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Former Drew Peterson Attorney Suing Patch

An attorney who represented Drew Peterson has filed a lawsuit against Patch and the Tribune.

 

An attorney who represented convicted killer Drew Peterson is suing Patch over its coverage of the case.

Joel Brodsky represented Peterson for about five years and left his defense team in October 2012. Brodsky left the case after Peterson, 59, was convicted of killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson faces up to 60 years in prison for the 2004 killing. He is seeking a new trial and a two-day hearing on the request is set to start Feb. 19.

Brodsky's lawsuit names Aol Patch, Patch Media Corporation, Patch Local Editor Joseph Hosey, Tribune Co., and Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair. A copy of the lawsuit is attached to this post.

The lawsuit also names attorney Steven A. Greenberg, who worked with Brodsky on the Peterson case. The lawsuit alleges that Greenberg distributed a letter to members of the press – including St. Clair – that contained "false and misleading" information regarding Brodsky.

The lawsuit states that Patch's coverage contained "false and misleading" information. The lawsuit references Patch Local Editor Joe Hosey's 2008 book Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Drew Peterson, which was later made into the Lifetime movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable starring Rob Lowe. 

The lawsuit states that Hosey's coverage for Patch was motivated by a desire to hype the book and film and that he practiced "yellow journalism."

Related Topics: Drew Peterson, Joe Hosey, and Joel Brodsky

Shannon

7:29 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Oh Brodsky can shove it.He's just peeved that his less than par defense over the top showboating and all around big headed rear got tossed to the curb by the wife killer and that oh surprise he's a jerk that nobody likes and the facts came out on the case.He couldn't shut people up when he wanted to in a high profile scenario...GET OVER IT AND YOURSELF BRODSKY!

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Karen Kurowski McHugh

7:41 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

And here I thought that 15 minutes was done and over. Bummer. At least Roe and Roeper will have more to talk about.

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Tina

7:49 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Brodsky must be really desperate! Blame everyone but himself? Is he going to also sue Lifetime, Nancy Grace, Maybe the Today show and every media outlet across the whole US?? He is a poor excuse for a man. I hope it gets thrown out as a frivolous lawsuit. He made himself and Drew a huge media spectacle and NOW he wants to go after the people who were just doing their jobs reporting on it?? What a clown. Now wonder he stayed with Drew so long...."Birds of a Feather". SCUM!

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Kristine Neumann

11:23 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Tina, not only is he a poor excuse of a man, he's a poor excuse of a lawyer. His whole defense was a circus. Remember them with their sunglasses? What a joke they all were.

Art Kraus

9:34 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Pro Streeter ...... Really???? So you are defending a scumbag attorney over Joe Hosey? At least Joe is concerned about our community and what is going on in it. Drew Peterson and Brodsky are cut from he same stone and they should be sitting next to each other in county!!
BTW. What is your real name anyway???? Nothing more cowardly then making comments online and not having the guts to put your name behind it!!!!!

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Watchful Eye

8:42 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

Art Kraus - totally agree with your post.

Pro streeter is probably very angry that Brodsky was not mentioned, portrayed, talked about or considered in the Lifetime Movie. Aren't most of us thankful for that? In other words, "Brodsky who?"

Oh, and pro streeter - do the research. Brodsky owned a bar called Addiction, which failed miserably, and used his client as a bargaining tool on radio shows with Geoff Pinkus and others to promote his bar. His chicken wings were the best in town, according to Peterson. Why don't you waste your time posting on Brodsky's facebook page and ask him why he used his now convicted client as a pawn for HIS own profit and gain, and quit pretending to think anyone with an ounce of sense blames Joe Hosey for any of this?

anonymous

11:12 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Awesome-hope he takes Hosey and Propaganda Patch to the cleaners. Yellow journalism would be a step up for Hosey. Pro streeter is spot on.

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Watchful Eye

8:43 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

Inhiheels? Your fangs are showing.

anonymous

11:14 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013

Actually- with Hosey's ethics I'm suprised he didn't write this article.

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Rozeeta

7:25 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

REALLY? Wasn't Brodsky's whole defense based on LIES? The baseless lies about 4th wife cheating on him, etc. Drew needs to sack up and tell the truth, for once in his useless life. Brodsky and Peterson are both scum.

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ellen folkerts

7:27 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

Sometimes you gotta take matters into your own hands...just saying....

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Jeffrey Boetto

7:47 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

Well well well, look who wants to bite the media hand that he fed! What a shocker. An attorney that grew a conscious? Get the #%^ out of here. How do you say Case Dismissed?!? Brodsky, you want to add everyone & their brother to your failure to win a case PERIOD. You blew it by calling your sketchy witness that backfired on you. A guilty jag bag got locked up thankfully due to your ineptness. The Will County area is a safer & better place due to your misgivings. Lick your wounds, and crawl back to your den with your sunglasses & cigar and count your money! No one feels sorry or bad for you, other than the next defendant who will face Drew's Law of hearsay! Nice work champ.

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rich

9:32 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

Joe Hosey is doing a great job. Ignore the crybabies.

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Infamous Steve

10:26 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

I have something he can have.....DEEZ NUTZ! Two lawsuits for the Patch....must be doing something right if people wanna sue you.

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gunsforever

5:35 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013

No one wants your nuts pal, trust me. I know where they have been!

anonymous

10:35 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

Joe does a great job of rehashing police reports. Journalism today consists of doing just enough to cling to your paycheck so you don't join all of the private industry shmucks in Obama's long unemployment lines. Joe could maybe get a Village of Shorewood job-they seem to hire the mediocre of society.

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gunsforever

5:36 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013

Yep, I have said before as well, Joe is about as as good as a reporter, as infamous steve is a fireman!

John Schrock

11:30 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

That is the most bizzare pleading I have ever seen in my 23 year career as an attorney. Besides having obvious flaws for failing to allege with particularity what was defamatory in the Greenberg Memo and Hosey stories (a requirement under Illinois law) it has many other fatal legal and factual flaws.
1. Drew Peterson, as do all clients, can fire Brodsky as his atorney at any time for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all.
2. Brodsky can try to blame Greenberg all day long but at the end of the day, it was Brodsky, not Greenberg, who called Harry Smith to the stand and questioned him in open court.
3. Any papers filed in a pleading in a court case are priveleged and Brodsky can not use them as a basis for a defamation lawsuit.
4. Brodsky cannot complain about a "smear" campaign lauched against him when he was always trying to gain as much media publicity as possible for himself.
5. Greenberg, the media, the public, and myself are all entitled to express our opinion that Brodsksy was an incompetent attorney who lost the Drew Peterson case.

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Watchful Eye

11:45 am on Friday, February 8, 2013

Thanks for the professional insight, Mr. Schrock. I will enjoy seeing these "flaws" become part of the defendants' responses, and seeing Brodsky handed his head back to him. And that of Attorney Maksym, who seems to drift in and out of reality himself.

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Frank Stein

7:22 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013

Well put John. The guy stuck his fat ugly face in every camera that would have him. And now i would imagine he's a laughing stock amongst lawyers.
And to top it off------- for some odd reason, i stumbled across the Mancow show on the U, this morning and this Polish Putz was on the "show",mugging it up for the camera. Any real lawyer knows Brodsky is a joke and makes the whole proffession look bad. I'm sure we can look forward to Brodsky representing any scum who can't find a real lawyer to take their case. GEE, i wounder if one of the (4) strangulation killers from Hickory St has retained him yet

Barb Scheff

12:05 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013

This is such bull crap. Joe Hosey works very hard at getting us the facts. I sat in that courthouse one or two rows in front of Joe most everyday of the Peterson trial. I NEVER, NOT ONCE HEARD OR READ ONE FALSE STATEMENT THAT JOE WROTE. And lets remember, Drew gave Hosey an exclusive interview or more. If Stev e was so bad, Drew had many chances to fire him. He had a dozen attorneys representing him. Lets get Drew sentenced and be done with this.

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Jeff ruby

12:10 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013

Wait till he reads my book Joe.

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Watchful Eye

12:20 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013

It's kind of pathetic, in a sad kind of way. Brodsky's law practice has probably dried up (due to his own actions, not anyone else's), he's the laughing stock of most lawyers, he's a vindictive sue-crazy man who uses the most unorthodox ways and methods he can conjure up to threaten and bully anyone who gets in his face, and he's pretty close to being a mere memory of a bad lawyer. This "lawsuit" nonsense is the only way he can spit and spew his rhetoric before he goes down. It's fitting and well deserved, IMO, that he's going to get his butt kicked by the very legal system he is trying to use for his own benefit. He's a cocky, arrogant, media-craving joke of a lawyer. He reaped what he sowed.

That being said, I have no use for the lawyer who's the target of Brodky's current rage. Greenberg could have laid low and let Brodsky self-destruct on his own; instead, he plays the same kind of game and is just as much a head case as Brodsky. I just think he might be better as a lawyer, but not as a man.

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no thanks

12:51 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013

anything to get a little attention. Kindergarten tactics.

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gunsforever

5:37 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013

all lawyers are whale crap! I mean ALL

gg

12:31 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013

ohhh, booo hoooo .... this wiener-head with glasses is just ticked because of he being made to look like the idiot he really is, and the paper printed it for all to see. Clam up and move away, atty's like you are legends in their own minds.

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gg

2:16 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013

This bozo is obviously trying to make his name known be it NEGATIVE or positive. He's an idiot and just ticked off he caught his lunch. Go make some YouTube Videos now with those ridiculous glasses you never remove, perhaps it's because you have nothing but deceitful LYING EYES!!!! Grow up already buddy!

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