Democratic spinelessness may have encouraged silencing of NSA whistleblower
Posted by Charles II on August 6, 2007
Perrspectives has a brilliant post (via Avedon) analyzing an FBI raid on the home of a former Justice Department lawyer, Thomas M. Tamm, which was reported by Michael Isikoff of Newsweek. Anonymous sources say that Tamm was suspected of being the whistleblower who reported the illegal NSA wiretaps to The New York Times. Tamm worked in the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, a unit that does internal review of surveillance of suspect terrorists and spies.
Perrspectives connects the directionless and cowardice of the Democrats in Congress with the silencing of this whistleblower.
In my letter to Congress urging impeachment, this is the very point that I made. Until potential whistleblowers see that an end to this Administration is in sight, they will hesitate. It is Congress’s duty to provide leadership and a sense that there is a date certain when this Administration will cease to be able to suppress the truth.
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Stan J. Caterbone said
WHISTLEBLOWER RE: ARMS TO IRAQ INTIMIDATED BY ADMINISTRATION
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT CASE NO. 248 MAL 2007 BRIEF
U.S. District Court Case NO. 05-2288 2005
GROUNDS FOR RECONSIDERATION
1. The PETITIONER first requests the Court to consider that including the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas and the Pennsylvania Superior Court, the PETITIONER has not had any challenge to the original mortgage foreclosure (Case No. CI-06-02271) ruling based upon the pleadings or the merits of the PETITIONERS’ issues and arguments . A similar record is found in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas cases CI-07-00366 and CI-07-00119 where the mortgage foreclosure is central to the complaint. The PETITIONER will raise the following unprecedented issues as to the reasons why this Court must consider due process and the inherent implications to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The ORDER of July 6 Denying the PETITIONER’S Allowance for Appeal should be RECONSIDERED.
2. The PETITIONER is the subject of an unprecedented attack of intimidation, retaliation, and harassment resulting in one of the direst cases of obstruction of justice mounted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the County of Lancaster . The prosecutorial misconduct and judicial misconduct is unprecedented in both the scope of activity and motive. The PETITIONER will show cause that these activities are to disrupt, deter, and undermine the PETITIONER’S Constitutional right to due process and access to the Courts .
3. These activities, when effectively reviewed and examined, will prove to be the reason that the PETITIONER has difficulty filing any appeals on a timely basis, and any court related filing without technical difficulties. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at large, has legal and financial exposure with regards to the PETITIONER’S Federal False Claims Act and Whistle-Blowing activities in the case of International Signal & Control, Plc, (ISC) that dates back to 1987.
4. Since the PETITIONER filed his complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Case No. 05-2288), these activities were increased in both occurrences and arrogance. It must be noted that the PETITIONER had a previous attempt at justice thwarted in 1998. The same issues that were never formally presented in any United States District Court, or any Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, are now at issue.
5. On Thursday, July 5, 2007, it was publicly disclosed that a United States District Court Judge, Judge Sean McLaughlin, granted Lisa Michelle Lambert her right to a jury trial regarding a sexual abuse case that dates back to 1996. These allegations were previously dismissed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as frivolous and without merit. Judge McLaughlin, similar to the findings of United States District Judge Stuart Dalzall, found otherwise and stated “”Plaintiff paints a disturbing picture,” McLaughlin wrote, saying Lambert alleged Cambridge Springs was a “virtual haven of sexual activity between Department of Corrections employees and inmates.” Judge McLaughlin also found that a former prison superintendent and official “fostered an attitude of acquiescence toward such pervasive misconduct.”
6. The PETITIONER filed an Affidavit to Ms. Christina Rainville, the pro bono counsel for Lisa Michelle Lambert, in 1998 that will prove the PETITIONER’S past attempts at justice regarding the issues presented to this Court as being both a motive of his perpetrators and a record of this continued misconduct and criminal activity to deny the PETITIONER his right to due process and access to the courts. In totality this amounts to an unprecedented case of obstruction of justice.
7. In the 1998 affidavit the PETITIONER wrote the following:
“I, Stanley J. Caterbone being duly sworn according to law, make the following affidavit concerning the years during which I was maliciously and purposefully mentally abused, subjected to a massive array of prosecutorial misconduct, while enduring an exhaustive fight for the sovereignty of my constitutional rights, shareholder rights, civil liberties, and right of due access to the law. I will detail a deliberate attempt on my life, in 1991, exhibiting the dire consequences of this complaint. These allegations are substantiated through a preponderance of evidence including but not limited to over 10,000 documents, over 50 hours of recorded conversations, transcripts, and archived on several digital mediums. A “Findings of Facts” is attached herewith providing merits and the facts pertaining to this affidavit. These issues and incidents identified herein have attempted to conceal my disclosures of International Signal & Control, Pls.,. However, the merits of the violations contained in this affidavit will be proven incidental to the existence of any conspiracy.
The plaintiff protests the courts for all remedial actions mandated by law. Financial considerations would exceed $1 million.
These violations began on June 23, 1987 while I was a resident and business owner in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania., and have continued to the present. These issues are a direct consequence of my public disclosure of fraud within International Signal & Control, Plc., of County of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which were in compliance with federal and state statutes governing my shareholder rights granted in 1983, when I purchased my interests in International Signal & Control., Plc.. I will also prove intentional undo influence against family and friends towards compromising the credibility of myself, with malicious and self serving accusations of “insanity”. I conclude that the courts must provide me with fair access to the law, and most certainly, the process must void any technical deficiencies found in this filing as being material to the conclusions. Such arrogance by the Courts would only challenge the judicial integrity of our Constitution.
1. The activities contained herein may raise the argument of fair disclosure regarding the scope of law pertaining to issues and activities compromising the National Security of the United States. The Plaintiff will successfully argue that due to the criminal record of International Signal & Control, including the illegal transfer of arms and technologies to an end user Iraq, the laws of disclosure must be forfeited by virtue that “said activities posed a direct compromise to the National Security of the United States”.; the plaintiff will argue that his public allegations of misconduct within the operations of International Signal & Control, Plc., as early as June of 1987 ; demonstrated actions were proven to protect the National Security of the United States.. The activities of International Signal & Control, Pls., placed American troops in harms way. The plaintiff’s actions should have taken the American troops out of harms way causing the activities of the International Signal & Control, Plc., to cease and desist. .
All activities contained herein have greatly compromised the National Security of the United States, and the laws of jurist prudence must apply towards the Plaintiff’s intent and motive of protecting the rights of his fellow citizens. Had the plaintiff been protected under the law, and subsequently had the law enforcement community of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the County of Lancaster administer justice, United States troops may have been taken out of harms way, as a direct result of ceasing the operations of International Signal & Control, Plc., in as early as 1987.
2. The plaintiff will successfully prove that the following activities and the prosecutorial misconduct were directed at intimidating the plaintiff from continuing his public disclosures regarding illegal activities within International Signal & Control, Plc,. On June 23, 1998, International Signal & Control, Plc was negotiating for the $ billion merger with Ferranti International, of England. Such disclosures threatened the integrity of International Signal & Control’s organization, and Mr. James Guerin himself, consequently resulting in adverse financial considerations to all parties if such disclosures provided any reason to question the integrity of the transaction, which later became the central criminal activity in the in The United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania
3. The plaintiff will prove that undo influence was also responsible for the adverse consequences and fabricated demise of his business enterprises and personal holdings. The dire consequences of the plaintiff’s failed business dealings will demonstrate and substantiate financial incentive and motive. Defendants responsible for administering undo influence and interference in the plaintiff’s business and commercial enterprises had financial interests. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a taxing authority, Lancaster County had a great investment whose demise would facilitate grave consequences to it’s economic development. . Commonwealth National Bank (Mellon) would have less competition in the mortgage banking business and other financial services, violating the lender liability laws. The Steinman Enterprise’s, Inc., would loose a pioneer in the information technologies industries, and would protect the public domain from truthful disclosure. The plaintiff will also provide significant evidence of said perpetrators violating common laws governing intellectual property rights.
4. Given the plaintiff’s continued and obstructed right to due process of the law, beginning in June of 1987 and continuing to the present, the plaintiff must be given fair access to the law with the opportunity for any and all remedial actions required under the federal and state statutes. The plaintiff will successfully argue his rights to the courts to rightfully claim civil actions with regards to the totality of these activities, so described in the following “Findings of Facts”, regardless of any statute of limitations. Given the plaintiff’s genuine efforts for due process has been inherently and maliciously obstructed, the courts must provide the opportunity for any and all remedial actions deserving to the plaintiff.
5. Under current laws, The plaintiff’s intellectual capacity has been exploited as means of discrediting the plaintiff’s disclosures and obstructing the plaintiff’s right to due process of the law. The plaintiff has always had the proper rights under federal and state laws to enter into contract. The logic and reason towards the plaintiff’s activities and actions are a matter of record, demonstrated in the “Findings of Facts”, contained herein..
The plaintiff will argue and successfully prove that the inherent emotional consequences to all of the activities contained herein have resulted in Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. The evidence of the stress subjected to the plaintiff, will prove to be the direct result of the activities contained herein, rather than the exhibited behavior of any mental deficiency the plaintiff may or may not have. The courts must provide for the proper interpretations of all laws, irrespective of the plaintiff’s alleged intellectual capacity. The plaintiff successfully argue that his “mental capacity” is of very little legal consequence, if any; other than in it’s malicious representations used to diminish the credibility of the plaintiff.
6. The plaintiff will demonstrate that the following incidents of illegal prosecutions were purposefully directed at intimidating the plaintiff from further public disclosure into the activities of International Signal & Control, Plc., consequently obstructing the plaintiff’s access to due process of the law. Due to the fact that these activities to which the plaintiff’s perpetrators were protecting were illegal activities, the RICO statutes would apply.
To this day, the plaintiff has never been convicted of any crime with the exception of 2 speeding tickets. The following report identifies 34 instances of prosecutorial misconduct during the prosecutions and activities beginning on June 23, 1987 and continuing to today.
7. Given the preponderance of evidence associated with this affidavit, the courts must conclude that In The United States District Court For The Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Federal Judge Stuart Dalzall’s findings of April 14, 1997, in the Lisa Lambert case identifying acts of Prosecutorial Misconduct, now, by virtue of this affidavit, now discloses evidence of a bona fide pattern of prosecutorial misconduct, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in the County of Lancaster. Criminal law must now determine if these disclosures would warrant investigations of a possible criminal enterprise (RICO) . This affidavit is of material interest to the Lambert case, for the very fact that this affidavit compromises the very same integrity of the court, which would tip the scales of justice even further from the peoples deserving rights.
In the truthfulness of this affidavit, The Commonwealth must concede Lisa Michelle Lambert to balance the scales of justice, which no other act could accomplish. The Commonwealth must yield the criminal culpability of Lisa Michelle Lambert to the superior matter of restoring the integrity to the courts; by it’s own admission of wrongdoing, assuring the peoples of it’s commitment to administer equalities of justice, not inequalities of justice. Balancing the scales of justice. Anything less, would take the full scope of jurisdiction out of the boundaries of our laws, negating our democracy and impugning the Constitution of the United States. The plaintiff must be restored to whole to so that justice may be restored to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to the County of Lancaster.”
8. In 1998 the PETITIONER foresaw the attempt by the Courts to use the technical deficiencies as a means to supersede the merits of his claims and right to remedy and justice. This is demonstrated in the following excerpt from the 1998 affidavit:
“I conclude that the courts must provide me with fair access to the law, and most certainly, the process must void any technical deficiencies found in this filing as being material to the conclusions. Such arrogance by the Courts would only challenge the judicial integrity of our Constitution.”
9. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania clearly lacks credibility with regards to civil and criminal proceedings with the PETITIONER. This is proven by the fact that the PETITIONER has had 27 criminal citations withdrawn, Nolle Pros, or overturned since 1987, and most in the past six months. The PETITIONER has successfully litigated a majority as a pro se litigant.
10. Furthermore, in the past week, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office had impugned it’s own integrity and obstructed justice in the two cases Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Stanley J. Caterbone CP-36-CR-0004771-2006; CP-36-CR-0003179-2006. In CP-36-CR-0004771-2006 a negotiated agreement to nolle pros the charges on July 2, 2007 by Assistant District Attorney with the PETITIONER’S attorney, Paul G. Campbell, were completely ignored and delayed until the September trial court term for malicious and political reasons. This tactic has left the PETITIONER under bail supervision and under the confines of Lancaster County, which precludes the PETITIONER from visiting the Federal Courthouse in Philadelphia and Reading to continue his civil litigation. It also precludes the PETITIONER from visiting any courts and or government agencies in Harrisburg.
11. On July 3, 2007, Judge James P. Cullen issued an ORDER that continues the pre-trial investigation for case no. CP-36-CR-0003179-2006 and scheduled a hearing of oral arguments for August 7, 2007 for the Post Trial Motion to Acquit after Court Appointed Attorney Janice Longer informed the PETITIONER that Judge James P. Cullen was moving to issue a retrial. This can be verified when the Probation and Parole Office discontinued efforts for the Pre Sentence Investigation and canceled a psychological evaluation for the PETITIONER. The tandem effect is that after several motions by the PETITIONER for Judge Cullen to recuse himself from case no. CP-36-CR-0003179-2006, which is also contained in the Post Trial Motion to Acquit, Judge James P. Cullen has essentially obstructed justice due to the fact that he is a defendant in this case. Judge Cullen also continues to place the PETITIONER as a Defendant in criminal proceedings by not making a ruling on the Post Trial Motion to Acquit after both sides presented written arguments. Judge James P. Cullen must be compelled to recuse himself from any and all cases when a clear conflict of interest is present.
12. Another instance where the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania impugned it’s own integrity is found in the case no. 360234927-002M Stanley J. Caterbone v. the Department of Public Welfare and the Bureau of Appeals and Hearings. In this instance Administrative Law Judge Robert S. Rosen ruled against the PETITIONER in a challenge to the DPW discontinuance of Food Stamp Benefits and cited that the PETITIONER had failed to supply documents to the ALJ Rosen. The PETITIONER produced a United States Postal Priority Mail Confirmation that proved ALJ Rosen had misrepresented the truth. Further Arrogance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was demonstrated when on July 2, 2007, the Department of Public Welfare DENIED the PETITIONER’S appeal for rehearing and reconsideration in a clear and overt effort to cover up ALJ Rosen’s blatant disregard for the truth and the law.
13. Another instance of judicial misconduct and contempt was cited on July 12, 2007. The PETITIONER received a Adjudication DISMISSAL Order today for an Appeal Hearing that was scheduled for July 2, 2007. The Notice stated: “The Appellant was not available, nor did the Appellant provide good cause for not being available. Because the Appellant has failed to pursue the appeal, it will be dismissed in accordance with 55 Pa. Code § 275.4(e)(6)(iii)(A)(9I 94).” On June 21st, 2007, the PETITIONER mailed in the Reply to Bureau of Hearings and Appeals and that contained the following: “I will not be available for the hearing because: ‘LANCASTER COUNTY COURT SCHEDULE CONFLICT CASE NO. CP-36-0004771-2006 PLEASE RESCHEDULE”. The PETITIONER been scheduled for the Call of The Trial List on July 2, 2007 at 8:30 am (same time as Appeal Hearing), and attended the Commonwealth Court Hearing as instructed. This is an example of unprecedented arrogance by the judiciary.
14. In July of 2006 the PETITIONER emailed the President of the United States, President George W. Bush. The email contained the following: “As soon as I frame my arguments for a petition for your Impeachment, I will forward to your Attorney General. I am tired of living in a county and state where there is no Rule of Law.”
15. The PETITIONER was sending a message about the dire nature of the obstruction of justice and the fact that the PETITIONER had justified suspicion of the Administration’s possible overt intimidation in the PETITIONER’S Federal Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case No. 05-23059 and continued wrongdoing by the Department of Justice Office of the Trustee. These allegations are described in various Federal Court filings and briefs.
16. On July 3, 2007, in an American Research Group Poll presented on the FOX News Network, 45% of those polled favored the start of impeachment proceedings against the President, while only 46% did not favor starting impeachment proceedings. For Vice President Dick Cheney, 54% of those polled favored the start of impeachment proceedings. THE PETITIONER clearly is not lacking in political prowess and vision, and must not be intimidated and retaliated against for such views and opinions. Complacency by Law Enforcement and Justice Officials in upholding the PETITIONER’S Constitutional and Civil Rights may be construed is some courts as being a violation of RICO statutes, among others.
17. The Pennsylvania Constitution and the United States Constitution both guarantee the PETITIONER a right to the Courts to resolve the allegations and complaints through discovery and interrogatories and upon merit a right to trial by jury. It is these fundamental procedures that are constantly subverted in a malicious and calculated manner in order to prevent rulings on the merits of the PETITIONER’S complaints, thus subverting the rule of law and obstructing justice.
18. There are several Federal and State Statutes and Regulations that have been violated, including the PETITIONER’S United States Constitutional Rights and the Pennsylvania Constitutional Rights. The Federal RICO statutes address the false arrests and the prosecutorial misconduct in the ANTI-SLAPP provisions. To date, the PETITIONER has had twenty-five (27) criminal prosecutions by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania overturned, dismissed, or withdrawn. Anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) laws can be applied in an attempt to curb alleged abuses of the legal system by individuals or corporations who utilize the courts as a weapon to retaliate against whistle blowers, victims, or to silence another’s speech. RICO could be alleged if it can be shown that lawyers and/or their clients conspired and collaborated to concoct fictitious legal complaints solely in retribution and retaliation for themselves having been brought before the courts. These laws also apply to victims of clergy abuse where statute of limitations has run out.
19. The ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility (1983) ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 7-21 states “The civil adjudicative process is primarily designed for the settlement of disputes between parties, while the criminal process is designed for the protection of society as a whole. Threatening to use, or using, the criminal process to coerce adjustment of private civil claims or controversies is a subversion of that process; further, the person against whom the criminal process is so misused may be deterred from asserting his legal rights and thus the usefulness of the civil process in settling private disputes is impaired. As in all cases of abuse of judicial process, the improper use of criminal process tends to diminish public confidence in our legal system.”
20. Over the years, the PETITIONER has solicited some 20 attorneys to help defend the PETITIONER from the intimidation and abuse, and to seek a resolution to the issues. However, the political implications and the alleged violations of the PETITIONER’S civil and constitutional rights made it impossible for the PETITIONER to secure private counsel. The ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility (1983) ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS EC 2-27 states “History is replete with instances of distinguished and sacrificial services by lawyers who have represented unpopular clients and causes. Regardless of his personal feelings, a lawyer should not decline representation because a client or a cause is unpopular or community reaction is adverse.”
21. This application for reconsideration is most certainly submitted in good faith and not in any way for delay.
Mary Lou Hoerster said
For over 9 years now, my children and I have been the innocent victims of serious crimes, some at the federal level: severe harassment and stalking, illegal surveillance (which we have written proof of and which is on-going), criminal fraud, criminal conspiracy, illegal acts by public officials, threats from law enforcement, and MUCH more. Because some of the people involved have very high-level political and law enforcement ties, no one will help us, not even the DOJ, and our situation continues to escalate. As you read this, remember LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. The Bush Museum of the Pacific War is here, and the Bush family has many ties here. The LBJ ranch is here. My former father-in-law is a close associate of Tom Loeffler (both are from nearby Mason, TX). The lt. gov. of Texas, David Dewhurst (ex-CIA, Bolivia) has a ranch here. Karl Rove lives nearby in Ingram, TX. We are only a couple of hours from the Mexican border. Local first responders have been in trouble in the past for missing/misused equipment bought with federal homeland security grants. There are companies here that make equipment for Homeland Security, NASA, and the CIA.
CASE SUMMARY
Mary Lou Hoerster
410 W. Windcrest
Fredericksburg, TX 78624
Phone/Fax: 830-990-2397
Cell: 830-456-1153
mhoerstfam@peoplepc.com
I am Mary Lou Hoerster, a 54-year-old former geologist (Ph.D., Rice Univ., 1982) and current homemaker/community volunteer. For 20 years (1981-2001), I was married to Dr. John Steven (“Steve”) Hoerster, a Fredericksburg orthopedic surgeon. We have 3 children: Laura (24), Nicole (21), and R. Craig (17); they live with me (although Nicole is off at college in MN much of the time). Steve’s father (Dick Hoerster) and brother (Rick Hoerster) are attorneys. All 3 of them are heavily involved in banking (Security State; Llano National; others?) and real estate (investment, speculation, and development), and all of them are extremely wealthy, well-connected, and powerful. All of the local law enforcement officers are friends of the Hoersters’, and the current Fredericksburg police chief, Paul Oestreich, is Rick Hoerster’s best friend. Steve also had a sister, Glenda, who died violently and mysteriously at age 16 (none of the stories I’ve heard about this have been the same).
In 1990, I remember being out at the Hoerster family ranch near Llano, TX during deer hunting season. I remember offering Paul Oestreich (who often hunted there) a beer and being shocked to see him burst into tears. I later asked Steve about this and was told Paul had been fired from a job as an undercover narcotics officer with the DEA (Doc. 1) for using and stealing cocaine, had been forced into some sort of rehab. in San Antonio, and had recently gotten out.
In June 1999, Steve suddenly left and moved in with his office nurse (to whom he is now married). I gradually began to realize that he had been extremely controlling with our finances, and I discovered 3 old Met-Life policies on me (Doc. 2) that dated from a suspicious carbon monoxide incident in 1986 that had occurred around the time Steve had an affair with his previous office nurse (at which time I’d insisted we get counseling and had consulted a lawyer). When an acquaintance implied Steve might have a drug problem and I began finding suspicious items hidden in his things, I contacted the Texas Medical Association for help (Doc. 3). About 2 weeks later, an interventionist named Dr. Herbert Munden called back and said he thought Steve was addicted to narcotics, that he and a colleague had been threatened while trying to check records at a pharmacy in Llano, and that he felt too many people were covering for Steve to be able to try an intervention. Because Steve was insisting on flying our children with him in his airplanes at this time, I tried to file a complaint with the FAA (Doc. 4), but nothing was ever done about it. Around this same time, a friend named Pam Sultemeier told me Steve’s father was illegally buying foreclosure properties in our area, and she also warned me about land problems related to the suspicious local death of Freddy Zenner (Doc.5), in whose mother’s house Steve was now living.
Immediately after Steve left, we began being severely harassed and being the victims of various frightening incidents (Doc. 6). The first time I complained to the police, the chief seemed frightened (shaking), and it was Rick Hoerster rather than an officer who followed up with a phone call. Steve and his friends repeatedly trespassed, partied on, and trashed our property and broke into our house constantly when we were gone, and the police and my divorce lawyer, Mike Childers, said they couldn’t do anything, although Childers did eventually get Steve to agree to replace my van when the brakes kept suddenly and repeatedly failing and the dealership (owned by the mayor’s family) couldn’t seem to fix them after 6 months of trying (Doc. 7). At one point I contacted the FBI, who asked for more information (Doc. 8) but then also did nothing.
My divorce showed signs of being extremely fraudulent, but I was never able to prove anything. I was awarded the house and property we live in and on and primary custody of the children, plus 10 years of alimony, plus child support. During the divorce, Steve insisted on retaining an undivided half interest in one of my (adjoining) land tracts (Doc. 9) that we knew was to be cut in half by a planned inner loop (Doc. 10). Right after the divorce was finalized, my lawyer sent me a number of quitclaim deeds to sign (Doc. 11) but refused to explain them, so I didn’t sign them.
In 2002, the appraisal district (GCAD) questioned my ag. exemption (Doc. 12). Steve had been awarded our exotics but wouldn’t remove or feed them and wouldn’t provide me with any ag. documents. I got the exemption renewed for a year (Doc. 13), but in 2003 my ag. exemption was revoked after Steve refused to help me unless I signed some sort of subdivision document with the city (Doc. 14). At the same time, the city attorney also began pressuring me to sign this (Doc. 15).
On the advice of an acquaintance from church named Dewey White who was a private investigator (p.i.), I decided to hire his boss, Ed Hodges of Arlington, TX, to get proof that Steve, the GCAD, and the city were conspiring against me and also to document the severe harassment and trespassing for prosecution (Doc. 16). Almost immediately, Hodges began telling me that he’d discovered a major real estate development was planned for my neighborhood, that a number of my neighbors had been murdered for their property, and that I was in immediate danger (Doc. 17). (I did know of at least 6 neighbors who had died violently in the last few years, 3 of them in 2003 alone. I was also hearing rumors around town about people being murdered for their property (Doc. 18).) He also asked for a copy of our daily schedule (Doc. 19) and insisted that I turn over all physical evidence to an armed security guard associate of his named George Petrie (Doc. 20) that Hodges said he’d sent down from Dallas.
Hodges and a lawyer friend of his named Lowell Jones began telling me that the Texas Rangers wanted me to put my house and property into a temporary trust with them as the trustees in order to keep the children and me safe and force the killer/s to deal with them so they could record everything and prosecute (Doc. 21). At the same time, Hodges began charging me large amounts for security equipment I never saw and “investigative work” he said I needed done (Doc. 22).
In Dec. 2003, Hodges faxed me a sample trust document (Doc. 23), but I told him I couldn’t sign it because it allowed him to sell my property and did not exclude the Hoersters. He made the changes I insisted on and sent me 4 new trust documents that he insisted I sign immediately and send back (Doc. 24), which I did on 12/31/03. In the middle of Jan. 2004, he mailed me back one copy that I filed without looking at it. Also, I gave Hodges a check for $20,000 he insisted on to open a “trust escrow account” so he would be able to pay the property taxes if I didn’t (but I did). Legal notices began appearing in the local newspaper concerning properties with vague locations in my area, but Ed Hodges said they weren’t anything to worry about, and since I hadn’t received any notifications of any kind from the city about them, I didn’t (Doc. 25).
At the same time, a large number of very frightening incidents occurred (Doc. 26) that Hodges and the city attorney said Steve couldn’t be prosecuted for as long as our land was undivided, so I reluctantly signed the subdivision document on 12/30/03 (Doc. 27). (Steve was never prosecuted, and the city still refuses to pay me for the road easement they took from me.) [During this entire time period, I was writing and emailing my best friend in WV about everything that was going on, and she has kept copies of everything.]
Over the course of 2004, it gradually became apparent that Hodges was continually asking me for money but not actually doing anything. In July 2004, he informed me of a low cash offer from a Kerrville man named Ron Imel to buy my place that he said was not from the Hoersters (but attorney Jones later wrote was) (Doc. 28); I told him I didn’t want to sell, and he said the Texas Rangers had been informed (Doc. 29).
Also in 2004, a series of hearing notices appeared in the local paper concerning a proposed real estate development to the west of us (on the property of my neighbor who had been found shot to death) by a “Toskana Development” group (Doc. 30). (Around the same time, people suddenly started emailing me an internet photo with a sign that read “Mr. Toskana has had an expensive divorce”.) Another set of hearing notices also began appearing regarding planned real estate development just to the northeast of us on another tract of land related to a suspicious death that was now openly owned by the county judge, Mark Stroeher (another life-long friend of the Hoersters).
In Jan. 2005, a female employee of Hodges’ named Sandy Nazemi called and invited me on a free cruise with her; she got angry when I turned her down (Doc. 31). Two weeks later, Hodges suddenly came to Fredericksburg, and I had a confrontation with him and Dewey White that got scary and threatening (Doc. 32). I was very frightened and confused, so I immediately began calling other p.i.s to try and find out what was going on. One I talked to, Jack Short of Boerne, TX, sent me to the DPS website, where I discovered that Hodges, his company, and his employees weren’t licensed when I hired them and that he’d used a fake license # (Doc. 33). Also, in going back through various Hodges documents, I began to notice the use of “Semper Occultus” on some of them, as well as various code names that seemed to indicate a conspiracy (Doc 34). [One of these, a name for me related to my master’s thesis, could only have come from Steve (Doc. 35). The name for the conspiracy as a whole appeared to be “Trammel”. Also, one page of Hodges’ contract had false addresses for complaints against him to be sent to, and no one will tell me who these addresses belong to.]
Short (ex-DEA) introduced me to Ken Hays (ex-FBI), who took me to see atty. Andy Hix of Boerne on 2/2/05. Hix said the document Hodges returned to me gave Hodges total control of my property, and I realized it was not the document I’d signed (but was identical to the sample trust I’d been sent first). Hix also mentioned some problem with the file # on the document (but later emailed that it didn’t matter) (Doc. 36). All 3 of them tried to persuade me to transfer the trust to a Boerne Frost Bank, but I refused. They also insisted that I immediately rent a safe deposit box at this bank to put the document in, so I went over and rented a box but then decided not to put the document in it when the clerk mentioned that the wife of Gillespie Co. Judge Mark Stroeher worked there (because one of the deaths close to me involved property now owned by the Stroehers). [This same clerk, Judy Waldeck, later called 3 times to ask why I hadn’t used the box (Doc. 37).]
Hix insisted I try to get Hodges and Jones to resign as trustees and said they were asking for money [extortion?] and a signed release document first, which I refused to provide. At the same time, Short and Hays began insisting that I meet with them for long periods to collect all my evidence and put together a detailed statement for law enforcement. I also discovered that the fraudulent trust was being used to conceal enormous increases in my tax appraisals, which I attempted to protest (Doc. 38).
In May 2005, Steve and his father began insisting our daughters sign trust documents giving Steve total control of their assets [which they have few of unless they inherit from me]. The girls refused and said their dad was “acting scary about it”. (I can provide copies of these documents.)
On 6/22/05, my daughter and I photographed a car that looked like Ed Hodges’ parked in front of Steve’s medical office during what my other children had called and said was a meeting to discuss real estate development in our neighborhood. I emailed the photos to Short and Hix (Doc. 39). The next morning, Short called and told me to go to the courthouse and get a copy of everything filed under the trust, which I did, even though the courthouse staff balked at this and I had to make two trips there. He also instructed me to mail a retainer to another lawyer named Kira West that they wanted to discuss my case with. [I later found out that Kira West worked for the DEA, that Short and Hays had already met with her the night before, and that I wasn’t allowed to talk with her even though I’d paid her. Also, Short and Hays have given me 4 different versions of invoices from this meeting (Doc. 40).] Short also had me mail the trust document plus a check to a former FBI document examiner in VA named David Grimes [who later refused to provide a report] (Doc. 41). Hays told me most of the license plates on the vehicles we’d photographed and written down came back to local doctors, and he said the plate on a vehicle we’d seen one of Steve’s partners drive up in did not belong on that vehicle. Hays refused to give me any information on a car that closely resembled one my daughter and I had previously seen Ed Hodges driving.
Andy Hix suddenly began giving me detailed invoices, one of which listed a document from Baker-Botts that he later said was a mistake (Doc. 42). He also suddenly asked me to come to Boerne and sign some documents, which turned out to be a will, POA, guardianship, and related documents I hadn’t asked for. I signed them [but I later found problems with them and destroyed them (Doc. 43)].
In Aug. 2005, I realized I’d paid Hix, Short, and Hays a lot but that they hadn’t accomplished anything and were now seriously stalling. A meeting with them on 8/15/05 got very confrontational and frightening, and as I was leaving, I saw Dick Hoerster’s van and realized he’d been listening in. I fired them and began filing complaints with the DPS against all the p.i.s. I also tried to mail a box of documents to the FBI (Doc. 44), but I was followed into the post office by men who flashed badges and the FBI said they never received the box; they also refused to investigate when I went down there in person. Ken Hays began stalking me at times (Doc. 45), and I complained to the DPS about it. I also saw Short and Hays at various Hoerster offices at various times (and kept records of this in the same logbooks in which we recorded harassment incidents). [Later, I saw an ad in the local paper for a mortgage brokerage business run by a woman named Short out of one of the same addresses used by Jack Short.]
I began searching for a new attorney but could not find one who would represent us. A DPS investigator named Augie Valdez called to say he’d been assigned to my case and wanted to meet with me but a few minutes later called back and asked me if I was interested in returning to my ex-husband! (He also lied to me by saying Ken Hays hadn’t worked for the FBI, which I did not find out about until much later.) He was soon replaced by DPS Trooper Taft Green. [Green eventually revoked Hodges’ license based on my complaints but never informed me of this; I discovered it accidentally and filed an open records request. The documents I received from this were incomplete, full of false information, were only partially signed, and in one place have Steve’s address (which I never gave them) listed with my name. (Doc. 46) I remembered that a former head of the Texas Ranger criminal law enforcement division, the late Bob Werner, had grown up with Dick Hoerster and had lived in a house owned by the Hoersters.]
In 10/05, I suddenly received a packet of documents from Andy Hix that he said were from Hodges and Jones. The packet contained documents proving Hodges had emptied the trust escrow account shortly after he’d opened it without telling me (Doc. 47). It also contained bills and invoices for charges that were clearly fabricated (some from before I’d ever even known them!) (Doc. 48), along with documents of unknown transactions with unknown people with no explanations (Doc. 49) [I have recently discovered that in one of these transactions, Ed Hodges wired $5,000.00 of my money without my knowledge to a California company that makes high-tech. surveillance equipment for the CIA and other government agencies, Technipol.] Most disturbingly, it contained a document from the GCAD showing that in 6/04 someone had illegally changed the address on my land tracts to Steve’s address (Doc. 50). (I immediately provided the DPS with this new information. I also met with Scott Fair at the GCAD, and he told me he “couldn’t” correct the addresses but would not say why.) I did immediately file one of two copies of a document signed by Ed Hodges and included in the packet appointing me as the official tax agent for my property with the GCAD.
All along, the harassment, trespassing, etc. continued unabated, and the police refused to do anything (and at times actively participated). Exs.: a woman named Summer Moellering who works with Steve gave my private cell phone # to 3 different collection agencies she owed money to as her own, and I was subjected to automated calls at all hours several times a week for almost 2 years as a result; someone used an AT&T calling card to charge long distance calls to local doctors from places all over TX to our unlisted home phone # for 6 months before I could finally get the card cancelled (Doc. 51); my son and I were aggressively tailgated at night by a state trooper and the DPS wouldn’t do anything (Doc. 52); we were repeatedly watched and followed (Doc. 53). Desperate to find a lawyer, I took the trust document to a document examiner in San Antonio, Kay Micklitz, who has close ties to the San Antonio FBI office. Kay wrote a report saying the document was clearly manipulated (Doc. 54), and she also discovered serious problems with the will and related documents drawn up by Hix. Kay emailed me contact info. for a lawyer she recommended, Carmen Samaniego, whom I then met with and decided to hire to deal with the fraud (Doc. 55).
Immediately after I’d retained Carmen, Hodges filed a lawsuit against my children and me in Kerrville (Judge Ables’ court) claiming I owed him around $100,000 for various “trust expenses” that were ridiculous and for the property taxes, which he claimed he’d paid (but I’d paid myself and had all the receipts for) (Doc. 56). I also noticed that, while they all read the same, the copies of the fraudulent trust document returned to me by Ed Hodges, filed at the county courthouse, and used in the filing of the lawsuit all appeared to be different documents (Doc. 57). The one used to file the lawsuit had stripes running down the pages like those used by law enforcement, for example, while the others did not. (None of the document examiners ever mentioned this.) By checking old phone books, I discovered a connection between the lawyer representing Hodges (John Carlson) and Ron Imel, the man who’d made the 7/04 low cash offer for my property (Doc. 58).
At my insistence, Carmen filed an answer and countersuit [but I later learned she only asked for punitive damages, not actual ones], and I also insisted she draw up Lis Pendens documents that I filed myself. Although highly recommended by Kay, I had a lot of problems dealing with Carmen and was unsure if she was representing us properly. Also around this time, I was informed that Ed Hodges was using a former Secret Service agent from WI named Jim Ferrier as his expert witness (but when I tied him to Steve and local real estate, he was quickly replaced by Curtis Baggett from the Dallas area; neither of them provided a report) (Doc. 59).
Meanwhile, the harassment directed at us had become so severe (ex.: twice someone parked a large RV with FL plate C95-7UU and Defense Dept. sticker #528 VOV on it directly in front of our driveway and the police wouldn’t do anything; someone shot up the front of our house with paintballs and four car-loads of local police officers who acted as though they’d been drinking showed up in our driveway when I called to file a report) that I began surfing the Internet for help in dealing with it. I located a website for the Police Complaint Center (PCC) in Washington, D.C. and filed a complaint detailing our situation and asking for their help, since they advertised having done Emmy-winning investigations (Doc. 60). I was soon contacted by their director, Diop Kamau, who suggested I mail him copies of supporting documents, which I did.
About a week later (~11/1/06), Kamau called and said he felt our situation was serious enough that he recommended I pay his organization $1,500 so he could send someone with a video camera down to go with me to the police department to help me file formal complaints and document the process. I decided to do this, but Kamau called back about a week later and said he’d already sent a p.i. and they’d discovered I was in danger from my ex-, who was now desperate to obtain and develop my property (which we already knew; my daughter said her dad had showed her blueprints of office buildings he was planning to build (Doc. 61)), and that I’d need to secure my residence by installing security equipment designed to film trespassers before filing any complaints. Kamau faxed me an invoice of what he recommended installing, and I decided to purchase the equipment based on his recommendations.
Over the next few months, Kamau continued to advise me that I needed to purchase various services and equipment (that were always expensive). He sent an operative from D.C. to install equipment in my car and on my computer, but they didn’t work and I mailed them back. Another time, he sent a man from Austin to film our house extensively, and the man spent long periods of time in our attic and basement crawl space by himself. At one point, Kamau both called and emailed me that his assistant director from Washington, D.C., Greg Slate, had been badly beaten while on his way to a post office to mail me a package; Kamau sent me photographs of Slate’s injuries and stated that he felt the attack was related to our case.
During the course of the lawsuit with Hodges, I began to be concerned about the fact that Carmen seemed to be doing so little. I finally confronted her about the fact that she hadn’t done any discovery and insisted that some be done, but when we received Hodges’ replies, they were extremely incomplete, unsigned, and they referred constantly to material Ed said he’d already given atty. Andy Hix (but which I’d never been given) (Doc. 62). I insisted that Carmen obtain a complete copy of my file with Hix, but when she started stalling and I realized I had to have the missing documents for the lawsuit, I was forced to file a grievance against Hix with the State Bar of TX (at which time Hix suddenly provided the file to Carmen, but it contained even fewer documents than I already had). [The State Bar refused to discipline either Andy Hix or Kira West, whom I also filed a grievance against in order to try and obtain information I was entitled to.]
Because Kamau’s website had claimed to help people find lawyers, I asked him for help in determining whether Carmen was representing us properly. Shortly after this, a packet containing information on a Legal Services membership that had been purchased in my name arrived in the mail, but I immediately noticed that it had actually been mailed to me at Steve’s office and then forwarded to my address (Doc. 60, p. 4). I faxed Kamau a copy of the mailing label, told him I was suspicious that the membership had actually come from Steve, and said I was particularly concerned about the fact that it contained a mail-in will. Kamau emailed me back that he’d look into the matter and later emailed that he believed his computer had been hacked into. [Much later, I discovered that Kamau is a salesman for the legal company and had purchased the membership himself with my SS#, birth date, and Steve’s address, none of which I’d ever given him.]
In May 2007, Kamau said the PCC wanted to do a documentary film on us and asked for money to help pay for it, pointing out that it would help us collect damages in a personal injury suit (Doc. 60, p. 3). By the middle of June, however, I began to realize that I’d paid him ~$60,000 and that little or nothing had actually been accomplished, particularly with regard to specific things I’d paid for (a sweep of our house for bugs, safe pickup and storage of incriminating documents, help with filing complaints, etc.) I discussed this with Kamau on the phone, and he promised to send someone down right away to take care of getting things done. Two days after this conversation (on 6/22/07), I accidentally discovered a Fredericksburg phone book listing for the operative he’d said was from D.C. (Greg Slate) and became suspicious. Because we’d recently been awakened by loud jackhammer noises being broadcast from somewhere above my bedroom (Doc. 63), had noticed significant changes in our attic (more insulation and a brand-new paint job to conceal an opening that had been cut), and realized Steve and his friends somehow knew things that had happened only inside our house, I also had immediate concerns about all the “security equipment” Kamau had been charging me for. I asked him to immediately provide me with a list of all of his equipment that was on my property and detailed location information (Doc. 60, p. 6). When Kamau responded to this evasively, I gave him a specific deadline for doing this plus an extension (both of which he missed), and I made it clear that anything not listed would be considered to be on my property illegally (Doc. 60, p. 6).
The following Mon., I called the TX DPS to ask about getting our house swept for illegal devices. Several hours later, an “Officer Milhouse” called back and said I needed to mail a written letter of request for a sweep to the director of the DPS, Col. Davis. I explained that some of the harassment directed at us consisted of severe mail tampering and that I’d previously faxed copies of a large stack of receipts for missing mail to a USPS investigator named Al Dean (which I’ve never heard anything back on) (Doc. 64), so Trooper Milhouse reluctantly gave me Col. Davis’ fax number. I immediately faxed my request plus supporting documentation but only received confirmation that it’d been received (Doc. 65); I’ve never had any further response of any kind to this request. The next morning, I also went to the San Antonio FBI office and spoke with Sp. Agent Bernal Reneer, but he was not very helpful. Shortly after that, I put together and e-filed a formal internet fraud complaint with iC3 against Kamau (which Sp. Agent Reneer did not tell me about; I discovered the iC3 complaint process on the Internet myself; I’ve had no response of any kind to this complaint or an additional one I filed against Ed Hodges and his company).
On 7/9/07 while copying documents, I happened to notice that Hodges’ and Jones’ signatures on the trust document weren’t notarized (Doc. 66). I emailed Carmen about this and said I was surprised no one had mentioned it before [how is it that 4 professional and highly trained document examiners and numerous attorneys never even mentioned this?]; she replied not to worry about it (Doc. 67).
At 4 PM on 7/11/07, I suddenly received a phone call and fax from Carmen that she claimed to have just received from Ed Hodges’ lawyer concerning a public hearing on a proposed zoning change scheduled for 5:30 PM the same day on some land Carmen said was just west of mine (Doc. 68). I was concerned when I saw a vague map included in Carmen’s fax that looked as if the land in question might actually be mine, so I raced over to City Hall, confronted City Manager Brian Jordan, and discovered it was indeed my property slated for rezoning to commercial (the city was the applicant). When I pointed out that I’d never been notified, Jordan became visibly nervous/frightened and ran out the door. Although I filed a hasty protest, my land was rezoned to C-1.
I faxed a complaint about property-related issues to the TX OAG that included the lack of notification about the re-zoning, the concealing of illegal tax appraisal increases, the changing of the addresses on my property (and the GCAD’s repeated refusals to fix this), blatantly illegal photos of the back of my property taken by GCAD employees who’d forced their way behind a high wooden privacy fence—and later given me copies of the photos they took!, the lack of payment for the road easement taken from me by the city (Doc. 70), and the filing of an un-notarized document by the county clerk’s office. (I later received a letter saying they were looking into the matter but have never heard anything more.) I also called Carmen and asked her to send me a brief summary of the lawsuit to date (Doc. 71). I then took a formal complaint over to D.A. Bruce Curry’s office in Kerrville, but “Jane” there said it needed to go through law enforcement first. She called TX Ranger Kyle Dean but he refused to see me, so she sent me to the Gillespie Co. sheriff’s office (because the trust document had been filed by the county). Deputy James Segner kept me waiting for over an hour (during which time numerous people were hanging around my van in the parking lot and the police chief and county sheriff kept circling me in the waiting area) and was openly laughing when I entered his office and had to step over and around a large amount of electronic equipment of some kind that was laying all over his floor. I was even more upset when Dep. Segner mentioned that he knew I’d gotten a large bruise on my arm while crawling around in our attic trying to locate the harassing broadcasting device/s, since I’d only just gotten it and had never mentioned it outside the privacy of our house. Segner took the complaint but called me back a week later and told me to pick it up because he, Ranger Dean, and Carmen (whom he admitted talking with) had decided not to do anything about it “because it might mess up the lawsuit”; when I picked it up, Segner’s face was beet red and he acted impaired in some way. Carmen also called me the same day, said she’d talked with Segner, and repeated what he’d said. [According to the DPS-PSB website, James Segner is a licensed p.i. in the state of Texas. A search of Gillespie County zip codes on this website shows that a surprisingly large number of people here hold or have applied for such licenses.]
I fired Carmen the next day and began looking for another attorney, but I soon discovered that most of the ones I talked to weren’t willing to represent us at all and the ones that were all insisted on my first signing a contingency agreement giving them 30-40% of our (now zoned commercial) property plus another signed subdivision agreement. When I explained that this only victimized us further, they refused to take our case. Only one lawyer, Elizabeth Isles (the first lawyer the State Bar referred me to), agreed (very reluctantly) to an hourly fee contract, but she also insisted on having Hodges and Jones sign off on the fraudulent trust (which I now realized meant I was acknowledging it had existed, when it clearly hadn’t), and her contract contained a long tax disclaimer statement at the end in large, bold type that made me realize there might also be potentially negative tax consequences I hadn’t been told about (triggered by a change of ownership); when I asked her about this, she said it was standard on all her contracts and refused to explain further. (I’d also been passed by Dick Hoerster and a sheriff’s deputy car on my way to meet with her and seen Dick’s truck parked nearby.) [Recently I discovered that the building Isles had her law office in is actually a real estate office.]
While interviewing lawyers, I talked to Kerr County Judge Pat Tinley, who mentioned that Ed Hodges was actually from this area and had a poor/criminal reputation locally. Judge Tinley felt certain the Gillespie Co. clerk’s office had known this when they filed the fraudulent trust document. (He also mentioned that Hodges’ lawyer, John Carlson, was a former law partner of former Kerr Co. Judge Fred Hoenneke.) Around this same time, I received a document from Carmen Samaniego showing that Judge Ables had allowed her request to withdraw from our case. This document was only signed in one place by Judge Ables (a second place was left blank), but it does prove that he was aware of the lawsuit (Doc. 72).
I discovered that the Better Business Bureau had reports on non-profits and that the PCC had an unacceptable rating as a result of other complaints (Doc. 60, p. 7), so I filed one of my own—and received a ridiculous, libelous reply from Kamau. (My complaint was upheld and added to his file.) I also discovered that he holds a FL p.i. license, so I filed a complaint against him there. An investigator from FL named Mike Matthews soon called, said there’d been other serious complaints against Kamau, and asked me to obtain copies of my cancelled checks to Kamau that included the backs so he could be positive it was Kamau that had endorsed them. When I obtained these and faxed copies to FL, the investigator told me it was indeed Kamau who’d endorsed them, but I mentioned to him that I’d also noticed there were stamps from KY, PA, and “Bank of America JAX” [Jacksonville, FL airport?—Kamau was from Tallahassee, but a close Hoerster associate named Don Day that the FBI had asked me about in a 2000 letter lives near Jacksonville] on the backs of the checks that I was concerned about (Doc. 60, p. 13). To my surprise, I soon received a letter from the FL investigator that he’d decided not to look into my complaint any further.
Shortly after this (on 9/13/07), I received a strange call on my cell phone (830-456-1153; call came up as “Unknown”) from a man with a fairly high-pitched voice who first said he was an FBI agent with the Milwaukee office and then immediately changed this to the San Antonio office. This man tried repeatedly to convince me my case wasn’t federal, then he told me repeatedly that I needed to sell my property and leave town, then he wanted to know if I’d ever talked with anyone from the DEA; at that point I ended the call. I immediately contacted the San Antonio FBI and asked them to either confirm or investigate the call, but they never responded. [The only person I know of in Milwaukee is Jim Ferrier, the former Secret Service agent first used as an expert witness by Ed Hodges who quit abruptly when I tied him to Steve Hoerster and local real estate. Steve grew up with the families of LBJ’s Secret Service agents and knows many of them well. Ferrier’s place was taken by Curtis Baggett of Richardson, TX, who also may be ex-Secret Service. This might also explain the Technipol purchase mentioned previously.] Then on 9/28/07, I received another strange phone call, this time on our land line (830-990-2397) from someone claiming to be with the BBB wanting to know details about which law enforcement entities I’d filed complaints against Kamau with, but the caller was local (830-452-1899) and using a voice-changer, and I quickly ended the call.
Since July 2007, I’ve been constantly seeking proper legal representation and have talked with over 100 attorneys, as well as numerous legal assistance organizations, to no avail (Doc. 73). (We don’t qualify for financial-based assistance, even though we are up against people with unlimited legal and financial resources. I suspect, but cannot prove, that one reason for the illegal surveillance of us is so my adversaries know which attorneys I’ve contacted, since they’ve got to be desperate to prevent us from finding proper representation.) I also filed an open records request with the City of Fredericksburg regarding the easement taken from my property for the new road (which is now complete) but only received a receipt for some fencing (Doc. 74).
When further talks with law enforcement indicated that the entire lawsuit as well as the trust might be fraudulent and that Judge Ables himself might be involved [a “mediation session” associated with the lawsuit that now appears to have been designed to try and extort money from me also involved a retired San Antonio judge named Sam Gross who, in retrospect, had to have been in on the conspiracy as well], I faxed documents to San Antonio personal injury lawyer Jeffrey Anderson and asked if he’d be interested in representing us. The next day, I received 2 prank faxes and someone opened our gate and let our horses out (but my son remained in the house while we rounded them up; several friends of Steve’s plus 2 police officers followed us but didn’t help). When that attempt to empty our house didn’t work (and I was seen putting a padlock on the gate), I then received a series of emails from Kamau in which he claimed I now owed him an additional $8,000 (with no explanation or invoice), that he and Steve were meeting to decide what to do about me, and that his operative was coming with the local police to force their way into our house to remove “equipment” (Doc. 60, pp. 8 and 9). This was very frightening, and I again appealed to the DPS and FBI for help but got no response. Around the same time, I also received 2 emails from another employee of Kamau’s named Rob Jones [whom I think is actually in local law enforcement—rumor has it that he is an investigator for local D.A. Bruce Curry’s office], one containing 2 pages of my private fax to Jeffrey Anderson that he somehow obtained illegally and brazenly emailed back to me in a fake e-Fax message (Doc. 60, p. 11), and the other only a photo of blue sky (heaven/a death threat?) (Doc.60, p.12).
We continue to be stalked, harassed, and followed everywhere by Kamau’s operative Slate, the local police, and unknown others (which I’ve complained about), and we are forced to keep our house attended at all times (meaning we can’t do anything together as a family) in order to prevent a break-in that would remove evidence and prevent us from prosecuting for the illegal devices (which still awaken us at night and are apparently still being used to eavesdrop on us) (Doc. 60, p. 15). I recently went back to the FBI in San Antonio, but they refused to do anything again; the agent I spoke with, who would not give me his name, not only refused point-blank to look into our case/s in any way despite my proving our situation is federal (Doc. 75) (at his request, I showed him copies of the backs of the Kamau checks) and my offering him a complete set of evidence, but also accused me of being “vindictive” and described my ex-husband as “rich”. Col. Davis of the TX DPS continued to refuse to respond to my repeated requests for a sweep of our house and I hadn’t heard anything back from the TX OAG, so I then took the box of all my documents (tagged, catalogued, and in chronologic order) plus contact info., a detailed narrative, and some audio tapes to D.A. Curry’s office after being advised to do so in an email from the Texas Rangers. No one has ever called me back, despite my providing a copy of the email from the DPS telling me to take the evidence there. [I did not know at the time that Rob Jones might work there.]
Meanwhile, the harassment, stalking, and mail tampering continue, my children continue to tell me about numerous frightening and disturbing incidents involving their father and his family, and my children and I are still in the middle of a lawsuit designed to fraudulently obtain our house and land without an attorney. The National Domestic Violence Hotline said we needed to have a safety evaluation done, seek a protective order against Steve and possibly others, and find someone to advocate for us with both the judicial system and law enforcement, but no one will do this. (The TX Advocacy Project does have a file on us and referred us to two lawyers who refused to return my calls and a third who rejected us outright.) No one will tell me whether the suspicious deaths of my neighbors have been investigated (and I have learned of other violent deaths related to property development in our area) (Doc. 18). The office buildings Steve had showed my daughter plans for are being started along our western fence. I received a letter from Ed Hodges’ lawyer saying Hodges died on 11/1/07 that contained a resignation and release document for us to sign (we didn’t) (Doc. 76). I recently received a copy of Hodges’ death certificate (from Kansas City, MO) plus another letter from Carlson giving us 30 days (until the end of 1/08) to sign his document (Doc. 77), proving that despite my having filed a criminal complaint with the D.A.’s office, Carlson is openly continuing to conspire to commit criminal fraud. I have also just received a letter from the GCAD giving me 45 days to file any additional protests of my tax appraisals (Doc. 78) (probably because they are aware that we don’t have a lawyer). In April 2008, Steve sent me an email asking if he could pay off the rest of my alimony in one cash payment, but I told him I didn’t want this. (He did not give a reason for this request.)
By way of a summary of our situation with regard to violations of our civil rights, I’m also including a copy of a letter I recently wrote to intake clerk Andrew Maliner at the Texas Civil Rights Project (Doc. 79). [The letter details the stalking, harassment, and illegal surveillance as well. Maliner recently emailed me that he no longer works for TCRP.] I will be glad to answer all questions, provide additional documentation (note that many of the documents I’ve included are merely samples of larger numbers of similar documents I have).
Postscript: The amounts of cash I’ve been defrauded out of are significant: ~$75,000 by Hodges; ~$28,000 by Short; ~$6,000 by Hix; ~$10,000 by Carmen; $500 by Jones; ~$60,000 by Kamau; ??? by the City of Fredericksburg (for the easement taken from my property) (Doc. 80). This does not take into account the extra property taxes I paid, the countless copying, mailing, or phone bills, etc. This does not address the values of any of the harassment-related issues or the possible theft of my house and property (which is on-going). It also does not touch on the divorce fraud issue, the numerous and blatant violations of our civil rights, or the endangerment of my children. Further, I have been trying to obtain accurate copies of my back federal income tax returns (Doc. 81) for years [note that the IRS and Secret Service were both under the Treasury Department], and my daughter Laura Hoerster has so far been unable to obtain complete copies of back statements from her college checking account at the Hoersters’ bank, Security State (Doc. 82), despite years of trying. [These problems may be related to the mail tampering.]
Please help us. We are not the only victims in this area by any means (Doc. 83), but our case is certainly one of the best-documented. My children and I have already endured nine years of constant harassment, stalking, criminal victimization, invasions of our privacy, slander, libel, and threats, some of it by law enforcement personnel at all levels. Many of our most basic civil rights such as the right to proper legal representation, the right to privacy, the right to protection by law enforcement, and the right to live without fear are being constantly and blatantly violated on a daily basis. (I was nearly run down again in my own driveway by a couple in a dark blue Chevy pickup, TX 8MY-T13 recently. Calling the police is pointless—they never do anything.) Without help, our situation keeps escalating. At the present stage, it’s clear things here won’t improve without major help from the federal government.
In addition to the enclosed material, I can provide a detailed chronologic statement of our case and a chronologic listing of all available documentation (both Word files on DVD), additional documentation, some pertinent audio tapes, and a number of photographs (including the ones referred to here). My children and I will be glad to answer any and all questions and provide additional information.
Update, 3/7/08: There has been another sudden death that may be connected with our case—a close associate of Steve’s named Jimmy Brown (57). My son says Brown was over at his dad’s house nearly every time he’s been there for visitation for some time, and Brown also went with our son and his dad on several trips to the Texas coast and to the waterfront house Steve owns in Tahsis, British Columbia (250-934-6531). We have heard rumors that someone ordered an autopsy on Brown. [All of the local funeral home owners are close associates of the Hoersters.]
A James Brown owns property just to the northwest of ours (see for ex. Gillespie County, TX #s R65494, R13414, R19560, and R10237; note that the last of these is under his mother’s name of Moldenhauer). Some of his property adjoins the tract along our western fence line where the office buildings Steve showed our daughter plans for in 2006 are now being built. Other Brown property adjoins the Joel Williams property west of us that is being developed by “Toskana”. Note that Joel Williams grew up with Steve, Joel’s wife Yvonne was found shot to death in 2003, and both he and the late Jimmy Brown work/ed as security guards at the local hospital.
There are a couple of other coincidences. A Jimmy Brown once owned a Texas-licensed private investigation firm called Pegasus that fraudulent trustee Ed Hodges was later associated with. (Hodges also used “Pegasus” as his email address.) Also, the wife of the other fraudulent trustee in our case, attorney Lowell Jones, is named Mary “Robbyn” Brown Jones; I’m still trying to find out if she’s related to Jimmy Brown or Dr. Dor Brown, another recently deceased lifelong Hoerster family friend (on whose former property Steve now lives, even though he lists his office address as his residence).
Finally, there are persistent rumors around town that Steve and his doctor friends are desperate to obtain my property in order to build a lucrative outpatient surgery clinic.
Update, 4/8/08: I have added a small amount of additional information within the body of this (most in brackets). On 3/25/08, I received a brief and frankly ridiculous letter from the Justice Department that only mentioned my 9/07 urgent request for either confirmation or denial of the validity of the suspicious phone call from someone identifying themselves as an FBI agent after the San Antonio FBI office would not provide this information; the DOJ also refused to provide any information about this call. Also, I have remembered that p.i. Ken Hays had said his wife, Kay, went to high school in San Antonio with well-known attorney Gerry Goldstein (whom I remember my ex-husband consulting with for unknown reasons during our divorce) and also with p.i. Mike Kaliski, whom Hays and Short both described as “a rogue former FBI agent with ties to ‘Murph the Surf’, a guy who had murdered a woman in Florida and thrown her body into the swamp” (I have no idea if any of this is true or not). In doing some checking on the TX DPS-PSB website, I discovered that Ed Hodges used to work for Kaliski and that Dewey White (who was never disciplined by the DPS as far as I can tell and who may also be ex-fed.) apparently still does. I recently received some sort of a “tax refund application” document that had previously been sent to Ed Hodges, along with a handwritten note from Tax Assessor-Collector Leola Broadbeck insisting that I sign and return it (but I haven’t).
Update, 6/14/08: According to an article in today’s San Antonio Express-News, a special prosecutor has been appointed in Kendall County (Boerne) to look into additional problems with atty. Kira West that I wasn’t aware of. The article also mentions that she no longer works for the government, moved to Washington, D.C. on the day charges were filed against her (which also involve another atty. and a police officer), and while here was “an aggressive defense lawyer”. Also, a 12/10/07 article in the same paper discusses the death of Cynthia Parker from Gillespie County who died shortly before she was to testify against Dick Hoerster to a grand jury regarding another case.
Update, 8/6/08: Today I received a copy of a “Suggestion of Death” filing in the lawsuit from Hodges’ lawyer, John Carlson, but we STILL don’t have a lawyer and I don’t know what to do about it. Also, there are many signs around town that my ex- is liquidating or changing the ownership on many of his assets.
Update: Kira West pleaded “No Contest” to the charges against her in Boerne and was sentenced to a fine and 1 day of probation. A new notice of hearings on proposed zoning changes has been published in the F’burg paper for land just to the west of us (the Williams’ property, I believe), and we weren’t notified by the city again. We STILL don’t have any legal representation in the lawsuit to fraudulently take our house and land for development; we are STILL being severely stalked and harassed (sometimes by law enforcement); we STILL can’t leave our house unattended and are followed everywhere; law enforcement at all levels STILL refuses to prosecute our case/s; much of our mail STILL arrives open, crudely reglued, or damp (or disappears altogether); we are STILL unable to obtain complete and correct copies of official records (back tax returns, back bank statements, etc.) and we are STILL hearing that our private moments inside our house are being broadcast over the internet. I have received a rather curt/rude letter from Sen. John Cornyn in reply to my request for help and also a comment in Arabic that I can’t even read from the senior crime editor for the San Antonio Express-News.
Update, 10/15/08: Both County Judge Mark Stroeher and whoever now owns the Williams property have just applied for more substantial zoning changes to properties adjoining mine on the north, northeast, and west that indicate major new development. (Much of this property changed ownership shortly after suspicious deaths that I specifically asked the San Antonio FBI office to investigate in 2007, and I provided them detailed information at the time.)
Update, 10/30/08: Brian Collister at WOAI in San Antonio is reporting that over 30 million dollars worth of Homeland Security equipment is missing and that some of it is high-tech. surveillance equipment. [Jim Ferrier is a consultant for Homeland Security, according to his resume that I was given. Gillespie County first responders have been in trouble before for missing equipment bought with these grants. On 10/21/08, someone from the City of Fredericksburg removed some sort of equipment from our electric pole; on 10/22/08, he was back doing more work of some sort on our pole that we were not informed about, and he left quickly when he realized we had seen him.] Also, the local hospital has just announced plans to build a new outpatient center in a partnership with local doctors but did not give any location. I have not yet received my 2008 property tax bill from the Gillespie Central Appraisal District.
Update, 12/5/08: Because I still had not received my 2008 property tax bills from the GCAD, I had them faxed to me today. When I received them, I discovered that they listed Ed Hodges as the tax agent and owner of all of my property (5 sheets) even though all of the appraisals I was sent last June for the same tracts were listed correctly in my name, owner ID #, and address. When I asked both the GCAD and the tax office to correct the information, they refused.
Heather Johnston said
That is a very frightening story. You must be very confused and feel like there is nowhere to turn. Good Luck. My heart goes out to you.
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It has become apparent to me that Diop will charge money for services and then promise refunds that he will not provide.
Mary Lou deserves all of the help and support that Local Law enforcement can provide.
If they cannot do so, they should loose their jobs.
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