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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee can't remember certifying fraudulent contractor

by KPFA Weekend News/Ann Garrison
On Friday, 02.17.2012, after a jury delivered its verdict in a San Francisco Superior Court trial, Fog City Journal Editor Luke Thomas wrote that the minimal immediate consequences of the jury's verdict "belied the more politically significant accusations made through depositions in the case, that Mayor Ed Lee and former Mayor Willie Brown overrode City staff to give contracts to a fraudulent yet politically connected company, GCSI."
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Former Mayor Willie Brown stood behind his former City Manager Ed Lee at Lee's swearing in as interim mayor in January 2011.  Lee then used the advantage of appointed incumbency to win the 2011 mayoral election, with the backing of Brown, and  San Francisco Congresswoman and Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Senator Dianne Feinstein, and former Mayor, now Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. Last Week Mayor Lee testified, with one of Northern California's best trial lawyers present as his Legal Counsel, that he could not remember approving Government Computer Solutions, Inc. as a city contractor, even though his staff had told him that the company was "fraudulent from the start."
For the transcript of this KPFA Weekend News report, see http://www.anngarrison.com/audio/san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-and-former-mayor-willie-brown-implicated-in-fraud-and-corruption.
For Luke Thomas's article, "Lackluster finish to case that made serious political charges," see http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/02/16/lackluster-finish-case-made-serious-political-charges.
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We have over 20,000 Chinese Nationals, who are not legal to vote, as they are not US Citizens, yet they were Registered illegally, by Rose Pak's Chinatown Organizations, and hundreds of young PRC Students, here in San Francisco on Educational Visa's. This is Racketeering. This is also only part of the Organized Crime that is the Ed Lee Administration. Our new District Attorney acts as if he is in on it. When has he ever prosecuted the Voter Registration Frauds, the Absentee Ballot Voting Frauds, the Election Tampering in the actual Election Rigging and Election Tampering? Why should he? Those votes were votes for him as well. Our now State Attorney General, and DA before Gascon, never saw fit to investigate and prosecute. The corruption is deep. I find it sad that our new DA can't find the time to prosecute the Chinatown Extortion, Money Laundering, and worse! We don't have any Rule of Law. The real crime in that I sketch out here, makes our Sheriffs troubles pale in comparison. Our State Senator Leland Yee told me personally, before the 2001 election was over, that the facts were far worse than I imagined. I don't expect our local Crime Family to prosecute it's self. It's Chinatown. We have no system of checks and balances in San Francisco, unless Citizens resort to the Dan White solution. This is the Wild West! I have often thought we have not had an approximation of a Rule of Law here since Feinstein became Mayor after that last great San Francisco Political Leaders were shot dead in City Hall. The heart sickening prime result of this festering many decades old cancer is now that our City has become the most corrupt City in the whole of the USA, at this time, bar none. I personally filed complaints with the FBI twice, and I visited the US Attorney over all these issues as well. I talked with our past DA Terrence Hallinan do see if he would take a comprehensive Civil R.I.C.O. case into Federal Court and stood before Vincent Hallinan's son as a plaintiff ready to file against this cabal. K.O. is not like his father. We don't have lawyers like Vincent and Melvin Belli any more. Terrance was shocked that I asked! After I carefully laid out the facts and the law that support the causes of action, his comment was "Paul, I am a Democrat for Chirist's sakes!" I told K.O. then and there in his offices, that I am a Democrat also. I am a Real Democrat, not some phony. I remember when Real Democrats like Bobby Kennedy put real criminals in real prison, criminals who were just like the kind we have running San Francisco at this time. Bobby Kennedy did not have the R.I.C.O. Act to use during JFK's Administration. Nixon gave us the RICO Laws as new tools to allow us root out this very sort of political cancer. As I move thru the situations as they are now in our town, I am amazed that no one wants to organize a new Democratic Party. We seriously need to get fresh and good people elected. We need to restore genuine integrity to our City's Operations. The fact of the matter is this will take real people going to real prison. This comment of Ed Lee's that "I really can't recall" reminds me of the question, to Ed Lee: "When did you decide to become a Candidate for Mayor?" Willie Brown should be indicted before he passes on. San Francisco owes that to Mr. Brown. I don't think any one else ever before, has evaded arrest for so many crimes and criminal operations, run for so long, in our State's short history. The Treasure Island fraudulent conveyance of public property for private gain must be the Crown Jewel for Emperor Brown at this point! My intuition is that the Bayview/Hunters Point and Park Merced Developments are only appetizers to the new Manhattan in the Bay, that the Machine plans to build on the California State Property we all know as Treasure Island and Yerba Buena. The local Sunshine Laws, the Brown Act, and more - all serve as component predicate acts, which taken in whole, violate the Federal Racketeering Laws. Any decent Lawyer can read up on these facts. These laws do apply, and should be used now on both the Businesses and Government Officials who run the County of San Francisco. I know from experience that US District Judge Susan Illston would say, "Paul, you need to re-write your complaint." She may be correct, but From my experience, all our courts are corrupt as well. Where is our Patron Saint when we all need one? I have often wondered where are all the good people who really care about this place?
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