Below is the current status of my ethics charge against the board attorney with the Florida Bar Ethics Commission. It's garbled in the PDF transfer mystery, but you can get an idea of what is going on. Mr. Gonzalez must answer the charges: four; then I get to comment on the defense he makes. He must send me a copy of his defense according to the rules. I must send that response to the ethics commission with a copy to him.

Thank goodness, I am a writer. Anybody who can write is never helpless in almost any situation. Being able to put your case into words is a real weapon of either offense or defense.

I have just finished the premier Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews. The Nazis killed 5.1 million in a couple of years toward the end of the war. Only one German spoke out against the atrocities: a priest who prayed for the Jews in public and whom the Nazis shipped to a death camp as punishment. He died on the cattle car taking him to Auschwitz.

Few people will speak out against the evils they see around them. Of this phenomenon, Yeats says,

The best lack all convictions, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

It's a wonder our democracy survives.  lee

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JOHN F. HARKNESS, JR. T.tuAuAssa, FL mn-ZISS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR .e.asa

March11, 2008

Mr. Lee Drury D Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

Re: Thomas Martin Gonzalez; The Florida Bar File No. 2008-11,074 (13D)

Dear Mr. De Cesare:

Enelosedis acopyofourlettertoMr. Gonza1ezwhithrquñ

Once you receive Mr. Gonzalez’s response. )VU have 10 days to file a iclnaial if dct if you decide to file a rebuttal, please said a copy to Mr. (ioorala. flc a a’y i a correspondence to me.

Please be advised that as an arm of the Supiune Coat of FiSda, lit FlotiiM investigate allegations of misconduct against attorneys, id wt apçixçris, inpra 1 It

attorney be disciplined. The Florida Bar nnot raida legal St r lit Fkwit

represent individuals or intervene on their báallin aiy civil x mm nsfl.

Sincerely,

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Heidi E. Brewer, Bar Counsel

Attorney Consumer Assistance Program - -

Enclosures (Notice of Grievance Procedures, Copy of Ldta to Mr. (Jonmla Pampbld, lnIpMKy Concerning a Florida Lawyer)

cc: Mr. Thomas Martin Gonzalez

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JoaN F. II4RXNESS, Ja. TAInms FL mn-nui

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ____________

March 11,2008

Mr. Thomas Martin Gonzalez

Thompson Sizemore Gonzalez & Hearing P A

201 N Franldin St Ste 1600

Tampa, FL 33602-5182

Re: Lee Drury De Cesare; The Florida Bar File No.2008-11,074 (13D) Dear Ivfr. Gonzalez:

Enclosed is a copy of an inquiry/complaint and any stqçorting doniinls , by l âuuc referenced complainant(s). Please respond to the following a&g t S b . — . &a Ms. De Cesare’s complaint: 1) faIlure to rcspoel asW.r ackwISge — S

information; 2) violation of Equal Employmes Opportty kwç 3) - )Wd Amendment rights at a public board meeting; ad 4) tSt iw . 1k _ — a law suit.

Your response to this complaint is required under the provisions of Rule 4-8.4(g), Kit of p

Conduct of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, and is due in office by March 25,2W F

provide a written response to this complaint is in itself a violsion of Rule 4-&4(g). Ya r

requested to furnish the complainant with a cotnpIfle py etysur . .

documents submitted therewith. -

Please note that pursuant to Rule 3-7.1 Rules of Discipline, a rq aain recordings and/or transcripts of hearings received from tyuu a fir n.nQ nI brnl a part of the public record in this matter and thus accessible to i public icon a dispoSiti of fit file. Pursuant to Rule 3-7.1(f), Rules of Discipline, you are further rupñced to complete arid r the enclosed Certificate of Disclosure form.

If either you or the complainant(s) believe any material provided to The Florida Bar is confidential under applicable law, undersigned counsel should be advised of that fact so that measures can be taken to seal that portion of the file. It should be noted that The Florida Bar is required to acknowledge the st of proceedings during the pendency of an investigation, if a specific irquiiy is male aS lit - deemed to be in the public domain.

Finally, the filing of this complaint does not preclude connicatkxi bdwan itt gwir si 1k complainant(s).

Sincerely,

Ve E>3us—

Heidi E. Brewer, Bar Counsel

Attorney Consumer Assistance Program

Enclosures (Certificate of Disclosure, Notice of Grievance Procedures, Copy of Complaint,)

cc: Lee Drury De Cesare