Thomas Beko Responds To SSNS Position Unchanged ~ AAWC Attorney Won't Discuss the Case Until Closure

The phone call probably lasted all of five minutes. In it, the Attorney on the phone ~ the first of any involved in the matters of Water Works, Parker vs. RARA, Daniels vs RARA et al, to have the decency to return a phone call ~ was polite, firm, calm, expressed no cynicism nor contempt for the opposing side, and confidently revealed a side of an Attorney you don't often see...one that believes in what he is doing and that it is the right thing to do. Beko spoke like a man, which means, he spoke like a worthy adversary.

Mr. Thomas P. Beko, who represents the AAWC in the matters of Sam Dehne vs AAWC, et al, indicated he could not discuss the case for the reasons stated in his response to Guy Felton's Informational Website, "Thomas Beko.Info" and cited the issue of being prohibited from discussing extrajudicial (matters outside of the court) issues while the case was still in progress and Mr. Dehne had an appeal.

In speaking with Mr. Beko, I asked him about Nevada Supreme Court Rule 177, which states:

I indicated that in Item 1, the Court does indeed state that "an Attorney shall not make an extrajudicial statement...," however, the remainder of the statement would contradict what the first part of Item 1 has just said. The second half of Item 1, beginning with the word "however," indicates that an Attorney "may" (Meaning "optional") discuss other issues about the case and I asked him if he didn't feel that the Rule itself wasn't problematic in contradicting itself?

Beko, I believe knowing where I was headed with this, immediately spoke of the issue in Item 1 (c), "The statement reveals governmental corruption or abuse of power." Beko indicated immediately that he hadn't seen or witnessed anything that would cause him to be forced to reveal any corruption and that, in his opinion, he hadn't seen anything in the way of corruption that placed a requirement on him to report. Beko saw no corruption in his dealing with this case in regards to the AAWC.

That pretty much ended our phone call, but the man was not an ogre or anything else like I've seen with the Attorneys from Jones Vargas, Watson Rounds and Woodburn & Wedge. He didn't avoid me, he didn't raise his voice, he didn't laugh in my face and he was straightforward throughout.

The only eyebrow raiser was when Beko stated that he saw nothing that resembled corruption. Now, on one hand, that could be legaleze. On the other hand, this could flat out be the truth.

The reason I say this, and a lot of people will be shocked, is that I flat out see the AAWC having the potential to use this tactic of spreading the cases out among differing Law firms, so that one Attorney handling one matter, doesn't have too much knowledge of what the others are doing, where he would make the connection to corruption by putting the information of multiple cases into one overall "Big Picture," to know with certainty whether or not corruption was going on. Those that do know it's going on anyway, are given "plausible deniability."

Except in this case, in the opinion of the Editor of Silver State News.

Frankly, this issue has already seriously damaged the AAWC's overall case, whether it be for their conduct in Water Works, Parker vs RARA, or any number of other activities that are being investigated still at this time of writing. Jones Vargas and Woodburn & Wedge have their asses in a sling. They can't contiue to handle all the corruption cases against AAWC, RARA, RARF, Reno, Washoe County and State Government, that every one of those organizations would like to throw at them. If they did, then the appearance of concerted activity and collusion just grows stronger, and Jones Vargas plus Woodburn & Wedge, would be alone in holding the bag of resonsibility for what the AAWC was advised to do by them alone.

Meaning, that Mr. Beko could have been untruthful during our brief conversation. However, the case is far more complex than it looks, with a number of issues outside of the case that have an affect on the case itself, but are being kept segregated from this case and into other cases by the AAWC. That feature is what makes it a good, solid case, and not frivilous, in the opinion of SSNS and its Editor.

And frankly, I didn't get the feeling I was speaking with a guy who was a liar and didn't believe what he said. Quite the opposite. There is some genius to his method that I've already seen. Which would be good in Court if it weren't for the fact he's pegged Sam Dehne wrong as to what kind of person he is and whether or not he has a First Amendment Right to do what Sam is doing. Or, he simply must listen to what his bosses at the AAWC tell him and fight their case while remaining neutral without prejudice against their position.

Just fight their case and lend his aura of credibility to make up for that which the AAWC constantly lacks.

Silver State News Service wil continue its coverage and will be discussing this particular case in an Editorial very soon, as well as the "Big Picture" in regards to the other cases impacting this particular one, and whether or not Attorneys in Sam Dehne's defense can get those outside cases cited as having association and relevance to his, which involves being thrown out of two meetings and arrested, with his criticism of them apparently affecting their mood towards him at the moment the altercations began.

SSNS will be addressing that latter issue as well, because there are some interesting contrasts that I've seen since in which the AAWC appears to be watching its "P's and Q's" ever since. We should all note there hasn't been a repeat incident by the AAWC or Reno Government after those two acts ~ except in my case ~ and everyone is reminded of this fact: the charges against Sam were dropped.

FYI: Silver State News Service considers Sam Dehne an online News Editor because his website is established to report corruption to the People and respond to it in Public. Caustic it may be, flamboyant and eccentric he may be, but this Editor looks past the "image" and sees a man in Sam Dehne that's not only "smarter than he loooks," but more importantly, smarter than his adversaries look, and I'm not referring to Beko, but plenty of others who practice law and still don't get it right, plus the AAWC and their Fearless Leader, State Senator Bill Raggio and his shotgun, Krys Bart, the Real Estate Queen of Reno, Nevada.

As for Beko, he earned respect today just for responding. The tone of his response earned even more, though it's really not what an Editor like myself wants to hear ~ "Nope, can't talk to you Bear!" However, if you consider the others who have tried to song and dance me and got caught in lies, or tried to stonewall me, I'd say finally, AAWC has found themselves a smart and proper Attorney. In Beko's own words: "I don't want to give you canned answers. I don't think that's what you want."

In the words of the great Darth Vader: "Impressive!"

Unfortunately for AAWC, their case is not his match. Clearly, it is beneath this Attorney and his higher standards of ethics. Beko deserves a better, more noble case, because I strongly believe the AAWC is going to lose this one when Dehne's case goes Federal, and there's nothing Beko will be able to do to stop it...only a delaying action.

Or in other words, Good Attorney, Bad Case. One that will be lost because Dehne's adversaries see the guitar, more than the man, and have failed to respect him. And that's one thing you never, never do: disrespect your enemies or your adversaries, particularly when they're not stupid and frankly, a whole helluva lot smarter than you give them credit for.

Never let an image fool you. Never stare at the facade. Always look at those with a fear of the man, and wonder "why?"

I will Editorialize more, later.

About Thomas P. Beko

From: http://www.etsreno.com/Thomas_P_Beko.htm

Tom Beko was born in Tonopah, Nevada, on September 7, 1960.  He attended the University of Nevada, Reno (B.A., 1982).  He was graduated from the  McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (J.D., with distinction, 1986), where he was a member of the  Order of the Coif and the Traynor Honor Society.  He was the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law. 

He was admitted to the State Bar of Nevada in 1986 and the State Bar of California in 1987.  Mr. Beko is admitted to practice in the state courts of Nevada and California and is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the Washoe County Bar Association, the State Bar of Nevada, the State Bar of California, the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern Nevada, the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and the Defense Research Institute.  Mr. Beko serves on the Nevada State Bar Northern Disciplinary Panel and the Nevada State Bar Fee Dispute Committee.

Areas of Practice: Mr. Beko practices primarily in the field of Civil Litigation, including Labor and Employment Litigation (Employment Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Civil Rights) and Personal Injury Litigation.