by Diogenesister 18 Replies latest watchtower scandals
I don't think Brumley is your average Bethelite living on the standard allowance. He has a very nice house on Brimstone Lane though whether he or WT own it I don't know. He is mentioned in a life story is in July 2020 WT. I think he was originally a joiner and the WT sent him to college.
George
Lives in a big house on WT land.
G.
Jehovah hates a liar.
Good job, Earnest, in find the crux of matter in the verb tense used. This is also what the organization does in PR statements about CSA. They say "we do not [currently] hide perpetrators." They do not admit that they did so for decades in the past.
Now that a court has drawn attention to this matter, lawyers will pick up on this and use it in their ongoing cases. They will be careful to pay attention to the WTS's language more closely.
Philip Brumley is a trashy tool and a liar, there's no way he didn't know what he was doing. I wonder if his conscience ever bothers him?
Uncle Punky Does this mean the WTB$ will throw him under the bus and leave him to pay?
In this case, no, given that Phil Brumley* is probably the most senior US based Watchtower lawyer. I don’t think your average elder should model themselves on Brumley, however, when relying on watchtower to cough up for them! He is of the 1% who has made himself a very tidy income out of being a JW.
yes he intentionally mislead the court in using the present tense when describing WTPA current relationship with the Montana congregations. However the court also noted that the Governing Body still has overall governance for all areas of watchtower procedure and all congregations and departments to this day.
The courts really do have Watchtowers number!
*Apologies I gave the lawyers name as ‘David Brumley’ on page one…..probably conflating David Guam, the Canadian perjurer, and Philip Brumley, his US counterpart!
Here Corney reported on this 9 months ago:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5737373257170944/federal-court-montana-asked-impose-sanctions-on-watch-tower-top-lawyers-brumley-taylor
Here with the hope that the Court would dismiss Plaintiffs’ cases against WTPA, in-house counsel Brumley signed affidavits that were materially false and intentionally misleading. Doc. 86 at 2-17 (setting forth how WTPA’s own documents establish that Brumley’s sworn statements were obviously and materially false). Brumley’s affidavits formed the sole evidentiary basis of WTPA’s Motion. Both in-house counsel Brumley, as well as WTNY Associate General Counsel Taylor (who also represented WTPA in this case), were uniquely in possession of the documents and information establishing the falsity of Brumley’s representations to the Court. Brumley and Taylor knew that Brumley’s representations were false.
The perpetuation of Brumley’s false and misleading statements wasted Plaintiffs’ and the Court’s time and energy litigating and resolving matters that were not legitimately in dispute. This included not only litigating WTPA’s Motion, but also litigating collateral discovery matters. All told, Brumley and Taylor’s conduct resulted in a 17-month delay of this case, unnecessarily forced Plaintiffs and the Court to waste significant time and resources, and was an intentional attempt to undermine the integrity of these proceedings with false statements and obstruction.
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Brumley and Taylor knowingly made and perpetuated false statements and then attempted to cover those false statements up by refusing to produce discoverable and material evidence. The record in this case, as well as the record from other sexual abuse cases, establishes that Brumley’s and Taylor’s conduct is not an aberration; it was immediately obvious that Brumley’s sworn statements to this Court were false and their bad faith conduct here is consistent with how WTPA’s lawyers have conducted themselves in other cases. In short, this is what they do.
Based on the foregoing, Plaintiffs believe that sanctions are appropriate, including:
Awarding Plaintiffs’ attorneys' fees and costs for all of the time spent addressing WTPA’s Motion - including all the time spent on all of the jurisdictional discovery;
Requiring attorneys Brumley and Taylor to self-report to all applicable licensing boards and courts for knowingly perpetuating false and misleading statements; and
Daily sanctions of an amount determined appropriate by the Court for each day that WTPA, acting through Brumley and Taylor, improperly and vexatiously delayed this case.
Young Dio - The courts really do have Watchtowers number!
I bloomin' well hope so.
Diogenesister (quoting Corney's post here) :
Brumley and Taylor knew that Brumley’s representations were false.
Brumley and Taylor knowingly made and perpetuated false statements and then attempted to cover those false statements up by refusing to produce discoverable and material evidence.
Only Brumley was sanctioned. The Court was not persuaded that Joel Taylor [in-house counsel for WTPA] engaged in any sanctionable conduct as such allegations "were supported by nothing more than speculation" (p.8).
