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If you have to ask if your attorney fee bills look right, it's probably too late.  Divorce attorneys Hector and Marilyn Moreno along with a number of judges, cops and dirty divorce lawyers were sued in federal court during the 2020 pandemic related to COVID-19. The Plaintiff in the case used artificial intellegence, "AI". to show the relationship between domestic violence and divorce cases and how attorneys in Santa Clara County are using those cases to  fund a criminal organization that opoerates in California  by selling the family homes and getting cops to write false police reports about domestic violence. The suit names the legal legacy Moreno siblings and Hector Moreno's  son, Micheal Moreno, who left the Santa Clara County DA's  office to set up shop with his aunt Marilyn with cases being funneled to them  through Campbell's Home Church, non- profits and police officers working for the Gilroy , Los Gatos and Los Altos police.  

Former Santa Clara County prosecutor, Cindy Hendrickson, who conspired with  DA Jeff Rosen and Stanford University law professor Michele Dauber  to rig the Santa Clara County 2018 election such that she replaced Judge Aaron Persky on the local bench,  is related to the Morenos through marriage and since she was elected, Hendrickson has been sitting in the county's domestic violence court where she appears to be part of a criminal organization trafficking children and rigging divorce cases based on Hendrickson's connections to the DA's office and the founder of a charity, Ruth Pattrick Darlene, who runs a scam charity that  serves  only " affluent " vicitms , and that really operates to dragnet divorce cases for attorneys working for what appears to be a criminal organization operating in plain sight with impunity. 

Brent Ostler's federal case reveals a pattern and practice cops,  divorce lawyers and judges engage in to rig divorce cases and fund bribes, fines, fees and sanctions for the benefit of the operation. These illegal payments and public corruption is funded with equity from  the family home, where court " Settlement Conference Officer" Sharon Roper uses her power to appoint  Intero Real Estate agents and lock in home equity that is express delivered  to the IOLTA trust accounts of lawyers working for the enterprise,  while engaging in antitrust activity that is prohibited by state and federal law. 

Ostler's  federal lawsuits name the Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, the Gilroy Police Department and private judge Sharon Roper who works as an attorney for the courts, in addition to the divorce lawyers and Intero agents Roper reguallry appoints to assure a flow of illegal commissions to Intero Real Estate and Berkshire Hathaway.  Roper also feeds the enterprise referrals as the court's " Settlment Conference Officer" , where James Cox is appointed to the most corrupt cases, including the divore case of Intero founder John Thompson and retired judge Mary Ann Grilli, who appointed more cusotdy evaluatiors, referees, special masters, private jduges and minor's counsel for the enterprise than any other judge in California's history, where Judge Hendrickson, Judge Towery and Judge Scott are closing in fasted based on being enternched in the court and public corruption based on connections to the DA's office. Following the death of her husband, Roper has reportedly carved out a new lookout postion inside the court where she funnels referrals, but also made up the title of temporary judge for " Real Estate" , which is ourely made up.  

Discovery in Osteler's federal case has reportedly found government attorneys  working overtime to shred  documents , complaints and emails in order  avoid discovery in the case. These governmetn attorneys and elected officials ( Susan Ellenberg, Mike Wasserman and Cindy Chavez) have been telling insiders Ostler's case was brought in pro se, and will not survive in a manner that will ever be dicovered. Ward Penfold, Kim Hara, Micheal Rossi and risk managerment employee for the county, Matt Fisk, were captured on a recordings reportedly held  in the offices of tax attorney Ronda Edgar, scheming  to destroy evidence and deflect criminal investigations that include investigating money laundering and tax evasion scehemes connected to real estate transactions and divorce cases. 


Intero Attorney Heather Wang Linked to Weed , Sex & Corruption- LA & OC


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    In a related case,  Ostler filed against Intero Real Estate agents, a company  affliated with Berkshire Hathaway. The suit names Intero attorney  Heather Wang, who is  reportedly running  blackmarket real estate scams  connected to the LA and Organge County's drug and sex trafficking rings operating through private judge cases before Keith Dolnick, Shelia Sonenshine, Tom Tuttle and David Weinberg.

Dolnick links the enterprise to out-of-state crimes discovered in Arizona, Texas and Florida, where the Santa Clara County DA employee Kasey Halcon  is known to traffic vicitms  so they can not be found and brought to  testify against police officers, lawyers , judges and other " justice partners" operating the enterprise with the knowledge and assistance of court insiders.


Dirty cops,  divorce lawyers, CPS workers, private businesses  and even non- profit or charity organiations , along with court clerks, judges, private paraleagals and top ranking employees at the state bar  are the gatekeepers allowing  this criminal conduct to persist over the past 20 years, leaving families bankrupted and homeless, and divorce attorneys , dirty cops and judges wealthy with secret assets and ghost properties that never make to to their form 700 disclosures to the public. 


Acting under the color of law, dirty divorce  attorneys  funded their criminality with home equity found in family homes, charity donations to Women SV and  state and federal grants paid under the Violence Against Women Act. San Jose and Los Gatos police officer associations reportedly use paralegals, attorneys and bookkeepers to "manage" the day to day operation and money laundering scheme , according to recordings found on attorneys Elise Mitchell, Mark Erickson, Carlos Martinez, Michelle Hales, Christina Adames, Jason Pintar, Richard Roggia, Laura Perry, Annie Fortino, David Patton, Walter Hammon, Hector Moreno, Natalie Depril, Rebekha Frye, Lynne Yates Carter, Tracey Duell Cazes, Heather Allan, Sean Onderick, Ronda Edgar, John Hannon,  and Bill Dresser as secreted by attorney Sydney Hall. These recordings  are the blueprint for  the criminal organization operating in plain sight in the state's family court cases and filings. 

Over the past 10 years, as trained by attorney and MFT, Valerie Houghton,  attorneys are known for  secretly and illegally  recording in their offices,  and in  court, in order to line out bribes owed to judges, cops, court staff, court reporters  and court appointed experts that result in  court orders and fees that fuel the operation in Santa Clara . As it has since 20002, when Judge William Danser got caught for doing it with Los Gatos Police in traffic court cases.

 
MOVING CORRUPTION TO ORANGE COUNTY MONEY AND HOME EQUITY SCAMS


The operation  expanded to Organge County in 2012, after  attorney Keith Dolnick and court CEO David Yamasaki formally joined forces. The enterprise became  unstoppable its players got Judge Persky Recalled, and Judge Hendrickson appointed to replace him as she also maintained  her position on the Santa Clara County Domestic Violence Council. These public positions provided for the rigging of legal outcomes and kept the flow of state and federal money pouring in to county coeffers as the pandemic dried up tax income that supports the count courts and DAs office. 

Also on the council are attorney Nicole Ford and Victim Witness " Director" Kasey Halcon, who have assured bribes for local cops and judges that keep them in a quasi political office and their boss, and head of the mob, DA Jeff Rosen, in office. Ford , and Halcon have personally acted to protect bad cops with the Gilroy, Los Gatos and San Jose police department who are known to be beating spouses, selling child porn and covering their criminality up in the county's divorce courts, as is a common practice for dirty cops, judges, and lawyers. 

When attorney Frye handled the divorce case of powerful tech executive Don Henja in the early 2000s , she slipped the case directly into the enterprise. She got her own client on paid supervised visitation, and racked up nearly $800,000 in legal fees in no time at all, eyeing the Los Altos home equity that throwing the case in Don's favor would seek to assure. But in March  of 2003, Gloria suprised the criminal attorneys she had gotten mixed up with when she climbed onto a Silicon Valley overpass  and took her own life by jumping on to Highway 101. Shortly before she jumped, she was heard  telling a friend she had been fired to from her tech job at Oracle. Without it , she would not be able to afford to keep her attorney, or pay the supervised visation and court appointed custody evalautors to see her own children, as the enterprise demanded. 

Even in death Gloria had no peace. Frye had her heirs rummage through the house the night Gloria died, and Frye came along for the break in, taking all evidence that could expose the enterprise before Gloria's husband Don could return to the family home. Frye then hired attorney Brad Baugh to drag the case out in divorce and probate court another 5 years. When it was finally moved into private judging before Neville Spadafore, Baugh and Frye got ever dime of the $800,000 in fees from the estate Gloria had anticipated would go to her children.  

​Court files in the federal case brought by  Ostler claims to have been prepared using  Artificial Intellegence and scapping  court dockets  to reveal the uselessness of the state bar and the willingness of state bar officials to allow attorney crime to harm families and children.with impunity. State Bar executives Suzanne Grant and Vanessa Holton have reportedly been shredding complaints and diverting attention from the criminal organziation operating in Santa Clara county with the help of Judge James Towery, former chief trial counsel at the state bar. According to recordings, and papers leaked by attorney Elise Mitchell through local process servers and preists operating pedo rings in local San Jose private Catholic  schools, the enterprise expanded to Organe County where Judge Dolnick works behind the scenes with appeallate attorney Garrett Daily and Keith Dolnick, his brother, to  assure deposits in attorney IOLTA trust accounts that pay off the state bar insiders to bury their complaints and misdeeds as was done for Thomas Giardi over the past 10 years. 

Ostler however could never detect all the cases that would evidence the pattern he alleges, as the courts have secreted the dockets and information from the public domain that Ostler would need to have access to. The most secreted cases appear to come from the enterprise, as plotted and planned by attorney Elise Mithcell, WomenSV Founder Ruth Patrick Darlene, and Judge Hendrickson , who has accepted bribes through her Moreno family connections, as arranged by attorney Sean Onderick and an network of paralegals, bookkeepers and legal secretaries working legtimately in the family law community to conceal their criminality from being discovered by the press, or public. 

Divorce attorneys commit terrible crimes and are never criminally prosecuted. They abuse, bilk and cheat their clients  and rarely will a   local DA, Judge or    State Bar do anything about it.  

Divorce attorney Carlos Martinez stole from clients, botched their cases, and violated court orders. But Martinez, much like other divorce lawyers across the state, acted as an informant for the DA,  and supported Jeff Rosen's political career, so he was able to engage in criminality with immpunity. When the bar had evidence of Martinez's unethcial and criminal conduct, they offered him a permanent vacation, or rather confidential discipline designed to conceal his criminality through a bogus probation period where he continued his criminality cases up and down the state. 

As a civil, family law and appeal attorney,  Carlos Martinez has represented some of the county's biggest criminals. He is connected to  cases through attorney,   Brad Baugh, whose perjury was ignored by the Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda County District Attorneys. Papers found during the investitaiton of DA Mark Peterson, revealed the criminal organization, but protestors at the time were just happy to see Mark Peterson indicted, disbarred and stripped of his pension, 

Walnut Creek based forensic CPA Charles Burak, operates through the local bar in Contra Costa  and Santa Clara County where he has joined the organzation with  forensic CPAs Mike Thompson, James Butera and Sally White. These CPAs make up false reports for the benefit of the enterprise, where and  court appointments give them qualified immunity  and protection from California's toothless consumer protection agencies such as the state bar, the Department of Real Estate, the Board of Psycology and the Board of Accountancy. The work of the CPAs and the criminality of the lawyers is concealed from the taxing authorities by attorneys including  Sean Onderick and tax attorney Ronda Edgar, who handles money laundering for lawyers working in Santa Clara , Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Sean Onderick , who works in Edgar's offices, but does not hang out his shingle, connects the tax issues with the real estate  and malpractice civil cases brought by attorneys Bill Dresser, John Hannon and Sydney Hall , where Onderick appears to have immunity from being sued for malpracitice. Nonetheless , he has demanded clients pay him in cash, money orders and even sex that is secreted from his second wife, a former client who allegedly broke up his first marriage. 


While operating out of the building that houses private judge and mediation busienss  JAMs , the offices of private judge Richard Roggia and the law firm Hoge Fenton, Martinez reportedly provides paralegals and investigators to the organization when he is comfortable these professionals are willing to  launder  money to  attorneys, court reporters and private security firms with funds coming from cash, gift cards, Bitcoin deposits or liens on equity familes have in their homes such that they are untraceable.

San Martin resident, Margie Russo, worked as a paralegal in the law offices of Richard Roggia, a Gilroy based attorney who moved to the San Jose JAMS building to funnel business for the organization to  B-level attorneys in the form of  private judge appointments JAMS attorneys did not want.   Russo, used her position to get " secondary employment  as a " bookkeeper " for the clients connected to  Roggia's firm. Margie's job was to deflect media attention by  monitoring  mainstream and social media accounts for potential leaks and new business for the organization, while secretly recording court hearings  and hacking  the phones of their client's former spouse in a manner that  assured a steady stream of income flowed  off the books in the form of ghost income benefiting the organization and its players.  Margie also reportedly did the books for Intero Real Estate's black market transactions, and for Tanimura and Antle's farming operatings where seed counterfiting  and human trafficking rings operated through farmers located up and down the Salinas Valley and in Yuma , AZ. where  divorce cases were rigged by Hoge Fenton's sister firm.  Fenton Keller.   

Mitchell Papers and secret recordings  leaked by attorney Elise Mitchell through  local process servers and clients doing " free consults"  reveal Margie  helped develop  a string of B-list attorneys, real estate investors  and other professionals  willing to look the other way, as she arranged bribes that would come in the form of equity in the family home, cash payments or " special loans" arranged through lending expert Shelia Pott, in Saratoga, or John and Tim Filice down in Gilroy, all protected in their criminality by Jeff Rosen, the state's most corrupt DA, who is always on the take.  By 2018,  judges on the take got special home equity lines that were paid off by attorneys appointed  by public judges to act as private judges or attorneys appointed to  represent children, where they incited conflict and assured payments to the enterprise would continue.

Margie (Burbank) Russo assured  payments to labor contractors, real estate agents and contractors  working in a blackmarket for Intero , private security companies  capable of spying on vicitms seeking help from  adovocates,  and local charities claiming to assist  alleged domestic violence vicitms, while operating a criminal organization and moving millions out of the home equity belonging to California families, and to attorney fees or payments benefitting  the organization.

According to sources close to Margie Russo's former husband "special bookkeeping services" Margie offered,  include arraging sex favors for high paying  clients,  and other  invaluable services  to the organization. Russo's help and that offered from secretary Michelle Harper, wife of vocational examiner Tim Harper,  as well as  paralegals in Walter Hammon's office , reportedly  paid for the operation of  Gilroy's blackmarket  real estate scams, human trafficking and pedo rings that operated out of rental properties managed by Filice and  that was funded with hard money loans assured by prominent real estate dedvelopers  Tim and John Filice , as well as Tim Fortinio who reportedly used  "Edward Jones Investments" in Gilroy to launder large sums of undisclosed investments for the enterprise. Powerful real estate developer John Sobrato took lead on funding pedo operations through Santa Clara University as connected to family courts. where SCU " Innocence Project " attorney Karyn Sininu Towery serves as lookout to protect the organzation from any possible threats. 

Settlment offers  related to another federal claim against  the  enterprise appears to indicate imposter Intero real estate broker associate Patty Filice and John Filice's neice , Courtnee Westendorf,  used  Gilroy's Glen Loma  real estate project to secret ghost real estate transactions and launder money through  labor contractors connected to Gilroy wineries and Salinas Valley's agricultural market. In 2020 the organization took in PPP loans made by the federal government  during the pandemic as the organization was stealing family homes, bankrupting spouses and profiting from the abuse of children living in Silicon Valley and surrounding farming towns. 

Russo is reportedly continuing in her criminality based out of the San Jose firm of Richard E. Glaze. 

Mitchell Papers and notes from Russo show that from 2002  through 2020, the organization first used Sheila Pott's connections at Washington Mutual and Bank of America for their operation, but then moved to  Pinnacle Bank , in order to assure loans to judges  were paid off by attorneys who demanded Intero real estate agents give them 30% kickbacks after judges ordered the sale of a family home during a divorce case. and appointed Intero real estate agents to manage those  sales. In 2017 unlicsensed Intero agent Patty Filice was appointed to the Pinnacle Board, where insiders at the SEC and Department of Real Estate knew Filice was operating without proper licensing to assure tranactions on the black market would not be revealed to the public, or regulatory authorities in a manner that would result in investigations that could reveal the organization. This all occured as Ostler filed his fededral case in pro per and caught them all off gaurd, 

Prior to the filing of Ostler's federal case, . Pinnacle Bank openly assisted in laundering loans, fees and home equity through the  community bank as funds were brought to the organization through the  bank's board member and top ranking blackmarket sales agent, Patty Filice, who joined the operation with the help of John Thompson's connections to the LDS church back in 2015. Thompson, founder of the Cupertino Intero franchise,  has been protected by insiders in the federal government who act as special invesgtigators and prosecutors for the DOJ, When these insiders are involved in their own divorce cases, the organization quickly moves them into private judging  before B-list attorneys James Cox, Ed Mills, Richard Rogga, Micheal Smith and court attorney Sharon Roper, who effectively act for the sole purpose of  concealing asssets from an innocent spouse and converting the home and business equity of community estates to the profits of what has become a criminal operation acting in the state's wealthiestcommunities during divorce, probate and custody proceedings.  

James Cox worked for the courts back in the early 2000s and while he was there he pretended to operate  as the court's Settlement Conference Officer. In actuality  Cox  was  setting up Silicon Valley's blackmarket divorce lists. This means middle -class divorce cases went to B list attorneys, and the wealthier families were ushered through the A list of attorneys which includes retired superior court judges. such as Catherine Gallager, Barbara Spector and Mark Pierce, all contracted with JAMS. 

Cox was  appointed in the divorce case of Intero Founder John Thompson, where Thompson  racked up millions in unreported fees from commissions, and PPP loans fradulently taken during the global pandemic. And while he charged excessive fees to the organziation's "clients", the organization's participants, including court attorney Lisa Herrick, former city attorney in San Jose, where she protected bad San Jose cops,  got special deals and protections for their children that were secreted by the court in secret dockets. 

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Santa Clara County  Family Court Presiding Judge Julie Emede has been protecting absuive cops since she worked in the local Sheriff's Department for the county's "family violence" programs. She protected cops who wrote bad police reports, cops who abused their spouses and cops who molested their own children when those cops landed in the county's family courts. Since that time , Emede has been protecting the judicary  and the Los Gatos police, while  working to keep anyone who questions a judge, dismissed as being either "crazy" or "disgrunted". Emede also is known to refer  the ex wives of cops to the  non- profit WomenSV, an organization decribed by a number of DV "clients" as operating more like  a training program for divorce attorneys getting more in fee awards just as  they were taught by Judge Towery and now Justice Mary Greenwood back on April 28, 2017.  

" When we got reffered to Women SV , we found " therapy" sessions run by this super creepy looking woman who was always passing out a wooden donation box and getting referrals for a private judges and DV case scams that landed in court assignments  before  Judge Emede, Judge Towery, Judge Arand, Judge Grilli, Judge Stewart, Judge Chiarello, Judge Hyashi, Judge Pierce and Judge Drew Takaichi in public court.  

Years before she became the first openly gay judge in Santa Clara County, Julie Emede was protecting dirty cops, celebrity sports figures, real estate agents and Silicon Valley tech executives willing to pay for justice. One Santa Clara County Sherifff Deputy, and former San Jose Police Officer got caught with child porn on his computer, and Emede helped cover it up as the cop entered into his own personal  divorce case. 

As former president of the local bar, Emede pronounced early on she would protect judges , no matter how dirty, from " disgruntled " litigants and lawyers who questioned the competency of any judge. Emede was involved in the second divorce case of Judge James Towery, and she knew his secrets, which elevated her power as  the county's family court presiding judge. 

Judge Emede reportedly  told divorcing couples to use Intero agent Terry Houghton to sell the family home. She thwarted the media when Judge Chiarello appointed  corrupt and incompetent minor's counsel that  sent a young girl to live with the father who raped, drugged and killed her ,afterwhich  Judge Emede told reporters from the San Jose Mercury it was fine, "we just missed the signs".

Attorney Kathryn  Schlepphorst , Emede's former law partner, continues to act as the biggest asset for the criminal enterprise operating in the county's local courts. She whispers in the ears of judges, keeps watch over referrals of cases, and looks for leaks that could expose the outright racketering that has harmed countless California families with the full knowledge of the state's most powerful lawyers and judges. 

We want to hear from families involved in divorce, custody or domestic violence cases during the 2021 pandemic. Tell us about: 

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Did divorce attorney Mark Erickson kill his wife? 

Did Judge Beth McGowen file false domestic violence claims  to hang on to the family home in Morgan Hill?

Did a group of divorce lawyes rig Judge Grilli's divorce to shut her up and bury their secrets or dead spouses' bodies? 

Did Judge Yew suffer from domestic violence, or was she lying to help more of Women SV's " clients in  wealthy Silicon Valley's affluent  communities pay Hoover Krepelka's law firm? 

These are the questions circling around the Santa Clara  family courthouses, according to Sharon Roper,  an attorney working for the courts who also appears to act as a private judge at taxpayer expense  for Judge Grilli's  and several  government employees during their divorce cases. This is what is really happening in family court in an area where Apple, Google, Paypal and Facebook executives  control the  flow of money to  attorneys involved in local divorce cases, even in a pandemic. 


What Happens When a family court judge gets a Divorce ? 

Mark Erickson's wife reportedly stuggled with depression, addiction and hormones as a new mom. In the early 1990s, shortly after the holidays, his  29- year-old bride  was  found dead in the family home. Local lawyers suspected foul play.  Judge Mary Ann Grilli had heard the rumors, yet  continued to  rewarded attorneys fees and court appointments even when she knew the attorneys she was rewarding  were heavy drinkers, pot smokers and suspected of killing their own spouse, 

Judge Beth McGowen was rumored to be flirting with a relationship with attorney Rebehak Frey when her divorce case was filed in 2017 , the same year Judge Mary Ann Grilli retired as a family court judge and entered the courthouse for her  divorce.  

In  2017,  Mary Ann Grilli, the judge responsible for more divorce attorney profits in Silicon Valley than any other, found herself  in her own divorce, facing private judge Sharon Roper  and attorney  Walter Hammon,  who knew all Grilli's secrets.   Walter Hammon, represented those in Silicon Valley who operate businesses in Cannabis, tech and real estate with dark secrets and plenty of crimes they are motivated to hide.

​For divorce attorneys in Silicon Valley profits come in the form of Cannabis cash, BitCoin and stock optinions. 

Every morning for over twenty years, Mary Ann Grilli left her modest San Jose home  on the edge of the upscale Willow Glen neighborhood and drove to the courthouse in Sunnyvale, California  where she was  protected by a small group of family law attorneys, court reporters and a court clerk, Jaretta Resser, who watched over her  to prevent her incompence from being exposed. 

Decade after decade wealthy and middle-class families from Silicon Valley's most affluent communities; Los Altos, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, and Santa Clara involved in divorce or probate matters eventually found their way to Grilli's courtroom. Little did these litigants  know that when they got there, they would battle for their children, lose their family home and leave without their dignity if their cases involved core groups of lawyers terrorizing families fueld with funds created as money poured into Silicon Valley busiensses and real estate. 

Divorce lawyers knew Grilli's modest home and personal struggles made her the perfect prey. For years, they invited Grilli to their office parties, but left her out when it came to those back yard parties that judges living in San Jose's  Rosen Garden area or in the upscale  towns and villages that harbored the families who started Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Paypal, HP, Oracle Seagate and  the popular streaming entertainment giant Netflix. 

Judges who live in the area where they serve attend church, farmers markets, charity fundraisers, schools  and other community events where the lawyers living around them slowly influence them to  rule in favor of their clients and fee requests that line their pockets.  Judge Grilli didn't golf, wasn't connected to the more affluent communites and was otherwise socially  awkward. She made the perfect mark for the area lawyers to manipulate and corrupt. 

​In the late 1990s, parents rose up and protested Grilli using court orders to take their children and family wealth.   Lawyers entrenched in the area, protected Grilli from the state's judicial watchdog, the Commission on Judicial Performance. Local politicans who felt  threatened by  voters facing Grilli in their personal divorce or  angry parents who protested outside the county offices and small Sunnyvale courthouse, doubled down on protecting what they knew to be corruption in local courts. Today those local polticians, Santa Clara County Supervisors Cindy Chavez, Susan Ellenberg, Mike Wasserman and Joe Simitian, and the courts protect them as well. Continuing to advance his political career on the bodies and finances of those who voted for him. former Supervisor Dave Cotese has become a California Senator, and remains silent on the state and federal money misused by the courts when he was elected to office. 

                                    EVOLUTION OF FAMILY COURT CORRUPTION 

By  2009 divorce lawyers appearing in Judge Grilli's court learned  they could  shove any order under her  nose, and she would sign it. Slowly she became indifferent to the lawyers who vioalted the law, clients who lied in court and "experts" who were virtual nobodies  writing reports with junk science and false facts designed to get the lawyers and experts paid.  

In 2010 these lawyers mastered the art of telling  frightening stories to justify Grilli's cruel and evil orders. Children were in danger and it was up to Grilli to save them with her orders.. Or so the former sole practicioner thought. 

By 2011, Grilli showed outward signs she was stuggling.  As she  separated  children from their parents in her court, her own son was in crisis and her marriage was falling apart.   Her modest home was never the site of the lavish legal parties attended by judges and the lawyers Grilli had so handsomely rewarded with attorneys fees. Afterall, fancy  parties were reserved for judges who lived in San Jose's upscale Rose Garden near Walter Hammon and other B list attorneys who used their relationships more than the law when it came to divorce cases. In Los Gatos,  Judge Roberta Hayashi leads lawyers to  busienss by rubbing  shoulders with familes of the  founders of Silicon Valley's tech and social media busiensses  from  her posh Los Gatos neighborhood and coastal properties in Santa Cruz County. These lawyers all knew 25% of the these tech and social media giants  would be ripe to increase their fees and prime to get into private judging by assuring to keep their secrets safe and out of a public courtroom during a divorce. . 

By 2013 Grilli was known by area lawyers to be so loaded on percription drugs, she fell off the bench on a number of occassions. Her clerk, Jaretta Reser,  had to proper up just to finish a hearing. Court reporters Stephanie Estate and Kris Tresidder  changed or delayed  transcripts to conceal Grilli's incompetence from being revealed.  Presiging Judge Julie Emede deflected the media and shifted attention from divorcing couples to the LGBQT community where Gay Marriage would lead to increasing business for divorce lawyers and bugets for family courts.

Grilli came to depend on  lawyers as vicitms of intimate partner  violence depend on their abusers. These lawyers were courtroom witnesses, they  could be questioned by the authorities or brought in as  witnesses during Grilli's personal divorce. So the lawyers protected Grilli, and Grilli protected the lawyers. Guarding  Grilli's secrets , these attorneys told  clients not to worry; "she just fainted due to the heat". They assureed other lawyers were appointed as minor's counsel and private judges so their cases slipped out of Grilli's court when they did not need to rely on her certain incompetence.  And by 2011 private judging was raging out of control and the lawyers told Judge Grilli not to worry her pretty little head about all that, she afterall had to keep her own marriage together. 

By 2014 attorney David Patton had informally  taken charge of getting Grilli to appoint lawyers to act as private judges in his divorce cases. He and his partner, Michael Lonich,  made secret deals with other lawyers to take over Grilli's job by acting as de facto judges where the rule of law was just absent.   Patton and his buddies had private judges Micheal Smith and JAMS retired judge Catherine Gallagher in most of their cases. Secretly Patton convinced Grilli that when she retired, her appointments would assure that lawyers would refer her busienss as a private judge,


                  JUDGES WANT TO GROW UP TO BE PRIVATE JUDGES FOR JAMS 

From San Deigo and Organge County to Santa Clara and Contra Costa, the job judges want most is working as arbitrators, mediators and private judges for the busienss known as JAMs. As a contractor with JAMs retired judges, and court commissioners, get all  judical authority , only they are privately paid. With pensions safely secured  these judges leave behind jobs where they are paid $200,000 a year, and get millions in fees as private contractors, and that income,. and the lawyers who assure it with a steady stream of busienss, don't have to disclose it. Lawyers who never were judges, get the B list of cases from lawyers bringing in middle class divorces that nobody will watch. Once spouses are in private judging, lawyers can drag out the cases 5-10 years, while working to cover up the misinformation they used on clients to get them into private judging by claiming it will be good for their case, and will be cheaper and faster too. 

David Patton exhanged cases with other law firms, where those firms would agree to be the losers before a private judge . Law firms such as Dok, Baugh &  Tarvin &  Amini, or Hoge Fenton, or  Hoover Krepelka and McManis Faulkner  were the main players in the private judge scam run on Silicon Valley families for decades. Smaller offices didn't stand a chance when it came to this corruption machine. 

                             FAKE CHARITIES FEED DIVORCE LAWYERS BUSINESS 

By 2016, Women SV founder Ruth  Partick, who had used private Judge Catherine Gallagher in a 2009 divorce case where she was represented by Jim Towery and Phil Hammer of the Hoge Fenton law firm, started to run a scam on wealthy women in Silicon Valley's most affluent residents. She took in public and private funds, acting as if she would help vicitms of domestic violence. Instead she became the champion referer to Hoover Krepelka, ADZ law firm. and  for solo practicioners including BJ Fadem, Nicole Ford, Sean Onderick , Hector Moreno and Jim Hoover, where WomenSV  "clients" brought in millions more in attorney fees and clients who could be duped into private judging. 

Ruth Patrick Darlene had mastered the flase domestic violence claims, doing it in her own marriage , and now teching lawyers how to get away with in in court and private judge cases. In 2019 Patrick Darlene moved her scheme to Orange County , where she began to work with the Orange County Sheriff , the local DA and court CEO David Yamasaki in ramping up private judge schemes in that area, the second wealthiest in the state. 


             DIRTY JUDGES SUBJECTED TO DISCOVERY IN THEIR DIVORCE CASES 

Like Guido Grilli , Beth McGowen's husband knows the dirty tricks lawyers and judges in Santa Clara County play,. he went to Monterey County to get his divorce lawyer and is prepared to push back after his case was forced into the same court where his wife is employed. After her divorce was filed, Judge Beth McGowen is rumored to have been working closely with Nicole Ford and Ruth Patirick Darlene by attending secret AA meetings to set up her ex husband on false claims  of domestic violence.  Additionally, Beth McGowen has reportedly been working with county lawyer Ward Penfold and code enforcer Tyson Green to assure she gets all the equity from the sale of the family home by Morgan Hill  Intero Real Estate agents who will be appointed in her own rigged divorce case. McGowen is being investigated for kickbacks she has gotten from private judge cases and Intero Real Estate who is regualry appointed to sell off the family  home during a divorce. Judge McGowen's former husband is well aware that should McGowen be criminally or civility prosecuted for kickbacks , tax fraud or her invovlment in a real estate scheme that steals family homes and children, his divorce case issues will be open for public view and for the taing authorities to address if the conduct occured while they were married. 


                  STEALING TRUST  - RETAINERS - AND REAL ESTATE 

Divorce attorney Walter Hammon had been caught stealing client funds from his trust acocunt. Funds sitting in attorney trust accounts shall  contain nominal amounts of money for short periods of time. In reality the bar does not audit these acocunts, the DA does not prosecute lawyers who steal from their trust accounts and clients have a hard time getting their money back or their bills properly reported. After Walter Hammon taught lawyers how to steal those funds and get away with it,. attorneys started increasing retainers to $50,000 and asking judges to dump proceeds from  family home sales  into these attorney trust accounts, where interest is not paid to the families.  That interest is being paid to the state bar , a state watchdog that has done nothing about  lawyers committing crimes and acting unethcially when those lawyers are big fee earners for the legal community. 

Grilli's orders got lawyers appointed to represent children. Once appointed, these lawyers then became  the spies for what has  become  an enterprise operated by men in suits and women in heels who  claim  to be " officers of the court".   Lawyers appointed to represent children are drug addicts  sex fiends  and alcoholics. Rebekha Frye used one court appointment to score free pot to pass pass out to kids in her other cases, She was also  known  to claim those kids had bad parents who needed a minor's counsel appointment. 
Frye is known for getitng sued for colluding with attorneys in private judge cases and for overbilling parents when she was appointed as minor's counsel. Frye is perhaps most netorious for represented a young mother in a divorce case where Frye lost the mother cusotdy of her children, the mother committed suicide and Frye , along with Brad Baugh collected $800,000 in fees in the probate case that had been touched by Judge Grilli. 

 For 20 years Frye has claimed local divorce lawyers :" own the Los Gatos police ". Meaning once they are in a case, these lawyers  they can manipulate  , or pay off , cops into writing false reports that assist in  proseucting false domestic violence claims while ignoring serious claims of real estate fruad, money laundering and tax evasion. 

Court orders assure  lawyers appointed as private judges,  or minor's counsel.  in a divorce case, get paid , no matter what. The lawyers get liens put on real property, bank acocunts and wages. If they can't get it there, county lawyers assure taxpayers will pay it. Frye earns millions a year in these appointment fees, yet her tax records give an appearance she is laundering money through her own real estate.


            DISTRICT ATTORNEYS PROTECT DIVORCE LAWYERS OVER CRIME VICTIM


Allegations of domestic violence, child abuse, money laundering , identity theft and real estate fraud that is made in and around a divorce will be completely ignored by the local district attorney who is endorsed and financially supported by divorce lawyers profiting by keeping these crimes secret in private judge cases, or in public court where judges such as Beth McGowen and Mary Ann Grilli were willing to look away until the statue of limitations has passed. 
 
Walter Hammon used his connections to the prosecutors office and Silicon Valley money  based on his prior representation of Drew Perkins, the man who founded the dial up to the Internet. Walter also acted as the invisiable ring leader for divorce  cases involving Apple , Facebook and Google executives who stalk, survielle and harrass former spouses to silence them. Less risky than having them killed and diovrce lawyers, and local DAs are happy to help. 

Complaints to the DA about public corruption connected to private judges, crooked lawyers and court staff, are routinely ignored, and often those complaining find themselves proseucted for bogus claims designed to shut them up. 

                           DIVORCE LAWYER INSIDE CHAT AND SECRET DEALS 

Jim Hoover and Donelle Morgan were known to tell clients they could get any order they wanted from Judge Grilli, or a private judge they regualrly gave free office space to in order to hold bogus and rigged court hearings. Mark Erickson's staff reports he secretly records his divorce clients  on his computer. John Hannon works to bury malpracitce claims against divorce lawyers.  Marilyn Moreno secretly records court hearings and sends those illegal recordings to judges and other lawyers where they are edited and used to spy on litigants.  Attorney Elise Mitchell pays off supervised vistiation professionals to spy on parents and Heather Allan schemes with Sean Onderick, and custody evaluators Michael Kerner, Matthew Sullivan. John Orlando  and Richard Ferry to plant  secret cameras in the homes of parents during home visits they claim are necessary to make their reports to the court. 

By 2015 attorneys Sean Onderick, Elise Mitchell, Valerie Houghton,  Annie Fortino, Natalie Daprile,  Heather Allan , BJ Fadem,  and Nicole  Ford  began  to manage expansions for attorney appointments for lawyers acting in the " best interest of the child" . In those cases  Judge Grilli rubberstamped orders for supervised visiation, reunification camps and minor's counsel appointments. These orders made millions for  local divorce lawyers and the corrupt private busiensses who benefited from their relationships with Grilli and the dirty divorce  lawyers who protected her. These lawyers were creating a blueprint for counties such as Monterey, Orange, Napa, Sacramento , San Deigo, LA, and Conta Costa. 

                                        SHOULD  YOU TRUST YOUR LAWYER ? 

They met at bar associations gatherings,  conspire during their edcuational  MCLE meetings and talk about cases with judges at the courthouse, all exactly as prohibited by law. Divorce lawyers compare notes and information abourt clirent assets and calcuate how long they can drag a case out to get every cent. The collude to determine what lawyer will " win" and they scheme to get cases int private judging where they are pulled from the public docket and managed in secret private offices that feel to many like rape dungeons. 

They ask for retainers that are not very shocking , but once they get you in, they will bill for doing no work and you won't be able to stop them. They bill for emails and letters with other lawyers, they rarely bill for work that needs to be done. 

Thet delay and cover up discovery, they never request fees and they decide early on which spouse will be protected, and won't even ask a protected spouse to pay their legally mandated support, as it gets in the way of what they can pay in legal fees. 

They don't listen to client's instructions. They never provide information or stragegy  and when their bills get too high, they demand to substitute out. This is how the losers lawyers act. Winner lawyers stay in the case til the death. They are paid and allowed to put money in their trust acocunts, where it all goes to pay lawyers before families  collect money they are rightfully due. 



             PREY OR PLAY - DIVORCE LAWYERS WILLING TO GET PAID IN SEX FAVORS 

On his side hustle, Attorney Sean Onderick would get down and  pray with clients, as he and Campbell based Hector Moreno sought to bring in the "churchgoer" divorce cases.  Consistent with hypocrasy and lying, Onderick cheated on his first wife,  with a client,  but decided it was better to divorce  her than kill her as Erickson had reportedly done. Once in his second marriage Onderick continued his infideilty showing an affinity for  Asian clients who claimed to desperately need his help. Those clients, Onderick's staff quickly learned, would not be paying his regular fees. Onderick openly preyed on clients willing to put out more than money, and his staff knew to cover it up from his second wife, who had ins with Judge Towery and Morgan Hill attonreys Laura Perry and Annie Fortino, lawyers who brought in the money for appointments and fees from the Gilroy and Morgan Hill area. 

Sean Onderick's role in the Dirty Divorce Lawyer mob , was to  assure cases went to Heather Allan when there were children could be used for cash. The more money a couple had, the more experts Onderick and Allan could get their buddies appointed,. They used Micheal Kerner like a court clergy, where they pimped out court orders with his bogus reports. They used Richard Ferry as dragnetted from WomenSV and they brought in Bill Dresser to cover up any real estate fraud a spouse might uncover. 

For the beenfit of the dirty lawyers who protected her,  Grilli rubberstamped and approved reports issued by CPA James Butera. Butera's reports never had to be correct, but he had judges and crooked lawyers all over the county who benefited by how Butera said things added up. The dirtiest lawyers all wanted Butera in their high asset cases, when they were conflicted out, they had to settle for Sally White or Mike Thompson, neither of who got the orders Butera could bring in before Grilli and McGowan. 

JOHN HANNON FAKE MALPRACTICE:  COVERS UP FOR DIRTY DIVORCE LAWYERS 

Dirty divorce lawyers weren't worried about malpracitce claims. Clients have a difficult time retaining malpractice lawyers once a divorce attorney has broken them financailly.  When one is  sued by John Hannon , they know the case will be settled out for a fraction of what a client lost in damages.  Bruce MacLeod  defends any dirty attorney , especially  those from Hoover Krepelka who were openly committing fraud on the court where Judge Grilli and Judge Beth Mc Gowan were concerned.MacLeod  is a leader in the local bar, connected to the local judges and parties in the Rose Garden, Los Gatos and Los Altos in a manner that assures no judge will rule against him and the dirty lawyers he represents. 

For a time . the lawyers from Hoover Krepelka who appeared before McGowen, appeared especially protected after it became clear that she had a hard time undertsanding math and complex financial cases typical in Silicon Valley such that she quickly became known as the Blonde Bimbo of the Bench in Santa Clara County. Malpractice lawyers use the dumb judge defense and it works every time. 

Grilli  and McGowan made sure the lawyers were protected by never reporting them to the bar, nor sanctioning the ones who protected them from discipline or recall Lawyers appointed by Grilli gained traction with other judges including Hayashi, Weinstein , Towery,  Cynthia Lee. and Staurt Scott , a former prosecutor who never saw a skirt in his court he didn;t talk about wanting to lift up .  Judges Julie Emede and Lori Pegg, publically staked a claim in the LGBQT community, where Walter Hammon could help cover up the embarrassment tech executives faced when their personal lives and  the gender preferences  of their children were revealed in open court. It is costly to pay to not be embarrassed. 

INTERO REAL ESTATE DIVORCE : JOHN THOMPSON STEALING FAMILY HOMES TO PAY HIS CHILD SUPPORT

Private judge James Cox set his sights on the divorce case of Intero Real estate founder John Thompson, which Cox was appointed to in 2015.  As that case raged on , other private judges started appointing Intero Real Estate agents to sell family homes during divorce cases.  connected to Gilroy, Morgan Hill, San Jose, Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Gatos, where equity of $1 milion was the target of lawyers and private judges as the source of their fees.Commissions for these sales went to Intero, often leaving our competitive agents from Coldwell Banker, Compass, Alan Pinel and Sereno. 

Court appointments for private judges meansremoving the case from public court. These dockets are to remain public, but the lawyers have conspired  to secret the docket so the public, and the press , is  not  able to see what was happening in cases that involve so many of Silicon Valley's secrets. Other judges began to follow Judge Griili's lead when it came to not following the law for private judges in divorce cases. Judge Mary Greenwood turned a blind eye as she, Judge Emede, Judge Pegg , Judge Stuart Scott, Judge McCracken and Judge Towery ramped up orders appointing private judges to sell off the family homes to get the lawyers who supported and protected them paid. 

To protect their dirty deeds, lawyers in the area played various roles, but all worked to get money from the family home, rather than to protect it for the families who owned it.,  Annie Fortino used her husband's Edward Jones investment firm in Gilroy to get information for the lawyers. Jason Pintar and Constance Carpenter used the LDS church and real estate to funnel business to private judges. Brad Baugh, Richard Roggia , Jim Hoover , Heather Allan, Rhonda Edgar,  and Marilyn  Moreno joined forces with Sean Onderick through Hector Moreno's firm to handle real estate conversions by alleging or suppressing domestic violence claims to inflate attorney fees in a case.  They also  conspired with Bill Dresser on all things real estate to assure fees came out of hard assets found in family owned real estate. 


             CHARITY  FRAUD- DUPED OUT OF DONATIONS AND DIVORCE ASSETS 

By 2016 attorneys Valerie Houghton,  Rory Coetzee ,  BJ Fadem, Mark Erickson, Elise Mitchell,  David Patton, Jim Hoover , David Weinberg,  and others began  work with Women SV to bring  more fees  in cases where domestic  violence could be claimed  and family home equity would write the checks when signed by court orders.  This scheme reached from Santa Clara and Monterey down to Orange County where Weinberg has wotked with Tom Tuttle and Keith Dolnick to explan the private judge- real estate scheme to divorce cases throughout the state. Local  lawyers  set their sights on equity in the family home that could be cashed out and laundered through attorney trust accounts. Valerie Houghton  regularly consulted for lawyers connected to Hoge Fenton, and her Intero agent husband, Terry Houghton,  who was  known to get appointed to sell the family home after Judge Emede and Judge Grilli encouraged divoring spouses to use his " services".  These lawyers engaged in criminal acts that were disguised as " busienss as usual". 

                                         GRILLI AND MCGOWEN DIVORCE 

In 2017 rumors of Grilli's incomptence had become concerning enough  that  local lawyers could no longer keep Grilli  propped up on the bench. It was then that Grilli's husband , Guido, hired  Walter Hammon and filed for divorce. As Grilli fought a lawyer she had seen a million times in court, she  faced the threat of what she had done to families being revealed by her own husband and lawyers from the same court where she thought her secrets had been safe. 

Court managers had no idea what to do . Grilli knew the court's secrets. Her  divorce could  bring out her enemies. The Grilli home was pushed into  sale by Intero Real Estate, and court attorney Sharon Roper was appointed to handle the divorce as a private judge, paid at taxpayer expense.  Walter Hammon used the case to his advantage, he became a proxy extortionist. Judge Grilli knew she could lose her pension, and that the promises of David Patton, Brad Baugh, and Jim Hoover and so many others that she would  work in private judging after her career on the bench, was just one more lie. She was de facto conserved, such that she  lost her home. She  now rents a small apartment while clinging to the pension that she was allowed to keep. She is now a shadow of a woman who spent nearly 30 years harming so many other men, women and children in her courtroom for the benefit of dirty divorce lawyers who never looked back when they left her behind. Judge Grilli has gone inactive at the state bar, meaning she can't be a private judge or even continue to practice law. 

When Judge Beth McGowen's divorce hit the docket the same year  as the Grilli divorce, McGowen  remained on the bench in the same court where her divorce case was being heard. Kickbacks favroable to Judge McGowen in that courthouse are seen by the misuse of orders and fees she assures to local attorneys s including  Nicole Ford, Jim Hoover and others who run the private judge and domestic violence scams in Santa Clara County. 

McGowen's  divorce case has now entered its 4th year,. McGowen  appears to be doubling down on the fact that her husband had not spoken to others ,  hired an attorney out of Monterey and appears to be ignorant that  Debra Crawford, and Katherine Dorest are working through Santa Clara County attorney John Hannon to make sure the secrets of private judging and family court corruption  are not revealed in that divorce case. That would of course assume  Judge McGowen's husband doesn't read Jane and John Q Public. 


If you have a Judge Grilli  or Judge McGowen story or supsect your lawyer may be illegally recording your calls, court  hearings and meetings, please email us: CalJohnQPublic @Gmail.com

 

As mainstream media distracts the general public with presidential politics, and  bogus stories sourced through divorce lawyers, California courts  announce closures, as state court employees are being directed to reject court filings, back date ex court filings, shred documents and delay court reporter transcripts to secretly clear backlogs, and secure more state and federal funding in a post pandemic era.
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Whistleblowers in state court management report police reform cries have dried up investment in private prisons, and peripheral services for the criminal justice system so court insiders are looking to find investments in private businesses that benefit from corrupt legal rulings in probate and family court. This includes investment in medical services for mental health programs funded by judges ordering psyche evaluations on parents involved in custody disputes, accounting services for complex divorce mattes, and reunification camps and services such as Rand Rand’s Family Bridges and  programs related to Rececca Bailey and Mariam Gallindo.  For years these businesses were building in secret as orders from private judges provided a steady stream of income. Now judges and court staff in need of supplementing their  income are looking to expand their investment  in  these businesses, at the expense of harming families forced to access the courts in divorce, probate or CPS cases during the pandemic.

The Mitchell Papers have revealed a connection to a criminal defense attorney in Orange County whose client  is reportedly linked to a hack that found backdoor downloads running to clear court backlogs and collect data from court files that is being sold to private companies in Silicon Valley and Orange County at an unprecedented rate. These companies are selling off data scraped from the court files by sole source contractors handling IT in family, probate and bankruptcy courts with a heavy focus on real estate, California’s golden vault. .

Using mainstream media in the Bay Area, Jim Hoover of the Hoover Krepelka law firm is working outside of court with charities and private businesses to attract Silicon Valley donors involved in divorce cases to invest in these businesses and secret the investments from a former spouse by holding funds in his trust or moving them through connections he holds on various advisory committees. Hoover's law firm , Hoover Krepelka , is located in San Jose, and routinuely teaches lawyers how to obstruct discovery during a divorce of custody case.  Walter Hammon and his son Cory have been invovled in cases where judges and police officers have concealed serious fraud from not only an opposing spouse, but from the public as the cases are kept buried in sealed files, a tactic initiated by the infamous Phil Hammer while he was  associated with the law firm Hoge Fenton. 

In Orange County, attorneys Keith Dolnick, and David Erza, are reportedly working behind the scenes with Keith’s brother, Judge Jeremy  Dolnick, to assure private judge David Weinberg,  Judge Sarmiento,  and Judge Gaffney orchestrate the transfer of data through private judge, arbitration and mediation services used in JAMS cases  overseeing Silicon Valley’s and Southern California’s legal disputes where arbitration clauses are mandated in most user applications as well as attorney retainer agreements.

JAMS is a private judge- mediation and arbitration busienss that has expaned full throtle into divorce cases where information related to real estate, secutiries and private tech companies is secreted from the public and competitors when those assets are  at the center of a divorce or custody case. Erika Jayne, the reality tv starfrom Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,  is reportedly lining up JAMS finest lawyers  in her divorce from Thomas Giardi. The couple is reportedly shedding assets and real estate in thier divorce case as a shield for related bankrupcy and civil cases where Thomas' law firm, Giardi Keese, the firm depcited in the Erin Brocovich film, is facing bankruptcy and a flood of lawsuits from clients who were fleeced in recent years. 

Thomas' brother has reportedly filed for conservatorship, claiming Thomas at 81 is no longer capable of making his own decisions after plundering most of the couple's wealth in recent years. Civil suits are being filed agianst the lawyer and his partners, along with a federal bankrupcy filing, all of which  is complicating the divorce. JAMS insiders claim Ms. Jayne is getting help from lawyers at JAMS in protecting and concealing assets from plaintiffs in those suits.  
 
Open Court

During the pandemic, Judges in all California courts are pressuring litigants to use mediation and settlement options, where information is being secretly collected and stored through Zoom and Microsoft meetings.  Judges prefer getting cases out of the courtrooms as the pandemic has resuled in their courtrooms  being recorded on public access lines. Sharon Roper, who was brought into the Santa Clara County courts as former CEO David Yamasaki departed, is reportedly gathering information on real estate and securities involved in  family law cases in Santa Clara where judges are sending her cases under the auspices of being a “Settlement Conference “ Officer.

Orange County CEO David Yamasaki, who was formerly in Santa Clara where he contracted much of California’s court IT sole source contractors, has been found to be brokering private investor and VC firm deals for private investments that will provide staggering returns for judges and their family members who invest in a manner that avoids financial disclosure laws. Yamasaki was reportedly stealing construction and landscape materials for his personal use during the building of the new county family courthouse. Court staff believed to have leaked information related to court corruption, are now being laid off or furloughted during the pandemic in retalation for reporting Yamasaki's theft. 

According to the Mitchell Papers leaked by Santa Clara County family law attorney Elise Mitchell, Maggie Desmond of Hoge Fenton in San Jose, is curating lists of potential private donors obtained from court files secretly collected by court attorney Sharon Roper in settlement or private judging sessions. The information is being curated into lists of real estate holdings disclosed in all family and probate cases, that can be sold off by a single judge’s order.  The lists show thousands of homes being sold off in the San Francisco Bay Area and Orange County communities for pennies on the dollar and secreted during court closures blamed on the pandemic.

As court insiders prepare for the end of the pandemic and courts are forced to reopen for business, a flood of unlawful detainer cases are expected to be bundled into loan packages for private investors willing to prey on the misfortune of those displaced from housing during a divorce, probate or custody dispute.

The Mitchell Papers link court CEO Rebecca Fleming more closely to the corruption. Fleming came to the courts in Santa Clara to replace Yamasaki back in 2017, as he moved to Orange County. Fleming was charged with silencing protestors, securing sole source IT contracts and plugging leaks from court employees with the help of the president of the Court Employee Association, who currently has a divorce and custody case in Santa Clara before Judge Towery. As that matter was pending, Fleming has reportedly used court employee information, with cross reference to social media accounts, to determine which employees might reach out to reporters or government officials to expose in a manner that would excpose the  private investment scam. 
 
Grandma’s House Get's  Sold- Collusion with County Government

As counties across the state face financial troubles brought on the pandemic. new property tax laws in California will greatly shift wealth from families as counties begin taxing  properties inherited when grandma and grandpa die. Courts are collecting  Santa Clara County COVID data and court files to cross reference properties likely to be sold off in a probate or divorce case well in advance of unlawful detainer, tax liens or bank algorithms detect financial distress so these properties can be bundled as a preinvestment package. Data collected from these cross references are also alerting counites to programs that can detect potential revenue from code enforcement violations counties are using to cash in on revenue to fill budget shortfalls. 
 
During the pandemic, courts are appearing to be largely closed, but judges are continuing to issue orders that remove families from  properties in advance of those properties  being bundled into  loan and security packages for investors.
 
Criminal defense law firms, working through Monterey County attorney William Crawford, and Orange County lawyers,  are reportedly orchestrating data collection through notices for court appearances that are being required by Zoom or audio access during the pandemic. Data from phones used to call into these proceedings is being collected by prosecutors and government lawyers where counties are required to provide  legal services at taxpayer expense. These lists are being packaged for investors eyeing law firms shifting focus to white collar crimes, where  prosecutions  for these crimes are expected to increase following the recent US Capitol riots and summer protects related to Black Lives Matters, after being ignored for decades. 

Los Altos based charity founder Ruth Patrick Darlene has been reportedly working with the ADZ law firm, Jim Hoover, Keith Dolnick, Mark Erickson,  Debra Crawford, Nicole Ford, Sean Onderick and Bill Dresser, to collect data for real estate and security investors. Ruth has been collecting this data since 2009 when she invested $4 million, she took from a bank account prior to her own divorce case that was held before private judge Catherine Gallagher. Through JAMS, she is now actively linked to Orange County family courts and probation where she is generating referrals for lawyers in that area. 

Aftrer using the $4 million Ruth stole from her ex-husband by making false domestic violence cliams against him, Ruth became indispensable to investors in Silicon Valley as she has spent the last 10 years gathering data from Silicon Valley’s most affluent families while operating a sham non- profit, WomenSV, a charity claiming to provide services for women involved in domestic violence matters in the area’s wealthiest communities. Ruth reached out to private businesses and real estate developers under the guise of seeking donations, when she was actually collecting data on the state’s wealthiest landowners and potential investors.

Data collected by Ruth has been used to point investors to distressed properties years before banks become aware of risky loans and commercial real estate investments. Ruth also was known to work with brokers on SEC matters that were secreted during family law matters handled by large firms during complex divorce cases.

In the name of “therapy “and support, Ruth, along with attorneys Nicole Ford, Sean Onderick , Elise Mitchell, David Patton  and Jim Hoover have been rushing women claiming to be victims of domestic violence through the charity and private law firms where their assets are identies are  sold off in “reinvestment packages "Ruth helps broker with the help of Los Altos based politicians, accountants and school administrators.

The recent presidential election has brought a change to party rule, with Democrats controlling the house, senate and White House. In California, the power grab for democrats is creeping through the courts and legal systems from Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Francisco, to Orange and San Diego, areas that once were predominately Republican , but that are now being “displaced”  as the new power regime weaves into the courts that are more political than lawful. 

Spouses involved in divorce or custody cases often find their ex making false claims of domestic violence. Common responses are: "they are lying!"

Lies are more often than not motivated by greedy divorce lawyers who pad their bills, incite conflict and cash in big. These lawyers  also appear to be linked to charities raking in large donations and court connections that allow them to cash in on advancing  false domestic violence claims, as real crimes involving domestic violence go under protected by the local DA and family courts getting federal money to help victims. 

Family Code Section 3044, or a finding of domestic violence,  in a divorce or custody case adds anywhere from $50-$150,000 in attorney fees in Santa Clara County. Contrast that to the $5,000 in fees paid out in fees in a typical case in Sacramento,  According to the papers leaked by attorney Elise Mitchell from Maggie at the San Jose law firm Hoge Fenton,  three non-profit groups are teaching lawyers how to succeed in getting judges to make findings of domestic violence., in order to  maximize profits for a core group of divorce lawyers,. 

WEAVE, a non-profit largely working in the Sacramento Area, hosts a board chocked full of  representatives from Sutter Health , Kaiser,  Wells Fargo Bank and  board president, Ashley West, an attorney specializing in real estate and corporate law. Divorce lawyers in Sacramento have reportedly used this group to obtain clients and court orders, as representatives from WEAVE regularly  train judges on how to make rulings that make lawyers very wealthy. Insiders claim individuals connected to WEAVE  use medical and financial information to maximize fees lawyers can charge in domestic violence cases. 

Insiders report WEAVE is linked to UC Berkeley feminist Nancy Lemmon, who reportedly has  developed trainings for lawyers and judges that make false domestic violence claims very lucrative, leaving victims with valid claims silenced. Lemmon was involved in the high profile domestic violence case involving Elena Berg, a case that got her national recognition from the American Bar Association in 2013. Men and women seeking help from WEAVE report some support groups and advocate services that have been helpful, but when l;awyers are invovled, the help becomes more blurred and less assured. 

Lemmon now heads the Family Violence Appellate Project, where she is setting dangerous case law that does more to help lawyers get rich than provide services that help   survivors of domestic violence. Lemmon is known for her "feminist approach" which shos a pattern of taking  cases involving wealthy targets while doing little for middle-class and poor victims trying to get help from the charity. 

By contrast, women seekin'g services from Ruth Patrick Darlene and the Santa Clara County non- profit Women SV fare the worst. Mitchell Papers show that during her own divorce, Ruth mastered the art of false domestic violence claims, having her husband arrested by reporting he had heavy arlitery buried in the yard of the family home. Many of Ruth's claims appear to have been set up with the help of infamous attorney Phil Hammer and the law firm Hoge Fenton. Ruth attracks prosective DV vicitms to her non- profit, by leading them to beleilve she was a victim of doemstic violence herself. She wasn't. She has however struggled with mental health issues following the suicide of her own mother after a series of financial struggles. Many worry she has become increasingly dangerous as she gets more connected to the local legal community and appears to be set on making money and being apart of the Silicon Valley affluent. 

In a virtual playbook,  Elise Mitchell has decribed how Ruth Patrick teaches lawyers to make false claims of domestic violence that will stick in court. Meanwhile,  real vicitms appear to be used as test subjects to gather more donations as she  conceals her personal goals. Ruth also has reportedly been operating her charity for the benefit of attorneys BJ Fadem, formerly her/ now he, Nicole Ford, Sean Onderick, Hector Moreno, Jim Hoover,  Bill Dresser., John Hannon and Organge County div0rce lawyer Kieth Dolnick. 

How Do They Do It ? 

People seeking services from domestic violence support groups claim that when they are referred to WEAVE or WOMENSV, they go through an in- take process. WEAVE'S process involves forms and screening to get to " support groups", Ms. Patrick is the in- take for WomenSV. Only women of means sufficent to attract powerful divorce lawyers are passed on to support groups run as " meetings" at WomenSV, with Ruth's approval. 

In Silicon Valley, it  begins with a "meeting", where Ruth claims she is testing to see if a "victim " is right for the group. During the week following the meeting Ruth checks potential client's social media, hunts down neighbors and friends and backgrounds finances to determine how much a case will produce in the way of fees for lawyers she regualry refers in  the Bay Area, and Organge County. She also consults with lawyers in the area to alert them to a potential new case. 

Once "victims " are accepted into the Women SV group, they find weekly meetings where Ruth invites guest speakers to groom potential clients for law firms who give Ruth and her supporters kickbacks in the form of charity donations and referrals., 

Vicitms report attending meetings where articles on doemstic violence are reviewed, or lawyers  speak, but provide little helpful information. In the cases where the most money is available , Ruth offers court watching and " support services"., though she has no formal training in theraphy to provide mental health services needed for depression and anxiety that typically  plague vicitms facing the family court proceedings that can linger for years.  

Most  women reaching out to WomenSV are told the group provides support for vicitms of domestic violence. Within the first few group meetings these women report they are given no services, but merely attend meetings where they are pressured to fundraise and use certain lawyers for their own divorce case., Nicole Ford, Sean Onderick and Jim Hoover getting the majority of support from the charity and the individuals operating it,.

Ruth also uses the group to test which women will lie in court and stick to a narraitve that earns pricy lawyers " wins" in court. When a "victim"  isn't willing to lie or play along with the false claims narraitive , they begin losing in court and are eventually evicted from the group. . Ruth Patrick Darlene is known to stalk place women in her group under surveilance for the beenfit of lawyers and court appointed experts who use information she provides agianst them in court. For her part Ruth is rewarded with policial appointments, inflated donations or " educational contracts" with the courts and law enforcement agencies. 

Under the pretense of " education" Ruth aligns herself with law enforcement agencies , not to train or educate, but to get information and manipulate police reports for the benefit of divorce  lawyers. 

"Victims " report being terriorized by Ruth who tells them their ex is spying on them, montioring their phones,  tracking them with GPS and high tech listening devices. Once these vicitms are sufficently frightened, Ms. Patrick Darlene, convinces these vicitms to hand over confidential medical records and private files that are then provided to lawyers for their ex spouses to use agianst them in court. Ms. Patrick also provides illegal recordings that are used to gaslight the very vicitms she cliams to help.  

Falsely claiming to have served thousands of vicitms of doemstic violence, most women seeking help from WomenSV report  Ruth never provided any services intially promised, and abandons them when they lose in court. Noting they make a  few contacts, all "victims" are eventually  evicted once they cease to genderate fees for local lawyers or no longer have the funds to support the local DA's political campaigns. 

Aligning with DAs and local law enforcement is a pattern seen in all these non- profits. None of these efforts appear to have  increased protections for domestic violence vicitms , as realted family law cases drag out for as long as 10 years only making lawyers associated with Ms. Patrick very welathy. 

Men and women seeking help in domestic violence cases quickly find incompetent or corrupt lawyers. Good lawyers immediately assist in filing a temporary restraining order, request, support and attorney fees then  settle a case qucikly, with the doemstic violence being allowed to cool down so spouses can safely go their separate ways. 

Lawyers connected to these non- profits appear to take a different approach. They know the first spouse to srike and obtain a police report , wins all and will drag cases out for years, usually toi conceal serious crimes being committed by the spous e able to pay the lawyers the most money. It works like a bribe. Lawyers willing to drag out family law cases and bury criminal acts work through Ruth Patrick and other charities posing to assist vicitms of domestic violence. 

Women who seek support from these non-profits who are deemed to be the " losers" early on in a case will find divorce lawyers absuing them , yelling and threatening to withdraw to increase the emotional trauma.  They sell off houses to get paid, or attach liens to any property that suvives  the family court. They consult with opposing lawyers and trade wins and losses based on the judge assigned to a case. 

Men can actually be vicitms of domestic violence case well, These non-profits offer them no help and actively seek to discourage them. Societal shame usually finds these men paying huindreds of thousands of dollars to defend false cliams, while their male absuive counterparts find safe habor with absuive judges and lawyers dominating the family courts. 


NO JURY - JUDGE DOESN'T LOOK AT EVIDENCE 

In family court there is no jury. The laws are not followed and evidence  is often made u, or not even reviewd by a single judge who will be lunching with lawyers on one side at the lunch hour. . Clients of law firms associated with these non-profits are taught how to edit video and audio recordings in oder to provide judges with false evidence to justify bogus court rulings, Meanwhile real vicitms often have no lawyer or evidence of the crimes committed agianst them. 

Bills from these corrupt  lawyers quickly reach $10-20,000 a month. Spouses pay for busy work, bogus discovery and corrupt court appointments until there is nowhere left to get money. The law rarely  applies as intended because when it comes to CLETS DVRO and Family Court Findings under Section 3044., these cases are used more to make money for the courts and lawyers than to protect actual victims. 

Non- proifts also work in secret. Individuals working for these non- profits  claim their services assure information provided will remain confiedntial. In  fact, personal information and information about a DV case is being circulated to local judges and the legal community to generate more in fees. Worse, in some cases  victims  may not know if a former spouse is part of the group , or working with a lawyer part of this  nafarious network. 

​As for judges, in Sacramento, Judge Matthew Gary is known to rubber stamp orders in cases connected to WEAVE. Judge Wiley in San Francisco and Raj Chaterjee in Alameda follow suit and have been "educated " by Ms. Lemmon.. In Orange County retired judge David Weinberg has worked thorugh the Orange  County DA and probation to be educated by Ruth Patrick  Darlene. In Santa Clara County,  Ms. Patrick Darlene's ties to Judges Scott, McCracken, McGowan, Towery and Hendrickson generate millons in fees for the law firms kicking back money, donations, appointments and cash for referrals to cases that win big. 

Whistleblowers  from other charities, or  DV groups, such as Next Door Solutions and Community Services claim the corruption from WomenSV imposes  a monopoly on the lawyers connected to WomenSV , where  lawyers connected with other groups, rarely get awarded more than $5,000  in a DV case, compared to  lawyers connected to Los Altos based Women SV who get $50,-100,000 in DV case. Further,  attorney John Hannon is reportedly being used to bury malpractice and CLETS retraining order cases against lawyers linked to these non- prfofits.. 

If you beleive you were harmed by seeking help from a charity , or by  a lawyer who botched a DV case  or viable malpracitice claim- please contact :  Natasha.Rudnitsky@calbar.ca.gov or email us : CalJohnQPublic@Gmail.com

    Pillars of the community. They belong to Rotary, non-profits and are the faces on real estate signs all over town.  They publish newspapers, run local farms, invest your money, broker loans on the family home and fix your kid's teeth, but in their side hustles these folks make deals with divorce lawyers that harm kids and families involved in divorce or custody cases all over California.

Few people realize that by the time a divorce case is filed, a soon to be former spouse may have been planning to cheat their betrothed  long before a formal action is filed in court. Not the bedroom kind of cheating, but the kind that will conceal millions in assets, property and off- shore accounts during a divorce.  This is not a rich person problem, but an issue of public corruption where family court judges are in on the scheme. 


Divorce lawyers profit from inciting conflict between spouses. They mingle with other divorce lawyers to talk about cases and maximize how much they will make from them. 

Documents linked to popular Morgan Hill Orthodontist Bas Wafelbakker's 2017 divorce case  appears to indicate  Gilroy divorce lawyer Andrea  Fortino has been placing clients in private judging while her assistant, Melissa Tamayo,  stands lookout for Edward Jones investors and Filice & Company,  a Gilroy based property management firm supplying housing for what is believed to be one of the largest human and sex trafficking rings that provides labor to Silicon Valley teach firms and Salinas Valley farmers connected to Dole Food Company  and Tanimura & Antle. 

This  pattern is seen all over the state, it just has different bad actors playing crucial roles in the scheme. 

In Santa Clara, Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, families involved in a divorce case that comes in the crosshairs of Ms. Fortino find they are victims of false domestic violence allegations, and public corruption fueled by real estate fraud.

For years, Melissa Tamayo collected information on prospective renters and their employers while she was employed with Gilroy based property management firm Filice & Company.  This information was  used by divorce lawyers to move equity out of  family homes to what has become a rental business related to human trafficking cases that provide free,  or cheap labor, linked to Salinas and Imperial Valley's large scale commercial farmers. 

In 1996 Annie Fortino started practicing law in Gilroy. That  same year, Patty Filice dropped her broker's license and began to launder money  and properties through Intero real estate. Ms. Filice has sold over 400 properties in the Gilroy, Morgan Hill and San Jose area without a license for over 26 years and is known to give kickbacks to get appointed in a divorce case to sell off a family home.  Using a network of real estate agents and divorce lawyers Patty was a top producer for what has become a criminal enterprise. Top referrers include Santa Clara County lawyers Mark Erickson, Elise Mitchell, Jason Pintar, Richard Roggia, Sean Onderick, and Nicole Ford. In San Benito, Michele Hales is exclusively running properties into court ordered sales . In Monterey Debra Crawford and Rory Coetezee are bringing in divorce cases through former Commissioner Irwin Joseph. 

Most insidious are family law attorneys who get court appointed to represent children, but do little for those children and more for what has become a criminal enterprise funded with billions connected to California's real estate industry.  Heather Allan assures properties belonging to  families where she represents children, move through title companies such as Orange Title. Elise Michell, uses her appointments to represent children to assure  kickbacks moving through  Giacalone " Design " or " Electrical" as well as securing  lenders willing to write loans on properties brought to the enterprise through the family courts. David Luca, Michael Smith and Nicole Ford have brought in lenders willing to write bridge loans that keep properties in the names of buyers posing as strawmen until the properties can be converted to LLCs or other offshore businesses that launder the properties and provide kickbacks that help fund the enterprise and reward judges willing to look the other way.. 

Former Morgan Hill mayor turned divorce lawyer, Laura Perry, uses her political connections to make ensure Patty Filice and others in Morgan Hill can operate with impunity and where Santa Clara County allows Ms. Filice to operated without a license with impunity as long as she is selling properties connected to the county's family and probate court cases. 

In 2017,  private divorce attorney Sharon Roper took a job in Santa Clara County courts, where she began to groom lawyers and litigants to convert  equity in the family home to the pockets of divorce lawyers.   Roper,  and an army of divorce lawyers,  are known to tell  divorcing couples that using her as a private judge would be faster and easier for a divorce or custody case. However, once an innocent souse agrees, Roper and a mob will assure court orders force the sale of the family home to pay out equity to lawyers who kickback fees to the political campaigns of the judges who issue the orders and make sure lawyers get paid.

Roper is even known to act as a private judge in  the divorce case of family court judges who are in on the scheme, Judges Mary Ann Grilli. Judges Stuart Scott and James Towery are ripe for exposure for the private judge cases they failed to properly assign or control.

Photo (below) :  Judge Mary Ann Grilli divorce case before Sharon Roper.  

​Attorney ​Walter Hammon appears to be in on the most corrupt cases, representing DOJ employees, DA employees and even spouses of the judges where he assures the cases are secreted. 

If you have money, community owned businesses or equity in the family home, your divorce is ripe for the family court mafia. This is not a gender issue, it is incited by divorce lawyers and fueled by court corruption no mainstream media will expose.  Here is how to detect it before it is too late: 

• Look for spouses seeking to get equity loans in their name alone. 
• Look for spouses hiding money in bank accounts in their name alone. 
• Look for business cards,  or names of divorce lawyers,  or probate lawyers who may be assisting  a crooked spouse. 
• Look for detachment in social relationships- a spouse who is less involved in social activities, children's events or may even suggest moving to another area where an innocent spouse would be isolated from family , friends, and neighbors . 
• Check calendars for appointments with divorce lawyers, real estate agents or financial experts not previously used and where innocent spouses are excluded. 
• Don't sign quick claim deeds
• Look for money moving out of accounts, or missing from regular deposits. 
• Consider buying patterns that change and that may indicate money is moving somewhere else. 
• Check expense account records and make sure money taken from community property accounts is repaid. 
• Question changes in tax preparers. 
• Question all decisions not made or discussed jointly. 
• "Working on a Marriage" means an unscrupulous spouse and a corrupt divorce lawyer may be taking time to pre- plan a divorce. 
• Watch for cash and where it may be being hidden. 
• Have an escape plan in case an emergency order finds you out of your house and money while your ex pays a corrupt lawyer to abuse you in court. 

If your spouse files for divorce and drains the bank accounts,  or sets up a domestic violence case to get you thrown out of the house , it may be too late.

Here are some tips that may help save you from a corrupt divorce: 
1. Find others online in your area by searching the name of the divorce lawyer your spouse hires. 

2. Record everything - the property, how your spouse talks to you, personal belongings. (Best to pretend you are preparing for fire insurance because if you end up in  a modern family court case, it is worse than your home getting burned down}. 

3. Check court dockets and review cases of your ex's divorce lawyer. See if their cases are using private judges, minor's counsel appointments or certain custody evaluators. 

4. Look for patterns with certain judges- how long cases are lasting on the court docket. 

If a case drags out more than a year,. your former spouse has already put you in the mob. Changing  lawyers will only hurt your position so try to minimize turnover. From the outset of retaining a lawyer make sure they are willing to immediately file a request for attorney fees,  support requests and other orders to get your divorce done fast. Make sure you are clear on what you will get for your retainer. Do not allow your lawyer to write letters, emails or make phone calls that result in charges and no results. Note you will pay for settlement discussions only once and if it is so off the mark, know you are in trouble. Do discovery early and if your ex's lawyer does not cooperate, make sure your lawyer issues subpoenas and compels information you are entitled to get under Family Code Section 721 and 1100. 

If you find others from this site,  or other blogs,  don't tell your lawyer, or let them come to court to support you. They will be tracked, the lawyers are watching and talking and you don't want to be labeled as one to speak out about corruption, or you will face retaliation. 
Whatever you do , do not use a real estate agent,  or a private judge,  used in other cases you find on the local court docket.  

​The lawyers call it - "Pre- Divorce " planning and it serves to harm families and children more than any other legal abuse out there. 

Secret recordings taken from a conversation of divorce attorney Nicole Ford and Michael Clark following a Santa Clara County Domestic Violence Council meeting reveal a scheme being used in family court to earn more money for lawyers impacted by COVID. Meaning with courts closed, lawyers are attempting to use domestics violence cases to move to the front of the line and assure cases will be heard and fees will be paid sooner than other motions. 

FIRST STRIKE 
Divorce lawyers are reportedly working with bailiffs in courthouses to identify couples ripe for a false domestic violence claim. According to the Mitchell Papers left behind at a San Jose private school, divorce lawyers are working with clients years before a divorce case and setting up former spouses for a nasty and corrupt divorce that include a claim of domestic violence in the family court. 

Unlike criminal domestic violence cases, in family law a single judge, not a jury can hear a case. A CLETS DVRO will render a former spouse support less and struggling to find employment while being sanctioned, fined and discredited such that no judge will rule favorably for that spouse and few lawyers will take a case involving a spouse tarnished with a DV. 

Because family court requires only a ponderance of evidence not proof beyond a reasonable doubt, divorce lawyers need merely allege , have a client testify to those allegations, and a judge can consider that proof. 

If you get a DV finding, or FC 3044, you are 10 times less likely to get spousal support and may find yourself on supervised visitation with your own children. 

A court order for domestic violence is entered into the law enforcement database and will find the person restrained is prohibited from owning a gun and from most types of employment. 

Most alarming , these cases are generating $50- 150,000 more in fees for lawyers and appear to be reaching record filings, with little evidence they do anything to protect actual victims. 

Three year old emails, hearsay and even tossing a pillow can get folks subject to a CLETS DVRO these days, and judges are approving them for lawyers they favor. 

DRAIN THE BANK ACCOUNTS AND HIDE THE MONEY 

Hiding money is not a new concept in a divorce, but when the hiding starts years before a divorce is filed, a former spouse can be blindsided and left in the dark about what needs to be done. 

Lawyers will rarely tell their clients how a divorce can go, how long it will take or how much it will cost. There will be experts, false claims and lots of fighting until the money that was not hidden is gone. 

Jim Hoover of the law firm Hoover Krepelka told a group of victims at a WomenSV meeting that silent violence is otherwise known as coercive control. Meaning an abusive spouse may often hire lawyers to cover their real crimes and bias the local legal community with false claims of abuse. 

This control can also mean taking children and the family home. Money hidden for years before a divorce is filed is usually never recoverable. 

Divorce lawyers also appear to be failing to file fee requests and with COVID causing pressure on these lawyers, many are shaking clients down for excessive retainers for as much as $100,000. 

This often leaves an " out" spouse out of money, out of the house and out of luck when it comes to hiring a lawyer. 


LAWYER AND THE COPS 
Insiders working in local police departments note that divorce lawyers pay cops to provide information about court proceedings. These lawyers are then soliciting busienss when a case appears to have real property or cash in the bank to pay attorney fees. 

Several area police officers also appear to be writing reports, for a kickback, that will win in court for domestic violence or custody matters. 


COMBAT EARLY ON 

If your spouse files for divorce and you have not had access to bank accounts or business records, you may be out of luck . Lawyers will tell you your half will come later, or will be subject to reimbursement. Rarely can lawyers be hired to collect these monies. 

A spouse willing to hide money years before a divorce is filed may have been working with a divorce lawyer early on to rig a win. 

THE LOCAL  DA

In case you missed it, your local DA has the power to prosecute domestics violence and white collar crimes , but rarely does when clients of certain lawyers request an investigation. In Santa Clara County private judges have been ordering private property sold and children to be kept from parents as part of a scheme the DA has ignored for decades. Further, the DA us usually silent on family law related cases including DV, and fraud., which allows criminals to hire a divorce lawyer to cover up their crimes. 

Most insidious is that the Santa Clara DA told dv victim at Women SV that they know cops get it wrong, and victims will be arrested , but offered little support for victims failed by the courts. 

In Contra Costa , former DA Mark Peterson was apparently turning away complaints brought against CPS and police. New pressure is mounting in that county and Orange, after the death of a lawyer involved in a federal case arising from a divorce where crimes were ignored by the DA. 

If you have a real domestic violence case, or have been falsely accused in a divorce to get your spouse's lawyer more money, we want to hear from you. 

Email us : CalJohnQPublic @Gmail.com. 

For those new to the Divorce Club Games, there were some successes this week tied to divorce lawyers who were recorded and watched in court proceedings. Here are the top contenders for best crooked divorce lawyer shut downs! 

Monterey County- Debra Crawford #1 Shut Down
The fact that every family law attorney and judge in Monterey County is not outraged over the conduct Debra Crawford is further evidence of how corrupt and broken California's Family Courts and State Bar have become. 

Debra Crawford was a divorce lawyer married to criminal defense attorney William Crawford. When Dr. Annis filed a false DV claim against his wife of over 20 years, the Monterey police were called and the Crawfords began their legal representation of Julie Law, Dr. Annis' wife.  Once the criminal claims  against Julie law were dismissed William Crawford pursued Julie and reportedly had very hot sex with her while claiming he and Debra were divorcing. 

That  divorce may have been news to Debra, who reportedly became so enraged that she dated and pursued Julie's ' former husband after she had  drafted the Law- Annis Marital Settlement Agreement. When the divorce was over, Debra Crawford she set her sights on marrying Dr. Annis , which she clearly did not do for the "hot sex" William Crawford claimed to be having with their mutual client in their shared legal community. .

It is unclear if Debra was angry over losing a divorce client, or over the fact that her first husband's locker-room talk in the local legal community was more than a tad professionally embarrassing. whatever the reason, Debbie Crawford used the next 12 years seeking revenge. 

In what should have been a binge watch of Mean Girls, Debra Crawford, while  propping up Dr. Annis to play the victim in court, denied her former client income and funds covered by the settlement Crawford herself had drafted and filed in the court. Then  Crawford herself would use the courts with for  bogus domestic violence case , which was allowed by countless family and civil court judges. 
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California's State Bar did nothing about the Crawford legal nightmare, and litigants and lawyers in the community were baffled the judges allowed it to go on. 

On October 14, Judge Wills appointed Julie Law an attorney in a DV case where Debbie Crawford was the supposed victim. 

Debra Crawford is  reportedly raising hell after Judge Willis finally made a court appointment  for Julie Law to have a public defender in a domestic violence case where Crawford has been on a  tirade after recordings of her antics were  made by freelance journalists as seen here: 

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Divorcing spouses are dealing with COVID, court delays and pressure from divorce lawyers to use lawyers as private judges in divorce and custody cases. Private judge cases are supposed to be open proceedings but are regularly pitched to middle class and wealthy  couples as being confidential

Lawyers pressuring their clients to go into private judging are now being exposed to malpractice claims by former clients. A recent court filing in a family law case in Santa Clara County , submitted by controversial divorce attorney David Patton, is one such case. 

The malpractice / fraud case attached to Mr. Patton's family court  pleadings  show that Mark Erickson, David Patton and Michael Smith have been sued in a case where San Jose resident and divorcee Mary Lopez reportedly conspired to steal cash and gold coins with her first husband as they acted as trustees in a probate case together. The lawsuit appears to claim that Mary and her divorce lawyer, David Patton, conspired to use a divorce involving Mary's second husband to cover up her crimes. 

The lesson the lawsuit appears to show is that NOBODY should ever agree to use a privately  paid lawyer to do the job a judge elected to the superior court , and subject to recall and indictment, can do for free. 

David Patton, and crooked divorce lawyers like him, are increasingly being sued for getting their clients into private judging cases where backroom deals are followed more than the rule of law. 

​Yanna Sukhodrev of Donelle Morgan's firm has been sued by a client whom Sukhodrev duped into using a private judge in a custody case where the private judge was given powers to determine what parents should be determining outside of the court. 


Mark Erickson, a controversial lawyer, has been sued for malpractice and whispers circling around the courthouse indicate more are coming after Judge Towery,  Judge Scott and Judge Hendrickson recently began issuing orders against Erickson in what many believe are retaliation for Erickson being responsible for exposing the private judge scam in a case that was once before Mary Greenwood before she became judge in the Sixth District Court of Appeal. 
                                                           What is a Private Judge? 

Private judges are  commonly referred to in court as referees, Special Masters and temporary Judges, mediators and arbitrators. All terms designed to confuse as to what these people are and what they are allowed to do. A private judge is not an actual judge, or referees, but rather they are lawyers privately paid to do the job a judge elected, trained and subject to recall does for free. 

Private judges, referees and Special Masters recently have been charging  to to $450,000 in fees that are beyond the fees paid to the lawyers for the divorcing party. This money is often earned through confusing court orders that are actually just a scheme to covert home equity in places such as  the Bay Area and Orange County. 

                               Why Does My Lawyer Want me to Use a Private Judge? 

Simple. Your lawyer wants to steal the equity in your home to earn more in attorneys fees.  This is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that lawyers from Hoover Krepleka , McManis Faulkner, and Donelle Morgan's firm typically run financials on clients before accepting a case, and then these lawyers incite conflict. rack up the fees and cliam they need James Cox, Michael Smith, Nat Hales or Irwin Joseph to clean things up. 

Irwin Joseph, a former Commissioner in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties, known to be abusive and estranged from his own adopted daughter,  has been reportedly using COVID as an opportunity to drum up more private judge business that he operates rent free from the offices of Hoover Krepelka  in San Jose  and Rory Coeteze and Monterey. 

Katherine Dorsett and Debra Crawford also appear to be  using COVID to  prey on active divorce cases to drum up private judging business by falsely convincing couples during Settlement Conferences that using lawyers paid as mediators or arbitrators is a good idea.  Dorsett and Crawford are also using COVID to incite clients into filing false domestic violence and restraining order  as such cases are ripe for private judging and for adding $50,000 more in fees to the standard Monterey County divorce. 

Court files in 7 Bay Area counties show that private judging is moving more money from families to  the hands of lawyers, judges and court appointed experts than any other practice in the court. 

It is in private judge cases where one spouse can pay for justice and such that the family law case conceals criminal activity by waiting out the statute of limitations as alleged in the lawsuit against divorce lawyers Mark Erickson, David Patton and private judge Michael Smith. 

If your attorney tries to convince you to use a private judge, before you agree, ask: 
1. How much faster will a private judge be than public court and what evidence do you have to support that claim? 
2. How much will it cost? 
3. What happens if the private judge issues orders against my interest, can we appeal orders of a private judge? 
4, How much does it cost to appeal an order in public court? 
5. How much does it cost to appeal an order of a private judge and has that ever been done? 

If a lawyer does not inform a client  of the published decision in Hayward v. Superior Court , that  lawyer may have  committed malpractice and you should immediately consult with a malpractice lawyer, before the statue of limitations on a malpractice case expires. 

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​For at least five years Ruth Patrick was the blue- eyed blond Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen and private divorce lawyers Jim Hoover and Nicole Ford  used to bring in divoce case business, raise money for political campaigns and launder money through a non- profit known as WomenSV,

WomenSV is  a charity that purports to help victims of domestic violence. The organization is based in Los Altos, California and caters to  women in Silicon Valley's affluent  suburbs. Women coming to the organization are vulnerable, struggling with broken marriages and intimate partner challenges. Women seeking help from Ruth Patrick have no idea she is spying and selling their secrets to the highest bidding divorce lawyers. Some women have complained that under the auspices of helping, Ruth brought in private security companies and administrative help to get information that is sold to abusive spouses, and their lawyers for money that never hits the non-profit books. 
 
Grooming Victims to Prey On Them

Sally, not her real name, was introduced to Ruth by a clerk at the Hoover Krepelka law firm. Sally had sought help from Travis Krepelka for a divorce case and was told 
Ruth and her charity might be able to help. 

Initially Sally was told Ruth had rules to keep victims safe and to protect their privacy. Phones were not allowed in group support meetings and speakers were regularly brought in to teach the women how their wealthy Silicon Valley spouses might be stalking and surveilling  them. There were Signal and What's App for their phones, and helpful security businesses downloaded the victim's computer and phone data, most women never suspecting a thing. Many thought it felt like a spy class that was intended to keep them safe, few realized they were the ones being spied on. 

Under the pretense of " support" Ruth attended the victim's' meetings with their lawyers. She reportedly recorded these meetings and gave the recordings to the opposing spouses lawyers. There were pods of lawyers who came to the group as " guest speakers" and were really there to spy for their clients.

Jenny noticed Ruth's obsession  with  fundraising in Silicon Valley's wealthiest communities. Each year Ruth held her own event known as the Gilded Cage Fundraiser. Little did victims of domestic violence know Ruth was secretly recording them at these events and sending their photos around to Silicon Valley's most powerful businessmen and perverts, Jenny finally got suspicious when one of the private security firms Ruth regularly pitched in support meetings asked if Jenny would be willing to wear a wire and entrap men for sex , that would be filmed and used to extort  them in their divorce cases or political careers. 
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Two years into the group and Jenny realized Ruth was less about helping victims of domestic violence and more about promoting her social and financial status in Silicon Valley's affluent community. 

Ruth received a Jefferson award , and grants from the Los Altos businesses. She spoke at the Mt. View Chamber of Commerce and soon began making swings for the DA's political fundraisers. It was by early 2020 that Jenny began to notice Ruth was doing little for victims, and lots for herself. And the money Ruth was moving and collecting did not add up. Victims felt pressured to donate cash that was not  being reported. Fundraisers that made thousands of dollars in wine and art auctions translated to no extra services for women in need of help. 

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 Buying Off the Local DA

In 2016 women seeking Ruth's help for domestic violence issues noted Ruth Patrick became obsessed with Jeff Rosen, a local DA who had run unopposed in 2014. Ruth made appearances at Rosen's political fundraisers and appeared to make networking in the local legal community her main priority. When a criminal case is filed where there is a related family court case, the private divorce lawyers earn more in attorney fee awards in a divorce case. 

Jenny and Sally also began to notice that divorce lawyers connected to Ruth appeared to be getting more help from the local DA than other women were getting. in cases  Ruth regularly referred Jim Hoover, Nicole Ford, Sean Onderick and Hector Moreno to to represent women who had attended support groups where these lawyers were speakers. 

In 2020 when Women SV was forced to take their weekly meetings to Zoom, the women hatched a plan and recorded speakers Jim Hoover and the DA Jeff Rosen and caught them in their lies. They then moved into a Sting Operation designed to catch Ruth Patrick and her accomplices. 

In one WomenSV meeting, Jim Hoover told victims of domestic violence that local judges did not believe in coercive control, a factor necessary to determine a finding of domestic violence in a family law case.  In previous meetings Hoover  had indicated these judges would not rule favorably in a domestic violence case unless a victims had  the " right" lawyer. Hoover also was heard pressuring victims to go into private judging, where Hoover's clients could secret their abuse by taking the case outside of public court. The private judges Hoover recommended were Irwin Joseph, Michael Smith and Ed Barra. An audit of these cases show private judges issuing orders for attorney fees at a rate higher than elected judges, and in a manner that benefits lawyers working with Patrick. 

WomenSV victims who sought help from attorney  Jim Hoover faired the worse. Cases  involving Hoover and Nicole Ford , the lawyer pitched as Ruth Patrick's go to DV expert, saw the most fees going to opposing lawyers. In this case, Hoover represented a victim from WomenSV, but reportedly sold the victim's confidential papers to her husband's attorney. The husband was awarded the family home and full custody of the couple's children  shortly after Hoover leaked the paperwork and emails , a work around for formal discovery. 

A snap of their fingers and Jim Hoover and Nicole Ford could get information on Ruth's victims that they could used in court to take children  from their mothers  and to sell the family home such they these lawyers would earn more  in attorney fees. 

Bribing Judges 

According to papers believed to be leaked by Santa Clara divorce attorney Elise Mitchell, much of the money Ruth Patrick collected in the name of charity has gone to bribe judges in domestic violence cases. The Mitchell Papers show payments to Judge Cindy Hendrickson , a family court judge who was reportedly close to Patrick and who was elected to the bench in June 2018 following the Recall of Judge Aaron Persky. 

Links to Monterey County Commissioner Stoner and Judges in San Mateo are also believed to be linked to the scam. The Mitchell Papers  indicate  attorneys Rory Coetzee and Debra Crawford have been funneling money to judges in the Salinas/ Monterey area where the Monterey County DA and the state bar have received several complaints. 

Secret recordings from Women SV will be linked here. 

​For the past two years we have been tracking lawyers stealing from their clients and here is what we found....

A sampling of  over 1000 divorce clients found that less than 40% of licensed family law attorneys are providing fee agreements to their clients. When most folks hire a divorce attorney , it is the first time they have ever consulted with an attorney. It is up to the attorney, not the client,  to walk them through a fee agreement. Fee agreements tell a client what they can expect. It lets a client know an hourly rate and other costs that can appear on a lawyer's bill. These agreements also indicate if you ever have disputes with your lawyer, if the lawyer carries malpractice insurance , or if you will be required to arbitrate your disputes, If a lawyer carries malpractice insurance, it greatly improves the odds you will get paid in a lawsuit if your lawyer doesn't follow the Rules of Professional Conduct. 

Research shows these lawyers were the worst offenders when it comes to a basic fee agreement: 
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James McManis, one of the most prominent divorce, civil rights and First Amendment lawyers in California. He once agreed to help an employee of the Lunardi's grocery store chain in Silicon Valley. Turns out " helping" ,meant assigning an intern who had not yet passed the bar, and not issuing a fee agreement. Mr. McManis then had his intern try to get a back dated fee agreement signed and sent Catherine Bechtel  to court on the day of a hearing, without her ever meeting with the client. McManis' firm then tried to bill $10,000 for one month worth of work, the entire amount of the father's lifetime savings. Fortunately the client knew the law and McManis quickly settled the case. Knowing there was no more money left to milk, his firm left the case and got the job done. Other clients were not so fortunately. McManis was sued by a former client Brad Newman, an attorney who claimed McManis, Walter Hammon  and Donelle Morgan had engaged in unfair business practices during a divorce case where a private judge, Catherine Gallagher, was used.  It is clear that when it comes to divorces, these lawyers are some of the dirtiest in the business. Failure to offer a fee agreement is just the beginning. 

Christina Adames, once worked for an the Hales and Hales law firm. She and her bosses billed numerous clients without a fee agreement. This helped elevate her standing in the local community, where divorce lawyers. secretly bill and get court appointments that assure a judge will make sure they get paid. 

Leah Amini, once told a client to pay attorney Valerie Houghton in cash so the money would not be discoverable. Ms. Houghton had no fee agreement and used other lawyers in Santa Clara County to pimp out her legal services. 

Walter Hammon was so confident he had greased the right palms in the local DA's office after he was suspended from practicing law after his brother stole money from his trust account. No criminal prosecution for Mr. Hammon was ever undertaken by the local DA. 

Constance Carpenter got $40,000 in fees paid under the table by the LDS church, no fee agreement necessary. 

Jason Pintar  lied to the Department of Child Support Services in a case where he had no fee agreement. When DCSS asked the young LDS lawyer to produce the Limited Scope Agreement, Pintar just ignored the request. DCSS got tired of asking and Pintar went on to continue taking money from members of the Mormon church. Under the table of course. 

If ever a lawyer is only willing to represent you on a Limited Scope bias, you are going to get robbed. Limited Scope representation means your attorney isn't responsible for representing you in a general scope capacity. They will explain it to mean what ever they want it to be, They use these agreements to deflect  formal State Bar investigations This is also a way for an attorney to hide the fact they are representing a client. 

Annie Fortino, Laura Perry  and Jason Pintar have mastered this practice in Santa Clara County. Rory Coetzee has taken over the scam in San Benito, Monterey and Santa Clara County. 

Heather Lester, Katie Hooker  and Dominic Porino take the top prize for scumbags in limited scope representations in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. 

One of the biggest scams in family court occurs when a judge appoints a lawyer to represent children or to act as a private judge. In the later, when a family has no money, the local taxpayers pay the  lawyer's bills. Parents ordered to pay these lawyers, in addition to their own, are told this is in the " best interest of the child". With regard to private judges, they are told it will be faster and cheaper to steer clear of family court. Few people understand the cost to families, or taxpayers, for these appointments. 

In 2011 California's State Auditor took a look at this practice in Marin and Sacramento counties. The auditor found this practice front loaded with fraud and public corruption. To read these reports see the links: www.marincourt.org/data/audits/4.pdf

Despite the warnings, these appointments continue to be made across the state. Katherine Dorset, Debra Crawford, Heather Allan, 
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​For the past 10 years local DA's have refused to prosecute lawyers the state bar  found guilty of stealing their client's funds. A recent example, was San Jose City Councilman Tam Nguyen who was disbarred for stealing money from his clients. John Mlnarik, was suspended from proacting law for a year, but connections to influential lawyers connected to the the corrupt law firm Hoge Fenton and local bar association kept these two criminal lawyers from being prosecuted by the Santa Clara County DA , Jeff Rosen. Mr. Rosen was recently named Northern California's first #DAKaren after he filed a phony Whistleblower complaint against a Public Defender. 
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Help from from coders and those working to apply Artificial Intelligence have found that every lawyer ever suspended or disbarred for stealing client money from their trust account, has been given a free pass by the local DA.


This may be about to change after the FBI took up an investigation involving Katherine Dorset, Debra Crawford, William Dresser, Sean Onderick, Hector Moreno, Bradford Baugh, Jason Pintar, Dmitry Stadlin, James Cox, Ed Mills, Walter Hammon,  Lisa Herrick, Sharon Roper, Jessica Huey, Valerie Houghton, Nicole Ford,   Elise Mitchell,  Marilyn Moreno, Annie Fortino,  Heather Allan and Rebekah Frye who allegedly obstructed justice and engaged in racketeering activity related to California's divorce cases where billions of dollars have reportedly been laundered and stolen from attorney trust accounts over the past 10 years. These lawyers have brought in billons for cops, judges, private judges, custody evaluators, and lawyers appointed as private judges or to represent children. 

Private Judges, more commonly referred to as FAKE JUDGES, are reportedly responsible for billions being taken from families to fuel corrupt courts, supervised visitation businesses, which they have done with impunity for at least 10 years.  

The FBI is working with influencers on social media, reporters and whistleblowers in order to bring more victims and witnesses forward. If you know someone whose divorce case appears on these lists, please have them contact the District Attorney or city attorney. 


The following are cases published from the private judge list in Santa Clara County Superior Court. 

Family courthouses shuttered by COVID-19 has resulted in frustrated clients  firing  divorce lawyers and resolving their cases the good old fashioned way: without lawyers. Financial and emotional pressure related to the global pandemic has seen  lawyers reaching  for weed, alcohol and prescription drugs to self- medicate. The state bar has known of these issues for decades, and has done little to protect the public from lawyers openly engaging in criminal activity. 

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Ironically, a  Monterey County Sheriff Deputy has  reported Dr. Annis, the  husband of Monterey divorce attorney Debra Crawford, has been accepting cash payments in exchange for writing prescriptions for local cops, court reporters, judges as well as  the  elite clientele  of Monterey's most connected attorneys.   

Dr. Annis, who once took a plea in a felony criminal case related to overprescribing pain medications, is reportedly building an online medical business  involved in the  the writing of prescriptions, The business is reportedly generating cash payments that  are being  converted to his wife and hidden in attorney trust accounts,  off shore banks , and secret locations in in a manner that conceals income from the IRS and the courts. This allows Dr. Annis to secret income from his  first wife in order to  avoid support payments following a long term marriage. The practice of hiding money in a divorce case is not foreign in Monterey, or any other county,   as sociopathic former spouses seek to avoid supporting a former spouse, preferring to pay  money to their divorce lawyers instead.  

Katherine Dorset, Annis' current attorney,  is no stranger to secreting money or criminal activity in a divorce. Five years ago Dorset's own divorce from Jacqueline Lynch was fraught with an appearance of fraud.  According to  a former staffer of the law offices of John P. Hannon, familiar with Dorset's divorce, claims this  ethically challenged lesbian lawyer has enjoyed inciting conflict for her own personal gain, Dorset  has also had a hand in the county adoptions and CPS cases, where it is reported that Dorest has been using Dr. Annis to ensure children are drugged into submission if their parents find their way into family court or a CPS matter.  

Connections between divorce lawyers, CPS and local police are more nefarious than one might imagine. A police officer employed with the Monterey Sheriff Department described how they allow Dr. Annis to speed through Carmel Valley and turn the other way on DUIs or calls for service where Annis is known to be violent and erratic. Lawyers and Judges with money to burn use unscrupulous doctors as experts in court, or to assure a steady flow of drug prescriptions  to their buddies and to children in the county's foster care programs. 

One former member of the grand jury noted that the public perceives the courts and the police as functioning according to the law. However she was aware after hiring Debra Crawford with a $7000 retainer, that the lawyers simply take your money and put you in a system that acts as a machine only benefiting those working in it. 

" They make up lies, then they act those lies out in court, or in legal pleadings" , she described. " One day you have a house, a kid, and a life, and the next day people with titles, government jobs and bar cards take it all from you and you pay them to do it. No matter how much you pay, the machine is already working and knows the desired outcome is to keep you in the system frantically paying it all your money, until there is none left, then it just spits you out. Even the grand jury knows this, and yet you will never find it in a report, a lawsuit or a newspaper. That is how it works." 

She went on to note secret proceedings such as juvenile court, and private judging cases through giant criminal enterprises operating as legitimate businesses are the most dangerous. Add in that now courts are shuttered and only phone lines provide access to court watchers. In private judging cases under the jurisdiction of JAMS, Zoom calls secret the proceedings even more, as often no record is made, or the court reporter making the record can edit out comments that reveal the lawyer's and private judge's criminal conduct, She advises, if a lawyer wants to put your case into private judging, don't do it. If a former spouse is really willing to settle and end the family court nightmare, mediation will work fine, and that means leaving the divorce lawyers out. 

                     BEWARE OF LOCAL BAR ASSOCIATION ATTORNEY REFERALS

Divorcing  couples often think a referral to a lawyer from a local bar association is a good idea. It is not. These non-profit entities are formed by lawyers and retired judges for the benefit of making the most money possible for the local legal community.  They host parties and events designed to corrupt the local legal system, for their own personal profits. Little regulation falls on these lawyers who write the rules, get the court orders and secret financial crimes in their trust accounts. Wise clients will NEVER agree to put any funds in the black hole otherwise known as attorney trust accounts. 

Mid size firms such as Fenton Keller out of the Salinas Monterey Area, also connect local lawyers through the bar associations to other county lawyers, and even the state's chief justice, Drinking, partying and sex favors abound in these associations and marriage is weaponized to conceal criminal activity through litigation and spousal privilege.   COVID-19 has disrupted the usual channels of corrupt business dealings, and as a result, local lawyers are hitting the bottle, choking on weed and rushing to get illegal prescription drugs by billing clients for unnecessary fees to get their fix. If a former spouse hires an attorney closely connected to the local bar, odds are the divorce will drag out 5-10 years and cost 100 times what it would have cost to do a reasonable settlement as seen when couples take control of their lawyers. 

Local bar associations typically offer referral services and fee arbitration proceedings, These associations are run by the lawyers who are connected to local judges, As a kickback of sorts, these relationships result in lucrative court appointments designed to sell the family home and drain the retirement accounts of  clients to make more money for the lawyers. Once home equity and cash are deposited to attorney trust accounts, clients will rarely get it back. 

Those close to  Katherine Dorset report she has used pro tem judge appointments to convert  client funds to private judging, often  for JAMS or lawyers including Mike McClure, a " case managers" ,   billing hundreds of thousands of dollars to drag cases out for years. Names may be different, but in every county this happens every day. Clients are told a " pro tem " judge will help settle their issues. Actually the pro tem judge knows all the lawyers and they are simply evaluating community estates to see how much of it they would be able to get through custody  appointments, or lawyers paid as private judges. 

COVID- 19 might have a bright spot as clients are reportedly getting fed up with corrupt divorce lawyers and dirty judges acting as honorable members of the community. Since early March  clients have reportedly been firing attorneys  perceived as price gouging  during a global pandemic.   Rory Coetzee was recently  fired  by a client after after Coetzee had dragged a divorce  case out for 7 years, gotten  Mike McClure appointed as a "case manger" and then tried to get his client to agree to bring in Irwin Joseph as a private judge.

Irwin Joseph , a former commissioner in Santa Clara County, has operated much like Monterey County commissioner Catherine Stoner. Fingers in all the pies and the most corrupt cases are connected to these faux lawyers playing appointed commissioner or private judge, They rarely follow the law, get little done in a divorce case, but act in everyway possible to assure a steady stream of income to the lawyers who bring them cases. . These patterns are seen in every county where divorcing couples have home equity or businesses that can generate cash for lawyers, court appointed experts and private judges. 

Couples are getting creative during COVID-19 and many are talking and finally realizing they should be controlling how the divorce case runs, not the lawyers. . In Santa Clara County a Gilroy couple is settling up their  case to get rid of Elise Mitchell, a court appointed attorney billing thousands to represent the children. These parents have realized they can control the case, not turn their lives over to  unscrupulous lawyers who give judges power to not follow the law. . 

Attorney Annie Fortino, who works both Monterey County and Santa Clara County divorce cases,  got so confident in her relationships with the police and county DAs that her clients formed secret groups  and worked with her staff to begin exposing what she was doing in the divorce cases she was involved in that also had connections to the local DA offices related to domestic violence. 

After watching Ms. Fortino's reckless disregard to protect clients and staff during the county's lock down orders related to COVID-19 , clients and staff began working together out of concern over the mental health problems Ms. Fortino and her fellow lawyers were inflicting on the community at large. Mostly the staff and clients felt Ms. Fortiono and others in the family court could be inciting violence and harm in the community as had been seen at last year's Garlic Festival Shooting, where the shooter's grandparents had been involved in a divorce case with connections to the local criminal courts. 

In Monterey County, Dorset and Crawford are reportedly abusing court appointments in probate and family law cases where several reports indicate these two divorce lawyers are protected by cronyism rather than the  Rule of Law.  Gross mismanagement of these cases has put that community and its children at risk as well. A staffer of Ms. Crawford's noted that Ms. Crawford and Ms. Dorset have become so obsessed with social media during the pandemic that they search LinkedIn, Facebook, Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter to see if photos or comments might expose their criminal misdealings. 

Bottom line from insiders on how to survive a divorce during COVID-19, fire your divorce lawyer, and work out a settlement with your former spouse and get out of family court.  

Note: Q  will post samples of settlements and emails firing lawyers shortly.  To send copies of your best examples email us : CalJohnQPublic@Gmail.com 

 
Emily Q, the wife  of a Monterey County Sheriff Deputy,  claims her husband has  "snapped" under the pressure of police brutality protests. Now, he and his lawyers are willing to be a source  for this website to  expose  corruption that overlaps law enforcement and  family law cases.. By breaking his silence, the deputy has revealed law enforcement's Q Investigations, A Pay- As- You- Can  Master Class Series.. 

As reasoning for coming forward, Emily and her husband explained: 

" We sent our kids to Palma High School, but after one of our sons was raped, we decided to donate all our  money to the school's educational  programs.  One such  program teaches kids in grades 7-12  how to talk about sexual abuse, drugs and domestic violence. 

To show they were legit, and not snitches for the DA's office, Emily Q and her husband have promised to work to get  police reports and records for any and all cases referred by Jane and John Q Public. Any money they earn from  criminal defense attorneys, victim advocates or journalists will go to  fund their  legal defense fund with the remaining funds going to private Catholic educational programs aimed at dealing with the impact of child abuse. 

Emily and her husband have been disturbed by what they have been seeing happen in their own small community, but know that  even cops who shoot white, brown or black women deserve a fair hearing. 

As a bonus, the  Q Investigations reveals a  scheme that  has been so successful because of the universal fact that everyone lies and everyone breaks the law. When asked to clarify, Emily explained: 

"Look, do you always drive 55 mph on the freeway?  No. Not one car will accurately  register speed,  and everyone has a speed risk factor. For example,  you might be late for work so you drive 63, because you are thinking you won't get a ticket for that. If you are really late, you might drive 70 because you are willing to risk getting a ticket over being late for work. Or you might be so late that you drive 85 ,  then you aren't just willing to risk getting a ticket, you are willing to get  arrested. As Joe Tully says, " You are screwed from the moment you are arrested" and the police know it.

Emily recounted how many times she knew her husband had arrested someone because he was personally biased, or because he was working in line with the culture of the cops and the local lawyers and judges. She recounts many times when her husband witnesses or made an arrest for a divorce lawyer, at the request of a " client" that just wasn't warranted. 

She recalled learning about one divorce case involving Rick Antle, a big wig in the Salinas Valley with farming businesses with interests and holdings in farming operations  all over the world. While having a flagrant affair with an organic produce executive from Earthbound Farms,  Rick was known to have paid off cops, bank executives and judges two years before his divorce was filed. Rick was represented with Billie French and learned he had to discredit his former wife with threats of domestic violence restraining orders and unfit parenting claims, or Rick's criminality as a top level executive for Tanimura  and Antle, T& A. 

Papers from the Antle  divorce recently surfaced as part of the Mitchell Papers. The papers, believed to have been left at a Catholic high school in San Jose California by divorce attorney Elise Mitchell. The papers show accountings for payments to and from cops, lawyers and relatives of judges from all over California, but mainly for Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito, San Mateo,  Contra Costa and Santa Cruz Counties.  

Lists kept in the Mitchell Papers also contain the names , photos , websites and articles of activists or victims who pose a threat to what has clearly become a criminal enterprise operating in our law enforcement agencies and court systems. The lists show emails between former cops who now work as private security and regularly get assignments to investigate the spouses of high level business executives from Salinas to Silicon Valley who might expose criminal activity in both the  businesses and the criminal enterprise operating around the area's divorce and custody cases. 

Emily and her husband recounted how these cops working on secondary employment assignments cross the line to tap phones, hack computers and plant blogs and emails to discredit and silence the unknowing, or innocent spouses. 

Emily and her husband note family courts are not much different than criminal courts , only if you are really poor in family court, the judge doesn't have to give you a lawyer like they do in criminal court. There of course are no jurors in family law cases. 

So for the spouses who don' t understand they need a civil lawyer to deal with torts such as fraud , conversion and breech of fiduciary duty or civil domestic violence, where claims are tried before a jury, not a judge who can be easily bribed , so the divorce lawyers work over time to keep that fact a secret from their clients in order to keep the most money [possible in the family law mob that operates in nearly every divorce case going to court in California.  Several Grandmothers have been working with Emily and her husband to get important information out to families and their children who can fall prey to the enterprise during a divorce, custody or CPS case. 

The Mitchell papers, believed to have been curated by family law attorney Elise Mitchell show a complex scheme whereby spouses  involved in serious criminal activity hire lawyers, accountants and special experts to make sure they ride out the Statute of Limitations for their most criminal conduct.  Using   a sham of false  domestic violence claims, cops working for the criminal enterprise support DV claims by drafting false police reports in  domestic violence cases in order to get criminal charges brought against a former spouse as a litigation tool in a divorce case. One such case where Mitchell herself was appointed as minor's counsel for children in Gilroy, gave incentive for Emily's Husband, who wished to go under the name " Joe":, to come forward. 

The case got swooped up by the enterprise when Santa Clara County Judge Stuart Scott appointed Elise Mitchell to represent two young boys connected to the Filice and Giacalone families in a divorce case where the boy's big sister is half black and half white. When the mother in that case attempted to expose potential child abuse and domestic violence  in her family law case, Mitchell was brought in to "control the case".

Mitchell was  court order to be paid by both the mother and the father despite the fact the mother was put on supervised visitation, requiring her to pay hundreds of dollars a week.  Mitchell was known to regularly assure the father in that case, that she would get him favorable rulings before Judge Scott. The Mitchell case confirms this was more likely true as the Gaicalone case in the Mitchell Papers note payments to Monterey and Santa Clara Sheriffs Deputies as well as Gilroy police. Annie Fortino, Richard Roggia and Rory Coetzee also were noted in the receipts for earning money off the cases in connection with Intero Real Estate Broker Patty Filice, an agent  who pushes real estate deals in several counties through as a way of funding the legal enterprise.  

Mitchell's papers show Filice connected to lawyers in Los Gatos and Gilroy sits in a position to assure home equity ordered cashed out in a divorce case is funded to the enterprise through bribes, kickbacks and money laundering activities. Filice is also noted in the papers as being connected to Shelia Pott , high level lending executive reportedly  making questionable loans to members of the enterprise in cooperation with the Santa Clara County DA , Jeff Rosen, the government lawyer greatly benefiting from the criminal enterprise.  

Mitchell's own husband was recently overheard complaining that his wife's reckless handling of paperwork and office staff, along with a minor's counsel appointments for a Gilroy case with a half black , half white kid attending Gilroy High School during the Garlic Festival Shooting , is putting the criminal enterprise at risk of exposure based on the global pandemic related to COVID-19 and recent police brutality protests that have spanned the nation. 

Emily's husband authenticated  the Mitchell papers' , by confirming the  identity of the police officers who recently pulled over and towed the car of a ag executive's former wife who was heard on KGO radio complaining about the Monterey County Sheriffs Department.  These same cops are working secondary employment for  Apple, Facebook , Google,  Ebay,  and Twitter and those guys have been donating to an association to #SAVELOCALNEWS. 

YouTube Channels  are reportedly teaching a series about Rick Antle's Divorce. Attorney Billie French along with civil business attorneys Carmen Ponce, Effie Anastassiou and John Kesecker have been asked to do the legal commentary on that channel where they are going to reveal the tricks  Billie French pulled to make sure Rick Antle didn't have to pay his wife her  share of T&A and Agricoat, LLC  during their divorce. As a bonus Bruce Taylor's wife has been asked to read the series in a podcast as  part of  Palma High School's  educational series. 

Sources known to Emily and her husband report the largest amount of money is earned when the enterprise is able to get clients to convince former spouses to get into private judging. In Monterey Rory Cortese has used James Cox to protect the criminality of his construction business clients., and Katherine Stoner to protect the criminality of clients in the ag industry. Rory reportedly worked with Fenton Keller to  launder money through business startup and LLCs in Monterey , and Hoge Fenton in San Jose, where "Maggie " regularly refers unknowing spouses to lawyers who are not part of the corruption, and who will be precluded from the enterprise from earning attorney fees or awards from the court in divorce cases where the members of the enterprise work to maintain a monopoly. 

Emily and her Monterey County Sheriff Deputy Husband wish to remain anonymous in order to protect the identity  of their children and grandchildren. they were inspired by groups of criminal defense lawyers coming forward to speak out against prosecutors in a BLM era.  They remain hopeful that regardless of politics people will ultimately remember the issues related to family and community are universal even in the most conservatives farming communities such as Salinas, Gonzales, Soledad and King City, to the more liberal areas in Mt. View, Campbell, Los Altos, Los Gatos, and San Jose. 

Emily adds her husband is a good man and is a good cop, but he knew he crossed the line when he accepted pay or gifts  intended to buy his silence to protect the culture that has infected law enforcement agencies and court cultures all across the state.  Emily has more confidence that DAs including Jeannine M. Pacioni will work to change the culture in law enforcement and courts more than the Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen has shown to have done. Rosen has been the target of activists, journalists and criminals defense lawyers for the culture Rosen has created in the San Jose, Los Gatos Gilroy and Santa Clara law enforcement agencies where Rosen is married to a family law judge, personally connected to Judge Towery and Northern California Innocence Project Attorney Karyn Sininu Towery. Karen being investigated for public corruption in connection to her role at Santa Clara University , a private Catholic college in Santa Clara. 

Former wives, girlfriends, lovers, neighbors and family members of the four  police officers who set off global protests related to police brutality after an 8 minute 46 second video went viral want to tell their story. Several Los Gatos, California based businesses are gearing up to help them do it, 

The best divorce,  civil rights, criminal defense and business lawyers in the country are currently in talks related to the  the publicity rights of those closest  to Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane  and Tou Thao, the four Minnesota police officers charged in the death of George Floyd that occurred over Memorial Day weekend. 

The Minnesota Bar Association has reportedly been offered a joint contract with the First Amendment Coalition, and  EFF to handle all the attorney referrals for anyone whose story is published on Jane and John Q Public in connection to George Floyd's death or the protesting and looting that occurred in the wake of video going viral.  A video resulted in immediate firings and arrests of the officers holding a middle aged back man down as he declared " I Can't Breath", a statement that has now become the battle cry for a global movement calling for reform of law enforcement agencies across the globe, 

A  Los Gatos publicist has reportedly been granted the publicity rights for those whose stories are published  on  the Jane and John Q Public social media sites, or in the  Mercury,  San Jose Spotlight and  Metro News. 

San Jose family courts are some of the worst in the nation, Injustice in these courts is fueled by staggering wealth and power fed by Silicon Valley's tech and social media businesses where employees from Apple, Google, Paypal, Cisco, Twitter, Ebay, Facebook, Linked in and Twitter fund divorce lawyers, crooked cops and judges willing to ignore the Rule of Law. 

As activists, academics and duly elected politicians gear up to change the culture found in America's law enforcement agencies, and legal systems, publishers and producers based in Los Gatos California are gearing up to tell the stories that were never told leading up to the death of George Floyd and the young 17 year old woman whose video was the most viral in the history of the world. 

Divorce lawyers who have been locked down because of Santa Clara County's Shelter- In- Place orders related to COVID-19 are reporting staggering numbers of calls pouring into their offices while courts are shuttered. Calls are largely coming from police officers looking to change their wills and the spouses of police officers filing for divorce or domestic violence protection. 

Court filings in cases connected to police officers have set off a firestorm of journalists , content producers and screen writers reaching out to law firms and reporters as they look of how to tell the background stories of police officers that had been concealed from the public until last week. Publishers and producers of content that appears on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Apple TV  are working round the clock to capture the stories of the spouses married to the bad , and good cops , who have become the focal point of the world. 

Activist and politicians are reportedly working with police associations,  including those connected to policing in  the San Jose, Santa Clara, Los Gatos and Gilroy police departments to discuss training for journalists and those managing police departments. Reporters, academics, filmmakers and those responsible for hiring and training of police officers have long known of the physical and psychological threat police officers posed for communities all over the world, and duly elected politicians and local business leaders are looking to accelerate tackling telling the stories that happened in a culture of Blue Silence. A silence that allowed police officers to abuse those closet to them and innocent members of the public with impunity.   

Court dockets in Santa Clara County, where courts have been shuttered since mid March, show a recent ruling by Santa Clara County Judge Helen Williams that has   reportedly cleared the way for discussions on building a teaching and live-in residence  out of a former shopping mall in Cupertino that will become a training facility and live-in residence for tech leaders, law enforcement , domestic violence advocates and reporters to help better tell the stories of police officers and those who know them best. 

Judge Silver of Monterey and JAMS  has reportedly been offered exclusivity to lead the teams drafting all mediation, arbitration,  settlement and arbitration agreements for Apple, Google, Facebook, Ebay, Cisco, Yahoo, and any Los Gatos based businesses willing to invest in local investigative journalism. The ambitious publishing and production project that will expose the culture that lead to George Floyd's death. 

Sunday June 14, 2020, Jane and John Q Public will announce which stories are going to be published in 2020,  along with the nominees for best"  #REPORTINGWHILE awards that will be announced on June 22, 2020 outside the Santa Clara County family courthouse.

A rally calling for the Recall of Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen is also planned that day where the stories of the wives, girlfriends and lovers of police officers all over Silicon Valley will be told and victims will demand the resignation of Northern California's top prosecutor, Jeff Rosen, has exhibited a pattern of protecting police brutalities for his own pollical gain since 2010.  

Deadline to submit nominations for the 2020 Golden Gavel  Award is June 22, 2020. Nominees  will be announced in Judge McCracken's courtroom shortly after 1:30 pm.  A panel of 6 lawyers and 6 local investigative reporters will announce  Golden Shovel Awards for  projects  published or reported on prior to July 28, 2020. 

All recipients of the Golden Gavel, Golden Padlock  and Green Key  Awards will  be announced on July 28, 2020 and will be given to the  law firms and reporters covering the following areas related to police misconduct and officer involved domestic violence cases. 
Civil Rights 
Underground Law
Family Law 
Employment Law 
Agricultural Law]
Appellate Law
Real Estate Law
Criminal Defense 
Government Law 
Business Law
Trial Litigation 
Jury Selection 
Personal Injury Law 
Reporting While Getting Arrested 
Reporting While Divorced 
Reporting While Pregnant
Reporting While Single 
Reporting While Married 
Reporting While Walking Dog 
Reporting While Working From Home 
Reporting On the Underground

Few family court litigants will morn the recent death of Lynne Yates Carter, a divorce attorney who reportedly expired  the weekend before Mother's Day during the 2020 global pandemic and financial crisis related to  the COVID-19..  Her death is shining a new light on family court corruption that has plagued California for decades. 

Of all California's divorce cases conducted over the past twenty years, what Lynne Yates Carter and Tracy Duell - Cazes did to Kathey Fyke,  the former wife of attorney Richard Falcone, ranks as one among the most corrupt and inhumane.  Lynne Yates Carter was never held responsible for what she did to Ms. Fyke and her little boy. during a 13- year divorce case. We hope Ms. Fyke and her son find some peace in knowing Ms. Yates - Carter was ultimately disbarred just months before she died. If there is a special section in hell for divorce lawyers, Ms. Yates- Carter is certainly there, holding a place for the others who are likely to follow.  



On  April 28, 2017,  three years before her death, Lynn Yates-Carter  taught lawyers at the Santa Clara County Bar Association  how to earn more in fee awards from local divorce cases. She taught the course with Judge James Towery and Judge Mary Greenwood along with Tracy Duell- Cazes, her associate in the infamous Falcone v. Fyke case, a case that weaponized the vexatious litigant laws and  allowed lawyers to steal millions from community property estates in the form of fee awards while covering up domestic violence, child abuse and horrific crimes former spouses attempt to vet during a public divorce case.  

Over the 20 years since Yates- Carter and Duell-Cazes acted in that case, the two are responsible for significant contributions to what has become a criminal enterprise consisting of individuals acting as lawyers, private judges, cops , court reporters and custody evaluators stealing  the assets  and home equity of innocent families during California divorce and custody cases. 

It is well established that as part of their racketeering activities,  these lawyers worked with Sheila Pott, a loan employee working for Washington Mutual during the 2008 banking scandal that assured kickbacks to judges and private owned businesses who are part of a criminal enterprise operating in the courts. .  

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The Falcone v. Fkye case became the flagship case for divorce lawyers and family court judges across California as it gave reason to drag divorce cases  cases out where lawyers and court appointed experts could earn more in attorney fees abusing the opposing side through acts of showmanship that had little to do with the Rule of Law. Further, the  case allowed lawyers to conceal the criminality and domestic violence patterns  of their high profile clients, the worst of whom were lawyers such as Richard Falcone and later Brad  Newman. For the right price, divorce clients could pay the lawyers to commit unspeakable crimes with immunity where their criminality was deflected by inciting conflict and attacking the credibility of a former spouse as the enterprise stole the assets at the center of the disputes.  

As early as 2002, when Kathey Fyke's divorce case began, her neighbor, Judge William Danser was  indicted for rigging the local traffic courts, His wife, Catherine Gallagher, continued the practice in the county's family courts,  with impunity,  where she was protected by the  local DA, Jeff Rosen.  In the years that followed this case, the lawyers honed   their  skills and mastered their  cronyism by getting lawyers appointed to act as fake judges or sham minor's counsel to generate more in fees for the enterprise.  

During her divorce case,   Ms. Fyke was forced to represent herself.  She  unable to get protection from an abusive husband. Instead,  she was criminally prosecuted by the local DA, Jeff Rosen, for taking $1 dollar out of an account frozen by a private judge as her former husband and Ms. Yates Carter worked to earn millions  for the benefit of the criminal enterprise who supported the DA's political campaigns.  



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While complaints against Lynne Yates-Carter and other lawyers in Santa Clara County had been filed with the state bar for decades, it was not until nearly 20 years later that  Yates - Carter's  would finally be addressed by the bar. . Insiders report Yates- Carter,  and other corrupt family law attorneys.  were able to operate with impunity because of their relationship with James Towery, former s Chief Trial Counsel at the bar , where he knew of the criminality of these lawyers, and where he acted to protect them along with the local DA. 


​COVID-19 DRAINS FAMLIY COURT SWAMP

A persistent coronavirus is locking down county buildings and courthouses and the criminality of the lawyers and judges operating in those public forums are  finally being exposed. From lawyers acting for children as minor's counsel padding their bills, to lawyers getting appointed as private judges, these crooked lawyers have been halted by shuttered courthouses and an inability to access the judges who keep their criminal enterprise running. 

​Lynne Yates Carter and her corrupt associate,  Tracy Duell Cazes.  wrote the playbook on these  corrupt practices and now technology used for COVID-19 contract tracing is being  used to expose the enterprise that Yates Carter helped create nearly 20 years ago, While most believe Falcone v. Fyke is the case that allows lawyers to declare a self- represented spouse to be a vexatious litigant, it is really the case that shows how Santa Clara County led the way in covering up how the lawyers are privatizing the courts and abusing children for profit. 

Contact tracing related  to Lynne's death has turned up far more than coronavirus super spreaders.. Emergency orders in the county  have closed the courts have prevented lawyers from  holding secret meetings that historically  provided an important tool for the  corrupt lawyers using the public courthouse to engage in their crimes.  This conduct has now drawn the   attention of federal investigators who  are looking into  family court cases where Yates Cater and her associates,  including Tracy Duell Cazes and Kathryn Schlepphorst,  appear to be at the center of the scandal based on their relationship with the local DA and Judge James Towery who has been issuing midnight orders to cover up human trafficking and corruption that would otherwise be exposed in the   county's criminal  and family courts. 

In what appears to be a deathbed confession, Yates Carter revealed more details about the two decades of corruption that has plagued this single county. . Once she was disbarred,  Lynne Yates Carter reportedly warned, Nicole Ford,   Elise Mitchell and Sharon Roper that the COVID-19 crisis could significantly impact the enterprise as  real property equity in the area dries up and court business  essentially grinds to a  halt. Further, Shelia Pott , a loan manager, recently lost an important appeal and is worried the loans she wrote for area lawyers and judges as kickbacks for favorable rulings in her own divorce case are now on the  radar of federal investigators at the DOJ. 

But Yates - Cater also exposed Jason Pintar  for his role in the darkest part of the  enterprise after  it was revealed  Pintar was involved in with Constance Carpenter, Nat Hales, Richard Roggia , Laura Perry, Catherine Gallagher  and Annie Fortino in cases related to   sex trafficking rings  before Judge Mary Ann  Grilli in 2014 and Judge Towery in 2017. Pintar appears to have  teamed up with Laura Perry and Annie Fortino to cover up crimes in the southern part of the county where high paying clients  have connections to the Gilroy Police ,  local politicians and farmers capable of  trafficking  laborers from Mexico through Yuma Arizona to feed workers to  California's farming communities. 

In the San Jose area,  Yates- Carter confessed that cases involving Catherine Bechtel, David Patton, Walter Hammon , James McManis , Jim Hoover, Travis Krepelka, Julia McDowell, Irwin Joseph  and Michael Smith have assisted in covering up  money laundering and real estate fraud in probate matters including a case where Micheal Smith acted as a private judge for the benefit of David Patton's client who reportedly stole over $300,,000 in gold coins and cash to pay the enterprise in her divorce case that was before a private judge. 

 Twenty years ago, attorney Ed Mills  was  appointed in the Falcone v, Fyke divorce case , he never followed the law to get jurisdiction over that case, but he had no problem getting Ms. Fyke criminally prosecuted to shut her up. Ed Mills continues today to act in private judge cases where he too can earn upwards of $5 million a year in fees for his bogus services. .  

A whistleblower who contacted this website noted that family law attorneys are worried COVID-19 will expose mass corruption in the family courts as information about these criminals who have been destroying families and children for at least 30 years is leaking out on social media. A court staffer has reported the corruption connects to the Santa Clara County Department of Child Support and Social Services in a manner that is bringing in the federal government including FBI agents from out of the area as local agents have been tainted by the corruption in the county that has been fuled by Silicon Valley's wealth , power and influence. 

For the past five years this website has been run by an all volunteer team trying to bring attention to California's family courts. Each month thousands of reporters, lawyers and divorcing spouses have come to this site trying to understand what has been happening in divorce courts across the country. 
 
Major news outlets regularly refuse to cover family court, but reporters including reporters from NPR, Center of Investigative Reporting, ABC, NBC and the San Francisco Chronicle have been reading this website for years. But few ever actually report what is happening inside these courtrooms. 

Covid-19 and the related global pandemic and economic crisis have created a crisis in homes in every neighborhood across the globe. Now family matters will be handled differently. 

For the past 30 years, lawyers and judges have acted to corrupt our courts. Lawyers in family court can appear before the same judge so often, it is impossible to not be corrupt. However, now that courthouses are closed, and law enforcement agencies appear ill- prepared to handle domestic violence. Divorcing children and their children are looking to websites such as these to navigate their deeply  emotional and financial matters. 

We are now going to use this platform to teach children about our family courts and the players behind them. If we can't explain family court to a 5th grader sheltering in place in the middle of Silicon Valley, then we have failed. 

​In the spirit of  Judy Blume's  best selling coming of age novel, Are you There God? , It's me Margret, we are pleased to bring you this important information. The stories contained herein come directly from the Santa Clara, Monterey, Sacramento, and Contra Costa Family Court Files dating back to 1970.  

Warning: If you are an attorney, judge, lawyer, custody evaluator, court transcriptionist, baiiff or court staff member who did harm to families and children before this global pandemic, we are going to expose you here on this website in order to protect families and our legal system in the future. 

Marriages are different all over the world. Some people get married in the churches they have belonged to all of their lives, and some get married in a courthouse. Marriage is deeply personal and involves the culture, history and family of parents that happened long before they have a child. 

In California 40% of children have parents who never get  married. This can be for several reasons., In a global pandemic it can mean parents couldn't get married because churches and courthouses were closed! Whatever the reason,  children of unwed parents are treated differently in California's family courts. 

In California a mother presently have the full right to determine how her child's birth certificate will be written and this can matter most if parents get into fights. A mother who is abused or hurt by her child's father might decide not to put that father's name on the birth certificate. If a father doesn't know about his baby before it turns 2, California law says he is not the real dad. 

If the dad is on the birth certificate, he may never know he has children.  This is not much different than what we have seen during times of war. For soldiers assigned to Japan, Vietnam and Iraq, they have sometimes learned that they had babies they never knew about until those children were grown. 

Perhaps the best way to explain this best is to tell you the story about a little girl named Audrie. 

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Most little girls are given the last name of their father. When Audrie was born  on May 23, 1997 her mother decided to put a man, Larry Pott,  on Audrie's birth certificate and Audrie went home to live with her mother, and Larry. 

A few months later, Audrie's mother decided to take Audrie to live with her real father, Michael Lazarin. As Audrie grew, her father surrounded her with love. He played with her, and cared for her while Sheila was at work. Her grandparents were sad they had missed their granddaughter being born, but they loved her so much, they forgot they had missed any time with her. Audrie loved them too. She loved visiting Arizona and eating food that was different than the food her mom made. When they went on trips, her grandma and grandpa loved to come too. 

Audrie's mom worked a lot. She had fancy clothes and shoes and loved to go shopping. Sheila Pott was very important at work. She made lots of money and had lots of houses. Audrie liked the house her dad had best, and that was near the Rose Garden in San Jose, California. In the Rose garden her dad played with her and gave her all of his attention. Her mom was so busy with her important work, but her dad  made up for it and was always there. He made her laugh, and she made him laugh too. She remembered her dad always watching over her. Always smiling and always happy. The sounds in Aurie's house were always happy. Her mom was always working. Aurie's mom was always shopping. She was always busy, 
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Aurdrie loved that she looked like her dad. She could see his soul smiling back at her each time she looked in his eyes. She could feel his love always staring back at her. Everything she did with her dad felt happy, safe and comfortable. 

When Audrie was 7, she and her dad were decorating the Christmas tree. The lights sparkled the way  her dad's eyes did when he looked at her. Each ornament carried a special memory and was carefully placed on the tree. Audrie knew their were presents and she couldn't wait for Santa to come. She and her papa laughed and sang songs as they hung each ornament to make the most beautiful tree Audrie would ever see. 
Before they were done Audrie's mom came home. She was with another man and wanted to talk to her papa alone. After the talk Audrie had to go with the man and her mom. They drove to their other house and as they did, colorful lights dotted every house. Audrie missed her dad. " Is Papa coming in a different car? , she asked her mom. 
" No" said Shelia. " 
Audrie's room felt cold that night. She missed her Papa's eyes. Her mom came in before sh fell asleep, but not to read Audrie a story as Papa would do, no Audrie's mom came in and told Audrie that her Papa was not her real dad and she would not be going home. 

Audrie screamed and cried for her Papa. but he did not come.  In the morning, Audrie's mom told her that her grandparents weren't her real parents. In the morning Audrie's mom went to work and Audrie went to school. All day Audrie thought about her Papa. She knew he would pick her up at the end of the day. But he never did. 

​For people who have lost their homes and their children due to a California divorce or custody case in the past two decades, it might not come as a surprise that a federal investigation into a college cheating scandal that snapped up power couples including Elizabeth and Manuel Henriquez of Atherton, CA  as well as  celebrity moms Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman is now connected to real estate scams and criminal lawyers operating in the state's family courts. it is also connected to one grand jury investigation of Contra Costa County Assessor Gus Kramer, and here is how courts are covering up what they are doing in California when it comes to family homes.. . . . . . . 





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After accepting plea deals,  the Henriquezs are rumored to be consulting with divorce attorneys at McManis Faulkner and Hoover Krepelka Law Firms. The cheating scandal is rumored to be a " boom for Silicon Valley divorce lawyers".  Sources report Silicon Valley divorce attorneys have been overheard  discussing new potential clients flooding into their offices and how these lawyers are planning on ratcheting up overbilling and deceptive business practices that will include: duping clients into private judging cases and kissing up to get court appointments as minor's counsel and custody evaluators in divorce or custody cases. 

REAL ESTATE SCAM EXPOSED: Contra Costa County Assessor Gus Kramer Indicted Exposes DA Office and Supervisor Corruption 

While seemingly unrelated, the indictment and disbarment of Contra Costa County DA Mark Peterson appears to have unraveled systemic corruption in California's  courts and politics that reveals  systemic failures that have harmed families and two generations of children. 

A former Contra Costa County Grand Jury involved in a CPS investigation, provided an off record account of how a grand jury investigation linked public corruption in Solano, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Orange County to lawyer- doctor and former Contra Costa Supervisor Jeff Smith, who is now the county executive in Santa Clara County: 

May 2018- Grand Jurors were first alerted to problems when parents marched on the streets of the sleepy Bay Area bedroom community of Walnut Creek. No arrests were made , but over 500 parents picketed, marched and protested from a community park to the steps of a courthouse where they claimed corrupt CPS workers and three female judges were involved in trafficking children after  their  parents were forced through a corrupt court system. Judges at the focus of the march were Fannin, Hardie and Haight . 


Summer 2018- Judge Bruce Mills,  reportedly been on the take for bribes delivered in  the form of real estate deals and cash kickbacks assured by nefarious slumlord   John Evilsizor , resigned  from the Contra Costa bench after the CJP closed in on Mills in a 5th investigation related to the improper jailing of Evilsizor's former son- in-law in a custody case Mills presided over for several years. 

This was also the time when parents returned to Contra Costa and marched on the streets of Martinez, through the downtown ,  civic center, the steps of the courthouse and where they pounded on the doors of the District Attorney's Office, despite DA Mark Peterson having been indicted, disgraced and disbarred  a year earlier. 

September 2018- it was revealed that DA Mark Peterson had been working to catch and kill complaints about county assessor Gus Kramer, a corrupt politician who  reportedly turned a blind eye when it came to real estate complaints arising from the county's family court cases. 

February 2019- Parents had garnered enough support to get the recall of Judges Hardie, Fannin and Haight  on the local ballot, but an attack and complaint filed to the FPPC  by a judge lobbyist derailed the plan. The lobbyist reportedly focused on the Contra Costa group because of the wide spread media attention the group got, and following the landslide vote in Santa Clara County, that had recalled Judge Persky on June 5, 2018, after a successful political campaign was led by Stanford professor Michele Dauber. 

                                    HOW THEY GET THE FAMILY HOME 

Converting home equity into cash for attorney fees in divorce cases was something that had been mastered in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, but Contra Costa was late to the Silicon Valley home equity party, given its more remote location and longer commute to the Google, Facebook and other tech giant campuses. 

As parents picketed and protested in Contra Costa, they fought judicially corrupt family courts in Solano County by launching a recall of Judge Carringer in 2017, which did not go to vote, and which was turned into an impeachment request to the State Assembly in April of 2018. 

It was in Santa Clara County, where Jeff Smith hung his new employment shingle, that Stanford University Law Professor Michele Dauber launched a successful political campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky. It is said that from 2016- 2018 Dauber had the help and assistance of DA Jeff Rosen, DDA Terry Harman. Alaleh Kianerci, Cindy Hendrickson and Luis Ramos, but she also had the help of executives at Google, Facebook and Twitter based on connections her husband Ken Dauber had as a Google executive serving on as a Board Member on the  Palo Alto School District. It is also believed that Dauber had assistance from the Supervisors, Cindy Chavez, Joe Smitian, Ken Yeager, Dave Cortese and Mike Wasserman, who allowed DA Rosen to let angry #metoo mobs drown out parents seeking to bring attention to the county's unscrupulous judges including Judge Maureen Folan,  Judge Vincent Chiarello, Judge James Towery, Judge Mary Ann Grilli, Judge Julie Emede, Judge Roberta Hyashi, Judge Beth McGowan, Judge McCracken, Judge Cynthia Lie,  and Judge Stuart Scott. 

By early 2017, court clerk David Yamasaki had moved from Santa Clara's courts, to Orange County, where he was reportedly working to cover up construction fraud and family court fraud arising from the county's private judging cases before retired Judge David Weinberg, Judge Moss, Judge Larsh  and Judges employed through JAMS . No recalls had occurred in Orange County however former DA Tony Rackauckas was ousted by voters who put Todd Spitzer in the DA's office as voters demanded Spitizer begin looking at the county's family courts and real estate scandals rising from the family courts. 

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" We interviewed the parents and protest organizers" , explained the former Contra Costa Grand Juror, " That led us to issue the CPS report by the summer of 2019" 
A copy of the report can be seen at this link. 

"Simultaneously  we looked at the county assessor where these corrupt real estate deals appeared to be being concealed and protected. We knew Gus Kramer had an alliance with the former DA Mark Peterson, and once Peterson was disbarred and indicted, Kramer had no more shield, so we nailed him."​

As to the systemic corruption, the former Grand Juror had this to say: 

" Look we know it is bad, but we are not the worst. The worst corruption is coming from Santa Clara and Orange Counties. The State Bar, and all of the watchdogs charged with protecting the public are afraid to touch those counties, after all, they have planted Google. Facebook and Twitter investors, founders and shareholders in their courts, contracts and Supervisor's pockets.

"It was an interview we did with a former hospital employee who was familiar with Jeff Smith that made us realize how dangerous Santa Clara County has become and we just couldn't go there". 

Mitchell Papers:  Real Estate Corruption Linked to  Family Court Lawyers and Judges

Before ending the interview, the former Grand Juror noted they had reviewed what are being called the Mitchell Papers. The papers show cash payments made to cops, judges and lawyers like something out of a Chicago mobster movie. The local bar association appears to be the shell organization feeding the enterprise where billions, NOT millions, of dollars are being converted in family law cases to pay lawyers who are paying off judges, private judges and other lawyers by paying down home equity lines of credit on the homes, rental properties and vacation homes of those operating what is clearly a criminal enterprise.  

For example, the county assessor in Santa Clara, Larry Stone,  is known for his flagrant extra marital affairs, yet the grand jury,  DA and Supervisors have left Larry Stone alone. Stone, who started out in small level government in Sunnyvale, became obsessed with power and connections to the Democratic party in the county. A party that essentially runs the state.  Stone also continued to flaunt his extra martial relationships which have been actively concealed from his wife by Walter Hammon's wife, Meri Maben, and newly elected Supervisor Susan Ellenberg. 

Stone, who is nearly 80, had a home nearly paid off, but now carries a $600K loan. It is rumored that Jeff Smith's right hand man, Steve Preminger, assures these loans are paid off with deferred payments when nobody is watching, and it is divorce attorney Walter Hammon who is brining in divorce clients high level Silicon Valley connections at YouTube, Paypal, Facebook, Google Twitter , Nvidia and even the Department of Justice that makes sure this enterprise remains in tact and meeting bribe and payment obligations. 

Steve Preminger, Jeff Smith's top aide,  was recently reported as working with tech and social media executives  to assure Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese could knock out his political opponents by shadow banning social media accounts and burying political adversaries or court reform candidates in search engines powered by Google. 

In closing, the grand juror noted: 

"All local governments have the potential to be corrupted. When the grand jury doesn't look, the DA's don't indict and the Supervisors or city managers are complicit, the courts will be corrupted and people will rise up and march in the streets as they did in our sleepy little town of Walnut Creek. We tried to do something about it, I hope it wasn't too little , or too late."

Setting up the Local Sheriff:  As the Santa Clara County DA  aggressively prosecuted Brock Turner, Rosen let other criminals pour into the street or hide in plain sight.

As Rosen claimed the local Sheriff had failed to properly serve 49er football players with restraining orders so they could be prosecuted for violating restraining orders, family court judges selectively allowed the prosecution of domestic violence cases in family court depending on the private lawyers involved. Simply stated the folks with the money to pay the most corrupt lawyers could prosecute their former spouses for domestic violence. As Mr. Rosen looked the other way, these lawyers began to increase private lawyer profits by hundreds of millions of dollars a year. 

This also created a boon for criminal defense lawyers in the area who would be willing to throw cases in criminal court in return for getting paid to defend spouses in family court where they earn 20 times more than they earn in a criminal defense case. 

In family court arrests are not needed because one parent prosecutes the other if they can pay a family lawyer to help them. Criminal defense lawyers in Santa Clara County in on the scheme appear to be Alan Nudelman, Tom Nolan, Dmitry Stadlin, Dan Jensen and Allen Ruby.  The price for Mr. Ruby's services will cost a family law litigant $1250 an hour, a price Mr. Rosen is all to happy to make sure folks have to pay. 

 Josh Bentley contributes to Jeff Rosen's political campaigns and pays for golfing and dining out to assure Mr. Rosen and his staff don't bring messy little DV or sexual assault charges against members of the NFLs 49er organization.  

​ As early as June 2016, whistleblowers at Google, Facebook  and Twitter alleged Stanford University professor Michele Dauber and her husband Ken Dauber were experimenting with social media manipulation. Using tech and  mainstream media contacts,  the Daubers reportedly rode the #metoo momentum that ignited after  Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election. 

Jeff Rosen climbed onto the Dauber train knowing having the powerful allies would protect his 2018 campaign. 

Dauber set her sights on Judge Persky to demonstrate her power. She met with people who begged Dauber to include judge Chairello in her battle. Dauber would not be distracted from her goal, 

Judge Towery was brought to Dauber's attention, and still the Dauber machine was laser focused on inflaming voters over one case and one judge. 

Dauber's scheme included finding the perfect case and the perfect victim.  A book deal and a slot on 60 Minuets for  the victim from the Brock Turner sexual assault case where Chanel Miller revealed herself during a 2019 publicity stunt in advance of the release of her new book; Know my Name. 

Dauber's collusion with Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen and the  inner circle in the DA's office, including;  Terry Harman, Luis Ramos and Cindy Hendrickson began in the summer of 2016, just one year after Brock Turner's arrest.  

Public records show Rosen allowed thousands of hours of staff time to help Dauber get facts to defend her mission. Emails, seminars and rallies incited women who had been victimized by sexual assault at anytime in their lives. Michele Dauber was using the press and the local prosecutors to incite hate through intense and pent up emotion. 

Local voters and taxpayers  duped by Michele Dauber and the engineered story of Emily Doe, Recalled Judge Aaron Persky on June 5, 2019 . On that day every criminal defense attorney and every person ever screwed over in court focused their anger on Persky, who had started his career in Santa Clara County's family court where he was known to not be as corrupt as others, but where he used his power to jail spouses and fail to follow most family law, but where he never was known to sanction lawyers or report them to the state bar. 





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Did Dauber Cheat Silicon Valley Taxpayers and real victims of the county's family courts? 

By 2016 Mr. Rosen had full supervision of the county's Victim Witness Services where he excluded victims of domestic violence who presented their cases in family court and through local non-profit agencies who received funding from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Whistleblowers inside those agencies reported family court judges including James Towery, Vincent Chiarello, Mary Ann Grilli, Mary Arand, Patricia Lucas,  Margret Folan, Commissioner Irwin Joseph and Drew Takaichi were some of the most corrupt and evil judges  in the state. 


As Rosen released rapists in the streets, offered plea deals to illegal immigrants capable of murder, he focused the full weight of his office on Brock Turner and the anger he saw directed toward white men as Donald Trump became President at the end of 2016. 

Getting voters to hate white men and women like Laurie Smith, could only be done if Rosen worked with Dauber to secure his own political future. So , with an eye to the 2018 election Dauber and Rosen colluded to rig Silicon Valley's most important local elections. 




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As mainstream media insisted the Emily Doe letter was written by the victim in the Brock Turner case, emails produced to local reporters in March of 2019 show a different story. The emails were circulated to  academics and journalists who are reviewing the emails. The  Attorney General and the Department of Justice are also involved investigating Dauber and Rosen for election fraud,  and improper governmental activity  after it appeared Dauber was using her position on the Stanford University campus to cover up sexual abuse cases with the help of former prosecutor Deborah Medved, as the mainstream media was diverted with Dauber's efforts on Persky. 

After leaving the Santa Clara County DA's office Medved landed in family court where kickbacks for her loyalty come in the form of court appointments and fee orders. 

Medved, along with the help of Cindy Hendrickson, assured Alaleh Kianerci not only a win in the Brock Turner sexual assault case, but a chance to become California Attorney General. The scheme became most visible  on September 22, 2019 when Alaleh Kianerci  appeared on 60- minuets as a champion for sexual assault victims everywhere. 

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As Chanel Miller , AKA Emily Doe,  appeared on 60 Minuets, Rosen reportedly told his wife, a family court judge, that his plan was almost complete. DDA Alaleh Kianerci is now posed to overtake the AG position  in the next election and Rosen's snitches and moles are moving in to take out Sheriff Laurie Smith, the only other woman who poses a threat to Rosen's future political career. 

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On September 24, 2019, Court Watchers in the Santa Clara County Superior Court overheard government lawyers discussing how to protect a criminal enterprise operating out of family courts in Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Orange County. A rape case, a family court case before Judge Cindy Hendrickson and a freelance reporter threatened to expose the enterprise that had safely operated in the county for the past 20 years. County lawyer Michael Rossi was overheard calling private lawyers to alert them to the problems after Rossi photographed and recorded a meeting his colleague, Ward Penfold, during a mediation in a public court hallway. A copy of illegal photos and other communications were found by investigators that same day from the offices of Sean Onderick, Jason Pintar, Heather Allan, Annie Fortino, Jim Hoover, Sharon Roper, Travis Krepelka, Richard Roggia, Bill Dok, Valerie Houghton, Elise Mitchell  and Jason Pintar. These documents reveal how family court lawyers and judges are operating to assist Jeff Rosen with his domestic violence conviction stats by secreting real domestic violence cases in the family court where victims must pay or lose the right to protection. 

Pintar has been reported for placing victims in the county's highest profile divorce cases in private judging where the victims report unconscionable duress and financial harm. 

In her interview on 60 minuets, Chanel Miller described on day in court facing her abuser. That emotional distress doesn't come close to the duress family court judges impose on victims of domestic violence who must endure facing their abusers for decades in the family courts where private lawyers burn through millions of dollars in a family court case.


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From Sacramento's sleazy Paula Salinger sleeping with Judge Matthew Gary to Judge Mize ripping children from Grandparent's Q has been overwhelmed with over 200 emails in the past month following a report from the State Auditor claiming state watchdogs have failed to protect the public when it comes to bad judges and lawyers.  Q will begin posting your emails to better connect you in each county, by judge, lawyer , CPS or custody evaluator issue. Please do not put anything in the email that would reveal the litigants or case. Briefly identify your issue. the judge and the lawyers involved. Q is monitoring how self- represented litigants are being treated by family court judges, and is tracking unethical lawyers. Santa Clara , LA. and Orange County are rising in corruption claims. 
If it looks unfair, it probably is. 
If it feels unfair, it probably is. 
If you think your rights have been violated, they probably were. 
If if you think they will stop harming families and children, they won't , unless they are exposed in the Court of Public Opinion.

If you would like your letters read on a podcast, or YouTube video, please let Q know. 

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​Los Gatos, CA - Shortly after being spotted at a popular weekly summer music series in downtown Los Gatos, a local publisher and investigative reporter investigating  California's family courts and the Santa Clara County DA's office for sex trafficking crimes suffered a brutal beating following an office break-in reportedly arranged by Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen  and private divorce attorneys  Walter Hammon and Bradford Baugh. The hit and subsequent office break-in was reportedly executed by Los Gatos police officer Silvia, who resigned two days earlier  after public outrage over his 2016 misconduct.  

Reporters following leads generated by California's new police records law, SB1421 , are at great risk as local law enforcement agencies , courts, judges and lawyers try to stave off public outrage over conduct that has been concealed from the public for decades. 

County assessor Larry Stone and government lawyers including DA Jeff Rosen, County Counsel Michael Rossi, James Williams and Ward Penfold are linked to the attack in the Mitchell papers that reveal a sex trafficking enterprise operating in California's family courts.

Whistleblowers inside the DA's office note reporters getting police misconduct  records are making the leap to the DA's office, where years of failing to protect families involved in the local courts has reached a tipping point. 

A new technique designed to thwart media investigations of the courts and DA's office is the frivolous filing of DVROs and civil harassment requests. The day prior to the violent beating on a reporter and theft of unpublished journalist work, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen filed a false declaration in support of his employees to keep reporters at Bay. 

Ironically, the day before Rosen's declaration was filed, the ex wife of former prosecutor Alan Nudelman filed a request for a permanent CLETS restraining order that protected her and her reporter tenant  from local activist and family court protestor Scott Largent. 

Largent has violated that order on five occasions, less than a month since the CLETS order was filed, ramping up his threats in person and online, 


 Well Known Court Protestor Scott Largent: Snitch for DA Jeff Rosen ? 

Disgruntled that he failed to make income from YouTube, Largent has been repeatedly violating a CLETS order after a reporter discovered he had been acting as a snitch for the District Attorney for over a year. Largent allegedly made thousands of illegal recordings and took photos of victims that he passed off to a corrupt DA in return for special favors. These favors included kickbacks for spying on  local parents protesting the family courts.  Insiders note county executive Jeff Smith,  county counsel James Williams and long time Democratic Party leader Steve Preminger promised Largent a motorhome, dental work and immunity for testimony against the reporter and other activists.  

Largent has been reported for stealing unpublished journalistic work for his personal benefit and is now being investigated by the FBI and DOJ after the Santa Clara County DA came on the federal agent radar for crimes connected with the former DAs in Contra Costa and Orange County. 

                                                   Office Break- In 

Largent, who is believed to be violent and mentally unstable, has been video recording and photographing victims of police brutality and family courts. He also reportedly copied and stole paperwork and evidence that was critical to an investigation of several police officers from the San Jose Police that was provided by a Whistleblower known as Debbie the Dispatcher.  Now retired, Debbie is known to have been on duty during the 2014 and 2015 domestic violence issues involving several former 49ers who were protected by divorce attorneys Nicole Ford, Elise Mitchell, Hector Moreno, Jessica Huey, Heather Allan, Walter Hammon, Dennis Luca,  and Mark Erickson. 

       Rosen and Larry Stone Link to Tech and Real Estate corruption in Silicon Valley 

Just before the newsroom break in, a number of records requests were produced by the county related to county assessor Larry Stone and DA Jeff Rosen, The records show vast waste of taxpayer dollars , a money laundering enterprise, and sex trafficking connected not only to the 49er's but across the Bay to the A's and Raiders through the Richmond cops. 

Also stolen were edited objections made by Stanford Law professors who are planning to teach special courses this fall on prosecutorial misconduct in response to the outrage over Rosen's declaration that severed to mislead a judge and act as a prior restraint on speech. 


                       California District Attorneys are Worried About Protestors

One year after ruckus protests in Contra Costa county that caught the attention of mainstream media and the local grand jury, judges, and DA's are worried about summer protests announced on social media that are expected at California's State Bar locations in Los Angeles  and San Francisco later this month. 

Protestors will demand greater accountability for lawyers and judges. Insisting that prosecuting perjury in the state's family courts be mandatory. The protests are expected to demand greater public protections. Parents are also demanding judges be held accountable when they drag out divorce cases simply to make lawyers more money, harming innocent children in the process. 

Few judges are enforcing court orders for child support or custody, and parents are fed up. 

Misuse of the Domestic Violence is also on the radar. Students working as interns in California's courts this summer have been appalled at the ludicrous  claims of violence that are simply not believed, but rubberstamped by corrupt judges. 

" We pay millions for orders that are just a joke. No police officer enforces these orders and our children are suffering as a result. It is taking all family money and it is a criminal enterprise working for tech companies and big real estate firms." claimed divorce mother Tanya R. of Sunnyvale, California. 

" DV is the new DUI for Silicon Valley, your spouse lies, and you pay $50- 100,000 just to defend those claims. Calling someone an asshole can get you nailed with a DV, or worse, on the DA's terrorist threat list to bring you into the criminal courts,"  claimed  C. Graves of San Martin, California.  

" I was married to a San Jose cop. He was horribly abusive and every judge and lawyer in the court protected him. I got nothing from our divorce. Don't think it is any better down here. " Beth G. of Newport Beach,  California 

A former member of the Contra Costa County Grand Jury has leaked information indicating that 2018 parent protests  and new laws  mandating the termination of privately run foster homes resulted in an investigation of staff employed in the county's CPS and family court services.  That investigation found  CPS workers were not following the law when they acted to remove children from their family homes. 

A 2018 recall  that wiped Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky off the bench was threatened by parents in Contra Costa, which caused an immediate investigation of three of the county's judges.

Turns out, parents were right.  The investigation revealed Judge Hardie and Judge Fannin had direct ties to money laundering operations that take children from loving parents and sell those children into sex trafficking rings, while non- profits collect fees for the children placed into foster care. 

" Parents protesting in the streets of the  upscale Walnut Creek community was very embarrassing to local officials and court employees. That protest launched not only a criminal investigation by the FBI. but also the local grand jury."said the former grand juror who asked to speak off the record.  

The juror also expressed frustration over  the lack of media coverage on the topic. " We never saw this coming because mainstream media never covers what is really going on in the county's family courts". he added. 

Judges in the county appeared rattled over the investigation, which is leading to supervised visitation  and reunification camps where judges hold financial interests through their spouses and family members to avoid disclosure. 

Of the $153 million budgeted for foster kids. less than 1 percent was determined to be going to benefit foster youth. Worse were the judges who ignored the law and took children from their parents for no legal reason. 

SANTA CRUZ - Judge Hell

A Santa Cruz mother described the year  a CPS worker took her 2 year old, causing the mother to pay $40,000 she paid to get her child back.  

" The payment felt like a ransom" , explained the young mother, "we had to pay to defend  CPS worker's allegations and we lost two years with our daughter as  result. Nobody was held accountable." 

The Grand Jury didn't investigate the use of supervised visitation, where several judges have a financial interest. Reunification camps and private businesses benefitting from court contracts and judge appointments appear to be connected not only to the financial interests of judges, but to sex trafficking and money laundering operations working in secret in California's family courts. 

​As newly elected district attorney Todd Spitzer investigates family court clerks, custody evaluators and private judges involved in custody and divorce cases in Orange County, California's two most powerful female district attorneys began to look at family court cases that have been ignored by male their male counterparts for decades. 

CONTRA COSTA DA  DIANA BECTON &
IRS INVESTIGATE CPAs USED IN DIVORCE CASES 

Diana Becton became Contra Costa County DA following the exposure of criminal activity involving Mark Peterson. Peterson was indicted, blasted in the news and disbarred by 2017 in large part based on  public outrage that a DA had corrupted the cozy East Bay communities  and allowed family courts to run amok for the past two decades. 

Becton is reportedly mindful that family court reformers have managed to get the Grand Jury to investigate the county's CPS and Family Court Services staff investigated and now Becton has an opportunity to investigate CPAs including Jack Peth, Charles Burak, Sally White, Michael Thompson, James Butera and others who are known for not adding properly when it comes to the fair division of community property in divorce cases.

A small group of accountants have been regularly acting in appointed or retained capacities in family law cases, and many of these CPAs have been cooking the books, concealing corporate profits and helping law enforcement officers, tech executives, and even judges engage in tax fraud and tax evasion for decades.  Criminal IRS investigators are also reportedly conducting an investigation of several CPAs who acted in high profile divorce cases in a manner that concealed income from the government. 

Ms. Becton was recently named to Governor Gavin Newsom's Judicial Selection Committee. It  is reported she is mindful of the public outrage that led to an audit of the CJP, the agency that disciplines the state's judges. Many in California's  court reform movement come from family court experiences and were largely responsible  for getting the audit, and recalling Judge Persky in Santa Clara County in June of 2018. 

ALAMEDA  DA  NANCY E. O' MALLEY ASKED TO INVESTIGATE LAWYER PERJURY

District Attorneys across the state are asked on a daily basis to investigate perjury and filing of false documents in family court cases. 

" We have divorcing couples send  transcripts of their former spouse testifying in family court and ask us to investigate perjury related to that testimony.  Sadly, while the general public may believe perjury is clear cut, it is not. It is very difficult to prove and frankly we don't have near enough  resources to investigate these crimes, " described public corruption investigator John Chase of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office after a perjury charge involving attorney Bradford Baugh was brought to his attention in 2015. 

What Mr. Chase refused to investigate in 2015 has now landed on the desk of Ms. O" Malley where Mr. Baugh appears to have committed perjury in a video deposition conducted by a former client. Mr. Baugh has been appointed to represent children in San Mateo and Santa Clara county divorce and custody cases for over two decades. 

As many lawyers express they aren't worried Ms. O'Malley will actually start prosecuting perjury in family law cases, a few admit that the perjury of divorce attorney Bradford Baugh would be significant given Baugh's involvement  in hundreds of Silicon Valley's high profile cases, including cases before Judge Persky, where Mr. Baugh represented he served in Vietnam. 

One lawyer regularly  appointed to represent children in San Mateo and Alameda County noted he has been aware Mr. Baugh has been court appointed to represent children in addition to typically representing high asset earners in Silicon Valley's tech and social media industries. 

" I thought Baugh served in Vietnam as I heard him discuss it in court before Judges on a regular basis. Pretty sure Judge Persky, Judge Swope , Judge Hill ,and Judge Towery believed he was in the military as well. Certainly doesn't seem that anyone should be appointed to represent children if they spend decades lying about having served in the Vietnam war", the attorney said asking to remain off the record. 

Bill Dok, Baugh's former partner claimed to be embarrassed he had been partners with Baugh when Baugh was lying to the family law community. But Mr. Dok may have more than embarrassment to worry about if Mr. Baugh was earning money that paid law firm expenses as Baugh committed perjury in a deposition with a former client. 

BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN 

In the name of the best interest of children, family court judges have issued orders that have resulted in billions of dollars being spent on lawyers, custody evaluations  and sham therapists. These judges have done little for children and more for a crony network that has highjacked California's legal system. 

Lawyers willing to lie, judges willing to cheat and Rule of Law that has been abandoned in family court has inflicted more harm on children than at any other time in California's history. 

WHAT IF INJUSTICE HITS YOUR HOME? 

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All contacts will be carefully vetted and audited before connected to others. Judges and lawyers have been known to read this website and act in a retaliatory manner when the get caught. 

According to a source connected with  newly elected Orange County DA Todd Spitzer, the FBI has been called in to investigate  several court clerks, judges and divorce attorneys  for obstructing justice in CPS, divorce and custody cases following the transfer of court executive David Yamasaki from Santa Clara County in early 2017. 

Orange County  has been fraught with jailhouse snitches and federal investigations of the county's traffic court cases. Recent emails leaked from the DA's office indicate family courts are being investigated for covering up money laundering, drug enterprises and sex trafficking rings.  The arrest of Epstein on Saturday night appears to have turned DOJ abd FBI attention to sex trafficking rings in California where court executive David Yamasaki in knee deep in trouble. 


RECRUITMENT

Ambulance chasing is to personal injury lawyers as case rigging is to  California's family law attorneys. These lawyers chase divorces involving private businesses with crimes to conceal and family homes with millions of dollars in equity available to convert to attorney's fees and costs in modern divorce cases that are being dragged out 5-10 years in certain parts of the state. 

Divorce can put companies  and shareholders at risk. Inflated expenses, cash funds, and tax evasion secreted away from shareholders can be exposed when an ex spouse's lawyers and accountants dive in to determine the value of community property. 

According to sources involved with the investigation, since 2000 ,  small groups of lawyers have been rigging cases to get before certain elected judges or appointed private judges. 

Emails discovered in a private email account of Mr. Yamasaki and  a Silicon Valley divorce lawyer known as "Black Tulip"  indicate large payments flowing to lawyers, family court services and experts who are handsomely paid for court appointments. 

Cases appear to be  rigged when court clerks assign a case to a judge during an exparte request, or when cases are originally assigned. Clerks investigated during the 2015 traffic case scandal who were not indicted, appear to have moved either to divorce cases, or into private businesses benefiting from the criminal activity.  These individuals troll new divorce filings and in some cases work with lawyers before the case is filed to get it before a corrupt judge. The " clients " have no idea this is occurring such that a disqualifying 170.6 challenge can be lodged. 

SILENCE THE SPOUSE 

A critical component of this enterprise involves the emotional, financial and physical abuse of former spouses who may know too much .  Secret surveillance, personal computer hacking and cell phone Stingrays are regularly  used to discover what a spouse knows. If that spouse is determined to be a threat based on an ability to expose a former spouse's secrets, the enterprise moves in to have reports issued to a judge that  that  claim a former spouse is " crazy" . " abusive " or mentally unfit to parent children, or to remain in the family home. Stripping women in particular of their home and their children is so destabilizing, it changes the game for the enterprise.

Staffers in Family Court Services, or CPS,  appear to issue reports favorable to the enterprise such that the report can be rubberstamped by a judge, which helps the enterprise avoid detection.

Spouses busy fighting move out or supervised visitation orders are too fragile to challenge the financial aspect of a divorce case.  

Before mandatory JCC,  or emergency screening hearings occur, the enterprise has already rigged the outcome of custody decisions  with judges working for the enterprise in return for future employment in private judging, mediation and arbitration once they leave the bench 

 The FBI investigation has focused on Dr. Rebecca Bailey, and her reunification camp following news reports by NBC Bay Area.  Parents scouring the courthouses for other victims of the enterprise have also become investigators best sources, as few DA offices are prepared to properly investigate family courts and related cases. 

SECRET AGREEMENTS- FLEAs (Family Law Elite Attorneys)  

Divorce lawyers calling themselves " Elite" Family Law Attorneys  (FLEAs)  have been known to law enforcement, and the courts since 2000. Little has been done to stop these lawyers, whose work  and misdeeds remain largely underground. 

FLEAs operate regular legal practices in the area of family law, where 80% of cases are quickly resolved or settled. For the other 20% , FLEAs identify a spouse with secrets to hide and focus on destroying the other spouse in a divorce case in order to protect secrets could result in criminal charges. This conduct serves to protect clients who are  vulnerable to a criminal enterprise orchestrated to protect the secrets from the IRS, the DOJ and the FBI. 

Businesses in the  marijuana  industry, transportation, professional sports organizations and tech are the main flow of cash to the FLEAs. Bad cops collecting cash and turning away from drug and sex traffickers act as a freeway for cash payments and bribes to elected politicians, judges and private divorce lawyers. Above board these lawyers are paid with the sale of the family home, or rental properties, but behind the scene far more money is moving in illegal payments. 

Well paid lawyers are loyal and protective of the criminal enterprise. 

In Orange County, as designed first in Santa Clara County, lawyers, minor's counsel and private judges are assuring payments of cash to pay off loans on the properties and investments of the judges whose disclosures are carefully monitored by the press. 

CALIFORNIA'S REAL ESTATE HOLDS THE KEY

Divorcing spouses are often surprised to learn a former spouse is willing to sell real estate to pay legal costs in effort to drag out cases. And many spouses are surprised to learn courts willing to sell these houses to pay the enterprise, rather than preserve community property as the law provides. 

Victims of the criminal enterprise report high conflict custody disputes left them ill prepared to recognize the scheme to sell the family home. 

Most alarming has been the discovery that elected judges in Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Diego, San Francisco, LA and Orange County regularly fail to disclose their real properties on the required From 700. Worse are cases involving private judges with real estate holdings that are not required to be disclosed.

Emails between Black Tulip and Court CEO David Yamasaki indicate Rebecca Bailey has been one of bad actors assisting the enterprise in laundering money, abusing children and silencing the parents who dare to speak up. It is estimated that Mr. Yamasaki has orchestrated the illegal transfer of billons of dollars of California home equity in the state's family court cases caught up the web of a criminal activity designed to separate children from their families, and sell off the family home in order to operate.