Topeka, KS (1888PressRelease) May 10, 2007 - Topeka, KS. 5-10-2007 David Price, founder of Independent Federal Fund Oversight Committee (IFFOC) called today for US Attorney Alberto Gonzales to make US Attorneys and Assistant US Attorneys available nationwide for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and town hall meetings to address main Justice’s involvement in violations of The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Section 2, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. Along with the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas Eric F. Melgren, the former US Attorney for Missouri Bradley J. Schlozman brought the most voter fraud indictments. It has now been revealed the voter fraud defendants targeted by Melgren and Schlozman were part of a nationwide conspiracy coordinated by Bradley J. Schlozman to ignore civil rights violations and selectively prosecute Democrat get out the vote drives in minority and socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. The goal of the plan executed by Melgren and Schlozman was to bring vote fraud allegations just five days before the elections in Missouri, the state with the closest US Senate race to save Republican Jim Talent from being defeated by Claire McCaskill and in Kansas to build on Bradley J. Schlozman’s work with officials in several states that included Missouri, Georgia and Arizona to impose voter I.D. legislation known to reduce election participation by African Americans, Hispanics and American Indians believed to vote predominately for Democrat candidates.
On April 26, 2007 US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales promoted Bradley J. Schlozman to the Executive Office for United States Attorneys where he will be able to control career Department of Justice attorneys across the nation. Under the threat of firings and smear campaigns from main Justice, US Attorneys are no longer free to exercise their own legal judgment in the conduct of their offices. The United States Attorney for the District of Kansas Eric F. Melgren was not targeted but had to demonstrate his loyalty. Melgran’s office caused City of Topeka police instead of US Marshalls to serve a summons for a May 20th, 2004 deposition to Rosemary Price a witness in the Kansas District Court civil rights case Melvin E. Johnson v. John E. Potter, USPS No. 01-CV-4182-SAC on May 26th, six days after Rosemary Price appeared and testified as scheduled. The police threatened to shoot Rosemary Price’s dog if she did not open the door.
Eric F. Melgran’s office caused the summons to be served knowing Rosemary Price had attended the deposition because Johnson’s lawyer had warned Melgran’s Assistant US Attorney D. Brad Bailey that Melgran’s office needed to stop suborning obstruction of justice through intimidation and retaliation against witnesses coming to give testimony in Kansas District court, calling Assistant US Attorney D. Brad Bailey’s his attention to federal and state officials taking retaliatory actions against the African American Kansas national guardsman Mark Hunt and the plaintiff Melvin Johnson for appearing in U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson’s courtroom to give testimony against the City of Topeka and misconduct of City of Topeka police officers in Kansans for the Separation of School and State v. Adams, Ks Dist. Ct. Case No. 04-cv-04034-JAR-KGS on May 3, 2004.
Bradley J. Schlozman worked with Tim Griffin, now US attorney for Arkansas and Karl Rove to misuse voting law enforcement to challenge the votes of African American soldiers deployed overseas and to develop the caging lists of 70,000 names and addresses of voters in largely African-American and Democratic areas of Florida during the 2004 election. The Justice Department refuses to identify the officials that added U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, of New Mexico to the list of US Attorneys to be targeted because Iglesias was refusing to bring pretext voter fraud indictments to interfere with Democrat voting by Hispanic and American Indian minorities. Both Bradley J. Schlozman and Tim Griffin were installed as US Attorneys under an unconstitutional use of the USA PATRIOT Act.
As head of the Civil Rights Division at USDOJ, Bradley J. Schlozman tried to implement a barrier to minorities voting in Georgia, the 2005 Georgia voter I.D. law that a federal judge compared to a Jim Crow-era poll tax. During his work in Georgia, Bradley J. Schlozman made connections with state lawmakers benefiting from reduced African American voting and was able to build for them the high level relationships that gave them protection from USDOJ law enforcement, including the False Claims Act investigation of Georgia GOP state representative David E. Ralston. US Attorney David Nahmias for Georgia and Assistant US Attorney Laura Kennedy Bomamder declined to prosecute the case even though the IRS filed tax liens against Rep. David E. Ralston for the false claims revealed by the complaint.
As U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Bradly J. Schlozman obtained search warrants in September 2006 which the FBI would use to raid the home of Columbia, Missouri businessman and Muslim philanthropist Shakir Hamoodi to attempt to help Jim Talent’s reelection campaign by appearing to be fighting terrorism, even though Hamoodi is not involved in terrorism and only was a member of an ethnic group Schlozman thought Missouri voters would believe was a terrorist.
Bradley J. Schlozman used his previous position in main Justice to improperly screen new hires on political party affiliations. Schlozman also changed the job performance evaluations of career civil servant attorneys including Tobey More a geographical analyst in Schlozman’s section in retaliation for not supporting Karl Rove’s voting suppression policies. Eric F. Melgran’s Assistant US Attorney D. Brad Bailey was able to use a threat of Justice Department prosecution in May 2004 against Melvin Johnson’s attorney if Johnson’s attorney made a criminal complaint regarding the intimidation of witnesses with testimony against the City of Topeka. The State of Kansas is now bringing an ethics prosecution against a second private attorney who brought out evidence of the City of Topeka’s corrupt misuse of Housing and Urban Development funds as well as Tax Increment Financing (“TIF”) funds in Topeka’s minority neighborhoods.
The promotion of Bradley J. Schlozman to main Justice where he can continue to misuse his office to obstruct justice in voting rights investigations and assist Karl Rove in preventing public corruption from being prosecuted gives American citizens the impression that this has become the policy of the US Department of Justice. Already since Bradley J. Schlozman’s return to Washington D.C., main justice has started to employ the tactics pioneered in Kansas, the smearing of honest attorneys and the use of a Justice Department Ethics prosecution against Monica Goodling to intimidate her despite Congress’s grant of immunity to testify fully and freely on the retaliatory firings of US Attorneys.
“Our nation cannot go through what we lived through here in Kansas, a Republican Attorney General, Phil Kline receiving the benefit of dollars from out of state corporations for refusing to enforce laws to protect consumers. A department Phil Kline entrusted to a conservative party operative attorney Bryan Brown despite Brown’s arrests and sanctions for misconduct. With the promotion of Bradley J. Schlozman we are seeing the US Department of Justice taking the same wrong turn. Its time for Alberto Gonzales to fire Bradley J. Schlozman and for all US attorneys and Assistants to come forward in every community and tell the truth of what happened so our nation can start to heal” said David Price.
The original TRC : The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up by the Government of National Unity to help deal with what happened under apartheid. The conflict during this period resulted in violence and human rights abuses from all sides. No section of society escaped these abuses. The TRC is based on the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No 34 of 1995."... a commission is a necessary exercise to enable South Africans to come to terms with their past on a morally accepted basis and to advance the cause of reconciliation."
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