Index of continuing attempts by lawyers to cover-up for fraud-related American tragedies

<body> Second Group of Lawyers Joined the Deadly Conspiracy The former series of sham legal actions by lawyers were preventing former federal agent Rodney Stich from reporting the ongoing corruption that was related to a series of continuing airline disasters, and blocking the reporting of criminal activities that he and his coalition of other federal agents sought to report. Prior sham lawsuit by CIA-FBI-related San Francisco law firm. Ongoing corruption in the government's aviation safety offices known to all of the lawyers involved in the series of conspiratorial attacks that obstructed justice. Sampling of the resulting catastrophic events known to all the lawyers. The second tier of lawyers and law firms commenced another sham lawsuit against the former federal agent in 2000−a year prior to another consequence of the corruption, cover-ups, and hoard of lawyers seeking to halt the exposure activities. The ripple effects on September 11, 2001−which continued the long series of catastrophic effects, made this next group of lawyers and law firms, and South Carolina judges−enablers to the subsequent disasters. South Carolina Lawyers & Judges Joined the Conspiracy The second group of lawyers and law firms involved in the sham lawsuit filed against former federal agent Rodney Stich and the publishing firm of Diablo Western Press included the Charleston, South Carolina, law firm of Smith and Collins, and their attorneys, David Athell Collins and Steven L. Smith. The lawsuit was filed in a small county court where judges are even more corrupt than in the larger city courts. The allegations in the lawsuit were immediately disproved by the facts to which they referred. The lawsuit used as the plaintiff a former resident of Elko, Nevada, whose wife was murdered shortly after she confided to her doctor that if she were found dead, her husband would have done it. A week later she was murdered. Her husband, Steve Gratzer, left the state, and at the time of the lawsuit against Stich, was reportedly a prison guard in South Carolina. The Alleged Libelous Statements The alleged libel arose from the printing in the book, Drugging America, of statements written to Stich, which he printed word-for-word. Among the many people who provided Stich with information about corruption in government was a former physician from Elko, Nevada, who was also a Lt. Col. in the Idaho National Guard: Dr. Geza Cserno, M.D. While discussing retaliation by Justice Department prosecutors against him, as a result of his position as the medical director in the Idaho National Guard and the refusal of the Guard Unit to join in the attack upon the Ruby Ridge family, the doctor described a conversation he had with a patient, Doris Gratzer. Dr. Cserna described to Stich the retaliatory actions taken against him by Justice Department prosecutors after the Idaho National Guard, in which he was a medical officer, refused to provide a helicopter to attack the Ruby Ridge family. In the book, Drugging America, Stich included this reference to Doris Gratzer to complete the contents of his discussions. Nowhere in the book was it stated, or implied, that Steve Gratzer murdered his wife since that was not the nature of the subject being discussed. (However, based upon what the doctor told Stich, Steve Gratzer should be a prime suspect in the murder of Doris Gratzer.) The following is what was stated in the book: Imprisoning A Doctor On Perjured Testimony In 1997 I started receiving information from a physician who had been targeted in a similar gun-charge. Dr. Jed Cserna was an MD with a private practice in Ely, Nevada, and a Lt. Colonel in the Idaho National Guard, with 16 years of military service behind him. His problems started in Ely, Nevada, where he was a physician. Cserna told me how it appeared to start. While he was treating a patient, Doris Gratzer, she told him, "If I'm ever shot, Steve [her husband] did it." Dr. Cserna told this to the hospital staff and they said that she always had problems, and this occasion was no different than others. A week later, she was found dead, killed by a bullet wound to the head. Cserna said her husband, Steve Gratzer, was influential in the town, especially with the sheriff, who was responsible for conducting an investigation into his wife's killing. Cserna was now a danger to Gratzer. According to Cserna, false statements were made by a government informant, seeking to justify his position and pay, that resulted in a raid by ATF agent Doreen on his doctor's office. His home was broken into and possessions disappeared. Participating in the ATF raid was the sheriff who he referred to as Burnie (Ronero), who would soon participate in sham charges filed against the doctor. Cserna said her husband, Steve Gratzer, was influential in the town, especially with the sheriff, who was responsible for conducting an investigation into his wife's killing. Cserna was now a danger to Gratzer. According to Cserna, false statements were made by a government informant, seeking to justify his position and pay, that resulted in a raid by ATF agent Doreen on his doctor's office. His home was broken into and possessions disappeared. Participating in the ATF raid was the sheriff who he referred to as Burnie (Ronero), who would soon participate in sham charges filed against the doctor. Government agents arrested Cserna a short time later and charged him with possession of a machine gun and a short-barreled rifle. The guns in question were an AR-15 that was not an automatic, and a Uzi 9mm that had been sold to him with a folding stock and various barrels. He had used both guns two and three times a week at the local police firing range and was never questioned about their legality. DOJ Retaliation Because of Refusing Ruby Ridge Participation? Cserna told me about an event that happened in Idaho while he was the physician assigned to the Idaho National Guard air wing. During the Ruby Ridge attack that killed Mrs. Weaver and her son, ATF agents had gone to the Idaho National Guard base and told the Commander of the helicopter division, "We are ordering you to activate your choppers to go north and strafe Ruby Ridge." The colonel refused, stating, "This is against the law, the constitution, and finally, Randy Weaver is an Idaho Citizen. Either you get out or I'll have you thrown out." The quotation by Dr. Cserna that was in the book, Drugging America, and was privileged under law. Also, in no way did the statements imply that Steve Gratzer murdered her (although the information Stich obtained raised a strong probability that Steve Gratzer did in fact murder his wife). It is common for prosecutors to threaten people with punishment if they don't cooperate in giving testimony, fabricating testimony, or to join a lawsuit against a particular target, and the question arises whether Steve Gratzer, who may have been threatened with being charged with his wife's murder, did not cooperate. This is only speculation, but it is entirely possible. No Possibility of Lawyers Obtaining Money Before the South Carolina law firm of David Collins filed their lawsuit against Stich, the law firm knew that neither Diablo Western Press, nor Stich, had any assets that could be seized, nor insurance. The only assets were the books, and taken from the publisher, these would be virtually valueless. Despite this knowledge, several dozen attorneys and half a dozen law firms had put hundreds of hours into this action during the past several years. No Basis for Personal Jurisdiction Stich had no connection to the State of South Carolina. Neither did Diablo Western Press. It had no office there and solicited no business there. And the charges were clearly disputed by the clear wording in the book. Attorney David Athell Collins first contacted Stich through a June 8, 2000 letter, falsely stating that "Stich makes certain accusations against my client. Essentially, Mr. Stich has accused my client of killing his ex-wife and that the murder was covered up." The book clearly did not make any such statement or insinuation. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Stich responded with a June 29, 2000 letter, making it clear that no such charge was made by the clear wording in the book. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Legal papers filled in the South Carolina action, special appearance objecting to personal jurisdiction, September 28, 2000. (Adobe PDF) The Smith and Collins lawyers filed a motion with the court to bar Stich from representing Diablo Western Press, that a lawyer had to do that. Stich filed papers showing that this requirement did not exist in the present case. January 2, 2001. (Adobe PDF) Disregarding the absence of jurisdiction over a California resident, the South Carolina judge, Jackson V. Gregory, rendered a $3 million default judgment against Stich and Diablo Western Press, on November 3, 2000. (Adobe PDF) That order was followed by another order, Judge Patrick R. Watts, on July 9, 2001, ordering the payment of $3 million. That order had numerous false statements. One stated: "This Court has received into evidence correspondence from the Defendants showing a lack of respect for the legal system and this Court." No such statement was ever made or sent, The only communications sent to the court were the above legal filings. (Adobe PDF) Over the next six years, the Smith and Collins law firm paid various California lawyers to file legal papers in the California courts to enter the South Carolina default judgment as a local California judgment and then take actions to seize the books exposing the corruption detailed between their covers. Collins knew that federal judges had seized all of Stich's assets and that he had none to seize; only the books. Reentry of California Judges in the Scheme The same California judicial system that had played key roles to silence Stich, in unison with a CIA-front law firm, then refused to recognize California law that barred the filing of the South Carolina default judgment. One of the protections was the anti-SLAPP legislation, that provides defense against lawsuits retaliating against people exposing misconduct or corruption in government offices. Further, the South Carolina judge had not personal jurisdiction over a California resident who never appeared in South Carolina. California judge Terence L. Bruiniers in Martinez, California then entered the $3 million default judgment as a California judgment, and increased it to $4,238,003.20. March 28, 2002. case # MSC01-05094. Bruiniers made major false statements and continued the violation of due process that had been standard and continuous by California judges since the start of the continuing series of sham lawsuits in 1982. In his decision, Bruiniers false wrote: There being no Opposition to the Court's Tentative Ruling, same is adopted as follows: Plaintiff's request for judicial notice is granted. The motion to vacate the judgment is denied; Defendant Diablo Western Press, Inc. has made no appearance in this action, because it is not represented by counsel; Merco Construction Engineers, Inc. v. Municipal Court (1978) 21 Cal. 3d 724, 731-733. Regarding defendant Stich, the court could properly decline to consider the opening brief, since it fails to comply with the page limitation rule for memoranda of points and authorities supporting a motion. California Rules of Court,, Rule 313(d). Nevertheless, the court will address the merits of the claims raised by Stitch. Much of what Stitch argues here appears to reiterate arguments presented to the South Carolina court. The South Carolina court determined that personal jurisdiction was established, and that judgment is now final. The South Carolina judgment is entitled to full faith an credit. CCP Sec. 1710.35, 1710.40; Liquidator of Integrity Ins. Co. v. Hendrix (1997) 54 Cal. App0.4th 971, 975. Defendant's desire to relitigate the default judgment is not a defense to that judgment.. See McGuire v. Brightman (1978) 79 Cal. App;.3d 776. Defendant Stich has made no showing which would permit this court to vacate the judgment pursuant to Sec. 1710.40 CCP, et seq. MOTION IS DENIED. One of the many errors by Judge Bruiniers was that the California judges had no jurisdiction over Diablo Western Press, since it was a Nevada corporation. Any action taken against it had to be done in Nevada. In a follow-up to that order, court commissioner Judith A. Sanders continued to insure that the scheme succeed. Stich filed a notice of appeal (May 3, 2002) and received notice signed by California Court of Appeal judge William R. McGuiness (June 4, 2002) denying him the right to proceed with the appeal. (Adobe PDF). The notice stated: Rodney Stich's application for permission to proceed with this appeal is denied. He has not shown a reasonable possibility that the appeal has merit. (Code Civ. Proc., § 391.7). McGuiness was one of the judges involved in the sham lawsuit filed by the San Francisco CIA-front law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross, that violated dozens of state and federal laws. When Stich exercised California state defense remedies, which were justified on the basis of any one of the dozens of laws being violated, the exercise of due process was called a frivolous act and he was labeled a vexatious litigant. In that way, California judges were able to subvert every protection in law. McGuiness continued these earlier tactics. Stich then filed a notice of appeal with the Supreme Court of California and this was denied in a May 20, 2002, letter, claiming Stich had been declared a vexatious litigant. (Adobe PDF) Stich first sought relief against the SLAPP action in the California courts, encountering the same massive judicial block that he had previously encountered. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) That filing was denied, claiming that a prior order by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel in 1990 barred Stich, for the remainder of his life, from filing any papers in any district of appellate court. Stich then filed a lawsuit in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada (March 28, 2002), and again, encountered the same judicial block as in prior years. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Among those involved in that scheme were the lawyers David Collins, Troy Guerard Knight, Jerome M. Yalon, Irwin J. Eskanos, Barry Adler, and Jeff Daniel; the law firms of Smith and Collins in South Carolina, and Eskianos and Adler; and the person used as the Plaintiff in the action, Steve Gratzer, who moved from Nevada to South Carolina, where he was a prison guard, and whose wife warned that her husband was threatening to kill her. The Collins law firm hired numerous local attorneys to collect on the judgment, several of whom refused to proceed. Law Firm Had Government Ties An article in the San Francisco legal newspaper, Daily Journal, strongly indicated that Collins and his law firm were acting for unknown sources in government, not only against Stich, but against those who were exposing President George Bush's delinquent air national guard record. Similar acts were done to discredit Operation Tailwind. It filed a lawsuit against the people who reported the secret operation against military defectors in Vietnam known as Operation Tailwind. Secret Source Funded the Thousands Of Hours Involving Hoard of Lawyers The accumulation of facts and evidence strongly indicated that: A powerful force in the federal government was orchestrating the various schemes, all of which acted to block the continued exposure of the high-level corruption, that required protecting the dozens of participants that were continuously violating major state and federal laws affecting the former federal agents' civil and constitutional rights. Protected the participants whose conduct constituted obstruction of justice and retaliation against a former federal agent and witness as part of the scheme to halt his exposure of major federal crimes. Funded the hundreds of thousands of hours of involving by lawyers and law firms over many years. Tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, half a dozen law firms, and dozens of lawyers, were involved in the 23 years of sham legal actions where the lawyers knew there was no money to be obtained. Obviously, a high source in government would be the most likely funding source, since it also had to protect the perpetrators. Sampling of Prior Catastrophic Events From The Prior Corruption Was Known to All Lawyers and Judges. Subsequent Catastrophic Events Made Possible by Obstructing Justice Conduct The continuation of the culture of corruption−and the continuation of the cover-ups−made many people and groups enablers of subsequent preventable airline disasters, including those resulting from terrorist attacks. Woman jumping to her death from World Trade Center Had many enablers More information on the enablers to those catastrophic events: 9/11 index. Information provided by a mole inside the al Qaeda cell headed by infamous Ramzi Yousef on the planned terrorist attack, information that was then "deep-sixth" by high-level FBI-DOJ personnel. Absence of preventative measures resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths. Comparative blame for 9/11 between Afghanistan, Iraq, and the documented conduct of enablers in the United States. 9/11 enablers. Sampling of Non-Profit Documentary Books On Endemic Corruption in the United States All of the books are available at amazon.com, in print and on the Kindle, and at many other Internet sites. Information on the books by former government agent Rodney Stich Sampling of early books reviews Sampling of complimentary letters/faxes to author/activist Rodney Stich. Despite the 9/11 Consequences, Another Lawyer Group Joined the Scheme Seeking to collect the South Carolina and California default judgment of $4 million dollars and to seize the books exposing the corruption, including the corruption that helped make 9/11 possible, another group of lawyers joined the scheme. That latest law firm was headed by John Guerrini of Pasadena, California. He also knew there were no assets, and directed his efforts to obtaining a court order to seize the books. Details by clicking here. Lawyers Were Enablers to Catastrophic Events Suffered by the American People The lawyers knew they were blocking or hindering the attempts by former federal agent Rodney Stich and his coalition of other insiders from reporting and publicizing the ongoing corruption in the government's aviation safety offices and the other criminal activities. They knew the prior consequences and those occurring during their sham attacks. They obviously knew that their obstruction of justice tactics would continuation the long pattern of prior catastrophic events. The hijackings of four airliners on 9/11 were simply one-day's continuation in a long line of tragedies arising from the corruption and the cover-ups. Sampling of Related Pages Sampling of legal pages. Entry of another group of lawyers and law firms. Sampling of pages related to 9/11. Sampling of enablers to series of catastrophic events. Comparison of blame for the 3,000 deaths on 9/11−after the four groups of terrorists. 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