Human Rights Alert: Alejandro Mayorkas - key figure in the Rampart Scandal (1998-2000
With Alejandro Mayorkas, an expert on cover up of judicial corruption and large-scale false-imprisonment in Los Angeles County, California, as Number 2 at DHS, and with NDAA in effect, the Los Angeles cases of the Rampart-FIPs (Falsely Imprisoned Persons) and former US prosecutor Richard Fine,as well as the current case of Roger Shuler in Alabama, may be seen in hindsight as early symptoms.
"Rampart Reconsidered". Cover of the Los Angeles Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006), regarding the Rampart Scandal (1998-2000), where it was discovered that thousands had been falsely imprisoned in Los Angeles; 70 year old, former US prosecutor Richard Fine was falsely imprisoned in Los Angeles (2009-2010) after he exposed that LA Superior Court judges took "not permitted payment" (called by media "bribes"); Alabama judicial corruption blogger Roger Shuler is currently falsely imprisoned in Shelby County; .Alejandro Mayorkas in a recent testimony before Congress. He served as US Attorney for the Central District of California during the Rampart Scandal,
Occupy Tel-Aviv, December 16 - in Los Angeles County, with 10 million residents - the most populous county in the United States, the Los Angeles Superior Court is at the heart of the corruption. Following the Rampart Scandal (1998-2000) - the largest court corruption scandal in the history of the United States, numerous official, expert, and media reports concluded so. First and foremost among them are the independent report, authored by Prof Erwin Chemerinsky in 2001, and the official Blue Ribbon Report "Rampart Reconsidered" of 2006..
Regardless, the federal executive and judicial branches refused to enforce constitutional rights in LA County, California, even after official Congressional Inquiries from both House and Senate. In fact, the federal judiciary patronizes the local LA-JR (Los Angeles Judiciary Racket).
That was the nature of the Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission, which I authored in 2010 for the first ever Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights in the United States by the United Nations. The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council UPR Report (2010), with a note referring to: "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession, and discrimination by law enforcement in California".
One of the key figures in the Rampart Scandal is Alejandro Mayorkas, who is now up for appointment as Number 2 at DHS. During the Rampart Scandal, he served as the US Attorney for the Central District of California, and was advertised as a young bright star. After the eruption of the largest court corruption scandal in the history of the United States, he permitted the LAPD to investigate itself for two years (but never issue a report at the end of a 200 investigator, 2 year probe), then be prosecuted by the local California DA Office, in the LA Superior Court. The results were predictable.
Alejandro Mayorkas was also vetted as a Member of Board of Directors of Bet Tzedek - a bastion of organized white collar crime in Los Angeles, led by then Chief Legal Officer of Countrywide, Sandor Samuels, key figure in "streamlining" real estate and mortgage fraud that brought us the financial crisis.
The core business of the LA-JR before the Rampart Scandal was control of wholesale drug trade, in Los Angeles County, which became the distribution center for the CIA wholesale cocaine trafficking operation as part of Iran-Contra. The LAPD, which did the wholesale distribution, in collusion with the DA office and judges of the LA Superior Court, framed, at times tortured to extract confessions, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced thousands to long terms of false imprisonment on drug charges - the Rampart-FIPs (Falsely Imprisoned Persons).
Already in 2001, Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional scholar, founding Dean of UC Irvine law school wrote:
"Any analysis of the Rampart scandal must begin with an appreciation of the heinous nature of what the officers did. This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states. “
“…and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted.”
“..it is telling that there is virtually no reference in the Board of Inquiry Report to the “code of silence” described by the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department.”
“No single reform can be sufficient. Reform is not an event, but a process that will take many years to complete. The hope is that this crisis provides a unique opportunity for reform. This opportunity must not be squandered. This report is written with the strong belief that reform is possible and that future Ramparts can and must be prevented."
At the end of the First Rampart Trial the LA Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Connor reversed the jury convictions of corrupt LAPD officers, under the guise that she herself had biased the jury in her faulty jury instructions, an unprecedented act for a judge in the history of the United States... Judge Connor, a former DA prosecutor, was deeply involved with LAPD in the underlying scandal and in obvious conflict of interests, a fact that was not lost on media at the time. (By the mid 2000s,Judge Jacqueline Connor was leading a group of LA Superior Court judges and others from Countrywide and Bet Tzedek in real estate fraud in the LA Superior court, and again, the US District Attorney refused to take action.)
In 2001-2, Alejandro Mayorkas prosecuted the City of LA under violation of civil rights in the US District Court, Central District of California (US v City of LA et al). The outcome was the Consent Decree and the appointment of US Judge Gary A Feess as Overseer for Civil Rights in Los Angeles for the following decade. At that time, Los Angeles shared the distinction of an Overseer for Civil Rights with the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the prisoners in the State of California prisons...
The Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report concluded in 2006 "innocent people remain in prison". Only a few of Rampart-FIPs were ever released throughout the tenure of the Overseer, and none by action of his office. According to the Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report, the LA Superior Court judges objected to the release of the Rampart-FIPs, since it would cause the "collapse of the justice system".
By 2009-10, LA Superior Court Judge David Yaffe engaged in false imprisonment under solitary confinement of the 70 year old, former US prosecutor Richard Fine. Richard Fine exposed and rebuked the taking by California judges of "not permitted" payments (called by media "bribes"). Such payments required the signing by then Governor Schwarzenegger of "retroactive immunities" (called by media "pardons"). Richard Fine's false imprisonment was permitted to continue for 18 months by the federal courts as well. And the US Attorney Office, Central Disctrict of California refused to investigate complaints against Judge David Yaffe and Sheriff Lee Baca.
With Alejandro Mayorkas, an expert on cover up of judicial corruption and large-scale false-imprisonment as Number 2 at DHS and with NDAA in effect, the Los Angeles Rampart-FIPs and Richard Fine, as well as the current false imprisonment of Roger Shuler in Alabama, may be seen in hindsight as early symptoms.
LINKS:
[1] 10-04-08 Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the UPR of the United States, as it appears in the United Nations Human Rights Council site
[2] 10-04-08 Human Rights Alert (NGO) Appendix I to submission for the 2010 UPR of Human Rights in the United States, as it appears on the UN site:
[3] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report, referring to Human Rights Alert submission with the note "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California" (page 6, paragraph 45)
[4]97-12-00 US Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, December 1997 Special Report: CIA Drug Trafficking to Los Angeles, California s
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29071814/
[5] 06-07-15 Rampart Reconsidered: LAPD's Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
[6] 01-00-00 Chemerinsky, E: The Rampart Scandal and the Criminal Justice System in Los Angeles County. Guild Practitioner, 57:121 (2001)
[7] 01-00-00 Burcham, David and Fisk, Katherine - Loyola Symposium: The Rampart Scandal - Policing the Criminal Justice System. (2001)
[1] 07-12-17 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) David Pasternak: Grant Deeds in re: 320 South Peck Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, opined as fraud by James Wedick
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24991238/
[2] 08-08-21 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) Email letter by highly decorated FBI veteran, James Wedick, regarding refusal to Investigate FBI to provide Dr Zernik protection against real estate fraud - corruption in Los Angeles County courts
http://he.scribd.com/doc/29713733/
[8] 10-01-17 False Imprisonments in Los Angeles County, California_OpEdNews.com
[9] 10-01-21 Attorney Richard Fine - dissident's false hospitalization in Los Angeles County, California_OpEdNews.Com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Attorney-Richard-Fine--di-by-Joseph-Zernik-100118-435.html
[10] 10-07-08 Marina v LA County (BS109420) Complaint Filed with US Attorney Office, Los Angeles, against Judge David Yaffe and Sheriff Lee Baca - for Public Corruption and Deprivation of Rights in Imprisonment of Richard Fine
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34057033/
[11] 10-08-09 Complaint for Public Corruption and racketeering against Judge JACQUELINE CONNOR and Others at both the Civil and Criminal Divisions of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, filed with the US District Office, Central District of California:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35592511
[10] 11-04-23 Habeas Corpus in the United States - the case of Richard Isaac Fine - Review
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24729084/
[11] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Los Angeles Superior Court - widespread corruption and refusal of US government to take action, 16th World Criminology Congress presentation
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61351469/
[12] 12-06-29 Bet Tzedek's Sandor Samuels the Scarlet Letter of the Los Angeles Jewish Community
http://he.scribd.com/doc/98638796/
[13] 13-10-26 Andrew Kreig: Alabama Journalist Roger Shuler Beaten and Arrested!_OpEdNews.Com
[13] 13-12-11 Panel sends DHS nominee Alejandro Mayorkas to Senate floor
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"Rampart Reconsidered". Cover of the Los Angeles Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006), regarding the Rampart Scandal (1998-2000), where it was discovered that thousands had been falsely imprisoned in Los Angeles; 70 year old, former US prosecutor Richard Fine was falsely imprisoned in Los Angeles (2009-2010) after he exposed that LA Superior Court judges took "not permitted payment" (called by media "bribes"); Alabama judicial corruption blogger Roger Shuler is currently falsely imprisoned in Shelby County; .Alejandro Mayorkas in a recent testimony before Congress. He served as US Attorney for the Central District of California during the Rampart Scandal,
Regardless, the federal executive and judicial branches refused to enforce constitutional rights in LA County, California, even after official Congressional Inquiries from both House and Senate. In fact, the federal judiciary patronizes the local LA-JR (Los Angeles Judiciary Racket).
That was the nature of the Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission, which I authored in 2010 for the first ever Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights in the United States by the United Nations. The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council UPR Report (2010), with a note referring to: "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession, and discrimination by law enforcement in California".
One of the key figures in the Rampart Scandal is Alejandro Mayorkas, who is now up for appointment as Number 2 at DHS. During the Rampart Scandal, he served as the US Attorney for the Central District of California, and was advertised as a young bright star. After the eruption of the largest court corruption scandal in the history of the United States, he permitted the LAPD to investigate itself for two years (but never issue a report at the end of a 200 investigator, 2 year probe), then be prosecuted by the local California DA Office, in the LA Superior Court. The results were predictable.
Alejandro Mayorkas was also vetted as a Member of Board of Directors of Bet Tzedek - a bastion of organized white collar crime in Los Angeles, led by then Chief Legal Officer of Countrywide, Sandor Samuels, key figure in "streamlining" real estate and mortgage fraud that brought us the financial crisis.
The core business of the LA-JR before the Rampart Scandal was control of wholesale drug trade, in Los Angeles County, which became the distribution center for the CIA wholesale cocaine trafficking operation as part of Iran-Contra. The LAPD, which did the wholesale distribution, in collusion with the DA office and judges of the LA Superior Court, framed, at times tortured to extract confessions, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced thousands to long terms of false imprisonment on drug charges - the Rampart-FIPs (Falsely Imprisoned Persons).
Already in 2001, Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional scholar, founding Dean of UC Irvine law school wrote:
"Any analysis of the Rampart scandal must begin with an appreciation of the heinous nature of what the officers did. This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states. “
“…and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted.”
“..it is telling that there is virtually no reference in the Board of Inquiry Report to the “code of silence” described by the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department.”
“No single reform can be sufficient. Reform is not an event, but a process that will take many years to complete. The hope is that this crisis provides a unique opportunity for reform. This opportunity must not be squandered. This report is written with the strong belief that reform is possible and that future Ramparts can and must be prevented."
At the end of the First Rampart Trial the LA Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Connor reversed the jury convictions of corrupt LAPD officers, under the guise that she herself had biased the jury in her faulty jury instructions, an unprecedented act for a judge in the history of the United States... Judge Connor, a former DA prosecutor, was deeply involved with LAPD in the underlying scandal and in obvious conflict of interests, a fact that was not lost on media at the time. (By the mid 2000s,Judge Jacqueline Connor was leading a group of LA Superior Court judges and others from Countrywide and Bet Tzedek in real estate fraud in the LA Superior court, and again, the US District Attorney refused to take action.)
In 2001-2, Alejandro Mayorkas prosecuted the City of LA under violation of civil rights in the US District Court, Central District of California (US v City of LA et al). The outcome was the Consent Decree and the appointment of US Judge Gary A Feess as Overseer for Civil Rights in Los Angeles for the following decade. At that time, Los Angeles shared the distinction of an Overseer for Civil Rights with the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the prisoners in the State of California prisons...
The Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report concluded in 2006 "innocent people remain in prison". Only a few of Rampart-FIPs were ever released throughout the tenure of the Overseer, and none by action of his office. According to the Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report, the LA Superior Court judges objected to the release of the Rampart-FIPs, since it would cause the "collapse of the justice system".
By 2009-10, LA Superior Court Judge David Yaffe engaged in false imprisonment under solitary confinement of the 70 year old, former US prosecutor Richard Fine. Richard Fine exposed and rebuked the taking by California judges of "not permitted" payments (called by media "bribes"). Such payments required the signing by then Governor Schwarzenegger of "retroactive immunities" (called by media "pardons"). Richard Fine's false imprisonment was permitted to continue for 18 months by the federal courts as well. And the US Attorney Office, Central Disctrict of California refused to investigate complaints against Judge David Yaffe and Sheriff Lee Baca.
With Alejandro Mayorkas, an expert on cover up of judicial corruption and large-scale false-imprisonment as Number 2 at DHS and with NDAA in effect, the Los Angeles Rampart-FIPs and Richard Fine, as well as the current false imprisonment of Roger Shuler in Alabama, may be seen in hindsight as early symptoms.
LINKS:
[1] 10-04-08 Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the UPR of the United States, as it appears in the United Nations Human Rights Council site
[2] 10-04-08 Human Rights Alert (NGO) Appendix I to submission for the 2010 UPR of Human Rights in the United States, as it appears on the UN site:
[3] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report, referring to Human Rights Alert submission with the note "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California" (page 6, paragraph 45)
[4]97-12-00 US Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, December 1997 Special Report: CIA Drug Trafficking to Los Angeles, California s
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29071814/
[5] 06-07-15 Rampart Reconsidered: LAPD's Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
[6] 01-00-00 Chemerinsky, E: The Rampart Scandal and the Criminal Justice System in Los Angeles County. Guild Practitioner, 57:121 (2001)
[7] 01-00-00 Burcham, David and Fisk, Katherine - Loyola Symposium: The Rampart Scandal - Policing the Criminal Justice System. (2001)
[1] 07-12-17 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) David Pasternak: Grant Deeds in re: 320 South Peck Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, opined as fraud by James Wedick
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24991238/
[2] 08-08-21 Samaan v Zernik (SC087400) Email letter by highly decorated FBI veteran, James Wedick, regarding refusal to Investigate FBI to provide Dr Zernik protection against real estate fraud - corruption in Los Angeles County courts
http://he.scribd.com/doc/29713733/
[8] 10-01-17 False Imprisonments in Los Angeles County, California_OpEdNews.com
[9] 10-01-21 Attorney Richard Fine - dissident's false hospitalization in Los Angeles County, California_OpEdNews.Com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Attorney-Richard-Fine--di-by-Joseph-Zernik-100118-435.html
[10] 10-07-08 Marina v LA County (BS109420) Complaint Filed with US Attorney Office, Los Angeles, against Judge David Yaffe and Sheriff Lee Baca - for Public Corruption and Deprivation of Rights in Imprisonment of Richard Fine
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34057033/
[11] 10-08-09 Complaint for Public Corruption and racketeering against Judge JACQUELINE CONNOR and Others at both the Civil and Criminal Divisions of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, filed with the US District Office, Central District of California:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35592511
[10] 11-04-23 Habeas Corpus in the United States - the case of Richard Isaac Fine - Review
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24729084/
[11] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Los Angeles Superior Court - widespread corruption and refusal of US government to take action, 16th World Criminology Congress presentation
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61351469/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61351469/
[12] 12-06-29 Bet Tzedek's Sandor Samuels the Scarlet Letter of the Los Angeles Jewish Community
http://he.scribd.com/doc/98638796/
[13] 13-10-26 Andrew Kreig: Alabama Journalist Roger Shuler Beaten and Arrested!_OpEdNews.Com
[13] 13-12-11 Panel sends DHS nominee Alejandro Mayorkas to Senate floor
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Panel sends DHS nominee Alejandro Mayorkas to Senate floor
All Democrats on the committee voted in favor of Alejandro Mayorkas. | AP Photo
By BURGESS EVERETT and SEUNG MIN KIM | 12/11/13 1:03 PM EST
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to advance a top Department of Homeland Security nominee to the Senate floor, despite the fact that he is the subject of an active inspector general investigation.
In a party line vote, all Democrats on the committee voted in favor of Alejandro Mayorkas to be the No. 2 at DHS. Republicans all voted “present,” protesting the approval of a nominee under investigation.
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“The Republican members have agreed to vote present because we don’t have the information to make a decision on this nominee,” said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the top Republican on the committee. “I’m extremely unhappy that it worked this way. I think we have done a disservice to this committee.”
Despite those partisan fireworks and GOP resistance, Mayorkas is on track for confirmation due to a Senate rules change that requires only a majority vote to end filibusters.
The GOP also boycotted Mayorkas’s confirmation hearing in July, asking Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) to push back consideration of the nomination until the investigation is concluded. Republicans have released information about an IG probe into Mayorkas, raising questions about whether he improperly aided a company owned by the brother of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with foreign investor visas.
During his confirmation hearing in July, Mayorkas told senators that he has “never, ever in my career exercised undue influence to influence the outcome of a case.”
Carper said both Democratic and Republican committee staffers were recently briefed by the inspector general on the investigation and that “to date, they have found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by anybody” at the Department of Homeland Security.
Carper also noted that Mayorkas himself has never been contacted by investigators – “no phone call, no letter, no email, nothing.” And he was critical of Republicans who have refused to meet with Mayorkas himself to address the allegations.
“Acting management, acting leadership is no substitute for Senate-confirmed leadership,” Carper said. “We don’t need it next February, or next March. We need it now.”
Coburn said holding the confirmation vote on Mayorkas “appears to be virtually without precedent” since the inspector general’s investigation is ongoing. He said there are six whistleblowers who have privately raised concerns about Mayorkas’s actions to both Coburn and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and tossed aside Democrats’ assumptions that the IG investigation has likely found no wrongdoing.
“It is not true to assume that there has been no wrongdoing,” Coburn said. “So that’s why we need an IG report.”
But Democrats said the IG investigation has dragged on for 15 months and questioned why it had not been fast-tracked due to the high-profile nature of the probe and of Mayorkas’s nomination. Carper said the IG’s office recently told Democrats that it would be several months before the investigation would conclude, which Democrats view as an unnecessary delay given the importance of the position.
Democrats also contend the IG has declined to respond to questions posed in a November letter by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) about why Republicans were notified of the investigation while Democrats were not.
DHS has been plagued by lack of Senate-confirmed leadership in its top posts. It is currently operating without a confirmed leader — after former secretary Janet Napolitano left this fall to lead the University of California system – but DHS nominee Jeh Johnson is expected to be confirmed this month.
The Senate previously confirmed Mayorkas twice for other positions. He is a former federal prosecutor in California and is currently the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
