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Showing posts with label Dead Witness. Show all posts
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The Witness Murders in the matter of Bennett vs. Southern Pacific

The Corporate Powers

From Hostile Takeovers to Dead CEO's International Transnational Gangs

Steve Burd

Mr. Burd well known to Pete Bennett, Larry Ellison, KKR, Cerberus Capital and Albertsons

Cynthia Kempf

Mr. Kempf, managed the Pittsburg Store. She was one of several store managers. She was just becoming friends with Pete Bennett and his girlfriend, visited our shop and helped store designs by helping with fixture repairs and replacements

BennettvsSouthernpacific.com

Pete Bennett vendor to Safeway Stores suffered life changing accident on SP Track sued nit knowing his customers CEO Steve Burd was a major stock holder of Southern Pacific

Mainframe Designs Cabinets & Fixtures

The Praying Mantis preparing to strike

The Pelosi Files

The shop was located in Camp Stoneman.

BEGINING TO SURVIVE

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Isaac Strack - Brother of Ben Strack accused of murdering his family.

The Strack Files

Brother of Ben Strack accused of murdering his family on September 23, 2014

I met Ben at brothers house in Salt Lake City in 1993 while traveling to Laramie Wyoming. My brother and his wife Kathy Hak, sister of Mary Hak mother of Ben, and son of Ernie Strack. There is an official story and then my story being related to the Stracks via high-school.

Isaac Strack

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Award patent via eBay for a detecting credit card fraud. Same companies where Pete Bennett has endured fraud accusations with PayPal and eBay which all seemed to orginate internally and had nothing to do with transaction conducted by Pete Bennett.

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Keepers of the Secrets of the Dead Witnesses

Murdered Witnesses

There is a secret cadre of dead witnesses, public officials, police officers and litigants. ADA Mary Knox super proud of career convientley leaves out the unsolved cases of Contra Costa County.  Like everyone else they sued the county and won a settlement.  

Sadly others that sue end up dead. 

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Speaker of House is rich and Pete Bennett litigant has endured murders of his family, counsel, friends woven into the destruction of his businesses so consitents the FBI is likely taking complaints filed by Bennett to a Federal Grand Jury

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OBIT: Darlene Roth former employee during Bennett vs. Southern Pacific

Darlene Roth


      Self-Employed
      Former QA Analyst at Providian Financial
      Former Human Resources Dept. at Contra Costa County
      Former City Clerk's Office - City Hall at City of Concord
      Former Purchasing/Warehouse at City of Walnut Creek - City Hall
      Former Community Benefit Assistant at Kaiser Permanente
      Former Personal Banker at Chase Bank
      Former Senior Systems Analyst at Southern Pacific Transportation Company
      Former Systems Integrator at IBM Global Services
      Studied at Cal State East Bay  
      Studied at SF State University

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Questions linger about Pittsburg hillside work – East Bay Times





San Marco grading looking west on Highway 4. The center area was a creek and a canyon. (Photo by Save Mount Diablo)

More than a year after an investigation into grading work by a prominent local developer in the hills southwest of Pittsburg, it remains unclear whether any legal action will be taken.

In January 2008, the California Department of Fish and Game and city of Pittsburg investigated the reshaping of the hills high atop the western portion of the San Marco subdivision by homebuilder Albert Seeno III’s Discovery Builders, including possible destruction of a seasonal stream. Results were brought to the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office and state Attorney General’s Office in July 2008.

No decision has been made about filing a case, Contra Costa deputy district attorney Lon Wixson said last week. That office is handling the matter.

“We haven’t filed anything, but we haven’t closed the case, either. We’re trying to close the loop on some additional information,” Wixson said. “It’s not a simple case; there are a lot of factors, which is part of the problem in making the decision.”

Once the additional information is assessed, the district attorney’s office can decide whether to proceed with a case or drop the matter, he said.

If a case is filed, the district attorney’s office would pursue civil but not criminal charges, he added.

The state Department of Water Resources has not ruled out taking legal action regardless of the district attorney’s decision, department spokeswoman Katie Hart said.

Last year’s investigation examined whether the stream bed was improperly altered, sustained erosion and habitat damage, and whether Discovery Builders violated permit conditions, said Nicole Kozicki, a warden with the Department of Fish and Game. The investigation was prompted when Kozicki discovered grading activity while driving on Highway 4 in the winter of 2007, noting that it violated a stipulation of a 1997 agreement for when work can be done.

That agreement between Albert Seeno Jr.’s West Coast Home Builders and Fish and Game allowed some fill work on wetlands, provided that a new, larger wetlands be created. That permit expired in December 2005.

The grading work added subdrains — or underground piping to collect excess water — behind a series of dams that “changed the hydrology of the watershed,” she said.

No additional information or record of any valid permit under which Discovery Builders was operating was found, said Joe Sbranti, Pittsburg’s assistant city manager. As a result, Pittsburg retroactively collected a $7,086 fee from Discovery for a grading permit, he said.

Discovery understands the requirements regarding permits, but in this case failed to obtain one in advance of the grading work, he said.

Other permits for grading the streambed would be issued by the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Water Resources. Those agencies found the permits to be expired as well, Kozicki said last year.

The lack of action by the city and district attorney’s office is “unconscionable,” said Seth Adams, land programs manager for regional environmental group Save Mount Diablo.

“Nobody appears to be willing to move forward or do anything,” he said. “The reality is there is a mile of illegal grading from Highway 4 to the ridge line overlooking Concord. It’s not like there’s a lack of evidence.”

Further, he said, Pittsburg has “set a bad precedent that developers can ignore their regulations and get away with it.”

Seeno representatives could not be reached for comment. An attorney for the Seeno companies said last year that they think they have been in compliance with all applicable laws.

Pittsburg has been working with officials from Discovery Builders on a policy for dealing with future issues, Sbranti said.

A periodic review of the San Marco subdivision will come before the Pittsburg City Council soon, covering more than 75 conditions of requirements and memorandums associated with the project and what Discovery is doing to meet the requirements, Sbranti said.

Language in the March 1990 development agreement between Pittsburg and Seeno’s Seecon Financial Construction Co. allows for some permitted grading, but grading in excess of Pittsburg hillside regulations requires further approvals.

The Seeno family of homebuilders has been investigated and fined multiple times over the past several years for suspected environmental violations, including a $3 million settlement in January 2008 concerning grading work at an Antioch subdivision in 2005. The Seenos did not admit fault or liability in settling that case.

The company also agreed to pay $1 million in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to violating the federal Endangered Species Act in 2001 for killing threatened red-legged frogs and destruction of the frog habitat at San Marco.

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