Breaking news article of special interest to anyone reading this Blog:

You may have thought that Dominic Gates and The Seattle Times (TST) would have been cowed at this point from writing and publishing rightfully hard hitting news about Boeing/FAA management corruption risking people's safety for more Boeing bottom line dollars and quid pro quo FAA management Boeing jobs, considering all of the unethical if not "extra-legal" (outside the law) pressure Boeing has put on TST as noted on this blog.

I am glad that Dominic has not been detered by Boeing's heavy handed attempts to intimidate his newspaper from doing their critical jobs. His front page Seattle Times article on TST's most read day (today, Sunday, February 8th) proves otherwise.

The press is not perfect by far. Investigative journalism as Dominic has demonstrated in this article is a dying art, and one that powerful Boeing and their outside counsel have been doing their best to put to death wrongfully forever in order to cover up any public knowledge of Boeing management corruption of the worst possible kind--Boeing management corruption that intentionally places millions of lives of the public at much greater risk in order to add just a few more dollars to Boeing's bottom line and in their own pockets. It is the same corruption I risked my job and entire life to bring to an end. Boeing terminated me and ruined my life and tried to imprison me for doing so, but I still persist in trying to end this unholy marriage of Boeing/FAA management personal greed. That very Boeing/FAA management corruption still arrogantly exists right up to the present moment, however, as demonstrated by Dominic's powerful article.

Dominic is an Irish-American who looks nothing like "Braveheart" (Mel Gibson, in the film) does. However, he does share one uncanny quality with "Braveheart"--bravery, and should be applauded everywhere for it.

I myself also look nothing like "Braveheart" does as well, but Boeing and their outside counsel have been trying to do to me in effect exactly what the king did to Braveheart in the last scene of that movie. Injustice, indeed. Only the very corrupt deserve such a fate, and I don't wish to point out any specific candidates in Boeing management that I might think deserve that fate because I don't think like those corrupt acters obviously do, as judged by their actions. Better to turn the other cheek than cast the first stone, methinks.

But enough of such a clumsy introduction. Follow the link below to Dominic's wonderful article exposing FAA/Boeing management corruption in detail never before seen except on my blog and website, and read my comments on the article on the comments section for the article on The Seattle Times website:


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/b ... ing08.html

Can you believe that Boeing, their outside counsel, and Dan Satterberg (the King County Prosecutor) tried to put me in prison for leaking the original 787 lightning story-- http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. ... g=boeing05--to Dominic in (futile, up to this point) efforts to save lives before the 787 entered service?

At least, thanks to Dominic's follow up on the original story I was accused of working with him on, some 787 passengers and crew will know before they board it just what a "bucket O' lightning hot composite wing tank bolts" they are literally getting into, if they were to make that mistake.

LOL. Read the comments on the article on the TST website. One commenter has a fantastic comment that will solve this 787 safety problem that corrupt FAA and Boeing management have tried thusfar to cover up rather than fix--make Boeing and FAA higher management fly on 787 test flights through severe thunderstorms with the inerting system off as they are now proposing that unknowing 787 passengers and cabin crew do when and if the airplane enters service!

That commenter has nailed the perfect solution to all of this in the face of the current arrogant FAA/Boeing management corruption that seeks to make the 787 less safe for Boeing profitability and 787 production debacle make schedule purposes. If they were forced to fly on them in that condition, they would reverse course immediately in order to save the only bacon that ever seems to matter to them--their own

An appearance of bias is almost as damning as “smoking gun” proof of such bias, especially for those in public office and on the King County Superior Court bench.

As noted in prior blogs, much more than the appearance of bias is at work in Dan Satterberg’s King County Prosecutor’s Office, in that he has sold all rights to the management of certain cases like mine that have great value to thusly sell to the highest dollar campaign contributors with the most dirty hands (in my case, Boeing and Boeing’s outside law firm, Perkins Coie, were the purchasers of said rights).

But, even to the jaded (like me) to news of new avenues of corruption in our government and industry, it never ceases to amaze me every time I see such brazen corruption first hand, as I did in just the latest miscarriage of justice in my case that happened one week ago, on Tuesday, the 27th of January.

The fact the participants were mostly the same, even though I was before a different King County Superior Court judge that day, mostly explains the miscarriage of justice in itself. I did have hopes that being before a different King County Superior Court judge would result in the first ruling in my case that appeared unbiased, or that was in my favor, for that matter. My hopes were dashed, however, when the King County Superior Court judge I was before quickly proved that she was the same as the others that have came before in my case. You can always hope for justice in King County Superior Court. You have virtually no chance of receiving it there, but at least you can always hope that a new judge in your case is not biased toward the prosecutor and other moneyed interests like Boeing that are before the court opposing you. But, in her defense, she was just maintaining the bias of all King County Superior Court Judges that have handled this case.

Of course, as you will see, this hearing last week broke no new news about bias in the King County Prosecutor’s Office and King County Superior Court. Only the circumstances of the injustice that resulted changed. All of the injustice before in my case was abetted rather than contradicted by the judge’s ruling that day.

The hearing last week was set many months ago, in July, 2008, when I signed a "Continuance for Dismissal" at the time under undue and perhaps illegal pressure from Marc A. Boman’s buddy, US Attorney Carl Blackstone. Boman had called in a personal favor from his friend Blackstone, and Blackstone acceded to that unethical if not illegal request. Boman is Boeing’s outside counsel they selected from Perkins Coie per Boeing’s long standing retainer with Perkins Coie to proactively protect the white collar criminals at Boeing by covering up any evidence of their wrongdoing so that they never have to face any consequences whatsoever for their crimes, while Boeing and Perkins Coie persecute whistleblowers that made the “mistake” of trying to blow the whistle on their management’s criminal activities. Blackstone would later backpedal when I blogged about his unethical if not illegal act to perform federal prosecutions purely per his powerful buddies’ request, rather than any facts related to the merits of the case itself. Blackstone admitted he made a mistake in doing so, but seemed to really be trying to “fall on his sword” in doing so so as to protect his buddy Boman from any implication when Boman had already been rightly implicated in pressuring Blackstone to threaten to file charges against me that had no merit in and of themselves.

You have to wonder what kind of leverage Boman has on Blackstone to get Blackstone to lie both coming and going (in the original threat to prosecute me, which he never planned to carry through on, as it was a threat solely made at the request of a powerful friend independent of the facts of the case, and in lying that Boman wasn’t involved) concerning my case. You would think that it would have to be some other “leverage” than a mere friendship that thusly blinded Blackstone to all ethics and laws that applied to his own conduct in the affair. It seems that it instead would have to be much more in the arena of what Boman knows about his buddy Blackstone—knowledge that Boman perhaps gained through that “friendship” or by other means at Boman’s disposal. Of course, only Boman and Blackstone may know of exactly what kind of sordid information Boman holds over Blackstone, unless Boman told his partners at Perkins Coie the nature of how he planned to pressure Blackstone to do something that Blackstone himself said had very little chance of happening had Boman not pressured him to make the noted threat against me that resulted in me giving up my rights during the now expired agreement, in effect making me “lie down with the devil” (Boeing and their “mirrored in lack of ethics” counsel and paid prosecutor) during the length of the expired agreement.

The “Continuance for Dismissal” stated January 27th of this year was the date on which I would return to court for the court to decide if I had complied with the agreement or I had not. The prosecutor was supposed to ask the judge to dismiss the charges against me if I had kept to the agreement over the last six months and cooperated with them and Boeing per the terms of the agreement. If that happened, as I expected it would the morning of the hearing as I had done everything asked of me and more, the charges against me would be dropped as of January 30th, 2009 at the latest, the expiration date of the agreement.

That wouldn’t happen, however, as it turns out, as Boeing’s well paid King County Prosecutor decided I had to keep to every letter of the agreement they also had signed, but they did not have to comply with any of the agreement themselves.

My attorney and I had made sure that I had done everything and more that I was required to do per the agreement so that I would have the charges dismissed against me by January 30th..

However, Boeing decided to tell Satterberg that they wanted a 60 day extension of my fate. And even though there was no conceivable valid reason to ask for such a continuance, much less be granted it by the judge, Dan Satterberg had his prosecutor accede to Boeing’s obviously improper request anyway, just as Satterberg has consistently done with every improper if not outright illegal request of Boeing and Boeing’s outside counsel in my case.

But, there was an “impartial” judge there that would ensure that no such obvious travesty of justice in my case occurred, right? Nah. She did appear to be vertical in her chair and kept her eyes open during our arguments against this request for further injustice in my case, however she ruled as if we had made no arguments whatsoever, giving Satterberg and Boeing and Boeing’s outside counsel their requested extra 60 days to try to commit further injustices against me.

You’ve got to be wondering what Boeing’s argument was in the hearing for requesting the 60 days continuance, some 57 days past the expiration of the agreement (the prosecutor only was at the hearing to assist Boeing with their arguments before the judge).

Even though I know what it was, obviously, as I witnessed it firsthand, I still find it hard to believe myself, and even harder to believe that even the typically corrupt King County Superior Court judge at the hearing bought it. If typical, she bought it after being bought like Satterberg has been as I noted in prior blogs. Indeed, no money has to change hands in order for a public official to be bought. Like the FAA/Boeing corruption I was trying to expose that has cost lives, only the promise (overtly stated or otherwise) of a better job if they rule the right way is required to do so. Indeed, no overt action on the part of Boeing and their prosecutor is required in this area, as the judge may simply rule for Boeing hoping that they later financially reward her in some way for doing so, whether through campaign favors or otherwise. Perhaps if it was made clear that Boeing and Boeing’s outside counsel reserve such cash for bribing officials only as corrupted as Dan Satterberg is, I might receive one day a ruling that is not biased by the lollipops—I mean dollar signs—dancing in their heads every time Boeing is before them opposing me.

To give a bit of background, the arguments revolved around “up to two meetings, of up to eight hours each” that were allowed for in the agreement if Boeing chose to have them at all before the expiration date of the agreement. Boeing only scheduled one of the optional (for them) interviews, which I submitted to on 10/28/08. Boeing never made any attempts to schedule the other interview before the agreement expired on 1/30/09. Their arguments also revolved around a requirement in the agreement that I perform my best efforts to get the files back that I gave to the Seattle Times. I only had to make a good faith effort to get them back—their actual return was not a requirement in the agreement in any way.

My attorney and I had requested the files back from The Seattle Times (TST) on several occasions. That alone satisfied any possible view of that requirement in the agreement. TST originally refused to give them back, despite heavy pressure on TST to do so via Boeing and Boeing’s outside counsel’s usual scorched earth tactics that was levied against TST in addition to our requests. However, at some point not too far before the hearing, TST decided to change their minds, apparently deciding a legal fight against Boeing’s heavy handed pressure was not worth it, despite the fact that they were likely protected from having to give back the files through Washington State’s Shield Law that protects the press from powerful moneyed interests that seek to stifle the idea of a free press in this country, like Boeing extremely arrogantly does by persecuting press sources and the press themselves if articles are written that don’t match their PR department’s habitual lies about the true nature of Boeing. TST returned the files to my attorney the morning of the hearing, and my attorney and a courier from her office brought the returned files to the court and gave them to Boeing’s lap dog prosecutor, who was sitting next to Boeing’s attorney as usual that afternoon.

Unbelievably (except for those of you that know of entities as corrupt as Boeing and the King County Prosecutor’s Office are), Boeing argued through their puppet prosecutor that the 60 day continuance was needed because “they had only just received the files from The Seattle Times, they hadn’t had the opportunity to open the package that contained the files to verify their contents (not true, they just chose not to do so in the time the had to do so before the hearing), and they needed time to review the files before they could schedule the second interview allowed for in the agreement.”

So, all of you legally savvy people should be rolling on the floor either laughing or crying at this point (ROTFLMAO or ROTFCMAO), knowing just how inane and totally devoid of logical much less legal argument that argument was. Even people that know little about the law can understand just how much a travesty of justice this was.

The lies in Boeing’s arguments are many, even though it was a very short one. I don’t pretend to capture them all here:

1. The second interview was never mandatory per the agreement, unless Boeing scheduled it before the agreement expired. Even though Boeing argued to the judge that they wanted to delay scheduling the second interview until an indefinite time after they had decided they were done reviewing the files returned to them, they made no efforts before, during, or after the hearing to do so before the requirement to have a second interview expired with the agreement on 1/30/09.

2. There was no requirement for us to actually get the files back from TST as we did. To use the fact we did something extra outside the requirements of the agreement and have that used against us is injustice, indeed.

3. Boeing already knew exactly what was on 17 of the 18 disks that were in the package returned to them, as during our cooperation with them several months prior we had been able to show them where folders with the exact copies of the files burnt on each disk were on my computer. Therefore, Boeing had several months already with which to review all of those files that they had had already. Only the files on disk 7 I did not know, as we had told them at the same time we led them to the locations of the other disk’s files on my computer. I had forgotten to save a folder with the contents of that disk before I gave it to TST. There were some printed pages I had given to TST in the package, but, per my recollection, I had not given TST very many such pages, as I had started using CDs for convenience purposes shortly after my quest to bring Boeing to justice by going to TST had begun. Eighteen CDs may seem like a lot of info, however, as I wrote, I chose CDs because I had them and they were thusly convenient—not because the contents of each disk required the capacity of a CD. Indeed, to my recollection, most CDs had fewer than a half dozen files on them on average, some of which were just Word files I wrote that explained the other files on the particular CD. So, to claim they needed 60 days with which to review a few files on one disk and a few printed pages is ludicrous. They could have done so in the time between the hearing and when they first got them, but chose not to. The reason for this lie of theirs? They likely wanted the sixty days for reasons other than the reasons they lied to the judge they needed it. Of course, lying to a judge is dangerous, except of course if you are Satterberg or Boeing, in which case such lying will be rewarded instead of punished as noted.

4. No one could possibly state truthfully that I had not complied with the agreement in any way, yet they inferred so anyway in their request in asking for more time to do an interview that they have not scheduled even up until today.

Obviously, the agreement expired on 1/30/09. I complied with any reasonable and unbiased interpretation of it. Boeing and the King County Prosecutor’s office chose not to comply with it. So now that the agreement has expired, things return to what they were before the agreement. I signed away my rights to a jury trial by signing the agreement. Now that the agreement is expired, my rights to a jury trial are restored, which can be looked at as a good thing, especially when they have demonstrated they never intended to comply with the agreement on their end. So, we’ll see if they want to try me again before the statute of limitations expires in the case, whenever that is.

Before the hearing, Vanessa Lee, Boeing Legal’s attorney who made all arguments at the hearing through her puppet prosecutor Scott Peterson (to Peterson’s defense, he was only acting as a puppet of Boeing because Dan Satterberg had directed him to do so) said to my attorney, “there is such a thing as professional courtesy” and “It really hurts to be accused of wanting to extend this” Lee was complaining that my attorney was “not showing her professional courtesy” by inferring Lee wanted to extend my case, which Lee had already indicated that she wanted to do and was going to request at the hearing. That would be a funny “joke” on Lee’s part, if it wasn’t such a serious lie. Let’s hope Vanessa Lee will soon be stripped of her license to practice law because of such malpractice and calling the kettle white, when it is so obviously black... On a much less serious note, Vanessa Lee is known by those close to her as "Lemons," which is a nickname of which the precise origin escapes me. But, to be fair, people that see me call me "Family Guy," although that is not my nickname (frankly, I don't myself see the resemblance, LOL).

As you can see, what actually happened was a complete travesty of justice, but fit well with all of the shenanigans that Boeing and the King County Prosecutor have pulled thusfar in the case.

Simply another unfortunate day in Dan Satterberg’s King County Kangaroo Superior Court.

So, I was in effect screwed yet again by this cabal of crooks. Being charged with a crime in King County is almost becoming a sign that you are actually following the law much too closely.

The removal of Blagovich as Governor of Illinois last week by the Illinois Senate removed perhaps the most corrupt politician in Illinois from office. Certainly it removed the most well known corrupt politician in Illinois from office. Illinois was (and may be still) the state in which “pay to play” politics was most rampant. No doubt, that was a key factor that swayed the habitually legally challenged Boeing Company to move to its headquarters to Illinois in 2001, albeit it did not publicize it was looking thusly for a more “friendly to lawbreaking state” when it announced it was moving out of Washington state earlier that same year. After all, the executives that inhabit Boeing’s executive suites are not stupid by far—they are just largely corrupt.

If you are a Washingtonian like I am, you’ve got to be wondering who is the most corrupt politician in our own state—or, in effect, who is our Blagovich.

And that is where I can provide authoritative guidance on the subject. To my knowledge, the most corruption by far in this state occurs in the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle, where even supposedly “above the corrupt fray” judges seem to be straining themselves to achieve new heights in corruption every day, all in the name of what they consider “justice.” Their definition of the term “justice,” unsurprisingly, is often totally opposed to what any objective person’s definition of the term would be. In this hothouse of corruption in downtown Seattle where the law only applies against defendants and their attorneys, and is not applied to the conduct of anyone else in that building, Dan Satterberg, current King County Prosecutor, is the ringleader of said corruption.

Satterberg’s now legendary Svengali-like ability to get even (relatively) good Democrats to support him when he needs to call in such favors from such powerful people is obviously at work here. Satterberg still runs his office solely on the reputation of a long dead King County Prosecutor that Satterberg had been in effect office administrator (secretary) for. This strategy that Satterberg and his Perkins Coie campaign manager fabricated has worked well for him in that he won his campaign because of these lies, and it still gets him many rulings—some very much opposed to the law—because judges give his office the benefit of the doubt and in effect sleep through arguments by defense attorneys because they think they don’t have to strain their gray cells at all in ruling for the prosecution every time as long as they think Maleng is still running the King County Prosecutors office, as Satterberg has mislead them (and everyone else, for that matter) is the case, even now, many months after Norm Maleng's death.

Satterberg had gone to great lengths to channel Maleng long before Satterberg was actually elected to the office. And this sort of the worst kind of identity theft has gotten Satterberg everything he has wanted to have so far. His office’s attorneys don’t have to work hard on cases as judges almost always rule for them no matter how inane, lie filled, and law adverse their "legal" arguments are, which has made the office much more efficient than it would be if Satterberg, many of his prosecutors, and so many King County Superior Court Judges were not corrupted as noted. You’ve got to wonder if many prosecutors now telecommute because of this due to the fact that they thusly don’t really have to do any work other than show up for court hearings, and they don’t have to base their arguments on the law in order to win whatever they want in King County Superior Court. True, Satterberg’s continued channeling of Maleng is highly offensive, but it works to achieve his ends, so he continues to use Maleng’s good name for purposes outside the law.

But perhaps the most troubling and pervasive corruption in Satterberg’s office is not his identity theft of a respected dead man (Maleng) in order to violate the law at will through biased court rulings in Maleng’s (Satterberg’s) favor irrespective of the law or facts of the individual case. It is instead his habit of being so overly close to unethical corporations and law firms (to be fair, law firms generally perform business with the same, or worse, ethics than those of the largest and most moneyed corporation they represent) that he has, in effect, been literally living "up their arses." (I think that "arses" is a more dignified term than the relatively course and common term "asses" would be in this case.)

You may ask yourself, what is Satterberg doing thusly up their arses? I have the answer to that. He is simply looking for “pay to play” (“pay to prosecute,” more accurately) campaign cash and any other quid pro quo favors he can obtain by doing so. And he has been very good at rummaging around thusly inside companies' “intestinal tracts” that want favors outside the bounds of the law in King County Superior Court. Boeing and Perkins Coie have been frequent "points of entry" for said corruption of Satterberg. I highly doubt he limits “his” office’s corruption just to those two companies, however. I’ll leave it to others to post as comments or contact me with their experiences of Satterberg “pay to prosecute” corruption with other companies that they have witnessed personally, or other corruption of his office.

That Satterberg was able to totally defile a King County Prosecutor’s office in such relatively short time “he” has held that office after the office was handed to him after the “opportunity” of Norm Maleng’s death presented itself to him is indeed almost unprecedented. Perhaps he was so competent to do so because one of his heroes that he has followed the policies of with great admiration is George W. Bush, the thankfully former president, who did a similar thing in defiling our federal government and our Constitution in the very recent past.

That Satterberg has fooled so many (including many King County Superior Court Judges) for even this long is troubling, indeed. You have to excuse the grieving family of Norm Maleng for placing their trust in Satterberg. Satterberg (and his Perkins Coie campaign manager) were solely at fault for his brazenly channeling Norm Maleng from the minute Norm Maleng died, and any family member in such a horrific situation would be vulnerable to someone who was indicating they could channel Norm from the great beyond. Most people have to remember a loved one from memories, pictures, and videos. Few have the misfortune to meet people as unethical as Satterberg, who are con men who can channel their dead beloved at the drop of a hat. John Edward (no, not John Edwards, the former senator and presidential candidate), a "psychic medium," is vastly more ethical than Dan Satterberg is in this regard. I watched a John Edward show or two years ago when he was first popular. From what I remember, John Edward said he could communicate with some loved ones who have "passed on". Dan Satterberg is a "psychic" of a much different kind, however. If you followed his campaign, Satterberg did not claim he was the only "medium" with which people could communicate with the departed soul of Norm Maleng. No, his schtick was much more like this--Norm Maleng's soul never did pass on--it just took temporary rest in Dan Satterberg's body until it decides to pass on. A subtle difference I know, but it does back up Satterberg's act that has drawn in people that should be the last people on earth that would like Dan Satterberg if he was just his unfortunate self--Dan Satterberg, at least until he stops thusly impersonating Norm Maleng, is the defacto Norm Maleng until Dan Satterberg informs Norm Maleng's friends, colleagues, and family that Norm's soul has left his body for much greener pastures. I really doubt that will ever happen, however, until Dan Satterberg sees that thusly holding Norm Maleng's soul hostage is no longer of any political or financial benefit to him, just as he won't stop his "pay to prosecute" "ethic" until he has decided that Boeing, Perkins Coie, and other such companies' campaign contributions and other favors he has received as quid pro quo kickbacks are no longer of any benefit to him personally, as well.

This resorting to such “new low” methods in faking his own ethicality is just like the same trait we have seen in Blagovich in his uncanny ability to try to con people into thinking he is something he is actually the opposite of. Yes, Satterberg is Washington State’s Blagovich, and Washingtonians should handle him the same way Blagovich’s corruption was ended in Illinois. Personally I would like Norm Maleng’s good name disassociated from Satterberg forever to protect Norm Maleng’s reputation from being abused as it has been in King County Superior Court and the King County Prosecutor’s Office. No, I make no claim that I am in any way Norm Maleng, and Satterberg should apologize for misrepresenting himself as Maleng in court and everywhere else, pending his removal from office by impeachment or any other means that are legal for his other misdeeds. Satterberg and his “working together partner in crime” Boeing may have violated the law at will up to this point with no repercussions for doing so, but that doesn’t mean that we should stoop to their low levels in addressing their intentional ethical and legal lapses.

Satterberg has instructed all people in his office that have handled my case to do whatever Boeing and Boeing’s outside counsel (Perkins Coie, where his campaign manager works, and others) want irregardless of whether it is legal to do so or not. How corrupt is that? You thought that Satterberg was running the King County Prosecutor’s Office (KCPO)? Not so. Boeing and their outside counsel (his campaign contributors) get to decide how justice is defiled in King County, per Satterberg’s direction. If you knew all of the bogus arguments by the KCPO (actually Boeing and their outside counsel, in my particular case) and related rulings in my case, you would know this independent of Satterberg’s direction to everyone handling my case. How does Satterberg explain this corruption? I don’t know, but I expect he will argue that letting Boeing and Boeing’s outside counsel do almost all of the KCPO work on my case themselves was done for “efficiency” purposes, so that prosecutors' time could be freed up for use on other cases in which the right to do the legal work had not been sold off to his campaign contributors yet, as was already done in my case. That doesn't make it right by far, however.

I suggest, if you are a large corrupt company, that you check all the cases that will be potentially before the King County Superior Court and see if you can buy off Satterberg as Boeing has before someone ethical succeeds in removing him and his cronies from office. Have a whistleblower on staff that is trying to put you personally in prison for your serious and bottom line maximizing crimes? Can't figure out how to get rid of that whistleblower legally? That is your problem. There is no way to get rid of a whistleblower legally without bending the law severely or breaking it completely. Check my case for details on how Boeing did it. You will have to get your "hands dirty" with illegal surveillance of the whistleblower and/or their press contacts and by filing false and very, very misleading police reports, but you can rest assured until Dan Satterberg is removed from office that your campaign cash and other favors will buy you whatever "justice" you want against that whistleblower for their daring to put you in prison for your numerous felonies. For even more quid pro quo favors delivered to Satterberg, Satterberg will let you write all the legal arguments in the case, and let you make decisions to charge the whistleblower or not charge the whistleblower (an easy choice, for someone of your ethic) and let you decide yourself what to charge them with, even if it is an obviously bogus, fabricated and/or trumped up charge. Satterberg has friends on the King County Superior Court bench that will do everything they can to ensure the outcome that you pay Satterberg for, no matter how much it offends the law itself or any quaint old fashioned concept of "justice." I don't presume to know all such illegal bribes Satterberg takes other than the quid pro quo campaign contributions. He may be very open to accept other favors of any illegality level. To find out his preferences, I suggest you meet with him somewhere where your conversations about this subject will be private for obvious reasons. Don't get me wrong. I am for whistleblowers, and very much against companies like yours that don't do business legally. I hope you get caught, and tried anywhere but King County Kangaroo Superior Court. but you may as well try to take advantage of Mr. Satterberg's services while they are for sale to the highest bidder for a hopefully very, very limited time.

My case was never about what Boeing, Boeing's outside counsel, and Satterberg prevaricated it was about. It wasn't at all about sending me to prison for giving the press info about a few Boeing airplane sales wins that Airbus already knew they had lost. It was always about the other stuff they were careful never to link to the case so as to not out their real motivations.

It instead was always about protecting their executives from doing time themselves for crimes they know their executives have committed. Hence, the extreme efforts to get any evidence of their executive's wrongdoing "back in house" where it can be covered up by getting files back from The Seattle Times, etc. It always was, and still is, about whistleblower retaliation. Boeing has broke new ground in the area of whistleblower retaliation in recent times. Now, Boeing terminates all employees who talk to the press, even those who only communicate with the press about Boeing's own lawbreaking exclusively. This illustrates that Boeing's real goal in these matters is not to simply have the law applied to its employees and not instead applied to itself and its executives in any way. Their goal instead is to illegally retalialiate against whistleblowers and, by doing so, not to therefor face any repercussions for their own systemic violations of the laws and regulations.

Now that we know who our state’s most corrupt politician is, it is time that he is treated as he should be treated—just like Blagovich. He may still claim to be Norm Maleng throughout that process, but we know just how much of a lie that is, and what a very distasteful lie it is, as well.

Yes, Dan Satterberg, King County Prosecutor, and those that worked with him in the prosecution against me, should be ashamed for letting themselves be played like violins by Dan Satterberg’s major campaign contributors, Boeing and law firm Perkins Coie. (A partner at Perkins Coie, perhaps the chief benefactor of Boeing retainers for defending Boeing against any culpability for their white collar personnel’s crimes, was also head of Satterberg’s campaign for King County Prosecutor.) Their efforts to prevent Boeing criminality from coming to anyone’s attention that might be so ethical that they would want to do something about it that they demonstrated during the prosecution of me for going to the press about Boeing misconduct of the highest order should forever go down as one of the “highest achievements” ever in the annals of the history of King County Prosecutor misconduct.

I do in no way mean to suggest that my personal fate is of any great import, but his attempt, per the very, very ardent wishes of his noted campaign contributors to put blue collar people in prison on trumped up charges for daring to oppose the real and high crimes of Boeing’s numerous white collar criminals is “pay to prosecute” misconduct of the worst possible kind. It’s a corruption of our government that makes Blagovich’s corruption look tame by comparison, as the whole concept of Justice itself is at stake, and not just money, as was the case in that widely publicized case of blatant corruption in Illinois.

But, in King County, Justice is for sale to the biggest campaign contributor or benefactor to the current King County Prosecutor. In King County, Justice is in effect peeking through her blindfold at the amount and source of campaign cash put on the scales she is holding. Those who contribute most receive whatever “justice” they want, even if what they actually want is injustice. In that way, King County Justice is surely blind because of Dan Satterberg’s actions and inaction, as the meaning of justice and injustice are thusly variable for Satterberg if the bidding is high enough.

Surely, even if campaign cash and related powerful people of those donor companies had not come into the way of how the King County Prosecutor’s office interprets “justice” so directly, just the mere fact that Dan Satterberg belongs to a political party that has so steadfastly defended the moneyed elite’s interests over the interests of all other citizens would explain somewhat his bias against unbiased justice in this case. However, there are good Republicans out there, to be sure. Dan Satterberg is just not one of them.

Thankfully, for Dan Satterberg, cases like mine when he has to choose either justice, or inflicting the injustice wanted by his family friends, campaign contributors, and campaign heads, don’t come along too often, and are not covered in the press in sufficient detail, to make clear to the public his office’s sale of justice to the highest bidder. But, then again, perhaps Dan Satterberg doesn’t care about the risks of his own corruption being outed if the money and other rewards for said corruption are high enough. I don’t presume to know, however, what precisely goes through his white collar biased “criminal mind,” however. Those of us interested in true justice (which, of course, doesn’t include Dan Satterberg, as noted) should hope that Dan Satterberg doesn’t successfully keep his “pay to prosecute” corruption hidden from accountability much longer, and this blog is in the spirit of such openness that is needed to end such corruption.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and well before he won election with Boeing’s and Perkins Coie’s money and other help, Dan Satterberg had held absolute power for far too long, even if it was only for the relatively short time between the last King County Prosecutor’s death and his own election. Dan Satterberg breaks no new ground there, even though his corruption of “his” office is unprecedented, except for perhaps for the time before Norm Maleng took office. That Dan Satterberg’s campaign was highly distasteful (at the least) is surely attributable to his Perkins Coie campaign manager and his own “ethics.” I had never before seen a candidate for office try to “surf his way” into office on his predecessor’s coffin. That they had to essentially pry Dan Satterberg from Norm Maleng’s coffin so they could bury it while he had the cameras rolling, in effect, was distasteful, indeed, and while apparently effective with all of Boeing’s and Perkins Coie’s campaign cash to publicize it, I do not want to see any candidate for office stoop so low ever again. But this and Satterberg’s selling of justice to the highest bidder does say much about Dan Satterberg’s “ethics,” I believe. Being thusly so closely associated with the worst people in Boeing management and Boeing Legal does not carry the public connotation it should have, however, even in these days when Boeing management’s unethical antics are perhaps becoming most widely known.

Dan Satterberg could have avoided his office’s corruption by investigating and charging the vastly greater crimes of the company that reported my purported crime of communicating with a reporter in the media. That wasn’t going to happen on Dan Satterberg’s watch, however. His office made no effort to contact me or ask the Seattle Police Department to do so, even though the evidence of Boeing misconduct being the sole driver of my contacts with the press was inescapable. Why did he not do so? Were his hands as dirty as Boeing’s obviously were at that point in his career? Possibly. But it was perhaps the fact he knew Boeing’s “hands” were so dirty that led him to not thusly “bite” the dirty hands that would feed his campaign, and quench his thirst for more absolute power. Thusly not “biting” Boeing’s dirty “hands” was not a hard choice for one of the ethics of Dan Satterberg, no doubt.

Now that Dan Satterberg has “absolute power” to define the meaning of the term “justice” in King County even to mean its opposite meaning, he is no doubt also probably one of the chief advocates to make the King County Prosecutor a non-partisan office, and even for public financing of elections. Now that he is in the office, doing so would only help quench his thirst for ever more “absolute power” if he succeeds in keeping his offices base corruption out of the press.

Boeing is perhaps the entity with the most dirty hands ever to report a crime in King County, albeit perhaps a murderer has before similarly reported the jaywalking of someone who was on their way to the police department or prosecutor to report that same murder’s crimes, and the police or prosecutor also similarly ignored the murderers crimes and threw the book at the jaywalker instead with a vengeance, perhaps having also had their “decisionmaking” on the subject also “helped along” by the murderer giving them cash to do so. I do not mean to insinuate what I did in contacting the press as a whistle-blower was akin to “jaywalking,” or that Boeing’s ongoing criminality is akin to murder. The many people that have died because of the corruption I steadfastly tried to end are not “murders,” to my knowledge, as I have no evidence the many corrupt Boeing managers I witnessed the actions of that made those deaths much, much more likely and directly resulted in many of them actually wanted them to die and watched the coverages of plane crashes on CNN with glee anticipating a new order shortly from the affected airline. I believe they are 1st degree manslaughter, however. As for the crimes I reported to the press in Boeing giving Stealth Bomber technology to proscribed countries by stealing it from the true owners for use on commercial airplanes, that is a crime that is potentially even graver for our country in terms of consquences than the complex fraud in Boeing quality assurance that I tried to end, and that Dan Satterberg intentionally overlooked for the benefit of his campaign contributor extroardinaire Boeing.

But the party Dan Satterberg belongs to has, of late, not been at all about protecting the average person, no matter how well Dan Satterberg makes himself seem otherwise by prominently posting what he is doing to help the needy (and ensure his re-election) on the King County Prosecutor’s website. It has instead been about increasing the number of needy and outsourcing their jobs. To that end, Boeing is a good complement to Satterberg, as Boeing has outsourced untold thousands of jobs and likes to take credit for the charitable giving of their relatively few remaining employees. To his credit, I don’t believe Dan Satterberg has outsourced any King County Prosecutor’s office jobs yet, whatever he feels about the wisdom of Boeing’s own outsourcing. Maybe he believes, as his kind of Republican, that Boeing’s outsourcing is good because it allows them extra money with which to contribute to his campaign, but, alas, the subject of outsourcing is not related to the issue at hand.

That Dan Satterberg has been the willing puppet of the company that still most arrogantly flouts the law is not surprising, if you know his actions well, as I do. Satterberg will protect Boeing misconduct as long as he is in office, just as he has up until now. In that, Boeing’s contributions and Boeing contributions funneled through other companies have been a relatively cheap bargain. After all, what price would you put on your freedom from prosecution if you were a Boeing white collar criminal? I don’t presume to know the status of Boeing’s actions in other counties to similarly ensure corrupt actors in high offices. Maybe, as most corrupt Boeing white collar criminals work and live in King County, Boeing has not had to get their hands even more dirty elsewhere in the state than King County.

Even though Dan Satterberg has a Complex Fraud department that would presumably be ideal in prosecuting Boeing’s complex frauds (both the ones I witnessed and others), he has so far used it to arrogantly protect Boeing’s own complex frauds and to cover up any evidence of Boeing’s complex frauds. It has therefor been turned 180 degrees from its supposed duty, just as the word “justice” has also been defiled under him.

I wish I and others could truthfully report that Dan Satterberg was not a discredit to the restoration of the Republican Party’s good name. To that end, Dan Satterberg defiles his own party’s name just as much as Blagovich does to the Democrats. Blagovich tried to sell an office to the highest bidder, whereas Satterberg sells King County “justice” thusly to the highest bidder.

Maybe one day the King County Prosecutor’s office will one day be inhabited by people at least as ethical as I am. Until Dan Satterberg leaves office, however, the King County Prosecutor’s office can never aspire to be anywhere near being that ethical.

Perhaps those of you that are not abhorred by Dan Satterberg’s selling of justice to the highest bidder can be disgusted by the amount of King County and Seattle Police Department money Satterberg wasted in his attempts to ruin my life, imprison me, and send a message to other potential Boeing whistle-blowers out there. I wish, too, that Dan Satterberg had spent that money where it could have been much more ethically and effectively spent, in the prosecutions of the numerous white collar criminals at Boeing, some of whom Dan Satterberg worked together with much too closely and for far too long in order to ensure my unfair trial and imprisonment that was apparently not unfair enough for both Satterberg and Boeing.


It was sad that Dan Satterberg used the good name Norm Maleng had built up for the department in furthering efforts by Boeing to retaliate against me for brazenly trying to have them imprisoned by having me imprisoned instead. Surely the jury would have begun deliberations far more in my favor if Satterberg had not tried to have his direct reports stack the deck against a fair trial in my case in order to ensure the bidding of his chief campaign contributors was done to their satisfaction. Unfortunately a large part of a jury pool will assume you are guilty as charged even before the trial begins, especially if the public has a high opinion of the office, as they did until Dan Satterberg defiled the office Norm Maleng had built, apparently with Satterberg asleep near the wheel during that time. They will skip the hard job of deliberations depending on what they think of the ethics of the prosecutor’s office. Sadly, Dan Satterberg used that hard won name Norm Maleng had built for the department in unethical if not illegal efforts to ensure his election by pleasing the most well-heeled campaign contributors to be had in the state.

Of course Perkins Coie for the most part was just doing their job in protecting the white collar criminals at Boeing that Boeing retained them to protect. I do have a problem. However, with one of their partners using a personal friendship with a US Attorney to get that US Attorney to try to bluff me into signing a Perkins Coie/Boeing written/approved “continuance for dismissal.” I also have a problem with them currying favor with Dan Satterberg for naked business interests on the part of their clients. I think they should rely on the validity of their legal arguments rather than personal and campaign favor induced favor with government officials in order to do their work. But maybe they know something I don’t know. Perhaps Boeing’s retention of their firm is contingent on such highly questionable behavior on Boeing’s behalf that occurred in my case. It would be nice if my case was the last that used such “who you know” and “how much money do you have” favor to circumvent the wheels of justice.

Even though incredible amounts of pressure were brought to bear on Dan Satterberg by Boeing in order to get him to do the wrong thing doesn’t mean he should have succumbed to that pressure and did the wrong thing, as he did.

No doubt I would have willingly submitted to trial for any tiny “jaywalking” type law I might have conceivably broken if Boeing’s white collar criminals were also tried just as heartily for the serious and systemic crimes they are and were involved in that have cost lives and weakened our national security in the name of “maximizing profitability.” Such would be a small sacrifice to give and a “price to pay” in order to achieve real justice for the many people and citizens harmed by Boeing so grievously. I would have been honored to be tried by a prosecutor’s office with anywhere near such minimal ethics. However, the stacked and totally unfair trial Dan Satterberg subjected me to while turning a blind eye to the real white collar crimes at Boeing that the Complex Fraud unit was obviously the perfectly named unit to try cannot, and should not, be forgiven. Voters should not let themselves be bamboozled again by the campaign favors Dan Satterberg has accepted from companies that have committed far more serious crimes against justice than I was even unfairly accused of.

Tomorrow, at 12 PM EST, begins a new era in America, and a time for renewed hope that our government will begin to work for all Americans again, and not just for the moneyed elite and corporations for which it was ran in the last eight dark years for accountability and ethics in government.

While it may be too late to resurrect our country or even the entire planet from the mismanagement of the last eight years, it will no doubt be possible to make fundamental reforms, some almost immediately, once 12 PM EST comes, in some of our most important institutions in government.

While the list of government agencies that need to be totally reformed and pointed from their assigned duties of the last eight years of destroying their effectiveness and instilling bias within, to restoring their effectiveness and the lack of such bias is long, I have my favorites on that long list that I believe should be placed at the top of the list of those agencies that are in the most urgent need of fundamental reforms back to their true missions.

And, as you likely guessed if you follow my blogs, the specific areas in government that are most in need of reform, in my opinion, are the FAA, and the enabler of FAA misconduct, the DOT/OIG.

This informed opinion is based upon the systemic corruption I witnessed in those parts of the DOT during my extensive contacts with them in futile efforts to get them to do even their most basic of functions in protecting public safety by ensuring laws and regulations are followed by transport aircraft manufacturers, namely Boeing, by oversight of Boeing, and in the DOT/OIG’s case, oversight of the FAA itself.

The corruption at Boeing that I went to the FAA in futile efforts to end was corruption that I had witnessed first hand extensively. The highest levels of Boeing management were unwilling to end Boeing’s systemic breaking of laws and regulations meant to ensure the quality, safety, and reliability of commercial and military aircraft. So, it was not then too surprising that my portion of the vast matrix of Boeing management I reported to never reformed itself, as it was just doing the illegal bidding of “Boeing Legal,” the Chief Counsel of which I had the displeasure of interfacing with. After all, correcting a serious problem that places untold numbers of lives at unknown levels of extra risk would be an admission that Boeing had such a problem in the first place, if you place your “I’m a corrupt Boeing manager” hat on, something I have had to do far too often in my efforts to understand their “thinking” and reform them to some minimal level of responsibility in those key positions of Boeing management whose actions or inactions affect the quality, safety, and reliability of Boeing military and transport aircraft. They couldn’t afford that admission, and they certainly decided that they couldn’t afford to actually start inspecting production of its commercial and military aircraft per even the most minimal interpretations of laws, regulations, and procedures. Thankfully, we don’t live in a totally Adam Smith-like country, so I had a place to go when “market-based” Boeing “internal controls” intentionally failed to address this ethical, legal, and safety related problem. Going to the FAA was the only the only place I could have gone in this situation, except perhaps for the case of going directly to the FBI. However, I think I made the correct logical choice in going to the FAA first at the time, as the safety related aspects of Boeing’s corruption were more pressing to address than the criminal nature of its management, I believed.

Unfortunately the FAA was and is a place where Boeing had already bought and paid for those in key management positions, and they intentionally flubbed the investigation rather than investigated an area of Boeing management corruption that they knew they were just as culpable in abetting themselves. To risk investigating the corruption in Boeing management that was so well documented in my report to the FAA would have necessarily resulted in them having to risk investigation of their own internal corruption as well, opening the possibility of themselves doing time for their own crimes, as they and Boeing were “working together” in said corruption. They weren’t about to let that happen. They would have cut off any hopes of getting their “quid pro quo” cushy jobs at Boeing or industry associations Boeing belonged to and/or ran by their doing so. Tom McSweeney’s hiring by Boeing and Marion Blakely’s hiring by an industry association are such cases that they wanted to emulate for their own personal gain. Reform at the FAA is many years past due. Thankfully, not the “entire apple” is rotten. There are those in the FAA, especially at the lower ranks that see the corruption in their management and in Boeing’s management that also see the urgent need for reform so that they can begin to do their safety critical jobs without any reprisal for doing so. However, the problem will be in finding out which are the bad “apples” and which are the good. We can’t just throw them in water and see which “drown” and which “swim,” ala apples, to separate the corrupt from the good. To do that will require investigation, although, as a first step, all management who have not demonstrated independence from their corrupt FAA management could be replaced ASAP with great accuracy as to whom is corrupt and who is not. Firing such corrupt FAA management wouldn’t even be required short term. That would require too much time to investigate, time that passengers and crew on commercial and military aircraft affected by this corruption do not have. Paying a corrupt FAA manager to stay home and replacing them would be the best interim option, just as paying a bad mechanic to stay home would be better than allowing them work on an airplane.

But, what was even more disappointing than a corrupt FAA was a corrupt DOT/OIG that refuses to even investigate to end that corruption. Their failure proved to me the systemic nature of our government’s corruption at a time when other government agency corruption was beginning to become well known. Reform to get the “bad apples” out of that portion of the DOT will be also needed as well to ensure the FAA is reformed and stays reformed.

The DOT/OIG uses the same methods as Boeing and the FAA do to keep corruption in place—intentionally incompetent investigations, as well as “investigations” that do find some of the problems, however they only correct a few of them over such a long time scale totally opposed to the real urgency of the problem for the public, they end up with ineffective fixes for even those few problems. And those are just some of the more “ethical” ways such corruption is abetted rather than ended.

Such has become the state of our government—where even our most critical agencies to the safety of our and the world’s citizens are so corrupted.

Thankfully, such corruption has not caused as many deaths as it could have, albeit each life it has cost has an immeasurable value. Pure luck may be part of that, and who knows, maybe the prayers of those on defective commercial and military aircraft are being answered. Flaming commercial aircraft that only explode when the last passenger or crew member gets off of them. Certainly that wasn’t because of any action by corrupt Boeing or DOT management. Indeed, the aircraft’s explosion in the first place was because of their intentional “oversight” of the most basic laws, regulations, and procedures.

Tomorrow’s inauguration brings new hope that these and other instances of corruption affecting so many people’s lives will start to be addressed with the urgency and sincerity required. While there is a hopefully slim chance that the new administration will be just as far in bed with Boeing than the last one was as far as corruption goes, I see that as an unlikely outcome, no matter how arrogantly Boeing tries to continue its corruption past noon, EST, tomorrow.

It is good that President-Elect Obama is so popular and so many people are so optimistic he will succeed where others have failed. Hopefully the mood is suitably dark tomorrow in the Boeing management offices in Chicago and elsewhere. Maybe new accountability in government will bring accountability in Boeing management that so far has escaped any for its, in many instances, intentional mismanagement.

It has only been through the efforts of people like me that the current Boeing management has not succeeded in totally destroying the company thus far. Per Boeing’s belief (rightful or not), I am the sole reason what little of the 787 is built by Boeing is assembled in “non-right to work” state Washington. If not for me, hear Boeing tell it, 787s, if they were to deliver to customers some day, they would be delivered from South Carolina, instead of Washington. Maybe one day Boeing management will come to terms with reality and thank me for purportedly “making them” site the 787 in Washington, when they consider what even more a debacle it would have been had it been sited entirely in South Carolina. But, likely not. Arrogance knows no bounds, and Boeing, the self-described most arrogant company on the face of the entire planet, may arrogantly assume they would have succeeded where they so far have failed if thusly given more “bullets” to shoot their “feet” with. But, alas, to the current management at Boeing, failure has been redefined as “success,” so the meanings of those terms are in effect meaningless at Boeing, as they are interchanged in meaning at will.

I watched CNN for the first time in a while today, and to hear it reported that Obama is so popular and people are so optimistic as far as his ability to make changes for the better goes is heartening. I have been paying too much attention to the eighteen or so percent who think the glass is half or less empty. I have never before seen such a miserable group of people so deluded and so hateful. Maybe they have been neutered for the last eight years by themselves by not having the ability to critique the current president they support, and they are relishing returning to the mindlessly partisan attacks on the president of the Clinton years. But some of them have broken new ground, it seems. I don’t remember a previous president being called anything as abhorrent as the “N” word or losers of an election calling for the “A” word (assassination), like I’ve seen from them lately. A new low in “political discourse,” I believe. Fortunately or unfortunately, it is the same 18 percent that still support the current president that are taking part in these inhuman attacks on the next president, I believe. That the vast majority of Americans don’t believe as they believe is great news, indeed.

The time for mindless partisan and racist attacks is as long past as it’s ever been. Even some Republicans are hoping Obama succeeds, smartly, while others still seek to mindlessly blow holes in the “bottom of the boat” in which we all live. While some will still labor to undermine our government from without come noon EST tomorrow, hopefully both parties will work together to make government accountable, effective, and ethical from within. And that is especially urgent as noted for reform of the FAA and DOT/OIG.

While corruption still thrives within Boeing and the FAA today, tomorrow, literally, begins the hope of reform of the FAA and its overseer, and thereby hope that at least the corruption in Boeing QA management will at long last be brought to an end. While I began that effort years before both Boeing and the government were willing to address it, I hope that others will now help see it through for the safety of everyone in this new era of reform now upon us.

The last eight years were an experiment gone horribly wrong. Repealing or otherwise not enforcing regulations (as in the case of the corrupt FAA) is neither good for business nor good for people. The foolish ignore history, and the reasons regulations were put in place, and, if put in charge, doom us all to repeat that history again. Corporations are free to flout laws and regulations at will, however, they should not escape the consequences for doing so, especially when those laws and regulations were put in place to protect lives, and especially when whistleblowers report that corruption to the relevant government agency. So far Boeing’s management has escaped those consequences by being “too big to regulate” and by having its arrogance rewarded rather than punished. An obvious fix to this problem would be to require Boeing to break up into companies that are not “too big to regulate” and are small enough to never again become so arrogant. You would think that a corporation could be reformed without such drastic action. Sadly, corruption is so ingrained in Boeing’s current management that it may not be able to be cut out like the cancer it is for the company. Incompetent and corrupt Boeing managers have shown a great unwillingness to be held accountable for any of their actions, and so far have placed their own personal interests in maintaining their jobs at Boeing above the interests of the corporation as a whole. Meanwhile, it seems that more and more people are becoming convinced that most of the current Boeing management should not be allowed to manage any company other than one whose products are no more complex to produce and no more safety critical than products like “post-it” notes are with each new 787 delay or other similar announcement.

Tomorrow begins a new era in the hope to end such corporate and government corruption. That is reason enough to celebrate.

Gerald Eastman

P.S.: Don't forget to write www.change.gov as GFS suggests as noted in my previous blog