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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Power of the Prosecutor by Robert Jackson
The Federal Prosecutor
By Robert H. Jackson
Attorney General of the United States
April 1, 1940
It would probably be within the range of that exaggeration permitted in Washington to say that assembled in this room is one of the most powerful peace-time forces known to our country. The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations. Or the prosecutor may choose a more subtle course and simply have a citizen’s friends interviewed. The prosecutor can order arrests, present cases to the grand jury in secret session, and on the basis of his one-sided presentation of the facts, can cause the citizen to be indicted and held for trial. He may dismiss the case before trial, in which case the defense never has a chance to be heard. Or he may go on with a public trial. If he obtains a conviction, the prosecutor can still make recommendations as to sentence, as to whether the prisoner should get probation or a suspended sentence, and after he is put away, as to whether he is a fit subject for parole. While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of the worst.
These powers have been granted to our law-enforcement agencies because it seems necessary that such a power to prosecute be lodged somewhere. This authority has been granted by people who really wanted the right thing done—wanted crime eliminated—but also wanted the best in our American traditions preserved.
Because of this immense power to strike at citizens, not with mere individual strength, but with all the force of government itself, the post of Federal District Attorney from the very beginning has been safeguarded by presidential appointment, requiring confirmation of the Senate of the United States. You are thus required to win an expression of confidence in your character by both the legislative and the executive branches of the government before assuming the responsibilities of a federal prosecutor.
Your responsibility in your several districts for law enforcement and for its methods cannot be wholly surrendered to Washington, and ought not to be assumed by a centralized Department of Justice. It is an unusual and rare instance in which the local District Attorney should be superseded in the handling of litigation, except where he requests help of Washington. It is also clear that with his knowledge of local sentiment and opinion, his contact with and intimate knowledge of the views of the court, and his acquaintance with the feelings of the group from which jurors are drawn, it is an unusual case in which his judgment should be overruled.
Experience, however, has demonstrated that some measure of centralized control is necessary. In the absence of it different district attorneys were striving for different interpretations or applications of an Act, or were pursuing different conceptions of policy. Also, to put it mildly, there were differences in the degree of diligence and zeal in different districts. To promote uniformity of policy and action, to establish some standards of performance, and to make available specialized help, some degree of centralized administration was found necessary.
Our problem, of course, is to balance these opposing considerations. I desire to avoid any lessening of the prestige and influence of the district attorneys in their districts. At the same time we must proceed in all districts with that uniformity of policy which is necessary to the prestige of federal law.
Nothing better can come out of this meeting of law enforcement officers than a rededication to the spirit of fair play and decency that should animate the federal prosecutor. Your positions are of such independence and importance that while you are being diligent, strict, and vigorous in law enforcement you can also afford to be just. Although the government technically loses its case, it has really won if justice has been done. The lawyer in public office is justified in seeking to leave behind him a good record. But he must remember that his most alert and severe, but just, judges will be the members of his own profession, and that lawyers rest their good opinion of each other not merely on results accomplished but on the quality of the performance. Reputation has been called “the shadow cast by one’s daily life.” Any prosecutor who risks his day-to-day professional name for fair dealing to build up statistics of success has a perverted sense of practical values, as well as defects of character. Whether one seeks promotion to a judgeship, as many prosecutors rightly do, or whether he returns to private practice, he can have no better asset than to have his profession recognize that his attitude toward those who feel his power has been dispassionate, reasonable and just.
The federal prosecutor has now been prohibited from engaging in political activities. I am convinced that a good-faith acceptance of the spirit and letter of that doctrine will relieve many district attorneys from the embarrassment of what have heretofore been regarded as legitimate expectations of political service. There can also be no doubt that to be closely identified with the intrigue, the money raising, and the machinery of a particular party or faction may present a prosecuting officer with embarrassing alignments and associations. I think the Hatch Act should be utilized by federal prosecutors as a protection against demands on their time and their prestige to participate in the operation of the machinery of practical politics.
There is a most important reason why the prosecutor should have, as nearly as possible, a detached and impartial view of all groups in his community. Law enforcement is not automatic. It isn’t blind. One of the greatest difficulties of the position of prosecutor is that he must pick his cases, because no prosecutor can even investigate all of the cases in which he receives complaints. If the Department of Justice were to make even a pretense of reaching every probable violation of federal law, ten times its present staff would be inadequate. We know that no local police force can strictly enforce the traffic laws, or it would arrest half the driving population on any given morning. What every prosecutor is practically required to do is to select the cases for prosecution and to select those in which the offense is the most flagrant, the public harm the greatest, and the proof the most certain.
If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm—in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.
In times of fear or hysteria political, racial, religious, social, and economic groups, often from the best of motives, cry for the scalps of individuals or groups because they do not like their views. Particularly do we need to be dispassionate and courageous in those cases which deal with so-called “subversive activities.” They are dangerous to civil liberty because the prosecutor has no definite standards to determine what constitutes a “subversive activity,” such as we have for murder or larceny. Activities which seem benevolent and helpful to wage earners, persons on relief, or those who are disadvantaged in the struggle for existence may be regarded as “subversive” by those whose property interests might be burdened or affected thereby. Those who are in office are apt to regard as “subversive” the activities of any of those who would bring about a change of administration. Some of our soundest constitutional doctrines were once punished as subversive. We must not forget that it was not so long ago that both the term “Republican” and the term “Democrat” were epithets with sinister meaning to denote persons of radical tendencies that were “subversive” of the order of things then dominant.
In the enforcement of laws which protect our national integrity and existence, we should prosecute any and every act of violation, but only overt acts, not the expression of opinion, or activities such as the holding of meetings, petitioning of Congress, or dissemination of news or opinions. Only by extreme care can we protect the spirit as well as the letter of our civil liberties, and to do so is a responsibility of the federal prosecutor.
Another delicate task is to distinguish between the federal and the local in law-enforcement activities. We must bear in mind that we are concerned only with the prosecution of acts which the Congress has made federal offenses. Those acts we should prosecute regardless of local sentiment, regardless of whether it exposes lax local enforcement, regardless of whether it makes or breaks local politicians.
But outside of federal law each locality has the right under our system of government to fix its own standards of law enforcement and of morals. And the moral climate of the United States is as varied as its physical climate. For example, some states legalize and permit gambling, some states prohibit it legislatively and protect it administratively, and some try to prohibit it entirely. The same variation of attitudes towards other law-enforcement problems exists. The federal government could not enforce one kind of law in one place and another kind elsewhere. It could hardly adopt strict standards for loose states or loose standards for strict states without doing violence to local sentiment. In spite of the temptation to divert our power to local conditions where they have become offensive to our sense of decency, the only long-term policy that will save federal justice from being discredited by entanglements with local politics is that it confine itself to strict and impartial enforcement of federal law, letting the chips fall in the community where they may. Just as there should be no permitting of local considerations to stop federal enforcement, so there should be no striving to enlarge our power over local affairs and no use of federal prosecutions to exert an indirect influence that would be unlawful if exerted directly.
The qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not understand it anyway. A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.
By Robert H. Jackson
Attorney General of the United States
April 1, 1940
It would probably be within the range of that exaggeration permitted in Washington to say that assembled in this room is one of the most powerful peace-time forces known to our country. The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations. Or the prosecutor may choose a more subtle course and simply have a citizen’s friends interviewed. The prosecutor can order arrests, present cases to the grand jury in secret session, and on the basis of his one-sided presentation of the facts, can cause the citizen to be indicted and held for trial. He may dismiss the case before trial, in which case the defense never has a chance to be heard. Or he may go on with a public trial. If he obtains a conviction, the prosecutor can still make recommendations as to sentence, as to whether the prisoner should get probation or a suspended sentence, and after he is put away, as to whether he is a fit subject for parole. While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of the worst.
These powers have been granted to our law-enforcement agencies because it seems necessary that such a power to prosecute be lodged somewhere. This authority has been granted by people who really wanted the right thing done—wanted crime eliminated—but also wanted the best in our American traditions preserved.
Because of this immense power to strike at citizens, not with mere individual strength, but with all the force of government itself, the post of Federal District Attorney from the very beginning has been safeguarded by presidential appointment, requiring confirmation of the Senate of the United States. You are thus required to win an expression of confidence in your character by both the legislative and the executive branches of the government before assuming the responsibilities of a federal prosecutor.
Your responsibility in your several districts for law enforcement and for its methods cannot be wholly surrendered to Washington, and ought not to be assumed by a centralized Department of Justice. It is an unusual and rare instance in which the local District Attorney should be superseded in the handling of litigation, except where he requests help of Washington. It is also clear that with his knowledge of local sentiment and opinion, his contact with and intimate knowledge of the views of the court, and his acquaintance with the feelings of the group from which jurors are drawn, it is an unusual case in which his judgment should be overruled.
Experience, however, has demonstrated that some measure of centralized control is necessary. In the absence of it different district attorneys were striving for different interpretations or applications of an Act, or were pursuing different conceptions of policy. Also, to put it mildly, there were differences in the degree of diligence and zeal in different districts. To promote uniformity of policy and action, to establish some standards of performance, and to make available specialized help, some degree of centralized administration was found necessary.
Our problem, of course, is to balance these opposing considerations. I desire to avoid any lessening of the prestige and influence of the district attorneys in their districts. At the same time we must proceed in all districts with that uniformity of policy which is necessary to the prestige of federal law.
Nothing better can come out of this meeting of law enforcement officers than a rededication to the spirit of fair play and decency that should animate the federal prosecutor. Your positions are of such independence and importance that while you are being diligent, strict, and vigorous in law enforcement you can also afford to be just. Although the government technically loses its case, it has really won if justice has been done. The lawyer in public office is justified in seeking to leave behind him a good record. But he must remember that his most alert and severe, but just, judges will be the members of his own profession, and that lawyers rest their good opinion of each other not merely on results accomplished but on the quality of the performance. Reputation has been called “the shadow cast by one’s daily life.” Any prosecutor who risks his day-to-day professional name for fair dealing to build up statistics of success has a perverted sense of practical values, as well as defects of character. Whether one seeks promotion to a judgeship, as many prosecutors rightly do, or whether he returns to private practice, he can have no better asset than to have his profession recognize that his attitude toward those who feel his power has been dispassionate, reasonable and just.
The federal prosecutor has now been prohibited from engaging in political activities. I am convinced that a good-faith acceptance of the spirit and letter of that doctrine will relieve many district attorneys from the embarrassment of what have heretofore been regarded as legitimate expectations of political service. There can also be no doubt that to be closely identified with the intrigue, the money raising, and the machinery of a particular party or faction may present a prosecuting officer with embarrassing alignments and associations. I think the Hatch Act should be utilized by federal prosecutors as a protection against demands on their time and their prestige to participate in the operation of the machinery of practical politics.
There is a most important reason why the prosecutor should have, as nearly as possible, a detached and impartial view of all groups in his community. Law enforcement is not automatic. It isn’t blind. One of the greatest difficulties of the position of prosecutor is that he must pick his cases, because no prosecutor can even investigate all of the cases in which he receives complaints. If the Department of Justice were to make even a pretense of reaching every probable violation of federal law, ten times its present staff would be inadequate. We know that no local police force can strictly enforce the traffic laws, or it would arrest half the driving population on any given morning. What every prosecutor is practically required to do is to select the cases for prosecution and to select those in which the offense is the most flagrant, the public harm the greatest, and the proof the most certain.
If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm—in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.
In times of fear or hysteria political, racial, religious, social, and economic groups, often from the best of motives, cry for the scalps of individuals or groups because they do not like their views. Particularly do we need to be dispassionate and courageous in those cases which deal with so-called “subversive activities.” They are dangerous to civil liberty because the prosecutor has no definite standards to determine what constitutes a “subversive activity,” such as we have for murder or larceny. Activities which seem benevolent and helpful to wage earners, persons on relief, or those who are disadvantaged in the struggle for existence may be regarded as “subversive” by those whose property interests might be burdened or affected thereby. Those who are in office are apt to regard as “subversive” the activities of any of those who would bring about a change of administration. Some of our soundest constitutional doctrines were once punished as subversive. We must not forget that it was not so long ago that both the term “Republican” and the term “Democrat” were epithets with sinister meaning to denote persons of radical tendencies that were “subversive” of the order of things then dominant.
In the enforcement of laws which protect our national integrity and existence, we should prosecute any and every act of violation, but only overt acts, not the expression of opinion, or activities such as the holding of meetings, petitioning of Congress, or dissemination of news or opinions. Only by extreme care can we protect the spirit as well as the letter of our civil liberties, and to do so is a responsibility of the federal prosecutor.
Another delicate task is to distinguish between the federal and the local in law-enforcement activities. We must bear in mind that we are concerned only with the prosecution of acts which the Congress has made federal offenses. Those acts we should prosecute regardless of local sentiment, regardless of whether it exposes lax local enforcement, regardless of whether it makes or breaks local politicians.
But outside of federal law each locality has the right under our system of government to fix its own standards of law enforcement and of morals. And the moral climate of the United States is as varied as its physical climate. For example, some states legalize and permit gambling, some states prohibit it legislatively and protect it administratively, and some try to prohibit it entirely. The same variation of attitudes towards other law-enforcement problems exists. The federal government could not enforce one kind of law in one place and another kind elsewhere. It could hardly adopt strict standards for loose states or loose standards for strict states without doing violence to local sentiment. In spite of the temptation to divert our power to local conditions where they have become offensive to our sense of decency, the only long-term policy that will save federal justice from being discredited by entanglements with local politics is that it confine itself to strict and impartial enforcement of federal law, letting the chips fall in the community where they may. Just as there should be no permitting of local considerations to stop federal enforcement, so there should be no striving to enlarge our power over local affairs and no use of federal prosecutions to exert an indirect influence that would be unlawful if exerted directly.
The qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not understand it anyway. A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
FBI swarms into Lawrence Kansas
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Sources have told us that the Chief of Police Ron Olin was indicted on Wednesday 23, along with 3 top officials (Captains).
The sources also tell us that Lawrence Kansas city Hall was full of FBI agents in FBI gear, and the fourth floor of the legal dept. was shut down by the FBI no coming or going. It was also believed that the FBI were guarding the evidence storage areas and only authorized personel could come or go.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Plea Agreement accuses YH of being a co-conspirator
IN RESPONSE TO STACY BARNS PLEA DEAL:
I think we need to file a motion for obstruction of justice, and bribery of a witness against Parker, if she allows Stacy to have one day off her sentence for this ridiculous testimony.
Yes Stacy sold me some instruments. Some of them were used. I had no idea that they were stolen at the time I bought them.
After she sold me a few instruments I got suspicious. When she tried to sell an expensive violin that still had Keller Strings tag on it and Price tag of about $1500. I told her no way. She then showed me a reciept and said it wasn't stolen, it had been paid for.
I refused to purchase it and she left. I then got on the phone and called the owner of Keller Strings.
I warned her that I thought her business might be getting scammed in some kind of way. She got very upset and by her voice I would say she was nearly in tears.
Does that sound like a call a co-conspirator would have made?
If I was doing what they say I could have easily purchased the violin and sold it on ebay or amazon or Craigs list without a hitch! I am sure that the owner of Keller Strings remembers my call to her, and we could subpoena her if needed.
I talked to Stacy's ex-husband Scott Catlett when he came in to the store with their daughter Amber about what had happened. He told me he was so disgusted with what Stacy had been doing. He said Stacy was working at a hotel at the time, and somehow getting a hold of customers credit card numbers. She was using the numbers to buy meat, gas cards, phone cards and whatever and selling to people all over the place.
(I know he would also be willing to testify that I was not involved or conspiring with Stacy.)
Parker has been around enough to know and see by the context of Stacy's crime that I was not a conspirator of Stacy. If she is willing to make a deal with this little slime bag, then she is no better than Stacy in my book.
Parker is a mentally disturbed coward and needs a mental evaluation if she is truly allowing these lowlife felons to make deals that would lesson their time just to have a shot at me and Guy.
new road sign for the corrupt prosecutor:
I think we need to file a motion for obstruction of justice, and bribery of a witness against Parker, if she allows Stacy to have one day off her sentence for this ridiculous testimony.
Yes Stacy sold me some instruments. Some of them were used. I had no idea that they were stolen at the time I bought them.
After she sold me a few instruments I got suspicious. When she tried to sell an expensive violin that still had Keller Strings tag on it and Price tag of about $1500. I told her no way. She then showed me a reciept and said it wasn't stolen, it had been paid for.
I refused to purchase it and she left. I then got on the phone and called the owner of Keller Strings.
I warned her that I thought her business might be getting scammed in some kind of way. She got very upset and by her voice I would say she was nearly in tears.
Does that sound like a call a co-conspirator would have made?
If I was doing what they say I could have easily purchased the violin and sold it on ebay or amazon or Craigs list without a hitch! I am sure that the owner of Keller Strings remembers my call to her, and we could subpoena her if needed.
I talked to Stacy's ex-husband Scott Catlett when he came in to the store with their daughter Amber about what had happened. He told me he was so disgusted with what Stacy had been doing. He said Stacy was working at a hotel at the time, and somehow getting a hold of customers credit card numbers. She was using the numbers to buy meat, gas cards, phone cards and whatever and selling to people all over the place.
(I know he would also be willing to testify that I was not involved or conspiring with Stacy.)
Parker has been around enough to know and see by the context of Stacy's crime that I was not a conspirator of Stacy. If she is willing to make a deal with this little slime bag, then she is no better than Stacy in my book.
Parker is a mentally disturbed coward and needs a mental evaluation if she is truly allowing these lowlife felons to make deals that would lesson their time just to have a shot at me and Guy.
new road sign for the corrupt prosecutor:
Copy of Stacy Barnes Catlett DOJ press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News releases are available at www.usdoj.gov/usao/ks/press.html
Contact: Jim Cross
PHONE: 316-269-6481
FAX: 316-269-6420
July 23, 2008
LAWRENCE WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO WIRE FRAUD, ID THEFT
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – Stacy Lyn Barnes-Catlett, 42, Lawrence, Kan., pleaded guilty this week to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
In a plea entered Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., Barnes-Catlett admitted that she and others participated in a scheme from Aug. 12 to Aug. 30, 2005, to unlawfully make use of credit cards to purchase merchandise without the cardholders’ knowledge.
According to the plea, Barnes-Catlett and others concealed the use of the credit cards from the cardholders by placing calls to merchants to order merchandise to be given to the caller’s so-called “niece.” Barnes-Catlett would pick up the merchandise and deliver it to other conspirators, all without the knowledge of the cardholders.
In this manner, Barnes-Catlett and her co-conspirators obtained more than $7,000 worth of merchandise from Keller Strings, Hume Music and other businesses in Douglas County, Kan.
Barnes-Catlett is set for sentencing Oct. 20, 2008. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the wire fraud charge. On the identity theft charge, she faces a mandatory 2 years that must run consecutively to penalties on other counts.
U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren commended the United States Postal Service and Assistant U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker for their work on the case.
News releases are available at www.usdoj.gov/usao/ks/press.html
Contact: Jim Cross
PHONE: 316-269-6481
FAX: 316-269-6420
July 23, 2008
LAWRENCE WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO WIRE FRAUD, ID THEFT
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – Stacy Lyn Barnes-Catlett, 42, Lawrence, Kan., pleaded guilty this week to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
In a plea entered Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., Barnes-Catlett admitted that she and others participated in a scheme from Aug. 12 to Aug. 30, 2005, to unlawfully make use of credit cards to purchase merchandise without the cardholders’ knowledge.
According to the plea, Barnes-Catlett and others concealed the use of the credit cards from the cardholders by placing calls to merchants to order merchandise to be given to the caller’s so-called “niece.” Barnes-Catlett would pick up the merchandise and deliver it to other conspirators, all without the knowledge of the cardholders.
In this manner, Barnes-Catlett and her co-conspirators obtained more than $7,000 worth of merchandise from Keller Strings, Hume Music and other businesses in Douglas County, Kan.
Barnes-Catlett is set for sentencing Oct. 20, 2008. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the wire fraud charge. On the identity theft charge, she faces a mandatory 2 years that must run consecutively to penalties on other counts.
U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren commended the United States Postal Service and Assistant U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker for their work on the case.
Stacy Barnes Catlett pleads guilty in Federal court
I see in todays press release that Stacy Barnes has plead guilty and Marietta Parker was prosecuting her.
She is SBC on our indictment.
I was really shocked that the dept of justice did not give me another public lashing and accuse me of being her co-conspirator working to conceal her crimes, again on her press release like they did with Jim Ludwig and Louis Parsons. It looks like anybody that is willing to say "Yellow house made me do it" is getting a deal! No matter how ridiculous the story is!
She is SBC on our indictment.
I was really shocked that the dept of justice did not give me another public lashing and accuse me of being her co-conspirator working to conceal her crimes, again on her press release like they did with Jim Ludwig and Louis Parsons. It looks like anybody that is willing to say "Yellow house made me do it" is getting a deal! No matter how ridiculous the story is!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Conspiracy shows duing this hearing
Today in court was very different than friday. Everybody seemed to be against us. The Judge had no questions for the witnesses.
Our attorneys refused to ask pertinanat questions that would show the witnesses were full of crap and lying. FBI Agent Bob Shaefer got on the stand and said his real name was Walter Shaefer.
He claimed he could investigate anywhere in the State of Kansas, And that there was a investigation but the files were at the FBI still. His testimony was ridiculous and unchallenged! Why would he come to this hearing and not bring his file when he knows we alleged there was no file, and no one challenged it! The FBI told the Defendants that the FBI in Kansas City does not and never will investigate anything in Lawrence, still his testimony went unchallenged.
At the end of the hearing which was a joke, the Judge accused Guy and Carrie Neighbors of being mentally ill and incompetent to stand trial.
He accused them of being crazy, and lectured them that they have totally lost their minds and need mental evaluations. This is the same thing the Attorneys were trying to say last week. Obviously this was a conspired move.
After the Judges lecture to the Neighbors accusing them of being totally incompetent and mentally ill and stupid it was revealed what was really up. If they agree to the mental evaluations and they get found to have mental problems, then the State can finally have a reason to lock them up without having to go through a trial and convict them of a crime!
Our attorneys refused to ask pertinanat questions that would show the witnesses were full of crap and lying. FBI Agent Bob Shaefer got on the stand and said his real name was Walter Shaefer.
He claimed he could investigate anywhere in the State of Kansas, And that there was a investigation but the files were at the FBI still. His testimony was ridiculous and unchallenged! Why would he come to this hearing and not bring his file when he knows we alleged there was no file, and no one challenged it! The FBI told the Defendants that the FBI in Kansas City does not and never will investigate anything in Lawrence, still his testimony went unchallenged.
At the end of the hearing which was a joke, the Judge accused Guy and Carrie Neighbors of being mentally ill and incompetent to stand trial.
He accused them of being crazy, and lectured them that they have totally lost their minds and need mental evaluations. This is the same thing the Attorneys were trying to say last week. Obviously this was a conspired move.
After the Judges lecture to the Neighbors accusing them of being totally incompetent and mentally ill and stupid it was revealed what was really up. If they agree to the mental evaluations and they get found to have mental problems, then the State can finally have a reason to lock them up without having to go through a trial and convict them of a crime!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Hearing for Motion to revoke bond may be withdrawn By Federal Prosecutor Marietta Parker
Our sources have informed us that the Federal Prosecutor Marietta Parker is not happy with the way the hearing on Friday was going, and is possibly planning to withdraw her motion to revoke the bond of the Yellow House owners in order to bring a halt to the testimony that is scheduled to resume on Monday.
So far there has been testimony by Lawrence Police Officer's Micky Rantz and Detective Mike McAtee.
Information about the rumors of Detective Mike McAtee's alleged illegal drug activity has been addressed in the hearing, and Mr. McAtee has admitted during the testimony that he has been approached by two different people within the police Department about rumors floating around about his alleged illegal drug activity. He also admitted under oath that he had been questioned by a Federal Prosecutor about the rumors of his alleged drug activity in another case.
Both officers have been drilled by the defense and have not been totally forthcoming with their testimony or are having difficulty recalling facts about issues concerning Internal Affairs complaints.
Exhibits that have been made available during the hearings, including a criminal complaint that Mike McAtee claimed to have filed against the defendant that did not include his name or signature, will also be available as a matter of public record at the completion of the hearing.
The Federal Judge overseeing the hearing, has stated that the transcripts from this hearing will be made available as a matter of public record along with the exhibits.
Detective Mike McAtee is scheduled to continue his testimony on Monday. Officer Matt Sarna and FBI Special Agent Bob Shaefer are also scheduled to begin testimony on Monday if the Prosecutor does not withdraw the motion.
So far there has been testimony by Lawrence Police Officer's Micky Rantz and Detective Mike McAtee.
Information about the rumors of Detective Mike McAtee's alleged illegal drug activity has been addressed in the hearing, and Mr. McAtee has admitted during the testimony that he has been approached by two different people within the police Department about rumors floating around about his alleged illegal drug activity. He also admitted under oath that he had been questioned by a Federal Prosecutor about the rumors of his alleged drug activity in another case.
Both officers have been drilled by the defense and have not been totally forthcoming with their testimony or are having difficulty recalling facts about issues concerning Internal Affairs complaints.
Exhibits that have been made available during the hearings, including a criminal complaint that Mike McAtee claimed to have filed against the defendant that did not include his name or signature, will also be available as a matter of public record at the completion of the hearing.
The Federal Judge overseeing the hearing, has stated that the transcripts from this hearing will be made available as a matter of public record along with the exhibits.
Detective Mike McAtee is scheduled to continue his testimony on Monday. Officer Matt Sarna and FBI Special Agent Bob Shaefer are also scheduled to begin testimony on Monday if the Prosecutor does not withdraw the motion.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Ineffective Defense Counsel Prosecutorial misconduct ongoing in Yellow House 3 yr. long case
The Yellow House case has been active since 2005. appx. 6 months after the first search warrant, the Yellow House owners were called down to the Lawrence Kansas Police station to pick up some of the siezed items.
At that time the evidence custodian (After a 20 min. search) could not find three expensive laptop PC's that had apparently gone missing from the LKPD property room. Missing evidence is grounds for a case to be dismissed. Yet instead it sent the Yellow House case into high gear!
So the case continued....
The Yellow House owners have been represented by a total of 9 attorneys during the course of this case. At least 3 of those attorneys have been threatened with "money laundering" charges by the Federal Prosecutors in the case.
The case was dropped by the prosecutor then one month later the same charges refiled, in a vindictive move to have the defendants forcefully rearrested and illegally searched. This would be called a Fishing expedetion in legal terms.
During the nearly 3 years this case has continued, not one motion has been filed on behalf of the defendants by an attorney.
One motion filed to have the charges dismissed because of the speedy trial violation was filed by the defendant "pro-se" because the attorney refused to do it. That motion resulted in the Judge calling an evidence hearing and dropping the said charges. In his opinion ruling he referred to the entire case as egregious.
During this 3 year long case not one defense attorney has ever filed a motion to view, photograph or document the evidence!!
Even though the defendants in this case have repeatedly filed formal complaints that the rules of evidence laws have been violated in this case, two guns missing from the LKPD property room was recovered in the 23rd street Pawn Shop, siezed laptop computers are documented to be missing, video evidence was altered, and an inventory list left with the defendants was altered and falsified to cover-up for missing guns. All grounds for a motion to have the case to be dismissed, or at the very least to call an evidence hearing!
Not one attorney in this 3 year long case has ever filed a motion for an evidence hearing!
The Prosecutors have filed frivalous motion after motion, that have nothing to do with the actual case or charges! While the defense attorneys sit back and fail to file any motions at all!
The Prosecutor has filed a motion to have the defendants gagged by a Federal Judge, in order to stop them from the continued internet postings about the case. After a hearing the motion was denied.
The Prosecutor has filed a supseding indictment to moot a motion to lift an illegal lis pendens placed against the defendants property absent of the required 60 day notice in anticipation of a money judgement. A move that has been ruled impermissable in the 10th circut court.
The Prosecutor has filed a motion to revoke the Bond of the defendants, because they have continued to exersize their Constitutional right of Freedom Of Speech by posting comments and blogs on the internet.
In three years of hearings and motions brought by the Prosecutor, the actual charges have yet to be addressed!
The Federal Indictments in this case are based on hearsay testimony from convicted felons that were bribed by the prosecutor to present perjured testimony to a Grand Jury in exchange for favors.
In three years of arrests, motions, hearings, investigations and charges against the defendants, the Federal Prosecutors Marietta Parker and AUSA Terra Morehead along with the Lawrence Kansas Police have failed to present one piece of solid evidence of any wrong doing by the defendants before the court!
At that time the evidence custodian (After a 20 min. search) could not find three expensive laptop PC's that had apparently gone missing from the LKPD property room. Missing evidence is grounds for a case to be dismissed. Yet instead it sent the Yellow House case into high gear!
So the case continued....
The Yellow House owners have been represented by a total of 9 attorneys during the course of this case. At least 3 of those attorneys have been threatened with "money laundering" charges by the Federal Prosecutors in the case.
The case was dropped by the prosecutor then one month later the same charges refiled, in a vindictive move to have the defendants forcefully rearrested and illegally searched. This would be called a Fishing expedetion in legal terms.
During the nearly 3 years this case has continued, not one motion has been filed on behalf of the defendants by an attorney.
One motion filed to have the charges dismissed because of the speedy trial violation was filed by the defendant "pro-se" because the attorney refused to do it. That motion resulted in the Judge calling an evidence hearing and dropping the said charges. In his opinion ruling he referred to the entire case as egregious.
During this 3 year long case not one defense attorney has ever filed a motion to view, photograph or document the evidence!!
Even though the defendants in this case have repeatedly filed formal complaints that the rules of evidence laws have been violated in this case, two guns missing from the LKPD property room was recovered in the 23rd street Pawn Shop, siezed laptop computers are documented to be missing, video evidence was altered, and an inventory list left with the defendants was altered and falsified to cover-up for missing guns. All grounds for a motion to have the case to be dismissed, or at the very least to call an evidence hearing!
Not one attorney in this 3 year long case has ever filed a motion for an evidence hearing!
The Prosecutors have filed frivalous motion after motion, that have nothing to do with the actual case or charges! While the defense attorneys sit back and fail to file any motions at all!
The Prosecutor has filed a motion to have the defendants gagged by a Federal Judge, in order to stop them from the continued internet postings about the case. After a hearing the motion was denied.
The Prosecutor has filed a supseding indictment to moot a motion to lift an illegal lis pendens placed against the defendants property absent of the required 60 day notice in anticipation of a money judgement. A move that has been ruled impermissable in the 10th circut court.
The Prosecutor has filed a motion to revoke the Bond of the defendants, because they have continued to exersize their Constitutional right of Freedom Of Speech by posting comments and blogs on the internet.
In three years of hearings and motions brought by the Prosecutor, the actual charges have yet to be addressed!
The Federal Indictments in this case are based on hearsay testimony from convicted felons that were bribed by the prosecutor to present perjured testimony to a Grand Jury in exchange for favors.
In three years of arrests, motions, hearings, investigations and charges against the defendants, the Federal Prosecutors Marietta Parker and AUSA Terra Morehead along with the Lawrence Kansas Police have failed to present one piece of solid evidence of any wrong doing by the defendants before the court!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Yellow House uncovers Shoe Stores Insurance scam, Police fail to investigate
The Police claim to have found thousands of dollars worth of stolen property and even show in the Press video all the boxes of shoes being pulled out of the Yellow House owners garage. Here is the story of those shoes!
Back in 2005 a guy entered the Topeka store, he presented himself as a guy that people pay to haul off large loads of trash and do clean-ups.
He explained that he had been hired by a shoe store in Kansas City to clear out some pallets of athletic shoes that were stored in some storage units. The shoe store had actually hired him to clear out the shoes and haul them to the dump. But they were all new in the boxes and he could see no point in throwing them away. So he took all five pallets of shoes to his barn.
He soon found the market for these ugly outdated shoes from the 1980's for baseball, shotput and track was quite bad. He was selling them for the bargain price of one dollar a pair. The Yellow House offered to buy about 12 boxes full of shoes. But they too found the shoes had no value and were not marketable even on Ebay.
When the Police searched the Yellow House owners home, they found the boxes of worthless shoes in the garage and paraded them in front of the press to make it look like lots of stolen property was being confiscated. (lo)
The uncovered Insurance scam:
During the Proffer the Yellow House owners informed the police officers where the shoes came from and that they were not stolen.
The officers then said they had contacted the shoe store and the shoe store had confirmed the shoes had been reported stolen!
The scam then became clear to the Yellow House but not the Police!
These shoes were old and had no value. So why would this old man that owns a hauling business take the time to break into these storage units and bust his ass to haul 5 pallets of worthless shoes? Then openly bring people out to his barn to sell them!
And even though the police claimed the shoes were stolen, they refused to contact the man and interview him, even after the Yellow House owners gave them his phone number, and contacted the man and arranged for him to give them his statement.
What makes more sense here is the shoe store put the shoes in storage units and then insured them. They then hired the old mans business to haul them to the dump. Once they were gone the shoe store staged the theft, filed the police report and claimed the loss against the insurance!
Did the Lawrence Police ever look into that scenerio...NO!
They just confiscated the shoes and now 3 years later still have them, I am sure they are still in the property room because its highly unlikely anybody has STOLEN them! lo!!
The police never interviewed the guy that the Yellow House owners got the shoes from, he talked to the Yellow House owners several times about the situation, and gladly said he would give the police his statement.
see the video of the police loading all those boxes of worthless shoes:
Back in 2005 a guy entered the Topeka store, he presented himself as a guy that people pay to haul off large loads of trash and do clean-ups.
He explained that he had been hired by a shoe store in Kansas City to clear out some pallets of athletic shoes that were stored in some storage units. The shoe store had actually hired him to clear out the shoes and haul them to the dump. But they were all new in the boxes and he could see no point in throwing them away. So he took all five pallets of shoes to his barn.
He soon found the market for these ugly outdated shoes from the 1980's for baseball, shotput and track was quite bad. He was selling them for the bargain price of one dollar a pair. The Yellow House offered to buy about 12 boxes full of shoes. But they too found the shoes had no value and were not marketable even on Ebay.
When the Police searched the Yellow House owners home, they found the boxes of worthless shoes in the garage and paraded them in front of the press to make it look like lots of stolen property was being confiscated. (lo)
The uncovered Insurance scam:
During the Proffer the Yellow House owners informed the police officers where the shoes came from and that they were not stolen.
The officers then said they had contacted the shoe store and the shoe store had confirmed the shoes had been reported stolen!
The scam then became clear to the Yellow House but not the Police!
These shoes were old and had no value. So why would this old man that owns a hauling business take the time to break into these storage units and bust his ass to haul 5 pallets of worthless shoes? Then openly bring people out to his barn to sell them!
And even though the police claimed the shoes were stolen, they refused to contact the man and interview him, even after the Yellow House owners gave them his phone number, and contacted the man and arranged for him to give them his statement.
What makes more sense here is the shoe store put the shoes in storage units and then insured them. They then hired the old mans business to haul them to the dump. Once they were gone the shoe store staged the theft, filed the police report and claimed the loss against the insurance!
Did the Lawrence Police ever look into that scenerio...NO!
They just confiscated the shoes and now 3 years later still have them, I am sure they are still in the property room because its highly unlikely anybody has STOLEN them! lo!!
The police never interviewed the guy that the Yellow House owners got the shoes from, he talked to the Yellow House owners several times about the situation, and gladly said he would give the police his statement.
see the video of the police loading all those boxes of worthless shoes:
Friday, July 11, 2008
Yellow House Store owners back to court on July 15, 2008 bond revokation hearing
The Yellow House owners will be back in Federal court on July 15th, 2008 for a hearing in Federal Court to hear how the Federal Judge will rule on the Prosecutors motion to revoke the Bond release and have the owners of the Yellow House Guy and Carrie Neighbors locked up in the Fort Leavenworth Federal Prison for Blogging the truth about the Governments corrupt actions!
Boy if that happens don't nobody get near my butt, because according to our sources the Leavenworth Prisoners don't get clean underwear or showers when they are bad!
The other alternative to locking up the two defendants would be if they agree to not do the Blah Blah blah thing all over the Internet.
Well that would just be another violation of their Freedom of Speech 1st Amendment Constitutional rights and that would just be wrong! And that just won't work either!
Why should the Yellow House owners agree; or be subjected to have any more of their constitutional rights violated? When the Government has failed to prove there has even been a crime committed!
They are already being prosecuted in Federal Court under statutes that they do not qualify for, they have been subjected to humiliating random drug tests for going on 2 years, they have had numerous restrictions placed on their business, they have had an illegal lis pendens placed against their property without a conviction, they have been the target of the Lawrence Kansas Police and Federal Prosecutors repeated misconduct and abuse!
And now this! Another hearing on a ridiculous motion to waist more of the tax payers money and the courts time!
I am so mad I just can't even type anymore! This is just wrong I tell you its wrong and its UN-American!
Please remember us in your prayers, because we are not going to back down from the rights are soldiers are willing to fight and die for us to have!
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Boy if that happens don't nobody get near my butt, because according to our sources the Leavenworth Prisoners don't get clean underwear or showers when they are bad!
The other alternative to locking up the two defendants would be if they agree to not do the Blah Blah blah thing all over the Internet.
Well that would just be another violation of their Freedom of Speech 1st Amendment Constitutional rights and that would just be wrong! And that just won't work either!
Why should the Yellow House owners agree; or be subjected to have any more of their constitutional rights violated? When the Government has failed to prove there has even been a crime committed!
They are already being prosecuted in Federal Court under statutes that they do not qualify for, they have been subjected to humiliating random drug tests for going on 2 years, they have had numerous restrictions placed on their business, they have had an illegal lis pendens placed against their property without a conviction, they have been the target of the Lawrence Kansas Police and Federal Prosecutors repeated misconduct and abuse!
And now this! Another hearing on a ridiculous motion to waist more of the tax payers money and the courts time!
I am so mad I just can't even type anymore! This is just wrong I tell you its wrong and its UN-American!
Please remember us in your prayers, because we are not going to back down from the rights are soldiers are willing to fight and die for us to have!
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Federal Prosecutor Terra Morehead's Corrupt contract all Public Defenders must sign
In federal court the conviction rate is 98%. That means even if you are wrongly charged and innocent you only have a 2% chance of being found "Not Guilty".
In Federal Court the Prosecutors have quota's they must make, not only for convictions but also for forfeitures of property.
The Prosecutors (AUSA's) in Federal court have a lot of power!
They control attorneys, the Marshall's, Agents in the FBI, the Warden at the Prison, the Judges, the detectives bringing them the cases, and even the defendants.
With all that power one might even wonder if there is really a 2% chance for the wrongly accused to be found "not guilty"?
What if you also add in the potential for corrupt behavior that can develop with so much power? Years of working with; and controlling the same attorneys and affiliates begins to create a network of individuals that owe each other favors, scratch each others backs, and even allows for situations where blackmail and kickbacks can enter into the picture.
In Federal court the charges are much more serious and the rules are broader for conviction.
If you are a defendant in Federal court with only a 2% chance, would you want your attorney to have to sign a contract with the prosecutor promising not to show you your discovery?
Would you feel comfortable putting your life, your freedom, your reputation and everything you own in the hands of an attorney that is willing to sign an agreement with the Prosecutor not to show you any of the evidence against you, and not to allow you to have in your possession any of the evidence being held against you?
You see nothing!
What if all the evidence is just fabricated garbage, and in reality the prosecutor has no evidence against you? What if she is just needing to do a favor for someone, or helping someone teach you a lesson because you pissed someone off in the Lawrence Kansas police department? What if in return for the favor of putting you away, she gets to keep the Property that she has liens and forfeitures against?
This sounds more like racketeering rather than Justice!
Kansas Department Of Justice Prosecuting attorney Terra Morehead has found a way to control the attorneys in order to accomplish just that! We have not found another Prosecutor at a Federal level outside of this Justice Department making attorneys sign such a contract.
By getting attorneys to agree to her contract she can control them and their clients. Here is the signature Page of the contract that a Public Defender that will be defending a client against Terra Morehead in Federal court must sign! To protect the identity of the source of this contract the names have been blackened out. I wonder if anybody has ever been found "not guilty" in this Corrupt Department of Justice?
US Attorney Federal Prosecutor eaves drops on Private email between client & attorney
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It appears that U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker not only was using the passwords obtained through a search warrant against Sunflower cable to log into the blogs, she was also using them to read the attorney-client emails.
In one such email defendant Carrie Neighbors tells her attorney that she has a secret the Prosecutor was unaware of.
She goes on to inform her attorney that she did not think the Prosecutor had been told by the Lawrence Police that she was never alone in the Yellow House Store. Her husband Guy was always concerned about her safety while he ran the Yellow House store in Topeka, and had his retired friend Mike stop in the store and sit in the chair just to hang out and make sure she was never alone. When Mike could not make it in, Carries mom would come in and hang out with her, and in reality they both had a really good time. Mike and Carries mom would work out their times so that Carrie was never alone.
of these witnesses were always at the front counter with carrie and witnessed every transaction. They are both credible witnesses that can testify there was never a time that Carrie was being innapropriate customers, or conspiring with customers in regards to any kind of illegal activity.
Within 4 days of Carrie sending this email to her attorney Phil Gibson, the Prosecutor sent Mike and Carries mom a Subpoena.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Analytics show that very important agencies are reading this blog
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According to the analytics that are connected to this blog there are some very important people, and agencies interested in following the information shared in this site, and possibly looking into the obstruction of justice, corruption and conspiracy of the Lawrence Kansas Police Department and the Kansas Department of Justice, in connection with the Yellow House case.
Here is a list of some of the visitors that have visited this blog.
Various law firms
The Pentagon
U.S. Department of Justice in 4 States including Washington D.C.
U.S. Marshalls service Dept. Of Justice division of Investigations in Arlington VA.
Police Departments all accross the U.S., including Spokane Washington, New Mexico, California, TX.
Department of the Administration of U.S. Courts in Several States
Prosecutors offices from 4 different States
Various News agencies, and TV producers such as TimeWarner, WebTv,
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Postal Service Investigations in several states
I.R.S. division of Investigations in several different states
Senators, House of Representatives
and thousands of un-traceable or hidden I.P. Addresses from all accross the United States and even other Countries.
Nobody in their right mind would be posting untrue information, having the knowledge that all these agencies are reading and investigating the allegations.
Our life is an open book, we have had every aspect of our finances and business practices investigated and examined and scrutinized through the various agencies the Police Dept. called in to help, and in the press!
We have been tested over and over, by snitches and law enforcement stings attempting to trip us up, or get us to do or say something on a wire or video they can use against us later. We even have had people bribed with favors to lie against us in court before a Grand Jury or through plea bargains.
Through it all we have maintained "WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE!"
We have met with several FBI Special Agents from Topeka and given them copies of our files, all our financial transactions have been audited 5 years back by the IRS, and at one point we even gave the Prosecutor permission to bug our phones!
We have offered over and over to cooperate fully with the investigation, even going as far as entering into a contract with the Government for week long Proffering session. That resulted in nothing except more of our civil rights being violated.
All we ever ask through this entire ordeal is that we are treated fairly, without discrimination because of our race or social status and that our Constitutional rights were protected....Aparently in Lawrence Kansas if you are the Yellow House owners that is asking too much!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Corruption by Local Lawrence Kansas Police Chief Ron Olin handled with the same standards?
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smitty (Anonymous) says…
Does the FBI apply the same standards to law enforcement corruption by a local police chief (Olin) who claims terrorist expertise? I would say this man has terrorized the public and some of his staff for many years and is currently being challenged by a local small business for his illegal actions within the LPD.
I just stopped at the barber shop to ask Amyx if there was anything to the rumor of an on going and current investigation by a higher law enforcement authority. He avoided an answer, I asked it another way, he hemmed and hawed, I asked it another way…
Mike Amyx said ” It(Olin and his department) is being handled as a personnel matter by the city manager's office.”
In other words, yes there is an investigation/situation involving the police chief, Ron Olin, that is being kept from the public.
Contact your city commissioners to question why this hasn't been made public information. I'm not asking for the details that are private but an investigation of personnel matter with the chief of police and his highest internal contacts is worthy of some sort of public exposure.
Or is it only the common citizens that get profiled and investigated by the corrupt police who have the power to hide their illegal actions as a “personnel problem” behind closed doors?
Mayor
Michael Dever mdever@sunflower.com (785) 865-4202 2011
Vice-Mayor
Robert Chestnut robchestnut@sunflower.com (785) 764-3220 2011
Commissioner
Mike Amyx mikeamyx515@hotmail.com Home (785) 843-3089
Work (785) 842-9425 2009
Commissioner Sue Hack suehack@sunflower.com (785) 842-6608 2009
Commissioner Boog Highberger boog@lawrence.ixks.com (785) 843-0995 2009
Olin needs to be convicted of his crimes just as any citizen. Please contact your commissioners to voice your concerns.
Of course they all know what's up and are handling Olin and staff's law breaking as a personnel matter. As with Deciphera, this is a matter of that needs to see the light. Question the city commissioners as to their duty to the city's populace(not how to protect our city coffers from a major civil suit by hiding the truth) if we have a personnel matter that involves law breaking by the chief and his boys and girls.
Refresher course for those who don't recall………Olin and the city manager attempt to circumvent Kansas law when on of the LPD was convicted of domestic violence. There are several officers that are still on the LPD that have broken the law such as drunken driving accidents, drunken accidents where the drunk officer took the victim he struck with his vehicle to the hospital while drunk. All except the officer convicted of DV are still on the LPD, all owing big favors to their man in charge. The murder and cover up of a young native man that Olin organized which includes the involvement of ex-DA Jim Flory, and Coroner Carol Moddrell, and perjury by officers under oath at the inquest, and alterations of official documents.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Federal Prosecutor Terra Morehead & Det. Mike McAtee are looking for liars to testify in Federal Court Yellow House case
We have been informed that Federal Prosecutor Terra Morehead and Lawrence Police Detective Mike McAtee approached a Federal Prisoner by the name of Marcus Crawford, and in exchange for a deal asked him to lie in court and say he sold guns and merchandise stolen from Walmart to the Yellow House Store.
That way the Prosecutor can have more inadmissable hearsay to present in Federal Court.
We feel sorry for this Prosecutor having to work so hard to get people to lie for her in this corrupt Federal case so we decided to make some signs up to help her out.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
CNN's TRUTV "In Session" Court projected coverage of Yellow House Case
The Producers of "in session" TruTv's coverage of courtroom trials and cases that formerly was courtTV, has expressed an interest in covering the Yellow House case September Federal trial on nationwide TV!
TruTv is a Turner Entertainment Network owned by CNN.com/crime coverage. With 1,426,000 viewers this reality tv show is one of the most viewed court coverage tv shows in the country.
Currently seen in 91 million U.S. households and enjoying more than a year of solid and consistent ratings growth, truTV features high-stakes, action-packed originals that give viewers access to places and situations they can't normally experience.
There is a possibility the Yellow House story could also be featured as a documentary on one of truTV's primetime fan favorites original series Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege and Justice and The Real Hustle. During the daytime, the channel features expert trial coverage under the name In Session.
Please stay tuned!
For more information contact
Contact Info:
Karen Cassell
Turner Entertainment Networks
(404) 885-4238
karen.cassell@turner.com
TruTv is a Turner Entertainment Network owned by CNN.com/crime coverage. With 1,426,000 viewers this reality tv show is one of the most viewed court coverage tv shows in the country.
Currently seen in 91 million U.S. households and enjoying more than a year of solid and consistent ratings growth, truTV features high-stakes, action-packed originals that give viewers access to places and situations they can't normally experience.
There is a possibility the Yellow House story could also be featured as a documentary on one of truTV's primetime fan favorites original series Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege and Justice and The Real Hustle. During the daytime, the channel features expert trial coverage under the name In Session.
Please stay tuned!
For more information contact
Contact Info:
Karen Cassell
Turner Entertainment Networks
(404) 885-4238
karen.cassell@turner.com
Friday, June 27, 2008
Prosecutor Marietta Parker Edits Blogspot post in cover-up conspiracy, obstruction of justice
Prosecutor Marietta Parker uses password obtained through warrant to edit and delete posts from defendant Guy Neighbors blog site!
To understand why and what has happened here in the present we must first go back to the past.
During an evidence hearing November 5, 2007 before the Honorable Judge Lungstrum; U.S. Attorney Terra Morehead explains to the Judge that the reason the defendants Guy and Carrie Neighbors were denied their legal right to a speedy trial was because there was a tornado in Greensburg Kansas.....
Later while talking to some long time friends the Neighbors mentioned they did not understand why the tornado in Greensburg Kansas would be the reason the Prosecutor told the Judge they were denied the speedy trial.
The Neighbors were informed by this friend that Terra was from Greensburg and that they had gone to school with Terra Morehead. They also knew Terra's family and informed the Neighbors that they believed Terra and her brother had a history of drug abuse and that from what they knew the family had been torn apart by drugs. They questioned how someone with a drug history had become a Federal Prosecutor.
Mr. Neighbors then posted a story with this acquired information on his blog site. He felt the information could be connected to the discriminatory abusive treatment he and his wife had received, while being prosecuted in Federal court by Terra Morehead. He also believed this history of drug abuse in Ms. Moreheads family combined by her hatred towards people of color, could be what is driving the prosecutor to abuse his civil rights and show obvious signs that she and her partner US Assistant Attorney Marietta Parker are taking the case personal.
This posting greatly upset the Prosecutors.
In response to the posting, Prosecuting Attorney Terra Morehead immediately motioned to have the defendants Gagged. During the hearing the Prosecutor Terra Morehead had an emotional breakdown, she cried and pleaded with Judge to gag the defendants, and make them stop blogging. She stated that a photo taken from the “Scruffy the dog case internet story” had been placed on the defendants blog site, and that she had received threats because this photo which was already publicly displayed on the internet had been posted on the blog site. She told the Judge that because of the blogs her cases were being investigated 5 years back by an outside agency!
The day of the hearing for the gag order, Mr. Neighbors is informed through an anonomous email through the blog account, that a co-worker of Marietta Parker overheard her in her office preparing for the hearing; slamming things and yelling the "N" word! Mr. Neighbors again angered the prosecutor by posting this aquired information on his blog site.
Sometime around May 2008 Prosecuting US Federal Attorney Marietta Parker serves a warrant on Sunflower cable to obtain the password information connected to the defendants Internet activities. She then logs into the defendants blog account and proceeds to go to the edit tools and deletes the story Mr. Neighbors had written about Terra Moreheads past drug history. There is also evidence through her actions that she was also logging into the email accounts and possibly reading attorney client correspondence emails.
To cover up for the fact she has illegally edited Mr. Neighbors blog account, Federal Prosecutor Marietta Parker then files a motion to revoke the bonds of the defendants Mr. Neighbors and his wife based on the blogs.
To support her motion to revoke the bond she uses pages from the blogs as exhibits. These exhibits clearly show when she copied and printed them off, she was not only logged into Mr. Neighbors blog account, she had also used the editing tools before printing off the pages. (The editing tools can still be seen in the exhibits. See photo at top of page)
What possible probable cause would give a Federal Prosecuting attorney the right to serve a search warrant on a defendants Internet provider in order to obtain passwords to everything in relation to that defendants Internet IP address?
Thus allowing this prosecutor to tamper with "the evidence" which is in this case constitutionally protected freedom of speech postings on a private blog site and view private emails that contain attorney client correspondence? How many constitutionally protected rights can a defendant have violated while being corruptly prosecuted?
IN CONCLUSION;
What justifiable legal basis or probable cause reason could a prosecutor possibly have; to get a warrant for passwords that enables her to be editing and eavesdropping on a defendants emails and blogging pages in relation to trumped up Federal charges based the execution of an illegal warrantless search of the defendants home and a bogus stolen property, money laundering case that hinges on the perjured testimony of convicted felons?
The actions of these prosecutors clearly show cover-up, conspiracy, tampering with the evidence, obstruction of justice, misuse of private information obtained through a search warrant, violation of privacy and a violation of Attorney rules of ethics.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
MARIETTA PARKER USES 4 TIME CONVICTED FELON PATRICK NIEDER IN YELLOW HOUSE CASE
Double standard funny how it goes, federal prosecutor Marietta Parker filed a motion to have my bond revoked because I made a phone call to Lawrence police officer Mike McAtee to ask him "how many drug test he had failed?" ( I had heard he has failed quite a few).
Marietta Parker told the judge that I had contact with a government witness because of the phone call when officer McAtee is not even on the yellow house case, and his name is not on any of my paper work relating to the case.
The government’s star witness Patrick Nieder (a convicted felon & prisoner at Winfield Correctional facility) that lied before the grand jury ( to help Parker get the 2nd indictment against me, in exchange for being released from prison 8 years early) has sent his girl friend into our business to sell us items because they are in need of money! Her name is Terri Mcdowell.
Terri sold me a refrigerator and I went to their house to pick up the refrigerator on Fri. June 20th and Patrick Nieder was hiding out inside the house. After loading up the refrigerator Terri told me she had other stuff in her garage she was looking to sell, one of the items was a real nice John Deere lawn tractor-mower.
Terri told me that her honey got the mower for her and she was not sure where it came from... so I told her that I would need to think about it (not knowing that Nieder was hiding out in this house at 2802 belle haven Dr. Lawrence)
I thought it was kind of weird that she would not know where the real nice John Deere riding mower came from.......
The next day one of my friends came into my business to tell me that he had seen me at Patrick Nieder’s house loading up a refrigerator, and of course I replied “what the hell are you talking about?” my friend explained to me that Terri was in fact dating Patrick and my friend knew that Nieder had lied to the grand jury to help the federal prosecutor get an indictment against my wife and myself with lies.
The following Monday I received 2 phone calls from 1-785-424-3004 so I returned one of the calls and got Mr. Nieders voice mail.
Later that day Mr. Nieder had his girl friend call me about purchasing the stolen John Deere lawn tractor for $700. Could this contact violate the court order of not having contact with a witness in a federal case?
The prosecutor is trying to have me locked up for having contact with a police officer not involved in the case, but this guy is free to do what he wants!
Maybe the federal prosecutor Marietta Parker is paying mr. Nieder to get and get him to sell the yellow house stolen property so she can send the Lawrence police back to our business and home to make another arrest and illegally search our home again?
It had been about a year now and in order for the prosecutor to keep this thing going without the evidence needed to get a conviction she needs to have us arrested about every 9-12 months and come up with more ridiculous charges.
My people told me the Lawrence police was at 2802 bellehaven on Thur. of that week searching for a meth lab 10 police cars and the meth lab van, and not one cop ran a check on the stolen John Deere riding mower in the garage? Nor did they confiscate it...
Interesting double standard between how the white guy and the black guy are treated!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Prosecutor Federal U.S. Attorney Terra Morehead controls attorneys with corrupt contract
HOW THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR TERRA MOREHEAD CORRUPTLY CONTROLS THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
In reaction to a Prosecutor withholding discovery from a defendant the Judge writes:
This is prosecutorial misconduct in its highest form; conduct in flagrant disregard of the United States Constitution; and conduct which should be deterred by the strongest sanction available," wrote Judge Kim Wardlaw.
Here is a copy we have obtained of the contract that (AUSA) U.S. Assistant Prosecuting attorney Terra Morehead makes the Defense attorneys sign, before allowing them to be appointed to cases she is prosecuting in Federal Court.
(According to this contract) If they do not agree with this contract then they must not take the case.
It would appear this contract allows the prosecutor to weed out the attorneys that would honestly defend a client.... and keep attorneys on the opposing case that allows her to maintain control of the case and guarantee a conviction!
Perhaps by not only controlling how the defense attorney handles the case but also denying the defendant his constitutional right to see the evidence against him.
It also prevents the defendant from having the chance to point out the discrepancies in the evidence that could be associated with the case prior to trial.
Leaving the defendant with no idea what the corrupt evidence the prosecutor plans to use, until at trial when it is too late to prove the evidence is false!
In our case we have seen some of the discovery and it is full of forged documents, false police reports, planted evidence, perjury testimonies, convicted felons listed as witnesses, edited videos and more.
No wonder with all this corruption that is being used to send people to prison, one could know why the prosecutor would not want the defendant to see the discovery being used against them!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Defendants back in Federal court on June 23, 2008
Once again back to court on Monday June 23rd, 2008.
Its pretty amazing to be a defendant planning to go to trial in Federal Court, and expect a jury and Judge to take the case seriously!
With charges based on a messed up violated search warrant, when half the evidence in the case is missing from the police property room, that a police officer obviously has planted evidence, the star witnesses are convicted felons striking a deal, and the documentation shows the Government keeps changing the evidence files!
And lets not forget that half the charges were already thrown out by a Federal Judge because the prosecutor violated the defendants right to a speedy trial the first time around.
After she drops the charges and then she refiled the same charges again.
This time the defendants go before Federal Judge Carlos Murguia to hear his ruling on the motion to continue the July 7 trial setting.
This ridiculous case is a travesty to the entire justice system, a case according to the Prosecutor of the case; U.S. Attorney Terra Morehead quote "this case is on the verge of the ridiculous your honor"! Has it passed the verge yet?
Its pretty amazing to be a defendant planning to go to trial in Federal Court, and expect a jury and Judge to take the case seriously!
With charges based on a messed up violated search warrant, when half the evidence in the case is missing from the police property room, that a police officer obviously has planted evidence, the star witnesses are convicted felons striking a deal, and the documentation shows the Government keeps changing the evidence files!
And lets not forget that half the charges were already thrown out by a Federal Judge because the prosecutor violated the defendants right to a speedy trial the first time around.
After she drops the charges and then she refiled the same charges again.
This time the defendants go before Federal Judge Carlos Murguia to hear his ruling on the motion to continue the July 7 trial setting.
This ridiculous case is a travesty to the entire justice system, a case according to the Prosecutor of the case; U.S. Attorney Terra Morehead quote "this case is on the verge of the ridiculous your honor"! Has it passed the verge yet?
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
IS POSTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE YELLOW HOUSE CASE GOING TO HURT THE DEFENSE?
Considering since 2005 the YH has been served with over 20 search warrants, by a bunch of cops and people that owed the higher ups a favor, trying desperately to retaliate and find something to prosecute the yellow house owners for!
Considering the sheer number of searches and seizures involved in this case, shouldn't the Government already know everything?
What could possibly be put on this forum that they do not already know after 3 years of investigations that has included months of covert surveillance, multiple sting operations, the seizure of business records and audits going 5 years back.
The Lawrence police called in the IRS to audit the banking records, paypal records, ebay records, business records and tax payments, They called in the Postal service to investigate the shipping records, they called in the fake FBI from Kansas City to investigate and cover up the formal complaints, they called in Federal Prosecutors to help them railroad the defendants and cover up the misconduct in the police department, the Lawrence cops have harassed, bullied and offered money to friends and customers of the Yellow House trying to get them to participate in sting operations against the business. The Prosecutors have even managed to manipulate several defense attorneys working the case.
So I ask you, if all this has not resulted in the Yellow House owners going to jail, being gagged, or having the business shut down...How could words posted on this forum hurt the case?
It seems to me what makes or breaks A case should be the actual evidence, not after the fact constitutionally protected free speech postings.
The question is when all this 3 year long investigation into the Yellow house business results in no convictions and reveals no evidence of a crime, then do you think the Formal complaints that have been turned into Internal Affairs by the Yellow House and their customers, addressing police misconduct, missing evidence, racial profiling, harassment, false arrest, falsified documents, obstruction of justice, FBI impersonations, illegal searches and Constitutional rights violations will be finally investigated with the same diligence?
Public comments to the Yellow House Postings
Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:28 pm
Posts: 1929 lawrence_guy wrote:
Yellow House,
I'm not sure who's advising you about posting in this forum, but I can't possibly imagine it would in any way, shape or form help your case. Your posts here don't particularly endear you to the public and seem to lack focus or intent.
While its expected that certain users here would degenerate the conversation into mindless babble, few (if any) are staring down losing their possessions and spending time in prison. From several of your comments here, its bizarre that you would continue to engage in this type of conversation and that you haven't been counseled to stop. Do your lawyers know that you continue to post aggressive, anti-establishment messages on this forum? Wanting to protect your family and yourself is one thing, but these actions seem self-destructive and wholly out of touch with your best interests.
So again, while I nor anyone here should second-guess sage advice from your attorneys, it seems to defy logic that you'd make an aggressive case in a (internet) forum that seems less functional, and more adversarial. If I were under the gun and was facing down both the end of my livelihood and spending time in a federal prison, I don't think I'd be acting so caviler and juvenile about it.
In pursuing your case and its various actions over the years, it would suggest that your actions on Larryville have no effect. Its probably time to grow up and treat this case with the seriousness it deserves, and forget the thought that posting these messages online will somehow benefit you.
Just being honest.
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Patricia Post subject: Yellow house
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:56 am
I certainly understand your opinion and reaction to yh's posting history, but i have found some of the posts and responses to reveal more than yh's side. Points have been made that reveal aspects of our local judicial culture that is more important than my or your feelings about yh (which are different), Its made me pay more attention to how our police interact and communicate with the community. They have become more and more insulated, the police, led by olin, are choosing which laws they enforce with very little interaction and exchange with the broader community feelings and priorities. Once a culture closes in on it self, rejecting feed back and exchange of ideas or criticism their vision becomes narrower and narrower. When I was at one meeting and observed how one discussion of how petty theft, robbery was handled. It was stated that there was no need of any discussion about that as the police had different priorities and the public had no idea of how things needed to be done.
I know of two cases that the police seemed biased by the social position of the victims and did not choose to investigate. One one case they made false statement that they did question and investigate. Then when it was proven that the police had not contacted any of the four witnesses, they said that was not how they investigated the case.
Self review of police policies and procedures is not a healthy or effective method. That is basically what we have now. For protection of the police department and the community there should be some sort of citizens review board with real power. While yh does seem to whine the comments that many of their complaints can not be investigated until the police have ended their investigation is alarming. It is like saying one can not remove the fledgling from the cat's mouth unless you can prove the cat has harmed the bird.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold,
Posts: 1929 lawrence_guy wrote:
Yellow House,
I'm not sure who's advising you about posting in this forum, but I can't possibly imagine it would in any way, shape or form help your case. Your posts here don't particularly endear you to the public and seem to lack focus or intent.
While its expected that certain users here would degenerate the conversation into mindless babble, few (if any) are staring down losing their possessions and spending time in prison. From several of your comments here, its bizarre that you would continue to engage in this type of conversation and that you haven't been counseled to stop. Do your lawyers know that you continue to post aggressive, anti-establishment messages on this forum? Wanting to protect your family and yourself is one thing, but these actions seem self-destructive and wholly out of touch with your best interests.
So again, while I nor anyone here should second-guess sage advice from your attorneys, it seems to defy logic that you'd make an aggressive case in a (internet) forum that seems less functional, and more adversarial. If I were under the gun and was facing down both the end of my livelihood and spending time in a federal prison, I don't think I'd be acting so caviler and juvenile about it.
In pursuing your case and its various actions over the years, it would suggest that your actions on Larryville have no effect. Its probably time to grow up and treat this case with the seriousness it deserves, and forget the thought that posting these messages online will somehow benefit you.
Just being honest.
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Patricia Post subject: Yellow house
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:56 am
I certainly understand your opinion and reaction to yh's posting history, but i have found some of the posts and responses to reveal more than yh's side. Points have been made that reveal aspects of our local judicial culture that is more important than my or your feelings about yh (which are different), Its made me pay more attention to how our police interact and communicate with the community. They have become more and more insulated, the police, led by olin, are choosing which laws they enforce with very little interaction and exchange with the broader community feelings and priorities. Once a culture closes in on it self, rejecting feed back and exchange of ideas or criticism their vision becomes narrower and narrower. When I was at one meeting and observed how one discussion of how petty theft, robbery was handled. It was stated that there was no need of any discussion about that as the police had different priorities and the public had no idea of how things needed to be done.
I know of two cases that the police seemed biased by the social position of the victims and did not choose to investigate. One one case they made false statement that they did question and investigate. Then when it was proven that the police had not contacted any of the four witnesses, they said that was not how they investigated the case.
Self review of police policies and procedures is not a healthy or effective method. That is basically what we have now. For protection of the police department and the community there should be some sort of citizens review board with real power. While yh does seem to whine the comments that many of their complaints can not be investigated until the police have ended their investigation is alarming. It is like saying one can not remove the fledgling from the cat's mouth unless you can prove the cat has harmed the bird.
_________________
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold,
Sunday, June 15, 2008
REMEBERING MY DAD ON FATHERS DAY
My dad was my hero! I remember as a kid I called him daddy, then as I grew older it was just dad. As a teenager we clashed and I sometimes just did not talk to him at all! But he was always there for me and the tough guy that he was, he would hug me and tell me he loved me every chance he had! And of course whenever it was just the two of us, he let me know "I was his favorite". I later found out my sister was also told she was his favorite!
I am so glad to have had the oportunity to know him as an adult. There was always a part of him I really did not know. That secret inner part of his soul that was a soldier fighting for his country, a purple heart recipient and a rebel. A part of his life he never really wanted to talk about with his children, but was shared by his soldier buddies and my mother.
About the only times he would talk about that part of his life with us kids were the funny stories. Like the time a Babboon tore up the camp! His face always bore the scars from shrapenal of a grenade the enemy threw into a fox hole he and his two best friends were crouched in. Both his friends died that day, and he wore the memory on his face. There were many times during his time overseas he stared death in the face, but somehow God allowed him to come home, and hence his two miracle daughters were born!
When I was growing up I always thought we were rich! Looking back now I know we were actually poor and sometimes my dad was working two jobs just to keep us maintaining our middle class existance. He worked as a police officer for a while. He always wore his uniform and badge with such pride and integrity! He always wanted to help people, and make sure the bad guys were off the street. Then a motorcycle accident while on duty ended his carreer, but he never gave up!
He was always one to stand up and fight for what was right. My dad would never back down when he knew he was right, and neither will I!
No matter what tragedy life threw at my Dad he always seemed to bounce back and his family always came first in his life! He is missed terribly, I am so proud to have had the honor to call this man my "dad"!
I am so glad to have had the oportunity to know him as an adult. There was always a part of him I really did not know. That secret inner part of his soul that was a soldier fighting for his country, a purple heart recipient and a rebel. A part of his life he never really wanted to talk about with his children, but was shared by his soldier buddies and my mother.
About the only times he would talk about that part of his life with us kids were the funny stories. Like the time a Babboon tore up the camp! His face always bore the scars from shrapenal of a grenade the enemy threw into a fox hole he and his two best friends were crouched in. Both his friends died that day, and he wore the memory on his face. There were many times during his time overseas he stared death in the face, but somehow God allowed him to come home, and hence his two miracle daughters were born!
When I was growing up I always thought we were rich! Looking back now I know we were actually poor and sometimes my dad was working two jobs just to keep us maintaining our middle class existance. He worked as a police officer for a while. He always wore his uniform and badge with such pride and integrity! He always wanted to help people, and make sure the bad guys were off the street. Then a motorcycle accident while on duty ended his carreer, but he never gave up!
He was always one to stand up and fight for what was right. My dad would never back down when he knew he was right, and neither will I!
No matter what tragedy life threw at my Dad he always seemed to bounce back and his family always came first in his life! He is missed terribly, I am so proud to have had the honor to call this man my "dad"!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
MISTAKES BY THE GOVERNMENT PROSECUTOR & POLICE LOWER STANDARD THAN CITIZENS CHARGED WITH A CRIME? YELLOW HOUSE CASE LAWRENCE KANSAS
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Mistakes: If a citizen makes a mistake or the Government accuses them of a mistake they are put under investigation, arrested, charged and bullied! But where is the standard being held for the Government when they make a mistake?
Was it a mistake that:
The Justice department placed on its web site charges that had been dismissed by a Federal Judge in Federal court 8 months earlier, but were able to get the names of the attorney's that had just been appointed to the case within the past month right?
That the Justice department sends out an erroneous press release stating that that the defendants had two counts of distribution filed against them.
Or that the Justice Department puts out a press release on their own web site claiming the FBI investigated, when in reality the FBI claims to have never even heard about the case!
Or that Sgt. Dan Ward from the Lawrence Kansas Police Department makes the statement in a press release labeling the defendants as the “Largest most sophisticated fencers ever in the history of Lawrence” But A detective from the Lawrence Police Department tells the Yellow House owners that the Pawn shops and 12th Street Bargain Center in Lawrence have more stolen property cases in one month than the Yellow House has had in one year! (Yet neither business was served with 15 search warrants or subjected to the public Government abuse the Yellow House has been subjected to.)
Mistake the prosecutor Terra Morehead refiled the exact same charges with just 7 days left to the speedy trial clock. Made it look like a brand new case, got it in another judges court room and had the defendants formally rearrested instead of allowing them to turn themselves in.
It was a mistake the defendants home was illegally searched by the police and IRS agent Rob Jackson twice during the formal arrest that was a mistake because the defendants could have just been allowed to turn themselves in.
A mistake the Prosecutor placed a lis pendens against the defendants properties and never sent out the required 60 day notice of the filing, or perhaps it was a mistake because it was ruled in the 10th circuit court these types of liens are not allowed prior to a conviction.
A mistake that the Judge Murguia that arraigned the defendants in 2006 is a different Judge Murguia that handles the case in 2007?
A mistake that both defendants have been charged in Federal court by two Prosecutors doing obvious favors for people with charges that the defendants do not qualify for. When the evidence does not support the charges.
A mistake the Prosecutor files a superseding indictment to moot the motion to lift the lis pendends two days after the motion to lift the lis pendens was re-filed? (And the whole matter has never made it before the judge)
A mistake the FBI Special Agent Bob Shaefer came down to investigate the Yellow House complaints but then did not. But claimed he did!
A mistake that the testimony by the witnesses in the case are not only lies, they are ridiculous lies that even a retarded person would question!
IN CONCLUSION:
Shouldn't the public be understandably worried about what such apparent negligence says about the trustworthiness of its lawyers? How can the Government hold ordinary citizens accountable for their alleged unproven mistakes when they themselves make so many mistakes, and disregard the oaths and ethics they are sworn to uphold, then they expect the public to turn the other cheek and ignore? (Because it was just a mistake!)
Monday, June 9, 2008
FEDS AND COPS GONE WILD IN YELLOW HOUSE CASE
COPS SEARCH HOUSE STARTING AT 10AM FOR TRHEE HOURS WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANT....RUN AND GET WARRANT AT 1:30PM....TURN OVER EVIDENCE TO PROSECUTOR...AND TRIAL DATE IS SET FOR JULY 7, 2008!
COPS AND FEDS GONE WILD!
Kansas Department of Justice Federal Prosecutor Terra Morehead plans to take business owners Guy and Carrie Neighbors to trial July 7, 2008 using a home invasion by police with evidence seized absent of a search warrant in 2005!
Police had however obtained a search warrant for the Business property signed by Judge Stephen Six Nov. 30, 2005, and executed Dec. 2, 2005. But did not have a search warrant for the residential property at a different location!
After arriving at the home Dec. 2 at 10 am and searching the home for nearly three hours, the Lawrence Police went before Judge Stephen Six at 1:30 pm that afternoon and allegedly obtained the warrant for the home.. (was it a real warrant or a forged warrant?) (Why would the judge give officers a warrant to search a house they had already been searching for 3 hours?) The police took thousands of dollars worth of valuable collector guns, jewelry, computers, laptops, ipods and other personal belongings from the home not listed on the search warrant for seizure, items not stolen or evidence of any crime, items not individually itemized or documented during the seizure.
HAVE THE FEDS AND POLICE IN KANSAS GONE WILD?
Friday, June 6, 2008
PROOF OF CORRUPTION IN KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, DROPPED CHARGES PUT BACK ON SCHEDULE
Once again the Corrupt Justice Department has intentionally put untrue information out in the public eye! This time on the Justice Departments Judges schedule web site showing false dropped charges!! The charges of "being an unlawful user with firearms" and the gun charges, were dropped nearly 8 months ago November 5, 2007 by the Honorable Judge John Lungstrum.
Is this Justice department so corrupt they don't even know which false charges they are railroading innocent defendants to trial for??
Not only were these charges dropped after a four hour evidence hearing, (an evidence hearing which the prosecutor Terra Morehead failed to present any evidence in) the fact is that these two defendants never qualified to be charged under this statute to begin with! These charges are intended to keep firearms out of the hands of drug users and dealers. To qualify for this charge one must have been charged and convicted of a drug offense within the past 5 years!
Yet here they are again, like some kind of trophy the prosecutor is refusing to relinquish! Another chance to stab that big ol' knife straight into the backs of the defendants and give it a little twist!
It looks like the CORRUPTION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS TRULY COME FULL CIRCLE!
This is so seriously wrong! It shows such a huge lack of integrity, ethics and credability with the people who have been given Governmental power to destroy a defendants life!
THe Federal Prosecutor poem: (by carrie neighbors)
What sin that comes no measure knows
And never change the course
Within the veins corruption flows
Freely from the source.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Lawrence Kansas Corrupt Cop Of The Week II, Was Officer Mike Mcatee This Dirty Cops Partner?
Here is a picture of Brad Perico in our business telling us his story.
Newsbrief: Corrupt Cop of the Week II 2/21/03
This week we have two winners in the Corrupt Cop of the Week Competition. The first winner is the Lawrence, KS, Police Department's star drug cop Officer Stuart "Mike" Peck. Peck was named Officer of the Year last year by a local Veterans of Foreign Wars post and is well-known among local defense attorneys for his role in numerous drug busts in recent years. But he was slapped down last week by Douglas County District Court Judge Michael Malone, who found that Peck lied about informants in order to obtain search warrants in drug cases.
Now Peck has been suspended from duty pending further investigation, and local prosecutors are starting to drop cases in which he was involved. "As far as we're concerned, this officer is not available to testify on criminal cases at this time," District Attorney Christine Kenney told the Lawrence Journal-World on January 28. "More than a dozen" cases will be dismissed, said Kenney, adding that the situation was "unfortunate" and would "cause a lot of hardship" -- presumably for prosecutors, not defendants.Peck's methods aroused the Judge Malone's ire after Peck assured the judge that the credibility of an informant he used in an affidavit to obtain a search warrant was "unquestioned," when the informant actually had a lengthy felony criminal history and was -- gasp -- a known drug user.
Peck's testimony led to the court approving a November 3, 2001 search warrant against local resident James D. Hawkins. On January 24, Judge Malone suppressed the evidence -- including marijuana, cocaine and paraphernalia -- seized from Hawkins' home, saying he had no choice because Peck had lied.
In seeking the 2001 warrant, Peck assured the court that the anonymous informant was "credible" and that his criminal record included only a few "traffic-type things, driving on a suspended license... a lot of domestic-type things. A lot of failure to appears or failure to complies. There was a theft." But Judge Malone later found out that the informant had three drunk-driving convictions, two felony theft convictions, a forgery conviction and a bad check conviction.
Malone also found that Peck had engineered the dismissal of speeding tickets and a domestic violence charge for the informant, and had failed to arrest him when he was found with marijuana during another traffic stop.Defense attorneys were cheered by the ruling. "As chairman of the Douglas County Criminal Defense Bar Association, I can assure you that, as a group, we've been concerned about Officer Peck's work for quite some time," said attorney Jonathan Becker. "But for now, it appears that Officer Peck quite clearly crossed the line. You don't lie in an affidavit that's submitted to the court," Becker said. "That's a very, very big deal"
PS. How can one cop could be fired and almost 40 cases tossed out of court and the dirty cops partner is still on the Lawrence police dept.?
Was officer Mcatee Officer's Peck's partner?
Brad Perico was the informant officer Peck was using (without his partner) and Brad contends that officer Peck was set up by the other officers on the drug task force.
Brad said that Peck was used as a scape goat and that the supervisor knew about the corners the drug tack force were cutting but when the crap hit the fan the blame was tossed over in officers Peck's court to take the blame all alone.
Brad Perico also said that Lawrence police officers Rantz and Jay Bialek wanted him to help them by selling the yellow house stolen property and the cops were going to pay Brad 50.00 to bring stolen property into the yellow house.
Brad interviewed with the Neighbors investigator where he signed a statement stating the cops tried to get him to help them because he had some tickets they could take care of for him in addition to the 50.00.
The officers told Brad that the FBI had him on surveillance from the fire station across the street taking a drill into the yellow house, Brad said that officer Bialek told him they knew he was in trouble and they would take care of the 6 tickets he had if he helped them and they told him that they knew Brad new what was going down in the yellow house.
Brad said he refused to help the cops because the business owners were his friends and the the detective's supervisor Terik Katib hated him and the cops never came through with their part of the deal in the past.
I can not believe these cops would try to use this guy as a informant after the judge jammed up the cops for using him and had all of those cases tossed out of court.
"No single snow flake ever claimed responsiblity for an avalanche!"
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
When does Government Conspiracy, CORRUPTION, MISCONDUCT NEED INVESTIGATED?
June 2, 2008 was an interesting day in court!
The Neighbors went before Judge Waxse to decide if the bond should be revoked because of the blogs. Outside the court room were 4 officers from the Lawrence Police Department.
Officer Mike McAtee was standing in the hall outside the court room with the other officers. This is the same officer that the prosecutor obsessively has referred to several times in the motion to revoke bond, appearing to cover-up for the allegations against McAtee, even though Mike McAtee has not been an investigator in the Yellow House case that Marietta Parker is prosecuting.
Even though this officer has not been an investigator in the nearly 3 yr. long investigation. Yet it would appear the prosecutor Marietta Parker conspired with fellow colleague attorney Kevin Regan to pose as officer McAtee's civil attorney, then write an intimidation letter to the defendant threatening a law suit.
Then Mr. Regan writes a second retraction e-mail as an obvious favor to Ms. Parker, in which he admits to the Conspiracy and cover-up between him and Marietta Parker because she is a friend and colleague of 20 years.
There appears to be no logical reason for the Government to pay these officers to stand in the hall outside this hearing other than the intimidation factor.
I wonder when do the eyes of the Government get opened to the corruption that is going on here? Just how much evidence has to be presented to show an obvious cover-up and conspiracy? Why has this been allowed to continue for so long? When does the danger of this conspiracy warrant the need for an investigation?
The obvious is that this case with no merit continues to move through the courts not because of the severity of the crime, but rather to continue the cover-up and conspiracy, that has surfaced during the three years it has been pursued by corrupt officials doing obvious favors for one another.
How long can a case of false charges with no evidence, riddled with perjury, misconduct, cover-up, corruption, and conspiracy be allowed to continue to waist the time of the Federal Courts?
Does a defendant have to disappear or die before the danger becomes real?
The Neighbors went before Judge Waxse to decide if the bond should be revoked because of the blogs. Outside the court room were 4 officers from the Lawrence Police Department.
Officer Mike McAtee was standing in the hall outside the court room with the other officers. This is the same officer that the prosecutor obsessively has referred to several times in the motion to revoke bond, appearing to cover-up for the allegations against McAtee, even though Mike McAtee has not been an investigator in the Yellow House case that Marietta Parker is prosecuting.
Even though this officer has not been an investigator in the nearly 3 yr. long investigation. Yet it would appear the prosecutor Marietta Parker conspired with fellow colleague attorney Kevin Regan to pose as officer McAtee's civil attorney, then write an intimidation letter to the defendant threatening a law suit.
Then Mr. Regan writes a second retraction e-mail as an obvious favor to Ms. Parker, in which he admits to the Conspiracy and cover-up between him and Marietta Parker because she is a friend and colleague of 20 years.
There appears to be no logical reason for the Government to pay these officers to stand in the hall outside this hearing other than the intimidation factor.
I wonder when do the eyes of the Government get opened to the corruption that is going on here? Just how much evidence has to be presented to show an obvious cover-up and conspiracy? Why has this been allowed to continue for so long? When does the danger of this conspiracy warrant the need for an investigation?
The obvious is that this case with no merit continues to move through the courts not because of the severity of the crime, but rather to continue the cover-up and conspiracy, that has surfaced during the three years it has been pursued by corrupt officials doing obvious favors for one another.
How long can a case of false charges with no evidence, riddled with perjury, misconduct, cover-up, corruption, and conspiracy be allowed to continue to waist the time of the Federal Courts?
Does a defendant have to disappear or die before the danger becomes real?
Friday, May 30, 2008
JUDGE RULES MONDAY JUNE 2, 2008 Motion by Prosecutor Marietta Parker for Yellow House business owners Jailed for Public Blogging
Judge Waxse's Chambers
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We are on the docket for Monday, to hear the Judge rule on the motion by the Prosecutor Marietta Parker to have the Bond release revoked because of the Blogging.
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2008
10:00 AM 12:00 PM Court Mot. Hrg. (Doc. 65) 07-20124-01/02 Carrie and Guy Neighbors
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We are on the docket for Monday, to hear the Judge rule on the motion by the Prosecutor Marietta Parker to have the Bond release revoked because of the Blogging.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Published author expresses interest in writing a novel about the Yellow House Case
A famous published author of more than 40 novels has expressed an interest in writing a book about the Yellow House case based on the blogs.
So for fun I thought I would design the cover and title! (LOL)
So for fun I thought I would design the cover and title! (LOL)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
IRS Investigations Special Agent Rob Jackson shows Pattern of Conspiracy and ethics violations with Federal Prosecutor MARIETTA PARKER
The hardest thing to understand about a case like the Yellow House case, is how can a business that has always paid its taxes, Used A professional accounting firm to audit and maintain the business finances for more than 20 years, kept up on the necessary licenses, permits, maintained good records and followed the required Federal and State requirments, filings and guidlines for employees be charged with "Money Laundering?"
Carrie Neighbors asked IRS Agent Robert Jackson to please explain during a proffer session in Aug. 2006 how she could be charged with "money laundering" when there was no hidden money and no tax evasion.
IRS AGENT ROB JACKSONS DEFINTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING:
IRS Agent Rob Jacksons definition of money laundering was that if a second hand business buys merchandise (that might be stolen) from an individual with the business check, then sells that merchandise on ebay, then the buyer pays with paypal and then from paypal the money is deposited into the business owners bank account, then all the money in the bank account becomes dirty money and anything else the business owner buys or makes payments on is purchased with dirty money and that is the "Money laundering" that the Yellow House was being charged with.
It would appear this is more of a conspiracy by the Federal IRS Investigations Department to team up IRS Agents with greedy dirty prosecutors needing favors to go after business owners that own forfeitable property, and assets using outragous "Money Laundering" charges which under Federal Law entitles the Government to Seize the defendants property and assets! This is the ridiculous charge that through the assistance of IRS Agent ROB Jackson U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker used to place a lis pendens forfeiture allegation in anticipation of a money judgement against the defendants Guy and Carrie Neighbors business and residential properties before a conviction. This type of lis pendens has been ruled impermissible in the 10th circuit court and therefore unlawfully interfered with the sale of the defendants residential property!
IRS AGENT ROB JACKSON VIOLATES THE PRIVACY LAWS:
During a conversation between Carrie Neighbors and her attorney Aaron McKee about her inability to pay all his fees, IRS Agent Rob Jackson also casually walked up and unethically disclosed the exact dollar amount of the balance in the Commerce Bank Business account for that day held by Carrie Neighbors to her attorney Aaron McKee, then proceeded to make the statement to Mr. Mckee that Carrie had more than enough money to pay him for his services. This statement was made in total disregard for Carrie Neighbors right to Federally protected privacy afforded by the Federal Government to customers of the banking institution.
IRS AGENT ROB JACKSON SEARCHES DEFENDANTS HOME WITHOUT A WARRANT AND HEADS UP AN ARREST WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE DEFENDANTS CHARGES ARE:
IRS Agent Rob Jackson has continued through out the Yellow House Investigation to conspire and assist the Federal Prosecutors specifically Marietta Parker, and the Lawrence Police officers, aware the charges against the defendants were not substantiated by the numbers, were fabricated and false.
His conduct and lack of ethics has violated the defendants constitutional rights, including an unlawful search of the defendants home he executed without a search warrant, while serving an arrest warrant upon the defendants. Which at the time of the arrest, IRS Agent Rob Jackson was not even aware of what the charges were he was arresting the defendants for! None of the arresting officers could inform the defendants why they were being arrested or what the charges were.
DOES IRS AGENT ROB JACKSON HAVE A PATTERN OF ETHICS VIOLATIONS & CONSPIRACY TIED TO HIS INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST BUSINESS OWNERS?
IRS Agent Rob Jackson has violated other defendant business owners rights during other investigations. A Judge in another case, Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright has ruled IRS Agent Rob Jackson is not credible and has lied on the stand while giving testimony in court. END.
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(Here is part of an interesting article we found that was written about Rob Jackson by his former collegue Charlotte Yee.)
Strange Federal Employees I Knew - Walking the Fine Line between Prisoner and Prison Guard
Posted in January 2nd, 2008 by C. Yee in Absurd,
Accountability, American Rights, Equity & Fairness, Personal Experiences
I’m dedicating this post to a former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) colleague named Robert Jackson. Prior to becoming infamous outside of BLS, Rob (as we all knew him) was infamous within BLS. Rob would later become infamous outside of BLS for his role in a civil case that his new Agency, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would – gasp – lose. As the Dan Margolies of the Kansas City Star quoted one of the plaintiffs, “”This whole thing was very, very scary, this Clint Eastwood character breaking the rules. All the attorneys I’ve talked to about this said they’d never seen abuse like this. They were really shocked.”
Kansas City Star, July 28, 2005
“. . . a federal judge ordered the government to pay more than $250,000 to three taxpayers after finding that an IRS agent [Robert Jackson] had disclosed confidential information to witnesses in a criminal tax investigation.
Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright assessed statutory and punitive damages after finding that special agent Robert Jackson of the IRS’ Criminal Investigative Division in Kansas City “knowingly, willfully and intentionally” made 78 illegal disclosures of taxpayer information.
I doubt that many of the BLS employees with whom Rob worked were shocked. Rob was a loose canon, and when we found out that he was transferring to the IRS and that they were giving him a gun, everyone panicked.
Me, I have two publishable recollections of Rob. My first recollection is from a business trip to Nevada, in which we helped the state install a new database system for their program. Smack in the middle of a phone conversation, Rob suggested to the Iowa programmer that I would be acting out a hard-core calendar spread for him and the two hard-working men surrounding the cubicle.
Feminists, hold your disdain, but I did not consider this to be sexual harassment. While his comment was unwanted, it was neither severe nor pervasive. Rob was a peer who would later be catching a plane back to Kansas City — in my opinion, none too soon. Secondly, he was a peer with no authority over my work or working conditions. Once my two other colleagues and I picked our jaws up off of the ground, we proceeded to ignore Rob. (I will mention here, however, that Rob Jackson did report to the Kansas City Office, which at the time was headed by Robert Gaddie — the man who thinks that women need to be inappropriately touched in order to be sexually harassed.)
My second recollection of Rob involves some poor traveler who made the untimely mistake of asking me about my plans for dinner just as a group of peers exited the elevator into the hotel lobby. Rob announced very loudly in front of us that if I wanted to have a private liaison with “Hamid,” they would go off on their own. Even if this traveler were Middle Eastern, Rob’s comments would be xenophobic and impolite. As you might have guessed, the traveler was not Middle Eastern, but rather, a darker-skinned East Indian.
There is a third recollection of Rob, but I’m not printing it here. Needless to say, Robert Jackson was “this very, very scary . . . character breaking the rules.”
I think at this point, I’ve ascertained that Rob was a bad apple. But, that still did not deter the Department of Justice from appealing the verdict against the IRS. Instead, they took the district court’s decision to the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals, where they managed to get the court to reduce the punitive damages from nearly $176,000 to $19,589. They also managed to get the district court’s award of expert witness fees thrown out.
All of this is despite the appeals court confirmation that “Jackson’s numerous disclosures of return information, including the fact that the Taxpayers were under grand jury investigation, were unauthorized and were not made in good faith.”
Ultimately, falsely accused taxpayers Leonard Snider and Theresa J. Turley won, but they did not win. Rob Jackson spread lies about their character and business in 2001, and on November 8, 2006 while simultaneously confirming wrongdoing by Robert Jackson on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, the court of appeals took away award money that had been granted by the district court. And that money was small in comparison with what it did to the falsely accused. One of the falsely accused taxpayers, Leonard Snider, lost his business. The other, Theresa Turley, not only lost her business, but had tried to commit suicide three times during Rob Jackson’s untruthful investigation of her. And these were entrepreneurs just trying to eke out a living and live the American dream.
(To read the entire article click on the title to get the link I pulled this story from.)
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follow-up:
C. Yee said,in May 29th, 2008 at 9:57 am I was actually excited because I had hoped that Rob Jackson was finally indicted. But, in typical federal government logic, I see he is still working and stealing our our hard-earned taxpayer dollars, while harassing taxpayers, no less.
Have you tried contacting DAN MARGOLIES of the Kansas City Star? You might remind him of several articles he wrote about Mr. Jackson, the first dated 7/28/05 and the second, 11/10/06. That Jackson has already had his credibility ripped in court makes it a public interest story. It is as if what Mr. Turley went through had no impact on the overall functioning of the Treasury. It only goes to make my case that Rob Jackson represents what the IRS wants, soldiers to do its bidding, whatever that may be. I continue to mourn for good, honest hard-working Americans everywhere.
P.S. Continue the fight. I am hoping for the dawn of a new era — an era of integrity.
Carrie Neighbors asked IRS Agent Robert Jackson to please explain during a proffer session in Aug. 2006 how she could be charged with "money laundering" when there was no hidden money and no tax evasion.
IRS AGENT ROB JACKSONS DEFINTION OF MONEY LAUNDERING:
IRS Agent Rob Jacksons definition of money laundering was that if a second hand business buys merchandise (that might be stolen) from an individual with the business check, then sells that merchandise on ebay, then the buyer pays with paypal and then from paypal the money is deposited into the business owners bank account, then all the money in the bank account becomes dirty money and anything else the business owner buys or makes payments on is purchased with dirty money and that is the "Money laundering" that the Yellow House was being charged with.
It would appear this is more of a conspiracy by the Federal IRS Investigations Department to team up IRS Agents with greedy dirty prosecutors needing favors to go after business owners that own forfeitable property, and assets using outragous "Money Laundering" charges which under Federal Law entitles the Government to Seize the defendants property and assets! This is the ridiculous charge that through the assistance of IRS Agent ROB Jackson U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker used to place a lis pendens forfeiture allegation in anticipation of a money judgement against the defendants Guy and Carrie Neighbors business and residential properties before a conviction. This type of lis pendens has been ruled impermissible in the 10th circuit court and therefore unlawfully interfered with the sale of the defendants residential property!
IRS AGENT ROB JACKSON VIOLATES THE PRIVACY LAWS:
During a conversation between Carrie Neighbors and her attorney Aaron McKee about her inability to pay all his fees, IRS Agent Rob Jackson also casually walked up and unethically disclosed the exact dollar amount of the balance in the Commerce Bank Business account for that day held by Carrie Neighbors to her attorney Aaron McKee, then proceeded to make the statement to Mr. Mckee that Carrie had more than enough money to pay him for his services. This statement was made in total disregard for Carrie Neighbors right to Federally protected privacy afforded by the Federal Government to customers of the banking institution.
IRS AGENT ROB JACKSON SEARCHES DEFENDANTS HOME WITHOUT A WARRANT AND HEADS UP AN ARREST WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE DEFENDANTS CHARGES ARE:
IRS Agent Rob Jackson has continued through out the Yellow House Investigation to conspire and assist the Federal Prosecutors specifically Marietta Parker, and the Lawrence Police officers, aware the charges against the defendants were not substantiated by the numbers, were fabricated and false.
His conduct and lack of ethics has violated the defendants constitutional rights, including an unlawful search of the defendants home he executed without a search warrant, while serving an arrest warrant upon the defendants. Which at the time of the arrest, IRS Agent Rob Jackson was not even aware of what the charges were he was arresting the defendants for! None of the arresting officers could inform the defendants why they were being arrested or what the charges were.
DOES IRS AGENT ROB JACKSON HAVE A PATTERN OF ETHICS VIOLATIONS & CONSPIRACY TIED TO HIS INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST BUSINESS OWNERS?
IRS Agent Rob Jackson has violated other defendant business owners rights during other investigations. A Judge in another case, Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright has ruled IRS Agent Rob Jackson is not credible and has lied on the stand while giving testimony in court. END.
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(Here is part of an interesting article we found that was written about Rob Jackson by his former collegue Charlotte Yee.)
Strange Federal Employees I Knew - Walking the Fine Line between Prisoner and Prison Guard
Posted in January 2nd, 2008 by C. Yee in Absurd,
Accountability, American Rights, Equity & Fairness, Personal Experiences
I’m dedicating this post to a former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) colleague named Robert Jackson. Prior to becoming infamous outside of BLS, Rob (as we all knew him) was infamous within BLS. Rob would later become infamous outside of BLS for his role in a civil case that his new Agency, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would – gasp – lose. As the Dan Margolies of the Kansas City Star quoted one of the plaintiffs, “”This whole thing was very, very scary, this Clint Eastwood character breaking the rules. All the attorneys I’ve talked to about this said they’d never seen abuse like this. They were really shocked.”
Kansas City Star, July 28, 2005
“. . . a federal judge ordered the government to pay more than $250,000 to three taxpayers after finding that an IRS agent [Robert Jackson] had disclosed confidential information to witnesses in a criminal tax investigation.
Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright assessed statutory and punitive damages after finding that special agent Robert Jackson of the IRS’ Criminal Investigative Division in Kansas City “knowingly, willfully and intentionally” made 78 illegal disclosures of taxpayer information.
I doubt that many of the BLS employees with whom Rob worked were shocked. Rob was a loose canon, and when we found out that he was transferring to the IRS and that they were giving him a gun, everyone panicked.
Me, I have two publishable recollections of Rob. My first recollection is from a business trip to Nevada, in which we helped the state install a new database system for their program. Smack in the middle of a phone conversation, Rob suggested to the Iowa programmer that I would be acting out a hard-core calendar spread for him and the two hard-working men surrounding the cubicle.
Feminists, hold your disdain, but I did not consider this to be sexual harassment. While his comment was unwanted, it was neither severe nor pervasive. Rob was a peer who would later be catching a plane back to Kansas City — in my opinion, none too soon. Secondly, he was a peer with no authority over my work or working conditions. Once my two other colleagues and I picked our jaws up off of the ground, we proceeded to ignore Rob. (I will mention here, however, that Rob Jackson did report to the Kansas City Office, which at the time was headed by Robert Gaddie — the man who thinks that women need to be inappropriately touched in order to be sexually harassed.)
My second recollection of Rob involves some poor traveler who made the untimely mistake of asking me about my plans for dinner just as a group of peers exited the elevator into the hotel lobby. Rob announced very loudly in front of us that if I wanted to have a private liaison with “Hamid,” they would go off on their own. Even if this traveler were Middle Eastern, Rob’s comments would be xenophobic and impolite. As you might have guessed, the traveler was not Middle Eastern, but rather, a darker-skinned East Indian.
There is a third recollection of Rob, but I’m not printing it here. Needless to say, Robert Jackson was “this very, very scary . . . character breaking the rules.”
I think at this point, I’ve ascertained that Rob was a bad apple. But, that still did not deter the Department of Justice from appealing the verdict against the IRS. Instead, they took the district court’s decision to the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals, where they managed to get the court to reduce the punitive damages from nearly $176,000 to $19,589. They also managed to get the district court’s award of expert witness fees thrown out.
All of this is despite the appeals court confirmation that “Jackson’s numerous disclosures of return information, including the fact that the Taxpayers were under grand jury investigation, were unauthorized and were not made in good faith.”
Ultimately, falsely accused taxpayers Leonard Snider and Theresa J. Turley won, but they did not win. Rob Jackson spread lies about their character and business in 2001, and on November 8, 2006 while simultaneously confirming wrongdoing by Robert Jackson on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, the court of appeals took away award money that had been granted by the district court. And that money was small in comparison with what it did to the falsely accused. One of the falsely accused taxpayers, Leonard Snider, lost his business. The other, Theresa Turley, not only lost her business, but had tried to commit suicide three times during Rob Jackson’s untruthful investigation of her. And these were entrepreneurs just trying to eke out a living and live the American dream.
(To read the entire article click on the title to get the link I pulled this story from.)
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follow-up:
C. Yee said,in May 29th, 2008 at 9:57 am I was actually excited because I had hoped that Rob Jackson was finally indicted. But, in typical federal government logic, I see he is still working and stealing our our hard-earned taxpayer dollars, while harassing taxpayers, no less.
Have you tried contacting DAN MARGOLIES of the Kansas City Star? You might remind him of several articles he wrote about Mr. Jackson, the first dated 7/28/05 and the second, 11/10/06. That Jackson has already had his credibility ripped in court makes it a public interest story. It is as if what Mr. Turley went through had no impact on the overall functioning of the Treasury. It only goes to make my case that Rob Jackson represents what the IRS wants, soldiers to do its bidding, whatever that may be. I continue to mourn for good, honest hard-working Americans everywhere.
P.S. Continue the fight. I am hoping for the dawn of a new era — an era of integrity.
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