NOTE: ALL links to web pages, and comments
about the content on those pages, were accurate at the time this
post (and updates) were originally written. In this post,
information about said content was accurate at least through
February 2015, but it appears that subject may have subsequently
taken steps to redesign/"clean up" some of his sites.
Not-doctor Leonard Coldwell has
outdone himself, stupid-wise, with his new, lie-filled bio web
site. That's the first thing you need to know.
The second thing is that this is one of those long-ish posts, and
if you have grown bored with reading about Coldwell and wish I
would write about someone else, feel free to skip this post
altogether. You won't hurt my feelings. However, if you've
wandered over here because you want more information about
accusations on that loony new web site, you've come to the right
place. Just be glad I am merciful enough to write this post in
two parts. As is always the case with my long posts, if you're
reading this on your computer and your eyes get tired easily,
feel free to print this out and highlight the links you want to
follow later.
~CC
UPDATE 2 August 2014: Due to numerous
complaints to the Web host about the defamatory lies Coldwell told about his
critics on the "Defamation" page of his new site, that page was ultimately removed. Even so, I am leaving this blog post up
because I believe that it is important to track and document the
lies Coldwell has been telling.
Gosh, June is almost over -- it's already gone, on some parts of
the globe -- and I've been neglecting my Whirled again. Sorry
about that. Let me tell you, though: there's nothing that can
shake a Whirled blogger out of her summer snooze like a big
burning (or Bernd-ing) pile of stupidity. Imprisoned serial scammer Kevin Trudeau's ex-b.f.f. Not-Doctor Leonard "Loony"
Coldwell, the former Bernd Klein of the Republic of Germany and
in recent years a fairly frequent unwilling guest on this Whirled, has surely outdone himself in the stupidity
department.
In a laughably transparent attempt to shore up his
reputation (a rep totally built on falsehoods anyway, since he's
pretty much a nobody in his native land and his entire U.S.
platform was created by mega-liar Trudeau in the first place), he
has just damaged said rep even further, while committing some of
the most blatant acts of defamation against some of his critics
that I've ever seen. Earlier this month he
rolled out a comically defensive and hilariously garbled -- yet
seriously defamatory -- web site to
counter the growing body of criticism and questions about his
credentials and his credibility.
Though I just found out about the site a few days ago, he
actually announced it on June 20, 2014. I took these screen shots
from Bernie O'Mahony's GINtruth.com post about Loony's new
site, because they were already
pre-redacted (pre-dacted?). I'm lazy that way.
Coldwell obviously intended for the new site to vindicate and
validate him, while increasing his martyr/hero creds by playing
on that whole lunatic "conspiracy to destroy" theme.
And indeed, a few Coldwell loyalists and obviously clueless
knee-jerk responders jumped on the martyr thing by immediately
sharing his announcement post on Facebook. Oh, woe is us, the
medical establishment is out to destroy all good natural-cures
"doctors!"
 |
Nice work, Peter Wink! You and some of
Coldwell's other close buddies
know full well that Coldwell is LYING about me on that site.
And you probably know his other allegations
about other critics are desperate lies too.
And yet you support him
and call him a "warrior." |
But in the sane world, which I like to think still includes the
majority of thinking human beings, all Coldwell has really done
is vindicate his critics by shining a harsher light on his own
inanities and outright lies. And he has gone beyond the pale in committing the very types of lies and defamation of which he has
long accused critics. I will have more on that in a moment.
As noted above, I didn't find out about the new site until a few
days ago, when some friends of friends of friends stumbled across
Coldwell's June 20 Facebook announcement of the launch. There's
sometimes a bit of an info gap because Coldwell has me -- and
most of my Facebook buds -- so thoroughly blocked that it's hard
to see anything he writes. Evidently he keeps the vast majority
of his Facebook posts pretty private, even on his
"public" page. It's hard to be a "public figure" when you hide in such
a cowardly manner from the public. But it appears that his aim is
to set things up so he can talk about his critics behind their
backs on Facebook like a junior high girl, and the critics won't
be able to join in the conversation or even defend themselves.
That's his typical sniveling way of handling things.
Of course, I talk about people here too, often snarkily
and, some have said, mean-girlishly. But my posts are public and
the subjects are all welcome to join in the conversation. Few
ever do.
So let's take a leisurely look at Loony's new site, which is
public. Please note that everything I am writing about and
sharing screen shots about is current as of the time I am
publishing this post: Monday, 30 June, 2014, at 4:14 PM CDT. This being
the web, where things are subject to change, and Loony's site
being filled with actionable lies, it is possible that some of
the content may not be there for long. But for now, it's up there
and it has been duly recorded. [See 3 July 2014 update above. ~CC]
Fighting imaginary defamation with
real (and disgusting) defamation
My pal Bernie at GINtruth was on this one first --
here's that link again -- and I don't
blame him because he was the target of some of the most egregious
defamation on the new site. On Coldwell's DEFAMATION page -- aptly
named, as it happens, though not for the reason Coldwell intended
-- he posted a picture of a very beaten-up Bernie, accompanied by an outrageous lie. (Can't Lenny even feel the noose tightening around his fat little neck?)
That picture of Bernie was actually taken
during the New Year 2013, after Bernie was beat up by a group of
young Japanese thugs. Being New Year's Eve/Day, alcohol may have
been involved, but the egregious crime of which Coldwell accused
Bernie emphatically was not. Bernie explains the true
story on his blog post and links to his original Facebook post.
(If you are on Facebook you should be able to get
to that link; if not, suffice to say that LEONARD COLDWELL WAS
LYING. Again.)
In addition, as Bernie noted on his blog post, he isn't
"hiding" in Japan; he has lived there for 15 years.
He isn't being paid for his blog, and as far as I know he has no
criminal record. His main "crime" seems to be trying to
get to the truth about Loony.
By the way, if you follow that link you will notice that the
"Leonard Coldwell Defamation" page is supposedly
written by "Nicolas Coldwell," who claims to be Loony's
brother. Actually Coldwell's 12-years-younger half-brother does
sometimes go by the name "Nicholas Coldwell" (with an
"h"), but his real and legal name is Jens Wilhelm
Anskohl. I wrote about him here. At any
rate the "Defamation" screed was very obviously written
by Lenny himself.
Anyway, I guess you can't blame Lenny for being a little sore at
Bernie, who in addition to GINtruth.com has several other blogs
and sites related to some of his areas of interest. But GINtruth
is the blog that gets Loony's little pink panties in a bunch.
(Note: I don't actually know if his panties are pink, but he does
like to wear pink so I am just assuming that his panties match
his shirts and socks.)
For the next few paragraphs I'm going to be going over a
backstory that you may already know. Be patient; I'll get back to
newer stuff very soon.
Bernie started GINtruth in spring of 2012 when the Kevin
Trudeau/Global Information Network (GIN) sh-t started hitting the
fan big time. He wrote in detail about Trudeau's lies and broken
promises as they became more apparent, and he wrote about some of
the other speakers and principals in GIN. He shared stories and
opinions from ex-members and members who felt they had been taken
by Trudeau's extravagant promises and lies. Bernie's blog has
been a great resource for those with questions about GIN, since
Bernie himself was a GIN member and is still in contact with many
current and ex members and insiders.
And for a while, thanks to that "common enemy" factor,
he was in alliance, more or less, with the most vociferous
anti-GIN voices, including one Abe Husein, self-proclaimed GIN
Destroyer and media star, and even Leonard
Coldwell. They were all bros back then. Abe even made sure that
Emmy Award winning journalist Ryan Kath mentioned GINtruth.com on his first story
about KT/GIN (the mention is on the
last page of the article).
But then as more information came out about Coldwell throughout
the summer of 2012, and particularly as Bernie got wind of the
infamous 2007 Mount Pleasant, South Carolina police report (and
no, I did not send it to him; apparently someone else
did), he began writing critically about Coldwell on GINtruth. By
December of 2012 it had dawned on Coldwell that Bernie was not
going to back down on calling out Coldwell on his lies, lack of
credibility, and general ickiness. So Coldwell began threatening
Bernie. This is from a private message exchange between Bernie
and Coldwell, circa December 13, 2012.
(Here's a brief May 2013 blog post, with picture, about some of
that cash that Lenny showed Peter.)
And this is from a public post, also from December 2012, when
Lenny was trying to get Bernie to "pick a side":
And here are two of the follow-ups (same
date):
Okay, that's enough of that. You get the idea.
(And if you're new-ish here and are puzzled by the talk about
prostitutes and so forth, keep reading.)
The point is that by December of 2012 Bernie had clearly drawn
his line in the sand, separating himself from Coldwell and not
long after that from Abe Husein, who continued to vigorously
support, defend, and even promote Coldwell. As indicated in one
of the shots above, Abe was and presumably still is in business
with Coldwell, selling his overpriced BePure "cleanse."
So that's the origin of Coldwell's beef with Bernie. It also
explains why Abe has also made a point of trying to discredit
Bernie to various producers and reporters, who nonetheless seem
to have no qualms about reading GINtruth. (Or about reading my
blog either, for that matter. Or Salty Droid's.) While all of
this background may seem trivial, and probably is in the larger
Scamworld picture, I recounted it here because I think it is
vital for people who care enough about this matter to research to
see why Coldwell has gone after Bernie so viciously. Very simply,
it is because people read Bernie's blog, and I think that scares
Lenny big time.
But on his new site, Coldwell didn't stop at
lying about Bernie. He posted a picture of one of his former
ghostwriters (and yes, he uses ghostwriters for his English
language books because his written English is so comically bad).
He wrote:
Here is a women [sic] that
Never ever even meet Dr Leonard Coldwell in person, but filed
a false police report that she is sure, if he ever would meet
her, he would want to rape her.
Coldwell seems to be implying that she was
having rape fantasies about him, but with his garbled writing it
is difficult to tell. In truth, this person wrote an email to the
Mt. Pleasant Police Department back in July of 2012, and that
email became part of Coldwell's permanent file, added to that
2007 police report I mentioned above. But the email itself was
not a police report. And the ghostwriter did not say she
thought Coldwell wanted to rape her. Here is the context of the
rape mention in the email:
Dr. Coldwell is a dangerous person,
very narcissistic and mean-spirited... Dr. Coldwell's former
[employee] warned me, "It's a good thing that you never
met him face-to-face -- he would have tried to rape
you!" [Former employee] told me stories about getting
his college friends jobs at [a company run by Dr. Coldwell's
former partner]. These were friends straight out of college,
with no work experience. It was tough for them to find
jobs... so they'd start working for Dr. Coldwell. Eventually,
they would all quit, one after another... and when [the
former employee] followed up with them, each story was the
same...
You get the drift. I may have provided more
context than necessary, but maybe not. And by the way, although I
redacted names, all of the ellipses, with the exception of the
ones I inserted at the end of the passage, were in the original
email, so I wasn't leaving anything out.
I think it is pretty clear that the ghostwriter's email was not a formal
complaint or "false report" filed with the police. It
was an opinion based upon her own experiences working with
Coldwell, and with her impressions from conversations she'd had
with others who had worked with him. The email simply became part
of Coldwell's file at the Mt. Pleasant Police Department. For more information see here.
Incidentally, I have not and will not publish the police report,
and I will not send it to you if you ask. I do not want to
compromise the safety of the alleged victims or of anyone else
whose names and contact information appear on the very poorly
redacted report.
Lenny didn't stop at posting his accusation and a picture of his
former ghostwriter. He also posted pictures of her minor children
-- all without her permission. Bad, bad move, Loony.
And then there's Omri Shabat at the Glancingweb blog, who, though neither named nor pictured on the new
site, was also slammed by Loony. Lenny, claiming that the cancer
industry hired Omri to defame him, described Omri as a gay Jew,
and he accused Omri of the same heinous crimes against children
as he'd accused Bernie of committing. That accusation seems to be
a new obsessive theme with Lenny. We can only speculate as to
why.
What seems apparent is that Coldwell thinks that being Jewish or
gay is on a par with sexual crimes against children. I have seen
several posts that indicate Coldwell is both anti-Jewish and
homophobic. He has been known to make crude homophobic jokes and
remarks, even at his live events where presumably he is supposed
to be playing the role of a leader, worthy of emulation. And
Coldwell's hatred and suspicion of Jewish people has been
reflected in some of his Facebook rants -- as well as in private
correspondence to which I was made privy but am not yet at
liberty to share. I'm sure that the Jewish screenwriter who had
been hired to do the screenplay for the fictionalized Kevin
Trudeau movie (currently titled The Platinum Bonus) --
and whom Lenny had boasted that he spoke with to give her his
valuable input for the project -- was really impressed with some
of the stupidly anti-Jewish things he wrote on Abe Husein's page
on the Facebooks.
And then we have the artist formerly known as the Cosmic Slut. AKA Cosmic Connie. AKA your Whirled host. On his
"Defamation" page on the new site, Lenny writes:
There also is a Woman out there that
tried everything to have sex with Dr. Coldwell and because he
refused, she started to post lies, libel, slander, and
defamation against him. She posted hundreds of hours’ worth
of posts on her own, created websites and web addresses under
fake names to verify her own fake posts with other fake posts
on fraudulent websites she herself created. If you see how
many posts she made with the help of her buddies creating
fake Facebook pages pretending she was Dr. Leonard Coldwell,
and the hundreds of hours’ worth of hateful posts and
absurd attacks, you can easily conclude on your own how
obsessed she is with Dr. Leonard Coldwell. There could not
even be another reason, besides jealousy and feeling rejected
by Dr. C, since she does not even get any money or benefit
out of the hundreds of hours’ worth posting hateful posts.
Though the little twerp was careful not to call me by name or to
post my pic, it's pretty clear from context that he was talking
about me. After all, there's a precedent, as I've noted here
before. This is from November 6, 2013; Coldwell's remark, by the way, is completely out of context with the rest of the conversation:
Coldwell also recently told a reporter that I
had hit on him. So I think we can all conclude that he's talking
about moi on that new site. And I have just this to say to him:
Really, you pathetic little twerp?!?
Coldwell, you and I have never met in person and I hope to
Goddess we never do. So just how would I be "trying
everything" to have sex with you? Where are the emails,
snail mails, voice-mail messages, Facebook posts, private
Facebook messages, or whatever I supposedly used to convey my
undying lust for you? Surely you would have those, if they
existed, and you would share them with the world if you did.
They would be right there on your demented new web site. But
they aren't, because they don't exist. Moreover, even if I
were in the market for a new partner, which emphatically I am
not, it would be someone of my own species. And actually, I strongly prefer Jewish guys. Sorry, Loony.
As for the rest of the lies in that paragraph... as I explained in my comment on Bernie's post, I have never made up any accounts or written any posts
pretending to be Coldwell, and I write all of my posts about him
either on Facebook under my real name, or on my blog, which also
displays my real name. However, someone pointed out that he may
be claiming I have been impersonating him so that if I decide to
pursue any action against him because of some of those screen
shots that bear his name and pic, he can say they were either a
result of hackers or of my spoofing his account.
As I also noted on my comment to Bernie's post, Coldwell's lie
that I sexually harassed him is a relatively new angle.
Previously he claimed I was an ex-prostitute (with AIDS and other
STDs) being paid by Big Pharma. He also said I am a "cancer
tumor of society" and need to be "eliminated."
This is from late October 2012:
If you are completely new to my Whirled and/or to this part of the Loony Coldwell saga, you might be saying, "But he still didn't mention you by name, Connie! And there is actually a Cosmic Slut on the Interwebz!" Why, yes there is, which I discovered as soon as Loony began rambling about the "cosmic slut" back in October of 2012. But clearly, from context, he was talking about yours truly, because I do use the moniker "Cosmic Connie" on this blog (though my real name appears right below that moniker on this blog, and I use my real name on Facebook). And I am the Cosmic one who has written about Lenny; to my knowledge, the group of creative artists/musicians using the name Cosmic Slut haven't even heard of the pervy little skeev who named me the "cosmic slut."
And he carried on the slut/prostitute/paid
shill theme for well over a year (references were made to that in
those December 2012 Facebook shots I shared above). At some point this year he dropped the "cosmic," and I was just "the slut." This is from early March 2014:
At some point prior to that, he had apparently
decided I wasn't being paid to write posts about him, so
he began formulating a narrative that the only reason I could
possibly have for writing about him was sexual obsession. Uh-huh.
But given what he wrote about Bernie, Omri, and his former
ghostwriter on the Leonard Coldwell Defamation page on his new
site, I'd say I got off pretty easy. Of note, he really didn't
specifically reference Salty Droid at all. Maybe he is still
smarting from being humiliated when he tried to sue Salty (and Omri). More on that below, under "Timing & Context =
Everything."
Even so, he told nothing but
lies on the entire page: SOP for that SOB (no offense intended to
mother dogs or their progeny). Here's another lie...
The imaginary Katie conspiracy
Kevin Trudeau, aka KT, aka Katie, gets a category of his own
here. And it's well deserved, because it was Katie on whose
scam-encrusted shoulders little Lenny stood for a few brief
shining moments, and whose GIN scam gave Lenny a platform he
never would have had in the U.S. (and for that matter, didn't
really have anywhere in Europe, near as I can tell, despite his
numerous boasts that he is the most well-loved motivator and
healer of our time).
Here's what it says on the new site:
Other defamation was
ordered and paid for by Kevin Trudeau who acted for decades
like he was my brother’s best friend. The now
3-time convicted felon who is sentenced to 10 years in
federal prison, Kevin Trudeau, founded a great organization
that was helpful and was a great idea, to educate people
every weekend with the best speakers on earth for just 150
dollars a month and he involved Dr. C as the leading
motivational speaker. As soon as Dr. C found out that greed
took over the thinking and the actions of Trudeau, and that
Trudeau built the entire organization with lies, fraud, false
and misleading advertisement, Dr. Coldwell, contacted the
FTC, wrote to all the members he could reach about the fraud
and also made sure the FBI and the US District Attorney’s
office were informed about the potential crimes Trudeau
committed. Instantly, Trudeau paid people, enticed his
followers and ordered many of his employees to use every lie
and attack possible to discredit Dr Coldwell
.
Here is just one of the
emails Trudeau himself send out.
Well, that was a less than
impressive piece of evidence, I must say. To begin with, the
email in question was sent out in March 2013, as a result of
Trudeau being spooked by ABC's reporters showing up at his luxury
digs in Zurich. If Trudeau had "instantly" begun a
defamation campaign against little Lenny, as Lenny claimed, you
would think that Lenny would have some earlier emails to share
with us. After all, Lenny was jettisoned from the GINtanic some
time in May 2012.
Moreover, the email is heavily redacted. Here is the full email,
as well as another one sent out by Kevin around the same time.
Now compare that top email to the one shared by Coldwell. Notice one of the lines in that email that Coldwell redacted on
the version posted on his new site. He totally blacked out the
penultimate line on the 11:01 AM email: "-send him dr c
email proloting [sic] HIS deal... showing his TRUE motives for
lying about me and gin." (Kevin is apparently as bad a
writer as Lenny is.)
Now, I'm not saying that I automatically agree with liar Katie
that liar Loony was lying about Trudeau and GIN. They're turds of
a feather to this day; both are liars, in my view. And I don't
know what if anything Loony told ABC; Coldwell was not mentioned
at all on the final story. But if Loony simply said that Trudeau
was a liar and GIN a lie, then yes, even I have to side with
Loony. So I just wonder why Loony would want to redact that line
on the email. Maybe he didn't wish to draw any attention on his new site to the thing to which Trudeau was no doubt referring, the IBMS Master's Society scam, a GIN ripoff that provides a painfully obvious motivation for Coldwell to try to turn people against GIN.
Or maybe he just got carried away with his redacting. At any
rate, his shot of a single heavily redacted email written by
Kevin Trudeau to Trudeau's staff in March of 2013 does not prove
anything remotely resembling a paid defamation conspiracy against
Lenny.
You may recall that I wrote about those Katie emails and their
context in the PS to a December 2013 blog post. In case you don't want to follow the link and wade
through the verbiage, here is what I wrote:
PS ~ Self-proclaimed GIN destroyer Abe
Husein is excited because he, Peter Wink and Loony Coldwell
were mentioned in a March 2013 email from Kevin Trudeau to
some of his cohorts. Katie apparently panicked and clumsily
tried to do some damage control after ABC News showed up
outside of his luxury digs in Zurich in March. It was
apparently those "ambush journalists" who spooked
Katie into trying to discredit some of his detractors. It's
almost as if he didn't really realize what they were up to
until he got shaken out of his complacency by ABC's visit.
More than likely he was also inspired by his looming court
cases and upcoming hearings and trial. But his main concern
besides discrediting his detractors seemed to be to get tons
of pro-GIN testimonials into the right hands. In fact, he
seemed more concerned with getting those testimonials than
with discrediting Abe, Wink, and Loony. Word has it that no
one in the GIN offices actually embarked upon a campaign to
discredit the Three Stooges, reasoning that the Stooges did
their own self-discrediting better than anyone else ever
could.
Following that, I posted a shot of the emails that I just shared above.
I continued:
Obviously any efforts at damage control
that may have been made in the wake of the ABC
"ambush" were ineffective; ABC aired their episodes
of The Lookout, one in May
and a followup in August, with, it must be noted, a segment featuring
Abe (but with no mention of Loony or Wink). I think that most
journalists who have had any interaction with Loony or Wink,
particularly Loony, can sense that showcasing them as sources
would not be the best move, credibility-wise, for any news
media outlet...
I actually had spoken to a former GIN principal
who was still with GIN at the time Trudeau sent out those emails.
This person said nobody at the GIN offices bothered to try to
discredit Lenny, Peter, or Abe "because they did such a good
job discrediting themselves." And I stress that this source
wasn't necessarily anti-Coldwell; in fact this person had
previously told me that Trudeau was actually becoming envious of
the attention Coldwell was getting in GIN, and in this person's
informed opinion, Katie's resentment of Coldwell's growing
popularity was a secondary reason for Trudeau's decision to
remove Coldwell. (The primary and overriding reason, according to
this source, was that Coldwell and other speakers were costing
GIN too much money -- money that Katie wanted to put towards his
legal defense.)
The point here is that in the wake of the ABC reporters
"ambushing" Trudeau in Zurich, Trudeau's people were
apparently much more focused on getting pro-Trudeau testimonials
for ABC than on getting anti-Coldwell information. Technically,
however, Trudeau was paying the people to whom he sent
the above emails, because... um... they were working for him.
But was it a conspiracy? Only in Coldwell's twisted little mind.
As for the rest of the narrative, it's patently absurd that
Coldwell makes himself out to be the hero who exposed Trudeau's
fraud after he "found out" about it. He was fired from
GIN, pure and simple. He didn't give a crap about the lies; in
fact, later he insinuated that he knew for a long time that there
was no GIN Council, and so forth. No doubt he would still be
happily promoting or at least defending Katie even now had he not
been booted out. The truth is that Coldwell lost a very hefty
income stream when he was fired from GIN. Granted, the income
stream would have dwindled by now anyway, due to the
investigations of Trudeau that had begun long before GIN did. But
Coldwell would have had at least another year and a half of
raking in money from GIN and Katie, had he not been booted out.
An accuser recants, raising more questions
One of the hot-button items on Coldwell's new site is his sharing
of an affidavit by one of the women whose accusations against him
were recorded in the aforementioned 2007 Mount Pleasant, South
Carolina police report. Although the report did not result in any
charges against Coldwell, and although under South Carolina law
the most serious charge against him would have been
"forcible fondling" -- NOT RAPE -- it's still pretty
disgusting. (Salty Droid wrote about it first, back in September
2012. Here is that link again.) The
woman, whose first name Coldwell had the enormous bad taste not
to redact when he shared the screen shot of the affidavit,
apparently recanted her accusation. Lenny crowed about it:
The main false
accusations and lies are usually based on the payments from
the enemies of Natural Cancer Cures, and are told to use and
make up, or to create on their own. One of the usual
accusations they use are sex related accusations, so they
created a false police report to destroy Dr. Coldwell’s
reputation and at the end of this article you see that the
person that made the false police report did retract it and
confirmed that she was forced to make these false accusations
against Dr. C! Another women they used could not even live
with her false accusations and took her own life. This is
what these criminals and special interest groups are causing-
people going to jail for the lies and false accusations they
made and others even kill themselves. (You can get the names
and addresses of these people and groups if you write
to [EMAIL ADDRESS REDACTED]. [More on that last
sentence at the end of this post. ~CC]
Interestingly, although the
woman's original complaint was filed in 2007, her affidavit was
dated April 23, 2014, a mere six days after Coldwell's stupid
Cook County lawsuit was "dismissed for want of
prosecution" (see the section immediately following this
one). Probably just coincidence. Maybe Coldwell had actually been
pressuring her for months or even years to recant, and she
finally folded.
But even if she did recant her accusation, there were several
other women who made accusations as well, so this does not
render the police report invalid. And it's just horrible
that Coldwell would say that a young girl who was murdered not
long after her alleged experiences with Coldwell killed herself
because she could not live with her "lies" and
"false accusations." Moreover, Coldwell's claim that
the "enemies of Natural Cancer Cures" was behind the
police report is... well, I hope the Mount Pleasant, South
Carolina police department is reading this. They'll get a good
laugh out of it.
Again, I want to stress (as I have on previous posts) that this
report did not result in any criminal or civil charges against
Coldwell. But Coldwell's implication that only one woman filed a
report about him and that because she recanted, the entire report
is fake, is absolutely false. And that old saying, "Where
there's smoke there's fire" seems to apply here. In my
opinion.
One more thing: I heard from what I believe to be a reliable
source that Coldwell or someone representing Coldwell had
approached a couple of the women last year, offering them money
if they would recant their accusations. I have not followed up on
this. But I can't help but wonder if instead of making her
accusation under duress, the woman who reversed her accusation
was recanting under duress. Perhaps it is a matter worth
looking into.
Timing + context = everything
Some might be wondering why Lenny chose to roll out this smarmy
scrapbook of misinfotainment after spending years clumsily and
defensively dodging the very questions he pretends to answer on
his new site. I'm not the only one who sees the new site as a
clear sign of desperation, but I find the timing and context
interesting. I'm thinking that a combination of factors finally
drove him round the bend.
The Whois information indicates that the domain was actually registered in March of this year, but the site itself was apparently not completed and
launched until just last week. And again, Coldwell has been
dodging these questions for years. Why is he finally trying to
"answer" them now?
I can't help thinking that it might have something to do with his
recent lawsuit humiliation, which has been well covered on
several blogs, including this one (here and here); as well as Salty Droid and GINtruth
and GlancingWeb. In the event that
you don't feel like taking the time to follow all of those links,
but you want to know the background, I'll give you a relatively
abbreviated version.
On February 10, 2014, Coldwell filed a defamation per
se complaint in a Cook County, Illinois court (because he
thought that Jason Jones, aka Salty Droid, still lived in
Chicago). One problem with the lawsuit
was that it named, "Omri Shabat, aka Jason Michael
Jones," because Lenny stupidly thought the two men are one
and the same. The other problem was that at the time the
complaint was filed, nobody named in the complaint lived in Cook
County. And though the defendant address listed was indeed
Jason's former address -- which Jason
himself had posted on his web site back when he really lived in
Chicago -- all of the blog posts cited
at length in the complaint were Omri's, from his blog,
GlancingWeb. Needless to say, it was impossible to serve papers
on the defendant(s), as one was in another state and one was in
another country entirely.
No matter. Shortly after the suit was filed, Coldwell was all
over Facebook bragging that he had sued Salty and that Bernie and
I were next. Clouding the issue, Abe Husein posted on his
Facebook page that Coldwell had sued Salty and Bernie. (I guess
Abe got confused because
his buddy had only threatened to sue Bernie.)
As it became more apparent that serving process was not going to
be easy, Coldwell wrote a series of little rants about how Salty
had found out Lenny was suing him and had gone into hiding -- a
total lie, of course. But Lenny vowed that his private
investigator and/or his loyal fans would hunt Salty down so he
could be served.
On February 27, 2014, a little over two weeks after the suit was
filed, Loony's own lawyer, Dennis Kellogg (a personal-injury
attorney whom Coldwell apparently got through one of those
Lawyers R Us monthly-fee services) filed a motion to withdraw from the case "for
professional reasons." The motion
was granted by the court on March 17.
Shortly after the lawyer's motion to withdraw was granted,
Coldwell was on Facebook saying that he had been informed that
the case was a criminal one and involved multiple jurisdictions,
so he would be seeking a new lawyer and filing new criminal cases
against all of us bloggers. He continued to figuratively shake
his chubby little fist, warning that we "criminal"
bloggers might soon find ourselves in a jail cell with Kevin
Trudeau.
Meanwhile, Salty/Jason, who had become aware of the lawsuit only
because a loyal friend notified him and another one obtained
copies of the complaint from the courthouse, responded properly.
(I do not know any details about Omri's responses, although
apparently he did respond, according to the LexisNexis summary page.) Jason filed a motion to dismiss the case
(due to its utter stupidity) as well as a motion for sanctions against the lawyer and Loony (due to their utter stupidity). Those motions
became moot, however, when on April 23, 2014, the case was dismissed for want of prosecution. Obviously, Lenny had not found a substitute lawyer,
and nobody from the plaintiff's side showed up -- including
Lenny, is my guess. So the judge duly dismissed it and said,
"Next!" I imagine that Jason still has an option to
pursue sanctions if he so desires, but at this point he's busy chasing down other bad guys so he probably has other things on his mind.
Of note, during the back and forth about the case, Jason had
asked Lenny point-blank about his degrees and was prepared to
bring his lack of credentials up in court if it had come to that.
Perhaps Lenny was growing increasingly uneasy about someday being
pressed to prove his creds. In any case, the lawsuit was a major
fail -- not exactly a feather in the cap of someone who so
frequently boasts, "I will not start the fight, but I will
finish it!" and "I have never, ever lost a fight!"
In this case, he started the fight, didn't finish it, and
he lost. So there's that. Of course the ending of this saga is
not mentioned on his new web site, or on any of his sites,
including his Facebook page.
Maybe Lenny's desperation was further escalated by the fact that
a few mainstream journalists have been poking around his business
in the past few months, asking him those uncomfortable questions
about his credentials. And perhaps it also has to do with the
cumulative effect of the questions that people have been asking
him for more than two years now via blogs and Facebook posts.
I also toyed with the possibility that Coldwell had some sort of twisted entrapment scheme going on in his little brain -- deliberately writing lies so his critics would respond vigorously, and then he could try to jump on them for defaming him. Apparently he did something like this in Germany back in the late 1990s; he sent somebody to trick a cult expert into privately speculating that some of the techniques he taught were cult-like and reminiscent of Scientology. Then he turned around and sued that person for defaming him. He lost.
What's clear is that his new site is indeed an expression of
deranged desperation.
Echolalia and
projection
As I have noted here before, when it comes to his critics Leonard
Coldwell has a history of taking accusations that have been
leveled against him, and turning them right back around to the
accuser. It's like a written form of echolalia,
or echophrasia, the automatic
repetition of vocalizations made by another person. My husband
Ron has a simpler explanation: it's the Pee Wee Herman defense:
"I know you are, but what am I?"
For instance, as I have mentioned here before, shortly after Salty Droid published his September 2012 blog post about
the 2007 Mount Pleasant police report on Coldwell, longtime Kevin Trudeau buddy and frauduct peddler Fred
Van Liew (Whirled name Fred Van Loony) posted a link to that post
on Facebook, tsk-tsk-tsk-ing about the allegations that Coldwell
had exploited his position as a fake doctor and health
"expert" to take advantage of numerous vulnerable
women.
Fred Van Liew Thursday at 7:01pm
This is not good news regarding Coldwell. Sorry
to have to post, however my radio program and my life is
about health, and this man evidently represents anything but.
The article will keep you from going anywhere near this man.
http://saltydroid.info/dr-leonard-coldwells-handson-healing/
An extended discussion about the allegations followed. I wrote
about that and other aspects of the Coldwell-Van Liew
pot-and-kettle saga on this September 2012 post.
Very shortly after Fred "exposed" Lenny on Facebook,
Coldwell was on Facebook accusing Fred of molesting women while
pretending to "test" them. This is from October 24,
2012:
And a year later he was still accusing Fred of putting his hands
on the ladies and practicing medicine without a license. I wrote about that here.
That is just one example. Coldwell also seems to love threatening
his international critics -- that would be Bernie and Omri --
with Interpol. Bernie has some hilarious things to say about
that, and has actually contacted Interpol to find out if they
really are after him, as Coldwell claims. He will be keeping us
posted on his blog. I imagine that the purpose of Lenny's
Interpol meme is partly to impress his more dimwitted followers,
who might be taken in by the air of international intrigue that
the word "Interpol" lends to his lunatic rants. But I
also know from reading the police report that Interpol and other
international organizations have been contacted during
investigations into Coldwell's activities. Once again...
echolalia. Or projection: scenes from his own life, projected
outward.
Now, as for Coldwell's false claims that I am an ex-prostitute,
on first glance that seemed to me to be just a gratuitous tactic
to further discredit me. I don't think the echolalia factor
applies here, as I do not believe anyone has accused him of being
a prostitute (though I could be wrong). But the projection factor
may apply. I have heard that he has an affinity for prostitutes
and paid escorts; I really don't know and don't care. Perhaps he
has some sort of love-hate relationship going on with that
profession. Many men do.
As for the pedophilia accusations he has leveled against others,
I really don't know where that's coming from. However, Bernie did
share a screen shot on his
first post about Coldwell's new web site.
Someone who knows Coldwell very well wrote this:
...he is obviously
really desperate...this info is coming from a pedophile which
is why he calls everyone else pedophile. He projects who he
is in all that he says...Desperate is my conclusion the walls
are closing in!
It would appear that Coldwell's statements about his critics
reveal a lot more about him than about them.
Slithering idiot
For all you herpetologists and serpent fans out there: when I use
the word "slithering," please know that I mean no
offense to snakes, which actually serve a useful purpose in
nature. On his "Defamation" page, Coldwell seems to be
taking his usual tack of indirect directness, apparently
attempting to slither his way out of any liability for the
content by (1) pretending his brother wrote the screed
on the "Defamation" page; (2) not actually naming any
names in his lies about his critics (although those pictures he
posted of Bernie and of Coldwell's former ghostwriter would seem
to open him up to liability should the owners of those pictures
choose to pursue legal action); and (3) claiming that (in the
case of his accusation against Bernie), a "source" sent
him the beat-up picture and told him the supposed story behind
the picture.
Just like "sources" told him that I am an STD-infected
ex-hooker.
As I have noted here before, Lenny has a long history of giving
himself what he thinks is an easy out should anyone actually come
after him. On several occasions he has claimed that his Facebook
account and/or web site were "hacked." He has blamed
his "assistant" for some of the rants on Facebook. And
then, as discussed here previously, there is the disclaimer at the bottom of
the page on his main site:
The Dr Leonard Coldwell Foundation e V is responsible for
the content of this website, all legal issues have to be
addressed to Dr Leonard Coldwell Foundation e V Germany. Due
to a hack on our sites we cannot retrieve the origin of some
articles used on this website. We apologize for that.
Articles are also from our friends, colleagues and fellow
freedom fighters like: www.rense.com,
www.seedsofdeception.com, www.goodlifefoundation.com,
www.robertscottbell.com, www.healthfreedomusa.org
www.dorway.com, www.prisonplanet.com, www.nvic.org,
www.naturalnews.com and www.mercola.com. We appreciate the
great work and research of Jeff Rense, Dr. Rima E. Laibow,
Dr. Betty Martini, Dr. Thomas Hohn, Jeffrey Smith, Dr.
Mercola, Mike Adams - The Health Ranger, Alex Jones, and
others.
Yakaru, a friend and fellow
blogger who lives in Germany and is familiar with the way things
are done there, says that the Dr. Leonard Coldwell Foundation e V
seems to be a nonexistent foundation. You can read Yakaru's take on it here (scroll down to find "The Dr Leonard Coldwell
Foundation e V").
But it is quite possible that Lenny's slithering won't get him
out of any liability should someone choose to pursue action. I
understand that several complaints have been sent to the host of
his new site, and there may be other actions taken as well, so it
is quite possible that some of the content discussed above will
be removed at some point. But as I mentioned above, I am telling
the truth here about the site as it exists at the time I am
writing this post. In other words, as one of my long-time
favorite humorists Dave Barry always likes to say, "I am not
making this up." [Again, see 3 July update above. ~CC]
Who's defaming whom?
I have been told by more than one attorney that I have a very
good case against Coldwell based upon the lies he has written
about me. I imagine that the other critics he's slammed have a
pretty good case too. These attorneys have said that Coldwell's
statements -- falsely accusing critics of prostitution,
of having sexually transmitted diseases, of committing criminal
sexual acts -- are the very textbook definition of unprotected
speech.
In my case, these attorneys were referring specifically
to First Amendment protection, which of course only applies in the
United States. But I imagine that there are equivalent points --
related to freedom of expression as opposed to defamation -- that
would apply in international litigation. I have not made any
decisions myself about pursuing action against Coldwell and I do
not know if his other targets have made any decisions. But at
this point, this poorly worded statement on his site -- at the
bottom of his main bio page -- seems to be tempting fate:
Defamation, Libel,
Slander and the Conspiracy to Destroy Ground of Business: To
preempt any form of doubt creation: Dr Leonard Coldwell has
never been sued, arrested, indicted, trialed [sic] or convicted of
any crime.
Is Coldwell trying to incite vigilante
"justice?"
Coldwell's perverse sexual fantasies about his critics are
disturbing, but even more disturbing to me is the fact that in
the context of lying about some particulars of the 2007 police
report, he invites people to write to him at a certain email
address, and he promises that he will give them all of the names
and full contact information of everyone who is involved in his
purely imaginary “conspiracy” to “destroy grounds of
business” and to “defame” him.
Because of the context in which he wrote this, I believe that
this list includes the numerous women (and as I noted earlier,
there wasn’t just one) whose accounts appear in the police
report, as well as bloggers and journalists who have done nothing
more than raise legitimate questions -- questions that he has
still not answered with anything except another round of
ungrammatical lies, though admittedly this time those lies are
enhanced with jpegs of spurious credentials and old German
newspaper clippings.
By threatening to share our contact information it seems clear
that he is trying to incite vigilante justice -- one step below
actually posting all of the names and personal information on a
public web site, as, for example, certain extreme groups have
done, with the results that some of the groups’ targets have
been stalked and murdered. The fact that reportedly Coldwell has
also -- with apparent seriousness -- talked about sending hit men
after people should also be considered, as should the fact that he has
previously threatened me -- and others -- via private message on
Facebook (once again pretending to be his brother, and using
still another fake name: "Rudi Kauder").
Ron and I take his invitation to his fanatical fans as a bona
fide threat and we are taking appropriate actions.
You might think that after all of the above, there's not much
more to be said about the pack of lies on the Leonard Coldwell
bio site. But if you are thinking that, you don't know me. I'm
not quite finished. In Part 2 we'll take a closer look at
some of those "certifications" of which Mocktor
Coldwell is so unjustly proud, as well as other odd bits and
pieces on his new site.
Meanwhile, here is Bernie's followup GINtruth.com post
about Loony's new site. Enjoy!
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The rest of the
story...
