Snohomish County never disclosed to the Oso mudslide victims that King County Superior Court Ordered Psychiatrist Dr. Marsha Hedricks to issue a mental health evaluation and declared Pennington unfit for public service and a sociopath with no empathy for human life in 2009. Laughlin v Pennington, King County (2009).
March 24, 2014, is the day that Snohomish County’s incompetent Director of Emergency Management John Edward Pennington Jr. (Pennington) killed 43 people in Washington State’s most preventable loss of human life disaster. Instead of doing his job i.e. mitigation, Pennington sat around and harassed people on the county taxpayer’s dime, worked on his online diplomas from online schools the IRS declared fraud, and according to a former Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management employee named Steve ” Every day John would come into work and say this is the day I am going to get Anne Block.” When we asked Steve ” Did Pennington ever discuss landslides” He said, ” No, never. ”
The Oso slide is the deadliest single landslide event in United States history, and it illustrates nicely that emergency management positions should never been political appointments. Certainly, a person declared by a medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life should never be allowed to handle emergencies or natural disasters.
The Oso mudslides was not an unforeseen event. The Hazel Landslide has a history of instability dating to 1937, and reports filed with FEMA and the State of Washington in 1998. The Oso Washington landslide engulfed 49 homes and other structures in an unincorporated neighborhood known as “Steelhead Haven” on the south side of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Oso, Washington and resulted in the suffocation deaths of 43 residents.
On March 24, 2014, Pennington was interviewed and said, ” Oso mudslides were act of God. Unforeseen event” A few days later he told Time Magazine that ” Everyone knew of the dangers” and a week later Pennington declared Oso area as safe.
If everyone knew of the mudslide dangers, how could it be an unforeseen event. After all, the county emergency management and the state of Washington knew about the Oso danger since 1937. If it was safe, why did 43 people die?”
Snohomish County Admits No Criminal Background Check on John E Pennington Jr prior to hiring.
According to now Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers, Aaron Reardon and John Lovick appointed Pennington without ever running a single criminal background check on him. The Gold Bar Reporter asked why Snohomish County did not, Somers replied ” I don’t know why not.” Since Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in the Oso mudslides, Executive Somers has changed county policy and conducts criminal background checks prior to hiring anyone in Snohomish County. No exceptions.
Hiring Pedophiles and Sociopaths to Handle Emergencies Is Never a Good Business Plan
In November 2005, Pennington after being fired by President George Bush Jr., he was unemployed for four months desperately looking for work. He called political connections from his days in the Washington State Legislature. Reardon and Pennington had served in the Washington House for years together and Pennington called in a political favor i.e. appoint him to a position inside Snohomish County Emergency Management. Sadly, for residents of Oso Washington, Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon took the poisonous bait from a person declared to be a sociopath.
In February 2006, Pennington was appointed by Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, as Snohomish County Emergency Management Director for Snohomish County. This political appointment came four months after FEMA fired Pennington, and after the FBI ran a criminal background check on him and unearthed what it took the Gold Bar Reporter ten years to uncover, Pennington’s extensive crimes against women and children.
In 2006, a flood occurred on Ebby Island, a small trac of land just outside Everett, Washington. Acting on behalf of Snohomish County as the Director Emergency Management, Pennington issued an Emergency Declaration ordering Ebby Island to be evacuated, costing the taxpayers of Snohomish County over 10 million dollars. This evacuation order was premature, and Ebby Island never flooded. According to Reardon’s mistress, Executive Aaron Reardon was pretty pissed off and ordered Pennington into his office for a long talk about his costly mistake. Afterwards, Reardon told his mistress ” Pennington is a dipshit! He knows shit about Emergency Management! Dumb as a rock!” Instead of firing Pennington, Reardon simply clipped his responsibilities from managing disasters to ” to report to Reardon and review the budget.” This was Pennington’s only function from 2006 to 2013.
In 2009, Pennington violently assaulted a third trimester pregnant Duvall Washington council member, Ann Laughlin, just three before delivering her child. For this reason, a King County Judge ordered Pennington into a court ordered psychiatrist, Dr Hedricks, for a mental health evaluation which Pennington failed. King County Dr. Hedricks declared under oath that ” John Pennington is a sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever.”
But what did the Seattle Times and Scott North at the Everett Daily Herald report on? Nothing. Imagine, Snohomish County has an Emergency Mangement Director who not only rapes, kidnapped and tried to murder a 5-year-old girl, he is guilty of violently assaulting a third trimester pregnant woman, and not one local newspaper reports on his criminal sexual deviant behavior.
In 2019, an insider from Snohomish County, “Fed Up”, told the Gold Bar Reporter that Snohomish County made an agreement with Everett Herald Senior Editor Scott North and its reporter Noah Haglund, and Seattle Times Editor Mike Carter not to report on Pennington’s criminal history in exchange for inside Snohomish County scoops. Pennington public records from Snohomish County document that instead of doing his job, he was simply there to harass and defame political foes of the county.
Once a source received public records from Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay and Mark Roe documenting that Scott North was simply publishing articles that Snohomish County wrote, the Gold Bar Reporter wrote a letter to the Editorial Board at both newspapers. This resulted in Senior Editor Scott North and news reporter Noah Haglund’s constructive discharge from the Daily Everett Herald.
When the Everett Herald forced Scott North and Noah Haglund’s resignation, also known as a constructive discharge, Snohomish County hired Scott North and King County hired Noah Haglund. After all, Snohomish County owed them for publishing false stories on behalf of Snohomish County to discredit its political foes.
When the Gold Bar Reporter contacted Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter, his only email response was ” Fuck You Anne.” Not really what we expected from a major senior editor from a major newspaper. Carter resigned.
In June 2013, and after the Gold Bar Reporter filed Recall Petitions against Aaron Reardon for dereliction of his Executive duties, he resigned from public office. He is now selling insurance in Indigio California, living in a house he purchased for pennies on the dollars from the Tribes.
Once Reardon was gone, the Snohomish County Council appointed Sheriff John Lovick as Executive Appointee. In 2014, public records confirmed that after Executive Reardon resigned in 2013, newly appointed Executive John Lovick gave exclusive power to control and manage emergency management back to Pennington. This gross negligence by John Lovick resulted in the deaths of 43 people On March 24, 2014.
We later learned from Washington State child protective services that John Lovick had been found guilty of masturbating alongside the bed of his daughter’s best friend (sexual gratification). Lovick’s victim was a twelve-year girl. Association of Washington Cities paid off the victim’s family to remain silent. No doubt pedophiles protect pedophiles.
On March 24, 2014, Pennington was on the east coast, working a second job at FEMA Emergency Management Institute, when the largest disaster in Washington State’s history occurred; he ordered no one into the area until he returned 49 hours later. This resulted in the cause of death of 27 victims out of the 43 victims as suffocation.
According to Snohomish County Prosecutor Jason Cummings, “John Pennington was frozen did not know what to do so Snohomish County Council appointed attorney Margaret King to handle the emergency response.”
Immediately following the Oso mudslides, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick placed Pennington on paid administrative leave, and Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, who had been convicted three times for bank fraud and spent time in jail for the same, arrested for drunk driving, found guilty of harassment and forgery and abused a six year old girl) wrote an email to Snohomish County’s Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) Mikolaj Tytus Tempski demanding ” someone needs to get Johnny in the clear… why has Snohomish County not entered a notice of appearance in the RICO suit Anne Block failed against John?” Mr. Tempski responded by stating not to worry about it because US Federal Judge Ricardo Martinez was already in the process of fixing the case against Block.
We later learned from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s telephone records that Judge Ricardo Martinez was making exparte telephone contact with SAAG Joseph Genster, who was defending the RICO case, confirming beyond any shadow of doubt that the US Federal District of Court of Western Washington was engaged in case fixing with the Washington State’s Attorney General’s Office.
What Washington State nor Snohomish County Ever Disclosed to John Pennington’s Oso Mudslide Victims
“I will never be charged with a crime because we have people in every position of government who will always protect me,” boasted John Edward Pennington Jr. to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin. Not only did his political connections help cover up his crimes against women and children, but they also managed to get him employment that he is not mentally capable of, nor educated for, putting students at risk for sexual assaults and death.
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John Edward Pennington Jr.’s crimes span across the United States; he was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States Government.
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John Edward Pennington the product of two dysfunctional parents, the making of a pedophile and sociopath
John Edward Pennington Jr. was born to John E. Pennington, a corrupt Brady Cop and a stay-at-home mother from Nashville, Tennessee, named Sharon. Both parents have extensive mental health issues, including gross domestic violence, alcoholism, and abuse. His father is alleged to have had over thirty-six (36) excessive force complaints filed against him with the City of Nashville, and was successfully sued for racially targeting minorities, while his mother spews racist rants at Pro Trump rallies and was quoted as saying” John was always a good liar.”
According to the Department of Justice, children who are raised by abusive parents are six times as more likely to perpetrate abuse on others. In John E Pennington Jr.’s upbringing. he was trained to abuse women and children by two dysfunctional and mentally ill parents that were not worthy raising a dog let alone children.
A childhood friend stated, “he was a troubled youth, who had a major drug and alcohol problem by the age of 16.” So, it’s no surprise that in the late 1980’s, Vanderbilt College in Tennessee, expelled John E. Pennington Jr. in his first semester for sexually assaulting a female student. Thinking he would be charged with sexual assault, Pennington fled to a small suburban city just outside of San Diego California. Instead, Vanderbilt College paid off the victim.
While in the San Diego John Pennington meets his new victim, who believe he legally married, so are calling her ex-wife # 1. His ex-wife is a real estate agent in San Diego, California who said,” Pennington is a ticking time bomb with no empathy for human life. There is no doubt that he raped two boys on a church camping trip causing him to flee California in 1990. This is why I divorced him.”
This was the sole reason John E. Pennington Jr. fled Southern California, heading home to Nashville in the early 1990s. The boys who he molested stated that their families settled with the church for lump sum settlement allowing the church to cover up Pennington’s pedophilia.
While in Tennessee, Pennington made an unsuccessful run for an open Democratic State Rep. seat. After a landslide loss for John Pennington, he again headed west. This time he lands in Oregon, where Pennington meets his next victim, who he violently assaulted and hospitalized in the Lake Oswego Oregon area in 1990. Pennington was found guilty of assault in the 1st degree but plead “mental defect” avoiding jail time, instead, the state of Oregon, had him serve out his 1-year sentence at Western Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon. He was released in 1991 after serving only five months.
After the State of Oregon declared Pennington stable, he fled from Oregon to Vancouver Washington. While in Vancouver, in 1991, John Pennington meets his next victim. Sadly, they married and had one child, GP.
While working in a coffee delivery business, Pennington stole coffee grinding equipment from his previous employer and used the equipment to start-up a small coffee shop in the City of Kelso, Washington. “It was cover for Pennington who had been trafficking drugs from Kelso Washington to the border town of Ferndale Washington. Pennington ran drugs for the Russian mob to a coffee barista named Lori Batiot (aka Lori Hoffer, Lori Harris). Lori Batiot would then smuggle drugs across the Canadian border for distribution.
In 2002, Pennington fathered an illegitimate child with Lori Batiot, and after being appointed to FEMA he managed to get her a job with the Ferndale police department as a dog trainer for a drug sniffing dog. With no surprise, she lost the drug sniffing dog and would never state how she lost a police dog.
She was fired from the City of Duvall, Washington for lying under oath during a formal police investigation.
Lori Batiot is now a real estate agent for Windemere in Lake Forest Washington and her mental defect and violent behavior was captured on camera by a court authorized process server.
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In 1992, a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and then tossed along a Cowlitz County Road like a piece of trash.
According to Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, John Pennington became one of two prime suspects for the following reasons: (1) Pennington operated a coffee delivery route within six blocks of where the child was dumped; (2) he drove the same car; (3) Pennington was in the area at the time of the child rape; (4) Pennington’s picture from 1992 is almost a complete match to the child and witness’s sketch drawing of Pennington; and (5) Pennington relentlessly convinced his ex-wife to call the police attempting to divert attention away from himself and onto another man. When the lead detective was asked who he thought violated the child, he said ” John E. Pennington Jr. is the man that raped that little girl and I have been following him ever since.” Meaning, the officer didn’t believe Pennington all of the sudden stopped sexually assaulting children. The officer was right, as we later learned, from a credible source, that Pennington was sexually, mentally, and physically abusing Crystal D. Hill’s child, JH.
In 1992, John E. Pennington Jr. managed to get elected to an uncontested Washington State House of Representatives seat. Unfortunately for residents in New Orleans and Oso Washington, he began an extramarital affair with a powerful Washington State Republican Senate leader, Jennifer Dunn, who he began a 10-year affair with while married to his second wife.
According to sources close to John Pennington he is also an abuser of prescription Vicodin and was detained at the US Mexico for having narcotics (non-prescription pain pills) on his person while coming back into the US. This charge came while he obtained a political appointment for which he had no qualifications.
In 1995, John E. Pennington Jr. was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States government.” John sat around for years obsessed about getting even with the Longview Washington news reporter for reporting that John was a member of the State militia.”
In the below article published by the Longview Washington Daily News, Pennington confirms he was a member of the Washington State Militia when he stated ” I’ll never go to another one of their meetings. I’ll tell you that.” Their meetings, Pennington was referring to was the Washington State Militia meetings.
In 2001, Senator Jennifer Dunn, Washington, asked President George Bush Jr., for a political favor, appoint her lover, John Edward Pennington Jr., as the Director of FEMA Region 10. President Bush did appoint Pennington to FEMA Region 10 (with no experience as outlined by the Seattle Times) without a single a criminal background check. After Michael Browne’s mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush considered appointing Pennington as the Director of FEMA. But once the FBI ran a criminal background check on Pennington’s crimes against women and children as described herein, President Bush Jr. fired him (November 2005). A fact he lied about in his deposition.
While employed at Snohomish County in 2005, Pennington misappropriated funds and resources to obtain an online degree from American Military University (AMU), and Coastal California College, online schools labeled by the United States government as fraudulent “diploma mills.” PBS did a Frontline story on AMU’s fraud. He also claims to have earned a PhD from University of Alaska Fairbanks; a college ranked at #394 out of 435 public universities in the United States and was turned down by the University of Georgia, New York State University in Buffalo, New York University, George Washington, University of Georgia, University of Maryland, New York University, and Boston University for having false academic diplomas from online schools like AMU and California Coastal College. Pennington paid a flat rate of $1500.00 for his online diplomas from AMU and California Coastal.
From 1992 to 2005, John Pennington’s violence grew with his ex-wife. # 2 . From pushing her down a flight of stairs in the presence of their child GP, as well as constant physical abuse. Pennington never learned to keep his hands to himself. Thankfully, she escaped with her life.
The case that raised our eyebrows is Mr. Pennington’s abuse on his ex-wife # 3, Anne Laughlin. Anne was three weeks away from giving birth to her daughter when Pennington violently assaulted, kicked and punched Anne in the stomach and uterus.
Since Ms. Laughlin was a Duvall city council member at the time, the City of Duvall sought a Special Prosecutor Sandra Meadowcraft to prosecute Pennington for the violent assault of a 3rd trimester pregnant woman. The prosecutor assigned to prosecute wife beater John Pennington came from the law firm where Pennington’s buddy Michael Kenyon was employed, Kenyon Disend.
Sandra Meadowcraft (now Sandra Sullivan) failed to appear, and Pennington got the case dismissed without prejudice. Meadowcraft threw the case in exchange for a job with Summit Law Group, a Washington State Special Assistant Attorney General law firm. We have obtained audio recordings of the State v John E Pennington criminal prosecution from the May 2009 and will be publishing these audio files in another article soon.
In 2009 when Pennington assaulted Laughlin, this was his third domestic assault violence charge. This should have amounted to jail time for Pennington. Unfortunately for the 5-year-old year child, and for women, Pennington meets a Kelso Washington city attorney named Michael Kenyon. As the city attorney for Kelso, Kenyon was in charge of prosecuting Pennington for the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of the 5-year-old little girl in Cowlitz County Washington. Instead, Michael Kenyon saw an opening to line his pockets with gold after Pennington was elected to an uncontested open Washington State House of Representative seat. Michael Kenyon covered up Pennington’s pedophilia crimes in exchange for money contracts with the state of Washington.
In 2009, Pennington used Aaron Reardon’s connection to the Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter and reporter Emily Heffner to run hit pieces on people who were exposing the RICO. Mike Carter was using Pennington as a primary source inside Snohomish County offices, in exchange for inside information, Carter and Seattle Times agreed not to publish any negative stories about Pennington in exchange for inside stories. When Pennington killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides, Seattle Times was silent on a man declared by medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life being in charge of emergencies. We later learned that Pennington was also diagnosed as autistic.
After we caught Seattle Times Reporter Emily Heffner violating ethical reporter rules (lying in a news story that the Seattle Times had to retract four times for false statements), she was fired, as such, we contacted her for comment, but all she would say is” you need to move because they are coming after you.” She never did state who “they” were, but we now know that Washington State is running a monopoly with Lloyds of London (who is member of the RICO), guilty of case fixing with judges.
In 2010, Pennington sexually assaulted a Department of Emergency Management public records officer, named Diana (DR). When a county employee complained to Executive Aaron Reardon, he illegally used public monies to pay off Diana, in the amount of $75,000.00, and he gave her a 50 % pay raise as hush money. In exchange for her silence, DR also received a position as Director of Emergency Management at Providence Health Services.
In 2012, Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington left her two-year-old child alone with two ten-year-old children and was caught by two Washington State licensed private investigators. When the police came for a wellness check, Crystal threw a cell phone at the officer and made a false report to the Duvall Washington police department. She should have been arrested for child endangerment but the officer in Duvall Washington was the father Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s illegitimate son. To avoid child support, John E Pennington managed to use his Duvall Mayor Will Ibershoff to get Lori Batiot a job that she had no qualifications for (unless you consider illegal use of prescription narcotics and driving drunk to be qualifications) as a police officer in Duvall, Washington. Every time a police complaint was filed, Ms. Batiot was assigned to not investigate criminal complaints against her lover, John E Pennington Jr. As stated herein, she was fired for committing racketeering offenses against the Gold Bar Reporter.
In 2013, John Pennington applied to open position on the Duvall Washington Library Board. Because of his extensive criminal history and violently assault on a 3rd trimester pregnant council member, his application was rejected as “not qualified”.
Part 1 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.
Part 2 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.
In 2016 the State of Washington had to settle wrongful death suits for 60 million dollars as a result of John Edward Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in Oso, Washington. Attorney General Bob Ferguson settled only because we gave Plaintiffs’ attorneys mounds of evidence, which included medical files that the State of Washington accidently released under RCW 42.56 documenting that John Edward Pennington Jr. was diagnosed as a sociopath and autistic. Imagine if a jury had heard that Snohomish County Washington hired a sociopath with no empathy for human life and a man who has been treated for autism for over 40 years in charge of human life.
After getting fired from Snohomish County in 2016 for dereliction of his official emergency management duties, Pennington couldn’t find a job, so he filed an application for unemployment benefits (King County Case No: No: 17-2-06169-7). He filed for bankruptcy protection using a false address in Florida in 2009. When the Gold Bar Reporter learned of Pennington’s fraud against the taxpayers of Washington, a formal complaint was filed with the Washington State unemployment fraud unit.
In 2016, both Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington were charged with filing false unemployment claims and refusing to pay taxes. Both had to pay back the money they stole. King County Superior Court files documented their theft from the State of Washington.
In late 2016, Snohomish County Washington was being sued for Pennington’s negligent killing of 43 people in Oso Washington. Before he was fired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, his web page conveniently leaves out his employment in Snohomish County, Washington. Perhaps he would like to forget how he killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides because instead of doing his job i.e., mitigation, he spent his days inside Snohomish County Department of Emergency Managment (DEM) harassing people on his online blog “The Sky Valley Chronicle”.
According to Snohomish County Executive employee Kevin Thomas Hulten, John Edward Pennington Jr. ran the online site, Sky Valley Chronicle, right from Snohomish County Department of Emergency Mangement. Since Crystal Hill was unemployed after getting fired from Attorney Mark Weiss’s office, she sat around for over 10 years unemployed and harassing anyone she deemed a threat to John and submitting false resumes for employment to various government agencies all of the US.
After killing 43 people in the Oso mudslides in 2016, John E Pennington Jr. was unemployed and was about to be deposed in a negligent death case. The State of Washington decided to hide from the jury the fact that he was unemployed because of his extensive criminal activity in Snohomish County, so Washington State’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson managed to get him a job as an instructor at Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington. This after Ferguson had ample evidence to know that John E Pennington Jr. is a pedophile and had been declared a “sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever” by a doctor in King County, Washington. See Laughlin v Pennington, King County, WA.
In 2021, John Edward Pennington Jr. was fired from the Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington, after a student made an allegation of sexual assault against him. According to Emily, an employee at Pierce College, ” a student made an allegation of attempted sexual assault against Pennington while he was employed at Pierce College as an instructor, and he hired counsel who threatened a human rights complaint against Pierce College. In his complaint, Pennington claims he was diagnosed with a mental disability, and Pierce College was discriminating against him as a result. Pierce College settled, and Pennington’s Republican political ally Kemper Freeman managed to pull some strings to get him a job at Overlake Hospital. This after Pierce College fired him.
In 2020, Pennington was fired from Overlake Hospital after “he was caught on camera stalking a woman/patient in the Overlake Hospital parking garage”, a source inside Overlake Hospital told the reporter. When he was fired for stalking a patient at Overlake Hospital, Attorney Michael Kenyon called in a favor from one of his legal clients, The Snoqualmie Tribes.
Within six months of obtaining a job with the Snoqualmie Tribes, Pennington was fired for dereliction of his duties. Once tribal source said” he was sexually harassing employees. The Tribe had no choice but to let him go.”
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Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) December 19, 2023, blotted up after she finally stopped using drugs, weighing 265 pounds.
Meanwhile, his fourth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) had just graduated from an online college, Eastern Oregon University. A college that had its academic accreditation revoked and monitored by the US Department of Education for failing to adhere to basic core requirements of a basic college education. After completing an online degree, she applied to several first, second, and third tier law schools, including Penn State, and was rejected as “not qualified.”
After being rejected at twenty plus law schools, Ms. Berg Hill Pennington applied to an online law school, Mitchell Hamline, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A law school labeled as fraudulent by the academic world because online law schools are not acceptable in the legal industry, nor with the US Bar Associations. Online colleges are generally diploma mills and frowned upon by people who actually attended accredited colleges as harming society with its fraud in academia. With no surprise, Mitchell Hamline ranks 229 out of 240 law schools in the Unites States. Mitchell Hamlin’s law school ranking are so low that even its Dean Niedwiecki opted out this year from rating under US World News Reports.
With Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s false academic credentials, and four fraud convictions in five different states (WA, TX, NC, and IN), King County Washington, Emergency Management Director, Alison Levy, hired her for a position inside King County, Washington’s Department of Health. After we submitted Ms. Berg Hill Pennington criminal records, obtained under Washington State’s Public Records Act (RCW 42.56), proving beyond any shadow of doubt that Crystal D. Hill was convicted of fraud, forgery, and harassment, she was fired from King County, Washington, after only 35 days on the job. This was a constructive discharge/termination, a fact that Ms. Berg Hill Pennington often lies about on government applications. Even though Ms. Hill lied on her job application, she was never prosecuted for filing a false application i.e., claiming she was never convicted of fraud when she was four times in five states.
In North Carolina, she spent three months in jail. Evergreen District Court in Snohomish County, Washington, she served two years of probation and was forced to pay back the $5400.00 she stole from a Skagit County Washington State lawyer.
In Burleson Texas, Crystal Berg Hill Pennington (nee Berg) fled after being released on bail for bank fraud. She was also terminated by former FEMA Director Brock Long in 2019 from obtaining FEMA contracts for filing false applications and not disclosing her past convictions for fraud, drunk driving, harassment, and forgery.
After our news reports involving King County, Washington, employee, Alison Levy, was demoted to another department in King County for allowing five-time convicted bank fraudster like Crystal D. Hill Pennington to have access to Social Security Administration (SSA) and/or medical files. According to the SSA, a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible for federal, state or local contracts, where public taxpayer money is used. Washington State Department of Health also told the Gold Bar Reporter that a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible to participate in any claim or suit involving vulnerable or elderly adults.
According to the Washington State Supreme Court, a person convicted of fraud shall not file a single declaration in any court that is to be given any weight whatsoever. This makes Ms. Hill’s declaration in any court case void, according to long time civil rights activist and lawyer.
Moving the pedophile from parish to parish, Lloyds of London covering up liability as Risk Management; Goodbye Washington, hello Alaska
After the Penningtons’ were caught committing additional fraud in Washington State in 2021, as described above, the Penningtons fled to Fairbanks Alaska hoping to escape their extensive criminal history. It didn’t work, because both continued to commit more fraud, but this time in Alaska.
While employed at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), Pennington is allowed to obtain a PhD without an accredited bachelor’s degree (BA). This happened because he has a network of former government officials from Washington State now working at UAF, who committed fraud in academia allowing person without a accredited BA to enter a PhD program.
The Gold Bar Reporter obtained a copy of Pennington’s so called PhD thesis, and everyone here had a good laugh about how a person who writes so poorly, and online flat fee college diplomas, missing the whole point of a PhD thesis, can legally obtain a PhD. Pennington’s thesis was more like a 5th grade writing class assignment titled ” What a wonderful family I have … and my daddy was cop” than that of a topic about Indigenous people.
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Crystal Danielle Hill Pennington (aka Crystal Berg), a four-time convicted bank frauder (IN, NC, TX, WA) arrested for drunk driving in Tipton Missouri, convicted of reckless driving, found guilty of forgery and harassment, and violently assaulted a six-year-old child in Snohomish County WA
The Washington D.C. Bar has an open investigation of attorney Crystal D. Hill aka Crystal D Hill Pennington, and she is expected to be disbarred for fraud in the future for failing to disclose her extensive 30-year criminal history dating back to age of 14. The Gold Bar Reporter will be at her public hearings and will be speaking at all disbarment hearings involving Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s fraud and anyone with bar complaints against her should send the Gold Bar Reporter copies for publication.
Last week, we learned that Ms. Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr. committed more fraud with two joint military bases in Alaska. For this reason, a complaint was filed with the US Office of Inspector General, US Office of Public Management, and with two air forces bases in Alaska. Both bases were contacted for comment, and a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) request was submitted for access to the Penningtons’ fraudulent activity inside both Alaska joint military bases. We also filed a complaint with President Biden’s Office.
Stay tuned for an update on the Penningtons’ criminal racketeering conduct in Tennessee, Alaska, Oregon, Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Texas, and New York State.
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For over twenty years, the Gold Bar Reporter has been reporting on criminal racketeering crimes that John E Pennington, and his fourth wife, Crystal D. Hill (aka Crystal Berg, Crystal D. Hill Pennington) have committed all over the United States. For our readers, it is important to note that the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued, but we did sue, successfully, the Penningtons for forgery, harassment and abuse of the process in Block v. Penningtons, King County, Washington, (No: 16-2-26600-2; March 2017). Both were found guilty of forgery, harassment and abuse of the process.
Exposing pedophiles, wife beaters, and racists like John Edward Pennington Jr., and convicted bank fraudsters and drug addicts like Crystal D Hill Pennington (convicted of fraud in South Carolina, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, and Washington State) is matter of public concern, especially when the abuser and fraudsters land government jobs where youngsters and taxpayer monies are being used to advance their criminal racketeering conduct.
Judge Ricardo Martinez, John Lovick, John Pennington, Crystal Hill Pennington, Mikolaj Tempski (SAAG), Joseph Genster (SAAG), and WSBA employee Linda Eide, and WSBA Hearing Officer Lin O’Dell were all was contacted for comment but refused. Interesting to note that everyone involved in the criminal racketeering conspiracy has resigned since being exposed by Snohomish County’s public records. WSBA Hearing Officer Lin O’Dell was permanently suspended by the Guardianship Board for using her convicted killer husband to steal from her elderly clients, forced to resign from the WSBA, and plead to IRS criminal violations of not paying taxes on the money the attorney general’s office let her steal from our elderly and vulnerable citizens.
If any of readers have filed or plan to file bar complaints against Ms. Crystal Berg Hill Pennington or have additional information John Edward Pennington’s sexual predator conduct elsewhere, please email us at lifeisgood357@comcast.net. ANONYMITY promised, publication ensured.
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GOLD BAR REPORTER 
March 24, 2014, remembered as the day Incompetent Snohomish County Director John Edward Pennington Jr. killed 43 people in Oso Washington Mudslides
March 24, 2014, is the day that Snohomish County’s incompetent Director of Emergency Management John Edward Pennington Jr. (Pennington) killed 43 people. Instead of doing his job i.e. mitigation, Pennington sat around and harassed people on the taxpayer’s dime and worked on his online diplomas from online schools the IRS declared fraud.
Remembering the people John Edward Pennington Jr killed in Oso, many children.
Snohomish County never disclosed to the Oso mudslide victims that King County Superior Court Ordered Psychiatrist Dr. Marsha Hedricks to issue a mental health evaluation and had declared Pennington unfit for public service and a sociopath with no empathy for human life in 2009. Laughlin v Pennington, King County (2009).
The Oso slide is the deadliest single landslide event in United States history, and it illustrates nicely that emergency management positions should never been political appointments. Certainly, a person declared by a medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life should never be allowed to handle emergencies or natural disasters.
The Oso mudslides was not an unforeseen event. The Oso Washington landslide engulfed 49 homes and other structures in an unincorporated neighborhood known as “Steelhead Haven” on the south side of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Oso, Washington and resulted in the suffocation deaths of 43 residents.
The Hazel Landslide has a history of instability dating to 1937, and reports filed with FEMA and the State of Washington in 1998. On March 24, 2014, Pennington was interviewed and said, ” Oso mudslides were act of God. Unforeseen event” A few days later he told Time Magazine that ” Everyone knew of the dangers” and in another interview Pennington declared Oso area as safe.
If everyone knew of the mudslide dangers, how could it be an unforeseen event. After all, the county emergency management and the state of Washington knew about the Oso danger since 1937. If it was safe, why did 43 people die?”
Snohomish County Admits No Criminal Background Check on John E Pennington Jr prior to hiring.
According to now Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers, Aaron Reardon and John Lovick appointed Pennington without ever running a single criminal background check on him. The Gold Bar Reporter asked why Snohomish County did not, Somers replied ” I don’t know why not.” Since Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in the Oso mudslides, Executive Somers has changed county policy and conducts criminal background checks prior to hiring anyone in Snohomish County. No exceptions.
Hiring Pedophiles and Sociopaths to Handle Emergencies Is Never a Good Business Plan
In November 2005, Pennington after being fired by President George Bush Jr., he was unemployed for four months desperately looking for work. He called political connections from his days in the Washington State Legislature. Reardon and Pennington had served in the Washington House for years together and Pennington called in a political favor i.e. appoint him to a position inside Snohomish County Emergency Management. Sadly, for residents of Oso Washington, Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon took the poisonous bait from a person declared to be a sociopath.
In February 2006, Pennington was appointed by Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, as Snohomish County Emergency Management Director for Snohomish County. This political appointment came four months after FEMA fired Pennington, and after the FBI ran a criminal background check on him and unearthed what it took the Gold Bar Reporter ten years to uncover, Pennington’s extensive crimes against women and children.
In 2006, a flood occurred on Ebby Island, a small trac of land just outside Everett, Washington. Acting on behalf of Snohomish County as the Director Emergency Management, Pennington issued an Emergency Declaration ordering Ebby Island to be evacuated, costing the taxpayers of Snohomish County over 10 million dollars. This evacuation order was premature, and Ebby Island never flooded. According to Reardon’s mistress, Executive Aaron Reardon was pretty pissed off and ordered Pennington into his office for a long talk about his costly mistake. Afterwards, Reardon told his mistress ” Pennington is a dipshit! He knows shit about Emergency Management! Dumb as a rock!” Instead of firing Pennington, Reardon simply clipped his responsibilities from managing disasters to ” to report to Reardon.” This was Pennington’s only function from 2006 to 2013.
In 2009, Pennington violently assaulted a third trimester pregnant Duvall Washington council member, Ann Laughlin, just three before delivering her child. For this reason, a King County Judge ordered Pennington into a court ordered physiatrist, Dr Hedricks, for a mental health evaluation which Pennington failed. King County Dr. Hedricks declared under oath that ” John Pennington is a sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever.”
But what did the Seattle Times and Scott North at the Everett Daily Herald report on? Nothing. Imagine, Snohomish County has an Emergency Mangement Director who not only rapes, kidnapped and tried to murder a 5-year-old girl, he is guilty of violently assaulting a third trimester pregnant woman, and not one local newspaper reports on his criminal sexual deviant behavior.
In 2019, an insider from Snohomish County, “Fed Up”, told the Gold Bar Reporter that Snohomish County made an agreement with Everett Herald Senior Editor Scott North and its reporter Noah Haglund, and Seattle Times Editor Mike Carter not to report on Pennington’s criminal history in exchange for inside Snohomish County scoops. Pennington public records from Snohomish County document that instead of doing his job, he was simply there to harass and defame political foes of the county.
Once a source received public records from Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay and Mark Roe documenting that Scott North was simply publishing articles that Snohomish County wrote, the Gold Bar Reporter wrote a letter to the Editorial Board at both newspapers. This resulted in Senior Editor Scott North and news reporter Noah Haglund’s constructive discharge from the Daily Everett Herald.
When the Everett Herald forced Scott North and Noah Haglund’s resignation, also known as a constructive discharge, Snohomish County hired Scott North and King County hired Noah Haglund. After all, Snohomish County owed them for publishing false stories on behalf of Snohomish County to discredit its political foes.
When the Gold Bar Reporter contacted Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter, his only email response was ” Fuck You Anne.” Not really what we expected from a major senior editor from a major newspaper. Carter resigned.
In June 2013, and after the Gold Bar Reporter filed Recall Petitions against Aaron Reardon for dereliction of his Executive duties, he resigned from public office. he is now selling insurance in Indigio California, living in a house be obtained for pennies on the dollars from the Tribes.
Once Reardon was gone, the Snohomish County Council appointed Sheriff John Lovick as Executive Appointee. In 2014, public records confirmed that after Executive Reardon resigned, newly appointed Executive John Lovick gave exclusive power to control and manage emergency management back to Pennington. Gross negligence by John Lovick and Pennington resulted in the deaths of 43 people on March 24, 2014.
We later learned from Washington State child protective services (CPS) that John Lovick had been found guilty of masturbating along the side the bed of his daughter’s best friend (sexual gratification). CPS issued criminal findings against Lovick, and Association of Washington paid off his victim’s family to remain silent. Lovick’s victim was a twelve-year girl. No doubt pedophiles protect pedophiles.
On March 24, 2014, Pennington was on the east coast, working a second job at FEMA Emergency Management Institute, when the largest disaster in Washington State’s history occurred; he ordered no one into the area until he returned 49 hours later. This resulted in the cause of death of 27 victims out of the 43 victims as suffocation.
According to Snohomish County Prosecutor Jason Cummings, “John Pennington was frozen did not know what to do so Snohomish County Council appointed attorney Margaret King to handle the emergency response.”
Immediately following the Oso mudslides, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick placed Pennington on paid administrative leave, and Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, who had been convicted three times for bank fraud and spent time in jail for the same, arrested for drunk driving, found guilty of harassment and forgery and abused a six year old girl) wrote an email to Snohomish County’s Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) Mikolaj Tytus Tempski demanding email stating “someone needs to get Johnny in the clear… why has Snohomish County not entered a notice of appearance in the RICO suit Anne Block failed against John?” Mr. Tempski responded by stating not to worry about it because US Federal Judge Ricardo Martinez was already in the process of fixing the case against Block.
We later learned from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s telephone records that Judge Ricardo Martinez was making exparte telephone contact with SAAG Joseph Genster, who was defending the RICO case, confirming beyond any shadow of doubt that the US Federal District of Court of Western Washington was engaged in case fixing with the Washington State’s Attorney General’s Office.
What Washington State nor Snohomish County Ever Disclosed to John Pennington’s Oso Mudslide Victims
“I will never be charged with a crime because we have people in every position of government who will always protect me,” boasted John Edward Pennington Jr. to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin. Not only did his political connections help cover up his crimes against women and children, but they also managed to get him employment that he is not mentally capable of, nor educated for, putting students at risk for sexual assaults and death.
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John Edward Pennington Jr.’s crimes span across the United States; he was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States Government.
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John Edward Pennington the product of two dysfunctional parents
John Edward Pennington Jr. was born to John E. Pennington, a corrupt Brady Cop and a stay-at-home mother from Nashville, Tennessee, named Sharon. Both parents have extensive mental health issues, including gross domestic violence, alcoholism, and abuse. His father is alleged to have had over thirty-six (36) excessive force complaints filed against him with the City of Nashville, and was successfully sued for racially targeting minorities, while his mother spews racist rants at Pro Trump rallies and was quoted as saying ” John was always a good liar.”
According to the Department of Justice, children who are raised by abusive parents are six times as more likely to perpetrate abuse on others. In John E Pennington Jr.’s upbringing. he was trained to abuse women and children by two dysfunctional and mentally ill parents that were not worthy raising a dog let alone children.
A childhood friend stated, “he was a troubled youth, who had a major drug and alcohol problem by the age of 16.” So, it’s no surprise that in the late 1980’s, Vanderbilt College in Tennessee, expelled John E. Pennington Jr. in his first semester for sexually assaulting a female student. Thinking he would be charged with assault, Pennington fled to a small suburban city just outside of San Diego California. Instead, Vanderbilt College paid off the victim.
While in the San Diego John Pennington meets his new victim, who believe he legally married, so are calling her ex-wife # 1. His ex-wife is a real estate agent in San Diego, California who said, ” Pennington is a ticking time bomb with no empathy for human life. There is no doubt that he raped two boys on a church camping trip causing him to flee California in 1990. This is why I divorced him.”
This was the sole reason John E. Pennington Jr. fled Southern California, heading home to Nashville in the early 1990s. The boys who he molested stated that their families settled with the church for lump sum settlement allowing the church to cover up Pennington’s pedophilia.
While in Tennessee, John Pennington made an unsuccessful run for an open Democratic State Rep. seat. After a landslide loss for John Pennington, he again headed west. This time he lands in Oregon, where Pennington meets his next victim, who he violently assaulted and hospitalized in the Lake Oswego Oregon area in 1990. Pennington was found guilty of assault in the 1st degree but plead “mental defect” avoiding jail time, instead, the state of Oregon, had him serve out his 1-year sentence at Western Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon. He was released in 1991 after serving only five months.
After the State of Oregon declared Pennington stable, he fled from Oregon to Vancouver Washington. While in Vancouver, in 1991, John Pennington meets his next victim. Sadly, they married and had one child, GP.
While working in a coffee delivery business, Pennington stole coffee grinding equipment from his previous employer and used the equipment to start-up a small coffee shop in the City of Kelso, Washington. “It was cover for Pennington who had been trafficking drugs from Kelso Washington to the border town of Ferndale Washington. Pennington ran drugs for the Russian mob to a coffee barista named Lori Batiot (aka Lori Hoffer, Lori Harris). Lori Batiot would then smuggle drugs across the Canadian border for distribution.
in 2002, Pennington fathered an illegitimate child with Lori Batiot, and after being appointed to FEMA he managed to get her a job with the Ferndale police department as a dog trainer for a drug sniffing dog. With no surprise, she lost the drug sniffing dog and would never state how she lost a police dog.
In 2016, Batiot was fired from three police departments for illegal use of prescription pills, drunk driving and was found mentally unfit for public service.
She was fired from the City of Duvall, Washington for lying under oath during a formal police investigation.
Lori Batiot is now a real estate agent for Windemere in Lake Forest Washington and her mental defect and violent behavior was captured on camera by a court authorized process server.
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In 1992, a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and then tossed along a Cowlitz County Road like a piece of trash.
According to Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, John Pennington became one of two prime suspects for the following reasons: (1) Pennington operated a coffee delivery route within six blocks of where the child was dumped; (2) he drove the same car; (3) Pennington was in the area at the time of the child rape; (4) Pennington’s picture from 1992 is almost a complete match to the child and witness’s sketch drawing of Pennington; and (5) Pennington relentlessly convinced his ex-wife to call the police attempting to divert attention away from himself and onto another man. When the lead detective was asked who he thought violated the child, he said ” John E. Pennington Jr. is the man that raped that little girl and I have been following him ever since.” Meaning, the officer didn’t believe Pennington all of the sudden stopped sexually assaulting children. The officer was right, as we later learned, from a credible source, that Pennington was sexually, mentally, and physically abusing Crystal D. Hill’s child, JH.
In 1992, John E. Pennington Jr. managed to get elected to an uncontested Washington State House of Representatives seat. Unfortunately for residents in New Orleans and Oso Washington, he began an extramarital affair with a powerful Washington State Republican Senate leader, Jennifer Dunn, who he began a 10-year affair with while married to his second wife.
According to sources close to John Pennington he is also an abuser of prescription Vicodin and was detained at the US Mexico for having narcotics (non-prescription pain pills) on his person while coming back into the US. This charge came while he obtained a political appointment for which he had no qualifications.
In 1995, John E. Pennington Jr. was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States government.” John sat around for years obsessed about getting even with the Longview Washington news reporter for reporting that John was a member of the State militia.”
In the below article published by the Longview Washington Daily News, Pennington confirms he was a member of the Washington State Militia when he stated ” I’ll never go to another one of their meetings. I’ll tell you that.” Their meetings, Pennington was referring to was the Washington State Militia meetings.
In 2001, Senator Jennifer Dunn, Washington, asked President George Bush Jr., for a political favor, appoint her lover, John Edward Pennington Jr., as the Director of FEMA Region 10. President Bush did appoint Pennington to FEMA Region 10 (with no experience as outlined by the Seattle Times) without a single a criminal background check. After Michael Browne’s mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush considered appointing Pennington as the Director of FEMA. But once the FBI ran a criminal background check on Pennington’s crimes against women and children as described herein, President Bush Jr. fired him (November 2005). A fact he lied about in his deposition.
While employed at Snohomish County in 2005, Pennington misappropriated funds and resources to obtain an online degree from American Military University (AMU), and Coastal California College, online schools labeled by the United States government as fraudulent “diploma mills.” PBS did a Frontline story on AMU’s fraud. He also claims to have earned a PhD from University of Alaska Fairbanks; a college ranked at #394 out of 435 public universities in the United States and was turned down by the University of Georgia, New York State University in Buffalo, New York University, George Washington, University of Georgia, University of Maryland, New York University, and Boston University for having false academic diplomas from online schools like AMU and California Coastal College. Pennington paid a flat rate of $1500.00 for his online diplomas from AMU and California Coastal.
From 1992 to 2005, John Pennington’s violence grew with his ex-wife. # 2 . From pushing her down a flight of stairs in the presence of their child GP, as well as constant physical abuse. Pennington never learned to keep his hands to himself. Thankfully, she escaped with her life.
The case that raised our eyebrows is Mr. Pennington’s abuse on his ex-wife # 3, Anne Laughlin. Anne was three weeks away from giving birth to her daughter when Pennington violently assaulted, kicked and punched Anne in the stomach and uterus.
Since Ms. Laughlin was a Duvall city council member at the time, the City of Duvall sought a Special Prosecutor Sandra Meadowcraft to prosecute Pennington for the violent assault of a 3rd trimester pregnant woman. The prosecutor assigned to prosecute wife beater John Pennington came from the law firm where Pennington’s buddy Michael Kenyon was employed, Kenyon Disend.
Sandra Meadowcraft (now Sandra Sullivan) failed to appear, and Pennington got the case dismissed without prejudice. Meadowcraft threw the case in exchange for a job with Summit Law Group, a Washington State Special Assistant Attorney General law firm. We have obtained audio recordings of the State v John E Pennington criminal prosecution from the May 2009 and will be publishing these audio files in another article soon.
In 2009 when Pennington assaulted Laughlin, this was his third domestic assault violence charge. This should have amounted to jail time for Pennington. Unfortunately for the 5-year-old year child, and for women, Pennington meets a Kelso Washington city attorney named Michael Kenyon. As the city attorney for Kelso, Kenyon was in charge of prosecuting Pennington for the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of the 5-year-old little girl in Cowlitz County Washington. Instead, Michael Kenyon saw an opening to line his pockets with gold after Pennington was elected to an uncontested open Washington State House of Representative seat. Michael Kenyon covered up Pennington’s pedophilia crimes in exchange for money contracts with the state of Washington.
In 2009, Pennington used Aaron Reardon’s connection to the Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter and reporter Emily Heffner to run hit pieces on people who were exposing the RICO. Mike Carter was using Pennington as a primary source inside Snohomish County offices, in exchange for inside information, Carter and Seattle Times agreed not to publish any negative stories about Pennington in exchange for inside stories. When Pennington killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides, Seattle Times was silent on a man declared by medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life being in charge of emergencies. We later learned that Pennington was also diagnosed as autistic.
After we caught Seattle Times Reporter Emily Heffner violating ethical reporter rules (lying in a news story that the Seattle Times had to retract four times for false statements), she was fired, as such, we contacted her for comment, but all she would say is” you need to move because they are coming after you.” She never did state who “they” were, but we now know that Washington State is running a monopoly with Lloyds of London (who is member of the RICO), guilty of case fixing with judges.
In 2010, Pennington sexually assaulted a Department of Emergency Management public records officer, named Diana (DR). When a county employee complained to Executive Aaron Reardon, he illegally used public monies to pay off Diana, in the amount of $75,000.00, and he gave her a 50 % pay raise as hush money. In exchange for her silence, DR also received a position as Director of Emergency Management at Providence Health Services.
In early 2010, Pennington had his Homeland Security Clearance revoked after he was caught running illegal background checks on citizens and was caught sexually abusing a six-year-old child.
In 2011, John E Pennington Jr. was caught taking naked showers with a six-year-old child, and the witness filed a declaration with Snohomish County Courts attesting to his pedophilia under oath.
In 2012, Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington left her two-year-old child alone with two ten-year-old children and was caught by two Washington State licensed private investigators. When the police came for a wellness check, Crystal threw a cell phone at the officer and made a false report to the Duvall Washington police department. She should have been arrested for child endangerment but the officer in Duvall Washington was the father Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s illegitimate son. To avoid child support, John E Pennington managed to use his Duvall Mayor Will Ibershoff to get Lori Batiot a job that she had no qualifications for (unless you consider illegal use of prescription narcotics and driving drunk to be qualifications) as a police officer in Duvall, Washington. Every time a police complaint was filed, Ms. Batiot was assigned to not investigate criminal complaints against her lover, John E Pennington Jr. As stated herein, she was fired for committing racketeering offenses against the Gold Bar Reporter.
In 2013, John Pennington applied to open position on the Duvall Washington Library Board. Because of his extensive criminal history and violently assault on a 3rd trimester pregnant council member, his application was rejected as “not qualified”.
Part 1 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.
Part 2 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.
In 2016 the State of Washington had to settle wrongful death suits for 60 million dollars as a result of John Edward Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in Oso, Washington. Attorney General Bob Ferguson settled only because we gave Plaintiffs’ attorneys mounds of evidence, which included medical files that the State of Washington accidently released under RCW 42.56 documenting that John Edward Pennington Jr. was diagnosed as a sociopath and autistic. Imagine if a jury had heard that Snohomish County Washington hired a sociopath with no empathy for human life and a man who has been treated for autism for over 40 years in charge of human life.
After getting fired from Snohomish County in 2016 for dereliction of his official emergency management duties, Pennington couldn’t find a job, so he filed an application for unemployment benefits (King County Case No: No: 17-2-06169-7). He filed for bankruptcy protection using a false address in Florida in 2009. When the Gold Bar Reporter learned of Pennington’s fraud against the taxpayers of Washington, a formal complaint was filed with the Washington State unemployment fraud unit.
In 2016, both Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington were charged with filing false unemployment claims and refusing to pay taxes. Both had to pay back the money they stole. King County Superior Court files documented their theft from the State of Washington.
In late 2016, Snohomish County Washington was being sued for Pennington’s negligent killing of 43 people in Oso Washington. Before he was fired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, his web page conveniently leaves out his employment in Snohomish County, Washington. Perhaps he would like to forget how he killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides because instead of doing his job i.e., mitigation, he spent his days inside Snohomish County Department of Emergency Managment (DEM) harassing people on his online blog “The Sky Valley Chronicle”.
According to Snohomish County Executive employee Kevin Thomas Hulten, John Edward Pennington Jr. ran the online site right from Snohomish County DEM titled “The Sky Valley Chronicle.” Since Crystal Hill was unemployed after getting fired from Attorney Mark Weiss’s office, she sat around for over 10 years unemployed and harassing anyone she deemed a threat to John and submitting false resumes for employment.
After killing 43 people in the Oso mudslides in 2016, John E Pennington Jr. was unemployed and was about to be deposed in a negligent death case. The State of Washington decided to hide from the jury the fact that he was unemployed because of his extensive criminal activity in Snohomish County, so Washington State’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson managed to get him a job as an instructor at Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington. This after Ferguson had ample evidence to know that John E Pennington Jr. is a pedophile and had been declared a “sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever” by a doctor in King County, Washington. See Laughlin v Pennington, King County, WA.
In 2021, John Edward Pennington Jr. was fired from the Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington, after a student made an allegation of sexual assault against him. According to Emily, an employee at Pierce College, ” a student made an allegation of attempted sexual assault against Pennington while he was employed at Pierce College as an instructor, and he hired counsel who threatened a human rights complaint against Pierce College. In his complaint, Pennington claims he was diagnosed with a mental disability, and Pierce College was discriminating against him as a result. Pierce College settled, and Pennington’s Republican political ally Kemper Freeman managed to pull some strings to get him a job at Overlake Hospital. This after Pierce College fired him.
In 2020, Pennington was fired from Overlake Hospital after “he was caught on camera stalking a woman/patient in the Overlake Hospital parking garage”, a source inside Overlake Hospital told the reporter. When he was fired for stalking a patient at Overlake Hospital, Attorney Michael Kenyon called in a favor from one of his legal clients, The Snoqualmie Tribes.
Within six months of obtaining a job with the Snoqualmie Tribes, Pennington was fired for dereliction of his duties. Once tribal source said ” he was sexually harassing employees. The Tribe had no choice but to let him go.”
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Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) December 19, 2023.
Meanwhile, his fourth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) had just graduated from an online college, Eastern Oregon University. A college that had its academic accreditation revoked and monitored by the US Department of Education for failing to adhere to basic core requirements of a basic college education. After completing an online degree, she applied to several first, second, and third tier law schools, including Penn State, and was rejected as “not qualified.”
After being rejected at twenty plus law schools, Ms. Berg Hill Pennington applied to an online law school, Mitchell Hamline, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A law school labeled as fraudulent by the academic world because online law schools are not acceptable in the legal industry, nor with the US Bar Associations. Online colleges are generally diploma mills and frowned upon by people who actually attended accredited colleges as harming society with its fraud in academia. With no surprise, Mitchell Hamline ranks 229 out of 240 law schools in the Unites States.
With Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s false academic credentials, and four fraud convictions in five different states (WA, TX, NC, and IN), King County Washington, Emergency Management Director, Alison Levy, hired her for a position inside King County, Washington’s Department of Health. After we submitted Ms. Berg Hill Pennington criminal records, obtained under Washington State’s Public Records Act (RCW 42.56), proving beyond any shadow of doubt that Crystal D. Hill was convicted of fraud, forgery, and harassment, she was fired from King County, Washington, after only 35 days on the job. This was a constructive discharge/termination, a fact that Ms. Berg Hill Pennington often lies about on government applications. Even though Ms. Hill lied on her job application, she was never prosecuted for filing a false application i.e., claiming she was never convicted of fraud when she was four times in five states.
In North Carolina, she spent three months in jail. Evergreen District Court in Snohomish County, Washington, she served two years of probation and was forced to pay back the $5400.00 she stole from a Skagit County Washington State lawyer.
In Burleson Texas, Crystal Berg Hill Pennington (nee Berg) fled after being released on bail for bank fraud. She was also terminated by former FEMA Director Brock Long in 2019 from obtaining FEMA contracts for filing false applications and not disclosing her past convictions for fraud, drunk driving, harassment, and forgery.
After our news reports involving King County, Washington, employee, Alison Levy, was demoted to another department in King County for allowing five-time convicted bank fraudster like Crystal D. Hill Pennington to have access to Social Security Administration (SSA) and/or medical files. According to the SSA, a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible for federal, state or local contracts, where public taxpayer money is used. Washington State Department of Health also told the Gold Bar Reporter that a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible to participate in any claim or suit involving vulnerable or elderly adults.
According to the Washington State Supreme Court, a person convicted of fraud shall not file a single declaration in any court that is to be given any weight whatsoever. This makes Ms. Hill’s declaration in any court case void, according to long time civil rights activist and lawyer.
Moving the pedophile from parish to parish, Lloyds of London covering up liability as Risk Management; Goodbye Washington, hello Alaska
After the Penningtons’ were caught committing additional fraud in Washington State in 2021, as described above, the Penningtons fled to Fairbanks Alaska hoping to escape their extensive criminal history. It didn’t work, because both continued to commit more fraud, but this time in Alaska.
While employed at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), Pennington is allowed to obtain a PhD without an accredited bachelor’s degree (BA). This happened because he has a network of former government officials from Washington State now working at UAF, who committed fraud in academia allowing person without a accredited BA to enter a PhD program.
The Gold Bar Reporter obtained a copy of Pennington’s so called PhD thesis, and everyone here had a good laugh about how a person who writes so poorly, and online flat fee college diplomas, missing the whole point of a PhD thesis, can legally obtain a PhD. Pennington’s thesis was more like a 5th grade writing class assignment titled ” What a wonderful family I have … and my daddy was cop” than that of a topic about Indigenous people.
Dr Cameron Carlson is the University of Alaska Fairbanks professor who is guilty of fraud in academia by awarding a fraudulent PhD to John Edward Pennington Jr., a man who did not have an accredited ungraduated degree.
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Crystal Danielle Hill Pennington (aka Crystal Berg), a four-time convicted bank frauder (IN, NC, TX, WA) arrested for drunk driving in Tipton Missouri, convicted of reckless driving, found guilty of forgery and harassment, and violently assaulted a six-year-old child in Snohomish County WA
The Washington D.C. Bar has an open investigation of attorney Crystal D. Hill aka Crystal D Hill Pennington, and she is expected to be disbarred for fraud in the future for failing to disclose her extensive 30-year criminal history dating back to age of 14. The Gold Bar Reporter will be at her public hearings and will be speaking at all disbarment hearings involving Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s fraud and anyone with bar complaints against her should send the Gold Bar Reporter copies for publication.
Last week, we learned that Ms. Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr. committed more fraud with two joint military bases in Alaska. For this reason, a complaint was filed with the US Office of Inspector General, US Office of Public Management, and with two air forces bases in Alaska. Both bases were contacted for comment, and a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) request was submitted for access to the Penningtons’ fraudulent activity inside both Alaska joint military bases. We also filed a complaint with President Biden’s Office.
Stay tuned for an update on the Penningtons’ criminal racketeering conduct in Tennessee, Alaska, Oregon, Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Texas, and New York State.
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For over twenty years, the Gold Bar Reporter has been reporting on criminal racketeering crimes that John E Pennington, and his fourth wife, Crystal D. Hill (aka Crystal Berg, Crystal D. Hill Pennington) have committed all over the United States. For our readers, it is important to note that the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued, but we did sue, successfully, the Penningtons for forgery, harassment and abuse of the process in Block v. Penningtons, King County, Washington, (No: 16-2-26600-2; March 2017). Both were found guilty of forgery, harassment and abuse of the process.
Exposing pedophiles, wife beaters, and racists like John Edward Pennington Jr., and five-time convicted bank fraudsters like Crystal D Hill Pennington (convicted of fraud in South Carolina, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, and Washington State) is matter of public concern, especially when the abuser and fraudsters land government jobs where youngsters and taxpayer monies are being used to advance their criminal racketeering conduct.
If any of readers have filed or plan to file bar complaints against Ms. Crystal Berg Hill Pennington or have additional information John Edward Pennington’s sexual predator conduct elsewhere, please email us at lifeisgood357@comcast.net. ANONYMITY promised, publication ensured.
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