Background Information #1
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) formed a non-profit corporation then built and later refurbished Council House, 1501 17th Avenue, Seattle, Washington. The corporation rents independent-living apartments to senior citizens. The apartment block does not classify as a nursing home and legally must not house vulnerable adults. [Vulnerable Adults]
NCJW obtained federal financial assistance through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the original construction and rehabilitation. Residents have amortized mortgages by paying rent over several decades while HUD continued to subsidize some rents and services.
NCJW appointed directors who employed administrators mandated to comply with HUD directives. Instead, successive administrators have introduced supremacist policies and enforced them contrary to federal law. They have also obtained restraining orders that banned communication with the directors so that they could not hear about the abuse perpetrated in their name.
The directors (landlords), and two successive administrators, have consistently neglected to comply with HUD directives over a fifteen-year period. They deny tenants their civil rights and due process of law while using an aggressive administrative staff and violent enforcers to silence dissenters. The directors have a backstage connection with several Washington Superior Court judges that allows them to continue to violate both federal and state laws with impunity.
This author has temporarily deleted information from essays, or used pseudonyms, to comply with a contempt order issued by Judge James A. Doerty, Superior Court of Washington. That case now awaits an appellate decision. The publisher claims judicial bias, prior restraint, and arbitrary censorship.
Doerty misused antiharassment laws to claim that news gathering constitutes "surveillance" and reporting news defines as "harassment". The court order effectively denies the constitutional rights to the author who has held an international press card for many years.
Doerty deliberately interrupted the flow of public information and interfered with ethical reporting procedures designed to observe and report upon government dereliction. HUD and City of Seattle officials have colluded with Council House directors and administrators by following laissez faire policies and have neglected to address myriad complaints and requests for help from residents. HUD has neglected to oversee the managers of this government financially-assisted building.
The court action advantaged a group of wealthy people who allegedly abused senior citizens and misappropriated federal funds. Moreover, the property houses US congressman Jim McDermott’s mother who swore a false or misleading declaration. This probably made the issue politically sensitive for a recently elected judge.
The censored information forms part of the public record. Secretary of State, State of Washington, requires nonprofit corporations to file an annual report containing names and addresses of officers and directors. However, Council House directors, administrators, and attorneys, neither comply with this law nor do they comply with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) rules that require full disclosure.
Without any rational legal interpretation, Doerty retroactively ordered the publisher to remove other information (published more than a year before). He reviewed published material on the internet then claimed that the author kept people "under surveillance" by using public records and attending a court hearing to report a case. Bizarrely, he wants all named journalistic sources to sign waivers. The court order effectively denies use of information contained in public records available under RCW 42.17 (Washington Public Disclosure Act).
Doerty, issued two anti-harassment orders also contempt citations to censor this public medium by prior restraint at the behest of Council House directors and their administrator. Using their financial power, the directors obtained SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) court orders and contempt citations using perjured testimony against this author. They then had him jailed including solitary confinement.
SLAPP consists of frivolous charges designed to bankrupt an opponent and support prior restraint. The landlords have used this tactic on several occasions to try to cover up issues that affect all their tenants.
Doerty has thwarted an appeal of his findings for more than three years by withholding court documents and other machination. The author/publisher claims judicial bias and arbitrary censorship that deny him his rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution and Washington State Constitution.
Doerty has challenged a principle journalism ethic - seek truth and report it - by denying a reporter’s First Amendment rights. He then wrote biased decisions all without due process of law.
Homicide ranks as a class A felony punishable by a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in a state correctional institution or by a fine of fifty thousand dollars or both. Both the victim’s family and a Council House administrator benefitted financially by allegedly defrauding both federal and state agencies prior to death of a resident.
Doerty’s findings enabled Council House directors to cover up that and other crimes that they and their administrators allegedly committed. A fair, unbiased appellate court finding will allow the public to know the names of people involved in elder abuse and give an ethical prosecutor an opportunity to consider felony homicide charges against Council House directors and their administrators.
