Dear Working Group on LD 1143 and Maine DV/Sexual Assault Commission;

Since Mr. Waxman was forwarded the email I sent to the group in connection with my case (which is why I wrote and advocated for LD1143) I thought the group should see Mr. Waxman’s most recent emails:

“I shall respond with all the legal and ethical weapons in my arsenal.  Your client's day of reckoning is fast approaching.”

If this is not a threat, I’m not sure what is.  We have  been saying that Mr. Waxman is using the law as a weapon against me and my daughter, that he has taken over the role of abuser from my former husband.  Here he admits to exactly that.  Mr. Waxman has also tried to threaten every lawyer who has represented me. Just one example from Mr. Waxman to Bill Harwood:

“I promise you I shall file motion after motion after motion and you will expend a prodigious amount of time on this case”

Those of you who are lawyers are, I believe, obligated by Maine Bar Rules to report to the Bar a lawyer who is in violation of the Bar.  Clear intent of abuse of process and threats are clear violations of the Bar. 

The court has granted a temporary protection from harassment order for me and my daughter against Mr. Waxman. This after I learned that Mila is spending overnights with Mr. Waxman and she started coming home asking me “why does Michael love me Mama?”  This must be the definition of extreme emotional distress to hear my three-year old daughter ask me this about a man who has vowed, and filed motion after motion asking for such, that he will stop at nothing to remove my daughter from me.

That a lawyer can do what Mr. Waxman is doing to me and my daughter provides no clearer example to this group and Maine Judiciary Committee of how broken Maine Family Courts are and why we need to change the law.

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From: mjwaxy@aol.com [mailto:mjwaxy@aol.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 7:16 PMTo: Harwood, William; sophiespurr@gmail.comCc: igormalenko@hotmail.com; Igor-Malenko@idexx.comSubject: Fwd:

Bill and Sophie: Below is Lori's latest salvo. Igor and I fully expect that she is positioning herself to file yet another PFA, likely up there in Sophie's neck of the woods.  I really, really hope that neither of you has had any involvement in this, honestly.   

You should know that these claims are completely false.  Igor does NOT discuss Lori with Mila at all, except to suggest that it might be nice to talk to her on the phone.  What would the purpose be of doing that?  He is well aware that little Mila loves both of her parents.  Nor does he hit her, under any circumstances, at any time. Ms. Handrahan has no business cross-examining Mila every time she returns from a visit.  This is not good for Mila.  Igor does not do this.  No good parent does. Moreover, to the extent that either of you is advising her to try and make use of these fictitious statements, you should know from this case already that anything that Ms. Handrahan or anyone else claims a 3 year old child says is inadmissible hearsay, and Mila is an incompetent witness.  So these "statements" have absolutely no probative value.  Period.  I've tried a lot more cases than the two of you combined, and I know the rules of evidence, as does Judge Moskowitz. We suspect that Ms. Handrahan wishes to travel with Mila during the Christmas vacation, even though doing so would interfere with Igor's visitation rights and even though Judge Moskowitz previously denied her Motion to permit her to travel with Mila.  We suspect that she will file a false PFA, again, and then do whatever she pleases with Mila, because that's just how Ms. Handrahan rolls. Igor and I are really getting sick and tired of this behavior, of this incessant fighting, and of YOUR willingness to compound the problems for this poor little girl by encouraging and enabling this divisive, malicious conduct.  I have already put Ms. Spurr on notice that I intend to ask Judge Staples or Judge Moskowitz for sanctions against her regarding the merit-less PFH she is helping Ms. Handrahan prosecute.  Bill, you have already shown me and the Court that you are willing to make false representations to the Court about my conduct, and about Ms. Handrahan's relocation, and I gave you a free pass.  I'm telling you both right now that I shall no longer countenance any more unprofessional and unethical behavior.  If you continue to enable a mentally ill client to harm a little girl and her loving father by making false representations and/or prosecuting merit-less actions, I shall respond with all the legal and ethical weapons in my arsenal.  Your client's day of reckoning is fast approaching, she is getting increasingly desperate and out of control, and a little girl's well-being hangs in the balance.  Does either of you think about Mila at all while doing Ms. Handrahan's bidding?  You really ought to break out of character and try that sometime. I am so sick of Ms. Handrahan's disgusting shenanigans I could scream.  Michael J. Waxman, Esq.One Monument Way, Ste. 206P.O. Box 375Portland, Maine 04112-0375(207) 772-9558  phone(207) 772-9567  faxwww.waxmanlaw.us

From: lorihandrahan5@gmail.comTo: igormalenko@hotmail.comSubject: Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:04:20 -0500

Igor, 

This is the second time that Mila has come home and told me that Poppa said she is going to live with him and that she won’t see her Mama anymore. She also said that you slapped her face when she was crying that she wanted her mama.