2014-12-17 US: News from the American Gulag...
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Spent a short vacation under the hospitality of Sheriff Lee Baca in Twin Tower Jail... jz
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ACLU Reaches Landmark Settlement over Rampant Violence and Abuse by Guards in L.A. County Jails
https://www.aclu.org/…/aclu-reaches-landmark-settlement-ove…
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Spent a short vacation under the hospitality of Sheriff Lee Baca in Twin Tower Jail... jz
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ACLU Reaches Landmark Settlement over Rampant Violence and Abuse by Guards in L.A. County Jails
https://www.aclu.org/…/aclu-reaches-landmark-settlement-ove…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: 212-549-2666, media@aclu.org LOS ANGELES – The American Civil...
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- Joseph Zernik At the center of the lengthy investigations - the notorious Twin Towers Jail. This writer had the pleasure of being a guest there twice...
- Joseph Zernik But a series of public, government reports for over a decade concluded that the center of corruption is not the LADP or the Sheriff's Department, but the Los Angeles courts - under patronage of FBI and the federal courts...
- Joseph Zernik The best report to this date on corruption of the courts and the justice system in LA is the official government reports 2006 Rampart Reconsidered. 2006-07-15 Rampart Reconsidered: LAPD's Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/Official report of the LAPD dated June 15, 2006, the...scribd.com - Joseph Zernik Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, today UC Irvine Law School Dean issued his own report on the corruption: 2000-09-01 The criminal justice system of Los Angeles County, California - by E Chemerinsky 57 Guild Prac 121:2000
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/ - Joseph Zernik California Judge Jacqueline Connor, since retired, was a key figure in the racket, which specialized in wholesale drug markets and real estate and banking fraud. this writer had the pleasure of being a close acquaintance of Jackie...
- Joseph Zernik Due to my manifold acquaintance with the racket, I even lectured on the subject in the World Criminology Congress in Kobe, Japan, 2012... 2011-08-01 Zernik, J: Los Angeles Superior Court - widespread corruption and refusal of US government to take action, 16th World Criminology Congress presentation
http://he.scribd.com/doc/61351469/ - Joseph Zernik Judge Jacqueline Connor close friend, until they split, was undercover LAPD Narcotics Officer/cocaine wholesaler Rafael Perez.
- Joseph Zernik Another report of today's "historic" settlement. One can safely predict that the corruption would not be successfully eliminated unless corruption of the courts is addressed. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/.../la-sheriff-agrees-to.../The nation's largest sheriff's department agreed to federal...losangeles.cbslocal.com
- Joseph Zernik Finally, one should note that the notorious Sheriff Lee Baca was tightly linked to the Los Angeles based "Church of Scientology" - one of the centers of corruption in LA. And the "Church of Scientology" is also notorious for employing the corrupt LA courts in retaliation against anybody on their hit list...
- Joseph Zernik In conclusion: The 2006 Blue Ribbon Report, which studied LA corruption for three years, concluded that corruption today is by far higher than in the 1920s, a period when LA reputed for its corruption, part of the "Water Wars", depicted in "Chinatown".