Tagged: whistleblower

in order to better understand why the NY attorney disciplinary system is a SHAM & in such a state of DISARRAY, watch Center for Judicial Accountability Director Elena Sassower’s testimony at the August 11, 2015 hearing of the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline. 

“WHERE [THE FUCK] ARE YOU?” read former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling’s letter to our so-called civil rights leaders & organizations in the U.S. 

Dear NAACP, National Action Network, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Congressional Black Caucus and others:

Where were you?

Where were you when I was faced with blatant discrimination at my job, when my employer told me I was “too big and too black” to do the job?

Where were you when I, one of the first black officers to do so, filed a discrimination suit against the Central Intelligence Agency?

Where were you when the justice system of the United States dismissed my discrimination suit because the U.S. government maintained that trying my suit would endanger national security?

Where were you during the many years I reached out to you, begging, pleading for help from you while the United States government pursued and tormented me for years, bent on retaliation and persecution?

Where were you when I begged for help from Congressman Lacy Clay’s office and they told me to run away, to leave the country? I was there … and I didn’t run.

Where were you when the United States government arrested me, put me in jail and branded me with espionage?

Where were you when the United States put me — the only person and only black face investigated over a 10-year period of time — on trial in federal court on Espionage Act charges, claiming that I am a traitor to national security? When the prosecution used against me the same issues from my discrimination case that I had not been allowed to pursue in civil court? When a jury without a single black member found me guilty, even when the FBI itself said there was no evidence?

Where were you when a white official, Gen. David Petraeus — accused of far more violations than I — was given a slap on the wrist?

Where were you when Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke up for me?

Where were you when the judge sentenced me to prison for 42 months?

I have seen you around.

I saw you when Michael Brown lay dead in the street only a few miles from my home.

I saw you when other black faces were either killed or mistreated. I was out there, too.

I felt the joy and promise of the Million Man March. I felt the joy and the promise when the first black president was elected. I was there with you then.

Though I am invisible to you, others, many others, see me and see the injustice that I have endured for a very long time. Have you not read the editorials, articles and commentaries?

I am now in prison for a crime I did not commit.

The many others I speak of do not claim to be mighty advocates for civil rights on the same level as you, but they are there and have been with me, and will be with me as I appeal. And, they will be with me when I am free.

Where are you?

This is fucked up on so many levels! The NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus and other so-called civil rights organizations have ignored my pleas for help as well so I feel this brother’s pain. If racism was eradicated, there wouldn’t be a real need for organizations like the NAACP, so they are willing to fight only but so far because it’s not in their interest to fight against or support those seeking to eradicate institutional, structural and systemic forms of racism in our society.

Free Jeffrey Sterling!!!!!!!!!!!

Source: Jeffrey Sterling. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 13, 2015. http://m.stltoday.com/news/opinion/an-open-letter-to-civil-rights-groups-in-the-u/article_046e6e8f-dcae-568b-8da9-73704d8a4017.html.

almost near the 9,000 word limit for this petition for a writ of certiorari. off to a great start!! i know the republican appointed justices on the supreme court are not going to like it…and they comprise a 5-4 majority. *kanye shrug* lol.

“In Nassar, the Supreme Court determined the causal standard that a plaintiff is required to establish in Title VII retaliation cases. Nassar required the Court to make a choice between three possible interpretations of Title VII, each reflecting a different choice about Title VII’s text, Court precedent, and the effects of the 1991 amendments to Title VII’s retaliation provisions. The Court held that plaintiffs in Title VII retaliation cases were required to establish ‘but for’ cause. This choice favors employers because it requires the plaintiff to bear the burden of persuasion related to causation and makes that causal burden a ‘but for’ standard, rather than the less onerous ‘motivating factor’ standard. Indeed, in an earlier Title VII case, the Court noted that to require the plaintiff to establish ‘but for’ cause would mean that many plaintiffs would be unable to prevail, even though their protected traits played a role in an employment outcome.”

Source: Sandra F. Sperino and Suja A. Thomas. Fakers and Floodgates. Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. pg. 226-227. June 2014.

Tori Kelly — “All I Know Is (I’m Not Meant To Be Silent)”

The messages in the songs this week are SPEAKING TO ME and it feels soooo good! 🙂 One of my favorite new artists — Tori Kelly — released this video two days ago in celebration of reaching a 1 million followers on Youtube. I love the positivity in her music! Looking forward to her debut album next year!!

putting things in perspective: i was in middle school the year Leonard Rowe and the black concert promoters filed their civil rights and antitrust lawsuit against the William Morris Agency, Creative Artists Agency and others involved in the concert promotion industry….

I didn’t really learn about Leonard Rowe or the details of his case, until I discovered this CNN article [http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-724105] in January 2012 — nearly two years after graduating with my Masters in Music Business & Entertainment Industries from the University of Miami. At that time, I was working on my third appeal to the Second Circuit, which sought to have Republican appointed federal judge P. Kevin Castel’s erroneous Order which upheld William Morris’ procedurally and substantively unconscionable arbitration agreements and sought the judges’ (including Magistrate Judge James C.Francis IV who was also the Magistrate Judge in Rowe) disqualification due to the appearance and/or actual existence of bias, prejudice and/or impropriety in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 455 [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/455].

Imagine how I felt after reading this, given that I had already argued and presented a pyramid of evidence in all of my pleadings showing that despite William Morris’ repeated denials throughout history, they were in fact a racist Hollywood institution that had been and still is engaging in a century-plus pattern and continuing practice of discrimination against African Americans — a problem that was clearly not limited to employment. What made things even more shocking, was that 10 years after engaging in a conspiracy to conceal smoking gun evidence showing WMA and CAA employees referring to African Americans as “nigger,” “nigga,” “coon,” etc. in their outgoing and/or incoming e-mails, I was litigating my case against the same attorney and law firm: Michael P. Zweig of Loeb & Loeb LLP.

In my fist appeal filed with the Second Circuit in September 2011, I argued that based on the fact that Castel “ignored my arguments, omitted pertinent facts and misapplied the law,” there must have been some type of collusion taking place between him and opposing counsel.  The fact that Castel has not made opposing counsel respond to my Fraud Upon the Court Motion that was filed in March 2014 “speaks volumes” and further supports that they are all conspiring with one another to deprive me of my constitutional and statutory rights under the color of law and interfere with the human rights of people of African descent, in violation of the Ku Klux Klan of 1871, 42. U.S.C. § 1985.

As I have always argued, in one way or another: In order to effectuate the public policy goals of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and additional anti-discrimination statutes such as the New York City Human Rights Law), arbitration is an inappropriate forum to resolve this particular case and the merits of my case should have been decided by an impartial jury reflecting the rich diversity of New York City. The fraudulent actions of the American Arbitration Association and its incompetent staff confirm this fact. Now that the Southern District of New York has jurisdiction over this case, default judgment should be granted on all claims against William Morris, Jeff Meade and Sarah Van Hoven. Even though I can and have proved the merits of all of my claims as a matter of law, default judgment should also be granted as a sanction against Michael P. Zweig and Loeb & Loeb LLP for intentionally engaging in a “pattern” of highly unethical and criminal conduct on William Morris’ behalf, in violation of New York Judiciary Law § 487 and numerous Rules under the New York Rules of Professional Conduct.

it’s funny that they are trying to label the whistleblower as being “racist” and “anti-Semitic” when I’ve never been accused as being such in my ENTIRE LIFE!

I’ve been working since I was 15 years old and I’ve had many jobs prior to working at William Morris. Although I was typically one of the few African Americans employed in the workplace, I have never once been accused of being “racist” or “anti-Semitic” by anyone (co-workers included), nor did I feel I was being discriminated against because of my “race.” Prior to this case, no one accused me of being “racist” or “anti-Semitic” at William Morris either. And immediately after leaving William Morris, I volunteered for a few months at a predominately all-white non-profit organization dealing with discrimination and racism in the Netherlands and if asked, I am willing to bet money that none of researchers that I worked with, would use those labels to describe me as well. The fact that Timothy K. Lewis would call me “racist,” and not William Morris, speaks volumes. #niggaplease