"The only good nigger is a dead nigger and they should hang you in the town square to prevent any other nigger from coming in the area."
-- July 2011 Statement by Oakland, CA Public Schools Police Chief Pete Sarna to an African-American police officer under his command. (August 18, 2007: A high-ranking California Department of Justice official hired by Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown resigned Friday. His resignation comes a week after he crashed a state-owned vehicle and was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. Peter C. Sarna II, deputy director of the Division of Law Enforcement, helped oversee hundreds of state agents, criminologists and other employees who provide investigative, intelligence, forensic and security services for the department. Sarna, 37, is a former Oakland police officer who headed special operations, including gang suppression efforts, when Brown was the city's mayor. One of the few aides Brown brought along when he took office in January, Sarna assumed a leadership role in the attorney general's anti-gang program that recently produced dozens of arrests through joint state-local raids on gang members' homes in Stockton and Atwater in the Central Valley.)
Single & Homeless!
Posted: 01/11/2013 03:22:35 PM PST - Updated: 01/13/2013 02:39:35 PM PSTOAKLAND, CA -- The Alameda County District Attorney will deliver a $111,400 settlement to the California Department of Education stemming from a child care fraud case that went on for nearly a decade. The settlement represents the largest single child care fraud restitution order in Alameda County history, according to D.A. Nancy O'Malley. According to O'Malley's office, Khadijah Ali, a full-time employee of the San Francisco Unified School District took $185,302 from the state by posing for nine years as a single, homeless mother of three. The money came from 4Cs of Alameda County, a nonprofit funded by the California Department of Education. The woman was in fact living with her three children and husband, a full-time civilian employee of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department, in their Alameda home. The mother pleaded guilty to felony grand theft and received a five year probation sentence. Criminal charges against her husband were dismissed.
The Danford Rapes!
Posted: 11/12/2012 4:10 pm EST Updated: 11/12/2012 2:10 pm PST 
Seattle, WA -- The prosecutor wife of a Seattle attorney recently charged as a serial rapist hid her husband's evidence-filled vehicle during an extended police investigation, court documents allege. Police arrested Danford Grant, 47, on Sept. 24 under suspicion that he raped and attempted to rape Chinese immigrants at massage parlors. Court documents released on Tuesday point to Grant's wife, Jennifer, claiming that she tampered with evidence in the case, media sources reports.
Jennifer Grant, a supervisor in the criminal division of the Seattle City Attorney's Office, allegedly moved her husband's car to a random location shortly after his arrest. Detectives searched for the vehicle, which they thought contained a folding knife, cell phones and other evidence. There are no charges against her, but an inside source claims that "there could be severe consequences." Danford Grant is on house arrest after posting a $1 million bail. Police say the father of three was a regular at the Carnation Massage Clinic, where he would research his massage therapist victims before following them home and violently raping them. Grant would allegedly intimidate his victims, who were all Chinese immigrants, so they would not call police, media sources reports.
On Sept. 19, Grant reportedly paid for a massage, held one of the parlor's employees at knife point and then forcibly raped her in a private room. He allegedly returned on Sept. 24 and raped the same employee before other employees called police and tried to detain him themselves.
Corrupt Cronies!
Posted: June 25, 2012 - Updated: July 6, 2012 09:22 pm PDT“I recommended Judge Nunley to the president for nomination to the District Court in Sacramento.”
-- June 25, 2012 Statement by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) on the nomination of Judge Troy Nunley by Barack Obama.
San Francisco CA -- Barack Obama nominated Superior Court Judge Troy L. Nunley ("Uncle Tom" pictured left) to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Judge Troy L. Nunley grew up in San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point housing projects (haven for N-word criminals). He graduated from St. Mary’s College (haven for Catholic Sex Predators and their supporters) in Moraga, Calif., in 1986 and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (haven for Jewish criminals and their children) in 1990.Nunley served as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County from 1991 to 1994 and in Sacramento County from 1996 to 1999. He served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General's office from 1999 to 2002. Since 2002, he has served as a judge on the Sacramento County Superior Court.
The Feinstein Family!
(24 June 2000) Gov. Gray Davis appointed Katherine Feinstein (Corrupt Jew, pictured left) a deputy city attorney and daughter of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein to the San Francisco Superior Court. The appointment, which had been widely expected, fills one of five vacancies on the court, with Feinstein taking the opening left by Judge Lee Baxter, who retired. As a deputy city attorney for the past two years, she has overseen the prosecution of child abuse and neglect cases for the San Francisco Department of Human Services. Feinstein, 42, is the second San Francisco city attorney that Davis has tapped for a judgeship. In April, the governor named Patrick Mahoney, chief trial deputy in the office, to the bench. (25 September 2008) San Francisco Superior Court Judge Katherine Feinstein was elected Tuesday to serve as the court’s next assistant presiding judge, the court announced. Feinstein, the daughter of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will join Judge James McBride, who will be the court’s presiding judge, when their two-year terms begin Jan. 1.
Feinstein is a former prosecutor with the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and since being appointed as a judge in 2000, has supervised the court’s family law, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, domestic violence and child support divisions, according to the court. She is also a former San Francisco police commissioner and a graduate of Hastings College of the Law and the University of California, Berkeley, the court said.
Corrupt Justice™: Sacramento County and her Superior Court(s) are one of the top ten (10) racist counties and courts in the State of California. The entire county of Sacramento is politically arch-conservative and represents a virtual KKK stronghold. Sacramento, Contra Costa and Alameda County will only place "Blacks" in positions of authority, if they are willing to promote, or enforce racists policies against other Blacks and minorities.
Barack Obama, Martin Jenkins, Corrupt Judge ("Uncle Tom") and Troy L. Nunley epitomize a new form of "21st Century racism". The new form of racism in the United States dictates that a "Black man" is only acceptable to society if he meets the following criteria:
1) He is Homosexual (Jenkins, Nunley);
2) He is an "Uncle Tom" (Obama, Jenkins and Nunley);
3) He is an athlete/entertainer, or capable of generating revenue (Obama, Jenkins);
4) He is of bi-racial (Caucasian) heritage (Obama);
5) He must never (truly) aid or associate with members of the "Black" community; and
6) He must be Pro-Jewish/Anti-Arab.
Another What???
Posted: 03/01/2013 05:18:19 PM PST - Updated: 03/01/2013 06:19:19 PM PST
OAKLAND, CA -- An Alameda County Superior Court judge charged last year with a dozen felonies for stealing more than $1 million from his 97-year-old widowed neighbor had 20 new counts added to his criminal complaint Friday. All but two of those new criminal counts, however, are based on the same set of facts discovered last year when Judge Paul David Seeman was removed from his courtroom at the Wiley E. Manuel Courthouse, handcuffed and then arrested in his chambers.Seeman is accused of stealing from his now-deceased Berkeley neighbor Anne Nutting by illegally gaining control of her finances and property after her husband died in 2009. While in control of her finances, Seeman is accused of slowly funneling her life savings and valuable possessions into his control.
The new charges filed against Seeman on Friday by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office are not based on new information but instead were filed in a more specific manner as they address various actions Seeman took over a roughly 13-year period during which he is accused of taking Nutting's money.
Only two of the 20 new charges are based on information gathered after Seeman was arrested last year. Those charges are based on financial disclosure reports Seeman filed in March and April 2012. Teresa Drenick, spokeswoman for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, had no comment on the new charges.
Seeman, 58, who was appointed to the Alameda County bench in 2009 by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has not been officially removed from his job and continues to collect a paycheck. Seeman, however, has not been presiding over cases since he was arrested and charged with a crime. Seeman is a constitutional officer, therefore he can only be removed from the bench through either a recall, impeachment or by the independent state Commission on Judicial Performance. The commission has yet to take action against Seeman and no citizen or elected official has asked for a recall or impeachment of the judge.
Seeman's attorney declined to comment. Seeman is expected to return to court next month for another hearing on his case.
Posted: 06/15/2012 9:51 am - Updated: 06/16/2012 02:07 am PDT
Oakland, CA -- Alameda County Superior Court Judge Paul Seeman (Jewish) arrested yesterday and charged with bilking an elderly neighbor out of more than $1.5 million, made his first court appearance at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse today as a defendant. Seeman, 57, engaged in a “pattern of related felony conduct” involving more than $200,000 beginning in 1999, and lied about it to authorities, according to a complaint filed today in Alameda County Superior Court.
Judge Eric Labowitz (Jewish) a visiting judge from Mendocino County, agreed to a continuance: Seeman's arraignment will take place on July 3. He faces 13 felony counts of theft, embezzlement and perjury involving former Santa Barbara Road neighbor Anne Nutting, who died in 2010 at 97. Labowitz denied a request by news media to bring cameras into the courtroom.Wearing a charcoal brown suit, Seeman, 57, walked into court and sat quietly in the spectators’ gallery just moments before Labowitz called his case, then walked out the door moments later with defense attorney Michael Markowitz (Jewish). Seeman was arraigned Friday on charges that he stole at least $1.6 million from his 97-year-old neighbor in the Berkeley hills over the course of more than a decade.
A spokeswoman for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office called the charges "disappointing and disturbing." Prosecutors say that after the death of Nutting's husband, Seeman took over power of attorney, selling two of the couple's Santa Cruz properties, an art collection, a Lionel train set and other valuables. They also say he borrowed $250,000 from her -- then failed to pay off the loan. Seeman also stands accused of failing to report income from the loan and real estate investments to the Fair Political Practices Commission, which judges are required by law to do.
Seeman initially befriended Nutting in December 1998 after her husband suffered a fall at the couple’s home on Santa Barbara Road in Berkeley and police deemed the home to be uninhabitable due to hoarding, according to the declaration. The Nuttings then moved into the Radisson Hotel at the Berkeley Marina. Seeman offered to help the Nuttings because they were all alone and had no one to rely on because they had no family, no children and no friends, the statement said.
According to a probable cause declaration filed in court by Berkeley police officers, who investigated Seeman for more than two years, Seeman stole thousands of dollars from his neighbor, Anne Nutting, after her husband, Lee Nutting, died in 1999 at age 90. The declaration said Seeman sold off Anne Nutting’s art collection and other possessions, tried to bar her from her own home and used her garage to store his 1958 Ford Thunderbird.
In January 1999, Seeman obtained a durable power of attorney for the Nuttings after finding $1 million worth of stock certificates and uncashed dividend checks in their house, according to the statement. Lee Nutting died on Dec. 29, 1999, and between April and June 2000, Seeman arranged the sale of two properties the Nuttings owned in Santa Cruz, according to Berkeley police. By August 2004, Seeman had taken over almost all of Anne Nutting’s financial affairs, putting his name on her bank accounts as joint tenant and on her investment accounts as a transferee on death, the statement said. There was more than $2.2 million in the accounts at that time, according to the statement.
Nutting lived at the Radisson Hotel for nine years because Seeman did not want her to return to her home and tried to get her to move into senior housing, Berkeley police said. Nutting finally moved back to her home in 2007 and obtained the help of an attorney who revoked Seeman’s durable power of attorney and asked that Seeman remove his name from all of her bank accounts and stop handling her financial affairs, according to the statement. However, Seeman didn’t remove his name from any of Nutting’s accounts and continued to maintain control over her taxes and safe deposit boxes, according to the declaration.
In March 2010, Nutting’s attorney went to Berkeley police and reported that Nutting, who was 97 at the time, was a victim of financial elder abuse at the hands of Seeman, the statement said. Nutting died the following month on April 17, 2010. The statement says Seeman also failed to report investments totaling more than $1.4 million in 40 local properties between March 2003 and June 2009.
Seeman is still listed in the courthouse directory as the presiding judge in Department 107, but he is unlikely to hear a case again anytime soon. He was taken from the Alameda County district attorney's office on the second floor of the Wiley Courthouse around 3 p.m. Thursday by two women, at least one of whom wore a badge on her belt. Seeman was wearing a gray suit, and his hands were handcuffed behind his back. His suit jacket was draped over the cuffs. He was taken to the Glenn Dyer Jail, where his bail was set at $525,000. He was released Friday after he posted $525,000 bail. He is scheduled to return to court on July 3 to enter a plea.
Seeman was named to the bench by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009. Seeman served as a court commissioner for the Alameda County Superior Court since 2004. He had previously served as a referee pro tem for the county’s Juvenile Court between 1991 and 2004. From 1990 to 1991, Seeman worked as a deputy county counsel for the Alameda County Counsel’s Office and before that he was in private practice. A newspaper article from 2009 announcing Seeman's appointment to the superior court bench gave his residence as Berkeley. Before becoming a judge, he had an office on Kittredge Street in downtown Berkeley. He graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law and was admitted to the State Bar in 1980.
The more than 30 Occupy Oakland advocates, some of whom Seeman had ordered to stay away from Frank Ogawa Plaza or UC Berkeley, recognized the white-haired jurist immediately, and jeered loudly as he and Markowitz walked down Washington Street away from the courthouse. The judge drew criticism from Occupy Cal demonstrators when he issued stay-away orders during pre-arraignment hearings to 12 linked to Nov. 9 UC Berkeley campus protests. In March, he ordered four to stay away from UC Berkeley.
"He ordered me to stay away from (Frank Ogawa Plaza), and I wasn't anywhere near there, which violates my civil rights," said Christopher Moreland. "He set extraordinarily high bail for the Occupiers," said Boots Riley, a supporter whose father, Walter Riley, has represented a number of the defendants. ""He said the cases are going to be heard by a higher court anyway, so he'll just go with whatever the D.A. recommends."
Neither Seeman nor Markowitz would comment or answer questions.
The Fredriksson Family!
Posted: 05/25/2012 9:51 am - Updated: 06/21/2012 12:25 am PDT
Hayward, CA -- Jason Fredriksson (pictured below, left) the former San Leandro cop accused of giving a pound of pot to an informant to sell, who was also his lover, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge that allows him to avoid jail. Last year, the ex-narcotics detective plead not guilty to a felony count of illegally transporting and furnishing marijuana for sale.
In early June, Superior Court Judge Roy Hashimoto (pictured below, left) approved a deal worked out by Assistant District Attorney Michael Roemer and his defense attorney. Under its terms, Fredriksson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of possession of more than an ounce of pot, said a spokeswoman for Alameda County District Attorney's office. Fredriksson was sentenced to 30 days of work for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department but will not spend nights in jail; he will serve 5 years probation during which time he can be easily searched; and he will have to pay a series of fines, including reimbursing the San Leandro Police Department for the cost of investigating him. He also agreed not to work as a law enforcement officer or possess firearms, the district attorney's office said.
The Fredriksson case became public about a year ago when the former San Leandro police officer, then on the narcotics squad, was accused of giving pot to his mistress, a San Leandro resident and police informant. Fredriksson, a Danville resident, was 38 at the time and married to an SLPD police dispatcher. Fredriksson's wife, Sheryll Confreros Fredriksson, was awarded Dispatcher of the Year in 2007, according to the department's website.
Jason Fredriksson has been on the San Leandro force for nine years, and most recently has been a detective in the vice/narcotics unit and a member of the 14-person SWAT team. He formerly worked as an Alameda County sheriff's deputy.When the scandal first arose his defense attorney said other than the extramarital affair with the informant, authorities had no evidence of wrongdoing. His attorney blamed the case on "hypervigilance." The incident was a trial-by-fire for then newly-arrived San Leandro Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli, who quickly brought the District Attorney into the case when she got a call informing her of the allegations against Fredriksson. Spagnoli told media sources in an interview last November that she was sure Fredriksson had acted alone.
Prosecutors did not say where they believe Fredriksson got the marijuana. But San Leandro police emphasized that the case was not connected to a drug-theft prosecution in Contra Costa County involving a former state narcotics agent who headed a multi-agency law enforcement task force. As this case was being investigated, authorities in Contra Costa County were finalizing their look into two-decades-old allegations that John Richard Frederiksson (Jason's dad) had sexually abused a female relative.
San Leandro Police Department!
SAN LEANDRO | Nov. 30, 2011 | Change at the San Leandro Police Department comes at a torpid pace, it seems, especially when it comes to transforming the makeup of the police force to more closely match the faces of one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just how the police department and its chief, Sandra Spagnoli, would accomplish this became less clear Monday night.
Spagnoli told the council racial and gender considerations are not used in the promotion process. Of the department's 91 officers, only 7 are black and a mere 4 are women. In a response to a query from San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy over efforts to encourage blacks and women to apply for positons on the force, Spagnoli said there were none and questioned the exact definition of what "diversity" actually means.
Cassidy claimed five of the last seven recent new hires were white males.
San Leandro Police Department
Chief Sandra Spagnoli !
Chief Sandra Spagnoli !
San Leandro Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli answers questions at the Broadmoor Neighborhood Association (BNA) General Meeting on March 16, 2011. Questions include[d]:
1) What percent of the crime rate is drug-related and what is being done to combat the sales of drugs in the community?
"That doesn't sound correct," said Spagnoli. "You have to remember diversity comes from a variety of different experiences that people bring to the table." She referenced a recent new hire who was born and raised in the city's Washington Manor neighborhood near the Highway 238 interchange. "He happens to be a white male with a four-year education and he has experience as a police officer. So when you talk about diversity whether it is ethnic diversity or gender diversity, it's really great when you think someone in this community wants to serve this community after growing up in this community."
Cassidy responded by saying, "We do have a desire to have a police force that is reflective in gender and race of our community and not be dramatically different." He suggested funneling a more diverse pool of possible candidates through the police academy, but she disagreed.
"I think you're making the assumption that your diversity pool is going to increase if you have a pool of people who don't have experience versus having experience," Spagnoli said. "We had a lot diversity in the applicant process, unfortunately, the most diverse candidates failed the background process and wouldn't be working here."
Changes to the way officers are chosen for promotion were also discussed during Monday's work session. Spagnoli said outside consultants would aid in choosing applicants along with a battery of other tests, including a written and oral exam. "The reason why you use a variety of different test method is so one person can't have a great test day."
The last comment runs close to matching statements made by numerous officers in recently disclosed confidential reports detailing the Dewayne Stancill scandal. Disgruntled officers claimed the previous promotion board unfairly favored some candidates, which led to low morale within its ranks. Others voiced a sense that Stancill who was called "stupid" by some in the department, somehow had a lucky day in testing so high on the controversial promotional test for sergeant in 2007.
CORRECTION & NOTE: A correction was made to a caption posted earlier this morning that read despite more than a quarter of the population in San Leandro is Asian, the group is unrepresented on the force. That is clearly an error. There are nine, according to a memo by city staff last August. This article is about comments made during last Monday's work session that featured most of the SLPD's top brass and should have referred to the lack of Asians among that group.
The fact remains the racial and gender makeup of the PD is severely out of whack. Here is the department's demographics in contrast to the latest 2010 Census:
Race..........#Ofcs...PCT..|..CensusSource: SLPD, U.S. Census
Whites.........60...65.9%..|..37.6%
Asians..........9....9.9%..|..29.7%
Hispanic........7....7.7%..|..27.4%
Black...........4....4.4%..|..12.3%
Other..........11...12.0%..|..13.3%
Corrupt Justice™: We note that both John and Jason Fredriksson passed the police background process and were both working in law enforcement at the time of their respective arrests.
Daddy Fredriksson!
Walnut Creek, CA -- Seven days after his son's court appearance John Richard Fredriksson surrendered in a Walnut Creek courtroom to answer to charges that he molested a young girl between the late 1980s and early 1990s. Facing eight counts of lewd and lasivious conduct and oral copulation with a child under 14, he was taken into custody with bail set at $800,000.
Sometime over the past year, police received a report that a former San Francisco police officer and inspector for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office had allegedly molested a female relative when he and his family lived in Walnut Creek in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Back then, John Richard Frederiksson and his wife, from whom he is now divorced, were also raising Jason Frederiksson. The younger Frederiksson would graduate from Las Lomas High in 1991 and become a well-regarded San Leandro Police Department detective.The Dunbar Family!
Posted: 06/09/2012 07:26:17 PM PDT - Updated: 06/16/2012 07:38:49 PM PDT
Pleasant Hill, CA -- Pleasant Hill police Chief Pete Dunbar is retiring at the end of September after 30 years in law enforcement. Dunbar joined the Pleasant Hill Police Department in February 2006. "Honestly, it becomes a financial decision," said Dunbar, 51. "Under the (state retirement) system, with 30 years of service, we max out; and with all the structural changes in Pleasant Hill, I'm losing money by working is what it boils down to. "I love my job, I love working with the people here, so it has nothing to do with that. But economically it doesn't make sense to keep working." According to the city, his 2010 base salary was $193,334 annually.
After graduating from the University of Santa Clara, Oakland native Dunbar (pictured right) joined his hometown police department as a patrol officer in 1982. He was promoted to sergeant five years later, and in 1991 he was the first supervisor to arrive at the scene of the Oakland hills fire that killed 25 people and destroyed 3,300 homes. Dunbar received a Medal of Merit for directing officers during the evacuation. He was promoted to lieutenant, then captain, and in 1999 was appointed deputy chief.The Pleasant Hill Police Officers' Association has had a strained relationship with the council for the past year because of contentious contract negotiations, Dunbar has steered clear of the fray. Officer Todt Clark, union president, said Dunbar regularly met with rank-and-file officers to hear their ideas. "I'm sorry to see him go. I think he's made a lot of positive changes," Clark said. "I wish him nothing but the best."
Dunbar will continue teaching California Peace Officers Standards and Training management courses through the San Diego Regional Training Center and the California Police Chiefs Association, of which he is a vice president. He plans to spend most of his time in Evergreen, Colo., just outside Denver, where he and his wife have owned a house for three years.
"Working in Pleasant Hill has been a great way to finish my career," Dunbar said. "I can't think of any better way for it to end."
Daddy Dunbar!
William Leo Dunbar (May 24, 1925 - Jan. 18, 2010) Retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge and Captain USNR Judge Advocate Corps. Member of Rotary Club of Oakland. Preceded in death by wife, Joan, and sister, Jane Nelson. Survived by sons Peter, Michael and John and five grandchildren. Born May 24, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. In February 1945 graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Business Administration and commissioned as Navy Ensign. Served on an assault cargo ship in the Pacific during World War II. Awarded one battle star. After the war, Judge Dunbar graduated from Northwestern Law School with a Juris Doctor degree. In 1953, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a management analyst and business writer until 1963, when he began practicing law in Oakland, Calif., as a civil trial lawyer. In 1986, he was appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court. As a Naval reserve lawyer, he organized and chaired legal seminars for military lawyers of all services. He recruited and led volunteer Navy Reserve lawyers providing free legal services to military men and women and their dependents. He commanded several reserve legal units and served on the staffs of the 12th Naval District Readiness Commander and the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center in Oakland, and on boards of the Alameda County Bar Association, Legal Aid Society and Alameda-Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association, and on the Oakland Catholic Diocese Interracial Council, Social Justice Commission and Catholic Youth Organization.
The Lockyer Family!
Posted: 12/13/2012 11:18:36 AM PST - Updated: 12/13/2012 04:38:34 PM PST
Oakland, CA -- Former Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer's temporary restraining order against her former extramarital lover expired Thursday. Her lawyer declined to seek an extension and says Lockyer (pictured left) will probably remain in residential drug treatment until early February. Lockyer went into National Therapeutic Services' residential drug-treatment program in Newport Beach on Aug. 31, after being arrested on drug charges. Her attorney claims he talked with program administrators this week, and they said they expect she'll stay for the usual 180 days, meaning she'll get out in early February.
A few weeks after she resigned her Alameda County Supervisor's seat, Lockyer, 41, the estranged wife of state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, sought a court issued restraining order to keep Stephen Chikhani, 36 (pictured left) away from her and her family in May. Lockyer had claimed Chikhani attacked her Feb. 3 in a Newark hotel room. The state Justice Department investigated and declined to charge Chikhani with any crime. Chikhani, of San Jose, has denied stalking, bothering or wanting anything more to do with Lockyer, though he has made inquiries about selling sex tapes he made with her.The order was modified and reissued in August, a few weeks before she was arrested in Orange County on felony methamphetamine and misdemeanor child-abuse and endangerment charges. Police went to the home where Lockyer and her 9-year-old son, Diego, were staying on Aug. 28 after a caller tipped them that she might have drugs there, prosecutors said in September. Officers found a tube of aluminum foil with a burned end, and when they met Lockyer later that day she showed signs of being under the influence of drugs. She was arrested and charged with felony methamphetamine possession and three misdemeanors: being under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and child abuse and endangerment. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for March 5, 2013.
Lockyer's civil attorney, said an Alameda County Superior Court judge on Thursday decided there's no point in extending the temporary restraining order. The court's decision was based upon the fact Lockyer isn't in town and doesn't intend to seek further extensions when she returns. She could always file for a new order if necessary, he noted. "Hopefully she's moving on with her life and Steve is moving on with his and we can put this matter behind us," her attorney said. "Nadia will ultimately make that choice; we'll see what happens."
Bill Lockyer, 71, filed for divorce in July, citing "irreconcilable differences" and seeking joint physical and legal custody of their son. After Nadia Lockyer's arrest, a judge ruled she could see their son but only under her estranged husband's supervision. The boy is living with his father in Hayward while his mother undergoes treatment.
Posted: published May 21, 2010 - Updated: June 16, 2012 08:09:49 PM PDT
Belmont, CA -- Lisa Lockyer (pictured left) and Chris C. Kemp bought a three-bedroom, two-bath home at 619 Southview Court in Belmont, CA from Patricia W. Silva for $1.26 million on May 21, 2010. The 2,880-square-foot house was built in 1963 in Central. It is located in the Southview Terrace subdivision. Ms. Lockyer is deputy director of the New Ventures and Communications Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center (a government tax-payer funded position) in Silicon Valley, where she previously was chief of the Technology Partnerships Office.Prior to joining NASA Ames in 1998, she was a deputy district attorney in Alameda County (a government tax-payer funded position), where she practiced criminal law. She received a B.A. from Harvard University, and her J.D. from Hastings College of the Law.
Mr. Kemp is chief technology officer for IT at NASA Ames Research Center (a government tax-payer funded position) where he has previously served as CIO and director of business development. Prior to joining NASA, he was CEO and president at Escapia Inc. and Netran Inc., chief architect of a website, and was systems engineer at Silicon Graphics Inc. He attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
County of Alameda
State of California
The Alameda County DA’s office is famous for nepotism. Here is an updated list of Some people related to VIPs hired or promoted by The Alameda County District Attorney:
1. Lisa Lockyer, daughter of Bill Lockyer (hired)
2. Nadia Lockyer, wife of Bill Lockyer (hired)
Alameda County Family Justice Center (2006-2010)
The Alameda County Family Justice Center, a public agency designed as a form of one-stop shopping for victims of domestic violence, has a new Executive Director ($90,000 per year job) Nadia Lockyer (pictured left). The brochure gives a two page account of her life and work experience, then ends with the statement she "is married and has a young son, Diego." There is No mention of WHO she is married to, after all, that's kind of sexist, isn't it? Her husband is Bill Lockyer, outgoing California Attorney General, (leaving the AG job, but not public office, he was elected State Treasurer in November, and a lot of people think he will run for Governor in 2008 if things look good).The selection committee was dominated by staff of the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, particularly Nancy O' Malley, (though, like a good lawyer, she made sure her name is not on anything), so that, once again, DA Tom Orloff seems to have given a job to Bill Lockyer's kin, (note that Orloff gave Lisa Lockyer her first job out of law school, while Bill was the local Senator from Hayward). Nadia Lockyer does have some qualifications for her post, but with a field of 30 applicants, most likely she was not the best qualified by objective criteria.
Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 2 (2010-2012)
Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 2 candidate Nadia Lockyer announced she had the endorsement of Deborah Roderick Stark, whom she described as “a nationally recognized expert in child and family policy” and a First Five Alameda County Commission member. The news release delved deeper into both women’s professional bona fides, but didn’t mention that Lockyer, 38, is the wife of state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, 68, or that Stark, 43, is the wife of Rep. Pete Stark, 78.
Bill Lockyer, 70, has held several elected positions since 1972. He married his wife, Nadia, 40, in 2003. She was elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in 2010 after Bill Lockyer transferred $1.5 million of his campaign funds for his wife’s campaign. This is an enormous sum for a county office. With that war chest, Nadia Lockyer cruised to a 63% victory. A few weeks after her election, Nadia Lockyer entered rehab for an alcohol problem. Bill Lockyer said that her alcohol problem only became apparent after she was elected. That is questionable since alcohol and drug abuse are long-term problems and rarely things that arise overnight.
While in rehab, Nadia Lockyer met Stephen Chikhani, who was also in rehab for a drug problem. At some point, they began a relationship that continued until at least February 2012. A sex tape surfaced, although it was quickly pulled off YouTube. It involved Nadia Lockyer and Chikhani. Apparently, Chikhani made it in case the relationship was broken off (See Screen shot below:).
Bill Lockyer saw both the tape, a string of text messages between his wife and the man, and some X-rated photos on her computer. He told authorities that she was being stalked by an ex-boyfriend in an attempt to get the two apart, but it became clear to investigators that Nadia and the man were in a consensual relationship, according to reports. It is difficult to know if Bill Lockyer is deluding himself about what is going on or if he is simply trying to cover up a multi-layered scandal.
Chikhani Productions (2012)
May 11, 2012 | The year of sex, drugs and shoplifting in East Bay politics just got even more titillating Friday night after sex videos of former Alameda County supervisor Nadia Lockyer were posted online. Both short videos uploaded to YouTube are believed to have been posted by Lockyer's former boyfriend Steve Chikhani. He alluded to the videos in an article written in a local newspaper after Bill Lockyer sought a restraining order against him.
One video, sarcastically titled, "Nadia Lockyer trying to get my vote," shows the disgraced former county supervisors sashaying into the room in a black lingerie, garter and stockings. She then begins removing some clothing. The video is shot from the point of view of Chikhani, whose voice is heard on the video.
The second, far more explicit video, shows Lockyer masturbating on a bed in front of Chikhani, whose voice is heard, but face is not seen. Again, a humorous line is attached in the video's description saying, "Here's the former Alameda County Supervisor giving herself a little tax relief." It is not known when the video was produced or whether the video clips are the same offending clips reportedly sent earlier this year to State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, Nadia's husband.
NOTE: Both videos were taken down by YouTube within several days of their being posted.
3. Chistopher Bates, son of Tom Bates (hired)
4. Jeff Stark, son of Congressman Fortney "Pete" Stark (promoted)
5. Erin Kingsbury daughter of Judge Kenneth Kingsbury
6. Paul Hora son of Judge Peggy Fulton Hora;
Judge Peggy Fulton Hora (pictured left) retired from the California Superior Court after serving 21 years. She had a criminal assignment that included presiding over the Drug Treatment Court. She is a former dean of the B.E. Witkin Judicial College of California and has been on the faculty of the National Judicial College over 15 years. Judge Hora is a Senior Judicial Fellow for the National Drug Court Institute and a Judicial Outreach Liaison for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.7. Paul Delucchi son of Judge Alfred Deluchhi - Judge Alfred Deluchhi, Retired is deceased; Paul Delucchi is now a Judge.
8. Maya Ynostroza, daughter of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carlos Ynostroza.
Friday, October 1, 2010 - "Andrew Vance was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the June 2006 murder of Dipak Prasad, 24, whose body was found, with his hands tied behind his back, in Palomares Canyon east of Castro Valley. The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco said the Alameda County jury that convicted Vance of first-degree murder may have been swayed by remarks from the prosecutor that crossed legal boundaries. During closing arguments in the 2008 trial, Deputy District Attorney Maya Ynostroza asked jurors to "walk in Dipak Prasad's shoes" and imagine the terror of being suffocated into unconsciousness. Vance's lawyer objected that the argument was improper and the judge agreed, but Ynostroza continued, urging the jury to relive the suffering of Prasad and his family. Despite upholding most of the objections from Vance's attorney, Superior Court Judge Roy Hashimoto rejected the lawyer's request to instruct jurors to base their verdict solely on the evidence rather than sympathy or passion. The appeals court said Hashimoto should have reined in the prosecutor's misconduct. Inviting jurors to put themselves in the victim's shoes is "a blatant appeal to the jury's natural sympathy for the victim," diverting jurors' attention from the evidence to the suffering of the victim and his family, Justice James Richman said in the 3-0 ruling."
9. Catherine Horner Dobal, son Judge Horner - (Catherine Horner graduated Harvard with Honors, anyone would have hired her, but her employment is a possible conflict of interest that Judge Horner should reveal to all defendants)
10. Jason Chin, son of California Supreme Court Justice Chin
11. Stuart Hing, son of ex-Alameda County Administrator Mel Hing - Stuart is now a Judge in Alameda County;
12. Mattew Golde, Appointed head of D.A. Juvenile Division in 2007, son of Judge Stanley Golde (Dec.);
13. Ivan Golde, son of Judge Stanley Golde (Dec.);
14. Amilcar Ford, grandson of Judge Judith Ford;
15. James Panetta -- son of former Congressman Leon Panetta;
16. Carrie Elizabeth Skolnick -- daughter of UC Professor Jerome Skolnick;
"I'm satisfied the jury was able to see the truth of what happened and render a just verdict."
-- July 5, 2012 Statement by Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Carrie Skolnick after a former private security guard was found guilty of attempted murder and second-degree robbery.
(Friday January 20, 2006) University of California law student Carrie Skolnick places a call to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office Wednesday from the Boalt Law School lobby. Alliance for Justice partnered with Boalt Law Students Against Alito to encourage students and professors to call the offices of senators Feinstein and Boxer to urge them to vote against Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination for the Supreme Court and to not rule out the possibility of a filibuster. Calling the event a “Reverse Bakesale,” the group gave away milk and cookies to students in exchange for their support and participation.
Jerome Skolnick (pictured left, Carrie's dad) joined the Berkeley faculty in 1962 and became part of the Boalt faculty in 1977. From 1972 to 1984 he chaired the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He has also taught at UC San Diego, the University of Chicago and Yale University, and has been a visiting fellow at Oxford.Carrie Skolnick's (Daddy's girl) academic background:
Undergraduate School: Univ of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA
Law School: Univ of California, Berkeley - Boalt Hall; Berkeley CA
(pictured right, Maura Sullivan attending a protest in September 2011 opposing affirmative action at the University of California, Berkeley. ) After California voters approved an Anti-Affirmative action law in 1997, black and Hispanic freshman enrollment at the University of California system dropped by about one-quarter in 1998, the first year the ban was in effect. At the system’s most competitive campuses, in Berkeley and Los Angeles, enrollment for those groups fell by almost half. Black students accounted for just over 4 percent of University of California freshmen in the mid-1990s. That fell to 3 percent after the law took effect, and remained there for several years, before climbing close to 4 percent in recent years. Hispanic enrollment stood at 14 to 15 percent of the total before the ban, and fell to 12 percent in 1998, but quickly began to climb, driven by California’s fast-rising Latino population. By 2010, that group accounted for more than 22 percent of the system’s freshmen. 17. Judge Dennis Hayashi, wife of Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward.
Alameda County, CA (Thursday, November 6, 2008) -- Civil rights lawyer Dennis Hayashi (pictured right) beat out prosecutor Phil Daly for an Alameda County judgeship, garnering 61 percent of the vote. Hayashi, a former AC Transit board member, served as director of the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton, and was also director of the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Hayashi, whose wife is Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward, ran unsuccessfully for a judgeship in 2006, losing to Sandra Bean, a deputy county counsel.
San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval unseated veteran Judge Thomas Mellon in a contested Superior Court race. Sandoval (pictured left, shaking hands with CA Gov. J. Brown (r)) took 55 percent of the vote to Mellon's 45 percent. Sandoval is a former public defender who has represented the city's Excelsior district and nearby neighborhoods on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2001. He accused Mellon of lacking judicial temperament, noting that the city's public defenders removed him from all their cases during his brief stint on the criminal court in 2000. The Bar Association of San Francisco rated Sandoval unqualified for the bench and ranked Mellon as qualified.San Francisco, CA (January 6, 2012) -- Gerardo Sandoval, a partisan Democrat politician elected to the until now nonpartisan San Francisco Superior Court, by campaigning as a partisan Democrat, reduced Democrat Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s felony theft case to a misdemeanor in spite of the District Attorney’s previous position that the theft of $2,400 in clothing by Hayashi from the Union Square Neiman-Marcus was serious and should be treated as a felony. Hayashi, who had previously been specifically excused from today’s court proceeding and was not expected to attend the hearing today, made a stealth appearance and quickly plead “no contest,” and was sentenced to three years probation and a small fine. She was also ordered to pay $180 in fines and fees, which she promptly did after leaving court.
Hayashi, who was wearing a pair of cheetah-print high heels, a green jacket and black slacks and had a black Chanel purse slung over her shoulder, declined to speak to reporters following the hearing. Hayashi’s defense attorney said outside of court that the assemblywoman has a benign brain tumor that may have impacted her decision-making abilities. He said the tumor is curable and treatable and “is no longer affecting her concentration or her judgment.” He said, “according to (medical) experts,” the tumor has likely impacted her behavior. “In the spirit of compromise, now that Ms. Hayashi’s medical conditions resulting in her arrest have been taken care of, she decided to resolve the case as well,” he said.
Taking the plea means Hayashi can now serve out her full term in the Assembly, as a felony conviction, which would have surely happened otherwise, would have required her to resign from the Assembly.
Hayashi’s and now Sandoval’s actions are symptomatic of an arrogance among Democratic politicians in California that they are in charge and that they can get away with just about anything, justice be damned. Assemblywoman Hayashi’s actions (and “no contest” conviction) in stealing clothing from a California retail business, and Judge Sandoval’s actions in extending special favor to a fellow Democrat (whose husband is also an Alameda County Judge, just as Judge Sandoval’s wife is a professional political fundraiser for Democrats) serves to further undermine the confidence of Californians in their governmental institutions, including the impartiality of the judiciary.After an unrelated news conference Friday morning, before learning that the charge against Hayashi would be reduced to a misdemeanor, District Attorney George Gascon said he and his office would support such a change. “We’re dealing with a first-time offender, and if the court decides to go in a different direction, we’re going to support that,” Gascon said.
With respect to Hayashi’s attorney claim of a “benign brain tumor” causing her to shoplift: No actual evidence of a benign brain tumor, or its propensity to cause shoplifting, was ever entered into evidence in open court in the Hayashi case before her plea of “no contest” to the charges. If any such benign tumor could have caused the Assemblywoman to shoplift, that allegedly exculpatory fact would have properly been submitted as an issue for a jury to decide, and Hayashi could be found “not guilty” by reason of a “shoplifting causing” benign brain tumor if a jury was convinced by the scientific evidence presented. However, the “no contest” plea of Hayashi, coupled with the judge’s reduction of charges, now allows Hayashi to continue to serve in the Assembly regardless of the crime and avoids an actual test of her attorney’s unsupported excuse claim in court.
The “benign brain tumor” claim raises the question if Mary Hayashi has capacity to continue serving in the Assembly. If the “benign brain tumor” made her shoplift, how can she still make laws with a “benign brain tumor" that causes criminal conduct?
Ynostroza Legacy!
Posted: published May 21, 2010 - Updated: June 16, 2012 08:09:49 PM PDT
Oakland, California -- Marie Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers (pictured right) was a member of the civil grand jury in Alameda County, California from 2005 until 2007, and served as foreperson from 2006 until 2007. Gonzalez Rogers served as a pro tem judge in Alameda County, California from 2007 until 2008. In 2008, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Gonzalez Rogers, a Democrat, to the Alameda County Superior Court. She replaced Judge Carlos G. Ynostroza on the bench. On May 4, 2011, President Obama nominated Gonzalez Rogers to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that had been vacated by Judge Vaughn Walker, who had retired at the end of 2010. The Senate confirmed her in an 89–6 vote on November 15, 2011. Gonzalez Rogers' husband, Matthew C. Rogers, has served in various positions in the Obama administration. The couple live in Piedmont, California.The Fried Family!
Posted: published May 21, 2010 - Updated: June 16, 2012 08:09:49 PM PDT“Another Nigger fried. No big deal.”
-- April 16, 2011, Statement by New York City Police Officer Michael Daragjati, boasting of his false arrest of another African-American male.
Texas (WCJB) -- It is an all-too-familiar story in this country: in Dallas, two men who spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for a rape they didn't commit were formally exonerated Monday after DNA testing implicated two other men. With James Curtis Williams and Raymond Jackson, Dallas County has now cleared 32 convicts in the past decade.
Media sources report this is such a common occurrence, the wrongly convicted in Texas have joined forces to help one another. At one parade in Lancaster, Texas, six convicted felons were hailed as heroes. All had spent years behind bars for crimes they did not commit. "We're just blessed to have this opportunity here riding around and enjoying our freedom again," said Christopher Scott.
Scott was arrested in 1997 for murdering a man in his neighborhood. A witness identified him as the gunman, but Scott insisted he was innocent. He said he knew he was in trouble "when they found me guilty." He was sentenced to 40 years in prison. "I thought everyone who went to prison was guilty, and when you see the tables turned on you and you be put in a position like that and you're in prison for something you didn't do, it changes your whole way of thinking," Scott said. Thirteen years passed before the real killer confessed. Scott was cleared and released in 2009.
Once out, he got help from other men wrongfully imprisoned in Dallas County. They call themselves the Texas Exoneree Project. "We have a lot of people say: 'Man we know how you feel.' Man, you don't know how I feel. The only person that know how I feel is the guy that has been in position like me. He know how that feel,'" Scott said. It's a growing fraternity. In the last ten years, more than 30 men in Dallas County have been freed or cleared of wrongful convictions for murder and rape - more than any other place in the country. The Exonerees help newly released men rebuild their lives by finding them a place to live or helping them get a drivers license.
They have also become a voice for other Texans they say are still wrongfully imprisoned. "You wish you can help get everybody get out of prison that don't supposed to be there, but you know you are not going to be able to do it," Scott said.
The Dallas District Attorney's office says it's reviewing 200 cases of inmates who could be innocent. "You obligated to try, to at least help somebody that's in your position, that they say they are crying out for help. Because many days I cried out for help and wasn't nobody out there for me," Scott said.
Texas paid Scott more than $1 million to compensate him for false imprisonment. He used some of that money to open a men's clothing store. "Sometime when I get up I still pinch myself to see if it's really true or not," Scott said. "No kidding." Scott once dreamed of freedom, but now he wants justice.
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Fatal Rescue (2010)
Description: A catastrophe happens on the day before Emilie's and Jacob's divorce; their son Toby falls into a hidden well while playing in the woods - the wood of lost souls, as legend calls it. Firefighter Mike Emilie's childhood love tries to rescue Toby. But what seems simple at first turns out to be impossible. Toby is trapped in the deep well and after a fierce rainfall the water rises higher and higher, threatening to drown him. Time is mercilessly running out. In spite of this life-threatening situation, Jacob and Mike can't hide their contempt for each other and they clash repeatedly. After intensive research Jacob discovers an old tunnel system dating back more than 100 years, which seems to link up with the well. For the first time the two men must leave their mutual contempt behind and work together as a team to rescue the injured boy. Just when the rescue operation seems to be successful, a dark harrowing secret from the past is tragically unveiled. (Runtime: 01:26:34)
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