Los Angeles, CA Full Disclosure Network® presents an exclusive interview with court critic and attorney Richard I Fine just one day before he was sentenced to jail by Superior Court Judge David Yaffe indefinitely, with no bail, no hearing date scheduled and no release date set.
Also featured is Los Angeles Civic Leader David R. Hernandez who describes his encounter with Judge Yaffe on an important election issue and the impact of Court and Judicial Corruption on the system.
This is part of an on-going series on Court Corruption that includes this hour long interview with Fine, a prominent Anti-Trust attorney who worked in the U S Department of Justice winning landmark cases on OPEC, General Motors and with a PhD in International Law, serves in the diplomatic corps representing the country of Norway. Also Featured in the second half is Fred Sotille of Fathers 4 Justice.
Known for his ability to recover over a billion dollars from government that had been confiscated from special funds intended for specific uses, such as environmental fees, child support payments that were supposed to go to families that were diverted by the courts, illegal sewer fees and much more.
Parts Three and Four feature a one-hour interview with Judical Watch attorney, Sterling Norris, whose landmark case (Sturgeon vs County of Los
Angeles) Judicial Benefits paid to Superior Court Judges is illegal and
prompted the California Judicial Council to sponsor legislation giving both
the Judges and the county officical retroactive immunity from prosecution.
Comments to date: 14. This is page 1 of 2.
Gunny Thompson
Posted: 04:33 pm [PST] on February 05 2010
As a way of cohesion and influencing judicial decisions, In addition to illegal payments to judges, in Texas, laws that requires that judges be elected, sitting judges and other elected officials are cohersed to resign before elections in order to appoint their other cronies to set for elections in violations of the Election Code, the Hatch Act and a number of other federal and state laws. What Say You?
len stimac santa clara county
Posted: 06:55 am [PST] on January 25 2010
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Posted: 10:26 pm [PST] on January 24 2010
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Truth Seeker Location unknown
Posted: 09:22 am [PST] on January 24 2010
@ Courtwatch. Please work with Leslie Dutton on a report NAMING NAMES. We deserve the right to know the names of these Judges. All 2000 of them. We deserve the right to know, from top to bottom, who came up with the sudden SBX211 "Bill/Law" to make these payments legal. Every one of them.
It's extremely interesting that Marin County and San Diego County are now undergoing "audits" for Court Corruption, but Los Angeles, which is where THIS part of the corruption started has been left out. Los Angeles is the center of the septic system of Court Corruption, and the law makers as well. (Some who's spouses are Judges)
It appears that our Government is just really a large mafia. Why is Madoff in jail if these Judges aren't? They have done the exact same thing, but it's worse. He was at least caught, and stopped. There is no stopping the Government.
Leslie, please do a report, naming names of all the ones involved from top to bottom. Who drafted SBX 211, who supported it, and who is getting the payments. All 2000 names.
courtwatch Marin County
Posted: 08:01 pm [PST] on January 21 2010
For those of you who are interested in the Richard Fine issues, the statistics about the judicial perks he was complaining about can be found in the Judicial Council's December 15, 2009 report entitled "Historical Analysis of Disparities in Judicial Benefits". The key statistics are in attachment D, pages D-9 to D-14. In 2008, CA counties paid a total of $30,388,289 in "supplemental judicial benefits" to their judges, above and beyond their state salaries and benefits.$23,482,932 of this total $30.3 million was paid by Los Angeles County, to Los Angeles County judges. The report does not state how much each judge receives per capita, but it states that Los Angeles County has 436 judges-- that comes out to each LA judge receiving approximately $53,860 from LA County. Richard Fine challenged the LA judges, stating that those receiving these hefty benefits from LA County should not be hearing cases involving LA County. He also claimed the payments were illegal. In 2008, a court of appeal agreed that the payments were illegal.(Sturgeon v. County of Los Angeles (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 630.) According to the Judicial Council report (page 4), in response to the Sturgeon case, "the judicial branch sought legislation, Senate Bill X2 11".
The legislation, commonly known as SBX 211, was pushed through on an emergency basis. It allows judges to continue to receive these extra benefits, and also provides RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY from prosecution to counties paying the benefits, and judges receiving the benefits.
In other words, CA judges were taking the county benefits in violation of the law. When this was made public, the CA judiciary got emergency legislation passed, allowing them to continue to receive their benefits (while courts are being closed due to "budget constraints"), and also allowing them to escape prosecution. Meanwhile, the lawyer who had been challenging the LA bench for taking these hefty illegal perks for years, was disbarred and sent to jail, where he has been held in solitary confinement for almost a year.
The legality of SBX 211 has subsequently been challenged -- something the language of the legislation itself anticipated.
If you think this report on judicial benefits is interesting, check out the report issued the same day (12/15/09), by the CA Judicial Council's "Commission on Impartial Courts" recommending that judges be allowed to take campaign contributions from those who appear before them (although 75% of the public, and over 25% of judges, believe such contributions affect the outcome of cases), and also recommending AGAINST the implementation of Judicial Performance Evaluations--which consultants to the Judicial Council have repeatedly,strongly recommended.
PAG PJ Stewart Fallbrook
Posted: 01:14 am [PST] on September 12 2009
You know, it is time to retore the rights of the people, and you can only do so if you know your rights and hole those who owe special duty to the law, to the law.
Rudy J. Martinez 9804 Alder Avenue G125 Bloomington Ca 92
Posted: 10:51 am [PST] on August 04 2009
Why not get the Federal Government Involved up to the President after all these Judges are breaking Federal and State Civil rights Statues in putting innocent individuals in jail because they disclose unlawful conduct and practices by Judges, to also include their cohorts in law enforcement.
Scott Zwartz Beverly Hills
Posted: 08:14 am [PST] on July 03 2009
Richard I Fine's case shows the terrible situation facing all Californians. The same corrupt officials like David Yaffe who have turned the judiciary into a moral cesspool have bankrupted the entire State. These judges have allowed corrupt businesses to run rampant throughout the State. The judges knew about the massive corruption in the mortgage industry, but the judiciary covered up the fraud. Had the judges performed their duties, the nation would have been spared the current economic disaster. Some of the same judges that sold out their moral duty to the public and allowed Countrywide had so corrupted the criminal courts that the LAPD ended up being placed onto Parole -- The LAPD is currently run under the supervision of a Consent Degree of the United States department of Justice. The architects and prime movers of the massive corruption in the criminal courts were the criminal court judges. Everywhere judges like Connor, Schitavelli, Yaffe, Chalfant, etc go, corruption and injustices abound.
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Posted: 06:03 am [PST] on June 10 2009
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