UPDATE: After we exposed Herald Editor for fraud i.e. allowing Mark Roe, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe to write articles that Scott North affixed his name to, North was FIRED from Daily Herald. As promise for helping Snohomish County defame people inside the Herald, Scott North was given a County job in exchange for assistance in helping publish articles defaming people.
In July 2009, Scott North, from the Snohomish County Herald admits he personally approved this false story about Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill resigning citing harassment. Why was simply stated by another Snohomish County insider who said “Scott North is lazy and has been wined and dined by Snohomish County Prosecutors Jason Cummings, Mark Roe, and North has his head up Adam Cornell ass so far, I’m surprised he can breathe. It’s common knowledge that Crystal Hill was being passed around like a door mat…” a Snohomish County insider who we have dub ” Fed up” told the Gold Bar Reporter earlier this week.
For those of us who live and work inside Snohomish County, it’s pretty clear that the Herald is a failing newspaper since Scott North took it over. If Donald Trump had one issue right, he is correct that America no longer has news reporters. Fake news.
Scott North’s actions below illustrate quite nicely North’s interest is not truth in reporting, it’s rubbing shoulders with political officials so he does have to work for a living. Fake news President Trump complains about.
Imagine a convicted criminal named Crystal Hill, citing for harassment, convicted of bank fraud, and had a warrant issued for her arrest, is citing harassment because our investigation of her yields the below truths about her criminal acts.
What does the Herald report, poor little convicted damsel in distress, had to resign because we caught Crystal Hill misappropriating Gold Bar monies.
As the Honorable US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia said in Referendum 71 Question: If you don’t like the heat in the kitchen, don’t get involved in politics.
As falsely reported by the Herald, here in Snohomish County, in July 2009
Gold Bar Mayor resigns citing harassment
Gold BAR — Mayor Crystal Hill resigned this week, citing relentless harassment from someone who claims to live in the small mountain town.
Hill, 30, says the person using an alias has been bombarding her, her family and her Seattle employer with e-mails making claims about her personal life.
She said the person has accused her of drug use, supplying drugs to city staff and having an affair with a fired city employee.
Those allegations are false, Hill said, adding that she feels she has little recourse to fight them as a public official in the town of 2,400 people.
She also said she’s been followed and watched in her home and fears for her children, ages 11 and 6.
She also said she’s been followed and watched in her home and fears for her children, ages 11 and 6.
“It got to the point we don’t know if we are going to get a brick through the window,” said Hill, who turned in a resignation letter on Monday, five months before her term was to expire.
Hill said she believes the person who is sending the e-mails under the alias Michael Broaks is connected with a blog critical of the city. The woman who runs the blog fled a lawsuit against the city for withholding public information and has made 47 public records requests since July 2008.
The blogger said she has never e-mailed or followed Hill or her family. She’s fighting corruption as a public watchdog, she said.
The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office investigated Hill’s complaints, said Kevin Prentiss, a sheriff’s office spokesman. The case was closed because of insufficient information, he said.
Kelly Broyles, the Gold Bar planning commission chairman, said Hill has been an effective mayor in the midst of difficult circumstances.
“I don’t always agree with her decisions but I believe she has made decisions based on what she thinks is best for the city,” he said. Hill said she believes the blogger’s multiple public records requests are an abuse of the public records law and a form of harassment.
So far, the lawsuit, alleging the city had withheld documents during a public records request, has cost the city about $55,000 in attorney fees, according to the city.
“This has not been about documents,” Hill said. “This is a means to harass me and the city.”
Hill plans to finish her bachelor’s degree and attend law school. She’s working part-time now as a paralegal in Seattle.
When Hill took over as mayor in 2006, she inherited a cash-strapped city. Since then, she said, she’s left the city books in better shape. She said she put in 60-hour weeks as mayor. The job pays $300 a month.
“I think I’ve done a good job,” she said. “I’ve worked really, really hard. I just have to be a mom and my family needs to come first.”
Councilman Joe Beavers, as mayor pro-tem, is expected to fill in as mayor for the rest of Hill’s term. The council expects to select a mayor pro-tem from the remainder of the City Council on Tuesday night. Then, the council has 60 days to appoint someone to fill the open city council seat until January.
Truth and reporting, New York Times v Sullivan
From July 2016 to April 23, 2013, John Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) made countless attempts to have the Gold Bar Reporter restrained from reporting on their criminal racketeering conduct ( some of which is outlines herein). On April 23, 2017, Pierce County District Court held that the Gold Bar Reporter was in fact a news reporter protected under the First Amendment.
In other words, the Penningtons, now 4th attempt to obtain a ” prior restraint” against the Free Press ( Gold Bar Reporter) was DENIED for the 4th time on April 23, 2017 in Pierce County District Court. John Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington are beng sued for RICO now pending in the 9th Circuit.
In July 2009, Scott North knew at the time was that Ms. Hill Pennington ( Crystal Berg) had quite the little extensive criminal history, which included allegations of “harassment” many years before she became Mayor.
What we learned last year was that Crystal Hill Pennington filled out an online application to be a contractor for FEMA, teaching Emergency Management Classes.
So imagine, US taxpayer monies are being used to fund a convicted criminal, who plead guilty to bank fraud ( 2000,2005) ,and should have been charged with child abuse.
A complaint has been filed with the Office of Inspector General citing “fraud” against Crystal Hill Pennington, because according to US Office of Procurement, persons guilty of fraud are NOT eligible for any federal contracts.
In November 2008, Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill did violently and criminally assault a child in her care. Gold Bar’s Chief received a criminal complaint against Crystal Hill for abusing a six year child in her care. Because Gold Bar’s police Chief was involved in an extra-marital affair with Crystal Hill, he asked for the case to be referred to another Snohomish County Sheriff Officer, Jeff Ross.
Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officer Jeff Ross received extensive physician reports documenting that while Ms. Hill was babysitting the six year old girl, Crystal Hill did violently and intentionally assault a six year old child in her care.
In 2009, the Gold Bar Reporters heard a little chatter about Crystal Hill’s extensive history of abusing children from a former lover of Ms. Hill’s named Fleshman Cooper.
According to Cooper’s ex-wife, ” Crystal consistently abused our children while they were in the care of Fleshman, and Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office knew it. After complaints for abuse were filed with Snohomish County, Fleshman was left with either loosing joint custody or disposing of Crystal. Thankfully, he chose his children.”
In 2008, then Mayor Crystal Hill covered up Karl Majerle’s sabotaging of the City’s water system here in Gold Bar. Why is simple, Karl Majerle was extorting Mayor Hill with exposing her past criminal history. . A criminal history that involves bank fraud in two states, Washington and North Carolina, 2000, and 2005, respectively. In North Carolina, Ms. Hill spent time jail after failing to adhere to her criminal diversion program. According to North Carolina, Crystal Hill still owes the state $109. 00 for court fines relating to the same.
Gold Bar’s current public records officer Bonnie Jones stated ” I’m not turning over Crystal Hill’s nude photos between her and Karl Majerle.”
For almost ten years, Crystal Hill Pennigton ( nee Berg) has spent the last ten years criminally stalking me on a foe online newspaper set up by Aaron Reardon, a Seattle Times reporter named Christopher Schwarzen, and John E. Pennington titled the ” Sky Valley Chronicle.”
According to Gold Bar City Clerk Denise Beaston, Gold Bar’s new Mayor Joe Beavers was allowed to log in and post any article he so desired. When asked under oath in December of 2016 whether or not he was a “blogger’ on the Sky Valley Chronicle, Joe Beavers had to admit he was cyber-stalking the Gold Bar Reporter.
Why can be best described as racketeering, covering up and quashing criminal charges by Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, Seth Fine, Miguel Tempski, Adam Cornell, and Sara Di Vittorio as political favors.
According to an insider who gave an interview last week after we caught Snohomish County Prosecutor Caroline Darrow and Amy Nay withholding public records involving the County ‘s prosecutor’s little RICO scam, Snohomish County Prosecutors are withholding public records only when Washlite Board members Lori Shavlik, Arthur West and I request access to public records. The whistleblower gave an interview saying ” I sick of it….”
The whistleblower clearly gave us what we needed to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that Snohomish County Prosecutors are tampering with public records only when Shavlik, West or the Gold bar Reporter requests records.
Last week, a whistleblower gave us access to public records Snohomish County illegally withheld involving Snohomish County’s Director of Emergency Management Director John E Pennington’s ACCESS criminal history searches and copies of Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill’s criminal ACCESS files. All public records that Sara Di Vittorio and the Snohomish County Prosecutors and Sheriff’s Office withheld from the Gold Bar Reporter for over nine years. Our lawyer tells us that there are no statute of limitations on silent withholding, thus a new lawsuit is being pursued.
In January 2016, newly elected Executive Dave Somers terminated John E. Pennington after public records released document John Pennington did nothing except criminal harass Gold Bar Reporter, right from Snohomish County offices and with use of county taxpayer resources.
It was a perfect storm for the poor little town of Gold Bar, as there is little that the City can get over on the Gold Bar Reporter, a person with a Juris Doctorate degree, education in this case has proven vital to exposing Crystal Hill’s crimes against Gold Bar.
But Ms. Hill didn’t cover up her criminal history by herself. Ms. Hill had the assistance of Sean Reay, a Snohomish County Prosecutor who is married to the head of Evergreen District Court Laura Twindale. When the below criminal prosecution file was sent to Ms. Twinsdale, she looked the other way as a political favor to then Executive Aaron Reardon. Of course at the bequest of her husband and Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay ( police reports show this case was sent to Reay first).
In December 2008, Crystal Hill moved in with married Snohomish County Director of Emergency Management John E. Pennington. Instead of resigning as Gold Bar’s Mayor, Ms. Hill forged public disclosures filings, and refused to resign her seat until July 2009. All Mayors must be living inside the City.
Former director John E. Pennington’s criminal history, a man who just cant seem to keep his hands to himself.
Gold Bar’s then Mayor wanna be Joe Beavers assisted Crystal Hill with not reporting the sabotaging of the City’s water system – a federal crime- covering up Ms. Hill’s criminal history. Karl Majerle was extorting Crystal Hill with releasing to the public what he knew about her criminal history, and he was also engaged in an extra marital affair with Hill, according to a neighbor.
Why is best described by former council member Jay Prueher ” Joe wanted to be Mayor so bad, he made a deal with Crystal. Crystal was stealing from the City…”
In late 2013, the Washington State Auditor’s office issued findings against the City of Gold Bar stating inside its audit report ” there’s $200,000.00 missing from the City and not one employee can state where it went.”
Over the last ten years, Snohomish County Prosecutors Office, Sean Reay, Miquol Tempski, Sara Di Vittorio, Adam Cornell, Mark Roe, and employees Amy Nay,, Dayna Tapendorf, and Tina Murphy have been trying get the Gold Bar Reporter charged with harassment for investigating and reporting on their racketeering conduct ( fraud, honest services violations, criminal harassment, extorting Bar licenses, and countless perjury statements filed in Pierce, King and Snohomish counties), and now with the latest release of former Mayor Crystal Hill’s criminal history, we are now a little closer to helping Gold Bar survive before they bankrupt the little City of Gold Bar with their racketeering crimes committed against the Gold Bar Reporter for reporting the truth .
Below is part of the extensive racketeering crimes John E Pennington, Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) and countless lawyers, including Mike Kenyon, Ann Marie Soto, Linda Eide, Lin O’Dell, Doug Ende, Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madsen, Seth Fine, Sean Reay, Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler, Margaret King, and Miquol Tempski.
Pierce College, Tacoma, instructor, caught forging court record
John E. Pennington, terminated from FEMA and Snohomish County for conduct unbecoming of a public officer, now caught forging documents with Pierce County District Court
John E. Pennington, an instructor with Pierce College, caught forging a court record last week in Tacoma, Washington.
It all started when the Gold Bar Reporter did what we’re supposed to do as a journalist, contacted him for comment about an upcoming article involving his false academic credentials. Credentials John Pennington placed into public records at Pierce College, fraudulently obtaining a teaching position, a crime in Washington State.
RCW 9A.60.070
False academic credentials—Unlawful issuance or use—Definitions—Penalties.
According to Pierce College, Tacoma, John E. Pennington did fraudulently use false Academic credentials to obtain a position at the College by falsely submitting that he has accredited college degrees.
John E. Pennington did knowingly falsify his academic credentials to Pierce College to obtain a employment, and is guilty of this crime as well.
In 2005, the Seattle Times published a story about John Pennington’s academic school of choice correctly stating the IRS held that California Coastal College ( John E. Pennington’s online school of choice) sold degrees at a flat rate.”
See http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/local-fema-chief-had-little-disaster-experience/
False fraudulent academic diplomas managed to slip by former Executive Aaron Reardon ( who the Gold Bar Reporter proudly got rid of as the criminal harasser he is as evidenced by the Snohomish County Herald’s Feb 13, 2013 article http://201-dhwebvarnish.newscyclecloud.com/article/20130214/NEWS01/702149999 ) inside Snohomish County’s Emergency Management too.
This contributed to the deaths (Black’s law dictionary, negligent homicide equates to killing) of 43 people in the Oso mudslides disaster. Had Snohomish County had an educated person at the helm of Emergency Management, 43 people would more than likely be alive today.
King County’s Major Crimes Unit public records document that Aaron Reardon’s executive officers had so much time on their hands to post defamatory articles on a website the trio set up titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle” – a website to control the political message in the Sky Valley ( Monroe to Index).
John E. Pennington’s wife Crystal Hill Pennington was anonymously cyber-stalking anyone who dared question Aaron Reardon’s gang of thieves. Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers admitted under oath a deposition two weeks ago that he too was cyber-stalking people on the Sky Valley Chronicle.
Crystal Hill Pennington’s deposition is scheduled for December 6, 2016, and an update will follow.
Now this, Pierce College Trustees hired a man with fake credentials who killed 43 people, beats on women and abuses our kids? What the hell is going on inside Washington State that a man who has harmed so many people is allowed to fraud our future leaders?
Our kids deserve much more, as such, the Gold Bar Reporter filed a complaint against Pierce College, Tacoma, with the U.S. Department of Education as this is fraud.
In 2013, John E. Pennington, a resident of Duvall, Washington, applied for a position on the Duvall Washington Library Board. Pennington’s application was rejected, the basis according to the Board Chair ” he had no respect for the First Amendment.”
So its no surprise that once we started investigating John E. Pennington false credentials by requesting access to public records at Pierce College ( RCW 42.56), John E. Pennington committed more fraud, but this time on Pierce College’s dime.
On October 24, 2016, a forged Snohomish County Process of Service paper was filed by Penningtons whiting it out ( forgery) knowingly falsely filing an instrument with a public office.
On October 27, 2016, John E. Pennington appeared in front of Pierce County District Court ( where he nor his wife resides), sworn in captured on video camera, falsely certifying under oath that he served the Gold Bar Reporter with his petition for restraining order ( prior restraint on free speech prohibited in the U.S.), attempting to SLAPP down the Gold Bar Reporter’s message.
A First Amendment lawyer stated ” Prior Restraints on free speech in America are considered a violation of my civil rights.”
According to the Snohomish County Sherriff’s Office, John E. Pennington forged the original document, and the unforged document delivered to John Pennington is this one:
After John E.Pennington forged the document:
SLAPP suits carry a $10, 0000.00per offense penalty. An issue we suspect John E. Pennington could care less about as public records document that he cant pay his mortgage, so what’s a judgment for $50K?
Congrads to Pierce College, Tacoma, Washington, not only did the Board of Trustees hire a child/wife abuser, they also hired a man now guilty of perjury and forgery.
The Gold Bar Reporter filed a new complaint in King County seeking damages, and a Writ and Injunction ordering Pierce County off this case as not one person John Pennington fraudulently obtained a restraining order against lives in Pierce County.
The Gold Bar Reporter is seeking an additional $50,000.00 from the marital community of the Crystal Hill and John E. Pennington’s for severe emotional distress.
Late yesterday, we learned that Pierce County District ” vacated” the restraining order and there is a criminal felony investigation under way against John E. Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington (convicted of bank fraud,2005, 2000) and the case will be transferred to King County ( where according to the documents below, John E. Pennington has had countless criminal harassment complaints against him in King County).
John E. Pennington is the same political appointee who the Seattle Times quoted as saying Washington State’s largest slide area was “Considered very safe.”
As the Seattle Times reporter Mike Cater ( also the reporter who reported on Pennington fake academic credentials) wrote “It was considered very safe,” Pennington said. “This was a completely unforeseen slide. This came out of nowhere.”
John Pennington’s statements about the Oso mudslides were in complete contrast Daniel Miller, a geomorphologist, who wrote about Oso landslide conditions in his 1997 report for the Washington Department of Ecology and the Tulalip Tribes. Miller used reports and memos from the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s, to support his 1997 report that the Oso area was unstable and should be evacuated.
Miller also stated that he was stunned and troubled to return to the area in 2006, to see new homes being built instead of seeing homes being vacated.
Miller said “Frankly, I was shocked that the county permitted any building across from the river. . . It’s not unknown that this hazard exists.”
Miller contracted with the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Forest Service in 1997.
Immediately following the Oso mudslide disaster, the Gold Bar Reporter contacted Miller asking him ” if John E. Pennington’s email showed that he ( Pennington) approved building on the Oso mudslide area, do you think he should be charged with negligent homicide? He said ” if you have that kind of email, then Jay Inslee should order an outside agency to investigate John Pennington’s background.” We said ” we already did… and Snohomish County was aware that John Pennington had falsified his academic credentials and had countless abuse charges filed against him for criminal harassment and beating women. ” Miller’s voice crackled, and he sounded scared or tearful and hung up.
Obviously, Pierce College ( Tacoma) is a public agency subject to RCW 42.56, the Public Records Act. Too bad, John Pennington’s conduct is subject to public scrutiny.
Perhaps Pennington’s next job will actually require working, preferably in private industry, so several investigative reporters and I can sleep at night. Our children are worthy of our efforts to protect their future to be educated by people who have real college degrees.
Once the Department of Education issues its findings in this matter, it will be posted. Fraud like this harms all of us, and dummies down the U.S. educational system and will not go unchecked by the Gold Bar Reporter.
For those of my readers who haven’t read my last articles on John Pennington’s criminal history, please see below. The Gold Bar Reporter has NEVER been sued but welcome a suit.
John Pennington, terminated for Snohomish County
From FEMA to Snohomish County Washington and now to Pierce College ( Tacoma Washington diploma mill), dark secrets unearthed. Gold Bar Reporters were the first to report on John E. Pennington’s criminal conduct, a small portion of our report is outlined below
MEET JOHN ‘ THEODORE TED BUNDY” PENNINGTON
John Pennington was a troubled youth who, according to one source “had a major drug problem by the age of 16.” So it’s no surprise that in the late 1980’s, after being kicked out of Vanderbilt College in Tennessee after raping a female college student, John Pennington moved to a small suburban city just outside of San Diego California.
While in the San Diego area, John Pennington meets his new victim, who believe he legally married, so are calling her ex-wife # 1, Carla M.
Two years later, John Pennington fled from Southern California, again heading home to Nashville, only after two small boys made allegations of sexual abuse against him while on a church camping trip.
While in Tennessee, John Pennington made an unsuccessful run for an open State Rep. seat. After a landslide loss for Pennington, he again headed west. This time to Oregon where Pennington meets his next victim.
Mr. Pennington plead guilty to criminal assault 1 and harassment ( His ex filed suit for damages Washington County Case # D911027SC) after he hospitalized his fiancé in Oregon and stole items from the community.
As a result, John Pennington fled from Oregon to Vancouver Washington. While in Vancouver Washington, John Pennington meets his next victim. Sadly, they soon married.
While working in a coffee delivery business, John Pennington stole coffee grinding equipment from his previous employer and used this equipment to start-up a coffee shop in Kelso. Purpose was to make it look like he was an entrepreneur ( but he is really a sociopath) as to grab an uncontested Republican seat in Cowlitz County.
It worked, the uneducated college dropout John Pennington managed to get elected to an uncontested WA House of Representatives seat. Unfortunately for residents in New Orleans and Oso Washington, he met a powerful Washington State Republican leader, Jennifer Dunn.
In 1992, a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and then tossed along a Cowlitz County road like a piece of trash. We sent our private investigators to Cowlitz County to talk with the lead Detective who confirmed the following facts:
John Pennington became one of two prime suspects for the following reasons:
(1) Pennington operated a coffee delivery route within six blocks of where the child was dumped after being raped; (2) he drove the same car; (3) he was in the area at the time of the child rape and could not explain his whereabouts; (4) his picture from 1992 is a complete match to the child and witness sketch drawing of the pedophile; (5) he relentlessly convinced his ex-wife to call the police attempting to divert attention away from himself and onto another man; and ( 6) He has continuous and countless charges of child and spousal abuse, a man who cannot keep his hands to himself.
Below is the press release as it relates to John E. Pennington’s rape of a 5 year old girl from Cowlitz County Washington
Unfortunately for the 5 year child, John Pennington meets a Kelso Washington city attorney named Michael Kenyon.
According to John Pennington’s divorce files he is also an abuser of prescription pills, and was detained at the US Mexico for having narcotics ( non-prescription pain pills) on his person while coming back into the US. Pennington has never denied this allegation.
In 1995, John Pennington was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to over throwing the United States government. ” John sat around for years obsessed about getting even with the Longview Washington news reporter for reporting that John was a member of the State militia.”
From 1992 to 2005, John Pennington’s violence grew with his ex-wife. # 2, Valerie. From pushing her down a flight of stairs as well as constant physical harassment, John Pennington never learned to keep his hands to himself.
But the case that raised our eyebrows is Mr. Pennington’s abuse on his ex-wife # 2 ( who is really ex-wife # 3) Anne Laughlin. Ms. Laughlin was a City of Duvall city council member at the time of Pennington’s assault of Anne. Anne was three weeks away from giving birth to her daughter when Pennington violently assaulted, kicked and punched Anne in the stomach and uterus. A real salt of the earth kind of man.
Since Ms. Laughlin was a Duvall city council member at the time, the City of Duvall sought a Special Prosecutor. The prosecutor assigned to prosecute wife beater John Pennington came from the law firm where Pennington’s buddy Michael Kenyon was employed.
In 2009 when Pennington assaulted Laughlin, this was his third domestic violence charge. This should have amounted to jail time for Pennington.
A close review of John Pennington’s Snohomish County travel records warrant a closer look into missing children in Washington, Alaska, Maryland. Public monies allowed us to review his credit card receipts, telephone records, etc. information that another blogger turned over to authorities.
Any grown man that takes a shower with a six year old little girl is a pedophile.
In 2011, Kenyon Disend’s junior attorney, Ann Marie Soto, received an email from John Pennington via Snohomish County computers demanding that Kenyon Disend redact police reports involving John Pennington criminal harassment and assault that we requested under RCW 42.56. There’s only one problem, at the time Pennington was communicating with Kenyon Disend’s attorney, he was not a City of Duvall employee thus no attorney client relationship existed.
We sought the advice of an expert in records issues who is of the opinion that Kenyon Disend’s redaction of police reports was not permissible under the Public Records Act.
Then a source close to ex # 2 ( or # 3 depending on what public records you believe as it relates to Pennington’s aliases) provided us with thousands of records relating to John Pennington, and those records included Pennington’s email communication with Duvall’s Mayor about how to get Pennington’s soon to be ex-wife Anne Laughlin off the City Council.
In 2009, Pennington then used Aaron Reardon’s connection to the Seattle Times reporter ( who then became Reardon’s aide) to post a story about Anne Laughlin, pretty much the same way he did to Gold Bar Reporters in February 2012. Former Seattle Times reporter Emily Heffner was contacted for comment but all she would say is ” you need to move because they are coming after you.” She never did state who “they” were, but as we stated to Ms. Heffner before, “We have only one live to give and it shall be for the betterment of our society as a whole.”
As of today, Attorney Michael Kenyon and Ann Marie Soto have bilked the taxpayers of Gold Bar over $1,350,000.00 hidng former Mayor Crystal Hill’s public records ( emails) documenting that she was practicing law without a license, and had lied on her F 1 form stating that she had never pled guilty to fraud when in fact she had plead guilty twice, one in 2000 in North Carolina and a second time in Snohomish County Washington; and John Pennington making racist comments about President Obama and running illegal ACCESS background checks in violation of RCW 10.97.
Both Penningtons are being sued for gross 1983 and RICO charges with depositions expected to start early next year.
The bigger question that Michael Kenyon refused to answer was what he gained for quashing John Pennington’s criminal charges for beating up his pregnant wife Anne, hiding John Pennington’s racist comments and his illegal background checks.
According to former Mayor Joe Beavers, John Pennington and Aaron Reardon “fixed” cases in Snohomish County Superior Court.
As a result of our six-year investigation, we are confident to report that attorney Michael Kenyon assisted John Pennington is committing felonies. Attorney Michael Kenyon and John Pennington will be sharing a prison cell together and we intend to make that happen even it takes me another 30 years, and I will continue to request access to public records and file suits against any agency that renders assistance to a pedophile and wife beater.
Our request for access to public records regarding this issue has already started. The public, especially Pierce College students, have a legal right to know why Pierce College Board of Trustees would hire a child rapist and wife beater.
What John Pennington was trying to hide for so many years, his prior conviction for criminal harassment ( assault of an ex-fiancé in Oregon) as noted in the following public records as “ prior conviction”
In 2000, John Pennington was George Bush Jr’s campaign manager here in Washington State. Soon after George Bush Jr. was elected ( or stole the election with his brother’s assistance depending what you believe), George Jr. appointed John E Pennington and Michael Browne to positions inside FEMA. Sadly for America, not one FEMA Director was qualified for such positions.
As a result of Michael Browne and John Pennington’s inability to read, write and think effectively caused thousands of minority deaths in Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina was an eye opener for those of us who actually earned accredited degrees and whose parents taught us to think critically. George W Bush Jr.’s decision to appoint friends instead of educated and skilled people resulted in massive human loss of life In New Orleans.
Had this story ended in New Orleans, we wouldn’t be exposing John E.Pennington today. But it didn’t, why is simple, because Washington State Senator Jennifer Dunn decided to use her political clout to appoint an uneducated bum to FEMA Region 10 ( Pacific Northwest).
What is even crazier is that George W Bush made an executive appointment without ever running a single background check on John Pennington prior to appointing him.
All that changed when America started calling for Michael Brownie’s head for causing so many deaths in New Orleans. Perhaps Michael Browne might have survived press scrutiny had he not put in his email that was heading to Nordstroms to purchase new clothes for the cameras, while at the same time thousands of African Americans were floating down the street or in lock down inside an unsafe convention center.
African Americans were drowning in the streets of New Orleans, because FEMA Directors lacked basic college skills to handle such a disaster. In the case of Michael Browne, an unaccredited undergraduate degree as well as unaccredited law school diploma. In the case of John Pennington, an online diploma mill degree from an online school the U.S. Dept of Education said sold online diplomas at a flat rate, California Coastal College.
Hurricane Katrina, good bye Brownie, Hello Penny
After Michael Browne and Bernard Kerik made a laughing stock out of the George W and America, George Jr was quoted as saying ‘ Penny will make a great director of FEMA.”This was November 2005. But this time, the feds actually ran an extensive background on John Pennington, and discovered what we learned through years of sifting through public records. John Pennington is a dangerous sociopath with real anger management issues; anger he often takes out on women and children.
I never really thought much of George W Bush Jr. other than he’s a spolied little rich kid who never worked for a living. For the same reason, I couldn’t vote for Al Gore in 2000. Thus, I became one of Ralph Nader’s Raiders in 2000.
Fact is that I probably ran into John Pennington at the Republican National Convention that year in Philadelphia. I, and 1,000,000. Americans blocked the entrance to the Republican National Convention Center preventing many of George Jr’s delegates from accessing the convention center that year.
I was a proud member of Massachusettes ACT UP from UMASS, and had traveled all over the U.S. protesting what I believed to be unequal treatment of economically disadvantaged Americans in favor of corporations. I’m a strong believer that America should place “ people over profits.”
Strangely, I always had respect for George Bush Sr. Why is simple: George Sr is a well educated savey free thinker who listens to his opponents. Unlike his son, George Jr. , who was given a little too much growing up without working for it. Hard work goes along way in molding one’s self esteem.
In 2005, Michael Browne was blamed for the deaths of thousands, because he was appointed to a position that he wasn’t qualified for. So when George Jr. had to make a new appointment to FEMA Director, he looked to a devil wrapping himself with pages of the Bible, while at the same time molesting children and violently assaulting a pregnant woman in her third trimester, John E. Pennington.
For those reporting the news in Washington D.C just after George Bush Jr’s FEMA Directors caused so much misery to so many residents and their survivors in New Orleans, Bush Jr. was quoted as saying ” Penny would make a great Director.”
Because the feds didn’t want George Jr. to go through yet another scathing news story like he did when he chose Kerik to head Homeland Security (who ended up being prime suspect in a murder case and had direct ties to organized crime) and Michael Browne and his fake degrees with extensive skills in horse breeding debacles, any appointment would go through extensive background checks prior to Congressional Hearings.
As a result of the feds extensive background check on John Pennington, he was forced to resign from FEMA or be exposed in a very public way. John Pennington lied about his termination from FEMA stating that he and Tamara Doherty were caught misusing the FEMA credit cards.
This was simply a smoke screen to cover up what we just learned from a federal source over Labor Day Weekend.
John Pennington was terminated from FEMA because the feds learned what we reported on over the last seven years; pedophilia deviant uneducated child abuser who has sick fetish for kids, John Pennington. A sociopath who reminds me of Ted Bundy.
Unfortunately for Oso Washington residents, George W Bush Jr.’s administration thought it was ok to set him loose on Snohomish County residents just so George Jr didn’t have to suffer public press embarassment again.
On March 24, 2014, John Pennington caused 43 residents in Oso Washington to suffocate to death in Washington State’s most preventable loss of life natural disaster. Instead of mitigating loss to human life, John Pennington worked on his fraudulent online diploma, operated his personal business on the County’s dime and while using county resources and staff, violently assaulted children and women, and criminally harassed me right from Snohomish County Offices operating an online blog ” The Sky Valley Chronicle. “ An online blog owned by Aaron Reardon but operated by Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill ( nee Berg who plead guilty to bank fraud in 2005), John Pennington, and Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers.
I believe John Pennington should be charged with negligent homicide for the 43 people he killed in the Oso mudslides.
Since John E. Pennington killed 43 Oso residents in the mudslides, we have searched his travel records and beleive he is responsible for missing children in four different states, and have ample evidence to state John Pennington is the man responsbile for the rape of that five year old child from Colwitz County Washington.
Sadly, John Pennington remains on the loose up here in Snohomis County. So long as John Pennington remains on the loose, I will continue to investigate and report on his criminal sexual deviant conduct.
Protecting Our children from a sociopath like John Pennington is worth every sacrifice we’ve made as a result of shinning much needed sunshine on cockroaches who harm molest and abuse our kids.
Our Children’s mental well being has no price tag. I agree with Hillary Clinton “ it takes a village to raise children.”
John Pennington’s trial in the Oso mudslide debacle will be live streamed by the Gold Bar Reporters starting during the fall of 2016.
As for Pierce College hiring a pedophile and wife beater, one can only say that each and everyone of the persons involved in hiring a known pedophile will now be investigated as a result. Stay tuned, because the way I see it, the only ones who protect pedophiles and wife beaters are ones’ themselves.
Perhaps Pierce College needed to hire someone to teach “ How to get away with molesting and raping our kids, fraud, murder, setting up fake online newspapers to criminally harass citizens, not pay Department of Revenue taxes, failing to pay property taxes, raping college students, and beating one’s spouse” also known as Emergency Management 101 at Pierce College it appears.
Or perhaps it was John Pennington from an online fraudulent program Senator Tom Harkin called fraudulent on PBS’s “ Education, Inc.” or California Coastal School that the IRS said sold online diplomas at a flat rate http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/local-fema-chief-had-little-disaster-experience/
BEWARE students especially female students as John E. Pennington was kicked out real colleges for raping a student.
In September 2015, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe confirmed that John Pennington is the man responsible for the rape of a five year old girl in Cowlitz County., Washington. An insider who we have labeled as ” fed up” told the Gold Bar Reporter that Mark Roe was convinced by Snohomish County Prosecutors Sean Reay and Sara DI Vittorio ( being sued for racketeering) to hide Pennington’s criminal history to avoid liability.
March 24, 2014, remembered as the day Incompetent Snohomish County Director John Edward Pennington Jr. killed 43 people in Oso Washington Mudslides
March 24, 2014, is the day that Snohomish County’s incompetent Director of Emergency Management John Edward Pennington Jr. (Pennington) killed 43 people. Instead of doing his job i.e. mitigation, Pennington sat around and harassed people on the taxpayer’s dime and worked on his online diplomas from online schools the IRS declared fraud.
Remembering the people John Edward Pennington Jr killed in Oso, many children.
Snohomish County never disclosed to the Oso mudslide victims that King County Superior Court Ordered Psychiatrist Dr. Marsha Hedricks to issue a mental health evaluation and had declared Pennington unfit for public service and a sociopath with no empathy for human life in 2009. Laughlin v Pennington, King County (2009).
The Oso slide is the deadliest single landslide event in United States history, and it illustrates nicely that emergency management positions should never been political appointments. Certainly, a person declared by a medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life should never be allowed to handle emergencies or natural disasters.
The Oso mudslides was not an unforeseen event. The Oso Washington landslide engulfed 49 homes and other structures in an unincorporated neighborhood known as “Steelhead Haven” on the south side of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Oso, Washington and resulted in the suffocation deaths of 43 residents.
The Hazel Landslide has a history of instability dating to 1937, and reports filed with FEMA and the State of Washington in 1998. On March 24, 2014, Pennington was interviewed and said, ” Oso mudslides were act of God. Unforeseen event” A few days later he told Time Magazine that ” Everyone knew of the dangers” and in another interview Pennington declared Oso area as safe.
If everyone knew of the mudslide dangers, how could it be an unforeseen event. After all, the county emergency management and the state of Washington knew about the Oso danger since 1937. If it was safe, why did 43 people die?”
Snohomish County Admits No Criminal Background Check on John E Pennington Jr prior to hiring.
According to now Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers, Aaron Reardon and John Lovick appointed Pennington without ever running a single criminal background check on him. The Gold Bar Reporter asked why Snohomish County did not, Somers replied ” I don’t know why not.” Since Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in the Oso mudslides, Executive Somers has changed county policy and conducts criminal background checks prior to hiring anyone in Snohomish County. No exceptions.
Hiring Pedophiles and Sociopaths to Handle Emergencies Is Never a Good Business Plan
In November 2005, Pennington after being fired by President George Bush Jr., he was unemployed for four months desperately looking for work. He called political connections from his days in the Washington State Legislature. Reardon and Pennington had served in the Washington House for years together and Pennington called in a political favor i.e. appoint him to a position inside Snohomish County Emergency Management. Sadly, for residents of Oso Washington, Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon took the poisonous bait from a person declared to be a sociopath.
In February 2006, Pennington was appointed by Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, as Snohomish County Emergency Management Director for Snohomish County. This political appointment came four months after FEMA fired Pennington, and after the FBI ran a criminal background check on him and unearthed what it took the Gold Bar Reporter ten years to uncover, Pennington’s extensive crimes against women and children.
In 2006, a flood occurred on Ebby Island, a small trac of land just outside Everett, Washington. Acting on behalf of Snohomish County as the Director Emergency Management, Pennington issued an Emergency Declaration ordering Ebby Island to be evacuated, costing the taxpayers of Snohomish County over 10 million dollars. This evacuation order was premature, and Ebby Island never flooded. According to Reardon’s mistress, Executive Aaron Reardon was pretty pissed off and ordered Pennington into his office for a long talk about his costly mistake. Afterwards, Reardon told his mistress ” Pennington is a dipshit! He knows shit about Emergency Management! Dumb as a rock!” Instead of firing Pennington, Reardon simply clipped his responsibilities from managing disasters to ” to report to Reardon.” This was Pennington’s only function from 2006 to 2013.
In 2009, Pennington violently assaulted a third trimester pregnant Duvall Washington council member, Ann Laughlin, just three before delivering her child. For this reason, a King County Judge ordered Pennington into a court ordered physiatrist, Dr Hedricks, for a mental health evaluation which Pennington failed. King County Dr. Hedricks declared under oath that ” John Pennington is a sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever.”
But what did the Seattle Times and Scott North at the Everett Daily Herald report on? Nothing. Imagine, Snohomish County has an Emergency Mangement Director who not only rapes, kidnapped and tried to murder a 5-year-old girl, he is guilty of violently assaulting a third trimester pregnant woman, and not one local newspaper reports on his criminal sexual deviant behavior.
In 2019, an insider from Snohomish County, “Fed Up”, told the Gold Bar Reporter that Snohomish County made an agreement with Everett Herald Senior Editor Scott North and its reporter Noah Haglund, and Seattle Times Editor Mike Carter not to report on Pennington’s criminal history in exchange for inside Snohomish County scoops. Pennington public records from Snohomish County document that instead of doing his job, he was simply there to harass and defame political foes of the county.
Once a source received public records from Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay and Mark Roe documenting that Scott North was simply publishing articles that Snohomish County wrote, the Gold Bar Reporter wrote a letter to the Editorial Board at both newspapers. This resulted in Senior Editor Scott North and news reporter Noah Haglund’s constructive discharge from the Daily Everett Herald.
When the Everett Herald forced Scott North and Noah Haglund’s resignation, also known as a constructive discharge, Snohomish County hired Scott North and King County hired Noah Haglund. After all, Snohomish County owed them for publishing false stories on behalf of Snohomish County to discredit its political foes.
When the Gold Bar Reporter contacted Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter, his only email response was ” Fuck You Anne.” Not really what we expected from a major senior editor from a major newspaper. Carter resigned.
In June 2013, and after the Gold Bar Reporter filed Recall Petitions against Aaron Reardon for dereliction of his Executive duties, he resigned from public office. he is now selling insurance in Indigio California, living in a house be obtained for pennies on the dollars from the Tribes.
Once Reardon was gone, the Snohomish County Council appointed Sheriff John Lovick as Executive Appointee. In 2014, public records confirmed that after Executive Reardon resigned, newly appointed Executive John Lovick gave exclusive power to control and manage emergency management back to Pennington. Gross negligence by John Lovick and Pennington resulted in the deaths of 43 people on March 24, 2014.
We later learned from Washington State child protective services (CPS) that John Lovick had been found guilty of masturbating along the side the bed of his daughter’s best friend (sexual gratification). CPS issued criminal findings against Lovick, and Association of Washington paid off his victim’s family to remain silent. Lovick’s victim was a twelve-year girl. No doubt pedophiles protect pedophiles.
On March 24, 2014, Pennington was on the east coast, working a second job at FEMA Emergency Management Institute, when the largest disaster in Washington State’s history occurred; he ordered no one into the area until he returned 49 hours later. This resulted in the cause of death of 27 victims out of the 43 victims as suffocation.
According to Snohomish County Prosecutor Jason Cummings, “John Pennington was frozen did not know what to do so Snohomish County Council appointed attorney Margaret King to handle the emergency response.”
Immediately following the Oso mudslides, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick placed Pennington on paid administrative leave, and Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, who had been convicted three times for bank fraud and spent time in jail for the same, arrested for drunk driving, found guilty of harassment and forgery and abused a six year old girl) wrote an email to Snohomish County’s Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) Mikolaj Tytus Tempski demanding email stating “someone needs to get Johnny in the clear… why has Snohomish County not entered a notice of appearance in the RICO suit Anne Block failed against John?” Mr. Tempski responded by stating not to worry about it because US Federal Judge Ricardo Martinez was already in the process of fixing the case against Block.
We later learned from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s telephone records that Judge Ricardo Martinez was making exparte telephone contact with SAAG Joseph Genster, who was defending the RICO case, confirming beyond any shadow of doubt that the US Federal District of Court of Western Washington was engaged in case fixing with the Washington State’s Attorney General’s Office.
What Washington State nor Snohomish County Ever Disclosed to John Pennington’s Oso Mudslide Victims
“I will never be charged with a crime because we have people in every position of government who will always protect me,” boasted John Edward Pennington Jr. to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin. Not only did his political connections help cover up his crimes against women and children, but they also managed to get him employment that he is not mentally capable of, nor educated for, putting students at risk for sexual assaults and death.
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John Edward Pennington Jr.’s crimes span across the United States; he was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States Government.
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John Edward Pennington the product of two dysfunctional parents
John Edward Pennington Jr. was born to John E. Pennington, a corrupt Brady Cop and a stay-at-home mother from Nashville, Tennessee, named Sharon. Both parents have extensive mental health issues, including gross domestic violence, alcoholism, and abuse. His father is alleged to have had over thirty-six (36) excessive force complaints filed against him with the City of Nashville, and was successfully sued for racially targeting minorities, while his mother spews racist rants at Pro Trump rallies and was quoted as saying ” John was always a good liar.”
According to the Department of Justice, children who are raised by abusive parents are six times as more likely to perpetrate abuse on others. In John E Pennington Jr.’s upbringing. he was trained to abuse women and children by two dysfunctional and mentally ill parents that were not worthy raising a dog let alone children.
A childhood friend stated, “he was a troubled youth, who had a major drug and alcohol problem by the age of 16.” So, it’s no surprise that in the late 1980’s, Vanderbilt College in Tennessee, expelled John E. Pennington Jr. in his first semester for sexually assaulting a female student. Thinking he would be charged with assault, Pennington fled to a small suburban city just outside of San Diego California. Instead, Vanderbilt College paid off the victim.
While in the San Diego John Pennington meets his new victim, who believe he legally married, so are calling her ex-wife # 1. His ex-wife is a real estate agent in San Diego, California who said, ” Pennington is a ticking time bomb with no empathy for human life. There is no doubt that he raped two boys on a church camping trip causing him to flee California in 1990. This is why I divorced him.”
This was the sole reason John E. Pennington Jr. fled Southern California, heading home to Nashville in the early 1990s. The boys who he molested stated that their families settled with the church for lump sum settlement allowing the church to cover up Pennington’s pedophilia.
While in Tennessee, John Pennington made an unsuccessful run for an open Democratic State Rep. seat. After a landslide loss for John Pennington, he again headed west. This time he lands in Oregon, where Pennington meets his next victim, who he violently assaulted and hospitalized in the Lake Oswego Oregon area in 1990. Pennington was found guilty of assault in the 1st degree but plead “mental defect” avoiding jail time, instead, the state of Oregon, had him serve out his 1-year sentence at Western Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon. He was released in 1991 after serving only five months.
After the State of Oregon declared Pennington stable, he fled from Oregon to Vancouver Washington. While in Vancouver, in 1991, John Pennington meets his next victim. Sadly, they married and had one child, GP.
While working in a coffee delivery business, Pennington stole coffee grinding equipment from his previous employer and used the equipment to start-up a small coffee shop in the City of Kelso, Washington. “It was cover for Pennington who had been trafficking drugs from Kelso Washington to the border town of Ferndale Washington. Pennington ran drugs for the Russian mob to a coffee barista named Lori Batiot (aka Lori Hoffer, Lori Harris). Lori Batiot would then smuggle drugs across the Canadian border for distribution.
in 2002, Pennington fathered an illegitimate child with Lori Batiot, and after being appointed to FEMA he managed to get her a job with the Ferndale police department as a dog trainer for a drug sniffing dog. With no surprise, she lost the drug sniffing dog and would never state how she lost a police dog.
In 2016, Batiot was fired from three police departments for illegal use of prescription pills, drunk driving and was found mentally unfit for public service.
She was fired from the City of Duvall, Washington for lying under oath during a formal police investigation.
Lori Batiot is now a real estate agent for Windemere in Lake Forest Washington and her mental defect and violent behavior was captured on camera by a court authorized process server.
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In 1992, a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and then tossed along a Cowlitz County Road like a piece of trash.
According to Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, John Pennington became one of two prime suspects for the following reasons: (1) Pennington operated a coffee delivery route within six blocks of where the child was dumped; (2) he drove the same car; (3) Pennington was in the area at the time of the child rape; (4) Pennington’s picture from 1992 is almost a complete match to the child and witness’s sketch drawing of Pennington; and (5) Pennington relentlessly convinced his ex-wife to call the police attempting to divert attention away from himself and onto another man. When the lead detective was asked who he thought violated the child, he said ” John E. Pennington Jr. is the man that raped that little girl and I have been following him ever since.” Meaning, the officer didn’t believe Pennington all of the sudden stopped sexually assaulting children. The officer was right, as we later learned, from a credible source, that Pennington was sexually, mentally, and physically abusing Crystal D. Hill’s child, JH.
In 1992, John E. Pennington Jr. managed to get elected to an uncontested Washington State House of Representatives seat. Unfortunately for residents in New Orleans and Oso Washington, he began an extramarital affair with a powerful Washington State Republican Senate leader, Jennifer Dunn, who he began a 10-year affair with while married to his second wife.
According to sources close to John Pennington he is also an abuser of prescription Vicodin and was detained at the US Mexico for having narcotics (non-prescription pain pills) on his person while coming back into the US. This charge came while he obtained a political appointment for which he had no qualifications.
In 1995, John E. Pennington Jr. was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States government.” John sat around for years obsessed about getting even with the Longview Washington news reporter for reporting that John was a member of the State militia.”
In the below article published by the Longview Washington Daily News, Pennington confirms he was a member of the Washington State Militia when he stated ” I’ll never go to another one of their meetings. I’ll tell you that.” Their meetings, Pennington was referring to was the Washington State Militia meetings.
In 2001, Senator Jennifer Dunn, Washington, asked President George Bush Jr., for a political favor, appoint her lover, John Edward Pennington Jr., as the Director of FEMA Region 10. President Bush did appoint Pennington to FEMA Region 10 (with no experience as outlined by the Seattle Times) without a single a criminal background check. After Michael Browne’s mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush considered appointing Pennington as the Director of FEMA. But once the FBI ran a criminal background check on Pennington’s crimes against women and children as described herein, President Bush Jr. fired him (November 2005). A fact he lied about in his deposition.
While employed at Snohomish County in 2005, Pennington misappropriated funds and resources to obtain an online degree from American Military University (AMU), and Coastal California College, online schools labeled by the United States government as fraudulent “diploma mills.” PBS did a Frontline story on AMU’s fraud. He also claims to have earned a PhD from University of Alaska Fairbanks; a college ranked at #394 out of 435 public universities in the United States and was turned down by the University of Georgia, New York State University in Buffalo, New York University, George Washington, University of Georgia, University of Maryland, New York University, and Boston University for having false academic diplomas from online schools like AMU and California Coastal College. Pennington paid a flat rate of $1500.00 for his online diplomas from AMU and California Coastal.
From 1992 to 2005, John Pennington’s violence grew with his ex-wife. # 2 . From pushing her down a flight of stairs in the presence of their child GP, as well as constant physical abuse. Pennington never learned to keep his hands to himself. Thankfully, she escaped with her life.
The case that raised our eyebrows is Mr. Pennington’s abuse on his ex-wife # 3, Anne Laughlin. Anne was three weeks away from giving birth to her daughter when Pennington violently assaulted, kicked and punched Anne in the stomach and uterus.
Since Ms. Laughlin was a Duvall city council member at the time, the City of Duvall sought a Special Prosecutor Sandra Meadowcraft to prosecute Pennington for the violent assault of a 3rd trimester pregnant woman. The prosecutor assigned to prosecute wife beater John Pennington came from the law firm where Pennington’s buddy Michael Kenyon was employed, Kenyon Disend.
Sandra Meadowcraft (now Sandra Sullivan) failed to appear, and Pennington got the case dismissed without prejudice. Meadowcraft threw the case in exchange for a job with Summit Law Group, a Washington State Special Assistant Attorney General law firm. We have obtained audio recordings of the State v John E Pennington criminal prosecution from the May 2009 and will be publishing these audio files in another article soon.
In 2009 when Pennington assaulted Laughlin, this was his third domestic assault violence charge. This should have amounted to jail time for Pennington. Unfortunately for the 5-year-old year child, and for women, Pennington meets a Kelso Washington city attorney named Michael Kenyon. As the city attorney for Kelso, Kenyon was in charge of prosecuting Pennington for the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of the 5-year-old little girl in Cowlitz County Washington. Instead, Michael Kenyon saw an opening to line his pockets with gold after Pennington was elected to an uncontested open Washington State House of Representative seat. Michael Kenyon covered up Pennington’s pedophilia crimes in exchange for money contracts with the state of Washington.
In 2009, Pennington used Aaron Reardon’s connection to the Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter and reporter Emily Heffner to run hit pieces on people who were exposing the RICO. Mike Carter was using Pennington as a primary source inside Snohomish County offices, in exchange for inside information, Carter and Seattle Times agreed not to publish any negative stories about Pennington in exchange for inside stories. When Pennington killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides, Seattle Times was silent on a man declared by medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life being in charge of emergencies. We later learned that Pennington was also diagnosed as autistic.
After we caught Seattle Times Reporter Emily Heffner violating ethical reporter rules (lying in a news story that the Seattle Times had to retract four times for false statements), she was fired, as such, we contacted her for comment, but all she would say is” you need to move because they are coming after you.” She never did state who “they” were, but we now know that Washington State is running a monopoly with Lloyds of London (who is member of the RICO), guilty of case fixing with judges.
In 2010, Pennington sexually assaulted a Department of Emergency Management public records officer, named Diana (DR). When a county employee complained to Executive Aaron Reardon, he illegally used public monies to pay off Diana, in the amount of $75,000.00, and he gave her a 50 % pay raise as hush money. In exchange for her silence, DR also received a position as Director of Emergency Management at Providence Health Services.
In early 2010, Pennington had his Homeland Security Clearance revoked after he was caught running illegal background checks on citizens and was caught sexually abusing a six-year-old child.
In 2011, John E Pennington Jr. was caught taking naked showers with a six-year-old child, and the witness filed a declaration with Snohomish County Courts attesting to his pedophilia under oath.
In 2012, Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington left her two-year-old child alone with two ten-year-old children and was caught by two Washington State licensed private investigators. When the police came for a wellness check, Crystal threw a cell phone at the officer and made a false report to the Duvall Washington police department. She should have been arrested for child endangerment but the officer in Duvall Washington was the father Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s illegitimate son. To avoid child support, John E Pennington managed to use his Duvall Mayor Will Ibershoff to get Lori Batiot a job that she had no qualifications for (unless you consider illegal use of prescription narcotics and driving drunk to be qualifications) as a police officer in Duvall, Washington. Every time a police complaint was filed, Ms. Batiot was assigned to not investigate criminal complaints against her lover, John E Pennington Jr. As stated herein, she was fired for committing racketeering offenses against the Gold Bar Reporter.
In 2013, John Pennington applied to open position on the Duvall Washington Library Board. Because of his extensive criminal history and violently assault on a 3rd trimester pregnant council member, his application was rejected as “not qualified”.
Part 1 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.
Part 2 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.
In 2016 the State of Washington had to settle wrongful death suits for 60 million dollars as a result of John Edward Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in Oso, Washington. Attorney General Bob Ferguson settled only because we gave Plaintiffs’ attorneys mounds of evidence, which included medical files that the State of Washington accidently released under RCW 42.56 documenting that John Edward Pennington Jr. was diagnosed as a sociopath and autistic. Imagine if a jury had heard that Snohomish County Washington hired a sociopath with no empathy for human life and a man who has been treated for autism for over 40 years in charge of human life.
After getting fired from Snohomish County in 2016 for dereliction of his official emergency management duties, Pennington couldn’t find a job, so he filed an application for unemployment benefits (King County Case No: No: 17-2-06169-7). He filed for bankruptcy protection using a false address in Florida in 2009. When the Gold Bar Reporter learned of Pennington’s fraud against the taxpayers of Washington, a formal complaint was filed with the Washington State unemployment fraud unit.
In 2016, both Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington were charged with filing false unemployment claims and refusing to pay taxes. Both had to pay back the money they stole. King County Superior Court files documented their theft from the State of Washington.
In late 2016, Snohomish County Washington was being sued for Pennington’s negligent killing of 43 people in Oso Washington. Before he was fired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, his web page conveniently leaves out his employment in Snohomish County, Washington. Perhaps he would like to forget how he killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides because instead of doing his job i.e., mitigation, he spent his days inside Snohomish County Department of Emergency Managment (DEM) harassing people on his online blog “The Sky Valley Chronicle”.
According to Snohomish County Executive employee Kevin Thomas Hulten, John Edward Pennington Jr. ran the online site right from Snohomish County DEM titled “The Sky Valley Chronicle.” Since Crystal Hill was unemployed after getting fired from Attorney Mark Weiss’s office, she sat around for over 10 years unemployed and harassing anyone she deemed a threat to John and submitting false resumes for employment.
After killing 43 people in the Oso mudslides in 2016, John E Pennington Jr. was unemployed and was about to be deposed in a negligent death case. The State of Washington decided to hide from the jury the fact that he was unemployed because of his extensive criminal activity in Snohomish County, so Washington State’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson managed to get him a job as an instructor at Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington. This after Ferguson had ample evidence to know that John E Pennington Jr. is a pedophile and had been declared a “sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever” by a doctor in King County, Washington. See Laughlin v Pennington, King County, WA.
In 2021, John Edward Pennington Jr. was fired from the Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington, after a student made an allegation of sexual assault against him. According to Emily, an employee at Pierce College, ” a student made an allegation of attempted sexual assault against Pennington while he was employed at Pierce College as an instructor, and he hired counsel who threatened a human rights complaint against Pierce College. In his complaint, Pennington claims he was diagnosed with a mental disability, and Pierce College was discriminating against him as a result. Pierce College settled, and Pennington’s Republican political ally Kemper Freeman managed to pull some strings to get him a job at Overlake Hospital. This after Pierce College fired him.
In 2020, Pennington was fired from Overlake Hospital after “he was caught on camera stalking a woman/patient in the Overlake Hospital parking garage”, a source inside Overlake Hospital told the reporter. When he was fired for stalking a patient at Overlake Hospital, Attorney Michael Kenyon called in a favor from one of his legal clients, The Snoqualmie Tribes.
Within six months of obtaining a job with the Snoqualmie Tribes, Pennington was fired for dereliction of his duties. Once tribal source said ” he was sexually harassing employees. The Tribe had no choice but to let him go.”
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Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) December 19, 2023.
Meanwhile, his fourth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) had just graduated from an online college, Eastern Oregon University. A college that had its academic accreditation revoked and monitored by the US Department of Education for failing to adhere to basic core requirements of a basic college education. After completing an online degree, she applied to several first, second, and third tier law schools, including Penn State, and was rejected as “not qualified.”
After being rejected at twenty plus law schools, Ms. Berg Hill Pennington applied to an online law school, Mitchell Hamline, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A law school labeled as fraudulent by the academic world because online law schools are not acceptable in the legal industry, nor with the US Bar Associations. Online colleges are generally diploma mills and frowned upon by people who actually attended accredited colleges as harming society with its fraud in academia. With no surprise, Mitchell Hamline ranks 229 out of 240 law schools in the Unites States.
With Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s false academic credentials, and four fraud convictions in five different states (WA, TX, NC, and IN), King County Washington, Emergency Management Director, Alison Levy, hired her for a position inside King County, Washington’s Department of Health. After we submitted Ms. Berg Hill Pennington criminal records, obtained under Washington State’s Public Records Act (RCW 42.56), proving beyond any shadow of doubt that Crystal D. Hill was convicted of fraud, forgery, and harassment, she was fired from King County, Washington, after only 35 days on the job. This was a constructive discharge/termination, a fact that Ms. Berg Hill Pennington often lies about on government applications. Even though Ms. Hill lied on her job application, she was never prosecuted for filing a false application i.e., claiming she was never convicted of fraud when she was four times in five states.
In North Carolina, she spent three months in jail. Evergreen District Court in Snohomish County, Washington, she served two years of probation and was forced to pay back the $5400.00 she stole from a Skagit County Washington State lawyer.
In Burleson Texas, Crystal Berg Hill Pennington (nee Berg) fled after being released on bail for bank fraud. She was also terminated by former FEMA Director Brock Long in 2019 from obtaining FEMA contracts for filing false applications and not disclosing her past convictions for fraud, drunk driving, harassment, and forgery.
After our news reports involving King County, Washington, employee, Alison Levy, was demoted to another department in King County for allowing five-time convicted bank fraudster like Crystal D. Hill Pennington to have access to Social Security Administration (SSA) and/or medical files. According to the SSA, a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible for federal, state or local contracts, where public taxpayer money is used. Washington State Department of Health also told the Gold Bar Reporter that a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible to participate in any claim or suit involving vulnerable or elderly adults.
According to the Washington State Supreme Court, a person convicted of fraud shall not file a single declaration in any court that is to be given any weight whatsoever. This makes Ms. Hill’s declaration in any court case void, according to long time civil rights activist and lawyer.
Moving the pedophile from parish to parish, Lloyds of London covering up liability as Risk Management; Goodbye Washington, hello Alaska
After the Penningtons’ were caught committing additional fraud in Washington State in 2021, as described above, the Penningtons fled to Fairbanks Alaska hoping to escape their extensive criminal history. It didn’t work, because both continued to commit more fraud, but this time in Alaska.
While employed at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), Pennington is allowed to obtain a PhD without an accredited bachelor’s degree (BA). This happened because he has a network of former government officials from Washington State now working at UAF, who committed fraud in academia allowing person without a accredited BA to enter a PhD program.
The Gold Bar Reporter obtained a copy of Pennington’s so called PhD thesis, and everyone here had a good laugh about how a person who writes so poorly, and online flat fee college diplomas, missing the whole point of a PhD thesis, can legally obtain a PhD. Pennington’s thesis was more like a 5th grade writing class assignment titled ” What a wonderful family I have … and my daddy was cop” than that of a topic about Indigenous people.
Dr Cameron Carlson is the University of Alaska Fairbanks professor who is guilty of fraud in academia by awarding a fraudulent PhD to John Edward Pennington Jr., a man who did not have an accredited ungraduated degree.
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Crystal Danielle Hill Pennington (aka Crystal Berg), a four-time convicted bank frauder (IN, NC, TX, WA) arrested for drunk driving in Tipton Missouri, convicted of reckless driving, found guilty of forgery and harassment, and violently assaulted a six-year-old child in Snohomish County WA
The Washington D.C. Bar has an open investigation of attorney Crystal D. Hill aka Crystal D Hill Pennington, and she is expected to be disbarred for fraud in the future for failing to disclose her extensive 30-year criminal history dating back to age of 14. The Gold Bar Reporter will be at her public hearings and will be speaking at all disbarment hearings involving Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s fraud and anyone with bar complaints against her should send the Gold Bar Reporter copies for publication.
Last week, we learned that Ms. Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr. committed more fraud with two joint military bases in Alaska. For this reason, a complaint was filed with the US Office of Inspector General, US Office of Public Management, and with two air forces bases in Alaska. Both bases were contacted for comment, and a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) request was submitted for access to the Penningtons’ fraudulent activity inside both Alaska joint military bases. We also filed a complaint with President Biden’s Office.
Stay tuned for an update on the Penningtons’ criminal racketeering conduct in Tennessee, Alaska, Oregon, Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Texas, and New York State.
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For over twenty years, the Gold Bar Reporter has been reporting on criminal racketeering crimes that John E Pennington, and his fourth wife, Crystal D. Hill (aka Crystal Berg, Crystal D. Hill Pennington) have committed all over the United States. For our readers, it is important to note that the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued, but we did sue, successfully, the Penningtons for forgery, harassment and abuse of the process in Block v. Penningtons, King County, Washington, (No: 16-2-26600-2; March 2017). Both were found guilty of forgery, harassment and abuse of the process.
Exposing pedophiles, wife beaters, and racists like John Edward Pennington Jr., and five-time convicted bank fraudsters like Crystal D Hill Pennington (convicted of fraud in South Carolina, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, and Washington State) is matter of public concern, especially when the abuser and fraudsters land government jobs where youngsters and taxpayer monies are being used to advance their criminal racketeering conduct.
If any of readers have filed or plan to file bar complaints against Ms. Crystal Berg Hill Pennington or have additional information John Edward Pennington’s sexual predator conduct elsewhere, please email us at lifeisgood357@comcast.net. ANONYMITY promised, publication ensured.
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