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Time is passing so fast, another Christmas another year behind us in a few days and what a year. Nazarian and Associates is entering our 21st year and will be doing it with the same focus and strength as we did 1991.

To all the lawyers and friends that use our services, I can never thank you enough for your support, and I promise: we will never keep records. A special thanks to Armand Keosian for all the help and support he and his family gave me in my early years. Thanks to Lisa Helfend Meyer and Sorrell Trope for all of their continued support from my early days upon returning to Los Angeles. And the biggest thanks of all goes to Gary Lieberman, the man who said to me 20 plus years ago, “ever thought about being a private Investigator?”

Thanks to Michael Trope for all the great meals, and I am looking forward to another year of those great dinners during 2012! Ira Friedman, one of the funniest men on the planet, I am looking for a few lunches at Pics and more laughs. To my friend Ken Black, Superior Court Judge, Ret. you my friend are still rocking, keep up the great work! Congrats to Judges Scott Gordon and Trent Lewis as they take the reins of DIVORCE court into the New Year!

To all of our very special clients that have trusted us through the years and to the few that did not trust us or anyone else, I say thanks. For all the trips around the world and for allowing us to live as you do for short periods of time, thanks. To the numerous lawyers who choose not to use our services, I thank you too. Sure, it is always fun to attack, humiliate and watch those you choose to hire stumble around in our tracks, keep up the good work! And as one of Southern California’s biggest firms always says, “pay peanuts hire monkeys.” A big thanks to Ben Valencia, lawyer of M.O.L.M for being a friend when at times it may be a little unpopular, thank you!

To the very special group of lawyers who give us so much to laugh at, often at your own expense. Keep dressing the same and be sure to stumble over your words when I am around, please I am lost without you. And for you who have never realized you passed the BAR but fail at expressing yourself when addressing the court, please don’t stop!

To all the judges, well at least most of you, thanks for allowing me to sit for hours and be entertained by watching humanity at its worst! Many of you will always have a safe harbor on DESPERATEEXES.COM Never will anything out of line be allowed on my site as to a judge’s decisions, unless you are from Puerto Rico!

A special holiday wish for the Yepremyan family, who I have grown to adore and to enjoy the many meals we have and I hope many to come. To Mike Yepremyan, your killers have all been captured and await their fate in jail, being held on murder charges. Detective Thomas Townsend and Lt. Hamilton, all I can say is thanks for tracking the scum that killed Mike and putting them right where they belong. “My heart goes out to them”…LMAO

John and grandson James

A very special thanks to the person who got me up and running on DESPERATEEXES.com, Julie, thank you again and again for the great pictures and your counsel through the years. Thanks to Rose and Ken my pals from Texas who have done an amazing job in tracking all of my television and print media appearances and articles. Straight Talk with John J. Nazarian is still a work in progress and we look forward to more guests and entertaining bantering for the new year. Thanks to all of you who have been so supportive through the years, we all thank you.

And most of all thanks to my sons without whom I am not sure I would even get out of bed on some days. At one time it was said, “John what a great thing you did in raising the boys,” funny how roles can change. The grand kids are all doing fine and are a major focus of my time…when I am not chasing scoundrels and bad guys around the country.

Happy Hanukkah – Merry Christmas and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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December 26, 2011
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I have to wonder every time I visit the Stanley Mosk Courthouse and listen to what takes place in the DIVORCE court departments. Not everything is peachy at all times in all the departments…trust me! Things were not “peachy” for one lawyer and the story follows!

Lisa Helfend Meyer had an interesting encounter with Commissioner James Endman who “nests” comfortably in Dept.84. What became obvious was when Commissioner Endman became annoyed as to what appeared to me was his inability to understand the facts as they were presented to him (it was an international issue), he was done! Commissioner Endman would leave the bench in what could only be described as a “huff” and as he exited his courtroom for his chambers he did very much resemble “Grumpy,” one of the 7 Dwarfs!

All these years as a commissioner and having to deal with the same stuff as all the other judges and commissioners have to deal with I am sure it takes its toll. It takes its toll on me and I am only an observer. I am here to tell you Judge Endman and Lisa Helfend Meyer won’t be making “latkes” any time soon!

Talking about grumps, on the morning of December 15, 2011 I was in the courtroom of Judge Christine Byrd, dept. 65 and who do I see! Sticey Flips aka Stacy Phillips and on the other side is lawyer Laurence R. Goldman representing Freid and Goldsman, he is a partner! Once again I have to wonder where do “high dollar” lawyers buy their clothes? Mr. Goldman was explaining to the court that Manley Freid was flat on his back with Bell’s Palsy (this is a paralysis of the face due to inflammation or trauma of the facial nerve. Certainly it is not caused by laughing too much!) Mr. Goldman explained that Mr. Fried was unable to speak clearly and was partially paralyzed on the left side of his face. All of this bantering was for Judge Byrd to order a continuance due to Mr. Fried’s illness. I am sure that you don’t get this disease by laughing and being warm and friendly.

This could have very well been a meeting of the “worst dressed,” Sticey Flips was wearing an attractive all black outfit and looked pretty good! I could not understand however the several bright neon ‘sticky notes’ stuck on Ms. Flips black handbag? Nice, ever heard of a nice note book or binder? Again, having those bright colors on your black handbag will certainly remind you. I was also confused as to why she was wearing such an odd looking hat while in court? Does she not know better? Then I realized that it was not a hat at all but just her hair, and please forgive me my eyes are not as good as they once were and quite frankly other issues too are not working as well as they once did. May I suggest Jose Eber, and he too wears a hat!

Further down the hall I see Mr. Kolodny looking as good as ever and again a more entertaining and delightful fellow to speak with cannot be found. A great story teller and always great to speak with.

PS: For all of you who may or may not have been ticketed by “The Monster,” if you are lucky enough to drive a Sheriff’s white service car you can park in the red zone and not worry about being ticketed…as I have always said we are not created equal.

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December 24, 2011
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Monitors are back in the news again. I was sitting in Department 43 and I am noticing that there is a mother who is pro per and taking a real shellacking from a MINOR’s counsel. This MINOR’s counsel is doing everything that she can come up with to attack and discredit this woman, even using big words that caught me off guard. I have to say that the “other side” even with his lawyer looks like Central Casting for the “Addams Family.” Now I am as critical as they come when it comes to these pro pers, but to watch the beating Ms. Ponce was taking was as bad as it comes comes. Minor’s counsel could have tempered her comments and did not have to be so vicious, after all she is an officer of the court. The attack was pretty severe and I DO NOT THINK IT WAS JUSTIFIED from where I was sitting. I went out and spoke to Ms. Ponce and told her exactly what I felt as to what I heard and what I was watching, not good. I will also say that Judge Willet seemed to give this young and well-dressed female minors counsel a big box to stand on and even to correct “His Honor” on a section that he misquoted. Beauty and intelligence, a tough mix to beat.

The best part of Ms. Ponce’s comment came when it was asked or written in a document, “what was the court ordered monitor doing?” In response to when the child was being “pushed” by his father during visitation? Response: “Eating and texting,“ at what $30, $50, ? per hour?

Hear me loud and clear, Monitors are a virus when it comes to your DIVORCE case, these nitwits are as bad as sand in the oil pan of your car! They are not impartial and will belly up to whoever can treat them better, they are generally a pitiful bunch who so want to be a “somebody” and quite frankly do not think many would pass any real close scrutiny. And what we are seeing are judges who will allow them to address the court in written reports and give live testimony! These people for the most part have NO TRAINING other than a 5-6 hour course they take to get the title, “monitor.” How this group has not been investigated by the Office of the Attorney General is beyond me based on just what I have witnessed and the false testimony given. Personally I am feeling that the judges do not always take what these people report with a “box of salt.” From my personal experience, many of these monitors are liars and cons all with the blessing of the court.

I can assure Judge Willet that when this monitor who was not ID’d in court (I know who she is) does show up for her “15 minutes of fame” she will lie and paint the picture that the minor’s counsel wants. This is one of the worst abuses of DIVORCE court I have seen! Do not get me started again with minor’s counsel, they act as an investigator and not a lawyer most of the time. And do I have to remind the Superior Court of the “issues” that this group created at one time?

So what do I do, I stroll into Judge Trent Lewis’s court and Judge Lewis is telling a pro per (male this time) that he is going to appoint “Henry Stewart,“ and to have Mr. Stewart use one of his monitors, great! This is a huge money grab and these monitors are being paid lots and are little more than a glorified security guard that can ruin your life in DIVORCE court. This pro per was polite enough but was insulted and stated, “I am not going to pay someone so I can visit my child” and walked out of court. That move was likely the smartest thing this guy ever did since entering the “Twilight Zone” called DIVORCE and “Court-Ordered Supervised Visits.”

One site promotes that it uses only POST (police officers standard and training ), certified law enforcement officers. Really? Am I to believe that will make everything all better? Spare me once again, go and look for yourselves the requirements of 5.20 Rules of Court Judicial Administration Standards…there is absolutely no impartiality in the way these people conduct themselves and it will be you that pays the ultimate price of what some of these hustlers will do or say to endear themselves to one side or the other and worse yet, the court itself.

Using a monitor or having one forced upon you by the court is going to be a disaster in most cases (my opinion). Knowing what you know today and could go back in time, would you buy a ticket on the Titanic?

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December 18, 2011
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This is a short one, something all of the media reporting on the Kobe and Vanessa filing for DIVORCE missed and missed big time was “the plan.” There is not a question in my mind that Ms. Vanessa had to have been counseled to stay married to Kobe for the full ten years. No prenup, ten years plus is the magic number to assure that you get it all…well, half. That ten year marriage mark is critical in any BIG DIVORCE and I am not buying that it was just happenstance that when 10.6 years was hit it was “get my phone and call me a DIVORCE lawyer.”

DESPERATEXES.com congratulates Vanessa Bryant, well-executed plan, you made it to the 10 year mark and now you get half of everything and all you can carry. You go girl! Kobe, I have to wonder if Vanessa ever really got over that little incident at the hotel in Colorado. Oh I know, not guilty, but the little missus was doing some planning too! Kobe, I am not sure if anyone has had the heart to tell you, but you got played and played big time.

Only question is how did Vanessa Bryant settle on those DIVORCE lawyers, hmmm there is much better talent out there and smarter too! Enjoy the fruits of the plan, good job and you deserve all you get. Enjoy your new life without Kobe, I am thinking it is going to be easy, it has been a very long wait for the “special number,” 10!

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December 18, 2011
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Straight Talk with Celebrity P. I. John J. Nazarian guest tonight is Chickie Leventhal of the famed Chickie Bail Bonds, a family owned and operated business.

Expert Bail Network Agent Chickie Leventhal

Chickie’s Bail Bonds was created twenty-seven years ago on the dining room table of Chickie Leventhal. She worked her way up from a secretary, to an Assistant Vice President of a national insurance company, to the proud owner of a successful bail bond business. Although much has changed in the twenty-seven years of her tenure, many things remain the same. Chickie Leventhal, Expert Bail Agents. Chickie started her business with the notion that she would never be the “typical bail bond agent”. She made a promise to be honorable and not sacrifice her integrity, ethics or rose-colored glasses. She set out to make her bail bond business clean and safe, and stay away from the negative assumption the bail bond industry was under. She wanted to make a difference.

Today, all of Chickie’s work ethics remain the same. Because of the high standards she set for her business, Chickie’s Bail Bonds is still going strong. This has been made possible with the help of her son Mitch, daughter Karen and longtime employee Debbie – a perfect team. She still maintains her integrity, ethics and her rose-colored glasses, even if they have needed an extra polishing from time to time.

One of Chickie’s reason for being in this business is that she sees this as helping to preserve ALL of our constitution rights, mainly the one that we are all innocent until proven guilty.

Chickie will appear with lawyers for bail hearings, on more than one case crying in court. Imagine that people, a bail bonds person crying in court because they want the judge to set the bail for the person to get out; she is there to guarantee the bail and the appearance of the charged person. She will be sharing some of these with John J Nazarian tonight.

Chickie has also posted bail for some of the rich and famous like Phil Spector and she will be talking about that also.

Once a person is tried or in many cases makes a plea bargain even if innocent, Chickie’s job is done. However she has her eyes wide open as to the faults in our legal system and will be sharing those as well.

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Dr Murray found guilty in the death of Michael Jackson and Judge Pastor was quick to revoke bail and remand Dr. Conrad Murray to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s department pending sentencing on Nov. 29, 2011.

The only surprising thing today was the remanding and revoking bail. We all thought Murray would be convicted. John has said on many shows this was like musical chairs and when the music stopped Murray was left standing with the Propoful bottle in his hand.

Murray barely had time to look back at his mother and girlfriend before being taken into custody and whisk out of the court room.

Straight Talk with John J Nazarian guest tonight is Criminal Defense attorney Adam Braun, who has been both a prosecutor and now one of the top criminal defense attorneys in California. Braun will answer questions of what now? Over crowding in the jails, why the revoking of bail? Can the defense appeal based on Dr. Klein never appeared in trial which was a major set back most say to Murray? Will Murray get house arrest or a retreat like Ryan Bowman did for involuntary manslaughter in the Lauren Freeman case, at camp Seal on the California coast line.

Adam Braun is one of the best criminal defense lawyers in California. Braun is the Principal at Law Offices of Adam H. Braun and was a Federal Prosecutor at the United States Attorney’s Office for over 6 years. The Princeton University graduate represented Dr. Khristine Eroshevich during the lead up to the Anna Nicole Smith trial. Braun was the attorney for one of Anthony Pelicanno’s co-defendants.

In other bizarre interviews we have Dr. Arnold Klein on what looks like his golden throne.

“Dr. Arnold Klein said he personally tried several times to prevent other doctors from administering propofol to Jackson for sleep. “I knew this problem existed,” Klein said in the interview. “I did my best to prevent it. Whenever I could, I prevented it, but I’m only one man and I have to support my own life and take care of myself.”

Klein disputed the argument by Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyers that he addicted Jackson to Demerol in the months before his death, saying he used only low doses of the painkiller while repairing Jackson’s collapsed nose and jaw line.

Klein described three instances in which he said he was involved in interventions to prevent Jackson from getting propofol, the surgical anesthetic the coroner ruled killed him, although Klein gave no indication of when the incidents occurred.

In the first instance, Klein said he chartered a plane to Las Vegas when he heard Jackson was getting propofol at a hotel where the singer was staying. Klein claimed he threw out the doctor involved to prevent him from giving Jackson the drug. In another encounter in Hawaii, Klein said he and his nurse slept on the floor of Jackson’s room to prevent him from getting propofol from a plastic surgeon.

Klein claimed he once “saved” Jackson in New York when another doctor administered propofol, combined with another drug. It made Jackson go “running down the street,” Klein said. Klein, interviewed in his Beverly Hills home, said that while it was too upsetting to him to watch much of the trial, he watched enough to believe Murray wanted to “make me look like a demon” and “make me as a scapegoat.”

Klein said he began the slow and painful process of rebuilding some of Jackson’s facial skin in early April after his nose collapsed and after he lost his jaw line.

Be sure to watch the snip of the clip at: http://www.hlntv.com/video/2011/11/06/exclusive-doctor-says-mj-addicted-propofol

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The world waits for the Jury Verdict to come in next week in the Dr. Conrad Murray Trial in the Involuntary Manslaughter charge in the death of Michael Jackson.

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Sheriff Lee Baca is, for those with the knowledge and history of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs, nothing short of a breath of fresh air! “Oh what does John J. Nazarian know?” Lots, I met Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess a few times when I was a teenager, and I met him again as an adult at the memorial and funeral for Deputy Arthur E. Pelino. Art was murdered after an altercation with an alleged mentally ill subject March 19, 1978 (Art was my advisor along with Bob Warford at the old Newhall station and several hours after Art was murdered I picked up his body from the coroner’s office and took him to the Pierce Brothers Mortuary in Eagle Rock and it was there that I embalmed and prepared him for his funeral).

Peter J. Pitchess was one of the most powerful law enforcement figures in the world in his day. He came from the J.Edgar Hoover school of law enforcement, no body in there right mind would ever take on Pitches or for that matter J. Edgar Hoover. Both Peter J. Pitchess and J.Edgar Hoover were cut from the same cloth. They knew how to control anyone and anything that was a threat to their reign, and these two guys both “reigned” and some may have described the administrations as a reign of terror, I call it genius, pure genius. Pitchess from 1958 to 1982 was the sheriff of Los Angeles County, please keep in mind that he had served 12 years with the F.B.I. under guess who? J.Edgar Hoover was the Director of the F.B.I. from 1935 to 1972, look at the time these two legends in law enforcement spent in the “saddle.” Nobody would dare or wanted to be on the bad side of these two men. All that I have to say is “perfect,” there will never be another law officer like Pitchess or Hoover, well at least not till after the revolution.

Now we find the one person who is nothing less than a breath of fresh air, Lee D. Baca. Baca joined the department in 1965 and was sworn in as the Sheriff of Los Angeles County in 1998, I and a few friends had breakfast with Sheriff Baca the morning of his swearing in as “The Sheriff” at the Armenian memorial. Say what you will about the current controversy as to the care of prisoners or as they are referenced today as “inmates.” Modern law enforcement and the expectations of society makes the job of a sheriff or chief of police (particularly in our multi-cultural cities and counties) tough at times and why do you ask? Demographics is the word that comes to my mind, Los Angeles has slowly and continues to be a residence of third world types. Baca has bent over backwards to make his department accessible to all who wish to express themselves, is as they say in Yiddish, a ‘mensch’, a person of integrity and honor.

Sheriff Baca is responsible for 9000 sworn personnel and 700 reserve deputies, wait it gets tougher, he also has 7600 civilians. Can you even begin to imagine the havoc a group like this can cause? Also keep in mind that the old days when you had to be just short of a saint to become a L.A. Deputy is gone. Departments in the modern days of law enforcement are to make policing a mirror of the communities they police and to some degree that too is a problem few want to discuss. Sheriff Baca has made changes to this department that few would have had the strength or confidence to make, Lee Baca made those changes when no one else would.

Sheriff Baca is responsible for thousands of prisoners and perhaps some of the worst scum of the earth that is available for critiquing, think about it. Nothing will ever be perfect in the county jail and no one is going to make it work perfect. Funnier yet is that when many of these prisoners were on the street they did nothing but create havoc what it must be like to keep thousands of them penned up! In short Lee Baca will overcome these issues that are being drummed on in the media like “the sky is falling.” It almost seems to me that the issues are more political and socio-economic issues than one of failure of Sheriff Baca’s administration or his abilities. For myself and DesperateExes.com we support Sheriff Lee Baca and always will, great Sheriffs are hard to find!

Closing thought, in Maricopa County, Arizona none of these complaints would make a blip on the radar…why, you ask? simple the citizens in that county support law and order and tend to be elderly and retired, and Sheriff Joe knows how to keep the bad guys in check, “socio-economic.”

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There is a real class act in the Palm Springs area and not it is not a Ritz Carlton or a Four Seasons. It is a Sheila A. Williams, Esquire, never in all my years of working in the field of DIVORCE law have I run up against such a presence. You are not going to miss her, trust me, she is engaging, funny and nothing short of incredible, I like Sheila! Oh for sure I have written and talked about many lawyers across the country and especially in the Beverly Hills area, but Palm Springs?

Here is a thought, there is not another divorce lawyer I can imagine in the entire desert community that could come close to the knowledge of Sheila A. Williams, tough. This woman is a one woman wrecking crew. She is as clever and smart as they come. I feel sorry for any lawyer who might think that this gal is going to be easy pickings, you will move forward at your own peril if you do. Don’t be surprised if by some chance you get hit with one of those desert sand storms and your car has no paint and your are standing in your socks! Listen to me, you have been warned, if you go up against Sheila A. Williams she is going to S.A.W. you into pieces and you may not even realize it for several hours after it has been done. Those are her initials…was all this planned?

Sheila’s practice is very nice, above nice, done right — show up for a meeting, she will have a light breakfast for you. If you pick the right day she may even have your car washed! Someone very close to me told me that it was a pleasure to work with her and agrees with me that she is “right on target” constantly. If you retain her you are doing the opposing counsel a dis-service, she is going to ruin each and every day for them and in such a manner that they will wish that you had hired someone else. One more thing, in the desert this “Legal Eagle” has not one competitor, NONE and Sheila knows it. Sheila has such a talent that she has no boundaries, she can do it all. For John J. Nazarian, my son and I liked her the first time she looked over her glasses at me and said, “I want you to stay, have a seat.”

One more interesting fact, could we be looking at a future Superior Court Judge here? This would be just what the judicial district needs, Sheila A. Williams, Esquire.

Don’t be shy, call her, I am going to give you her numbers, office, 1-760-323-8377 or try Sheila on her cell phone, 1-760-219-8923. The office is located at 2122 E. Barristo Road, Palm Springs, Ca. 92262. If you’re getting ready to put the trash out and need a great divorce lawyer to help you, call Sheila A. Williams…tell her please, that your read our comments here on DesperateExes.com.

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Straight Talk with John J. Nazarian on Blog Talk Radio tonight’s guests are Criminal Hollywood defense attorney Adam Braun and retired L. A. P. D. homicide detective Robert Jakucs.

Tonight Mr. Adam Braun will be telling us what to expect in opening statements and what points to look for that both sides have to make during each of their opening statements. Mr. Bruan can give us that rare view of both sides; Adam Braun was a Federal Prosecutor at the United States Attorney’s Office for over 6 years, and since 2007 has been one of the brightest, brilliant, upcoming and truly one of the Super Lawyers in Los Angeles. He will also be able to tell us what the jury profiles tell about what kind of jury each side tried to have seated last Friday, September 24, 2011.

Mr. Braun will be a regular guest on Straight Talk throughout the trial and will be a valuable guest in directing and helping us through each part of the prosecution and defense of the case with a score as to who he sees ahead during the next 3-5 weeks. You might remember Adam Braun from both the Anna Nicole Smith trial and the Anthony Pellicano trial.

Robert Jakucs will give us his insight what the prosecution has to prove during their part of the trial and what to look for with the officers who investigated the case will testify as well as what to expect the defense will do in an attempt to nullify their testimony. As a previous homicide detective for the L.A.P.D, he will be able to give us a look inside the preparations the police have done to aid the D. A. to get this case ready.

Mr. Jakucs will be a guest on Straight Talk throughout the trial as his busy schedule allows and will be a most welcome guest to any show throughout this 3-5 week trial.

Join us tonight on Straight Talk with John J. Nazarian for the kick off of the Dr. Conrad Murray trial in the allegations of involuntary manslaughter trail in the death of mega super star Michael Jackson.

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