Last week, Scene brought you the story of Joan Hall, a mentally ill mother of two who was convicted of shoplifting more than $1 million dollars in an elaborate buy-and-return scheme that crossed 28 state lines (“Mother’s Keeper,” Oct. 1).
Daughter Lisa Hall, who’d spent her life caring for her mother, and who’s name was mixed up in her mother’s financial records, was offered leniency if she testified against Joan. Lisa refused and was indicted on eight counts of theft and conspiracy to commit fraud. She was later convicted of theft and money laundering — with help from the testimony of her brother Brad Hall, who claimed that he had personal knowledge of Lisa’s thievery. Family friends were flummoxed as to why Brad, of all people, would turn all Benedict Arnold on his sister. He’d admitted in testimony and on paper that Lisa was the only stable support in his life.
The answer might well be money. …
This article appears in Oct 3-9, 2007.
That power of attorney was not forged and Brad knows it. He is simply desperate- sad story i am afraid.
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Rebecca:
Brad didn’t drop out of anything.
Quit calling him a drop out – he graduated from the University of Washington’s Law School (one of the most respectable law schools in the country) and is now practicing law in Seattle and working on another grad degree.
I hope that he and his wife sue you for a lot of money. I have suggested it to him a number of times. Don’t newspapers have to check facts before printing stuff like this?
And that apartment that looks like “a landfill” is a nice one in the Queen Anne district of Seattle – a nice apartment in one of the nicer places in Seattle.
And he doesn’t use drugs. Seriously.
Try checking your facts next time before publishing lies like this.
Especially if the story was handed to you by the attorney to one of the parties just to defame his client’s younger brother.
I am strongly urging him to file a lawsuit against you and your newspaper.
If he dropped out of law school, like you claim, why is he listed as an active member of the bar in the Washington State Bar Association?
Google it.
I truly hope that he sues you for a lot of money for the lies that you have published about him.
If in case you are looking for a fillable power of attorney form; I was able to get a copy from PDFfiller. It also allowed me to fill out the form, e-sign and print. Here’s the link to the form I’ve used: http://pdf.ac/anog5K