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While a federal safety inspector-investigator assigned to the Los Angeles office, Rodney Stich  was asked to accept the assignment to correct the conditions resulting in the worst series of air disasters in the nation's history.

At that time, United Airlines had more fatal airline crashes than all the other airlines combined. The United Airlines training and competency checks were primarily accomplished at Denver, and this is where Stich was sent to correct thee deadly conditions.

Included in the number of airline crashes that prompted government officials to ask Stich to take over the program was a crash into New York City that was the world's worst at that time (based upon the number of people killed). That crash occurred within one mile of where the World Trade Center would be later built. Among others, one was at Denver.

Upon accepting this assignment, Stich discovered a deep-seated culture, corruption, even criminal activities, that caused or made possible a series of fatal airline crashes. These corrupt conditions prevented the federal government from meeting its air safety responsibilities and were responsible for hundreds of deaths.

The conditions that Stich discovered, which had been discovered by earlier federal air safety inspectors who found themselves powerless to function in their air safety positions, included:

Corruptive Conduct by FAA Management
Who were Complicit in the Fatal Airline Crashes

What Stich discovered, and himself experienced, included the following:

Acting As Independent Prosecutor

The continuation of fatal airline crashes and the continuation of the arrogance and corruption that bred these disasters caused Stich to take actions that were never before taken. He exercised the law in a creative manner and took on the position of an independent prosecutor, conducting hearings that last for four months, and included taking sworn testimony during the hearing of key FAA officials. The 4,000 page hearing transcript proved Stich's charges that corruption within the FAA was responsible for an ongoing series of fatal airline crashes. In his final closing brief, Stich warned of a continuation of the prior airline disasters if the administrative hearing officer, William Jennings, engaged in a cover-up (which he did).

During the four-month hearing, three additional fatal airline crashes occurred, each one due to the very same problems that Stich had reported in writing, for which he received various forms of retaliation from FAA management.

Salt Lake City

The United Airlines crash at Salt Lake City resulted in 43 people being cremated alive. The official NTSB report identified as the blame for the crash and the deaths:

Lake Michigan

Another United Airlines crash occurred during descent toward Chicago, which crashed into Lake Michigan when the crew failed to recognize their altitude. Stich had made several reports on pilots' failure to recognize their altitude and made recommendations, which were, as usual, ignored by the culture of doing nothing so ass to please United Airlines.

No picture is available of the millions of pieces of wreckage from that crash.

Cincinnati

Another crash occurring during the hearing was of an American Airlines jet approachingthe airport for a landing. Failure of the pilots to recognize their proximity to the ground resulted in the pilots flying the aircraft into the ground. Again, this was a problem that Stich had recognized and reported in writing, along with recommended preventative measures.

 

Portland, Oregon

One of many other United Airlines crashes occurring after Stich finished acting as an independent prosecutor was the fatal United Airlines crash into Portland, Oregon. The crash was due to extreme ignorance of the entire crew with basic aircraft systems, a problem Stich repeatedly reported as existing at United Airlines. (There were many excellent pilot's at United Airlines; the problem was with those crewmembers that had major deficiencies due to the training and competency check frauds.) Stich's first edition of the book, Unfriendly Skies, had just been released, and being widely recognized. The NTSB, possibly fearing that the scandal involving the FAA, and it's own complicity, would surface by conducting the public hearings that were standard at such crashes, abolished the public hearing.  

 

 

Complicity by Members of Congress

Throughout the ordeal, Stich sent letters to members of Congress, advising them of the corruption, the prior airline disasters, and those that would follow. Those who responded refused to get involved, sometimes stating these were not their area of responsibility. Years later, when Stich discovered other areas of corruption in government offices that were inflicting great harm upon national interests, Stich continued to report these crimes against the United States to members of Congress. In most instances, none answered, making possible the continuation of the corruption and the tragedies, including those of 9/11, the truth of which has never before been made known to the people.

Complicity of DOJ Personnel

Stich sent letters to the Department of Justice and described the criminal activities, including the criminal perjury during the hearings. DOJ personnel engaged in a cover-up. Some of these letters were sent while Stich was still employed by the FAA, accusing certain people of criminal misconduct. If Stich could not prove these charges, the FAA would have had to terminate his employment. The early letters were followed by letters reporting criminal activities in other areas of government operations.

Appearing Before Federal Grand Jury

Stich circumvented the block by Justice Department personnel and appeared before a federal grand jury in Denver. The mechanics of how a grand jury functions, controlled by the U.S. attorney, prevented an investigation. Most members of a grand jury are naive members of the public, with no knowledge of criminal statutes, and simply rubber-stamp whatever the prosecutor wanted. The U.S. attorney controlling the grand jury was hostile, Causing stich to halt his description of what happened and pack his exhibits. Afterwards, several members of the grand jury approached Stich and stated they felt he must have a matter that should be investigated. But they had no power to do that.

Resigning from the FAA

Never before in the history of the FAA had a government safety agent forced an exposure of the deadly culture by acting similar to an independent prosecutor. It was now time to retaliate. The FAA transferred Stich to an assignment at the FAA center in Oklahoma City, into a non-flying position. After many years with the FAA, Stich felt he could not work under these conditions and left. He took his companion, Savage, a Doberman, and drove back to the California that he had left many years before, to start a new life.

In California Stich started investing in real estate, starting with a $500 investment, which he pyramided over and over again. That $500 investment eventually accumulated over $10 million in assets. He maintained his aviation safety skills, helping to start the Society of Air Safety Investigators, and by accumulating  a number of multi-engine aircraft to maintain his piloting proficiency. He took many pictures from airplanes in his spare time.

 Continuing Airline Disasters Rekindled His Efforts

As Stich had forewarned in his final closing brief, and in letters to members of Congress, the continuing culture in certain segments of the government's aviation safety offices caused a continuation of preventable airline disasters. These crashes caused Stich to become an activist against corruption related to aviation matters.

He published books, appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, and gave speeches, in an attempt to inform the public of these matters and in anticipation that there would be a sufficient number of people outraged and with sufficient courage to help bring about changes. The first book that he wrote was the first of several editions of Unfriendly Skies. That book is now in its fourth edition and called, Unfriendly Skies: 20th and 21st Centuries.

Filing Federal Lawsuits

Stich also filed federal lawsuits against the FAA to report criminal activities to a federal court under the federal crime reporting statute (18 U.S.C. § 4), and under the statute (28 U.S.C. § 1361) providing any citizen the right to seek a court order to force public officials to perform a legal duty. He also filed a federal lawsuit against the NTSB to seek a court order requiring the political board members to receive material evidence related to several airline crashes that they were covering up.

The clear wording of Title 18 U.S.C. § 4 states that federal judges (or any other federal officer) must receive the information and evidence of federal crimes being offered to them, as part of their administrative duties (not judicial decision making authority). 

Instead of receiving the information, federal district and appellate judges in the Ninth Circuit courts blocked Stich from providing this information and evidence of crimes against the United States that involved people in key government positions. 

In the first action against the FAA, district and appellate judges admitted in the record that these were serious charges but that receiving this information was a function of Congress and not the courts. The clear wording of the crime reporting statute shows that federal judges do have this responsibility. Further responsibility arose under Title 28 U.S.C. § 1361 in which Stich sought a federal court order forcing FAA officials to perform their legal duty and halt their unlawful conduct.

Justice Department lawyers filed objections to the introduction of this evidence and moved to have the lawsuits dismissed.

The lawsuits were dismissed, and Stich filed appeals and then petitions to the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who also had the responsibility under the crime reporting statute to receive the evidence of the criminal activities. They also refused.

The refusal to perform their duties under the federal crime reporting statute caused the internal FAA misconduct to continue, which was followed by even worse airline crashes due to problems that the FAA should have corrected.

Stich then published the second edition of Unfriendly Skies, which named the federal judges and Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, as holding blame in the subsequent crashes and deaths. This book and Stich's continuing appearances on radio and television threatened to expose many people in key government positions with the criminal misconduct, crashes, and deaths. United Airlines was also threatened with exposure since much of the misconduct was by management personnel of the airline.   

Discovering Other Areas of
Criminal Activities In Government

Stich's books and frequent radio and television appearances caused other government agents to contact him, providing him with information and documentation on  criminal activities in other areas of government operations. The federal crime reporting statute required that Stich, or any other person who knows of a federal crime, to promptly report it to a federal judge (or other federal officer). Since Justice Department personnel and members of Congress had repeatedly refused to receive the evidence, Stich again exercised his right and his responsibility to report the crimes to a federal court, which he started to do in 1986. These criminal activities are described in such books as Defrauding America and Drugging America.

Voiding Civil and Constitutional Rights and Protections
As Part of Obstruction of Justice Tactics

Again, federal judges refused to receive the evidence. They then compounded this offense by issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich, for the remainder of his life, from filing any papers in the federal courts. Refusing to receive evidence of criminal activities, obstructing justice, were federal crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 3, and 4.

These injunctive orders were void on the basis that they violated each of the four legal requirements for such orders and were unlawful and unconstitutional by depriving Stich of the legal rights, legal protections and legal defenses guaranteed to all citizens. Further, their result, and surely their intent, was to obstruct justice.

The Injunctive orders blocked the reporting of criminal activities and were therefore criminal in intent and consequences.  

As Stich received additional information on additional criminal activities, he again filed papers in the Ninth Circuit federal courts at San Francisco and Sacramento, seeking to report these crimes, which even included subversive activities. Justice Department lawyers and federal judges then charged Stich with criminal contempt of court for violating the orders that terminated Stich's right to federal court access. He was denied a jury trial, and the same group that was criminally implicated  in the criminal activities through their cover-ups then sentenced Stich to federal prison for six months. He was 69 years of age at that time and had just undergone six-coronary bypass open heart surgery. During this imprisonment he was put in solitary confinement for eight weeks.

It is a criminal offense to inflict harm upon a former federal agent or witness for seeking to report criminal activities. Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1510, 1512, 1513.   

Parallel Legal-Judicial Schemes
To Block Exposing High-Level Corruption

Simultaneous with federal judges and Justice Department personnel blocking the reporting of these criminal and subversive activities, the CIA-front law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross in San Francisco filed a sham lawsuit against Stich in the courts at Fairfield, California, focusing on the $10 million in real estate assets that funded Stich's exposure activities. the lawsuit sought to immediately deprive Stich access to these funds while acting to destroy the assets.

In law, there are two ways to immediately place a person's assets in control of a judge. Either through probate or in a divorce action in a community property state where the court holds that the property is community. Stich wasn't dead so the probate route was out. Stich had been legally divorced for the prior 20 years and that route should have been out. No problem; when you have control of judges and have a powerful source high in government supporting your unlawful conduct, the victim has no defenses.

The CIA-front law firm filed a divorce action against Stich, claiming that their client in Duncanville, Texas wanted to terminate the marriage and was claiming most of Stich's personal and corporate assets. That lawsuit was barred by dozens of state and federal laws and constitutional protections.

Included in the obstacles to that lawsuit was the fact that the parties had been legally divorced for over 20 years, as established by a January 31, 1966 divorce judgment that had been entered as a local judgment in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada, and California. Both parties had been declaring themselves divorced throughout this period in real estate and other legal transactions. The parties' divorced status was recognized in over 100 title insurance policies. In addition, the Texas resident continued to declare herself divorced in her resident state of Texas while the CIA-front law firm was claiming she was married and wanted to terminate that marriage.

By placing lis pendens on all of Stich's properties and refusing to allow mortgages to be rolled over when they came due, valuable properties were lost. If the CIA-front law firm was actually representing a marriage partner in Texas, they would be guilty of malpractice for allowing valuable assets to be lost.

For six years, over a dozen California judges granted every motion requested by the CIA-front law firm, refused every motion filed by Stich, and continued to violate record-numbers of state and federal laws barring them from the actions they were taking. It became apparent that they did not fear the consequences of their blatantly unlawful and unconstitutional conduct that violated numerous federally protected rights for which there were remedies in federal courts.

It became a standard practice of California judges to label every exercise of due process defense remedies a frivolous act, and then ordered Stich to pay huge financial sanctions for exercising these defenses. It is a criminal offense to inflict harm upon a person for exercising constitutional due process rights.   

 Exercising Federal Defense Remedies :
Returning to the Judges Involved in Prior Cover-Ups

Stich filed the first of numerous papers in federal court seeking to halt the personal and financial losses arising from the massive violations of state and federal laws. This right was provided by the laws and Constitution of the United States including:

The same federal judges who blocked the reporting of the criminal activities, and were implicated in the resulting deaths, then repeatedly violated every protections that they were paid and entrusted to provide. Their actions protected the scheme, protected the CIA-front law firm and lawyers, and protected the California judges who became part of the scheme.

Despite the bar against dismissal when the facts stated in the complaint state a federal cause of action for which federal relief is available, every federal judge promptly dismissed the lawsuits, thereby protecting the CIA-front law firm and the heavy involvement of California judges, aided and abetted the violations of federally protected rights for which federal judges had a responsibility to prevent. Federal judges were now combining their obstruction of justice with a blatantly sham lawsuit filed by a CIA-front law firm to halt Stich's exposure activities through taking of his assets.   

Without going into detail on this page, for those who are interested in these details, they are described in a lawsuit filed in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) That lawsuit raised several issues, including:

Seeking Relief in Chapter 11 Courts
From Civil Rights Violations

Denied all due process defenses in California and federal courts, and continuing to lose valuable real estate as loans became due that could not be refinanced, Stich filed Chapter 11 for his personal and corporate assets seeking to force a federal judge to address the massive violations of state and federal laws. He sought to have the Chapter 11 judge order the removal of the lis pendens placed on the properties by the CIA-front law firm and their lawyers. Also, to have an order rendered halting the sham lawsuit in the California courts and declare the validity of the five judgment that had already adjudicated the issues 22 years earlier (the divorce).

At that time Stich did not know the existence of the massive corruption in the nation's bankruptcy courts involving corrupt judges, Justice Department trustees, court-appoint trustees, lawyers, and law firms--and CIA involvement. He was to learn these matters at a later date, as detailed in the third editions of Unfriendly Skies and Defrauding America.

Instead of performing his duty, Chapter 11 judge Robert Jones (Las Vegas) protected the CIA-front law firm. He signed orders in chambers seizing and liquidating Stich's $10 million in assets, violating the legal and constitutional due process requirement of a hearing, notice of hearing at which Stich could defend, and legally recognized cause.

These due process violations were then followed by Chapter 11 Judge Edward Jellen (Oakland, California) issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich from filing any objections to the seizure and liquidation of his assets.

When Stich did file an objection, the objection was unfiled and Jellen charged him with criminal contempt of court (for filing objections when this due process right had been terminated by his earlier unlawful order).

Eventually, all of Stich's assets were gone, including his home and his sole source of income. A heavy price to pay for his efforts to protect a public that appears totally unwilling to exercise any form of outrage or courage to fight cancer-spreading corruption in government.

From the very first attempt to report the criminal activities to a federal court in 1977, and throughout the period until 2002, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who held supervisory responsibilities over the same federal judges guilty of these crimes, refused to act. In this way, these justices aided and abetted the criminal acts that subverted major national interests, including national security, and were complicit in the various forms of harm inflicted upon the American people.

The 3,000 deaths on September 11, 2001, were made possible by the corruption in the FAA that resulted in the conditions insuring the success of four groups of hijackers, and the cover-ups by federal judges and others.

From 1986 to 1995, Stich was continually under either house arrest or in prison for having sought to report the criminal and subversive activities to a federal court or for exercising defense remedies against the taking of his life assets (that had funded his exposure of crimes against the United States). Details of the corruption in the bankruptcy courts are in Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, and in Defrauding America.

What is stated here is only the tip of the iceberg. Much more information is on this Internet site and in the books that Stich and his group of government agents have written.

Last Lawsuit Prior to 9/11, Seeking to Report the Corruption,
And the Lawyers and Judges Making 9/11 Possible

Stich filed a lawsuit, prior to 9/11, in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada, seeking to report the corrupt activities that he and a group of other government agents had discovered. Also, the action named as defendants, lawyers and judges who were covering up for the crimes and engaging in multiple parallel legal schemes to inflict great personal and financial harm upon him. Among the various federal claims were that that fell under the RICO act for a series of predicate acts to obstruct justice and inflict great harm. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF)  More details on this lawsuit at other pages on this site.

During the attempt to provide these reports, the events of 9/11 occurred. A declaration was filed in that lawsuit related to the blame for 9/11, emphasizing the need for the judge to receive reports of the criminal activities (that he had been blocking). (MS Word) (Adobe pdf)

That declaration was ignored by federal judge Edward Reed at Reno and the Ninth Circuit court of appeals judges.

Federal Lawsuit Filed After 9/11 in NYC, Seeking to
Report the Corrupt Activities That Enabled 9/11 to Occur

Stich made one last effort to report the corrupt activities and the felony cover-ups that made 9/11 possible. He filed a lawsuit submitted on August 15, 2002, for filing in the U.S. district court for the Southern District of New York by former federal agent Rodney Stich. The purpose of the lawsuit was to report and expose the corrupt activities that created the conditions enabling hijackers to seize four airliners, and the misconduct adversely affecting major national issues, including national security. That lawsuit also addressed the massive civil rights violations that were part of the parallel efforts to block the reports of these crimes against the United States. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) 

Further information on that lawsuit can be found at another page.

Many Years of Complicity by Lawyers and
Law FirmsSome with CIA Connections

Years of continuous complicity by lawyers and law firmssome with CIA connections, have been parallel efforts to halt the efforts by a former federal agent from reporting and exposing the corruption in certain government offices. By their documented acts of deception, massive civil rights and RICO violations, attention was diverted from these federal crimes, enabling to continue the corruption that had tragic, sometimes catastrophic, and sometimes deadly consequences. In one area, the ripple effects were felt on September 11, 2001.

Sham Lawsuit against Former Federal Agent by
South Carolina Law Firm with CIA-Connections

The earlier lawyers involved in the attacks upon Stich, all of whom knew they were acting to halt the exposure of the deadly corrupt conditions, were then followed by a new group, bent on seizing the books exposing the corruption. This latest segment was initiated by  David Athell Collins and Steven L. Smith of the Charleston, South Carolina, law firm of Smith and Collins. At that point, over 100 lawyers and law firms, and California and federal judges, had been and were involved in seeking to silence what Stich was trying to expose. 

Although the lawsuit was directed at Stich and the publishing company, people who would be harmed by it would be those who are victimized by the corruption Stich seeks to publicize through his book publishing. That includes the victims of fraud related to air safety; the victims of the arrogant and corrupt was on drugs; the victim of the bankruptcy court fraud; and the victims of the many other criminal activities implicating people in key government positions, federal and California judges, and many others.

That same lawyer and law firm several years later filed a lawsuit seeking to discredit CBS 60-Minute exposure of President George Bush II Texas Air National Guard record, further suggesting links to government sources.

The allegations in the lawsuit were immediately disproved by the facts to which they referred. By filing the lawsuit in a state court where judicial corruption is even worse than in federal courts, and where one-time state judges act to reward certain legal friends, the chances of Stich prevailing were virtually nil.

The law firm knew that Stich had no assets to pay for legal counsel 3,000 miles away, before a judge who is often in the pocket of certain law firms and attorneys. They knew that the publishing company had no assets other than the books, and that it was literally a non-profit operation. Their goal apparently was to obtain a default judgment and then seize control of the books and the name of the books. This scheme would protect the California and federal judges, the legal fraternity whose involvement in the corruption goes back 40 years, as stated in each of Stich's books, would protect Justice Department personnel, members of Congress, and the corruption at United Airlines that caused such brutal consequences for the victim of its fraud.

No Basis for Jurisdiction in South Carolina Court

Facts Surfaced in Legal Newspaper Article That the
Law Firm Had Close CIA or Other Government Ties

The facts strongly indicate 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.

Pasadena Lawyer John Guerrini Joined the Scheme

On July 20, 2006, Pasadena lawyer John Guerrini took over to exert efforts to halt Stich's exposure of the corruption that included that which made 9/11 possible. How he would proceed was to be seen, as:

  • Stich had no assets.
     
  • He had no income other than Social Security.
     
  • The books that were part of  Diablo Western Press were no longer in the possession of Diablo Western Press.

Prior to Guerrini joining the "enterprise," another attorney, Mark Wray of Reno, was asked to take over the collection of the judgment. During a telephone conversation on August 8, 2003, Wray advised Stich he would have nothing to do with the action.

Click here for more details of the Guerrini role in these activities.

Opportunity for Patriotic Law Firm

There is an unusual opportunity for a patriotic law firm, if such a trait exists, to file lawsuits that would expose and help fight the corruption undermining America, and at the same time obtain financial compensation.

The involvement of the Pasadena, California lawyer keeps the continuity of the RICO predicate acts going, tolling the statute of limitations for victims and families of 9/11 to file lawsuits against the lawyers and law firms that are implicated.

RICO Violations by the Lawyers Involved

A quick thumbnail overview of the RICO violations that involved lawyers, law firms, California and federal judges, perpetrating parallel multiple legal schemes to block the reporting of deadly criminal activities, and retaliation for attempting to make such reports:

  • Retaliation while a federal aviation safety agent seeking to report corrupt and criminal activities related to several recent airline disasters. The results of the deep-seated corruption and retaliation was a continuation of airline disasters and deaths.
     

  • Initial legal scheme carried out by the CIA front San Francisco law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross and their lawyers. The result was massive personal harm and huge financial losses. The intent of the plot was to strip the former federal agent, Rodney Stich, of the assets that they knew funded his exposure activities.
     

  • California judges joined the scheme, issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders, without jurisdiction, violating blocks of California and federal laws and constitutional protections, during a six year period that caused millions of dollars in damages.
     

  • Federal judges repeatedly blocked the former federal agent from reporting the criminal activities that he and a group of other former government agents had discovered during their official duties. Their actions as part of a RICO scheme resulted in great harm in the areas affected by the misconduct. In the aviation arena, the harm was continuing the linked airline disastersincluding continuation of the 50 years of airline hijackings that were easily prevented.
     

  • Federal judges issued a series of unlawful and unconstitutional orders permanently barring, solely for Stich, the legal and constitutional right to access federal courts for federal issues. Reporting criminal acts to a federal judge was one of the issues that they blocked, thereby violating the federal crime reporting statute. Their actions constituted criminal acts under obstruction of justice statutes.
     

  •  As the former federal agent sought to report additional areas of corruption that he was discovered from other former government agents, Department of Justice lawyers and federal judges charged him with criminal contempt of court, denied him a jury trial, and sentenced him to six months in federal prison. These were federal crimes for retaliating against a former federal agent, witness, and informant.
     

  • While in prison, federal judges, federal trustees, and the CIA-front law firm, seized and liquidated Stich's $10 in assets, knowing that these were the assets that funded his exposure of the deadly corruption he sought to report. The seizure orders were void orders under Supreme Court decisions, on that basis that they were ordered without a hearing, without a notice of hearing, and without legal cause.
     

  • Stripped of his assets, homeless for a period of time, other lawyers joined the  scheme, including the South Carolina law firm of Smith and Collins.

Lawyers Involved in Many Tragedies

One of the most unrecognized causes of most of the nation's prior tragedies is the ripple effect, sometimes called the "butterfly effect." For simplicity, let's look at the events of 9/11 and the 3,000 people who were horribly killed, and look at the many people who hold a complicity role in those events:

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