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The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Five protest marchers were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party at a rally organized by communists intended to demonstrate radical, even violent, opposition to the Klan.[1] The "Death to the Klan March" and protest was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers' Party to organize mostly black industrial workers in the area.[2]

The marchers killed were: Sandi Smith,[3] a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller,[4] president of a local textile workers union who ceased medical practice to organize workers; Bill Sampson,[5] a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School; Cesar Cauce,[6] a Cuban immigrant who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan,[7] chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, North Carolina, a clinic that helped children from low-income families.

The two criminal trials against the Klansmen and the Nazi Party members led to all defendants being acquitted by all-white juries. However, a 1985 civil rights suit led by the Christic Institute and their lead attorneys, Lewis Pitts and Daniel Sheehan, together with People's Law Office attorney G. Flint Taylor and Durham, North Carolina, attorney Carolyn MacAllister, resulted in one of the few decisions in a Southern court to date against law enforcement officials accused of collusion with Klan violence.[8] In addition, the survivors won a $350,000 judgment against the city, the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party for violating the civil rights of the demonstrators. However, only one plaintiff, Marty Nathan, received her payment.[9]

Contents
Rally
Role of the police
Aftermath
Legal proceedings
Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
References
Further reading
External links
RallyEdit

Hostility between the groups flared in July 1979, when protesters in China Grove, North Carolina disrupted a screening of The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 cinematographic portrayal of the formation of the Ku Klux Klan. Taunts and inflammatory rhetoric were exchanged during the ensuing months. On November 3, 1979, a rally and march of industrial workers and Communists was planned in Greensboro against the Ku Klux Klan. The "Death to the Klan March" was to begin in a predominantly black housing project called Morningside Homes. Flyers distributed by the Communist Workers' Party for the event "called for radical, even violent opposition to the Klan".[1] One flier stated that the Klan “should be physically beaten and chased out of town. This is the only language they understand. Armed self-defense is the only defense."[1] Communist organizers publicly challenged the Klan to present themselves and "face the wrath of the people".[10] During the rally, a caravan of cars containing Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party drove by the housing projects where the Communists and other anti-Klan activists were congregating. Several marchers began to attack the Klansmen's cars with picket sticks or by throwing rocks. They were also armed with handguns, which they fired during the conflict.[1] According to white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, the first shots were fired from a handgun by an anti-Klan demonstrator.[11] It is not entirely clear who fired the first shot,[1] although witnesses reported Klansman Mark Sherer did so, into the air.[12] Klansmen and Nazis fired with shotguns, rifles and pistols. Cauce, Waller, and Sampson were killed at the scene, Smith was shot in the forehead when she peeked from her hiding place, and eleven others were wounded. One of them, Dr. Michael Nathan, later died from his wounds at a hospital.[11] Most of the confrontation was filmed by four local news camera crews.

Role of the police
Police would normally have been present at such a rally to prevent outbreaks of violence, but few officers were present; the assailants were therefore able to escape with relative ease. A police photographer and a detective did follow the Klan and neo-Nazi caravan to the site, but did not attempt to intervene. Edward Dawson, a Klansman-turned police informant,[2] was in the lead car of the caravan.[11] Two days prior to the march, one of the Klansmen went to the police station and obtained a map of the march and the rally.[10] Bernard Butkovich, an undercover agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), later testified that he was aware that Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party unit he had infiltrated would confront the demonstrators. In an earlier testimony, the neo-Nazis claimed Butkovich encouraged them to carry firearms to the demonstration.[13]

AftermathEdit

Legal proceedings

March of concerned citizens after the Greensboro Massacre. Photo from the Christic Institute archives.
Forty Klansmen and neo-Nazis, and several Communist marchers were involved in the shootings; sixteen Klansmen and Nazis were arrested and the six best cases were brought to trial first.[2] Five Klansmen were charged with murder: David Wayne Matthews,[14] Jerry Paul Smith,[15] Jack Wilson Fowler,[16] Harold Dean Flowers,[17] and Billy Joe Franklin.[18] During the second trial nine men were charged; in addition to David Wayne Matthews, Jerry Paul Smith, Jack Wilson Fowler, six other men, Virgil Lee Griffin,[19] Eddie Dawson,[20] Roland Wayne Wood,[21] Roy Clinton Toney,[22] Coleman Blair Pridmore,[23] and Rayford Milano Caudle[24] were charged with other crimes associated with the event. The two criminal trials resulted in the acquittal of the defendants by all-white juries[25] primarily because no member of the Communist Worker's Party would testify.

However, a 1985 civil lawsuit led by the Christic Institute and their lead attorney Daniel Sheehan won a verdict in federal civil court against five of the assailants and two police officers. The verdict is one of the few decisions in a Southern court to date against law enforcement officials accused of collusion with Klan violence.[26] The survivors won a $350,000 judgment against the city, the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party for violating the civil rights of the demonstrators.[27] However only one plaintiff, Marty Nathan, received his payment.[9]

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In 2005, a private organization, calling itself the "Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission", declared that it would take public testimony and examine the causes and consequences of the massacre. The private group was named in an attempt to resemble or pay homage to official Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, such as that of post-apartheid South Africa.[28] The group included members of the local community, as well as a "commissioner" from the New York based Fellowship of Reconciliation, historically known for their early support of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery bus boycott. The group's efforts were not endorsed by local government officials. The Greensboro City Council, led by then-mayor Keith Holliday, voted 6 to 3 against endorsing the work of the group, with the three votes in favor of it cast by the City Council's African American members.[29] The mayor at the time of the massacre, Jim Melvin, also rejected the private commission.

The "commission" stated that they believed Klan members went to the rally intending to provoke a violent confrontation, and that they fired on demonstrators. In addition, the private commission stated that the violent rhetoric of the Communist Workers Party and the Klan contributed in varying degrees to the violence, and that the protesters had not fully secured the community support of the Morningside Homes residents, many of whom did not approve of the protest because of its potential for violent confrontation.[30]

The group also heard reports that the Greensboro Police Department had infiltrated the Klan and, through a paid informant, knew of the white supremacists’ plans and the strong potential for violence.[31] The informant had formerly been on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's payroll but had maintained contact with his agent supervisor. Consequently, the FBI was also aware of the impending armed confrontation.[32]

The group further reported that some activists in the crowd fired back after they were attacked.[12] Filmmaker Adam Zucker's 2007 documentary, Greensboro: Closer to the Truth, examines the work of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

ReferencesEdit

"The Greensboro Massacre". University of North Carolina - Greensboro. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
Mark Hand (November 18, 2004). "The Greensboro Massacre". Press Action. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Sandra Neely Smith. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: James Michael Waller, Dr. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: William Evan Sampson. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Cesar Cauce. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Michael Ronald Nathan, Dr. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
"Greensboro Massacre." Christic Institute Archives. The Romero Institute, n.d. Web. 23 Aug. 2013
Civil Rights Greensboro: Greensboro Massacre. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
"Chronology of the November 3, 1979 Greensboro Massacre and its Aftermath". The Prism. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
F. Glenn Miller (March 6, 2005). "A White Man Speaks Out". Retrieved 2010-08-25.
"Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report". Retrieved 2011-04-02.
"Agent Tells of '79 Threats by Klan and Nazis". The New York Times. May 12, 1985. section 1, page 26, column 1. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
Civil Rights Greensboro: David Wayne Matthews. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Jerry Paul Smith. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Jack Wilson Fowler. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Harold Dean Flowers. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Billy Joe Franklin. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Virgil Lee Griffin, Sr. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Edward Dawson. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Roland Wayne Wood. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Roy Clinton Toney. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Coleman Blair Pridmore. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Rayford Milano Caudle. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
"Acquittal in Greensboro". New York Times. April 18, 1984. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
"Greensboro Massacre." Christic Institute Archives. The Romero Institute, n.d. Web. 23 Aug. 2013.
Wright, Michael (June 9, 1985). "Civil Convictions In Greensboro". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. "What is Truth and Reconciliation?". Archived from the original on 11 Mar 2012. Retrieved 8 Dec 2012. The most famous is the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission... one of the chief architects of South Africa's truth commission founded the International Center for Transitional Justice in 2001 to advise other nations employing the process.
Hansen, Toran (2007). "Can Truth Commissions be Effective in the United States? An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Greensboro, North Carolina". University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
"Intelligence gathering and planning for the anti-Klan campaign".
"Police Internal Affairs investigation: Making the facts known?".
Bermanzohn, Sally Avery (Winter 2007). "A Massacre Survivor Reflects on the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission". Radical History Review (97): 103. Retrieved 2009-05-31. In sum, the GPD instigated and facilitated the attack with the knowledge of federal agents in the FBI and the ATF
Further readingEdit

Articles
Bacigal, Ronald J., and Margaret Ivey Bacigal. "When Racists and Radicals Meet." Emory Law Journal 38 (Fall 1989).
Bryant, Pat. "Justice Vs. the Movement." Radical America 14, no. 6 (1980).
Civil Rights Greensboro: The articles of Charles Babington
Eastland, Terry. "The Communists and the Klan." Commentary 69, no. 5 (1980).
Institute for Southern Studies. "The Third of November." Southern Exposure 9, no. 3 (1981).
Parenti, Michael, and Carolyn Kazdin. "The Untold Story of the Greensboro Massacre." Monthly Review 33, no. 6 (1981).
Ray O. Light Group. "'Left' Opportunism and the Rise of Reaction: The Lessons of the Greensboro Massacre." Toward Victorious Afro-American National Liberation: A Collection of Pamphlets, Leaflets and Essays Which Dealt In a Timely Way With the Concrete Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation Over the Past Decade and More pp. 249–260. Ray O. Light Publications: Bronx NY, 1982.
Books
Bermanzohn, Sally Avery. Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre. 400 pages, 57 illustrations, index. Vanderbilt University Press; 1st edition (September 1, 2003). ISBN 0-8265-1439-1.
Waller, Signe. Love And Revolution: A Political Memoir: People’s History Of The Greensboro Massacre, Its Setting And Aftermath. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield. 2002. ISBN 0-7425-1365-3.
Wheaton, Elizabeth. Codename GREENKIL: The 1979 Greensboro Killings. 328 pages. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8203-0935-4.
Video
"Lawbreakers: The Greensboro Massacre" The History Channel. Lawbreakers Series. Video Cassette. 46 minutes. Color. 2000. Broadcast October 13, 2004.
Greensboro's Child. Directed by Andy Burton Coon. Independent. 2002. 6:02 minute excerpt on YouTube of eyewitness interviews. Retrieved May 22, 2006.
2:46 video footage of the initial demonstration and drive-by on YouTube – Footage omits final 5:09 minutes of tape. Retrieved May 23, 2006.
YouTube footage of the actual shootings
External linksEdit

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The 500+ page Final Report of the Commission, which examines the context, causes, sequence and consequences of Nov 3, 1979, is available on this site in .pdf form.
Articles and news reports
"88 Seconds in Greensboro": Transcript. PBS Frontline. Reported by James Reston, Jr. Directed by William Cran. Original Airdate: January 24, 1983.
Anniversary news reports
Greensboro Set To Mark Deadly Anniversary: Five Killed, 11 Injured In 'Greensboro Massacre' by Scott Mason and Kamal Wallace. WRAL. Posted: 11:25 am EST November 3, 2003. Retrieved April 5, 2005.
Remembering the 1979 Greensboro Massacre 25 years later – Broadcast by Democracy Now! on November 18, 2004.
Seeking Closure on 'Greensboro Massacre' Reconciliation Panel Convenes in N.C. to Address '79 Attack by Nazi Party, Klan by Darryl Fears, Washington Post. Sunday, March 6, 2005; Page A03. Retrieved April 17, 2005.

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Former Acting HHS Cyber Security Director Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Engaging in Child Pornography Enterprise
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Five Others Previously Sentenced to Substantial Prison Terms for Participation in the Same Tor-Network-Based Child Pornography Website
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. The former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison today for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and related charges in connection with his membership in a Tor-network-based child pornography websit

hrough the website, DeFoggi accessed child pornography, solicited child pornography from other members, and exchanged private messages with other members in which he expressed an interest in the violent rape and murder of children. DeFoggi suggested meeting one member in person to fulfill their mutual fantasies to violently rape and murder children.

DeFoggi was the sixth individual to be convicted as part of an ongoing investigation targeting three Tor-network-based child pornography websites. The websites were run by a single administrator, Aaron McGrath, who was previously convicted in the District of Nebraska of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise in connection with his administration of the websites. On Jan. 31, 2014, McGrath was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon.

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IN TOO DEEP
AN INFORMANT, A MISSING AMERICAN, AND JUAREZ’S HOUSE OF DEATH: INSIDE THE 12-YEAR COLD CASE OF DAVID CASTRO
BY BILL CONROY01.06.15
David Castro is a statistic. He has been disappeared, like some 30,000 other victims of the drug war in Mexico whose fates are unknown—some because they were involved in the narco business, some for far more innocent reasons—as the targets of extortion, or political oppression, or casualties of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In Castro’s case, it’s pretty clear he got in too deep. He was a truck driver and U.S. citizen living in El Paso, Texas, who found himself sideways on a valuable drug load—just one of the thousands of such cargos moved each year from Juarez, Mexico, into the United States. As a result, Castro owed money to the wrong people. It finally caught up with him.


According to those familiar with the case, including federal agents, family, and a U.S. government informant, Castro was abducted in Juarez in late September 2002. He was then apparently murdered, after the money he owed a player working for a cell of a major Juarez drug organization was not delivered in time. His body has not been found.

Between October 2002 and June 2014, at least 827 U.S. citizens were the victims of homicides in Mexico, including drug-related murders and executions, according to a report prepared by the U.S. Department of State.

Castro’s case, however, is not counted among those murders, because the figures reflect only deaths actually reported to the State Department. Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

But even though he has been disappeared, Castro is not forgotten. His estranged wife and his girlfriend, pregnant with Castro’s child when he was kidnapped, are now raising hard questions about the U.S. government’s role in Castro’s cold case and seeking closure to a more than 12-year-old mystery that has wreaked havoc on their lives.


“My son cries and wants to know his dad,” said Yvonne Lozoya, who was living with Castro at the time of his abduction and is raising their now 12-year-old son. “There’s no closure or grave to visit.”

One former federal agent who spoke with The Daily Beast on background said Castro’s case does deserve more attention, but added a harsh assessment: “I doubt anyone will care,” given his alleged involvement in the drug business.

Grace Castro, David’s wife of a dozen years before they separated in 2000, said after she and her husband parted ways, she believes he did get sucked into the drug business and eventually found himself in over his head.

“Once he knew he was in that far,” she said, sobbing, “he stopped talking to us and seeing our [three] kids. … We still don’t have answers on what really happened. What am I supposed to tell our kids? They deserve to know.”

One thing is clear about Castro’s case, though. At the center of his disappearance in Mexico is a U.S. government informant named Guillermo Ramirez Peyro—a former Mexican highway cop who, in 2002 at the time of Castro’s kidnapping in Juarez, was working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while also serving as a key lieutenant in a ruthless cell connected to the Juarez cartel (also known at the time as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization).

In a statement Ramirez Peyro, also known by the nickname Lalo, provided to the Mexican government in 2004 (and during subsequent interviews conducted with him for this report), he reveals his insight into Castro’s fate on the Mexican side of the border—a fate closely linked to Lalo’s role as an ICE informant. Yvonne Lozoya, Castro’s former girlfriend, has filled in the pieces on the U.S. side of the border as she experienced them. Castro’s story, as they each tell it, is a cautionary tale of the harsh realities of the drug war that have plagued the border for more than a decade.

Lozoya says she dropped off Castro, then 36, at a used-car lot in El Paso, Texas, the day he made his fateful trip across the border to Juarez. Castro hooked up at the car lot with Lalo. Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business. Lozoya says the story she got from her boyfriend that day was that he was going to pick up a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Juarez and drive it back across the bridge to El Paso that same day.

Lalo, though, concedes there was more to the trip. He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load. Part of Lalo’s job for the Juarez cartel cell was to coordinate marijuana shipments into the United States, and for that he needed drivers, Lalo said in an interview.

A former federal agent familiar with Lalo’s informant work explained that the drivers he recruited served as “buffers” that would allow law enforcers to make arrests without compromising the informant.

“Once a load is turned over to a driver, we could take the driver down [make an arrest] on the U.S. side of the border,” the agent explained.

It was very early in the recruiting process, though, and what happened next assured Castro would never wind up as a U.S. arrest statisti

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Judge rejects lawsuit from Colombo mobster Scott Fappiano, who claimed NYPD framed him for rape
Fappiano spent more than 21 years for a rape he didn’t commit, and argued that detectives tampered with witnesses to nail him. But a judge called his assertion ‘speculation’ and said there was no evidence of a conspiracy to frame him for the brutal attack of a cop’s wife. His lawyer blasted the ruling and said they will appeal.



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Colombo associate Scott Fappiano claimed police tried to frame him for a rape, but a judge said there was too little evidence to support his argument.

Colombo associate Scott Fappiano claimed police tried to frame him for a rape, but a judge said there was too little evidence to support his argument.
In a huge win for the city, a Brooklyn judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a mobster who was jailed more than 21 years for a rape he did not commit.

Reputed Colombo associate Scott Fappiano claimed he was railroaded by NYPD detectives investigating the brutal rape of a cop's wife in 1983.

With the help of the Innocence Project, Fappiano was exonerated by DNA testing and sprung from prison in 2006.

He received a $2 million settlement from the state in a separate lawsuit alleging wrongfu

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This Map Shows You Just How Many Prisoners Are In Each US State
Four of the states in the US have a higher prison population per 100,000 than any nation abroad.
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Well-known market manipulator Anthony Elgindy is dead

Spent years in prison for activities

By Don Bauder, July 25, 2015

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Anthony Elgindy, 48, who was famous as a short-seller who claimed to be reforming the penny stock market, is dead. He died Thursday, July 23, although the county medical examiner and the sheriff's office have no record of his death, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which was deeply involved in his activities, says it would not know of such a death.

I got several emails telling me of his death. I called his cell number. A brother answered and refused to talk, and hung up after I asked him simply to confirm the death.

Elgindy's son, Adam Elgindy, says on his Facebook page, "My dad, Anthony Elgindy, passed away yesterday. He was under so much stress and panic and he took his own life." Several of Adam Elgindy's friends sent him condolences such as "I'm sorry man, "if you need anything at all hit me up man," and "I'm praying god watches over you."

Condolences on Twitter were also sent to Elgindy's brother.

Elgindy, whose questionable market activities were chronicled in the Union-Tribune, San Diego Reader, New York Times, and on local and national TV, began his career working for Melvin Lloyd Richards, a notorious penny stock tout who was in jail several times, but the last I heard was out.

The final time I talked with Elgindy was in January of last year. He admitted to being a "scumbag" while he worked for Richards (that is, selling worthless stocks to naive people), but then repeated what he claimed all along: that he went into the business of reforming the market by shorting stocks (betting they would drop) because they were overvalued, overhyped, or fraudulent, or all three.

Elgindy had an online newsletter, AnthonyPacific.com, which speculators paid a bundle to receive. In the newsletter, he would highlight the stocks he was shorting. Elgindy became rich, buying a luxurious Encinitas home and owning several vintage automobiles.

Elgindy gave testimony that helped the FBI get the goods on Richards, who went to jail in San Diego, Los Angeles, and New York, and perhaps other places. Elgindy claimed his life was in danger, and he was featured on a Barbara Walters TV show practicing at a gun range. The FBI lauded Elgindy's work on that case.

Then Elgindy really got into trouble. He was getting confidential information from an FBI agent, who would feed him the names and circumstances of companies that were under investigation. In January of 2005, Elgindy was found guilty in a Brooklyn court of racketeering and securities fraud. The FBI agent was convicted of similar crimes.

The federal government said Elgindy used the information to manipulate shares of companies, and to extort some of the firms to provide him shares if he wouldn't release

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One fall evening in 2012, Paula Corbin made the mistake of pulling into a Burger King parking lot to throw away some trash.

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How a Woman Fell in Love With a Convicted Serial Killer
This Is What a Death Row Wedding Looked like in 1996
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Courtesy Rosalie Bolin
What Life's Like Married to a Convicted Killer on Death Row

Aug 21, 2015, 5:20 PM


Rosalie Bolin says Oscar Ray Bolin is the love of her life, despite the fact that he is a convicted killer on death row.

"It's a love that I never experienced before," Rosalie recently told ABC News' "20/20."

Oscar Ray Bolin was convicted of the 1986 murders of three women, 25-year-old Natalie Blanche Holley, 26-

2014: Office of the Inspector General Calls for Review of FBI Agent's Cases

Rosalie found support from FBI special agent-turned-whistle blower Fred Whitehurst. For over 20 years, Whitehurst has been working to expose corruption at the FBI Crime Lab and one agent in particular, Michael Malone.

"Anything that Michael Malone touched, any evidence that he touch is not to be trusted," Whitehurst told "20/20." It can't be. The U.S. government agrees with that."

Malone, the former senior examiner of hair and fibers for the FBI, was in charge of the hair and fiber evidence sent to the FBI in all three of Oscar's murder trials.

He testified that he "was the agent in charge at the FBI lab of this particular case. I was finding a black wool, very dark black wool fiber that showed up in all three cases." He also linked Bolin by hair to the Collins case.

But in 2014, the Office of the Inspector General released a report that said, "Michael Malone repeatedly created scientifically unsupportable lab reports and provided false, misleading or inaccurate testimony at criminal trials."

The report went on to list Oscar's case among 52 others that should be reviewed.

"In my mind, Michael Malone is a serial killer with a lab coat," Rosalie said. "There have been potentially people who have been executed based upon evidence that Michael Malone handled. That's frightening."

Malone declined numerous requests from ABC News for comment on this report.

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FBI used Burning Man to field-test new surveillance equipment
Boing Boing-Sep 8, 2015
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Tucson police wrong to hide cell-tracking data, ACLU suit claims


September 15 2015
PHOENIX — Tucson police purposely hides its use of technology that allows it to track the cellphones of people — innocent or otherwise — the American Civil Liberties Union is claiming.

In new legal filings, Attorney Darrell Hill told the state Court of Appeals the city has admitted the equipment it has purchased allows it to collect personal data of people who are not subject to criminal investigations. Hill said that includes text messages, call history, location data and emails.

Hill said attorneys for the city admit to using that equipment without first getting a warrant “or any other form of judicial review.”

“In addition, as a matter of Tucson Police Department practice, any written reference to the use of the technology in TPD reports is purposely hidden,” the ACLU

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Michael Grimm, disgraced Staten Island congressman, to begin prison sentence for filing false tax returns

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Michael Grimm, 45, will surrender at the McKean Federal Correctional Institute in Pennsylvania to serve an eight-month sentence for filing false tax returns.
Michael Grimm, the ex-Marine, ex-FBI agent and disgraced congressman, Tuesday becomes inmate No. 83479-053 at a federal prison in western Pennsylvania.

Grimm, 45, will surrender at the McKean Federal Correctional Institute to serve an eight-month sentence for filing false tax returns.

He resigned his Staten Island seat after pleading guilty to the charges in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Grimm joins about 1,100 convicted felons at McKean. Actor Wesley Snipes served two years for tax evasion at the same facility.

McKean wasn't Grimm's first choice — his lawyers had requested the Fairton federal lockup in New Jersey because his mother and sister live closer to that jail and it would be easier for them to visit him. But U.S. Bureau of Prisons officials did not grant his wish.



The former U.S. congressman resigned his Staten Island seat after pleading guilty to the charges in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Grimm was originally scheduled to self-surrender 12 days ago, but Federal Judge Pamela Chen granted a reprieve so he could undergo "a surgical procedure ... (that) entails a brief healing period and a second appointment to have sutures

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September 25, 2015
Sacramento FBI office accepting applications for fall teen academy

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Rape victim sues city for $3 million after NYPD cop investigating sex assault allegedly groped her



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The 25-year-old woman who got drunk in Seattle with NYPD cops investigating her sexual assault has sued for $3 million.


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The 25-year-old woman who got drunk in Seattle with NYPD cops investigating her sexual assault has sued for $3 million.
A 25-year-old woman who said she was sexually assaulted has sued the NYPD, charging that two Special Victims Unit cops investigating her case took her out drinking in Seattle before one of them groped her in bed.

The woman, whose name the Daily News is withholding, seeks $3 million from the city for Lt. Adam Lamboy and Detective Lucasz Skorzewski's "gross and repugnant dereliction" of duty, according to her suit filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

The cops' boorish behavior began July 5, 2013, when they interviewed the woman in Seattle about the sexual assault she said occurred on Jan. 6, 2013, at the hands of an acquaintance.

After the interview, Skorzewski and Lamboy encouraged her to join them and a female NYPD officer for lunchtime whiskey drinks on the Seattle waterfront.

[msfreeh]

Shooter in Oregon was white and from Great Britain.

Fox chooses to run photo of black man under headline

Father of Oregon college gunman: ‘Shocked is all I can say’
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994 mass shootings in 1,004 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like

The Oregon school shooting is evidence that the US response to gun violence ‘has become routine’, Barack Obama says. The data compiled by the crowd-sourced site Mass Shooting Tracker reveals an even more shocking human toll: there is a mass shooting – defined as four or more people shot in one incident – nearly every day

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L.A. police shoot a man to death after patrol car window shatters
Fatal shooting


Los Angeles police officers shot a man to death after the rear window of their police cruiser shattered while the officers were at a stoplight in Van Nuys, authorities said Sunday.

The two officers were in their patrol car at the intersection of Sepulveda and Victory boulevards about 11:30 p.m. Saturday when they "suddenly hear and saw their rear window shatter," said LAPD Officer Mike Lopez.



Both officers got out of their car and fired an unknown number of shots at a man, described as in his 30s, who was later pronounced dead at the scene.

The man's identity was not released pending notification of his family, and it's unclear if he was carrying a weapon.

LAPD investigators are working to determine what caused the window in the patrol car to shatter, Lopez said.

Neither of the officers was injured in the shooting.

The LAPD, the district attorney's office and the L.A. police commission's inspector general are investigating the incident, as is customary in officer-involved shootings that result in someone's death.
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This was the fourth fatal LAPD officer-involved shooting in the last two months. On Sept. 27, officers fatally shot a woman armed with a knife following a confrontation near downtown L.A.

LAPD officers have shot 32 people this year, 18 of whom wer

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The Counted
'Forced to fire'
Fatal shootings by police around the US are being ruled suicides. Are officers avoiding scrutiny, or just being used as weapons?

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None of the shots that struck Tommy Smith outside his mother’s house among the stubbled grain fields of Arcola, Illinois, came from his own gun. During his encounter with police on a chilly evening in early January, Smith, a 39-year-old hotel maintenance supervisor, never turned the AR-15 rifle against his own body.

Yet the record books of Douglas County will state that Smith killed himself.

Like in half a dozen other cases around the US so far this year identified by a Guardian investigation, authorities declared the case a “suicide by cop”, a contested and loosely defined classification of death that further complicates US law enforcement’s already fraught response to killings by police.

Tommy Smith
Tommy Smith. Photograph: Facebook
County prosecutor Kevin Nolan explained in an email that he reached the decision in “the clear objective light” after reflecting on all the details of the shooting. He alleged that Smith had “expressed suicidal ideation” in the days prior and then pointed his rifle at police following a standoff. “The officers present had to act in defence,” said Nolan.

But such suicide rulings – two more of which were made this year in South Carolina, along with one each in Indiana, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania – run contrary to guidelines from the National Association of Medical Examiners on how to classify a manner of death. They may also pre-empt criminal inquiries by effectively exonerating officers of wrongdoing and removing their actions from consideration, according to some criminologists.

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Members of Smith’s family who saw the encounter deny that he pointed his gun. While he experienced depression on and off for years since his fiancée died in a car accident, said his mother, Jean Tomlin, he did not want to die. “He hadn’t said nothing like that in the last few days,” she said. Shortly before his death, Smith invited one of the officers who would shoot him to join them in watching his beloved Denver Broncos in the NFL playoffs on television.

Police have shot dead more than 100 people who were described by associates or authorities as suicidal so far in 2015. Many of those who died did display suicidal intentions as they entered lethal encounters with officers. The total was described as alarming by mental health advocates, who said law enforcement agencies should urgently provide better training for police in dealing with people in mental health crises.

Most of these deaths were classed as homicides and investigated as usual for potential wrongdoing by the officers involved. But a growing number of state and county authorities are effectively bypassing this process by placing official responsibility for the shootings on the shoulders of the dead, who are judged to have given officers no choice but to kill them.

Such suicide rulings may further undermine the US government’s much-criticised efforts to record the number of killings by police nationwide. This system centres on voluntary reporting by police departments of the number of “justifiable homicides” by their officers each year. Even departments that participate are under no obligation to include in their totals any deaths that were ruled suicides. Amid calls from lawmakers and activists for a more comprehensive database, the Guardian is recording extensive details of all deaths caused by US law enforcement in 2015.

Some experts and relatives of those killed expressed concern that suicide rulings may be misused by regional authorities eager to clear police of wrongdoing amid a changed climate across the US that has heightened scrutiny of officers’ use of deadly force.

Shifting blame
At least seven fatal shootings by police officers in 2015 have been ruled suicides by county authorities
Jan 12 Tommy Smith IL
Feb 15 Bruce Steward OR
Mar 21 Gary Page IN
Apr 21 Kimber Key SC
Jun 29 Richard LaPort NY
Aug 8 Shamir Palmer SC
Aug 9 Robert Quinn PA
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Six out of the seven cases that were officially declared suicides have already been ruled as justified shootings by authorities, compared with only one in five of the dozens of other cases so far this year in which someone said to have been suicidal was killed by police.

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The suicide ruling in Smith’s case even angered Joe Victor, the county coroner, who had been preparing to hold a coroner’s inquest, where a jury of Smith’s peers would officially decide how he died. “How are you going to get 12 people who haven’t heard the news that it was called a suicide?” Victor, a former police officer, said in a phone conversation.

The district attorney “interfered”, Victor said. “All law enforcement got together and decided that was it.” Plans for a coroner’s inquest were abandoned. Nolan’s office and the Illinois state police rejected public records requests for any material from the inquiry. “I think it’s a cover-up,” said Smith’s mother.

Reframing shootings as ‘suicide’
The concept of “suicide by cop” as a way of thinking about certain killings by police has become well established since its coinage more than 30 years ago by Karl Harris, a psychologist and former police officer in California who later worked as a counsellor on a helpline for suicidal people.

Harris explained that a new term was needed for those people he saw “forcing cops to shoot them because they wanted to die”.

The Guardian has recorded at least 103 killings by law enforcement officers so far in 2015 in which the person who died was said to have been suicidal. The figure represents nearly 12% of the total 884 people counted as having been killed by law enforcement. In about two-thirds of the 103 cases, police were informed beforehand that they were entering a confrontation with a suicidal person, and ended up killing them.

“We have a tremendous problem,” said Dr Daniel Reidenberg, the managing director of the National Counci

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Judge orders Gen. Allen to testify in Petraeus probe leak lawsuit
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A federal judge Friday ordered that retired Marine Gen. John Allen be required to testify in a lawsuit involving leaks in the federal investigation that eventually led to CIA Director David Petraeus' resignation and guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave the go-ahead for a two-hour deposition of Allen in the Privacy Act lawsuit brought by Florida residents Jill and Scott Kelley. Jill Kelley contends that the FBI and the Defense Department illegally leaked her emails to the media while conducting an investigation into her claims that she and top U.S. military officials were being cyberstalked.

Allen’s attorney John Dowd indicated to the court that the retired general, who knew the Kelleys as a result of social events connected to Central Command in Tampa, was unaware of any inappropriate conduct on the part of the FBI personnel involved in the probe. Allen contends he did not release any email correspondence with the Kelleys to the media and that he was a victim of the media leaks, the judge said. Some of the news stories quoting unnamed sources suggested Kelley might be having an affair with Allen, something both of them deny took place.

“It’s a waste of time,” Dowd said bluntly about the proposed deposition.

Jackson seemed to agree at least to an extent, saying she didn’t see how anything Allen had to offer would help the Kelleys’ case against the FBI and the military. However, the judge said the Kelleys were entitled to get his testimony under oath if they wanted it.

“It does seem to be sufficiently related to the lawsuit that they’re entitled to get it from him,” the judge said. “I’m not going to say they’re not entitled to two hours with him.”

One complication with Allen’s testimony is that he is currently the U.S. Special Envoy to Counter the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (better known as ISIL).

Jackson noted that Allen is currently “dealing with one of the most importa

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How Colorado laws give fired police officers from other states a second chance here
Colorado Attorney General's Office refuses to release database that would help shed light on second-chance officers from other states


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As a Los Angeles police officer, David Guiterman shoved a handcuffed homeless man into a squad car and leaned in to drench his face with pepper spray.

Video of the incident showed Guiterman closing the car's door, a move that cut off ventilation and created what critics later called a "gas chamber" of horror. The mentally ill suspect pleaded for help, his face twisted in pain.

Despite Guiterman's past in California, which also included a $50,000 settlement of an excessive-force lawsuit, he found work across state lines.

He ended up in Colorado, a state that does relatively little to keep cops with blemished records from being rehired in law enforcement. Soon Guiterman was causing controversy again after his new employer, the Vail Police Department, arrested him on charges of domestic violence and stalking.

Colorado is vulnerable to officers such as Guiterman coming from other states seeking to resurrect their careers, according to experts. Only a criminal conviction on a felony charge or certain misdemeanors automatically bar a cop from getting hired in law enforcement in Colorado, a lesser standard than in many states.

But the extent of the problem is unknown, in Colorado and nationally.

"We know it happens," said Roger Goldman, a nationally recognized expert on officer misconduct who has helped write laws establishing state police review panels. "But we don't know how frequently it happens. Anecdotally, we know there have been high-profile cases of it."

He noted that malpractice litigation and adverse licensing actions are tracked federally for physicians, but no such system exists for law enforcement officers, who have the power to take a life and make arrests.

"We have it for docs but not for cops," Goldman said. "That's a problem."

The Denver Post made multiple requests for a state database of certified and decertified law enforcement officers from the state attorney general's office to research the backgrounds of those trained in other states. The office refused to release key information to enable that analysis.

The state provided limited data that revealed that nearly 1,100 of the officers who held police certificates in Colorado in the past 10 years had received their original training outside the state.

But the attorney general's office refused to identify those officers still working or the state where they received their training. Also excluded were all the agencies where those officers had worked in Colorado.

In a letter denying the newspaper's request for information, David Blake, Colorado's chief deputy attorney general, said making the database available to the public risked revealing the identity of officers working undercover. He refused to redact those undercover officers from the database.

"While the public has a right to inspect certain public records involving criminal justice matters, it does not have the right to pursue them at the expense of the safety of officers or when it may compromise ongoing investigations," Blake said in his letter.

The Post has argued the information should be released as a matter of public safety.

"I find it unconscionable that our state attorney general's office takes the position that it has no obligation to produce to The Denver Post or to a member of the public these database records," said Steven Zansberg, the lawyer who represented The Post in its negotiations with the state's lawyers.

Taxpayers helped build the database. A recent contract shows the state plans to spend up to $820,000 on upgrades to the database through 2018.

"The additional, highly disturbing aspect of this entire set of negotiations with the attorney general's office and The Denver Post, aside from the amount of time it took to get them to dribble out any amount of information, is that they take the position that the public, who helped maintain and create this database, has no right to access those records," Zansberg said.

National database

Despite the obstacles from the state, The Post found examples of officers who were hired in law enforcement in Colorado after getting into trouble in jobs in other states.

Guiterman resigned from the Los Angeles Police Department and was hired in Vail in 2005 before the completion of an internal affairs investigation into the pepper-spray incident, the results of which remain sealed. Vail Police Chief Dwight Henninger said he was aware of the incident when he hired Guiterman.

The officer successfully defended a federal lawsuit over that arrest in Los Angeles, which prompted national outrage when a lawyer released video of the spraying after Guiterman resigned. In sworn testimony, Guiterman said he used the pepper spray to subdue an uncooperative suspect he feared would spit on him. He resigned from the Vail police force in 2009, nearly a year following his arrest on the domestic violence charges in Colorado. Guiterman did not respond to Denver Post efforts seeking comment.

In 1991, the police department in Davenport, Iowa, fired Anthony Chelf after authorities found he used excessive force when he beat a man with his department-issued flashlight. Records show the man ran a red light on a motorcycle, and Chelf gave high-speed chase. Chelf beat the man with his flashlight after other officers had subdued him, facedown, on the ground, according to court records.

It was the second time Davenport authorities found Chelf had used his flashlight with excessive force. After his firing, Chelf found police work in Colorado. The Ouray Police Department hired him, and he went on to become police chief there. He retired in 2011 and now works as a security supervisor at a casino in Iowa.

"I had a very successful career in Ouray and was very involved in the community," said Chelf, who added that he disclosed his Davenport firing before his hiring in Ouray.

In a court challenge, Chelf argued his firing was politically motivated, but the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the termination.

The issue of troubled officers moving across state lines attracted the attention of President Barack Obama's task force on policing, formed in the wake of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer in Ferguson, Mo. Among its recommendations, the task force urged the U.S. Justice Department to bolster a piecemeal police decertification database that agencies can use to check applicants.

So far, only 37 states, including Colorado, feed information to the database. And the laws for what warrants a decertification vary widely from state to state. While Florida and Arizona allow decertifications for personnel transgressions or misconduct, others, such as Colorado, have no state investigative authority and allow decertification only for criminal convictions. Six states don't allow for the decertification of officers at all.

Surveys show only about 20 percent of police agencies even know the database exists. "We don't have the money to advertise it," said Mike Becar, executive director of the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, which maintains the database.

High threshold

In Colorado, where a criminal conviction is required to decertify a cop, an officer with a history in other states of lying under oath, past misconduct, even brutality is eligible to find work here.

Colorado's laws also provide little guidance to smaller, often rural, agencies struggling to find qualified applicants to patrol the streets. Unlike Arizona, which requires rigorous background investigations of those seeking police work, Colorado for the most part leaves the thoroughness of such investigations up to local authorities.

At least 39 states have laws that make it easier to ensure a rogue officer never polices again in those states, The Post found.

In Oregon, dishonesty or misconduct on the job is enough to bring an end to a career in law enforcement. State officials there have no qua

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DOJ/FBI agents protect members of Congress who commit crimes.

Congress protects DOJ/ FBI agents who commit crimes.

Always funded by your tax dime.


couple of coverups in progress....
Was Hastert a pedophile......


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Oct 15 2015, 10:15 am ET
Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert Strikes Deal in Hush-Money Case





Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has struck a plea deal to resolve charges he lied to the FBI about bank withdrawals — money allegedly used to keep sexual misconduct accusations under wraps, lawyers announced in court on Thursday.

The politician, who was not in the Chicago courtroom, will appear on Oct. 28 to enter a plea.

Hastert, who led the House for eight years before retiring in 2007, was indicted in June on charges he structured bank transactions to avoid triggering red flags and then lied about those cash withdrawals to the FBI.

Court papers say he was taking out the money because he agreed to pay a mystery man identified only as "Individual A" some $3.5 million in hush money to conceal "prior misconduct."

Federal law enforcement sources have said "Individual A" was a student at Yorkville High School in Illinois while Hastert was a teacher and coach there in the '60s and '70s, and that the misconduct was sexual in nature.
Dennis Hastert poses with wrestlers in a yearbook photo. NBC News

After Hastert was indicted, a Montana woman, Jolene Burdge, came forward with claims that Hastert had molested her brother, Steve Reinbolt, a Yorkville grad who died in 1995 of AIDS complications.

A friend of Reinboldt's told NBC News on condition of anonymity that Reinboldt — who is not Individual A — also told him years ago that he had sexual contact with Hastert.

"I was hanging out at Steve's house in December 1974, I seem to recall we went for a drive and he told me that he was gay. He also said that his first sexual encounter was with Denny Hastert," the friend said.

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I only read the first post, did not read the entire thread. Because I don't need to. Our judicial system has been my life for the past 10 years. And there is one simple answer - organized crime has infiltrated our judicial system from the bottom to the top. It started with a crime family headquartered in Maricopa County, Arizona, in the late 60s, starting as land fraud in Arizona and Utah. Then moved to mortgage fraud. Much of the land in the south end of Salt Lake County (Draper, Riverton, Bluffdale) was stolen from farmers (why Neiderhauser has pushed to move prison so he can build more homes on his stolen lane). Then in the late 70s a man by the name of Randy Dale Lang, acting as an attorney for the crime family in Phoenix, created a way to access the billions of federal dollars coming into each state. Federal dollars that are funneled into HHS and CPS in each state are moved into judicial bribery accounts and then court agents (judges, attorneys, CPS workers, GALs, court-appointed shrinks/mediators/evaluators) all receive bonuses to include cash from the bribery funds and real estate (they create deeds with fake notaries) by conspiring together to remove children from their protective parents and either put them into foster care or give to the abusive parent. Utah receives $50,000 of federal money for every child that is judicially kidnapped. They hijacked INSLAW software to infiltrate large databases to set up their networking online and a code was created to hide the names of the members. I was trained by an informant on how to find them using their code and system.

It became so large nationwide that the crime family and their system has now been hijacked by the Cartel.

And the reason why it continues to grow rapidly, trafficking more children into the sex trade daily, is because the corrupt politicians (Hatch and his brothers) have been planting corrupt/puppets into Federal Judges seats and US Attorneys in each state for decades now.

PROOF: If any one way Mark Shurtleff on the news passionate about the fact that Utah should ask the Feds to investigate he and Swallow, and they were confident that no charges would be filed -- that is your clue! The DOJ is corrupt and the US Attorneys are NOT allowed to prosecute any one in the mob. Why US Attorney David Barlow first recused himself, and then later resigned. I had taken evidence to him just a few months after Senator Mike Lee was in DC and David was his General Counsel. US Attorneys have been murdered before.

I took evidence to SLC FBI Michelle Pickens (who came to Utah from Phoenix to work on this same crime family) in January 2007. She was already investigating a mother who had two children stolen from her. End of March she called both of us on a Monday and told us that she was taking our evidence to US Attorney Brett Tolman (a Hatch plant) and 2 days later she called us again angry because he would not prosecute. She was quickly demoted to mortgage fraud. Then spring of 2013 she popped up again promoted to public corruption with new woman Special Agent in Charge. Then she went after two Attorney Generals because she had two DAs willing to investigate, prosecute and convict. I had met with both of them giving them Affidavits prior to the Swallow scandal. It gave them the paperwork needed to formally request FBIs assistant to go after these two crooks.

The Lord has taken this assignment from me. I did everything I could for 10 years. My ex-husband, his father, and his Stake President brother are members. My ex-husband used the racket to attempt to kill me two years ago. And I have 3 brothers in it as well - 1 in prison for 8 years now, and 1 who was only in the real estate part of it. There are tens of thousands of crooks in this to include Governors, State Legislators, Attorney Generals, government agencies and employees -- probably over 100,000 crooks, and even more victims. They go after elderly's pensions and bankrupt wealthy as well.

In Utah, the corrupt judges go into all of IHC's psych units and use employees there to conspire together to falsely commit citizens (bad dads putting away their ex-wives) to county mental hospitals - where they all make money for every bed they fill - protected by Mark Shurtleff.

They can incarcerate any one they want at any time! I have lost my entire family a very long time ago. But the pain and suffering has refined and purified me to receive all that God has.

Do not beat me up! Do not persecute and mock me! You will stand before God and account for it and receive justice if you do! If you don't believe me, don't comment. Keep it to yourself and don't throw stones at the messenger. Instruct your children to ever open the door to any one. They have to have a search warrant to come into your home. I have helped over 100 families that have had their children from them. I learned of all this because my brother now in prison contacted my ex-husband at the end of our marriage and told him of the racket and he used it against me, later taking a son who I have not seen for 10 years now - with 3 daughters. He went after my last son who was 12 at the time. I had connected with a woman in Chicago and she helped me, I filed a Motion to recuse all the judges in fourth district (Provo) exposing them of being members of the mob and was able to keep my last son for 6 years. As soon as he turned 18, my ex conspired with others to have me incarcerated at a psych unit attempting to commit me long term, I was held for 18 days, many from outside helped me, and God delivered me!

We have no idea how many citizens are sitting in our prisons and mental institutions who are NOT criminals and are NOT mentally ill.

I write this to WARN.