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Alameda County DA goons bust into 12 year old girls house to solely to terrify her.

by Steve White (boatbrain [at] aol.com)
Short account of how the Alameda County DA, Tom Orloff, sent his goons into my daughter's house just to terrify her.
There are two previous related articles I have written. Please use the search engine http://www.google.com with the search terms "Martin Nakahara" and "Tom Orloff" to find them.

The gist of it is, Orloff did a cover up, probably coming close to criminal conspiracy, to cover up embezzlement by a friend/political crony crooked local lawyer, then when I found out, and complained about it, he threatened me, and finally spuriously prosecuted me, to shut me up.

After I got out of jail, I immediately started to try to set things right. I don't know exactly what provoked it, but probably my continued attempts to uncover this led them to try to pick me up on more spurious charges.

Anyway, when they failed to find me, they went to the apartment of my daughter and her Mom, and, when she opened the door, they pushed their way in, with guns drawn, claimin they were looking for me to give me some papers.

I do not live there, and there is no doubt in my mind, they did not expect me there. They were solely trying to terrify my kid so that I would back down on the ethics complaints.

The "investigators" involved were Bob Connor and Jay Patel. They had come by earlier, to my daughter's Mom's parents, and her work, again not because they would find me there, but solely to harass her, to embarass her before her boss, and to scare her parents, who are refugess from torture and terror in Communist China.

All this to shut me up because I had a legitimate corruption complaint against Orloff.

There really is no honor or decency in these people. The Alameda County Sheriff's deputies also lie constantly, and we know about the "Riders" in OPD, who were the tip of the iceberg.

Orloff's wrongdoing in covering up the embezzlement was probably criminal, it certainly was a serious ethics violation.

Please contact me for more information.

Thank you

Steve White

boarbrain [at] aol.com
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by Chris
Your tirade and sweeping claims make little sense. Coming as a first person account without any clear factual elements, it is hard to believe this is anything more than someone with a beef against a local official. So, is this something that is systemic or is this a complex personal issue that need not be aired in public at this stage? I am sure there are plenty willing to jump on a bandwagon for a feel-good cause, but my level of scrutiny fails to see how anyone can help in this given that there is "nothing there."
by curious
Please publish the details of this alledged corruption! Tell us what you know, or at least link to a past article.

This is the first time Ive heard of you or your claims. No doubt the first time for many. We dont all read this rag daily, there's too much crap.

-T
by Steve White (boatbrain [at] aol.com)
First, thanks to frequent reader who put the links to my previous articles in the comments section.

I will sort of recap it. DA Tom Orloff, and Presiding Judge Barbara Miller, were both told by me, some time back, about Martin Nakahara, who was former president of the Alameda County Bar Association, and older brother of Judge Vernon Nakahara, practicing law without a license. The reason he had no license, he had been forced to resign by someone whom he embezzled money from. The lawsuit was Carzon v. Nakahara, Alameda County Superior Court. The attorney for Carzon, the victim, was James Paschl, of Oakland.

The story of practicing law without a license made the front page of the local legal paper, the San Francisco Recorder, because Martin Nakahara had been so prominent. I was the reporter's informant on the article. But I informed the reporter, Paul Elias, (he no longer works there, but Scott Graham, the current editor, remembers the story and my part in it) confidentially, which seemed smart at the time, but turned out to be a mistake, because the threats I received were never published, which might have helped to protect me.

Anyway, after I revealed the resignation from the Bar in court, to Judge Barbara Miller, in a hearing, she did nothing about it, (it is not her job as Judge to prosecute anybody, in fact, the only thing she could have done would be contempt citations, and those are not a duty, only a choice she can make, but what she did do, which I was upset with, she allowed Nakahara to "snow" my ex, so that he could keep all the fees she paid him, and make a clean getaway)

Since Miller did nothing about it, I went to Tom Orloff's office, not realizing they were old friends. When Orloff also did nothing, I put out a leaflet complaining about it, and criticized Miller for her inaction, becasue I wanted to push her into at least explaining things to my ex, who is from Japan and really did not "get it".

I was on probation. In response to the leaflet, which was quite inocuous, Miller called my probation officer, and had him threaten me with jail if I put out any more leaflets. Besides being a violation of the Constitution, the Canon of Judicial Ethics, which Miller had just had to study, and swear to uphold, expressly forbids a judge from calling a probation officer. It does not give any exceptions.

Of course, they expected me to be quiet after that, but I was angry, and it had the exact opposite effect. I told the probation guy I would make ethics complaints against Miller.

In response, Judge Miller had a courthouse deputy, Bertolotti, write up a false report that HE had called the probation officer without any prior communication with Miller. In other words, to cover one ethics violation, Miller committed another one.

That Bertolotti wrote up a false report is quite clear, because his report says he called the probation officer, then did not contact Miller until the next day, but when the probation guy called me, and left an answering machine message with the improper threats on it, he had information about me trying to contact MIller which could only have come from Miller.

When I called the probation guy back, he denied Miller had called him, but then "mis spoke" two more times, admitting it was Miller.

So, there was no doubt I was being threatened, completely improperly, for simply reporting a crime, ie, that the guy Martin Nakahara was practicing law without a license. (my ex wife was only one of at least five clients, maybe there were more, that he had after his resignation)

Threatening someone who is talking about a crime, according to one criminal defense lawyer I consulted, has many elements of a criminal conspiracy. In other words, it helps to allow the criminal, in this case the crooked lawyer, to continue the crime. It does not matter that Judge Miller, and DA Orloff, were not getting the proceeds of the crime. The point is, their actions allow the crime to continue.

Although I did not know it at the time, the Probation Dept was then under the control of the DA's office. So, the probation officer, who called me because of Miller's pressure, was really under control of Orloff, in other words, both took part in a criminal conspiracy, by trying to shut me up about the ongoing crime

I don't think either of them wanted the crooked lawyer to continue his illegal practice of law. On the contrary, they were scared to death of it. This is several weeks before the legal newspaper ran it's stories. They were only trying to give him time to cut and run before one of his former clients sued him, and to keep it out of the papers.

But that does not matter. Both Orloff and Miller violated the law to cover up corruption, as they continue to do.

If the story would be covered, in it's entirety, they would have to resign, in fact, this kind of behavior, if proved, which woudl be difficult because the witnesses within their system would mostly lie, would be grounds for disbarment.

That possibility, though it is not likely to happen, is why it is worth it for Orloff to send guys with guns in to terrify my daughter. It was the only way they knew to shut me up, because other types of intimidation had not worked.

I have the files, the tapes of the first improper threats, which also show the Deputy Bertolotti's report is false, and I am trying to get them to someone who will listen to them, but, contrary to what you naive doubter's think, the oversight of these people does not exist.

There is pretense of oversight, but in reality, it does not exist. The Attorney General is charged with investigating complaints against DAs, but his complaint hotline tells you straight out he does not think those complaints are worth bothering with, because the people can vote out any DA they do not like.
In other words, he is simply not going to do his legal duty.

As for Judges, their is the Commission on Judicial Performance, which is supposed to discipline them. That body is a farce. They reject, without investigating, 90% of the complaints made to them. If you look at who really got into trouble, it's almost always someone who became controversial because of politically incorrect actions or statements, OR, someone who became unpopular with his peers.

One judge who got in trouble was most condemned for being very rude, and "reduced the court staff to tears" -- maybe that's bad, but it's nowhere near furthering a criminal conspiracy, but they blew me off, and punished that guy.

The real function of CJP is too keep judges from looking bad in the press, so that other judges will not be respected less.

I am sorry to be so longwinded, but I want to answer your questions very thoroughly, and to explain things that the average person does not know about -- the way the courts really work -- which make the things done to me much more explicable. The famous DA Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson, has something to say about judges:

"Lawyers and Politicians are consistently rated the least trusted of any profession by the public, but when it comes to Judges, who are both, they are respected more than anyone else"

This is true -- by carefully eliminating the loose cannons from their ranks, judges have managed to perpetrate the fraud that they are more than just lawyers who politicked their way into cushy presitgious jobs. It's very much in their interest to keep that misconception alive. The truth is, they can do damn near ANYTHING if they can keep it out of the newspapers, and no one will do anything about it.
by Steve White (boatbrain [at] aol.com)
Thanks for the comments. I made up a web page which gives yet more detail. http://www.alamedacountyda.com

But as of today, July 10, it is also only text. I am learning to add scanned documents, and audio files. The main things which prove my case are the audio files, the tapes of the first hearing, the probation officer's threats, and recent tapes mad of Judge Miller.

Please check my web site after a few weeks go by, I'll have learned how to add the files and documents which prove it all.

You can email me at boatbrain [at] aol.com
by Steve White (boatbrain [at] aol.com)
This web page now has the wav files, playable in Windows from Sound Recorder, to prove first part of my story.

Thanks all

Steve WHIte

boatbrain [at] aol.com
by Steve White (boatbrain [at] aol.com)
I set up a web page on this, http://www.alamedacountyda.com.

As for searching "Google" that does not work. I don't know why, but I was in Google, but now am not. It's a pretty good story I think, they went way over constitutional bounds in this.

Alright, that all for now.

Steve White
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