Bellaire Lawyer and Client Sanctioned $150K for Telling ‘Numerous Outright Lies’

A state judge sanctioned a Bellaire lawyer $150,000 after finding that the lawyer filed false and frivolous claims on behalf of his Chinese client, including one of residence near his failed Houston area chicken restaurant, while he was apparently living in Shanghai.

In a 10-page ruling issued Thursday, Fort Bend County District Judge R. O’Neill Williams said Bellaire lawyer Paul B. Rosen and his client, Gen Fu Zhang, acted in bad faith in a “willful, deliberate and calculated” effort to “perpetuate a fraud” on the court and the defendant landlord, Peterson New Territory Investors. Judge Williams found Rosen and Zhang jointly and separately liable.