Modikhan Case: Frank Cassisi Proves Lawyers Can File Forged Documents And Not Get Arrested

Frank C. Cassisi and Frank J. Cassisi. Cassisilaw.com & By Milton G. Allimadi If your children want to get away with filing forged documents in U.S. courts when they grow up tell them to make sure they first earn law degrees. Americans hear or read about corruption at the highest levels of the judicial system and governments in so-called “Third World” countries. Welcome to the U.S. judicial system; specifically, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York and the New York State Supreme Court, Queens County, whose woes are symptomatic of a national problem affecting all areas of the law—bankruptcy, civil, criminal, surrogates, and family courts to name a few. Here you’ll find all the dysfunctions that Americans are constantly informed are endemic to so-called “less-developed” countries. Our cases in point today are Ashmeen Modikhan’s. She’s a 60-ish grandmother. The failures of the courts system—or “success,” depending on how you look at it—in Modikhan’s cases would be breath-taking if they weren’t, unfortunately, common. We begin with clerks who accept and record fraudulent documents that don’t comply with the rules of procedure and the judges who know better but willfully turn a blind eye.    This Cassisi undated forged “retainer agreement”...