Posted
By Sharon Rondeau On Sunday, August 10, 2014
"STRENGTH COMES IN NUMBERS" by Sharon Rondeau
Eye on Tennessee illustrates judicial and law enforcement corruption in The volunteer State, particularly in southeastern TN
(Aug.
10, 2014) — Marvin William Young has been wrongly accused of
"especially aggravated kidnapping" and "aggravated
burglary" in a criminal racket involving the Monroe County, TN grand
jury, Monroe County Sheriff's Office, and Judge Carroll
Lee Ross.
Several
weeks ago, The Post & Email attempted to speak with Ross by phone about
the case, but Ross abruptly hung up on us.
In
2012, Young discovered that
his father's last will and testament had been forged, filed with the General
Sessions Court as authentic, then approved by Judge J. Reed Dixon. The
Post & Email attempted to
speak with Dixon last month but was told, "This estate was settled more
than two years ago" after we related that we have evidence that the
settlement was based on fraudulent documents.
Young
presented his evidence to then-Tenth Judicial District chief prosecutor R.
Steven Bebb, who admitted that it appeared crimes had been committed but took
no action. Detective Calvin Rockholdt interviewed Young in person but
also did nothing. Young also approached Monroe County Sheriff Bill Bivens, who took no action.
After
exhausting all other options, last summer, Young approached the person now in
possession of his father's sizable estate, Larry David Godwin, with the
documentation proving that the will was fraudulent. Within an hour, Young
found himself arrested and charged with two felonies by Godwin's relatives,
which could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
Godwin
has sold off many items from Charles William Young's estate and is currently
attempting to sell two retail stores, according to Young. Godwin
was arrested in
Polk County, FL in 1998 for "Battery-Serious Injury" and
"possession of stolen property." Godwin was reportedly not convicted of charges
in 2001 from Polk County, FL.
As
a result of the false charges, Young had to close his business in Florida and
was plunged $50,000 into debt to post bond and attempt to defend himself.
In June, he fired his attorney, who he believed had worked against his best
interests.
In
June in nearby McMinn County, CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.)
was convicted of
two felonies after a show trial in which the accuser denied filing a police
report and the prosecutor denigrated Fitzpatrick's character in closing
arguments, a technique used by the People's Court of Nazi Germany.
Young's
next "status hearing" is on August 25 with Ross, who is reportedly
retiring at the end of the month but warned Young to bring an attorney with him
on that day despite Young's current indigent condition.
A
case in which Ross denied George Joseph Raudenbush, III his constitutional
right to an attorney was reversed in December and will reportedly be tried
again in Monroe County. Raudenbush spent more than two years in state prisons
before he was released just after Christmas last year.
The
Post & Email notified the FBI in Washington, DC about the Young and
Fitzpatrick cases, which are two of hundreds of cases which have seen
defendants railroaded through a corrupt judicial system with a predetermined
outcome in order to garner profits for the local jails.
Bivens
was not re-elected in local elections last Wednesday, although the Monroe
County Democrat Party and Bivens have filed a lawsuit against his elected
successor, Republican Randy White, contesting his eligibility for office.
The Post & Email has contacted White about the Young case and asked for
comment on the challenge to his eligibility to serve as sheriff.
Young
told The Post & Email that his father was acquainted with Bivens.
In the fall of 2011, Godwin married Young's father's widow, who died seven
months later under mysterious circumstances. Young said that instead of
calling the coroner upon her death, Godwin summoned Bivens to identify the
body.
After
learning from an eyewitness that Godwin threatened his life recently, Young
filed for an order of protection in Monroe County. Like
Fitzpatrick's request for
the same against former McMinn County grand jury foreman Jeffrey Cunningham,
Young's request was denied by Judge J. Michael Sharpe. While Young's
petition was heard in court, the Tenth Judicial District retaliated against him
by issuing a letter stating
that as a result of his frivolous request, the revocation of his bond will be
discussed on August 25.
In
August 2011, Fitzpatrick had attempted to observe the trial of George Joseph
Raudenbush, III, who was falsely accused of seven vehicular violations and
convicted of eight during a trial which lasted nearly 16 hours over one
day. Ross, the presiding judge, ordered Fitzpatrick, who was there to
observe, out of the courtroom because he had a "recording device"
which was actually a fountain pen.
Raudenbush
appealed his convictions, and the case was reversed and
remanded back to Monroe County. Shortly before the reversal was made
public, Ross announced his retirement for August 2014.
A posting in
the forum Topix on Ross's ejection of Fitzpatrick from the courtroom to observe
Raudenbush's trial includes a comment from a Johnson City, TN resident who
stated:
Thank
you for your input on this subject. I am also from California (L.A.), and we
moved here several years ago. Oh how I wished we were as wise as you to do our
research before moving here. We thought this would be a great place to be as we
approached our retirement years. Wrong!!It is the most corrupt place I have
ever seen in my entire life. And no, the corruption is not reserved just for
the indigent. You are a target, even if you have money. And in some cases,
especially if you have money and not one of the good-ole-boys!
Now
I could go into a lot of detail about our own experience of the rampant fraud
and corruption committed upon the people in this state that is done with no
fear of accountability because the state regulatory boards, politicians, and
other good-ole-boys appear to do nothing about any of it. They all seem to be
in bed together, and in many cases, profiting from a lot of the corruption,
including drug trafficking while they pretend to be doing something about it,
when the really are not! Instead they arrest petty drug users and accuse them
of being major drug traffickers to make it look as if they are doing their job,
while they allow the major drug traffickers to remain on the street. Copy and
paste the following link into your browser and see a very shocking video of how
little the cops care about the drugs coming into this state but how much time they
spend trying to profit from it. I suspect some of this money is getting spread
around so no one is ever held accountable, if you get my meaning.
Here
is the headlines and the link:
Middle
Tennessee Police Profiting Off Drug Trade?- NewsChannel5
May 18,
2011 – A major NewsChannel 5 investigation raises serious questions about
whether some Middle Tennessee police agencies are more concerned ..
You are right about trying to get some help form the government agencies you mentioned. They just blow everybody off that ask for the corruption to be dealt with. I am not surprised to hear that your letters were ignored as well. It was smart of you to take that as a good indication not to move here. You are very wise indeed!
We feel so hopeless (and scared) about living here, that we are now packing up and and getting out of this corrupt state. Many people, however, are not able to do this.
Please, my fellow California.... help the good people of the State of Tennessee, and there are many good people here. Please join us in contacting the National media about the rampant corruption in Tennessee. Maybe then the state government here will do something. I don't care how much money they are making off the corruption at the county level or who their croonies are, once the national media really gets on this, the state government will have to clean up these counties to avoid further embarrassment of the obvious....they appear to be profiting from the corruption. If the government officials don't want the citizens believing that.. than they need to do something.
As it stands right now, if you speak out against the corruption, you risks being targeted of having false charges filed on you to teach you a lesson on "how things are done around here", or you get harmed. You hear that phrase a lot here. It is hard for people to stand up for a number or reasons. Some are too scared to stand up to the corrupt good-ole-boys. Some just turn a blind eye to it all because to acknowledge it all would haunt their conscience to "do something", and they are either too lazy or too busy to do anything.
Another
comment from a reader in New York State reads:
Dear concerned California Resident and all Citizens of Tennessee,
I also have become grossly aware of the corruption in Tennessee, in particular the most recent atrocity perpetrated by Judge (I cringe using that title for this piece of scum) Carroll Ross. This "good ole boy" must be a generational redneck and feels absolutely invincible to inflict his terrorism on the very citizens who pump money into his fat mouth.
Locking up a man whenever and for whatever he feels like? I feel as though I have been put into a time warp and relocated to Communist Russia. Judge Ross, if a country the size of Russia, who maintained "iron clad" control on its people for hundreds of years, could be brought to its knees, then don't you think the corrupt state of Tennessee, particularly Monroe county, is a bit more fragile than you care to admit? I think so!
It is on that note that I hereby shift this blog to address the residents of Monroe County, and all other counties in Tennessee as well. Please take note citizens of Monroe, Roane and other surrounding counties: the Sheriff's Department, Judicial System, TBI and State FBI are victimizing you because the community is not standing together to become a force to be reckoned with. It is easy for the corrupt Sheriff's Dept. and courts to throw an innocent person in jail. You know why? Because it is one person standing alone, not 500 or 1000 or 3000. Strength comes in numbers. Get your community organized, ban together. That is how things will change, that is how these officials will be destroyed and disgraced out of the public offices they abuse so viciously. I am from New York, you have a previous blog written by someone in California, and I read another blog written from a gentleman in Australia. You are not alone! There are people working on your behalf in other states and around the world. Now to accomplish serious change in this region, we need the citizens to band together with an organized and well coordinated strategic plan, similar to other movements that brought about major change in this country. Take for example the Civil Rights movement. The government cannot ignore hundreds to thousands of people standing together outside of every unconstitutional court proceeding or outside the police station where an innocent man is illegally detained. What if 500 people protest against the Mynatt family (Kris, his brother Josh and the ringleader of family corruption, their Daddy Ken- who raised these morally depraved mongers). What would happen if 500 people show up at the People's courthouse, which Judge Ross has hi-jacked, every time one of his illegal proceedings commences, such as the case of Mr. Rodenbusch. He threw Mr. Rodenbusch in jail on a bogus charge this past Monday- the whole proceeding was a complete lie. Please read the full story on the Post and Email online newspaper. If a large number of people had been at that court proceeding, I surmise there may have been a different outcome. The court cannot manipulate, lie about, and arrest a mob of people the way they could if it was just one or two people. Once again, strength comes in numbers! Citizens of Monroe and Roane counties, take this advice and act! This holocaust of the United States Constitution needs to stop now. Every person in these counties-make a commitment to do the following:
Once a day, call Carole, whom is Sheriff Bivens secretary, and give her hell on behalf of what her boss is doing. Email her.
Call the courthouse and leave a message for Caroll Ross. Call the TBI and demand they clean up these corrupt counties. Call the national FBI in Washington and ask them to get down to Tennessee and clean this trash up! If everyone does this once a day these agencies will be flooded with thousands of calls/emails/messages a day. This will be hard to ignore! Most importantly, flood every media outlet will calls. This is the most important piece to the puzzle. And an easy way to get media attention without having to solicit it is to show up as I stated above, at various venues in large numbers!
I will post all the contact information for these various people and agencies in a message to follow.
Last
month, The Post & Email contacted the
FBI in Washington, DC and Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr. but
has not received a response. The new District Attorney General, Stephen Crump, did not return two
phone calls made to his office about the illegitimacy of the charges against
both Fitzpatrick and Young.
The
FBI has told Fitzpatrick, Young and this writer that the judicial corruption
preying on the communities of the Tenth Judicial District of Tennessee is a
state matter. However, the FBI has performed sting operations netting
arrests in at least two operations in the state entitled "Tennessee
Waltz" and "Tradin' Paint."
In
Mingo County, WV in June, public officials including judges and a county
sheriff were sentenced to
federal prison in a corruption sting emanating from federal grand jury
indictments. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin described a circuit judge's
conduct as "shocking and appalling," adding, "I'd like to see
this whole episode be a call to action for all of us to make sure that this
'Boss Hogg' style of politics is a thing of the past—because it simply can't be
a part of our future."
Fitzpatrick,
who is facing sentencing on August 19 as an innocent
man by Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood, has often said that "It's going
to take large numbers of people" to stop the rampant corruption in eastern
Tennessee.
Tennessee
was recently ranked third in
the nation for public corruption.
Judge
Ross can be reached at 423-744-2835.
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If it involves narcotics trafficking in Tennessee, Walter Fitzpatrick should know it's the same situation in Michigan. The former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted and put away in federal prison. I knew when Kwame Kilpatrick had Dan K. Webb(cf. former U.S. Attorney of Chicago) as his defense attorney involving some discrepancy, that Kilpatrick is[or was] somehow linked to narcotics trafficking in the Detroit area. This would include the U.S. Attorney of Detroit, Barbara McQuade herself. She not only is involved in a massive dope ring from San Diego, Chicago, Indiana, Detroit, Windsor and Toronto but she has links to someone involve with pornography. Where there is dope & pornography, then there is pedophilia. They need the dope to hide the memory of what they did to the child or children. So, what does Walter Fitzpatrick say to Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood on August 19, 2014? Fitzpatrick should state the following:
ReplyDelete1.) I do not consent to these proceedings.
2.) Your offer is not accepted.
3.) I do not consent to being surety for this case and these proceedings.
4.) I demand the bond be immediately brought forward so I can see who will indemnify me if I am damaged. See: HOBBS ACT(cf. 18 U.S.C. 1951):
(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(b) As used in this section—(1) The term “robbery” means the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his will, by means of actual or threatened force, or violence, or fear of injury, immediate or future, to his person or property, or property in his custody or possession, or the person or property of a relative or member of his family or of anyone in his company at the time of the taking or obtaining.
(2) The term “extortion” means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
(3) The term “commerce” means commerce within the District of Columbia, or any Territory or Possession of the United States; all commerce between any point in a State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia and any point outside thereof; all commerce between points within the same State through any place outside such State; and all other commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction.
(c) This section shall not be construed to repeal, modify or affect section 17 ofTitle 15, sections 52, 101–115, 151–166 of Title 29 or sections 151–188 of Title 45.