In 2004 and 2005, then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (a hero of mine) [1] started the largest government corruption task force in American history. Over 600 FBI agents were assigned to investigate corruption in government. There were local state operations that joined that quest. The largest of which was South Carolina.
Never heard of that? Not surprising. George W. Bush then changed the phrase ‘government corruption’ to ‘public corruption’. I’ll never forgive him for that. The public is NOT corrupt. Government is.
I will though, thank the Honorable Mr. Bush and be forever grateful that he approved that corruption task force creation, changed the business model of the EEOC to a law office model, and removed Sourth Carolina’s EEOC office from the oversight of North Carolina and put it into Georgia’s oversight. See the ‘Attorney Gate’ article for details on why nothing ever happened from all that investigation [2].
With current FBI Assistant Director Dan Bongino, (another hero of mine) recently stating [3]
‘discoveries made during investigations into public corruption and the political weaponization of law enforcement and intelligence operations have “shocked me down to my core,“ asserting that “I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned“. He emphasized that these investigations are ongoing, properly predicated, and being conducted “by the book and in accordance with the law,” with a commitment to uncovering “THE TRUTH“‘.
Since the current parrot topic is Jeffrey Epstein: everyone seems to think that was all about him. Think again.
“During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening,”
Isn’t the Epstein issue quite immediately visible, even though the ‘list’ and details are not? Of course it is.
What caused that 2004-2005 massive government corruption investigation with state based task forces?
The crimes committed in the Fourth Circuit, South Carolina, North Carolina and Kentucky. You may have noticed at this site the topic of those crimes has not been dutifully discussed. Well, now it is time to do just that.
The Supreme Court case in Re: Lee Kent Hempfling et Ux.[4], an ORIGINAL JURISDICSION [5] CRIMINAL CASE [6] (filed under the Private Attorney General Doctrine) includes the Ninth Circuit GOOGLE CENSORSHIP of the Federal Judiciary[7] at the direction of the State of Arizona [8] and the theft of legal mail by The United States Postal Service [9] which also includes the State of Arizona and the South Carolina Federal District Court.
The cause of the Fourth Circuit’s South Carolina District Court fiasco is the National Association of Colored People. The NAACP. Specifically the South Carolina NAACP. And I can pretty emphatically state that the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland and Joe Biden never lifted a finger to finish the investigation necessary for the Supreme Court of the United States to finish that case. I have every reason to assume (cautiously!!!) that the Trump DOJ, under Pam Bondi IS doing that investigation.
Back in 2002, when I was the new Program Director and Morning talent (using that term quite loosely) at WCOO, Cool 105.5 in Charleston South Carolina, a property owned and operated by Lynn Martin of Lexington Kentucky in LM Communications of South Carolina: I was faced with a station in ratings trouble. The station’s consultant, Don Hallett, an overly talented, literal expert in the format suggested I be hired to fix the station’s revenue problems with programming for the target audience.
My radio broadcasting career, up to that point, had been centered on turn-arounds. All over the country. WCOO was my first ‘rhythmic oldies’ station, having been active in Rock and Country stations before that. My personal preference had always been Motown. Radio is radio though; and the solution was obvious from the moment I heard the station. At the time Charleston’s racial demographics placed the African American population at around 25%.
“Rhythmic oldies is a radio format that concentrates on the rhythmic, R&B, disco, or dance genres of music. The playlists spans from the 1960s through the 2000s. They depend on market conditions and may be designed for African-American or Hispanic audiences. It is also referred to as “Jammin’ Oldies” or “Music From Back in the Day” by various radio stations. Since the late 2000s, much of the library in the “rhythmic oldies” format has been adopted by the classic hits format. A variation on the format is urban oldies.“ [10]
The station was literally targeted to blacks, with a sub target of white beach music aficionados. Beach music is:
“Beach music, also known as Carolina beach music, and to a lesser extent, beach pop, is a regional genre of music in the United States which developed from rock/R&B and pop music of the 1950s and 1960s. Beach music is most closely associated with the style of dance known as the shag, or the Carolina shag, which is also the official state dance of both North Carolina and South Carolina. Recordings with a 4/4 “blues shuffle” rhythmic structure and moderate-to-fast tempo are the most popular music for the shag, and the vast majority of the music in this genre fits that description.”
I still can’t get General Johnson and The Chairmen of the Board’s Carolina Girls out of my head. [12] I loved that music. (Here: suffer with me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuKt7USFPSo )
What better combination for success could there be than a station dedicated to Motown and light disco that featured the region’s own music? None that I knew of. But there was a glaring problem.
The station: Cool 105.5 was all white, all hick, all corny, and all obnoxiously horribly programmed.
Cool was NOT cool.
I knew I could personally serve that mixed audience as my voice was rather low and soothing if I tried, and with characters in my morning show tailored to the Charleston market I did have a rather nice following for the short time I was on the air. Even with the station’s illegal treatment of the signal only in the morning drive. So much so, that a few years later when I had to return to Charleston for a District Court appearance, the black manager of the hotel I stayed at (a wonderful guy) asked for my autograph because his mother liked me when I was on the air at Cool 105.5. That was sweet and I’ll never forget it.
The station was screaming for a day time BLACK FEMALE disk jockey. There was one. She was part time, paid less than other part timers at the station, fully trainable, far more talented than the full time staff employed by LM Communications of South Carolina and seemed to me to be available and desired to be trained. But she had history in that station. History of an attitude I would later find out was justified. When an official opening was declared at the station, another black female arrived to apply and was told by the station’s General Manager that there were no openings. Made me sick.
The station did not have a plugola-payola agreement or any notice of mention of equal employment as the FCC had required. The first thing I did was fix those problems. That caused an uproar in the station. You see, I had entered into a den of bigots and small minded southern Neanderthals [13]. They seemed to be attracted to the property like flies.
The station’s engineer, one Bruce Musso [13] (who died during the District Court trial [I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!] where the court was never informed one of the defense witnesses ceased to breath, was the goon station management used to attack me for trying to do something about the racial ignorance and total stupidity.
Musso reduced the power of the station’s transmitter, every morning I was on the air, so much that businesses only a few miles from that transmitter called almost daily to complain they could not hear my show. That was intended to destroy the ratings I was gaining, and in doing so, get rid of the enlightenment they fought so hard to refuse.
That, and quite a few other issues perpetrated by then General Manager Charles Cohn, a true ignorant bigot, included refusal to provide a station cell phone for management use, refusing to provide an air-check machine for management use and constant daily intimidation antics. All of that for one reason.
I was going to hire Patricia ‘Trish’ Thompson, from part time, under payed to full time, correctly paid midday talent. And I was going to fire the attitude in mid days who should never have been hired in the first place. That person was given full time status by Cohn while I was literally on the road heading to my new job. With a little training Thompson could have dominated the midday radio landscape in Charleston. She could have been great. She was that talented in radio. Apparently Cohn knew that and hated her because Thompson was not one to take abuse and would have torn into Cohn the moment he insulted her, which was his way of dealing with people he hated. Personal experience.
I was hired in that job with the promise to remain until retirement. It wasn’t that many years off. But it was important to a long time radio veteran sick and tired of town to town, up and down the dial (with Apologies to WKRP in Cincinnati. I did work at WKRC in Cincinnati!). When I pressed the issue of hiring Thompson the abuse increased inside the station and Thompson quit in disgust. I couldn’t blame her. But the solution to that was not to let her leave and potentially open up a legal disaster for the station ownership. It was to hire her, train her and let her gain the audience that was not fulfilled in the market and was being alienated every mid day shift. She would have done that and more with the right training. That was my job.
Until Cohn talked Martin into kicking me out! For no reason other than trying to hire Thompson. On tape, in a private conversation with and recorded by Thompson; Cohn admitted they had not concocted a good excuse for firing me yet but they were working on it [14]. That was after I was gone from the station.
Needless to say, I don’t take kindly to that garbage either and began an EEOC termination complaint process. That is where the South Carolina NAACP got involved. Thompson was genuinely trying to help by enlisting the Reverend Joseph Darby head of the SCNAACP in expediting my EEOC Form 5 complaint and helping with her EEOC Form 5 complaint.
This is the moment law was ignored, and direct action was employed. From the moment Darby picked up the phone and called Billy C. Sanders of the North Carolina EEOC (a closeted NAACP goon working for the government) [15] the entire point of the actions taken was to deprive me of my complaint by using it as leverage against Lynn Martin and LM Communications of South Carolina to settle with Thompson’s complaint in a most favorable way. And that they did. In secret. My case, massively larger than her constructive discharge case, was literally destroyed by the EEOC at the direct action control of the SCNAACP (and the national NAACP since Thompson admitted she was to submit her complaint to the SCNAACP at their Columbia Office (the SCNAACP didn’t have a Columbia office, the EEOC did) to be taken to Washington for approval of direct action by the executive board.
Thompson accepted the illegal, under the table, settlement with LM Communications of South Carolina and Lynn Martin of Lexington Kentucky in an extortion scheme that crossed multiple state lines.
The FCC (Michael Powell [16] directly) lost my multiple official complaints of station power and blocked further action.
The EEOC and Carrie Dominguez [17]dragged the process to its death and canceled fact-finding meetings to destroy my complaint. It was leverage in her settlement and had to be managed away.
Thomas E. O’Neill, Chief Division Counsel FBI Columbia South Carolina [18] refused to investigate and killed the potential for law enforcement.
The South Carolina Federal Attorney, one J. Strohm Thurmond Jr. [19], (who quit shortly thereafter and returned to private practice) never investigated but did claim they would be happy to send their copy of the complaint to Robert Mueller [20] of the FBI if he had not already received it. But he did. And he filed it away in the trash.
The State of South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford’s [21] Office got the complaint but failed to log it causing then Attorney General Henry McMaster [22] to ask what he should do with it. I know that because I was accidentally copied on that email correspondence. Idiot.
North Carolina’s Attorney General Roy Cooper [23] buyed the complaints.
The DOJ Civil Rights Division [24] lied, claiming they had read all evidence (never accessed!) and would not be considering investigating anything.
The Federal Prosecutors watching the Forth Circuit and Charleston District Court cases, allowed mail theft to take place and then took jurisdiction of the cases away from the courts for criminal prosecution and promptly lost the cases in a corruption scheme common across the nation for prosecutors who can make a buck on the side [25] .
And the office of Senator Lindsey Graham [26], through aid Jean Price and Chief of Staff Richard Perry [27] stonewalled the complaint. Instead of submitting it to the FBI , as law would dictate as it alledge criminal conduct, they sent the complaint about the EEOC, to the EEOC so it could find a round file and just disappear. How more blatant in the hip pocket of an NGO can that be?
I’ve often wondered if the facts of these multiple cases, collected before The Supreme Court of the United States would affect the political careers of the rotten apples who destroyed my rights to due process. I’ve wondered if the People of North and South Carolina would look at people like Graham, and Cooper and McMaster differently: if they knew what those horrible people had done at the behest of direct action from the NAACP.
I wonder.
When the Supreme Court finally rules on the case (hidden in plain site with place holders and fake entries) [28]: will the people have enough of the corruption under the control of the SCNAACP and national NAACP [29]?
We shall see [30].
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales
[3] https://search.brave.com/search?q=dan+bongino+to+the+core
[4] https://leehempfling.com/legal/corruption/in-re-lee-kent-hempfling-et-ux-both-petitions-one-video/
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmic_oldies
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_music
[12] https://www.propublica.org/article/tourism-helping-charleston-confont-racial-history
[15] https://leehempfling.com/legal/fourth-circuit-case/the-naacps-back-door-to-the-eeoc/
[16] https://www.fcc.gov/biography-michael-k-powell
[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Strom_Thurmond_Jr.
[20] https://www.fbi.gov/history/directors/robert-s-mueller-iii
[21] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sanford
[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_McMaster
[23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cooper
[24] https://www.justice.gov/crt
[25] https://leehempfling.com/legal/corruption/prosecutorial-misconduct-epidemic-bears-rotten-fruit/
[27] https://search.brave.com/search?q=lindsey+graham+Chief+of+Staff+Perry
[29] https://leehempfling.com/legal/fourth-circuit-case/the-naacps-back-door-to-the-eeoc/