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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT

OF DEKALB COUNTY

GEORGIA

ANTHONY S. TRICOLI,

Plaintiff,

vs.

ROB WATTS; RON CARRUTH; JIM

RASMUS; MARK GERSPACHER;

SHELETHA CHAMPION; HENRY

HUCKABY; JOHN FUCHKO; STEVE

WRIGLEY; BEN TARBUTTON; THE BOARD

OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY

SYSTEM OF GEORGIA; SAM OLENS, THEATTORNEY GENERAL OF GEORGIA; and

ROBIN JENKINS

Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION NO. 14-CV-4911

JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

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September 22 hearing, despite pleadings containing admissions by the

Attorney General and supporting documents obtained through Open Records

requests. Order, p. 1. That leaves a great deal of pleadings and exhibits in

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extensive criminal conduct confirming allegations of the original Complaint.

The Order also holds the state departments and agencies protected by

sovereign immunity, without addressing their amenability to injunction,

particularly with respect to OCGA 16-14-6(a). Order, p. 1.

The Order appears to make an additional factual statement upholding

the fraud by which Tricoli was duped into resigning his contracted position

on the promise of a USG central office position, a statement that has no

support whatsoever—that Tricoli did not receive the promised USG job

because of “additional reports of misconduct.” Order, p. 2. There was a false

report of misconduct that is part of the overall pattern of criminal fraud

alleged. There has been no misconduct alleged supporting either the breach

or non-renewal of Tricoli’s contract, much less any additional misconduct

justifying those actions.

The Order states that Tricoli had no written contract of employment,

ignoring the extensive evidence filed by Tricoli contradicting this

sanctionable, false denial by the Attorney General that has no reasonable

basis in law or fact. Order, p 3. This appears to confirm the impression that

the Court did not consider any pleading filed after the September 22 hearing,

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The Court skirts the voluminous evidence offered to show a written

contract incorporating the policies of the USG by saying that after Tricoli’s

forced resignation, he had no contract. Order, p. 3 (“Tricoli’s employment

contract as President of GPC ended with his resignation”). The Court also

relies on a holding in Liberty County that there is no relief for a state agency

failure to issue a new contract on grounds of discrimination, an opinion that

does not address injunctive relief under the RICO statute (and which also

afforded the plaintiff alternate non-contract claims for defendants’

misconduct). 4.5#$,/ 6&+1,/ 73-8 9.:,8 "8 ;*%%.5+$,&1 A8+W /55WD SZ<@BW

In any case, these rationales do not apply to the instant case, as they

do not address the documented breaches of both the contract and USG

policy during the term in which the contract was in effect, and the admitted

alterations of USG policy after the fact in an attempt to conceal the

wrongdoing. In fact, the Court’s rationale stretches to find a negative

inference instead of following Liberty County:

"A motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which

relief may be granted should not be sustained unless (1) the

allegations of the complaint disclose with certainty that the claimant

would not be entitled to relief under any state of provable factsasserted in support thereof.” Id .

The Order also does not address USG attempts to disguise otherwise

admitted breaches through after-the-fact changes of USG policy, as admitted



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by the Attorney General after this was extensively documented by Plaintiff

in the Notice of Filing of Evidence of Written Contract and Supplement.

The Order dismisses all tort claims. Order, p. 4. The tort claims in the

case are for fraud, fraudulent inducement, intentional infliction of emotional

distress. The Georgia Tort Claims Act (GTCA) does not bar these tort

claims against the state under the exceptions to the waiver of sovereign

immunity for specified tort claims at OCGA § 50-21-24(7). The dismissal of

such tort claims against individual state employees, which Plaintiff does not

contest, does not impact RICO claims against individual state officers,

which clearly can be brought. Caldwell v. State, 321 SE 2d 704, 253 Ga. 400

(1984) (civil RICO action allowed against state official and employees

conducting the Georgia Department of Labor as a RICO enterprise); McCoy

v. Georgia Dept of Administrative Services, (Ga. App. 2014) (civil RICO

judgment against Georgia DFCS workers for fabricating charges and

evidence in the course of their state employment).

Instead of addressing the RICO statute or the case law deciding RICO

claims, the Order relies on a tort action decided under the GTCA. Order, p.5;

Board of Public Safety v. Jordan, 556 S.E.2d 837, 252 Ga. App. 577 (Ga.

App., 2001). However, the plaintiff in Jordan did not allege falsification of

state agency reports. In fact, Jordan admitted his dismissal was proper, but



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alleged defendants caused him emotional distress by bringing accurate facts

to the attention of the media to induce negative stories about him. Jordan,

252 Ga. App. at 582-83. That case certainly does not contain any allegations

supporting claims for criminal mail, wire, and computer fraud, or knowing

falsifications of state agency reports, as in the instant case, and those issues

were not addressed or decided in Jordan.

Moreover, while the Order purports to state this rationale for

dismissing Tricoli’s RICO claims under the pretext that they are tort claims,

instead, the Court never stated any grounds for dismissing the actual tort

claims against the state alleged by Tricoli because there are no GTCA

exceptions for the torts of fraud, fraudulent inducement, or intentional

infliction of emotional distress.

However, in extending GTCA exceptions to tort liability to cover

criminal RICO predicate acts, the Court specifically held that knowing

falsifications of the GPC budget, a crime under OCGA § 16-10-20, are

discretionary acts immunized under a tort exception for negligence in

financial oversight. OCGA § 50-21-24(11). Order, p. 5. The Court

specifically held that such knowing, criminal falsifications, and their

dissemination in violation of federal mail and wire fraud statutes are

immunized under the tort exception for defamation OCGA § 50-21-24(7).



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The “trickery” in procuring Tricoli’s resignation was immunized as tortious

interference with contract rights, though there is no equivalence of elements

of a tortious interference claim with fraud, fraudulent inducement, or

extortion, much less theft by deception and Section 16-10-20 violations,

mail, wire and computer fraud. The Order did not address the amended

claims for computer fraud in violation of the state statute, the Georgia

Computer Systems Protection Act, as the Order was signed prior to the filing

of the amended claims noticed in the Motion filed on November 19.

The Order does not address any of the criminal statutes violated,

crimes that are listed as predicate acts under the RICO statute, except to say

that knowing falsifications of state agency reports, mail and wire fraud,

extortion, criminal violations of the GCSPA, and theft by deception are

“within the ambit of the Board’s discretion inherent to the exercise of its

administrative functions.” OCGA § 50-21-24(2). Order, p. 5-6.

In addition, without any explanation or analysis, the Order says RICO

claims are “premised on the same conduct” as the torts hypothesized by the

Court, so that the GTCA governs the claims that are based on criminal

violations--and not the RICO Act under which the claims are brought.

Nonetheless, the Order does not anywhere say that the claims fail to satisfy

elements of RICO criminal predicate acts, and therefore a civil RICO cause



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of action is authorized. OCGA § 16-14-6(c). In addition to not consulting the

RICO statute, the Order does not mention the case law authorizing civil

RICO claims against state officials. Caldwell v. State, 321 SE 2d 704, 253

Ga. 400 (1984) (civil RICO action allowed against state official and

employees conducting the Georgia Department of Labor as a RICO

enterprise); McCoy v. Georgia Dept of Administrative Services, (Ga. App.

2014) (civil RICO judgment against Georgia DFCS workers for fabricating

charges and evidence in the course of their state employment). Instead, the

Order merely relies on a negative inference with respect to Plaintiff’s claims

in order to grant the dismissal.

In the only actual reference to the RICO statute under which the

claims are brought, the Order claims there is no waiver of sovereign

immunity found in OCGA § 16-14-3(g) [sic]. Order, p. 6. The Order does

not say what Section 16-14-3(6) does mean, if defining a criminal RICO

enterprise to include governmental entities does not mean the RICO Act may

reach into state agencies, as the courts found in Caldwell and McCoy.

The Order does not consider other indicia of waiver of sovereign

immunity found throughout the overall structure of the Georgia RICO Act:

OCGA § 16-14-2 (legislative intent to prevent harm to state and

subversion of state economy).



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OCGA § 16-14-3(9)(A) (inclusion of Section 16-10-20, GCSPA, and

theft by deception as RICO predicate acts—all of which address state

government and contradict the discretionary function immunities relied on

by the Court).

OCGA § 16-14-4 (specifically provides for respondeat superior civil

liability for RICO predicate acts).

OCGA § 16-14-6(a) (authorizing injunctive relief for RICO predicate

acts).

OCGA § 16-14-6(a)(3) (specifically authorizing injunctive relief to

reorganize a governmental entity that is being controlled as a RICO

enterprise).

OCGA § 16-14-6(c) (authorizing civil action and punitive as well as

treble compensatory damages for criminal RICO predicate acts).

OCGA § 16-14-6(e) (equivalence of civil action and criminal

prosecution under the RICO statute). It is clear that government officials are

not immune from criminal prosecution under RICO, and bear civil liability

on the same basis, as demonstrated in Caldwell and McCoy.



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The Order cites respondeat superior immunity under the GTCA for

tort claims, while ignoring the explicit respondeat superior liability

authorized at OCGA §16-14-4 for RICO claims. Order, p. 6.

The Order likewise cites the OCGA § 50-21-30 bar to punitive

damages for tort claims against the state in the GTCA, and does not address

the specific authorization of punitive damages against individual defendants

for criminal RICO predicate acts at OCGA § 16-14-6(c). Order, p. 7.

Finally, the Order states that Plaintiff’s injunctive relief is dependent

on underlying tort and contract claims—with no mention of the RICO Act

specifically authorizing injunctive relief at OCGA § 16-14-6(a) for the

criminal conduct alleged. In fact, the Order never in any way addresses the

criminal nature of the allegations in the Complaint. The Order makes no

reference whatever to the Motion, and its grounds for injunctive relief

founded in the Georgia RICO Act, or of the claims and allegations of the

Amended Verified Complaint noticed in the Motion prior to the premature

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

Undersigned counsel hereby certifies that all Defendants in this action have

been served this Motion for Stay via electronic service, this 8th day of

December, 2014, as follows:

Samuel S. OlensDennis R. Dunn

Kathleen M. Pacious

Annette M. Cowart

Loretta L. Pinkston

Christopher A. McGraw

C. McLaurin Sitton

Office of the Attorney General

40 Capitol Square, SW

Atlanta, Georgia 30334-1300

STEPHEN F. HUMPHREYS, P.C.

/s/ Stephen F. Humphreys

___________________________

STEPHEN F. HUMPHREYS

Georgia Bar No. 378099

P.O. Box 192

Athens, GA 30603

1671 Meriweather Drive



Bogart, GA 30622

(706) 543-1844 f

(706) 207-6982 p

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