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

        

 Ann Marie Soto                                          Shannon Ragonesi 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Sean Reay did  it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://goldbarreporter.org/2018/09/ 

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does this fit the definition of racketeering crimes?

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snohomish County Washington, Prosecutor’s officers felonious government sponsored activity exposed

 

Caroline Darrow, admits she’s tampering with public records, caught on camera

In April 2016, a whistleblower came forward from Snohomish County Department of Information Services Department (DIS) stating Snohomish County Prosecutors’ employees Brian Lewis and Caroline Darrow are tampering with public records.

 In April 2016, the whistleblower gave the Gold Bar Reporter email communication sent between and among an DIS employee, Snohomish County Prosecutor Sara Di Vittorio and then Executive public records officer Brian Lewis documenting beyond any shadow of a doubt that Brian Lewis and attorney/Prosecutor Sara Di Vittorio are guilty of felons, i.e. tampering with public records. Brian Lewis was fired by Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers, but then to help the racketeering Enterprise, Snohomish County Prosecutors Mark Roe and Sara Di Vittorio rehired him to tampering with Snohomish County’s court records.  

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RCW 40.16.010, injury to public records states: 

Every person who shall willfully and unlawfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal, or obliterate a record, map, book, paper, document, or other thing filed or deposited in a public office, or with any public officer, by authority of law, is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both.

 

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Snohomish County “fixing” cases 

In July 2009, Gold Bar’s then appointed Gold Bar Mayor Joe Beavers ( also a convicted felon) bragged that he was fixing cases with the assistance of Snohomish County Washington Judiciary.   So here’s how it works, i.e. fixing cases.

When a litigant has a public record cases ( or any case ) pending in front  a Snohomish County Superior Court Judge, the Prosecutors’ Office sends an employee to the courtroom to watch. This is a “ tip” to the Superior Court judges ( or Commissioner/s)  that they are to fix the case/s.

An employee of Snohomish County told the Gold Bar Reporter “ remember when Gold Bar’s attorney Shannon Ragonesi filed that frivolous motion to dismiss your public record case in November 2017? Well, Mark Roe and Sara Di Vi Vittorio ordered Brian Lewis to sit in the audience to tip Judge Cindy Larsen off that the Prosecutors’ Office, also  Judge Larsen’s former employer,  was to rule against you. There’s only one problem, Judge Thomas Wynne had already held in your favor in March 2016.  As a result, Judge Cindy Larsen told Mark Roe that she couldn’t overrule another judge’s holding, but she ( Larsen) would rule against you on a well settled rule, metadata, trying to throw a monkey wrench in your win. “ The Snohomish County insider also said “ Mark Roe supported Judge Cindy Larsen and called in a favor…”  Sadly, Judge Larsen’s ruling supports the whistleblower’s statements of ” the Prosecutors are working with the Judges to “fix  cases.” To test this theory, the Gold Bar Reporter had a friend sitting in on  case in front of Snohomish County Commissioner Jacqueline Brudjack and Commissioner Pesky.   All of the sudden Snohomish County Prosecutor, Miquel Tempski, showed up in the audience, the Commissioner’s violated well settled rules on discovery.  Fixing cases clearly established, as the famous observationist Erickson said ” observation is evidence.” 

Further evidence comes from a recent ruling in another public records case where Snohomish County Judge Lucas stated for the record “ the proper motion on a modification of the commissioner’s holding is a Motion to Continue CR 56 (7) pending discovery.”  Only one problem, the activist was not at the court on a Motion to Oppose Summary Judgement, she was there to modify the commissioner ruling, holding in part that a Plaintiff has no legal right to conduct discovery. 

Judge Lucas either failed civil procedure in law school or he is corrupt.  My readers should keep in mind that Judge Lucas is also the judge that gave a Snohomish County employee, John E. Pennington, a man responsible for the rape of a 5 year old child in Cowlitz County Washington, and then received custodial custody as a political favor to his very dear friend and disgraced/terminated former Executive Aaron Reardon.

Fixing the cases isn’t just limited to civil public record cases.  Over the last three years, the Gold Bar Reporter has sat in on several criminal cases as well, and what was noted was that when the County wants a Judge to rule against the criminal defendant, Snohomish County sends two county employees in to watch the cases, one Sheriff’s Officer named Snitch, and one Risk Management officer named Keith Mitchell. 

My readers may recall that the Gold Bar Reporter was the first to report on Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon’s theft of Snohomish County monies to fund his extra-marital affairs with Deanna Dawson and a social worker from Snohomish County.   Once we started exposing Deanna Dawson, she and John Pennington came up with a great plan to “throw” the county social worker under the bus to save Aaron Reardon and Deanna Dawson from political ruins. 

For good reason, voters don’t like politicians who cheat on their spouses. 

The Gold Bar Reporter exposed Deanna Dawson, John E Pennington and his public record officer Diana Rose in an article titled “ The Stoning of Tamara Dutton.” 

For Diana Rose’s assisting the racketeering Enterprise, Diana Rose, a mere public record officers with no training in emergency management, received a political appointment with the City of Marysville as the Director of Emergency Management, because oh yes indeed the City of Marysville has so many natural disasters, and needs a public records officer to handle emergencies.  

Stealing from the Marysville’s taxpayers.  

On March 24, 2014, Diana Rose and John E. Pennington caused the deaths of 43 people in the Oso mudslides disaster, because instead of working they were criminally harassing their opponents on a foe website titled “ The Sky Valley Chronicle”  The Chronicle was set up to control the message in Snohomish County on behalf of the Democratic Party of Washington. Owned and operated by Snohomish County employees, Brian Perry, Jon Rudicil, Senator Steve Hobbs, convicted criminal Kevin Thomas Hulton, and John E. Pennington.  In October 2016, Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers, a convicted felon, was deposed and admitted that he was also allowed post stories freely on the Sky Valley Chronicle.

Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington ( convicted bank frauder, and guilty of perjury) and John E. Pennington are being sued for defamation and racketeering.

Although John E. Pennington was fired for criminally harassing people using the Sky Valley Chronicle, Peirce College in Washington State hired him to teach Emergency Management classes (laughable  since caused 43 people to suffocated to death in Oso mudslides and is a wife beater who enjoys taking showers with 6 year old girls).   When the Gold Bar Reporter filed a complaint with the US Department of Education that John E. Pennington had falsified his fraudulent academic credentials, the US Department of Education ordered Peirce College remove John E Pennington’s academic credentials off their website.  John E Pennington bogus online diplomas, paid for a flat fee, have been removed from Pierce College’s website, however, he is still allowed to teach non-degree level classes online.  

Today, we have a new story and racketeering defendant to add, Caroline Darrow, a Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office public record officer, guilty of tampering with public records. 

 The activist said “Caroline Darrow looked like she’s on drugs…”  What’s new inside Snohomish County Washington? 

We are now in the process of running an extensive background check on Caroline Darrow, since we know for certain that many of the public records officers for Snohomish County have shady backgrounds. Five weeks ago, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office released public record documenting that Snohomish County assisted Crystal Hill Pennington with illegally removing her criminal history from National Crime Information Center (NCIC), a felony in Washington State.

 The Gold Bar Reporter is pursuing perjury charges against Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) after Ms. Hill Berg Pennington appeared “under oath” on April 23, 2017, stating that the Gold bar Reporter was lying about her criminal arrest records ( above). Not sure about our readers, but since Ms. Hill Pennington has a “tramp stamp” just above her anal area, identified by Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office after her arrest record above, public records document Ms. Hill Pennington is not only a convicted bank frauder and a harasser, but also a person with no morals for telling the truth. A lawsuit has been started against Ms. Hill Pennington for defamation.   

“Heck of a job, Brock” another FEMA failure

Brock Long, FEMA political appointee

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In 1979, President Jimmy Carter started the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Purpose, to provide assistance to local governments hit with disasters. Typically, FEMA doesn’t respond unless a governor requests federal assistance during or leading up to a disaster.

After 9/11, FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Branch serving at the will of the President.  Sadly this means the President is allowed to make political appointments.

As my readers know all too well, political appointments all too often yield uneducated and unqualified political appointees, instead of people who can perform.

Such is the case of Donald Trump’s political appointee Brock Long, FEMA Director.

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Brock Long earned a MA in Criminal Justice from Appalachian State University, West Virginia. For those of us who have ever served in any capacity of Academia, we know Criminal Justice majors are the least educated members of our society.  Why seems to be geared toward the mentality that police officers only follow orders.  The military style philosophy.

He served as a regional manager there during George W. Bush’s administration before leading the Alabama Emergency Management Agency from 2008 to 2011, including during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Long joined the George W. Bush Jr. administration in November 2001 as a hurricane program manager in FEMA for six states, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.  He, Michael Browne, and John E. Pennington ( fired from FEMA and Snohomish County for unethical conduct unbecoming of a public officer) were major participants in FEMA’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Mr. Long’s major achievement was the distribution of a hurricane computer game for grade-school students that focused on preparedness for such storms.  Presumably because our children don’t have enough games to play at home.

Mr. Long left FEMA in 2006. The following year, he was named southeast regional director for Beck Disaster Recovery, a consulting firm that specialized in emergency planning, disaster training and post-event recovery.

In January 2008, Long became director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, where he directed the state’s response to incidents as different as the H1N1 flu virus and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as hurricanes and other storms. Long’s experience with schools was particularly prized by Alabama after a school in the town of Enterprise collapsed during a 2007 tornado, killing eight students.

He had no management skills prior to receiving political appointments, and at least part of his degree (MS) appears to have been earned ” online.”

In 2017, Long unjustly received widespread praise by President Trump for his handling of the federal response to Hurricane Harvey, the first major natural disaster faced by the Trump administration in 2017.

Instead of actually doing anything to assist disaster victims prior to Hurricane Harvey, Long appeared on the scene just long enough to grab the limelight, hand out food supplies and take pictures ( in dress clothes, adding insult the average working class American).

Mistakenly, Long said emergency management begins at the local level and that it is FEMA’s job to serve in a supportive role.  A gross understatement, as FEMA’s role is Emergency Management, before, after and during disasters.  Mistakes often made by persons who lack the education and knowledge of why and how FEMA was created.

 

During a visit to Texas after the storm, President Trump introduced Mr. Long as “a man who really has become very famous on television in the last couple of days.”  After seeing this, I remember saying ” am I reading this right? People are dying, without water, food, and electricity, and our FEMA Director’s proudest accomplishments should be how famous he will become as a result of being on television.  America is in trouble!”

Personally I’d prefer not to be associated with failing to adequately respond in performing my job, human suffering, and causing the deaths of hundreds, in a very public way.

 

Is being famous really important when fellow Americans are without food, clean water,  and electricity?

Leaders problem solve, this involves reaching across the political lines to find solutions, not a ” my way or the highway” approach.  Sadly, Brock Long represents what’s wrong with Washington D.C.

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America is harmed by not having qualified persons running FEMA  

With no surprise my readers probably already guessed that I was no Donald Trump supporter. Frankly speaking, I felt he was unqualified to serve as a Diplomat for America – and I was no fan of his T.V. show The Apprentice, which I view as mindless television, harming our children into believing that winning is more important than working together to find solutions.  However, I first gave Trump the benefit of the doubt, until he disrespected German Chancellor Angela Merkel by refusing to shake her hand. 

Not because I believe Chancellor Angela Merkel is right on immigration ( fact is I believe she created a dangerous situation for Germany by allowing Muslims to immigrate at will), because I expect the President of the United States ( my homeland)  to be respectful, and to act respectful, to elected leaders around the World. Chancellor Angela Merkel is no exception because she’s a female or has different views about immigration (which I certainly do not and never will share).

 And tweeting threats to North Korea is not making us safer, its harming America’s credibility throughout the World, and makes us look like bullies who act on impulse and not with diplomacy.

 

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A few weeks ago, I witnessed our President Tweet that Puerto Rico residents were “second class citizens”, for me, it was time to speak out.  Taking this phrase apart word by word, “Second” speaks for itself, meaning not first. Presumably referring to the America’s main land residents in first place.  Winners apparently, not just lucky to born on the mainland.  Next, class refers to a superior group of persons. For me, all life on planet Earth is sacred.  Lastly, citizens. The word citizen according to Dictionary.com means “a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection (distinguished from alien ). “

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Puerto Rico is an American territory, meaning all Puerto Ricans are “citizens of the US.”

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

  Nothing second class about US citizens. 

 So why did it take eight days for Brock Long to respond to Hurricane Maria?  Seems to me that Long too believes that Puerto Rico residents are “second class citizens” and simply implemented policy, also known as “class warfare.”

 

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

 Problem for me, Brock Long disrespected fellow Americans, and as such, he will receive as much sunshine as our Freedom of Information Act allows.

 

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In 2014, John E. Pennington, a political to FEMA Region X ( George W Bush Jr. forced his resignation after he learned that he was treated for major mental health issues and enjoys abusing women and children) and Snohomish County Emergency Management  (terminated after he was caught via public records criminally harassing the Gold Bar Reporter and trying to hack into the Gold Bar Reporter’s blogs) caused the deaths of 43 residents in the Oso mudslides here in Washington State. Instead of doing his job, public records reveal that he spent most of his work day criminally harassing me and trying to hack into the Gold Bar Reporter’s blog.

After he killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides here in Washington State, finally in 2015, John E. Pennington was fired after public records documented his criminal conduct as state herein, and his U.S. Homeland Security clearance was stripped after he was caught running illegal background checks on citizens here in Washington State. 

John E. Pennington is being sued for RICO and gross 1983 violations, and our readers should be happy to know that Brock Long hired Pennington to teach FEMA Emergency Management classes at Emergency Management Institute ( FEMA EMI) in Maryland/Pennsylvania, and even awarded contracts to John E. Pennington’s college drop-out ( who we hear managed to get an online certificate from Eastern Oregon State, a college which had major accreditation problems) convicted bank frauding wife Crystal Hill Pennington ( convicted of bank fraud, Snohomish County, Washington, 2005 using alias of  Crystal Berg; and served time in North Carolina, using alias of Chris Hill, 2000, for the same offense).

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Evidence of FEMA Director Brock Long’s 2017 failures

Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, another sad example of Brock Long’s botched response

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 Aftermath of Hurricane Maria, another example of Brock Long’s botched response

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  FEMA’s botched response to California fires

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Brock Long should take lesson on how to be a great American from San Juan’s Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.

President Trump enjoys the term ” YOU’RE FIRED” but failed to fire the biggest failure of all, Brock Long, adding insult to injury.

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Association of Washington Cities threatens City of Gold Bar, since 2009

Association of Washington Cities  ( AWC) threatens Gold Bar ” if the City releases the emails, we will cancel the City’s insurance policy.” Based on the totality of the evidence as of today, we believe AWC is guilty of racketeering.  

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Under the law, the meaning of racketeering activity is set out at 18 U.S.C. § 1961, such predicate acts include but are not limited to obstruction of justice is the crime of obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, refers to the crime of obstructing prosecutors or other (usually government) officials.

Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice. Washington State claims to be a common law state.

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In September 2009, Gold Bar’s City Council Meets, Agrees Not to Report Tampering of Gold Bar’s Water System, perverting the course of justice  ( First Predicate Act)  

42 U.S. Code § 300i–1 – Tampering with public water systems carries a 20 year sentence.

(a) Tampering

Any person who tampers with a public water system shall be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or fined in accordance with title 18, or both.

(b) Attempt or threat

Any person who attempts to tamper, or makes a threat to tamper, with a public drinking water system be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or fined in accordance with title 18, or both.

(c) Civil penalty 

 The Administrator may bring a civil action in the appropriate United States district court (as determined under the provisions of title 28) against any person who tampers, attempts to tamper, or makes a threat to tamper with a public water system. The court may impose on such person a civil penalty of not more than $1,000,000 for such tampering or not more than $100,000 for such attempt or threat.

(d) “Tamper” defined

For purposes of this section, the term “tamper” means—

(1) to introduce a contaminant into a public water system with the intention of harming persons; or

(2) to otherwise interfere with the operation of a public water system with the intention of harming persons. 

Source  https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300i-1

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Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers one time said ” if you do the right thing, things tend to work out.”  I believe he is right, but this also means that when you do the wrong thing, like obstructing justice, things will not work out.

And that’s exactly what’s going on in Gold Bar Washington; hiding crimes with taxpayer monies equating to racketeering.

It’s been over eight years, with no end in sight, since the City of Gold Bar collectively decided not to report a federal crime, perverting justice, to cover up the fact that Gold Bar’s former Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington was stealing from the City to feather her own nest.

Truth is the new hate speech, certainly speech that Gold Bar’s insurance company, Association of Washington Cities has misappropriated public funds totaling over $1,350,000.00 attempting to SLAPP down my anti-corruption message.

Sadly, they have failed, and failures seldom admit wrong doing; and criminals never do, until someone blows the whistle.

Two weeks ago,  Crystal Hill and John Pennington knowingly forged a court record and knowingly filed it with Pierce County District Court. Charges were filed.

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Gold Bar’s 2009 Governing Body Perverts Justice, equating to Racketeering

In July 2008, Gold Bar’s then water employee Karl Marjerle (Marjerle) opened up Well # 4 tossed a bucket of gravel into the well, and intentionally shut down Gold Bar’s water supply.

 Marjerle did this after Gold Bar’s finance committee caught him illegally using the City’s gas card for his own personal use, canceling continuing education classes the Cty paid for and then receiving a “reimbursement” check from the class originator.

The only problem for Gold Bar was it’s Mayor Crystal Hill and its clerk treasurer Laura Kelly were engaged in the same criminal racket. Mayor Crystal Hill, an Everett Community College drop out, would sign up for continuing legal education classes using Gold Bar monies, then cancel them, and have Gold Bar’s clerk treasurer Laura Kelly cash the refund checks and give Crystal Hill Pennington cash.

In late 2013, Washington State Auditor’s Office issued findings against the City stating ” there’s $200,000.00 missing from the city’s funds and not one employee can explain where is went.”

Unfortunately for Marjerle, he got caught committing crimes against my city. As a result, Mayor Crystal Hill was forced to place him on administrative leave in June 2008. In July 2008, Marjerle returned to the City of Gold Bar for a Loudermill Hearing. He was fired after his Loudermill Hearing.

The term stems from Loudermill v. Cleveland Board of Education, in which the United States Supreme Court held that non-probationary civil servants had a property right to continued employment and such employment could not be denied to employees unless they were given an opportunity to hear and respond to the charges against them prior to being deprived of continued employment.

The underlying principle in Loudermill is that because dismissals often involve factual disputes, a hearing provides the employee an opportunity to explain and refute any conclusions the employer reached which caused the employee’s discharge.^[1]

According to Gold Bar’s internal reports, on July 8, 2008,  Marjerle left his Loudermill Hearing pissed off, angry, and went straight to the City’s water supply, Wells # 3 and 4, and sabotaged the City’s water system.  The city withheld these public reports, partially, documenting that Gold Bar council member Richard Norris help get the City’s wells operating again, but was mainly unsuccessful. So the City hired another company to get the Wells up and running. This company filed a detailed report documenting Marjerle’s sabotaging of the City’s wells.

In September 2008, Gold Bar’s council members Dorothy Croshaw, Lonn Turner, Richard Norris, Joe Beavers, and Jay Prueher and Mayor Crystal Hill meet at a secret place ( firehouse instead of City Hall), on a not previously scheduled council meeting date, and voted “secretly’ to pay Karl Majerle off to remain silent.

Silent about what he knew about Crystal Hill also stealing from the City. Gold Bar’s Governing Body, with the exception of Jay Prueher, voted to approve Crystal Hill’s extortion, wire, fraud scandal, and misappropriate public monies to hide Karl Majerle’s sabotaging the City’s water supply.

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Perverting Justice, Gold Bar Washington Style

In November 2008, the Gold Bar Reporter requested access to public records after Dorothy Croshaw called a Gold Bar Reporter stating ” we voted in a secret meeting to pay off Karl Majerle to remain silent about Crystal Hill.”  Croshaw sounded panicked and disgusted that she allowed Crystal Hill to dupe her into agreeing to pay off an employee to remain silent after he stole from our City and sabotaged the City’s wells.

In 2009 Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers ( Beavers) screamed three times in a council meeting ” Crystal Hill is a whore.”   Beavers also told the council ” Association of Washington Cities threatened the City that we release these records, our insurance policy will be canceled. At this time, no other insurance company will write the City a policy.”  Simply a lie; insurance companies are only liable for the actions occurred while the policy was in effect.  This means AWC is on the hook.

 

Gold Bar council member Jay Prueher also told a friend that ” Lonn Turner put something stupid in his emails that if the City releases these records, we will be sued again.”  Prueher also said ” Crystal Hill was stealing from the City too.”

For years our background checks on Crystal Hill showed negative results, at least until she started applying for state and federal contracts and employment.  When a person submits a job application for state and federal contracts, the government runs pretty good background checks.  So once Crystal Hill applied for state and federal jobs, the government caught Crystal Hill’s  criminal history records,  yielding two results, one bank fraud conviction in Snohomish County, which the late Ken Berger represented her on, and one in 2000 for the same.  In both cases, Crystal Hill used aliases, Crystal Berg and Chris Hill.

According to a federal attorney, Crystal Hill Pennington’s bank fraud makes her ineligible for federal and state employment and contracts. As of today, Crystal Hill Pennington has frauded the federal government out of $95,000.00, claiming that she is qualified to teach Fema emergency Managemnt classes, claiming falsely that she has a degree and falsely affirming on her federal contractor application that she never plead guilty to fraud.

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Crystal Hill’s Immorally Bankrupt Behavior Cost Gold Bar

In 2007, Gold Bar’s then Mayor Crystal Hill was engaged in four extra marital affairs at the same time.  For this argument, only the public officials will be named.

Email communication from the City, as well as Gold Bar’s Mayor said  ” the police chief from Gold Bar was constantly at Crystal’s home.”  From email communication we received, it’s clear that our Mayor is correct, Crystal Hill was engaged in an extra-marital affair with Gold Bar’s then police chief, 2008.

One local resident said ” When my husband was threatened with bodily harm by Gold Bar council Lonn Turner that if he didn’t shut up, stop questioning the City, he would punch him in the head.  The chief basically said I didn’t see anything.”  Why is simple: Mayor Crystal Hill, his mistress at the time, is a good friend to Lonn Turner.

For those of my readers who are new to the Gold Bar corruption scandal, Lonn Turner is a former Gold Bar council member and Department of Corrections employee ( Monroe), and a very close and personal friend to Crystal Hill.  Lonn Turner is a racist and bigot.

Public emails from Gold Bar also confirm that Crystal Hill was also engaged in an extra-marital affair with a political appointee from Snohomish County, John E. Pennington, since July 2007.

Sadly for Gold Bar residents, John Pennington’s involvement in the racketeering scandal is why the City of Gold Bar is going broke hiding public records.

Emails and records that contain medical files, illegal background checks, IRS records, HIPPA violations, illegally disseminated by Gold Bar’s Mayor Crystal Hill to many people using electronic email communication.

In 2009, John E Pennington had Homeland Security Clearance, and along with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officers Kevin Prentiss, Matt Trafford, and Rodney Rochan, he gained access into a spider of personal information and then disseminated to the City of Gold Bar.

A source claims Homeland Security suspended John Pennington’s security clearance after he illegally gained accessed into his soon to be ex-wife’s boyfriend’s sealed criminally history record, faxed it to a King County court ordered doctor, using Snohomish County fax machines.

In July 2012, Snohomish County’s Public Records Officer Diana Rose admitted under oath at a deposition that she removed a CD of personal health records and delivered a copy to Gold Bar’s Mayor Beavers.

Two weeks ago the Gold Bar Reporter deposed Gold Bar’s former Mayor Beavers who admitted under oath the City is hiding records at the law office of Kenyon Disend’s, 11 Front St S, Issaquah, Washington.

Under oath, Mayor Beavers also admitted that he violated my civil rights, edited Washington State Bar complaints, and is authoring and publishing articles on the Sky Valley Chronicle.

Mayor Beavers also admitted he was a state actor at the time, assisting the City of Gold Bar with answering public records requests.  This link made Beavers and Sky Valley Chronicle’s registered owner/agent, Ron Fejfar, a state actor under current 9th Circuit case law.

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Piecing John E Pennington’s Racketeering Crimes Together, RCW 42.56, proves essential

In November 2016, the Gold Bar Reporter posted an article documenting  John E. Pennington’s countless fraud and forgery discovered in court files.

However, today, we learned from Redmond District Court that in May 2009, the clerk failed to upload one court record, which according to the clerk documents that John Pennington plead to mental defect defense.    

In 2009, when John E. Pennington filed a template motion dismissing his criminal assault of a 3rd trimester pregnant woman, we felt that to do so, he would have had the assistance of a Redmond District Court Prosecutor , clerk inside Redmond District Court and the Law Firm of Kenyon Disend.

Based on the fact that we have a copy of John Pennington’s false filing closing out his case in Redmond District Court, and the fact that two weeks ago the Gold Bar Reporter caught John Pennington filing a forged document in Pierce County  (which now faces charges for), we have reason to believe that he also filed a false instrument in his criminal case.

Today Redmond District Court stated John Pennington’s case was dismissed because of a mental defect, May 2009.

Redmond clerk said John Pennington claimed he was mentally unfit, thus was confined. Court records do not support that Pennington ever entered treatment, but Redmond Court records document that a template motion to dismiss was filed in Redmond closing out his criminal case.

Imagine, a Director in charge of human safety and health is violently beating a pregnant woman and claims that he is mentally unfit to stand trial, and he keeps his job and causes 43 people in the Oso mudslides to suffocate to death.  Instead of terminating John Pennington for conduct unbecoming of any public officer ( beating pregnant woman), he keeps his job.  Then he causes 43 people to suffocate to death because instead of doing his job, he was criminally harassing people on a website he ran  ‘ The Sky Valley Chronicle.”

This is also during a time, where King County Deputy Prosecutor Maggie Nave ( “The Fixer”) was the Chair of District Court Criminal Unit for King County District system. Ms. Nave was reprimanded in 2011, by King County Deputy Prosecutor, Mark Larsen, Chief of the Criminal Unit,  who seized 117 case files backing back as far as 1999 from her office. Mr. Larsen stated Ms. Nave’s was guilty of legal malpractice- an understatement for those maliciously prosecuted as a result. Once the Gold Bar Reporter started reporting on Ms. Nave, she resigned.

This story just keeps getting bigger and bigger . . .worse part of this whole story is, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick signed John Pennington’s concealed weapons permit.   A man with a mental defect has possession of a concealed weapon.

There’s only one problem for John Lovick’s fraud, concealed weapons permits are only allowed to be issued in the county where the applicant resides. John Pennington resides in King County.

RCW 9.41.075 – Concealed pistol license—Revocation.

(b) Conviction of the licensee, or the licensee being found not guilty by reason of insanity, of an offense, or commitment of the licensee for mental health treatment, that makes a person ineligible under RCW 9.41.040 to possess a firearm.

 

Besides John and Crystal Hill Pennington and Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers authoring and publishers on the Sky Valley Chronicle, they all share one common element, mental defect.  Hence why each has been so desperate to SLAPP down out message with countless frivolous motions.

In the case of John and Crystal Hill Pennington, both knowingly filed a false instrument with Pierce County Court, and did knowingly forge a court record attempting to halt our investigation of his crimes against women and children.

We have a very big surprise for our readers, so stay tuned, the Gold Bar Reporter’s life is getting much better with each record.

 

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Adding more to this story soon . . . including some new RICO players. By the time I finish this entry, I may be 70, but ” I have only life to give and I can think of no better legacy to leave behind than exposing corrupt government officials like John and Crystal Hill Pennington and Joe Beavers. ”

 

City of Gold Bar’s governing body stealing water monies to hide crimes inside public records

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

Washington State attorneys Amanda Butler ( left) and Shannon Ragonesi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shareholder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

King County Prosecutor dismisses Duvall police officer’s criminal complaint as “unfounded”, and Judge Meyer dismisses John Pennington and Crystal Hill’s complaint as prior restraint on free speech

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Former Director of Snohomish County who killed 43 Oso residents in Oso mudslides CAUGHT RCW 42.56 ( Public Records)

UPDATE:  MORE PUBLIC RECORDS LINKING SNOHOMISH COUNTY’S FORMER DIRECTOR JOHN E. PENNINGTON TO ILLEGAL TRACKING OF US CITIZENS OVERSEAS IN VIOLATION OF 4TH AMENDMENT TO US CONSTITUTION, 1983 AND RICO SUIT COMING

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Good news for First Amendment defenders in Washington State.  King County Prosecutor’s just released a statement stating that Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s criminal complaint was “unfounded.” In addition, King County releases public records from Sheriff’s Officer documenting gross civil rights violations, domestic spying, and it involves the Port of Seattle, US Customs agent Curtis Chen, King County Sheriff’s Officer, and a police officer from the City of Duvall.

A RICO suit has been filed noting the City of Duvall’s municipal law firm of Kenyon Disend for Racketeering. According to Redmond Districts Court records, Sandra Sullivan (Meadowcraft) was employed by Kenyon Disend when she was assigned to prosecute political appointee John E. Pennington for kicking and punching Anne Laughlin during her 3rd trimester and just three weeks before delivery of her daughter. Instead of Sandra Sullivan prosecuting violent Pennington, she quashed criminal assault charges from 2008-2009 against him.  ( Snohomish County pay stubs document paid administrative leave since Oso).

I spoke to attorney Sullivan seeking comment regarding her lack of objecting to John Pennington’s template motion to dismiss in May 2009.  Sandra Sullivan 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.

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

Further Gold Bar public records confirm that Crystal Hill Pennington was caught in the unlawful practice of law (on behalf of DEM employee Rick Kamerrer who gave audio statements to us) without a license, costing Pennington and Kammerer’s ex-wives over $150,000.00.

An insider from Mark Weiss’s office as well as attorney Ken Berger confirmed that they too fired Crystal Hill Pennington for the unauthorized practice of law when she worked for them.

According to a Snohomish County Prosecutor insider leak ” in exchange for political favors inside the Courtroom.”

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 promised, we would update our readers as to why and how a police officer in Duvall Washington would go out of her way to violate the civil rights of a reporter simply for blowing the whistle on her conduct. Conduct we believe is unbecoming of any public official and amounts to Racketeering.

Well here it is.   Lori Batiot ( aka Harris and Hoffer) has a past criminal conviction for DUI, Whatcom County Washington, 2002.  All this while she was a sitting police officer for the City of Brier. She served 5 years probation on a suspended sentence and attended Alcoholics Anonymous.

pages from 1625_001   click to the left to see Batiot’s Discovery responses to City of Brier admitting to DUI conviction

Most agencies perform thorough background checks on applicants serving in positions of authority because persons with something to hide and/or financial troubles are more subsustiable to bribes.  Question we’re hoping to find out is whether the City of Duvall ran a background check prior to hiring.

Batiot criminal DUI Whatcom Co   click to the left to see Lori Harris’s ( Batiot) criminal docket file from Whatcom County.

I just cannot imagine how Batiot managed to get a job with the City Brier or with the City of Duvall with a past DUI pending for five years while she was a police officer.

Ms. Batiot’s court records are extensive, from Yakima, Skagit, Snohomish to Whatcom Counties. Bigger question for Duvall residents should be how the hell did Batiot get her job.

In 1998, Batiot was a police officer for the City of Ferndale.  2001 to 2005, she worked at Seattle Tacoma International Airport ( connection to Port of Seattle ) as a security guard.

In 2001, while she served as a police officer, Court records from Whatcom document that the police forcibly removed her from an apartment.

In 2002, Skagit County court records document that while she was a sitting police officer with the City of Brier she rear ended a man causing permanent physical injury, and then when she was sued, she refused to comply with basic discovery requests causing a motion to compel her testimony.

The man Batiot caused permanent physical injury to had no idea Ms. Batiot was a cop. According to a recent declaration Batiot filed with the Court, she has been for 17 years. True.

From court records its unclear whether she was drunk, but certainly a person that refuses to answer discovery requests, and refuses to submit to a Breathalyzer, leaves us to believe that something isn’t kosher in Duvall city.

In 2006, Snohomish County records document that she sued the City of Brier after another police officer, Murphy, started complaining that Batiot should not be serving as a police officer because she plead to drunk driving. As a result, she alleged sex discrimination.  Do you see the connection, because we do not.

Public records from the City of Brier confirm that Batiot also requested a large amount of public records on her foes, including Officer Murphy, the man she alleged was sexually discriminating against her.

Batiot conducted background checks on Murphy with his former employer, the City of Dupont.

While at the City of Brier, Batiot was driving a police car with a pending DUI.  Yes, our readers are reading this correctly!  We’re not sure about our readers, but I do not believe that having a DUI conviction qualifies a person to serve as a police officer. But I guess in the City of Duvall it does because they hired her.

In 2006, Batiot files a suit against the City of Brier, alleging guess what?  Stalking and harassment by an Officer Murphy. Sound familiar? Well it should, at least to Gold Bar Reporter Block it does.

Pages from 1620_001 click to the left to view Batiot’s statements that people are stalking and harassing her when she gets exposed for misusing City of Brier police car. Almost exactly the same allegations she recently made against the Gold Bar Reporter.

Court records retrieved from the City of Brier look eerily similar to recent restraining order papers Batiot filed in retaliation against Gold Bar Reporter Block.  In fact, Batiot uses almost identical phrases in her City of Brier discovery responses as she did in recent Shoreline District Court filings.

After reviewing the City of Brier public records, based on the totality of the evidence, we believe that anyone who speaks the truth about Lori Batiot suffers the wrath of her retaliatory ( and illegal under 42 USC 1983) tactics attempting to silence the messenger.

The City of Brier, and its insurance carrier American Association of Washington Cities ( AWC), eventually decided to pay a nuisance claim (42K, plus 12K) hoping Batiot would move on; and she did to the City of Duvall.

Now, most of the time I could care less about a person’s past, but once they conspire with criminals like Crystal Hill Pennington (bank fraud) and John Pennington ( prime suspect in a child rape case), I cannot turn a blind eye to corruption, especially when that person holds a position of authority.  Corruption harms all of us.

These are matters of public concern that we the public have an absolute right to know!

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.

I’m an idealist who believes that our courts are simply one pronge 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.

Corrupt public officials are making criminals out of non-criminals and We must do every thing in our power to peacefully expose the cockroaches whereever they hide.  All too often, they are hiding inside public agencies.

Citizens can learn a lot about  public officlas by requesting access to their emails. I use the Public Records Act to inform the public. It’s Washingtoians best tool to expose the cockroaches where they roam.

I have seen corruption in every branch of government in this state, but I’ve also seen justice in every branch. I have traveled extensively throughout our World, but there is no other place on this planet that I cherish more than America.  Most of all, I cherish the First Amendment more than any other tangible item on this planet.

Sadly, the Port of Seattle released public emails involving gross domestic spying and civil rights violations committed against me, and it now extends to the King County Sheriff’s Office, specifically an officer named Cory Coblantz. Because Cory Coblantz will be named as a defendant in a 42 USC 1983 complaint to be filed soon for causing a TSA London security officer to physically rape me, I will not elaborate just yet.

As for Curtis Chen, the U.S. Customs officer that illegally assisted in the tracking, false imprisonment, illegal search and seizure, and who assisted in the rape of a US citizen on behalf of a dirty cop. Chen will also be named as defendant citing 42 USC 1983. Coming very soon.

After reviewing some of King County Detective Coblantz’s emails, I believe we unearthed another dirty cop 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.  Emails document that Cary Coblantz has soiled the badge by spitting on basic constitutional principles taught in every 5th grade American civics class, and presumably in a Police Civil Liability class.

News flash Officer Coblantz:

Yesterday, Our Supreme Court reinforced Our First Amendment rights to question police officers, including using abusive language.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jun/25/first-amendment-protects-profanity-against-police/

Contrary to offensive statements Port of Seattle Officer Gilleblo put inside public records (emails), I am not anti-government, just anti-corruption.  Sir, words that you find abusive, may not be abusive to me.  After all, I was raised by two New Yorkers who didn’t believe in censorship. Four letter words were the best way for our parents to let us know when they were upset. It worked well.

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.  

Snohomish County removes John Pennington has Director of Emergency Management after he caused deaths of 44 in Oso Mudslides

Many of you know me as the investigative journalist from Snohomish County Washington who managed to oust Executive Aaron Reardon after public records revealed that Aaron Reardon was illegally using county monies to fund two affairs, one with former Snohomish County employee Deanna Dawson and the other with terminated Whistleblower Tamara Dutton.

What many of our 6,000 plus readers may not know if that the reason we started investigating Aaron Reardon was because a extremely high ranking Washington State Democratic leader handed us documents proving that each of the women listed herein were in fact engaged in an extra-marital affair with Aaron Reardon, and he was misusing Snohomish County taxpayer monies to fund at least three affairs.

Aaron Reardon wasn’t really our concern until the Washington State very very high ranking Democrat gave us records showing that Reardon and Deanna Dawson were traveling around Europe on the taxpayers dime, ordering sex toys to their hotel room, attending an air show in Paris, charging expensive hotel rooms, and extravagant dinners all on the county taxpayer’s dime. For this reason, the Gold Bar Reporters were first to expose one of the largest corruption scandals in Washington State’s history.

With each sunrise the corruption scandal is spreading like a cancer metastasizing to the bone, and we just learned that the Washington State Bar illegally disseminated my application file to Snohomish County public officials Geoffrey Gibbs and Seth Fine, who disseminated the theft to Gold Bar’s city attorney Tom Gaafstra, and his employee Barbara Johnson then disseminated the stolen file to Crystal Hill.  A RICO complaint has been filed against Snohomish County, City of Gold Bar and the RICO gangs blog spot The Sky Valley Chronicle.

Washington State’s Public Disclosure Commission fined Reardon for this criminal conduct and the Democratic National Committee picked up the tab for his crimes.

But Reardon wasn’t really our investigative target, it was his political appointee John E. Pennington.

We started investigating John Pennington after our streets had not been plowed in one of Washington State’s largest snow storms.  Not one person in Gold Bar get out of their driveways to get to work, so I contacted the Governor asking if her street had been plowed because ours had not been!   Instead of getting an emergency order issued by John Pennington, I received one of the most unprofessional childish letters I had ever received from any sitting public official.

I placed a call to then council member Dorothy Croshaw who told me that Crystal Hill was engaged in n extra-martial affair with John Pennington, and she was not showing to council meetings.  Croshaw also stated that Pennington covered up the tampering of the City’s wells by having his friends Deputy Ross and Kevin Prentiss intentionally obstruct the investigation of the water boy Karl Marjelre because he too was sleeping with Crystal Hill.
At the time Crystal Hill was engaged in an extra-marital affair with John Pennington, Hill was also engaged in several extra-marital affairs with several other Snohomish County employees,  including Executive Aaron Reardon and Gold Bar’s then police Chief.

John Pennington’s inability to perform basic emergency management function so his job in December 2008 is the reason why we started investigating John Pennington’s shady criminal history.  Here’s a copy of the letter sent asking our officials if they were aware public information we uncovered on John Pennington.

Did you know that John Pennington was on the east coast performing his FEMA EMI contracts when 44 people in Oso Washington suffocated to death?  Did you know that Pennington used a portable hard drive while working at Sno County to avoid public disclosure? Did you know that Pennington criminally harassed Reardon’s opponents on his Sky Valley Chronicle blog spot instead of mitigating  mudslides?  Did you know that Pennington was charged with beating up his 3rd trimester pregnant wife Anne Laughlin while he was sitting DEM for Sno County?  Did you know that Anne Laughlin wrote declaration to the court stating that Pennington was taking showers with his 6 year old daughter ( all in his King county files)?  Did you know that Judge Lucas from Snohomish County illegally sealed John Pennington mental health records in Pennington v. Pennington?  Did you know that Pennington was kicked out of a church in San Diego California in late 1989 after two boys made sexual abuse allegations against him? Did you that Pennington worked on his bogus online American Military University ( same school featured on Education Inc in which Senator Tom Harkin called fraud)  using county resources and county time?  Did you know that while serving in the WA State Legislature Pennington was a member of the WA State Militia?  Did you know that Pennington’s payroll records including time sheets signed by Haackenson document that he’s been on paid ad leave since April 2014 ( according to a source to limit liability)?  Did you know that Pennington operated his own company titled JOHN E. PENNINGTON right from Snohomish County using our computers and fax machines; a company that he has yet to pay a single cent of income tax on to the State of WA?

County Council member Dave Somers and Public Records Officer Terri Lawrie recently confirmed that the County did not run any background check on John Pennington prior to his political appointment by the disgraced Aaron Reardon. 

FEMA also confirmed that George Bush simply allowed Senator Jennifer Dunn  to appoint John Pennington with out the FBI running a background on Pennington either.

If they had, they would have uncovered what we uncovered above.

In 2014, John Pennington has had five lawsuits naming him for Racketeering, dereliction of his official duties ( he killed 44 people in Oso mudslides).