The following complaint, filed with the State Bar of California, regards Miles Ehrlich, a former Assistant United States Attorney who, prior to resigning from the Department of Justice, obtained information regarding criminal activity engaged in by Marcia Hatch (aka Marcia Bruggeman, of Gunderson Dettmer (formerly a shareholder with Heller Ehrman’s venture law group), Ms. Hatch’s husband, Seamus Hatch and his business partner, Michael D. Bock of Littleton, Colorado among others from Jon Goodwin. According to Goodwin’s complaint the nature of the criminal activity he reported to Ehrlich on May 9, 2005 included: narcotics trafficking, conspiracy to launder money, identity theft, theft of electronic information, fraud and bribery of judicial officials.
Subsequent to leaving the US Attorneys San Francisco office, Ehrlich established a private criminal defense law practice in Berkeley, California (Ramsey Ehrlich) and thereafter began providing advice to Marcia Hatch and Seamus Hatch to assist them to avoid investigation and prosecution for the illegal acts Goodwin informed Ehrlich about while he was at the US Attorney’s office.
The foregoing individuals and their agents have employed tactics of extortion intimidation, threatening and misleading behavior in order to dissuade, prevent and undermine Goodwin’s attempts to communicate with law enforcement officials regarding the criminal activities he originally reported to Miles Ehrlich on May 9, 2005.