I said it before, let me say it again. The AEG Live case that involved Lloyds of London Insurance Company was covered up by Steven Cooley the District Attorney that led the prosecution of Dr. Conrad Murray. Mr. Cooley issued an Amici Curie requesting the records to be held until Murray's conviction. Concealing evidence that would have led to the real people involved in Michael's murder.
But this wasn't the first time. It never is. One time found, is ten times under wraps. Here's an article written by The Los Angeles Times uncovering such activities by Cooley with other cases:
** I've updated this post with a copy of the Amici Curie, links to the donations to Steven Cooley from AEG and their executives and the critical evidence, the insurance policy, below.
Cooley's donations raise questions about the line between fundraising and probes
By Rich Connell
Rene Cota was stunned when he searched the Internet and came across a $1,500 campaign contribution reported recently by Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, who is running for state attorney general.
The shocker, he said, was the donor - David Perez of Valley Vista Services in the City of Industry.
For about a year, Perez, who is also the mayor of the City of Industry and whose family owns the Valley Vista trash hauling firm, has been the focus of an inquiry by Cooley's office into his private business ties to City Hall. The ongoing probe, apparently examining multimillion-dollar refuse collection and landscaping maintenance contracts, began after Cota filed a complaint.
When the city shut down his bar for alleged code violations, Cota began looking into Industry's close-knit political culture - there are fewer than 100 registered voters, and many are related to one another or working for the city.
"It disheartens me," said the former Anaheim police officer. It is "obviously unethical if he's taking contributions from persons or entities" under scrutiny by Cooley's office, he said. "It definitely shakes my confidence in the legal system."
Cooley's top anti-corruption deputy says there is no connection between campaign money and the district attorney's investigation or prosecution of public officials.
But the donation highlights a tricky choice for an elected prosecutor like Cooley. Where does he draw the line on taking money from people who could figure in an investigation?
The question has also arisen in Bell Gardens. Cooley'scampaign accepted $13,000 from City Manager Steve Simonian, a longtime friend and former aide, during and immediately after an inquiry involving two of Simonian's bosses on the City Council.
Cooley's campaign spokesman, Kevin Spillane, said the prosecutor's ethical line is clearly drawn: Political fundraising has no influence on the work of the district attorney's office. Suggesting otherwise is "ridiculous and it's insulting," he said. Cooley doesn't track all the donations his campaigns have raised, he said.
And Cooley wasn't even briefed on the City of Industry or Bell Gardens inquiries, said David Demerjian, head of the office's Public Integrity Division. "Steve Cooley doesn't decide which cases we open or review or which cases we close," he said.
But the public is understandably suspicious about donations involving targets of inquiries or related entities, said Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause, a nonpartisan political reform advocacy group.
"The public doesn't make a distinction between what the political, elected D.A. does and what the office does," she said. "The D.A. needs clearer rules.... So his office doesn't have to live with this cloud of doubt about who he is receiving contributions from."
The Perez contribution has been criticized by a campaign aide to San Francisco prosecutor Kamala D. Harris, the Democrat opposing Republican Cooley for attorney general. In preparing this report, however, The Times independently reviewed Cooley's campaign filings and obtained additional records and interviews. Cooley's spokesman said raising the issue was an attempt to smear the Los Angeles County prosecutor.
Some details of the Perez donation weren't clear. The mayor, who has previously said he carefully follows the law, didn't respond to requests for interviews. Cooley's campaign fundraiser believes the March contribution came by mail from the mayor, Spillane said, as opposed to a relative with the same name who is also associated with the family businesses. The mayor gave $1,000 to Cooley's campaign in 2007 when he last ran for district attorney, records show.
In Bell Gardens, those who pushed for an inquiry involving alleged absentee ballot irregularities said they had wondered how aggressively it was pursued, even before they learned about the city manager's contributions.
Simonian's contribution "raises, to me, big questions," said unsuccessful City Council candidate Cristina Garcia, whose complaint to the D.A.'s office evidently prompted the inquiry.
Martha Mendoza, a polling place inspector, said she also wrote Cooley's office about absentee balloting irregularities after hearing complaints from Bell Gardens voters. News of Simonian's contributions is unsettling, she said. "It doesn't look good."
Simonian said he had nothing to do with the vote-by-mail process and wasn't aware of the inquiry. He said his contributions arose from a long relationship with Cooley, including heading Cooley's investigations bureau for several years.
Cooley is "a great candidate" and should be able to accept donations from "someone who's known him for over 25 or 30 years and considers him a friend," he said. Simonian gave Cooley the maximum $6,500 allowed in both the primary and general contests, records show. He also gave to Cooley's local campaign in 2007.
The voting inquiry apparently began after Garcia, a USC adjunct professor who grew up in the city, wrote Cooley's office about alleged misconduct by supporters of some of her opponents, including Mayor Priscilla Flores and Councilman Sergio Infanzon.
Volunteers allegedly solicited support and offered to help voters fill out absentee ballots, including for residents of an assisted-living home, according to a copy of Garcia's letter reviewed by The Times. Volunteers also allegedly offered to take ballots to the post office, she wrote.
The allegations are false, Flores said, and typical of those made by losing candidates. "Councilmember Sergio Infanzon and I were reelected by the voters of this community and that's the end of the story," she said.
Investigators looked into allegations involving both council members, specifically possible violations of a state law that bans going into the homes of those who have mail-in ballots to solicit their vote, according to a case closure letter provided by Cooley's office.
Some individuals said they were "approached by the candidates" and their votes were "allegedly solicited by the candidates," the letter says. But because of the voters' mental disabilities and other problems, they weren't credible, the letter says, an apparent reference to residents of the assisted-living center. "The candidates very well may have solicited votes from mail voters in their residences during the time of voting," but no credible evidence existed to prove a crime, the letter concludes.
"We worked that case," Demerjian said. "We talked to a lot of people."
Spillane said Cooley deserves credit for forming a team to pursue sensitive political cases, close to 300 of which have been filed since Cooley took office in 2000.
That's all the more reason Cooley should set fundraising standards stricter than the law requires, said Feng of California Common Cause.
Copyright ? 2010, Los Angeles Times
See the article on Los Angeles Times website
THE CONTRIBUTIONS:
TOHME TOHME Contributions 4/26/12 $1500 to Carmen "cover up" Trutanich, District Attorney
1338122 - Carmen Trutanich For District Attorney 2012 (apparently under FBI investigation)
Also contributed to Steve Cooley Funds: Carmen "cover up" Trutanish
CARMEN TRUTANICH HARBOR CITY, CA 90710 ATTORNEY/CITY OF LOS ANGELES $1000 2010-09-30 2011-01-31
CARMEN TRUTANICH HARBOR CITY, CA 90710 ATTORNEY/CITY OF LOS ANGELES $1000 2010-04-19 2010-11-01
But this wasn't the first time. It never is. One time found, is ten times under wraps. Here's an article written by The Los Angeles Times uncovering such activities by Cooley with other cases:
** I've updated this post with a copy of the Amici Curie, links to the donations to Steven Cooley from AEG and their executives and the critical evidence, the insurance policy, below.
Cooley's donations raise questions about the line between fundraising and probes
By Rich Connell
Rene Cota was stunned when he searched the Internet and came across a $1,500 campaign contribution reported recently by Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, who is running for state attorney general.
The shocker, he said, was the donor - David Perez of Valley Vista Services in the City of Industry.
For about a year, Perez, who is also the mayor of the City of Industry and whose family owns the Valley Vista trash hauling firm, has been the focus of an inquiry by Cooley's office into his private business ties to City Hall. The ongoing probe, apparently examining multimillion-dollar refuse collection and landscaping maintenance contracts, began after Cota filed a complaint.
When the city shut down his bar for alleged code violations, Cota began looking into Industry's close-knit political culture - there are fewer than 100 registered voters, and many are related to one another or working for the city.
"It disheartens me," said the former Anaheim police officer. It is "obviously unethical if he's taking contributions from persons or entities" under scrutiny by Cooley's office, he said. "It definitely shakes my confidence in the legal system."
Cooley's top anti-corruption deputy says there is no connection between campaign money and the district attorney's investigation or prosecution of public officials.
But the donation highlights a tricky choice for an elected prosecutor like Cooley. Where does he draw the line on taking money from people who could figure in an investigation?
The question has also arisen in Bell Gardens. Cooley'scampaign accepted $13,000 from City Manager Steve Simonian, a longtime friend and former aide, during and immediately after an inquiry involving two of Simonian's bosses on the City Council.
Cooley's campaign spokesman, Kevin Spillane, said the prosecutor's ethical line is clearly drawn: Political fundraising has no influence on the work of the district attorney's office. Suggesting otherwise is "ridiculous and it's insulting," he said. Cooley doesn't track all the donations his campaigns have raised, he said.
And Cooley wasn't even briefed on the City of Industry or Bell Gardens inquiries, said David Demerjian, head of the office's Public Integrity Division. "Steve Cooley doesn't decide which cases we open or review or which cases we close," he said.
But the public is understandably suspicious about donations involving targets of inquiries or related entities, said Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause, a nonpartisan political reform advocacy group.
"The public doesn't make a distinction between what the political, elected D.A. does and what the office does," she said. "The D.A. needs clearer rules.... So his office doesn't have to live with this cloud of doubt about who he is receiving contributions from."
The Perez contribution has been criticized by a campaign aide to San Francisco prosecutor Kamala D. Harris, the Democrat opposing Republican Cooley for attorney general. In preparing this report, however, The Times independently reviewed Cooley's campaign filings and obtained additional records and interviews. Cooley's spokesman said raising the issue was an attempt to smear the Los Angeles County prosecutor.
Some details of the Perez donation weren't clear. The mayor, who has previously said he carefully follows the law, didn't respond to requests for interviews. Cooley's campaign fundraiser believes the March contribution came by mail from the mayor, Spillane said, as opposed to a relative with the same name who is also associated with the family businesses. The mayor gave $1,000 to Cooley's campaign in 2007 when he last ran for district attorney, records show.
In Bell Gardens, those who pushed for an inquiry involving alleged absentee ballot irregularities said they had wondered how aggressively it was pursued, even before they learned about the city manager's contributions.
Simonian's contribution "raises, to me, big questions," said unsuccessful City Council candidate Cristina Garcia, whose complaint to the D.A.'s office evidently prompted the inquiry.
Martha Mendoza, a polling place inspector, said she also wrote Cooley's office about absentee balloting irregularities after hearing complaints from Bell Gardens voters. News of Simonian's contributions is unsettling, she said. "It doesn't look good."
Simonian said he had nothing to do with the vote-by-mail process and wasn't aware of the inquiry. He said his contributions arose from a long relationship with Cooley, including heading Cooley's investigations bureau for several years.
Cooley is "a great candidate" and should be able to accept donations from "someone who's known him for over 25 or 30 years and considers him a friend," he said. Simonian gave Cooley the maximum $6,500 allowed in both the primary and general contests, records show. He also gave to Cooley's local campaign in 2007.
The voting inquiry apparently began after Garcia, a USC adjunct professor who grew up in the city, wrote Cooley's office about alleged misconduct by supporters of some of her opponents, including Mayor Priscilla Flores and Councilman Sergio Infanzon.
Volunteers allegedly solicited support and offered to help voters fill out absentee ballots, including for residents of an assisted-living home, according to a copy of Garcia's letter reviewed by The Times. Volunteers also allegedly offered to take ballots to the post office, she wrote.
The allegations are false, Flores said, and typical of those made by losing candidates. "Councilmember Sergio Infanzon and I were reelected by the voters of this community and that's the end of the story," she said.
Investigators looked into allegations involving both council members, specifically possible violations of a state law that bans going into the homes of those who have mail-in ballots to solicit their vote, according to a case closure letter provided by Cooley's office.
Some individuals said they were "approached by the candidates" and their votes were "allegedly solicited by the candidates," the letter says. But because of the voters' mental disabilities and other problems, they weren't credible, the letter says, an apparent reference to residents of the assisted-living center. "The candidates very well may have solicited votes from mail voters in their residences during the time of voting," but no credible evidence existed to prove a crime, the letter concludes.
"We worked that case," Demerjian said. "We talked to a lot of people."
Spillane said Cooley deserves credit for forming a team to pursue sensitive political cases, close to 300 of which have been filed since Cooley took office in 2000.
That's all the more reason Cooley should set fundraising standards stricter than the law requires, said Feng of California Common Cause.
Copyright ? 2010, Los Angeles Times
See the article on Los Angeles Times website
THE CONTRIBUTIONS:
ANSCHUTZ ENTERTAINMENT GROUP $13,000
source: http://votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/120014/steve-cooley#.VLxTcdLF-So
ANSCHUTZ ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC. LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 $6500 2010-05-27 2010-11-01
ANSCHUTZ ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC. LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 $6500 2010-05-27 2010-11-01
source: http://www.electiontrack.com/lookup.php?committee=1323795
ANSCHUTZ ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC. LOS ANGELES, CA 90015 $6500 2010-05-27 2010-11-01
source: http://www.electiontrack.com/lookup.php?committee=1323795
TIMOTHY LEIWEKE LOS ANGELES, CA PRES/CEO/AEG WORLDWIDE, INC. $1500 Contribution date: 2010-10-28 Report date: 2011-01-31
1338122 - Carmen Trutanich For District Attorney 2012 (apparently under FBI investigation)
I am positive I saw a donation to Cooley's campaign from Tohme, but wouldn't you know it there is no search on the site for Cooley anymore! BUT it still comes up in a google search:
(OFC - Office Expenses) Desc: 4/28/12, Thank you gift, Dr. Tohme ... (CVC - CivicDonation) ... 1235308 - D.A. Steve Cooley Officeholder Account, E - Payment
CARMEN TRUTANICH HARBOR CITY, CA 90710 ATTORNEY/CITY OF LOS ANGELES $1000 2010-09-30 2011-01-31
CARMEN TRUTANICH HARBOR CITY, CA 90710 ATTORNEY/CITY OF LOS ANGELES $1000 2010-04-19 2010-11-01
THE AMICI CURIE FILED BY STEVEN COOLEY:
THE INSURANCE POLICY: Note the date aknowledged in the bottom right hand corner on page one: 6/22/09 effecitve 3 days before Michael Jackson's death. See Page 26 Amendment to DEATH POLICY adding FORMER Manager Tohme Tohme as additional insured under AEG Live's Policy:
RELEVANCE: It was Tohme himself that stated he would bring death and destruction to the Jackson family. See video below:
Interesting question and answer about life.. http://www.mastersofthespiritworld.com/?page_id=587
ReplyDeleteQUESTION: Masters, The laws of the universe and the laws of earth seem to be in conflict. According to your statements: ‘there is no heaven or hell, no judgment, no punishment, no pain, no karma and only earth contains negativity. When our earth life ends we enter into seamless, unconditional love.’ So therefore people who lived as murderers, thieves, torturers and hedonists, who were never caught on earth, receive no consequence? So saints and martyrs like Jesus and Mother Teresa receive the exact same results upon death as the most heinous criminal? Therefore it does not matter what you choose or how you live as a human, at death we are all rewarded? (Is this true?) Then why do some humans hang around the dark energy of earth after they die? Why don’t they immediately immerse themselves in unconditional love? ANSWER: Individual souls came into existence by being separated from Source energy so that Source might have experiences to learn what is the opposite of its perfection. All souls have the same essence of unconditional love while not playing a part in some learning experience in the duality of Earth. When souls incarnate into a body in the positive / negative energies of Earth, they are merely playing a role on the stage of egotistical, judgmental human society. The souls’ essence always remains the same – unconditional love. Just as actors are not the heroes or villains they portray, souls never lose their unconditionally loving essence or change into the cynical, maniacal, bloodthirsty horrors they depict on Earth. The roles that are played on Earth are chosen by unconditionally loving souls to experience so they might learn from the diversity. The soul who chooses to be a Hitler in one life and a Mother Teresa in the next is the same loving soul when each life is finished. The absence of punishment is not a reward. The concept of punishment needs a judgmental system in order to operate, and there is no judgmental system outside of Earth. Once the soul leaves its temporary shell or body, it exists only with its loving essence. What matters in living as a human is learning the lessons chosen by one’s soul to advance one’s wisdom, and working toward replacing negativity with positivity. It is difficult to accept these concepts since you are looking at them with the judgmental societal view by which you live your life. When one’s emotions are involved, wanting, needing, or even demanding retribution or punishment is part of the requirement of the ego, where everything is judged, rated, and graded. Some souls have been so involved in negativity while on Earth that they forget about unconditional love and seek to stay in the negativity that they feel gives them power and control. They remain there until they finally decide to move on.
Susan, this concept is beautiful, however , it lacks the reason why we are all here together to begin with. We are mirrors and teachers. To reach our true divinity, the all encompassing light, we must become masters ourselves. Think of the archangel Michael..he balances the flames of power love and wisdom..that means holding boundaries and seeking justice and protection for the meek. Pure light is pure love but also power and wisdom combined. The archangel would never let evil strangle the light. This is no different. Balance must be maintained on the earth or we simply will not survive as a race. Your logic in this post is nice but it's not realistic. If it were that would mean we should permit all beings to mistreat in other. There are not councils of light that were created for amusement. They are there for a reason.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't my question. It was someone else's question from that website and the "Masters" answered the questions.
ReplyDeleteI know it's hard for some to believe what is said in that answer.
Oh Yes, absolutely, we all are mirrors and teachers for each other. Earth is a Duality planet that has negative and positive. Sometimes our role on Earth or rather what our SOUL has chosen could be a negative role to provide another soul with a mirror lesson. That might seem really hard to understand to some.
Yes, to become true masters we also must master everything light and dark and sometimes a negative incarnation might include a certain lesson for not just ONE soul but many participants (SOULS)
Anyway, this world and Universe allows for everyone's different perspectives :-)