Subsequent to leaving the US Attorney’s 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.

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Seamus Hatch and Michael Bock of Aran Strategic Finance, LLC– aransf.com stole Mr. Watson’s photo, the text of his professional biography and posted them on their firm’s website (http://www.aransf.com). They also created and operated an email account for Mr. Watson that he had no knowledge of or access to.

Seamus Hatch is Marcia Bruggeman Hatch’s husband. Marcia Hatch was a Heller Ehrman shareholder. She is currently with Gunderson Dettmer in Redwood City, California.

Description: Emails regarding follow-up to meetings held at Heller Ehrman’s offices on Tuesday, October 7th among Seamus Hatch (Barra Partners), Marcia Bruggeman (aka Marcia Hatch, Marsha Bruggeman, Marsha Hatch) of Heller Ehrman’s Venture Law Group Menlo Park (now with Gunderson Dettmer), Simon Luk (Heller Ehrman now with Winston & Strawn in Hong Kong) and Michael D. Bock (Barra Partners now with Aran Strategic Finance) regarding Heller Ehrman’s provision of legal services to Barra Partners.

Observations: Jon Goodwin, Barra Partner’s founder, was not cc’d on any of these emails nor was he invited to the meeting or even aware the meeting was taking place. According to Hatch, he briefed Bock on the meeting but neither he or Bock briefed Goodwin.This was because Goodwin did not want Barra Partners to have anything to do with either Marcia Bruggeman or Heller Ehrman.

Protostar was referred to Jon Goodwin and Barra Partners by Jon Monroe of Jon Monroe Consulting. Seamus Hatch referred Protostar as a prospective client to Simon Luk of Heller Ehrman. Hatch had no right to do this without first asking Goodwin’s permission which Goodwin would not have granted.

The email from Marcia Bruggeman to Seamus Hatch is cheeky. She’d been dating Hatch for several months (even had sex with him in the Executive Conference Facilities at the Ritz). Hatch certianly had her contact information so why did she attach her vCard?

Seamus Hatch claims he ‘buggered’ Marcia Bruggeman aka Marcia Hatch of Gunderson Dettmer (formerly with Heller Ehrman and the Venture Law Group– they were married approximately one year later. This communication indicates they both took photos of their trist. According to Seamus Hatch, Marcia’s photos are “more interesting.”