Academics join our fight against the corrupt Washington State Bar

 

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Academics join our fight against the corrupt Washington State Bar

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To:

 

Robert C. Fellmeth

Executive Director, Center for Public Interest Law

Price Professor of Public Interest Law

University of San Diego School of Law

 

David Swankin

President and CEO

Citizen Advocacy Center

 

Lisa McGiffert

Director, Safe Patient Project

Consumers Union

 

and to all others who may receive this email

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Bloomberg News

http://www.bna.com/washington-bar-suspends-n57982065288/?elq=38aaa7e8139749d9b3d04039fa4a5fad&elqCampaignId=2276&elqaid=3783&elqat=1&elqTrackId=35fa218540ee4b21bd1402cd2c92b116

 

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We have read your letter to the California AG and agree with it completely regarding Sherman anti-trust and immunities granted to private organizations via state action immunity.

You may be interested in following and possibly contributing with friend of the court briefs, the following cases currently pending before the ninth circuit court of appeals.

Scannell v. WSBA case #14-35582

Scheidler v. Avery et al case # 15-35945

Block v. Snohomish county case #15-35569

In all three cases, the plaintiffs have raised Sherman anti-trust and RICO charges against the Washington State Bar Association and the issue of immunity plays a crucial role.

Scannell was disbarred for obstruction because he refused to turn over attorney client privileged information to a disciplinary counsel who was attempting to prosecute his client for the unauthorized practice of law in Virginia. Although a federal judge ruled that the bar’s action of recommending disbarment violated the 6th amendment right to counsel, the disbarment could not be undone, and the bar could not be sued because of quasijudicial immunity. While the ninth circuit has not recognized the discipline with a reciprocal disbarment (believed to be only the only attorney who was able to keep his 9th Circuit attorney license).

In Scheidler, the plaintiff was prevented from obtaining counsel for his suit because the prosecutor has used his influence with the WSBA to threaten disciplinary action against any attorney who represents Scheidler. In one case, he lost a case because he counsel was threatened on the eve of trial.

In Block, the plaintiff was an award winning journalist who exposed corruption in Snohomish county when she printed a story about the Chief executive using county funds to conduct a sexual affair with two employees in Europe. The county executive was forced to resign over the revelations, but used county resources and employees to retaliate against Block by soliciting bar complaints over the internet. Block was recommended for disbarment for writing a series of exposes about the director of the Department of Emergency Services. That director, recommended approval of the building of homes on the Oso mudslide site, which later resulted in the deaths of 43 residents. The Seattle Times later won the Pulitzer prize for exposing how the director and others knew in advance that the site was dangerous.

In all three cases, the plaintiffs have alleged that the bar has steered the market away from sole practitioners, minorities, and political enemies of the leadership. They allege that over 40% of all discipline occurs in Snohomish county, which is where influential members of the Board of Governors and Disciplinary board reside and use the bar process to target their opponents.

They allege that the board targets minority attorneys for discipline in numbers far exceeding their proportions of the membership in the bar.

They also alleged that virtually all discipline is directed at sole practitioners, even though sole practitioners are only 30% of attorneys.

Their complaints also allege that defense attorneys are not investigated under policies that are not approved reviewed or approved by Washington State Supreme Court.

Finally, their complaints allege that this steering of the market toward favored attorneys is done during the investigative stage, which is never reviewed by the Washington State Supreme Court in the 96% of the cases that are never charged. Their complaints allege that the low number of attorneys charged is reflective of the fact that the bar is the proverbial fox in charge of the henhouse.

In spite of these serious allegations, all which are presumed to be true under an FRCP 12 motion, their cases have been dismissed. In Scannell’s case, although a California judge ruled that Washington court rules violated the sixth amendment right to counsel, and Scannell’s RICO, Sherman Antitrust allegations, and Civil Rights charges were not covered under the Rooker Feldman doctrine, (the usual defense for cases like this), he ruled that quasi-judicial immunity prevented prosecution for damages under all three causes of action, while ruling that injunctive relief was available for civil rights causes of action. The North Carolina Dental Examiners case had not yet been decided at the time the final orders were issues, but had been issued before briefing in the ninth circuit.

In Block and Scheidler, their cases were dismissed by federal judges who Block and Scheidler contend violated the code of judicial conduct when they refused to recuse themselves when they were members of the Washington State Bar Association. The ninth circuit had earlier ruled in Scannell case and two others, that the membership required disqualification of Washington judges. Under common law, individual members of an association are liable for the debts of the association.

In the Block case, the judge refused to allow Block to amend her complaint to include the bar, even though such amendments are freely granted. In Scheidler, the judge granted quasijudicial immunity, without offering any reasoning as to why the North Carolina case did not apply.

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Snohomish County public records confirms John Pennington spent most of county time using hacking software

While 44 while residents in the small community of Oso, Washington, suffocated to death, the bonehead in charge spent most of his day “hacking” on the taxpayers dime, public records from Snohomish County confirm.

Also see another reports investigation of just how and why the City of Gold Bar is going bankrupt over hiding John E. Pennington and Crystal Hill Berg Pennington’s crimes http://snocoreporter.com/follow-up-on-our-duvall-pennington-investigation/

Three months ago, the Gold Bar Reporters sent Snohomish County Department of Information Services ( also known to use as Dept of Disinformation Services) a public records request for ” copies of John Pennington H_Key logins for any computer or electronic device he used. Last week, Snohomish County complied with our request giving us 27,000 of Pennington’s H_key log in codes. The County sent the first installment with many more to come as it relates to  ” Our Little Michael Pedophile Brownie.”

From John Pennington’s computer H_key log in codes here’s what we know so far:

1).  Pennington spent at least 6 hours a day working on his private contracts for his private company.

2.)  Pennington spent at least 2 hours per day working as an adjunct teacher for an online school titled American Military University, a for profit school that Senator Tom Harkin called ” fraud”  on PBS special titled ” Education Inc”

3.)  Pennington spent a large number of hours “hacking” into others computer systems.

4.)  Pennington spent several days posting on his blog spot titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle”

5.) Pennignton used a portable hard drive to evade the Public Records Act( so he thought but our readers should not worry because we’re going to file another suit and depose him about this in 60 days).

We wrote Snohomish County Council members an letter stating ” Is this why taxpayers of Snohomish County are paying John Pennington a $150,000.00 a year welfare check ?”

Then last week, someone from Duvall, Washington, “hacked” into the Gold Bar Reporters Twitter account.  Once we became aware of the illegal trespass and theft, our Twitter account was temporarily suspended, and we contacted Twitter letting them know that we intend to send a subpoena for all files relating to the Gold Bar Reporter’s Twitter account.

Our readers should know that John Pennington is not a resident of Snohomish County, contrary to what he and Gold Bar’s “boob flashing Bubba’s Roadhouse Mayor Crystal Hill” and John Pennington posting on their blog posts titled the Sky Valley Chronicle.
While 44 suffocated to death in the second deadliest preventable natural disaster also known to Snohomish County residents as the Oso mudslides, dumb as post pedophile John Pennington criminally harassed people, is guilt of forging his time sheets, approving home building on the mudslide site even though geologists for years said no building and FEMA had a mitigation plan to buy out home owners, and now we caught him hacking into others computers on county taxpayers dime.

As a result of Snohomish County’s latest public records release, we are now confident to add one skill besides pedophile to John Pennington’s resume, a hacker.

John Scannell Washington State Supreme Court ” The only honest candidate”

 

“Zamboni John” Scannell files for

Washington State Supreme Court Position #7

Former Hockey Zamboni driver John Scannell has announced he will seek election to Washington State Supreme Court Position # 7. Position # 7 is currently held by Debra Stevens of Spokane.

 

Currently, an attorney residing in Bremerton Washington, John is well known throughout the state for his legal work on behalf of Washington citizens. He filed some of the first lawsuits in Washington under the landlord tenant act and has represented both landlords and tenants since then. He has founded and been active in both tenant and labor unions. He was called the “bureaucrat’s nightmare” by the Seattle Times for his lawsuit on behalf of intermittent workers which won millions of dollars for City of Seattle workers. He blocked the building of one stadium by challenging its public financing, and he joined other anti-stadium activists in challenging others including Safeco Field, all the way to the United States Supreme Court. He was the last man standing among anti-stadium activists, as it took the United States Supreme Court months longer to decide his suit, which held up the building of Safeco Field.

 

He won large settlements for demonstrators who were tear gassed and hit with rubber bullets during the WTO demonstrations.

 

As an attorney he made his living helping workers win their unemployment benefits and wage claims as well as drivers win their traffic tickets including speeding and red light tickets.

 

John has been one of the few attorneys in the State that has actively been supporting the American Bar Association’s criticism of Washington attorney disciplinary system. The Washington State Supreme Court is in charge of the system, but the court has come under sharp criticism for 40 years for its practice of delegating its responsibility to the Washington State Bar Association. The ABA rightly likens this to the practice of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse, with Washington being one of a few states that still continue this practice. The result is that Washington has one of the lowest attorney charging rates in the nation. John Scannell is the only candidate advocating taking the fox out of the henhouse by having the Washington State Supreme Court stop delegating its responsibility to the Washington State Bar Association.

 

Scannell will base his campaign on the issue that he will protect the rights of Washington citizens with decisions that are intelligent, just and ethical.

 

 

 

 

Contact Numbers: 206-624-3685

 

Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Okrent ” Nazi or Jew?” The Jury is still deliberating

Dear Readers and Snohomish County –  We are taking a new approach to exposing corrupt government officers.  If you have stories, anecdotal, that you would like published as it relates to corruption inside Snomohish County, please forward your article with name, telephone number and article to tips@goldbarreporter.org.

Please thank Snohomish County’s political bum/scum John Pennington for awaking our activism

 

Judge Okrent ~ Snohomish County

Posted on August 13, 2014 by “SnohomishCountyCorruption”

Most of you know by now I am Jewish by blood, I am not real big into “religion” as it is used & abused by most folks but I still try to learn about the culture & the history.

So our local Chabad had a lecture about Tisha “B’Av & I went & the person teaching was incredible, I wrote a blog post about it even. I sat front seat mesmerized… little did I know I was listening to the devil

SOMEHOW I missed the fact that the speaker was Judge Okrent, the same Judge who I thought was actually going to follow the law but obviously had his own agenda.

For those of you who know me personally or anyone that is autistic I don’t do facial recognition, it has to be facial memorization in order for me to recognize anyone. It is really weird because I can describe someone’s face well enough for a 5 year old to draw a composite sketch of them but there is a disconnect in my head for random meetings

When I got into Judge Okrent’s courtroom, I thought I had finally found Justice for my animals & myself.He said he would keep the case in his court if I wanted, I said yes like a dumbass, little did I know that he was just making sure they could bend me over & screw me without any other Judge getting in the way.

When I sat in that Chabad I thought it so sad that this man in front of me had taken a job in “the law” instead of being the teacher he wanted to be.

When I got the oral decision, I fell to my knees & cried my heart out. I know that my “case” was perfect because an attorney who charges 100’s of dollars per hour & a very well known prosecutor gave me the outline, they warned me not to trust this Judge, one even said I would probably lose even if he came into court with me.

I don’t even remember how I figured out that this wonderful teacher & this worthless Judge were one in the same but I was talking to someone about what he did to me & once again I started crying.I didn’t even realize how bad this hurts me still everyday. Most of the pain comes from being abused by the very system that should’ve protected me & my animals.

As I get gear up for my Federal case I have to relive all of this over & over again. I keep having the same nightmares about my dogs & my cat. All I can do is pray that someone somewhere will FOLLOW the law, & that someday soon my babies will be with me & this nightmare will be over. Knowing what I know now I will do my best to make sure none of these ingrates do to others what they have done to me.

In my research I have found many many many other very questionable decisions Judge Okrent has made & they fall in line with the chain of command at the center of all of this corruption but that is for another story

I just want you to know that if you ever come across this guy RUN, change your court date, change your courtroom get the frick out of there ASAP. Seriously, he didn’t even put out a written decision on my case within the required 30 days, I had to file my appeal with no decision, & they (appeals & supreme) gave ME a bunch of crap over it. I didn’t understand at the time just how deeply he was involved in this other nonsense but I do now & I can prove it.

He is also protecting the WSBA in another case. All I can do is hope he is just a Jew by religion, not by blood as I wouldn’t want to share one single gene with this person, not one!

‘Attorney Michael Kenyon’s dirty bag of secrets “

When’s a scum bag always a scum bag.  ” Meet John “Theodore Bundy” Pennington.  Also known as the man who caused thousands of deaths in the Hurricane Katrina Debacle and 44 deaths in Oso Washington mudslides.

In the late 1980’s, after flunking out of Vanderbilt College in Tennessee,  John Pennington moved to a small suburban city just outside of San Diego California.  While in San Diego, Pennington meets his new victim, who believe he legally married, so are calling her ex wife # 1.

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, Pennington made an unsuccessful run for an open Republican State Rep.  After a landlslide loss for Pennington, he again headed west.  This time to Oregon, where he met his next victim Loraina ( thank you for talking me and thanks for following the reporter).

In the early 1990’s Mr. Pennington plead guilty to criminal harassment after he hospitalized his finance in Oregon.  As a result, John Pennington fled from Oregon to Vancouver Washington.

While in Vancouver, 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 Colwitz County.

It worked, 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.

Some sources claim that John Pennington was engaged in an extramarital affair with Jennifer Dunn, but the only evidence of an extramarital affair was with Senator Jeanna Holmquist.  Holmquist refused to comment as to what her relationship was to Pennington.
In 1992, a 5 year old girl was kidnapped, raped, and then tossed along a Colwitz County road like a piece of trash.  According to Colwitz County Sheroff’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 wherre 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 the pedophile; and (5) Pennington relentlessly convinced his ex wife to call the police attempting to divert attention away from himself and onto another man.

According to police records, Mr. Pennington has deep seeded anger management issues ( but he did pass one anger management class) and major issues with racism, just as his father (a Nashville police officer) does.  John Pennington, former DEM for Snohomish County, has countless child abuse and spousal abuse complaints against him; Mr. Pennington is a racist according to people close to him he said ” I only support abortion when a white woman is raped by a black man” Just like Hitler, Pennington has a real disdain for minorities

“Birds of the same feathers flock together as do pigs and swine.

According to sources close to John Pennington he is also an abuser of prescription pills, and was detained at the US Mexico Border for having narcotics on his person while coming back into the US.  Pennington has never denied this allegation.
From 1992 to 2005,  John Pennington’s violence grew with his ex wife. # 2 .  From pushing her down stairs and constant physical abuse are just some examples of what we know to be true.

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 uterual area.  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 of Kenyon Disend.

In 2009 when Pennington assaulted Laughlin, this was his third domestic violence charge.   This should have amounted to jail time for Pennington.

NOW COMES, Michael Kenyon.  A hater of open government, and the attorney responsible for hiding public records involving former Mayor Colleen Hawkins.   Kenyon’s hiding of public records in violation of RCW 42.56 is well documented through the case involving  local Gold Bar residents Joan and Robert Amen.

Records we received document that attorney Michael Kenyon made an illegal agreement with the City of Sammamish to hide Hawkins email communication, and then refused to release public records claiming that he no longer had them.  According to Washington State Attorney General Nancy Krier such agreements are not permissible under the Public Records Act.  A fact that we are not sure that she shared with Kenyon.

In 2008 one of  Kenyon Disend’s lawyers ( Special Prosecutor) managed to quash John Pennington’s domestic violence charges. Soon thereafter, the Law Firm of Kenyon Disend received two lucrative contracts, one with the City of Duvall and the other with the City of Gold Bar.

Then 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’s that we requested under RCW 42.56.  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 $840,000.00 hiding former Mayor Crystal Hill’s public records ( emails) documenting that she was practicing law without a license, and John Pennington making racist comments about President Obama and running illegal ACCESS background checks in violation of RCW 10.97.
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 Pennington’s racist comments and his illegal background checks.  We affirmatively state that Kenyon and Pennington’s Racketeering scheme equates to over $1,000,000.00 stolen from Gold Bar residents so Michael Kenyon can line his suits with gold.

Gold Bar city attorney Michael Kenyon and WA State Bar lead counsel Linda Eide are personal friends.  Linda  Eide will be sued in US Fed Court with an assignment of a foreign judge to oversee our RICO complaint.
Attorney Michael Kenyon refused comment.  We proudly call Michael Kenyon a scum bag, and John Pennington a pedophile.

 

 
Correction: We stated that Anne Laughlin provided us with court records as it relates to John Pennington, when in fact a source close to Anne Laughlin provided records to us.