Judge Simpson HUMILIATES ‘Fake Lawyer’ During Explosive Courtroom Meltdown!

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]R and J Group, or is that what it's supposed to be? R dollar sign J Group Holdings. Versus Azar Sadeghi, Stanfield, and God Gazala.

[00:00:13]Stanfield.

[00:00:15]Ready, Your Honor. Good [clears throat] morning. Anthony Mammina appearing on behalf of plaintiff R Before this case even gets fully underway, the tension is already rising. What begins as a routine landlord-tenant dispute quickly turns into a legal battle about ownership, foreclosure, and a claimed federal lawsuit. One side says the lease expired. The other insists they're the real owners of the property. And when legal arguments start colliding like this, judges have to quickly decide whether this is a simple eviction or something much bigger. J Group Holdings LLC.

[00:00:52]You got either party here? Uh good morning, Your Honor. My name is Azar Stanfield.

[00:00:58]All right. And this is a termination.

[00:01:02]Yes, uh post post-lease term termination. We're not seeking to terminate for nonpayment, Your Honor, just because the lease has in fact terminated.

[00:01:13]Your lease has expired. Yes.

[00:01:17]All right, ma'am. What's your position on that? They're seeking to terminate your tenancy. Your lease has expired.

[00:01:24]Uh Good morning, Your Honor. This is not a landlord-tenant case, Your Honor. This is an owner of record versus the real owners of property, which are are us. Pardon me?

[00:01:39]It Yeah, we are the real owners of the property.

[00:01:44]This property was wrongfully foreclosed.

[00:01:47]This property I petitioned for a stay because our case against Wells Fargo is pending in federal court.

[00:01:57]and we want your honor to issue the stay because we also notified Mr. Momina that uh it's in fact them that are violating their contract because this was not a tenancy. This was uh lease with option to buy. We have been notifying them that we are ready to purchase the property since it has been two liens gone on the property. Our mortgage is ready. Our down payment is ready. And then they cannot remove the liens, your honor. And the liens are one from uh Ann Arbor Township.

[00:02:37]So uh unless uh R&J Group remove the lien, we cannot we cannot proceed with our mortgage to purchase the property.

[00:02:48]And this was our plan B to begin with.

[00:02:51]Our plan A is the our case pending in federal court for wrongful uh foreclosure foreclosure.

[00:03:03]So I want to petition for a stay before this honorable court till the >> Well, I'm not going to grant a stay if that's what you're asking for.

[00:03:14]However, you say there's an action that's pending in federal court.

[00:03:19]Correct.

[00:03:21]Counsel, you know anything about that?

[00:03:23]No, as a matter of fact, I do know something about that, your honor. What they're claiming is that there was a foreclosure started by Wells Fargo and Wells Fargo failed to honor. They're claiming we don't believe that's the case and the the the pleadings uh bear that out. Failed to do the necessary post default work out as required by some of the COVID statutes uh relating to defaults uh in mortgage defaults.

[00:03:51]It has nothing to do with us. We are not a party to that suit.

[00:03:56]Uh we haven't been served with it. As a matter of fact, I've been advised by your office or your the clerk in the in the court that the Ms. Staffelt, who incidentally is a Juris Doctorate as I'm told by her and a PhD and other advanced degrees, so she's not um uninformed here, Your Honor. Uh this is in fact a lease with an option to purchase. That's it. It is what it is and I provided a copy It it's it's not She does not own the property. My client is the record owner of the property. We agreed to lease it back to her. She was the former owner.

[00:04:33]She lost it in the foreclosure, which is the subject of the federal action uh that involves Wells Wells Fargo, not my client in any regard. Uh hold on a second. So We'll get the Wells Fargo foreclosure >> Hold on.

[00:04:51]So that I'm trying to follow this.

[00:04:54]Wells Fargo foreclosed on the defendants in this case.

[00:05:00]Your client is the purchaser from that foreclosure? Yes, Your Honor.

[00:05:06]And she's challenging the foreclosure in federal court.

[00:05:10]All right. Here's what I'm going to do, folks.

[00:05:13]I'm going to adjourn this out 1 week to the 28th, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.

[00:05:19]at 3:00 p.m., excuse me. Ma'am, you are to file an answer to this complaint along with information regarding that the federal lawsuit. I understand that plaintiffs in this case aren't a party to that.

[00:05:39]But um I'd like to at least take a look at that before issuing any ruling on this case.

[00:05:48]So, you'll need to file an answer. It should include not only references to that federal lawsuit, but it I'd like a copy of the complaint and answer also on that.

[00:05:59]Absolutely, Your Honor.

[00:06:01]All right. Thank you, Your Honor. Can you extend that 1 week to 2 weeks?

[00:06:09]Do you have any objection to that, Counsel?

[00:06:11]>> I certainly do, Your Honor, but of course it's >> Okay, then we'll I'll do what the I'll do what the say we'll go 1 week out, folks. Thank you so much, Your Honor.

[00:06:19]>> 28, 3:00 p.m.

[00:06:21]Thank you, Judge. Have a nice day.

[00:06:27]R dollar sign J Group Holdings versus Azar Sagdehi Saffel.

[00:06:38]So, Really, Your Honor.

[00:06:43]Good afternoon, Your Honor.

[00:06:51]And where are we on this?

[00:06:53]May I pass to the bailiff to hand this to the What is it What is it? Uh this is the petition for joinder before federal court we filed, Your Honor.

[00:07:06]The petition for joinder? Yes.

[00:07:09]We amended the complaint and we added R&J Holding to our federal complaint in US court.

[00:07:24]Now, have you seen that? I have not, Your Honor. Well, you can't just give me things and expect the court to take them without showing the opposing counsel.

[00:07:33]Okay, I have a copy for him. He refused to accept it.

[00:07:37]Your Honor, she hasn't tendered it to me. Also, for what it's worth, yesterday at about 11:00 in the morning, uh the defendant served upon my office a ream [clears throat] of pleadings, responses, motions to stay, motions to dismiss, and so on, and I did my best >> case? For this one? For this case. We're not a part of that federal case, and she is doing the classic attempting to turn this into a federal case when in fact it's just a summary proceeding, your honor.

[00:08:15]Absolutely not, sir. And I did um also give her copies of everything I filed by overnight mail, and today I handed it to her a while ago, and she gave it back to me.

[00:08:30]I'm not going to fight over it, but they served me with a series of motions.

[00:08:35]I had to respond at the >> have any motions.

[00:08:40]No.

[00:08:40]Yes, your honor. The package in front of you has a motion to dismiss, has petition for a stay, has answer to the complaint. Okay. Did you file these today?

[00:08:54]Yeah.

[00:08:54]>> No, we have we filed it yesterday, your honor.

[00:08:58]You only gave us a week to answer.

[00:09:01]Remember, your honor? Your honor, you gave her >> Oh, ma'am, I remember everything I do.

[00:09:05]Do not try to address me that way. I will have a memory that will throw you in circles. So, don't come at me like that, because if you come at me like that, you're going to get hurt.

[00:09:19]I had to speak. Counsel, what were you saying?

[00:09:21]Your honor, I was saying that as I recall as well, when we were appeared and she asked for the opportunity to present some reference to this federal case, you said, "You may We're going to adjourn this till next Friday at 3:00, and you can deliver to me a copy of that federal case so that I can look at and not file a whole host of other pleadings and other matters at the last minute. I mean, that's that was tough for me to handle, but I got it out, Judge.

[00:09:48]Well, a copy of federal pleadings is part of that package that was delivered hand-delivered to this gentleman and to the court, Your Honor.

[00:10:04]We have nothing to do with that federal case, Your Honor, at this point. She has a case against Wells Fargo, who was a prior mortgage mortgagee in the case.

[00:10:14]Nothing to do with it whatsoever. We're the deed holder of the property.

[00:10:17]>> There's also There's also been a parties added?

[00:10:31]Uh She counterclaimed against us yesterday at uh 11:00 in the morning and filed several motions.

[00:10:41]No parties have been added to this case, but she says she wants to add us to that federal case and I encourage >> Well, the caption is is changed.

[00:10:50]Correct.

[00:10:52]Can't just change the caption. Well, we haven't been served and I got the document >> Counsel, I I get it. I'm just saying this caption that I have on your document is not the caption of this case.

[00:11:07]I'm sorry.

[00:11:12]The caption here, who is Carl Starcher?

[00:11:14]Carl Starcher is here. He's my >> I don't care if he's here. He's not He wasn't a party to this case, was he?

[00:11:22]No.

[00:11:22]>> It says all residents of the house and he's the resident of the house.

[00:11:26]>> You can't just change the caption.

[00:11:30]What do you suggest I do, Your Honor?

[00:11:32]You know, >> want to hear that. Um I suggest maybe you get an attorney because I just don't She is an attorney your honor.

[00:11:44]Well, that's even more alarming.

[00:11:47]Um Uh Let's pause here for a second.

[00:11:52]What the defendant is asking for is called a stay. That's basically a legal timeout. Asking this court to pause the eviction because there's a related case happening in federal court.

[00:12:02]The problem?

[00:12:04]Eviction courts usually focus on possession of the property, not ownership disputes. If the landlord has the legal deed, the court often moves forward anyway. That's why the judge sounds skeptical here. She wants proof before stopping the case. Because the caption has changed.

[00:12:21]Right?

[00:12:22]>> Yes. The You served motions and apparently there's a counter complaint that the other side or whoever was supposed to add doesn't [clears throat] have an opportunity to answer. I don't even know if there's been a summons issued for these other parties. I Mr. has.

[00:12:51]Are you an attorney?

[00:12:53]I'm not a bar license holder attorney. I went to law school.

[00:13:16]That's you filed an amended complaint.

[00:13:18]Correct? I did your honor. All right.

[00:13:21]>> We have not received that.

[00:13:22]>> I gave it to her. No, we have not received sir.

[00:13:25]>> I gave you the packet and you gave it back to >> When when was that, sir?

[00:13:28]>> Just now. I gave it to your house.

[00:13:29]>> it to me now?

[00:13:30]>> your own darn conversation. You can do it outside. You don't need me here. I'm not going to be a third wheel on a date in my courtroom. I'm sorry, but I'm very sick.

[00:13:40]I did give her all of those pleadings and the amended complaint in a white envelope which she gave me back.

[00:13:46]>> Did you give me an envelope and then you give it back?

[00:13:48]>> Yes, because I >> Why? Because I tried to give him the joint that I need gave it back.

[00:13:53]>> She never handed it anything, Mr. This is like kindergarten. I take I'm going to accept the first amended complaint.

[00:14:00]>> Cancel.

[00:14:01]You can serve it on her in whatever way you wish in terms of either you can do it by email or you can serve it by first class mail. She won't take it, she won't take it. This, the what you filed which is starts out entitled plaintiff's defendant's answer to the counter You're going to have to refile this. I'm striking this pleading. You can't just change a caption.

[00:14:27]Well, I guess we're done.

[00:14:30]And so I'll give you a week to get that out. I realize it delays the proceedings but I I don't think I can do anything else because I don't know why these parties are running around in this case that you just added to this as >> [cough] >> The petition is They is filed on the This is crazy.

[00:15:00]You're going to have to start over. I'm striking all of that that you filed. And you're going to have to just do it right. I'll take yours, you serve it, they'll have to answer, and then we'll go from there.

[00:15:12]Um I don't know that putting it out to next week is going to do us any good so I'm going to put it out to the 14th.

[00:15:18]Thank you, ma'am. I would ask the court if it may. She hasn't rent. They haven't paid rent since November.

[00:15:25]The rent for November, December, and January is $5,000 a month.

[00:15:31]And the rent for for February and March is $5,500 a month. I would ask that you ask them to ask >> What is the current monthly amount of rent? It's there's a holdover provision, but we'll accept the normal rent, your honor. The $5,000?

[00:15:48]>> $5,000 for November >> I'm going to order escrow. Escrow, we will pay it in escrow, your honor, but not to them because they have to sell the property to us.

[00:15:59]I'm going to order that you pay escrow to the court in the amount of $5,000.

[00:16:04]I'm not going to do a pro ration back to the original. You'll start that March 1st.

[00:16:10]It needs to be paid within 7 days of the date of my order and then needs to be paid each month while this matter is pending. Do you understand that? Yes, your honor. Thank you, your honor. order to that effect. I want to you can only have March rent.

[00:16:24]>> I could pro rate the day February, but I It's not necessary. We'll accept [laughter] the March 14th, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. I feel a cold coming.

[00:16:37]>> [clears throat] >> 1:00 p.m.

[00:16:40]Your honor, that would be nice for us.

[00:16:43]I will now. All right. Now, give me Yeah, give it cuz and Can I Can I take it?

[00:16:52]Can you what?

[00:16:55]Can we submit the joint there or not?

[00:16:59]You may if it is in proper form. Submit it anything that you like, but not to me. Okay. You can file it with the clerk's office once the file gets up there.

[00:17:09]By all means, so.

[00:17:15]Just don't.

[00:17:17]Just don't.

[00:17:19]Just And here's where the judge finally drops the key ruling, escrow.

[00:17:23]When a tenant disputes ownership but still lives in the property, courts often order rent to be paid into escrow.

[00:17:30]That way no one gets free housing while the legal fight continues.

[00:17:34]Now the pressure is on. If the defendant fails to pay that $5,000 escrow on time, the eviction process could move forward much faster.

[00:17:43]Cases like this show how quickly courtroom strategy can backfire.

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