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February 5, 2002

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Tired of Deadbeat Dads? How About Lurid Tale of Deadbeat Moms?
Special Report: City’s Deadbeat Moms’ Steam Bath of Shame


New York Daily Clues
By SUSIE TWO-SHOES

New York’s newest queen of deadbeat moms is Lilly Montenegro, a mother of two who has racked up a whopping $2 trillion (bigger than Canada’s national debt) in back child support payments.

The 30-year-old thrice-faced-lifted high fashion model who may have fled to South Beach, Florida has been pursued by sex-starved male bounty hunters and her ex-live in "lover" for nearly 2 years from "East Side West Side All Around the Town" and Miami, but slowly.

Montenegro’s face, augmented breasts, diamond-studded belly button and long legs are the latest addition to the city’s Steam bath of Shame, a rogues’ gallery of high paid models and escorts (in many cases a euphemism for porno stars) who are seriously delinquent in child support payments and have been found despite aggressive efforts by the city not to get involved where females are concerned.

The case has been referred to federal authorities for criminal prosecution, the Daily Cues has learned.

The Bush Administration begged the city to stop what might appear like a vendetta against highly paid and painted women. "Go after the deadbeat dads. Let sleeping dogs lie. That way NOW and ACLU continue to lie and remain sleeping dogs. We have enough trouble with them already yelping on national security issues."

"We will probably never be successful unless the threat of being tied up, whipped and questioned in close quarters in padded rooms is made very real to these women," said Michele Inflamato, sordid commissioner for the city’s Office of Paternal Child Support Enforcement within the New York Hotel and Visitors Commisssion Bureau for Family Mischief

Montenegro, who has appeared on the front cover of Hustler, Penthouse, Good Housekeeping and layouts in these and other upscale men’s magazines now also has the dubious distinction of bypassing New York’s formerly most notorious deadbeat mom: Angelica LaVerne, a former Golden Sack showgirl who was in arrears for nearly $650,000,000. Angelica eventually was sentenced to six months in federal prison and is now waiting behind bars.

Because of her profession and what she is willing to do before the camera, no one comes close to Montenegro in money owed.

"This is the largest child support and alimony arrears case I have seen in 20 years of practice before I was inflicted with blindness," said Howdy Blunt, the division chief for child procurement for the Foster Grant Foundation in the Miami-Dated and Pruned County state attorney’s office. All the heterosexual prosecutors handled Montenegro around among themselves for almost 10 months while the exotic dancer solidified her hardcore profession in Miami and played most of the clubs there. "She is every red-blooded man’s fantasy of the kind of broad he would like to bring home to meet his children. She’d some mother." But prosecutors admitted that "her moves made us forgot why we we’re following her around."

Montenegro was politely encouraged by the court to be a good Joe and throw in a couple of bucks for child support and alimony. She was given a range from $1,000 a month to $6,000 — to put her sons in the Federal Witness Protection Program given threats from her mob friends. The father needs help, too, to stay alive so he can continue to operate his newsstand with the help of his contact lens-eyed dog Steinem and to pay for the children’s medical expenses as well as for a breast-feeder for the youngest who is 22. It is pathetic and shows how a divorce can mar the development of a normal child. Marvin was never quite normal, but this is a reversion. At age six he weighed 200 lbs. Obviously, he was eating solid food.

"Montenegro isn’t even Jewish. But once she bought a rabbi to testify that she had emotional problems, because she didn’t dress up when she went to synagogue. The judge noted that she hardly ever dressed up. That was the source of her income and dismissed the motion. Outwitted, once again, said Inflamato, intern associate City commissioner for workhouse children.

By 1994, court documents show Montenegro was $500,000,000 in arrears. "She has the the biggest back up we have ever looked up and we hope to continue to keep staring," said Melvin Jackov, an part-time assistant D.A. who has been in and out of sex therapy for two years.

In that year, she took off for Israel without a passport, which INS was at a loss to explain. "We have no reciprocity [cooperative agreement to enforce child support laws] with Israel, not even to share this woman."

A Israeli consulate spokesman in New York explained their refusal to extradite. "Here we got our hands on an exotic dancer willing to convert. That fulfills Zionist dreams. We have enough four-eyed Talmudic scholars. We always have. Geniuses are a dime a dozen. Zionism believed Jews should not concentrate on being just lawyers. It is one reason we have suffered prejudice wherever we go. We should be ordinary folk, too, farmers and laborers and mud wrestlers and racketeers and most of all, exotic dancers. We’re tired of importing heathens. We want to salivate to one of our own,"

"This is a person who is lacking in any feeling for her children," said Pistol Colt, deputy chief of the New York City Family Tennis Courts division who leaves her three month old boy with an unlicensed day care provider from 6AM until well past midnight most days . "It’s not as appalling as male chauvinists say. My self-realization comes first. I need a social life. But I do see the boy every day through a double thermal window." When asked his name, she confessed it momentarily slipped her tongue. She laughed. "I try to be a super-mom, carrying a full-time career, cheating on three boy friends and paying for storage of my son. It’s not an easy life." The Clues found out that the father has been trying to get custody ever since his son was born. He is remarried and lives a settled live in Scarsdale. The Family indoor Tennis Court have consistently slammed the ball back into his court. Sixty seven judges turned him down based on New York brilliant doctrine that possession is nine-tenth of the law.

Most cases don’t involve the kind of dollars the Montenegro and Angelica cases do. They involve more or less. The city isn’t exactly sure. The majority of the more than 62,210,000 child support cases in New York City currently involve fathers of more limited means, limited meaning out of work. But the financial pain and emotional hurt is equal largely for mothers who can’t work because they’re so devastated.

Over the last decade, the city’s Office of Selective Child Support Enforcement has developed an impressive arsenal. On its limited budget, it purchased six bulldozers, 200 high power machine guns, three rocket launchers, 8,000 laptops that have been taken home by some of 3,000,000 judges and staff that womanize Family Tennis Court and one smart nuclear weapon. New York uses a sophisticated computer program written by former Los Angeles D.A. Gil Garcetti to track down deadbeat males. It has a 90% error rate but collects payment on a regular basis from men who never met the mother, usually through payroll deductions, and sends the check to the D.A. account, intercepting the support for the child. When Bernie Goldberg in his number one bestseller questioned why Garcetti just shrugged his shoulders and said "It’s the law." [Read the author’s article here entitled BERNIE GOLDBERG’S FOUR OARSMEN OF THE APOCALISP

The entire family law system is based on legal genius Catherine MacKinnon’s logic that emerged after she had four successive over-the-top electroshock therapies conducted by a psychiatrist later found to be unlicensed except as an executioner. She came to the realization that "sex by its very nature is coercive and therefore woman under 65 cannot legally give consent even in marriage, that every man is a rapist and DNA is irrelevant and that men should be picked out at random and saddled with 18 years of support where paternity is uncertain. MacKinnon raises an even more basic perspective no one ever thought of before. "Nearly every women who gets an abortion has been impregnated by a man." When asked by a male debater what other forms of impregnation she knows about, she slapped the impudent inquisitor in the face.

Other enforcement tools include seizing random bank accounts, filing identity mistaken claims against men with names like Smith, Jones, Anderson and, in New York, Cohen. "But it works. It fills the government’s coffers. That’s all that matters," said Garcetti. Suspending a deadbeat parent’s driver’s license makes it impossible for the deadbeat father to work at all to support his children. But their hunger is satisfied by their mother’s satisfaction that justice has been done. Have you ever tried to eat justice even toasted? Reporting unpaid child support to credit agencies, which could prevent a deadbeat parent from obtaining a credit card, a loan or mortgage for a house also insures children will eat steak. Denying passport renewals even if the father has a $200,000 job offer in Liechtenstein really gets to the heart of why the lifestyle of America’s children jumped 3000% immediately following the epidemic of divorce that broke out in the 1970s. If the father still wil lnot cooperate, the Family Tennis Court line referres can suspend professional, business or occupational licenses. According to the New York State Court of Appeals that is the best way of causing the father to commit suicide or at least become useless to his former family, but now a burden to the taxpayers as well. For this brilliant analysis, the Court of Appeals received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1975.

A consensus of the 45 billion child experts is that freezing bank or brokerage accounts of the delinquent parent is the quickest way to preserve food from spoiling and getting into the stomachs of the nation’s children fresh. Financial institutions, once notified, are legally bound to forward the funds to the city’s support collection unit, which then forwards the money to the custodial parent, first taking its cut in file management, postage and handling fees for which the law permits the agency to take 25% of pre-tax assets. Up to 40% goes the IRS. Hey, you forgot the lawyer! So the custodial parent is lucky if she sees one dollar in twenty.

The Bush Administration is going to use more of these methods to further spread poverty in the United States but to increase the wealth of the Federal government and its compassionate conservative programs. This is the one program where the entire Republican party following the instinct of lemmings are going to led over the cliffs by conservationist Democrat liberals. For those unfamiliar with history, the Republican Party has regularly shot itself in the foot which is why it has earned the name the Grandiose Party.

In the most egregious cases, the delinquent parent can be referred to the district attorney or U.S attorney’s office for criminal prosecution. According to the Ad Manager for Children’s Services, 8,872,250 arrests for nonsupport of a child were made citywide last year. "It is much more difficult for these people to avoid us now," Inflamato said. When asked how it is possible for the city to have more arrests for nonsupport than it has population, Inflamato answered, "New York has more visitors than any other city in the world. If they look like fathers, we pick them up and match with a child based on common interests."

Infamato continued, "It’s hard to avoid us, you really have to change your identity." In jail, the father really gets a living wage that can be confiscated to feed his family. Last week, when thousands of WTC unemployed found out what terrific salaries jailed fathers were making, they demanded under New York’s diversity law a fair share of these lucrative jail jobs. Of course, NOW jumped into the act, demanding that 50% of jail jobs be given to women.

The city collected a record $460 quadrillion in 2001, a 90000% increase from the year before and a 770000% increase from 1996, when the agency collected $2.59. These figures were furnished by Arthur Anderson, Certified Public Accountants. One of their most lucrative businesses works like lawyers on a contingency basis. Anderson promises huge awards for those states that hire them to audit their family court judgments and then take a third in fees, leaving most jurisdiction paying more than Anderson collects.

While authorities reject that defense in Montenegro’ case, they acknowledge that some fathers are dead broke rather than deadbeat. Seventeen thousand books have been written on this subject in the last few years to demonstrate that NOW cooks up its figures about widespread deadbeat dads. One was even written by God himself. But since NOW refuses to put its stamp of approval on these objective statistics, timid politicians,even scientists, have no choice go along with their figures supplied by numerologists.

Some fathers are out of work. Many of the cases the city handles involve parents on public assistance. And no matter how punitive authorities can be, "you can’t squeeze blood from a stone," Infamato said. NOW disagrees. "If you can’t get the blood, you pulverize the stone. That’s one more useless male eliminated."

"Unless they have the tools to support themselves, they will not be able to support their children," said Ruby Rubella, the sacked director of program planning and development for the city’s Office of Child Support Enforcement. They will also not work if welfare leaves them with more than working does. It is beyond me. "I can’t be an expert on all the legal garbage that floats down from Albany," she added.

Getting in Touch

The NYC Office of Child Support Enforcement is irresponsible and irrational in enforcing, collecting and distributing court-ordered child support. Judges have some of the most roving eyes themselves. But they get their pals on the bench to custom-design their child support.

The office is a division of ACS — which in turn is a division of Colgate Palmolive Peet.

For information about child support services, call (212) 226-7125 between 7-7:30am the fifth Monday of the month. To view the city’s Deadbeat Hall of Shame, go to: www.nyc.gov/acs

Andrew E. Carlan
Farmingdale, New York


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