Holoman-Franklin in photo, all dressed up, with no place to hide, thanks to the internet.
Ok people, this has got to be one of the more bizarre days of my life. Then again, any experience with fruitcake Raphael Holoman-Franklin is going to be bizarre. (Or costly.) I have lived at my present address with my partner of 21 years for 21 years. My landlord will attest to this and we have things that prove this. Check our voter registration for example. Same address, 21 years. Raphael Holoman-Franklin was our housemate in 2008, for about two months, before he moved out and rent scammed our landlord, Clifford Truesdell, and another Cambridge landlord, Tom Queisser, out of thousands of dollars. He also stole from people in NYC and Fort Dodge, Iowa, and the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have outstanding warrants for his arrest. I have warned people about him for two years. Recently, I received a restraining order, taken out against me by Holoman-Franklin, who is back in Cambridge, acting like nothing ever happened. The fact that Tom Queisser is in Germany, and that Clifford died last spring, no doubt made him feel that it was safe to be here. Restraining orders can be obtained purely on alleged victim say so. I did not know the actual basis for the order until I got to court, had no way of knowing what I needed to defend myself against the allegations, and had 10 days of anxiety and sleeplessness over this. I am happy to say that the judge vacated the order, but I must still request that it be expunged from my record. The entire 6 hour time spent in court (with delays, interruptions, etc.) was unsettling, exactly as Rafey Fakey Holoman-Hoo Hoo intended.
Holoman-Franklin perjured himself over and over and put on quite the "victim" show. He told the court the following:
1. that he and I been "domestic partners" from 2002 - 2010 (at my address of 21 years, which must be news to my partner Joe of 21 years)
2. that I mentally abused him and physically beat him (Given the inability of our legal system to take this one man crime wave off the streets, I highly recommend these options to future victims, though I wouldn't use them myself.)
3. that I was an alcoholic,
4. that I destroyed his possessions,
5. that I threatened to kill him (see #2)
6. that I raped him several times and that he "fled our home in terror" and went to a hospital for "treatment". (Rape him? I told his lawyer that I wouldn't even shake his freaking hand.)
7. at some point in our fictitious multi-year relationship, I apparently also went to his "home in Montreal" in a drunken rage and destroyed his antique collection. Good Lord.
UPDATE TO #7: I RECENTLY SPOKE WITH GILLIAN MCMULLEN, OF 15 SALEM ST. IN CAMBRIDGE. RAPHAEL FEIGNED FRIENDSHIP AND USED HER TO GET TO HER NEIGHBOR, SCAM VICTIM TOM QUEISSER OF 16 SALEM ST. TOM LOST OVER $12,000. WHEN SHE MET RAPHAEL IN 2008, HE TOLD HER THAT HE HAD "COME TO CAMBRIDGE FROM MONTREAL", WHERE HE HAD BEEN IN AN "ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS ALCOHOLIC ALGERIAN LOVER, WHO ASSAULTED HIM AND SMASHED HIS FURNITURE". SOUND FAMILIAR?)
Rafe went to a hospital in western MA some time ago, where he complained of chest pains and took an AIDS test, and it is a document related to this that he presented as "proof" of his claims. Rafe has made several hospital visits over the years when wanting sympathy or when stalling for time, a ploy which he's used before. In 1990, he didn't pay rent to housemate John Loftus in England where he was living, kept disappearing, and told Loftus that he was "being treated at a hospital for cancer". Charges were made against me without a shred of evidence (other than a hospital document) and victim-Rafe was defended by a lawyer from a Boston gay domestic violence organization who, with an associate, seemed only more than happy to believe every word that Holoman-Franklin said and comforted him when the judge announced her decision. I think that domestic violence support is wonderful, but if you attempt to prosecute alleged offenders with no proof, then you serve an exalted ideal, and not people. Think "Salem, 1692". Rafe's lawyer wasn't defending a "victim". He was unwittingly helping Holoman-Franklin turn ME into one. There was no police report, no evidence presented that anything said against me was true. Funny, but if you have a 6 or 7 year domestic relationship with someone, there will be letters addressed to you at the shared address, emails, magazine subscriptions, voter registration records, photographs of the "couple", even testimony from landlord or friends who knew the "couple" AS a couple - SOMETHING - proving that each half of the couple lived together at the same address during a certain time span. Rafe had none of this nor could he. He lied. To add to the "authenticity" of his charges against me, this dirt bag demands the legal right to come to our home "to get his things". He HAS no things here and hasn't since he left two years ago. AND GET THIS: the restraining order that he obtained was addressed to me with an incorrect first name that I've never used in my life, and a surname horribly misspelled. You live with someone for several years and don't know their name or how to spell it?
Holoman-Franklin also claimed that I left a message on his answering machine, threatening to kill him, though his lawyer flip flopped between "kill" and "harm". The judge asked him about a recording of the call, and Rafe, all forlorn and sad, told her that he "deleted it because it was just too terrifying to hear". Even the judge rolled her eyes, wordlessly saying, "Give me a break". Emails that I submitted from Capt. Ron Wilson of the Seattle PD, Rev. Claude Peiffer, abbot of St. Bede Abbey in Illinois, and numerous theft victims of Holoman-Franklin were not accepted by the judge as evidence, as Rafe's lawyer said they had been "altered" and couldn't be proven to be real. He's most welcome to come to my home and print them out for himself, and I know full well that had I threatened Rafe WITH an email, Mr. Lawyer would have been waiving it in the air as "evidence". Funny how that works. He's also welcomed to phone, fax or email the dozen or so victims of Raphael and others listed on our victims blog. But he won't of course. His job is to prove that Raphael's vengeance-oriented fantasy is "fact".
I was in disbelief at Holoman-Franklin's perjury and audacity. We hadn't seen him for 2 years, though during that time, we were at times informed by new victims and would be victims of his whereabouts. Thrown out of two homes and fired from one job in the Sound beach, N.Y. area this past summer, for example. The restraining order was - I know - retaliation for our blogs and posted warnings about this strange little man. That someone like him can put another person through something like this, based on his "say so", with no evidence, but that a dozen or more theft victims of this fraud can't get Holoman-Franklin into a courtroom, based on THEIR say so, WITH evidence, is ludicrous. People: do not let this man into your lives. If he scams people and you make a stink of it, he may lie and take you to court. Better to avoid him totally at the beginning than get sucked into the black hole that he is. Don't hire him, rent to him, or trust him. Holoman-Franklin has backed himself into a corner, his past is catching up to him, he wants to silence or limit those who expose him for what he is, and he does this by becoming a "victim" and attracting misguided do-gooders who just want to mother him and keep him all safe and snuggly.
What amazes me most is that no matter how outlandish his claims about himself or unbelievable his tales, some people will rally round him, forming a little coterie, defending him, and seeing only what he wants them to see. He's surrounded by people now who deal with gay domestic violence, and is using the gay community in the same way that he used the Episcopal Church community in 2008. His new 'friends", with all good intention, comfort him in his fake grief and need, but had better watch their wallets. If they'd just take a minute to email, fax or phone contacts on our victims blog, they'd know Rafe for the thief and fraud he is. And this is interesting: Holoman-Franklin LOVES to do volunteer work. It's part of his arsenal of "nice". He then uses contacts made through volunteering (like people at St. Peter's Church in Cambridge in 2008) to get to fresh scamming victims. Well guess who he has been doing volunteer work for recently? The man who falsely slandered me and accused me of horrific crimes, volunteers for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. (UPDATE! Bruce Bell from GLAD told me that Rafe is no longer associated with GLAD in any way. One for the good guys!)
Sorry Rafey, but if our legal system lets people like you slip through the cracks and victimize people repeatedly with crimes that are deemed "civil matters", then citizens have a right to protect themselves and others against you by any legal means at their disposal, hence our blogs. What will be your next charge against me? Spitting? Kidnapping? Mail bombs? Hired hit men? Frightening you with hand puppets at your window? That I went to your "winter home in Venice, Italy and destroyed your priceless Elvis black velvet art collection and peed in your jacuzzi"? You've had a long run, you disgusting piece of crap, and you may never get caught in this life for being what you are, but no matter. Karma is a given, and payback in your case will be a cosmic event, viewable from earth.
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