10 Year DUI Survivor Anniversary | 45th Anniversary Of MADD | Dec 11th Victim Tribute Vigil

(Isstories Editorial):- New York City, New York Nov 13, 2025 (Issuewire.com) – The morning after Thanksgiving will be USDAC Citizen Artist, Lexie “Lex” Peveto – Lumiere’s 10 Year Car-Crash Anniversary of surviving as a passenger who collided with DUI driver Van Quang that totaled 3 cars including his own in 2015. It is also the 45th Year Anniversary – Move for MADD 2025 march fundraisers. On November 8th, Lex marched with “Steps for Justice,” Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare’s team with hundreds of other families who lost loved ones to DWI & DUI driving and supporters of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. 

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Ten years later, Lexie reflects on the six months in physical therapy for her injuries, damage to her vision while wearing her rose colored glasses, outstanding medical bills and loss of her marketing job due to Quang Van crashing into them while traveling for work. Quang was on a concoction of Hydralazine, Hydrochlorothiazide which require “caution when driving due to dizziness,” as well as Amlodipine & Benazepril, that state to “avoid driving” while on these medications. Quang still chose to drive even after he received a citation before the accident that had him fly across the median of a six lane road, airborn like a stunt man from a Duke’s of Hazard movie as he crashed into them. Mr. Van did not admit to the error of his ways & driving on these medications until the deposition. By then it was too late to prosecute him for a DUI, and Lexie could not receive crime victims’ compensation. Lex is still currently dealing with Fort Bend County 268th District Court holding her remaining settlement funds from the DUI crash case 17-DCV-246364 with Quang in the court registry.

Lexie & her mother Jodi traveled to Washington, D.C. last September 24, 2024 to March On The Capitol with Crime Survivors for Safety & Justice to represent MADD, with 580 buses of people who represent 200,000 crime survivors lives that have been impacted by crime. They provided a letter to their Congressman of the Top 20 ways crime has impacted their own lives (including the DUI crash) and shared stories about how it also impacted their family and friends. Jodi, opened the letter with a moving statement, ” Crime is just for a moment but the effects of the trauma from the experience can last a lifetime. Imagine, this could happen to anyone. None of us are immune from the evil that exists in our communities or in our world. The truth is, that evil persists because Lucifer has a hatred for our children’s potential…Families are attacked first, all over the world. Which is why children and families must be protected. It takes a lot to heal from crime, and survive these horrific experiences…The trauma recovery, both physically and financially for the years it may take to heal. It takes a lot of resources just for a crime survivor to be able to function normally.” Together, mother and daughter marched to advocate for change, healing and safer communities, because it has been a long road to justice and financial restoration.

Recently, Lexie participated in a mock trial and discovered there is an Economist who specializes in collision time values; who determines the future medical coverage of court cases for plaintiff injuries. The value is based on a 20 year US Bond interest rate that are held by Fidelity. (This video link shows you how.) The mock court session was about 75% similar to Lex’s case against DUI driver Quang. Fort Bend County court is still holding half of her settlement in their court registry, since May 12, 2022. Partly because Lex could not find an attorney with integrity to get her check out of the court coiffeurs. Even after filing 5 Motions to Remove Funds. 

Lex had requested a virtual hearing due to safety concerns which was denied. Then her mom’s partner Yanni was shot at in his Range Rover around the same time Judge Williams (the 3rd Judge) forced the settlement of the case 17-DCV-246364, under duress. 

During the CoVid19 pandemic, State Farm Insurance Atty Beth Taylor refused to allow Lexie’s grandfather, United Nation’s Award photography recipient, Frank Cricchio who was 87 and in remission from cancer to record a video deposition regarding his Victim Impact Statement regarding her case. Mr. Cricchio provided the Fort Bend County 268th District Court a typed Victim Impact Statement (Thanks to the help of MADD,) on September 28, 2020 which he had notarized at his own bank. Mr. Cricchio passed away the following year on December 23, 2021 with the intention of the court hearing his voice or understanding his perspective on the impact Quang’s DUI crash had on his granddaughter.

When Judge Williams received Lexie’s Motion For Summary Judgement on Damages, which included Cricchio’s Victim Impact Statement that was filed with the court. Judge Williams, in virtual court, refused to read it and laughed about it. To the point he upset Lexie’s mother. If Willams had done his job, read the Motion and ruled on it. Lexie and State Farm would have only had to go to court for three medical bills. 

Instead, State Farm’s Attorney requested Depositions by Written Questions. Lexie made multiple calls to Atty Taylor regarding the depositions, but her phone calls were not returned. However, at the hearing, State Farm Atty Beth Taylor suddenly changed to insisting on oral depositions. Requiring Lex, who had been laid off due to the pandemic, to suddenly pay $7k out of pocket to get her own Doctor to testify on the witness stand. Atty Taylor lied to the court and said “they had not received any written depositions from the Plaintiff.” Although Lex provided proof via an email that her Doctor had never received any written depositions to answer from State Farm in the mail, but the Judge did not care. During the hearing, Judge Williams threatened Lex, “if she did not pay the fee, Lexie would be held in contempt of court.” Her friend Travis, a law graduate from Yale advised her since Atty Donelson, Atty Willumsen’s partner (whom it was later discovered worked for Adler when he was prosecuted for RICO crimes) had outed former Judge Elliott as a Grand Wizard in the KKK. For her own safety (she was not just dealing with a person but an entire organization) to sign the settlement under duress. Racist Judge Elliott had also advised Judge Hawkins that if Jim Adler & Associates Law Firm wanted to quit her case in Nov 2018, to release him but “to not rule on the fees.” The day Lex Lumiere signed settlement papers, the police showed up to serve her with papers for not paying the fee. Which had to be returned to the court & immediately absolved.

When State Farm deposited the Settlement Funds into Fort Bend 268th Court Registry on May 12, 2022 Lex’s 2nd Atty Willumsen was paid automatically. Jim Adler’s firm whose contracts state “they claim no fees when they quit a case,” suddenly wanted their fees despite their breach of contract and lack of professional integrity.

The Fort Bend Court refused to schedule a hearing on Lex’s remaining settlement funds for two years. To add insult to injury, during the long waiting period, Lex and her mother were attacked in the driveway of her home in December, the weekend before Christmas. Then someone attempted to target & rob her sister at gunpoint at her job at the YMCA downtown – but got her co-worker instead due to an unexpected schedule change. 

Lex does not believe the attacks were a coincidence but that her safety as a minority and her families safety was in danger due to former Judge Elliott & Hawkins being outed on official court record. Racists thrive on their targeted hatred of minorities, and their desperation to cover up a hate crime to steal or allegedly embezzle money by using Doctors with fake medical records to deem people mentally unstable to help their crime network gain control of their targeted victims funds and assets. Allowing them to get away with it under false pretenses or delaying court cases and making DUI/DWI crash survivors suffer financially from damages indefinitely.

Instead of justice being served, the Fort Bend 268th District Court destroyed all 5 Motions to release Lex Lumiere’s settlement funds from the Court Registry last year in the Fall. When they should have just cut her a check & mailed it to her. 

Motion To Remove Funds: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZx8YAAsoTSfgZstu0ZLupLL78rnHdZn/view?usp=sharing

Why? There is no justice in dealing with a racist undertow working against a DUI survivor. When Atty Jim Adler’s law firm and his extensive legal network collaborate to sabotage a case, using their Manager Atty Michael Gomez, Atty Trey Langdon Smith who transferred Lexie’s case out of spite to the settlement division of the law firm when she asked for a different attorney. She then received help from Atty Liles until he quit a month before their deposition hearing they had waited two years for. It was Atty Sandesara (the interim attorney when Liles quit) who would be used like a pawn on a chess board (whom Lexie never spoke to, met, or saw) to create a red hering to cover up Adler’s firm forging Lexie’s signature on the medical payment document the day she was in surgery.

Atty Drew Bivona (3rd attorney) was discharged after a month of working on Lexie’s case when he confessed to having a prior convoluted relationship with Frode ‘Fred’   Willumsen’s TBI Doctor Haider from NBII. Haider’s medical assistant told Lexie during her appointment ” that Dr. Haider was born and raised in Pakistan,” which is part of the communist BRIICS alliance currently at war with the American economy. Lex had been referred to Dr. Haider by Attorney Willumsen, whom it was later discovered had worked for Adler (when he was prosecuted for RICO crimes.) Lexie was suffering from migraine headaches due to the collision, and Atty Willumson sent her to this “TBI Expert” knowing her own Emergency Room Doctor claimed during testing she did not have a concussion but just a large bump on the head and his diagnosis was in writing. Atty Willumsen did not disclose the costs of the NBII visit at the time, although Lexie asked. In trial, the two hour Doctor’s visit bill with NBII was twenty-thousand dollars for a one hour computer based assessment and a one hour physical test. NBII has offices across the country, including in Beverly Hills. Doctor Haider mistakenly claimed on the original medical paperwork “Lexie had a Concussion/TBI from playing football” and that “she smoked.” Except Lexie had never played football in her life, and she was a non-smoker. Lex had to call Atty Willumsen and Dr. Haider’s office to get the errors on her medical report from NBII corrected. 

Lex filed multiple complaints with the Texas Medical Board about the incident, and Dr. Haider refusing to release records regarding which 3rd parties had illegally accessed Lexie’s medical file.A concern after discovering Dr. Haider was an accomplice of former Judge Elliott, and that Atty Willumsen’s (2nd attorney) own business partner Atty Donulson was an intern for Hawkins in college. The same Judge Hawkins – who had released Lexie’s DUI crash case from Adler had passed her case to his former student’s law firm, Atty Donulson & Willumsen. Later, Atty Arguello, the (4th attorney) was advised by Atty Fred Willumsen (who was focused on sabotaging Lexie’s case behind the scenes after being discharged for their deceptive practices,) along with Atty Michael Huff to “not show up for trial.” After 7 years of waiting for justice and a trial, Atty Arguello no showed. 

This November is ten years of Lex Lumiere & her family dealing with targeted financial injustice and a broken Department of Justice. No one had warned them that Adler’s firm & State Farm were both prosecuted for RICO crimes in the past but no one has helped Lex retrieve her money remaining in the court registry. 

Lex realized during the mock trial the lawyers & law firms are padding personal injury cases with fake TBI’s (traumatic brain injuries) & leveraging paid Doctors & Medical experts like Progressive Medical Associates & National Brain Injury Institute to increase the value of the case beyond the insurance limit into the balloon payment. Questioning if there is a blacklist of people like; Jews, LGBTQ people, political activists/dissidents or specific minorities in leadership positions (like Lex) that are targeted for auto collisions and disfigurement. If not death as a means of sabotaging them both professionally and financially while another entity profits from the bonds? Remote vehicles will make this a scarier reality. Although, meeting the angel of death would be much kinder than long, unjust court cases to be made whole from damages. 

Lex said, “I had just completed a year long training in Austin with Battleground Texas a few weeks before my car accident with the DUI driver.” Out of a select group of LatinX leaders, they selected a hundred to train for Political Office for which Lexie, a Constitutionalist advocate, was one of them. Speculating if law firms hire an underground international criminal network to deliberately cause some wrecks. Similar to how CoVid vaccines allegedly changed formulas based on zip codes, many of the Doctors and Researchers speak of publicly. Majority of the people involved in crashes, English is not their native language which creates a language barrier that lawyers, law firms and the medical establishment take advantage of. 

For example, the alleged victim in the mock case, never had a TBI or a medically diagnosed concussion from the accident (like they claimed in my case) but the law firm claimed it to drive up the cost of damages. By doing so, claiming the TBI makes the client eligible for disability & it continues to feed the law firm money machine of cases. The worker goes from $150k job & is instead either unemployed or forced into a lower economic status and the option of working 4 lower minimum wage jobs with the disability label. Disability wage laws are being challenged because disabled employers are not required to pay minimum wage but sub wages. Currently, disabled workers are fighting for minimum wage due to the rising costs of living & inflation. 

Basically, by forcing people (like minorities) into disability status it is a National movement of a legal modernized slave class of workers. Who are hired at half the minimum wage hourly rate using Data & AI Discrimination to separate people with disabilities from living minimum wages. A modern form of employment segregation based on race, disability, social status, just like a digital class system. Relatively unseen under the table because of technology. When disabled people apply for jobs the AI automatically places them in low wage categories due to some of the programmers being discriminatory. Experts within the Houston Medical Group & affiliates of a alleged TBI scam like the; National Brain Injury Institute (NBII) or Pain Management Groups testifying on personal injury cases. Although some cases with serious damages to the vehicle/persons will be legitimate. In this mock circumstance and other 35 mph fender benders, it is not. These groups are in the pocket of the insurance firms & Houston is the largest Medical Center in the world. 

Law firms like Jim Adler & Associates make pre-arranged “price culling settlement agreements” like Lexie Lumiere’s under the table (which are illegal) to save themselves money by settling at the lowest rate even before the medical & clinical visits are done. For example, Lexie’s case was evaluated for damages 4 times: Atty Jim Adler at $58k,  Atty Willumsen at $1 Million, Atty Pink at $3 Million and by Geico, who stated in writing, on company letterhead the case was worth in excess of Van’s State Farm million dollar balloon payment.

Even ten years after surviving a DUI crash, injustice is a well oiled impoverishing machine. In spite of this Lex Lumiere remains one of 7 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, ‘Art of Soccer’ artists and she also performed last year at Carnegie Hall with Kari Jobe. During the Move with Madd walk, upon registration they ask survivors to wear bells on their shoes. For Lexie, “every step forward is a bittersweet jingle, because I represent 10 years of people both locally in Texas and Nationally across the United States who did not survive their DUI & DWI fatalities. Please wear red to remember them, to pray for justice (that moves like a turtle) to be served & for victims families to be made whole from damages & heal in time. These crashes devastate your life and put you behind.“

On December 11th MADD National will host a special virtual support group meeting in which they will include a victim tribute of individuals injured or killed in impaired driving crashes. If you or a family member have been impacted and would like to participate, contact your local MADD location nearest you for more information.  

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