Washington State Attorney General’s fraud exposed in public records

In 2009, Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers said ” we are going to get her bar license for this.’ At the time, the Gold Bar Reporter had not been born, so the “for this” Joe Beavers was referring to was hiring an open government attorney to force disclosure of public records from the City of Gold Bar.

What Joe Beavers didn’t tell the public since 2009 is that the City of Gold Bar never paid a single cent to lawyers to defend a single public records suit. Beavers fraud left off the fact that the the Washington State Attorney General’s Office was covering the City’s legal bills.

This makes Joe Beavers guilty of RICO, appearing on television fraudulently claiming that the City was going bankrupt fighting public records suits, and filing false declarations with the court/s, when he knew that the City never paid a single legal bill.

In mid July 2009, we would later learn that Association of Washington Cities (AWC)sent in a well known RICO Enterprise member, attorney Jeffrey S. Myers.  Jeffrey Myers works for AWC a contractor law firm, Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich.

Jeffrey Myers was sent in to coverup for Snohomish County Prosecutors Mark Roe and Sean Reay’s little racketeering scheme of quashing criminal charges against public officials, For Gold Bar, it all started after a water employee named Karl Marjerle sabotaged the city’s water wells, and our current water employee Richard Norris helped Crystal Hill and Joe Beavers cover up Karl Marjerle’s acts of domestic terrorism.

According to the FBI, all crimes against the City’s water system were required to be referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. But instead, Snohomish County Prosecutors Mark Roe, Sean Reay and Gold Bar’s water employee Richard Norris agreed to assist Mayor Joe Beavers and Crystal D Pennington ( Crystal D Hill, Crystal Berg) with not reporting Karl Marjerle’s acts of terrorism. Why? because Marjerle knew that Crystal D Pennington had served time in jail for bank fraud in North Carolina and had plead guilty to bank fraud here in Snohomish County Evergreen District.

In 2010, after public records activist Arthur West successfully sued AWC holding that they were in fact a public agency, Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna had a plan to stifle free market competition. McKenna’s concern was that AWC would be sued for Sherman Anti-Trust violations, so he shifted AWC risk management to the Washington State Attorney General Office. With theses predicate acts, McKenna created a new sub-agency of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office titled “Department of Enterprise Services.”

The law firm of Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich may ring of bell for some of my readers who have been following the story of former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/may/18/judge-reinstates-9-million-award-to-clyde-ray-spencer/

Ray Spencer was a police officer accused of sexually molesting his children.  He spent almost 20 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit.  Mr. Spencer’s now adult children recanted and Spencer sued the City of Vancouver.

Clark County Sheriff’s Office Detective Sharon Krause latter admitted that she withheld exculpatory evidence, including several staged video tapes her and the Prosecutor made, convincing the Spencer children that they had in fact been molested.

Clyde Ray Spencer filed suit against Clark County for damages, and a federal jury awarded him 9 million dollars.   Immediately following the jury verdict, Tacoma Federal District Court Judge Benjamin Settles overturned Mr. Spencer’s jury verdict claiming that there was insufficient evidence to support the verdict.

This forced Mr. Spencer to appeal to the 9th Circuit.  Following Judge Settles’s vacating Spencer’s favorable  jury verdict, we spoke to Mr. Spencer after having ample evidence to support a theory that the citizens are the ones funding the legal battles for crimes agency employees commit, and after having ample evidence here in Washington State to support this statement.” Washington State Judges are fixing the cases at every level in this state.”

We asked Mr. Spencer one question:  “did you notice anything odd in the courtroom just before Judge Settles was supposed to seal the verdict?” Mr. Spencer “yes, in fact I did. Just as Judge Settles was expected uphold the jury verdict and order Clark County to pay damages, a man in a suit came into the courtroom. It was obvious that Judge Settles was flustered, sweating and stumbling to issue a ruling.  Then all of the sudden to our surprise Judge Settles vacated the jury verdict sending us into the 9th Circuit.”

We explained to Mr. Spencer that we have seen the Judge Settles scenario time and time again. Usually a man comes into the courtroom, signals the judge to fix the case.  Sometimes is county employee like Snohomish County Court Administrator and public records officer Brian Lewis, sometimes a Prosecutor like Mikolaj Tytus Tempski ( a member of the Russian mob) or a Special Assistant Attorney Generals (SAAG, who will discuss in detail in our next article) like Shannon Ragonesi, Sara Di Vittorio, Jeffrey Myers, Dean Williams, or Amanda Butler.

However, up until recently we had no idea who was ordering cases fixing, until the Washington State Bar Association’s employee Kara Ralph decided to file suit against the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) alleging discrimination.

Some of our readers may not know that the WSBA is a private organization, and not a state agency.

In December 2018, we saw an article on the Seattle Times, https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-state-bar-association-in-turmoil-as-allegations-lawsuits-mount-against-governing-board/

that triggered this thought ” what the hell is the Washington State Attorney General’s Office involved in anything to do with the private Washington State Bar Association?”

The fact that Ms. Ralph filed a tort claim form with  Washington State’s Department of Enterprise Services, a branch of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, sparked this thought ‘ What if the Washington State Attorney General’s Office is or was defending the WSBA? What is the Attorney General’s Office was or is funding the war against Clyde Ray Spencer,  Anne Block, Lori Shavlik etc.  Is it legal?’

Because Ms. Ralph filed a tort claim with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, specifically Department of Enterprise Services, we requested access to public records involving just how much money Washington State’s Attorney General’s Office has funneled to slap down citizens rights to hold government officials accountable.

Since 2009, Washington State Attorney General’s Office has been funding the public records debacle in Gold Bar, not Association of Washington Cities.  This started under Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna.

Why was simplistically described by Gold Bar council member Jay Prueher who said ” Lonn Turner put something stupid in his emails that will cause Gold Bar to be sued for millions.”

Lonn  Turner wasn’t only a Gold Bar council member, he was also a Washington State Department of Corrections employee, who, according to another former council member, illegally obtained a “spider of information” of Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block’s family.

Lonn Turner disseminated the illegally obtained files, via Gold Bar and DoC email server, including many of Block’s family members medical files, from his DoC computer to Gold Bar’s computers, and then Attorney Generals Sara Di Vittorio and Miquel Tempski illegally removed those files only after several of us requested access to them under RCW 42.56 ( Public Records Act).

This triggered Washington State’s liability in the Gold Bar case.  City of Gold Bar filed a tort claim implying that the State of Washington taxpayers should be on the hook because Attorney General’s Sara Di Vittorio and Mikolaj Tytus Tempski tampered with public records causing the City of Gold Bar be sued.

Instead of admitting wrongdoing, Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers ( a convicted felon), Linda ” high as a kite” Loen, twice convicted bank fraudster Crystal Hill Pennington ( ak Crystal Berg, Crystal D Pennington) and Mayor Bill Clem, as well as several Washington State and county employees committed perjury, forged documents, filed false declarations with the Courts, and lied to the public for over ten years claiming the City of Gold Bar was paying the legal bills.

Recent public records from Washington State’s Department of Enterprise Services ( WA State Attorney Generals Office), and set up a little scam to deceive and fraud the taxpayers out of millions to destroy and hide public records involving public officers crimes.

As of today, the State of Washington has spent over 15 million dollars ‘case fixing” with judges, prosecutors, Special Assistant Attorney Generals, local city attorneys, and county employees.  Attorney Jeffrey S. Myers was bragging another open government supporter as early as one year ago ” we cannot settle this case because Anne Block would stand to benefit financially. They will not let her win.”

Thanks to WSBA employee Kara Ralph and Attorney Jeffrey S. Myers, we now know ” they’ was Washington State Attorney General’s Office, and we now know how big this is.

Stay tuned to my next article, as we explain how Washington State ‘s Attorney General’s Office has been misappropriating millions of public dollars, created foe law firms to siphon public monies to hand full of law firms including Keating, Bucklin, and McCormack, Ogden Murphy & Wallace, Kenyon Disend, Christie Law Group,  and Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovic, has been violating Sherman Anti-Trust laws insuring every Washington State judge, prosecutor, agency employees, Public Defenders, Prosecutors Associations, Port of Seattle, Brady Cops including Sharron Krause, Cary  Coblantz, and Lori Batiot ( aka Lori Harris, Lori Hoffer),  Gold Bar’s former Mayors Beavers, Hill Pennington, and Linda Loen, and Washington State’s Commission for Judicial Commission and the private association of the WSBA here in Washington State.

For those of you who think this was a scam created by Attorney General Bob Ferguson alone, we can assure you, this was implemented by former Attorney General Rob McKenna and Bob Ferguson, jointly, and amounts to millions of taxpayer monies stolen to cover up agency employees’ criminal acts.

Washington State Attorney General’s Office answer to hide criminal acts of agency employees is to place state attorneys inside agencies, and allow Prosecutors like Sean Reay ( who is guilty of RICO) be on the WSBA Ethics Committee, committing fraud, in violation of racketeering, to cover up criminal acts of agency employees.

As attorney Kevin Tarvin said ” Christy, do you have any idea how BIG this is?’

Christy may not Mr. Tarvin, but thanks to WSBA employee Kara Ralph and Special Assistant Attorney General Attorney Jeffrey S Myers, we do now.

Stay tuned, my readers will soon understand why defendants cannot get fair legal representation, why WA State Attorney General’s Office is and has been helping covering up criminal RICO acts of Brady Cops like Lori Batiot, Sharron Krause, David Fontenot, and Cary Coblantz, and why Judges are helping their insurance company ( WA State AG’s Office) fix cases here in Washington State.

Thanks for those of my readers who logged in during my one month journey to six counties in Eastern Europe, with a slight deviation to Normandy Beaches.  My research of Adolf Hitler over the last month leaves me to believe that Nazi Germany is alive and well inside Washington State Attorney General’s Office.

Remember the name Christine Bausch, and remember the term “Special Assistant Attorney General” – the greatest fraud perpetrated upon the taxpayers of Washington State.

 

 

 

” Those people who are threatening you, are now threatening me” Gold Bar’s Mayor Bill

Over the last year, Gold Bar’s new Mayor William Clem, a State Farm Agent, from Monroe Washington, has trying to clean up the polluted water from the City of Gold Bar.

William Clem, Mayor of Gold Bar

” Those people who are threatening you, are now threatening me”  William Clem was referring to Association of Washington Cities attorneys Shannon Ragonesi, Ann Marie Soto, Michael Kenyon, and Amanda Butler

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Early this year, Gold Bar’s new Mayor William Clem sat down for a one on one meeting with the Gold Bar Reporter to discuss the state of affairs inside Gold Bar. During this meeting, William Clem confirmed that the former Mayor Joe Beavers, a convicted felon from Texas, had misappropriated over $1,500,000.00 of Gold Bar’s water funds to hide email communication.

 

According to one council member, Snohomish County obtained through electronic means medical records on the Gold Bar Reporter’s family members, and copied and pasted the Gold Bar Reporter’s name to those files, and disseminated those files via email from Snohomish County Law’s clerk Barbara Johnson and Crystal Hill in March 2009.

After Crystal Hill and terminated/disgraced Director of Emergency Management Director John E. Pennington took the illegally obtained medical files, they copied and pasted the Gold Bar Reporter’s name to those files, attempting to create a fake identity.  Then Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay had Snohomish County Sheriff Officer Rodney Rochan pass the fake identity off the NCIS Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX).

William Clem said ” the lawyers refuse to return our records to the City of Gold Bar, and I’m going to hire a new lawyer to obtain a subpoena and have Gold Bar’s records returned.”

In one case, involving Shavlik v Gold Bar, Snohomish County Superior Court, William Clem admitted that Gold Bar’s public records officer, Bonnie Jones did knowingly tamper with Gold Bar’s public records by removing metadata from email communication sent from Gold Bar’s former Mayor Crystal Hill and a clerk at Snohomish Law.

Bonnie Jones, aka Bonnie Scruggs, aka Bonnie Dierkson is a convicted felon from California and Hawaii, who was hand picked by Association of Washington Cities (AWC) to tamper with and hide public records inside the City of Gold Bar.

When William Clem was asked about why AWC would want to hide email communication,  Clem said ” to limit liability .”  When Clem was asked where the City was hiding Gold Bar’s public records, he said ” at the lawyers office in Issaquah, Washington.”

Michael Kenyon’s Office is located at 11 S Front St, Issaquah Washington.

In 2009, Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill ( nee Berg convicted of bank fraud, 2000, 2005) was engaged in several extramarital affairs with former Executive Aaron Reardon, John E Pennington, and Gold Bar’s former police chief. Once source inside Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office said ” Adam Cornell  and Sean Reay were also fucking Crystal. She was doorknob.”  Crystal Hill’s extramarital affairs were all with married men.

Three months ago, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officers turned over for the first time Crystal Hill’s ACCESS criminal history searches performed after she abused a six year old child in her car, plead to criminally harassing another, and after she plead guilty to and was arrested for bank fraud.

It was a perfect storm for the poor little town of Gold Bar, as there is little that the City canT get over on the Gold Bar Reporter, a person with a Juris Doctorate degree, education in this case has proven vital to exposing Crystal Hill Pennington’s crimes against Gold Bar, and federal taxpayers ( as Hill falsified FEMA contracts totaling over $100,000.00 ).

 

 

 

In February 2018, Snohomish County Superior Court held that the City of Gold Bar illegally withheld 585 public records from the Gold Bar Reporter for over five years, and penalties and attorney fees and cost exceed $1.5 million dollars, and this is just one case.

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After Gold Bar’s new Mayor and Monroe Washington State Farm Agent William Clem admitted to several of us over dinner that he was being threatened by AWC and its attorneys Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler, Michael Kenyon and Ann Marie Soto, we soon learned why William Clem had every reason to be extorted.

When William Clem ran for Gold Bar’s uncontested Mayoral seat Clem listed his home address as Gold Bar.  But according to the Insurance Commission, William Clem’s home address is located in Everson Washington as of December 2017, not in Gold Bar as he claimed on his Public Disclosure filings and Insurance Commission filings listed Everson Washington in December 2017.

Once inside source said ” Bill was threatened more than once inside public emails by Shannon Ragonesi…” Another source said ” Bonnie Jones was placed inside to continue the efforts of tampering with public records for Joe Beavers and AWC. She was hand picked by Beavers after it was apparent that Linda Loen was too high to function.”  Linda Loen was Gold Bar’s Mayor from January 2014 to March 16, 2016. On March 16 2018, the day Snohomish County Superior Court held that the City of Gold Bar and its public records officers violated Gold Bar Reporter’s rights to access public records by withholding public records for over five years, Linda Loen abruptly resigned as the Mayor of Gold Bar, abandoned her home in Gold Bar and purchased with cash a new home located in Aberdeen Washington.  Linda Loen was unemployed the entire time she lived in Gold Bar, but all of the sudden purchases a new house with cash, abandoning her home in Gold Bar ( that still remains vacate as of today). Sounds like a pay off from our good friends at AWC and its attorneys.

Why Attorney Michael Kenyon decided to hide Gold Bar’s public records was simple. Michael Kenyon had helped Crystal Hill’s married squeeze in covering up his rape of a 5 year child in Cowlitz County Washington in 1992.

The Gold Bar Reporter was first to report on Michael Kenyon’s assisting John E. Pennington with quashing criminal charges after he violently beat a third trimester pregnant Duvall Council member.

 

 

 

 

 

Whistleblower turns over public records involving criminal history of former mayor; Snohomish Herald published an intentionally false story as a “wag the dog” diversion as a political favor

UPDATE: After we exposed Herald Editor for fraud i.e. allowing Mark Roe, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe to write articles that Scott North affixed his name to, North was FIRED from Daily Herald.  As promise for helping Snohomish County defame people inside the Herald, Scott North was given a County job in exchange for assistance in helping publish articles defaming people. 

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In July 2009, Scott North, from the Snohomish County Herald admits he personally approved this false story about Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill  resigning citing harassment. Why was simply stated by another Snohomish County insider  who said   “Scott North is lazy and has been wined and dined by Snohomish County Prosecutors Jason Cummings, Mark Roe, and North has his head up Adam Cornell ass so far, I’m surprised he can breathe. It’s common knowledge that Crystal Hill was being passed around like a door mat…” a Snohomish County insider who we have dub ” Fed up” told the Gold Bar Reporter earlier this week.

For those of us who live and work inside Snohomish County, it’s pretty clear that the Herald is a failing newspaper since Scott North took it over. If Donald Trump had one issue right, he is correct that America no longer has news reporters.  Fake news.

Scott North’s actions below illustrate quite nicely North’s interest is not truth in reporting, it’s rubbing shoulders with political officials so he does have to work for a living.  Fake news President Trump complains about.

 

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Imagine a convicted criminal named Crystal Hill, citing for harassment, convicted of bank fraud, and had a warrant issued for her arrest, is citing harassment because our investigation of her yields the below truths about her criminal acts.

What does the Herald report, poor little convicted damsel in distress, had to resign because we caught Crystal Hill misappropriating Gold Bar monies.

 

As the Honorable US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia said in Referendum 71 Question: If you don’t like the heat in the kitchen, don’t get involved in politics.

 

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As falsely reported by the Herald, here in Snohomish County, in July 2009

 

Gold Bar Mayor resigns citing harassment

 

Gold BAR — Mayor Crystal Hill resigned this week, citing relentless harassment from someone who claims to live in the small mountain town.

Hill, 30, says the person using an alias has been bombarding her, her family and her Seattle employer with e-mails making claims about her personal life.

She said the person has accused her of drug use, supplying drugs to city staff and having an affair with a fired city employee.

Those allegations are false, Hill said, adding that she feels she has little recourse to fight them as a public official in the town of 2,400 people.

She also said she’s been followed and watched in her home and fears for her children, ages 11 and 6.

She also said she’s been followed and watched in her home and fears for her children, ages 11 and 6.

“It got to the point we don’t know if we are going to get a brick through the window,” said Hill, who turned in a resignation letter on Monday, five months before her term was to expire.

Hill said she believes the person who is sending the e-mails under the alias Michael Broaks is connected with a blog critical of the city. The woman who runs the blog fled a lawsuit against the city for withholding public information and has made 47 public records requests since July 2008.

The blogger said she has never e-mailed or followed Hill or her family. She’s fighting corruption as a public watchdog, she said.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office investigated Hill’s complaints, said Kevin Prentiss, a sheriff’s office spokesman. The case was closed because of insufficient information, he said.

Kelly Broyles, the Gold Bar planning commission chairman, said Hill has been an effective mayor in the midst of difficult circumstances.

“I don’t always agree with her decisions but I believe she has made decisions based on what she thinks is best for the city,” he said. Hill said she believes the blogger’s multiple public records requests are an abuse of the public records law and a form of harassment.

So far, the lawsuit, alleging the city had withheld documents during a public records request, has cost the city about $55,000 in attorney fees, according to the city.

“This has not been about documents,” Hill said. “This is a means to harass me and the city.”

Hill plans to finish her bachelor’s degree and attend law school. She’s working part-time now as a paralegal in Seattle.

 

When Hill took over as mayor in 2006, she inherited a cash-strapped city. Since then, she said, she’s left the city books in better shape. She said she put in 60-hour weeks as mayor. The job pays $300 a month.

“I think I’ve done a good job,” she said. “I’ve worked really, really hard. I just have to be a mom and my family needs to come first.”

Councilman Joe Beavers, as mayor pro-tem, is expected to fill in as mayor for the rest of Hill’s term. The council expects to select a mayor pro-tem from the remainder of the City Council on Tuesday night. Then, the council has 60 days to appoint someone to fill the open city council seat until January.

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Truth and reporting, New York Times v Sullivan

From July 2016 to April 23, 2013, John Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) made countless attempts to have the Gold Bar Reporter restrained from reporting on their criminal racketeering conduct ( some of which is outlines herein).  On April 23, 2017, Pierce County District Court held that the Gold Bar Reporter was in fact a news reporter protected under the First Amendment.

In other words, the Penningtons,  now 4th attempt to obtain a ” prior restraint” against the Free Press  ( Gold Bar Reporter) was DENIED for the 4th time on April 23, 2017 in Pierce County District Court.  John Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington are beng sued for RICO now pending in the 9th Circuit.

In July 2009, Scott North knew at the time was that Ms. Hill Pennington ( Crystal Berg) had quite the little extensive criminal history, which included allegations of “harassment” many years before she became Mayor.

What we learned last year was that Crystal Hill Pennington filled out an online application to be a contractor for FEMA, teaching Emergency Management Classes.
So imagine, US taxpayer monies are being used to fund a convicted criminal, who plead guilty to bank fraud ( 2000,2005) ,and should have been charged with child abuse.

A complaint has been filed with the Office of Inspector General citing “fraud” against Crystal Hill Pennington, because according to US Office of Procurement, persons guilty of fraud are NOT eligible for any federal contracts.

 Truth is an affirmative defense, the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued. 

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In November 2008, Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill did violently and criminally assault a child in her care. Gold Bar’s Chief received a criminal complaint against Crystal Hill for abusing a six year child in her care. Because Gold Bar’s police Chief was involved in an extra-marital affair with Crystal Hill,  he asked for the case to be referred to another Snohomish County Sheriff Officer, Jeff Ross.

Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officer Jeff Ross received extensive physician reports documenting that while Ms. Hill was babysitting the six year old girl, Crystal Hill did violently and intentionally assault a six year old child in her care.

In 2009, the Gold Bar Reporters heard a little chatter about Crystal Hill’s extensive history of abusing children from a former lover of Ms. Hill’s named Fleshman Cooper.

According to Cooper’s ex-wife, ” Crystal consistently abused our children while they were in the care of  Fleshman, and Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office knew it.  After complaints for abuse were filed with Snohomish County,  Fleshman was left with either loosing joint custody or disposing of Crystal. Thankfully, he chose his children.”

In 2008, then Mayor Crystal Hill covered up Karl Majerle’s sabotaging of the City’s water system here in Gold Bar.  Why is simple, Karl Majerle was extorting Mayor Hill with exposing her past criminal history. . A criminal history that involves bank fraud in two states, Washington and North Carolina, 2000, and 2005, respectively.  In North Carolina, Ms. Hill spent time jail after failing to adhere to her criminal diversion program.  According to North Carolina, Crystal Hill still owes the state $109. 00 for court fines relating to the same.

Gold Bar’s current public records officer Bonnie Jones stated ” I’m not turning over Crystal Hill’s nude photos between her and Karl Majerle.”

For almost ten years, Crystal Hill Pennigton ( nee Berg) has spent the last ten years criminally stalking me on a foe online newspaper set up by Aaron Reardon, a Seattle Times reporter named Christopher Schwarzen, and John E. Pennington titled the ” Sky Valley Chronicle.”

According to Gold Bar City Clerk Denise Beaston,  Gold Bar’s new Mayor Joe Beavers was allowed to log in and post any article he so desired. When asked under oath in December of 2016 whether or not he was a “blogger’ on the Sky Valley Chronicle, Joe Beavers had to admit he was cyber-stalking the Gold Bar Reporter.

Why can be best described as racketeering, covering up and quashing criminal charges by Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, Seth Fine, Miguel Tempski, Adam Cornell, and Sara Di Vittorio as political favors.

According to an insider who gave an interview last week after we caught Snohomish County Prosecutor Caroline Darrow and Amy Nay withholding public records involving the County ‘s prosecutor’s little RICO scam, Snohomish County Prosecutors are withholding public records only when Washlite Board members Lori Shavlik, Arthur West and I request access to public records.   The whistleblower gave an interview saying ” I sick of it….”

The whistleblower clearly gave us what we needed to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that Snohomish County Prosecutors are tampering with public records only when Shavlik, West or the Gold bar Reporter requests records.

Last week, a whistleblower gave us access to public records Snohomish County illegally withheld involving Snohomish County’s Director of Emergency Management Director John E Pennington’s ACCESS criminal history searches and copies of Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill’s criminal ACCESS files. All public records that Sara Di Vittorio and the Snohomish County Prosecutors and Sheriff’s Office withheld from the Gold Bar Reporter for over nine years.  Our lawyer tells us that there are no statute of limitations on silent withholding, thus a new lawsuit is being pursued.

 

In January 2016, newly elected Executive Dave Somers terminated John E. Pennington after public records released document John Pennington did nothing except criminal harass Gold Bar Reporter, right from Snohomish County offices and with use of county taxpayer resources.

It was a perfect storm for the poor little town of Gold Bar, as there is little that the City can get over on the Gold Bar Reporter, a person with a Juris Doctorate degree, education in this case has proven vital to exposing Crystal Hill’s crimes against Gold Bar.

But Ms. Hill didn’t cover up her criminal history by herself. Ms. Hill had the assistance of Sean Reay, a Snohomish County Prosecutor who is married to the head of Evergreen District Court Laura Twindale. When the below criminal prosecution file was sent to Ms. Twinsdale, she looked the other way as a political favor to then Executive Aaron Reardon. Of course at the bequest of her husband and Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay ( police reports show this case was sent to Reay first).

 

 

 

In December 2008, Crystal Hill moved in with married Snohomish County Director of Emergency Management John E. Pennington.  Instead of resigning as Gold Bar’s Mayor, Ms. Hill forged public disclosures filings, and refused to resign her seat until July 2009.  All Mayors must be living inside the City.

Former director John E. Pennington’s criminal history, a man who just cant seem to keep his hands to himself.

Gold Bar’s then Mayor wanna be Joe Beavers assisted Crystal Hill with not reporting the sabotaging of the City’s water system – a federal crime- covering up Ms. Hill’s criminal history.   Karl Majerle was extorting Crystal Hill with releasing to the public what he knew about her criminal history, and he was also engaged in an extra marital affair with Hill, according to a neighbor.

Why is best described by former council member Jay Prueher ” Joe wanted to be Mayor so bad, he made a deal with Crystal.  Crystal was stealing from the City…”

In late 2013, the Washington State Auditor’s office issued findings against the City of Gold Bar stating inside its audit report ” there’s $200,000.00 missing from the City and not one employee can state where it went.”

Over the last ten years, Snohomish County Prosecutors Office, Sean Reay, Miquol Tempski, Sara Di Vittorio,  Adam Cornell, Mark Roe, and employees Amy Nay,, Dayna Tapendorf, and Tina Murphy have been trying get the Gold Bar Reporter charged with harassment for investigating and reporting on their racketeering conduct ( fraud, honest services violations, criminal harassment, extorting Bar licenses, and countless perjury statements filed in Pierce, King and Snohomish counties), and now with the latest release of former Mayor Crystal Hill’s criminal history, we are now a little closer to helping Gold Bar survive before they bankrupt the little City of Gold Bar with their racketeering crimes committed against the Gold Bar Reporter for reporting the truth .

Below is part of the extensive racketeering crimes John E Pennington, Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) and countless lawyers, including Mike Kenyon, Ann Marie Soto, Linda Eide, Lin O’Dell, Doug Ende, Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madsen, Seth Fine, Sean Reay, Shannon Ragonesi, Amanda Butler, Margaret King, and Miquol Tempski.

 

Pierce College, Tacoma, instructor, caught forging court record

John E. Pennington, terminated from FEMA and Snohomish County for conduct unbecoming of a public officer, now caught forging documents with Pierce County District Court

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John E. Pennington, an instructor with Pierce College,  caught forging a court record last week in Tacoma, Washington.

It all started when the Gold Bar Reporter did what we’re supposed to do as a journalist, contacted him for comment about an upcoming article involving his false academic credentials.  Credentials John Pennington placed into public records at Pierce College, fraudulently obtaining a teaching position, a crime in Washington State.

RCW 9A.60.070

False academic credentials—Unlawful issuance or use—Definitions—Penalties.

(1) A person is guilty of issuing a false academic credential if the person knowingly

(a) Grants or awards a false academic credential or offers to grant or award a false academic credential in violation of this section;

(b) Represents that a credit earned or granted by the person in violation of this section can be applied toward a credential offered by another person;

(c) Grants or offers to grant a credit for which a representation as described in (b) of this subsection is made; or

(d) Solicits another person to seek a credential or to earn a credit the person knows is offered in violation of this section.

(2) A person is guilty of knowingly using a false academic credential if the person knowingly uses a false academic credential or falsely claims to have a credential issued by an institution of higher education that is accredited by an accrediting association recognized as such by rule of the student achievement council:

(a) In a written or oral advertisement or other promotion of a business; or

(b) With the intent to:

(i) Obtain employment;

(ii) Obtain a license or certificate to practice a trade, profession, or occupation;

(iii) Obtain a promotion, compensation or other benefit, or an increase in compensation or other benefit, in employment or in the practice of a trade, profession, or occupation;

(iv) Obtain admission to an educational program in this state; or

(v) Gain a position in government with authority over another person, regardless of whether the person receives compensation for the position.

(3) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section and RCW 28B.85.220.

(5) Knowingly using a false academic credential is a gross misdemeanor.

According to Pierce College, Tacoma,  John E. Pennington did fraudulently use false Academic credentials to obtain a position at the College by falsely submitting that he has accredited college degrees.

John E. Pennington did knowingly falsify his academic credentials to Pierce College to obtain a employment, and is guilty of this crime as well.  

 

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In 2005, the Seattle Times published a story about John Pennington’s academic school of choice correctly stating the IRS held that California Coastal College ( John E. Pennington’s online school of choice) sold degrees at a flat rate.”

See http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/local-fema-chief-had-little-disaster-experience/

False fraudulent academic diplomas managed to slip by former Executive Aaron Reardon ( who the Gold Bar Reporter proudly got rid of as the criminal harasser he is as evidenced by the Snohomish County Herald’s Feb 13, 2013 article http://201-dhwebvarnish.newscyclecloud.com/article/20130214/NEWS01/702149999 ) inside Snohomish County’s Emergency Management too.

This  contributed to the deaths (Black’s law dictionary, negligent homicide equates to killing) of 43 people in the Oso mudslides disaster. Had Snohomish County had an educated person at the helm of Emergency Management, 43 people would more than likely be alive today.

King County’s Major Crimes Unit public records document that Aaron Reardon’s executive officers had so much time on their hands to post defamatory articles on a website the trio set up titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle” – a website to control the political message in the Sky Valley ( Monroe to Index).

John E. Pennington’s wife Crystal Hill Pennington was anonymously cyber-stalking anyone who dared question Aaron Reardon’s gang of thieves. Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers admitted under oath a deposition two weeks ago that he too was cyber-stalking people on the Sky Valley Chronicle.

Crystal Hill Pennington’s deposition is scheduled for December 6, 2016, and an update will follow.

Now this, Pierce College Trustees hired a man with fake credentials who killed 43 people, beats on women and abuses our kids?  What the hell  is going on inside Washington State that a man who has harmed so many people is allowed to fraud our future leaders?

Our kids deserve much more, as such, the Gold Bar Reporter filed a complaint against Pierce College, Tacoma, with the U.S. Department of Education as this is fraud.

In 2013, John E. Pennington, a resident of Duvall, Washington, applied for a position on the Duvall Washington Library Board. Pennington’s application was rejected, the basis according to the Board Chair  ” he had no respect for the First Amendment.”

So its no surprise that once we started investigating John E. Pennington false credentials by requesting access to public records at Pierce College ( RCW 42.56), John E. Pennington committed more fraud, but this time on Pierce College’s dime.

On October 24, 2016, a forged Snohomish County Process of Service paper was filed by Penningtons whiting it out ( forgery)  knowingly falsely filing an instrument with a public office.

On October 27, 2016, John E. Pennington appeared in front of Pierce County District Court ( where he nor his wife resides), sworn in captured on video camera, falsely certifying under oath that he served the Gold Bar Reporter with his petition for restraining order  ( prior restraint on free speech prohibited in the U.S.), attempting to SLAPP down the Gold Bar Reporter’s message.

A First Amendment lawyer stated ” Prior Restraints on free speech in America are considered a violation of my civil rights.”

According to the Snohomish County Sherriff’s Office, John E. Pennington forged the original document, and the unforged document delivered to John Pennington is this one:

After John E.Pennington forged the document:

SLAPP suits carry a $10, 0000.00per offense penalty.  An issue we suspect John E. Pennington could care less about as public records document that he cant pay his mortgage, so what’s a judgment for $50K?

Congrads to Pierce College, Tacoma, Washington, not only did the Board of Trustees hire a child/wife abuser, they also hired a man now guilty of perjury and forgery.

The Gold Bar Reporter filed a new complaint in King County seeking damages, and a Writ and Injunction ordering Pierce County off this case as not one person John Pennington fraudulently obtained a restraining order against lives in Pierce County.

The Gold Bar Reporter is seeking an additional $50,000.00 from the marital community of the Crystal Hill and John E. Pennington’s for severe emotional distress.

Late yesterday, we learned that Pierce County District  ” vacated” the restraining order and there is a criminal felony investigation under way against John E. Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington (convicted of bank fraud,2005, 2000) and the case will be transferred to King County ( where according to the documents below, John E. Pennington has had countless criminal harassment complaints against him in King County).

John E. Pennington is the same political appointee who the Seattle Times quoted as saying Washington State’s largest slide area was “Considered very safe.”

As the Seattle Times reporter Mike Cater ( also the reporter who reported on Pennington fake academic credentials) wrote “It was considered very safe,” Pennington said. “This was a completely unforeseen slide. This came out of nowhere.”

John Pennington’s statements about the Oso mudslides were in complete contrast Daniel Miller, a geomorph­ologist, who wrote about Oso landslide conditions in his 1997 report for the Washington Department of Ecology and the Tulalip Tribes. Miller used reports and memos from the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s, to support his 1997 report that the Oso area was unstable and should be evacuated.

Miller also stated that he was stunned and troubled to return to the area in 2006, to see new homes being built instead of  seeing homes being vacated.

Miller said “Frankly, I was shocked that the county permitted any building across from the river. . . It’s not unknown that this hazard exists.”

Miller contracted with the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Forest Service in 1997.

Immediately following the Oso mudslide disaster, the Gold Bar Reporter contacted Miller asking him ” if John E. Pennington’s email showed that he ( Pennington) approved building on the Oso mudslide area, do you think he should be charged with negligent homicide?   He said ” if you have that kind of email, then Jay Inslee should order an outside agency to investigate John Pennington’s background.”  We said ” we already did… and Snohomish County was aware that John Pennington had falsified his academic  credentials and had countless abuse charges filed against him for criminal harassment and beating women. ” Miller’s voice crackled, and he sounded scared or tearful and hung up.

Obviously, Pierce College ( Tacoma) is a public agency subject to RCW 42.56, the Public Records Act.  Too bad, John Pennington’s conduct is subject to public scrutiny.

Perhaps Pennington’s next job will actually require working, preferably in private industry, so several investigative reporters and I can sleep at night.  Our children are  worthy of our efforts to protect their future to be educated by people who have real college degrees.

Once the Department of Education issues its findings in this matter, it will be posted.  Fraud like this harms all of us, and dummies down the U.S. educational system and will not go unchecked by the Gold Bar Reporter.

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For those of my readers who haven’t read my last articles on John Pennington’s criminal history, please see below.  The Gold Bar Reporter has NEVER been sued but welcome a suit. 

 

John Pennington, terminated for Snohomish County

 

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From FEMA to Snohomish County Washington and now to Pierce College ( Tacoma Washington diploma mill), dark  secrets unearthed. Gold Bar Reporters were the first to report on John E. Pennington’s criminal conduct, a small portion of our report is outlined below

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MEET JOHN ‘ THEODORE TED BUNDY” PENNINGTON

John Pennington was a troubled youth who, according to one source “had a major drug problem by the age of 16.”  So it’s no surprise that in the late 1980’s, after being kicked out of Vanderbilt College in Tennessee after raping a female college student, John Pennington moved to a small suburban city just outside of San Diego California.

While in the San Diego area,  John Pennington meets his new victim, who believe he legally married, so are calling her ex-wife # 1, Carla M.

Two years later, John Pennington fled from Southern California, again heading home to Nashville, only after two small boys made allegations of sexual abuse against him while on a church camping trip.

While in Tennessee, John Pennington made an unsuccessful run for an open State Rep. seat.  After a landslide loss for Pennington, he again headed west. This time to Oregon where Pennington meets his next victim.

Mr. Pennington plead guilty to criminal assault 1 and harassment  ( His ex filed suit for damages Washington County Case # D911027SC) after he hospitalized his fiancé in Oregon and stole items from the community.

As a result, John Pennington fled from Oregon to Vancouver Washington. While in Vancouver Washington, John Pennington meets his next victim. Sadly, they soon married.

While working in a coffee delivery business, John Pennington stole coffee grinding equipment from his previous employer and used this equipment to start-up a coffee shop in Kelso. Purpose was to make it look like he was an entrepreneur ( but he is really a sociopath) as to grab an uncontested Republican seat in Cowlitz County.

It worked, the uneducated college dropout John Pennington managed to get elected to an uncontested WA House of Representatives seat. Unfortunately for residents in New Orleans and Oso Washington, he met a powerful Washington State Republican leader, Jennifer Dunn.

In 1992, a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and then tossed along a Cowlitz County road like a piece of trash.  We sent our private investigators to Cowlitz County to talk with the lead Detective who confirmed the following facts:

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 after being raped; (2) he drove the same car; (3) he was in the area at the time of the child rape and could not explain his whereabouts; (4)  his picture from 1992 is a complete match to the child and witness sketch drawing of the pedophile; (5) he relentlessly convinced his ex-wife to call the police attempting to divert attention away from himself and onto another man; and ( 6) He has continuous and countless charges of child and spousal abuse, a man who cannot keep his hands to himself.

Below is the press release as it relates to John E. Pennington’s rape of a 5 year old girl from Cowlitz County Washington

 

Unfortunately for the 5 year child, John Pennington meets a Kelso Washington city attorney named Michael Kenyon.

According to John Pennington’s divorce files he is also an abuser of prescription pills, and was detained at the US Mexico  for having narcotics ( non-prescription pain pills) on his person while coming back into the US. Pennington has never denied this allegation.

In 1995, John Pennington was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to over throwing 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.”

From 1992 to 2005, John Pennington’s violence grew with his ex-wife. # 2, Valerie. From pushing her down a flight of stairs as well as constant physical harassment,  John Pennington never learned to keep his hands to himself.

But the case that raised our eyebrows is Mr. Pennington’s abuse on his ex-wife # 2 ( who is really ex-wife # 3) Anne Laughlin. Ms. Laughlin was a City of Duvall city council member at the time of Pennington’s assault of Anne. Anne was three weeks away from giving birth to her daughter when Pennington violently assaulted, kicked and punched Anne in the stomach and uterus. A real salt of the earth kind of man.

Since Ms. Laughlin was a Duvall city council member at the time, the City of Duvall sought a Special Prosecutor. The prosecutor assigned to prosecute wife beater John Pennington came from the law firm where Pennington’s buddy Michael Kenyon was employed.

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

A close review of John Pennington’s Snohomish County travel records warrant a closer look into missing children in Washington, Alaska, Maryland.  Public monies allowed us to review his credit card receipts, telephone records, etc. information that another blogger turned over to authorities.

Any grown man that takes a shower with a six year old little girl is a pedophile.

In 2011, Kenyon Disend’s junior attorney, Ann Marie Soto, received an email from John Pennington via Snohomish County computers demanding that Kenyon Disend redact police reports involving John Pennington criminal harassment and assault that we requested under RCW 42.56.   There’s only one problem, at the time Pennington was communicating with Kenyon Disend’s attorney, he was not a City of Duvall employee thus no attorney client relationship existed.

We sought the advice of an expert in records issues who is of the opinion that Kenyon Disend’s redaction of police reports was not permissible under the Public Records Act.

Then a source close to ex # 2 ( or # 3 depending on what public records you believe as it relates to Pennington’s aliases) provided us with thousands of records relating to John Pennington, and those records included Pennington’s email communication with Duvall’s Mayor about how to get Pennington’s soon to be ex-wife Anne Laughlin off the City Council.

In 2009, Pennington then used Aaron Reardon’s connection to the Seattle Times reporter ( who then became Reardon’s aide) to post a story about Anne Laughlin, pretty much the same way he did to Gold Bar Reporters in February 2012. Former Seattle Times reporter Emily Heffner was contacted for comment but all she would say is ” you need to move because they are coming after you.” She never did state who “they” were, but as we stated to Ms. Heffner before, “We have only one live to give and it shall be for the betterment of our society as a whole.”

As of today, Attorney Michael Kenyon and Ann Marie Soto have bilked the taxpayers of Gold Bar over $1,350,000.00 hidng former Mayor Crystal Hill’s public records ( emails) documenting that she was practicing law without a license, and had lied on her F 1 form stating that she had never pled guilty to fraud when in fact she had plead guilty twice, one in 2000 in North Carolina and a second time in Snohomish County Washington; and John Pennington making racist comments about President Obama and running illegal ACCESS background checks in violation of RCW 10.97.

Both Penningtons are being sued for gross 1983 and RICO charges with depositions expected to start early next year.

The bigger question that Michael Kenyon refused to answer was what he gained for quashing John Pennington’s criminal charges for beating up his pregnant wife Anne, hiding John Pennington’s racist comments and his illegal background checks.

According to former Mayor Joe Beavers, John Pennington and Aaron Reardon “fixed” cases in Snohomish County Superior Court.

As a result of our six-year investigation, we are confident to report that attorney Michael Kenyon assisted John Pennington is committing felonies. Attorney Michael Kenyon and John Pennington will be sharing a prison cell together and we intend to make that happen even it takes me another 30 years, and I will continue to request access to public records and file suits against any agency that renders assistance to a pedophile and wife beater.

Our request for access to public records regarding this issue has already started.  The public, especially Pierce College students, have a legal right to know why Pierce College Board of Trustees would hire a child rapist and wife beater.

 

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What John Pennington was trying to hide for so many years, his prior conviction for criminal harassment ( assault of an ex-fiancé in Oregon) as noted in the following public records as “ prior conviction”

In 2000, John Pennington was George Bush Jr’s campaign manager here in Washington State.  Soon after George Bush Jr. was elected ( or stole the election with his brother’s assistance depending what you believe), George Jr. appointed John E Pennington and Michael Browne to positions inside FEMA. Sadly for America, not one FEMA Director was qualified for such positions.

As a result of Michael Browne and John Pennington’s inability to read, write and think effectively caused thousands of minority deaths in Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina was an eye opener for those of us who actually earned accredited degrees and whose parents taught us to think critically. George W Bush Jr.’s decision to appoint friends instead of educated and skilled people resulted in massive human loss of life In New Orleans.

Had this story ended in New Orleans, we wouldn’t be exposing John E.Pennington today. But it didn’t, why is simple, because Washington State Senator Jennifer Dunn decided to use her political clout to appoint an uneducated bum to FEMA Region 10 ( Pacific Northwest).

What is even crazier is that George W Bush made an executive appointment without ever running a single background check on John Pennington prior to appointing him.

All that changed when America started calling for Michael Brownie’s head for causing  so many deaths in New Orleans. Perhaps Michael Browne might have survived press scrutiny had he not put in his email that was heading to Nordstroms to purchase new clothes for the cameras, while at the same time thousands of African Americans were floating down the street or in lock down inside an unsafe convention center.

African Americans were drowning in the streets of New Orleans, because FEMA Directors lacked basic college skills to handle such a disaster. In the case of Michael Browne, an unaccredited undergraduate degree as well as unaccredited law school diploma. In the case of John Pennington, an online diploma mill degree from an online school the U.S. Dept of Education said sold online diplomas at a flat rate, California Coastal College.

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Hurricane Katrina, good bye Brownie, Hello Penny

After Michael Browne and Bernard Kerik made a laughing stock out of the George W and America, George Jr was quoted as saying ‘ Penny will make a great director of FEMA.”This was November 2005. But this time, the feds actually ran an extensive background on John Pennington, and discovered what we learned through years of sifting through public records. John Pennington is a dangerous sociopath with real anger management issues; anger he often takes out on women and children.

I never really thought much of George W Bush Jr. other than he’s a spolied little rich kid who never worked for a living. For the same reason, I couldn’t vote for Al Gore in 2000. Thus, I became one of Ralph Nader’s Raiders in 2000.

Fact is that I probably ran into John Pennington at the Republican National Convention that year in Philadelphia. I, and 1,000,000. Americans blocked the entrance to the Republican National Convention Center preventing many of George Jr’s delegates from accessing the convention center that year.

I was a proud member of Massachusettes ACT UP from UMASS, and had traveled all over the U.S. protesting what I believed to be unequal treatment of economically disadvantaged Americans in favor of corporations. I’m a strong believer that America should place “ people over profits.”

Strangely, I always had respect for George Bush Sr. Why is simple: George Sr is a well educated savey free thinker who listens to his opponents. Unlike his son, George Jr. , who was given a little too much growing up without working for it.  Hard work goes along way in molding one’s self esteem.

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In 2005, Michael Browne was blamed for the deaths of thousands, because he was appointed to a position that he wasn’t qualified for.  So when George Jr. had to make a new appointment to FEMA Director, he looked to a devil wrapping himself with pages of the Bible, while at the same time molesting children and violently assaulting a pregnant woman in her third trimester, John E. Pennington.

For those reporting the news in Washington D.C just after George Bush Jr’s FEMA Directors caused so much misery to so many residents and their survivors in New Orleans, Bush Jr. was quoted as saying ” Penny would make a great Director.”

Because the feds didn’t want George Jr. to go through yet another scathing news story like he did when he chose Kerik to head Homeland Security (who ended up being prime suspect in a murder case and had direct ties to organized crime) and Michael Browne and his fake degrees with extensive skills in horse breeding debacles, any appointment would go through extensive background checks prior to Congressional Hearings.

As a result of the feds extensive background check on John Pennington, he was forced to resign from FEMA or be exposed in a very public way. John Pennington lied about his termination from FEMA stating that he and Tamara Doherty were caught misusing the FEMA credit cards.

This was simply a smoke screen to cover up what we just learned from a federal source over Labor Day Weekend.

John Pennington was terminated from FEMA because the feds learned what we reported on over the last seven years; pedophilia deviant uneducated child abuser who has sick fetish for kids, John Pennington. A sociopath who reminds me of Ted Bundy.

Unfortunately for Oso Washington residents,  George W Bush Jr.’s  administration thought it was ok to set him loose on Snohomish County residents just so George Jr didn’t have to suffer public press embarassment again.

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On March 24, 2014, John Pennington caused 43 residents in Oso Washington to suffocate to death in Washington State’s most preventable loss of life natural disaster. Instead of mitigating loss to human life, John Pennington worked on his fraudulent online diploma, operated his personal business on the County’s dime and while using county resources and staff, violently assaulted children and women, and criminally harassed me right from Snohomish County Offices operating an online blog ” The Sky Valley Chronicle.  “  An online blog owned by Aaron Reardon but operated by Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill ( nee Berg who plead guilty to bank fraud in 2005), John Pennington,  and Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers.

I believe John Pennington should be charged with negligent homicide for the 43 people he killed in the Oso mudslides.

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Since John E. Pennington killed 43 Oso residents in the mudslides, we have searched his travel records and beleive he is responsible for missing children in four different states, and have ample evidence to state John Pennington is the man responsbile for the rape of that five year old child from Colwitz County Washington.

Sadly, John Pennington remains on the loose up here in Snohomis County. So long as John Pennington remains on the loose, I will continue to investigate and report on his criminal sexual deviant conduct.

Protecting Our children from a sociopath like John Pennington is worth every sacrifice we’ve made as a result  of shinning much needed sunshine on cockroaches who harm molest and abuse our kids.

Our Children’s mental well being has no price tag.  I agree with Hillary Clinton “ it takes a village to raise children.”

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John Pennington’s trial in the Oso mudslide debacle will be live streamed by the Gold Bar Reporters starting during the fall of 2016.

As for Pierce College hiring a pedophile and wife beater, one can only say that each and everyone of the persons involved in hiring a known pedophile will now be investigated as a result.  Stay tuned, because the way I see it, the only ones who protect pedophiles and wife beaters are ones’ themselves.

 

Perhaps Pierce College needed to hire someone to teach “ How to get away with molesting and raping our kids, fraud, murder, setting up fake online newspapers to criminally harass citizens, not pay Department of Revenue taxes, failing to pay property taxes, raping college students, and beating one’s spouse” also known as Emergency Management 101 at Pierce College it appears.

 

Or perhaps it was John Pennington from an online fraudulent program Senator Tom Harkin called fraudulent on PBS’s “ Education, Inc.”  or California Coastal School that the IRS said sold online diplomas at a flat rate http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/local-fema-chief-had-little-disaster-experience/

BEWARE students especially female students as John E. Pennington was kicked out real colleges for raping a student.

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In September 2015, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe confirmed that John Pennington is the man responsible for the rape of a five year old girl in Cowlitz County., Washington.  An insider who we have labeled as ” fed up” told the Gold Bar Reporter that Mark Roe was convinced by Snohomish County Prosecutors Sean Reay and Sara DI Vittorio ( being sued for racketeering) to hide Pennington’s criminal history to avoid liability.

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Attorney Ann Marie Soto lies to City of Gold Bar’s governing body, entices City of Gold Bar’s governing body to continue to fund legal battle to hide crimes inside public emails

UPDATE:  On February 26, 2018, former Mayor Lee Hodo stated that the only reason he encouraged the City of Gold Bar governing body to approve Keating, Buckling, and McCormack was because Kenyon Disend’s lawyer Ann Marie Soto stated ” Kenyon Disend would like to withdraw from representing the City of Gold Bar.” 

Another lawyer from Kenyon Disend’s lawyers. 

This corrects the historical record that Mayor Lee Hodo was lied to by lawyers who are being sued for racketeering.

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The City of Gold Bar’s Mayor Lee Hodo urged the Gold Bar council to misappropriate public monies to pay two more attorneys, making the grand total number of attorneys representing the City of Gold Bar to five (5).

 

According to Gold Bar’s Mayor Lee Hodo, Shannon Ragonesi and Amanda Butler are  “trial” attorneys. Public records confirm that the two lawyers are being paid $585 per hour ( two lawyers) and the City’s current law firm Kenyon Disend gets paid $750 per hour.

In total, the City of Gold Bar is paying $1235.00 per hour, making September 2016 ‘ s warrant pay out at $125,000.00. The total annual budget for the City of Gold Bar is only $550,000.00.

Council member Ken Ware asked why isn’t Kenyon Disend representing the City, and Mayor Lee Hodo lied stating ” Kenyon Disend are too busy.” Ken Ware then suggested that the City hire a new law firm.

What Mayor Hodo didn’t disclose to the public is: the City is hiding public records at the Kenyon Disend’s office in Issaquah Washington. A felony in Washington State to hide conceal or remove public records from the City.  Hence why the City cannot be represented by Kenyon Disend.  Instead Mayor Lee Hodo lied to residents claiming that Kenyon Disend was too busy.

Earlier this year, the City Council voted to increase Gold Bar’s water rates by 271 % because former Mayors Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington (convicted of bank fraud in 2005, 2000 using two aliases, Berg and Chris Hill) and Linda Loen were stealing from the City’s water fund to fund legal litigation.  A felony in Washington State, amounting to racketeering.

Joe Beavers is being sued for racketeering and gross 1983 violations with trial to start in late 2017.

In August 2012, the City of Gold Bar claimed it was bankrupt and needed residents to pass a new tax levy to fund litigation.  The voters rejected the City’s tax hike, leaving the City to either turn over public records its been hiding or steal from the City’s water fund.

Mayor Lee Hodo, and council members Ken Ware, J Dawson, Davi Martin ( who is also being sued for racketeering after public records confirm she was writing on John and Crystal Hill Pennington’s Sky Valley Chronicle website; a site they set up to criminally harass their opponents), and Brian Diaz chose to continue the stealing Gold Bar residents water funds to hide racketeering crimes.

Joe Beavers said  ” if these records are released the City is gone. I was also threatened by Association of Washington Cities (AWC) that if I turned over the records, AWC would cancel the City’s insurance policy.”

According to the Washington State Auditor, “there’s $200,000.00 missing and not one person can explain where it went.”

In attempt to cover up Mayor Hodo’s misappropriation of public monies,  the City hired disgraced former Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon’s attorneys below.

Not one single Gold Bar council member asked ” why does the city need a trial attorney? Did we commit crimes? Is there someone going to trial, prison, and for what? ”

Mayor Lee Hodo admitted that AWC has rejected the City’s cost in all public records matters, leaving the City to pay $1235.00 per hour to hide criminal racketeering crimes Beavers, Hill, Pennington, Kelly, and Lonn Turner  ( former council member, 2009) disseminated inside email communication.

With more lawsuits expected to be filed by others, Mayor Hodo should hope that the federal government doesn’t find out that the City is stealing public water funds, otherwise the USDA may call in its water tower loan.

With more lawsuits on the way by others, perhaps the City will double the number lawyers in 2017

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UPDATE:  Seattle attorney Shannon Ragonesi sends threatening emails to Gold Bar Reporter after we report that Shannon Ragonesi filed a false instrument with King County Superior Court ORDERING the Gold Bar Reporters not to contact our public officials. Not only does is Ms. Ragonesi committing fraud on the taxpayers of Gold Bar, she is also trying to unilaterally rewrite the First Amendment.

  

Washington State attorneys Amanda Butler ( left) and Shannon Ragonesi

Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S ( Seattle Washington)

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I generally sway away from writing articles on lawyers ( probably because I feel most are just doing their job), until I have concrete evidence of fraud or gross misconduct. Such is the case with Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi.

Amanda Butler, and Shannon Ragonesi are two lawyers who are not only guilty of fraud and gross legal misconduct, but who are also guilty of fleecing the taxpayers of Gold Bar Washington out of thousands of taxpayer dollars.  Both are employees with Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S ( Seattle Washington).

Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi aren’t stealing from the taxpayers with the assistance of the Washington State Bar. My dedicated readers may remember that the Washington State Bar Association publically voted this summer to drop the word “Association” from its name.

Why, because the Washington State Bar Association has been hijacked by criminals like Everett attorney Geoffrey Gibbs ( convicted of fraud in the 1990s, having his lobbying license permanently revoked for stealing client’s money and is now a high ranking member of the Washington State Bar Association)  in attempt to shift millions of dollars of racketeering liability off on the Washington State taxpayers. This after at least six lawsuits for Sherman Anti-Trust and RICO violations were filed in U.S. Federal District Court against the Bar.

With no surprise, Shannon Ragonesi is a former government official who gets enormous financial contracts with Snohomish County as a result ( totaling over $1 Million dollars last year alone), and Ms. Butler well she claims to be a ” senior” attorney who appears to have failed Ethics or simply believes that since her partner Shannon Ragonesi is a personal and dear friend Snohomish County Prosecutor Seth Fine and a former member of the Washington State Bar Association’s Rules Committee thus not accountable to we the people.

In December 2014, the US Supreme Court held in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners Case that the Bar Boards can be held personally liable for Sherman Anti-Trust violations. One reason why the Washington State Bar dropped the word Association, her firm, Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S ( Seattle Washington) reaps the benefits of those “free market participants associations.”

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Gold Bar Washington has been cited for four years for misappropriation of public funds. In the 2013 Special Audit Washington State Auditor wrote ” there’s $200,000.00 missing and not one city employee can state where it went.”

The Gold Bar Reporters know where it went; into the pockets of unethical lawyers like Amanda Butler, Shannon Ragonesi, Michael Kenyon, Margaret King and Ann Marie Soto.  Why, to hide terminated and disgraced Snohomish County’s political appointee John Pennington, and former Gold Bar Mayors Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington (bank fraud, once in Snohomish County 2005, and once in North Carolina using an alias of Chris Hill in 2000) criminal racketeering and HIPPA crimes they disseminated into email communication.

Those of my readers should note that Snohomish County Washington hired Shannon Ragonesi on behalf of disgraced former Executive Aaron Reardon after our investigation lead to Aaron Reardon’s early retirement on tribal land in Southern California. A house Aaron Reardon paid 1/5 of the fair market price for, and an issue the federal government should have an interest in.  Aaron Reardon is being sued for racketeering in US Federal District Court.

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A side note to the FBI. Perhaps a subpoena for former Snohomish County employee Christopher Schwartzen’s emails as it relates to transfer of public land in Marysville Washington from March to May 2011 should be sought ( within a month, Aaron Reardon has a piece of property in Indigo California)?  YES, tit for tat.

If Snohomish County claims it doesn’t exist, please email the Gold Bar Reporter and will do our best to get that to the FBI as soon as possible.

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In late December 2015, Gold Bar Reporter filed a racketeering,  and several civil rights complaints in US Federal Court, Seattle. Instead of recusing himself, Judge Ricardo Martinez as mandated the 9th Circuit, He  did what any unethical and corrupt judge would do, he kept himself on the case because several of his friends at the Washington State Bar Association are defendants. Block v WSBA, et al.

Washington State attorneys Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi from the law firm of Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S entered a notice of appearance on behalf of the City of Gold Bar and its former Mayors Linda Loen, Crystal Hill Pennington, and Joe Beavers. 

Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S also entered a notice of appearance for Snohomish County’s public officials, Jon Rudicil and Aaron Reardon after both were caught committing racketeering offenses as outlined by Snohomish County reporters Scott North and Noah Haglund.

 

Washington State Professional Responsibility. As members of a profession and officers of the court, lawyers are obligated to act in a professional manner, obey the law, avoid conflicts of interest, and to put the interests of clients ahead of their own interests. 

So my readers can assume that since Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi entered notices of appearances on behalf of the City of Gold Bar. As a result, the Gold Bar Reporter requested a copy of any contract with the City of Gold Bar, and the City claims that there is none.

In Washington State Bar Association v. Bradley Marshall, the Washington State Supreme Court held that all agreements must be in writing, clearing stating to the clients all potential and actual conflicts of interests that are foreseeable.

So my readers can imagine that one a Washington State lawyer enters a Notice of Appearance, a contract for legal services must exist. But apparently, attorneys Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi seem to be the exception or simply lack common sense.

This gross unethical breach resulted in a public records request sent to the City of Gold Bar for all records sent or received by any employee from Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S and Crystal Hill Pennington, Linda Loen, Joe Beavers and any Gold Bar contractor or employee over the last year.

Because there was no contract that exist, the so called “senior” counsel from Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S records are now public records subject Washington State’s Public Records Act with more lawsuits expected to be filed in King County ( where the records are actually being concealed, a felony in Washington State) without redaction or exemptions.

Stupid is as stupid does.  One thing is clear, our readers can assume that University of Washington is not teaching common sense and Ethics is not a core requirement. Unless both lawyers failed ethics and somehow managed to escape law school requirement of at least a Grade Point Average of at least a 3.0 in every class to obtain a Juris Doctorate.

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I’d like for our readers to know that Shannon Ragonesi’s bio on the website of Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S states the following:

Shareholder

Shannon is a shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of KBM. Her law practice encompasses civil rights litigation, employment litigation, labor law, school law, public records act litigation, and wrongful death and personal injury defense. She represents governmental agencies, schools, fire districts, police agencies, and their employees; as well as private corporations and citizens. Shannon has represented her clients in over 60 jury and bench trials in federal and state courts and labor arbitrations. She has also expertly represented her clients before the Washington state Court of Appeals and Supreme Court as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a further, integral part of her law practice, Shannon investigates potential claims and provides guidance to her clients on litigation avoidance strategies.

Prior to joining Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S., Shannon was a Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corp where she served for over five years as a Senior Prosecuting Attorney, a Senior Torts Attorney, Chief of Military Justice, and a Military Magistrate.

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Ms. Amanda Buter’s bio states from Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S website states:

Amanda is a Senior Associate with Keating Bucklin & McCormack, Inc. P.S. Her practice involves all aspects of municipal and school defense litigation, including employment and labor law, law enforcement/civil rights, premises liability, personal injury, and land use.  She is also an expert in litigation avoidance strategies in order to best serve her clients.

Amanda successfully represents her clients in Washington State Superior Courts, the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Prior to joining Keating Bucklin & McCormack, Amanda served as a law clerk for the Complex Litigation Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. She graduated cum laude from Seattle University School of Law and obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington.

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After the Gold Bar Reporter requested a copy of any contract with the City of Gold Bar from Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S and/or its attorneys Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi, the City of Gold Bar did what its be doing for years, covering up its criminal racketeering conduct by trying to get council approval at the next Gold Bar council meeting.

For the City of Gold Bar taxpayers, this gets even worse since Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi claim to have expended over $100,000.00 without a single contract, and they’ve already filed legal papers falsely certifying to several courts. This conduct amounts to fraud upon the courts.

But wait, the City of Gold Bar claimed in Block v WSBA et al that its had thousands of dollars of legal fees with Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S and Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi. Can legal fees be accessed without a fee agreement or contract?

Sadly, Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi already filed notices in two cases claiming to the attorneys for Gold Bar, and even managed to get fees, falsely certifying that they had a fee agreement, thus a contract.

The Washington State Auditor’s said ” the city cannot engage a law firm without a contact and must place bid notices beforehand.”

A lawsuit against Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S and Amanda Butler and Shannon Ragonesi will be filed for fraud, Consumer Protection  etc.

Perhaps the University of Washington and Seattle University  Law Schools should have a special legal education class for lawyers titled ” Common Sense, 101″ because at least two of its “senior” lawyers failed or missed common sense and ethics classes.

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can 

change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Arthur West does Gold Bar

Long time open government supporter and activist Arthur West has filed suit against the City of Gold Bar, after Snohomish County Superior Court held in Block v Gold Bar that the City violated Our Court’s holding in Hobbs v State Auditor, 183 Wn.App. 925 (2014).

The City’s public records officer is Joe Beavers, Gold Bar’s former Mayor who has misappropriated over $1,000,000.00 hiding computer crimes, amounting to Racketeering, involving Gold Bar’s former Mayor Crystal Hill ( nee Berg, convicted of bank fraud in 2005) and disgraced former Director John E. Pennington ( man responsible for causing 43 people in the Oso Washington mudslides to suffocate to death and the rape of a 5 year old girl from Cowlitz County).

In Hobbs, Our Court held that an agency must give a reasonable estimate of time. The agency’s estimate must clearly must state when the records requested are expected to be released, but once it fails to do so, it’s deemed to be an automatic violation of RCW 42.56.  See Hobbs v State Auditor.

Since 2010, the City of Gold Bar, mainly Joe Beavers, has been refusing to provide a timely estimate, but instead simply places hundreds of records requests on the City’s priority log without a specific date in violation of Hobbs, refusing to answer requests for over five years in many cases.

As just one example of just how blatant the City’s disregard for the Public Records Act ( PRA) has become, in 2014 I requested a copy of the City’s Budget from former Mayor Linda Loen, a simple records request that still remains outstanding as of today.

In several instances, the Gold Bar Reporters caught Beavers and the former clerk, Laura Kelly (who was fired for theft of public funds), answering public records requests for friends, including former Mayor Crystal Hill and Sky Valley Chronicle owner Ron Fejfar, without ever being placed on the City’s priority log.

Joe Beavers ( former financial officer who bankrupted an engineering firm in Clinton Connecticut, 2001, forcing his early retirement), Crystal Hill ( Nee Berg, convicted of bank fraud 2005),  Linda Eide at the Washington State Bar Association ( caught destroying and altering evidence in attorney Robert Grundstien’s case), attorneys Margaret King and Michael Kenyon, and Sky Valley Chronicle owner Ron Fejfar are being sued under RICO with depositions expected to start early in 2017.

In March 2014, Arthur West was given Washington Coalition for Open Government Key Award for his continuous and outstanding contributions in advancing open government issues here in Washington State.

On March 11, 2014, Snohomish County Court held in Block v Gold Bar, that the City of Gold Bar had violated RCW 42.56, when it refused to provide records to me for over five years.

The City’s trouble have just begun as the City has ten additional requests in the same boat – over five years old- and continues to thumb its nose at the Public Records Act (PRA) by refusing to provide a estimate as to when the City intends to answer records requests. This violates our Court’s holding in Hobbs.

As of today in Block v Gold Bar, the City has withheld over 330 emails for over 2000 days, and recently turned over records with metadata dating back to May 2010 ( in the same year the records were actually requested).  Metadata is to electronic records as DNA is to unlocking human existence; it tells us when the records were created and who created them.

One can only speculate as to why the City refused to provide records it had readily had available in its possession for over five years.  Stupid is a stupid does, but one resident said  “ I saw Joe Beavers at the doctor’s office, a doctor that treats dementia related diseases.”

Lately, pictures of Joe Beavers illustrates just how mentally unfit he is.  One open government supporter said  “ he smells and looks like a homeless man.”

Snohomish County Superior Court held in March that the City violated the PRA, thus I am entitled to costs, and other fees associated with suit, including attorney fees at $220 per hours plus a per day penalty of up to $105 per day for each of the 330 plus emails withheld.
The Gold Bar Reporters commend Arthur West for shinning much needed sunlight on the cockroaches from Gold Bar who are spitting on open government concepts I view more valuable than life itself.

I also thank Joe Beavers for posting defamatory articles on the Sky Valley Chronicle as I believe this gave rise to Mr. West’s interest in the cockroaches who have ruining Gold Bar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2016, Our Court also held that each page of unlawfully withheld records calls for a per day penalty for each record withheld. In my case, Beavers unlawfully withheld public records relating to WSBA complaints he ordered former Gold Bar clerk Penny Brenton to write, misusing City staff and resources, thus making each complaint subject to the PRA.

 

Penalty for improperly withholding public record can be calculated on a per page basis.

See Wade’s Eastside Gun Shop v. Department of Labor and Industries, ___ Wn.2d ___ (3/24/2016) – When the Department of Labor and Industries failed to provide certain records of an investigation (which the court determined were not exempt) a penalty was imposed calculated according to the number of pages found in each document. On appeal, the supreme court upheld the trial court’s decision, noting that the trial court has discretion to determine what is a relevant record, and it did not abuse that discretion by imposing penalties on a per page basis. The court also held that the records were not categorically exempt as investigative records since the Department of Labor and Industries did not prove that withholding them was essential to effective law enforcement.

Local Gold Bar resident “threatens” Gold Bar Reporter on Facebook

A Facebook user named Cheryl Peterson Miller posted a message on Facebook early yesterday ( March 30, 2016) afternoon  basically asking if the Gold Bar Reporter was the one who was bankrupting the City.   A minority opinion, since almost everyone on the City’s Facebook page is displeased with local Gold Bar public officials.

Ms. Peterson Miller’s post triggered a response from me stating “ I don’t write the checks nor approve the warrants. I’d prefer to have the records. ”

Ms. Peterson Miller then made threats to harm me and my property ( cars) if I don’t stop, presumably asking for public records. Extortionist threats in my opinion.

Ms. Peterson Miller is a prime example of the hillbilly attitude that has contributed to the City’s financial problems. The hillbilly approach of “ threats’ to harm people.  Perhaps  those may work well when you’re dealing with uneducated people, but I earned a doctorate ( and not some online fraudulent diploma), and most of the people that align myself with are educated because they  research and read before making comments.

I cannot think of a single friend of mine who would make a threat to a person’s life and property. . . “birds of  the same feathers flock together as do pigs and swine…”

If  “we the people” aren’t providing the checks and balances to government by asking questions, requesting records, etc. then there’s no oversight. Without oversight, America is no better than Saudi Arabia, Iran, or China.

Basic political science principles, well written inside our Declaration of Independence “ we the people…” unless you live in Snohomish County.

I moved to Gold Bar because I love kayaking, whitewater rafting, hiking, and mountain biking, and I thought Gold Bar was a place of peace and solitude.  Boy was I dead wrong.

City Hall in Gold Bar should read “If you enjoy having your life threatened, dead rats left on your front door step, having public officials steal city monies with no oversight, Mayors who abuse our kids, racketeering, pedophiles, and arsenic in your water,  then Gold Bar, located in Snohomish County, is the place for You.”

Since I moved to Gold Bar, I’ve had Gold Bar’s Mayors Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, convicted of bank fraud 2005), Joe Beavers and former Director of Emergency Management John E. Pennington ( who with no surprise is the man responsible for the rape of a five year old girl and caused forty three people to suffocate to death in the Oso mudslides) threaten my life and extort my property.

When I complained to Gold Bar’s Sheriff’s Officer Deputy Casey he said  “its a civil matter”, but when Crystal Hill and Joe Beavers complained about my journalist approach to reporting the news, Deputy Casey, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe and a pedophile ( and thankfully terminated) former Snohomish County employee John E. Pennington misused county resources attempting to have me charged with “cyber-stalking.”

Opps, then along came the First Amendment, and two Judges dismissed their latest conspiracy to have me charged with a crime citing “prior restraint on free speech.”

Now, I can understand a non-lawyer not understanding that First Amendment protected activity can never be a crime ( since we don’t live in China or Saudi Arabia) with out threats, but Mark Roe, a lawyer, knew better, hence why he is going to be Recalled, and of equal value, one reason he is being sued in U.S. Federal District Court for racketeering and gross 1983 violations.

I believe Ms. Cheryl Peterson Miller’s threats to me and my property are real.  She even bragged that Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office would do nothing since it was me she threatened.

Soon after posting her threats, Ms. Peterson Miller “deleted” her posts on Facebook.  However, what she may not know is a subpoena can be obtained and  Facebook will have to turn over those posts.

I may chose to pursue criminal complaints against Ms. Peterson Miller using Washington State Court Rules.  I post this entry because I believe Ms. Peterson Miller’s most recent threats to harm me and my property were actions taken on behalf of the racketeering Enterprise, and I may add her to my racketeering suit.

Welcome to Snohomish County Washington, where the criminals are running the local government, and our voters are inept followers of those same criminals.

You may not like my articles, but my constitutional rights are not for sale nor subject to your censorship.  America is great because of the First Amendment.

 

 

 

 

“Mark Roe, needs to go””

 

I made a decision to Recall Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe after a lawyer told me that Mark Roe is funding the Sky Valley Chronicle and its agent Ron Fejfar and former Mayors Joe Beavers and Linda Loen ( both resigned after public records implicated them in a racketeering complaint filed in US Federal District Court against both) in a federal racketeering suit I filed.

From public records, we know the following:

The Sky Valley Chronicle was started by a former Seattle Times reporter named Chris Schwartzen as a political action committee ( without registering it as such) on behalf of former Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon.

In July 2012, Governor Jay Inslee gave the Gold Bar Reporter a hand full of personal files on Executive Aaron Reardon extra-marital affairs with two women, Deanna Dawson,   Executive Director of the Sound Cities Association (formerly Suburban Cities Association), and Snohomish County Whistleblower Tamara Dutton.  The biggest problem for Reardon, he used taxpayer monies to fund his affairs, including, but not limited to, hotels rooms, porno movies, and sex toys.

Deanna Dawson accompanied Aaron Reardon to Paris, and Dutton accompanied him to Chicago.  Where his wife fit into this equation, one can only speculate, but when’s a pig always a pig.

When Aaron Reardon’s little racketeering gang in Snohomish County got caught by us, and then reported on by the Herald, Reardon was forced to resign, but not before the County Council transferred convicted criminal Kevin Thomas Hulten, Chris Schwartzen and Aaron Reardon’s computers to King County Major Crimes Unit.

see http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130214/NEWS01/702149999

Kevin Thomas Hulten ( now married to a California attorney named Krystal Tate Hulten), plead guilty to criminal evidence tampering in Block v Sno County  et al and served time for his crimes.  But the most important fact that came from the King County Major Crimes Unit’s investigation of Snohomish County Racketeering group was the Major Crimes Unit documented that Kevin Hulten was posting on an anonymous website titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle.” A website where none of the “bloggers” post their names.

A website according to Gold Bar’s former Mayor Linda Loen with its clear purpose to ” harass, defame and discredit Anne Block.”

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What I also learned from Gold Bar’s public records was that Joe Beavers was also allowed to post, using government resources and staff to support the Political Action Committee ( Sky Valley Chronicle PAC).

After receiving enough evidence to prosecute the Sky Valley Chronicle for racketeering, I filed suit against Ron Fejfar and the Sky Valley Chronicle in US Federal Court, Seattle.

But that’s not the orgasmic part of this story. A source told me that Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe had known for years that John Pennington owned the Sky Valley Chronicle and used Ron Fejfar as the front man to cover up his criminal harassment, using the Sky Valley Chronicle PAC.

Mark Roe is misappropriating public monies funding the Sky Valley Chronicle to fight a racketeering suit filed against Ron Fejfar ( and soon to be his wife Virginia, after she took a predicate act on behalf of the Enterprise late last week), and the Sky Valley Chronicle. Washington State’s Constitution prohibits such use of our money.

Furthermore, our source also stated that Mark Roe is also funding Gold Bar’s Mayor Linda Loen and Joe Beavers via Michael Kenyon and Bruce Disend ( Kenyon Disend, linked to Racketeering crimes and shady land deals all over Washington State).

For these reasons, as well as the malicious prosecution of Lori Shavlik ( below) Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe will be Recalled, regardless of how long its takes, Mark Roe will be joining pedophile and former Snohomish County political appointee John E. Pennington in the unemployment line, and then, even it takes me twenty more years, inside Walla Walla.

 

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On February 27, 2016, I published the following story about corrupt Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe.

The Dishonorable Mark Roe

Mark Roe, Snohomish County Prosecutor

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This past week, I’ve been covering a Snohomish County prosecution for arson in the 1st decree against Lori Shavlik.  But this wasn’t the first prosecution of Ms. Shavlik,  it’s Snohomish County Prosecutor’s second run. The first trial resulted in hung jury, with jurors stating “ the State failed to prove its case.”

While pedophiles are walking free, and baby killers are released because Mark Roe failed to file simple papers ( http://snocoreporter.com/3-month-old-babys-killers-walk-free-for-now/,) Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe and his political racketeering gangsters from the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office are maliciously prosecuting – for the second time- a forty-five year old mother of five for Arson I.

As of today, millions of taxpayer dollars have been misspent over a fire that started  behind a dryer unit at Ms. Shavlik’s place of business – a tanning salon- and while she’s embattled in a contract /lease dispute with the building’s owner who just happens to be a personal and dear friend to the lead investigator who is also the Fire Chief, and a former City of Snohomish Brady Cop David Fontenot ( exposed and terminated from another county for stealing, harassing women in the workplace, and lying on search warrants, etc).

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Public emails from Snohomish County Washington document that while Krystal Tate Hulten was a law clerk in Snohomish County Washington, for Judge Downes, she engaged in illegal exparte contact with a Prosecutor prior to trial basically saying I hope you strip parental rights away from a mother accused of abuse.

Ms. Tate Hulten is a lovely attorney.

Kevin and Krystal Tate Hulten’s activities in Snohomish County document gross civil rights and racketeering activity.

The Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued for defamation and we stand by articles.

Sky Valley Chronicle publishes intentionally false articles

The Sky Valley Chronicle is being sued for racketeering  and for defamation in United States Federal District County by the Snohomish County Reporter, Brandia, and myself, the Gold Bar Reporter.

In February 2013, after Kevin Thomas Hulten ( now residing in Los Gatos California with his wife and California attorney Krystal Tate Hulten) was caught via public records criminal harassing Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block, the Snohomish County Council requested criminal assistance from King County’s major crimes unit in the investigation of Aaron Reardon’s criminal racketeering gang from Snohomish County.

Once we learned that King County’s Major Crimes Unit had Snohomish County’s hard drives, we took advantage of one simple RCW 42.56 provision that mandates that an agency must searched all records where the files actually are. In this case, King County.

With this request, We were able to retrieve a complete copy of Kevin Thomas Hulten’s computer. In his files, it was clear that Kevin Thomas Hulten was posting articles on the Sky Valley Chronicle as was former Seattle Times reporter Christopher Schwartzen ( now hiding out in Altamonte Springs Florida), and Brian Perry.

As result of Kevin Thomas Hulten’s hard drive, we have enough evidence to affirmatively state that John Pennington, former Snohomish County’s Director of Emergency Management ( fired after he caused 43 people to suffocate to death on March 24, 2014 in the Oso mudslides) and his “Boob Flashing Wife” ( http://www.seattleweekly.com/2013-01-16/news/gold-bar-s-mountain-meltdown/ ) and Crystal Hill Pennington ( convicted of bank fraud in 2005, using an alias, Crystal Berg), using a front man named Ronald Fejfar( who also uses various aliases of Ron Fabour, Ron Favour, Chet Rodgers former radio show host from 1970s), are the actual anonymous bloggers on the Sky Valley Chronicle.

The above defendants are being sued for Racketeering in U.S. Federal District Court with all cases pending as today (3/12/2016), and with more people intervening, it’s unlikely that these cases will go away anytime soon.

As our readers can imagine, we weren’t surprised to learn that Gold Bar’s Mayor Linda Loen abruptly resigned yesterday only after the City lost a public records case totaling over $30,000 in attorney fees and over at least $200,000 in penalities. With more lawsuit comings, it’s likely to total over $ 1,000,000.00 or more after Joe Beavers and Gold Bar’s former clerk Penny Brenton are deposed next month.

According to Brenton, Beavers ordered her to misappropriate public resource to write Bar complaints. An issue the City is being sued for in US Federal Court.

And poor little Crystal Hill Pennington, we hear, is getting her 3rd divorce, and she hasn’t even reached forty years of age yet. But from an October 30, 2015, Gold Bar Reporter U Tube video, she looks ten years older than anyone of us-  and from the video she looks like a battered woman.

But hey, “birds of the same feathers flock together as do pigs and swine….”  Just look at who she married, John E. Pennington.

Poor Ronald Fejfar, he willingly step into the biggest pile of shit thinking he would get political favors from uneducated bums like Aaron Reardon,  John Pennington, Crystal Hill and Chris Schwartzen, but instead he’s being sued for Racketeering and defamation with more lawsuits on the way in state court.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Beavers “brags” the fix was in with Washington State Supreme Court

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Frederick Douglass:

“Power and those in control concede nothing … without a demand. They never have and they never will. …each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and must speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there can be no peace.”

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The bleeding continues for Gold Bar, after a whistleblower tells us that Washington State Supreme Court covered up emails involving illegal dissemination a WSBA member’s files and illegal background checks.

More public records suits for Gold Bar.

 

 

Linda Loen and Joe Beavers scheme amounting to Racketeering exposed , and council member Tom Palmer resigns

UPDATE: COUNCIL MEMBER TOM PALMER RESIGNS.

CAN WE ASSUME LINDA LOEN RESIGNED TOO?

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Above, former Mayors Crystal Hill Pennington (convicted of bank fraud 2005), former Mayor Joe Beavers, guilty of misappropriation of public monies over $1,000,000.00, and Mayor elect Linda Loen ( who resigned in late 2014)

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Yesterday at the Washington Coalition for Open Government meeting former Mayor Joe Beavers stood up in a public meeting, while video cameras were rolling, stating

“  I am the Mayor of Gold Bar and I’ve been accused of wrongdoing…”

But wait, Joe Beavers is not the Mayor of Gold Bar, or is he? In late 2014, we received a tip from a Gold Bar council member stating  “ Linda Loen got into a verbal shouting match with Dorothy Croshaw and former Mayor Joe Beavers inside City Hall, because Linda Loen expressed a concern that she may be held liable for racketeering or a felony for concealing public records for misappropriation of public funds.”

The source stated  “Linda started crying and stormed out of City Hall and said I resign.”

Later that same night, I saw former Mayors Crystal Hill Pennington ( convicted of bank fraud in 2005 using an last name alias of Berg) and Joe Beavers cars leaving Linda Loen home in the area of Creekside area of Gold Bar, Washington.  In fact, Crystal Hill Pennington drove down my street ( dead end) and turned around in front of my house. What she didn’t know was that I was in my car. Once I realized it was Crystal Hill’s car, I took out my iPhone and snapped of picture of her stalking me at my house.

I saved that picture because Crystal Hill Pennington is being sued for Racketeering.

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A copy of the Racketeering Complaint explaining the criminals conduct is nicely stated in the RICO suit filed in US Fed Court. Click below

See  http://twitdoc.com/view.asp?id=240270&sid=55E6&ext=PDF&lcl=block-v-WSBA-RICO.pdf&usr=SkyValleyNews&doc=294503385&key=key-GqDGvN4pGjxOWy5LnziT

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Within one week, an anonymous source contacted the Gold Bar Reporter stating  “Linda cut a deal in exchange for job to stay on. Linda Loen agreed to stay and former Mayor Joe Beavers would sit inside City Hall as the acting Mayor.”

At the end of 2014, Gold Bar’s Mayor Linda Loen became a figurehead Mayor, and in my opinion, if the above is true, Linda Loen, Joe Beavers and Crystal Hill Pennington ( bank frauder) are guilty of criminal racketeering.

Thwarting the democratic rights of the voters is according to my lawyers racketeering, and if Linda Loen did receive a job in exchange for withdrawing her resignation, she is also guilty of bribery, and my lawyers tell me that this is a predicate act in violation of RICO.

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For those of my readers that are not familiar with Racketeering, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

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So why would Linda Loen do what she did?  It’s simple: she was unemployed, a heavy pot smoker, and frankly, I don’t say things like this very much, but she isn’t the brightest crayon in the box. Probably because of killing off her brain cells from over use of marijuana. Sad but true.

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Last night after hearing that former Mayor Joe Beavers stood up inside an open public meeting  “declaring” himself to be the Mayor of Gold Bar, I received the following letter from a concerned Gold Bar resident. This letter was written in response to Joe Beavers being notified that he and the Sky Valley Chronicle are being sued for Racketeering in U.S. Federal Court.

From Snohomish County’s public records, we also know that Aaron Reardon and Senator Steve Hobbs’s  “little RICO gang” which includes Kevin “Shorty” Thomas Hulten, Joe Beavers ( who public records link him to several in person meetings with Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers, Brian Perry and former Seattle Times Reporter Christopher Schwartzen were also posting articles on the Chronicle. Many of these articles threatened attorneys lives and property.

Why is simple: to control the political message. A clear Racketeering complaint.

The above was documented in public records received from the King County Major Crimes Unit’s investigation of Kevin Thomas Hulten investigation.

 

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Yesterday, just after former Mayor Joe Beavers stood up inside a public meeting declaring himself to  “Mayor of Gold Bar” we received a public email to Joe Beavers most recent public posting on his blog spot ( that strangely after he is notified that he’s being sued for racketeering, he starts signing his name after 8 years of hiding his postings which include threats to harm persons and their property interests), Beavers writes this letter to a former Gold Bar council member who is a supporter of open government.  See below

This letter was posted on Aaron Reardon and John E. Pennington’s Sky Valley Chronicle website. A site that up until two days ago, no one signs their names to, until Beavers, Crystal  “Bank Frauding ”  Hill Pennington and former disgraced uneducated political appointee John E.  Pennington ( fired after he caused 43 people to suffocate to death in Washington State’s most preventable natural disaster loss of human life, the Oso mudslide disaster)”

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From: Joe Beavers <joe.beavers@outlook.com> Cc: “dave.somers@co.snohomish.wa.us” <dave.somers@co.snohomish.wa.us>; “PRoberts@everettwa.gov” <PRoberts@everettwa.gov>; “peterk@awcnet.org” <peterk@awcnet.org>; “skyvalleychamber@verizon.net” <skyvalleychamber@verizon.net>; “frank.chopp@leg.wa.gov” <frank.chopp@leg.wa.gov>; “l.hodo@cityofgoldbar.us” <l.hodo@cityofgoldbar.us>; “l.loen@cityofgoldbar.us” <l.loen@cityofgoldbar.us>; “d.martin@cityofgoldbar.us” <d.martin@cityofgoldbar.us>; “sharon.nelson@leg.wa.gov” <sharon.nelson@leg.wa.gov>; “econklin@seattleweekly.com” <econklin@seattleweekly.com>; “eporter@kirotv.com” <eporter@kirotv.com> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 7:34 AM Subject: Emails of Lie’s – Part II

 

http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/FEATURE-NEWS/THE-WASHINGTON-STATE-PUBLIC-RECORDS-ACT-b-Legally-looting-the-pockets-of-taxpayers-2383902

THE WASHINGTON STATE<br> PUBLIC RECORDS ACT<br>Legally loots the pockets<br> of taxpayers | FEATURE NEWS | Sky Valley Chronicle Washington State News www.skyvalleychronicle.com By Joe Beavers Exclusive to the Chronicle (GOLD BAR, WA.) — Let’s be very honest about what’s what here. The current version of the Washington State Public Records Act (PRA) a/k/a/ RCW 42.56 wastes local tax dollars.

Mr. Lie had commented about my actions below.  So, above is a suggestion on how to hightly mitigate them. Joe Beavers

Gold Bar WA

 

 For more information, got to: http://www.personalrevengeact.com/   (last updated January 18)

 

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Response from the concerned Gold Bar citizen in response to Joe Beavers’s Little RICO activity on the Sky Valley Chronicle: 

To: Christine Hendrickson Cc: dave.somers@co.snohomish.wa.us; PRoberts@everettwa.gov; peterk@awcnet.org; skyvalleychamber@verizon.net; frank.chopp@leg.wa.gov; l.hodo@cityofgoldbar.us; sharon.nelson@leg.wa.gov; econklin@seattleweekly.com; eporter@kirotv.com; Kirk Pearson; Rep. Dan Kristiansen; Amy Nile; Elizabeth Scott; Laura Myers; Toby Nixon; Anne K. Block; Kendall Wallace Subject: Re: Emails of Lie’s – Part II

 ( Keep in mind that Joe Beavers physically threatened this former Gold Bar council and former Gold Bar Chief Robert Martin witnessed Joe Beavers threats to harm. As a result Martin resigned from Gold Bar because Sno County Sheriff John Lovick and Kevin Prentiss ordered Martin not to report the crimes)

I am unable to respond directly to former Mayor Beavers.  Indeed I will not knowingly enter a room where former Mayor Beavers is present.  I apologize to those on the cc list that are new to this thread, you all have some knowledge of the history of the issue so you should be able to follow the narrative..   As you ponder his plea for readership of his website, I think it is time to summarize a few facts   1)    Former Mayor Beavers never won a popular election, he did prevail in the election to his city council seat however we must remember that his opponent passed away well before the ballots were distributed and she still garnered about 30% of the election. 2)    Former Mayor Beavers was appointed Mayor by the outgoing mayor that resigned under a cloud of disgrace, and that had changed her domicile perhaps as long as a year before her resignation. 3)    Former Mayor Beavers started the city down some strange rabbit hole without popular support.  He announced to the city citizens and indeed through Reuters,  the entire USA, that without a special tax levy that the city of Gold Bar would cease to exist due to the costs of his personal agenda to gut the PRA.  When he reached out to the citizens, a significant majority told him that they were not willing to fund his personal agenda.  Sadly former Mayor Beavers continued to drag the citizens down that strange rabbit hole ignoring the wishes of the tax payers. 4)    Prior to his descent down the rabbit hole, the city of Gold Bar was able to field dedicated volunteers for the city planning commission.  City Hall meetings were attended by citizens.  As he sped  the course of the city deeper  down the rabbit hole, the citizens stopped coming to the council meetings and the planning commission folded..  With the exception of his personal friend Davi Martin, when vacancies occurred on the council, he was unable to recruit citizens to step forward for the council.  We had citizens that would approach our county representative Dave Somers for appointment, not former Mayor Beavers.  On his descent down the strange rabbit hole I witnessed former mayor Beavers turn down an opportunity to mediate a PRA conflict just so he could teach an errant citizen a lesson and display a coyote skin in City Hall.  Yup, do not cross paths with the mayor lest you be learned a good lesson behind he wood shed. 5)   Years prior to becoming mayor, former mayor beavers realized the that the city of Gold Bar Water System was in dire straits.  Former mayor Beavers chose to ignore the city water system in his strange quest to rid the planet of atheists and concerned citizens that dared challenge his agenda.  The city of Gold Bar is now facing a financial crisis due to the prolonged neglect of the water system by former Mayors Hill and  Beavers, the same two mayors that created the rabbit hole journey.  Remember the alleged PRA crisis basis was due to the city withholding reports (mysteriously AOL deleted emails concerning the issue)  of system wide sabotage to the vital city utility. 6)  Former Mayor Beavers proudly described his MBA prior to being mayor.  An MBA suggests that the holder has unique professional abilities to manager money.  Once the city began their descent down the financial rabbit hole, he suddenly became a retired engineer.  I have been unable to use public sources to verify that former Mayor Beavers was ever actually employed as an engineer or that he has a bachelor of science in any discipline of engineering.  No professional registration appears to exist that would support his engineer claims.  While former mayor beavers was in charge of the books, in November of 2013 the auditor  reported “The City’s financial condition puts it at risk of not being able to meet financial needs.  Additionally, the City lacks policies and procedures to ensure compliance with state law and to safeguard public funds”.  In January of 2015, the auditor reported “As a result of the cost allocation conditions identified above, the City is unable to demonstrate how $227,939 in shared costs allocated in 2013 complied with state laws that prohibit shifting restricted resources to other funds.  Further, without support to show how these amounts are fair, equitable and representative of the central services provided, the increased costs to city utilities may result in higher rates.”    The projected cost of city water service to the citizens within the City water system area projected to increase by nearly 300% over the next several years to pay for not only the deferred upgrades but also the increased costs of the upgrades due their deferral. 7)   While former Mayor Beavers likes to proclaim that he has prevailed in court, the legal issues for the city and apparently himself, continue to mount.  The citizens of Gold Bar have a need to support their water system and as a community, the local school system.  The costs of the personal agenda and strange journey down the rabbit hole have jeopardized the future of the city of Gold Bar.  Indeed, there remains a vacancy on the city council, a legacy of former mayor Beavers, the empty city council chair being the ugly  scar that remains when a coyote is skinned together with a failing water system.  Former Mayor Beavers would smile with pride to local TV reporters when he would compare Gold Bara to the mythical TV situation comedy town of Mayberry.  Instead what we are actually left with is the debris of the failure municipal mismanagement of former mayor beavers and hill.  No fresh home made apple pie is cooling on the window sill of City Hall.   8)  Former Mayor Beavers is left to apparently self publish his PRA manifesto is a strange online blog that claims to be a news source.  Who owns this strange on line blog that appears to sell advertising?  Why would the ownership hide behind the shroud of an LLC.  I am disappointed that he used my name in an attempt to increase readership in this strange on line blog, should we assume he is the owner?   Oh well.  I should have figured it all out sooner after he bellowed that the ..”citizens of Gold Bar are brain dead..” that he had no respect for the citizens or their money or their opinions.  Damn it, he had a special rabbit hole to drag us down.   Submitted with civic embarrassment of the actions of our former mayors   mere voter Gold Bar, Washington

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Several open government supporters stated  “Joe Beavers is a demented old man who is need of psychiatric help before he physically harms someone. ”

On January 23, 2016, Joe Beavers showed up to the open government meeting looking like a homeless person, smelt like a homeless person, his hygiene was unclean, and he appears to be living in the Beatles area with his hair almost down the side of back.

Joe Beavers was incoherent and his statements were not relevant to this issues facing open government. Perhaps his wife should take Beavers in for an exam before he physically carries out his threats to harm people; threats Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington and John E. Pennington ( terminated on January 1, 2016, after public records link him back to criminal harassment and racketeering crimes inside the City of Duvall, Shoreline and King County) posted on their blog spot titled the Sky Valley Chronicle.

Joe Beavers slipped of the lip statements inside an open public meeting stating “  I am the Mayor of Gold Bar and I’ve been accused of wrongdoing…” is understatement noting that our investigators did a wonderful job.