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“Holy Body Worn Cameras SMC” Where are they?

By Michael G. Stogner

Three of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Finest on Official Business interacting with a civilian, Does anybody see a Body Worn Camera?

Does San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office have a different POLICY for wearing Body Worn Cameras when the Elite Ops TEAM is out of state? This looks like the San Mateo County Gang TASK FORCE.

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California A.G. Rob Bonta, say something to Judge Barbara Mallach, Zain Jaffer Motion to Destroy BWC Video.

By Michael G. Stogner

Update: This Motion to Destroy Records has been continued to January 3, 2022

Dear Attorney General Rob Bonta,

Please don’t forget Zain Jaffer was arrested by the Hillsborough Police Department on October 15, 2017 for Attempted Murder of a child, There is Body Worn Camera Video.

Tomorrow December 20, 2021 Superior Court of California County of San Mateo in Courtroom 2A at 10:00 AM the Hon. Judge Barbara Mallach has a Motion to Destroy all the records in the Zain Jaffer case 17NF012415A.

Destroying the Records and Evidence is Not in the Public’s Interest.

These records could be very valuable to the wife and children in the future.

Diminished Capacity is No Excuse for Criminal Conduct.

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  • Karen Guidotti <kguidotti@smcgov.org> To: Michael Stogner Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 6:39 AM·         
  • The meeting was on Thursday, June 7.·         
  • Deputy District Attorney Sharon Cho, Deputy District Attorney Sean Gallagher and I attended along with the following people from the defense team:  Attorney Patrick Clancy, attorney Daniel Olmos, Dr. Eric Wexler and Dr. George Woods.·         
  • The meeting lasted 1 and ½ hours; Ms. Cho and the defense team remained in the meeting room after Mr. Gallagher and I left.  I do not know how much longer they stayed.·         
  • Yes, we viewed the body camera footage. 
  • From: Michael Stogner [mailto:michaelgstogner@yahoo.com] 
    Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2018 9:02 AM
    To: Karen Guidotti <kguidotti@smcgov.org>
    Subject: Zain Jaffer case Hello Karen, What date did the defense team for Zain Jaffer make the presentation in the District Attorney’s Office? Who attended? How long was that meeting? Were HPD body camera videos looked at or discussed? 
  • Thank You 
  • Michael G. Stogner www.sanmateocountynews.com

I think this case should be preserved and taught in Every Law School in the United States of America.

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“Unqualified trust relationship with this partner.” Hon. Judge Lisa Novak

By Michael G. Stogner

CarlosG.Bolanos

Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos

In a response to the Commission on Judicial Performance .

The Commission on Judicial Performance, established in 1960, is the independent state agency responsible for investigating complaints of judicial misconduct and judicial incapacity and for disciplining judges, pursuant to article VI, section 18 of the California Constitution.

Somebody filed a complaint against Judge Novak because she notified all the Judges present at the June 20, 2017 Judges Meeting, She had made a finding that SMCSO Sergeant Michael E. Otte Perjured Himself in her courtroom.

The person or persons who filed the complaint was not concerned at all by the fact that a SMC Sheriff Sergeant would lie under oath in her court, the person and the CJP was only concerned that she informed all the Judges who attended.

She noted the close relationship between the Sheriffs Office and the Court and cited the need to have an unqualified trust relationship with this partner.

Lets look at this unqualified trust relationship with the Sheriff’s Office under the leadership of Carlos G. Bolanos.

In-Custody Homicide of Chinedu Okobi three False News Releases. Omitting 6th Sheriff Employee for starters.

San Mateo County Sheriff Sergeant Lou Aquino DUI arrested by RWCPD September 14, 2019 Sheriff Bolanos refuses to release the Booking Photo. Why?

San Mateo County former Sheriff Deputy Juan P. Lopez criminal case going for more than 5 years with the sole purpose to cause harm to him mentally and financially. The public might recall the big Press Conference claiming Nobody is above the law in San Mateo County and Charging Deputy Lopez with Smuggling a Cellphone and Drugs to a Hells Angel member in Jail. Sheriff Carlos Bolanos knew there was No Evidence to support those charges.

These are just three current examples unqualified trust relationship with the Sheriff’s Office under the leadership of Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos.

An older example when Carlos G. Bolanos was Undersheriff 2010 the Brave Female Deputy reporting the 46 San Mateo County Sheriff Male Employees receiving and sharing Porn and Rape Video on County Computers.

It is my experience that Judges in San Mateo County have allowed Sheriff Employees and District Attorney Employees and County Counsel Employees to lie/file false instruments and give False Testimony on a daily basis, this is the Norm it shouldn’t be.

I say you can’t possibly manage what you don’t measure.

Lets find out exactly what happened after Hon. Judge Lisa Novak made a finding that SMCSO Sergeant Michael E. Otte Perjured Himself in her courtroom.

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I read SMC DA’s 4/25/07 e-mails to Jody Williams, I had to stop due to uncontrollable sobbing and crying.

I asked Jody if she wanted me to continue reading and she said yes, so I did. I was moved by her response, I have made these e-mails public for 10 years and I know of nobody in SMC that cried or was even disturbed by them. Jody’s response made it all worth while.

I got these e-mails from a public information request in 2008.

If you think about it these were San Mateo County’s top 4 Law Enforcement Officials expressing no regard for the Human Trafficked female victims. S.W. “Modern Media’s effort to make a story out of a non-story.” “Remember it will be yesterday’s news and irrelevant by tomorrow.”

District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe has now filed criminal charges against Jody for practicing law without a license. He also got a secret search warrant for her e-mails.

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Monday, October 15, 2018

LETTER TO SAN MATEO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE WHO MADE ME CRY TODAY

https://www.almanacnews.com/square/index.php?i=3&t=5456

JODY WILLIAMS C/O

5516 BOULDER HIGHWAY, SUITE 2F378

LAS VEGAS, NV 89122

WWW.SEXWORKERSANONYMOUS.NET

(702) 488-1127 TELEPHONE

October 14, 2018

Stephen Wagstaffe and Jamie Draper

San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office

400 County Center

Redwood City, CA 94063

mdurand@smcgov.org

Re:       People  v. Williams Case No. 18SM009489

Williams vs. USA Case No. 2:18-CV-01737-GMN-CWH

YOUR EMAIL TO CARLOS BOLANOS AFTER OPERATION DOLLHOUSE

Dear Mr. Wagstaffe:

I’m a very strong woman I like to think.  I’ve been sexually abused by my father growing up, as well as physically abused by a mentally ill mother who ironically was driven crazy working for the LA Juvenile Courts for 13 years.  My grandmother was brutally murdered by my step-father who vowed to murder both my mother and I.  Meaning I grew up having to move a lot because he only received five years for the brutal murder.

Once he was out, he continued to hunt my mother and I down for at least 20 years before the attempts stopped.  I have been raped more than once in my lifetime – both “date raped” by people I knew in school as well as horrifically gang raped by a bunch of Crip gang members in South Central.  I have also survived a marriage where I had to take out 13 restraining orders which did nothing to protect my daughter and myself because the LAPD told me to my face they were “too scared of him” to lift a finger to protect us.  I have been sex trafficked, kidnapped, brainwashed, and yet through everything I have survived.  I even had 32 years clean now.

I have spent almost nine months nursing my mother to death in an ICU after a stroke she suffered turned into MRSA when her lungs were too weak to fight.  After I suffered a major stroke and was completely bedridden myself, I had my hospital bed and wheelchair moved into hospice so that I could care for my grandmother who died of cancer alone except for my daughter and I.  I have suffered more attempts on my life than I care to think about.  Some at the hands of LAPD who didn’t want videotapes I had of them having sex with prostitutes to reach the hands of the press or their superiors who felt my life was worth less than them being open about their sex lives.  I’ve even witnessed our own government drugging, then kidnapping American women who they put on diplomatic planes to trade to Saudi’s for oil deals we were making in the 1980’s, as well as drug cartels during Iran Contra.  All while knowing, I couldn’t go to the police to save them even if anyone would believe me about it because we didn’t have any laws on the books back then against what I was witnessing happening in front of my own eyes.  All of which has been subsequently verified as true by men like Gary Webb, who also gave of their lives to bring us the truth about these things also.

I have endured all of this Mr. Wagstaffe, and not ONCE have I shed a tear.  Nor even when my home was completely destroyed by the 1994 Sherman Oaks earthquake, which completely threw me off the course I’d charted to become an attorney.  Not at my mother’s death when no one would even so much as send a card of condolence.  A death that brought my father out of the woodwork to threaten the life of my daughter if I didn’t lie to my mother’s pension company on his behalf so he could take over the pension my mother wanted me to have.  When I refused, I had to move right after my mother’s death to protect my daughter’s life.

Not even when the doctors told me my daughter had a 26 pound tumor that needed to be removed they found after an SUV had run her over and broke her back so she lost her senior year of high school which she had earned because we had just got her back in school again after years of thinking she was bipolar, but putting her back together just to get mowed down.  Nor when the doctors told me she has an “undetermined” brain mass that’s causing her to still be living at home with me dependent at 27 years of age – not though ANY of this Mr. Wagstaff have I cried one tear.  Not one.

But that changed tonight when Michael Stogner read to me an email you had supposedly sent to Carlos Bolanos on the night of what’s been called “Operation Dollhouse”.  When I heard your words – I broke down in tears and sobbed like a child.  Mr. Wagstaffe, you are not in office to be the defender of Carlos Bolanos.  You are the district attorney to protect the people.  You’re there to protect the people so that they don’t take justice into their own hands.

You need to understand Mr. Wagstaffe, the day I saw those women drugged and loaded onto that diplomatic plane in the 1980’s, the man who made me watch this laughed while telling me there was “nothing I could do about it” because we didn’t have any laws on the books against organized sex trafficking back then.

We had laws against pimping – of course.  That’s laws to put African American men in jail who can’t find jobs so they have to rely on living off their wife’s income.  A wife where if she can’t get a job for whatever reason resorts to prostitution to feed their children – then he immediately by default becomes a felon guilty of pimping simply by his wife caring for him.

But the organized trafficking of women against their will – we had nothing unless we were Chinese as American women.  The Mann Act of 1910 was written to aid Chinese women and juveniles taken across state lines from being sex trafficked.  But yet as of the 1970’s, the only two people in our country’s history to be prosecuted under the Mann Act were two African American men who married white women and travelled – Chuck Barry (the musician) and Jack Johnson (the boxer).  Yet Meyer Lansky was guilty of trafficking women like cattle and he wasn’t.  In fact, he was used by our own CIA after such crimes – recruited right out of prison.

When the women who were being trafficked in connection with the case that came to light when Chris Butler was arrested, proving what I’d been telling people for years before about an organized ring of sex traffickers who were wearing uniforms as either cops or sheriffs, they came to me for help.  They came to me for help because they clearly couldn’t go to the police.  The “clients” came to me to help because when the brave few of them tried to go to the authorities about what they’d witnessed going on, the police threatened to arrest them in order to scare them into backing off trying to help these women.  Some of them were even arrested and hit with gag orders simply for trying to get these victims help.

They came to me thinking if I could help these women escape and hide from pimps, that I could help them escape this trafficking network because going to the authorities had failed them.

Do you have any idea what I went through back in 1987 over the decisions that I made when I launched our hotline and program to aid these victims?  I have an extremely high IQ and was in the Mentally Gifted Minors program in grade school.  I was in college by the time I was 16 years old.  I had a bright future ahead of me of being anything I wanted – a therapist, a lawyer, anyone.  I could have married anyone I wanted.  I could have been hired with any company in the world.  I could have been anyone and done anything because no one knew about my past.  All I had to do to grab this bright future ahead of me was to keep my mouth shut.  That’s it.

Instead I made the decision before the internet was born to take the only route I knew to see the Trafficking Act of 2000 passed which gave the issue of sex trafficking federal recognition. We weren’t going to get a law about this passed unless the public knew there was a problem first.  Which wasn’t going to happen unless someone went public about it that was believed.  I believe Bruce Lee started to talk about it in “Enter the Dragon’ in 1973, but he died before the film premiered.  I saw Linda Lovelace try to reveal it – only no one believed her.  I talked to all the other madams in the country arrested with me in 1984 and they weren’t going to go public because it would mean not going back into the sex industry any longer.  The sex industry is very much like a cult – once you leave or expose it’s secrets – you are no longer welcome.

So this left me to try and raise that awareness and get this Act passed.  It was the law which allowed us for the first time to not be considered 100 percent across the board as “criminals”, but instead of that as “victims” so we could be treated as such. So that our government would allot money to aid these victims.   Knowing we’d never decriminalize prostitution, I had hoped this federal recognition would allow at least those of us being trafficked to be treated as what they were – victims, not criminals.  To also not be viewed as the “criminals”, i.e., “prostitutes” were also viewed publicly – but to have America understand these women had been victimized and therefore were not the “Happy Hooker” to be treated as such no matter how many years they’d been out of prostitution.

To do this meant I had to go on national TV and expose my name, my face, my identity, my family, everything about my past had to come in the open as well as everything about that bright future of mine to be trashed.  My family stopped speaking to me the minute they saw me on Donahue, Sally and Geraldo.  If you think I’m wrong I trashed my future by going public to try and not only promote our hotline, but also to try and change the way this country treated these victims – then show me ONE US professor who has received tenure who is openly an ex-prostitute, ex-porn performer, etc.  Name me ONE senator or congress person who is a known ex-sex worker or even sex trafficking victim.

Do you realize that the Pope nor has any US President even been seen speaking to, let alone shaking the hand of any sex trafficking victims?  Michael Avenetti defends Stormy Daniels, but do you think Stormy Daniels would ever be allowed to pass the Bar if she was open about her past?  Do you think she’d pass the ethics bar? Miriam Weeks?  Has she passed the Bar?

I made a conscious decision to throw my future away in order to get out into the public’s face and raise awareness that not all of prostitution was a “victimless crime”.  I have spent over $500,000 of my own money I made while I was young and strong enough to work three jobs in order to keep Sex Workers Anonymous’ phone on and answering calls for the last 32 years now – calls that are taking calls that can’t go to the National Trafficking Hotline nor 911.

Celeste Guap’s mother answering the 911 phone wasn’t a coincidence – they have people in place within law enforcement who are there specifically to make sure victims calls alert the very people they’re trying to report no different than the drug cartel had set up in their phone systems.

When I saw these women being trafficked by police, sheriff’s, district attorneys, and aided by men like Joohon David Lee who were with ICE, Homeland Security, and the trafficking task force who had nowhere to turn, illustrated by the Ohio trafficking operation that was found guilty of trafficking kids on egg farms, only I hear about those being sex trafficked into brothels, massage parlors and strip clubs in places like strip clubs owned by DEA agents in NJ or massage parlors owned by Chris Butler in California – I didn’t take matters into my own hands to save these women although I have plenty of ex-military men volunteering to do just that.

No – instead I went to the Salvation Army for help to set up a system that would rescue these women through our legal system.  I went to Melissa Farley for help who was supposedly connected to Gloria Steinhem and Hillary Clinton as well as Swannee Hunt who had the political and financial connections to aid us in setting up what was to be ATLAS and NCAST I was promised if I allowed Melissa to research everything about the work that I do, that we’d get this structure set up, and we could start rescuing women who were powerless to leave otherwise   I know there’s good law enforcement out there to tap into, but we have to get to them.

In Nevada, victims of sex trafficking were being taken to the Clark County Detention Center where the very guards guarding them were part of this operation.  Guards who they were alone with at night inside of a jail where they can’t make phone calls out.  Where every letter and visit is monitored.   Where every wrong word could mean someone in their family back home could die.  If they messed up too badly, they’d be found like Sandra Bland dead in their cell.

So to aid them in even being able to speak to us about what was happening, I had ATLAS, which was launching in 2007, designed intentionally to take the victims to the Salvation Army for safety so they could be questioned about what was happening in the hopes of putting together not only their rescue, but the prosecution of those who were trafficking them so that we could stop them from doing this.

I had talked to officers like Vig Vigna, and others, and begged them to get help to those women in those houses for months before “Operation Dollhouse”, only to keep being told that there was “nothing we could do LEGALLY” to aid those women because we have to honor things like “search and seizure warrants” in this country because this is America.  That without “probable cause” out of a “quiet house” as those brothels were, there was nothing they could do to get those women out of those houses.  These were good cops telling me their hands were tied.

I have sat in a car in front of those houses knowing those women were trapped inside and more because they were trapped spiritually as well – feeling completely powerless to help those women because I was told there was “no legal way” to get them out.

I had been relying on the “power of the press” up to that point in time.  Before 2007, when all else would fail at getting help to victims, we’d go to the press who would then put enough pressure on a case to get something done.  That’s why we had been working on the man who finally came forward about Chris Butler about why he needed to come forward for months.  It’s why again I enlisted the help of a reporter to push for a raid on a day I knew there was going to be a “drop” thinking if we got these traffickers “caught red handed” then not only could those women be freed in those houses, but then there’d be an investigation into the others in other states and in the other houses so that we could help to get them free too.

When I got the call those women were being taken to the Salvation Army, and that even the drugs had been found in the raid, as well as two officers, my heart soared with hope.  I was raised with the anthem “if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime” so in my mind if any officer was caught in that house that shouldn’t have been there – that was HIS decision to make.  However, those women were NOT deciding to be there.  They were trapped inside there AND THIS WAS THEIR RESCUE.

Or so I thought.  Even when those women were sent right back with their captors instead of being rescued by our government, I wasn’t without hope.  We just used this to put even more pressure on the man who needed to come forward about Chris Butler.  We knew no one would even publish our stories, let alone listen to us.  Like with Bill Cosby, no one listened until a man said something about it.  We knew a man who was also an officer had to be the one to make the public listen and stop what Chris was involved in.

Which he did and we thought we were making progress there.  We actually thought there would be an investigation into the WHOLE operation he was just a tiny part of.  Instead we were hearing about a witness who was “lost in the jail”, and his FBI handler being threatened by more sheriffs to keep her mouth shut.  Again, if we can’t protect a witness and an FBI agent, how are we going to protect these victims?  This is the greatest country in the world and we can’t rescue a few women out of a sex trafficking operation?

When a sex trafficking operation was being launched, we were threatened to “stay out of it” as was Celeste Guap being told to “stay home”.  Can’t stop the show that’s PRETENDING to help us because the “show” is flooding millions of dollars into the state to set up programs TO HELP US.  The only problem is it’s not HELPING us – it’s EMPOWERING THE VERY BONDS THAT ARE ENSLAVING US.  Again, if I’m wrong then tell me that it was a trafficking task force that rescued Celeste Guap and NOT instead her going to the press as I’ve said seems to be only option most of the time to get anything done.

But we need proof.  How do we get proof?  Jeanne Palfrey, the D.C. Madam was the one who had PROOF.  Not of her who clients were – but of who was using her and her escorts in the sex trafficking operation that’s only on the surface appearing to sell sex.  You see, prostitutes are a dime a dozen.  You don’t need to traffick prostitutes.

What you do need to “traffick” or “control” and “force”, are those who are only APPEARING to sell sex while in reality they’re being used for espionage, blackmail, drug muling, money laundering, drug sales, insider trading, political manipulation, and a whole host of OTHER crimes where you need to know these women will stay silent to the media and to law enforcement.  I’ll give you an example – how do we know for a fact that Stormy Daniels is saying what’s she’s been saying against our president completely entirely of her own free will?  The woman has admitted to “always have four men around her at all times” for protection.  The problem is – how do we know that they’re not also controlling her?  Could she, I mean seriously, could come forward if she was being forced and controlled into revealing who would do this to her and actually live to tell THAT story to the press?

So Jeanne tries to flee to Germany so she can write a book and expose the truth of what she’d seen, only she was stopped at the airport and arrested.  Then when charged with being a madam, she could have taken the deal, paid a fine, sold a book and made a movie and retired like all the other madams have done.

But instead she stuck to her guns to try to reveal the truth about sex trafficking in this country.  Knowing that ABC would lie about what was in her “Black Book” to prove her story that was to come, she gave 10 copies of her book to sites like the “Smoking Gun”, who at least started to get out the truth.  But before she could, she was murdered in my opinion to keep her silent.

I was then threatened, harassed, chased, etc., by law enforcement for over a year trying to make sure I didn’t go public with the emails and texts between her and I before her death and what I knew.  Forcing me to have to take my daughter out of school, and go into hiding “off the grid” in order to protect my daughter’s life.  So Jeanne gave up her actual life trying to get the truth out about sex trafficking to try and bring rescue to these women on top of the sacrifices I’d made.

Then Mr. Wagstaffe, I had to listen to an email Michael read me tonight where the ONLY thing you cared about when you heard about “Operation Dollhouse” was Carlos Bolanos.  Not the women.  Not wondering if they were okay.  Not wondering where they were sleeping that night.  Not wondering how they felt for that moment thinking they were being rescued, only to be let go right back to where they started from that day.  Knowing that law enforcement , ICE, Homeland Security, everyone KNEW about their situation, but let them go back to those same houses ANYWAY.  You may not know what feels like – but I do.

I’ve sacrificed the quality of my life as has my daughter trying to get women like those women who were in those houses RESCUED.  Jeanne Palfrey actually gave up her very life trying to get these women RESCUED.  That “overblown media” you’re trashing in your email is the tool I’ve been using to alert the public these women need help to get them help when turning to law enforcement can’t be done.  To hear that you WANT their plight to be “yesterday’s news” literally brought me to tears.

You showed those women as little thought as you showed me.  Mr. Wagstaffe, I have pimps and traffickers who are in prison now who would love to murder me.  One of the ways I protect myself, and my daughter’s lives, is by not tying my actual full legal name, my birthdate, my home address, where I work, my social security number, or anything else that can be used to locate me as to where I live or work not only to protect my life from retribution, and from those who want me silenced – but also so I can work a job when I can.  I ask you – would YOU hire the “founder of Sex Workers Anonymous”?  While I have lots of people pat me on the back and tell me what a “wonderful job you’re doing”, that doesn’t mean they want me around the office every day because of the fear of getting caught in the possible cross-fire meant for me.

When I was begging the police to find a way to get those women out of that house OTHER than staging that raid that day in the hopes that would get them rescued, I was told they couldn’t because we “didn’t have probable cause” and we “needed proper warrants”.  What blows my mind however Mr. Wagstaff is that to come after me on a misdemeanor charge where I’m being accused of not sex trafficking, but of “practicing law without a license”, for THAT you bypass probable cause, you bypass proper service of the complaint, you bypass the law allowing me to know what I’m accused of or to face my accuser, and you further violate my very right of privacy that I’ve literally risked my life and harmed myself economically dramatically in order to be able to offer iron clad confidentiality to those who write us – just so you can come after me?

I had not applied for federal grants because it would mean turning over information on those people who contact us for help.  I have not held fund raisers.  I have not even entertained the ideas of the $20 million dollar grants Polaris gets to “partner” with companies like Google to “share their information” with off their website, in order to not share our information with anyone for any amount of money.  I have turned down an offer to receive a monthly check as an informant in order to protect the people who email us their anonymity.  I literally am living in an RV so that I don’t have a lease or a utility bill where a pimp can find me so that I can protect not just my safety, but the very safety of the women who have escaped pimps’ as to where they are today these men would do anything to try and force that information out of me.

But all those sacrifices went out the window when someone was able to just waltz into your office with a story of some kind of what I supposedly did, if it’s even me they were complaining about since there are 1000’s of Jody Williams in the world, I can name you 5 attorneys I know of even with my name for God’s sake, and then you were more than happy to not question me, charge me civilly, send me a letter stating I was violating the law and allowing me to address the matter, and then without giving me, or anyone in my email box, a chance to even defend ourselves against the right not to incriminate ourselves, our right to privacy, our right to free speech – you just dipped right into those emails like it was nothing without any consideration for any of the rights under our constitution for the people in that account, nor the ramifications either of what harm might become them.  Do you realize I have a woman who is a CIA agent who was ASSAULTED AND HOSPITALIZED after those emails, and her location, were compromised and for all I know it was related to the seizure of my email.  I don’t know but I bet the CIA is going to want to investigate the matter – so again all these 32 years and all this sacrifice to try and create a safe place for these women to be able to talk to me safely was treated with the tiniest of regards by you because of you being so willing to “do anything for Carlos Bolanos”?

What if you’re wrong Mr. Wagstaffe?  I don’t know if Carlos Bolanos or Greg Munks are involved in the criminal act of sex trafficking for a fact.  But I do know that the very day those men, and you, ALLOWED those women to go right back to where they were being sex trafficking – in my book MAKES YOU A PART OF THAT CRIMINAL OPERATION.  You sure didn’t stop it so what do you call that Mr. Wagstaffe?  It was an illegal brothel where drugs were found and it was not shut down in order to prosecute those behind it so you could make the news of the raid “yesterday’s news” – so what does that make you then?

I know for all of the money San Mateo has received to try and create a ‘task force” supposedly to help these women, I know that I’ve personally tried contacting the task force for help on behalf of victims and those calls are ignored.  I know when I try to speak to other officers to see if they can help do you know what I hear?  I hear “if I say anything about your name or about sex trafficking going on in San Mateo – I will be immediately fired or run off the force”.  That’s what I know.  SO YOU DON’T HELP THE VICTIMS – BUT YOU ARREST ME?

Before you demanded to see copies of the video tape taken from the car that brought those men to the Operation Dollhouse site, before you saw the FBI footage that was taken of them entering the property, footage that may or may not have shown them CARRYING THOSE DRUGS INTO THE HOUSE, before you questioned those women, before you did one shred of investigation into the truth of the matter Mr. Wagstaffe – you were patting Carlos on the back and telling him that this “bad news will blow over by tomorrow” in that email without one thought about these women or the YEARS OF WORK I had put into trying to get those women help and to freedom.  Them and their mothers, sisters and daughters who are at other sites also.

Just like you showed not one shred of regard for me in this witch hunt that’s going on against me right now.  I’ve done my home work and so far every other person I’ve located who has been charged with the same thing I’ve been charged with gets a letter in the mail.  Me?  I get not only a criminal arrest warrant, but I even get a sealed search warrant like I’m a wanted murderer!

So I cried when Michael read that email because you’re supposed to be the man victims in San Mateo of sex trafficking can go to for help.   You’re also supposed to be protecting my rights for that matter Mr. Wagstaffe.  Thirty-two years ago I got clean, I left prostitution, and I trained to become a paralegal.  I became an ordained minister.  I did so to become a decent person and not be treated like a criminal anymore. Whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?

Thank you for showing me how much that meant to you in the way you treated my case Mr. Wagstaffe and my rights.  Well at least I know how important we victims are to San Mateo now.  Probably a spill over from Facebook and one of the reasons why I filed suit against them, Google and the USA, for their active interference in us getting aid to victims of sex trafficking also.  Now if we could get you to use that same passion you used on me to go after the actual traffickers in this country – then we’d be truly accomplishing something historical.

Sincerely,

Jody Williams

CC:      Donald Trump, POTUS

Melania Trump – First Lady

Hillary Clinton

Swanee Hunt

Melissa Farley

NOW for Women

California Attorney General

Nevada Attorney General

California U.S. Attorney

Nevada U.S. Attorney

Office of Victim Services

Office of Trafficking in Persons

Polaris – Katherine Chon

National District Attorneys Association

California State Bar Association

Nevada State Bar Association

California State Sheriffs Association

National Sheriffs Association

Jeff Sessions – Dept. of Justice

Michael Stogner

Ronan Farrow

Michael Avenetti, Esq.

Debra Katz, Esq.

Terra Serra, Esq.

Gloria Allred, Esq.

Ariana Huffington

VICE

Rolling Stone

Asian Society Northern California

League of Women Voters

Democratic Society of San Mateo

California Federation of Republican Women

Jon Ralston

Cottie Petrie-Norris

Kevin Mullin, Assemblyman

Senator Jerry Hill

Jackie Spear

Darcy Spears

Mark DiPaulo

Juan Lopez

Nevada Sheriff and Chiefs Association

Western States Sheriffs Association

Nevada County Deputy Sheriffs Association

National Association of Public Safety Officers

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Friday, October 12, 2018

ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF OUR PRIVATE EMAILS VIOLATING ANONYMITY OF SWA MEMBERS

JODY WILLIAMS C/O

SEX WORKERS ANONYMOUS, SWAN, AND

TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION SERVICES

UNDER UMBRELLA OF OMNI-SCII 501C3

5516 BOULDER HIGHWAY, SUITE 2F378

LAS VEGAS, NV 89122

WWW.SEXWORKERSANONYMOUS.NET

WWW.SWAN-FELLOWSHIP.US

MSJODYWILLIAMS@GMAIL.COM

(702) 488-1127 TELEPHONE

October 11, 2018

John F. Warren and

Jamie Draper, Inspector

District Attorney’s Office

400 County Center, 3rd Floor

Redwood City, CA 94063

Fax (650) 363-4873

victimservices@smcgov.org

rbaum@smcgov.org

Jason B. Mollick, Esq.

Attorney for Google

jmollick@wsgr.com

Gerald J. Buchwald, Superior Court Judge                            CERTIFIED MAIL

Hall of Justice

400 County Center, 1st Floor, Room A

Department 10
Courtroom 8D
Redwood City, CA 94063

(650) 701-0842

Barbara Keuhn, Esq.

1601 El Camino Real, Ste 202
Belmont, CA 94002

bjk@bbqnesq.com

RE:      Case No. CM105014

NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE LAWSUIT FOR INVASION OF PRIVACY

Dear Sirs:

If you go to the site I have up for Sex Workers Anonymous at www.sexworkersanonymous.net, and go to the “products” page, down towards the bottom of this page you’ll see an explanation to people that if they send me a payment by Paypal that I have an email on there that will “disguise” what it is they’re sending money to in order to protect their anonymity.  That email address I have listed is paralegaltotherescue@gmail.com.

I started the hotline for victims of sex trafficking, and those who have pimps, to call in 1987.  So I’ve been doing this a LONG time.  When the internet was born about 1995, we had to change our name actually from Prostitutes Anonymous to Sex Workers Anonymous in order to bypass the adult filters that were on just about every government building who might be looking for us as a resource.   So clearly we have to respond to the times, as we do in order to make contact.

Before caller ID was invented, and the internet was born, we kept the hotline on a private landline.  We did not have a commercial 800 number that would show up on a phone bill as a business line even though this meant instead of doing national PSA’s, we could only do local ones because of using a residential phone for our hotline.

We did this not only to make sure that no one could hit us with a warrant or a subpoena for information on a caller to the hotline, but also so that if a pimp saw the number on a phone bill they would think it was a residential call his victim had just made and therefore not question it too deeply.  When pimps would call us back then demanding to know, “Who is this?” we used to just reply, that we were “an old girlfriend”.

In the late 1990’s, psychic hotlines were all the rage.  To cover up what the calls were about to our hotline then, we set up fake psychic hotline websites, and also listed the phone number for the hotline on those sites. That way if a  guy went searching for what our phone number was online, he’d find a psychic hotline.  This way he’d think she just got a reading, and she’d avoid being exposed for him knowing she was thinking about leaving him.  Certainly not making plans to leave him, because sometimes we have to stage their escape by making plans that take time.

Also, the psychic hotlines provided our survivors with a great way to work from home, take care of their kids without using a daycare provider, and not worrying about a pimp showing up at their job at a public location who could just show up and shoot them at work.  By working out of their home, on the telephone, in a way that where they were physically couldn’t be traced – the psychic hotlines allowed a lot of survivors to be able to find safe work after having escaped.

When I had Beth Jacobs and Lynn Robertson going around online talking like I was actually doing psychic readings online, we had to drop that idea because people were associating us with “cults” and thinking we were doing all sorts of crazy things in their imagination.  If I denied it, then I had the problem of pimps knowing that these were fake sites.  If I admitted to it, then we’d get our Christian supporters running from us in terror.  They put us in a horrible spot.  Taking down those sites, and not using that “ruse” as a cover for victims to not only call us, but also find a way to be able to work without their pimp locating them again, cost us a lot of money because of those women running off their mouth about what they “thought” we were doing.  If they had bothered to pull me over to the side, and ask me privately why our number was showing up on these sites, I would have explained the situation to them and it would have ended there.

But times have changed and many women are now being given “citations” for prostitution.  Many prostitutes are being evicted, losing their bank accounts, and going through legal battles in connection to what’s going on with FOSTA right now, as well as the Backpage shut down.  Many of these victims have resorted to trying new sites to advertise on for their services – sites that are now blackmailing them for more money to not “out” them, or even refusing to take down their ads unless they’re paid more money.  Now I ask you, can they afford an attorney to threaten these grease balls with a lawsuit, or problems with the police, if they don’t stop blackmailing these women?  Are they going to go to the police?  What can the police do when a woman voluntarily posted a photo online advertising for sex, and then decides she wants to take it down, and the site owner is charging a “service fee” to do this? NOTHING is what a cop can do.

It’s for reasons like this why I started using the “paralegal” sites not only as a “cover” but even as a form of outreach.  I started running ads for paralegal services in spots I knew would attract in potential sex trafficking victims, and I have sites up offering paralegal services to provide them with assurance we can help them with matters like this.

Does it mean I am actually DOING paralegal services?  No it doesn’t. For one thing, if I do any type of legal work, I do it under the supervision of a licensed attorney.  A licensed attorney who doesn’t want public recognition he’s helping prostitutes.  We provide the attorney a way to provide legal assistance by working through us.  That way he also doesn’t wind up with an angry pimp at his office, or with his pimp getting his lawyer on them which is very common.

The last time I hired an attorney to help a woman pull a police report where she said there was a false conviction on her record, put there by LAPD officers who were blackmailing her into having sex with them by threatening to arrest her if she didn’t, the attorney told me that if we ordered her “booking video”, we could get the conviction removed.  He sent out a formal demand letter for this video to the Pasadena Police Dept., and in return he was threatened so badly back by their attorneys – he threw the case back at me.  I can’t blame him either.   That’s why any legal services we do offer our members, is bypassed through me to protect the victim and the ATTORNEY also.

But I don’t exactly want to tell Paypal that either now do I?  If they think I’ve got prostitutes sending in money for book orders and donations, they’ll probably shut my account down in two seconds.  That’s why we don’t have “Sex Workers Anonymous” on our paypal either.  But yes we advertise it like it’s for “paralegal services”.  Why?  To fool wives and accountants.  Where do wives come in?  Do you have any idea how many sex addicts make “amends” to us each year?  Last month I had a sex addict call up to make a donation for our filing fee for our lawsuit against the USA (www.williamsvsusa.com) as his “amends”.  No I don’t think his wife is going to be happy if she saw that on his credit card bill.  How does he “prove” his “cover story” about using the money for a “paralegal”?  By referring her to the fake sites we have set up.

Which by the way is how I’ve also been able to gather information on PIMPS.  I’ve had a few of the women involved in these situations actually tell their pimp they can “get paralegal help” showing them our site to get their kids back or fight a prostitution case.  That way I can get a pimp to actually pay the money because they don’t want to use a lawyer, nor do they want to pay the fees.  But I can assure you they aren’t going to do this, if I alert them that this is all a ruse.

Now I don’t know if the paralegal you’re accusing of “practicing law without a license” is actually me, because I don’t see what it is I’m charged with on this complaint.  A complaint I’ve not been asked about, nor served either.  I doubt it’s about paralegal work either and I’ll tell you a few reasons why.

First of all, look at the search warrant for my emails.  Do they say “only emails that appear to be about providing legal services?”  Do they specify, “Please don’t send anything that looks like personal emails to us in this seizure?”  No.  They ask for ALL of the emails connected to that account from the time period of May 15th to June 6, 2018.  That’s a lot of emails.

Also, do they specify anything like, “Only emails from and to Jody Williams?”  Something that looks like it pertains to an investigation into Jody Williams providing legal services without a license?  No.  It ask for EVERYTHING, which tells me this isn’t about these charges.

For another, I know for a fact there’s more than one Jody Williams in Las Vegas.  If a complaint comes into the DA saying, “Jody Williams from Las Vegas was providing legal services without a license”, wouldn’t have something been sent to the California State Bar?  I ask because I checked with the San Fernando Valley Bar, and I had membership with them valid from March of 2017 until September of 2018.  So I was a member of the Bar Association.

Wouldn’t you have asked for the Nevada Bar Association to provide you with information?  If you had, you’d know that I am a member with the Clark County Bar Association also.  I assist with providing pro bono paralegal work through their volunteer program.  I called to check on both of these, and I have documentation I could have provided about this if anyone had bothered to ask me, or them about this.

But what’s interesting is you went right for the DMV for information on my address.  Instead of simply going online to find my address, which is very easy to find, someone went to all of the trouble to get the information form the Nevada DMV.  But I know for a fact there’s over 100 Jody Williams in Las Vegas.  I know because the last time I was at DMV and asked them what was taking so long, they told me, “There is over 100 of you in here and I have to make sure it’s you before I can release the ID”.  So how did you know WHICH Jody I was?

But for some reason, you went straight to MY ID.  Why mine?  Why out all of all the Jody Williams who could be offering these legal services, did you just happen to go to the one who is running SWA for this information?  I have not been served with this lawsuit, case number CM105014.  No one called me about it either.  No one asked me about it.  I would imagine if I’d done paralegal work, you’d have a current address for me.  Since my current address is listed on my site, and even on the phony paralegal sites, it’s easy to find a viable address for me to have served me with.  But instead supposedly service went out to the address of 3395 S. Jones Blvd., #103, Las Vegas, NV 89146.  That’s an address I haven’t used in many years.

An address on my license and that I don’t update it because I could have guys like Greg Munks, and Carlos Bolanos, just to name but two, who probably would love to come to my house and threaten me when they don’t like what I do or say like the raid I had arranged on those houses in Las Vegas on the day they happened to be there in what was called “Operation Dollhouse”.

Or maybe from the Pasadena Police Dept. who threatened the attorney I hired would love to come to my house to threaten me.  Just like “FBI Special Agent Leah Marx” who “told a rapt jury about the pivotal moment now-convicted LASD Deputy Gilbert Michel accepted a cash bribe to smuggle a contraband cellphone into jail for inmate Anthony Brown.” In case that’s connected to Juan Lopez, a man who has had the same kind of thing happen to him out of San Mateo’s DA’s office and judge’s chambers that I’m being subjected to now according to Michael Stogner, reporter for the San Mateo Daily News who tells me he thinks that the reason why my emails were attacked this way is connected to Juan’s case.  https://abc7.com/news/fbi-agent-testifies-in-ex-sheriff-lee-baca-corruption-trial/1657217/

I’m involved in so many cases right now where the victims report to me that the people who were trafficking them were either cops, sheriffs, judges, prosecutors, etc., that it could be one of any number of cases why someone would love to get ahold of my emails, cell phone records, etc., but that’s why I limit my accounts to PERSONAL email accounts, and PERSONAL phones – is so that one has to obtain a legal search warrant to get at them.  Seems like I’m going to a lot of expense when all they really have to do is just go to San Mateo to get them it seems.

I learned last year when Metro took and stole my license plate from me when they illegally arrested me for no probable cause then, that DMV between California and Nevada do not share information.  So I know that the only legal way you’d be able to obtain my middle name, and that address, would have been to pull my drivers license.  So someone wanted to know where I lived.  This has NOTHING to do with someone “practicing law without a license”.

I know because I went through the same thing when Jeane Palfrey was murdered.  Only then the bogus warrant was to search my house claiming I had “impersonated Jody Williams”.  I had called the detective in charge of investigating Jeane’s death and I told him I wanted a murder investigation done on her death, or I’d go onto a national TV Show like Geraldo (who I knew his producer well then, and Geraldo after doing 4 of his shows) and I’d made arrangements to go on there showing the daily emails and texts with Jeane and myself to prove she did not kill herself.

But the day I was supposed to leave to appear on the show, I get a search warrant claiming I was “impersonating Jody Williams” who then took my ID, my debit cards, my checks, and anything else I would need to get onto a plane and travel as “evidence”.  Who filed the complaint?  No one.  Seems that a local Tonopah cop went to the restaurant I had ordered dinner delivered from asking if I showed my ID to him when I ordered on the phone.  When the owner said no, the cop asked him to sign the complaint that I hadn’t shown ID.  The local judge signed that bogus warrant too, and they came to take my ID, and also try and take the papers I had on Jeane.

I would like to refer you to my tax exempt papers, as well as our nonprofit papers, and nowhere in ANY press, or legal papers, I’ve filed for SWA, have I linked that with my actual identification.  I’ve not listed my social security number, my birth date, nor my middle name.  I’ve done that to try and remain “personally anonymous” with respect to SWA for obvious reasons – if a pimp or trafficker got pissed off at me I don’t want him to be able to figure out WHICH “Jody Williams” out of the millions out there are  the one who runs SWA.  I do that in order to PROTECT MY LIFE.

So if you ask me, that’s what all this is about – trying to figure out WHICH Jody Williams is connected to SWA by pulling that license and then seeing if I yell.  Only what you’ve really done is now put a target one me where if I’m murdered now by someone who figures out I’m “that” Jody because of this search warrant, I’ve instructed my family to hold San Mateo responsible for my death.  Because NOTHING ANYWHERE has tied me legally to SWA before someone went in and yanked my drivers license, and I have no choice but to respond because of a warrant, and the emails of sex trafficking victims who have now been compromised, whose lives now may also be in danger because those emails went out of my control.

There was no warrant or subpoena issued to Nevada DMV to obtain information off my drivers license.  There were no grounds to issue a search warrant for my PERSONAL emails for supposedly a business activity in the blanket manner in which that search warrant did.  A “gmail” account is a PERSONAL account.  In which I have PERSONAL emails between sex trafficking victims and myself, as well as reporters, therapists, ministers, and other people who are also entitled to confidentiality when contacting me.

This search warrant for my emails did not have probable cause either.  Again, it’s a “gmail” account, not a business account.  This is supposedly about “doing business” without the proper licensing.  I say “supposedly” because I (1) don’t see a victim’s report, (2) I don’t see a actual claim of anything I’ve done so I don’t even know if this is me or not, (3) I don’t see what judge even signed this, (4) I wasn’t served with this to even be under the court’s jurisdiction.

So the court had NO RIGHT to either access my drivers license information NOR to access my private emails based upon the papers I’m seeing.  Mostly, by not being served in any way, I’m not under the court’s jurisdiction.  As such, there was especially no right to issue a warrant for me, let alone a search warrant.  What I’m seeing here is no different than someone breaking down my front door and stealing mail off my desk.  I see no difference.

All arguments which I would have presented at a hearing if this had been handled properly.  A hearing I was denied, as was the people whose privacy has now also been violated by that search warrant not only being executed, but executed UNDER SEAL of not telling me about it until AFTER it was done.  There were no probable grounds for that either – not on a misdemeanor.  I’ve seen MURDER cases where their emails weren’t pulled like this.

On top of this, I’ve suffered defamation and economic damages.  I had job interviews I’ve gone on where I’ve been turned down based on them thinking I’m a “fugitive”.  What law firm is going to hire a paralegal who has a warrant for them out?  So I’ve suffered defamation from people who think I’m a “criminal”, as well as economic damages that from August to October add up to about $6,000 so far that I can calculate.  I normally make that much doing freelance work FOR ATTORNEYS.  Who haven’t hired me since August, and now I know why.  Who knows if any will hire me again see this now?  So you’ve just put me out of work for who knows how long with this stunt also.

So please let me know if you want to waive service of the complaint, or what attorney I should send the complaint to, because I will be filing a lawsuit for invasion of my privacy, as well as that of SWA, I have suffered great defamation, and also economic loss because of your actions.  I don’t even know if I’ve lost trust among potential victims who now will be afraid to send us an email for fear of being violated by their information being sent back to some prosecutor or judge who could be one of their clients, or even someone raping them as we saw in Tennessee.

I’m going to pose a question for you here – WHAT IF Alisha Grundy WAS FORCED to lie against Ray Sharpe as she alleges in this hand written letters that Ray says she sent him?  Who exactly is she supposed to tell that to if she’s concerned that if she tells me this information, that it’s just going to get back to the very people who forced her to lie that could be a prosecutor in the DA’s office, or an officer with Metro, if any time you guys feel like it, you can go behind my back and just pull into my emails using sealed records and not serving me so I don’t even know what’s going on, nor have time to get an attorney to object to such invasions of privacy?

I say this because I’ve also been talking to Alisha Grundy, Ray Sharpe and Gena Johnson, to try and figure out what the truth is here.  Not for LEGAL reasons, but for Alisha to HEAL. I don’t have budgets like Polaris,  I can’t fly to every victim’s home town to talk to them face to face.  They have to be able to trust talking to me by email or even Facebook as part of their healing – which you’ve just thrown out the window with this move.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ve attached a copy of Ray’s hand written appeal where he’s attached hand written letters from Alisha claiming she was “forced to lie” to the court in her case.

What you’ve done by this is violate a trust that I may NEVER GET BACK among these victims that could be responsible for destroying our very organization.  Damages I can’t put into dollars and cents.  But for the sake of brevity and to try and move on with the work that I need to be doing helping these victims try and heal from what’s happened to them, I’m sending the following demand letter, notice and request to “meet and confer” before filing a federal action against the parties involved here.  I am NOT responding to this lawsuit because I haven’t been served with it yet, nor do I even know if I’m the person in the complaint because I see nothing in the complaint I can admit or deny anything about either!

You have five days to (1) dismiss this case number listed above whether its me or not I don’t care, (2) dismiss with prejudice so it’s not filed again, (3) I want to know that any emails you’ve seized form me are destroyed immediately, (4) I want all record of this warrant taken offline so I’m not barred from finding work in the future, and (5) I want a check for damages that have been cost me from the loss of jobs for $10,000 (I’m adding in $4,000 for the emotional stress this has caused me and for the money I’m going to have to spend taking all of our emails off gmail now and transferring everything in our system over to regular mail to avoid a repeat of this which is going to cost me money now I don’t have because I’ve been unable to find work since August).  I will not consider this as any “admission of guilt” and am willing to sign an agreement to such.

By the way, I also consider this as possibly hindering my ability to ever work again.  I say that because in job interviews for the last 30 years since I started our 12 step program, when job interviews ask me if I’m “that Jody Williams”, I deny it.  I hate to work at a legit job and since I provide the employer with my legal identification, it’s not a crime for me to deny that’s me in social media talking about prostitution and sex trafficking. But by you TYING in my ID now to SWA, I may never be able to work again anywhere.  I might not even be able to get licensed by the Bar if they find out I work with all these trafficking victims.  So if forced to sue, and this all then become public record, then you’ll understand why I’ll be asking for $10 million dollars.

However, if the above is not accomplished within the next five days, then know I will be moving forward with a federal lawsuit for those causes of action, and more if I can think of any over the next few days such as malicious prosecution, or lack of equal protection, etc.

If you think this Jody Williams was “practicing law without a license” then you should go after her the way I’ve seen it done before in the past.  I’ve seen paralegals in the past many times hit with such accusations and it starts wit ha letter sent to their business address informing them of what they’re doing and requesting them to either show their licensing, or to cease and desist their actions, and then it informs them of their fines.  Which was not done here and unless you want to explain why it wasn’t done this way during litigation, then I suggest you settle this case with me immediately.

Sincerely,

Jody Williams

Cc:       Michael Stogner

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SMC Dishonest Search Warrant, Steve Wagstaffe is going after Jody Loren Williams. Why now?

Case Number 18-SM-009489-A

Has San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office ever been used as a weapon before? Yes of course it has, John Johns R.I.P. and Sheriff Deputy Juan P. Lopez cases are perfect examples, and now, Jody L. Williams. Secret/Hidden Search Warrants

How many Misdemeanor cases from another State with Sealed Police Report and Search Warrant does the DA do per year average?

Jody Loren Williams recently discovered she missed a court appearance and had a warrant for her arrest. Both were News to her and the District Attorney wanted it that way. The DA sent the notice to appear to an address she would not get it, and they sent it by regular mail with no signature required to prove she received notice.

This behavior should come as no surprise to San Mateo County residents Pacifica resident Therese Dyer has notified the San Mateo County Supervisors for over a decade of the Corrupt DA’s Office, The Supervisors refuse to Audit which would stop the corruption on the spot.

4/25/2007 when District Attorney James P. Fox and Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe sent these 2 e-mails which demonstrate the small but very powerful group of “Above the Law” aka “Those Who Matter.” Organized Crime Element.

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Steve Wagstaffe said “remember it will be yesterday’s news and irrelevant by tomorrow”

Now here we are 11 years later and Mr. Wagstaffe charges Jody Williams in San Mateo County Court. Who is Jody Williams? On April 21, 2007 she is the woman who reported that the 25 women and one minor who were Human Trafficked Sex Slaves in Operation Dollhouse did not make it to the Salvation Army Safe House that night where they were to be for 72 hours of safety. How would she know that, She was there to meet them.

Jody Williams is a key witness to what really happened the night of April 21, 2007, and she has confirmed what San Mateo County Sheriff Deputy Heinz Puschendorf has stated that Munks and Bolanos were transported from 3474 Eldon Street that night. Here is a quote from Jody Williams on the subject:

“Clearly, someone in ICE, Homeland Security and the trafficking task force had to be involved in this network for it to work. And clearly someone was because not only were the two sheriffs who were on site, and then released, despite the mandatory immigration laws, despite the fact drugs were seized, and also despite a juvenile and a pregnant woman being caught on sight – and frankly, if I hadn’t been chased off the property, discounted, ignored, smeared, and shut out of the process – we could have ended the whole matter and exoronerated both Greg Munks and Carlos Bolanos in one afternoon because I would have asked for either their body camfootage, or I would have asked to see their drivers’ footage.”

Jody Williams is right, FBI’s video, Limo Video. Video from LVMPD Holding cell would solve all of those questions.

 

San Mateo County’s Big Lie, the coverup of Munks and Bolanos at the expense of the victims and the residents of San Mateo County. Here is what they are accusing Jody Williams of:

Case Number 18-SM-009489-A Unauthorized Practice of Law

05/08/2018 BP6126(a) Misdemeanor: Unauthorized Practice of Law

08/13/2018 Notice to Appear deliberately mailed to an address where Jody would not receive it.

09/13/2018 Arrest Warrant Issued by Judge Robert Foiles for Failure to Appear and Bail set $2,500

10/02/2018 Declaration in Support of Criminal Complaint filed.

10/02/2018 Order to seal police report pursuant to PC 964

10/02/2018 Police Report Ordered Sealed

You will notice there is no mention of this Secret Search Warrant issued July 12, 2018 as noted in the above case.

Jody Williams Search Warrant

Jody L. Williams is an Advocate who was helping a Destroyed Father who just wants to get back with his children. The attorney representing his wife in a San Mateo County Family Law case was going to have none of that, and filed a criminal complaint against Jody Williams.

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D.A. Steve Wagstaffe

The above Search Warrant is a Fraud. The District Attorney’s Office would have searched the Fathers e-mails to see the Illegal Crime Unauthorized Practice of Law evidence.

Instead they go after the key witness to Operation Dollhouse. Who would want to do that? Sheriff Carlos Bolanos, Steve Wagstaffe, Karen Guidotti, Morley Pitt, Albert Serrato, John Warren, just to name a few.

Jody Williams could really use your support at this time, Please consider donating to her for her legal funds that are now facing her, Think about it she lives in Las Vegas and has to commute to San Mateo County to defend herself. Thank You for reading.

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SMC District Attorney should have Attorney Barbara Kuehn take a polygraph. Jody Williams case.

The case of Jody Williams should be Audited. This is an out of State case of 1 misdemeanor count of unauthorized practice of law. It has a Secret Search Warrant and the complaint/Police affidavit is SEALED.

I responded to an e-mail I received from Barbara Kuehn

Hello Barbara, I hope this finds you well also. Do I know Jody Williams, as she claims? The answer is Yes, Absolutely.
She has a criminal case now in San Mateo County.
She has identified you as the person who filed the criminal complaint with the DA’S office.
Would you like to comment?
Michael G. Stogner
San Mateo County News .com
“As for comments regarding what she is talking about, no comment.  My policy my entire career in dealing with the media, and it applies to my entire staff as well, has been, is and will always be, no comment.”
Best regards.

According to Jody Williams it all started with attorney Barbara Kuehn as a protected informant for some reason.

I know for a fact that the DA’s Office recently asked a single mother of two who reported a criminal act by her ex husband a San Mateo County Sheriff Deputy to take a polygraph. She jumped at the chance, after she passed she learned that the DA did not ask the Sheriff Deputy to take one and they closed the case.

Now we have the secret Search Warrant which has placed several victims lives in danger because of Barbara Kuehn contacting the DA’s Office with a criminal complaint. The least Steve Wagstaffe, Karen Guidotti & John F. Warren could have done was ask her to take a polygraph test before they filed for the Secret Search Warrant. Hon. Judge Gerald J. Buchwald signed the Search Warrant which was subject to an order delaying notification for up to 90 days from the issuance of the warrant. This is for a single count of practicing law without a license a misdemeanor. What on earth was the Judge thinking?

Especially knowing the history of Barbara Kuehn

From the State Bar.

September 17, 1999

BARBARA JEAN KUEHN [#152283], 47, of Burlingame was suspended for three years, stayed, placed on three years of probation with a one-year actual suspension, and was ordered to take the MPRE. Credit toward the actual suspension will be given for an interim suspension which began Dec. 5, 1998. The order took effect Sept. 17, 1999.

Kuehn represented a woman in a dissolution in which the family home was sold, profits were to be split 50-50 after payment of debts, and Kuehn was entrusted with the proceeds of the sale.

She distributed more than $6,000 of the entrusted funds to herself without obtaining the court’s authorization. As a result, she was charged with, and pleaded no contest to, embezzlement. She agreed to cease practice for one year, home detention for six months, a fine of $3,750, three years of probation and 200 hours of community service.

Kuehn was placed on interim suspension last December.

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DDA Ben Blumenthal refuses to answer questions about him prosecuting Jody Williams. Depositions will be exciting.

There is a new Policy at San Mateo County’s District Attorney’s Office since the July 2, 2018 Zain Jaffer case being plucked/extracted from the legal process. DDA Sharon Cho answered several reporters questions about that case. Now Nadia and Ben have both given me the exact same response ask Steve Wagstaffe and Karen Guidotti.

 

 

This is who Jody Williams is, She needs to be Protected.

October 11, 2018

JODY WILLIAMS C/O
SEX WORKERS ANONYMOUS, SWAN, AND TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION SERVICES UNDER UMBRELLA OF OMNI-SCII 501C3 5516 BOULDER HIGHWAY, SUITE 2F378 LAS VEGAS, NV 89122 WWW.SEXWORKERSANONYMOUS.NET WWW.SWAN-FELLOWSHIP.US MSJODYWILLIAMS@GMAIL.COM
(702) 488-1127 TELEPHONE

 

John Walsh and Nancy McBride
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® Charles B. Wang International Children’s Building 699 Prince Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3175
Fax 703-224-2122
NMCBRIDE@ncmec.org

Re: CRISIS REGARDING JUVENILE SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS ANONYMITY

Dear Mr. Walsh and Ms. McBride:

I’m sure you each know Lois Lee founded Children of the Night’s hotline, and program, in 1979. The reason why she did was the same reason I created the first safe house for adult sex trafficking victims in 1984 – that was in response to a “perfect storm” of events which were targeting men, women and children who were involved in the sex industry. She however created her program for juveniles, while I tried to help adults in the best way I could.

For me, that was to create the first screening service for prostitutes which I marketed around to the madams, as well as individual escorts, who were trying to protect themselves. Not from arrest mind you – but from the very real fact we had a record number of serial killers targeting prostitutes in LA back then. A situation that was created by the flooding of cocaine into the state because of what we now know as Iran Contra. Combined with the invention of cell phones, and beta, and then VCR’s, which allowed men to stay up all night in their homes smoking crack and watching hard core porn which frankly made them all either nuts and/or violent or both.

On top of this, I was dealing with the very real fact we had men like Chuck Barris producing the “Dating Game” which was nothing more than a cover for him to get American women onto planes voluntarily, to then go to countries they’d never heard of before – many of who were never heard from again. Try taking that to the local police station and see how far you get talking about a top producer in town marketing women all over the world using their audition tapes like a catalog and try to convince them to follow up on why Janie didn’t come back from her date to some country you can’t pronounce.

Further, try and convince the police that our own CIA agents are the ones bringing in boat loads of cocaine into LA and only using the gang members as “cover” while forcing them to be their “distribution” network so as to keep their hands clean. Not only keep their hands clean, but go on and on about the “gang crisis in the media to get grants coming to build CRASH units – who then use those CRASH units to further intimidate men into

 

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turning their 10 year old sons into drug mules because juvenile courts no longer prosecute juveniles for drug trafficking.

Then try and get the police to help you stop diplomatic planes who have drugged up prostitutes on board who are being taken to some country that sells us oil because some sultan has a thing for “white girls”, while the CIA man explains she’s “doing this in service of her country because she’s a worthless piece of shit otherwise”. To top it off, you learn that there’s not one single law against the trafficking of American women. That if these victims do make it to an American embassy – they’re refused any help because they’re “criminals” after all as “prostitutes”.

So while Lois was handling the juveniles, I was handling helping adults WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD. It’s why I took a warehouse I had da leave on I didn’t need anymore because I was no longer working as aprostitute, and turned it into a safe house. The only one in the country for adults. Not even the Mary Magdelene Project would take in someone who was (1) escaping a pimp and needed security, (2) had any mental health issues, (3) had any felony convictions, (4) had any children or pets, (5) had any assets, (6) had used drugs in the last 90 days, (7) had any pending warrants, and/or (8) if they were victims of organized crime’s sex trafficking. Meaning that essentially the Mary Magdalene Project would take in about 4 women who didn’t really need any help and let them stay in the house while they went to school.

What about the rest? That’s why I had the warehouse. Only a lot of people weren’t happy about the fact once we got them into the warehouse, they were never heard from again. Including LAPD who had tried unsuccessfully to plant drugs on me a few times. So our warehouse had not only beds, a TV, and a kitchen, but also high security with bars on the windows, as well as a closed circuit TV which would broadcast back to me at home what was going on outside the warehouse. Which was useful when these men would try and storm the place by climbing up to the second story on ladders to try and break in – which is what happened more than once.

To shut me down, I was framed. So I’m very sensitive to that issue. I’ve had LAPD try and plant drugs on me that weren’t mine. Thank God my mother believed me that the pound of cocaine she found under my bed one day wasn’t mine, and she flushed it before the cops could get there with a search warrant. Thank God the heroin that was put into my car’s glove compartment she found before the cops released me to get into that car,only to stop me searching for that heroin so they could arrest me. In desperation, they got a junkie on probation to lie and say I was “pimping” her out of the warehouse. She called me up black and blue asking I take her away from the pimp. Which I did, and then the cops arrested me for pimping her.

Without one shred of evidence, I could have beat the cast. But they took a photo of my mother handing me a bucket of chicken and me handing her a $20 bill, and for that, they charged my disabled mother with pimping me. Then told me if I didn’t agree to take a plea, they’d charge her with pimping me. I thought the photo was silly and certainly a jury would acquit us. So they then threatened to arrest my 70 year old grandmother for the washing machine I’d bought her the year before, showing the receipt as proof she was guilty of “receiving earnings from a prostitute”. Needless to say, to protect my grandmother, and mother, I played ball somewhat.

The warehouse was shut down. Clearly having a safe house wasn’t going to work for those reasons. Since the truth about Iran Contra, and Chuck Barris, and everything else I was dealing with back then didn’t come to the light of day for years and years, it was the right decision for that time. But by 1986, we had a full blown AIDS epidemic on our hands. Why? Because with all the crack downs on prostitutes LAPD had been doing, no one was thinking about doing any type of outreach to us about the disease. With prostitutes afraid to carry condoms because they were used as “evidence against them of prostitution”, LAPD made the problem worse.

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By 1986, with talk of quarantining us on an island, the state was willing to talk to us about a solution for the first time in history. I sat down in 1986 with California’s Attorney General, Edwin Meese, Mayor Tom Bradley, Sheriff Block and Chief Gates to come up with a solution. They were the ones who sold me on all the advantages of what we could accomplish by forming a 12 step program. By 1987, I had put everything together to launch the first hotline for adults to call for help when leaving any part of prostitution, for any reason (we didn’t have the term “sex trafficking even invented back then), and the related 12 step program which allowed us to provide alternatives to incarceration as well as diversion programs for the first time in history.

To date, I’ve answered over 500,000 calls on that hotline. Many of those calls were from juveniles as you know. Juveniles who I’ve always promptly turned over to Lois Lee to handle. I was trained in how to answer this hotline by the domestic violence people, the suicide hotline, the rape crisis hotline, and even the Narcotics Anonymous hotline. So I knew what the laws were regarding when I had to report incidents of child abuse, as well as when a child was in danger of being harmed. In the 32 years now I’ve answered this phone, not one lawsuit by the way, nor has anyone even filed a complaint of a problem connected to our hotline.

In fact, in 1995, we went onto a Sally Show about a mother I had helped to rescue her daughter by suggesting she dress up like a hooker to try and find her when the police refused to provide any help. Using my methods of obtaining intelligence, she found her daughter. She also was able to get the pimp arrested who had murdered two other women. Once the show was taped, producers came down to sign contracts with us to make a movie.That film was “Fighting for my Daughter” with Lindsey Wagner. This was about the 5th movie made about my work by then, on top of the three documentaries I’ve had made about us, and who knows how many talk shows.

While I don’t go out of my way to target juveniles, and I don’t allow them into our 12 step meetings, I do come across situations where children are involved from time to time. Which is why when I was targeted and recruited by a trafficking operation who employed sheriffs, cops, judges, private investigators, 911 operators, guards, etc., and I identified also they were targeting young women for this who were as young as 12 years old, I tried to do something to get those women, and their children help.

The only problem was many of them were being held in private homes, and we couldn’t get at them in the “usual” stings. Like with the mother in Canada, she pretended to be a prostitute until she found her daughter. Once she found her daughter, she was lucky enough to be able to call the local police to go and get her out of the hotel room. HOWEVER, in some cases we’ve found there are some officers on the police force who are actually part of the traffickers. In those situations, we can’t just call the local police. A mistake I made when I went to the Chief of Police for Las Vegas in 2006, Chief Gillespie.

When I turned the file over to him with names, addresses, descriptions of people, explanations of how everything operated, etc., and specifically asked him to help us get at a young 16 year old girl who was being pimped out by a service called “Pretty Maids”, as well as told him about other locations that were full of“minority” women, such as the house with nothing but Hispanic women, and the house full of Asian women – all that happened was every single shred of evidence onto what I’ve provided him was cleaned up down to the bleach on the floors.

Now I had consulted with other police officers about the houses that comprised “Operation Dollhouse” back then. I was brushed off with them saying, “Without probable cause, we can’t get a search warrant”. Only the only clients these houses would admit were men who had flown into the airport speaking Mandarin with tickets showing they had arrived from China. Metro didn’t have any undercover officers, male or female, who spoke Mandarin. So I’ve ALWAYS attempted to work with the authorities the best way that I can all these years.

 

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Which is why I appealed to the Salvation Army, as well as Melissa Farley. We needed resources. I needed translators. I needed someone willing to arrest another cop/sheriff. We needed an office – not me calling from my mobile home I lived in at that time. During that time, I was caring for my dying mother who was in ICU and my young daughter. I was recovering from a major stroke, so we needed man power also.

All of which I was promised. Melissa promised we could launch NCAST – IF and I say IF I agreed to let her do a report on our work for the State Dept., so they could give us a grant. The Salvation Army agreed to give us $1,000,000 to open ATLAS, with me as the director. Because Terri Miller had no experience with prostitutes or trafficking, I was supposed to train her and then let her take over so I could work part-time to care for my mother and focus on taking care of my own health issues.

The ONLY catch was NO ONE was believing me about cops being involved. It was only a few years before that the G Sting arrests had gone down. To think that the city council, the strip club owner, and celebrities like George Clooney, Robert DeNiro, etc., were involved in not only this prostitution network, but arms dealings reaching down into San Diego – well at least Daniel Boden had gotten involved and gotten that case prosecuted. But that was only a few years before this story was coming up.

Realize that 2006-2007 was BEFORE Chris Butler had been caught and exposed to the press. Lots of people knew about what he was doing, but no one was prosecuting him over it. So please put into perspective that I’m talking about cops putting drug evidence into their cars, and then driving them to illegal brothels, where they’re the ones pimping these prostitutes – ALL BEFORE CHRIS WAS EXPOSED for what he was doing. Then you have an idea how absolutely out of my mind I sounded to a lot of people talking about this in 2006.

Only the Salvation Army said they believed me, and if we could “get an arrest” and “some kind of evidence”, then they’d put even more into helping these victims. Okay, how do we do that? I know where the victims are. But the cops aren’t going to arrest anyone BECAUSE THEY’RE THE ONES INVOLVED. The other cops aren’t going to touch the case because they don’t want to expose their buddies, or themselves for that matter. Look at Norman’s story where he says he was being “blackmailed” by Butler.https://abc7news.com/archive/9110103/ He wasn’t alone.

When I had gone to Gillispie, an 8 month old pregnant woman showed up at my mom’s house asking for refuse. She was worried with them “cleaning house”, they’d leave her in the desert somewhere, so she’d run to me forhelp. This woman was 20 years old or I would have called Lois for help. But she tells me there’s others who are pregnant, and “even a kid” referring to those houses where the women were in what was later called “Operation Dollhouse”.

To make matters more urgent, I had women coming to me talking about a string of prostitute murders. Jesse Foster was not unique in 2007. There were about 7 other women who had gone missing, each in connection with Peter Todd. So on top of hearing about a lot of women disappearing, I’m also getting calls about a man who had just moved into Summerlyn who was also getting involved in organ trafficking. I had verified this man was not only living in that very expensive house by the hospital, but that he was in fact licensed and set up as a medical equipment sales representative who actually was selling the equipment used in organ transplants.

This same guy owns a movie company that’s advertising in China about the movies being made in Las Vegas so that many of these Asian women, who don’t know any better that these movies aren’t real, so some of these women were coming to Vegas in the first place thinking they were here to make a movie. Then winding up in a brothel, and apparently some of them were wanting a profitable way to dispose of the bodies. I have relayed all of this information to Melissa Farley, and we agreed that we needed to “move fast” to do something to break up this operation.

 

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I want you to understand the urgency that I was feeling when I heard there was going to be a drop in Vegas that weekend that was “Operation Dollhouse”. I had been working on someone within Butler’s operation to go to the press, which succeeded. So it wasn’t that hard to get a reporter to ask to do a “ride along” with Metro on that weekend, knowing we were waiting until someone in uniform showed up and then we could launch the raid.

The plan had already been set up and agreed upon that the victims would be taken to the Salvation Army, instead of the jail, so that they would feel safe enough to talk about what was going on. That was evidenced by the fact the 24 women were taken to the Salvation Army which was what ATLAS and NCAST had been calling upon Metro to do in such a situation.

So you can understand how upset I was when I arrive at the Salvation Army thinking we’re going to interview these women because they’re going to be held 72 hours which was mandatory immigration law to hold them for questioning – but they were released before I could even arrive? I didn’t go to the houses where the raids were because honestly I was afraid if I was there, and anyone connected with the traffickers saw my face and recognized me – they’d bolt. I wanted everyone to be caught “red handed” so they’d believe us as to who and what was involved. Remember, this operation was going on in California, up to Seattle on the west coast, and then up through Las Vegas, then over to Arizona, and on through to the east coast and then back again. I know because I would talk to these men during these “drop and pickups” when they thought they were recruiting me to come to work for them.

Clearly, someone in ICE, Homeland Security and the trafficking task force had to be involved in this network for it to work. And clearly someone was because not only were the two sheriffs who were on site, and then released, despite the mandatory immigration laws, despite the fact drugs were seized, and also despite a juvenile and a pregnant woman being caught on sight – and frankly, if I hadn’t been chased off the property, discounted, ignored, smeared, and shut out of the process – we could have ended the whole matter and exoronerated both Greg Munks and Carlos Bolanos in one afternoon because I would have asked for either their body camfootage, or I would have asked to see their drivers’ footage.

All cabs and limos in Vegas at that time had cameras on 24/7 because of a rash of drivers who were being robbed and burned up. They also had GPS devices on at all times because of the murders. I was demanding the press “check the cameras” and “check the GPS devices” and frankly if someone had listened to me then – we could have exonerated those two sheriffs by now. When I was chased off the property and told to “get lost”, Terri told me she’d “handle it”. If she had, that footage and GPS records would have exonerated those men by now. Also, that juvenile would have received assistance that day.

But because of all this, I knew there was someone higher up involved and there was. Joohon David Lee. Only I had the same problem again – no one was believing me that this guy was going to China on government money and time, flying over victims he was walking right past security, and then taking them right to the brothels to be trafficked – all while not only immune from prosecution, but further while terrorizing an innocent family. I had to endure YEARS of that man trying to tell anyone who listened that “Jody is crazy” until finally Daniel Bogden I know, along with the Office of Professional Responsibility, finally did something to expose him.

What you don’t realize however is how many juveniles call our hotline to talk. There is no other hotline like ours that provides them with another ex-sex worker, who is in recovery, who will answer the phone and talk to them at 2:00 in the morning. Nor one that’s not shut down in a year because of a lack of funding. I have people who have been calling our hotline for 30 years now!

 

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We are LITERALLY the only hotline where a victim of sex trafficking can call us knowing we aren’t connected up to the very people they’re running from, nor that we will give up their information to the very person(s) they’re running from. Do you realize I once had a young lady calling me from the age of 16 years old until she was 18 years old and could legally leave the group home, calling to talk to me about the cops who were trafficking her out in the streets? Yes information I was providing to Lois who was looking into trying to find this girl. The only problem is then what? We found the house who of course was denying everything.

We talk a lot of kids through tough times on the phone who are in horrible group homes, foster homes, etc., but we try and get them emotionally through it. A lot of times these juveniles don’t call Lois or now Rachel Lloyd, because they don’t want to be put into a group home.
My point being that yes we have information in our private email accounts that belongs to juveniles. Juveniles who are like Celeste Guap was before she turned 19 years of age, and who were being blocked from the trafficking outreach projects by their traffickers. Do you grasp that? Her mother was the 911 operators, so these guys had tabs on anyone who called 911. When she came out, the town went through Three Chiefs of Police and STILL couldn’t find someone who hadn’t patronized her. Let’s use the right term – RAPED her. So while she’s being blocked from getting help, trying to protect her mother, and staying put so no one freaks out and harms her mother, who does she have to talk to for support?” I can’t say if that woman called us or not but don’t you think it’s a safe logical bet she would have?

When Nancy O’Malley held an event on juvenile sex trafficking, she asked Lois Lee to speak. Lois asked me to go and speak. I went to Nancy and offered to speak because I wanted to talk about the kids who are afraid to call the local trafficking authorities who were blocking women like her from getting help, to see what could be done about it. She then refused to return my calls, let alone let me talk about the issues? Why? Considering everything, probably to try and protect the county from the lawsuit Celeste filed. But again in the meantime, what about her?

I have all kinds of people contacting me of all ages telling me all kinds of stories. But we provide them with someone again who understand them and empathizes with them. None of which we can do if these same victims are concerned that their emails and calls are going to be turned over to the very people who are trafficking them. If law enforcement needs information from me as to a case they’re working on, that’s what warrants and subpoena’s are for.

But I doubt I’d get calls like I get if those who call me are scared about their confidentiality being violated. Let me give you an example in the Neal Falls case – I get a call from a woman who reports to me she knows the prostitute who shot Neal. Her phone number is showing up as being at Heather’s house where the incident took place. She told me she made the call from the house to show me she was telling the truth.

She told me to verify this so I’d take her seriously. Then she tells me that Neal Falls wasn’t a “john”. That he’d seen that “8 Minutes” show and like a lot of guys who saw it back then, they were trying to go out and “rescue damsels in distress”. Supposedly Neal called her up to try and talk her out of prostitution and offered to help her. That Heather murdered this guy. Not only then did Heather murder this guy, but supposedly when the FBI showed up, THEY decided to change the story and make Heather a “hero” like they did.

This person asked me if there was one shred of DNA evidence showing this guy was tied to any of those murders they laid on him. She also asked me what “prostitute” is immediately credited as a “hero” when the cops come out and find a dead man like was done here? What witnesses were they and why would she go running next door to call for help when she had a phone in the house she could have used. The news said he“had no money in his wallet” but how do we know it wasn’t because she stole that money?

 

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When I asked her why she was telling me this, she told me she was afraid for Heather’s life. Supposedly women from Relativity Media and SWOP had shown up with cash and drugs. Offered her $17,000 to sign a contract giving up the rights to her name and image, as well as an NDA. They had promised her a movie and book deal about the whole thing IF she agreed to lie and say she “murdered him in self defense”. Gave her drugs to keep her from talking to the press, and then checked her into treatment somewhere that no one was being told where she was. This woman expressed fear something had been doin

Now mind you, I have all of this on tape. I asked her why she was calling me. She tells me that Heather has“disappeared” and she’s worried she was murdered to keep her quiet about Neal Falls. Why would someone murder her? If you looked at the TV special put out by Relativity Media, they were laying a lot of murders onto Neal Falls without one shred of DNA evidence or an eye witness. Great way to wrap up a bunch of unsolvedcases about prostitutes in Las Vegas doesn’t it? I looked into her story and found out it was true. On top ofthis, when I tried to identify where “Heather” was, she was nowhere to be found. When I pushed harder, I started getting threats to “back off”. To make things more interesting, I contacted the Chicago police and the ones there and there’s no one drop of DNA evidence anywhere showing anything that ties Neal to any of the murders. Including no blood on any of the new tools in his car. Now let me ask you, what serial killer operates out of his car and takes in stray dogs? I’ve never heard of one that’s for sure. In fact, his personality doesn’t fit that of a prostitute killer at all.

Would this person call the National Trafficking Hotline at midnight to unload? I doubt it. But I now had a tape that could have been, in fact might be, important in a murder case, or even multiple cases. I don’t know, but I did what I’m supposed to do and I turned over the tapes of the calls to the authorities to investigate further, and told them if they had questions to please call me again. For all I know, the caller was under 18 years of age. I don’t know because I can’t tell an age over the phone. But what if this was a case involving a missing juvenile?

What if whoever got into my emails got information on where a juvenile is and that juvenile is murdered? It happens. Think it doesn’t – think again. For that matter, no one has seen “Heather” since that first rash of news reports.

Because what just went down against me was staged from the gate. In April, I get a call from a guy telling me he’s an alcoholic who wants help to get his buddy sober. Of course I’m going to try and help the guy. I literally spent a month trying to help him track down his “homeless buddy” who was in Colorado, and to get him into some kind help to get into treatment.

After I helped this guy get connected to another “old timer” in AA in that city, this guy continued to talk to me about his divorce. He was asking me to work on his divorce as a paralegal. I kept refusing. I told him he could afford an attorney and to go get one. When I refused to help him, he insisted on coming to Vegas to meet with me in person. Of course I didn’t meet with him, and that’s when he increased the ante. He starts talking about he can “help me build a business” and about how he can get me 100 clients a month, and yada yada yada – but he “needs to have a business meeting with me to go over the details”. I still refused.

Mind you, I know that these pimps will use ANY type of a ruse to get close to me in order to find out where their victims have run off to – so this guy was just making me suspicious. He could afford an attorney if he could fly to Vegas, so why was he chasing me? Then he offered to “open a real estate business” with me – but we “needed to meet”. That’s when I really smelled a rat and refused to meet with him. He kept insisting he “had to show me his divorce papers” and then I’d “know I needed to help him” because of what a “monster his ex-wife’s attorney was”. Fine I told him – drop off the papers at my box and I’ll look at them. But he wouldn’t because he kept insisting he “needed to hand them to me”. Now I really won’t meet this guy.

 

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HE STAYS OVER TWO MORE DAYS trying to convince me to meet him. I refuse. Politely, but I refused. Understand this, he left Las Vegas on July 10th finally. On July 12th , this bogus search warrant was issued against my personal email – not for “business emails” or “excluding personal emails”, but ALL emails. I’m not going to go into whose emails were in there, but know this – there were SWA members and reporters emails in that email during the dates my emails were seized by this DA in San Mateo County.

Here’s something else to consider – George Knapp had just uncovered that maybe Alisha Grundy had been forced to lie about Ray Sharpe by Chris Baughman. An FBI investigation is supposedly going on reviewing the case. I have Ray telling me she lied as well as Gena telling me she lied on the stand. I also have a hand-written letter supposedly from Alisha to the judge saying she lied. If she lied, it was because she was scared into it by Chris Baughman, a Metro cop, or the DA, who was his wife.

If this case is like the Celeste Guap case, how do we know if she wasn’t coerced or threatened into lying? She has a juvenile daughter and that’s a real easy way to threaten someone. When I had information on Jessie Foster’s murder and I was trying to get Terri Miller to take that information and look into it, and she refused, I went to the FBI. There an agent threatened me with a 5150 charge, and then taking my kid if I didn’t “drop it. I dropped it. So a kid is a real good way to threaten someone. Or a mother like my case. If Celeste hadn’t gone to the media, do you think we’d be talking about her story today?

But what if Alisha did lie? Is she going to be able to stay clean with a man in prison for life on her shoulders?She’s going to need someone safe she can talk to who understands what she did. A therapist? That’s not up to us to decide. It’s not up to the government to decide. It’s up to HER to decide if she needs to talk to someonelike us about what happened in order for her to heal and move on with her life. Maybe she needs to make an“amends” and come clean. I don’t know but we won’t know will we unless we can offer Alisha complete 100% confidentiality when she does come to talk to us about her situation, if that’s what she choose to do.

How can I encourage her to do that knowing that San Mateo County’s DA has now gotten into our emails illegally? I say “illegally” because I was never served with this lawsuit so a seizure warrant on my emails unedited like this should never had been signed by a judge. I say that because there was no complaint filed by a victim against me. Without a complaint, how do we know it’s even me and not some other Jody Williams? There was no police report. How does a seizure warrant get executed when there was no police report? How does it get sealed? How does a search warrant get executed and sealed on 7/12/18, when the bench warrant for my non-appearance wasn’t even executed until 8/8/18?

This whole case is a setup. While the “complaint” isn’t signed by anyone, and the witness is sealed, the signature matches the signature on the legal documents this guy from San Mateo County sent me about his divorce. So I know who signed this “complaint”. It was the attorney Barbara Kuehn. So an attorney who is involved in a divorce case, for which I’m not a party, went to the DA and got all this done and sealed and why? Because she thinks I was “practicing law without a license”? Okay, why not just do discovery for the guys’ emails instead? Simple. Cheap. Not invading my privacy or my other private emails. So why didn’t the DA do this?

Do you have any idea how many women leaving prostitution wind up divorcing not only their pimps, but their kids’ father? You mean all the pimps’ attorney needs to do is to go to the DA, and they can go yank my emails between me and his ex-wife and find out where she’s gone with the kids and there’s nothing I can do about it?

I don’t think so and all this does is keep me going back to the fact Greg Munks and Carlos Bolanos were never investigated nor exonerated about why they were there in that house that day. WHAT IF, and just hypothetically, WHAT IF those men WERE the “drop off team” sent there by the ring that Chris Butler was apart of?

 

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Now what if, those men, concerned that I might be talking to a witness against them, as well as Chris Baughman, worried I’m talking to Alisha Grundy – what if they wanted to get into my email to get at information on a victim who could testify against them? What if they wind up dead tomorrow? There’s a reason why things like getting emails out of my private account are done a certain way. I’m suing Google so how do I know that any emails they produce aren’t planted? If LAPD can plant drugs on me, so too can Google for that matter. On me, or on the victims who are emailing us back and forth.

In this case, I know this man was sent in as a plant. It’s clear they bought by me not knowing about the warrant, I’d be arrested, then plead guilty to get out of jail, and those sealed records would be then destroyed on a closed file. Only I thwarted their plans by finding out about the warrant in time to do something about the situation before they could do this. Another reason I know it was staged and planned is because on 8/11/18, two days after the warrant was issued, I got a call from a woman saying she was Alisha Grundy to try and lure me into a meeting. Again, that was to get ahold of me in the car and have me pulled over and arrested. If I had gone to the meeting, that’s probably what would have happened. That date, combined with the date of 7/12/18, being just two days after he went back to San Mateo County and he hadn’t met me in person where I could be probably served with that case, aren’t all of it either.

In August of 2017, I was also illegally arrested. The court told me if I plead guilty, I’d be released that day. If I plead innocent, I’d be held over three weeks. Needless to say, I pleaded guilty and got back to my disabled daughter’s care. Part of that plea bargain was I had to agree to pay $100 a month for six months. I paid that off in February. I have the receipts I paid it all off, and I recorded the call where the clerk told me I was “paid all up and off probation”.

Only on October 11, 2018, I got a call from the court advising me I was “in warrant” with them, and that I owed $300.00. If I had been driving while arrested, I sure wouldn’t have had proof on me that’s not true – which is how this started to begin with. Back in August, my papers to prove my innocent back then in California. It shows me the intent was to pull me over in Vegas, arrest me, than extradite me to San Mateo County – where frankly I’m not sure I would leave there alive. Again, if this was about admissible evidence, it wouldn’t have been handled this way. One year is a mistake, but Nevada has been coming up with phony warrants against me every year since 2009.

Enough is enough. That’s why I’ve filed one lawsuit already you can read at http://www.williamsvsusa.com because I’m having Google, Facebook, etc., try and stop our outreach. Now this? I’m preparing to file against the state of Nevada and San Mateo County for invasion of privacy and abuse of process. I’m hoping you’ll understand why I’m doing this and if not support us outright to protect the voices of survivors, then to understand what we’re trying to do here. Not everyone wants to be a Dr Ford. Sometimes I think even she doesn’t want to be Dr. Ford!

Thank you for listening. Sincerely,
Jody Williams

Cc: Megan at Polaris
Lois Lee at Children of the Night Covenant House
GEMS
President Trump

 

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San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe is being Investigated by the California State Bar. # 16-0-12532

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This is why I say make the complaints public, never file just a complaint with the Bar Association. It is a Business Association and it protects its members, not the public.

May 25, 2018 California State Bar Secret Discipline Ruling

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San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Gerald Bushwald’s ruling is Wiped Out.

Supreme Court swipes away Martins Beach opinion

Surfers Tony Rose, left, 41, of Pacifica, and Jesse Quay, 38, of Oakland, go surfing at Martin's Beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. San Mateo County Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered Silicon Valley mogul Vinod Khosla to reopen the road leading to the popular Martins Beach.(John Green/ Bay Area News Group)

A little-noticed decision by the California Supreme Court in a lawsuit involving Martins Beach could make life more difficult for the property owner, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, in his long-running legal battle to keep the public off his coastal land.

And it delivers the latest repudiation to San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Gerald Buchwald, whose head-scratching 2014 ruling in the suit, brought by group of surfers calling themselves Friends of Martins Beach, now essentially has been wiped from the face of the Earth.

On July 20, the state high court ordered the depublication of an April ruling by the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco in the Friends case, meaning the opinion will not appear in the appellate court’s official reports and may no longer be cited as precedent in other cases. The arcane judicial decree came without explanation.

That’s unfortunate for Khosla’s legal team, which had cited Buchwald’s ruling with fervor in a second, higher-profile lawsuit brought by the Surfrider Foundation, a case that is now awaiting a hearing before the same San Francisco appellate court. Both the Friends and Surfrider cases seek to restore public access to Martins Beach, but make different legal arguments.

The dispute over the picturesque San Mateo County beach began in 2010, when Khosla ended a decades-long practice under previous owners of allowing visitors onto the property, which is private except for the tidal zone, in exchange for a parking fee.

In his 2014 ruling, Buchwald decided that, because the ownership of Martins Beach dated back to a Mexican land grant in the 19th century, Khosla’s private property rights superceded the state’s authority to grant a right of way across his land.

“It’s a devastating blow no matter how you cut it,” Mark Massara, an attorney for Surfrider, said last week of the order to depublish. “His team relied heavily on that decision as a preemptive and overriding factor, and all of that is now legally inappropriate.”

An attorney for Khosla did not respond to a request for comment.

According to a 1993 article by the late UC Berkeley professor emeritus Stephen R. Barnett, the state high court typically depublishes an opinion when justices perceive it contains a fundamental flaw.

The appeals court opinion and the Supreme Court’s dropkick into oblivion combine to form a cascade of embarrassment for Buchwald, who plainly relished his involvement in the intricate case.

The oddest thing about Buchwald’s ruling was his still unexplained decision to grant Khosla ownership of the tidelands and submerged lands west of Martins Beach, land that generally belongs to the state, even though Khosla’s attorneys had not asked for title to the underwater realm.

The appellate court wiped away that mistake in April, upheld another part of Buchwald’s decision and reversed a third part, sending it back to Superior Court for trial. Now the whole thing must be tried again.

Friends attorney Gary Redenbacher said last week he was pleased with the decision to depublish. And he defended Buchwald. Despite their legal disagreements, he said, the judge was a gentleman.

“I wish more judges had his demeanor,” Redenbacher said in an email. “He clearly cared deeply about the issue, but as can be seen from the unanimous appellate decision, other judges did not agree with his analysis.”

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