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Some people make good lawyers. Others should only enter a courtroom as a defendant. Then again, some lawyers start of with good intentions and then are compromised to divert their allegiance from their client to… money. Can you believe it?

Before me, Vic Richards of Mississauga was a client of the same lawyer. Vic owned a million dollar business called “Big Brute Motorcycles”. I always assumed the two men were friends – until I was asked to help the lawyer conspire in a hostile take-over attempt of his former client. At first I was shocked, and then I was worried that I did not heed the advice of my immigration lawyer who warned me about selecting Gilmour as my extradition lawyer.

But to be frank, I was bamboozled by the giant man who claimed he had “years of extradition experience” and actually won two cases of five he claimed to have represented. I would learn later that he only had worked one extradition case previously and persuaded his client “Cash Breath” to voluntarily return to his homeland to face prosecution. But my decision was also made based on my dwindling funds and this was the only lawyer of the 16 I spoke with that would accept monthly installment payments and a flat rate based on results. Before my saga would end, both my wife and I would file formal Law Society complaints against this man who sold me down the river and then proceeded to extort my wife – a woman who never even got a parking ticket in her life. Enough commentary. Now that my days are numbered, I submit the following so people understand how, and why I was extradited without being indicted for any crime, without be able to testify on my own behalf, without five of my witnesses being called to testify, and with no charging documents ever presented at the extradition hearing – all without a single objection from Solicitor William Ross Gilmour who ignored my legal instructions on no less than five occasions…

It was not until after I already paid him more than $10,000 that I learned he was a former RCMP undercover narcotics agent who was told to resign or be fired after shooting an unarmed teen in the back. It was around the same time that I learned of his own criminal dabblings, an affair with a murder victim of substantial fame, collusion with a corrupt police chief, and his own arrest in Brampton on August 14th, 2001 for assaulting a 10 year child 1/4 his weight. Yet my father taught me well, and one thing he always told me was “Never try to change your horse at mid-stream”. I grew up riding horses almost every week in Ohio, and I accepted his advice without question. Besides, my finances did not allow me to buy even a donkey, much less a new horse!

Only Solicitor Gary Botting of BC undertsands Canada’s extradition law with the sharp mind of a seasoned expert, so I will keep my legal opinions to myself and just present the facts as I know them, and as I would swear to under oath and penalty of perjury…

You will see some notations on the cover. This complaint was filed as evidence in a motion requesting a stay due to ineffective assistance of counsel. Roughly two weeks after the motion was filed this exhibit to the motion was returned to me without explaination. I visited the courthouse and was told it would only be accepted if the sworn report from PI Ed Reiken was removed. I asked for a letter to this effect. The counter clerk said she would make the request. I received no letter, nor was the motion ever ruled upon without explanation.

Please bear with me as I scan my complaint to post here within the next 24-48 hours. (scroll down)