AlexJones
09-26-2014, 02:46 PM
Each year since 2001, except when incarcerated, Robert McCarthy has left his Arizona home for short trips to California. That’s where the money is when you want to sue for disability discrimination.McCarthy is a 59-year-old pedophile who stole his dead brother’s identity to illegally obtain food stamps and disability payouts, and to keep the alimony flowing from his ex-wife. He also posed as his brother in suing 57 California businesses before he was caught and sent to prison for fraud and sex crimes.
As he has done in numerous other California communities before and since, McCarthy rolled through Modesto, Ceres and Turlock on a four-day trip in May 2013, spending $500 on hotel rooms, alcohol, an ashtray and other items. Six months later, he sued 13 of the places he’d visited (https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zgpzrwb61mIY.kx58VF1rEXUc), saying they did not accommodate him and his wheelchair.
He passed through Merced County in January 2013, staying in an Atwater hotel and buying a quart of motor oil at a Merced Buick dealership. Three months later, he sued both businesses. He also sued a Los Banos hotel and a Merced restaurant on other occasions.
All of his lawsuits claim that the Arizona resident “intends to return … in the immediate future” to patronize the businesses he sued. McCarthy asks that judges order the companies to become wheelchair-friendly – and to award McCarthy $4,000 for each of the multiple problems he detects, and to triple the amounts to teach the companies a lesson. Defendants range from small, minority-owned liquor stores in poor neighborhoods to a Ford dealership, a Napa Auto Parts store and downtown Modesto’s DoubleTree Hotel. One target, Gas N Shop Mini Mart on South Ninth Street, had lost a 28-year-old family member to a robbery and murder three years before.
In a Modesto lawsuit, McCarthy complained that the painted symbol at a handicapped-accessible parking space had faded. Another time, he said he had trouble signing for a credit card because a service counter was a few inches too high; the owner says records show that McCarthy paid with a debit card that required pushing buttons, not a signature, and that the shop has a low counter for people in wheelchairs that McCarthy did not use.
One Modesto business spent more than $50,000 on efforts such as repaving a parking lot, replacing toilets, and lowering mirrors and soap dispensers. Most coughed up a few thousand dollars to avoid trial, which can be more expensive than paying a lawsuit to go away.
Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/2014/08/23/3500936_arizona-pedophile-targets-modesto.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
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As he has done in numerous other California communities before and since, McCarthy rolled through Modesto, Ceres and Turlock on a four-day trip in May 2013, spending $500 on hotel rooms, alcohol, an ashtray and other items. Six months later, he sued 13 of the places he’d visited (https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zgpzrwb61mIY.kx58VF1rEXUc), saying they did not accommodate him and his wheelchair.
He passed through Merced County in January 2013, staying in an Atwater hotel and buying a quart of motor oil at a Merced Buick dealership. Three months later, he sued both businesses. He also sued a Los Banos hotel and a Merced restaurant on other occasions.
All of his lawsuits claim that the Arizona resident “intends to return … in the immediate future” to patronize the businesses he sued. McCarthy asks that judges order the companies to become wheelchair-friendly – and to award McCarthy $4,000 for each of the multiple problems he detects, and to triple the amounts to teach the companies a lesson. Defendants range from small, minority-owned liquor stores in poor neighborhoods to a Ford dealership, a Napa Auto Parts store and downtown Modesto’s DoubleTree Hotel. One target, Gas N Shop Mini Mart on South Ninth Street, had lost a 28-year-old family member to a robbery and murder three years before.
In a Modesto lawsuit, McCarthy complained that the painted symbol at a handicapped-accessible parking space had faded. Another time, he said he had trouble signing for a credit card because a service counter was a few inches too high; the owner says records show that McCarthy paid with a debit card that required pushing buttons, not a signature, and that the shop has a low counter for people in wheelchairs that McCarthy did not use.
One Modesto business spent more than $50,000 on efforts such as repaving a parking lot, replacing toilets, and lowering mirrors and soap dispensers. Most coughed up a few thousand dollars to avoid trial, which can be more expensive than paying a lawsuit to go away.
Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/2014/08/23/3500936_arizona-pedophile-targets-modesto.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
http://www.modbee.com/2014/08/23/3500936_arizona-pedophile-targets-modesto.html?rh=1
http://media.modbee.com/smedia/2014/08/23/20/43/1uU4bF.AuSt.11.jpeg