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From: Danny Murphy

1919 Evergreen Lane


La Marque, Texas 77568

To:
Lauren Bille
Eduardo Salas
Earl Vicknair
Darrell Anderson
Clarence Gibb
Eula Lee
Mark Duncan
Jacqueline Thomas
Barbara Jones
Lisa Kocourek
Lesley Lee
Robin Welch
Raybon Dalton
Josua Urbina
Of the Grand Jury, 56th District

C/O Galveston County Criminal District Attorney


Galveston County Criminal Justice Center
600 59th Street, Suite 1001
Galveston, Texas 77551-4137
Public Information Law Request
February 1, 2007

TO: Officer for Public Information, Galveston County Criminal District Attorney,
Galveston County Criminal Justice Center, 600 59th Street, Suite 1001,
Galveston, Texas 77551-4137; USPS # 7003 1680 0005 7461 9465

FROM: Danny Royce Murphy, 1919 Evergreen Lane, La Marque, Texas.

RE: Formal request for the production of documents

AUTHORITY: Texas Public Information Law Request pursuant to Texas Government Code
§ 552

Dear Sir:
Under Chapter 552, Public Information of the Texas Government Code as stated:
Sec. 552.001. Policy; Construction.
(a) Under the fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form of representative
government that adheres to the principle that government is the servant and not the master of the people, it is the
policy of this state that each person is entitled, unless otherwise expressly provided by law, at all times to complete
information about the affairs of government and the official acts of public officials and employees. The people, in
delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and
what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over
the instruments they have created. The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to implement this
policy.
(b) This chapter shall be liberally construed in favor of granting a request for information. Added by
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

Identity of the Officer for Public Information: The Officer for Public Information is identified in Sec.
552.201, Texas Government Code.

Penalties: Failure to supply access to public information may result in criminal penalties described in Sec.
552.353(e), Texas Government Code.

Cause of request: Failure of Requestor to receive confirmation from the grand jury foreman of having
received criminal complaints mailed to the grand jury by Requestor.

These documents should be delivered to the stated above (FROM) address.

DOCUMENTS BEING REQUESTED:

1 .0 COPIES OF ALL DOCUMENTS for inspection and/or duplication that are in your
possession, under your control, or within your system of records, of criminal complaints
made against Samuel Daffin, II by Danny Royce Murphy.

1 .1 IF THERE ARE NO DOCUMENTS that are responsive to document request 1.0,


PLEASE SO INDICATE IN YOUR WRITTEN RESPONSE.

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2 .0 COPIES OF ALL DOCUMENTS for inspection and/or duplication that are in your
possession, under your control, or within your system of records, related to the appeal of
Cause No. 180,685, from County Court No. 1 to the First Court of Appeals, No. 01-99-
00468-CR.

2 .1 IF THERE ARE NO DOCUMENTS that are responsive to document request 2.0,


PLEASE SO INDICATE IN YOUR WRITTEN RESPONSE.

If you cannot produce this public information for inspection or duplication within 10
calendar days after the date of receiving this request, you shall so certify to me in writing and set
a date and hour within a reasonable time when the information will be available for inspection,
duplication, or be mailed to me per §552.221 and §552.308.

You shall treat this request for information uniformly without regard to the position of
the person who signs this request per § 552.223.

Sincerely,

_________________________________
Danny Royce Murphy

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Sylvia Loredo (Charge 1 of 4) –– Aggravated Perjury p. 1 of 5

IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by


Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the
substitute trustee for the foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District
Court of Galveston County in May of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly
sitting judge in the 405th District Court.

While this suit was ongoing and in connection with a foreclosure sale of the
property, Sylvia Loredo signed an Affidavit of Mortgagee and had it notarized on
October 1, 2002 in Dallas County, Texas. Ms. Loredo caused the Affidavit of
Mortgagee to be filed and recorded into the Official Public Records of Real
Property of Galveston County on October 7, 2002. A copy of this Affidavit of
Mortgagee was attached to and used as evidence for Defendant’s Amended Motion
for Summary Judgment as to Possession, and this motion was filed with the District
Clerk of Galveston County, file stamp 04 JAN –8.

This Affidavit of Mortgagee indicated that Ms. Loredo was an employee of


BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P., attorney
for COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., that the affidavit was made with
respect to the foreclosure of that certain Deed of Trust dated December 16, 1997,
recorded CLERK’S FILE NO. 9748599, Real Property Records, GALVESTON
County, TEXAS … to secure payment of a Note to COUNTRYWIDE HOME
LOANS, INC., that COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. was the holder of the
debt or agent for the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust, and
“At the instructions and on behalf of the holder of the debt or its agent” certain acts
were performed as required by law.

Ms. Loredo knew that she did not know certain material facts stated in the affidavit
were true. The primary material fact falsely stated and without any reservation or
qualification was that Countrywide was the holder of the debt or agent for the
holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust.

During the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was provided copies of documents that
showed that, years prior to the foreclosure sale, Countrywide had given up
ownership and possession of the note upon which it supposedly based its right to

Exhibit 2
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foreclose to recover amounts still owed to it. At the offices of LEYH & PAYNE,
L.L.P., I was provided with a copy of the note displaying an endorsement signed by
an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note was
enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in blank”.
This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation in
Pasadena, California. A copy of the endorsed note and letter are attached to
Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19. In endorsing the
note and delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had
in the note and deed of trust.

During the course of the Lawsuit, Countrywide never provided any documentation
or even an assertion to show that it was acting as an agent for any other entity.

Ms. Loredo could not possibly have received any documentation sufficient to show
the truthfulness of statements that she made in the Affidavit of Mortgagee.

False statements of material facts knowingly made by Ms. Loredo in the Affidavit of
Mortgagee were made in connection with the official proceeding of the foreclosure
sale and constitute a violation of Section 37.03 Texas Penal Code:

§37.02 Perjury
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive and with
knowledge of the statement's meaning:

(1) he makes a false statement under oath or swears to the truth of a


false statement previously made and the statement is required or
authorized by law to be made under oath; or

(2) he makes a false unsworn declaration under Chapter 132, Civil


Practice and Remedies Code.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

§37.03 Aggravated Perjury

(a) A person commits an offense if he commits perjury as defined in Section


37.02, and the false statement:

(1) is made during or in connection with an official proceeding; and

(2) is material.

(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.

Ms. Loredo stated in the affidavit that the affidavit was being made with respect to
the foreclosure that was taking place, showing that she knew that an official
Sylvia Loredo (Charge 1 of 4) –– Aggravated Perjury p. 3 of 5

proceeding was pending or taking place. She made the Affidavit of Mortgagee with
knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
foreclosure process in violation of Section 37.09 Texas Penal Code:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official
proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Ms. Loredo made the Affidavit of Mortgagee, with knowledge of its falsity, and
caused it to be filed and recorded into the governmental records held by the County
Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas Penal Code:

§37.10. Tampering With Governmental Record.

(a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a


governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine
governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the


verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;
Sylvia Loredo (Charge 1 of 4) –– Aggravated Perjury p. 4 of 5

(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank


governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its


falsity;

Ms. Loredo carried out her acts of aggravated perjury, fabrication of evidence, and
tampering with governmental records in agreement with and with aid of others in
violation of Section 15.02 Texas Penal Code:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


parties

...

Ms. Loredo’s choice to join with others in the furtherance of the conspiracy makes
her culpable for her own acts and those of her co-conspirators,

§7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the


offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another
for which he is criminally responsible, or by both.

(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the


offense.

(c) All traditional distinctions between accomplices and principals are


abolished by this section, and each party to an offense maybe charged
and convicted without alleging that he acted as a principal or
accomplice.
Samuel Daffin, II (Charge 1 of 4) –– Misapplication of Fiduciary Property p. 1 of 6

IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by


Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the
substitute trustee for the foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District
Court of Galveston County in May of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly
sitting judge in the 405th District Court.

While this suit was ongoing, Samuel Daffin, II, conducted a supposed foreclosure
sale of the property in the lobby of the Galveston County Courthouse on October 1,
2002. He signed a Substitute Trustee’s Deed and had it notarized on October 1,
2002 in Harris County, Texas. Mr. Daffin caused the Substitute Trustee’s Deed to
be filed and recorded into the Official Public Records of Real Property of Galveston
County on October 7, 2002. A copy of this Substitute Trustee’s Deed was attached
to and used as evidence for Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment
as to Possession, and this motion was filed with the District Clerk of Galveston
County, file stamp 04 JAN –8.

This substitute trustee’s deed indicated that the property had been sold on October
1, 2002 to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation for an amount of $60,300.00,
that the Grantors were Danny R. Murphy and Sandra G. Cruz, and that the
Current Beneficiary was Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The body of the substitute
trustee’s deed indicated that the Beneficiary had declared that Grantor defaulted
performing the obligations of the Deed of Trust, that all duties and obligations of
the Beneficiary were lawfully performed, and that the Substitute Trustee acted
under the authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

Mr. Daffin knew that material facts stated in the Substitute Trustee’s Deed were
false. The primary material fact falsely stated was that the Current Beneficiary was
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and second that the Substitute Trustee acted under
the authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

During the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was provided copies of documents that
showed that, years prior to the foreclosure sale, Countrywide had given up
ownership and possession of the note upon which it supposedly based its right to
foreclose to recover amounts still owed to it. Mr. Daffin’s attorneys, LEYH &
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PAYNE, L.L.P., provided me with a copy of the note displaying an endorsement


signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note
was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in
blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation
in Pasadena, California. A copy of this endorsed note and letter can be found as
attachments to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19. In
endorsing the note and delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up
all rights it had in the note and deed of trust.

Mr. Daffin was an attorney and, as such, is presumed to have been knowledgeable in
the law, and he regularly acted in the capacity of a substitute trustee in foreclosure
actions. Since Countrywide had given up the note years prior to Mr. Daffin
conducting the foreclosure sale and making the Substitute Trustee’s Deed, Mr.
Daffin could not possibly have found documentation sufficient to support his
statement that Countrywide was the Current Beneficiary or that he had conducted
the foreclosure sale “by authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and by the
Deed of Trust.”

Mr. Daffin had a fiduciary responsibility as a trustee to insure that the property
entrusted to him was dealt with in the manner prescribed by the Deed of Trust. The
acts of Mr. Daffin were done in a manner contrary to the agreed Deed of Trust, and
he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly misapplied the property that he held as a
fiduciary in a manner that involved substantial risk of loss to the owner of the
property, in violation of Texas Penal Code §32.45:

§32.45 Misapplication of Fiduciary Property or Property of Financial Institution

(a) For purposes of this section:

(1) "Fiduciary" includes:

(A) trustee, guardian, administrator, executor, conservator, and


receiver;

...

(2) "Misapply" means deal with property contrary to:

(A) an agreement under which the fiduciary holds the property; or

(B) a law prescribing the custody or disposition of the property.

(b) A person commits an offense if he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly


misapplies property he holds as a fiduciary or property of a financial
institution in a manner that involves substantial risk of loss to the owner
of the property or to a person for whose benefit the property is held.

(c) An offense under this section is:


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(1) Class C misdemeanor if the value of the property misapplied is less


than $20;

...

(5) felony of the third degree if the value of the property misapplied is
$20,000 or more but less than $100,000;

...

Mr. Daffin was a defendant in the lawsuit and knew that the lawsuit was an official
proceeding in progress, and he made the Substitute Trustee’s Deed with knowledge
of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in
violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official
proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Mr. Daffin made the Substitute Trustee’s Deed, with knowledge of its falsity, and
caused it to be filed and recorded into the governmental records held by the County
Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas Penal Code:

§37.10. Tampering With Governmental Record.

(a) A person commits an offense if he:


Samuel Daffin, II (Charge 1 of 4) –– Misapplication of Fiduciary Property p. 4 of 6

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a


governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine
governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the


verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank


governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its


falsity;

Mr. Daffin carried out his acts of misapplication of fiduciary property, fabrication
of evidence, and tampering with governmental records in agreement with and with
aid of others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


parties

...

Mr. Daffin’s choice to join with others in the furtherance of the conspiracy makes
him culpable for his own acts and those of his co-conspirators,

§7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the


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_________, 2006.
Griffin Pivateau Burke (Charge 1 of 3) –– Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence p. 1 of 4

IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by


Countyrwide Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the
substitute trustee for the foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District
Court of Galveston County in May of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly
sitting judge in the 405th District Court.

A hearing was set in the 405th District Court to be heard on March 20, 2003 on
Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, file stamped 03 JAN 30,
which was prepared by Defendants’ attorney’s law firm, LAYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.,
and personally signed by attorney Griffin Pivateau Burke, Texas Bar No. 16055950.
Attached to this motion was an affidavit by Diane DeLoney, in which she states that
she was the “custodian of Countrywide’s records” and in which she states, without
reservation or qualification, on the second page of the affidavit that “Countrywide
is the Owner and Holder of the Note and Deed of Trust.”

More than two months prior to Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary
Judgment being filed with the court, I filed with the court and provided a copy to
Mr. Burke of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19.
Attached to this petition was a copy of the Note referred to in the DeLoney affidavit
displaying an endorsement signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated
12/18/97 stating that the Note was enclosed with the letter and that the original note
had been “endorsed in blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National
Processing Corporation in Pasadena, California. In endorsing the note and
delivering possession of it to another entity, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in
the note and deed of trust. The endorsed note and letter show that material
statements made in the DeLoney affidavit were false. The copy of the note attached
to the DeLoney affidavit does not show this endorsement, but the copy attached to
petition filed on November 19, 2002 does.

Further I obtained copies of the endorsed note and this letter from the law firm of
LAYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. I was personally handed the file containing these
documents by Mr. Burke at the offices of LAYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. These
documents were being provided to me as part of the discovery process of the
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lawsuit.

Mr. Burke was provided actual knowledge of the falsity of the DeLoney affidavit.
Copies of the endorsed note and the letter were readily available to him in files kept
at the offices of LAYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.; he was provided another copy of the
endorsed note and letter as attachments to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition;
discrepancies with the copy of the note previously provided to the court by Mr.
Burke were pointed out in paragraph 8 of this petition; and the significance of the
endorsed note and letter were pointed out in paragraph 27 of this petition. In spite
of this, Mr. Burke still brought the DeLoney affidavit to court again to use as
evidence in asserting claims in the lawsuit.

Mr. Burke knew that the lawsuit was an official proceeding in progress, and he
presented the DeLoney affidavit with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to
affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official
proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Having knowledge that his client lacked the original note, Mr. Burke knew that his
client did not have a valid claim to collect on the note and foreclose on the security
named in the deed of trust. Mr. Burke still filed a claim into court against the
property and me knowing that the claim of his client was baseless, frivolous, and
without authority and that he was therefore acting without authority when he filed
Defendant’s First Amended Original Counterclaim, file stamped 02 DEC –9, in
violation of Texas Penal Code §38.12:
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§38.12 Barratry and Solicitation of Professional Employment

(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to obtain an economic benefit
the person:

(1) knowingly institutes a suit or claim that the person has not been
authorized to pursue;

...

(f) An offense under Subsection (a) or (b) is a felony of the third degree.

… [Remainder of §38.12 not relevant to this complaint]

Mr. Burke carried out his acts of fabrication of evidence and barratry in agreement
with and with aid of others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


parties

Mr. Burke’s choice to join with others in the furtherance of the conspiracy makes
him culpable for his own acts and those of his co-conspirators,

§7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the


offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another
for which he is criminally responsible, or by both.

(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the


offense.
Steven A. Leyh (Charge 1 of 4) –– Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence p. 1 of 6

IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by


Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the
substitute trustee for the foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District
Court of Galveston County in May of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly
sitting judge in the 405th District Court.

Steven A. Leyh, Texas Bar No. 12318300, of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P., attorneys for
defendants, signed Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to
Possession, and this motion was filed with the District Clerk of Galveston County,
file stamp 04 JAN –8. Attached to this motion and referred to as summary
judgment evidence on page 3 of the motion was a copy of a Substitute Trustee’s
Deed.

This substitute trustee’s deed indicated that the property had been sold on October
1, 2002 to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, that the Grantors were
Danny R. Murphy and Sandra G. Cruz, and that the Current Beneficiary was
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The body of the substitute trustee’s deed indicated
that the Beneficiary had declared that Grantor defaulted performing the obligations
of the Deed of Trust, that all duties and obligations of the Beneficiary were lawfully
performed, and that the Substitute Trustee acted under the authority conferred by
the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

Also attached to Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to


Possession was an Affidavit of Mortgagee. This affidavit stated that Countrywide
Home Loans, Inc. was “the holder of the debt or agent for the holder of the
indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust”. This affidavit also stated that “at the
instructions and on behalf of the holder of the debt or its agent” certain necessary
actions had been taken.

Mr. Leyh knew that material facts stated in the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the
Affidavit of Mortgagee were false. The material facts falsely stated in these
documents were that the Current Beneficiary was Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
and that Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. was “the holder of the debt or agent for
Steven A. Leyh (Charge 1 of 4) –– Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence p. 2 of 6

the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust”.

Documents made available to Mr. Leyh and filed into court more than a year prior
to his filing of Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to
Possession provided him the knowledge that Countrywide had endorsed the note
and transferred possession of it to another, and, thereby, it gave up all rights that it
had in the note and the deed of trust. I filed with the court and provided a copy to
another attorney in Mr. Leyh’s law firm of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file
stamped 02 NOV 19. Attached to this petition was a copy of the Note displaying an
endorsement signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating
that the Note was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been
“endorsed in blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National
Processing Corporation in Pasadena, California. In endorsing the note and
delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in the
note and deed of trust. Copies of the Note previously submitted to court by
Countrywide did not display this endorsement.

Additionally, I provided a copy of the endorsed note and the letter to Mr. Leyh as
attachments to my Plaintiff’s Answer to Defendant’s Amended Motion for
Summary Judgment as to Possession, file stamped 04 JAN 23. Also, Mr. Leyh was
present when a copy of the endorsed note and the letter was entered into evidence in
open court on or about December 22, 2003. The issue of Countrywide’s lack of
ownership of the note upon which it was taking action to collect was brought up to
Mr. Leyh several times during the year 2003.

I obtained copies of the endorsed note and this letter from the law firm of LAYH &
PAYNE, L.L.P. I was handed the file containing these documents at the offices of
LAYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. These documents were provided to me as part of the
discovery process of the lawsuit.

Mr. Leyh was provided actual knowledge of the falsity of the Substitute Trustee’s
Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee. Copies of the endorsed note and the letter
were readily available to him in files kept at the offices of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.;
he had available to him another copy of the endorsed note and letter as attachments
to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition; discrepancies with the copy of the note
previously provided to the court by Mr. Leyh’s law firm were pointed out in
paragraph 8 of this petition; and the significance of the endorsed note and letter
were pointed out in paragraph 27 of this petition. In spite of this, Mr. Leyh still
brought the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee to court to
use as evidence in asserting claims in the lawsuit.

Mr. Leyh knew that the lawsuit was an official proceeding in progress, and he
presented the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee with
knowledge of the falsity each and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence


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(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official
proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Mr. Leyh presented the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee to
court, with knowledge of the falsity each, as certified copies of governmental records
held by the County Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas
Penal Code:

§37.10. Tampering With Governmental Record.

(a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a


governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine
governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the


verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank


governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its


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falsity;

Having knowledge that his client lacked the original note, Mr. Leyh knew that his
client did not have a valid claim to collect on the note and foreclose on the security
named in the deed of trust. Mr. Leyh still filed a claim into court against the
property and me knowing that the claim of his client was baseless, frivolous, and
without authority and that he was therefore acting without authority when he filed
Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to Possession in violation
of Texas Penal Code §38.12:

§38.12 Barratry and Solicitation of Professional Employment

(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to obtain an economic benefit
the person:

(1) knowingly institutes a suit or claim that the person has not been
authorized to pursue;

...

(f) An offense under Subsection (a) or (b) is a felony of the third degree.

… [Remainder of §38.12 not relevant to this complaint]

Mr. Leyh carried out his acts of fabrication of evidence, tampering with
governmental records, and barratry in agreement with and with aid of others in
violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


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IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by


Countyrwide Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the
substitute trustee for the foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District
Court of Galveston County in May of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly
sitting judge in the 405th District Court.

A hearing was set in the 405th District Court to be heard on March 20, 2003 on
Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, file stamped 03 JAN 30.
Attached to this motion was an affidavit by Diane DeLoney, in which she states that
she was the “custodian of Countrywide’s records” and in which she states, without
reservation or qualification, on the second page of the affidavit that “Countrywide
is the Owner and Holder of the Note and Deed of Trust.” She states that true and
correct copies of the note and deed of trust are attached to the affidavit. The first
paragraph of the affidavit indicates that DeLoney knew that the affidavit was going
to be used with a motion for summary judgment for the defendants. The affidavit
indicates that it was signed on August 29, 2002 and made in Collin County, Texas.

As part of the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was given access to a file of
documents supplied by defendant Countrywide and being held by defendants’
attorneys at the offices of LAYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. From that file, I obtained a
copy of the Note referred to in the DeLoney affidavit displaying an endorsement
signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note
was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in
blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation
in Pasadena, California.

The copy of the Note attached to the DeLoney affidavit and identified by her as
being a true and correct copy did not display this endorsement. In endorsing the
note and delivering possession of it to another entity, Countrywide gave up all rights
it had in the note and deed of trust; it ceased being “the Owner and Holder of the
Note and Deed of Trust.” The copy of the endorsed note and letter show that
material statements made in the DeLoney affidavit were false.
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Statements made by DeLoney in the affidavit constitute a violation of Texas Penal


Code §37.03:

§37.02 Perjury
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive and with
knowledge of the statement's meaning:

(1) he makes a false statement under oath or swears to the truth of a


false statement previously made and the statement is required or
authorized by law to be made under oath; or

(2) he makes a false unsworn declaration under Chapter 132, Civil


Practice and Remedies Code.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

§37.03 Aggravated Perjury

(a) A person commits an offense if he commits perjury as defined in Section


37.02, and the false statement:

(1) is made during or in connection with an official proceeding; and

(2) is material.

(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.

Ms. DeLoney knew, as indicated in her affidavit, that an official proceeding was in
progress, and she made the affidavit with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to
affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
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privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official


proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Ms. DeLoney committed her acts of perjury and fabrication of evidence in


agreement with others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


parties

Ms. DeLoney’s choice to join with others in the furtherance of the conspiracy makes
her culpable for her own acts and those of her co-conspirators,

§7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the


offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another
for which he is criminally responsible, or by both.

(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the


offense.

(c) All traditional distinctions between accomplices and principals are


abolished by this section, and each party to an offense maybe charged
and convicted without alleging that he acted as a principal or
accomplice.

§7.02 Texas Penal Code, Criminal responsibility for conduct of another:

(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the


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IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In 1997 I applied for a loan with Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to buy my home.
A note, deed of trust and other papers were signed at the closing on December 16,
1997. The first monthly payment was scheduled for February of 1998. I made the
first payment, and I continued to be billed for and make monthly payments for
several years.

Some time during the year 2000, I began to learn of certain practices of banks and
other commercial lenders that indicate that there are significant aspects of the loan
agreement and transaction that is not revealed to borrowers. Some of my research
referred me to publications of Federal Reserve Banks such as “Modern Money
Mechanics” of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and “I Bet You Thought …” of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. I obtained copies of two expert witness
affidavits that had been filed into a court case in Michigan from the clerk of that
court. One affidavit was by a CPA and another was from a former attorney for
Federal Reserve Banks. Both affidavits indicate that the ”lender“ in that case did
not lend any of its own money, credit, or assets.

I paid a monthly payment to Countrywide in December of 2001, and in January of


2002, I began to make inquiries to Countrywide concerning the loan that I had been
paying and the location of the note. Informative answers were not forthcoming, so
I ceased making further payments until I had located the note and verified that
Countrywide was the holder of the note and the proper party to be paid.

I continued to make requests to Countrywide, and it continued to provide


uninformative and evasive answers. Countrywide began to send me notices in
preparation for foreclosure proceedings. Eventually a foreclosure sale was set for
the first Tuesday of June of 2002.

To stop the foreclosure sale, I brought suit in the 405th District Court of Galveston
County against Countrywide and Samuel Daffin, II, the substitute trustee for the
foreclosure action. During the course of the lawsuit, I obtained a copy of the note
and a letter that showed that Countrywide had signed away its rights in the note
and given possession and ownership of the note to another entity two days after the
note was signed.
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In the early stages of the lawsuit, attorney for Countrywide brought in an affidavit
from the Keeper of Records for Countrywide to show that Countrywide was the
owner of the note. This affidavit had a copy of the note attached to it, and the
affidavit identified the copy as a true and correct copy of the note.

During the discovery process of the lawsuit, attorney for Countrywide provided me
with copies of documents that I had requested from Countrywide. Among those
was a copy of the note displaying an endorsement signed by an officer of
Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note was enclosed with the
letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in blank”. This letter was
addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation in Pasadena,
California. In endorsing the note and delivering possession of it to another,
Countrywide gave up all rights it had in the note and deed of trust.

Copy of the note originally brought to court by Countrywide may be found as an


attachment to Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, file
stamped 03 JAN 30. A copy of the endorsed note and letter may be found as
attachments to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19. Copy
of the expert witness affidavits referenced above may be found as attachments to
Plaintiff’s Motion for New Trial, file stamped 2004 MAR –2, and a copy of the
Federal Reserve publications may be found as part of Plaintiff’s Exhibits for this
case held by the District Clerk.

Countrywide’s own records showed that it had given up ownership and possession
of the note two days after the note was made. Countrywide still sent bills to me
through the United States Postal Service for payments on this note every month.
Countrywide did not let me know that it had disposed of the note and no longer had
possession, ownership or interest in the note. Sending bills to me was a
misrepresentation of a debt owed to it. Because of this deception, I paid the
monthly billing 47 times by execution of a check, money order, authorization for
credit card payment, or by some other means of payment for total payment of more
than $30,000 and less than $40,000. I would not have made these payments except
for this deception. Countrywide’s actions in this matter constituted a criminal
episode in violation of Texas Penal Code §32.46:

§32.46 Securing Execution of Document by Deception


(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud or harm any person,
he, by deception:
(1) causes another to sign or execute any document affecting property or
service or the pecuniary interest of any person; or

(b) An offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a:

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(5) felony of the third degree if the value of the property, service, or
pecuniary interest is $20,000 or more but less than $100,000;

During the course of the lawsuit various individuals and law firms took actions on
behalf of Countrywide. These actions indicate that these individuals and law firms
had duties of such a level of responsibility that these individuals and law firms were
high managerial agents of Countrywide,

§7.21 Definitions

In this subchapter:

(1) "Agent" means a director, officer, employee, or other person authorized to


act in behalf of a corporation or association.

(2) "High managerial agent" means:

(A) a partner in a partnership;

(B) an officer of a corporation or association;

(C) an agent of a corporation or association who has duties of such


responsibility that his conduct reasonably may be assumed to represent
the policy of the corporation or association.

Countrywide is responsible for the offenses committed by it agents on its behalf,

§7.22 Criminal Responsibility of Corporation or Association

(a) If conduct constituting an offense is performed by an agent acting in


behalf of a corporation or association and within the scope of his office
or employment, the corporation or association is criminally responsible
for an offense defined:

(1) in this code where corporations and associations are made subject
thereto;

...

The following concerns the acts of the individuals Diane DeLoney, Griffin Pivateau
Burke, Steven A. Leyh, Samuel Daffin, II, Sylvia Loredo, and the law firms LEYH
& PAYNE, L.L.P. and BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN &
FRAPPIER, L.L.P. in the capacity of agents for Countrywide.
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________________________________________________

A hearing was set in the 405th District Court to be heard on March 20, 2003 on
Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, file stamped 03 JAN 30.
Attached to this motion was an affidavit by Diane DeLoney, in which she states that
she was the “custodian of Countrywide’s records” and in which she states, without
reservation or qualification, on the second page of the affidavit that “Countrywide
is the Owner and Holder of the Note and Deed of Trust.” She states that true and
correct copies of the note and deed of trust are attached to the affidavit. The first
paragraph of the affidavit indicates that DeLoney knew that the affidavit was going
to be used with a motion for summary judgment for the defendants. The affidavit
indicates that it was signed on August 29, 2002 and made in Collin County, Texas.

As part of the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was given access to a file of
documents supplied by defendant Countrywide and being held by defendants’
attorneys at the offices of LAYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. From that file, I obtained a
copy of the Note referred to in the DeLoney affidavit displaying an endorsement
signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note
was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in
blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation
in Pasadena, California.

The copy of the Note attached to the DeLoney affidavit and identified by her as
being a true and correct copy did not display this endorsement. In endorsing the
note and delivering possession of it to another entity, Countrywide gave up all rights
it had in the note and deed of trust; it ceased being “the Owner and Holder of the
Note and Deed of Trust.” The copy of the endorsed note and letter show that
material statements made in the DeLoney affidavit were false.

Statements made by DeLoney in the affidavit constitute a violation of Texas Penal


Code §37.03:

§37.02 Perjury
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive and with
knowledge of the statement's meaning:

(1) he makes a false statement under oath or swears to the truth of a


false statement previously made and the statement is required or
authorized by law to be made under oath; or

(2) he makes a false unsworn declaration under Chapter 132, Civil


Practice and Remedies Code.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

§37.03 Aggravated Perjury


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(a) A person commits an offense if he commits perjury as defined in Section


37.02, and the false statement:

(1) is made during or in connection with an official proceeding; and

(2) is material.

(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.

Ms. DeLoney knew, as indicated in her affidavit, that an official proceeding was in
progress, and she made the affidavit with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to
affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official
proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Ms. DeLoney committed her acts of perjury and fabrication of evidence in


agreement with others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and
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(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


parties

Ms. DeLoney’s choice to join with others in the furtherance of the conspiracy makes
her culpable for her own acts and those of her co-conspirators,

§7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the


offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another
for which he is criminally responsible, or by both.

(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the


offense.

(c) All traditional distinctions between accomplices and principals are


abolished by this section, and each party to an offense maybe charged
and convicted without alleging that he acted as a principal or
accomplice.

§7.02 Texas Penal Code, Criminal responsibility for conduct of another:

(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the


conduct of another if:

(1) having a legal duty to prevent commission of the offense and


action with intent to promote or assist its commission, he fails to
make a reasonable effort to prevent commission of the offense.

(2) If, in the attempt to carry a conspiracy to commit one felony,


another felony is committed by one of the conspirators, all
conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, thought
having no intent to commit it, if the offense was committed in
furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have
been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy.

____________________________________________

Court documents indicate that defendants hired the law firm LEYH & PAYNE,
L.L.P. as attorneys for defendants for this lawsuit. Individual attorneys from this
law firm who signed documents filed into court and who appeared in court for the
defendants were Griffin Pivateau Burke, Texas Bar No. 16055950, and Steven A.
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Leyh, Texas Bar No. 12318300.

A hearing was set in the 405th District Court to be heard on March 20, 2003 on
Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, file stamped 03 JAN 30,
which was prepared by Defendants’ attorney’s law firm, LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.,
and personally signed by attorney Griffin Pivateau Burke. Attached to this motion
was an affidavit by Diane DeLoney, in which she states that she was the “custodian
of Countrywide’s records” and in which she states, without reservation or
qualification, on the second page of the affidavit that “Countrywide is the Owner
and Holder of the Note and Deed of Trust.”

More than two months prior to Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary
Judgment being filed with the court, I filed with the court and provided a copy to
Mr. Burke of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19.
Attached to this petition was a copy of the Note referred to in the DeLoney affidavit
displaying an endorsement signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated
12/18/97 stating that the Note was enclosed with the letter and that the original note
had been “endorsed in blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National
Processing Corporation in Pasadena, California. In endorsing the note and
delivering possession of it to another entity, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in
the note and deed of trust. The endorsed note and letter show that material
statements made in the DeLoney affidavit were false. The copy of the note attached
to the DeLoney affidavit does not show this endorsement, but the copy attached to
petition filed on November 19, 2002 does.

Further I obtained copies of the endorsed note and this letter from the law firm of
LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. I was personally handed the file containing these
documents by Mr. Burke at the offices of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. These
documents were being provided to me as part of the discovery process of the
lawsuit.

Mr. Burke was provided actual knowledge of the falsity of the DeLoney affidavit.
Copies of the endorsed note and the letter were readily available to him in files kept
at the offices of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.; he was provided another copy of the
endorsed note and letter as attachments to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition;
discrepancies with the copy of the note previously provided to the court by Mr.
Burke were pointed out in paragraph 8 of this petition; and the significance of the
endorsed note and letter were pointed out in paragraph 27 of this petition. In spite
of this, Mr. Burke still brought the DeLoney affidavit to court again to use as
evidence in asserting claims in the lawsuit.

Mr. Burke knew that the lawsuit was an official proceeding in progress, and he
presented the DeLoney affidavit with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to
affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09,
described previously in this complaint as Tampering With or Fabricating Physical
Evidence.

Having knowledge that his client lacked the original note, Mr. Burke knew that his
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client did not have a valid claim to collect on the note and foreclose on the security
named in the deed of trust. Mr. Burke still filed a claim into court against the
property and me knowing that the claim of his client was baseless, frivolous, and
without authority and that he was therefore acting without authority when he filed
Defendant’s First Amended Original Counterclaim, file stamped 02 DEC –9, in
violation of Texas Penal Code §38.12:

§38.12 Barratry and Solicitation of Professional Employment

(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to obtain an economic benefit
the person:

(1) knowingly institutes a suit or claim that the person has not been
authorized to pursue;

...

(f) An offense under Subsection (a) or (b) is a felony of the third degree.

… [Remainder of §38.12 not relevant to this complaint]

Mr. Burke carried out his acts of fabrication of evidence and barratry in agreement
with and with aid of others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02, described
previously in this complaint as Criminal Conspiracy.

Steven A. Leyh signed Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to


Possession, and this motion was filed with the District Clerk of Galveston County,
file stamp 04 JAN –8. Attached to this motion and referred to as summary
judgment evidence on page 3 of the motion was a copy of a Substitute Trustee’s
Deed.

This substitute trustee’s deed indicated that the property had been sold on October
1, 2002 to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, that the Grantors were
Danny R. Murphy and Sandra G. Cruz, and that the Current Beneficiary was
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The body of the substitute trustee’s deed indicated
that the Beneficiary had declared that Grantor defaulted performing the obligations
of the Deed of Trust, that all duties and obligations of the Beneficiary were lawfully
performed, and that the Substitute Trustee acted under the authority conferred by
the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

Also attached to Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to


Possession was an Affidavit of Mortgagee. This affidavit stated that Countrywide
Home Loans, Inc. was “the holder of the debt or agent for the holder of the
indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust”. This affidavit also stated that “at the
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instructions and on behalf of the holder of the debt or its agent” certain necessary
actions had been taken.

Mr. Leyh knew that material facts stated in the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the
Affidavit of Mortgagee were false. The material facts falsely stated in these
documents were that the Current Beneficiary was Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
and that Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. was “the holder of the debt or agent for
the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust”.

Documents made available to Mr. Leyh and filed into court more than a year prior
to his filing of Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to
Possession provided him the knowledge that Countrywide had endorsed the note
and transferred possession of it to another, and, thereby, it gave up all rights that it
had in the note and the deed of trust.

More than year prior to Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as
to Possession being filed with the court, I filed with the court and provided a copy to
another attorney in Mr. Leyh’s law firm of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file
stamped 02 NOV 19. Attached to this petition was a copy of the Note displaying an
endorsement signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating
that the Note was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been
“endorsed in blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National
Processing Corporation in Pasadena, California. In endorsing the note and
delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in the
note and deed of trust. Copies of the Note previously submitted to court by
Countrywide did not display this endorsement.

Additionally, I provided a copy of the endorsed note and the letter to Mr. Leyh as
attachments to my Plaintiff’s Answer to Defendant’s Amended Motion for
Summary Judgment as to Possession, file stamped 04 JAN 23. Also, Mr. Leyh was
present when a copy of the endorsed note and the letter was entered into evidence in
open court on or about December 22, 2003. The issue of Countrywide’s lack of
ownership of the note upon which it was taking action to collect was brought up to
Mr. Leyh several times during the year 2003.

I obtained copies of the endorsed note and this letter from the law firm of LEYH &
PAYNE, L.L.P. I was handed the file containing these documents at the offices of
LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. These documents were being provided to me as part of
the discovery process of the lawsuit.

Mr. Leyh was provided actual knowledge of the falsity of the Substitute Trustee’s
Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee. Copies of the endorsed note and the letter
were readily available to him in files kept at the offices of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.;
he had available to him another copy of the endorsed note and letter as attachments
to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition; discrepancies with the copy of the note
previously provided to the court by Mr. Leyh’s law firm were pointed out in
paragraph 8 of this petition; and the significance of the endorsed note and letter
were pointed out in paragraph 27 of this petition. In spite of this, Mr. Leyh still
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brought the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee to court to
use as evidence in asserting claims in the lawsuit.

Mr. Leyh knew that the lawsuit was an official proceeding in progress, and he
presented the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee with
knowledge of the falsity each and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09, described previously in this
complaint as Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence.

Mr. Leyh presented the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee to
court, with knowledge of the falsity each, as certified copies of governmental records
held by the County Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas
Penal Code:

§37.10. Tampering With Governmental Record.

(a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a


governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine
governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the


verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank


governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its


falsity;

Having knowledge that his client lacked the original note, Mr. Leyh knew that his
client did not have a valid claim to collect on the note and foreclose on the security
named in the deed of trust. Mr. Leyh still filed a claim into court against the
property and me knowing that the claim of his client was baseless, frivolous, and
without authority and that he was therefore acting without authority when he filed
Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to Possession in violation
of Texas Penal Code §38.12, described previously in this complaint as Barratry.
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Mr. Leyh carried out his acts of fabrication of evidence, tampering with
governmental records, and barratry in agreement with and with aid of others in
violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02, described previously in this complaint as
Criminal Conspiracy.

____________________________________________

Mr. Daffin was part of the law firm BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE
DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P., which was attorney for COUNTRYWIDE HOME
LOANS, INC. for the foreclosure action that Countrywide was taking against my
property. Documents filed into the court case indicate that Mr. Daffin was acting as
agent for the law firm in the foreclosure action.

Samuel Daffin, II, conducted a foreclosure sale of the property in the lobby of the
Galveston County Courthouse on October 1, 2002. He signed a Substitute Trustee’s
Deed and had it notarized on October 1, 2002 in Harris County, Texas. Mr. Daffin
caused the Substitute Trustee’s Deed to be filed and recorded into the Official
Public Records of Real Property of Galveston County on October 7, 2002. A copy of
this Substitute Trustee’s Deed was attached to and used as evidence for Defendant’s
Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to Possession, and this motion was
filed with the District Clerk of Galveston County, file stamp 04 JAN –8.

This substitute trustee’s deed indicated that the property had been sold on October
1, 2002 to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation for an amount of $60,300.00,
that the Grantors were Danny R. Murphy and Sandra G. Cruz, and that the
Current Beneficiary was Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The body of the substitute
trustee’s deed indicated that the Beneficiary had declared that Grantor defaulted
performing the obligations of the Deed of Trust, that all duties and obligations of
the Beneficiary were lawfully performed, and that the Substitute Trustee acted
under the authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

Mr. Daffin knew that material facts stated in the Substitute Trustee’s Deed were
false. The primary material fact falsely stated was that the Current Beneficiary was
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and second that the Substitute Trustee acted under
the authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

During the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was provided copies of documents that
showed that, years prior to the foreclosure sale, Countrywide had given up
ownership and possession of the note upon which it supposedly based its right to
foreclose to recover amounts still owed to it. Mr. Daffin’s attorneys, LEYH &
PAYNE, L.L.P., provided me with a copy of the note displaying an endorsement
signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note
was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in
blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation
in Pasadena, California. A copy of this endorsed note and letter can be found as
attachments to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition. In endorsing the note and
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delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in the


note and deed of trust.

Mr. Daffin was an attorney and, as such, is presumed to have been knowledgeable in
the law, and he regularly acted in the capacity of a substitute trustee in foreclosure
actions. Since Countrywide had given up the note years prior to Mr. Daffin
conducting the foreclosure sale and making the Substitute Trustee’s Deed, Mr.
Daffin could not possibly have found documentation sufficient to support his
statement that Countrywide was the Current Beneficiary or that he had conducted
the foreclosure sale “by authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and by the
Deed of Trust.”

Mr. Daffin had a fiduciary responsibility as a trustee to insure that the property
entrusted to him was dealt with in the manner prescribed by the Deed of Trust. The
acts of Mr. Daffin were done in a manner contrary to the agreed Deed of Trust, and
he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly misapplied the property that he held as a
fiduciary in a manner that involved substantial risk of loss to the owner of the
property, in violation of Texas Penal Code §32.45:

§32.45 Misapplication of Fiduciary Property or Property of Financial Institution

(a) For purposes of this section:

(1) "Fiduciary" includes:

(A) trustee, guardian, administrator, executor, conservator, and


receiver;

...

(2) "Misapply" means deal with property contrary to:

(A) an agreement under which the fiduciary holds the property; or

(B) a law prescribing the custody or disposition of the property.

(b) A person commits an offense if he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly


misapplies property he holds as a fiduciary or property of a financial
institution in a manner that involves substantial risk of loss to the owner
of the property or to a person for whose benefit the property is held.

(c) An offense under this section is:

(1) Class C misdemeanor if the value of the property misapplied is less


than $20;

...

(5) felony of the third degree if the value of the property misapplied is
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$20,000 or more but less than $100,000;

...

Mr. Daffin was a defendant in the lawsuit and knew that the lawsuit was an official
proceeding in progress, and he made the Substitute Trustee’s Deed with knowledge
of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in
violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09, described previously in this complaint as
Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence.

Mr. Daffin made the Substitute Trustee’s Deed, with knowledge of its falsity, and
caused it to be filed and recorded into the governmental records held by the County
Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas Penal Code, described
previously in this complaint as Tampering With Governmental Record.

Mr. Daffin carried out his acts of misapplication of fiduciary property, fabrication
of evidence, and tampering with governmental records in agreement with and with
aid of others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02, described previously in this
complaint as Criminal Conspiracy.

Also employed by the law firm of the law firm BARRETT BURKE WILSON
CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P., and acting as an agent for the law firm
during the course of foreclosure action was Sylvia Loredo.

While the lawsuit was ongoing and in connection with a foreclosure sale of the
property, Sylvia Loredo signed an Affidavit of Mortgagee and had it notarized on
October 1, 2002 in Dallas County, Texas. Ms. Loredo caused the Affidavit of
Mortgagee to be filed and recorded into the Official Public Records of Real
Property of Galveston County on October 7, 2002. A copy of this Affidavit of
Mortgagee was attached to and used as evidence for Defendant’s Amended Motion
for Summary Judgment as to Possession, and this motion was filed with the District
Clerk of Galveston County, file stamp 04 JAN –8.

This Affidavit of Mortgagee indicated that Ms. Loredo was an employee of


BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P., attorney
for COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., that the affidavit was made with
respect to the foreclosure of that certain Deed of Trust dated December 16, 1997,
recorded CLERK’S FILE NO. 9748599, Real Property Records, GALVESTON
County, TEXAS … to secure payment of a Note to COUNTRYWIDE HOME
LOANS, INC., that COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. was the holder of the
debt or agent for the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust, and
“At the instructions and on behalf of the holder of the debt or its agent” certain acts
were performed as required by law.
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Ms. Loredo knew that she did not know certain material facts stated in the affidavit
were true. The primary material fact falsely stated and without any reservation or
qualification was that Countrywide was the holder of the debt or agent for the
holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust.

During the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was provided copies of documents that
showed that, years prior to the foreclosure sale, Countrywide had given up
ownership and possession of the note upon which it supposedly based its right to
foreclose to recover amounts still owed to it. At the offices of LEYH & PAYNE,
L.L.P., I was provided with a copy of the note displaying an endorsement signed by
an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note was
enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in blank”.
This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation in
Pasadena, California. A copy of the endorsed note and letter are attached to
Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19. In endorsing the
note and delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had
in the note and deed of trust.

During the course of the Lawsuit, Countrywide never provided any documentation
or even an assertion to show that it was acting as an agent for any other entity.

Ms. Loredo could not possibly have received any documentation sufficient to show
the truthfulness of statements that she made in the Affidavit of Mortgagee.

False statements of material facts knowingly made by Ms. Loredo in the Affidavit of
Mortgagee were made in connection with the official proceeding of the foreclosure
sale and constitute a violation of Section 37.03 Texas Penal Code, previously
described in this complaint as Aggravated Perjury.

Ms. Loredo stated in the affidavit that the affidavit was being made with respect to
the foreclosure that was taking place, showing that she knew that an official
proceeding was pending or taking place. She made the Affidavit of Mortgagee with
knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
foreclosure process in violation of Section 37.09 Texas Penal Code, previously
described in this complaint as Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence.

Ms. Loredo made the Affidavit of Mortgagee, with knowledge of its falsity, and
caused it to be filed and recorded into the governmental records held by the County
Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas Penal Code,
previously described in this complaint as Tampering With Governmental Record.

Ms. Loredo carried out her acts of aggravated perjury, fabrication of evidence, and
tampering with governmental records in agreement with and with aid of others in
violation of Section 15.02 Texas Penal Code, previously described in this complaint
as Criminal Conspiracy.
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IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by


Countyrwide Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the
substitute trustee for the foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District
Court of Galveston County in May of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly
sitting judge in the 405th District Court.

Court documents indicate that defendants hired the law firm LEYH & PAYNE,
L.L.P. as attorneys for defendants for this lawsuit. Individual attorneys from this
law firm who signed documents filed into court and who appeared in court for the
defendants were Griffin Pivateau Burke, Texas Bar No. 16055950, and Steven A.
Leyh, Texas Bar No. 12318300.

A hearing was set in the 405th District Court to be heard on March 20, 2003 on
Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment, file stamped 03 JAN 30,
which was prepared by Defendants’ attorney’s law firm, LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.,
and personally signed by attorney Griffin Pivateau Burke. Attached to this motion
was an affidavit by Diane DeLoney, in which she states that she was the “custodian
of Countrywide’s records” and in which she states, without reservation or
qualification, on the second page of the affidavit that “Countrywide is the Owner
and Holder of the Note and Deed of Trust.”

More than two months prior to Defendant’s No-Evidence Motion for Summary
Judgment being filed with the court, I filed with the court and provided a copy to
Mr. Burke of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19.
Attached to this petition was a copy of the Note referred to in the DeLoney affidavit
displaying an endorsement signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated
12/18/97 stating that the Note was enclosed with the letter and that the original note
had been “endorsed in blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National
Processing Corporation in Pasadena, California. In endorsing the note and
delivering possession of it to another entity, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in
the note and deed of trust. The endorsed note and letter show that material
statements made in the DeLoney affidavit were false. The copy of the note attached
to the DeLoney affidavit does not show this endorsement, but the copy attached to
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petition filed on November 19, 2002 does.

Further I obtained copies of the endorsed note and this letter from the law firm of
LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. I was personally handed the file containing these
documents by Mr. Burke at the offices of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. These
documents were being provided to me as part of the discovery process of the
lawsuit.

Mr. Burke was provided actual knowledge of the falsity of the DeLoney affidavit.
Copies of the endorsed note and the letter were readily available to him in files kept
at the offices of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.; he was provided another copy of the
endorsed note and letter as attachments to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition;
discrepancies with the copy of the note previously provided to the court by Mr.
Burke were pointed out in paragraph 8 of this petition; and the significance of the
endorsed note and letter were pointed out in paragraph 27 of this petition. In spite
of this, Mr. Burke still brought the DeLoney affidavit to court again to use as
evidence in asserting claims in the lawsuit.

Mr. Burke knew that the lawsuit was an official proceeding in progress, and he
presented the DeLoney affidavit with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to
affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official
proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Having knowledge that his client lacked the original note, Mr. Burke knew that his
client did not have a valid claim to collect on the note and foreclose on the security
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named in the deed of trust. Mr. Burke still filed a claim into court against the
property and me knowing that the claim of his client was baseless, frivolous, and
without authority and that he was therefore acting without authority when he filed
Defendant’s First Amended Original Counterclaim, file stamped 02 DEC –9, in
violation of Texas Penal Code §38.12:

§38.12 Barratry and Solicitation of Professional Employment

(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to obtain an economic benefit
the person:

(1) knowingly institutes a suit or claim that the person has not been
authorized to pursue;

...

(f) An offense under Subsection (a) or (b) is a felony of the third degree.

… [Remainder of §38.12 not relevant to this complaint]

Mr. Burke carried out his acts of fabrication of evidence and barratry in agreement
with and with aid of others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


parties

Mr. Burke’s choice to join with others in the furtherance of the conspiracy makes
him culpable for his own acts and those of his co-conspirators,

§7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the


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offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another


for which he is criminally responsible, or by both.

(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the


offense.

(c) All traditional distinctions between accomplices and principals are


abolished by this section, and each party to an offense maybe charged
and convicted without alleging that he acted as a principal or
accomplice.

§7.02 Texas Penal Code, Criminal responsibility for conduct of another:

(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the


conduct of another if:

(1) having a legal duty to prevent commission of the offense and


action with intent to promote or assist its commission, he fails to
make a reasonable effort to prevent commission of the offense.

(2) If, in the attempt to carry a conspiracy to commit one felony,


another felony is committed by one of the conspirators, all
conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, thought
having no intent to commit it, if the offense was committed in
furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have
been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy.

Steven A. Leyh signed Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to


Possession, and this motion was filed with the District Clerk of Galveston County,
file stamp 04 JAN –8. Attached to this motion and referred to as summary
judgment evidence on page 3 of the motion was a copy of a Substitute Trustee’s
Deed.

This substitute trustee’s deed indicated that the property had been sold on October
1, 2002 to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, that the Grantors were
Danny R. Murphy and Sandra G. Cruz, and that the Current Beneficiary was
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The body of the substitute trustee’s deed indicated
that the Beneficiary had declared that Grantor defaulted performing the obligations
of the Deed of Trust, that all duties and obligations of the Beneficiary were lawfully
performed, and that the Substitute Trustee acted under the authority conferred by
the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

Also attached to Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to


Possession was an Affidavit of Mortgagee. This affidavit stated that Countrywide
Home Loans, Inc. was “the holder of the debt or agent for the holder of the
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indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust”. This affidavit also stated that “at the
instructions and on behalf of the holder of the debt or its agent” certain necessary
actions had been taken.

Mr. Leyh knew that material facts stated in the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the
Affidavit of Mortgagee were false. The material facts falsely stated in these
documents were that the Current Beneficiary was Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
and that Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. was “the holder of the debt or agent for
the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust”.

Documents made available to Mr. Leyh and filed into court more than a year prior
to his filing of Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to
Possession provided him the knowledge that Countrywide had endorsed the note
and transferred possession of it to another, and, thereby, it gave up all rights that it
had in the note and the deed of trust.

More than year prior to Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as
to Possession being filed with the court, I filed with the court and provided a copy to
another attorney in Mr. Leyh’s law firm of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file
stamped 02 NOV 19. Attached to this petition was a copy of the Note displaying an
endorsement signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating
that the Note was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been
“endorsed in blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National
Processing Corporation in Pasadena, California. In endorsing the note and
delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in the
note and deed of trust. Copies of the Note previously submitted to court by
Countrywide did not display this endorsement.

Additionally, I provided a copy of the endorsed note and the letter to Mr. Leyh as
attachments to my Plaintiff’s Answer to Defendant’s Amended Motion for
Summary Judgment as to Possession, file stamped 04 JAN 23. Also, Mr. Leyh was
present when a copy of the endorsed note and the letter was entered into evidence in
open court on or about December 22, 2003. The issue of Countrywide’s lack of
ownership of the note upon which it was taking action to collect was brought up to
Mr. Leyh several times during the year 2003.

I obtained copies of the endorsed note and this letter from the law firm of LEYH &
PAYNE, L.L.P. I was handed the file containing these documents at the offices of
LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P. These documents were being provided to me as part of
the discovery process of the lawsuit.

Mr. Leyh was provided actual knowledge of the falsity of the Substitute Trustee’s
Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee. Copies of the endorsed note and the letter
were readily available to him in files kept at the offices of LEYH & PAYNE, L.L.P.;
he had available to him another copy of the endorsed note and letter as attachments
to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition; discrepancies with the copy of the note
previously provided to the court by Mr. Leyh’s law firm were pointed out in
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paragraph 8 of this petition; and the significance of the endorsed note and letter
were pointed out in paragraph 27 of this petition. In spite of this, Mr. Leyh still
brought the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee to court to
use as evidence in asserting claims in the lawsuit.

Mr. Leyh knew that the lawsuit was an official proceeding in progress, and he
presented the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee with
knowledge of the falsity each and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
lawsuit in violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09, which makes tampering with or
fabricating physical evidence an offense.

Mr. Leyh presented the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and the Affidavit of Mortgagee to
court, with knowledge of the falsity each, as certified copies of governmental records
held by the County Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas
Penal Code:

§37.10. Tampering With Governmental Record.

(a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a


governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine
governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the


verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank


governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its


falsity;

Having knowledge that his client lacked the original note, Mr. Leyh knew that his
client did not have a valid claim to collect on the note and foreclose on the security
named in the deed of trust. Mr. Leyh still filed a claim into court against the
property and me knowing that the claim of his client was baseless, frivolous, and
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without authority and that he was therefore acting without authority when he filed
Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to Possession in violation
of Texas Penal Code §38.12, which makes Barratry an offense.

Mr. Leyh carried out his acts of fabrication of evidence, tampering with
governmental records, and barratry in agreement with and with aid of others in
violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02, which makes Criminal Conspiracy an offense.

Court documents indicate that Griffin Pivateau Burke and Steven A. Leyh were
acting in behalf of LEYH & PAYNE, L. L. P. LEYH & PAYNE, L. L. P. is an
association for the purposes of the Texas Penal Code,

§1.07 Definitions

(a) In this code:

(6) "Association" means a government or governmental subdivision or


agency, trust, partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or
common economic interest.

The acts of Griffin Pivateau Burke and Steven A. Leyh were in the capacity of an
agent for the association,

§7.21 Definitions

In this subchapter:

(1) "Agent" means a director, officer, employee, or other person


authorized to act in behalf of a corporation or association.

...

As agents for the association, the association is criminally responsible for the
offenses committed by Griffin Pivateau Burke and Steven A. Leyh,

§7.22 Criminal Responsibility of Corporation or Association

(a) If conduct constituting an offense is performed by an agent acting in


behalf of a corporation or association and within the scope of his office
or employment, the corporation or association is criminally responsible
for an offense defined:

(1) in this code where corporations and associations are made subject
BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P.
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IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have
personal knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the
following information, most of which is evident in records held by the District
Clerk of Galveston County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce
Murphy v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by


Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the
substitute trustee for the foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District
Court of Galveston County in May of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly
sitting judge in the 405th District Court.

Mr. Daffin was part of the law firm BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE
DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P., which was attorney for COUNTRYWIDE HOME
LOANS, INC. for the foreclosure action that Countrywide was taking against my
property. Documents filed into the court case indicate that Mr. Daffin was acting as
agent for the law firm in the foreclosure action.

While this suit was ongoing, Samuel Daffin, II, conducted a supposed foreclosure
sale of the property in the lobby of the Galveston County Courthouse on October 1,
2002. He signed a Substitute Trustee’s Deed and had it notarized on October 1,
2002 in Harris County, Texas. Mr. Daffin caused the Substitute Trustee’s Deed to
be filed and recorded into the Official Public Records of Real Property of Galveston
County on October 7, 2002. A copy of this Substitute Trustee’s Deed was attached
to and used as evidence for Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment
as to Possession, and this motion was filed with the District Clerk of Galveston
County, file stamp 04 JAN –8.

This substitute trustee’s deed indicated that the property had been sold on October
1, 2002 to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation for an amount of $60,300.00,
that the Grantors were Danny R. Murphy and Sandra G. Cruz, and that the
Current Beneficiary was Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The body of the substitute
trustee’s deed indicated that the Beneficiary had declared that Grantor defaulted
performing the obligations of the Deed of Trust, that all duties and obligations of
the Beneficiary were lawfully performed, and that the Substitute Trustee acted
under the authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

Mr. Daffin knew that material facts stated in the Substitute Trustee’s Deed were
false. The primary material fact falsely stated was that the Current Beneficiary was
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and second that the Substitute Trustee acted under
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the authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and the Deed of Trust.

During the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was provided copies of documents that
showed that, years prior to the foreclosure sale, Countrywide had given up
ownership and possession of the note upon which it supposedly based its right to
foreclose to recover amounts still owed to it. Mr. Daffin’s attorneys, LEYH &
PAYNE, L.L.P., provided me with a copy of the note displaying an endorsement
signed by an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note
was enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in
blank”. This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation
in Pasadena, California. In endorsing the note and delivering possession of it to
another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had in the note and deed of trust.

Mr. Daffin was an attorney and, as such, is presumed to have been knowledgeable in
the law, and he regularly acted in the capacity of a substitute trustee in foreclosure
actions. Since Countrywide had given up the note years prior to Mr. Daffin
conducting the foreclosure sale and making the Substitute Trustee’s Deed, Mr.
Daffin could not possibly have found documentation sufficient to support his
statement that Countrywide was the Current Beneficiary or that he had conducted
the foreclosure sale “by authority conferred by the Current Beneficiary and by the
Deed of Trust.”

Mr. Daffin had a fiduciary responsibility as a trustee to insure that the property
entrusted to him was dealt with in the manner prescribed by the Deed of Trust. The
acts of Mr. Daffin were done in a manner contrary to the agreed Deed of Trust, and
he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly misapplied the property that he held as a
fiduciary in a manner that involved substantial risk of loss to the owner of the
property, in violation of Texas Penal Code §32.45:

§32.45 Misapplication of Fiduciary Property or Property of Financial Institution

(a) For purposes of this section:

(1) "Fiduciary" includes:

(A) trustee, guardian, administrator, executor, conservator, and


receiver;

...

(2) "Misapply" means deal with property contrary to:

(A) an agreement under which the fiduciary holds the property; or

(B) a law prescribing the custody or disposition of the property.

(b) A person commits an offense if he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly


misapplies property he holds as a fiduciary or property of a financial
institution in a manner that involves substantial risk of loss to the owner
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of the property or to a person for whose benefit the property is held.

(c) An offense under this section is:

(1) Class C misdemeanor if the value of the property misapplied is less


than $20;

...

(5) felony of the third degree if the value of the property misapplied is
$20,000 or more but less than $100,000;

...

Mr. Daffin was a defendant in the lawsuit and knew that the lawsuit was an official
proceeding in progress, and he made the Substitute Trustee’s Deed with knowledge
of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the lawsuit in
violation of Texas Penal Code §37.09:

§37.09 Tampering With or Fabricating Physical Evidence

(a) A person commits an offense if, knowing that an investigation or official


proceeding is pending or in progress, he:

(1) alters, destroys, or conceals any record, document, or thing with


intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as evidence in the
investigation or official proceeding; or

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
investigation or official proceeding.

(b) This section shall not apply if the record, document, or thing concealed is
privileged or is the work product of the parties to the investigation or official
proceeding.

(c) An offense under Subsection (a) or Subsection (d)(1) is a felony of the


third degree. An offense under Subsection (d)(2) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) …[Not applicable to this complaint]

Mr. Daffin made the Substitute Trustee’s Deed, with knowledge of its falsity, and
caused it to be filed and recorded into the governmental records held by the County
Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas Penal Code:
BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P.
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§37.10. Tampering With Governmental Record.

(a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a


governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with


knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine
governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the


verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

(4) possesses, sells, or offers to sell a governmental record or a blank


governmental record form with intent that it be used unlawfully;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its


falsity;

Mr. Daffin carried out his acts of misapplication of fiduciary property, fabrication
of evidence, and tampering with governmental records in agreement with and with
aid of others in violation of Texas Penal Code §15.02:

§15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be
committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them
engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the


parties

...

Mr. Daffin’s choice to join with others in the furtherance of the conspiracy makes
BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P.
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him culpable for his own acts and those of his co-conspirators,

§7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the


offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another
for which he is criminally responsible, or by both.

(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the


offense.

(c) All traditional distinctions between accomplices and principals are


abolished by this section, and each party to an offense maybe charged
and convicted without alleging that he acted as a principal or
accomplice.

§7.02 Texas Penal Code, Criminal responsibility for conduct of another:

(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the


conduct of another if:

(1) having a legal duty to prevent commission of the offense and


action with intent to promote or assist its commission, he fails to
make a reasonable effort to prevent commission of the offense.

(2) If, in the attempt to carry a conspiracy to commit one felony,


another felony is committed by one of the conspirators, all
conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, though
having no intent to commit it, if the offense was committed in
furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have
been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy.

Also employed by the law firm and acting as an agent for the law firm during the
course of foreclosure action was Sylvia Loredo, whose unlawful acts are described
hereinafter.

While the lawsuit was ongoing and in connection with a foreclosure sale of the
property, Sylvia Loredo signed an Affidavit of Mortgagee and had it notarized on
October 1, 2002 in Dallas County, Texas. Ms. Loredo caused the Affidavit of
Mortgagee to be filed and recorded into the Official Public Records of Real
Property of Galveston County on October 7, 2002. A copy of this Affidavit of
Mortgagee was attached to and used as evidence for Defendant’s Amended Motion
for Summary Judgment as to Possession, and this motion was filed with the District
Clerk of Galveston County, file stamp 04 JAN –8.

This Affidavit of Mortgagee indicated that Ms. Loredo was an employee of


BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P., attorney
BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P.
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for COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., that the affidavit was made with
respect to the foreclosure of that certain Deed of Trust dated December 16, 1997,
recorded CLERK’S FILE NO. 9748599, Real Property Records, GALVESTON
County, TEXAS … to secure payment of a Note to COUNTRYWIDE HOME
LOANS, INC., that COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. was the holder of the
debt or agent for the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust, and
“At the instructions and on behalf of the holder of the debt or its agent” certain acts
were performed as required by law.

Ms. Loredo knew that she did not know certain material facts stated in the affidavit
were true. The primary material fact falsely stated and without any reservation or
qualification was that Countrywide was the holder of the debt or agent for the
holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust.

During the discovery process of the lawsuit, I was provided copies of documents that
showed that, years prior to the foreclosure sale, Countrywide had given up
ownership and possession of the note upon which it supposedly based its right to
foreclose to recover amounts still owed to it. At the offices of LEYH & PAYNE,
L.L.P., I was provided with a copy of the note displaying an endorsement signed by
an officer of Countrywide and a letter dated 12/18/97 stating that the Note was
enclosed with the letter and that the original note had been “endorsed in blank”.
This letter was addressed to First Chicago National Processing Corporation in
Pasadena, California. A copy of the endorsed note and letter are attached to
Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02 NOV 19. In endorsing the
note and delivering possession of it to another, Countrywide gave up all rights it had
in the note and deed of trust.

During the course of the Lawsuit, Countrywide never provided any documentation
or even an assertion to show that it was acting as an agent for any other entity.

Ms. Loredo could not possibly have received any documentation sufficient to show
the truthfulness of statements that she made in the Affidavit of Mortgagee.

False statements of material facts knowingly made by Ms. Loredo in the Affidavit of
Mortgagee were made in connection with the official proceeding of the foreclosure
sale and constitute a violation of Section 37.03 Texas Penal Code:

§37.02 Perjury
(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive and with
knowledge of the statement's meaning:

(1) he makes a false statement under oath or swears to the truth of a


false statement previously made and the statement is required or
authorized by law to be made under oath; or

(2) he makes a false unsworn declaration under Chapter 132, Civil


Practice and Remedies Code.
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(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

§37.03 Aggravated Perjury

(a) A person commits an offense if he commits perjury as defined in Section


37.02, and the false statement:

(1) is made during or in connection with an official proceeding; and

(2) is material.

(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.

Ms. Loredo stated in the affidavit that the affidavit was being made with respect to
the foreclosure that was taking place, showing that she knew that an official
proceeding was pending or taking place. She made the Affidavit of Mortgagee with
knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or outcome of the
foreclosure process in violation of Section 37.09 Texas Penal Code, Tampering With
or Fabricating Physical Evidence, text included above.

Ms. Loredo made the Affidavit of Mortgagee, with knowledge of its falsity, and
caused it to be filed and recorded into the governmental records held by the County
Clerk of Galveston County in violation of Section 37.10 Texas Penal Code,
Tampering With Governmental Record, text included above.

Ms. Loredo carried out her acts of aggravated purjury, fabrication of evidence, and
tampering with governmental records in agreement with and with aid of others in
violation of Section 15.02 Texas Penal Code, Criminal Conspiracy, text included
above.

Documents filed into court indicate that BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE
DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P. was the attorney for Countrywide in the foreclosure
action. BARRETT BURKE WILSON CASTLE DAFFIN & FRAPPIER, L.L.P. is
an association for the purposes of the Texas Penal Code,

§1.07 Definitions

(a) In this code:

(6) "Association" means a government or governmental subdivision or


agency, trust, partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or
common economic interest.
Frank T. Carmona (Charge 1 of 2) – Tampering With Governmental Record p. 1 of 3

IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have personal
knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the following
information, most of which is evident in records held by the District Clerk of Galveston
County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce Murphy v. Countrywide
Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

I had filed suit in the 405th District Court to stop a non-judicial foreclosure action by
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. that was being taken against my home.

A hearing was set in the 405th District Court to be heard on March 20, 2003 on Defendant’s
No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment. On March 20, 2003 Frank T. Carmona sat on
the hearing as the Judge Presiding by assignment from Olen Underwood, Presiding Judge,
Second Administrative Judicial Region. On that date Carmona signed a “Final Summary
Judgment” granting the motion and effectively dismissing my lawsuit. This signed judgment
was entered into the court records.

Subsequently, I requested the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas to provide
me with a copy of the Statement of Officer and Oath of Office for Frank T. Carmona as any
th
type of judge of the 405 District Court. In response, I obtained a letter under seal
indicating that a diligent search of the records of that office had failed to find a Statement of
Officer or an Oath of Office for Frank T. Carmona as Judge of the 405th Judicial District.
Copy of this letter may be found in the court files as Exhibit 2 attached to Plaintiff’s Motion
to Set Aside the Summary Judgment of March 20, 2003, file stamped 04 JAN 23.

Defendants placed into the court record what appears to be every Statement of Officer and
Oath of Office subscribed by Frank T. Carmona and filed into the records of the Secretary
of State as attachments to their Defendants’ Response to Motion for New Trial, file stamped
03 MAY 23. These records show that Carmona properly filed Statements of Officer and
Oaths of Office for two terms as the regular district judge of the 122nd Judicial District.
These records also show a Statement of Elected/Appointed Officer for Carmona for a
position of Visiting Senior District Judge filed in the Office of the Secretary of State on JAN
6 2003, but there is no Oath of Office that covers his tenure with the 405th District Court.

Carmona served two terms as a district court judge and is presumed to be knowledgeable in
the law. That Carmona properly subscribed to and filed the necessary Statements of Officer
and Oaths of Office to assume the office of District Judge demonstrates that he was familiar
with the documentation and procedures necessary to assume the office of judge.

Texas courts have long held that without taking the constitutionally required oath of office, a
person can not become a judge, and he is without authority to act. This requirement was
more recently upheld by the Texas Court of Appeals in the case of Prieto Bail Bonds v. State,
978 S.W.2d 574, (Tex. Crim. App. 1998).

While appearing as a judge but knowing that he was acting without the authority of a judge,
Wayne J. Mallia (Charge 1 of 3) –- Tampering With Governmental Record p. 1 of 5

IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

I, Danny Royce Murphy, being duly sworn, do state upon my oath that I have personal
knowledge and good reason to believe and do believe based upon the following
information, most of which is evident in records held by the District Clerk of Galveston
County in the file for cause number 02CV0624, Danny Royce Murphy v. Countrywide
Home Loans, Inc., et. al.:

In order to stop a planned non-judicial foreclosure action against my home by Countyrwide


Home Loans, Inc., I brought suit against Countrywide and the substitute trustee for the
foreclosure action, Samuel Daffin, II, in the 405th District Court of Galveston County in May
of 2002. Wayne J. Mallia was the regularly sitting judge in the 405th District Court.
th
A hearing was set in the 405 District Court to be heard on March 20, 2003 on Defendant’s
No-Evidence Motion for Summary Judgment. On March 20, 2003 Frank T. Carmona, a
visiting senior judge, sat on the hearing as the Judge Presiding by assignment from Olen
Underwood, Presiding Judge, Second Administrative Judicial Region. On that date
Carmona signed a “Final Summary Judgment” granting the motion. This signed judgment
was entered into the court records.

Subsequently, I requested the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas to provide
me with a copy of the Statement of Officer and Oath of Office for Frank T. Carmona as any
type of judge of the 405th District Court. In response, I obtained a letter under seal
indicating that a diligent search of the records of that office had failed to find a Statement of
Officer or an Oath of Office for Frank T. Carmona as Judge of the 405th Judicial District.
Copy of this letter may be found in the court files as Exhibit 2 attached to Plaintiff’s Motion
to Set Aside the Summary Judgment of March 20, 2003, file stamped 04 JAN 23.

Defendants placed into the court record what appears to be every Statement of Officer and
Oath of Office subscribed by Frank T. Carmona and filed into the records of the Secretary
of State as attachments to their Defendants’ Response to Motion for New Trial, file stamped
03 MAY 23. These records show that Carmona properly filed Statements of Officer and
Oaths of Office for two terms as the regular district judge of the 122nd Judicial District.
These records also show a Statement of Elected/Appointed Officer for Carmona for a
position of Visiting Senior District Judge filed in the Office of the Secretary of State on JAN
6 2003, but there is no Oath of Office that covers his tenure with the 405th District Court.

Plaintiff’s Motion for New Trial was heard before Judge Mallia. That Carmona had failed
to qualify as a judge at the time that he signed the “Final Summary Judgment” was made
apparent to Mallia at the hearing on the motion for new trial by the letter from the
Secretary of State and the inability of defendants’ attorney to produce an Oath of Office
covering the time that Carmona was assigned to the 405th District Court.

Subsequently, Mallia effectively declared the “Final Summary Judgment” signed by


Caromna to be valid by failing to set aside this judgment when requested to do so in
Plaintiff’s Motion to Set Aside the Summary Judgment of March 20, 2003. Mallia then used
Wayne J. Mallia (Charge 1 of 3) –- Tampering With Governmental Record p. 2 of 5

then used this void summary judgment as a basis to declare that the Judgment Granting
Countrywide’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to Possession, signed by Mallia
on February 2, 2004, to be a final judgment that disposed of all remaining claims between
the parties, knowing that the “Final Summary Judgment” signed by Caromna was not valid
and therefore there were still claims between the parties. Mallia used the “Final Summary
Judgment” with knowledge of its falsity with intent that it be taken as a genuine
govermnetal record to make the Judgment Granting Countrywide’s Amended Motion for
Summary Judgment as to Possession into a final judgment with knowledge of the falsity of
the final judgment with intent that the final judgment also be taken as a genuine
governmental record.

Further, Mallia was made aware that Countrywide did not own or possess the note, which
supposedly provided the basis for the right for it to foreclose upon my home. A copy of the
note showing that it had been endorsed by A. Smith, Asst. Secretary of Countrywide and a
letter dated 12/18/97 and addressed to First Chicago Processing Corporation indicating that
the original endorsed note was being sent along with this letter were first placed into the
records of the court as attachments to Plaintiff’s Second Amended Petition, file stamped 02
NOV 19. Endorsing the note and giving possession of it to another terminated
Countrywide’s ownership of the note and of its position as the Holder of the Note, although
it continually claimed to be the Holder of the Note in court. Countrywide never produced
the original note in court nor even any records that would suggest that the note had ever
been returned to it.

The issue of Countrywide’s lack of ownership or interest in the note was brought t the
attention of Mallia in court several times, one being in Plaintiff’s Answer to Defendant’s
Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to Possession, file stamped 04 JAN 23, which
had copies of the endorsed note and letter attached. Defendant’s Amended Motion for
Summary Judgment as to Possession, file stamped 04 JAN 8, had attachments of a copy of
the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and Affidavit of Mortgagee that were products of the
foreclosure sale of my home held on October 1, 2002 and a copy of the Deed of Trust that
provided for a foreclosure sale by or on behalf of the Holder of the Note. Countrywide,
having given up its ownership and interest in the note, had given up its rights under the
Deed of Trust to foreclose. The foreclosure sale was held without right or authority to do
so, making the Substitute Trustee’s Deed and Affidavit of Mortgagee fraudulent documents.

The Substitute Trustee’s Deed and Affidavit of Mortgagee were filed into the public records
held by the County Clerk of Galveston County. Certified copies of this fraudulent
Substitute Trustee’s Deed and Affidavit of Mortgagee were attached to Defendant’s
Amended Motion for Summary Judgment as to Possession. Mallia, having knowledge of
Countrywide’s lack of ownership of the note and knowing that the Substitute Trustee’s Deed
and Affidavit of Mortgagee were produced in a fraudulent manner, used the certified copies
of these two documents as governmental records with knowledge of their falsity to support
his signing of the Judgment Granting Countrywide’s Amended Motion for Summary
Judgment as to Possession and thereby making a new governmental record with knowledge
of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine governmental record in violation of
Texas Penal Code Sec. 37.10:

Sec. 37.10. Tampering With Governmental Record.

(a) A person commits an offense if he:


Wayne J. Mallia (Charge 1 of 3) –- Tampering With Governmental Record p. 3 of 5

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a governmental
record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its
falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the verity,


legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

(5) makes, presents, or uses a governmental record with knowledge of its falsity;

Mallia’s actions show intent that the judgments and orders that he signed be regarded as
valid with the effect of dismissing my suit against the defendants, denying me the protection
of the court against an unlawful dispossession of my home, ordering an unlawful
dispossession of my home, and impeding my right to access the court. Such actions
constitute the offense of Official Oppression in violation of Texas Penal Code Section 39.03,

39.03 Official Oppression:

(a) A public servant acting under color of his office or employment commits an
offense if he:

(1) intentionally subjects another to mistreatment or to arrest, detention,


search, seizure, dispossession, assessment, or lien that he knows is
unlawful;

(2) Intentionally denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of


any right, privilege, power, or immunity, knowing his conduct is unlawful;
or

(3) Intentionally subjects another to sexual harassment

(b) For purposes of this section, a public servants acts under color of his office or
employment if he acts or purports to act in an official capacity or takes
advantage of such actual or purported capacity.

(c) (defines “sexual harassment”)

(d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Mallia is a sitting district court judge, and, as such, he is presumed knowledgeable of the
law. Mallia was provided sufficient knowledge of the acts of the parties and attorneys of the
lawsuit and other actors to recognize the unlawfulness of those acts. Mallia’s acts and
omissions show his agreement to join in a criminal conspiracy with others to commit a felony
in violation of Texas Penal Code Sec. 15.02:
Wayne J. Mallia (Charge 1 of 3) –- Tampering With Governmental Record p. 4 of 5

15.02. Criminal Conspiracy.

(a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be committed:

(1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them engage
in conduct that would constitute the offense; and

(2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the


agreement.

(b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the parties

Mallia was in position to cause cessation of the unlawful acts of the other actors at any time.
His choice not to do so makes him culpable for his own acts and those of his co-conspirators,

7.01 Texas Penal Code, Parties to offenses:

(a) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is


committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another for which he is
criminally responsible, or by both.

(b) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the offense.

(c) All traditional distinctions between accomplices and principals are abolished
by this section, and each party to an offense maybe charged and convicted
without alleging that he acted as a principal or accomplice.

7.02 Texas Penal Code, Criminal responsibility for conduct of another:

(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of


another if:

a. having a legal duty to prevent commission of the offense and action with
intent to promote or assist its commission, he fails to make a reasonable
effort to prevent commission of the offense.

b. If, in the attempt to carry a conspiracy to commit one felony, another


felony is committed by one of the conspirators, all conspirators are guilty
of the felony actually committed, thought having no intent to commit it, if
the offense was committed in furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was
one that should have been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the
conspiracy.

I charge that heretofore, and before the making and filing of this complaint, on or about
February 2, 2004 and within the boundaries of Galveston County, Wayne J. Mallia, did then

and there unlawfully and willfully violate Section 37.10 Texas Penal Code, against the
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My Attachments Last September I sent a box containing more than 50 criminal complaints to the
grand jury in Galveston County in care of the Criminal District Attorney’s office.
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Recently, attorney Steven A. Leyh made an affidavit, which indicates in paragraph
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offices of the district attorney. Also, last February I made a public information
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particular individual. This request was made, in part, because I had not received
confirmation from the foreman of the grand jury that the complaints had been
received. I included a request for confirmation and means for the foreman to
conveniently to provide confirmation to me in the package mailed to the members
of the grand jury.

I received a letter from Joel H. Bennett, First Assistant, Criminal District Attorney,
indicating that I was being provided copies of documents previously requested.
This letter requested that I sign a receipt for the documents received. The receipt

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indicated that the documents provided were in response to Item 1.0 of my request
dated February 1, 2007. Item 1.0 of my request was for copies of criminal
complaints made against Samuel F. Daffin, II.

The certified mail receipt and the response to the PIA request show that these
complaints are somewhere in the offices of the Galveston County Criminal District
Attorney, but the affidavit by Steven A. Leyh indicates that after ten months these
complaints still have not found their way to the grand jury.

I am requesting that the Attorney General make an investigation into this matter and
insure that these misdirected criminal complaints be brought to the attention of the
grand jury.

I have attached a PDF file containing copies of the documents mentioned above, a
sampling of the criminal complaints mailed to the grand jury, and other relevant
documents. Bookmarks have been included for easy navigation within the file.

These criminal complaints were a result of acts and omissions committed by various
individuals, entities, and judges involved in a lawsuit challenging the foreclosure of
a house. The foreclosure was supposedly taking place under the authority provided
by provisions a promissory note and deed of trust. Early during the court
proceedings, proof was supplied to the court supporting the right to foreclose in the
form of an affidavit to which was attached a copy of the note and deed of trust.

Subsequent to these documents being submitted to the court, a copy of this note was
discovered, which displayed a materially different characteristic. The back, page 2,
of this discovered note showed that it had been endorsed by an official of the
lender. Along with the note was found a letter that states that the endorsed original
note was enclosed with the letter. This letter was addressed to an entity that was not
part of the lender, and the date of the letter was two days after the date that the note
was made.

In court, the original lender continues to claim that it is the Holder of the Note
despite the evidence that it is not. Several times attorneys for the lender have
brought a paper into the courtroom claiming it to be the original note but always
without anyone providing authentication, and they always object to any suggestion
that this paper be placed into possession of the court.

That the judge in this case continually fails to take proper action on this and other
issues is the reason for criminal complaints being made against him.

The transaction that brought about the note in question was for the purchase of a
home, and I believe there is sufficient evidence here to show a violation of
consumer protection laws.

Thank you.

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Danny Murphy
1919 Evergreen Lane
La Marque, Texas
Tel. (409) 935-6768

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