[i] There’s been some speculation Virginia authorities only launched the racketeering investigation [against Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes] to hurt the chances of the men being able to afford lawyers, but Mr. Alleman said that was far from the case … “The reason we didn’t file charges in Virginia is because the murder in Pennsylvania took precedence. We didn’t want to get in the way of Pennsylvania,” he said. [/i] The Times Tribune

Virginia Beach Prosecutors are claiming that Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes were given back possession of their home’s title because: “It would have been an expensive and lengthy process to take it and there was a hefty mortgage left to pay plus, attorneys on both sides were able to agree on a settlement instead of dragging it out through the courts any further.” The Times Tribune

Tell me this, is The State of Virginia so hard-up for cash that it can’t spare the chump change it would take to pay government lawyers to continue RICO charges against Cuadra and Kerekes?

Bryan Kocis’ idiot lawsuit against Sean Lockhart / Brent Corrigan proved that just because you pursue an idiot lawsuit that you have no fahking chance in hell of winning, it doesn’t mean that you can’t use that lawsuit to beat someone over the head and bankrupt them.

The State of Virginia has the time and the resources to pursue RICO charges against Cuadra and Kerekes in Virginia to bankrupt Cuadra and Kerekes and to so tie Cuadra and Kerekes up in litigation in Virginia that Cuadra and Kerekes won’t be able to pursue the defense strategy of their choice against murder charges pending against them in Pennsylvania. And, any idiot can see that Virginia did in fact intend to do just that, until Judge Kaplan in New York entered the scene.

When Federal Judge Kaplan in New York issued an order dismissing all criminal charges against employees of KPMG because Federal Prosecutors pursued exactly the kind of “prosecution strategy” against the KPMG defendants that Virginia and Pennsylvania were pursuing against Cuadra and Kerekes, [b]Virginia and Pennsylvania Blinked[/b] and they are now trying to salvage a prosecution of Cuadra and Kerekes that is long beyond being salvaged.

The Damage has been done.

Although Cuadra and Kerekes have made some deal with The State of Virginia with respect to Virginia’s RICO claims, it appears to me that Cuadra and Kerekes can still rightfully argue that they were unable to pursue the defense strategy of their choice to contest extradition to Pennsylvania because The State of Virginia deliberately crippled them financially and improperly disqualified their long time attorney, Barry Taylor.

BTW, it should also be apparent to everyone that Cuadra and Kerekes had plans in place at one time to sell all of the items Virginia seized as well as their house prior to their arrest, because they initially had no plans to return to Virginia Beach after the early morning Search of their home. Cuadra and Kerekes distributed an auction notice with the intent of selling the contents of their house prior to their arrest and, Kerekes’ parents reportedly were working with a real estate broker to sell Harlow’s and Joe’s house. It appears to me that Harlow Cuadra and Kerekes have merely made a deal to sell the stuff they had planned to sell all along but, to sell the items to The State of Virginia instead of selling the property at an auction.

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