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Dan ChristensenThere's a new blog in town, BrowardBulldog.org, headed up by the great investigative reporter Dan Christensen. This one's been in the works for quite some time, and has been hotly anticipated by everyone interested in truth and justice for Broward County. Dan's corruption-busting work for the Miami Herald and Daily Business Review is legendary, and you can bet it's only going to get better.
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Anatomy Of A Frame-Up
“To seek the just determination of all criminal matters that are presented to the State Attorney” – from the web site of Broward State Attorney Michael Satz
... Broward State Attorney Michael Satz, once quick to prosecute (Jerry Frank) Townsend on scant evidence, moved to set aside Townsend’s convictions after the DNA tests cleared him, but conducted no criminal investigation of the police whose testimony put Townsend in prison. Satz spokesman Ron Ishoy said Wednesday that prosecutors reviewed “the entire Townsend case even before the DNA testing” but “did not uncover any evidence to suggest” a frame-up.
Had an actual investigation been made, however, Satz would have found a disturbing record replete with clear and convincing evidence of specific crimes by BSO detectives and other officers, including perjury and the falsification of police reports.
Broward court records, including the lawsuit and the original trial and hearing transcripts, lay out in chilling detail how multiple murder charges were apparently trumped up against Townsend. The irrefutable DNA evidence that exonerated him implicates the detectives ... "
Ten Who Would Not Have Died
" ... 10 young women and children who died between the day Jerry Frank Townsend was arrested for murder in 1979, and the day Eddie Lee Mosley was sent to a state hospital for the criminally insane in 1987. Each of these murders was later linked to Mosley by DNA testing."
WELCOME TO THE PUKE PARTY, DAN!
Also interesting in the chain of related cases is that the State Attorney fought the efforts of Frank Lee Smith for the DNA tests that cleared him after his death.
pig pile chix on the roost karma chameleon
Ghosts everywhere!
Ghosts!!! The ghost of Trinchi Trinchitella...Dan go look up some of the crap he pulled off with the SAO knowledge.
After all these years things have not changed. The same BS is still going on
when satz knows who the real killers are
but not enough man to get that asses off the street, what does he do? Leave them out there to kill again. This man is so complisit, that for the first time in history A SA gets impeached, prosecuted to the fullest ex stint.
and this goes farther than his office.
The Broward County Medical Office and BSO.Dr, Lump head or should I say pinoko the more lies you tell, the bigger the lump. He dose not speak for the dead, It is what ever he is told to say. How do you say PINOKIO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGOJJHSL__s
Satz looks like your stuff is about to run out. Good bye you are the weakest link. This was on Dan new blog. Lets lookie lookie.
Florida Bar v Scott SC 05-1145 to detail a civil fraud and cover-up in which Satz participated and continues to this day.
Dan look up these ghost stories from the past on Mike Satz's watch.
Top Trinchi and SAO moments:
1. Trinchi take $4000 from xyz organization. Satz tells head of public corruption to tell Trinchi to please give money back
2. Trinchi friend/relative gets popped for traficking illegal drugs. Judge departs downward as Trinchi (who helped judge get appointed) sits in courtroom. 4th DCA reversed sentence and said judge must give min mans
3. Nick Lopane wasn't an attorney for 5 years yet gets appointed magistrate. Nick is trinchi's grandson. Dale ross fingerprints all over that one.
4. Sawgrass expressway inexplicably stops at Deerfield Century Village instead of going all way to I-95. What say Mike Satz?
5. Who knows what else trinchi did and Satz turned blind eye to.
Thank God he's a Countryboy!
what I don't understand is how people like satz or carney can still want to be doing their jobs after sending not one but four innocent mentally ill men to prison. how can they live with themselves? even after just one of these situations wouldn't most people want to stop what they're doing and pray for forgiveness? are these normal peope or are they completely devoid of compassion? it has happened four times and they still haven't had enough. what's going on with these people?
to 4;03pm i hear you, and also what about the many they have put behind bars with contaminated dna, manufactured evidence, by asa who want promotions, and does not care about blacks.
Old Dan is finally getting with the program with what's been going on in Broward for way too long? Better late than never I guess. It's a good site and makes for interesting reading.
Just heard about Seidman getting more opposition. This has got to really mess him up.
I heard that trinchitella story about taking the four grand. I'd like to see the closeout memo from the sao public corruption unit on that one.
I hope Finkelstein asks the FBI to investigate the SAO. The stories I've heard over the years make your skin crawl. If even one is true the FBI should step in.
Or maybe the FBI doesn't care either. Blacks are the majority going to prison on the Federal level too. These guys are all on the same team.
the sao woud give charles manson a pass if he was a cop or elected official
That is funny and a real good one.
10/30 4:03--
SILLY CLOWN--sociopaths have no conscience that's why they can still "want to do their jobs"--they never really "DO" their jobs--they just steal your money and make it look like they are doing their jobs--meaning what they swore their oaths to do--it what any other major con artiste with no conscience does. Hitler; Manson; Jim Jones. They are each in good company and you should add the sleeze trough Gardiner to the list, too. Did she ever spread her legs for you??
What you failed to look at was and is how many folks re-elected them anyway and how many of the broweird lrgsl cesspoolians have let them get a way ith it all these years knowing all about it and still wan to do thier "Jobs" of enabling.
Dan Christiansen is such a hypocritical Croc of s--t, too. He only campaigns for what he decides is worthwhile in corruption.
He's just anothe pissy little cherrypicker just like his booty buddies at the Sun Sentinel and and Herald who form the transmutant newspaper reportes like Tanya Alanez and her boodies, Green and so many more over the last 20 years.
They are either going to be total true corruptions reporters without fear or the sappy hypocrites they are in real life who simpley pick and choose who has value as a human being and who does not when seeking "justice for all."
So flush Christensen down the toilet with the rest of the news feces.
Like the mand in the movie said--"Nut up or Shut up."
croc is Jealous or someone Dan wrote about.
croc is not jealous or someone... croc knows what Don WON'T write about that betrays his apparent growing glowing reputation as a corruption buster. Just like Alu--talk to her about other corruption in the SAO and she is unwilling to discuss it and actually refers you to Satz to complain about Satz.
and croc has seen letters from the fbi color of law division stating the fbi color of law division does not have JURISDICTION to investigate color of law violations.
Dan was largely responsible for the destruction of the special process server program in Broward County under former Sheriff and drug manufacturer, Nick Navarro, where the service of process industry was unlawfully franchised and dolled out to political allies and campaign supporters. In a federal trial, State Representative and Chair of the Judiciary Committee, John Cosgrove, testified that in his oversight capacity he investigated the sheriff's procedure and found that it was corrupt and being used to reward political allies. Note: Mr. Navarro is still involved in the service of process industry in Broward County, even though the federal jury rendered their verdict that the procedure either intentionally or with deliberate indifference violated the constitutional rights of certain applicants.
Other great stories authored by Dan were instrumental in causing Mr. Navarro to lose his bid for re-election.
You will have plenty of fodder for great stories here in Broward, and I am looking forward to your upcoming stories.
Thanks, Dan.
John McNamara
It wasn't fashionable to take on Nick Navarro during his term as Sheriff of Broward County. In fact, I would say that to expose him and his office for manufacturing drugs in the Sheriff's lab was most courageous.
We really don't know who wrote this (whatever you call it), but I can tell you this: This complainer has not followed the reporting of Dan Christensen; he does not know the Dan Christiansen that I know.
John McNamara
There are good and bad in Mr. Satz' Office. Just as there are good and bad in Mr. Finkelstein's Office. The problem is that it is a draw of the straw that determines whether you will receive adequate representation, or whether you will be prosecuted falsely.
The following link will take you to an area proving a malicious prosecution against Donald Baker for battery on a law enforcement officer. In this case, the SA's IT Unit expert concluded that the City of Hollywood had altered and falsified video evidence and submitted the falsified video in its charging package. Either Jeff Marcus or Mark Springer told former ASA Brad Edwards that the prosecution could go no further. Edwards proceeded to Hollywood with questions as to the falsified video and could not get any answers. There, however, the City demanded that the prosecution go forward in spite of the corrupt evidence. Mr. Satz, of necessity, made the final determination that the malicious prosecution would go forward. Mr. Edwards telephonically communicated with H. Scott Hecker, special PD, and advised that was (Edwards) intended to resign his position, and that he was making notations in the Baker file to protect himself, because he felt that Mr. Satz was going to hold him out as being responsible for the malicious prosecution. Mr. Edwards then resigned from the State Attorney's Office.
The Baker case was not about black or white; it was about a police cover up of the near fatal beating of Baker inside the Hollywood Police Department. Baker spent 4 days in the hospital and incurred medical expenses in excess of $17,000.00 The cover up began with the police falsifying their police reports. Two deputies from BSO watched the beating and did nothing to intervene, then they failed and refused to file incident or other reports.
Mr. Schreiber sicked a recent law school graduate to represent Baker in contravention of the hiring policy of the PD's Office requiring 2-years of felony-trial experience before an attorney can be assigned to defend in a felony case. The appointed attorney, Madeline Torres, was totally incompetent and as dumb as a bump on a log when it came to law. She and (a later appointed attorney), Larry Schweiker, over Baker's vehement protest, forced Baker to file a complaint with Hollywood's Internal Affairs section. The IA case was a sham designed to cause Baker to admit that he "touched" the officers. IA Off. F. Jeffries testified at trial that Baker "admitted guilt," because Baker parried one of the two assaulting officers' punches. Torres admitted incompetence to habeas counsel, Melissa Minsk-Donoho, but on the following day committed the most atrocious unethical act of incompetence by falsely testifying against her own client, Baker. It is most difficult to express the incompetence and corruption in 3000 characters. In fact, there is a 183 page Coram Vobis Pet. in the 4th DCA at this time. Video proof, at flicker page.
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I thought this link would appear within the context of the message written. However, such is not the case. So, the link to the proofs of which I wrote, go to this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrorinblue/
John McNamara wrote:
JUDGE MICHAEL GATES:
You should be ashamed of yourself. To knowingly sentence an innocent man to serve 5 years in prison, simply because he filed a suggestion of disqualification against you smacks of tyranny. Your words, "Isn't this the guy who said he couldn't get a fair trial in front of me? And, isn't this the guy who said I had an off-the-record conversation with the state regarding this case?" Yes to both counts. And, Yes, those allegations of prejudice were also noted in the suggestion of disqualification. So, you told the parties, or so strongly implied to the parties, that you would not go along with the state's motion to mitigate, even though you, at the evidentiary hearing held in this case, concluded that the evidence against the Defendant was false, and that had the jury known of that fact, the result would have been different? Wasn't it you, then, that allowed the state to continue the case for another three months after you had already permitted the state to delay habeas for a year? Wasn't it you, after the above announcement and the defendant's rejection of placing his freedom in your hands when you were so hostile against him, who then continued the case for another 3 months, and wasn't it you who had, yet, another off-the-record communication with ASA, Mr. Raft, who advised you once more as to the altered and falsified evidence, and encouraged you to accept the state's deal to the effect that if Donald Baker would "renounce the truth" and withdraw his habeas (3.850) petition, you would grant him his rightful liberty? WHAT KIND OF JUSTICE IS THIS? Do you really feel that you are fit to sit in judgment of free men, after what you did in the Baker case? You knowingly allowed the state to use false and altered evidence; you knowingly allowed the sweet one, Ms. Torres, to sabotage Baker's defense, and you allowed the state to use false and altered video evidence. KNOWINGLY!!!! It would be different is you were just stupid, as Ms. Torres and Mr. Schweiker, who forced Baker to file an IA complaint with the City of Hollywood Police Department; but it was YOU who allowed the IA Officer, Forest Jeffries, to charge the jury that Baker had no right to resist excessive use of force and was required by law to fall down, curl up, and accept whatever torture or beating (or death) that a Hollywood Police Officer might decide to inflict? And wasn't it you who did not exercise your authority in instructing the jury that Mr. Jeffries statements did not reflect the law as it exists in the state of Florida, and wasn't it you who failed to instruct the jury on the standard self-defense instruction? You really need to resign, Judge Gates, and take your rightful position in the Office of Mr. Satz. To knowingly sentence an innocent man to prison is the apex of corruption. You are up for re-election in 2010, but, you should not run. Help us put competence back on the bench by getting incompetence off the bench.
John McNamara
I investigated the murder of Dr. Garcia at the Catholic Church on Stirling Rd just west of Davie Rd. Extension. Johnny Worthy was charged with the murder and my boss, Victor Tobin, represented Johnny Worthy. Early on, and before trial, we learned that Johnny Worthy was not the guilty person, and we were provided with strong evidence as to who was the killer. I filed a lengthy report with Chuck Morton after Mr. Worthy was acquitted and gave them information sufficient to identify the killer.
They did nothing, and the killer remains at large. Shame on the State Attorney's Office, and shame on the Davie Police Department.
Also, shame on the SAO for falsely prosecuting Donald Baker, while knowing that their evidence was false.
As charlton Heston would say, "Damn you all to hell! Damn you."
John McNamara
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So exactly what was it, again, that the mighty Dan did for Donald?
What did Dan do about Dianne and Donald?
Dianne bragged that Donald must have been guilty because he took a plea.
Where di you go on your "happy Camping" trip?
DAN CHRISTENSEN JAABLOG ISSUES
What would you have Dan do? The Public Defender, Madeleine Torres, perjured her testimony in order to deny Baker access to the courts and to defeat his habeas action; the State Attorney, Scott Raft ex-parte'd Torres and in his opening statement gave prologue of the Torres perjury to come, thus, it is a corollary to the subornation of that perjury, especially since Ms. Torres has, on the preceding day, confessed to habeas counsel, Melissa Minsk-Donoho the truth of the issues. Ms. Torres lost the Brady video alleged by Baker to have been falsified, and the State Attorney, Raft, falsely represented to the court that he, too, lost the Brady evidence and moved the court in limine to exclude all consideration of the exculpatory evidence, which the assistant prosecutor on the Bench, Judge Gates, granted, notwithstanding the existence of the same video which had been secured from the State Attorney under subpoena. Then, as had occurred for the previous 42 months, Baker was offered his freedom if he would perjure himself and renounce the truth, and withdraw his habeas action. When the case was continued for another three months, after Baker had already served 42 months (on principal), his resolve collapsed, and he acceded to the 'release-dismissal' demands of the state. If you can imagine it, the state offered to mitigate the 5 year sentence after Baker had served more than 42 months of the sentence. First, Judge Gates said, I will not be bound by the state's offer, and Baker withdrew his offer to renounce the truth (Judge Gates had a hard-on for Baker for violating his house arrest, but not missing a court date). Raft then ex-parte'd the judge (off record) and Judge Gates (the prosecutor from the Bench), said, "whatever you want, Mr. Prosecutor"). Gates then returned Baker to Court accepted a renouncement of the truth whilst knowing that this was a forced release-dismissal situation, and mitigated Baker's sentence to time served.
There was nothing that Dan could have done at that point. Diane knew the truth; she was present when Torres confessed the truth on the day before the habeas hearing. It was Diane who knew of the conspiracy to falsely convict Baker and to deny his constitutional right to access to the courts, and it was she who violated Title 18 U.S.C. s. 1, "Misprision of Felony", in failing to report the perjury of Torres to the appropriate prosecuting authorities. It was for that reason that I would object to any ethical award being give to Diane Cuddihy.
Dan may do a story on this case, again, but right now, I know that he is busy doing a story on a cop-killing in my community where M-14's were used against my elderly neighbor whilst he was naked and totally unarmed. So, please don't fault Dan for not doing a story on every case that comes down the pike.
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