Update: Legal Ethics Hero Greg Adler, and the Bay Area Towing Scam Update

Last month, I wrote about Greg Adler’s exemplary conduct in exposing Vincent Cardinalli and Paul Greer’s towing scam in the San Francisco Bay area.

Now, NBC thinks enough of Greg Adler’s heroism to run its own story about the case.

As the NBC story points out, virtually all of Vincent Cardinalli and Paul Greer’s fraudulent lawsuits – as many as 2200 of them according to the NBC report – went before Commissioner Gregory Saldivar of the California Superior Court in Santa Clara.

Commissioner Saldivar sided with Cardinalli and Greer in the overwhelming majority, despite the Defendants consistently pleading that they did not own the cars towed, and that they had not been served with the suit to begin with.

As Greg Adler points out, judicial officers have a duty not only to avoid impropriety, but the appearance of impropriety.

This matter reeks of impropriety. And it is high time Commissioner Saldivar was called to account.