A Terroristic Divorce

CoCo County Dirty DUI Deputy Resigns
March 11, 2011

Not necessarily an admission of guilt, but Stephen Tanabe, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputy accused of setting up DUI busts to sully the good names of men who found themselves on the wrong end of Chris Butler’s dirty private investigations, officially resigned yesterday. He was arrested for “possession and transfer of an assault rifle and conspiracy to possess and sell controlled substances” which is all related to the investigation in to the drug-dealing ring operated by Butler and former CoCo County Drug Czar Norman Wielsch.

The road is long and lonely and dangerous. You or a loved one may be threatened with jail and prison, with losing everything you have or own, even with being physically and mentally tormented, being murdered or put to death.

You may have a terribly difficult time getting anyone to help you, or getting the news media to cover your story, or even getting someone to listen to you.

This amazingly aware excerpt is from the Corruption FAQ written by Dr. Les Sachs.

Click to download the FAQ which explains the futility of surviving corruption.

Now this story is sounding remarkably like the one I have been experiencing… but I am in Montgomery County Pennsylvania… this happened 3000 miles away in California.

Standard Operating Procedure for the Drug Task Forces in the US. Use Private Investigators to violate the rights of the target. If detected by the target, DESTROY THEM. Yea. It happened to me. And when I figured it out, they retaliated through eight corrupt judges trying to cover for them.

THEY DESTROYED ME BECAUSE I CAUGHT THEM TRYING TO DESTROY ME.

When in doubt, the difference between a private investigator and a confidential informant is employment.

The PI never has a job, and is always looking. This is because he is working as a PI and just pretending to have no job. He will miss appointments, interviews, and reschedule constantly. That is because his schedule is flexible – spent investigating you perhaps.

A confidential informant will have a low paying job because that is about all he can get. He’ll have a tiny police record which will hurt his employment opportunities. BUT, he’ll always make sure he is to work on time. He needs that job. He is afraid of losing it. He is also afraid because one mis-step, or a statement that he is an informant, will land him in jail without any further discussion. Confidential Informants will understand what you tell them, but will rarely speak.

Drug Task Force + Private Investigator + Confidential Informants = CORRUPTION WITH IMPUNITY

An article from the Washington post dated March 23, 2007.

It is the policy of The Washington Post not to publish anonymous pieces. In this case, an exception has been made because the author — who would have preferred to be named — is legally prohibited from disclosing his or her identity in connection with receipt of a national security letter. The Post confirmed the legitimacy of this submission by verifying it with the author’s attorney and by reviewing publicly available court documents.

The Justice Department’s inspector general revealed on March 9 that the FBI has been systematically abusing one of the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act: the expanded power to issue “national security letters.” It no doubt surprised most Americans to learn that between 2003 and 2005 the FBI issued more than 140,000 specific demands under this provision — demands issued without a showing of probable cause or prior judicial approval — to obtain potentially sensitive information about U.S. citizens and residents. It did not, however, come as any surprise to me.

Three years ago, I received a national security letter (NSL) in my capacity as the president of a small Internet access and consulting business. The letter ordered me to provide sensitive information about one of my clients. There was no indication that a judge had reviewed or approved the letter, and it turned out that none had. The letter came with a gag provision that prohibited me from telling anyone, including my client, that the FBI was seeking this information. Based on the context of the demand — a context that the FBI still won’t let me discuss publicly — I suspected that the FBI was abusing its power and that the letter sought information to which the FBI was not entitled.

Rather than turn over the information, I contacted lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, and in April 2004 I filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSL power. I never released the information the FBI sought, and last November the FBI decided that it no longer needs the information anyway. But the FBI still hasn’t abandoned the gag order that prevents me from disclosing my experience and concerns with the law or the national security letter that was served on my company. In fact, the government will return to court in the next few weeks to defend the gag orders that are imposed on recipients of these letters.

Living under the gag order has been stressful and surreal. Under the threat of criminal prosecution, I must hide all aspects of my involvement in the case — including the mere fact that I received an NSL — from my colleagues, my family and my friends. When I meet with my attorneys I cannot tell my girlfriend where I am going or where I have been. I hide any papers related to the case in a place where she will not look. When clients and friends ask me whether I am the one challenging the constitutionality of the NSL statute, I have no choice but to look them in the eye and lie.

I resent being conscripted as a secret informer for the government and being made to mislead those who are close to me, especially because I have doubts about the legitimacy of the underlying investigation.

The inspector general’s report makes clear that NSL gag orders have had even more pernicious effects. Without the gag orders issued on recipients of the letters, it is doubtful that the FBI would have been able to abuse the NSL power the way that it did. Some recipients would have spoken out about perceived abuses, and the FBI’s actions would have been subject to some degree of public scrutiny. To be sure, not all recipients would have spoken out; the inspector general’s report suggests that large telecom companies have been all too willing to share sensitive data with the agency — in at least one case, a telecom company gave the FBI even more information than it asked for. But some recipients would have called attention to abuses, and some abuse would have been deterred.

I found it particularly difficult to be silent about my concerns while Congress was debating the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2005 and early 2006. If I hadn’t been under a gag order, I would have contacted members of Congress to discuss my experiences and to advocate changes in the law. The inspector general’s report confirms that Congress lacked a complete picture of the problem during a critical time: Even though the NSL statute requires the director of the FBI to fully inform members of the House and Senate about all requests issued under the statute, the FBI significantly underrepresented the number of NSL requests in 2003, 2004 and 2005, according to the report.

I recognize that there may sometimes be a need for secrecy in certain national security investigations. But I’ve now been under a broad gag order for three years, and other NSL recipients have been silenced for even longer. At some point — a point we passed long ago — the secrecy itself becomes a threat to our democracy. In the wake of the recent revelations, I believe more strongly than ever that the secrecy surrounding the government’s use of the national security letters power is unwarranted and dangerous. I hope that Congress will at last recognize the same thing.

After issuing a subpeona, I have finally obtained the following conversation with HostGator Technical Support.

Who it is? and Why they are trying to gain access to the hosting account is not known? And If I do know them, I can’t imagine why they would not have contacted me directly to address the issue… as I had already reported the trouble ticket days before this call was made.

Listen to the call…(ogg format) or (mp3 format)

The following is a transcript of the call.

The call came from 925-945-XXXX. Who is this? I’ve tried calling and all i get is “leave a message”.
Call lasted 9 Minutes and 8 seconds from 17:53:19 to 18:02:27 CST.

January 24, 2011

[MUSIC]

SYSTEM: You are currently caller number three. Your estimated hold time is currently two minutes.

HOSTGATOR: Thank you for calling Hostgator. This is Scott. May I help you?

IMPOSTER: Yes, Scott. I am calling about a domain that that is apparently listed to you that I own. It is RitaCoolidge.com.

HOSTGATOR: OK, R – I – T – A

IMPOSTER: Yes

HOSTGATOR: Now how do you spell coolidge?

IMPOSTER: C – O – O – L – I – D – G – E

HOSTGATOR: Ok, and you said that was dot com?

IMPOSTER: Yes.

HOSTGATOR: Let me pull that up.

(pause)

HOSTGATOR: OK, so I have your account in front of me. So how can I help you with that?

IMPOSTER: The site seems to be down.

HOSTGATOR: Ok,let me take a look and see whats going on with that. Has that ever worked? or…

IMPOSTOR: Yes.

HOSTGATOR: OK, lets see. I get a forbidden error. Ok, let me see whats going on here… and this is the only one that you’re having a problems with right now

IMPOSTOR: Yes.

HOSTGATOR: OK, let me go ahead… go in here and take a look. OK, I need to log into your web host manager in order to take a look at it. Do you mind if I temporarily change the password so that I can get in? I’ll change it back when I am done. This will temporarily lock you out while I am in.

IMPOSTOR: Yea. No. Um. If you want we can change the password completely. But that’s up to you. Yes, go ahead.

HOSTGATOR: It would just be temporary and then when i say unset it it will go back to what it was.

IMPOSTOR: My problem is… one of the reasons i am calling is other people have the password and thats what i’m trying to figure out whats wrong.

HOSTGATOR: Ok, ok, so after we look at the web site here if we need to we will reset the password for you.

(pause)

HOSTGATOR: What type of site is it? Is it like a wordpress site, html site, joomla

IMPOSTER: I believe it’s html

HOSTGATOR: OK, right now I am looking at the file system. Just going in there right now. Yea, have you gotten any emails from us about that

IMPOSTER: No, we haven’t.

(Pause)

HOSTGATOR: OK, I actually see that we have a ticket number on that. Um, I can resend you the information in the ticket if you don’t have that

IMPOSTER: When you say ticket to be fixed or is it…

HOSTGATOR: It is something that you need to respond to. Let me go ahead and resend that to you? Do you have access to your billing account at gbclient.hostgator.com. Cause you can also see your tickets in there, as well.

IMPOSTER: I don’t

HOSTGATOR: Ok all you’ld have to do is just go to gbclient.hostgator.com and then enter say forgot your password and enter in your password and then they’ll email you the password.

IMPOSTER: Yes, I’m sorry gbgator…

HOSTGATOR: gbclient.hostgator.com

IMPOSTER: dot sorry dot hostgator

HOSTGATOR: gbclient.hostgator.com

IMPOSTOR: OK and enter

HOSTGATOR: It should give you a login screen. So just say forgot your password and enter the email address you gave when you signed up.

IMPOSTER: OK and do do do do do do do do Is there a way that I can change that email address?

HOSTGATOR Um, after you log in yes

IMPOSTER: ok, all right, that will tell me what I need to know

HOSTGATOR: Yea, and I am also remailing you the, um, the ticket right now. So, you’ll get a copy of the ticket. Also, you’ll see the ticket in gbclient.

IMPOSTER: I don’t have access to that email address right now. So. That’s my problem.

HOSTGATOR: So let me send that. So, I am resending that to you. Ok, so you should have 2 copies of that ticket in your email now

IMPOSTER: And does that go to Terance or does that

HOSTGATOR: Um, I can tell which email address it goes to if you verify your account. Can I get the last 4 digits of the credit card number that we have on file for you.

IMPOSTER: I don’t … should be… I don’t have that in front of me. I’m sorry. It’s a business and that’s why…

HOSTGATOR: Unfortunately i can’t reveal which email

IMPOSTOR: OK, i understand that.

HOSTGATOR: But I did send another copy to the email address that we have opn eilfe

IMPOSTOR: OK

HOSTGATOR: If you don’t get it find out what the last 4 digits of the card are and we can help you get in.

IMPOSTOR: OK. Thank You Much.

HOSTGATOR: Bye Bye.

Text Messages from June 20, 2011

Fome Sonya June 20, 2011 @ 12:23PM
Are you paying the peco bill? And if not can u tell me how much it is and the due date.

Montgomery Township seems very interested in watching the disaster that they created.

My life has been destroyed because of the illegal and criminal actions against me.

Reported to Police and ignored in July 2007.

In August 2007, Officer Gerald Dougherty arrives on my doorstep and revealed that he knew the identity of the person or persons who had my computers under surveillance. INSTEAD OF PROSECUTING THE CRIMINAL WHO HAD HACKED MY LIFE, AFFECTED MY BUSINESS, AFFECTED MY CAREER, AFFECTED MY CHILDREN… he attempted to discredit me by having me involuntarily committed indicating that I was going to blow up the local mall. The paperwork indicates the lie used to lock me up on the ridiculous allegation.

Gerry went on that afternoon to show my brother the screenshot from my computer trying to convince him I was crazy. Gerry didn’t get the full color screen shot from me.

That evening, when my brother returned to the police station to obtain a copy of the screenshot, he was denied access to it. Gerry also began calling him Chris. Attempting to become more and more intimidating and calling him Chris. My brother’s name is John. Gerry was calling him by his wife’s name. How did that name get into his head? Yea, they had been watching his computers also, and didn’t realize that Chris was a woman.

Gerry was the officer with the canine unit. Does that make him the one to investigate drug allegations? Probably.

Those allegations made just after I discovered the illegally installed software (WebWatcher by Awareness Technologies).
on my computers… reported it to police and FBI.

Montgomery Township Police refused to provide any police report on the incident for years. The one they provided last year has a number of flaws.

Montgomery Township Police did not respond to any crimes committed against me. Not one crime was investigated since August 2007. Even with the full proof of who was doing it, and the written emails of the perpetrators.

Instead, Montgomery Township Police stood by and let everyone attack me. Burglarize my home. Kill my dog.

Montgomery Township Police did nothing to enforce any custody orders, or check on my children.

Montgomery Township Police refused to get involved in a civil case… UNTIL it came to throwing me out of my home.

Even though it was based on an invalid Court order … Officer Gerry Dougherty made sure that I knew I would be arrested should I be anywhere near the house on June 9, 2011.

For that, they would definitely get involved.

Gerry Dougherty’s screw up in August 2007 started the corruption rolling towards my destruction. Next came a secret court order by Judge Rhonda Daniele. With that the court was no longer going to enforce any court order, unless it was against me.

Gerry Dougherty could have ended the nightmare, instead he prolonged it until every aspect of my life, my family, my existence was destroyed.

On June 8, he had the extreme audacity to ask me for an apology for what is written about him on this web site.

I suggested he confront the truth on the web site. To do the right thing. What does he care that his actions destroyed an entire family, and terrorized me for years – a terror which still continues.

The reality of corruption is explained here.

Every minute of every hour of every day is a struggle to get through.
My life has been stolen. There is no exit.
I am forced to exist while they take every last shred of my life away.
A victim of corruption since August 2007.

All because of corruption in the legal and judicial system.
Self Respect is the only thing they haven’t stolen.
I’ve done nothing to deserve this nightmare.

I discovered I was a victim, so I have been further victimized.
There is no opportunity for justice.
A death sentence, that they want me to carry out.

Another Father’s Day away from my children.

Q: Should it be a comfort to notice that my son peeked at the web site today?
A: Just another reason to cry.

Todd Stephens did NOTHING to help. And on Friday, a member of his staff called me to see what was going on.

Was I supposed to thank him for doing nothing? Was I supposed to thank him for NOT trying?

Was I supposed to thank Todd Stephens for ignoring the problem when I presented it to him, the Attorney General’s Rep, and Mitch from Comcast Security at a public forum in 2007? That was years ago.

Todd Stephens worked for the DA’s office.
Todd Stephens knows they subcontract out their surveillance.
Todd Stephens knows that private investigators do not get prosecuted for anything illegal that they do.
Todd Stephens knows the corruption and conspiracy involved… the entire courthouse knows what is going on… how could Todd Stephens not be aware?

I asked Todd Stephens to do one thing. Get me in to see the Attorney General of PA. Nothing more. He didn’t. He pretended he could and delayed for 6 weeks. All the while getting updates on the failures of the court to enforce their orders…. Todd Stephens had a front row seat to the destruction I was experiencing. AND HE DID NOTHING.

His only interest seemd to be wanting the name of the DJ friend I had mentioned knew him. AND HE WAS INTERESTED ONLY BECAUSE HE THOUGHT DJ MEANT DISTRICT JUSTICE. DJ is Disc Jockey.

So Ed from his office who has listened to the story and rec’d copies of the documents explaining the corruption and conspiracy and denial of rights, Ed calls to check on me. After doing nothing. Ed. I am homeless. Living out of bags. Sleeping on a couch. Crying almost every hour of the day. I am not OK. And you could have made a difference. YOU CHOSE NOT TO DO ANYTHING.

The CORRUPTION FAQ EXPLAINS THE REALITY.