Complaint Review: Douglas Molloy

 This has been the last resort. We want to make others aware. (This case was for a man who was never in trouble, had cancer, had heart attacks and was believed to be working and getting social security/medicare) (to this day- during the case, the man had been hospitalized 3 times, had additional angioplasty, is on 7 lifetime drugs, had heart surgery to add 4 additional stents to his existing 3 - which is damage from the radiation he endured during his cancer treatment, has a Haitian hernia, disability to his left arm, no full ROM) This is just a brief synopsis. *disclamer, there were things that "we" did that obviously that made this case and fully understand ignorance to the law is not a defense. We Hired Doug Molloy in a rush, without any research. Which means money down, a lot of money. Big mistake. From day 1 he bosted about himself and how he, "Knew everyone in the court system, he trained theses people, they use to work for him, he had coffee with them and he never said anything unless it was 100% true." Which we then found to be, not true. He provided us with false information. (Example, he would attempt to get a diversion. Well to find out in a federal case, diversion program is not an option. )

He had us out line the indictment. We provided exact dates, information that was inaccurate on the paperwork and he did not even read it or ask us any additional questions to verify or correct the information. Apparently he thought it did not matter. He was supposed to be our advocate, it appeared as he convicted our case. We had to seek another attorney (a friend in another district helped us) just to get the laws straight. At least the other attorney corrected the dates with the Prosecutor to the best of his ability and brought the financial restitution down. Doug did not even try. Doug did not even understand the entire situation, medical history or timeline, dates , pictures etc. In front of 7 people, yes, 7 (family at the court sentencing) he said, "the state will be calling me in 90 days to get the bracelet off, this is no big deal." (Mind you at the beginning of our netting she said if this was his office and under him, this case would never have even got this far) without providing all details, it is hard to explain the mis use of the system and how this case went to far and was not even accurate.

However- it happened and we had to deal with it. I could go on and on about the entire experience, He did not file when he said he was going to, which cost us weeks actually months. He said he needed certain things, pictures, Drs notes etc. All provided, when it came time to present, he did not even provide to the court. We asked for a copy, confirmation. He did not even send us one. We had to obtain information for our case a different way. He would say, " Ask any Questions or call me. " Yet made us feel we were stupid and we had no other options or could not call and ask a question. If we did The calls were not returned or he could not meet with us for 7+ days. He might have returned 3 calls in a year. Never when was said. We had to ask a friend/another attorney to even help us????? Remember....we paid him upfront, so We were stuck using him. We did and do not have the luxury to go pay another. This was an ongoing situation during the entire case. We had the worst representation I have ever seen. We had no recourse because we gave him every cent we had to represent us.

We were treated as guilty from day 1 and like idiots when we asked for information and updates. This is All we can do is worn others of our horrible experience this last year. We had no faith in our attorney, what he said, or what he was doing. Please be careful who you hire. I took notes each visit and call, dated the inconsistencies and when asked for clarity was berated, yelled at and he even went as far as writing a nasty, unprofessional email to us. All documented. For anyone's sake I hope this was a one time bad experience. However if not, and it helps one other person or Mr. Molloy to reflect on his next case and read the documents, ask the client questions for clarity, nor assume, prepare better, explain details to the prosecutor, (we found out she did not even know several details) listen to the clients , answer another call or question. Then perhaps we all learned a lesson. There is no mal intent here other than to educate others and share our experience that I, the significant other paid a lot of my money for as the accused person was not in a financial place to pay.