GOVERNMENTAL INNUENDO AND MY JOB SERACH: 1995-1998
“Poverty is the greatest violence.”
MAHATMA GANDI
As described in the previous chapter, my last several months’ stay at Simon Fraser University was very unpleasant and at times hurtful. So when I left SFU in August 1994, I felt quite relived, looking forward to being free of bullying and harassment. Well, I was wrong.
The professors now had a “theory” that, because I was bullied and harassed, I must be potentially violent. Of course, neither they nor anybody else said so to me directly in this period of time. Instead, the innuendo was first presented to me indirectly by Citizenship and Immigration Canada in an insinuating remark in summer 1995. So, with the sanction of the federal government, I will call it Governmental Innuendo.
Ridiculous as it was, this innuendo nevertheless revealed the professors’ motive to stalk and harass me. To do so it was entirely feasible for them, with the help of their well-connected, wealthy Wall Street friends.
The outrageous thing was that they did so even when I was thousands of miles away. The real logical reason for their continued stalking, bullying and harassment was that the professors and their friends on Wall Street intended to exert complete control over me.
Not liking me or wanting me to succeed in the first place, the defendant spread rumors about me wherever I went, both in my professional life and in my personal life. Their interference with my job searches resulted in my years of unemployment or under-employment. To make a living, I had to resolve to do manual work or peddle door-to-door. They would also target anybody who had significant contact with me, either gathering information about me through them, or turning them against me.
GOVERNMENTAL INNUENDO
Ph.D. Study at UBC
After leaving SFU, I enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Finance in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration (renamed Sauder School of Business) at the University of British Columbia with full financial support. My first semester there was without incident1 and I was able to happily concentrate on my study.
However, toward the end of the first semester2, I started to feel there were rumors about me, which was very de-motivating and unpleasant for my study. And it was getting worse over time. In fact, a fellow female graduate student leered at my lower body in summer 1995. (This was the only leering incident at UBC.)
This environment contributed to my decision to quit the Ph.D. Program. Another more direct consideration was the Governmental Innuendo in connection to my immigration application.
Immigration Application
I started my immigration application in November 1994, with the assistance of Canadian Overseas Immigration and Business Services, Inc. (COIBS) (加拿大海外移民服务中心), an immigration consulting company. On or around April 13, 1995, I received, through COIBS, the “letter of interview waiver” from Canadian Immigration dated February 11, 1995. Ms. Sharon Ellington, the immigration consultant who handled my file at COIBS, explained to me that the reason it took two months for them to receive the notice was that a letter from Canadian Immigration had been lost in the mail.
On August 10, 1995, my immigration visa was approved. Sometime before August 24 when I became landed immigrant, I went to COIBS office to pick up my visa. Handing the visa to me, together with an envelop containing my documents, Ms. Sharon Ellington said that “that is all we have on your file”. Then she told me, in a general term, as if to state a fact, that Canada immigration rule favors married applicants because “there is a perception that single people tend to be violent”. I remember her words vividly because (1) I learned an actual usage of the word “perception”; (2) the word “violent” was quite unusual; and (3) the whole general argument about married people versus single people in the immigration context did not make sense to me at all3.
I believe that the defendant communicated with CIC in the processing of my immigration application. Whatever their comments about me, CIC must have eventually judged them untrue because they approved my application in the end.
Telephone Message from Ms. Kate Weldon
Around the same time I got my immigration visa, a woman, likely a minor judged by her voice, left a sexually explicit telephone message in my answering machine at my residence. [Details withheld.] I used *69 to trace the origin of the call, and found out the call was from Tsawwassen, BC. The only person I knew who lived in that area was Mr. Weldon. I suspected the caller was one of Mr. Weldon’s daughters, whose first name, I would later “learn”, was Katherine, Catherine, or Kate4. In this report, I shall use Kate as her first name.
Leaving Vancouver
My decision to leave Vancouver was not an easy one. One the one hand, I cherished the opportunity to study for a Finance Ph.D. One the other hand, towards the end of summer 1995, not only was my stay at UBC unpleasant, the various rumors suggested deep animosity that those professors had against me. I decided to get away from them.
I decided to go far, far away. I went to Toronto.
DEALINGS WITH THE DEFENDANT
In September 1995, I arrived in Toronto. I thought that by staying far away from the professors, there would not be any basis for the Governmental Innuendo; and they would leave me along. However, I was wrong again.
Mr. Heng Sun
Mr. Heng Sun was a former classmate of mine from China and the only person I knew in Toronto before I went there. I regarded him as a close friend and asked him to help me, for example, to look for a place for me, etc.
While in Toronto, I told Mr. Sun some parts of my story. In particular, I told him
how the unexpected job opportunity at Merrill Lynch led to the reference letter and started my whole situation;
about the Governmental Innuendo passed on to me by my immigration consultant;
how the professors did not leave me along, which contributed to my decision to quit Ph.D. study at UBC;
about the dirty joke incident and the professors’ conversations about their daughters.
Of course, all these were private conversations and I never expected that the defendant would target Mr. Heng Sun and extract information about me from him.5
During my job search in Toronto until early 1996, several incidents suggested that those rumors were following me. In particular,
I had several rounds of interview with AMEX Canada for a marketing analyst position and they all went on very well. Although I had stopped using the defendant as my reference in Toronto, I believe they influenced the hiring decision in this case.6
On December 15, 1995, during my second interview with Connor, Clark and Lunn Investment Management Ltd, the interviewer Mr. Warren Stoddart leered at my lower body.
The only job I got was one offered by Swiss Re in Switzerland. Since I did not want to give up my Canadian immigration status, I did not accept the offer.
Mr. Yanxiu Li
My meeting with Mr. Li
On December 20, 1995, I was in New York for a job interview with Swiss Re. Still regarding him as a friend, I called Mr. Yanxiu Li and we had a short meeting in the lobby of his office building. This was the only meeting I had with Mr. Li. By that time I had been out of work for four month, and I hoped that he would help me in my job search. His conversation style was very jumpy.
He started by telling me that he had just lost several thousand shares of a certain airline stock that morning, giving me the impression that he was doing big business.
He mentioned how much his rent was. I had no idea why he brought that up. But I had always thought that living in New York area was expensive, so I said “that’s cheap” in English (most of our conversations were in English). – He would later use my not-so-smart reply as a sort of code words when sending his agents to deliver messages to me or to bully me.
He mentioned that he had a BMW that he barely drove. -- I had no idea why he brought this up either.
When I told him that I was determined to forget what happened to me at SFU [so that he should not have any concern in helping me with my job search], his response was “other people are on the top, you are at the bottom. If they are not nice to you, they have the right to do that.”
Furthermore, he said that “people here [on Wall Street] are 100 times nastier”, in apparent comparison to the professors at SFU. – He has the letter and he knows how nasty the letter is. I did not realize that this was actually a threat.
Towards the end of the meeting, he said, “So, what are you gonna do? Sue them? You don’t have any evidence. Kill them? You are gonna die. Right?” Since I did not raise either of these two issues, I was quite surprised at hearing those words.
At the end of the meeting, he gave a weird smile and said: “you’re still too young.” And this became one of their earlier bullying point.
“I just wanted a job”
In 1996 I worked briefly for Graphnet, Inc. I believe the defendant spread rumors about me with the company.
I could not understand why those people were so sticky. I tried many times to call Mr. Yanxiu Li to let him know that I did not want any trouble, I just wanted a job. But he wouldn’t take my calls7.
To make my intention clear, I wrote a letter to Merrill Lynch releasing the company of any claims related to my employment application and faxed a copy to Mr. Li in April 1997.
Jim D. Yu
P. O. Box 245
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Voice: (212)465-7459
April 20, 1997
Mr. Stephen L. Hammerman
General Counsel
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Executive Offices
World Financial Center, North Tower
New York, New York 10281-1332
Dear Mr. Hammerman:
I have been a job applicant of Merrill Lynch on various occasions since September 1993. Since then I have heard inquiry as to whether I would pursue potential claims against Merrill Lynch in connection with the negative outcomes of my employment applications. That perception and other related comments about me are unsolicited and simply not true.
To clarify the situation and promote mutual harmony and respect, I hereby release Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. from any claims in connection with my employment applications and forever waive and discharge any and all such claims that I may have against it and/or its directors, officers and shareholders.
Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Jim Yu
cc: Mr. Yanxiu Li
Messrs Mihir Bhattacharya and Daniel Raz
In early 1996, Mr. Yanxiu Li told me that he had a lunch with Mr. Bhattacharya after our meeting in late December (they were then in separate firms). He then gave me Mr. Bhattacharya’s number and suggested me to call him.
When I called Mr. Bhattacharya, he gave me the phone number of Mr. Daniel Raz, of Analytic Recruiting, Inc., a firm specializing in recruitment for Wall Street firms. He said that they were very good friends and Mr. Raz would help me with my job search.
I then contacted Mr. Raz’s company. His wife, Rita, called me back. There was not much substance in that conversation. Actually, she sounded so overly friendly that I got the impression that she was not even serious about my job search.
Mr. Jim Sullivan
On February 13, 1997, I had an interview with recruiter Mr. Jim Sullivan of Galaxy Management Group, Inc. in New York.
When I arrived at his office at the appointed time, he was doing some paper work at his desk. He was not prepared at all to interview me. Even after I sat down, he continued to do his paper work while chatting with me casually.
The interview lasted less than ten minutes. I got the feeling that he asked me to come in just to see me in person. No serious interview questions were ever asked.
One strange question he asked me was: “do you have any kids?” His tone suggested that he knew the answer already.
At the end of the meeting as I was heading out, he asked me where I lived. After my answer, he followed with a really strange question: “is there a lot of violence where you live?”
Mr. K. Laurence Weldon
Weldon’s reference letter of 1997
The decision to contact Mr. K. Laurence Weldon was not an easy one. But then, I was desperate for work.
I called Mr. Weldon’s office and left him a voice mail message in early May 1997, asking him to write a reference letter for me. He returned a voice mail message to me, saying that he needed to talk to me before he could write the letter and asking me to send him an email. Not clear if he wanted me to do both, I asked one of my friends to send him an email on my behalf on or around May 8, 1997.
Dr. Weldon:
I need a letter of reference from you on SFU letterhead, signed and dated, to be mailed to me ASAP at the following address:
P. O. Box 245
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Perhaps we will speak after I receive the letter, which I need to show potential employers.
Jim Yu
This is a message from Jim Yu. Please do not reply to this account.
On May 22, I received a postal letter8 from Mr. Weldon in which he stated:
I replied to the phone number you gave me - you suggested I call if there were a reason I could not send the letter right away. I left a message at that number that I wanted you to call me at 604-943-79629 BEFORE I sent the letter. That is why I am still waiting for your call. Perhaps I can assume that you don’t need the letter after all? Or perhaps you did not get the message.
I also got your e-mail but you asked me not to reply to it.
My only option was to send this note asking you to call me as I asked. If I don’t hear from you, I’ll assume you do not need the letter.
You need not doubt that my letter will be supportive. I simply want to talk to you first.
So I called him on that same day. We had a friendly conversation for about ten minutes. But there was no substance at all in our conversation. So why did he insist me calling him at home first?
On June 3, I received his reference letter (see Appendix 4-1). Of course, this letter of reference has no problem.
Conversations with Mr. Weldon
Despite of my suspicion of his involvement in the reference letter that started my whole situation, I did not bring it up in our initial conversations. Thus our initial conversations were friendly.
You would think that he should take this opportunity to make it up to me - I had not expected him to apologize – especially when I asked him for help with my job search. His advice to me? He suggested that I go to small places, such as Newfoundland and Halifax, to look for employment10. The underlying message was that I should not look for high-paying jobs in finance. Note this was after I had told him I was interested in a career in finance.
I felt being manipulated and became frustrated. But the only concrete questions I could ask him were (1) had he written a reference letter without my knowledge? (2) why was I not encouraged to apply for the position at the Statistical Consulting Service.
Both of them are simple questions. But he could not give me a straight answer to either of them. It was the first time I learned that he is actually quite capable of prevaricating.
Manipulation of his own kids
During one of our telephone conversations, out of nowhere, Mr. Weldon said, in a scornful tone: “We are not afraid of you.”
At the time, I was a little puzzled because it was totally out of context. And I had no clue whom he was referring to by “we” because our conversation was about him and me.
It would be years later that I suspected that the intended audience of his words was his own family members as they were probably around.
Conversation about his daughter
I also called and tried to talk to his daughter Ms. Kate Weldon on January 6, 1998. But he would not let me.
A SAMPLE OF JOB INTERVIEWS
The following are some of the more extreme incidents related to my job search.
Swiss Re Financial Products
In early 1996 I had a very good interview with Mr. Prakash A. Shimpi, President and CEO of Swiss Re Financial Products, a unit of Swiss Re that had earlier offered me a position at their Swiss headquarters. However, when I phoned to follow up on the interview, Mr. Shimpi became cool. He did hint the reason of his changing attitude by saying “I don’t understand you Chinese”. Of course, never in our conversations did we talk about another Chinese. I suspect that a Chinese, most likely Mr. Yanxiu Li himself, who knew about my earlier job offer by Swiss Re headquarters, deliberately called SRFP to sabotage my job search effort after my interview with Mr. Shimpi.
Mr. Michael Waldman
In early 1996 I had an interview with Mr. Michael Waldman, a director of MacKay Shields. This interview was quite unusual for a number of reasons:
Mr. Waldman was unusually aloof throughout the meeting.
He did not ask me any interview questions. In fact, he did not speak very much.
Instead, he gave me a bunch of mathematical questions to work on, one by one while he sat patiently besides me. As a matter of fact, I would characterize the meeting more of a math test than of a job interview. (He did not inform me beforehand that he was going to do so.)
Although I was not prepared, I did every question right, despite the fact that sometimes I had to deduce formulas first -- I could not possibly remember all the math formulas but I would never forget mathematical principles.
All of the questions appeared to fall within the official syllabus of the actuarial exams I had done and done very well.
After the “interview”, Mr. Waldman hinted that he knew Mr. Mihir Bhattacharya. Of course, I did not get any job offer from him.
Leering Incidents
Three separate leering incidents happened at my job or information interviews in this period.
The first one occurred in Toronto on December 15, 1995. The interviewer was Mr. Warren Stoddart, of Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd in Vancouver.
The second one was in early 1996 in New York. The interviewer was Mr. Ping Feng (封平), of Lehman Brothers.
The third one occurred in New Jersey on or around October 26, 1996. The interviewer was Ms. Sandra Mohr, of MoHR Solutions, a personnel agency.
Innuendo about Violence
In April 1997, I had a job or information interview with Mr. Steven Dym, a consultant for various Wall Street firms, in New York. He asked me the exact same question as Mr. Sullivan did a couple of months before: “is there a lot of violence where you live?” as a follow-up question on my residential whereabouts.
Stalking by Executive Network
On or around March 6, 1997, I went for an interview with the recruiting firm Executive Network in New Jersey. The interviewer was Mr. Mark Abrams.
His office was very close to where I was staying at the time. It did not have any sign except pieces of paper with their company name Executive Network posted on its door. Mr. Abrams did not give me any business card either. He explained that they had just moved into that office.
Mr. Abrams did not ask me the typical interview questions. It seemed that the main point he was trying to make was that I should consider a career in Biostatistics, an area I had little interest or training in11. He also wanted to make a copy of my passport and visa for their file. Fortunately I did not bring those with me that day. Afterward I realized that his request was just too unreasonable.
Mr. Abrams asked me where in China I came from. I told him the general area of my birthplace as I came from a small town. Normally I would expect people ask me some more questions about such an obscure place of another country. But he did not and indeed gave me the impression that he knew about my hometown. He then talked about a personnel manager from Merck & Co. He said her name was Angel, and that she “had gone to my hometown and adopted a child there”. He said that I should meet her, praising her very young and very nice. He even suggested March 27th the date for us to meet. (27th is the date of my birth.)
Of course, he never did set me up for such a meeting with the so-called personnel manager. I think Mr. Mark Abrams and his company, Executive Network, were simply a front for the defendant.
Nobody from this “company” called me12 again for almost a year until after I moved back to Vancouver in early 1998.
Mr. Richard Frantz
In this case, it appeared the recruiter or computer consultant “interviewed” me just to get a copy of my resume on disc.
The interviewer was Mr. Richard Frantz of Test Force, Inc. He asked me to bring my resume on a floppy disk for an interview regarding a Y2K-related opportunity. When I arrived at the Manhattan address he gave me at the appointed time, I was surprised to see it was a café.
Mr. Frantz explained to me that he was working for a client company nearby and did not have his own office. He asked me a couple of simple interview questions, such as my salary expectation. Soon after he got the disc containing my resume, he concluded the interview.
National Processing Company
My attempt to get a job with NPC, an operating subsidiary of National Processing, Inc. in Riverdale, New Jersey lasted for almost half a year. The defendant turned my job searching process into their venue to bully and harass me.
I had my first interview for the advertised credit risk management position on September 17, 1997. The interviewer was Mr. Joseph C. Cabrelli, a Senior Vice President. At the end of the 90 minute meeting, he insisted on keeping my PowerPoint presentation, praising me for doing an excellent job. I knew he was genuine, but I was reluctant initially because it contained my idea to solve their risk management problem. I did so only after he said he would show it to his Board Chairman. After my meeting with him, Mr. Cabrelli also let me meet briefly with Mr. Craig Ramsay, Manager of Data Warehouse and Mr. Chris O’Hara, General Manager separately. All meetings went on extremely well.
Over the course of the following several months, however, I could feel that the process was compromised by outside influence. I made great effort to facilitate their hiring decision, including two more meetings with NPC, a written report detailing my ideas and plans to solve their risk management problem, and dozens of telephone conversations. Some of the strange comments by Mr. Cabrelli in our earlier meetings (before November 10, 1997) were noted below.
Mr. Cabrelli asked me: “do you think [there is] anybody [who] does not want you to succeed?” without really getting into whom he was referring to. – I never discussed anything like that with him or anybody else at NPC.
Out of context, Mr. Cabrelli commented “professors are silly”. – This was too strange as I never mentioned anything about any professors in any of my dealings with this company.
“I don’t think there is anybody having any doubt about what you can do.” -- The defendant knew that there was not any issue with regard to my qualifications.
Mr. Cabrelli asked for my home telephone number a lot of times. (In my job search, I always used a voice mail for contact. I did not want to give out my home number because of telephone harassment.) I was not sure why my home number was so important to Mr. Cabrelli.
After we shook hands at the end of our meeting on November 10, 1997, he said jokingly after I turn to the door: “So, where are you gonna go? Guatemala?” – It was not until I encountered similar problems in finding work in China that his words re-entered my mind and I realized it was a threat that the defendant would follow me wherever I go on this planet.
In one of our later telephone conversations on December 2, 1997, Mr. Cabrelli called me a “kid”. He then told me that he had spoken to Mr. O’Hara who wanted me to meet the other “two ladies” without really being clear about who those “two ladies” were. (On November 24, 1997, Mr. Cabrelli left me a message, telling me that the other two managers, one SVP for authorization and one VP for collection, were back in office and ready to meet me. I’m not sure if they are female managers, though.)
Starting from mid-November 1997, we were basically at a point where NPC could not find anything negative about my candidacy to turn me down, but it simply procrastinated to proceed further to avoid offering me the job. They had told me that they had urgent need to fill the position. Of course, we could not stay at the last yard forever. So Mr. Cabrelli simply stopped returning my calls since December 9, 1997.
Then more than one month later, after I had come back to Vancouver, Mr. Cabrelli called me again, similar to a bunch of calls from various personnel agencies (see below). In some of these calls, he actually sounded very nervous.
My experience with NPC showed that the defendant had turned my job search into their venue to bully and harass me.
BACK TO VANCOUVER
Drained both financially and emotionally, I came back to Vancouver in January 1998 to reunite with my then girlfriend. About one month after I came back, my girlfriend received an anonymous hate email13.
I stayed in my girlfriend’s apartment most of the time. I also rented a tiny place mostly for my business activities. Indeed, to avoid the stalking of the defendant, I used my girlfriend’s name for my telephone.
One incident is worth mentioning here. I do not remember the exact date but mostly likely a day in the summer 1998. While I was in my girlfriend’s place, a young female came to our door to sell subscription to Vancouver Sun newspaper. My girlfriend answered the door first. She then asked me to come to the door14. We turned her down for the subscription.
It would be much later did I realize she was Kate Weldon. First of all, she was kind of slim. One of the girls in the stalking incident of June 15, 2000 was also slim (see Chapter 5). Secondly, as noted below, I was working as a peddler around that time. And the defendant had been stalking me as detailed in various parts of this report. Knowing me as a peddler probably gave her the idea to do similar thing. Later the defendant would use marketing calls from Vancouver Sun or The Province to bully me.
Recruiters as Agents
Before I came back to Vancouver, my job search went nowhere in New York area. Strangely, after I came back to Vancouver, I received quite a few calls in my New York voicemail from various personnel agencies, besides calls from National Processing Company to tell me their renewed interest in my candidacy.
February 20, 1998, Ms. Maria Bonno [sound] called from Executive Network. She wanted to know my job status. She also told me that there was a SAS Programmer position available.
March 31, 1998, Ms. Valarie Brooks [sound] called from a recruiting company with phone number (212) 682-9300. The job was a Quantitative Analyst position in energy derivative.
April 28, 1998, Ms. Maria Bonno [sound] from Executive Networks called again. She wanted me to call her back. She also told me of a SAS Programmer position with a salary in the 60’s.
May 27, 1998, Ms. Barbara Cooper [sound] called me from Advantage Personnel, formerly Office Personnel in Cramford [sound], New Jersey. The position was a Sales and Operations Planning Analyst with a major corporation in Union county with salary up to 60’s. Asked me to call her back at (888) 307-7536 and tell her what I was doing.
June 10, 1998, Ms. Bonny Dasby [sound] called from Protech [sound] Nationwide Staffing. Wanted to speak to me about an unspecified opportunity.
Some of these recruiters never called me when I first contacted them. Now that I came back to Vancouver, I suspected that these recruiters were trying to gather information on me for the defendant.
Followed me to my Workplaces
Being out of work for so long was like receiving a death sentence to my professional career. To make ends meet, I had to do on manual work soon after I came back to Vancouver. Later I settled on doing sales work as an independent contractor. As I become more comfortable with sales, I planned to build up my own sales organization later that year.
However, my plan was sabotaged again by the defendant. Of the companies that I signed sales agreements with, the defendant targeted at least the following two to spread rumors about me.
Bartel Promotions
Bartel Promotions was a peddling company. It sold consumer goods and services door to door. Since I could not find a professional job after coming back to Vancouver and I really needed to make a living, I signed up with Bartel as a sales agent. Sadly, I found that a lot of new immigrants with advanced degrees and years’ professional experience in their home countries ended up working there.
Even when I was a peddler, the defendant would not leave me along. The following happenings raised my suspicion then.
During a period of time when I was visiting a Chinese doctor for acupressure treatment, Mr. Frank Reindl, the owner and manager of the company taunted in company meetings how good “Chinese massage” was, and how un-sexual it was [compared to other forms of massage].
Mr. Reindl was fairly supportive of me in my work initially. But his attitude changed over time because of the rumor spread by the defendant. It culminated in his refusal to pay me the override I was supposed to get as the organizer for a road trip.
During a company picnic, his wife looked at me differently.
If my suspicion of the defendant’s following me to Bartel (and to my doctor) was simply a suspicion then, my dealings with their agent Ms. Lisa Caruso in summer 2001 confirmed my suspicion (see Chapter 6).
Paytel Canada, Inc.
The approval rate of my sales dropped significantly over time, as I am pretty sure I was actually improving in qualifying sales.
Even one of the associates that I recruited had a lower approval rate with me than with his previous contractor. (Paytel would not have been able to know the identity of individual sales people.)
During a meeting in Paytel office, Ms. Rebecca Chiasson, a Vice-President of the company, took a picture of me without asking for my permission. Because she did it in a friendly atmosphere and I thought she was going to take a picture of every contractor present at the meeting, it did not object. Now I am suspicious that she might have done it for the defendant.
CHAPTER REMARKS
We often hear talks about keeping our school safe from bullying incidents and the importance of adult intervention in doing so. The idea of adult intervention is to have an authority figure to deal with the bullies and protect the bullied at the first sight of trouble. Outside the school yard, obviously the government and law enforcement are the ultimate authoritative figures. In my case, the government and police sided with, and later joined the bullies.
I do not know exactly what’s on my immigration file. It is my fundamental human rights to have access to my own personal information held by the government. (There is no explanation or justification for the government to not release my complete personal file to me as per my request. See Chapter 6). Would the government be so crazy as to label me in my immigration file “potentially violent” just because I was bullied?
For the defendant, it was all about money. As I pointed out before, it started because the professors were jealous of the high-paying nature of that Wall Street job. That’s also why, time and again during my job search, from Mark Abrams, to Joe Cabrelli, to various recruiters, they kept bullying me not to look for jobs paying too high a salary.
1 The only thing worth mentioning was a surprise call from Mr. Weldon at the start of the semester. He told me that he had received several letters on my behalf at SFU. But I felt that he called for reasons other than to get my new address.
2 I am not sure if my immigration application and prospect of staying in Canada in late November of 1994 made those professors re-start their rumor campaign. I knew they had wanted me to leave Canada after finishing SFU.
3 Incidentally, the new immigration rule, which took effect on June 28, 2002, does discriminate single applicant.
4 I do not know how to spell her name. Over the years, I “learned” her name through many strange phone calls, strange job interview, etc.
5 In fact, it would become a pattern that the defendant targeted almost every person who had significant contact or relationship with me.
6 In my conversation with Mr. Weldon on September 3, 1997, he brought out the scenario of my applying for a “front-line marketing” job.
7 But the defendant appeared to be sending me messages through Bloomberg website as they knew I would visit this site to search for relevant job opportunities. I could not even avoid such messages as the website was designed as such that I had to go through the web page with the message before I could get on the web page with the job info. Those messages showed that the defendant knew about my changing situation.
8 The original letter is missing, together with some other highly relevant documents (see Chapter 2). Foul play is suspected.
9 This was his home phone.
10 In my meeting with Mr. Stephens in summer 2001, he made similar suggestion. Now I heard report that CIC is proposing a policy to have new immigrants sign an agreement upon arrival, to make them live in small communities for a few years before they can move freely.
11 Of course, a job in Biostatistics pays much less than that on Wall Street.
12 On April 18, 1997, Mr. Abrams called my residence looking for Mr. Malcolm Rosenthal, the house manager. I took his call as I was the only person in the house at the time. In my job search around that period of time, I used a voice mail number in New York for business contact. The fact that he called my residence and knew Mr. Rosenthal suggests stalking. I believe that he got to know Mr. Rosenthal after I moved into that house.
13 Incidentally, the sample Permanent Resident Card from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, which can be seen on CIC’s website, features a female immigrant Kiki Amana Anne Latesa who has a name similar to that of my ex-girlfriend.
14 I felt a little odd that my girlfriend had to ask me to deal with such a trivial matter, but did not give much thought then.
