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The Texas Papers is one of the largest investigations in history dating back to the Texas oil boom and exposes murders, thefts, swindlings, frauds, scams, and the corruption which has benefited powerful leaders, state officials, politicians, oil and gas companies, attorneys, who have stolen trillions of dollars in royalties from original land grant owners, descendants, and other citizens.
Our investigation begins with the two law firms that abandoned thousands of Texas Spanish & Mexican Land Grant Heirs.
The Texas Spanish / Mexican land grant heirs battle is more than a century old. Dating back to the discovery of oil in Texas. It’s not about who lives on the land now, but rather who lived on it generations ago. Trillions of dollars in unpaid royalties are at stake and it’s the State of Texas and Oil & Gas companies who owe them.
Enter a local Texas attorney Eileen Fowler who calls herself “a crusader” who was leading the fight for these heirs for over a decade until August 2021 when she and the Morganroth law firm dropped the case. She convinced the heirs that she had spent years researching state land records, energy production records, state comptroller’s records for more than 363 original land grants, and told them billions were at stake. But in 2013 she admitted to a San Antonio newspaper that she “has yet to recover money for her clients or file a successful suit against any energy company.” something she calls their “pot of gold.”
The Blame Game
Since both law firms abandoned these land grant heirs, the law firms continually accuse each other of wrongdoings but what we have uncovered so far shows a different story. In fact, we have so much evidence, including internal emails and audio recordings, it will take some time to expose it all.
Fowler, led the thousands of heirs to believe for years according to the Morganroth & Morganroth law firm Fowler made “many material misstatements to her clients/prospective plaintiffs over the years regarding the merits of potential claims.” and that she “concocted fabricated stories to tell her clients/prospective clients what they wanted to hear.” A claim that Fowler says is untrue.
The Morganroth firm is not as squeaky clean as they appear. In the emails we obtained, there are several discrepancies that you would think a law firm would be careful not to make, but they did and it could be considered perjury.
The Morganroth firm is circulating emails to the heirs, over the last several months, and this is where they contradict themselves. These are just a few of their contradictions.
They say they had no knowledge of Ms. Fowler collecting any federal litigation funds.
Jeffery Morganroth says “We have learned that Ms. Fowler collected funds over the years for her to hold in trust and manage on behalf of her clients to support a potential federal lawsuit. We didn’t know…” and in another email “..we did not even know that Ms. Fowler was receiving monthly amounts from her clients..”
But in another email we found them to tell other clients “the Morganroth law firm only knew that Ms. Fowler was collecting funds to be held in trust and managed by her on behalf of her clients in an amount sufficient to file a federal lawsuit in the event that viable claims would be paid”
For the past 6 years Fowler collected, we estimate between 6-8.5 million in litigation funds, but now claims it was all spent on a case that never went to court and she has nothing to prove where the monies were spent that were supposed to be held in a trust fund according to Morganroth.
They say they had no contact information
“We did not even have contact information for Ms. Fowler’s clients.” and in the same email they state “We did send our withdrawal/termination letter to Group Representatives whom Ms. Fowler had identified previously to us…” The first statement is an outright lie, because the group representatives, sent the Morganroth law firm spreadsheets with active lists of their group members (heirs) along with all of the contact information. If you look at it another way, what law firm would take on a case for thousands (although in another email they say there were only a few hundred), without knowing who their clients are for a federal lawsuit? What kind of professional law firm would that be?
How many clients were in the federal lawsuit?
The information we obtained proves there were over 5,400 clients, many had been dropped by Fowler for personal reasons so that number would be higher. Morganroth says there were only a few. What law firm would take on a federal lawsuit for only a few hundred. We also learned that groups were set up by Fowler to help manage the caseload. Each group would be from 25 – 100 each. Morganroth sent out a termination letter to 102 group reps. On average that would be about 5,100 but some groups were 100 plus, so that number is more likely to be about 7,000. Fowler claims about 12,000.
No Signatures
Morganroth sent out a copy of their withdrawal letter, but there were no signatures on it. It is also true of many of their email responses, the email comes from the Morganroth law firm, but sometimes it is not signed.
Fowler also had the heirs sign documents but never returned to them a copy of it signed with her signature. The most incriminating one is the consent to collect federal litigation fees, which both law firms were supposed to sign. Morganroth claims they never saw the document nor signed it. That would make the agreement null and void. This means Fowler illegally collected millions from the heirs over the last 6 years.
Bar complaints
Over the last 15 years, there have been dozens of complaints filed with the bar association. In 2006, her motives and methods were questioned in a legal fight between Fowler and two people who’d worked for her Harris County. Fowler sued Ann Bennett, a genealogist, and Cindy Boling, a paralegal, claiming they were trying to steal her business, they countersued and also filed a grievance with the State Bar of Texas that questioned her practices.
In their countersuit, they said Fowler regularly exaggerated her accomplishments, including her claim that she had a “unique method for recovering royalty payments,” and that she “had in fact recovered substantial sums that had been paid to the heirs.” both suits were dismissed by agreement.
In the bar complaint, the two ex-employees went further, saying, among other things, that Fowler had exploited her “vulnerable Hispanic clients,” who “believe she is their only hope in recovering the net mineral estate that is rightly theirs.”
As evidence, they pointed to a statement they said had appeared on one of Fowler’s websites in 2006. It asserted she’d “recovered property and/or minerals for hundreds of South Texas families.”
In her rebuttal, Fowler denied taking advantage of clients or misleading them and claimed it was not true, that she had not posted anything that on her website but then later she had the post removed.
Now thousands of the heirs are getting ready to file bar association complaints against Fowler for her misdeeds and her crimes. There is quite a lot of evidence against her, the largest is how she illegally collected possibly more than 8.5 million that was supposed to be used when the federal litigation was filed. But also the complaint will include other claims. Not only are they going against Fowler, but they will also ask the Michigan Bar association to intervene and investigate the Morganroth law firm, which also has had numerous bar complaints against them filed.
Fowler led the heirs on for several years so she could collect the money while according to the claims of the Morganroth law firm doing nothing to satisfy their requirements to provide valid claims.
Other news agencies have reported it is quite odd for a federal lawsuit preparation to take 7 years. In some of Morganroth’s emails they claim they were doing nothing on the case, in others, they admit to working on claims, in others they blame Fowler. This is also very strange for a law firm to be so sloppy in its version of the story.
Withdrawal email from Morganroth Law to group reps, and oil companies
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Email from Morganroth Law to Fowler
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Termination Letter from Morganroth Law to Fowler
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