7. Flitner Explains How VLSB Officials & Appointees Extort Sole Practitioners & Defraud the Public Fund

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In this damning exposé, Victorian solicitor Thomas Flitner breaks down what he calls the final phase in the takedown of his law practice an operation allegedly orchestrated by the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner (VLSB+C) and its appointed manager Nick Curran, under unlawful delegations, unauthorised seizures, and fraudulent use of public funds. Interviewed by legal advocate Shivesh Kuksal, Thomas lays out a detailed case of regulatory sabotage, forced closure, and the misuse of Victoria’s $3.2 billion Public Purpose Fund originally designed to serve justice, now allegedly used to fund legal destruction. 🔥 What This Video Reveals: 🚫 Invalid Appointments Damian Neylon issued directions without lawful delegation. Audits were conducted by Marriott Hubble-Smith, appointed unlawfully by Alice Duggan. Actions taken under these delegations led to forced external management. 💰 $200,000 in Questionable Charges Curran allegedly billed over $200,000 from the Public Purpose Fund. Charges included non-appointed staff like paralegals and receptionists. Refused to operate the business or collect revenue. Extended his appointment to block liquidation. 🔐 Unauthorised Seizure of Data & Property Cut off access to firm email and Thomas’s iCloud account. Confiscated legal files, surrogacy records, and client documents. Left clients in the dark files missing, cases abandoned. Blocked all attempts to retrieve documents. 📦 Secret Sale of Practice Refused a valid purchase offer from lawyer Stephen Walters. Transferred practice to Lilyan De Maria & Associates without consent or notice. Withheld transaction records and redacted sale terms. No disclosure of client list value or tangible assets. 💼 Conflict of Interest & Possible Trespass Office was leased by a separate corporate entity. Curran allegedly entered without corporate permission — potentially trespass. No lawful authority cited for physical seizure of premises. ⚠️ Surveillance & Digital Intrusion Hard drives seized and IT systems locked. Personal and privileged communications allegedly accessed. Charges laid more than five years later, after digital review. 🧠 Why This Matters: Thomas’s story reveals a regulatory playbook of destruction:  → Unlawful delegations  → Opaque financial practices  → Surveillance of whistleblowers  → Weaponised legal procedures Funds meant for legal aid and justice are instead used to bankroll private law firms, suppress dissent, and dismantle small practices without oversight. 📣 “They trespassed, stole my files, looted my practice — then had the audacity to send me the invoice. — Thomas Flitner 🚨 Who Must Be Held Accountable? Nick Curran (Thomson Geer) Alice Duggan Howard Bowles VLSB+C External Intervention Unit 📌 If you believe in justice, the rule of law, and institutional accountability — share this video. 💬 Comment if you or someone you know has experienced abuse of power from legal or government institutions. 📢 Subscribe for more whistleblower interviews.

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00:00okay so they appointed the current solely on the basis of your failure to comply with management

00:07system directions which were apparently issued by someone who was not even legitimately appointed

00:13and and the second auditor as well who was basically appointed because you

00:18was appointed by alice duggan as well as a follow-up so same issue but also uh i've seen

00:25some of the documentation for that and the basis for that was that you hadn't complied with the

00:32management system direction of the first auditor that's correct so effectively everything is about

00:39uh naylon determining that because of your asperger's syndrome um you're

00:48essentially incapable of carrying out the work of lawyers and that led to him

00:55taking me aside and saying i recommend that you have me come in and assist you managing your

01:00practice for uh an exorbitant fee per week and to which i said i've managed my practice for many

01:07many years since november 2002 to now 2021 so he he elicited a break from you effectively basically yes

01:19and he made it clear that if you and i responded in my in my response to his report so you made

01:25that allegation to the commissioner yeah he didn't like that they didn't like that they wanted to have

01:30someone as a spy so did they investigate that complaint no and again he wasn't offering medical

01:38treatment for the response to that was you need to do management system directives now that was the

01:43penalty for that uh he wasn't offering medical services for us workers he was uh okay thousands

01:51of dollars a month to as an expense to my practice it's like protection money well basically you're

01:59here to do this otherwise we'll find a reason to hurt you back okay and keep you under investigation and

02:06because of that they appointed a current who then charged your practice 200 000 refused to take uh

02:13the money that your clients were willing to refuse to continue with court cases where i was suing

02:17people for and the money that they were trying to pay for services already rendered and also the sale

02:22of my rules and deeds to lily and maria and doreen and associates which is on her website so they

02:28wouldn't i don't even know what they received for that not it not does my liquid i don't know what

02:33they received how is that possible i don't know that's possible he's never seen this in his life

02:38from gs andrew's accountants chartered accountants so he's he's he just cannot wind so it was the

02:47property of your company and yes your company has never been told uh at what price it's been sold off

02:53the files where they've gone um what and basically it took six months for me to go back into the

03:00premises because i had to deal with the landlord they thought that lumbering with the landlord's

03:05expenses as well but because i had a good rapport with the landlord for 21 years um he decided to

03:10release me from the lease because the current just took off and the lease was by another company of mine

03:17sub-leasing to flitner and company so basically it was a trespass by the legal board into the premises

03:23because advantage legal proprietor limited is the lessee subletting to flitner and company

03:29so there's a there's an issue there from a police perspective of coming in to premises like that

03:36which has never been explored and to this date i don't know what they have sold the business for

03:44what she has profited on wills and probate at lillian de marie and associate but they have put a

03:50really nice blurb on their website saying that they're very happy that they've gotten their practice

03:56larger enlarged their practice with uh the legal board selling thieving my blatantly thieving without

04:05any public um knowledge or anything out there my practice so they wouldn't send it to cium walters

04:13but they were happy to send it to another person um were you consulted at all or no no i only saw

04:21documentation redacted who that sold it to until i saw on the on lillian de maria so they didn't even

04:27tell you the name of the person they were saying but to this day but to this day lillian de marina

04:32associates and doering have a big write-up on their front page that they've taken over flitner and

04:38companies so on what basis did they withhold that information from you they just did i just sent

04:43reductive uh documentation to the liquidator and to my lawyer okay and

04:51you were charged 200 or your firm was invoiced yes 200 they also wrote to me in november last

04:58year the manager of external administration asking me for my personal financials now to reimburse the

05:04public um public purpose fund of 3.2 billion at the moment with me personally after having stolen my

05:11business for what they paid nick curran on 200 000 plus but the practice was run by your company

05:18that's correct and also nick curran decided to charge the public purpose fund willy-nilly without

05:28care or concerns the eight months was extended to 12 months when i appointed the liquidator so they even

05:34extended his appointment because the liquidator was going to step in when his appointment ended

05:38um so it became 12 months until october last year and that's why the computers were only returned

05:44in november so what did he charge the 200 000 for well he charged for himself the original appointment

05:51said that his charges at 550 i recall per hour i never saw a cost agreement they had with him the

05:57legal board and nick curran at thompson gear the partner of thompson gear he charged then for his

06:02senior associates paralegals and receptionist on the accounts and i just charged what willy-nilly

06:10and didn't run the files i had complaints to this day files weren't run files disappeared

06:16wills and probate disappeared um it's just and these people have never ever found their wills they've

06:23moved out of the safe they're all accounted for when i left um things disappeared in the practice so

06:29after six months i was going in there and just cleaning up furniture because i'd even taken

06:33financial records that basically just helped themselves in the practice so the legislation clarifies

06:43that the appointment of the manager as we've discussed earlier uh is to effectively look after the

06:51interests of the clients uh while the solicitor in charge of the practice is not capable of performing

06:59their duties or was otherwise um incapable of appoint of um uh deciding their duties so you say that they

07:12didn't actually represent any of the your clients or the firm's that's actually correct yes

07:18yes so what did he charge the two hundred thousand dollars for i don't know i even had to contact him

07:26to tell him that i wanted my personal wills out of the safe my son's um surrogacy consent orders

07:36and other they didn't volunteer any documents that they had of mine to send to me so when i asked

07:42whether i just received a one registered mail envelope also they didn't forward mail on to me that they're

07:48receiving in the post office box it uh nor emails straight away when he took over he cut off my access

07:54to my personal emails at thomas.flipnallaw.com.au so i was just cut off straight away they rang up my

08:02service provider said that they're the law unto themselves that he's not allowed to speak to me

08:08um with my website and the other fellow at website wise um he was the and another guy that was having

08:16the hard drive of all my emails for paralegal and everything they just confiscated locked me out

08:21got all the passwords they even went into my private um icloud drive and we're going trawling

08:28through that to find anything um and i said you have no right to this they were just going through

08:34everything to find things out on me and when they couldn't this is factually correct and i've written to

08:41nick curran and said you're not allowed to do this okay and he just continued on and they waited until

08:48they had exhausted all of those options before they ultimately charged you with something that they

08:55had not done for five and a half years that's correct okay to justify why they had done taking my

09:03business or try to justify that because otherwise there's no basis and i would be in i would be suing them now

09:10okay

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