Many of you have
already heard of the huge Los Angeles County Judge's Slush Fund Scandal. If
you haven't, please read the recap on this from the man who broke the story,
Marv Bryer below. (Also, Mr. Bryer's story was published in the April 4, 2022
Insight Magazine. - The full story is available through the link below, or on
our website, www.jail4judges.org,
by selecting "The Stacks" from the menu there, and then selecting
"LA Superior
Court Judges 'Slush' Fund".)
We have been informed, and
hereby give you notice, that there is to be a court hearing on this coming Friday,
March 10, 2000, at 2 p.m., 700 Civic Center Drive, Santa Ana, California, courtroom
C-30, to be heard in front of Judge Stuart T. Waldrip, Case # BA 173392.
One of our attorneys, Patricia Barry, has directed the following comments
to Marv Bryer: "I will try to attend the hearing. We need to pack the
courtroom and alert the media -- LA Weekly, New Times, LA Times, Orange County
Register, etc. ... Let's get all court reformers there and fill the courtroom!"
In an effort to promote
widest attendance, we are sending this out to even those who do not live in
the surrouding area in hopes that they may either know of friends or family,
or have media contacts that may be able to alert to be in attendance. We
strongly recommend that you obtain a current
update directly from Marv Bryer <[email protected]>
before you rush to Santa Ana because of the propensity of the court to "play
games." All the judges want to pull this one off in secret. See the details
below!
Attorney Pat Barry.
Marv Bryer writes: Dear J.A.I.L.4Judges:
I went to Orange County today about the
L.A. Court Scandal. Court Accountant Pentoney stole 1.45 million in city and
county funds and his case is NOW in Orange County.
The case is at 700 Civic
Center Drive, Santa Ana, courtroom C30, Judge Stuart T. Waldrip. The case
number is BA 173392 and is still a LOS ANGELES CASE but being heard in ORANGE
COUNTY at our expense.
I "MAY" have a reporter
interested in the story but I am taking my own action. I just filed a PUBLIC
REQUEST for records of the PHONE LOGS from the Los Angeles Judge Victor Chavez's
INCOMING CALLS to Judge Waldrip.
Pentoney worked for Chavez
and company - the top judges in Los Angeles and laundered money and maintained
a slush fund for the judges. The L.A. judges were all disqualified and
now the want the OC judge to NOT LET THE CASE GO TO TRIAL.
The next hearing is AT
2.00 pm in the C-30 courtroom. In my filings on the OC judge, I informed
him that I am sending a copy of what I filed to the Commission On Judicial Performance.
Not that he will be worried, but he will have to think twice before he issues
any orders in the case or accepts deals.
Marv <[email protected]>
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES JUDICIAL SCANDAL!
BIG TIME! Dear JAIL For Judges:
.... Right now the Los Angeles
judges are manipulating a case in Orange County. Gregory Pentoney is the "Bag
Man" for the Los Angeles [County] judges. I reported him in 1994 to the Los
Angeles District Attorney and said the man was a thief, a swindler and needed
to be arrested.
Then I reported him for laundering money to judges. I wrote a complaint to the
Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector. They turned it over to the auditor
who buried it! To get rid of the evidence, the Los Angeles District Attorney
... confiscated [the]evidence. This evidence is currently under lock and key
in SID (Special Investigation Division) of [District Attorney] Garcetti's corrupt
empire. The search warrant was sealed and locked up in a vault with the presiding
judge. ....
Pentoney was arrested on August 28, 2022 and has never been to trail. The Los
Angeles judges had to have him arrested because my city [the city of] Glendale
sued Pentoney for conspiracy!!! The City Attorney of Glendale, Scott Howard,
subpoenaed the criminal case records and our corrupt county counsel filed a
motion to quash! The motion was heard in camera! Hell - they don't want this
stuff coming out. Pentoney was arrested at the time the motion hearing was due.
Do you get the idea how deep this corruption is?
[Presiding Judge] Larry Paul Fidler disqualified all superior court judges from
the criminal case - People of the State of California verses Gregory Pentoney
[case #] BA 173392.
Every case has a log. It is called the Register of Action. If you go to the
Criminal Court in Los Angeles, you can pull the log of the case. There are two
separate logs kept on Pentoney. The first log is the municipal court. Pentoney
was arraigned before judge Dale S. Fisher. She reduced Pentoney's bail from
1.5 million to three hundred thousand! Isn't that suspicious?
.... This is an important case. Pentoney holds the key to unlock the RICO activities
of our monstrous Los Angeles Judges. Pentoney was maintaining a slush fund for
the judges [until] he and a lawyer tapped into the till. He was only arrested
three years after the fact when the City of Glendale filed a civil suit.
The municipal court transferred
the case to the superior court. That's when [presiding] Judge Fiddler flew the
coop. ...
The Pentoney case went back to a judge named Robert Hess. [Deputy] District
Attorney Koumjian had argued that the judges were the victims. [Judge] Robert
Hess reduced Pentoney's bail from three hundred thousand to one hundred thousand.
Then [he] disqualified all Los Angeles Municipal court judges!
Try to find where the case went. ... I had to tell Garcetti's publicity
agent, Sandi Gibbons, to give me the information or I would sue to get it! I
tracked the case into Orange County.... There is no log of this case in Orange
County. The case has disappeared from public view.
Judge Makino shipped the case to the North Court in Fullerton. There it wound
up in the chambers of Judge Stuart T. Waldrip. At first Judge Waldrip was honorable.
He was going to pursue the case going to trial. The Los Angeles judges did not
want the case to go to trial. "The defense lawyers will argue the Los Angeles
judges have a slush fund!" .... I was in court when [Judge] Stuart T. Waldrip
was speaking to the Orange County District Attorney. He said he received a call
from 'The Chief Justice of Los Angeles" that he was instructed not to take the
case to trial!
This is a crime. The phone call is illegal ex parte communication to pressure
a judge to not proceed with the justice system. The judges of Los Angeles and
the Los Angeles District Attorney want to drop ten felonies against Pentoney.
In exchange ... Pentoney will keep his mouth shut and not rat on the Judges
of Los Angeles.
I am suggesting that JAIL For Judges join me at the next hearing on (Friday)
March 10th in the Civic Center Court Room C30. This deal [for Pentoney] is expected
to go down. We can't let this happen.
MARV <[email protected]>
Hello - My name
is Marvin Bryer and Ron Branson emailed me that you might be interested
in following up on a matter I brought to Jail4Judges attention.
This is in reference
to the 11 counts of felonies committed by a court finance department employee
named Gregory Pentoney - and he has never gone to trial after he was arrested
in August of 1998!
COURT:
Pentoney will appear on March 10, 2023 at the Orange County Superior Court
located at 700 Civic Center Drive West, in Santa Ana. I will have
to find my notes to find the exact hearing time. But the courts open at
9:00 am.
The courtroom is C30, and the Judge
is Stuart T. Waldrip. The case is BA 173392.
ANOMALIES:
If you call the Orange County Court Administration, they will tell you
there is not such case. Therefore, I will have to get he phone number
of the courtroom itself. The case file is in the judges chambers.
It is an Los Angeles case. The case number is a Los Angeles case
number.
FACTS:
If you logon to the Los Angeles Times webpage - www.latimes.com
- and click on the archive icon, you can then search on the words "Gregory
Pentoney". Enter the search for "all years" and you will get two
hits. You don't have to download the whole story because that costs
2 bucks - but - you will find on December 11, 1996, more than 1.2 million
was missing from Superior Court funds. The story was written by Josh
Meyer. Then, you will find on September 1, 1998, Pentoney was arrested.
You will not
find any news from there on except he was also obliquely referred to in
an article about a lack of control over municipal court and superior court
funds. Employees would walk out of the court with bags of money!
I will provide
you with more information when I call the courtroom itself. I was at the
last hearing when the deals to exonerate Pentoney of 10 of the 11 felonies
were discussed. He has never withdrawn his not guilty pleading.
Marv Bryer
BILL JOHNSON
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
JUDICIAL REVIEW MONTHLY JOURNAL
DEAR JAIL4JUDGES:
Today is the day that the PEOPLE prosecute GREGORY PENTONEY - the court thief.
PEOPLE VERUS PENTONEY. BA 173392. This is MARCH 10 - 2000 - PRETRIAL.
I have to share this with you. I was in TORRANCE COURT - on March 9, 2000.
I was supporting a lady named IRENE JENSEN. She has to pay the LOS ANGELES SHERIFF'S
EMPLOYEES and FORMER EMPLOYEES - 30 dollars per hour to see her kid - one day
a month!
Irene had about seven people with her - who braved the metal detectors and
went to court and to bat for her. I was really taken back when I mentioned GREGORY
PENTONEY to her advocates. They KNEW ABOUT JAIL4JUDGES!!!!!! They knew about
your email. Gadzooks! You get around!
Even if we don't bust corruption - we have to make a movie about this - someday!
How many people fight dirty judges the way we fight? Hmm? We are broke - downtrodden
- but we go on.
PENTONEY is NOT MY CASE! The PEOPLE are prosecuting him. Pentoney actually
moved 5 million dollars in LOS ANGELES COUNTY TREASURY MONEY to bank accounts
not belonging to the COUNTY. Heck - that's money we could have used to build
more jail cells for traffic ticket violators WHO DON'T PAY!
PENTONEY and his buddy - ATTORNEY ROBERT FENTON - kept 1.5 million for themselves.
BUT ABOUT JAIL4JUDGES - what a noble experiment. How many people are really
fighting dirty judges and dirty cops?
If any of you show up today - in ORANGE COUNTY - I would like to introduce
you in advance to the PLAYERS:
1. Judge Stuart T. Waldrip. He is a handsome man with silver colored hair.
He is intelligent and very outspoken. He transferred from Fullerton Court (called
the North Court) to the Santa Ana court (700 Civic Center Drive) when a judge
died. Waldrip took a call from LOS ANGELES JUDGE - VICTOR CHAVEZ - to rig the
PEOPLE VS. PENTONEY CASE BA 173392.
2. Nicholas Koumjian. He is a likable District Attorney who thinks he is doing
his job. He is NOT EVIL but he is being instructed by his bosses to cover up
corruption. Nicholas will talk to you. But when I point out that he has (locked
up in SID (Special Investigation Division)) evidence of judicial corruption,
he just ignores this as if a flea was bothering him. Koumjian is why we need
JAIL4JUDGES.
3. James Blatt. He is a shrewd attorney for ATTORNEY ROBERT FENTON. Blatt
represents Fenton who is charged with BRIBING PENTONEY, COMMITTING PERJURY,
and GRAND THEFT LARCENY. Blatt has gone on record as saying his client was exposing
a SLUSH FUND. The LOS ANGELES JUDGES were keeping hundreds of millions of dollars
in redevelopment money a secret. The LOS ANGELES JUDGES instructed PENTONEY
and the SUPERIOR COURT FINANCE DEPARTMENT to REMAIN QUIET. Blatt is very astute
and takes HIGH PROFILE CRIMINAL CASES.
4. Attorney Walter Katz. He is an ALTERNATE PUBLIC DEFENDER. A tall thin -
and very sophisticated African American lawyer. He filed a BENCH RECUSAL on
the LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGES - all of them - and succeeded to move
the case to ORANGE COUNTY to be out-of-the limelight, and away from the press.
Blatt disqualified all of the LA SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES! KATZ was surprised
when the WASHINGTON TIMES called him. He never returned the call. KATZ took
the case when PENTONEY said he could not afford anymore private attorneys! He
was given a PUBLIC DEFENDER who quit the case, leaving PENTONEY with KATZ.
Bottom line - KATZ is schrewd. He has issued subpoenas. I would love to see
the subpoenas BUT they are NOT IN THE COURT FILES!
5. Relatives. Pentoney's dad will be there. He is a corporate lawyer and I
have to guess that he was the connections that got PENTONEY - his son - a job
handling ALL OF THE LOS ANGELES COURT MONEY. The dad is tall and not overweight.
He sort of looks like KEATING - the guy who fleeced the savings and loans!
6. PENTONEY. He is the CO-DEFENDANT. He handled all the traffic ticket money
- Ron - for bail and every other dime that was collected and not sent to the
county treasury. Pentoney was described by the LOS ANGELES TIMES as being a
good-looking RISING STAR! If you look at him - you won't see evil. Believe me
- this man is rotten and infected to the core. He holds the KEY for all of us.
PENTONEY is the RAFAEL PEREZ of the COURT SYSTEM! If only he would talk. Expect
him to plead NO CONTEST to one count of bribery. Here is the kicker. AFTER PENTONEY
WAS FIRED - he received requests from the LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY to come
clean. He earned interest on his theft but returned the 1/2 million he personally
stole. HE - I BELIEVE - HAS NEVER RETURNED THE INTEREST EARNED on the money
he stole!
7. Attorney Robert Fenton. He is co-defendant. He is a likable man who is
now DISBARRED from practicing law. He learned about the REDEVELOPMENT MONEY
- EMINENT DOMAIN slush funds when Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) took
his property! He became friends with the COURT FINANCE DEPARTMENT. He and PENTONEY
are best buddies. He swears he did nothing wrong. I like FENTON and have talked
to him. He talks to PENTONEY at court - although there are STRICT ORDERS they
are NOT ALLOWED TO TALK! FENTON is only one part of the problem. He is NOT THE
KEY.
So - if any of you are there today - you will see the MATRIX MOVIE unfold.
You will see the illusion that justice is being carried out. It is all a fake.
All a mirage. This case has been orchestrated by the purse strings of the LOS
ANGELES COURT - the largest trial court in the WORLD!
Marv Bryer [email protected]
As corrupt as the Bar Ass.
is, and because its members unconstitutionally monopolize our courts, I
would not be surprised if this same kind of money
laundering and RICO activities occur in every county,
state and federal court system! It is time we the people start investigating
in our own counties!
Janet Lee: Meisinger
Here is a quote from the investigator who uncovered the crimes being committed by judges, DAs and other lawyers in California:
".. This is an important case. Pentoney holds the key
to unlock the RICO activities of our monstrous Los Angeles Judges. Pentoney
was maintaining a slush fund for the judges [until] he and a lawyer tapped into
the till. He was only arrested three years after the fact when the City of Glendale
filed a civil suit." Marv Bryer