Scott Bloch is due to be sentenced on May 13, 2013. The court may accept victim impact statements, but they must not contain information about third parties (this is likely what caused many statements to be taken off the docket two years ago). One statement is already on the docket. As you can see, it can take the form of a letter.
You have less than two months. If you don’t speak up now, you can’t complain if he walks away with a slap on the wrist. Tell the court how you feel, in your own voice. No NGO can do it for you.
this is an interesting development. I assume I do not qualify to submit a ‘victim’ statement, but on the other hand, I chose to NOT ask OSC for help after the feb-2007 lockout and things evolved because it was so clear OSC was a failed organization at that time. Had they been functioning as I have seen under Lerner, I absolutely would have filed when I received the letter proposing my removal, in July 2008.
Your thoughts… would the judge reasonably consider a letter if I submitted one? Or, is this targetted only at those who saw their filed OSC cases get ‘disappeared’?
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It seems like his actions affected your choices. There is nothing stopping you from submitting a statement and, so long as it abides by the e-Government Act of 2002 (i.e. no including information about third parties), it should be docketed. The judge can decide how much weight to give it.
I had submitted a victim impact statement that was accepted by the court. I was a victim of OSC when my original complaint back in 2005 about the FAA was tossed out by Block. The file was erased and that was that!
It was filed and I never heard anything after that.
It seems the court does not care about the victims of OSC corruption. Block played games witht the system and won.
This is a good example why Adminiistrative Law does not work.
A new judge is in charge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Wilkins
Give it a shot, you never know.