#LawEnforcement
72 entries tagged LawEnforcement.
People (59)
- Alan Michael May Former Northern California field director for Nixon's presidential campaign found dead in 1991 after being linked to an alleged Republican plot to bribe Iranian officials to delay hostage release.
- Allan Boyak After law school, Boyak joined a Hollywood law firm and became involved in criminal defense work, representing a number of 'well placed West Coast drug traffickers.' He later moved to Utah, maintaining a part-time law practice in California.
- Arnold Overoye Overoye's 'procedure' of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County.
- Baruch Weiss Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Ari Ben-Menashe for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran.
- Ben Wagner Wagner filed two civil rights lawsuits with the U.S.
- Brian Leighton Leighton's efforts against 'The Company' were significant, and he was described as the most effective person in formulating a strategy within the Justice Department to pursue this group.
- Bruce Eckerson Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in MCA Entertainment Corporation.
- Carl Stern Public relations man for Attorney General Janet Reno who interviewed Paul Wilcher about DOJ cover-up allegations from the Reagan-Bush era.
- Celerino Castillo DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department.
- Chris Cannon San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government.
- Craig Chretien DEA Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego regional office who met with Gary Webb in October 1995 in an attempt to dissuade him from publishing the Dark Alliance story, and who was later promoted to head the DEA's International Division.
- Crossan Andersen Federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who took the Danilo Blandon case to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and described it as 'a sensitive matter' involving CIA allegations.
- Daniel Garner LASD Majors II deputy and court-certified money-laundering expert whose prosecution for corruption nearly exposed the Contra-CIA drug connection through documents he had seized from Ronald Lister's home in 1986.
- David Margolis Margolis was the chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force at the DOJ.
- David Mayer Mayer's attorney/client files reportedly contained documentary evidence from his client, Ben Kalka, regarding Kalka's business ties with Michael Riconosciuto at R & R Research, at the laboratory facilities at Hercules, California, and Dr.
- David Zornow Attorney who represented Robert Maxwell and Nicholas Davies, and was part of Lawrence Walsh's prosecution team against Oliver North.
- Dexter Leitenen Assistant U.S. Attorney and former Green Beret who served as legal confidant to Allan Boyak before Boyak approached the FBI about Robert Booth Nichols.
- Douglas Aukland FBI agent in Riverside, California, whose walk-in informant exposed the Blandon-Meneses Contra drug connection but who was given minimal resources to investigate.
- Dr. Arthur Dahlem Mariposa doctor who prescribed heavy sedatives to Roderick Sinclair, central to the Queen's Accident investigation.
- Ed Hardy President of Curry Company in Yosemite National Park, closely associated with Mariposa County officials linked to local corruption.
- Eric Swenson Former assistant U.S. attorney who reported Norwin Meneses's Contra drug activities to the Justice Department and stated that the CIA was fully aware of Meneses's criminal operations.
- George Vinson Regional director of the Fresno FBI who was accused of refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County.
- Harry Connick Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
- Henry Hans Holthuis Henry Hans Holthuis served as a Dutch district attorney during the 1990s, holding a position of significant authority within the Netherlands' judicial system.
- James L. Byrnes DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General under Arnold Burns who was alleged to have close ties to Edwin Meese and involvement in the PROMIS software conspiracy.
- James White White revealed that the original CHP report on the 'Queen's accident' was sent to the State Attorney General's office (John Van de Kamp), who told his assistant to 'discard' it.
- Jerry Brown California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley.
- Jerry Guzzetta Bell Police Department narcotics detective whose personal vendetta against drug dealers led to the Torres brothers investigation, codenamed Project Sahara, which uncovered the massive Blandon-Ross cocaine network.
- John Newcomer Head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles who advised investigator Marvin Rudnick that he was under investigation for including MCA in his organized crime probe.
- John Powers Powers' investigation into the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger, and Patricia Castro uncovered a complex web of connections involving clandestine government agents and organized crime figures.
- John Van de Kamp Three consecutive grand jury foremen and Ben Wagner, an attorney representing deputies exposing corruption, sought help from Van de Kamp's office, but to no avail.
- Joseph Garofalo Individual named in FBI wiretap affidavits during the investigation into organized crime influence at MCA.
- Joseph Kozenczak On December 21, 1978, Joseph R.
- Joseph Russoniello U.S. attorney in San Francisco whose cozy relationship with the CIA coincided with the decision not to prosecute Norwin Meneses for drug trafficking in spring 1985.
- Kami Feld Kami Feld is an Iowa State University Police Department officer whose 2020 investigation of a student blackmail complaint surfaced the identity of CVLT's fourth core member, completing the federal case that led to indictments in January 2025.
- Ken Mattheys In October 1984, Mattheys recruited private investigator Raymond Jenkins and retired FBI agent Tom Walsh from Merced to investigate Van Meter's disappearance and help him clean up the Sheriff's Department.
- Leonard Garment Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney, former Nixon White House Counsel, and partner at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, whose meeting with Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns preceded the dismissal of INSLAW's lead litigation counsel from that firm.
- Leonard Joy Lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York who visited Ari Ben-Menashe in jail offering to broker a plea deal.
- Lucky Jordan Reserve deputy who reported corruption to the FBI on the same day Ron Van Meter reported to the California Attorney General's office.
- Marvin Rudnick Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA.
- Michael DeFeo DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989.
- Michael Havers Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s.
- Mike Murphy On July 1, 2010, Murphy requested that the case against Jimmy Hughes be dismissed under Penal Code 1385.
- Raymond Jenkins Jenkins' investigation also led him to MCA (Music Corporation of America), parent company to Curry Company, where a major drug network had surfaced in Yosemite National Park.
- Richard Stavin Stavin quit his job after the DOJ sealed the wiretaps and no prosecutions were pursued in the MCA organized crime investigation.
- Robert E. Coyle In the civil trial that followed the 'Queen's accident,' Judge Coyle ruled that both Roderick Sinclair and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault.
- Robert Nieves DEA agent who served as Norwin Meneses's control agent in Costa Rica, was accused of drug trafficking by multiple informants, and later rose to head the DEA's International Division before joining Oliver North's company.
- Ron Williams Williams was the man who had tried to pull Roderick Sinclair out of the sheriff's vehicle on the day of the accident.
- Rudolph Giuliani U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran.
- Sandalio Gonzalez DEA agent in Costa Rica who handled Norwin Meneses as an informant and kept him off official DEA records while Meneses continued drug trafficking operations.
- Stephan LaPalm Individual in the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento who received trial transcripts and drug affidavits regarding the Queen's Accident, preserving evidence of possible cover-up.
- Terry Sullivan Terry Sullivan served as the lead prosecutor in the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Cook County, Illinois.
- Thomas F.X. Dunn Dunn was assigned to Ben-Menashe's case pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act after Ben-Menashe had spent 75 days in jail.
- Thomas Gordon LASD Major Violators detective who led the investigation into the Blandon-Ross cocaine network after receiving Jerry Guzzetta's Project Sahara reports.
- Tony Coelho Coelho purchased property in partnership with one member of the Mariposa Board of Supervisors.
- Vivian L. Wagner Her letter detailed the alleged corruption within the Mariposa County local government, including unlawful and corrupt activities by officials and departments, and the failure of the State Attorney General John Van de Kamp and federal agencies to investigate these allegations.
- William Hundley Hundley had recently joined Strauss's firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
- Yitzhak Kahan As a result of the commission's findings, Maj.
- Yitzhak Tunic Israeli lawyer who defended Michael Dennis Rohan in the 1969 El Aqsa Mosque arson case, later became Israel's state comptroller.
Organizations (9)
- California Attorney General's Office The California Attorney General's Office is the chief law enforcement agency for the state of California.
- California Highway Patrol The California Highway Patrol is California's state police agency whose investigation of the 1983 'Queen's accident' - a collision involving a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle and a Secret Service car - was reportedly suppressed after the state Attorney General's office discarded its report.
- Clearview AI Clearview AI is a facial-recognition company founded by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, first funded by Peter Thiel before the company was even named, that scraped an estimated thirty billion images from social media and the open web to build a facial-identification database sold to law enforcement, and was the subject of a March 2022 FTC consent order barring it from selling the database to private entities.
- Criminal Investigation Division The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the investigative branch responsible for serious crimes within military and police jurisdictions, whose Army division is connected in this vault to figures in the Octopus network including Roderick Sinclair Jr.
- DEA The Drug Enforcement Administration was the principal federal anti-narcotics agency that possessed extensive knowledge of Danilo Blandón's cocaine trafficking as early as 1981 yet took no action while he received U.S. political asylum.
- Department of Justice U.S. federal law enforcement and legal agency whose prosecution of the INSLAW-PROMIS case, 1982 drug trafficking exemption for CIA assets, and 1993 internal inquiry into CIA involvement with The Finders make it a central subject of this vault.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
- Pasadena Police Department The Pasadena Police Department (Pasadena, Texas) is relevant to this vault as the agency that responded when Elmer Wayne Henley shot Dean Corll on August 8, 1973, initiating the investigation that revealed Corll's murder of at least 28 young males from 1970 to 1973.
- United States Army Criminal Investigation Division The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the Army's primary felony law enforcement agency, responsible for criminal investigations within the service including the cases against STARGATE remote viewer David Morehouse.
Events (3)
- Frogman Case Largest cocaine bust in West Coast history at the time (January 1983), which exposed direct links between Contra drug traffickers in San Francisco and the CIA, connections suppressed through direct CIA intervention.
- Operation Bergon Operation Bergon was a December 2021 joint operation between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations and Brazilian federal authorities that executed 31 search warrants and four arrests across seven Brazilian states, disrupting neo-Nazi cells planning mass casualty attacks including a planned bombing of the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant.
- Project Compass Project Compass is a Europol-coordinated 28-country law enforcement operation against the Com network and its 764 subgroup, launched in January 2025, that by February 2026 had produced 30 arrests and identified 179 perpetrators.
Concepts (1)
- Nihilistic Violent Extremism Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) is an FBI and DOJ classification for extremist violence driven by misanthropy and network status-seeking rather than unified ideology, applied to the 764 network and Com-adjacent groups to distinguish them from ideologically motivated violent extremism.