heirs to take over. To do this, Oppenheimer set up HD Development Corporation, which was owned by Oppenheimer and Anglo-American.Don’t you find it strange the wording, “since he had no male heirs to take over”?
Are you not surprised that in all your dealings with De Beers people both in South Africa and Israel they have never made you aware of The D I book?BTW, Engelhard Jr.’s “male heir” was my father Bernie Gevisser’s first cousin David Gevisser.As you go back and read your article that I know has already been read by a great many people throughout the world, is there anything there that you might want to change, and if so, what would it be?If you have questions for me that I can prepare myself for ahead of our phone call, that would be great.On May 15, 2016, at 1:28 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:No, I haven’t read that book, and yes, I do know what a sightholder is – I used to work for the FT in Johannesburg, and did some of our coverage of De Beers and diamonds.
I’m not keen to do Facetime, but let me know if you have time to chat on the phone, and how I can reach you – or feel free to call me on (972) 544 769 066.Best regards,
On 15 May 2016 at 14:23, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you know what a site holder is? Have you read Edward Jay Epstein’s 1978 non-fiction book, The Diamond Invention? That was the time I joined site holder Codiam Inc.Most definately we can try Facetime. Once you get back to me with the answer to those 2 questions we can try Facetime. We can start out with video and if that doesn’t work then we will try audio. I assume you have an Apple Computer?
On May 15, 2016, at 1:20 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
You must remind me what your questions were. A phone call would be best for me if that’s OK.
rgds,On 15 May 2016 at 14:19, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Right this minute is perfect for me.
I think that before we have a chat on the phone and Facetime is all that I have currently, and my Internet connection here in Corse is a little rough, it would move things along rapidly if you answered my couple of questions from a couple of days ago.
On May 15, 2016, at 1:13 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Hello Gary –
I am back on duty now. Let me know when you want to talk; my days this week that would work would be Monday, Tuesday or Thursday.
Best regards,
John
On 13 May 2016 at 20:13, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I’ll await to hear your response on Sunday; and then we can go from there.
On May 13, 2016, at 6:56 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Thanks, Gary. I am off duty until Sunday, but would be very glad to talk to you then or next week.
Best regards,
John
On 13 May 2016 at 18:55, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
John, if you have an Apple, how would like to be included in a Facetime meeting I am looking to make happen in the next half hour with Geoffrey Rothwell Phd, the principal economist for the OECD?
Quick background:
Rothwell and I have known each other since 2006 but we have only met once back in mid-September 2013 when we met in Paris for dinner, along with our respective wives; and we have been in close contact ever since; and more so in the course of the past couple of weeks.
Of course, if I didn’t think it touched solidly on your story, I wouldn’t propose it.
Best regards,
Gary
On May 13, 2016, at 4:06 PM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
John hi,
I’m on vacation in Corsica and I will be here for at least the next week before heading to mainland France, so there is no hurry.
Early in my career I worked for a site holder. Do you know what a site holder is? Have you read Edward Jay Epstein’s 1978 non-fiction book, The Diamond Invention? That was the time I joined site holder Codiam Inc.
My French-Canadian wife and I along with our world traveler dog, Mango have been out of the States where we are based for going on 6 months which is not unusual since we have been spending half the year traveling for the past 4 years. We plan on returning to California around the middle of next month.
I know a little about your business in part because I was an advisor to Randolf Apperson Hearst at the tail end of his chairmanship of Hearst Corporation but you probably won’t find anyone quite as knowledgeable about the diamond business as me.
let me know when is a good time,
Gary
On May 13, 2016, at 3:04 PM, John Reed <john.reed@ft.com> wrote:
Hi Gary – I will be glad to speak to you. I am off duty now, but will be back in the office on Sunday. Please let me know how to reach you then or later in the week.
Best regards,
John
On 13 May 2016 at 15:53, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought I would try myself.
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From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: John Reed
Date: May 13, 2016 at 8:07:31 AM GMT+2
To: help@ft.com
I’m trying to reach John Reed who wrote today’s story, Israel: The going gets rough for diamonds
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/120bdeaa-1778-11e6-9d98-00386a18e39d.html#axzz48VpCeck6
I have an inside track on that story that will help his readers make more sense of what is going on.
Gary Gevisser
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Date: November 20, 2016 at 11:54:36 PM PST
To: Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com>
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The fourth rule: No client may resell the diamonds in his box in their uncut form without a special dispensation from Monty Charles. To maintain its international monopoly over the supply of diamonds, De Beers must control the world stockpile of uncut diamonds. If it permitted its clients to resell their boxes, some outside party could amass its own stockpile by bidding for the boxes. This actually occurred in 1977, when Israeli dealers paid a premium of up to 100 percent to De Beers clients for their unopened boxes. Many clients, seeing the opportunity to double their money overnight, took advantage of this windfall. The result was that by 1978, the stockpile in Israel was rapidly approaching in size De Beers’ own stockpile in London. If the Israelis suddenly panicked and threw their uncut diamonds on the market, the price would collapse. If the Israelis continued to amass diamonds, they would be in a position to offer their own sights and undercut the mechanism De Beers had invented for controlling the market. De Beers succeeded by gradually forcing the diamonds out of Israeli hands in 1979. To prevent a recurrence, Monty Charles insisted that clients must immediately cut and polish all the diamonds supplied to them in their boxes and then return the cardboard containers to assure that no one was selling their sealed boxes. He dramatically demonstrated that violators of this edict would be severely punished by purging some forty clients from the sights for reselling some of their uncut diamonds. His retribution was not lost on the other clients.
Israel: The going gets rough for diamonds
Hi Gary –
Listen, I am putting aside this topic for awhile. However, I will contact you if I return to it. Thanks for being in touch.
Best regards,
John
Hi Gary,
When I got to No 22, no one answered the doorbell so I couldn’t get in.
Then my phone died on me so you couldn’t call me.
I came home.
A bad day.
I’m going to bed..
Ayalah
Before commenting on the video “The Lady’s Speech” tell mehow many years had you not seen your Mom?Ayalah
Dear Gary,
I have already written to you.
However a thought crossed my mind. –
may I share this with Kathy and Neil?
I will respect whatever you say.
Ayalah
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: Share – Re: No 22
Date: November 20, 2016 at 10:50:29 PM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan
Those calls were from me trying to reach you when the phone disconnected as you got to my mother’s apartment.You had a lot of accusatory things to say to me and now after you sling your arrows you tell me that you cannot cope.That email I sent you was very much on point and centered around what my mother wants. It also tells you how two-faced are my siblings.You know about birds of feather!Don’t suddenly play stupid and victim.My mother Zena’s life is at stake and you are quite rightly going frantic because the videos show my mother in a vastly different state of mind than what you all have been portraying. Moreover, you know how easy it is to confuse an 87 year old human as her “cage is rattled”.You know perfectly well that my mother was not acting in those videos to hide her “advanced dementia”. Or do you think that my mother is such a good actor, she had you all fooled?You cannot have your cake and eat it at the same time.How long do you think you could keep up playing “advanced dementia”?You also misled me when trying to bait me with you question?Before commenting on the video “The Lady’s Speech” tell mehow many years had you not seen your Mom?You never told me that you had a problem reading or that you were already in touch with my siblings and heard all the bad they had to say about me; and you thought it wise to plonk yourself in the middle until I responded with a well thrown pitch, “Everything about your life is positive”.Given how I now know better than to trust you, and I very much doubt you will connect me up by telephone with my mother, I must redouble my efforts to at the very least bring public international attention to her plight!Go back to sleep!When I get up tomorrow morning and not at 6AM as you instructed while telling me you only had 15 minutes to spare with me, and remember we are talking the quality of life of my very accomplished mother Zena who you also knew so very little about because you too were not close to her, much the same as my terrible siblings, I will be sharing everything, just as you wanted with Kathy, Neil and Melvin.
On Nov 20, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Ayala Kaplan wrote:Dear Gary,It is 4.30 in the morning.You are inundating me with mail and calls..I don’t have the time or energy to cope with it.Please leave me alone.I wish you well.Ayalah
1) What was she like at 22? – Zena Gevisser, Sept 22, 2016, 8:58am2) She has quite a face – Zena Gevisser, Sept. 22, 2016, 9am3) The lady’s speech – Zena Gevisser, Sept 22, 2016, 11:33am4) IF part 1 – Zena Gevisser, September 23, 2016, 12:49 PM5) IF part 2 – September 23, 2016, 12:49 PM6) IF – Zena Gevisser along with IF audio, Sept 23, 2016, 12:55PM7) The addiction – King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Sept. 24, 20168) Teachers – King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Sept. 24, 2016
People with little intelligence have great difficulty feeling stupid.
What does a psychologist do if they are depressed?Wouldn’t that be the first question you would ask a psychologist if you felt the need to see one?
“I don’t see how it is possible for you to develop a close relationship with your mother during the 15 years you showed great respect towards her when keeping your distance because you didn’t want to aggravate her second husband Alan Zulman who saw his world falling apart once he understood the dynamics of mineral rich South Africa”,
Zena: You are mad. She’s not 22Gary: She looks 22Zena: How old is she?Gary: She’s 58Zena: She’s 2 years off 60?Gary: YesZena: You’re crazy. You got it all wrong!Gary: You think so?Zena: What, did she go to have a facelift maybe?Gary: No, never [not even a single botox treatment].Zena: Amazing hey. Wow. How old is she?Gary: 58Zena: Good God; what was she like at 22?
On Nov 19, 2016, at 1:17 PM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:Dear Paul,We are on the same page. Lets start at the end, “… already at the Third Reich’s daily disposal”.Are you familiar with Edward Jay Epstein’s 1978 The Diamond Invention book?Gary
On Nov 19, 2016, at 12:48 PM, Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com> wrote:Dear Gary,
In my opinion, the main Nazi aims during the ransom phase of the negotiations were (i) gaining time for the anti-Jewish drive by entrapping Jewish leaders in futile negotiations; (ii) starving Jewish organisations of funds that might have been used for rescue. Both aims were achieved. Acquiring the money itself was not as important to them, because the payments were a tiny fraction of the sums already at the Third Reich’s daily disposal.
I live in Bournemouth, UK.
Regards,
Paul
On 19/11/2016 20:37, GaryStevenGevisser wrote:Dear Mr. Bodanor,
Let me share with you how happy I am that you are familiar with his work, otherwise it would have greatly surprised me.Did you think that when the Nazis put out these offers of “ransom monies” that they were looking to expose Jewish people with money by having fellow Jews, well integrated in the Jewish communities going around the world asking for donations?Where are you based?Gary
On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com> wrote:Dear Mr. Gevisser,
Thanks for your message. Yes I’m familiar with Arrows in the Dark, which is essential reading. I have great respect for Professor Friling’s work.
Regards,
Paul Bogdanor
On 19/11/2016 15:44, GaryStevenGevisser wrote:Dear Mr. Bogdanor, I read the Jpost article about your book Kasztner’s Crime and wondered whether you were familiar with Professor Friling’s Arrows in the Dark? Gary S. Gevisser
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One with a conscience – Fwd: Jo-Anne Duggan
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Date: November 28, 2015 at 2:59:09 PM PST
To: quinj@ukzn.ac.za, verne@nelsonmandela.org
Cc: rest;”Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker; FB \”friend\” of Gary Gevisser” <kbabies1@aol.com>, josemanuel@deprada.net, bodhisattva.kar@uct.ac.za, saks.lucia@gmail.com, Nick.Shepherd@uct.ac.za, pippa.skotnes@uct.ac.za, hedley.twidle@uct.ac.za, Sandra.Young@uct.ac.za, niklas.zimmer@uct.ac.za, mbiwa@hotmail.com, grant.mcnulty@gmail.com, sarabyala@gmail.com, dwcohen@umich.edu, josette.mandlovu@gmail.com, Lesley.Cowling@wits.ac.za, anetteh3@gmail.com, selloh@nelsonmandela.org, hhughes@lincoln.ac.uk, J.Maingard@bristol.ac.uk, philm@iafrica.com, Litheko.Modisane@uct.ac.za, andrewputter@gmail.com, E.Sandon@bbk.ac.uk, reginasarreiter@yahoo.de, Chris.Saunders@uct.ac.za, katharina.schramm@ethnologie.uni-halle.de, awanless@iafrica.com, catherine.elliott@uea.ac.uk, john@rockart.wits.ac.za, joanne@lando.co.za, brentonashleymaart@gmail.com, info@georgemahashe.co.za, thokozani@gmail.com, smlliteras@gmail.com, Michael.Nixon@uct.ac.za, cara.stacey@gmail.com, odnreh001@myuct.ac.za, Kerusha.Govender@alumni.uct.ac.za, jsarndt55@gmail.com, ubaduza@gmail.com, esperanzarock@gmail.com, christoph.rippe@gmx.com, v.m.viestad@iakh.uio.no, thisalexandradodd@gmail.com, megzia@gmail.com, HKMMON001@uct.ac.za, jah@polka.co.za, sjappie@princeton.edu, liamkeene8@gmail.com, ishon.kweya@uct.ac.za, proudlyhistorian@gmail.com, coilin.parsons@georgetown.edu, SWNJAN008@uct.ac.za, kyliethomas.south@gmail.com, jessicartist@gmail.com, kim.winter@gmail.com, jill.weintroub@gmail.com, Joan Muller <mullerj@fm.co.za>, Joan Krok Institute for Peace and Justice – UCSD Campus <ipj@sandiego.edu>, “emefpchal@yahoo.com” <emefpchal@yahoo.com>, “The coupon clipper is the Jeffrey Jack The Ripper Essakow – co-owner of the Marc Rich and Co. Flower Hill Mall Solana Beach, California” <jessakow@proteaproperties.com>, “ressakow@email.msn.com” <ressakow@email.msn.com>, Conrad Wolff – supporter of Roy Essakow <kaapstad@walla.com>, “Texas American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]” <acluinfo@aclutx.org>, Ronnie Kasrils – South African Cabinet Minister – mentioned in THE UNLIKELY FORESTER <intmin@mweb.co.za>, Peter Schweizer c/o Eric Eggers <Eric.Eggers@g-a-i.org>, Jo Becker – New York Times journalist – Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal <jbecker@nytimes.com>, “dbhenriques@aol.com” <dbhenriques@aol.com>, “grundfest@stanford.edu” <grundfest@stanford.edu>, “Michael Strauss – International Monetary Fund – former student of Grundfest. Met Strauss on June 20, 2006 at bottom of zipline at Simatai Great Wall, China. Most shocked was Strauss to hear that DeBeers had established retail shops on US soil.” <mstrauss0@gmail.com>, “James A Mackay – Senior Lyolds of London Insurance agent who was assigned to meet with World Heavyweight Boxing Federation Champion Michael Grant and Gary S. Gevisser on March 27, 2012. March 27” <james.mackay@argentaplc.com>, John Dau – Leader of The Lost Boys of the Sudan <Dengakol@aol.com>, “bobbyj@gmail.com” <bobbyj@gmail.com>, “T. Colin Campbell, PhD – Cornell University The China Study” <bjp1@cornell.edu>, Fuji harville <livingontheveg@live.com>, Daley <daley@nytimes.com>, dlurie@yebo.co.za, “David Schmarman c/o Michael Sagorin. Schmarman was banned by the SA Apartheid Regime. Fellow Jewish high school student from Carmel College, Durban, South Africa, Sagaorin when doing his South African Apartheid Army duty with the SA Police Force arrested a black African kid who had stolen Schmarman’s motorcycle helmut for \”bread money\”; and despite pleas from Schmarman to drop charges, Sagorin went ahead with the arrest; the black kid was found guilty and sent to prison.” <mike@sagorin.com>, president@presidency.gov.za, Alan Dershowitz – Harvard Law School <dersh@law.harvard.edu>, “att-sec2@israelemb.org” <att-sec2@israelemb.org>, “Alan Lipworth – former junior partner of his close cousin, Stephen Moshal Cohen. Alan’s first cousin was murdered ANC armed wing member, Sandy Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997].” <alan@lipworthdiamond.com>, “Martin Rapaport of Rapaport Report – liason between Gary S. Gevisser and Harry Oppenheimer, Chairman of the Board, De Beers-Anglo American Corporation for the period 1978-1980. In 1978 De Beers began, using their premier European Bank, Barclays Bank, to wipe out all the resisting Israeli diamond merchants; by early 1980 the job was complete. See Edward Jay Epstein’s 1978 The Diamond Invention book, chapter 16, WARRING WITH ISRAEL.” <rap@diamonds.net>, “U.S. Senator Rand Paul” <senator@paul.senate.gov>, United State Justice Department <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, “ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>
Begin forwarded message:
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: One with a conscience – Fwd: Jo-Anne Duggan
Date: November 28, 2015 at 1:07:44 PM PST
To: Jo-Anne Duggan <jo-anne@heritageagency.co.za>
Cc: rest; Lex Arthur Cob <enquiries@lexarthurcob.com>, jenny@jennyhobbs.co.za, “ ark Gevisser – biographer of Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa. Mark is the eldest son of David Gevisser, the male heir of American-German, RACIST SOUTH AFRICAN INVADER Charles W. Engelhard Jr. assassinated by the Mossad on March 2 1971 and buried at St. Mary’s Abbey Church Morristown New Jersey. Mark is a close cousin of Sandra Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997], Gary S. Gevisser’s classmate from Carmel College, Durban, South Africa who was found half-naked in the trunk of her automobile, tortured to death by fellow members, Mark Gevisser’s father, David Gevisser wrote in his 2006 memoir, THE UNLIKELY FORESTER, in the armed wing of the ANC, who would have eventually all known that David Gevisser was a traitor, as well as all those who curried favor with D. Gevisser [1926-2009].” <mark@markgevisser.com>, Neil Gevisser <rhymedisease@earthlink.net>, Kathy Gevisser-Danziger Kathy danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>, Melvin Gevisser <mgevisser@sbcglobal.net>, “Jonny Gevisser – only son of Leslie Gevisser; Director The Extra-Mural Education Project Cape Town South Africa” <jg@emep.org.za>, Gill – Assistant to Jonny Gevisser <gill@emep.org.za>, “South African-British solicitor Ray Oshry – classmate of Gary Gevisser and GG’s murdered cousin Sandy Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]. R. Oshry remains a FB friend of GG.” <ray.oshry@haroldbenjamin.com>, “Lewis Barnett – sponsored by a DAAC diamond merchant to study in Israel. Former student of Carmel College, Durban, South Africa and also quiet classmate of Sandra Moshal-Gevisser Jacobson [1957-1997]; now a resident of Brooklyn, New York.” <llwsbrn8@aol.com>, “Jill Hogan – younger sister of ANC official Barbara Hogan who is the only white South African convicted by the South African Apartheid Regime for treason, and tortured during her captivity.” <info@mat.org.za>, Hlumelo Biko – son of Steve Biko murdered on 9/11/1977 – now running a Wall Street charity-investment portfolio <ali.ayala@endeavor.org>, “Jann Turner – daughter of slain white South African Richard Turner [September 21, 1941 – January 8, 1978] co-founder with Steve Biko [Decem,ber 18, 1946 – September 11-12, 1977] of Durban Movement.” <jann@jannturner.com>, Monkey 1 <monkeyboy264@earthlink.net>, kathleen paris <kathleendwalter@gmail.com>, “South African Professor of Economics Mark Darrock who in China on July 1, 2006 mentioned to Gary Gevisser, De Beers bring order to the diamond marketplace that would otherwise be chaotic.” <darroch@ukzn.ac.za>, “South African Gary Barber – Co-Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of MGM. On ulpan-Gadna training in Israel in 1972, same time as Gary S. Gevisser” <gbarber@mgm.com>, “Tony Leon – Fomer head of the South African Oppostion Party to the current ANC regime. Immediate past ANC South African Ambassador to Argentinia. Tony wrote praising obituaries for both Harry Oppenheimer [1908-2000] and David Gevisser [1926-2009]” <southafrica@bigmedia.co.za>, tony@cosatu.org.za, Trevor Manuel – former South African Minister of Finance <patti.smith@treasury.gov.za>, Trevor Noah – Daily Show <closedcaption@viacom.com>, Tefo Mohapi <g00g0lpl3x@gmail.com>, Joyce Mohapi – Recieved a De Beers-Rhodes Scholarship after being imprisoned during the 1976 Soweto Riots <joycemohapi@yahoo.com>, zadams@telkomsa.net, june.bam-hutchison@uct.ac.za, Jaco.VanDerMerwe@westerncape.gov.za, Mbongiseni.Buthelezi@uct.ac.za, victoria.collis-buthelezi@uct.ac.za, “Andile Madikizela – First cousin of Winnie Mandela and close confidant of Nelson Mandela who acknowledged in private meetings with Andile of his knowledge that the CIA turned him in to the South African Apartheid Regime during the Kennedy Administration.” <mad11a@yahoo.com>, Jonathan Beare – founder Investec <jbeare@iafrica.com>, derrick.beare@zenprop.co.uk, “Terry Rosenberg – Director of Uranium One [2006-2010] which is controlled by Putin and owns 20% of the United States’ uranium reserves. Prior was the top dog of failed Jonathan Beare’s Prefcor-McCarthy Holding Group-Avenger before Brand Pretorius took over on October 1, 1999, the same day the epic Revlon Corporation class action lawsuit was filed; the same day Russian forces invaded Chechnya following Russian false flag operation in the heart of Moscow.” <terry@oakbrook.co.za>, Brand Pretorius <brand@brandpretorius.com>, Annabel Linder – South African Radio Show Host and FB friend of Gary Gevisser <hosts@1485.org.za>, “Matthew Margo – Senior attorney CBS – 60 Minutes.” <matthewmargo@aol.com>, 60 Minutes <60M@cbsnews.com>
Begin forwarded message:From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: Re: Jo-Anne DugganDate: November 26, 2015 at 9:29:36 PM PSTTo: Jo-Anne Duggan <jo-anne@heritageagency.co.za>
Excellent. I look forward to it.
On Nov 26, 2015, at 9:19 PM, Jo-Anne Duggan <jo-anne@heritageagency.co.za> wrote:HiThanks. I’m in meetings all day but will read it properly when I get home. It looks fascinating!I’ll respond more fully tomorrow.Have a good day!Jo-Anne
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On 27 Nov 2015, at 01:37, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:I replied a little earlier. Did you receive it?
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: South African Invader – Jo-Anne Duggan
Date: November 26, 2015 at 4:27:38 PM PST
To: Jo-Anne Duggan <jo-anne@heritageagency.co.za>
Very slight edits to what I sent you earlier; same number of words, 2494.
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Jo-Anne Duggan
Date: November 26, 2015 at 3:22:51 PM PST
To: Jo-Anne Duggan <jo-anne@heritageagency.co.za>Nice to know that you are safe, sound and still talking
Sandy Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997] was not only a fairly close cousin but my classmate throughout my schooling at Carmel College, Durban, South Africa. Moreover, her grandfather, Sol Moshal [1894-1986] and my paternal grandfather, Israel Issy Gevisser [c. 1890-1970] were the most senior executives of Moshal Gevisser Group of Companies [1910-1970]
My father, and Issy’s favored son, Bernie Gevisser [1923-2012] is standing in the back row, on the far left. Nor was my dad at 5’ 8” the tallest person in the room, but that didn’t have anyone else in the photo, including those “inset” such as his first cousin David Gevisser [1926-2009], forgetting my father’s spectacular World War II record that had him while still 21 years old completing 71 miraculous dive-bombing missions.Need I share with you what it took to earn one’s Fighter Pilot wings
given how very few even made it through the mental and physical gymastic testings needed to first qualify before being allowed to sit in a simple cockpit, let alone fly the world’s most advanced fighter-bombers;
and the designation, Fighter-Bomber-Pilot had the best fighter-pilots often looking the other way when being introduced.My dad was that good, and best of all, most humble to boot.Both Sandy and I were also well aware that her grandfather had “no male heirs”, and nor did Sol Moshal own the “control block” of shares in very important Moshal Gevisser whose shares were actively traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, because my father and grandfather Issy owned the very important “control block”.There was not another Jewish or non-Jewish family quite like ours in Durban or for that matter South Africa given how extraordinarily well-connected was Moshal Gevisser with both the white and black South African communities.All our peers who had any sense, and they only knew from their parents-grandparents who were mostly all about money, believed that both our families were very very rich, but not quite “filthy rich” like the rest of South Africa’s Captains of Industry, because there was nothing “dirty” about how Issy and his elder brother, Morris first built this multi-national conglomerate, which began with them, at the turn of the last century, getting up the crack of dawn to prepare breakfast for the rickshaws of Durban who were not amongst the richest black South Africans, because they were the poorest, other than those in prison, and other concentration camps spread throughout South Africa; and after cleaning up, they would join their black customers on the dirt streets of Durban picking up unbroken bottles; hence their first company was the Durban Bottle Exchange.
None of them or their parents-grandparents, unless intimately involved with Moshal Gevisser, which included the huge ACME TIMBER
had any real idea of the enormous “political-economic” clout of Moshal Gevisser thanks to its relationship first with the Rothschild family who owned RAND MINES who were the majority shareholder of ACME TIMBER before they were ousted by Engelhard Jr. who had added to his “business calling card” the title, SOUTH AFRICAN INVADER following TIME MAGAZINE publishing in their January 27, 1961 edition an article titled, Corporations: South African Invader – CLICK HERE & CLICK HERE for the full article if you don’t have a TIME subscription.At the time of that “top dog designation” which came on top of his titles, Platinum-Diamond-Gold King, Charles W. Engelhard Jr. was still 43 years of age.Not to mention, 10 days before, January 17, 1961, on the same day President Eisenhower gave his infamous MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX speech from the Oval Office of the White House, the CIA, under orders from Eisenhower, assassinated the first democratically President of the Belgian Congo, Patrice Lumumba.At the time of Engelhard Jr.’s death on March 2, 1971, having turned just 54 the month before, and which shook up the world including President Nixon who sent a CIA Hungarian countess to meet with David Gevisser when he came to attend Engelhard Jr’s funeral at St. Mary’s Abbey Church, Morris Town, New Jersey, David Gevisser was a few months into his 44th birthday and earning a top salary as Chief Executive Officer of Engelhard Enterprises South Africa, which controlled a whole lot more than the world supply of platinum, 80% mined in South Africa.Upon accepting the position as executor of Engelhard Jr.’s estate which immediately prior to his death, included the “control person” position of the mining-banking consortium DeBeers-Anglo American Corporation [DAAC] with whom I am sure you are familiar, my “lucky uncle” Dave received a tax-free, lump-sum payment of $6 million which was paid offshore and tax-free.Nor was that ginormous “sign on bonus” the end of the gravy train because it was only the beginning.When the US Congress mandated that beginning in 1975 every new truck and automobile sold in the United States had to have a Catalytic Converter installed in the exhaust system, and each CC containing a 1.9 gram piece of platinum which could only be bought from Engelhard-DAAC, there was a market for platinum that was literally built overnight without it costing Engelhard-DAAC a penny in marketing and sales.That was just the tip of the iceberg of the manna that soon flowed from heaven, an almost impossible to imagine dreamworld.You couldn’t even write a fiction book describing such a fairy tale story where the central characters were the backers of this pariah South African Apartheid Regime and the United States Congress who were also talking out of both sides of their mouth.That is because you most likely couldn’t first think to sit down at a computer and type such a preposterous story where you wouldn’t know where to begin, unless of course I were to direct you.Divesting out of South Africa was big news throughout the world even if most people couldn’t point on a map where South Africa was positioned.Every moment after the first shipment of platinum to the United States took place, people like David Gevisser did much more than thank their lucky stars.Nor would you need to be in my shoes to fully get the big picture because all you would need to do is use your imagination and simple logic.The fact that David Gevisser in mid-1995 provided me with the full “rundown” prior to offering me the job of managing his worldwide investment portfolio, makes it somewhat more real, live action and interesting, not so?In 1996 Sandy gave startling evidence before the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission that is detailed in the Commission’s hearing of 28 February 2000. That hearing does not mention that Sandy had been dead just a little over 2 years or the circumstances of her suspicious death which had the South African Police opening up an investigation in March 2006 and the “white-wash/coverup findings published in the South African newspapers on September 5, 2006 – CLICK HERE & CLICK HERE
Sandy was with Jackie Quin the night before her assassination on December 19, 1985.12 years later, in early November 1997, Sandy, according to David Gevisser was “found tortured and murdered in circumstances which are as yet unexplained, but thought to be connected with internal ANC feuds that dated back to the years of the struggle”.It is my opinion that my father’s first cousin, who provided that startling 29 word, “found …struggle” revelation, would know at least as well as the actual assassins who would have done well to read the May 1986 pamphlet; The Revolution in South Africa: An Analysis – CLICK HERE & CLICK HERE – before committing such a foul act.Furthermore, my conclusions go well beyond David Gevisser writing just prior in his 2006 autobiography, THE UNLIKELY FORESTER, “She [Sandy] joined Umkhonto, the armed wing of the ANC, and saw very active and dangerous service.”Naturally when I hadn’t heard back from you I was a little concerned because it is not every day that a young white Jewish woman, who happened to be closely connected to Moshal Gevisser and Engelhard Jr. who was an “open supporter” of the Apartheid Regime, teams up with the armed wing of the ANC, Umkhonto whose main target is the Apartheid Regime, and she is responsible for setting up a “safe house” for the main principals targeted the following night by the Apartheid Regime’s illustrious death squad.Sandy’s murder was quite different since her killers not only wanted her quiet but they wanted to send a message with her torture death that inexplicably opened up that whitewash-coverup South African Police investigation whose “findings” were in stark contrast with the published writings shortly thereafter by my and Sandy’s “mutual lucky uncle” David Gevisser.You can see how rather quickly I responded yesterday to your initial response, and so again I was a little concerned given how the SAP never explained not only what prompted their decision to open up an investigation going on 9 years after her murder, but why their findings differ most significantly with David Gevisser’s assertions which were still foremost on his mind as he writes in the 2006 THE UNLIKELY FORESTER:Sandy had an unusual history for anyone of her background. She joined Umkhonto, the armed wing of the ANC, and saw very active and dangerous service. She and her husband retired to a farm outside Johannesburg after the Mandela miracle. She was recently found tortured and murdered in circumstances which are as yet unexplained, but thought to be connected with internal ANC feuds that dated back to the years of the struggle.
The last dated entry in THE UNLIKELY FORESTER is September 2006 which appears at the end of the AFTERWORD.David Gevisser also provided an “errata” sheet subsequent to the initial publication and there is nothing further on this most important subject.Moreover, my all day meeting with David Gevisser in 1995 came the day after my morning meeting with Trevor Manual, South Africa’s new Minister of Trade & Industry where at the end of that most interesting meeting I had Mr. Manual sign a copy of this photo below
showing my white niece and a young black South African of about the same age giving a kiss.Nor did David Gevisser decide to place all the names of the Gevissers and Moshals in a hat and he pulled out my name.I was 38 years old at the time, and had several more lifetime business experiences than your average fat cat Captain of IndustryDavid Gevisser in 1995 was 68 and hadn’t forgotten why in early 1978 he wrote me two letters of introduction, something he had never done for anyone else including his 4 sons. I proved myself when qualifying the following year with flying colors to join DeBeers in New York City, and nor did he or the DAAC have any reason to be disappointed in all my activities which followed over the next 15 year period.Moreover, nor did I need to mention to David Gevisser before he made me the “offer of a lifetime” that the year before I had turned down an offer by Randolph Apperson Hearst
who was chairman of the board of Hearst Corporation to become his top CEO; and furthermore, if I wished, Hearst was willing to publish, and pay me an advance of $6 million, for the book I am now writing which centers around the pricing and distribution of the world’s limited mineral resources including of course the all important water.
That is me above in between my mom Zena
and my elder sister Kathy-Louise back in early 1980 after I had returned to South Africa for medical treatment following my liver having been poisoned when working for the DAAC’s most important “site holder” on US soil, Codiam Inc. which was being run by Stephen Cohen and Alan Lipworth, very close cousins of David Gevisser and Sandy Jacobson whose first cousin is Alan Lipworth, also a grandson of Sol Moshal.
Just like our peers at school, very few people in the world knew how safe were all the kickbacks David Gevisser received from the American automobile and truck manufacturers who again were required by an Act of Congress to place a 1.9 gram piece of platinum within the catalytic converter of the exhaust system of each new car and truck sold in the United States which would soon spread to the rest of the world.Nor should you be concerned for who is taking care of David Gevisser’s remains were the groundskeepers where he is buried feel that they are not being adequately compensated.Like most, David Gevisser was only concerned with life while he was living and each day that went by and not a single member of the US Congress or for that matter the remaining 2 Branches of the US Government complained about the US auto-truck manufacturers violating the sanctions placed on doing business with Apartheid South Africa which of course is where the platinum was coming from, he felt safer and that much richer because he had his hand in every deal worth talking about; and he knew better than to boast.Naturally he was looking for someone who he knew to be bright and was also most discrete.
There is strong reason to believe that not only can this most important matter of exposing all those most profiting from Sandy’s death and wanting to sweep her torture-murder under the carpet, be soon put to bed, but it will help greatly in the healing of South Africa for the masses to finally hear the truth.Once you heal mineral rich South Africa, the rest of the world will quickly follow suit.I have also been in touch with Sandy Ani-Adjei aka Alexander Arthur who I first came across when reading your story.Obviously I know about money, but that does not mean I am stupid or that buying someone’s silence has suddenly become difficult.There was a very good reason why I not only turned down David Gevisser’s offer but felt the time was not yet right to speak out given how The Internet had yet to mature to where today it connects most of the literate world at light speed.Dying the richest person in the grave never seemed smart.Nor did being corrupted in this lifetime sit well with me even though in accepting his offer which would have instantly placed me in the multi-billionaire class, I would never have needed to be exposed like the rest of “peacocks” you see on the Forbes list of billionaires; a great many totally oblivious to the true history of money creation and its future, and how it all ties together with German-American South African Invader Engelhard Jr.Go ahead and ask all your questions.Gary
Hi Gary.
Sorry I’m travelling I. A hit and humid KZN with poor cell reception.
I don’t know much about Sandy Jacobsen but seem to recall that she either gave evidence at it was mentioned at one of the TRC hearings.
With best wishes
Jo-Anne
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On 26 Nov 2015, at 15:26, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Did you get my email below?
Gary
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From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Jo-Anne Duggan
Date: November 25, 2015 at 8:16:34 AM PST
To: Jo-Anne Duggan <jo-anne@heritageagency.co.za>
Good morning from wet but great forest just east of San Diego.
Have you heard of Sandy Jacobson, her last name sometimes spelled Jacobsen?
All the best,
Gary
On Nov 25, 2015, at 3:59 AM, Jo-Anne Duggan <jo-anne@heritageagency.co.za> wrote:
Hi
I would love to hear it! Where are you? Thank you for tracking me down!
Look forward to hearing from you
Jo-Anne
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On 25 Nov 2015, at 05:47, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Before coming across an email address for you, I sent the following below:
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Subject: Jo-Anne Duggan
Date: November 24, 2015 at 7:44:05 PM PST
To: Jaco.VanDerMerwe@westerncape.gov.za
How do I reach Jo-Anne Duggan?
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Basic need – Fwd: Automatic reply: My public writings… scroll to the bottom
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I am out of the office and unavailable. I will return Monday Nov. 28. For urgent matters, please email Amy.Scattergood@latimes.com.
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Pete Grugeon shared a link.
Britain’s Royal Family contributes a lot less to the UK economy than you think
Britain’s Royal Family is apparently worth £57 billion but delivers a lot less in net contribution.
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Dean Aggett http://royalcentral.co.uk/…/only-one-taxpayer-will-fund…
Only one taxpayer will fund the Buckingham Palace repairs; The Queen
ROYALCENTRAL.CO.UK
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Pete Grugeon That’s only relevant if you accept the queen’s ownership of the crown estate which is based on her god given right to own and rule the country. I see the crown estate as stolen property which should be returned to the people.
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Dean Aggett it has been handed down to her and she is expected to do whats required for her entire life not something we would enjoy, so she returns most of the money from it, more like an admin fee ? and Ill bet its not as wasteful as a council run service, so the nation benefits to a much larger extent than most people are lead to believe.
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Pete Grugeon If you hand down stolen property to your kids, it is still stolen property.
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Pete Wentland Handling stolen property is still a crime and the property still doesn’t belong to the recipient.
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Pete Wentland I think a lot of people would probably quite enjoy the life she leads over the drudgery they have to endure to survive, although many would probaby feel guilty about living in such extreme excess when so many go without their basic needs.
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Dean Aggett stolen property ? is all ownership theft or is it the fact that the crown property rights where given to this family when the government killed the king and did a deal for the power
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Dean Aggett Pete Wentland we all in this country, live the lives we do at the expense of many people around the world I dont see many giving up anything to even things out with those with less.
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Pete Grugeon The ownership of the crown estate is based originally on the monarch’s “god given right” to own the country and all within it. Clearly this is bollocks. Then a deal was done with the non-royal members of the elite that they would support the monarch’s claim to be head of state and allow them to retain the crown estate in return for a reduction in the political power held by the monarch. The majority of the people have never had a say. Therefore the claim is completely illegitimate.
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Dean Aggett the same as the legal and government systems now in this country, the people never gave them the rights ever,
in the days of old the king was chosen by the people, this is where i think the ownership ideas started, but this modern collaboration of wealth and power has been assumed by the systems that keeps them in that position of control. with no system to change the way the system is run.
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Pete Grugeon Which is why we need to push for more democracy and equality of opportunity. Part of that is rejecting the claims of the elite to wealth and power resulting from their bloodline.
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Dean Aggett any system that has been proposed has a group at the top, these few are always more equal than the rest
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Pete Grugeon Some systems are more equal than others. If we just despair at the impossibility of the task and give up, clearly we’ll get nowhere. We’ve come a long way from absolute monarchy. Let’s keep going.
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Gary Gevisser Dean Aggett you should explain to Pete Grugeon who gets most of it, why it is that you are so out of your league.
One other tangential point; it is the poorest of the poor who when given the information to level things out without being so foolish to resort to violence, end up supporting the status quo because they have too big an ego.
You know also from Einstein that people with little knowlege have big egos.
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Pete Wentland England is one of the richest but also one of the most unequal countries in the world and the gap between rich and poor is increasing all the time. For such a rich country, our poverty and child poverty statistics are absoutelly shocking and shameful. To have an elite living in such abject luxury while people rely on food banks not to starve and people who have worked hard all their lives die of hypothermia because they can’t afford to turn on the heating is just inexcusable. We live on a planet of finite resources so only by redistributing wealth can we tackle this crisis and hopefully leave this barbarically outdated birth lottery of inherited wealth or povery behind.
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Ben Scarcliffe That means we are all guilty of stolen property…….
Chris Brewchorne The Queen pays tax. Large corporations with offshore tax avoidance schemes and many rich ex-pats and celebrities don’t.
Katleberry Finn lot of people pay tax. it doesn’t justify her net drain on on economy. she is the figurehead of the feudal system. we don’t need that parasitic shit anymore. she serves absolutely no purpose. she will not save us from fascism nor will our government.
Dean Aggett a large proportion of the uk population are a net drain on the economy almost 90 percent receive more in wages and credits from the state than they pay in tax, its how they control the population by keeping them reliant on the tax mans payouts.
Chris Brewchorne Katleberry Finn That level of general misinformation is barely worth responding to. The feudal system ended after serfdom declined in the early 14th Century following the black death and resulting labour shortages. Do you know what feudalism was? We are all now free citizens with no obligations to our Lord or the Crown. It doesn’t become you to use base abuse against a dedicated public servant and part of our living heritage. We need a head of State, that is her purpose. Where is this fascist threat of which you speak? And when we fought the fascist Nazi State, she chipped in and drove a truck, actually.
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Dean Aggett we all became citizens in 1983
Katleberry Finn erm, jo Cox ring any bells? how can you not acknowledge that fascism is on the rise?!! and capitalism is just modern day feudalism. I object to the existence of the state, not just the head of state. we wouldn’t be involved in any kind of financially dependent relationship with state or government if they weren’t part of a system leftover from feudal days that means that land ownership is mostly in the hands of a very few.
Dean Aggett state controlled capitalism is my bigest concern, and the way it redirects blame to any other group or individual inciting hate of everything except themselves
Katleberry Finn capitalism is not controlled by the state.
Katleberry Finn an Chris would you min explaining why it ‘does not become me’ to call the monarchy parasitic? am I precluded from having an opinion because I am female? I sincerely hope not and find that kind of outdated patronising language quite offensive.
Dean Aggett the state makes all the rules that govern the way corporations can function and gives the tax breaks to those it wishes to succeed, it set wages, conditions for employment, grants contracts, and employs more people than any other, that is why I believe the state is at the head,
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Chris Brewchorne Katleberry Finn Calling people a ‘shit’ is hardly raising the intellectual bar. You are coming out with lots of vitriol but not a lot of actual fact or balance. One right wing saddo nutter white supremacist doesn’t mean there’s going to be a mainstream fascist movement in Britain- extremist hate groups are banned and on the margins of society. There is always a rise of radicalism when a state lets down the populous, as happened in 2008, when the cost of the banking collapse fell on the shoulders of the public. Its a predictable cycle. The only current fascist states I can think of are North Korea and Zimbabwe, maybe with Syria, Russia and good old Berdimuhamedow in Turkmenistan. Erdogan is heading that way too. The Donald has promising potential. Most fascist dictatorial states evolve from socialist movements with personality cults, which like you see capitalism as the enemy. Stalin was a far worse mass murderer than Hitler, and he was supposedly a communist.
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Gary Gevisser Dean Aggett Dean, don’t you think you should share with everyone here what you learned from me that would make this conversation so much more interesting than simply you only hearing what you have to say.
Dean Aggett you have the floor, but I think one small step is all people are open to hearing,
Gary Gevisser You have heard the words, “People with little intelligence have great difficulty feeling stupid”.
It would be wrong to assume people are stupid if they are not first given the information.
All this talk about “divine authority” and who has and who hasnt “control” is explained in a book that I did not write but I was already at the highest levels of De Beers-Anglo American-Barclays Bank.
That most interesting non-fiction book is the very easy first step you should be telling everyone to take including your significant other Kerry Anderson Molfesis who wants to be friendly with all the wrong people, all in accordance with the proven principle, “Weak energy attracts weak”.
You find yourself very quickly in American author-investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein’s The Diamond Invention book.
As I have told you repeatedly, start at any chapter, but not chapter 16, WARRING WITH ISRAEL
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap16.htm
In a matter of seconds you are going to see the men separating from the boys.
Anyone who continues this discussion thread by ignoring how the resources of the planet are allocated and it has nothing to do with taxes, deficit spending or politicians giving very carefully scripted distraction speeches, they do so at their peril.
They will be telling the rest of you everything about them that you were unsure about.
On the other hand, anyone who would like to debate with me the gun-money-power of the global banker De Beers-Barclays, this would be a great time, but first you must read the book and constantly asking yourself why it was me and not any of you or those you all consider so smart on money matters who got hired by the global banker who simply back all sides to war, when they cannot lose because they have made certain to wipe out all their opposition.
You live with fear, you die with fear and the skittish should simply envision themselves returning at skittles.
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Gary Gevisser When you lose the game of life, you don’t need to ask yourself why it is that you look so miserable.
What goes around, comes around with a vengeance!
The Meek With Teeth Shall Inherit The Earth.
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Chris Brewchorne Misinformation Pete Grugeon. The Crown Estate was formally signed over by George III to the control of Parliament in 1760, with all revenue going to the public purse, in return for the Civil List annual fee to fund Royal functions. Its technically owned by the public, not the Queen; she cant sell it and doesn’t get the direct income from it.
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Pete Grugeon The situation you describe is exactly as I described it.
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Denise Lewis It would be interesting to see figures/accounts…and why did George decide to hand over the crown estate, and how did he get it in the first place? And lastly but not least why isn’t the govt privatizing the crown estate as they have with everything else…
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Chris Brewchorne Its effectively leased to the government by the Crown. George didn’t really have much influence over it (he was very ill). It was public pressure that if the King couldnt run his own affairs, it should be done by Parliament on his behalf. Otherwise he might have sold it all for a very large turnip.
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Pete Grugeon For “public pressure” read “a decision of the non-royal elite”.
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Denise Lewis Cheers…will read up more when I’m less woolly headed!
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My public writings to Dean are not meant to console you for the role you have played in my mother Zena continuing to be held captive, as much as her demise makes you feel relevant.
I won’t ask you what you thought of my last broadcast SIBLING PART but what did you think of the photo at the bottom of my WWE sister Kathy?
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Facetime – Criirad legitimate – Re: Réponse automatique : As soon as possible Fwd: Investec
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Criirad legitimate – Re: Réponse automatique : As soon as possible Fwd: Investec
Date: May 6, 2016 at 12:37:17 AM PDT
To: “Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org” <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org>
I dont have Skype on my iPhone. I do have FaceTime
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On 06 May 2016, at 08:49, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
just tried calling you on Skype and it disconnected before I could leave a message. Later today we are probably going into Ajaccio where we will get a better Internet connection.
I think I know why you want to talk, and not to change the subject, but you never told me exactly how you went about getting the OECD job?
On May 5, 2016, at 11:00 PM, <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> wrote:
We are suppose to go hiking tomorrow. Call me at 06-25-66-36-88 to establish a connection. Or text me any time between now and then
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On 05 May 2016, at 22:45, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
what time tomorrow?
we out of minutes on our cell phone but we can try skype. what is your handle, can you send me a message?
On May 5, 2016, at 8:45 PM, <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> wrote:
Let’s talk
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On 05 May 2016, at 18:02, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
that was far too vague.
How would you, if you were me, write to Criiad to get them to wake up?
Do you see anything in their literature that talks to weapons development behind all nuclear that drives everything that is wrong in this world?
I haven’t and I have looked. I’ve also looked at their financial statements that they make public and there are some disturbing items; but the money side is my area of expertise.
I want you to tell me what to write, using simple English to explain the rest; namely how they have completely missed the boat when warning the public about the increasing emissions from nuclear power plants without explaining that the emissions serve as nothing more than a smokescreen for uncontrolled nuclear weapons proliferation.
Im going for a run with Mango as Marie comes to the end of his warm up on the bed.
BTW, Marie had a great dream last night, that I will share with you later.
On May 5, 2016, at 5:32 PM, <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> wrote:
I need to read their literature and find an area of common interest. It isn’t obvious whether they are interested the the economics of safety or nonproliferation. As a fall back, I did notice that they have done something on Hanford. So if I can’t find any common scientific/professional interests, I can find common personal interests!
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On 05 May 2016, at 16:53, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Tell me what you would say so that I can give you my critique.
On May 5, 2016, at 4:49 PM, <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> wrote:
Good idea
I will contact them and try to visit
Thanks for the great idea!
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On 05 May 2016, at 15:12, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
I did not see this response from you before writing you the previous.
How would you write to Criirad to get them to wake up?
On May 5, 2016, at 3:03 PM, <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> wrote:
Their leader looks like what he’s doing but they don’t seem to be thinking very hard about, for example nuclear power, proliferation, nuclear weapons, and weapons waste. I grew up surrounded by weapons waste which is why I don’t believe that reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is worth doing it. The Russians now claim they have a new technology where they mix spent fuel with almost highly enriched uranium and feed it back through: REMIX. This way they can use their excess capacity in enrichment to extend their market share in fuel and hence marker in reactors
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On 05 May 2016, at 14:20, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe that is why they havent been corrupted; they are missing the politics and therefore are missing the big picture target.
Is that what you are saying?
On May 5, 2016, at 1:07 PM, <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> wrote:
It is harder to corrupt science than ideology. Of course, it can be misinterpreted or on the web site they present the damage of the tsunami as damage from Fukushima, but that gives you an idea of where they are coming from. They seemed to be focused on public service, measuring radioactive contamination, rather than focusing on politics.
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On 05 May 2016, at 12:36, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Gr,
Why wouldn’t CRIIRAD be as corrupted-infiltrated as the rest of the opposition?
Gg
On May 5, 2016, at 12:26 PM, <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org> wrote:
Gg,
I am taking it easy in Antibes. I need to buy tools to work on the garden. Genevieve thinks today is a holiday.
CRIIRAD looks like a science based anti-nuclear group that doesn’t make distinctions between the various sources of radiation. They look like they know what they are doing. But I should look at their web site on a big screen rather than on my iPhone.
Well, G has noticed that we need to buy vegies for lunch.
A+
Gr
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On 05 May 2016, at 11:06, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:
Gr,
So you are still traveling. You never answered my question about Criirad. Also, what question/s do you think I should ask them to find out if they are legitimate?
Gg
On May 3, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org wrote:
I am out of town. If urgent you may call me at +33-6-25-66-36-88 or
send messages to geoffreyrothwell@yahoo.com, and
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Sibling part – Does this “Bit of Gamble” ring a trolley name? – Fwd: Rich – Meet Me In St. Louis MMISL – Missiles – impossible at any rate
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Subject: Sibling part – Does this “Bit of Gamble” ring a trolley name? – Fwd: Rich – Meet Me In St. Louis [MMISL] – Missiles – impossible at any rate
Date: November 22, 2016 at 11:38:22 AM PST
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Cc: Frank Rich <editorialsubmissions@nymag.com>, Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com>, “Rod Margo Esquire – FB friend of Gary Gevisser. Rod’s father, South African judge Cecil Margo Esq. wrote, at the request of Ben Gurion, the blueprint for what is today the brutally strong Israel Air Force.” <rdmargo@att.net>, “Matthew Margo – Senior attorney CBS – 60 Minutes.” <matthewmargo@aol.com>, Kathy Gevisser-Danziger Kathy danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>, “Deborah Sturman Esq. – replaced Kathy Gevisser Danziger as executor of Alan Zulman’s estate on Zulman’s death bed.” <sturman@sturman.ch>, “Shmuel Rabi -American-Israeli lawyer practising Jewish Law in Israel. 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Colonel + organic produce farmer.” <tene.organi@gmail.com>, “Jonathan Cooke – British author and Israel tour guide.” <mail@jkcook.net>, Haneen Zoabi – Muslim Arab member of Israeli Knesset <hzoaby@knesset.gov.il>, liwan.nazareth@gmail.com, “righteous.nations@yadvashem.org.il” <righteous.nations@yadvashem.org.il>, “Kathryne Anderson – Council of Europe, Defender of Human Rights” <k.anderson@coe.int>, Alan Dershowitz – Harvard Law School <dersh@law.harvard.edu>, Noam Chomsky – I AM movie <chomsky@MIT.EDU>, “Dr. Rod Smith Phd – formerly of RAND Think Tank – Principal Waterstrategist.com – Facebook friend of GG and also present at the Wetherly Capital Group board meeting on Feb. 8, 2002 held in the corporate headquarters of Arden Realty, the largest REIT trading on the New York Stock Exchange before being bought out by General Electric.” <rsmith@stratwater.com>, “Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker; FB friend of Gary Gevisser” <kbabies1@aol.com>, “Chief Rabbi of the United States, Rabbi Capers Funnye – close cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama, and Facebook friend of GG.” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>, cc-Ahackner <ahackner@netactive.co.za>, Cc-Alanditz <mandm@global.co.za>, cc-Bubs <bubs@netvision.net.il>, cc-Clive Bernstein <iti04598@mweb.co.za>, Cc-Colin Puterman <bdfabric@iafrica.com>, Cc-Elaine Zulberg <Hbar4@aol.com>, Cc-Lframe <alana@netvision.net.il>, Cc-Michael Arinov <aronz@earthlink.net>, cc-paulClapper <clapper@maaganm.co.il>, cc-Saul Basckin <deputygm@peninsula.co.za>, cc-Saul levin <slevin@nepa.org.za>, cc-Sperling <sperling@iafrica.com>, ccGrahamkluk <gkluk@attglobal.net>, ccLhack <lhack@home.com>, cc-Bergermd <bergermd@aol.com>, cc-Spberman <spberman@sabje.co.za>, “Zena Badash-Ash Gevisser Zulman [May 30 1929 – ] c/o Arnold Pollak” <arnold@signforce.co.za>, “Julian. 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Prior was the top dog of failed Jonathan Beare’s Prefcor-McCarthy Holding Group-Avenger before Brand Pretorius took over on October 1, 1999, the same day the epic Revlon Corporation class action lawsuit was filed; the same day Russian forces invaded Chechnya following Russian false flag operation in the heart of Moscow.” <terry@oakbrook.co.za>, Jonathan Beare – founder Investec <jbeare@iafrica.com>, Peter Schweizer c/o Eric Eggers <Eric.Eggers@g-a-i.org>, “Geoffrey Rothwell – Principal Economist at De Beers controlled, US Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, headquartered in Paris, France.” <geoffreyrothwell@yahoo.com>, “Joe Grundfest – former Commissioner of the SEC and Stanford Law School, who wrote Gary Gevisser on April 23, 2002, Could I stop you?” <grundfest@stanford.edu>, “Diana Henriques – journalist New York Times – Big Jury Award in Injury Case Over Keyboards – December 10, 1996, whose name is mentioned along with Gary Gevisser in the APPLICATION OF LAW TO FACTS in US Federal Judge Jack B. 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Most shocked was Strauss to hear that DeBeers had established retail shops on US soil.” <mstrauss0@gmail.com>, “BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM: MICHAEL FORSYTHE” <mforsythe@bloomberg.net>, “bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il” <bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il>, Tzipora Malka Tzipi Livni <zlivni@knesset.gov.il>, “Aharon Barak – President of the Supreme Court of Israel [1995-2006]” <barak@idc.ac.il>, “Donald Trump c/o Claire, Republican National Committee” <email@gop.com>, British Embassy – Israel <enquiries.consular@fco.gov.uk>, Office of the Public Guardian – United Kingdom <OPGAXIS100RegisterSearches@ipublicguardian.gsi.gov.uk>, “southafrica@bigmedia.co.za” <southafrica@bigmedia.co.za>, “Mark Gevisser – author of autobiography of Thabo Mbeki former President of South Africa. Mark Gevisser is the son of David Gevisser male heir of American-German Charles W. 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Darren – pay attention to the dates as well as the hyperlink over, “”doors slammed in my face, right, left and center”
THEATER; For a Bit of a Gamble, Meet Them in St. Louis
By PATRICK PACHECO; Patrick Pacheco is a freelance writer who specializes in the arts.
Published: October 29, 1989
True to form, Miss Brickhill and Mr. Burke have garlanded the seasonal vignettes with fountains, sumptuous costumes, fireworks, a five-ton ice-skating rink and, of course, a trolley that goes clang-clang-clang. According to the producers, almost $3 million has been spent on the physical production, designed by Keith Anderson. Mr. Burke is also credited as director and Miss Brickhill as choreographer in this production, which marks their American debut.
”The challenge was to take this enchanting family story and embellish it without overwhelming it,” says Mr. Burke, sitting with his wife of 30 years in the study of their rented East Side apartment, the temporary headquarters of Brickhill-Burke Productions.
The Burkes say their talents have always been directed toward the realm of light musicals and comedies and classic English theater. Their own families had come out of that cultural tradition in South Africa; Mr. Burke’s mother danced with Anna Pavlova’s company and his great-aunt was a founding member of a repertory company.
The Burkes say their reasons for immigrating to the United States were less political than artistic and economic. They felt isolated in South Africa as the international boycotts grew. Also, their runs ”were getting shorter and shorter,” says Miss Brickhill, as their audience shrank because of white flight. After 25 years of producing in South Africa, they decided it was time to move to Broadway. London might have been the more logical choice, but their experience, emphasizes Mr. Burke, is in American musicals.
Nonetheless, when Mr. Burke came to New York to pave the way for the move, he says he found ”doors slammed in my face, right, left and center” because Broadway producers had not seen his work. It took two years of byzantine negotiations to secure the stage rights for ”Meet Me in St. Louis” – complicated by the sale of the M-G-M film library to Turner Broadcasting and a legal tangle between Sally Benson’s heirs and the Actors’ Fund – and another three years to obtain financing. During that time, Mr. Burke taught acting and lived out of a cramped West Side apartment while his wife worked in South Africa.
Mr. Burke’s angel for ”Meet Me in St. Louis” finally came in the form of EPI Products, a family-owned health and beauty aids company that has put up a large share of financing. Members of the family, the Kroks, who immigrated to California from South Africa 10 years ago, had seen the Burkes’ productions there. It is the first theatrical venture for EPI, a company with domestic sales of $250 million a year. But the three sisters who run the company thought that the show, with its emphasis on wholesome family values, would serve as a good promotional tie-in. They also felt, says a co-producer, Christopher Seabrooke, a businessman who is responsible for their involvement, that a musical that features ”Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” would augur well for a commercial run at this time of year.
Mr. Seabrooke says there is only American money invested in the production. ”There is no South African investment for obvious political reasons,” he says. ”It would’ve been impossible at any rate. The amount of rands [ the South African currency ] an individual is allowed to take out of the country is the equivalent of approximately $95,000 per year.”
While many insiders, Mr. Burke says, warned him away from ”Meet Me in St. Louis” as a risky enterprise because it was ”old hat and slight,” he was convinced it was the right choice for the Brickhill-Burke calling card. Although the producer-director says he has as many as 10 projects in the works – including ”A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Mickey Rooney – the musical was simply the first one out of the gate. ”The show is about family, which has a universal and enduring appeal,” he says, adding that he didn’t think it was ”all that risky” to start with a score that includes perennial favorites like ”The Boy Next Door” and ”The Trolley Song.”
”It is an American classic because the film was so beautiful, done with great style and finesse. I wanted to keep those elements while reinventing the story to capture the excitement onstage,” he says.
To that end, Hugh Blane and Ralph Martin have added 10 new songs to the score. Ironically, Mr. Burke says that he wanted to ”open up” the musical even more, using a term usually reserved for stage musicals that become movies, not vice versa. As an example, the director notes that, in the film, the ”Trolley Song” consisted largely of close-ups of Judy Garland. Here, the number is rendered as a misty dream sequence taking advantage of the Gershwin Theater’s enormous stage.
In the reconstruction, the director says that he was immeasurably aided by Hugh Wheeler, the veteran musical book writer (”Sweeney Todd,” ”A Little Night Music”), who died nine months into the project.
”Although we fought and argued about many things,” Mr. Burke said, ”Hugh agreed that the star of this production had to be the entire Smith family.”
When the film was released, the critic James Agee said, ”The real love story is between a happy family and a way of living.” It was this aspect of the current production that enticed George Hearn. The actor, who won a Tony Award for his drag queen, Albin, in ”La Cage aux Folles,” plays a Victorian martinet in charge of an independent brood, which includes a doting wife (Charlotte Moore), a jig-happy Irish grandpa (Milo O’Shea), a crusty maid (Betty Garrett) and four daughters, including little Tootie (Courtney Peldon), who decapitates dolls and entombs them in a backyard cemetery, and naive Esther (Donna Kane), who primps for the boy next door.
”I suppose you could call this a fantasy,” says Mr. Hearn in his dressing room. ”But as dreams go, it’s not a bad one and one we could use a lot more of these days given the drug problem and the disintegration of the family.” I absolutely think there is a place on Broadway for this type of show along with ‘Les Miz’ and ‘Phantom.’ ”
Brickhill-Burke’s five-year struggle to gain a toehold in New York theater was made all the more difficult by what the couple refer to as ”an accident of birth.” As white South Africans, their claim to be ”not political” was somewhat incompatible with the international image of South African theater largely shaped through the politically charged works of Athol Fugard (” ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the Boys”) and Barney Simon’s Market Theater in Johannesburg, which first presented the musical ”Sarafina,” based on the violent Soweto school boycotts in 1976.
Yet, one wonders, how did they manage to cope as apolitical artists in a country whose apartheid policies inevitably defines one as ”political” at birth?
”You cope by doing what little you can to change the system,” says Miss Brickhill. They did this, she adds, by pressing early on for government permission to play to integrated audiences in the Johannesburg theater they managed for more than five years. And in 1974 they created ”KwaZulu,” which featured a cast of 35 black performers in ethnic dances. The show toured internationally to acclaim. They also taught classes for black actors, some of whom now sit on integrated arts councils in South Africa.
For the most part, however, Brickhill-Burke Productions is in the business of escaping reality, not addressing it. Mr. Burke says that the objective of using the theater as a place of magic transformation crystalized on his first visit to the traditional pantomime at the London Palladium in 1962. ”I sat transfixed,” he says, ”as Gillian Lynne [ the choreographer of ”Phantom of the Opera” ] swashbuckled across the stage as Puss n’ Boots and went through a series of metamorphoses. I’ve never doubted since then that you can do practically anything on stage that you put your mind to.”
But it was 10 years earlier, in 1952, says Miss Brickhill, that the couple’s embrace of the American musical theater became inevitable.
”An international company of ‘Oklahoma’ was touring South Africa,” she recalls. ”I saw it in Johannesburg, Louis saw it in Durban. We hadn’t even met yet, but we both had the same reaction. The show had this vitality, fire and energy that we both related to. It was the milieu in which we wanted to operate.”
Review/Theater; ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’: Movie Brought to Stage
By FRANK RICH
Published: November 3, 1989
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/03/theater/review-theater-meet-me-in-st-louis-movie-brought-to-stage.html?pagewanted=all
It’s hard not to feel stirred when the lights dim in a Broadway theater, the curtain rises on a picture-postcard frontcloth, and a confident pit band splashes through an overture heralding ”The Trolley Song,” ”The Boy Next Door” and ”Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Do these songs affect us because their authors, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, touched something eternal in the American character when they wrote them for the M-G-M film musical ”Meet Me in St. Louis” during the wartime of 1944? Or is it because the songs were first delivered by Judy Garland, that difficult cultural icon about whom our complicated feelings remain forever unresolved?
I’m not sure. In any case, Judy Garland isn’t coming back and the original ”Meet Me in St. Louis” is available on videocassette. So what’s the mission of the stage replica at the Gershwin Theater? To spread the good will earned by the overture, I guess. And that task, if not a lot else, is accomplished by this lavish show despite such obstacles as insipid acting, an inane book and a complete lack of originality. While it’s not high praise to say so, ”Meet Me in St. Louis” is superior to the other latter-day Broadway adaptations of M-G-M musicals, ”Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and ”Singin’ in the Rain.” Unlike its predecessors, this show respects its source and knows its audience. It also benefits from the fact that the original material – Sally Benson’s stories of domestic bliss and teen-age romance on the eve of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition – is too Kensington Avenue-bound to insist upon cinematic sweep.
The driving force behind the stage version is the director-and-choreographer team of Louis Burke and Joan Brickhill. They have put on many musicals in South Africa, and I don’t mean ”Sarafina!” (Though they do list one ”all black African musical” in their Playbill biographies, their St. Louis is conspicuously all white.) Given the familiar titles in their credits, it’s clear that Mr. Burke and Miss Brickhill have a particular passion for vintage Broadway musicals. After seeing ”Meet Me in St. Louis,” it’s equally clear that they have not witnessed many of those musicals in their original productions.
Their show, so reminiscent of ”American” musicals in London, is the work of people who know what Broadway hits are supposed to look and sound like – information gleaned from the close study of original-cast recordings and production photographs – but who can only guess at what makes such shows tick. ”Meet Me in St. Louis” comes with turntables of lantern-lighted Victorian scenery (by Keith Anderson) that mimics the opulence of Oliver Smith’s designs in a show like ”Hello, Dolly!” without recapturing their glamorous, advanced taste. The costumes – boaters and suspenders for men, petticoats galore for women -could be slightly faded wash-and-wear knockoffs of Miles White’s clothes for ”High Button Shoes.” Miss Brickhill’s energetic (and well executed) dance routines – struts, cakewalks, square dances, dream ballets – have no internal drive but look like compilations of souvenir-program freeze-frames of the Broadway choreography of Michael Kidd and Onna White. Even Hilary Knight’s poster art for the show suggests an enervated hybrid of his posters for ”Sugar Babies” and ”Half a Sixpence.”
What prevents the derivative from becoming boring (except in a Halloween fantasy sequence) is the conviction and hard cash behind it. ”Meet Me in St. Louis,” in contrast to most Broadway revivals, doesn’t look cheap. There’s not only a trolley but also an ice rink to employ a skater or two still loitering in the Gershwin from ”Starlight Express.” What’s more, Mr. Burke and Miss Brickhill have drilled their company and collaborators to produce the sound that goes with the show’s look. Bruce Pomahac’s conducting, Michael Gibson’s orchestrations and all the voices have the brash snap of another era.
Yet this rigorous paint-by-numbers attempt to manufacture a Broadway hit is also the show’s main trap. The mechanical technique precludes the imaginative spontaneity that might allow ”Meet Me in St. Louis” to soar above the lumpy sum of its parts. As a result, this production desperately needs an exciting creative force on stage to ignite it – a Robert Lindsay, a Debbie Allen, a star-to-be – and that spark never comes. The Smith family and their neighbors are played by performers whose personalities are as generic as the production around them.
Donna Kane sings the Garland numbers with clarion tone, but she and her sibling partner in boy-chasing, Juliet Lambert, act like well-schooled Miss America contestants; only the different colors of their wigs permit us to tell them apart. (The boys are so interchangeable that the one next door might as well be addressed as ”occupant.”) As the Smith patriarch, a role identical to his ill-fated turn in Richard Rodgers’s ”I Remember Mama,” George Hearn can only rail at the ”newfangled” telephone and condescend to his wife (Charlotte Moore). Milo O’Shea, a silver-haired grandfather in a progression of funny hats, deserves combat pay for the stage time he must share with the robotic little girl impersonating Margaret O’Brien’s Tootie.
In the Marjorie Main role of the cook, Betty Garrett offers the genuine brio of the 1940’s musical comedy performer she was. The evening’s other real links to the past are Mr. Martin and Mr. Blane, who have written 10 new songs for the occasion. The lyrics for these numbers, which variously apotheosize banjos, the Irish, New York City and ice, are as laughably silly as the ginger peachy Hugh Wheeler dialogue. (When the chorus sings ”ice is twice as nice,” one wants to counter, ”But liquor is quicker!”) The music, while no patch on the original ”St. Louis” score, is consistent with the 1940’s Tin Pan Alley sound that is so endearing in Mr. Martin’s output, with and without Mr. Blane, in the musicals ”Best Foot Forward,” ”Look Ma, I’m Dancin’,” ”Love From Judy” and ”High Spirits.”
But ”Meet Me in St. Louis” isn’t a throwback to those old Martin shows, any more than it transports us to turn-of-the-century St. Louis or to Arthur Freed’s heyday at M-G-M. A synthetic approximation of old-fashioned Broadway crowd-pleasers rather than the real thing, it most resembles the many professional, second-rate shows a musical-comedy fanatic would settle for seeing in the 1950’s or 60’s when there were no tickets to be had at a ”Music Man” or ”Dolly.” (There’s even a march, ”Paging Mr. Sousa,” written and staged like ”76 Trombones.”) No doubt ”Meet Me in St. Louis” can serve the same function today for matinee audiences shut out of Broadway’s current reigning hits. It’s hardly an unpleasant way to kill an afternoon in the theater, especially if you have a high tolerance for camp and are in the company of wide-eyed kids. An Era Suggested MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane; book by Hugh Wheeler; based on ”The Kensington Stories” by Sally Benson and the M-G-M movie ”Meet Me in St. Louis.” Directed by Louis Burke; choreography by Joan Brickhill; production design, Keith Anderson; lighting, Ken Billington; musical supervisor, Milton Rosenstock; musical director, Bruce Pomahac; orchestrations, Michael Gibson; dance arranger, James Raitt; sound, Alan Stieb and James Brousseau; vocal arrangers, Mr. Martin and Mr. Pomahac; ice choreographer, Michael Tokar; production stage manager, Robert Bennett; assistant director, Lonnie Chase; associate choreographer, Herman-Jay Muller. Presented by Brickhill-Burke Productions, Christopher Seabrooke and EPI Products. At the Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street. Lon Smith … Michael O’Steen Randy Travis … Brian Jay Katie … Betty Garrett Motorman … Jim Semmelman Tootie Smith … Courtney Peldon Mrs. Smith … Charlotte Moore Grandpa Prophater … Milo O’Shea Esther Smith … Donna Kane Rose Smith … Juliet Lambert John Truitt … Jason Workman Agnes Smith … Rachael Graham Mr. Alonzo Smith … George Hearn Warren Sheffield … Peter Reardon Ida Boothby … Naomi Reddin Douglas Moore … Gregg Whitney Eve Finley … Shauna Hicks Dr. Bond … Gordon Stanley Lucille Ballard … Karen Culliver Clinton A. Badger … Craig A. Meyer
Begin forwarded message:From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: Rich – Meet Me In St. Louis [MMISL] – Missiles – impossible at any rateDate: November 5, 2016 at 3:38:37 PM PDT
Attention: Frank RickDear Mr. Rich,I would like to begin sharing something with you, in return for for sharing with the most important people in the world this scathing review of MMISL on November 3, 1989.The Nobel Prize committee do not inform their audience that the most important people are exclusively focused on the money-mineral trail back and forth between America and South Africa, a beautifully scenic country which is mainly on the radar screen for safari goers and cheap vacationers.I along with my mother Zena
were probably the first to see the review as we were at the cast party
following the premiere that ended just hours before the first edition of the New York Times went to print.We knew the fate just by reading your end:No doubt ”Meet Me in St. Louis” can serve the same function today for matinee audiences shut out of Broadway’s current reigning hits. It’s hardly an unpleasant way to kill an afternoon in the theater, especially if you have a high tolerance for camp and are in the company of wide-eyed kids.My copy came from a taxi cab driver and he got paid handsomely for waiting outside of The New York Times headquarters that I believe is still owned by Lev Leviev following a deal with President Putin, where sources of mine tell me that Leviev pocketed on 47th Street, $1.5 billion in commissions on a $13 billion diamond transaction right before a presidential election in Russia back in 2004.Bear in mind, if in fact that occurred exactly as I described, then I very much doubt President Putin wanted it kept a secret, because how else would Leviev get suddenly so rich and able to afford such an important landmark in New York?Imagine one deal where the party with the diamonds can tell the party handing over the cash, “Just imagine that I have $13 billion in diamonds because you know where that comes from?”And there will no be more tomorrow unless you answer my one question.BTW, it might have escaped your attention that back in 2004 Leviev positioned himself as the “arch rival” of De Beers.I don’t know of that many arch rivals who survive. De Beers wiped out in the space of a couple years, a decade before MMISL all the resisting Israeli diamond merchants – CLICK HERE – and who do you think survived?You know, being Jewish, our pogroms left no survivors. My great maternal grandmother Nechie Becker Bardash [1874-1943] might have been the only one.
I would like to think that it is more than so much time has passed since you thought about MMISL, that keeps your attention.What you exposed was not only how to kill a $6 million production quickly but those most would believe are the money people
behind it.
The New York Times left the critical “money angle” for Patrick Pachecowho 4 days before your executioner’s piece, Sunday, October 29th, digs quite a bit until he lets one of the co-producers of MMISL, Christopher Seabrooke speak:Mr. Seabrooke says there is only American money invested in the production. ”There is no South African investment for obvious political reasons,” he says. ”It would’ve been impossible at any rate. The amount of rands [ the South African currency ] an individual is allowed to take out of the country is the equivalent of approximately $95,000 per year.”
The funny part, as least to me, is the double entendre, ‘It would’ve been impossible at any rate.”You kill a Broadway show and another comes up just as quick.A great many people profit from turnover.When you research Christopher Seabrooke, you will see that he takes out of one of his South African public corporations the equivalent of $1 million a year.Yet Seabrooke has a longer first and last name than Lev Leviev who must like the other billionaires feel a little resentful that a piddly millionaire can get their 15 minutes of fame by paying so little?Your job is not finance but creating exciting imagery using masterful prose, no doubt totally justifiable and so extraordinarily colorful.
In the course of the past 27 years and 2 days, besides for the world turning a lot, the money people, behind the money people
behind the Burke-Brickhill production MMISL remain in the missile business.Pictures tell a lot, and the people behind the camera lens are often much more important as they choreograph.
That photo at the premiere of my mother Zena and Walter Cronkite shows clearly, assuming you know both characters, that my mother didn’t walk up to her lifetime friend and say, “Hello, pleased to meet you, can I have a photo with you so that I can show my friends back home that we are long lost friends”. On the other hand, Cronkite was good at looking genuine in front of the camera. It is his eyes that are most genuine, you think?Nor was my mother and Cronkite ever out of touch for very long. The two of them went back to when my mother’s model, Penny Coelen won the Miss World 1958 competition.
This photo below where my mother is the centerpiece was very carefully staged,
and the people
my mother was meeting at the 1964 World Fair would have liked to be photographed with my mother, but my mother was far too shrewd to be used for someone else’s agenda.Everyone has an agenda.
Don’t assume that I was the guy that built up Epi Products’ blistering speed $250 million in sales which was a fair amount of money back then as was the $10 million that was eventually blown with MMISL because their egos got in the way of the big picture, like most.
I wasn’t. But I do know “sumthing” [sic] about what links Broadway, Lloyd’s of London, The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, uranium
Clinton cash, Trump trash talk and foreign exchange rates.Would you like you like to learn more as this Presidential race comes down to the wire?Sincerely,Gary S. GevisserPS – Feel free to begin by asking me my agenda.[Word count 1078]
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Date: November 27, 2016 at 5:22:43 PM PST
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Cc: Ayalah Kaplan <ayalahk@012.net.il>, Guy & Muhammad – Israeli pharmacist friends of Zena Ash Gevisser Zulman <guy@merkaha.co.il>, “Dr. Barry Molk MD.” <blmolk1@mac.com>, GWerbel <GWerbel@aol.com>, “Kathryne Anderson – Council of Europe, Defender of Human Rights” <k.anderson@coe.int>, “Shmuel Rabi -American-Israeli lawyer practising Jewish Law in Israel. Nephew of Deborah Sturman Esq.” <devora0527678711@gmail.com>, “Deborah Sturman Esq. – replaced Kathy Gevisser Danziger as executor of Alan Zulman’s estate on Zulman’s death bed.” <sturman@sturman.ch>, “Dr. Rod Smith Phd – formerly of RAND Think Tank – Principal Waterstrategist.com – Facebook friend of GG and also present at the Wetherly Capital Group board meeting on Feb. 8, 2002 held in the corporate headquarters of Arden Realty, the largest REIT trading on the New York Stock Exchange before being bought out by General Electric.” <rsmith@stratwater.com>, “South African-British solicitor Ray Oshry – classmate of Gary Gevisser and GG’s murdered cousin Sandy Moshal Jacobson [1957-1997]. R. Oshry remains a FB friend of GG.” <ray.oshry@haroldbenjamin.com>, Malcolm Ness <malcolmnessarchitect@gmail.com>, “Major Tuvia Friling – Israel Defense Force, Deputy Commander Golani Brigade, Professor Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Negev Desert, Israel – Author of ARROWS IN THE DARK” <friling@bgu.ac.il>, Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com>, “Steve Linde – South African-Israeli Editor in Chief of Jerusalem Post – I’m not saying anything about anything – July 31, 2015” <steve@jpost.com>, FRAN BAKER POEGGEL <Bsissy30@aol.com>, Paul Baker <pbaker@bwr-la.com>, “Rod Margo Esquire – FB friend of Gary Gevisser. Rod’s father, South African judge Cecil Margo Esq. wrote, at the request of Ben Gurion, the blueprint for what is today the brutally strong Israel Air Force.” <rdmargo@att.net>, “Matthew Margo – Senior attorney CBS – 60 Minutes.” <matthewmargo@aol.com>, Seth Frantzman – op-ed editor of Jerusalem Post <seth@jpost.com>, John Fish out of Water Reed <john.reed@ft.com>, kathleen paris <kathleendwalter@gmail.com>, Dave Fifield – Gerhard <monkeyboy264@earthlink.net>, “Geoffrey Rothwell Phd – Principal Economist at De Beers-Barclays Bank controlled, US Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, headquartered in Paris, France. Former 27 year senior Stanford University lecturer.” <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org>, “Donald Trump c/o Claire, Republican National Committee” <email@gop.com>, “Jeffrey R. Krinsk Esq.” <jrk@classactionlaw.com>, “The coupon clipper is the Jeffrey Jack The Ripper Essakow – co-owner of the Marc Rich and Co. Flower Hill Mall, Solana Beach, California” <jessakow@proteaproperties.com>, “Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah – Star of Emmanuel’s Gift produced by The Coupon Clipper is The Jeffrey Jack The Ripper Essakow. Emmanuel is a FB friend of Gary S. Gevisser” <emefpchal@yahoo.com>, “Aharon Barak – President of the Supreme Court of Israel [1995-2006]” <barak@idc.ac.il>, “Chief Rabbi of the United States, Rabbi Capers Funnye – close cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama, and Facebook friend of GG.” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>, “Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker; FB friend of Gary Gevisser” <kbabies1@aol.com>, Annabel Linder – South African Radio Show Host and FB friend of Gary Gevisser <hosts@1485.org.za>, Galit Tassi <galit.tassi@gmail.com>, “Dave Osh – former Israeli Fighter Pilot now working with Vistage and supporter of the BDS movement.” <osh.dave@gmail.com>, Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister of Israel <bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il>
(1)From: garystevengevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: Sitting prettyDate: September 8, 2016 at 11:02:18 AM PDTTo: Kathy-Louise Gevisser danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>, Neil Gevisser <neil@rhymedisease.com>, Melvin Gevisser <mgevisser@sbcglobal.net>, “Zena Badash-Ash Gevisser Zulman [May 30 1929 – ] c/o Arnold Pollak” <arnold@signforce.co.za>Cc: rest, “Barry Molk, MD.” <blmolk1@mac.com>, “Aharon Barak – President of the Supreme Court of Israel [1995-2006]” <barak@idc.ac.il>, Marie Dion Gevisser <mariedion1@gmail.com>, “Deborah Sturman Esq – Played pivotal role in collecting billions of $ from remnants of Germany’s military machine during WW II, but stopped way too short when realizing it was so close to home.” <deborah.sturman@nyu.edu>, Benjamin Netanyahu – highly decorated Prime Minister of Israel <bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il>, “California The coupon clipper is the Jeffrey Jack The Ripper Essakow – co-owner of the Marc Rich and Co. Flower Hill Mall Solana Beach” <jessakow@proteaproperties.com>, “Rabbi Caspers C. Funnye – close cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama.” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>, Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker <kbabies1@aol.com>, Annabel Linder – South African Radio Show Host <hosts@1485.org.za>Connect the phone in the Netanya apartment and do as mom wished, beginning with having her speak with me.The past is not as important as the future which we can all change.Mom’s wishes for the future are very clear in terms of where she wants to be after Alan Zulman died on Aug. 6, and which you all ignore on your very talkative Facebook walls; as well as who she wants to be most near to; and it is not the 3 of you or your spouses or for that matter Melvin’s disaster ex.That does not mean the past is unimportant.Within hours when following up with lawyers in Israel while keeping the British authorities informed every step of the way, I will be going back to events in Lake Tahoe Nevada that so disappointed our mother, and Kathy’s giggling in the courtroom of such serious charges against Neil which were not fabricated, but certainly they were open to interpretation, did not go unnoticed by our mother Zena because she too read what the newspapers reported.Qualification to be our mother’s guardian is also a subjective test even if eventually manslaughter charges are brought against the 3 of you given how very lucid, and most controlled was our mother when speaking last with me on August 1, right before the phone was disconnected.Her previous “pronouncements” were no less lucid as well as being extraordinarily revealing of her intellect.The fact that none of you have ever once tapped into our mother’s most joyful mind has also never been lost on her.You also know why it is that there are few to none intimate photos of any of you alone with our mother as there are plenty with me from the moment I was born,
until I began with permission from mom to ever so gently begin tarnishing the self image of Alan Zulman as the savior of Israel, because it was not helping Israel; on the contrary it was only serving to spread at an alarming rate antisemitism throughout the world.The 3 of you were very late in jumping on to my bandwagon, and nor did you express to me or anyone of note your sudden hatred of Zulman as you of course missed the boat entirely since he, on his death bed, was in no position, to change his prior actions or anything of the past.The 3 of you had Zulman totally befuddled, which you knew, but that didn’t prevent the 3 of you from crapping all over him as he embarrassingly lost control of his cancerous bowls and the cancer spreading to more than his kidneys.You enjoyed the torture as it helped you to forget the past as you had increasingly cozied up to him to grab his and mom’s estate and to enjoy the wealth before you ended up in horrific pain like Zulman who had little to show in the end for his 8+ decades on this magnificent planet that only provides a glimpse of the spectacular universe that only boggles the mind of us humans.What unbelievable punishment to have the 3 of you in his midst as the clock slowly ticked down.He had to be asking himself if it was all worth it and what he could do to make amends and I believe his wishes were granted.I will in time visit his grave and pass my respects.When you go into denial you lose your spirituality that I agree does not pay the bills at least not directly.There is a connection between spirituality and common sense even if your mind misses it.You also know that as of Aug. 1 mom would have continued to agree that a mind is a terrible thing to lose, even worse than losing all your Facebook friends who you know most are following along very closely, including The Coupon Clipper is Jack The Ripper Jeffrey Essakow whose FB has also yet to announce the passing of his mother’s close cousin, Alan Zulman who has now been dead 1 month and 2 days, and I still haven’t heard back from his estate lawyer South African-Israeli Eli Symon who is obviously in cahoots with Kathy’s “South African-Israeli” [sic] sick lawyer Ayala Wiesil who is also quiet and both thinking that the monies you pay them, including those that came out of Alan Zulman’s joint bank account with Deborah Sturman Esq would more than compensate for their gross negligence in breach of their fiduciary responsibilities towards Alan Zulman’s estate and mom’s healthcare needs that are also inextricably connected to both her estate and Alan Zulman’s remaining estate.I will also be covering what the employer of Alan Zulman’s only son, Lance Zulman can do to best protect mentally handicapped Lance from you vultures. The Israeli Revenue Service should be able to reach out better than me.The recording of my last phone conversation with mom on Aug. 1, is not only clear about how mom viewed all those disrespecting her wishes which included her caregiver Mary-Lou who the 3 of you had co-opted this indentured servant from across the seas Philippines, a crime that is unforgivable, but you can hear “vivdly” [sic] the loud annoying noise in the background, and me asking mom to ask them to turn it down, and her sad response clearly audible.You would all lose hands down in any fair court of law but you have already lost in the space that most matters.For the remainder of your 3 long lives you will have the most difficult time being in each others company and the same will apply to your children who will inevitably see that the monies they receive will not have been worth having their foolish names and faces added to the FOOLS NAMES, FOOLS FACES IN PUBLIC PLACES.When you hug and kiss one another on those few remaining “ocasions” [sic] please let me know if the tension is thick enough to cut through with any kitchen knife.Bear constantly in mind that this most alarming last conversation with my mother Zena took place 5 days before Alan Zulman’s heart stopped beating and the 3 of you could no longer take out your anger at yourselves on his flesh and bones, which does not mean that Alan Zulman’s mind had stopped functioning when your 3 pronged vicious attack began soon after you received my Jan. 14 communique, the day following our visit with mom and Alan Zulman which he “interupted” [sic] after 10 minutes because it was not going his way; and nor was he thinking that he would be helping the 3 of you because like the 3 of you he did not know how you would react to my communique which I had yet to write.Your heartless actions against our mother continue to mount.I must do everything I can to stop it.Go do the right thing.To life!GaryPS – I’m in the middle of the Cleveland National Forest on a hike with very patient Mango and decided to take a short break and to use the miraculous and only positive forces of mother nature that our mother also knows only too well, to get all of you to wake up before it is too late to turn back the clock.Everything, without exception, is clockwork for even the single red ant near my Solomon running sneakers is staying away also from Mango who is right now stretched out on his stomach on top of the table bench where I’m sitting.Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha™, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone(2)On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:33 AM, Kathy Gevisser Danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au> wrote:Gary,This will be brief and to the point. You have been fed information that is totally incorrect and you are being used to shoot the bullets. These are the facts:-· Alan was diagnosed with Cancer Nov 2014 when Debra and I happened to be visiting Israel. It was also very apparent to me that Mom had Dementia and Alan himself was very aware of this.· Mid December 2014 he took himself and Mom to a Lawyer to get new Wills. I only knew the contents of the new Wills in Feb 2016 when Alan told me what was in them. I was shocked as I knew the contents of Mom’s previous Wills. I asked him to leave you money he owed you as well and Mom’s grandchildren and his grandchildren, 2 of whom he had never met. He refused. In April 2016 he was at Eli Symons office and he called me from there and told me exactly what was in his Will and at that time he said he had appointed Eli as Executor of his Estate and to get instruction from me, however, I was never ever to give you anything. He also told me that all his and Mom’s money was being held in accounts in Deborah Sturman’s name and no mention of this money was in either of their Wills. Eli Symon prepared a document for Deborah Sturman to sign acknowledging she was holding their money. She never signed it.· In June 2016 Eli Symon again spoke to Alan and told him that he needed to get all their money being held by Deborah Sturman into a Trust Account that Alan had made Ayala Weizel open weeks before, to ensure that Mom would be well cared for. Alan was unable to write at that stage and Eli Symon instructed Ayala W to write that Deborah Sturman is to deposit approximately 10,000 pounds a month into the Trust account. She did it once and refused to do it again….I am not sure why.· In July 2016 a week or 2 before Alan’s passing, Deborah Sturman got Alan and Mom’s Doctor, Dr. Guggenheim, to come to the apartment to sign an Affidavit that Alan was of sound body and mind, with Ros and Jonny present and everything being filmed…even got Mom to come in and kiss Alan, and Deborah became the beneficiary of his new Will. It appears that everything was staged in case his state of mind might be challenged.Some Facts· Alan was diagnosed November 2014, Ros only came January 2016, Deborah only came June 2016. Deborah did not even come for his funeral. Melvin came immediately for 3 days to be with Mom during this time. I was there 7 times in the 18 months since he was diagnosed helping him and Mom. I was the one who got Mary Lou, I was the one who was able to get Alan’s carer, Jun, to stay on when his other one left after 3 days and Jun was threatening to leave after 4 days. I was not to get one single cent from either of their Wills. I had nothing to gain and since May 2016 all I was trying to do was to ensure that Mom and Alan’s money was available to Mom for anything and everything she would need to take care of her as no mention of their money being held by Deborah Sturman was in the Will. Maybe something you do not know. Alan was Executor of Les Shagam’s Estate. He had an apartment which was sold and bought by Deborah Sturman for approx. 320,000 pounds and Alan said the money was sent to a ‘friend’ of Les’s in France. This apartment was then sold by Deborah last year for 700,000 pounds having had tennants paying rent all these years. Alan told me that Deborah had invested their money well. Alan had asked David to do what Deborah did and David refused.· Please understand that Neil, Melvin and I have always been there for Alan and really the only family he had. Both of them were devastated when I told them about Mom and Alan’s new Wills. Neil and Melvin were to benefit substantially from Mom’s Will of 2009. In Feb 2016 Alan befriended a woman, whom he paid hourly…she took total control of him and fed him lies. He became so suspicious of us which was ridiculous. This woman hated Mom, did not understand Dementia and would torment her. Alan knew this and tried to stop her coming to the apartment, but, he was torn as he needed her to navigate the medical system. She was pure evil, manipulated him and controlled him. I eventually was able to stop her coming to apartment in June 2016 by getting Social Workers involved and she was removed from being Alan’s carer. Alan however continued to see her out of the apartment and she continued to tell him lies about us. Alan’s carer was always with him when he went out with this woman, and from the information I was given while she was out with Alan, validated everything I suspected she was doing.· Melvin, Neil and I just want Mom to be at peace and well cared for. Her condition has deteriorated and although you think she knows what is going on , she is smart enough to fool you. She has no memory ,however, in the moment she could make you think she is OK. David went to see Mom en route from South Africa to Poland for 1 night last week and she is in good health physically, but, has all the signs now of complete Dementia…..very sad.· The phone is again not working and Mary Lou will get someone in to fix it after Shabbat. The internet and TV are not working as the accounts have not been paid! Lance did not pay the accounts as he was waiting for a new credit card. I deal with the day to day running of the home and work very closely with Mary Lou to ensure Mom has the best care. Mary Lou is a godsend.Kathy(3)On 10 Sep 2016, at 1:01 am, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:Kathy,Then I would like to see mom as soon as possible.When is mom due back in England since it is her wish and we all care about mom?Please have Mary-Lou use her phone to have mom call me now – 858-736-4982?Gary(4)On Sep 10, 2016, at 12:03 AM, BigPond <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au> wrote:Gary,The land line is not working. You can call on Alan’s cell phone 0549143528. Keep conversations with mom as brief as possible and try not to ask her questions…she can’t remember and it upsets her and she will want to end the call.We would all like mom to go back to her cottage. It will need to be re carpeted, repainted, dampness dealt with throughout and the floor replaced in the kitchen. This is what we currently know from Alan….there could be much more. I have investigated full time care for Mom in the UK and feel that Mary Lou would be difficult to replace. She looks after Mom incredibly well …with her Dementia and other physical issues…and Mom loves her. I have a lawyer working on her papers and has lodged them and once she is registered to work in Israel( her previous employer died and after 8 years they have to leave Israel and became illegal) to be her carer she can then apply for a work permit for the UK as Mom’s carer in the UK….because she is currently her carer. No idea how long the process is…lodged the papers about 3-4 months ago.KSent from my iPhone(5)From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: Re: Sitting prettyDate: September 10, 2016 at 3:38:10 AM PDTTo: Kathy-Louise Gevisser Danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>Kathy,Just talked to mom who seems in good spirits, recognized immediately and happy to hear my voice, and eager to see me.Who else is visiting with her in the next month?I think this would be a good time for me to visit, don’t you think?And thank you for the number.G(6)From: BigPond <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>Subject: Re: Sitting prettyDate: September 10, 2016 at 11:56:22 PM PDTTo: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Thank god she always sounds happy, but, she gets upset when she can’t remember faces and the past as well as what she just ate, where she had just been and even who Mary Lou is for example. Because of what she feels, it is always best to keep conversations short without any questions. She has tried to hide her Dementia for years and did succeed somewhat by repeating what one has said and her keeping the contact very short. This might put things in perspective…the last time I was there in late June, Mom had a fall 2-3 days before I came. I took her to Orthopedic Emergency and we had to see a Dr, then go for X-rays, then another Dr etc and we were there for 4 hours and every 10 minutes she asked me why we were there…she could not recall anything. However, when the surgeon was looking at her X-rays and saw that she had a bad fracture and said that she needs to go to hospital overnight to get it properly fixed….she told him that he had to do it and do it there and then and that she was not leaving. She told him that she did not need a 20 year old wrist and that it did not need to be 100%. He did it. See picture. So in the here and now she can sound OK and she does have her feelings in tact and her hearing.
No one that I know is visiting her this month. Mom and Mary Lou have had an awful 8 months with Alan’s sickness and the flat filled with carers and medical staff for Alan. Mom needs a quiet environment, routine and her TV. She goes out with the dogs for a walk twice a day and spends the rest of the day on the couch watching TV…loves sport. So if you visit you need to let Mom maintain her routine and assist Mary Lou and to let her be.Sent from my iPhone(7)From: David Danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>Date: 09/11/2016 00:32 (GMT-08:00)To: ‘GaryStevenGevisser’ <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: RE: Sitting prettyGary,She does always sounds happy, but, I know deep down inside she is very sad as she now can’t remember anything. She can’t remember where she is, sometimes can’t remember where the toilet is, where her bedroom is, who Mary Lou is, what she ate, where she went in the day…she just can’t remember! She can sometimes fool us, but, it takes so much energy for her to maintain a conversation. Best never to ask her questions and memorises to say ‘brilliant…never been happier’ when you ask how she is. She knows to say ‘I wish you were here’ and ‘ if you come I won’t want you to go’ as examples. Her intelligence has kept her illness hidden for a long time, however, 4-5 years ago I noticed a change in her.I do not know who will visit this month, if anyone. Neil was there for 10 days 2 weeks ago to give Mary Lou time off, Melvin was there for 4 days in August and I was there for 12 days at the end of June.The past 8 months have been traumatic for Mom with numerous carers in her home and all medical staff tending to Alan and Alan being so very very ill. She needs peace and quiet and to have her routine which includes her twice daily walks outside with her dogs, her meals and TV. Mary Lou also experienced animosity towards her by Alan’s ‘team’ and that she stayed, when anyone else would have walked out, shows what an incredible person she is and her total devotion to Mom. She was treated very badly and yet loved Alan and looked after both him and Mom 24/7 for 5 months until I demanded that he gets his own carer, which he eventually got mid – June 2016. So she also is enjoying the peace and tranquillity of the home.If you want to visit Mom that’s ok as long as you come just to be with Mom and with no plans to engage with anyone else over the Wills etc. To ensure that Mom’s home is as is it now, tranquil. She deserves it after all she has been through.K(8)From: garystevengevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: RE: Sitting prettyDate: September 11, 2016 at 10:38:17 AM PDTTo: Kathy Gevisser Danizger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>Kathy – I’m not a medical doctor, but my conversations with mom show more lucidity it seems.Today was no exception. When I called at 06:07 calif. time, mom answered the phone, recognized my voice instantly, told me who I was, and was overjoyed.Mary-Lou was not around for the more than 7 minutes we spoke, and mom called out a couple of times including at the end when I asked to speak with Mary-Lou.I taped the call as I have all my conversations with mom since visiting with her on Jan. 13.Moreover, mom always responds incredibly positive, other than when she was being disrespected, and the most upsetting for her took place on Aug. 1st, which I believe then had those listening to the conversation disconnecting the phone. Given the stress that I knew mom experienced, and it is clearly audible, I called back the following day 6 times and the phone simply rang. I kept calling every day and no answer.If it was just a coincidence and that Lance didn’t pay the bill which I don’t know why he would have been the one entrusted when Alan was still alive, that would explain it. Nor was there a disconnect notice that is automatic which only is very recent, last few days in fact.I will use my common sense in my conversations with mom.Let me know if you would like to hear the recording of my conversation with mom today.I’m planning my trip right now and I will be staying in mom’s apartment.There was a car that Alan and mom were using back on Jan. 13, and maybe that belonged to the caregiver? Whatever, happened to her? We won’t need a car since I have friends who will take us around if necessary.We’re planning 3 to 4 weeks, maybe longer.GSent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha™, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone(9)From: BigPond <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>Date: 09/21/2016 01:15 (GMT-08:00)To: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject:Gary,Apparently you are arriving in Israel today. Unless you can get money from Deborah Sturman for your food etc. you will have to support yourself as Mom and Mary Lou only have enough for themselves and the dogs.KathySent from my iPhone
NOTE THAT THERE IS 10 DAY GAP BETWEEN MY LAST COMMUNICATION OF SEPT. 11 AND KATHY’S “BRING MONEY”.NOR DOES SHE ADDRESS ANYTHING IN MY PREVIOUS COMMUNIQUE.MOST IMPORTANTLY KATHY DOES NOT LET ME KNOW THAT HER ISRAELI LAWYER FRIEND AYALA WEISEL HAD BEEN MADE GUARDIAN OF MY MOTHER ZENA ON SEPTEMBER 15 DESPITE MY REPEATED REQUESTS TO BE INVOLVED IN THE GUARDIANSHIP MATTERS GOING BACK TO AUGUST 8 WHEN I WAS INFORMED BY AMERICAN LAWYER, DEBORAH STURMAN ESQ. THAT MY MOTHER’S SECOND HUSBAND ALAN ZULMAN HAD DIED TWO DAYS BEFORE. HENCE MY EMAIL OF THE SAME DAY TO SOUTH-AFRICAN ISRAELI LAWYER, ELI SYMON, ALAN ZULMAN’S ESTATE LAWYER WHICH ALSO WENT UNANSWERED:From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>Subject: Zena [Gevisser] ZulmanDate: August 8, 2016 at 10:01:19 AM PDTTo: Eli SymonDear Mr. Simon,I am Gary Gevisser, my mother Zena Zulman’s youngest child.After Alan’s passing, I want to make sure my mother is properly cared for. She will obviously continue to need a full-time carer, but will also now need a guardian.As the executor of my mother and Alan Zulman’s estate I trust that you will be someone who can take care of these important matters. I don’t have particularly good relations with my 3 siblings, Neil, Kathy and Melvin, and would therefore like to participate in any decisions regarding my mother’s care. My mother’s care is the highest priority. May I ask you to help with whatever legal matters must be resolved to have the proper guardian appointed for my mother?I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible in this regard as my mother’s guardianship is now in limbo since Alan’s passing last weekend.Sincerely yours,Gary S. GevisserUSA -1-XXX-XXXXXXXPRIOR TO MY COMMUNICATION TO ELI SYMON ON AUGUST 8, I HAD REPEATEDLY ATTEMPTED COMMUNICATING WITH MY 3 ELDER SIBLINGS WHO WERE STILL REELING FROM GETTING THEIR HEADS AROUND OUR FATHER BERNIE’S INGENIOUS FINAL WILL OF NOVEMBER 7, 2007 AS HE LAID IT ON THICK, BUT WITH THE SHARPEST KNIFE THAT HAD HIM CUTTING THEM STILETTO-LIKE TO PIECES WITHOUT DRAWING BLOOD – CLICK HERE FOR BERNIE GEVISSER’S FINAL WILL.THE FIRST COMMUNICATION TOOK PLACE ON JANUARY 14, 2016, THE DAY AFTER I HAD SEEN MY MOTHER ZENA IN 15 YEARS – CLICK HERE.IT BEGAN WITHMy goal is to do my best to see to it that mom gets the best care.
AND ENDED:You are guilty of murdering not only our mother but the history that she will take to her grave, by not doing the right thing.Let’s do the right thing.GarySTILL NO RESPONSE.ON JUNE 4, AFTER MEETING WITH MY MOTHER’S ONE CLOSE NEIGHBOR IN SOMERSET, ENGLAND, KERRY ANDERSON MALFESIS I FOLLOWED UP WITH MY SIBLINGS WHO WOULD HAVE ALSO NOTICED OTHER NAMES IN THE CARBON COPY SECTION:Subject: Mom’s best interests.Date: June 4, 2016 at 7:54:54 PM GMT+1To: Neil Gevisser <neil@rhymedisease.com>, Neil Gevisser <rhymedisease@earthlink.net>, Melvin Gevisser <mgevisser@sbcglobal.net>, Kathy-Louise Gevisser danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>Correction, I mean’t Sue, not Lynne. She also mentioned that I should get clarification on these issues.On Saturday, June 4, 2016, Gary Gevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:Neil, Kathy, Melvin,We have been in Wive visiting with Kerry [Anderson-Molfesis] and learned from her that you have the intention of selling mom’s house and her belongings.Neil portrayed mom as having advanced Alzheimers, no different to what Alan told us. I didn’t see mom anything close to advanced Alzheimers on January 13th immediately prior to writing you, “Ask me all your questions.”Nobody informed me of anything, and I think I have a right as her favorite son to have received all this information ahead of time. Even more so since you feel that she does not have control of her faculties. Although I would prefer not to go the route of the solicitor, you might not leave me any choice if you keep me in the dark. The health of our mom takes priority over the “sibling rivalry” and over a dying man’s wish.We are now at Stable Cottage for cream teas and [Sue] who I have known as long as all of you, if not longer, going back 4 decades, tells us that Neil was here a few weeks ago and told her, “Alan has just a few weeks to live.” Therefore, upon Alan’s death, in the best interests of mom, she deserves to be in her home where her best memories are, along with her possessions that she has bought over the past 6 decades.‘Lynne” [sic] would also like her best wishes to be shared with mom.Gary
Sent from iPadI FOLLOWED UP AGAIN ON JUNE 7:From: Gary Gevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: Will keep trying – Mom’s best interestsDate: June 7, 2016 at 11:36:16 PM PDTTo: Emma Elliott <Emma@emmaelliott.com>Cc: REST; Neil Gevisser <neil@rhymedisease.com>, Kathy-Louise Gevisser danziger <dkdanz@bigpond.net.au>, Melvin Gevisser <mgevisser@sbcglobal.net>, Glenda Werbel <GWerbel@aol.com>, “ eborah Sturman Esq – Played pivotal role in collecting billions of $ from remnants of Germany’s military machine during WW II, but stopped way too short when realizing it was so close to home.” <deborah.sturman@nyu.edu>, “Barry Molk, MD.” <blmolk1@mac.com>, “Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org” <Geoffrey.ROTHWELL@oecd.org>, “matthewmargo@aol.com” <matthewmargo@aol.com>, kerrymolfesis <Kerrymolfesis@hotmail.co.uk>, “ray.oshry@haroldbenjamin.com” <ray.oshry@haroldbenjamin.com>, Annabel Linder – South African Radio Show Host <hosts@1485.org.za>, “jrk@classactionlaw.com” <jrk@classactionlaw.com>, Jewish Telegraph Group of Newspapers <mail@jewishtelegraph.com>, Capers Funnye <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>You nor Neil, you new husband, have responded to what I wrote to you yesterday afternoon on Airbnb messaging:Could you forward this to Neil. We are surprised he is not responding to my assertion of him wanting to sell my mother’s properties and belongings. We are concerned about mother and will keep trying:ON JUNE 13, MY SISTER KATHY THEN WROTE KERRY VIA FACEBOOK A “COVER STORY” FOR THE “ALIBI” SPEECH – CLICK HERE – OUR BROTHER NEIL HAD GIVEN KERRY BACK IN APRIL WHEN HE MENTIONED IN ADDITION TO HIS PLAN TO SELL MY MOTHER’S HOME AND PERSONAL POSSESSIONS, MY MOTHER’S HOME WAS GOING TO CONTINUE BEING VACANT UNITL IT WAS SOLD:Hi Kerry…hope you and Mom are well. Need your assistance. I will be very brief. Neil is in Israel. Alan is in hospital and in a bad way. For the past 20+ months since Mom’s memory has been going..she is still very much in the here and now and has feelings, he has treated her like a non person and has taken control of all their assets. He wants her to remain in Israel on his death and us kids want her back in her house…will need to get it re carpeted and painted, with her dogs. She needs 24 hour care and this is why I am reaching out to you. There is money for private care if NHS can’t provide it all. She needs to be near Neil and in her home and we can visit regularly. Can you point me in the right direction. Also can one bring in her carer from Israel…she is Fillapino and is amazing with Mom. Apart from her memory loss she is good. Love KJUN 13TH, 10:07PMKERRY SAYS THAT KATHY REPLIED THE SAME DAY:Hi Kathy,How lovely to hear from you. I am so sorry to hear about your Mom and I would not wish what has happened to Alan on anyone. I agree with you that the best place for your Mom would be Wiveliscombe as that is the house that she knows and loves. Can you give me a ring on 01984 623157 and I will answer all your questions and help in any way I can.ON JUNE 19, KATHY FOLLOWED UP WITH KERRY:Will call you tomorrow xxxJUN 19TH, 10:30AM
In Israel…Chat Conversation EndACCORDING TO KERRY, KATHY NEVER DID CALL OR WRITE TO HER AGAIN.
FOOTNOTES:IT CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED NEIL SO BIZARRELY TELLING KERRY IN APRIL THAT SHE SHOULDN’T LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT MY MOTHER’S HOUSE WAS NOW EMPTY, WHICH KERRY KNEW IT WAS, AS THE HOME WAS ALWAYS LEFT EMPTY WHEN MY MOTHER AND ALAN ZULMAN TRAVELLED WHICH WAS VERY FREQUENTLY.THAT HOUSE WAS ALSO EMPTY OF VALUABLES THAT MY MOTHER’S SECOND HUSBAND ALAN ZULMAN BELIEVED WERE SAFE WHEN HE LEFT THEM BEHIND ON HIS TRIP TO ISRAEL SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HIS TERMINAL CANCER.ONCE A. ZULMAN SAW MY 3 ELDER SIBLINGS TURN ON HIM, HE WAS SHOCKED BECAUSE EVER SINCE I KEPT MY PHYSICAL DISTANCE FROM MY MOTHER WHICH WAS OUT OF RESPECT FOR HER BECAUSE SHE LOVED ALAN ZULMAN WITH ALL HIS FAULTS, THEY HAD PLAYED THEIR TWO-FACED FACES RATHER WELL EXPECTING TO GET THE LION’S SHARE OF ALAN ZULMAN’S ESTATE.MOREOVER, YOU CAN SEE VIVIDLY IN HER SEPT. 9 COMMUNIQUE HOW UPSET MY SISTER KATHY AND MY TWO BROTHERS WERE BY ALAN ZULMAN’S “TURNABOUT”:Please understand that Neil, Melvin and I have always been there for Alan and really the only family he had. Both of them were devastated when I told them about Mom and Alan’s new Wills. Neil and Melvin were to benefit substantially from Mom’s Will of 2009.DON’T YOU JUST LOVE, “PLEASE UNDERSTAND…”?WHO DO YOU THINK MY SISTER KATHY THOUGHT SHE WAS WRITING TO?YES, WHAT A BASTARD WAS ALAN ZULMAN FOR NOT APPRECIATING THEIR TRUE FRIENDSHIP.WHAT A HANDICAP IT IS WHEN YOUR MEMORY ESCAPES YOU WHEN IGNORING THE TRUTH WHICH DOESN’T SIT WELL WITH YOUR PERSONAL AGENDA.ALAN ZULMAN LEFT HIS DEATH BED AND RETURNED TO ENGLAND TO SEE FOR HIMSELF WHAT WAS MISSING. FIRST, HOWEVER, HE SENT HIS SISTER, ROZ ZULMAN NORRIS, BUT WHEN SHE RETURNED TO ISRAEL EMPTY HANDED, ALAN ZULMAN MADE THE ARDUOUS TRIP ALONE. KNOWING FOR CERTAIN WHAT WAS MISSING AND ONLY MY 3 SIBLINGS WOULD HAVE HAD ACCESS TO THE HOUSE, ALAN ZULMAN DECIDED THAT THE ONLY WAY HE WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUNISH MY 3 ELDER SIBLINGS WAS TO REMOVE MY SISTER KATHY AS THE CO-EXECUTOR OF HIS ESTATE JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE HIS DEATH ON AUGUST 6, AND FOR HISTORY TO BE THE JUDGE OF THOSE 3 TWO-FACED VULTURES.THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL’S BACK IN A. ZULMAN’S DECISION TO SO PUBLICLY SHAME MY 3 SIBLINGS, WAS MY SISTER KATHY LETTING HIM KNOW, WITH WITNESSES PRESENT, THAT UPON HIS DEATH SHE WAS GOING TO SELL ALAN ZULMAN’S ONLY SON, LANCE ZULMAN’S HOME IN ISRAEL IN ORDER FOR THERE TO BE MONIES TO SUPPORT MY MOTHER.THE CASH, GOLD AND DIAMONDS THAT WERE IN MY MOTHER’S HOME IN ENGLAND ARE MOST LIKELY WORTH WELL OVER HALF A MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS, AND MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR MY MOTHER’S IMMEDIATE “WORKING CAPITAL NEEDS”. PLUS THERE WERE OTHER MONIES HELD IN A JOINT BANK ACCOUNT CONTROLLED BY ALAN ZULMAN AND DEBORAH STURMAN ESQ. AND ALAN ZULMAN HAD ALREADY RELEASED 10,000 EUROS TO MY SISTER KATHY’S ISRAELI LAWYER, AYALA WEISEL WHICH WEISEL UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM MY SISTER KATHY IS NOT MAKING AVAILABLE.BELOW IS AN EMAIL FROM AN AMERICAN-ISRAELI LAWYER, THE NEPHEW OF DEBORAH STURMAN ESQ. WHO IS TRYING TO HELP OUT ALAN ZULMAN’S SON LANCE “ARYE” ZULMAN:On Oct 27, 2016, at 8:13 AM, דבורה לואיס <devora0527678711@gmail.com> wrote:Dear GaryI am writing to you on behalf of your mother Zena. I write to you as I understand that you may still be in Israel.As a friend of Arye zulman it has come to my attention that the funds he used to support your mother and her household were cut off and that he can no longer be involved in her affairs.This has been mentioned to your mothers guardian Ayala Vizel and i do know that she has funds enough. however so far she has not stirred herself in any way and i worry that now without Arye’s help your mother may be plunged into darkness by the electric company or some such thing.best regardsyoursShmuel RabiTHE DECISION BY MY 3 ELDER SIBLINGS TO SUDDENLY MAKE DYING ALAN ZULMAN THE SCAPEGOAT FOR MISTREATING OUR MOTHER IS SICK.TO WANT TO SELL “AUTISTIC” LANCE ZULMAN’S HOME IS NO LESS SICK.CREATING CHAOS ULTIMATELY HAS ALL THE DISTRACTIONS PLAYING HAVOCK WITH THE CULPRITS AND THEY QUICKLY FORGET THE CHRONOLOGY.ALAN ZULMAN FROM THE MOMENT HE MARRIED OUR MOTHER IN THE EARLY 1980s ALWAYS HAD FULL CONTROL OVER MY MOTHER’S ASSETS, WHICH IS WHAT MY MOTHER WANTED.THE MOMENT MY 3 SIBLINGS RECEIVED MY JANUARY 14, “ASK ME YOUR QUESTIONS!” COMMUNIQUE THEY KNEW THAT I WAS NOW ON TO THEM, BEGINNING BY THEIR FAILURE TO INFORM ME OF MY MOTHER’S MEDICAL CONDITION, “ADVANCED DEMENTIA”.THEY ALSO KNEW THAT IT WAS DIFFERENCES OF OPINION THAT BOTH MY MOTHER AND I HAD WITH ALAN ZULMAN THAT KEPT ME AND MY MOTHER ZENA APART ALL THESE YEARS, BUT THEY ALSO KNEW THAT I WAS IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH MY MOTHER WHO NEVER FORGOT WHY WE WERE PHYSICALLY APART.MY SISTER KATHY UNDERSTOOD PERFECTLY WELL THAT THE STORY OUR BROTHER NEIL TOLD KERRY WHO TOLD ME, WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT TO THE STORY THAT KATHY NOW WANTED KERRY TO BELIEVE.KATHY ALSO KNEW THAT KERRY HAD RECEIVED COPIES OF MY EMAILS FROM JUNE 4 AND 7, BUT KATHY MAKES NO MENTION OF THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN NEIL AND KERRY WHERE NEIL NEVER MENTIONED THAT IT WAS ALAN ZULMAN WHO WANTED TO SELL MY MOTHER’S HOME IN ENGLAND AS WELL AS HER PERSONAL POSSESSIONS.
Begin forwarded message:From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>Subject: rain most amazing – Re: Your reactionDate: November 27, 2016 at 2:53:21 PM PSTTo: Close neighbor in Pine Valley
Of course unbiased
I know also a great many people all over the world who are a third my mother’s age, and not one of them could be as articulate on such important matters as my mother was for 9 minutes and 24 seconds in The Lady’s Speech; forget how funny she was at the King David Hotel with both TEACHERS and THE ADDICTION or reciting along with the audio of IF.People are far more brain dead than they realize.Good will win out, because it always does.Nature always compensates for the misguided human, which is what makes life so interesting otherwise it would be totally boring and miserable.Wasn’t the rain most amazing? I think we got at least 2 inches if not much more.Thank you again; and please share as I continue to post up on to those Youtube videos.Below are a handful of phone conversation clips with my mother Zena prior to our departure to Israel on September 20:1) Under any circumstances whatsoever (June 30, 2016)
….absolutely not, under any circumstances whatsoever.2) Where would anyone get such a stupid idea? – (June 30, 2016)
Gary: I’ve been blocked from talking with you.Zena: Why?Gary: Well.. I don’t know why. Neil, Melvin and Kathy won’t respond to the email that I sent them after I met with Kerry…upset that there was any conversation about you not returning to Wive.Zena: Where would anyone get such a stupid idea?3) Subject: Everything about your life is positive (July 20, 2016)
Gary: What do you most remember about me; what most comes to mind?Zena: That you are lucid; that you believe in things, that whatever you want you try to get done; everything about your life is positive, what else would you want me to say?Gary: What about Melvin?Zena: I was saying I don’t have any contact with Melvin. I don’t have a point of view. We don’t have any discussions. Melvin doesn’t come into my thinking.Gary: He doesn’t call you up?Zena: NoGary: What about Kathy?Zena: NoGary: She doesn’t call you up?”Zena: Not really, She came here and then she said she was here and that’s it. She will tell me that maybe she will come again but she doesn’t tell me what year.Gary: What do you most remember about Kathy?Zena: She’s my daughter. [Note the Zena Gevisser laugh].Gary: Anything else?Zena: NoGary: What about Neil?Zena: He’s my son.Gary: What do you remember most about him?Zena: Nothing; he’s my son.Gary: How would you describe Neil?Zena: As my son.Gary: That’s it?Zena: Yes.4) Subject: I don’t think my other children believe in anything (July 23, 2016)
Gary: Let’s come back to me; I want you to tell me again how you would describe me?Zena: Are you my youngest son?Gary: YesZena: You are very nice, I like you. That’s it.Gary: Would you say that you like your other children?Zena: In their own way, but they are not like you.Gary: In what way am I different?Zena: O Dear. You’re just different okay. You’ve got a point of view. There are things you believe in that you see to. I don’t think my other children believe in anything.
On Nov 27, 2016, at 2:10 PM, close neighbor in Pine Valley > wrote:Hi Gary. I guess you wanted an unbiased opinion on your mother’s state of mind.She seemed fine to me. Maybe a little repetitive but it could be some hearing loss as is commonWill’s mom does have dementia and she could never speak as well as your mom does.
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On Nov 26, 2016, at 10:42 AM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:I would be interested in your and Will’s reaction to my mother’s The Lady’s Speech of Sept. 22nd at 11:30AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL4qdY7ESzEand the rest1) What was she like at 22? – Zena Gevisser, Sept 22, 2016, 8:58 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iGg8…
2) She has quite a face – Zena Gevisser, Sept. 22, 9 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gef8a…
3) Part 1 of IF – Sept. 23, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qG71…
4) IF part 2 – September 23, 2016, 12:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl1pt…
5) IF with audio – Sept. 23, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KInDZ…
6) The Addiction – Sept 24, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQNx…
7) Teachers – Sept. 24, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U6-I…
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GERESSY v. DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.
GERESSY v. DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.
980 F.Supp. 640 (1997)
Patricia GERESSY and Patricia Geressy as Administratrix of the Estate of Thomas A. Geressy, Jeannette Rotolo and John William Rotolo, and Jill M. Jackson and Thomas M. Farrell, Plaintiffs, v. DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, Defendant.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.
September 16, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Kenneth J. King, Craig M. Deitelzweig, Charna L. Gerstenhaber, Beatie, King & Abate, New York, NY, for Defendant.
Steven Phillips, Stephenie Lannigan Bross, Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.
WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge:
Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................ 645 II. FACTS ................................................................... 645 A. Patricia Geressy ..................................................... 645 B. Jill M. Jackson ...................................................... 645 C. Jeannette Rotolo ..................................................... 645 III. LAW AND ITS APPLICATION ................................................. 646 A. Federal Rules On Setting Aside Verdicts .............................. 646 1. Law .............................................................. 646 2. Application of Law to Facts ...................................... 647 a. Due Diligence Prior to and During Trial ....................... 647 b. Existence at Time of Trial .................................... 648 c. Non-Cumulative Evidence ....................................... 648 d. Witness Credibility ........................................... 648 e. Admissibility and Materiality ................................. 648 f. Substantial Probability of a Change in the Outcome at Trial ... 648 B. Experts .............................................................. 648 C. Warnings ............................................................. 649 1. Law .............................................................. 649 2. Application of Law to Facts ...................................... 650 D. Statute of Limitations ............................................... 650 1. Law .............................................................. 650 2. Application of Law to Facts ...................................... 651 a. Patricia Geressy .............................................. 651 b. Jill M. Jackson ............................................... 652 c. Thomas M. Farrell ............................................. 652 d. Jeannette Rotolo .............................................. 652 E. Injury to Spouse Prior to Marriage ................................... 652 1. Law .............................................................. 652 2. Application of the Law to the Facts .............................. 653 F. Deviation of Verdict ................................................. 653 1. Law .............................................................. 653 a. Identifying the Normative Group for Comparison ................ 657 b. Deviation from the "Normal" Group ............................. 657 c. Defining Material Deviation .................................. 658 d. Burden of Proof ............................................... 660 2. Application of Law to Facts ...................................... 660 a. Patricia Geressy ............................................. 660 b. Jill M. Jackson .............................................. 662 c. Jeannette Rotolo ............................................. 663 IV. CONCLUSION .............................................................. 663 APPENDIX A COMPARABLE CASES CONSIDERED ............................................. 664 Appendix B Patricia Geressy: Tentative Computations ................................ 675 Appendix C Jill M. Jackson: Tentative Computations ................................. 675 Appendix D Jeanette Rotolo: Tentative Computations ................................. 676
I. INTRODUCTION
In suits commenced on March 16, 1994, plaintiffs Geressy, Jackson and Rotolo claimed that use of Digital’s LK201 computer keyboard caused repetitive stress injuries (RSI). Their husbands alleged loss of consortium. The jury returned a verdict in favor of all plaintiffs on failure to warn claims, rejecting negligent design claims and declining to award punitive damages.
Defendant moved in all cases for judgment as a matter of law, a new trial and remittitur. More recently defendant sought a new trial on the Geressys’ claims based on newly discovered evidence.
For the reasons indicated below, viewing the evidence most favorably to support the verdicts, only that for Jeannette Rotolo can stand. Newly discovered evidence requires a new trial on the claims of Patricia Geressy and the estate of Thomas A. Geressy. The claims of John William Rotolo are dismissed since, having been married after his wife was injured, he suffered no loss of consortium. Those of Jill M. Jackson and her husband, Thomas A. Farrell, are dismissed on statute of limitations grounds.
II. FACTS
A. Patricia Geressy
Ms. Geressy worked as a secretary at the Port Authority for five years in the 1960s and again from 1984 until the present. She used defendant’s keyboard and did other secretarial work. She had never been told that use of the keyboard might cause RSI.
She testified that the first manifestation of her condition “was [in] the summer of 1991. I started waking up at night with numbness, tingling in my hands, burning in my wrists, I didn’t think much of it at the time.”
Initially, Ms. Geressy’s most severe problems were with her left wrist and hand. She underwent surgery for that wrist and hand in December of 1991. Because her first surgery was not successful, Ms. Geressy had a second operation in May of 1992. The second operation also gave no relief. She then started to experience pain in her right wrist and hand, her neck, and her shoulders. By the time the failure of her first two operations was known, the problems throughout her upper extremities had intensified. A third operation, on her neck, was recommended and eventually performed. By the end of 1994 her then treating doctor recommended surgery for her right hand.
After four operations and other therapy, Ms. Geressy’s condition has continued to deteriorate. She has very little use of either hand.
Plaintiffs’ experts testified that these problems were due to use of defendant’s keyboard which presented ergonomic dangers requiring warnings to the user. Defendant’s experts testified to the contrary, attributing plaintiff’s physical symptoms to natural causes, finding no keyboard dangers, and no need to warn.
B. Jill M. Jackson
In the 1980s Ms. Jackson worked intensively at one of defendant’s computers without warnings of dangers. Some time around Christmas of 1989 she experienced “a pinching pain in [her] left elbow one day at work.” She was treated with cortisone. She had elbow pain again a few months later in 1990 and sought the advice of another doctor. In filling out preliminary medical forms, she included in her complaints “lower back pain, right hip pain after sitting,” and pain in the “upper right back shoulder area.”
From 1990 on she has experienced debilitating pain in her elbows, forearms and hands, as well as a severe loss of strength in her upper extremities. In 1994 her disabilities forced her to leave her position as a legal secretary and to begin training in a new field.
C. Jeannette Rotolo
Ms. Rotolo — married on May 15, 1993 — has a short history of poor health. Until the onset of RSI, she was a “very athletic person,” involved in such sports as karate and horseback riding. In April of 1993, Ms. Rotolo, a secretary using defendant’s keyboard, first experienced symptoms of RSI. At work,
she began to notice that her hands were “cold and stiff” and that she made an undue number of mistakes in typing. By June she began dropping things. Eventually the pain become constant.In the years since her first symptoms, Ms. Rotolo has been diagnosed with a variety of specific RSIs. She has tried numerous treatments, from physical therapy to surgery on her wrists and hands. Since September of 1993, Ms. Rotolo has not been able to return to clerical work, although she has been able to do some lower-paid child care work that does not exacerbate her condition.
III. LAW AND ITS APPLICATION
This is a diversity action governed by federal procedural law and the substantive law of New York state. See, e.g., Erie Railroad v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188 (1938); Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc., 518 U.S. 415, 116 S.Ct. 2211, 135 L.Ed.2d 659 (1996).
A. Federal Rules On Setting Aside Verdicts
1. Law
In deciding Rule 50(b) motions for judgment as a matter of law the evidence is viewed most favorably to the party defending the jury’s verdict.
In ruling on a motion for judgment as a matter of law under Fed.R.Civ.P. 50(b) … a district court is required to consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the party against whom the motion was made and to give that party the benefit of all reasonable inferences that the jury might have drawn in his favor from the evidence. The court cannot assess the weight of conflicting evidence, pass on the credibility of the witnesses, or substitute its judgment for that of the jury…. Only if there is such a complete absence of evidence supporting the verdict that the jury’s findings could only have been the result of sheer surmise and conjecture, or such an overwhelming amount of evidence in favor of the movant that reasonable and fair minded men could not arrive at a verdict against [the moving party] may the court properly grant the motion.LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher, 67 F.3d 412, 429 (2d Cir.1995), cert. denied sub nom., Village of Airmont, N.Y. v. LeBlanc-Sternberg, ___ U.S. ___, 116 S.Ct. 2546, 135 L.Ed.2d 1067 (1996) (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted),
Motions for a new trial under Rule 59(a) give the trial court more leeway. The rule provides:
A new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties on all or part of the issues … in an action in which there has been a trial by jury, for any of the reasons for which new trials have heretofore been granted in actions at law in the courts of the United States….Fed.R.Civ.P. 59(a). See, e.g., Holzapfel v. Town of Newburgh, N.Y., 950 F.Supp. 1267, 1272 (S.D.N.Y.1997) (“a less stringent standard applies to a motion for a new trial than to a motion for judgment as a matter of law”) (citations omitted). In contrast to the standard for judgment as a matter of law, “a new trial may be granted even if there is substantial evidence to support the jury’s verdict…. [A] trial judge hearing a motion for a new trial `is free to weigh the evidence himself and need not view it in the light most favorable to the verdict winner.'” Song v. Ives Labs., 957 F.2d 1041, 1047 (2d Cir.1992).
When the motion pursuant to Rule 59 for a new trial is based on newly discovered evidence, the criteria for granting has been stated as:
(1) the evidence was newly discovered since the trial; (2) the moving party was diligent in discovering the new evidence; (3) the newly discovered evidence could not be merely cumulative or impeaching; (4) the newly discovered evidence was material; and (5) that a new trial, with the newly discovered evidence, will probably produce a different result.Joseph v. Terminix Int’l Co., 17 F.3d 1282 (10th Cir.1994) (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted). Put more concisely the factors are:
The new evidence [must be] (1) be material and not merely cumulative, (2) could not have been discovered before trial through the exercise of reasonable diligence and (3) would probably have changed the outcome of the trial.Compass Tech. v. Tseng Labs., 71 F.3d 1125, 1130 (3d Cir.1995) (citations omitted).
For the purposes of the instant case the factors to be considered in deciding whether a new trial based on new evidence should be granted are: (1) despite the exercise of due diligence, the moving party was not able to obtain the newly discovered evidence during trial; (2) it existed at the time of trial; (3) it is not cumulative; (4) it is not exclusively about the credibility of a witness; (5) it would probably have been admissible because it is both material and does not violate the rules of evidence and (6) there is a substantial probability that it would have changed the outcome of the trial.
Other than the time for filing and the nature of the burden on the moving party, “Rule 59 and Rule 60(b)(2) share the same standard for granting relief on the basis of newly discovered evidence.” Compass Tech. v. Tseng Labs., 71 F.3d 1125, 1130 (3d Cir. 1995). All motions were received prior to the issuing of any final judgment and therefore time limits that come into play after the entry of final judgment are not relevant.
2. Application of Law to Facts
National publicity followed the announcement of the jury verdict in December of 1996. See, e.g., Diana B. Henriques, Big Jury Award in Injury Case Over Keyboards, N.Y. Times, December 10, 1996, at D1; Jon Auerbach and Laura Johannes, Digital Equipment Loses Verdict on Carpal Tunnel, Wall St. J., Dec. 10, 1996, at B4. The news of Ms. Geressy’s nearly $5.3 million verdict against defendant reached Gary S. Gevisser, Chief Executive Officer of Sunmed, Inc. (formerly known as Injury Evaluation Consultants (IEC)) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The information struck Mr. Gevisser as particularly noteworthy because, before the litigation had been commenced, doctors from his company had examined Ms. Geressy, prepared a medical evaluation on her condition for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the IEC Report) and, contrary to the jury finding at trial, had determined that her ill health was unrelated to her work. See Affidavit of Kenneth J. King, sworn to March 25, 1997 ¶¶ 10, 11, Exhibit A (King Affidavit). Mr. Gevisser contacted Digital Equipment Corporation to explain his knowledge of the Geressy case and his company’s own information regarding Ms. Geressy, See King Affidavit ¶ 11. Defendant then subpoenaed the IEC Report and filed the instant motion for a new trial based on discovery of this evidence.
a. Due Diligence Prior to and During Trial
Defendant exercised due diligence to obtain every possible medical record regarding Ms. Geressy prior to trial. Defendant requested:
the name(s) and address(es) of all medical or health care personnel, and each physician, practitioner, medical facility, clinic and hospital that saw, examined, treated or consulted with Patricia Geressy in connection with [the complained of] injury.King Affidavit, Exhibit 13 (Digital Equipment Corporation’s First Set of Interrogatories for Plaintiffs Patricia Geressy and Thomas A. Geressy ¶ 4). Also sought were:
All medical records, doctors’ reports, hospital records, and any other material relevant to the health and physical well-being of plaintiff Patricia Geressy.All documents relating in any way to the amount(s) and source(s) by which any costs or expenses for medical care, dental care, custodial care, rehabilitation services, loss of earnings or other economic loss for which plaintiff[ ] seek[s] to recover in this action, was or may be replaced or indemnified, in whole or in part, from any collateral source including, but not limited to, insurance, social security, workers’ compensation, or employee benefit.King Affidavit, Exhibit C (Notice to Produce ¶¶ 3, 5). Defendant also obtained authorizations for all medical records which were to include names and addresses of all health care providers. See King Affidavit, Exhibit D (Demand for Executed Authorizations ¶¶ 1, 3). Defendant repeatedly asked Ms. Geressy at her deposition to identify all healthcare providers. See King Affidavit,
Exhibit E (June 25, 1996 Deposition Transcript of Patricia Geressy). There is no doubt that defendant was diligent in seeking all relevant medical records, including the IEC Report, prior to trial.
b. Existence at Time of Trial
IEC evaluated Ms. Geressy on August 18, 1993 and issued a report shortly thereafter. The IEC Report was in existence years before the trial took place in the fall of 1996.
c. Non-Cumulative Evidence
The IEC Report reflects the results of an Integrated Movement Analysis (IMA), described as follows:
Integrated Movement Analysis is a modality that allows the diagnostician an opportunity to monitor the voluntary and involuntary responses of muscle groups, in direct correlation with the patient’s range of motion, in order to assess the viability of alleged myofascial-type injuries. This highly reliable monitoring system allows the treating physician an opportunity to validate the existence of subjectively reported symptoms in an objective format and can further establish the clinical and pathological significance of other tests, such as MRIs, when findings are present.King Affidavit, Exhibit A (the IEC Report). The admission of the IEC Report would not have been cumulative. No other experts presented similar evidence.
d. Witness Credibility
The proffered IEC Report is unrelated to issues of witness credibility at trial.
e. Admissibility and Materiality
Mary Rose Cusimano, who has a doctorate in psychology and who co-authored the IEC Report has expressed her willingness to testify in court. See Reply Affidavit of Kenneth J. King, sworn to April 23, 1997, Attachment (Cusimano Affidavit ¶ 4) (Reply King Affidavit). It appears likely that Ms. Cusimano’s expert testimony would have been admissible and that the IEC Report would have served as a foundation. See Fed.R.Evid. 702, 703. The IEC Report states that:
[Ms. Geressy’s] complaints of carpal tunnel like symptoms are related to hypertonicity in the cervical region…. The readings of the IMA indicate a causal relationship to the symptoms reported by the patient that are non work related in nature…. Causation is … from the cervical region and appears to be non industrial in nature.King Affidavit, Exhibit A (the IEC Report). In her recent sworn affidavit, Ms. Cusimano summarized the findings of that report:
We saw no evidence of any cumulative trauma disorder or any injury due to repetitive motion. We concluded that she did not have carpal tunnel syndrome but that her complaints were caused by pathology in her cervical musculature. Based on our examination we concluded that her health complaints were not caused by her work.Reply King Affidavit, Attachment (Cusimano Affidavit ¶ 33). This Report and expert explanatory testimony went to the heart of a central issue at trial — the cause of Ms. Geressy’s injuries.
f. Substantial Probability of a Change in the Outcome at Trial
This newly discovered evidence is unique and directly relevant to the critical issue of causation. It is substantially probable that this medical report, created almost a year before the instant litigation was filed and obviously unconnected to it, would have caused the jury to evaluate all of the evidence at trial differently. The outcome at trial could well have been different if this evidence had been available.
This new evidence satisfies all of the factors for granting a new trial based on new evidence pursuant to Rule 59(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Because the motion was timely pursuant to Rule 59(b), the court need not consider Rule 60(b)(2) which would, in any event, have provided an alternative basis for granting a new trial in the exercise of discretion.
B. Experts
No serious question was raised about the admissibility of expert evidence. All such testimony was admissible since it was helpful to the jury in determining the issues, and the
reasoning, techniques, methodology and bases were scientifically appropriate. See Fed. R.Evid. 702, 703; Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993).
C. Warnings
1. Law
A “manufacturer’s knowledge of special risks of harm attendant upon normal use of his product imposes a duty upon the manufacturer to warn adequately those using his product of those risks.” Ezagui v. Dow Chemical Corp., 598 F.2d 727, 732 (2d Cir. 1979) (citations omitted). See also, e.g., Amatulli v. Delhi Constr. Corp., 77 N.Y.2d 525, 532, 571 N.E.2d 645, 648, 569 N.Y.S.2d 337, 340 (1991) (“A manufacturer who places into the stream of commerce a defective product which causes injury may be liable for such injury. A defect in a product may consist of a mistake in manufacturing, an improper design or the inadequacy or absence of warnings for the use of the product.”) (citations omitted); Enright by Enright v. Eli Lilly & Co., 77 N.Y.2d 377, 568 N.Y.S.2d 550, 555, 570 N.E.2d 198 (1991); Wolfgruber v. Upjohn Co., 72 A.D.2d 59, 62, 423 N.Y.S.2d 95, 97 (4th Dep’t 1979), aff’d mem. 52 N.Y.2d 768, 417 N.E.2d 1002, 436 N.Y.S.2d 614 (1980).
The nature of the failure to warn tort in New York is fairly straight forward. See1 N.Y. Pattern Jury Instructions — Civil § 2:135 (1974) (“The manufacturer of a product which is reasonably certain to be dangerous if used in a way which he should reasonably foresee it would be used is under a duty to exercise reasonable care to give reasonable and adequate warning of any dangers known to him or which in the exercise of reasonable care he should have known and which the user of the product ordinarily would not discover. Reasonable care means that degree of care which a reasonably prudent person would exercise under the same circumstances.”); IA N.Y. Pattern Jury Instructions — Civil § 2:135 (3d ed.1996). See also Restatement (Third) of Torts § 2(c) (Draft adopted at May 1997 meeting of American Law Institute) (“A product is defective when, at the time of sale or distribution, it contains a manufacturing defect, is defective in design, or is defective because of inadequate instructions or warnings. A product … is defective because of inadequate instructions or warnings when the foreseeable risks of harm posed by the product could have been reduced or avoided by the provision of reasonable instructions or warnings by the seller or other distributor, or a predecessor in the commercial chain of distribution and the omission of the instructions or warnings renders the product not reasonably safe.”).
Whether it is reasonably safe “when marketed” depends in part on what the manufacturer knew or should have known at the time of marketing — i.e., the state of the art. The manufacturer may be found to be unreasonable even after the product has been marketed if it should have been aware of dangers and it was reasonable to try to bring them to the attention of users of the product in the field.
The relevant portions of the charge, without substantial objection, became the law of the case:
…. A failure to warn or an inadequate warning about dangers attendant upon the use of the product may make the product not reasonably safe and therefore defective even if it was otherwise properly designed, manufactured and sold.A manufacturer of a product which is likely to be dangerous if utilized in an intended or reasonably foreseeable manner is under a duty to give adequate warning which would be useful to the user of any known dangers or dangers which in the exercise of reasonable care it should have known and which those foreseeably exposed to these products ordinarily would not discover. It is sufficient that a reasonable manufacturer which knew of the product’s potential for causing injury would have concluded that the product should not have been marketed without suitable warnings.When we talk of exercising reasonable care to give a warning, we mean that degree of care which a reasonably prudent person would exercise under the same circumstances.The manufacturer must keep informed of knowledge of the effect of its products gained through research, reports, scientific literature and other available methods. It must, when reasonable, take such steps as are reasonably necessary to bring that knowledge to the attention of those foreseeably exposed to its products; that is, it must take reasonable steps to adequately warn them. In deciding what is reasonable you may consider the special circumstances of the case including the degree of hazard and whether it would reasonably be expected to be known to the user, the likelihood and severity of harm, and the feasibility of actually getting a warning to the plaintiff and the effectiveness of a warning, and whether the danger was not obvious to the user and whether the product causes immediate symptoms. A manufacturer does not have a duty to warn the user of a danger obvious to the user.The duty to warn extends to dangers or defects about which the manufacturer either actually knew or should have known. Should have known means that a manufacturer is held to that level of knowledge which knowledge people in the particular industry had, and in view of the state of medical and scientific knowledge, and technology in general, and in the manufacturer’s own experience in particular, reasonably should have had at the time the product was marketed. You may consider what was known or should have been known about the dangers of the product and the effects of a failure to take adequate precautions in its use.You must decide, based on all the evidence that you have heard and seen during this trial, whether the plaintiff has proved that the defendant actually was, or should have been aware that its products, when used as the manufacturer would reasonably foresee that products would be used, could cause injury to those who used the products.The precise disease suffered by a plaintiff need not have been foreseeable by the defendant. It is sufficient that the defendant knew or should have known that some serious injury could result from use of its products.Each plaintiff had a right to decide for herself whether to work and what she would require as protection before continuing to work. The fact that another worker might have done the job does not negate the obligation of the defendant to a particular worker. If, however, as defendant claims, a plaintiff would have done her work the same way whether or not the defendant gave warnings, then there was no cause of the injuries from the failure to warn.You may find that a warning must specifically and clearly identify each of the potential dangers involved in the products’ uses including those dangers which might affect only some users, but not all users.A defendant’s duty to use reasonable care in giving adequate warning is nondelegable. That means that a defendant may not rely on others to issue an adequate warning. It was the duty of defendant to issue warnings, if any, that you find were necessary to those who might be exposed to the defendant’s products.The duty to warn does not terminate when an item produced by the manufacturer is sold. It continues to exist and be a responsibility of a defendant even after the product was sold, if it becomes known or reasonably should have become known to the manufacturer that persons who use the product may be harmed.
2. Application of Law to Facts
Plaintiffs produced sufficient evidence to make out a classic product liability case for failure to warn under New York law. They successfully persuaded the jury to find in their favor on all of the elements of such a case. Based on the evidence, the jury could have found that: defendant had a duty to plaintiffs to warn of the dangers inherent in its product, the LK201 keyboard; defendant breached that duty by not issuing appropriate warnings; and defendant’s failure to warn was the proximate cause of all three plaintiffs’ RSIs.
D. Statute of Limitations
1. Law
With the exception of certain specified actions not relevant in the instant case, personal
injury suits in New York must be commenced within three years from the date of injury. See CPLR §§ 214, 214-a, 214-b, 214-c, 215. “The time within which an action must be commenced … shall be computed from the time the cause of action accrued to the time the claim is interposed.” CPLR § 203, See, e.g., Dorsey v. Apple Computers, Inc., 936 F.Supp. 89, 90 (E.D.N.Y.1996).At the time of the Dorsey decision, there was uncertainty about what constitutes “the time of injury” in RSI cases:
When does the statute of limitations begin to run in a products liability action in which plaintiff’s continued use of a keyboard has caused repetitive stress injuries (RSI) or carpal tunnel syndrome? Divergent decisions have been reached by the Appellate Divisions of the Fourth and First Departments. Interestingly, both courts purportedly apply the traditional date of injury rule, but with somewhat different results.Vincent C. Alexander, Supplementary Practice Commentaries, 7B Civil Practice Law and Rules 116 (McKinney 1990 & Supp.1997) (discussing Piper v. International Business Machines Corp., 219 A.D.2d 56, 639 N.Y.S.2d 623 (4th Dep’t 1996) and Blanco v. American Tel. & Tel., 223 A.D.2d 156, 646 N.Y.S.2d 99, reh’g denied, leave to appeal granted, 234 A.D.2d 239, 652 N.Y.S.2d 503 (1st Dep’t 1996) (Mem.) currently pending before the Court of Appeals). Because the Court of Appeals “has not yet ruled …. [i]ts view must be predicted.” Dorsey v. Apple Computers, Inc., 936 F.Supp. 89, 90 (E.D.N.Y.1996) (citations omitted).
If any plaintiff had suffered a new injury subsequent to her initial injury, any claims based on the later injury could be filed within three years of that later injury. New York’s two-injury rule controls in such cases:
New York courts recognize that a single causal agent or event may produce two diseases [that] are separate and distinct. Each disease may give rise to its own cause of action…. Under the [two-injury] rule, diseases that share a common cause may nonetheless be held separate and distinct where their biological manifestations are different and where the presence of one is not necessarily a predicate for the other’s development.In re Breast Implant Cases, 942 F.Supp. 958, 961-62 (S.D.N.Y. & E.D.N.Y.1996) (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).
The two-injury rule, however, is inapplicable in cases where continued contact with a causal agent leads to a worsening of the original condition rather than a separate and unrelated injury:
It is a settled principle that once a compensable injury has occurred, the time within which an action may be commenced may not be extended merely by the aggravation, or exacerbation, of that injury by continued contact with the same offending product.Coughlin v. International Bus. Mach. Corp., 225 A.D.2d 256, 260, 650 N.Y.S.2d 477, 480 (3d Dep’t 1996).
Plaintiffs filed their suits on March 16, 1994. Defendant’s motion for judgment as a matter of law on statute of limitations grounds must be granted with respect to each plaintiff who suffered no new and distinct injury after March 16, 1991. Since all of the injuries in the instant case involved a single injury for each plaintiff that developed over time, the court need not further consider the two-injury rule.
2. Application of Law to Facts
a. Patricia Geressy
According to Ms. Geressy’s own testimony, her symptoms of what was later diagnosed as RSI began in the summer of 1991. See Trial Transcript at 288. There is no reason to believe that Ms. Geressy was unable to testify accurately as to the first signs of a significant change in her health. The evidence submitted at trial supports a finding of the initial date of injury in the summer of 1991. There are, however, two pieces of evidence that suggest Ms. Geressy experienced RSI related pain and numbness before the summer of 1991. Neither was necessarily sufficient to convince a reasonable juror that her symptoms began earlier.
Dr. Pascarelli testified that “[a]ccording to Mrs. Geressy, she said the first symptoms
began in early 1991. She complained of pain, numbness, tingling in the left hand.” Id. at 464. When pressed, however, Dr. Pascarelli could identify nothing that suggested that Ms. Geressy sought medical attention for this condition prior to the summer of 1991. See id. at 465. His only basis for saying that Ms. Geressy’s injuries began in “early 1991,” a fairly indeterminate period of time, was his own memory of a conversation with Ms. Geressy. As a matter of law, this nebulous testimony need not be given decisive weight.The records of Dr. Urs also suggest that Ms. Geressy may have been injured prior to the summer of 1991. These records are more troubling, indicating that Ms. Geressy had been suffering for a year prior to her November 18, 1991 consultation with Dr. Urs. See id. at 569. The evidence presented at trial, however, did not require this conclusion since it suggested only an imprecise recording of approximate times that Ms. Geressy had been afflicted. At most, the trial record indicates that Ms. Geressy may have suffered from de minimusinjury prior to March 1991, although even this possibility could properly have been ignored by the jury.
b. Jill M. Jackson
Ms. Jackson has suffered from a number of ailments as far back as the late 1980s. By 1990, Ms. Jackson had begun to experience RSI symptoms in her upper extremities. Testimony and records presented at trial indicate that in 1990, Ms. Jackson sought medical treatment for left elbow pain, “lower back pain, right hip pain after sitting” and pain in her “upper right back shoulder area.” Trial Transcript at 617, 619. This evidence is fairly consistent (although off by a few months) with Ms. Jackson’s initial complaint in which she claimed that “on or about August 1990, [she] began to experience some symptoms such as numbness, tingling, pain and/or sensory motor impairments of the upper extremities, neck and torso.” Evidence of Ms. Jackson’s 1990 shoulder pain clearly refers to a condition in her upper extremities.
Plaintiff’s counsel attempted to distinguish Ms. Jackson’s left elbow pain during the 1989-1990 winter from later injuries to the same elbow in an effort to establish that Ms. Jackson experienced new injuries after March 16, 1991, the critical date for statute of limitations purposes. Counsel was unsuccessful.
No possible reasonable analysis of the evidence supports a finding that Ms. Jackson’s alleged repetitive stress injuries began any later than 1990. Were they caused by use of defendant’s keyboard, she would reasonably have been expected to have been aware of their cause before March 1991. As a matter of law, regardless of later related or aggravated conditions, Ms. Jackson’s RSIs (in both left and right upper extremities) first occurred, and her cause of action accrued, before March 16, 1991.
c. Thomas M. Farrell
Because Ms. Jackson’s claim fails on statute of limitations grounds, the derivative loss of consortium claim filed by her husband, Thomas M Farrell must also fall. See, e.g., Liff v. Schildkrout, 49 N.Y.2d 622, 623, 427 N.Y.S.2d 746, 748, 404 N.E.2d 1288, 1291 (1980) (“[A] spouse’s cause of action for loss of consortium [does not] exist[] in the common law independent of the injured spouse’s right to maintain an action for injuries sustained.”) (citations omitted), Rothfarb v. Brookdale Hosp., 139 A.D.2d 720, 722, 527 N.Y.S.2d 473, 475 (2d Dep’t 1988) (a “loss of consortium … cause of action … is a derivative one …, and thus is governed by the same period of limitations which controls the underlying cause of action”) (citations omitted).
d. Jeannette Rotolo
Ms. Rotolo first used a Digital Keyboard when she began working at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in February 1992. Her first RSI symptoms appeared in April 1993. Defendant recognizes that no statute of limitations can be asserted against this plaintiff.
E. Injury to Spouse Prior to Marriage
1. Law
A cause of action will not lie for loss of consortium where the injured tort victim
was not married to the plaintiff-spouse at the time of injury. In a case involving a man who married a woman two months after she was injured, a New York court explained the rationale for this rule: “If, at the time of his subsequent marriage, plaintiffs wife was disabled as a result of a previous negligent act by the defendant, the plaintiff took her as his wife in her then existing state of health and thus assumed any deprivation resulting from such disability.” Rademacher v. Torbensen, 257 A.D. 91, 91, 13 N.Y.S.2d 124, 124 (4th Dep’t 1939). It does not matter whether the preexisting injury was observable by the spouse. See, e.g., Consorti v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 86 N.Y.2d 449, 450, 634 N.Y.S.2d 18, 18, 657 N.E.2d 1301, 1301 (1995); Anderson v. Eli Lilly & Co., 79 N.Y.2d 797, 798, 580 N.Y.S.2d 168, 169-70, 588 N.E.2d 66, 67-68 (1991).
2. Application of the Law to the Facts
Ms. Rotolo’s RSI first manifested in April 1993. She married John William Rotolo on May 15, 1993. He may not recover for her prior injury. His claim for lost consortium must be dismissed.
F. Deviation of Verdict
1. Law
Because the court of appeals may differ from the trial court on the issue of a new trial and require reinstatement of the verdicts, the appropriateness of the amount of the verdicts should be assessed.
Historically, New York courts, like those in the federal system and the majority of jurisdictions in the United States, applied a “shock the conscience” standard to determine the possible excessiveness or insufficiency of jury awards. In 1986, in an effort to curb escalating awards, the New York legislature created a statutory standard designed to give courts greater discretion in monitoring verdicts. See Legislative Findings and Declarations, 1986 N.Y. Laws 470 (McKinney). The statute provided a new standard for judicial review of jury awards — “deviates materially from what would be reasonable compensation.” In relevant part it reads:
In reviewing a money judgment…. in which it is contended that the award is excessive or inadequate and that a new trial should have been granted unless a stipulation is entered to a different award, the appellate division shall determine that an award is excessive or inadequate if it deviates materially from what would be reasonable compensation.CPLR 5501(c) (emphasis added). These last eight words, and in particular, the two phrases deviates materially and reasonable compensation provide a more complex challenge to a federal trial court than first meets the eye.
“This legislation was apparently intended to relax the former standard of review and to facilitate appellate changes in verdicts.” O’Connor v. Graziosi, 131 A.D.2d 553, 554, 516 N.Y.S.2d 276, 277 (2d Dep’t 1987) (citations omitted). Courts and commentators alike have understood the new language as providing courts with much greater latitude than the former shock the conscious standard for reviewing and altering jury awards. Summarizing New York state law, the Supreme Court recently stated:
New York state-court opinions confirm that § 5501(c)’s deviates materially; standard calls for closer surveillance than the shock the conscious oversight. … The deviates materially standard … in design and operation, influences outcomes by tightening the range of tolerable awards.Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, 518 U.S. 415, ___ – ___, 116 S.Ct. 2211, 2218-19, 135 L.Ed.2d 659 (1996). See also Baumgarten v. Slavin, No. 9018/84, slip op. at 3 (Sup.Ct. Nas. County May 6, 1997) (“The `deviates materially’ standard calls for much closer scrutiny of the size of jury awards than the old `shocks the conscience’ test.”), discussed in Cerisse Anderson, $5 Million Pain and Suffering Award Upheld, N.Y.L.J, May 13, 1997, at 1. Professor David D. Siegel, a leading scholar on New York civil procedure, has written that “[t]he amendment invites the appellate division’s alteration of the [jury] verdict on the presumably lighter finding that the award `deviates materially from what would be reasonable compensation.'”
David D. Siegel, New York Practice 617 (2d ed.1991).The enlarged power of review, although directed at the state intermediate appellate courts, applies to federal trial courts that must follow the same standard in evaluating jury verdicts. In diversity cases and other cases applying state substantive law, federal courts may do so without violating the Seventh Amendment. See, e.g., Gasperini, 518 U.S. at ___, 116 S.Ct. at 2218 (“Although phrased as a direction to New York’s intermediate appellate courts, § 5501(c)’s `deviates materially’ standard, as construed by New York’s courts, instructs state trial judges as well.”); Ashton v. Bobruitsky, 214 A.D.2d 630, 631, 625 N.Y.S.2d 585, 586 (2d Dep’t 1995) (“The trial court ha[s] the power … to set aside [the jury verdict] if it f[i]nd[s] that the verdict deviated materially from what would be reasonable compensation.”) (citations omitted); see also David D. Siegel, New York Practice 77 (2d ed. 1991 & Supp.1996) (“Recent decisions appear to acknowledge the futility of having a trial court, in assessing a legal maximum or minimum for damages, apply a standard different from that which would be applied on appellate review, and indicate that the trial court should also apply the `deviates materially’ standard — applicable in terms only to the appellate division under CPLR 5501(c) — instead of the older `shocks the conscious’ standard”).
There are two major stumbling blocks for federal courts applying the New York statute. First, the role of a federal court sitting in diversity is controlled both by state law under Erie and sometimes conflicting federal law under the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution. Second, a federal court with relatively limited experience in applying state tort law and evaluating state tort verdicts must acquire a sense for what New York courts would do under the circumstances.
The Gasperini Court resolved the constitutional conflict in favor of Erie. As to the duty of federal courts to act as if they were state courts, it noted that “[t]o determine whether an award `deviates materially from what would be reasonable compensation,’ New York state courts look to awards approved in similar cases.” Gasperini, 518 U.S. at ___, 116 S.Ct. at 2218.
State courts at both the trial and appellate levels are well-situated to gauge which jury awards deviate materially and which do not. Unlike federal courts they see hundreds of tort cases every year. In New York’s Second Department (which corresponds geographically to the area covered by the Eastern District of New York), 46,325 and 48,326 tort cases were filed in state courts in 1995 and 1996, respectively. See Memorandum on Statistics on Tort Litigation in the Second Department from the Clerk of the Court, Eastern District of New York, to the Chambers of Senior District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, January 30, 1997, at 2. Notices of appeal were filed in 2,592 and 2,913 cases again in 1995 and 1996, respectively. See id. at 1. Although less than half of the appeals filed were perfected, the Appellate Division for the Second Department could expect to see over 1,000 cases each year. See id. (Note that the state statistics include both jury and bench trials.) It is much easier for state judges to evaluate jury verdicts. They can look at their own records and rely on institutional know-how.
In the Eastern District of New York, in contrast, only 1,152 and 1,298 tort cases were filed in 1995 and 1996, respectively. See Memorandum on Statistics on Tort Litigation in the Second Department from the Clerk of the Court, Eastern District of New York, to the Chambers of Senior District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, January 27, 1997, at 2 (for 1995 statistics); Memorandum from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts Statistics Division, Analysis and Reports Branch to the Clerk of the Court, Eastern District of New York, January 27, 1997, at 2-3 (for 1996 statistics) (Administrative Office Memorandum). Almost all of these cases settle without trial. Usually the court is not aware of the amount of settlement. Only 40 cases in 1995 and 35 cases in 1996 — divided among some thirty district judges and magistrate judges — resulted in jury verdicts. See Administrative Office Memorandum at 4-12. Federal courts sitting in diversity and applying New York substantive law lack the institutional experience of state courts which
must routinely review verdicts under the deviates materially standard. Without the expertise of state courts, federal courts applying the deviates materiallystandard must chart an independent course to arrive at a comparable result.Each experience of human suffering is unique. The reverberations from a tragic event are not necessarily any more intelligible or quantifiable through an examination of other peoples’ suffering. And yet, considering comparable injuries is a necessary first step for any court attempting to develop a sense of reasonable compensation under the circumstances. CPLR 5501(c) forces the court into the awkward position of attempting to do what the tort victim cannot — analyze, classify and (implicitly) rank the affliction of one tort victim against that of another. In one sense this is an impossible endeavor. To measure the impact of a tragedy in the life of one person vis-a-vis another is beyond judicial (and perhaps human) capacity. Yet, if the courts are to administer a fair and just tort system, they must work out methods, however imperfect, for evaluating and entering tort judgments under Gasperini.
Theoretically, courts have a straightforward basis from which to begin this analysis. Reasonable compensation is compensation that would make a plaintiff whole, as if he or she had never suffered the injury. See, e.g., McDougald v. Garber, 73 N.Y.2d 246, 253-54, 538 N.Y.S.2d 937, 939, 536 N.E.2d 372, 374 (1989) (The purpose of “an award of damages to a person injured by the negligence of another is to compensate the victim. … The goal is to restore the injured party, to the extent possible, to the position that would have been occupied had the wrong not occurred.”). Compensatory damage awards include a number of components, only some of which lend themselves easily to this process. There are quantifiable damages such as lost earnings and past medical bills, more speculative awards for predicted future lost earning capacity and costs associated with injuries, and, finally, noneconomic awards for the intangible emotional experience of a life marred by a tortious event.
Attempts to make the plaintiff whole through money damages are acts of legal fiction which cannot mask the ultimate powerlessness of money to replace what an individual has lost in suffering the unalterable consequences of an injury. The New York Court of Appeals acknowledges that:
An economic loss can be compensated in kind by an economic gain; but recovery for noneconomic losses such as pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life rests on the legal fiction that money damages can compensate for a victim’s injury. … We accept this fiction, knowing that although money will neither ease the pain nor restore the victim’s abilities, this device is as close as the law can come in its effort to right the wrong. We have no hope of evaluating what has been lost, but a monetary award may provide a measure of solace for the condition created….McDougald v. Garber, 73 N.Y.2d 246, 254, 538 N.Y.S.2d 937, 939-40, 536 N.E.2d 372, 374-75 (1989).
Courts must not only determine sufficient monetary compensation to assuage non-monetary suffering, but they must also identify the upper limit beyond which a compensatory award cannot go. As the Court of Appeals has noted, “Our willingness to indulge in this fiction [making the tort victim whole] comes to an end … when it ceases to serve the compensatory goals of tort recovery.” Id.Another court has echoed similar concerns:
[T]he law does not permit a jury to abandon analysis for sympathy for a suffering plaintiff and treat an injury as though it were a winning lottery ticket…. Rather, the award must be fair and reasonable, and the injury sustained and the amount awarded rationally related. This remains true even where intangible damages, such as those compensating a plaintiff for pain and suffering, cannot be determined with exactitude.Taylor v. National R.R. Passenger Corp., 868 F.Supp. 479, 484 (E.D.N.Y.1994). A non-judicial observer, writing on the old shock the conscious standard, expressed concerns about boundless pain and suffering awards:
The amount of money that a court or a jury will award … for pain and suffering [is] unpredictable and, in some cases, may bear no reasonable relationship to a plaintiff’s actual economic injury. Juries awarding damages for pain and suffering [under the shock the conscious standard] have virtually unbridled discretion, as there is currently no meaningful way to measure such non-quantifiable losses monetarily.Leslie A. Rubin, Note, Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 Through Reform of Products Liability Law, 18 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 131, 146 (1990-1991).
Courts have at their disposal methods for reviewing the portion of compensatory awards that address economic loss, but the non-economic portion has remained intransigent. The New York legislature intended CPLR 550 1(c) as a solution, but the quandary resists solution by the mere replacement of the shock the conscious standard with the material deviation standard.
CPLR 5501(c)’s conception of reasonable compensation cannot exist in a vacuum. There needs to be some point of reference. With economic damages, the court may rely on traditional methods of economic analysis. As for the non-economic pain and suffering award, the reviewing court must begin by identifying some group of similar cases to serve as a referent. This task is difficult, particularly in cases exploring relatively new types of injuries and claims such as those in the instant case involving RSI claims against a keyboard manufacturer. Cases with similar causal agents, similarly-named diagnoses, or similar reductions in quality of life might serve as benchmarks.
The pain and suffering award requires an assessment of a plaintiff’s emotional and physiological responses to the injury, including such factors as “fright, anxiety, nervousness, worry, shock, humiliation, embarrassment [and] terror….” Comment, Loss of Enjoyment of Life as a Separate Element of Damages, 12 Pac. L.J. 965, 971-72 (1981). This kind of analysis does not easily lend itself to objective comparison. As the Second Circuit has observed, “measuring pain and suffering in dollars is inescapably subjective.” Gibbs v. United States, 599 F.2d 36, 39 (2d Cir.1979). There is an inherent difficulty in considering such disparate factors as a plaintiff’s “ability to dance, bowl, swim, or engage in similar recreational activities, inability to perform customary chores [,] and … to engage in the usual family activities.” Downie v. United States Lines Co., 359 F.2d 344, 347 n. 3 (3d Cir.1966).
Plaintiffs differ. Some are more susceptible to pain than others. Some may be younger, perhaps more deserving in the jury’s view, or more vulnerable, or may have led a more difficult life or an easier one. There is an infinite variety of people and reactions to tragedy, further compounding the difficulty of quantifying verdicts.
Even with seemingly objective criteria, such as measurements of the amount of time that a tort victim suffers, different juries produce a seemingly erratic set of verdict data. One scholar in this field, Dean David W. Leebron, attempted to finding a correlation between time suffered and the amount of the award. In his research, he was unable to discover any rationale for jury awards for pain and suffering. Dean Leebron found that “the temporal element of the pain and suffering has no statistically significant effect for durations from half a minute up to one week.” David W. Leebron, Final Moments: Damages for Pain and Suffering Prior to Death, 64 N.Y.U.L.Rev. 256, 294 (1989). He concluded, “[t]ort awards … vary significantly and … neither the specific facts of the case nor differing views of the functions of the awards can explain such variation.” Id. at 259. See also Oscar G. Chase, Helping Jurors to Determine Pain and Suffering Awards, 23 Hofstra L.Rev. 763, 768 (1995) (“Both anecdotal and empirical evidence indicates that the disparity between awards for pain and suffering among apparently similar cases defies rational explanation.”).
Within the same state verdicts vary widely by geographic area. As Justice Edward T. O’Brien recently observed:
It is curious that awards for pain and suffering on one side of the East River are uniformly two and three times higher than on the other. Is it that the composition of the two respective communities are so different? I think not….Baumgarten v. Slavin, No. 9018/84, slip op. at 3 (Sup.Ct. Nas. County May 6, 1997) quoted in Cerisse Anderson, $5 Million Pain and Suffering Award Upheld,N.Y.L.J, May 13, 1997, at 1. State verdicts vary widely even in the Eastern District of New York depending on the county in which the case is tried.
However inexact, the process for determining the category of award that is a material deviation may be undertaken in three steps. First, identify the normative group — what kinds of cases are sufficiently similar to serve as the referent group for determining what is reasonable? Second, determine what constitutes a deviation from that group. Third, define statistically and intuitively how far a verdict can deviate before that deviation becomes material. After this three step analysis, the court reviews the more traditional examination of economic damages and the statistical analysis for noneconomic damages and decides how much leeway should be allowed the fact finders before determining that a jury verdict deviates materially.
a. Identifying the Normative Group for Comparison
Holding a post-trial Gasperini hearing is the initial step. The parties provide experts (subject to the court’s power to appoint Rule 706 independent experts) who can assist the court in identifying appropriate comparative cases. Such a hearing is by no means ideal. The court does not have the capacity or the time to go through possibly scores of records in order to see what is equivalent. It has to have the information summed up in some convenient way. This is much the same task it undertakes in determining land values from comparable sales (a more developed technique). Cf. 1 Lewis Orgel, Valuation Under the Law of Eminent Domain §§ 136-140 (2d ed.1953); Stephen H. Kalos and Jonathan D. Putnam, On the Incomparability of `Comparables’: An Economic Interpretation of `Infringer’s Royalties’, 9 J. of Proprietary Rts., Apr. 1997, at 2.
Similar injuries or diagnoses are primary (but not controlling) criteria in choosing sufficiently analogous cases. In evaluating the pain and suffering that results from a tortious event, the court also may consider the causal agent itself and the circumstances surrounding the injury in determining the nature of the anguish for which plaintiff should be compensated. The life changes that follow the tortious event are also of critical importance. If at all possible, cases within the relevant venue should be relied upon because the farther the court moves beyond the place of trial, the more likely it is that community conceptions of reasonableness diverge in various directions.
In determining whether an award is reasonable, it is almost impossible to find cases for comparison where all relevant factors are identical to those in the case under consideration. Rather, the court must review the totality of the circumstances of the proffered sample cases to ascertain whether they can provide a basis for comparison. There are almost no “all fours” cases. As Appendix A indicates the decisions on comparability are somewhat arbitrary. The court’s evaluation may be supplemented by expert testimony of practitioners and others familiar with state tort cases.
b. Deviation from the “Normal” Group
Once the court has chosen a group of settlements and verdicts with which to compare the verdict under consideration, there is no simple method for determining whether that verdict is reasonable vis-a-vis those in the normative group. The imprecision inherent in simply making a vague estimate by looking at a comparative group turns the court toward a statistical analysis.
The initial step in considering whether a jury verdict is reasonable as compared to settlements and verdicts in other cases is to determine the variance within the group. “Statisticians use several statistics to measure the amount of variation within a data set.” James Brook, A Lawyer’s Guide to Probability and Statistics 24 (1990). “[T]he statistic most often seen as a measure of variation within a data set is the standard deviation.” Id. at 25. See also, e.g., The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as
Evidence in the Courts 88 (Stephen E. Fienberg ed.1989) (discussing Castaneda v. Partida, 430 U.S. 482, 496, n. 17, 97 S.Ct. 1272, 1281 n. 17, 51 L.Ed.2d 498 (1977)).Even though the entire enterprise is expected to provide only a rough approximation, close to an intelligent and well-informed guess, the court is well advised to rely on sophisticated statistical experts. See generally, e.g., Michael O. Finklestein & Bruce Levin, Statistics for Lawyers 46 (1990); The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts 36, 91 (Stephen E. Fienberg ed.1989) (two or three standard deviations, one or two tailed hypotheses).
The discussion which follows is illustrative only. In the instant case the statistical analysis provided by the parties, and largely relied upon in this memorandum, was not satisfactory to the court. Should it actually become necessary to fix the appropriate range of verdicts a full hearing and a more comprehensive statistical analysis will be required. See, e.g., David H. Kaye & David A. Freedman, Reference on Statistics, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence 331 (Fed. Jud.Ctr. ed.1994); The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts 91 (Stephen E. Fienberg ed. 1989) (“The methodologies of the experts show increasing complexity, but the comprehension of the judges has clearly not kept apace.”).
c. Defining Material Deviation
The court may use the dollar amount to measure, by standard deviation, how far past settlements or verdicts for pain and suffering have varied from the meansettlement or verdict. “The mean of a set of observations is the value obtained by summing all the observations and dividing by the number of observations.” R. Kapadia & G. Anderson, Statistics Explained: Basic Concepts and Methods 68 (1987). Approximately two-thirds of the values under a normal distribution, a symmetrical bell-shaped curve, fall within one standard deviation of the mean, and approximately 95% fall within two standard deviations of the mean. David H. Kaye & David A. Freedman, Reference on Statistics, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence 331, 379 (Fed.Jud.Ctr. ed.1994). The data available in the instant case did not generate a symmetrical bell-shaped curve, but for the purposes of this memorandum, it is assumed that classic statistical analysis of such curves is appropriate. Expert statisticians will have to assist the court in dealing with curves that dive off sharply at the lower end, where the limit is zero, while tailing off into what are often very high figures at the upper end.
There are arguments supporting a rule for Gasperini purposes of one, two or more standard deviations. Using two standard deviations to define the group of values that constitute reasonable compensation supports the judiciary’s efforts to sustain jury verdicts whenever reasonably possible. This approach is consistent with the federal and New York state constitutions that guarantee the right to trial by jury in civil cases. See U.S. Const. amend. VII; N.Y. Const. art. I, § 2. Narrowing the range to figures that fall within one standard deviation, however, speaks to the state policy of controlling jury verdicts. See Legislative Findings and Declarations, Ch. 266, 1986 N.Y. 470 (McKinney). Given the awards in the instant case, and subject to reconsideration on advice of experts, a two standard deviation rule seems appropriate.
Settlements and jury verdicts do not, unfortunately, seem to fall along a normal distribution curve. When there are many more extreme values on one side of the mean than the other, as there usually are with pain and suffering awards, statisticians must consider the issue of skew:
[An] aspect of the data which statisticians often will want to check and report on is the degree to which the data set does or does not exhibit symmetry about a central value. The word that is used to characterize this degree of symmetry or lack thereof is the skewness of the data set.James Brook, A Lawyer’s Guide to Probability and Statistics 27 (1990). Because of the skew in the instant case, the median value which is the middle value in a distribution, above and below which lie an equal number of values furnishes a critical figure. The median value conveys, in many ways, more useful information than the mean because it
is not as drastically affected by skew and therefore may provide a more representative picture of the typical award. As one statistics text explains:The choice [between using the mean and the median value] depends on the data which are being analyzed…. For interval data the mean is usually appropriate unless the distribution is skewed with a few rather extreme values either below or above the common values. Extreme values, which are not representative of the distribution as a whole, have a significant effect on the mean, but not on the median. It is for this reason that the median is often used instead of the mean with skew distributions….R. Kapadia & G. Anderson, Statistics Explained: Basic Concepts and Methods 74 (1987).
There appears to be agreement between plaintiffs and defendant on the desirability of using the median rather than the mean as a starting point. Plaintiff’s expert, Arnold Lakind, testified as to his preference for using a median value in evaluating settlements and jury verdicts. Mr. Lakind testified that “[t]he median is a better measure [than the mean for making an] assessment of … top verdicts.” Gasperini Hearing Transcript at 87-88. Defendant has also argued that “the median is the more meaningful value.” Letter from Defendant’s Counsel to the Court, March 5, 1997 at 4.
No attention was given to the problem of defining when verdicts were too low. Zero defines the outer limit of such verdicts whereas the sky is the limit of what juries have awarded on the high side. No fixed a priori statistical rules by the court seem warranted at this stage of Gasperini development. In time, a sophisticated literature and precedents may develop. For present purposes, it is assumed that there are no extraordinary factors that distinguish the case at bar from other cases in the normative group and that the pain and suffering award should fall within two standard deviations. Applying this assumption, a pain and suffering award that falls outside these ranges should be raised or lowered to reach the low or high number that marks off either end of the range. Cf. Watson v. Fort Worth Bank and Trust, 487 U.S. 977, 995 n. 3, 108 S.Ct. 2777, 2789 n. 3, 101 L.Ed.2d 827 (1988) (“Courts have also referred to the `standard deviation’ analysis sometimes used in jury-selection cases…. We have emphasized the useful role that statistical methods can have in Title VII cases, but we have not suggested that any particular number of `standard deviations’ can determine whether a plaintiff has made out a prima facie case in the complex area of employment discrimination…. Nor has a consensus developed around any alternative mathematical standard. Instead, courts appear generally to have judged the `significance’ or `substantiality’ of numerical disparities on a case-by-case basis…. At least at this stage of the law’s development, we believe that such a case-by-case approach properly reflects our recognition that statistics come in infinite variety and their usefulness depends on all of the surrounding facts and circumstances.”) (citations omitted) (internal quotations omitted); Ballew v. Georgia, 435 U.S. 223, 237-39, 98 S.Ct. 1029, 1038-39, 55 L.Ed.2d 234 (1978) (“Studies that aggregate data also risk masking case-by-case differences in jury deliberations”. … [S]tudies … lead us to conclude that the purpose and functioning of the jury in a criminal trial is seriously impaired, and to a constitutional degree, by a reduction in size to below six members. We readily admit that we do not pretend to discern a clear line between six members and five. But the assembled data raise substantial doubt about the reliability and appropriate representation of panels smaller than six. Because of the fundamental importance of the jury trial to the American system of criminal justice, any further reduction that promotes inaccurate and possibly biased decisionmaking, that causes untoward differences in verdicts, and that prevents juries from truly representing their communities, “attains constitutional significance.”) (citations omitted) (footnotes omitted); Castaneda v. Partida, 430 U.S. 482, 496 n. 17, 97 S.Ct. 1272, 1281 n. 17, 51 L.Ed.2d 498 (1977) (“If the jurors were drawn randomly from the general population, then the number of Mexican-Americans in the sample could be modeled by a binomial distribution. … The important point, however,
is that the statistical model shows that the results of a random drawing are likely to fall in the vicinity of the expected value…. The measure of the predicted fluctuations from the expected value is the standard deviation, defined for the binomial distribution as the square root of the product of the total number in the sample … times the probability of selecting a Mexican-American … times the probability of selecting a non-Mexican-American…. [I]n this case the standard deviation is approximately 12. As a general rule for such large samples, if the difference between the expected value and the observed number is greater than two or three standard deviations, then the hypothesis that the jury drawing was random would be suspect to a social scientist.” (citations omitted)); Hazelwood School Dist. v. United States, 433 U.S. 299, 311 n. 17, 97 S.Ct. 2736, 2743 n. 17, 53 L.Ed.2d 768 (1977) (holding that “a fluctuation of more than two or three standard deviations would undercut the hypothesis” of race-neutral hiring in St. Louis school district) (citations omitted). For a critical explanation of the cases, see generally The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts passim (Stephen E. Fienberg ed.1989).Statistical analysis alone can never be controlling. The court must always exercise independent discretion in its review of statistics. The three step analysis is meant merely to provide a guide in this nebulous area of tort law.
d. Burden of Proof
Before moving on to apply a statistical test to determine material deviation, one final issue must be addressed: the burden of proof at a Gasperini hearing. While there is no definitive case law on the burden of proof in applying section 5501(c)’s deviates materially standard, an analysis of the federal standard for granting a new trial combined with a review of CPLR 5501(c) can be of assistance.
A general assumption under the Constitution that jury verdicts should stand unless there is a good reason to modify them, strongly suggests that the burden of proof should lie with the party challenging the verdict. Without choosing a preponderance or a clear and convincing standard, it is enough to say for present purposes that the trial judge should feel an assurance that the verdict lies beyond the pale of non-material deviation before it is rejected. See, e.g.,Vern R. Walker, Preponderance, Probability and Warranted Factfinding, 62 Brook. L.Rev. 1075 (1996).
2. Application of Law to Facts
While judgment in favor of only one of the three RSI plaintiffs is entered, all three verdicts are reviewed as illustrative of a Gasperini approach. Based on the analysis supplied by the parties, and subject to further consideration should there be a remand on this issue, a two standard deviation rule is applied.
a. Patricia Geressy
Early in the Gasperini hearing, defense counsel disputed Ms. Geressy’s comparison of her own case to others involving those diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD). Defendant argued that such cases did not provide a useful basis for comparison because “[t]here is no evidence in the case … that [Ms. Geressy] was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy [with] a reasonable degree of medical certainty.” Gasperini Hearing Transcript at 13. This issue, as embodied in the disagreement over this diagnosis and its relevance, provides a starting point for considering the factors involved in choosing comparison cases in individual litigations. In determining general rules for constructing a normative group, the question of whether similar diagnoses, similar symptoms, or other criteria should control must be considered. RSD provides a paradigmatic example of the difficulty in applying Gasperini. SeeTimothy J. Walsh, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome, 19 Am.Jur. Proof of Facts 179 (1993). Walsh describes the symptoms of this pain syndrome in the context of discussing litigation strategies:
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is a collection of signs and symptoms resulting from a disturbance in function of the automatic nervous system of a limb or part of a limb, on a reflex (involuntary and self-perpetuating) basis. The IASP [International Association for the Study of Pain] has defined RSD as continuous pain in a portion of the extremity after trauma which may include fracture but does not involve a major nerve and is associated with sympathetic hyperactivity.Id. at 187 (citations omitted). The nature and symptoms of this syndrome are described as follows:
RSD may follow major or minor injury. The primary symptom is pain of a severe, burning nature in an extremity. This pain is constant. Moving or touching the limb is often intolerable. At first pain is likely to be localized at the injury site, but with time it spreads to the entire extremity and to other parts of the body. There are also vasomotor changes, including vasoconstriction (swelling, cyanosis, and cool skin). Other autonomic disturbances include hyperhidrosis (excessive perspiration), trophic changes in the skin and muscles, and osteoporosis. The entire symptom complex is rarely present in any one patient. Instead, one or more of the individual symptoms usually predominate.Id. at 190 (citations omitted). “The elements of damages in an action involving reflex sympathetic dystrophy are the same as the elements of damages in personal injury actions generally…. A major portion of the damages for any permanent impairment may involve an attendant loss of the `ability to enjoy life.'” Id. at 208 (citations omitted).
Defendant has suggested that comparing the Geressy verdict with RSD cases without a sufficiently certain RSD diagnosis is improper. The argument is not convincing. Except perhaps when the disease itself has especially frightening connotations, such as cancer, it is the symptoms that hurt. In some situations, it is the symptoms themselves, and not the name of the disease per se, that must be attested to with a reasonable degree of medical certainty. Where treating physicians are available to testify in depth and present a catalogue of medical records to support their testimony, determining the existence (or its lack) of a series of painful medical symptoms and their probable discomforting sequelae is well within the purview of the jury. The plaintiff can describe her symptoms even if she cannot name her disease.
The comparison between Ms. Geressy and a tort victim with a confirmed case of RSD is appropriate, for the lay jury is more trained to appreciate symptoms than to differentiate diagnoses. Many of the causal events, symptoms, medical treatments, and life consequences are similar. With respect to the proffered RSD cases, the plaintiff’s figures are persuasive as to comparable verdicts.
Accepting plaintiff’s proffered RSD cases as providing a sound font from which to draw verdicts to form the normative group does not end the inquiry. While the RSD cases cited by plaintiff appropriately focus on the debilitating effect of the injuries on Ms. Geressy’s life, there are a few comparable cases offered by plaintiff that are clearly inapposite. A few misleading ones illustrate the appropriate decision making process. Plaintiff, for example, suggested Summerville v. City of New York, No. 39604/91 (Sup.Ct. Kings County 1996), as useful. In that case,
[Plaintiff,] a 30-year-old maintenance worker [and innocent hapless bystander] was shot by an off-duty New York City Police sergeant during a bank robbery. …. His shots struck [plaintiff], a bystander who was on an errand for his employer, in the left arm and back. The officer later claimed that [plaintiff] had approached him and pointed an object, which he believed to be a gun. Evidence indicated that [plaintiff] did not have a gun in his possession after the incident, and that the only object that he had was a wallet. Witnesses testified that [plaintiffs] hands were raised and empty when he was shot…. [Plaintiff suffered] gunshot wounds to the left (nondominant) arm, stomach, and colon. [Plaintiff] claimed that [defendant] allowed his injured left arm to be handcuffed to his hospital bed for 12 hours. He developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy in [his] left arm, which is now paralyzed. He underwent an unsuccessful nerve graft in 1992 in an attempt to restore some function to the arm. A dorsal column stimulator was implanted into his spinal chord in 1995 to relieve the constant burning sensation to his arm, but this procedure was also unsuccessful.Defendant’s Post-Hearing Affidavit, Jury Verdict Reports, Exhibit E. Many RSD victims have physical symptoms, emotional traumas leaving long-lasting invisible scars and consequent life changes that are on a similar scale to those experienced by Ms. Geressy. In the bizarre Summerville case, however, the RSD diagnosis alone is does not create a useful basis for comparison between the verdict awarded to the Summerville plaintiff and Ms. Geressy; they experienced quite dissimilar tortious events, causal agents and resultant life consequences.
Another set of proffered cases that have proved unhelpful involve those of fire aboard flying aircraft, plane crashes and terrorism. Without depreciating the magnitude of the catastrophic nature of Ms. Geressy’s illness, plane crashes and terrorist attacks involve qualitatively different tortious events than, and tensions from, those that lead to Ms. Geressy’s injuries.
In reviewing cases submitted by plaintiff, a number of different aspects of proffered cases were considered: injuries stemming from work or daily life; medical treatments (including surgeries) that were similar to Ms. Geressy’s; similar levels of debilitation from injury; and similar life consequences. There was an ample pool of such New York cases.
The jury awarded Ms. Geressy $5,345,000: $1,855,000 for quantifiable damages and $3,490,000 for pain and suffering. Plaintiff presented sufficient economic analysis at the Gasperini hearing to uphold all portions of her award other than that for pain and suffering. The range of comparable verdicts for pain and suffering that fall within two standard deviations from the mean is up to $1,961,119 (rounded to $2,000,000). See Appendix B. Since there are no out-of-the-ordinary factors to distinguish Ms. Geressy’s case from those of the many tort victims whose verdicts were used to construct the normative group, a jury award for pain and suffering of $3,490,000 (rounded to $3,500,000) “materially deviated from what would be reasonable compensation” under this approach. CPLR § 5501(c). Had the court not granted a new trial based on new evidence, the court would have granted a new trial unless the parties stipulated to a remittitur of $1,500,000 ($3,500,00 — $2,000,000) (again, subject to reconsideration at a new hearing aided by statisticians). See Appendix A for the cases that the courts used to construct the normative group, and Appendix B for the breakdown of the jury verdict and the court’s statistical analysis of cases from the normative group.
b. Jill M. Jackson
Ms. Jackson’s injuries have required less invasive medical treatments. They have not left her as disabled as Ms. Geressy. Most cases involving extensive surgery and more extreme life consequences were excluded from the normative group used for comparison with Ms. Jackson’s award for pain and suffering.
The jury awarded Ms. Jackson $302,000 — $259,000 for quantifiable damages and $43,000 for pain and suffering. Plaintiff presented sufficient economic analysis at the Gasperini hearing to uphold all portions of her award other than the pain and suffering award. The range of comparable verdicts for pain and suffering that fall within the two standard deviation range is up to $386,668. See Appendix C. Since there are no out-of-the-ordinary factors to distinguish Ms. Jackson’s case from those of the many tort victims whose verdicts were used to construct the normative group, under this statistical analysis the jury award of $43,000 could, under some forms of statistical analysis, be said to have “materially deviated [below] what would be reasonable compensation.” CPLR § 5501(c). See Appendix C (one standard deviation). Nevertheless, considering that the legislation was concerned primarily with reducing excessive awards for pain and suffering, additur — even if permitted under federal practice — would not have been appropriate. This would be a fortiori accurate under a two standard deviation rule. The difference between $43,000 awarded by the jury and even the $59,000 determined by rough statistical analysis using one standard deviation is not so great as to warrant interference with the verdict. Had the court not granted judgment as a matter of law on statute of limitations grounds, it would not
have altered the jury verdict. See Appendix A for the cases that the courts used to construct the normative group and Appendix C for the breakdown of the jury verdict and the court’s statistical analysis of cases from the normative group.
c. Jeannette Rotolo
Ms. Rotolo’s injuries have required less invasive medical treatments and have not left her as disabled as Ms. Geressy. Most cases involving extensive surgery and more extreme life consequences were excluded from the normative group used for comparison with Ms. Rotolo. Because of the surgeries that she has undergone for her wrists and hands, however, some cases excluded from Ms. Jackson’s normative group were included in the construction of Ms. Rotolo’s normative group.
The jury awarded Ms. Rotolo $274,000: $174,000 for quantifiable damages and $100,000 for pain and suffering. Plaintiff presented a sufficient argument at the Gasperini hearing to uphold all portions of her award. The range of comparable verdicts for pain and suffering that fall within the two standard deviations is 0 to $1,335,192. See Appendix D. The jury award of $100,000 did not “materially deviate[] from what would be reasonable compensation.” CPLR § 5501(c). The court will enter judgment for Ms. Rotolo for $293,385.88 ($274,000, the jury verdict amount + $19,385.88 for past medical expenses) plus statutory interest. See Appendix A for the cases that the courts used to construct the normative group and Appendix D for the breakdown of the jury verdict and the court’s statistical analysis of cases from the normative group.
IV. CONCLUSION
Geressy
As to Patricia Geressy, a new trial is granted on her claims and those of the estate of her husband, Thomas A. Geressy, on the basis of newly discovered evidence. A new trial will be on all issues since the liability finding may have affected the computation of damages. In addition, the statute of limitations issue may not have been fully appreciated by the jury in the light of the unrevealed tests and other information now available.
If a new trial were not granted, remittitur on the basis of Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc., 518 U.S. 415, 116 S.Ct. 2211, 135 L.Ed.2d 659 (1996) would probably have been granted after a further statistical hearing.
Rotolo
As to Jeannette Rotolo, the jury verdict is sound and fair. There is no basis for a reduction of damages or for a statute of limitations defense. The amount of damages is well within any reasonable jury’s range. Credibility factors were for the jury. A motion for a new trial is not conditionally granted under Rule 50(c). The parties should submit within ten days a judgment taking into account past interest and future discount factors under the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules that are not waived. See also 28 U.S.C. § 1961.
Ms. Rotolo’s husband, John William Rotolo, has no valid loss of consortium claim. He married after his wife was injured. His claim is dismissed.
Jackson
As to Jill M. Jackson, the statute of limitation ran on her claims. The same is true of the claims of her husband, Thomas M. Farrell. On any possible interpretation of the New York statute of limitation, both claims are barred. They are dismissed as a matter of law pursuant to Rule 50(b). A motion for a new trial is not conditionally granted. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 50(c).
Finality as to the Rotolos, Jackson and Farrell
As to the Rotolos, Jackson and Farrell, the decision is final. No just reason for delay exists. Judgment without costs or disbursements will be granted pursuant to Rules 54(b) and 54(d)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Finality as to Geressy
As to Geressy, the court is of the opinion that the otherwise non-final, non-appealable order granting a new trial involves controlling questions of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion
and that an immediate appeal from the order may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation expeditiously and fairly. See 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b).Among the issues warranting an immediate appeal are the following:
1. Is there sufficient basis for a finding of liability given the disputed scientific and other factual issues? See, e.g., Reiff v. Convergent Technologies, 957 F.Supp. 573 (D.N.J.1997). An included question is: Should a renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law have been granted for defendant pursuant to Rule 50 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?2. Is there adequate ground for a new trial based on withholding of evidence and newly discovered evidence pursuant to Rule 60(b), Rule 50(b), and Rule 59(a) and (d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?3. Should the new trial be on all issues pursuant to Rule 59(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?4. Is the method of computing the maximum damages appropriate under Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc., 518 U.S. 415, 116 S.Ct. 2211, 135 L.Ed.2d 659 (1996)? A new trial may obviate the need to decide this issue.Defendant’s application for sanctions for withholding evidence is denied. There is no proof that client or counsel knowingly mislead defendant, defendant’s counsel or the court.
Parties are to submit judgments by consent or through separate applications within ten days.
So ordered.
APPENDIX A
COMPARABLE CASES CONSIDERED
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Agnostino v. yes yes yes 37,000 Work related accident causing Seaport Unloaders, hand and wrist problems (including Inc., an RSI) and necessitating surgery; No. 29008/90 injury forced plaintiff to (Sup.Ct. Kings change professions. County 1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annunziato v. no no no $511,899 19 year-old man's intentional dropping Madden, of pumpkin from overpass to 0937194 (Sup. highway with intention to see Ct. Queens pumpkin splatter but without intention County 1996) to cause personal injury is a qualitatively different tortious event and is not useful for comparison to instant cases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Baugh v. Reinauer yes no no $600,000 Herniated cervical discs requiring Transp. fusion surgery. Co. Inc. 92-CV-1836 (E.D.N.Y.1994) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bebee v. City of no no no $875,000 27 year-old man suffered paraplegia New York, 231 from gunshot wound; qualitatively A.D.2d 481, 647 different tortious event. N.Y.S.2d 95 (1st Dept.1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bernstein v. yes no yes $1,100,000 Fall by 67 year-old woman. Serious Red Apple Supermarkets, injuries including torn rotator 227 A.D.2d 264, cuff in dominant shoulder. 642 N.Y.S.2d 303 (Sup.Ct. 1st Dept.1996)
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Boylan v. Leal, no no no N/A Too old and not otherwise useful. No. 20766/79 (Sup.Ct. Westchester County 1981) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Breslauer v. no no no N/A General jury award (followed by a Dan, No. general post-verdict settlement 22049/84, (Sup. figure) only. Ct. Kings County 1990) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brust v. Estee no yes yes $ 238,500 Plaintiff injured when struck in Lauder Inc., the upper right arm by a wrench 184 A.D.2d 474, that had been dropped at work 585 N.Y.S.2d site; suffered lacerations to the 432 (1st Dept. right arm requiring two sutures 1992) and mild right median nerve injury; ability to perform some work duties impaired. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cohen v. City no no no N/A General damage award only. of New York, 171 A.D.2d 721, 567 N.Y.S.2d 176 (2d Dept. 1991) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ D'Amato v. yes yes yes $ 135,000 Worker suffered RSI injuries for Long Island which he underwent two surgeries; Railroad, 874 took almost a year off work and F.Supp. 57 continued to have pain and hand (E.D.N.Y.1995) dysfunction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Datskow v. Teledyne no no no $ 250,000 Plane crash after fire broke out inflight Continental (per plaintiff) is qualitatively different tortious Motors event. Aircraft Products, 826 F.Supp. 677 (W.D.N.Y.1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Doty v. Navistar no no no $1,500,000 Amputation of the arm of a 9 year-old International boy involves qualitatively different Transportation resultant injuries. Corp., 219 A.D.2d 32, 639 N.Y.S.2d 592 (4th Dept.1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Duley v. 888 no yes yes $ 400,000 Mis-leveled elevator caused office Seventh Ave. clerk to suffer cartilage tear of the Associates, knee, resulting in sympathetic dystrophy 1993 WL and subsequent disability. 770659 (LRP Jury) (Sup.Ct. New York City 1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Earl v. Bouchard no no no N/A General damage award only. Transportation Co., Inc., 917 F.2d 1320 (2d Cir. 1990)
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Eschberger v. yes no no $1,700,000 49 year-old railway worker injured Conrail, 174 on the job; two back surgeries and A.D. 983, 572 probability of more; herniated disc N.Y.S.2d 539 in cervical spine requiring laminectomy (4th Dept.1991) and fusion surgery at C4-5; later fusion surgeries at C3-4 and C5-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Farren v. Sherlock, no no no $ 600,000 35 year-old plaintiff suffered the 1995 WL near amputation of both legs, resulting 778748 (LRP in extensive damage to the Jury) (Sup.Ct. left politeal artery and requiring Chatauqua grafting to the artery and the left County 1995) sciatic nerve; she later developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy; qualitatively different injuries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fiebert v. yes no no $ 750,000 Serious car accident; herniated United States, disc at C-6 requiring fusion surgery. 91-CV-1439 (E.D.N.Y.1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Figueroa v. no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Manhattanville College, 23332/89 (Sup. Ct. Suffolk County 1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flamio v. State no no no N/A General damage award only. of New York, 132 A.D.2d 594, 517 N.Y.S.2d 756 (2d Dept. 1987) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forelli v. Pratt yes no no $ 340,000 33 year-old electrician with median Institute, 181 nerve injury, complicated by cervical A.D.2d 856, 581 and lumbar injuries including N.Y.S.2d 832 bulging disc. (2d Dept.1992) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Furey v. Warren, yes yes yes $ 75,000 Plaintiff injured in car accident; No. injuries included serious RSIs and 1330/91, (Sup. other complications. Ct. Putnam County 1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Furgeson v. no no no N/A General damage award only. Boston Buffalo Express, No. 83/2879 (Sup. Ct. Onondaga County 1984) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guillory v. yes no yes $1,200,000 52 year-old electrician. Extensive Nautilus Real tear of rotater cuff, complicated Estate, 208 surgery, 16 months of formal therapy, A.D.2d 336, 624 continuing home therapy, continuing N.Y.S.2d 110 pain and restriction of (1st Dept.1995) movement, continuing deterioration and prognosis of further degenerative changes. Traumatic osteoarthritis; can no longer work as an electrician.
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Gulino v. yes yes yes =$149,305.56 Settlement based on jury verdict North Carolina and presumably proportionate to Yacht Sales, jury breakdown; surgeon injured No. 5326/90 in car accident and suffered RSIs (Sup.Ct. Suffolk which prevented him from practicing County his profession. 1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harvey v. Mazal no no no $14,300,000 Plaintiff fell two floors, head-first, American which caused permanent damage Partners, 179 to brain and spine; qualitatively A.D.2d 1, 581 different injuries. N.Y.S.2d 748 (1st Dept.1992) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heller v. L/M yes no no $ 1,138,834 Plaintiff was injured at a construction Broadway and site; suffered herniated cervical 83rd CM Corp., discs, requiring disectomy 2 No. 21010/88 years after the accident; also underwent (Sup.Ct. New lumbar laminectomy at York County L1-2 and resection of his first rib 1993) due to thoracic outlet syndrome; required a multi-level spinal fusion; continued to suffer from spinal instability and partial neurogenic impotence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hellmann v. no yes yes $ 129,000 Inflamed vein and nerve in lower State of New extremities as a result of a work-related York, No. accident in prison. 70474 (Ct. of Claims Rochester County 1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hildebrandt v. no no no N/A Too old and not otherwise useful. Star Market, No. 978/84 (Sup.Ct. Monroe County 1984) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hoyt v. Metropolitan no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Club, Inc., No. 14569/91 (Sup. Ct. Bronx County 1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hubbard v. no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Tan Tulco, No. 878/92 (Sup.Ct. Queens County 1994) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In re In-flight no no no varied Injuries sustained in air plane Explosion on by plaintiff crashes and terrorist attacks do Trans World not provide good comparisons to Airlines, Inc., the injuries in the instant case. 778 F.Supp. 625 (E.D.N.Y. 1991)
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== In re Air Disaster no no no N/A Injuries sustained in air plane at Lockerbie crashes and terrorist attacks do Scotland, not provide good comparisons to 887 F.Supp. 71 the injuries in the instant case; (E.D.N.Y.1995) also, general damage award only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jae v. 488 Associates, yes yes yes $150,000 Sculptor suffered bilateral carpal No. tunnel syndrome and cervical radiculopathy 1682/83 (Sup. as a result of a fall; Ct. New York could not continue her profession. County 1992). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jarvis v. Dianto, no no no $2,000,000 Construction worker fell from ladder, 1993 WL became paraplegic and suffers 423466 (LRP from bladder and bowell incontinence, jury) (Sup.Ct. sexual dysfunction, and reflex Richmond sympathetic dystrophy; qualitatively County 1993) different injuries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Javier v. Chin yes yes yes $ 140,000 Seamstress suffered RSIs and other Camo Realty, upper extremity injury when No. 35079/91 part of ceiling fell on her. (Sup.Ct. New York County 1994) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John v. New no no no $2,500,000 Malpractice after plaintiff was admitted York City to hospital for severe head Health and injuries resulting from mugging; Hospital Corporation, sustained injuries included immediate 1995 amputation of one leg and WL 796927 amputation of the other leg after (LRP Jury) eight operations; qualitatively different (Sup.Ct. New injuries. York County 1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Johnson v. no no no $1,500,000 19 year-old's dominant hand Danly Machine caught in power press; crushing Specialties, injury resulted in partial amputation 183 of three fingers; qualitatively A.D.2d 592, 584 different injuries. N.Y.S.2d 26 (1st Dept.1992) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kelly v. DiPaolo, yes no no $1,200,000 8 year-old injured when thrown No. from a horse; injuries included angulated 19043/90 (Sup. displaced fractures of the Ct. Westchester left (nondominant) radius and ulna County requiring closed reduction; fasciotomy 1995) of the left forearm with carpal tunnel release; split thickness skin grafting with permanent scarring on the forearm and right hip (donor site); decreased trip and arm strength. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kirschhoffer v. yes no no $1,825,000 38 year-old woman with back injury Van Dyke, 173 requiring laminectomy, spinal A.D.2d 7, 577 fusion, permanent insertion of N.Y.S.2d 512 Harrington rods; body brace; bedridden (3d Dept.1991) for four months; may require further surgery; 75-80% disability.
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Krieger v. no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Bancalari, No. 12652/87 (Nassau County) — settled 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lee v. J & B no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Farm Inc., No. 15604/93 (Sup. Ct. Kings County 1996) — settled 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Legotti v. Long no yes yes $ 85,000 Plaintiff, a 41 year-old ticket Island Railroad, clerk, was diagnosed with lateral 93-CV-1259 epicondylitis, an RSI, in his right (E.D.N.Y. dominant arm, from using a ticket 1996) validating machine at work. Underwent elbow surgery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lentz v. Long no no no N/A General damage award only. Island Railroad, 86-CV-0868 (E.D.N.Y. 1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lim v. Atlas-Gem yes no no $1,250,000 Laborer injured at construction Erectors site; injuries included herniated Co. Inc., No. disc at C4-5; injury to C5-6 requiring 7213/92 (Sup. a disectomy and fusion of Ct. Bronx C4-6; neurological deficit with antalgic County 1995) gait; numbness of left (dominant) arm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mack v. Bermudez, no no no N/A General settlement figure only. No. 9942/81 (Sup. Ct. Queens County 1982) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Micalizzi v. no yes yes $ 35,000 Bilateral carpal tunnel from car Stanford Superior accident. Drug, Inc., No. 16145/91 (Sup.Ct. Bronx County 1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Miller v. Fay's no no no N/A General damage award only. Drug Co. Inc., No. 6326/84 (Sup.Ct. Albany County 1986) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ O'Brien v. City no no no $1,700,000 Pedestrian in car accident suffered of New York, injuries including severe brain 231 A.D.2d 698, damage with right-side paralysis, a 647 N.Y.S.2d crushed femur and acetabulum, 561 (2d Dept. partial blindness in the right eye; 1996) was in a comma for several months; confined to a wheelchair and requires full-time custodial care for the rest of his life; qualitatively different injuries.
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Ogborn v. Alphin no no no N/A General damage award only. Haus, No. 647/91 (Sup.Ct. Delaware County 1992) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ortado v. yes no no $1,050,000 Severe lower extremity injuries, Gluck, No. herniated lumbar disc, reflex sympathetic 11886/88 (Sup. dystrophy in lower right Ct. Queens leg; work related injury resulting County 1996) in severe change in life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papa v. City of no no no N/A Action involving assault and battery, New York, 194 negligence, false arrest, malicious A.D.2d 527, 598 prosecution, and civil rights N.Y.S.2d 558 violation stemming from police officer (2d Dept.1993) attack on plaintiffs. One plaintiff suffered a concussion with organic brain dysfunction, which completely disabled him from his occupation as an attorney and also suffered dislocated shoulder, three fractured ribs, and a torn meniscus. Second plaintiff suffered bruises, cuts and contusions, and received only emergency room treatment for his physical injuries; also suffered psychological trauma. Qualitatively different tortious event and subsequent injuries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parises v. no no no N/A General verdict with no breakdown. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, No. 240034/87 (Sup. Ct. New York County 1992) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parperi v. no no no $100,000 General settlement figure only. Dweck, No. 29912/93 (Kings County) — settled 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Perilla v. Miller, no yes yes $30,000 Work injury resulted in crush fracture No. 1578/94 of the distal portion of the (Sup.Ct. Sullivan right (dominant) thumb with muscle County and tendon injuries, clinically 1996) diagnosed reflex sympathetic dystrophy; surgery recommended but plaintiff refused. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Perry v. Crawford, no no no N/A General settlement figure only. No. 850/91 (Delaware County) — settled 1993
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Pescatore v. no no no N/A Injuries sustained in air plane Pan American crashes and terrorist attacks do World Airways, not provide good comparisons to 97 F.3d 1 the injuries in the instant case. (2d Cir.1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Picarelli v. no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Prime Automotive Parts, 1251/93 — Settled 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Polipo v. Sanders, no no no 0 Tenant hurt through negligence of 227 A.D.2d plumber. On appeal, finding of liability 256, 642 reversed (and therefore N.Y.S.2d 302 damage award not reviewed). (1st Dept.1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramirez v. yes yes yes $238,000 Fractured fifth finger of the right New York City (dominant) hand resulting in a Housing Authority, mallet finger deformity; severe No. trauma to the palm resulting in 20326/92 (Sup. nodule that caused "trigger finger" Ct. Bronx in the fourth finger; reflex sympathetic County 1995) dystrophy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redavid v. no no no N/A General damage award only. Long Island Railroad, 83-CV-1373 (E.D.N.Y.1986) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regina v. no no no $165,000 Jaw injury, RSD in the neck, and Flanagan, No. possible spinal injury; injuries are 1164/91 (Sup. not sufficiently similar and there is Ct. Richmond insufficient information available County 1995) on pain, suffering, and the resulting changes in plaintiff's quality of life, if any. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rondinone v. no no no N/A General damage award and old Matta, 99 case. A.D.2d 733, 472 N.Y.S.2d 861 (1st Dept.1984) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roshwalb v. yes no yes $ 750,000 63 year-old woman fell; subcondylar Regency Maritime fracture of dominant elbow Corp., 182 requiring open reduction and reconstruction A.D.2d 401, 582 with transposition of N.Y.S.2d 140 ulnar nerve, insertion of "Y" plate (1st Dept.1992) and 14 screws and wires; later had operation to remove hardware, and may require additional surgeries; constant pain, numbness, scarring and limitation of use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross v. NYU no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Medical Center, No. 2568/92 (Sup.Ct. New York County 1994)
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Rung v. St. no no no $1,000,000 Medical malpractice in which Luke's Hospital healthy person received a tetnas Center, shot by an unwrapped, unsterile 1825/89 (Sup. needle with which a young child Ct. Oneida had been playing; plaintiff experienced County 1994) chronic infections and permanent loss of use of the left arm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryan v. Long no yes yes $ 55,000 Ticket clerk suffered bilateral carpal Island Railroad, tunnel system from use of machine 92-CV-3029 at work. (E.D.N.Y. 1994) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scala v. Moore yes no yes $ 750,000 From accident at work, plaintiff McCormack suffered disabling knee injury requiring Lines, 985 F.2d several surgical procedures 680 (2d Cir. and resulting in development 1993) of phlebitis, causing plaintiff to spend 6 months in a wheelchair and totally disabling him from job as a longshoreman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shu-Tao Lin no no no N/A Injuries sustained in air plane v. McDonnell crashes do not provide good comparisons Douglas Corp., to the injuries in the instant 742 F.2d 45 (2d case. Cir.1984) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sinclair v. no no no N/A General damage award only. State of New York, No. 68449 (Ct. of Claims Buffalo 1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Singh-Walia v. no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Citywide Ambulance Corp., 1996 WL 643326 (LRP Jury) (Bronx County) — settled ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sladick v. no no no $7,500,000 Man in mid-30s hit by mobile Hudson General lounge at airport; crush injury required Corporation, above the knee leg amputation; 226 A.D.2d 263, left with stump pain; back 641 N.Y.S.2d pain, phantom pain and depression; 270 (1st Dept. numerous operations; qualitatively 1996) different tortious event and subsequent injuries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snyder v. Conrail, no no no N/A General damage award only. 83-CV-938 (N.D.N.Y. 1985) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spoto v. S.D.R. no no no 0 Original verdict was $1,400,000, Construction, but the verdict was not reviewed 5701/89 (Kings on appeal since the case was reversed County 1994) on other grounds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stiles v. Batavia no no no N/A General damage award only. Atomic Horseshoes, Inc., 81 N.Y.2d 950, 597 N.Y.S.2d 666, 613 N.E.2d 572 (1993)
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Summerville v. no no no $5,057,316 30 year-old innocent by-stander City of New shot twice by off-duty police officer; York, 39604/91 mistakenly arrested and (Sup.Ct. Kings charged with bank robbery County 1996) (charges later dropped). Gunshot wounds to the left (nondominant) arm, stomach, and colon. Left arm hand-cuffed to hospital bed for 12 hours. Plaintiff developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy (rsd) in left arm which is now paralyzed. He underwent an unsuccessful nerve graft in 1992 in an attempt to restore some function to the arm. A dorsal column stimulator was implanted into his spinal cord in 1995 to relieve the constant burning sensation in his arm, but this procedure was also unsuccessful. Plaintiff had not returned to work by time of trial and it was unclear whether or not he would. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thurman v. yes yes yes $ 60,000 73 year-old woman slipped and fell State of New in the pool area of a gym; resultant York, No. injuries included fracture of 79207 (Ct. of the left (dominant) distal radius, Claims, Binghamton requiring closed reduction; rsd 1991) with a loss of motion in hands and fingers. Daily activities of self-care have become quite difficult. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turchin v. Bar yes no no $ 290,000 Construction site injury resulted in & Bar 92-CV-1448 herniated discs at C4-5, C5-6, and (S.D.N.Y. C6-7 requiring discectomy of the 1994 three discs, bone grafting and fusion as well as psychological trauma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ubiles v. Rosenzweig yes no yes $1,150,000 28 year-old truck driver; five fractures Lumber of dominant elbow, two open Corp., 225 reduction and internal fixation procedures; A.D.2d 468, 639 80% loss of range of motion; N.Y.S.2d 383 incidents of severe pain; can (1st Dept.1996) no longer perform manual labor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Urrea v. Long no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Beach Plaza Corp. No. 14339/88 (Nassau County 1990) — settled $450,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vassar-Roller no no no $375,424.43 Settlement based on jury verdict, v. Steiner, presumably settlement was proportionate D.P.M., No. to the jury award; case 17270/91 inapposite as it involves malpractice (Bronx County) for complications arriving — settled from foot surgery. 1994
======================================================================================================================== CASE NAME COMPARE COMPARE COMPARE PAIN & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TO TO SUFFERING GERESSY? JACKSON? ROTOLO? AWARD ======================================================================================================================== Vellela v. no no no N/A General settlement figure only. Craftsman Woodworkers, Ltd., No. 27501/91 (Suffolk County) — settled 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Villalta v. City no no no N/A General damage award only. of New York, No. 2051/93 (Sup.Ct. Bronx County 1994) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wendell v. Supermarkets yes no no $ 115,000 Plaintiff slipped and fell resulting General Corp., in herniated discs at C5-6 and C6-7 189 A.D.2d 7 that impinged on her spinal cord 1063, 592 and compressed a nerve leading to N.Y.S.2d 895 her arm; cannot return to work. (3d Dept.1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Weyant v. City yes no no $2,000,000 Car accident at work resulted in of New York, herniated discs at C5-6 and C6-7 162 Misc.2d requiring a disectomy and a spinal 132, 616 fusion at C5-6; tear of medial N.Y.S.2d 428 meniscus; plaintiff underwent (Sup.Ct. Kings three separate surgeries on the County 1994) knee, including reconstructive surgery, removal of bony matter, and the bracing of an unstable patella; he also underwent the insertion of a bone graft at C5-6; plaintiff is on 3/4 disability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Williams v. yes no yes $1,575,909.27 Itemized verdict reduced, presumably Seaman's Furniture proportionately; 47 year-old Co. No. secretary slipped and fell in her 44844/92 (Sup. home over drop cloth carelessly Ct. Kings placed on floor by delivery persons. County 1996) Severed nerves in left (non-dominant) hand; rsd which spread to arm; lost use of hand; underwent extensive and unsuccessful physical therapy; could no longer work as secretary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Young v. 153-157 yes yes yes $ 410,000 Settlement after itemized jury Lennox verdict where verdict was entirely Ave. Co., No. for pain and suffering. Due to 13813/90 accident with elevator, plaintiff (Bronx County suffered bilateral carpal tunnel 1993) — settled syndrome with numbness, tingling, 1993 and weakness; plaintiff underwent two surgical releases; suffered permanent nerve damage; could not resume typing at work for 4 years, and then only for short periods of time; cannot engage in hobbies like swimming and volleyball. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Appendix B
Patricia Geressy: Tentative Computations
========================================================================================== Jury Verdict ========================================================================================== (a) Past conscious pain and suffering, emotional distress, and the diminution $ 490,000 of the quality of life ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (b) Past disability $ 250,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (c) Past economic loss due to lost wages and fringe benefits $ 40,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (d) Past economic loss due to lost household services $ 15,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (e) Future conscious pain and suffering, emotional distress and diminution $3,000,000 of the quality of life ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (f) Future disability $1,100,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (g) Future economic loss due to lost earnings $ 200,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (h) Future economic loss due to lost household services $ 50,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (i) Future medical expenses $ 200,000 ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== Total Jury Verdict $5,345,000.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jury Verdict Without Pain and Suffering Award $1,855,000.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jury Verdict Pain and Suffering Portion Only $3,490,000.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mean $747,372.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Standard Deviation $606,873.40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Range Within One Standard Deviation $140,499 to 1,354,246 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Range Within Two Standard Deviation 0 to $1,961,119 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Median $750,000 ==========================================================================================
Appendix C
Jill M. Jackson: Tentative Computations
========================================================================================== Jury Verdict ========================================================================================== (a) Past conscious pain and suffering, emotional distress, and the diminution $ 25,000 of the quality of life ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (b) Past disability $ 25,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (c) Past economic loss due to lost wages and fringe benefits $115,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (d) Past economic loss due to lost household services $ 2,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (e) Future conscious pain and suffering, emotional distress and diminution $ 18,000 of the quality of life ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (f) Future disability $ 18,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (g) Future economic loss due to lost earnings $ 90,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (h) Future economic loss due to lost household services $ 2,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (i) Future medical expenses $ 7,000 ========================================================================================== ========================================================================================== Total Jury Verdict $302,000.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jury Verdict Without Pain and Suffering Award $259,000.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jury Verdict Pain and Suffering Portion Only $ 43,000.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mean $147,925 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Standard Deviation $119,371.40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Range Within Standard Deviation $28,554 to $267,297 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Range Within Two Standard Deviations $0 to $386,668 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Median $132,000 ==========================================================================================
Appendix D
Jeanette Rotolo: Tentative Computations
============================================================================================ Jury Verdict ============================================================================================ (a) Past conscious pain and suffering, emotional distress, and the diminution of the quality of life $40,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (b) Past disability $35,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (c) Past economic loss due to lost wages and fringe benefits $30,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (d) Past economic loss due to lost household services $ 2,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (e) Future conscious pain and suffering, emotional distress and diminution of the quality of life $60,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (f) Future disability $53,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (g) Future economic loss due to lost earnings $30,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (h) Future economic loss due to lost household services $ 3,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (i) Future medical expenses $21,000 ============================================================================================ ============================================================================================ Total Jury Verdict $274,000.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jury Verdict Without Pain and Suffering Award $174,000.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jury Verdict Pain and Suffering Portion Only $100,000.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mean $404,214 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard Deviation $465,489 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Range Within One Standard Deviation 0 to $869,703 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Range Within Two Standard Deviations 0 to $1,335,192 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Median $149,653 ===============
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Aaron Brown – recent biography which doesn’t explain why he shut down the message boards of eRaider.com back in June 2004
Biography
I was born in Seattle Washington, 54 years ago. Other than stints in Syracuse, New York and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I spent my childhood there as well. I left to go to Harvard, where I got a degree in Applied Mathematics, then the University of Chicago, where I got a degree in Finance. I learned serious poker in Seattle, started playing for significant amounts of money at Harvard and have been serious about the game ever since.
After Chicago I started trading for myself, and for Prudential Insurance and Lepercq, de Neuflize (an investment bank in New York). I rose to be head of Mortgage Securities in Lepercq, but quit in 1988 to teach finance at Fordham University and Yeshiva University. I got interested in the emerging field of financial risk management, where there were a lot of exciting ideas and fun people. I worked in this for JPMorgan, Rabobank, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and now AQR Capital Management. That sounds like a lot of job-hopping, but not on Wall Street in the last 20 years. I lasted longer at my firms than the CEO at the time I was hired. Between mergers and massive reorganizations, it’s hard to find people with 20 years of service anywhere.
For three years in there, I ran a public mutual fund, the Allied Owners Action Fund, which was affiliated with a website, www.eRaider.com. We bought 5% stakes in public companies, then rallied other shareholders on the Internet to lobby for changes in the way the companies were run. We kicked off each “eRaid” on live CNNfn from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. It was a lot of fun, and made a lot of new securities law and practice. We eventually got most of our way at all of our companies, and even forged positive relations with the managers and board members. The fund never attracted enough investment to cover the overhead of running a public fund, so I converted it to a private hedge fund and turned it over to my partners. I’m proud of what eRaider did, both for our shareholders and for corporate governance in general, but I made a lot of mistakes as well. When we started it, I wrote, “This idea is ahead of its time and will probably fail. I don’t mind, I think it will be fun. Years later, someone will pick up the core ideas with fresh energy, will learn from our mistakes, will walk easily guided by our blazes over trails we had to cut out of virgin forest, and will make a success of it. I hope she thanks me.” I’m not sure I believed that then. One big reason we didn’t do better is I started the fund with a partner, Professor Martin Stoller from Northwestern University. I was Mr. Inside, he was Mr. Outside. When he was diagnosed with brain cancer, eRaider lost a leg. He left a wife and three daughters when he died, and I miss him every day.
In 1987 I married Deborah Pastor, and we have two children, Jacob (18) and Aviva (14). Deborah is a portfolio manager and former FX salesperson, she was the portfolio manager for eRaider but also runs other money. We live in a big apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan, and have a nice lake house in Pennsylvania. I spend a reasonable amount of time at work, and enjoy my job. I also spend a lot of time reading, teaching, writing and playing poker. For exercise, I swim, sail, hike and bike; and go to the gym only if the weather is too bad for anything else. I don’t do much else.
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Dr. Guggenheim is shocked – Landmines – Whatever – Could I stop you?
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Gatekeeper – Ron Bellows – AIG
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Sibling part – Does this “Bit of Gamble” ring a trolley name? – Fwd: Rich – Meet Me In St. Louis MMISL – Missiles – impossible at any rate
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Subject: Sibling part – Does this “Bit of Gamble” ring a trolley name? – Fwd: Rich – Meet Me In St. Louis [MMISL] – Missiles – impossible at any rate
Date: November 22, 2016 at 11:38:22 AM PST
To: Darren {I still want to have lunch with you … but we can’t talk on Facebook} Krok <krokdg>
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Darren – pay attention to the dates as well as the hyperlink over, “”doors slammed in my face, right, left and center”
THEATER; For a Bit of a Gamble, Meet Them in St. Louis
By PATRICK PACHECO; Patrick Pacheco is a freelance writer who specializes in the arts.
Published: October 29, 1989
True to form, Miss Brickhill and Mr. Burke have garlanded the seasonal vignettes with fountains, sumptuous costumes, fireworks, a five-ton ice-skating rink and, of course, a trolley that goes clang-clang-clang. According to the producers, almost $3 million has been spent on the physical production, designed by Keith Anderson. Mr. Burke is also credited as director and Miss Brickhill as choreographer in this production, which marks their American debut.
”The challenge was to take this enchanting family story and embellish it without overwhelming it,” says Mr. Burke, sitting with his wife of 30 years in the study of their rented East Side apartment, the temporary headquarters of Brickhill-Burke Productions.
The Burkes say their talents have always been directed toward the realm of light musicals and comedies and classic English theater. Their own families had come out of that cultural tradition in South Africa; Mr. Burke’s mother danced with Anna Pavlova’s company and his great-aunt was a founding member of a repertory company.
The Burkes say their reasons for immigrating to the United States were less political than artistic and economic. They felt isolated in South Africa as the international boycotts grew. Also, their runs ”were getting shorter and shorter,” says Miss Brickhill, as their audience shrank because of white flight. After 25 years of producing in South Africa, they decided it was time to move to Broadway. London might have been the more logical choice, but their experience, emphasizes Mr. Burke, is in American musicals.
Nonetheless, when Mr. Burke came to New York to pave the way for the move, he says he found ”doors slammed in my face, right, left and center” because Broadway producers had not seen his work. It took two years of byzantine negotiations to secure the stage rights for ”Meet Me in St. Louis” – complicated by the sale of the M-G-M film library to Turner Broadcasting and a legal tangle between Sally Benson’s heirs and the Actors’ Fund – and another three years to obtain financing. During that time, Mr. Burke taught acting and lived out of a cramped West Side apartment while his wife worked in South Africa.
Mr. Burke’s angel for ”Meet Me in St. Louis” finally came in the form of EPI Products, a family-owned health and beauty aids company that has put up a large share of financing. Members of the family, the Kroks, who immigrated to California from South Africa 10 years ago, had seen the Burkes’ productions there. It is the first theatrical venture for EPI, a company with domestic sales of $250 million a year. But the three sisters who run the company thought that the show, with its emphasis on wholesome family values, would serve as a good promotional tie-in. They also felt, says a co-producer, Christopher Seabrooke, a businessman who is responsible for their involvement, that a musical that features ”Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” would augur well for a commercial run at this time of year.
Mr. Seabrooke says there is only American money invested in the production. ”There is no South African investment for obvious political reasons,” he says. ”It would’ve been impossible at any rate. The amount of rands [ the South African currency ] an individual is allowed to take out of the country is the equivalent of approximately $95,000 per year.”
While many insiders, Mr. Burke says, warned him away from ”Meet Me in St. Louis” as a risky enterprise because it was ”old hat and slight,” he was convinced it was the right choice for the Brickhill-Burke calling card. Although the producer-director says he has as many as 10 projects in the works – including ”A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Mickey Rooney – the musical was simply the first one out of the gate. ”The show is about family, which has a universal and enduring appeal,” he says, adding that he didn’t think it was ”all that risky” to start with a score that includes perennial favorites like ”The Boy Next Door” and ”The Trolley Song.”
”It is an American classic because the film was so beautiful, done with great style and finesse. I wanted to keep those elements while reinventing the story to capture the excitement onstage,” he says.
To that end, Hugh Blane and Ralph Martin have added 10 new songs to the score. Ironically, Mr. Burke says that he wanted to ”open up” the musical even more, using a term usually reserved for stage musicals that become movies, not vice versa. As an example, the director notes that, in the film, the ”Trolley Song” consisted largely of close-ups of Judy Garland. Here, the number is rendered as a misty dream sequence taking advantage of the Gershwin Theater’s enormous stage.
In the reconstruction, the director says that he was immeasurably aided by Hugh Wheeler, the veteran musical book writer (”Sweeney Todd,” ”A Little Night Music”), who died nine months into the project.
”Although we fought and argued about many things,” Mr. Burke said, ”Hugh agreed that the star of this production had to be the entire Smith family.”
When the film was released, the critic James Agee said, ”The real love story is between a happy family and a way of living.” It was this aspect of the current production that enticed George Hearn. The actor, who won a Tony Award for his drag queen, Albin, in ”La Cage aux Folles,” plays a Victorian martinet in charge of an independent brood, which includes a doting wife (Charlotte Moore), a jig-happy Irish grandpa (Milo O’Shea), a crusty maid (Betty Garrett) and four daughters, including little Tootie (Courtney Peldon), who decapitates dolls and entombs them in a backyard cemetery, and naive Esther (Donna Kane), who primps for the boy next door.
”I suppose you could call this a fantasy,” says Mr. Hearn in his dressing room. ”But as dreams go, it’s not a bad one and one we could use a lot more of these days given the drug problem and the disintegration of the family.” I absolutely think there is a place on Broadway for this type of show along with ‘Les Miz’ and ‘Phantom.’ ”
Brickhill-Burke’s five-year struggle to gain a toehold in New York theater was made all the more difficult by what the couple refer to as ”an accident of birth.” As white South Africans, their claim to be ”not political” was somewhat incompatible with the international image of South African theater largely shaped through the politically charged works of Athol Fugard (” ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the Boys”) and Barney Simon’s Market Theater in Johannesburg, which first presented the musical ”Sarafina,” based on the violent Soweto school boycotts in 1976.
Yet, one wonders, how did they manage to cope as apolitical artists in a country whose apartheid policies inevitably defines one as ”political” at birth?
”You cope by doing what little you can to change the system,” says Miss Brickhill. They did this, she adds, by pressing early on for government permission to play to integrated audiences in the Johannesburg theater they managed for more than five years. And in 1974 they created ”KwaZulu,” which featured a cast of 35 black performers in ethnic dances. The show toured internationally to acclaim. They also taught classes for black actors, some of whom now sit on integrated arts councils in South Africa.
For the most part, however, Brickhill-Burke Productions is in the business of escaping reality, not addressing it. Mr. Burke says that the objective of using the theater as a place of magic transformation crystalized on his first visit to the traditional pantomime at the London Palladium in 1962. ”I sat transfixed,” he says, ”as Gillian Lynne [ the choreographer of ”Phantom of the Opera” ] swashbuckled across the stage as Puss n’ Boots and went through a series of metamorphoses. I’ve never doubted since then that you can do practically anything on stage that you put your mind to.”
But it was 10 years earlier, in 1952, says Miss Brickhill, that the couple’s embrace of the American musical theater became inevitable.
”An international company of ‘Oklahoma’ was touring South Africa,” she recalls. ”I saw it in Johannesburg, Louis saw it in Durban. We hadn’t even met yet, but we both had the same reaction. The show had this vitality, fire and energy that we both related to. It was the milieu in which we wanted to operate.”
Staging of ”Meet Me in St. Louis’’ (Martha Swope)
Review/Theater; ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’: Movie Brought to Stage
By FRANK RICH
Published: November 3, 1989
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/03/theater/review-theater-meet-me-in-st-louis-movie-brought-to-stage.html?pagewanted=all
It’s hard not to feel stirred when the lights dim in a Broadway theater, the curtain rises on a picture-postcard frontcloth, and a confident pit band splashes through an overture heralding ”The Trolley Song,” ”The Boy Next Door” and ”Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Do these songs affect us because their authors, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, touched something eternal in the American character when they wrote them for the M-G-M film musical ”Meet Me in St. Louis” during the wartime of 1944? Or is it because the songs were first delivered by Judy Garland, that difficult cultural icon about whom our complicated feelings remain forever unresolved?
I’m not sure. In any case, Judy Garland isn’t coming back and the original ”Meet Me in St. Louis” is available on videocassette. So what’s the mission of the stage replica at the Gershwin Theater? To spread the good will earned by the overture, I guess. And that task, if not a lot else, is accomplished by this lavish show despite such obstacles as insipid acting, an inane book and a complete lack of originality. While it’s not high praise to say so, ”Meet Me in St. Louis” is superior to the other latter-day Broadway adaptations of M-G-M musicals, ”Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and ”Singin’ in the Rain.” Unlike its predecessors, this show respects its source and knows its audience. It also benefits from the fact that the original material – Sally Benson’s stories of domestic bliss and teen-age romance on the eve of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition – is too Kensington Avenue-bound to insist upon cinematic sweep.
The driving force behind the stage version is the director-and-choreographer team of Louis Burke and Joan Brickhill. They have put on many musicals in South Africa, and I don’t mean ”Sarafina!” (Though they do list one ”all black African musical” in their Playbill biographies, their St. Louis is conspicuously all white.) Given the familiar titles in their credits, it’s clear that Mr. Burke and Miss Brickhill have a particular passion for vintage Broadway musicals. After seeing ”Meet Me in St. Louis,” it’s equally clear that they have not witnessed many of those musicals in their original productions.
Their show, so reminiscent of ”American” musicals in London, is the work of people who know what Broadway hits are supposed to look and sound like – information gleaned from the close study of original-cast recordings and production photographs – but who can only guess at what makes such shows tick. ”Meet Me in St. Louis” comes with turntables of lantern-lighted Victorian scenery (by Keith Anderson) that mimics the opulence of Oliver Smith’s designs in a show like ”Hello, Dolly!” without recapturing their glamorous, advanced taste. The costumes – boaters and suspenders for men, petticoats galore for women -could be slightly faded wash-and-wear knockoffs of Miles White’s clothes for ”High Button Shoes.” Miss Brickhill’s energetic (and well executed) dance routines – struts, cakewalks, square dances, dream ballets – have no internal drive but look like compilations of souvenir-program freeze-frames of the Broadway choreography of Michael Kidd and Onna White. Even Hilary Knight’s poster art for the show suggests an enervated hybrid of his posters for ”Sugar Babies” and ”Half a Sixpence.”
What prevents the derivative from becoming boring (except in a Halloween fantasy sequence) is the conviction and hard cash behind it. ”Meet Me in St. Louis,” in contrast to most Broadway revivals, doesn’t look cheap. There’s not only a trolley but also an ice rink to employ a skater or two still loitering in the Gershwin from ”Starlight Express.” What’s more, Mr. Burke and Miss Brickhill have drilled their company and collaborators to produce the sound that goes with the show’s look. Bruce Pomahac’s conducting, Michael Gibson’s orchestrations and all the voices have the brash snap of another era.
Yet this rigorous paint-by-numbers attempt to manufacture a Broadway hit is also the show’s main trap. The mechanical technique precludes the imaginative spontaneity that might allow ”Meet Me in St. Louis” to soar above the lumpy sum of its parts. As a result, this production desperately needs an exciting creative force on stage to ignite it – a Robert Lindsay, a Debbie Allen, a star-to-be – and that spark never comes. The Smith family and their neighbors are played by performers whose personalities are as generic as the production around them.
Donna Kane sings the Garland numbers with clarion tone, but she and her sibling partner in boy-chasing, Juliet Lambert, act like well-schooled Miss America contestants; only the different colors of their wigs permit us to tell them apart. (The boys are so interchangeable that the one next door might as well be addressed as ”occupant.”) As the Smith patriarch, a role identical to his ill-fated turn in Richard Rodgers’s ”I Remember Mama,” George Hearn can only rail at the ”newfangled” telephone and condescend to his wife (Charlotte Moore). Milo O’Shea, a silver-haired grandfather in a progression of funny hats, deserves combat pay for the stage time he must share with the robotic little girl impersonating Margaret O’Brien’s Tootie.
In the Marjorie Main role of the cook, Betty Garrett offers the genuine brio of the 1940’s musical comedy performer she was. The evening’s other real links to the past are Mr. Martin and Mr. Blane, who have written 10 new songs for the occasion. The lyrics for these numbers, which variously apotheosize banjos, the Irish, New York City and ice, are as laughably silly as the ginger peachy Hugh Wheeler dialogue. (When the chorus sings ”ice is twice as nice,” one wants to counter, ”But liquor is quicker!”) The music, while no patch on the original ”St. Louis” score, is consistent with the 1940’s Tin Pan Alley sound that is so endearing in Mr. Martin’s output, with and without Mr. Blane, in the musicals ”Best Foot Forward,” ”Look Ma, I’m Dancin’,” ”Love From Judy” and ”High Spirits.”
But ”Meet Me in St. Louis” isn’t a throwback to those old Martin shows, any more than it transports us to turn-of-the-century St. Louis or to Arthur Freed’s heyday at M-G-M. A synthetic approximation of old-fashioned Broadway crowd-pleasers rather than the real thing, it most resembles the many professional, second-rate shows a musical-comedy fanatic would settle for seeing in the 1950’s or 60’s when there were no tickets to be had at a ”Music Man” or ”Dolly.” (There’s even a march, ”Paging Mr. Sousa,” written and staged like ”76 Trombones.”) No doubt ”Meet Me in St. Louis” can serve the same function today for matinee audiences shut out of Broadway’s current reigning hits. It’s hardly an unpleasant way to kill an afternoon in the theater, especially if you have a high tolerance for camp and are in the company of wide-eyed kids. An Era Suggested MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane; book by Hugh Wheeler; based on ”The Kensington Stories” by Sally Benson and the M-G-M movie ”Meet Me in St. Louis.” Directed by Louis Burke; choreography by Joan Brickhill; production design, Keith Anderson; lighting, Ken Billington; musical supervisor, Milton Rosenstock; musical director, Bruce Pomahac; orchestrations, Michael Gibson; dance arranger, James Raitt; sound, Alan Stieb and James Brousseau; vocal arrangers, Mr. Martin and Mr. Pomahac; ice choreographer, Michael Tokar; production stage manager, Robert Bennett; assistant director, Lonnie Chase; associate choreographer, Herman-Jay Muller. Presented by Brickhill-Burke Productions, Christopher Seabrooke and EPI Products. At the Gershwin Theater, 222 West 51st Street. Lon Smith … Michael O’Steen Randy Travis … Brian Jay Katie … Betty Garrett Motorman … Jim Semmelman Tootie Smith … Courtney Peldon Mrs. Smith … Charlotte Moore Grandpa Prophater … Milo O’Shea Esther Smith … Donna Kane Rose Smith … Juliet Lambert John Truitt … Jason Workman Agnes Smith … Rachael Graham Mr. Alonzo Smith … George Hearn Warren Sheffield … Peter Reardon Ida Boothby … Naomi Reddin Douglas Moore … Gregg Whitney Eve Finley … Shauna Hicks Dr. Bond … Gordon Stanley Lucille Ballard … Karen Culliver Clinton A. Badger … Craig A. Meyer
Photo of Donna Kane, as Esther Smith, in ”Meet Me in St. Louis,” at the Gershwin Theater. (NYT/Bill Swersey)
Begin forwarded message:
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject: Rich – Meet Me In St. Louis [MMISL] – Missiles – impossible at any rate
Date: November 5, 2016 at 3:38:37 PM PDT
To: editorialsubmissions
Attention: Frank Rick
Dear Mr. Rich,
I would like to begin sharing something with you, in return for for sharing with the most important people in the world this scathing review of MMISL on November 3, 1989.
The Nobel Prize committee do not inform their audience that the most important people are exclusively focused on the money-mineral trail back and forth between America and South Africa, a beautifully scenic country which is mainly on the radar screen for safari goers and cheap vacationers.
I along with my mother Zena
were probably the first to see the review as we were at the cast party
following the premiere that ended just hours before the first edition of the New York Times went to print.
We knew the fate just by reading your end:
No doubt ”Meet Me in St. Louis” can serve the same function today for matinee audiences shut out of Broadway’s current reigning hits. It’s hardly an unpleasant way to kill an afternoon in the theater, especially if you have a high tolerance for camp and are in the company of wide-eyed kids.
My copy came from a taxi cab driver and he got paid handsomely for waiting outside of The New York Times headquarters that I believe is still owned by Lev Leviev following a deal with President Putin, where sources of mine tell me that Leviev pocketed on 47th Street, $1.5 billion in commissions on a $13 billion diamond transaction right before a presidential election in Russia back in 2004.
Bear in mind, if in fact that occurred exactly as I described, then I very much doubt President Putin wanted it kept a secret, because how else would Leviev get suddenly so rich and able to afford such an important landmark in New York?
Imagine one deal where the party with the diamonds can tell the party handing over the cash, “Just imagine that I have $13 billion in diamonds because you know where that comes from?”
And there will no be more tomorrow unless you answer my one question.
BTW, it might have escaped your attention that back in 2004 Leviev positioned himself as the “arch rival” of De Beers.
I don’t know of that many arch rivals who survive. De Beers wiped out in the space of a couple years, a decade before MMISL all the resisting Israeli diamond merchants – CLICK HERE – and who do you think survived?
You know, being Jewish, our pogroms left no survivors. My great maternal grandmother Nechie Becker Bardash [1874-1943] might have been the only one.
I would like to think that it is more than so much time has passed since you thought about MMISL, that keeps your attention.
What you exposed was not only how to kill a $6 million production quickly but those most would believe are the money people
behind it.
The New York Times left the critical “money angle” for Patrick Pacheco
who 4 days before your executioner’s piece, Sunday, October 29th, digs quite a bit until he lets one of the co-producers of MMISL, Christopher Seabrooke speak:
Mr. Seabrooke says there is only American money invested in the production. ”There is no South African investment for obvious political reasons,” he says. ”It would’ve been impossible at any rate. The amount of rands [ the South African currency ] an individual is allowed to take out of the country is the equivalent of approximately $95,000 per year.”
The funny part, as least to me, is the double entendre, ‘It would’ve been impossible at any rate.”
You kill a Broadway show and another comes up just as quick.
A great many people profit from turnover.
When you research Christopher Seabrooke, you will see that he takes out of one of his South African public corporations the equivalent of $1 million a year.
Yet Seabrooke has a longer first and last name than Lev Leviev who must like the other billionaires feel a little resentful that a piddly millionaire can get their 15 minutes of fame by paying so little?
Your job is not finance but creating exciting imagery using masterful prose, no doubt totally justifiable and so extraordinarily colorful.
In the course of the past 27 years and 2 days, besides for the world turning a lot, the money people, behind the money people
behind the Burke-Brickhill production MMISL remain in the missile business.
Pictures tell a lot, and the people behind the camera lens are often much more important as they choreograph.
That photo at the premiere of my mother Zena and Walter Cronkite shows clearly, assuming you know both characters, that my mother didn’t walk up to her lifetime friend and say, “Hello, pleased to meet you, can I have a photo with you so that I can show my friends back home that we are long lost friends”. On the other hand, Cronkite was good at looking genuine in front of the camera. It is his eyes that are most genuine, you think?
Nor was my mother and Cronkite ever out of touch for very long. The two of them went back to when my mother’s model, Penny Coelen won the Miss World 1958 competition.
This photo below where my mother is the centerpiece was very carefully staged,
and the people
my mother was meeting at the 1964 World Fair would have liked to be photographed with my mother, but my mother was far too shrewd to be used for someone else’s agenda.
Everyone has an agenda.
Don’t assume that I was the guy that built up Epi Products’ blistering speed $250 million in sales which was a fair amount of money back then as was the $10 million that was eventually blown with MMISL because their egos got in the way of the big picture, like most.
I wasn’t. But I do know “sumthing” [sic] about what links Broadway, Lloyd’s of London, The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, uranium
Clinton cash, Trump trash talk and foreign exchange rates.
Would you like you like to learn more as this Presidential race comes down to the wire?
Sincerely,
Gary S. Gevisser
PS – Feel free to begin by asking me my agenda.
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Look out for future TOLL [Tired Old Looking Liar] missive on 2facetruth.com BLOG
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She has quite a face
From: gg <gary@2facetruth.com>
Date: November 20, 2016 at 11:54:36 PM PST
To: Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com>
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Rod’s father, South African judge Cecil Margo Esq. wrote, at the request of Ben Gurion, the blueprint for what is today the brutally strong Israel Air Force.” <rdmargo@att.net>, “Dr. Rod Smith Phd – formerly of RAND Think Tank – Principal Waterstrategist.com – Facebook friend of GG and also present at the Wetherly Capital Group board meeting on Feb. 8, 2002 held in the corporate headquarters of Arden Realty, the largest REIT trading on the New York Stock Exchange before being bought out by General Electric.” <rsmith@stratwater.com>, “Keisha Whitaker – wife of Forest Whitaker; FB friend of Gary Gevisser” <kbabies1@aol.com>, “Chief Rabbi of the United States, Rabbi Capers Funnye – close cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama, and Facebook friend of GG.” <ravfunnye@sbcglobal.net>, cc-Ahackner <ahackner@netactive.co.za>, Cc-Alanditz <mandm@global.co.za>, cc-Bubs <bubs@netvision.net.il>, cc-Clive Bernstein <iti04598@mweb.co.za>, Cc-Colin Puterman <bdfabric@iafrica.com>, Cc-Elaine Zulberg <Hbar4@aol.com>, Cc-Lframe <alana@netvision.net.il>, Cc-Michael Arinov <aronz@earthlink.net>, cc-paulClapper <clapper@maaganm.co.il>, cc-Saul Basckin <deputygm@peninsula.co.za>, cc-Saul levin <slevin@nepa.org.za>, cc-Sperling <sperling@iafrica.com>, ccGrahamkluk <gkluk@attglobal.net>, ccLhack <lhack@home.com>, cc-Bergermd <bergermd@aol.com>, cc-Spberman <spberman@sabje.co.za>, “Zena Badash-Ash Gevisser Zulman [May 30 1929 – ] c/o Arnold Pollak” <arnold@signforce.co.za>, “Julian. 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The fourth rule: No client may resell the diamonds in his box in their uncut form without a special dispensation from Monty Charles. To maintain its international monopoly over the supply of diamonds, De Beers must control the world stockpile of uncut diamonds. If it permitted its clients to resell their boxes, some outside party could amass its own stockpile by bidding for the boxes. This actually occurred in 1977, when Israeli dealers paid a premium of up to 100 percent to De Beers clients for their unopened boxes. Many clients, seeing the opportunity to double their money overnight, took advantage of this windfall. The result was that by 1978, the stockpile in Israel was rapidly approaching in size De Beers’ own stockpile in London. If the Israelis suddenly panicked and threw their uncut diamonds on the market, the price would collapse. If the Israelis continued to amass diamonds, they would be in a position to offer their own sights and undercut the mechanism De Beers had invented for controlling the market. De Beers succeeded by gradually forcing the diamonds out of Israeli hands in 1979. To prevent a recurrence, Monty Charles insisted that clients must immediately cut and polish all the diamonds supplied to them in their boxes and then return the cardboard containers to assure that no one was selling their sealed boxes. He dramatically demonstrated that violators of this edict would be severely punished by purging some forty clients from the sights for reselling some of their uncut diamonds. His retribution was not lost on the other clients.
Israel: The going gets rough for diamonds
Hi Gary –
Listen, I am putting aside this topic for awhile. However, I will contact you if I return to it. Thanks for being in touch.
Best regards,
John
Hi Gary,
When I got to No 22, no one answered the doorbell so I couldn’t get in.
Then my phone died on me so you couldn’t call me.
I came home.
A bad day.
I’m going to bed..
Ayalah
Before commenting on the video “The Lady’s Speech” tell mehow many years had you not seen your Mom?Ayalah
Dear Gary,
I have already written to you.
However a thought crossed my mind. –
may I share this with Kathy and Neil?
I will respect whatever you say.
Ayalah
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com>
Subject: Share – Re: No 22
Date: November 20, 2016 at 10:50:29 PM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan
Those calls were from me trying to reach you when the phone disconnected as you got to my mother’s apartment.You had a lot of accusatory things to say to me and now after you sling your arrows you tell me that you cannot cope.That email I sent you was very much on point and centered around what my mother wants. It also tells you how two-faced are my siblings.You know about birds of feather!Don’t suddenly play stupid and victim.My mother Zena’s life is at stake and you are quite rightly going frantic because the videos show my mother in a vastly different state of mind than what you all have been portraying. Moreover, you know how easy it is to confuse an 87 year old human as her “cage is rattled”.You know perfectly well that my mother was not acting in those videos to hide her “advanced dementia”. Or do you think that my mother is such a good actor, she had you all fooled?You cannot have your cake and eat it at the same time.How long do you think you could keep up playing “advanced dementia”?You also misled me when trying to bait me with you question?Before commenting on the video “The Lady’s Speech” tell mehow many years had you not seen your Mom?You never told me that you had a problem reading or that you were already in touch with my siblings and heard all that the bad they had to say about me; and you thought it wise to plonk yourself in the middle until I responded with a well thrown pitch, “Everything about your life is positive”.Given how I now know better than to trust you, and I very much doubt you will connect me up by telephone with my mother, I must redouble my efforts to at the very least bring public international attention to her plight!Go back to sleep!When I get up tomorrow morning and not at 6AM as you instructed while telling me you only had 15 minutes to spare with me, and remember we are talking the quality of life of my very accomplished mother Zena who you also knew so very little about because you too were not close to her, much the same as my terrible siblings, I will be sharing everything, just as you wanted with Kathy, Neil and Melvin.
On Nov 20, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Ayala Kaplan wrote:Dear Gary,It is 4.30 in the morning.You are inundating me with mail and calls..I don’t have the time or energy to cope with it.Please leave me alone.I wish you well.Ayalah
1) What was she like at 22? – Zena Gevisser, Sept 22, 2016, 8:58am2) She has quite a face – Zena Gevisser, Sept. 22, 2016, 9am3) The lady’s speech – Zena Gevisser, Sept 22, 2016, 11:33am4) IF part 1 – Zena Gevisser, September 23, 2016, 12:49 PM5) IF part 2 – September 23, 2016, 12:49 PM6) IF – Zena Gevisser along with IF audio, Sept 23, 2016, 12:55PM7) The addiction – King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Sept. 24, 20168) Teachers – King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Sept. 24, 2016
People with little intelligence have great difficulty feeling stupid.
What does a psychologist do if they are depressed?Wouldn’t that be the first question you would ask a psychologist if you felt the need to see one?
“I don’t see how it is possible for you to develop a close relationship with your mother during the 15 years you showed great respect towards her when keeping your distance because you didn’t want to aggravate her second husband Alan Zulman who saw his world falling apart once he understood the dynamics of mineral rich South Africa”,
Zena: You are mad. She’s not 22Gary: She looks 22Zena: How old is she?Gary: She’s 58Zena: She’s 2 years off 60?Gary: YesZena: You’re crazy. You got it all wrong!Gary: You think so?Zena: What, did she go to have a facelift maybe?Gary: No, never [not even a single botox treatment].Zena: Amazing hey. Wow. How old is she?Gary: 58Zena: Good God; what was she like at 22?
On Nov 19, 2016, at 1:17 PM, GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser@gmail.com> wrote:Dear Paul,We are on the same page. Lets start at the end, “… already at the Third Reich’s daily disposal”.Are you familiar with Edward Jay Epstein’s 1978 The Diamond Invention book?Gary
On Nov 19, 2016, at 12:48 PM, Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com> wrote:Dear Gary,
In my opinion, the main Nazi aims during the ransom phase of the negotiations were (i) gaining time for the anti-Jewish drive by entrapping Jewish leaders in futile negotiations; (ii) starving Jewish organisations of funds that might have been used for rescue. Both aims were achieved. Acquiring the money itself was not as important to them, because the payments were a tiny fraction of the sums already at the Third Reich’s daily disposal.
I live in Bournemouth, UK.
Regards,
Paul
On 19/11/2016 20:37, GaryStevenGevisser wrote:Dear Mr. Bodanor,
Let me share with you how happy I am that you are familiar with his work, otherwise it would have greatly surprised me.Did you think that when the Nazis put out these offers of “ransom monies” that they were looking to expose Jewish people with money by having fellow Jews, well integrated in the Jewish communities going around the world asking for donations?Where are you based?Gary
On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Paul Bogdanor <psrb10@gmail.com> wrote:Dear Mr. Gevisser,
Thanks for your message. Yes I’m familiar with Arrows in the Dark, which is essential reading. I have great respect for Professor Friling’s work.
Regards,
Paul Bogdanor
On 19/11/2016 15:44, GaryStevenGevisser wrote:Dear Mr. Bogdanor, I read the Jpost article about your book Kasztner’s Crime and wondered whether you were familiar with Professor Friling’s Arrows in the Dark? Gary S. Gevisser
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Share – No 22 – Life must go on – Everything about your life is positive – Protected by the Energy Force
(XVI)
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject: Share – Re: No 22
Date: November 20, 2016 at 10:50:29 PM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Those calls were from me trying to reach you when the phone disconnected as you got to my mother’s apartment.
You had a lot of accusatory things to say to me and now after you sling your arrows you tell me that you cannot cope.
That email I sent you was very much on point and centered around what my mother wants. It also tells you how two-faced are my siblings.
You know about birds of feather!
Don’t suddenly play stupid and victim.
My mother Zena’s life is at stake and you are quite rightly going frantic because the videos show my mother in a vastly different state of mind than what you all have been portraying. Moreover, you know how easy it is to confuse an 87 year old human as her “cage is rattled”.
You know perfectly well that my mother was not acting in those videos to hide her “advanced dementia”. Or do you think that my mother is such a good actor, she had you all fooled?
You cannot have your cake and eat it at the same time.
How long do you think you could keep up playing “advanced dementia”?
You also misled me when trying to bait me with you question?
Before commenting on the video “The Lady’s Speech” tell me
how many years had you not seen your Mom?
You never told me that you had a problem reading or that you were already in touch with my siblings and heard all that the bad they had to say about me; and you thought it wise to plonk yourself in the middle until I responded with a well thrown pitch, “Everything about your life is positive”.
Given how I now know better than to trust you, and I very much doubt you will connect me up by telephone with my mother, I must redouble my efforts to at the very least bring public international attention to her plight!
Go back to sleep!
When I get up tomorrow morning and not at 6AM as you instructed while telling me you only had 15 minutes to spare with me, and remember we are talking the quality of life of my very accomplished mother Zena who you also knew so very little about because you too were not close to her, much the same as my terrible siblings, I will be sharing everything, just as you wanted with Kathy, Neil and Melvin.
(XV)
On Nov 20, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk> wrote:
Dear Gary,
It is 4.30 in the morning.
You are inundating me with mail and calls.
.I don’t have the time or energy to cope with it.
Please leave me alone.
I wish you well.
Ayalah
(XIV)
From: gg <gary>
Subject: Holocaust hero or villain who collaborated with Nazis?
Date: November 20, 2016 at 10:10:17 AM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Holocaust hero or villain who collaborated with Nazis?
(XIII)
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject: Life must go on – Re: Zena
Date: November 20, 2016 at 9:26:22 AM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Ayalah – I just replied to this email. “Everything about your life is positive” may have ended up in your “trash” because of its 6691 words where most were my important conversations with Kathy-Neil-Melvin that they obviously hadn’t shared with you.
You shouldn’t have forgotten that it is not only you who knows why my 32 word first sentence of the first letter published in the Jerusalem Post also couldn’t have been improved upon.
It may interest you to know that Paul Bogdanor who was featured in yesterday’s Jerusalem Post
went to sleep last night with the horror of The Diamond Invention book which again exposed all my immediate and extended family with the exception of my parents and grandparents, and Bogdanor’s decision to clam up on me, will soon be revealed to the Jerusalem Post.
Im sure most Israelis are going to be shocked by Mr. Bogdanor’s exposure so soon after he made “News Headlines”.
Life must go on, despite my mother Zena being held captive.
To the elimination of darkness on this most beautiful sunshine day here southern California’s most beautiful forest.
Gary
(XII)
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject: Everything about your life is positive – Re: Zena
Date: November 20, 2016 at 9:06:31 AM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Thank you for trying. If you could try tomorrow, I would appreciate that.
My telephone number is 1-858-736-4982.
It would also be cruel to prevent my mother Zena from speaking with me, since it is clearly her wishes. Nor has my mother ever been upset to speak with me.
You only let me know when I called today that my siblings and/or Mary-Lou have been talking to you, and since you asked me, you should ask my siblings the question of why my mother who hadn’t seen me in 15 years would be so very warm and loving towards me at the same time most clear in her choice of me, and not them.
Of course you noticed how most expressive was my mother in her disappointment of my siblings, both her eyes and head motion.
Physiognomy is important especially when it is clear that the video is not “scripted”; moreover, like you everyone is having the most difficult time when seeing not just this video but the others I sent you, reconciling how someone with “advanced dementia… absolute no memory” could speak so fluently and lucidly on such materially important matters and for such an extraordinary period of time; and no breaks.
The fact that my mother only got upset, frowning, when asking why she needed to have her caregiver come with us to go to the produce market, “We are not children”, did not go unnoticed by all those profiting from my mother now being held captive.
Weak energy people; i.e. bullies, love to see the strong taken down. So yes, my mother Zena has been fighting very hard from within as she has used her common sense to withdraw over the years to protect herself from the vultures.
The amount of their talking would take less time than for you to read the chronology of events beginning on September 8 [scroll down] when I wrote my siblings my “Sitting Pretty” communique. My siblings and their lawyer Ayala Wiesel who maintains that she is a close friend of the family for 30 years and yet you say you haven’t ever met her, and nor had I ever met prior to this trip, also received these taped phone conversations I had with my mother prior to my arrival in Israel; and of course they were not happy to hear what my mother had to say, especially since someone with “advanced dementia” couldn’t possibly be as articulate or consistent.
(1) Subject: I would like to spend the rest of my life near you (July 11, 2016)
Zena Ash Gevisser Zulman, “…I would like you to be here with me; I would like to spend the rest of my life near you; I don’t just like talking on the telephone.”
(2) Subject: Everything about your life is positive (July 20, 2016)
Gary: What do you most remember about me; what most comes to mind?
Zena: That you are lucid; that you believe in things, that whatever you want you try to get done; everything about your life is positive, what else would you want me to say?
Gary: What about Melvin?
Zena: I was saying I don’t have any contact with Melvin. I don’t have a point of view. We don’t have any discussions. Melvin doesn’t come into my thinking.
Gary: He doesn’t call you up?
Zena: No
Gary: What about Kathy?
Zena: No
Gary: She doesn’t call you up?”
Zena: Not really, She came here and then she said she was here and that’s it. She will tell me that maybe she will come again but she doesn’t tell me what year.
Gary: What do you most remember about Kathy?
Zena: She’s my daughter. [Note the Zena Gevisser laugh].
Gary: Anything else?
Zena: No
Gary: What about Neil?
Zena: He’s my son.
Gary: What do you remember most about him?
Zena: Nothing; he’s my son.
Gary: How would you describe Neil?
Zena: As my son.
Gary: That’s it?
Zena: Yes.
(3) Subject: I only want to know if you love me – July 31, 2016
Gary: Do you have any questions for me?
Zena: I only want to know if you love me.
Gary: Well that I do.
[Consistent with The Lady’s Speech on September 22]
(4) Subject: I don’t think my other children believe in anything (July 23, 2016)
Gary: Let’s come back to me; I want you to tell me again how you would describe me?
Zena: Are you my youngest son?
Gary: Yes
Zena: You are very nice, I like you. That’s it.
Gary: Would you say that you like your other children?
Zena: In their own way, but they are not like you.
Gary: In what way am I different?
Zena: [Laughing] O Dear. You’re just different okay. You’ve got a point of view. There are things you believe in that you see to. I don’t think my other children believe in anything.
The maid-caregiver has a very good job and she wants to keep it, and that means keeping my siblings happy. I can also understand my siblings hating me because they have never behaved right with my mother; at least nothing compared to how I have so respected my mother.
All 3 of them have hated Alan Zulman from the start, and so it is not a good thing that they would be so two-faced towards him, even if their goal was to grab his estate, wouldn’t you agree?
Also since they have been giving you only their side of the story, to ask them why they didn’t contact me when Alan died and why they also disconnected the phone as they have now done again.
They want you to believe that I have psychological problems but of course they offer no proof, because no proof exists; on the contrary my mother also doesn’t hesitate in describing me as “lucid”. These type of comments have been used for years to put people away when they have no arguments; the burning of the witches is not so far away.
I can hold my own far better than my siblings in every category of importance; again why it is that I am my mother’s choice.
Those who are enabling my siblings will of course get their comeuppance long before meeting with our maker; at least that has been my entire life experience; and so you don’t need to pity me for all the great rewards I continue to receive.
This is just one of life’s challenges and I have never stepped away in taking on bullies as well as exposing the truth to the light, because that would mean that in my choice to be spineless my future fate as a shellfish would also have me in the same company as the rest of the selfish. Yes, I also believe that the spineless should practice breathing underwater.
It is all about what everyone else wants out of my mother. It is not about my mother Zena. Long by now my mother should have been asked the questions I put to her; and for that of course my siblings are not the only ones who are now acting so defensively.
It is not my mother that has issue with me, it is the siblings.
Again, my mother hadn’t seen me but she sure hadn’t forgotten how very consistent I am about her care, and why there was no hesitation in why she doesn’t want Kathy, Neil or Melvin taking care of her.
What Jewish mother, especially one as worldly as my mother would have a lawyer placed as her guardian? That is sick.
I am 59; and at 21 when going through all the psychological and quantitative testing before joining De Beers, I got to see the reaction of people when confronted with their corruption, and they become only interested in what they have to say.
My sister Kathy’s only training is that of a social worker in South Africa where she too missed the boat entirely.
So yes, South Africans, and in particular Jewish South Africans have the most difficult time knowing that they didn’t really know my mother who knew better than to tell secrets. Being one of my sister Kathy’s teachers, there is a lot you can still teach her.
You must recall, because I was videotaping as we all walked together, my mother commenting to you, “I don’t tell secrets”.
When you don’t know whose hands you are going to end up in, especially someone such as mother who kept the important matters very close to her chest, and believe that Alan Zulman would long outlive her, it is better than to talk to talk.
My mother Zena has spoken very eloquently, and any question about the passage of time should be quickly answered by how it didn’t look like anything had been lost between my mother and me during the past 15 years, because nothing had.
Since when do family who spent a lifetime together need to be constantly in each others company to make their “acquaintance” when the conversations center around money, sickness, gossiping badly about others before turning on each on other?
Neither my mother nor I invented internecine fighting.
It should be quite transparent to you as it is to my mother how very healthy I am, my French-Canadian wife, Marie Dion and our dog Mango who also only eats very healthy vegetarian; and you can see that there is no loss in any of our brain muscle either.
People with little intelligence have great difficulty feeling stupid – Marie Dion Gevisser
Lack of Knowledge-Information-Light-Energy, power to change the world stems from humans being lazy and fearful of embracing the truth – MDG
The truth is too disturbing for some people too busy keeping track of their lies – MDG
Being non-confrontational is no excuse for bad judgment – MDG
I am fighting hard for my mother’s quality of life and that does not mean that she sits all day in front a TV and go out for an hour a day.
What sort of guardian would employ as my mother’s caregiver someone who doesn’t drive?
Yes, I know you like very much Mary-Lou but as I told you when we were walking and my mother listening very carefully to what I have to say, as she has done my entire life, I said that it is wrong to get close to help, especially so in the case of an elderly person who has a vast amount of wealth and to be able to afford several caregivers which allows also for there to be closer scrutiny.
When family leave an elderly member in the hands of a caregiver and it would be no problem for the favorite child to take care of their mother, and then place an additional buffer, a lawyer as the guardian to supervise the caregiver, it stinks to high heaven.
My mother hasn’t even been taken down to the beach to bath her feet.
This maid was supposed to take off time when we arrived but that is not what my sister Kathy had in mind. It was a set up from the start and the evidence is irrefutable.
People understand evidence; the better the evidence the better the proof.
Few to none people that I know have my experience both in running very successful business enterprises as well as taking on the biggest gangsters; but I have never come close to witnessing such evil other than of course growing up in South Africa it was totally evil and the jealousy that surrounded both my parents from their immediate families was not something either my mom or dad tried to hide from me.
The chronology is most important.
Only after I demanded at the start of my “Sitting Pretty” that Kathy, Neil and Melvin reconnect the phone did things start moving in a positive direction. [CLICK HERE]
If need be, I am not in the least bit afraid to bring more public attention to this outrage.
Of course this is all about money, jealousy and resentment; and yes there are other factors involved including Alan Zulman’s son Lance whose lawyer-friend Shmuel Rabi a nephew of Deborah Sturman Esq. who Alan had replace Kathy as his executor, sent me the following:
From: דבורה לואיס <devora0527678711>
Subject: your mother Zena Zulman
Date: October 27, 2016 at 8:13:31 AM PDT
To: garystevengevisserDear Gary
I am writing to you on behalf of your mother Zena. I write to you as I understand that you may still be in Israel.
As a friend of Arye zulman it has come to my attention that the funds he used to support your mother and her household were cut off and that he can no longer be involved in her affairs.
This has been mentioned to your mothers guardian Ayala Vizel and i do know that she has funds enough. however so far she has not stirred herself in any way and i worry that now without Arye’s help your mother may be plunged into darkness by the electric company or some such thing.
best regards
yours
Shmuel Rabi
Below are the email communications between Kathy-Neil-Melvin and me starting with the “Sitting pretty”.
(1)From: BigPond <dkdanz>
Date: 09/21/2016 01:15 (GMT-08:00)
To: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject:Gary,
Apparently you are arriving in Israel today. Unless you can get money from Deborah Sturman for your food etc. you will have to support yourself as Mom and Mary Lou only have enough for themselves and the dogs.
Kathy
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Share – No 22 – Life must go on – Everything about your life is positive – Protected by the Energy Force
(XVI)
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject: Share – Re: No 22
Date: November 20, 2016 at 10:50:29 PM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Those calls were from me trying to reach you when the phone disconnected as you got to my mother’s apartment.
You had a lot of accusatory things to say to me and now after you sling your arrows you tell me that you cannot cope.
That email I sent you was very much on point and centered around what my mother wants. It also tells you how two-faced are my siblings.
You know about birds of feather!
Don’t suddenly play stupid and victim.
My mother Zena’s life is at stake and you are quite rightly going frantic because the videos show my mother in a vastly different state of mind than what you all have been portraying. Moreover, you know how easy it is to confuse an 87 year old human as her “cage is rattled”.
You know perfectly well that my mother was not acting in those videos to hide her “advanced dementia”. Or do you think that my mother is such a good actor, she had you all fooled?
You cannot have your cake and eat it at the same time.
How long do you think you could keep up playing “advanced dementia”?
You also misled me when trying to bait me with you question?
Before commenting on the video “The Lady’s Speech” tell me
how many years had you not seen your Mom?
You never told me that you had a problem reading or that you were already in touch with my siblings and heard all that the bad they had to say about me; and you thought it wise to plonk yourself in the middle until I responded with a well thrown pitch, “Everything about your life is positive”.
Given how I now know better than to trust you, and I very much doubt you will connect me up by telephone with my mother, I must redouble my efforts to at the very least bring public international attention to her plight!
Go back to sleep!
When I get up tomorrow morning and not at 6AM as you instructed while telling me you only had 15 minutes to spare with me, and remember we are talking the quality of life of my very accomplished mother Zena who you also knew so very little about because you too were not close to her, much the same as my terrible siblings, I will be sharing everything, just as you wanted with Kathy, Neil and Melvin.
(XV)
On Nov 20, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk> wrote:
Dear Gary,
It is 4.30 in the morning.
You are inundating me with mail and calls.
.I don’t have the time or energy to cope with it.
Please leave me alone.
I wish you well.
Ayalah
(XIV)
From: gg <gary>
Subject: Holocaust hero or villain who collaborated with Nazis?
Date: November 20, 2016 at 10:10:17 AM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Holocaust hero or villain who collaborated with Nazis?
(XIII)
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject: Life must go on – Re: Zena
Date: November 20, 2016 at 9:26:22 AM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Ayalah – I just replied to this email. “Everything about your life is positive” may have ended up in your “trash” because of its 6691 words where most were my important conversations with Kathy-Neil-Melvin that they obviously hadn’t shared with you.
You shouldn’t have forgotten that it is not only you who knows why my 32 word first sentence of the first letter published in the Jerusalem Post also couldn’t have been improved upon.
It may interest you to know that Paul Bogdanor who was featured in yesterday’s Jerusalem Post
went to sleep last night with the horror of The Diamond Invention book which again exposed all my immediate and extended family with the exception of my parents and grandparents, and Bogdanor’s decision to clam up on me, will soon be revealed to the Jerusalem Post.
Im sure most Israelis are going to be shocked by Mr. Bogdanor’s exposure so soon after he made “News Headlines”.
Life must go on, despite my mother Zena being held captive.
To the elimination of darkness on this most beautiful sunshine day here southern California’s most beautiful forest.
Gary
(XII)
From: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject: Everything about your life is positive – Re: Zena
Date: November 20, 2016 at 9:06:31 AM PST
To: Ayala Kaplan <ayalahk>
Thank you for trying. If you could try tomorrow, I would appreciate that.
My telephone number is 1-858-736-4982.
It would also be cruel to prevent my mother Zena from speaking with me, since it is clearly her wishes. Nor has my mother ever been upset to speak with me.
You only let me know when I called today that my siblings and/or Mary-Lou have been talking to you, and since you asked me, you should ask my siblings the question of why my mother who hadn’t seen me in 15 years would be so very warm and loving towards me at the same time most clear in her choice of me, and not them.
Of course you noticed how most expressive was my mother in her disappointment of my siblings, both her eyes and head motion.
Physiognomy is important especially when it is clear that the video is not “scripted”; moreover, like you everyone is having the most difficult time when seeing not just this video but the others I sent you, reconciling how someone with “advanced dementia… absolute no memory” could speak so fluently and lucidly on such materially important matters and for such an extraordinary period of time; and no breaks.
The fact that my mother only got upset, frowning, when asking why she needed to have her caregiver come with us to go to the produce market, “We are not children”, did not go unnoticed by all those profiting from my mother now being held captive.
Weak energy people; i.e. bullies, love to see the strong taken down. So yes, my mother Zena has been fighting very hard from within as she has used her common sense to withdraw over the years to protect herself from the vultures.
The amount of their talking would take less time than for you to read the chronology of events beginning on September 8 [scroll down] when I wrote my siblings my “Sitting Pretty” communique. My siblings and their lawyer Ayala Wiesel who maintains that she is a close friend of the family for 30 years and yet you say you haven’t ever met her, and nor had I ever met prior to this trip, also received these taped phone conversations I had with my mother prior to my arrival in Israel; and of course they were not happy to hear what my mother had to say, especially since someone with “advanced dementia” couldn’t possibly be as articulate or consistent.
(1) Subject: I would like to spend the rest of my life near you (July 11, 2016)
Zena Ash Gevisser Zulman, “…I would like you to be here with me; I would like to spend the rest of my life near you; I don’t just like talking on the telephone.”
(2) Subject: Everything about your life is positive (July 20, 2016)
Gary: What do you most remember about me; what most comes to mind?
Zena: That you are lucid; that you believe in things, that whatever you want you try to get done; everything about your life is positive, what else would you want me to say?
Gary: What about Melvin?
Zena: I was saying I don’t have any contact with Melvin. I don’t have a point of view. We don’t have any discussions. Melvin doesn’t come into my thinking.
Gary: He doesn’t call you up?
Zena: No
Gary: What about Kathy?
Zena: No
Gary: She doesn’t call you up?”
Zena: Not really, She came here and then she said she was here and that’s it. She will tell me that maybe she will come again but she doesn’t tell me what year.
Gary: What do you most remember about Kathy?
Zena: She’s my daughter. [Note the Zena Gevisser laugh].
Gary: Anything else?
Zena: No
Gary: What about Neil?
Zena: He’s my son.
Gary: What do you remember most about him?
Zena: Nothing; he’s my son.
Gary: How would you describe Neil?
Zena: As my son.
Gary: That’s it?
Zena: Yes.
(3) Subject: I only want to know if you love me – July 31, 2016
Gary: Do you have any questions for me?
Zena: I only want to know if you love me.
Gary: Well that I do.
[Consistent with The Lady’s Speech on September 22]
(4) Subject: I don’t think my other children believe in anything (July 23, 2016)
Gary: Let’s come back to me; I want you to tell me again how you would describe me?
Zena: Are you my youngest son?
Gary: Yes
Zena: You are very nice, I like you. That’s it.
Gary: Would you say that you like your other children?
Zena: In their own way, but they are not like you.
Gary: In what way am I different?
Zena: [Laughing] O Dear. You’re just different okay. You’ve got a point of view. There are things you believe in that you see to. I don’t think my other children believe in anything.
The maid-caregiver has a very good job and she wants to keep it, and that means keeping my siblings happy. I can also understand my siblings hating me because they have never behaved right with my mother; at least nothing compared to how I have so respected my mother.
All 3 of them have hated Alan Zulman from the start, and so it is not a good thing that they would be so two-faced towards him, even if their goal was to grab his estate, wouldn’t you agree?
Also since they have been giving you only their side of the story, to ask them why they didn’t contact me when Alan died and why they also disconnected the phone as they have now done again.
They want you to believe that I have psychological problems but of course they offer no proof, because no proof exists; on the contrary my mother also doesn’t hesitate in describing me as “lucid”. These type of comments have been used for years to put people away when they have no arguments; the burning of the witches is not so far away.
I can hold my own far better than my siblings in every category of importance; again why it is that I am my mother’s choice.
Those who are enabling my siblings will of course get their comeuppance long before meeting with our maker; at least that has been my entire life experience; and so you don’t need to pity me for all the great rewards I continue to receive.
This is just one of life’s challenges and I have never stepped away in taking on bullies as well as exposing the truth to the light, because that would mean that in my choice to be spineless my future fate as a shellfish would also have me in the same company as the rest of the selfish. Yes, I also believe that the spineless should practice breathing underwater.
It is all about what everyone else wants out of my mother. It is not about my mother Zena. Long by now my mother should have been asked the questions I put to her; and for that of course my siblings are not the only ones who are now acting so defensively.
It is not my mother that has issue with me, it is the siblings.
Again, my mother hadn’t seen me but she sure hadn’t forgotten how very consistent I am about her care, and why there was no hesitation in why she doesn’t want Kathy, Neil or Melvin taking care of her.
What Jewish mother, especially one as worldly as my mother would have a lawyer placed as her guardian? That is sick.
I am 59; and at 21 when going through all the psychological and quantitative testing before joining De Beers, I got to see the reaction of people when confronted with their corruption, and they become only interested in what they have to say.
My sister Kathy’s only training is that of a social worker in South Africa where she too missed the boat entirely.
So yes, South Africans, and in particular Jewish South Africans have the most difficult time knowing that they didn’t really know my mother who knew better than to tell secrets. Being one of my sister Kathy’s teachers, there is a lot you can still teach her.
You must recall, because I was videotaping as we all walked together, my mother commenting to you, “I don’t tell secrets”.
When you don’t know whose hands you are going to end up in, especially someone such as mother who kept the important matters very close to her chest, and believe that Alan Zulman would long outlive her, it is better than to talk to talk.
My mother Zena has spoken very eloquently, and any question about the passage of time should be quickly answered by how it didn’t look like anything had been lost between my mother and me during the past 15 years, because nothing had.
Since when do family who spent a lifetime together need to be constantly in each others company to make their “acquaintance” when the conversations center around money, sickness, gossiping badly about others before turning on each on other?
Neither my mother nor I invented internecine fighting.
It should be quite transparent to you as it is to my mother how very healthy I am, my French-Canadian wife, Marie Dion and our dog Mango who also only eats very healthy vegetarian; and you can see that there is no loss in any of our brain muscle either.
People with little intelligence have great difficulty feeling stupid – Marie Dion Gevisser
Lack of Knowledge-Information-Light-Energy, power to change the world stems from humans being lazy and fearful of embracing the truth – MDG
The truth is too disturbing for some people too busy keeping track of their lies – MDG
Being non-confrontational is no excuse for bad judgment – MDG
I am fighting hard for my mother’s quality of life and that does not mean that she sits all day in front a TV and go out for an hour a day.
What sort of guardian would employ as my mother’s caregiver someone who doesn’t drive?
Yes, I know you like very much Mary-Lou but as I told you when we were walking and my mother listening very carefully to what I have to say, as she has done my entire life, I said that it is wrong to get close to help, especially so in the case of an elderly person who has a vast amount of wealth and to be able to afford several caregivers which allows also for there to be closer scrutiny.
When family leave an elderly member in the hands of a caregiver and it would be no problem for the favorite child to take care of their mother, and then place an additional buffer, a lawyer as the guardian to supervise the caregiver, it stinks to high heaven.
My mother hasn’t even been taken down to the beach to bath her feet.
This maid was supposed to take off time when we arrived but that is not what my sister Kathy had in mind. It was a set up from the start and the evidence is irrefutable.
People understand evidence; the better the evidence the better the proof.
Few to none people that I know have my experience both in running very successful business enterprises as well as taking on the biggest gangsters; but I have never come close to witnessing such evil other than of course growing up in South Africa it was totally evil and the jealousy that surrounded both my parents from their immediate families was not something either my mom or dad tried to hide from me.
The chronology is most important.
Only after I demanded at the start of my “Sitting Pretty” that Kathy, Neil and Melvin reconnect the phone did things start moving in a positive direction. [CLICK HERE]
If need be, I am not in the least bit afraid to bring more public attention to this outrage.
Of course this is all about money, jealousy and resentment; and yes there are other factors involved including Alan Zulman’s son Lance whose lawyer-friend Shmuel Rabi a nephew of Deborah Sturman Esq. who Alan had replace Kathy as his executor, sent me the following:
From: דבורה לואיס <devora0527678711>
Subject: your mother Zena Zulman
Date: October 27, 2016 at 8:13:31 AM PDT
To: garystevengevisserDear Gary
I am writing to you on behalf of your mother Zena. I write to you as I understand that you may still be in Israel.
As a friend of Arye zulman it has come to my attention that the funds he used to support your mother and her household were cut off and that he can no longer be involved in her affairs.
This has been mentioned to your mothers guardian Ayala Vizel and i do know that she has funds enough. however so far she has not stirred herself in any way and i worry that now without Arye’s help your mother may be plunged into darkness by the electric company or some such thing.
best regards
yours
Shmuel Rabi
Below are the email communications between Kathy-Neil-Melvin and me starting with the “Sitting pretty”.
(1)From: BigPond <dkdanz>
Date: 09/21/2016 01:15 (GMT-08:00)
To: GaryStevenGevisser <garystevengevisser>
Subject:Gary,
Apparently you are arriving in Israel today. Unless you can get money from Deborah Sturman for your food etc. you will have to support yourself as Mom and Mary Lou only have enough for themselves and the dogs.
Kathy
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