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Gerald Hamelburg: Douchebag at Law

Gerald Hamelburg, facing up to the law. Douchebag. Credit: Boston Globe

Is it even surprising that it appears that attorneys are the biggest abusers of using your dead mom's disabled parking tag to get free parking?

He is guilty of many of the S-words often use to describe attorneys, according to the Globe article:

Slippery...
Hamelburg, who has two Mercedes vehicles, a Lexus, a BMW, and a Jeep registered at his address, was a target of the original probe, but kept eluding investigators, the inspector general's office said. Investigators observed him illegally using the placard about six times, but he was able to move the car before State Police arrived to ticket him, the office said.

Slimy...
The Boston lawyer, they say, uses his deceased mother's handicapped placard to park his Mercedes convertible, free of charge, at meters near the High Street firm that bears his name.

Sleazy...
"He denied that he was 'displaying' the placard," wrote the investigator, who videotaped this week's exchange, "and stated that it was merely 'hanging there.' He questioned why he was being sanctioned for the use this time, saying that he had used it 'half a dozen times' before that and 'no one' had ever had an issue with his use of the placard before. [The trooper] asked him why he believed that was an appropriate defense to his having committed a serious violation by using the placard illegally. Hamelburg had no response to his question."

Gerald Hamelburg: Classy guy, active member of the Massachusetts bar, and a partner at the firm Greenbaum, Nagel, Fisher & Hamelburg. But was once sued for malpractice for bilking mortgage investors and misappropriating funds. And seriously, how ghetto is this firm in the first place that the named partner doesn't even get a free spot at the clients' expense without resorting to his dead mama's hangtag?

Scum, pure scum.

Full post as published by Wicked Words on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).