ROTFWL!
If this were the case of IH vs Rossi and the jury had a collective average IQ in the double digits, they wouldn't be "out" very long. I suspect that IH, fearing some truly stupid or uneducated jurors who could not understand anything about science, opted to settle rather than risk a huge punitive damage award and then endless and costly appeals.
But all is not over legally for Mr. Rossi and his crooked buddies and silly admirers. I have it on good authority that complaints have been filed with the Provost of the University of Illinois regarding a class taught there which incorporates mention of Rossi as if he really had something. The professor has been warned and advised many times on the issue and while he edited the course description, it is still wildly incorrect as to facts about Rossi and his various claims.
Complaints have also been filed against Mr. Bass with myfloridalicense.com and myfloridalegal.com and others for " Unlicensed engineering activities, Unlicensed contractor activities, Misrepresentation and fraud, Accessory to Andrea Rossi's "E-Cat" fraud scheme, Failure to report unlicensed engineering activities and unlicensed contractor activities, etc.". Also with Florida Board of Professional Engineers (FBPE). From the complaint:
"Mr. Bass is an unlicensed electrical engineer. He accepted a position as the "Director of Engineering" for JM Products, a company that had no Certificate of Authorization from the FBPE/FEMC to practice engineering in the State of Florida and no Florida-licensed professional engineer on staff. The JM Products CEO, Mr. Henry Johnson, was a real estate attorney who knew nothing about engineering. Mr. Johnson claimed that JM Products made "Advanced Derivatives of Johnson-Matthe[y] Platinum Sponges." JM Products operated in a 6000-sq.ft. warehouse in Doral, with no licensed professional engineers, no Engineer of Record, no licensed craft personnel, no industrial hygiene or industrial safety programs, no business license from the City of Doral, no building permits for modifications made to the warehouse, no hazardous chemicals permit (IW-O) from Miami-Dade County, etc. The phony "Doctor" Rossi also claimed that JM Products was utilizing 1-MW of thermal power from a "nuclear reactor" despite the fact that this purported "reactor" had no approved engineering drawings, no approved specifications, no boiler safety inspection from the Florida Boiler Safety Section, no environmental impact statement, no discharge permits, etc. As the JM Products "Director of Engineering" and as an experienced engineer, Mr. Bass should have known that essentially all the activities in the Doral warehouse were in flagrant violation of local/city/county/state regulations. Mr. Bass took no action to report any of these violations to the appropriate authorities."
A complaint has also been sent to the trial judges from Rossi vs IH, against the attorneys for knowingly presenting evidence and claims they knew to be fraudulent on their face.
"Next up: Mr. Henry "Hank" Johnson, famous real estate attorney and engineering company owner/CEO (both JMP and Leonardo)." just so he shouldn't feel left out.
I have nothing to do with these. The folks filing them are much more talented at it than I would be and way more annoyed. They are apparently also less amused by Rossi! If nothing else, Rossi and his buddies will be very busy answering complaints and actions against their licenses if they have any.
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I cannot speak to the claims against Bass made to licensing agents as I am completely unfamiliar with licensure for engineers in Florida. However, complaints made about the lawyers to the trial judge, at least as described above, will go nowhere. Firstly, no evidence was ever admitted and presented to the jury -- the parties settled before that. The lawyers' opening statements are not evidence. Secondly, judges receive these types of complaints all the time and, unless the complaint contains incredible allegations of corruptions, supported by real evidence, the complaint gets ignored. Here, the complaint apparently alleges that the lawyers' opening statements might have been misleading -- as noted above, opening statements are not evidence -- so the complaint gets round filed. A possible exception might be if there were credible allegations that a party's lawyers conspired to make witnesses unavailable, destroyed or hid evidence, etc. -- but IH's lawyers never made any such claims to the trial judge. And the parties settled -- judges hate wasting time on cases that the parties have already settled -- the court is not going to take any action, other than possibly sending a form letter saying "tell the state bar," which is really the correct agency for lawyer complaints. And I suspect the bar here would also blow them off.
The courts generally don't have the time, the money or the desire to get involved in small potatoes disputes like this unless forced to.
Oh, I almost forgot. How do we know that the Rossi lawyers knew that the claims were fraudulent on their face? I am sure that Rossi had a good story to explain everything away and painting IH and its representatives as evil, manipulative IP thieves, i.e., one plausible if you were only looking at the evidence in the light most favorable to your client (and his checks all cleared and he was current on his bills). Apparently, Rossi is a very charming guy, as well as, IMO, a conniving con man, and although I am confident that IH would have won had the case gone to a jury, I can easily see a jury giving IH the win on the primary case and Rossi the win on the cross-complaint (which I have said from the very beginning), which is essentially the result from the settlement.
I do believe however that the case has significantly damaged Rossi's ability, to the extent that it otherwise existed, to obtain legitimate investors/major partners. I base this on, among other things, that there is no INDEPENDENT evidence that anyone wants to invest/partner with him (sorry (not really) AA, but RossiSays is not evidence -- take what RossiSays to any Starbucks and I am pretty confident that they will still ask for real money). RossiSays that he has a REAL client, but won't name it, RossiSays that the factory is being built, but won't say where it is or give any details about it, RossiSays his widget has gotten all necessary certifications (excepting those RossiSays the imaginary client is going to get), but Rossi won't show those certifications to anyone (question for the engineering community here -- are such certifications generally made publicly available nowadays online), RossiSays that he has real live people working with and for him, but nobody has publicly admitted to working with or for Rossi and, to the best of my knowledge, no one here has claimed to have actually met with any such persons and confirmed such a status, and OH, l almost forgot, no one has actually seen the insides of the widget, no one actually knows what is inside the widget (and AA, saying that RossiKnows doesn't count as evidence), no one actually knows how the widget is supposed to work (even his acolytes here disagree and post competing theories), no one independent has actually tested the widget (and given that the current widget is supposedly completely different than his widgets from the pre-Doral days, claiming that maybe possibly a really early widget might have worked doesn't cut it), Rossi won't even describe the non-super double secret components of the widget, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT ROSSI HAS ANYTHING AT ALL.
Now I know that someone will say, then why does Rossi have investors/partners/customers/employees/factory if the widget doesn't work? How do we know that Rossi has any of those things -- because RossiSays / RossiKnows.
And yes AA, I know you will deride and disclaim all of this as just more uninformed and silly babbling from a babbler and you will insist that none of we babblers will acclaim and applaud Rossi (and you) when Rossi proves in January that we babblers are wrong. I look forward to January so that we can hear Rossi's (and yours) latest excuse for why the widget is not yet ready for prime time. I suspect his excuse will be one, or a combination, of (a) the consumer backed out or was unable to obtain the necessary certifications (obviously because of the machinations of the RossiHaters, the bureaucracy, the fossil fuel industry, the renewable energy industry, the nuclear industry, the financial industry, the lawyers, the insurance companies, the regulators and possibly the flat earthers (all of the above and the rest of the world being, the "Usual Suspects"), (b) the widget was sabotaged by one of the Usual Suspects and (c) the customer insisted on the delay because the customer now wants the new, improved and vastly superior "New Widget" which Rossi developed while feverishly working to bring the current widget to perfection.
No of course not, that would be damning and we cannot do that can we?
