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There are more papers due out today, November 30, 2009 in South Carolina from G. Ben Thompson on the Motion for Contempt and for Sanctions based of his previous attorney, Susan M. Brown’s acts allegedly on his behalf.

Gathier Thompson III, Melodie Thompson, Gaither’s wife, and Gina Thompson Shelley all have Responses to the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith adding them as parties in place of the “Doe” names.

As I read over the papers filed by Susan M. Brown last week I found myself amazed as I always seem to be when it comes to the antics and ever changing lawyers from the South Carolina group of players.

In papers filed last week in the South Carolina Federal Court, Ms. Brown says she was on board with the Horizon’s dispute in the Bahamas from day one in 2006. However it appears if that is true that her clients were not straight up about the happenings in the Bahamas. If Brown’s allegations about her clients prove true in court then they appear to have made sure she missed some memos and certainly some major media news articles. If I remember correctly G. Ben Thompson has dropped all claims to Horizons and is now suing the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith (Dannielynn Birkhead), Howard K. Stern, and the lawyers Tracy Ferguson and Michael Scott. The time line for Ms. Brown being kept in the loop and the liaison between her clients and the attorneys in the Bahamas appear not to include Thompson’s attorney in January 2007, Knowles, at the news conference in the picture with this article and there is certainly nothing from Pro Pinder the current attorney in Brown’s filings. Both were attorneys in the Bahamas for Shelley and Thompson after Ferguson and Scott left the employment of the South Carolina family.

This is either dumber than a suitcase full of rocks on the South Carolina crew for not telling their lawyer everything which equals to tying your legal representatives hands and allowing them to be blindsided by the likes of L. Lin Wood. So did Thompson and Shelley throw their attorney under the bus, and did they wiave the attorney-client privilege in what appears to a free for all for Shelley and Thompson AGAIN!!

My guess from reading these filings is that Brown was not in the loop of the Horizons litigation and the property being distributed, and she is fighting for her legal career and thus like any lawyer who has been betrayed will come out fighting now that it appears that Thompson and Shelley has waived the attorney – client privilege which in my opinion was a dumb move on their part..

Here are the filings on November 24, last week and as soon as the filings come out today they will be added to this article.

SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL COURT FILINGS NOVEMBER 24, 2009.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Memorandum of law filed in S. C. as a Response and Brown’s Opposition of Estate’s Motion for Sanction and Contempt.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2680.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 1 which is the deed filed to put house in Thompson’s name after the law firm withdrew the previous deed signed by Anna Nicole Smith, this is the deed that caused the problems for everyone that is now being sued by each other in the Bahamas.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2681.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 2 October 31, 2006 letter from Tracy Ferguson to Anna Nicole Smith to vacate Horizon’s or be prepared for eviction proceedings.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2682.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 3 Default Judgment against Wayne Munroe and Anna Nicole Smith dated November 28, 2006 in regards to Horizon’s in the Bahamas.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2683.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 4 Default Injunction that barred Ben Thompson or any representative of his to interfere with Anna Nicole Smith living at Horizons dated November 20, 2006 in the Bahamas.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2684.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Exhibit 5 her affidavit dated November 18, 2009 to file with her memorandum of law responding to Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate filing for contempt and sanctions against her and her law firm.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2685.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 6 which is a copy of the Joint Defense and Confidentiality Agreement with Virgie Arthur filed with Brown’s Response to Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate for Motion for Contempt and sanctions. Brown refers to this in her Memorandum of Law and in her affidavit.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2686.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 8 which is an Affidavit from Neil McCabe on behalf of his client dated November 8, 2009 stating that no person representing his client Virgie Arthur or associated with the law firm made any copies of the hard drives or kept anything from the hard drives and the law firm has respected and kept the common defense and confidentiality in tact at all time.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2687.

I did not put up Exhibit 7 since it is a black and white picture of the hard drives that BDK, Virgie Arthur’s expert in the state suit and we already have a color copy of the same 2 hard drives up in this section and I will link it tomorrow when I do an article on all of this.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 9 which is an affidavit from Teresa Lazzaroni dated Nov. 13, 2009 explaining to the Court how her client Susan M. Brown had kept working copies only of the things contained on 3 flash drives turned over to the Estate attorneys for Anna Nicole Smith and how Brown had paid for her hard drive to be destroyed as requested by Lin Wood during her deposition.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2688.

November 24, 2009 Brown’s Exhibit 10 a copy of the letter from Susan M. Brown to Neil McCabe dated September 25, terminating the Joint Defense and Confidentiality Agreement with Virgie Arthur ONLY on G. Ben Thompson not with Ford Shelley.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2689.

November 24, 2009 Court Order for the South Carolina federal Court allowing Susan M. Brown to withdraw as attorney of record for G. Ben Thompson effective the same date.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2690.

November 24, 2009 Court Order for the South Carolina federal Court issued by agreements of the parties to give G. Ben Thompson time to file a Response to the Motion for Contempt and for Sanctions until November 30 pending against him and for Melodie Thompson, Gaither Thompson III, and Gina Thompson Shelley until November 30 to file their Response to being added as parties.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2691.

November 24, 2009 Susan M. Brown’s Response and Objection to Ms. Brown and her law firm being added to the lawsuit in South Carolina and against the Estate of Anna Nicole Smith filing an Amended Complaint adding her and her firm.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2692.

November 24, 2009 Exhibit 1 which is a letter from Nicole Jennings Wade dated November 29, 2007 verifying that Susan M. Brown did have the hard drives and the only hold up in returning the copies to the Estate was a concern of removal of some of Ford Shelley’s personal files which Ms. Wade assured Ms. Brown the IT department could easily do that once the hard drives were brought to their offices.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2693.

November 24, 2009 Exhibit 2 which is a letter from Nicole Jennings Wade dated September 18, 2008 stating that some of the documents produced by Ford Shelley in response to the Stern – Cosby litigation be returned to their office that Shelley not contact Howard K. Stern again and that they are still waiting for the hard drives to be return so they could meet production requirements for the Estate in the New York pending lawsuit.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2694.

November 24, 2009 Brown Exhibit 4 Copy of Subpoena to Virgie Arthur’s expert BDK dated February 13, 2009 in this case about the hard drives that BDK examined under the Common Defense and Confidentiality between G. Ben Thompson, Ford Shelley and Virgie Arthur.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2695.

I did not put up Exhibit 3 since it is a black and white picture of the hard drives that BDK, Virgie Arthur’s expert in the state suit and we already have a color copy of the same 2 hard drives up in this section and I will link it tomorrow when I do an article on all of this.

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November 30, 2009
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