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

        

 Ann Marie Soto                                          Shannon Ragonesi 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Sean Reay did  it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://goldbarreporter.org/2018/09/ 

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does this fit the definition of racketeering crimes?

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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RCW 40.16.010, injury to public records states: 

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

 

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Snohomish County “fixing” cases 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stealing from the Marysville’s taxpayers.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snohomish County Judge Marybeth Dingledy pleads guilty to drunk driving, but does that mean she is not a good judge?

It’s good to be back in the Pacific Northwest, a place I call home for many reasons. Hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, etc.  But I do love Europe, and find myself vacationing often.

For my readers, thanks for following and reading even after weeks of rest.

The main reason why I love Europe is because I view Europeans as ” free thinkers, people who question government officials, respect our environment, love coffee and tea, read, write and speak their mind, understand the principles of Darwin, people with integrity, and persons with backbone to stand up for what they believe in.”

Besides these facts, I am the great-granddaughter of immigrants from Germany. This truly makes me an American as most of us have ancestors from different parts of the World. Diversity and the First Amendment ( free speech, free press, free from religion) is what makes America strong.  Take away the First Amendment, and we’re no better than China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia.

Some call me a “tree hugger”, a leftist liberal,  an Atheist, a label I claim and proudly carry along with an ACLU card, while others like Gold Bar’s former Mayor Joe Beavers call me  (yesterday) in Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Dingledy’s Court Room yesterday ‘an asshole” – and often refers to me as “a Boston Jew Bitch.”

The Jewish part, yes, it does appear that my ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Germany.  But I’m not from Boston ( although I love Boston as that’s where America’s history started and remains) and well he’s entitled to his opinion as it relates to calling me a bitch.

Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers bizarre, erratic, and unethical conduct was captured quite nicely on camera in Judge Marybeth Dingledy’s courtroom yesterday. Sadly for open government, Judge Dingledy was not yet seated to see Joe Beavers’s court performance.

   

Joe Beavers is the reason why Gold Bar Washington is often referred to by Seattites as “Hickville.”  A scarlet letter we educated people in Gold Bar Washington are trying to desperately to change.  But the likes of people like Joe Beavers aren’t helping Gold Bar residents with this type of public display ( above) likening his conduct to Rocky & Bullwinkle or Randle McMurphy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randle_McMurphy )

Frankly speaking, I feel very sorry for Joe Beavers’s wife Ann. She must be ashamed . . . perhaps after this article she will finally get the message that intervention is not a scarlet letter when people need mental health treatment, or is Beavers simply acting this way in an attempt to escape liability.  Only a jury can determine this issue.

 

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In August 2017, Gold Bar’s Mayor Lee Hodo asked to have a one on one conversation with my partner and myself.  Topic for conversation, how to resolve the public records issues with the City.

Now, anyone who has been truly following this story with any objective viewpoint, should acknowledge one fact, any agency that hides public records at its law firm ( Kenyon Disend, PLLC) for over nine years is hiding something.

See Deposition of Joe Beavers.

During our August 6, 2017, meeting with Gold Bar’s Mayor Lee Hodo, he noted that the law firm of Keating, Bucklin and McCormack had submitted a $30,000 legal bill from May to July 2017.  Since litigation has been minor recently, we were baffled why such an outrageous legal bill, so I requested access to the City of Gold Bar’s legal bill pertaining to the same.

What I got back from convicted criminal and Gold Bar’s fine choice of a public records officer Bonnie Jones was ” no such record exist.”  Just more of the same from Gold Bar’s criminals in charge – hiding public records. (Bonnie Jones’s criminal history will be a topic for a whole another article soon.)

In less than two weeks of hearing from Mayor Lee Hodo that Shannon Ragonesi and her firm, Keating McCormack and Bucklin, submitted a legal bill to the City of Gold Bar for $30,000.00, we soon discovered just how big this little racketeering group is.

This story is simply an extension on how King County is providing more evidence of RICO.  Judge Beth Andrus’s  exparte actions in three separate public records case helped us expose a major corruption scandal, and a major member is King County Superior Court Judge Beth Andrus.

 

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As a journalist here in Washington State, I file public records request.  As real journalists, like Amy Goodwin, Louise Mensch, Claude Taylor, myself, etc. experience all too often from agency employees is retaliation or collusion to cover up criminal conduct of agencies employees.

In late August 2017, while litigating in three separate public records cases in King County, Judge Andrus without notice to me ( violating basic Due Process principles every person has to be notified of adverse actions) consolidated three public records cases I have for access to public records.  She did this without notice and without a motion from any party.

So the first question I have for Judge Andrus is: Did you have ESP to know I was litigating three public records cases at the same time inside King County, Block v Gold Bar, Block v Duvall, and Block v Snohomish County?  Or did someone make exparte contact with you seeking a little judicial corruption otherwise known as Washington State Bar favors?

I’m not much for extraterrestrial beings, so one can assume that since Judge Andrus did not have a Motion to Consolidate in front her, someone asked her to make a exparte ruling consolidating three public records cases involving records I seek from three different agencies. Noting for my readers that every agency in Washington State has its own burden under Public Records Act, unless of course the Plaintiff is Anne Block.

In violation of every constitutional law principle, King County Superior Court Judge Andrus held that Gold Bar’s duty to comply with RCW 42.56 ( the Public Records Act) is somehow contingent on the City of Duvall;  Snohomish County’s duty to comply with RCW 42.56 is somehow contingent on Gold Bar’s duty to comply with RCW 42.56; and City of Duvall’s duty to comply with RCW 42.56 is somehow contingent on City of Gold Bar’s duty to comply with RCW 42.56.

 

Why did Judge Beth Andrus assert  herself into three public records cases unilaterally and without notice to me is simple, because over the last four years since I filed two racketeering suits against Gold Bar public officials, several members inside the  Washington State Bar Association, City of Duvall and one corrupt Duvall Cop named Lori Batiot ( who was recently fired for lying in my case and added to the dirty cop list, otherwise known as the Brady List), King County Sheriff’s Officer Cary Cobltantz ( who placed an illegally tracker on my US Passport claiming I was wanted back in the US for a felony warrant when none existed causing me to be raped at London Heathrow Airport in May 2015 and then illegally seized at Seattle Tacoma International Airport in violation of basic constitutional law principles every police officer is presumed to know), Gold Bar’s former Mayors Crystal Hill Pennington ( convicted of bank fraud 2005, 2000)  and Joe Beavers ( WA State Auditor cited City of Gold Bar while he was Mayor for misappropriation of over $1.5 million dollars), and the man responsible for the rape of a 5 year old child from Cowlitz County Washington, John E. Pennington  ( now working for Pierce College), to stop me from gaining access to public records documenting that each are guilty of racketeering and should be in a federal prison.

Judge Andrus asserting herself into three public records cases which she was not the assigned Judge ( as all cases are assigned to a specific Judge in King County) only provides more evidence of far this little racketeering scandal extends.

A source from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office said ” everyone knew that Beavers misappropriated millions from Gold Bar’s water funds, and couldn’t pay the bill. Shannon called the Washington State Bar, who then called in a favor from Judge Andrus to consolidate the cases calling all three cases Block v Snohomish County, this way Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe could misappropriated the $30,000.00 to pay Ragonesi’s law firm. You’re right, its RICO! ”

The Honorable Justice Alex Kozinski one time said something like I don’t think its a good idea to say bad things about judges ( paraphrased). I respect Justice Kozinski more than he will ever know, especially after his scathing opinion in the Joshua Frost Case,  but unless he has experienced the wrath of public agencies criminals in charge here in Washington State, he should reconsider exceptions to making statements about judges.

The Washington State Bar Association is a proven criminal enterprise and must be exposed as such before they make criminals out of non-criminals violating Sherman Anti-Trust to fill the pockets of their hearing officers like Spokane County attorney and Washington State Bar Hearing Officer Lin O’ Dell and Washington State Bar President Robyn Haynes.

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For those of you who missed my story dated June 24, 2017, the WA State Bar President was charged with theft

President of Washington State Bar Association resigns hours before criminal warrant issued

“When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]”  Anne Bishop

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On June 23, 2017, Washington State Bar Association’s (WSBA) President Robin Lynn Haynes was notified of pending criminal charges for theft.

Some of you may not have known this since the  Seattle Times (Washington’s most circulated newspaper) assisted the WSBA by not reporting.

In 2015, the Gold Bar Reporter contacted Seattle Times Editor Mike Carter, after having ample evidence that WSBA Hearing Officer Lin O’ Dell was using a convicted killer, Mark Plivilech, to steal from O’Dell’s elderly clients, but instead of reporting on WSBA O’Dell theft and fraud, Seattle Times Editor Mike Carter wrote ” Who cares.”

With no surprise, the biggest story involving WSBA corruption, President of WSBA resigns after her arrest warrant is issued, and the Seattle Times does what any embedded ( reporters who are spoon fed stories to look the other way on behalf of advertisers) journalist would do, not report the real news.

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  unlawfully diverted money to Mark Plivilech, a convicted killer, and Lin O’Dell’s fraudulent companies. Companies the duo started so that Lin O’ Dell could transfer client’s money from the elderly person’s trust account to pay Mark Plivilech and mafia friends to make home repairs on elderly clients homes ( many who are over 80 and bed ridden).

In December 2013, Judge Monasmith Steven County Washington found Lin O’Dell guilty of trust embezzlement. The WSBA has yet to take any disciplinary action against O’Dell ( June 24, 2017).

From sources, the WSBA received twelve complaints against Lin O’Dell over the last twenty years for stealing and the WSBA broomed every single one.  An insider from the WSBA said ” it’s common knowledge that lead counsel Linda Eide worked with Lin O’Dell inside the guardian scam” hence why so many complaints were dismissed.

Since 1993, attorney Lin O’Dell has been stealing from Washingtonians, almost all elderly and vulnerable adults. In one case from Pierce County, the Simpson case, the daughter who was caring for her father ended up dead, their house burnt down and a Caboose was stolen by Lin O’ Dell.

Over the last four years, we found at least ten clients Lin O’Dell has been stealing from and committing SSA fraud ( diverting clients SSA funds into her own bank account).  One fact is clear, Lin O’Dell and Mark Plivilech didn’t steal by themselves, they had a lot of help, including one Spokane County Commissioner, one Spokane County Superior Court Judge, one Stevens County Superior Court Judge, and one Dr Zimmerman ( who fled to Denton Texas once we started reporting on Lin O’Dell’s fraud).

https://goldbarreporter.org/tag/attorney-lin-odell/

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In late August 2017, I finally understood why attorney Shannon Ragonesi and her Law Firm of Keating, Bucklin and McCormack had submitted a $30,000 legal bill from May to July 2017.

Attorney Shannon Ragonesi ( who with no surprise is a member of the Washington State Bar Association Rules Committee) was writing and getting ready to file a “Motion to Stay Public Records Proceedings” against me ( a small online news source reporting on corruption here in Washington State).  Although Ms. Ragonesi is mandated to contact opposing parties prior to filing any motion, she seems to be one of the few lawyers that can do whatever she wants and gets away with violating well settled Washington Court Rules.

What’s even more disturbing is that Shannon Ragonesi represents multiple parties ( City of Gold Bar, Snohomish County, City of Duvall, Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill, former Executive Officers Aaron Reardon, Jon Rudicil in four different lawsuits), in gross violation of Washington State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting conflict of interests without having a waiver in place.

How we know Gold Bar has no waiver of a conflict of interest in place? We sent a public records request and the City said ” no  records exist.”

But as members of the Washington State Bar Association’s little racketeering club, Shannon Ragonesi gets a free pass when violating well settled rules. In my opinion, gross felonious conduct in violation of Sherman Anti-Trust which amounts to racketeering.

What’s even more concerning about Shannon Ragonesi’s unethical conduct and crimes she’s committed against City of Gold Bar and City of Duvall is this, she resigned instead of being disbarred in New York State.  And if that’s not bad enough, Ms. Ragonesi was also ordered by US Federal Court Judge Robart to take remedial classes on civility.

See http://abovethelaw.com/2013/04/city-gets-benchslap-with-a-rolled-up-newspaper-over-dead-dog/

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After attorney Shannon Ragonesi basically spent $30,000.00 of Gold Bar taxpayers money writing frivolous motions with no judicial precedent to support it, her motion was set for a hearing in Judge Marybeth Dingledy’s courtroom.

On September 22, 2017, one day after Judge Marybeth Dingledy plead guilty to drunk driving, she also made a proper ruling against the City of Gold Bar and in favor of open government, DENYING CITY OF GOLD BAR’S MOTION TO STAY  my public records cases filed in Snohomish County Superior Court, pending the outcome of my federal racketeering suit, now pending in the 9th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals.

Over the last two years, I have used the Public Records Act to expose the following facts:

Terminated Snohomish County Director of Emergency Management John E Pennington is the man responsible for the rape of a 5 year girl in Cowlitz County.

Crystal Hill Pennington  plead guilty to bank fraud in Snohomish County, 2005; and served time in North Carolina in 2000 for the same, using aliases of Crystal Berg and Chris Hill.

WA State Bar Hearing Officer Lin O’Dell and her convicted killer husband accepted financial bribes from John E. Pennington and Crystal Hill Pennington using a United States Post Office Box, # 70, in Duvall, to fix a case against me.

WA State Bar Hearing Officer Lin O’Dell was found guilty of trust embezzlement and the Guardian Board is now in the process of permanently revoking her Guardianship license.

Joe Beavers committed fraud on my public records case by only lodging one set of records ( when Judge Okrent ordered him to lodge two sets), because one set contained illegally retrieved information on me and my family ( violating HIPPA) while the other set of records not lodged would have won a monetary judgment against the City of Gold Bar for withholding.

Former Snohomish County Executive employee John Pennington was found liable for forgery  ( against the Gold Bar Reporter) in King County in March 2017 in his attempt to shut down our news reports on his criminal racketeering conduct. John Pennington forged court records attempting to get a restraining order against me, and was caught on camera.

… and the list of criminal racketeering offenses exposed over the last two years of litigation using the Public Records Act goes on… one thing is clear, we have motions to vacate in all three federal RICO cases for fraud.

As a Washingtonian, with RCW 42.56 in place, I am proud to call Washington State my home.

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Why Shannon Ragonesi filed such a frvilious motion to stay proceeding was simply to stop me from exercising my rights to access public records to support my RICO suits, now pending in the 9th Circuit. With each public records release, I am getting closer to exposing the Washington State Bar Association members racketeering crimes committed against  taxpayers as “risk management” in Washington State.

This now brings me this to the subject of this article, which was sadly brought to my attention by the Seattle Times this morning.  Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Marybeth Dingledy plead guilty to drunk driving.

Judge Dingledy’s drunk driving wasn’t my biggest concern, it was the fact that she felt a need to apologize to the officer who arrested her.  See Seattle Times article below.

See http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/snohomish-county-judge-pleads-guilty-to-dui-after-crashing-car/

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On August 26, 2017, Judge Marybeth Dingledy was driving with a Blood Alochol ( BaC) level at least .115 to .122. Now for my readers who say Wow, lets take this in a little context what a level of .115 to .122 means.

A person’s BaC is measured by weight.  Now for someone like me, I can have 4 drinks within a two  hour period before registering a BaC over the legal limit. However, Judge Marybeth Dingledy, this level of a BaC probably only means she cant have no more than 3 drinks during the same time period.

As I discovered by personally seeing her, Judge Dingledy is petite in appearance.

In addition, let’s put out another fact. Judge Dingledy didn’t hurt anyone. No one was killed nor injured as a result of her drunk driving.  She also did the right thing and plead guilty to a crime she was guilty of, thus saving the taxpayers from having to conduct a trial.

Drunk driving conviction, yes, bad person or bad judge, may be not.

Marybeth Dingledy, 48, has served as a Snohomish County Superior Court judge since 2012.  Judge Dingledy’s appointment to Snohomish County Superior Court came at the bequest of former Executive Aaron Reardon making a phone call to then Governor Christine Gregoire.  After Dingledy met with the Governor, she received an appointment to Snohomish County Superior Court.

Judge Dingledy claims to have been wine tasting with a friend in Woodinville just before crashing her car. It was Judge Dingledy who called 911 reporting the accident, and remaining at the scene. Once the officer arrived, she was placed under arrest for investigation of drunken driving.

Now here’s what seems a little more concerning “She has apologized to the officer and to the court, and most importantly to her community. Judge Dingledy has great respect for the law and she is terribly sorry about this incident,” her attorney Anna Goykhman said.

Why did the Judge Dingledy feel a need to apologize to the officer is of the outmost concern as I believe that most officers are honest, hard working citizens just like me.  Did she do something that she should be ashamed of? Was she belligerent to the police officer for arresting her? Did she try to misuse her political influence to avoid being arrested?

I don’t have the answers to these questions yet, but I did request copies of public records relating to this issue and will update this article with copies soon.

What is clear is that King County Prosecutor Mark Larsen ( who heads the criminal division) isn’t giving Judge Dingledy a free pass. King County is recommending that Dingledy spend a day in jail and pay a $350 fine plus court costs.

The proposed sentence would suspend roughly a year behind bars, and more than $4,600 in fines that could be imposed if she reoffends. Since she has no prior convictions this seems just and appropriate.

“It was a guilty plea as charged,” said Dan Donahoe, a spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s Office. “It looks like it is a pretty standard recommendation for a DUI,” he added.

Sadly, Judge Dingledy worked for years as a public defender.  She, like my mother, struggled with breast cancer.  She loves the outdoors, like me, but these drunk driving charges did stain her chances to retain her judicial seat, and certainly makes her ineligible to hear drunk driving cases. However, I do not believe her career should end simply because of one bad decision.

Any one who has struggled with cancer and beat it, is tough and deserves respect, and someone I admire.  Drunk driving not so much. But the Judge did the right thing, she plead guilty to a crime she was guilty of and will face the Court for sentencing on November 1, 2017.

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My question for my readers is simple: Does a drunk driving conviction make Judge Dingledy a bad person/judge?

More importantly, the bigger issue for us here in Snohomish County is: should the Judge resign?

I’m not convinced that she should resign, especially without seeing the whole police file relating to this issue.  Regardless of this bad decision, Judge Dingledy is a survivor and will overcome this latest obstacle in life. She did the right thing and plead guilty to a crime she was guilty of.

My hope is that the Judge gets educated that drunk driving kills people before its too late for another family.

There’s never a day that goes by when I don’t wish my wish my parents were still here.

Anyone that beats breast cancer ( or any cancer), has my respect as its a vicious disease. One bad decision should not be a career ender especially when you take responsibility for your wrongful actions.

Sentencing is set for Nov. 1 before King County District Court Judge Arthur Chapman. The Gold Bar Reporter will be in the Courtroom.

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My partner and I purchased a BAC Tracker and carry it in my purse.  In today’s World of Amazon, there’s no reason why people with resources cannot purchase the following BAC alcohol measuring device:

 

 

https://www.bactrack.com/products/bactrack-s80-pro-breathalyzer?mkwid=B7xdDNhr&pcrid=86494246117&pkw=&pmt=&pdv=c&ring-central=google-ppc&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqeiO36m-1gIVk19-Ch2a8w9_EAQYASABEgJzYfD_BwE

 

When in doubt about your level of BAC, please call UBER for a ride: 

 

https://get.uber.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Beavers, Ramsey Ramerman, City of Kirkland, and Association of Washington Cities “team up” to destroy the Public Records Act

Joe Beavers, Gold Bar’s former Mayor  involved in the largest racketeering scandal in Washington State history, now he has company,  Everett city attorney Ramsey Ramerman

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Association of Washington Cities (AWC) never ceases to amaze me with its hatred of Washington State’s Sunshine laws.   But then again, if I committed racketeering offenses against citizens the way AWC and Joe Beavers have, may be I might consider being the “Whitey Bulgar” of Washington too. 

Over the last five years, AWC teamed up with Gold Bar’s demented old now former Mayor, Joe Beavers.  Joe Beavers was recently deposed in a public records case admitted that while Mayor of Gold Bar he edited Washington State Bar complaints against local Gold Bar activist, and he allowed Gold Bar’s former Mayor Crystal Hill Pennington ( who plead guilty to bank fraud in 2005, Snohomish County; and served time in North Carolina in  2000 for bank fraud) to remove public records from Gold Bar that have never been seen again. 

Joe Beavers is being sued for racketeering with a new suit to be filed out of state shortly, so hang on to your seats!  This one will include a few new players.

Last week, several of us open government supporters went to Olympia to attend and testify at legislative hearings and was surprised to learn that the City of Kirkland is now involved in scamming the voters of Washington into believing their City is under a public records attack.   

However, what the poor City of Kirkland didn’t tell the Washington State Legislature was that the demented old man who attacked the City of Kirkland was no other than two long standing anti-open government supporters, Everett attorney Ramsey Ramerman and Gold Bar’s demented old Mayor Joe Beavers. 

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Ramsey Ramerman scamming the voters of Washington as a favor to AWC

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Now, if my readers aren’t confused enough, here’s an interesting fact: Ramsey was the City of Gold Bar’s attorney while Joe Beavers was Mayor of Gold Bar. Since litigation is still pending, with more public records suits to be filed on Tuesday, Conflict ? You bet!

Even though Revised Codes of Washington prohibit a city attorney from practicing law while serving as the City’s attorney, Ramerman ignores those silly little laws because he’s on the payroll of the racketeering gang from AWC frauding the taxpayers of Everett. 

AWC is the largest insurance company for cities all over Washington. Every year they send agency employees to Olympia in its attempts to destroy our sunshine laws. So much so that Gold Bar’s public records document that AWC paid Joe Beavers to attend legislative hearings pumping up the poor old grandfather who is trying to help the City defense but is being attacked by a highly educated newcomer. 

In August 2012, Gold Bar’s Mayor Joe Beavers staged a bank fraud calling it a hacking falsely claiming that the City’s online accounts had been “hacked” and $495,000.00 had been stolen over a twelve month period. Through public records retrieved from the City of Portland, we learned that Beavers so called hacking was an internal job committed by several public officials here in Gold Bar, Joe Beavers, John Pennington ( terminated after he killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides because instead of doing his job, he criminally harassed his opponents on a website he anonymously cuber-stalked people on), and Laura Kelly ( who was fired for stealing in 2012).  

Bank of America paid only $120,000.00 of what Beavers alleged was missing from the City’s so called hacking. The FBI in Portland confirmed that no such hacking had ever taken place. 

We contacted Bank of America and AWC with the following letter: 

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Gold Bar’s Fraud EXPOSED in public records

 

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

Mr. Bryan –

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

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

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

 Simple common sense.

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

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

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

Anne

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

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UPDATE: Ramsey sent the Gold Bar Reporter the  following letter:

 

Ms. Block,

 

 

I appreciated your willingness to redact my personal address from your article, thank you for that.

 

With regards to the substance of the article, I have several issues.  First, the substance of your story is incorrect.  There was no collusive effort between Joe and I (or as far as I know any collusion between Kirkland and Joe).   Moreover, the City of Kirkland was fully informed about my past dealings with Joe.  Hopefully when you review my emails with Joe you will agree. 

 

Second, and more important, you allegation that I am knowingly violating the law by having a private legal practice is legally incorrect and defamatory.  You have not cited to any provision of in the RCWs that  prohibits attorneys from having a private practice while working for a city because none exist.  There is such a statute for deputy prosecutors working for counties, but there is nothing in the RCWs governing cities that contain a similar prohibition.  Moreover, accusing an attorney of violate the law is per se defamatory.  This I would ask again that your correct that statement. 

 

Third, I am not paid by AWC or in any way working for them. 

 

Fourth, although my emails with Joe regarding the Kirkland lawsuit are not public records, I am willing to provide you with copies of them as a showing of good faith.  They are not public records however.  I was not acting as a city of Everett employee when emailing Joe regarding the Kirkland lawsuit so under Nissen they are not the city of Everett’s public records.  And under West v. Thurston County, records of a private attorney that have not been provided to the agency are not the agency’s public records so my emails with Joe are also not Kirkland’s public records (except for any emails I forwarded to the City).  Nevertheless, am willing to provide them to you.  I will take me about a week to make them available.

 

Thank you

 

Ramsey Ramerman

 

 

 

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

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

Another lawyer from Kenyon Disend’s lawyers. 

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

Washington State attorneys Amanda Butler ( left) and Shannon Ragonesi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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