March 24, 2014, remembered as the day Incompetent Snohomish County Director John Edward Pennington Jr. killed 43 people in Oso Washington Mudslides

Snohomish County never disclosed to the Oso mudslide victims that King County Superior Court Ordered Psychiatrist Dr. Marsha Hedricks to issue a mental health evaluation and declared Pennington unfit for public service and a sociopath with no empathy for human life in 2009. Laughlin v Pennington, King County (2009).

March 24, 2014, is the day that Snohomish County’s incompetent Director of Emergency Management John Edward Pennington Jr. (Pennington) killed 43 people in Washington State’s most preventable loss of human life disaster. Instead of doing his job i.e. mitigation, Pennington sat around and harassed people on the county taxpayer’s dime, worked on his online diplomas from online schools the IRS declared fraud, and according to a former Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management employee named Steve ” Every day John would come into work and say this is the day I am going to get Anne Block.” When we asked Steve ” Did Pennington ever discuss landslides” He said, ” No, never. ”

The Oso slide is the deadliest single landslide event in United States history, and it illustrates nicely that emergency management positions should never been political appointments. Certainly, a person declared by a medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life should never be allowed to handle emergencies or natural disasters.

The Oso mudslides was not an unforeseen event. The Hazel Landslide has a history of instability dating to 1937, and reports filed with FEMA and the State of Washington in 1998. The Oso Washington landslide engulfed 49 homes and other structures in an unincorporated neighborhood known as “Steelhead Haven” on the south side of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Oso, Washington and resulted in the suffocation deaths of 43 residents.

On March 24, 2014, Pennington was interviewed and said, ” Oso mudslides were act of God. Unforeseen event” A few days later he told Time Magazine that ” Everyone knew of the dangers” and a week later Pennington declared Oso area as safe.

If everyone knew of the mudslide dangers, how could it be an unforeseen event. After all, the county emergency management and the state of Washington knew about the Oso danger since 1937. If it was safe, why did 43 people die?”

Snohomish County Admits No Criminal Background Check on John E Pennington Jr prior to hiring.

According to now Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers, Aaron Reardon and John Lovick appointed Pennington without ever running a single criminal background check on him. The Gold Bar Reporter asked why Snohomish County did not, Somers replied ” I don’t know why not.” Since Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in the Oso mudslides, Executive Somers has changed county policy and conducts criminal background checks prior to hiring anyone in Snohomish County. No exceptions.

Hiring Pedophiles and Sociopaths to Handle Emergencies Is Never a Good Business Plan

In November 2005, Pennington after being fired by President George Bush Jr., he was unemployed for four months desperately looking for work. He called political connections from his days in the Washington State Legislature. Reardon and Pennington had served in the Washington House for years together and Pennington called in a political favor i.e. appoint him to a position inside Snohomish County Emergency Management. Sadly, for residents of Oso Washington, Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon took the poisonous bait from a person declared to be a sociopath.

In February 2006, Pennington was appointed by Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, as Snohomish County Emergency Management Director for Snohomish County. This political appointment came four months after FEMA fired Pennington, and after the FBI ran a criminal background check on him and unearthed what it took the Gold Bar Reporter ten years to uncover, Pennington’s extensive crimes against women and children.

In 2006, a flood occurred on Ebby Island, a small trac of land just outside Everett, Washington. Acting on behalf of Snohomish County as the Director Emergency Management, Pennington issued an Emergency Declaration ordering Ebby Island to be evacuated, costing the taxpayers of Snohomish County over 10 million dollars. This evacuation order was premature, and Ebby Island never flooded. According to Reardon’s mistress, Executive Aaron Reardon was pretty pissed off and ordered Pennington into his office for a long talk about his costly mistake. Afterwards, Reardon told his mistress ” Pennington is a dipshit! He knows shit about Emergency Management! Dumb as a rock!” Instead of firing Pennington, Reardon simply clipped his responsibilities from managing disasters to ” to report to Reardon and review the budget.” This was Pennington’s only function from 2006 to 2013.

In 2009, Pennington violently assaulted a third trimester pregnant Duvall Washington council member, Ann Laughlin, just three before delivering her child. For this reason, a King County Judge ordered Pennington into a court ordered psychiatrist, Dr Hedricks, for a mental health evaluation which Pennington failed. King County Dr. Hedricks declared under oath that ” John Pennington is a sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever.”

But what did the Seattle Times and Scott North at the Everett Daily Herald report on? Nothing. Imagine, Snohomish County has an Emergency Mangement Director who not only rapes, kidnapped and tried to murder a 5-year-old girl, he is guilty of violently assaulting a third trimester pregnant woman, and not one local newspaper reports on his criminal sexual deviant behavior.

In 2019, an insider from Snohomish County, “Fed Up”, told the Gold Bar Reporter that Snohomish County made an agreement with Everett Herald Senior Editor Scott North and its reporter Noah Haglund, and Seattle Times Editor Mike Carter not to report on Pennington’s criminal history in exchange for inside Snohomish County scoops. Pennington public records from Snohomish County document that instead of doing his job, he was simply there to harass and defame political foes of the county.

Once a source received public records from Snohomish County Prosecutor Sean Reay and Mark Roe documenting that Scott North was simply publishing articles that Snohomish County wrote, the Gold Bar Reporter wrote a letter to the Editorial Board at both newspapers. This resulted in Senior Editor Scott North and news reporter Noah Haglund’s constructive discharge from the Daily Everett Herald.

When the Everett Herald forced Scott North and Noah Haglund’s resignation, also known as a constructive discharge, Snohomish County hired Scott North and King County hired Noah Haglund. After all, Snohomish County owed them for publishing false stories on behalf of Snohomish County to discredit its political foes.

When the Gold Bar Reporter contacted Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter, his only email response was ” Fuck You Anne.” Not really what we expected from a major senior editor from a major newspaper. Carter resigned.

In June 2013, and after the Gold Bar Reporter filed Recall Petitions against Aaron Reardon for dereliction of his Executive duties, he resigned from public office. He is now selling insurance in Indigio California, living in a house he purchased for pennies on the dollars from the Tribes.

Once Reardon was gone, the Snohomish County Council appointed Sheriff John Lovick as Executive Appointee. In 2014, public records confirmed that after Executive Reardon resigned in 2013, newly appointed Executive John Lovick gave exclusive power to control and manage emergency management back to Pennington. This gross negligence by John Lovick resulted in the deaths of 43 people On March 24, 2014.

We later learned from Washington State child protective services that John Lovick had been found guilty of masturbating alongside the bed of his daughter’s best friend (sexual gratification). Lovick’s victim was a twelve-year girl. Association of Washington Cities paid off the victim’s family to remain silent. No doubt pedophiles protect pedophiles.

On March 24, 2014, Pennington was on the east coast, working a second job at FEMA Emergency Management Institute, when the largest disaster in Washington State’s history occurred; he ordered no one into the area until he returned 49 hours later. This resulted in the cause of death of 27 victims out of the 43 victims as suffocation.

According to Snohomish County Prosecutor Jason Cummings, “John Pennington was frozen did not know what to do so Snohomish County Council appointed attorney Margaret King to handle the emergency response.”

Immediately following the Oso mudslides, Snohomish County Executive John Lovick placed Pennington on paid administrative leave, and Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington ( nee Berg, who had been convicted three times for bank fraud and spent time in jail for the same, arrested for drunk driving, found guilty of harassment and forgery and abused a six year old girl) wrote an email to Snohomish County’s Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG) Mikolaj Tytus Tempski demanding ” someone needs to get Johnny in the clear… why has Snohomish County not entered a notice of appearance in the RICO suit Anne Block failed against John?” Mr. Tempski responded by stating not to worry about it because US Federal Judge Ricardo Martinez was already in the process of fixing the case against Block.

We later learned from Snohomish County Prosecutor’s telephone records that Judge Ricardo Martinez was making exparte telephone contact with SAAG Joseph Genster, who was defending the RICO case, confirming beyond any shadow of doubt that the US Federal District of Court of Western Washington was engaged in case fixing with the Washington State’s Attorney General’s Office.

What Washington State nor Snohomish County Ever Disclosed to John Pennington’s Oso Mudslide Victims

“I will never be charged with a crime because we have people in every position of government who will always protect me,” boasted John Edward Pennington Jr. to his ex-mother-in-law, Linda Laughlin. Not only did his political connections help cover up his crimes against women and children, but they also managed to get him employment that he is not mentally capable of, nor educated for, putting students at risk for sexual assaults and death.

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John Edward Pennington Jr.’s crimes span across the United Stateshe was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States Government.

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John Edward Pennington the product of two dysfunctional parents, the making of a pedophile and sociopath

John Edward Pennington Jr. was born to John E. Pennington, a corrupt Brady Cop and a stay-at-home mother from Nashville, Tennessee, named Sharon. Both parents have extensive mental health issues, including gross domestic violence, alcoholism, and abuse. His father is alleged to have had over thirty-six (36) excessive force complaints filed against him with the City of Nashville, and was successfully sued for racially targeting minorities, while his mother spews racist rants at Pro Trump rallies and was quoted as saying” John was always a good liar.”

According to the Department of Justice, children who are raised by abusive parents are six times as more likely to perpetrate abuse on others. In John E Pennington Jr.’s upbringing. he was trained to abuse women and children by two dysfunctional and mentally ill parents that were not worthy raising a dog let alone children.

A childhood friend stated, “he was a troubled youth, who had a major drug and alcohol problem by the age of 16.”  So, it’s no surprise that in the late 1980’s, Vanderbilt College in Tennessee, expelled John E. Pennington Jr. in his first semester for sexually assaulting a female student. Thinking he would be charged with sexual assault, Pennington fled to a small suburban city just outside of San Diego California. Instead, Vanderbilt College paid off the victim.

While in the San Diego John Pennington meets his new victim, who believe he legally married, so are calling her ex-wife # 1. His ex-wife is a real estate agent in San Diego, California who said,” Pennington is a ticking time bomb with no empathy for human life. There is no doubt that he raped two boys on a church camping trip causing him to flee California in 1990. This is why I divorced him.”

This was the sole reason John E. Pennington Jr. fled Southern California, heading home to Nashville in the early 1990s. The boys who he molested stated that their families settled with the church for lump sum settlement allowing the church to cover up Pennington’s pedophilia.

While in Tennessee, Pennington made an unsuccessful run for an open Democratic State Rep. seat. After a landslide loss for John Pennington, he again headed west. This time he lands in Oregon, where Pennington meets his next victim, who he violently assaulted and hospitalized in the Lake Oswego Oregon area in 1990. Pennington was found guilty of assault in the 1st degree but plead “mental defect” avoiding jail time, instead, the state of Oregon, had him serve out his 1-year sentence at Western Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon. He was released in 1991 after serving only five months.

After the State of Oregon declared Pennington stable, he fled from Oregon to Vancouver Washington. While in Vancouver, in 1991, John Pennington meets his next victim. Sadly, they married and had one child, GP.

While working in a coffee delivery business, Pennington stole coffee grinding equipment from his previous employer and used the equipment to start-up a small coffee shop in the City of Kelso, Washington. “It was cover for Pennington who had been trafficking drugs from Kelso Washington to the border town of Ferndale Washington. Pennington ran drugs for the Russian mob to a coffee barista named Lori Batiot (aka Lori Hoffer, Lori Harris). Lori Batiot would then smuggle drugs across the Canadian border for distribution.

In 2002, Pennington fathered an illegitimate child with Lori Batiot, and after being appointed to FEMA he managed to get her a job with the Ferndale police department as a dog trainer for a drug sniffing dog. With no surprise, she lost the drug sniffing dog and would never state how she lost a police dog.

In 2016, Batiot was fired from three police departments for illegal use of prescription pills, drunk driving and was found mentally unfit for public service. 

She was fired from the City of Duvall, Washington for lying under oath during a formal police investigation.

Lori Batiot is now a real estate agent for Windemere in Lake Forest Washington and her mental defect and violent behavior was captured on camera by a court authorized process server.

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In 1992, a 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and then tossed along a Cowlitz County Road like a piece of trash.

According to Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, John Pennington became one of two prime suspects for the following reasons: (1) Pennington operated a coffee delivery route within six blocks of where the child was dumped; (2) he drove the same car; (3) Pennington was in the area at the time of the child rape; (4) Pennington’s picture from 1992 is almost a complete match to the child and witness’s sketch drawing of Pennington; and (5) Pennington relentlessly convinced his ex-wife to call the police attempting to divert attention away from himself and onto another man. When the lead detective was asked who he thought violated the child, he said ” John E. Pennington Jr. is the man that raped that little girl and I have been following him ever since.” Meaning, the officer didn’t believe Pennington all of the sudden stopped sexually assaulting children. The officer was right, as we later learned, from a credible source, that Pennington was sexually, mentally, and physically abusing Crystal D. Hill’s child, JH.

In 1992, John E. Pennington Jr. managed to get elected to an uncontested Washington State House of Representatives seat. Unfortunately for residents in New Orleans and Oso Washington, he began an extramarital affair with a powerful Washington State Republican Senate leader, Jennifer Dunn, who he began a 10-year affair with while married to his second wife.

According to sources close to John Pennington he is also an abuser of prescription Vicodin and was detained at the US Mexico for having narcotics (non-prescription pain pills) on his person while coming back into the US. This charge came while he obtained a political appointment for which he had no qualifications.

In 1995, John E. Pennington Jr. was also a member of the Washington State Militia, a group dedicated to overthrowing the United States government.” John sat around for years obsessed about getting even with the Longview Washington news reporter for reporting that John was a member of the State militia.”

In the below article published by the Longview Washington Daily News, Pennington confirms he was a member of the Washington State Militia when he stated ” I’ll never go to another one of their meetings. I’ll tell you that.” Their meetings, Pennington was referring to was the Washington State Militia meetings.

In 2001, Senator Jennifer Dunn, Washington, asked President George Bush Jr., for a political favor, appoint her lover, John Edward Pennington Jr., as the Director of FEMA Region 10. President Bush did appoint Pennington to FEMA Region 10 (with no experience as outlined by the Seattle Times) without a single a criminal background check. After Michael Browne’s mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush considered appointing Pennington as the Director of FEMA. But once the FBI ran a criminal background check on Pennington’s crimes against women and children as described herein, President Bush Jr. fired him (November 2005). A fact he lied about in his deposition.

While employed at Snohomish County in 2005, Pennington misappropriated funds and resources to obtain an online degree from American Military University (AMU), and Coastal California College, online schools labeled by the United States government as fraudulent “diploma mills.” PBS did a Frontline story on AMU’s fraud. He also claims to have earned a PhD from University of Alaska Fairbanks; a college ranked at #394 out of 435 public universities in the United States and was turned down by the University of Georgia, New York State University in Buffalo, New York University, George Washington, University of Georgia, University of Maryland, New York University, and Boston University for having false academic diplomas from online schools like AMU and California Coastal College. Pennington paid a flat rate of $1500.00 for his online diplomas from AMU and California Coastal.

From 1992 to 2005, John Pennington’s violence grew with his ex-wife. # 2 . From pushing her down a flight of stairs in the presence of their child GP, as well as constant physical abuse. Pennington never learned to keep his hands to himself. Thankfully, she escaped with her life.

The case that raised our eyebrows is Mr. Pennington’s abuse on his ex-wife # 3, Anne Laughlin. Anne was three weeks away from giving birth to her daughter when Pennington violently assaulted, kicked and punched Anne in the stomach and uterus.

Since Ms. Laughlin was a Duvall city council member at the time, the City of Duvall sought a Special Prosecutor Sandra Meadowcraft to prosecute Pennington for the violent assault of a 3rd trimester pregnant woman. The prosecutor assigned to prosecute wife beater John Pennington came from the law firm where Pennington’s buddy Michael Kenyon was employed, Kenyon Disend.

Sandra Meadowcraft (now Sandra Sullivan) failed to appear, and Pennington got the case dismissed without prejudice. Meadowcraft threw the case in exchange for a job with Summit Law Group, a Washington State Special Assistant Attorney General law firm. We have obtained audio recordings of the State v John E Pennington criminal prosecution from the May 2009 and will be publishing these audio files in another article soon.

In 2009 when Pennington assaulted Laughlin, this was his third domestic assault violence charge. This should have amounted to jail time for Pennington. Unfortunately for the 5-year-old year child, and for women, Pennington meets a Kelso Washington city attorney named Michael Kenyon. As the city attorney for Kelso, Kenyon was in charge of prosecuting Pennington for the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of the 5-year-old little girl in Cowlitz County Washington. Instead, Michael Kenyon saw an opening to line his pockets with gold after Pennington was elected to an uncontested open Washington State House of Representative seat. Michael Kenyon covered up Pennington’s pedophilia crimes in exchange for money contracts with the state of Washington.

In 2009, Pennington used Aaron Reardon’s connection to the Seattle Times Senior Editor Mike Carter and reporter Emily Heffner to run hit pieces on people who were exposing the RICO. Mike Carter was using Pennington as a primary source inside Snohomish County offices, in exchange for inside information, Carter and Seattle Times agreed not to publish any negative stories about Pennington in exchange for inside stories. When Pennington killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides, Seattle Times was silent on a man declared by medical doctor to be a sociopath with no empathy for human life being in charge of emergencies. We later learned that Pennington was also diagnosed as autistic.

After we caught Seattle Times Reporter Emily Heffner violating ethical reporter rules (lying in a news story that the Seattle Times had to retract four times for false statements), she was fired, as such, we contacted her for comment, but all she would say is” you need to move because they are coming after you.” She never did state who “they” were, but we now know that Washington State is running a monopoly with Lloyds of London (who is member of the RICO), guilty of case fixing with judges.

In 2010, Pennington sexually assaulted a Department of Emergency Management public records officer, named Diana (DR). When a county employee complained to Executive Aaron Reardon, he illegally used public monies to pay off Diana, in the amount of $75,000.00, and he gave her a 50 % pay raise as hush money. In exchange for her silence, DR also received a position as Director of Emergency Management at Providence Health Services.

In early 2010, Pennington had his Homeland Security Clearance revoked after he was caught running illegal background checks on citizens and was caught sexually abusing a six-year-old child.

In 2011, John E Pennington Jr. was caught taking naked showers with a six-year-old child, and the witness filed a declaration with Snohomish County Courts attesting to his pedophilia under oath.

In 2012, Pennington’s forth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington left her two-year-old child alone with two ten-year-old children and was caught by two Washington State licensed private investigators. When the police came for a wellness check, Crystal threw a cell phone at the officer and made a false report to the Duvall Washington police department. She should have been arrested for child endangerment but the officer in Duvall Washington was the father Duvall police officer Lori Batiot’s illegitimate son. To avoid child support, John E Pennington managed to use his Duvall Mayor Will Ibershoff to get Lori Batiot a job that she had no qualifications for (unless you consider illegal use of prescription narcotics and driving drunk to be qualifications) as a police officer in Duvall, Washington. Every time a police complaint was filed, Ms. Batiot was assigned to not investigate criminal complaints against her lover, John E Pennington Jr. As stated herein, she was fired for committing racketeering offenses against the Gold Bar Reporter.

In 2013, John Pennington applied to open position on the Duvall Washington Library Board. Because of his extensive criminal history and violently assault on a 3rd trimester pregnant council member, his application was rejected as “not qualified”.

Part 1 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.

Part 2 of case against John Edward Pennington Jr. for killing 43 people in Oso mudslides.

In 2016 the State of Washington had to settle wrongful death suits for 60 million dollars as a result of John Edward Pennington’s dereliction of his official emergency management duties in Oso, Washington. Attorney General Bob Ferguson settled only because we gave Plaintiffs’ attorneys mounds of evidence, which included medical files that the State of Washington accidently released under RCW 42.56 documenting that John Edward Pennington Jr. was diagnosed as a sociopath and autistic. Imagine if a jury had heard that Snohomish County Washington hired a sociopath with no empathy for human life and a man who has been treated for autism for over 40 years in charge of human life.

After getting fired from Snohomish County in 2016 for dereliction of his official emergency management duties, Pennington couldn’t find a job, so he filed an application for unemployment benefits (King County Case No: No: 17-2-06169-7). He filed for bankruptcy protection using a false address in Florida in 2009. When the Gold Bar Reporter learned of Pennington’s fraud against the taxpayers of Washington, a formal complaint was filed with the Washington State unemployment fraud unit.

In 2016, both Crystal Hill Pennington and John Pennington were charged with filing false unemployment claims and refusing to pay taxes. Both had to pay back the money they stole. King County Superior Court files documented their theft from the State of Washington.

In late 2016, Snohomish County Washington was being sued for Pennington’s negligent killing of 43 people in Oso Washington. Before he was fired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, his web page conveniently leaves out his employment in Snohomish County, Washington. Perhaps he would like to forget how he killed 43 people in the Oso mudslides because instead of doing his job i.e., mitigation, he spent his days inside Snohomish County Department of Emergency Managment (DEM) harassing people on his online blog “The Sky Valley Chronicle”.

According to Snohomish County Executive employee Kevin Thomas Hulten, John Edward Pennington Jr. ran the online site, Sky Valley Chronicle, right from Snohomish County Department of Emergency Mangement. Since Crystal Hill was unemployed after getting fired from Attorney Mark Weiss’s office, she sat around for over 10 years unemployed and harassing anyone she deemed a threat to John and submitting false resumes for employment to various government agencies all of the US.

After killing 43 people in the Oso mudslides in 2016, John E Pennington Jr. was unemployed and was about to be deposed in a negligent death case. The State of Washington decided to hide from the jury the fact that he was unemployed because of his extensive criminal activity in Snohomish County, so Washington State’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson managed to get him a job as an instructor at Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington. This after Ferguson had ample evidence to know that John E Pennington Jr. is a pedophile and had been declared a “sociopath with no empathy for human life whatsoever” by a doctor in King County, Washington. See Laughlin v Pennington, King County, WA.

In 2021, John Edward Pennington Jr. was fired from the Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington, after a student made an allegation of sexual assault against him. According to Emily, an employee at Pierce College, ” a student made an allegation of attempted sexual assault against Pennington while he was employed at Pierce College as an instructor, and he hired counsel who threatened a human rights complaint against Pierce College. In his complaint, Pennington claims he was diagnosed with a mental disability, and Pierce College was discriminating against him as a result. Pierce College settled, and Pennington’s Republican political ally Kemper Freeman managed to pull some strings to get him a job at Overlake Hospital. This after Pierce College fired him.

In 2020, Pennington was fired from Overlake Hospital after “he was caught on camera stalking a woman/patient in the Overlake Hospital parking garage”, a source inside Overlake Hospital told the reporter. When he was fired for stalking a patient at Overlake Hospital, Attorney Michael Kenyon called in a favor from one of his legal clients, The Snoqualmie Tribes.

Within six months of obtaining a job with the Snoqualmie Tribes, Pennington was fired for dereliction of his duties. Once tribal source said” he was sexually harassing employees. The Tribe had no choice but to let him go.”

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Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) December 19, 2023, blotted up after she finally stopped using drugs, weighing 265 pounds.

Meanwhile, his fourth wife, Crystal Hill Pennington (nee Berg) had just graduated from an online college, Eastern Oregon University. A college that had its academic accreditation revoked and monitored by the US Department of Education for failing to adhere to basic core requirements of a basic college education. After completing an online degree, she applied to several first, second, and third tier law schools, including Penn State, and was rejected as “not qualified.”

After being rejected at twenty plus law schools, Ms. Berg Hill Pennington applied to an online law school, Mitchell Hamline, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A law school labeled as fraudulent by the academic world because online law schools are not acceptable in the legal industry, nor with the US Bar Associations. Online colleges are generally diploma mills and frowned upon by people who actually attended accredited colleges as harming society with its fraud in academia. With no surprise, Mitchell Hamline ranks 229 out of 240 law schools in the Unites States. Mitchell Hamlin’s law school ranking are so low that even its Dean Niedwiecki opted out this year from rating under US World News Reports.

With Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s false academic credentials, and four fraud convictions in five different states (WA, TX, NC, and IN), King County Washington, Emergency Management Director, Alison Levy, hired her for a position inside King County, Washington’s Department of Health. After we submitted Ms. Berg Hill Pennington criminal records, obtained under Washington State’s Public Records Act (RCW 42.56), proving beyond any shadow of doubt that Crystal D. Hill was convicted of fraud, forgery, and harassment, she was fired from King County, Washington, after only 35 days on the job. This was a constructive discharge/termination, a fact that Ms. Berg Hill Pennington often lies about on government applications. Even though Ms. Hill lied on her job application, she was never prosecuted for filing a false application i.e., claiming she was never convicted of fraud when she was four times in five states.

In North Carolina, she spent three months in jail. Evergreen District Court in Snohomish County, Washington, she served two years of probation and was forced to pay back the $5400.00 she stole from a Skagit County Washington State lawyer.

In Burleson Texas, Crystal Berg Hill Pennington (nee Berg) fled after being released on bail for bank fraud. She was also terminated by former FEMA Director Brock Long in 2019 from obtaining FEMA contracts for filing false applications and not disclosing her past convictions for fraud, drunk driving, harassment, and forgery.

After our news reports involving King County, Washington, employee, Alison Levy, was demoted to another department in King County for allowing five-time convicted bank fraudster like Crystal D. Hill Pennington to have access to Social Security Administration (SSA) and/or medical files. According to the SSA, a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible for federal, state or local contracts, where public taxpayer money is used. Washington State Department of Health also told the Gold Bar Reporter that a person convicted of fraud of any nature is not eligible to participate in any claim or suit involving vulnerable or elderly adults.

According to the Washington State Supreme Court, a person convicted of fraud shall not file a single declaration in any court that is to be given any weight whatsoever. This makes Ms. Hill’s declaration in any court case void, according to long time civil rights activist and lawyer.

Moving the pedophile from parish to parish, Lloyds of London covering up liability as Risk Management; Goodbye Washington, hello Alaska

After the Penningtons’ were caught committing additional fraud in Washington State in 2021, as described above, the Penningtons fled to Fairbanks Alaska hoping to escape their extensive criminal history. It didn’t work, because both continued to commit more fraud, but this time in Alaska.

While employed at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), Pennington is allowed to obtain a PhD without an accredited bachelor’s degree (BA). This happened because he has a network of former government officials from Washington State now working at UAF, who committed fraud in academia allowing person without a accredited BA to enter a PhD program.

The Gold Bar Reporter obtained a copy of Pennington’s so called PhD thesis, and everyone here had a good laugh about how a person who writes so poorly, and online flat fee college diplomas, missing the whole point of a PhD thesis, can legally obtain a PhD. Pennington’s thesis was more like a 5th grade writing class assignment titled ” What a wonderful family I have … and my daddy was cop” than that of a topic about Indigenous people.

Dr Cameron Carlson is the University of Alaska Fairbanks professor who is guilty of fraud in academia by awarding a fraudulent PhD to John Edward Pennington Jr., a man who did not have an accredited ungraduated degree.

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Crystal Danielle Hill Pennington (aka Crystal Berg), a four-time convicted bank frauder (IN, NC, TX, WA) arrested for drunk driving in Tipton Missouri, convicted of reckless driving, found guilty of forgery and harassment, and violently assaulted a six-year-old child in Snohomish County WA

The Washington D.C. Bar has an open investigation of attorney Crystal D. Hill aka Crystal D Hill Pennington, and she is expected to be disbarred for fraud in the future for failing to disclose her extensive 30-year criminal history dating back to age of 14. The Gold Bar Reporter will be at her public hearings and will be speaking at all disbarment hearings involving Ms. Berg Hill Pennington’s fraud and anyone with bar complaints against her should send the Gold Bar Reporter copies for publication.

Last week, we learned that Ms. Hill Pennington and John Edward Pennington Jr. committed more fraud with two joint military bases in Alaska. For this reason, a complaint was filed with the US Office of Inspector General, US Office of Public Management, and with two air forces bases in Alaska. Both bases were contacted for comment, and a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) request was submitted for access to the Penningtons’ fraudulent activity inside both Alaska joint military bases. We also filed a complaint with President Biden’s Office.

Stay tuned for an update on the Penningtons’ criminal racketeering conduct in Tennessee, Alaska, Oregon, Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Texas, and New York State.

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For over twenty years, the Gold Bar Reporter has been reporting on criminal racketeering crimes that John E Pennington, and his fourth wife, Crystal D. Hill (aka Crystal Berg, Crystal D. Hill Pennington) have committed all over the United States. For our readers, it is important to note that the Gold Bar Reporter has never been sued, but we did sue, successfully, the Penningtons for forgery, harassment and abuse of the process in Block v. Penningtons, King County, Washington, (No: 16-2-26600-2; March 2017). Both were found guilty of forgery, harassment and abuse of the process.

Exposing pedophiles, wife beaters, and racists like John Edward Pennington Jr., and convicted bank fraudsters and drug addicts like Crystal D Hill Pennington (convicted of fraud in South Carolina, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, and Washington State) is matter of public concern, especially when the abuser and fraudsters land government jobs where youngsters and taxpayer monies are being used to advance their criminal racketeering conduct.

Judge Ricardo Martinez, John Lovick, John Pennington, Crystal Hill Pennington, Mikolaj Tempski (SAAG), Joseph Genster (SAAG), and WSBA employee Linda Eide, and WSBA Hearing Officer Lin O’Dell were all was contacted for comment but refused. Interesting to note that everyone involved in the criminal racketeering conspiracy has resigned since being exposed by Snohomish County’s public records. WSBA Hearing Officer Lin O’Dell was permanently suspended by the Guardianship Board for using her convicted killer husband to steal from her elderly clients, forced to resign from the WSBA, and plead to IRS criminal violations of not paying taxes on the money the attorney general’s office let her steal from our elderly and vulnerable citizens.

If any of readers have filed or plan to file bar complaints against Ms. Crystal Berg Hill Pennington or have additional information John Edward Pennington’s sexual predator conduct elsewhere, please email us at lifeisgood357@comcast.net. ANONYMITY promised, publication ensured.

SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – Part Eight

NICK BROWN PROTECTS LLOYD’S OF LONDON’S RICO –

& SERIAL CHILD RAPIST JOHN PENNINGTON

“Brown and RICO Judges Are Plotting Revenge,”

According to the Testimony of Insiders

©By J.P. Zengers      JPZengerMail@gmail.com

On 9/20/22, RICO Kingpin Nick Brown Contacted Snohomish County

Prosecutors to Retaliate Against Members of the Press

And Their Associates, Say Insiders Who Have Testified

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Seattle, WA. Oct. 31, 2022. Serial con man, child rapist, and “person of interest” in a series of murders, John Pennington, Jr., aka “Seattle’s Epstein,” boasted that the Lloyd’s of London RICO he has been a part of “has placed people in every position of government in Washington State.”

After more than a decade’s effort, Mr. Pennington’s statement turned out to be true. At the top of the Lloyd’s of London criminal enterprise in Washington State are RICO Kingpins Peter King of AWC; State AG Ferguson; U.S. Attorney, Nick Brown; and Judge Ricardo aka “RICO” Martinez.

U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown, who was Cancelled from the TV

Show, “Survivor” for Selling out all of his Teammates and Working With the Opposition,

Is “Fully Expected to Make a Deal to Sell out His Fellow RICO Kingpins,” Say Insiders

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Thanks to Mr. Pennington’s bragging to his ex-mother-in-law, and the persistence of journalists, public interest attorneys, and an expanding network of those targeted by the RICO, more and more public officials involved in the extended racketeering enterprise continue to be exposed.

“Lloyd’s of London’s RICO is a house of cards,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald. “It’s a very old story. Greed. Power. Arrogance. It never lasts,” he said. “It’s such an odd quirk of human behavior that you can have such smart people do such stupid things, and think it will last forever.”

Instead of acting as obviously intelligent as they are, the RICO members keep digging themselves deeper,” he said. “The RICO judges, prosecutors, law firms, and attorneys are going to fall like dominos,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald.

Preparing for War:  On Oct. 6, 2022, RICO Defender and Kingpin Nick Brown is Alleged

To have Engaged in Illegal Ex Parte Conversations with Fellow RICO Member Judge

Ricardo (aka “RICO”) Martinez, According to Testimony by Insiders, for the

Purpose of Retaliating Against Members of the Press and Their Associates

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“We have been quietly gathering evidence for over a decade, and now dozens of people who have been targeted by the RICO are releasing a series of actions against the entire RICO network,” he said.

“But most of all, we have been collaborating with both national media and several major studios in the entertainment industry who are interested in developing documentaries, TV series, and film projects relating to the ‘Seattle’s Epstein’ series,” stated Mr. Greenwald.

“Reuters, ProPublica, MGM, Fox, representatives of entertainment luminaries, major national TV networks, and dozens of broadcast and print media journalists worldwide have recently reviewed the ‘Seattle’s Epstein’ series and its many components,” he said.

“It (the ‘Seattle’s Epstein Series’) really has it all,” said an entertainment producer. “Greed. Billions in fraud. The abuse of public office. David and Goliath. Murder. Rape. And it’s all true!” he exclaimed. “Jesus, what more could we possibly want?” said the animated Hollywood character.

“Ferguson is desperate. He knows he’s been caught red-handed, and is going down. He doesn’t care who he takes with him. He figures the more bodies he can throw between himself and his crimes, the more it will stall the feds who have evidence of his key role in the RICO,” said a staffer at the AG’s Office.

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“None of the ongoing crimes, the rapes, the fraud, the entire OSO mudslide disaster, all of it, would be possible without Bob Ferguson, his staff, and their RICO partners protecting John Pennington,” said Mr. Greenwald. “Mr. Ferguson and company, including his contract attorneys called SAAGS, have erased Mr. Pennington’s federal FBI NCIC criminal record,” he said. “They routinely erase the NCIC records of people they place in key positions, so they have leverage over them, and they have to do whatever he tells them to.”

For his part, Nick Brown’s inaction against Pennington is equally significant. “Mr. Brown knows exactly who Pennington is and what he’s done,” said Mr. Greenwald. “Without Mr. Brown’s inaction, Mr. Pennington would not be able to continue his ongoing crime spree,” he said. “Mr. Brown’s failure to act against any RICO member is the absolute most important part of ensuring the continuation of the RICO.”

The most noteworthy part of Nick Brown’s central role in the RICO, is that he is in a conflict of interest, and is actually completely disqualified from holding office,” said Greenwald. First, he was directly employed by Pacifica Law Group, which is a SAAG law firm,” he said. Pacifica represented and defended the RICO. And second, as a SAAG he was directly employed by the AG’s office.”

Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. Occupy a Central Role

In a Series of Cases Known to be Targeted by the Washington State Unit of

Lloyd’s of London’s RICO, According to Journalists and Public Interest Attorneys.

Ms. Villicin and Her Law Firm are Alleged to Routinely Engage in Illegal Ex Parte

Communication with RICO Judges and Prosecutors for the Purpose of Case Fixing.

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“What that means is, as a former SAAG, Mr. Brown is in on the game. You don’t have to look farther than the fact that Mr. Brown has refused to prosecute Lin O’Dell, who committed tens of millions of dollars of guardianship fraud, money laundering, and a dozen other federal crimes, to know that he’s protecting RICO members,” said legal scholar and public interest advocate Anne Block, J.D.

“Ultimately, beyond Mr. Brown’s direct and critical position in the RICO, and his pecuniary interest in many cases, every case he has been involved in will need to be reviewed, and many vacated, because of his conflicts,” she said.

J.P. Zenger appreciates the interest of the entertainment industry in the “Seattle’s Epstein” series,

and is available to consult for story development and/or script writing.

Mr. Zenger is also available to direct people who have been targeted by the RICO,

including attorneys, to federal law enforcement agencies.

JPZengerMail@gmail.com

Seattle’s Epstein – Part One

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

Following is a summary of the RICO, how it is structured, directed, and controlled.

The summary will be continuously updated, and repeated at the end of every article in this series.

“The RICO was exposed by John Pennington, Jr. A series of articles, “Seattle’s Epstein,” explains in more detail how the RICO was exposed and how it works. According to that series, in brief, this is how the alleged RICO is structured, directed, and controlled:

1).  Lloyd’s of London. The RICO is directed by the insurance company, Lloyd’s of London. In the U.S., the Lloyd’s RICO is directed and controlled by Cary Bond of Lloyd’s N.Y. office. Lloyd’s RICO is well documented in U.S. court cases like this one.

The purpose of the RICO is to control financial losses as well as insurance markets for Lloyd’s and its insurance affiliates and partners, such as AWC in Washington State, and the State’s Department of Enterprise Services, a member of the risk pool.

2).  AWC. The RICO is operated on a state-by-state basis. In Washington, the RICO is directed by Lloyd’s syndicate member, AWC. Just days after his role in the RICO was exposed in the press, Peter King, the de facto CEO, hastily announced his retirement in an attempt to deceive federal law enforcement.

3)  The AG. The Co-Director of the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s RICO is State Attorney General (“AG”) Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was chosen and is supported by Peter King to co-direct the RICO.

At the direction of Peter King, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson control the legal system and deny any Washington citizen, considered by the RICO to be a financial or political risk, their Constitutional right to a fair day in court in four main ways:

A).  Public Records Officers. State public records officers, acting at the direction of Mr. Ferguson, routinely and illegally deny public records requests, destroy documents, and obstruct justice. The denial of public records prevents access to due process. These are criminal acts in violation of federal law.

Records officers who are controlled by Mr. Ferguson are often hired from other parts of the country, and have criminal backgrounds. Mr. Ferguson and those acting at his direction erase their criminal records on the FBI’s NCIC database, and thus have a ‘sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.

B)   SAAGS. SAAGS are Special Assistant Attorney Generals. They are both private attorneys, and county prosecutors. A SAAG is basically “deputized” by Mr. Ferguson to act at his direction, effectively as his own staff. This is illegal and unconstitutional: it places both attorneys and prosecutors in a conflict of interest with the people they have a legal duty to represent.

When a prosecutor illegally accepts a SAAG contract from Mr. Ferguson,  it allows Mr. Ferguson to assume the county prosecutor’s power of criminal prosecution, which is denied Mr. Ferguson under the Washington State Constitution. It also allows Mr. Ferguson to deny anyone he wants the right to due process under the federal Constitution.

The list of SAAGS consists of hundreds of attorneys and law firms. SAAGs allow Mr. Ferguson to control every county legal system by putting county prosecutors on the state payroll; SAAGS allow Mr. Ferguson to control the legal profession in the state as a whole, because anyone who needs to hold the state accountable through the courts can’t – nearly every large law firm is on the payroll of the state. This is all at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the state taxpayers.

C)  The Bar Assn. The ‘private’ Washington State Bar Association is controlled by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson controls the Bar by: 1) Illegally giving the private Bar millions of dollars in free rent; 2) Hosting and controlling the Bar’s email and data servers; 3) Providing unlimited free personal legal services to the Bar and its staff – all at a cost of countless millions of dollars to the taxpayers of Washington State; 4) Gifting every employee of the ‘private’ Bar tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars through the State retirement system, called PERS; and 5)  Using the Bar and its disciplinary powers to target people chosen by Mr. Ferguson for liability control or political retaliation.

In one case alone, Mr. Ferguson has spent over $20,000,000 of state taxpayer dollars to target a court-recognized, award-winning journalist, Anne Block, by directing her illegal disbarment. It wasn’t enough for Mr. Ferguson. He then directed his staff, at taxpayer expense, to contract private security and cybercriminals to harass Ms. Block across the country, day and night. Mr. Ferguson then directed and has full knowledge of legally baseless litigation, in the total absence of any wrongdoing, with dozens of SAAG attorneys against her. Mr. Ferguson has committed dozens of federal crimes against Ms. Block.

The Beauregard Case.  The Beauregard Case is considered one of the most corrupt decisions in Washington State and U.S. history. It concluded that the State Bar Association is a private organization.

Because the Bar, as referenced previously, was declared private by the State Supreme Court, yet has received hundreds of millions of state taxpayer dollars, legal experts assert that the only rational explanation for the decision is that the Bar Association management, staff, and legal counsel had colluded with the members of the State Supreme Court.

The Janis decision determined that a given state bar association may not combine a private professional association with state powers, according to legal experts. The Washington Bar Association and the Supreme Court of Washington State realized that all of the money the state had been giving the Bar, and the Bar’s participation in the RICO would mean that, not only would the Bar have to pay taxpayers back hundreds of millions of dollars, but all of the liability for the Bar’s involvement in the RICO would potentially expose them to billions in liability.

By illegally defining the Bar as private, against all facts and common sense, in one single stroke the Supreme Court, which is responsible for overseeing the Bar, together with the management of the Bar, were able to shift all of the liability from the members of the State Supreme Court and the management of the Bar – themselves – to the individual members of the Bar. It won’t work, say the experts, who say they just dug themselves a deeper hole.

Following the example of West Virginia for ‘incomparably lesser crimes’ than have been allegedly committed by the Washington State Supreme Court, public interest lawyers are calling for its immediate impeachment. ‘This is a level of open corruption that would have been an embarrassment to Huey Long, or even a third world dictatorship. It’s just ridiculous,’ said the head of a Washington, D.C. public interest group.

In West Virginia, the Supreme Court was indicted for use of a government vehicle; submitting mileage claims for reimbursement; using a government vehicle and credit card on personal trips; and unlawfully converting to his own use a historically significant piece of furniture – a Cass Gilbert desk.  Justices were also indicted for attempting to corruptly obstruct and influence testimonial evidence of a Supreme Court employee in an imminent grand jury investigation.

‘For these crimes, one Justice faced a potential sentence of up to 395 years in prison, a fine of $5.5 million, and a term of supervised release of up to 3 years,’ said the Director of the national public interest group. ‘And yet in Washington State, we have open collusion between the State Supreme Court, the Bar Association’s Director Tollefson, Lloyd’s of London’s insurance syndicate, AWC, and a wildly corrupt Attorney General, Bob Ferguson for fraud involving billions of dollars,’ he said.

‘So here you have the State Supreme Court, rather than being the solution to one of the State’s biggest problems, this multi-billion-dollar RICO, is an integral part of the RICO,’ he said.

Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

D)  Judges. ‘A significant portion’ of Judges in Washington State are a key part of the RICO, according to insiders and legal experts. They are routinely bribed in several known ways, including home refinancing where a third party pays off their home loans. RICO judges, usually former SAAGS or former direct employees of Mr. Ferguson, are routinely promoted for their collusion and cooperation in the RICO.

E)   The Commission on Judicial Conduct.  The Commission on Judicial Conduct has failed to act against the RICO members. Any of them. The disciplinary actions they pursue create the appearance that they are doing their jobs, while allegedly the CJC works in lockstep with the Bar.

4).   The U.S. Attorney in the Western District. For the public, the last line of defense against public corruption is in Washington State is the U.S. Attorney for the Western District, currently Nick Brown. Until his appointment, which was aided by RICO co-director Bob Ferguson, Mr. Brown was an attorney with the SAAG law firm Pacifica Law Group. Pacifica law group has protected, and continues to protect, the RICO and its members.

Seattle’s Epstein – Part One

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Three

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Four

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Five

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Six

Seattle’s Epstein – Part Seven

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – Part Seven

WASHINGTON COURT FRAUD RECEIVES NATIONAL NOTICE

Supreme Court Candidate Calls for Suspension

Of Federal Funding for Washington Courts

© By J.P. Zenger

Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. are Under Investigation by

Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to Determine Their Relationship to a RICO

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Seattle, WA Sept. 7, 2022. The courts of Washington State are “As corrupt as any in the nation” according to national legal experts,” and a famous Ninth Circuit Lawyer this week is implementing “phase one” of his solution: the suspension of federal funding for the state court system.

A growing contingent of public interest lawyers and those who have been targeted by a rapidly unravelling criminal network, called a RICO, are preparing a series of nationally high-profile actions which call for the investigation and prosecution of those involved.

“It isn’t just King County, by any means,” said John “The Wizard of Laws” Scannell, a nationally respected Ninth Circuit lawyer, who is suing Washington Secretary of State Steven Hobbs. Washington State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madson is named as Mr. Hobbs’s co-defendant.

The suit filed by the famous public interest attorney is a “Petition to Correct Election Error.” A candidate for State Supreme Court, Mr. Scannell is demanding to run against Supreme Court incumbent Barbara Madson under election provisions for write-in candidates. Madson otherwise would run unopposed.

“The case asserts his right to be on the ballot. He argues that the Secretary of State misjudged the number of candidates prematurely. Further, it is common knowledge in the legal profession that Mr. Scannell’s so-called disbarment was completely illegal,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald.

“His disbarment was void for lack of jurisdiction. Even without that bedrock argument, he is a qualified candidate for Supreme Court under the State Constitution because he was previously licensed. Even the Ninth Circuit Court concluded that his disbarment was illegal and refused to recognize it. It was an act of retaliation by a wildly corrupt Bar Association and the RICO the Bar is an integral member of,” he said.

“The RICO was exposed by John Pennington, Jr. A series of articles, “Seattle’s Epstein,” explains in more detail how the RICO was exposed and how it works. According to that series, in brief, this is how the alleged RICO is structured, directed, and controlled:

1).  Lloyd’s of London. The RICO is directed by the insurance company, Lloyd’s of London. In the U.S., the Lloyd’s RICO is directed and controlled by Cary Bond of Lloyd’s N.Y. office. Lloyd’s RICO is well documented in U.S. court cases like this one.

2).  AWC. The RICO is operated on a state-by-state basis. In Washington, the RICO is directed by Lloyd’s syndicate member, AWC. Just days after his role in the RICO was exposed in the press, Peter King, the de facto CEO, hastily announced his retirement in an attempt to deceive federal law enforcement.

3)  The AG. The Co-Director of the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s RICO is State Attorney General (“AG”) Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was chosen and is supported by Peter King to co-direct the RICO.

At the direction of Peter King, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson control the legal system and deny any Washington citizen, considered by the RICO to be a financial or political risk, their Constitutional right to a fair day in court in four main ways:

A).  Public Records Officers. State public records officers, acting at the direction of Mr. Ferguson, routinely and illegally deny public records requests, destroy documents, and obstruct justice. The denial of public records prevents access to due process. These are criminal acts in violation of federal law.

B)   SAAGS. SAAGS are Special Assistant Attorney Generals. They are both private attorneys, and county prosecutors. A SAAG is basically “deputized” by Mr. Ferguson to act at his direction, effectively as his own staff. This is illegal and unconstitutional: it places both attorneys and prosecutors in a conflict of interest with the people they have a legal duty to represent. When a prosecutor illegally accepts a SAAG contract from Mr. Ferguson, it allows Mr. Ferguson to assume the county prosecutor’s power of criminal prosecution, which is denied Mr. Ferguson under the Washington State Constitution. It also allows Mr. Ferguson to deny anyone he wants the right to due process under the federal Constitution.

C)  The Bar Assn. The private Washington State Bar Association is controlled by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson controls the Bar by: 1) Illegally giving the private Bar millions of dollars in free rent; 2) Hosting and controlling the Bar’s email and data servers; 3) Proving unlimited free legal services to the Bar – all at a cost of countless millions of dollars to the taxpayers of Washington State; 4) Using the Bar and its disciplinary powers to target people chosen by Mr. Ferguson for liability control or political retaliation; and 5) The employees of the private Bar have been gifted tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars by inexplicably being on the State retirement system, called PERS.

In one case alone, Mr. Ferguson has spent over $20,000,000 of state taxpayer dollars to illegally disbar, harass with contract private security and cybercriminals, further engaging in legally baseless litigation with dozens of attorneys against Anne Block, a court-recognized journalist.

D)  Judges. ‘A significant portion’ of Judges in Washington State are a key part of the RICO, according to insiders and legal experts. They are routinely bribed in several known ways, including home refinancing where a mysterious third party pays off their home loans, and they are routinely promoted for their collusion and cooperation in the RICO.

4).   The U.S. Attorney in the Western District. For the public, the last line of defense against public corruption is U.S. Attorney for the Western District, Nick Brown. Until his appointment, aided by RICO co-director Bob Ferguson, Mr. Brown was an attorney with the SAAG law firm Pacifica Law Group. Pacifica law group has, and continues to protect, the RICO and its members.

5).  Cases. Mr. Scannell’s Petition, and related Petitions, seek suspend funding for the State Courts until the FBI’s Office of Public Corruption in Washington, D.C. investigate the following cases and individuals before federal funding is restored for the courts of Washington State:

A)  The Beauregard Case.  The Beauregard Case is considered one of the most corrupt decisions in Washington State history. It concluded that the State Bar Association is a private organization. Because the Bar, as referenced previously, is private, yet has received hundreds of millions of state taxpayer dollars, legal experts assert that the only rational explanation for the decision is that the Bar has colluded with the courts.

Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

B)  The Estate of Robert Cannon. King County Court Commissioners Masako Kanazawa and Carlos Velategui issued “completely and openly fraudulent rulings,” according to allegations by legal experts regarding the Estate of Robert Cannon, which had, and continues, to deny a substantial creditor to the Cannon Estate a fair day in court.

The Executor for the Robert Cannon Estate, Henry Cannon, was a former employee of the courts of King County, Washington. Currently representing Mr. Cannon is Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to Determine Their Relationship to the RICO.

Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

Ms. Valerie A. Villacin and the firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. are Special Assistant Attorney Generals, or SAAGS. SAAGS are considered an integral component of the RICO, and act at the direction of State Attorney General Ferguson.

King County Court Commissioner Masako Kanazawa is Under

Investigation for Her Alleged Role in the Cannon Estate Fraud

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C)   Anne Block. Judge Michael Scott, in King Snohomish County, Washington, is the only judge in U.S. history where only a single legal case filed by a person, Ms. Block, was used as the basis for a finding by Judge Scott of a vexatious (excessive) litigant, thus denying Ms. Block her right to due process.

Judge Scott, a known child molester, has been protected by the RICO and has never been prosecuted for his crimes against children, which is a matter of record with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Child Protection Division,” said Mr. Greenwald.

Attorney Scannell’s Ballot Statement:

“You have the right to live under the rule of law. Because of judicial corruption and organized crime, you are now denied that right.

I am a politically independent attorney in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and have decades of experience successfully fighting public corruption as a public interest lawyer.

I will work to restore your Constitutional right to have a fair day in court in four ways:

1)     Judicial Discipline.  Judges currently – and illegally – claim to be immune from the law. I will work to change that.

2)     Attorney Discipline. Attorneys now regulate themselves, and routinely commit crimes without being held accountable. I will work to change that.

3)     The Bar Association. The private Bar Association has stolen millions of your taxpayer dollars, and acted against public interest. I will work to return funds to state taxpayers..

4)    I am filing a national action this week to suspend federal funding – your federal tax dollars – from the Washington State Court system until these things are investigated and prosecuted.

I will continue to work to fix these problems and others that will protect your Constitutional rights and tax dollars with decisions that are intelligent, just, and ethical.”

“The law is clear,” said an elections lawyer familiar with the case. “The only way to misinterpret it is if one is either incredibly stupid and/or equally corrupt. That’s the purpose of his candidacy, to address what national legal experts have referred to as a court system that is “as corrupt as any court system in the nation.”

Alternately referred to as “Zamboni John,” Ninth Circuit attorney Scannell was a former zamboni driver for the City of Seattle’s hockey ring, is known to rarely charge for his relentless work on public interest cases, and is also known to spend more than a decade on a case in the pursuit of justice.

A marathon runner at age 74, Mr. Scannell is one of the few people in Washington State history to have gotten a perfect SAT score. With a degree in Physics from the University of Washington, and a former chess master, the current appellate attorney considers his illegal state disbarment a badge of honor.

Mr. Scannell’s actions in some cases have extended over a decade, hundreds of thousands of pages, and had hundreds of millions of dollars of impact. He is completely unconcerned about the person cost of his work and considers it his civic duty. Performing public interest work has cost him countless millions.

“If you do public interest work, you will offend people in power who are willing to commit crimes to retaliate against you. The question is, what are you willing to do about it? Are you willing to pay the price so we may live under the rule of law that millions have died for?” he said.

“Power isn’t taken. It’s given through fear and inaction,” said Mr. Scannell. “I’m in it for the long run,” he said, presumably a quip related to his marathon running.

Mr. Scannell’s case is before Thurston County, Washington Judge Dixon September 9, 2022.

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – PART SEVEN

“RICO Henchman” Sinks The Bar By J.P. Zenger

WASHINGTON COURT FRAUD RECEIVES NATIONAL NOTICE

Supreme Court Candidate Calls for Suspension

Of Federal Funding for Washington Courts

© By J.P. Zenger

Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. are Under Investigation by

Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to Determine Their Relationship to a RICO

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Seattle, WA Sept. 11, 2022. “The courts of Washington State are as corrupt as any in the history of the nation” according to national legal experts, and a famous Ninth Circuit lawyer this week is implementing “phase one” of his solution: the suspension of federal funding for the state court system.

A growing contingent of public interest lawyers and those who have been targeted for retaliation by a rapidly unravelling criminal network, called a RICO, are preparing a series of nationally high-profile actions which call for the investigation and prosecution of those involved.

“It isn’t just King County, by any means,” said John “The Wizard of Laws” Scannell, a nationally respected Ninth Circuit lawyer, who is suing Washington Secretary of State Steven Hobbs. Washington State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Madson is named as Mr. Hobbs’s co-defendant.

The suit filed by the famous public interest attorney is a “Petition to Correct Election Error.” A candidate for State Supreme Court, Mr. Scannell is demanding to run against Supreme Court incumbent Barbara Madson under election provisions for write-in candidates. Madson otherwise would run unopposed.

“The case asserts his right to be on the ballot. He argues that the Secretary of State misjudged the number of candidates prematurely. Further, while Mr. Scannell remains barred in the Ninth Circuit, it is common knowledge in the legal profession that Mr. Scannell’s state disbarment was completely illegal,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald.

“His disbarment was legally baseless. The state had no jurisdiction whatsoever. Even without the bedrock issue of jurisdiction, he is a qualified candidate for Supreme Court under the State Constitution because he was previously licensed in the state. Even the Ninth Circuit Court refused to recognize the state’s illegal disbarment. The disbarment was an open act of retaliation by a wildly corrupt Bar Association and the RICO the Bar is an integral member of,” Mr. Greenwald continued.

“The RICO was exposed by John Pennington, Jr. A series of articles, “Seattle’s Epstein,” explains in more detail how the RICO was exposed and how it works. According to that series, in brief, this is how the alleged RICO is structured, directed, and controlled:

1).  Lloyd’s of London. The RICO is directed by the insurance company, Lloyd’s of London. In the U.S., the Lloyd’s RICO is directed and controlled by Cary Bond of Lloyd’s N.Y. office. Lloyd’s RICO is well documented in U.S. court cases like this one.

The purpose of the RICO is to control financial losses as well as insurance markets for Lloyd’s and its insurance affiliates and partners, such as AWC in Washington State, and the State’s Department of Enterprise Services, a member of the risk pool.

2).  AWC. The RICO is operated on a state-by-state basis. In Washington, the RICO is directed by Lloyd’s syndicate member, AWC. Just days after his role in the RICO was exposed in the press, Peter King, the de facto CEO, hastily announced his retirement in an attempt to deceive federal law enforcement.

3)  The AG. The Co-Director of the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s RICO is State Attorney General (“AG”) Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was chosen and is supported by Peter King to co-direct the RICO.

At the direction of Peter King, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson control the legal system and deny any Washington citizen, considered by the RICO to be a financial or political risk, their Constitutional right to a fair day in court in four main ways:

A).  Public Records Officers. State public records officers, acting at the direction of Mr. Ferguson, routinely and illegally deny public records requests, destroy documents, and obstruct justice. The denial of public records prevents access to due process. These are criminal acts in violation of federal law.

Records officers who are controlled by Mr. Ferguson are often hired from other parts of the country, and have criminal backgrounds. Mr. Ferguson and those acting at his direction erase their criminal records on the FBI’s NCIC database, and thus have a ‘sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.

B)   SAAGS. SAAGS are Special Assistant Attorney Generals. They are both private attorneys, and county prosecutors. A SAAG is basically “deputized” by Mr. Ferguson to act at his direction, effectively as his own staff. This is illegal and unconstitutional: it places both attorneys and prosecutors in a conflict of interest with the people they have a legal duty to represent.

When a prosecutor illegally accepts a SAAG contract from Mr. Ferguson, it allows Mr. Ferguson to assume the county prosecutor’s power of criminal prosecution, which is denied Mr. Ferguson under the Washington State Constitution. It also allows Mr. Ferguson to deny anyone he wants the right to due process under the federal Constitution.

C)  The Bar Assn. The ‘private’ Washington State Bar Association is controlled by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson controls the Bar by: 1) Illegally giving the private Bar millions of dollars in free rent; 2) Hosting and controlling the Bar’s email and data servers; 3) Providing unlimited free personal legal services to the Bar and its staff – all at a cost of countless millions of dollars to the taxpayers of Washington State; 4) Gifting every employee of the ‘private’ Bar tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars through the State retirement system, called PERS; and 5)  Using the Bar and its disciplinary powers to target people chosen by Mr. Ferguson for liability control or political retaliation.

The list of SAAGS consists of hundreds of attorneys and law firms. SAAGs allow Mr. Ferguson to control every county legal system by putting county prosecutors on the state payroll; SAAGS allow Mr. Ferguson to control the legal profession in the state as a whole, because anyone who needs to hold the state accountable through the courts can’t – nearly every large law firm is on the payroll of the state. This is all at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the state taxpayers.

In one case alone, Mr. Ferguson has spent over $20,000,000 of state taxpayer dollars to target a court-recognized, award-winning journalist, Anne Block, by directing her illegal disbarment. It wasn’t enough for Mr. Ferguson. He then directed his staff, at taxpayer expense, to contract private security and cybercriminals to harass Ms. Block across the country, day and night. Mr. Ferguson then directed and has full knowledge of legally baseless litigation, in the total absence of any wrongdoing, with dozens of SAAG attorneys against her. Mr. Ferguson has committed dozens of federal crimes against Ms. Block.

D)  Judges. ‘A significant portion’ of Judges in Washington State are a key part of the RICO, according to insiders and legal experts. They are routinely bribed in several known ways, including home refinancing where a third party pays off their home loans. RICO judges, usually former SAAGS or former direct employees of Mr. Ferguson, are routinely promoted for their collusion and cooperation in the RICO.

4).   The U.S. Attorney in the Western District. For the public, the last line of defense against public corruption is in Washington State is the U.S. Attorney for the Western District, currently Nick Brown. Until his appointment, aided by RICO co-director Bob Ferguson, Mr. Brown was an attorney with the SAAG law firm Pacifica Law Group. Pacifica law group has protected, and continues to protect, the RICO and its members.

5).  Cases. Mr. Scannell’s legal actions, and related petitions, are expected to suspend funding for the State Courts until the FBI’s Office of Public Corruption in Washington, D.C. investigate the following cases and individuals before federal funding is restored for the courts of Washington State:

A)  The Beauregard Case.  The Beauregard Case is considered one of the most corrupt decisions in Washington State and U.S. history. It concluded that the State Bar Association is a private organization.

Because the Bar, as referenced previously, was declared private by the State Supreme Court, yet has received hundreds of millions of state taxpayer dollars, legal experts assert that the only rational explanation for the decision is that the Bar Association management, staff, and legal counsel had colluded with the members of the State Supreme Court.

The Janis decision determined that a given state bar association may not combine a private professional association with state powers, according to legal experts. The Washington Bar Association and the Supreme Court of Washington State realized that all of the money the state had been giving the Bar, and the Bar’s participation in the RICO would mean that, not only would the Bar have to pay taxpayers back hundreds of millions of dollars, but all of the liability for the Bar’s involvement in the RICO would potentially expose them to billions in liability.

By illegally defining the Bar as private, against all facts and common sense, in one single stroke the Supreme Court, which is responsible for overseeing the Bar, together with the management of the Bar, were able to shift all of the liability from the members of the State Supreme Court and the management of the Bar – themselves – to the individual members of the Bar. It won’t work, say the experts, who say they just dug themselves a deeper hole.

Following the example of West Virginia for ‘incomparably lesser crimes’ than have been allegedly committed by the Washington State Supreme Court, public interest lawyers are calling for its immediate impeachment. ‘This is a level of open corruption that would have been an embarrassment to Huey Long, or even a third world dictatorship. It’s just ridiculous,’ said the head of a Washington, D.C. public interest group.

In West Virginia, the Supreme Court was indicted for use of a government vehicle; submitting mileage claims for reimbursement; using a government vehicle and credit card on personal trips; and unlawfully converting to his own use a historically significant piece of furniture – a Cass Gilbert desk.  Justices were also indicted for attempting to corruptly obstruct and influence testimonial evidence of a Supreme Court employee in an imminent grand jury investigation.

‘For these crimes, one Justice faced a potential sentence of up to 395 years in prison, a fine of $5.5 million, and a term of supervised release of up to 3 years,’ said the Director of the national public interest group. ‘And yet in Washington State, we have open collusion between the State Supreme Court, the Bar Association’s Director Tollefson, Lloyd’s of London’s insurance syndicate, AWC, and a wildly corrupt Attorney General, Bob Ferguson for fraud involving billions of dollars,’ he said.

‘So here you have the State Supreme Court, rather than being the solution to one of the State’s biggest problems, this multi-billion dollar RICO, is an integral part of the RICO,’ he said.

Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

Ms. Valerie A. Villacin and the firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. are Special Assistant Attorney Generals, or SAAGS. SAAGS are considered an integral component of the RICO, and act at the direction of State Attorney General Ferguson.

B)  The Estate of Robert Cannon. King County Court Commissioners Masako Kanazawa and Carlos Velategui issued ‘completely and openly fraudulent rulings,’ according to allegations by legal experts regarding the Estate of Robert Cannon, which had, and continues, to deny a substantial creditor to the Cannon Estate a fair day in court.

The Executor for the Robert Cannon Estate, Henry Cannon, was a former employee of the courts of King County, Washington. Currently representing Mr. Cannon is Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

Representing the Bar was Valerie A. Villacin and the Law Firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S. who are under investigation by Public Interest Attorneys and Journalists to determine their relationship to the RICO.

Ms. Villacin and the firm Smith Goodfriend, P.S are Special Assistant Attorney Generals, or SAAGS. SAAGS are considered an integral component of the RICO, and act at the direction of State Attorney General Ferguson.

King County Court Commissioner Masako Kanazawa is Under

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C)   Anne Block.  Mr. Ferguson directed Judge Michael Scott, in King County, Washington, to rule that a single legal case filed by a one person, Ms. Block, defined her as a vexatious (excessive) litigant. It is the only case in U.S. history where the filing of a single case defined a litigant as a vexatious litigant, thus denying Ms. Block her right to due process under the state and federal Constitutions.

Judge Scott, a known child molester, has been protected by the RICO and has never been prosecuted for his crimes against children, which is a matter of record with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Child Protection Division,” said Mr. Greenwald.

For his part, Mr. Scannell’s suit to assert his lawful right to run for State Supreme Court is now gaining national press attention, which will be covering both his candidacy and his reasons for running, which are explained in Mr. Scannell’s ballot statement:

“You have the right to live under the rule of law. Because of judicial corruption and organized crime, you are now denied that right.

I am a politically independent attorney in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and have decades of experience successfully fighting public corruption as a public interest lawyer.

I will work to restore your Constitutional right to have a fair day in court in four ways:

1)     Judicial Discipline.  Judges currently – and illegally – claim to be immune from the law. I will work to change that.

2)     Attorney Discipline. Attorneys now regulate themselves, and routinely commit crimes without being held accountable. I will work to change that.

3)     The Bar Association. The private Bar Association has stolen millions of your taxpayer dollars, and acted against public interest. I will work to return funds to state taxpayers..

4)    I am filing a national action this week to suspend federal funding – your federal tax dollars – from the Washington State Court system until these things are investigated and prosecuted.

I will continue to work to fix these problems and others that will protect your Constitutional rights and tax dollars with decisions that are intelligent, just, and ethical.”

“The law is clear,” said an elections lawyer familiar with the case. “The only way to misinterpret it is if one is either incredibly stupid and/or equally corrupt. That’s the purpose of his candidacy, to address what national legal experts have referred to as a court system that is “as corrupt as any court system in the nation.”

Alternately referred to as “Zamboni John,” Ninth Circuit attorney Scannell was a former zamboni driver for the City of Seattle’s hockey ring, is known to rarely charge for his relentless work on public interest cases, and is also known to spend more than a decade on a case in the pursuit of justice.

A marathon runner at age 74, Mr. Scannell is one of the few people in Washington State history to have gotten a perfect SAT score. With a degree in Physics from the University of Washington, and a former chess master, the current appellate attorney considers his illegal state disbarment a badge of honor.

Mr. Scannell’s actions in some cases have extended over a decade, hundreds of thousands of pages, and had hundreds of millions of dollars of impact. He is completely unconcerned about the personal cost of his work, and considers it his civic duty. Performing public interest work has cost him countless millions.

“If you do public interest work, you will offend people in power who are willing to commit crimes to retaliate against you. The question is, what are you willing to do about it? Are you willing to pay the price so we may live under the rule of law that millions have died for?” he said.

“Power isn’t taken. It’s given through fear and inaction,” said Mr. Scannell. “I’m in it for the long run,” he said, presumably a quip related to his marathon running.

Mr. Scannell’s case is before Thurston County, Washington Judge Dixon.

SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – PART SIX

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“RICO Henchman” Sinks The Bar By J.P. Zenger

Washington State Bar President Brian Tollefson is Alleged to be a Critical Component of Lloyd’s of London’s Washington State RICO

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Brian Tollefson is predicted by legal experts to be “imminently criminally indicted” for his key role in the Washington State unit of Lloyd’s of London’s RICO.

“We have hundreds of pages of evidence, in addition to the testimony of insiders, that Mr. Tollefson has acted as a key henchman for Lloyd’s Washington State RICO,” said semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald. “He has personally buried the Bar and its members in billions of dollars of liability. All for personal gain.”

Mr. Tollefson has in fact reported directly to, and acted at the direction of, Washington State RICO director Peter King, the de facto CEO of AWC, and RICO co-director, Washington State Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson. Not only has Mr. Tollefson acted against the Bar’s public interest mandate, but he has acted against the people he has sworn to represent – the members of the Bar.

The recent exposure of Mr. Tollefson’s role in the RICO resulted from Lloyd’s rapidly unravelling criminal enterprise exposed by serial criminal and rapist John Pennington, Jr., as chronicled in this series, “Seattle’s Epstein.” Mr. Tollefson has personally orchestrated and covered up criminal acts of retaliation against members of the Bar.

“The retaliation happens routinely. Personal vendettas. Mostly for liability control for the RICO, which is its main purpose?

There is no possible way for the Bar to continue as it has. The Bar has continued and continued to accrue liability. They have all put their heads in the sand and pretended that the party would go on forever.

The exposure of Mr. Tollefson’s role in the RICO resulted from Lloyd’s rapidly unravelling criminal enterprise exposed by serial criminal and rapist John Pennington, Jr., as chronicled in this series, “Seattle’s Epstein.” After more than ten years of public records requests, “the Bar’s role in the RICO became crystal clear,” say attorneys close to the case.

“Fundamentally, the RICO exists for the purpose of liability control,” said the Ninth Circuit Appellate public interest Attorney John Scannell, “The Bar has, and continues to play, a key role in controlling the RICO’s liability.” the Jurist continued, “there are several ways that Mr. Tollefson, the Board of Governors, and Bar management do this.”

There are three ways that the Bar has buried members in liability,” said Mr. Greenwald. “First, they have ignored the Janus decision,” he said, referring to the SCOTUS decision that “anyone with an I.Q. bigger than their shoe size knows means the Bar must be bifurcated. The fact that the Bar ignored Janus has incurred massive liability for members.

“Second, the Bar’s members are exposed to liability from the public for the Bar’s theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from State taxpayers,” he stated. “The Beauregard decision determined that the Bar is a private organization, yet the staff of the Bar have been bleeding money from the public for decades. It’s now owed back,” said Greenwald.

“To start with, there is no rational or justifiable reason in the world that a private organization of any kind should be on the Washington State Public Employee Retirement SystemPERS,” stated Mr. Greenwald. “Could you imagine the staff of the National Rifle Association being on a Washington State’s public employee retirement system?”

Greenwald continued, “But that’s just a fraction of the Bar’s theft of public money that Bar members now owe back to the public. Next is tens of millions of dollars of free rent the Bar has been getting at the expense of the taxpayer, and millions of dollars of free legal services from the AG and its network of hundreds of SAAG contractors,” he said.

Counsel close to the case being developed against Bar members added, “The Bar’s theft of public money seems endless. The AG even provides IP hosting and email servers for the Bar at taxpayer expense. The AG schedules and hosts the Bar’s Continuing Legal Education (CLEs) at taxpayer expense, and the State Supreme Court has the AG’s DES provide free counsel to Bar staff.”

“For example,” said Counsel for the taxpayer’s multibillion dollar case against the Bar and its members, “Bar staff Kara Ralph filed a state tort form in relation to a harassment claim,” he said. “In a remarkable conflict of interest, and all at taxpayer expense, the State then provided her free counsel via Department of Enterprise Services (DES). Then state money to pay the claim.”

“But third, and by far the most significant way the Bar has buried its members in billions of dollars of liability is because of its role in the Lloyd’s of London RICO,” said the nationally recognized lawyer. “The main implication of Lloyd’s RICO is that the Bar has participated in the manipulation of the state’s legal system to control liability.”

“Lloyd’s RICO is directed by AWC, co-directed by the AG and DES, in collusion with the Bar. Here are three main ways the RICO controls the legal system:

  • Judicial corruption. Judges are given paid speaking engagements, directly bribed, and even federal judges are on the state public retirement system, PERS.
  1. SAAGs. SAAGS are Special Assistant AGs under contract and accountable only to the AG. They comprise hundreds of private attorneys and county prosecutors who are in an absolute conflict of interest and allow the AG to usurp police powers denied to the AG by the State Constitution,” he said. The SAAGs are routinely used to retaliate against any person or company that the RICO considers a financial risk.

“Tollefson is also known to act on behalf of Lloyd’s RICO by engaging in ex parte communication about cases that could result in liability exposure with known RICO judges on the federal bench, Ricardo aka “RICO” Martinez, and Richard Jones; and in the Ninth Circuit, Ronald Gould and Eric D. Miller, said Mr. Greenwald.  The Bar, together with AWC and the State, have a death grip on the legal system, extending to and including the Ninth Circuit Court.

  • The Bar’s power of the state. The Bar has been conferred the power of the state and its treasury, and used that power against anyone considered a financial risk to the RICO.

For example, in the absence of any legally based charge of wrongdoing, AG Bob Ferguson has directed the SAAGS to use SLAPP litigation, fraudulent Bar hearings, defamation, contract private security consults, and contract cybercriminals against one single member of the press, Anne Block, spending over $20 million of taxpayer money in the process.

Mr. Tollefson has personally orchestrated and covered up criminal acts of retaliation against members of the Bar. Mr. Tollefson has simply acted as a henchman for the Bar, which is completely controlled by the RICO.

Regardless of the evidence that the Bar is a public organization, spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer money and fully charged with the power of the State, by colluding with the State Supreme Court to declare themselves private, the Bar and the state successfully shifted liability from the state away from the Bar’s Board of Governors, the Bar management, and the state, to the members of the Bar.

This is the Central purpose of Lloyd’s RICO, the Washington State unit of which is AWC and the AG’s DES: liability control.  “The Board of Governors and management have done this in secret. Behind closed doors. Private meetings. Secret memos. Because once the Bar and Supreme Court declared the Bar private, the Bar was no longer subject to either the Public Records Act or the Open Meetings Act.

Will the entire Board of Governors continue to dance to Mr. Tollefson’s pied piper tune on the deck of the Titanic? Will they all continue to expose themselves to personal liability and end up destitute?

Will the Bar’s members finally have the integrity and at least act for self-preservation to demand the Bar stop burying its members in personal liability? Power concedes nothing without a demand.

It is a near certainly that the current Board and Management will present a complex Atlantic City boardwalk shell game to perpetuate its power and continue to expose Bar members to billions of dollars of liability.

It’s time for a vote of no confidence to clear the board and transitional management, get a new Board of Governors, open the meetings to the Bar members on any subject, and design a legitimately bifurcated Bar.

Anything less will continue to expose the members of the Washington State Bar to billions of dollars of personal liability,” he said.

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Time Is Running Out for Lloyd’s of London’s, Washington State RICO Unit

Part Five of Ten

By J.P. Zenger

On March 8, 2022, at 11:18 a.m., the offices of Snohomish County, Washington government seemed the same as any other morning. There were two exceptions. In the main reception area, the unseasonal smell of freshly cut grass drifted in through the partially open window on an unusually clear and sunny 46-degree day for early March. Nothing remotely suggested that a metaphoric F5 storm loomed just over the horizon.

The second exception to routine was the presence of a federal agent serving a subpoena. Compelling records about members of the largest RICO in the history of Washington State. The subpoena is expected to be the first of many. Over the next few months, dozens of local and state government offices, public officials, and private law firms are predicted by legal experts to be next. The storm with the power to eviscerate the RICO and the lives of its members thus announced its imminent arrival in Washington State.

After 15 years of effort by Washington State’s Gold Bar Reporter, together with its growing network of 13 volunteer attorneys, 86 victims and their families, hundreds of public records requests, and a lengthy investigation by federal law enforcement, the Washington State unit of what is now proven to be a massive global RICO operated by Lloyd’s of London appears to be rapidly nearing its end, according to voluminous evidence and insider testimony.

The RICO was deconstructed by the Gold Bar Reporter after retaliation by RICO member John E. Pennington, Jr., as chronicled in this series, “Seattle’s Epstein.” As explained earlier in the series, one of several cogs in Lloyd’s complex RICO machine is estate, probate and guardianship fraud involving billions of dollars. “We really lucked out,” said John Scannell, an appellate attorney in the 9th Circuit. “At the end of over a decade’s work, when choosing model RICO cases to bring to national attention, we found what is alleged to be a model case of estate fraud.” Luck may have little to do with the extended public interest group’s ongoing success.

For his part, Mr. Scannell is clearly a remarkable person. One of the few people in the history of the state to get a perfect SAT Score, he has a degree in physics from the University of Washington, is an accomplished chess champion, and has a decades-long history of public interest litigation with hundreds of millions of dollars of impact. He has rarely charged for his work and has a national reputation as “The Wizard of Laws.”

Mr. Scannell’s associate Anne Block, J.D., is equally remarkable. She worked through law school as a machinist while raising her infant daughter as a single mother. An award-winning investigative journalist, she inherited from her social activist New England parents a 163 IQ, their tireless Yankee work ethic, a blunt Boston bravado, and instilled in her an obligation to actively challenge corruption – regardless of the time or cost required. “They considered our historic Bostonian civic duty sacred,’ she said. “So do I.”

Luck may also have little to do with how the group’s associates discovered their model estate fraud case. In 2019, a guardianship victims’ relative, semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald joined the Gold Bar Reporter network. He acquired state-of-the-art fraud detection software, and began to process Washington State records. “We now discover patterns of fraud and relationships in seconds that until a couple of years ago would have taken thousands of hours and was only used by the NSA and CIA,” he said.

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Openly Corrupt King County Commissioner Carlos aka “Crazy Carlos” Velategui is a Key Member of a Vast Washington State RICO

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“It’s hard to overstate the significance of the new fraud analysis software. It’s like we are dealing with 19 century bank robbers who have no idea what a computer is. The software uses artificial intelligence and ‘Big Data’ in such complex and sophisticated ways that it really is science fiction come true. We have the next best thing to a brain scanner. After we find the patterns and cases, the same judges, attorneys, and public officials appear. We then contact the victims and their heirs.

The model case that the group discovered is the estate of the late Robert Cannon. “It’s the perfect fraud case,” said Mr. Greenwald. “We have an openly corrupt commissioner, Carlos aka ‘Crazy Carlos’ Velategui, and a plaintiff, Henry Cannon, who was an employee of King County and a friend of several judges. It couldn’t be better,” he stated. “This is our dream case. Velategui was already on our short list of the most corrupt judges in the state before his initial retirement two years ago. We are also reviewing all of the cases of Hanis Irvine Prothero.

“Known to be one of the most openly corrupt King County, Washington judges for his entire career, Velategui continues to fraudulently exhume himself from retirement like a crypt keeper of public corruption whose rotting hand clutching a fistful of stolen dollars rises from the grave in a “B” movie. But he couldn’t do it without the help of his friends in King County government,” said Mr. Greenwald. “They know who he is and what he does.”

Upon discovery of the Cannon estate case, the group reached out to an estate creditor with their evidence. The effort to elevate public attention about Velategui, other colluding public officials, and the firm Hanis Irvine includes two websites focused on Velategui and Hanis Irvine to assist victims with the automation of filing federal criminal complaints, to function as central repositories for evidence, and to collect and package evidence for a civil class action. “We have large national firms interested before the sites are fully live on May 15,” said Mr. Greenwald.

Patrick M. Hanis, the Law Firm Hanis Irvine Prothero and its staff are the subject of a RICO Investigation.

“It’s all about focus. In addition to Pennington, who really revealed the entire RICO, we are focusing on a relatively small number of public officials and attorneys. Our greatest asset is their arrogance. We will keep packaging evidence and sending it to federal authorities in D.C. We know how much collusion there is between the RICO members and public officials in the Western District,” said Anne Block, Publisher of the Gold Bar Reporter.

For his part, Patrick Hanis is a key subject of the Gold Bar Reporter investigation.  In addition to his involvement in probate and guardianship cases of interest, Mr. Hanis has acted as a Commissioner for King County Water District #111 since February 2004, which serves the areas of Meridian Valley and Lake Meridian in Kent. During that time, he and his law firm have represented clients with water rights issues.

Charles Wilson is Being Investigated for His Decisions Involving Clients of Hanis Irvine

Gary G. Cline is Being Investigated for His Decisions Involving Clients of Hanis Irvine

“We are examining every case of record and alleged conflicts of interest between Water District 111, Mr. Hanis, Hanis Irvine, and its staff, clients, Mr. Charles Wilson, and Mr. Gary G. Cline,” said Ms. Block. “Beyond that, I can no longer comment.”

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SEATTLE’S EPSTEIN – Part Five

Time Is Running Out for Lloyd’s of London’sWashington State RICO Unit

By J.P. Zenger

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On March 8, 2022, at 11:18 a.m., the offices of Snohomish County, Washington government seemed the same as any other morning. There were two exceptions. In the main reception area, the unseasonal smell of freshly cut grass drifted in through the partially open window on an unusually clear and sunny 46-degree day for early March. Nothing remotely suggested that a metaphoric F5 storm loomed just over the horizon.

The second exception to routine was the presence of a federal agent serving a subpoena. Compelling records about members of the largest RICO in the history of Washington State. The subpoena is expected to be the first of many. Over the next few months, dozens of local and state government offices, public officials, and private law firms are predicted by legal experts to be next. The storm with the power to eviscerate the RICO and the lives of its members thus announced its imminent arrival in Washington State.

After 15 years of effort by Washington State’s Gold Bar Reporter, together with its growing network of 13 volunteer attorneys, 86 victims and their families, hundreds of public records requests, and a lengthy investigation by federal law enforcement, the Washington State unit of what is now proven to be a massive global RICO operated by Lloyd’s of London appears to be rapidly nearing its end, according to voluminous evidence and insider testimony.

The RICO was deconstructed by the Gold Bar Reporter after retaliation by RICO member John E. Pennington, Jr., as chronicled in this series, “Seattle’s Epstein.” As explained earlier in the series, one of several cogs in Lloyd’s complex RICO machine is estate, probate and guardianship fraud involving billions of dollars. “We really lucked out,” said John Scannell, an appellate attorney in the 9th Circuit. “At the end of over a decade’s work, when choosing model RICO cases to bring to national attention, we found what is alleged to be a model case of estate fraud.” Luck may have little to do with the extended public interest group’s ongoing success.

For his part, Mr. Scannell is clearly a remarkable person. One of the few people in the history of the state to get a perfect SAT Score, he has a degree in physics from the University of Washington, is an accomplished chess champion, and has a decades-long history of public interest litigation with hundreds of millions of dollars of impact. He has rarely charged for his work and has a national reputation as “The Wizard of Laws.”

Mr. Scannell’s associate Anne Block, J.D., is equally remarkable. She worked through law school as a machinist while raising her infant daughter as a single mother. An award-winning investigative journalist, she inherited from her social activist New England parents a 163 IQ, their tireless Yankee work ethic, a blunt Boston bravado, and instilled in her an obligation to actively challenge corruption – regardless of the time or cost required. “They considered our historic Bostonian civic duty sacred,’ she said. “So do I.”

Luck may also have little to do with how the group’s associates discovered their model estate fraud case. In 2019, a guardianship victims’ relative, semi-retired major media journalist Mr. Greenwald joined the Gold Bar Reporter network. He acquired state-of-the-art fraud detection software, and began to process Washington State records. “We now discover patterns of fraud and relationships in seconds that until a couple of years ago would have taken thousands of hours and was only used by the NSA and CIA,” he said.

Openly Corrupt King County Commissioner Carlos aka “Crazy Carlos” Velategui is a Key Member of a Vast Washington State RICO

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“It’s hard to overstate the significance of the new fraud analysis software. It’s like we are dealing with 19 century bank robbers who have no idea what a computer is. The software uses artificial intelligence and ‘Big Data’ in such complex and sophisticated ways that it really is science fiction come true. We have the next best thing to a brain scanner. After we find the patterns and cases, the same judges, attorneys, and public officials appear. We then contact the victims and their heirs.

The model case that the group discovered is the estate of the late Robert Cannon. “It’s the perfect fraud case,” said Mr. Greenwald. “We have an openly corrupt commissioner, Carlos aka ‘Crazy Carlos’ Velategui, and a plaintiff, Henry Cannon, who was an employee of King County and a friend of several judges. It couldn’t be better,” he stated. “This is our dream case. Velategui was already on our short list of the most corrupt judges in the state before his initial retirement two years ago. We are also reviewing all of the cases of Hanis Irvine Prothero.

“Known to be one of the most openly corrupt King County, Washington judges for his entire career, Velategui continues to fraudulently exhume himself from retirement like a crypt keeper of public corruption whose rotting hand clutching a fistful of stolen dollars rises from the grave in a “B” movie. But he couldn’t do it without the help of his friends in King County government,” said Mr. Greenwald. “They know who he is and what he does.”

Upon discovery of the Cannon estate case, the group reached out to an estate creditor with their evidence. The effort to elevate public attention about Velategui, other colluding public officials, and the firm Hanis Irvine includes two websites focused on Velategui and Hanis Irvine to assist victims with the automation of filing federal criminal complaints, to function as central repositories for evidence, and to collect and package evidence for a civil class action. “We have large national firms interested before the sites are fully live on May 15,” said Mr. Greenwald.

Patrick M. Hanis, the Law Firm Hanis Irvine Prothero and its staff are the subject of a RICO Investigation.

“It’s all about focus. In addition to Pennington, who really revealed the entire RICO, we are focusing on a relatively small number of public officials and attorneys. Our greatest asset is their arrogance. We will keep packaging evidence and sending it to federal authorities in D.C. We know how much collusion there is between the RICO members and public officials in the Western District,” said Anne Block, Publisher of the Gold Bar Reporter.

For his part, Patrick Hanis is a key subject of the Gold Bar Reporter investigation.  In addition to his involvement in probate and guardianship cases of interest, Mr. Hanis has acted as a Commissioner for King County Water District #111 since February 2004, which serves the areas of Meridian Valley and Lake Meridian in Kent. During that time, he and his law firm have represented clients with water rights issues.

Charles Wilson is Being Investigated for His Decisions Involving Clients of Hanis Irvine

Gary G. Cline is Being Investigated for His Decisions Involving Clients of Hanis Irvine

“We are examining every case of record and alleged conflicts of interest between Water District 111, Mr. Hanis, Hanis Irvine, and its staff, clients, Mr. Charles Wilson, and Mr. Gary G. Cline,” said Ms. Block. “Beyond that, I can no longer comment.”

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 UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS’s Employee John Pennington Explains His Support And “Outspoken Advocacy” of Abortion Rights

© By J.P. Zenger, for the Gold Bar Reporter, Reporting from Fairbanks, AK USA

Killer and Serial child rapist John Pennington explains his unwavering support of abortion as being “about consistency”

Fairbanks, AK USA “I may have committed negligent homicide of 43 people, and am currently an alleged ‘person of interest’ in some other supposed homicides and disappearances of underage children across a few states and Canada, but it’s really about consistency,” said John Pennington, aka “Seattle’s Epstein,” reflecting on his well-known support of abortion. “I mean, I may be called a murderer, but at least I’m not a hypocrite.”

The nationally infamous serial criminal took time from his schedule as a public official and Faculty Member of the University of Alaska for a remarkably candid, if not confessional, interview with the Gold Bar Reporter to explain his international activism as a leading supporter of abortion rights. “I want to be very clear about my position on abortion,” he stated with emphasis, “I not only support abortion, but I also support it in any circumstance through the third trimester of pregnancy. In fact my personal philanthropy has focused exclusively on supporting abortion rights, and personally paying for dozens of abortions.”

Mr. Pennington has, in fact, illustrated his point of conviction and degree of advocacy of the right to end life through his own personal experience, as is reflected in the public record. In Seattle, when Mr. Pennington and his former wife had a disagreement about carrying their own child to term, he took matters into his own hands to tangibly express the extent of his passion and no-compromises position about the right to terminate a pregnancy. John Pennington nearly beat his ex-wife to death while she was in her third trimester of pregnancy. He had done the same to other former spouses and girlfriends as well. Repeatedly.

“Look at my track record. Of course I support abortion in all its forms, whether done through a licensed clinic, a veterinarian, a midwife, or even in a back alley,” said Mr. Pennington. “It’s an established fact that I was responsible for the death of 43 people. Wouldn’t it be kind of silly if I went around saying I was pro-life?” he said, “Actually, it would be nothing short of ridiculous,” he emphasized. Mr. Pennington’s court-ordered psychiatric evaluation by Dr. Marsha Hendricks in Seattle concurred, concluding that he has “no empathy for human life whatsoever.”

Another court-appointed psychiatric evaluation by Dr. Ableben Z. Hintritt of Los Angeles, California concluded that Mr. Pennington’s:

“…severe Asperger’s, together with a long history of incest and reciprocal extreme domestic violence from a very young age that involved both his mother and grandfather has resulted in a deeply disturbed and dangerous psychopath with behavior manifesting in dissociative identity disorder, commonly known as a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ personality.’”

Dr. Hintritt further predicted that:

“Mr. Pennington’s disorders will be regularly triggered by seemingly random events, and will continue to result in severe outbursts and physical violence, including inevitable threats to human life. When those trigger events occur, he has no capacity whatsoever to control his behavior, degree of internal agitation, and external violence and harm that will predictably manifest during those events. Mr. Pennington is a headline waiting to happen,” said the internationally regarded Psychiatrist. Dr. Hintritt’s prediction was prophetic. The headlines have appeared all over the world.

“By far the greatest danger of Asperger’s patients who also manifest psychopathy and antisocial behavior is their ability to study and mimic the behavior of others, and thus to appear normal until any number of trigger events occurs,” stated Dr. Hintritt in his report to the Court. “This is very disarming in the case of Mr. Pennington, as the subject is highly intelligent, presents with a distinguished and attractive appearance, and yet as accurately cited in the previous analysis by Dr. Hendricks, Mr. Pennington has absolutely no capacity for human empathy whatsoever,” he said. “The combination of his disorders, together with a complete absence of any moral compass makes Mr. Pennington as dangerous as any subject I have ever assessed,” stated the noted Psychiatrist and profiler of serial killers, including fellow Seattle murders Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, and dozens of others.

“Mr. Pennington’s consistently violent criminal behavior precludes any rational possibility of functioning in society. Permanent involuntary confinement without the possibility of parole is the only conceivable option.”

Mr. Pennington’s support for abortion goes well beyond his financial support. Several restraining orders have been issued against him for harassing pro-life advocates at their homes, protests, and even their offices. Mr. Pennington’s harassment of public pro-life protests has involved him both “mooning” and sexually exposing himself to groups of protesters, including children. The investigations and/or prosecutions of all of these incidents and charges have been blocked, sealed, and/or dismissed by the many judges and public officials whom he and his wife have directly or indirectly extorted and continue to extort.

Consistency indeed. John Pennington’s demonstrated position on a child’s right to life and protection has been equally consistent throughout his entire life. A serial rapist of very young children since he was a teenager, the cases of his rape of boys and girls span the country. After violently raping several children in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, he raped several boys at his church in San Diego. He then raped and attempted to murder a five-year-old girl in Cowlitz County, Washington. According to the lead detective in the case, Maurice Saxon, “John Pennington is the man who raped and tried to murder that little girl.”

After the child rapes in San Diego, he fled California. Relocating to Washington State, he found an uncontested seat in the Washington State Legislature, representing a sparsely populated community. Using his new position as a state legislator, he actively “socialized” at every possible venue with his fellow legislators. The socializing included countless “meetings” at several private and public “swingers” clubs that feature spouse swapping and every conceivable related activity. He then arranged private flights with lobbyists and legislators to Portland, Oregon to have sex with underage victims of child trafficking. With and without the knowledge of the legislators, he took pictures. Those pictures, together with those taken during his current wife’s politically targeted promiscuity at Mr. Pennington’s direction, has allowed the Penningtons to continuously blackmail judges and politicians. Those judges and politicians have, in turn, pressured lower ranking public officials to forego investigation and/or prosecution of countless of the Pennington’s crimes.

The Legislators who occupied office concurrently and “socialized” with Mr. Pennington, and/or who have been subject to his blackmail, include Washington State’s Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, Judge Eric Lucas, Judge Joe Wilson, Marlin Applewick, Commissioner Jeffrey Gibbs, in addition to several other public officials. His extortion has resulted in those politicians and public officials erasing Mr. Pennington’s criminal history on the FBI’s NCIC criminal database, pressuring prosecutors to forego prosecution of dozens of crimes, including child rape, and one of the most visible, and egregious, and extensive cases of negligent homicide in the history of the United States.

In one example of his ability to evade or defer justice, Mr. Pennington’s rape of the five-year-old girl in Cowlitz County, WA, was to be prosecuted by a Kelso City Prosecutor Michael Kenyon. Directly after Mr. Pennington assumed state office, however, “The rape kit for the investigation disappeared, several witnesses were never called, and the case never went to trial. Pennington was never even charged. Michael Kenyon directly aided and abetted Pennington, a violent serial child rapist, and went from his $43,000 a year job with Cowlitz County, WA to receiving millions of dollars in state government legal services contracts. Pennington went free. Is that a coincidence?” said a former Police Detective and private investigator. The little girl, who barely survived, got a lifetime of night terrors, according to her mother.

The most dramatic example of the power of Mr. Pennington’s blackmail is the fact that his negligent homicide of 43 people, homes, animals, and related economic impact of over two hundred million dollars was never prosecuted. “John Edward Pennington Jr. got his job as director of FEMA’s Region 10 through fraud, according to the Seattle Times. The story is covered by dozens of major media outlets across the world. He repeatedly lied to the press about his failure to disclose the slide risks to residents. And he’s fired for stealing FEMA money, but never prosecuted? How is it possible to get away with murder and federal fraud in broad daylight. In front of the entire world?” said a FEMA insider.

Roughly Half of the People in Washington State Killed by John Edward Pennington Jr.

When told of Mr. Pennington’s current employment in a $100,000+ position as the “Deputy Director of the Center for Arctic Security and Resilience” with the State of Alaska, referencing himself on the State website as “an internationally recognized emergency/disaster management and public policy professional,” the otherwise calm and professional FEMA insider responded with an extended series of expletives, followed by “Are you serious? Who in God’s name let this happen, and how on Earth is it remotely possible for this murdering child rapist con artist to get a job in government, again? This is insane.”  

“Like I said, it’s about consistency,” concluded Mr. Pennington in relation to his tireless support of the right to end life, abruptly ending the interview, “I can’t stand hypocrites.”

Seattle’s Epstein: Part One

Seattle’s Epstein: Part Two

Seattle’s Epstein: Part Three

This article and the series, and all articles on the Gold Bar Reporter, may be reprinted and published at no cost if approved by the Gold Bar Reporter, and original authorship and joint ownership of copyrights by J.P. Zenger and the Gold Bar Reporter are attributed. Please email GoldBarReporter@comcast.net with requests for reprint/republication.

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