#LawEnforcement

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• 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.
• Chris Cannon San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.