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Obit: UC Berkeley chief legal counsel dead in hit-and-run near Guerneville

UC Berkeley’s chief legal counsel, Christopher Patti, was killed in a hit-and-run accident Sunday. (Alain McLaughlin/Impact Fund) 


Westbound Highway 116 at Summer Crossing, west of Guerneville.
SONOMA COUNTY — A member of UC Berkeley’s legal team died Sunday after being hit by a car in a hit-and-run crash near Guerneville, authorities said.





The Sonoma County Coroner’s Office confirmed Monday that 59-year-old Christopher Patti, the campus’ chief legal counsel, died Sunday morning. He was stopped on his bike on the right shoulder of westbound Highway 116 around 8:45 a.m. when a BMW slid onto the shoulder and hit him, according to a statement by the California Highway Patrol.
“I speak for the Berkeley community in saying how grief-stricken we are at Chris Patti’s untimely death,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ said in a statement. “He was an extraordinary colleague. He loved the university, and he had a deep core of integrity that motivated everything he did. He was smart, he was compassionate. He was everything you wanted the counsel of the campus to be. We offer our sympathy to his family and his friends for this tragic loss.”







Patti joined the university in 2010. Before that, he worked for two decades in the general counsel’s office at UC’s Office of the President.
“Chris was a wonderful colleague and friend who cared about people and doing the right thing. He was an extraordinary lawyer to whom we all turned for advice and counsel. His loss is unfathomable,” Charles F. Robinson, general counsel and vice president of legal affairs with UC, said in a statement.
The CHP on Monday identified 28-year-old Jonathan Ritter, of Rio Nido/Monte Rio, as a person of interest. The driver of the vehicle that hit Patti continued west on Highway 116, then turned around and went back past the scene in the eastbound direction, the agency said.
Police want to find out if Ritter was driving the car.
Officer Jon Sloat told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat that Patti was about 20 feet to the right of the highway, and that evidence at the scene indicates the vehicle drove fast and perhaps recklessly.
“He was well off the road,” Sloat told the Press-Democrat. “He should have been safe.”
Patti earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining UC, he worked as a litigation associate in San Francisco. He is survived by a wife and two sons.
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The Murder Trilogy


Endlessly documented events of indifference and lies.



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The Nordstrom Murders

My first real date with Alicia Driscoll and her daughter was a simple June picnic
at her house on Norris Road. Just another Contra
Costa County Murder Suicide.


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A Contra Costa Times Murder Link

Contra Costa Times TriValley knows the Alamo 1st Mormons who stole my legal file
mid-December 2004. He was well informed of the
near fatal Bennett v. Collins incident and full
knowledge of the truck arson prior the Kinder
Morgan explosion that killed five in November
2004. The failure leads upstream to Contra Costa
District Attorney Mark Peterson (Purjury)


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FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary Clinton emails justifies withholding documents


FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary Clinton emails justifies withholding documents

- The Washington Times - Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.
Ty Clevenger has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal attorneys disbarred for their handling of her official emails during her time as secretary of state. He’s met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the FBI’s files has been shot down.
“You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.
“It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA,” Mr. Hardy wrote.
Mrs. Clinton, is the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former chief diplomat, former U.S. senator, and former first lady of both the U.S. and Arkansas.
Her use of a secret email account to conduct government business while leading the State Department was front-page news for much of 2015 and 2016, and was so striking that the then-FBI director broke with procedure and made both a public statement and appearances before Congress to talk about the bureau’s probe.
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From: regentsoffice@ucop.edu and

When I sent this I was just pissed off.  Next time it will have the death of UCOP Attorney Charles Patti

Subject: G4S connections
From: outlook_6cd656d49f755d86@outlook.com
To: president@ucop.edu
Date Received: Friday, June 17, 2016 5:20 PM



They are made of mercenaries, well equipped, access to government intelligence systems, they're able to travel around the globe.



Subject: Thank you for your email
From: regentsoffice@ucop.edu
To: Pete Bennett (pete@petebennett.net)
Date Received: Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:09 AM



On behalf of The Regents of the University of California, thank you for your email. Your correspondence will be included, as appropriate, in the next summary of communications to the Regents.

Correspondence sent to the Board of Regents may be answered by staff in the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Regents, in the Office of the President, or at the appropriate campus. The Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff retains copies of all correspondence sent to the Regents; such correspondence is considered a matter of public record and, therefore, is potentially subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act.

Correspondence addressing items on the agenda of the Board of Regents or its committees must be received by the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff no less than twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the beginning of the regular two-and-a-half day Board and committee meetings or any off-cycle or special meeting of the Board or its committees.   

The email must clearly identify the agenda item being addressed. Each communication should include a subject line identifying the specific agenda item being addressed; failure to do so could prevent delivery of your comments. Such materials will be distributed to members of the Board, or its appropriate committee, prior to beginning of the Board or committee meeting.
We appreciate your interest in the University of California and for taking the time to write.


Best regards,
Correspondence Coordinator
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Regents
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Major General Joseph Franklin

Major General Joseph Franklin


(USA, Retired, USMA 1955)

Born in 1933 in the small Appalachian town of Cumberland, Maryland, Franklin won a competitive appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1951 and graduated in 1955 with a a commission in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
After preliminary military schooling, which included Parachute and Ranger qualification, Franklin was assigned to Karlsruhe, Germany where he served with Combat Engineering units until 1959. He was then sent to MIT to earn a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering and Nuclear Engineering. In 1961 Joseph Franklin was assigned to the Army's Nuclear Power Program, headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. where he was Project Manager for the installation of a nuclear power plant on board a converted Liberty ship. In 1963 Franklin was assigned to command Camp Century, a nuclear-powered research outpost on the Greenland Icecap. He directed the shutdown and disassembly of the nuclear power plant, shipping the entire facility back to the United States in 1964.
Selected for instructor duty at West Point in 1965, Franklin taught the first Nuclear Engineering course and coached the football and ski teams during his three years as an Assistant Professor at the Academy. After a year's further study at the Naval War College, Franklin he shipped out to Vietnam to command a Combat Engineer Battalion in the Central Highlands, ending his tour after participating in the 1970 operations in Cambodia.
The decade of the 1970's was taken up with Joint Staff duties in the Pentagon, including assignment as Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus a Brigade Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and another year of study at the Army War College.
Promoted to Brigadier General in 1979, Franklin was selected to be Commandant of Cadets at West Point where he served until 1982. A tour of duty as Assistant Commander of the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii was followed by promotion to Major General and assignment in 1983 as Chief of the Joint US Military Group and Senior US Defense Representative in Spain. Franklin chose to retire in 1987, and remained in Spain, founding Franklin, S.A. a Spanish business consultancy located in Madrid, specializing in investments and joint ventures.
He was elected to the Board of Directors of several Spanish and American companies and returned to the United States in 1993, when he was elected Chief Executive Officer of Frequency Electronics, Inc. He has remained as Chairman of the Board of Frequency Electronics, Inc. since 1999. He also serves on the Board of Directors of RKO Pictures and Kriss-USA, a Swiss manufacturer of advanced technology small arms for military and civilian applications.
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Our newest felon Contra Costa District Attorney Mark Peterson


SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICER MURDER
OFFICER Lester Garnier 1988



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OBIT: Bennett Witness Murdered - Robert Frazier


CONCORD — A Concord man shot to death in front of a bar early Saturday has been identified as 42-year-old Robert Frazier, authorities said Monday.

From the blogger: There are three dead bouncers each known to me, one was an assailant, one was nice guy, another was nice that was friendly with Sara Hoda killed in The GhostShip Fire.






Frazier became the city’s second homicide victim of 2017 when he was hit by gunfire in front of Nica Lounge at 1907 Salvio Street just before 2 a.m. Saturday, police said. Police arrested a man suspected in the shooting after he was involved in a solo car crash later Saturday.
Lt. James Nakayama, the head of investigations for the Concord Police Department, said details of the investigation have kept police from identifying the suspect, a 27-year-old man who was still in a hospital Monday receiving treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
The hunt for the shooter also led to police fatally shooting a pit bull while they searched an Oakley address for the suspect. According to police, a pit bull broke loose from his collar and charged officers and the police dog named Hancock. The pit bull bit Hancock in the leg and clamped down on his neck, causing the officer to shoot, police said.
“It’s unfortunate that that happened,” Nakayama said. “We have to protect our police K9s and officers, as well.”
Police ordered a shelter-in-place during that Oakley neighborhood search in the 1900 block of Teresa Lane. Police used a SWAT team to help them in the search.
A fundraising account set up to help Frazier’s family raised $3,855 by 2 p.m., with one poster saying that Frazier “enriched my life with friendship and love.”
Staff writer George Kelly contributed to this report. Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789.
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Walnut Creek CA

Only a small select narrow and dubious group of people understand how complex events are near Pete Bennett.  On or about October 31st, 2014, after a night of performing music in downtown Walnut Creek buskin to replace the cash stolen from me by Walnut Creek, 



District Attorney Mark Peterson resulting FELONY CHARGES FOR PERJURY



Mark Coon met with Pete Bennett in June 2008 regarding the fatal flight of Eric Nunn, and the 1989 murder of Floyd Brown Jr. witness in the matter of BennettvsSouthernPacific.com 



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OBIT: Elizabeth Torres, 81

The Torres Family Tragedies or Murders


In 1988 I hired Eusticio "stache" Torres - my Spanish then was Taco or Burrito.  He said call me "stache" sounds like "mustache"

Perfectly Framed

The large Torres family is suffering the loss of a family matriarch, as relatives pray that three other family members will recover rapidly from burns
resulting from the blast. Elizabeth Torres, 81, who lived with her daughter Cindy and son-in-law Allen Braun in a Claremont Drive home in San Bruno, died
despite Braun's attempt to rescue her by carrying her to the front porch, said one of Torres' nine children, David Wharton, 57, of Fair Oaks. "He saved my
mom," Wharton said. "But a second blast" killed her. Braun is now in the hospital with 40 percent of his body burned, Wharton said. Braun's wife, Cindy,
45, and her sister Sandy Arnold, 58, are both in induced comas at St. Francis hospital. Arnold, who lives in Petaluma and works as an office clerk, has
burns on 70 percent of her body. Cindy Braun, who used to be an office manager for Forbes magazine, has burns covering half her body, Wharton said. "This
is monumental for us," he said. "The only reason I can talk is because I haven't accepted it yet." He said his mother worked as a nurse's aide for UC San
Francisco for 27 years. In her later years, she got around in a wheelchair, even when she visited casinos, a favorite pastime. Torres was married twice and
had nine children: Everett, Virginia, Sandy, David, Linda, Michael, Sharon, Gregory and Cindy.


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The Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce 

This news of the scandal broke in February 2011 when Commander Norman Wielsch and Chris Butler faces were plastered all over local media. Then a few months
later Deputy Stepen Tanabe and Officer Louis Lombardi.  I recognized every face immediately but by summer I was in jail, my car was totaled and to
this day remain unpaid by a PG&E Vendor who brought me into their explosion cover-up.

Every conspiracy has one or more co-conspirators but this story is a conspiracy blessed with cover from the top cop down.

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The PG&E Gas Can Man

This image broadcast around the world is part of why my www.pgewitness.com was launched that is spawned from my
role in the San Bruno Explosion.  The role that was hidden from Investigators from the NTSB, The San Mateo County District Attorney and most important
the Federal case where Judge Henderson ordered PG&E to perform community service.

The worst part is my family with their lives so PG&E could hire the best lawyers.

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The KinderMorgan Explosion and the Dead Witnesses

There is a most forgotten explosion story where on November 9th, 2004 five welders from Matamoras Welding were killed.  This explosion occurre in the
middle a project to known as the East Bay Pipeline Extension.  on that day I was at the Walnut Creek Superior Court making an appearance in front
Superior Court Judge Joel Golub.  That was day I lost my license, the beginning of the loss of my sons, the connections to The Driscoll Family Murders
where Alicia Driscoll and her daughter Gineva Driscoll found dead.

There are several stories begging to be told via the criminal case I call
The Kinder Morgan Pipeline Murders of Walnut Creek CA.
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Gun that killed Pittsburg officer also used in fatal Modesto shootout

Police Inspector Ray Giacomelli

The gun that killed Pittsburg police inspector






First Contact: City of Pittsburg mid 1980s'
Former Pittsburg Officer Eric Bergen

Yea I know him from how he pointed his weapon at me. He also
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:17 a.m., June 11, 2003
PITTSBURG – The gun that killed Pittsburg police inspector Ray Giacomelli in
April
is the same weapon his suspected killer fired in a fatal shoot-out with police,
according to ballistics tests.
Contra Costa Sheriff's Lt. Dan Terry said Tuesday the .40-caliber Glock handgun
that
killed Giacomelli was the same weapon used by Earl Foster Jr. during the
firefight
with police in Modesto.
Foster fled there after Giacomelli's slaying in Pittsburg on April 15.
Investigators found Foster at a strip mall pay phone in the Central Valley
city
two days later.
A shootout ensued after Foster began firing at police, Terry said.
Foster died of multiple gunshot wounds; he was hit 22 times, according to an
autopsy
released Tuesday by the Stanislaus County coroner.
Law enforcement officials throughout northern California had launched a massive
manhunt to locate Foster.
The 46-year-old Giacomelli was killed while investigating the homicide of Eric
Louis
Huffman, the brother of Foster's girlfriend who was found slain April 7.
Both Giacomelli and Huffman were shot in the face. Police have said Foster is
the
only suspect in Huffman's slaying.







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Gun that killed Pittsburg officer also used in fatal Modesto shootout


Gun that killed Pittsburg officer also used in fatal Modesto shootout 

ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:17 a.m., June 11, 2003
PITTSBURG – The gun that killed Pittsburg police inspector Ray Giacomelli in April is the same weapon his suspected killer fired in a fatal shoot-out with police, according to ballistics tests.
Contra Costa Sheriff's Lt. Dan Terry said Tuesday the .40-caliber Glock handgun that killed Giacomelli was the same weapon used by Earl Foster Jr. during the firefight with police in Modesto.
Foster fled there after Giacomelli's slaying in Pittsburg on April 15. Investigators found Foster at a strip mall pay phone in the Central Valley city two days later.
A shootout ensued after Foster began firing at police, Terry said.
Foster died of multiple gunshot wounds; he was hit 22 times, according to an autopsy released Tuesday by the Stanislaus County coroner.
Law enforcement officials throughout northern California had launched a massive manhunt to locate Foster.
The 46-year-old Giacomelli was killed while investigating the homicide of Eric Louis Huffman, the brother of Foster's girlfriend who was found slain April 7.
Both Giacomelli and Huffman were shot in the face. Police have said Foster is the only suspect in Huffman's slaying.

 
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The Scherer Murders and Russian Mob of Trump Towers

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A little snippet.  The timing of the Scherer Murders leads to the Mormon Community.  The involved Mormon units are Mitt Romney, Danville Stake, The Oakland Temple and millions stolen.



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When you buy Pru-Life in Contra Costa County






Dying for Prudential Insurance - The Ostrich Retirement Company

Danville CA:

This area operates a murder for hire where investigators from the Contra Costa District Attorney Offices cover up murders of the sister and niece one of their own linked to a deadly pipeline explosion in Walnut Creek.

In this video Prudential boldly asks for your opinion.  I have one about my Pru-life policy and their responses when I discovered how my near fatal event targeted their policy.

They've asked for my opinion




They've asked for my opinion




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Hillside Covenant Church - Magnolia Drive Walnut Creek



Hillside Covenant Church


Meeting Hillside members and receiving their free lunch was supposed to be a good thing but for me it wasn't as unknown to me was Kieth Lynds who was their Youth Director arranged with others to have me killed en-route from Walnut Creek to Lafayette where the plan was he was going to meet for Karaoke.  My car was totaled at First/Deer Hill Road and Lynds never showed.  

Within six months my car was totaled, I was in jail and my sons were gone.  The accident was July 20th, 2011, I was being followed through Walnut Creek by a Contra Costa District Attorney Investigator where I was able get his plates which were passed to the FBI. 

I was forced to sell my car for scrap, the tow company dropped me off at the Walnut Creek Library where I fell asleep in Civic Park awoken by a grounds keeper riding a mower.  Within minutes I was stopped by police with allegations that I'd attacked a city worker riding a mower.  
That was Captain Tim Schultz, Sgt. Mike Chan and I believe the guy following me through Walnut Creek, he's a DA inspector or Walnut Creek Detective.  Either way this group was trying to kill me but worse is the Chief and City Managers offices have clear views of events including me chasing Sgt. Chan with my laptop camera on  

 


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The Business Losses of Pete Bennett since 1979 Homicides linked to DA Liars

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Bennett/City Attorney Mark Coon Meeting

The BENNETT MEETING WITH
The CITY ATTORNEY MARK COON 









Friends with Margaret Lesher
Son Found Dead Oct 2015 in New Orleans
Friends with everyone, known to politicians throughout Contra Costa County


Top Row: Contra Costa Board of Supervisors
Seated: Pete Bennett and Ralph H.
Top Right: The Strack Family
Bottom Right: John T. Nejedly






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FBI Agent Frank Doyle Jr. - The FBI Bomb School Bombed Judi Bari

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Frank Doyle Jr. and the FBI Bomb School 

In 1988, IRS Agent Shannon Hodges car explodes in Walnut Creek near Citrus Circle are, not far from Safeway Offices on Oak Road / Ygnacio Valley Road.

In March 1988, the FBI arrived at 546 Bliss Ave, Pittsburg CA, his name FBI Agent Frank Doyle Jr., his message was to sell my my million dollar operation before I was killed.  

Little did I realize his connections to the bombing case with Judi Bari, that leads to the attempt on the life of an IRS Agent, and the murder of Police Officer Lester Garnier and Safeway Manager Cynthia Kempf. 



Perfectly Framed

On my other posts about FBI Agent Frank Doyle Jr. my goal has been to introduce his name to the CNET Scandal, Bomb Squads and show is direct connection to
Southern Pacific, my cabinet shop and moving lumber from the North Coast to the Bay Area.

The biggest clue came from the old Interstate Commerce Commission where they forced SP to keep open several rail lines from Eureka to the Bay Area but with Bennett v. Southern
Pacific my story introduces a murder case in Concord CA.

Watch the movie but I will be posting a modified version with my story merged into this story but I am adding in the 1988 bombing of an IRS Agent and introduce on why Chief Alex
Fagan was murdered to cover-up his knowledge of events.  It was his girlfriend car that exploded in Walnut Creek just happened to work with parties very
close my family.


 



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Twisted Tale Of Theater In Danville / Money woes, suit postpone opening






Published 4:00 am, Thursday, March 29, 2001


By John King

2001-03-29 04:00:00 PDT Danville -- By now, the Mount Diablo Center for the Arts was to be the cultural hub of Danville -- a posh oasis of theater, sophisticated and social all at once.

Instead, it's a handsome building with a hollow core. One contractor says he's owed $130,000, the land's former owner wants his day in court, and the theater inside the fieldstone-covered shell can't be finished unless donors kick in another $2.6 million.

But as landscapers put finishing touches around the office building that shares the site, and a torn canvas banner that reads "The Curtain Can't Go Up Without You" flaps in the wind, the center's creators say it's only a matter of time before everything works out.

"When it's done, it's going to be bloody gorgeous," says William McCann, the Danville attorney who came up with the idea of fusing a nonprofit theater with a for-profit development five years ago. "This is a very different project. It's unique."

The saga of the arts center is more tangled than a Victorian melodrama, with no end in sight. Already, though, it serves as a cautionary tale to other cities that dream of having their own full-scale theater -- by showing that culture and commerce don't necessarily mix.

Four years after McCann embarked on the project with partner Gordon Bingham, a former BMW dealer who lives in Alamo, what they have to show for their efforts is a striking 39,000 square foot office building linked to a 299-seat theater by a rotunda that will serve as the theater's lobby.

The link isn't just physical: the pair say they conceived of the office project as a way to help create what one fund-raising brochure promises will be "the place for performing arts and arts education for all valley residents."

"Promote the flowering of arts," McCann explains. "That's why we did it."

The theater was supposed to open last summer, but construction is at a crawl because there isn't the money to finish the theater's interior -- even though the office building is almost ready for occupancy, with a $15 million offer to purchase it on the table.

Clouding the sale is a lawsuit filed last month by the land's former owner - - Dublin developer Sid Corrie, who says that the pair used fraud to purchase the site from him at a below-market price.

The lawsuit charges that McCann persuaded Corrie to contribute a portion of the land to the Belasco Children's Theater, a small Walnut Creek company; McCann was president of the company's board. McCann and Bingham agreed to pay $1.4 million for the remainder of the property. The lawsuit charges that McCann later transferred control of the theater site from the Belasco company to McCann and Bingham at no cost.

Corrie claimed a charitable deduction for the land donation in 1997. Last year, the Internal Revenue Service last year disallowed it.

McCann's reaction to the suit?

"I would characterize the lawsuit as destructive, malicious and libelous," he says. "I hope that's direct enough."

Whatever the facts, Belasco no longer is on the list of possible tenants for the center: "The Belasco Theater Company has no relation or affiliation" with Mount Diablo Center, Belasco attorney Randy Rogers says pointedly. "It hasn't had any contact with anyone at the center in years."

Corrie's not the only one with claims against the project. Delta Steel Erectors, which built the structure, filed a complaint in December saying it is owed $130,000. McCann characterizes the action as "a blip on the screen. . .

. What's at issue are extra charges which are disputed."

Assuming that the legal troubles are settled and the sale goes through, you might think any profits would be used to finish the theater. Not so -- Bingham and McCann say the office building has contributed enough already.

"There's $4 million of infrastructure here -- parking, landscaping, the rotunda," Bingham maintains, "and the theater hasn't paid for any of it."

For the record, Bingham and McCann aren't the only ones calling the shots. They are limited partners in the company building the complex; the managing partner is Bill Tauscher, a former computer services firm owner best known as Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher's former husband.

Tauscher could not be reached yesterday, but McCann describes him in glowing terms.

"Bill Tauscher is a saint," McCann says. "The idea was to subsidize the arts. Bill Tauscher was enough of a visionary to see the potential."



Even if work on the theater slows to a halt, Bingham and McCann say the future is secure: the arts center is owned by a nonprofit foundation they created, and there's a 99-year lease at $1 a year. In the meantime, $3.4 million has been pledged to the project -- but McCann says another $2.6 million is needed to finish everything in style.

And who waits, figuratively, in the wings? Many groups besides Belasco have been mentioned as possible performers, but only one is signed on: Playhouse West, a Walnut Creek company with 900 subscribers.

As for potential donors, don't look for Danville to help close the gap. The Town Council approved the unusual project, and waived some development fees, but a request for $500,000 last summer was rebuffed.

"It's a private project," points out council member Newell Arnerich. "I'm sure they're the type of individuals who will pull this through. It may take a little longer than expected, but I look forward to attending the opening night celebration."

Count on it, Bingham promises: "Everyone says the second half of a fund- raising campaign is easier than the first. . . . We've had hundreds of donors. I believe it's the most successful fund-raising campaign in Contra Costa."

One last question for McCann. If he could turn the clock back, would he do all this again?

"Yes I would," McCann says. "When you try to give birth to beauty, there's always a concomitant crucifixion."

It the theater succeeds, that phrase should be carved in stone above the entryway. If not . . . it's a striking epitaph

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Pleasant Hill: Multiple fires gut DVC police building


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By ROMAN GOKHMAN | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 23, 2008 at 8:54 pm | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 6:22 pm
PLEASANT HILL — An arson likely destroyed the police services building at Diablo Valley College early Monday, investigators said.
“We had two (fires) on the outside and one on the inside in the lobby,” said Contra Costa County Fire Marshal Richard Carpenter. “Probably, the whole building will have to be replaced.”
The fire was reported at 2:25 a.m. in the 1,700-square-foot building located in the southeast corner of the campus by Parking Lot 2. The school runs along Golf Club Road.
The Contra Costa Fire Protection District responded with four engines, one truck and about 20 firefighters.
Carpenter said the fire destroyed the lobby and the rest of the building sustained heavy heat and smoke damage.
DVC spokeswoman Chrisanne Knox said police services, an actual law enforcement department that patrols several campuses within the Contra Costa Community College District, is based at Diablo Valley.
The department has about 20 sworn officers — five to six of whom work at DVC — four higher-ranking officers including a chief, about four dispatchers, two parking officers and 10 to 15 student aides.
On an interim basis, the police department will operate out of a conference room in the business and foreign language department.
“It was designed as an emergency command center and has all the (required communications equipment),” Knox said.
The college is looking at several other locations for a longer-term temporary home for the department.
She said the cost of the damages to the building has not been determined and it is not clear if it will be knocked down or restored.
“There was very little that was salvageable,” she said.
The criminal investigation is being led by the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office, Knox said, with Pleasant Hill police and the school district police department assisting.
Carpenter said fire investigators are still trying to determine what kind of fuel was used by the arsonist.
Reach Roman Gokhman at 925-945-4780, or at rgokhman@bayareanewsgroup.com.















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