June 30, 2004

Judge Jack Billings
Lane County Court House
125 E. 8th St.
Eugene, Ore. 97401

Judge Billings,

I am attaching a copy of the June 7, 2004 letter that I hand-delivered to Deschutes County Sheriff Less Stiles. The letter summarizes the unprecedented abuse I have been subjected to by the Oregon Judicial system for exposing the wide-spread corruption in the Oregon Judicial system. You will note in the fourth paragraph of the letter I state: “I have either studied or practiced law for over 40 years. In all of the cases I have been involved in over the past l61/2 years the problem is always the same. No matter how outrageous the act of theft by either attorneys or bureaucrats in stealing innocent peoples children, lands or other property the judges attack the victim and protect the thieves by dismissing the victims complaint on one pretense or another or arresting and jailing the victim for contempt, as in my case, for insisting on speaking the truth about that corruption in court.”.

To date simply for insisting on testifying truthfully in court, under oath and on the record about this shameless criminal conduct by a group of treacherous, thieving bureaucrats, attorneys, some judges,-in stealing innocent peoples property in “sham” often times “star chamber” type proceedings I have been arrested 19 times. Several of those arrest were violent and carried out in open court. In Judge Abraham’s court in May of l992 I was violently arrested and choked to the ground by 5 Multnomah County Sheriff Deputies, and my then 82 year old mother Frances Weidner was roughed up coming to my assistance, in front of 40 shocked supporters, when I attempted to speak in court on the record about the fact that I had been subpoenaed by attorney Milton Brown to appear in a Multnomah County courtroom. At the time of my arrest I was attempting to appear in Multnomah County Presiding Court to make a record of the fact that Brown’s longtime friend Judge Ellis had ordered me to stay out of the courthouse. In essence I was subject to being arrested if I either entered or refused to enter the courthouse. I felt a trap was being set, possibly to take my life, because of my on-going efforts to expose, in court, on the record, the criminal conduct of attorneys Milton Brown, Norman Lindstedt, Michael Gentry and others and judges Lee Johnson, Donald Londer, James Ellis, and others, all involved in the theft of the now 100 million dollar Kettleburg estate.

To date for insisting on speaking in court on the record about this most dangerous and scandalous behavior, something I have an absolute right to do, I have been forced to serve, on contempt charges,-290 days in jail ( 30 of those days in solitary confinement and 70 days in the Maxim security unit of the Oregon State Mental Hospital in Salem Oregon, on orders of Judge Dorothy Baker, where I was subjected to a forced blood draw, while being forcibly restrained by four large male orderlies, and other forced medical testing and examinations while shackled hand and foot. The groundless and politically motivated contempt convictions were vindictively imposed on me by Judges James Ellis and Dorothy Baker for exposing their corrupt behavior in covering up the Kettleberg estate theft.

By and large Judge Billings, your behavior toward Patricia Wishon, her son Jason Wheeler and I, and our supporters, in your courtroom on June 23, 2004 parallels, in many ways, the corrupt and abusive behavior I have been subjected to by other Oregon Circuit Court judges I have, in the past, confronted in open court in an attempt to stop the theft of innocent peoples children, lands and other property.

As a former attorney and public prosecutor, I ran the Consummer Protection Department in the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office in l974-75, and as the 1998 Oregon Reform Party candidate for Governor and as a concerned and outraged citizen in this community, I have been engaged full time for the past l61/2 years fighting the corruption in the Oregon court system. I allong with thousands of other outraged citizens are determined to stop the judicial theft (disgracefully carried on in the name of the People of the State of Oregon) of innocent peoples children, lands and other property in “sham” often “star chamber” type proceedings where the outcome is a foregone conclusion, where the victim always looses.

Before you allowed me to speak in your courtroom you went out of your way to warn, in a threatening manner, that you would not tolerate any outward display of emotions from the supporters present. Since attorney Ingram had no supporters present the threat was made to the victims (Wishon and Wheeler) supporters. You took great pains to point out, in a disparaging and condescending way how inartful the pleadings of the victims had been prepared. You appeared at many times during the hearing to be acting as if you were the attorney for Ingram. Prompting him, in an accommodating way, as he put on all his fabricated evidence suggesting his client Hasse, rather than Wishon was the victim of a conspiracy.. At the same time you harshly and wrongfully told Wishon and Wheeler that their names appearing on the answer, which I signed with their power of attorney was not valid.

You apparently found out from prior proceedings that I make it a practice to swear myself in so whatever I say in court is sworn courtroom testimony. In a somewhat nervous and agitated tone you took the unprecedented step of attempting to block my giving sworn courtroom testimony by telling me you did not want me to swear myself to tell the truth while speaking in your courtroom. Your overall demeanor, toward Wishon and Wheeler and I, and our supporters, during the entire hearing could best be described as disparaging, condescending, rude and abrupt.

What was shocking to me and the other supporters present was your contentious attitude toward Wishon, Wheeler and I and your very accomodating treatment of Ingram who I have repeatedly condemned publicly and in court about his corrupt and fraudulent behavior in not only conspiring to steal Wishon property but also property in Christmas Valley, Oregon belonging to Ole Turnbow. Why your courtroom behavior was so shocking to me was that you said from the bench you had read all the pleadings and exhibits filed in this case. In the those pleadings and exhibits, we the defendants, detail the on-going fraud and corruption of attorneys Ingram, Hasse, Albertazzi and Hasse’s boyfriend Torres in attempting to convert $l50.000.00 in real property that belongs to Patricia Whison, Jamie and Jason Wheeler and now myself. The exhibits also include an affidavit of former Lakeview police officer Hank Albertson describing the same criminal conduct of Ingram in other cases following the same modus operandi he is following in the instant case, namely suing anyone who attempts to help any of his many victims. The exhibits also include the affidavit of US-OREGON OBSERVER investigator Ed Snook detailing his in depth investigation of Ingram confirming his fraudulent and corrupt behavior in stealing innocent peoples property. Neither you Judge Billings or Claude Ingram challenged in court the truthfulness of any of the charges of fraud and corruption leveled against Ingram and the others in those pleadings and exhibits.

Nor did you Judge Billings, or Ingram, who was sitting at the counsel table with a sick look on his face while I spoke, question my courtroom testimony where I again publicly condemned him, for the fifth time in court, on the record, on the witness stand, for his vile, treacherous shameless thievery in stealing not only the Wishon property but also the Turnbow property with the aid of other corrupt attorneys and judges. Not only have I repeatedly publicly condemned Ingram for his despicable behavior I privately again condemned him for his shameless thievery in the mens restroom before the hearing and he said nothing.

Nor did you Judge Billings question the truthfulness of Patricia Wishon when she stood at the counsel table in your courtroom and described how her attorney Albertazzi conspired against her to aid Hasse and Torres, in stealing her property, and continued to represent her on the case after she had fired him for his treachery. Nor did you Judge Billings question the truthfulness of Jason Wheeler when he stood and with controlled outrage said; “what is involved here is a group of thieving attorneys and judges trying to steal my mothers property”.

In keeping with your very obvious support for Ingram, and disdain for truth and justice in this case, you granted all of Ingrams motions except his motion to dismiss the answers filed against the frivolous complaint he filed on behalf of one of his co-conspirators Hasse, claiming libel and intentional infliction of emotional duress. You Judge Billings stated, it appeared begrudgingly, that “truth” was a defense to libel and then to your credit you said the defendants had the right to prove at trial what they were saying was the truth. Your stern demeanor toward the defendants seemed to abate after Wishon produced an order you signed in the underlying Wishon-Torres divorce case. You seemed momentarily embarrassed when Whishon produced the document given that you went to such great lenghts when you first came on the bench to announce you had had no prior involvement with any of parties in the case or with Ingram. It is hard for me to believe that you and Ingram could have both practiced law in the Eugene Oregon area for a long period of time (you for 35 years and he for over 40 years) and not have personally interacted on any previous case or cases as you represented from the bench.

Along with the copy of the letter to Sheriff Stiles that I am including I am also enclosing a copy of the June l3, 2004 letter I sent to Judge Forte condemning his threatening and high-handed treatment of me when I appeared in his court on June 9, 2004. The letter should be read in its entirety to understand cleary what We The People of the State of Oregon are demanding from our publicly elected magistrates. What We The People are demanding Judge Billings is that you and all the rest of the judges in this state strictly comply with your oath of office and provide fair and impartial hearings, where truth and justice is your only concern and not the protection and cover-up of the theft of innocent peoples children, lands and other property by corrupt attorneys and bureaucrats in “sham” judicial proceedings where the outcome is a forgone conclusion. .

I was stunned a few years ago when I heard family rights advocate Pamela Gaston ask Oregon Supreme Court Judge Durham in session, on the record, if the Oregon Supreme Court was a court of constitutional due process. Judge Durham would not answer her question. He merely repeated twice that she was in the Oregon Supreme Court. When she asked Judge Gregory Milnes the same question while he was on the bench in Marion County he, to my utter disbelief, said he could not answer the question. I later became aware of the fact that the Oregon Attorney General’s Office officially refers to our state courts as quasi-judicial administrative law courts. No where in the Oregon Constitution is there any authority for public magistrates in this state to deny to the citizens of this state their constitutionally guaranteed right to “equal protection” and “due process” of law. It is because of the fact that you Judge Billings, and the other judges in this state are not conducting constitutional courts, as required by the Oregon Constitution, that I challenged the courts jurisdiction to hear this case.

I am not sure of whether you are aware of what transpired June 25, 2004 in the same courtroom where you presided on June 23, 2004. Patricia Wishon had moved to set aside Ingram’s garnishment of her bank account. The garnishment was on the summary judgment Judge Thompson granted Ingram in the case Wishon had filed against Hasse, Albertazzi and Torres for conspiring to steal her property. By his actions in blocking Wishon from putting on her overwhelming evidence of that conspiracy, to steal her property, Thompson was aiding and abetting Hasse, Albertazzi, Ingram and Torres in defrauding Wishon out of her property and stealing $l,700.00 of her money by garnishing her bank account..

Because of a prior courtroom appearance where Wishon confronted both Ingram and Thompson about their involvement in the conspiracy to steal her property neither Ingram or Thompson physically appeared for the June 25, 2004 hearing. Instead both appeared by phone. With only a clerk, and a non-threatening Deschutes County Deputy Sheriff Robertson, and I present in the courtroom, Whison openly and repeatedly referred to Hasse, Albertazzi, Ingram and Torres as “crooks” and “shameless thieves” without challenge from either Thompson or Ingram. She told judge Thompson that all of the attorneys, including her former attorney Albertazzi, were all conspiring to steal her property. She told Judge Thompson that if he did not set aside the garnishment that he was a part of the conspiracy. Neither Thompson or Ingram denied her impassioned charges of corruption, conspiracy and theft. When the hearing was over she insisted that Deputy Robertson, appearing nervous and uncertain, arrest all of them, including Judge Thompson for stealing her property. Neither Deputy Robertson of Judge Thompson or Ingram took exception to what Wishon was saying.

As I told you in court I appeared before the Oregon Supreme Court in l994 on a groundless, politically motivated prosecution by the Oregon State Bar. I told Judge Carson and the other members of the court then: “ I am not here to seek your favor but to expose the intolerable corruption in the Oregon court system". ”Judge Carson subsequently met with members of Oregon Judicial Watch and acknowledged there was a corruption problem in the Oregon Court system. In 200l I again confronted Judge Carson at an Oregon Law Commission hearing about the corruption problem in the Oregon court system. He did not challenge the truthfulness of what I was saying. In February of 2004 I again brought up with Judge Carson the on-going battle I was having with the corruption problem in the Oregon court system. Judge Carson said: “keep up the good work Roger”.

What I said Judge Billings in the last paragraph of my letter to Judge Forte is true. We The People of the State of Oregon simply cannot allow this on-going unbridled corruption problem in our court system to continue. We cannot and will not allow innocent citizens of this state to have their children, lands and other property stolen in “sham” often “star chamber” type judicial proceedings by thieving attorneys, bureaucrats and judges. As I told Attorney General Hardy Myers, who I have known for 30 years, at the same Oregon Law Commission hearing when I spoke to Judge Carson: “Hardy, there is going to be violence if this court corruption does not end”.

Because of your obvious biase in attempting to protect the corrupt behavior of Ingram and his co-conspirators and your obvious biase against his victims I am asking that you recuse yourself from hearing any additional matter relating to this case.

Sincerely

cc: Governor Kulongoski,
US Attorney General John Ashcroft,
Attorney General Hardy Myers,
Oregon Sup. Crt. Ch. Justice Wallace Carson,
Deschutes County Sheriff Les Stiles,
Judges Thompson, Sullivan, Tiktin, and Forte,
Ed Snook-US-OREGON OBSERVER,
Lisa Rosetta-BEND BULLETIN,
Ralph Hatley-OREGON SPECTATOR,
Janis Souter-KLICKITAT MONITOR,
Claude Ingram