 Official Website - Help Free Whistle-blower Dr. Richard I. Fine - Judicial Corruption in Los Angeles County MUST End!  ALERT: If you aren't following the "Right Trumps Might" blog, you're missing these recent updates, and quite a lot more: Formal Demand for Grand Jury Investigations Submitted to ProsecutorsWhy Are Los Angeles' Media Executives Censoring Your News? To Protect Crooks?Egads! Gov. Appoints Felon as Calif. Chief Justice!Splat! Humpty Dumpty Knocked Off His Wall! (Update: Stench of Rotten Contents Sickens Victims)Calif. Chief Justice Ronald George Tells BALD-FACED LIE in Bid to Stave Off Forced Resignation Over Bribes to Judges NEW:
NOT SURE WHAT'S GOING ON? Here's the simple background story, and it's the best place to start (updates follow at the end): >>>> Link to "The Best Courts (Your) Money Could Buy" (The bottom line: LA County superior court judges have been caught deciding cases in the County's favor in exchange for being paid illegal "bonuses" of $57,000 per year (in addition to their legal state salaries of $178,000 plus apx. $30,000 in benefits), received from corrupt members of LA County's Board of Supervisors. After they were sued, palms were greased and legislation was secretly passed (Senate Bill SBX2-11) to try to protect them and make it seem as if they had been given retroactive immunity from prosecution ... which consist of (literally!) TEN MILLION FELONIES to date. A former U.S. Dept. of Justice prosecutor, taxpayer-advocate attorney Dr. Richard I. Fine was the first to catch on, and his principled stand has literally cost him everything following his jailing in March 2009 on a trumped up "contempt of court" charge meant to stop his efforts to end corruption. Meanwhile, the farce has escalated to the point that judges are taking over cases in which they themselves are parties (i.e., defendants) and dismissing those cases. Surely this tragedy will end soon, as the dike that has protected the crooks for over 20 years is now springing leaks like mad and there aren't nearly enough fingers to plug all the holes.) BREAKING: "Open Letter from LA County Jail: End the Travesty of Justice" "How To Follow This Story" - Check this link for the easiest way to stay up to speed on this convoluted situation. COMPANION BLOG - Right Trumps Might - a MUST SEE for updates of latest news, commentary, events and evidence discoveries. Check out the FACEBOOK page hosted by a supporter, as well as the new FORUM. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION: Please take a moment to sign the online petition. Help free Dr. Fine from his unjust
imprisonment and return him to his career of helping others. We need thousands more like him.
UPDATES, We've got UPDATES! Follow this link for the latest news, each turn in the tale more mysterious than the last.TEST YOUR LEGAL KNOWLEDGE - The game of "Hurdles" - an obstacle course of all the facts the Ninth Circuit will have to explain away if the plan is to aid and abet judges in continuing to soak the taxpayers. Media: Full Disclosure Network and NBC reports. Outline of Chronology of Events (In progress, events being added as we have time.) Copies of documents filed in court have been scanned and posted at Scribd. Click here. Curious about the evidence? Click here. (In progress, documents being added as we have time.) For the more detailed story, read "The Money Trail" by clicking here (for the lawyer's version) or here (for the simpler version).  NEWS:  June 16, 2009: POPULAR, Inc., a nonprofit good-government advocate and legal reform organization, has selected Richard I. Fine as the sole recipient of its mid-year "Restore Integrity Award" in the Public Sector category. Fine was selected "for being the first attorney to expose the illegality and inherent conflicts of interests spawned by the now-notorious "double benefits" payments from Los Angeles County, California, to the state’s superior court judges, all to Fine’s professional and personal detriment as he was subsequently disbarred and jailed indefinitely on contempt of court charges." (Link) June 20, 2009: Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors trying to slip even MORE $$ MILLIONS to judges? "Full Disclosure Network" discovers obscure Agenda item: "# 7. ... Trial Court Operations shall constitute a single budget unit within the General Fund, with separate cost centers maintained for individual court Districts and Central Court Operations. Authorized to make appropriation adjustments between the above-mentioned cost centers within the Trial Court Operations’ budget unit without any monetary limitation". (Link) See current news on our Press Coverage page at (Link). Oct 27, 2006: "L.A. County Counsel's Office To Be Investigated" - County auditor directed to investigate allegations the LA County Counsel's Office manipulated reports to hide deteriorating litigation and trial results. The unusual request for an investigation into a department head follows the firing of litigation cost manager Robert E. Nagle, who helped cut the county's litigation costs in half in recent years. Nagle has appealed his firing, alleging County Counsel Ray Fortner's office hid information about rising costs, failed to comply with cost-cutting policies and didn't notify supervisors about conflicts of interest... (Link) and (Link) (Nagle later received $450,000 in settlement after suing the County.) "If The People Lead, The Leaders Will Follow"
THANK YOU for visiting this site, established by volunteers as a centralized location through which to inform the public of Richard Fine's plight as protagonist staunchly fighting California's judicial crisis, and to help free him from incarceration to enable him to further pursue his years-long struggle to eliminate the known corruption within the judicial system. Learn about Richard's lengthy and distinguished career history in his Biography & Resume. Please note the links in the left-hand column of this site: There you will find posted copies of all court pleadings which have been filed, and links to press articles and other related documents and information. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
HELP, WON'T YOU PLEASE ?If you are able to make a donation to support continuation of the fight for the return of judicial integrity in California, please click the "Donate" button above to begin PayPal's simple process to forward donations for Richard Fine's "Legal Defense" (for payment of costs such as court filing fees, printing costs, telephone charges, research attorney's fees and the like) and/or for "Survival" (funds to be used to offset the total loss of Mr. Fine's income since incarceration on March 4, 2009). Just designate your intended use. Please see our Oath that all donations will be collected, monitored and spent honestly. If you prefer to donate by check, please make it payable to Eleanor Van Natta and mail to her c/o Fred Sottile at PMB #342, 603-B East University Drive, Carson, CA 90746.NOTE: After you click the above link, you will have the opportunity to specify if you would like your donation limited to any particular purpose. Please note that donations without usage specifications may be used for either or both purposes outlined above.
ALERT: A couple of donors have informed us that their credit cards were declined by PayPal. The problem was relayed to PayPal, who analyzed the account and reported back that all is well with the link. In the meantime, other donors have been successful using PayPal. We have heard that some credit cards' security features prevent them from working with PayPal, but whether that's true or not, we are unable to resolve the problem and can only hope that donors so affected will be willing to donate by check. If you would prefer to donate by check, or are willing to do so in lieu of using PayPal, please email us at the address below and we will return a street address for delivery by the post office.
PLEASE NOTE that, in addition to the need to raise a sufficient amount to cover the filing fees associated with the Supreme Court petition, we are also experiencing a particularly urgent need for donations to cover the costs of Mr. Fine's collect calls to dictate his legal briefs for preparation and filing. (Calls made from Men's Central can only be made as collect calls, and they average about $1 per minute. (Yes, this is a well-documented profit center for the jail. No one's been able to do much of anything about it.)) Financial assistance toward these two expenses (filing fees and collect call charges) would be especially appreciated!
If Mr. Fine is forced to give in, he will have abandoned his right to pursue the issues further ... and justice will most likely have to wait until another time and another generation comes along. After all that Mr. Fine has given to this cause, at CONSIDERABLE personal expense to him and his family, now would be an excellent time for those who've benefited, namely the California taxpayers for whom he's saved almost $1 Billion Dollars, to step forward. Please?
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Complaints have been lodged with the following, not one of whom has taken any action to stop the corruption: Fair Political Practices Commission Commission on Judicial Performance California Attorney General Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Federal Bureau of Investigation Congressmen Brad Sherman, Adam Schiff Amnesty International American Civil Liberties Union President Barack Obama ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Contact Us at FreeRichardFine@gmail.com. We are in regular contact with Richard, and are conveying his messages. Messages for the Support Team and site webmaster should also be sent to this address.
Whistle-blowers with evidence concerning any party involved herein are also encouraged to submit information to the Support Team at FreeRichardFine@gmail.com together with evidence concerning any misdeeds by California judges, L.A. County Supervisors and
County Employees, Sheriff Leroy D. Baca, District Attorney Steve
Cooley, L.A. County Counsel office members and any other elected or appointed government officials. All email and other communications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.
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