Alintoff Lawsuit Alleges Widespread Conspiracy
She alleges her judge colluded with law enforcement and others to violate her rights repeatedly.
There’s a new and explosive lawsuit in a case I previously covered.
I first covered Rachel Alintoff’s child custody case in 2014, though I primarily covered it last year.
It’s been going on since 2010 and the former couple: Bryan and Rachel Alintoff- are still not even technically divorced.
Furthermore, the case was recently moved from its county court, Monmouth County, New Jersey. The presiding judge, Lisa Thornton, took a potshot against Rachel Alintoff on the way out.
This is the second time Rachel has filed a federal lawsuit against parts of the Monmouth Court and others.
“If someone develops a niche to pull off all these cases in federal court, the federal court is going to get swamped with all these RICO cases,” predicted divorce lawyer Martha Cohen Stine.
One of the cases is a $200 million suit filed by Rachel Alintoff, who says state judges favor “men with deep pockets and big law firms.”
Her suit accuses a number of lawyers and other defendants of colluding with and conspiring to hide the income and assets of her husband, Bryan Alintoff.
She withdrew that lawsuit, but now she’s back with another.
Rachel has felt retaliated against throughout the process. Here is part of her complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.
The tactic of filing lawsuits, particularly federal lawsuits, as a way for litigants to fight back against corrupt judiciary- primarily in family court- is not new.
The technique has had limited effect, however the lawsuit filed by Evita Tolu in Missouri is an example of the kind of effect such a lawsuit can have. The lawsuit has been dismissed, but before that, it caused such a stir that nearly forty guardian ad litem (GAL) in the St. Louis area got together for a Zoom conference.
The lawsuit also inspired other lawsuits against the main target, Elaine Pudlowski, and others in the St. Louis County area.
Evita’s lawsuit was dismissed largely because judges and other court actors enjoy broad immunity which allows for the dismissal of many lawsuits, regardless of what they have done.
Though Evita’s lawsuit was filed in Missouri, and as such, the lawsuit followed Missouri state law, immunity is often a problem for many lawsuits like this.
I asked Rachel’s attorney, who filed this suit, Ken Rosellini. He told me that he filed the lawsuit as a “declaratory and injunctive relief” and believes this will bypass immunity because that portion does not ask for money, but rather to make changes to the court.
The body of the lawsuit alleges widespread attacks by organs inside and near the Monmouth (New Jersey) Court going after Rachel, while protecting Bryan.
Rachel suffers from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) from physical abuse suffered during her marriage. In court, that abuse was dismissed. Here is part of Judge Angela Dalton addressing her. Here is part of the lawsuit.
Defendant Judge Dalton, falsely stated that Plaintiff was not a domestic violence survivor, without reason or evidence to support such a statement.
Plaintiff has medical evidence of a hospital record from Maimonides Hospital stating domestic violence as the reason Plaintiff suffered a contusion on her by Bryan Alintoff slamming a door on her arm.
The Defendants, by way of the Family Court in the State of New Jersey, have denied Plaintiff legal access to the court record, including audio and transcription recordings of the proceedings.
I reached out to the Administrative Office of the New Jersey Courts but received no response.
Besides that, Monmouth Courts have catered to Bryan Alintoff, the lawsuit alleges.
Defendant Bryan Alintoff has interfered with Plaintiff’s rights of custody on multiple occasions, often canceling at the last minute despite Plaintiff’s hour and half drive to the custody exchange location.
Defendant Bryan Alintoff even cancelled at the last minute for holiday weekends such as Mother’s Day, without Plaintiff’s consent, and in violation of express court orders.
Plaintiff has contacted and e-mailed the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office to enforce her rights of custody and assert complaints that Bryan Alintoff has interfered with her custody under the criminal statutes of the State of New Jersey.
In 2021, Rachel went to New York to get a protective order, and this protective order required Bryan to comply with the custody order. When he refused, the Monmouth prosecutor’s office refused to take action.
I reached out to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and to Bryan Alintoff, but I received no response.
Even as prosecutors were refusing to prosecute Bryan for violating the restraining order, social services refused to investigate when her son made homicidal ideations. Here is that audio.
The lawsuit continues.
DC&P stands for the Department of Child Protection and Permanency and is New Jersey’s social services agency. I reached out to their state headquarters but received no response.
Besides Rachel, about the only concern anyone had about their son expressing a desire to kill his father was that I released the audio and put it on the internet. Bryan sent me the following email after I released the above audio.
Mr. Volpe,
It has come to my attention that you posted confidential information about my son, a minor on the internet.
Judge Dalton issued a gag order on 4/26/21. You posted your "article" on 4/30/21. You are in violation of a Court Order.
Meanwhile, the court has granted Bryan physical custody, but the lawsuit argues that he has failed to provide his son the proper therapy. Their son is autistic, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also alleges a disparate application of court orders.
I recently wrote about how court orders are often enforced in this haphazard manner.
Divorces which last ten years and more are not that uncommon in Monmouth County. In February, I interviewed Michael Chaplin, whose Monmouth divorce is also over a decade.
In 2019, I did a deep dive into Monmouth County courts. That area is laced with systemic corruption; over two hundred women complained about one judge: Judge Paul Escandon.
The shocking part of the allegations made in Rachel’s lawsuit is just how common they are: both in Monmouth County and beyond.
