Letter to Judge Wilson From Greta Akopyan for Tamara Dadyan (Document 1174-1)

Summary

Letter to Judge Stephen V. Wilson from Greta Akopyan, who writes as the mother of defendant Tamara Dadyan, filed November 30, 2021 as Document 1174-1 in No. 2:20-cr-00579-SVW. She asks for leniency and a merciful rather than punitive sentence, describing her daughter's upbringing, her career as a licensed realtor, her role as a mother and family anchor, and her habit of putting others first. She says the family has suffered since November 5, 2020 and that her daughter and her husband were drawn in after traveling to Miami to help post a bond for relatives. She asks the judge to give her daughter a second opportunity.

Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used

Full text

Case 2:20-cr-00579-SVW Document 1174-1 Filed 11/30/21 Page 1 of 4 Page ID #:18890




  The Honorable Stephen V. Wilson
  United States District Judge
  First Street Courthouse,
  350 W. 1st Street, Courtroom 10A,
  10th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90012

  Judge Wilson

          My name is Greta Akopyan, and I am Tamara Dadyan’s
  mother and I am shaken by how difficult this letter is for me to
  write. I wish there was an ideal place to begin. I am asking for
  your leniency in sentencing her and please that your sentence be
  merciful and not punitive. Please consider what I am going to
  say because there are so many lives that are going to be touched
  and affected by your decision today.

  What keeps me believing in her and loving her is the fact that
  she is a good person that comes from a good home. I was 18
  years of age when I was pregnant with her. My husband was
  very opinionated when it was time to pick her name he decided
  to name her after his grandmother who lived to be 100 plus
  years of age and she was desperately waiting for her grandson
  my husband Gegam Dadyan to have a daughter and it would be
  named after her. She had 9 children and coming from a country
  where it’s normal for children to be named after the grandmother
  none of her children gave her that gift so when we had Tamara it
  was my husband’s gift to his grandmother to give her the name
  came true. I guess it’s true when they say you always take after
  the person your names after which is exactly what happened
  with Tamara, she naturally got the gift of helping people. She
Case 2:20-cr-00579-SVW Document 1174-1 Filed 11/30/21 Page 2 of 4 Page ID #:18891




  inherited that from her great grandmother as she was a natural
  healer and would help women overcome illnesses with fertility
  issues that otherwise couldn’t conceiving a child to be able to
  assist with their dreams of becoming a mother from the first
  steps until they we’re ready to give birth.

  Tamara finished her high school a semester early went to college
  and she took my husband’s advice of becoming a licensed
  realtor. She has been working for Remax on The BLVD in
  Studio City California from the year 2000 to on or about 2006
  where month after month year after year she was voted as Agent
  of the Month in the Top 5 % and 10% to 2008 when the
  financial crash happened forcing Remax to close their offices
  and she branched out with her own company. She goes over
  and beyond to help peoples dream come true by purchasing their
  dream homes to selling their homes.

  The most important job my daughter Tamara Dadyan has is first
  and foremost being a mother to 2 grandchildren. My daughter
  suffers from herniated disk of lower lumbar with her spine and
  to be able to conceive a was truly a gift considering her medical
  issues. Her whole life revolves around her 2 daughters since her
  daughters were born she has spend every minute every weekend
  every chance she has to make her children’s priorities come first
  for her. She is the the matriarch of our family she hold the glue
  to my family and she is the godmother with her husband Artur
  their godfather to my 2 sons Karen Dadyan and Arsen Dadyan’s
  weddings and to all their childrens baptisms. She is the person
  who is the aunt to take all her nieces and nephews to
  Disneyland as she says “that’s the happiest place in the world”,
Case 2:20-cr-00579-SVW Document 1174-1 Filed 11/30/21 Page 3 of 4 Page ID #:18892




  as a mother, she is always involved in Angelina’s and Natalie’s
  lives, and even more so with her busy schedule she still makes
  time for all her nieces and nephews from every school
  performance to their dance recital.

  I have tried my best to raise Tamara as an honest, kindhearted
  person she is. She is at times very blinded by peoples true colors
  and true intentions as is what got her into this current
  unfortunate situation. To sum it up another example of her
  putting everyone else’s needs before her when Richard and
  Mary were detained in Miami, Florida Tamara never thought for
  a second that by her and her husband traveling there to go bail
  her brother-in-law and sister-in-law would have the
  consequences of them being added to Richard and Marys
  indictment. They we’re both targeted by going and help post a
  bond and when Richard and Mary were indicted the first time
  neither Artur or Tamara even knew about the indictment so
  they didn’t offer any help and were not added to the previous
  legal matters, in fact the person who posted the property bond
  the first time around was later indicted on similar charges
  themselves. It’s unfortunate how the system works and when
  people need help and anyone who offers help gets tangled up in
  problems of their own.

  I understand this letter is supposed to be of her character what
  can a mother in my position say about their only daughter that
  always goes out of her way to keep everyone else happy and
  taken care of and at times forgets herself in the process.
  To sum it up my daughter is a very good wife and a great
  mother and daughter and sister. Tamara and her family are still
Case 2:20-cr-00579-SVW Document 1174-1 Filed 11/30/21 Page 4 of 4 Page ID #:18893




  devastated of the unfortunate effects of the events that have
  followed since the terrible morning of November 5, 2020.

  Their lives will never be the same again. My grandchildren and
  Tamara and Artur still very much suffer from Post Traumatic
  Stress from the aftermath of the effects of having their doors
  broken down to having smoke bombs thrown in the house with
  one of them rolling under my granddaughter Natalies bed, the
  family has since been seeing a therapist to be able to overcome
  with the panic attacks and to help ease the stress. The family still
  have a long way to go to overcome all the damages from the
  aftermath.

  I beg your Honor to please consider my letter when you hand
  down your sentence you have the ability to give her a second
  opportunity to learn from her mistakes. As human beings, we all
  make mistakes, and have moments of errors of judgment and
  we have to learn from our mistakes and errors of judgment’s.

  Sincerely,

  Greta Akopyan


File and source

File

1174-att1.pdf

Size

67,701 bytes

SHA-256

567fc2d8892372614d2e1fdc3cf4ab2441f0a5bca0d36f817bdcce4f86d78a98

Our copy

1174-att1.pdf

Original

No public link identified.