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How ABC reporter Adam Walser and I-Teams nationwide,
and victims of judges’ abuse of power
can investigate one story of abuse further and similar ones
to inform the public and outrage it
into demanding that judges be held accountable and liable
at the most propitious time: at the start of
the nomination and confirmation of a justice, and
the primaries, when politicians need to cater to the public’s
demandshttp://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL2/DrRCordero-ABC_investigate_judges_abuse.pdf
By
Dr. RichardCordero, Esq.Ph.D., University of Cambridge, EnglandM.B.A.,
University of Michigan Business SchoolD.E.A., LaSorbonne,
ParisJudicialDiscipline ReformNew York
Cityhttp://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.orgDr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@xxxxxxxxxxx
,DrRCordero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , CorderoRic@xxxxxxxxx Reporter Adam
Walser
ABC Action News Plus
Florida
adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ms. Lesa Martino
Seffner, Florida
lesa.m.martino@xxxxxxxxx DearMr. Walser, Ms. Martino, and Advocates of Honest
Judiciaries, Withgreat interest, I read the article and watched the footage
concerning yourstory: Price of Protection: Woman loses Seffner homeafter
father's guardian sues her for libel: Former guardian faces felonycharges; Adam
Walser; ABC Action News Plus; February 10, 2022;
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/the-price-of-protection/price-of-protection-woman-loses-seffner-home-after-fathers-guardian-sues-her-for-libel?fbclid=IwAR0aejMvfcxBAJ4UqHm4xWHXoIqRx7fkEX2_NXpmXahHH27L3snV54foPdw“…Ifyou
have a story you think the I-Team should investigate, email us at
adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.” I respectfully propose that you both: a. further
investigate Ms. Martino’s story as setforth below; and b. extend the
opportunity to your fellow ABCreporters across the nation to investigate
similar stories.
A. The foundation of the proposedinvestigation 1. The proposed investigation
has concrete andreasonable objectives attainable in the short term. The
proposal has as itsfoundation my three-volume study of judges and their
judiciaries, titled anddownloadable thus: Exposing Judges' Unaccountability and
Consequent Riskless Abuse of Power:
Pioneering the news andpublishing field of
judicial unaccountability reporting* † ♣ Open the downloaded files using Adobe
AcrobatReader, which is available for free. 2. I post some of my articles on
my website Judicial Discipline Reform at
http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org . 3. My articles are the product of ;
professionallaw research and writing, and strategic thinking...because without
a strategy there is nothing but whining. The articles analyzecurrent events and
propose concrete, reasonable, and feasible actions thatwebvisitors can take in
their own interest to: a. expose judicial abuse of power and financial
criminality; b. collectively demand compensation;and c. set in motion
reformthrough transformative change, i.e., what goes into the process of change
comesout transformed into a different entity. 4. Webvisitors have reacted so
favorably to myarticles that as of February 19, the number of them who have
become subscribersis 43,251. B. The objective of determining whether
judgesabused Ms. Martino 5. This investigation is guided by a questionthat can
be asked in every individual case:
a. Did the judges involved in this case haveenough evidence to suspect that
other participants in the case, e.g., guardians, financialinstitutions, health
care providers, auctioneers, warehousers, and lawyers, were abusing their
position butchose not to pursue with due diligence their suspicions or to
disregard them altogether in order to advancetheir own financial interests and
maintain their acceptance among their fellow judges so that but for the abuse
of power and dereliction of duty by the judges themselves, the abuseby the
other participants would not have taken place? b. If so, Ms. Martino and other
similarlysituated abusees -who can be located by applying the methodfor forming
a group- will be able to joinforces to demand collectively compensation from
the participants, including thejudges and their judiciaries. Their demand will
invoke: 1) the jurisprudence that the judges themselveshave developed to hold
accountable and liable pedophilic priests and sportsofficers and doctors as
well as their churches and organizations; and 2) the sources of authority that
show theunconstitutionality, unlawfulness, and undemocratic nature of the
doctrineof judicial immunity that judges have concocted abusively in
self-interestand to the detriment of everybody else.
C. The objective of exposing judges’patterns of abuse 1. The nature and
importance of patterns of abuse
6. The proposed further investigationaims to detect and expose the most
persuasive type of evidence of abuse,namely, patterns of abuse. a. The
Racketeer Influenced andCorrupt Organizations Act (RICO) defines ‘pattern of
racketeering activity astwo acts of racketeering activity committed within 10
years’(18 U.S.C. §1961(5)). b. Judges hold themselves and are heldby the
politicians who nominate and confirm them to the bench unaccountable. Sothey
risklessly abuse their power and engage in financial criminality. As aresult,
they run their judiciaries as racketeeringenterprises. Cf. Washington
Postreporter Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame called the White House run
byPresident Nixon and ‘All his Men’ a criminal enterprise. c. Judges’ abuse
cannot beexplained away as the inadvertent mistakes of an otherwise competent
judge in asingle case or the repeated mistakes of an incompetent judge; or even
the systematicmalfeasance of one rogue judge in many of his/her cases. d.
Judges’ patterns of abuse point to abuseso coordinated among, and extensively
practiced by, judges and other participants as to reveal theirabuse as their
way of doing business. Through their abuse they advance theirindividual and
judicial class interests to the detriment of parties to thecases filed in their
courts and the rest of the public. e. Patterns reveal that judges have
internalizedtheir abuse by making it their institutionalized modus operandi;
andexternalized it by coordinating it with outside participants. Whether
asprincipals, who engage in abuse of power or financial criminality, or as
accessories,who cover for them, all of them have gone rogue(18 U.S.C. §§2, 3;
jur:88§§a-d)...and taken their judiciaries with them. 7. A single party, never
mind one dealing withjudges without a lawyer, that is, pro se, does not stand a
chance of protectinghis/her rights successfully, let alone obtaining
compensation. They lost their case before even filing it in a court. 8. This is
precisely what has been shown by theinvestigations into judges and their
judiciaries by ABC competitors asreputable as The Wall Street Journal,Thomson
Reuters, The Boston Globe,and a politician as knowledgeable about financial
matters as Senator ElizabethWarren; and what the International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists,headquartered in Washington, DC, can help show thanks
to its vast experience ininvestigations into hidden financial accounts and its
use of advancedtechnology. All of their investigations are referenced in
thearticle downloadable here and reproduced below. 2. Elements for the
search for patterns of abuse inthis case 9. The search for patterns in Ms.
Martino’s casecan start off by determining in how many other cases the
following people andentities have dealt with each other: a. Judge Edward C.
LaRose, Judge Patricia J.Kelly, and Judge J. Andrew Atkins b. professional
guardian Traci Hudson, formerly known as Traci Samuel c. Gainesville attorney
John Hayter d. the Florida Department of Children andFamilies e. the Florida
Department of Elder Affairs f. the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office g. the
health care facility to which Ms.Martino’s father, ward Roland Martino, was
committed h. the doctors and nurses who drew up,carried out, and supervised the
health treatment of ward Martino i. the prosecutors of Traci Hudson andsimilar
cases referred to, investigated, and/or prosecuted by, their districtattorney’s
office j. other participants in this and similar cases.
3. Hiring law and journalism students tosearch for patterns 10. You, Ms.
Martino, and every otherabusee can ask ABC reporter Adam Walser at
adam@abcactionnews.comand all the other ABC I-Teams to investigate
yourrespective story in search of patterns of judges’ abuse and criminality.
Butthereafter you must not simply sit back and hope that they do it. 11. You
can take concrete,reasonable, and feasible steps to investigate your case in a
methodical way and assisted by trained people. To search forpatterns you can
apply themethod for seeking the assistance of law andjournalism schools. 12.
When you contact those schools,ask for the names of students whom even
professors hire at an hourly rate tohelp them with their own academic research.
These students are proficient in conductingcomputer-assisted research on the
huge databases of Westlaw, NexisLexis, andProQuest, etc.(jur:105§b). 13. While
you must pay the students, they will save you a considerable amount of effort,
money, and frustration.You need not be the only one paying them if you apply
the method for forminga group of similarly situated people abused by the same
judges and in the samecourt as yours. a. You all can turn your group into the
localchapter of the national movement for judicial abuse exposure,
compensation, andreform. The precedent for this is very solid: Local chapters
of people meetingin their homes and backyards and disciplined enough to discuss
the single issue of no new taxes eventuallycoalesced into the TEA Party. The
latter grew strong enough to dominate stateand presidential elections. 14.
Moreover, you can interest thestudents, professors as well as deans in
contacting their classmates and colleagues toinvestigate judges’ abuse of power
and financial criminality as the subject matterof a course, seminar, or ABC
internship for academic credit; or an article forsubmission to a respectable
professional journal, newspaper, or magazine. a. An investigation in which
students participatethat ends up at the top of the newscasts and the front page
of prestigiouspublications will serve to enhance the resume that the students
have to tenderto the recruiters that come to their schools to interview
students for summerjobs or their first job after graduation; and the list of
achievements thatprofessors will submit to the school committee on tenure,
promotion, and reviewof compliance with the academic requirement “Publish or
Die!”. b. It follows that students and professors have avested interest in
doing the best research and investigative work possible intoa story that can
provoke national outrage and galvanize the public into action.Therefore, think
strategically: argue their own interest, not yours…preciselyat the most
propitious time: D. The objective of turning judges’ abuseof power into a
decisive issue of the nomination of a justice and the primaries 15. This is the
most propitious timeto set in motion a state and national investigation into
abuse of power andfinancial criminality committed by judges and their
judiciaries because: a. the nomination by President Biden of a justiceto
succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer and the confirmation by the Senatewill
focus national attention on the background of the nominee. You can helpexpand
that focus to encompass the participation in abuse and criminality by: 1) the
justiceship candidates, the nominee,their fellow judges, and the other
justices(OL3:1420¶1.d); and 2) the judges in your case and the cases of
themembers of your group cum local chapter; b. the beginning of the primaries
is a crucialtime for politicians because they have to fix the issues on which
they will runand expect to be supported by their fellow politicians and their
state andnational party committees.
c. Consequently, you and your local chapter should seek to inform the stateand
national public of, and outrage it at, judges’ abuse and criminality so
thatpoliticians are compelled to include those issues in their electoral
platform andaddress them at every rally, townhall meeting, and interview. d.
Likewise, you should strive to make those issues become decisive ones in
themid-term elections. The reason for this is that only the public wielding its
votingpower can force politicians to investigate judges officially, pay their
abuseescompensation, and undertake transformative reform of the power of judges
and theirjudiciaries. E. What you and all other abusees can do toadvance your
similar interests 1. Writing in up to 500 words your story andemailing it
16. You all can apply the two-stepmethod for writing in up to 500 words
yourrespective story of the abuse of power and financial criminality by judges
thatyou have suffered and witnessed. The method will help you to write a story
thatis accurate, significant, and verifiable. A lot rides on it. 17. Indeed, a
rambling,incoherent, whining anecdote will put off every reporter, student,
professor,and even fellow abusee. If you cannot show in the first 500 words
that you havea case of outrageous abuse and criminality by judges, the next 500
will noteven be read. If reporters want more information, they will ask you to
send itto them. 18. Just as you must not send tensof pages in the body of the
email, you must not send any attachment. In fact,people who know about the
computer malware that can lurk in attachments do noteven open them. This
explains why there are email servers that upon receipt ofan email with
attachments do not forward it to their addressees, but rathersend it back to
the sender. 19. Nor can you merely send ‘a bunch’of links and ask or simply
expect the addressee to ‘scrounge’ for heads ortails in a basket case. You are
the one asking for your addressee’s attention. Youare the one who has to go
through your documents and write a brief story in upto 500 words that is
informative, highlights only the most outrageous conduct,and provides data
enabling verification and the search for patterns. 20. Relax: The
two-stepmethod is intended to make it easy for you to producesuch a story. You
only need to be so outraged by what judges have done and allowedothers to do to
you that you are determined to take advantage of this mostpropitious time to
write your story: when even a reporter of a national media network is
generously askingyou to send it to him. 21. Consequently, do your homework.
Composeyour best story. Then email it to ABC reporter Adam Walser at
adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Ask that heinvestigate it or refer it to the
appropriate ABC I-Teams and fellow reporters acrossthe country. 22. The more
stories Mr. Walser receives, themore he, his assigning editor, and his fellow
ABC reporters will realize that they got an issue withbroad audience appeal.
That is what scoops are made of. Reporting on it is howPulitzer Prizes are won.
23. To encourage as many people to write theirstory and email it to him, help
this and my other articles go viral: Open them, click “Reply All”, and “Send”.
2. Promoting unprecedented citizens hearings 24. Make it a point to
interest Mr. Walser andhis fellow reporters in holding the proposed
unprecedentedcitizens hearings. a. Thecitizen hearings will be held by media
outlets, reporters, professors, andstudents of law, journalism, business,
Information Technology, and socialsciences. b. Theirvenue will be media
stations, university auditoriums, and video conferences,which will make
participation and attendance possible everywhere andinexpensive. c.
Thecitizens hearings will afford you and many other abusees and people
whowitnessed abuse or even committed it, lest they be punished, a chance to
dowhat is an essential element of the quest for justice of all of you: tell
yourstories to the public and let out that feeling that is burning you inside
withpain and humiliation: The judges had all the power...and i was nothing! d.
Thenational public is willing to listen to you, for your story will resonate
with itas has the self-assertive rallying cry of the MeToo! and BLM
movementsand those against police brutality, and for racial and socio-economic
equality: Enough is enough!
We won’t take any abuse from anybody anymore. 25. By promoting the
unprecedented citizens hearings you can do your part insetting in motion a
national, single issue, apolitical, civic movement forjudicial abuse of power
exposure, compensation of abusees, and reform throughtransformative reform.
F.My offer of a presentation to you and your group of colleagues and guests
26. I offer to present this articleand answer questions via video conference
and, if in NYCity, in person, to you and your group. 27. To schedule the
presentation youmay use my contact information below. G. Every meaningful
cause needs resources for its advancement;
none can be continued, let alone advanced, without money 28. Lip service
advances nothing; butit continues to enable the abusers. Put your money where
your
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After The Wall Street Journal published itsarticle on 28Sep21
“131 Federal Judges Broke the Law
by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest”,
scores of judges have recused themselves and called for retrials Outline of
thewebinar and consulting services
on
holding thosejudges, the peers who covered for them, and their supervisor,
i.e., the FederalJudiciary,
liable for the cost of retrials and the disentanglement of contractsand actions
based on void and voidable decisions;
judges’ failure to read theoverwhelming majority of briefs; and
their interception of people’s mail andemails to detect and suppress those of
their critics;
and
exposing their coordinated abuse of power and financial criminality at
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Table of Contents
A. Topmedia outlets and a VIP have exposed law-breaking unaccountable
judges.....¶¶1-7 B. What thelaw and their Code of Conduct require from judges;
and their disregard of the requirements.....¶¶8-11 C. Causesof action arising
from judges’ abuse of power and financial criminality.....¶¶12-14 D.
IN-COURTfilings that in addition discuss causes of action for
compensation.....¶¶15-22 1. Joining with other similarly situated parties; and
withjournalists.....¶¶17-21 2. Discussion based on the Constitution’s “equal
treatment”clause.....¶22 E.OUT-OF-COURT strategy to inform and outrage the
national public.....¶¶23-27 1. Informing the public through politicians and
abusees’ stories.....¶¶24 2. An investigation to gain information from “little
people” andconfidential informants; and pioneering its reporting¶¶25-27 F.
Developingthis outline at a webinar or by consultation; and other
services.....¶¶28-31 G. Everymeaningful cause needs resources for its
advancement;
none can be continued, let alone advanced, without
money.....¶¶32-33***************************
A. Top media outlets and a VIP have exposed law-breakingunaccountable judges 1.
TheWall Street Journal, published onNovember 2, 2021, “Hidden Interests -
Federal Judge Files Recusal Notices in138 Cases After WSJ Queries. Rodney
Gilstrap initially argued he didn’t violatefinancial-conflicts law”;
James.Grimaldi@xxxxxxx, Joe.Palazzolo@xxxxxxx, Coulter.Jones@xxxxxxx. (See the
articles referred to in this section here and at Appendix:6§C.22.) 2. Thomson
Reuters, with 2,500+ journalistsand 600+ photojournalists, published on June
30, 2020, the first of itsthree-part report “The Teflon Robe”,
John.Shiffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and Michael.Berens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,on its
massive investigation of state judges. It found that “hardwired
judicialcorruption” intertwines state judges and the state commissions on
judicial performancethat are duty-bound to supervise and discipline them.
Reuters asked readers tosend it their stories of abuse by judges…and it was
“inundated” with thembecause they want to tell them. Thereafter, Reuters
proposed a law firm council. 3.The Boston Globe published on September 30,
2018, its investigative report“Inside oursecret courts”, Jenn Abelson, Nicole
Dungca and “Todd Wallack” <twallack@xxxxxxxxx>, patricia.wen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
spotlight@xxxxxxxxx,in whose “private criminal hearings, who you are –and who
you know–may be just as important as right and wrong”. 4. Senator Elizabeth
Warren, in her “I have a plan for the Federal Judiciary too”, dare denounce
judges’ unaccountability and their abuse of it by refusing torecuse themselves
from cases in which they own stock in one of the partiesbefore them in order to
steer the cases so as to protect and increase the valueof their stock. Sen.
Warren refers to their grabbing as ‘abusiveself-enrichment’. 5. The
International Consortium ofInvestigative Journalists (ICIJ), in Washington,
D.C., published on October 3,2021, the Pandora Papers, that is, close to 12
million financial documents leaked to it. “More Than 600 Reporters AroundThe
Globe Work With ICIJ On The Most Expansive Leak Of Tax Haven Files InHistory”.
The expertise that ICIJ has gained in applyingdocument scanning software and
money tracking techniques can be applied toexposing judges’ illegal flow of
money from the point where they grab it to the point where they spend it after
having laundered it.
6. NBC News published onDecember 26, 2021, its report by Erik Ortiz, "Robed in
secrecy: How judges accused of misconduct can dodge public scrutiny - Thousands
of complaints are filed againstjudges every year, but very few result in
discipline. Ethics experts say thetime for states to transform the judiciary is
now"; erik.ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx, “Senior Editor News Projects”
<Anna.Brand@xxxxxxxxxx>,“Assistant Managing Editor for News”
<Tim.Perone@xxxxxxxxxx>, “Deputy News Editors”
<Jessica.Simeone@xxxxxxxxxx>,<Jaquetta.White@xxxxxxxxxx>. 7. See also my
three-volume study ofjudges and their judiciaries based on professional law
research and writing,and strategic thinking. The study is titled and
downloadable thus: ExposingJudges' Unaccountability and
Consequent Riskless Abuse of Power:
Pioneeringthe news and publishing field of
judicial unaccountability reporting* † ♣ i. Openthe downloaded files using
Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available for free. a. Many of the study
articles have been postedto the website of Judicial Discipline Reform. They
have attracted so manywebvisitors and elicited in them such a positive reaction
that the number of them that has become subscribers as of 19Feb22, is
43,251+(Appendix 3).
b. You too can subscribe tothe articles: go to
http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org ;<left panel ↓Register or + New or
Users >Add New.
b. See the proposal for the documentary, "Black Robed Predators: when the
abusers are the judges".
B. What the law and their Code of Conduct require fromjudges; and their
disregard of the requirements
8. Federal law imposes onfederal judges the legal duty to recuse themselves
from cases in which they ortheir relatives have a financial interest. That law
is found in Title 28 of the U.S. Code (of federallaw only) section 455.
Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistratejudge(28 U.S.C §455). See also
28 U.S.C. §144. Bias or prejudice of judge. 9. While Title 28 contains the
federal Judicial Code, Title 18 U.S.C. contains the federal Criminal Code. It
unambiguously imposes oneverybody in general, and judges in particular, the
duty to report crimes underfederal law: a. 18 USC §4. Misprision of felony
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of afelony cognizable by a
court of the United States, conceals and does not assoon as possible make known
the same to some judge or other person in civil ormilitary authority under the
United States, shall be fined under this title orimprisoned not more than three
years, or both. b. Under §3057, federal law imposes a reporting dutyon any
judge “having reasonablegrounds for believing [which is a standard lower than
“probable cause to believe” –acause that makes the belief more likely than not–
and much lower than“evidence”] that any violationunder chapter 9 [on
bankruptcy, the classification of over 70% of allcases filed in the Federal
Judiciary] ofthis title [18] or other laws of the United States relating to
insolventdebtors, receiverships or reorganization plans has been committed, or
that aninvestigation should be had in connection therewith [which lowers the
“reasonable grounds for believing”standard]. 10. Canon 2 of the Codeof Conduct
for U.S. Judges imposes on judges aneven broader ethical duty by requiring that
“Judges avoid impropriety and eventhe appearance of impropriety”. 11. Judges
protect themselves byabusing the self-disciplining authority granted them by
Congress in theJudicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980(28 U.S.C §§351-364):
They dismiss100% of complaints filed against them and deny100% of petitions to
review their dismissals.This is shown by their official statistics, which by
law(28 U.S.C. §603(h)(2)) they must file with Congress as a public document in
the AnnualReport of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S.
Courts(§604(a)(3) and (4)), who is appointed by the ChiefJustice of the Supreme
Court(§601), as is the deputy director.
C. Causes of action arising from judges’ abuse of power and financial
criminality
12. The demand for compensation will besupported by, among others, the
following causes of action. They are part ofthe outline that I can elaborate on
if lawyers, their clients, or pro sesretain me to present my webinar, consult,
write a statement or a brief, orcommission an article for publication. See a
list of articles already writtenand downloadable for review at Appendix6§A. a.
conflictof interests resolved in self-interest; b.fraud by misleading the
parties into thinking that the judges would conduct afair and impartial
process, resulting in harm to the parties; c. concealment of assets; d. tax
evasion; e. money laundering; f. embezzlementof public power for personal gain;
g. breach of the oath of office to uphold theConstitution and the laws
thereunder, so that the intended beneficiaries of theoath and the judges'
taking it are all actual and potential parties, who canreasonably rely on it,
derive a reliance interest by doing so, and are harmedby the frustration of the
interest when the oath is breached; h. intentional disruption of
businessrelations (contracts foreseeably based on biased and thus void or
voidable decisions); i. intentional waste and misuse ofpublic resources j.
filingmisleading and false mandatory annual financial disclosure reports under
theEthics in Government Act of 1978(Appendix to 5 U.S.C.); k. dereliction of
the duty requiringthe judges on the all-judge-Committee on Financial
Disclosures –appointed bythe Chief Justice– of the Judicial Conference of the
U.S.(28U.S.C. §331) –presided over by the Chief– to reviewwith due diligence
reports that all judges must file annually with the Committee L. implicit
orexplicit conspiracy between her, a judge, to cover his crime, that of
anotherjudge -the principal offender- by not reporting him, whereby she became
anaccessory after the fact, and facilitated his commission of another crime
bycreating his expectation that she would not report him, whereby she
becameaccessory before the fact and a party to the complicit mutual
protectionagreement that either would cover for the other if need be. 13. Tort
liability can be predicated on theduty of a chief judge, the circuit judicial
council, and the JudicialConference to supervise and control the conduct of
other judges; their abuse orcriminality; and the resulting harm to the
victim(28U.S.C §§331-332; 351-364). a. This applies respondeat superior
principles in aprincipal-agent relationship -which make the principal
responsible for its agent's conduct-; and negligent/reckless hiring,
supervision, andretention; e.g. the Chief Justice appointsthe members of the
all-judge disciplinary committee(§331); and each court ofappeals vets,
appoints, and removes the bankruptcy judges in its circuit(§152). b. Such
application is justified on the grounds thatjudges themselves have developed to
hold liable:
1) the Catholic Church and its dioceses for their pedophilic priests' crimes
and cover-up of them, in which the Church/dioceses engaged either on an
individual basis or as a routine practice that was part of an institutionalized
policy(91 Am. Jur. Trials 151; 101 A.L.R. 5th 1; Doe v. Apostolic Assembly of
Faith in Christ Jesus, 452 F. Supp.3d 503 (W.D. Tex. 2020); and
2) USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the University of
Michigan, and Michigan State University for the sexual abuse of student
athletes by their sports officers and doctors, e.g., Dr. Larry Nassar, who was
convicted and sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison. 14. A familiar
principle can be adapted:‘[financial criminality] Too big [for the Judiciary]
to fail to know’. Thatallows the application of the Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations Act(RICO; 18 U.S.C. §1961 et seq.) to the judges’running
the Judiciary as a racketeeringenterprise. The coordination between judges
andthe judges on the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure
thatrubberstamp their reports can be charged as a racketeering activity. All
judges are subject to the duty of filing their respective report so that all
benefit from their review only pro forma. No judge wants to investigate, let
alone expose, any other judge and retaliated against by being ostracized by all
the other judges as a treasonous pariah(jur:56§§e-g).
D. IN-COURT filings that in addition discuss causes of actionfor compensation
15. An individual’s demand for compensationfrom judges and their Judiciary is
summarily dismissed by judges relying on the Supreme Court in Pierson v. Ray,
386 U.S. 547 (1967), (judges’ “immunity applies even when the judge is accused
of actingmaliciously and corruptly”; and Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349
(1978), (“Ajudge will not be deprived of immunity because the action he took
was in error,was done maliciously, or was in excess of his authority”.)Such
assurance by the Court has fostered judges’ impunity mindset: ‘Once on
thebench, forever here no matter what.’ Yet, the Constitution contradicts the
judicialimmunity doctrine that judges have abusivelyconcocted as a means of
anticipatory self-exoneration. 16. A class action, e.g., under Rule 23 of
theFederal Rules of CivilProcedure or its state counterparts, is veryexpensive;
the lawyer bringing it may not be appointed class counsel; theproposed
settlement may not be approved; and even if won, an appellate courtmay
decertify the class by declaring that ‘the interests of the plaintiffs arenot
common enough to permit their formation of a class’.
1. Joining with other similarly situated parties; and withjournalists
17. However, lawyers, their clients, and proses can join forces to
collectively demand compensation from judges and their FederalJudiciary. By
applying a method, they can find other similarly situated parties, that is,
those whohave appeared before the same judge or in the same court. If they
aredisciplined enough to focus only on the single issue of compensation, they
canform a local chapter of demanders. Progressively, the chapters can
coalesceinto a national movement. Its precedent is the Tea Party –Taxed Enough
Already–, which went from local chaptersadvocating the single issue of no new
taxes to a national party. a. Federal judges and their Judiciary are the model
oftheir respective state counterparts; their jurisdiction is national, so they
makedecisions that affect everybody in our country. Concentrating to begin with
onexposing their unaccountability and consequent abuse of power and financial
criminalitywill outrage the national public and create the momentum to expose
state judgesand their judiciaries. 18. Judges process complaints against
judgessecretly. Initially, they may also dismiss collective demands
forcompensation. But they will have to do so publicly, just as they dismiss
anyother demand in a case. Thereby they will expose the prerogative that they
havearrogated to themselves: ‘Judges Can Do No Wrong, hence, we need not
compensateanybody’. Making this known to a national public with no tolerance
for politicaland socio-economic inequalities will provoke outrage. 19. To give
publicity to their demandfor compensation, the demanders can hire WSJ,Thomson
Reuters, and Boston Globejournalists, those of the International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists,and others of similar high reputation as
investigators of judges in one or manycases and in the same court; and as
expert witnesses in judicial abuse andcriminality. A new parties-journalists
relation can develop. 20. Motions can be filed to voidjudges’ self-interested
decisions and disentangle contractual relations basedon them. They can petition
the recusal of judges in whom trust has been lostfor breaking the law even in
other cases, for ‘He who can break the law oncecan break it more easily twice’.
A new niche practice for lawyers can develop. 21. The demanders can claim
standingbased on their acting in the public interest to attain the common good
of anhonest judiciary. They can demand that judges disgorge any benefits
receivedfrom breaking the law, invoking to that end Son of Sam principles and
thesuccessful forcing of former Vice President Spiro Agnew to give up the
bribesthat he had grabbed as Governor of Virginia.
2. Discussion based on the Constitution’s “equal treatment”clause
22. Defendants, parties, and abuseescan invoke the 14th Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution to demand “equal treatment” under law: a. Defendants can demand
to be treated equally to the131 judges who broke the law by hearing cases where
they had a financialinterest, none of whom has been investigated. None will be
prosecuted(jur:81§C.1),lest judges individually and as a class devastatingly
retaliate against theprosecutor and her office(Lsch:17§C).Far from it, once a
judge resigns, all investigation by their Judiciary endsand he collects his
full pension. Yet, under Const., Art. III,§1, judges hold office and have a
salary guarantee only “during goodBehaviour”. 1) No investigation, never mind
prosecution, offellow judges will be authorized by AttorneyGeneral Merrick
Garland, the former chief judge of the Court ofAppeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit,and as such their peer, colleague, principal and/or accessory,
and thus accomplice.Defendants can object to A.G. Judge Garland’s and DoJ’s
selective prosecutionthat gives the class of judges protection from the law. b.
Parties can claim a privilege to equally evade thedisclosure and discovery
duties and sanctions of Rules26-37of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as
would do judges if sued forcompensation by claiming that the judicial immunity
doctrine concocted inself-interest protects them with a privilege against
disclosure and discovery. 1) Judges claim would show their disregard for
“traditionalnotions of fair play and substantial justice”; cf. International
Shoe Co. v.Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945), which provide, among other things,
fortrials to produce not only “the truth”, but also “the whole truth” as
arequisite for the just and fair application of the law. 2) The fact is that
Chief Justice Roberts,who presided over the impeachment trial in the Senate of
President Trump,condoned the defending party’s refusal on a claim of privilege
to produce asingle piece of evidence requested by the prosecuting party. Heseta
precedent. 3) Such claim by judges upheld by fellow judges wouldprovide the
precedent for parties to claim an established privilege, e.g.,attorney-client
privilege, or even make one up, e.g., ‘private corporationexecutive officer
privilege’, and pretend that it justifies the denial of any disclosureand
discovery whatsoever…or even dispense with the need for a privilege andsimply
self-servingly characterize the suit as “a hoax”, “a witch hunt”, or“abuse of
process”. 4) If the precedent is recognized, allowing allparties greater scope
to deny disclosure and discovery will gravely disrupt thesystem of justice. If
it is not recognized so that only judges are unequallyprotected from disclosure
and discovery, the outrage will stir up the public todemand transformative
reform of the system of justice to ensure that judges areheld equally liable to
the compensatory sanctions of Rule 37 as well as allother kinds of damages. c.
Abusees can claim an equal right to claim against judges as theright given
abusees to sue pedophilic priests and the church that covered forthem by the
lookback laws adopted in the several states. The lookback eitherextends the
number of years from a key event that the statute of limitationsallows for
suing the defendant or suspends the statute completely and allowssuing during a
certain future period of time.
E. OUT-OF-COURT strategy to inform and outrage the nationalpublic
23. More promising is for demanders of compensationfrom judges and their
Judiciary to implement the out-of-courtinform and outrage strategy. They can
inform the national public of, andoutrage it at, judges’ abuse, criminality,
and cover-up soas to stir the public up to compel politicians, lest they be
voted out of, ornot into, office, to investigate judges and hold them liable to
their victims.
1. Informing the public through politicians and abusees’stories
24. The compensation demanders can seek out allies of result: Principled and
opportunisticpoliticians running in the primaries for the 2022 mid-term
elections who may beconvinced that they can benefit electorally if at every
rally, townhallmeeting, and interview they vow and call on all politicians and
journalists to: a. investigate judges officially and journalistically for: 1)
advancing their financial interests by failing torecuse and for other abuses
that cause many more victims: 2) failingto read the majority of briefs, each of
which costs $1Ks and even$10Ks to produce and generates compensable waste; and
3) interceptingpeople’s emails and mail to detect and suppress those of their
critics; b. petition President Biden to release the FBI’ssecret vetting reports
on judicial candidates; c. ask everybody who ever filed a complaint against
ajudge or has a storyof abuse by judges that they have suffered or witnessed to
send a copy to thejournalists and members of the BidenCommission for the reform
of the Supreme Court included in the blocs of email addresses below. Let
everystoryteller apply thetwo-phase method for writing in up to 500 words their
story. 1) In sharing their complaints and stories aboutjudges, the storytellers
will be exercising the rights most cherished by Wethe People, namely, those
guaranteed under the 1st Amendment tothe Constitutionto “freedom of speech, of
the press, the right of the people peaceably toassemble [through the Internet
and on social media too], and to petition theGovernment [of which judges are
the third branch] for a redress of grievances[including through the payment of
compensation]”. 2) They cancopy and paste the following blocs of email
addresses in the To: and cc: boxes, respectively, of the email containing their
complaint orstory. To: [the members of theBiden
Commission]dana.fowler@xxxxxxxxxxxx, info@xxxxxxxxxxxx, staff@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
cristina.rodriguez@xxxxxxxx,
robert.bauer@xxxxxxx,caroline.fredrickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
kandrias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,jack.balkin@xxxxxxxx, baude@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
madams@xxxxxx, charles@xxxxxxxxxxxx, acrespo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
jgoldsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wdellinger@xxxxxxx,
levi@xxxxxxxxxxxx, ecb95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, justin.driver@xxxxxxxx,
development@xxxxxxxxxxxx, rfallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, heather.k.gerken@xxxxxxxx,
tgrove@xxxxxxxxxx, ngertner@xxxxxxxxxxx, tgriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
bhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,mkang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ojohns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
awhite36@xxxxxxx, lacroix@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
lemos@xxxxxxxxxxxx,trevor.morrison@xxxxxxx, cnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
rick.pildes@xxxxxxx, mramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxx, d-strauss@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
tribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, krooseve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,kewhitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
michael.waldman@xxxxxxx,Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@xxxxxxxxxxx,
cc: [journalists, students,
andprofessors]James.Grimaldi@xxxxxxx,Coulter.Jones@xxxxxxx,Joe.Palazzolo@xxxxxxx,contact@xxxxxxxx,fshiel@xxxxxxxx,investigations@xxxxxxxx,newstip@xxxxxxxxx,insiders@xxxxxxxx,tips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,john.shiffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,tips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,michael.berens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,blake.morrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,gryle@xxxxxxxx,ginger.thompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,marketresearch.thomsonreuters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,help@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
patricia.wen@xxxxxxxxx,<brian.mcgrory@xxxxxxxxx>,
spotlight@xxxxxxxxx,charles.ornstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
tracy.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,Thehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,newsletters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,tips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,mderienzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,watchdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,emily.holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,tips@xxxxxxxxxxx,ryan.grim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,info@xxxxxx,
corderoric@xxxxxxxxx, mcnulaj@xxxxxxxxxxx,
MCoyle@xxxxxxx,communication@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,inytletters@xxxxxxxxxxx,info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,aturturro@xxxxxxx,
support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Opencourt@xxxxxxx,
letters@xxxxxxxxxxx,Matt.Rocheleau@xxxxxxxxx,oped@xxxxxxxxxxx,
wpmagazine@xxxxxxxxxxxx, hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Jaimi.Dowdell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, letters@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Evan.Allen@xxxxxxxxx,
Vernal.Coleman@xxxxxxxxx, Brendan.McCarthy@xxxxxxxxx, national@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
colorofmoney@xxxxxxxxxxxx, email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, oped@xxxxxxxxxxxx, d.
cause media outlets and students and their professors tojoin forces to hold the
proposed unprecedentedcitizens hearings. At media stations and auditoriums
ofjournalism, law, business, Information Technology, and social sciences
schools,and via video conference, they can hold hearings to give people the
opportunityto tellthe national public their story of judges’ abuse of power
andfinancial criminality that they have suffered or witnessed.
2. An investigation to gain information from “little people”and confidential
informants; and pioneering its reporting
25. Through a mutually reinforcing process theinformation provided through
politicians and the stories will strengthenjournalists’ commercial and
reputational interest in investigating judges’abuse and criminality: “Scandal
sells” and reporting it can win PulitzerPrizes. 26. Journalists can: a.
conduct a focused and cost-effective investigation bystarting off from the
abundance of leads already gathered(OL:194§E); b. interview ‘little people’,
such as waiters,waitresses, maids, bartenders, bellboys, drivers, and
receptionists atconference centers, hotels, yachts, and private/country clubs,
whom the judgesdeemed too dumb to understand their bragging in the presence of
other judgesand VIPs about their latest or most daring way of grabbing gain and
convenienceby disregarding due process requirements and taking advantage of
confidentialinformation discussed in chambers by the parties; ex-parte;
submitted underseal; and revealed for a bribe; c. search for Deep
Throat(jur:106§c)in Court: former and current court and law clerks, judges, and
lawyers, whodriven by idealism signed on to be Workers of Justice only to be
disgusted bybecoming ‘Three Monkey’ enforcers of abuse and can now redeem
themselves bybecoming confidentialinformants; 27. Disseminating the
information thus obtained canlead to Pioneering the news andpublishing field of
judicial unaccountability reporting. It can open the way to the investigation
and publication of an AnnualReport on Judicial Unaccountability and Consequent
Abuse of Power.
F. Developing this outline at a webinar or by consultation;and other services
28. If you would like to have me eithervia video conference or in person
develop the above outline at a webinar with slides for you and your colleagues
and guests or by consulting with me, youcan let me know by using my contact
information in the letterhead above. 29. To ascertain my capacity to makea
presentation you may view my video and follow it on its slides. 30. You can
also let me know if you wishto: a. retain me to write a brief or a statement
for you; b. publish one or a series of my already written anddownloadable
articles(Appendix6§A) on judicial abuse of power and financial criminality
exposure,compensation of abusees, and reform through transformative change; c.
commission an article(¶77); etc.(¶48); d. hold together with journalists,
students andprofessors, media outlets, and specialized schools the proposed
unprecedentedcitizens hearings(para. 24.dsupra); 1) promote the citizens
hearings by sponsoring a tourof presentations at schools and other
venues(OL:197§G);and 2) organize the first-ever conference on judges’abuse and
criminality in connivance with politicians, who fear their devastating powerof
retaliation(Lsch:17§C). At the conference, the citizens hearings report willbe
presented interactively here and abroad. This can launch a global
MeToo!,BLM-like movement where people shout their self-assertive rallying cry:
Enoughis enough!
We won’t take any abuse from anybody anymore. e. join the investigation into
judges, to be focusedand cost-effective by starting off from the abundance of
leads alreadygathered(OL:194§E); f. invest capital or expertise in the
development ofthe website at http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org ;
tomonetize its public appeal, proven by its 43,251+ subscribers, and make
thesite the center of a multidisciplinary academic and business venture,
asdescribed in its businessplan, which is guided by the motto “MakingMoney
While Doing Justice”. The investment can turn the site from aninformational
platform into: 1) a clearinghouse for complaints against judges that anybodycan
upload; 2) a research center for fee-paying clients auditing judges’ decisions
and searching many other writingsfrom many sources that through
computer-assisted statistical, linguistic, and literaryanalysis can reveal the
most persuasive type of evidence: judges’ patterns,trends, and schemes of abuse
of power; and 3) the showroomand shopping portal of a multidisciplinary
academic and business venture(jur:119§§1-4). It can evolve into the Instituteof
Judicial Unaccountability Reporting and Reform Advocacy, to be attached to
auniversity or a news network; g. help form a national, single issue,
apolitical, civicmovement for We the People, the Masters of all public
servants, to holdjudicial public servants accountable for the exercise of the
public powerentrusted to them for the good of the People and liable to the
victims of theirabuse. 31. With their informing and reportingrecognized as
work in the public interest, demanders of collective compensationand
journalists can become the People's Champions of Justice. Socan you. a. To that
end, share this article with your friends,relatives, and all others, and post
it to social media as widelyas possible so that it informs and outrages the
national public;rallies ever more demanders; and sets in motion the formation
of themovement for holding judges accountable for their performance and liable
tocompensation. Make the article go viral.
G. Every meaningful cause needs resources for itsadvancement;
none can be continued, let alone advanced, without money 32. Lip service
advances nothing; but itcontinues to enable the abusers. Put your money
where your outrage at abuse and
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