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Homicide by Abuse
Kill the Messenger - Case Study
Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney, an elected official, and Kevin D. Kilpatrick, City Prosecutor, appear more as principal obstructionists in preventing due process of law than advocates. Neglect by them to address issues of harassment and elder abuse, also the withholding of public records associated with those abuses, has allowed Council House directors to pursue racism and elder abuse with impunity. That impunity stands as a contributory factor in at least two cases of alleged homicide by abuse and several cases of violent physical assault upon elderly people by administrators and thugs that they employ. [Impunity] [Homicide by Abuse]
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City of Seattle and US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) officials not only tried to cover up allegations but also tried to silence by unlawful means or obstruct tenants who tried to report elder abuse. Moreover, biased straw judges have obstructed lawyers who tried to obtain due process of law for victims of myriad elder abuse at Council House, Seattle.
[Straw-Man Stratagem] [Dereliction and Collusion]
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Preamble
Lies, and Lying Liars who Lie to Censor Constitutionally Protected Speech
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Stephen A. Mitchell (41) and Audrey F. Dunbar (35), both employed as administrators at Council House, Seattle, deliberately manufactured false and misleading reports. Over a five year period they filed those reports with police and used perjury to have a writer jailed in order to silence him when he published details of their elder abuse. They recently repeated that pattern or practice.
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When state actors commit elder abuse, it classifies as a serious violation of laws.
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When government officials allow state actors to file false and misleading reports with police and other authorities to cover up violation of laws, it defines as dereliction and collusion.
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When the same officials bring false criminal charges against the person who reported the elder abuse, they commit criminal acts themselves.
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Six case studies refute malicious and libelous contentions against the author made to Seattle Police Department by Stephen A. Mitchell jointly and severally with Audrey F. Dunbar. Official police reports show that they involved Council House associates in a bizarre scam.
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The reports generated six criminal charges against the author which Kevin D. Kilpatrick prosecuted, apparently as proxy for Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney. The case studies detail unlawful conduct by Mitchell, Dunbar, City of Seattle officials, police officers, and others who assisted them in filing criminal complaints, apparently knowing them to predicate upon false and misleading information.
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Carr knew about an impending Washington Supreme Court decision following oral argument (02 June 05). Allegedly in an attempt to preempt that decision, he filed legally indefensible criminal charges.
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Carr, an elected official, and Kilpatrick a city employee, knowingly colluded with Council House directors to cover up alleged homicide, multiple elder abuse, and racism.
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Instead of prosecuting malfeasance by state actors and other wrongdoing, Carr and Kilpatrick effectively prosecuted the reporter for harassment when he exposed crimes. Carr neglected to recognize that, by legal precedent, claims of harassment and invasion of privacy have a defense in the exposure of wrongdoing in the public interest.
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Washington Supreme Court unanimously reversed (30 Mar 06) most trial and appellate court decisions which forced Carr and Kilpatrick to ask for a dismissal of their frivolous, politically-motivated, criminal complaints. The decision reversed trial and appellate court findings that effectively granted Council House prior restraint and impunity.
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Judge George W. Holifield, Seattle Municipal Court, dismissed all charges (21 Apr 06) and quashed the bench warrant on a motion by City of Seattle.
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It stretches the bounds of coincidence that Carr issued a criminal summons the same day that Thomas D. Adams (Bullivant Bailey Houser, Seattle), an attorney for Council House, threatened to "seek other remedies" while trying to coerce censorship of pure speech in Contra Cabal, a public forum with content protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
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Kilpatrick had the court issue bench warrants for the author’s arrest for non-appearance at a hearing but did not have him served prior to that hearing. Several weeks after the court issued bench warrants, the author received a nondescript summons by bulk mail - a classic example of railroading.
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Carr also refused to release to the author copies of first-party documents containing details of the criminal charges against him or particulars related to them. As a result, the court could have sent the author to jail once again without his knowing who accused him or the content of the manufactured complaints that Mitchell and Dunbar filed. By that, Carr defied the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution.
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Sixth Amendment determines Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions. It states that: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall . . . be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; be confronted with the witnesses against him; and have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor".
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Washington state trial court findings, affirmed by court of appeals, had enabled Council House directors to cover up crimes through censorship. The supreme court decision now allows the public to know the names of people involved in elder abuse. It also gives an ethical prosecutor an opportunity to consider felony charges against the perpetrators.
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Trial and appellate courts had insisted on the use of pseudonyms that effectively granted both anonymity and impunity. Not identifying perpetrators of crimes in some rational form defeats the object of exposé.
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Anonymity granted by an unlawful restraining order allowed Council House directors and administrators to increase incidences of abuse and to terrorize their tenants. That order effectively allowed prior restraint and permitted them to continue criminal practices with impunity.
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Any responsible person who has read previous Contra Cabal reports about wrongdoing at Council House can see that these criminal complaints again attempt to intimidate a journalist. The complaints try to cover up alleged homicide by abuse and a string of other crimes primarily instigated by Mitchell and Dunbar. City of Seattle and HUD have neither investigated nor prosecuted a series of incidents despite repeated reports of ongoing abuse.
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The denial of access to court documents by Carr remains in place. These case studies result from extensive documentation and reconstruction of events from information supplied by lawyers and other reliable sources. However, the continuing denial of access to documents precludes fact-checking which normally verifies and validates statements by sources.
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Case studies will appear at regular intervals. To fully understand the implications of Council House and City of Seattle railroading and barratry first read Kill the Messenger - Introduction.
[Kill the Messenger]
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A person commits homicide by abuse when an extreme indifference to human life causes the death of a vulnerable adult through a pattern or practice of assault or neglect. A vulnerable adult means a person who because of physical or mental disability, or extreme advanced age, depends upon another person to provide the basic necessities of life. [Vulnerable Adults]
Neglect means a pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health. This includes omission and disregard which constitutes a clear and present danger to the person's health, welfare, or safety. The offense exacerbates when the principal, or organization that he manages, gains financially from the abuse. [Homicide by Abuse]
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. At least two vulnerable adults have died at Council House from neglect and abuse. Directors have had four other tenants incarcerated thereby putting their lives at risk. More recently, Mitchell allegedly physically attacked an elderly, sick woman confined in a wheelchair. [Vulnerable Adults]
Carr and other government officials have covered up the deaths which effectively makes them accessories after the fact. In the Nations case, the victim’s family and Council House administrators benefitted financially by defrauding both federal and state agencies prior to her death then disposed of her assets. In the Vilensky case, an attorney had a vulnerable adult dumped in an apartment after making financial arrangements with administrators. Questions about the disposal of assets in both cases remain unanswered.
[Who Killed Jackie Nations?] [Last Cruel Days. Homicide?]
Both trial and appellate courts effectively thwarted investigation of the two deaths by their decisions. Federal, state, and municipal agencies have taken advantage of those court decisions to evade their responsibility to investigate. Several more tenants remain at risk and suffer daily abuse at the hands of Council House administrators.
A few months ago a black man on a respirator straight out of intensive care ended up in the street with all his possessions because Mitchell and Dunbar could not tolerate his wife and care giver. They used one of the thugs whom they have on their payroll persistently to harass the couple. [Donald Jackson - WIP]
A reasonable person would assume that City Prosecutor Kevin Kilpatrick could better spend his time and taxpayer funds on prosecuting the cases of homicide by abuse, physical attacks on elderly woman, and four cases of unlawful incarceration of elderly people instead of trying to do an end run around an anticipated Washington Supreme Court First Amendment decision.
Kilpatrick's involvement shrieks of political motivation to cover up Carr’s dereliction and to support Mitchell and Dunbar in filing false police reports. No lawyer with any intelligence would blatantly bring frivolous criminal charges of his own volition.
Carr has consistently neglected to interview witnesses on a variety of issues relating to complaints by Council House tenants and his locum tenens have conspired with lawyers employed by Council House. They have harassed and intimidated potential witnesses in attempts to silence them for speaking out about racism and elder abuse. [Seattle Office of Civil Rights]
Events in wake of the deaths of Jackie Rose Nations (59†) and Naftali Nathan Vilensky (72†), who allegedly died from homicide by abuse, show repeated manipulation of facts and law. Stephen A. Mitchell (41), Audrey F. Dunbar (35), and Council House directors, in consort with their attorneys (Short Cressman Burgess, Seattle) and (Bullivant Houser Bailey, Seattle), aided and abetted by City of Seattle lawyers and HUD officials, have participated in a coordinated cover up of crimes against elderly people. [Dereliction and Collusion]
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Homicide by Abuse
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Extreme indifference to human life that causes death of a vulnerable adult through a pattern or practice of neglect.
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Stephen A. Mitchell and his team of thugs have terrorized dozens of elderly people for more than five years. Two deaths from neglect and abuse have occurred for which Mitchell and his assistant Audrey F. Dunbar must hold ultimate responsibility.
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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.
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Neglect means a pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health.
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Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney, and other government officials have since covered up the deaths which effectively makes them accessories after the fact.
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Council House managers have arbitrarily wielded their administrative power over those with no power with misanthropic vigor for about ten years. Having full knowledge of these incidents, the directors, with City of Seattle and HUD officials, have done nothing to alleviate the abuse. Instead, they persist in trying to kill the messengers that report Council House crimes to federal authorities.
Perverse ideology and racism have greatly increased since Mitchell and Dunbar took control. Victor J. DeLeon, President, Council House continues to condone neo-fascism and its attendant denial of human rights through judicial connivance aided and abetted by City of Seattle and HUD officials.
John W. Meyers, US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); Gregory J. Nickels, Mayor of Seattle; Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney; Germaine W. Covington, Director, Seattle Office of Civil Rights (SOCR); Norm Maleng, King County Prosecuting Attorney; and their employees, have all neglected to investigate racism, elder abuse, and homicide by abuse among other crimes that have occurred with the ascendance of Seattle Jewish Mafia.
[Seattle Jewish Mafia] [Mafia Perjurers]
HUD officials had full knowledge of myriad unlawful behavior. However, they have continued to silently withheld documents for five years to frustrate or prevent any action against Council House directors while managers and thugs continue to spread hate and violence.
[Silent Withholding]
A statement by Carr, when announcing the new Community Court in Seattle (28 Feb 05), highlights the degree of hypocrisy that exists in his office where machination by flaks (in the guise of information officers) complements the incessant lying about elder abuse and violations of law at Council House.
Carr's statement embraces most of the processes that his office neglects to address in non-criminal constituencies. If Carr’s behavior in relation to the recent criminal complaints in Municipal Court give any indication, then defendants in Community Court will have a rough ride when it comes to bias and due process of law.
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Hypocrisy
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An example of the hypocrisy rampant in the City Attorney’s office emanated from Carr
at the announcement of the new Community Court in Seattle (28 Feb 05).
Carr and an associate Robert W. Hood will prosecute the cases in that court.
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Thomas A. Carr, City Attorney, City of Seattle, Washington, said: "I am excited that Seattle finally has a better way to address issues surrounding members of our most disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, some of whom commit these low-level crimes just to survive. . . . Community Court will accomplish several goals: ensure a more responsive justice approach for victims and the larger community; encourage a problem-solving versus a strictly punitive approach; establish a certain, swift and sure legal process and; bridge the gap between communities and courts."
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State Actors
Private landlords participating in federal housing programs classify as state actors when they receive mortgage benefits and rent supplements from Federal Housing Authority (FHA). Restrictions imposed on the owner by FHA regulatory agreements underscore the purpose in using private capital as a tool of government housing policy.
Council House directors, nominally private entities, classify as state actors when government has a mandated say in management behavior for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Federal regulations govern all aspects of Council House landlord-tenant relationships. They particularly apply to the treatment, freedom of expression, and well-being of tenants. [First and Fourteenth - State Actors]
Discovery, a compulsory process, allows pretrial disclosure. It enables litigants to obtain information before trial through demands for production of documents, deposition of potential witnesses, and written interrogatories under oath. When courts muzzle journalists, deny a discovery process, and refuse cross-examination, then lawyers and their clients have free reign to act unethically and condone homicide by abuse with impunity. [Homicide by Abuse]
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Homicide by Abuse at Council House
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Extreme indifference to human life that causes death of a vulnerable adult
through a pattern or practice of neglect.
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Stephen A. Mitchell and his team of thugs have terrorized dozens of elderly people for more than five years. Two deaths from neglect and abuse have occurred for which Mitchell and his assistant Audrey F. Dunbar must hold ultimate responsibility.
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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.
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Neglect means a pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health.
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Thomas A. Carr, City Attorney, City of Seattle, and other government officials have since covered up the deaths which effectively makes them accessories after the fact.
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[Homicide by Abuse]
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Seattle Police Department
Mitchell and Dunbar, both state actors, have now indulged in more criminality in an attempt to cover up their alleged complicity in homicide by abuse. In effect, Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney, and his prosecutor, Kevin D. Kilpatrick have knowingly aided and abetted them in unlawful activity.
In the most recent Council House and City of Seattle consortium, Mitchell and Dunbar called police then falsely claimed that references in Contra Cabal to Dunbar’s mother (Sarah V. Barrie) violated an anti-harassment order. They claimed that a media release (16 Jun 05), which addressed the alleged homicide by abuse of Jackie Nations (Dunbar’s aunt and Barrie’s sister), “appears to invite” Barrie to contact the author.
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Lies to Seattle Police Department
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In the most recent Council House and City of Seattle consortium,
Mitchell and Dunbar called police then falsely claimed that references in Contra Cabal to Dunbar’s mother (Sarah V. Barrie) violated an anti-harassment order.
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Stephen A. Mitchell falsely claimed to police that: "The email appears to be an invitation for Dunbar's mother to view Trummel's web site. Dunbar is very disturbed that Trummel would not only email her mother, but also reference the death of family members. Dunbar does not know how Trummel obtained her mother's name, and email address."
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Sarah Barrie (Dunbar’s mother), a state employee, received a copy of an electronic media release sent to several thousand state employees which announced publication of the article entitled Who Killed Jackie Nations? She neither ranks as a party to a no-contact order nor has she requested that she not receive media releases addressed to government employees.
[Who Killed Jackie Nations?]
The media release addressed homicide by abuse issues to Mary Selecky, Secretary, Washington Department of Health (DOH). She had notice of elder abuse prior to and following Jackie Nations’s death. State employees and other interested media outlets also received copies. [Travesty]
Sarah Barrie (nee Nations, sister to Jackie and mother to Dunbar), works as the State of Washington, Department of Ecology, Fleet Operations Coordinator, at an annual salary of $43,644.00 (05-0131) - probably the reason for using her late husband as a welfare proxy. Barrie conspired with her daughter (Dunbar) in the misappropriation of government funds at Council House which contributed to the death of her sister. Dunbar works as Assistant Administrator and Rental Agent, Council House (also as a Notary Public).
If Barrie wished to contend the allegation or its validity then she had recourse in defamation law not in anti-harassment law. Any claims of harassment or invasion of privacy have a defense in exposure of wrongdoing in the public interest.
If Barrie did not want to receive more releases then she had the opportunity to request suppression of her name. She has not requested suppression and, consequently, remains on the list as a state actor (employee of State of Washington) not as a relative of Dunbar or as a result of her tangential association with Council House.
Despite Barrie’s status as a state employee and non-party to any complaint, Carr effectively filed criminal charges against the author for sending the release to her using a police report filed with a police officer as “evidence” by Mitchell. SPD Officer A. Elias neither properly investigated the complaint nor interviewed the accused - a common practice used by Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers when called to Council House by tenants to investigate elder abuse.
Barrie received a copy of the media release as part of a mass mailing (16 Jun 05) sent to several thousand state employees. It does not ask her to send a message to anyone. Barrie does not rank as a past, present or future Council House resident, or as an employee or board member, so the news release cannot classify as a violation of any restraining order.
[Who Killed Jackie Nations? - Media Release]
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More Lies to Seattle Police Department
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Sarah V. Barrie received a copy of the media release as part of a mass mailing (16 Jun 05).
It does not ask her to send a message to anyone.
Barrie is neither a past or present Council House resident nor an employee or a board member.
Therefore, the news release does not classify as a violation of any restraining order.
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Stephen A. Mitchell evidently told Police Officer Elias, who willingly bought his lies, that: "Yesterday evening Trummel sent an email to C/V [Complainant/Victim] Dunbar's mother, Sarah Barrie. The email references her sister's death, and her late husband. The email also references the Council House, and issues and complaints over the last ten years. The email appears to be an invitation for C/V Dunbar's mother to view Trummel's web site. Dunbar is very disturbed that Trummel would not only email her mother, but also reference the death of family members. Dunbar does not know how Trummel obtained her mother's name, and email address."
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The news release neither “references her sister’s death, and her late husband” nor personally invites her to view the web site nor does it “reference the death of family members”. It does not reference “issues and complaints over the last ten years”. The author did not contact Mitchell or Dunbar either directly or through third parties. [Who Killed Jackie Nations? - Media Release]
SPD has a policy of interviewing Council House management about complaints but neither gives tenants an opportunity to respond nor to make a statement themselves. Officers only record and accept what Mitchell and Dunbar (both pathological liars) say without any verification or validation of facts. City officials use those reports to political advantage, in this case to bring criminal charges against the author apparently in another attempt to jail and silence him. [Thespian Liar]
Mitchell and Dunbar both operated under an unlawful restraining order now reversed by Washington Supreme Court. The news release mentions neither Mitchell nor Dunbar or Sarah V. Barrie. Yet, Elias accepted a complaint from Mitchell acting as proxy for Sarah V. Barrie, a non-party to any restraining order.
Carr seized a political opportunity to file frivolous criminal charges that called for a jail sentence. He used a false and misleading police report wrongfully filed by an apparently ignorant, conspiratorial, and gullible straw police officer. One could ask by what authority Carr granted Mitchell the right to act as proxy for Barrie in a criminal complaint.
[Straw-Man Stratagem]
Some of the references appear on the web site as pure speech protected by the First Amendment which Barrie may have accessed and read. To do that she had to make a conscious decision to log onto a particular web page of her own volition. She must not interpret an action made of her own free will as coercion or violation of a restraining order which does not apply to her.
Alternatively, Mitchell may have accessed the page and used it as “evidence” in the same way that Judge Doerty gleaned his “evidence” from a variety of web sites and wrote them into the court record then refused discovery.
Carr asked for a jail sentence and Seattle Municipal Court issued bench warrants for arrest and incarceration of the author based solely upon Mitchell’s false and misleading report to police. Elias blindly accepted what Mitchell and Dunbar told him. Carr’s eagerness to press fraudulent criminal charges gives probable cause for his impeachment.
[Washington State Constitution - Article 5]
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Offering False Instrument for Filing or Record - RCW 40.16.030
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Every person who shall knowingly procure or offer any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, registered or recorded in such office under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both. [RCW 40.16.030]
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Making a False or Misleading Statement to a Public Servant - RCW 9A.76.175
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A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading material statement to a public servant is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. Material statement means a written or oral statement reasonably likely to be relied upon by a public servant in the discharge of his or her official powers or duties. Every person convicted of a gross misdemeanor shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a maximum term fixed by the court of not more than one year, or by a fine in an amount fixed by the court of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment and fine. [RCW 9A.76.175]
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City of Seattle, Offenses Against Governmental Order - SMC 12A.16.040
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A person is guilty of false reporting if he makes, files or causes to be filed with a public officer of the City a written report, statement, application, citation or complaint which he knows to contain a misstatement of a material fact. [SMC 12A.16.040]
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Elucidation and Documentation
Appearing as an invitation does not count as an actual invitation. Barrie, a non-party, received a copy of a mass mailing not personally addressed to her. The general mailing went to several thousand people which included staff of WA Department of Ecology. It is normal publishing practice to send media releases to people and organizations named in articles especially when the article alleges complicity in something as serious as homicide by abuse and welfare fraud.
The article alleged that Barrie had complicity in homicide by abuse and welfare fraud. If she wished to contest the allegation or its validity then she had recourse in law. As a non-party, she cannot lawfully use a dubious restraining order granted to other people to file false and misleading information in a police report as an attempt to silence a journalist.
If she did not want to receive any more releases then she had the opportunity to request suppression of her name. She did not request suppression and, consequently, remains on the list as a state actor (employee of State of Washington) not as a relative of Dunbar or as a result of her tangential association with Council House. She allegedly consorted with her daughter and Mitchell in a fraud which ended in homicide by abuse.
Time-Warp Stratagem
Mitchell, Dunbar and Barrie disingenuously omitted to file a prepublication letter that Barrie received a year earlier to which she did not respond. They used a time warp, a discontinuity or distortion of the flow of time that moves events from one time period to another or suspends the passage of time to support a hypothesis. Mitchell filed a complaint using the content of a private prepublication notice sent twelve months before to Barrie which he must have obtained from her.
Then he misrepresented that content as an excerpt from a media report disseminated to thousands of people to distort evidence and mislead police and city officials about the sequence of events. Mitchell frequently used this strategy, which has no place in a legal proceeding, to distort events. [Sarah V. Barrie - Prepublication Notice]
The prepublication letter (17 Jun 04), personally addressed to Sarah V. Barrie, a non-party to any retaining order, plainly gave her an opportunity to refute facts that concerned her personally. Mitchell and Dunbar, parties to a restraining order (now reversed by Washington Supreme Court) and City of Seattle disingenuously, and probably criminally, applied that information to a criminal complaint fifteen months later (28 Sep 05) with malicious intent to jail a whistle blower.
As a vehicle for filing, Mitchell, Dunbar, and Carr used an irrelevant media release (16 Jun 05) sent to Barrie as a state employee among several thousand other state employees and media representatives. Barrie did not rank as party to any no-contact order and received a copy incidentally as a named individual. It is normal publishing practice to send media releases to people named in articles especially when the content alleges complicity in something as serious as homicide by abuse.
Neither Mitchell nor Dunbar received a copy of the media release (apparently they obtained a copy from Barrie) yet they claimed it as a violation of a no-contact order which Carr and Kilpatrick relied upon when filing criminal charges that called for imprisonment of the author.
[Who Killed Jackie Nations? - Media Release]
Pattern or Practice - Case Studies
The state can commence a criminal prosecution under the Fair Housing Act when there is reason to believe that a person engaged in a "pattern or practice" of discrimination against an individual or a group of people that raises an issue of "general public importance." "Pattern or practice" means an intentional violation of rights granted by the Civil Rights Act evidenced by more than an isolated instance, or by regular repeated conduct in violation of that Act. Mitchell and Dunbar discriminate against both individuals and groups. [Pattern or Practice]
Investigations at Council House for more than five years show an extensive pattern or practice of elder abuse and denial of civil rights, human rights, and due process of law. The deaths of Nations and Vilensky probably count as the most egregious of those crimes.
Jackie Rose Nations (59†)
Nations committed suicide by jumping from a sixth-floor window during the early hours of a Sunday morning after constant abuse by her niece, Audrey F. Dunbar, a Council House administrator and notary public. Her death probably classifies as homicide by abuse due to her status as a vulnerable adult, as an unlawful tenant by virtue of age and mental disability, and by daily abuse that she received from Dunbar witnessed by Council House tenants and disclosed during interviews.
A healthy and fairly active woman for her size, Nations evidently died a painful, lingering death. She jumped out of a sixth floor window and lay dying on a roof for up to three hours without help according to medical reports. A security guard “slept” as she lay dying. The physical circumstances showed that she could not reasonably have fallen accidentally. Several witnesses who heard sounds during the night said that she did not die immediately.
Sarah V. Barrie, Dunbar’s mother, had previously transferred real estate owned by her father James Ernst (Ernie) Nations (91†) and his wife Rose to herself in consideration of “love and affection” granting her father use for life. She obtained a special power of attorney over Ernie, witnessed by Jackie and James A. Barrie (Sarah’s late husband). Then she moved Ernie to a nursing home. Two weeks later Dunbar obtained a special power of attorney over Jackie (also witnessed by James A. Barrie and Sarah Barrie) then sold the real property.
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Ernie suffered from an advanced stage of Alzheimer’s disease. Despite his condition, Sarah moved him out of the nursing home. Dunbar then used him as a straw man to overcome the age limitation (62) on a Council House lease for Jackie regardless that he too classified as a vulnerable adult unqualified for a lease. Administrators Mark T. Mullen and Stephen A. Mitchell, knowing the circumstances, colluded with Dunbar and unlawfully leased the apartment to Ernie and Jackie. His incompetence did not allow Ernie to live there without a care giver; instead he commuted to Council House most days with Dunbar.
James Barrie and Audrey Dunbar then allegedly defrauded the Washington State welfare system by claiming income as care givers concurrent with Jackie and Ernie leasing a HUD controlled independent-living apartment.
Jackie committed suicide after repeated abuse by Dunbar. Sarah Barrie cleaned out the apartment the day following Jackie’s death and Dunbar held a tag sale of all her possessions three days later. They held no memorial service for her - the custom for all other tenants that die at Council House.
Mitchell covered up the suicide and told police, after the medical examiner had published an inconclusive report, that another tenant (JoRene Dodson) had murdered her (a physical impossibility). He then unlawfully evicted Dodson. He has since accused this reporter of complicity in the Nations "murder" for reporting elder abuse. [Who Killed Jackie Nations?]
Naftali Nathan Vilensky (72†)
During a Sunday afternoon, a Latino dumped Nate Vilensky in an apartment at Council House. The Latino neither spoke nor understood English. Vilensky, confined to a wheelchair and naked except for a hospital gown and a medical ID bracelet, needed immediate help.
The previous week, administrators and an attorney evidently signed a lease for an apartment to house Vilensky knowing that he classified as a vulnerable adult. Council House does not have administrative staff qualified to cater to the needs of people capable of independent living let alone vulnerable adults. Moreover, staff do not work weekends or holidays. [Vulnerable Adults]
The Latino set up a bed then piled boxes and loose clothing in the apartment and left other items strewn in the passageway before he left the building. Vilensky asked the author to help him find his equipment and to hang up some of his clothes. That was his first introduction to the late Naftali Nathan Vilensky whom he soon recognized as lucid and articulate despite his extensive physical disabilities.
Administrators broke several laws by renting an apartment in a building for independent living to a third party to house a vulnerable adult. They then neglected and abused him - part of a pattern or practice of elder abuse. They should have referred the lawyer to a nursing home where Vilensky could have received the care that he needed. However, having accepted him as a tenant they had a legal responsibility to care for him themselves. Instead, they neglected him.
[Elder Abuse - Preface]
Neglect means a pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health. This includes omission and disregard which constitutes a clear and present danger to a person’s health, welfare, or safety. Vilensky died as the result of neglect and elder abuse which could interpret legally as homicide by abuse. [Homicide by Abuse]
When Mitchell and his directors accepted the money they also accepted responsibility for Vilensky’s well-being and care. Instead, Mitchell hounded and humiliated him about his physical condition and retaliated against him for filing a legitimate complaint with HUD about an inadequate and fraudulent food service. Council House deprived him of emergency care that he obviously needed which led to his untimely death. [Last Cruel Days. Homicide?]
Last Hurrah!
Elder abuse has become endemic - it manifests to a greater or lesser degree in people in certain classes or living in a particular location. Neglect and exploitation of people over the age of sixty has now reached substantial proportions.
Seattle politics has become very similar to traditional Boston Irish politics, but with one distinct difference. Boston politicos overtly practiced corruption while in Seattle they practice it covertly with anonymity and impunity. Washington has reverted to old-time, machine driven, politics - some good but mostly bad - shades of William M. Tweed, Tammany Hall, New York City, and James Michael Curley, City of Boston, Seattle now has its Gregory J. Nickels and Thomas A. Carr. When one considers elder abuse, the record shows Seattle politicos as predominantly bad.
Those who helped city and state officials with contributions and support at the polls expect a quid pro quo for the favors they delivered. Those favors not only help members of their own ethnic groups more than other people but also cover up the crimes that they jointly and severally commit - in this case elder abuse.
Federal authorities must finally wake up and take action on alleged homicide by abuse. Mitchell and Dunbar richly deserve severe punishment for the cruelty that they have maliciously inflicted upon dozens of elderly people. Then Nations and Vilensky will posthumously obtain justice and City of Seattle and State of Washington officials, with their corrupt straw justices, will (hopefully sooner than later) receive their last hurrah. [Homicide by Abuse]
Opinion
US General Accounting Office (GAO) must investigate. HUD and City of Seattle have neglected properly to investigate complaints in a coordinated attempt to silence complainants and punish them for reporting crimes to oversight authorities.
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Laissez-Faire means Abuse
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Federal and municipal officials charged with oversight of Council House adopted laissez faire policies. They neglected to investigate reports of elder abuse, racism, harassment and alleged homicide. They also condoned eviction without due process of law.
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Laissez-faire emphasizes the profit motive at the expense of those whom the law protects while government officials acquiesce for political and economic expedience.
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HUD has known about the issues for more than five years and done nothing to mitigate the damage to tenants. Instead, HUD-OIG staff colluded with HUD officials to cover up the problems. They have left it too late to start an investigation, lack credibility, and the whole state of affairs at Council House now calls for independent audit by GAO.
GAO needs to delve into Council House finances and management to determine and document the misappropriation that has gone on for several years. Recognized standards for nonprofit groups and grant makers allow investigators to appraise donors’ wishes and to measure program successes and failures.
Council House exists as a government sponsored ghetto run by neo-fascist administrators for the financial gain of bigoted and corrupt directors. They reap financial rewards from religious and racial discrimination. The directors terrorize tenants using an exclusive, Zionist, faith-based initiative in the same manner that Osama bin Laden runs his faith-based initiative. Both systems rely upon terror to achieve their religious, political and financial goals.
Mandated accountability does not exist at Council House. All financial affairs remain secret contrary to federal law and IRS regulations. GAO must launch a full and independent investigation into misappropriation of government funds which allowed a director and an assistant, both out-of-work actors, to receive government-financed salaries and to conduct a campaign of elder abuse while they ran theatrical companies and recording enterprises on Council House premises using government sponsored computers.
[Service Coordinators, Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers]
Federal authorities must wake up to not only this egregious manipulation of the system but also the assault upon the rights of senior citizens. Much of the elder abuse would not exist if the directors employed a qualified administrator and counselor as required by HUD regulations. [Agency Accountability - Introduction]
Conclusion
Congress allotted funds for a qualified service coordinator (social worker/geriatric counselor). That position calls for a person holding particular academic credentials, also professional qualifications and experience, to meet resident needs - not a sociopathic, out-of-work actor hankering after a job in a Spielberg movie or to obtain a bloody remedy for some personal psychological problem.
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Munich: The Movie. Spielberg’s Bloody Reckoning
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Tony Kushner, the script writer for Munich, wrote about Steven Spielberg and his latest movie:
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“Steven’s a Jewish man who, like me, is very proud of being Jewish, wants Israel to continue to exist, wants to be considered a supporter of the state of Israel,” says Kushner. “But I do not think it’s possible to maintain a kind of protective, self-preservational silence in the face of serious problems. I feel that neither the Jewish people nor Israel itself are well served by silence and a refusal to criticize. It can’t be the case that to speak out critically is equated with a desire to see Israel destroyed or anti-Semitism. I reject that categorically; it’s not rational.”
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“Nothing is entirely known for sure about this covert operation, and most likely nothing ever will be,” Kushner says. “So we gave ourselves some permission to invent.” He argues that artists have the right to apply their craft to whatever subject inspires them. Those who have called for the movie to be boycotted, and there are many, would say otherwise.[1]
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Washington Supreme Court should “sentence” all Council House directors to see Spielberg’s movie. Perhaps, they will then appreciate the importance of freedom of speech and disassociate themselves from the Mossad-type thugs they presently employ to abuse and destroy innocent people.
A major difference between Contra Cabal and Munich relates to presentation of facts. Kushner says: “So we gave ourselves some permission to invent.” The author of this article does not give himself permission to invent and he does not fictionalize documented facts which probably makes Council House directors and their bizarre behavior even more frightening.
The movie portrayal of Mossad[2] and its assassination of innocent people under the auspices of Golda Meir[3] (venerated by her portrait on the Council House dining room wall) raises many questions about Council House administrators and the Kapos[4] who terrorize their elderly tenants. The prosecution of Kapos as war criminals, particularly Jewish Kapos, has created an ethical dilemma for more than half a century. Perhaps the time has arrived to resolve that dilemma by prosecuting present day Council House commandants and their Kapos for their denial of civil and human rights.
[Nmesis]
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Brad A. Meryhew, formerly Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons (SCRAP), a public defender appointed by Judge James A. Doerty when media pressure became too hot for him to handle, obtained the author’s release from solitary confinement (2002). Ironically, Meryhew succeeded without a purge of the alleged contempt that Doerty contrived in an ex parte relationship with Judge Anthony P. Wartnik.
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Meryhew, now in private practice as a partner in the Law Offices of James Newton, Auburn, Washington, will defend against the new criminal complaints filed in an alleged retaliatory compact among Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney, Council House directors, and lawyers exposed in Contra Cabal.
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Meryhew visited the author frequently while in jail and after transfer to solitary confinement. He inspired the author to undertake extensive research into institutionalized racism during and after his release.
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[Institutionalized Racism] [Attorneys at Law]
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Civil and Human Rights Violations
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Fourteen articles describe racism and civil rights violations by Stephen A. Mitchell, directors, lawyers, staff, Kapos (enforcers), and some tenants at Council House during the past five years. They contain evidence of dereliction by government officials and their investigators which has resulted in unlawful evictions of physically and financially disadvantaged elderly people.
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Council House directors have shown indifference to tenant abuse by managers and their thugs. They have denied tenants their right to complain in violation of their constitutional right to freedom of expression. They have also either threatened them with eviction or evicted them for filing legitimate complaints with government agencies.
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Fully researched and documented, the articles allege that government officials have not dealt with complaints in accordance with law. They have consorted with Council House directors and their lawyers to conduct a whitewash of multiple instances of elder abuse and racism. By that, they violated Civil Rights Act Title VIII and Seattle Open Housing Ordinance.
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Investigation revealed an extensive pattern or practice of elder abuse, violation of civil and human rights, and denial of due process of law. The term "pattern or practice" means an intentional violation of rights granted by the Civil Rights Act evidenced by more than an isolated instance, or by regular repeated conduct in violation of that Act.
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John W. Meyers, US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); Thomas A. Carr, City Attorney, City of Seattle; Germaine W. Covington, Director, Seattle Office of Civil Rights (SOCR); Norm Maleng, King County Prosecuting Attorney; and their employees, have neglected to investigate allegations of racism, elder abuse, and homicide by abuse. Evidently, they covered up those crimes for political expediency. Consequently, two Council House tenants filed in US District Court, Western District of Washington, for injunctive relief.
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Prior to publication, all people mentioned had a chance to refute statements that could negatively affect their reputations or cause investigation or prosecution.
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[Introduction to New/Updated Articles] [Constitutional Rights Initiative]
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