Elder Abuse (Criminal) - Abstracts

Case Studies on Cruel and Inhumane Treatment administered by
Council House Managers and condoned by the Directors and Government Officials.

The following abstracts outline researched and documented case studies now in the writing and editing process. The studies show how incompetent and corrupt government officials acquiesced to ignorance, bigotry, and dereliction of unprincipled managers and their directors.

I published reports in this series more than four years ago but the court, on a motion by Council House, silenced me by prior restraint (19 Apr 01). Since then elder abuse has increased probably due to impunity effectively granted by Judge James A. Doerty, Washington Superior Court, and ratified by Chief Judge Mary Kay Becker, Judge Marlin J. Appelwick, and Ann Schindler, Washington Court of Appeals. Those unconstitutional decisions await a decision by Washington Supreme Court for reversal. I will publish case studies to the web site on a regular basis in the public interest despite those unlawful and unconstitutional court orders. [Impunity]

On publication of the case studies, the officials responsible for oversight or prosecution - John W. Meyers, Regional Director, HUD; Thomas A. Carr, Seattle City Attorney; and, Norm Maleng, King County Prosecuting Attorney; among others, will receive a copy. I will request them to investigate then order Council House directors to stop the brutalization of their tenants.

They must prosecute the directors and administrators for the crimes that they have committed in equal proportion to the suffering that they have inflicted upon their victims. Oversight agency directors should not forget the complicity of their own employees who have allowed the abuse to continue over an extended period. If they had insisted that Council House directors employ qualified and experienced staff in accordance with HUD regulations instead of out-of-work actors then most of the problems would not have occurred.

Ten egregious cases involve physical abuse or neglect. Lawyers may hold to a different standard when it comes to charging the perpetrators. I have adequately covered details of the tenth case, my own, in other parts of the web site. My lawyers will decide the severity rating for the savage treatment meted to me by Council House directors and their lawyers for more than five years.

Later, I will publish about twenty case studies of Council House elder abuse that deal with unlawful humiliation and degradation through administrative actions and attitudes. They will include information about denial of constitutional, human, and civil rights, also racial and religious discrimination. My case for unlawful prior restraint now awaits a Washington Supreme Court decision on a motion for review of lower court decisions.

Readers can obtain a list of the censored names and addresses by either searching for the uncensored mirror web sites (Google = trummel) or by requesting a recent Portable Document File (PDF) containing that information by email.

Named people have signed waivers of the court restraining order. My lawyers have filed those documents with the court. Other tenants have died and their privacy rights expired with them. I have used pseudonyms or abbreviations of names in some instances to comply with the court order. I have shown ages as either at decease or as of 31 May 04. [Case Studies - Civil]

Contractor’s Daughter (JoRene Dodson)

JoRene Dodson (74) had a verbal altercation with Ramsburg. Three days later, Mitchell called the police and had her incarcerated in a mental institution against her will and without due process of law or legal representation. Stephen A. Mitchell (39) and Katrina M. Ramsburg (25), both out-of-work actors, posed as mental health counselors then with Audrey F. Dunbar (35) scripted a triple murder scenario to support incarceration.

Dunbar obtained a temporary antiharassment order against Dodson using perjured testimony. This prevented Dodson from using the elevator. By that, Dunbar made Dodson, who has many physical disabilities, use the emergency stairs to reach her ninth-floor apartment.

All three administrators then perjured themselves by following the predetermined script despite Ramsburg having filed a written report to the contrary. They obtained a permanent restraining order. Mitchell then told Dodson that her apartment was a fire risk and cause for eviction. An interview with the fire department and a personal inspection determined that as untrue.

A problem arose three years earlier when a previous administrator, Mark T. Mullen, ordered a maintenance person to break into a secure locker that Dodson rented. He removed her property from it without her permission. Dodson could not get a satisfactory explanation from Mullen so she wrote to Senator Patti Murray.

Murray passed the letter to HUD officials who told Mullen that they had received a complaint. Mullen did not allow anyone to use the HUD complaint system. When he heard about the complaint from HUD, he ordered immediate ostracism of Dodson by a tenant elite.

Dodson then lived as a pariah for three years. When the directors replaced Mullen with Mitchell he continued the practice. Mitchell publicly humiliated Dodson by using her as an example and told tenants that he would make them virtual prisoners in their apartments if they did not follow his zero-tolerance policies.

Mitchell employed Ramsburg as service coordinator. She had virtually no qualifications. This contravened HUD regulations in several ways including misappropriation of federal funds. Her second day at Council House she issued an ultimatum to tenants stating that she wanted to see each of them in her office presumably for counseling. She included this reporter in her invitation and received a suitable response.

Dodson made an appointment. She says that before opening up to Ramsburg she inquired about her qualifications as a geriatric counselor. She says that Ramsburg (age 22 at that time) became disrespectful and told her that Dunbar had forewarned her about previous unacceptable behavior. Dodson became angry and admits that she said something to the effect that: “I could kill the bitch for interfering in my affairs”. Ramsburg repeated her statement to Dunbar who told Mitchell.

The trio then concocted a murder scenario which included Dunbar, her one-year old son, and her aunt (Jackie Nations) as victims. Three days later, Mitchell called police and gave Dodson a Hobson’s choice of either jail or incarceration in a mental institution. She chose the institution.

Co-Presidents Lynn Wartnik and Sheila Sternberg had full knowledge of the incident and the actions of their administrators. Mitchell then further publicly humiliated Dodson and threatened other tenants by saying at a meeting of residents:

00-0117-0930/Tape #148-210. And this resident [Dodson] threatened to kill that resident and refused to take it back. It is my responsibility and it’s the law that I call the police and I call the mental health professional. And I did. And they deemed that that person should have been taken away and they were. So, I take that stuff very, very seriously and that is the problem that we had with another resident and that resident no longer lives here because a judge agreed with me.

When Nations later committed suicide Mitchell wrote the final act. He told police that Dodson murdered Nations (a physical impossibility). This had the effect of moving suspicion away from him for his part in alleged homicide by abuse. He then constructively evicted Dodson.
[Homicide by Abuse]

I interviewed Dodson about ten times over a two-year period. I fixed her computer so that she could email friends and make contacts though the web. Most of the interviews I tape recorded. I found her lucid, educated, and respectful after the first interview when she appeared very agitated and aggressive. That aggression probably followed an experience that week with Council House staff and their tenant elite who consistently failed to treat her with respect. She always responded positively to my questions.

HUD failed to respond to her requests for help and CoS neglected to address requests for help made in her behalf. This made her situation untenable. She now lives at another location and has made several friends. [Contractor’s Daughter - WIP]

Hawk and the Raven (Lauren Jeane Hawk)

Lauren Jeanne Hawk (64). Although Stephen A. Mitchell presently has Hawk under an eviction notice and a no-contact order for “rude and abusive” behavior (obtained on allegedly perjured testimony), he does not interpret his own ad hominem remarks as rude and abusive. This forms part of a pattern in which Mitchell does not define his terms in lease addenda. He then uses them arbitrarily to suit his own purposes, mainly to restrict speech protected under the First Amendment that criticizes his management of Council House.

For the first time in the history of Council House, a tenant will have the resource to impose her right to face and question her accusers. In a series of other constructive evictions, based upon perjury suborned or coerced by Mitchell and his thugs, tenants did not have the benefit of counsel who could conduct discovery.

Discovery, a compulsory process, allows pretrial disclosure. It enables litigants to obtain information before trial through demands for documents, deposition of potential witnesses, and written interrogatories under oath. Attorney Elena Garella will subpoena principal witnesses for examination.

Previously, Council House directors and their lawyers denied tenants due process of law and corrupt judges made unjust decisions. When tenants won their cases in more ethical courts, Council House obtained new trials using their tame judges or ignored court decisions and evicted tenants anyway.

Victor DeLeon, President, Council House, received a letter from Hawk entreating him to take action through conciliation. Hawk says that she told DeLeon on the telephone that she wished to conciliate and had approached him because Mitchell had lied to the board of directors and violated laws. According to Hawk, DeLeon replied that he would try to get the board to speak with her and that he would keep an open mind even though he remained a big supporter of Mitchell. She says they never called.

DeLeon has a history of perjury that supports Mitchell. He lied to have a tenant, whom Mitchell had jailed without due process of law, moved from general population to solitary confinement. He conspired with other board members and Lynn Wartnik (wife of Judge Anthony P. Wartnik) to file perjured testimony that effectively caused placement among accused murderers and rapists. Lynn Wartnik and Sheila Sternberg, while co-presidents of Council House, knowingly filed forged documents with HUD to have Mitchell appointed administrator. [Rampant Judicial Delusion]

Council House will never have peace without justice. Managers have provoked individuals to symbolic violence by tire slashing in a similar way that governments provoked terrorists to cause the recent carnage in London (07 Jul 05). On the sixtieth anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in history (which included six million Jewish deaths in the Shoah and death of five million other minorities) that a board of directors consisting entirely of Jews* should behave in this disgusting, immoral, and racist way, boggles the mind. [Hawk and the Raven]

Last Cruel Days. Homicide? (Naftali Nathan Vilensky)

Naftali Nathan Vilensky (72†). During a Sunday afternoon, a Latino dumped Nate Vilensky in an apartment at Council House. He neither spoke nor understood English. Vilensky, confined to a wheelchair and naked except for a hospital johnny 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 me to help him find his equipment and to hang up some of his clothes. That was my first introduction to the late Naftali Nathan Vilensky whom I 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 him to a nursing home where he 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. When authorities finally wake up and take action on at least two alleged incidences of homicide by abuse, Vilensky will posthumously receive his last hurrah. Mitchell richly deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the cruelty that he has maliciously inflicted upon dozens of senior citizens. [Last Cruel Days - Homicide?]

Patttern or Practice (Pola Doenyas)

Pola Doenyas (75±), a long-term Council House tenant, Doenyas received an eviction threat (19 Sep 02) for discussing issues published in Contra Cabal with Council House tenants. The administrator, Stephen A. Mitchell (40) told her that she could receive a contempt citation for violating an original antiharassment order against the author/publisher that he claims applies to all tenants (it does not apply to tenants).

Mitchell arbitrarily accused her of extortion after he tried to bribe her not to testify in a court case and classified political discussions with other tenants as “rude and abusive behavior”, then threatened to terminate her residency. [Elder Abuse - Preface]

Mitchell has since victimized Doenyas repeatedly. He retaliated against her for filing a complaint and also tampered with her as a witness in a court case by offering her financial relief from an outstanding debt. Doenyas, a native of Bulgaria, suffered under the regimes of both Hitler and Stalin. She now has to contend with similar abuse at Council House.

Investigations at Council House for more than five years show an extensive pattern or practice of elder abuse and denial of civil and human rights, also due process of law. "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.

Legal action can occur 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." Council House, Seattle, discriminates against both individuals and groups.

Courts have found a "pattern or practice" when evidence establishes that the discriminatory actions relate to regular practice, rather than isolated instances. This does not mean that a complainant has to prove that defendants always discriminate or that their actions always affect a number of people. A "pattern or practice" means that defendants have a policy of discriminating, even if they do not always follow that policy. Council House has a policy of discrimination and has a history of implementing it.

Individuals who believe that they rank as victims of housing discrimination on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability may file a complaint with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD must investigate each complaint to determine reasonable cause that landlords have violated the Act. HUD must then issue a written determination of reasonable cause or no reasonable cause. If reasonable cause is found, HUD also prepares a charge of discrimination.

Council House directors use “diversity”, propaganda, and the police to silence residents and to retaliate against those who speak out. They have created an orthodoxy of dissent to suppress nonconformity and use thugs to enforce it. The public must soon bring these practices to an end - legally. [Orthodoxy of Dissent]

Directors have maintained indifference to elder abuse and condoned multiple assaults upon tenants by their administrators and thugs. They have effectively deprived tenants of their civil, human, and constitutional rights and repeatedly committed crimes. [Pattern or Practice]

Racism (Willie Mae Williams)

Willie Mae Williams (78), a black woman, lived at Council House for three decades and claimed not to have had a problem with anyone until she suffered a physical assault in the lobby. Virginia D. Lambert, a management Kapo (thug) and stool-pigeon tried to strangle her for no particular reason other than racism.

People of color live daily with the effects of both institutional and individual racism. Epithets like “racist” and “racism” have reached a new height of offensiveness through abusive and contemptuous use. They identify the reality that generally applies in a politically correct society which denies that discrimination exists. Council House directors and administrators form part of that constituency and collectively act in similar ways to those of individual racists.

Civil rights exponents have focused upon individual discrimination since the civil rights movement in the 1960s. They predominantly deny that a more pernicious form of collective discrimination generally exists in closed societies and among law enforcement officers, the judiciary, and bureaucracies.

No direct correlation exists between race and political conduct, social thinking, and values, even if one allows for class differences. Singling out a biological given rather than paying attention to all the other factors reflects a divisive political agenda instead of sociological fact.

After her assault, Willie May Williams moved away from Council House. Whether she left because of the assault, racism, or for other reasons, the perception of racism exists supported by ongoing racist administrative patterns or practices. An established elite continues to implement those policies through ostracism.

Witnesses have sworn that Lambert physically attacked different black women in the building on separate occasions. They said that Lambert often lost control yet Mitchell took no action. He blamed her victims and tried to kill the messengers bearing witness to the incidents by using ostracism and other harassment.

The felony assault upon Williams formed part of a covert campaign by Mitchell over an extended period to intimidate and to harass black people using thugs supported by a bigoted Jewish elite. Council House has two Jewish constituencies - “the haves” (elitist, sycophantic, racist and religiously intolerant, affluent) and “the have nots” (democratic, independent, racially and religiously tolerant, impecunious).

A white, female officer interviewed Lambert and Cowdin at the crime scene then spoke to Williams at the hospital. Police did nothing to pursue the complaint. Williams asked the officer what she intended to do about the attack. The officer responded: “Nothing, she’s just an old lady and if I lock her up they will just turn her loose anyway”. In fact, the officer tended toward transferring blame onto Williams after first interviewing her attacker and another thug, both of them white.

Interviews with prisoners in King County Jail show that police would have immediately transported a black woman to jail then kept her there for several months without any legal representation until a court hearing. Then, she would probably have heard her public defender tell her to plead guilty on a plea bargain for expedience. [Racism]

Trials of Leon Harris (Leon L. Harris)

Leon L. Harris (72) suffered constructive eviction although he won a frivolous antiharassment law suit brought against him by Mitchell using Lambert (71) as proxy. Harris obtained a pro bono attorney and an ethical judge found in his favor. [Five Kapos]

Mitchell and his thug Jacques then unleashed a campaign of racial abuse and intimidation against Harris, a black man, until he had to leave his home and find another place to live. They also intimidated witnesses as they have done on at least ten other occasions. [Noblesse Oblige]

Mitchell consistently provoked and publicly humiliated Harris a quiet, retiring man, former aide to the Governor of Oregon, until he spoke out against racism. Mitchell followed a pattern by humiliating tenants and denying their professional and community accomplishments to intimidate and provoke them. That pattern became abundantly clear in the Harris trial. Mitchell even questioned why this reporter would write about Harris constructively with the rhetorical question: “Why would he do that - he’s white and Harris is black?”

The directors did nothing when Jewish residents used the term "shvarzer" (Yiddish - nigger) in the public rooms or when a Mitchell thug (Lambert) physically attacked two black women on separate occasions. Instead, they provoked racism by exhibiting a large Israeli flag next to the stars and stripes when tenants swore allegiance to it. This fueled racist fires.

A Jewish tenant, observed black children playing, she said publicly: “What is this - the planet of the apes?” That, together with Audrey F. Dunbar, a Council House administrator, banning the name Jesus from gospel songs, caused an ethnic and religious debacle that continued to degenerate until a confrontation occurred. Then Mitchell blamed Harris for the incidents. The directors have done nothing to resolve racism that has escalated over fifteen years.

Despite Harris winning his case, Jacques threatened him in a court room. Police records show that he said to Harris in front of Mitchell and court officers: “I’m going to blow your fucking head off”. Mitchell condoned the behavior and Seattle police claim that they referred the incident to the district attorney who has apparently done nothing about it. Malicious harassment classifies as a class C felony. That police report recorded only one of many similar felonies committed by Jacques.

The abuse of Harris typifies the racial discrimination combined with elder abuse at Council House. An exclusively Jewish board of directors condones racist policies. It also practices racial discrimination in leasing and employment. US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) admonished the directors for their racist leasing policies and other illegal practices as a result of Contra Cabal exposure. However, they have not addressed the discrimination in employment complaints. [Agency Accountability]

Judge Maureen Howard denied Mitchell (Lambert) an antiharassment order for lack of proof of severe emotional stress. She said that broadcast statements may offend but do not cause emotional stress. Harassment describes what people do, not what they say publicly. She remarked that Lambert (as proxy for Mitchell) initiated contact most times. The judge admonished Mitchell for not taking care of problems administratively.

Several courts have informally found courthouse conduct by Mitchell and Jacques obstructionist and indefensible. Both Mitchell and Jacques threatened this reporter with violence on several occasions and those courts granted him the protection of court officers. [Trials of Leon Harris]

Who killed Jackie Nations? (Jackie Nations)

Jackie Rose Nations (59†) 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 classifies as homicide by abuse due to her status as a vulnerable adult and as an unlawful tenant by virtue of age and mental disability. [Homicide by Abuse] [Vulnerable Adults]

Sarah V. Barrie, Dunbar’s mother, had previously transferred real estate owned by her father James Ernst (Ernie) Nations (91†) and mother to herself in consideration of “love and affection” granting them use for life. She obtained a special power of attorney over Ernie, witnessed by Jackie and James A. Barrie (Sarah’s 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. Sarah Barrie then sold the real property.

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: 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. Sarah Barrie (formerly Dunbar nee Nations sister to Jackie and mother to Audrey), works as the State of Washington, Department of Ecology, Fleet Operations Coordinator, at an annual salary of $43,644.00 (03-0131) - probably the reason for using her husband as a welfare proxy.

Jackie committed suicide. 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 has since accused this reporter of complicity in Nation’s “murder” for reporting the suicide and elder abuse. [Who Killed Jackie Nations?]

Paul Trummel [Nmesis]

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