January 14, 1997
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW #136
Washington, DC 20008-4530
Seymour Glanzer, Esq.
Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin
Washington, DC 20037-1526
RE: Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin Employment Inquiry - Homicide/Violence Risk
Dear Mr. Glanzer:
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). 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 summer of 1992, within one year after my job termination by Akin Gump, I submitted employment inquiries to a number of law firms in Washington; Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin ("Dickstein Shapiro") may have been one such firm, although my (now possibly incomplete) records do not so indicate. If I did forward a job inquiry to Dickstein Shapiro I do not know what communications, if any, Dickstein Shapiro's administrative staff may have had with Akin Gump's attorney managers or supervisors.
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.
I request that you look into whether Dickstein Shapiro's records reflect the receipt of a job inquiry from me in 1992 and, if so, that you candidly disclose to federal authorities the content of any nonprivileged communications Dickstein Shapiro may have had with any senior Akin Gump supervisors or attorney managers, including Dennis M. Race, Esq. (whom I would have expressly designated as a job reference in any employment inquiry to Dickstein Shapiro), relating to the subject matter of my job termination by Akin Gump, including facts relating to the firm's alleged determination that I suffered from a paranoid mental state that rendered me potentially violent, or facts relating to the firm's concerns that I might have been armed and homicidal and possibly poised to carry out a homicidal assault on the firm's premises.
I believe that the present inquiry is justified by the fact that Dickstein Shapiro and Akin Gump have had a confidential relationship 1/, so that any disclosures made by Akin Gump to Dickstein Shapiro concerning my employment history at Akin Gump may, therefore, have been unusually candid.
The enclosed computer disc contains a document of purely psychological interest that I prepared that is consistent with assertions relating to my mental state made by the District of Columbia Office of Corporation Counsel in Brief of Respondent in Opposition to Petition for Review of no Probable Cause Determination by Department of Human Rights, Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C. Superior Court no. MPA 95-14. Rest assured, I have provided a copy of the document to federal authorities.
Sincerely,
Gary Freedman
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1/ See McNeil v. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Robert J. Higgins, Esq., Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, attorney of record.
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Seymour Glanzer, LL.B., B.S., (1926-) is an American lawyer who served as one of the Watergate prosecutors from 1972-1973.
Raised in New York City, Glanzer graduated from Juilliard with a B.S. degree in 1955. He received his LL.B. from New York Law School in 1960 after attending New York University. Glanzer was admitted to the bar in New York (1961), the District of Columbia(1965) and the U.S. Supreme Court (1967).
From 1965 to early 1967, Glanzer served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting general criminal cases. He then became Chief of the Anti-Fraud Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, a position he held starting in 1967, when that section was established. The section focused on the investigation and prosecution of major “white collar” offenses and became a model for the establishment of specialized units of this type in other U.S. Attorneys’ and state prosecutors’ offices nationwide. The section handled regulatory violations involving government agencies, relating to securities, banking, housing, labor, small business, healthcare, and customs, along with major corporate, business, and commercial crimes, including tax and bid-rigging violations. It also pioneered the prosecution of consumer fraud cases in federal court. Glanzer received special commendations from the Department of Justice in 1971 and 1973, and from the Attorney General in 1974, for his outstanding performance as a prosecutor.
After serving as Chief of the Anti-Fraud Section of the DC United States Attorney’s Office and also as one of the three original Watergate prosecutors, Glanzer joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP as partner in 1974. He became senior counsel at the firm in 1998, and continues to represent clients caught up in complex commercial and business disputes, often featuring financial irregularities.
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