D-BUSTER   UNKNOWN

Posted: 07:06 pm [PST] on March 06 2010

I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH MR. FINE'S CASE/S ON JOHN SILVA VS. GIL GARCETTI. I WORKED ON THE CASE WITH HIM IT IS SAD TO SEE A GOOD MAN LIKE RICHARD F. TO SIT IN A JAIL FOR BRINGING THE TRUTH TO LITE, WE ARE SHORT OF LIVING IN THE MED EVIL DAYS, OR THE DAYS WERE THE CHURCH DID NOT ALLOW FOR YOU TO HAVE A BIBLE IN YOUR HOME OR YOU WOULD BE BEHEADED,( "THE SPANISH INQUISION" ),PROSECUTED FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE TRUTH. ANY WAYS,I HAVE PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED THE ARROGANCE OF THESE JUDGES, AND SO HAVE A MILLION OTHER PEOPLE, LET ME TELL YOU WHO I AM. I AM A CONCERNED TAX PAYER JUST AS YOU, I KNOW THAT ALL THAT MONEY COULD OF GONE TO BETTER USE AND NOT TO ARROGANT BASTERDS IN ROBES. LET ME TELL YOU HOW THEY WORK, THEY WORK OFF OF YOUR FEAR AND INTIMIDATION, THREATNING YOU WITH JAIL WHEN THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE CRIMINALS. THEY ALSO WORK ON A TECNIC CALLED " THE ART OF WAR" KEEPING THE PEOPLE CONFUSED BY CAUSING US TO BICKER AMONG EACH OTHER WEATHER IT BE IMMIGRATION, GANG VIOLANCE, TAXES, BUDGETS, UNEMPLOYMENT , ETC... AS LONG AS THEY CAN KEEP US CONFUSED AND NOT FOCUS ON WHAT IS DESTROYING THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES THEY LAVISHLY WILL MOVE ON," THE ART OF WAR IS- DIVIDE AND CONQUER ".
LET ME GIVE YOU A GOOD EXAMPLE, WE HAD A TEAM OF 7 PEOPLE WHO WERE CONCERENED ABOUT WHY WE WERE SO DEEPLY IN DEBT IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, IN OUR RESEARCH WE DISCOVERED FROM THE COUNTY AUDIT CONTROLLER IN OUR INTERVIEW WITH HIM HIS WORDS WERE, " I AM ONLY HERE AS ANOTHER POSITION, I DON'T CONTROL ANY MONEYS THAT COME IN TO THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, I NEVER SEE ONE PENNY",I JUST SIGN CHECKS. WE ASKED WHO DOES THEN,HE SAYS " 111 HILL ST." I SAID THE COURT BUILDING, "HE SAID NO, THE JUDGES",SO WHAT I AM SAYING, THINK ABOUT IT, WHO IS IN CONTROL OF THE CITY FINANCES. -THE JUDGES. AS WE FURTHER SEARCHED WE FOUND EVIDENCE THAT JUDGES WERE TAKING MONEYS APPLYING TO ANOTHER ACOUNT KNOWN AS "THE JUDGES MISCELANEOUS EXPENSE FUND ", WERE JUDGES WOULD TAKE THIS MONEY AND THEY WOULD HAVE BIG LAVISH PARTIES BUY LAVISH GIFTS, AT ONE POINT WE TOOK ALL OUR INFORMATION ON ALL THE JUDGES THAT WERE INVOLVED TO CHANNEL 2 WERE WE MEET WITH JUDD MACLVAINE, WHO WAS THE ACTION SHOOTER AT THE TIME. JUDD WANTED THE EXCLUSIVES ON THE STORY WERE WE HAD DID INTERVIEWS EXPOSING ALL THE CORRUPTIONS WITH IN THE CITY ON JUDGES. DURING THE TIME THAT JUDD WAS GOING TO AIR IT, THAT EVENING IT DID NOT COME ON JUDD CALLED ME AN HOUR LATER AND SAID HE WAS FIRED, FOR TRYING TO AIR THE CORRUPTION IN THE CITY, AND THATS WAS THE END OF OUR JUDD MACLVAINE, "THE ACTION SHOOTER". A FEW MONTHS WENT BY A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF LAURENT BRYANT TOOK OVER JUDDS POSSITION HE BECAME THE NEW ACTION SHOOTER HE TO WANTED THE EXCLUSIVES AND WAS GOING TO AIR IT AGAIN ON CHANNEL 2 AND THE SAME RESULTS HAPPEND.. AS YOU CAN SEE THE MEDIA IS CONTROLLED BY SPECIAL INTREST ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SHOW'S DIRECTOR. HELL, WE HAVE GONE AS FAR AS TAKING IT TO THE F.B.I. ON WILSHIRE BLVD, THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WE HAD,WE INTERVIEWD WITH THE F.B.I. LAYED OUT ALL THE CORRUPTION THEY SEEM INTRESTED BUT THEY THEMSELVES COULD NOT SEE A CRIME. I BELIEVE THE ONLY REASON FOR THE MEETING WAS TO FIND OUT WHO THEY NEEDED TO COVER FOR, IT WAS NEVER ABOUT AN INVESTIGATION, SO WE DECIDED TO SEARCH INTO THE F.B.I FINDING THAT THEY WERE RUNNING THERE OWN LITTLE SCAMS, WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE DEPUTY D.A. TO MIKE ANTONOVICH, WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE CHIEF CITY INVESTIGATOR, WHEN HE WAS PUT WITH THE TEAM HE NEVER THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH CORRUPTION IN THE CITY UNTIL HE PERSONALLY WITNESSED WITH HIS OWN INVESTIGATIONS. AFTER HE COMPLETED HIS REPORTS HE HAD THE CITY LETTER HEAD ON THE TOP OF IT AS AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTING THE CORRUPTION, HE WAS TOLD BY HIS BOSS TO REMOVE THE LETTERHEAD OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES LOGO OF THE INVESTIGATION FINDINGS AND GET RID OF THE INFO. HE WAS VERY UPSET AND DID NOT WANT TO DO IT,
THE NEXT DAY WHEN HE WENT TO WORK HE FOUND HIS DESK IN THE HALLWAY NO LONGER HAVING AN OFFICE OF HIS OWN. AS FAR AS THE DEPUTY D.A.
I GOT A CALL FROM AN UNDISCLOSED PLACE THAT ITS APARTMENT WAS RANSCAKED AND FEARED FOR ITS LIFE.
I COULD TELL YOU MORE BUT I'M WASTING PRECIOUS TIME, WE HAVE A GOOD LAWYER IN JAIL, FOR A CRIME THE JUDGES COMMITED. WHICH ONE OF US COULD TAKE A NICE PAY OFF AND NOT REPORT IT ON OUR TAXES.
SO HERE WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S VERY OBVIOUS THAT THE CLOWNS THAT RUN THIS CITY HAVE EVERY ANGLE COVERED ALL THE WAY UP TO THE LEGISLATIVE. I BELIEVE WE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONEL ISSUE HERE, THAT WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW THIS BEAST TO CONTINUE IF WE COULD ONLY PUT ASIDE OUR INDIFFERENCES,
AND COME TOGETHER IN ONE VOICE, BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THAT WE ARE GOING TO TAKE BACK OUR CITY FROM THE ABUSE OF THE JUDICIARY, AGAIN I AM IMFASIZING THAT IF WE DON'T GET OVER OUR FEARS YOU MIGHT AS WELL FORGET IT AND ALLOW THESE JUDGES TO PUT YOU IN JAIL JUST LIKE RICHARD FINE..
I'M GLADD THAT SOME OF YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH MR. FINE'S CAUSE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO POST YOUR COMMENTS, BUT LETS DO MORE, HOW FAR WILL YOU GO, SPREAD THE WORD OUT, DO FLYERS, ORGANIZE MEETINGS, STRATEGIZE AND PUT YOUR STRONG WILL AND KNOWLEDGE IN PLACE, REMEMBER THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A GOVERMENT OF WE THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE...........DON'T FORGET THAT............

D-BUSTER   UNKOWN

Posted: 05:36 pm [PST] on March 06 2010

I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH MR. FINE'S CASE/S ON JOHN SILVA VS. GIL GARCETTI. I WORKED ON THE CASE WITH HIM IT IS SAD TO SEE A GOOD MAN LIKE RICHARD F. TO SIT IN A JAIL FOR BRINGING THE TRUTH TO LITE, WE ARE SHORT OF LIVING IN THE MED EVIL DAYS, OR THE DAYS WERE THE CHURCH DID NOT ALLOW FOR YOU TO HAVE A BIBLE IN YOUR HOME OR YOU WOULD BE BEHEADED,( "THE SPANISH INQUISION" ),PROSECUTED FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE TRUTH. ANY WAYS,I HAVE PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED THE ARROGANCE OF THESE JUDGES, AND SO HAVE A MILLION OTHER PEOPLE, LET ME TELL YOU WHO I AM. I AM A CONCERNED TAX PAYER JUST AS YOU, I KNOW THAT ALL THAT MONEY COULD OF GONE TO BETTER USE AND NOT TO ARROGANT BASTERDS IN ROBES. LET ME TELL YOU HOW THEY WORK, THEY WORK OFF OF YOUR FEAR AND INTIMIDATION, THREATNING YOU WITH JAIL WHEN THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE CRIMINALS. THEY ALSO WORK ON A TECNIC CALLED " THE ART OF WAR" KEEPING THE PEOPLE CONFUSED BY CAUSING US TO BICKER AMONG EACH OTHER WEATHER IT BE IMMIGRATION, GANG VIOLANCE, TAXES, BUDGETS, UNEMPLOYMENT , ETC... AS LONG AS THEY CAN KEEP US CONFUSED AND NOT FOCUS ON WHAT IS DESTROYING THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES THEY LAVISHLY WILL MOVE ON," THE ART OF WAR IS- DIVIDE AND CONQUER ".
LET ME GIVE YOU A GOOD EXAMPLE, WE HAD A TEAM OF 7 PEOPLE WHO WERE CONCERENED ABOUT WHY WE WERE SO DEEPLY IN DEBT IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, IN OUR RESEARCH WE DISCOVERED FROM THE COUNTY AUDIT CONTROLLER IN OUR INTERVIEW WITH HIM HIS WORDS WERE, " I AM ONLY HERE AS ANOTHER POSITION, I DON'T CONTROL ANY MONEYS THAT COME IN TO THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, I NEVER SEE ONE PENNY",I JUST SIGN CHECKS. WE ASKED WHO DOES THEN,HE SAYS " 111 HILL ST." I SAID THE COURT BUILDING, "HE SAID NO, THE JUDGES",SO WHAT I AM SAYING, THINK ABOUT IT, WHO IS IN CONTROL OF THE CITY FINANCES. -THE JUDGES. AS WE FURTHER SEARCHED WE FOUND EVIDENCE THAT JUDGES WERE TAKING MONEYS APPLYING TO ANOTHER ACOUNT KNOWN AS "THE JUDGES MISCELANEOUS EXPENSE FUND ", WERE JUDGES WOULD TAKE THIS MONEY AND THEY WOULD HAVE BIG LAVISH PARTIES BUY LAVISH GIFTS, AT ONE POINT WE TOOK ALL OUR INFORMATION ON ALL THE JUDGES THAT WERE INVOLVED TO CHANNEL 2 WERE WE MEET WITH JUDD MACLVAINE, WHO WAS THE ACTION SHOOTER AT THE TIME. JUDD WANTED THE EXCLUSIVES ON THE STORY WERE WE HAD DID INTERVIEWS EXPOSING ALL THE CORRUPTIONS WITH IN THE CITY ON JUDGES. DURING THE TIME THAT JUDD WAS GOING TO AIR IT, THAT EVENING IT DID NOT COME ON JUDD CALLED ME AN HOUR LATER AND SAID HE WAS FIRED, FOR TRYING TO AIR THE CORRUPTION IN THE CITY, AND THATS WAS THE END OF OUR JUDD MACLVAINE, "THE ACTION SHOOTER". A FEW MONTHS WENT BY A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF LAURENT BRYANT TOOK OVER JUDDS POSSITION HE BECAME THE NEW ACTION SHOOTER HE TO WANTED THE EXCLUSIVES AND WAS GOING TO AIR IT AGAIN ON CHANNEL 2 AND THE SAME RESULTS HAPPEND.. AS YOU CAN SEE THE MEDIA IS CONTROLLED BY SPECIAL INTREST ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SHOW'S DIRECTOR. HELL, WE HAVE GONE AS FAR AS TAKING IT TO THE F.B.I. ON WILSHIRE BLVD, THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WE HAD,WE INTERVIEWD WITH THE F.B.I. LAYED OUT ALL THE CORRUPTION THEY SEEM INTRESTED BUT THEY THEMSELVES COULD NOT SEE A CRIME. I BELIEVE THE ONLY REASON FOR THE MEETING WAS TO FIND OUT WHO THEY NEEDED TO COVER FOR, IT WAS NEVER ABOUT AN INVESTIGATION, SO WE DECIDED TO SEARCH INTO THE F.B.I FINDING THAT THEY WERE RUNNING THERE OWN LITTLE SCAMS, WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE DEPUTY D.A. TO MIKE ANTONOVICH, WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE CHIEF CITY INVESTIGATOR, WHEN HE WAS PUT WITH THE TEAM HE NEVER THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH CORRUPTION IN THE CITY UNTIL HE PERSONALLY WITNESSED WITH HIS OWN INVESTIGATIONS. AFTER HE COMPLETED HIS REPORTS HE HAD THE CITY LETTER HEAD ON THE TOP OF IT AS AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTING THE CORRUPTION, HE WAS TOLD BY HIS BOSS TO REMOVE THE LETTERHEAD OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES LOGO OF THE INVESTIGATION FINDINGS AND GET RID OF THE INFO. HE WAS VERY UPSET AND DID NOT WANT TO DO IT,
THE NEXT DAY WHEN HE WENT TO WORK HE FOUND HIS DESK IN THE HALLWAY NO LONGER HAVING AN OFFICE OF HIS OWN. AS FAR AS THE DEPUTY D.A.
I GOT A CALL FROM AN UNDISCLOSED PLACE THAT ITS APARTMENT WAS RANSCAKED AND FEARED FOR ITS LIFE.
I COULD TELL YOU MORE BUT I'M WASTING PRECIOUS TIME, WE HAVE A GOOD LAWYER IN JAIL, FOR A CRIME THE JUDGES COMMITED. WHICH ONE OF US COULD TAKE A NICE PAY OFF AND NOT REPORT IT ON OUR TAXES.
SO HERE WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S VERY OBVIOUS THAT THE CLOWNS THAT RUN THIS CITY HAVE EVERY ANGLE COVERED ALL THE WAY UP TO THE LEGISLATIVE. I BELIEVE WE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONEL ISSUE HERE, THAT WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW THIS BEAST TO CONTINUE IF WE COULD ONLY PUT ASIDE OUR INDIFFERENCES,
AND COME TOGETHER IN ONE VOICE, BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THAT WE ARE GOING TO TAKE BACK OUR CITY FROM THE ABUSE OF THE JUDICIARY, AGAIN I AM IMFASIZING THAT IF WE DON'T GET OVER OUR FEARS YOU MIGHT AS WELL FORGET IT AND ALLOW THESE JUDGES TO PUT YOU IN JAIL JUST LIKE RICHARD FINE..
I'M GLADD THAT SOME OF YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH MR. FINE'S CAUSE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO POST YOUR COMMENTS, BUT LETS DO MORE, HOW FAR WILL YOU GO, SPREAD THE WORD OUT, DO FLYERS, ORGANIZE MEETINGS, STRATEGIZE AND PUT YOUR STRONG WILL AND KNOWLEDGE IN PLACE, REMEMBER THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A GOVERMENT OF WE THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE...........DON'T FORGET THAT............

Ben Dover   California

Posted: 09:32 am [PST] on February 21 2010

Maybe if the Mayor had any balls he would fire all of these corrupt judges, to save the city workers jobs. This is the exact misappropriation of funds that has Los Angeles County and for that fact California in ruins. Why do tax payers have to keep funding these things? How on earth can laws go into effect forcing us to pay, when it's our money? We should be able to not only know when laws are going into effect to spend our money, but we should, under the constitution, be able to VOTE AGAINST IT.

This is sick, sad, and twisted. Cut our jobs, make us suffer, make us pay, and keep us in the dark the whole time. The Commission on Judicial Performance should have IMMEDITALLY suspended all these Judges without pay while they investigate. Why is it, that the criminals are always protected by the Government? Oh, wait, it's because THEY ARE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT. Un-fricken believable.

Alexis   SF,Calif.

Posted: 02:36 pm [PST] on February 12 2010

Richard Fine is a Hero~I put this link,all over,I have sent emails,to aclu,all on my lists or in comments when appropriate~My prayers are with Richard Fine & those who support & help him~~Thank You for covering this most important vital case,your great!! Below is a story you may be interested 2 know about~~Thank you !!

This young man is fighting~~he is only 21 yrs old~using the US. Constitution~they have been violating~~he recused his attorney,filed a writ of habeas corpus,which they ignored and took out of his case file~in a letter he received from Solano County Council~ http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_14388260

Truth Seeker   Location unknown

Posted: 09:22 am [PST] on January 24 2010

@ Courtwatch. Please work with Leslie Dutton on a report NAMING NAMES. We deserve the right to know the names of these Judges. All 2000 of them. We deserve the right to know, from top to bottom, who came up with the sudden SBX211 "Bill/Law" to make these payments legal. Every one of them.

It's extremely interesting that Marin County and San Diego County are now undergoing "audits" for Court Corruption, but Los Angeles, which is where THIS part of the corruption started has been left out. Los Angeles is the center of the septic system of Court Corruption, and the law makers as well. (Some who's spouses are Judges)

It appears that our Government is just really a large mafia. Why is Madoff in jail if these Judges aren't? They have done the exact same thing, but it's worse. He was at least caught, and stopped. There is no stopping the Government.

Leslie, please do a report, naming names of all the ones involved from top to bottom. Who drafted SBX 211, who supported it, and who is getting the payments. All 2000 names.

courtwatch   Marin County

Posted: 08:00 pm [PST] on January 21 2010

For those of you who are interested in the Richard Fine issues, the statistics about the judicial perks he was complaining about can be found in the Judicial Council's December 15, 2009 report entitled "Historical Analysis of Disparities in Judicial Benefits". The key statistics are in attachment D, pages D-9 to D-14. In 2008, CA counties paid a total of $30,388,289 in "supplemental judicial benefits" to their judges, above and beyond their state salaries and benefits.$23,482,932 of this total $30.3 million was paid by Los Angeles County, to Los Angeles County judges. The report does not state how much each judge receives per capita, but it states that Los Angeles County has 436 judges-- that comes out to each LA judge receiving approximately $53,860 from LA County. Richard Fine challenged the LA judges, stating that those receiving these hefty benefits from LA County should not be hearing cases involving LA County. He also claimed the payments were illegal. In 2008, a court of appeal agreed that the payments were illegal.(Sturgeon v. County of Los Angeles (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 630.) According to the Judicial Council report (page 4), in response to the Sturgeon case, "the judicial branch sought legislation, Senate Bill X2 11".

The legislation, commonly known as SBX 211, was pushed through on an emergency basis. It allows judges to continue to receive these extra benefits, and also provides RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY from prosecution to counties paying the benefits, and judges receiving the benefits.

In other words, CA judges were taking the county benefits in violation of the law. When this was made public, the CA judiciary got emergency legislation passed, allowing them to continue to receive their benefits (while courts are being closed due to "budget constraints"), and also allowing them to escape prosecution. Meanwhile, the lawyer who had been challenging the LA bench for taking these hefty illegal perks for years, was disbarred and sent to jail, where he has been held in solitary confinement for almost a year.

The legality of SBX 211 has subsequently been challenged -- something the language of the legislation itself anticipated.

If you think this report on judicial benefits is interesting, check out the report issued the same day (12/15/09), by the CA Judicial Council's "Commission on Impartial Courts" recommending that judges be allowed to take campaign contributions from those who appear before them (although 75% of the public, and over 25% of judges, believe such contributions affect the outcome of cases), and also recommending AGAINST the implementation of Judicial Performance Evaluations--which consultants to the Judicial Council have repeatedly,strongly recommended.

Justice   NorCal

Posted: 12:21 am [PST] on December 27 2009

Another example of questionable law enforcement..go to JuryUninformed.blogspot.com. Read about special treatment apparently affored the former mayor/retired county sheriff deputy's, known, troubled son in Pleasant Hill.

Jun Kim   Michigan

Posted: 01:10 am [PST] on December 20 2009

It is crystal clear, Subject Judge’s fraud, directly related to misconduct order that “no evidence”; I believe that lobbyist beyond this case with political party.

How possible no evidence; Respondents state that “ He has never been moved from the Pending to the Waiting List” “ I have been carrying him on our Pending List every month since December 2005”.
U.S Suprem court refused of the review. How posible justice please let me know
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Joe Banana   so. cal

Posted: 05:03 am [PST] on November 15 2009

How does the reversal in the Caperton vs Massey ruling effect this situation?

joebanana   so. cal

Posted: 05:42 pm [PST] on October 19 2009

It's the Sheriffs duty to arrest anyone, and everyone involved in this criminality. Lee Baca is ignoring this proven criminal activity, he needs to man up, and do his job. What the hell is with "law enforcement", they're so used to busting pot smokers, that real criminals scare them? Baca aint a "sheriff", he's a sissy.