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Best to have a tel conversation with the
Lt Col and his friend, who is a lawyer here in DC with David Boies. ______________________________________________________________________________ www.MarkZaid.com From: Eric Montalvo
[mailto:eric@puckettfaraj.com] Easy day just let me know where/when you need me to plug in. Sent via
BlackBerry by AT&T From: "Mark S.
Zaid" < Date: Wed, 9 Feb
2011 21:48:20 -0500 To: 'Puckett
Neal'<neal@puckettfaraj.com>; 'Eric S.
Montalvo'<eric@puckettfaraj.com>; 'Haytham
Faraj'<haytham@puckettfaraj.com> Subject: Possible
Joint Case Guys – I spoke to a Lt Col in the Army today about a situation he
is in. The description was sent to me as follows: I asked Amy for your email because
I’m looking for a unique type of lawyer, on behalf of a friend, and was hoping
you may have a lead on someone he could speak with. Here is a summary of his
issue: He is a 20+ year Army officer who was up for a promotion to Colonel
about a year or so ago. He had a superior record, all the recs from three and
four stars, etc and was seen as a no brainer for promoting. But they did not
promote him and the reason is, according to him and the colleagues he’s been
able to confidentially speak with about it, because he gave a bad evaluation to
one of his subordinates who happened to be Muslim and that soldier said it was
him discriminating, reported him, etc. An investigation insued at the time and
my friend was found not to have discriminated – he was cleared of the
charges. But, apparently just having been accused has made him be passed
over (twice now, I think) for Colonel. He has the support of all his
superiors, they’ve recommended him for Colonel and it is unclear who at the
Pentagon is holding it up since it’s no one who knows or has worked with
him. He’s a very good guy and has tried everything to resolve this but
now realizes his career is completely at a hault unless he does something more
aggressive to defend his honor. So he wants to hire a private attorney to
pursue options, including action against the Army. This case is related to the Hassan situation and the
Secretary of the Army is personally involved. This will require some finesse
with Congress and DoD, but I would prefer to have someone with military
experience involved to help navigate the actual promotion process. Interested? Mark ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ www.MarkZaid.com |