May 2004 - Proskauer Rose Corruption Letter to Thomas Cahill from iViewit
"Thomas J. Cahill
Chief Counsel
First Judicial Department Departmental Disciplinary Committee
61 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10006
Re: Complaint of Iviewit Holdings, Inc., Against Kenneth Rubenstein, Esq., Docket
2003.0531: Demand to Strike Response
Dear Mr. Cahill:
By way of introduction, I am Chief Executive Officer (Acting) of Iviewit Holdings, Inc. and its
subsidiaries (collectively, “Company”) with a background of which the Company invites you to
view at http://www.iviewit.com/management.htm and I write to demand the striking of the
response of Kenneth Rubenstein (“Respondent”) to the Company’s New York State Bar
Association Complaint of February 26, 2003 (“Complaint”).
Moreover, upon information belief, the response of Respondent was authored by Steven C. Krane
a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP, then the direct past President of the New York State Bar
Association (“NYSBA”) whom held a myriad of positions of influence at the NYSBA at the time
he authored the response for Respondent, also a partner of Proskauer Rose LLP.
The conflict of interest is inherent that while maintaining such positions of influence at the NYSBA, Mr. Krane was also a partner of the same law firm as Respondent, Proskauer Rose LLP, and it is astounding
that the NYSBA would allow one with such a highly conflicted position to even be part of the
response process of the Respondent, let alone sign a document authored in his defense. In fact,
the Complaint against the Respondent transcends his singular role as an attorney in the matter and
in all other state and federal complaints is directed at the entire firm of Proskauer Rose LLP.
This so taints both the entire review of this matter in addition to tainting the NYSBA that we demand a
review of this matter by an unbiased party with authority over the discipline of New York
attorneys and discipline over the NYSBA.
Presently, Mr. Krane holds the following positions, whereby the matter against Respondent must elevate beyond any association with any organization where Mr. Krane has any form of influence that could further prejudice this matter in favor of his partner, Kenneth Rubenstein and their law firm Proskauer Rose LLP:
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
1996 - PRESENT
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, VICE-CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON THE
FUTURE OF THE PROFESSION, 1997 – PRESENT
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, CHAIR, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO
REVIEW THE CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, 1995 – PRESENT
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO
REVIEW THE CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, 1992-1995
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, COMMITTEE ON
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, 1990-1994
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, CHAIR, TASK FORCE ON
SIMPLIFICATION OF LAW, 1989-1991; MEMBER 1988-1989, 1991-1992
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, COMMITTEE ON COURTS
OF APPELLATE JURISDICTION, 1984-1988
FINALLY, AT THE TIME OF HIS RESPONSE FOR RESPONDENT, KRANE WAS
THE IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK STATE BAR
Accordingly, by the authorship of the response of Respondent, said response cannot be viewed in
an unbiased manner, and is so highly conflicted, that it constitutes no response at all in the
defense of Respondent and should be stricken in his defense according to the demand stated
herein.
Furthermore, once stricken, Respondent has made no response at all in his defense,
whereby the Company demands the immediate investigation of its specific, factual allegations
against Respondent and Mr. Krane by an unbiased third party with a view towards administering
discipline, whether by admonishment, reprimand, suspension, resignation, or disbarment, but
preferably move this matter to the next higher level of review where Mr. Krane has no
membership or appointed position.
Let this letter serve additionally as a formal complaint against Mr. Krane with NYSBA and any
oversight department for the NYSBA. We charge that Mr. Krane has a multiplicity of conflicts of
interests in his highly unethical and self-serving behavior of using his position of influence at the
NYSBA designed to protect consumer interests against unethical attorneys, to attempt to malign
justice in favor of an attorney who is his partner and his law firm Proskauer Rose LLP and
exculpate them from such charges. If you need any further form of formal complaint filed against
Mr. Krane, please notify us immediately.
We also ask for a formal retraction and redaction from Mr. Krane of every statement made by
him in defense of the Respondent, so that we may circulate such retraction and redaction to every
state and federal agency currently reviewing the matter against Respondent and the entire law
firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, whom have also been tainted by such maligned statements.
Since the Respondent’s response defense has been used as defense in the following investigations and
court cases a retraction/redaction is necessary in order that the Company may notify such
authorities of the biases inherent in the defense for:
Complaint against Christopher C. Wheeler with The Florida State Bar
Complaint against William J. Dick with the Virginia State Bar
Complaint against Raymond Joao with the NYSBA
Proskauer Rose LLP v. Iviewit in the 15th
Civil Circuit Court of West Palm Beach, FL.
Furthermore, although distinct complaints have been filed against Raymond Joao who is not a
Proskauer Rose LLP attorney, yet upon information and belief we have been told by the NYSBA
that the two complaints have been merged we demand an immediate uncoupling so that the Joao
complaint does not suffer the bias inherent in the Respondent’s Complaint.
We ask similarly that the same actions as directed herein for Respondent’s Complaint be administered to Joao’s complaint.
Finally, Mr. Krane in his defense on behalf of Respondent attempts an unfounded attack on the
statements made by the inventor Eliot Bernstein whom all such personal affronts seem worthless
in view of recent complaints filed against Proskauer Rose LLP and Respondent to the
Commissioner of Patent & Trademarks for the United States Patent & Trademark Office whereby
claims of FRAUD UPON THE UNITED STATES PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE by
Respondent and the entire firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, including MR. Krane, were co-signed by
the Company’s largest investor, Stephen J. Warner, Chairman & Co-Founder of Crossbow
Ventures, Inc the largest and most prominent venture fund in South Florida.
Attached to this communication are the following items:
Biography of Steven Krane from the Proskauer Rose LLP website
Biography of Kenneth Rubenstein from the Proskauer Rose LLP website
Response of Steven Krane on behalf of Kenneth Rubenstein and Proskauer Rose LLP to
the NY Bar
Rebuttal of Iviewit (without exhibits) to response of Steven Krane on behalf of the
Iviewit shareholders..."
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