Clients Say Quanell X Ripped Them Off, but He Says He Can't Help Everyone
For years Quanell X, a Houston civil rights activist, has appeared before banks of cameras and lights, addressing crowds with his sonorous voice about a crime or a miscarriage of justice that he was working to prevent.
But last week in Beaumont, a small cluster of people gathered outside the new section of the Jefferson County Courthouse and Quanell was nowhere to be seen. People who say they hired him for his ability to draw attention to a case, to shape a narrative in the media, told reporters — who, along with photographers, outnumbered about a dozen people who'd come there to speak — they felt they'd been ripped off by Quanell, who, they say, made promises he never delivered on.
Leslie Bradley held up a homemade poster declaring Quanell should be treated like Bernie Madoff, the infamous Ponzi schemer. She handed out flyers featuring her text message conversations with Quanell and also described him as a serpent that needs to be dealt with. A bright, hard smile crossed her face as she shuffled through stacks of papers with reporters and passed out T-shirts she had made.
Bradley hired Quanell X earlier this year when her husband, serving time in prison for aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping, was about to have his DNA tested – she insists Charlie Bradley is innocent because the description given by the victim, a Houston Walgreens pharmaceutical deliveryman, of the men who stole his truck and trailer and about $1 million worth of prescription drugs, was of a tall, slender man. (Court records say the description was vague.) Her husband is 5'4" and weighs more than 200 pounds.
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