What Goes Around, Comes Around…
November 20, 2009 Update:
Many of us have been speculating about the onslaught of intensely vicious rhetoric and planting of FALSE and “Scurrilous” lies about me since I posted this Feature Story on Tuesday evening. But perhaps this will explain a little bit:
1.There has been no Answer filed in the Gerald Emery v Matt Thames et al law suit, even though the suit was filed more than six weeks ago, on October 1, 2009.
2. Originally, correspondence was directed to Emory L. Palmer or Carr & Palmer in Atlanta. In fact, we spoke to Mr. Palmer on Tuesday as we prepared this article. But since Tuesday, a Notice of Appearance has been filed on behalf of the Defendants, by James Alexander Reed of Alston & Bird, LLP.
BTW, contrary to the trash being posted on several various threads on Summerville Topix, within hours after I posted this article, we are NOT filing bankruptcy, we do not live at 91 Vassar Drive and our home is NOT being placed on auction.
tw
November 17, 2009
As promised, we are continuing our posting of old stories which have once again become relevant because of major developments.
Such is the case with the article we posted on December 2, 2009, Dixie Mafia - Chapter 5: How to Marginalize An Opponent in Three Easy Steps about Kristina Cook Connelly Graham’s Default Judgment against Gerald Emery, in favor of Ed and Brenda Hammitt, who was represented by Jon Dennis.
Familiar Players, to be sure, because it was this article which spawned comments by two posters, one known and one still unknown, for which I was sued in several different law suits, filed, dropped, re-filed. A Chattooga County jury found in my favor in one case, and the second case, where the name and identity of ex-wife of attorney Jon Dennis, was used fraudulently as the Plaintiff in one of the law suits against me. That case is pending before the Georgia Court of Appeals, and should be decided by the end of December.
As you will read in the re-posted story, below, after Judge Graham, then still Judge Connelly, ruled against Ben Ballenger’s client, Gerald Emery, instead of allowing Ballenger to file an appeal, he was “persuaded” to fire Ben Ballenger, and to hire Dalton attorney Matthews Thames, who has been co-counseled on some big cases along with Bobby Lee Cook.
As my granddaughter says, “Coincidence?I think not!”.
Regular readers will know that the Court of Appeals dismissed the Application for Appeal, due to some gross errors on the part of Matt Thames, including neglecting to file any of the nefarious rulings by Bobby Lee Cook’s daughter, Judge Kristina Cook Connelly.
Then, Matt Thames and “Others” convinced Ben Ballenger’s former client, Gerald Emery, to turn on Ballenger, and file a malpractice suit against Ballenger. HOWEVER, as readers know, a Chattooga County jury found that while Ben Ballenger may have made mistakes, that Gerald Emery’s new attorney, Matt Thames, made even worse mistakes, and screwed up his appeal.
Well, On October 1, 2009, Atlanta attorney Warren R. Hinds filed a malpractice law suit on behalf of Gerald Emery,against Dalton attorney Matthew Thames and his law firm, Goddard, Hammondtree & Bolding, LLC, fka (formerly known as), Goddard, Thames, Hammontree and Bolding, LLC.
Interesting - Matt Thames is no longer part of the club.
Count One, of the ten page law suit, details Professional Negligence, and Count Two details Breach of Contract. But it is COUNT THREE, Breach of Fiduciary Duties, which really tells the story, and implies an undercurrent of conspiracy, the very thing Ben Ballenger convinced a Chattooga County Jury existed in the whole ordeal.
Count Three lists, among other things, accuses Matt Thames and his partners of committing acts of omissions, including:
a)failing to timely disclose the effect of their omissions
b)willfully and intentionally concealing their personal responsibility for the manner in which Mr. Emery’s claims were handled
c)knowingly making false claims of fact and law to Plaintiff and others.
Count Three goes on to allege that Matt Thames’ “actions and omissions showed willful misconduct, malice, fraud, wantonness, oppression and a conscience indifference to the consequences of their conduct.
Matt Thames and his former law partners are being represented by Emory L. Palmer of Carr & Palmer in Atlanta, Georgia.We spoke briefly with Mr. Palmer, who was professional and courteous,but declined comment.
Now, for a re-post of our former article:
How To Marginalize An Opponent in Three Easy Steps
December 2, 2007
Part I : Choose A Straw Plaintiff
Gerald Emery’s Application for Discretionary Appeal was denied by the Georgia court of Appeals, because his attorney did not follow the Very, Extremely Specific Rules set out by the Georgia Court of Appeals for filing an Application for Discretionary Appeal.
Any attorney who has practiced long enough to file a case with the Georgia Court of Appeals, knows from following the guideline booklet, that the if every “i” is not dotted, and every “t” not crossed, then the Court of Appeals is allowed to refuse to consider a case for appeal, which might other wise have been a good case.
Preparing for an appeal, preparing the file for an appeal, as any attorney will tell you, is an arduous process. I know because I have worked for attorneys before, and I have helped prepare appeals. An Application for Discretionary Appeal is filed to the Georgia Court of Appeals, not the Supreme Court of Georgia. The rules are very specific, anal, almost, but failure to meet one of the finest points, like binding the application on the side, instead of the top as required, will doom a case before it is even considered on its merits.
Appeals Court rules and regulations are not the same as in the Uniform Rules of the Superior Court, where even if an attorney misses a deadline, he/she can buy some grace, pay a small fee, and file late.
Just a sample of some of the rules are:
(a) An application for leave to appeal a final judgment in cases subject to appeal under O.C.G.A. 5-6-35 will be granted only when
Reversible error appears to exist; or
The establishment of a precedent is desirable.
(b) Applications for discretionary appeal pursuant to O.C.G.A. 5-6-35 should have copies of all material from the record tabbed and indexed and shall be securely bound at the top with staples or fasteners (round head or Acco). If not tabbed, indexed and securely bound at the top, the petition is subject to dismissal or return for preparation according to the Court’s rules. The material must be sufficient to apprise the Court of the appellate issues, in context, and support the arguments advanced. Applications are limited to 30 pages in civil cases and 50 pages in criminal cases, exclusive of attached exhibits and parts of the record, and should follow the general format of briefs as to margins.
These are just a few of the rules, but some of the very rules which Gerald Emery’s attorney Matthew D. Thames, of Goddard, Thames, Hammontree & Bolding, LLC, did not follow.
According to an affidavit filed by former Solicitor General, Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, Samford M. (Buddy) Hill:
“Emery’s appellate counsel, Matthew D. Thames, failed to meet the standard required of attorneys representing parties prosecuting appeals to the Appellate Courts of Georgia. Thames filed in the wrong appellate court, and failed tp present errors committed by the trial court to the appellate court, which would have reversed the trial court’s action”.
Buddy Hill’s affidavit continues:
“Thames’ failure to properly present the issue requiring recusal of the trial judge due to violation of O.C.G.A. 15-1-8 and Cannon 3E of the Code of judicial Conduct fell below the standard required by appellate attorneys in Georgia. Thames’ mishandling of Emery’s appeal violated Rules 1.1 and 1.3 of the Rules for Professional Conduct as is established by the State Bar of Georgia”.
Mr. Thames left out the very necessary and critical part of the record which proves he has a case, the copy of the Transcript of the Hearing Requesting Judge Kristina Cook Connelly’s Recusal. But even more deadly, Mr. Thames filed his Application for Discretionary Appeal in the Georgia Supreme Court, INSTEAD of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Evan a paralegal would have known the difference.
WOW. Sounds like Mr. Emery should sue his attorney for malpractice.Indeed, Mr. Emery did file a malpractice suit, but not against Mr. Thames his appeals attorney.Mr. Emery filed a malpractice suit against Ben Ballenger, whom he retained in the summer of 2006, to handle an easement dispute.
You see, in June of 2006 Mr. Gerald Emery went to see Summerville attorney, Ben Ballenger about an easement dispute between he and Edward and Barbara Hammett. (Here we go with real estate disputes in Chattooga County). Settlement discussions during the summer did not yield a resolution, and so on September 27, 2006, the Hammett’s attorney, John R. Dennis, filed suit in Chattooga County Superior Court.
On October 5, Mr. Emery delivered the suit to Ben Ballenger, his attorney, and on October 6, the next day, Ballenger and Dennis Entered in to a Consent Order continuing the Rule Nisi Hearing on an Injunction.(Not a hearing on a Declaratory Judgment as the complaint alleges).
On October 6, Judge Ralph Hill continued the hearing until November 6, 2006.But according to court records, Mr. Ballenger sent Mr. Dennis a letter confirming their conversation to postpone the November until after November 20, 2006, at Mr. Dennis’ request, due to conflict Dennis had with other cases.
This is a practice most jurisdictions work with regularly, if one attorney has a conflict, or is not prepared, they will ask the opposing side to continue even longer than originally set. Agreements like this go on all the time, and are dependant on the “Gentlemen’s Word”, but always a good idea to follow up with a letter, which Ben Ballenger did.
While the original suit was filed on September 27, with a 30 day response time running, Ballenger’s answer on behalf of his client should have been filed no later than November 1, (30 Days plus three days for mail). But because hearings had been continued and then re-continued again, Mr. Ballenger filed his response later than 30 days, but still within the 45 day time limit.
Here is the problem.Although the Uniform Rules of the Superior Court allow for this sort of scheduling difficulty and untimely filings, if you file an answer more than 33 days after a suit had been filed, a fee must be paid to the court.No Big Deal.It happens every day in counties all across the state. File late, and you get assessed a fee.
Ballenger filed the answer to his client’s law suit on November 15, asking for a jury trial.
During the week of November 20, not having noticed Ben Ballenger that he had put down a Rule Nisi Hearing date, John Dennis appeared before Judge Kristina Cook Connelly and asked for a Default Judgment against Ben Ballenger’s client, Gerald Emery.The reason? Dennis claimed that Ben Ballenger neglected to pay the filing fee for filing an answer past the 30 day deadline.
On November 27, 2006, still without any notice to Ben Ballenger that there was supposed to be a hearing, nor that there had been a hearing, Judge Kristina Cook Connelly, whose father Ben Ballenger had been fighting for several decades, entered a judgment against Ben Ballenger’s client in the amount of $110,000.00.
Now, Matthew Thames is suing Ben Ballenger on behalf of Mr. Emery for $300,000.00 in punitive damages, and $115,500.00 for special damages, and $20,000.00 attorneys fees. A grand Total of $435,500.00.
But Ben Ballenger is not the only casualty of the corruption in this case, and the malpractice by Matthew Thames’. Mr. Thames’ has also included Ben Ballenger’s ex-wife, Linda, in this case, for a transaction which occurred long before Mr. Emery ever approached Mr. Ballenger to represent him.
Teresa Watson
Part II: Go After Friends and Family
Now we know that on November 22, 2006, one week after Ben Ballenger filed his client’s answer to the law suit, John Dennis appeared before Judge Kristina Cook Connelly, not having noticed Ben Ballenger, and asked for a Default Judgment against Ben Ballenger’s client, Gerald Emery. We know that John Dennis claimed that Ben Ballenger neglected to pay the filing fee for filing an answer past the 30 day deadline. We know that on November 27, 2006, still without any notice to Ben Ballenger that there had even been a hearing, Judge Kristina Cook Connelly, entered a judgment against Ben Ballenger’s client in the amount of $110,000.00.
So, Ben Ballenger filed a Motion for New Hearing and a Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment. He also filed a Motion to Disqualify Judge Kristina Cook Connelly, because of the long standing and well known, (about town), animosity between Mr. Ballenger and Bobby Lee Cook, his law firm and Bobby Lee Cook’s daughter, Judge Kristina Cook Connelly. To support his motions, as Georgia Code allows, Mr. Ballenger filed a Confidential Affidavit. The affidavit outlined illegal activities by the group, specifically that members of Bobby Lee Cook’s law firm, including Judge Connelly’s husband, Branch Connelly, regularly appeared before Judge Connelly representing clients - an obvious and gross violation of the Cannons of Ethics for lawyers and judges.
Judge Connelly refused to recuse herself, and in a flagrant display of power, Judge Connelly sat over the Motion for New Trial/Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment, according to witnesses, Bobby Lee Cook sat front and center on the front row of the jury box, with Arch Farrar to his right, and Rex Abernathy, Carlton Vines and Jerry Westbrook all in attendance.
Wade Hoyt appeared on behalf of the Clerk of Court. You see, part of the argument on the Motion for New Trial/Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment, was the fact that when Mr. Ballenger had filed his client’s answer to the law suit, the Clerk neglected to collect the late fee.Mr. Ballenger’s arguments was, that if he had neglected to pay the late fee, then the clerk accepting the late filing, and logging it in to the computers, should have called his attention to the fact that the fee was due. It is Mr. Ballenger’s contention that on the day, when the clerk thought there was a missing fee, the clerk should have contacted Mr. Ballenger.
No such courtesy was paid this long time officer of the court, but just a few days after the deadline, John Dennis was in court getting a default judgment in front of Judge Connelly.
So, the Clerk who was a key witness in this case was represented by Wade Hoyt, III, of Mario Armas fame.
Of Course Judge Kristina Cook Connelly denied the Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment and Motion for New Trial.
Ben Ballenger was sure that the Georgia Court of Appeals would reverse Judge Connelly’s ruling. It has had to do so in the past. According to court documents, Ben Ballenger agreed to represent Gerald Emery for free at the appeal, and promised Emery that if he did not win the appeal for Emery, that he, Ben Ballenger would pay the $110,000.00 default for Emery.
Emery agreed, but shortly after, Ben Ballenger was contacted by Matthew D. Thames and told that Thames would be taking over the appeal. But we know that Thames made serious and gross errors in the appeal process, both filing it with the wrong court, (an Application for Discretionary Appeal goes to Georgia Court of Appeals, not the Georgia Supreme Court), and Thames neglected to include the transcript of the Hearing on the Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment.
Yet Mr. Thames convinced Gerald Emery to sue Ben Ballenger for malpractice. But that’s not all. Mr. Thames convinced Gerald Emery to sue Ben Ballenger’s ex-wife, Linda, for FRAUD.
Linda and Ben Ballenger were divorced in 2000, after twenty two years of marriage. Mr. Ballenger wanted to sell off all of the marital assets and split the proceeds, but Linda wanted to keep the charming old Cape Cod cottage in downtown Summerville. For several years, Linda Ballenger made all of the payments on the home. Several years after the divorce, Ms. Ballenger was able to refinance the home, and on January 17, 2006, she bought out Ben Ballenger’s portion for $5,000, and a deed was given to sever the claim by Mr. Ballenger to the home.
However, Linda neglected to file the deed until May 10, 2007.
So Thames convinced Gerald Emery that this was fraud, alleging that the Ballenger’s somehow knew what had not been decided yet - that the Georgia Court of Appeals would deny Thames’ appeal for Emery, which happened later that month. Even though the deed was transacted on January 17, 2006.
So add on top of what Emery is asking in the law suit from Ben Ballenegr, solely, ($435,000.00), Gerald Emery is asking for another $200,000 from Linda and Ben Ballenger jointly. The Grant Total for both Ben and Linda Ballenger? $635,000.00
Teresa Watson
Part III: Break the Very Law You Hold Others Accountable For
I apologize for the lateness of this posting, but since I have begun this series on the Dixie Mafia, I have been threatened in several specific incidences, and taking measures this week has consumed a good deal of time:
First, someone left a item at my door, tied directly to Summerville, Georgia,after breaking off a lock pick inside my lock at that door. It was the Saturday morning of the Georgia Florida football game.
Next, after responding to a comment by someone posting to this website, the phone rang, and when my answering machine picked up, two semi-automatic gunshots were fired as a warning.
That was Friday, November 9th, 2007.
Then, on Monday, December 3, 2007, I was served with a subpoena to be deposed in a law suit in Chattooga County that I know nothing about. The Plaintiff is Janice Galloway and her attorney is Bobby Lee Cook.
NOW, fourth in a very clear pattern of intimidation in an effort to stifle the free press, I have been served with a $1,000,000.00 law suit by Bobby Lee Cook, Rex Abernathy and John Dennis, on behalf of Ed and Brenda Hammit, for a comment a reader posted on my website in reference to this very Feature Story.
It is because of this long documented pattern of intimidation by Bobby Lee Cook and those in his control, that I continue this series. I will note that I have been contacted by many attorneys across several states, who wish to remain anonymous, who tell of stories of intimidation through litigation orchestrated by Bobby Lee Cook. One attorney I spoke with on the phone, Mark Spix, of Spix & Krupp, LLC, shared with me that he was the object of one of Bobby Lee Cook’s famously orchestrated straw client law suits, as was Mr. Ballenger of this past week’s Feature Story, and as I have now been, simply because he was so successful in litigation time and again against Bobby Lee Cook.
Mark Spix, won, by the way.
As so many attorneys and members of law enforcement have told me in this last week since I have been served, Bobby Lee Cook and other members of his law firm find it difficult to win outside of Chattooga County, where they do not control the judges, Sheriff and DA. It is not that Bobby Lee Cook is such a brilliant attorney. It is that Bobby Lee Cook intimidates and controls within his little fiefdom.
This past week we detailed the case of attorney Ben Ballenger, who is the object of one of Bobby Lee Cook’s manipulations. It is a case which is ongoing, and Mr. Ballenger cannot discuss it, although I have interviewed others related to this case, and reviewed the court documents. Earlier this year, in an effort to intimidate Mr. Ballenger, Bobby Lee Cook conducted an interview in a case in which Mr. Ballenger was attempting to collect a fee from a client he had represented. But the real impetus of the deposition was the Confidential Affidavit attached to his Motion to Recuse which Mr. Ballenger filed relative to the case we have been detailing this last week. The Motion to Recuse was filed by Ben Ballenger against Bobby Lee Cook’s daughter, Chattooga County Superior Court Judge Kristina Cook Connelly.
During the course of the deposition, Bobby Lee Cook spent a good deal of time trying to humiliate Mr. Ballenger, using the Martindale Hubble book, asking Mr. Ballenger if he could find his name in the book. Martindale Hubble is a rating service for attorneys in the United States, to which most prestigious law firms submit information to be rated. However, because there is a substantial fee to be evaluated and rated, many smaller firms or individual attorneys find the cost too prohibitive to pay to be included in the rating service.
Also during the course of the deposition, as Cook grilled Ballenger about the deposition, he challenged Ballenger on one of the allegations in the Confidential Affidavit, that Judge Kristina Cook Connelly regularly heard cases involving members of her father and husband’s, (now deceased) law firm, for which she should have recused herself. Bobby Lee Cook challenged Mr. Ballenger to “Name One”.
Herewith, we meet Mr. Cook’s challenge:
We will not spend a whole lot of time in the details of this case, because the Defendant, whom we will not even name, was found “Not Guilty” in Judge Kristina Cook Connelly’s court. Representing the defendant? Rex Abernathy, of Cook & Connelly. The senior and managing partners of the law are Bobby Lee Cook , Judge Connelly’s father, and Branch Connelly, Judge Connelly’s husband.
The basic of the case, # 98-CR-14,1802 in Chattooga County, involved the day of March 5, 1998, when the defendant allegedly shook an 18 month old baby so hard, that he died. According to the three indictments against the Defendant, (Murder, Felony Murder and Cruelty to Children), the Defendant caused “excessive physical pain by violently shaking him”, and caused the death “by violently shaking him”.
District attorney Howard “Buzz” Franklin had taken the case to the Grand Jury, who returned the three indictments. But as everyone knows, if you want to get off on murder in Chattooga County, (assuming you have been caught in the first place), you get an attorney from the law firm of Cook & Connelly. And that is what the defendant did. Rex Abernathy of Cook & Connelly was assigned to the case, and the case was assigned to Cook & Connelly’s daughter & wife - Judge Kristina Cook Connelly.
So, what does the Cannon of Ethics for judges say about this?
Cannon 3-E Reads:
E. Disqualification
(1) Judges shall disqualify themselves in any proceeding in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where:
Commentary: Under this rule, judges are subject to disqualification whenever their impartiality might reasonably be questioned, regardless of whether any of the specific rules in Section 3E(1) apply. For example, if a judge were in the process of negotiating for employment with a law firm, the judge would bedisqualified from any matters in which that firm appeared, unless the disqualification was waived by the parties after disclosure by the judge.
Judges should disclose on the record information that the court believes the parties or their lawyers might consider relevant to the question of disqualification, even if they believe there is no legal basis for disqualification.The rule of necessity may override the rule of disqualification. For example, a judge might he required to participate in judicial review of a judicial salary statute, or might be the only judge available in a matter requiring immediate judicial action, such as a hearing on probable cause or a temporary restraining order. In the latter case, the judge must disclose on the record the basis for possible disqualification and use reasonable efforts to transfer the matter to another judge as soon as possible.
(a) the judge has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party or a party’s lawyer, or personal knowledge* of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;
(b) the judge served as a lawyer in the matter of controversy, or a lawyer with whom the judge previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge has been a material witness concerning it;
Commentary: A lawyer in a government agency does not ordinarily have an association with other lawyers employed by that agency within the meaning of Section 3E(1)(b); judges formerly employed by a governmental agency,however, should disqualify themselves in a proceeding if their impartiality might reasonably be questioned because of such association.
(c) the judge or the judge’s spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship* to either of them, or the spouse of such a person, or any other member of the judge’s family residing in the judge’s household*:(i) is a party to the proceeding, or an officer, director, or trustee of a party;
(ii) is acting as a lawyer in the proceeding;
(iii) is known* by the judge to have a more than de minimis* interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding;
(iv) is to the judge’s knowledge* likely to be a material witness in the proceeding.
Commentary: The fact that a lawyer in a proceeding is affiliated with a law firm with which a relative of the judge is affiliated does not of itself disqualify the judge. Under appropriate circumstances, the fact that “the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned” under Section 3E(1), or that the relative is known by the judge to have an interest in the law firm that could be “substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding” under Section 3E(1)(c)(iii) requires the judge’s disqualification.
So, should Judge Kristina Cook Connelly recused herself.Yes, most probably.
But when she did not automatically step aside, the District Attorney should have asked her to, so,WHY DID HE NOT even attempt to ask her to recuse herself.(Hmmmm). Because the law firm of Cook & Connelly was on the defense, and if you oppose Bobby Lee Cook, then you might find your next election fixed for your opponent.
So members of Cook and Connelly appear before Kristina Cook Connelly’s bench regularly, and time and again she refuses to recuse herself.
This is why Ben Ballenger filed the Confidential Affidavit, to have Judge Kristina Cook Connelly recuse herself in Gerald Emery’s Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment, and Motion for New Trial.
The pattern was already established when attorney John Dennis, and his clients, Ed and Brenda Hammitt, sued Mr. Ballenger’s client, Gerald Emery. John Dennis is pretty much tied to the hip of Bobby Lee Cook in many of his law suits, as evidenced this past week, by the law suit brought against me.Notice any familiar names? Plaintiffs Ed and Brenda Hammitt, same Plaintiffs in the Gerald Emery case Ben was defending. Same attorney, John Dennis, but this time associated with Bobby Lee Cook and Rex Abernathy.
This is why Ben Ballenger fights against the system in Chattooga County.And Ben Ballenger’s attempts through the years to try to rectify the Good Old Boy- Bobby Lee Cook system of Justice in Chattooga County, (aka Corruption), is why Bobby Lee Cook has a vendetta against Ben Ballenger, Ben Ballenger’s family, and anyone else who dares to expose the Cartel for what it is, even little old grandma reporters in Rome, Georgia.
Part IV: Just How Bad Was This Guy?
In Part III, we looked at the first of several cases we will be running in answer to Bobby Lee Cook’s challenge to Ben Ballenger to “Name one, name just one” case in which members of his law firm, Cook and Connelly, had appeared before Cook’s own daughter, and his law partner’s wife, Judge Kristina Cook Connelly.
In Case Number # 98-CR-14,1802, the defendant was charged with Murder, Felony Murder, and Cruelty to Children. The Defendant had allegedly shaken the baby causing such severe brain trauma, the child died. Rex Abernathy of Cook & Connelly represented the defendant, but the District Attorney, Buzz Franklin did not ask for Judge Connelly to recuse herself, nor did Judge Connelly take it upon herself to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
The Defendant was found “Not Guilty” on all three counts. But in part of the record prepared for Presentation during the trial, DA Franklin filed a “Notice of Prosecution’s intent To Present Evidence of Similar Transactions”.
Eight separate incidences of violence against children were documented. According to the document filed on August 14, 1998:
1) The Defendant, on the 21st day of December, 1994, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature, towit: he did pick [name withheld] up and throw her on the floor of residence at 112 Scoggins Street, Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.
2) The Defendant, on or about the 1st Day of March, 1995, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature on numerous occasions in that he would shake his infant daughter, said incidents occurring at the residence at 112 Scoggins Street, Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.
3) The Defendant, on or about June 1995, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature in that he threw the remote control at his infant daughter, striking her in the head, said incident occurring in Chattooga County, Georgia.
4) The Defendant, on or about the 15th day of October, 1995, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature in that he did strike [Child’s name withheld], then a three year old child, said incident occurring at Joan Wood’s Daycare Center in Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia.
5) The Defendant, on or about the 12th day of December, 1997, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature in that he did strike [Child’s name withheld] said incident occurring at 201 First street, Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.
6) The Defendant, on or about the 21st day of December 1997, and the 5th day of March, 1998, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature in that he did fracture the leg of [Child’s name withheld], said incident occurring at 201 first street, Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.
7) The Defendant, on or about the 21st day of December, 1997, and the 5th day of March, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature in that he did fracture the arm of [Child’s name withheld], said incident occurring at 201 First street, Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.
The Defendant, on or about the 8th day of October, 1997, did intentionally make contact of an insulting and provoking nature in that he did cause bruises and scratches to the left side of the face of [Child’s name withheld], said incident occurring at Rout 2, box 202, Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia.
So, how did this monster get off, being found not guilty of the obvious Shaking death of this eighteen month old child?
Teresa Watson
Comments (36)
And your time stamp is an hour off. Offshore, perhaps?
Dear HSTGRRL,
Yes, my website is hosted off shore, as I wrote in an article relating back in March. You Papa Smurf broke the law abd caused my website to be brought down, so, I went off shore where Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are actually honored.
tw
On topix they are calming you are going to go
bankrupt, if figuring out how to manipulate people, a court system
and money rules.
What then?
Dear JH,
Read my response to HSTGRRL, who posted here about the same time she started that thread on Topix.
It is defamation, and I have her I.P. address from now and from when she used to post here.
Money is tight, but we pay our bills, because we live simply, and not beyond our means.
tw
If they start telling everybody that they saw you pick
your nose, will that turn everyone against you then?
Dear JH,
Very Funny.
You are welcome to copy and paste what I answered to HST, to the Summerville Topix. I do not post there. But that way, if there is anyone who does not know WHO TW is, they will certainly know WHAT Hstgrrl IS.
BTW, does any one know what an Hstgrrl is? Is it a venereal disease?
tw
TW what would you have done if you had moved
to CC instead of Rome. Jessss!
Teresa,
You say you “have nothing to do with the lawsuit”. Was it not you that filed as pro se a suit against Bobby Lee Cook, the Espsy family, etc.?
Yes, it was me that started that thread on Summerville Topix. Haven’t checked it. Bet it’s some good stuff.
Track my I.P. Please. All you will be able to narrow it down to is my service provider. I have no relationship with the other “posters” you wish to acquaint me with. It seems like everytime some one dissents with you, they must be someone else who thinks you are an idiot.
I think you are an idiot.
Dear HST,
You posted, without qualifying, to a story about Gerald Emery’s newest law suit. How am I or my readers supposed to mean you mean my lawsuit, detailed in other articles. If you think I am an idiot, why bother coming into my house to post? Why read my website?
So, you are off for the TG holidays?
tw
“Yes, my website is hosted off shore, as I wrote in an article relating back in March. You Papa Smurf broke the law abd caused my website to be brought down, so, I went off shore where Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are actually honored.”
So it is somehow MY fault that your timestamp is off by an hour?
You might be as stupid as John Hovenac.
Dear HST,
What?
You came here and made a snide comment about my time stamp, and I responded. I did not accuse you of being at fault for my stanp, I simply admitted what you were suggesting. I do not lay blame for the time stamp on anyone. I am proud of where my site is located.
My, my, You really are defensive.
tw
Tw,
I had to go back and read your loose response several times just to attempt to make sense of your unformed ramblings.
I am bordering on defamation? You have GOT to be kidding me. You. Who has outright insinuated that Kris Cook Connolly-Graham killed her own husband. And bitch please. Don’t even try to hide behind some semantics. You said it and we all know you said it. Why do you think your ass is in such hot water right now.
Frankly, I hope you lose everything, including your husband who has GOT to be sick and tired of all your shenanigans. If he continues to stay with your crazy, litigious ass, he’s as big a fool, if not bigger, as you.
Cheers! Hope you sleep well. I’m fairly sure that your little ranch house will be up on the auction block fairly soon, due to bankruptcy.
Dear Sunshine,
What I post, is factual. What you posted about Bankruptcy is LIES. BIG DIFFERENCE.
BTW, we are so glad you’re home for the holidays. Today is my son’s last class before TG break.
NOW, My husband is so proud of me. You should ask him.
We are best friends and cozy snuggle bunnies in our tiny little cottage/bungalow. We are rich in non-material things, which is the greatest wealth one can possess. We are happy and joyful and content. We both encourage each other to pursue our individual, professional dreams, and he is soon to be off on one of those pursuits, with my blessings, excitement and pride.
Even LE who work closely with me on projects know this, and even call him by one of the nicknames I call him by. They like him very much, too.
He is the smartest man I have ever met, and has such an outrageously wicked sense of humor, that I eat him up.
He has been my biggest cheerleader, in this whole Chattooga County project, from the first time I ever met Ben Ballenger and others. My kids are second in line to that. Which goes to show just how little you know about me or my family, or my finances, for that matter. (91 Vassar Drive…we all got a kick out of that). But I will not let them attend hearings or post on blogs about me, because they get to angry at hate mongering, lying cowards like you and your ilk, and BLC’s.
They all do laugh with me at your paranoid defensiveness, (like your defensive response to my proud admission to your accusation about the time stamp). We really laugh at your inabilities to follow a logical thread of thought, and then your equally amusing inability to make cogent connections in your own ramblings. You and your personas are some of our favorite fodder at family gatherings, IF and when you post anymore. Luckily, you are always right in time for the holidays and spring and summer break, so we have figured out you will always be posting in time for when we are getting together.
I will admit, it has been VERY HARD financially on us, this whole RAPE by BLC and criminal and tortuous acts by BLC to drive my business away and bring my website down. But because we like and respect each other, these struggles have brought my husband and me closer together.
I will not soon forget, however, that BLC’s attempts to destroy us financially caused a situation where I could not even accompany my husband back to the country he was born in, to attend his mother’s funeral last year. And, every spare penny has gone to defend the bogus litigations BLC brought against me, so goals we had, dream we had, have had to be set aside.
We may never recover financially from the losses, some of which are those unrealized losses from missed opportunities because of the financial burdens imposed by BLC’s constant assaults.
So, that is why I have sued your idols. They have violated laws and codes and should have to pay. They have lied about me for two years, and have both slandered and libeled me, and caused irreparable financial hardships, as well as harm to my professional reputation.
But these outside forces have driven my husband and family and me even closer together to huddle from the blasts of the storm.
Thanks, btw, for the free entertainment. I have some other readers and posters who enjoy the same laugh at your expense with their families, too.
One more thing. I do not have a “ranch style house”. I believe the architectual term is “arts and crafts bungalow”, and it will not be up on the auction block anytime soon. Just FYI.
So, when do you graduate? Have you been working or interning at Unit One Atlanta? Merging music with pictures…that seems interesting.
tw
HSTGRRL said to TW: “Frankly, I hope you lose everything, including your husband who has GOT to be sick and tired of all your shenanigans. If he continues to stay with your crazy, litigious ass, he’s as big a fool, if not bigger, as you.”
She is just a little ray of sunshine and I am sure she spreads cheer throughout her household.
Teresa, I think a nerve has been struck.
Dear EBF,
To be sure. This law suit filed by Gerald Emery has REALLY got them sweating. And, as usual, the clan lashes out with their classy invectives. Hstgrrl is almost as classy as Auntie K.
tw
Hstgrrl I was told that if one goes to Harvard, (in
some class there) they teach it is not productive
to call people names. So I guess you didn’t go
to Harvard and take that class.
Dear John,
I am pretty sure they teach the same thing at University of the South, but you cannot teach reason, common sense or class. Either you can reason, or you cannot. You either have common sense, or you do not. You either possess class, or you do not.
All the money in the world can’t buy these things for a family which possesses none.
tw
Teresa,
I am glad that you find comfort in your husband. I mean that with all sincerity. I am also truly sorry that you could not return with your husband for his mother’s funeral. That is a terrible weight to bear, knowing that you could not be there for your one and only.
My point is that you, not once, have stepped back and noticed that this is all of your OWN making. Had you not become so embittered in such legal battles, none of this would be such an issue within your personal life. So please, stop trying to blame the Cook, Connelly, and Hammit families for your misfortune. It was YOUR choice to owe attorneys many thousands of dollars.
Perhaps you should ask yourself “Which hill do I choose to die on?” If you truly feel that this is an issue that you are willing to risk EVERYTHING upon, then by all means, go for it. There is no one I respect more than the person who will go “all out”.
But your pleadings and public sufferings tell more. To the outside world, you appear to be a loud mouthed shrew who shoots her mouth off and expects others to pick up the pieces.
In other words, if you would like to continue upon this path, be willing to accept the total responsibility. That means stop asking your “posters and supporters” to support you financially. Stand on your own two feet. Get it together, sister.
Dear HST,
Thank you for the civility in your tone in this posting.
You wrote:
“this is all of your OWN making. Had you not become so embittered in such legal battles, none of this would be such an issue within your personal life.”
Do you not realize that it was BLC who, two years ago, dragged me into two law suits, for two years, one of which involved a BOGUS and FRAUDULENT Plaintiff, who did not even know her name had been used to file a law suit against me?
I NEVER BROGHT A LAW SUIT for two years, through all of constant barage of attacks, legal, and sometimes through death threats.
Do you not realize that it was BLC who, two years ago, dragged me into the midst of a law suit in which I knew neither party, and of which I knew no facts, simply to harass me through deposition to try to get at my sources.
BLC could not stand the facts and truth I was and am still uncovering about his corruption. He and KCC-G could not stand being exposed for the corrupt fraud that they are. They have broken laws and grossly violated ethics trying to destroy me, to quiet the Free Free Press, a Constitutionally Protected Right Perhaps you have heard of it….The First Amendment.
They have both threatened me with DEATH…
Blame them?
This is Bobby Lee Cook’s and Kristina Cook Connelly Graham’s doings. From the time back in the late 1940’s when he ran over the old black man and did not stop to help him, right down through his being impeached from the Georgia Senate for illegal activity, through all of the bribes and extortion and hits he is suspected of ordering, and from the reign of terror imposed on the citizens of Northwest Georgia by his daughter from the bench, this Cook family has obliterated freedom and brought tyranny , bondage and chaos to Northwest Georgia.
This fight is for the very freedom from that bondage imposed by the Cook Clan. This is a fight against Organized Crime.
If you have actually read my articles, and not responded simply by order from the chief, then you would know that my articles have been backed up with PROOF through public documents and newspaper articles.
Open your eyes, and consider the possibility that you have been lied to all your life….brainwashed, like children in communist countries who are never allowed to be exposed to the truth of an existence and freedom outside of their own very regulated and dictated little world.
tw
Um yeah, that’s not an “Arts and Crafts” bungalow. Not a ranch, I stand corrected, but *definitely* not an Arts and Crafts.
Dear HST,
The lay out is identical to an A&C, and identical to my neighbors on my side of the street who have the A&C bungalows. The roofline was an A&C bungalow roofline before the winter storm of 1993, when serious damage required repairs, which altered the slope and pitch of the roof line. At that point, siding was also attached to insulate. One of these days, when I am through with Chattooga County, I will remove that siding, and reveal the original exterior, and re-claim the roof pitch…all projects we had in our plans and budget before we had to pay for attorneys to defend against the Organized Crime law suits initiated by BLC & KCC-G.
Of course, given your gross mistake at my address, perhaps you are thinking of another neighborhood.
But regardless, it is a wonderful tiny, cozy and happy home.
Now, while you are pretending to be all sweetness and light, since I called you out, I will note this:
At 2:49 am you posted a medium length post on this website, about all of my woes being my fault, wholly ignoring the two years of death threats, gun shots and litigation brought on by your family against me.
At 3:03 am you posted this short little sentence about the style of my home.
At 3:05 am, you started a new Topix Thread called “Should TW be allowed to wallow in her own self pity?” .
So, I imagine when you realized I knew, that it scared you enough to change your Screen name on Topix, despite the fact that you insisted here that you were not the same Hstgrrl on Topix, and despite the fact that you began that first threat about “Bankruptcy” within the same hour your began posting here two nights ago.
I am guessing your employer did not take kindly to your posting trash and defamation putting them at very serious risk.
But what is funny is that in your new thread, you mention something about my asking for financial support. I would challenge you to show me where I have done any such thing on my website since December 2007, when the first round of bogus law suits and depositions started. I certainly have not it in any other forum. I do not post on any other forums. As I have told folks before, I think it is unseemly for someone with a bully pulpit to commandeer another forum under an assumed name for their own agenda.
Nor do I allow my family to post, in any other forum, at least not about subjects regarding me or my website.
So I ask, how many screen names are you going to attempt to fool the public with? How many FALSE insinuations are you going to post. First insinuating that I am somehow insolvent and about to declare Bankruptcy, then that my home was being put up for auction, and now that I am begging for financial help. All false. All fabricated, just like your Pappy Slapp’s and Aunti K’s accusations for the last two years.
But even if I were somehow “Wallowing” in self pity, I ask you, whose business to stop me would it be? Whose right? We, as tax payers, pay for millions of people every year to wallow in self pity and loaf on the public dole. Back in the 1960’s, President Lyndon B. Johnson made sure we had a healthy, self perpetuating Entitlement Mentality population to destroy our society and economy. Now, President Obama is expanding that at a rate no un-declared communist country has ever done in the last century.
So, even if I wanted to wallow in self pity, who in God’s name would think it was yours or anyone else’s right to stop me from exercising what seems to be a new and undeclared Obama Executive Order American Right.
Just food for thought.
BTW - My first attorney, David F. Guldenschuh, and I came to a mutual agreement, and we are still friendly acquaintances. My second attorney broke the law and violated ethics, AND I DID FIRE HIM, and that is a matter of public record, if you would care to do a little research…it is in the file in Chattooga County, including the e-mail where I did terminate him after his actions.
So, once again, you are alleging things, in defamatory fashion, which you have no clue about, which are false, and I suspect it is because you are listening to the same people who for two years have alleged I lie, but refuse, now, in litigation Discovery to identify a SINGLE lie I have told.
tw
hstgrrl
if you are from cc then you would better understand the hold certain people have on the legal system in cc and the whole area. did you catch the story of the paving company that was trying to clean up a mess and blc attacked the crew. i talked to one of the crew members and he said the cop that showed up said no matter what blc did to them he could not do nothing because he needed his job. when blc slapped the menlo security guard years ago who stopped his car for blowing the stop sign. blc didn’t get in trouble for a driving infractiob, the officer got fired for even stopping the car. and don’t even go back to the hit and run blc did way back in his life.
sad part is that it took a lil ole lady from some where else to stumble into the scene and bring OUR dirty laundry out into the light. and as blc always does he is able to tie you up in his court system. and yes make no mistake it is his system and nothing happens in it that he don.t allow. so i feel we that still live here should support the ones fighting for our rights, its the american way, well that and a obama bail-out……
Dear UC,
So you think I might be able to get an Obama bailout? LOL!
Seriously, have you noticed that the Cook family clan can only see this fight as a personal attack against they and their family. It is like they ignore almost 6 decades of history, and corruption, and seem to think this is some attack out of the blue. They are like deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming train.
They are really dismayed. Sort of like John Gotti’s family. “But this is the way it has always been. Why is the federal government coming after all of us? We are just an all-American family”….
Thanks,
tw
TW,
I think many are shocked in disbelief that someone has chosen to stand up to this corruption by using the very laws these corrupt indivuals have used for years to get their way. It is also apparent the ones who are attacking you have much to loose if those they worship cease to operate the way they have for so long. It is also proven by hstgrrl that she will be greatly affected if this little kingdom of corruption is brought down. There is a trend here. The ones who are fed up with this corruption and the ones who are benefiting from this corruption.
The ones who are benefiting from this corruption are the same one out to destroy you a paint you as a bad person. People see through this tactic.
Dear EBF,
It is true. I was just speaking to someone from up there, and they told me the talk of the town is that this Gerald Emery case against Matt Thames has really terrified the cartel. I can see and imagine how much this might impact the Organized Crime, or at least I thought I understood. But this reaction since I posted the story about this case has been OVER the Top, suggesting that there is much more which lies beneath the surface of this Gerald Emery case and the Organized Crime which will be exposed.
I just had no idea it was that HUGE. I have been concentrating on all the case surrounding me, and the JQC case against KCC-G, and of course the Federal Case which grows bigger by the day, yet GE v MT case has been flying under the radar, and exploded on the surface of the water like a Tsunami.
I am ROTFLMAO over this one.
So, does anyone know how the case against Chattooga County Sheriff John Everett is going, the one filed by BLC on behalf of the illegal alcohol sales fellow?
tw
You have rattled their cage. What fireworks! All over a little story.
Dear Room4,
I cannot figure it out. It is way beyond my ability to extrapolate.
Sometimes it is nice to be in the dark, and just watch the fireworks.
BTW, Happy Thanksgiving. If you all make any of that Lemon Pie, save some for me…REALLY, I am SERIOUS!
Another BTW - I love food…good food, whether I cook it or someone else cooks it.
So, when I saw what was happening to the Brass Lantern Lady on Topix, I broke a Long Standing Rule of mine, and posted in support of her and her business.
I guess one day I am going to have to mosey on up to the Kudzu or whatever that restaurant on the mountain is. I know Ballenger’s is amazing, and I think I like Armstrong’s Tangy BBQ sauce better than any I have had here in NWGA. So, how come Chattooga County has so many great places to eat? Just not enough open at night through the week, IMHO.
Healthy Family, Good Food, Good Friends, Good Music, Good Books and Good Drink,that is all it takes for a fine life. (Of course, Bach added a Good Pipe Smoke to that list, and I am pretty sure that my dad agreed).
God Is Good.
tw
tw
Teresa,
You seem to be off your meds these days. Check in with your doctor. As far as lawsuits go, you would have never been sued in the first place had you not posted the ridiculous stories about Branch being murdered as opposed to the suicide that it was. This is how the entire situation is of your own making. There is also the tiny matter of the fact that you had the ill manners to post the autopsy report on your blog. Bad form on your part. And simply bad manners. Didn’t your Mama teach you better?
Suck it up, girl. You created this situation. It is all of your own making. Stop blaming others for your tragic condition.
By the way, I haven’t been in school, undergrad or otherwise in over 20 years. And I have never attended the University of the South, although I understand it is a fine institution.
Dear HSTGRRL,
I take my kidney meds everyday, WITHOUT FAIL, thank you verymuch, and since my surgery this past summer, am doing very well.
Now, I never said Branch was murdered. I wrote about how LE had many questions and doubts about suicide. I never made accusations, either.
The duty and obligation of a news reporter is to REVEAL FACTS, especially about questionable situations. Suspicious Deaths is a primary example. A Real News entity asks questions. A fake news entity takes their marching orders from the powers that be…like Pravda, only towing the Party Line and never digging for the rest of the story, and ultimately, the naked truth.
I do not know a single LE Officer, agent or detective in any Entity, local, state or federal, who thinks Branch’s death was a suicide. Given that Chattooga County has long been associated with an inordinate ratio of “suicides” for its population, LE just think it is the same old same old.
I will note that since John Everett took over, there have been no suspicious deaths/assisted suicides. Curious, NO?
BTW, I am not wallowing in self pity. I am waging war, and there is a BIG DIFFERENCE. I won the onslaughts your family brought against me. Now I have brought the fight to their door. I do not need pity. I feel strong and confident. I am thriving these days. Your family and the cartel took much from me, as they have done to the people of Chattooga County for decades. I am here to reclaim a portion of what they have stolen through their Reign of Terror and Corruption.
I wake up every day, excited about my mission, and ready to work on the massive filings they keep throwing at me. It is tedious work, but hopefully, in the end will be worth it to reveal what must be revealed. It is challenging, and while I wish I had someone doing it for me, I am enjoying the work.
So, I am curious. Why did you bring up the University of the South? It is a fine institution, and I used in response to John H.’s reference to Harvard, which in my humble opinion, is a Liberal Stronghold, which does not embrace many of the ideals we in the South hold dear. University of the South was simply the ideal reference to counter the Harvard reference.
But I am pretty sure I did not say you are/were ever a student there. Why would you make that leap and jump to that conclusion? I am curious. Did I somehow inadvertently stumble upon a raw nerve? I will have to investigate.
LMAO,
tw
I think I am a liberal,but I believe in what you are doing
TW, no two people agree about everything.
Teresa, I believe your reposting regarding the mans death was in poor taste…there is nothing to be “solved” you are only hurting the fmily
Dear SS,
I had to re-post, as I will many stories, because when Bobby Lee Cook had my website removed from the world wide web, many of my articles, including that one, were lost. Nowhere but on this website had the WHOLE story ever been tld. Branch Connelly deserves to have his story told. His friends have appreciated it so much, becaus ethey all insist that the Branch Connelly they knew for years, AND LOVED, would never have done that….he would never have caused his family that sort of grief and pain.
One woman who has contacted me, a very close friend, actually told her that he had a “File” in case anything ever happened to him, which he was beginning to suspect might back during the year prior to his death.
His children need to know that he feared something was about to happen, and that he planned for it. They need to know there is a file out there which will explain things.
So I beleive it is in the entire community’s best interest for folks to be able to hear the details.
Again, I would not had to have re-posted the story if Bobby Lee Cook had not taken my website down, that letter being written the week KCC-G was making the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit so proud with her tirade against local, state and federal agents, and calling her late husband, Branch Connelly, her “G–D— Husband”.
tw
tw
Guess what ?? I think he was murdered also. He obviously knew too much about the “inner-workings” of a highly corrupt family. They were fearful that one day, if pressured, he might flip and turn on the family. Why would anyone go to the dentist on the day that you plan on killing yourself ? Would you really care about oral hygiene if you were really that depressed ? DEFINITELY NOT. Their boy…Ralph “used car lot” Kellet covered that one up. Probably several others as well. In the end, God evened up the score with him. Soon it will be good old Bobby Lee’s turn. Happy Thanksgiving everyone !!!!!
Dear Bill,
Someone from your neck of the woods contacted me recently, who told me that she had been a very close friend. She told me that Branch told her that he had a “File” in case anything ever happened to him, which he was beginning to suspect might, back during the year prior to his death.
His children need to know that he feared something was about to happen, and that he planned for it. They need to know there is a file out there which will explain things.
tw
So good to hear from one of my favorite posters On TW’s website. Babbate brings intelligience, knowledge, and a good solid dose of “I’m coming after your butt BLC” to the site. I too while knowing
little of the Branch Connelly case have talked to many LE’s and every single one thinks something is big time wrong with his death. Bobby Lee was a powerful man, might still be, but he has been very strangely quite the last few months. He did not take the defeat at the hands of TW well. He is dangerous and at his age has nothing to lose. Careful!!
Dear MIB,
I hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday. You are right -it IS good to hear from Bill. I know he has been crazy busy for awhile, as I understand you have been, too. Good to hear from both of you.
Thankful Watson
TW, stick with what you’re doing……I remain doubtful that u will succeed in cleaning up chattooga……..or win ur lawsuit………but I heard today, from someone who would definitely know, that you are beyond irritating to the folks in chattooga who degrade women and assume parents have sexual relationships with their children………….if you wanna know who all is involved, and the list changes slightly over time, look at all who have maintained their positions in criminal justice for 6 years or more in chattooga………. By the way, when u get around to it, please see about making ur site more PDA friendly…….
Dear RGS - I have a long “To do” list for when finances are not in BLC Induced Drought Condition.
I am curious about the 6-Year thing. I have a few ideas, and those are real road blocks to progress and/or justice of any kind.
As for cleaning up CC, I do not know. I am still being told at both the State and Federal Level to be patient, and wait. And now, when I take a case to the feds, they sit up, take notice and listen, even the ones not related at all to Chattooga County.
But when they get in gear, and file all the paperwork to make a case “Official” I am not allowed to post the circumstances on the website. That is an order.
But I do get weary of the wait on the CC front. I am still told, after all this time, that things are on track, and growing and will be revealed “Soon”. But soon has not come yet, and so I am beginning to wonder about this Federal Standard time. I will say, that most of the really good cases I know about, which have already been brought and tried, have taken 3-4 years in RICO cases, Federal Approval to indictment, and another year or more until trial.
For instance, persons attending the Mario Armas trial back in October 2007, heard tape recorded conversation dating back to 2003 and earlier. He was not indicted until 2006, and tried in 2007. I am sure the conversations the feds have been collecting these last couple of years have been hair-raising in the scope and absolute criminal boldness as the Cartel has operated in business as usual mode, without impunity.
And, as you well know, another example of time lines for a well constructed RICO case is last year’s Mexican Mafia trial. The case was prosecuted by AUSA’s Kim Dammers and Will Traynor, but was initiated by Federal Task Force Leader FBI SA Bob Meadows. Meadow’s Task Force team included, ICE SA Tim Everhart, GBI SA J.P. Foster, FCPD Chief of Detectives Tommy Shiflett, FCPD Investigator Jeff Jones, current Polk County PD Assistant Chief of Police Kiki Campbell, and current Polk County Sheriff Kelly McClendon. In that six week long trial, folks heard testimony about events going back into the late 1990’s, but most of the activity investigated and drawn into the RICO Structure was early to mid 2000’s. The indictments occurred in 2006, if memory serves me, and the trial, designated a “Complex Case”, did not take place until January-March of 2008.
RICO cases, when well documented, lay out significant conspiracies with multiple events, elements and persons, spanning a decade or more. Our local Federal prosecutors are meticulous in constructing their cases, and it takes time. I am only two years into this, but I know when it breaks, it will be massive.
But I confess, I am weary of the wait.
tw
@romegasir She would have no idea about how to make her site more mobile device friendly. She can’t even make it convenient for those of us that visit it on the web, not to mention viewing it via mobile. She’s an idiot. The sound and the fury..you finish the sentence.
Dear Hstgrrl:
1.RoomForOneMore, is right about the hypocrisy. You are on here complaining about not being able to access my site on your PDA, but then on Topix you write:
“The woman is delusional, wanting to believe that she and her little blog are so much more important than any of it really is”.
Funny that people like you who spend so much time and effort spewing venom about me is what keeps me in other people’s minds. If I were of no consequence, then you would not even bother posting”.
2. You also criticize my posters, the ones with bad grammar, and yet you mix your pronouns and tenses as in the following post from Topix, which you posted in the wee small hours as you did here. You are addressing me, and then switch to “she”: You would get a poor mark for grammaear yourself, if your were being graded, fo rthis paragraph:
“ Srsly. I mean, srsly. Get a life, you pitiful little granny. She should probably be going after the school board. That might be some gravity she can handle”.
NO, Hstgrrl, I think that my website has you and your family/friends terrified, and with good reason. So you have to play the “Bagdad Sam” character, and pretend nothing is going on, while the US invades at the other end of town.
However, IF I had really been irrelevant, you and yours have certainly reversed that trend, so THANK YOU.
tw
Well aren’t you the busy little drone. This site is so distasteful to you, yet you are an avid reader. Can’t stay away and certainly can’t stop making an ass of yourself on other sites. Shouldn’t you get some professional help with your addiction? Is every word you read here of such importance that you must view it via a mobile device? Just wait until you get home. What is the rush? Afraid you’ll miss something you don’t want to know?
Do you not find yourself to be a bit hypocritical? Running down the website and then making use of it yourself?
Dear Room4,
WOW, She really is addicted, No?
I admit, her family and consorts have made money so tight that I cannot afford for someone to do the technical stuff. We are paying our bills, not filing bankruptcy, and our house is not up on the auction block….but there is not one thin spare dime, which is why I have sued the ones who have worked so hard to destroy me, violating laws and ethics in the process.
They have drained our savings over the last two years, so not extras….But life is still so good, and joy abounds everyday.
tw
Keep up the good work, Teresa.
As Susan Boyle said in her new album,
‘I have truth on my side. You’ll see.’
Absolutely beautiful music.
Great Christmas present. Only $9.99 @ Wal Mart.
Dear SuzieQ,
I love SB’s music. She is a late bloomer, and boy oh boy what the world missed until she came on the scene.
tw
Like I said before, a very high ranking pentagon type
told me the truth may not be enough. 20 something
years ago it was Gary Mc. who was sheriff and it switch
to Ralph K. The judge was County
Brown then it switched to Tracy M. I have taken their
guff for twenty five years. But because of TW, I am standing
up to them more. They watch for anything,
they can complain about someone. For example, BLC complained
state investigators had guns on their side claiming
it was gestapo tactic.
The six year thing does fit romegasir.
Dear JH,
Can you elaborate on the 6-year thing. I have placed some calls to try to learn more.
tw
Pay a defense attorney $5000 to get out of a $500 DUI………..and the case is nolle prossed, dismissed, dead docketed, or just sits idly on the books (and in a few cases disappears)……………………………how does that happen???????????????????? well, does a defense attorney have the authority and position to make it happen????????????????? Nope!!!!! who does?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Pretend your one of the folks prospering from this arrangement………..what would you fear more than anything else other than revelation??????????????????? someone filling a position that can’t be bought???????????????????? think harder……………………..
The six year comment is accurate ………………………………………… and is not haphazardly chosen…………………..
Needless to say, this website is slowing down activities such as described in the first paragraph and which have been the norm in Chattooga Courts for years……………………………………if nothing else, they are changing forms and have become less profitable…………when your payoffs come “in kind” rather than in cash, they are not quite as attractive………………………………
Dear RGS,
That would be State Court Solicitor Tim Perry, for starters. I have heard about the tenuous cold war between he and the new State Court Judge Sam Finster.
Tim Perry, Carlton Vines and AlPal…peas in a pod. I am working on a new story about Woodman of the World Al Pal, and also a new one about land grabs by the Chattooga County attorney, AGAIN. The method was a little different, this time, than what he used in the Stanley and Marilyn Anderson deal, or the Luke Puckett deal, but the means/vehicle was/always is, the same. IL-legal maneuverings through the judicial system.
The victims? The poor, or the uneducated, sometimes the mentally incompetent or the aged, and those of color.
tw
I would bet hstgrrl was elected most “Congenital” in high school. One can tell by how she presents herself.
Dear EBF -
Perhaps GrandPappy Slapp bought her the “Miss Congeniality” award.
tw
9.99 I paid $16.00! I hope Susan gets some of the money.
I have said this before, I went to County Brown’s court
(what turned into years) over a person who was not paying
lot rent. Final judge Brown went to GM and then came
back to me and said he told GM what to do and GM
said he was not going to do it and that was that. Its been
down hill living in this county because of the clique.
Just my opinion.
Dear John,
I have been hearing rumors today about a sideswipe situation involving an employee of a certain used car lot. The victim supposedly went to see an investigator at the Chattooga County SO, and was told that he should just drop it and NOT pursue it. That is disturbing, if it is true.
Does anyone have information? I know the name of the victim, but do not know how to get in touch with him. After the Chattooga County SO gave the victim the cold shoulder, I understand he went down to Rome to the GSP.
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You have a clear understanding of the way it works in CC. The way it has worked in the past, I should say. I could tell you stories about the bootlegging days when GM was the Sheriff. Things are looking up now. Not so quick to jump on an illegal business transaction now, but there are still the slow to catch on. Somebody always thinking they are above getting caught. Those will be the ones to give me a chuckle when the train runs over them.
Dear Room4,
I have a question. Do you guys know anyone who is going to hear BLC speak as the Keynote Speaker at the Catoosa County Democratic Party do on Sunday?
Someone from up that way called me and read the Chattanooga Free Press Thanksgiving edition announcing the event.
So my question is, how does a POLITICAL PARTY get to use tax payer buildings? I hope they are paying the Ft. Oglethorpe High School for the space AND to have the cafeteria lighted and heated on Sunday afternoon at 2:00pm.
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TW,
I think you missed my point. Con-genital, not congenial.
Dear EBF,
Now that is VERY Funny, To Be Sure. A Con from birth due to heredity.
TBS - Very Funny
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TW,
The “genital” part is the focus of my comment. But I understand you are a very busy wonderful lady.
Hot streetwalking girl is what always comes to mind when I see that name, so I came to understand what you were suggesting pretty quick. LOL, I’m just not right and neither are you evan. I need to pray more.
Dear Room4,
When you pray, Thank God for that great sense of humor!
It does look like “Hotsy Girl” which sounds like a name someone who pays for those “Chat” lines, which are advertised on television, would use.
“Are you lonely. Would you like to join other hot singles on the telephone? Call 1-800-”Hotsy Girl Party” and you can talked to other hot, interesting singles in your area” …LOL.
tw
Just read the side-swiped comment. Which investigator did the victim speak with and how many people overheard the exchange? Smart move to go to the GSP if he felt it wasn’t taken seriously enough at the SO. I’d like to hear more about this as well.
Dear Room4,
I spoke several times with the victim, today.
Corey Barnes from the SPD responded, wrote the incident report, and cautioned the victim to allow LE to handle it. GODD ADVICE. The vehicle was registered to TruckTown, and the driver was a Trucktown employee.
The victim got the Incident Report and went to the SO, and talked to Eddie Stroup, who, according to the victim, told him that they did not want to get involved with Billy Joe Dooley. Eddie Stroup actually, according to the victim, tried to get the victim to go “talk to” the Trucktown employee.
The victim took officer Barnes advice, NOT Eddie Stroup’s.
Then, the victim began calling Sheriff Everett, over and over and over again.
He was told for almost two weeks that Sheriff Everett was out sick.
Yesterday, the victim went to the GSP Office in Rome, and they were very disturbed, and told the victim that it was Sheriff Everett’s jurisdiction and responsibility.
So, while the victim was there, they called John Everett, who talked with them, and instructed the victim to come by and see him TODAY.
The victim went to the SO Office today, but no Sheriff. There was a report filed by a Summerville Investigator, Brian Osmond, which concluded that because there were conflicting statements by the victim and the perpetrator, that no further investigation was warranted.
REALLY? Consider this scenario:
1. There is a bank robbery, and five witnesses identify the suspect. (This sideswipe incident had five witnesses, who were all riding with the victim in the car, and were able to write down the tag number as they pursued the vehicle which sideswiped them).
2. The cops go to the suspect, who says, “No way, I didn’t do it”
3. Under Mr. Osmond’s theory of investigation, since the bank robber’s statement conflicted with the FIVE witnesses, then that is the end of the investigation.
SWEET.
I have not talked to Eddie Stroup or Brian Osmond. The victim was headed back, this afternoon, to try to talk to Summerville PD Chief Mosely about all of this. I have not spoken with him again since then.
But this raises a serious question.
This is the third incident of serious criminal activity which the investigators of the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, under Chief Investigator Larry Kellett, has declined to go after.
1. First was the proof of FORGED Titles by Dwayne Richardson, of Larry Lemming’s signature for two vehicles he owned.
2. Second is the Death Threat phone calls traced to John Dennis’ cell phone. Supposedly the “investigator” talked to a prosecutor who said that it was to difficult to assign jurisdiction. Like my FBI buds told me, that is when an investigator or a prosecutor calls the FBI which DOES have jurisdiction.
After being asked for the file by Chattooga County SO, ( I was sitting in the RPD office while this conversation was going on), the Rome PD Investigators “Officially” released the file. They had a FEDERAL AGENT carry the file up to the Chattooga County SO.
In stead of running the ball down the wide open field to score, the Chattooga County SO took a knee. I had to go back to the FBI on my own.
3. Now, neither the Summerville PD nor the Chattooga County SO wants to go after a Trucktown employee who sideswiped a moving vehicle, AND left the scene of the accident, which had FIVE witnesses.
I am a fan of Sheriff Everett and his Narcotics Squad, but I must say, his Investigative Division under Larry Kellett’s supervision has some VERY serious problems, as in, they are trying to protect the cartel supporters…Dwayne Richardson, Jon Dennis and now a Billy Joe Dooley Trucktown employee.
Something smells rotten.
tw
When Ralph was sheriff, a car sideswiped me on a bicycle.
A lady saw it and follow the man and got his tag number.
Said she was from Calhoun and would be a witness. It was
turned into the GSP and they did nothing even with a tag number.
It just numbed my arm but the lady told me he should have
stop to see if I was ok.
Dear John,
Read what I just posted to Room4OneMore.
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This sideswiping incident is in the Sheriff’s hands. If he fumbles the ball, it’s on him. The buck stops with him. Let’s sit back with our popcorn and see how it plays out. Not looking good for the Sheriff and his investigators up to this point, if the victim’s account and his witness’s accounts of the accident are true. I have no reason to doubt 6 people’s word against one man’s word.
Anyone wanting to see the Sheriff take a hit, will be watching this as well. Somebody better man-up.
Dear Room4,
It was 4 witnesses who were in the car with the victim.
I am watching, to be sure. The BJD issue has been with us for awhile, but, the Sheriff himself addressed that with me more than a year ago, during the campaign, prior to the election…I have been waiting…waiting…waiting. I have trusted what he told me, and hope to God that he was speaking the truth.
But, when he chose LK as his chief investigator, that disturbed me, deeply. It has continued to be an issue with others in LE as well, both inside and outside of his office.
After what I observed in the the Mario Armas case & trial, and then the Mexican Mafia trial, I still have hope. Many people work behind the scenes in long term federal investigations, drawing folks in, flipping them, and not until trial are these relationships revealed to the public. Sometimes, they are never revealed.
tw
PS - On Another Topic:
BTW –
I have been getting calls asking if I am affiliated with RNW…I am not.
I worked for JD back in the summer of 2007, he never paid me, and I finally started my own website, when he would not do anything about the Matt Blanton story, (The first time Matt fooled around with a student while he was still at Coosa)
After I began getting so many hits per day on my won site, he actually told a real estate broker in the area, whom he was attempting to get to advertise on RNW, that we were affiliated, that I had not space left on my page, but that if she would buy space on his, he would actually make sure she had the next available space on mine.
She contacted me, and forwarded their e-mails, and I contacted local PD. Because she had never given him the check she had written for him, there was no crime committed. I contacted a local newsman, highly respected in this are to see what his advice would be. He told me that JD would crash and burn on his own, and not to make a big deal of it. I am glad I did not.
About that same time, JD ran a story when the Hammitt’s sued me, called “Up the Creek Without A Paddle”. Very antagonistic against.
But, I continued to encourage JD whenever he had a good story. Howevere, as far as EVER being involved with him in any business capacity again - the answer is “NO”.
I know that RNW has been sold a couple of time since then, and that he is no longer affiliated with RNW, but, I shook off the dust from my sandals more than two years ago, and have not looked back.
tw
OFF SUBJECT:
I’m proud of Susan Boyle she did it.
Dear John,
Good things coming SOON!
Na-na-na-na,
Na-na-na-na,
Hey-Hey-hey,
goo-od - bye!
tw
Teresa,
You simply seem litigious at this point.
Dear Hst,
BOY, my most recent Feature Story here must have REALLY touched a nerve.
But you do not read very well, do you? This law suit was filed by Gerald Emery, against one of the Cook cohorts, Matt Thames.
I have absolutely nothing to do with this law suit.
BTW, someone called my attention to a Thread YOU started on Summerville Topix called “How long before TW has to file bankruptcy”.
You Wrote:
“Seriously. How long will it be before this crazy lady has to declare bankruptcy? She seems to be running out of attorneys (since she doesn’t pay them) and is relegated to defending herself and repping herself in her frivolous lawsuits. Let’s take bets on how long it will be before 91 Vassar Drive is up on the auction block”.
These comments border on defamation, insinuating that someone is financially unsound. Since I know and can track your I.P. address, it would not be hard to link to your comments about me on Summerville Topix - so I would be very careful if I were you.
But I am doing fine. Money is tight for everyone these days, but my bills get paid. I do not live beyond my means. My husband and I are very simple folks, who do not drive fancy cars or wear fancy clothes. I rarely get my hair trimmed, and I use little makeup, and what I use is bargain brand stuff.
My credit is fine, so, pay your own bills, and I will handle mine. BTW – I do not live at 91 Vassar Drive, just FYI.
ALSO, FYI, another piece of actual, real factual information is that One former attorney filed a lien against the Hammitt law suit, to be paid if the jury awarded me any money. BUT, he NEGLECTED to ever file a countersuit on my behalf, in that Hammitt suit, so, when I WON and BEAT BOBBY LEE COOK at his own game, then the jury could not award me anything. He was grossly mistaken in what he filed, AND violated both law and canon of ethics in doing so. I have another 3.5 years to file a Malpractice Suit against him, IF I CHOOSE TO DO SO. Statute of Limitations on Legal Malpractice is 4 years.
So, like I told one of your other personnas, LydiaLunch, back on June 26, 2009, when you posted shortly after midnight, you have posted many times as different usernames, but from same and sometimes alternating I.P. addresses:
ChrisK, posting from Georgia Tech on April 15, 2008, shortly after Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed was arrested.
Abrahm, who at first claimed to be Jewish, but then attacked people of Jewish Heritage.
Hstgrrl – who always posted from @fuckyou.com, and assaulted many of my other posters, including RomeGaSir, Tinkerbell, Ancient Age and others.
Last Chance Texaco, posting January 7, 2008, a few days after the drunk KCC-G got off of, during which she signed Orders sua sponte in the Stanley Anderson case, reversing herself for the third time, and GROSSLY confusing current dates and other dates of past rulings. Man, those must have been some good drugs.
LMAO
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