Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A Tale of Two Signatures

A TALE OF TWO SIGNATURES

During the trail of James M. Dwyer, in Camden, NJ Federal Courthouse, Dwyer's signature was exhibited on the wall of the courtroom, blown up so everyone could see, and he acknowledged that it was his signature on both copies of the IRS forms submitted, which he couldn't explain and was used as evidence that led to his conviction, and sentencing to nine years in prison.

But what was not shown on the wall, blown up for everyone to see, was the signature on the document that was presented to Dwyer while he was sworn in as a witness at his own trial, a document that when the chief prosecutor presented it to him and asked him if it was his signature, he said, no, and denied it was his signature or that he had ever seen that document before.

Now here was evidence of someone having perpetuated a crime by forging the signature of the person under oath and being prosecuted for crimes that will result in his being sentenced to nine years in prison, based primarily on is signatures on IRS documents, yet there was no further interest in this document, this forged signature, this crime?

It now seems that this document was a parole document related to the previous conviction of Michael McKeever, Dwyer's former Chief Financial Officer, who unknown to Dwyer, had previously been convicted and did time for financial irregularities and embezzlement when he was a senior financial officer at Revlon, a Fortune 500 company.

But since McKeever had died of a heart attack while Dwyer was in the process of purchasing a Philadelphia skyscraper, and the financial problems with Dwyer's company only became apparent after McKeever's death, Dwyer was left holding the bag and had to be prosecuted because McKeever couldn't be.

The prosecutors made the false contention that Dwyer used McKeever's death to hide his own crimes, but they had the evidence that Dwyer didn't know of McKeever's previous crimes in the false signature on the probation report that the prosecutor presented to Dwyer, and Dwyer acknowledged that it was not his signature.

Why would Dwyer acknowledge that it was his signature on the two IRS documents used to prove he was guilty, while the government had in its possession a document that contained a false and forged signature, said to be that of defendant James M. Dwyer, and not even try to determine who signed the false signature?

That's because they knew it was Michael McKeever's signing of Dwyer's name on his parole and probation papers, and provided clear evidence that Dwyer did not know that McKeever was a convict on parole for crimes that Dwyer was now himself being charged with.

Because the prosecutors could no longer get McKeever, who was clearly the guilty party, but dead, and had to go after Dwyer, who was innocent, but still alive, led to the charade that they developed in court to convict an innocent man - James M. Dwyer.

Who has now spent the last six years of his life in prison for crimes he did not commit.