How the Law Works

For the uneducated, this is how the law works in Georgia from Judge Tillman Self's bench.

If you are sued and the suing party decides they want to put all your assets under their control, they get the judge to appoint a receiver to "oversee" your assets and business. Now you would think this receiver would be bound to actually try and run the business properly and be impartial in how all this is done but you would be wrong.

You see, the receiver gets paid for what he does and I mean paid well. Several hundred dollars an hour well. So it is in his best interests to do everything the judge says. This works out well if the judge has a bias in the case. You see where I am going with this.

The receiver doesn't even have to know a thing about how your business works! It is better for him, actually because then YOU get to pay HIM to learn about it! He gets paid, the attorneys get paid, the Judge gets paid, everyone gets paid except YOU. It is a nice deal the judicial system.

This Judge even had the receiver TRY and find something criminal in my business so he could get something else to hang on me, going so far as to have the receiver meet with law enforcement officials to try and put something together.

Wow, all of this from a civil case? With as much crime as Macon has and I am talking robbing, killing, drugs and all, you would think they wouldn't have to "try" and find anything on someone in a civil case. Wait a minute, I forgot who we are dealing with here, if Tillman Self decides you are wrong, that is all that matters.

I can't imagine there being any success with this as the Macon Assistant District Attorney Sherell Lewis had spoken at our real estate club more than once and ruled everything we did in our business "perfectly fine". Yes, I remember her words. You see, Sherall had been instrumental in putting away dozens of bad guys in real estate the year before and i wanted to make sure she was cool with our business model. Of course Melinda does go to church with her and as I understand it has worked out a deal with her to cooperate if anything is put together to avoid prosecution on her part.

Isn't that nice how being church buddies helps smooth things over? Ingleside Baptist IS the largest elitist  church in North Macon. Don't ever believe it isn't all about who you know.

When you add a greedy, barracuda lawyer like Carmel Sanders to the mix, the results are amazing.

By the way, take a look at her record sometime, no one takes their opponent to court more trying to charge them with contempt than she does. If you think it isn't ALL about the billable hours for her you are blind.

This is how a receiver bankrupts a business that worked just fine for over 10 years then says the business was not viable. Right. It was viable until you got your hands on it, paying yourself first and letting parts of it go into foreclosure. This is when you make the business owner the villain when there was never a problem paying the bills before. Isn't it funny how no one was victimized before you got to "run" the business?

How would you like it if you fired someone who worked for you for among other things theft, drinking on the job, falsifying time sheets, doing personal business on company time and more and the receiver rehired this person to help run your business? This is exactly what Scott Eric Anderson also known as "The Weasel" did in my case. Even after I had explained to him exactly why I fired Bradley Higgins, he kept him on to help. That is the kind of management you want to see, isn't it?

Bradley Higgins claimed hours he didn't work, bought things for his personal use and charged them to my accounts that he was given access to for work related purchases and drank on the job. The DWI he got while working for me was the last straw and he had to go. Half of the time he was supposed to be working, he was on the phone with his lover Doug Ellenberger, with whatever their latest drama was about. I am telling you, gay guys are moodier than women to work with.

Don't worry about Scott. I am sure with the kind of job he did for Tillman, he will get every receivership job that comes along. The law firm of James, Bates, Pope and Spivey will prosper. As long as their is never a receiver appointed to run their business, that is.

PS.......I love anonymous comments but if you are going to try and speak about something you really know nothing about, why don't you try having the guts to put your name on it next time?