GAME OVER, Lloyds of London, a United Kingdom Government Owned Company, Fraud Exposed in US Markets

Lloyds of London, racketeering

Melvin Banford, John ONeal, Derek Harrold, Steve Harris and Matt Rothnie

Above, key players within Lloyds of London’s Commercial, sued for Racketeering (RICO) and fixing US markets in the delivery of insurance and legal services throughout the United States. Evidence suggests that John O’Neill, CEO of Lloyds of London co-directs one of the largest racketeering Enterprises in US History

May 12, 20201 UPDATES TO “GAME OVER“

POLITICAL EXPERTS PREDICT ALLAN COPSEY AND NOAH PURCELL’S INVOLVMENT IN BOB FERGUSON’S RICO WILL BE THE FOCUS OF GLOBAL PRESS COVERAGE AND END THEIR CAREERS

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OPENLY CORRUPT PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ARE NOT JUST ACTING AS LITIGATORS, THEY ARE NOW AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE FRAUD ACCORDING TO LAW PROFESSORS

As Bob Ferguson and Peter King’s Lloyd’s of London affiliated snowball of fraud quickly becomes an avalanche landing at the foot of the 9^th Circuit and the global press in Block v. WSBA, our case is taking an interesting and unexpected turn.

Interest by both the global media and legal academics has been non-stop since our article “Seattle’s Epstein.” While we expected this to occur eventually, what we didn’t expect is the attention of the press and academic community to include federal judges, the Ninth Circuit Court, and both public and private attorneys as central elements of the story.

The increasing attention on the judges and the Ninth Circuit was referenced in our last update of May x, 2021. What is new since that update are consistent comments by several law professors and law journalists that both public and private attorneys have clearly crossed the line from representing a RICO enterprise to being participants in the RICO enterprise.

In knowingly violating the law and knowingly representing both state and private clients actively operating a RICO, the openly corrupt attorneys are not only subject to personal liability and loss of their licenses to practice, but they are also subject to criminal penalties according to the academics. There are four main reasons why they have crossed the line, they indicate:

1)      The State Constitution.  Article VIII Section 7 stipulates that the state cannot give or loan money to a private association, which the Washington State Supreme Court defined the Washington Bar in February 2021 as private association and not a public agency. The state has illegally spent tens of millions of dollars to provide free counsel for the bar.

2)      The Federal Constitution. The Fifth Amendment of the Federal Constitution stipulates the right of due process. After being ordered by the Federal District Court to file no further actions in Block v. WSBA, The defense attorneys are illegally filing motions for the purpose of denial of due process, and are in violation of Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act by acting under color of law.

3)      The Court Record. Each and every attorney has read the court record and is aware of how the Lloyd’s /Washington State RICO controlled by Bob Ferguson and Peter King of the Association of Washington Cities operates.

4)      Duties Resulting from Knowledge of Criminal Activity. The implication of this knowledge is that every attorney has a duty under RPC 1.6 “to prevent the client from committing a crime or fraud that is reasonably certain to result in substantial injury to the financial interests or property of another and in furtherance of which the client has used or is using the lawyer’s services.” Further the lawyer must then reveal information to “prevent, mitigate or rectify” that injury. Rule 1.2 prohibits a lawyer from counseling or assisting the client in conduct the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent.  Rule 1.4  requires a lawyer to disclose material facts to avoid assisting a cli­ent’s crime or fraud,” based on the State Supreme Court’s Hamilton decision.  Rule 3.3 requires a lawyer representing a client in an adjudicative proceeding who “knows that a person intends to engage in, is engaging in or has engaged in criminal or fraudulent conduct related to the proceeding” to “take reasonable remedial measures, including, if necessary, disclosure to the tribunal.” And finally, Rule 8.3 directs  a lawyer who knows that another lawyer or a judge has engaged in misconduct raising a “substantial question” about honesty or fitness to inform an “appropriate authority.” The Supreme Court established that attorney-client confidentiality is not applicable where there is knowledge of criminal conduct.  Several federal court rules are in violation as well, which we shall cite shortly.

Bottom line: no matter what their openly corrupt bosses like Leslie Seffren, who is currently under investigation for decades of guardianship fraud, child trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion, tell them, they will be on their own when this case is at the top of the front page of mainstream media.

Can the openly corrupt attorneys acting to further the Lloyd’s/Washington State RICO, such as Copsey, Noah Purcell, etc etc who appear to be relying on their corrupt network to fix cases control the global press?

We shall see soon enough!

GAME OVER, Lloyds of London, a United Kingdom Government Owned Company, Fraud Exposed in US

Melvin Banford, John ONeal, Derek Harrold, Steve Harris and Matt Rothnie

Above, key players within Lloyds of London’s Commercial, sued for Racketeering (RICO) and fixing US markets in the delivery of insurance and legal services throughout the United States. Evidence suggests that John O’Neill, CEO of Lloyds of London co-directs one of the largest racketeering Enterprises in US History

May 12, 20201 UPDATES TO “GAME OVER”

POLITICAL EXPERTS PREDICT ALLAN COPSEY AND NOAH PURCELL’S INVOLVMENT IN BOB FERGUSON’S RICO WILL BE THE FOCUS OF GLOBAL PRESS COVERAGE AND END THEIR CAREER

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OPENLY CORRUPT PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ARE NOT JUST ACTING AS LITIGATORS, THEY ARE NOW AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE FRAUD ACCORDING TO LAW PROFESSORS

As Bob Ferguson and Peter King’s Lloyd’s of London affiliated snowball of fraud quickly becomes an avalanche landing at the foot of the 9^th Circuit and the global press in Block v. WSBA, our case is taking an interesting and unexpected turn.

Interest by both the global media and legal academics has been non-stop since our article “Seattle’s Epstein.” While we expected this to occur eventually, what we didn’t expect is the attention of the press and academic community to include federal judges, the Ninth Circuit Court, and both public and private attorneys as central elements of the story.

The increasing attention on the judges and the Ninth Circuit was referenced in our last update of May x, 2021. What is new since that update are consistent comments by several law professors and law journalists that both public and private attorneys have clearly crossed the line from representing a RICO enterprise to being participants in the RICO enterprise.

In knowingly violating the law and knowingly representing both state and private clients actively operating a RICO, the openly corrupt attorneys are not only subject to personal liability and loss of their licenses to practice, but they are also subject to criminal penalties according to the academics. There are four main reasons why they have crossed the line, they indicate:

1)      The State Constitution.  Article VIII Section 7 stipulates that the state cannot give or loan money to a private association, which the Washington State Supreme Court defined the Washington Bar as, on (date). The state has illegally spent tens of millions of dollars to provide free counsel for the bar.

2)      The Federal Constitution. The Fifth Amendment of the Federal Constitution stipulates the right of due process. After being ordered by the Federal District Court to file no further actions in Block v. WSBA, The defense attorneys are illegally filing motions for the purpose of denial of due process, and are in violation of Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act by acting under color of law.

3)      The Court Record. Each and every attorney has read the court record and is aware of how the Lloyd’s /Washington State RICO controlled by Bob Ferguson and Peter King of the Association of Washington Cities operates.

4)      Duties Resulting from Knowledge of Criminal Activity. The implication of this knowledge is that every attorney has a duty under RPC 1.6 “to prevent the client from committing a crime or fraud that is reasonably certain to result in substantial injury to the financial interests or property of another and in furtherance of which the client has used or is using the lawyer’s services.” Further the lawyer must then reveal information to “prevent, mitigate or rectify” that injury. Rule 1.2 prohibits a lawyer from counseling or assisting the client in conduct the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent.  Rule 1.4  requires a lawyer to disclose material facts to avoid assisting a cli­ent’s crime or fraud,” based on the State Supreme Court’s Hamilton decision.  Rule 3.3 requires a lawyer representing a client in an adjudicative proceeding who “knows that a person intends to engage in, is engaging in or has engaged in criminal or fraudulent conduct related to the proceeding” to “take reasonable remedial measures, including, if necessary, disclosure to the tribunal.” And finally, Rule 8.3 directs  a lawyer who knows that another lawyer or a judge has engaged in misconduct raising a “substantial question” about honesty or fitness to inform an “appropriate authority.” The Supreme Court established that attorney-client confidentiality is not applicable where there is knowledge of criminal conduct.  Several federal court rules are in violation as well, which we shall cite shortly.

Bottom line: no matter what their openly corrupt bosses like Leslie Seffren, who is currently under investigation for decades of guardianship fraud, child trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion, tell them, they will be on their own when this case is at the top of the front page of mainstream media.

Can the openly corrupt attorneys acting to further the Lloyd’s/Washington State RICO, such as Copsey, Noah Purcell, etc etc who appear to be relying on their corrupt network to fix cases control the global press?

We shall see soon enough!

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GAME OVER

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Leslie Seffren, the openly corrupt lead counsel for a Washington State/Lloyd’s of London affiliated national Racketeering Enterprise (RICO), is illegally directing millions of dollars of state funds and 15 attorneys to provide legal representation for a court-defined private agency, the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA), in Block v WSBA, now pending before the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

In violation of state ethics law RCW 42.52.03, Leslie Seffren owns and operates the real estate development firm, CLP Development Inc., while receiving a paycheck from the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. An extensive investigation is in process of her alleged collusion in dozens of guardianship fraud and child trafficking cases over decades when she was employed by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.   According to a source, the investigation also includes allegations that Ms. Seffren has also been involved in millions of dollars of money laundering and tax evasion in relation to the guardianship fraud and child trafficking.

CORRUPT ATTORNEYS LED BY “SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL” LESLIE SEFREN CONTINUE TO FILE DOCUMENTS IN BLOCK V. WSBA BEFORE THE 9th CIRCUIT WITH NO LEGAL STANDING! MEDIA INTEREST IS NOW FOCUSED ON BOTH FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGES AND THE NINTH CIRCUIT!

Regardless of national and international media inquiries as the RICO members are now aware, regardless of the imminent global news coverage of our cases and Lloyd’s RICO, regardless of thousands of pages of evidence of state and federal crimes by public officials including judges that will be linked to the news stories, the openly corrupt attorneys representing the Washington Bar and the judiciary are becoming increasingly obvious and brazen in furthering the Lloyd’s/Washington State RICO co-directed by Bob Ferguson and Peter King.

The implication of the open corruption for both legal academics and the international media is: “why is the Ninth Circuit letting this happen?” Indeed, the focus of one entire aspect of the story of Lloyd’s RICO operating in Washington State is now shifting focus on to the Ninth Circuit. The questions are the same from every law professor and every journalist: “how is it possible that the Ninth Circuit is allowing openly corrupt attorneys who have been ordered by Federal District Court to cease and desist from further filings, who have no standing in a case continue to illegally file motions contrary to a federal court order?”

It is a good question, and it is a question that demands clear and rationally based answers. It looks like the Ninth Circuit is now becoming part of the story. It is a story that has been in development for the past two years. Initially the challenge for the media was the complexity of the story, as well as Trump and COVID-19 dominating the news. No more. 

We are very pleased that the story is referred to by mainstream national and international media as the single biggest ongoing news story in the nation for years to come – “The other Washington’s Watergate” as they say!

GAME OVER!!!

For the first time in 13 years, the public corruption discovered by the Gold Bar Reporter will be the subject of national and international news. The series exposes the tens of millions of dollars of Washington State taxpayer dollars spent by the state in increasingly desperate efforts and legal chicanery to deny our right to due process – and to conceal the RICO directed by Lloyd’s of London.

Dozens of prominent law school professors across the country continue to closely follow our cases. We gratefully acknowledge their generous support, encouragement, and introductions to major media. Without it, we would have been far less likely to gain the interest of several members of the press to help us continue to assert our right to legitimate due process and expose a massive RICO network.

Here in Washington State, Lloyds of London syndicates, insure the judges, the public defenders, the Washington State Bar Association, the Washington State agency employees, the private law firms that defend agency employees, WA Judicial Ethics Commission, the Washington State Auditor, Washington State’s Police Union, the Washington State Supreme Court and the WA Court of Appeals, and non-profit government owned and operated groups like Dawson Place and Victim Support Services.

By pooling the judicial officers together, Lloyds of London syndicates like Association of Washington Counties and Cities can assure convictions and cover up liability

Evidence Suggests that David Sansom, Chief Risk Officer of Lloyd’s of London co-directs One of the Largest Racketeering Enterprises in US History

The series features senior management of Lloyds, both in the U.S. and the U.K., including John Neal, CEO, David Sansom, Chief Risk Officer and Peter Spires, General Counsel; U.S. Head of Claims Carey Bond; Peter King of AWC; Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson; Federal Judges including Ricardo aka ‘RICO’ Salazar Martinez, Richard A. Jones, Washington State Judges, Michael Scott and Jim Rogers, and more than a dozen other openly corrupt state judges.

Evidence Suggests that Peter Spires, General Counsel of Lloyd’s of London is co-conspirator directing the largest RICO Enterprise in the United States

Over the past 13 years, the Gold Bar Reporter – with dozens of others targeted by the RICO jointly operated by Lloyd’s of London, AWC and the Washington State AG – have worked tirelessly to assert our right to live under the rule of law. We have filed hundreds of public records requests, most of which have been illegally redacted, denied, destroyed, or altered.

All of us have paid a high price for our efforts to oppose public corruption. We have seen friends illegally lose homes, income, Bar licenses, professionals made homeless, the denial of our most basic Constitutional rights, our reputations and futures damaged or destroyed, suicides, untimely deaths, families and relationships ruined, children taken, and false accusations and imprisonment.

All in retaliation for our individual and collective efforts to assert our right to due process. All in the name of greed by people entrusted with public office, intoxicated with power and empowered by their false conviction in their invincibility. Our only crime: to expose openly corrupt public officials who take great offense at anyone challenging their perceived fiefdoms.

Gary Bond, U.S. Head of Claims for Lloyd’s of London

Co-Directs One of the Largest Racketeering Enterprises in U.S. History

This fraud has been operated by a relatively small number of corrupt public officials including judges, whose greed and arrogance exposed the global fraud operated by Lloyd’s of London and its associates. The considerable length of time that it took us to expose the fraud relates to its complexity. For the first several years, we had no idea of the existence and scope of the fraud, what the network consisted of, and who was hiding behind the curtain. The individual pieces didn’t make sense, and seemed like “conspiracy theories.” As a result of constant effort, this is no longer the case. 

We gradually pieced together the evidence, posting it on the GBR. People began to tell us their individual experiences as targets of the RICO. The same public officials’ names continued to appear. We filed more public records requests. Insiders came forward after witnessing their ‘public servant’ coworkers and bosses destroying innocent lives and laughing about it. They gave us inside evidence – documentation and more names. From that information, we were able to file more records requests until a clear picture emerged as to how the RICO works.

Bob Ferguson Co-Director of Instituting Lloyds of London’s racketeering plan here in Washington State

Before deconstructing the RICO, the story was  hard to explain to others, and the pieces of it that we did understand were seen by those who had not been directly effected as – literally – unbelievable. After dozens of phone calls and hundreds of emails to local and regional press, only tiny pieces of the puzzle were reported on, regardless of the documentation we presented.  Just two years ago, several of us began to reach out to the national press. Again, after countless calls and emails, regardless of the documentation we presented, we seemed to be getting little interest.

We were wrong. As the RICO members are now aware, several members of the national and international press have been piecing their stories together. They began to collaborate and share notes. Then our story, “Seattle’s Epstein” broke, and dozens of national and international journalists have been reviewing our evidence non-stop for the past six months. One news source also outed Lloyds of London for insuring pedophiles like Jeffrey Epstein. But now, they have been interviewing us, and we have been providing them with witnesses willing to go on the record as well as new and unpublished documentation provided by insiders.

Peter King, CEO of the Association of Washington Cities, a Lloyds of London syndicate operating in the state of Washington

Co-Directs the Largest Fraud in Washington State History

The RICO members are beginning to run. They are holding emergency meetings across the state, the nation, and the U.K. They are quitting their jobs, selling properties, moving their money, and desperately trying to destroy evidence and intimidate witnesses, all of which is now futile. In their arrogance, they have left a massive trail of evidence. The story and the facts now have a life of their own, as the avalanche of evidence is about to be published around the world. The game is over.

We want to thank all of the courageous insiders who have risked their jobs and their careers to provide us with invaluable evidence. While most people talk about peace, love and justice and engage in endless handwringing, the insiders practiced their beliefs. “All that is necessary for evil to exist is for good people to do nothing.” The insiders did something – in a big way that will change the world for the better.

We are grateful to the dozens of people in the legal academic community for ongoing advice and encouragement, and as mentioned, the many introductions to major press and wire services. Without that support, we would likely not – finally – be collaboratively exposing the RICO to a global readership.

And we are grateful for the sacrifices made by the Framers of our Constitution, who gave us the framework of solutions for what they saw as the most basic challenge to the human experience – the tendency of people to abuse power. Ironically, to address the tyranny of the British who denied us the right to live under the rule of law.

The framework of the Constitution consists of two basic parts: proactive and ‘postmortem’ solutions. As we all know, the proactive solutions – the separation of powers – attempts to create checks and balances between the branches.

But the Framers knew that corruption would still exist. That people in government would sometimes fail us. This is why they created the ‘postmortem’ solutions – essentially, the right to publicly expose corruption when all else failed.

The postmortem solutions are our most important rights: the right of free assembly as we see with the George Floyd and related cases, the right of free speech, and the right of free press. All tools that the Constitution provides us to expose public corruption.

They are tools and remedies that the public, including every person concerned with the root issues of injustice, may now use to focus on Lloyd’s of London as the root cause of public corruption.

The press coverage will redirect the public’s attention from the symptoms of the problem, including police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct, to the way Lloyd’s and its RICO members have rigged the legal system in the United States and allowed the abuse of power to occur. 

Specifically, the public’s attention will be focused on the individuals who have been operating the RICO, who they are, what they have done, and how they have done it. It is presumed that every remedy the Framers have provided, public assembly, free speech and free press will be focused on those individuals until they are brought to justice.

And it is about to work in this case, according to our new friends in the international media. Even our adversaries, the RICO members, should be pleased: their progeny will have the right to live under the rule of law.

All thanks to our fourth branch of government, the ‘Fourth Estate.’

Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S, fraud, forgery and false filings, perjury and constructively disbarred from NY State and admitted to practice law in Washington State

Attorney Shannon Ragonesi, an attorney at Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S, was constructively disbarred from the State of New York (NY). In New York, unlike Washington State Bar Association, is operated by NY State’s Board of Examiners, a state licensing agency. With no surprise, Ms. Ragonesi was a dear friend of Attorney General Bob Ferguson while they both attended NY Law School; and both participated in the helping the Catholic Church cover up hundreds of sexual abuse cases here in the Pacific Northwest.

When a complainant files a bar complaint in NY State, the lawyer is giving a copy of the complaint and a copy is filed with the State of NY’s Judiciary Here in Washington State, when a person files a Washington State Bar Association complaint, such complaints are filed with an alleged private association.

Using the word “alleged” means “not proven.” In the case of the Washington State Bar Association, we discovered three important features through various public records requests to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, (1) the Washington Attorney General is illegally running the private Washington State Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education classes,, (3) the Washington Attorney General is illegally hosting the Washington State Bar Association’s email server, (3) The Washington Attorney General is illegally running is providing free rent to the Washington State Bar Association at two publicly owned buildings, one in Olympia and one in Seattle on 4th Ave, and The Washington Attorney General is illegally funneling millions of public money to several law firms that defend the Washington State Bar Association such as Pacifica Law Group, Keating Buckling and McCormack ( and NY disbarred attorney Shannon Ragonesi), Kenyon Disend PLLC, and Gordon Rees and illegally using the AG’s risk management division also known as Department of Enterprise Services to provide legal services to the Washington State Bar Association, and (6) the Washington State Bar Association is stealing public money from the Washington State Public Retirement System (PERS).

If the Washington State Bar Association is not a public agency, then why are the taxpayers of Washington State allowing Washington State Bar employees Doug Ende, Kara Ralph, Felice Congalton, Scott Busby, and Allison Sato to collecting a state funded paid retirement from the taxpayers? Is this a welfare program given to alleged private associations?

Shannon Ragonesi, after being constructively disbarred from NY State, called a good friend of hers here in Washington State, Bob Ferguson who personally authorized Shannon Ragonesi to commit the same crimes against taxpayers as she did in NY State. Ms. Ragonesi’s crimes include false filings, perjury, harassment of public records requesters, forgery, fraud, theft of public money, and defamation. But she had a lot of help from other Special Assistant Attorney Generals like King County Superior Court and SAAG Judges such as Michael Scott ( Hillis Clarke, Martin and Peterson), Jim Rogers (Fox Rothchilds), Julie Spector (Lane & Powell), and Joseph Genster ( Hillis Clarke, Martin & Peterson).

Here’s the Washington State Attorney General’s Office case fixing scam works. SAAGs like disbarred NY State Attorney Shannon Ragonesi is paid millions via a fraudulent scam titled the Special Attorney General contracts. The Washington State Attorney General makes judicial appointments and the Governor simply rubber stamps the request. Since Governor Inslee has been in office, we could find only one judicial appointment in the whole state that was not a SAAG on contract with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office to provide a legal defense to public agencies. This means when a person is charged with a crime, or perhaps brings a lawsuit for access to public records, the agency, as was the case in Gold Bar Washington, is defended 100 % by the Washington State Attorney General’s contractors aslo known as SAAGs, and the Judge, like Michael Scott ( King County), Marybeth Dingledy (former employee of King County and City of Everett), Bruce Weiss (labeled a SAAG by AG’s list), Cindy Larsen (labeled a SAAG by AG’s list),, Julie Spector (SAAG law firm at Lane & Powell), and Jim Rogers ( King County SAAG while employed at Fox Rothchild) hear and decide your case. This in spite of the fact that the Washington Court of Appeals Div. I held in Ann Gonzales v WA State that a SAAG attorney cannot be have a SAAG Judge hear and decide any part of their case, or in the words of the Gonzales Court, the right to a fair and impartial judge is constitutional right . . . if a judge was a SAAG, and the Defense counsel was SAAG, disclosure isn’t enough, a judge must recuse themselves from the cases.”

If having a SAAG Judge hearing and deciding cases involving other attorneys such as SAAG law firms like Keating, Buckling and McCormack, or worse, US Federal District Court Judge Richard Jones, Ronald Leighton, Benjamin Settles, and Ricardo Martinez ( all SAAGs while employed with WA State), is this not case fixing at the highest level in the state? In Block v WSBA et al ,S Federal District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez, and local Snohomish County District Court Judge Douglas Fair, we obtained telephone records from SAAG attorney, Special Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor at Hillis Clarke, Martin & Peterson confirming beyond any doubt that Snohomish County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney (SAP/SAAG) Joseph Genster openly engaged in exparte communication via public telephone records with judges.

In Block v Gold Bar, SAAG/SAP Shannon Ragonesi openly brags of her case fixing scam using King County Superior Court Judge ( also a SAAG at Hillis Clarke Martin & Peterson) Michael Scott to SLAPP public requesters down from trying to file lawsuits for access to public records. A case the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit just agreed hear in Block v WSBA et al, can a judge who was a SAAG, as Ricardo Martinez was with WA State Attorney General’s Office, hear and decide cases when SAAGs Gordon Rees, Leslie Seffren and Shannon Ragonesi are representing the defendants? Under Ann Gonzales v Washington State, our state courts have already held ” NO” and that recusal was mandatory to preserve a litigant’s constitutional right to a fair and impartial judge.

Sorry SAAG/SAP/AWC contractors, the cat is out of the bag. If every defendant filed a disqualification against every judge that had SAAG/SAP contracts with Judges like Jim Rogers, Julie Spector, Bruce Wiess, Cindy Larsen, or Michael Scott, how many cases would be overturned for not recusing themselves ensuring that a litigant should have a fair and impartial judge? Washingtonians have a Constitutional right to access to courts, and a right to unlimited public records. and should never be faced with a judicial plant sent by the AG’s office to fix cases as “risk management.”

Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S, fraud, forgery and false filings, perjury and constructively disbarred from NY State and admitted to practice law in Washington State

Seattle Washington, March 13, 2021: Attorney Shannon Ragonesi, an attorney at Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S, was constructively disbarred from the State of New York (NY). In New York, unlike Washington State Bar Association, is operated by NY State’s Board of Examiners, a state licensing agency. With no surprise, Ms. Ragonesi is a dear friend of Attorney General Bob Ferguson. They both attended NY Law School together and both participated in the helping the Catholic Church cover up hundreds of sexual abuse cases here in the Pacific Northwest.

When a complainant files a bar complaint in NY State, the lawyer is giving a copy of the complaint and a copy is filed with the State of NY’s Judiciary Here in Washington State, when a person files a Washington State Bar Association complaint, such complaints are filed with an alleged private association.

Using the word “alleged” means “not proven.” In the case of the Washington State Bar Association, we discovered three important features through various public records requests to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, (1) the Washington Attorney General is illegally running the private Washington State Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education classes,, (3) the Washington Attorney General is illegally hosting the Washington State Bar Association’s email server in Olympia right from the Washington State Attorney General’s office, (3) The Washington Attorney General is illegally providing free rent to the Washington State Bar Association at two publicly owned buildings, one in Olympia and one in Seattle on 4th Ave, and the Washington Attorney General is illegally funneling millions of public money to several law firms that defend the Washington State Bar Association such as Pacifica Law Group, Keating Buckling and McCormack ( and NY disbarred attorney Shannon Ragonesi), Kenyon Disend PLLC, and Gordon Rees and illegally using the AG’s risk management division also known as Department of Enterprise Services to provide legal services to the Washington State Bar Association, and (6) the Washington State Bar Association is stealing public money from the Washington State Public Retirement System (PERS).

If the Washington State Bar Association is not a public agency, then why are the taxpayers of Washington State allowing Washington State Bar Association employees Doug Ende, Kara Ralph, Felice Congalton, Scott Busby, and Allison Sato to collect a state funded paid retirement from the taxpayers? PERs is for public employees, but yet the Washington State Supreme Court held it was not a public agency subject to Washington State’s Public Disclosure laws but has no issue misappropriating taxpayer monies for their own pecuniary and financial gain. Are citizens of Washington providing a welfare program given to alleged private associations? Why not call the National Riffle Association and ask them if they would also like a taxpayer funded retirement pension like the alleged private Washington State Bar Association is getting?

Shannon Ragonesi, located at 33429 SE 114TH ST in ISSAQUAH, WA 98027, after being constructively disbarred from NY State, called a good friend of hers here in Washington State, Bob Ferguson who personally authorized Shannon Ragonesi to commit the same crimes against taxpayers as she did in NY State. Ms. Ragonesi’s crimes include false filings, perjury, harassment of public records requesters, forgery, fraud, theft of public money, and defamation. But she had a lot of help from other Special Assistant Attorney Generals like King County Superior Court and SAAG Judges such as Michael Scott ( Hillis Clarke, Martin and Peterson), Jim Rogers (Fox Rothchilds), Julie Spector (Lane & Powell), and Joseph Genster ( Hillis Clarke, Martin & Peterson).

Here’s the Washington State Attorney General’s Office case fixing scam works. SAAGs like disbarred NY State Attorney Shannon Ragonesi is paid millions via a fraudulent scam titled the Special Attorney General contracts. The Washington State Attorney General makes judicial appointments and the Governor simply rubber stamps the request. Since Governor Inslee has been in office, we could find only one judicial appointment in the whole state that was not a SAAG on contract with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office to provide a legal defense to public agencies. This means when a person is charged with a crime, or perhaps brings a lawsuit for access to public records, the agency, as was the case in Gold Bar Washington, is defended 100 % by the Washington State Attorney General’s contractors aslo known as SAAGs, and the Judge, like Michael Scott ( King County), Marybeth Dingledy (former employee of King County and City of Everett), Bruce Weiss (labeled a SAAG by AG’s list), Cindy Larsen (labeled a SAAG by AG’s list),, Julie Spector (SAAG law firm at Lane & Powell), and Jim Rogers ( King County SAAG while employed at Fox Rothchild) hear and decide your case. This in spite of the fact that the Washington Court of Appeals Div. I held in Ann Gonzales v WA State that a SAAG attorney cannot be have a SAAG Judge hear and decide any part of their case, or in the words of the Gonzales Court, the right to a fair and impartial judge is constitutional right . . . if a judge was a SAAG, and the Defense counsel was SAAG, disclosure isn’t enough, a judge must recuse themselves from the cases.”

If having a SAAG Judge hearing and deciding cases involving other attorneys such as SAAG law firms like Keating, Buckling and McCormack, or worse, US Federal District Court Judge Richard Jones, Ronald Leighton, Benjamin Settles, and Ricardo Martinez ( all SAAGs while employed with WA State), is this not case fixing at the highest level in the state? In Block v WSBA et al ,S Federal District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez, and local Snohomish County District Court Judge Douglas Fair, we obtained telephone records from SAAG attorney, Special Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor at Hillis Clarke, Martin & Peterson confirming beyond any doubt that Snohomish County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney (SAP/SAAG) Joseph Genster openly engaged in exparte communication via public telephone records with judges.

In Block v Gold Bar, SAAG/SAP Shannon Ragonesi openly brags of her case fixing scam using King County Superior Court Judge ( also a SAAG at Hillis Clarke Martin & Peterson) Michael Scott to SLAPP public requesters down from trying to file lawsuits for access to public records. A case the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit just agreed hear in Block v WSBA et al, can a judge who was a SAAG, as Ricardo Martinez was with WA State Attorney General’s Office, hear and decide cases when SAAGs Gordon Rees, Leslie Seffren and Shannon Ragonesi are representing the defendants? Under Ann Gonzales v Washington State, our state courts have already held ” NO” and that recusal was mandatory to preserve a litigant’s constitutional right to a fair and impartial judge.

Sorry SAAG/SAP/AWC contractors, the cat is out of the bag. If every defendant filed a disqualification against every judge that had SAAG/SAP contracts with Judges like Jim Rogers, Julie Spector, Bruce Wiess, Cindy Larsen, or Michael Scott, how many cases would be overturned for not recusing themselves ensuring that a litigant should have a fair and impartial judge? Washingtonians have a Constitutional right to access to courts, and a right to unlimited public records. and should never be faced with a judicial plant sent by the AG’s office to fix cases as “risk management.”

Claims of “Nigerian Fraud” Questioned as Cause of Record Losses

Part Two of Five – By The Gold Bar Reporter

Former Washington State Employment Security Commissioner LeVine (R) is Responsible For the Largest Loss from Fraud in her State’s History. She is Alleged to Have Actively Engaged in a Coverup of Massive Internal Fraud and Negligence.

Seattle, Washington State Feb. 12, 2021. When Sage Wilson of Working Washington heard former State Employment Security (ESD) Department Commissioner LeVine – and current National Employment Security appointee – quote a $650 million dollar loss from ‘Nigerian’ fraud while claiming not to know how many claims the losses related to, the red flags went up.

“How can anyone give a loss figure without knowing the number of claims involved? Something’s really wrong here,” he said. Other state’s employment security departments that have released dollar figures from fraud, in fact, have also released the number of associated false claims. “How can you know one without the other?” asked a prominent employment lawyer. “Isn’t it just simple math?”

The highly regarded Ninth Circuit public interest attorney John Scannell has his own equation: “If former Commissioner LeVine had no idea what numbers were associated with the losses, how on earth did she immediately conclude that it was ‘Nigerian Fraud’?” he said. “Add that fact to LeVine’s obstruction of the Washington State Auditor’s staff. Doesn’t that equal probable cause of internal fraud?” he added.

Like the number of unresolved unemployment claims, the chorus of voices that had called for Ms. LeVine’s resignation had been escalating at the same rate as the current questions of her qualifications being asked regarding her pending federal appointment. “We’re talking about a person who is a patronage appointment with absolutely zero qualifications, and who has demonstrated total incompetence. The people who are some of our most vulnerable in Washington state have paid a high price for obvious political patronage – should the entire nation?” said Mr. Scannell.

“It’s just inconceivable that a demonstrably incompetent employment security director in history, who lied to state auditors, who is the sole person responsible for killing the new software that could have prevented the fraud just months before COVID-19,” said an ESD staffer.

Ms. LeVine’s background includes a position in a luxury travel subsidiary of a software business and  fundraising for the Democratic party. With no experience she was given a foreign position in the State Department by the Obama Administration. After her $17,500 donation to Washington Governor Inslee, she was then appointed by him as Commissioner of Employment Security. After Ms. LeVine and her husband donated $400,000 to the Biden campaign, she received her current pending appointment.

“This is the worst conceivable caricature of a patronage appointment. We’re talking about someone whose resume is absent any relevant government experience whatsoever, and a person who is completely disconnected from the reality of the unemployed,” said Mr. Scannell. “If someone really deems it necessary to give someone a patronage appointment, why hand a job caring for the unemployed to an unqualified multi-multi-millionaire who has demonstrated contempt for the unemployed?”

Ms. LeVine may in fact be less than directly impacted by the suffering caused by her mismanagement. With her husband Eric, Ms. LeVine lives in a $3.5 million-dollar 7,200 sq. ft. Seattle mansion. They own a multimillion-dollar software company that tracks wine collections for the world’s wealthiest people. The State of Washington paid her substantially over $200,000 including benefits and allowances.

Meanwhile, Ms. LeVine’s disconnection from the pain and suffering caused by her historic mismanagement appears to have coincided with what is being calling “an utterly sadistic negligence of her responsibility to have cared for the unemployed,” according to a prominent employment law attorney. “Ms. LeVine cynically used several of the same fraudulent tactics to deny claims that she used to obstruct audits,” she said.

According to the employment law attorney, the tactics deployed against claimants and auditors alike include feigning confusion, shuffling people between ESD employees, refusing to release information, destroying documents, and simply not responding to inquiries. “Federal crimes have been committed here. Why are there no federal charges? These are criminal acts.” said the attorney who has shared notes with colleagues. “Where is the federal investigation?”

“The conclusion that we’ve all come to is, if it was really ‘Nigerian fraud’ as Ms. LeVine has claimed in Washington state, why did she obstruct the audits?” said the employment law attorney. “Why aren’t all the records being posted online after an outside GAAP equivalent audit? Isn’t this a lot of the public’s hard-earned money? What business could possibly run without accounting for where the money is going?” she said.

Meanwhile, for her part, with her only accomplishments in government being the greatest loss to fraud in the history of Washington State, insiders express incredulity of her current pending appointment, “this is utterly the worst conceivable candidate for the person responsible for some of our nation’s most vulnerable, the unemployed. It is inconceivable to even consider this person for the appointment,” stated attorney Mr. Scannell.

Ms. LeVine, who contrary to federal law accepted $9000 worth of gifted luxury wine tasting functions in Luxembourg while working in her political patronage appointed State Department job in Switzerland and living in a government provided $25 million dollar mansion, asked the unemployed and the taxpayers of Washington State to trust her. Now she asks the nation.

When asked exactly how much money had been taken from the unemployed of the State of Washington, and exactly how it happened, her response was, “trust me, I want to know. I asked every single day,” although she had direct and unlimited access to all accounting and transaction information.

Ms. LeVine’s business philosophy may be of little consolation to Washington’s unemployed and taxpayers: “fail fast, and fail cheaply,” said Ms. LeVine. The “North star” for her personal moral compass, she says, is the Jewish expression “tikkun olam” which means “repair the world.”

“Perhaps Ms. LeVine could repair an important part of the world by assuming responsibility for the results of a comprehensive outside audit of the mess she left in Washington State,” said attorney Mr. Scannell. “The best thing she could do for all of us is to decline the patronage appointment and not doing any more damage.”

Outside Audits Demanded of National Employment Security Candidate

Claims of “Nigerian Fraud” Questioned as Cause of Record Losses

Part Two of Five – By The Gold Bar Reporter

Former Washington State Employment Security Commissioner LeVine (R) is Responsible For the Largest Loss from Fraud in her State’s History. She is Alleged to Have Actively Engaged in a Coverup of Massive Internal Fraud and Negligence.

Seattle, Washington State Feb. 12, 2021. When Sage Wilson of Working Washington heard former State Employment Security (ESD) Department Commissioner LeVine – and current National Employment Security appointee – quote a $650 million dollar loss from ‘Nigerian’ fraud while claiming not to know how many claims the losses related to, the red flags went up.

“How can anyone give a loss figure without knowing the number of claims involved? Something’s really wrong here,” he said. Other state’s employment security departments that have released dollar figures from fraud, in fact, have also released the number of associated false claims. “How can you know one without the other?” asked a prominent employment lawyer. “Isn’t it just simple math?”

The highly regarded Ninth Circuit public interest attorney John Scannell has his own equation: “If former Commissioner LeVine had no idea what numbers were associated with the losses, how on earth did she immediately conclude that it was ‘Nigerian Fraud’?” he said. “Add that fact to LeVine’s obstruction of the Washington State Auditor’s staff. Doesn’t that equal probable cause of internal fraud?” he added.

Like the number of unresolved unemployment claims, the chorus of voices that had called for Ms. LeVine’s resignation had been escalating at the same rate as the current questions of her qualifications being asked regarding her pending federal appointment. “We’re talking about a person who is a patronage appointment with absolutely zero qualifications, and who has demonstrated total incompetence. The people who are some of our most vulnerable in Washington state have paid a high price for obvious political patronage – should the entire nation?” said Mr. Scannell.

“It’s just inconceivable that a demonstrably incompetent employment security director in history, who lied to state auditors, who is the sole person responsible for killing the new software that could have prevented the fraud just months before COVID-19,” said an ESD staffer.

Ms. LeVine’s background includes a position in a luxury travel subsidiary of a software business and  fundraising for the Democratic party. With no experience she was given a foreign position in the State Department by the Obama Administration. After her $17,500 donation to Washington Governor Inslee, she was then appointed by him as Commissioner of Employment Security.

“This is the worst conceivable caricature of a patronage appointment. We’re talking about someone whose resume is absent any relevant government experience whatsoever, and a person who is completely disconnected from the reality of the unemployed,” said Mr. Scannell. “If someone really deems it necessary to give someone a patronage appointment, why hand a job caring for the unemployed to an unqualified multi-multi-millionaire who has demonstrated contempt for the unemployed?”

Ms. LeVine may in fact be less than directly impacted by the suffering caused by her mismanagement. With her husband Eric, Ms. LeVine lives in a $3.5 million-dollar 7,200 sq. ft. Seattle mansion. They own a multimillion-dollar software company that tracks wine collections for the world’s wealthiest people. The State of Washington paid her substantially over $200,000 including benefits and allowances.

Meanwhile, Ms. LeVine’s disconnection from the pain and suffering caused by her historic mismanagement appears to have coincided with what is being calling “an utterly sadistic negligence of her responsibility to have cared for the unemployed,” according to a prominent employment law attorney. “Ms. LeVine cynically used several of the same fraudulent tactics to deny claims that she used to obstruct audits,” she said.

According to the employment law attorney, the tactics deployed against claimants and auditors alike include feigning confusion, shuffling people between ESD employees, refusing to release information, destroying documents, and simply not responding to inquiries. “Federal crimes have been committed here. Why are there no federal charges? These are criminal acts.” said the attorney who has shared notes with colleagues. “Where is the federal investigation?”

“The conclusion that we’ve all come to is, if it was really ‘Nigerian fraud’ as Ms. LeVine has claimed in Washington state, why did she obstruct the audits?” said the employment law attorney. “Why aren’t all the records being posted online after an outside GAAP equivalent audit? Isn’t this a lot of the public’s hard-earned money? What business could possibly run without accounting for where the money is going?” she said.

Meanwhile, for her part, with her only accomplishments in government being the greatest loss to fraud in the history of Washington State, insiders express incredulity of her current pending appointment, “this is utterly the worst conceivable candidate for the person responsible for some of our nation’s most vulnerable, the unemployed. It is inconceivable to even consider this person for the appointment,” stated attorney Mr. Scannell.

Ms. LeVine, who contrary to federal law accepted $9000 worth of gifted luxury wine tasting functions in Luxembourg while working in her political patronage appointed State Department job in Switzerland and living in a government provided $25 million dollar mansion, asked the unemployed and the taxpayers of Washington State to trust her. Now she asks the nation.

When asked exactly how much money had been taken from the unemployed of the State of Washington, and exactly how it happened, her response was, “trust me, I want to know. I asked every single day,” although she had direct and unlimited access to all accounting and transaction information.

Ms. LeVine’s business philosophy may be of little consolation to Washington’s unemployed and taxpayers: “fail fast, and fail cheaply,” said Ms. LeVine. The “North star” for her personal moral compass, she says, is the Jewish expression “tikkun olam” which means “repair the world.”

“Perhaps Ms. LeVine could repair an important part of the world by assuming responsibility for the results of a comprehensive outside audit of the mess she left in Washington State,” said attorney Mr. Scannell. “The best thing she could do for all of us is to decline the patronage appointment and not doing any more damage.”

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National Employment Security Appointee

Suzan LeVine Retaliated Against Claimants, Whistleblowers claim

Washington State ESD Commissioner LeVine is Responsible for the Largest State Loss from Fraud in U.S. History

Seattle, Washington State Jan. 5, 2021. When 21-year-old ‘Sonya L.’ applied for unemployment benefits in Washington State, she filled out every form and complied with every law. Nothing happened for months. And months. And months.

While employment security offices (ESD) across the country are having challenges ranging from fraud to backlogs, Washington State has stood out among all others for several reasons, according to claimants, lawyers, and government insiders.

At the center of the dysfunction, they say, was Suzan LeVine, a state political appointee who is now nominated to be responsible for the nation’s entire employment security system following a $400,000 donation to the Biden campaign. Sonya’s L.’s Washington state experience, however, may cause the U.S. Senate to take a closer look before confirming LeVine.

LeVine’s critics responded to political appointment by highlighting problems at the ESD under her leadership, in which Nigerians create a fraud scheme that stole $600 million in unemployment funds, and months of delays in unemployment payments to eligible claimants during the pandemic.

In contrast to Sonya L’s experience with unemployment benefits, career criminal Austin Schwahn, whose street alias is “Austin ‘Rockstrom,” filed false claims while using drugs. He promptly received a check in full from Ms. LeVine’s office. Although a written fraud claim was officially filed by a highly credible witness months before, the convicted heroin dealer continued to receive unemployment benefits from Washington State Employment Security Commissioner Suzan LeVine’s office.

Meanwhile, over a period of six months, Sonya L. made dozens of calls to the Employment Security Department (ESD), spent over 20 hours on hold and sent several emails to the State for her unemployment claims. She finally began receiving a weekly check. But while her past due claims had been approved – which would have been enough to pay for a place to live – they failed to come through.

Finally, after continuous efforts produced no results, the former journalism student reached out to friends in the media. They gave her the personal email address of then ESD Commissioner Suzan LeVine. After sending an email to former Commissioner LeVine, it got a reaction, but not the one she expected. “Rather than helping resolve the claim,” Sonya L. said, “former Commissioner LeVine immediately retaliated against me.”

Within hours of reaching out to the former Commissioner, in fact, Sonya L. received a response from ‘Agent #644.’ “At first I was really encouraged to have received such a fast reply after so much time and effort to resolve the claim,” she said. “I guess I shouldn’t have had so much faith after all that’s happened, and everything that’s been covered in the media.”

A lot has, indeed, been covered in the media. Former Commissioner LeVine had become the national symbol of government dysfunction. Articles in the local, regional, and national press referred to Ms. LeVine as being solely responsible for allowing the greatest single social services fraud in the history of her state to occur as a result of her negligence. LeVine then, according to Washington State’s Auditor, concealed the losses.

Regardless of the press coverage, when ‘Agent #644’ again asked for the same information that Sonya L. had previously provided, she wasn’t initially concerned. “At first I thought, ‘well, since they’re getting back to me so quickly, at least they’re trying to take care of this.’ It was really naïve of me. Later it seemed clear that the delays are a calculated process by the State to illegally deny claims.”

When Sonya L. reached out to friends in the press who had previously covered government stories, her feelings were confirmed – she learned of a pattern of practices the State employs to deny benefits claims. “It’s a four-part process,” one journalist explained to her, “The first step is simply ignoring claimants. If people are persistent, the second step is ‘case shuffling,’ it’s where the case is moved from agent to agent to wear you down.”

That was exactly what Sonya L. experienced. “After again giving all the required information to agent #644, I then received a message from ‘Lisa C.,’ who asked for documents that aren’t even required by law,” stated Sonya L. “This is exactly what insiders said would be the third step.” Before she even had a chance to respond to ‘Lisa C.,’ the case was ‘shuffled’ again. This time to a ‘Case Investigator.’

“This is the fourth step in the process of denying valid claims,” her journalist friend told her. “Taking the offensive. Starting a pretext ‘investigation’ when the claim is perfectly valid. Basically, it’s an intimidation tactic.” Joseph Nessinger, referring to himself as a ‘Case Investigator,’ as Sonya’s journalists friends predicted, sent an email to Sonya L. requesting a call. Joseph Nessinger is, in fact, a private investigator who is alleged to be fraudulently licensed as a result of his unreported prior conviction by the IRS for unpaid taxes.

In response to private investigator Nessinger’s emails, which clearly and falsely implied he was a state employee, on the advice of her journalist friends Sonya L. began looking for legal counsel. She sent an email to Nessinger asking for an extension of Lisa C.’s three-day deadline asking for documents not required by law. She explained that she needed time to find an attorney. Sonya L. also cited the law that doesn’t require her to provide the documents they demanded.

Lisa C. responded by offering a two-day extension to Sonya L., but ignored her request for a written response – required under the law – as to why her benefits were illegally suspended pending the conclusion of an ‘investigation,’ why there is an ‘investigation’ when she complied with all  requirements, and why she is being asked for documents that are not stipulated by law.

Meanwhile, throughout the greatest crisis and need for unemployment security in State history, Ms. LaVine, “earned substantially more than $200,000 a year in salary, benefits, and expense accounts, was taking vacations, and was often absent from the office,” according to insiders. There have been countless public demands by the press and politicians for her resignation. Multiple law firms have started class action suits.

“I just keep thinking, ‘If this could happen to me, I can’t imagine the amount of real-world pain and suffering that this mess at the State’s Unemployment office is causing to single mothers in rural areas, children who are going hungry, the elderly and people with illnesses,’” said Sonya L.. “It’s hard to imagine how much suffering could have been relieved by the money that was allowed to be stolen.”

“Let’s be clear about this,” said an employment law attorney who asked not to be named, “People need to figure out another approach to deal with Employment Security management,” he said. “These are illegal acts. People need to start filing public records requests and federal criminal complaints under USC 1983 civil rights violations against senior ESD staff . Something has got to change.”

Several hundred thousand unemployed Washingtonians would likely agree. Victims are now proposing public rallies – like the rallies being held to advocate for the defunding of police departments. “The management of ESD needs to be held personally accountable,” said another employment law attorney.

“One would think that there are many people immediately effected by the illegal withholding of their money. I think a strategically located rally would have a big impact. Like WTO.” Clearly, something has got to change. Perhaps if it’s likely to change anywhere, it’s likely to change in Seattle.

It is likely that Austin “Rockstrom” was hoping things wouldn’t change – in addition to nearly $10,000 in unemployment benefits, he received a $2,000 bonus payment from Ms. LeVine’s former office that was promptly spent on street drugs, courtesy of you, the Washington State taxpayer. The people of the state have financed both his ‘drug store’ and his heroin addiction.

Mr. “Rockstrom,” a convicted career criminal, has never even looked for a job once in his life, according to the official sworn fraud complaint filed with Ms. LeVine’s former office. The complaint regarding Mr. “Rockstrom” that was filed several months ago was only acted on recently after several follow up complaints with ESD.

Unable to pay her rent, Sonya L., however, was evicted and became homeless for the first time in her life. Mr. Rockstrom, his ‘business’ boosted by a windfall of taxpayer money, is now doing better than ever. Although she notified ESD in writing that she had been employed for a two week period to correct her original unemployment claim, Ms. LeVine’s office filed fraud charges against ‘Sonya L.’

The Senate will now decide if the entire nation’s unemployed, in the worst unemployment environment since the great depression, will have to rely on Ms. LeVine for their survival.

Just as Donald Trump appointed Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, to an office she was not qualified for, Joe Biden appears to be taken a punt from Trump’s playbook by hiring political infiltrators like Elaine Chao whose simply contributed money in exchange for a political appointment.

The Washington State Auditor’s Office confirmed that there were six whistleblower complaints filed by state employees who were threatened by Suzan Levine. Very disappointed in President Biden, who one time said ” the most patriotic thing an American can do is fight corruption.”

SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER

A Dangerous Con Man is Exposing a Massive Fraud Involving Public Officials in Washington State

Part One of an Ongoing Series by the GBR

By J.P. Zenger

Pierce College, WA ‘Professor’ John Edward Pennington, Jr.

Seattle, WA, (August 2020) – “I will never be charged with a crime because we have people in every position of government who will always protect me,” boasted John Pennington to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin.

Yet despite his Ted Bundy good looks, charm, and network of supporters in public office, professional con man and serial criminal John Edward Pennington Jr.’s life of attempted murder, child rape, and financial crimes may finally be coming to an end.

A decade-long effort to bring Mr. Pennington to justice has not only exposed his extensive criminal history, it continues to unravel a vast network of corruption by Washington public officials including the Bar Association, attorneys under contract with the State of Washington, the State’s insurers, and the Attorney General.

The tireless effort to bring Mr. Pennington and his supporters to justice has been led by Seattle-area Journalist Anne Block, J.D., who is also the publisher of the award-winning Gold Bar Reporter. Prior efforts of Ms. Block have resulted in the exposure of extensive corruption and the termination of several public employees.

In the process of exposing  Mr. Pennington’s criminal activity and network  of corruption associated with him, Ms. Block has been subject to death threats, harassment, retaliatory lawsuits and the illegal revocation of her law license by the Bar Association of the state she resides in – that has a duty to protect her rights.

Based on court records, however, attempts to intimidate Ms. Block have not only failed but served to redouble her conviction and efforts. The retaliation has also served to expose the people in the network who have supported Mr. Pennington, the way the network functions, and its broad range of criminal activities.

The progressive exposure of corruption involving Mr. Pennington and his associates has been in direct proportion to Ms. Block’s success. She has gained a growing national network of support, the attention of federal law enforcement, and the interest of the national press for violations of her First Amendment rights.

“Anne Block has exposed the largest criminal system involving public officials in the history of Washington State,” said federal appellate attorney John Scannell.

“The entire Washington State RICO [racketeering] enterprise has been revealed as a result of Anne Block’s investigation of Pennington’s crimes.”

Ms. Block’s investigation of Mr. Pennington has in fact yielded a trail of crime across the nation. Mr. Pennington’s known crimes include serial rape, several domestic violence charges, forgery, fraud, serial child molestation and negligent homicide resulting in 43 deaths, – all of which Ms. Block has meticulously  documented.

Among the carnage spanning decades, Ms. Block discovered that Mr. Pennington is the prime suspect in the kidnapping, rape and attempted murder of a five-year old girl in Cowlitz County, Washington. He is also a “person of interest” in the disappearance of several more children in at least four states.

Mr. Pennington’s domestic violence incidents include the brutal beating of an ex-wife while in her third trimester of pregnancy. A court-ordered psychiatric evaluation of Mr. Pennington concluded that he is a “sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever.”

Mr. Pennington’s frauds include providing false credentials to secure former positions with FEMA, as Snohomish County, WA’s Director of Emergency Management, his current teaching job with Pierce College, WA, and recently his attempt to gain admission to a PhD. program in Alaska, which Ms. Block ended.

Regardless of his long history of criminal activity and being “…completely incapable of recognizing the value of human life,” according to the referenced psychiatric assessment, the serial con man’s rise to power began when he found an uncontested legislative seat in rural Washington State. It worked.

After he was elected, Mr. Pennington quickly leveraged his new position, his Ted Bundy good looks and charm by networking with the State’s influential and powerful. Perhaps most notably, among his legislative peers and colleagues at the time was Washington State’s current Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

After being caught misrepresenting his residence, Mr. Pennington abandoned his seat in the Washington State Legislature. He again leveraged his former legislative position into an appointment as the Regional Director of FEMA – with false credentials, no experience, and no background check. It didn’t last.

Mr. Pennington was soon fired by FEMA for his personal use of federal government credit cards. Once again, however, Mr. Pennington used his former positions as State Legislator and subsequent FEMA Directorship to gain employment as Snohomish County, Washington’s Director of Emergency Management. County officials failed to check Mr. Pennington’s credentials, experience, and background.

The negligent hiring of Mr. Pennington by Snohomish County  Officials  would come with a high price. While acting Director of Emergency Management,  Pennington had repeatedly been advised by several experts that the Oso, Washington area of Snohomish County, Washington should be evacuated. With his falsified credentials, and illegally distracted with personal business interests,  Pennington failed to act.

Mr. Pennington’s failure to act resulted in the greatest loss of life from a landslide in U.S. history. As Mr. Pennington had been repeatedly advised by experts would occur, on March 22, 2014, a massive section of Oso, Washington collapsed into  the Cowlitz river. 43 people were killed, with hundreds of other injuries to people and animals, in addition to the loss of 49 homes.

Mr. Pennington was nowhere to be found. He was finally contacted on the East Coast, where he was discovered to be illegally operating his privately-owned emergency management services company. As people were dying, Mr. Pennington refused to return to Washington State. He prohibited rescue operations from beginning – he wanted the spotlight. Three days later he returned.

“Having John Pennington – ‘a sociopath with no empathy for human life,’ according to the court’s psychiatric expert – in charge of Emergency Management for  Snohomish  County  was  like  putting  the  Green  River  Killer  in  charge  of  a

domestic violence shelter,” said Ms. Block of the Gold Bar Reporter. “Isn’t the real question for all of us ‘how is Pennington – literally – getting away with murder?’”

“Isn’t he responsible for having committed negligent homicide in the deaths of 43 people? Why isn’t Pennington being prosecuted for serial molestation and violent crimes? Why no prosecution for a series of frauds against the County, the State, and the Federal Government? Why isn’t he being prosecuted for the rape and attempted murder of that five-year old girl in Cowlitz County?” said Ms. Block.

Federal Court Documents Allege that Attorney Michael Kenyon and his Law Firm Kenyon Dyson are Participants in an Ongoing Criminal Enterprise

One answer may be found in two words: Michael Kenyon. Mr. Kenyon, a friend of Mr. Pennington, was City Attorney for Kelso, WA at the time of Mr. Pennington’s alleged kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of the five-year old girl. Two witnesses identified Mr. Pennington as the man whom they saw throw the child’s body over a rural bridge. They also identified his car. The case looked solid.

Under the jurisdiction of City Attorney Michael Kenyon, however, the rape kit disappeared. As Mr. Pennington was to assume office as a Legislator, Mr. Kenyon left his $43k job as City Attorney. He then received millions of dollars in contracts to provide legal services for State government agencies. Regardless of the evidence against Mr. Pennington, the rape and attempted murder were never prosecuted.

Ms. Block’s saga began with what she thought was a routine public records request to the City of Gold Bar. After noticing what appeared to be discrepancies in the accounting of the water district of her small municipality near Seattle, she asked for the records. The request was denied. What followed was a relentless quest for justice spanning a decade, ending with the exposure of the state-wide public fraud.

Although the records request was denied, however, it was subject to the State’s public records act. A practicing attorney at the time, Ms. Block persisted. As the denials continued, she published accounts of her efforts on her news publication, the Gold Bar Reporter. The articles were directly followed by a series of retaliatory acts from what appeared to be the City of Gold Bar and their attorneys.

It wasn’t. Behind the City of Gold Bar was the State’s insurer, the Assn. of WA  Cities (AWC); the Dept. of Enterprise Services Risk Management Division (DES); the State Bar, a network of attorneys called SAAGs; and judges acting directly or indirectly at the behest of her State’s highest legal authority, Attorney General  Bob Ferguson. The previously invisible network acted against Block at every turn.

“The way the State Attorney General (AG) has control of every citizen in Washington State as well as the state political system is simple: money,” said former chess champion and appellate attorney John Scannell. “The AG uses both state and federal money to control county prosecutors and judges, federal judges, the State Bar, AWC and a network of hundreds of private attorneys and law firms.”

“Public records requests over several years have uncovered how the AG makes illegal payouts to control the state. Contrary to State law the AG has County Prosecutors on both the State payroll and retirement systems. Although County Prosecutors aren’t allowed to hold outside employment, the AG hires them as ‘Special Assistant AGs, or SAAGs. It’s a direct conflict of interest,” said Mr. Scannell.

If Mr. Scannell presents a summary of the theory of Washington’s corruption, Ms. Block has experienced the reality. Directly after publishing accounts of how Mr. Pennington’s ex-wife and then Gold Bar Mayor Crystal Hill had stolen $200,000 from the City, a wave of retaliation followed. Without legal basis, the Washington State Bar Association issued a subpoena for the Gold Bar Reporter’s files.

As a legally recognized member of the press, Gold Bar Publisher Ms. Block refused. When she was abroad, the State Bar then illegally issued the subpoena. Ms. Block, who worked as a machinist through law school as a single mother, was summarily disbarred in absentia. The disbarment was made possible by Mr. Pennington and his ex-wife, who had bribed attorney and State Bar Disciplinary  Officer Lin O’Dell.

Ms. O’Dell has a history of guardianship fraud involving the theft of several million dollars, ending with the State’s Guardianship Oversight Board prohibiting  her from further involvement in guardianship cases. Although the State Bar has received dozens of well documented complaints of Ms. O’Dell’s fraud, and regardless of the Guardianship Board’s finding of theft, the Bar refuses to act against her. To this day, Ms. O’Dell is a member of the Washington Bar in good standing with no disciplinary history. Her daughter acts as her proxy in ongoing guardianship cases.

The retaliation against Ms. Block backfired. As it continued over the course of a decade, she made hundreds of public records requests related to those who were acting against her. Most records requests were illegally withheld, destroyed, or redacted. Ultimately, however, she was able to establish patterns of the people involved. A clear picture gradually emerged of the State’s machinery  of corruption.

That machine, according to Ms. Block’s carefully documented evidence submitted in her court filings, is the same machinery that has allowed Mr. Pennington and many others to commit crimes without being held accountable. One cog in the RICO machine is the law firm of Mr. Pennington’s friend, Mr. Kenyon. His firm has engaged in an ongoing series of retaliation and cover-ups for Mr. Pennington.

Ms. Ann Marie Soto and Ms. X, formerly of the Kenyon law firm have, in fact, routinely altered, redacted or destroyed documents in the federal crime database  NCIC; tampered with and bribed federal witnesses; destroyed, alter or prevented state records from release; submitted false or altered records in several retaliatory legal actions against Ms. Block, and colluded with judges.

When finally unveiled, it became clear that the machinery that was protecting Mr. Pennington was an octopus-like RICO [racketeering] enterprise. The enterprise is fueled by two main sources of funding: a massive guardianship and probate fraud system, as well as state and federal funds. Near the center of it all is the State’s highest legal authority Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

The Washington State Bar Association is controlled by Attorney General Bob Ferguson,” said Mr. Scannell. Similarly disbarred by the State for refusing  to violate attorney-client confidentiality,  Mr. Scannell remains a  respected  Ninth Circuit appellate attorney. “Although the Bar repeatedly asserts its status as a private organization, the AG has the Bar Association on the payroll of the State,” he said.

State Bar management and staff are, in fact, being paid by the State’s Attorney General through the State retirement system, called PERS. The AG has also paid its network hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars through fraudulent tax refunds, SAAG contracts to hundreds of attorneys, as well as through speaking engagements and continuing education programs hosted by both state and federal judges.

Federal District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez Receives Compensation from the WA State Bar

“The Bar’s violation of Anne Block and the Gold Bar Reporter’s First Amendment rights was only possible because the Bar’s disciplinary functions are combined with its professional association,” said Mr. Scannell. “Her case is a model example of why the Janus decision of the Supreme Court is so important. It’s critical to ensure the Constitutional rights of members of the legal profession and every citizen.”

“Bob Ferguson’s crimes make Al Capone look like a Boy Scout. Capone never wore a mask of public service and virtue while stealing from the public and operating a criminal enterprise. Ferguson’s RICO steals billions from taxpayers and the federal government. It guarantees that anyone who is targeted will be denied their Constitutional right to due process,” said an inside source close to the case.

If Bob Ferguson and the State Bar are near the center of the RICO fraud, who is directing  them?  According to  thousands of  pages of  evidence  and testimony,

Peter King, the CEO of the Association of Washington Cities (AWC) is directing the entire RICO enterprise. Invisible to the public but representing every Washington city and the State government itself, AWC collects billions in insurance premiums.

AWC CEO Peter King, is Alleged to Control a Multi-billion Dollar RICO

With those billions, Ms. Block asserts with extensive and remarkable documentation, Mr. King has managed to control state government and the judicial system. “The abuse of power is the abuse of money,” said attorney Scannell. AWC has absolute power because they have evolved with zero oversight and claim to have the privilege of being exempt from the public records act, which also insisting in court filings that they are a private organization.”

Under the pretext of ‘risk management,’ AWC has created a system that denies any Washington State citizen a fair and impartial court system. AWC directs the AG, the Bar, and the SAAG system that has every prosecutor and hundreds of attorneys and law firms on the state payroll.

“Now that the largest fraud in the history of the state is exposed, the implication of Anne Block’s case is huge,” said Mr. Scannell. “The reason is, these couldn’t be greater crimes, or greater abuses of public office. Given the amount of evidence that has been presented, if these people aren’t held accountable, we can all stop pretending we live under the rule of law. That’s really what Anne’s case means.”

Pierce College Chancellor Michele L. Johnson, Ph.D.

For his part, Mr. Pennington appears to continue to enjoy Washington State government job security and the protection of friends in high places. He currently teaches emergency management at Pierce College, Washington. Regardless of the evidence of Mr. Pennington’s false credentials and criminal activity, Chancellor Michele L. Johnson refuses to fire him. She declines to explain why.

Ironically, “Professor Pennington,” as he calls himself, teaches at Pierce College within a stone’s throw of the infamous Green River in Washington State, where the State’s most prolific serial killer was most active.

When Ms. Block contacted former Seattle Times reporter Emily Heffner to comment on one of her articles about the RICO fraud, all Ms. Heffner would say was “you need to move because they’re coming after you.”

She didn’t, and they did. And now Anne Block is coming after them.

Next in the Ongoing “Getting Away with Murder” Series: A Criminal Lawyer – Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Criminal Enterprise; State of Tyranny – Michael Kenyon’s Role in Washington State’s Criminal Enterprise; State of Tyranny – Shannon Ragonesi and Ann Marie Soto’s Role in Washington State’s Criminal Enterprise; The Men Behind the Curtain: How AWC’s Peter King and Harlan Stientjes Operate Washington State’s Largest Criminal Enterprise; and KINGPIN: AWC’s Peter King, Washington State’s Teflon Don.

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Donald Trump, the greatest threat to America’s National Security

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In the last days of his presidency, Donald Trump has incited violence, and has engaged a deliberate campaign of terrorism aimed at dividing Americans, like myself, who opposed him politically. As a result, Donald Trump has become the greatest threat to America’s National Security that America shall ever see.

But why, why is the so called leader of the free World engaging in such terroristic acts and inciting violence in the last days of his administration?

I believe the answer is simple: Donald Trump, and his children, are facing criminal charges in several states for money laundering and racketeering. Once Trump leaves office, a prediction that criminal charges will follow and his attempts to overthrow the will of the voters is nothing more than his attempt to save himself.

In late 2018, Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen turned over mounds of files to the FBI. So much so that the FBI raided Trump’s tax lawyers offices in downtown Chicago. From that investigation, New York state attorney General’s Office started investigating ” The Trump Foundation” for racketeering. Michael Cohen gave the state of New York a treasure trove of files implicating Trump and his children in a massive money laundering scam called ” The Trump Foundation.”

Trump is using a tactic known as “stochastic terrorism,” says Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security. Similar tactics that Adolph Hitler used to instigate hatred against mainly German Jews, political foes and gays. This method provokes acts of extremist violence against people who do not share the same opinion. This type of rhetoric incites others to commit violent acts in their name.

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that Trump kept a book of Hitler’s speeches near his bed, reading excerpts every night before bed. This statement alone supports a position taken by many, including myself, that Trump is purposefully inciting violence and should be arrested without delay.

The bigger question that seems to slide by most Americans is simple: Why is Trump ramping things up lately? Bob Woodward once said to me ” Anne, follow the money.” I believe he was right.

Last month, Deutsche Bank announced it was calling in Trump’s $340,000,000 loan for failure to pay. Follow the money might be understatement here. During the summer of 2020, Trump misused taxpayer money in an attempt to block a valid congressional subpoena seeking access to his banking records. Other banks Trump has loans with are also closing in to collect. Some argue: Why should Trump have to turn over his banking records? Simply put, most treasonous acts committed against America involve a transfer of money. Without access to banking records of public officials, America’s National Security is at great risk of having foreign governments straggle our so called democracy.

The Nation had it right when it published The Family That Grifts Together. Soon after this story was published, leaks came from the State of New York that Trump’s children have been stealing from the Trump’s non-profit foundation. After a court found Trump guilty of theft from the non-profit, he paid back over $2,000,000 of stolen funds. According to our counsel, “just because Trump paid back what he stole as a civil penalty, does not mean he is out of the woods on the criminal charges. In fact, by paying back what he stole from the non-profit, he almost made an admission to the State of New York that he misappropriated non-profit money to benefit himself and his children.”

When Trump’s son Eric was subpoenaed to testify in a Grand Jury New York state inquiry, he fought the subpoena. His lawyers stated that Eric has a 5th Amendment right not to testify against himself. But the truth is, New York State seated Grand Jury, and the only plausible reason for doing so to pursue criminal charges.

Trump’s recent rhetoric is nothing more than an attempt to save himself from criminal prosecution and his 7th Bankruptcy.

My readers probably guessed that I never was never nor ever will be a Trumpster, for many reasons, including the fact that he was a draft dodger, marries like its just another day at the office, treats women with utmost disrespect, tramples on the civil liberties of Americans, obstructs women’s rights, and failed at every business dealings he ever participated in. These failures are not signs of a great leader or great business man, they signs of a failure and a con artist.

My father served in World War II, never filed bankruptcy, was a dedicated federal government employee, and was married to my mother for 36 years. He set the example of how a good American male should be behave, similar attributes that have served me in my own relationships.

Adolph Hitler convinced millions of German’s to support him with this slogan ” MAKE GERMANY GREAT AGAIN.”

In 2016 a friend said to me ” I voted for Donald Trump because I wanted to drain the swamp” and my response was ” I too want to drain the swamp, the problem is, Donald Trump is the swamp.”

Trump’s last four years of chaos should not be the normal for how we Americans treat one another because we are different, but an example of how not to treat people who we disagree with or are from different ethnic backgrounds. After all, we are all immigrants; violence never solved anything, and inciting violence toward others, is just common thuggery and as unamerican as fireworks.

My hope is that America will survive Donald Trump’s Adolph Hitler like tactics. I love America more than any other country on this planet. It’s my home, and I treasure the Constitution as the greatest gift Thomas Jefferson brought back with him from Europe. Erode it, or allow anyone to trample on it, America will be abolished.

My activism belongs to no political party. Our founders implemented the First Amendment to the US Constitutional with one purpose ” Citizens are the checks and balances in forcing change where change is so desperately needed, not any one government official or office.”

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men” ― Charles Darwin

The greatest threat to Washingtonians right to be left alone in their private affairs, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson

Stupid is as stupid does; Bob Ferguson was re-elected to the third term as Washington State’s Attorney General. Sadly, the public only reads headline news, and those articles posted by Bob Ferguson’s friends at the Seattle Times.

This article is written after eight years of sifting through public records documenting that that Attorney General Bob Ferguson has misappropriated hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars here in Washington to retaliate against those he disagrees, by gifting of taxpayer monies.

The State Attorney General directs, operates, and controls the private Bar Association, attorneys under contract with the State called “Special Assistant Attorney Generals (SAAGs),” “Special Assistant Prosecutors,” prosecutors, judges, the Washington State Auditor’s Office, and the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

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PERS is for government employees only, but Washington State has been illegally funneling money to the private Bar. The Washington State Bar Association employees are also allowed to collect under Washington State’s Public Retirement System (PERS).

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The AG acts at the direction of the State’s insurer, the Association of Washington Cities (AWC). AWC, in turn, is essentially an operating unit of Lloyd’s of London, according to court records.

Bob Ferguson, a product of the Catholic Church

Bob Ferguson likes to brag that he is a Washingtonian and doesn’t like to lose like life is a Nintendo game. He was born in Seattle in 1965 and a fourth-generation Washingtonian. After graduating from Bishop Blanchet High School in 1983, he attended and graduated form the University of Washington. After college, Ferguson joined Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest and directed an emergency services office for a year.

The Jesuits are a deeply troubled religious group, dominated and controlled solely by men, most white, involved in pedophilia scandals all over the World.

In 2001, Martin Baron, a Jewish Editor for the Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” investigative team, read an article about the Catholic Church covering up sex abuse committed by a single Catholic Priest. But soon discovered it was much bigger than just one pedophile priest.

From 2001 to 2002, the Spotlight team soon realized it wasn’t just one priest being moved from one parish to another to cover up sexual exploitation of our children, it was happening all over the United States. After interviewing several witnesses, they began to uncover a pattern of sexual abuse by other priests in Massachusetts, and an ongoing cover-up by the Boston Archdiocese.

Soon after ” Spotlight” published its first of many articles, lawsuits against Catholic Diocese and Jesuits erupted all over the World. During this time, Bob Ferguson was a leader inside the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest.

The Jesuits settled in 2007 against accusations of sexual abuse in Alaska, Washington. Four years after this the first set of settlements, the Northwest Jesuits had to pay over $166 million to around 500 sex abuse victims that were in both in the Northwest, Arizona, and Alaska.

Most of the sexual abuse allegations against the Jesuits were made by Native Americans for rape, sodomy, and molestation committed by the Jesuits Volunteer Corps Northwest. Bob Ferguson was a member.

Even more troubling, Ferguson received a grant to provide legal assistance to the Yaqui tribe in Guadalupe, Arizona. As a paid Jesuit, Ferguson lived in Guadalupe for a time, assisting community members on a wide range of legal matters.

According to one tribal children abused by the Jesuits, ” Ferguson would tell us, don’t bother with suing the Catholic Diocese they have too much power and money. I finally found a lawyer but always felt like Bob Ferguson had an undisclosed motive to convince me not to.”

Bob Ferguson was a member of the King County Council from 2003-2012. During this time, King County Prosecutor, Dan Satterburg, at the bequest and legal direction of Bob Ferguson decided not to prosecute priests who sexually abused our children.

In 2007, a reporter for The Stranger, Josh Feit, reported that Dan Satterburg refused to investigate a single child sex abuse and cover-up case at the local Seattle Catholic Archdiocese, while at the same time, Dan Satterburg advised the Catholic Archdiocese on how to respond to reports of abuse.

Attorney Timothy Kosnoff represented victims of priests stated that he has seen, during legal discovery, significant evidence in sealed Archdiocese files about child abuse and cover-ups. When he asked the Prosecutor’s office to authorize an inquiry to open the sealed files, Dan Satterberg, with the legal assistance of Bob Ferguson, replied that he didn’t have sufficient evidence to proceed.

Attorney Kosnoff said “No shit, Dan, you haven’t found any evidence because you haven’t issued a subpoena.” Kosnoff further complained that “clerics were able to skate through with settlements paid for by parishioners without ever being required to account for sodomizing children. King County should have been doing its job, and I hold Dan Satterberg responsible.” Kosnoff said Satterberg was suffering from “sacred cow syndrome.”

The side show is that Dan Satterberg was also serving as an advisor to the Archdiocese on dealing with new reports of abuse. Our source states ” Bob Ferguson and Dan Satterburg were given legal advice to the Catholic Diocese, instead of protecting Washingtonians from pedophiles hiding behind the walls of religion.

For these reasons, Bob Ferguson has been on our radar for public corruption for years. ” Those who protect pedophiles are pedophiles themselves.” Whether or not Bob Ferguson sodomized, raped and/or molested children is still too soon to know, but allegations have been lodged by two victims. There is more to come on this story.

The Washington State Bar Association, a license to steal and commit crimes with the assistance of Washington State Attorney General’s Office

While Bob Ferguson was employed by Preston Ellis & Gates, he hired Jack Abramoff. Jack Abramoff was hired as Republican lobbyist to gain political favors with the George W. Bush administration. Friends of Abramoff included like former House of Representative Republican leader Tom Delay.

Without no surprise, Tom Delay was arrested and convicted of money laundering, bribery, and racketeering and Jack Abramoff was convicted racketeering.

” Birds of the same feathers flock together as do pigs and swine…”Rapists, child molesters, ties to organized crime, and persons guilty of racketeering are people Bob Ferguson not only befriended but also defended as a lawyer.

Bob Ferguson’s Money Laundering Scam; The Washington State Assistant Attorney General Program, illegally funneling public money to the City of Gold Bar to cover up racketeering of its public officials

In 2009, the Gold Bar Reporter hired a open government attorney to file suit against the City of Gold Bar for access to public records. The records sought were for all records that relate to a water employee, Karl Majerle. Mr. Majerle was fired after he sabotaged the City of Gold Bar’s water system, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, and had committed an act of Domestic Terrorism against the public safety and health of residents.

Instead of then Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington reporting Majerle’s acts of Domestic Terrorism to Homeland Security and the FBI, Ms. Hill Pennington made a phone call to Director of Emergency Management for Snohomish County, John Edward Pennington Jr asking for a political favor i.e. help me thwart the criminal charges against Majerle. Crystal Hill Pennington had been engaged in an extra-marital affair with five county employees and one judge between 2006 to 2009.

John Edward Pennington Jr. picked up the phone and asked Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe and Sean Reay for a political favor, i.e. help Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington quash criminal charges against Majerle for sabotaging the City of Gold Bar’s water system.

In 2008, the Gold Bar Reporter had no idea that Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington was being extorted by Majerle for falsifying her Washington State election filings, falsely claiming that she was a City Manager for Gold Bar, and she never used any other name. Crystal Hill Pennington was never the City Manager for Gold Bar, she was an elected official who lied to voters about her past criminal history , a twice convicted bank frauder with a short jail sentence using the name Crystal Berg, and in 2007,she lied telling residents she was in law school. She is not and was not in an accredited J.D. program.

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Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington has been repeatedly denied entrance into an accredited law school program for lying on her law school applications, a low aptitude score on her LSAT exams, lying about her past criminal history, and lying about her work and academic credentials.

King County, Washington, confirmed that Crystal Hill Pennington has been terminated for filing fraudulent application to obtain employment in the summer of 2020 for lying on her job application about her work and academic credentials.

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Instead of reporting the acts of Domestic Terrorism Majerle committed against Gold Bar, the Gold Bar City Council, which included another convicted felon, Joe Beavers, and a Washington State Department of Corrections employee, Lonn Turner, decided to help Crystal Hill and Majerle cover up the sabotaging of the City’s water system.

Why was best explained by former Gold Bar council member Jay Prueher “Crystal was stealing from the City” and another Gold Bar council members said ” Crystal disseminated her sexually transmitted disease results into Gold Bar’s email communication.” Why Snohomish County Prosecutors Mark Roe and Sean Reay decided to help can only be explained as ” public corruption” or political courtesy.

Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe is a sexual deviant and the County has paid out millions to settle suits because of his criminal racketeering conduct. The Washington State Bar Association also revoked his license to practice law.

For years, Crystal Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington ran an anonymous website titled the ” Sky Valley Chronicle.” On this website, not one person signed their names, and had it not been for public records retrieved from Snohomish County Prosecutors Office, we may have never known that John Edward Pennington Jr. ran that website right from Department of Emergency Management’s office in Snohomish County.

In email communication retrieved from the Gold Bar city clerk, Denise Beaston, Mayor Joe Beavers would frequently log in from Gold Bar’s City computers and post hit pieces on attorney Anne Block with ever signing his him. Basically, Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington and John E Pennington were cyber stalking Anne Block misusing county and city resources and taxpayer money to further their criminal racketeering Enterprise.

In fact, the county taxpayers paid the Sky Valley Chronicle for advertisements. Money that went from the county taxpayers to John Edward Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington’s Sky Valley Chronicle, for the sole purpose of running hit pieces on anyone the Prosecutors office or the City of Gold Bar wanted defamatory articles published. Since not one person signed their names, and 90 % of what was published was false, its racketeering.

When the Gold Bar Reporter sued the Penningtons and the Sky Valley Chronicle for defamation and cyber-stalking, the Penningtons finally removed the Sky Valley Chronicle. Then, Snohomish County Prosecutors Mark Roe, Joseph Genster, Miko Tempski ( an attorney with ties to the Russian mob) and Sean Reay, illegally used taxpayer monies to provide a legal defense to the Sky Valley Chronicle against the Gold Bar Reporter in Block v WSBA Sky Valley Chronicle, Ron Fejfar, John Pennington, Joe Beavers and Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg convicted of bank fraud. The law firm they used to assist in their criminal racketeering crimes was Deno Millikan, also known as Special Assistant Prosecutors for Snohomish County government. https://www.denomillikan.com/ Deno Millikan is also the law firm that threatened to sue the City of Gold Bar after the City council fired Karl Majerle for sabotaging the City of Gold Bar’s water system.

In one email Mr Pennington wrote to the Gold Bar Reporter and said ” Don’t expect any help from the Snohomish County Sheriff Office, the FBI or Homeland Security. They know what I did and no one cares. hahahaha….”

What should be noted from the above email is that Mr. Pennington is autistic and often misuses ellipse. Besides the IP address for email lead us right back to the County, Mr Pennington misuse of ellipses, made it very clear to our expert witness that he was sending emails bragging about how massive corruption in Washington State.

After John Edward Pennngton caused the deaths of 43 people in the Oso mudslides, Governor Inslee requested that everyone who participated give a statement about how they could have done things differently. In John E Pennington’s letter to the Governor about his failures in the Oso mudslides response, he wrote ” I learned a lot…” Once again, Mr. Pennington misused an ellipse.

John E Pennington Jr.s’ criminal and government gang stalking of Anne Block, right from Snohomish County Offices, lead us to exposing Bob Ferguson’s involvement in a massive Snohomish County criminal harassment network ran with the assistance of Snohomish County Prosecutors.

“Anne Block has exposed the largest criminal system involving public officials in the history of Washington State,” said federal appellate attorney John Scannell. “The entire Washington State and national federal RICO [racketeering] enterprise has been revealed as a result of Anne’s investigation of John Edward Pennington Jr.’s crimes.”

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Ms. Block’s investigation of Mr. Pennington has in fact yielded a trail of federal crimes across the nation. Mr. Pennington’s crimes include serial rape, several domestic violence charges, forgery, fraud, serial child molestation and negligent homicide resulting in 43 deaths – all of which Ms. Block has meticulously documented. Regardless of the evidence presented to public officials and in the court record, Mr. Pennington has not been convicted of a single crime.

Among the carnage spanning decades, Ms. Block discovered that Mr. Pennington is the prime suspect in the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of a five-year old girl in Cowlitz County, Washington. According to the Alaska State Police, Mr. Pennington is also a “person of interest” in a recent disappearances of young women in the State of Alaska have also coincided with Mr. Pennington’s presence there; and a person of interest in the disappearance of others in four other states where public gas receipts show he had close temporal proximity to missing persons.

Mr. Pennington’s domestic violence incidents include the brutal beating of an ex-wife while in her third trimester of pregnancy. A King County court-ordered psychiatric evaluation of Mr. Pennington by Dr. Marsha Hedricks concluded that he is “a sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever.” Dr. Hedrick’s report made clear that Mr. Pennington is completely incapable of recognizing the value of any living being.

Mr. Pennington’s frauds include providing false credentials to secure several former positions: as Regional Director of FEMA; as Director of Emergency Management for Snohomish County, Washington;  for his current teaching job with Pierce College, Washington; and recently his attempt to gain admission to a Ph.D. program in Alaska, which Ms. Block ended by providing documentation of Mr. Pennington’s falsified background to University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

In 2013, Executive Aaron Reardon was forced to resign in disgraced after he was caught illegally funneling public money to harass his political foes.

Labyrinth: Reardon staff linked to harassment, surveillance

Regardless of Mr. Pennington’s long history of criminal activity and being “…completely incapable of recognizing the value of human life,” as stated in the referenced psychiatric assessment by Dr. Marsha Hedricks, the serial criminal’s rise to power began when he found an uncontested legislative seat in rural Washington State. Running unopposed, he put his name on the ballot and was elected to the legislature.

After he was elected, Mr. Pennington quickly ingratiated himself with the State’s influential and powerful. Perhaps most notable among his legislative peers and colleagues at the time was Washington State’s current Attorney General Bob Ferguson, in addition to current Snohomish County Commissioner G. Geoffrey Gibbs, and State Court of Appeals Judge Marlin Appelwick.

Mr. Pennington’s position in state legislature, however, soon ended after being caught misrepresenting his residence. After Mr. Pennington abandoned his seat in the legislature, he again leveraged his former legislative position into an appointment as the Regional Director of FEMA – with false credentials, no experience, and no background check. His position with FEMA was equally brief.

Mr. Pennington was soon fired by FEMA for his personal use of federal government credit cards. Once again, however, Mr. Pennington used his former positions as State Legislator and subsequent FEMA Directorship to gain employment as Snohomish County, Washington’s Director of Emergency Management. County officials failed to check Mr. Pennington’s credentials, experience, and background.

The negligent hiring of Mr. Pennington by Snohomish County Officials would come with an historically high price. While acting as Director of Emergency Management, Mr. Pennington had repeatedly been advised by several experts that the Oso, Washington area of Snohomish County, Washington should be evacuated. The federal government had provided funding to Snohomish County for the purchase of properties at risk. All Mr. Pennington had to do was write the checks. He failed.

With his falsified credentials, and illegally distracted with personal business interests, Mr. Pennington failed to act. His failure to act resulted in the greatest loss of life from a landslide in U.S. history. As Mr. Pennington had been advised would occur, on March 22, 2014, a massive section of Oso, Washington collapsed into the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River. 43 people were killed, with hundreds of other injuries to people and their animals, in addition to the loss of 49 homes.

Mr. Pennington was nowhere to be found. He was finally contacted on the East Coast, where he was discovered to be illegally operating his privately-owned emergency management services company. As people were dying, Mr. Pennington refused to return to Washington State. Wanting the spotlight, he prohibited rescue operations from beginning. Three days later he returned.

“Having John Pennington, ‘a sociopath with no empathy for human life,’ according to the court’s mental health expert Dr. Marsha Hedricks, in charge of Emergency Management for Snohomish County was like putting the Green River Killer in charge of a domestic violence shelter,” said Ms. Block of the Gold Bar Reporter. “But isn’t the larger question for all of us ‘how is John Pennington getting away with countless federal and state crimes?’”

Although the records request was withheld for over 13 years, however, it was subject to the State’s public records act. A practicing attorney at the time, Ms. Block persisted. As the denials continued, inspired by a national talk show host, she published accounts of her efforts on her news publication, the Gold Bar Reporter. The articles were directly followed by a series of retaliatory acts from what appeared to be the City of Gold Bar and its’ attorneys.

It wasn’t. Behind the City of Gold Bar was the State’s insurer, the Association of Washington Cities (AWC); the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services Risk Management Division (DES); the Washington State Bar, a network of attorneys and law firms called Special Assistant Attorney Generals (“SAAGS”); Special Assistant Prosecutors (“SAPs”), and judges acting directly or indirectly at the behest of Washington State’s highest legal authority, Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

Under Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the order was given to Doug Ende, at the Washington State Bar, to disbar Ms. Block for reporting the truth on public corruption.

“The way the State Attorney General (AG) has control of every citizen in Washington State as well as the state political system is simple: money,” said former chess champion and appellate attorney John Scannell. “The AG uses both state and federal money to control county prosecutors and judges, federal judges, the State Bar, AWC and a network of hundreds of private attorneys and law firms under contract with the AG called SAPs and SAAGs.”

“Public records requests over several years have uncovered how the AG makes illegal payouts to control the state. Contrary to State law, the AG has County Prosecutors and federal judges on both the State payroll and retirement systems. Although County Prosecutors are prohibited by law from holding outside employment, the AG hires private attorneys as ‘Special Assistant AGs,’ or SAAGs. It’s a direct conflict of interest,” said Mr. Scannell.

Late this week, we received the first of many Washington-state-special-attorney-general-list who Bob Ferguson has unlawfully granted special powers to, including hundreds of private law firms and attorneys, and strangely many government agencies such as Snohomish, Spokane and Yakima County Prosecutors Office are also listed as “Special Assistant Attorney Generals” in spite of Washington State law that prohibits Prosecutors from holding any other job than that of a county prosecutor.

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Public records from the private Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) also documents that Bob Ferguson ( AG) is also illegally operating every aspect of the Washington State Bar Association, and even illegally funneling public money to defend legal suits brought against the WSBA.

” If the Washington State Attorney Generals Office were providing a legal defense to the National Rifle Association, the public would be outraged. So why is it ok to divert public money to a private Bar? Simply put, it’s not.”

The amount of money Attorney General Bob Ferguson has misappropriated through the SAAG money laundering scam, in excess of $420 million and tolling.

” By pooling the prosecutors, the public defenders, the judges, the special assistant attorney generals, the cities, the schools, the fire districts, the judges, and private law firms, the state’s insurer, Lloyds of London, ensures that it doesn’t have to pay claims for unlawful and often criminal conduct of its government officers.

Bob Ferguson is running a felonious monopoly to ensure now one wins unless you have ties to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office like Jack Connelly, Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler, Mike Kenyon, Jeffrey Myers, and even Snohomish County Judges Janice Ellis, George Appeal, Edirn Okoloko, Cindy Larson, Millie Judge, and David Kurtz, were also Special Assistant Attorney Generals while employed at the Snohomish County Prosecutors Office.

Attorneys, including public defenders like Phil Sayles, and Jason Schwartz, who agree to throw their clients under the bus, settle cases for pennies on the dollar, or in criminal cases, simply throw the case in favor of money contracts with the AG and the County. This ensures that they make hundreds of millions for little work performed and an unethical and often malicious conduct of public prosecutors or public defenders are never disciplined.

The Attorney General is also illegally running and operating the Washington Judicial Ethics Commission, Association of Washington Cities/Counties, and the private Washington State Bar Association. This ensures that the AG set up a pre-fixed monopoly game where the state decides who wins or loses.

Here in Snohomish County, the Prosecutors Office is tampering with the jury list, to ensure people prosecutors know will analyze and scrutinize the evidence are removed from the potential jury list.

Special Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey S Myers slipped the lipped when he said ” They will not let Anne Block win.” We now know who ” they” are is the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, supervised and operated by Bob Ferguson. The Attorney General is committing gross Anti-Trust violations against citizens as “risk management” and fixing judicial proceedings against anyone who dares to expose the AG’s money laundering scam.

If the Washington State Attorney General’s Office was funneling money to and running the private National Rifle Association, the public would be outraged. So why should funneling public money to the private Washington Bar Association be legal or ok?

Snohomish County Special Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, and Special Assistant Attorney General, Joseph Genster, even has a direct telephone line to US Federal District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez in this case fixing scam. Why work on pleadings when you can simply fix a case by having exparte communication ( or as is the case with Western WA Federal Court_ with the judge directly.

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Duvall Washington’s Crystal Hill Pennington Washington State Bar complaints over the roof before her first week in private practice

September 11, 2022: UPDATE

Washington State Bar Assocation investigates complaint against Crystal Hill Pennington for misrepresentations made to government officers.

King County, Washington, issued findings of submitting fraudulent academic and work credentials against Crystal Hill Pennington.

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Seattle: May 20, 2022

Several potential clients contacted the Gold Bar Reporter about filing Washington State Bar complaints against Crystal Hill Pennington’s bar license, and she only been in practice for one week. For Gold Bar residents, this is no surprise. Ms. Hill Pennington steals from her clients, employers, and has spent time in prison for theft. Why and how she managed to get a Washington State Bar license with fraudulent academic credentials- all online from online schools the Department of Education labeled fraud.

In addition to her theft, Crystal Hill Pennington passed sexually transmitted disease (STD) to several public officials. In one case, her husband, John Edward Pennington Jr., raped a five-year-old child, and is guilty of trafficking children for sex along with Court of Appeals Div I. Justice Marlin Applewick and Snohomish County Commissioner G. Geoffrey Gibbs.

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Duvall Washington convicted bank frauder and Duvall Washington Lawyer under investigation for stealing from clients. Racketeering charges pending and she was found liable of forgery. Ms. Hill Pennington changed her name from Crystal Hill Pennington to Crystal Berg to Crystal Hill to cover up her criminal racketeering crimes.

Anyone with complaints against Ms. Hill Pennington WSBA license is encouraged to send the Gold Bar Reporter a copy of your complaint at GoldBarReporter@comcast.net. Your complaints will be published.

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Between 2015 to 2017, Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) along with John Edward Pennington Jr. attempted to obtain countless “restraining orders” against Anne Block, the Gold Bar Reporter. The reason was simple: Ms. Hill Pennington filed countless criminal complaints claiming that she was unable to find employment as a result of our news reports on her extensive criminal history.

In Pierce County, on April 27, 2017, a Washington State Judge held a 3.5 hour hearing, at which time, the Gold Bar Reporter presented copies of Ms. Hill Pennington criminal history records documenting that she is a twice convicted bank frauder, once in North Carolina where she served time in jail, and once in Snohomish County Washington where she plead guilty.

Ms. Hill Pennington uses several aliases, and aka as Crystal Berg and Crystal Pieneiche.

For over ten years, Ms. Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) and John Edward Pennington Jr. operated a foe website titled the ” Sky Valley Chronicle.” Public records confirm John E Pennington Jr did this right from his office inside Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management. john E. Pennington was fired for his criminal harassment in late 2016.

Crystal Hill Pennington was unemployed from February 2010, to April 2020. She was fired from every job she ever held which included Snohomish County Community Transit, and attorney Mark Weiss’s office. Inside Community Transit Ms. Hill Pennington was caught stealing ( excess of $300) and lying on her job application. Because Ms. Hill Pennington’s mother was a long term employee at Community Transit, they agreed not to criminally prosecute in 2002.

In 2010, Ms. Hill Pennington was also fired from attorney Mark Weiss’s office after he caught her practicing law without a license, writing and serving divorce motions for her new lover, John E Pennington Jr, in King County Washington, Laughlin v Pennington.

After Attorney Mark Wiess fired Crystal Hill for the crime of practicing law without a license, she applied for unemployment benefits lying about the reason why she was fired. The WA Security Division received a fraud report from another resident, and after a 90 day investigation, Ms. Hill Pennington was found to have falsely filed for unemployment benefits and court ordered to pay back over $6000.00 she stole. The State’s court filed in King County where Ms. Hill Pennington resides.

After Ms. Hill Pennington (nee Berg) plead guilty to bank fraud in Snohomish County, she was appointed as a Gold Bar city council member by another fraudster, Colleen Hawkins. Ms. Hawkins had her owns problems of using her husband’s security clearance inside Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office to run illegal background checks on citizens. Ms. Hawkins used her husband, a Sheriff Officer, to run illegal backgrounds on her opponents just before the election. What Ms. Hawkins found was a juvenile criminal conviction of her opponent from another state, and then disseminated the illegally obtained information via Gold Bar city emails. The only problem for Ms. Hawkins was that the criminal history she illegally gathered on her opponent was from a state that “seals” juvenile records.

As a twice convicted criminal, Ms. Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) was compromised, thus an ally to shady people like Coleen Hawkins. People who should be in prison for their crimes. Instead, Ms. Hill changed her name from Crystal Berg to Crystal Hill and ran for Mayor.

According to the Washington State Auditor’s 2012 Report, during Ms. Hill Pennington’s tenor as Mayor there is ” $200,000 missing from the City, and not employee can tell me where it went.”

In July 2008, Ms. Hill and a water employee named Karl Majerle were caught illegally using the City’s gas card for their personal vehicles. Majerle was the only prosecuted for the theft, because Ms. Hill Pennington’s past criminal history of bank fraud convictions, Association of Washington Cities was unable to bond her thus they had every incentive to cover up her crimes. Mr. Majerle knew about Ms. Hill Pennington’s criminal bank fraud convictions and extorted her into not pursuing criminal charges.

But then along came the Gold Bar Reporter, who has written extensively on Ms. Hill Pennington’s fraud; so much so that Ms. Hill Pennington filed a criminal complaint against the Gold Bar Reporter in 2016 claiming ” I cant find work because of Ms. Block’s blog.”

Joe Beavers became Mayor after Ms. Hill Pennington’s lengthy five year extra-martial affair with a forth time married man, John Edward Pennington Jr. For four years, Crystal Hill harassed his wife Ann, and in one extramarital affair with a married man, Fleshman Cooper ( the father of Hill’s child), Ms. Hill was found guilty of criminal harassment and ordered to stay away from Mr. Cooper, his wife and their child.

Fleshman Cooper’s ex-wife said ” Crystal Hill Pennington was abusing my child. I found bruises on my child, and brought charges against Crystal for criminal harassment . . . ” What Ms. Cooper didn’t know is that Crystal Hill was sleeping with several Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officers, one county Judge Joe Wilson, and three county prosecutors.

After siting by watching countless extra marital affairs committed by John E Pennington, with whores and prostitutes, John E Pennington’s marriage ended, and his mistress, Crystal Hill, who Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers said ” Crystal Hill is a whore! ” three times in Executive Session, moved in with John E Pennington in 2009.

At the time, Crystal Hill moved in with Pennington, her house was foreclosed on for failing to make a single house payment, and John E. Pennington Jr. was still married to Ann when Ms. Hill Pennington moved in with him.

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

In late 2012, Block v City of Gold Bar, then Gold Bar Mayor Joe Beavers was deposed and in that deposition we learned that Joe Beavers was a convicted felon from Arlington Texas. Joe Beavers sexually assaulted a female inside a bar and when a man tried to defend her, a drunkin fight broke out. Joe Beavers plead guilty to assault and was sentenced to 10 days in jail, ordered into anger management classes, and served 3 years probation.

Joe Beavers application to become a Professional Engineer was declined as a result of his felony conviction.

In late 2016, John E Pennington Jr. was fired from Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management after he was caught moonlighting on the county’s dime ( operating his own company and not paying WA State business tax) , operating and having the County taxpayers pay the Penningtons’ blog titled the Sky Valley Chronicle, and after his dereliction of his official county duties resulted in the deaths of 43 residents in the Oso mudslides.

In 2009, Dr. Hedricks from King County Washington labeled John Edward Pennington Jr. “a sociopath with no empathy for human life.” John Pennington was hospitalized at Oregon State hospital after he violently assaulted his prior fiancé in Oregon. As part of his plea deal, claiming he had a mental defect i.e. autism, John Edward Pennington Jr. would undergo mental health confinement at Oregon State Hospital instead of serving time in prison.

For six months John E Pennington Jr. filed false claims that the Gold Bar Reporter was anonymously cyber-stalking him and his family, when in fact, the Gold Bar Reporter has openly posted and appeared inside the press as Anne Block.

Fact is, the Penningtons were cyber-stalking on behalf of Snohomish County Prosecutors’ Office on a foe website titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle” and once Attorney General Bob Fergusson learned about this – after a lawsuit was filed against the Sky Valley Chronicle – he shut them down by saying ” If you don’t stop harassing’s Block on the Chronicle, we are going to let her proceed for defamation against you.”

For years, John Pennington bragged that he was a member of an organization that vowed to protect him if he were ever sued. At the time, we had no idea that Association of Washington Cities has been covering up for pedophiles inside our government offices. Public officials have known to have trafficked underage girls and/or boys for sex include Court of Appeals Justice Marlin Applewick, King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott, Washington State Bar Association Lead Counsel Doug Ende, and Snohomish County Commissioner G. Geoffrey Gibbs.

After the Judge held that Anne Block was a member of the press, denying the Penningtons’ request to stop our news reports on their fraud and harassment, Crystal Hill Pennington teared up, putting on a very poor acting stunt, trying to get the Judge to reconsider his decision. The Judge DENIED Ms. Hill Pennington’s attempts to restrain the Gold Bar Reporter as “Unconstitutional Restraint against Free Speech and the Free Press.”

The real reason why Pierce County denied the restraining order because the Penningtons’ were caught forging court records. Both were found liable for whiting out court service documents, and successfully sued as a result in Block v Penningtons, March 2017, King County Superior Court.

In late 2016, Ms. Hill Pennington filed a police report with Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office claiming she couldn’t find work as a result the Gold Bar Reporter’s news reports. So, as you can imagine, we were quite surprised that a twice convicted bank frauder, a person who filed fraudulent unemployment claims, was in fact found liable for not paying business tax ( King County against the Penningtons Education Services Inc.), and who was also found liable of forgery ( March 2017, Block v Pennington, King County), would be receiving any kind of government job. Especially since we already know Ms. Hill Pennington’s bank fraud convictions make her ineligible for King County, state and federal employment.

In April 2020, acting on false information Ms. Hill Pennington submitted in her job application and resume, King County hired her. This caused us to request public records involving Ms. Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) from King County. Late last week, we got some answers back learning that Ms. Hill Pennington is guilty of fraud once again, but this time in King County Washington.

Ms. Hill Pennington falsely claimed on a King County job application that she was in a Juris Doctorate ( JD Law) program ( she was DENIED entrance into an accredited JD law program because she lied on her application), she worked for various states including Maryland ( during time period where she filed a criminal complaint against the Gold Bar Reporter claiming she couldn’t find work because of our news reports on her crimes), she failed to disclose her criminal history of bank fraud convictions, and she also lied claiming that she was the City Manager for the City of Gold Bar.

According to City of Gold Bar Mayor Bill Clem, the City has never had a city manager.

Criminal complaints against Ms. Hill Pennington are pending and King County employee told the Gold Bar Reporter that Ms. Hill Pennington is being postured for lying on her job application.

Ms. Hill Pennington has never sued the Gold Bar Reporter, but we did sue her and John E Pennington Jr. for harassment, abuse of the process, and forgery. ( Block v Penningtons, King County Superior Court, March 2017) Ms. Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr. were found liable for committing forgery, abuse of the process, and harassment against the Gold Bar Reporter for reporting the truth on their rein of terror for the last decade.

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For Snohomish County government note this report was published from outside the State of Washington. This is mentioned because a source called the Gold Bar Reporter and said ” Ms . Hill Pennington was placed on administrative leave pending a criminal investigation into her false filings via electronic means ( according to our counsel amounts to racketeering), by a non-state investigator. She was steaming and threatening Snohomish County prosecutors and Sheriff’s Office to exposé all of them if they didn’t do something.”

The source who we labeled ” fed up” told the Gold Bar Reporter that Crystal Hill also slept with Prosecutors Adam Cornell, Sean Reay, and Mark Roe. In fact, the source said ” everyone knew Crystal Hill Pennington was having gang banging parties with many county employees for years.” It’s no wonder why former Gold Bar Mayor Joe Beavers declared in Executive Session ” Crystal Hill is whore! Crystal Hill is a whore! Crystal Hill is a whore!” and former Gold Bar council member Jay Prueher said ” Crystal Hill was a party girl.”

The Gold Bar Reporter is an award winning journalist and has been reporting on government officers corruption for a decade. What is happening in Minnesota as well as major cities throughout America is just a symptom of why persons like Crystal Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr. who have extensive criminal history are placed inside government offices like the officer who murdered George Floyd.

National Public Radio recently did a story about how the insurance company is still insuring bad state actors, covering up liability they created and allowing them to keep their jobs. Minnesota, like WA State, also uses Lloyds of London as it primary insurer of public employee’s civil and criminal misconduct.

The only issue I take with NPR story is they forgot to mention that Lloyds of London syndicates like Association of Washington Cities and Counties are insuring these people with no regard for citizens.

Three boys make allegations of child sexual abuse against King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott

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  Judge Michael Scott, appointed after three boys at his church lodged sexual abuse allegations against him while he served as a deacon

Over the last few months three victims contacted the Gold Bar Reporter, alleging that King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott sexually abused them while he served as a Deacon Grace Episcopal Church , located in Bainbridge Island, Washington.

From 1999 to 2005, three boys claimed that King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott would groom them by buying them gifts, like candy and pornographic magazines, and often would supply marijuana and booze.

All three boys were underage at the time Michael Scott sexually assaulted them, and all three were members of the same church where Michael Scott heavily influenced that parish.

Michael Scott came under our radar as corrupt after public records reveal that he served as a Special Assistant Prosecutor for King and Snohomish County, received over 22 Million from Lloyds of London syndicates at Association of Washington Cities, worked as a Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) and was a paid speaker for the Washington State Bar Association without disclosing his pecuniary interests with the State of Washington and the County governments before making decisions on hundreds of cases involving his contractors (AG, Counties, AWC, WSBA).

In 2018, King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott also heard and decide a case against a few young activist, siding with his former employer, the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, in

https://crosscut.com/2018/08/young-climate-activists-will-take-suit-higher-court

Our counsel stated that under Gonzales ruling which was handed down from the Washington Court of Appeals Division One, no judge can hear or decide a case who served as an AG, SAP, or AWC contractor when the Judge’s former employer i.e. the Counties, State of Washington, WSBA, and/or AWC are representing any party.

In civil and criminal cases, Judge Michael Scott made decisions 198 cases involving his employer/ contractor King and Snohomish Counties, AWC, AG’s Office, and the WSBA.

With no surprise, Judge Michael Scott nor his church denies that Scott molested three boys while he served as a Deacon at Grace Episcopal Church.

Is this the best that Governor Inslee could do by assigning a child molester to an open Superior Court seat?

Judge Michael Scott was contacted for comment but refused.