Serial ADA filer in California submits 1,000 complaints after indictment on tax chargeshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/serial-ada-filer-in-california-submits-1000-complaints-after-indictment-on-tax-charges/ar-AALjvFQJun. 22—By the time Sacramento attorney Scott Johnson was indicted in May 2019, he had filed thousands of disability access lawsuits in the Sacramento area, sometimes filing as many as six or more a day at the downtown federal courthouse.
Johnson, 59, a quadriplegic who uses a motorized wheelchair to make the rounds of restaurants, office buildings and merchants he suspects are violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, has been one of the most prodigious serial filers of ADA lawsuits in California for years.
So, when a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of filing fraudulent tax returns on funds he received from the lawsuits, some Sacramento-area merchants rejoiced, and Johnson's filings at the I Street courthouse stopped coming.
But that doesn't mean Johnson went away.
Instead, he turned his focus to the Bay Area, court records show, where he has filed 1,006 cases since he was charged — 11 of them on Monday alone.
There are activists like this jerk whose source of income is shaking down small businesses with frivolous lawsuits they can't afford to fight. While well intended,
maybe, it didn't take a genius to recognize at the time G. H. W. Bush signed it that it would be misused by jerks the way this guy has misused it.
