That time I put 2 lawyers in prison. 10 Years of drama^.pdf

A Crazy Twist on Access to Justice: I
Helped Put a Couple of Lawyers in
Prison.
Edward Bukstel
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Apr 4, 2025
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Back in 2008, I had a crazy idea to put some vitamins in spices, kind of like Vitamin Water, but for
food. Some investors believed in me and the product and put together a few hundred thousand
dollars and things started to get traction and we needed to raise more money.

At that very moment in time, the Financial Crisis hit the world economy, and no one wanted to
invest in startups unless there was some liquidity. I ended up being introduced to a lawyer (at the
time) who was supposedly one of the best Small Cap attorneys’ for reverse mergers in the entire
country. Instead of competent representation, what followed was a 15 year vicious fight in courts
located in at least 7 jurisdictions with a lawyer that was ultimately sentenced to 66 months in
prison. I had meetings with the SEC, FBI, and multiple State AG’s in an effort to find justice.
Convicted Criminal and Disbarred Lawyer, Jehu Hand
When I hear headlines today about Ukraine corruption, USAID, and even sending information to the
wrong people on Signal, I realize my 15 year saga has it all. A US-Ukrainian Attorney, several “so
called” investors in Ukraine and Russia, a patsy that used to work for USAID, and a mistake “reply
all” on an email that led to a 66 month prison sentence.

I hired Jehu Hand as Securities Counsel for VitaminSpice in August 2009. I fired him less than a year
later, in July 2010 when I discovered unexplained trading in my companies stock after it was listed
to publicly trade on the OTC.
One of many questionable investors from Ukraine and Russia tied to Jehu Hand
Jehu Hand as securities counsel was responsible for handling all interactions with the Transfer
Agent, which managed the but, sell, and transfer actions in the stock. Public companies are
required to use these intermediaries if they want to be listed on a stock market. After firing Jehu
Hand, I was shocked at the “people” listed in the Transfer Journal, some of which didn’t even exist
and Jehu Hand had created false identities, including a fake Passport from South Africa.
Immediately after I terminated Jehu Hand, the lawsuits began rolling in from across the country.
The first one came from Jehu’s brother, Learned Hand in North Carolina. Others came in quick
succession, Santa Ana, US District Court in Eastern District Pennsylvania, US Bankruptcy Court in
Eastern District, PA, San Francisco, Chicago, Montgomery County, PA, Chester County, PA ….

Forgery discovered
In November 2010 I discovered my signature was being forged on documents that allowed stock to
trade freely on the OTC market. Jehu Hand and his co-conspirators were trying to sell shares in the
company I founded, and I tried to put a stop to it. I told the compliance people at Spartan Securities
Group that my signature was forged. I immediately, contacted the SEC and the FBI. The SEC told me
that since forgery was involved I should contact the FBI. The FBI told me that since it involved a
public company, I should contact the SEC.
Around that time I had been talking with an attorney at Freeborn & Peters (merged with Smith
Gambrell Russell) in Chicago. Hillard Sterling had a client that was accusing Jehu Hand of fraud and
he believed that he could be helpful in our case as well. It became apparent that very few people
had ever stood up to Jehu Hand and the lawyers across the country that allowed him to file false
and vexatious complaints on behalf of shell companies with non-existent founders and
incompetent executives.

Yuriy Semenov served as a pawn in Jehu Hand’s scheme
One of the companies that sued me and my company over and over was Advanced Multilevel
Concepts. The company had no revenue, no website, no operations to speak of. The President of
the company was Yuri Semenov who is a patsy that participated in many phony companies
controlled by Jehu Hand and his criminal enterprise. One of the few times Semenov appeared in the
US was in a court case in Las Vegas involving another Jehu Hand fraud. The USDJ in Las Vegas,
Miranda Du called out Seminov’s incompetence in a Bench Order.

Bench Order from Miranda Du in Las Vegas
Yuriy Seminov is from Ukraine and worked for USAID in Odessa. He was used as USDJ Du stated,
“acted merely as a figurehead.” Jehu Hand launched complaints against myself, my company, my
attorney, and even the Transfer Agent, Stalt. In order to make these claims in so many jurisdictions,
Jehu Hand would pay some nominal fee to use a lawyer’s standing in a specific jurisdiction to
launch complaints. Somehow, Jehu Hand found solo practices in various States that would agree to
file the complaint, and Jehu Hand did all of the filings and paperwork.
The false claims against myself, investors, and my company VitaminSpice was only one part of the
personal destruction campaign launched by Jehu Hand and his co-conspirators. Incredibly vile

stuff was listed on internet sites, and someone even contacted my girlfriend at the time and offered
to pay her $50,000 if she would claim that I raped her.
USDJ Young in Boston comments on Jehu Hand during sentencing
There’s a price for standing up for what’s right. You lose friends, colleagues, and some folks just
ghost you because it doesn’t make sense. When I started out on this entrepreneurial journey, I
wanted to build products that help people. It was a long time ago, but there’s another opportunity to
help folks dealing with access to justice today using AI.
One of the first EHR’s, before Epic
You never forget when you get a call from your daughter telling you,“dad, the FBI is looking for you.”
I jumped at the opportunity to talk with the FBI and tell them my story. This time they were listening.

In August 2012, Jehu Hand mistakenly sent a copy of documents to my lawyer Hillard Sterling.
These documents had nothing to do with VitaminSpice, instead it was a set of stock related files in
the name of Greenway Technologies addressed to Penson Financial Services which is a
clearinghouse for stock transactions. Penson filed for bankruptcy in 2013 and multiple executives
were indicted for various SEC fraud violations.
Jehu Hand Opinion Letter for Greenway

My attorney, Hillard Sterling, and I reviewed the documents that were accidentally sent to us by
Jehu Hand. We noticed some of the same names of individuals and entities were the same as the
ones in complaints filed against me and the company I founded. It also appeared that Jehu Hand
and his schemers were setting up another bogus pump and dump. We decided to once again
contact the FBI. The names Yuriy Semenov, William Wilkinson, Esthetics World, Able Direct
Marketing, and Advanced Multilevel Concepts show up over and over in multiple stock fraud cases.
The complaint filed against me and the company I founded in PAED in 2011.
God I wish we had the resources of the US Government back in 2011, when cases were filed against
me and my company. We were screaming through our attorneys’ that this was all a fraud and these
companies were all controlled by Jehu Hand and his criminal enterprise. Instead, Hand was
actually given a certain amount of deference from the courts because he had a position as a lawyer
and officer of the court. One of the fake companies was called Esthetics World which was a party to

a documents that had my forged signature. The document was countersigned by Jehu Hand’s
assistant, Kimberly Peterson.
My signature was forged
December 10, 2015 was one of the best days in recent memory. A friend called me up and told me
about the charges filed against Jehu Hand. For years, we tried to convince courts of this persons
evil. The Government and their prosecutors were able to get the type of evidence that proved all of

our initial allegations to be true. We believed that a person named William Wilkinson was fake, but
the Government was able to confirm that the Passport from South Africa was in fact another
forgery.
Fake Passport
Jehu Hand stated in documents, depositions, and numerous court filings that William Wilkinson
who controlled millions of shares of VitaminSpice stock, was a retired lawyer. In a sworn deposition
taken on June 9, 2011 Jehu Hand compared William Wilkinson to the Dos Equis Commercial , as
the most interesting man in the world.

The reality was there was nothing interesting about William Wilkinson at all, in fact, he didn’t exist.
Multiple lawyers around the country and a mid sized firm in Philadelphia, Hangley Aronchick, Segal
Pudlin & Schiller, continually looked the other way and never checked to see if their clients and/or
so called principles at the entities that they supposedly represent existed. On April 1, 2025 Jordan
Furlong wrote an excellent Substack: Biglaw Gives Up its Future, talking about the downfall of
BigLaw due to the knee bending to Trump. Jordan complains that law firms Paul Weiss and Skadden
Arps sacrificed some higher authority when they gave in to Trumps Executive Orders. How about if
lawyers check and see if their client even exists?

Jehu Hand sentencing hearing, Aug 6, 2019
In most cases when a trial is completed, everything is pretty much said and done, but not with Jehu
Hand. On November 23, 2022, Jehu Hand filed a Petition under 18 USC 2255 to overturn and set
aside his conviction in Boston, MA. The (85) page petition and (731) page Appendix is epic
narcissism. In his petition to the Appeals Court in Boston, Jehu Hand in his own words explains in
his own words why everyone else is at fault and everyone else was responsible for creating fake
companies leaving Jehu Hand as the whiny victim.

Cover Page for Appeal Nov 23, 2022
In Jehu’s own words and under penalty of perjury, as if that matters, he concocts an incredible story
about how all of the forgery that went on in his law firm were coordinated by his assistant, Kimberly
Peterson. He specifically discusses how Peterson deliberately altered the names on checks,
including Karen Campo of Esthetics World, and Yuriy Semenov of Advanced Multilevel Concepts.

Jehu Hand claims to be the victim in his appeal
Shockingly, when Jehu Hand got out of prison because he claimed he was too obese and at risk of
getting Covid, he decided to re-instate a judgement against me from 2013 in Santa Ana. CA. The

judgement was domesticated in Montgomery County, PA in 2021 and the Judge stated that they
can’t do anything about a judgement from California in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Check out more information about another attorney, James Farinella going to prison for securities
fraud.

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