MAY 24, 2014
UPDATED JUNE 4, 2014
CALIFORNIA STATE BAR CONSPIRED FOR YEARS TO HARASS NEWS REPORTERS, TRYING TO STOP AN INVESTIGATION, THAT LINKS THE COVER UP OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY CORRUPTED PROSECUTIONS & CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, TO THE STATE BAR, & ITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES - PART II
CRIMES BY ATTORNEYS
COMMITTED FOR OTHER ATTORNEYS
COVERED UP BY STILL MORE ATTORNEYS
INCLUDING THE STATE BAR
ALL REQUEST FOR INTERVIEWS DECLINED
PART I - THE OBSTRUCTION CONSPIRACY
PART III - STATE BAR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WHISTLEBLOWS ON CONSPIRACY
PART IV - SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE - DA - INNOCENCE PROJECT PUBLIC CORRUPTION
PART V - INNOCENCE PROJECT PUBLIC CORRUPTION CON GAME FOR MONEY
The California State Bar's two year organized obstruction, and coercive legal threats, trying to stop a GTI News investigation, was all about suppressing confirmations. Confirmation that the State Bar, and its Board of Trustees knew about a "CONFIDENTIAL SAN DIEGO DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY ASSOCIATION" (SDDDAA) CONSPIRACY DOCUMENT, with the ASSOCIATED SUPPRESSION OF STATE BAR CITIZEN COMPLAINTS.
A cover up to hide when the State Bar, and its Trustees were informed about CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY documents involving Prosecuting Attorney members, and what the CSB did to bury the evidence, and cover up the crimes. A cover up conspiracy with a motive to protect large numbers of San Diego Prosecuting and Private Attorneys from criminal prosecutions, and from State Bar misconduct investigations.
A cover up supported by State Bar false allegations of media harassment, and threats of severe legal retaliations, if this reporter's investigations continued. A DA conspiracy document the State Bar, and its Board of Trustees knew about, lied about, and buried, long before GTI News started asking questions. Questions that the State Bar did not want to answered, on the record, or have the public know about.
THE LAW SAY:
Co-Conspirator (Accessory)
In common law, an accessory could not be found guilty unless the actual perpetrator was convicted. In most U.S. jurisdictions today, however, an accessory can be convicted even if the principal actor is not arrested or is acquitted. The prosecution must establish that the accessory in some way instigated, furthered, or concealed the crime. Typically, punishment for a convicted accessory is not as severe as that for the perpetrator
An accessory after the fact is someone who knows that a crime has occurred but nonetheless helps to conceal it. Today, this action is often termed obstructing justice.
In Criminal Law, contributing to or aiding in the commission of a crime. One who, without being present at the commission of an offense, becomes guilty of such offense, not as a chief actor, but as a participant, as by command, advice, instigation, or concealment; either before or after the fact or commission.
As previously report by GTI News, In November 2010, a San Diego Deputy District Attorney Association Legal Defense Fund document was written. A document that described a DDA Association, DA Office, criminal conspiracy to obstruct, and close, the criminal investigation against SDDA senior Prosecutor DDA Ernest Marugg, in exchange for his quiet resignation, and his silence, and it was not the first time. A written conspiracy that included plans to hide the corruption, from State Bar investigations. Marugg's resignation became official in October 2010, and the criminal investigation was shut down, according to plan.
A San Diego, CA. DA conspiracy driven by multiple self protection issues. The foremost of which, was to avoid huge civil liability, from up to thirty-six (36) women victim/witnesses ready to testify against DDA Marugg. Liability that could severely impact the finances of the DA's Office for decades. The conspiracy was also about protecting other on going active DDA public coruption criminal conspiracy operations involving other Prosecutors, and to protect the DA's public image for political reasons.
The San Diego District Attorney Office was rampant, with other quiet resignations, and conspiracies with Judges, and Police to cover up the crimes of other Police and DDA's. All of which had potential adverse financial liability, and adverse political aspects, for the San Diego DA's Office, and the State Bar. All of which, the State Bar had public record evidence on, for more than two years, as the Bar, and its staff burried the evicence, and complaints, to obstructed news investigations, while repeatedly lying about the State Bars knowledge of the complaints, and crimes by attorneys.
As Reported by GTI News:
CALIFORNIA STATE BAR DIRTY ATTORNEY PROTECTION SYSTEM - PART I
DDA, JUDGE, COP CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE
Marugg, was allowed to quietly resign from the State Bar, as he did from the DA's Office, and walk away with no prosecution, and all of his legal rights to practice law in other states un-obstructed. Signed, State Bar complaints from citizens, were buried with the conspiracy document, while State Bar Attorneys threatened news reporters, to obstruct questions about the documents, and how the State Bar hid them.
AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED BY GTI NEWS
The Marugg-DA prosecutor conspiracy was to suppress, an active DA criminal investigation of DDA Marugg, that had high potential for DA Office civil liability, and was very corrosive to the public image of the DA's office. The document discussed the concerns, of the DA's Office, and Marugg's attorney Richard Castle, that the State Bar might find out about the Marugg corruption, and its cover up. The document even references the conspirators concerns over a State Bar contact, with the DA's Office six month earlier, related to an existing State Bar citizen complaint.
THE DDA ERNEST MARUGG - DA CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE
The document continued with a discussion of how the DA's Office would shut down the criminal investigation, and hide information on the investigation, from the State Bar, to obstruct future investigations. When a senior group of San Diego Prosecuting Attorneys is concerned their corruption cover up might be discovered, and investigated by the State Bar, it is just additional confirmation of the serious misconduct, and criminal nature of the written discussion.
A DA criminal investigation of a DDA, that many called a "Sexual Predator", that could produce large volumes of evidence, that victim plaintiffs could use against the DA's Office in civil lawsuits. With a reported thirty six victims, 36 witness, the financial damages alone could be in the tens of millions. More importantly, the prosecution of DDA Marugg could expose even more adverse evidence, and other on going similar DDA criminal cover up operations. Cover ups that also involved quiet resignations of DDA's, and suppression of criminal investigations.
Burying the Marugg's corruption was a WIN-WIN plan for the DA's Office. They could use less than one tenth of the money they saved in civil damages, to defend against any citizens that filed a civil lawsuit. A legal tactic that is used by public agencies, against their citizens, on a regular basis, to hide public corruption.
As in past cases of San Diego DDA corruption, with the Marugg's criminal investigation suppressed, and no prosecution, the DA's office was free to conspire to abuse the State public personnel privacy laws, to hide more evidence, and shut down news media access to public records. Records that could endanger the financial and political interest of the DA's Office, and their union employees.
The unlimited legal financial resources of the DA's Office, supported by tax payer dollars, could then used to obstruct and delay any, and all civil litigations. Resources that can financially break any victim plaintiffs, or force minimal settlements, with secrecy clauses, that protect the DA's public corruption.
THE TAMARA McANALLY LAW SUIT EXPOSES DA & STATE BAR CORRUPTION
The first observed lawsuit against Marugg, and the DA's Office was filed by Tamara and Jon McAnally on 11-22-11. A lawsuit that linked Marugg, and the DA's office cover up of the corruption, to one of those "OTHER ON GOING CRIMINAL OPERATIONS". A DA money making scheme, that financially supports pay and benefits, that involves insurance fraud and bribery, in DDA Marugg's insurance fraud division. Insurance fraud and bribery in the prosecution of citizens for profit, like Tamara McAnally, by corrupt DDA's like Marugg. Prosecutions used for sexual access to the women being prosecuted, with cash payments from insurance companies to DA's. A lawsuit with allegations of Malicious Prosecution, and Civil Rights Violations involving a DA insurance fraud bribery scheme, initially discovered in 2008 by GTI News.
As Previously Reported by GTI News:
State Financed Criminal Insurance Fraud Of Citizens, Protected By District Attorneys Like Bonnie Dumanis For FIVE MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IN EXPANDED UNION JOBS, PAY, AND BENEFITS !!
The DA's Office defense approach to McAnally's lawsuit was as predicted. Marugg was declared a personnel issue, upon resignation, protected by State employee privacy laws. The DA's Office, and Marugg, suddenly became innocent of all allegations, as Marugg had never been convicted of anything. Marugg reportedly died two year later in November of 2013, and the McAnally litigation is still underway, against the DA's Office.
This reporter had confirmed in advance of contacts with the State Bar, that at least two formal written Marugg complaints, had been filed with the State Bar, by San Diego County residents, Tamara McAnally and Joe Alvarez. The complaint, filed in early 2010, was even referenced in the Marugg-DA conspiracy document. Both complaints had been widely reported in the news.
However, when this reporter contacted the State Bar in March of 2012, with copies of the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter, the State Bar obstructions went into high gear. For two years the State Bar staff, suppressed interview request, evaded questions, denied knowledge of the Marugg corruption complaints, and went out of their way to deny knowledge of the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter.
As Reported by GTI News:
CALIFORNIA STATE BAR DIRTY ATTORNEY PROTECTION SYSTEM
It is not known, if the three senior Media Contact Professionals Chiang, Ernde, and Bossart, were just grossly incompetent, or under orders from superiors, to lie about the Bar's knowledge of the Marugg complaints, and the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter.
If the Bar's Media Contact (MC) professionals, really did not know about the Marugg corruption, it would have been a short walk to the records room. Especially, with an evidence letter provided by GTI News, written by Marugg's attorney, describing a criminal conspiracy with San Diego Prosecuting Attorneys, to hide DDA Marugg's corruption, from State Bar investigations.
The State Bar, and their General Council, knew this reporter wanted to ask questions about the document, and its suppression, when the Bar received the document, who knew about the document, and what the Bar Officials did when they received the document. The State Bar employees, and the Executives made it clear, they did not want to answer those questions on the record.
WITNESSES & PUBLIC RECORD EVIDENCE OF STATE BAR CORRUPTION
This reporter initially interviewed one of the victim, Tamara McAnally, in March of 2012. McAnally had been prosecuted and convicted of insurance fraud, by Maugg. Future investigations disclosed that a guilty plea had been extorted, by threat of extend prison time, for crimes that did not exist. A threat that would disappear with a guilty plea, no jail time, and cash penalty payments. Cash payments that would be shared with the DA's Office through the on going insurance fraud bribery scheme.
The aggressive threats of long prison terms, or a guilty plea, that financially benefits the DA.S Office is common practice observed by this reporter in many San Diego DA prosecutions, that turn sour in the middle of the case. The conviction was later reversed, when the courts questioned the evidence, the tactics of DDA Marugg, and the motives of the DA's office.
McAnally had confirmed in 2012 that the Marugg-DA conspiracy document had been produced, in response to a subpoena for records, in a lawsuit against the San Diego DA's Office. McAnally also confirmed she, and others, had filed complaints with the State Bar, against DDA Marugg, before the DA conspiracy letter was found. Complaints that were confirmed in multiple news reports.
Yet multiple State Bar Media Contact Supervisors repeatedly stated they had never heard of the Marugg case, or the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter, as the State Bar personnel aggressively avoided all questions related to the document, provided by this reporter. A document that McAnally stated had been forwarded to the State Bar as a supplement to her complaint, long before this reporters initial contact with the State Bar.
On 5-13-14, after two years of denials and delays from State Bar employees, this reporter re-contacted McAnally. McAnally again confirmed the source of the conspiracy letter. McAnally also stated, again, that when the Marugg-DA conspiracy document was discovered, it was forwarded to the State Bar. McAnally also stated that as a backup, the Marugg-DA conspiracy document was also sent to The Board of Trustees, which was headed up at that time, by attorney Board President Patrick Kelly.
Statements which explains the Bar's motive, for the immediate, and threatening letter from General Council Thomas Miller, demanding this reporter immediately stop, all attempts to contact Board Trustee Officers for interviews. The Bar staff could effectively block access to the Bar Executives, however, that was not the case with the Board Trustees. They worked in private offices, or other public agencies, that did not have Bar staff to intercept, and block news media contacts.
After two years of delays from three Media Contact (MC) personnel, MC Bossart was advised the continuous delays had to stop, and this reporters investigation would be expanded to the State Bar Board of Trustee. Bossart became noticeably irritated, and renewed demands that this reporter talk exclusively with him. When those demands were rejected, Bossart's demands changed, to include written signed complaints, from this reporter, against Marugg, and other attorney corruption, that was reported in GTI's News articles.
Bossart stated the Bar could not investigate Marugg, or any other attorney without a signed complaint. A very significant demand, considering the State Bar already had multiple signed complaints against Marugg, from female victims, long before this reporter contacted the State Bar. Complaints the Bar denied knowledge of for two years. Complaints on which the Bar took no actions against Marugg, other than allowing his to quietly resign his California license, so he could go set up shop in another State.
Bossart then ordered all Bar staff to direct all calls from this reporter, only to Bossart. Similar obstructions were encountered on initial contacts with senior Public Defender, Board of Trustee's President Luis Rodriguez, as previously reported.
However, those instructions had not filtered down to Board of Trustees VP Craig Holden. Once contacted, Holden attempted to help this reporter, make direct contact with Bar Executive Dunn. On 4-23-14 at 1025am, this reporter initially contacted Holden, a private attorney in Los Angeles, and found him to be professional, concerned, and helpful. Holden was briefed on the wide spread DDA public corruption in San Diego.
Holden stated he had not heard anything about the DA corruption issues in San Diego, or the the reporting of those issues to the State Bar by GTI News. Holden suggested this reporter contact the State Bar in San Francisco. Holden was advised that all contacts with Bar Media Contact personnel, over a two year period, had been blocked, and there were no call backs. Holden stated, "you need to contact Bob Holly, he's the #2 at the Bar, or Jayne Kim, she is the head of investigations. The number is 800-834-9083." Holder stated he would contact Bob Holly, tell him this reporter was seeking contact, and give Holly this reporters phone number.
Six days later, on 4-29-14 at 1028 hours, this reporter again contacted Holden. Holden was advised there had been no call from Bob Holly, and all new request to talk with Executives Dunn, Holly, or Kim were still being obstructed by Bar Media Contact Bossart. Holden was advised Trustee President Rodriguez had been told, to not talk with this reporter. Holden stated he, "would contact Mr. Dunn to find out what was going on", and would get back to this reporter.
On 5-6-14 at 8:55am, this reporter was contacted by Bar Trustee President Rodriguez, regarding previous request for interviews. Rodriguez stated he had read GTI News's initial article, and made it clear he did not like what he read. Rodriquez stated that all questions would have to be submitted in writing to State Bar Media Contact Ernde. Rodriguez was told that MC Ernde was one of the persons that had actively obstructed interview request to executives for more than a year.
Rodriguez did not want to identify, who ordered him not to talk with this reporter. Rodriguez was told this investigation was also about Prosecutors, conspiring with Judges, and Police Officers to tamper with court prosecutions and investigations. Rodriguez was asked, as a Public Defender and officer of the court, didn't he fell some obligations to explain the Bar's actions? Rodriguez made it clear that he did not want to hear about it, and threatened that any reporting on him, or the Public Defenders Office, "could have legal consequences", and hung up.
Twenty-five minutes later, this reporter was contacted by a woman that stated she was the secretary to Trustee VP Craig Holden. The Secretary stated that Mr. Holden would have no further comment, and this reporter should contact State Bar General Council Thomas Miller, and hung up.
THE THREATS EXPAND
The following day this reporter received a threatening letter, from the State Bar General Council Thomas Miller. The letter was a series of false accusations, including claims of harassment of Board Trustees, and a demand that all attempts to contact State Bar, and Board Officials by any means, at any location, cease immediately, under threat of severe legal retaliations, from the State Bar.
"Board of Trustees President Luis Rodriguez, Board of Trustees vice President Craig Holden and Executive Director Senator Dunn all decline to speak with you........I direct you to cease your harassing attempts to contact them or other Trustees by telephone, email, mail or otherwise, whether at their workplaces, homes or State Bar of California addresses.......If you persist in your reckless accusations, this office will pursue all measure withing its authority to hold you accountable."
Tamara McAnally's documented State Bar complaint process, has directly linked notice of the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter, to the State Bar, and the Board of Trustees. The State Bar obviously does not want news media questions, confirming that document notice to the Board of Trustee, any more then they wanted direct media questions to State Bar Executives, connecting the documents to the State Bar Executives, and the Bar's past actions.
Most of the Board of Trustee members are private attorney, that do defense work, and this reporter does not believe they would approve of the Bar Executives conduct, and the Bar was obviously concerned about what the Trustees might say, or do, with the facts of the cover up. The thought a Board Trustee might let something slip out, hit a raw nerve, in the Bar Executive Offices.
Attorney Thomas Miller has only been General Council for the Bar for about two months. Miller has no direct knowledge of the two year GTI News investigation contacts with Bar employees, other than statements of Bar employees. Employees that have repeatedly lied about the Bar's knowledge of the Marugg corruption, the Bar's existing citizen complaints, and the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter. Employees with a vested interest in keeping their bosses happy.
State Bar General Council Thomas Miller stated the position of the State Bar, relative to the Bar taking no actions against DDA Marugg (attorney), his defense council Richard Castle (attorney), or multiple senior DA Prosecutors (attorneys), involved in the misconduct, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and conspiring to hide the corruption from the State Bar, is:
"The State Bar is not authorized to and does not engage in criminal law enforcement, so if you have complaints of criminal conduct I suggest you contact the State of California Department of Justice"
The State Bar's position is clear. When large numbers of Prosecuting ATTORNEYS, conspire with other Prosecuting ATTORNEYS, to cover up the public corruption of other Prosecuting ATTORNEYS, and those same ATTORNEYS don't feel an over whelming urge to investigate, prosecute, and jail THEMSELVES, the State Bar feels it has meet it's duty to protect the public.
A State Bar that has more of an obligation to report criminal corruption involving ATTORNEYS, to the Department of Justice, than any News Organization, including GTI News. However, that kind of State Bar reporting would not be in the best financial interest, of a State Bar, supported by the dues, from those same ATTORNEYS.
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL "QUIET RESIGNATIONS"
The State Bar General Council's advise to contact the AG's Office was very surprising, considering the California AG's office is already on the record, using the "quiet resignation" of a Senior Assistant Attorney General, to shut down criminal complaints, and news investigations of the AG's Office. An AG Attorney that was obstructing the filing and investigation of criminal complaints, involving the same San Diego District Attorneys Office Prosecutors.
Prosecuting Attorneys that worked with DDA Marugg, DDA Winn, DDA Rodriguez, and DDA Gunn, who had conspired with Superior Court Judges, other DDA's, and Oceanside Police Officers, to cover up the felony crimes, of other DDA's, and more Oceanside Police Officers. Three out of four DDA's, which "quietly resigned", just like Senior Assistant Attorney General Gary Schons, while other DDA's, and the State Bar suppressed investigations, and took no action.
SAAG Gary Schons did walk away from the AG's office with a lot more than DDA Marugg. Three weeks after "quietly resigning" from the AG's office, SAAG Schons became, DDA Schons in the San Diego DA's Office. The same DA's Office, that Schons had been protecting from criminal complaints, and investigations, including the Maugg corruption, from his senior position, as head of the San Diego AG's Office.
As Reported By GTI News:
SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL GARY W. SCHONS PUBLIC CORRUPTION COVER UP IN SAN DIEGO
SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL GARY SCHONS RESIGNS UNDER PUBLIC CORRUPTION COVER UP COMPLAINTS
DDA Laura Gunn - Oceanside Officer Damon Smith Public Corruption Cover Up
DDA Daniel Rodriguez - Oceanside Officer Jon Domonique Public Corruption Cover Up
STATE BAR PUBLIC CORRUPTION CATCH 22
This reporter does not know if the State Bar knew about the written DA conspiracy agreement from the initial writing. The Bar contacted the DA's office before the document was written, and protected Marugg after he quietly resigned from the DA's Office. It is clear the Bar decided early in the citizen complaint process, it was in the best interest of the Public Image of the Bar, to look the other way on Marugg's corruption, and take no action. The Bar's decision to protect Marugg's resignation from the State Bar, became set in concrete, when the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter surfaced. A letter where Marugg's own attorney stated:
"he did divulge information that was confidential which constituted serious misconduct and potentially a Penal Code violation".
When your own attorneys says your guilty, and that attorney is organizing the conspiracy to hide the corruption from the State Bar, it is indeed very serious. The fact that large numbers of DA prosecutors were also conspiring with Marugg's Attorney Richard Castle, to hide the corruption from the State Bar, really is outrageous. The Bar could not go after DDA Marugg, without going after his attorney Richard Castle, and large numbers of DDA's, and senior Prosecutors in the San Diego DA's Office.
The Bar's problem then became, the State Bar Officials, and The Board of Trustees, who were on notice with the delivery of the conspiracy letter, as part of a State Bar Complaint process, from Tamara McAnally. A DA conspiracy document that all evidence indicates was buried by State Bar Officials, to avoid investigating, and disbaring large numbers of prosecutors in the San Diego DA's Office.
Just when the State Bar thought they were clear of the public corruption, GTI News shows up with the Marugg-DA conspiracy letter, and other public record evidence documents, of San Diego DDA public corruption. The State Bar Executives did not want news reporters confirming the delivery of the documents to the State Bar, and their Trustees, before Marugg was allowed to quietly resign his California license to practice law, and simply go to another State and setup shop. So the Bar actively blocked all reporter access to the executive, lied about the documents, and warned this reporter to stay away from the Trustees, to protect the criminal cover up.
Five years of investigating Public Corruption in San Diego, and California, and its cover up in multiple Public Agencies, supported by other Public Agencies, looks very much like an organized crime family. Some attorneys have even filed lawsuits against the Oceanside Police Department, and its City Attorneys, with allegations of organized crime "RICO" violations, which once again involving legal threats, against police officers and their attorneys, if they reveal evidence of police corruption. Yet the State Bar still took no action.
Public Agencies are a relatively small community, connected by union money, that flows to corrupt elected officials, and is used to manipulate and falsify elections, for the financial benefit of the Public agencies, and their union employee. So it has become no surprise to this reporter, when one public agency goes out of its way, to protect the public corruption, in another public agency.
BREAKING NEWS !!!!
GTI News is investigation.
PART III - STATE BAR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CONFIRMS BAR DISTRUCTION AND SUPPRESSION OF COMPLAINTS, UNDER OATH!
Woodrow Higdon
Investigative Photo Journalist