Possible corruption in LA County

[galtgulch]

An article entitled California Imploding appeared on beforeitsnews.com today.

I am naive in that I have always believed in the right of a person to be brought before a judge if arrested so that no one would be held unless evidence could be provided to show cause.

I know the Constitution mentions that there will be no Bills of Attainder and I looked that up at Wikipedia. Some of the Founders tried hard to assure the freedom of the individual but this article purports to show just how corrupt certain places are. I thought Chicago took the cake but LA is up there.

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Contributed by BARRACUDA (Reporter)

July 6, 2010 9:39

Richard Fine is a a tax payer advocate who exposed massive judicial corruption in LA County and is rotting away in prison.

July 6, 2010- Infowars.com

California is the wealthiest and most populous State in America, and Los Angeles County is the largest county in America, so both the State and LA County wield unbelievable power in Washington D.C. The corruption in California affects you directly.

• How would you feel if you knew your federal tax dollars were being used to finance California’s corruption?

• You may be surprised to learn that the California State Legislators and the LA County Supervisors went to Washington D.C. to obtain the maximum federal funding for their extensive welfare, medical and illegal alien imprisonment programs, in order to claim the federal tax payer money in an end run around the other states.

• Imagine the end of the democratic process through judicial corruption, like that in LA County, replicated in your community.

Richard Fine is a a tax payer advocate who exposed massive judicial corruption in LA County and is rotting away in prison. While there has been no trial, sentence or conviction against him, he has been in solitary confinement for the last 15 months. The discovery of judicial corruption, coupled with a violation of the Brown Act by the Los Angeles County Supervisors could justify the firing and criminal charges against the LA County Supervisors, the California State Los Angeles Superior Court Judges, the California State Legislators and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, among many others.

RICHARD FINE VS THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND LA COUNTY

Watch this video of Richard Fine describing the evil triangle of corruption between the LA County Supervisors, the LA Superior Court judges, LA County Sheriff Leroy Baca, LA District Attorney Steve Cooley and the California State Legislators who all cover for each other:

Since 2005, only 3 people have won cases against the County of Los Angeles when a LA Superior Court judge decided the case, leading many to conclude that the illegal payments authorized by the LA County Supervisors are bribes. Judicial Watch won a case, Sturgeon vs. LA County, which declared that the payments to the LA Superior Court judges are illegal. Both the LA Superior Court judges and the LA County Supervisors are incriminated in the illegal payments. But the California State Legislators, in bill SBX211, granted retroactive immunity from criminal prosecution to the judges and LA Supervisors- this is concrete evidence of criminal activity; why else would they need it?

Interestingly, when the California State Legislators granted the retroactive immunity from criminal prosecution to the judges and the LA Supervisors, they extended the retroactive immunity to all government officials associated with the illegal payments, including themselves! And Arnold Schwarzenegger is also complicit because he signed off on the bill.

Read the shocking court transcript of Judge Yaffee’s admission of taking payments from LA County and failing to advise prior litigants of his conflict of interest and failure to report the payments to the Fair Political Practices Commission by following this link (page 2), provided by Full Disclosure Network.(1)

LA County Sheriff Leroy Baca is complicit for denying Richard Fine ‘Habeas Corpus’, due process and keeping Fine in prison for the last 15 months with no charges, no trial, no conviction, nor any sentence.

The California State Bar has culpability because they disbarred Richard Fine from practicing law. Fine sued corrupt judges and lost those cases against them- the cases were decided by other judges who were receiving illegal payments. The California State Bar claimed that Fine was “abusing the process for challenging a judicial official”, and disbarred Fine.(2)

Both Federal and State Courts have denied all of Richard Fine’s petitions for Writ of Habeas Corpus and motions for hearings, so they also appear to be complicit. How high up does the corruption go? The US Supreme Court selected Richard Fine’s case but later denied to hear the case.

LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS VIOLATE THE BROWN ACT

In a separate incident in early May 2010, the California State Legislators and the LA County Supervisors took a trip to Washington D.C. to get federal funding for California’s extensive welfare, healthcare and illegal alien imprisonment programs. While California is facing extreme budget deficits, the State refuses to eliminate or reform these collectivist programs because it would end federal matching funds (provided by your tax dollars).(3)

If the programs were eliminated, the burden of financing them would fall upon the county tax payers. LA County would then have to face local tax payers who have become increasingly hostile to their wasteful ways, instead of running to Washington D.C. to get your money. Some Californians may think that it is good idea to let the federal government pay for these programs, but they wind up paying even more after the federal government takes its cut.

The Brown Act stipulates that when the majority of an elected body meets, the meeting must be open to the public and cameras are allowed. The LA County Supervisors Office posted a notice of the “public” meetings in Washington D.C., but they obviously didn’t expect any interested members of the public to actually show up to these long distance meetings, much less a reporter and a camera crew. Reporter Janet Levy and a three-man camera crew representing Full Disclosure Network were barred from attending 5 of the 10 meetings.(4)

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

In these questionable meetings, the five LA County Supervisors bargained with politicians Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, Dianne Feinstein and others (all welfare statists) to gain your tax dollars before other states had a chance to apply for the federal funds. The five LA County Supervisors who committed this deception are Gloria Molina, Zev Yaroslavsky, Mark Ridley- Thomas, Don Knabe and Michael Antonovich. The heart of the corruption is inside of the LA County Board of Supervisors Office.(5)

Full Disclosure Network and Judicial Watch have sent Public Records Act Requests for information about these secret meetings to the LA County Council weeks ago. They are required to respond within 10 days to the records request, yet there has been no response to date. Full Disclosure Network sent a request for investigation to LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley and California State Attorney General Jerry Brown. LA County DA Steve Cooley has ignored the request while Attorney General Jerry Brown has rejected investigation, claiming it is outside of his jurisdiction. All parties are in violation of their Oath of Office to follow the Constitution.

LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley is running for the office of California State Attorney General this November, and current Attorney General Jerry Brown is running for the California State Governor’s seat.

Watch this damning video about Steve Cooley recorded two years ago, which alleges that Cooley accepted bribe money from criminal defense attorneys, in addition to other criminal activity.

THE DEADLY CLOSED CIRCLE

The importance of the wide-sweeping judicial corruption case and the LA County Supervisors’ violation of the Brown Act is that is is a model for decay for the rest of the country. The big picture objective seems to be the federal government trying to make states financially reliant upon federal money so that state sovereignty is weakened while federal power is increased and centralized.

Richard Fine connected the dots, with his discovery of massive judicial corruption that protects those with power and money. LA County is a closed system, a loop that circles back on itself. Our government was created as a Republic that values individuals’ rights and representatives are elected by democratic process. However, this system has been circumvented in LA County and is a model for the destruction of the democratic process.

• The LA County Supervisors authorized illegal payments to the LA Superior Court judges (over $50,000 per judge this year) in order to rule on cases in favor of the county which the county’s own statistics bear out (only 3 cases have been won against the county since 2005 when a judge decided the case).

• The LA Superior Court judges in turn support the LA County Supervisors.

• The California State Legislators and Arnold Schwarzenegger protected the LA Superior Court judges, LA Supervisors and all other government officials who facilitated the illegal payments to the judges by granting them retroactive immunity for criminal prosecution in bill SBX211. This retroactive immunity from criminal prosecution includes the State Legislators and Arnold, and therefore, incriminates them!

• The LA Supervisors authorized a lawsuit, using taxpayer money, for Sheriff Leroy Baca to overturn his term limits imposed by voters in 2002. The voters’ own money was used against them! Remember that term limits curb corruption by preventing long term corrupt relationships.(6)

• The LA Supervisors authorized a lawsuit, using taxpayer money, for District Attorney Steve Cooley to overturn his term limits imposed by voters in 2002. Cooley also received a $55,000+ raise from the LA Supervisors. It would seem naive to believe Cooley is not beholden to the LA Supervisors.

• The LA Supervisors authorized a lawsuit, using taxpayer money, for LA County Assessor Rick Auerbach to overturn his term limits imposed by voters in 2002.

In other words, the LA Supervisors authorized the use of tax payer money to extend the term limits for the Sheriff, the DA and the Assessor. The LA Superior Court judges allowed the nullification of the term limits. And the tax payers ponied up the money to underwrite a system that is corrupt and works in opposition to public interest and voters’ wishes. By the way, should there be any contest or disputes regarding the voting process, it would fall within the jurisdiction of the corrupt LA Superior Court.

CONCLUSION

Professor Daniel Gottlieb has estimated that there are over TEN MILLION felony cases of corruption by the LA Superior Court judges and the LA County Supervisors for bribery, misappropriation of funds and obstruction of justice.(7)

Has Richard Fine has been locked up, and key thrown away, for exposing this information?

Judicial Watch’s victory in the case Sturgeon vs. LA County determined that the payments to the judges are illegal.

Would it be more appropriate for the LA Superior Court judges, the LA County Supervisors and the other government officials (including the California State Legislators and Schwarzenegger) who received retroactive immunity from criminal prosecution to be wearing orange jumpsuits?

What will it take to end the closed loop of apparent injustice? The door is open now for anyone who has lost a case against LA County to request a re-trial to be heard in a jurisdiction where no judges have accepted illegal payments, because the LA County Superior Court judges could be considered compromised. Requests for re-trial for people who have lost cases against LA County, when a LA Superior Court judge decided the case, could include any type of case against LA County, including land use cases, Child Protective Services cases, criminal cases, wrongful termination cases and election contest cases- virtually any case against the county that was lost.

Sources:

(1) www.fulldisclosure.net/Documents/YaffeAdmissionTranscript.pdf

(2) members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=55259

(3) www.fulldisclosure.net/Documents/Programs/567/Agenda5-5-10WashDC.pdf

(4) www.ag.ca.gov/publications/2003_Intro_BrownAct.pdf

(5) www.fulldisclosure.net/Documents/Programs/567/DCMeetingSchedule.pdf

(6) www.thefreelibrary.com/OLD+AGE+MAY+HIT+BEFORE+TERM+LIMITS.(News)-a083682381

www.thefreelibrary.com/HUSH+VOTE+COSTS+PUBLIC+D.A.,+ASSESSOR+FIGHT+TERM+LIMITS-a0132759720

(7) www.scribd.com/doc/23821500/Felony-Count-3

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I copied and pasted this but when I went back to www.beforeitsnews.com to copy the actual link I couldn't find it at all! I wonder why it was only up there for a minute or two and then removed?

Edited July 7, 2010 by galtgulch

[9thdoctor]

This story didn't say why he's in jail. It's for contempt of court, he's refusing to turn over documents. Strange.