David Leslie Milne
#deadwitness ~ Tim Hogan (Karaoke, Friend, Las Lomas High School)
The Fate of Tim Hogan
Tim was my Karaoke pal while he returned to Walnut Creek
Timothy Hogan
Tim Hogan, 40, of San Diego died April 11, 2010 when his car crashed into a swollen canal in Walnut Creek.
#deadwitness ~ Natalie Nereza (LBGT, Walnut Creek, Suicide)
Natalie Nezera
LGBT Hate Crime
A very tragic incident
Target Employee
A 25-year-old Concord woman apparently leaped to her death onto a Walnut
Creek freeway early Wednesday morning, according to the California Highway
Patrol.
On Thursday, the Contra Costa coroner's office identified the woman as Natalie Nereza.
On her Facebook page, Nereza said she is a transgender who was making the transition from being a man to being a woman. Her hormone therapy began in August 2011.
On Oct. 15, Nereza posted a message saying she was "tired of feeling" like she was an "empty shell" going through one day just to get to the next.
At 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to reports that a body was on the roadway of southbound Interstate 680 near the Highway 24 interchange, said CHP officer John Fransen.
A Sig-alert was issued at 12:34 a.m. blocking all southbound lanes as the crash was investigated. The Sig-alert was lifted and all lanes were reopened at 2:50 a.m.
Authorities say it appears Nereza jumped from the BART train tracks near the Walnut Creek station in an apparent suicide. She was also hit by several cars after landing on the freeway, said Fransen.
On Thursday, the Contra Costa coroner's office identified the woman as Natalie Nereza.
On her Facebook page, Nereza said she is a transgender who was making the transition from being a man to being a woman. Her hormone therapy began in August 2011.
On Oct. 15, Nereza posted a message saying she was "tired of feeling" like she was an "empty shell" going through one day just to get to the next.
At 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to reports that a body was on the roadway of southbound Interstate 680 near the Highway 24 interchange, said CHP officer John Fransen.
A Sig-alert was issued at 12:34 a.m. blocking all southbound lanes as the crash was investigated. The Sig-alert was lifted and all lanes were reopened at 2:50 a.m.
Authorities say it appears Nereza jumped from the BART train tracks near the Walnut Creek station in an apparent suicide. She was also hit by several cars after landing on the freeway, said Fransen.
#deadwitness ~ Emery Strack (relatives)
So tragic so filled with connections to Venture Capital, Private Equity and Banking where others in tech connect via lines you can't see unless you want to sift hundreds of thousands of pages.
Her father is a nephew to my brother, to my high school friends where there are more tragedies that you can imagine.
Most issues boil down to big money in the billions. I can trace my losses to her family to billionaires near me some who beat me out of millions via corruption.
Murder Conspiracy
Murder Conspiracy
Statutues: Conspiracy section 1503, Murder by Arson, 2204, Cyberterrorism
IN THIS ARTICLE
Losses
- Losses
- Insurance Fraud
- Cop in your pocket?
- Public Corruption
- Investment Fraud
Companies
- Prudential Universal
- Alliant
Mentions
- Business Roundtable
- Alliant
The F-250 Arson / Attempted Murder
The Dorothea Leslie Milne Trust ($500,000 or more), managed by Dean Witter Reynolds, now JP Morgan, accounts receivable from AT&T ($40,000), Albert D. Seeno Construction ($25,000), one member of Community Presbytarian Church CPC Deacon in charge of elderly donors (Widow Scrapers and Estate Takers)
Estimated Death Benefit: Over 1.3 Million.
Danville Chief of Police: Chris Wenzel
Employees: Town of Danville, first responders from the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District - Engines from Stone Valley Road SB 680, Engines from Diablo Road NB Direction
Employees and Businesses located in Darby Plaza
Employees and Businesses located in 500 La Gonda Way, location of litigation connected to Attorney Daniel Horowitz, Employees, Managers and directors for the Nearon Corporation.
The Witnesses
c were , The Dorothea Leslie Milne Trust ($500,000 or more), managed by Dean Witter Reynolds, now JP Morgan, accounts receivable from AT&T ($40,000), Albert D. Seeno Construction ($25,000), one member of Community Presbytarian Church CPC Deacon in charge of elderly donors (Widow Scrapers and Estate Takers)
Estimated Death Benefit: Over 1.3 Million.
Employees: Town of Danville, first responders from the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District - Engines from Stone Valley Road SB 680, Engines from Diablo Road NB Direction
Employees and Businesses located in Darby Plaza
Employees and Businesses located in 500 La Gonda Way, location of litigation connected to Attorney Daniel Horowitz, Employees, Managers and directors for the Nearon Corporation.
Premiditated Planning
The Witnesses
Danville Chief of Police: Chris Wenzel
Employees: Town of Danville, first responders from the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District - Engines from Stone Valley Road SB 680, Engines from Diablo Road NB Direction
Employees and Businesses located in Darby Plaza
Employees and Businesses located in 500 La Gonda Way, location of litigation connected to Attorney Daniel Horowitz, Employees, Managers and directors for the Nearon Corporation.
#AE911 #deadwitness The Role of Thermite in the World Trade Center Bombings
| High Temperatures, Persistent Heat & 'Molten Steel' at WTC Site Contradict Official Story |
| News - News Releases By AE911Truth | |
| Written by Richard Gage, AIA, Andrea Dreger & Gregg Roberts | |
| Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:31 | |
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Extremely high temperatures were evident before and during the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and at Ground Zero. Seven minutes before the destruction of the South Tower, a flow of molten metal appeared, accompanied by several smaller flows, as documented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The material’s glowing color showed that its temperature was close to “white hot” at the very beginning of the flow and “yellow-orange” further down. Iron-rich spheres in the WTC dust are additional proof of temperatures above the melting point of iron. Pyroclastic-like, rapidly expanding dust clouds after the destruction of the Towers can also be explained only by the expansion of hot gases.
The high-temperature phenomena at Ground Zero are documented by various sources: Bechtel engineers, responsible for safety at Ground Zero, wrote in the Journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers: “The debris pile at Ground Zero was always tremendously hot. Thermal measurements taken by helicopter each day showed underground temperatures ranging from 400ºF to more than 2,800ºF.” The fact that high-temperature phenomena were an important issue at Ground Zero is underscored by the large number of thermal images acquired: images by SPOT, MTI, AVIRIS/NASA, "Twin Otter"/U.S. Army, and at least 25 images by EarthData, taken between Sept. 16 and Oct. 25. In addition, temperature measurements by helicopter were taken each day, and the firefighters used onsite sensors too. Many witnesses, including rescue personnel and firefighters working on the piles, described the phenomenon of “molten steel.” Terms used in witness statements are, for example, “molten steel,” beams “dripping from molten steel,” “molten steel … like you’re in a foundry. Like lava, from a volcano.” A photograph taken on September 27 by a Ground Zero worker shows an excavating machine lifting debris from the WTC wreckage dripping yellow/orange molten metal. WTC clean-up workers and 9/11 artifacts architect Bart Voorsanger, in the PBS video “Relics from the Rubble,” described what must have been several tons of “fused element[s] of steel ... molten steel and concrete and all of these things …all fused by the heat,” weighing several tons each. These foreign objects came to be known as “meteorites.” The heat at Ground Zero was not only extreme, it was also persistent, as proven not only by witness statements and a photograph by LiRo Group / Engineering of orange-red glowing steel as late as October 21, but also by thermal images taken by NASA and EarthData satellites. The EarthData thermal images also show that the “hot spots” remained at the same locations. The phenomenon did not “move” across the site, like one would expect from fire as it consumes the fuel available in any one location. University of California professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, the first structural engineer given access to the WTC steel at Fresh Kills Landfill notes, “I saw melting of girders at the World Trade Center.” Astaneh also “describes the connections [between supporting columns] as being smoothly warped: ‘If you remember the Salvador Dalí paintings with the clocks that are kind of melted – it’s kind of like that. That could only happen if you get steel yellow hot or white hot – perhaps around 2,000 degrees.’”. Iron workers at the site pointed out that huge columns that were bent into horseshoe shapes - without the flanges showing any cracks or buckling. They cited, "It takes thousands of degrees to bend steel like this". FEMA documents in their Appendix C of its May 2002 WTC Building Performance Assessment Team study, for sample 1, “evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting.” A “sulfur-rich liquid” containing “primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur” “penetrated” into the steel. The extremely high temperatures contradict the official story. Office and hydrocarbon fires burning in open air (~500° to 1,500° F) cannot reach temperatures in the range that iron or structural steel melts (2,700° F). This was even acknowledged by NIST’s Co-Project Leader, John Gross, in the same public talk where he stated regarding the phenomena of molten steel, “I know of absolutely nobody, no eyewitnesses that said so, nobody that’s produced it.” Yet there is abundant proof of the molten metal, which subsequent tests reveal to be iron, in the debris piles. Furthermore, NIST itself performed extensive fire tests to establish the temperatures reached by the WTC office and jet fuel fires. The temperatures established are far below the temperatures required to produce all of the above phenomena – which occurred both before and during the destruction and at Ground Zero. The steel problem was “solved” by NIST by excluding most of the steel from being systematically examined for failure modes and heat excursions. The steel collected by the Port Authority, which has been stored in Hangar 17 at JFK Airport, was not included in the investigation except for 12 pieces. Of the 236 pieces that NIST possessed, many were excluded based on the circular argument that only columns from impact and fire floors were of interest in the investigation. Thus, NIST avoided having to discuss 51 of its 55 core columns. Sample 1 from FEMA’s Appendix C was also excluded. In addition, NIST developed a new method of “visual examination” that it then substituted in place of the systematically used tool. NIST’s “paint cracking” method has the following “advantages”: paint cracks can be produced not only by high temperature excursions, but also by “corrosion”/ “environmental degradation” and by plastic deformation; many columns had no paint left for examination, Moreover, by relying on a method that requires microscopic examination, NIST was able to ignore pieces that were obviously heat-affected but had come from non-fire floors. A contractor’s report that employed common visual examination was “reviewed”: NIST contrasted the contractor’s results with their newly developed method and their fire exposure observations, and by employing again a circular argument. NIST’s steel “examination” shows that its “working hypothesis” was in fact its premise, and that NIST gone to great lengths to maintain this premise. Some want to cite “natural thermite reactions” for the high-temperature phenomena: airplane aluminum must have reacted with rust. This possibility can be ruled out based on the findings of a study that was conducted in 2002 at the Colorado School of Mines for the Minerals Management Service. Officially, the study, whose lead author is a close research associate of T. W. Siewert of NIST, is about thermite-sparking in offshore environments. But due to a very odd study design the question about the feasibility of natural thermite reactions in the WTC is answered too. The authors established the ignition temperatures for rust, dehydrated rust and iron-oxide-based thermite reactions. The necessary temperatures are so high that one can conclude that thermite reactions between airplane aluminum and rust (some rust was on beams according to documents), dehydrated rust (rust dehydrates in fire) or iron oxide (iron oxide was part of the primary paint) were not feasible in the WTC. Also tested was what happens when aluminum impacts rust at very high velocity, so, interestingly, even the possibility that the impacting airplanes caused natural thermite reactions can be ruled out. The overwhelming evidence of these extremely high temperatures, which normal office fires and jet fuel cannot produce, cries out for a new investigation. The hypothesis of explosive controlled demolition must be examined and, if confirmed, followed wherever it leads, so that Americans can know for sure what was the real cause of the catastrophic loss of life at the WTC on 9/11 and the identities of |
An excavating machine at Ground Zero lifts debris dripping with molten metal
#deadwitness ~ James Strickland / BART Track Inspector
Posted: 06/13/2013
This accident stands out because like the recent case he was on the wrong tracks.
BART train kills worker on tracks in Concord
Rachel Gordon, Demian Bulwa and Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writers
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, October 15, 2008
- James Strickland, a track inspector for BART, was struck and killed by a train on October 14, 2008 in Concord, Calif. The train was traveling in the opposite direction than it usually would and hit Strickland from behind. Photo: Strickland Family, Courtesy To The Chronicle
Three agencies are trying to determine why a BART inspector walking on tracks in Concord was fatally struck from behind by a train that normally would have been traveling on the opposite track.
At the time of the accident Tuesday between the Concord and Pleasant Hill stations, BART had assigned trains headed in opposite directions on the San Francisco and Pittsburg/Bay Point lines to a shared track. The regular track for trains headed eastbound was closed for routine maintenance, said BART spokesman Linton Johnson.
The BART inspector, 44-year-old James Richard Strickland of Concord, was walking on the active track when he was hit by a train carrying passengers about 9:30 a.m.
"Under normal circumstances, the train would have been coming at him, not behind him," Johnson said.
"The train operator heard a thud and immediately stopped the train," Johnson said. As is routine, the operator was tested for drugs and alcohol and placed on paid administrative leave while the investigations continue.
The incident is under review by Cal/OSHA, BART police and the California Public Utilities Commission, which has jurisdiction over rail mishaps.
"We've got to find out what was happening, what the procedures are for notifying workers that trains are running in reverse direction," said Dean Fryer, spokesman for Cal/OSHA, the state's workplace-safety agency.
"We also want to look at the train operator," he added. "Were there any problems there? Any obstructed views? Any circumstance where he or she wouldn't notice someone was on the track or near the track?"
Under BART protocol, the operations control center was required to alert the train operators that maintenance crews were in the vicinity. However, dispatchers were not required to alert Strickland and his inspection partner that the trains were running on a single track, Johnson said. Inspectors are responsible for assessing the situation themselves to remain safe, he said.
Johnson said investigators are trying to determine what notifications, if any, went out, when and to whom.
The train that struck the worker - a seven-year veteran of the agency that Johnson described as highly experienced and trained - came from behind. Johnson said it can be hard to hear a train approaching. Trains normally travel at about 70 mph in that zone, Johnson said.
The use of a single track is not unusual for BART but requires that extra precautions be taken to assure the trains heading in opposite directions take turns on the affected segment.
Strickland, a structures inspector, had been working in a two-man team when he was struck as he walked on the track. His partner was about 1,500 feet away on the opposite track. Johnson said the inspection work was routine.
Inspectors look for problems with buildings, track ways and aerial structures. Johnson did not know what specifically brought Strickland to the track segment where he was killed.
Strickland's close friend and co-worker, Tom Tetrault, said it was unlikely that Strickland had erred in being on the track.
"He was the safest person I've ever met. He took everything seriously that had to do with safety," said Tetrault, a BART electronics technician. "The only thing I can think of is that the train was in the wrong place or they told him the wrong information about where to be."
Tetrault said Strickland, a jovial native of Arkansas and Texas, joined BART the day before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - and ended up loving the job, which took him all over the Bay Area and kept him outdoors. He began his career with BART as a transit vehicle mechanic. In December 2006 he was promoted to structures inspector.
Strickland was partial to country music and classic cars and had, with Tetrault's help, been restoring a 1951 GMC pickup for his brother-in-law. He was also devoted to Harley-Davidsons; in August he and another friend had ridden through Canada and Sturgis, S.D., home of one of the world's largest motorcycle rallies.
Strickland leaves behind his wife of two years, Linda Strickland, and his 18-year-old son from an earlier marriage, J.T. Strickland. Friends and relatives gathered at Strickland's home Tuesday to grieve.
"I'm really startled about it," said Tetrault. "He was an amazing man. He will be very much missed."
The last time a BART worker was fatally struck by a train was on Jan. 12, 2001. Four other BART workers have been killed since the system began service 36 years ago.
Tuesday's accident happened near the intersection of Minert Road and Chateau Court, between the Concord station and BART's Concord maintenance yard, where the BART tracks are straight and at ground level between barbed-wire fences.
The accident forced BART to shut down service for more than three hours.
The "Lord's Avenger" is a Mormon in Bennett vs. Southern Pacific linked to Philip Anschutz and his friends
The "Lord's Avenger"[edit]
Just five days after the bombing, on May 29, while Bari was still in hospital, Mike Geniella of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat received a letter claiming responsibility for placing the bomb in Bari's car and at the Cloverdale mill. It was written in an ornate, biblical style with heavily misogynistic language and signed "The Lord's Avenger,"[36] stating further that the letter writer's motivation was outrage at Bari's offense against his religious sensibilities during an anti-abortion protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ukiah, California in December 1988. The letter also described the construction of the two bombs in great detail. The bomb in the Cloverdale sawmill included a pipe bomb and a can of gasoline, but it failed to ignite and did no damage. The other bomb was in Bari's vehicle.[37] The letter focused suspicion on Bill Staley, a former professional football player and self-styled preacher who had been at the demonstration. Staley was eventually cleared of suspicion in the bombing. The detailed description of the bombs tied the letter's author to the construction of the bomb, however, the author's explanation of when and where the bomb was placed in Bari's car was found to be implausible. The author claimed to have placed the bomb during an event when Bari's car was parked on a busy street and the location of which was not widely disseminated. The author claimed an implausible malfunction of the timing mechanism to explain the delay between the claimed time of bomb placement and its detonation. It was decided among both supporters and detractors of Bari's favored theory of the bombing that the letter was sent by the bomb builder in an effort to divert attention to Staley.[19][16]
#deadwitness The Unnoticed United Flight 95 Itinerary of Todd Beamer
In 1975 Pete Bennett resided in Cape Coral Florida on SW Triton Court. Several miles away was Chiquita Blvd. Today some 45 years later Bennett unraveled the connection between the 1975 murders of his friends local friends leading all the way to 9/11 where a computer worm called NIMDA arrived on the same day at the weaponized Anthrax letter arrived on 9/18/2001.
Bennett was contacted to SBCGlobal (AT&T) delivered the payload. No one believes him but Bennett did what every citizen should do - he called the FBI and yes they came to his Danville residence.
Larry Ellison
Age: 75
Hometown: Ather, CA
Occupation: Foudner, Oracle Corporation
Reason for travel: Nope: Watching WTC 1 and 2 Attacks on big screen
Todd M. Beamer, 32, an account manager for Oracle, a computer software company, left his Cranberry, New Jersey home on September 11 for a one-day business trip to San Francisco. Beamer was raised in the Chicago area and graduated from Wheaton College and earned an MBA from DePaul University. Caught up in the hijacking of Flight 93, Beamer tried to reach his wife by Airfone. When the call was not connected, Beamer dialed "0" and reached an Airfone customer service representative who says that Beamer calmly provided critical information about events on the plane and relayed messages for his pregnant wife and two children. At Beamer's request, the representative joined him in praying the Lord's Prayer. At the end of his call, she says she heard him say to others on the plane, "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."
Hometown: Ather, CA
Occupation: Foudner, Oracle Corporation
Reason for travel: Nope: Watching WTC 1 and 2 Attacks on big screen
Todd M. Beamer, 32, an account manager for Oracle, a computer software company, left his Cranberry, New Jersey home on September 11 for a one-day business trip to San Francisco. Beamer was raised in the Chicago area and graduated from Wheaton College and earned an MBA from DePaul University. Caught up in the hijacking of Flight 93, Beamer tried to reach his wife by Airfone. When the call was not connected, Beamer dialed "0" and reached an Airfone customer service representative who says that Beamer calmly provided critical information about events on the plane and relayed messages for his pregnant wife and two children. At Beamer's request, the representative joined him in praying the Lord's Prayer. At the end of his call, she says she heard him say to others on the plane, "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."
Age: 32
Hometown: Cranbury, NJ
Occupation: Account Manager, Oracle Corporation
Reason for travel: business
Todd M. Beamer, 32, an account manager for Oracle, a computer software company, left his Cranberry, New Jersey home on September 11 for a one-day business trip to San Francisco. Beamer was raised in the Chicago area and graduated from Wheaton College and earned an MBA from DePaul University. Caught up in the hijacking of Flight 93, Beamer tried to reach his wife by Airfone. When the call was not connected, Beamer dialed "0" and reached an Airfone customer service representative who says that Beamer calmly provided critical information about events on the plane and relayed messages for his pregnant wife and two children. At Beamer's request, the representative joined him in praying the Lord's Prayer. At the end of his call, she says she heard him say to others on the plane, "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."
Hometown: Cranbury, NJ
Occupation: Account Manager, Oracle Corporation
Reason for travel: business
Todd M. Beamer, 32, an account manager for Oracle, a computer software company, left his Cranberry, New Jersey home on September 11 for a one-day business trip to San Francisco. Beamer was raised in the Chicago area and graduated from Wheaton College and earned an MBA from DePaul University. Caught up in the hijacking of Flight 93, Beamer tried to reach his wife by Airfone. When the call was not connected, Beamer dialed "0" and reached an Airfone customer service representative who says that Beamer calmly provided critical information about events on the plane and relayed messages for his pregnant wife and two children. At Beamer's request, the representative joined him in praying the Lord's Prayer. At the end of his call, she says she heard him say to others on the plane, "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."
Ending Homelessness Act ~ Harris, Murray, Hirono, Gillibrand Announce Comprehensive Legislation to End Homelessness
Homelessness
#Homelessness, #bayareahomeless.com
October 03, 2019
Harris, Murray, Hirono, Gillibrand Announce Comprehensive Legislation to End Homelessness
Sens. Harris, Murray, Hirono, Gillibrand, and Rep. Waters’ legislation makes landmark investments to confront homelessness
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), along with Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), on Thursday announced the Ending Homelessness Act, a comprehensive plan to confront homelessness in our country. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced the Ending Homelessness Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation passed the House Financial Services Committee in March and is expected to reach the House floor.
“Housing is a human right – yet too many people don’t have a safe place to call home. We must act quickly to tackle our country’s homelessness crisis head on with serious investments in programs that get at the root causes of this issue,” said Sen. Harris. “This is our best chance to make a difference and put roofs over people’s heads. The Ending Homelessness Act has already passed out of committee and is likely headed to the House floor soon. The women and men who woke up this morning on a bench or under an overpass cannot afford to wait. I’m proud to work with Congresswoman Waters, Senator Murray, Senator Hirono, and Senator Gillibrand to help make homelessness a thing of the past, both in California and around the country.
“The Ending Homelessness Act is a bold and crucial step forward in our work to help the people and families across our nation who struggle with homelessness,” said Sen. Murray. “As a voice for Washington state in the Senate, I’m proud to support this bill, which would empower local communities to provide affordable housing for their most vulnerable residents, and I will continue fighting to ensure every family in Washington state and across the country has access to a safe, stable, and secure home.”
“Across Hawaii and our country, we continue to face a pervasive housing and homelessness crisis, and yet this administration continues to take steps that make it more difficult for families to access safe, affordable homes," said Sen. Hirono. “The Ending Homelessness Act will provide significant investments in a number of critical programs to expand our nation’s affordable housing stock as well as tackle the circumstances that lead to vulnerable populations experiencing homelessness.”
“No one should ever be without a place to call home, but in the United States we are seeing far too many families facing homelessness. Congress should be doing more to stop this crisis,” said Sen. Gillibrand. “The Ending Homelessness Act would help end chronic homelessness by funding housing organizations across the country that provide critical services to people who don’t have access to affordable housing. Safe and reliable housing is absolutely essential for the health of our communities. I am proud to introduce this legislation with Senator Harris, Senator Murray, Senator Hirono, and Congresswoman Waters, and I urge my colleagues to join us in supporting this bill.”
“In the richest country in the world, it is simply unacceptable that we have people living in the streets,” said Chairwoman Waters. “Today, there are over a half million people experiencing homelessness nationwide. Nearly 160,000 of them are children and nearly 38,000 are veterans who we have failed to support after their service to our nation.
“In Los Angeles County, there are over 50,000 people experiencing homelessness, nearly 5,000 of whom are children, and over 3,800 of whom are veterans.
Chairwoman Waters continued, “As Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, I have made it a top priority to focus on this crisis. That is why I have introduced the Ending Homelessness Act of 2019, which would provide $13.27 billion in new funding over five years to federal programs and initiatives to prevent homelessness.
“It is time for Congress to step up and provide the resources and funding necessary to address this important issue and I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress to ensure that every American has a safe, affordable place to call home.”
The Ending Homelessness Act will appropriate billions in mandatory emergency relief funding over five years to critical federal housing programs, including construction of new affordable housing units, and support the improved coordination between supportive housing and health care initiatives. This legislation will lead to the construction of 410,000 new affordable housing units.
Specifically, the Ending Homelessness Act includes the following:
- $5 billion over five years for McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants to fund an additional 85,000 new permanent supportive housing units, which should effectively eliminate chronic homelessness across America.
- Uses a revised funding formula to ensure that resources are distributed accurately to communities based on need.
- Funds may also be used for any eligible activities under McKinney-Vento, including transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and emergency shelters.
- $2.5 billion over five years for new Special Purpose Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers to fund approximately 300,000 additional housing vouchers and gives preference to people experiencing homelessness or those who are at risk of experiencing homelessness.
- $5 billion over five years in mandatory annual appropriations for the National Housing Trust Fund to create 25,000 new rental units that are affordable to extremely low-income households, with a priority for housing for people who are experiencing homelessness, in the first five years.
- $500 million over five years for outreach funding to state and local jurisdictions on competitive basis to provide case management and social services for people who are experiencing homelessness, or formerly experienced homelessness.
- $20 million for states and localities to integrate healthcare and housing initiatives to fund technical assistance for state and local governments to help coordinate their supportive housing and health care initiatives that are funded by federal programs.
This bill is supported by a variety of housing, veterans, and mental health organizations, including: the Center for Supportive Housing, Community Solutions, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, Drug Policy Alliance, Leading Age, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Alliance to End Homelessness, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, National Housing Conference, National Housing Law Project, National Housing Trust, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, National Low Income Housing Coalition, National Rural Housing Coalition, PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), Public Housing Authority Directors Association, Stewards for Affordable Housing for the Future, and TELACU Residential Management.
“NHLP is grateful to Senator Harris for her work to end homelessness,” said Shamus Roller, Executive Director of the National Housing Law Project. “In a decade, HUD demonstrated that with federal funds for evidence-based practice, significant progress is possible. Providers have stretched McKinney-Vento grant funding to reduce national homelessness by 15% since 2007. Senator Harris' bill would fully fund this program and make important improvements to bring an end to U.S. homelessness within 5 years.”
Text of the legislation can be found here.
A fact sheet on the bill can be found here.
#deadwitness ~ John Kelly former Bart Police Officer and County Employee a dubious suicide
#deadwitness - 2008-Candidate for Office Eric Nunn perishes in Las Vegas Crash
The Nunn Campaign ends as Election Fraud
Pete Bennett attempted to meet with candidate for office Eric Nunn but someone in Contra Costa wasn't interested in his survival.
#deadwitness - Craig Wilson Bart officer killed with Eric Nunn during fatal flight out of Los Angeles
Eric Nunn
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Candidate for Office Erik Nunn perished on fatal flight June 2008 for human loss of four souls. Mr. Nunn was communicating with Jobs Activist Pete Bennett regarding decades of incidents, accidents and hate crimes. On board was his wife Tanya, BART Officer Craig Wilson his wife was flight attendant. This fatal flight is another good example of California Election Fraud
The Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce
The CNET Officers and Co-Conspirators - The Impossible Sequence
Catalina, Paul, Felix, Eustacio, Elizabeth, Jineva, Grieg, Fuchs, Robbie Smith, Beat the Black WomanThe Bucket List of Liars, Thieves and Traitors
A panalopy of public officials swore to the Oath of Office but forgot what they said
Commander George Driscoll
Older brother/uncle of murder victims Alicia Driscoll and Jineva (5), served under General Pretraous, 30 years serving with the Navy NCIS
Commmander Norman Wielsch
Older brother/uncle of murder victims Alicia Driscoll and Jineva (5), served under General Pretraous, 30 years serving with the Navy NCIS
PI/Former Cop Chris Butler
Arrested in Februarty 2011 was the same PI in Bennett's residence in September 2004 after Bennett endured a brutal attak by Danville Building Inspector Gary Vinson Collins.
Stephen Tanabe
Resides in Danville living is house owned by Peterson Family Trust. The trust is controlled by Pacific Energy Development via President Michael Peterson brother of DA Mark Peterson charged and convicted of perjury in 2017.
Ashley Brennan
Appeared in CBS 48 Hours in Soccer Moms Confidential with Butler, Wielsch and the PI Moms. Later she appears working at Lift Lounge on Locust Street where she revealed whe was friends with Chuck Silverman killed on Pleasant Hill Road
FBI Agent Frank Doyle Jr.
Benny Chetcuti Jr.
This person is one of several links between San Bruno and Walnut Creek. I've traced Chetcuti's business scams to Daly City, San Bruno, the East Bay, and beyond. Unfortunately there is old crowd from Bing Crosby's in the local real estate/mortgage/banker/developers who are interwoven. There are many designs, overlapping designs with circles that look like the old Amway meetings from the 70s. One particular real estate deal links Benny to
The Bing Lapus/ Benny Chetcuti / Roozzee real estate transaction connection is the main reason Lafayette Chief Christiansen refused to investigate my 2011 Hit and Run likely connected to the PG&E Laptop theft that I'm going to say is one of the worst domestic terrorism incidents in the country. It's likely the maps were used to take out the Metcalf Station Attack.
Stephen Tanabe
Lived down the street from me in Danville. Prime suspect in blowing up my truck but arson is a tool Law Enforcement uses in Contra Costa County to solve problems.It was attempted murder, it was premeditated, planned and likely connected to Alamo 1st Mormons, my ex-wife and the Danville Police.
Gary Vinson Collins
The core suspect in the Bennett/Collins/Danville Incident where Mr. Collins was allowed to beat a resident (300# to 160#) and try to kill said resident and was allowed to leave.
Sounds like a Hobbs Act Violation to me.
Louis Lombardi
This officer worked for San Ramon Police under Sheriff's department contract but Lombardi pulled me over on Green Valley Road, used his weapon as pulling his weapon then along with Danville Officers Tierney, Paul Murphy and Mike Ireland ran a full blown campaign of tickets that were further enforced when Judge Joel Golub added over time became $17,000 in fines that's keep me driving.Tim Schultz (Captain)
Decided to falsely accuse Bennett of assault and battery on a City Employee in August 2012 the City Employees who later attacked Bennett at Panera Bread were OK to attack this resident as like all other Walnut Creek police investigations it's OK to beat residents when you belong to the UNION and covered by the Municipal Pooling AuthorityEric Bergen (PPD)
Convicted of murdering my friend Cynthia Kempf in 1988 during a failed takeover robbery.George Elsie
Convicted of murdering my friend Cynthia Kempf in 1988 during a failed takeover robbery at the Pittsburg CA Railroad Ave SafewayPaul Murphy
Creator of faked police reports which preceded the deadly Kinder Morgan Explosion in 2004 which is probably connected to Gary Vinson Collins who like many Cotra Costa Witnesses ends up dead.Greg Thompson
Liked to drink at Dallimonte's bar - tried to attack me at the Martinez B of A stating he was going to drop me but he wasn't too happy when I verbally blasted him about his connections to CNET. Just another retiree from Walnut Creek beating on residents. Mr. Fish is actually a Walnut Creek Police officer that used to drink with Oberhoffer, Peter Branagh's personal secretary and that's where Randall Wanser hung out as well. It's in the neighborhood, the building is owned by one of Seeno's friends and that's why I got such a good deal. It was too good to be true but in 2010 vacancy rates were high.
Mary Nolan
San Ramon Attorney convicted of tax evasion and conspiracy. She is not the only attorney to use Butler but currently is only attorney convicted and then disbarred.Joel Bryden
Former Chief of Walnut Creek Police who o November 2nd 2011 was given documents/information regarding attorney Merritt Wiesinger, CNET and Danville Officers plus was fully informed of Bennett's FBI status, was one of several persons connected to CNET right around the time the FBI arrested Wielsch and Butler in 2011. One conversation occured July 6th 2011, I was arrested the next day, then my PG&E laptop was breached, then my car was totaled in Lafayette CA by a police officer from San Francisco with connections to Hugh Smith (PG&E contractor) and Walnut Creek Police officers.Mike Chan (Sgt)
Worked with Captain TIm Shultz who decided Bennett attacked a city worker. This allegation emerged a week after Bennett's car was totaled by a police officers connected to Walnut Creek, San Francisco, Pleasant Hill with cover provided by Lafayette PoliceIllegal Acts?
Good Question writ of mandate (mandamus) n. a court order to a government agency, including another court, to follow the law by correcting its prior actions or ceasing illegal acts.
Qwest's troubles attract law firm
https://www.houseofrussell.com/vita/DBJQwest.htm
EXCLUSIVE REPORTS
From the August 9, 2002 print edition
Qwest's troubles attract law firms
Attorneys sign on to defend Anschutz, board
Amy Bryer
Denver Business Journal
Qwest's legal woes with shareholders and the criminal and civil probes of its operations and accounting by the federal government have been a bonanza for law firms in Denver and throughout the country.
Some of Denver's most prominent civil and criminal attorneys — many of them with extensive criminal defense experience — have been hired to represent the interests of Qwest's board members, former executives and majority owner and founder Phil Anschutz.
That's in addition to the company's in-house legal staff and law firms that have had longtime relationships with Qwest and U S West, which Qwest Communications International Inc. acquired in 2000.
Information gathered from interviews with regulators and attorneys connected in some way to the Denver company's legal worries suggest that at least seven different law firms are on the Qwest payroll in some way.
Among the players are Los Angeles-based O'Melveny and Myers; Denver-based law firms Haddon, Morgan & Foreman; Sherman & Howard; Holme Roberts & Owen; and Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons; and Washington, D.C.-based firms Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
Although legal experts caution against drawing any conclusions from the costly "lawyering up" going on with Qwest, it does raises a question: Why would the interests of the company and individual board members or executives be different?
"Each should have their own attorney," said Carr Conway, a former Securities and Exchange Commission investigator and investigative accountant for Dickerson Financial Investigation Group. "In my experience, the board may not know all that has been done. It's against legal ethics. It's like one lawyer representing both parties in a divorce."
"You can't infer anything, the fact that different parties involved in this dispute each have separate attorneys," said Tom Russell, a University of Denver law professor. "They are just showing the appropriate level of caution."
It will be costly, however. The law firms and individual lawyers involved are among the highest priced locally.
It's been widely reported the federal government is looking for insider witnesses to help with the prosecution. That would mean more lawyers to broker testimony deals and negotiate immunity from prosecution.
As a regulated Baby Bell telephone company, Qwest has an internal team of lawyers, but it hasn't been enough to keep up with the workload provided by the lawsuits and federal investigations that have beset the company in the last year as its stock plummeted.
e defendant in more than a dozen shareholder lawsuits, is being investigated by the SEC and is thesubject of a criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Neither agency has released details of the inquiries, but it is believed the U.S. Attorney's investigation shadows the SEC's probe into Qwest's accounting practices and executives' financial benefits from stock sales.
Since Qwest's inception, Anschutz has profited by nearly $2 billion from the sale of Qwest stock sales and Nacchio has garnered about $250 million, according to financial reports.
Nacchio was asked to resign as CEO by Qwest's board of directors in June.
Some of the more notable law firms, like Los Angeles-based O'Melveny and Myers representing Qwest in the SEC investigation, come with impressive pedigrees and premium fees. Along with a bevy of former federal prosecutors, O'Melveny's ranks include former President Bill Clinton's former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
James Lyons of Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons was retained by the Qwest board as independent counsel to represent its interests in the numerous inquiries. Lyons is one of the city's most prominent trial lawyers and was nominated by Clinton for a federal appeals court judgeship. The nomination was scuttled by Republican Sen. Wayne Allard.
Lyons declined comment.
Washington, D.C.-based Boies, Schiller & Flexner is defending Qwest in several shareholders suits and is advising Qwest in the SEC inquiry and the congressional committee hearings. The firm specializes in securities, antitrust and trial work and has defended big names like Napster and Microsoft. Washington, D.C.-based Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering also is representing Qwest in the SEC investigation.
David Boies was counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in an effort to recover losses in the savings and loan scandal in 1991 to 1993. He served as counsel for the Department of Justice in the Microsoft antitrust case and was lead counsel for Vice President Al Gore in connection with the 2000 presidential voting scandal in Florida.
Both Washington firms are working with Terry Gill, of Denver-based Sherman & Howard, on the SEC investigations. Gill also is representing Qwest, Anschutz, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio and former chief financial officer Robin Szeliga in a shareholder lawsuit and in the SEC inquiries, according to court documents.
A recent shareholder suit against Qwest, which Gill is defending, was filed in Boulder District Court June 27, and moved to the U.S. District Court for Colorado July 31 and combined with 11 other shareholder suits. Like the others, this suit accuses Qwest of securities fraud by using false and misleading statements and "accounting trickery" to inflate the value of its stock.
Hal Haddon of Denver-based Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, is a recent addition to the defense line-up for the SEC investigation, which government sources say has enlisted about a half-dozen prosecuting attorneys. Haddon's firm was retained by Patsy Ramsey in the investigation into her daughter JonBenet's murder.
Confirming which law firms are involved in the various Qwest legal battles wasn't easy. None of the law firms wanted to talk about it — at least on the record.
For example, Denver-based Holme, Roberts & Owen — which recently issued a press release about how it advised Anschutz on an entertainment deal in London — was uncharacteristically tight-lipped about having any connection with the Qwest cases.
"It's our policy not to discuss who we're representing as clients," HRO spokeswoman Jackie Sweeney Sarlo said.
When pressed about apparent inconsistencies in that policy, Sarlo said: "Well, that's our policy today."
The 1940 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON COOPERATION WITH SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
SEC Historical Museum
MINUTES OF MEETING SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON COOPERATION WITH SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION January 3, 1941
This ancient meeting in New York is one many SEC Documents where David L. Milne of Patterson, Teele & Dennis audited or prepared findings the Securities and Exchanges Commision.
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DA Mark Peterson convicted of Perjury in 2017 operated the offices of the District Attorney more akin to the mobsters of Contra Costa County and beyond
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