----- Original Message -----

From: CT

To: [email protected]

Cc: patrick bellringer

Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:45 PM

Subject: I asked the Lord for guidence and he took me to your post on Fourwinds

 

And the tears are still flowing. I am so touched.

 

This is the third attempt at writing. My Internet Explorer keeps "restarting.'' Might we be a voice together? Thank you, Patrick or posting "I asked the Lord." Your website is connecting like-minded souls.

 

My son has been jailed and he is also innocent. This is also his second time in jail. To get him back in the judge held an ex parte hearing. Since he was not told about this hearing, he was actually kidnapped and taken back to jail. It is a long story. but has ALL the elements you described. The only difference is my son is about to have his first sanity hearing. He was even expected to stand trial in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs. The court lied to his family and friends about the court number. They intended to try him with no one present. All his rights have been violated...even his right to a speedy trial.

 

Most importantly, his second incarceration has led to an awareness before unknown. Many, many of God's children are being wronged by those who have taken oaths to protect us. As a result we are trying to create a VOICE. I wished to send our project to Fourwinds. We do not need money, just the ability to create such an outrage amongst our own people, who have NO CONCEPT of what is happening to innocent and unfortunate human beings in these United States of America.

 

Initially, I hired The Police Complaint Center

(www.policeabuse.com) to investigate. Seriously, they believed me to be nuts. Stuff like this does not happen? Wrong. The second arrest of my son led a small group of us, to the realization that this is not an extraordinary turn of events. Many innocent people are in jail who have been falsely accused. The trouble is it is not by accident. Human beings are being picked up off the streets and from inside their homes, only to make money for those who seek to rule us.

 

One thing led to another. I took complaints over the phone, then was able to open a post office box and send out complaint forms. The job has become 24/7 just from beginning with the private jail, Marion County jail #2 (CCA) in Indianapolis. The Police Complaint Center just recently gone "on line" with a new website dedicated to issues within private jails and prisons. The site is still under construction. (www.inmateabuse.tv) Ms Sourwine has been in touch with a reporter from The Wall Street Journal.

 

I guess I could say we have a voice. We even have a moral lawyer on board. A woman in Oregon is working to expose the TRUTH. Her husband used to be a well known criminal BAR attorney. What we need I suppose is volunteers. My son's story is to be a major feature on the jail website. You might want to tell your own story. There is just too much work.

 

As I said at the start, I asked for guidance from the Lord. My son had asked how much longer I thought this horrific nonsense would continue. We have gone everywhere and done everything. It appears only few really care about this very serious issue. We have actually learned men are being sent to prison AFTER being found not guilty. A young man from  Central America was to be tried last week for car theft. The problem is no car was stolen. My son explained to this young man what he need to say to the judge. His public defender had not come to see him since he was arrested in February.

 

You said:

"Why did you come to earth at this time?"  To be a voice for those who have no voice.  "Could you be that voice if you had not experienced what they had?"  No Lord, but when will I be that voice?  "Soon, my child, soon." 

 

Your words are nearly the exact words I say daily to my son, who felt he had to go back to CCA for a very spiritual reason. Tonight, I read your words to him. He cried with me. The TRUTH must be known. Thank you for being an answer to my prayer tonight. We are taking this one day at a time and the Lord is leading the way. We could not have got this far without Him.

 

I will CC this email to Patrick Bellringer, who has shown me much kindness in the past. I do not have much money and rely also on SS as do Patrick and Anne. I sent them a bit of money today. I wish I could have given more. Hopefully, one day I will be able to assist those who are doing so much to spread the TRUTH...my heroes. You are my latest hero.

 

I like Patick's comment. "NOW" not "soon"

 

Perhaps, you might email me if you can think of a real plan of action. Perhaps together we can come up with a viable plan. When we do, then we can post the PLAN on Fourwinds. Yesterday, I wrote to Leslie Sourwine, the Administrative Services Director for The Police Complaint Center. I asked her for her suggestions. I wanted her input before making anything public. Leslie was in Indianapolis last week to continue her investigation. Leslie is from Iowa. She actually took time and money to come to Indianapolis, after having her own world turned upside own and wet by the Iowa flooding. When she returned home on Sunday last, she was actually homeless.

 

As Patrick would also say...

 

in Love and Light,

 

CT

 

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----- Original Message -----

From: CT

To: patrick bellringer

Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:41 AM

Subject: A TRUE STORY ABOUT A MORAL LAWYER IN INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

 

Dear Patrick,

 

I wish you to inform the world that there is at least one very special and moral ''lawyer'' (I will not call Paul Odgen an attorney) in this nation filled with mostly deceitful and greedy attorneys.

 

The following article was published in the Indianapolis Star, yesterday, on Sunday, June 29, 2008. John Ketzenberger, a reporter for the Star, also showed a lot of courage for writing the article. Stories such as this one entitled, ''Activist Attorney Seeks To Keep City Honest'' serve as proof a ''wind'' of change is blowing across our land. Mr. Ogden is the lawyer who represents my son and four other men in a Federal lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).

 

I would like to point out two points of slight disagreement I have with the article. Perhaps, I am going a bit further, because of information I have or have read.

 

1. The ''discrimination'' mentioned in the suit the nurses have against CCA, encompasses FAR MORE than racial discrimination. The five black nurses were actually very brave and ''blew the whistle'' on illegal practices in CCA. The nurses, from what I know about CCA, are not complaining they were discriminated against because they were black in the 'traditional' sense. CCA makes every attempt to create an atmosphere of RACISM throughout, which taints the entire operation. White is pitted against black, and black against white, and RACISM is used as a tool to create the environment needed by management for their purposes.  CCA management used this tool on the nurses.

 

2. The inmate suit involves much more than simple inmate medical care. It involves intercepting mail and legal mail. CCA staff actually appear to be assisting the prosecution in many cases. The staff has even gone so far as to seize mail from the Federal Court. In addition, staff assist management in thwarting the grievance process, so that a complaint cannot get further than the Administrative level. The inmates are unnecessarily punished for events inside the jail, which did not happen. The guards seem to enjoy creating tension. One woman told my son she gets pleasure from making lives miserable. I ask what questions are asked the prospective employees. 

 

I attach a FAX which I sent to an assistant warden just yesterday. This is but one personal experience I have had with CCA using 'race as a tool.' My son also has told me how a conscientious guard was treated over a guard who might incite trouble. Race can play a part in paying one against another, even though both man be of the same race.

 

Here are a couple examples of the horror these unfortunate men face on a daily basis:

 

A man had an abscessed tooth which was pulled without prior antibiotic treatment. After pulling the tooth, and leaving part of the tooth still in the jaw, the patient was not given followup antibiotics. Antibiotic treatment was started, but stopped due to the reason that CCA did not have the kind of antibiotic needed for tooth infections. Not only did the man not receive treatment for infection, he developed a dry socket in the infected area. CCA REFUSED to give him medication for pain. Any complaints he made were met with threats to throw him in segregation for punishment. What kind of criminal is this? The man is in CCA on a misdemeanor domestic issue.

 

Another case involves a man with a serious thyroid condition. When he was in Marion County Jail I, run by the county, he not only received the drug as prescribed by his doctor, but was given regular blood tests. After his prescription ran out, after he was moved to CCA, the original prescription was substituted with another drug, which made the man ill, but still kept him alive. He had been in CCA for four months and had not ever had a drug test. He was told after the current medication ran out (he had about four days remaining), he would receive nothing more. For this man, this news was a death sentence. Needless to say, the day I leaned of the situation, the man was scared. I contacted Leslie Sourwine of the Police Complaint Center (www.policeabuse.com). By 4 PM that afternoon, the man was called to the medical office for his first drug test and a new prescription for the prescribed medication. Leslie Sourwine gets results. I have no idea of this man's ''crime.'' Let it suffice to say the inmates in CCA are not violent offenders. If one happens to have bought a stolen chainsaw, you end up in CCA. It does not matter if it was known that the chainsaw had been stolen.

 

Here is the Indianapolis Star link for the recent article about Paul Ogden.: The comments, by readers, on the Star website are ''interesting.''

 

Very sincerely,

 

CT

 

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080629/BUSINESS07/806290334&s=a

 

John Ketzenberger

 

Activist lawyer works to keep city honest

 

What's gotten into local attorney Paul Ogden?

 

A Republican and former political candidate, he has the public-private partnerships long championed by power brokers of both parties squarely in his sights.

The 47-year-old associate with Roberts & Bishop isn't well known in the business community, but the effect of his work is being felt through his clients' lawsuits. Among them:

» In March he sued the Capital Improvement Board over plans to turn over proceeds from the auction of RCA Dome memorabilia to the Indiana Sports Corp. and the Indianapolis Colts Foundation. Ogden argued the money should be used to pay down the $75 million debt related to the dome.

 

The CIB last month settled the lawsuit and paid nearly $7,900 to cover attorney's fees. The case ended without settling key questions such as who owns the dome's turf.

 

» Two lawsuits against Corrections Corp. of America relate to the operation and conditions at Marion County Jail II. The first lawsuit, filed in January, alleges racial discrimination against six black nurses. The second, brought in April, raises questions about inmates' medical care.

 

To Ogden, who favors privatization, both lawsuits point up a weakness of such deals -- ineffective oversight of contractors.

So where does this activism come from?

 

"I spent years and years playing the Republican game," Ogden said. "It got me nowhere. I decided at some point to be who I am, to talk straight and do what I think is right."

 

It has won him friends -- and enemies. It's telling that calls to several people weren't returned. Those who did talk wouldn't comment for the record.

 

The activism showed in his previous job. For 10 months beginning in November 2006, Ogden was managing attorney of the Title Insurance Division at the Indiana Department of Insurance. He was a major part of an effort to regulate the state's title insurance business.

 

Ogden claimed he was forced to resign in September after he talked with state personnel officials about alleged wrongdoing by a deputy commissioner. He filed a whistleblowing and wrongful termination lawsuit in February.

 

Commissioner Jim Atterholt said the allegations "are completely without merit," but the lawsuit is going forward.

 

Ogden's next likely target: a 22-year-old deal that made Pan Am Plaza possible. Ogden is asking questions about whether a change to a covenant to maintain a public space was made properly. He is wondering why the city -- and by extension taxpayers -- didn't get paid as part of that transaction.

 

By Ogden's calculations, the city's owed more than $1 million, and he's going after it.

 

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----- Original Message -----

From: Claudia

To: patrick bellringer

Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:02 AM

Subject: A Plan and The Indy Saga Continues:Cops Arrested, Cases Collapse

 

Dear Patrick:

 

Today there is more news.

 

Thank you so much for posting this important and continuing narration on your website. Here is how the "plan'' has currently unfolded. Crime and punishment as a for-profit industry has silently become a pervasive threat to just about every body's freedom. I read recently where several New York police were found to have set up innocent men in a fake drug bust. .In that case, everything was caught on tape, but not before the innocent men had lost their business after being falsely arrested and jailed. Just here in Indy, I know there are 100s falsely arrested and incarcerated. Arrests were based only on police statements. The prosecution actually refuses to turn over ''discovery.'' There is none.

 

The Police Complaint Center is very busy with complaints. Anyone who has a complaint against a police officer should contact the Police Complaint Center.  As a result of the Indianapolis investigation, a  new website is now devoted to Inmate Abuse, and is evolving as I write. The website is currently not quite set up to take complaints; however, until completed, contact should be made through the Police Complaint Center. If a serious situation develops, where help is needed immediately, anyone may email me personally at [email protected]. I will forward the complaint ASAP to Leslie Sourwine. Since the PCC has a post office box in Indianapolis, snail mail can be sent to The Police Complaint Center, Leslie Sourwine, Administrative Services Director, Post Office Box 36875, Indianapolis, Indiana 46236. I check the mail daily.

 

I would like to point out that anyone wishing to connect with conference calls with the PCC website, can do so by visiting the website at www.policeabuse.com. If there is difficulty locating this information, the Executive Director can be contacted through [email protected] Someone will respond with details.

 

 

Please be patient. We are mostly all volunteers. We do his because we care. (Anyone wishing to volunteer, please contact  Police Complaint Center.) All complaints will be addressed; however, the more serious complaints will have priority. Life or health threatening issues will come first. 

 

This is their mission statement:

  

Using available technology, the Police Complaint Center documents and investigates alleged incidents of police abuse.  Our staff are students, researchers, attorneys, former police officers and licensed private investigators. We believe that many police organizations have done a poor job of protecting the public from abusive officers. Our primary service is assisting victims of misconduct with reporting complaints to appropriate enforcement agencies. We also investigate police and sheriffs deputies that are accused of abusive behavior.

 

In the Indianapolis Star today, on the front page, the following related story appeared. The link to the story on the Internet is: (The comments posted are ''interesting'')

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080630/NEWS02/80630068&s=TimeStampDescending&page=2#pluckcomments

 

Drug cases collapse after cops arrested

By Vic Ryckaert and Jon Murray

Posted: June 30, 2008

The arrests of four Indianapolis police officers are forcing the dismissals of more than two dozen pending cases and could bring appellate victories in even more drug crime convictions, prosecutors said Monday.

By today, the Marion County prosecutor’s office expects to have dismissed 20 cases investigated by former narcotics officers Robert Long and Jason Edwards, officials said.

 

These officers were in this court several weeks ago testifying against defendants,” Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said Monday. “Now they are defendants.”

Deputy Prosecutor Lawrence Brodeur, the chief of narcotics and gun cases, said he was evaluating another 12 cases and would consider the effect on even more in coming days.

Long, Edwards and former patrol officer James Davis are accused of stealing cash and marijuana from drug dealers. A sweeping FBI investigation used wiretaps and other surveillance methods to track the three officers committing crimes, according to a federal indictment.

Long, Edwards and Davis were arrested June 16 and are in Marion County Jail while they await trial in U.S. District Court.

Jason Barber, 31, was in Marion County Superior Court today on state charges of selling a handgun to a felon and official misconduct. Barber worked with Long and Edwards in the dangerous drug section but has not been linked to the alleged drug dealer rip-offs. He was arrested at his home Friday.

The arrests have tainted the credibility of the roughly 1,700-member force in the eyes of the public, Brizzi said, even if most are honest. The officers were part of 19 member unit.

 

“It hurts every jury trial that we try over the next several months,” Brizzi said. “We lose credibility. … I can’t elicit testimony from (the arrested officers) after these charges.”

Prosecutors are sorting out the courtroom ramifications. Nearly all of the 20 dismissed cases involved lead charges of drug dealing and possession, according to Marion Superior Court records.

The father of one defendant said Long and Edwards stole $2,000 during a search of his Northside Indianapolis home and planted evidence on his son.

“They tore up my house looking for drugs, and then they took some money out of here,” said Bobby P. Johnson, 51. “I came home, and my house was destroyed.”

Long and Edwards arrested Johnson’s son Bobby D. Johnson, 33, in November at another home on the city’s Far Eastside. A probable cause affidavit doesn’t list his parents’ address, but they insist their home was searched, too.

Johnson faced counts of possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon and possession of marijuana, charges that could have brought at least six years in prison. Prosecutors will dismiss the case after court opens this morning, Brodeur said.

Johnson, whose prior convictions include cocaine dealing and drug possession, long claimed the officers lied when they wrote in a court affidavit used to get the search warrant that they observed him selling drugs to an informant, said Bob Hammerle, his attorney.

“This is horrifying,” Hammerle said. “I don’t want to sit here and represent that my guy was a choir director. … (But) the guys with the badges are the crooks.”

Prosecutors also dismissed charges of possession of cocaine and a firearm against Darnell L. Birdsong, 33, because Long and Edwards had served the search warrant.

Birdsong has said the officers also stole his money and valuables during a search, according to attorney Michael Moore.

“There’s not a lot you can do about it,” said Terrance Tharpe, a firearms prosecutor who handled the Birdsong and Johnson cases. “There’s no point in putting (the officers) on the stand.”

Brizzi, Hammerle and other experts said the arrests could lead to successful appeals for some people already serving prison sentences based on the work of the arrested officers. But exactly how many convictions will be set aside is unclear.

Bill Polansky, the state’s chief deputy public defender in non-capital cases, said the bar is set high for an appeal based on newly discovered evidence such as a tarnished police officer.

“The more important the officer’s testimony is,” he said, “the more likely a conviction will be thrown out.”

Call Star reporter Vic Ryckaert at (317) 444-2761.

 

The four black police officers have likely been "outed'' for their dastardly deeds, because they are black. I realize this is a terrible statement to make. Through the Police Complaint Center, I have become aware of the names of additional officers named in many complaints, who work with the drug/alcohol task force. The officers who came after my son were all white. One arrest was made by a State Trooper in downtown Indianapolis. The trooper at least 60 miles from his POST and was accompanied by a young woman, who was very affectionate. We doubt this Trooper was with his wife or daughter. After the arrest, no police report was recorded in the IMPD computer base. An IMPD officer directed the arrest. His name is Lance Rector. Lance Rector showed up again to arrest my son in November of 2007, after he was called by another IMPD officer, who brutally beat my son.

 

I would like to ask just how and why so many men were jailed and even convicted on lies. If the prosecutors, the public defenders, the private jail, Marion County Jail #2, owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, and the judges were not ''in'' on the corruption, I am certain the system would have exonerated these men long before now. When so many lives are destroyed by only four crooked cops, it is not only the cops who are to blame. Many who know my son, have also fought for his release. In the process, we discovered the cancer which has spread throughout our ''justice system'' because of the profit motive. Crime has not increased, but the number of men and women in jail and prison is out of sight and rising.

 

Has anyone asked why illegal immigration is not a priority and is only given ''lip service'' by our law makers? Why are illegals given Social Security benefits? The answer lies in the fact that in order for the private prison and jail industry to make big money, a Social Security number has to be linked to a real human being...but that is another story.

 

If you wish to learn bit more please check out the long article posted on www.inmateabuse.tv website. This is America? Not the America in which I grew up!

 

[email protected]

 

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----- Original Message -----

From: Claudia

To: patrick bellringer

Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:23 PM

Subject: COP HELD IN PROSTITUTION RING_THE EVIL CONTINUES IN INDIANAPOLIS

 

Dear Patrick,

 

Surprise! Today the following story appeared on the Indianapolis Star website. We have also been trying to expose the prostitution side of the IMPD activities. I fear the Greenwood woman is but one of the sex workers. Notice that the IMPD officer collects the money while wearing his IMPD uniform and the BIG link here is Jerry L. McCory, who worked in the former mayor's office and went to work for the Sheriff. McCory is the liaison between the Sheriff and Marion County Jail II (CCA), courts and community corrections? The Public Safety Director is a BIG job. Whoever holds this position has much authority over all police.

 

Tonight CCA plays head games with my son. They are working on firing the chaplain, who is a really good man and has been telling the men the truth about the corporate structure of the State. He once told them they were fictional entities in a revolving door. CCA closed the ''faith dorm" while keeping the funds allocated to operate it. Now, Internal Affairs is pulling the men in my son's section out, one at a time. They are telling the men that my son is responsible for getting the chaplain into trouble. The chaplain is the ONLY good soul (likely the only human sole) in the building.

 

The prostitution angle is huge. An ex cop runs the business and controls this city. The cop who arrested my son in April was accompanied by a prostitute, who even went into the arrest center. I was shocked when I learned about it, but if a cop collects money from escorts while in uniform, nothing more should surprise anyone. McCory should be charged with more than a misdemeanor.

 

"Indianapolis is likely one of the most corrupt cities in the country." My brother-in-law, a retired Chicago police officer, made that statement.

 

[email protected]

 

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080702/NEWS02/80702068&s=TimeStampDescending&page=2#pluckcomments

 

IMPD officer held in prostitution ring

Star report

Posted: July 2, 2008

 

An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer has been charged in connection with a Greenwood-based prostitution ring allegedly operated by his wife, authorities said today.

Jeremy Lee, 30, is charged with aiding in promoting prostitution, a felony charge punishable by up to eight years in prison, said Johnson County Prosecutor Lance Hamner. His wife, Lori Vernon-Lee, 36, is charged with five felony counts of promoting prostitution...

 

Also arrested in the investigation was Jerry McCory, a high-ranking official in the administration of former Mayor Bart Peterson and now an aide to Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson.

According to court documents, Vernon-Lee operated an illegal escort service from her Greenwood residence.

A news release from the Johnson County Prosecutor's Office identified Lee as an IMPD officer, and described the operation as follows:

“It was alleged that Lori Vernon-Lee recruited women to serve as escorts and then advertised their services in Nuvo Magazine. When “clients” called Lori Vernon-Lee’s escort service, she would arrange for a meeting between the “client” and one of the escorts, according to the affidavit.

“At these meetings, money was exchanged for various sex acts. The escort was then required to pay some of the money collected (usually about half) to Lori Vernon Lee. The probable cause affidavit alleges that Lori Vernon-Lee’s husband, who is an IMPD police officer, would collect money from the escorts while wearing his IMPD uniform.

According to the news release, an IMPD investigation was sent to Hamner’s office earlier this week. Chief Deputy Prosecutor Brad Cooper reviewed the investigation and recommended the charges.

Also arrested in the investigation was Jerry L. McCory, a former public safety advisor to Peterson. He left office at the end of Peterson's term.

McCory, 56, is charged with a misdemeanor count of patronizing a prostitute. After serving as a public-safety adviser to Peterson, he was hired as Anderson's liaison to Marion County Jail II, community corrections, the courts and other agencies earlier this year. He resigned unexpectedly from that job late last week. The job paid an annual salary of $69,800.

Hamner said the investigation is continuing and more charges are expected.