$450,000,000.00 Lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court Marred By Fraud and Corruption by Los Angeles County Lawyers and The Superior Court
Tripati vs. Los Angeles County: Case # BC343351
After many years of trying, Mr. Anant Tripati finally acquired evidence enabling him to file a lawsuit against Los Angeles County for committing “Fraud Upon the Court” against him. The background to this follows later at the end of this document. First, I will explain how fraudulent and unethical behavior on the part of the Los Angeles County counsel, the law firm of Nelson and Fulton, and the corrupting of the Judge, Judge Paul Gutman of the Superior Court has been affecting this case in an attempt by LA County to hide and cover-up institutionalized corruption in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. Supporting documents, plus complete court motions, and court and deposition transcripts are on the website: www.frauduponcacourts.com
As of this writing, Los Angeles County has not answered or addressed the charges of filing false and fraudulent documents with the courts and lying to judges. Instead, Los Angeles County is trying every procedural maneuver they can to prevent the case from being heard. Now the Judge, Judge Paul Gutman of the Superior Court, appears to have been compromised as well due to the high stakes nature of this case. The stakes are indeed high. There is a scandal bigger than Rampart brewing, and this time it is within the District Attorney’s Office. The loss-risk exposure to Tripati is in excess of 450 million dollars, plus whatever other fallout occurs from the case. Many other cases filed by certain people in the DA’s office are at risk of being overturned and the ensuing lawsuits that will certainly follow. We need an honest and fair judge to hear this case. This letter is being sent to Judges, Lawyers, County Supervisors, State and Federal Legislators, and news media.
First, what is going on in the case? Witness coaching and the filing of fraudulent documents by Los Angeles County’s counsel The Judge ruling on an order not prepared or presented to him at the time of hearing, and then requesting the lawyers prepare and submit the document to him. Seeing deficiencies, the lawyers then added citations to the subsequent order preparation, citations not presented previously, to strengthen their case upon appeal, presented the order and it was signed by the judge. The Judge is ignoring merits of the case and evidence presented against Los Angeles County that includes admissions of fraud and lying by the actual perpetrators of the same. Complaints have been filed with the State Bar against the lawyers involved in the fraud and witness coaching in this case. The Bar is now investigating them. A complaint was filed with the Board of Judicial Review against Judge Gutman for his unethical actions approving an order prior to its preparation. Judge Gutman is now under investigation as well. These peer investigations have led the law firm of Nelson and Fulton and Judge Gutman to hire lawyers to defend themselves in these separate investigations. Judge Gutman should recuse himself from this case with this apparent ‘retaliation’ conflict of interest, but he has not. And with the ongoing investigation he has already made subsequent retaliatory adverse rulings towards Tripati in favor of Los Angeles County, and is expected to continue this since he can do so with impunity.
At the beginning of this case Los Angeles County’s lawyers requested Judge Gutman to require Mr. Anant Tripati to post a 17 -20 million dollar bond to proceed with the case against LA County. The Judge refused. Subsequently, in deposition testimony of a current LA County DA’s office employee admissions were obtained by Mr. Tripati that the LA County DA’s office routinely files fraudulent documents and lies to Judges. The transcripts from this deposition also evidence witness coaching by the defendant’s lawyers present. Also evidenced in the transcripts, when this employee was unable to answer questions she supposedly had answered in her interrogatories, she admitted under further questioning that she had signed blank forms for lawyer Amber Logan which were then later filled in by the LA County lawyers and submitted to the court and Mr. Tripati. Forms she had never read after they were filled in and submitted, yet they had her signature present stating that to the best of her knowledge the answers are true and correct. This is fraud being perpetrated in this case by counsel for Los Angeles County.
Subsequent to this, a now retired Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office investigator, Richard Goldston, admitted in deposition testimony that he himself had falsified documents, submitted fraudulent documents to the courts, and lied to Judge Candace Beason in court in Mr. Anant Tripati’s case. Documents supporting this have also been presented by Mr. Tripati in this case.
After Mr. Tripati submitted this evidence of deposition admissions of the fraud committed upon the court, as well as objecting to the unethical behavior and fraud committed by the firm of Nelson and Fulton representing Los Angeles County in this case, Judge Gutman then granted a new motion by LA County counsel Amber Logan, of Nelson & Fulton, and in the middle of all this now declared Mr. Tripati to be a vexatious litigant and required him to post a $50,000.00 cash deposit to proceed with the case. This is an obviously biased decision by Judge Gutman aimed at protecting Los Angeles County and covering up this case of admitted fraud by past and present LA County District Attorney’s employees. This is an obvious effort on the part of the Judge to stop Mr. Tripati from proceeding with his case against LA County. Why else would a judge require a cash deposit of this amount at this point, previously declined initially in the case, and then after deposition admissions of the charges become evidence against the defendant, LA County? The Judge stating the Plaintiff, Mr. Tripati, is not likely to prevail with the evidence presented? What’s wrong with this picture?
The Judge and LA County counsel misjudged the resources of Mr. Tripati’s supporters. The $50,000.00 was raised by supporters of Anant Tripati and was deposited with the court to allow the case to continue. To the best knowledge of everyone involved, this is the very first time in California that a deposit of this nature ordered has ever actually been posted. So, with the case moving forward again with the Judge and LA County counsel under investigation by their respective peer organizations, LA is now trying to block the case procedurally. Judge Gutman has not recused himself from the case and on March 27th ruled on a defendant motion against Mr. Tripati citing he has not presented evidence to support his case. Somehow, admissions by the perpetrator, Richard Goldston, and the fraudulent documents he created that have been presented to the court are not considered valid evidence by Judge Paul Gutman. What does this Judge want?
Currently LA County lawyers are trying to quash two depositions Mr. Tripati has scheduled for May. These depositions were scheduled previously and then stayed when the decision to post the $50,000.00 cash was ordered. These depositions are of two officers from Arizona who fabricated charges against Mr. Tripati and seized his property in CA and took it to AZ without proper authorization and participated in the fraud upon LA Courts. (Explained later in this document.) Since this is a civil case these two officers cannot take the fifth to protect themselves. Now the State of Arizona is interfering with this California case. The law firm of Nelson and Fulton are working with AZ officials to also protect institutionalized corruption in Arizona that will also be exposed by this case in California by Mr. Tripati. Ask why Arizona would be working closely with Los Angeles County and their lawyers in this case. Why is AZ interested in this case? They too stand to lose big time as well. Mr. Tripati was jailed for 52.5 years to prevent him from exposing institutionalized corruption in the Arizona Court and Judicial system. Mr. Tripati’s life and freedom are at stake in this case! LA County wants to sacrifice Mr. Tripati to protect itself from having its fraud and corrupt ways exposed.
On April 27th there will be another hearing in the courtroom of Judge Paul Gutman. If he rules again that admission by the perpetrators is not valid evidence Mr. Tripati will be wrongly denied his day in court and we will lose the $50,000.00 cash we posted.
California needs Judicial Reform to hold Judges accountable for intentional acts of bias ignoring evidence and case law and showing bias towards one side or another and acting to protect and cover-up for Government corruption in the courts.
At a minimum, a state legislative investigation needs to be initiated and held in public. A Senate Judiciary Committee or Congressional Investigation is warranted so the fox is not guarding the hen house. If Congress can worry about Baseball scandals, they should be more concerned with corruption in the courts and judicial system. The public news media needs to stop looking the other way and report on the truth to protect the public instead of being a lap dog to the Government.
We need your help in exposing this institutionalized corruption to the public and putting pressure upon the courts to serve the people impartially. We need help to stop the corruption ongoing in the case of Mr. Tripati. We need to get legislators help, lawyers, HONEST JUDGES, peer pressure, and the public news media to help expose this fraudulent government, miscarriage of injustice and judicial corruption ongoing in the courts.
The ‘background’ to this saga follows beginning on the next page. All
contact information for us is located on the last page of this document.
BACKGROUND:
Background On The Los Angeles County
“Fraud Upon The Courts” Lawsuit Filed By Anant Tripati,
Case: BC 343351
This
portion of this document only deals with the basis of the case going on in Los
Angeles County. While Arizona is mentioned, a separate document outlines the
cases and problems going on in Arizona. This is meant only to briefly explain
somewhat the basis for the Los Angeles County lawsuit for “Fraud Upon the
Courts”. Arizona is dealt with in a separate document in detail.
Mr. Anant
Tripati is 52 years old, of East Indian descent, and a citizen and native of
Fiji. He has a Ph.D. in Finance and Small Business Administration, a B.Sc., and
a J.D. He received his first PhD when he was 16 years old. He and his wife
legally came to the United States in 1977, eventually making their home in Los
Angeles and began raising two children.
Until June
24, 1992, Mr. Tripati owned and operated “Legal Research Associates”, a
legal research firm located in Beverly Hills specializing in providing
litigation support to other lawyers in complex litigation matters with a client
base of about 7,500 lawyers throughout the United States. The business grossed
$1.5 million a year at that time. He often provided legal assistance on matters
that were considered to be highly controversial. In late 1991 Mr. Tripati
provided assistance during a complex case in Maricopa County Superior Court, in
Phoenix, Arizona. During the course of assisting individuals Mr. Tripati learned
of and gathered enough documentation of evidence to clearly show that the
Maricopa County Attorneys Office, in Arizona, engaged in an ongoing practice of
arresting and targeting for prosecution people of color who are racial
minorities, not wealthy, and those who challenge these practices of Maricopa
County and causes deemed to be “unpopular”. They engaged heavily in
manufacturing charges and fabricating evidence. This evidence material was
gathered using a complex, almost ‘artificial intelligence’ software program
written by Mr. Tripati.
Mr.
Tripati began to challenge these practices of Maricopa County. Teresa Archuleta
of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office informed him that he was making waves
and needed to back-off, otherwise they (Maricopa County) would shut him down and
put him out of business. Mr. Tripati did not back-off however and soon
thereafter Gunn McKay, Dean Chatfield, Donald Conrad and others
“manufactured” crimes against Mr. Tripati and obtained an Arizona arrest
warrant for Anant Tripati of Los Angeles, California. In June of 1992 Arizona
authorities contacted Los Angeles County authorities and the Los Angeles County
authorities obtained a California arrest warrant and search warrant for Mr.
Tripati and his offices. By California Law, these warrants only allow peace
officers of the State of California to make the arrest and conduct the search
and seizure. On June 24, 1992 Dean Chatfield, Donald Conrad, and Gunn McKay,
having traveled from Arizona to California, met with Richard Goldston from the
Los Angeles County DA’s Office and then proceed to the office of Mr. Tripati
in Beverly Hills. The AZ officers entered Mr. Tripati’s offices with Mr.
Richard Goldston (now retired), from LA County, to serve the warrants and search
Mr. Tripati’s office. Shortly thereafter, Richard Goldston, in violation of
the conditions of the California warrant that he perform the arrest and that he
conduct the search and seizure of evidence, departed the scene and allowed the
AZ officers free reign to search and seize material from Mr. Tripati’s office.
This occurred without any presence or supervision by California peace officers
or overseeing or inventorying the actions of the AZ participants. This was
illegal. A tape made by AZ officers actually evidences an AZ officer arresting
Mr. Tripati, not Richard Goldston of LA.
The
Arizona officers literally packed up Mr. Tripati’s entire office of papers,
documents, computers, computer disks, scanned documents, computer programs,
files, and whatever else they wanted and took them with them back to Arizona.
The focus of taking the entire office was to seize and destroy all the evidence
gathered against them by Mr. Tripati. Arizona court documents filed by these
people evidence the fact that they had all the seized material with them in
Arizona on June 25th 1992, the day after the execution of the search
of Mr. Tripati’s office. A week later, on July 01, 1992, and after a promise
to cover for AZ by Goldston, an incomplete inventory of materials taken in the
search was sent to Richard Goldston of Los Angeles County which was then used by
Richard Goldston to obtain a Return of Search order from the CA Court in order
to release the materials to AZ. A full week after the fact. Richard Goldston
admitted during his deposition in this case that he falsified documents and
submitted fraudulent documents to Judge Candace Beason to obtain the return of
search order. Richard Goldston falsified documents to show and state that he had
inventoried the materials taken in the search and had possession of such
material in Los Angeles waiting for the court to release it to Arizona
authorities. Los Angeles County has admitted they have no record of these
materials ever having been booked as evidence or of Los Angeles seizing or
inventorying said evidence.
The
inventory of materials taken by Arizona authorities submitted to Richard
Goldston was not complete. Richard Goldston has admitted under oath that he was
not present, contrary to his reports and court filings, has no inventory of, nor
any way of knowing just what was really taken by the AZ officers he illegally
allowed to search and seize material from Mr. Tripati’s office. Mr.
Tripati’s self designed computer research program is among the many items not
listed by AZ in the inventory submitted to Richard Goldston. (The existence of
the program is noted in an internal memo obtained by Mr. Tripati from the
Maricopa County DA’s office in another case.)
All of the
items taken from Mr. Tripati that incriminate Maricopa County officials wrong
doings have been destroyed by the Maricopa County DA’s Office and the Arizona
Department of Corrections. This occurred after a federal court ordered all of
these materials returned to Mr. Tripati as they were never used in state court
against him. There was no evidence to use in this material as the charges had
been fabricated. The ADOC evidence destruction occurred at the inappropriate
request of some AZ judges according to an internal ADOC memo generated by one
ADOC employee that received a phone request by a judge to destroy Mr.
Tripati’s materials held by ADOC that had been returned to him by the federal
court. This was evidence that would have exonerated Mr. Tripati of the
fraudulent charges against him, and exposed the corruption in the Maricopa
County District Attorney’s Office, to include dirty judges.
The state
of Arizona has interfered with the case in Los Angeles County to protect
themselves from Mr. Tripati prevailing in his CA case, even though the
California fraud case is a separate issue, Arizona authorities are fearful of
having two of their officers, Don Conrad and Dean Chatfield, deposed by Mr.
Tripati in this case and has LA lawyers fighting the depositions that are now
scheduled for May. These are two of the officers that perpetrated the
manufacturing of charges to arrest Mr. Tripati, and participated in the search
and seizure of Mr. Tripati’s office, and illegally took seized items directly
to AZ without a proper inventory by Los Angeles County authorities and arranged
for Richard Goldston to fraudulently cover for their actions. The fear is that
since this is a civil case these officers cannot ‘take the fifth’ to prevent
testifying and incriminating themselves and unraveling all the wrong doing in AZ
they are involved in. These depositions were originally scheduled for early
February, but were stayed in late January by the cash deposit requirement by
Judge Gutman.
On
February 01, 2006, the AZ Department of Corrections (ADOC) moved Mr. Tripati
unannounced in the night to another facility, Eyman/Cook Unit in Florence, AZ. A
move intended to separate him from his legal materials and to prevent the
depositions from taking place as scheduled in a weeks time. Mr. Tripati was
denied his needed legal materials, communication with lawyers, and his family
for close to a week. A court ordered typewriter to allow him to file his court
papers has now been confiscated. He is now being denied access to sufficient
writing paper to meet his legal filing needs. He is being denied timely
photocopying of need court documents. Prison employees have been instructed to
make his life miserable he has been told. All of this is in an effort by ADOC to
sabotage his ability to meet legal filing deadlines. ADOC is applying pressure
to deny him his ability to pursue his litigation. ADOC has denied Mr. Tripati
some phone calls from AZ legislators and from some lawyers. ADOC is now using
psychological abuse as part of their campaign to defeat Mr. Tripati’s efforts
to fight the system and prevail. This recent campaign of harassment and pressure
by ADOC is because Mr. Tripati has been accumulating more evidence to exonerate
himself of the fabricated crimes against him and doing so outside the confines
of the inbred corruption in the AZ system where he can expose them.
Now they
are once again attempting to block the rescheduled depositions of Conrad and
Chatfield which will strengthen Mr. Tripati’s case in Judge Paul Gutman’s
court. Do not allow these people to block Mr. Tripati’s efforts to obtain
evidence that will exonerate him and free him. Do not allow Judge Gutman to
throw the case.
At the
time of his arrest, Mr. Tripati was in negotiation to sell his computer research
program for the sum of 40 million dollars. The value of the computer program, 40
million dollars at that time, now has an estimated value of 150 million dollars.
Due to the fraud involved, the damages are triple and hence why this case has a
450 million dollar loss risk for the County Of Los Angeles.
The
Maricopa County District Attorney’s Office and the AZ state Judicial system
work hand in hand to cover-up and protect each other to hide their
institutionalized corruption. They are running scared now that Mr. Tripati has
gathered evidence showing this in a case in California, outside of their reach
and protection of Arizona courts. Mr. Tripati has provided evidence of the fraud
upon the courts in CA which AZ is involved in. Some powerful influences are now
at work in the Superior Court in Los Angeles convincing Judge Paul Gutman to
ignore the overwhelming evidence and admissions of fraud upon the courts
provided by Mr. Tripati in his case and rule in favor of Los Angeles County to
avoid a scandal and many massive lawsuits that will rock the very halls of
justice.
The case
is being fought pro-per by Mr. Tripati. Why you ask? We do not have the money to
hire a lawyer, and a few that have offered to handle the case insist that Mr.
Tripati sign over ALL proceeds from the case to them. His wife lives on
disability income from a work injury incurred while working three jobs to raise
their two daughters alone.
On an
aside to show the entire depth of this, a Maricopa County DA’s Office
employee, Teresa Archculeta, eventually decided she did not like what was being
done by her employer, the Maricopa County District Attorney, to Mr. Tripati and
surreptitiously provided some incriminating internal documents to Mr. Tripati,
and taped an exposing interview. She was eventually found out. Teresa Archuleta
shortly thereafter became a murder victim. Someone was charged with her murder
and got 30 years for it. Much less than the 52.5 years in prison given to Mr.
Tripati on manufactured crimes of ‘fraudulent schemes’ to silence Mr.
Tripati from exposing the criminal practices of the AZ criminal justice system.
Is there not an obvious and suspicious disparity apparent here?
An
outstanding example of the Maricopa crime and evidence manufacturing was a
widely publicized case several years ago where some Buddhist Priests were
murdered in their temple. Some illegal Mexican Nationals were charge and
convicted and sentenced for this crime. Subsequently the real murderers were
caught on unrelated charges and confessed to the murders of the Buddhist Priests
also. Quietly, the Mexican Nationals were released from prison, given
undisclosed settlements, and returned to Mexico. Their settlements do not allow
them to talk about the case. One has to ask how illegal immigrant minority
individuals can be randomly found and charged with murder and convicted and
sentenced, when no evidence of their involvement factually existed, evidenced by
the perpetrators admissions to the crime.
We, Mr.
Tripati’s wife and his supporters, lack the power, the resources, the
political contacts, and the money to expose this corruption. But we are trying.
We are seeking your assistance in doing so. We need legislators and legal folks
and the news media to look into this matter and publicly expose what is
happening and documented and help put a stop to this. And free an innocent
person given a life sentence to prevent him from exposing the criminal
injustices perpetrated by the Justice System.
The State
of California should protect its citizens, not violate their civil rights and
assist other states in violating the civil rights of California citizens. With
the help of the media and our legislators this corruption can be exposed and
stopped in the courts.
More
information may be found at these sites:
www.frauduponcacourts.com
www.corruptarizonacourts.com
Also see Send to Press at www.send2press.com
and search under Anant Tripati
A Google search under: Anant Tripati will
yield information as well.
Questions and inquiries may be
directed to:
Mrs. Tripati can be contacted at lafraud@gmail.com
Mr. Anant Tripati can be
contacted at: Anant Tripati - 102081
Eyman/Cook Unit
Box 3200
Florence, AZ, 85232
Bill Liebman, a supporter and friend of Mr.
Tripati, and the author of this document can be reached at lafraud@sunlitsurf.com
or 304 456-3433