NATIONAL PETITIONS INITIATED TO SUSPEND
FEDERAL FUNDING OF WASHINGTON STATE COURTS
By J.P. Zenger JPZengerMail@gmail.com
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Seattle, WA Dec. 31, 2022. “I will never be charged with a crime, because we have people in every part of government who will always protect me,” boasted serial criminal and sex offender John Pennington, Jr. to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin.
As a result of that boasting, and over 15 years of effort by public interest attorneys and journalists, including hundreds of public records requests and thousands of pages of litigation, Mr. Pennington personally exposed what is likely the single largest criminal enterprise in U.S. history. An explanation of how is works is here.
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Today, Ninth Circuit Attorney John Scannell provided notice of a series of national Petitions to suspend Federal funding of Washington State courts. The Petitions will appear in the press, internet venues, and the courts. An advance draft follows:
National Petition
SUSPEND FEDERAL FUNDING OF WASHINGTON STATE COURTS

(Clockwise from Top Left) Valerie A. Villacin, Ian Cairns, Jonathan Collins, and
Howard M. Goodfriend, Allegedly Occupy a Central Role in a
Racketeering Enterprise That Denies Access to Justice to Washington State Citizens.
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John Scannell, a public interest advocate and lawyer in the Federal Ninth Circuit Court, started this Petition to the Department of Justice and others.
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SUMMARY OF THE PETITION
This Petition is for the citizens of Washington State – and all U.S. citizens – who don’t want their federal tax dollars to support a corrupt state court system. The goal of this Petition is to suspend Federal funding of Washington State Courts.
The citizens of Washington State are currently denied their Constitutional right to due process – a fair day in court – because of organized crime. The organized crime is called a RICO. The RICO, which operates openly, involves public officials and private attorneys.
The purpose of this Petition is to suspend Federal funding of the Washington State court system until the conclusion of Federal investigations. This Petition respectfully requests that Federal law enforcement based in Washington, D.C., the Department of Justice, Government Accountability Office (GAO), and Congress, investigate the allegations against specific people and legal cases. Those people and cases are listed in the “What We Are Asking” section below.
In addition to Washington State public officials, we ask for an investigation of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown. Mr. Brown is fully aware of the RICO and is alleged to directly support the RICO by refusing to act against it. Prior to his position as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Brown was an attorney at a law firm that allegedly defends and supports the RICO according to legal scholars, researchers, and journalists.
In the Western District of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Brown is the public’s last line of defense against public corruption. Because of that, Mr. Brown’s alleged knowing collaboration with the RICO, and inaction, is the most critical obstruction to public justice – his inaction protects and ensures the continued existence of the RICO.
This Petition calls for action by Washington, D.C. based Federal agencies to investigate the RICO. The first agency and contact is listed below, and several more will follow in the near future.
At the end of this Petition is a more detailed explanation that is titled “How the RICO Operates”
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WHO I AM
My name is John Scannell. I am a public interest advocate and appellate attorney in the Federal Ninth Circuit Court. Separately, I am a candidate for the Supreme Court of Washington State.
With decades of experience as a public interest attorney, I have worked on behalf of public justice with more than one hundred million dollars of impact, and which have resulted in constructive social change. I have seldom asked for any financial compensation for my work throughout my entire public interest career.
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WHY I AM SPONSORING THIS PETITION
Should your Federal tax dollars support Washington State courts which are controlled by extensively documented organized crime? This is why I am sponsoring this Petition.
I believe in the importance of due process, and that everyone should have a fair day in court. Millions of people have died for your Constitutional right to due process.
My personal motivation resulted from my discovery of the RICO, the racketeering enterprise. It includes judges, prosecutors, and lawyers who present themselves as representing public interest while in fact they betray their sworn duty under the Federal and State Constitutions.
By allowing well documented corruption in its courts, the State of Washington has violated its court funding contract with the Federal government. That contract requires the State to uphold the Federal Constitution and ensure the right of due process – a fair day in court.
Extensive corruption in Washington State courts is a reality. The question is, what are we willing to do about it? If we work together, we can make a difference.
Power is not taken from us. We give it through fear and inaction. Let’s act now.
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WHO IS FUNDING THIS PETITION, AND WHO IS BEHIND IT?
No one is funding this Petition, and I am its sole official sponsor.
Behind this Petition are several dozen public interest attorneys, legal scholars, journalists, and others who have been targeted for retaliation by the RICO. We have spent over 15 years filing hundreds of public records requests, reviewing thousands of pages of public documents, and engaging in public interest litigation – all at our own expense.
The summary of the RICO that follows this Petition is the result of all of our collective public records requests, research, testimony of government and corrupt law firm insiders, and public interest litigation.
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WHAT THIS PETITION IS ASKING
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IN CONCLUSION
We ask all Washington State citizens, Federal law enforcement organizations, legal advocacy groups, and every American citizen to join us in this Petition to suspend Federal funding for the Washington State court system until the conclusion of a Federal investigation of the named parties and cases.
The named parties, it is alleged, have betrayed their respective oaths of office and public trust to uphold the Constitution, betrayed the legal and ethical duty of the Washington State Court system to uphold the law, betrayed the trust of every federal taxpayer, and betrayed every Washington State citizen’s Constitutional inheritance: the right to due process – a fair day in court.
THIS PETITION WILL BE SENT TO: The Honorable Amy L. Solomon, who currently serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and is the person who controls Federal funding of State courts.
Please also join us in directly contacting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Solomon. Her phone number and address are listed on the screen below 202-514-2000; her mailing address is: Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 810 7th Street NW, Washington, D.C.20001. Amy Solomon’s personal email address: absolomon5@gmail.com
Let’s keep the Constitution alive by working to suspend our Federal tax dollars from the Washington State court system today. Please contact us and let us know if you or your organization would like to join us.
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Petition Sponsor and Press Contact:
John Scannell, Appellate Attorney in the Ninth Circuit
zamboni_john@hotmail.com
Seattle/Pacific Time
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HOW THE RICO OPERATES
The courts of Washington State are currently controlled by organized crime.
This is a fact established by several public interest attorneys including me; national legal experts; and thousands of pages of evidence collected through hundreds of public records requests by journalists and legal academics at the award-winning publication, The Gold Bar Reporter.
The allegations in this Petition are the result of over 15 years’ public records requests, research, and litigation by the Gold Bar Reporter, its publisher, affiliated journalists, public interest lawyers, public records lawyers and experts, and several dozen concerned citizens.
The purpose of the alleged organized criminal activity – a racketeering enterprise called a RICO – is to control both the insurance market and financial losses for the insurance company Lloyd’s of London and its insurance partners, called syndicates. The RICO effects every citizen in Washington State.
A RICO is a complex fraud. Complexity is fraud’s best friend. Because complexity creates a kind of “sandstorm” of confusion. It allows the people who operate it, and the way that they operate it, to hide inside that storm. We have worked hard to deconstruct it.
An ongoing series of articles, “Seattle’s Epstein,” explains in more detail how the alleged RICO was exposed and operates. According to that series, in brief, this is a summary of how the RICO is structured, directed, and controlled:
1). Lloyd’s of London. The RICO is directed and controlled by the insurance company, Lloyd’s of London. In the U.S., the Lloyd’s RICO is directed and controlled by Cary Bond of Lloyd’s N.Y. office. Lloyd’s RICO is well documented in U.S. court cases like this one.
2). AWC. In the U.S., the RICO is operated on a state-by-state basis. In Washington State, the RICO is directed by Lloyd’s syndicate member, the Association of Washington Cities (“AWC”). Just days after his role in the RICO was exposed in the press, Peter King, the de facto CEO, hastily announced his retirement in an attempt to deceive Federal law enforcement.
3) The AG. The Co-Director of the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s RICO is State Attorney General (“AG”) Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was chosen and supported by Peter King to co-direct the RICO.
At the direction of Peter King, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson controls the legal system and denies any Washington citizen, considered by the RICO to be a financial or political risk, their Constitutional right to a fair day in court in four main ways:
A). Public Records Officers. State public records officers, acting at the direction of Mr. Ferguson, routinely and illegally deny public records requests, destroy documents, and obstruct justice. The denial of public records prevents access to due process. These are criminal acts in violation of Federal law.
B) SAAGS. SAAGS are Special Assistant Attorney Generals. They are both private attorneys, and county prosecutors. A SAAG is basically “deputized” by Mr. Ferguson to act on his behalf as his own staff. This is illegal and unconstitutional: it places both attorneys and prosecutors in a conflict of interest with the people they have a legal duty to represent. When a prosecutor illegally accepts a SAAG contract from Mr. Ferguson, it allows Mr. Ferguson to assume the county prosecutor’s power of criminal prosecution, which is denied Mr. Ferguson under the Washington State Constitution. It also allows Mr. Ferguson to deny anyone he wants the right to due process under the Federal Constitution.
C) The Bar Assn. The private Washington State Bar Association is controlled by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson controls the Bar by illegally: 1) Giving the private Bar millions of dollars in free rent; 2) Hosting and controlling the Bar’s email and data servers; 3) Proving unlimited free legal services to the Bar – all at a cost of tens of millions of dollars to the taxpayers of Washington State; 4) Using the Bar and its State conferred disciplinary powers to target people chosen by Mr. Ferguson for liability control or political retaliation; and 5) Gifting every employee of the ‘private’ Washington State Bar tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars through the State retirement system, called PERS;
In one case alone, Mr. Ferguson has spent over $30,000,000 of State taxpayer dollars to illegally disbar, harass with contract private security and cybercriminals, and engage in baseless litigation with dozens of attorneys against a single person, Anne Block, a court-recognized journalist, and former public interest lawyer.
D) Judges. Judges in Washington State are a key part of the RICO. They are routinely bribed in several known ways, including home refinancing where loans are paid by outside parties, “speaking engagements,” cash bribes, and promoted for their collusion and cooperation in the RICO. Corrupt judges are usually former employees of the staff of AG Bob Ferguson or were SAAGs – attorneys who were under contract by Bob Ferguson.
4). The U.S. Attorney in the Western District. For the public, the last line of defense against public corruption is U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown. Until his appointment, aided by RICO co-director Bob Ferguson, Mr. Brown was an attorney with the SAAG law firm Pacifica Law Group. Pacifica law group allegedly has, and continues to protect, the RICO and its members.
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Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three
Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven
Seattle’s Epstein – Part Eight
Seattle’s Epstein – Part Eight
J.P. Zenger appreciates the interest of the entertainment industry in the “Seattle’s Epstein” series, and is available to consult for story development and/or script writing. Mr. Zenger is also available to direct people who have been targeted by the RICO, including attorneys, to federal law enforcement agencies.
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Former Mayor Joe Beavers stalking Gold Bar Reporter after public records released
Joe Beavers, former Gold Bar Washington Mayor caught via public records in racketeering scheme
At 12:10 PM today (6/20/16), former Gold Bar Washington Mayor Joe Beavers was stalking the Gold Bar Reporter in Monroe, after public records confirm that Joe Beavers withheld public records documenting that the City of Gold Bar council members violated the Open Public Meetings Act, agreed not to report employee Karl Majerle’s tampering of the City water system, and then misappropriated over $1,300,000.00 dollars from the City of Gold Bar’s water funds to cover up his criminal racketeering scheme.
See Public Records withheld for over 8 years PRR 09092009 as of today the penalties and fees total over $1,000,000.00.
John Pennington FIRED after he killed 43 people in the Oso mudslide disaster
In late 2011, Joe Beavers threatened former Gold Bar council member Lie that he didn’t shut up “ we will charge you with a crime.” Joe Beavers physical threats to maliciously prosecute Lie were witnessed by then Gold Bar police Chief Robert Martin, and his threats to have Lie charged with a crime were a direct result of Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office illegally withholding public records involving John E. Pennington’s illegal use and dissemination of sealed non-criminal history records and mental health records of his opponents.
Illegal access to non-criminal history and mental health record is a crime under RCW 10.97 and federal laws.
In 2011, John Pennington’s Homeland Security Clearance was stripped as a result of his criminal conduct.
Unfortunately for the Gold Bar City Council ( Richard Norris, Lonn Turner, Dorothy Croshaw, Jay Prueher, Joe Beavers) and former Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington, 42 U.S.C § 300i-1 mandates public officials to report tampering with the public water systems a federal crime:
Tampering with public water systems
(b) Attempt or threat
(c) Civil penalty
(d)“Tamper” defined
For over eight years, Mayor Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington ( changed her name from Berg to cover up that she plead guilty to bank fraud in 2005) and Linda Loen withheld public records confirming beyond any shadow of a doubt that the City of Gold Bar and its public officials withheld public records that amount to racketeering ( frauding out the citizens of Gold Bar of its public monies) using electronic means ( email communication).
But the City Council didn’t do it alone, they had the assistance of Association of Washington Cities ( AWC) paralegal Eileen Lawrence, and the City’s law firm of Weed, Gaffstra and Benson ( Snohomish, WA).
To assist the City of Gold Bar in covering their racketeering crimes of fraud and not reporting the federal crime of tampering with the City’s water system, the Washington State Bar Association’s (WSBA) high ranking member Geoffrey Gibbs ( convicted of fraud in the 1990s and permanently suspended from lobbying by the Attorney General of Washington State can be viewed at https://goldbarreporter.org/2016/01/29/wsba-board-and-snohomish-county-attorney-caught-filking-false-statements-with-state-offices/) stole the Gold Bar Reporter’s WSBA application file, sent it via electronic email to Thomas Gaffstra ( a friend of Geoffrey Gibbs) from the City’s law firm of Weed Gaffstra and Benson ( Snohomish) former employee Barbara Johnson.
Barbara Johnson them disseminated the stolen WSBA files to Gold Bar’s then Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, convicted of bank fraud 2005) and then Hill disseminated it to Snohomish County’s Director of Emergency Management political bum John E. Pennington.
John Pennington then misused his Homeland Security Clearance to pull a spider of information as it relates to Gold Bar Reporter’s out of state family members. Snohomish County public records officer Diana Rose affirmed under oath that she removed public records from Snohomish County and delivered the Gold Bar Reporter’s mental health records to the City of Gold Bar.
When Ms. Rose was asked under oath what was the CD she illegally removed from Snohomish County Dept of Emergency Management, Rose said “your mental health records.” The Gold Bar Reporter then said “Ms. Rose would it surprise you to know that I have never been treated for or even suffered from mental health issues of any kind.” Ms. Rose then started to tear up and Snohomish County Prosecutors Sean Reay and Sara Di Vittorio ( both being sued for racketeering in US Federal Court) started screaming for Rose not to answer questions.
Diana Rose is also being sued for racketeering in US Federal District Court and depositions are expected to begin at the end of 2016.
The City is still illegally withholding the email communication about the stolen WSBA files. We did get partial release of an email documenting that the stolen files were disseminated via email, but Joe Beavers “stripped’ the attachment from the email in violation of Washington State Supreme Court’s holding in O’Neil v Shoreline.
Washington State is only one of a hand full of states that makes removing, tampering, of destruction of public records a felony crime.
On January 6, 2016, John E. Pennington was terminated from Snohomish County because instead of doing his job, public records released under RCW 42.56 document that he criminally harassed his opponents on the Sky Valley Chronicle. The Sky Valley Chronicle was set up by former disgraced executive Aaron Reardon to control the political message in the Sky Valley in 2007.
Public records released from King County Major Crimes Unit confirm that additional writers on the Chronicle were Kevin Thomas Hulten ( now living under an assumed name of Kevin Thomas in Los Gatos California).
See http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130214/NEWS01/702149999
Kevin Hulten’s racketeering crimes exposed first by the Gold Bar Reporters. But from a public records received today, it appears that Kevin Hulten’s little racketeering scandal unpealing one rotten layer at a time, because Washington State issued a subpoena.
See Kevin Hulten Subpoena’s
A big break came last month when public records activist Arthur West threatened to sue the City for refusing to produce public records for years.
In March 2016, Snohomish County Superior Court held that the City of Gold Bar violated the Public Records Act when it withheld records relating to a WSBA complaint then Mayor Joe Beavers ordered our City clerk to write for former council member Dorothy Crohsaw.
Once Joe Beavers ordered the clerk to write the WSBA complaints, the complaints became public records. The City of Gold Bar continues to withhold records relating to the WSBA complaints Joe Beavers ordered Gold Bar clerk Penny Brenton to write and former Gold Bar council member Dorothy Croshaw falsely certified under oath she wrote.
How we know is simple: a private investigator interviewed Penny Brenton, who admitted on recording, that Joe Beavers ORDERED her to write WSBA complaints.
42 USC 1983 makes Joe Beavers misuse of taxpayers monies a clear civil rights charge; and Beavers obstruction of justice in the Karl Marjerle tampering of the City’s water system amounts to racketeering.
As a result, the City of Gold Bar’s most recent public records release we now have a enough overturn every favorable decision issued in any matter involving the county and city officials for racketeering and 1983 gross civil rights violations.
From a former council member, we know that Crystal Hill was “sexting” nude pictures of herself, just as Kevin Thomas Hulten did on Snohomish County’s iPhone.
For over eight years, Joe Beavers lied to the citizens of Gold Bar claiming that the Gold Bar Reporters request for access to the below records involved former Mayor Crystal Hill’s sexting nude pictures of herself with a Gold Bar Blackberry device.
Crystal Hill’s sexting pictures are still being illegally withheld in violation of RCW 42.56 ( Public Records Act).
Below are the public records from Gold Bar relevant to this story, and Joe Beavers, Linda Loen, and Crystal Hill Pennington misappropriated over 1.3 Million dollars of the City’s water funds to conceal the 2009 Gold Bar governing body’s criminal racketeering conduct.
Click here PRR 09092009
In 2013, the City of Gold Bar was ordered by Snohomish County Superior Court to lodge two sets of public records illegally withheld from the Gold Bar Reporters, one with 32 records stolen from the WSBA,and then disseminated by Crystal Hill Pennington into public records, and 66 pages of records herein.
I’d like our readers to know why the City failed to lodge the 66 records herein is because the 32 records it did lodge were files stolen with the assistance of the WSBA and the disseminated by Crystal Hill to Lonn Turner (Dept of Corrections, Monroe) and Snohomish County’s disgraced director John E. Pennington
( see (https://goldbarreporter.org/2015/09/17/snohomish-countys-dark-secrets-uncovered/) , Department of Corrections attorneys (working for the Attorney General’s Office in 2009, Sara Di Vittorio and Miquel Tempski) who feloniously removed public records in its effort to reduce liability to the Dept of Corrections and Snohomish County.
Recently, the Washington Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madsen denied access to the Gold Bar Reporter’s stolen WSBA files in the City of Gold Bar’s possession, because if released the WSBA would be abolished and exposed for criminal conduct.
This conduct amounts to racketeering and federal suits have been filed with depositions expected to start later this year.
When voting, one may consider Justice Barbara Madsen’s disrespect for our open government laws here in Washington in favor of protecting the criminals inside the Washington State Bar Association who are stealing from our elderly, as evidenced by Lin O’Dell’s Order issued by Stevens County Judge Monasmith ( see https://goldbarreporter.org/2015/10/04/license-to-steal-with-the-assistance-of-the-washington-state-bar/)
There’s over 35,000 records that the City just released after illegally withholding public records for over eight (8) years, including John E. Pennington making racist comments about President Obama inside Gold Bar public emails, so stay tuned, its going to worth the wait!
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