Introduction to how endemic corruption and endemic cover-ups was discovered and documented.

<body> Introduction to Discovery of Widespread Corruption, Massive Cover-Ups, And Series of Major National Tragedies The activist behind this site, Rodney Stich, first discovered corruption related to what at that time was the world's worst series of airline disasters. His attempts to combat the deadly problems was joined over the years by dozens of other former government agents and insiders. "Thanks" to Widespread Documented Corruption of Federal Judges, Justice Department Personnel, and Dozens of Lawyers If it were not for the multiple schemes used to halt Stich's initial exposure of the corruption that at that time was related to the frequent occurrence of airline crashes, this information would not have become available. And by their repeated documented acts, evidence is available to show the American people an area of corrupt activities in seemingly respected areas of government that meet the legal definition of a racketeering enterprise−with tragic and sometimes deadly consequences. These discoveries were spread out over 50 years, with massive amounts of supporting evidence making it possible to understand how such endemic corrupt activities could occur. For others, suddenly being exposed to this information, the reaction is sometimes disbelief. No longer is Stich attempting to convince anyone of these matters. The information is presented here, and his sole interest now is in documenting the corruption, the cover-ups, and the tragic state of in-denial by the American public that continues to enable these fraud-related tragedies to continue. If that is what the public wants, they have earned what they get! Discovery and documentation of deep-seated culture of arrogance and corruption that enabled to occur an eighty-year period of frequent airline disasters. Federal airline safety inspector Rodney Stich was given the hands-on task of correcting the conditions responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history. (Details in the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries.) Discovery and documentation of corruption in other areas, including: Drug smuggling and other crimes by personnel associated with the CIA. Corruption in the Department of Justice. Corruption of members of the House and Senate. Corruption in the federal courts. And much more. A great amount of related information and documentation has been placed at this site on matters having a major impact upon the lives, and sometimes the deaths, of people who have been and are being victimized by the corruption and cover-ups. There are hundreds of pages uploaded at various times at this site, and some of them will be partly duplicative of what is at other pages. However, the different approaches used in different pages hopefully will enable those who really want to know, to better understand the serious issues. (Any suggestions to further clarify the matters will be appreciated. Sequence of Discovery and Documentation The following general areas are listed in the approximate sequence in which former federal agent discovered them: Series of major airline disasters associated with documented corruption and with cover-ups. Having discovered the corruption in increment stages, it was easier to understand, although very shocked that such misconduct could exist. It has been difficult to present the massive amount of data on this misconduct to people unaware of these matters. For that reason, different pages at this site may approach the same issues at a slightly different angle. It starts with the discovery by the person behind this site, Rodney Stich, of deep-seated corruption related to the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history. Years of unprecedented efforts seeking to circumvent the standard patterns of cover-ups. Discovery of still other areas of corruption, some Trojan horse, subverting national interests while inflicting unrecognized grave harm upon the American people. Discovery comes from the banding together of a group of former government agents and other insiders. Misuse of the awesome powers of the Department of Justice and federal judiciary, with lawyers acting as shills, in multiple schemes seeking to halt the exposure of high-level corruption. Details of the Corruption As Discovered by Former Federal Agent The information about many areas of corruption described at this site and in the related books was obtained in the following order: As a key hands-on federal airline safety inspector-investigator in the 1960s, following many years as an airline captain in international operations and earlier as a Navy Patrol Plane Commander, Rodney Stich was asked to volunteer to correct the conditions that at that time were responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history. In this position he discovered areas of arrogance and corruption at a certain major airline, and within the higher levels of the government's two aviation safety offices: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and in the political segment of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Despite the continuing series of airline disasters, many seemingly occurring every few months, attempts to report and correct these matters were blocked. Members of Congress, Department of Justice officials, all became complicit in covering up for the deadly misconduct. Recognizing that it would probably be the end of his career, but concerned over the enormous harm resulting from the continuing airline crashes, Stich started to fight the corruption. Due to the cover-ups, retaliation, and continued discovery of other corruption inflicting great harm upon the American people, those efforts will continue until Stich is in his grave. Within the FAA, Stich used the law in such a manner that he acted similar to an independent prosecutor. Hearings before an administrator law judge lasted for several months, similar to the procedures used in criminal trials. During these proceedings Stich subpoenaed and elicited testimony from FAA management, introduced into the trial transcript official documents to support his charges that specific corruption caused or enabled to occur a series of specific airline disasters. Several of these crashes occurred in his immediate area of federal airline safety responsibilities. Further, during the hearings, three more major airline disasters occurred, each crash due to the very same safety problems and criminal violations that Stich had repeatedly reported, for which he suffered retaliation. In his closing brief, Stich warned of the consequences of a cover-up. The standard cover-up did occur, as is standard in government offices. The same corrupt culture that Stich sought to expose continued, and the resulting airline crashes continued to occur, with an even greater loss of life due to the larger size of subsequent aircraft. Since Stich had the evidence to show why the crashes and even greater number of people killed were occurring, he then started a seemingly endless series of tactics to bring an end to the never-ending tragedies. Since Stich encountered the standard cover-up by his many letters to Congress, his letters to the Department of Justice, to media people, he exercised rights and responsibilities under federal law, and filed lawsuits, first in the federal courts at San Francisco. Two of these initial lawsuits were against the Federal Aviation Administration and one was against the National Transportation safety board. Federal Statute for Reporting Corruption in Government The federal statutes providing a mandatory responsibility for federal judges included the following: Federal crime reporting statute, Title 18 U.S.C. § 4. That statute requires that anyone who knows of a federal crime must promptly report it to a federal judge or other federal officer. Members of Congress, Department of Justice officials, and other agencies that Stich contacted, fell under that responsibility. But they all blocked the reports. Stich felt that by reporting the federal crimes related to a series of specific airline disasters would force attention to be focused on the serious matters. A federal judge must receive the information of a federal crime as part of the judge's mandatory administrative duties. To block such reports would be a criminal act under various obstruction of justice statutes. Federal statute, Title 28 U.S.C. § 1361 provides that anyone can file a federal action seeking an order to force a federal official to carry out his mandatory duties and to halt unlawful conduct. A federal judge is required to provide an honest hearing and to issue such an order if the evidence warrants it. Obstruction of Justice by Political U.S. Department of Justice Employees In every instance, U.S. attorneys promptly filed motions to block the reports, which carried out their earlier actions to block the information from being made public while Stich was a federal agent in the FAA. Their earlier obstruction of justice made possible the continuation of the criminal and corrupt activities, and enabled to occur many airline crashes and many deaths. Department of Justice officials had a self-interest in preventing Stich's exposure of the criminal activities. In every case, federal judges−most of whom were former federal prosecutors−reacted by blocking the reporting of the criminal activities, thereby violating the federal crime reporting statute, and blocked presentation of evidence seeking to obtain a court order−thereby violating numerous procedural due process rights. These judicial obstruction of justice acts insured that the corrupt and criminal acts would continue−which they did−along with a continuing series of major airline disasters. (The frequent occurrence of preventable airline disasters continued for approximately 20 years, after which other factors eventually greatly reduced the frequency of airline disasters. However, preventable airline disasters did occasionally occur, the most publicized being the easily preventable hijackings of four airliners on 9/11−though the resulting ripple effects were not publicized nor recognized.) By this time, Stich remained active in aviation safety (Society of Air Safety Investigators, Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, and active pilot of his own twin-engine aircraft). The continuing crashes motivated Stich to try another tactic: publishing a book on the politics of airline safety. Circumventing Repeated Cover-Ups By Going to the People (Dreamer) The first book was published in 1978, just as the world's worst air disaster occurred, a PSA Boeing 727 that crashed into San Diego, taking the world record from the United Airlines DC-8 crash into New York City in 1960. (Ironically, the misconduct of key people at United Airlines that resulted in that great tragedy assisted in the continuation of the misconduct in the FAA that would enable to occur the hijacking of two United Airlines aircraft on September 11, 2001. That relationship would be clear after a thorough reading and understanding of the contents of the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, which is the fourth edition of the original Unfriendly Skies.) Concurrent with the publication of the first edition of Unfriendly Skies, Stich started appearing on hundreds of radio and television shows throughout the United States. His appearances resulted in several conditions: Other government agents and insiders started contacting Stich with information of corruption of people in key overt and covert government operations. These areas went far beyond the aviation arena, and provided the material for a series of other books on what Stich euphemistically called government intrigue. More accurately, major corrupt and criminal acts inflicting great harm upon important national issues, including national security. These areas are detailed in the books that Stich subsequently wrote. Another reaction to the book and the radio-TV shows was that powerful people were now exposed as involved in either the initial criminal acts or the cover-up of them. These included federal judges and Justice Department officials, both of whom had vast raw power to inflict great harm upon any targeted individual. And as Stich would discover over the years, the power to control state prosecutors, state judges, and lawyers. Having left the FAA, Stich worked for a period of time for Flying Tigers Airline, having sole responsibility for preparing the pilot operating procedure for the stretched DC-8 aircraft that the airline had on order. During this time, Stich became a real estate investor, building or upgrading a 60-unit motel in Yuba City, California; a truck stop; a golf course, and over 100 apartment units in Northern California. It was these assets that funded Stich's exposure activities, which involved publishing non-profit books, using his twin-engine aircraft to fly to distant radio and television appearances. During several of these appearances, talkshow hosts asked Stich if he weren't worried about what may be done to him. Stich replied, "As long as they can't take my assets, I'm OK." That statement may have given people at risk for what Stich was doing an idea. Sham Lawsuits: 1982 to 2005, By Hoard of Lawyers Knowingly Hindering Exposure of High-Level Corruption Starting in 1982, the vast powers of lawyers and law firms affiliated with the CIA and FBI, and state and federal judges, was directed against Stich. The action started with a sham lawsuit filed by the San Francisco law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross, and their lawyers, and over a dozen California judges. That law firm and its lawyers were fronts for the CIA and FBI, as Stich would later learn. Dozens of state and federal laws were repeatedly violated by the California judges assisting the CIA-FBI-front law firms. During this time, as Stich discovered, both personally and from his large number of inside sources, corrupt and criminal activities of people in other areas of overt and covert activities. Again and again, Stich exercised the same federal statutes to report the federal offenses to federal judges, and several times went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the crimes were not inflicting the major harm subverting major national interests, and adversely affecting so many people,. Stich might have given up. But the gravity of the offenses and the harm resulting from them caused him to continue. Maybe, tilting at windmills in light of the extent of the corruption. By this time, it became necessary for every subsequent federal judge confronted with the serious charges to continue both the obstruction of justice tactics and the massive violations of due process. Federal judges, in unison with Department of Justice personnel, from 1984 to 2003, continued the same obstruction of justice that they had done when Stich sought to report the federal offenses related to a series of airline disasters, and worse. For instance: To block Stich from reporting the federal crimes, over half a dozen federal judges issued unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich for the remainder of his life from filing any papers in any federal district or appellate court. These orders still exist, making Stich a literal man without a country as it relates to the protections of the laws and Constitution of the United States. The orders also prevented Stich from exercising the federal protections against the ongoing massive civil and constitutional violations in the California courts that involved the CIA-FBI-front law firms and cooperating California judges. Contempt of Court Charges for Reporting Corruption Related to Major National Tragedies When Stich did attempt to report corrupt and criminal activities related to the corruption that he had discovered, initially as a federal aviation safety inspector-investigator, federal prosecutor David Levi in Sacramento, California, in unison with several federal judges (Milton Schwartz, Raul Ramirez, John Moulds) charged Stich with criminal contempt of court. Stich was being charged with criminal contempt of court for attempting to report−as required by the federal crime reporting statute−such criminal activities as: The ongoing corruption in the government's aviation safety offices (and at United Airlines) that had already resulted in many specific airline disasters and would later enable to occur such other aviation disasters as the hijackings of four airliners on September 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 people. The criminal activities that he later detailed and documented in the books, Defrauding America and Drugging America (among others). Kangaroo Court Trial Conducted by Parties Implicated in the Corruption And Repeated National Tragedies The combination of Justice Department and judicial corruption denied him a jury trial, and then sentenced him to six months in federal prison. He entered prison shortly after recovering from multiple-bypass open heart surgery, at the age of 64. Sacramento lawyer Joel Pegg, who was paid over $30,000 to represent Stich, sabotaged his contempt-of-court defenses. It is important to remember that the contempt of court tactics, and the seizure of the assets that funded his exposure activities, were important links in continuing the corruption that enabled to occur the hijacking of four airliners on 9/11, killing 3,000 people, with multiple financial, personal, and national security consequences thereafter. These ripple effects might be of some interest to the American public obsessed with trivia! While in prison, federal judges, assisted by Department of Justice trustee Charles Duck (later sent to prison) issued unlawful and unconstitutional orders, without a hearing, that seized and eventually stripped Stich of the $10 million in assets that funded his exposure activities. Las Vegas lawyer Joshua Landish, who was paid over $15,000 to defend Stich against the seizure of his assets, encouraged Las Vegas Judge Robert Jones to seize and liquidate the assets without Stich's knowledge. In every case, including the initial block to reporting the crash-related corruption, Stich filed appeals and petitions for writ of certiorari to the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court throughout this 20-year period. The Justices were fully aware of the gravity of the acts perpetrated by federal judges over whom they had supervisory responsibilities. This implicated Supreme Court justices in the criminal activities since they also had a responsibility under the federal crime reporting statute and also under their supervisory responsibilities over the federal judges perpetrating the repeated obstructions of justice. The only Justice that even acknowledged the problems was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Bryan White in a letter that he sent to Stich. (Adobe PDF) The gravity of these documented matters cannot be underestimated: major crimes were committed by people in key government positions, literally Trojan horse subversive activities! Eventually, 11 years after seizing Stich's assets (which are now worth about $17 million), Stich was converted from a multi-millionaire to a pauper stage, at the age of 74, done with the help of dozens of lawyers, law firms, California judges, and federal judges. And done while members of Congress and Department of Justice personnel looked on! Those legal actions inflicted a continuing series of financial and personal harms on a daily basis, from 1982 to 1999. These actions then started again with sham actions by lawyers, law firms, and state judges in South Carolina, and then by lawyers and law firms in the Los Angeles area, and by a continuation of California judges. To this date, various actions using lawyers and judges are attempting to halt Stich's attempts to make the vast amount of information known to the American people. (What they fail to realize is that virtually nothing will motivate the American people unless it affects some trivial pacifiers with which they are obsessed!) The Documented Corruption by Enablers To Some of the Nation's Worst Tragedies The main issues here are not what was done to someone seeking to protect the United States and its people from a hoard of corrupt people in and out of government. The main issues are these: Corruption involving employees in the government's aviation safety offices. Corruption involving employees in the political U.S. Department of Justice. Corruption involving federal judges. Hoard of lawyers sophisticated to where they recognized the consequences of their corrupt conduct. Another related link. 9/11 enablers. Comparison of blame for the conditions making it easy for 19 terrorists to hijack four airliners on September 11, 2001. History of cover-ups (i.e., obstruction of justice) by members of Congress. History of cover-ups by media people and media corporations. Most of the American people who remain blissfully indifference to this information, despite being repeatedly victimized. Federal Judges' Repeated Obstruction Of Justice Acts Were Criminal The years of cover-ups and retaliation by federal judges were felonies under numerous federal statutes. The retaliation by federal judges and Justice Department lawyers were felonies under Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 35, 111, 241, 242, 245(b)(1)(B), 246, 371, 1341, 1343, 1503, 1505, 1512, 1513(b), and 1515(a). Other criminal offenses arose from the many forms of obstruction of justice tactics: Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 3, and 4, 34, 1621, 2001. Additional statutes involved: Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343, 1361. Capital Crimes When Felonies Result in Deaths When people are killed as a result of corrupt actions, the statute of limitations never expires. That means that all of the people involved in seeking to halt Stich's exposure of criminal activities that remained uncorrected as a result of their acts, would be guilty of contributing to the deaths of people that were enabled to occur by their conduct. They can therefore be charged with murder in the deaths that occurred. Think what the ramifications would be of that! If the same standards that are used to charge people with murder who didn't actually perpetrate the act but whose misconduct enabled the murders to occur, many hundreds of people identified at this site and in the related books could be charged with hundreds of murders. A Secret World Unknown To the American People The heavily documented information at this site, including the hundreds of years of experience by a coalition of former government agents and insiders reveals a world that is virtually unknown to the American people. This site, the work of a former federal agent, seeks to present factual information about a very complex series of corrupt activities that continue to threaten everyone, and for some, inflict great and irreparable harm, even death. The activities detailed here, obtained from dozens of former government agents and other insiders, show decades of great harm perpetrated either directly, or by ripple effects, not only upon people in the United States, but throughout the world. Any, and all, of the books show how the American public is similar to a feeding trough, for those in control of certain segments of government and non-government entities feed in one form or another on an uninformed, gullible, or apathetic people. The tragedy-related events described here and detailed in the books continue to spread like cancer throughout the United States. And tragically, completely off the public's radar screen, knowledge, or awareness. Among the reasons why most Americans are uninformed of these matters is due to such matters as: Culture of cover-up by bribe-taking members of Congress. Culture of cover-up by employees in control of the political U.S. Department of Justice. Culture of cover-up by media people and media corporations in the United States. Americans, who are either (a) mentally unable to comprehend these matters; (b) those who are too lazy to read anything except mundane trivia matters; (c) those who lack the courage and integrity to show outrage, especially when it takes effort. American Public As A Feeding Trough Possibly a good way to look at the decades of lying to the American people and the repeated infliction of great harm affecting them is to think of the public as a "feeding trough" for special interests to feed upon. U.S. Culture's Resemblance To Germany During Adolf Hitler's Reign Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), of Germany, first supported the rise of Adolf Hitler, and then upon learning the truth, and objecting, he was imprisoned. He later wrote a poem about the state of denial of Germans about what Hitler was doing. Probably no better example could be shown than what has been done to the American people, in their name, while they lazily ignored the outrages, some of which are detailed in this book, and many more in related books The people didn’t protest when they came for the Jews; nor when they came for the Catholics; nor when they came for the Protestants. And when they came for those who didn’t protest, there wasn’t anyone left to protest. Hundreds of letters from government insiders, including this writer, had been sent to members of Congress over the years, that required action instead of cover-ups that made possible many of America's great tragedies. Great American Disasters From Endemic Corruption, Endemic Cover-Ups, and Public Apathy Most of the above catastrophic events occurred on the program for which FAA air carrier operations inspector Rodney Stich had been given the assignment to correct the conditions responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history. Pictures of many other crashes are not shown. Latest in Continuing Series Of Catastrophic Events The continuation of the culture of corruption−and the continuation of the cover-ups−made many people and groups enablers of many subsequent airline disasters. The following aviation disasters occurred after forewarned information of the terrorist attacks were given to FBI agents by a mole inside a key al Qaeda cell: TWA Flight 800, departing a New York City airport was downed, shortly thereafter. Strong Suspicion of Terrorist Act. See the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries. This link provides information on 100 surface-to-air missiles being made available to Middle East terrorists about one year before the downing of TWA Flight 800; the rejection of the missiles by FBI-CIA personnel, and the letters written by former federal agent Rodney Stich to members of Congress seeking to prevent the transfer of the missiles. No response−followed by the missile downing of TWA Flight 800. Followed by the need for the standard cover-up to protect high-level government personnel. Think of the lady jumping to her deaths, along with many others, during the 9/11 attacks, and think back to the criminal contempt of court charges filed against the former federal agent who was trying to halt the conditions responsible for their plight−and that of many other victims. Details about the FBI-DOJ cover-ups and the contacts between the al Qaeda operative and Gregory Scarpa Jr. can be found in the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia, available in print and e-book formats from amazon.com (and in Kimble) and other sources. The decades of preventable airline disasters and their enablers are described and documented in the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries. 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. American Airlines Flight 587 (Strong indications of Terrorist Action) Consequences of Corruption And Cover-Ups Not Limited to Aviation Corruption of the Type Described at this site does not occur in a vacuum. High-level corruption in one area is simply one tentacle of a widespread culture of corruption. And the consequences of that corruption−and the endemic cover-ups−have consequences in other areas. The culture of corruption affects the people and the nation in many other ways, That includes the latest series of financial frauds that has occurred in the housing and financial sectors. Also, the effect of the endemic corruption and endemic cover-ups−major parts of the culture in the United States−that enablers successful terrorist attacks upon U.S. interests. Forewarned Bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania List of Documentary Books On Endemic Corruption in the United States More information about these books by clicking here. Return to: www.defraudingamerica.com www.unfriendlyskies.com www.druggingamerica.com www.defraudingamericablog.com www.transoceanairlines.com </body>