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TVInews - Charles Portz, Attorney-at-law
An Autobiograpy
FEATURE STORY
• 02. TIMELINE
03. Today's Case
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Part 02 / Timeline / Autobiography of
CHARLES H. PORTZ
I was born in Pennsylvania on October 13, 1937. During World War II, my father worked at the Atlas Powder Company Bomb Plant and also in the coal mines. My Grandfather was blown up during an explosion at the powder company. Our family moved to several homes in the area of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. Back in those days, some of the homes we lived in did not have running water or electric, and some still had out-houses, and hand pumps in the yard to get water. Also, the coal mines kept shutting down. Most of the time we only had what we grew in the yard to eat. The only time we had meat was when my Dad shot a crow, rabbit or ground-hog, then we would have meat to put in soup or to cook. I remember doing our wash in a tub with a scrub board and my Mother making our own soap.
We were by no means a rich or wealthy family. I remember being in the 3rd and 4th grades, and wanting to go to the movies, which was no easy task. I first had to get the money to be able to go, so I would climb up in the mountains and get chunks of coal off the mountains where the strip truck dumped it, then crack the chunks with a hammer, bag it and sell a bag for 5 cents. That was the only way I got to go to the movies. I also did his to help buy food for our family. I delivered the coal with my wagon. This wagon had 3 wheels and my father made the forth wheel from a piece of wood so I could deliver the coal around the neighborhood and sell it. At that time, the price of a movie ticket was 10 cents.
When a mine would close down, we had to move. My father worked several jobs including working on farms. I got a job at a dairy farm when I was 12 years old feeding cattle, cleaning the barn, milking cows and running the bottling machine. I was earning 15 cents per hour. A neighbor once got me a job with a carnival peeling potatoes for the French Fry stand. So I traveled with the carnival at the age of 13, 14, and 15 in addition to the other jobs on the farm and gas station
Since I missed so much school from moving and working, I flunked the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades.
At 16, I worked at a local lamp factory where I was poisoned by carbon tetrachloride and had to quit. So I went back to school until I was 17. I started 9th grade in September, 1954 and quit in October, 1954 at the age of 17 and immediately joined the Army.
I went to Jump School and became a Paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division. While in the Army, my father died on Christmas Eve, 1955 at the age of 35 from Black Lung Disease. I received a Hardship Discharge from the Army to help support my Mother and two younger brothers.
I then started working at Bethlehem Steel Company. Work was slow back in 1957 and 58, so since I had the lowest seniority at Bethlehem Steel, I would get laid off and then called back, just to get laid off again.
While I was laid off, I had several jobs, one was selling tombstones. I used to carry the tombstones samples in the saddle bags on my motorcycle, since my car kept breaking down. Another job I had was selling woman's plastic jewelry to stores. I also worked on a garbage truck and eventually learned how to make wrought iron railings and weld. I taught myself how to weld by watching welders every chance I got.
I went into the business for my self making, selling and installing wrought iron railings, which were made in my mother's basement. I didn't have a welding machine or equipment, so I cut all the steel with a hacksaw. To get my first few jobs done, I got a welding machine on a 3 day free trial and made as many railings as I could. When I went back to get the welding machine for my 3rd, 3 day trial, the owner asked me what I was doing, I told him I wanted to go into business, but could not afford the equipment. The owner said, "You got a lot of guts", and then he sold me the welder on credit.
While I was making railings, I was also racing stock cars and making some money. I even raced on the NASCAR circuit for a while.
I built the railing business up to be a decent size steel erecting company. A few of the bigger jobs I did are as follows:
1. Pocono International Speedway - I put every piece of steel in that track, including the crash wall, the wheel fence, the grand stands and the garages for the race cars. Everything you see on that track, except the landscaping and black top, I put there.
2. I erected the steel on 6 shopping centers and various other buildings, including banks, post offices and water treatment plants.
3. I erected the steel on the Vero Beach and Fort Pierce Power Houses both of which are in Florida.
4. I also prepared the pilings that a portion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland sets on..
In the 70's, construction bottomed out and the contractor on the power houses went bankrupt. Everyone settled for about 5 cents on the dollar that was owed to them. So I ended up with about $4,000.00 for a years work after all the bills were paid.
At the bankruptcy settlement, I was setting along side of the bankruptcy attorney and I got $4,000.00 for all my work, but he got about $20,000.00 for his work on the bankruptcy. At that time, I said, " I'm on the wrong side of this thing."
I was living in Tampa, Florida at the time. After driving home from Vero Beach, the very next day, Sunday, I went out and bought a G.E.D. book, studied every waking hour. The following Thursday I took the exam and passed.
I was accepted at the University of South Florida where I completed 4 years of college in about 2 years. I received a scholarship from LEAP for my last quarter (USF was on the quarter system at that time). I carried 35 quarter hours in that last quarter, set a national record for the amount of hours carried in one quarter and finished with a 4.0 GPA and graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice. (See attachment)
Since I am Native American, I applied to C.L.E.O. (Counsel on Legal Education Opportunity). My background was verified and I was given a fellowship to attend a semester in law at the University of Florida Law School then go onto law school. I then attended Texas Southern Thurgood Marshall Law School as well as taking summer courses that were available at South Texas College of Law under the fellowship.
I came to law school in Texas because I was helping to write a book on the U.S. Supreme Court pertaining to Constitutional Procedure. (See cover and pages containing acknowledgment) I was a guest of Justice Rehnquist at the U.S. Supreme Court because of the book.
My son and I went to college and law school together, and have a successful law firm in Houston practicing civil, family, criminal, immigration, corporate, and entertainment law. We have represented clients in at least 15 other states including New York, New Jersey, Florida, California, Montana, New Mexico, Mississippi, Washington, Rhode Island, Michigan and others.

I have represented clients in the U.S. on some of the biggest
cases in the U.S. which are as follows:

1. Operation Lightning Strike, where I represented the Scientists from N.A.S.A. and some of the N.A.S.A. Contractors. (I was on all the national TV shows) (Also see US News and World Reports)
2. Clients accused in the world's second largest gold theft and fraud in excess of a billion dollars (I had the case dismissed). This case also involved the Russian KGB.
3. Clients accused of the biggest IRS fraud case in the history of the U.S.. I put this story together and it ran on NBC with Brian Ross of Dateline, and I was on Dateline and NBC News every day for weeks.
4. Operation Green Ice, the biggest drug arrest in the world. (I had this case dismissed) This case was in San Diego, California.
5. A $200,000,000.00 theft from Mobile Oil Company by NNPC. (I had the case dismissed)
6. An insurance fraud case that I had to travel to Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France.
I have also handled some of the biggest , most violent and high profile cases in Houston:
1. 2 girls were killed and their bodies burned. There was 11 pounds of one girl and 15 pounds of the girl's ashes left. (I got my client off)
death penalty, but I got 2 cases dismissed and plead to one count for life after we went 2 months and only had 7 jurors qualify . ( At that time a life sentence was 15 Yrs)
3. A man shot his wife in the head because his breakfast was cold and I got him 5 years probation.
4. A woman killed her husband because he kept turning off her soap opera show, I got her 5 years probation, but had to give up all the life insurance money to the daughter.
5. A man importing 75 tons of marijuana in Alabama, I got him 3 years in jail. He also had a 42 pound met. case in Miami, Florida, I had both sentences to run concurrent.
I was called to go on the O.J. Simpson trial, but Simpson wanted to pay the attorneys after
the trial, so I declined. I also got a call from A.C. Collins to represent him if he got indicted in the O.J. case.
I have represented several foreign governments such as Nigeria, Mexico and the Peoples Republic of China.
In addition to the legal work, I also during my undergraduate studies, promoted and had a professional wrestling show, syndicated throughout Florida. I shot my own TV shows and did all the promotion. I sold the business when I moved to Texas.
I have wrote, produced and directed 1 full length movie with John Derrick, which we sold to an overseas company in 1968.
I have also wrote, produced and directed 4-1/2 hour TV shows which I‚m sure you have seen, i.e. Liquid Luster Car Wax and Engine Addictive. I‚ll send you a video if you care to see it.
I have formed a production company in Houston to shoot motion pictures and I have written 5 movie scripts, one on the NASA case which we hope to produce in the near future. Another script is about a Baby Stealing case that was featured on NBC and was the most watched show in the US in September, 1999. That was my case. (I was on FOX News and Dateline regarding this show.)
I was a guest on Good Morning America a few months ago pertaining to case I have, the story also ran on PrimeTime Live. I wrote a script regarding this case. It is a true story about a 17 year old girl from Houston, Texas who is currently in prison for murdering her son. The original autopsy report stated homicide. Her attorney scared her into pleading guilty. The family contacted me and I proved she didn‚t kill her child, and even the Harris County Medical Examiner testified in Court that his office made a mistake and he changed the autopsy report from "Homicide" to"Undetermined". Under oath, the Medical Examiner told the Court the child died of an infection that he was born with. He also said that from the evidence the hospital may have caused the child‚s death by depriving him of oxygen for over 30 minutes. However, the Court sided with the District Attorney‚s Office and denied my Writ.
I argued the case at the Court of Criminal Appeals and had her conviction reversed, and through a lot pf effort and persuading the Court System, I had her home for Christmas.
To list a few of my accomplishments:
1. I have received several American Jurisprudence awards.
2. Dean‚s list every semester in college and law school.
3. Served as School Board Trustee.
4. Obtained a Real Estate License.
Five of my cases have been featured on national TV; Dateline NBC, Day One, 48 hrs., PrimeTime Live, CNN and 60 Minutes. The case on Dateline was listed as the most watched show that night. (September, 1999)
I am a member of the following Bar Associations and licensed to practice in the Courts:
1. Texas State Bar Association
2. Federal Southern District of Texas
3. 1st, 5th, 9th and 11th Federal Circuit Courts
4. United States Tax Court
5. United States Supreme Court.
If you care for more details, please contact me since this is just touching the surface of my life experiences. I have newspaper articles where I organized several Rescue Squads and saved a baby‚s life on the telephone.
At the present time I‚m working on putting a film production company together in Houston and I‚m looking for some honest people to work with me. Recently I was a Producer in the movie "Still Waters", and the movie "PAIN". I also wrote, produced and directed a TV show on the law.
Sincerely,
Charles H. Portz

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