3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apt. 136
Washington, DC 20008
U.S. Social Security Administration
Office of Disability and International
Operations
1500 Woodlawn Drive
Baltimore, MD 21241
Dear Sir:
Enclosed for your information is a copy
of a telephone directory of my former employer, the law firm of Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
As you can see from the directory, the
firm employs a large number of persons; Akin Gump is, in fact, one of
the largest law firms in the country. My own position in the firm was
utterly insignificant.
That the firm's managers, all
attorneys, terminated my employment in the manner they did, leaving
themselves open to the appearance of impropriety—if not worse—is
exceedingly odd. Further, it is abundantly clear that the firm's
financial circumstances were not so impecunious that its managers
needed to prevent my filing for employer-sponsored disability benefits.
I believe that it is a realistic
inference and not a paranoid suspicion that as yet unexplained
circumstances led to my job termination. Speaking metaphorically,
where a group of rational and highly intelligent attorneys decide
after due deliberation to kill a fly with a nuclear bomb, one has to
wonder: “What was going on with that fly?” – “What was going
on with those attorneys?”
It is disheartening that several
government agencies—at the state and federal level—seem incapable
of getting any answers.
Sincerely,
Gary Freedman
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