John E. Pennington Snohomish County

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 Beth Andrus fixing cases for her friends in Snohomish County Oso Mudslide litigation

April 4, 2019 by goldbarreporter 3 Comments

On March 22, 2014, one of the largest landslide in United States history occurred 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Oso, Washington.

Public records sent from Court of Appeals Judge Beth Andrus email account judgeandrus@gmail.com documents that she was a good friend to Snohomish County’s Oso Defense attorneys Joseph Genster and Timothy Leyh:

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Why this email is so important to illustrate case fixing is because Judge Beth Andrus was also the Judge at Washington Court of Appeals Division One who DENIED the Oso mudslide victims their day in court. Judge Andrus fixed the case in favor of Snohomish County Prosecutors Joseph Genster and Timothy Leyh, her friends and the County attorneys on this appeal.

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Judge Beth Andrus, a dear friend to Snohomish County Prosecutors Joseph Genster and Timothy Leyh, signed in the bottom left hand corner of the Decision to Dismiss victims of the Oso mudslides against her dear friend from Snohomish County Prosecutors Office. Joseph Genster and Timothy Leyh were in fact the attorneys of record representing Snohomish County.

If this is not case fixing and gross violations of the Cannon Rules of Judicial Conduct, we are not sure what is.

Judge Beth Andrus should be brought up on racketeering charges and impeached with all deliberate speed.

click here to view Final Dismissal Order signed by Beth Andrus in Oso Mudslides 763768

For years Snohomish County’s geologists urged the County’s Department of Emergency Management to purchase homes already built and move resident off the slide, correcting holding that the area was unstable and a major slide area. FEMA offered funding to buy out home owners.

Instead of buying out property owners, Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon wrote an email letter to one of his political appointee’s John E Pennington asking “is it safe to build?” John E Pennington wrote back ” Its good to build boss.”

John E. Pennington was a two term Washington State Representative from Cowlitz County Washington. He was also diagnosed by King County Superior Court Dr. Hedricks as “a sociopath with no empathy for human life” and he was diagnosed with autism.

If having the Director of Snohomish County Emergency Management labeled a sociopath with autism isn’t bad enough, keep reading.

According to lead Cowlitz County Detective Maurice Saxon, John E. Pennington was also the man responsible for the rape, kidnapping, and attempted murder of a 5 year old girl in Cowltiz County in 1992.

At the time John E Pennington was the person responsible for raping, kidnapping, and attempted murder of a five year old girl, he was also running for an uncontested Washington State House of Representative’s seat.

At the time of the child rape, Gold Bar’s city attorney Michael Kenyon was the City of Kelso’s attorney.

When John E Pennington and Mike Kenyon covered up the rape of a child, Michael Kenyon’s career skyrocketed. Kenyon went from an anal salary of $37,500 per year as a city attorney to a million year, only after Senator Jennifer Dunn jumped started Kenyon’s career at the bequest of John E. Pennington.

John E Pennington said ” I owe Jennifer Dunn my career…” What Pennington left off was that Mike Kenyon also owes Senator Jennifer Dunn his career.

When the Gold Bar Reporter requested access to public records here in Gold Bar, involving John E Pennington’s then mistress and Gold Bar’s then Mayor Crystal Hill ( nee Berg convicted of bank fraud, 2000, 2005), attorney Mike Kenyon, John E Pennington’s fixer, was hired by Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe ” Felon” Beavers to tampering with public emails disseminated inside Gold Bar’s public emails. Those emails contained illegally obtained information from the FBI about the Gold Bar Reporter’s family, including major HIPPA violations.

And so the 10 year public records litigation began… and what just learned is that the City of Gold Bar has been lying to Gold Bar residents about who is paying the legal bills posted on the City’s website. A story for a later dates, but for those of you who wondered, it’s Washington State attorney General Bob Ferguson Office. A story we are working on for a little later date. Stay tuned.

Two years after the Oso mudslides, John E Pennington was deposed, and his response to what he considered his responsibilities to be are nicely illustrated in his videotaped deposition when he states countless times ” I was just the Director, I just directed.”

According to the Seattle Times, John E Pennington paid a flat rate fee for his online fraudulent diploma, from California Coastal University. Pennington used his online flat rate diploma to obtain another online degree from American Military University, a online school US Senator Harkin said was fraud on PBS’s special “Education Inc.”

This begs one question: Had the County hired a person qualified to handle Emergencies could Oso Mudslides been mitigated? The Gold Bar Reporter believes so.

Since the Hazel Landslide has a history of instability dating to 1937, this prior to the March 2014 mudslide, the FEMA plans to buy out the homeowners in 2006 would have eliminated the human causalities.

“Completely unforeseen”

On March 24, two days after the slide, John Pennington, Director of Snohomish County’s Department of Emergency Management, stated at a news conference, “This was a completely unforeseen slide. This came out of nowhere.”^[28] The same day The Seattle Times published an article about previous slides at the same location, as well as the likelihood of future slides. The article contained comments from geologists, engineers, and local residents, and stated that the area was known among locals as “Slide Hill”. On the next day, The Times followed up with a full page article, “‘Unforeseen’ risk of slide? Warnings go back decades.”Snohomish County Public Works Director Steve Thompsen was quoted as saying, “A slide of this magnitude is very difficult to predict. There was no indication, no indication at all.” ‘

John E. Pennington also told Time Magazine the same week ” Everyone knew of the dangers.”

Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide

The Gold Bar Reporter since early January 2009, tried to warn the public that John E. Pennington was dangerous man ( arrested for beating a 3rd trimester pregnant City of Duvall Council Member just weeks before delivering her child), and had criminally harassed the Gold Bar Reporter using an anonymous website Washington State Senator Steve Hobbs, and several Snohomish County Executive employees operated from Snohomish County offices, titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle.”

Countless criminal complaints were filed against John E Pennington from 2009 to 2017, but each time a criminal complaint was filed, then Sheriff John Lovick ( now WA State House of Rep for Mill Creek) would always intercept and quash the criminal complaints.

We would later learn that John Lovick was accused of sexual abusing a minor child in his care , caught masturbating along side her bed, inside his daughter’s room in the 1990s. John Lovick later paid off the victim to remain silent, and has since been lying to his constituents that the allegations are not true.

My mother always said ” the only ones who protect pedophiles, are pedophiles themselves.” That’s exactly what John Lovick did, he protected John E Pennington from being criminally prosecuted on over 15 criminal complaints that were filed by several woman, and this after King County issued a restraining order against John E Pennington, they revoked his concealed weapons permit. While a King County restraining order was issued, John Lovick illegally granted Pennington back ( persons with domestic violence and mental health issues are NOT allowed to have weapons) a concealed weapons permit. Since Pennington did not live in Snohomish County – he actuall resides in Duvall, King County – Lovick had no authority to sign Pennington’s concealed weapons permit.

When Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon learned that John E Pennington tried to rape his public records officer inside Snohomish County Dept of Emergency Management, Aaron Reardon called her in to his office and promised her promotions and issued a very large settlement check of $45,000.00, which we later learned the victim used to enlarge her breasts. She is now Director of Emergency Management for the City of Marysville.

In May 2013, Snohomish County’s Municipal Unit “voted” to order then Municipal Unit and Snohomish County Prosecutor Margaret King to assist John Pennington with getting Anne Block disbarred for exposing corruption.

A source inside Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office, who we label “Fed Up” told the Gold Bar Reporter that ” Mark Roe and Mike Kenyon conspired with the county council to have you disbarred for reporting on their racketeering conduct. Margaret King was removed as Gold Bar’s City attorney, and moved to Snohomish County to assist the county with getting you disbarred.”

What our readers may not know is that from 2010 to February 2012, attorney Margaret King assisted in two Washington State Bar complaints. What King and other complained about was that lawyers shouldn’t also be reporters. The Gold Bar Reporter told the Washington State Bar Association ” stay out of my First Amendment activities.” The actions of the Enterprise cleared the way for the Reporter to dedicate more time to writing.

Forty-three people were killed and 49 homes and other structures destroyed. This was unacceptable from persons who were sworn in to uphold the laws, but as in the case of now terminated Director of Emergency Management John E Pennington, spent county monies and resources criminally harassing his opponents on a fake website The Sky Valley Chronicle. A website, Pennington, his convicted bank frauding wife Crystal D. Pennington (aka Berg, Hill), Snohomish County Prosecutors and Executive Officers used to defame and cyber-stalk anyone who dared challenge government sociopaths.

We blame the Washington State Bar Association for attempting to SLAPP down my First Amendment rights to protect a wife beater, a pedophile, and man who caused 43 deaths in Oso mudslides, because instead of working, he was performing FEMA contracts on the east in violation of Snohomish County Ordinance and criminally harassing his opponent right from County DEM offices.

Filed Under: According to the Seattle Times, John E Pennington paid a flat rate fee for his online fraudulent diploma, from California Coastal University, Cowlitz County Detective Maurice Saxon, John E. Pennington was also the man responsible for the rape, kidnapping, and attempted murder of a 5 year old girl in Cowltiz County in 1992, From FEMA to Snohomish County to Pierce College John Edward Pennington Jr, John Edward Pennington Jr FIRED from Snohomish County after he killed 43 people in Oso mudslides, Judge Beth Andrus should be brought up on racketeering charges and impeached with all deliberate speed., Judge Beth Andrus should be in prison for fixing cases against Snohomish County Oso Mudslide victims, March 24, 2014, the day John E Pennington caused the deaths of 43 Oso residents, more evidence of massive racketeering with Judge Beth Andrus WA Court of Appeal Div I, Snohomish County, Snohomish County Washington covered up misconduct of Snohomish County Director in Oso Mudslides, WA Court of Appeals Div I Judge Beth Andrus fixed case against Oso Mudslide victims, Why is the University of Texas Law School looking up convicted Gold Bar bank fraudster Crystal Daniel Pennington? Tagged With: FEMA Director John E Pennington prime suspect in child rape Cowlitz County WA, John E. Pennington, John E. Pennington on paid leave since Oso mudslides, John E. Pennington Snohomish County, John Pennington; Snohomish County, Joseph Genster working with Judge Beth Andrus to fix cases against Oso Mudslide victims, Judge Beth Andrus corruption EXPOSED, Judge Beth Andrus EXPOSED, Judge Beth Andrus fixing cases, Snohomish County Prosecutor, Timothy Leyh Attorney fixing cases with his friend WA Court of Appeals Judge Beth Andrus, Washington Court of Appeals Div. I

2019, Senator Steve Hobbs, up to his same old shit

January 5, 2019 by goldbarreporter 2 Comments

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Senator Steve Hobbs, up to his same old shit

When’s a criminal harasser, always a harasser? Just ask Steve Hobbs as his involvement in using convicted criminal Kevin Hulten.

Kevin Thomas Hulten was convicted of criminal evidence tampering in Block v Snohomish County et al to cover up criminal racketeering crimes committed by the below public officials against Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block, and some of the county officials racketeering crimes were exposed by the Everett Daily Herald in February 13, 2013.

In exchange for Kevin Thomas Hulten destroying evidence implicating several public officials in racketeering crimes, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe purposefully undercharged Kevin Hulten with criminal evidence tampering, and misappropriated public county taxpayer monies to fund his legal defense in Block v Snohomish County et al.

Public emails between Mark Roe and convicted criminal Kevin Thomas Hulten confirm that Mark Roe was using Hulten for illegal lobbying with Mc Bee Strategies in D.C.

A recent Snohomish County public records release implies that Everett Daily Herald Reporter Scott North received a Snohomish County job as a result for agreeing not to report on Senator Steve Hobbs’s involvement with the Sky Valley Chronicle, and Snohomish County’s criminal harassment detailed by the Gold Bar Reporter over the last ten years.

In one email string, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe wrote a favorable article about Prosecutor Adam Cornell, and the Daily Everett Herald’s editor Scott North simply published it and falsely fixed his name to the story. Truth, the article was written by Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe not the Everett Daily Herald.

After the Gold Bar Reporter exposed several of Mark Roe’s crimes inside public emails, he abruptly resigned in disgrace. More to come on Mark Roe’s sexual deviant behavior . . . stay tuned, grab your popcorn, the Gold Bar Reporter promises to enlighten taxpayers on why Mark Roe covered up criminal conduct of county employees, some who are known pedophiles and sexual abusers.

Snohomish County released public records documenting that on February 13, 2013, Federal Way Senator Tracy Eide met with Senator Steve Hobbs, John Pennington, Sean Reay, Jon Rudicil, Aaron Reardon, and Kevin Thomas Hulten inside Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon’s Office, located inside the City of Everett.

Purpose of the Hobbs’s meeting was simple, get Anne Block, the Gold Bar Reporter, disbarred for reporting the truth on several public official criminal racketeering crimes here in Washington State.

What our readers may not have known about Senator Steve Hobbs is one of persons who created a “foe website” titled the Sky Valley Chronicle. Executive Officers from Aaron Reardon’s gang used the Sky Valley Chronicle for years to ” promote” themselves as an outstanding public officials. Anonymous cyber-stalkers were Snohomish County public officials Crystal Danielle Pennington, John E. Pennington, Kevin Hulten, Jon Rudicil, Brian Perry, Christopher Schwarzen, and Gold Bar’s mayor Joe Beavers.

At the time each were criminally harassing ( anonymously cyber-stalking) their political foes, all were public officials doing this while being paid by Washington State taxpayers.

Senator Steve Hobbs also started another “foe website” called Washington State’s Progressives and controlled the Lake Stevens News. Both websites were started to control the political messages here in Washington State otherwise known a Political Action Committee (PAC).

In 2016, the Sky Valley Chronicle was sued by the Gold Bar Reporter for defamation, and US Federal District Court Judge Martinez kicked the case, in direct conflict with a 9th Circuit ruling in Block v Snohomish County et al, which issued a court order telling the Gold Bar Reporter to go sue these people for defamation.

Gold Bar Reporter Block took the 9th Circuit’s advice and sued the Sky Valley Chronicle for defamation, including several public officials who were anonymous bloggers, Crystal Daniele Pennington ( aka Crystal Hill Pennington, Crystal Hill and Chris Hill), John E Pennington, Kevin Thomas Hulten, Ron Fejfar, Christopher Schwarzen ( former Seattle Times reporter) and Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers.

Thankfully last week, Seattle US Federal District Court Judge Robart held that all state causes of actions, even when submitted to US Federal Court, are subject to “notice pleading” thus lending support to the Gold Bar Reporter’s suit against the Sky Valley Chronicle for state cause of action for defamation and Little RICO.

In September 2018, a source from the WSBA notified Block that Block v WSBA et al was coming back from the 9th Circuit. All of the sudden, the Sky Valley Chronicle sudden shut down, vanished into thin air. Why is simple: Block is going to start deposing people, and the Sky Valley Chronicle was ordered in 2010 to preserve all records in native format including metadata until litigation is resolved.

As of today, the Sky Valley Chronicle is under a litigation hold, and once the case comes back, Block is going to start taking depositions on every single blogger or person involved with the Sky Valley Chronicle, and that includes Senator Steve Hobbs, his brother in law Jon Rudicil as well as several Gold Bar and county public officials.

Readers may remember that Jon Rudicil was caught criminally harassing the Gold Bar Reporter with Kevin Thomas Hulten as exposed by the Everett Daily Herald on February 13, 2013. Kevin Thomas Hulten plead guilty to criminal evidence tampering in Block v Snohomish County et al and sentenced for his crimes. More recently Kevin Thomas Hulten was caught shop lifting from Colville Washington three times, and fled Washington State for the San Francisco Bay area hoping to lay low for seven years, but not before Kevin Hulten made a public on the record statement at the Public Disclosure Hearing in Olympia that he and Jon Rudicil created a company to criminally harass their political foes, and launder money. There is no evidence that Jon Rudicil or Kevin Hulten ever paid federal income tax on the revenue generated from their fraudulent company.

Our readers should be happy to know that criminal harasser Jon Rudicil is the Director of Washington Association of Area Agencies on Aging. How lovely that a harasser is Director of an Association that supposed to be helping our elderly. This after Jon Rudicil and Kevin Hulten were exposed for criminal harassment by the Daily Herald. https://www.heraldnet.com/news/labyrinth-reardon-staff-linked-to-harassment-surveillance/

In 2013, as a result of the Gold Bar Reporter extensive reports on massive racketeering crimes being committed by Snohomish County Executive Officers as outlined by the Herald article above, Jon Rudicil, Kevin Hulten, John Pennington, and Senators Steve Hobbs and Tracy Eide were booted out of public office.

But not before Executive Aaron Reardon’s mistress told the Gold Bar Reporter that Senator Steve Hobbs had a little plan.

On February 13, 2013, public records document that Senator Steve Hobbs and Tracy Edie met with Snohomish County employees Kevin Hulten, Executive Aaron Reardon, prosecutor Sean Reay, and Jon Rudicil on how the little racketeering gang would get Anne Block disbarred by using Washington State Senator Tracy Eide’s cousin at the WSBA ODC, Linda Eide. The meeting took place at Executive Aaron Reardon’s office inside Snohomish County Washington.

According to our attorney, ” all you need is two or more people to meet, make an agreement to violate your civil rights, and you have a criminal racketeering conspiracy, punishable by 25 years to life”.

According to Aaron Reardon’s mistress, Senator Steve Hobbs was upset that Anne Block was screwing up his little racketeering plan to thwart the democratic rights of the voters. ” Steve Hobbs and Aardon had a plan. Reardon was going to the governor’s mansion and council members Stephanie Wright and Brian Sullivan would implant Steve Hobbs as a the next Executive” Reardon mistress stated to the Reporter.

But then along came the Gold Bar Reporter who exposed Steve Hobbs and Aaron Reardon’s racketeering crimes against the taxpayers of Washington State, setting up a foe online website titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle’ to control the message, publish any article they so desired, and criminally harass their political foes.” Steve Hobbs’s number one attack piece was the Gold Bar Reporter Anne Block.

In October 2016, Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers was deposed in a separate lawsuit where he admitted that he was meeting with Executive Aaron Reardon’s staff, he was editing WSBA complaints against the Gold Bar Reporter, and was anonymously criminally harassing Block on the Sky Valley Chronicle.

A Snohomish County source said ‘ Mark Roe was part of the harassment you suffered on the Sky Valley Chronicle, and so many executive officers were blogging on the Chronicle, that there’s no doubt Mark Roe and Sara Di Vittorio were tampering with public records by withholding records that documented that Snohomish County employees were all allowed to blog on the Sky Valley Chronicle to harass and defame you.”

Sadly for the Snohomish County’s racketeering gang, King County Major Crimes Unit turned over Kevin Hulten and Chris Schwarzen’s county hard drives documenting that each were anonymously cyber-stalking political foes including Gold Bar Reporter Block on the Sky Valley Chronicle.

In article after article, county employees were allowed to write the article and the Sky Valley Chronicle would simply publish the article without edits by its alleged officer, Ron Fejar ( aka Chet Rogers; Ron Fox; and Ron Febbar).

In December 2018, John E Pennington was caught once again cyber-stalking the Gold Bar Reporter by doing exactly what Kevin Hulten was guilty of, criminal harassment, using Wikipedia to publish false statements by electronic means. In December 2018, John Pennington was notified that a Little RICO and Defamation suit has been started against him.

Steve Hobbs in 2018 managed to dup the voters into electing him back to the Washington State Senate, and according to public records, is back at his same old shit, criminally harassing anyone who dares to expose him as the criminal deviant harasser he is.

After understanding his involvement in this racketeering scandal up here in Snohomish County, the Reporter contacted Steve Hobbs telling him that we are going to expose his crimes against Snohomish County taxpayers and his involvement in racketeering crimes against the Gold Bar Reporter.

So what did Senator Steve Hobbs decide to do as a result of our statement, he picked up the phone called disgraced/terminated Snohomish County Director of Emergency Management John E. Pennington ( a man who abuses women and children) and conspired with Sentor Steve Hobbs to harm Anne Block once again.

Remember Senator Tracy Eide and Steve Hobbs met and conspired to have Senator Tracy Eide’s cousin and lead Washington State Bar Association Office of Disciplinary Counsel attorney Linda Eide disbar Block over her First Amendment protected activity i.e exposing corruption inside Snohomish County Washington.

And the dum asses put their crimes inside public records subjected to RCW 42.56 here in Washington State. Email communication confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that John Pennington, and Washington State Bar counsel ( terminated recently) Linda Eide are guilty of racketeering and should be in prison with all deliberate speed.

Just last week, the Gold Bar Reporter learned that John E Pennington is now on his 10th year of trying to get the Gold Bar Reporter charged with a crime for engaging in First Amendment protected activity, but this time, according to an insider at Pierce County, he is trying to manipulate the new prosecutor Mary Robnet, sucking her into his little racketeering organization, by having her maliciously prosecute the Gold Bar Reporter.

Because the Gold Bar Reporter values the First Amendment as the one tangible item on this planet, one can assume that any attack against the First Amendment will be met with lawsuits.

Once Senator Steve Hobbs learned that we intend to publish articles about his involvement in running and starting the Sky Valley Chronicle, who did Senator Steve Hobbs call? You guessed it, disgrace wife beater and terminated former Director of Snohomish County Emergency Management John E Pennington.

Both John Pennington and Senator Steve Hobbs were on the Gold Bar Reporter together, Senator Steve Hobbs from his home, and John E Pennington from his iPhone looking at the article written about Senator Steve Hobbs.

https://goldbarreporter.org/2014/08/12/senator-steve-hobbs-up-to-his-same-old-shit/

Senator Steve Hobbs’s home IP address is

Washington State has such lovely State Senators committing racketeering crimes against citizens. This story is just the tip of the ice berg involving Senator Steve ” harasser” Hobbs.

May the sunlight shine on every public official involved in John E Pennington’s racketeering enterprise.

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

April 2, 2018 by goldbarreporter Leave a Comment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gold Bar Mayor resigns citing harassment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth and reporting, New York Times v Sullivan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pierce College, Tacoma, instructor, caught forging court record

November 2, 2016 by goldbarreporter 2 Comments (Edit)

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

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

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

RCW 9A.60.070

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(b) With the intent to:

(i) Obtain employment;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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After John E.Pennington forged the document:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Pennington, terminated for Snohomish County

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

MEET JOHN ‘ THEODORE TED BUNDY” PENNINGTON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Pennington became one of two prime suspects for the following reasons:

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

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

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

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

In 1995, John Pennington was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to over throwing the United States government. ” John sat around for years obsessed about getting even with the Longview Washington news reporter for reporting that John was a member of the State militia.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“License to steal” with the assistance of the Washington State Bar and Washington State Guardian Board

February 4, 2018 by goldbarreporter Leave a Comment

Over the last twenty years, the Washington State Bar Association has broomed over twenty complaints against Washington State guardian scammer and Washington State Bar Hearing Officer Lin O’Dell.

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Lin O’Dell met and teamed up with a convicted killer, Mark Plivilech, while working as a nurse with Walla Walla Prison inmates in 1990.

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What happens when a convicted killer teams up with a criminal with a law license?

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Not only was WSBA Hearing Officer Lin O’ Dell found guilty of stealing from her clients using a convicted killer to harass them inside their homes, the duo also created several companies to launder clients’ trust monies.

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Instead of investigating complaints filed against attorney Lin O’Dell for embezzlement, the Washington State Bar Association, Washington Attorney General’s Office, Washington State Guardian Board, and at least two Washington State’s Governors’ turned a blind eye, thus allowing Lin O’Dell and Mark Plivilech’s rein of terror and racketeering crimes against Washington elderly residents to continued for over twenty years with no accountability.

Why is simple: the Washington State Bar Association refused to investigate complaints filed against Lin O’Dell. Washington State Bar Disciplinary Council Linda Eide, Doug Ende and Julie Shankland were all guardian scammers themselves while in private practice.

The Gold Bar Reporter smells a pay off system….

No accountability until Lin O’Dell decided to violate the Gold Bar Reporter’s civil rights, fabricate evidence, lie on official Washington State Bar filings, and after being caught accepting bribes from John E Pennington ( man fired from Snohomish County Emergency Management after he was caught stalking, criminally harassing Gold Bar Reporter right from Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management offices). Mark Plivilech who lives in Spokane set up a USPS Box # 70 in Duvall Washington for purposes of picking up money drops from the Penningtons’ to fix a case against the Gold Bar Reporter’s news reports on corruption.

What should for our readers is that attorney Lin O’Dell was handpicked as a Washington State Bar Hearing Officer by her co-conspirator and business associate attorney Joseph Nappi Jr ( another attorney associated with the Washington State Bar and Guardian Scam in Spokane County). Joseph Nappi Jr has his own “little RICO” scam of depleting O’Dell’s clients trust accounts after O’Dell’s clients die.

John E. Pennington, Lin O’Dell, Mark Plivilech, and Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg) are being sued for racketeering, and soon forgery and fraud.

Instead of prosecuting attorney Lin O’Dell for stealing, embezzling client funds, and money laundering, the Washington State Guardian Board allowed Lin O’Dell to resign, but only after she was caught stealing, perjury, and embezzling million of dollars from Ms. Fowler’s trust accounts.

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Because the Gold Bar Reporter believes that the Washington State Guardian needs a hell of a lot of sunshine for their crimes against our elderly, their names are:

Washington State Certified Professional Guardianship Scammer Board

Revised January 16, 2018

Name	Representing	Date First Appointed	Term Expires
Judge James W. Lawler, Chair	Lewis County Superior Court	10/1/09	9/30/18
Comm. Rachelle E. Anderson	Spokane County Superior Court	10/1/12	9/30/18
Judge Gayle M. Harthcock	Yakima County Superior Court	3/31/15	9/30/18
Comm. Diana L. Kiesel	Pierce County Superior Court	10/1/14	9/30/20
Rosslyn Bethmann	Senior Interests	10/1/12	9/30/18
Dr. Barbara Cochrane	Professor, UW School of Nursing	12/1/10	9/30/19
Annette Cook	Adult Protective Services/DSHS	10/1/17	9/30/19
Jerald Fireman	Senior Advocate	10/1/16	9/30/19
William Jaback	Certified Professional Guardian	10/1/10	9/30/19
Victoria Kesala	Washington State Bar Association	12/6/16	9/30/19
Dr. K. Penney Sanders	Certified Professional Guardian	10/1/16	9/30/19
Barbara West	Washington State Bar Association	3/28/16	9/30/18
Amanda Witthauer	Certified Professional Guardian	2/5/15	9/30/20

Rachelle Anderson is a Spokane County Superior Court Commissioner, Annette Cook is with Washington Dept of Health and Human Services, Dr. Barbara Cochrane is UW School of Nursing, Commissioner Diana L. Kiesel works for Pierce County, Judge Gayle M. Harthcock works for Yakima County, and Judge James W. Lawler, Chair works for Lewis County Superior Court, all subject to Washington State’s Public Records Act ( RCW 42.56).

Our readers could learn more about Washington State’s guardian scam by simply requesting access to public email communication. It’s time the people of Washington State put end to the criminal racketeering gang stealing from our elderly by giving the cockroaches as much sunshine as the Public Records Act allows.

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.56

Washington State Bar defining RICO, money laundering from client trust accounts, embezzling funds, and racketeering, Washington State Bar Style

Felice Congalton

Managing Disciplinary Counsel

Washington State Bar Association

1325 4^th Avenue, Suite 600

Seattle, WA 98101-2539

Dear Felice Congalton,

Please consider this letter as a bar complaint against Lin O’Dell, Richard Wallace, Mary Cusack, Bruce Pruitt–Hamm, Jessica Bodey, and Karen Vache’ in setting up a TEDRA agreement and an initial guardianship around ten years ago.

Richard Wallace and Mary Cusack did not have me sign conflict statements even though Cusack supposedly represented my interests during the formation of the Tedra agreement, and Richard Wallace represented by mother during the signing of the second Codicil and second amendment to the Norma Shanks living trust. These were both potential and actual conflicts of interest. Bruce Pruitt-Hamm, Jessica Bodey, and Karen Vache failed to provide any kind of signed statements for conflicts of interests that were both potential and actual in which they represented me, guardianships, trusts that contained assets intended for me.

Lin O’Dell not only did not present or discuss the conflicts of interest, she failed to prepare any kind of acceptable accounting for over $2 million dollars of the assets of the guardianship and an Idaho trust which she controlled.

This is letter is also a bar complaint against Lin O’Dell for various actions taken by her since then. Through lax accounting, misrepresentations to the court, ethical violations, and outright conversion, it appears that my inheritance has been reduced well in excess of one million dollars.

As a result of her unethical activity, Lin O’Dell has been sanctioned by the Washington State Guardianship Board and the Stevens County Superior Court. The findings of the Stevens County Court were upheld in the Washington Court of Appeals. For the past 10 years I have suffered substantial consequences of the actions these attorneys as well as an Idaho attorney named Paula Massey, who represented my deceased brother, Rex Shanks. They first transferred control of the estate away from my mother and I to my brother, Rex who was an alcoholic, and convicted felon.

As can be seen from the following narrative, I have been kept in the dark repeatedly and refused access to documents that would allow me to find out whether I received the portion of the estate to which I was entitled. As the following narrative demonstrates, hundreds of thousands of dollars of assets were spent in a highly questionable fashion without any documentation or balance sheets being produced. In addition, a TEDRA agreement was illegally formed based upon trust documents that were no longer valid and as a result, I was apparently cheated out of over $800,000 in assets.

In the past, I attempted to file bar complaints against Lin O’Dell but those complaints were of a limited nature, because I could not obtain documents which would explain the questionable activities of Lin O’Dell. The WSBA has refused to perform even a minimal investigation, apparently because she had some kind of special status as a WSBA hearing officer. As a result, I have had to spend thousands of dollars, first in removing her as a guardian, then as a trustee so, she could no longer misappropriate funds that were intended to be distributed to me.

In previous litigation, Lin O’Dell has freely admitted that she refused to allow me access to records, claiming that she was “scared” because knowledge of that information would cause me some kind of unspecified harm.

The present complaint is primarily based upon recently discovered material that I had been denied access to by attorney O’Dell. This includes information that was submitted April 5, 2016, to Stevens Court in Case No. 06-4-00094-9, that was part of an exhibit list prepared for an appeal that was pending in the third division Case No. 32979-8. Other recently discovered material had been disclosed to my Idaho Attorneys Michaelina Murphy and Carla Ranum who successfully petitioned the Idaho Courts, Case No. CV-08-0006827 to have Lin O’Dell removed as trustee. Also included as new are documents from an old divorce file I discovered two years ago that contained the billing records for Bruce Pruitt-Hamm.

You may also find references in this complaint to other misconduct that was referred to in previous bar complaints. I did this because even though they may have been mentioned before, they were portrayed as isolated incidents, where they are now shown as part of a pattern of misconduct. Incredibly, even after being removed as guardian, trustee, and sanctioned, Lin O’Dell still refuses to provide any kind of accounting/distribution information that would explain how millions of dollars to assets were divided between my brother Rex and I. In the past, the WSBA has assigned my complaints to a special disciplinary counsel, because she was a hearing officer. She is no longer a hearing officer and can be seen from the following narrative, she was not a hearing officer for most of the periods of time in question, so I request that this grievance not be treated as a grievance against a hearing officer, but as a grievance against an attorney.

Issue 1, Failure to supply conflict statements by Bruce Pruit-Hamm, Lin O’Dell, Jessica Bodey, Karen Vache during the creation of guardianship and the period of time leading up to my mother’s death in 2011.

Originally, I was routinely named as my mother’s power of attorney, controlling her multimillion dollar estate. In addition, I was separately awarded a home in Whitefish Montana that is now valued at over $800,000. Then, through a series of transactions, control of this estate was transferred to my brother Rex, who had both an alcohol and drug problem, and was a convicted felon who had been imprisoned 6 months in Arizona.

On August 8, 2006, I went to Bruce Pruit-Hamm for the purpose of obtaining a divorce from my husband Mark Fowler. On August 10, 2006, he was already contacting an Idaho attorney Paula Massey, who was an Idaho attorney for my brother Rex Shank. He was also in contact with the Wytychak Elder Law Firm, which was later paid over $16,000 for managing an Idaho trust in my name.

On August 29, 2006, my brother Rex petitioned the Idaho court, through Paula Massey, to have him made guardian of the estate of my mother. I do not believe the fact he did this after his attorney had discussions with my attorney is a coincidence. Rex was appointed as a temporary guardian only on September 5, 2007 in Idaho Case No. CV-06-6619 and immediately paid $1,152.40 for legal services rendered by Bruce Pruit-Hamm in my divorce case. There was never any discussion nor a conflict statement signed concerning the actual conflict of interest of my mother’s guardianship being used to pay this fee. Also, there was no discussion about how Rex Shank could make such a payment, when his temporary letters explicitly stated his powers: “allowed only such access to alleged ward’s assets as is necessary to provide for the alleged Ward’s necessities of Life.” (Emphasis added).

Shortly thereafter, on October 1, 2006, without explaining to me the reason and possible implications and without obtaining a conflict waiver, Pruitt-Hamm petitioned the court to have me put in a guardianship. Although he claims he did this as an “officer of the court”, there was no written explanation of the actual or potential conflict of interest this posed for my interests, especially that of putting my brother in control of my mother’s finances instead of me. Soon, the court had appointed Karen Vache’ as a GAL who filed a new guardianship action, where Jessica Bodey was appointed as GAL. Then Bodey and Vache’ recommended that Lin O’Dell be appointed.

At first I was suspicious of the fact that all three of these attorneys were working together in the same office and voiced those concerns to Bodey about this. Bodey claimed that this was no cause for concern because there was no conflict just because three attorneys knew of each other and worked at the same location.

What was not explained to me was that Lin O’Dell and Karen Vache were business partners in a law firm called “Advance Mediation Service, LLC” and would therefore share profits. As far as I remember, this was not disclosed to the court either. This raises the issue as to whether the unnecessary second guardianship action was instituted to hide the conflict that existed between Vache’ and O’Dell.

By January of 2007, I had changed my mind and decided to try and save my marriage. I also made it clear that I did not agree with assessment by Pamela Ridgway, a psychologist who prepared a report recommending guardianship.

In preparing her report to the court, GAL Bodey confirmed that she had consulted other doctors before making her recommendation including Dr. Bot and doctors who had evaluated me for possible social security benefits. What she did not disclose to the court is that these three other doctors did not recommend a guardianship.

In March of 2007, I reluctantly agreed to the creation of a guardianship, against the recommendation of my counsel at the time, because of assurances by all the other attorneys, Pruitt-Hamm, O’Dell, Vache’, and Bodey, that the guardianship was designed to help me manage my assets and obtain my fair share of the estate.

Had I been aware of the full nature of the entangling conflicts of interests and alliances that had been formed to put control of the estate in the hands of my convicted felon, alcoholic brother, I would have never gone along with it.

At some point in time after Lin O’Dell became guardian, it was decided to reinstitute the divorce proceedings and obtain another no-contact order against my ex-husband, Mark Fowler.

After my mother died, Lin O’Dell became trustee of the trust created to receive my inheritance. Lin O’Dell was also a Washington limited guardian of my estate as well as a limited guardian of my person. The creation of these legal entities was made because I was easily manipulated financially and therefore she had a fiduciary duty to preserve my portion of the estate and protect my interests. There was no discussion of there being a potential conflict of interest or actual conflict of interest of representing both me in the divorce, and representing the Washington guardianship and the Idaho trust, nor were any conflict statements signed. Eventually, it was the failure to adequately deal with these conflicts of interest that led to the problems that followed.

Issue #2: Failure to supply conflict statements by Wallace, Cusack, and O’Dell during the Illegal formation of a TEDRA agreement and a RICO enterprise.

One of the first orders of business was for the attorneys to recommend to me the formation of a TEDRA agreement. This again was portrayed to me as something that was done to help me and help manage my estate. What was not told to me was that this agreement was flawed from the very beginning as it had a fundamental conflict of interest that was not explained to me, and that it was based upon a will and trust agreement that were no longer valid. First, it was arranged that I would be represented by Mary Cusack, but I was not told that she was law partners with Richard Wallace, who represented my mother during the drafting of the second codicil and the second amendment to the Norma Shanks Living trust. Since Wallace would be expected to represent my mother’s interest, this represented a potential conflict of interest and should have had a conflict statement according to In re Marshall 160 Wn.2d 317.

In addition, according to the first amendment to the trust and the first codicil, I was to be favored over my brother in the fact that I would inherit my mother’s home in Whitefish, Montana. In 2015, this home was assessed at over $800,000. Since I was favored, it could have been expected that a makeup for this would appear in the second codicil to the will and the second amendment to the trust. In addition, there is some evidence in the guardianship record that this second trust was irrevocable. In her first annual report to the court she reported that the trust was irrevocable, which had to have meant she saw the second amended trust and second codicil because the first amended trust, was not irrevocable, under its own plain language. That meant the second amended trust, could not be replaced by anything, let alone a TEDRA agreement that was controlled by my alcoholic ex-con brother.

Since Richard Wallace represented my mother, his failure to disclose the conflict of interest represents an actual conflict of interest with respect to his law partner, because by representing the wishes of my mother, it conflicted with my interests irrespective of whether she intended to reduce my role in the estate or not. Thus Wallace and Cusack were in violation of the rules of professional conduct under the RPC as written, or under the more restrictive terms of Marshall.

It was clear, that prior to the TEDRA agreement in 2008, I was favored over my brother. I had been named power of attorney, and my ex-husband James Evans was personal representative for the first codicil of my mother’s will. Thus, in the second codicil and second trust agreement, my superior interest would have been reflected. Since the TEDRA agreement was signed, Richard Wallace has refused to release the second amended trust agreement and the second codicil even though he has released all the other wills and trust agreements. Likewise with O’Dell, who was appointed by the courts to protect my interests, allegedly because I was easily manipulated by men (which would include of course, my brother.) Wallace claimed he lost them… and O’Dell also refused to produce them even though she obviously saw them. Since these documents should have been the ones the Tedra agreement replaced, the fact that both attorneys refuse to produce them is inexcusable especially since the second trust was irrevocable. If they continue to refuse to produce these documents, the bar should consider it spoliation, and read all inferences against both of them.

Issue #3: Conversion of horses, paintings, dogs and other items.

This issue involves my ownership of some horses and other items. There apparently were no papers signed, but I can prove ownership of the horses at that time through the testimony of the person I purchased them from. In August, 2010, Jimmy Smith who worked for Lin O’Dell, talked me into having two horses “wintered” by some farm in Spokane Valley. I was skeptical of the need for it because I had already wintered the horses myself the previous year. On October 20, 2010, I checked into a local hospital for severe depression. At that time two of my dogs had escaped, but the rest were still in the pen. After I wanted to go home, Jimmy Smith and a counselor were insistent on me staying longer, and in return for me staying longer, Jimmy Smith agreed to go take care of the dogs and safeguard my belongings. Some of these included some valuable paintings that were painted by Norma Shank and given to me. Instead of safeguarding the dogs, they were let free, and Smith hired a neighbor to look for them. However, instead of putting me in contact with the man who was supposed to retrieve them, he refused to give the phone number, and as a result, the man was unable to retrieve them. Later when I got out for a brief period, I was able to retrieve one who was a wolf. However, when I was sent to another rehab center, Lin O’Dell gave the wolf away to an outfit that was supposedly a wolf sanctuary. When I returned to my house, it had been ransacked and all the valuable paintings were missing. Later, Jimmy Smith tried to get me to sign papers to give up legal title of the horses. When I refused, I never got an explanation as to what happened to the horses. In later conversations with other people in the town, they said they were told by Lin O’Dell to shoot the dogs if they came across them. I never saw the horses, dogs, paintings ever since. When I asked about the horses, I was told to forget about it as it is “ancient history”. I understand there is no statute of limitations on a bar complaint.

In her response to the court, (see attached exhibit) she disclaims any responsibility, claiming that the horses were “rescued”, but does not say by who, or under what authority they were transferred to a new owner. She claims that the property was separate property, which would be consistent with her having Jimmy Smith asking for a release that was never given. From her report, she obviously knows what happened to the horses, but does not say who or how they were transferred. She does not explain why the horses were “rescued”, when Jimmy Smith had been tasked with wintering them. When called to task over the rest of the stolen property by the Stevens County Superior Court, she had the audacity to claim that it was my fault that everything was stolen, even though she was paying caregivers such as Jimmy Smith to take care of it, while being paid in amounts that the court characterized as highly excessive.

Issue #4: Improper accounting and conversion of automobile.

On July 12, 2011, a check was written by Rex Shank, from Wells Fargo account No. 426340535, (my deceased mother’s guardianship account), for $7,432 to Paula Fowler. This check was deposited into USB7452 which is my guardianship account that is under Lin O’Dell control. Three days later, on July 15, 2011, Lin O’Dell wrote a check from my guardianship account USB7452, ck #2273 for $7000 To “Bomben Family Trust” which Lin O’Dell endorsed as “Lin O’Dell Trustee”. I have attached a copy of that check.

I have been in communication with Mr. Craig Bomben, son of Angelo Bomben, about this check which involves an apparent conflict of interest between two trusts that are run by Lin O’Dell. Lin O’Dell, had been appointed guardian for Craig’s father, Angelo Bomben, on or about July 20, 2010 in case No.10-4-00009-9. Around the end of June 2011, his family discovered money missing from the family trust and traced the shortfall to his guardian, Lin O’Dell.

According to Craig Bomben, the family demanded Lin O’Dell pay back the $7,000 which they believe she had stolen or they were going to the police and file charges and have her disbarred. According to Craig, the Bomben family gave Lin O’Dell 10 days to have the money put back into the account.

There were no receipts, and no invoices for this transaction stating what it was for. There was no conflict statement in writing, signed by either members of the Bomben family trust or by me showing approval of a transaction in spite of a conflict of interest or possible conflict of interest in the future between the two trusts. While at one point, O’Dell told Joseph Valente, a Stevens County court appointed investigator, the check was for payment of a car, there was no appraisals showing who owned the car and what it was appraised at.

I have never signed a waiver for the conflict of interest between the two guardianship cases and was never counseled as to the advisability of seeking advice from another counsel.

In July of 2013, DMV records show the registered owners were the Guardianship of Paula Fowler and the Guardianship of Ricky Ott. It was registered that way until March of 2016. I was never told that I co-owned the car with the Guardianship of Ricky Ray Ott or why it was registered that way. I never signed a conflict statement advising me of the co-ownership with Ricky Ray Ott.

Lin O’Dell violated RCW 11.92.185 which deals with concealed or embezzled property. She apparently stole from one guardianship account (Angelo Bomben), and when caught, converted funds from my guardianship account to repay the “Bomben Family Trust”. In doing so, Lin O’Dell violated RCW 11.92.040(b): “A guardian must provide identification of all income sources. A guardian must list all expenditures made during the accounting period by categories.” Lin O’Dell did not identify the $7,432 check from my deceased mother’s guardianship account. Lin O’Dell did not list the disbursement of $7,000 to the “Bomben Family Trust”, her former client.

Lin O’Dell also violated the Rules of Professional Conduct. According to RPC 1.7:

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a lawyer shall not represent a client if the representation involves

a concurrent conflict of interest. A concurrent conflict of interest exists if:

(1) the representation of one client will be directly adverse to another client; or

(2) there is a significant risk that the representation of one or more clients will be materially limited

by the lawyer’s responsibilities to another client, a former client or a third person or by a personal interest of the lawyer.

(b) Notwithstanding the existence of a concurrent conflict of interest under paragraph (a), a lawyer may represent a client if:

(1) the lawyer reasonably believes that the lawyer will be able to provide competent and diligent representation to each affected client;

(2) the representation is not prohibited by law;

(3) the representation does not involve the assertion of a claim by one client against another client represented by the lawyer in the same litigation or other proceeding before a tribunal; and

(4) each affected client gives informed consent, confirmed in writing (following authorization from the other client to make any required disclosures).

According to RPC 1.8: (Conflict of Interest; Specific Rules)

(a) A lawyer shall not enter into a business transaction with a client or knowingly acquire an ownership, possessory, security or other pecuniary interest adverse to a client unless: (1) the transaction and terms on which the lawyer acquires the interest are fair and reasonable to the client and are fully disclosed and transmitted in writing in a manner that can be reasonably understood by the client; (2) the client is advised in writing of the desirability of seeking and is given a reasonable opportunity to seek the advice of an independent lawyer on the transaction; and (3) the client gives informed consent, in a writing signed by the client, to the essential terms of the transaction and the lawyer’s role in the transaction, including whether the lawyer is representing the client in the transaction.

(b) A lawyer shall not use information relating to representation of a client to the disadvantage of the client unless the client gives informed consent, expect as permitted or required by these Rules.

(c) A lawyer shall not solicit any substantial gift from a client, including a testamentary gift, or prepare on behalf of the client an instrument giving the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer any substantial gift unless the lawyer or other recipient of the gift is related to the client. For purposes of this paragraph, related persons include spouse, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent or other relative or individual with who the lawyer or the client maintains a close, familial relationship.

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(g) A lawyer who represents two or more clients shall not participate in making an aggregate settlement of the claims of or against the clients, or in a criminal case an aggregated agreement as to guilty or nolo contendere pleas, unless each client gives informed consent, confirmed in writing. The lawyer’s disclosure shall include the existence and nature of all the claims or pleas involved and the participation of each person in the settlement.

(h) A lawyer shall not: (1) make an agreement prospectively limiting the lawyer’s liability to a client for malpractice unless permitted by law and the client is independently represented by a lawyer in making the agreement; or (2) settle a claim or potential claim for such liability with an unrepresented client or former client unless that person is advised in writing of the desirability of seeking and is given a reasonable opportunity to seek the advice of an independent lawyer in connection therewith.

(i) A lawyer shall not acquire a proprietary interest in the cause of action or subject matter of litigation the lawyer is conducting for a client, except that the lawyer may: (1) acquire a lien authorized by law to secure the lawyer’s fee or expenses; and (2) contract with a client for a reasonable contingent fee in a civil case.

The following standards of the American Bar Association Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (“ABA Standard”) are presumptively applicable to this Case.

ABA Guideline Standard 5.1: Failure to Maintain Personal Integrity

5.11 Disbarment is general appropriate when:

(a) a lawyer engages in serious criminal conduct, a necessary element of which includes intentional interference with the administration of Justice, false swearing, misrepresentation, fraud, extortion, misappropriation, or theft, or the sale, distribution or important of controlled substances; or the intentional killing of another; or an attempt or conspiracy or solicitation of another to commit any of these offenses; or

(b) a lawyer engages in any other intentional conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation that seriously adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice.

ABA Guideline Standard 4.3: Failure to Avoid Conflicts of Interest

4.31 Disbarment is generally appropriate when a lawyer, without the informed consent of client(s):

(a) engages in representation of a client knowing that the lawyer’s interest are adverse to the client’s with the intent to benefit the lawyer or another, and causes serious or potentially serious injury to the client;

ABA Guideline Standard 4.1: Failure to preserve the Client’s Property

4.11 Disbarment is generally appropriate when a lawyer knowingly converts client property and causes injury or potential injury to a client

When Stevens County Superior Court asked for an explanation for this transaction, there was no satisfactory response. Eventually she was cited for the conflict of interest, but O’Dell never disclosed the improper registration or the allegations of the Bombens. It was only after I retained a private investigator that the rest of information has come to light.

Issue #5, Retaliation and extortion for reporting improper accounting.

In March of 2013, I had written to the Stevens County Superior Court asking that Lin O’Dell be removed as guardian due her misconduct as a guardian. I have attached a copy of the letter that I believe was the letter that triggered Stevens County Superior Court to take action. I waited for months for Stevens County Court to do something. On or about August 6, of that year I was at my computer and I learned for the first time that a hearing had been scheduled at the very hour I was on my computer. I got on the phone and immediately informed the court and they decided to reschedule in September. I later learned that Lin O’Dell was at the hearing and was supposed to have notified me of the hearing. Then, on September 14, 2013, Lin O’Dell and Mark Plivelich showed up at my house. My ex-husband, James Evans was there, and Mark Plivelich told him personally, how much he would like to own my home—apparently, he considered the property part of “The Trust”. Lin O’Dell and Mark Plivelich, both were confessing and bragging that they had arranged through the local Northport citizens to have my dogs killed.

Later he witnessed Lin made threats to me that she had intentions of cutting off my TEDRA funds, getting rid of my dogs, change my locks and sell my house in my absence. She was insisting that I leave the state immediately and not attend the continued hearing as a result. She claimed that Onsight-Insight, my Idaho guardian was insisting that I leave immediately because of a probation requirement, even though earlier I had been given discretion in setting the report date. I believe that she conspired with Onsight-Insight to prevent me from attending the hearing in retaliation for reporting her. As will be shown later, this was an attempt to cover up double booking she was starting to engage in because my reporting of her, caught her in the midst of a fraud.

In doing so, Lin O’Dell violated RCW 9A.56.130 which is extortion in the second degree. That statute defines extortion in the second degree as making an unlawful threat as defined in RCW 9A.04.110(28). Lin O’Dell violated RCW 9A 04 110 (28) because it defines “Threat” as to communicate, directly or indirectly the intent: (b) To cause physical damage to the property of a person other than the actor; or (j) To do any other act which is intended to harm substantially the person threatened or another with respect to his or her health, safety, business, financial condition, or personal relationships. While the statute makes an exception for someone who reasonably believes that charges should be brought for law violations, it does not include threatening to kill the animals or selling the house. As a result of Lin O’Dell’s threats, a hearing could not be held on her misconduct as a guardian until December 31, 2013.

The applicable ABA Guidelines Standards: is 5.1 Failure to Maintain Personal Integrity Standard 3.0: the following sanctions are generally appropriate in cases involving commission of a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects, or in cases with conduct involving dishonesty fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. 5.11 Disbarment is generally appropriate when: (a) a lawyer engages in serious criminal conduct, a necessary element of which includes intentional interference with the administration of Justice, false swearing, misrepresentation, fraud, extortion, misappropriation, or theft; or the sale, distribution or importation of controlled substances; or the intentional killing of another; or an attempt or conspiracy or solicitation of another to commit any of these offenses; or (b) a lawyer engages in any other intentional conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation that seriously adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice

Issue #6. Improper accounting and record keeping.

Attached as an exhibit you will find an example of the accounting method used by Lynn O’Dell:

A March 26, 2016, e-mail from the Stevens County Superior Court confirms the type of accounting Lin O’Dell used as a certified guardian of the estate.

Lin O’Dell submitted a box full of “documents” and financial records to support her budget and accounting reports. Some documents were bundled together, nothing labeled or otherwise identified. When the Review Board was unable to match up figures from documents submitted, the Court appointed Investigator/Attorney Joseph Valente as a court appointed investigator.

Lin O’Dell violated RCW 11.92.040: Duties of a guardian or limited guardian in general: (2) Account shall contain at least the following information: Identification of property of the guardianship estate as of the date of the last account or, in the case of the initial account, as of the date of inventory; (b) Identification of all additional property received into the guardianship, including income by source; (c) Identification of all expenditures made during the account period by major categories; Lin O’Dell violated RPC 1.15A: Safeguarding Property (c-2): A lawyer must identify, label and appropriately safeguard any property of the clients or third persons other than funds. The lawyer must keep records of such property that identify the property, the client or third person, the date or receipt and the location of safekeeping. (Safe-Keeping a Box)

Issue #7 Improper Accounting, possible conversion, lack of candor to the court.

These violations are based on the following events: On November 21, 2013, Judge Monasmith signed an “Order to Show Cause” calling for Joseph Valente to investigate possible guardianship violations in my case. On the basis of this investigation, Lin O’Dell was cited for 13 violations. According to a statement from Joseph Valente report: “Up until Judge Monasmith had “Order To Show Cause”, Lin O’Dell has done whatever she wanted without any regard to the authority of the Court.”

Within days, December 12, 2013 Lin O’Dell submitted “Amended” yearly accountings. Through recently discovered accounting records, submitted April 5, 2016 (SUB127), the Stevens County Court Clerk organized the files and records and prepared Exhibit List for the Court of Appeals case No. 32979-8 on April 5^th, 2016 (Sub 127). I learned of these records shortly thereafter. I compared those records which bank records I independently obtained from US Bank and found out that Lin O’Dell’s amended accounting submitted into court file is misleading and not accurate.

The records from US Bank account USB7452 (guardianship account) shows the actual Income and Disbursements which are one-hundred percent different than what Lin O’Dell submitted. I have attached (3-years) to show the difference in what Lin O’Dell submitted to the courts and what the USB7452 show: 3/6/2011 to 3/5/2012 Lin O’Dell Amended accounting: Income $0 Disbursements $99,129.76. (I only have 9-months March, April and May missing) USB7452 (guardianship account) 9-months: Income $94,220.35, Disbursements $93,718.03. 3/6/2012 to 3/5/2013 Lin O’Dell Amended accounting: Income $.35, 3/6/2012 to 3/5/2013 guardianship account USB7452 confirms: Income $142,718.19, Disbursements $120,038.45. 3/6/2013 to 11/30/2013 Lin O’Dell Amended accounting: $0.00, Disbursements $.0.00

Guardianship account USB7452 confirms: Income $66,000.00, Disbursements $114,402.13. Lin O’Dell violated RPC 3.3: (a) A lawyer shall not knowingly (1) make a false statement of fact or law to a tribunal or fail to correct a false statement of material fact or law previously made to the tribunal or fail to correct a false statement of material fact or law previously made to the tribunal by the lawyer (4) offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false. (b) The duties stated in paragraph (a) continue to the conclusion of the proceeding. (c) If the lawyer has offered material evidence and comes to know of its falsity, the lawyer shall promptly disclose this fact to the tribunal unless such disclosure is prohibited by Rule 1.6 (d) If the lawyer has offered material evidence and comes to know of its falsity and disclosure of this fact is prohibited by Rule 1.6, the lawyer shall promptly make reasonable efforts to convince the client to consent to disclosure.

Lin O’Dell has never given me receipts or invoices for anything—-Lin O’Dell just makes statements (full of misrepresentations) and has continually refused to give me proof of where my funds have been disbursed to under her control. I have e-mails from April 1, 2015 asking Lin O’Dell for accounting records and proof of my estate assets. Lin O’Dell has continually given the same response: “I am not going to spend additional funds for records you have already been given.” Although I have asked many times—-To this day, Lin O’Dell has not given me supporting documents to confirm income and or disbursements when she has had total control of my money. Yet, Lin O’Dell was paying herself thousands of dollars monthly for being a Washington limited guardian of estate and for trustee fees which the Steven County Superior Court ruled were, in many cases, highly excessive. Within days of Joseph Valente being appointed to investigate, Lin O’Dell 12/10/2013 filed a declaration on 12/10/2013: SUB #78, (page 7 line 9-10) she admitted “I did not send Paula her financial statements because I was scared of her safety.” and (page 8 line 5-6) “As I stated in court, I did not send Paula copies of the 2012 and 2013 annual report.”

Also, according to Valente’s report, O’Dell had a double booking system of accounting making it impossible to follow the money trail. She would enter income and assets into the trust account while simultaneously entering into the same identical information into the guardianship account, even though under Washington law they were two separate entities. The money was never withdrawn or deposited in the trust account leading the investigator to speculate that she was anticipating criticism from the court for maintaining the guardianship when it was duplicating and charging fees for work that was already being accomplished in the redundant Idaho guardianship. Her final accounting for the guardianship account claimed that she was not charging anything in fees for the guardianship. However, in spite of these assurances, records from the trust account show she actually paid herself $3,623.75 in guardianship fees without court approval as required.

Lin O’Dell violated RPC 4.1: Truthfulness in Statements to Others In the course of representing a client shall not knowingly (a) Make a false statement of material fact to a third person.

The following standards of the American Bar Association Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (“ABA Standards”) are presumptively applicable to this case.

ABA Guideline Standards 6.1 False Statements, Fraud, and Misrepresentation. 6.1 is generally applicable to case involving conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice or that involves dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation to a court. Disbarment is generally appropriate when a lawyer engages in conduct intended to deceive a court or make false statement, submits a false document or improperly withholds material information and causes injury or potentially serious injury to a party. Given the damages to the system and ongoing misrepresenting the facts to the court, the presumptive standard for the attorney who misled the court is disbarment

6.11 Disbarment is generally appropriate when a lawyer, with the intent to deceive the court, makes false statement, submits a false document, or improperly withholds material information, and causes serious or potentially serious injury to a party, or causes a significant or potentially significant adverse effect on the legal proceeding

ABA Guidelines Standards 4.1 Failure to Preserve the Clients Property. Absent aggravating or mitigating circumstances, upon application of the factors set out in 3.0, the following sanctions are generally appropriate in cases involving the failure to preserve client’s property: 4.11 Disbarment is generally appropriate when a lawyer knowingly converts client property and causes injury or potential injury to a client.

Issue #8 Violation of guardianship rules, extortion, and formation of a RICO enterprise.

EXHIBIT 3 is a September 13, 2016 the CPG Board Agreement regarding discipline and stipulated findings against Lin O’Dell. Lin O’Dell was cited on twelve violations of the Standard of Practice Regulations: 401.1, 401.3, 401.5, 404.1, 404.3, 404.4, 409.1, 411.1, 411.3,—former SOP 401.15, 401.16, RCW 11.92.043 (3), and disciplinary regulation 514.4. This, report revealed new information never disclosed to the WSBA: Lin O’Dell admitted Mark Plivelich was her husband and used him to perform work on my case.

Mark Plivelich is a felon, having been convicted of First Degree Manslaughter. As seen above, Lin O’Dell has used Mark Plivelich services and paid him as a care-manger to be her enforcer to intimidate and make threats to her clients. I was and currently still am afraid of Lin O’Dell’s and Mark Plivelich’s threats. Spokane County property records confirm: Lin O’Dell was guardian for another client, Harry Highland, she purchased it for $15,000 when it had been assessed at $240,000 is currently living in her past clients home in Cheney, WA. I have been afraid, because of Mark Plivelich’s and Lin O’Dell’s threats, that she would do the same to me.

Issue #9: Improper accounting and conversion of assets prior to and during probate of Norma Shanks.

I have never been given an inventory list of assets my mother had at time of death, which included: I have the original copy of my mother’s life insurance, whose cash value on January 23, 2002 was $190,471.24. There was another life insurance policy that was cashed out in 2009, while my mother was under guardianship. I have never been shown the amount of disbursement and to what account the life insurance was deposited.

My mother’s house in Post Falls was sold, December 8, 2011 for $106,250.00. When asked about the proceeds I was told there were so many deductions that I may have gotten between $7,500 and 10,000—never given any proof—-just Lin O’Dell making a statement never supported by any evidence.

My mother had millions in stocks and bonds. Within the last few weeks through my Idaho attorneys I have discovered several bank transactions at the time of Norma Shank death (2 out of 9 bank accounts) my attorneys have discovered 103K missing that should have been deposited into my account upon death of my mother—Lin O’Dell explanation—-There was a loss in the market value – no supporting evidence— just Lin O’Dell making a statement.

I have the Idaho Guardianship/Conservatorship accounting from Norma Shank Case No. CV-06- 6619, which yearly I was receiving gifts from Norma Shank Trust, being deposited directly into either Lin O’Dell personal account or USB7452 guardianship account much of it after the letters of guardianship had expired and had not been renewed.

Issue #10 – Commingling funds from client trust accounts to personal account of attorney

According to guardianship accounting 3/2007 to 3/2008) which was filed with the court on March 21, 1008, on page 4, Lin O’Dell made a statement “I deposited the entire yearly trust deposit into my account because Paula was calling me daily wanting more money.” (Emphasis added). Violated RPC 1.15 (c) A lawyer must hold property of clients and third persons separate from the lawyer’s own property.

Issue #11 – Improper accounting prior to probate, conversion, conspiracy, formation of RICO enterprise, bribery.

I have requested from Lin O’Dell confirmation for payment $250,000 Rex Shank had borrowed from our mother, Norma Shank to purchase one-half of the Hunters Restaurant in Post Falls, this transaction was done just months before he filed for guardianship/conservatorship of our mother, Norma Shank, with a estate worth millions. Lin O’Dell has refused to furnish me with any financial documents regarding the payment status of the loan Rex Shank had between my mother, Norma Shank and myself.

As to the $250,000 lent to my brother, after being given only $1000 of the payments that were promised, there was never any explanation why the payment stopped or what happened to the other $3000 per month he was supposed to have been paying.

Lin O’Dell now claims she has no records because Rex controlled the estate. She also gives the same excuse for the failure to account for the life insurance policies. However, she is a Washington practicing attorney who established a guardianship specifically because I was easily manipulated by men, which presumably would include my brother Rex. At a minimum she should have made inquiries and obtained records to show I was not being taken advantage of. Her failure to produce these records is inexcusable, and, like before, the WSBA should consider the refusal to turn these records over as spoliation.

Issue #12 – Refusal to turn over records.

E-mails confirm I have asked Lin O’Dell for years to sign a release authorization directing Les Anderson, CPA, Post Falls, Idaho to release financial records. Mr. Anderson was my Mother’s CPA for years and through her death. These documents would prove the assets my mother held at the time of her death. Lin O’Dell has refused usually claiming she has no authority to control Mr. Anderson because Rex was conservator/guardian and Wells Fargo/trustee of that trust not her. However, she is a practicing Washington attorney who had a fiduciary responsibility to preserve the estate. She cannot have it both ways. If she in fact did not have direct access to Anderson’s records, then why did she not use her skills as an attorney to force their release, as she had a right to preserve the estate of the guardianship?

In refusing to do so, Lin O’Dell violated RPC 1.15A: Safeguarding Property (c- 2): A lawyer must identify, label and appropriately safeguard any property of clients or third persons other than funds. The lawyer must keep records of such property that identify the property, the client or third person, the date of receipt and the location of safekeeping. The lawyer must preserve the records for seven years after return of the property. (e) A lawyer must promptly provide an accounting to a client or third person after distribution of property or upon request.

Issue #13, apparent conversion of funds.

Lin O’Dell declaration SUB 78, submitted December 10, 2013 into court record case contained several false statements including, page 4 line 24-25, where O’Dell stated “Every time the (trust) disbursed money to Paula as a gift they needed to transfer equal amount to Rex Shank.” This statement is another misrepresentation to the court, showing a complete lack of candor. Idaho conservatorship accounting 10/2007 through 10/2008 listed that Rex Shank was gifted $199,427.69—-Paula Fowler gifted $24,200– As my guardian, Lin O’Dell had a duty to protect all assets—these large trust funds being disbursed were not Rex Shank funds they were my mother’s and Lin O’Dell, as guardian of estate, had a duty to look into these transactions.

On April 18, 2011 (one-month prior to Norma Shank death 5/30/2011) Idaho Judge Clark Peterson called a Status Conference to address issues why the $73,000 gifted to Rex Shank and $43,000 gifted was Paula Fowler from the Norma Shank Trust (without court approval). Attorney Pamela Massey had same comment Lin O’Dell stated in her declaration. “Rex Shank gifted yearly amounts between himself and his sister Paula Fowler. Gifting will remain at $13,000 per person limit per year.” Never explained was why these amounts were unequal. Also unexplained is why the TEDRA Agreement called for Paula to receive $2000.00 per month, yet the accounting records show that Paula never received anywhere near this amount. These gifts don’t appear equal as Lin O’Dell stated in her declaration.

Also unexplained is why Idaho Judge Clark Peterson was allowed to sit on the case, when he had received at least $5000 from my guardianship account without court approval when he represented my ex-husband Mark Fowler in criminal charges in 2008. Lin O’Dell violated RPC 3.3 (a) A lawyer shall not: (1) make a false statement of fact or law to a or fail to correct a false statement of material fact or law previously made to the tribunal by the lawyer;

Recently discovered accounting records submitted to Stevens Court, by Lin O’Dell in an unorganized box. The court clerk attempted to organize the box. Exhibits submitted for the Court of Appeals use shows several unexplained transactions:

8/31/2012 ATM SAVING WITHDRAWAL $ 8,649.37,

11/14/2012 ATM SAVING WITHDRAWALS, $2604.25

12/31/2012 ATM WITHDRAWAL 1,177.56

Total of $12,431.56 CASH taken by Lin O’Dell No-Receipts or Invoices.

USB7452 guardianship account confirmed: 2/6/2012 Customer Withdrawal $1,000,

2/21/2012 ck#2405 CASH $500,

9/13/2013 Customer Withdrawal $500. This has all the appearances of unlawful conversion of property and if so, Lin O’Dell violated RCW 11.92.185: Concealed or Embezzled property.

Issue #15 – Misrepresentations as to the scope of her authority.

Lin O’Dell has continued to make misrepresentations to the courts. July 26, 2016 letter from Lin O’Dell Attorney Katherine Coyle confirms, Lin O’Dell is telling my Attorney to correct the TEDRA document to show Lin O’Dell was appointed Full Guardian of the Estate. When my attorney requested the order of Lin O’Dell appointment of full Guardian of Estate—-Lin O’Dell changed Attorneys. A copy of Appeal No. 32979-8-lll is attached resulting in Lin O’Dell losing her appeal against myself and attorney Joseph Valente.

In this regard, O’Dell has been joined in this misrepresentation by Cusack, who likewise made the misrepresentation to Washington courts that O’Dell was a full instead of limited guardian. Please consider this as part of the bar complaint against her.

One of the things O’Dell was cited for in the Stevens County action was for continually misrepresenting the scope of her guardianship to others, including the court, and misusing her limited authority to take actions that exceeded her authority. Incredibly, even after being sanctioned by the court and losing on the appeal, she continues to misrepresent the scope of her authority, so she can again perform a fraud on the court.

Issue #16 – Failure to supervise and conduct background checks for her staff:

Lin O’Dell violated RPC 5.3:

With respect to a non-lawyer employed or retained by or associated with a lawyer: (a) a partner, and a lawyer who individually or together with other lawyers possesses comparable managerial authority in a law firm shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the firm has effect measures giving reasonable assurance that the person’s conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer; Lin O’Dell on 10/18/2013 signed a blank guardianship check—-gave it to her felon husband—top of check has Mark Plivelich driver’s license number, PLIVEMD475LB, ex 6/2/2017.

Lin O’Dell, an attorney, giving a blank check from my guardianship account is not the conduct that is compatible with the professional obligations of a lawyer. Lin O’Dell has violated RPC 5.3 (b) a lawyer having direct supervisory authority over the non-lawyer shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the persons conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer; and (c) a lawyer shall be responsible for conduct of such a person that would be a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct if engaged in by a lawyer if: (1) the lawyer orders or, with the knowledge of the specific conduct, ratifies the conduct involved; or (b) a lawyer having direct supervisory authority over the non-lawyer shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the persons conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer; and (c) a lawyer shall be responsible for conduct of such a person that would be a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct if engaged in by a lawyer if: (1) the lawyer orders or, with the knowledge of the specific conduct, ratifies the conduct involved; or (2) the lawyer is a partner or has comparable managerial authority in the law firm in which the person is employed, or has direct supervisory authority over the person, and knows of the conduct at a time when its consequences can be avoided or mitigated but fails to take reasonable remedial action.

With regard to her husband, Lin O’Dell violated RPC 4.1 Truthfulness in Statements to Others: In the course of representing a client, a lawyer shall not knowingly (a) make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person; Lin O’Dell made a statement in the CPG Discipline and Stipulated Finding, she had employed Mark Plivelich for about a year.

The Guardianship account, USB7452 confirmed she had paid Mark Plivelich or his business starting 7/15/2011 through 10/18/2013 this appears to be 2-years and 3-months.

Checks from my USB7452 guardianship account, written by Lin O’Dell to “Felon” Mark Plivelich and “Complete Estate Services include: Mark Plivelich 7/15/2011 $135.04, Mark Plivelich 5/19/2012 $885.96, “Complete EstateServices” 7/1/2012 82.22, “Complete EstateServices” 7/12/2012 115.00 “Complete Estate Services” 7/30/2012 “Complete Estate Services” $312.75, “Complete Estate Services” 4/19/2013 $1,443.15, 10/18/2013 blank check written by Lin O’Dell /Mark Plivelich driver’s License top of check $107.02

I was never made aware of the fact that Mark Plivelich was her husband, nor that she had formed a partnership with her husband to form Complete Estate services. I was never informed of his felony conviction for manslaughter.

When questioned by the guardianship board on her hiring of her husband which was forbidden under Washington law because of his felony conviction, she simply stated that because the conviction was over 30 years old, she thought it didn’t count.

Yet court records confirmed that her husband was convicted for shooting a friend in the head at point blank range with his gun. He was only convicted of manslaughter because he claimed to the court at the time he was drunk and didn’t know what he was doing. As stated above, O’Dell uses her husband as an enforcer for her enterprise, so his conviction is highly relevant, no matter how long ago it happened.

The following standards of the American Bar Association Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (“ABA Standards”) are presumptively applicable to this case

ABA Guidelines Standards: 5.1 Failure to Maintain Personal Integrity 5.1 Standard 3.0, the following sanctions are generally appropriate in cases involving commission of a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects, or in cases with conduct involving dishonesty fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. 5.11 Disbarment is generally appropriate when: (a) a lawyer engages in serious criminal conduct, a necessary element of which includes intentional interference with the administration of Justice, false swearing, misrepresentation, fraud, extortion, misappropriation, or theft; or the sale, distribution or importation of controlled substances; or the intentional killing of another; or an attempt or conspiracy or solicitation of another to commit any of these offenses; or (b) a lawyer engages in any other intentional conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation that seriously adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice.

Issue 17 Lin O’Dell NEVER filed a petition to present accounting receipts, investments, expenditures before closing Guardian of Estate.

According to RCW 11.92.053:

Settlement of estate upon termination.

Within ninety days, unless the court orders a different deadline for good cause, after the termination of a guardianship for any reason, the guardian or limited guardian of the estate shall petition the court for an order settling his or her account as filed in accordance with RCW 11.92.040(2) with regard to any receipts, expenditures, and investments made and acts done by the guardian to the date of the termination. Upon the filing of the petition, the court shall set a date for the hearing of the petition after notice has been given in accordance with RCW 11.88.040. Any person interested may file objections to the petition or may appear at the time and place fixed for the hearing thereof and present his or her objections thereto. The court may take such testimony as it deems proper or necessary to determine whether an order settling the account should be issued and the transactions of the guardian be approved, and the court may appoint a guardian ad litem to review the report.

At the hearing on the petition of the guardian or limited guardian, if the court is satisfied that the actions of the guardian or limited guardian have been proper, and that the guardian has in all respects discharged his or her trust with relation to the receipts, expenditures, investments, and acts, then, in such event, the court shall enter an order approving the account, and the order shall be final and binding upon the incapacitated person, subject only to the right of appeal as upon a final order. However, within one year after the incompetent attains his or her majority any such account may be challenged by the incapacitated person on the ground of fraud Conclusion.

On the basis of the above charges, I am requesting that the WSBA investigate and charge Lin O’Dell for the above ethical violations and recommend disbarment with restitution.

Gold Bar Reporter’s Commentary

The Washington State Bar’s turning a blind eye to thief and attorney Lin O’Dell’s criminal conduct as outlined below illustrates just how far the corruption in Washington State’s Bar Association has reached, extending up through our State Supreme Court as well.

Interesting to note for my readers that the Washington State Bar President Robyn Haynes was arrested last year for theft of client funds.

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The WSBA tipped off WSBA President Robyn Haynes to resign prior to criminal charges filed, resigned June 21, 2017, as the president of the Washington State Bar Association.

A search warrant retained evidence supporting three counts of second-degree theft based on her previous employment with the Spokane Valley law firm McNeice Wheeler and her earlier employment at Witherspoon Kelley in Spokane.

The Washington State Bar has yet to take a single disciplinary action against Robyn Haynes for theft.

Below is an article written about how Lin O’Dell is using a convicted killer named Mark Plivilech to harass, steal, misuse credit information, and SSA information to funnel clients trust and public monies to their personal accounts.

October 4, 2015 by goldbarreporter 9 Comments (Edit)

How Guardians from the Washington State Bar Disciplinary Officers

are given a license to steal from Washington State’s most vulnerable adults

Forward:

When lawyers steal from their clients, It’s We the taxpayers that end up paying the bill.

Attorney Lin ( Linda) O’Dell ( aka Worthington), an attorney handpicked by the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) to hear complaints filed against lawyers by clients ( non clients should have no forum) uses a convicted killer named Mark Plivilech to intimidate vulnerable adults, while she uses WSBA influence to continue stealing and depleting elderly clients trusts.

But O’Dell doesn’t do this alone, she gets a pass from the WSBA ODC.

Once Lin O’Dell and other attorneys involved in the same conduct as stated herein deplete the clients’ trust accounts, they place the client on Medicare and/or on the Medicaid system.

Our elderly deserve to die with dignity, and without the elite few WSBA members associated with the Office of Disciplinary Council and WSBA Boards lining their pockets with the gold of others, stealing with the assistance of a few Commissioners’ and Judges, at the expense of the United States taxpayers.

We have drafted a “Brady List” of Judges, Commissioners, and attorneys we know are involved in criminal conduct as outlined herein and will be posting names soon to our “ Brady List.”

Sadly, attorney Spokane attorney Lin O’Dell is not the exception, but she is part of the Racketeering scandal exposed over the past year involving what we call the center of the rotten onion, the WSBA ODC.

The WSBA ODC is using police officers, attorneys and judges to trump up criminal charges on honest hard working citizens and attorneys who speak out against corrupt government officials, and we ( Americans) must do everything in our power to peacefully and legally stop them. Their actions of going after honest lawyers and whistleblowers who attempt to expose corrupt judges, attorneys and police officers stifles our free market economy, and as in my case, violates Sherman Antitrust laws.

We the people are the checks and balances to an honest and clean government. As a person who grew up with two activist parents, who were no parents of the year by any stretch of the truth, I was brought up to believe there is no greater sacrifice or greater good on Mother Earth then helping the sick, elderly, abused, exposing corrupt government officials, and helping the wrongfully convicted. I value the First Amendment to US Constitution as the greatest gift Thomas Jefferson’s gave to America, more valuable than a Bar license.

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. Cory Booker

Attorney Lin O’Dell, a thief, an attorney, a nurse, and a guardian

Washington State Bar (WSBA) Disciplinary Hearing Officer Lin (Linda) O’Dell (aka Worthington) is stealing from Washington State vulnerable adults, manly over the age of 60, and being aided by the WSBA’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) members, Scott Busby and Linda Eide, and her partner, a convicted killer named Mark Plivilech ( Spokane).

Attorney Lin O’Dell’s Linked In page:

Attorney Lin O’ Dell brags about her days as an administrative hearing officer for the Department of Health, she worked as a nurse and is now a guardian overseeing elderly clients trust accounts.

Lin O’Dell is not licensed in Idaho, only Washington. A relevant issue discussed later.

Does being a nurse or a guardian, especially one that has never engaged in the practice of law constitute qualifications under the WSBA guidelines for hearing officers?

Simply put, no. I ‘ve researched the WBSA rules on appointing hearings officers and discovered that in order for the WSBA member to be appointed as a hearing officer one must have been engaged in the practice of law. Here, Ms. O’ Dell appears to be the exception to this rule, since she never practiced law.

This begs the question on who appointed an unqualified attorney to hear issues relating to violation by WSBA members?

According to the WSBA public records officer, Ms. O’Dell was handpicked by another shyster from Spokane, attorney Joseph Nappi Jr. Mr. Nappi’s investigative file and his cash only deals with clients will be discussed in another investigative blog coming soon.

Attorney Lin O’Dell, using convicted killer Mark Plivilech to intimidate elderly vulnerable clients

Now, on its face this may not seem too bad in the scheme of things, but lets add in this bit of facts. Lin O’Dell’s background was searched extensively, and what we yielded was that she shacked up with a convicted killer named Mark Plivilech and extensive IRS and other financial problems. YES our readers are reading this correctly; WSBA attorney and hearing officer Lin O’Dell’s partner of choice is a convicted killer.

If a WSBA hearing officer having a convicted killer as her partner of choice doesn’t sound bad enough, hold onto your seats because we have some more wonderful news.

According to internal court declarations and an extensive background check our investigators ran on Mark Plivilech, Lin O’Dell acting as a guardian for elderly vulnerable adults – many bed ridden elderly Americans- listed killer Mark Plivilech as a “case manager” on twenty (22) of her elderly clients’ accounts.

Once I learned that a convicted killer was acting as a case manager on vulnerable adults accounts, I called the Washington State Attorney General’s Office asking one simple question ” Can a convicted killer serve as a case manager on vulnerable or elderly Washingtonians trust account s or as a guardian ad litem?”

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office started laughing, for which I said ” No, I am serious.” The phone became silent for a minute and the attorney general said ” NO, absolutely not !” very loudly.

Attorney Lin O’Dell has stolen $3,000,000.00 + from the Shank Trust Account, and was caught forging documents

Court documents show that at the time of Norma Shank’s death, The Shank Trust had almost $4,000,000.00, at the end of 2011.

Paula Fowler is from Idaho, and how and why she came into contact with a thief and attorney named Lin O’ Dell can best be described by one of her closest friends who said ” Paula went into Colville attorney Pruitt Hamm’s office for a divorce, and came out with as a guardian ward. But not before Pruitt Hamm made exparte contacts with Lin O’Dell’s attorney in Idaho, Pamela Massey. Soon thereafter, Massey and O’Dell forged documents claiming that Ms. Fowler’s mother, Norma Shank, had revoked the first Shank Will written in 2000, and only after Norma Shank was diagnosed with dementia, did this new Will appear with the assistance of attorney Lin O’Dell, attorney Richard Wallace, and Idaho attorney Paula Massey.”

We reviewed the both Wills and believe all attorneys involved should be charged with criminal Racketeering as the Will’s metadata has been stripped ( to hide when and who wrote it)

Exploiting and stealing from our elderly vulnerable adults

The only living Will of Norma Shank was signed in 2000, leaving her entire estate worth well over $5,000,000.00 to Paula Fowler, with no trust. No trust until after Paula Fowler went into attorney Pruitt Hamm’s office for a divorce and came as a guardian of Lin O’Dell, and only after attorney Pruitt Hamm made phone calls to an attorney from Idaho named Pamela Massey. An attorney hired by Lin O’Dell to help siphon elderly and vulnerable clients trust accounts through nursing homes in Spokane and drug rehab centers in Idaho.

Attorney Pamela Massey and Lin O’Dell were contacted for comment. As of today, both have refused.

According to attorney Pruitt Hamm’s attorney bills in the Fowler matter; no sooner did Paula Fowler leave Pruitt’s office seeking a divorce, Pruitt Hamm was on the phone with Idaho attorney Pamela Massey ( an Idaho attorney who represents Lin O’Dell). Once Pruitt Hamm learned that Paula Fowler was worth well over $5,000,000.00, he conspired with attorney Lin O’Dell and Pamela Massey to steal from a vulnerable adult.

Over the last three years, attorneys Lin O’Dell and Pamela Massey have stolen over $3,000,000.00 + from Paula Fowler, but not without the assistance of the Washington State Bar lead counsel Linda Eide.

Lin O’Dell forging documents, and has stolen over $3,000,000.00 +, but Lin O’Dell did not act alone

Court records from Pamela Massey’s Office in Idaho confirm that Lin O’Dell depleted non-Washington resident Paula Fowler’s trust accounts ( known as a Shank Trust, Wells Fargo, Idaho) to provide ” legal fees, at legal representation.”

There’s only problem for attorney Lin O’Dell, she is not an Idaho attorney. Our counsel said ” a non attorney cannot provide legal representation without a license.”

From records we retrieved from Stevens County Court, in December 2011, the Shank Trust had $3,900,000.00 plus dollars in the account with no forensic accounting ever given to Ms. Fowler or the Court, even though Lin O’Dell was ORDERED to provide such documents to the Court by. A court order Ms. O’Dell continues to thumb her nose at, while she continues to steal from Ms. Fowler but not without the assistance of the Washington State Bar lead counsel Linda Eide.

Lin O’Dell stealing Ms. Fowler’s assets, using convicted killer to intimidate Ms. Fowler

As we correctly stated, attorney Lin O’Dell is crossing state lines, from Washington to Idaho, using her convicted killer Mark Plivilech to steal and threaten vulnerable clients.

As the alleged “trustee” Lin O’Dell is supposed to be paying Paula Fowler’s bills, housing, car, and food.

For nearly four months in early 2014, Lin O’Dell refused to provide basic shelter for Ms. Fowler ( as the Shank Trust mandates) leaving Ms. Fowler living in a truck at a truck stop.

Imagine your parents leave you a $5,000,000.00 trust, and the alleged trustee refuses to provide you shelter, leaving you homeless, because several outstanding members of the Washington State Bar forged documents and stole millions, what would you do?

File WSBA complaints for fraud and theft? And that’s exactly what Paula Fowler did, and who received that WSBA complaints was WSBA lead counsel Linda Eide. Ms. Eide’s criminal conduct as exposed by attorney Robert Grunstein was exposed in his book ” Vendetta” and will be discussed in detail in another investigative blog coming soon.

Linda Eide’s criminal conduct against the Gold Bar Reporter will be discussed at length in my book ” No sunshine where the cockroaches roam” in my last chapter ( still being written) ” Reforming the Washington State Bar, taking politics out of the practice of law.”

Judge Patrick Monasmith, a man with integrity, orders court officer Joseph Valente to investigate attorney Lin O’Dell

Court mandated investigator Joseph Valente findings against attorney Lin O’Dell

Just to make sure our readers understand fully what’s going on here, see above. Lin O’Dell tells the Court that Paula Fowler needs a guardian because she has an abusive ex-husband who controls her, but then writes a check to attorney Clark Peterson ( now Judge Clark Peterson, Idaho), to defend Ms. Fowler’s soon to be ex-husband in a criminal felony vulnerable adult charge filed in Idaho for abusing Paula Fowler’s ( nee Shank) mother Norma Shank.

But hold onto your seats because it’s much better – if you can believe it !

Not only did attorney Lin O’Dell write a check to Ms. Fowler’s soon to be ex-husband’s private attorney to defend against criminal felony charges for elder abuse of Ms. Fowler’s mother ( the one who started the 5 Million dollar trust for Paula Fowler also known as Shank Trust ), but Lin O’Dell uses Norma Shank’s trust account to write a $5000.00 check to attorney Clark Peterson, Idaho, and $250.00 to attorney Dick Sayre ( for a consultation, pretty harmless on Sayre’s and Peterson’s part more likely than not) to defend the man who was just charged with felony elderly abuse.

We’re not sure about our readers, but we’re just not sure how paying an Idaho attorney to defend against elder abuse of Paula Fowler’s mother, Norma Shank, benefited the Norma Shank Trust. But if our readers have any idea, please email those to us at GoldBarReporter@Comcast.net

Imagine someone steals from you and then having the court order you to pay for the defendant’s criminal defense counsel. With no surprise this is exactly what attorney Lin O’Dell did in this matter.

Lin O’Dell, a criminal with a license to steal, a stellar example in favor of reforming the WSBA

The fact that Lin O’Dell and killer Mark Plivilech were using a USPS Post Office Box in Duvall Washington to accept financial pay offs from Snohomish County’s bum who killed 43 Oso residents, John E. Pennington, and his convicted bank frauding wife Crystal Hill ( nee Berg, bank fraud 2005), is coming to a US Federal Court soon.

Thank you retired USPS Postmaster, you’re a fine lady

Accounting records recently discovered, due to Commissioner Monica Wasson Ruling: “To submit 3-3inch binder of records Attorney/Inspector Joseph Valente used for preparing his report.”. EXHIBIT LIST from Steven Court SUB # 127 submitted into the COA No. 329798.

Exhibits 1 -9 prove Lin O’Dell Violations of: 409.1: The guardian shall assure competent management of the property and income of the estate. In the discharge of this duty, the guardian shall exercise the highest level of fiduciary responsibility, intelligence, prudence, and diligence and avoid any self iinterest. The management of the estate shall be documented by means of accurate and complete records of all transaction

EXHIBIT 1: 3/25/2016 E-Mail from Patty Chester/Stevens County Clerk stating: Lin O’Dell putting my accounting records in a box, nothing identified, nothing labeled.

EXHIBIT 2 showing Lin O’Dell CASH ATM WITHDRAWALS/No receipts. I attached bank statement proving No documentation of what bank account Lin O’Dell took the $12,431.17 CASH ATM WITHDRAWALS (1-year) 12,541.17 CASH disbursement never reported on yearly accounting. No receipts.
EXHIBIT 2: Income/Expenses Yearly CASH $12,431.17
8/31/2012   Saving-ATM   ATM WITHDRAWAL $8,649.37
11/14/2012 Saving-ATM   ATM WITHDRAWAL     2,60422
12/31/2012 Saving-ATM   ATM WITHDRAWAL     1,177.58

EXHIBIT 3: 3/5/2012 Lin O’Dell Bank account BALANCE $10,487.69 (Misrepresented FACTS): 3/5/2012 USB7452 CPG bank account statement shows BALANCE $18,465.48. Where is the difference of $7,977.70 between the Balance Lin O’Dell claiming and the actual USB7452 bank statements confirm

Bank Statements from USB9452 guardianship account showing CUSTOMER WITHDRAWALS and check for CASH. No receipts.
EXHIBIT 4: 2/6/2012 Customer Withdrawal 1,000.00
2/21/2012 ck # 2405 CASH 500.00 written & endorsed by Lin O’Dell
9/13/2012 Customer Withdrawal 500.00

Guardianship Profit & Loss March through October 2013 showing Funds disbursed for a BOND—Lin O’Dell although Bond ORDERED by Judge Monasmith–Attorney Joseph Valente report confirms No-Bond was ever gotten.
EXHIBIT 5: 2013 Accounting shows payment for: BOND Premium $200.00 Yet No Bond, No Receipt

Letter written by Lin O’Dell stating where she spent $12,625.00 of my guardianship funds for Shauna, Jimmy and herself. Yet there is only one check for the year written to Jimmy & Shauna Moving/More was for $1,303.56 . What happened to the remaining $11,321.44 ? No receipts, never reported on yearly guardianship accounting.
EXHIBIT 6: 1/11/2011 Letter I received from Lin O’Dell giving me details of my guardian funds being spent $12,625.00—No receipts, just Lin O’Dell WORD.

EXHIBIT 7: 12/9/2013 Lin O’Dell yearly accounting. Fees Guardian or Attorney requested. Guardian Fees $0 Attorney Fees $0. Idaho trust accounting confirms Lin O’Dell transferred Guardian Fees $3,623.75 to her own bank account. Never disclosing disbursements to the Washington Courts. Violating RPC 3.3 (1) making a false statement to of fact or law to a tribunal

EXHIBIT 8: 3/18/2008 How can a Guardian keep accurate accounting when Lin O’Dell admits to depositing my yearly guardianship income into her own Personal Bank Account and be approved by the courts ? Violation of SOP 409.9 Prohibits commingling of the funds of an incapacitated person with funds

EXHIBIT 9: 8/13/2008 Lin O’Dell used my guardianship funds $5,000 for “Substitution of Counsel and Withdrawal of Public Defender/ Clark Peterson Private Counsel” for Idaho criminal case #CR-2008-0001115 to defend my Ex-husband Mark Fowler. Charges were brought by State of Idaho against Mark Fowler for “Defendant committed crimes of Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult, Mark Fowler exploit Norma Shank (my mother) checking or funds that exceeds $1,000.” The $5,000 paid to Attorney/Judge Clark Peterson had zero to do with my guardianship and paid without Court Approval. Yet Courts approved the yearly accounting. UNBELIEVABLE

EXHIBIT 10: 2/27/2007 GAL Attorney Jessica Bodey report stated: Listed my monthly income of $1,000 a month from my brother Rex Shank for a 250K Loan he borrowed from my mother to purchase GW Hunters Restaurant. Fact: Once Lin O’Dell was appointed my Limited Guardian of Estate & Person not one-time was the $1,000 from my brother Rex Shank listed on any of the guardianship accounting. The $1,000 a month income is not listed on any of the USB7452 guardianship bank statements. Did Lin O’Dell deposit this 1,000 payment into her own bank account ? What happened to these $1,000 payments ?

EXHIBIT 11: 1/22/2014 Guardians Response To Investigative Report: Lin O’Dell admits she used my guardian funds to pay to Attorney of her choice in the amount of $51,212.32 WITHOUT the REVIEW or APPROVAL of the COURT. Attorney/Inspector Joseph Valente stated in his report, “Up until the time Judge Monasmith Ordered an investigation Lin O’Dell did whatever she wanted without any regard to authority of the courts.”

Attempted rape and sexual assault covered up by Snohomish County Washington, misuse of public monies

December 21, 2017 by goldbarreporter 1 Comment

Over the last ten years, the Gold Bar Reporter has been sounding the alarms about an unqualified political appointee, Snohomish County’s Dept. of Emergency Management Director John E. Pennington. Today, we have credible sources confirming beyond any shadow of a doubt that John E. Pennington has one more skill to add to his resume, attempted rape of Snohomish County’s public records officer.

Although John Pennington was terminated after public records reveal that he is the man responsible for the attempted rape of Snohomish County’s Dept of Emergency Management’s public records officer ( Snohomish County misused taxpayer monies in exchange for her silence about John E. Pennington’s attempted rape which occurred inside Dept of Emergency Management).

Although John E. Pennington was fired from Snohomish County in January 2016, he is the man responsible for the rape of a 5 year old girl from Cowlitz County ( according to Cowlitz County lead detective Maurice Saxon who was forced into early retirement for talking with the Gold Bar Reporter about John Pennington’s rape of a 5 year old girl), guilty of violently assaulting a 3rd trimester pregnant Duvall Washington City Council member, a man diagnosed by King County Washington Dr. Hedrick’s as a “sociopath with no empathy for human life”, and who enjoys taking showers with a six year old little girl.

Source Pennington v Pennington, Washington Court of Appeals Division One.

As promised to my readers, once new information becomes available regarding John E. Pennington or his convicted bank frauding wife, Crystal Hill Pennington, the Gold Bar Reporter will post updates.

In 2010, Snohomish County’s political appointee to Dept of Emergency Management John E. Pennington asked county public records officer to come to his office. For the protection of the victim, we will only name her DR. Once DR sat down for a one on one meeting John E. Pennington, he jumped up from his seat, closed and locked the door behind DR. This was 2010.

In 2010, DR was making approx. $40,000 per year with simple administrative skills. According to a source close to DR, John E. Pennington did not sit down not behind his desk but in a chair adjacent to DR. Immediately Pennington placed his hand on DR’s leg started massaging her leg stating” we are soul mates!” DR jumped up from her seat and tried to leave Snohomish County Dept of Emergency Management office but the door was locked.

This allowed John E. Pennington to corner DR, placing his arms firmly on each of side DR’s body, locking her inside a corner of Pennington’s county office. DR started shouting for help, forcing Pennington to release DR, sadly, not before Pennington forcibly massaged her breasts, licking her neck, and caressed the inside of legs around her vagina. DR’s shouts for help inside Snohomish County Dept. of Emergency are believed to be the reason why Pennington’s rape amounted to attempted rape of DR.

Misuse of taxpayer monies to pay off attempted rape victim, Welcome to Snohomish County Washington

So what Snohomish County did not is even more staggering. In 2010, DR’s best friend, who was also a county worker, called then Executive Aaron Reardon informing of how John E. Pennington tried to rape her best friend DR. Reardon’s answer to John E. Pennington’s attempted rape of DR was to pay her off.

In 2009 to 2010, DR went from her $40,000 year administrative position to a $55,000 year pay raise with a retro-active back pay. DR took the pay off, and Aaron Reardon failed to report the rape of DR and misappropriated public monies to hide John E. Pennington’s attempted rape of a county worker.

DR used taxpayer funds to obtain a breast implant, and manipulated a higher position inside the City of Marysville as Director of Emergency Management making $135,000.

DR refused comment as has John E. Pennington for this article. John Pennington took it a little further and tried to obtain a restraining order against the Gold Bar Reporter’s new reports that has been DENIED three times as a “prior restraint on free speech.”

However, our readers should be happy to know that the “lunatic on the loose” although fired from FEMA and Snohomish County is now teaching classes to our young children at Pierce College in Tacoma Washington.

Sexual predicators thrive on access to victims. With no surprise, John E. Pennington is also a man who loves church.

From FEMA to Snohomish County, to Pierce County Washington, “Lunatic on the loose”

February 26, 2017 by goldbarreporter 2 Comments (Edit)

On February 22, 2017, Pierce College public official and man responsible for killing of 43 people in the Oso mudslides, John E. Pennington, verbally assaulted a Pierce County Sheriff’s Officer caught on camera. He also verbally threatened the Gold Bar Reporter’s process server who served John Pennington with more complaints and a subpoena.

Unfortunately, John Pennington’s criminal conduct was caught on camera and witnessed by several onlookers at the Piece County Courthouse, including three Sherriff’s Officers.

The Gold Bar Reporters recently learned that John Pennington has been treated for major mental health problems, and was kicked out of Vanderbilt College as a result.

Imagine a man with mental health problems sat as a Director of Emergency Management of Snohomish County. A major breach to health and welfare to the taxpayers of Washington State.

John Pennington is being sued for his latest racketeering crimes and posting defamatory and untrue statements on a website he and his bank frauding wife Crystal Hill Pennington run titled ” The Sky Valley Chronicle.” Both were served with new complaints on Thursday, and by John Pennington’s threats and tactics to intimidate court officers were witnessed on camera.

” Looney Tunes, What’s up Doc? ”

“Lunatic on the loose” John E Pennington has been trying for over eight years to obtain a prior restraint on free speech against the Gold Bar Reporter’s reports on his and our former bank frauding Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, bank fraud Snohomish County, Washington 2005). Why, to hide their criminal racketeering conduct the Gold Bar Reporter have been exposing for over the last ten years, including a foe online website the Penningtons set up to cyber-stalk their opponents.

Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers was deposed in November 2016, and he too admitted he was a anonymous cyber-stalker on the Penningtons’ website while he was a Gold Bar public official. Beavers and the City are being sued for gross civil rights violations.

On Thursday February 22, 2017, the lunatics tried for the tenth time to obtain a restraining order against the Gold Bar Reporter, but this time forum shopping in Pierce County. A county where Crystal Hill Pennington doesn’t live and a county where John Pennington managed to fraud state taxpayers ( and our children) with false academic credentials obtaining a job teaching our youngsters.

Imagine you sign up for Homeland Security degree at Pierce College and your classes are being taught by a man who has admitted to having and using false academic credentials

FALSE ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS, JOHN E. PENNINGTON’S FRAUD

UPON THE TAXPAYERS

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04771t.pdf ( GAO)

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/local-fema-chief-had-little-disaster-experience/ ( Seattle Times report on John Pennington’s false credentials)

Please see the attached ABOVE PDF Government Accountability Report ( or link provided above) on public official John E Pennington’s online diploma mill school of choice. I also include Seattle Times article in support of John Pennington’s false academic credential.

As both reports unmistakably confirms the IRS found that California Coastal sold degrees at flat rates. As such, Mark Lindquist, please consider this letter and supporting evidence in support on my criminal complaint against John E. Pennington as he produced his fraudulent online degree to obtain a benefit in violation of

RCW 9A.60.070

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

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

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

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

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

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

(b) With the intent to:

(i) Obtain employment;

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

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

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

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

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

(a) “False academic credential” means a document that provides evidence or demonstrates completion of an academic or professional course of instruction beyond the secondary level that results in the attainment of an academic certificate, degree, or rank, and that is not issued by a person or entity that: (i) Is an entity accredited by an agency recognized as such by rule of the student achievement council or has the international equivalents of such accreditation; or (ii) is an entity authorized as a degree-granting institution by the student achievement council; or (iii) is an entity exempt from the requirements of authorization as a degree-granting institution by the student achievement council; or (iv) is an entity that has been granted a waiver by the student achievement council from the requirements of authorization by the council. Such documents include, but are not limited to, academic certificates, degrees, coursework, degree credits, transcripts, or certification of completion of a degree.

(b) “Grant” means award, bestow, confer, convey, sell, or give.

(d) “Operate” includes but is not limited to the following:

(i) Offering courses in person, by correspondence, or by electronic media at or to any Washington location for degree credit;

(ii) Granting or offering to grant degrees in Washington;

(iii) Maintaining or advertising a Washington location, mailing address, computer server, or telephone number, for any purpose, other than for contact with the institution’s former students for any legitimate purpose related to the students having attended the institution.

(4) Issuing a false academic credential is a class C felony.

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

As for Pierce College, I’d like some comment from the Dean of Students and/or Board of Trustees Chair Ms. Roseblatt on why Pierce College approved employment of John E. Pennington with such fraudulent degrees.

As a taxpayer, I have standing to bring not only a criminal complaint for John Pennington false filings, but also a civil charge for state ethics violations.

Our children deserve better from us.

VERBALLY ASSAULTING COURT OFFICERS

John E. Pennington has yet one more credential to add his resume, threatening public and court officers.

With each new credential, the Gold Bar Reporter will update his resume.

Criminal charges have been filed against John E Pennington with his court appearance this month.

Pierce College, Tacoma, instructor, caught forging court record

November 2, 2016 by goldbarreporter 2 Comments (Edit)

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

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

RCW 9A.60.070

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

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

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

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

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

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

(b) With the intent to:

(i) Obtain employment;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After John E. Pennington forged the document:

After John E.Pennington forged the document: