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Condit v Baskin Robbins case in Modesto Bee article

 
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:26 pm    Post subject: Condit v Baskin Robbins case in Modesto Bee article Reply with quote

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/422109.html

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    FRESNO — Federal justice requires considerable patience, as Gary Condit and Baskin-Robbins can now testify.

    The ice cream chain and the former San Joaquin Valley congressman have been waiting 11 months for a judge's verdict in a civil lawsuit. Delay may be frustrating. In federal courthouses, it's also commonplace.

    Condit and Baskin-Robbins may even be lucky. They're stuck in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, where verdicts come quicker than in California's Central Valley. For a variety of reasons, federal courthouses in Fresno and Sacramento move more slowly than most federal courthouses nationwide....

    Baskin-Robbins' lawsuit against Condit, for instance, seemed a relatively straightforward commercial dispute when it was filed March 23, 2006. The company complained that Condit and members of his family had not fulfilled their part of a management agreement.

    The case did have some twists, as when Condit's original at- torney dropped out and when Baskin-Robbins was frustrated in efforts to obtain information from the Condit family. But in many respects, the trial that started and finished Oct. 23, 2007, seemed like it could be a quick wrap.

    There were only three witnesses called, including Condit's son and business partner, Chad. The 50 exhibits presented included mostly routine documents such as letters, invoices and photographs.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a scoop! The Baskin-Robbins lawsuit will be a cold case by the time the judge rules.

It's complicated by the fact that Condit tells more versions of what happened than he has flavors of ice cream. And tries to change lawyers for each new version he tells.

It's been a rocky road, with Condit even refusing to answer under oath what his flavor of the day is.

Baskin-Robbins will get even though. They froze his assets.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol Please rd! Remember, 2/3 of a pun is P U!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh my, I am holding my nose after all of that humor!

More seriously I was thinking just a day or two ago about posting just one sentence here, Where is Condit, and what is he doing now? Well, we can see that he has a court case going, but is that information enough for the rest of us who might like to know a little more about a former Congressman who is so silent. Does all of this leave the Modesto Bee free and clear? The Bee did not seem to be able to handle following up on the story about a possible girlfriend he might have had who evidently outsmarted the FBI just by putting a note on her door and also saying that she had a twin sister. Twin sisters are sort of hard to hide, and I don't remember that anyone in this saga of Chandra ever actually produced any evidence of a twin sister. And the FBI could not locate her? Is this a murder case, or is this another day at the ice cream store?

We are living in a country where we are not all playing on a level playing field. We need more exposure of the bad guys. benn
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't think you had it in you- rd- I'm impressed! Funny!
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/508366.html

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Breach of contract ruling will cost family thousands

By Michael Doyle
Bee Washington Bureau

last updated: November 22, 2008 12:04:43 AM

WASHINGTON -- An ice cream deal that melted quickly now will cost former Ceres congressman Gary Condit and his family more than $44,000, a federal judge ruled.

The Condits breached their contracts with Baskin-Robbins ... U.S. District Court Judge Earl H. Carroll ruled. Carroll is now preparing his final judgment, the latest legal setback for the once-politically prominent Condit family.

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Condit's son, Chad, his partner in the Baskin-Robbins deal, estimated the family lost $250,000 in the ice cream franchise. Chad Condit's other testimony was deemed "not credible" by Carroll, and for a time the family simply stopped responding to Baskin-Robbins' entreaties. The family also has run through a series of attorneys.

"I have been made aware that my clients plan to retain separate appellate counsel and appeal the ruling once a final judgment is issued," attorney Joseph Holland, who represented Condit in the ice cream case, stated Friday. He then added that "I have no further dealings in this matter."....

After his House defeat, Condit and his family moved to Scottsdale, Ariz. They attempted various business ventures before buying the two Baskin-Robbins' franchises in nearby Glendale for $65,000 each in February 2006.

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The franchise agreement required the Condits to submit weekly sales information to Baskin-Robbins' headquarters. They also owed franchise and advertising fees totaling about 10 percent of gross sales.

Soon, Carroll noted, the Condits stopped reporting sales and paying various fees. Baskin-Robbins sent at least 10 collection letters to the Condits, who sent the company a few payment checks. Several checks bounced, Carroll noted.

Baskin-Robbins terminated the franchises in March 2006. Nonetheless, the Condits continued operating them until closing in September 2006.

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During the one-day trial a year ago, Chad Condit testified that he was not "computer savvy," and had not received adequate training about the company's online payment systems. He further testified that he didn't know the company was intending to terminate the franchise.

Carroll rejected Baskin-Robbins' arguments that the Condits infringed on the company's trademark, but agreed the family breached its contracts. He ordered the Condits to pay $44,431 for past fees, plus $1,824 for late fees and collection costs. The Condits also will owe attorneys fees and interest, which Baskin-Robbins wants to set at 18 percent.

Bee Washington Bureau reporter Michael Doyle can be reached at mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com or 202-383-0006.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the two $65,000 B-R franchises were bought with Carolyn's settlement with the National Enquirer. You know, where the NE had the temerity to repeat that Carolyn (or someone else?) called Condit's apartment while he was in session and that Chandra (or someone else?) answered and a ten minute phone call ensued.

The NE speculated that Carolyn and Chandra had the confrontation that Chandra vowed to Sven that she would have. Whatever was said, Carolyn boarded a nearly unheard of flight to DC, and Chandra cleared her stuff out of Condit's apartment, the "half-packed" bag the DC police found in her apartment.

As Condit and Dayton met Carolyn's plane, Chandra messaged her landlord that she no longer had a reason to stay in Washington.

The NE had to settle with Carolyn for publishing that brazen speculation. Carolyn bought a townhouse in Pheonix and then the Condit's bought the Baskin-Robbins franchises. But losing $250,000?

That would have to be some of that money that California was trying to recoup from Chad, the Condit slush fund so to speak.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

$250k sounds a bit overstated. Maybe Chad cooked the books?

As to using the lawsuit money to buy the franchise- seems like a case of ill gotten gains - what is wrongly gained is wrongly lost.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Michael Doyle is still doing his excellent followup reporting on Chandra's case. The Modesto Bee reports that the Condits never filed the appeal to this ruling that they had vowed to do.

Specific actions required were a $455 docket fee and opening brief, according to the Baskin-Robbins attorney.

That's after they missed the deadline of notification of appeal by 40 days. They say they are representing themselves, can't find a lawyer that will screw around for them anymore.

So basically now Baskin-Robbins gets to chase Condit around trying to collect the $100,000 judgement. Good luck with that.

I can't wait to see how he dodges giving information for the Guandique trial.

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Condits' delays lift chance of dismissal
Family risks $100G by vowing appeal, but never filing one
By Michael Doyle
mdoyle@mcclatchydoyle.com
June 6, 2009

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/732998.html
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Condits are still using their considerable legal skills fighting off Baskin-Robbin's lawyer's attempt to collect his $60,000 fee. Mostly consists of hiding and refusing to answer the door to sheriff deputies.

But this is the quote that struck me from Michael Doyle's article, "Condits have a new reason they ducked service in a lawsuit":

"It was not comfortable because they were everywhere," Condit said of the reporting mob in a September 2004 deposition, adding that, "When you're called a murderer, it's a pretty brutal thing."

You want to talk about brutal? How brutal is it to tell the police when your mistress disappears that she was an obsessed stalker who did who knows what because you had to refuse to answer her phone calls, and oh by the way, officer, Rock Creek Park is her favorite place to jog.

Oh but wait. That was just the first version of eight or nine stories you gave about the last you saw of Chandra when she disappeared, each calculated to throw the law off your trail when new information kept putting them back on your trail.

How brutal is that? And by the way, you've never given any information that would keep anyone from calling you a murderer. In fact, you've done everything brutally possible to look like the murderer no matter how hard the DC police and Washington Post try to help you.

How's that book coming, by the way? Maybe you'll try for a tenth unbelievable version of what you did when Chandra disappeared. I would love to hear the truth for once, no matter how brutal it is. At least then you'd have an alibi.

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Condits have a new reason they ducked service in a lawsuit
By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers
November 16, 2009

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/crime/story/78985.html
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

from above article
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....The Condits are representing themselves and responded to Baskin-Robbins' demands with a five-page response on lined paper....
To make it really obvious they can't afford to pay up, I guess?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

partly, but mostly because their whole claim to everything B-R sued them over was "we just don't understand dem der computers".

Can't go and make a liar out of themselves now, can they?

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