Blogger Hoff Pursuing License to Practice Law in Oklahoma, Must Pass Moral & Character Fitness Check

Photo of Hoff obtained from FaceBook page in public domain.

This blog entry is very unique because of the information it contains. Rather than the usual build up about John Hoff’s history before getting to the point of the post, I want to get right to the meat of the story and make the following announcement.

It has been confirmed that John Willard Hoff AKA Johnny Northside of the Adventures of Johnny Northside.com blog, has submitted an application recently with the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners to take the Bar exam to become a licensed attorney in the State of Oklahoma.

Up until this past week it had only been speculation that Hoff had been working in Oklahoma but, unclear in what capacity or for what purpose. I personally can’t claim to be 100% certain of how long he has been working there or who exactly he has been working there. A few sources have given me more specific information but, I decided to focus my attention on getting proof that John Hoff is trying to become a licensed attorney and I am now the first to report the news which was verified by the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners. Now on with the story…

Around April of this year, I began to notice very uncharacteristic activity happening with John’s house and other things like a big judgement he has had against him for several years. The odd activity was that he was PAYING his debt off and was paying to have TISH issues with his house repaired and resolved. Those are normal actions for most people but, John Hoff has shown a history of appealing things, not paying things! Nearly every time he went to court he had filed In Forma Pauperis, which means he told the court he can’t afford to pay his court costs and by filing In Forma Pauperis his fees are waived when he is given a credit for the fees. When he bought his house in 2008, he agreed in writing that within once year he would comply with the Truth in Sale of Housing report and have noted repairs made by the deadline. Up until this year, Hoff had only addressed one out of 11 or 12 on the list. Hoff and his brother had a judgement against them since 2008 for over $3,200 in Swift County after the City of Appleton successfully sued them.

Up until this year, it had become the status quo for Hoff to not pay his bills or any of his debts. He had even been taken to family court in 2010 due to his child support payments being seriously delinquent. His child support was so delinquent in fact that he was denied a military security clearance with the National Guard that would have allowed him to be deployed to Kuwait in a "Club Med" atmosphere to work as a paralegal versus being put into battle situations as a grunt in Afghanistan (he wrote all about that in his Road to Afghanistan series. See screenshot below). By the way, Hoff also filed In Forma Pauperis for his family court appearances.

However, earlier in 2013 I began to notice that Hoff had been addressing his past TISH responsibilities and the PAID off that big judgement of over $3,200. Naturally I became curious and wanted to know how he had been able to pay for all of it. We are talking about a lot of money. I estimated it to be over $10,000 but, there had been no chatter on the Internet about him working any sort of job in the Twin Cities and searches into his house title history revealed he had not taken out any sort of home equity loan and there had been no announcements of him winning the lottery and yet, Hoff had somehow come up with a significant amount of money to pay off a lot of debt in a short amount of time.

Something was up and in the time I have known about John Hoff and something was up with him, it has ended up being something big he had been keeping secret. Well, big in John Hoff’s mind. This time proved to be no different. You can always tell when Hoff is up to something because, he doesn’t talk about himself much and he is a person who is so self absorbed with himself  that if he didn’t have a keyboard in front of him so much, he would have a mirror in front of him so he could praise himself more often.

I set out to determine how and where John could come up with that kind of money. It became a process of elimination and I determined it was very unlikely he was working any sort of job in Minnesota based off the various times he posted anything online and he would have been seen at some point going to and from a regular job.

I considered the possibility he was driving a truck again but, that job didn’t pay that well in the past and he would have been announcing the different locations he was in as he has in the past. He wasn’t trucking.

People in north Minneapolis who have formed the un-official Hoff Watch Group consistently reported that he had not been seen for weeks at a time around his house on Bryant Ave. North or around his former girlfriends house on Newton Ave.North.

It all led me to believe that whatever Hoff was doing for his money, he was not doing it in the Twin Cities and it was not likely he was making that kind of money near where his family is located near Alexandria. I decided that if he was getting his money legally by working, he had to be doing it out of state.

Again, more process of elimination. Where would he be most likely to NOT be? North Dakota? Unlikely to be there because, it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a 24-hour on call lynch mob waiting for him there. Yes, he is THAT hated in North Dakota.

Seattle? Highly doubtful as he had pissed off the Seattle PD something fierce because of his constant requests for documents from the Seattle PD thru the freedom of information act. Not to mention his citation for sitting on a sidewalk that he appealed all the way to the Washington State Supreme Court of Appeals…And LOST. Since he left Seattle about 10 years ago, he has not mentioned anything online that would indicate he has gone back to Seattle.

El Paso? Hmm that warranted looking into. More on that in a minute.

Fredericksburg, Virginia? Hoff hasn’t said anything about that location in a long time and the only place I recall him saying anything about it was in his “Have Mercy!!!” plea to the judge in his child support hearing. I didn’t see Virginia as being a likely place for Hoff to be working.

Had he gone back to Afghanistan? No. Not among the possibilities.

How about El Paso again? He does have a connection there in Peter Teachout, the former Hawthorne neighborhood board member who joined the Army and is stationed at Fort Bliss which is where Hoff was based back in the early 90’s. That is also where he allegedly suffered a “serious leg injury” while trying to contain a psyche patient who was “jacked up on PCP” and left one of his legs a full “two inches shorter than the other.” I am not going to go into all the BS that he has claimed with that ordeal but, after some research, I wasn’t able to find anything to indicate that he was spending a significant amount of time in El Paso recently.

That left only one other location that would make sense for him to be spending time this year. Oklahoma. There are a few reasons that caused me to think he has been going to Oklahoma on a regular basis in 2013.

The first indicator was the widget on my blogs homepage that lists locations of recent visitors. This is not a guarantee by any means that just because it says someone has recently visited the site from Oklahoma, means that the person is actually there. It might be the location of a server or something like that. However, there had been an unusually high number of visitors to the blog that were listed as being in Oklahoma City. Again, not proof but, certainly reason to take notice.

Hoff wrote about his adventures that led him to being deployed to Afghanistan and oddly enough, the story he had written for his hometown paper online is no longer available. Not to worry though because, I had the sense to take a screen shot of what I am talking about now.

Hoff made the following statements in that article I am talking about and you can see I am quoting him directly by looking at the picture of the screenshot.

Hoff said,

 “A battle buddy from my training at Fort Jackson was with the Oklahoma National Guard and called to say he was leaving a lucrative legal practice to deploy to Afghanistan.”

Hoff said earlier in the same article and also in the screenshot that he had been training in Fort Jackson as a Paralegal.

Screenshot of article by John Hoff "Road to Afghanistan a Rocky One"
Posted on "thenewsleaders.com" and since removed.
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I wish I was able to identify who that buddy was but, it was enough for me to look closely into what reasons Hoff might be spending time in Oklahoma. I don’t know a lot about the pay scale of a paralegal but, it isn’t a profession that pays a whole lot. Not enough for Hoff to be paying off all the debt he has been paying in 2013.

I have not been able to determine where he has been working in Oklahoma and I guess that means that I was still going off of my gut hunches rather than fact. That changed this past week.

I have been looking into different possibilities of Hoff working as an actual attorney since he has a law degree from the University of North Dakota but, I did not find anything that indicated he was a member of the Oklahoma Bar or any other state that I could find. I should say that I was not able to find anything that would suggest he was working as an attorney either. I looked into the process someone has to go through in order to become a licensed attorney in Oklahoma. That led me to these websites National Conference of Bar Examiners and the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners and it gave the information for the dates the bar exam is offered in Oklahoma and I was somewhat surprised to learn that the test is only given twice a year. The Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners releases the names of applicants for the next date the exam is offered but, it has not released the names for the next test date which is in February, 2014. The lists that I did find were for the most recent exam dates from 2012 and the last one which was in July of 2013. I did not find Hoff’s name on any of those lists.

I sent an email to the director of the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners and stated that I was trying to find where I should send information about someone who has or intends to apply to take the bar exam that might be helpful to anyone assigned to research the character and moral fitness of an applicant. I want to note that all applicants must pass a background check into their character and moral fitness in order to be allowed to take the bar exam.

The email response I received had a confidentiality notice at the bottom of the email that prohibits copying the message and publishing it. Because of that, I am not going to list the name of the person who sent it or all of the contents. I will say that the person who sent the reply did verify that John Willard Hoff has applied to take the Oklahoma bar exam in February, 2014.

I was told the following: “To present this evidence to the Board, please submit in a signed letter any information, with any available documentation attached, which might influence the board in considering Mr. Hoff’s moral character and fitness to practice law in Oklahoma.”  It went on to say that any other individuals wishing to submit statements, should submit that information to the Board in writing.

They gave the address to submit statements as:

PO Box 53036, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73152.

To simplify how the envelope should be addressed, below is exactly how I will address the envelope containing information to the Board…

Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners

c/o Moral Character and Fitness

P.O. Box 53036

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 73152

I would like to stress that for anyone wanting to submit information to the Board, that it is written in a professional and respectful manner and that any complaints, statements or claims regarding past actions by Hoff be factual and not just personal opinions. Statements about Hoff should be backed up with documentation that shows the information as fact by including copies of paper documents or photos including screenshots and website addresses (URL’s) should be attached to what you submit to the Board for consideration.

John Hoff has abused and manipulated the court systems for years and has shown no respect for the legal professionals within it. That is not even mentioning how he has attacked, provoked, exploited and exposed countless people on the Internet and more specifically on his Blog.

This is what I consider to be an opportunity for anyone who has been victimized by Hoff to relay your story or details of how Hoff has victimized you to the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners. We all have an a role to play in this process and if people simply don’t report instances of Hoff’s behavior to the Board and Hoff is allowed to continue on and become a licensed attorney, he will have greater access to information and databases which he would likely use against people in the future, as he has demonstrated time and time again in his past.

This is our chance to see that John Hoff is finally held accountable for his misdeeds he has committed against so many people.

Let’s get to work!