10-03-11 Richard Fine: Complaint Filed with FBI // Denuncia presentada ante el FBI

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:18:16 -0800
To: "FBI Los Angeles" , "Attention Steven Goldman, FBI" <310.996.3359@metrofax.com>
From: joseph zernik
Subject: False imprisonment of Attorney Richard Fine: Complaint against Attorney Kevin McCormick and Courtroom Assistant Donna Thomas
Cc: FBIDIRECTOR

Special Agent Steven Goldman, Supervisor
Los Angeles FBI White Collar Crime Squadron;
By fax and by email.

RE: False imprisonment of Attorney Richard Fine: Complaint against Attorney Kevin McCormick and Courtroom Assistant Donna Thomas

Dear Special Agent Steven Goldman:

Please accept the writing below as a complaint against Attorney Kevin McCormick and against Courtroom Assistant Donna Thomas, for perversion of justice in the Habeas Corpus Petition of Attorney Richard Fine - Fine v Sheriff (2:09-cv-01914). Together, the two were instrumental in affecting his ongoing false imprisonment.

The California DA and Attorney General continue to refuse to take any action in matters pertaining to corruption of the local justice system.

Respectfully,
Dated: March 11, 2010           
La Verne, County of Los Angeles, California                       Joseph H Zernik, PhD  
                                                                
                                                                By: ______________
                                                                JOSEPH H ZERNIK
                                                                PO Box 526, La Verne, CA 91750
                                                                Phone: 323.515.4583
                                                                Fax: 323.488.9697
                                                                Email
                                                                Blog: http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:09:38 -0800
To: , , , , , , , , Nodonnell@da.lacounty.gov
From: joseph zernik
Subject: Request for filing a complaint against Attorney Kevin McCormick
Cc: "Attention AG Brown c/o Sue Feldmann"

LA County District Attorney Office
By email
Copied to California Attorney General Jerry Brown:
By email

Dear DA Deputy D. Roth and Office of Los Angeles District Attorney:

As former attorney in charge of the Section on "Integrity of the Justice System", Deputy District Attorney D Roth would surely accept the writing below as a complaint against Attorney Kevin McCormick and against Courtroom Assistant Donna Thomas, for perversion of justice in the Habeas Corpus Petition of Attorney Richard Fine - Fine v Sheriff (2:09-cv-01914).

Please forward the complaint to the right Deputy DA in your offices.

This complaint is also copied to attention of California Attorney General and gubernatorial aspirant, Jerry Brown, who falsely claimed in a recent San Bernardino press conference that he was "appalled by the corruption", and that he had "never seen anything like this";

Respectfully,
Dated: March 11, 2010           
La Verne, County of Los Angeles, California      Joseph H Zernik, PhD  
                                                                
                                                                By: ______________
                                                                JOSEPH H ZERNIK
                                                                PO Box 526, La Verne, CA 91750
                                                                Phone: 323.515.4583
                                                                Fax: 323.488.9697
                                                                Email
                                                                Blog: http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/
                                       Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/Free_the_Rampart_FIPs

 

Los Angeles, March 11 - in response to an article in the ABA Journal, titled: 70-Year-Old Lawyer Hits One-Year Mark in Jail in Contempt Case, Dr Joseph Zernik, Los Angeles resident, posted the correction, copied and linked, below. [1]

Dr Zernik concluded: The case of Attorney Richard Fine is a historic landmark and a textbook case in providing a catalog of the ingenious methods employed by the corrupt justice system to pervert justice. 

JUDICIARY

70-Year-Old Lawyer Hits One-Year Mark in Jail in Contempt Case

Posted Mar 10, 2010 1:03 PM CST
By Sarah Randag


A year ago, a Los Angeles County superior court judge sentenced lawyer Richard Fine to jail indefinitely after he refused to provide personal financial information in an attorney fee dispute.
Now? He is still in jail, Dan Walters writes in a column for the Sacramento Bee, if not still a lawyer: TheState Bar of California indicates that he has been disbarred.
Fine has been a longtime critic of Los Angeles County's practice of giving its judges nearly $50,000 in extra pay over their state salaries, and that it creates a conflict of interest for judges hearing cases involving the county, Walters writes. And, on top of that, Fine says that because of the extent of his criticism, it's a conflict for any judge to hear a case involving him.
A state appellate court agreed with Fine in 2008, saying the payments violated California's constitution. But the legislature passed a retroactive authorization of the payments last year, Walters writes.
Fine has petitioned for his release, but the California Supreme Court refuses to interfere, and the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied his petition, Walters writes.
"Fine holds the key to his jail cell," Kevin McCormick, an attorney for the Los Angeles court, said in an appellate brief. "By simply agreeing to answer the questions and produce documents concerning his assets, that he has a legal obligation to provide, his coercive confinement will end."

COMMENTS

1. B. McLeod
Mar 10, 2010 4:37 PM CST
Its probably just that he enjoys the food there.

2. Peter C. Lomtevas
Mar 11, 2010 6:12 AM CST
The issue here is not Fines holding the key to his confinement.
He dared to expose a potential fraud upon the public that has to do with judicial impartiality and in California, one dare not question the integrity of the judiciary. The animosity between bar and bench is legendary and this has bred some California superlawyers who dedicated their practice before one or two judges and always win no matter the odds. Justice depends upon retaining one of these.
California is said to be the land of fruits, nuts and flakes. No one ever stepped into a California courtroom without that thought popping into his mind.

3. Joseph Zernik
 Mar 11, 2010 12:19 PM CST
Please stand corrected, being the ABA Journal,  regarding the facts in the Richard Fine Case:
1) Richard Fine was never sentenced for Contempt, there is no valid court record such as judgment or sentencing in the case - Marina v LA County (BS109420). Neither is there any Assignment Order for the Judge in the case, or Appointment Order for the purported Debtor Examiner, Murray Gross, whose authority Mr Fine therefore justly disputed.
2)  Neither was the March 4, 2009 proceeding that was described by media as the Sentencing Hearing, ever included in the informal, online, litigation chronology (which comes with a disclaimer).
3) However, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles continues to deny access to the Register of Actions (California civil docket) in Marina v LA County (BS10940) the case, in ancillary proceedings of which Mr Fine was purportedly arrested, in disregard of First Amendment rights.
4) Neither was there ever a valid warrant for the arrest of Mr Fine.
5) Accordingly, the Sheriffs Department denied for months access to the Arrest and Booking records, in disregard of California Public Records Act.
6) Even after numerous complaints, the Sheriffs Department insisted on keeping falsely publishing online that Richard Fine was arrested at and by the non-existent Municipal Court of San Pedro, when media reported that the arrest took place on March 4, 2009, in downtown Central District of the Superior Court Courthouse, in the city of Los Angeles.
7) In response to inquiry by Supervisor Antonovich, the Sheriffs Bureau finally responded that California Public Records Act did not require it to produced records which did not exist.
8) In her scholarly June 12, 2009 Report and Recommendation in Fine v Sheriff (2:09-cv-01914) - the habeas corpus petition of Richard Fine -  US Magistrate Carla Woehrle,  never mentioned the word Warrant in a case highlighted by warrantless arrest, neither did she mention the caption of the case of the Superior Court , which purportedly was under reviewed. Moreover, the habeas corpus petition was concluded without the Register of Actions of Marina v LA County ever being produced, therefore, with no foundation at all for any other record in the case.
9) Respondent Sheriff refused to respond on the habeas corpus petition.
10) The Superior Court and Judge David Yaffe joined the case as Intervenors, through false representation by Attorney Kevin McCormick, who failed to file certification of Counsel of Record, failed to ever provide any declaration by his clients, or ever file any record provided by his clients. In short, he was likely employed as false counsel, with "no communications with client" clause.
11) Accordingly - none of the Minutes, Orders, Judgment in Fine v Sheriff, was ever entered as valid court records - all were served on Richard Fine with no valid NEFs (Notice of Electronic Filing) at all.  Neither would Terry Nafisi, Clerk of the Court allow access to inspect and to copy the NEFs in Fine v Sheriff, in disregard of First Amendment rights.
12) The Clerk of the US District Court, Los Angeles, Terry Nafisi, has continuously refused to answer on the question whether the online PACER docket in Fine v Sheriff was an honest, valid, and effectual record of the US District Court.  Such docket would not be certified either.
13) Clerk Nafisi would not answer on whether Donna Thomas, who was listed as conducting transactions on the docket of Fine v Sheriff, was at all authorized as a Deputy Clerk of the Court.
14) Likewise, in Fine v Sheriff (09-71692) Mr Fine's petitions at the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, - June 30, 2009 Order denying the petition, issued in the names of Kozinski, Paez and Tallman, was an unsigned order, which was served with no NEF at all. 

In Short, the case of Attorney Richard Fine is a historic landmark and a textbook case in providing a catalog of the ingenious methods employed by the corrupt justice system to pervert justice.

4. B. McLeod
Mar 11, 2010 3:16 PM CST
Another Fine mess hes gotten himself into!

5. Joseph Zernik

Mar 11, 2010 3:50 PM CST
Mr B McLeod is surely a legal scholar, to blame Attorney Richard Fine for being a victim of widespread corruption of the justice system
We, the 10 million who live in Los Angeles County are deprived of the right for honest Habeas Corpus petitions, and with it - the right to access court records, to inspect and to copy.  Both are rights of medieval origins in the English-speaking legal system.
In short - we are subjected to corrupt justice system of medieval nature.  No doubt - Attorney Richard Fine is to blame for it all...

6.

B. McLeod
Mar 11, 2010 7:23 PM CST

Maybe that is why they have him in the pokey.

For the people in Los Angeles County who are not in the pokey, I suppose they can leave if they don’t like how the county is run.

7.

Joseph Zernik
Mar 11, 2010 9:13 PM CST

Again - the genius of a legal scholar in Mr McLeod is unmistaken…

This nation was founded on a Constitution, The ABA runs under the motto of “Defending Liberty, Pursuing Justice”...  The Late William Brenna called the Habeas Corpus “The Great Writ”, and the “Corner Stone of the US Constitution”.  The late Louis Brandeis called the Habeas Corpus the greatest achievement of the English-speaking legal system - establishing Liberty by law.

Those who hold offices where they took oaths of loyalty to the US Constitution, but are no longer loyal to it, should be removed from office -  is an alternative solution…

LINKED:
[1] ABA Journal article and comments:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/70-year-old_lawyer_hits_one-year_mark_in_jail_in_contempt_case/#67761

The Usual:  
IN SHORT - KOZINSKI MUST RESIGN!  

"This case should demonstrate that the FBI will pursue all allegations of judicial corruption vigorously, as public corruption violations are among the most serious of all criminal conduct and can tear at the fabric of a democratic society," said John F. Pikus, special agent in charge of the Albany division, in a prepared statement.