Witness Tampering and Intimidation - Seattle Jewish Mafia
Witness intimidation and tampering with evidence serve to thwart the effective prosecution of criminal conduct in elder abuse lawsuits. It prevents charging and prosecution of perpetrators which allows the abuse to continue and frequently results in the death of elderly people.
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Seattle Jewish Mafia describes the board of directors of Council House, Seattle. Co-presidents Lynn C. Wartnik (wife of retired superior court judge Anthony P. Wartnik) and Sheila Sternberg (wife of bankruptcy lawyer Craig S. Sternberg, Sternberg Thomson Okrent, Seattle) appointed Stephen (Stefan) A. Mitchell (an out-of-work stage actor) as building manager and social worker after he presented fraudulent credentials which they did not check. They then filed false and misleading documents with US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to ratify his appointment. [Seattle Jewish Mafia]
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 does not legally house vulnerable adults.
HUD designated Council House a residence for independent living which makes managers state actors subject to HUD regulations. Council House offers annual leases for independent living apartments subject to landlord and tenant laws in the same way as any commercial apartment block. HUD involvement relates only to rent subsidies, oversight of eligible tenants, and enforcement of its regulations. [Elder Abuse - Preface]
Besieged by federal and state lawsuits connected with his elder abuse and racism, Mitchell responded to them in the only way that he knows how - with pathological lying and deceit. During 2006, Council House directors either lost or had dismissed at least 10 barratrous (frivolous and capricious) lawsuits based upon perjury and subornation that they filed against tenants. [Barratry] [Perjurers]
Several tenants brought lawsuits to protect themselves against sociopathic behavior by Mitchell and his enforcers which Victor J. DeLeon, the current Council House president, condoned. They eventually prevailed in courts at all levels to Washington supreme court despite judicial misconduct by several corrupt straw judges who published biased findings to support Council House directors. [Elder Abuse - Introduction] [Straw-Man Stratagem]
The directors do not realize that complicity in lying and perjury must return to haunt them. Their perjury and subornation have already made them pay extremely high legal fees and bribes to evade prosecution. Consequently, they should discourage dishonesty on strategic grounds even if they cannot do it from a moral perspective.
Witness Tampering and Intimidation
Mitchell and his directors practice Mafioso-style witness intimidation. They not only have harassed victims, but have paid them off and bribed them to cover up elder abuse. Public officials have acquiesced to Mitchell’s dysfunctional behavior to cover up their own dereliction. Furthermore, the legislature has found that admonishment or demand to a witness to “drop the charges” amounts to witness intimidation.
[Ravening Sociopath] [Dereliction and Collusion]
Tenants filed complaints with HUD and City of Seattle. They publicly discussed Mitchell’s sociopathic behavior but to no avail. Mitchell, with impunity granted by his directors and government officials, has unlawfully evicted, jailed, assaulted, or had complicity in the death of every Council House tenant who has testified or spoken about the issues during the past seven years.
Council House tenant Lauren Jeanne Hawk (66) had a recent encounter with Judith T. Newman (Evergreen Healthcare and University of Oregon) which resembled a clash that Jorene Dodson (then 71) had with Katrina M. Ramsburg (then 22), an out-of-work actor whom Mitchell met at a rehearsal and employed to pose as a social worker. Mitchell, Ramsburg, and Audrey F. Dunbar (assistant administrator) portrayed Dodson as mentally incompetent then Mitchell and Ramsburg used their bogus social worker credentials to persuade SPD to have her confined at Evergreen.
Evergreen discharged Dodson after five days when their psychiatric examination disproved Mitchell’s claims. On her return to Council House, Mitchell denied Dodson access to elevators and made this elderly woman with leg problems and other physical ailments climb nine floors to her apartment. This virtually imprisoned her in her apartment without access to the dining room. Later, Mitchell unlawfully evicted Dodson and bribed her with expense money to prevent her testifying against him. [Contractor’s Daughter]
In a similar mode, Mitchell started a retaliatory campaign against Hawk who effectively won her case against Mitchell and Council House. Through persistence, she retained her tenancy at Council House and a court awarded her $63,000 as lawyer fees and costs. Mitchell and DeLeon employed an Evergreen Healthcare “social worker” (Judy Newman) to conduct a sting operation in retaliation for winning her case. [Oregon Sting - WIP]
Since Contra Cabal reported that sting (which amounted to nothing more than witness tampering and had nothing to do with psychiatric evaluation) Council House lawyers have bribed her to leave the state. An independent source said that Hawk has accepted a payoff and will move to California. Yet another source claims that Hawk said: “She [Hawk] told me and other people that she is moving out at the end of March as Council House offered her big big [sic] money; and, she [Hawk] said that she signed a paper that she is not going to reveal the amount”.
Hawk claims that Newman tried to psychoanalyze her to support Mitchell in unlawful eviction or confinement in a mental institution for daring to challenge his previous elder abuse in court and winning. Council House lawyers knew that death or insanity of a mandatory ends a contract and having Hawk committed, dead, or out of state would probably save Council House $63,000.
Having survived the Newman sting and now in fear of her life with progressive health complications and continued harassment, Hawk abandoned her case before the mandate to pay the lawyers became final and made a decision to leave the state after accepting a substantial bribe.
Her retreat prevents her from testifying in pending and future Council House lawsuits for damages that could amount to eight-digit settlements. In view of other alleged homicides by abuse, Hawk has probably saved her own life by moving to California.
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I have been very ill and am in danger of dying from heart complications if I don't relieve my stress. So I signed off on the appeal before the mandate was done and am packing to leave now. . . . I can no longer deal with this situation. . . . I need to disconnect from Council House or I will be another death by elder abuse of [by] Mitchell et al. . . . I cannot discuss the settlement and I received no money for the lawyers as I withdrew the appeal. I withdrew the appeal so that there will be no further action. . . . they didn't have to pay. It is over and I really need rest and that is why I withdrew. |
Similarly, Mitchell has disposed of another potential witness by bribing him to leave the state. Don Patrick worked as a paralegal for Tenants Union of Washington State and testified in several successful lawsuits against Mitchell. He lived at Council House for about a decade and acted as a tenant advocate. He received many threats of eviction for his advocacy and in bad health has eventually capitulated to constant harassment by Mitchell and his enforcers. The source said that Patrick called from California to say that he needed an attorney in Seattle to address other Council House tenant issues. [Seattle Jewish Mafia]
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Tenants Union issued a media release (18 Mar 07) to launch its campaign: Continue the Fight for Discrimination Protection for Low-Income Renters - an oxymoron. Council House managers vociferously discriminate against tenants because the government subsidizes their rent regardless of their rental and credit history. The union claims to challenge and transform unjust housing conditions and housing policies through empowerment-based education, leadership development, and community organization. It claims that tenants facing housing problems must lead efforts to transform housing conditions and communities. However, Tenants Union abandoned its members at Council House when they tried to stand up for their rights. It also deserted its representative Don Patrick a long-time activist/paralegal and other union members. This encouraged Stephen A. Mitchell and his assistant Audrey F. Dunbar to ratchet up their coercion and elder abuse. Council House managers accept people with government subsidies then abuse them. They victimize vulnerable tenants despite laws that already recognize the need to protect residents from housing discrimination based on their race, color, disability, sex, national origin, religion, familial status and sexual orientation. Many disabled and elderly people in these categories rely upon government subsidy; however, lack of government protection against discrimination based on their source of income leaves people in a perpetual state of housing instability. Tenants Union now wishes to introduce legislation to outlaw discrimination against people who use government subsidies to help pay their rent. They say that landlords should not penalize or shame legitimate use of subsidies and that negative stereotypes should not determine an applicant’s suitability as a tenant. Tenants Union must wake up to reality and discard political expedience. New legislation will do nothing to alleviate the problem at Council House so long as Tenants Union panders to the anarchical Seattle Jewish Mafia which owns the building and government officials refuse to enforce federal and state laws.
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Former co-presidents Lynn C. Wartnik and Sheila Sternberg, apprised of Mitchell’s behavior, have condoned his actions. They had full knowledge of multiple elder abuse and granted Mitchell impunity. The latest incident with Hawk reinforces claims that a distinct pattern of elder abuse with board participation or approval has existed for over a decade. [Ravening Sociopath]
Mitchell should have received several life sentences for what he has done yet Council House directors have committed perjury to cover up for him. Despite a Washington supreme court reversal of lower court findings, City of Seattle and King County prosecutors have still not investigated or indicted the directors for perjury, subornation, and witness tampering. Instead, federal and state officials allow the reign of terror and elder abuse to continue. Not only has the entire system failed the tenants, it has actively participated in their persecution. [Directors]
[The author has withheld the names of sources (although they did not request anonymity) to avoid more life-threatening retaliation against them by Mitchell and his thugs.]
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During the period before victims report elder abuse or neglect they remain the most vulnerable to influence. Coercion stems from administrators or people acting in their behalf who persuade and intimidate potential witnesses to leave the jurisdiction, withhold information from law enforcement, or sign false and misleading statements under duress.
Witness intimidation and tampering serve to thwart the effective prosecution of criminal conduct in elder abuse lawsuits. They classify as grave offenses which adversely affect elderly people who have information pertaining to a future proceeding. Intimidation and tampering prevents charging and prosecution of perpetrators and allows abuse to continue.
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Technological tampering has also occurred. Council House lawyers (Short Cressman Burgess) filed prior restraint actions in the guise of anti-harassment orders. While Washington supreme court determined invalidity of their prior restraint and quashed those orders, other Council House lawyers (Bullivant Houser Bailey) violated federal Internet laws by sabotaging web site publication of these columns.
Their actions destroyed the site for more than a month and it cost thousands of dollars to restore service. These law firms continue to interfere with Internet Service Providers (ISPs); however, ISPs now monitor both firms and their operatives. ISPs will file federal lawsuits against them for any future sabotage. [Tell it to the Judge]
Physical Assault
In his latest exploit, Mitchell physically attacked Hawk (despite her confinement in a wheelchair permanently) after the court dismissed his attempt to evict her. Hawk prevailed when she challenged Council House about an attempt to evict her using perjured and suborned testimony. This evidently triggered the assault. [Hawk and the Raven]
Seattle Police Department failed to arrest him. As with several other violent assaults by enforcers at Council House, police supported Mitchell’s sociopathic ravening while Council House president Victor J. DeLeon refused to speak with the victims. [Ravening Sociopath]
Mitchell’s physical assault upon Hawk ranks as a serious criminal offense especially when the violence took place against a disabled person over the age of 60. If she had died, upon conviction Mitchell could have gone to prison for life and/or paid a fine of $50,000; however, Seattle Police Department (SPD) and Seattle City Attorney Thomas A. Carr again turned a blind eye toward elder abuse.
Perjury and Psychiatric Sting Operations
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Successive Council House presidents: Donald G. Cohan; Lynn C. Wartnik; Sheila Sternberg; Donald R. Silverman; and, Victor J. DeLeon have condoned unlawful practices and several of them have supported Mitchell by filing perjured testimony. Other directors have filed perjured declarations and suborned elderly people to have tenants incarcerated at Mitchell's behest. [Conspiracy 2001] [Conspiracy 2002]
[Directors] [Seattle Jewish Mafia] [RCW 40.16.030]
[RCW 9A.76.175]
At least two vulnerable adults have died from neglect and abuse and the directors have had five independent tenants unlawfully incarcerated. They have since covered up the deaths. In one case the victim’s family and a Council House administrator benefitted financially by defrauding both federal and state agencies prior to her death and by disposing of her assets. Several other tenants remain at risk of personal injury and suffer daily abuse at the hands of administrators and their paid enforcers. [Homicide by Abuse] [Who Killed Jackie Nations?]
Mitchell, an acknowledged sociopath and pathological liar, presented himself to tenants as a charismatic leader. This entailed referring to himself as the "music minister" using freedom of expression for that self-portrayal. In contrast, his spiritual hypocrisy supported neo-fascism and denial of freedom of expression to others in his role as a landlord.
Both diagnostic criteria (ICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR) describe Mitchell’s personality disorder. That disorder caused persistent irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations manifested in a reckless disregard for safety of himself or others. Incapable of experiencing guilt or profit from experience, Mitchell neglected to obey state and federal laws. This resulted in repeated lawlessness that gave grounds for his arrest.
[Ravening Sociopath]
Mitchell employed Kapos (thugs or enforcers) with a history of mental health problems to enforce his zero tolerance policies and to terrorize tenants. He used his bogus social worker credentials to choreograph events that caused at least five incarcerations and many unlawful evictions through psychotic transference - an act that rational people define as insanity. [Five Kapos]
A well-documented misuse of therapy by Mitchell and other bogus social workers and mental health counselors shows a pattern or practice of denial of human rights. Council House directors repeatedly choreograph mental health scenarios to declare elderly people mentally incompetent so that they can control, abuse, and incarcerate them if they do not submit to totalitarian rule.
Financial exploitation has led to illegal or improper use of property, income, and foundation funds to abuse elderly people then to evade prosecution by HUD, City of Seattle, and King County. Those agencies welcomed Council House patronage and neglected to take legal action. Instead, they granted impunity and tried to prosecute victims. [Agency Accountability]
HUD, City of Seattle, and King County have not addressed two alleged homicides and multiple cases of elder abuse. Although fully apprised of the facts in reports and a Washington supreme court finding that has effectively given those reports validity, these agencies have failed to recognize that their primary duty must predicate upon law rather than political expedience. Now, a University of Oregon affiliate has become involved in the subterfuge and elder abuse. [Oregon Sting - WIP]
Mitchell neglects to define terms in lease addenda and uses the catch-all phrase “rude and abusive” at will. However, he does not interpret his own ad hominem remarks as rude and abusive. He uses undefined terms arbitrarily to suit his own purposes, mainly to restrict speech protected under the First Amendment that criticizes his management of Council House and his harassment of tenants.
Mitchell disallows rational discussion; instead, he quashes complaints. This gives him and his enforcers absolute power to terrorize residents with whom they disagree. From fear, some tenants decide to cooperate after accepting bribes and special privileges despite their inherent ethics or morals. [Trials of Leon L Harris]
Bizarrely, Mitchell did not ask residents to testify what they knew to authorities, instead, he coerced them into testifying what they thought. He told them to base their thinking upon their feelings. He said that if they did not cooperate with him then he would throw them out of their apartments and they would have nowhere to go.
He then threatened to use restraining orders to make tenants prisoners in their apartments. He had previously arranged unlawful incarceration of JoRene Dodson at Evergreen Healthcare and several other tenants at various locations all without due process of law or psychiatric evaluation. He used them as examples and threatened other tenants that they would receive similar treatment if they did not conform with his dictates.
Mitchell uses Seattle Police Department as his private Gestapo and City of Seattle and Evergreen as a means to incarcerate tenants unlawfully. Neither City of Seattle nor Evergreen has addressed the issues reported to them; instead, they have condoned unlawful activity by neglect and cover up of criminal complaints. Two instances of alleged homicide by abuse have occurred without any action by responsible authorities.
[Contractor’s Daughter] [Travesty]
Council House directors refused to recognize that the term "independent living" means that management and staff must confine their activity to maintaining and running the facility. They repeatedly tried to reclassify the apartment block as a nursing home to cover up multiple violation of laws. They unlawfully claimed that they have fiduciary power over tenants.
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. They have apparently covered up those crimes for political expediency. Now Steven E. Brown, CEO, Evergreen Healthcare, his commissioners, and their employees appear to have joined in this cover-up of elder abuse. [Dereliction and Collusion]
Case Studies
Mitchell has a history of witness tampering and suborning perjury to support frivolous court action against tenants whom he does not like or who do not conform to his neo-fascist dictates. He tampered with Pola Doenyas (75±), a long-time tenant, as a witness by offering her a bribe. Doenyas filed a declaration in a lawsuit brought by a third party against Mitchell. Mitchell offered her financial relief from an outstanding debt not to testify in court. She refused the bribe. He then psychologically transferred the coercion to Doenyas by accusing her of extortion. Mitchell’s Kapos repeatedly assaulted her and publicly humiliated her.
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I am sorry that I cannot be strong enough to participate in anything. I am worried a lot. I feel my life is coming to an end. I have been suffering from headaches since I heard that Mr. Crittenden is having me and Gilda sue the Council House. . . . I resent all of it but it needs to be done; I will have to suffer. At this time all [this] is ruining my health physically and emotionally. I received numerous calls from people that read about me on the Internet; they reprimand me and I cannot deal with life. |
Doenyas then received an eviction threat for discussing issues published in these columns. Mitchell classified conversation with other tenants about Contra Cabal content as “rude and abusive behavior” and cause for eviction; he then threatened to terminate her tenancy. He told Doenyas that she would receive a contempt citation for violating an antiharassment order that he claimed applied to all tenants; however, that unlawful prior restraint only applied to the author and Washington supreme court has since reversed it. [Pattern or Practice]
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Kafka Wig fits Washington State Justices . . . Judges have repeatedly disallowed discovery and cross-examination that would have exposed subornation and perjury: instead, they granted impunity. By that, they became liable to charges of judicial misconduct. Six of the eight witnesses who offered testimony in a preliminary hearing of an apparently frivolous antiharassment and eviction proceeding set for hearing previously filed perjured declarations against other tenants. Directors have consistently suborned a tenant elite since 2001. They committed perjury to pervert justice and tampered with each of the witnesses in that case. They either unlawfully evicted them, tried to bribe them, or had Kapos harass them. Perjury by signing misleading declarations or giving false testimony classifies as a class B felony which carries a maximum punishment of ten years in a correctional institution, and/or a $20,000 fine, on each count. |
Mitchell used similar tactics on Hawk with a difference - he has become progressively more violent and his victims weaker. Hawk has a spinal affliction, diabetes, and a very serious heart condition. Despite her medical condition and recuperation from life-threatening surgery, Mitchell continued to harass her. [Constitutional Rights Initiative]
Past harassment has taken the form of refusing her a handicapped parking space (she had to sell her car), constant verbal battering by Kapos, overt threats, and a physical attack upon her by Mitchell. The harassment showed a pattern of escalation following emergency hospital visits. The case study on Donald Jackson exemplifies this outrageous behavior. [Whitewash]
Jackson (a quiet man on oxygen support) attended court as a witness for another black man in a racial discrimination eviction complaint against Mitchell. In Mitchell’s mind that made him ripe for termination. Mitchell set Felippe Jacques and Kathryn McKinley to maintain surveillance with security cameras on Jackson and his care-giver wife Rose. They mounted a sting operation over an extended period before and after Jackson had a spell in hospital intensive care. [Trials of Leon L Harris]
Concurrently, Audrey F. Dunbar, Mitchell’s assistant, filed a false and misleading police report suggesting that Rose slashed tires on Dunbar’s car without a scintilla of evidence to prove it. Rose went to jail and Mitchell issued a no-trespass order against her. [Vehicular Irresponsibility - Tire Slashing]
On Jackson’s return from hospital, Mitchell evicted him and threw all his possessions into the street despite medical admonition. He then moved McKinley into Jackson’s apartment (across the hall from Jacques) as a reward for her help. [Noblesse Oblige]
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Mr. Donald Jackson has been a patient of mine for 9 years. He has severe lung disease which requires oxygen treatment and multiple medications. Stable housing is absolutely essential to his health, and even a brief period of homelessness could be life threatening. He also requires assistance with some of his activities of daily living due to his shortness of breath and chronic arthritis pain. I have had extensive conversations with Mr. Jackson about his housing, and he agrees to comply with any necessary regulations in order to avoid eviction. We are working with our support staff to see if chore services could be provided by an agency. I sincerely hope any eviction proceedings will be reconsidered given his serious medical issues. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Sincerely, |
Council House tenants may not classify as vulnerable adults under HUD regulations; however, in reality they have become vulnerable: vulnerable to the directors who own the facility, the managers who administer it and a perverted government and justice system that not only fails to ensure their safety and well-being but enables the abusers to continue the abuse.
Gretchen Herbison (formerly a lawyer with Bullivant Houser Bailey) acting for Council House filed false and misleading reports provided by Mitchell with Seattle Office of Civil Rights (SOCR). SOCR has not removed them from the record. Herbison altered records to cover up rampant racism at Council House. She transmitted confidential information to Mitchell who immediately tampered with some witnesses and intimidated others. Her reward for professional misconduct - employment as a highly paid lawyer with King County Department of Executive Services. [Tell it to the Judge]
Mitchell mounted an ethnic cleansing program to rid Council House of handicapped and black people which Herbison whitewashed during the SOCR investigation. Evergreen Healthcare now effectively supports that practice by silently withholding public records to cover up alleged crimes by its employees and associates. [Whitewash]
Conclusion
Evergreen Healthcare apparently accepts false and misleading direction by Mitchell who poses as a mental health specialist. Although HUD, King County, and City of Seattle prosecutorial authorities have received several notices and many complaints about unlawful referral of healthy people to mental health establishments, they have done nothing to stop the practice.
This dereliction has resulted in at least two alleged homicides by abuse and incarceration of several other people. The current attempt to intimidate Hawk shows that the practice continues unrestrained. Evergreen has participated in a cover-up of unlawful behavior using similar tactics to those employed by regulatory authorities.
Council House board of directors must have recognized Mitchell as a dangerous psychotic after working with him for more than ten years. For them to employ him as the manager of an apartment block housing elderly people (some of them Holocaust survivors) shows utter disrespect for their tenants and a complete indifference to their suffering. [Neo-Fascism, Violence, and Indifference - Shoah]
The directors have repeatedly perjured themselves to enable Mitchell to ratchet up coercion and make tenants suffer even more from his abuse. One can understand why the directors wish to remain anonymous. By that, they can achieve even greater financial rewards with impunity granted to them by government officials and judges who feed at the same trough. [Impunity]
As a sociopathic demagogue, Mitchell knows that fear and rabble-rousing provide the key to his success. A stage actor posing as a building manager, his orations appeal to the passions and prejudices of his audience to promote a subversive ethos that advances his own goals.
Mitchell controls the extremes of an elitist board of directors and an impoverished minority population - he plays both ends against the middle. He has turned a minor administrative position for which he has no credentials into a costly quagmire of self-aggrandizement and elder abuse. Sociopathic directors and a cadre of sycophantic tenants have created anarchy that even Kafka could not have envisioned.
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