OHIO STATE’S PRESIDENT MICHAEL V. DRAKE MIRED IN PERSONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Trustees and Provost promote learning technology that benefits trustee clients and is stolen from OSU alums

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Aug. 13, 2014, Updated Mar. 05, 2015 | PDF

Update, Aug. 18, 2014—The Investigation Continues:
"Outraged Buckeye Nation sparks whistleblowers: New evidence reveals even more widespread collusion..." Stay tuned.

Fig. A—Michael V. Drake, President, The Ohio State University fired beloved OSU Band Director, Jon Waters, in one of his first acts as the new president of the university. The decision was unanimously supported by the OSU Trustees.

Drake's arrogant disregard for the public outcry against this decision will likely get him run out of Ohio on rails, according to sources close to the situation. More below. Photo: Ohio State.

Fig. B—Jeffrey Wadsworth, President, The Ohio State University Board of Trustees; CEO, Battelle Memorial Institute. Wadsworth's lobbyist, McBee Strategic, has at least 12 contracts with Ohio State. Before coming to Battelle, Wadsworth had no prior ties to Ohio, Ohio State or the Big 10; neither did Michael V. Drake. Their ties are all in California, LLNL, Univ. of Calif., Stanford.

Photo: The Columbus Dispatch.

McBee Strategic LLC — Ohio State Trustees Contracting Scandal

(Update, Aug. 15, 2014)—Investigation into the bizarre firing of Ohio State's beloved Marching Band Director, Jon Waters, has uncovered shocking conduct by Ohio State's Board of Trustees. See Ohio State band Director Jon Waters in action in this 2014 YouTube trailer. Compare that to Michael V. Drake's prior experience with the Stanford band at the 2013 Rose Bowl. The contrast in professionalism is stark.

Incoming President Michael V. Drake was supported in that decision to fire Waters without even a hearing by Jeffrey Wadsworth, President of the OSU Trustees.

Wadsworth is the CEO of Battelle Memorial Institute. He preceded Drake's move to Ohio, having moved from California where he was employed by Drake's alma mater, the University of California Trustees, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Curiously, Wadsworth's move to Ohio was at the same time as the theft of Leader Technologies' source code by The Eclipse Foundation / IBM, and Leader's research projects with Battelle and LLNL. Hmmmm. It is now evident that Eclipse simply gave Leader's invention to Facebook as it was coming off of Leader's engineering drawing board and was being secretly shuffled to them by Leader's Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley attorneys (Read: cronies of Drake and Wadsworth.)

McBee Strategic—Battelle's Top Lobbyist

Washington lobby databases show that Wadsworth employs McBee Strategic, a lobbying firm that "aligned" with Facebook's Cooley Godward LLP in April 2009 to help dole out the Administration's energy stimulus funds. Congressional testimony revealed that most of the $31 billion in taxpayer funds went to political cronies, and almost all of the projects have failed. Cooley Godward is the law firm at the center of the Leader v. Facebook judicial corruption scandal, where OSU graduate Michael McKibben's invention of social networking was confiscated by the federal government with Cooley's now evident assistance. See sidebar Request for Congressional Intervention.

Ohio State has contracts with at least 12 McBee Strategic clients. Four of those McBee clients are represented legally by Arent Fox LLP who has been appointed by Drake to the ongoing Waters affair. Jump to the McBee investigation results below.

Wadsworth's Double-dealing

Wadsworth's McBee Strategic ties are gargantuan conflicts of interest for the OSU Board of Trustees. The double-dealing by Wadsworth, and the evident collusion by others, corrupts all trustee proceedings, including the "unanimous" decision to fire Jon Waters. How or if the Waters affair and Wadsworth's McBee Strategic double-dealing are related remains a mystery. However, the facts are what they are.

Clearly, if the OSU Trustees are willing to cheat on contract awards, they are willing to cheat on the Waters firing too.

Fig. 1—Michael V. Drake, President, The Ohio State University fired beloved OSU Band Director, Jon Waters, in one of his first acts as the new president of the university. The decision was unanimously supported by the OSU Trustees. The study used as justification relies on much fabricated data and half truths about an alleged "highly sexualized culture." More than half of the eight women cited refute the findings and the use of their names as a misrepresentation of their words. Those women support Waters' reinstatement.

The topic of sexual assault has exploded onto the national scene in the mainstream media in recent weeks. After all, who can argue that it is not a worthy topic at any time, anywhere? However, the overemphasis appears to be yet another distraction from analysis of the Obama Administration's mounting policy failures. The fact that OSU's Drake is playing that hand triggered AFI researchers to investigate his past. The skeletons were not hard to find.

Drake's arrogant disregard for the public outcry against this decision will likely get him run out of Ohio on rails, according to sources close to the situation. Photo: Ohio State.

(Aug. 13, 2014)—A regular AFI commenter provided a heads up about the  Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) initiative. That investigation has opened Pandora’s Box. Readers will be surprised at the path those facts have taken. Strap on your seatbelts.

MOOC is a heavily promoted education initiative of The Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is also the source of the theft of Leader Technologies’ source code as AFI has only recently discovered. Eclipse illegally gave Leader’s code to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, among others. See previous post.

Eclipse was founded by IBM in late 2001 while Leader was perfecting its invention and sharing the progress with their attorneys. Hindsight shows those attorneys were untrustworthy. IBM’s attorneys included Leader’s attorney, James P. Chandler, III, and David J. Kappos, later Obama’s Patent Office director. According to Leader, Chandler did not disclose his conflict of interest which now appears to be the genesis of Eclipse… and therefore, MOOC.

As a parting act, Kappos secretly ordered Leader’s patent invalidated last year, even though Leader proved in federal court that Facebook is guilty of infringing this patent on 11 of 11 counts. Kappos was obviously under orders from his former employer. See previous post.

As we reported in the previous post, Eclipse promotes “The Internet of Things” whereby Eclipse members control all digital communications globally, right down to your toaster.

Fig. 2—Joseph E. Steinmetz, Ohio State Provost, sang the praises of MOOC in his final editorial as president of the Association for Psychological Sciences. A few months later, OSU vendors Google and Oracle announced MOOC initiatives to which Ohio State has joined. Steinmetz failed to disclose that OSU Trustee President, Jeffrey Wadsworth's lobbying firm, McBee Strategic, benefits from OSU decisions favorable to Oracle, Google and MOOC. Photo: OBS.

Eclipse wants control of global education via MOOC

MOOC surrogates have been moved into prominent academic positions to facilitate Eclipse hegemony.

Take Ohio State University for example. MOOC advocates have targeted Ohio State and Columbus-based Battelle Memorial Institute. Battelle has $6.2 billion in annual revenue, much of it from government contracts. Ohio State’s budget for 2014 is $5.2 billion.

Ohio State’s Provost Joseph E. Steinmetz pitches MOOC

In May 2013, Ohio State’s current Provost, Joseph E. Steinmetz, heavily promoted MOOC in his farewell Observer article as outgoing President of the Association for Psychological Science.

In the article Steinmetz sang the praises of “Big Data” and Internet-based education. He wrote “The Internet is changing this world” and singled out MOOCS. Four months later, Google announced its commitment to MOOC. Oracle followed in lockstep.

Fig. 3—Jeffrey Wadsworth, President, The Ohio State University Board of Trustees; CEO, Battelle Memorial Institute. Wadsworth employs McBee Strategic as a Washington D.C. lobbyist. At least 12 of McBee Strategic's clients have key contracts and relationships with Ohio State University. Decisions favorable to these firms benefit Wadsworth personally, as well as Battelle. Photo: The Columbus Dispatch.

Jeffrey Wadsworth, OSU Trustee President, gives contracts to Google and Oracle, who are clients of his Battelle lobbyist, McBee Strategic

The President of the Ohio State Board of Trustees is Jeffrey Wadsworth. Wadsworth has been the CEO and President of Battelle since December 2008, and an OSU trustee since June 2010. Between 1992 to 2002 Wadsworth was Deputy Director of Science and Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) managed by the University of California trustees.

One of Wadsworth/Battelle’s Washington DC lobbyists is McBee Strategic LLC. McBee lists at least twelve (12) current clients with Ohio State contracts and relationships, including Oracle and Google. Other relationships include Alcoa, Babcock & Wilcox, Boeing, Charter Communications, Enterprise Community Partners, GE Energy, Honeywell, JPMorgan, Praxair and Time Warner Cable.

Fig. 4—Ohio State University. Conflicts of Interest Map among the senior leadership of The Ohio State University.

OSU decisions that benefit Google, Oracle and 10 other firms also benefit McBee Strategic, Wadsworth's lobbyist—classic conflicts of interest

By promoting MOOC and McBee’s dozen Ohio State clients, Steinmetz and Wadsworth are benefiting Wadsworth personally. Such conduct is a classical conflict of interest.

As AFI readers know, McBee Strategic plays prominently in the Leader v. Facebook judicial corruption. Facebook’s trial attorney in Leader v. Facebook, Cooley Godward LLP, is partners with McBee, and those two firms are believed to have directed much of the cronyism of the failed energy stimulus in which tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars were shuffled to political hacks of the current Administration.

Irony: Ohio State steals valuable intellectual property from an Ohio State grad—Michael McKibben

Ironically, since MOOC relies on Eclipse source code originally stolen from Columbus, Ohio-based Leader Technologies, Inc., Ohio State is promoting the stolen property of one of its own—Leader’s inventor, Michael McKibben, who is a ‘73 Ohio State civil engineering graduate and 4-year member as well as squad leader of the famed OSU band. We asked him for his reaction to these new developments regarding MOOC and OSU. He said, "I am not surprised, but I am saddened that the ethical standards among the OSU leadership are simply following the herd."

McKibben continued, "That's probably why they are attacking the band. The OSU band is where I first encountered a culture that worked hard, strived for excellence, knew how to have fun in working hard, and took the high ground. The Animal House innuendo is so not who we were, or who the current band is. It's an insulting, nasty smear campaign."

Michael V. Drake’s conflicts of interest

OSU Trustee President Wadsworth’s University of California ties to Ohio State’s new president, Dr. Michael V. Drake, have come under scrutiny in recent weeks. Drake was director of policy for the UC medical schools and was chancellor at UC Irvine. Wadsworth worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory which was managed by the UC Trustees. Neither man had prior ties to Ohio or Ohio State.

Drake fired Ohio State’s beloved marching band director, Jonathan Waters, during his first week on the job. The charges now appear to be fabricated. The purpose of the Waters’ mistreatment is unclear.

Waters is the creator of the animated marching formations that went viral last year on YouTube, and were then featured on an Apple iPad commercial. The iPad commercial generated $30 million to the University, according to Yahoo News.

Fig. 5—betty D. Montgomery, former Ohio Attorney General, was selected by President Michael V. Drake to lead a continuing investigation into allegations of a "culture of sexualization" within the Ohio State University Marching Band. Drake fired the band director, Jon Waters, prior to this investigation. Montgomery has failed to disclose that she took political contributions from Drake's friend and Stanford colleague, Woodrow A. Myers, in 2006 when he was Chief Medical Officer at WellPoint, Inc. Photo: DiverseEducation.com.

Undisclosed financial ties have been discovered between Drake and former Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery. Those ties involve a Stanford medical colleague, Woodrow A. Myers, and a fellow Black Community Services award winner and officer of Wellpoint, Inc. Wellpoint made a political donation in 2006 to Montgomery.

Michael Drake “knew or should have known” about a political donation made to Betty Montgomery by his Stanford colleague, Woodrow A. Myers

Using Drake’s argument for firing OSU Marching Band Director Jon Waters, Drake “knew or should have known” that Betty Montgomery had taken political money from his Stanford colleague Woodrow A. Myers.

Fig. 6—Woodrow A. Myers, former Chief Medical Officer of Wellpoint, Inc. During that time, Wellpoint made at least one political contribution to Betty Montgomery. Myers is a fellow recipient, with Michael V. Drake, of the Stanford Black Alumni Hall of Fame Community Service Award. Myers was also the Chief Medical Director at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. OSU Trustee Erin P. Heoflinger, is President of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Ohio. The bottom line there are multiple conflicts of interest among Drake's friend Myers and Ohio State trustees. Photo: mozambiquehealth.

Michael Drake “knew or should have known” that his friend Woodrow A. Myers’ association with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is in conflict with OSU Trustee Erin P. Hoeflinger, on all matters she advocates

Myers was also corporate medical director at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. OSU Trustee Erin P. Hoeflinger is the current president of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in Ohio. This conflict of interest casts a cloud of bias over Drake’s and Hoeflinger’s association on the OSU Trustees, especially on healthcare-related matters.

Fig. 7—McBee Strategic is a Battelle Memorial Institute lobbyist in Washington D.C. McBee was formed in partnership with Cooley Godward LLP to dispense billions of dollars in the Obama Administration's energy stimulus funds. Those stimulus failures included $535 million at Solyndra and $529 million at Fisker Automotive. See CNN Money for a complete list of stimulus failures. Photo: Foursquare.

Michael Drake “knew or should have known” that Arent Fox LLP represents at least four clients of the OSU Trustee President Jeff Wadsworth’s lobbyist, McBee Strategic

Drake selected the Arent Fox LLP law firm to conduct further investigations into the OSU band. However, he failed to disclose that Arent represents at least four of McBee Strategic’s Ohio State clients (Google, Oracle, Honeywell, Time Warner), and therefore cannot be impartial.

Fig. 8—David P. Vaughn, Criminal Attorney, was selected by OSU President Michael V. Drake to continue the OSU Marching Band "culture" investigation. Vaughn is a long-time former Assistant U.S. Attorney who only tried criminal cases. He created his "David Vaughn Consulting Group" website less than two weeks before Drake appointed him. Vaughn's company name does not appear in the business entity records of the California Secretary of State.

Vaughn's bio says he graduated from UC Berkeley, then attended UC Hastings law school, then received an MPA from Harvard. His pedigree fits the now familiar profile of the corrupt Facebook Cartel. Photo: ZoomInfo.

Michael Drake “knew or should have known” that David Vaughn Consulting Group was formed less than two weeks before he hired Vaughn

A criminal lawyer, David Vaughn Consulting Group, was hired for the Waters investigation. Vaughn’s website is only one page and was created less than two weeks before he was hired by Drake. This gives the impression that the website was created just for the OSU affair. The site is poorly implemented, which further supports the notion that it was thrown up hurriedly for his friend, Michael V. Drake, and Betty Montgomery .

Since Jon Waters was fired on July 24, 2014, Michael Drake has dodged questions from reporters.

Bizarre Linkage—Culture of Undisclosed Conflicts

The conflicts of interest among Drake, Steinmetz, MOOC, Oracle, Google, The Eclipse Foundation, Myers, Montgomery, Vaughn, Arent Fox, UC, Stanford, McBee Strategic, Wadsworth and Battelle, and this bizarre set of linkages among the Jon Waters affair, the theft of Leader Technologies’ code, and the global MOOC initiative, are puzzling facts.

MOOC certainly figures prominently into the misconduct of the OSU leadership. But, how did Director Jon Waters and the OSU Marching Band threaten that collusion?

Regardless of the marching band connection, OSU's leaders have much to answer for regarding their "Culture of Undisclosed Conflicts."

Perhaps it is all just coincidental. However, the coincidences in the Leader v. Facebook matter are now piled so high and deep that they are starting to block out the sun… can anyone say “eclipse?”

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Postscript:
OSU Marching Band 2014 Trailer, Jon Waters, director

Source: YouTube — http://youtu.be/1NJDV_BmXb8

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ECLIPSE OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

IBM and "The Eclipse Foundation" Control Obama in the Shadows to Block Out Our Fundamental Rights

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Aug. 06, 2014, Updated Aug. 08, 2014 | PDF

Fig. 1—President Barack H. Obama presides over the most secretive and massive government takeover of privacy and property in American history. Photo: Obeygiant.

(Aug. 06, 2014)—According to the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the People have the power. However, the People have been usurped by a surveillance culture where President Barack Obama and his political appointees are merely running the interference.

AFI researchers recently stumbled upon the key that unlocks the secret to Obama’s defiant confidence in the face of multiple scandals. The scandals themselves appear to be merely diversionary tactics to mask the real agenda.

The key was a 2001 “Eurotech, Ltd.” press release. The document was missing from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s official EDGAR website where it should have been. Nevertheless, it was stored in several library aggregators.

The Key

The Aug. 7, 2001 Eurotech, Ltd. (AMEX:EUO) press release announced:

“Professor James P. Chandler Joins Eurotech’s Crypto.com as Director and Principal Advisor.”

We reached out to Leader who said they had no knowledge of Eurotech. We then knew we had discovered something important, akin to a whistleblower.

Photo: Photography Life

Global Shell Games

Following the money trail, we discovered a convoluted tangle of Eurotech entity mergers; spin offs; reverse mergers; Cayman Island shell companies; surrogates; Chinese, Russian and Indian entities; brand name financiers; South African front men; name changes, missing public documents, disappearance of certain people’s names and backgrounds from the web, FOIA stonewalling, misdirection and doublespeak.

These trails wound through the secretive FISA Court, Justice Department, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Circuit, district courts, Commerce Department, S.E.C., Patent Office, White House, three-letter agencies, Wall Street, Boston and Silicon Valley, then back onto Chandler’s doorstep.

Sounds like John Grisham fiction, doesn't it? Sadly, it is all too real, and all verifiable from public data. We will post just a few supporting items in this article.

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In 2000, Leader Technologies sought out well-respected patent attorneys to protect its invention.

A friend had introduced Leader to Major General James E. Freeze, US Army (ret.), the former #3 at the NSA.

Freeze introduced Leader to Professor James P. Chandler, III, former patent law professor at George Washington University and Harvard, and a member of President Clinton’s National Infrastructure Assurance Council.

In turn, Chandler introduced Leader to Fenwick & West LLP.

The Fox Agreed To Guard The Hen House

Freeze and Chandler joined the Leader board of directors. Chandler and Fenwick became Leader’s legal counsel. Leader believed these men would provide ample protection for their invention. The opposite occurred, in the name of national security.

IBM was Chandler’s client for intellectual property matters. David J. Kappos led IBM’s intellectual property legal division and was a Chandler collaborator.

In addition, a U.S. Department of Justice document has just surfaced that proves a deep relationship in 2001 between Chandler and then Assistant Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Eclipse’s Original Sin

On Nov. 29th, 2001, three months after the Eurotech/Chandler press release, IBM/Kappos founded “The Eclipse Foundation” to develop and promote royalty-free open source software. The founding members included numerous Fenwick & West LLP clients, including Red Hat and Merant. See Eclipse press release.

The Eclipse board minutes are online. On Dec. 4th, 2002, they stated:

“Eclipse 2.0 was primarily based on contributions of a single company.”

These minutes also discuss difficulties with the SWING protocol that was used in the Leader Technologies code. SWING is a method for displaying web pages that Leader chose initially, but Eclipse members wanted changed.

Eclipse became the catch basket for Leader Technologies’ source code as it came off the drawing board. That is illegal lawyer conduct. Your lawyer is forbidden from selling your secrets out the backdoor to cronies.

Eclipse code likely provided to Zuckerberg

On Feb. 4, 2008, Facebook launched. In his ConnectU deposition (the Winklevoss Twins), Zuckerberg was magically unable to remember the “other” sources for his platform ideas.

Facebook has consistently lied about Zuckerberg’s hard drives to mask the truth that Zuckerberg used The Eclipse Foundation code—Leader’s code. This helps explain why Paul Ceglia has become such a target of Eclipse surrogate, Attorney General Eric Holder. See previous post.

Zuckerberg was fraudulently misrepresenting his intentions to Ceglia in 2003. The only way out of that for the Facebook Cartel was to accuse Ceglia of Zuckerberg’s sins and make him prove a negative.  “When will you stop beating your wife?”

On Dec. 8, 2004, the Eclipse minutes stated:

“But not unexpectedly the Foundation has been unable to locate each and every contributor to the projects over the past three years” and proposed to “re-implement any functionality” not “re-contributed.”

“Unable to locate” indeed. “Re-implement any functionality?”

They lost track of their “single company” contributor. This is lawyer BS for theft.

Notice to IBM and The Eclipse Foundation:

AFI found your “single company” contributor!

Leader Technologies, Inc., Columbus, Ohio U.S.A.

Although the Eclipse documents eagerly identify their rapidly increasing membership, they never identify the single source of their founding code base.

All the evidence points to Chandler and Fenwick, and therefore Leader Technologies, as their source.

"Disappointing, Shocking News"

AFI asked Leader founder and inventor, Michael McKibben, if he was aware of any of this activity by his legal counsels Chandler and Fenwick. “No way,” McKibben said. “They came highly recommended for their professionalism and integrity.”

McKibben said, “Ever since the Facebook S-1 registration in 2012, we knew Fenwick was behaving badly, but did not know its origin or scope. Professor Chandler had introduced us to Fenwick, but we never for a minute suspected collusion.”

“This Eurotech press announcement is shocking. It shows that Professor Chandler was engaged in other activity in the same technology space as us without telling us. And, it was occurring at the same time we were perfecting our inventions. Professor Chandler and Fenwick knew everything as our trusted advisors.”

McKibben concluded, “We have always held Professor Chandler in high regard. In fact, one of my daughters interned with him for a summer. He once made a puzzling statement to me about sacrificing individual interests for the common good, but I never for a moment thought he was talking about sacrificing Leader’s interests. We were his client!”

Lawyer Ethics 101: duties to present and former clients require prior disclosure and written waivers

The attorney Rules of Professional Conduct require attorneys to disclose conflicts of interest before engaging in activity that is potentially competitive to their client, or former client.

Eclipse Controls The Social Web

Eclipse has defined the social web. It has almost 200 members. It’s a veritable Who’s Who of modern computing, including IBM, Facebook, Oracle, Computer Associates, Intel, Wind River, SAP, Motorola, IDG, Blackberry, Sybase, Hitachi, BEA, Adobe, HP, Borland, Toshiba, AOL, Cisco, Siemens, TIBCO, Google, Novell, NetApp, Rational, Texas Instruments, Red Hat, SAS, JPMorgan, NASA, Eurotech, Nokia, Compuware, Actuate, AMD and the U.S. Government.

The Eclipse Foundation Board Meeting Minutes, MEMBERSHIP LOGOS, Sep. 17, 2008

Fig. 2—The Eclipse Foundation Membership on Sep. 17, 2008.

The give-away of Leader’s invention spanned the globe, from the US and Canada to Europe, Russia and Asia.

Fenwick & West LLP represents many of these companies. Edward Snowden revealed that many of these companies provide a backdoor to the NSA.

This brings us full circle back to Chandler and Freeze, Leader Technologies’ first directors.

According to Congressional records, Freeze helped lead the NSA before meeting Leader. Chandler consulted to the NSA and Department of Justice before meeting Leader.

The Eclipse Foundation was founded by IBM and David J. Kappos. In 2009, Kappos was appointed by Obama as director of the Patent Office. Eric H. Holder, Jr.  was appointed Attorney General in 2009.

Goodbye privacy; hello surveillance state

One of Kappos’ parting acts as director of the Patent Office was to issue a secret administrative order to invalidate Leader’s patent using Patent Office cronies who were loyal to IBM, Microsoft and Xerox—dues-paying Eclipse members and collaborators.

Obama announced his candidacy in 2007 on Facebook, one of Eclipse’s beneficiaries.

The Eclipse Foundation members are providing most if not all the key programming, equipment and embedded systems to HealthCare.gov and the IRS.

Are you getting the picture?

Our international digital communications infrastructure is controlled by IBM and its crony Eclipse membership. The Facebook Cartel uses the Eclipse code.

This Cartel has established a multitude of off-shore Cayman Island shell companies to hide tens and maybe hundreds of billions of dollars that is out of reach of Congress and American law.

"The One People" of America have been robbed of their sovereignty

The People of the United States are no longer in control of their government.

Fig. 3—The Internet of Things. While this Chandler/IBM-driven schema sounds good in theory, the surveillance and death of privacy and property devil is in these details. The tech world is teeing up absolute power into the hands of the digital purveyor Cartel, in secret. Photo: Beacham Research / Cisco.

IBM through The Eclipse Foundation, along with the Facebook Cartel, is consolidating control of our global communications and transaction infrastructure, as we speak.

Obama’s job appears to be to orchestrate misdirection while the Eclipse members complete their work to establish digital control via their vision called “The Internet of Things.”

FYI, the same month that IBM produced this "Internet of Things" PowerPoint for an Eclipse board meeting, Russian oligarch Yuri Milner paid $100 million for a mansion in Silicon Valley. Milner financed his purchase by buying billions of dollars in private market Facebook stock, and selling the shares..... Milner's exploits were approved by cronies at the SEC and arranged by cronies at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs was Milner's partner in Moscow. Milner is a protégé of Obama's bailout director, Lawrence "Larry" Summers, along with Facebook's COO, Sheryl K. Sandberg, from the early 1990's when these plots were being hatched at Harvard and the World Bank.

Even your toaster will monitor you in the coming days… be careful about your breakfast conversations!

… from places like China and Russia where surveillance is a way of life, if the Cartel has its way.

Don't give them their way.

It's our country they are selling into digital slavery.

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US v. CEGLIA JUDGE HOLDS FACEBOOK STOCK AND PROTECTS ZUCKERBERG'S HARD DRIVES

Judge Andrew L. Carter failed to disclose his and Attorney General Eric Holder’s Facebook holdings

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Jul. 29, 2014 | PDF

Fig. 1—Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr., presides over the U.S. Government's forgery case against Paul Ceglia in U.S. v. Ceglia, 12-cr-876-ALC (S.D.N.Y. 2012). Ceglia is the man who sued Mark Zuckerberg for breach of contract. AFI believes this case to be fabricated by the Eric Holder-led Justice Department to protect Facebook and Holder's personal financial holdings and other economic and political interests, as well as those of his Facebook Cartel cronies.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder stepped into the middle of this case after a blistering deposition of Facebook's forensic experts by Ceglia's attorney in Ceglia's civil case against Zuckerberg. This obstruction prevented Ceglia's attorneys from having access to Zuckerberg's 28 Harvard hard drives and emails from the critical 2003-2004 period in question in the case. This is a egregious abuse of due process.

On Jul. 22, 2014, Judge Carter also blocked access to Zuckerberg's hard drives so that Ceglia could build his defenses. Notably, these hard drives have been protected by every judge in whose court they have been the subject of discovery. Also notably, every judge who has blocked access holds stock in substantial Facebook interests, yet has not recused himself/herself. Photo: WLCJ.

(Jul. 29, 2014)—On Jul. 22, 2014 Reuters reported that Mark Zuckerberg will be called to testify in U.S. v. Paul Ceglia. Whether he turns out to be the key witness for Paul Ceglia or the government remains to be seen. Readers are encouraged to read the Reuters coverage for background.

At the July 22nd hearing before District Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr., the judge denied Ceglia’s request for warrants to be able to review Zuckerberg 2003-2004 Harvard computer hard drives, emails, cell phone, email and bank account information. But these materials are directly relevant to the government accusations. Ironically, judges have allowed government and Facebook lawyers to practically ransack the same information from Ceglia.

Click here to read the arguments made by Ceglia’s lawyers to be given access to Zuckerberg’s information.

Click here to view the U.S. v. Ceglia docket.

Judge Andrew L. Carter’s Massive Facebook Conflicts of Interest

Sensing conflicts, AFI investigators began analyzing the background of Judge Andrew L. Carter. Here’s a now all too familiar pattern telegraphing control of Judge Carter by the Facebook Cartel:

1. Judge Carter is another Harvard graduate (1994).
   
   
2. Judge Carter was placed by President Obama in the Southern District of New York district court (2011) with U.S. Attorney Preetinder “Preet” Bharara, the prosecutor assigned to the Ceglia case, another Harvard graduate (1990).
   
   
3. Judge Carter holds up to $1,230,000 investments in at least 60 stocks in Facebook interests, three of which, Fidelity (3) and Vanguard (3) hold Facebook stock directly, not even through nested shells. Carter also has numerous holdings in Facebook's underwriters Goldman Sachs (3), JP Morgan (10), Morgan Stanley (4), and BlackRock (3).
   
   
4. Judge Carter holds Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX), along with Eric Holder and three Leader v. Facebook judges (John Roberts, Kimberly Moore and Evan Wallach). Contrafund holdings in Facebook may top $1 billion. Holder and Carter will benefit handsomely from decisions favorable to Facebook.
   
   
5. Judge Carter refused to allow access to Zuckerberg’s 2003-2004 emails and hard drives, even after Facebook’s own forensic experts, Bryan J. Rose and Michael F. McGowan, admitted that they contained information important to Ceglia’s defenses. See Rose deposition; McGowan deposition.
   
   
6. Facebook’s attorney in the Ceglia case, Gibson Dunn LLP, was also Facebook’s attorney in Leader v. Facebook. Even though Gibson Dunn had custody of the Zuckerberg hard drives, they lied to the court and said they were lost. However, they magically produced them just two days after the appeals ruling in Facebook’s favor.
   
   
7. U.S. Attorney Preetinder “Preet” Bharara who is prosecuting Ceglia used to work for Gibson Dunn LLP, Facebook’s attorney in the case, but has refused to disqualify himself.
   
   
8. Judge Andrew L. Carter holds large amounts of Facebook interests, yet also has failed to recuse himself.

Eric H. Holder and his U.S. Department of Justice minions are ignoring Paul Ceglia’s fundamental Constitutional rights in order to protect Facebook and the personal financial, political and commercial interests of his cronies.

All too sad for our republic. All too familiar.

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ERIC HOLDER EXPLOITS SECRET FISA LAWS FOR PERSONAL GAIN

While personally holding stocks in Facebook and telecommunications companies, Holder indemnified them for warrantless wiretaps of American citizens

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Jul. 02, 2014, Updated Jul. 25, 2014 | PDF

(Jul. 25, 2014 Update)—AFI Readers are encouraged to follow all the links contained in the last few posts. Become conversant with the evidence. We believe the dysfunction in Washington D.C. can be directly attributed to the hidden agendas of this cartel of federal officials, along with their Wall Street and Silicon Valley cronies. Experience shows they will try to divert attention with an endless stream of titillating news rabbit trails. However, readers should let those bullets fly where they will and stay focused on the duplicitous conduct of these individuals. These officials must be held to account for their grotesque violations of ethics laws. Whistleblowers are encouraged to do the right thing and step forward.

U.S. Justice Dept Fraud: Eric H. Holder holds stock in Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan

Jul. 16, 2004 Update—Eric H. Holder played the race card in the midst of his Wall Street

treachery with Citigroup, JPMorgan and Bank of America. He deflects his culpability for protecting his banker cronies with racial innuendo.

See Judge Napolitano on Holder: "This Is a Constitutional Crisis."

Healthcare.gov Privacy Alert:
Reid Hoffman, CEO, LinkedIn, (and Facebook director) admitted to veteran PBS interviewer Charlie Rose on Monday that

he advises the White House on HealthCare.gov integration (with the IRS?) Hoffman famously said that privacy is an "old people issue." Are President Obama and Eric Holder guarding American privacy, or selling it off to the highest LinkedIn and Facebook bidders? See Charlie Rose interview. See also comments below.

(Jul. 17, 2014 Update)—Attorney General Eric H. Holder just announced a $7b settlement with Citigroup over their 2008 bank fraud. He has already settled with JPMorgan for $13b, and has teed up Bank of America. However, Eric Holder personally holds 11 stocks in Citigroup, 10 stocks in Bank of America, and 11 stocks JPMorgan. Holder pledged to disqualify himself from such conflicts of interest. But instead, he has doubled down. Out of Holder's left pocket and into his right. Who will hold this lawless Justice Department accountable? Click here to see Holder's 2008 financial report in GoogleDocs or here for direct PDF download. (Includes an Excel spreadsheet to do your own analysis.)

FISA Judge Reggie B. Walton. Photo: PBS.

The American republic took a bullet from the FISA Court on Dec. 12, 2008 in a "Top Secret" opinion, signed by Reggie B. Walton, ceding near dictator powers to his friend, Eric H. Holder. See below.

More Facebook Cartel Corruption:
CA Judge Lucy H. Koh, another Harvard Facebook Cartel member, refuses to recuse herself despite stockholdings in litigants. Click here. Photo: Wikipedia.

Fig. 1—Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., President Barack H. Obama's self-proclaimed "wingman," has directed the greatest expansion of warrantless domestic surveillance against American citizens in history. Holder and the secret FISA Court he directs hold stock in every one of the telecommunications and Internet providers whom they have secretly indemnified, thus violating fundamental tenants of propriety and conflicts of interest law. Photo: Politico

July 4, 1776

What price freedom?

(Jul. 02, 2014)—Attorney General Eric H. Holder owns 66 stocks in the telecom and Internet providers to whom he has given immunity from prosecution for their participation in warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

Holder's 2008 financial disclosure shows holdings up to $22.4 million, including 14 directly in Facebook, and 106 in Facebook cronies like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, IBM, Microsoft and LinkedIn.

Holder even has stock in the Chinese and Russian social networks Baidu and Mail.ru, which are heavily owned by Goldman Sachs, Mogan Stanley, T.Rowe Price, BlackRock, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity and Vanguard, among others. Numerous senior Obama officials and judges are substantially invested in these mutual funds, including former Patent Office director, David J. Kappos, SEC Chair Mary L. Schapiro, and Commerce Sec'ys Rebecca M. Blank and Penny S. Pritzker (11.6 MB). Throw in Energy Sec'y Steven Chu, WH Counsel Nancy A. M. DeParle, WH CTO Aneesh Chopra and HHS Sec'y Sylvia M. Burwell for good measure. Do all members of the Administration hold this group of insider funds? No.

Equally telling, Holder now holds stock in Athenahealth, Castlight Health and CGI, Inc., the companies at the center of the Obamacare fiasco, and companies who are tapped into the IRS computer system. Athenahealth and Castlight Health were founded by White House chief technology officer, Todd Y. Park. Obamacare architect, Robert P. Kocher, MD is now a director of Castlight Health.

It is little wonder that Holder will not investigate the IRS and HealthCare.gov scandals that involve these companies. He owns stock in them.

According to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Holder has overseen the largest domestic surveillance program in American history.

Eric Holder feathers his financial nest

Every time Eric Holder secretly orders a communications provider to cooperate, he benefits financially since: (a) the government pays the provider, and (b) the government indemnifies the provider from prosecution for participation in the warrantless wiretapping.

This conflict of interest is forbidden by ethics laws and constitutes fraud.

Holder held stock in all the providers identified in the Snowden NSA disclosures: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, Century Link, T-Mobile. See also The Guardian.

Department of Justice Racketeering

Other federal officials involved with FISA also hold stock in the providers whom they indemnify and thus protect against damages:

1. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
2. Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence in 2008
3. Dennis F. Saylor, IV, FISA Judge
4. James E.  Boasberg, FISA Judge

A racketeer is “one who obtains money by an illegal enterprise usually involving intimidation” (Merriam-Webster). Given Holder and Co’s fraudulent concealment of their financial interests in the communications providers they were ostensibly regulating, these individuals were using the intimidation power of the state for personal financial gain. Such is almost a textbook definition of racketeering.

Obama: Do as I say, not as I do.

Fig. 2—Candidate Barack OBama spoke on Aug. 1, 2006 at The Woodrow Wilson Intl. Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He said the Bush administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.” He promised to give American intelligence agencies the tools to defeat terrorism without undermining the Constitution. He said, “That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime … No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient... The FISA Court works. The separation of powers works.” Hindsight says he did the opposite. Note how he said “the FISA Court works.” Freudian? YouTube Video: John Sexton / Illinois Channel.

Expansion of surveillance powers occurred on Obama's watch

On Dec. 12, 2008, five weeks after President Obama was elected to his first term, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court made a Top Secret” decision to dramatically expand the Bush-era Patriot Act electronic surveillance powers of the Executive Branch. Barack Obama had been against this in 2007 (Fig. 2), but he flipped his position 180 degrees as the election drew near.

Dictatorial Powers

The “Supplemental Opinion” gave the Attorney General power to seize, without a warrant, any user content from telecommunications and internet providers. Up to that point the warrants were limited to metadata (data about data, for example, the time, duration and phone numbers on a call, but not the call recording itself).

The American republic took a bullet from the FISA Court

Buried in the five-page ruling is the smoking gun legalese:

“the Court is persuaded that this objective is better served by the interpretation that the records sought in this case are obtainable pursuant to a section 1861 order.”

In short, the Attorney General was granted almost dictatorial powers with nearly unilateral control over the secrecy of his orders. Is Lois Lerner merely following a Holder gag orders?

See also "In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. by Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times, Jul. 5, 2013.

Supplemental Opinion, In re Production of Tangible Things From [REDACTED], Docket No. BR 08-13, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Dec. 12, 2008

Fig. 3—Top Secret FISA ruling giving the Attorney General almost dictatorial powers to order warrantless domestic wiretaps of American citizens, decided on Dec. 12, 2008. Buried in the five-page ruling is the smoking gun legalese that handed Eric H. Holder, Jr. almost dictatorial powers to do with impuntiy whatever he decides he wants to do ("section 1861"):

“the Court is persuaded that this objective is better served by the interpretation that the records sought in this case are obtainable pursuant to a section 1861 order.”

Source: www.emptywheel.net.

Harvard Memo: We know what’s best for you

The central role played by Harvard graduates in this scandal is now unmistakable.

Seven weeks after the secret expansion of the Attorney General's powers by the FISA Court, Harvard Law grad Obama appointed his Harvard Law friend, Eric H. Holder, Jr., as Attorney General. Both men had been mentored by Leader Technologies’ intellectual property attorney, Professor James P. Chandler, III. Chandler’s central role in these events is becoming evident. Chandler taught law at Harvard and worked closely with Holder when Holder was Assistant Attorney General in 2001, while Chandler was also representing Leader Technologies.

Concurrently, Obama’s new bailout chief, former Harvard professor and president, Lawrence Summers, was busy shuffling $33 billion in U.S. taxpayer bank bailout funds off to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and State Street Corp.

Harvard graduate and SEC chief counsel Thomas J. Kim, had just cleared the way for Facebook to sell billions of dollars in private stock while staying private in an unprecedented 12(g) waiver. Kim previously worked for Latham & Watkins LLP who represented Harvard graduate, James W. Breyer, when he was chairman of the National Venture Capital Association.

Goldman Sachs, led by Harvard graduate Lloyd Blankfein, then sent some of its newly-minted bailout money to their Moscow partner and Summers protégé, Yuri Milner. Milner and another Summers protégé and Harvard grad, Sheryl K. Sandberg, arranged for Milner to invest billions of these dollars into private Facebook pre-IPO stock, along with Fidelity Contrafund, Vanguard, T.Rowe Price, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and others. Summers also received upwards of $750,000 in Goldman speaking fees that year.

The FISA Court judges are appointed for a seven year term by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., another Harvard grad.  DC-based FISA Judge James E. Boasberg, is yet another Harvard man.

Within just a few months of the filing of the Leader v. Facebook patent infringement case (Nov. 19, 2008), Harvard man Eric Holder secretly ordered Facebook to turn over user content to the NSA. This activity began on Jun. 3, 2009, according to Snowden documents.

Holder colluded with Facebook and prejudiced Leader v. Facebook

Holder’s action prejudiced Leader’s case by throwing a blanket of Justice-Department-induced secrecy over Facebook’s lawsuit conduct. Case in point, Facebook stonewalled release of 28 Mark Zuckerberg hard drives and Harvard emails from 2003-2004 in discovery for more than a year before saying they had lost them. See Request for Congressional Intervention.

Justice is supposed to be blind, but in Leader v. Facebook the Justice Department played favorites without disclosing the conflict of interest to Leader. The Justice Department even hired Facebook's Cooley Godward LLP partner, Donald K. Stern, to advise them on replacing Judge Joseph J. Farnan whose pre-trial rulings were going heavily against Facebook.

One cannot imagine a more prejudicial circumstance.

For example, had Leader known about the Justice Department’s prejudice, Leader would certainly have opposed the recommendation of Obama nominee, Leonard P. Stark, to become the trial judge a month before trial. Every mistake of law in the case occurred after Holder/Stark's take over. Stark's silence about his conflicts is more evidence of this collusion.

This secrecy alone is grounds for a mistrial.

Fraudulent Concealment of Personal Financial Holdings

Eric H. Holder, Jr. holds at least 136 Facebook financial interests. Dennis C. Blair, Holder’s cohort and Director of National Intelligence, holds at least 20 Facebook interests. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. holds 187. Current FISA Judge James E. Boasberg holds 61. Current FISA judge Dennis F. Saylor, IV holds a whopping 344.

If we add in their telecom, media and non-Facebook interest holdings, Roberts holds 242, Holder 173, Blair 24, Boasberg 141 and Saylor 418. No matter how this data is sliced, these men hold stock in every major telecom, internet and media provider. They cannot make a decision regarding surveillance without benefiting themselves and their cronies.

Holder promised to be ethical

These holdings of Facebook interests were fraudulently concealed, not only from Leader Technologies, but from the American people. On Jan. 12, 2009, Eric Holder pledged to recuse himself if matters before him benefited him personally. Saylor, Blair, Boasberg and John Roberts pledged similarly.

By ordering Facebook to funnel user data to the NSA, Holder indemnified Facebook from wrongdoing. Such indemnities are valuable. They benefited the holders of stocks in those companies.

Holder had an ethical duty to either: (a) sell his Facebook financial interests before remaining involved in Facebook matters, or (b) disclose his holdings and disqualify himself.

The Justice Department conduct also compromised Facebook’s legal counsel. Those attorneys had a professional duty to disclose the conflicts inherent in their secret collaboration with the Justice Department

Snowden exposed fraudulent concealment by the Justice Department

The table below shows when telecom and Internet providers joined the NSA warrantless surveillance program. It also shows the number of stocks held in those companies by the federal officials (analyzed by AFI researchers from public disclosures).

Date Provider Joined NSA PRISM	Telecom / Internet Provider	Federal Official, Stockholder
		Eric H. Holder, Jr.	John G. Roberts, Jr.	Dennis F. Saylor, IV	James E.  Boasberg	Dennis C. Blair
		Atty. Gen.	Chief Justice	FISA Judge	FISA Judge	Dir. Nat. Intel.
early	Verizon	5	6	5	5	2
early	AT&T	3	2	2	4	0
09/11/2007	Microsoft	10	16	20	13	0
03/12/2008	Yahoo	5	8	16	3	0
12/03/2008	FISA Court issued a “Top Secret” 5-page  expansion of powers to allow capture of content and give sweeping, almost dictatorial powers to the Attorney General.
01/14/2009	Google	7	16	20	6	1
06/03/2009	Facebook	14	17	19	2	2
12/07/2009	PalTalk	0	0	0	0	0
09/24/2010	YouTube*	7	16	20	6	1
02/06/2010	Skype*	10	16	20	13	0
03/31/2011	AOL	1	1	0	4	0
10/__/2012	Apple	4	15	18	5	1
Unknown	T-Mobile	0	2	1	0	0
	TOTAL	66	115	141	61	7
*Skype was purchased by Microsoft. YouTube was purchased by Google.
Table 1: "Dates When PRISM Collection Began For Each Provider." produced by the National Security Agency (NSA), Top Secret disclosure by Edward Snowden. Published by The Guardian, June 06, 2013 (PDF). Also included are summaries of the stockholdings of federal officials in the providers identified in the Snowden documents, as disclosed in their annual financial disclosures. See also The Guardian online.

Risk indemnification and payment for services is valuable

Just because you are a federal official granted special powers of secrecy does not give you a license to use that privilege to benefit your personal stock holdings, and that of your cronies.

These men benefited personally by providing risk indemnity to companies ordered to participate in the PRISM program. These conflicts of interest have been fraudulently concealed.

Indeed, risk reduction increases a company’s value. Since the 2008 allowance of warrantless wiretaps, Holder and these judges have been lining their pockets under the FISA secrecy blanket.

Mutual Funds = Legalized Bribery, Collusion and Influence Peddling

AFI researchers have now studied hundreds of mutual funds held by these actors. Mutual funds are clearly being used to conceal investments in companies where value-enhancing favors are being solicited from the public officials who hold those stocks.

Facebook's largest shareholder and former chairman, James W. Breyer, Accel Partners LLP, appears to have led this scheme, with the help of a gaggle of unscrupulous law firms led by Fenwick & West LLP, Gibson Dunn LLP and Perkins Coie LLP, along with his mutual fund cronies at the National Venture Capital Association, where Breyer had been a director since 1999, and chairman in 2004-2005.

For example, Roberts, Holder and Saylor all hold Fidelity Contrafund, along with Leader v. Facebook Federal Circuit Judges Moore and Wallach. In fact, Holder and Saylor hold six Fidelity Funds in common, each of which holds Facebook stock. Fidelity was a big winner in the Facebook IPO.

Eric Holder―a fraud from Day 1

Eric H. Holder, Jr. walked into office knowingly holding stock in practically every telecom and Internet company that he indemnified. Since he did not disclose these conflicts of interest, as he said he would, his tenure as Attorney General has been fraudulent since Day 1.

Is it any wonder why whistleblower Edward Snowden does not want to come back to the U.S. and be tried in court by these people? Clearly, they have every interest in shutting him up.

Spread the word.

A free and democratic people cannot tolerate such abuses.

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