Larry
Drivon files his Motion To Withdraw as Attorney of Record.
Therein he goes public with a personal and confidential letter
that I had written to him. When I confronted him about this,
he stated that it was "part of the case."* Regarding
one point addressed in the letter, Drivon's office did indeed
allegedly "serve" this multimillion dollar lawsuit
on Haig Berberian by first class mail. Yet when I reviewed
Drivon's Berberian
v. Berberian & Wells Fargo Bank case
files after he withdrew, there was no Notice & Acknowledgment
of Receipt therein signed by Haig Berberian nor anyone else.
And none is to be found in the court records. In fact, I have
no evidence that Haig Berberian had any knowledge whatsoever
that I had sued him. And none is to be found in the court records.
(It should be noted that I was unaware that a Notice & Acknowledgment
of Receipt should exist in Larry Drivon's files and my review
of same at the time of his withdrawal. All of my minimal legal
wherewithal in the matter came long after Larry's exit).
*Larry
Drivon would find out further down the line that going very
public (i.e., making my personal & confidential letter
to him, written in anger, a part of the permanent court record)
was not the right thing to do with me. I could enumerate the
consequences with a laundry-list of the ways I decided to go
public after Drivon's withdrawal and ultimate betrayal on June
20, 1986, but, to that effect, this website expose will speak
volumes. And I can't help but say, "He started it!" I
would like to note that when it was incumbent upon me to keep
the matter private during the first 5 ½ years of the
ordeal, I did not tell anyone outside of my immediate family.
I was religious about keeping the matter quiet. I did not tell
my closest of friends, even though, two days shy of the 3-year
statutory date for filing suit regarding the discovery of fraud
(i.e., on August 30, 1983), the case had quietly become a part
of the public record in San Francisco County Superior Court.
Why a lawsuit involving a nephew suing his uncle, the second
richest man in Modesto (second only to the Gallo brothers)
out of the Modesto Bee newspaper, is/was a curious state of
affairs.