State of Injustice

Expert Testifies that Washington State

is a “National Model” of Corruption

Part One of an Ongoing Investigative Series:

The Titus Case

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Seattle, WA. October 21, 2019. A national expert and investigative journalist are alleging that a Washington State case is a “national model” of guardianship and probate fraud. This article principally examines the role of a Seattle law firm in that ongoing case and others.

The larger implication of the case, however, is how it has exposed a complex and systematic fraud that is allegedly being committed by private law firms, public officials, and guardianship firms who are misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars – usually from the estates of vulnerable people.

The case of the late Seattle attorney D. Douglas Titus is truly shocking and outrageous for several important reasons.” Said Investigative Journalist the Gold Bar Reporter, an award-winning journalist based in the Seattle area. Mr. Titus was a practicing attorney. He wasn’t incapacitated or impaired by any legal definition. He was daily practicing complex law. In spite of those facts, he was forced into an illegal guardianship. In the process, he was prevented from making important financial decisions regarding his health which cost him his life.

The question is, if this could happen to a practicing lawyer, where does that leave the average person? That is why the Titus case is nothing less than an important national model of guardianship and probate fraud. Many of us continue to closely follow this case and advocate for the investigation and prosecution of the participants.

One aspect of the Titus case that is now the subject of examination is the conflicted role of a Seattle law firm. The firm, Aiken, St. Louis & Siljeg, P.S., is alleged to not only have a “highly questionable role in the Titus fraud,” but a “significant ongoing role” in questionable probate and guardianship cases in Washington State.” “Insider testimony and documents we’ve been provided establish a conflicted relationship between the Aiken law firm, the Washington State Office of the Attorney General, and the court-appointed guardian ad litem”, a case that the Gold Bar Reporter has extensively investigated in the Titus case.

Aiken, St. Louis & Siljeg, P.S. law partners Richard L. Furman, Jr. (L) and Christopher (“Chris”) Lee (R)

Richard Furman is also an owner of Puget Sound Guardians.

 

“In the Titus case, Aiken Partner Richard Furman, Jr. appeared in court and was copied on all court documents before Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) Emily R. Hansen was appointed, before the GAL investigation began, and before the GAL report was written. In the absence of any legally valid finding of incapacity of Mr. Titus, Hansen’s GAL report in later recommended Richard Furman, Jr. and a company Furman is co-owner of, Puget Sound Guardians as guardian for Mr. Titus. Among the extensive documentation of Aiken’s participation in a RICO [racketeering] enterprise is evidence that both Furman’s guardianship firm and law firm appear to be directing the State Attorney General’s staff to pre-select them for the cases Furman, Aiken and Puget Sound Guardians want.”

From the beginning, the Titus case never passed the smell test.  The first judge [court commissioner] in the case, Henry Judson, had acted as General Counsel for Care Planning Associates. The GAL Emily Hansen had worked on cases with Amy Miller, an employee of Care Planning. Neither the GAL, nor Commissioner Judson disclosed their past relationships, which may have properly resulted in recusal or disqualification. Although Mr. Titus had no obligation under the law to establish his mental capacity, his legal team provided the Judson court with overwhelming evidence that Titus was of sound mind and practicing complex law daily. Judson ignored every fact and every legal right.

Extensive Evidence Entered into the Record in the Titus Case

Alleges that King County, WA Court Commissioner Henry

Judson Occupies a Central Role in the Ongoing Titus Fraud.

 

Emily Hansen’s GAL report, subsequent legal filings and statements in open court repeatedly claimed that Mr. Titus had been incapacitated from a stroke, was cognitively impaired, and had been financially exploited. The “wildly baseless” allegations in the words of Titus’ own legal team were refuted by hundreds of pages of evidence submitted in the court record, including medical records from Titus’ physician. The legal team of Mr. Titus and his associate included retired State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders, former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay, and four other highly experienced and qualified attorneys. All evidence that Mr. Titus had never experienced a stroke, was not mentally impaired or financially exploited in any way was ignored by Commissioner Judson and subsequently every judge in the Titus case.

Per Court Documents, Seattle Attorney and Titus Guardian Ad Litem (GAL)

Emily R. Hansen was Previously Convicted of Theft by the Washington State Bar

Association and is Alleged to Occupy a Central Role in the Ongoing Titus Fraud.

Although not mentally impaired, Mr. Titus was addressing a serious healthcare issue and required a kidney transplant. His insurance company declined the transplant, however, citing recent changes in the way candidates were prioritized. Now his only option was to pay for the transplant in cash. Yet, with the State of Washington represented by Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Boharski working in tandem with the GAL Emily Hansen – together spending millions of public dollars against Mr. Titus’ interests and legal rights – his resources were becoming limited. Titus and an associate arranged for a sale-leaseback of a home to access the funds, while retaining the right to live in the property. While the transaction was in escrow, and within hours of the disbursement of funds for the transplant, the GAL Emily Hansen contacted the realtor to kill the deal.

Ms. Hansen falsely claimed to the realtor to be “the court-appointed attorney for Mr. Titus” and with no evidence or authority stated that Mr. Titus’ former home was illegally titled with the assistance of the Washington State Attorney Generals Office. Although a voicemail recording of Hansen claiming to be Titus’ court-appointed attorney and a court-certified transcript of that recording has been submitted in the court record, Hansen has denied on record of having made the statement. Every judge in the Titus case has ignored this evidence.

Out of options, Mr. Titus died within weeks of GAL Hansen’s interference with his sale-leaseback. Mr. Titus’ friend, Fred Christianson, was then appointed as the Administrator of his estate. Mr. Christianson retained William Dussault’s law firm. At the time Dussault was a partner and principal of his own firm. Within days of Dussault’s firm assuming representation of Mr. Christianson, Dussault left to become a partner at the Aiken firm.

Shortly thereafter, with alleged questions of ethics and fees, Mr. Christianson discharged Dussault’s firm. According to extensive court records, in the absence of evidence or legal cause, GAL Emily Hansen then falsely accused Christianson of mismanagement of the Titus estate by not challenging the title to Mr. Titus’ former home, which Mr. Titus had never disputed and in fact Titus and his legal team made clear had long before been sold at his own direction. The case was heard by Judge Ken Schubert. In Judge Schubert’s court, Christianson was then represented by the General Counsel of an advocacy group created by friends and associates of the late attorney Mr. Titus. The attorney, Jonathan Grindell, submitted hundreds of pages of evidence of legal practice violations and violations of federal and state law by Hansen and Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Boharski. Given the evidence of violations of federal law in the Titus case, attorney Grindell cited Judge Schubert’s duty under Misprision of Felony to forward the evidence to the U.S. Attorney. There is no evidence that Judge Schubert did anything except help the lawyers deplete Mr. Titus’s life savings.

Aiken Law Partner William Dussault

 

“Not only did Judge Schubert refuse to comply with his duty under federal law to forward the evidence to the U.S. Attorney.  Schubert then Sua Sponte sanctioned and fined Jonathan Grindell and his client Mr. Christianson $10,000 for simply asserting their legal rights. Among the things Schubert sanctioned and fined them for were referencing Judge Shubert’s legal obligation to report violations of law under Misprision of Felony and for having submitted a declaration from the most recognized and qualified expert on guardianship and probate fraud in the nation, Sam Sugar, M.D. A prominent physician based in Florida, Dr. Sugar is the N.Y. Times best-selling author on guardianship and probate fraud, and the Executive Director of the nation’s largest anti-guardianship fraud organization.

Schubert’s fines and sanctions against Mr. Christianson and his attorney Mr. Grindell were inconsistent with the law. Schubert’s actions warrant an investigation of his conduct,” said the the Gold Bar Reporter.

Judge Schubert ’s role in the Titus fraud didn’t end there. Judge Ken Schubert not only ignored the evidence of illegal activity in the Titus case, he then removed Mr. Christianson as Administrator of the Titus Estate without a legally valid basis. In a textbook example of what Titus advocates refer to as “court theatre,” Judge Schubert then pretended to reference from his clerk’s computer what he claimed was a court-approved list of personal representatives. There is only one problem with Judge Schubert’s claim: no such list exists. According to our counsel, ” the only legally valid way a personal representative of an estate may be appointed is by a petition to the court.”

King County, Washington Judge Ken Schubert

The Gold Bar Reporter’s counsel clarified the judicial impropriety by stating “Schubert’s reference of a court-approved list of personal representatives is absolute fiction – a fact confirmed by the court’s own staff. Under state law, the court doesn’t solicit personal representatives or nominate them. The legal duty of the court is to impartially adjudicate. Without being solicited by the court, a party submits a petition for appointment of personal representative to the court, and states their qualifications and relationship to the estate. A judge then decides if they are appropriate. That is the only legally valid way a personal representative is appointed to any estate. Every judge knows that.”

Not only did Judge Schubert pretend to choose a replacement personal representative for the Titus case from a non-existent list, he chose Chris Lee of the Aiken law firm. Chris Lee, whose law partner Richard Furman, Jr. was present in court and copied on every Titus court record before he was appointed by the court. Chris Lee, whose law partner Richard Furman, Jr. by all appearances was pre-selected for the Titus case by the state Attorney General’s Office. Chris Lee, whose law partner Richard Furman, Jr. is co-owner of Puget Sound Guardians. Chris Lee, whose law partner William Dussault formerly represented Mr. Christianson. Chris Lee, whose law partner and pro tem judge Eric E. Brunstrom previously ruled in the Titus case.

The conflicts with the Aiken law firm in the Titus case merit a comprehensive investigation up to and including disqualification by the court and every party involved, and disbarment.

Aiken Law Partner and Court Commissioner Eric E. Brunstrom

Let’s be clear about the Aiken law firm’s role in the Titus case, it’s relationship to the Office of the State Attorney General, and guardianship fraud. These people are participants in a criminal enterprise. There is central direction, there is a series of predicate acts, and there is a network of people colluding. We have the evidence. It’s a RICO enterprise.  It’s that simple.

What is most remarkable is the arrogance. The legal team of the Titus case involved a retired Supreme Court Justice, a former U.S. Attorney, and four other prominent attorneys. The evidence of the Titus fraud and how it works are part of the court record. Yet these people still have the hubris to think that they’re able to get away with openly practicing an extensive RICO enterprise.

According to our counsel “Incensed by Fred Christianson’s illegal removal, Chris Lee’s fraudulent appointment as administrator in the Titus estate, and Schubert’s sanctions imposed without legal basis”, Christianson’s attorney Jonathan Grindell sent an impassioned letter to every member of the Aiken law firm, citing their conflicts and impropriety, and demanding that Lee and Aiken withdraw their involvement in the Titus case. Even when confronted with direct evidence of their fraud, Lee and the partners of the Aiken law firm refused to withdraw from the Titus case.

GAL Emily Hansen’s role appears to be at least as irregular as the Aiken law firm. The role in the Titus case of Ms. Hansen by law ended on May 27, 2016 when she submitted her report recommending Titus’ guardianship. Hansen was further ordered removed from the case by Judge Mary Roberts on Nov. 1, 2016. Contrary to state law governing GALs, Hansen not only continued in the case, but illegally performed the combined roles of GAL, guardian and attorney. Hansen submitted and billed Titus and his estate for thousands of pages of legal work, at all times during and after the late attorney Titus’ life, arguing against both Titus’ wishes and legal rights. From the time Hansen’s role ended when her report was submitted, and after Mr. Titus’ death, Hansen has billed the Titus estate more than an additional $100,000 for performing the illegally combined roles – all for a practicing attorney who was never by any legal definition found to be incapacitated. Remember, Ms. Hansen was found guilty by the Washington State Bar Association for misappropriating her clients trust funds.

Apparently, it wasn’t enough for Hansen and her con-conspirators. According to our counsel, this is contrary to the legal rights of former estate Administrator Christianson, Hansen also sued Christianson for fees she charged to Titus and his estate. Judge Schubert approved of Hansen’s baseless claims of negligence against Christianson. Based on Schubert’s own illegal sanctions against Christianson attorney Grindell, Schubert then approved of Hansen’s motion for summary judgement for what now totals over $150,000. By claiming bad faith and sanctioning Christianson and Grindell, Hansen and Shubert together established an unlawful pretext to justify a summary judgment and thus deny Christianson his constitutionally guaranteed right to a jury trial.

GAL Hansen, who had originally recommended the Aiken law firm and Puget Sound Guardians as guardians for Mr. Titus, continues her involvement in the Titus case as of this writing. In response to a petition to the court by a qualified administrator for appointment to represent the interests of the Titus estate, and in what may be a classic case of “good cop, bad cop” court theater, Titus Estate Administrator and Aiken attorney Chris Lee appears to continue his law firm’s collusion with Hansen: Lee’s most recent court filing of Oct. 14, 2019 appears to be feigning the appearance of willingness to withdraw from the Titus case.

Coincident with Chris Lee’s filing of Oct. 14, 2019, Ms. Hansen also filed with the court to insist that Mr. Lee remain as the Titus Administrator. While Ms. Hansen has no valid standing in the case to make any such argument, she continues to bill the estate for all of her legal work – all for the late practicing attorney Titus who was never by any legal definition found to be incapacitated. On Oct. 18, 2019, two days after the deadline for filing arguments in the case, Ms. Hansen entered into the court record additional arguments unsupported by any relevant evidence or reference to applicable laws. She did, however, submit as an exhibit a letter from Mr. Christianson’s counsel to the Aiken law firm that had only been in the possession of Aiken, further suggesting collaboration between Hansen and Aiken.

King County, WA Judge David Whedbee

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Yet on Oct. 23, 2019, King County Superior Court David J. Whedbee ruled in favor of Ms. Hansen,  ignoring the fact that Ms. Hansen was convicted by the Washington State Bar for stealing her clients trust accounts, making her moral turpitude highly questionable, and further refused  to  remove Chris Lee of the Aiken law firm. Regardless of the overwhelming evidence presented to the court of Lee’s illegal appointment by Judge Schubert and Aiken’s conflicts of interest, the fact that Ms. Hansen at all times had aggressively opposed Mr. Titus’ interests, including fraudulently intervening in his financial affairs which resulted in Mr. Titus’ death, Judge Whedbee refused to remove Titus estate administrator Mr. Lee, without addressing the fact that Lee had been illegally appointed by Schubert. JJudge Whedbee’s decision defies both logic and the law. There is not one valid reason why Chris Lee should remain as Administrator for the Titus Estate,” said the Gold Bar Reporter, Judge Whedbee’s decision demands not just an explanation but an investigation, as well as an investigation of every other commissioner and judge in the Titus case.

The toll in the Titus case, and related exposure and liability of the players continues to accumulate. Overwhelmed with Judge Schubert’s illegal sanctions and direct threats in open court to take Mr. Grindell’s law license, together with what he stated to friends, associates and family was his conviction of “total corruption” in the Titus case, the 38-year old General Counsel for the veterans’ group that represented Mr. Christianson, Jonathan Grindell, hung himself.

As of this writing Emily Hansen continues her involvement in the Titus case, as does the Aiken law firm and Chris Lee as Administrator. Regardless of the evidence of collusion and violations of law presented in the court record, not one judge has removed themselves from the case. Nor one attorney. Their arrogance has been the biggest asset of the case, because of that arrogance that we have been able to find extensive documentation of the fraud and establish how it works – they’ve basically just gotten sloppy. It’s rewarding for all of us to have finally established the pattern of fraud and identify the key players.

“Nearly everyone who reviews the Titus cases asks the same question: Why would the State of Washington claim to have no money for homelessness spend millions of dollars to impose a guardianship on a practicing attorney of sound mind? The answer is very simple.

Doug Titus and his associate had both advocated for the reform of Washington State’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). They wrote a paper called “Dawn of a Working Government. It was a threat to the State and the Attorney General’s ability to control $18 billion dollars.”

The paper presents a three part idea: one, apply Steve Ballmer’s idea and post the agency’s accounting books online,; two, convert the books into a standard accounting format; and three, take the $18 billion dollar checkbook away from the state’s most ineffective and wasteful agency and hand it to outside accounting firm,” said the Gold Bar Reporter. “Evidence suggests that the state Office of Attorney General has used the guardianship fraud system that was already in place to retaliate against Titus and his associate. The retaliation began directly after they published the paper.

There are now two casualties, two deaths that have resulted from the Titus case, and According to our counsel, countless violations of state and federal law. So many people across the country have been supporting and contributing to exposing the guardianship fraud, and our investigative work involves countless public records requests.  By reporting on the guardianship fraud, and posting our findings online, attracted national persons dedicated to exposing guardianship fraud nationwide. This list includes private and public investigators, judges, and direct evidence right back to Washington State Attorney General’s Office.

While it’s encouraging that we have substantial evidence, insiders, and numerous witnesses, we’re particularly fortunate that where there is fraud involving a great deal of money. According to the IRS, ” where these is money laundering, there is tax evasion.”

The discovery of an extensive fraud translates into strong incentives for the private and public sectors to both recover damages and pursue prosecution. After all, theft is theft, regardless of who is doing it, and since we have public records from the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, our counsel stated ” if judges and attorneys from the Attorney General’s Office are involved, its felony theft.”

The Titus case is truly a national model of guardianship and probate fraud. The Gold Bar Reporter is among a handful of successful investigative journalists in the State of Washington dedicated to exposing public corruption. It should help many people by presenting to the public an extreme example of that fraud, because the only way to stop it, is to expose it and prosecute those who exploit our elderly. Unfortunately, since the Attorney General’s Office is involved in the guardianship fraud ( as evidenced by the above emails obtained under RCW 42.56), the only ones who are left to investigate and prosecute Attorney General’s Office crimes against our elderly is the federal government.

Beyond that, I really can’t comment further on the case, the parties involved in the investigation, our witnesses or evidence other than to say Washington State is a state of injustice.

Out elderly deserve to die with dignity, and not having convicted criminals , who happen to hold Washington State Bar licenses ( a private organization taken over by political hacks) like Emily R Hansen stealing from them until penniless.

What happens to our system when attorney and judges steal from our elderly?  Simple, they end up on Medicare or Medicaid system, and we the average middle class taxpayer that ends up with the cost.

US Department of Justice Attorney William Barr should be investigating Washington State for crimes against our elderly.

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“State of Injustice” is the result of a three-year ongoing investigative series on guardianship and probate fraud in Washington State involving public officials, attorneys, and guardianship firms.

The next articles in the series individually focus on Commissioner Henry Judson, Judge Ken Schubert, Seattle Attorney Emily R. Hansen and Washington State Assistant Attorney Generals Jennifer Boharski and Diane Dorsey.

Author Bob Woodward once said to the Gold Bar Reporter ” follow the money Anne, because where there is government corruption, there is always money.”

A related series, “Your Courts, Their Fraud,” is being published concurrently in cooperation with other news media.

Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office covering up felonious conduct of its Prosecutors

 

In August 2018, the Gold Bar Reporter published the below article after public records confirmed that Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay is making some very questionable charges to Snohomish County taxpayers P-Cards ( purchase cards) including an air conditioner unit, dinners, household items, payments to court reporters, and is in fact unlawfully using public facilities for his own personal mediation company as outlined below.

MRSC states: 

In short, article 8, section 7 prohibits any local government entity from bestowing a gift or lending money, property, or the entity’s credit to a private party.

 

Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay appears to be the exception. See below article as he is running his “for profit mediation company” using county property and resources.

 

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On October 16, 2019, Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay, who was at the Lake Chelan party in June 2018, that lead to arrest and conviction of one Snohomish County Prosecutor, is now violating Washington State’s Rules of Professional Conduct and the civil rights of a intoxicated female co-worker.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/party-photo-raises-new-questions-about-snohomish-county-prosecutors-conduct/281-575986248

Now, if the below article which clearly documents that Prosecutor Sean Reay is running his own private “or profit mediation company” right from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office, and unlawfully using public offices,  isn’t unlawful/illegal/unethical enough, yesterday Snohomish County’s newest public officers Jennifer Sperline confirmed that Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay is now claiming to be the personal attorneys for three Prosecutors who unlawfully took and disseminated a nude picture of an intoxicated co-worker while at Lake Chelan in June 2018.

According to our counsel, attorneys who are witnesses cannot serve as an attorney in the matter for which they were a witness to.

Did Mr Reay forget that the woman who the four prosecutors who took a nude picture of is also a county employee?  Conflict, illegal, unlawful use of taxpayer funds to cover up felonies of employees, etc are just some questions to be raised.

But no need to fear for Prosecutor Sean Reay, because he is an outstanding member of the Washington State Bar Association’s Ethics Committee.

Washington State is such a lovely place to raise children.

 

Snohomish County Prosecutors C. Matt  Hunter and Robert Grant with two thumbs up as they partake in violating the civil rights of a Snohomish County co-worker who is nude and intoxicated above ( still waiting for public records to answer who the prosecutor is above texting from his cell phone in the upper right hand corner of the picture above; once known his name will be posted too).

Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay’s crimes against Washington State taxpayers EXPOSED in public records

Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay, caught via public records, falsifying county payroll, stealing taxpayer resources, and misusing government facilities for his own personal arbitration company

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Misuse of Snohomish County facilities, resources and time

Not only is Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay being sued for racketeering – threatening to arrest citizens for trying to serve a court issued subpoena, lying on court documents, and trying to get citizens charged with crimes for exposing John E Pennington’s criminal abuse of children and women here in Washington State, now, public records reveal that Sean Reay is operating his own private company, an arbitration firm, misappropriating public funds, and misusing county offices/facilities, and falsifying his county time sheets.

According to County Council members, ” a salaried person is not allowed to hold a second job, nor are they allowed to use county resources for their own personal gain…”

Public records retrieved under RCW 42.56 ( Public Records Act) documents that Sean Reay signed a ” oath of office”, but he must have failed English at Norte Dame or simply believes himself to be above the laws of Washington State.

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RCW 36.27.020, defines duties of a prosecutor:

(1) Be legal adviser of the legislative authority, giving it his or her written opinion when required by the legislative authority or the chairperson thereof touching any subject which the legislative authority may be called or required to act upon relating to the management of county affairs;

(2) Be legal adviser to all county and precinct officers and school directors in all matters relating to their official business, and when required draw up all instruments of an official nature for the use of said officers;

(3) Appear for and represent the state, county, and all school districts subject to the supervisory control and direction of the attorney general in all criminal and civil proceedings in which the state or the county or any school district in the county may be a party;

(4) Prosecute all criminal and civil actions in which the state or the county may be a party, defend all suits brought against the state or the county, and prosecute actions upon forfeited recognizances and bonds and actions for the recovery of debts, fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing to the state or the county;

(5) Attend and appear before and give advice to the grand jury when cases are presented to it for consideration and draw all indictments when required by the grand jury;

(6) Institute and prosecute proceedings before magistrates for the arrest of persons charged with or reasonably suspected of felonies when the prosecuting attorney has information that any such offense has been committed and the prosecuting attorney shall for that purpose attend when required by them if the prosecuting attorney is not then in attendance upon the superior court;

(7) Carefully tax all cost bills in criminal cases and take care that no useless witness fees are taxed as part of the costs and that the officers authorized to execute process tax no other or greater fees than the fees allowed by law;

(8) Receive all cost bills in criminal cases before district judges at the trial of which the prosecuting attorney was not present, before they are lodged with the legislative authority for payment, whereupon the prosecuting attorney may retax the same and the prosecuting attorney must do so if the legislative authority deems any bill exorbitant or improperly taxed;

(9) Present all violations of the election laws which may come to the prosecuting attorney’s knowledge to the special consideration of the proper jury;

(10) Examine once in each year the official bonds of all county and precinct officers and report to the legislative authority any defect in the bonds of any such officer;

(11) Seek to reform and improve the administration of criminal justice and stimulate efforts to remedy inadequacies or injustice in substantive or procedural law;

(12) Participate in the statewide sexual assault kit tracking system established in RCW 43.43.545 for the purpose of tracking the status of all sexual assault kits connected to criminal investigations and prosecutions within the county. Prosecuting attorneys shall begin full participation in the system according to the implementation schedule established by the Washington state patrol.

 

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Revised Code of Washington are very clear that Sean Reay has one job, Snohomish County Prosecutor. However, public records reveal that he is operating his own private arbitration firm misusing county facilities and while being paid by county taxpayers.

We also discovered he is falsifying Snohomish County time sheets, claiming that he is working for Snohomish County.

Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay is being sued for racketeering, gross 1983 violations (threatening to arrest citizens who engage in First Amendment protected activity).

Falsifying time sheets ( certifying your working as a Prosecutor when you are not), misusing taxpayer facilities for your own personal gain, and misappropriation of public funds for your own personal company, may not be his biggest problem in 2018.

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Gold Bar’s Mayor fires Kenyon Disend and orders Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack to stop filing SLAPP suits

In March 2019, Gold Bar’s new Mayor Bill Clem publicly terminated Gold Bar’s law firm http://www.kenyondisend.com and ordered https://www.kbmlawyers.com/and its Attorneys Shannon Ragonesi and Amanda Butler to stop filing and  pursuing SLAPP suits against the Gold Bar Reporter.

A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. Such lawsuits have been made illegal in many jurisdictions on the grounds that they impede freedom of speech.

In late 2017, the Gold Bar Reporter learned from a source that attorneys Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler and Ann Marie Soto were frustrated because the Gold Bar Reporter was close to exposing who was really funding litigation against Anne Block, the Gold Bar Reporter, in various lawsuits including Block v. the Washington State Bar Association et al

After public records revealed that Attorneys Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler, Michael Kenyon, and Ann Marie Soto committed racketeering offenses against the Gold Bar Reporter, on September 12, 2018, the below story was published ( noting that the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued)

Funniest part of this story is both Amanda Butler and Ann Marie Soto have requested admittance to the US Supreme Court in Block v. the Washington State Bar Association et al, this after both were caught via public records filing false declarations with varrious  courts, using Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack’s client and now King County Judge Michael Scott, in attempts to SLAPP down our legal rights to request access to public records and file suit.

We now know from Mayor Bill Clem and public records from Washington State Attorney General’s Office, that Kenyon Disend and Keating Bucklin and McCormack were not representing the City of Gold Bar, but are in fact being paid by Washington State Attorney General’s Office to fight Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block.

Public records confirm that the Washington State Attorney General’s Office has been funding the war against the  Gold Bar Reporter for over 10 years, misappropriating millions of public monies, and after the foregoing true story about Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler and Ann Marie Soto’s felonious conduct of illegally removing and tampering with FBI National Crime Information Center Records (NCIC).

Now it looks like Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack, attorney Amanda Butler, along with the Attorney General’s Office ( working in concert with Association of Washington Cities) is funding the war against Thomas Paulson ( more on this story soon) in Paulson v Mountlake Terrace.

 

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Snohomish County Prosecutors and attorneys tampering with FBI National Crime Information Center data

        

   Shannon Ragonesi                        Ann Marie Soto                       Amanda Butler            

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In November 2017, the City of Gold Bar’s attorneys Ann Marie Soto and Shannon Ragonesi decided to have a meeting with a federal witness Brandia Tamuu.  Besides the obvious, tampering with a federal witness ( a felony in Washington), both entered into a bribery scheme to remove the witness’s criminal arrest warrant and criminal history from the National Crime Information Center’s (NCIC) criminal data base.

Public records from the City of Gold Bar, from November 21 to December 20, 2017, document that in November 2017, attorneys Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler ( who later learned was also present) Ann Marie Soto were contacted for a meeting by a convicted animal abuser. The woman was desperate for money, had in fact tried extort the Gold Bar Reporter for money/car, and had offered to meet up with Ragonesi and Soto at the Law Firm of Keating Bucklin McCormack Inc in downtown Seattle. Brandia Tammu needed money as she was being threatened with eviction from her home.  In exchange for meeting with Ragonesi and Soto, the woman would get money and her City of Everett arrest warrant and conviction for animal abuse would be cleared.  Tammu claimed to have dirt on the Gold Bar Reporter, but had nothing of value except speculation on why the Gold Bar Reporter moved West, and it was quite apparent from an insider at the law office that the woman is suffering from mental health issues.

According to the woman, Ragonesi and Soto agreed to clear her criminal arrest warrant and conviction from NCIC via ACCESS.

Ragonesi and Soto also told the woman that they could issue secret subpoenas for any document they so desired, and further offered to help the woman get a restraining order against the Gold Bar Reporter’s news reports.  One witness said that the woman recorded their meeting, but we have no knowledge of whether this is true or not.

The Washington State Patrol turned over the woman’s criminal history one week before and a week after the Ragonesi and Soto November  2017 bribery  meeting, and it is clear that just days after this meeting, the criminal conviction record and arrest warrant were wiped from NCIC via ACCESS.  The person who cleared the woman’s ACCESS records was Michael Meyers, King County police officer.

The City of Gold Bar, at the bequest of Ann Marie Soto and Shannon Ragonesi, illegally claimed that the meeting records were exempt from public disclosure. Obviously, a lawsuit forcing disclosure is coming, and Ms. Soto and Ms. Ragonesi will be deposed.

In early 2018, Gold Bar’s new Mayor Bill Clem agreed to an interview with the Gold Bar Reporter and he said ” those people who are threatening you are now threatening me.”

 

NCIC was created to assist law enforcement track or apprehend persons that may be a danger to society or have outstanding criminal warrants. When a  police officer stops  a person driving or is a suspect,  s/he should know whether the person has a criminal history.  For this reason, ACCESS and NCIC are searched, hopefully alerting the officer a potential danger to them or outstanding court issues of the driver or suspect.  Self protection according to the US Supreme Court.

But here in Washington State, the FBI NCIC database via ACCESS is being tampered with as political favors, bribery schemes, and to enhance criminal sentencing if a defendant is convicted of crime.

Over the past year, we found case after case where mainly prosecutors inside King and Snohomish County government are illegally removing criminal history from the NCIC. Now we have direct evidence that Kenyon Disend’s attorney Ann Marie Soto and Keating Bucklin and McCormack are being paid by Washington State Attorney General’s Office as “Special Assistant Attorney Generals’ (SAAGs).

 

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WA: DUI

Date of Offense	06/22/2012
Court Case Number	12180
Court Date	07/24/2012
Court Case Description	LOWER KITTITAS DISTRICT COURT
Court Disposition	Status:CLOSED 20120724
Court Level	TRAFFIC
Court Offense	DUI

Identifying Info on Record

Name on Record	MICHAEL RAYMOND KENYON
Date of Birth	April 1959
Sex	Male

Seattle Lawyer Lowers the Bar

Veteran’s Advocates Call for National Boycotts & Demand Disbarments  

 

Melinda and Evan Loeffler at their Seattle Law Practice

Seattle, WA from the Activist Post – August 5^th, 2019 was only one court day after the tragic suicide of the 38-year-old head attorney for a Seattle-based veteran’s advocacy group that had actively worked to remove former U.S. Attorney for the Western District Annette Hayes.

Yet at 9:05 a.m. in room w-325 of Seattle’s King County Courthouse, Seattle evictions attorney Evan Loeffler stood in front of the judge’s bench, face-to-face with King County, WA Court Commissioner Henry Judson demanding the court refuse to postpone the case even one hour. In doing so, Evan Loeffler demanded the court deny the right to counsel for key members of a veteran’s advocacy group Loeffler is alleged to be illegally trying to evict from a home with a title dispute in federal court, according to extensive documents in the court record.

If Loeffler appeared to display an attitude of invincibility, it may have resulted from Melinda and Evan Loeffler’s lucrative career evicting thousands of unrepresented people – including defenseless veterans, widows, orphans, the disabled and terminally ill. The Loefflers are expected to gain national infamy within the legal profession for their efforts to fight postponing the case due to the suicide, according to the Seattle-based veterans’ advocacy group with a national mandate who refer to Loeffler’s action as an historic benchmark in legal practice.

“We researched the issue of an attorney dying in the middle of a case, and we couldn’t find a single example of any party objecting to a postponement. Not one, ever. Based on our research, what the Loefflers tried to do appears to be unprecedented in the history of the legal profession in the United States,” said a paralegal for the veteran’s group. “We are working with several veterans’ groups and several national media channels to expose what would seem to be among the lowest points in the history of the practice of law.”

Efforts to deny due process to veterans’ advocates immediately following a suicide appears to be the beginning of serious questions about the Loeffler’s law practice. Although the Loefflers have an ethical duty to make a good faith effort to resolve the property title dispute for the benefit of the Loeffler’s client, the veteran’s group emphatically state that the Loefflers have been unwilling to even discuss any manner of settlement, and appear to have acted contrary to their clients, the Kangs, interest in violation of the practice rules of the Washington State Bar Association – at a cost to the Kangs estimated by the veteran’s group in excess of $50,000 and rising.

One fact that does not appear in the court record is if the Loefflers have explained to their clients, the Kangs, the Loefflers’ past differences with a key member of the veteran’s group. In 2014, Evan Loeffler’s personal client, William “Luke” Lukoskie, the self-proclaimed tofu tycoon based on Vashon Island, WA was alleged in court records to have illegally nearly doubled the rent of a terminal cancer patient for having a live-in caregiver, which is rent-exempt under law. Lukoskie then threatened to shoot her professionally trained service dog, according to multiple legal declarations in the 2014 King County, WA court record and related allegations. With full access to all of these facts, Evan Loeffler agreed to evict the cancer patient contrary to his legal rights.

The family member who had fought the eviction – one of the same veteran’s advocates the Loefflers are now alleged to be illegally attempting to evict – made clear in the court record and related allegations evidence of Lukoskies’ predatory practices, including consistently renting his several properties to vulnerable women whom he then harassed and surveilled, sexual harassment of employees, opioid use, human trafficking, FDA violations at Lukoskies’ tofu manufacturing plant, tax evasion, and other criminal activity. Regardless of the law or the facts presented in the court record, Evan Loeffler aggressively litigated against the dying cancer patient and his family who died within days of the eviction.

According to witnesses, Loeffler was allegedly hysterical about both the evidence entered into the court record about his widely reviled client Lukoskie, and the several law enforcement investigations of Lukoskie that followed. According to allegations of the veterans’ group, the Loeffler’s ongoing eviction efforts are at their client’s, the Kang’s, expense, who may now be paying a potentially run-on bill for the Loeffler’s personal revenge. It is unclear if the Loefflers have disclosed this conflict to their clients, the Kangs, who have not been available for comment.

“Evan Loeffler’s actions are in serious violation of the practice rules of the Washington State Bar and uniquely unprofessional. We intend to hold he and the staff of his law firm accountable and are organizing a national effort within the veteran’s community to call for a boycott of his client’s businesses as well as the organizations Loeffler’s affiliated with. We are coordinating efforts to disbar him and his staff attorneys involved in illegal conduct,” said one of the paralegals for the veteran’s group. “We ask that anyone with a business or social relationship with Melinda and Evan Loeffler please consider the actions against of the Loeffler’s law firm against veteran advocates, vulnerable people, and their practices. We are asking anyone with knowledge of any of the Loeffler’s or their law firm’s illegal or unethical practices to contact us. They may remain anonymous if they prefer.”

Regardless of their daily contributions to Seattle’s homeless crisis, the Loefflers would like you to know what great folks they are. On their law firm’s website, Evan Loeffler boasts of his Porsche, his fashion guidelines, and his sailing hobby. Ironically, Evan and Melinda Loeffler, who make a fortune evicting the defenseless, appear to want you to believe they are advocates for the homeless.

According to the dedicated web page for the self-defined philanthropists on Social Venture Partners/SVP, Melinda Loeffler is on the Community Outreach Committee for the nonprofit Washington Multi-Family Housing Association (WMFHA), and Evan is a member of the WMFHA Government Affairs Committee, involved in lobbying efforts to make eviction laws more aggressive. And he’s a Seafair clown.

Evan Loeffler’s clowning extends to his humor articles, depending on one’s definition of humor. Posted on his law firm’s website, topics include his opinion that his abuse of a child was amusing; a description of his apparently obsessive-compulsive collections practices; his opinion of law enforcement officers as “donut engorged;” and references to his own clients as “morons,” “retards,” and “imbeciles” – not the people he evicts, the property owners who retain his legal services. Notwithstanding the fact that many of his own clients are gay, Loeffler’s humor articles include both direct and thinly veiled homophobic references.

Perhaps most telling about the direction of Evan Loeffler’s moral compass, and the philosophical and psychological foundation of the Loefflers’ allegedly intoxicated abuse of power emboldened by decades of regularly litigating unopposed against thousands of vulnerable people from whom they make a killing evicting, may be found in Evan Loeffler’s own description of his experience hunting:

 

“Suddenly, I wasn’t a young lawyer blundering through the woods but a hunter. Waves of testosterone coursed through my body as I took aim at this obviously distraught, defenseless, fuzzy animal…I pulled the trigger.”

Evan Loeffler

Evan Loeffler’s humor would unlikely be a surprise to the distraught and defenseless victims of the Loeffler’s eviction practices that make them homeless. Loeffler just pulls the trigger. Nor is his humor a surprise to housing advocate attorneys who regularly see Loeffler in court. The references “sadistic,” and “arrogant” were used consistently, as well as “the most abrasive [and/or] unprofessional attorney [they] have encountered in [their] careers.” Insiders testify that the entire Loeffler law firm is alleged to act strictly at the direction of Loeffler in lockstep with his ethical and moral example, potentially exposing clients and his own legal staff to significant liability.

Melinda and Evan Loeffler’s eviction practice is not limited to the thousands of people they evict through their Seattle, WA law firm supported by staffers Jeana K. Poloni, Brant M. Olson and Carinne E. Jaeger in addition to Melinda and Evan Loeffler. The Loefflers also broadcast their eviction tactics to Washington State’s legal profession through “how-to” online seminars with Lorman Education Services, in addition to live presentations and publications in affiliation with the King County and Washington State Bar Associations.

Contrary to their public relations efforts and apparent attempts to purchase social capital, Melinda and Evan Loeffler’s actions may provide more clarity as to their contributions to society. The Loefflers are alleged to have illegally and repeatedly attacked members of the Seattle veteran’s group, misrepresented key facts of the case, and ignored federal laws, according to allegations by members of the veterans’ group in court documents.

The late attorney for the veterans’ group who committed suicide was one of the occupants of the disputed property whom the Loefflers were trying to evict. As mentioned, the following court day after the suicide the Loefflers immediately attempted to demand the court deny any delay of the hearing and thus deny legal representation to the rest of the veteran advocates. The Loefflers continue to attempt to illegally evict the remainder of the veteran advocates to this day according to current court records.

Members of the veterans’ group are now actively seeking the disbarment of Loeffler and his legal staff – multiple complaints are being filed with the Washington State Bar Association. In addition, separate legal actions are being brought against the Loefflers and their client Kang for damages resulting from Loeffler’s practice violations and misrepresentations alleged by members of the veteran’s group in the court filings, according to their representatives.

Loeffler’s clients in the disputed property occupied by the veteran’s group are Rajinder S. Kang and his husband. Based in Canada, the Kangs appear to be somewhat less transparent in their practices than the Loefflers. Raj Kang works in customer service as a truck rental clerk at Ryder’s Oakville, Ontario branch near Toronto. On the surface, Mr. Kang appears to have transformed his job with the Ryder Truck Rental office into the purchase of several million dollars of Seattle-area properties – personally, not through a business.

Exactly what role if any the Loefflers and their legal staff may have played in the flow of millions of mysterious dollars flowing over the border from Canada is yet unclear. More clear is the fact that Loeffler & Co are aggressively working to facilitate the Kang’s business interests, together with the Kang’s Renton, WA-based realtor, Phillip Rodocker of John L. Scott who has aided the Kangs in the purchase of several properties in the Seattle area.

As the causes of homelessness are being endlessly discussed around the greater Seattle area with countless white papers being circulated, committee meetings about committee meetings, and endless hand-wringing, Melinda and Evan Loeffler will be driving their Porsche all the way to the bank and sailing off into the sunset as one of the state’s greatest profiteers of homelessness.

As unfortunate as the Loeffler’s actions against the veteran’s advocates are in this ongoing case, the big questions now being asked are: why are King County courts allowing the Loeffler’s extensively documented alleged illegal actions and defiance of federal law to go unchecked, how many innocent, defenseless people have Melinda and Evan Loeffler, together with their staff attorneys, stripped of their legal rights and made homeless, and most of all, why do the Washington State Bar Association’s Hearing Officers allow these people to continue to practice law?

Also called into question are Loeffler’s affiliations – why are the King County, WA, Washington State, and American Bars publishing Loeffler’s materials? How credible are the attorney ratings by AVVO and Martindale-Hubbard?

What is the basis for Washington Law and Politics Magazine’s “Washington Super lawyer” designation, as well as Seattle Metropolitan Magazine’s “Top 100 Lawyers rating?” Exactly what have they reviewed or checked?

 

Evan Loeffler may be a Seafair Clown, but when it comes to adding to Seattle’s legions of homeless – regardless of the methods, it appears – Melinda and Evan Loeffler are not clowning around.

For their part, the Director of the veteran’s group’s only comment is the same quote that may be found on their website: “The limits of tyrants are defined by the endurance of those whom they attempt to oppress.”

If you want to join them in their efforts to endure, they may be reached by email at info@vgpr.io, or through their website.

This is the first installment in a year-long investigative series titled “Your Courts, Their Fraud:” Next in the Series – Part Two: King County, WA Commissioner Henry Judson’s role in homelessness and guardianship/probate fraud.

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It’s time for the people to take control of our legal system and start filing lawsuits against lawyers who file false statements with our courts.

In early September 2019, the Court of Appeals Division One gave those of us affected by fraudulent filings by lawyers a new avenue to file lawsuits for damages.  Long over due, and from the Loefflers conduct outlines herein, those damaged by their conduct may be seeking damages in a courtroom soon.

See Ogden Murphy and Wallace sued for fraud

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Snohomish County government, a criminal racketeering organization, managed by Washington State Attorney General’s Office

We now have evidence that Gold Bar’s city attorneys Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack Inc. i.e. Shannon Ragonesi (basically a disbarred NY State attorney who just happen to get licensed here in Washington State) are also representing Snohomish County Prosecutors, Sara Di Vittorio, Sean Reay, and Seth Fine, City of Duvall, Port of Seattle,  and the City of Gold Bar.

According to the City of Gold Bar, City of Duvall, Port of Settle, and Snohomish County confirmed via public records response that there is no “conflict waiver” between Ragonesi and the City of Gold Bar for Ms. Ragonesi to represent multiple parties in the same suit Block v WSBA et al. 2016 02 19 Block v WSBA Amended RICO Complaint 

We now know that Keating, Bucklin and McCormack Inc and Shannon Ragonesi are not attorneys for any particular agencies, they are Special Assistant Attorney Generals, paid by Washington State Attorney Generals Office.

Association of Washington Cities late last week confirmed it was not paying the legal bills nor contracting with Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack for legal services for the City of Gold Bar and/or any party in Block v WSBA et al.

Hence why Joe Beavers laughed at the Court of Appeals Div One proceedings, because the Washington State Attorney Generals Office represents the Judges, the Courts, Prosecutors, and every party involved in 2016 02 19 Block v WSBA Amended RICO Complaint including, but not limited to, the City of Gold Bar and Snohomish County Superior Court’s attorney Sara DiVittorio.

Beavers also stated that ” he used Washington State Attorney’s Model Rules to win cases” What Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers left out was ” the Washington State Attorney Generals,  Sara DiVittorio and Shannon Ragonesi, are representatives for every Washington State County Court,  judges, and prosecutors and are in fact employees of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.

In the case of Shavlik v Phil Sayles ( where a citizen sued attorney Phil Sayles for fraud) the Attorney Generals Office allowed Snohomish County Special Deputy Prosecutor Joseph Genster to misuse county monies and resources to defend  Phil Sayles.

For those of you not familiar with how Snohomish County Prosecutors are handpicking incompetent public defenders like Tom Cox, Phil Sayles, Jason Schwartz, and appellate attorneys like Thomas Kummerow, to throw criminal defendants under the bus in favor of the state, you should read  https://goldbarreporter.wordpress.com/tag/everett-attorney-phil-sayles-caught/

Hard to lose when the Court is hearing and deciding cases involving themselves and their attorneys and the State is handpicking criminal defense attorneys. This RICO conduct reminds us of tactics committed by Nazi Germany.  Adolf Hitler would be quite proud of America today, while Elizabeth Cady Stanton would be quite ashamed.

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From: Reay, Sean
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 2:59 PM
To: Di Vittorio, Sara; Cummings, Jason
Subject: RE: PRR 15-03289 and K003165

Thanks.  She emailed Shannon Ragonesi to ask her if she was representing me and Seth Fine in the new RICO.  I guess it’s coming in the two weeks.

 

Regards,

 

Sean Reay

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney

Civil Division

Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office

3000 Rockefeller Avenue, M/S 504

Everett, WA 98201-4046

phone: (425) 388-7387  fax: (425) 388-6333

 

 

NOTICE:  All emails, and attachments, sent to and from Snohomish County may be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Act (Chapter 42.56 RCW).

From: Di Vittorio, Sara
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 2:15 PM
To: Reay, Sean; Cummings, Jason
Subject: FW: PRR 15-03289 and K003165

 

FYI

 

Sara Di Vittorio

Public Records Deputy Prosecutor

Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office

Robert J. Drewel Bldg., 8th Floor

3000 Rockefeller Avenue, M/S 504

Everett, WA 98201-4060

425-388-6343

 

NOTICE:  All emails, and attachments, sent to and from Snohomish County are public records and may be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Act (Chapter 42.56 RCW).

 

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Double Standard for those not Special Attorney Generals (SAAG) like Shannon

 

Attorney Bradley Marshall was disbarred by the Washington State Bar Association for not having a conflict wavier in writing signed by all the parties when there’s a possible conflict of interest.  Here in Gold Bar, two Mayors have confirmed that no conflict wavier was signed nor agreed to by the City of Gold Bar with co-defendants DiVittorio ( which we now know is Snohomish County Judges/Prosecutors attorney), and Ragonesi ( who we now know represents Snohomish County, Duvall, Port of Seattle, Attorney General’s Office, and Gold Bar.  Association of Washington Cities stated in a public email to us Thursday that they do not employee Shannon Ragonesi nor her firm of Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack.

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AETH  v Dept of Health & Human Services, outlines a great case racketeering charges to brought against Attorney General Sara DiVittorio and  

Two weeks ago, the Washington Court of Appeals Div. I issued an opinion documenting that Snohomish County Prosecutor Sara DiVittorio are legal counsel for Snohomish County Superior Court, Judges, police officers, clerks, employees, and GALs.

Sara DiVittorio is an Attorney General who works for the State of Washington, and reports directly to Attorney General Bob Ferguson. DiVittorio is not a Snohomish County Prosecutor.

In August 2009, Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers was bragging to a council member that they, Snohomish County Courts and attorney Sara DiVittorio, have the courts all locked up.  In other words, Joe Beavers declared that Snohomish County Superior Court was “fixing cases.”In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly

Jeffrey Meyers, an Association of Washington Cities attorney, who is being paid as a Special Assistant Attorney General, who first represented the City of Gold Bar, then Snohomish County’s Dawson Place ( alleged 501 (3) (c ) started by Judge Janice Ellis and operated by Snohomish County Prosecutors, said ” we cannot settle this case because they will not let Anne Block win!”

They, Jeffrey Meyers was referring is the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. The Attorney General has been illegally using public monies to fund the legal battle against Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block for over ten years here in Gold Bar.

Mr. Meyers  was assigned to the City of Gold Bar to cover up Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg 2x convicted of bank fraud, 2000, 2005, North Carolina and Snohomish County, respectively), and guilty of abusing children; and Mayor Joe Beavers, a convicted felon from Texas, to cover up their felonious criminal racketeering conduct detailed in 2016 02 19 Block v WSBA Amended RICO Complaint& RICO Statement

For over ten years, Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers covered up the fact that Crystal Hill Pennington ( aka Crystal D. Pennington; Crystal Berg) had pled guilty to bank fraud, stole over $200,000.00 from the City of Gold Bar, was sleeping with four Snohomish County employees including but not limited to Mark Roe, Sean Reay, John E Pennington ( a child molester who is guilty of kidnapping, raping, and attempted murder  a 5 year old girl from Cowlitz County in 1992).

Former Gold Bar council member said ” Crystal Hill was being passed around like a blanket” and former Mayor Joe Beavers screamed three times in Executive Session ” Crystal Hill is a whore!”

Now, the Court of Appeals Div One confirms that Snohomish County Superior Court heard cases in which their attorneys  Sara DiVittorio and Shannon Ragonesi were their attorneys of record.

Pretty easy to win cases when you have the Court’s attorneys arguing cases in front of the their clients.

Last month the Court of Appeals Div One let the cat out of the bag as to why Joe Beavers was bragging that he had cases against Gold Bar Reporter fixed.  Kind of hard to beat the agency when Washington State Attorney General’s SAAG’s Shannon Ragonesi and Sara DiVittorio are representing the Court, the Prosecutors, the Judges, and the City of Gold Bar.  If this isn’t cases fixing, we’re not sure what is.

See 769642 In re the Welfare of AH Amended MAR

Excepts of the above case record:

Following a 2013 trial, Judge Linda Krese found Apple H. dependent.1 Two years later, a different judge presided over a termination trial. With the support of Judge Krese, the Superior Court itself appeared through counsel in the termination proceeding. Judge Krese met with other judges to discuss the case, filed a declaration on behalf of the Superior Court, and sat in the courtroom as the court’s attorney urged the trial judge to enter a termination order. Throughout the dependency and termination proceedings, Judge Krese, her staff, and the court’s attorney met privately and crafted informal policies hindering parents’ efforts to obtain discovery from the Superior Court’s Volunteer GAL Program. This allowed the program to steer the case toward termination while hiding activity later found to be misconduct.  The trial judge concluded that Superior Court employees had withheld discovery, destroyed evidence, lied to the court, and endangered the child. When she learned that the Superior Court itself had participated throughout the litigation, she recused herself. Six months after announcing her recusal, the trial judge entered an order terminating the mother’s parental rights. From thousands upon thousands of pages of documents and transcript, three themes emerge. First, judges, their staff, and the Superior Court’s attorney participated in the litigation. Second, the Superior Court’s Volunteer GAL program committed misconduct designed to thwart reunification. Third, Superior Court employees lied, destroyed evidence, and retaliated against the mother’s attorneys for exposing misconduct.

Judge Krese’s Role

In response to Judge Farris’s orders to show cause regarding party
status, the Court/Program filed a declaration signed by Presiding Judge
Linda Krese. CP 12880-12882. This was not Judge Krese’s first contact
with the family. In her declaration, she avowed that she was “personally
familiar with this case.” CP 12880-12882.
At the start of the dependency, Judge Krese had signed the pick-up
order removing Apple H. from her parents’ care. CP 12314. Following a
contested shelter care hearing, she had entered an order placing the child
in foster care. Trial Ex. 8. She had presided over the dependency trial,
found Apple H. dependent, and refused to order an in-home dependency.
Trial Ex. 9. Presiding Judge Krese had also appointed Brook and the
Court/Program as the child’s GAL in the dependency proceeding. CP
1234.
Judge Krese met with other Superior Court judges to discuss this
case while it was pending.119 CP 12880-12882. She held this meeting one
day before Judge Farris began a round of hearings regarding Court Program misconduct. RP (3/23/16) 1222.   Judge Krese also had two conversations about the case with Judge
Farris. CP 12880-12882. According to Judge Krese, these conversations
required Judge Farris to recuse herself because Judge Farris made false
statements about them.120 CP 12880-12882.   

The Court/Program reiterated this point in its pleadings, arguing
that Judge Farris’s “inaccurate statements” required recusal. CP 12820
12825; see also CP 12883-12888. The Court/Program claimed it would
call Presiding Judge Krese as a witness if Judge Farris did not recuse her
self.121 CP 12820-12825. The Court/Program also noted that Presiding
Judge Krese herself believed there was a conflict. CP 12820-12825.
In her declaration, Judge Krese asserted “that there is a conflict”—
at least on the sanctions motion—and “that such a conflict cannot be ad
dressed by ‘a wall.’” CP 12880-12882. According to Judge Krese, she
would not have told Judge Farris “that we can maintain a wall so as to
avoid any conflict…”122 CP 12880-12882.

Presiding Judge Krese did tell Judge Farris “something to the Court/Program misconduct. RP (3/23/16) 1222.  Judge Krese also had two conversations about the case with Judge
Farris. CP 12880-12882. According to Judge Krese, these conversations
required Judge Farris to recuse herself because Judge Farris made false
statements about them.120 CP 12880-12882.

The Court/Program reiterated this point in its pleadings, arguing
that Judge Farris’s “inaccurate statements” required recusal. CP 12820
12825; see also CP 12883-12888. The Court/Program claimed it would
call Presiding Judge Krese as a witness if Judge Farris did not recuse her
self.121 CP 12820-12825. The Court/Program also noted that Presiding
Judge Krese herself believed there was a conflict. CP 12820-12825.
In her declaration, Judge Krese asserted “that there is a conflict”—
at least on the sanctions motion—and “that such a conflict cannot be ad
dressed by ‘a wall.’” CP 12880-12882. According to Judge Krese, she
would not have told Judge Farris “that we can maintain a wall so as to
avoid any conflict…”122 CP 12880-12882.
 

Presiding Judge Krese did tell Judge Farris “something to the effect of  ‘it would be good if [this case] got wrapped up.” CP 12880 12882. In her declaration, Judge Krese announced her belief that “it was in the best interests of… the child… and the court, for the case to be resolved.” CP 12880-12882.

Prior to the next hearing, Judge Farris received an anonymous communication in her internal message box, which was accessible only to court personnel. CP 12630-12631. The communication was a “Judicial Ethics Bulletin” addressing disqualification of judges. CP 12630-12631.
Judge Farris took this as an attempt to sway her decision. CP 490-492.
Presiding Judge Krese, as well as another Superior Court Judge, at
tended the next hearing on the case. CP 479-480. The two judges sat be
hind prosecutor DiVittorio as she presented argument on behalf of the
Court/Program. RP (11/4/16) 393-518; RP (11/18/16) 1852-1853; CP 479
480. Far from a common occurrence, this got Judge Farris’s attention. RP
(11/18/16) 1852-1853. She described it later:

They brought two judges to the courtroom for the hearing, including the presiding judge…. [T]hey brought the presiding judge to the hearing, and then asked [me] to rule in “the Court’s” favor. RP (11/18/16) 1852-1853.  

( Interesting to note that “they” was Sara DiVittorio and GAL Attorney Haugen) 
 

Judge Farris saw this as an attempt to “improperly influence or pressure
the trial judge” and to “intimidate or pressure the parents’ attorneys.” CP
480.

THE COURT: So the acts of the VGAL program and its employees are acts of the court? MS. DI VITTORIO: Yes.  RP (11/4/16) 401.

Judge Farris also asked if anything had been done to screen judges
from active cases.
THE COURT: Is there anything being done by the court to separate and keep independent the VGAL program from the court? MS. DI VITTORIO: I can’t answer that question, Your Honor. RP (11/4/16) 402.

THE COURT: Is there any effort by the court to treat that particular arm differently than other arms of the court? MS. DI VITTORIO: I guess I don’t understand what you’re getting at, Your Honor. I mean, there’s a program administrator that administrates that program. …. I’m not – I’m not understanding what kind of separation you would be thinking of. THE COURT: All right. RP (11/4/16) 403.124

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AETH v DHHS, In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badlyfirst time detailed almost to the T every allegation the Gold Bar Reporter made against Snohomish County and Attorney General’s Office Sara DiVittorio i.e. threats, obstruction our right to conduct discovery in public records cases, fixing cases with Snohomish County Superior Court Judges and its attorneys DiVittorio and Ragonesi, two Special Attorney Generals brought up to Snohomish County to cover up the criminal acts of public officials documented nicely in 2016 02 19 Block v WSBA Amended RICO Complaint & RICO Statement

almost the same issues the lawyers for AETH documented and now a Published Decision from Washington Court of Appeals Div One.

A special thank you to three wonderful attorneys who give me hope that not every attorney inside Washington State Bar Association is corrupt.   769642 In re the Welfare of AH Amended MAR & Washington Court of Appeals Div One for finally protecting the integerity of the rule of law.

The rule of law shouldn’t just apply to those of us with the knowledge and money to purchcase it.

According to the  U.S. Bureau of Prisons, (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) the cost to house prisoners amoutns to $74 billion, with 2,298,300 people  incarcerated out of a population of 324.2 million. 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Justice Alex Kozinski ( who is my judicial hero of the 21st Century) was asked a couple of years ago “how many people are in prison wrongfully?”  said without batting an eye ” about 50 %.”

When the Attorney General’s Office is funding the legal battle for agency employees who committ crimes, as they have here in Gold Bar and Snohomish County, we believe it’s no more felonious conduct ( reeks of Sherman Anti-Trust) than robbing a bank.

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Some good news for Gold Bar Washington residents.  The new Mayor Bill Clem and the 2019 City Council has an Ordinance restricting a person who has been convicted of crimes like Crystal Hill, Joe Beavers, and Bonnie Scruggs Dierkson Jones, from being elligible for employment with the City of Gold Bar.

No one, like Crystal Hill who pled guilty to and served time in jail for bank fraud, should have access to bank accounts and credit cards.  In Gold Bar, Crystal Hill stole over $200,000.00 through bank fraud and check cashing schemes. With the new law, thieves like Crystal Hill Pennington ( aka Crystal Berg), and violent felons like Joe Beavers,  would not be eligible for any type of employment in Gold Bar including elected positions.

The tide is turning for the City of Gold Bar, and with Sara DiVittorio, an Attorney General, representing the Courts, Judges, and Prosecutors, now exposed for racketeering, Gold Bar may be one step closer to coming clean.

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office has been paying the legal bill against the Gold Bar Reporter for over ten years, and Joe Beavers lies to the public stating that Gold Bar was going broke paying to defend public records lawsuits.

Joe Beavers criminal conduct included  operating and posting articles on John Pennington and Crystal Hill’s Sky Valley Chronicle, he belongs in prison with Washington State Attorney Generals Sara DiVittorio, Shannon Ragonesi and Amanda Butler for racketeering.

Good news for those of us who have been defamed by the Washington State Attorney General little law firm scams as outlines herein, the Washington State Court of Appeals Div One just held that they are not exempt from lawsuits when they commit fraud, publish false statements, and/or commit perjuryy like Shannon Ragonesi and Amanda Butler did in every case involving the Gold Bar Reporter.

The Washington Court of Appeals Div I just opened up the door for the Gold Bar Reporter to sue Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack. See Ogden Murphy and Wallace sued for fraud

 

The Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued. for any reason.

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Snohomish County Prosecutors and attorneys tampering with FBI National Crime Information Center data

        

 Ann Marie Soto                                          Shannon Ragonesi 

In November 2017, the City of Gold Bar’s attorneys Ann Marie Soto and Shannon Ragonesi decided to have a meeting with a federal witness Brandia Tamuu.  Besides the obvious, tampering with a federal witness ( a felony in Washington), both entered into a bribery scheme to remove the witness’s criminal arrest warrant and criminal history from the National Crime Information Center’s (NCIC) criminal data base.

Public records from the City of Gold Bar, from November 21 to December 20, 2017, document that in November 2017, Shannon Ragonesi and Ann Marie Soto were contacted for a meeting by a convicted animal abuser Brandia Taamu.

Ms. Taamu was desperate for money, had in fact tried extort the Gold Bar Reporter for money/car, and had offered to meet up with Ragonesi and Soto at the Law Firm of Keating Bucklin McCormack Inc in downtown Seattle. Brandia Taamu needed money as she was being threatened with eviction from her home.  In exchange for meeting with Ragonesi and Soto, the woman would get money and her City of Everett arrest warrant and conviction for animal abuse would be cleared.  Taamu claimed to have dirt on the Gold Bar Reporter, but had nothing of value except speculation on why the Gold Bar Reporter moved West, and it was quite apparent from an insider at the law office that the woman is suffering from mental health issues.

According to the woman, Ragonesi and Soto agreed to clear her criminal arrest warrant and conviction from NCIC via ACCESS.

Ragonesi and Soto also told the woman that they could issue secret subpoenas for any document they so desired, and further offered to help the woman get a restraining order against the Gold Bar Reporter’s news reports.  One witness said that the woman recorded their meeting, but we have no knowledge of whether this is true or not.

The Washington State Patrol turned over the woman’s criminal history one week before and a week after the Ragonesi and Soto November  2017 bribery  meeting, and it is clear that just days after this meeting, the criminal conviction record and arrest warrant were wiped from NCIC via ACCESS.  The person who cleared the woman’s ACCESS records was Michael Meyers, King County police officer.

The City of Gold Bar, at the bequest of Ann Marie Soto and Shannon Ragonesi, illegally claimed that the meeting records were exempt from public disclosure. Obviously, a lawsuit forcing disclosure is coming, and Ms. Soto and Ms. Ragonesi will be deposed.

In early 2018, Gold Bar’s new Mayor Bill Clem agreed to an interview with the Gold Bar Reporter and he said ” those people who are threatening you are now threatening me.”

Washington State Attorney General Sara DiVittorio threatening lawyers, withholding public records, obstructing justice, running illegal background checks, all captured by Washington Court of Appeals Division One

UPDATE: We now have public records documenting that the Washington State Attorney General’s Office is operating the Washington State Bar disciplinary functions, giving legal advice to the Washington State Supreme Court Justices and the Governor,  Department of Health and Human Services,  GALs, Association of Washington Cities, County and local agencies, and Washington State Judges.  

Obviously, when the Court of Appeals Division One issued In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly opinion about one of its own attorney generals, Sara DiVittorio, we were quite surprised, but lets face it, not every member of the judiciary is corrupt, as this case illustrates quite nicely. 

A must read, In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly, but note that the official court file at Division One in Seattle is far worse – and those files will be posted soon. 

Late last week, it’s interesting to note that a clerk commissioner Richard Johnson decided to exempt the entire oral trial transcript from In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly Why is simply describes that this case involved members Snohomish County Judiciary working behind the scenes to deny a mother and father their constitutional right to raise their children, and more interesting to note is that the foster parent here is a Snohomish County police officer, who according to the above decision, illegally used county resources to collect evidence to support her adoption of AETH.

For me, this sounds much like what Snohomish County public officials did to me back in 2009, and certainly supports my racketeering suit filed in  2016 02 19 Block v WSBA Amended RICO Complaint and RICO Statement

 

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Sister Sara, the Fifth Mule, representing the 4th Branch of Government 

I met attorney Sara DiVittorio for the first time in 2010, when she represented the Washington State Attorney General’s Office involving a Gold Bar council member named Lonn Turner.  Mr Turner was also a Union member with the Department of Corrections (DoC) in Monroe.

At the time, I had no idea that Sara DiVittorio was sent to Snohomish County Washington, from the Attorney General’s Office, to obstruct our rights to access public records up here in Gold Bar, because a state employee, just like in the above case, ran illegal back grounds on citizens ( a federal crime) with the sole purpose of trying to extort the Gold Bar Reporter into not investigating public officials.

After the Gold Bar Reporter exposed Lonn Turner’s criminal conduct at the DoC, he lost his Union job, but Sara DiVittorio managed to get Turner a non-Union warehouse job to cover up his criminal racketeering conduct described herein.

According to council member Jay Prueher’s wife, Lonn Turner was able to use a high ranking member inside at the WA DoC to gather a spider of information on my family. Turner then disseminated illegally obtained medical, non-criminal history records, tax returns, Washington State Bar records, Veteran’s Administration records, and WA State unemployment filings, and disseminated those stolen files from DoC to various government officers including the City of Gold Bar in 2009.

The stolen files were a direct result of me hiring a public records lawyer to file suit against the City of Gold Bar seeking records relating to why the City of Gold Bar voted illegally in Executive Session to settle a tort claim a former water employee named Karl Marjerle filed against the City of Gold Bar.

Karl Marjerle was a lazy Gold Bar water employee who had sabotaged the City of Gold Bar’s water system, which amounted to an act of domestic terrorism.  Instead of reporting Karl Marjerle’s terrorism to the FBI and Department of Justice ( DOJ), Gold Bar’s 2009 governing body ( Lonn Tuner, Dorothy Croshaw, Richard Norris, Crystal Hill, Joe Beavers) voted to transfer thousands of dollars to Karl Marjerle, and further elicited two Snohomish County Prosecutors, Mark Roe and Sean Reay, into helping cover up federal crimes Karl Marjerle commmited against the City of Gold Bar.

As a resident of Gold Bar, I was appalled that any government official, who has a duty to report crimes, would cover up such a major crime such as Domestic Terrorism, so I requested all records relating to Karl Marjerle.

Instead of turning over public records, Gold Bar’s then Mayor Crystal Hill ( nee Berg) elicited the assistance of four lovers of hers from Snohomish County government, Mark Roe, Sean Reay, John E Pennington and Aaron Reardon.

According to council member Jay Prehuer, ” Crystal was a party girl being passed around like a blanket” and former Mayor Joe Beavers said three times in Executive Session ” Crystal Hill is a whore!”  But what Joe Beavers failed to tell the public is that Gold Bar’s former water employee Karl Marjerle knew a little too much about Crystal Hill’s theft of monies from Gold Bar exceeding $200.000.00 and the fact that Crystal Hill was using an alias as her name was really Crystal Berg.

Crystal Berg ( now using Crystal D. Pennington)  was arrested for bank fraud in North Carolina 2000, and in Snohomish County Washington in 2005. She plead guilty to both, and served time in a North Carolina jail.

In 2007, Crystal Hill met a three time married county employee named John Edward Pennington.  Mr. Pennington’s criminal rein of terror was detailed in past articles I have written on his pedophilias, kidnapping and rape of a five year girl from Cowlitz County Washington in 1992. At the same time John Pennington is just about ready to be charged with these crimes, he decides to run for uncontested Washington State Legislative seat in Cowlitz County, Washington.

While in Cowlitz County, John E Pennington meets Senator Jennifer Dunn, and Kelso City Attorney Michael Kenyon. Kenyon was in charge of the deciding whether to prosecute John Pennington for rape, attempted murder and kidnapping of a five year old girl from Cowlitz County.  But instead Michael Kenyon decided his moment had come to capitalize of pedophile John E Pennington’s crimes against a defenseless five year old child.

For his assisting now WA State legislator John E Pennington in covering up his sexual deviant behavior of pedophilia, Michael Kenyon started receiving millions of dollars of legal contracts from various government agencies in Washington State, including hundreds of municipal agencies, including Snohomish County, Washington.

So it was no surprise when I sought public records from the City of Gold Bar which involved John E Pennington illegally obtained files given to him by Gold Bar’s 2009 governing body, John E Pennington called attorney Michael Kenyon and his firm Kenyon Disend PLLC in Issauquah to bail him out of this mess.

In 2010 Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers made an agreement with Kenyon Disend to remove his felony records from the National Crime Information Center from his violent and drunk days in Arlington Texas. According to a source inside the family, Joe Beavers sexually assaulted a young woman in Texas.  Beavers had his own problems because John Pennington, via Rodney Rochan at the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, had obtained Beavers criminal history records on Joe Beavers extorting him into misappropriating Gold Bar public monies to cover up his past criminal history.

But Snohomish County Prosecutors Sean Reay and Mark Roe had a plan. Remember Prosecutors Sean Reay and Mark Roe failed to report Gold Bar’s water employee Karl Marjerle to the DOJ/FBI for committing acts of Domestic Terrorism against the City of Gold Bar and I was exposing their racketeering conduct on the Gold Bar Reporter. The plan was this: Sean Reay and Mark Roe would illegally remove Crystal Danielle Pennington ( nee Berg), Joe Beavers, Bonnie Dierkson Jones, and John E Pennington criminal history records from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.

Clear racketeering.

So when then Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna learned this his employee and SAAG Sara DiVittorio, and other prosecutors from Snohomish County government had committed racketeering crimes, Rob McKenna was left with two choices, either report them or cover up it.

Washington State Attorney General, and now attorney, Rob McKenna chose the wrong path, and its now been ten years that the City of Gold Bar along with Washington State’s Attorney General’s Office has been refusing to come clean about why the City of Gold Bar should continue to allow public resources to be used to continue the cover up of crimes committed by a small number of public officials.

Since 2013, Washington State Attorney General Bob Fergusson has continue funding the Enterprise Rob McKenna started as described herein.

So last week when the Washington Court of Appeals Div One issued scathing opinion regarding the criminal conduct of WA State SAAG ( who represents many public agencies here in Washington), Sara DiVittorio, many of us open government supporters here in Washington were ecstatic to learn that Sara DiVittorio will finally be disbarred for her criminal conduct as outlined in the In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly.

After hearing from various sources, a few of us decided to go down to the Court of Appeals to see the entire file, and what we discovered is that the Court of Appeals downplayed how criminal SAAG Sara DiVittorio’s conduct. Conduct clearly outlined and replicated in my RICO suit filed in US Federal District Court in Seattle.

See Block v WSBA et al  2016 02 19 Block v WSBA Amended RICO Complaint  

and supporting RICO Statement RICO Statement 

What’s most interesting to note here is that not one person denied any of the allegations I made in this above suits, and had I had an honest federal court judge not associated with the WSBA and his former employer’s office ( King County),  my case would have weeded out criminals like SAAG and County Prosecutors in 2012 long before Sara DiVittioro would have been allowed to thrust her crimes upon a poor defenseless African American child and her parents.

If my readers haven’t read the Washington Court of Appeals Decision in RICO Statement and In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly

please consider filing WSBA complaints as no one should ever have their professional licenses stolen or their children stolen because Snohomish County, the Washington State Attorney General’s Office and RICO defendants who decided to cover up for pedophiles and wife beaters like John E Pennington, as well as politically connected convicted felons like Crystal Hill Pennington and Joe Beavers cover up liability by hiding the criminal racketeering conduct of its public officials.

To those of you involved in helping stop Human Trafficking as outlined in In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly many of us who are now well on our way to extracting criminals from our state agencies are true American heroes worthy of Washingtonians respect.

 

Here’s excerpts of the In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly records retrieved at the Washington Court of Appeals in the above case.

It’s time to officially ask the Voters of Washington to place the Washington State Bar Association into a state licensing agency and out of the hands of the private organization who by the way is being controlled by the same Washington State Attorney Generals who committed crimes as outlined in this article.

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Here’s a public records showing the Washington State Attorney General’s is really operating the private WSBA Organization misappropriating public monies in support of a private organization such as the WSBA and handpicking SAAGs as insiders inside RCW mandated GAL programs which are supposed to be independent.

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From: Rawlings, Noella (ATG)
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2007 11:04 AM
To: Thorp, Tanya (ATG); Allen, Patricia L. (ATG); Berris, Elizabeth (ATG); Boharski, Jennifer (ATG); Collins, Michael (ATG); Comeau, Marci (ATG); Comiskey, Mary Ann (ATG); Cruikshank, Catherine (ATG); Delaney, Sarah (ATG); Delman, Joel (ATG); Dorsey, Diane (ATG); Holmes, Beth (ATG); Huang, Aileen (ATG); Huang, Daphne (ATG); Kirchmeier, Hilery (ATG); LaRaus, David (ATG); Li, Mary (ATG); Llorens, Susan (ATG); Malolepsy, Terri (ATG); Masco, Thomas (ATG); McArdle, Trisha (ATG); Milstein, Jonathan (ATG); Nord, Cara (ATG); Taylor, Kelly (ATG)
Subject: FW: Job Posting-Attorney GAL

 

Now – don’t all run for this one.  But, I know that many of you would be very well qualified for this position.  And you know it’s contrary to my interest in sending this out, but I believe in full disclosure and honesty.

—–Original Message—–
From: Katz, Linda [mailto:Linda.Katz@METROKC.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:29 PM
To: Rawlings, Noella (ATG)
Subject: FW: Job Posting-Attorney GAL

FYI—we are very excited to be able to try this out. According to Judge Clark and Paul Sherfey it is “very likely” to be re-funded through 2008 on Court Improvement Project funds and then made a permanent part of the court budget. Pass it on!

 

Linda Katz, ACSW

Program Manager, CASA Program

1401 E. Jefferson St.

Seattle, WA 98122

206-296-1126

From: Fuentes, Gertrude
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:43 AM
To: ZZDept Superior Court
Cc: Ebersole, Amy
Subject: Job Posting-Attorney GAL

 

This term-limited temporary position is open to all qualified applicants, and is currently funded through December 31, 2007.  Please see the attached posting for more information.

 

Thank you.

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The Washington State Attorney General’s Office has no business handpicking GALs! Especially GALs that are AGs!

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We gathered several files from the Washington Court of Appeals on Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly  and this case file documents that Sara Di Vittorio is guilty of RICO as detailed in Block v WSBA et al  RICO Statement

and will post those files soon.

 

Snohomish County Judge Farris, “ a right to a fair trial is ministerial act” and Snohomish County Prosecutors working together to spit on civil rights of Washingtonians

Sister Sara Di Vittorio, a Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG), and a Special Assistant Prosecutor (SAP) for many other agencies here in Washington State, with the assistance of corrupt Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Farris, declared that biological parents do not have a right to a fair trial i.e. an impartial judge.

The right to a fair trial is taught in every first year law school class, but its possible that Sara DiVittorio and Judge Farris failed constitutional law.

In re Dependency of AETH Snoho Superior behaving badly

Imagine, a Judge holds that your right as a parent to raise your children is ministerial act.  This after King 5 exposed Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe and his gang for felony crimes of interception of private attorney client protected communications of defense attorneys to prevail in cases, and the US Supreme Court already held that the right to raise children is a constitutional right that shall not be abridged by government without due process of law.

 

But here in Snohomish County government due process of law is meaningless, because judges and the prosecutors are working together to steal children, cover up for pedophiles like John E Pennington and convicted bank frauders like Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, twice convicted of bank fraud) who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the City of Gold Bar.

 

John E Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington illegally obtained from Snohomish County Prosecutors Sean Reay, Mark Roe and Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officer Rodney Rochan (who illegally uses his political influence inside Sno County to cover up the crimes of his  pedophile nephew from Lake Stevens) illegally obtained background checks on citizens just as Sara Di Vittorio did for the GALs as cited by the Washington Court of Appeals Div. One.

 

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/investigations/judge-misconduct-could-jeopardize-adoptions-in-snohomish-co/99070574

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Ministerial act

A ministerial act is a government action “performed according to legal authority, established procedures or instructions from a superior, without exercising any individual judgment.” It can be any act a functionary or bureaucrat performs in a prescribed manner, without exercising any individual judgment or discretion. Under law, this would be classified under the rubric of public policy.

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Yes, denying a parent their right to raise their children, along with the fact that Snohomish County’s Guardian Scam was already exposed as fraud by King 5, it’s just business as usual here in Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office.

Sister Sara Di Viittorio, and a stellar example of what the hell is wrong with the Washington State Bar Association, covered up the fact that Snohomish County’s Director of Emergency Management Director John E Pennington kidnapped, raped, and attempted the murder of a 5 year old girl in Cowlitz County WA, and Gold Bar’s disgraced council member Lonn Turner stole medical files and then disseminated them into Gold Bar’s email system.

Sara Di Vittorio claims to be a Prosecutor for Snohomish County but is in fact a SAAG working for Attorney General Bob Fergusson to SLAPP down anyone who challenges their criminal racketeering conduct like threats to anyone who dares challenge their criminal Enterprise also known as Department of Enterprise Services at the Washington State Attorney General’s Office (DES).

Now the Washington State Court of Appeals, Div. One, confirms that Sara Di Vittorio is running illegal backgrounds on citizen who fight back, then disseminating those illegally obtained files to others in violation of federal and state law, and making unlawful electronic threats to criminally prosecute those seek to expose the corruption. The GAL program here in Snohomish County is just one of hundreds of fraudulent schemes the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office started, like Dawson Place, Victim Support Services, and Pacific Treatment Solutions, all set up by the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office to ensure those accused of crimes are convicted by controlling the witnesses and courts.

For those of my readers not familiar with Sister Sara Di Vittorio’s felonious conduct here in Washington State, should keep reading:

Attorneys, Sister Sara Di Vittorio and Geoffrey Gibbs,

             all things evil inside Washington State Bar

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UPDATE: It’s been a very long eight years to piece together why Gold Bar Washington is going broke hiding public records. . . this week, we finally have the missing link to the largest corruption scandal in Washington State history.

With no surprise, it involves former Washington State Attorney General “Sister Sara” Di Vittorio tampering with public records inside the Department of Corrections (DoC) and at Snohomish County Dept. of Emergency Management, according to a whistleblower who came forward last week “ Crystal Hill disseminated your Washington State Bar application and investigative file to John Pennington and Dept of Corrections employee Lonn Turner…”

But then the WSBA got involved in helping Geoffrey Gibbs and Seth Fine cover up their criminal racketeering conduct – quashing criminal sabotaging of the city’s water system as a favor to then Executive Aaron Reardon- a US Federal attorney, now working for the WSBA, was able to misuse her connections with the fusion center.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center

The racketerists herein illegally gained access into a “spider” of information on Block’s family members attempting to extort Block just like they did to former council member in 2007.  But by now, Crystal Hill ( convicted of bank fraud using an alias of Berg in 2005) had illegally possessed and disseminated medical files via Washington State emails in March 2009, the Washington State Bar to hide their criminal racketeering ( wire) crimes hired Schmipff to help conceal public records/files. Files that were illegally obtained ( without a warrant) and illegally disseminated via electronic means. Dissemination of medical files for a Mass residents is prohibited and is a federal felony, amounts to Racketeering, punishable by 20-30 years in federal prison.

A file that Geoffrey Gibbs and Seth Fine both members of the Washington State Bar Boards in 2009 stole then disseminated the stolen file to Gold Bar’s then lawyer’s paralegal Barbara Johnson ( Weed Gaafstra, Benson) who then disseminated the stolen files to Crystal Hill, who then disseminated the stolen files to former Gold Bar council member Lonn Turner ( at LTurner@DoC.wa.gov) and disgraced Snohomish County political appointee John E. Pennington  (man responsible for the rape of a 5 year old child from Cowlitz County, Washington).

While working at the DoC, Sister Sara tampered with public records as a ” risk management” a felony in Washington State and certainly Racketeering.  According to a whistleblower, to wire crimes for high ranking WSBA members and disgraced former Washington State lobbyist G. Geoffrey Gibbs ( see below).

Unfortunately for the WSBA, Crystal Hill, John Pennington, Lonn Turner, G. Geoffrey Gibbs, and Sister Sara Di Vittorio, Gold Bar had a clerk ( who was caught via hidden camera stealing from Gold Bar resulting in her termination in 2012) who wasn’t sharpest tool in the shed. . .  it will be interesting to see if the Courts are going to help us abolish the WSBA or just simply reform it?

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Everett attorney and WA State Bar Board member Geoffrey Gibbs caught red handed via public records filing false statements with Judicial Ethics Commission, and violating Sherman Anti-Trust to assist Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office in going after any lawyer who exposes corruption involving attorney Geoffrey Gibbs, the criminals inside the WA State Bar ( Linda Eide, Lin O’Dell, and Doug Ende), and Snohomish County criminal Racketeering outfit (an RICO Enterprise operating from Snohomish County Judicial and Prosecutor’s Office).

In 2009, attorney Geoffrey Gibbs misused his political offices to assist Crystal Hill Pennington, John E. Pennington, Aaron Reardon, and Joe Beavers to cover up the Karl Marjerle sabotaging the City of Gold Bar’s water system.  Racketeering captured in public records.

Attorney Geoffrey Gibbs has been sued for Racketeering five times in the last two years for his criminal conduct.  An email from Everett Prosecutor Michael Fischer from G. Geoffrey Gibbs has  Gibbs sending an email to a Prosecutor demanding that he file criminal assault charges against Carolyn Ryggs so that she will have to expend a very large retainer to hire counsel. Because Gibbs was in a land dispute with the Ryggs after public records confirmed that was using Judge Michael Downes to steal Carolyn Ryggs’s land.

Geoffrey Gibbs’s fraud in the 1990s as illustrated by the Washington Public Disclosure Commission is well documented below.

Now, Geoffrey Gibbs criminal Enterprise and public records confirm that Gibbs and Prosecutor Seth Fine are the main reason why Snohomish County yields over 40 % of disciplined lawyer inside the WA State Bar, while the highest populated county, King County ( Seattle) , only yields 12 %. According to our counsel, clear Sherman Anti-Trust violations; a federal felony.

We’re also working on a story linking the Klan to the ” Ok Boys Home” a story worth waiting for.

Just another stellar example of why the Washington State Bar will be abolished.

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Republished with permission from www.snocoreporter.com

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My step-grandpa in his later years was getting a little less coherent, when I was younger he was a very prejudiced man, he only loved one black man and that was Robert, but once a black family moved into the neighborhood he sold his house and built a new one in Valparaiso, in Sherwood Forest no less. Although I never once heard him use a derogatory term, the message was clear.

He owned the Hy-Speed car wash in Gary Indiana close to the Jackson home, yes as in the Jackson 5, Janet, and the creepy parents. I would go over and play with them and it drove my Grampa Joe nuts, he’d make me take a shower before I got in the car and I was never allowed to eat anything there or go inside their house.

One day when I was back home visiting I walked into the den and Grandpa was sitting there with the biggest smile on his face. He was watching Michael Jackson. I said Grandpa whatcha watching, he looked at me and said. This is a great country, do you know how I know that? I said no Grandpa I don’t. He points to the TV and said there is that little boy you used to play with. I said I know Grandpa but what does that have to do with anything? He said only in America can a poor little black boy grow up to be a rich white woman and then he smiled. As much as I didn’t like the message he had a point.

It’s like that with G. Geoffrey Gibbs, only in Washington can a convicted lobbyist, grow up to be on the Board of Governor’s and treasurer of the Washington State Bar Association, then become a Snohomish County Commissioner and get some of the most lucrative contracts in the county

Waste management would be foaming at the mouth if they truly understood the amount of trash just rolling around our county

George “G.” Geoffrey Gibbs. a lobbyist took many a politician, lawyer and judge on trips to Sunriver resorts, fishing trips in BC and on bus rides down to Jubitz Truck Stop/Ponderosa Lounge where having a hooker or a “lot lizard would simply be redundant. A reporter said as much but I checked with a former trucker and he immediately got embarrassed, turned red and told me to never go there. I’m going to take that to mean the reporter was telling the truth.

Looking at Pennington’s divorce records it shows that his then wife also complained to the courts that she has gotten a sexually transmitted disease from him 3 times during their marriage, I guess we know why now.

Remember, Pennington and Appelwick were “Dear Friends” since the 90’s

So… behold the power of the newspaper archives:

We found numerous stories about Mr Gibbs, Judge Appelwick, Joe King and few other power players in this state. Stories that have basically been “washed” from the internet which is a common ploy used by many politicians and lawyers to hide the truth.

Seems our school super Randy Dorn was one of his recipients (which might explain why so many disgraced senators, and state legislators end up in the Education system: some midterm

Other power players include but are not limited to:

Senator Al Bauer who oddly enough is out and about filing ethics complaints I guess he would know…

Representative Joe King who left Olympia to start his own lobbying company or political strategy company.

Although Appeals Court Judges seems to have gotten the most benefit from this relationship, even today…

Not only does Gibbs have an Appelwick in his pocket he has learned well and placed people from his current law firm on:

The Public Disclosure Commission,

The Commission on Judicial Conduct,

The Washington State Bar Association,

Anyway here are some of the newspaper clippings we have gotten so far. I have literally 1000’s more documents thanks to the hard work of someone who spent the day gathering the records… There are more records but I am still trying to put them in albums so that they can follow some type of pattern and are better understood.

On that note, sorry I have been AWOL but please remember I am working on quite a few huge stories, and I write this paper mostly by myself but trust me when I say: It will be worth the wait.

 

 

 

   

Great job Brandia at Www.snocoreporter.com another criminal caught red handed filing false statements with the Judicial Ethics Commission ( affirming under oath that he never had problems with fraud, when in fact the Public Disclosure Commission revoked G.Geoffrey Gibbs’s lobbying license for fraud.

More on Everett attorney Geoffrey Gibbs, John E. Pennington and Marlin Applewick’s linked to using lobbying resources to fund a whore house in Oregon coming soon.

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Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources places people over profits

Finally Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) did something right.

Once beautiful, our Sky Valley is now a sore thumb among travelers who visit the Sky Valley for recreational purposes.  Once beautiful mountain ranges are now covered with  thousands of dead brown acres like a blacked out area we often saw when Snohomish County Prosecutors answer public records requests under disgraced Prosecutor Mark Roe ( under Adam Cornell, things are better, a story coming soon).  This right in plain view of our most valued Sky Valley treasure, Wallace Falls State Park.

In August 2017, three environmental groups sued, and successfully argued that new environmental studies were required to understand Singletary Timber size and contour. Thankfully, Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Millie Judge agreed and in August voided the sale.

“The 25 acres, while we were appreciative of it, really wouldn’t have solved the problem,” attorney Goldman representing environmental groups declared “It really was green lipstick on a pig.”

Over the last two years, DNR officials held meetings with the public to discuss alternative forest practices that would leave more habitat and hiking access intact.

As those forestry discussions continue, it’s unclear whether the County Council’s action will have the intended effect of speeding up the Singletary sale.

Many local residents, visitors and tree huggers like myself who live and vacation around the Sky Valley see all too often is where a once luscious forest grew, clear cutting committed by the timber industry with permission from DNR. What we tree huggers and scientists know well is mature forests provide clean water and air, provide important wildlife and fish a clean and vibrant habitat, and absorb and hold carbon that would otherwise contribute to climate change.

Now on the flip side, it’s true the timber industry provides jobs. In the Sky Valley, timber industry results in less than 1 % of the jobs and its second most deadly and underpaid employment career a person can chose. Besides fishing, being a logger is the most deadly job a person can hold and it pays $20 per hour. Here in Washington State, being a logger would provide $38,000.00 per year and provide food and shelter to less than 1 % of the population.

According to Debbie Coppell from the Sky Valley Chamber of Commerce “those people ruined the Sky Valley.”  What Ms. Coppell is referring to are tree huggers and environmentalists who care of about the future of America for our grandkids.  This yields one question I pose for Ms. Coppell: Is the timber industry paying you to lobby?

Instead of focusing in on job creation here in the Sky Valley Ms. Coppell teamed up with a former Mayor, Joe Beavers, a convicted felon from Texas.  Mr. Beavers and Ms. Coppell have spent over 2000 hours advocating for the timber industry, claiming, falsely, that the Sultan School system relies heavily on timber sales.

Public records document that Sultan Public Schools do gain $40,000.00 per year from timber sales.  Small businesses and growth are the big gains for the Sky Valley, which provide 44 % of public school funding, while property owners provide the bulk.

So what are Sultan Chamber of Commerce Debbie Coppell and convicted felon and former Gold Bar Mayor Joe Beavers real motive in pushing timber sales?  Perhaps we will never know, but one can assume that it’s not with small business owners nor business growth inside the Sky Valley.  If it was, Ms. Coppell would spend more time talking to small business owners and provide much needed resources to those of us who actually own and operate successful small businesses in the Sky Valley.

Massive state and private commercial logging is destroying the Skykomish Valley, Washington, a part of the famous Cascade Loop and Hwy 2, a National Scenic Byway.  The Debbie Coppell’s of the Valley are misappropriating much needed Chamber Resources like timber, instead of helping small businesses grow.

President Obama had it right “Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource…..Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual. “

While in law school, I received the Blue Book in Endangered Species Act, and successfully argued in Moot Court that a tree is more valuable to than human life. Why is simple: a tree provides clean air and water to millions of humans on Mother Earth.  A lesson most humans, and certainly Debbie Coppells’ of our World fail to respect and understand is the magnitude of just how delicate Mother Earth is for our grandchildren’s children.

A question that remains unanswered is: What’s Debbie Coppell’s motive? We may never know, and those who really care about business growth in the Sky Valley were handed a victory last week when DNR announced that it will not forest Singleltary, protecting Mother Earth from human greed for future generations.

At last DNR places people over the small profit that would be gained by clear cutting Singletary, preserving Wallace Falls State Park for visitors and tree huggers like myself.

Protecting our environment against destructive human greed is just as important as exposing corrupt government officials who steal, deplete, and rape our children from obtaining a healthy and happy childhood.  A big win for our future

 

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https://parks.state.wa.us/289/Wallace-Falls

 

 

 

 

More fraud involving former Gold Bar Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg), but now involving FEMA fraud

Crystal Hill-Pennington, NEMAA

National Lead Instructor at FEMA – EMI

 

Pretty laughable stuff Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington is posting to her LinkedIn page these days.  First Ms. Hill Pennington claims to be a ” National Lead Instructor at FEMA- EMI” when in fact once FEMA Director Brock Long discovered that Ms. Hill Pennington filed a false application, claiming that she never plead guilty to fraud, she was prohibited from receiving any further FEMA contracts.Ms. Hill Pennington Berg also claims to have a valid college degree, but records from University of Connecticut In Storrs documents that Crystal Hill Pennington’s (nee Berg) so called college degree was obtained exclusively online at Eastern Oregon University, which had its accreditation pulled for failing to meet the basic US standards for educational accreditation with the US Department of Education.

Perhaps someone should explain to Ms. Hill and Eastern Oregon University that there is no such thing as a BS in Poly Si, as Poly Si is a liberal arts degree (BA), or may be that’s part of the reason why Eastern Oregon had its accreditation pulled by the US Department  of Education.

But here’s a summary of what our former Gold Bar convicted bank frauding Mayor  Crystal Hill Pennington is posting to her LinkedIn pages as of June 30, 2019.

Summary

A professional policy consultant and instructional specialist with a multi-disciplinary approach to team solutions and education. Co-author and lead adjunct faculty instructor for the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy via the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) & Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) programs with the NETC Emergency Management Institute. Emergency Preparedness / Management subject matter expert consultant with experience in development and instruction of courses for emergency management professionals in conjunction with FEMA and FEMA partners. Seven Stafford Act Declarations including activation in the areas of: Incident Commander, EOC Manager, Branch Chief, Policy Lead, Government/Political Liaison Officer, and Tribal Nation Relations Consultant. Crystal holds a Degree in Economics along with extensive graduate and post-graduate education.

She is currently completing her Juris Doctorate with a focus on Tribal/Indian Law.

Respected and experienced government executive with expansive personnel management, budget management, project oversight, contracts, and partner relations experience. Formerly focused in the legal field, including work in municipal law & land use, family law litigation and collaborative approaches with an emphasis on strategies for dispute resolution and mediation in high conflict cases.

Authorship, Instruction, and Subject Matter Expert areas include:
– Tribal Nations Relationships & Engagement
– Government and Policy
– Ethics & Legal considerations
– Regulatory Education and Compliance
– Negotiation & Conflict / Dispute Resolution
– Critical Thinking / Decision making
– FEMA Leadership Advanced Academy Program
– FEMA Foundations Basic Academy Program
– IEMC – All Hazards Recovery and Response
– Disaster Operations and EOC/ECC Managements
– Unified Coordination of Operations
– Advanced Situational Awareness & Common Operating Picture
– National Disaster Recovery Systems
– National Response Framework

Volunteering Experience

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  Member

  Soroptimist International Northwestern Region

  The Soroptimist network of over 75,000 club members in 122 countries works at a local, national and international level to Educate, Empower and Enable opportunities for women and girls.

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  Local-Organization Board Member, Washington State

  YMCA of the USA (National Resource Office)

  2007 – 2011 4 years

Skills & Endorsements

Join LinkedIn to see Crystal’s skills, endorsements, and full profile

Certifications

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  Conflict Mediation Certificate

  Alternative Dispute Resolution Training

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More fraud involving former Gold Bar Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg), but now involving FEMA

Our readers should note that the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued for any reason.

However, Crystal Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr were charged with failing to pay and file tax returns, sued by the Washington State Attorney General’s Office for not paying their taxes and found liable, WA State v John and Crystal Pennington Case No: 17-2-06169-7; and the Gold Bar Reporter sued Crystal Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington for the tort of forgery and harassment in King County Superior Court Case No: 16-2-26600-2, both were both liable to the Gold Bar Reporter in Block v Penningtons.

In an effort to stop our news investigative reports on the Penningtons crime spree, Crystal Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr filed for a retraining order  in Penningtons’ v Block Pierce County Superior Court, Case No:  6Z622286A, and the Judge dismissed the Penningtons complaint after a 3.5 hour hearing at which time Crystal Hill Pennington admitted that she plead guilty to bank fraud and John E Pennington didn’t deny he raped, kidnapped and tried to murder a 5 year old little girl in Cowlitz County Washington 1992. A pedophile.

All Pierce County District Court proceedings are audio recorded and a copy of the hearing audio will uploaded within a few days.

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Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) was convicted of bank fraud in 2000, North Carolina, where she served time in jail for failing to adhere to her criminal plea diversion program, Case No: 01710PERQUIMAN2000CR000235, and Case No: 7102000000234CR (warrant for her arrest for failing to adhere to her probation agreement and order ordering her imprisoned), date March 10, 2000, and then a  few years latter convicted of the same charge ” bank fraud”, here in Snohomish County Washington, is up to her little racketeering scam again, but this time with a small law school, ranked # 192 by US World News ( out of 229 US law schools).

Mitchell Hamline School of Law confirms that Ms. Hill Pennington (Berg) filed a false application five material issues  (1) Hill Pennington lied that she has no past criminal history records. Not true, again, the cases are clear that Ms. Hill Pennington was convicted twice of bank fraud and one time was actually sentenced to jail time; (2) that she had no debt but had defaulted on every loan and mortgage she ever took out; (3) failed to inform the college that she was found liable for tort of forgery and harassment; (4) charged with not filing and paying business tax to Washington State, and (5) Hill Pennington claimed that she obtained a college degree by attending in person classes.

Simply not true. Ms. Hill Pennington never attended a single in person class while obtaining an online diploma from Eastern Oregon University and has a long and lengthy history of bank fraud.

The Mayor of Gold Bar and former council member Jay Prueher said ” Crystal Hill was stealing from the City!”  The WA State Auditor’s Office confirmed that while Crystal Hill was Mayor there was over $200,000.00 of public monies missing from Gold Bar.

See https://www.sao.wa.gov/reports-data/audit-reports/

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When we learned that Ms. Hill Pennington was up to her same old criminal shenanigans, we contacted Mitchell Hamline School of Law asking if they were American Bar Association approved, and once the Dean of Students confirmed they were, we asked one more question: Then how does a woman with an extensive criminal history, with an elusively online diploma from an non-accredited online school like Eastern Oregon University, obtain entrance into any ABA approved law school?

Mitchell Hamline School of Law declined comment, so this lead to a phone call the American Bar Association (ABA), and when we told them Mitchell Hamline School of Law had in fact accepted Ms. Hill Pennington with her extensive criminal history and false academic credentials, they asked us to submit a “complaint” against Mitchell Hamline School of Law for violations of the ABA guidelines for law school entrance retirements.  Which obviously we did immediately.

But what was even more troubling was the fact that Ms Hill Pennington posted pictures of other persons on her Instagram account.  According to Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madsen ” taking a picture or posting a picture of persons without their consent in Washington is felony.”

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In 2009, the Gold Bar Reporter hired a open government attorney to file suit and gain access to public records to answer this question ” why was Karl Majerle given a single cent when the records from the City of Gold Bar was clear that he sabotaged the city’s water system?”

The answer to this question took years of digging through public records, and just last week we finally confirmed these facts:

1: (1) Crystal Hill was in engaged in several extra-marital affairs, including but not limited to, five county employees, Gold Bar’s police chief (2) Executive Aaron Reardon, (3) Senator Steve Hobbs, Sean Reay, and (4) John Edward Pennington.

2:  Karl Majerle knew Crystal Hill had been arrested for and plead guilty to bank fraud, once in 2000, North Carolina where she served time in jail for not complying with her diversion plea agreement, and once in Snohomish County Washington Evergreen District Court, 2005, where she served probation for her fraud.

3:  Crystal Hill was using an alias of Crystal Berg and had been fired for stealing from Community Transit in 2001.  Community Transit never prosecuted Ms. Hill because her mom was a long term employee of Community;

4. Crystal Hill had stolen in excess of $200,000.00 from the City’s water and petty cash funds.

5. Crystal Hill and John E Pennington had illegally transferred $4500.00 of federal emergency housing funds to Crystal Hill in May 2009.  Funds the federal government transfers to the County to help persons being evicted from their homes pay three months of back rent.  Problem for Ms. Hill and Mr Pennington is simple: Crystal Hill was not a renter; her home was in foreclosure and as an owner she was not eligible for federal emergency housing funds, only renters are.

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6.  In 2008, Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington contracted a sexually transmitted disease (STD), disseminated information relating to her STD results inside a public email.  Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers felt it was “private” however since Ms. Hill infected a high ranking Washington State political official with STD, the email was in fact public email in part i.e. who it was sent to and from, the email addresses.

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Joe Beavers, Gold Bar’s former Mayor’s behavior captured in Snohomish County Superior Court in 2018 above; soon after taking this picture we learned Mr. Beavers was diagnosed with dementia.

According to Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Joe Beavers, a convicted from felon himself, wrote a letter of recommendation to Mitchell Hamline School of Law on behalf of  Ms. Hill Pennington ( Berg) behalf.

ABA requirements for ABA law school require professors write letters of recommendation not personal friends.  Part of the complaint filed against Ms. Hill Pennington with the ABA against the law school.

Joe Beavers Deposition documents that he a convicted criminal, and is guilty of racketeering and tampered with public records, a felony in Washington State.

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For over ten years, Gold Bar has been sued for access to public records. During those ten years, two former Mayors, Joe ” convicted felon” Beavers and Linda ” High as a Kite” Loen, and five attorneys, Michael Kenyon, Margaret King, Ann Marie Soto, Shannon Ragonesi, and Amanda Butler, falsely claimed the City did not have access to.   Then to make matters worse, all five filed false statements in every single court case, and even went on television falsely claiming that the the city was going broke paying the legal bills to block access to Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington’s public email records (STD results between Hill and a high ranking Senator).

What Gold Bar residents were never told is that the Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, Sara DiVittorio, Miko Tempski, Sean Reay, Mark Roe, and Bob Ferguson, illegally removed Gold Bar public records from the City of Gold Bar and placed a copy at Association of Washington Cities (AWC) and at the Washington State Attorney General’s Office and the State of Washington was funding the entire litigation bill for Gold Bar.

According to former Gold Bar council member Jay Prueher ” Department of Correction’s employee Lonn Turner put something stupid in his emails that if released the city will be sued again… Hill was stealing from the City.”

So when Snohomish County Prosecutors Sean Reay and Mark Roe decided to covered Mayor Hill’s racketeering crimes as a favor to a Director, John E Pennington ( fired for harassing the Gold Bar Reporter using a fake news website Penningtons controlled), Mr. Pennington was fired and is now headed for bankruptcy.

Now, thanks to Washington Court of Appeals Justice Marlin Applewick, we now know why Mayor Joe Beavers was bragging that he had the fix in with the Courts and even laughed at the Court of Appeals Division One hearing in Block v Gold Bar.  What we didn’t know, but Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe “Felon” Beavers and the Penningtons’ knew was, one of the Justices on both Shavlik v Gold Bar and Block v Gold Bar, was Justice Marlin Applewick, who had declared to be a good friend to John  E Pennington.

The Gold Bar Reporter contacted a Professor from the University of Chicago who was asked ” Can a judge hear and decide cases involving a friend’s wife?”  The Professor said ” absolutely not! If  evidence  of any personal relationship, you need to file a judicial ethics complaint. This judge should be removed for breaching his ethical duties to disclose under Cannon Rules!”

Yes, we do have evidence that every time the City of Gold Bar is sued involving Washington Court of Appeals Division One Marlin Applewick’s good friend John E. Pennington’s wife, and to gain access into former Gold Bar Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington’s email communication, John Pennington’s good friend and Washington State Court of Appeals Justice Marlin Applewick appears on these cases and violates well settled case law under RCW 42.56 to stop anyone from deposing his good friend John Pennington’s wife.

http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/Journals/1999/hj%2099%20001.htm

In 1999, while serving in an uncontested Cowlitz County seat, Marlin Applewick and Mill Creek Rep. John Lovick ( who last year was caught masturbating beside the bed of his daughter’s best friend when she was 12 years old) made this former statement while in the legislature:

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BY SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE PENNINGTON

Representative Pennington: “Thank you, Representative Alexander for your kind remarks. I would like to introduce my wife and best friend, Valerie and my Mother-in-Law, Ruth Fox. Judge Appelwick Over the past two years in this position, I have had three wonderful teachers. One is my friend Speaker Clyde Ballard. Another, the gentleman I will soon nominate for the office of Chief Clerk, Mr. Tim Martin, and the third is  my former colleague and friend, Judge Marlin Appelwick. What an honor to be sworn in by him.

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In 1999, Marlin Applewick, a good friend Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington’s husband, commits egregious Cannon violations against Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block, and activist/journalist Lori Shavlik when he hid the fact that he was a good friend to John E Pennington.  Cannon Rules mandate when a judge has a personal relationship with anyone inside a cases for which he is assigned, he must disqualify/recuse himself from the case.

Marlin Applewick not only failed disclose that he was a good friend to John E Pennington, he issued orders on two public records cases involving his good friend John E Pennington’s wife’s email communication here in Gold Bar.

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For my readers, ask yourself one question: Should a judge ever hear and decide a case involving his good friend’s wife?

Marlin Applewick’s Cannon Rules Violations documented in public records from Washington Court of Appeals Div One

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Update, January 2020, Gold Bar’s new Mayor Bill Clem fired Ann Marie Soto ( as well as Kenyon Disend) and Shannon Ragonesi ( KBM Lawyers)

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Snohomish County Prosecutors and attorneys tampering with FBI National Crime Information Center data

 Ann Marie Soto                                           Shannon Ragonesi 

In November 2017, the City of Gold Bar’s attorneys Ann Marie Soto and Shannon Ragonesi decided to have a meeting with a federal witness Brandia Tamuu.  Besides the obvious, tampering with a federal witness ( a felony in Washington), both entered into a bribery scheme to remove the witness’s criminal arrest warrant and criminal history from the National Crime Information Center’s (NCIC) criminal data base.

Public records from the City of Gold Bar, from November 21 to December 20, 2017, document that in November 2017, Shannon Ragonesi and Ann Marie Soto were contacted for a meeting by a convicted animal abuser. The woman was desperate for money, had in fact tried extort the Gold Bar Reporter for money/car, and had offered to meet up with Ragonesi and Soto at the Law Firm of Keating Bucklin McCormack Inc in downtown Seattle. Brandia Tammu needed money as she was being threatened with eviction from her home.  In exchange for meeting with Ragonesi and Soto, the woman would get money and her City of Everett arrest warrant and conviction for animal abuse would be cleared.  Tammu claimed to have dirt on the Gold Bar Reporter, but had nothing of value except speculation on why the Gold Bar Reporter moved West, and it was quite apparent from an insider at the law office that the woman is suffering from mental health issues.

According to the woman, Ragonesi and Soto agreed to clear her criminal arrest warrant and conviction from NCIC via ACCESS.

Ragonesi and Soto also told the woman that they could issue secret subpoenas for any document they so desired, and further offered to help the woman get a restraining order against the Gold Bar Reporter’s news reports.  One witness said that the woman recorded their meeting, but we have no knowledge of whether this is true or not.

The Washington State Patrol turned over the woman’s criminal history one week before and a week after the Ragonesi and Soto November  2017 bribery  meeting, and it is clear that just days after this meeting, the criminal conviction record and arrest warrant were wiped from NCIC via ACCESS.  The person who cleared the woman’s ACCESS records was Michael Meyers, King County police officer.

The City of Gold Bar, at the bequest of Ann Marie Soto and Shannon Ragonesi, illegally claimed that the meeting records were exempt from public disclosure. Obviously, a lawsuit forcing disclosure is coming, and Ms. Soto and Ms. Ragonesi will be deposed.

In early 2018, Gold Bar’s new Mayor Bill Clem agreed to an interview with the Gold Bar Reporter and he said ” those people who are threatening you are now threatening me.”

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NCIC was created to assist law enforcement track or apprehend persons that may be a danger to society or have outstanding criminal warrants. When a  police officer stops  a person driving or is a suspect,  s/he should know whether the person has a criminal history.  For this reason, ACCESS and NCIC are searched, hopefully alerting the officer a potential danger to them or outstanding court issues of the driver or suspect.  Self protection according to the US Supreme Court.

But here in Washington State, the FBI NCIC database via ACCESS is being tampered with as political favors, bribery schemes, and to enhance criminal sentencing if a defendant is convicted of crime.

Over the past year, we found case after case where mainly prosecutors inside King and Snohomish County government are illegally removing criminal history from the NCIC.

Here’s just three cases that illustrate quite nicely three Snohomish County Prosecutors Mark Roe,  Wallace Langbehn III and Sean Reay’s criminal racketeering acts exposed in public NCIC records.

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Sno County Prosecutor Sean Reay, removing criminal history records from NCIC as political favors

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In 2009, the City of Gold Bar’s Mayor, Crystal Hill ( nee Berg) attempted to have the Gold Bar Reporter charged with a crime for exposing her crimes against the City of Gold Bar taxpayers ( theft in excess of $200,000.00). Ms. Hill Berg was sleeping with several married men inside Snohomish County government, including but not limited to Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon and Emergency Management Director John E. Pennington.

Ms Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) and John E Pennington were stealing from Snohomish County Emergency Management and the County’s Emergency Housing Funds.  Federal money distributed to the local government via a welfare block grant.

On July 5, 2008, Gold Bar’s water employee Karl Majerle was caught red handed stealing from the City of Gold Bar, and had in fact sabotaged the City’s Wells, # 3 and 4. Why, because Ms. Hill (Berg) was informed by Gold Bar council member Dorothy Croshaw that Majerle was stealing from the City.  After Karl Majerle was caught stealing, he was fired, which he recorded via audio means, and then out of anger, he left City Hall and poured gravel down Gold Bar’s City wells # 3 and 4.  Instead of reporting the federal crimes, as acts of domestic terrorism to Gold Bar’s water system, Ms. Hill (Berg) decided the best way to handle this was to ask Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay for a favor i.e. help quash criminal charges against Majerle.

And Sean Reay did  it.

Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay received the criminal referral from Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officer Terry Handleman and Deputy Jeff Ross ( Brady Cops). Sean Reay received a phone call from Snohomish County Director John E Pennington and Executive Aaron Reardon asking for his help in quashing the criminal charges as “political courtesy.”  Sean Reay called then Sheriff and both made an agreement to not prosecute Karl Majerle for sabotaging the City of Gold Bar’s water system.

Sean Reay, in an effort to make it look good, sent the Karl Majerle’s criminal complaint to his wife, Laura Twindale. Ms. Twinsdale is in charge of Snohomish County District Court, Evergreen Division.

Sean Reay never referred the case to the federal government as all crimes against water systems must be referred to the DOJ and FBI for investigation and/or prosecution. But instead, Sean Reay sent the criminal complaint against Gold Bar’s water employee to his wife, Laura Twinsdale. Ms. Twinsdale is only in charge of misdemeanor offenses and has no authority  to issue felony charges nor prosecute federal crimes.

We later learned that Karl Majerle and Crystal Hill ( nee Berg) had entered into a bribery scheme. Why, because Karl Majerle knew what we didn’t know for five years until Snohomish County finally released a record it illegally withheld for almost 7 years now.

Simply put, Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay is guilty of racketeering, quashing criminal charges as political favors.  Perhaps Mr. Reay thought he and Aaron Reardon were going to the Governor’s Manson.  So sad, but along came the Gold Bar Reporter, and Aaron Reardon was ousted for stealing public monies.

As a political favor, Sean Reay helped Crystal Hill ( nee Berg) remove her criminal conviction and arrest records from NCIC.

Not only did Prosecutor Sean Reay assist Ms. Hill ( nee Berg) remove her criminal history from NCIC, he also entered into a bribery scheme with Ms. Hill Pennington (nee Berg),  to quash criminal charges after she violently assaulted a six year old child.

Our readers, and those Ms Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) stole from ( City of Gold Bar taxpayers) should be happy to know that she is now frauding the federal taxpayers working as a contractor at FEMA in Emittsburg Maryland.   According to the Office of Inspector General, persons convicted of fraud are not eligible for federal employment or federal contracts of any nature.

FEMA’s Brock Long was made aware of Crystal Hill Pennington’s criminal history and has refused comment.

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Snohomish County Prosecutor Wallace Langbehn III, putting false criminal history records inside NCIC.  Why?  To enhance criminal sentencing if the accused is found guilty. We also have ample evidence to also document that Wallace Langbehn also falsely placed criminal history inside NCIC to retaliate against persons who exposed Dawson Place as a fraudulent 501 (3) (C).

The Gold Bar Reporter was the first to expose Dawson Place as a fraudulent 501 (3) (c) with its sole purpose used by Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office and Prosecutors Office for purposes of domestic spying and siphoning over $27 Million dollars of Washington State and federal taxpayer monies.

Dawson Place uses the law firm of Anderson Hunter to funnel millions of public money just as G. Geoffrey Gibbs did with attorney Lin O’Dell inside the Snohomish County Housing Authority scam known as Whispering Pines. The scam that involved Dean Bellamy, a man murdered by Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. Mr. Bellamy was threatening to expose many Judges and Commissioners involved in the guardian scam with attorneys Joseph Nappi Jr, Lin O’Dell and James Spargetis in Spokane.

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Click below to how Dawson Place is nothing more than a shrill set up by Snohomish County Judges, Prosecutors and attorneys siphoning off million of public dollars.

https://goldbarreporter.org/2018/08/

https://goldbarreporter.org/2018/09/ 

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For those of my readers who have been following the County’s malicious prosecution of Lori Shavlik, it’s  no  surprise that Dawson Place’s Prosecutor  Wallace Langbehn III was working inside Dawson Place when Snohomish County activist Lori Shavlik started piecing together the County Judges/Prosecutors/Attorneys sick little domestic spy ring also known now as Dawson Place.

Bigger question still remains unanswered: Where did the millions of public monies go?

In 2010, Snohomish County Prosecutors Mark Roe and Adam Cornell knew Lori Shavlik was getting close to exposing Dawson Place as a shrill to funnel public monies and spy on citizens.  Mark Roe and Adam Cornell needed to shut Ms. Shavlik up as she was starting to unravel Dawson Place as a shadow agency owned and operated by Snohomish County government.

Mark Roe and Adam Cornell decided the best way to shut Ms. Shavlik up was to enlist the assistance of a known Brady Cop named David Fontenot. David Fontenot’s job was to find someone close to Ms. Shavlik to start a fire inside Ms. Shavlik’s tanning salon. Fontenot is as dirty as them, and had known all of the drug addicts, and one such drug addict Fontenot found worked inside Ms. Shavlik’s tanning salon. Rebecca Bradshaw was well know to David Fontenot, because Ms. Bradshaw was a drug informant on Snohomish County’s payroll.

While at the same time Rebecca Bradshaw is on Snohomish County’s payroll, Ms Bradshaw was working in and stealing from Ms. Shavlik’s tanning salon in the City of Snohomish.   Brady Cop David Fontenot knew this, and enlisted Ms. Bradshaw assistance in starting a fire behind a dryer unitinside Ms. Shavlik’s tanning salon.

The false trumped up criminal charges Snohomish County set into action came only after Ms. Shavlik had exposed Dawson Place for fraud, and a government shrill to steal taxpayer monies without accountability.

In 2014,  Snohomish County Prosecutors Office, known racketeering member, Franchasca Yahyavi tried Ms. Shavlik for first degree arson. Ms. Yahyavi, never disclosed that the lead detective  David Fontenot was a Brady Cop, and that the County’s main witness Rebecca Bradshaw was a paid informant.

Thankfully for Ms. Shavlik one juror was a highly educated Engineer who later said ” this was bullshit. There was nothing here.” Those of you who know me, know I am partial to engineers not only because my engineer is my most loved treasure, but because persons that are trained in hard sciences are critical thinkers who analysis even small pieces of evidence.

That Engineer saved Ms. Shavlik’s life by holding out for days until the Judge called it a deadlock jury.  Instead of the Prosecutors’ leaving well enough alone, Francesca Yadavvi recharged Ms. Shavlik in a second trial in February 2016.

The Gold Bar Reporter was in the audience watching as Brady Cop David Fontenot and Prosecutor Yahyavi paraded witness after witness on the stand to attest about what a bad business owner Ms. Shavlik was.  One witness named Dolly even told the jury that she was told by the Prosecutors that she would get money for her testimony.

In March 2016, 12 jurors acquitted Lori Shavlik of arson.

Early this year, Ms. Shavlik  started complaining that her insurance rates were over the roof. This prompted this question: have you looked at your criminal access searches and driving record from Washington State ?

When Lori Shavlik retrieved her driving record from the Washington State Department of Licensing she learned that Dawson Place Prosecutor Wallace Langbehn III had entered false information into Ms. Shavlik’s criminal history records, falsely claiming that she had plead guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

In a nutshell, Wallace Langbehn III entered into Ms. Shavlik’s criminal history records, via NCIC, that Ms. Shavlik had plead guilty to giving alcohol to minors. False.

Wallace Langbehn III falsely entered a conviction record into Ms. Shavlik’s NCIC records and he did so while assigned to Dawson Place, an alleged non-profit 501 (3) (c). A shrill money laundering company to further the efforts of Dawson Place and its racketeering members. Mainly Snohomish County Prosecutors and Judges and two  mobsters and attorneys G. Geoffrey Gibbs and Michael Kenyon.

Does this fit the definition of racketeering crimes?

Source:  https://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/rpt/2006-R-0484.htm

The federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (18 USC §§ 1961-1968) prohibits (1) acquiring, establishing, or operating an enterprise with illegally derived income, (2) acquiring or maintaining an interest in or control of an enterprise through illegal activity, and (3) using an enterprise to commit illegal acts (Extortion, Blackmail, Etc., 31A Am Jur 2d).

RICO defines “racketeering activity” as a long list of state and federal crimes. The federal crimes include bribery, various fraud offenses, gambling offenses, money laundering, a number of financial and economic crimes, obstructing justice or a criminal investigation, murder for hire, and sexual exploitation of children. The state crimes include murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, and drug crimes.

It defines a “pattern of racketeering activity” as at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after RICO became law and the last of which occurred within 10 years after the prior act.

“racketeering activity” means committing, attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, or intentionally aiding, soliciting, coercing, or intimidating another person to commit a specified list of felonies. These felonies include gambling activities, extortion, drug offenses, weapons offenses, murder, assault, prostitution, hazardous waste violations, securities violations, coercion, money laundering, arson, bribery, and forgery

“Pattern of racketeering activity” means engaging in at least two incidents of racketeering activity that (1) have the same or similar purposes, results, participants, victims, or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by distinguished characteristics; (2) are not isolated incidents; (3) include at least one incident that occurred after October 1, 1982; and (4) occurred within five years of a prior incident of racketeering activity (CGS § 53-394(e)).

“Collusion” is not defined in either RICO, although the word “collusion” is used in a number of state contracting statutes. The  Black ‘s Law Dictionary definition of “collusion” includes a “secret combination, conspiracy, or concert of action between two or more persons for fraudulent or deceitful purpose.” This type of conduct would appear to be covered by RICO

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Wallace Langbehn III, Sean Reay, Mark Roe, Adam Cornell, Mike Kenyon, Shannon Ragonesi, Ann Marie Soto, and Snohomish County Judges were contacted and all declined comment.

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Gold Bar Reporter files racketeering suit against Snohomish County Prosecutors after public email release

February 13, 2016 by  goldbarreporter  5 Comments  (Edit)

Sara Di Vittiorio                                          Mark Roe                                   Sean Reay

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 2016 02 19 Block v WSBA Amended RICO Complaint    click to view RICO 

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As a citizen and a journalist, I decided enough is enough after reviewing public emails from Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe’s Office, which clearly amount to criminal racketeering. As a result, I filed suit against Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, and several officers from King and Snohomish County Washington, and several criminals from the Washington State Bar Association.

Public records released from King and Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Offices confirm that Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe elicited the assistance of King County Prosecutor Mark Larsen trying to trump up criminal charges against the Gold Bar Reporter simply for reporting on criminal conduct of government officials here in Washington State.

Our U.S. Supreme Court prohibits punishing free speech; and I’d like our readers to know that the Gold Bar Reporters have never been sued for defamation.

All protected free speech issues, and protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Perhaps Mark Roe failed or skipped constitutional law?

Mark Roe’s attempts to use King County Prosecutor Mark Larsen to trump up criminal charges on the Gold Bar Reporter failed, and his criminal racketeering group ( posted pictures above) attempts to maliciously prosecute the Gold Bar Reporter solely based on “free speech”, false statements and altered documents filed inside King County Courts by Lori Baiot and John and Crystal Hill Pennington only seals the civil rights complaints.

Bravo Mark, You’re political career is now over because you decided to protect a child and wife abuser named John E. Pennington. Just as Aaron Reardon, John E. Pennington, Sean Reay,  Kevin Thomas Hulten, and John Lovick’s career is over, yours will soon be too – your Recall is coming.  That’s a promise from the Gold Bar Reporter to You Mr. Roe.

As one news reporter said “the county is fucked!’ ( sorry Toby, but those were his words not mine)

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Washington State’s Public Records Act, a powerful tool to expose the cockroaches where they hide – inside the wall of government agencies.  

On February 7 2016, we reviewed records from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office  public records release documenting that Sister Sara Di Vittorio, Sean Reay, Jason Cummings, Mark Roe, a pedophile ( a man responsible for causing the deaths of thousands in hurricane Katrina and 43 people in the Oso Washington mudslides) and disgraced terminated Director of Emergency Management John E. Pennington and corrupt Duvall Washington police officer named Lori Batiot, misused government resources, including time and staff, from March to September 2015, trying to trump up criminal charges on the Gold Bar Reporter.

Unfortunately,  they disseminated their criminal racketeering conduct inside public emails, faxes, etc.   The amount of public officials involved totals over 55.

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The Fifth Mule Sister Sara DiVittorio makes us all proud to be Washingtonians

Snohomish County Prosecutor and RICO defendant “Sister Sara” Di Vittorio goes to Olympia every year carrying this message  ” I am running out of money to protect my employees under the Public Records Act.”

Our readers know how harmful the Public Records Act has been to county workers . . . from what we’ve see inside Snohomish County, City of Gold Bar, City of Duvall, City of Shoreline and County of King have committed gross 1983 ( civil rights violations) against the Gold Bar Reporter, while emails, telephone records, faxes, and Washington State Patrol ACCESS records document that Mark Roe, Sister Sara, Jason Cummings, Sean Reay, John and Crystal Hill Pennington, Cary Coblantz and corrupt Duval police officer Lori Batiot  should be charged with criminal racketeering by the Department of Justice.

The RICO Enterprise’s criminal scandal has now spread to King County.

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The events that triggered our investigation of corrupt Duvall Police Officer Batiot were actually published inside Duvall police records from April 2015. 

When a police officer from Duvall Washington called my partner’s business phone in mid April 2015, leaving a wire threat that if I didn’t call her back she would come over to my house, I knew we were onto breaking the largest racketeering scandal in Washington State’s history – and last week was just icing on the cake, but below is a little about what we know from King and Snohomish County’s public records.

For those readers who are not familiar with Lori Batiot,

See  http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/08/29/from-barista-to-the-city-of-duvall/

Snohomish County taxpayers should be happy to know that corrupt Duvall Washington police officer named Lori Batiot had a  direct line to Snohomish County Prosecutor Marie Gallagher,  only after she was notified she was being sued for gross civil rights violations and racketeering. Public records confirm beyond any shadow of a doubt that Lori Batiot  continued her racketeering/criminal conduct for months after she was notified that she was being sued for gross civil rights violations, and she was stupid enough to disseminate her criminal activity inside public records.

When I think of Lori Batiot, John Pennington, and Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, convicted of bank fraud 2005)   I think of the Wizard of Oz song   “If I only had a brain” John Pennington playing the cowardly Lion; Batiot as the Scarecrow; Crystal Hill as the Tin Man ( using a little too much oil); and Linda Loen ( high and stupid) as Dorothy.

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This is a story of corruption and we believe it leads to the coffee barista scandal involving drug trafficking and terminated former Snohomish County political appointee John E. Pennington.  Ties that go all the way back to a coffee delivery business from Kelso, and a coffee barista in Bellingham named Lori Harris ( Batiot).

Snohomish County’s latest public release only helps our case.  A special thanks to a whistleblower from Duvall for releasing corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s personnel files.

Where there are drugs, there are police officers and public officials.  This story only gets bigger.  My mother always said “the only ones who protect pedophiles are pedophiles themselves.”

John Pennington and Joe Beavers’s anonymous threats to physically harm us, which we believe amounts to racketeering on the Sky Valley Chronicle website, will prove costly to Snohomish County.  Why? Because Mark Roe and Sara Di Vittorio knew the Penningtons issued threats to physically harm us on their Sky Valley Chronicle posts, and such cover up according to our counsel amounts to predicate acts in violation of RICO.

Snohomish County’s latest public records release confirms that all of the above public officials should be in prison for criminal racketeering as exposed by another Snohomish County reporter.

See  http://snocoreporter.com/snohomish-county-defines-racketeering/#disqus_thread

RCW 42.56 is the most powerful tool one can use to unearth dirty public officials.