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Silent Coup D' etat in Los Angeles

by David T. Lashgari, Esq. Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005 at 6:02 PM
LashLaw@AOL.com 770-612-9400 Lashgari & Associates, Attorneys at Law, 2470 Windy Hill Road, Suite 214, Marietta, Georgia 30067-8617

The Ideologically-driven forces of the extreme right have secretly been nourishing and empowering a brutal police-state system of justice in Los Angeles. The main component of this system consists of a 600-person army of corrupt, LAPD-sanctioned so-called judges whose main task is to coverup acts of LAPD misconduct and brutality.

CORRUPT JUDGES & DA BREED POLICE BRUTALITY OF LAPD
REMOVE LAPD-INSTALLED DA STEVE COOLEY
REMOVE BUSH-SUPPORTED & LAPD-FINANCED CORRUPT JUDGES IN LA
Bush, DeLay, Rove, Libby, and other reactionary members of their criminal organization are now far more fearful than ever before that other District Attorneys around the country may follow the lead of Ronnie Earle, District Attorney of Travis County, Texas, and bring criminal indictments against them for their years of criminal activities and conspiracies. However, Bush and his gang feel no fear of criminal indictments against them coming out of the prosecutorial office of the largest county in the nation, Los Angeles County.

Bush and the gang know that they have a loyal friend in the office of Los Angeles District Attorney, Stephen Cooley, the puppet DA whom LAPD financed and installed in office in 2001. In fact, Bush and the fascist-oriented forces of the extreme right have quietly been supporting unprecedented growth of systemic corruption in Los Angeles. They have been instrumental in empowering the LAPD (the largest police force in the World) and its corrupt puppets to become the most powerful and dominant political force in Los Angeles County.

Today, the LAPD and its thugs, with full support from Washington, rule with an iron fist in Los Angeles. The criminal justice system of Los Angeles has been transformed into a repressive machinery of injustice to cover up brutality of the LAPD and its numerous daily acts of police misconduct. Nowhere else in the U.S. has the extreme right succeeded so effectively in institutionalizing corruption of a criminal justice system as it has in Los Angeles. The LAPD, its reactionary puppet DA Stephen Cooley, and its army of close to 600 puppet judges, emboldened by Bush’s active support, have been wreaking havoc against defenseless residents of Los Angeles and victims of police brutality.

Steve Cooley, who received $1 million dollar in campaign contribution from LAPD officers for his election to DA office in 2001, first closed the Rampart Scandal investigation shortly after taking office. Cooley has since refused to prosecute numerous LAPD police brutality cases during the past 5 years, including the shooting murder of Margaret Mitchell, a frail 5’1” 102-lb. 55-year-old mentally ill homeless woman by LAPD’s 250-lb. Edward Larrigan who Cooley said was justified in shooting the old African-American woman in the chest who they falsely claimed had threatened Larrigan and his partner with a screw driver.
Instead, Cooley in conspiracy with LAPD-elected judges of LA Superior Court has aggressively been seeking criminal convictions against victims of police brutality and misconduct by LAPD.

Legally, a criminal conviction bars the victim from filing future civil rights suit against LAPD, and therefore permanently closes any potential investigation of the case. One such case is that of Mrs. Maria Lashgari, a 35-year-old wife and mother, whom Cooley and corrupt LA judges have held incarcerated and separated from her family for more than three years without a conviction on charges fabricated by LAPD. Cooley and his LAPD masters insist that the mother must plead guilty before she can be freed to go back to her husband and her 6-year-old son whom she has not seen for more than three years. Today, the mother continues her resistance by bearing inhumane and torturous conditions at the overcrowded, uninhabitable, and disease-infested Twin Towers jail.

While insisting to continue to keep an innocent mother incarcerated without a conviction for more than three years, Cooley and LAPD-puppet judges finally succeeded, in December 2004, in quietly overturning the criminal convictions of the only three LAPD officers who had been convicted on November 15, 2000 in Rampart Scandal by a Los Angeles jury of felony obstruction of justice and evidence fabrication. The overturning of the unanimous felony verdict of a Los Angeles jury against three corrupt LAPD officers and letting them go free represents the depth of the LAPD’s control and domination of the Los Angeles criminal justice system during Bush’s rule. The ramification of the overturned felony criminal convictions of LAPD’s Ortiz, Liddy, and Buchanan is frightening and shocking since it reveals that the only individuals who went to prison as a result of Rampart Scandal were the two officers who broke the LAPD’s code of silence and blew the whistle on Rampart Corruption Scandal, former LAPD officers Rafael Perez and his partner Nino Durden.

The protection and support provided by Bush and forcers of the extreme right to the growth and empowering of the LAPD and its thugs as an institution of repression have been calculated and multi-faceted. On the one hand, there has been a quiet and gradual reversal and undoing of the reforms imposed upon the LAPD as a result of the federal lawsuit (USA v. LAPD) of November 2000 by the previous federal administration. In that lawsuit, former US Attorney General, Janet Reno, declared that, “LAPD routinely engages in false arrest, excessive force, and unlawful violations of constitutional rights of persons in Los Angeles.” One of the first acts of Bush was to fire the US Attorney in Los Angeles (Alejandro Mayorkas) who had filed the federal lawsuit against the LAPD. Then, Bush quickly replaced him with Debra W. Yang, a former LAPD-sanctioned LA Superior Court Judge.

In a series of other calculating moves, Bush and reactionary forces have quietly been appointing LAPD-sanctioned LA Superior Court Judges to the federal bench in Los Angeles. Since LAPD and its thugs have gained control of local courts of LA, the Federal District Court in Los Angeles is the only judicial forum left for victims of LAPD brutality to seek redress and justice. Six of the eight life-time federal judges Bush has appointed to the Federal District Court in Los Angeles since 2001 are former LAPD-sanctioned Judges of LA County who all had been receiving, and some continue to receive, official illegal bribes from LA County government defined as “extra monthly benefits.”

All LA County Judges have received the illegal “extra monthly benefit” (presently around $5,000 per year) since at least 1997. Chief Justice of the State of California (Ronald George) has described the monthly bribes as “double-dipping.” (See LA Times, 08/20/2000). Today, while slashing vital life-saving medical programs for the poor, the corrupt LA County officials continue to pay around $30 million annually in illegal bribes to the 600-member LAPD-infested army of LA judges.

REMOVE COUNTY JUDGES RECEIVING ILLEGAL BRIBES & BENEFITS!
STOP CORRUPT LA COUNTY OFFICIALS FROM BRIBING LA JUDGES!
REMOVE & PROSECUTE LAPD PUPPET DA COOLEY!
STOP BUSH FROM APPOINTING LAPD JUDGES TO FEDERAL COURT!
CLEAN LA COURTS & BEGIN PROSECUTION OF LAPD BRUTALITY!
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What an injustice!

by i cant beleive it Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 6:22 PM

I can't believe this! Why is this not in the mainstream news and on TV! The last time officers were set free like this was after the Rodney King trial. No Justice No Peace, No Justice No Peace!
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How do we make war against this beast, doing so in peace? Who will yield here?

by yezbok drahcir Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 9:48 PM

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To overcome the suppression of the oppressors and their abettors, we must make noise like a bull in a china shop. We cannot be delicate about peace while suppression reigns. We must not be terrorists for justice, but be a mighty voice of the peoples’ that merits greater public attention than acts of terrorism. Perhaps this would be terrorism to the oppressors.


Suppression is the mother of aggression. Must we fight or beg or hump her leg?


Must we all choose an international moment in time to step out side and pray for a god in the heavens to set us free? How do we make war against this beast, doing so in peace? Who will yield here?


Shall we begin our grievances here?

What is your issue? Why are you not heard?

So long as there is blaming going on there are confessions to be made. Judge that you may be judged. Why fear judgment? Why fear death? Why suppress judgment?
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To Serve & Protect The Kings

by ninja Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 10:02 PM

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The image is self-explanatory.
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The Policy Pushers

by ninja Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 10:07 PM

The Policy Pushers...
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Behind the Bush Administration.
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To Counter Preceding Image

by yezbok drahcir Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 10:15 PM

To Counter Preceding...
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Check out my friend's story of life.
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enemy propaganda after about a minute of cool

by I understand Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 10:30 PM

nice try fellas and gals.
Your stolen property is our common birthright. Give it back or we'll eat you.
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Who are you to call all of LAPD thugs

by N Carrillo Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 at 12:21 PM
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Within a group of apples you will find bad apples. LAPD is just the same as any organization. So you are wrong in calling LAPD officers’ thugs, saying that all Judges in Los Angeles are corrupt. Yes remove these bad apples, but don’t go calling police officers thugs.
Don’t hate cops; just agree that there are bad ones among the good ones. I have worked with a man who felt the same as you, or people against police brutality. Angered about where are the cops when you need them. Only pulling people over for not obeying the law. This coworker changed his mind when his vehicle stopped in the middle of the 110 and CHP helped him out. He loved cops for about a week, why a week? Only because he was pulled over the next week for and speeding. I once was wrongly pulled over and pulled out of car for no reason. I wasn’t speeding I didn’t break any law. Police harassment from these individual cops, yeah maybe but I don’t go calling police officers THUGS. Thugs are your criminals like Stanley Williams, a killer who deserves to die
What about trigger-happy police officers? Many officers have retired from LAPD without ever pulling the trigger while on duty. What about Jose Pena who used this 17-month-old daughter Susie Lopez as a shield from LAPD? People were angered that the police where involved in a shooting that endanger a young innocent victim. Police isn’t the one to blame, but the father who had been drinking and doing drugs. They had a right to return fire, the lives of themselves and the lives of the innocent in the neighborhood.
You talk about the murder of Margaret Mitchell, a small woman compared to two big police officers. They repeatedly commanded the woman to stop and drop the weapon. Yes a screwdriver can be used in the form of a weapon. Yes homeless lady is told repeatedly told to stop and drop the weapons, but instead charges at police officers. The media and the African American community lashed out saying that because she was black she was shot at. Oh but wasn’t one of the officers an African American. The media decides to twist and turn sh*t around.
One last thing, I hate Bush. Take the time people, and do some reading. Listen to both arguments and decide for yourself. Don’t just slash at all police officers. Don’t go calling them Thugs. I know what a thug is, I am a 22 year old Hispanic Male who grew up in South Central Los Angeles

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T k

by I understand Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 at 12:40 PM

and then joined the force?
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NO

by N Carrillo Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 at 1:12 PM

Nope, not in the force

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LA IS A NEW NAZI STYLE STATE

by Kurt Brown--Saint Ram Bone Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 at 7:33 PM
USA, WWW Waiting to Happen

LA IS A NEW NAZI STY...
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The USA government is so corrupt and abusive. They are owned by the wealthy and do not give a rat's ass who dies or suffers, as long as the wealthy are protected. After all, their political puppets issue raises while in political office to themselves, often through construction contracts. Of course no one really cares if we have a global war, no one except fearful children.

Watch how in this video, the government says, "I am going to put you under arrest". I am abused for having reported corruption as an auditor.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/09/1769473.php

I welcome the overthrow of the regime by a rising international coalition whose goal will be to tear apart the international government strangling English speaking nations.

Mobile Audit Club, viewing in detail, search for us on any search engine
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Broken Windows Redux

by Libertarian Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 at 7:54 PM

Sounds a lot like what happened in NYC under Bratton/Giuliani. They had an entire team of lawyers busy full time defending NYPD from lawsuits flowing from its illegal murders, harassment, arrests without probable cause, homeless and street vendor/musician sweeps, etc., etc. Under that cover, the abuses continued unabated. See Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani

which states:

"In his first term as mayor, Giuliani pursued an aggressive and very public policing policy known as Broken Windows in conjunction with Bill Bratton, whom he'd appointed as NYPD Commissioner in 1994, to monitor the small crime in hopes of preventing a bigger one." "...these aggressive tactics, described by former Mayor Dinkins as assuming that the ends justify the means, required vastly more arrests of innocent citizens when criminal descriptions were vague (for example, arresting 40 black men after a violent crime with poor identification). This repeated on a macroscopic scale a pattern Giuliani had as a prosecutor where he would arrest people he was unable to indict. In addition, many argue that the NYPD's new policies curtailed the civil liberties of innocent citizens, particularly minorities (the City was sued over two dozen times on First Amendment issues and lost each case). Even the Deputy Mayor, Rudy Washington, was subjected to harassment by NYPD. "

Giuliani and Bratton seemed not to mind losing these cases, so long as their rampage could continue unabated.

The Bush/LAPD/judge angle is a new twist, but not a surprising one, given the overall corruption of the judciary under the Bush administration, which had not yet taken root when Bratton was in NYC.

My guess, therefore, is that this is coming from Bratton (who is not mentioned in your article) as much as it is from Bush. Bratton has good mainstream PR, and even generally progressive pols like Villaraigosa will be reluctant to criticize him as long as that holds, and his entire focus is on "results," which translates into statistics like violent crime reduction, arrests, convictions, etc,, but does not take civil liberties into account.

Given the past Giuliani association, he could also be functioning as a Bush fifth column of sorts within the Democrat-dominated S. California political system, but that is just speculation. My guess is that Bratton is a tough cop who takes the mission of keeping the poor down and in their place quite seriously, and doesn't want anything to get in his way. However, I am not aware of (and you have not listed) any attacks specifically targeting political activists, of any race or economic status. So, the Bush conspiracy angle that you are promoting may or may not be correct, but I don't think you have made the case for it in your article.

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Redux Addendum

by Libertarian Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 at 8:04 PM

Just wanted to add that of course I am 100 percent behind you in wanting to end these racist abuses!
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Whistleblower

by M. Cary Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005 at 2:44 PM
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This synopsis was drafted up by an unnamed NBC Executive News Producer and M. Cary ONeal and in the past two weeks:

Huge “Power Elite” Scheme Under Investigation

November 16, 2005
© 2005 M. Cary ONeal

Attorneys for Freddie Mac whistle blower M. Cary ONeal have filed extensive information with US Attorneys in Alexandria, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York that reveals possible R.I.C.O. (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization Act) violations in the mortgage lending industry and other major corporations.

ONeal discovered the alleged racketeering involving interlocking corporate and government executives connected with Arthur Andersen and other entities, while working as an agent for The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation commonly known as Freddie Mac. A pattern has been identified in over 200 corporate transactions repeatedly using the same figures of $1.7 Billion and $400 Million ($1.7B/ $400M) in connection with high profile corporate fraud, bankruptcies, and huge losses. According to an M.I.T. PhD mathematician, the probability of all the $1.7B/ $400M transactions identified by ONeal being a coincidence is “hideously less than one out of a trillion.”

The following is just one of the current investigations into possible fraud involving the use of the $400 Million figure.

Assistant US Attorney Bob Kent in Chicago is investigating
Hollinger International amid allegations that executives took
$400 Million for their own personal use. On October 11, 2005,
Kent instructed the FBI to obtain a copy of ONeal’s evidence.

ONeal has identified that within roughly a two year period, some 46 corporations in different industry sectors all stated losses of $400 Million each.

On 7/6/05, ONeal was informed that Congressman Henry Waxman (D- CA) reviewed ONeal’s case, and on 7/13/05, Rep. Waxman forwarded ONeal’s disk containing 2,284 supporting documents to Congressman Michael Oxley (R- Ohio). Oxley, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, subsequently introduced legislation to enact tighter controls over Freddie Mac. The legislation passed the House in October and has been sent to the Senate.

A large number of corporations audited by Arthur Andersen including Freddie Mac, Enron, and Halliburton have made numerous statements using the $1.7B/ $400M figures. These corporations, along with many others utilizing the $1.7B/ $400M figures, have been or are currently involved in high profile investigations into improprieties and malfeasance. However, the investigations were not generated specifically because the $1.7B/ $400M figures were used.



The Enron fraud has led to the indictment of Ken Lay and convictions of conspiracy for other Enron executives, during a period when several statements of $1.7B/ $400M were made in connection with Enron. Halliburton’s receipt of $1.7 Billion rebuilding contracts in Iraq caused an investigation by Rep. Waxman on 4/11/03. Since this investigation began, Halliburton made revenue and profit statements of $1.7B and $400M respectively- on 7/23/04. Although the media has widely covered the fraud at Enron, everyone including prosecutors failed to recognize the repeated use of the $1.7B/ $400M figures. Whistleblower ONeal identified and acted on the suspicious pattern of figures, stating in his filings that it constitutes a direct violation of the R.I.C.O. statute.

On Sunday 9/25/05, ONeal spoke with Alan Ota of Congressional Quarterly regarding Senate Majority leader Bill Frist and his spring 2005 HCA stock sale that caused an investigation into insider trading. ONeal sent Ota a 15 page fax showing Frist’s brother to be Chairman of HCA when the Justice Department demanded repayment of $400 Million from HCA for defrauding Medicare (3/16/01). During 2001-02, HCA paid a total of $1.7 Billion in fines for the Medicare fraud. Senator Frist had holdings in HCA during its involvement in the aforementioned $1.7B/ $400M transactions. In February 2003, HCA stated a $400 Million LOSS.

In similar inquiries to Frist, numerous federal agencies appear to be looking into some of the questions raised by Vice President Dick Cheney’s ties with Halliburton and his investments in other oil entities including Enron. When he became Vice President (with the help of a $843,000 campaign donation from El Paso Corp.), he secretly met with Enron CEO Ken Lay and other Enron executives for Energy Task Force policy planning. When the Enron scandal became public, The General Accounting Office asked Cheney for any documents related to the secret meetings. Cheney, citing executive privilege, refused.

Enron fraud led to the end of Arthur Andersen for obstruction of justice and the “suicide” of Ken Lay’s close friend Cliff Baxter- who was scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing the next day. Baxter’s untimely death added to more unanswered questions such as connections between Enron, its auditor and consultant Andersen, and Merrill Lynch. $400 Million was raised by Merrill Lynch for Enron’s LJM2 (a special purpose entity) that led to the 5/1/03 Justice Department indictment of several Enron executives for securities fraud, insider trading, falsification of records, tax fraud, and self-dealing.

According to information filed by ONeal’s attorneys with US Attorney Fitzgerald in Chicago, “A PATTERN OF RACKETEERING ACTIVITY” was identified in connection with Arthur Andersen during and after the time Cheney was head of Halliburton.

Examples of this pattern of possible racketeering by corporations using the $1.7B/ $400M figures working with Andersen include the following:

1. According to the Securities & Exchange Commission, Andersen employed 32 “must do steps” to cover up $1.7 Billion of inflated profits at Waste Management,

2. The El Paso Corporation was fined for $1.7 Billion by the State of California for its role in California’s “Energy Crisis” involving Enron. Two weeks after El Paso Corp. stated a profit of nearly $400 Million, (one year after it stated a $400 Million loss), El Paso’s Sr. Vice President and Treasurer Charles Rice was found dead in his home,

3. In 1999, ONeal read an article in the Los Angeles Times that indicated Sunbeam was involved in the $1.7B/ $400M scheme. Sunbeam borrowed $1.7 Billion and stated it had access to $400 Million in cash. Shortly thereafter, it declared bankruptcy. The Justice Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission launched a criminal investigation.

4. In 1999, Enron raised $400 Million through an IPO for its LJM2. According to the Justice Department’s criminal indictment, LJM2 was one of several “special purpose entities” central to Enron’s financial crimes. It was also the main topic of Mr. Baxter’s publicly stated concerns before his suspicious death. According to Baxter’s autopsy report, rat shot pellets separated from one another by as much as 2.83 inches before hitting his head, raising questions whether Baxter could have held the gun that far away from his own head,

5. MGM shocked the entertainment industry by stating a staggering loss of $1.7 Billion that led to the imprisonment of MGM’s Florio Fiorini for conspiracy in 2002,

6. From 1999 to 2002, Global Crossing was involved in four different transactions of $1.7 Billion and ten different transactions of $400 Million. During this period, Joe Perrone, former senior partner at Arthur Andersen headquarters, was Global Crossing’s Chief Financial Officer. In December 2003, JP Morgan, one of Global Crossing’s creditors, filed a $1.7 Billion suit against Global Crossing CEO Gary Winnick. He is accused of fraud and conspiracy by misrepresenting Global Crossing’s value. The judge in the case, Gerard E. Lynch, said “with all respect to the people involved, [this is] a bunch of crooks getting sued by a bunch of bankers who are too dumb to stop throwing money down the toilet” (NYT 12/03). ONeal states: “Judge Lynch is incorrect; this is a bunch of crooks at the top on both sides, who have financially raped and pillaged thousands of families who are now out on the street… if I were Mr. Lynch, I would demand information about where that toilet is and make them retrieve every penny.”

In February 2002, The International Herald Tribune reported that JP Morgan handled investment business for Global Crossing. JP Morgan participated with Winnick’s Pacific Capital Group in the purchase of PrimeCo, a company controlled by Singapore Technologies- that ended up buying Global Crossing for $250 Million after its bankruptcy. However, before the bankruptcy, Winnick hired Cheney’s Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle to “grease” a sale of Global Crossing to Chinese investors while Perle was being paid $700,000 plus to lobby the Pentagon. Winnick needed government approval of the sale because of national security guidelines. Winnick’s hiring of Perle led to the forced resignation of Perle as Chairman of the Defense Policy Board.

The late Paul Richard Beck, a former Army Intelligence Officer and senior federal agent working with ONeal stated: “Global Crossing’s statements of $1.7B/ $400M clearly show a pattern of fraud and deception. When Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the Enron investigation and phoned Winnick on Christmas Eve to tell him that no criminal charges would be filed against him, Ashcroft violated a very serious statute: Official Misprision of Felony Crimes, in addition to violating R.I.C.O. statutes. Ashcroft was acting under ‘the color of the law’ by his brazen defiance to do his job.”

ONeal alleges that Winnick defrauded Global Crossing employees and shareholders shortly before bankrupting the $47 Billion company (market capitalization value in February 2000) because he made materially false and misleading statements regarding Global Crossing’s value. Global Crossing stated in bankruptcy court that the entire value of the company was $400 Million and its assets & debt reduced from $22.4 Billion to $1.7 Billion.

7. Boeing invested $20 Million into Perle’s private Trireme Partners. Boeing made five statements of $1.7 Billion and eight statements of $400 Million within a two year period. The FBI in Chicago is investigating those transactions.

Perle later wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal touting Boeing’s 767 tanker leasing deal for the military valued at $17 Billion. That leasing deal led to the imprisonment of Darlene Druyen, a former Air Force acquisition official, convicted for orchestrating Air Force approval of the tanker deal for the purpose of landing a senior position at Boeing. Druyen’s Air Force boss Marvin Sambur ordered a broader investigation to include all Boeing contracts handled by Druyen, including a $400 Million price adjustment on a C-17 Cargo plane contract.

8. Perle is also on the board of Hollinger International. The Corporation invested $2.5 Million into Perle’s Trireme Associates. Hollinger executives Conrad Black and David Radler are under investigation by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald for taking “$400 Million from the company for their own personal use.”

In summary, ONeal alleges that Richard Perle has profiteered from Boeing, Global Crossing, and Hollinger International. Perle is also involved in each of these high profile scandals utilizing the figures of $1.7 B / $400M,

9. In the third quarter of 2001 (about one month after the attacks of 9/11 and shortly before the Enron scandal became public) Anadarko Petroleum stated a $1.7 Billion LOSS because of an “accounting error.” According to CNBC, that scandal did not affect Anadarko’s stock value. In reality, Anadarko’s and other energy stocks rose- largely resulting from Bush’s saber rattling at Iraq.

On March 22, 2003, President Bush ordered the freezing of $1.7 Billion of “Iraqi money in US banks.” ONeal alleges that this $1.7 Billion figure is part and parcel of the racketeering violations. Halliburton stated contracts and profits from the Iraqi war of $1.7B/ $400M in July 2004,

10. During this war, epic gas profiting has occurred in the US, and ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell reported profit statements of $1.7 Billion each,

11. After ONeal witnessed falsifying of documents while working for Freddie Mac, he brought it to the attention of the FBI in Los Angeles. A year and a half later, ONeal met with an FBI agent who questioned him and took his documents & disk containing alleged evidence of Freddie Mac fraud and statements showing the $1.7B / $400M scheme. A few months after that, the agent called and said “Freddie Mac is too big a fish to go after.”

In the spring of 2003, ONeal’s attorneys filed extensive information with the Department of Justice and the IRS headquarters showing the $1.7B/ $400M scheme, including a Freddie Mac $1.7B profit statement which has since proven to be inaccurate.

IRS Criminal Chief Nancy Jardini assigned the case to Chris Gerhart, a senior criminal tax analyst. Following an initial phone conversation, Gerhart’s email responses to ONeal’s information left the impression that Gerhart was taking a position against him.

Case in point, Gerhart repeatedly failed to answer simple questions. The intensity increased with Gerhart demanding the name of the FBI agent who ONeal spoke with regarding Freddie Mac. ONeal says “Gerhart was flaunting his official position in a direct effort to intimidate me to give him the agent’s name. I refused.” Three days later- June 9, 2003- the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Financial Officer at Freddie Mac were fired.

Here are excerpts of two emails: First- Gerhart attempts to intimidate ONeal. In the second email excerpt, after the Freddie Mac executives were fired, Gerhart seems to change his stance:



Gerhart to ONeal:

Subj: RE: M. Cary ONeal partial filing 6/5/03
Date: 6/6/2003 5:35:16 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Chris.Gerhart@ci.irs.gov
To: MediaAlpha@aol.com

As I understand it from your latest email, dated 6/5/03, you are refusing to provide me with the name of the FBI Special Agent who you provided similar information to that contained in the report you mailed to the Nancy Jardini, Deputy Chief, Criminal Investigations, IRS. I want to be clear, are you asserting that the reason you are not providing me with that information is because you suspect malfeasance, cover-up, or some other improper activity on the part of the FBI as it relates to your claim? In addition, are you suggesting that the White House fired Larry Lindsey because of his involvement in the handling of your claims? These are serious claims relating to the integrity of the Justice Department and the Executive Branch of the government. I'm sure that you are prepared to back up any of these allegations.

Christopher E. Gerhart
Senior Analyst, Financial Crimes
(202) 622-5254
Sky Page #2610177

ONeal to Gerhart after Freddie Mac executives were fired:

-----Original Message-----

From: MediaAlpha@aol.com [mailto:MediaAlpha@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:08 PM
To: Chris.Gerhart@ci.irs.gov
Subject: Ms. Nancy Jardini

Mr. Gerhart,

Are you refusing to forward my message addresed to Ms. Nancy Jardini to Ms. Jardini?

M. Cary ONeal


Subj: RE: Ms. Nancy Jardini
Date: 6/30/2003 9:37:50 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Chris.Gerhart@ci.irs.gov
To: MediaAlpha@aol.com

no

Christopher E. Gerhart
Senior Analyst, Financial Crimes
(202) 622-5254
Sky Page #2610177


(Larry Lindsey, mentioned in Gerhart’s email, was White House Chief of National Economic Security Counsel. According to The Nation, February 2, 2002, Lindsey earned $50,000 a year as an Enron advisor).

On June 11, 2003, US Attorney Paul McNulty in Alexandria, VA announced a criminal investigation into Freddie Mac but did not provide any details to the public about the cause of the investigation. The next day, whistleblower ONeal emailed McNulty a detailed summary of the alleged fraud he witnessed while working with Freddie Mac, in addition to extensive information of the larger $1.7B / $400M scheme.

Freddie Mac stated its 4th quarter 2002 profits to be $1.7 Billion. On June 25, 2003, Freddie Mac announced it understated its profits by as much as $6.9 billion, making the $1.7 Billion profit statement false. Repeated financial press reports referred to Freddie Mac’s false statement of $1.7 Billion to be nothing more than “messaging its earnings.” How does the financial press refer to the possible pending theft of nearly $7 Billion as “messaging earnings?” What Freddie Mac said, in essence, was “we were hiding an extra $7 Billion to make our earnings look more normal, and in the meantime, we’ll disappear it into derivatives instead of better than average.”

While Andersen was under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for its role in Enron’s collapse, Justice Department Criminal Division Chief Michael Chertoff- (who at that time was in possession of Mr. ONeal’s R.I.C.O. information) held a private meeting with Andersen CEO Joe Berardino.

Chertoff told Berardino (Chicago Tribune- 9/4/02) that he “deals with life and death matters at the Justice Department and planned to indict Arthur Andersen for Obstruction of Justice.” Chertoff allowed Berardino to resign from Andersen shortly thereafter and walk away with no criminal charges.

Eleven days after ONeal refused to give the name of the FBI agent who interrogated him regarding Freddie Mac fraud to Gerhart, Chertoff left his job at the Justice Department- only to resurface as Bush’s choice for head of Homeland Security.

The day Chertoff was nominated by Bush, ONeal phoned Karl Rove’s office at the White House to alert them that Chertoff should not be approved because he may have committed violations of R.I.C.O. in regards to Berardino. ONeal was asked to fax his information to White House chief counsel Harriett Miers. Michael Drummond, a lead counsel under Miers, received the fax and said he would look into it. Three days later, when ONeal phoned Drummond to follow up on the fax, he was informed that Drummond “no longer works at the White House; he went over to the Justice Department.”

A “freight train” of high profile fraud schemes have hit the financial press using the $1.7B/ $400M figures including AOL, Tyco, Citigroup, Lucent, Adelphia, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Xerox, Freddie Mac, Qwest, Dynegy, and Merrill Lynch- just to mention a few.

ONeal worked in the mortgage industry and had access to daily transactions regarding federal home loan properties and appraisals, as well as performing quality control. He discovered what he felt were manipulations in the valuation process in which loan amounts were inflated and millions of dollars were diverted. ONeal could see how the American people were being ripped off and decided to pursue whistleblower status to open the door on what appears to be widespread fraud.

In the attempt to uncover banking industry fraud, he discovered what he felt were strange re-occurrences of the same figures. He found there were many unanswered questions, and the more he tried to get to the bottom of it, he became more frustrated. His inquiries were met with inaction from government and corporate officials, in combination with countless precautionary statements about his safety.

ONeal says “these power elite are manifesting ballistic greed and arrogance, and genuinely believe they are above the law just because they are currently in possession of the stolen money. Fortunately, pursuant to the latest provisions of the Patriot Act, virtually all incriminating phone calls that have taken place in the US can be subpoenaed as evidence to bring these street thugs wearing a suit and tie to justice.”

Through all of this, whistleblower ONeal says there is one burning question that needs to be resolved, and that question is: If indeed property appraisals were falsely inflated, where did the money go? Furthermore, upwards of a trillion dollars has disappeared as a result of the $1.7B / $400M scheme, and thousands if not millions of people are out on the street with nothing. Where is the money?
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Police & Judicial Corruption

by Clive Boustred Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 at 9:29 PM
clive@libertyforlife.com

Following a Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff literally trying to blow my head off in front of my children without any cause I have been maliciously and violently prosecuted to cover up the attempt the sheriffs made on my life.

The California and Federal Courts are utterly corrupt and without any morals. I am astounded at the criminal nature of our judges, DA’s and sheriffs.

Following this astonishing exposure to what amounts as nothing less than a bunch of filthy criminals acting under the color of law, I embarked on a discovery of what is going on in the U.S. The deeper you get the more frightening it becomes.
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