Did Jack Simmons Communicate with Akin Gump's Managers?

I formed the (paranoid) opinion that Akin Gump's managers had contacts with Mr. Simmons during my employment at that firm, between 1988 and 1991.  I saw Mr. Simmons on a couple of occasions on the D.C. Metro, and he smiled in a way that carried certain suggestions for me.

March 27, 1997
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW #136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

Jack Simmons, Esq.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
D.C. Office of Corporation Counsel
Washington, DC 20001

RE: Weapons Possession - Intent to Inflict Grievous Bodily Harm/Possible Intent to Commit Murder - D.C. Corporation Counsel Affirmation - State and/or Federal Weapons Law Violations

Dear Mr. Simmons:

During the period March 1988 to October 1991 I was employed as a legal assistant at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld ("Akin Gump"). Attorney managers at Akin Gump terminated my employment effective October 29, 1991 upon determining, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that a complaint of harassment I had lodged against several co-workers was attributable to a psychiatric symptom ("ideas of reference") prominent in the psychotic disorders and typically associated with a risk of violent behavior. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. of Human Rights, D.C. Superior Court no. MPA 95-14 (final order issued June 10, 1996) (name of state court judge redacted at the implicit direction of the Justice Department). In the period immediately after my job termination senior Akin Gump managers determined that it was advisable to secure the office of my direct supervisor against a possible homicidal assault, which it was feared I might commit.

During the period January 1984 to June 1984 I interned, as a student in the graduate law program at The American University, in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. International Trade Commission ("USITC"). You will recall that you served as my supervising attorney at the USITC, in which capacity you directed a number of my legal research and writing assignments during my six-month tenure.

[American University Dean Claudio Grossman was my academic adviser when I was a student at AU from August 1983 to December 1984.  At that time he was Director of the law school's LL.M program.]

I have been under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service as a potential security risk to President William J. Clinton, and was interrogated at the Washington Field Office by Special Agent Philip C. Leadroot as recently as February 1996, about one year ago.

I request that you candidly disclose to federal authorities any information, derived from your past professional association with me, that in any way supports Akin Gump's concerns--affirmed as genuine by the D.C. Office of Corporation Counsel--relating to my potential for violence, intent to acquire firearms, or intent to inflict grievous bodily harm (including murder).

Akin Gump admits that it was aware that I interned at the USITC. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. of Human Rights, no. MPA 95-14, Record on Appeal at 139, 142, and 354. I therefore further request that you disclose the content of any possible communications you may have had with any Akin Gump attorneys relating to the subject matter of my internship at the USITC or my tenure at Akin Gump.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

cc: Kenneth W. Starr, Trustee, American University