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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – Part Ten

April 3, 2023 by goldbarreporter 14 Comments

Lloyds of London Running a Washington State Assisted Monopoly

Lloyds of London’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) is a house of cards. “It’s a very old story. Greed. Power. Arrogance. It never lasts”, semi-retired journalist Robert Greenwald said.

In Washington State, Lloyds of London RICO is collectively managed by Washington State Attorney General (WA AG) Bob Ferguson and Association of Washington Cities/Counties (AWC). It’s Chief Executive Officer is attorney Deanna Dawson. The Attorney General and AWC are also an arm of the State Executive’s Office, also known as the Governor’s Cabinet.

WA AG Bob Ferguson started his career as an attorney protecting the Catholic Church from sex abuse claims in Guadalupe Arizona. The Catholic Chruch is insured by Lloyds. WA AG Bob Ferguson and King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg decided the best way to help their client, Lloyds, was to allege that the statute of limitations had lapsed against Lloyds of London and its syndicates, thus denying victims of sex abuse their day in court.

It’s important to note for readers that WA AG Bob Ferguson is an arm of the Washington State’s Executive Office. Governor Jay Inslee is the Executive in Washington State. In the United States, citizens have two ways of picking state court judges, either by election or by appointment of the state governor. Open Judicial seats are always filled by political appointment of the Governor, but at the bequest, collectively, of WA AG Bob Ferguson and Association of Washington Cities/Counties (AWC). AWC is a syndicate of Lloyds of London.

In 2020, the Gold Bar Reporter was first to report that Washington State Attorney General (WA AG) Bob Ferguson entered into an illegal contract to provide a legal defense to the City of Gold Bar, Snohomish County, Washington State Supreme Court and the Washington State Bar Association.

This criminal racketeering conduct not only violates the Separation of Powers Doctrine, it also creates a monopoly in violation of Sherman Anti-Trust. John Scannell, a public interest attorney also argues that its “dishonest services” or case fixing and amounts to RICO.

Under the Separation of Powers Doctrine, the Judiciary cannot make agreement with the Executive Office or the Legislature. The Executive Officer cannot make contracts with the Judiciary or the Legislature. The Legislature cannot make contracts with the Judiciary or the Executive Office. The intention behind a system of separated powers is to prevent the concentration of power by providing for checks and balances. But here in Washington, such violations of basic principles of separation of powers has and continues to be violated by Washington State Attorney General (WA AG) Bob Ferguson, and the Washington State Supreme Court entering into illegal contracts with each branch spitting on the Constitution.

Those not familiar with AWC’s CEO attorney Deanna Dawson might recall that Ms. Dawson was engaged in “ get ahead by sleeping with Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon scandal” which exposed Ms. Dawson for misappropriating Snohomish County public money for pleasure travel in Europe with disgraced former Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon. When the Snohomish County Daily Herald published this “wag the dog” article on disgraced Executive Aaron Reardon, he was not only sleeping with a county employee from the public health division, he was sleeping with and traveling Europe on the taxpayer’s dime with Snohomish County Executive employee attorney Deanna Dawson.

The Gold Bar Reporter was first to report on this scandal in July 2010. As result of the Gold Bar Reporter’s articles, attorney Deanna Dawson and Aaron Reardon were forced to resign, and Dawson disappeared for years but was later hired by Lloyds of London’s syndicate AWC as its Chief Executive Officer.

Bob Ferguson also worked for Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) and Special Assistant Prosecutor (SAP) law firm Preston Ellis & Gates. While employed at Preston, Bob Ferguson hired Jack Abramoff to gain privileges with President George W Bush’s administration. Jack Abramoff was arranging sex with children for politicians in Olympia in exchange for lobbying contracts with Preston, Ellis & Gates. But Abramoff got greedy and decided to represent government interests while at the same time pushing Native American interests. As a result, Jack Abramoff was charged with RICO, and those charges were brought under George W. Bush Jr.’s Administration. Because Jack Abramoff knew too much about government officials sex with children scandal involving several Washington State Representatives and Washington State Bar members, such as Marlin Applewick, Attorney G. Geoffrey Gibbs, WA State Senator John Lovick, Rep. John Edward Pennington Jr ( aka as Seattle’s Epstein), and WSBA counsel Doug Ende, Jack Abramoff received a sweetheart deal for 5 years in prison in exchange for his silence. The Bush Administration wanted to bury the human trafficking charges that should have been brought against high-ranking members of Bush Administration. That included Fairbanks resident (who also claims, illegally, residence in Duvall Washington but registered to vote in Alaska), John Edward Pennington Jr.

Although Bush fired John Edward Pennington Jr as FEMA Region X Director after the FBI discovered that John E Pennington Jr. raped of a child in 1992 in Cowlitz County Washington and tried to murder a woman named Loraina in Oswego Oregon in 1990. Sadly, the Bush Administration failed to warn the public of Pennington’s crimes against women and children. Instead, Bush fired Pennington allowing him to commit more crimes in Snohomish County Washington.

In 2011, John Edward Pennington Jr. sexually assaulted a Department of Emergency Management (DEM) public records officer named Diana. Pennington’s sexual assault of Diana occurred inside Snohomish County DEM. After a friend of Diana’s reported Pennington’s sexual assault to county executive, Diana was paid off ($75,000 from Snohomish County) and received a promotion to head the City of Marysville Emergency Management Office in exchange for her silence of Pennington’s sexual assault. Today, Diana receives an annual salary of $145,000.00 year, quite a boost from her $42,500.00 salary she received as a mere public records officer prior to reporting Pennington for sexual assault and attempted rape.

Under RICO, sadly, the US District Attorney decides whether or not to indict someone. The US Attorney is the public’s last line of defense against public corruption in a specific geological area of the United States. In Western Washington, Special Assistant Attorney General, Nick Brown, was appointed by the United States President, at the bequest of Governor Jay Inslee and WA AG Bob Ferguson. Mr. Brown worked for SAAG law firm, Pacific Law Group. Pacific Law Group’s main client is Lloyds of London’s syndicate AON.

AON also provides insurance for Snohomish County’s risk pool. Snohomish County’s risk pool includes every city in Snohomish County, including Gold Bar and City of Sultan. AON is a syndicate of Lloyds of London. Pacifica Law Group is Lloyds Washington State’s Level 3 insurer, and WA AG Bob Ferguson has created a monopoly by labeling all county prosecutors’ as SAAGs.

In Washington State, the AG is hand picking judges and US Attorneys in an effort to fix cases to insure convictions and favorable civil decisions on behalf of its insurer, Lloyds of London, and its syndicates. Sole purpose of Lloyd’s of London’s “case fixing scam” is “risk management” or profits over people. Profits that only affect a small few, also known as WA State’s RICO members. RICO members include both state and federal judges, county employees, prosecutors, public defenders, and private law firms also known as WA SAAGs and Special Deputy Prosecuting attorneys such as Keating, Buckling and McCormick, Madrona Law Group, Ogden Murphy and Wallace, Pacific Law Group , Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich, and Smith Goodfriend.

Over the last fifteen years our research has proven that WA AG Bob Ferguson is fixing cases in every area of law in Washington State by making political appointments who have a financial benefits to the AG. Lloyds of London and its syndicates insure judges, Washington State Attorney General, legislators, prosecutors, public defenders, public university employees (strangely includes University of Washington’s Innocence Project), city officials, county employees, the private Washington State Bar employees, private law firms and its’ attorneys, police officers, etc. WA AG Bob Ferguson even runs non-profit groups like Victim Support Services, Dawson Place, and the private Washington State Bar Association. Lloyds, along with the help of WA AG Bob Ferguson are ensuring all of the above in a “pooled insurance” otherwise known as a Sherman Antitrust monopoly. A game everyone knows is controlled by one person. In WA State, WA AG Bob Ferguson is head of the monopoly.

Attorney Jeffrey S. Myers from SAAG law firm of , Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich said “they will not let her win.” Jeffrey Myers slip of the lip referring to “ they” was referring to Lloyds of London’s Sherman Anti-Trust scam assisted by Washington State’s AG who pooled insurance to further his monopoly otherwise known as “case fixing.”

Over the last twenty years, we have researched every judiciary in Washington State, from Thurston County to Spokane County, and here’s what we know to be true. Ninety percent ( 90 %) of the judges are handpicked by WA AG Bob Ferguson is or was a Washington State Attorney General at some point in their career.

The list of Judges handpicked by WA AG Bob Ferguson’s RICO is too lengthy to list, but for sake of this argument, we are outing several judges in different counties in Washington State who were directly appointed by WA AG Bob Ferguson to fix cases on behalf of the state.

In Thurston County Superior Court, Carol Murphy ( former head of the WA State’s AG Torts Division) and Allyson Zypp, former WA AGs, and employees of Washington State Attorney General’s torts division. King County Superior Court Judges, Jim E. Rogers, Marshall Ferguson, Ken Shubert, Michael Segal, and Michael Scott, all former Special Assistant Attorney Generals (SAAGs) and Special Assistant Deputy Prosecutors for Thurston, Spokane, King and Snohomish Counties (SAPs). All are good friends to WA AG Bob Ferguson.

In Snohomish County, SAAGs George Appel, Bruce Weiss, Marybeth Dingledy, Millie Judge, Cindy Larsen, Edirin Okoloko, and Janice Ellis, are SAPs and SAAGs for WA AG Bob Ferguson at some point and time in their careers.

As were Spokane County Superior Court Judges Annette Please, Rachelle E. Anderson, Michael Price.

In Clark County, Judges Gregory M. Gonzales, Camara L. J. Banfield , John P. Fairgrieve, Jennifer K. Snider, Suzan L. Clark, and Emily A. Sheldrick. The foregoing judges were all former SAAGs and SAPs working for the Washington State’s Attorney General’s Office prior to WA AG Bob Ferguson making their political appointments.

After researching several of the above judge’s criminal history records, we discovered that several judges have been convicted of or charged with crimes. In King County, Judge Jim E. Rogers and Michael Scott were accused of molesting children. In Snohomish County, Marybeth Dingledy, was convicted of drunk driving and was on methamphetamine while driving drunk. Marybeth Dingledy is still hearing and deciding cases while using methamphetamine and often drunk. A process server went to her house with a subpoena and said “ she was high as a kite when she answered the door.”

Judge Annette Please from Spokane County has a drug addiction to cocaine and is using a convicted felon named Charles Fleck to provide cocaine to several Spokane County Superior Court Judges.

In each of the above cases, Lloyds of London and its syndicates, which includes Association of Washington Cities, Cities Insurance of Washington, Washington Association of Counties, and Washington Association of Judges, cover up public officers’ criminal conduct as “risk management.” The best example of Lloyd’s of London’s covering liability as risk management was evidenced by the murder of George Floyd. George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who had eighteen excessive force complaint filed against him before he murdered George Floyd. In each excessive force complaint, Lloyds and its syndicates dismissed complaints as “risk management.” If they had no committed RICO offenses against George Floyd, he would still be alive today.

As for non-profits like Victim Support Services, Dawson Place, and the private Washington State Bar Association, Lloyds of London and its syndicates insure its members. Not only does Lloyds of London insure its members, the Washington State Attorney General’s Office is illegally gifting employees of these private organizations a Washington State taxpayer funded retirement (PERs). As examples, Washington State Bar Association, who the Washington State Supreme Court labeled a “private association” in the Lincoln Beauregard decision, and its employees are solely paid by the taxpayers of Washington State, yet the Washington State Supreme Court held in the Lincoln Beauregard decision, fraudulently, that it does not receive any public monies.

Attorney Crystal D. Hill’s Sexually Transmitted Disease Records Became Public Record

In 2008, John Edward Pennington Jr., and his convicted bank frauding wife, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg), were passing sexually transmitted diseases (STD) to several government officers in Washington State. Crystal Hill ( aka Crystal D Hill) Pennington infected Snohomish County Judge Joseph Wilson, former Gold Bar Chief of Police (2008-2010), Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officer Jeff Ross ( who is married to Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Cindy Larsen), former Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, former Washington Senator, now Washington State Auditor, Steve Hobbs (Lake Stevens), and Prosecutors Mark Roe and Sean Reay with STD.

When the Washington State Department of Health (WA DH) learned that Crystal Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr. were passing STD to various people, they were sent a letter by the WA DH ordering them to get treated, notify any sexual partner each had, and cease and desist all sexual activity until a doctor certifies that they were clear of infections. Unfortunately for Crystal Berg Hill Pennington, she used the City of Gold Bar’s mailing address because her home was being foreclosed on for non-payment of her mortgage.

According to former clerk Laura Kelly, “Crystal left her door open at City Hall, and Karl Majerle, would come in early and read her mail. Karl used her STD and notification list to STD infected county employees, as leverage for raises, to steal from the city of Gold Bar, and for money pays outs. Karl also knew that Crystal Hill had been twice convicted of bank fraud spent time in jail and had been convicted three times for fraud. He used that information to extort Snohomish County Prosecutors, Gold Bar City Council members, and Crystal Hill into not following through with criminal charges against him.”

In 2008, Gold Bar’s water employee, Karl Majerle was not only caught stealing from the City of Gold Bar, by former council member Dorothy Croshaw, he also sabotaged the City of Gold Bars water system. Majerle was not only guilty of theft of more than $1500, but he was also guilty of Domestic Terrorism under the Patriot Act.

Knowing that Crystal Hill Pennington had infected Snohomish County police officer Jeff Ross, Snohomish County Judge Joseph Wilson, and Prosecutors Sean Reay and Mark Roe with STD, Marjerle used that information to extort Snohomish County Prosecutors Sean Reay and Mark Roe into not reporting Karl Marjerle’s acts of Domestic Terrorism of sabotaging the City’s water system to the Homeland Security.

What the taxpayers of Gold Bar did not know is that Sean Reay and Mark Roe were tampering with the FBI’s National Information Center (NCIC) records as political favors. According to a former Snohomish County Prosecutor “Sean Reay thought Executive Aaron Reardon was going to the Governor’s Mansion. Reay and Roe even had plans to be the next Washington State Attorney General, until the Gold Bar Reporter exposed their RICO conduct. Ironic how Mark Roe was forced to resign from the Washington State Bar Association after the he sexually harassed women and gays inside his office, and Sean Reay was demoted to a handle low level pro se litigants in Snohomish County’s civil unit because of gang banging Crystal Hill” a former Prosecutor said.

Because one of Gold Bar’s council members, Lonn Turner, was also a Monroe Department of Corrections Officer, agreed to commit RICO offenses on behalf of protecting a whore from Gold Bar, WA AG Bob Ferguson stepped in to protect Lloyds of London RICO members from liability. Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers, a convicted felon himself, called Crystal D. Hill a whore three times in executive meetings.

We later learned that Joe Beavers had been arrested for and convicted of twice, once for sexually assaulting a woman in a bar in Arlington Texas, and another for passing bad checks in the State of Ohio.

In the Western District of Washington State federal court, Judge Ricardo Martinez, and Richard Jones, who were also a SAAGs for WA AG Bob Ferguson, and who both are still on the Washington State’s payroll, have continuously thwarted any attempt by citizens to hold anyone of the RICO members accountable for their criminal racketeering conduct. Both were appointed under the Direction of Washington’s Governor and Attorney General.

Moving the Pedophile from Parish to Parish

John Edward Pennington Jr. kidnapped, raped, and tried to murder a 5-year-old girl in Cowlitz County Washington in 1992. In 2010, he sexually assaulted a public officer named Diana, inside Snohomish County’s Department of Emergency Management (DEM). He spent hours trying to hack into the Gold Bar Reporter news site while being paid $145,000.00 a year by Snohomish County. He killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides because he was operating a small business, in violation of Snohomish County’s Ordinance that prohibited county salaried employees from holding any other job, instead of mitigating damages in a slide area that Seattle Times reported was major risk to human life since 1968. He was labeled a sociopath “with no empathy for human life whatsoever’ by a King County Superior Court appointed medical doctor Dr. Hedricks, and was diagnosed with Autism. In 2021, he was fired from Overlake Hospital for stalking a mother while on duty as Overlake and was fired from Pierce College in Tacoma Washington after he sexually and verbally assaulted a student. Then in 2022, he was fired from University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for assaulting a professor.

Somehow, he was allowed to enter a Ph.D. program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with false academic credentials. A complaint to the OIG Department of Education citing UAF and Pennington’s fraudulent academic credentials, stating that UAF committed fraud and gave him a PhD. According to the Seattle Times, John Pennington’s online diplomas’ were obtained by fraudulent online schools the US Justice Department and IRS said sold degrees at flat rates. John Pennington does not have a valid Bachelor’s degree.

One less pedophile like John Edward Pennington Jr. collecting a welfare check on the state or federal welfare system is a good day.

The Gold Bar Reporter has written extensively since 2009 about government misconduct. Lloyds of London and its syndicates have been sued before for RICO, and many more are coming against Lloyds syndicates.

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – Part Nine

NATIONAL PETITIONS INITIATED TO SUSPEND

FEDERAL FUNDING OF WASHINGTON STATE COURTS

By J.P. Zenger JPZengerMail@gmail.com

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Seattle, WA Dec. 31, 2022. “I will never be charged with a crime, because we have people in every part of government who will always protect me,” boasted serial criminal and sex offender John Pennington, Jr. to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin.

As a result of that boasting, and over 15 years of effort by public interest attorneys and journalists, including hundreds of public records requests and thousands of pages of litigation, Mr. Pennington personally exposed what is likely the single largest criminal enterprise in U.S. history. An explanation of how is works is here.

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Today, Ninth Circuit Attorney John Scannell provided notice of a series of national Petitions to suspend Federal funding of Washington State courts. The Petitions will appear in the press, internet venues, and the courts. An advance draft follows:

National Petition

Click Link above to National Petition

SUSPEND FEDERAL FUNDING OF WASHINGTON STATE COURTS

(Clockwise from Top Left) Valerie A. Villacin, Ian Cairns, Jonathan Collins, and

Howard M. Goodfriend, Allegedly Occupy a Central Role in a

Racketeering Enterprise That Denies Access to Justice to Washington State Citizens.

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John Scannell, a public interest advocate and lawyer in the Federal Ninth Circuit Court, started this Petition to the Department of Justice and others.

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SUMMARY OF THE PETITION

This Petition is for the citizens of Washington State – and all U.S. citizens – who don’t want their federal tax dollars to support a corrupt state court system. The goal of this Petition is to suspend Federal funding of Washington State Courts.

The citizens of Washington State are currently denied their Constitutional right to due process – a fair day in court – because of organized crime. The organized crime is called a RICO. The RICO, which operates openly, involves public officials and private attorneys.

The purpose of this Petition is to suspend Federal funding of the Washington State court system until the conclusion of Federal investigations. This Petition respectfully requests that Federal law enforcement based in Washington, D.C., the Department of Justice, Government Accountability Office (GAO), and Congress, investigate the allegations against specific people and legal cases. Those people and cases are listed in the “What We Are Asking” section below.

In addition to Washington State public officials, we ask for an investigation of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown. Mr. Brown is fully aware of the RICO and is alleged to directly support the RICO by refusing to act against it. Prior to his position as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Brown was an attorney at a law firm that allegedly defends and supports the RICO according to legal scholars, researchers, and journalists.

In the Western District of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Brown is the public’s last line of defense against public corruption. Because of that, Mr. Brown’s alleged knowing collaboration with the RICO, and inaction, is the most critical obstruction to public justice – his inaction protects and ensures the continued existence of the RICO.

This Petition calls for action by Washington, D.C. based Federal agencies to investigate the RICO. The first agency and contact is listed below, and several more will follow in the near future.

At the end of this Petition is a more detailed explanation that is titled “How the RICO Operates”

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WHO I AM

My name is John Scannell. I am a public interest advocate and appellate attorney in the Federal Ninth Circuit Court. Separately, I am a candidate for the Supreme Court of Washington State.

With decades of experience as a public interest attorney, I have worked on behalf of public justice with more than one hundred million dollars of impact, and which have resulted in constructive social change. I have seldom asked for any financial compensation for my work throughout my entire public interest career.

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WHY I AM SPONSORING THIS PETITION

Should your Federal tax dollars support Washington State courts which are controlled by extensively documented organized crime? This is why I am sponsoring this Petition.

I believe in the importance of due process, and that everyone should have a fair day in court. Millions of people have died for your Constitutional right to due process.

My personal motivation resulted from my discovery of the RICO, the racketeering enterprise. It includes judges, prosecutors, and lawyers who present themselves as representing public interest while in fact they betray their sworn duty under the Federal and State Constitutions.

By allowing well documented corruption in its courts, the State of Washington has violated its court funding contract with the Federal government. That contract requires the State to uphold the Federal Constitution and ensure the right of due process – a fair day in court.

Extensive corruption in Washington State courts is a reality. The question is, what are we willing to do about it? If we work together, we can make a difference.

Power is not taken from us. We give it through fear and inaction. Let’s act now.

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WHO IS FUNDING THIS PETITION, AND WHO IS BEHIND IT?

No one is funding this Petition, and I am its sole official sponsor.

Behind this Petition are several dozen public interest attorneys, legal scholars, journalists, and others who have been targeted for retaliation by the RICO. We have spent over 15 years filing hundreds of public records requests, reviewing thousands of pages of public documents, and engaging in public interest litigation – all at our own expense.

The summary of the RICO that follows this Petition is the result of all of our collective public records requests, research, testimony of government and corrupt law firm insiders, and public interest litigation.

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WHAT THIS PETITION IS ASKING

This Petition, and related Petitions and actions, seek to suspend Federal funding of Washington State courts until the conclusion

Of Washington D.C. – based federal investigations of the following cases and individuals:

1. The Law Firm of Smith Goodfriend. Smith Goodfriend has occupied a central role in a series of cases targeted by the RICO. The cases have been targeted for the purpose of both financial loss control and/or retaliation by the RICO.

It is alleged that Smith Goodfriend has knowingly and illegally received millions of Washington State taxpayer dollars to persecute people where the State has no legal right to fund private litigation whatsoever. This is alleged to be a fraud upon the public, and the law firm owes Washington State taxpayers a full refund for all funds received.

2. The Case of Tim Eyman. Public interest advocate Mr. Eyman is alleged to have been illegally targeted and persecuted by Washington State Attorney General and RICO co-director Bob Ferguson for the purpose of financial loss control by the RICO, and personal retaliation. Mr. Ferguson is estimated to have spent $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 of Washington State taxpayer funds to illegally litigate against and harass Mr. Eyman.

3. The Case of Anne Block. Public interest advocate and award-winning journalist Anne Block has been illegally targeted and persecuted by Washington State Attorney General and RICO co-director Bob Ferguson for the purpose of financial loss control by the RICO, and personal retaliation. Mr. Ferguson is estimated to have spent $20,000,000 to $40,000,000 of Washington State taxpayer dollars to illegally litigate against Ms. Block with no valid legal basis whatsoever.

4. The Case of the Estate of Robert Cannon. The litigation involving the Estate of Robert Cannon is a model case of fraud involving RICO judges and two law firms: Hanis Irvine Prothero, and Smith Goodfriend.

King County Court Commissioners Masako Kanazawa and Carlos Velategui issued “completely fraudulent rulings,” according to allegations by legal experts. The Executor for the Robert Cannon Estate, Henry Cannon, was a former employee of the King County, Washington court.

5. Nick Brown. In addition to Washington State public officials and attorneys, we ask for an investigation of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown. Mr. Brown is fully aware of the RICO and is alleged to directly support the RICO by refusing to act against it. Prior to his position as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Brown was an attorney at a law firm that defends and supports the RICO according to legal scholars, researchers, and journalists.

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IN CONCLUSION

We ask all Washington State citizens, Federal law enforcement organizations, legal advocacy groups, and every American citizen to join us in this Petition to suspend Federal funding for the Washington State court system until the conclusion of a Federal investigation of the named parties and cases.

The named parties, it is alleged, have betrayed their respective oaths of office and public trust to uphold the Constitution, betrayed the legal and ethical duty of the Washington State Court system to uphold the law, betrayed the trust of every federal taxpayer, and betrayed every Washington State citizen’s Constitutional inheritance: the right to due process – a fair day in court.

THIS PETITION WILL BE SENT TO: The Honorable Amy L. Solomon, who currently serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and is the person who controls Federal funding of State courts.

Please also join us in directly contacting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Solomon. Her phone number and address are listed on the screen below 202-514-2000; her mailing address is: Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 810 7th Street NW, Washington, D.C.20001. Amy Solomon’s personal email address: absolomon5@gmail.com

Let’s keep the Constitution alive by working to suspend our Federal tax dollars from the Washington State court system today. Please contact us and let us know if you or your organization would like to join us.

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Petition Sponsor and Press Contact:

John Scannell, Appellate Attorney in the Ninth Circuit

zamboni_john@hotmail.com

Seattle/Pacific Time

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HOW THE RICO OPERATES

The courts of Washington State are currently controlled by organized crime.

This is a fact established by several public interest attorneys including me; national legal experts; and thousands of pages of evidence collected through hundreds of public records requests by journalists and legal academics at the award-winning publication, The Gold Bar Reporter.

The allegations in this Petition are the result of over 15 years’ public records requests, research, and litigation by the Gold Bar Reporter, its publisher, affiliated journalists, public interest lawyers, public records lawyers and experts, and several dozen concerned citizens.

The purpose of the alleged organized criminal activity – a racketeering enterprise called a RICO – is to control both the insurance market and financial losses for the insurance company Lloyd’s of London and its insurance partners, called syndicates. The RICO effects every citizen in Washington State.

A RICO is a complex fraud. Complexity is fraud’s best friend. Because complexity creates a kind of “sandstorm” of confusion. It allows the people who operate it, and the way that they operate it, to hide inside that storm. We have worked hard to deconstruct it.

An ongoing series of articles, “Seattle’s Epstein,” explains in more detail how the alleged RICO was exposed and operates. According to that series, in brief, this is a summary of how the RICO is structured, directed, and controlled:

1). Lloyd’s of London. The RICO is directed and controlled by the insurance company, Lloyd’s of London. In the U.S., the Lloyd’s RICO is directed and controlled by Cary Bond of Lloyd’s N.Y. office. Lloyd’s RICO is well documented in U.S. court cases like this one.

2). AWC. In the U.S., the RICO is operated on a state-by-state basis. In Washington State, the RICO is directed by Lloyd’s syndicate member, the Association of Washington Cities (“AWC”). Just days after his role in the RICO was exposed in the press, Peter King, the de facto CEO, hastily announced his retirement in an attempt to deceive Federal law enforcement.

3) The AG. The Co-Director of the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s RICO is State Attorney General (“AG”) Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was chosen and supported by Peter King to co-direct the RICO.

At the direction of Peter King, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson controls the legal system and denies any Washington citizen, considered by the RICO to be a financial or political risk, their Constitutional right to a fair day in court in four main ways:

A). Public Records Officers. State public records officers, acting at the direction of Mr. Ferguson, routinely and illegally deny public records requests, destroy documents, and obstruct justice. The denial of public records prevents access to due process. These are criminal acts in violation of Federal law.

B) SAAGS. SAAGS are Special Assistant Attorney Generals. They are both private attorneys, and county prosecutors. A SAAG is basically “deputized” by Mr. Ferguson to act on his behalf as his own staff. This is illegal and unconstitutional: it places both attorneys and prosecutors in a conflict of interest with the people they have a legal duty to represent. When a prosecutor illegally accepts a SAAG contract from Mr. Ferguson, it allows Mr. Ferguson to assume the county prosecutor’s power of criminal prosecution, which is denied Mr. Ferguson under the Washington State Constitution. It also allows Mr. Ferguson to deny anyone he wants the right to due process under the Federal Constitution.

C) The Bar Assn. The private Washington State Bar Association is controlled by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson controls the Bar by illegally: 1) Giving the private Bar millions of dollars in free rent; 2) Hosting and controlling the Bar’s email and data servers; 3) Proving unlimited free legal services to the Bar – all at a cost of tens of millions of dollars to the taxpayers of Washington State; 4) Using the Bar and its State conferred disciplinary powers to target people chosen by Mr. Ferguson for liability control or political retaliation; and 5) Gifting the employees of the ‘private’ Washington State Bar tens of millions of dollars of state taxpayer dollars through the State retirement system, called PERS;

In one case alone, Mr. Ferguson has spent over $30,000,000 of State taxpayer dollars to illegally disbar, harass with contract private security and cybercriminals, and engage in baseless litigation with dozens of attorneys against a single person, Anne Block, a court-recognized journalist, and former public interest lawyer.

In sum, Attorney General Bob Ferguson controls the practice of law on behalf of the RICO with a carrot and a stick: the carrot is hiring certain attorneys as SAAGS, often from out of state and with criminal backgrounds. Their criminal histories are then deleted by Ferguson from the FBI’s NCIC database. Ferguson then has leverage over them, and they must act at his direction. The “stick” is simple: with complete control over the Bar Association, Ferguson directly controls the Bar’s disciplinary process, and disbars any attorney at his whim. Thus, bribery and extortion are foundational and routine practices for Bob Ferguson and the Bar.

D) Judges. Judges in Washington State are a key part of the RICO. They are routinely bribed in several known ways, including home refinancing where loans are paid by outside parties, “speaking engagements,” cash bribes, and promoted for their collusion and cooperation in the RICO. Corrupt judges are usually former employees of the staff of AG Bob Ferguson or were SAAGs – attorneys who were under contract by Bob Ferguson.

4). The U.S. Attorney in the Western District. For the public, the last line of defense against public corruption is U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown. Until his appointment, aided by RICO co-director Bob Ferguson, Mr. Brown was an attorney with the SAAG law firm Pacifica Law Group. Pacifica law group allegedly has, and continues to protect, the RICO and its members.

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Seattle’s Epstein – Part One

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Eigh t

J.P. Zenger appreciates the interest of the entertainment industry in the “Seattle’s Epstein” series, and is available to consult for story development and/or script writing. Mr. Zenger is also available to direct people who have been targeted by the RICO, including attorneys, to federal law enforcement agencies.

JPZengerMail@gmail.com

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – Part Eight

NICK BROWN PROTECTS LLOYD’S OF LONDON’S RICO –

& SERIAL CHILD RAPIST JOHN PENNINGTON

“Brown and RICO Judges Are Plotting Revenge,”

According to the Testimony of Insiders

©By J.P. Zenger JPZengerMail@gmail.com

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On 9/20/22, RICO Kingpin Nick Brown Contacted Snohomish County Prosecutors to Retaliate Against Members of the Press And Their Associates, Say Insiders Who Have Testified _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Seattle, WA. Oct. 31, 2022. Serial con man, child rapist, and “person of interest” in a series of murders, John Pennington, Jr., aka “Seattle’s Epstein,” boasted that the Lloyd’s of London RICO he has been a part of “has placed people in every position of government in Washington State.”

After more than a decade’s effort, Mr. Pennington’s statement turned out to be true. At the top of the Lloyd’s of London criminal enterprise in Washington State are RICO Kingpins Peter King of AWC; State AG Ferguson; U.S. Attorney, Nick Brown; and Judge Ricardo aka “RICO” Martinez.

U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown, who was Cancelled from the TV Show, “Survivor” for Selling out all of his Teammates and Working With the Opposition, Is “Fully Expected to Make a Deal to Sell out His Fellow RICO Kingpins,” Say Insiders _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thanks to Mr. Pennington’s bragging to his ex-mother-and the persistence of journalists, public interest attorneys, and an expanding network of those targeted by the RICO, more and more public official involving int he extended racketeering enterprise continue to be exposed.

“Lloyd’s of London’s RICO is a house of cards,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald. “It’s a very old story. Greed. Power. Arrogance. It never lasts,” he said. “It’s such an odd quirk of human behavior that you can have such smart people do such stupid things and think it will last forever.”

Instead of acting as obviously intelligent as they are, the RICO members keep digging themselves deeper,” he said. “The RICO judges, prosecutors, law firms, and attorneys are going to fall like dominos,” said Mr. Greenwald.

Preparing for War: On Oct. 6, 2022, RICO Defender and Kingpin Nick Brown is Alleged To have Engaged in Illegal Ex Parte Conversations with Fellow RICO Member Judge Ricardo (aka “RICO”) Martinez, According to Testimony by Insiders, for the Purpose of Retaliating Against Members of the Press and Their Associates

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“We have been quietly gathering evidence for over a decade, and now dozens of people who have been targeted by the RICO are releasing a series of actions against the entire RICO network,” he said.

“But most of all, we have been collaborating with both national media and several major studios in the entertainment industry who are interested in developing documentaries, TV series, and film projects relating to the ‘Seattle’s Epstein’ series,” stated Mr. Greenwald.

“Reuters, ProPublica, MGM, Fox, representatives of entertainment luminaries, major national TV networks, and dozens of broadcast and print media journalists worldwide have recently reviewed the ‘Seattle’s Epstein’ series and its many components,” he said.

“It (the ‘Seattle’s Epstein Series’) really has it all,” said an entertainment producer. “Greed. Billions in fraud. The abuse of public office. David and Goliath. Murder. Rape. And it’s all true!” he exclaimed. “Jesus, what more could we possibly want?” said the animated Hollywood character.

“Ferguson is desperate. He knows he’s been caught red-handed, and is going down. He doesn’t care who he takes with him. He figures the more bodies he can throw between himself and his crimes, the more it will stall the feds who have evidence of his key role in the RICO,” said a staffer at the AG’s Office.

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None of the ongoing crimes, the rapes, the fraud, the entire OSO mudslide disaster, all of it, would be possible without Bob Ferguson, his staff, and their RICO partners protecting John Pennington,” said Mr. Greenwald. “Mr. Ferguson and company, including his contract attorneys called SAAGS, have erased Mr. Pennington’s federal FBI NCIC criminal record,” he said. “They routinely erase the NCIC records of people they place in key positions, so they have leverage over them, and they have to do whatever he tells them to.”

For his part, Nick Brown’s inaction against Pennington is equally significant. “Mr. Brown knows exactly who Pennington is and what he’s done,” said Mr. Greenwald. “Without Mr. Brown’s inaction, Mr. Pennington would not be able to continue his ongoing crime spree,” he said. “Mr. Brown’s failure to act against any RICO member is the absolute most important part of ensuring the continuation of the RICO.”

The most noteworthy part of Nick Brown’s central role in the RICO, is that he is in a conflict of interest, and is actually completely disqualified from holding office,” said Greenwald. First, he was directly employed by Pacifica Law Group, which is a SAAG law firm,” he said. Pacifica represented and defended the RICO. And second, as a SAAG he was directly employed by the AG’s office.”

Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. Occupy a Central Role In a Series of Cases Known to be Targeted by the Washington State Unit of Lloyd’s of London’s RICO, According to Journalists and Public Interest Attorneys. Ms. Villicin and Her Law Firm are Alleged to Routinely Engage in Illegal Ex Parte Communication with RICO Judges and Prosecutors for the Purpose of Case Fixing.

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“What that means is, as a former SAAG, Mr. Brown is in on the game. You don’t have to look farther than the fact that Mr. Brown has refused to prosecute Lin O’Dell, who committed tens of millions of dollars of guardianship fraud, money laundering, and a dozen other federal crimes, to know that he’s protecting RICO members,” said legal scholar and public interest advocate Anne Block, J.D.

“Ultimately, beyond Mr. Brown’s direct and critical position in the RICO, and his pecuniary interest in many cases, every case he has been involved in will need to be reviewed, and many vacated, because of his conflicts,” she said.

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Following is a summary of the RICO, how it is structured, directed, and controlled. The summary will be continuously updated and repeated at the end of every article in this series.

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The RICO was exposed by John Pennington, Jr. A series of articles, “Seattle’s Epstein,” explains in more detail how the RICO was exposed and how it works. According to that series, in brief, this is how the alleged RICO is structured, directed, and controlled:

1). Lloyd’s of London. The RICO is directed by the insurance company, Lloyd’s of London. In the U.S., the Lloyd’s RICO is directed and controlled by Cary Bond of Lloyd’s N.Y. office. Lloyd’s RICO is well documented in U.S. court cases like this one. The purpose of the RICO is to control financial losses as well as insurance markets for Lloyd’s and its insurance affiliates and partners, such as AWC in Washington State, and the State’s Department of Enterprise Services, a member of the risk pool.

2). AWC. The RICO is operated on a state-by-state basis. In Washington, the RICO is directed by Lloyd’s syndicate member, AWC. Just days after his role in the RICO was exposed in the press, Peter King, the de facto CEO, hastily announced his retirement in an attempt to deceive federal law enforcement.

3) The AG. The Co-Director of the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s RICO is State Attorney General (“AG”) Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was chosen and is supported by Peter King to co-direct the RICO.

At the direction of Peter King, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson control the legal system and deny any Washington citizen, considered by the RICO to be a financial or political risk, their Constitutional right to a fair day in court in four main ways:

Records officers who are controlled by Mr. Ferguson are often hired from other parts of the country and have criminal backgrounds. Mr. Ferguson and those acting at his direction erase their criminal records on the FBI’s NCIC database, and thus have a ‘sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.

B) SAAGS. SAAGS are Special Assistant Attorney Generals. They are both private attorneys, and county prosecutors. A SAAG is basically “deputized” by Mr. Ferguson to act at his direction, effectively as his own staff. This is illegal and unconstitutional: it places both attorneys and prosecutors in a conflict of interest with the people they have a legal duty to represent.

When a prosecutor illegally accepts a SAAG contract from Mr. Ferguson, it allows Mr. Ferguson to assume the county prosecutor’s power of criminal prosecution, which is denied Mr. Ferguson under the Washington State Constitution. It also allows Mr. Ferguson to deny anyone he wants the right to due process under the federal Constitution.

The list of SAAGS consists of hundreds of attorneys and law firms. SAAGs allow Mr. Ferguson to control every county legal system by putting county prosecutors on the state payroll; SAAGS allow Mr. Ferguson to control the legal profession in the state as a whole, because anyone who needs to hold the state accountable through the courts can’t – nearly every large law firm is on the payroll of the state. This is all at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the state taxpayers.

C) The Bar Assn. The ‘private’ Washington State Bar Association is controlled by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson controls the Bar by: 1) Illegally giving the private Bar millions of dollars in free rent; 2) Hosting and controlling the Bar’s email and data servers; 3) Providing unlimited free personal legal services to the Bar and its staff – all at a cost of countless millions of dollars to the taxpayers of Washington State; 4) Gifting every employee of the ‘private’ Bar tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars through the State retirement system, called PERS; and 5) Using the Bar and its disciplinary powers to target people chosen by Mr. Ferguson for liability control or political retaliation.

In one case alone, Mr. Ferguson has spent over $20,000,000 of state taxpayer dollars to target a court-recognized, award-winning journalist, Anne Block, by directing her illegal disbarment. It wasn’t enough for Mr. Ferguson. He then directed his staff, at taxpayer expense, to contract private security and cybercriminals to harass Ms. Block across the country, day and night. Mr. Ferguson then directed and has full knowledge of legally baseless litigation, in the total absence of any wrongdoing, with dozens of SAAG attorneys against her. Mr. Ferguson has committed dozens of federal crimes against Ms. Block.

The Beauregard Case. The Beauregard Case is considered one of the most corrupt decisions in Washington State and U.S. history. It concluded that the State Bar Association is a private organization.

Because the Bar, as referenced previously, was declared private by the State Supreme Court, yet has received hundreds of millions of state taxpayer dollars, legal experts assert that the only rational explanation for the decision is that the Bar Association management, staff, and legal counsel had colluded with the members of the State Supreme Court.

The Janis decision determined that a given state bar association may not combine a private professional association with state powers, according to legal experts. The Washington Bar Association and the Supreme Court of Washington State realized that all of the money the state had been giving the Bar, and the Bar’s participation in the RICO would mean that, not only would the Bar have to pay taxpayers back hundreds of millions of dollars, but all of the liability for the Bar’s involvement in the RICO would potentially expose them to billions in liability.

By illegally defining the Bar as private, against all facts and common sense, in one single stroke the Supreme Court, which is responsible for overseeing the Bar, together with the management of the Bar, were able to shift all of the liability from the members of the State Supreme Court and the management of the Bar – themselves – to the individual members of the Bar. It won’t work, say the experts, who say they just dug themselves a deeper hole.

Following the example of West Virginia for ‘incomparably lesser crimes’ than have been allegedly committed by the Washington State Supreme Court, public interest lawyers are calling for its immediate impeachment. ‘This is a level of open corruption that would have been an embarrassment to Huey Long, or even a third world dictatorship. It’s just ridiculous,’ said the head of a Washington, D.C. public interest group.

In West Virginia, the Supreme Court was indicted for use of a government vehicle; submitting mileage claims for reimbursement; using a government vehicle and credit card on personal trips; and unlawfully converting to his own use a historically significant piece of furniture – a Cass Gilbert desk. Justices were also indicted for attempting to corruptly obstruct and influence testimonial evidence of a Supreme Court employee in an imminent grand jury investigation.

‘For these crimes, one Justice faced a potential sentence of up to 395 years in prison, a fine of $5.5 million, and a term of supervised release of up to 3 years,’ said the Director of the national public interest group. ‘And yet in Washington State, we have open collusion between the State Supreme Court, the Bar Association’s Director Tollefson, Lloyd’s of London’s insurance syndicate, AWC, and a wildly corrupt Attorney General, Bob Ferguson for fraud involving billions of dollars,’ he said.

‘So here you have the State Supreme Court, rather than being the solution to one of the State’s biggest problems, this multi-billion-dollar RICO, is an integral part of the RICO,’ he said. Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

D) Judges. ‘A significant portion’ of Judges in Washington State are a key part of the RICO, according to insiders and legal experts. They are routinely bribed in several known ways, including home refinancing where a third party pays off their home loans. RICO judges, usually former SAAGS or former direct employees of Mr. Ferguson, are routinely promoted for their collusion and cooperation in the RICO.

E) The Commission on Judicial Conduct. The Commission on Judicial Conduct has failed to act against the RICO members. Any of them. The disciplinary actions they pursue create the appearance that they are doing their jobs, while allegedly the CJC works in lockstep with the Bar.

4). The U.S. Attorney in the Western District. For the public, the last line of defense against public corruption is in Washington State is the U.S. Attorney for the Western District, currently Nick Brown. Until his appointment, which was aided by RICO co-director Bob Ferguson, Mr. Brown was an attorney with the SAAG law firm Pacifica Law Group. Pacifica Law Group has protected, and continues to protect, the RICO and its members.

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Seattle’s Epstein – Part One

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – Part Seven

WASHINGTON COURT FRAUD RECEIVES NATIONAL NOTICE

Supreme Court Candidate Calls for Suspension

Of Federal Funding for Washington Courts

Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. are Under Investigation by

Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to Determine Their Relationship to a RICO

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Seattle, WA Sept. 11, 2022. “The courts of Washington State are as corrupt as any in the history of the nation” according to national legal experts, and a famous Ninth Circuit lawyer this week is implementing “phase one” of his solution: the suspension of federal funding for the state court system.

A growing contingent of public interest lawyers and those who have been targeted for retaliation by a rapidly unravelling criminal network, called a RICO, are preparing a series of nationally high-profile actions which call for the investigation and prosecution of those involved.

“It isn’t just King County, by any means,” said John “The Wizard of Laws” Scannell, a nationally respected Ninth Circuit lawyer, who is suing Washington Secretary of State Steven Hobbs. Washington State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madson is named as Mr. Hobbs’s co-defendant.

The suit filed by the famous public interest attorney is a “Petition to Correct Election Error.” A candidate for State Supreme Court, Mr. Scannell is demanding to run against Supreme Court incumbent Barbara Madson under election provisions for write-in candidates. Madson otherwise would run unopposed.

“The case asserts his right to be on the ballot. He argues that the Secretary of State misjudged the number of candidates prematurely. Further, while Mr. Scannell remains barred in the Ninth Circuit, it is common knowledge in the legal profession that Mr. Scannell’s state disbarment was completely illegal,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald.

“His disbarment was legally baseless. The state had no jurisdiction whatsoever. Even without the bedrock issue of jurisdiction, he is a qualified candidate for Supreme Court under the State Constitution because he was previously licensed in the state. Even the Ninth Circuit Court refused to recognize the state’s illegal disbarment. The disbarment was an open act of retaliation by a wildly corrupt Bar Association and the RICO the Bar is an integral member of,” Mr. Greenwald continued.

“The RICO was exposed by John Pennington, Jr. A series of articles, “Seattle’s Epstein,” explains in more detail how the RICO was exposed and how it works. According to that series, in brief, this is how the alleged RICO is structured, directed, and controlled:

The purpose of the RICO is to control financial losses as well as insurance markets for Lloyd’s and its insurance affiliates and partners, such as AWC in Washington State, and the State’s Department of Enterprise Services, a member of the risk pool.

Records officers who are controlled by Mr. Ferguson are often hired from other parts of the country, and have criminal backgrounds. Mr. Ferguson and those acting at his direction erase their criminal records on the FBI’s NCIC database, and thus have a ‘sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.

4). The U.S. Attorney in the Western District. For the public, the last line of defense against public corruption is in Washington State is the U.S. Attorney for the Western District, currently Nick Brown. Until his appointment, aided by RICO co-director Bob Ferguson, Mr. Brown was an attorney with the SAAG law firm Pacifica Law Group. Pacifica law group has protected, and continues to protect, the RICO and its members.

5). Cases. Mr. Scannell’s legal actions, and related petitions, are expected to suspend funding for the State Courts until the FBI’s Office of Public Corruption in Washington, D.C. investigate the following cases and individuals before federal funding is restored for the courts of Washington State:

A) The Beauregard Case. The Beauregard Case is considered one of the most corrupt decisions in Washington State and U.S. history. It concluded that the State Bar Association is a private organization.

‘So here you have the State Supreme Court, rather than being the solution to one of the State’s biggest problems, this multi-billion dollar RICO, is an integral part of the RICO,’ he said.

Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

Ms. Valerie A. Villacin and the firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. are Special Assistant Attorney Generals, or SAAGS. SAAGS are considered an integral component of the RICO, and act at the direction of State Attorney General Ferguson.

B) The Estate of Robert Cannon. King County Court Commissioners Masako Kanazawa and Carlos Velategui issued ‘completely and openly fraudulent rulings,’ according to allegations by legal experts regarding the Estate of Robert Cannon, which had, and continues, to deny a substantial creditor to the Cannon Estate a fair day in court.

The Executor for the Robert Cannon Estate, Henry Cannon, was a former employee of the courts of King County, Washington. Currently representing Mr. Cannon is Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

Ms. Villacin and the firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S are Special Assistant Attorney Generals, or SAAGS. SAAGS are considered an integral component of the RICO, and act at the direction of State Attorney General Ferguson.

King County Court Commissioner Masako Kanazawa is Under

Investigation for Her Alleged Role in the Cannon Estate Fraud

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C) Anne Block. Mr. Ferguson directed Judge Michael Scott, in King County, Washington, to rule that a single legal case filed by a one person, Ms. Block, defined her as a vexatious (excessive) litigant. It is the only case in U.S. history where the filing of a single case defined a litigant as a vexatious litigant, thus denying Ms. Block her right to due process under the state and federal Constitutions.

Judge Scott, a known child molester, has been protected by the RICO and has never been prosecuted for his crimes against children, which is a matter of record with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Child Protection Division,” said Mr. Greenwald.

For his part, Mr. Scannell’s suit to assert his lawful right to run for State Supreme Court is now gaining national press attention, which will be covering both his candidacy and his reasons for running, which are explained in Mr. Scannell’s ballot statement:

“You have the right to live under the rule of law. Because of judicial corruption and organized crime, you are now denied that right.

I am a politically independent attorney in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and have decades of experience successfully fighting public corruption as a public interest lawyer.

I will work to restore your Constitutional right to have a fair day in court in four ways:

1) Judicial Discipline. Judges currently – and illegally – claim to be immune from the law. I will work to change that.

2) Attorney Discipline. Attorneys now regulate themselves, and routinely commit crimes without being held accountable. I will work to change that.

3) The Bar Association. The private Bar Association has stolen millions of your taxpayer dollars, and acted against public interest. I will work to return funds to state taxpayers..

4) I am filing a national action this week to suspend federal funding – your federal tax dollars – from the Washington State Court system until these things are investigated and prosecuted.

I will continue to work to fix these problems and others that will protect your Constitutional rights and tax dollars with decisions that are intelligent, just, and ethical.”

“The law is clear,” said an elections lawyer familiar with the case. “The only way to misinterpret it is if one is either incredibly stupid and/or equally corrupt. That’s the purpose of his candidacy, to address what national legal experts have referred to as a court system that is “as corrupt as any court system in the nation.”

Alternately referred to as “Zamboni John,” Ninth Circuit attorney Scannell was a former zamboni driver for the City of Seattle’s hockey ring, is known to rarely charge for his relentless work on public interest cases, and is also known to spend more than a decade on a case in the pursuit of justice.

A marathon runner at age 74, Mr. Scannell is one of the few people in Washington State history to have gotten a perfect SAT score. With a degree in Physics from the University of Washington, and a former chess master, the current appellate attorney considers his illegal state disbarment a badge of honor.

Mr. Scannell’s actions in some cases have extended over a decade, hundreds of thousands of pages, and had hundreds of millions of dollars of impact. He is completely unconcerned about the personal cost of his work, and considers it his civic duty. Performing public interest work has cost him countless millions.

“If you do public interest work, you will offend people in power who are willing to commit crimes to retaliate against you. The question is, what are you willing to do about it? Are you willing to pay the price so we may live under the rule of law that millions have died for?” he said.

“Power isn’t taken. It’s given through fear and inaction,” said Mr. Scannell. “I’m in it for the long run,” he said, presumably a quip related to his marathon running.

Mr. Scannell’s case is before Thurston County, Washington Judge Dixon.

SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN’S – PART SIX

“RICO Henchman” Sinks The Bar

By J.P. Zenger

Washington State Bar President Brian Tollefson is Alleged to be a Critical Component of Lloyd’s of London’s Washington State RICO

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Brian Tollefson is predicted by legal experts to be “imminently criminally indicted” for his key role in the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s of London’s RICO.

“We have hundreds of pages of evidence, in addition to the testimony of insiders, that Mr. Tollefson has acted as a key henchman for Lloyd’s Washington State RICO,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald. “He has personally buried the Bar and its members in billions of dollars of liability. All for personal gain.”

Mr. Tollefson has in fact reported directly to, and acted at the direction of, Washington State RICO director Peter King, the de facto CEO of AWC, and RICO co-director, Washington State Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson. Not only has Mr. Tollefson acted against the Bar’s public interest mandate, but he has acted against the people he has sworn to represent – the members of the Bar.

The recent exposure of Mr. Tollefson’s role in the RICO resulted from Lloyd’s rapidly unravelling criminal enterprise exposed by s erial criminal and rapist John Pennington, Jr., as chronicled in this series, “Seattle’s Epstein.” Mr. Tollefson has personally orchestrated and covered up criminal acts of retaliation against members of the Bar.

“The retaliation happens routinely. Personal vendettas. Mostly for liability control for the RICO, which is its main purpose?

There is no possible way for the Bar to continue as it has. The Bar has continued and continued to accrue liability. They have all put their heads in the sand and pretended that the party would go on forever.

The exposure of Mr. Tollefson’s role in the RICO resulted from Lloyd’s rapidly unravelling criminal enterprise exposed by serial criminal and rapist John Pennington, Jr., as chronicled in this series, “Seattle’s Epstein.” After more than ten years of public records requests, “the Bar’s role in the RICO became crystal clear,” say attorneys close to the case.

“Fundamentally, the RICO exists for the purpose of liability control,” said the Ninth Circuit Appellate public interest Attorney John Scannell, “The Bar has, and continues to play, a key role in controlling the RICO’s liability.” the Jurist continued, “there are several ways that Mr. Tollefson, the Board of Governors, and Bar management do this.”

There are three ways that the Bar has buried members in liability,” said Mr. Greenwald. “First, they have ignored the Janus decision,” he said, referring to the SCOTUS decision that “anyone with an I.Q. bigger than their shoe size knows means the Bar must be bifurcated. The fact that the Bar ignored Janus has incurred massive liability for members.

“Second, the Bar’s members are exposed to liability from the public for the Bar’s theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from State taxpayers,” he stated. “The Beauregard decision determined that the Bar is a private organization, yet the staff of the Bar have been bleeding money from the public for decades. It’s now owed back,” said Greenwald.

“To start with, there is no rational or justifiable reason in the world that a private organization of any kind should be on the Washington State Public Employee Retirement System, PERS,” stated Mr. Greenwald. “Could you imagine the staff of the National Rifle Association being on a Washington State’s public employee retirement system?”

Greenwald continued, “But that’s just a fraction of the Bar’s theft of public money that Bar members now owe back to the public. Next is tens of millions of dollars of free rent the Bar has been getting at the expense of the taxpayer, and millions of dollars of free legal services from the AG and its network of hundreds of SAAG contractors,” he said.

Counsel close to the case being developed against Bar members added, “The Bar’s theft of public money seems endless. The AG even provides IP hosting and email servers for the Bar at taxpayer expense. The AG schedules and hosts the Bar’s Continuing Legal Education (CLEs) at taxpayer expense, and the State Supreme Court has the AG’s DES provide free counsel to Bar staff.”

“For example,” said Counsel for the taxpayer’s multibillion dollar case against the Bar and its members, “Bar staff Kara Ralph filed a state tort form in relation to a harassment claim,” he said. “In a remarkable conflict of interest, and all at taxpayer expense, the State then provided her free counsel via Department of Enterprise Services (DES). Then used state money to pay the claim.”

“But third, and by far the most significant way the Bar has buried its members in billions of dollars of liability is because of its role in the Lloyd’s of London RICO,” said the nationally recognized lawyer. “The main implication of Lloyd’s RICO is that the Bar has participated in the manipulation of the state’s legal system to control liability.”

“Lloyd’s RICO is directed by AWC, co-directed by the AG and DES, in collusion with the Bar. Here are three main ways the RICO controls the legal system:

Judicial corruption. Judges are given paid speaking engagements, directly bribed, and even federal judges are on the state public retirement system, PERS.

SAAGs. SAAGS are Special Assistant AGs under contract and accountable only to the AG. They comprise hundreds of private attorneys and county prosecutors who are in an absolute conflict of interest and allow the AG to usurp police powers denied to the AG by the State Constitution,” he said. The SAAGs are routinely used to retaliate against any person or company that the RICO considers a financial risk.

“Tollefson is also known to act on behalf of Lloyd’s RICO by engaging in ex parte communication about cases that could result in liability exposure with known RICO judges on the federal bench, Ricardo aka “RICO” Martinez, and Richard Jones; and in the Ninth Circuit, Ronald Gould and Eric D. Miller (who served as a Special Attorney General for Washington State), said Mr. Greenwald. The Bar, together with AWC and the State, have a death grip on the legal system, extending to and including the Ninth Circuit Court.

The Bar’s power of the state. The Bar has been conferred the power of the state and its treasury, and used that power against anyone considered a financial risk to the RICO.

For example, in the absence of any legally based charge of wrongdoing, AG Bob Ferguson has directed the SAAGS to use SLAPP litigation, fraudulent Bar hearings, defamation, contract private security consults, and contract cybercriminals against one single member of the press, Anne Block, spending over $20 million of taxpayer money in the process.

Mr. Tollefson has personally orchestrated and covered up criminal acts of retaliation against members of the Bar. Mr. Tollefson has simply acted as a henchman for the Bar, which is completely controlled by the RICO.

Regardless of the evidence that the Bar is a public organization, spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer money and fully charged with the power of the State, by colluding with the State Supreme Court to declare themselves private, the Bar and the state successfully shifted liability from the state away from the Bar’s Board of Governors, the Bar management, and the state, to the members of the Bar.

This is the Central purpose of Lloyd’s RICO, the Washington State unit of which is AWC and the AG’s DES: liability control. “The Board of Governors and management have done this in secret. Behind closed doors. Private meetings. Secret memos. Because once the Bar and Supreme Court declared the Bar private, the Bar was no longer subject to either the Public Records Act or the Open Meetings Act.

Will the entire Board of Governors continue to dance to Mr. Tollefson’s pied piper tune on the deck of the Titanic? Will they all continue to expose themselves to personal liability and end up destitute?

Will the Bar’s members finally have the integrity and at least act for self-preservation to demand the Bar stop burying its members in personal liability? Power concedes nothing without a demand.

It is a near certainly that the current Board and Management will present a complex Atlantic City boardwalk shell game to perpetuate its power and continue to expose Bar members to billions of dollars of liability.

It’s time for a vote of no confidence to clear the board and transitional management, get a new Board of Governors, open the meetings to the Bar members on any subject, and design a legitimately bifurcated Bar.

Anything less will continue to expose the members of the Washington State Bar to billions of dollars of personal liability,” he said.

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

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Time Is Running Out for Lloyd’s of London’s Washington State RICO Unit

Part Five of Ten

By J.P. Zenger

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On March 8, 2022, at 11:18 a.m., the offices of Snohomish County, Washington government seemed the same as any other morning. There were two exceptions. In the main reception area, the unseasonal smell of freshly cut grass drifted in through the partially open window on an unusually clear and sunny 46-degree day for early March. Nothing remotely suggested that a metaphoric F5 storm loomed just over the horizon.

The second exception to routine was the presence of a federal agent serving a subpoena. Compelling records about members of the largest RICO in the history of Washington State. The subpoena is expected to be the first of many. Over the next few months, dozens of local and state government offices, public officials, and private law firms are predicted by legal experts to be next. The storm with the power to eviscerate the RICO and the lives of its members thus announced its imminent arrival in Washington State.

After 15 years of effort by Washington State’s Gold Bar Reporter, together with its growing network of 13 volunteer attorneys, 86 victims and their families, hundreds of public records requests, and a lengthy investigation by federal law enforcement, the Washington State unit of what is now proven to be a massive global RICO operated by Lloyd’s of London appears to be rapidly nearing its end, according to voluminous evidence and insider testimony.

The RICO was deconstructed by the Gold Bar Reporter after retaliation by RICO member John E. Pennington, Jr., as chronicled in this series, “Seattle’s Epstein.” As explained earlier in the series, one of several cogs in Lloyd’s complex RICO machine is estate, probate and guardianship fraud involving billions of dollars. “We really lucked out,” said John Scannell, an appellate attorney in the 9th Circuit. “At the end of over a decade’s work, when choosing model RICO cases to bring to national attention, we found what is alleged to be a model case of estate fraud.” Luck may have little to do with the extended public interest group’s ongoing success.

For his part, Mr. Scannell is clearly a remarkable person. One of the few people in the history of the state to get a perfect SAT Score, he has a degree in physics from the University of Washington, is an accomplished chess champion, and has a decades-long history of public interest litigation with hundreds of millions of dollars of impact. He has rarely charged for his work and has a national reputation as “The Wizard of Laws.”

Mr. Scannell’s associate Anne Block, J.D., is equally remarkable. She worked through law school as a machinist while raising her infant daughter as a single mother. An award-winning investigative journalist, she inherited from her social activist New England parents a 163 IQ, their tireless Yankee work ethic, a blunt Boston bravado, and instilled in her an obligation to actively challenge corruption – regardless of the time or cost required. “They considered our historic Bostonian civic duty sacred,’ she said. “So do I.”

Luck may also have little to do with how the group’s associates discovered their model estate fraud case. In 2019, a guardianship victims’ relative, semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald joined the Gold Bar Reporter network. He acquired state-of-the-art fraud detection software, and began to process Washington State records. “We now discover patterns of fraud and relationships in seconds that until a couple of years ago would have taken thousands of hours and was only used by the NSA and CIA,” he said.

Openly Corrupt King County Commissioner Carlos aka “Crazy Carlos” Velategui is a Key Member of a Vast Washington State RICO

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“It’s hard to overstate the significance of the new fraud analysis software. It’s like we are dealing with 19 century bank robbers who have no idea what a computer is. The software uses artificial intelligence and ‘Big Data’ in such complex and sophisticated ways that it really is science fiction come true. We have the next best thing to a brain scanner. After we find the patterns and cases, the same judges, attorneys, and public officials appear. We then contact the victims and their heirs.

The model case that the group discovered is the estate of the late Robert Cannon. “It’s the perfect fraud case,” said Mr. Greenwald. “We have an openly corrupt commissioner, Carlos aka ‘Crazy Carlos’ Velategui, and a plaintiff, Henry Cannon, who was an employee of King County and a friend of several judges. It couldn’t be better,” he stated. “This is our dream case. Velategui was already on our short list of the most corrupt judges in the state before his initial retirement two years ago. We are also reviewing all of the cases of Hanis Irvine Prothero.

“Known to be one of the most openly corrupt King County, Washington judges for his entire career, Velategui continues to fraudulently exhume himself from retirement like a crypt keeper of public corruption whose rotting hand clutching a fistful of stolen dollars rises from the grave in a “B” movie. But he couldn’t do it without the help of his friends in King County government,” said Mr. Greenwald. “They know who he is and what he does.”

Upon discovery of the Cannon estate case, the group reached out to an estate creditor with their evidence. The effort to elevate public attention about Velategui, other colluding public officials, and the firm Hanis Irvine includes two websites focused on Velategui and Hanis Irvine to assist victims with the automation of filing federal criminal complaints, to function as central repositories for evidence, and to collect and package evidence for a civil class action. “We have large national firms interested before the sites are fully live on May 15,” said Mr. Greenwald.

Patrick M. Hanis, the Law Firm Hanis Irvine Prothero and its staff are the subject of a RICO Investigation.

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“It’s all about focus. In addition to Pennington, who really revealed the entire RICO, we are focusing on a relatively small number of public officials and attorneys. Our greatest asset is their arrogance. We will keep packaging evidence and sending it to federal authorities in D.C. We know how much collusion there is between the RICO members and public officials in the Western District,” said Anne Block, Publisher of the Gold Bar Reporter.

For his part, Patrick Hanis is a key subject of the Gold Bar Reporter investigation. In addition to his involvement in probate and guardianship cases of interest, Mr. Hanis has acted as a Commissioner for King County Water District #111 since February 2004, which serves the areas of Meridian Valley and Lake Meridian in Kent. During that time, he and his law firm have represented clients with water rights issues.

Charles Wilson is Being Investigated for His Decisions Involving Clients of Hanis Irvine

Gary G. Cline is Being Investigated for His Decisions Involving Clients of Hanis Irvine

“We are examining every case of record and alleged conflicts of interest between Water District 111, Mr. Hanis, Hanis Irvine, and its staff, clients, Mr. Charles Wilson, and Mr. Gary G. Cline,” said Ms. Block. “Beyond that, I can no longer comment.”

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UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS, John Pennington, Explains His Support And “Outspoken Advocacy” of Abortion Rights

Killer and Serial child rapist John Pennington explains his unwavering support of abortion as being “about consistency”

Fairbanks, AK USA “I may have committed negligent homicide of 43 people, and am currently an alleged ‘person of interest’ in some other supposed homicides and disappearances of underage children across a few states and Canada, but it’s really about consistency,” said John Pennington, aka “Seattle’s Epstein,” reflecting on his well-known support of abortion. “I mean, I may be called a murderer, but at least I’m not a hypocrite.”

The nationally infamous serial criminal took time from his schedule as a public official and Faculty Member of the University of Alaska for a remarkably candid, if not confessional, interview with the Gold Bar Reporter to explain his international activism as a leading supporter of abortion rights. “I want to be very clear about my position on abortion,” he stated with emphasis, “I not only support abortion, but I also support it in any circumstance through the third trimester of pregnancy. In fact my personal philanthropy has focused exclusively on supporting abortion rights, and personally paying for dozens of abortions.”

Mr. Pennington has, in fact, illustrated his point of conviction and degree of advocacy of the right to end life through his own personal experience, as is reflected in the public record. In Seattle, when Mr. Pennington and his former wife had a disagreement about carrying their own child to term, he took matters into his own hands to tangibly express the extent of his passion and no-compromises position about the right to terminate a pregnancy. John Pennington nearly beat his ex-wife to death while she was in her third trimester of pregnancy. He had done the same to other former spouses and girlfriends as well. Repeatedly.

“Look at my track record. Of course I support abortion in all its forms, whether done through a licensed clinic, a veterinarian, a midwife, or even in a back alley,” said Mr. Pennington. “It’s an established fact that I was responsible for the death of 43 people. Wouldn’t it be kind of silly if I went around saying I was pro-life?” he said, “Actually, it would be nothing short of ridiculous,” he emphasized. Mr. Pennington’s court-ordered psychiatric evaluation by Dr. Marsha Hendricks in Seattle concurred, concluding that he has “no empathy for human life whatsoever.”

Another court-appointed psychiatric evaluation by Dr. Ableben Z. Hintritt of Los Angeles, California concluded that Mr. Pennington’s:

“…severe Asperger’s, together with a long history of incest and reciprocal extreme domestic violence from a very young age that involved both his mother and grandfather has resulted in a deeply disturbed and dangerous psychopath with behavior manifesting in dissociative identity disorder, commonly known as a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ personality.’”

Dr. Hintritt further predicted that:

“Mr. Pennington’s disorders will be regularly triggered by seemingly random events, and will continue to result in severe outbursts and physical violence, including inevitable threats to human life. When those trigger events occur, he has no capacity whatsoever to control his behavior, degree of internal agitation, and external violence and harm that will predictably manifest during those events. Mr. Pennington is a headline waiting to happen,” said the internationally regarded Psychiatrist. Dr. Hintritt’s prediction was prophetic. The headlines have appeared all over the world.

“By far the greatest danger of Asperger’s patients who also manifest psychopathy and antisocial behavior is their ability to study and mimic the behavior of others, and thus to appear normal until any number of trigger events occurs,” stated Dr. Hintritt in his report to the Court. “This is very disarming in the case of Mr. Pennington, as the subject is highly intelligent, presents with a distinguished and attractive appearance, and yet as accurately cited in the previous analysis by Dr. Hendricks, Mr. Pennington has absolutely no capacity for human empathy whatsoever,” he said. “The combination of his disorders, together with a complete absence of any moral compass makes Mr. Pennington as dangerous as any subject I have ever assessed,” stated the noted Psychiatrist and profiler of serial killers, including fellow Seattle murders Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, and dozens of others.

“Mr. Pennington’s consistently violent criminal behavior precludes any rational possibility of functioning in society. Permanent involuntary confinement without the possibility of parole is the only conceivable option.”

Mr. Pennington’s support for abortion goes well beyond his financial support. Several restraining orders have been issued against him for harassing pro-life advocates at their homes, protests, and even their offices. Mr. Pennington’s harassment of public pro-life protests has involved him both “mooning” and sexually exposing himself to groups of protesters, including children. The investigations and/or prosecutions of all of these incidents and charges have been blocked, sealed, and/or dismissed by the many judges and public officials whom he and his wife have directly or indirectly extorted and continue to extort.

Consistency indeed. John Pennington’s demonstrated position on a child’s right to life and protection has been equally consistent throughout his entire life. A serial rapist of very young children since he was a teenager, the cases of his rape of boys and girls span the country. After violently raping several children in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, he raped several boys at his church in San Diego. He then raped and attempted to murder a five-year-old girl in Cowlitz County, Washington. According to the lead detective in the case, Maurice Saxon, “John Pennington is the man who raped and tried to murder that little girl.”

After the child rapes in San Diego, he fled California. Relocating to Washington State, he found an uncontested seat in the Washington State Legislature, representing a sparsely populated community. Using his new position as a state legislator, he actively “socialized” at every possible venue with his fellow legislators. The socializing included countless “meetings” at several private and public “swingers” clubs that feature spouse swapping and every conceivable related activity. He then arranged private flights with lobbyists and legislators to Portland, Oregon to have sex with underage victims of child trafficking. With and without the knowledge of the legislators, he took pictures. Those pictures, together with those taken during his current wife’s politically targeted promiscuity at Mr. Pennington’s direction, has allowed the Penningtons to continuously blackmail judges and politicians. Those judges and politicians have, in turn, pressured lower ranking public officials to forego investigation and/or prosecution of countless of the Pennington’s crimes.

The Legislators who occupied office concurrently and “socialized” with Mr. Pennington, and/or who have been subject to his blackmail, include Washington State’s Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, Snohomish County Judges Eric Lucas and Joe Wilson, Court of Appeals Division One Justice Marlin Applewick, and Commissioner G. Geoffrey Gibbs, in addition to several other public officials. His extortion has resulted in those politicians and public officials erasing Mr. Pennington’s criminal history on the FBI’s NCIC criminal database, pressuring prosecutors to forego prosecution of dozens of crimes, including child rape, and one of the most visible, egregious, and extensive cases of negligent homicide in the history of the United States.

In one example of his ability to evade or defer justice, Mr. Pennington’s rape of the five-year-old girl in Cowlitz County, WA, was to be prosecuted by a Kelso City Prosecutor Michael Kenyon. Directly after Mr. Pennington assumed state office, however, “The rape kit for the investigation disappeared, several witnesses were never called, and the case never went to trial. Pennington was never even charged. Michael Kenyon directly aided and abetted Pennington, a violent serial child rapist, and went from his $43,000 a year job with Cowlitz County, WA to receiving millions of dollars in state government legal services contracts. Pennington went free. Is that a coincidence?” said a former Police Detective and private investigator. The little girl, who barely survived, got a lifetime of night terrors, according to her mother.

The most dramatic example of the power of Mr. Pennington’s blackmail is the fact that his negligent homicide of 43 people, homes, animals, and related economic impact of over two hundred million dollars was never prosecuted. “John Edward Pennington Jr. got his job as director of FEMA’s Region 10 through fraud, according to the Seattle Times. The story is covered by dozens of major media outlets across the world. He repeatedly lied to the press about his failure to disclose the slide risks to residents. And he’s fired for stealing FEMA money, but never prosecuted? How is it possible to get away with murder and federal fraud in broad daylight. In front of the entire world?” said a FEMA insider.

Roughly Half of the People in Washington State Killed by John Edward Pennington Jr.

When told of Mr. Pennington’s current employment in a $100,000+ position as the “Deputy Director of the Center for Arctic Security and Resilience” with the State of Alaska, referencing himself on the State website as “an internationally recognized emergency/disaster management and public policy professional,” the otherwise calm and professional FEMA insider responded with an extended series of expletives, followed by “Are you serious? Who in God’s name let this happen, and how on Earth is it remotely possible for this murdering child rapist con artist to get a job in government, again? This is insane.”

“Like I said, it’s about consistency,” concluded Mr. Pennington in relation to his tireless support of the right to end life, abruptly ending the interview, “I can’t stand hypocrites.”

This article and the series, and all articles on the Gold Bar Reporter, may be reprinted and published at no cost if approved by the Gold Bar Reporter, and original authorship and joint ownership of copyrights by J.P. Zenger and the Gold Bar Reporter are attributed. Please email GoldBarReporter@comcast.net with requests for reprint/republication.

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – PART THREE

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Sarah Palin Allegedly Referred “Extremely Dangerous Serial Criminals” for Jobs at “University of Alaska Fairbanks Administration and its Attorneys Look the Other Way”

the Gold Bar Reporter, reporting on Fairbanks Alaska

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Two people cited by a prominent Ninth Circuit Appellate Attorney as “Extremely dangerous serial criminals,” were allegedly referred by Sarah Palin for employment at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The Gold Bar Reporter, reporting on Fairbanks Alaska “What we’re talking about here is a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde couple – but far worse,” said John Scannell, a nationally regarded attorney in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The referenced couple, John Pennington, and his wife Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg), are nationally infamous for their crime sprees in Washington State and across the country over the course of decades.

The Pennington’s “criminal Katrina,” as insiders refer to their legacy and ongoing criminal activity, has and continues to occur at vast public expense. The cost of the Pennington’s rampage includes the negligent homicide of 43 people, the rape and attempted murder of a five-year-old girl in Cowlitz County, WA, and hundreds of millions of dollars in theft and damage to public and private property.

“Given how much evidence about the Pennington’s criminal activity is available with even a minimal background check – or for that matter that is publicly available on the internet with a couple of keystrokes – isn’t a larger question, ‘Who told University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) staff to bypass employment screening requirements to knowingly expose students to dangerous serial criminals, and Alaska taxpayers to massive financial liability?’” said the famous appellate attorney who is known to rarely charge fees for his high-profile public interest work.

The answer to the “who” question, according to allegations by UAF insiders, is Sarah Palin and friends. Ms. Palin has personally known the Penningtons for nearly 20 years, since 2003. “Insiders allege that John Pennington first met Sarah Palin when he was fundraising for George Bush in 2003, and she was in charge of Alaska’s piggy bank as Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Pennington used his fraudulently obtained position as Director of FEMA’s Region 10 – which includes Alaska – after submitting completely false credentials to get the job, to gain access to Palin,” said Journalist and Publisher Anne Block, J.D. “According to several sources, the Pennington’s went to great and constant efforts to ingratiate themselves to Palin because of her access to an ocean of Alaska’s money and her political and social connections to wealthy Republicans.”

After being terminated by FEMA in 2004 for theft of federal money, John Pennington fraudulently became a self-described “professor,” at Pierce College in Washington State. Ms. Block provided Pierce College’s Chancellor, Michelle Johnson, their Human Resources Department, Legal Department, and the College’s Board with extensive evidence of Pennington’s falsified credentials and criminal history. No action was taken. She then published a story on her blog with links to criminal evidence. Nothing happened. Ms. Block, a J.D., journalist, meticulous researcher, and highly effective public advocate for decades, was mystified. “I’ve never seen this,” she said. “I knew that there had to be a reason for Pennington’s apparent invincibility. And there certainly is.”

Although the administration and Board of Pierce College took no action after receiving hundreds of pages of evidence from Ms. Block, John Pennington then engaged in “extremely inappropriate behavior with both students and staff,” which finally resulted in his termination, according to a concerned member of Pierce College’s staff who contacted Ms. Block. The source also indicates that legal action against the college is now pending – precisely as Ms. Block had warned Pierce College’s administration and legal counsel would occur.

“The Pennington’s are walking tornados of human suffering, misery, and public financial liability,” said attorney Scannell. “The most basic question is, how are the Pennington’s getting away with all of this? People are automatically disqualified for government employment for any one of their crimes, and yet they have committed dozens of both state and federal crimes, year after year, all of which is publicly documented.”

The answer, as Journalist and Publisher Ms. Block has carefully documented and concluded after both filing hundreds of public records requests and receiving testimony from dozens of insiders, is extortion. By extorting highly placed public officials with compromising pictures of sex acts, including those with underage victims of human trafficking, allegedly including Washington State’s Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, Judge Marlin Applewick, Judge Michael Scott, and several other public officials, Mr. Pennington has been able to have both his prosecution suppressed and his criminal record erased. “This really is Seattle’s Epstein,” said Ms. Block.

Crystal Hill Pennington’s (Nee Berg) Crime Spree is

Spread Over Several States and a Term of Decades

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“Crystal Hill Pennington’s crimes are so vast and numerous, however, that even John Pennington’s extortion leverage isn’t powerful enough to clean up the metaphoric legal and criminal equivalent of the fallout from Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island combined,” according to Journalist Ms. Block. “Crystal Hill has unsuccessfully attempted to evade authorities and accountability through several relocations across the country and name changes; engaged in politically targeted serial promiscuity with dozens of highly placed public officials including former Washington State Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe and former Mayor Joe Beavers, many of whom contracted Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) from her – according to Ms. Hill Pennington’s own public emails; forged court documents; stole $200,000 from the City of Gold Bar; served time in prison as a three-time failure for fraud, and falsified countless job applications. Regardless of her extensive criminal history, Crystal Hill Pennington has mysteriously gained employment in $100,000+ per year government jobs – all while somehow evading background checks at every juncture,” said the award-winning reporter.

“This included a job with King County, Washington, until we filed public records requests and repeatedly proved that her employment application was completely falsified, at which point she was finally fired. Ms. Pennington then recently fled to Alaska, under the apparent belief that her serial criminal husband can once again extort and/or leverage jobs for both of them, which he has done,” stated Ms. Block.

“We have solved the mystery as to how both John and Crystal Pennington continue to operate their confidence game,” said Ms. Block. “John Pennington has been using both extortion leverage and calling in favors to get he and his wife Crystal Hill Pennington high paying public jobs, as well as to prevent people at those public agencies from performing background checks. This is exactly what is alleged to have happened with Sarah Palin and friends getting the Pennington’s jobs at UAF, with insiders knowingly looking the other way about their seemingly endless criminal histories. Let me be clear – these people have criminal records, with double jacket albums.”

“It will all come out in our investigation, in addition to the audits and investigations of several agencies we are filing with, by checking the call logs and emails of every public official involved, to determine who knew what, when, and yet allowed the Pennington’s state employment, regardless of all the evidence of criminal activity UAF administration had of both John and Crystal Pennington,” she stated. “We have filed public records requests on several public employees and are just getting started. None of us will stop until we find out which public officials, who are highly paid and trusted to protect public interest, have been aiding and abetting the continuation of their crime spree,” said Attorney Scannell. “By helping the Penningtons, every person involved has been, and is, committing state and federal crimes. UA Administration and even their counsel has looked the other way. Shouldn’t they be held accountable?”

“Crystal Hill Pennington is even trying to apply to the Alaska Bar for a law license, even though her academic ‘credentials’ are from an online ‘diploma mill,’ in Eastern Oregon and Mitchell Hamlin, which is automatically disqualified by the American Bar Association’s requirements for a valid law degree. And because of her criminal record, she is doubly disqualified from being a member of any state bar association. Ever,” Ms. Block emphatically stated.

Ms. Block is not the only journalist interested in the Penningtons, however. While major national and international media have become increasingly interested in the Gold Bar Reporter’s “Seattle’s Epstein” story over the past year, “more than ten” of the largest print and TV news venues in the nation have contacted Ms. Block and many of her witness informants within the past two weeks. “They are calling the story bigger than Epstein.”

“This story is gaining momentum with the mass and force of an Alaskan glacier, and the fury of an avalanche,” said Ms. Block.

“It looks like the careers of many Alaskan public officials are directly in its path.”

Seattle’s Epstein – Part One

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Eigh t

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN PART TWO

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Chancellor White Refuses to Fire

Serial Criminal John Edward Pennington

For the Gold Bar Reporter, reporting on Fairbanks Alaska

Chancellor White’s Refusal to Fire Known Serial Criminal John Pennington
“Exposes Students to Imminent Danger, The University to Massive Financial
Liability and Loss of Federal Accreditation,” According to a Legal Expert

Fairbanks, AK Oct. 20, 2021. “It just doesn’t make sense,” said the famous Ninth Circuit Appellate attorney John Scannell. “By refusing to fire John Pennington, the Chancellor is putting the life of every student at risk.”

“I want to be very clear on what the implications are of John Pennington’s presence at the University of Alaska,” said the tireless public interest litigator, who is nationally recognized for his pro bono advocacy of civil rights. “The Chancellor is exposing the students to imminent danger, the university to massive financial liability and loss of federal accreditation,” he said. “It’s that simple.”

“Isn’t the larger question, ‘How did John Edward Pennington Jr., a man with a false credentials, a history of negligent homicide of 43 people, federal credit card fraud, rape and attempted murder of a five year old child, serial child molestation, and extreme domestic violence get hired by the University of Alaska?’” said the federal attorney. “Shouldn’t the Chancellor be thoroughly investigated by the Board of Regents, the Office of Governor, the Legislature, the State Auditor, the Alaska Education Foundation, and the Education Trust of Alaska?” asked the highly regarded litigator.

The Publisher of the Gold Bar Reporter, who has collected thousands of pages of evidence over a decade, agrees. “This is Seattle’s Epstein,” said legal scholar Anne Block, J.D. “He has been blackmailing high-ranking politicians for years with compromising pictures involving underage victims of human trafficking. Public officials include Court of Appeals Justice Marlin Applewick, Senator John Lovick, and Snohomish County Commissioner G. Geoffrey Gibbs, who remains on the bench regardless of his prior conviction of fraud by the Washington Attorney General’s Office.

There is no way that John Pennington could be legitimately employed in any public interest capacity,” said the Journalist and Publisher. “Any background check would have revealed a lifetime of criminal activity,” she said.

“Every single email, every phone call, and every meeting of the Chancellor should be exhaustively examined to determine what political pressure or favoritism may have resulted in Pennington’s hiring and the refusal to terminate Pennington’s employment,” said Ms. Block.

“The Chancellor is risking the health and safety of the students,” she said. “The people of Alaska need to know why. Right now.”

This is Part Two of the series “Seattle’s Epstein,” which now focus on the investigation of Chancellor White.

Seattle’s Epstein – Part One

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Eigh t

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TAMPERING WITH JUSTICE

Many Public Officials in Lloyd’s of London’s RICO Network are Convicted Criminals

Criminals’ Records in FBI National Crime Information Center Database Illegally Altered and Deleted

UPDATE Sept. 21, 2021. Openly corrupt attorney Amanda Froh is a central figure in the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s of London’s criminal RICO.

Froh routinely commits criminal acts on behalf of Attorney General Bob Ferguson, including tampering with public records requests and intentionally falsifying official statements for persons targeted for retaliation by the state – both state and federal crimes.

“The apple didn’t fall far from the tree,” said a Wenatchee attorney about Froh. “Her father, Thomas Warren, a former judge in Central Washington, was repeatedly reprimanded by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for nearly a dozen counts of serious ethics violations,” she said. “Warren was known to be openly racist, profane, and intoxicated with power. He was a tyrant. Just like his daughter, Amanda Froh.” Warren was also well known to pay lip service to due process while denying access to justice to pro se litigants.

Froh, is in fact, an integral part of a massive criminal RICO, a component of which is involved in the theft of hundreds of millions in guardianship and estate fraud. As with many members of the Washington State RICO who assume public office, Amanda Froh is hiding in plain sight. RICO members, like other criminals, don’t advertise their criminal activity, they assume positions of trust.

Everyone knows that child molesters become priests, Boy Scout leaders and schoolteachers. Sadists prey on the vulnerable – they become jail guards, judges, lawyers, cops, counselors, therapists, or work in nursing homes and hospitals. And RICO members like Amanda Froh become prosecutors, public attorneys, records officers, judges, and other positions of public trust – all to further their RICO. Froh is no different than any other major RICO criminal in public office.

When acting as a prosecutor of “elder abuse,” Froh was able to appear to be doing her job by targeting individuals who were not part of the organized RICO. In reality, however, Amanda Froh is a critical member of the Washington State RICO for two important reasons:

First, Amanda Froh failed to prosecute any major guardianship and estate fraud involving her RICO collaborators, regardless of the thousands of pages of evidence presented to her office.

Second, in addition to the damage caused by Froh as a result of her knowing inaction against her RICO collaborators, as a former prosecutor with a close continuing working relationship with the RICOs’ prosecutors and judges, she illegally packages fraudulent cases against innocent people targeted for retaliation by the RICO. Froh’s knowing acts on behalf of the RICO also make possible extensive money laundering and federal tax evasion involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

Is there any criminal worse than one who wears the trappings and enjoys the prestige of public office, is highly paid from public taxes, and is entrusted with the literal power of life and death while actually furthering a criminal enterprise for personal gain? Compared to Amanda Froh, doesn’t even a bank robber look like a champion of justice? Isn’t she the ultimate con artist, pretending to represent public interest and the last line of defense, while doing more damage to society than any inner-city gang?

It is difficult to overstate the human devastation Froh’s deliberate failure to act against the guardianship fraud her RICO members has caused. Entire families’ estates stolen. Hard working people stripped of their legal rights, every penny, and forced into illegal guardianships with substandard care. Families destroyed. Suicides. And Amanda Froh looks the other way, both for personal gain and to aid the Washington State RICO that she occupies a central role in furthering. According to the law, Froh’s role in the RICO has legally ended, however.

Brady v. Maryland established that police officers who impede due process rights are permanently disqualified to be further employed in any law enforcement capacity. Having committed multiple counts of intentional fraudulent misrepresentation to deny due process, under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution which provides equal protection, Froh is now a “Brady Lawyer,” and may not again be lawfully employed as a government prosecutor or lawyer in any capacity.

A former colleague of Froh – a forensic accountant – said “Without accountability, there can’t be trust. Without trust, you can’t have society.” He’s right. That’s why the Gold Bar Reporter will be holding Amanda Froh accountable, regardless of how much time, effort, or cost is required. Froh has used her position and public trust to further a RICO enterprise, and is a disgrace to public office.

While Amanda Froh’s role in the RICO may soon end, her responsibility for her criminal acts will not. In addition to the efforts of the Gold Bar Reporter, because of how we index, metatag, mirror, collocate, offshore, and archive our articles, for at least the next 1000 years the entire world will know who Amana Froh is. Just as the Framers of the Constitution and the First Amendment intended – but amplified by the internet far beyond their dreams.

As always, we have extensive and detailed documented evidence. We will continue to update this article and add links to a small sample of the direct evidence of Froh’s criminal activities in the near future.

SEPT. 21, 2021. FOLLOW UP TO THE FROH SEGMENT OF “TAMPERING WITH JUSTICE”

Directly after the publication of this article, Amanda Froh and her RICO associates attempted but failed – again – to intimidate and harass legally recognized journalists at the Gold Bar Reporter by seeking to place an illegal involuntary 72-hour mental health hold on a GBR reporter without legal cause; find damaging information from universities GBR journalists are graduates of, in addition to several other criminal acts according to allegations of insider informants. The actions of Froh and her RICO associates underscores their demonstrated belief that they may ignore the Constitution, are immune from the law, and may violate their sworn duty as public officials. As always, their criminal retaliatory actions have again not only failed but have served to redouble our conviction and efforts to bring the RICO members to justice. Amanda Froh is now a central subject of the RICO series being published by the national and international multimedia press over the coming months.

SEPT. 6, 2021. FOLLOW UP TO THE FROH SEGMENT OF “TAMPERING WITH JUSTICE

Attorney in ‘Good Standing‘, Harold Goldes, a convicted drug offender and an employee of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office otherwise known as Department of Enterprise Service, was Placed by Lloyd’s of London’s Washington State’s RICO Unit as a Washington State Public Records Officer. Contrary to Public Records laws, Mr. Goldes Routinely Destroys, Ignores, or Illegally Redacts Public Records in a Concerted Effort to Deny Targeted Persons Their Constitutional Right to Due Process Under Federal and State Law. Mr. Goldes Works at the Direction of State Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

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One more piece of Lloyd’s of London’s massive criminal fraud machine is now deconstructed. But first, a brief review of where things are.

The contributors to the Gold Bar Reporter (GBR), together with our supporters in legal academia and law practice, all await the inevitable tsunami of national and international press coverage of Lloyd’s of London’s global RICO over the next few months. Press luminaries assert it is the story of the century.

Yet in a textbook case of cognitive dissonance, Lloyd’s and their Washington State RICO Co-Directors Peter King, CEO of the Association of Washington Cities, and also soon-to-be-unemployed RICO Co-Director Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, seem to bury their heads in the sand in the hope that federal law enforcement will ignore their countless federal crimes.

Meanwhile, the GBR and our rapidly growing network continue to unravel ever more elements of Lloyd’s vast global fraud and those who participate in it. One critical cog in the RICO machine is how Lloyd’s is able to get so many people to commit crimes. Now we know – they systematically hire criminals.

But Lloyd’s RICO network does not hire just any criminals. They hire convicted criminal attorneys like Harold Goldes. Disgraced public officials. Drug dealers. Crooked ‘Brady’ cops. Thieves. Fraudsters. Violent rapists. Child molesters. And at least one “person of interest” in a series of missing children cases, John Edward Pennington Jr., who also negligently killed 43 people.

How does one hire an army of criminals and put them in key positions of government – including government contracted lawyers and judicial positions? By finding criminals who are usually from outside the area where they are given jobs. Then deleting their criminal histories from the federal FBI NCIC database.

If you operate a criminal enterprise such as Lloyd’s, of course you want to hire criminals – compromised people may be leveraged. A debate about the ethics of what they are told to do would be unlikely. As would be the limits of the crimes RICO recruits are willing to commit. The way they are leveraged is with both a carrot and a stick.

The stick, of course, being an implied or stated threat of the removal of their professional license, exposure of their crimes, restoring their criminal record on the federal FBI NCIC system, or ending the mountain of money, benefits, social status, and retirement pay. The carrot? Ever more state money and promotions.

How is the Lloyd’s network able to alter, delete, or create false criminal histories in the federal NCIC database? Two ways: First, Lloyd’s is owned by the U.K. government, and has given Lloyd’s access to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) databases. MOD is linked to INTERPOL and U.S. federal databases.

The second way that the Lloyd’s RICO network alters the NCIC database is with its Washington State affiliates. Affiliates include both staff members of RICO Co-Director Bob Ferguson’s office of the AG, and contract attorneys called “Special Assistant Attorney Generals (SAAGs)” like Shannon Ragonasi and King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott.

Both the AG staff and contract SAAG attorneys are given access codes by the AG to alter or delete criminal records in the federal NCIC database, and to create false criminal histories for people targeted for financial or political reasons. As always, we have the documentation from insiders and our own research.

In Snohomish County Washington, Sheriff Adam Fortney, unlawfully gave access to the FBI NCIC database to the contract law firm of Zachor Thomas. Some of our readers may remember Zachor Thomas as a key subject of ProPublica’s story “ An Unbelievable Story of Rape” documented the law firm of Zachor Thomas harassment and malicious prosecution of a young woman was charged with the crime of filing a false criminal complaint AFTER SHE WAS RAPED – regardless of objectively verifiable medical evidence. Not one single police officer from the City of Lynnwood Washington who, with the assistance of Zachor Thomas, falsely CRIMINALLY charged her with filing a frivolous complaint, were ever disciplined or fired. Lloyds of London paid the victim a pittance only after extensive litigation. Netflix ran a mini-serious regarding Zachor Thomas’s crimes against the rape victim. ProPublica won a Pulitzer for its coverage of what is considered one of the worst cases of injustice in the history of Washington State. Again, not one public official or lawyer at Zachor Thomas has yet been brought to justice.

Why has the federal government not arrested them all? Have faith. Reporters from the world of insurance industry journalism are in regular contact with the GBR and believe the series on Lloyd’s RICO will result in liability exposure of at least tens of billions and dissolve Lloyd’s and their syndicates. And many arrests.

The history of business proves that no one is too big to fail.

Lloyd’s is next, say the experts.

The Directors of Lloyd’s Global RICO Enterprise

Carry Bond Co-Directs Lloyd’s of London U.S. RICO Division from New York City

Peter King, Association of Washington Cities, Co-Directors of Lloyd’s

Washington State RICO Network

WA AG Bob Ferguson

A Few Members of Lloyd’s Washington State’s RICO Network

John Pennington Committed Negligent Homicide which caused the deaths of 43 people; fraudulently used federal government credit cards; forged court documents; raped and attempted to murder a five-year-old girl in Cowlitz County, WA; sexually assaulted a public employee in Snohomish County, WA; has a long history of extreme domestic violence; is a serial child molester across several states; is currently a “person of interest” as a serial murderer across the U.S. and Canada; and falsified his academic credentials to gain past employment with the federal government and current employment with the state of Washington at Pierce College and Overlake Hospital. The Lloyd’s network has ensured that he has no criminal record. His resume currently earns Mr. Pennington over $250,000 per year plus benefits at taxpayer expense.

Ricardo Salazar Martinez, Us Federal Court Judge Seattle

Seattle US Federal Judge Martinez Engaged in Ex Parte Communication with Joseph Genster (Special AG for WA State) Purposes of Fixing a case in favor of the Washington State Attorney Generals Office. Seattle US Federal Judges Martinez and Richard A Jones also receive a Washington State Attorney General paycheck from Washington State Public Retirement System (PERs) and failed to disclose their pecuniary interest with Washington State Attorney General’s Office on hundreds of cases where Washington Attorney Generals like Nicholas Brown and Brian Moran were the US attorney who files criminal charges. Brian Moran while serving as the US Attorney for Western Washington received documents from Veterans that Washington State attorneys were stealing from elderly clients. When asked to bring criminal charges against high ranking members of the Washington State Bar Association US attorney Brian Moran responded by saying “ I cannot, I have a conflict of interest.” Brian Moran was a Special Attorney General for Washington State. Nicholas Brown was also a Special Attorney General for Washington State while employed with Pacifica Law Group.

* Shannon Ragonesi, a constructively disbarred forced to resign from NY Bar after caught destroying documents

Ann Marie Soto, a convicted criminal from Toledo Ohio, falsely stated to the US Supreme Court in her application that she did not have a criminal history. Ethics complaints are being pursued with the US Supreme Court Ethics Board.

Harlan Stientjes has a Long History of Directing Retaliation Against People Targeted by the Washington State RICO for the Association of Washington Cities and the Office of Attorney General, and of Concealing the Crimes of Pedophiles

Judge Marybeth Dingledy, a former King County Special Assistant Prosecutor, and now Snohomish County Superior Court Judge, was convicted of a DUI and served a light sentence because she worked for King County Prosecutor’s Office who prosecuted her for DUI.

Advocates in Snohomish County claim that Ms. Dingledy has a serious drug addiction to meth.

*Minor Correction: Shannon Ragonesi was forced to resign from NY Bar after unethical conduct claims were filed

Seattle’s Epstein – Part One

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Eigh t

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Six Seattle Police Officers who Participated in Attempting to Overthrow the will of the voters, still remain on Seattle’s welfare system

On January 2, 2021, six Seattle Police Officers participated in violent protests, most were Pro Trump White Supremacists’. Purpose was to overthrow the US Congress. Permit 21-0274 granted a permit to Pro-Trump Protesters the right to march on the National Mall In Washington D.C., but the Permit did not grant anyone the right to storm, siege the US Capital, threaten, kill or harm police officers, or even breach the concrete barriers surrounding the US Capital.

But that’s exactly what Pro Trump Rally supporters did on January 6, 2021. What would the outcome be if Black Lives Matter protestors, who were African American Seattle Police Officers, committed the same treasonous acts against our government? Would those same police officers still have a job?

Since the Pro Trump Rally, 500 plus people have been arrested for illegally breaching the terms of the Permit 21-0274. Peaceful protests pursuant to the First Amendment is what makes a America great. But destroying public property and assaulting police officers is far from protected first amendment activity. Approximately 500 people have been arrested, ranging from arrests for destruction of public property to assaulting police officers. Many Pro Trumpsters were out right vulgar, one even defecated on Senator Pelosi’s desk, and in our opinion amounted to treason.

The Guardian US reported on how white supremist who closely align themselves with Adolf Hitler like tactics supported by Donald Trump and many of his followers have infiltrated our police departments nationwide. US Federal District Court Judge Robart recognized the problem specifically in the City of Seattle police department by issuing a consent decree after the City of Seattle police officers stalked and harassed minorities while on patrol.

Judge Robart’s consent decree has been in effect since 2012. Robart said ” I am hearing a lot of words. But I don’t measure progress by words. I measure it by action.” Since 2012 when Robart’s court began monitoring civil rights violations committed with several City of Seattle police officers, his order has had little effect in riding our communities of Brady Cops and White Supremacists inside police departments.

This brings us to the lead story on six Seattle Police Officers who area alleged to have “breached” the terms of the Pro Trump Rally Permit on January 6, 2021, when they entered the US Capital Building which was surrounded by concrete barriers.

About one month ago, DIVESTSPD released the names of all six Seattle police officers. After receiving responses to public records requests for all six police officers from the City of Seattle stating that they cannot release the employee files for Seattle Officers Scott Bach, Shaub Briskey, Jacob Briskey, Caitlan Rochelle, Alexzander Everett, Jason Marchoine, and Michael Settle, we feel confident that DIVEST SPD’s report on the names of the six police officers is correct, and the Gold Bar Reporter’s editorial Board decided to publish.

The Gold Bar Reporter requested the followers records for all Seattle police officers,

Pursuant to RCW 42.56, please provide me with all cell phones records for Scott Bach. Specifically, I am asking for is all bills with call logs from the actual cell phone company for any cell phone Scott Bach, Shaub Briskey, Jacob Briskey, Jason Marchione, and Michael Settle, used from November 1, 2020 to March 1, 2021.

AND

All text messages sent to or by any of the officers above during the same time frame.

The City of Seattle’s response was,

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update regarding your request.

The Seattle Police Department needs additional time to respond to your request due to the following:

The requested records continue to be the subject of ongoing litigation and there is currently still a Court Order in place barring their release. The Court Order preventing release of the requested records has been extended while the appeal is ongoing. The Court of Appeals case number is 82430-9-I.

For that reason, at this time, we anticipate having a response or a status update to you on or about 8/20/2021.

Thank you,
Tara Collings

To the City of Settle to unlawfully claim that releasing cell phone bills of any police officer violate any court order as the court order only stated that the City could not release the names of any officers. What happens when the names are already public? We can tell you that a lawsuit will be filed against the City of Seattle for violating our rights to access public records.

Just as the Washington Post published the Pentagon Papers, the names of six Seattle Officers, who four out of the six are Brady Cops, are not private so long as they remain on the taxpayers payroll or as we say ” the City of Seattle’s welfare system.”

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

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

Above, key players within Lloyds of London’s Commercial, sued for Racketeering (RICO) and fixing US markets in the delivery of insurance and legal services throughout the United States.

May 12, 20201 UPDATES TO “GAME OVER“

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

^{ANNE EGELER, PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON LAW SCHOOL HIRED WITH TAXPAYER MONEY BY WA ATTORNEY GENERAL BOB FERGUSON TO PROVIDE A LEGAL DEFENSE TO THE WASHINGTON STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, A PRIVATE ASSOCIATION IN WASHINGTON. AN ILLEGAL MISAPPROPRIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE TAXPAYER MONIES. LEGAL EXPERTS ALLEGE THAT SHE IS NOW A DIRECT PARTICIPANT IN THE LLOYD’S/FERGUSON RICO.}

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

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

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

The increasing attention on the judges and the Ninth Circuit was referenced in our last update of May 12, 2021. What is new since that update are consistent comments by several law professors and law journalists that both public and private attorneys have clearly crossed the line from representing a RICO enterprise to being participants in the RICO enterprise.

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

1) The State Constitution. Article VIII Section 7 stipulates that the state cannot give or loan money to a private association, which the Washington State Supreme Court defined the Washington State Bar as on February 12, 2021. The state has illegally spent tens of millions of dollars to provide free counsel for the bar.

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

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

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

Bottom line: no matter what their openly corrupt bosses like Leslie Seffren, who is currently under investigation for decades of guardianship fraud, child trafficking for insiders from Washington State including King County Superior Court Judge Johanna Bender and her girlfriend were able to steal a child with the help of the AG’s Office.

Can the openly corrupt attorneys acting to further the Lloyd’s/Washington State RICO, such as Allan Copsey, Noah Purcell, Anne Egeler, Kera Heintz, Megan Lin, Cassie Castillo, and Leslie Seffren who appear to be relying on their corrupt network to fix cases and to control the press?

We shall see soon enough!

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Lloyds of London, criminal racketeering, assisted by Washington State’s Attorney General, exposed in public records

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GAME OVER!!!

Seattle, WA USA April 26, 2021. The Gold Bar Reporter is pleased to announce national multimedia press coverage of our work, including in-depth mainstream media reporting on our recent cases in the Ninth Circuit with links to all court documents.

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

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

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

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

Evidence Suggests that David Sansom, Chief Risk Officer of Lloyd’s of London Co-Directs One of the Largest Criminal Enterprises in History

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

Evidence Suggests that Peter Spires, General Counsel of Lloyd’s of London, a Direct Participant in One of the Largest Criminal Enterprises in History

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

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

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

Cary Bond, U.S. Head of Claims for Lloyd’s of London Co-Directs One of the Largest Criminal Enterprises in U.S. History

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

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

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

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

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

Peter King, CEO of the Association of Washington Cities, a Lloyds of London syndicate operating in the state of Washington Co-Directs the Largest Fraud in Washington State History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Using the word “alleged” means “not proven.” In the case of the Washington State Bar Association, we discovered many important “agency” features through various public records requests to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, (1) the Washington Attorney General is illegally running the private Washington State Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education classes,, (2) the Washington Attorney General is illegally hosting the Washington State Bar Association’s email server, (3) the Washington Attorney General is illegally providing free rent to the Washington State Bar Association at two publicly owned buildings, one in Olympia and one in Seattle on 4th Ave, (4) the Washington Attorney General is illegally funneling millions of public money to several law firms that defend the Washington State Bar Association such as Pacifica Law Group, Keating Buckling and McCormack ( and NY disbarred attorney Shannon Ragonesi), Kenyon Disend PLLC, and Gordon Rees, (5) illegally using the AG’s the Department of Enterprise Services to provide legal services to the Washington State Bar Association, and (6) the Washington State Bar Association is stealing public money from the Washington State Public Retirement System (PERS). Even US Federal District Court Judges like Ricardo Martinez and Richard A Jones are collecting a state retirement check from the taxpayers of Washington State via our PERs program.

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

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

Here’s the Washington State Attorney General’s Office case fixing scam works. SAAGs like disbarred NY State Attorney Shannon Ragonesi are paid millions via a fraudulent scam titled the Special Attorney General contracts. Here in Washington State our Constitution limits the Attorney General to only two functions, Consumer Protection and Elderly abuse. Other than hose two powers, our State Constitution strictly prohibits the Attorney General from policing for any other issues. Therefore, any spending for so called SAAG programs, according to our legal counsel is “fraud” and meets the level of dishonest services to implicate racketeering charges according to our legal counsel.

The Washington State Attorney General makes all judicial appointments. Since Bob Ferguson has been in office, the only judicial appointments that Governor Jay Inslee has made are SAAGs or agency employees. Sadly, the Governor simply rubber stamps the request regardless of whether or not there have been any unethical charges lodged against the appointees like there has been against Judge Michael Scott ( sex abuse allegations).

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

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

In Block v Gold Bar, SAAG/SAP Shannon Ragonesi openly brags of her case fixing scam using King County Superior Court Judge ( also a SAAG at Hillis Clarke Martin & Peterson) Michael Scott to criminally harass public requesters from filing lawsuits for access to public records. A case the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit just agreed hear argument in in Block v WSBA et al, and answer whether a federal judge, who was a SAAG, as US Federal Court Judge Ricardo Martinez, Benjamin Settles, Ronald Leighton, and Richard A Jones were while employed under Washington State’s Risk Management scam, hear and decide cases when SAAGs Gordon Rees, Leslie Seffren and Shannon Ragonesi are representing the defendants?

According to our legal counsel, under Ann Gonzales v Washington State, our state courts have already held that a SAAG Judge cannot hear nor sit on a case when any litigant is being represented by another SAAG like Ragonesi ( Keating, Buckling and McCormack), and that recusal was mandatory to preserve a litigant’s constitutional right to a fair and impartial judge. Common sense tell us that one does not need a law degree to understand that a judge who had pecuniary relationships with defendants counsel cannot hear and decide cases involving their contractors.

Sadly, NY State Bar allowed Shannon Ragonesi to resign instead of officially being disbarred for forgery, false filings, and perjury. Now, thanks to Washington State AG Bob Ferguson, Washingtonians are experiencing the same threats to life, liberty and property, forgery, false court statements and filings, and harassment from SAAG Ms. Ragonesi that NY residents experienced that caused the NY Bar to restrict her from ever practicing law in NY State.

Gold Bar’s Mayor William Clem said when speaking of the Washington State Attorney Generals Office said ” those people who are threatening you Anne are now threatening me.”

Here in Washington State, we have convicted criminals running our risk management system all the way from Jolly Ol England.

Comment from our reader:

This law firm is as fraudulent as they come. They tried to sue me for thousands of dollars for pictures used on my web site. All of my pictures were either purchased on-line from “Clip-Art” or were taken with my own camera. They put me thru “HELL” with their ” letters of intimidation”. The case was finally dropped. They should all be jailed for the rest of their lives.

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

Part Two of Five – By The Gold Bar Reporter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Another political appointee

Suzan LeVine Retaliated Against Claimants, Whistleblowers claim

While Rewarding Career Criminals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump

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

But why, why is the so called leader of the free World engaging in such terroristic acts and inciting violence in the last days of his administration? Lets not forget that Adolph Hitler convinced millions of German’s to support him with this slogan ” MAKE GERMANY GREAT AGAIN.“

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of my readers asked whether Trump’s statements were protected free speech, and here’s what the US Supreme Court held ” Confronted in Stewart v. McCoy (2002) with an individual who had been accused of advising gang members on how to organize themselves, Justice John Paul Stevens, in an opinion commenting on the Court’s denial of certiorari in the case, stated: “Long range planning of criminal enterprises — which may include oral advice, training exercises, and perhaps the preparation of written materials — involves speech that should not be glibly characterized as mere ‘advocacy’ and certainly may create significant public danger.”

Four people are dead because Trump and his son Don Jr. incited and instigated violent people to commit violent acts in his name, and Don Jr. advocated and instigated a crowd to overthrow our government yesterday. Hardly free speech; sounds more like treason.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN

A Dangerous Criminal Has Exposed a Multi-Billion Dollar

National RICO Implicating Public Officials & Lloyd’s of London

Involving Public Officials in Washington State

Pierce College, WA John Edward Pennington, Jr.

Update: Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, Washington confirms it hired John Edward Pennington Jr., a man declared by King County, Washington, Dr Marsha Hedricks to be “sociopath with no empathy for human life” as Emergency Management Director.

Mr. Pennington and his forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg convicted of bank fraud, 2000, 2005) are being sued for racketeering.

Lisa Brock

Chief Human Resources Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

According to Overlake Board Members, Lisa Brock, Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, Washington, hired John Edward Pennington Jr. without running a single background check, and knowing he falsified academic and work credentials. A major breach to the health and welfare of patients.

Our readers should know that the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued.

Seattle, Washington State Oct. 17, 2020. “I will never be charged with a crime because we have people in every position of government who will always protect me,” boasted John Pennington to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin. “If anyone ever tries to come after me the black hawk helicopters will be coming after them.”

Yet as a direct result of Mr. Pennington’s retaliation against a Seattle area legal scholar and journalist, together with his remarkable hubris, alleged career criminal John Edward Pennington Jr.’s life of fraud, forgery, federal crimes, kidnaping, rape, child molestation, attempted murder of a 5 year old girl, and killing may finally be coming to an end.

The decade and a half effort to bring Mr. Pennington to justice has not only exposed Mr. Pennington’s extensive criminal history, the pursuit of justice has also unraveled the vast national network of corruption that protects him. Dozens of public officials, including judges, are implicated.

The cost of the network’s crimes to countless people is nearly incalculable. The financial cost, however, of Mr. Pennington’s exposure of the criminal network will likely be counted in the tens of billions of dollars by the complicit parties, including Lloyd’s of London, according to attorneys and expert witnesses.

Washington State, where Mr. Pennington resides, is a model of the way the national fraud, a federal RICO, operates on a state-by-state basis according to both the court record and legal experts. In Washington, the suit alleges, complicit public officials act jointly at the direction of the States’ Attorney General (AG) and the States’ insurer.

The State Attorney General directs, operates, and controls the State Bar Association, attorneys under contract with the State called “Special Assistant Attorney Generals (SAAGs),” “Special Assistant Prosecutors,” prosecutors, judges, and the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The AG acts at the direction of the State’s insurer, the Association of Washington Cities (AWC). AWC, in turn, is essentially an operating unit of Lloyd’s of London, according to court records.

The tireless effort to bring Mr. Pennington and his network of supporters to justice, all of whom are members of the federal RICO, has been led by Seattle-area Journalist Anne Block, J.D., the publisher of the award-winning Gold Bar Reporter. Prior efforts of Ms. Block to hold public officials accountable have resulted in the exposure of extensive public corruption in throughout Washington State, particularly Snohomish County, as well as the termination and criminal conviction of a public employee.

In the process of exposing Mr. Pennington’s criminal activity and the RICO network of corruption associated with him, Ms. Block is currently subject to near constant personal surveillance, harassment, government gang stalking, cybercrime attacks, and death threats. According to court records and legal experts, she has been illegally targeted with retaliatory lawsuits and the unlawful revocation of her law license by the Bar Association of the state she resides in – an organization with a fundamental mandate to protect her legal rights. She appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her case passed the first review. Those familiar with the case, with critical First Amendment and due process issues, believe it was later declined for review due to the Court’s backlogged calendar.

Based on court records, however, all of the attempts to intimidate Ms. Block appear not only to have failed, but have served to exponentially amplify her conviction and efforts, as well as those of her supporters. The retaliation has also exposed the people in the network who have supported Mr. Pennington, the way the network functions, and its broad range of criminal activities.

The progressive exposure of corruption involving Mr. Pennington and his associates has been in direct proportion to Ms. Block’s success. She has gained a growing national network of support, the attention of federal law enforcement, and the interest of the national press for violations of her First Amendment rights. The legal actions she has filed have documented extensive and brazen criminal activity by dozens of public officials, including judges, sheriff’s offices, prosecutors, and others in the RICO.

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

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

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

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

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

While working as Snohomish County’s Director of Emergency Management (DEM), Mr. Pennington tried to rape a Public Records Officer inside DEM. He locked the door of his office, cornered the employee, the sexually assaulted her. To cover up Mr. Pennington’s attempted rape, then Snohomish County Executive and Mr. Pennington’s close friend Aaron Reardon offered the victim a money settlement with taxpayer monies.

Mr. Reardon’s proposal was for the equivalent of two years’ pay in addition to a $32,000 raise and promotion to the position of Deputy Assistant Director of Emergency Management. Mr. Reardon’s offer was – illegally – contingent upon the victim not reporting the rape. A simple bribe. The victim, being in a politically and financially compromised situation, accepted. When Mr. Reardon was terminated, the victim was immediately fired from Snohomish County, but rewarded with a new job as Director of Emergency Management for the City of Marysville, Washington.

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

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

Mr. Pennington’s position in state legislature, however, soon ended after being caught misrepresenting his residence and abandoned his seat as a political favor to the Democratic Party.

After Mr. Pennington abandoned his seat in the legislature, he again leveraged his former legislative position into an appointment as the Regional Director of FEMA – with false credentials, no experience, and no background check. His position with FEMA was equally brief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Federal Court Documents Allege that Attorney

Michael Kenyon and his Law Firm Kenyon Disend are

Active Participants in an Ongoing Federal RICO.

The first answer may be found in two words: Michael Kenyon. Mr. Kenyon, a friend of Mr. Pennington, was City Attorney for Kelso, Washington at the time of Mr. Pennington’s kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of the five-year old girl. Two witnesses clearly identified Mr. Pennington as the man whom they saw throw the child’s body over a rural bridge. With equal clarity, one witness identified his car. The case looked solid according to the lead Detective on the case, Maurice Saxon.

Under the jurisdiction of City Attorney Michael Kenyon, however, the rape kit disappeared. As Mr. Pennington was to assume office as a Legislator, Mr. Kenyon left his $43,000 job as City Attorney. Directly thereafter, Mr. Kenyon received millions of dollars in state contracts to provide legal services for government agencies – contrary to state law, without open bidding. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=39.26

Mr. Kenyon had never before received a government contract. Regardless of the evidence against Mr. Pennington, under Mr. Kenyon’s administration, the rape and attempted murder of the child were coincidently never prosecuted. According to lead detective Maurice Saxon ” John Pennington is the man that raped that 5 year old girl and I have been following him ever since.”

If Mr. Kenyon and his law firm are the first answer as to how Mr. Pennington is allegedly able to act with impunity, the second answer relates to an apparent parallel between Mr. Pennington’s methods and those of Jeffrey Epstein.

While acting as a state legislator, Mr. Pennington had a close association with then lobbyist G. Geoffrey Gibbs. Mr. Gibbs, who is now a Snohomish County commissioner, is alleged to have hosted legislators for underage sex junkets to Portland, Oregon on his private plane, according to Ms. Block.

Accompanying Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Pennington were with Mr. Marlin Applewick, now a state appellate judge, and Mr. John Lovick, currently a State Legislator. John Lovick was recently exposed for masturbating on the side of a 12 year girl’s bed. Washington State Child Protective Services issued child abuse findings against Representative Lovick and Washington State paid off the victim and her family.

According to insiders, Mr. Pennington took pictures of the group engaged in sex acts with children. Children entrapped in the child sex trafficking industry, and has leveraged his evidence against those crimes and his relationships with other state public officials, including judges and the Attorney General of Washington State, to make himself immune from the law, alleges Ms. Block.

None of the men were ever charged or prosecuted for their alleged sex crimes with children and all still occupy public office or are publicly employed today. Mr. Pennington is also alleged to have photographs of the current Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney engaged in sex acts with under age girls, and is currently using those pictures to blackmail the Mr. Fortney into further retaliating against Ms. Block, according to Ms. Block’s inside county sources. Mr. Fortney and Mr. Pennington have jointly participated in the Washington State militia with a white supremacy mandate.

Snohomish County Washington Sheriff Adam Fortney is Allegedly Being Blackmailed by Mr. Pennington to Further Retaliate Against Journalist and Publisher Anne Block

At the very beginning, Ms. Block’s saga began with what she thought was a routine public records request. After noticing what appeared to be discrepancies in the accounting of the water district of her small municipality near Seattle, the City of Gold Bar, Washington, she asked for the documents.

At the time, Ms. Block did not know that the City’s water employee, Karl Majerle, was terminated for sabotaging the City ‘s water system, and had in fact committed acts of Domestic Terrorism on the City and its residents. Mr. Majerle had blackmailed Gold Bar’s former Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington that if she pursued criminal charges against him he would reveal what he knew about how many public officials she had infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Ms. Hill Pennington disseminated her STD results inside City of Gold Bar’s public emails. This STD list included judges, county executive Aaron Reardon, Director of Emergency Management, Prosecutors, a Senator, and Gold Bar’s Chief of police. All married men.

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

It wasn’t. Behind the City of Gold Bar was the State’s insurer, the Association of Washington Cities (AWC); the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services Risk Management Division (DES); the Washington State Bar, a network of attorneys and law firms called Special Assistant Attorney Generals (“SAAGS”); Special Assistant Prosecutors (“SAPs”), and judges acting directly or indirectly at the behest of Washington State’s highest legal authority, Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Under Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the order was given to Doug Ende, at the Washington State Bar, to disbar Ms. Block for reporting the truth on public corruption.

From 2010 to 2012, and prior to Attorney General Bob Ferguson assuming the attorney general position in Washington State, the Washington State Bar received three other complaints against Ms. Block, and had in fact dismissed those complaints stating, correctly, ” “First Amendment activity of its members is not within the Bar’s jurisdiction. ” Once Attorney General Bob Ferguson assumed the the AG’s position in 2013, the Washington State Bar all of the sudden made a 360 degree turn. What was not known at the time was the Washington State Bar, a private association, was actually being operated by Attorney General Bob Ferguson‘s office. “Gift of public monies is in Washington State is unconstitutional and felonious” according to our counsel.

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

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

If Mr. Scannell presents the theory of Washington’s corruption, Ms. Block has experienced the reality. Directly after publishing accounts of how Mr. Pennington’s ex-wife and then Gold Bar Mayor Crystal Hill had stolen $200,000 from the City, and failed to report the City’s sabotaging of the water system, a veritable tsunami of retaliation followed. Without legal basis, and contrary to its charter to uphold the rule of law, the Washington State Bar Association issued a subpoena for the Gold Bar Reporter’s files.

As a legally recognized member of the press, Gold Bar Publisher Ms. Block refused. When she was abroad, the State Bar then illegally issued a subpoena, not for Ms. Block’s attorney client files, but for the Gold Bar Reporter’s files. Ms. Block declined citing RCW 5.68.010 Media Shield, requiring any agency or governing body with subpoena power to get a signed court order to bring any member of the press to court.

The Washington State Bar Association not only ignored Media Shield laws, they were also in direct communication with Snohomish County Special Assistant Attorney Generals on how to get Anne Block disbarred.

Ms. Block, who worked as a machinist and a printer through law school as a single mother, was summarily disbarred in absentia. The disbarment was made possible by Mr. Pennington and his ex-wife, who had bribed attorney and State Bar Disciplinary Officer Lin O’Dell.

Bar Disciplinary Officer Lin O’Dell, a Member of a RICO Costing Federal Taxpayers Billions of Dollars, was Bribed by John Pennington to Illegally Disbar Attorney and Journalist Anne Block.

Ms. O’Dell, and her husband, Mark Plivilech, set up a USPS Box in Duvall Washington, PO Box # 70, for pick ups and drops of cash bribes from the Penningtons. The Penningtons live in Duvall, while Ms. O’Dell and Mark Plivilech live in Spokane, a four hour drive from Spokane to Duvall.

Attorney Lin O’Dell and her husband Mark Plivelich have ties to organized crime. Mark Plivelich is a convicted killer, and spent six years at Walla Walla State Prison for an execution style murder.

Ms. O’Dell has a history of guardianship fraud involving the theft of millions of dollars, ending with the State’s Guardianship Oversight Board prohibiting her from further involvement in guardianship cases.

Although the State Bar has received numerous well documented complaints of Ms. O’Dell’s fraud, theft, falsifying her IRS records, and regardless of the Guardianship Board’s finding of theft and evidence of extensive criminal activity, the Washington State Bar refuses to act against her to this day.

Ms. O’Dell is currently a member of the Washington Bar in good standing with no disciplinary history. Her daughter, a woman charged with countless thefts, acts as her proxy in ongoing guardianship cases. We have the evidence as to how it works,” said Mr. Scannell, “Lin O’Dell and her daughter are perfect models of how the fraud operates within a given state.”

In spite of the Guardianship Oversight Board permanently prohibiting Ms. O’Dell from participating in any case involving elderly or vulnerable adults, Ms. O’Dell continues to openly solicit guardianship business on her web site, which states on its home page, “Helping those in vulnerable situations.”

The retaliation against Ms. Block backfired. As her efforts continued over the course of a decade and a half, she made hundreds of public records requests related to those who were acting against her. Most records requests were illegally withheld, destroyed, or redacted.

One tactic by the State and AWC to conceal public records was to hire attorneys to act in a dual role as public records clerks and “risk managers,” among them Jason Siems , Harold Goldes, and Sara Di Vittorio. The attorney-clerks routinely claim attorney-client privilege to deny valid records requests. “The pretext is that the state is their client,” said Mr. Scannell. “It’s completely illegal and a violation of both public disclosure laws and Bar rules.” Ultimately, however, Ms. Block was able to establish patterns of the people involved in the federal RICO.

Gerry Spence, by every objective measure the greatest trial lawyer in history, once said ‘The difference between a good case and a great case is insiders.’ Ms. Block, indeed, appears to have a great case: As she continuously posted stories of her efforts and evidence on her blog, the Gold Bar Reporter, dozens of government and law firm insiders contacted her. Some through the mail. Some asked to meet. Some remained anonymous.

With the documentation and testimony of the insiders, in addition to the records Ms. Block was able to obtain, an increasingly clear picture emerged of the State’s federal RICO, a massive machine of corruption.

That machine, according to Ms. Block’s and her network’s carefully documented evidence part of which is incorporated in tens of thousands of pages of her court filings, is the same machinery that has allowed Mr. Pennington and others in the RICO to commit crimes without being held accountable. One cog in the RICO machine is the law firm of Mr. Pennington’s friend, Mr. Kenyon. His firm, Kenyon Disend, has engaged in an ongoing series of retaliation and coverups for Mr. Pennington.

Ms. Rachel Bender Turpin of Madrona Law has Acted as an Integral Part of the

Federal RICO, Altered the Federal NCIC Database, and Tampered with Federal

Witnesses According to Allegations and Evidence in the Court Record

Ms. Ann Marie Soto of Madrona Law has Acted as an Integral Part of the

Federal RICO, Altered the Federal NCIC Database, and Tampered with Federal

Witnesses According to Allegations and Evidence in the Court Record

Ms. Ann Marie Soto and Ms. Rachel Bender Turpin, formerly of the law firm Kenyon Disend have, according to evidence presented by Ms. Block, routinely altered, redacted or destroyed documents in the federal crime database NCIC; tampered with and bribed federal witnesses; destroyed, altered or prevented state records from release; submitted false or altered records in several retaliatory legal actions against Ms. Block, and colluded with judges.

After Ms. Soto and Ms. Turpin left Kenyon Disend late last year, both started a new law practice, Madrona Law. They now regularly boast that Madrona Law is on the payroll of the State’s Attorney General, acting as “Special Assistant Attorney Generals” (SAAGs), enjoy unrestricted access to the federal criminal database, NCIC, and are protected by the RICO network, according to Ms. Block.

When finally unveiled, it became clear that the machinery that was protecting Mr. Pennington was an octopus-like federal RICO [racketeering] enterprise. The enterprise is fueled by two main sources of funding: a massive guardianship and probate fraud system which attorney in good standing and Washington State Bar Disciplinary Officer Ms. Lin O’Dell has been a significant participant of, as well as state and federal funds.

Near the center of it all is the State’s highest legal authority Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

The Washington State Bar Association is jointly controlled by Attorney General Bob Ferguson,” said Mr. Scannell. Mr. Scannell is a highly respected Ninth Circuit appellate attorney. “Although the Bar repeatedly asserts its status as a private organization, the AG has the Bar Association on the payroll of the State,” he said. Mr. Scannell has a decades-long history as a fearless and tenacious public interest litigator who has rarely charged for his services according to several public interest attorneys in Washington State.

State Bar management and staff are, in fact, being paid by the State’s Attorney General through the State Public Employee Retirement System, or PERS. The AG has also paid its federal RICO network hundreds of millions of federal and state taxpayer dollars through fraudulent tax refunds, SAP/SAAG contracts to hundreds of private attorneys, and for speaking engagements and continuing education programs hosted by both state and federal judges. “For many in the legal profession who know how the fraud works,” said Mr. Scannell. “The criminal network is an open secret. Federal Judge Ricardo Martinez is commonly referred to in the legal profession as ‘RICO’ Martinez,“ said another prominent Seattle attorney, “it’s a tragic joke.”

Federal District Judge Ricardo a.k.a. ‘RICO’ Martinez

Continues to Receive Money Compensation from the State of Washington

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

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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson Co-Directs a Statewide Criminal Enterprise and a Component of Lloyd’s Federal RICO, According to Evidence Submitted in a Federal Action.

“Bob Ferguson’s crimes make Al Capone look like a Boy Scout. Capone never wore a mask of public service and virtue while stealing from the public and operating a criminal enterprise. Ferguson’s RICO steals billions from taxpayers and the federal government. It guarantees that anyone who is targeted by AWC and the State will be denied their Constitutional right to due process and any hope of justice. The court system is so completely and openly rigged that it would be an embarrassment to a third-world dictatorship. Unfortunately that is not a metaphor,” said an inside source close to the case.

AWC “Risk Manager” Harlan Stientjes Co-Directs a Multi-Billion Dollar Federal RICO Organization

If Bob Ferguson and the State Bar are near the center of the RICO fraud, who is directing them? According to thousands of pages of evidence and testimony, Peter King, the CEO of the Association of Washington Cities (AWC), in association with his ‘Risk Management’ colleague at AWC, Harlan Stientjes, are directing the RICO enterprise at the state level. Invisible to the public but representing every Washington city and the State government itself, AWC collects billions in insurance premiums.

AWC CEO Peter King Co-Directs a Multi-Billion Dollar Federal RICO

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

Under the pretext of ‘risk management,’ AWC has created a system that denies a fair and impartial court system to any targeted Washington State citizen. If the target is seen as a financial risk to any government entity insured by AWC, AWC directs the AG, the Bar, and the SAP/SAAG system that has every prosecutor and hundreds of attorneys and law firms on the state payroll. “It is almost certainly the largest criminal enterprise in the history of Washington,” said Mr. Scannell.

“Every attorney and prosecutor who are SAP/SAAGs, and judges who were former SAP/SAAGs and remain on the state’s co-pay retirement system, are all on the payroll of the state. So are the staff of the state Bar Association,” said Mr. Scannell. “They all benefit from the RICO in two ways: first, by receiving direct payment from the AG. Second, the SAP/SAAG attorneys and law firms in the Washington State RICO, which comprise about 1% of the state’s Bar members, get favorable decisions from the RICO judges and substantial settlements from the state.”

He continued, “Anyone can simply look at the SAAG list and compare the SAAG attorney’s and law firm’s settlements and court decisions with non-SAAG attorneys and law firms,” he said. “In return for their compensation, the RICO members, including prosecutors and judges, make sure that legitimate cases and claims are denied. As with any RICO, it’s about money.”

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“By far, the largest implication of the way the federal RICO operates in Washington State, is that it is a single operating unit in a national RICO operated by Lloyd’s of London. The criminal network operating in Washington State was created by Lloyd’s and sold in the U.S. on a state-by-state basis across the country. Lloyd’s, in fact, recently settled what appeared to be a multi-billion dollar market fixing case for the remarkably low cost of $22.m after Lloyd’s attempts to dismiss it failed,” he said.

“Now that the largest fraud in the history of the state is exposed, the implication of Anne Block’s case is huge,” said Mr. Scannell. “The reason is, these couldn’t be greater crimes, or greater abuses of public office. Given the amount of evidence that has been presented, if these people are not held accountable, we can all stop pretending we live under the rule of law. That is really what Anne’s case means. Not just in Washington State, but in every state where Lloyd’s has fixed insurance markets and rigged an entire state’s legal system,” he said.

“It’s said that the greatest trick the devil ever played is convincing the world that he doesn’t exist. Now that the country and the federal government know that Peter King and Harlan Stientjes have cost them billions, and how Lloyd’s of London’s fraud machine works, will they actually arrest the men who are likely the single biggest criminals in Washington State history?” Said Mr. Scannell.

“We have the insiders, the witnesses. We have documents, the evidence, the charts and graphs to show how the RICO works,” said Mr. Scannell. There is central direction. This is a classic RICO. If the federal government wants to recover billions in losses, all they have to do is prosecute Peter King and Harlan Stenjges.”

Mr. Scannell continued, “Also, it will be interesting to see if the federal government will apply the same standards to Peter King, Harlan Stientjes and the rest of the RICO participants as they’ve done with other crime bosses. Specifically, now that there is so much evidence of their crimes, will they apply the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and deny the RICO members the right to their own counsel unless they prove that funds for attorneys were not derived from their crimes?” Mr. Scannell said. “Shouldn’t they be represented by public defenders?”

U.S. Attorney for the Western District Brian Moran

“And won’t it need to be a federal official other than the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Brian Moran who prosecutes them? Mr. Moran, with current Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna were close coworkers at the law firm Orrick, Harrington & Sutcliffe. They were both hired by Peter King to work together on a cases representing AWC,” said Mr. Scannell.

AWC hired Mr. Moran and his law firm, which had also employed Bob Ferguson as contractors. Both served as SAAGs for the Attorney Generals office.” Soon after their employment by AWC, both men assumed public office.”

“Within only months of their employment by Mr. King, Mr. Ferguson became the Washington State Attorney General and Mr. Moran became the U.S. Attorney for the Western District. Did AWC’s Peter King put both of them in office, so the highest regional federal and state legal authorities would be in place to protect the largest federal RICO in State history? Is it an interesting coincidence? Isn’t that worth investigating?” asked the highly regarded Ninth Circuit Appellate Lawyer.

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

Refuses to Terminate the Employment of the Most

Negligent Emergency Services Director in State History

For his part, Mr. Pennington, “Seattle’s Epstein,” as Ms. Block refers to him, appears to continue to enjoy Washington State government job security and the continued protection of his RICO network.

Mr. Pennington currently occupies a $110,000 teaching position in Emergency Management at Pierce College, Washington – an ironic position to occupy given his false credentials and historic negligence as Director of Snohomish County Emergency Management which resulted in the death of 43 people.

Regardless of the evidence of Mr. Pennington’s false credentials and voluminous evidence of criminal activity, Pierce College Chancellor Michele L. Johnson refuses to fire him. She declines to explain why. She will also not explain why she is refusing to recognize and uphold her state’s law relating to the use of false academic credentials, which, together with her institution’s operational policy requires her to terminate Mr. Pennington.

By refusing to fire the fraudulently credentialed Mr. Pennington, Chancellor Johnson’s protection of him has placed Pierce College at risk of closure as a result of losing its academic accreditation, which Ms. Block’s supporters are now pursuing. “We won’t stop until the funding and accreditation is terminated and the College is closed,” she said. “If they will have a man with completely falsified credentials and his history of criminal activity on the faculty, every single person there needs to be audited, or the school closed.”

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

Mr. Pennington, however, may soon find himself both unemployed and as fully exposed as the federal RICO network his retaliation against Ms. Block has revealed.

When Ms. Block contacted former Seattle Times reporter Emily Heffner to comment on an article in her blog about the RICO fraud, all Ms. Heffner would say was “you need to move because they’re coming after you.” She didn’t, and they did.

“The Association of Washington Cities, as an operating affiliate of Lloyd’s of London, in its joint racketeering efforts, together with the state of Washington, the private Washington Bar Association and the Snohomish County Sheriff and Prosecutor’s Officers have retaliated against Anne block for almost 13 years. The Washington State taxpayer has paid tens of millions of dollars for this retaliation to deprive her of the right to live under the rule of law when she has only asserted the law,” said Mr. Scannell. “If the RICO can do that to a brilliant hard-working lawyer, where does that leave the average person?” he said.

Anne Block is now exposing them. She credits three people for her conviction, tenacity, and success: her late mother, a social activist in Western Massachusetts, her father, a writer and political junkie, and television personality Bill Maher. Above all, Ms. Block credits her unwavering belief in the rule of law that she saw her mother and father fight for.

“Before I had any idea how massive this fraud is, in 2009 I was watching Bill Maher He said, ‘We have the internet. Any of us can expose public corruption. Just create a blog and post the evidence,’” said Ms. Block. “So I did.”

Mr. Scannell said, “No one takes power from us. We give it through fear and inaction. That is the power of Bill Maher’s message. We all need to take action and work together. Results take hard work to happen. We are just getting started.”

“It never occurred to me that my blog would ultimately expose what appears to be the largest fraud in the history of our country. It looks like Mr. Maher was right – any of us can expose corruption if we want to,” said Ms. Block.

Regardless of the evidence of corruption Ms. Block has presented to the world on her blog, however, on (date), with no legal basis she was declared a “vexatious litigant.”

“When our corrupt courts designate a person a “vexatious litigant,” they are denied even the appearance of due process,” said Appellate Lawyer Mr. Scannell. “They are prohibited from filing any further legal action,” he said. “The designation of “vexations litigant” in this case is the ultimate act of tyranny by a corrupt court to perpetuate the RICO.”

The judge who designated Ms. Block a “vexatious litigant” is Michael Scott, Mr. Pennington’s friend and former colleague in the Washington State Legislature. King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott is a SAAG, SAP, and AWC contractor, who issued a sue sponte vexatious ruling shortly before Ms. Block contacted him about an article about three separate claims of child molestation committed by Mr. Scott. The men allege that Judge Scott molested them as children when Mr. Scott acted as a church Deacon. Although their claims have been published, Mr. Scott is not being investigated.

“It will be interesting to see if anyone is concerned enough about the rule of law to follow Mr. Maher’s suggestion and take action about this RICO that effects millions of people and hundreds of billions of federal dollars,” said Mr. Scannell.

John Adams said “Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.” Anne is no longer standing alone.

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Racketeering 101

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

** minor correction made to AWC hiring both Ferguson and Moran.***

This article was co-authorized with a reporter who reports with an activist blogger, Gold Bar Reporter, reporting from the front lines of Democracy

Washington Court of Appeals Div. I, Judge Marlin Appelwick’s ‘fraud upon the court” exposed in public records

October 24, 2015 by goldbarreporter 4 Comments

Snohomish County’s # 1 welfare recipient John E. Pennington ( left); The Dishonorable Justice Marlin Appelwick, WA Court Appeals Div. I ( right).

Republished article below with permission from www.snocoreporter.com

Seems Judge Applewick has a few more skeletons rolling out his closet door.

He and Pennington have been “Dear Friends” since the early 90’s and in 1999 Judge Marlin Appelwick administered the Oath of Office to Speaker Pro Tempore John Pennington.

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BY SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE PENNINGTON

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

2. Judge Applewick and John Pennington (along with Hans Dunshee -Pay attention, that name will be very important in time) have been working together for 17 years to destroy the Public Records Act and to assure that Govt agencies are not held accountable for their malfeasance and to remove some of the powers of the Public Disclosure Commission

Oh but wait… there’s more destroying culpability for violating the public records act and campaign laws is hard work

HB2435 by Representatives Pennington, Appelwick, Constantine, Ogden, Cooper, Kessler, Gardner, Wolfe, Butler, Costa, Linville, D. Schmidt, Murray, Morris, Anderson and Gombosky; by request of Public Disclosure Commission AN ACT Relating to reporting of independent campaign expenditures; and adding a new section to chapter 42.17 RCW. Referred to Committee on Government Administration.

HB 2474 by Representatives Pennington, Appelwick, O’Brien, Dunshee and Kessler; by request of Legislative Ethics Board AN ACT Relating to gifts under ethics in public service laws; and amending RCW 42.52.010 and 42.52.150. Referred to Committee on Government Administration.

HB 2495 by Representatives Pennington, Appelwick, O’Brien, Poulsen, Dickerson, Constantine, Ogden, Cooper, Kessler, Gardner, Butler, Linville, Murray, Conway, Anderson and Gombosky; by request of Public Disclosure Commission AN ACT Relating to penalties for violations of public disclosure laws; amending RCW 42.17.390, 42.17.395, and 42.17.400; and prescribing penalties. Referred to Committee on Government Administration.

Judge Applewick had no business on any case involving John Pennington at all whatsoever yet there he was, sweeping it all away for his dear friend.

Crystal Pennington and Laura Kelly are clearly both thieves, yet Applewick acted as if they could tell no lies. Applewick knew there was a clear conflict as soon as he seen the name Pennington and he should’ve immediately recused himself.

This is a violation, a crystal clear violation of Judicial Conduct but since the head of the Commission of Judicial Conduct is a former minion of Anderson Hunter I doubt anything will be done. I have forwarded this info to Ms Block and I can only pray that she nails this corrupt slug to a wall.

I will also be filing a complaint myself. There is far more to this story and I promise we will bring it to you as soon as we get the rest of our documentation.

A special Thank You to a wonderful reporter named Brandia from www.SnoCoReporter.com for “unlocking” another piece of the “largest Racketeering” scandal in Washington State’s History. It looks like we’re well on our way to exposing G.Geoffrey Gibbs’s involvement in this massive cancer, which spread, just as any nasty cancer does, to every agency in Washington State!

At the center of the rotten onion is lead counsel Linda Eide at the Washington State Bar. Let it be known Ms. Eide, we are working on your story…. coming soon. Guardian scam… ah those pesky public records.

Below is little of what we know and are willing to post as we stand by our investigation of Snohomish County’s biggest frauders John E. Pennington, former Gold Bar Mayor Joe Beavers, and Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, bank fraud 2005).

Below is a massive piece of the Racketeering puzzle we uncovered in Washington State!

Duvall City attorney Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) quashing criminal charges for political favors, EXPOSED

September 21, 2015 by goldbarreporter 1 Comment (Edit)

UPDATE: KING COUNTY RELEASES PUBLIC RECORDS DOCUMENTING THAT SANDRA SULLIVAN ( Meadowcraft), A CONTRACT ATTORNEY WITH KENYON DISEND LINKED TO RICO SCANDAL, AND

DUVALL WASHINGTON CHIEF OF POLICE CAREY HART RESIGNS AFTER RECORDS RELEASED SHOW HE WAS INVOLVED IN QUASHING CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR JOHN E. PENNINGTON FOR CRIMINAL HARASSMENT

More good news for us First Amendment defenders in Washington State! It just keeps getting better, thanks to Washington State’s Public Records Act. RCW 42.56

King County released records confirming beyond any shadow of a doubt that Duvall Prosecutor Sandra Sullivan ( Meadowcraft) who works for Kenyon Disend ( also city attorney for Gold Bar and City of Duvall) on a contractual basis quashed criminal assault charges as political favors for then Executive Aaron Reardon, on behalf of Snohomish County’s number one political bum, John E. Pennington.

The City of Shoreline also turned over public records confirming that Ms. Sullivan ( Meadowcraft) is at it again, but this time with her friend and former City of Gold Bar/ Snohomish County Prosecutor Margaret King ( who now works for the City of Shoreline).

Attorney Margaret King is the attorney created the City of Gold Bar’s public records debacle by hiding public records involving attorneys Michael Kenyon and Sandra Sullivan ( Meadowcraft) quashing criminal assault charges against John E. Pennington after he violently assaulted a pregnant woman just three weeks before the delivery of her daughter. Public Records Michael Kenyon unlawfully billed the City of Gold Bar to hide his law firms crimes.

Luckily, Gold Bar had a clerk, Laura Kelly, who was terminated for stealing from the City that was far from the sharpest tool in shed. Ms. Kelly released records accidentally . . . but before we discuss in detail why the City of Gold Bar continues to misappropriate over $1,000,000.00 dollars hiding public records involving Michael Kenyon and Sandra Meadocraft’s agreeing to quash criminal charges against Snohomish County’s number one bum, John E. Pennington, we’ll wait to see what the Supreme Court does.

Can’t wait . . . reform may be coming soon.

corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot, involved in extramarital affair with John E. Pennington, a source states for years while he was FEMA Region 10 Director.

Public records from Lori Batiot’s criminal complaint file inside the City of Shoreline document that attorney Sandra Sullivan and Margaret King set up a King County Sheriff’s Officer named Cary Cobltanz, a RICO Enterprise member, who tried to trump up criminal charges on Gold Bar Reporter for trying to warn the public about John E. Pennington’s pedophilism. All protected free speech issues.

Perhaps Ms. Sullivan failed constitutional law or she’s in so deep with Michael Kenyon and John E. Pennington’s racketeering that she saw no other way out of being exposed once Gold Bar’s emails are release from January 2009 to June 2009 ( months when Sandra Sullivan agreed to quash criminal charges against John Pennington in exchange for political favors from Snohomish County.

Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe: what a tangled web You’ve weaved when you attempt to deceive.

In late June 2015, King County Prosecutors released public records documenting that corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s criminal complaint was “unfounded.” The Prosecutors reasoned what Judge Meyers reasoned in his opinion when the DISMISSED John and Crystal Hill Pennington’s complaint in March 2015, ” Protected Free Speech.”

Records released from the City of Shoreline and Duvall document that the records that corrupt police officer Lori Baiot placed inside the public record belong to another blogger, were altered by Crystal Hill Pennington ( who with no surprise plead guilty to bank fraud in 2005) and pedophile from Snohomish County named John E. Pennington.

John E. Pennington is Snohomish County’s former Director who caused 43 people in Oso Washington to suffocate to death in March 2014, because instead of doing his job, he was off operating his own company on the County’s dime, and according to an insider, he was criminal harassing Gold Bar Reporters, while blogging on his Sky Valley Chronicle blog spot.

A source inside the City of Brier stated ” it was pretty common knowledge that Lori Batiot was engaged in an extramarital affair with John Pennington while he was FEMA Region 10 Director. In fact, she was caught taking the police car home so her and John could meet up. John was friends with Mayor Lane. You might remember Mayor from City of Brier was the Mayor involved that unsolved murder. He let Lori Batiot run her real estate business on the City’s dime for Windemere, and he set up John Pennington’s extramarital meet up with Lori Batiot. When the new Mayor came after Lane was alleged to be involved in the murder, he put an end to Lori Batiot’s misuse of the City’s resources for her personal and extramarital affair with John Pennington.”

Corrupt King County Sheriff’s Officer, Cary Coblantz, a RICO member

Those of us who love and support open government, can rest a little easier tonight knowing that King County released public records from a Sheriff’s Officer Cary Coblantz documenting gross civil rights violations. See below. Illegal tracking of US citizens without a warrant overseas, in violation of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. Shoreline Officer Cary Coblantz was notified that he is being sued under 42 USC 1983 and RICO for his illegal conduct.

Cary Coblantz’s phone records confirm beyond any shadow of doubt that Sandra Sullivan assisted John Pennington’s little Racketeering efforts attempting to have the Gold Bar Reporter charged with a crime.

King County records also confirm that John E Pennington’s criminal conduct as stated herein took place using county resources and while on the County taxpayer’s dime, and he was behind the illegal tracking on the Gold Bar Reporter and her partner from London Heathrow airport. Records we will be posting once our 1983 suit is filed this week.

A RICO suit has been filed noting the City of Duvall’s municipal law firm of Kenyon Disend for Racketeering. Attorney Sandra Sullivan was informed on Thursday that she will be added to the next RICO suit after text messages and phone records from King County link her to the RICO Enterprise. Some really good shit!

We tried contacting attorney Sandra Sullivan ( Meadowcraft) for comment but she refused.

A little hint about what’s behind the curtain up here in Gold Bar Washington, hence why the City of Gold Bar has misappropriated over $1,000,000.00 hiding Kenyon Disend’s Racketeering crimes. All for a pedophile named John E. Pennington and a bank frauder named Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) .

According to Redmond District Court records, Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) was employed by Kenyon Disend when she was assigned to prosecute Snohomish County’s number one political scum/appointee John E. Pennington for kicking and punching Duvall council member Anne Laughlin during her 3rd trimester and just three weeks before delivery of her daughter.

Instead of Sandra Sullivan prosecuting violent John Pennington, she quashed criminal assault charges from 2008-2009 against him. ( Snohomish County pay stubs document Pennington has been on paid administrative leave since Oso).

I spoke to attorney Sandra Sullivan seeking comment regarding her lack of objecting to John Pennington’s template motion to dismiss he filed in May 2009. Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) and I spoke for sometime, and as soon as she realized that we were onto her predicate acts in violation of RICO, she hung up.

Agreeing to Quash Criminal Charges in Exchange for Political Influence. Racketeering ? I believe so

Click to above to view John E. Pennington’s criminal assault charges of a pregnant woman ( in her third trimester of pregnancy).

see above Sandra Sullivan’s ( Meadowcraft) King County filing noting John E. Pennington is a dangerous man RICO Issues that we reported about over the last year in “Kenyon Disend’s Dirty Bag of Secrets”

See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/

Kenyon Disend and all of its lawyers were contacted for comment but refused comment.

Last month, King County Prosecutor’s released a statement stating that Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s and Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington’s complaints based solely on issues of free speech, protected First Amendment activity were “unfounded.”

In March 2015, King County Judge Meyers “DENIED” Lori Batiot’s friends, Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington’s request to “restrain” the Gold Bar Reporters as a “prior restraint on free speech.”

Public emails released from King County confirms that King County Sheriff’s Officer Cary Coblantz issued a false statement inferring that Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block and her partner were wanted for “felony warrants” thus luring the Department of Justice Interpol ( DOJ) into their little RICo gang.

Cary Coblantz then illegally tracked Block and her partner coming from London Heathrow Airport to Seattle as well las Block’s private investigator and his wife. And now thanks to King County, we know that John Pennington is directly linked to the illegal tracking of the Gold Bar Reporter and her partner coming back from London Heathrow Airport.

As of now, John Pennington is being sued in US Federal Court for Racketeering, and a new suit is on its way just in time for 2016.

A Internal affairs complaint has been substantiated against King County Officer/scum Cary Coblantz, and he was notifed that he will be named in a RICO suit coming soon.

All over assisting a corrupt police officer who has a long history of conduct hardly becoming of any person let alone a police officer.

Duvall Mayor Will Ibershoff Hired John Pennington’s Mistress, a drunk pill popper

The City of Duvall released Lori Batiot’s Washington State Patrol record documenting that she was drunk at the time of a car accident; she blew a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .129 (between 6- 7 drinks), lied to Whatcom County Sheriff’s Officer, and she was on mental health pills Zoloft and Valium at the same time she was driving drunk.

Above are copies of Lori Batiot’s police report verifying everything we’ve written about her conduct being ” unbecoming” of any police officer.

Better question those of us involved in exposing corrupt public officers like Lori Batiot is whether she had a legally issued prescription for the anti-depressant and valium’s she was using at the time she was arrested for DUI.

According to Batiot’s police report, she was using valium to “relax” herself because of a dentist appointment. We’re not sure about our readers but we don’t know too many dentists who are open at 0145 am ( time of Batiot’s arrest).

This police report is also at least the 3rd public record where Batiot accuses a person of “stalking.” Seems like any time someone starts to uncover her crimes, she alleges “stalking.”

In the above record, it’s clear just based on Batiot’s BaC at the time of the her DUI arrest, she lied about the amount of alcohol she had just before driving and causing a major accident along I-5 ( Bellingham). She is “unfit” for public duty.

Our readers should note that Lori Batiot managed to get hired as a police officer from the City of Duvall after being fired for misconduct from the City of Ferndale and from the City of Brier. We have ample reason to believe that Lori Batiot managed to get hired in Duvall because that’s where her very very very good friend John E. Pennington lives.

According to the below public record, John Pennington enjoys taking naked showers with little girls. There is no evidence that John Pennington ever tried to Motion to Strike out this declaration, which would be pretty hard to do since the truth is an affirmative defense.

Further, public records from Duvall documents that John E. Pennington’s friend and Mayor Will Ibershoff hired Lori Batiot. Emails from John Pennington’s divorce files confirms that Mayor Ibershoff assisted John Pennington in removing his wife Anne as a duly elected council member ( which is alleged in a RICO suit to amount to extortion), after she fled Duvall for her life when John Pennington kicked and punched her just three weeks before the delivery of her daughter.

John Pennington, a source inside Snohomish County, used by several newspapers, managed to get news story in the Seattle Times about Anne Laughlin not being a resident of Duvall thus she had to resign. What the Times did not report was that John E. Pennington had just been charged with criminal assault of 3rd trimester pregnant woman and that was the reason Anne fled from Duvall ( temporarily seeking battered women’s shelter).

See more on ” The Stoning of Anne Laughlin” http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/16/the-city-of-duvalls-stoning-of-anne-laughlin/

Some of these issues we’ve researched and written about in this article was also exposed in “Kenyon Disend’s Dirty Bag of Secrets”

See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/

Kenyon Disend and all of its lawyers were contacted for comment but refused comment.

The Bellingham WA State Patrol DUI police report confirms our worst fears; the City of Duvall knew about Lori Batiot’s criminal history before she was hired, and we believe that this makes her unfit for public service. Popping pills while drunk driving at minimum should speak for itself.

Before Lori Batiot managed to obtain a job as a police officer, her work experience was that of a coffee Barista!

The City of Duvall’s employee file of Lori Batiot also supports that she has no college degree and was fired from the City of Ferndale and City of Brier.

We feel that her days as a coffee Barista and her affair ( as stated in her DUI arrest record) lead to her obtaining a job with the City of Ferndale. A job she was unqualified for but managed to obtain.

We have ample evidence to state that Lori Batiot was hired by the City of Duvall as a political favor to Snohomish County’s number one welfare recipient John E. Pennington.More that issue soon.

John Pennington often brags that he set up little RICO members inside government agencies to protect him from being charged with crimes. Police reports from the City of Duvall confirms that Lori Batiot ran criminal obstruction for John Pennington anytime someone filed a criminal complaint against him.

Thus, the Gold Bar Reporters add one more cockroach to our list of public officials who need a hell of a lot of sunshine. As such, we will continue to post records relating to Lori Batiot’s misconduct so long as she’s a public official.

As former Washington State attorney general Rob McKenna nicely argued in Referendum 71, all public officers are subject to public scrutiny, or as Justice Scalia said “the fact is that running a democracy takes a certain amount of civic courage. And the First Amendment does not protect you from criticism or even nasty phone calls when you exercise your political rights to legislate, or to take part in the legislative process.”

Whether it’s a police officer, public official, politician, or a former Mayor of Gold Bar who is responsible for over $200,000 missing from Gold Bar’s water fund, to allow a person in a position of power to retaliate against a well respected news source would mean that I condone such criminal behavior from our public officials. Simply put, I do not and will not.

Citizens are the checks and balances to a clean government. It’s our responsibly to expose corrupt public officials regardless of the personal cost to one’s self. Justice has no borders, has no price tag. Corruption harms all of us and must be exposed regardless of the personal cost to one’s self.

Thomas Jefferson said ” the highest form of patriotism is dissent.” This doesn’t mean that I believe our entire system is corrupt. I do not.

As an idealist who believes that our courts are simply one prong to a healthy democracy. But lately they are failing to uphold the laws instead are hiding public officials crimes. So it’s up to “we the people” to be the guarders of public agency employees we created and who are paid with the public’s trust. It’s we the people that must protect the First Amendment from all invaders. Police officers are no exception, and yesterday, the Washington State Supreme Court agreed with us. Requesting access to public records, especially emails, is our statutory right.

After reviewing some of King County Detective Coblantz’s records as well as Kenyon Disend’s contract attorney Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) records. I believe we unearthed another dirty cop and attorney who spit on basic constitutional principles that I love more than life itself. Thus, I cannot turn a blind eye, especially after Coblantz caused an honest taxpaying citizen to be physically raped for a dirty cop from Duvall.

To turn a blind eye when a wrong has been committed against any person for simply exercising First Amendment rights is not something that I can do.

One must wonder whether or not police departments are hiring officers with a high school diploma or high school dropouts. The City of Duvall not only hired uneducated cops but also corrupt cops convicted of DUI who have been fired from two other City’s for misconduct.

For those of you who have past criminal convictions, enjoy filing false reports, enjoy having extramarital affairs with city residents, and no college degree, You should inquire within the City of Duvall at http://www.duvallwa.gov/jobs.aspx.

I feel fortunate to have been raised in a “free speech” zone, and most of all I am thankful to Thomas Jefferson for bringing the First Amendment back with him from Europe.

As new public records come out involving corrupt officers, I promise my readers they will be posted.

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Gold Bar’s water rates to increase by 271 %; public funds misused to cover up criminal conduct of former Mayors and Snohomish County political appointee

October 17, 2015 by goldbarreporter Leave a Comment

Thank you, Mary!

“Years of mismanagement and stealing from Gold Bar’s water fund is the main cause for the 271 % increase in the water rates in Gold Bar this year”, a former insider told the Gold Bar Reporters.

In 2012, Gold Bar’s then Mayor Joe Beavers, stole from Gold Bar’s water fund ( Enterprise funds such as water funds can not be touched for its unintended purposes), to write, edit and draft a Ballot question ( tax hike to fund litigation) asking the voters to help former Mayor Joe Beavers pay back what he stole from Gold Bar’s water funds.

All in an effort to cover up Snohomish County public officials criminal conduct of domestic spying games disseminated via Gold Bar’s public email.

See http://www.monroemonitor.com/2013/03/19/city-to-put-sales-tax-bump-on-august-ballot/

See http://www.heraldnet.com/assets/pdf/DH121278718.PDF

In early 2013, the Gold Bar Reporter requested and gained access to Washington State Auditor’s( SAO) emails between then Mayor Joe Beavers and the SAO confirming what we call “Joe Beaver’s little tax fraud scheme.”

This after the voters of Gold Bar “rejected” Joe Beavers and council member Bob Strom’s 2012 little fraud scheme to defraud the voters failed, Joe Beavers and the Gold Bar city council, Florence Davi Martin, Bob Strom, and Kenneth Ware, decided the best way to pay back what Joe Beavers stole was to create a Storm Water Drain Fund.

One Enterprise Fund to cover up the stealing of the water fund ( Enterprise Fund). According to our counsel, these actions amount to criminal racketeering.

RCW 42.56, PUBLIC RECORDS, EXPOSED GOLD BAR’S MAYOR JOE BEAVERS FRAUD

According to the public emails from late 2012, between Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers and the SAO, Beavers stated in a public email that the Gold Bar city council and he created the Storm Water Drain Fund to pay back the missing water funds. Mayor Joe Beavers went further in his public emails by stating ” that’s not what we told the voters, but that’s what we did…”

Clear fraud, amounting to racketeering, according to our counsel.

According to Joe Beavers and SAO email communication obtained via RCW 42.56, the purpose of this new Storm Water Drain Fund was to pay back what Joe Beavers and the city council stole from Gold Bar’s water funds. All in an effort to assist Joe Beavers hatred of the open government laws.

Luckily for Gold Bar’s taxpayers, Joe Beavers was stupid enough to put his racketeering crimes into a public email between him and SAO in late 2012.

The amount of the Gold Bar water theft equals well over $750,000. 00.

According to Gold Bar’s current litigation bill, Gold Bar’s current Mayor Linda Loen is also misusing City funds to assist Joe Beavers’s fraudulent scheme by raising the water rates to cover up his theft of over $750,000.00 of Gold Bar’s water money to fund litigation ( to cover up John Pennington’s criminal conduct inside public emails).

Recently, a Whistleblower blew the whistle… more to come.

How Washington State’s Sunshine Laws (Public Records Act) Exposed a Massive Racketeering Enterprise inside Snohomish County, Washington, involving a George Bush Jr. political appointee, who caused the deaths of thousands

John E. Pennington, exposed in September 2015, See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/09/17/snohomish-countys-dark-secrets-uncovered/

As of today, the City of Gold Bar, mainly by then Mayors’ Crystal Hill (nee Berg, bank fraud 2005) and Joe Beavers ( cited by Washington State Auditor’s Office in 2013, 2014) have been stealing from Gold Bar’s water funds to pay the law office of Kenyon Dissend to cover up their own criminal conduct involving domestic spying, and illegal dissemination of mental health records of a Massachusetts resident who happens to be related to a Gold Bar Reporter.

See http://cityofgoldbar.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Attorney_2015_Sept_-_Kenyon_Disend.pdf

Three months ago, the Gold Bar Reporters broke the story on Michael Kenyon’s interest in funding the criminal Enterprise to protect his own law firm. See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/

(from left to right) Cary Coblantz; Joe Beavers; Sandra Sullivan; Crystal and John Pennington, Lori Batiot

Sandra Meadowcraft ( Sullivan) Racketeering efforts on behalf of the RICO Enterprise were exposed in http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/09/21/duvall-city-attorney-susan-sullivan-meadowcraft-committing-racketeering-quashing-criminal-charges-for-political-favors-inside-snohomish-county/

HOW RCW 42.56 EXPOSED THE LARGREST RACKET IN WASHINGTON STATE’S HISTORY

Last month, Gold Bar Reporter Block got lucky when King County decided to do the right thing, comply with RCW 42.56, and release records confirming that Snohomish County’s number one political bum, John E. Pennington, a corrupt police officer from Duvall Washington named Lori Batiot and one corrupt King County Sheriff’s Officer, Cary Coblantz ( who with no surprise is assigned to the City of Shoreline where Gold Bar’s former city attorney Margaret King now works), assisted in the illegal tracking of Gold Bar Reporter and her partner traveling overseas from London Heathrow Airport to Seattle.

Why and how a corrupt police named Lori Batiot ( also a Windermere real estate agent) decided to get involved was exposed in our August 29, 2015 Edition. See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/08/29/from-barista-to-the-city-of-duvall/

Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, bank fraud 2005), Sno Co Director John E. Pennington ( who has been on paid leave since he caused the deaths of 43 people in Oso Washington) and Lori Batiot are listed Racketeering defendants.

Last month King County turned over records confirming that a corrupt police officer from Duvall Washington obtained the same records from former Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington. A former insider said ” looks like the Penningtons’ cat is out of the bag. The cat that the City council and Joe Beavers misappropriated over $750,000.00 of Gold Bar’s water money to cover up.” as he laughed.

Last month, we received public records from the City of Duvall again documenting that corrupt Duvall officer Lori Batiot and former Snohomish County Director John Pennington ( on paid leave from Sno County once he killed 43 resident in the Oso mudslides) were trying to feed another story about the Gold Bar Reporter to John Pennington’s friend at the Seattle newspaper “ The Stranger.”

Looks like “ The Stranger” had second thoughts after seeing Lori Batiot’s criminal history reports.

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

Gold Bar’s Water Rate Study, an increase by 271 % cover up the criminal conduct of Snohomish County’s Public Officials:

Just like John Pennington, Crystal Hill Pennington and Joe Beavers’s Sky Valley Chronicle blog posts, they stole the child picture from another website

Breastfeeding Older Children – RocketSwag.com

http://www.rocketswag.com/…/Breastfeeding-Older-

During the summer of 2012, Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers told the press that the City of Gold Bar was “bankrupt”, but since Joe Beavers’s false press release, the City has misappropriated over $400,000.00 of the City’s water funds, and created a diversion of a “hacking theft.” We contacted the City of Portland (Oregon) police officer said was ” more likely an internal theft.”

Mayor Joe Beavers fed a “ hacking ‘ story to the press in 2013, but according to the Portland Police Dept., Joe Beavers so called “hackers” were in fact given the passcodes to access Gold Bar’s bank accounts. This triggered Bank of America to have second thoughts about paying the City of Gold Bar for Joe Beavers’s so called “hacking theft.”

70 % of all theft inside stores are committed by personnel, and we know from a former council member (2009) that Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, bank fraud) and former Gold Bar clerk Laura Kelly ( fired for theft in July 2012) were in fact stealing from the City.

The 2014 SAO’s Report held that there’s $200,000 missing from Gold Bar’s funds and not one city employee can state where it went.

After our investigation yielded that Gold Bar’s so called “hacking” was more than likely internal theft from a Gold Bar insider, we wrote a letter to the American Association of Washington Cities, after it continues to withhold public records claiming that the FBI in Portland is investigating what Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers continues to falsely state on the public record:

Mr. Bryan –

Thank you for your response. Let me give you a little hint. I had my private investigators obtain and contact the City of Portland because I believe based on the evidence that I reviewed from Portland and from the City of Gold Bar that Joe Beavers so called “ hacking” was an internal job.

Police records from Portland stated that a man that fits the description of John Pennington to a Tee while in Portland gave Beavers so called “ hackers’ the passwords to access the online accounts in Gold Bar. It took some time to gather those records, but we did, and made contacts, and from this we believe that the man the so called hackers said called himself Joe Beavers was John Pennington.

Let’s face it Mr. Bryan, the last audit report was clear that there’s 200K missing from Gold Bar’s city accounts and not one city employee can explain where it went. Let’s use an analogy. If I had someone accessed my account online and depleted 200K over an extended period of time and then lied to the public as Joe Beavers clearly did as evidenced by the Portland Police reports, Bank of America (BOA) would have reason to believe that it was an internal job too.

Simple common sense.

Let’s add the fact that the so called hackers had the account numbers and passwords, according to the Portland PD. In fact, the police reports from Portland suggest that this was a major red flag for BOA. Duh? And let’s face it, BOA has some great auditors, because they have an incentive to make sure fraudsters ( like former Mayor Crystal Hill Berg, bank frauder 2005) are brought to justice.

If I had 200K missing from my accounts, and then tried to cover up the theft by creating a diversion, I suspect that BOA might have some reservations about paying the claim as they clearly did in Gold Bar two years ago.

Now, provide me with a copy of the public record pursuant to RCW 42.56 you are claiming was provided by the FBI in native format with metadata, because based on the police files from Portland that I reviewed, and my private investigators files, Gold Bar’s so called hacking was an internal job. Again, all I can do is weigh the evidence that I received and reviewed under the PRA, and I believe what the BOA believes, Gold Bar’s so called theft was an internal job.

Anne

CC: Bank of America
PO Box 25118
Tampa, FL 33622-5118

Gold Bar’s Mayors Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington are being sued for Racketeering in federal court and soon a couple of corrupt police officers will be joining them

http://twitdoc.com/view.asp?id=172712&sid=3P9K&ext=PDF&lcl=RICO-files.pdf&usr=Sunshine2015K&doc=252796214&key=key-vCgcyry8MG3PdTevxTaE

Gold Bar’s clerk Laura Kelly caught via hidden camera stealing from Gold Bar:

see Gold Bar_clerk_Laura_ Kelly_ steals (2)

Ms. Kelly was the clerk treasurer at the time of Mayor Beavers so called “hacking theft.

Filed Under: Snohomish County Tagged With: AMU John Pennington, Bank of America fraud not related to " hackers: as Gold Bar's Mayor Joe Beavers falsely claims, Bank of America should investigate what Gold Bar Washington's Mayor Joe Beavers publically statead in Gold Bar council meeting as "hacking" was not hacking but more than likely an internal theft creat, City of Duvall, Council member Bob Strom, Council member Davi Martin stealing to cover up criminal conduct of Gold Bar's Mayor Joe Beavers and Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg convicted of bank fraud 2005), Crystal Hill, Crystal Hill Pennington ( changes her name from Berg to Hill to cover up criinal history), Cyrstal Pennington, Cystal Hill Pennington, DEM John E. Pennington, Duvall police officer Lori Batiot added to Gold Bar's Brady List of police officers that committ crimes against citizens to cover up their criminal conduct, Gold Bar council member Bob Strom assists in covering up criminal conduct of former Mayors, Gold Bar council member Kenneth Ware calls it suits after Gold Bar's new Mayor Linda Loen finally confides in what the City of Gold Bar is covering up in emails bewteen Crystal Hill Pennington, Gold Bar Washington corruption, Gold Bar's bank theft more than likely an internal theft because according to Portland police theives had passwords to access Bank of America accounts, Gold Bar's former attorney Margaret King involved in Racketeering using City of Shoreline and King County Sheriff's Officer Cary Cobltanz trying to trump up criminal charges on Anne Block for reportin, Gold Bar's Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington plead guilty to bank fraud 2005, Gold Bar's Mayors Joe Beavers, Gold Bar's water rates to increase by 271 %, i Batiot ( also a Windermere real estate agent), Karl Majerle's extortion scheme with former Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, King County Sheriff Cary Coblantz added to Gold Bar Reporters "Brady List" of officers that fraud taxpayers, Lori Batiot's criminal conduct exposed via RCW 42.56 public records, Portland FBI should be looking at former Gold Bar clerk Laura Kelly who was caught stealing from Gold Bar via hidden camera and fired in July 2012, Public records from City of Duvall document that Seattle newspaper " The Stranger" trying to fed a story about Gold Bar Reporter as a political favor for corrupt FEMA Director John Pennington we expos, Sandra Meadowcraft exposed via text message between corrupt King County Sheriff Cary Coblantz documetning both should be prosecuted for Racketeteering, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick covering up criminal conduct of John Pennington

Duvall City attorney Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) quashing criminal charges for political favors, EXPOSED

September 21, 2015 by goldbarreporter 2 Comments

UPDATE: KING COUNTY RELEASES PUBLIC RECORDS DOCUMENTING THAT SANDRA SULLIVAN ( Meadowcraft), A CONTRACT ATTORNEY WITH KENYON DISEND LINKED TO RICO SCANDAL

A RICO complaint has been filed against Sandra Meadowcraft

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

More good news for us First Amendment defenders in Washington State! It just keeps getting better, thanks to Washington State’s Public Records Act. RCW 42.56

Can’t wait . . . reform may be coming soon.

corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot, involved in extramarital affair with John E. Pennington, a source states for years while he was FEMA Region 10 Director and the biological dad

Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe: what a tangled web You’ve weaved when you attempt to deceive.

Corrupt King County Sheriff’s Officer, Cary Coblantz, a RICO member

King County records confirm that John E Pennington’s criminal conduct as stated herein took place using county resources and while on the County taxpayer’s dime, and he was behind the illegal tracking on the Gold Bar Reporter and her partner from London Heathrow airport.

We tried contacting attorney Sandra Sullivan ( Meadowcraft) for comment but she refused.

Agreeing to Quash Criminal Charges in Exchange for Political Influence. Racketeering ? I believe so

Redmond PD Click to the left to see John E. Pennington’s criminal assault

Pennington Redmond Click to the left to see Sandra Sullivan’s ( Meadowcraft) King County filing noting John E. Pennington is a dangerous man

RICO Issues that we reported about over the last year in “Kenyon Disend’s Dirty Bag of Secrets”

See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/

Kenyon Disend and all of its lawyers were contacted for comment but refused comment.

As of now, John Pennington is being sued in US Federal Court for Racketeering, and a new suit is on its way just in time for 2016.

A Internal affairs complaint has been substantiated against King County Officer/scum Cary Coblantz, and he was notifed that he will be named in a RICO suit coming soon.

All over assisting a corrupt police officer who has a long history of conduct hardly becoming of any person let alone a police officer.

Duvall Mayor Will Ibershoff Hired John Pennington’s Mistress, a drunk pill popper

Pages from File 4 Redactions applied(1)-2 click to the left to see a copy of Lori Batiot’s police report verifying everything we’ve written about her conduct being ” unbecoming” of any police officer.

This police report is also at least the 3rd public record where Batiot accuses a person of “stalking.” Seems like any time someone starts to uncover her crimes, she alleges “stalking.”

See more on ” The Stoning of Anne Laughlin” http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/16/the-city-of-duvalls-stoning-of-anne-laughlin/

Some of these issues we’ve researched and written about in this article was also exposed in “Kenyon Disend’s Dirty Bag of Secrets”

See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/04/attorney-michael-kenyons-dirty-bag-of-secrets-part-ii/

Kenyon Disend and all of its lawyers were contacted for comment but refused comment.

Before Lori Batiot managed to obtain a job as a police officer, her work experience was that of a coffee Barista!

The City of Duvall’s employee file of Lori Batiot also supports that she has no college degree and was fired from the City of Ferndale and City of Brier.

We have ample evidence to state that Lori Batiot was hired by the City of Duvall as a political favor to Snohomish County’s number one welfare recipient John E. Pennington.More that issue soon.

Thomas Jefferson said ” the highest form of patriotism is dissent.” This doesn’t mean that I believe our entire system is corrupt. I do not.

To turn a blind eye when a wrong has been committed against any person for simply exercising First Amendment rights is not something that I can do.

I feel fortunate to have been raised in a “free speech” zone, and most of all I am thankful to Thomas Jefferson for bringing the First Amendment back with him from Europe.

As new public records come out involving corrupt officers, I promise my readers they will be posted.

Filed Under: Snohomish County Tagged With: Attorney Michael Kenyon, attorney Sandra Sullivan ( Meadowcraft), attorney Steve Eugster sues WSBA, Cary Coblantz should be added to King County Brady List, Cary Cobltanz King County Corruption, City of Duvall, City of Duvall corruption outlined in RICO, Crystal Hill, Crystal Hill Pennington ( changes her name from Berg to Hill to cover up criinal history), Cyrstal Pennington, Cystal Hill Pennington, DEM and RICO scandal, DEM John E. Pennington, Duvall, Duvall police officer connected to RICO scandal involing John E. Pennington, Duvall police officer Lori Batoit, Duvall WA, FEMA Director John E Pennington prime suspect in child rape Cowlitz County WA, FEMA EMI FRAUD EXPOSED JOHN E PENNINGTON, Gold Bar's Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington plead guilty to bank fraud 2005, including Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg convicted of bank fraud 2005), John E. Pennington, John E. Pennington Snohomish County, Mark Roe involved in massive RICO cancer up here in Snohomish County Washingtoin, Sandra Meadowcraft, Sandra Sullivan attorney who quashed criminal charges against John E. Pennington in exchange for polical favors from Snohmomish County Superior Court, Seattle attorney involved in RICO scandal, Shorline Cary Coblantz, Sky Valley Chronicle, Sky Valley Chronicle operated by Snohomish County Pulbic Officials, Susan Meadowcraft covering up crimes as political favors for Kenyon Dissend Snohomish County DEM

Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) criminal conduct crosses county lines

August 22, 2015 by goldbarreporter Leave a Comment

John Pennington (prime suspect in the rape of a 5 year old) , Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, bank fraud 2005), and Lori Batiot ( corrupt Duvall WA cop)

Correction: We originally posted that corrupt Duvall Police Officer Lori Batiot was fired from Bellingham. This was a clerical error. Batiot was arrested for drunk driving in Bellingham, but fired for conduct unbecoming of a police officer in the City of Ferndale.

City Brier PRR click to the left to view Drunk Driving report from WA State Patrol from City of Brier.

What’s most interesting about the above public records is that the above reports documents that anytime corrupt Duvall police officer Lori Batiot gets caught committing crimes, she alleges ” stalking.” Or as we correctly report ” The little damsel in distress ploy.”

Another corrupt cop EXPOSED by the Gold Bar Reporters.

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On March 19, 2015, child abuser and bank fraudster Crystal Hill Pennington ( who changed her name from Berg to Hill in 2005 to cover up her criminal bank fraud), and her pedophile husband John E. Pennington ( man who caused the deaths of 43 people to suffocate to death in Oso Washington’s mudslides ), attempted to obtain a prior restraint on free speech.

On March 19, 2015, King County Judge Meyers rejected their complaint as being ” unconstitutional” and Gold Bar Reporters informed Mark Roe on the same day.

Perhaps a little less criminal conduct and a few more college classes might help Crystal Hill. Crystal Hill Pennington dropped out of Everett Community College after she became pregnant and her boyfriend abandoned her in senior year of high school.

Public records we obtained from the City of Gold Bar and Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management, documents that she was practicing law without a license at the same time she was passing bad checks up here in Gold Bar, Washington.

Email records given to us by former Mayor Joe Beavers also documents that Snohomish County Dept of Emergency Management John E. Pennington is a racist who was passing derogatory comments via Snohomish County computers about President Obama.

John E. Pennington recently admitted in a public post ” My LIfe” that he was a racist but claims that he changed once Executive John Lovick ( a African American) became his boss.

We correctly titled John Pennington a ” convenient racist!” who was quoted as saying ” I oppose abortion unless A white woman is raped by a black man.”

Corrupt Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, will be Recalled after WA Supreme Court sets precedent with Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist

An insider from Snohomish County, who we call “Fed Up” also said ” Mark Roe has misappropriated over $5.5 million dollars hiding his RICO violations of quashing criminal charges against Karl Marjerle for sabotaging the City’s water system, and Mark Roe’s quashing child abuse and criminal assault charges against John E. Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg).

According to Gold Bar resident Joe Beavers ” Marjerle’s water license was stripped as a result.”

See http://goldbarreporter.org/2015/04/13/1368/

” Mark Roe spends most of his day conspiring with Sean Reay and John Pennington trying to get you charged with a crime.” Fed Up told the Gold Bar Reporters.

Yesterday, Fed Up told us ” I believe Mark Roe’s conduct is no less than Mark Lindquist’s conduct, malicious.” We believe Fed Up is right, and are awaiting the WA Supreme Court’s decision on Lindquist to file a Recall Petition against Mark Roe, only after we found more emails from Snohomish County documenting that even after Mark Roe knew that two King County Judges and three King County Prosecutors stated that the Gold Bar Reporters news reporting style was protected free speech and does not amount to criminal conduct.

Fed Up also told us “Crystal Hill, Sean Reay, John E. Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington met on June 25, 2015, filing the same exact false documents that Crystal Hill Pennington, John Pennington and his very very very close friend and Duvall police officer Lori Batiot filed in King County rejected by two King County Judges, that Mark Roe had declarations proving that Crystal Hill Pennington is GUILTY of perjury.”

Further, Crystal Hill Pennington files the complaint in Gold Bar, stating the City of Duvall declined. The bigger question is what makes Crystal Hill Pennington think that she’s entitled to forum shop when not one of the alleged protected activity ( warning Duvall residents that John E. Pennington is pedophile working around children, which we have an absolute right to inform the public of) that bank fraudster and child abuser Crystal Hill Pennington and John E Pennington could be filed in Gold Bar?

Fed up said ” Mark Roe and Sean Reay are dumber than door knobs.” We don’t disagree.

Fact is, not one single allegation in Crystal Hill Pennington’s complaint occurred in Snohomish County. But emails from RICO Master and Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe documents that Crystal Hill Pennington had a direct line to Mark Roe’s office. Wonder why? This shit is getting too juicy!

One source claims that ” Crystal Hill was being passed around like a door mat…” Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers screamed three times in executive session ” Crystal Hill is a whore!” While another 2009 Gold Bar council member said she was passing nude pictures on a Blackberry device of herself to various married men. He also stated ” Crystal was a party girl” implying she was being passed around.

From 2007 to 2015, Crystal Hill Pennington, John E Pennington and former Gold Bar Mayor Joe Bevaers had unfettered access to post on Aaron Reardon’s Sky Valley Chronicle. In 2012, John and Crystal Hill Pennington posted a threat to harm Gold Bar Reporter and her partner. Public records released from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office and the City of Gold Bar documents that Reardon’s agent Ron Fejfar ( Sulten) gave access code to Beavers to post articles, and public records from Snohomish County revealed that John And Crystal Hill Pennington had possession of article before the articles even appeared on the Chronicle. In one article, John Pennington while serving as a FEMA EMI instructor posted a veiled threat to physically harm Block and her partner. But when a RICO suit was filed against Beavers, Hill and Pennington, they ceased all criminal activity on the Sky Valley Chronicle.

This issue brings us to John Pennington’s little extortion scandal at the Echo Lake Resort, but ‘we’ll hold off posting our findings about the Big Bang Theory for a future date. But for those of you who like Sex.com, you might Search those 2008-2009 archives.

A criminal complaint has been filed against Crystal Hill Pennington after she submitted an intentionally false police report stating that several email addresses and Twitter accounts were mine, and that she could not find work as a result of our news investigation of her criminal conduct.

FEMA confirmed that weeks before and weeks after Crystal Hill filed a false criminal complaint she secured fraudulently ( pleading guilty to bank fraud makes a person ineligible for any federal contracts) over 20,000 worth of federal contracts.
Since Crystal Hill Pennington sat with her friend and RICO Enterprise member Lori Batoit in Court on Jun e19, 2015, when A King County judge tossed Lori Batiot’s criminal complaint ( and our lawyer stated on the record that Crystal Hill Pennington, John Pennington, and former Mayor Joe Beavers were present) amounts to a new predicate acts under RICO with a new RICO suit coming soon.

In the meantime, We are writing a Recall against Mark Roe for entertaining Crystal Hill Pennington’s criminal complaints ( amounting to perjury) after two King County Judges and three King Prosecutors already rejected the criminal complaints five times in the last three months at the lowest civil standard.

Unfortuantely for Snohomish County taxpayers, Mark Roe and Sean Reay must have failed constitutional and criminal law because criminal complaints have the highest standard of proof “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Since two King County Judges and three King County Prosecutors already said Crystal Hill Pennington’s criminal and perjurous complaints were ” unfounded, DISMISSED” at the lowest standard, our counsel is of the opinion that Mark Roe’s conduct is “malicious.”

Once Mark Lindquist’s Recall comes back ” stamped ok” by the WA State Supreme Court, Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block will use case law to secure corrupt Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe’s Recall up here in Snohomish County.

The taxpayers have right to a clean and honest government by and for the people, not ye the few – and I intend to make that happen, soon.

Filed Under: Snohomish County Tagged With: City of Duvall, City of Duvall corruption outlined in RICO, Corrupt police officer Lori Batiot and John Pennington enter RICO conspiracy, Crystal Hill, Crystal Hill Pennington ( changes her name from Berg to Hill to cover up criinal history), Cyrstal Pennington, Cystal Hill Pennington, DEM John E. Pennington, Duvall, Duvall Lori Batiot, Duvall police officer connected to RICO scandal involing John E. Pennington, Duvall police officer Lori Batoit, Duvall WA, Gold Bar, Gold Bar Washington corruption, Gold Bar's former Mayor Joe Beavers ued for RICO, Gold Bar's Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington plead guilty to bank fraud 2005, John E. Pennington AMU, John E. Pennington former DEM, John Pennington sued for Racketeering, Lori Baitot perjury, Lori Batiot, Lori Batiot to be sued for RICO violations in US Federal District Court, Mark Lindquist is not alone Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe will be Recalled too, RICO JOe Beavers GOld Bar, RICO John Edward Pennington, Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management John Pennington passing racist comments about President Obama via county and Gold Bar email servers, Snohomish County John E. Pennington sued for Racketeering, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe RICO activity?

Former Gold Bar Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington’s fraud EXPOSED

August 5, 2015 by goldbarreporter Leave a Comment

Former Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) EXPOSED

The Gold Bar Reporters were first to break the story about Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington’s bank fraud conviction. According to a former insider, it’s a little about what Gold Bar’s Mayor Linda Loen and Joe Beavers are covering up inside the emails. Costing the taxpayers of Gold Bar over $1,000,000.00 as of today with no end in sight.

According to the Washington State Auditor’s Gold Bar Audit report, dated November 2014, there’s over $200,000.00 missing from the City’s funds ( water) and not one single employee can explain where it went.

According to a former Gold Bar council member, ” I believe Crystal Hill was stealing from the City!”

We here at the Gold Bar Reporters have read enough emails between Crystal Hill and Gold Bar’s former clerk treasurer Laura Kelly to know that Crystal Hill and Laura Kelly were involved in a check cashing scheme. The scheme as we exposed in 2013 involved Crystal Hill, a non-lawyer, signing up for Continue Legal Education and other classes, paid for with Gold Bar taxpayer monies, then canceling, then having a refund check reissued.

Since Crystal Hill’s Bank of America account in Sultan was frozen for continuing to pass bad bank checks ( 2006-2009) to her mortgage holder and others, even after she plead guilty to bank fraud for the same offense, Gold Bar’s clerk Laura Kelly would cash the refund check and give Crystal Hill cash in return.

Our readers should know that there’s no evidence that Laura Kelly or Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg bank fraud 2005) returned the refunded monies to the taxpayers of Gold Bar.

The Washington State Auditor’s November 2014 report noted that there’s $200,000.00 missing from the City of Gold Bar funds that not one employee can explain where it went.

See http://portal.sao.wa.gov/ReportSearch

In July 2012, Gold Bar’s clerk treasurer was caught by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, via a hidden camera placed in her office inside Gold Bar City Hall putting stolen city funds back and then lying to a police officer.

Caught red handed, but since Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers needed Ms. Kelly’s declaration for ongoing litigation, and to assist in hiding his email crimes of domestic spying ( running illegal background checks on open government supporters out here in Gold Bar) and extortion scheme involving Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management’s former Director John E. Pennington, Joe Beavers requested Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe and Seth Fine not prosecute Laura Kelly.

Mr. Fine was in charge of the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s criminal unit at the time of each one of these offenses, but now with ongoing RICO suits pending as it relates to the County’s involvement, he was moved to the county’s civil unit.

According to our legal counsel, a clear obstruction of justice and RICO violations by all involved; and since Kelly was the City’s clerk treasurer at the time of the theft, a felony theft charge should have been pursued.

Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers is being sued for Racketeering in US Federal District Court, and the case in the appeals process awaiting the 9th Circuit’s Remand Order.

Gold Bar_clerk_Laura_ Kelly_ steals (2) Click to the left to review Laura Kelly’s criminal police report

Late yesterday, we learned from another reporter that Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) also managed to obtain federal contracts with FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI).

There’s only problem for Crystal Hill Pennington; as a child raised by a father who worked for the federal government his whole life, I learned a lot about the internal workings of the federal government including that a person who plead guilty to fraud of any kind is ineligible for federal contracts or federal employment of any kind.

Now, I had to call a friend who I attended law school with, who is now a federal attorney in Washington D.C. to answer one question: If a person pleads guilty to fraud and manages to expunge their criminal history, either by deferred prosecution or expunging the conviction record itself, does this make them eligible to be awarded federal contracts?

The attorney said ” she is ineligible for most federal benefits, contracts or employment, as a result of her fraud conviction regardless of whether any state expunges the record. In fact, if you look at the application she had to affirm to under oath and sign, You will see an exclusion clause just above the signature line. This clause specifically requests that the person seeking federal contracts to affirm under oath that they have never plead guilty to or been convicted of fraud. Whether or not she’s eligible for state contracts is not relevenat to whether this excludes her from federal employment and contracts. ”

A complaint against Crystal Hill Pennington is being pursued and a public records request has been sent to FEMA EMI seeking copies of any files relating to Crystal Hill Pennington’s FEMA EMI contracts. Once received, we will post copies.

If anyone thinks that this taxpayer will sit idle while my taxpayer monies are being misused to support a person who plead guilty to fraud, You don’t know me too well.

Reporting from the front lines of democracy.

Filed Under: Snohomish County Tagged With: 000, 000.00 with end in sight, Crystal Hill, Crystal Hill Gold Bar, Crystal Hill Pennington ( changes her name from Berg to Hill to cover up criinal history), Crystal Hill Pennington FEMA Fraud EXPOSED, Crystal Hill Pennington's FEMA EMI fraud exposed, Gold Bar Crystal Hill Pennington, Gold Bar Laura Kelly caught steaiing from City, Gold Bar Linda Loen, Gold Bar's Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington plead guilty to bank fraud 2005, Gold Bar's Mayor Joe Beavers covering up crimes inside email communication cost to taxpayers over $1, Gold Bar's Mayor Linda Loen convering up RICO crimes, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, Snohomish County Prosecutor Seth Fine

Court of Appeals Div. I Justices Becker, Dwyer and Lau GUILTY of Racketeering?

July 10, 2015 by goldbarreporter Leave a Comment

Mary Kay Becker, judge of Div. I, ( left) Washington State Court of Appeals. When we appealed Judge Eadie’s refusal to recuse,^[1] Judge Becker sided with Judge Eadie (and Lane Powell, Sulkin, etc.). In reaching her decision, she misrepresented the history of the dispute, misrepresented our arguments and the issue before the court, and then ruled on the basis of her misrepresentations. By that technique, a judge can arrive at any decision she wants.

So a curious person might ask, why did Judge Becker want to arrive at that decision? Was she protecting Judge Eadie, as one union member tends to protect another? Whatever the reason, Becker’s misrepresentations and her ruling did not have the appearance of justice.

Stephen Dwyer, judge of Div. I, ( Middle) Washington State Court of Appeals, sat on the panel that affirmed the righteousness of the judge who appeared to be self-dealing.

Linda Lau, judge of Div. I, ( right) Washington State Court of Appeals, sat on the panel that affirmed the righteousness of the judge who appeared to be self-dealing.

After reading Carol and Bill’s story below, Our readers can be the judge on whether or not the conduct below equates to Racketeering.

See http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Racketeering

Written by Carol DeCoursey, reposted with permission

We are a married couple (two seniors) of modest income. New to Washington, in 2004 we were looking for a home. Our Windermere agent arranged a home-purchase renovation package without telling us the contractor was unlicensed, unqualified for the job, and his business partner. The contractor bungled the job and ruined the value of the home. Then, in March, 2006, one of the sub-contractors sued us, complaining the prime had not paid him. (Story at http://www.RenovationTrap.com.)

We defended ourselves pro se and cross-claimed against Windermere Real Estate, the construction company, and others. We then discovered that other homeowners had been ripped off by Windermere, that the Department of Licensing (DOL) refused to discipline Windermere agents and enforce real estate laws, and that the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) defended DOL’s malfeasance. We spoke out against the corruption — we became whistleblowers. (Story at http://www.Windermere-Victims.com. See some of the fliers we circulated: “Crime Syndicate in Washington?” http://www.everyones-business.org/Crime-Syndicate-in-Washington.pdf” and “Legalizing Crime in Washington,” http://www.everyones-business.org/Legalizing-Crime-in-Washington.pdf”).

In company with other victims of Windermere, we petitioned the State Auditor’s office to investigate the DOL. After almost two years, a report was written, but the AGO attorney on the Auditor’s staff advised that DOL enforcement was discretionary and the report was shelved. We obtained a copy of the final report, which says little more than that.

We hired a young lawyer to take us to trial. He’d just started working at mega-firm Lane Powell. But we did not know that the supervisor of his practice group, Grant Degginger, was the Mayor of Bellevue and Mayor Degginger was presiding over Bellevue’s biggest building boom ever. Only months before, the Washington Association of Realtors and other development interests had financed Degginger’s election — and we were suing Degginger’s political support community. Lane Powell did not disclose any of this. Had we known, we would not have agreed to have Degginger controlling our case.

At one point we directed Lane Powell to tell the court about the corruption at DOL and AGO and its impact upon us and other Windermere victims. Lane Powell refused. We later learned that Degginger’s wife, a lawyer, had worked for 18 years in the Attorney General’s Office, another fact we would like to have known up front.

We scored a trial victory against Windermere. But during the course of trial preparation and subsequent appeals, Lane Powell bled our case for legal fees — and then gave away important awards. We had already paid the firm $313,808. As soon as we could practically do so, we dismissed Lane Powell (August 3, 2011); that day, Lane Powell filed a lien of $384,881.66 plus interest against our upcoming Windermere judgment payout.

Two months later, on October 5, 2011 (before we received the payout), Lane Powell sued us for the money. Its lawsuit was assigned to Richard D. Eadie, whose wife was a Windermere agent/broker; he was himself a beneficiary of Windermere’s retirement plan. In violation of the Code of Judicial Conduct, Eadie did not disclose this to us.

On the same day it filed suit, Lane Powell served discovery requests, demanding we produce in discovery all communications we had with its attorneys on any subject whatsoever — not just matters pertaining to Lane Powell’s lawsuit — thereby waiving all attorney-client confidentiality on all subjects. The message was clear: “Pay up, or your confidences will be revealed.” We believe that is extortion under color of law. (Judge Eadie first granted, and then denied he had granted, discovery protection.)

Lane Powell told provable and repeated lies to Judge Eadie; when we provided documentation proving the lies, Eadie simply ignored it all and incorporated the lies in his rulings. He hammered us with one unfair decision after another. Then we found out about his Windermere connection and asked him to recuse (step down). He refused. He then dismissed our defenses and counter claims and approved an award of $842,734.67 to ex-Mayor Degginger and his colleagues at Lane Powell.

We appealed, using an excellent lawyer. The Court of Appeals misrepresented the issue on appeal and affirmed the judgment. The Supreme Court — even knowing that Judge Eadie kept his Windermere connections secret while trying two Windermere whistleblowers, that Lane Powell lied in court, and that Judge Eadie had knowingly incorporated those lies into his rulings — refused to grant us an appeal. (Story at http://www.everyones-business.org)

Grant Degginger is now chair of the Public Disclosure Commission …

We have filed a Complaint with the WSBA — complete with more that 4,000 pages of documentation. (Synopsis at http://www.everyones-business.org/BarReport/Synopsis.pdf )

But WSBA will take no action, further encouraging corrupt lawyers in big law firms and government agencies. What a racket.

My Story…. Bill Scheidler

chief activist at www.CorruptWA.com and www.CorruptWashington.com

I discovered a county official was defrauding me and other retired/disabled individuals by deliberately misstating statutory language. The attorney I hired to sue the county was then “extorted” from representing me by using his Bar license as leverage to force him off the case. I filed a Bar grievance against the lawyer for his breach. The Bar Association dismissed the grievance in order to “protect the attorney and the county in their extortion scheme which was to deprive me of my counsel so as to save the fraud being perpetrated by the county upon me and all retired/disabled citizens”… no other lawyer would take the case because of the risk to their Bar license should they represent me against the county’s fraud. The WA State Bar, in dismissing the grievance against the lawyer “delegated back to me” the task of investigating my grievance stating that the Bar would “re-open the grievance” if a “judicial finding of impropriety” was obtained. No lawyer would take my case to find a “judicial finding of impropriety”. So I sued “pro se”. After more than a year of discovery, depositions and motions, the judge dismissed the case against the attorney under “CR 11″ (one week before trial by jury) and awarded the very attorney, who withdrew under the county’s extortion scheme, sanctions of $132,000. On appeal, the entire $132,000 was reversed as manifestly unjust and a consequence of the attorney’s discovery abuses and excessive motions, but remanded for reasonable fees. On remand a successor judge (a judge never before sitting or hearing any evidence) re-awarded sanctions of $120,000. On appeal of that award as a violation of the previous Appeal’s mandate, and that a successor judge has no authority to make a decision on facts he never heard, a violation of law- RCW 2.28.030(2), the clerk of the court of appeals, refused to file my opening brief and then the”clerk” dismissed the appeal for failure to file an opening brief. A motion to modify the clerks unilateral decisons to not file and then dismiss for not filing was dismissed and, as is the custom, sanctions of $4000 were levied against me for bringing a “frivolous motion”.

There is still more…. I then filed a ‘citizens criminal complaint’ against the clerk for not filing papers delivered to him – a violation of the statute that lists the duties of court clerks, one such duty is “to file ALL papers delivered for that purpose”. This ‘criminal complaint’ is authorized under a court rule. The judge REFUSED to allow me to file this criminal complaint. I then filed a recall petition, a constitutional right, to remove the judge from his ‘elected office’ because he refused to allow me to file a criminal complaint against the clerk of the court of appeals who violated the law by not filing my paper and then dismissing my appeal for not filing. This “petition to Recall”, which is a constitutional right, was blocked by a judge. An appeal was made directly to the WA State Supreme Court (a statutory procedure in “voter” issues) …. AND of course the Clerk of the Supreme Court refused to file the appeal!

Question for the readers is: Who let the pigs out?

Perhaps “we the people ” should file Recall Petitions against any elected official who spits on the civil rights of citizens the way Becker, Dwyer, and Lau did in favor of a piece of shit from Bellevue named Grant Degginger ( Degginger is also the one who gave Gold Bar’s water boy Karl Marjerle a job after public records confirmed that he sabotaged Gold Bar’s water wells and stole from the City. Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay’s wife quashed the criminal charges as a political favor for a pedophile from Snohomish County named John E. Pennington and his mistress Crystal Hill. Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) plead guilty to bank fraud while she was sitting council member in 2005. Crystal Hill Pennington and John E. Pennington are being sued for RICO violations in US Federal Court with more RICO suits ready to go July 2015 as well as a defamation suit for John Pennington’s Sky Valley Chronicle postings.

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