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Asbestos & Mesothelioma Awareness Group

20 N. Orange Ave
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Asbestos & Mesothelioma Awareness Group
20 N. Orange Ave
Suite 1450
Orlando, Florida 32801
United States
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Asbestos & Mesothelioma Awareness Group
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Orlando, Florida 32801
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Buck,

After we spoke on the phone and I checked out the additional comments you made on your blog, I felt I needed to clarify a couple of things.

First off, I would like to point out that the website you referenced at http://samadhisoft.com/2008/09/18/mesothelioma-asbestos-awareness-center/ has absolutely nothing to do with us. That post was about that blogger being contacted by this website: http://www.maacenter.org, not ours.

Secondly, Mr. Stevens was never threatened with any legal action by our organization. In fact, we took the time to reach out to Mr. Stevens many months ago to let him know that we are dedicated to making our organization as transparent and open as possible. We invite you to talk to Mr. Stevens to confirm this. We kindly asked him for any suggestions that he thought we could make to better our organization as we agree that there are organizations out there that he may have a legitimate gripe with. We had a friendly exchange and that was it. Unfortunately, we fear that no matter what we do, he has an axe to grind with the entire industry and unfortunately we are lumped in there given our domain name. We are actually not sure who it was that threatened him causing him to take down his blog, but I can assure you it was not us.

As I said before, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any other questions about this situation.

Richard Moyle
National Awareness Coordinator
Mesothelioma Cancer Center
Asbestos.com

I tracked Theodore Stevens down to a Blogspot weblog where I found the following entry:

Thursday, April 23, 2009
The End (for now)
Due to some very credible legal threats, I have decided to remove this blog.

I started sleazeothelioma to expose the lies, deception and general lack of compassion that plagues the asbestos litigation industry and I had some success. The blog was named on a few high profile legal sites and I received quite a few emails from lawyers and regular folks with both positive and negative reactions.

In the end however, it seems my success didn’t go unnoticed and I was repeatedly asked to remove the blog under threat of legal action. So guess what? You win (for now).

But let me promise you, I’ll be back in some way or another.

- TS

Digging around a little more, I found this interesting post/comment:

http://samadhisoft.com/2008/09/18/mesothelioma-asbestos-awareness-center/

Seems this guy was more savvy than me. In my defense, however, I will say that Richard Moyle had contacted me two months earlier wanting me to post an article on asbestos-related illnesses. I really didn’t see where it fit in the Pensito Review scheme of things, so I did nothing with it. But when two news stories broke in the same week, I remembered Moyle and contacted him for comment, thinking I was getting into the news cycle and providing some perspective for PR readers.

My bad!

The Web site does check out through Whois as belonging to the mesothelioma awareness group. The address checks out in Orlando. I called the phone number and spoke with my interviewee, Richard Moyle. Turns out the site is sponsored by a law firm, but Moyle maintains that all of the information on the site has been vetted by doctors.

He says he’s not listed on the site because it only lists the editorial staff, and he spends his time “sending e-mails and surfing the Web.”

Moyle told me this guy Stevens has pulled this kind of thing before and probably is from a competing law firm dealing with asbestos-related suits and he’s out to discredit Moyle’s firm. So he says. A search for Stevens on the Internet brought up so many results, it was fruitless.

I have e-mailed Stevens at the gmail address he provided when he registered (sleazomesothelioma.gmail). We’ll see what happens now.

I do feel kind of played by Moyle, I have to admit. But it’s my own fault for not doing enough due diligence in the first place. So I’m doing some belated due diligence now and will keep you apprised in this space of what I find.

This is the “true” Richard Moyle. He lies about his title of “National Awareness Coordinator,” on LinkedIn his title is “Link Builder at The Asbestos and Mesothelioma Awareness Group.” By the way, the Mesothelioma Cancer Center isn’t really a center in the sense of research or clinical trials, its a lead generating operation for the Peterson law firm.

He isn’t even listed on the “Cancer Center’s” staff page:

http://www.asbestos.com/staff.php

I would seriously consider deleting this interview or at least removing the links. This guy wasn’t forthcoming and doesn’t deserve to be on this blog.