Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Public Defender's Purge


My summer vacation from this blog went on so long I thought I might never return, but an item from the Daily Record caught my eye and sense of disgust.  The Baltimore Sun, that increasingly irrelevant paper, apparently didn't notice, but the city public defender's office underwent a purge last week. 

 Many of the office's most experienced trial attorneys were demoted or fired.  This includes their second-in-command, Grace Reusing, and their chief felony lawyer, Bridget Shepherd.  It's not a shake-up.  It's a melt down.  

What State Public Defender Paul DeWolfe hopes to create from the molten remains is anybody's guess.  But from my perspective, the man lacks both intellectual honesty and basic humanity.  

The Daily Record reported that "at least" one person was fired, but at least five were tossed out into the street.  DeWolfe clearly intended a new beginning, but only had the guts and honesty to force it upon his white employees.  

How does the person who managed all of those fired and demoted employees, who worked hand-in-hand with the deposed Reusing, not get the axe as well?  Elizabeth Julian, the city's Public Defender, is African-American.  

How do five older white men get canned, while 66-year-old Bob Cummings, no more distinguished than any of them, survive?  He's also African American, and yes, he's the brother of that Cummings, U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings.  Wolfe purged only to the point he anticipated political fallout. 

Then there's the humanity aspect.  One of the employees told me there was no warning, no indication of poor performance, no request to change what they were doing, nothing.  Just boom, you're out, effective immediately.

I know most of the persons DeWolfe ousted or demoted.  I tried cases against them, worked with and sometimes battled with them over policies and programs.  Each one was a dedicated, competent advocate for their clients.  I never met any more tenacious advocate than Shepherd, who once, to my amusement at the time, called herself and her office the "moral conscience of the criminal justice system."  But that is exactly how she conducted herself.  She stood up to every perceived violation of the rights and interests of her clients. 

Her reward for her many years of effective service to her clients?  A demotion to an entry level position, a deliberate humiliation. 

At least, I suppose, she now has the choice to quit when she is ready.  The older white men got fired without warning.  Oh, they may be able to draw early retirement, which, if they are lucky, means a third of what they are making now.  They were given no time to to look for other jobs, to readjust their retirement planning, to plan for their families' welfare. 

One assistant public defender who is keeping her job spoke out, calling DeWolfe's actions "cruel."  That would be Lisa Gladden, whose freedom of speech stems from her position as state senator and vice-chair of the Judicial Proceedings Committee.  If DeWolfe wouldn't fire Cummings, he won't be firing Gladden, either, even when she correctly sums him up. 

By what standards is the performance of the public defender's office measured?  Who knows.  DeWolfe pretty much has carte blanche to make whatever decisions he wants on any grounds he wants. 

And if that includes the inhumanity of firing competent workers without notice, and the blatant use of age, race and gender in the demotion and retention of employees, so be it.

Pretty ironic for an agency charged with protecting the rights and respecting the dignity of those it represents.   



30 comments:

  1. When I heard about this, from a law clerk, I was flabbergasted. This goes much higher than the PD office, with Bernstein's appointee also being removed. Thank Lisa for speaking up. Only the Daily Record reported this, and this is a travesty that should have made headlines!

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  2. Gregg Bernstein has done the same exact thing, except he is completely untrustworthy. When he was trolling for dollars he called me. He asked me to call a supervisory employee to let him know his job was secure. After winning the primary, he called the supervisor down a week before Thanksgiving and fired him with no reason. Bernstein even told him he could leave now and did not have to wait until Bernstein's January swearing in, but if he chose to continue to work for the then elected state's Attorney, Ms. Jessamy, he was to be cleared out by the end of her term. This pattern has followed. The story is that another supervisor had butted heads with Bernstein's wife and she is now gone. Who elected her? Why was she ever cc:d on inter-office email? Bernstein is never to be trusted.
    I don't know Paul DeWolfe well and do not know the reason for the purge. I know Bridgett and she is a fabulous attorney. The cruelty involved in these firings is unnecessary. Career prosecutors and public defenders are entitled to more respect than what they have been given.

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  3. Could not agree more. Particularly about Elizabeth Julian. Not only was there a 'shake up' at the felony trial level, but several months ago Mr. DeWolfe also fired four supervisors in the juvenile division (all white) and demoted and moved the juvenile division chief (also white)to Baltimore County where Ms. Shepherd was sent packing. A real morale booster to the county office which must feel like the agency's 'dumping ground." Mr. DeWolfe also decimated the district court at North Avenue by demoting it's chief (white male), and it's deputy chief (white male) and shifted one of the attorneys (white female) off to Wabash because she dared complain about the acts during, ironically enough, an open meeting with Mr. DeWolfe and the staff at North Avenue. Stay tuned because, as Mr. DeWolfe stated to the Daily Record, he's not through yet.

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  4. It occurs to me that when I left the Baltimore City Justice System, in 2006, it was not a moment too soon. It needed a great deal of improvement then, but seems to be completely out of control now. Does no one in the system understand anything about organizational change? This kind of purge is traumatic and counterproductive. I know some of the attorneys named and I cannot believe that they deserved this kind of treatment because, well, no one does! This completely hamfisted attempt to make changes to an office will come back to haunt Mr. DeWolfe - at least I will be fervently praying it does! My thoughts and prayers go out to the attorneys who have been so sorely wronged. You should all consider leaving Maryland - you will be respected and well-treated in pretty much every other jurisdiction in the country! Carrie Bauer, former ASA in Baltimore City, now happy in Colorado!

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  5. This is really a very horrible series of developments. So there will be more by the end of the week and there will be 6 or 7 little Indian's fallen down. Oop's also these are MEN yes MEN, a real man has pride, back bone and does not cower down to others request to keep them from the lime light. But I suppose like Fantasy Island (tatoo needs a job 2) "look boss the plane, the plane"! Its easier to hide behind the coat tales of others when your lacking what a real man stands for! But for those men who have recently been hit they can stand tall because it takes a better man to continue to take care of his family and begin a new job than it does to hide on 6 St. Paul and do nothing except to ruin the lives of others. I wonder if 6 St. Paul feels the same way about the clients they represent and their family's? Ya know the OPD (6 St. Paul) has put it out there more than once that they are looking to work closely with UBLaw and UMD Law schools in an effort to bring some of their new, young and upcoming lawyers to come work for the OPD, WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO DO RUIN A GOOD STUDENT AND RECRUIT THEM B4 THEY EVEN PASS THE BAR. Once those poor students give some of the best years of their career they also can get thrown out like trash on the street. Oh let us not forget they get to take that law school debt on the street with them when they get the boot, ALL TO WORK FOR a MAN running an agency with no ethics, certainly shows no professionalism as every lawyer should do. Wow the little tid bits they feed these law students about how to conduct themselves as a lawyer wouldn't matter if they never listened to a word of it because they can all ways work at 6 St. Paul OPD's office and conduct themselves HOW EVER THEY PLEASE AND GET AWAY WITH IT, wait that option of conducting yourself however you want only works for some not the rats, complainers and cry babies who sure need lawyer counseling to learn how to respect their piers. Running behind good lawyers back and crying to the highest chain of command is just so sad, perhaps they feel so bad about themselves that the only way they can get the job they really want on the floor they want is to get someone fired so they can jump in that broken down office chair. I wont mention HER name but it will be a blessing when it happens to HER and than the rest of the good lawyers don't have to watch their back every minute of the day! Take a look at the OPD's web site it states justice, fairness and dignity for all I guess they forgot to take a look at their own website.

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  6. @nomoneybags: Why not just say HER name? Elizabeth Julian.

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  7. Not her believe it or not. I hear the Northwest Defenders Unit should be very proud of her and her accomplishments. Its so nice to know that she has spent so much time and the OPS's money being a spy for them and creating nightmares for her fellow lawyers. I guess the clients of the OPD sat on the back burner getting postponed time after time while she built her case to frame others. Sounds to me that she needs a kiss on the cheek and not the one on her face because she herself has been doing lots of cheek kissing. She is a perfect replica of how an attorney should represent themselves as well as respect themselves and their fellow lawyers. WHAT AN EXAMPLE of dignity, loyalty and justice! Start cleaning house on your rats and snitches and those who create stories to hinder and destroy others careers. Sure does seem like they find certain fellow employees to be much better at practicing law, so why not remove the ones that stand in your way in order to pave the way for your next advancement! AND REMEMBER BALTIMORE CITY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS FOR ALL......

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  8. Oh I get it. Natalie Finegar. I hope you're wrong anout that.

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  9. Another day of firing at the OPD. Way to go Tattoo, you make hiding behind the coats of da boss almost look like a job! Wondering if Paul and Chip realize how many of attorneys at the OPD simply detest the two of them. The two of them have created an uprising and the employees of the many office are sickened at "strategic planning" DeWolfe had one of Maryland's most notorious clients (aka the sniper) during his tenure in Montgomery County AND WAS FIRED BY HIM, even the deceased sniper did not like him!! I suppose he has never gotten over being fired, now we know why he likes firing others with such great PRIDE. DO WE TRULY WANT A MAN LIKE THAT RUNNING THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER FOR THE STATE OF MARYLAND??? Come on, I don't think so. What was the board of 13 trustee's thinking, apparently they were not. Maybe he would like to fire them too. Merry Christmas, Paul & Chip and a Happy New Year so many lives you have touched hope to see you in the unemployment line!

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  10. The previous post should not be taken or read into for more than its worth. The point behind a portion of the posting on October 26th @ 8:32 pm is simply out of curiosity (is there anyone or entity)that Mr. DeWolfe answers to)? It would seem that everyone must answer to someone in the end or before making such drastic changes that come along with so many left to pick up the pieces. It would be difficult to understand that the individuals responsible for giving Mr. DeWolfe the power he has would not be the same individuals to check his policies and review such major decisions he has made over the last several months. Of course it is greatly possible that the board may not even be aware of the many demotions, firings among many other changes that impact the Office of the Public Defender.

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  11. I am out of words to express my horror and sorrow at the way Bridget, Grace Reusing, and the other demoted and fired employees were (mis)treated. Oh, for the days of Nancy Forster, who actually cared about her employees, and gave reasons for doing things! DeWolfe offers no rational explanation for decimating and demoralizing the best felony trial unit in the state - by any statistic infinitely better than the one he supervised in Montgomery County! He offers no rationale or rational reason - like any King he is above offering explanations to his serfs! He just destroys our leadership, and wipes out the old white guys, (lord I am in trouble now!), and the women who he disliked for some archaic reason known but to God and perhaps his shrink, (and if he doesn't have a shrink, he should have!) Oh Nancy, we miss you...

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    1. Well James, I do like your post! Rumor has it the group in Montgomery County were delighted to see him walk out the door never to return and now he's running the entire state. I truly wonder when the last time that man stood before a judge in a court room. If I were Paul and Chip I would simply just hide my head in shame and wonder every time I opened my mouth to anyone at the OPD "I wonder if they detest me 2". Or maybe they may just be thinking "Wow you are simply not the person for this job" Than again it is evident they simply don't care about people.

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    2. Unlike other public defenders, who kept their hand in actually being trial attorneys, DeWolfe (from this moment on, dubbed the Wolfe, for his blowing down houses and eating the innocent for no reason!) is content to (mis)manage the agency into the ground!

      I don't think Chip would do this (or anything like it) on his own accord. He always seemed like a decent guy, and unlike the Wolfe, he was not hated by everyone (practically) that he supervised. I am afraid with him it is the Nuremberg Syndrome, (the evil man in charge ordered me to do it, and I was afraid not to...)

      I wonder who this Bill Bosco is? He is not an attorney in the city, and knows absolutely nothing about the attorneys fired, or how to measure competance in an attorney or a law firm. I wonder if he is the Wolfe, posting incognito to defend the indefensible when no decent rational or knowledgable person will...

      (and thanks, I like your posts also!)

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  12. It seems like the posters don't have a concept of the caliber of lawyer that was actually FIRED. Does anyone who is skewering the OPD brass have any idea how negligent those lawyers were in representing their clients? If you were one of those people, I am sorry you are now without a job, but your paycheck was not a guarantee, and the clients deserve that minimum standards are met. Those who were demoted may have kept their jobs because they are good advocates for clients, but not great bosses. At least the brass is paying attention to the way lawyers do (or don't do) their jobs. I don't think there is a nice way to fire someone. You don't keep a job by not doing it.

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    1. I do not know who you really are, but I know you cannot possibly have worked in court with any of the attorneys who were fired, because you simply do not know what you are talking about. First, both Matt Spencer and Mike Schaech were damn good trial attorneys, who routinely took complicated and ugly cases, won jury verdicts, and got good results for their clients. Rob Ragland and Kirk Osborne also did well in representing their clients. So to put it nicely, you libeled good attornies without one vestige of truth in what you wrote. Wolfe and his flunky fired them for no good reason - all four did well for the clients, and certainly had no worse statistical averages in their representations than any other APD's. Now for attorney, or those in the legal community, the bottom line for measuring competance is client representation. They did well at it, and again, you libeled good men, with absolutely no facts to back you up. As to the bosses you libeled, the felony unit in Baltimore did far better on the average than any unit supervised by the Wolfe or the flunky, and in fact, better than any other state felony unit. So again, you do not know what you are talking about, or are just deliberately lying and libeling away, under a nom de plume.

      Learn how attorney competance is measured before you libel good people, and in fact, learn the facts - or are you the Wolfe or the flunky under an assumed name? No Bosco is an attorney in Baltimore or Maryland...

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    2. James it seems as though you are correct. Schaech and Spencer were damn good attorneys. Kirk and Rob did what was expected of them and did it well. It seems as though Bill (aka OPD spy/snitch/trouble maker) must have felt that a few of these posts hit home, ya know they realized that they (she) has been exposed. You expect others to believe that these men were negligent and providing below minimum standards to their clients and were never uncovered after all their years of employment at the OPD? OOPS someone must have missed all that because IT IS NOT TRUE? It took DeWolfe and his followers to figure it out? I wonder if bill bosco has the same reasoning for the firings DeWolfe did 6 months ago? It sounds to me that the OPD had a large number of seasoned lawyers who were just not doing their jobs to YOUR STANDARDS bill bosco(that is B.S. and you know it). Bill it seems that you are telling tall tales again, such incorrect information regarding these men and the lack of their ability to do their job OR LETS FACE IT YOUR REMARKS WERE MERELY YOUR OPINION. I say to you Bill and anyone who believes Bills statements, "Bill you sure are in the know, OF WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW"! What a way for the OPD to gain the respect of their clients as well as the respect of other attorneys in the community. Their policies and the handling of their offices and staff attorneys is a terrific way to bring negative attention to the OPD as well as open the eyes of those who have given thought to working for the agency, RUN THE OTHER WAY. Remember as bill bosco says "your pay check at the Office of The Public Defender was not a guarantee" SO WORD TO THE WISE THINK TWICE ABOUT WORKING AT WILL FOR the Wolfeman. I happen to stumble across a few interesting blogs on talk.baltimoresun.com, under 5 purged from the office of the public defender caption. Check it out

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  13. Bill: if the brass is actually paying attention nd this isn't just about promoting friends or about politics, please explain why Libby Julian suffered no repercussions for having such lousy lawyers and supervisors under her management.

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  14. Good Morning Nancy! Well, first, obviously, I don't agree with whoever is posting as "Bosco" that the attorneys were incompetant or deserved to be fired. As I noted, they did well for the clients, which is the ultimate barometer of attorney competancy. Secondly, and more importantly, your successor never made any professional effort to determine the level of their competancy. He did not measure their jury verdicts, he did not total their caseloads and compare results with the OPD felony average, he did not appear in court or send a representative to watch their in court presentations, he did nothing. How do I know this? Becuase the former, measuring results, would have required accessing all their case files, and more, accessing the case files and records of all felony APD's to compare results statistically. This was never done. To the later, had any of the Wolfe's flunkys, let alone him, appeared in Baltimore Courts, everyone in OPD would have known. So nothing remotely professional was done to measure competancy before he decimated the vast majority of the older, white attorneys in Baltimore. And I say again, their professional competancy, measured by their client representation, was as least as good as the APD average, or better.

    So, Bosco's every statement is a provable lie. Worse, no effort was made by the Wolfe to find out whether these attorneys had a problem - which they did not - he just fired them by whim, to suit his perverse agenda.

    BUT, assuming for a minute he actually had done all the foregoing, which he did not, you are absolutely right in asking why the manager over all of the mistreated employees, ultimately responsible for them, was not fired as well...

    Which further proves, there was no rational or professional reason to fire or demote anyone. He just wants to bring in more of his cronies, and for some perverse reason, since he is an old white guy, he hates his fellows...

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  15. Bill, I mean Edie, at least have the guts to use your real name so that everyone knows how self-interested your comments are.

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    1. There was a 6th old white guy terminated. With 25 tears service. DeWolfe waited until that Friday for him.

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  16. I do not know who that was, but I am sorry. The ones I knew, were all decent men and good attorneys. The Wolfe and his flunky, and their sycophants, snitches, and spies, are a disgrace to good management, the Office of the Public Defender, and the State of Maryland. Many good people worked decades to build an agency devoted to client representation, and justice. It took the Wolfe and his disgraceful actions, and his crew of yes-men and women, a few days to destroy the morale of what remains of OPD.

    It is notable that the Wolfey evidently based his firings on whim and the reports of sycophants, snitches and spies, all with an agenda to climb up on the bodies of the fallen. As I have previously noted, absolutely no professional review of competance was made in any way, shape, or form, before the Wolfe fired virtually all the old white guys.

    No wonder they hated the Wolfe so in Montgomery County...

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  17. Well I believe I know who the 6th slain attorney is. It is understood that Michael Schaech was the last to go this last round. Schaech had been hospitalized for several days received extensive medical treatment. Shortly after Schaech's release I hear that Wolfy apparently had Chipmunck ordered Schaech into his office while on medical leave and gave him the AX right on his bo bo. How low can the OPD go? Is there no shame at all? The only shame here is "SHAME ON YOU THE DEWOLFEMAN" It will not be much longer before the OPD hits rock bottom. Dewolfe you should be praying each day for the lives you have destroyed for being so shallow. If I were Paul I would hate for anyone to recognize my ugly face. If I was paying at the grocery store I would wonder if the cashier realized I was the fool on 6 SAINT PAUL! I would start wearing a hat pulled down over my eyes PARTICULARLY BECAUSE HE CAN'T LOOK HIS OWN EMPLOYEES IN THE EYE AND DO THE DEAL HIMSELF.

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  18. It is utterly horrible - and requires an utterly horribe human being to order it - to fire a man just out of the hospital, with no notice, and no rational, professional, reason. As I have previously noted, the Wolfey did this out of some perverted agenda, after his spies, suckups, sycophants, and snitches had lied to him about men they disliked. No attempt was made to measure competance - not one file was accessed until after the firings. Neither the wolfey, (he does not deserve a big W), nor the flunky, nor any of their suckups and spies were in court with the fired men. His actions are utterly despicable. Hopefully, as the Governor sees the devastation that is District One, he will fire the wolfey and the flunky. We can hope...in the interim, client representation is gone to hell as caseloads leap, (the remaining attorneys have to pick up all the cases of the fired men, plus the cases of the attorneys the wolfey appointed to supervisory jobs elsewhere. So who ultimately pays for wolfeys cruelity and incompetance? The clients! He has utterly devastated the agency Nancy left in good shape...

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  19. I can't imagine what this does to the city's Criminal Justice Administration reputation. How do you have a melt-down in an office that governs the peace of the community. I just don't understand what went wrong or why they had to demote and fire people. I really hope that the office is rebuilds it's legal structure.

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  20. What went wrong was that wolfey is playing politics with clients freedom, and employee's lives. He fired and demoted first rate attorneys and supervisors without any attempt to actually check and see whether or not there were problems with competance. (a check of records to track quality of representation could have easily been done - but wolfey was afraid it would show that the District One felony unit was the best in the state, and the attorneys he fired for being allegedly incompetant were highly competant)

    What political games is wolfey playing? While he increases District One felony attorney caseloads 15 plus percent by his idiotic firings and demotions, he refuses to hire support staff, claiming he can replace professional support staff with interns. (which of course is more lies from the wolfe) The end result is not just decimination of the best felony office in the state, but clients getting poorer and poorer representation. But wolfe does not care! Instead of worrying about the clients whose lives he makes chesspieces in his disgusting political games, he throws a party! Yes, a party! A party he paid for by extorting what remains of his terrified employees. He strongarmed employees into paying $125 a ticket to his stupid Gala, and then strongarmed employees to donate personal property to be auctioned off!

    Brendan, you don't understand what went wrong in District One. Nothing went wrong there. District One felony had the best trial results of any felony unit in the state, and was considered one of the best in the country. What went wrong was not in District One, but in the public defender's office, where wolfey decided to throw the clients overboard so he could balance his budget by firing competant attorneys, refusing to hire support staff, and more.

    He wants to tell the Governor, "see, I reduced the OPD budget!" Of course, the fact is he dramatically increased caseloads, left the remaining attorneys without adequate support staff, and - if anyone will check the records in a year - dramatically worsened client representation.

    But hey, he can throw a party! (which again, he paid for by extorting his remaining employees...what a prince of a guy...NOT!)

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  21. Knowing budgetary tricks very well, my theory is that Mr. DeWolfe fired and demoted all of the most exprienced lawyers in the City so that he can replace them with less experienced lawyers in order to pay smaller salaries. Those fired and demoted were making, well-deservedly, good salaries because of their length of experience and supervisory positions. I'll also bet that DeWolfe replaces these attorneys with pedigreed attorneys for whom he has always had an affinity. If one did not attend a named law school or did not work for a big D.C. firm, he is not interested. No locals need apply. Maybe it's because Maryland's Public Defender actually lives in D.C.

    And, oh yes, the old intern trick. Mr. DeWolfe, when he was the head of the Montgomery County office, had interns from local colleges, yes I said colleges, doing investigator work. When I learned of this, back when I was the PD, I put a stop to it immediately (much to his chagrin). Can you imagine a college kid going into some rough neighborhood to interview a witness and getting injured or killed just so DeWolfe could save money? Imagine the liability of the agency and the state.

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    1. Wait Isn't it so that all good POLITICIANS including Wolfey are required to maintain a full time residence status (and live there as well) in the same state they work/represent? The last time I looked at mapquest D.C. is in Washington, approx 45 miles south of Baltimore straight down 95 outside of the state of Maryland. Hum I wonder if Maryland's governor lives in Annapolis? Perhaps there are special rules for special folks and with out a doubt DeWolfe does hold himself out as a special kind of guy. Than again perhaps there are no RULES or regulations, policies etc. Seems like some real RESTRUCTURING NEEDS TO HAPPEN and PAUL is the guy for that he puts the structure in restructure!!!

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  22. Hi Nancy! As usual, I think you are correct. It is notable that wolfey made no effort to actually ascertain the professional competancy of those he demoted or fired. Indeed, the Baltimore Felony Unit, which he decimated, had for years the best record in the state, and one of the best, if not the best, in the country, in verdicts in jury trials. No, wolfey decimated District One for budgetary reasons - and the clients be damned.

    Yes, we all knew about his fiasco with using young college students as intern/investigators in Montgomery County. He wants to do the same thing in Baltimore City. It was strongly opposed by the Felony Unit, which lived in terror at the idea that some young kid would be killed, raped, et al, in the mean streets of Baltimore. Of course, those opposing it are no longer there to do so...

    And yes, we all know wolfe's love of pedigreed attorneys, from lofty dc law firms. Of course, it matters not that they have not a clue how to actually try a criminal case! They are ivy league!

    Your leaving was the worst thing that has happened to the PD's office since its inception. Not only did the office lose someone who knew how to try cases, and who knew how to manage people, but it opened the door for Dewolfe, and his antics. Anyone looking at the statistics a year from now will see that client representation in District One, especially felony, has deteriorated horrifically. 15% higher caseloads, dramatically reduced support staff - all geared to rip apart a first rate PD office, and send clients to prison. Dewolfe does not care, he will throw another party, and strongarm anyone left working for him into paying for his Gala.

    He should be in jail himself...

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  23. I still have a hard time comprehending what happened. I hope things get straightened out. In these trying times we don't need the judicial system to fall apart.

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  24. In the Downtown Los Angeles courts, there was a supervisor of the deputy public defenders, named MichaelHoagie. If you were too competent as a public defender in Divsion 40, you got demoted. If you did anything to protect the rights of your clients you soon saw the door. I imagine the same thing happened here. Some supervisors see political benefit to work with the prosecution. In my case, I asked my public defender why she abdicated so many of my rights and performed so under par and she said, " I work for the city." Oddly, I discovered that she in fact worked for the county so... she was giving me a hint that she was bound by the city and if i won the city would resent her too much. In the end, she won despite herself. I have little regard for the public defender and many are public pretenders. I did not want to believe this but too evidence led me to see that their hands are tied and only a few of them are idealistic. It was a sad revelation.

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