The Off Topic Topic

[Ed Anger]

Ah...jezebel.

[HVC]

Ah...jezebel.

if you want to laugh at angry feminists xojane is the place to be.

[The Minsky Moment]

I find that a little hard to believe.

Google Paul Singer, Seth Klarman, John Paulson

[derspiess]

Ah...jezebel.

if you want to laugh at angry feminists xojane is the place to be.

Yeah, xojane is my go-to these days.  The "It Happened to Me" column is usually gold.  Like the chick who got called fat by her landlord (whom she had been screwing, I guess in lieu of paying rent) and "got back at him" by overeating in front of him.  EMPOWERED

[Ed Anger]

PREPARING TROLL ROCKETS

[MadImmortalMan]

http://www.glutenfreesingles.com/

[Ideologue]

Hopefully a front for a sterilization project.

[crazy canuck]

I find that a little hard to believe.

Google Paul Singer, Seth Klarman, John Paulson

That sounds dirty

[CountDeMoney]

Lawyers.

Prosecutor: Victims in McLean stabbing were held in a 'torture session'
By Justin Jouvenal November 14 at 7:36 PM
Washington Post

The home invasion began, a Fairfax County prosecutor said Friday, with a man posing as a police officer knocking on the front door of a tony McLean home belonging to the managing partner of a prominent law firm.

When 61-year-old Leo Fisher answered Sunday evening, the man with a badge and gun Tasered him. Fisher crumpled into the fetal position, and the man slapped a pair of flexible handcuffs around his victim's wrists.

Then Fisher's wife, Susan Duncan, came to the door, alarmed by the commotion. She was handcuffed, too, and stuffed in a bathroom.

But the prosecutor said this was no ordinary burglary — it was something more sordid: revenge. And the alleged perpetrators were a pair of lawyers, one of whom angry over her recent dismissal from Fisher's Arlington County firm, Bean, Kinney & Korman.

Over the next several hours, Fisher and Duncan were held hostage in their own home. They were tormented and stabbed so brutally that Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh (D) said it could only be described as a "torture session."

Bizarrely, when the alleged suspects, Andrew and Alecia Schmuhl, finally fled, police would later find Andrew Schmuhl wearing only a diaper. The Schmuhls, who are married, live in Springfield.

The fresh details emerged Friday during a hearing in Fairfax County Circuit Court, during which Alecia Schmuhl was denied bond. A number of attorneys from Bean, Kinney & Korman filled benches in the courtroom. Fisher and Duncan remain hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

"She presents a real and imminent danger to the law firm," Morrogh said of Schmuhl, who stood nearby in a jail jumpsuit. "They are in fear from this woman and her husband."

Mark Petrovich, the woman's attorney, said that she remained outside the home of Fisher and Duncan during the attack and that she did not know her husband planned to stab and torture them.

He said Alecia Schmuhl was suffering from depression and anxiety and was manipulated. "She was controlled by her husband," Petrovich said.

The case has stunned the local legal community. Many wonder how a such a horrific crime could touch a well-regarded law firm, strike a successful attorney and be allegedly perpetrated by two lawyers, who appeared to some to be rising talents.

Morrogh said that Fisher's law firm fired Alecia Schmuhl, 30, for poor performance on Oct. 29, after nearly two years. Petrovich said that she was "pursuing legal options" over the termination.

In addition, Petrovich said the firm had accused Andrew Schmuhl, 31, of committing fraud on a refinancing application. He did not specify what type of loan it was for. Andrew Schmuhl had been out of work for 21 / 2 years after suffering a back injury in the Army. Petrovich described him as a military intelligence officer.

The pair's anger apparently boiled over Sunday night. Andrew Schmuhl knocked on Fisher's door about 6:30 p.m., Morrogh said. After Fisher and Duncan were bound, Andrew Schmuhl threatened them, and the victims saw him talking on a cellphone.

Morrogh said that Duncan saw someone matching Alecia Schmuhl's description outside the home and Andrew flicked the lights on and off inside, as if to signal her. At one point, Morrogh said that Andrew Schmuhl fired a shot near Duncan. The bullet lodged above the bathroom door.

Eventually, he brutally stabbed Fisher in the face and upper body and then turned the knife on Duncan, Morrogh said. Duncan managed to push an alarm, and the Schmuhls fled in a car driven by Alecia.

Fairfax County police arrived at the home just before 10 p.m. and took a "dying declaration" from Fisher, Morrogh said. He managed to describe the Schmuhl's vehicle, and a massive search for the perpetrators began, involving dozens of officers and a police helicopter.

Officers spotted their vehicle on the Capital Beltway about 30 minutes later, and it sped away, Morrogh said. Alecia Schmuhl allegedly led the officers on a chase for four miles before the couple was stopped in the Springfield area.

Morrogh said police found a bizarre scene: Andrew Schmuhl was naked except for a diaper. Inside the car were bloody clothes, the Taser and a gun. Morrogh did not say why Schmuhl was wearing a diaper.

Alecia Schmuhl quickly invoked her right to an attorney, Morrogh said. In the meantime, Fisher and Duncan had been rushed to Inova Fairfax Hospital in critical condition. Police said they have had difficulty interviewing them because of the extent of their injuries.

Before Friday's hearing, Morrogh said that Fisher had managed to scrawl a note about the attack. Fisher wrote that Andrew Schmuhl had promised: "I'm going to come back and finish this job" before he left the home.

Morrogh rejected the assertion that Alecia Schmuhl was a bystander in the attack. He said that surveillance video shows her purchasing the Taser at a gun storetwo days earlier.

The Schmuhls have each been charged with two counts of malicious wounding and abduction by force. Alecia Schmuhl has also been charged with felony eluding and obstruction of justice.

Andrew Schmuhl's attorney would say only that he expected a bond hearing for his client to be held Tuesday.

Some who know the Schmuhls had a hard time squaring their polished résumés with the crimes of which they are accused.

Alecia Schmuhl speaks three languages and served on the board of the Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless. Andrew Schmuhl was a former judge advocate in the Army. Neither had a criminal record in Fairfax County. They both graduated from Valparaiso University Law School in 2009, the school said.

"We are extremely shocked," said Adam Lowenstein, a friend of the Schmuhls from Fort Drum, N.Y. "It seems to be completely out of their character."

Others saw issues. Louise Wagner, the mother of a woman previously married to Andrew Schmuhl, said the couple was married for less than a year between 2009 and 2010. She said things started out well but that Schmuhl cheated on her daughter and got into debt.

"He started lying," Wagner said.

The incident shocked Fisher's upscale neighborhood, which is largely quiet and free of crime. The stately homes are set back from the street on sizeable lots. Neighbors said this week that Fisher and his wife were good neighbors.

Fisher manages the day-to-day operations of Bean, Kinney, which practices in a number of areas, including finance and real estate. He has more than 30 years' experience in law.

Attorneys from Bean, Kinney declined to comment at the hearing, but the firm issued a statement.

"Our hearts go out to a wonderful colleague and his beloved wife," it read. "We are doing everything possible to support them through this ordeal and pray for their recovery."

[The Minsky Moment]

Morrogh said that Fisher's law firm fired Alecia Schmuhl, 30, for poor performance on Oct. 29, after nearly two years. Petrovich said that she was "pursuing legal options" over the termination

Good luck with that case.

[PRC]

[Eddie Teach]

Nice moustache, Neil.

[MadImmortalMan]

Needs a miniature surrender signing going on under the guns.

[Tonitrus]

http://doge2048.com/

[Ideologue]

Needs a miniature surrender signing going on under the guns.

Someone needs to have a flight of RC airplanes drop rocks on him.