The Locust Street Murders ~ Margaret Lesher and the Lesher Center @ Civic Drive / Locust Street

Threading the Locust Street Murders to Margaret Lesher

There is pattern in Walnut Creek decades in the making as incidents you can feel the truth weeping out.

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus, Lesher Communications, KnightRidder, Gannett and other outlets may be surprised by what I've found via research.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified

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Connecting TPG the Union Bank Shooting - Another Coincidence, Veiled Threats or Message in a Bottle containing a Bullet

Connecting TPG the Union Bank Shooting - Another Coincidence, Veiled Threats or Message in a Bottle containing a Bullet

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammell Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

Referenced Entities 

Southern Pacific
Union Bank'
 TPG Capital
Success Factors
SAP SuccessFactors
IBM Services

Business challenge

To fuel its momentous growth, Union Bank must energize employees to perform at their best. How could it transform the employee management process to drive a performance culture for maximum impact?

Transformation

Teaming up with IBM Services as the implementation partner, Union Bank transformed its approach to performance management, supported by a cutting-edge solution in SAP SuccessFactors.

Results

Complete

view of employee and team performance enables smarter talent decisions

50%

reduction in time for staff to complete their performance assessments

100%

of deadlines met during first year-end performance review with the new solution

Business challenge story

Performance culture driven by empowered people

Since its founding in 1995, Union Bank has achieved steady growth, propelling it to become one of the leading private commercial banks in Sri Lanka. The potential for growth attracted the attention of US-based global investment firm TPG Capital, which invested in 70 percent equity in the Bank in 2014 – one of the largest foreign direct investments in Sri Lanka. Supported by TPG Capital, Union Bank has grown exponentially in the spheres of personal and commercial banking.

Indrajit Wickramasinghe, Director/CEO of Union Bank says: “Employee performance management is a critical driver of business success. There is a need for a sound and transparent method of managing employee performance.”

Hence, there came a need to re-examine the Bank’s approach to employee performance management. The Bank followed a basic process with an annual year-end review. Although the reviews themselves were done on a system, the HR team and line managers relied on spreadsheets to consolidate data. These tools not only frustrated both employees and line managers alike, the process resulted in significant delays and left room for error. Most of all, the process did not leave much room for employees to take ownership of their performance, or for line managers to take accountability for their feedback.

In a timely move, Union Bank decided to invest in a performance management tool that was future-proof and supported the business agenda of embedding a performance culture.

Mr. Wickramasinghe continues: “This is a futuristic move which is much more than the implementation of a sophisticated technological solution. This change will enable a holistic approach to employee performance management, and the Bank aspires to reinforce levels of employee engagement to drive its growth objectives in the future. Investing in a globally recognized premium technology to support and strengthen this culture was one of our priorities.”

“With IBM’s global expertise, we look forward to changing the way we guide, measure, and reward our people with easy and seamless processes.”

—Ravi Jayasekera, VP – Human Resources, Union Bank , Union Bank

Transformation story

Investing in the right partnership

Union Bank invested significant time and effort to evaluate several local and global products in order to select the right implementation partner and the right system. After much careful deliberation and backed by the Board of Directors and the CEO, the Bank selected SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals as the foundation for its new performance management platform.

The Bank envisioned leveraging the flexibility offered by SAP SuccessFactors to tailor the right performance management tool for employees. This meant that the new tool would change the way employees and line managers experienced the entire performance management lifecycle. In order to optimize the features of the system and deploy the right configuration, the Bank felt it critically important to collaborate with an experienced and competent implementation partner. The decision to engage IBM Services was a given, having stringently evaluated many such service providers.

Ravi Jayasekera, VP of Human Resources for Union Bank, says, “With IBM’s global expertise, we look forward to changing the way we guide, measure, and reward our people with easy and seamless processes. This is an important milestone for the company as it embarks upon a journey to transform the HR processes for its employees who touch the lives of customers and drive the success of the Bank.”

Union Bank was delighted with the implementation expertise provided by IBM Services. The entire end to end software deployment process was done ahead of the 12-week deployment plan. The Union Bank and IBM project team worked in unison and with equal passion, to ensure the best solution was provided on time and within budget, displaying the true strength of collaboration.

Results story

Nurturing a culture of performance

Supported by the SAP SuccessFactors solution, Union Bank has transformed its approach to performance management, encouraging employees to become more invested in the process. Employees see SAP SuccessFactors as a tool that supports their performance and growth.

Previously, getting anyone to complete assessments was a struggle, and as a result the year-end review often ended up taking significantly longer than it does now. With the much more user-friendly SAP SuccessFactors, employees are much more likely to log on, record their performance assessments and set new goals for themselves.

The Bank recently completed its first year-end performance review, goal setting for the new performance year, and its first interim review using the SAP SuccessFactors solution. Not only was the cycle time to completion reduced by at least 50 percent, the employee and line manager experience of engaging in the performance management process significantly improved as well.

SAP SuccessFactors has useful features that enable the end user to access all the information and resources required for an effective performance cycle. The ease of configuration supports the system to be tailormade to organizational requirements, whilst leveraging its own strengths. In the process of setting up the system, the Bank was able to streamline the entire performance management process. In doing so, with the objective of bringing greater clarity to goals aligned with business directions, the Bank formed its own library of goals, which now consists of 15 department-wise goal libraries.

The system has also been configured to store, access and key in feedback by employees, line managers, and company stakeholders. This provides the opportunity for more holistic performance reviews and feedback. Line managers have the option to gauge team performance, and prepare more objectively for calibration. The entire process, end to end, is perceived as transparent by employees at all levels.

In its journey to drive a performance culture, the Bank has aligned other processes within the employee lifecycle with performance such as compensation and career progression. SAP SuccessFactors is proving to be a useful tool in recording performance feedback in a timely manner so that every employee has a view of their performance and feedback from the line manager.

The greatest success of an implementation is effective change management. Believing that the buy-in to the system and the process would only materialize if their value was cascaded, the Bank ensured that all line managers received training with regard to the new system. Intensive testing was also conducted prior to go-live so that the user experience was absolutely positive from day one.

Union Bank has laid the foundations for the transformation of employee performance management, and is excited to see how the system will support the improved performance management process and experience. The SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals solution deployed by IBM has had a very positive impact in a short time, and the Bank is confident that it will help to keep employees energized and performing to the very best of their ability.

About Union Bank

Union Bank is amongst the top private commercial Banks in Sri Lanka in market capitalization, offering a full range of products and services to personal and commercial financial sectors. Operating 67 branches across the country, Union Bank employs over 1,200 people.

Solution components

• GBS AD&I - EA - SAP
• IBM Global Business Services
• IBM-SAP Alliance
• SAP SuccessFactors

Take the next step

To learn more about the IBM SAP Alliance, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/enterprise-applications/

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The Locust Street Murders - Courtney Brown August 2016 to Walnut Creek Development

The Locust Street Murders

It was one strange night in Walnut Creek 

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The building in the back was once Chili's but the Landlord prefers to keep his buildings empty. 

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Pete Bennett Walnut Creek heard the Gunshot while sitting at Peets Coffee on Locust Street - He said to himself helping Walnut Creek only gets people killed

Connecting The Unions to the Shootings 

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammell Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

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This crew was outside Sauced Barbecue and Spirits Restaurant when I took this pictures in summer 2016. The Food is Great the owners are chill but just as they were going to open Courtney Brown was shot dead. 

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Connecting TPG Growth to the College Bribery Scandal to Murder of SFPD Officer Garnier

Connecting Success Factors to Bennett

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammell Crow, Lennar, Catellus and Bennett.

The arrest of TPG Growth CEO of William McGlashan can be easily connected by correlation of the TPG (Texas Pacific Group), TPG Growth and TPG Newbridge.

The tie in between McGlashan, Coulter, Bonderman, Blum and others is TPG and Operation Varsity Blues which associates these parties with Bribery and Conspiracy. 

San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

Curious Cases: Lester Garnier

On July 10, 1988 Officer Lester Garnier was found dead in a Walnut Creek parking lot.   The case went cold with the usual annual reviews.   Then in July 2008 the City of San Francisco and City of Walnut Creek announced a $250,000 reward.

My name is Pete Bennett, I came forward and ended up homeless, beaten, robbed, arrested, jailed and tormented.

Pictured in the this video is Captain Tim Smith who decided to threatened me with a gun just weeks after my car was totaled in Lafayette CA

The 30 Year Annivesary

ABC Reporter Vic Lee reviewing the case with Lt. Jay Hill of the Walnut Creek Police department  Jay has known me since long before the murder of Officer Garnier, in fact , we share former FBI Agent Frank Doyle Jr. who was part of the Lockerbie Bombing investigation. 

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The Contra Costa Story - Murders, Arson, Fires, Witness Killings and Racketeering

Connecting A long List of Murders to the Bribery Scandal

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

Ken Salazar

Former Colorado State Attorney General, jurisdiction over the JonBenet Ramsey investigation, Former interior Secretary of the Interior under Clinton but the worst best part is he was in charge of Hillary Clinton's Transistion team. That process is reserved for the winners. Losers go home.

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FBI Agent Frank Doyle Jr.

Head West Bomb School operated by the San Francisco FBI, same FBI Agent connected to shootings at Mainframe Designs owned by Pete Bennett. Arrived during Bennett v. Southern Pacific in 1989. Bennett was honored to the Head of the FBI Bomb School, trainer of the Walnut Creek Bomb to investigate several attempts on Bennett's life that began in the 80s, all the way up to 2018. Hell Yeah!

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CHP Officer Youngstrom

Officer Kenyon Youngstrom is one of many officers murdered in the invetigations around Bennett. We met several times in a Walnut Creek Starbucks. I met friends of Chris Lacey when released from jail in Butte County. They said no way, he was a pawn in a H-1b visa interview and perfectly positioned to be 680, pulled over and then Youngstrom took over the stop. This was a fatal offcer mistake there was a sniper on the hill above the stop.

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Vadim Trincher

Arrested in connection the Russian Money Laundering scandal that unfolded in the Trump Towers. Prosecutred by Southern District of New York DA Preet Baharra

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Love Lafayette?

The City of Lafayette is good hands today but a July 2011 attempt vehicular homicide on Bennett's life remains an open investigation.

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Alicia Driscoll and Jineva

Found murdered in June 2005 labeled murder suicide, was friends with Pete Bennett, called with can you and your boys come over for backyard picnic? She never called

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The Strack Family

The dubious murder suicide connected to a trust forgery, connected to Pete Bennett with numerous murder suucide victims near him.

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Chris Wenzel

The Council of Thiefs, TPG Growth

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The Mormon Card

The Secret Service Listened

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CEO Steve Burd

Learn About Mainframe Designs Cabinets & Fixtures and murdered employees

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William McGlashan

CEO of TGP Growth Indicted

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Richard Stanford Kopf

General Counsel of Southern Pacific and Fremoont Group

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The Howard Twins

Born and Raised in Danville, Torched in Danville, Tortured in Danville, Defrauded

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Attorney John Nejedly

The Nice Guy ! Born and Raised in Walnut Cree, Candidate in Danville, College Trustee, Liked Peets Coffee, dubious fate to the butter end.

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DA Mark Peterson

Overlord of dead witnesess forcing Pete Bennett to lose millions.

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DA Mark Peterson

Overlord of dead witnesess forcing Pete Bennett to lose millions.

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Connecting Colorado State General to Philip Anschutz, to JonBenet Ramsey to Bennett v. Southern Pacific to a separate but similar set of witness murders.

Connecting Colorado State General to Philip Anschutz, to JonBenet Ramsey to Bennett v. Southern Pacific to a separate but similar set of witness murders.

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

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Ken Salazar

Former Colorado State Attorney General, jurisdiction over the JonBenet Ramsey investigation, Former interior Secretary of the Interior under Clinton but the worst best part is he was in charge of Hillary Clinton's Transistion team. That process is reserved for the winners. Losers go home.

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15th Annual THE WINTER FORUM ON REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITY & PRIVATE FUND INVESTING

Connector: 15th Annual THE WINTER FORUM ON REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITY & PRIVATE FUND INVESTING

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus,

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

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Essex Property Trust and BRE Properties / Real Estate Trusts in $4.34 Billion Merger

Connecting Essex Property Trust  Bennett

The Dubious Phone Call and Time Wasting Project

The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

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Real Estate Trusts in $4.34 Billion Merger

BY DEALBOOK

 DECEMBER 19, 2013 9:28 AM December 19, 2013 9:28 am

Essex Property Trust, a residential real estate investment trust with a strong California presence, has agreed to acquire another West Coast residential REIT, BRE Properties, for $4.34 billion.

The merger would create the “only publicly traded West Coast pure play multifamily REIT,” with properties in the lucrative – thanks to the technology industry – rental markets of San Francisco and Seattle, among others.

Essex, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has ownership interests in 163 multifamily properties as well as in an additional 11 properties in various stages of development. BRE, based in San Francisco, owns 75 multifamily communities (totaling 21,396 homes) and has a joint venture interest in an additional apartment community (totaling 252 homes).

“By combining the strengths of the two platforms, which have a significant geographic overlap, we expect to realize operating efficiencies and further enhance our growth profile,” Michael Schall, Essex’s chief executive, said in a statement.

Under the terms of the deal, each common share of BRE will be converted into 0.2971 of a newly issued share of Essex common stock plus $12.33 in cash, or about $56.21 a share. The terms are the same as when the two companies disclosed on Dec. 9 that they were in merger talks.  Essex says it has obtained committed financing of $1 billion for the deal.

UBS advised Essex and provided half of the bridge financing. Goodwin Procter acted as legal adviser. Citigroup acted as financial adviser and as administrative agent of the bridge facility.

Wells Fargo and the law firm Latham & Watkins advised BRE.

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