HONEST JUSTICE: Sham, Scam and Flim Flam Man
They call themselves “Honest Justice,” or Honest Justice TV. They’re on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Honest-Justice/1522238431324569, and they feature a video trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQMtB3aT4zI of their untested and unproven theory and project which is to break and reverse family court corruption in and around Brevard County, Florida. They even claim they’re going to “fix what needs to be fixed” in our family courts and feature a hammer in same video trailer to do so.
And for those of you unfamiliar with my work, I am a nationally-known forensic trial expert who has 30 years of combined personal and professional experience helping parents and attorneys in high-conflict divorces, child custody battles and child abuse-related cases. I have worked court cases from all 50 states, and in situations where the accused oftentimes finds himself/herself caught up in 50 yard-line family court cases, juvenile dependency cases where one can lose his/her parental rights, and/or criminal court cases where of course one can lose his/her freedom and have to register as a sex offender for life. In the latter cases, my fees as an expert is oftentimes paid for by The State if the accused cannot afford to retain my services. A glimpse of me and my work can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Tong.
So, on July 13, 2014 in the morning, I received an e-mail message on Facebook from a person named Joshua John Cumberland inquiring/stating “Do you know Andy Davidson? He said you were good and that I should contact you.” And I responded back to him, possibly as I’ve consulted on over 20,000 cases since 1990 and have clearly talked to a lot of people, fathers and mothers, who’ve hit a roadblock when facing Child Protective Services and/or the Courts.
And the discussions between Mr. Cumberland (who I didn’t know from Adam) and I heated up as he told me about this television show called Honest Justice and he was one of three owners of the same. He said he’d like me to consider being part of The Show and that he would also like me to help him in his own personal plight in Brevard County, Florida. Allegedly, Mr. Cumberland was falsely accused of domestic violence against an Ex and same injunction against him has prevented him from seeing his children for years. He even e-mailed me a pleading filed by his Ex’ attorney in his injunction case on appeal. Mind you, Mr. Cumberland stands 6 feet 9 inches tall and used to be in the military and by the power and control tone of his latter private e-mails to me on Facebook (e-mails that would clearly be legally admissible in a court of law), it became clearer to me why his lower court judge may have granted the injunction against him and kept it in place.
But, I hadn’t seen the rest of his discovery and I’m not the fact-finder. So, I wasn’t here “to judge him or his case.” That said, Mr. Cumberland then e-mailed me a Contract whereby I would assist him as Consulting Expert; teaming him up with an aggressive family law attorney and getting him psychologically tested via Risk Assessment that would include a battery of tests that measure his propensity or not to perpetrate domestic violence and child abuse. There’s an empirical link between domestic violence and child abuse so when there’s kids involved it’s incumbent upon the accused to rule it all out.
In fact, Mr. Cumberland proceeded to e-mail me a formal Honest Justice Contract whereby I’d assist him in his personal court case so that he may be able to attain equity-at-law and finally see his kids again. I explained to him the need to show himself in the best possible light in court because these he said – she said cases are ruled on “by the greater weight of the evidence.” I swallowed his words and contract hook, line and sinker and signed that Contract and faxed it to his purported financial backer.
I invested 10 hours of my time by phone, fax, e-mail, text, Facebook, et al working with Mr. Cumberland continuously from September 9 – October 16 as he promised me the sun, moon and stars including an annual salary, sign-on bonus, company car, et al. Neither came to fruition; not the Josh Cumberland Case Contract nor the Honest Justice Annual Contract. In fact, Cumberland refuses to honor their Contract and refuses to pay me for my time invested less far. And he said, which contradicts his video trailer, “we’re not here to win cases, only exposure.” Really? You think people who hear or read about your “end all corruption project” just want publicity? Ah, No! They want their families back together like you Mr. Cumberland!
But, think about this: I found an article on the internet criticizing Mr. Cumberland and the way he mistreated this man here http://www.change.org/p/attn-brevard-county-courts-of-florida-dangerous-man-joshua-j-cumberland. Man, this guy’s experience with Mr. Josh sounds eerily similar to mine. And for those purported wounded innocents out there who claim like Cumberland that they did NOT perpetrate abuse, but that who in the same breath dodge the psychological testing? I suggest you’re most likely an individual or individuals with elevated Cogntive Distortion scale scores meaning you’re trying to con everyone and that you’re in denial. So, instead of placing your Ex under the microscope http://brevardsbestnews.com/?p=1859, I strongly suggest you look in the mirror and fashion a strategy to prove your innocence.
The moral to this story is an old cliche”: If it sounds too good to be true it most probably is so. And, sad, but true, that the tragic ending to all of this is family court negligence and corruption will continue to infect Brevard County, Florida and all of America.