June 10, 2005 The Comments here are by Stew Webb Federal Whistleblower
Mark Hostlaw, Don Estep, Gary Clyman FBI Division 5 Denver Goons in Conspiracy with
Allen Karsh of Karsh & Fulton Denver Attorneys. Bush Crime Family Boss Hog
Leonard Millman's brother in law Allen Karsh who imports Narcotics from Mexico to Denver
The below is another example of FBI Civil Rights Violations, RICO, Obstruction of Justice and many more crime by
FBI Division 5 Denver Goons and more ties to the Bush-Millman-Clinton Crime Family.
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Steve Gartin
720 404-1812
Special Agent Mark Hostlaw
Federal Bureau of Investigation- Denver
By Fax
24 September 2000
Dear Sir:
I’ve been thinking a lot about our conversation last week. Obviously I am not
confident in the professional performance of the other two men; Don Estep and Gary
Clymer, but I have a confidence in yours. When I spoke to Randy Martin and Scott
Tuttle, they both spoke of your honesty and integrity and I have confidence in their
opinions of you.
I would like to flesh out some of the points with the intent of initiating an
investigation of the actions of the Jefferson County justice system and the Colorado
Attorney General’s Office for Obstruction of Justice, Denial of Due Process of the law,
Retaliation against Witnesses, Complainants and Victims of Federal Crimes, Interference
with Witnesses, Complainants and Victims of Federal Crimes, Interference with a
Political Candidate for Public Office and attendant violations of the law. Particularly,
investigation should be made of the actions of Don Estep and Gary Clymer while acting
in their official capacities.
Most of this information is stuff that I know to be true; other parts are
suppositions as to who is involved and on behalf of what agency- I believe it all to be true
and on the basis of that belief make the statements.
This whole thing started, in about 1990, with the violations by the Internal
Revenue Service and Spyderco (in the person of Louis Sal Glesser and his Comptroller
Robert Simon). Glesser and Simon had needed to account for quite a lot of cash money
from the operation of the criminal enterprise stemming from import/customs
machinations that we have discussed in our last conversation. They forged some IRS
reporting documents (1099’s I believe they’re called) on about seven of their employees-
the most egregious forgery was on the account of Steve Gartin- some $40,000 in income
he never received and for which he was liable for the taxes. He sought to fight the action
(using the two now disbarred lawyers, Lyle Robinson and Jim de Rose)- the IRS, in the
person of Phil Blondin, U.S. Att’y, removed the case to the Federal Court after Gartin
filed cases in Douglas County Colorado and Blondin defaulted on them..
Concomittantly, Gartin was involved in a divorce action with his wife of thirteen
years, Tamara. She had decided to leave him after the IRS went into her bank account
and confiscated monies. Upon appearing in court on a questionable service of process for
a different agenda (a proposed separation turned into a divorce action), he was denied the
right to speak to the court or present witnesses or documents (Judge Stuska). The false
submissions to the court and to law enforcement agents about Gartin’s supposed
affiliations with the so-called ‘patriot movement’ and his supposed racism derive from
the perjuries in support of that divorce action. Her lawyer, a friend of Marcus Merritt and
a member of the congregation of her fathers’ church, Antonio Troy Ciccarelli, has been
caught time and time again in submitting falsehoods and misleading information to the
court and law enforcement officials. He has been sanctioned and has lost his position
with Karsh & Fulton, a prestigious lawfirm, over his malfeasance as an attorney.
Subsequently to that, Gartin filed actions against various members of the
judicial/legal system for continuing abrogations of his right to due process and to petition
the court for redress of grievances relative to the divorce case and the later restraining
orders case.
That’s when the actions by Don Estep and the Office of the Attorney General
began; to attempt to keep him out of court and unable to complain and witness against
their improprieties. Maurice Knaiser is the attorney for Henry Nieto, Russell Stuska,
Charles Hoppin, Marilyn Leonard and the others- Gary Clymer seems to be their arm for
initiating the SWAT assaults on Gartin, taking his legal paperwork, circumscribing his
ability to mount a complaint against them in a court of law or defend himself from the
bogus charges they have laid.
The present charge in Arapahoe County is on the basis of a fraudulent fax sent by
the complainant, Marcus Merritt, himself to the offices of USWest (USWest owes Gartin
about $15K for computer work done for the Legal Office- they would also have to admit
that they gave private customer information to him for data management- this was
Marcus Merritt, his wife Tamara and his sister-in-law Francine Zehnder).
When Gartin was arrested in Golden, he was the one who had called the police
about the abduction of his children. Deputy Michael Moler arrested him for not having
ID in his swimtrunks and took him to jail where he was held in torture for three days. He
then complained to the Federal Court about those actions which exacerbated their
intentions to both obstruct his access to the courts and to retaliate against him for his
impertinence.
The Zehnder family then perjured themselves, along with Marcus Merritt, to
obtain restraining orders against Gartin for sending them legal documents. The
restraining orders were then used to criminalize him when he called to speak to his
children- Judge Charles Hoppin had said that the restraining orders were not to interfere
with his communication with his children, but they pressed them anyway. Ultimately they
sent a SWAT team against him for a non-violent ‘violation’ of the restraining orders- and
that assault without a warrant!
This all under the direction of Don Estep, Gary Clymer on behalf of Maury
Knaiser and the divorce lawyer Antonio T. Ciccarelli (now sanctioned by the Supreme
Court for his false and misleading submissions to the Federal Court to Judge Babcock
and other subornation of perjury and misprision of felonies by his clients, the Zehnders).
Gartin went to court for a child support hearing. Judge Marilyn Leonard took
perjured testimony from his former brother-in-law, Timothy Zehnder (husband of
Francine the USWest Legal Office Manager), formulated an order of child support,
backdated it for several months, found him in contempt for not paying it and sent him to
jail for six months- all in one day! All without a trial or opportunity to make a defense,
without counsel- deliberately impeding his ability to make complaint against her brother
judges or their enforcement arm, the JeffCo Sheriff’s Office.
During his incarceration, they held his mail to and from the court, refused to take
grievances, destroyed his work product and evidence, held him in solitary confinement
for five months without cause or justification and tried to have him killed or maimed by
selected inmates at the facility.
It’s all in the record. It’s all documented in his cases- they were not able to
destroy the record at the Clerk’s office itself, and the information is there for anyone to
read, analyze and derive the information from.
This is a broad series of Federal crimes to which I have been witness and Gartin
has been victim. It is certainly a combined effort of the Colorado Attorney General’s
Office (as the defenders of the various Government employees) and the JeffCo legal
system. They have acted and failed to act; they have misused the color of their authority
and caused grievous damage to both Gartin and the perception of the integrity of their
system of justice and law enforcement.
The egregious and unconscionable misuse of the color of authority to deny a
citizen access to the Federal Court, to destroy evidence and concoct falsehoods, the
misuse of a specialized reaction force on three occasions, the overt attempts to have him
killed or maimed, the improper imprisonment and malfeasance by the judiciary, the
harassment and destruction of his professional career and personal reputation has been to
cover their own misdeeds and criminality and to retaliate against him for his complaints.
You will find this information in the notes of the Special Agent that interviewed
me, in the notes from your conversation with Gartin in the company of Randy Martin and
Scott Tuttle, in the documentation in the case records- it is all there for anyone to read
and analyze.
Gartin has been pleading for his day in court for five years and more. He has been
pleading for an honest law enforcement official to just take a look at what has happened
and to take action about it. He has never committed any crime; there is no violence, no
criminality. He is the victim of a misuse of the color of authority by a gang of cronies in a
closely held county on behalf of influential civilians and political movers and shakers.
I am available for further interview on any of the allegations I’ve made here- I
believe them to be true and will give my oath on it.
I wish you well and hope for your health and prosperity-
Chas Clements
1741 Dallas Street
Aurora, Colorado
303.364.0403
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1741 Dallas Street
Aurora, Colorado
80010-2018
303.364.0403 (vox)
303.739.9824 (fax)
e-mail:
gryphons@attbi.com
Mark J. Mershon
Special Agent in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Denver, Colorado
15 Feb 02
Special Agent Mershon:
Sir:
This to bring to your attention criminal complaints of Witness Tampering, Evidence
Tampering, Civil rights abuse under color of authority, False arrest, Unlawful Detention,
and a failure to rise to minimal standards of professional responsibility on the part of
members of the MultiJurisdictional Domestic Terrorism TaskForce, in particular to
include two of your Special Agents; Mark Hostlaw and Kurt Maleri.
I have tried to prefer charges with the Attorney General’s Office, the Denver District
Attorney’s Office, the Denver Police Department, the Jefferson County District
Attorney’s Office and with the presiding judge, Hon. Leland P. Anderson, to no avail.
While those I spoke with agreed with me that I had been victimized, none would take
jurisdiction over any of the persons involved or the events that have transpired.
It would seem that your Bureau is charged with investigating and charging on such
criminal complaints, and I would enjoin you to investigate and proceed with the
appropriate measures to institute a prosecution.
My situation and history are as follows:
I have been subjected by officers of the law and prosecutors, to a deliberate and
malicious attempt to improperly coerce, intimidate and influence me, as a Witness in
complaints to Federal District court and to the appropriate authorities of charter, through
actions, threats, intimidation and defamation. The ‘MultiJurisdictional Domestic
Terrorism TaskForce has constructed a character of pure fantasy, assigned that fantasy to
me and investigated, indicted, arrested, detained me, required surety bond, compelled my
taking counsel for representation, and to defend myself against vigorous prosecution with
no cause whatsoever, none.
Their motivation stems from my position before the Courts as a 3
rd
Party Witness
for a Plaintiff in Federal Complaints, Mr. Steve Douglas Gartin. He is complaining of
various abuses of his civil rights in the Federal Court. Whether Mr. Gartin is right or
wrong in his complaints is of little or no relevance to the abuses against me. My
witness on his behalf consists solely of observing meetings with administrators and
investigators, witnessing the service of legal process and documents and, by now, being
privy to the process as it has proceeded. I am not a principal in any of the disputes;
neither gain nor lose by any decision on either side of the question.
Over some good period of time, four years or more, I have been threatened by
lawyers, a police officer, Sheriff’s Deputy, and an FBI agent, Mark Hostlaw, that my
witness (presumably against them) for Mr. Gartin would ‘lead to trouble’. They have
uniformly been individuals that are Respondent to Mr. Gartin’s complaints in Federal
Court, or representatives of agencies or other group interests. I have been investigated by:
the Federal Protective Service (Threat Assessment Division; Scott Tuttle), the U.S.
Marshall’s Office (Dep. US Marshall Randy Martin), the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(an unknown agent, Special Agent Kurt Maleri, Spl. Agent Mark Hostlaw), the
Intelligence Unit of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department (Dep. Sheriff Don Estep),
the Colorado State Attorney General’s Office (Senior Investigator Gary Clyman), the
Greenwood Village Police Department (Det’s. Carr, Stadterman, Lt. Fisher) and have
been thoroughly vetted for any criminal involvement or ‘political incorrectness’. All of
those people are either respondents to Mr. Gartin’s complaints or represent the
interests of such other respondents as have organizational associations.
On February 19, 2001, I was surprised to be arrested at my home in Adams
County by the Fugitive Felon Apprehension Team from Jefferson County on a,
previously unknown to me, Fugitive Felony Arrest Warrant issuing from a Sealed Grand
Jury Indictment (00CR001) issued 60 days prior (23 Dec 00). There were sixteen
charges; fifteen Felonies and one Misdemeanor of violence; Attempt to Influence a
Public Official, Filing False Instruments (multiple counts), Computer Crime, Criminal
Extortion (multiple counts) and Carrying a Concealed Weapon on a Jefferson County
School Ground. (Ref. Jefferson County Case number 00CR3373)
The prosecutor for that Indictment was Attorney General Ken Salazar and Senior Deputy
Attorney General Marlene M. Langfield, Esq. of the Colorado State Attorney’s Office.
The fifteen felony charges and the misdemeanor were carried forward by the Jefferson
County District Attorney’s Office with Marleen M. Langfield prosecuting under the
rubric of ‘Special Deputy District Attorney of Jefferson County Colorado’.
Her investigative team; Senior Investigator Gary Clyman of the Attorney General’s
Office, Senior Intelligence Investigator Don Estep of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s
Department and Special Agents Kurt Maleri and Mark Hostlaw of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, were operating under the rubric of the ‘MultiJurisdictional Domestic
Terrorism TaskForce’, which seems to be an adjunct of your JTTF group, if not an
alternative name for that entity.
I was represented by Cynthia Sheehan, Esq. of Cynthia Sheehan Law Practice.
Immediately upon Attorney Sheehan’s appearances in the first months after my
arrest, the first fifteen felony charges were summarily dropped; as was the misdemeanor
CCW. The charges were utterly unfounded, they comprised a hazard of some one
hundred and thirty years in prison. Nothing in the indictment reflected any testimony
against me by any complainant. The charges were groundless, abusive of the process
and done under the color of their authority for personal, as well as professional
reasons.
The surviving felony indictment, Criminal Extortion, was carried by Special
Deputy State Attorney General Marlene Langfield for several months until a petition was
made by the District Attorney’s office to dismiss. The charging was inappropriate by any
measure- even if events had transpired as was alleged- which they had not.
I was thoroughly cooperative throughout the experience.
One night in jail, the two lead investigators, Gary Clyman and Don Estep, took
me to my home in Aurora to get computer information from me. They told me about all
the felony charges in the sealed Indictment, how they presently could charge me with
‘aiding and abetting a Federal fugitive’, and would proceed with all the personal power
they could bring to prosecution if I did not give them my security passwords, remote
access to my computer, Gartin’s possible passwords, e-mail addresses, website addresses
and other data. I complied with their threats because I knew already that they were
capable of falsely charging me with felonies, arresting me, holding me in a ‘cold cell’,
leaving me without a blanket and engaging other custodial abuse based for the jailers, I
believe, on the charge of ‘Carrying a Concealed Weapon on a Jefferson County
Schoolground’.
Sometime after the first part of March, I began to realize that all my business
webpresence had been destroyed. My webspaces were no longer available to me because
the passwords had been changed. This included my two webaddresses that were very
desirable and valuable. At the same time, all of Mr. Gartin’s webpresence was destroyed;
business, personal, legal evidence/documentation, political and social commentary,
religious information, archival storage and so on.
Only the Attorney General’s Office’s MultiJurisdictional Domestic Terrorism
TaskForce Investigators Clyman and Estep had the requisite four separate and distinct
passwords (constructions of alphabet and type ornament, case sensitive) and credit card
number that were necessary to raze both sets of sites or access my computer and Internet
Service Provider from a remote station. Nothing whatsoever on any of the sites was of
any relevance to their investigation and destroying them was not only simple malice, but
the crushing of any financial means to aid any meaningful defense against their false
charges, or pay simple living expenses, as well as obstructing the recovery of evidence
and documentation that was in data storage.
Further, they released to the media and on the World Wide Web Internet, that I
am a ‘Patriot’, with ties to the Christian Identity group. That media release was parroted
by the ADL and SPLC types of groups, newspapers, FBI special interest releases all
across the world- all sorts of individuals and institutions have deliberately been led to
infer by this defamation and false information, that I am a racist, a bigot, a religious
zealot; armed, violent supporter of bombers and robbers with a religious justification and
fervor.
In fact, I am a longtime civil rights observer, trained by the Government as a GS-
15 during the ‘Model Cities’ years, on subjects ranging from race questions, anti-war, the
environment; community involvement, gender equality and parity. I am a professional
artist and craftsman for many years, long in residence at my home. I have never known
any of those kinds of people, never been to any sort of meeting or gathering, never read
their literature except at the most superficial level of the popular press, never donated to
any of them; never anything to do with them whatsoever.
I have been falsely and maliciously charged by Marleen M. Langfield, recklessly and
contemptuous of the law, and the those charged dropped when sustenance to them was
required in Court. I have been arrested on these false charges, detained, and bond
required of me on charges that were knowingly and deliberately proffered by Senior
Deputy Attorney General Langfield. They have destroyed my businesses on the Internet,
defamed my reputation by accusing me of crimes and of heinous social views, knowing
that it was wrong in every manner.
In the late summer of last year, 2001, I was witness to a meeting with Mark Hostlaw and
Kurt Maleri in which meeting they were informed of multiple charges of civil rights
abuse and enjoined to proceed with a civil rights complaint to your appropriate
department. That meeting had four witnesses giving complaint to Spl. Agents Hostlaw
and Maleri, and we were assured by Spl. Agent Hostlaw that the civil rights complaint
was going forward. I checked with Agent Hostlaw on several occasions about the
progress of the complaint. During our last conversation, he reassured me; ‘Don’t worry
about it, stay quiet, there are things going forward that you don’t know anything about.’
Of course, what was going forward were the false charges, and the civil rights complaint
was buried. Spl. Agents Hostlaw and Maleri are close friends of Don Estep, Gary Clyman
and the other Complaint Respondents, and it is my contention that their professional
judgment and demeanor was inappropriately influenced and conflicted by that
relationship.
Please proceed with an investigation on these complaints with the intention of instituting
criminal charges or administrative discipline as appropriate.
Thank you for your kind consideration; I am at your convenience for such supporting
documentation, eye-witness interviews, and any explication your Office might require in
support of these complaints.
Charles H. Clements
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