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Around March 2016 I returned to Senator Feinstein's offices at One Post Street where I encountered a guard who basically threatened with an accurate statement "If you don't leave I'll drop you to ground!" and that leads to G4S OrlandoMurders.blogspot.com where Omar echoed his rage on the machine but his targets were the wrong choice.



BEGIN_DATEADDRESSJOB_TITLEPREVAILING_WAGE_2
12/30/2006RAPISCAN SECURITY PRODUCTS, INC.
3232 West El Segundo Boulevard
Hawthorne CA, 90250
Software Engineer
1/1/2007Los Alamos National Security, LLC
P. O. Box 1663
Los Alamos NM, 87545
Postdoctoral Research Associate
1/1/2007State of WA, Employment Security Depart
P. O. Box 9046
Olympia WA, 98507-9046
Information Tech Applications Specialist 3
1/1/2007Los Alamos National Security, LLC
P. O. Box 1663
Los Alamos NM, 87545
Postdoctoral Research Associate
1/1/2007RAPISCAN SECURITY PRODUCTS, INC.
3232 West El Segundo Boulevard
Hawthorne CA, 90250
Director, R&D
1/2/20073VR Security, Inc.
185 Berry Street, Suite 4150
San Francisco CA, 94107
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
1/2/2007Los Alamos National Security, LLC
P.O. Box 1663
Los Alamos NM, 87545
Postdoctoral Research Associate
1/17/2007Fishnet Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Fishnet Security
1710 Walnut Street
Kansas City MO, 64108
Senior Application Developer (Programmer)
1/17/2007Fishnet Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Fishnet Security
1710 Walnut Street
Kansas City MO, 64108
Senior Application Developer (Programmer)
1/17/2007Los Alamos National Security, LLC
P. O. Box 1663
Los Alamos NM, 87545
Postdoctoral Researcher
2/1/2007Los Alamos National Security, LLC
P. O. Box 1663
Los Alamos NM, 87545
Postdoctoral Researcher
2/1/2007RSA Security Inc
174 Middlesex Turnpike
bedford MA, 01730
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
2/1/2007RSA Security Inc
174 Middlesex Turnpike
bedford MA, 01730
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
2/1/2007RSA Security Inc
174 Middlesex Turnpike
Bedford MA, 01730
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
2/1/2007UTC Fire & Security Corporation
9 Farm Springs Road
Farmington CT, 06034
FINANCE MANAGER, GLOBAL SHARED SERVICES
2/8/2007Bosch Security Systems, Inc.
130 Perinton Parkway
Fairport NY, 14450
Electrical Engineer
2/9/2007Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
100 Court Street
Binghamton NY, 13902-1625
Associate Actuary
2/13/2007Los Alamos National Security, LLC
P.O. Box 1663
Los Alamos NM, 87545
Postdoctoral Fellow
2/15/2007Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
100 Court Street
Binghamton NY, 13902-1625
Second Vice President/Product Dev. & Actuary
3/2/2007Los Alamos National Security, LLC
P.O. Box 1663
Los Alamos NM, 87545
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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H-1b Database @g4S @Livermore_Lab @LosAlamosNatLab @senfeinstein @houseBenghazi

San Francisco CA

Around March 2016 I returned to Senator Feinstein's offices at One Post Street where I encountered a guard who basically threatened with an accurate statement "If you don't leave I'll drop you to ground!" and that leads to G4S OrlandoMurders.blogspot.com where Omar echoed his rage on the machine but his targets were the wrong choice.


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Feds, Luna County Sheriff say ‘Islamic refugee’ report is false

"It's really unfortunate to our citizens that they have to endure that kind of fear"
 
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A sensational report of a New Mexico sheriff’s deputy arresting an undocumented “Islamic refugee” who had gas pipeline plans with her as she crossed the desert near the border appears to be unfounded.
The report cited involvement by the FBI, U.S. Border Patrol and the Luna County Sheriff. Each of those law enforcement agencies told KRQE News 13 that there’s no evidence the incident ever happened.

Still, the article has been widely shared across social media since it was published Wednesday on the website of the conservative group Judicial Watch. The organization says it “promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.” After repeated calls and emails asking for comment, a spokesman for Judicial Watch said the group stands by its story.

Luna County Sheriff John Mooradian said officials from the U.S. Border Patrol called him Wednesday, asking if a deputy of his had made the arrest, as the article claimed. Mooradian checked with his patrol supervisor and confirmed none of his deputies made such a stop, let alone an arrest.
Mooradian said he’d likely be fielding calls from concerned people in Luna County who live near the 54-mile border with Mexico.

“Before putting out such an article that could put people in such an uproar, maybe they should confirm their stories,” Mooradian said. “…it’s really unfortunate to our citizens that they have to endure that kind of fear.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Doug Mosier, who works out of the agency’s El Paso office, told KRQE News 13 on Wednesday evening that the agency had “no information that would corroborate these allegations.”

Frank Fisher, a spokesman for the FBI in Albuquerque said on Thursday that agents look into all such reports, but that the Judicial Watch article “does not appear to be substantiated.”
Mooradian said he’d received several inquiries from other agencies, including the office of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez. Press aides for Martinez did not return requests for comment from KRQE News 13.









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The Strack Family Murders Killing Children for Money Power and Energy?



(CNN)The mysterious deaths of five Utah family members in their Springville home baffled authorities at first.
Benjamin and Kristi Strack were found dead on their bed on September 27. On the floor near them in the locked master bedroom lay the bodies of three of their children, from 11 to 14 years old.
    There were no signs of violence, but beside each body, there were cups with liquid inside.
    On Tuesday, police in Springville revealed the conclusion of their investigation: The parents had committed suicide by taking toxic levels of drugs and had given fatal levels of drugs -- including the heroin substitute methadone -- to their younger two children.
    Their 14-year-old son, Benson, also had taken toxic levels of drugs, but the manner of death was ruled "could not be determined" because investigators were unsure whether he was capable of deciding to join his parents in committing suicide.
    But why would a family do this?
    According to a statement released by J. Scott Finlayson, chief of police for Springville, the parents had bought into "a concern about a pending apocalypse."
    From interviews with friends and relatives of the Strack family, the statement said, "it became fairly apparent that the topic of 'leaving' this world was a fairly common theme."
    It added, "While some friends thought that suicide may have been, or could have been included in their plans, others believed they were going to move somewhere and live off the grid."
    Tragically, the parents chose the former option, police believe, and took their children with them.

    No suicide notes

    They didn't leave behind many clues to their thinking. Investigators found a notebook with the kind of handwritten lists parents write before going on vacation -- like feeding the pets and asking someone to watch after the house -- but no suicide notes were uncovered.
    However, one note was found apparently written by Benson to a friend, "which indicated that Benson was aware that he may die, and was bequeathing his personal possessions to his friend," the police statement said.
    "This was the only letter or note found that gave any indication that family members knew what may transpire in the home."
    It was this note that led investigators to conclude that Benson might have known that he was going to die, having been heavily influenced by his parents' apocalyptic beliefs, and could have agreed to the plan.
    "The other two children were obviously too young, at ages eleven and twelve, to consent to any sort of agreement to commit suicide," police said of his sister, Emery Strack, and brother, Zion Strack.
    This, and the fact that their parents must have provided the drugs, led police to determine that their deaths were homicide.

    Autopsy reports

    The medical examiner's report said the drugs that caused the children's deaths were methadone and diphenhydramine, a common over-the-counter antihistamine used in such medications as Benylin and Nytol.
    The autopsy for Kristi Strack, 36, revealed the cause of death to be "drug toxicity," with methadone, dextrorphan, diphenhydramine and doxylamine found in her system.
    She was receiving methadone treatment, police said, so she would have known just how toxic this combination of drugs would be. This contributed to their determination of suicide.
    Her husband, Benjamin Strack, 37, was found to have a toxic level of heroin in his body.
    Investigators say they think he was the last to die, his family around him.
    "His arm and leg were draped over Kristi. He was on top of the bed covers; while the other family members were under bed covers. This would indicate that he was likely the last in the family to succumb to the toxic levels of drugs in his system," the statement said.
    This was the awful scene that confronted another son of Kristi Strack when he and a girlfriend, who'd noticed an eerie quiet in the house, got inside the locked bedroom.
    In an audio recording of the 911 call made from the house, also released by police, an emotional-sounding young woman can be heard saying that "the whole family is dead" and that they've "killed themselves."
    Finlayson expressed his condolences to Strack family relatives, saying the unexpected nature of the deaths must have intensified their shock and grief.
    "In a case such as this one, where this family has lost not one, but five family members, the deep emotional pain must be incredibly difficult. Our hearts and prayers go out to the family," his statement said.
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    “Islamic Refugee” With Gas Pipeline Plans Arrested in New Mexico Border County

    “Islamic Refugee” With Gas Pipeline Plans Arrested in New Mexico Border County

    JUNE 15, 2016  

    Police in a U.S. town bordering Mexico have apprehended an undocumented, Middle Eastern woman in possession of the region’s gas pipeline plans, law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch. Authorities describe the woman as an “Islamic refugee” pulled over during a traffic stop by a deputy sheriff in Luna County, New Mexico which shares a 54-mile border with Mexico. County authorities alerted the U.S. Border Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) has been deployed to the area to investigate, sources with firsthand knowledge of the probe confirm.

    The gas pipeline plans in the woman’s possession include the Deming region, law enforcement sources say. Deming is a Luna County city situated about 35 miles north of the Mexican border and 60 miles west of Las Cruces. It has a population of about 15,000. Last year one local publication listed Deming No. 1 on a list of the“ten worst places” to live in New Mexico due to high unemployment, poverty, crime and a horrible public education system. The entire region is a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), according to the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center due to the large amounts of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and marijuana smuggled through the state by Mexican traffickers. Specifically, the renowned Juárez and Sinaloa cartels operate in the area, the feds affirm in a report.

    Judicial Watch has broken a number of stories in the last few years about Mexican drug traffickers smuggling Islamic terrorists into the United States through the porous southern border. Last summer high-level sources on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border offered alarming details about an operation in which cartels smuggle foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town near El Paso. Classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the U.S. government, the foreigners get transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across Highway 20.

    A few months ago Judicial Watch reported that members of a cell of Islamic terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into the U.S. to explore targets for future attacks with the help of Mexican drug traffickers. Among the jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year, according to Judicial Watch’s high-level Homeland Security sources. Now Khabir trains thousands of men—mostly Syrians and Yemenis—to fight in an ISIS base situated in the Mexico-U.S. border region near Ciudad Juárez. Khabir actually brags in a European newspaper article about how easy it is to stake out American targets because the border region is wide open. In the same story Foreign Affairs Secretary Claudia Ruiz, Mexico’s top diplomat, says she doesn’t understand why the Obama administration and the U.S. media are “culpably neglecting this phenomenon,” adding that “this new wave of fundamentalism could have nasty surprises in store for the United States.”

    This recent New Mexico incident brings to mind a story Judicial Watch broke less than a year ago involving five young Middle Eastern men apprehended by Border Patrol in an Arizona town (Amado) situated about 30 miles from the Mexican border. Two of the Middle Eastern men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in backpacks, alarming Border Patrol officials enough to call the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for backup. A multitude of federal agents descended on the property and the two men carrying the cylinders were believed to be taken into custody by the FBI. Only three of the men’s names were entered in the Border Patrol’s E3 reporting system, which is used by the agency to track apprehensions, detention hearings and removals of illegal immigrants. E3 also collects and transmits biographic and biometric data including fingerprints for identification and verification of individuals encountered at the border. The other two men were listed as “unknown subjects,” which is unheard of. “In all my years I’ve never seen that before,” a veteran federal law enforcement agent told Judicial Watch.
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    “Islamic Refugee” With Gas Pipeline Plans Arrested in New Mexico Border County

    “Islamic Refugee” With Gas Pipeline Plans Arrested in New Mexico Border County

    JUNE 15, 2016  

    Police in a U.S. town bordering Mexico have apprehended an undocumented, Middle Eastern woman in possession of the region’s gas pipeline plans, law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch. Authorities describe the woman as an “Islamic refugee” pulled over during a traffic stop by a deputy sheriff in Luna County, New Mexico which shares a 54-mile border with Mexico. County authorities alerted the U.S. Border Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) has been deployed to the area to investigate, sources with firsthand knowledge of the probe confirm.
    The gas pipeline plans in the woman’s possession include the Deming region, law enforcement sources say. Deming is a Luna County city situated about 35 miles north of the Mexican border and 60 miles west of Las Cruces. It has a population of about 15,000. Last year one local publication listed Deming No. 1 on a list of the“ten worst places” to live in New Mexico due to high unemployment, poverty, crime and a horrible public education system. The entire region is a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), according to the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center due to the large amounts of methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and marijuana smuggled through the state by Mexican traffickers. Specifically, the renowned Juárez and Sinaloa cartels operate in the area, the feds affirm in a report.
    Judicial Watch has broken a number of stories in the last few years about Mexican drug traffickers smuggling Islamic terrorists into the United States through the porous southern border. Last summer high-level sources on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border offered alarming details about an operation in which cartels smuggle foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town near El Paso. Classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the U.S. government, the foreigners get transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across Highway 20.
    A few months ago Judicial Watch reported that members of a cell of Islamic terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into the U.S. to explore targets for future attacks with the help of Mexican drug traffickers. Among the jihadists that travel back and forth through the porous southern border is a Kuwaiti named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more than a year, according to Judicial Watch’s high-level Homeland Security sources. Now Khabir trains thousands of men—mostly Syrians and Yemenis—to fight in an ISIS base situated in the Mexico-U.S. border region near Ciudad Juárez. Khabir actually brags in a European newspaper article about how easy it is to stake out American targets because the border region is wide open. In the same story Foreign Affairs Secretary Claudia Ruiz, Mexico’s top diplomat, says she doesn’t understand why the Obama administration and the U.S. media are “culpably neglecting this phenomenon,” adding that “this new wave of fundamentalism could have nasty surprises in store for the United States.”
    This recent New Mexico incident brings to mind a story Judicial Watch broke less than a year ago involving five young Middle Eastern men apprehended by Border Patrol in an Arizona town (Amado) situated about 30 miles from the Mexican border. Two of the Middle Eastern men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in backpacks, alarming Border Patrol officials enough to call the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for backup. A multitude of federal agents descended on the property and the two men carrying the cylinders were believed to be taken into custody by the FBI. Only three of the men’s names were entered in the Border Patrol’s E3 reporting system, which is used by the agency to track apprehensions, detention hearings and removals of illegal immigrants. E3 also collects and transmits biographic and biometric data including fingerprints for identification and verification of individuals encountered at the border. The other two men were listed as “unknown subjects,” which is unheard of. “In all my years I’ve never seen that before,” a veteran federal law enforcement agent told Judicial Watch.
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    The Strack Murders, USDOJ and PG&E San Bruno Letter

    During summer of 2014 this former sub contract PG&E Programmer attempted to recover is $20,000 in losses with PG&E Sub Contractor Ravenel Enterprises was threatened with arrest by PG&E at 55 Beal Street San Francisco.

    Between the February 2011 hire date and Bennett's car being totaled his friends, family, customers and clients have been slaughtered with little to zero feedback.  Sorry is the saddest for your loss (again) and that's how the powerful governments operate.
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    H-1b Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    Sample of the Labor Condition Database
    Company: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    Source: Department of Labor

    BEGIN_DATE ADDRESS JOB_TITLE PREVAILING_WAGE_2
    10/1/2006 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    1551 Eastlake Avenue East
    Seattle WA, 98102
    Program Officer/Financial Analyst
    10/1/2006 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    1551 Eastlake Avenue East
    Seattle WA, 98102
    SPO, Agricultural Economist, Agricultural Developm
    10/1/2006 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    1551 Eastlake Avenue East
    Seattle WA, 98102
    Financial & Program Analyst
    10/1/2006 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    1551 Eastlake Avenue East
    Seattle WA, 98102
    Financial & Program Analyst
    10/1/2006 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    1551 Eastlake Avenue East
    Seattle WA, 98102
    SPO Economist, Financial Services
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    Emory Strack Poster

    A Murder Near Presidents

    JoBenet Ramsey

    Ashley Turton well known Congressional staffer but husband Dan Turton was President Obama's gatekeeper.  Her tragic death leads to Duke and Progress Energy who coincidently like PG&E retained G4S which is the Omar Mateen Orlando Shooter.

     

    Bleeding For PG&E

    In July 2011, CHP Officers arrested me for PC-270 (Child Support) as ever since my truck exploded in 2004 I've had endless attempts on my life. No one listened and for over two years I begged for help from Senator Feinstein then one day G4S emerges. 

     

    Former Duke and Progress Enegy Lobbyist

    There is no reality to events around me.  Accidents, arson and fires. 

     

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    LGBT Facts compared to Islam -

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    Clinton Foundation Outsourcing

    Oops! Clinton Foundation outsourced tech jobs to H-1B visa holders

    By Thomas Lifson

    The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which does “wonderful work” (if you ask Hillary), also has sought to hire a lot of foreign tech workers brought to the country under the H-1B visa program to fill jobs Americans supposedly can’t be found to perform.  Breitbart reports:

    The Clinton family charities have outsourced many U.S. white-collar jobs to foreign college graduates instead of hiring American college graduates.

    The outsourcing started in 2004 and it continues to this year. When asked if the foundation is still hiring foreign white-collar workers via the controversial H-1B visa program, Vena Cooper, one of the foundation’s personnel officers, responded “We do.”

    The foundations declined to answer questions from Breitbart News, but available data shows they sought to hire up to 130 foreign graduates.  That’s roughly half the number of 250 jobs outsourced by Disney last October, which has reignited political criticism of the middle-class outsourcing program. 

    The 130 foreign graduates sought by the Clinton’s foundations were and are not immigrants. Instead, they’re temporary “guest” workers who fill outsourced professional jobs for up to six years. 

    The Clintons’ foreign graduates have been hired via the H-1B visa program that also is used by Disney and U.S. corporations and universities to employ a population of roughly 650,000 young and cheap foreign professionals in business, design, healthcare,software, science, education, p.r. and media and pharmaceuticaljobs. After their six years in the United States, most H-1Bs return home with the work-experience and connections that help them compete against U.S. professionals in the global marketplace. 

    The young foreign H-1B professionals are also used to push down average salaries earned by experienced and older American professionals. In turn, those salary cuts boost profit margins and company values on Wall Street.

    Hey, those private jets and 5-star luxury hotels favored by the traveling Clintons don’t come cheap, so they’ve got to pinch pennies wherever they can.  And besides, a lot of their money comes from foreign sources, so they’re just returning it to some of the home countries.

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    PG&E to face criminal charges in trial linked to San Bruno blast

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    The PG&E Gas Can Man is either a ghost or the secret sauce needed to prove domestic terrorism. 
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    Nancy McFadden PG&E COS now employed by Jerry Brown
    Howard V.  Golub who has a son my sons age tutored by his classmate – my son whose friend was Ryan Fuchs killed in Danville. 
    Peter A. Darbee lives 1.3 miles from accident scene where my car was totaled in Lafayette.
    Michael Peevey whose stupidity was thinking they could rigged or stage accidents to shift burden to Rate Payers. 
     
     
    By George Avalos, gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com
    POSTED:   06/13/2016 03:29:00 PM PDT | UPDATED:   118 MIN. AGO
    SAN BRUNO -- In a federal trial that could bring closure to San Bruno residents devastated by the 2010 pipeline disaster, PG&E faces an array of criminal charges linked to the explosion that killed eight people and demolished a Peninsula neighborhood.
    Jury selection for the trial, in which PG&E faces 13 criminal counts, is scheduled to begin Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The charges include one count of obstruction of a federal probe into the blast and 12 counts that it violated pipeline safety regulations. If convicted on all 13 charges, the utility giant could be fined up to $562 million.
    File photo: Crews load  an abandoned segment of pipe that was once part of the gas line that exploded in San Bruno last year.in San Bruno , Calif., on
    File photo: Crews load an abandoned segment of pipe that was once part of the gas line that exploded in San Bruno last year.in San Bruno , Calif., on Friday , July 29 , 2011. (JOHN GREEN/Staff archives)
    Investigators believe the deadly explosion was caused by a lethal combination of negligence, poor record keeping and lazy oversight. Federal prosecutors are likely to contend in the trial that PG&E's hunger to harvest a bumper crop of profits from ratepayers caused the company to neglect the safety of its customers.
    "PG&E's willful decisions not to maintain records, conduct proper pipeline assessments and otherwise comply with federal pipeline safety regulations were part of a corporate culture of prioritizing profits over safety," federal prosecutors wrote in papers filed in November with the federal court.
    PG&E has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
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    "The San Bruno explosion was a tragic accident, and we have demonstrated our accountability," said Greg Snapper, a PG&E spokesman. "We have seen no evidence that PG&E employees intentionally violated the Pipeline Safety Act or obstructed justice."
    City officials in San Bruno are eager for the long-delayed trial to begin.
    "We believe PG&E is guilty of a dereliction of its duty to protect the citizens of San Bruno and customers all over their service area," San Bruno Mayor James Ruane said in an interview with this newspaper. "We hope this trial will bring about justice and transparency, which PG&E has not opened up to."
    San Francisco-based PG&E has undertaken numerous steps to upgrade and repair its vast web of natural gas pipelines, including the construction of a gas-control facility that serves as a high-tech nerve center for its pipeline system.
    Still, company officials did not answer the question directly when asked recently why, if PG&E has demonstrated accountability for the Sept. 9, 2010, disaster, the utility did not plead guilty to the criminal charges.
    "It is one thing to accept responsibility for the obvious facts of an explosion and the damage and destruction that was caused," said San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson. "But it is another thing entirely to accept true responsibility for the negligence that caused the system to fail and create the disaster."
    State regulators in April 2015 hit PG&E with a $1.6 billion penalty for causing the explosion, the largest financial punishment ever imposed on an American utility.
    "It is rare for corporations to actually go on trial," said Peter Henning, a professor of law with Wayne State University in Detroit. "PG&E may feel they have already gotten a black eye in public. Sometimes corporations draw a line in the sand and tell the prosecutors to prove their case."
    Among the high-profile witnesses who are expected to be called to bolster the prosecution's case is former PG&E Chief Executive Peter Darbee, the company's top boss in the years before the explosion and when the blast occurred. Darbee received a $34.8 million severance package when he left the company in 2011.
    Prosecutors also intend to call Leslie McNiece, a former PG&E executive, as a witness. McNiece is expected to testify she encountered opposition and pushback from top company executives in connection with her PG&E-ordered task of improving the utility's record keeping on its pipelines.
    Eight current or former PG&E executives have received court-ordered immunity, according to case documents filed by the U.S. attorney's office. Darbee is not getting immunity.
    Brian Cherry, a former PG&E regulatory executive who received immunity, will testify about the utility's statements to the PUC and the National Transportation Safety Board regarding an array of issues, including company policies about gas pipe pressure and pipeline records.
    William Hayes, a PG&E gas operations executive who was a company representative for the NTSB probe into the explosion, will testify about the utility's policies regarding when it would test for problems in older pipelines -- and what PG&E told the NTSB about those policies.
    "This is at the heart of the obstruction charge," prosecutors said in court papers.
    The original indictment against PG&E came in April 2014. The trial was initially set to begin in March, but a flurry of motions by PG&E's defense team delayed the start of the trial several times.
    "There have been a lot of tricks and a lot of delays by PG&E," said state Sen. Jerry Hill, whose San Mateo County district includes San Bruno. "Almost six years after the explosion, people will finally see some justice in this, and the families may be able to go on with their lives."
    Contact George Avalos at 408-859-5167. Follow him at Twitter.com/georgeavalos.
































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    Arson: Ford Motor Company Wins Jury Verdict in Limousine Fire Case


    Ford Motor Company Wins Jury Verdict in Limousine Fire Case


    Shook, Hardy & Bacon successfully represented Ford Motor Company in a month-long trial involving a fire in a limousine that had been stretched from a Ford Lincoln Town Car.
    Five women died in the fire, which occurred in 2013 on the Hayward/San Mateo Bridge. The plaintiffs were the husband and two young children of one of the women. This was the last remaining case of the nine originally filed, and the only one to go to trial. Ford was the only defendant at trial, all other defendants having reached pretrial settlements with the plaintiffs.
    The plaintiffs claimed Ford was aware of a defect in the Town Car that could cause friction between the driveshaft and floorpan sufficient to ignite the interior of the limousine.
    Shook’s team argued that when the Town Car was stretched into a limousine, it was weight restricted to six passengers in the rear, but was later modified by limousine operators to carry up to 12 passengers, an overloading condition that led to the fracture of the floor structure, and contact with the driveshaft.
    The plaintiff sought more than $42 million, including $2.9 million in compensatory damages. After four weeks of trial, the San Mateo (California) Superior Court jury returned a full defense verdict.
    The Shook trial team was led by partners Frank Kelly and Grant Law. The legal issues at trial were handled by partner Amir Nassihi.
    Geronga v. Ford Motor Co., San Mateo Superior Court, Case No. CIV524889 (May 26, 2016)
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    Brown Adviser Investigated For Stock Nondisclosure

    Brown Adviser Investigated For Stock Nondisclosure

    DAILY JOURNAL OF LOS ANGELES

    The Fair Political Practices Commission opened an investigation into Nancy E. McFadden, a former senior vice president at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., after receiving a complaint that she advised Gov. Jerry Brown on energy-related legislation and appointments to regulatory boards in 2011 and 2012 while holding $1 million in energy-related stock.
    The commission said it would limit its inquiry to McFadden’s failure to disclosure the stock holdings on economic interest statements in lieu of a larger conflict-of-interest investigation, citing insufficient evidence.
    “For her not to have recused herself on utility matters is an outrageous abuse of public trust, and the FPPC must be using a standard to convict when they say ‘insufficient evidence’” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog. The nonprofit law firm filed the 57-page complaint this month, attaching emails, economic filings, and timelines linking energy stock price fluctuations to gubernatorial decisions and state legislation McFadden worked on or had knowledge of before they became public in 2011 and 2012.
    “When you have emails between Public Utilities Commissioners talking about who’s going to be appointed next to appease energy investors, and they write ‘Nancy said to send resumes,’ and those officials are now under criminal investigation or serving as government witnesses themselves, you would think that’s a sufficient basis to open an investigation,” Court added.
    McFadden is executive secretary to Brown. She served during his first term beginning in 1975 and was senior advisor to former Gov. Gray Davis. McFadden has been described as Brown’s top aide and chief liaison to the Legislature, as well as a possible successor to State Attorney General Kamala D. Harris.
    A response to the FPPC complaint made public by the governor’s office asserted that profits from stock sales are not required disclosures under the state’s Political Reform Act.
    “It’s not surprising that the FPPC found these conflict of interest allegations totally baseless and will not pursue an investigation,” said Evan Westrup, press secretary to the governor. “We have already acknowledged inadvertent filing errors, and amended [economic interest statements] have already been re-filed with the FPPC to clear this up.”
    According to Gov Code Section 82030(b)(5), reportable income excludes stock holdings “except for proceeds from the sale of these securities.”
    But subdivision (b)(12) adds that stock sale profits do not have to be reported as long as “the filer sells…and does not know or have reason to know the identity of the purchaser.”
    Consumer Watchdog said the impropriety stems not from who paid her for the stocks, but whether her sales were timed to profit from pro-utility policies she helped shape or knew about from working in the Capitol.
    “Ms. McFadden had a standing order known to PG&E and her financial advisor to sell those options as soon as they vested, regardless of price; those orders were automatically carried out the same day,” the response to the complaint from the governor’s office states.
    Additional disclosures filed with the response reveal McFadden also had up to $100,000 in stock options from Linn Energy, most of which has since been sold.
    “Neither Ms. McFadden, nor her financial advisor, had knowledge these options existed,” and sold them upon discovery “without regard to share price,” the governor’s office continued.
    The nonprofit said it would expand its investigation through 2015 and file additional complaints in light of fracking-related legislation that may have affected Linn Energy share prices.
    “I’m a certified fraud examiner, and in terms of gathering sufficient evidence I wouldn’t allow the FPPC to discuss the case with the press secretary or have him answer on her behalf,” said Michael J. Aguirre, a former city attorney of San Diego who unearthed the emails detailing meetings between investors and government officials. “This is Ms. McFadden’s personal obligation.”
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    Seeno company charged with bank fraud; judge criticizes family members for not attending hearing

    CONCORD -- Six years after federal agents raided the Seeno homebuilder headquarters, a visibly annoyed federal judge on Friday excoriated family members for failing to attend a hearing where one of their companies was expected to plead guilty to criminal bank fraud charges. PG_mcfadden

     

     

     

     

    Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers refused to agree to the plea deal because she said she did not have enough evidence to accept a fine and restitution of $11 million for Discovery Sales. Earlier in the day, the company was formally charged for its role in the "builder bailout" scam that allowed the Seeno companies to continue selling properties at high prices during the housing market downturn by obtaining mortgages for homebuyers through illegal means.

    Gonzalez Rogers focused her ire on the absence at the plea hearing of Discovery Sales President Albert Seeno III, who along with his father, Albert Seeno Jr., operates a Bay Area homebuilding empire.

    "It's his company, and he's not here to take responsibility for what his company has done?" the judge asked two attorneys representing the Seeno company. "I find that a little odd. I don't find it particularly appropriate."

    Gonzalez Rogers, who in recent years accepted plea deals from three former Seeno employees implicated in the scam, said she would not "rubber stamp" the agreement that would spare Seeno family member from individual criminal charges.


    "The American people, rightly so, are very frustrated with the conduct which was criminal ... which led to the financial disaster in this country," the judge said. "(Seeno III) shows an unwillingness to publicly take accountability for his company's actions, and that says something for me whether the company is entitled (to the agreed-upon fine)."

    In its plea agreement, the Seeno company acknowledged that through incentive programs, mortgage payment assistance and other means it fraudulently got banks to approve loans for unqualified buyers. In some cases, the homes were worth less than their inflated loans at the time of purchase.

    Gonzalez Rogers asked why Seeno III was not charged.

    "In the judgment of the U.S. Attorney's Office ... we don't have sufficient evidence to convict (Seeno III)," Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann said.

    Seeno's attorneys, who declined to comment outside court, told the judge that company officials are not required to appear at such plea agreements and reminded her that not all the homes sold by Discovery Sales during that period were involved in the scheme.

    The agreement, if approved, would end the six-year investigation that netted indictments against three company employees and a half dozen Seeno associates. As a result of the homes they sold through the bailout scheme, the Seenos continued receiving large lines of credit from banks to remain operational.

    "It allowed Discovery to stay in business over a difficult economic period in time," Hemann told the judge. "They staved off what was potentially bankruptcy or an enormous loss."

    During a 16-month period in 2008 and 2009, when the alleged scam transpired, various Seeno companies opened at least $1.24 billion in construction lines of credit, according to an investigation by this newspaper.

    More than 325 Seeno and Discovery homes sold from 2006 to 2008, exceeding $200 million in sales, used a series of illegal schemes, according to the charging document. The total loss is estimated at $75 million, but despite the bank fraud charge, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase -- the two preferred lenders of Discovery Sales -- were hardly innocent victims, Hemann said.

    "In this case, the banks are not fully without blame," Hemann said. "Wells Fargo made a lot of money. In fact, it may not have lost money at all through their relationship with Discovery Sales, and the same with JP Morgan Chase."

    Prosecutors allege Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase would issue the loans, receive origination fees and quickly sell the loans, which would continue being sold and eventually packaged in securities.

    "Everyone was making money gaming the system, or at least trying to do so: the builders, the buyers, the real estate agents, the mortgage brokers and the originating banks, and the banks who securitized the bad loans," Hemann wrote in his sentencing memorandum.

    "The losers are way downstream and essentially the American people," Hemann told the judge.

    Seeno attorney William Goldman told the judge that determining the actual losses in this case would be difficult and time-consuming because tracing the loans as they went deeper downstream was "basically impossible."

    As part of the tentative agreement, the Seenos had agreed to pay $3 million in restitution to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two taxpayer-sponsored financial services companies, according to court documents. Discovery Sales will also be placed on probation for five years.

    Two of three former Seeno employees who cooperated with FBI investigators have yet to be sentenced for their guilty pleas as part of this scheme. In February, Jason Sterlino was sentenced to six months in prison for what Hemann called "minor fraud" done to further the scheme.

    Former Discovery Sales Vice President Ayman Shahid and sales executive Carey Hendrickson have also pleaded guilty and were supposed to be sentenced this month, but their attorneys said those hearings have been postponed.

    Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.

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    Former Seeno company president sues three family members

     

    By Matthias Gafni Contra Costa Times
    POSTED:   07/12/2012 05:16:57 PM PDT | UPDATED:   4 YEARS AGO
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    In the latest flurry of Seeno-related legal troubles, a second executive from the family's failed Nevada company sued three members of the family and their associates this week, accusing them of racketeering involving such criminal activities as extortion, tax fraud, and mail and wire fraud.
    Bradley Mamer, the former president and CEO of Wingfield Nevada Group, a company founded by former Nevada lobbyist Harvey Whittemore and eventually co-owned by two Seeno brothers, sued former bosses Albert Seeno Jr., Albert Seeno III, Thomas Seeno, Michael Ghiorso and Kevin McCauley on Wednesday in a Nevada federal court, asking for more than $500,000 in damages.
    The lawsuit paints an unflattering portrait of Albert Seeno Jr. and Albert Seeno III -- who have operated a Concord-based group of development and contracting companies for decades -- and their actions as their Nevada business venture imploded during the housing market collapse.
    Mamer makes numerous claims, including threats of violence, environmental malfeasance and federal tax violations. Many of those claims came to light in a separate Feb. 1 federal lawsuit filed by Whittemore, who accused the father-and-son Seenos of racketeering, extortion, grand larceny and making threats.
    Days earlier, the Seenos had sued Whittemore, then a friend of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, alleging Whittemore embezzled and misappropriated tens of millions of dollars from their joint company.
     As those two cases inch forward, the FBI -- which along with other federal agencies raided the Seeno's Concord headquarters in February 2010 -- continues to investigate potential mortgage fraud. A home sales executive has already been indicted, and prosecutors said they expect more arrests in the fall.
    Calls and emails to the Mamer and Seeno attorneys were not returned Wednesday.
    'LAWLESS'
    Mamer, who served Wingfield and a predecessor for 17 years, claimed that once Seeno Jr. and his son came on board, the company -- which spearheaded a massive development project in the Nevada desert called Coyote Springs -- was "turned into a lawless and hostile environment by the defendants through a pattern of racketeering activity."
    The first sign of trouble, Mamer said, was Feb. 19, 2010, the day after the FBI, IRS and Secret Service raided the Seenos' Concord office. Larry Gunderson, CFO for Thomas Seeno, issued an email to Wingfield's bankers, owners and executives -- including Mamer -- saying, "Albert told Tom that he thought they were investigating mortgage loans."
    By April 2010, Albert Seeno Jr., became disgruntled with his Wingfield investment, and that July he and his son took over its management, Mamer said.
    Among the allegations in Mamer's suit:


  • On Aug. 20, 2010, in a "clandestine-like manner," Seeno III had an information technology director remove company computer servers from Mamer's and Whittemore's homes. Seeno III ordered the IT director to enter Whittemore's house without consent or be fired, and he did. He was still fired shortly after.
  • At a closed-door meeting in October 2010, Seeno III threatened Mamer by saying, "Brad, the 'Seeno Way' is to bend someone over a saw horse and (expletive) them. ... We (expletive) everyone!"
  • On Feb. 25, 2011, Seeno III ordered Mamer to physically threaten Whittemore if a lease payment was not made by BrightSource, a Wingfield tenant and solar power plant operator. Seeno III also told Mamer to tell the BrightSource representative that if they "did not make the lease payment on time, that he would hire the highest-priced environmental attorney in San Francisco, secretly align himself with an environmental group and shut down the Ivanpah job site for at least three years!" The Ivanpah solar power generation site was the largest in the country at the time and awaiting a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee.

    TAXES
    In early 2011, Mamer claimed McCauley, the Seeno construction company's CFO, discussed with him taking an estimated $25 million federal tax deduction from the failed capital investment, the PGA Village at Coyote Springs.

    McCauley directed Mamer to "develop a historical factual pattern that supported these deductions being shifted from tax year 2009 the year in which the PGA Licensing Agreement was terminated) to tax year 2010," the suit claims. Mamer said the shift would violate federal tax laws.
    On Aug. 17, 2011, Mamer was instructed to work on a tax project related to Coyote Springs planned as a "massive fraudulent misrepresentation claim" against Whittemore, saying Seeno Jr. was not made aware that the project value was gone when he bought into Wingfield, Mamer said.
    ENVIRONMENT
    The Seenos, with their history of California environmental fines, skirted regulations in Nevada, too, Mamer claimed. In October 2010, Mamer said he witnessed unpermitted septic system installations at Coyote Springs and reported it to Nevada regulators, who are investigating.
    The following year, Mamer said he advised the Seenos and senior Wingfield staff members of a series of Coyote Springs environmental permit violations. He estimated more than $1.3 million in fees were owed, in addition to indirect violations. Nothing was done, he said.

    On June 10, 2011, Mamer alerted the Seenos to an Endangered Species Act violation related to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit issued in regard to the desert tortoise. Compliance would have cost $125,000 and was never done, he said.

    Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.
    Who's who in Seeno scandal
    As the Seeno family and current and former associates appear in more and more litigation, sorting out who's who can be difficult.
    Here are those listed in Wednesday's lawsuit:
    Plaintiff: Bradley Mamer, of Clark County, Nev., worked for 17 years in Wingfield Nevada Group and its predecessor company. He rose to CEO and president, and now is suing his former bosses.
    Defendant: Albert Seeno Jr., 68, of Clayton, owns interests in numerous Nevada casinos and California development and construction companies. Seeno Jr., his brother and son own companies worth in excess of $4 billion and the collective net worth of the trio as individuals is between $100 million and $2 billion, according to a lawsuit.
    Defendant: Albert Seeno III, 38, of Pittsburg, is the son of Albert Jr. and has pieces of companies similar to what his father owns.
    Defendant: Thomas Seeno, 73, of Alamo, is the older brother of Albert Jr. and went into business with Harvey Whittemore in 2004 to become part owner of Wingfield Nevada Group.
    Defendant: Michael Ghiorso, 59, of Dublin, is Wingfield Nevada Group's director of operations and in 2008 was fined $60,000 by the state insurance commissioner and denied a license, according to the suit.
    Defendant: Kevin McCauley, a licensed CPA, is the CFO of Albert D. Seeno Construction.
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    Read a copy of the lawsuit at ContraCostaTimes.com.


    A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court accuses three Seenos and their associates of racketeering, including extortion, and mail, wire and tax fraud


























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