As a background, Gil D. Cohen received a litany of complaints online from employees and customers. One of the complaints was listed here on RipOffReport and is clearly written by a former employee of Gil Cohen. In the online complaint by the former employee, Cohen is accused of the several serious improprieties, including misuse of client funds and withholding employee payouts.
Cohen acknowledges in his own words that this RipOffReport listing was filed by a former employee via his response to the posting:
The significance of Gil Cohen’s response is that he clearly had identified that a former employee had written this complaint, therefore it is completely inexcusable what Attorney Kelly did next.
Attorney Kelly filed a lawsuit against a “Robert Smith” in India claiming that Smith was the author of the RipOffReport about Cohen. Robert Smith from India?!
- I have come to know a lot of people in India, and to this day I’ve yet to meet anyone in India that has an American name.
- Robert Smith is as generic as you can get when it comes to names. This appears to benefit Attorney Kelly by using one of the most common names out there, making it next to impossible to track down this alleged defendant should investigative reporters like Eugene Volokh get their hands on the case.
- Again, like the other lawsuits, here “Robert Smith” has decided to represent himself pro se and miracoulously agreed to a stipulated judgement admitting to all liability for the RipOffReport posting.
- In this lawsuit filed by Attorney Kelly that was granted by Judge Colleen French, it appears as-if the same exact person that was used to forge the name for the phony defendant “Robert Smith” is the same forgerer in the “Howard Marks” case: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/03/GottusovMarksOrder.pdf
