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People (109)

• Alan Fenster Beverly Hills defense attorney who represented Ricky Ross throughout his legal troubles, including the DEA reverse sting case.
• 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 Burns Arnold Burns served as Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese and was the senior DOJ official whose private admission to investigators that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was legitimate became a central finding of the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW investigation.
• 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.
• Brad Brunon Los Angeles attorney who represented Danilo Blandon and provided firsthand observations about Contra fundraising through cocaine trafficking.
• 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.
• C. Joseph Giroir Rose Law Firm lawyer and Worthen Banking Corporation partner whose deposition described the Lippo Group's Arkansas partnership with the Stephens family; Lippo later paid him through a company he incorporated in 1993.
• C. Madison Brewer C. Madison 'Brick' Brewer was the DOJ project manager for the INSLAW PROMIS implementation contract, whose prior employment as general counsel for INSLAW's predecessor organization became central to allegations that his administration of the contract was driven by personal vendetta against Bill Hamilton.
• Cap Kressop Technical wizard and Mormon approached by Robert Booth Nichols to manufacture a prototype laser rifle sight under suspicious terms.
• Carl Stern Public relations man for Attorney General Janet Reno who interviewed Paul Wilcher about DOJ cover-up allegations from the Reagan-Bush era.
• Charles Hayes Charles Hayes was a salvage dealer from Nancy, Kentucky, who became involved in the PROMIS Software Scandal through his contact with Bill Hamilton.
• Charles R. Work Charles R. Work was Deputy Chief of the DC U.S. Attorney's Office Superior Court Division who co-directed the original PROMIS design team with Joan E. Jacoby and project manager Bill Hamilton in 1969, then served as Deputy Administrator of LEAA from 1973 to 1975 where he continued funding INSLAW and PROMIS expansion.
• Charles Trombetta Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw.
• Chris Cannon San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government.
• Clark Clifford Truman aide and Defense Secretary who, as chairman of BCCI's secretly owned First American Bankshares, assured regulators BCCI had no role in it; indicted in 1992, his charges were dismissed for ill health.
• Darren Indyke Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer, officer of his companies and co-executor of his estate, named a 50 million dollar beneficiary, sued by victims and the Virgin Islands, and under federal investigation in 2026.
• David F. Levi U.S. Attorney named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County tied to the Queen's Accident case.
• 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.
• E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. Former federal prosecutor who built the case against Edwin Wilson, coordinated BCCI's defense after its 1988 Tampa indictment, and was chief counsel of the House October Surprise Task Force in 1992 and 1993.
• Ed Hardy President of Curry Company in Yosemite National Park, closely associated with Mariposa County officials linked to local corruption.
• Edwin Meese Edwin Meese served as Counselor to President Reagan and then as Attorney General from 1985 to 1988, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal the PROMIS software through his long association with Earl Brian and his recusal from PROMIS matters that left Lowell Jensen to administer the affair.
• Elliot Richardson Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in Watergate' and publicly stating his belief that Danny Casolaro was murdered.
• Erika Kellerhals St. Thomas tax lawyer who represented Jeffrey Epstein before the Virgin Islands tax-incentive board and justice department, served as a trustee of his Butterfly Trust, and received his foundation's mail.
• Eugene Metzger Washington lawyer and Financial General shareholder whom a federal court found in 1981 to have breached his duties as the company's counsel during the BCCI takeover fight; the judgment was vacated in 1982.
• Floyd Bankson Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle.
• Garnett Taylor Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ.
• Gerald Lefcourt New York criminal defense lawyer and former NACDL president who represented Jeffrey Epstein from 2006 and signed the September 2007 non-prosecution agreement and its October addendum for the defense.
• Glen Heggstad According to the State Attorney General's office, Jimmy Hughes offered to hire Heggstad to murder Alvarez, who was going to 'blow the whistle' on illegal weapons manufacturing deals signed off by Cabazon tribal leadership.
• Harland Braun Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order.
• Harold H. Titus Jr. Harold H. Titus Jr. served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia following Thomas A. Flannery and, in February 1973, made the decision to upgrade PROMIS to a real-time online system capable of tracking more than 160 variables per case.
• 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.
• Jack Blum Former Senate investigator and chief counsel to Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, widely recognized for exposing the BCCI scandal and investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking.
• Jack Brooks Jack Brooks (1922-2012) was a Texas Democrat who represented the Beaumont area in Congress for 42 years, chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1995, and presided over the three-year INSLAW investigation that produced House Report 102-857 (September 1992), which found that the Department of Justice had stolen PROMIS software and named Edwin Meese and Richard Thornburgh as having obstructed the inquiry.
• Jack Goldberger West Palm Beach criminal defense lawyer who handled Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 state plea, whose law office housed the Florida Science Foundation of Epstein's work release, and who defended Epstein in 2009 civil suits.
• James Knapp James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
• 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.
• Jan Lawrence Handzlik Attorney for Red Devil fireworks magnate Patrick Moriarty who stated Moriarty paid Bo Gritz for business trips to Asia.
• Janet Reno Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter.
• Janis Sposato Janis Sposato was an Administrative Officer at the DOJ.
• Jay Howell Jacksonville victims' lawyer, founding executive director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who represented Jeffrey Epstein's victims in Doe v. United States and Epstein v. Rothstein.
• Jay Lefkowitz Kirkland & Ellis litigation partner and veteran of both Bush White Houses who led Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution negotiations while serving as special envoy for human rights in North Korea.
• Jerome Brown Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer who represented R.C. Horsch in his 2009 federal drug and firearms case and his son Eugene Horsch in the 2026 Olney House Investigation.
• Jerry Brown California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley.
• John A. Beltori Individual identified by INSLAW as a witness providing circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy by Earl Brian and DOJ to steal PROMIS software.
• John DeCamp John W. DeCamp (1941-2017) was a Nebraska state senator and attorney who published 'The Franklin Cover-Up' (1992) arguing the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations were genuine and suppressed, drawing on his close personal relationship with former CIA Director William Colby who had been his superior in Vietnam.
• John Keeney John Keeney was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
• John Otto John Otto was the former Acting Director of the FBI.
• John Paul Nichols John Paul Nichols was the 'Project Manager' for the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, also known as Cabazon Arms.
• John Rutherford (New Zealand lawyer) Christchurch lawyer who set up Chemical Technology Limited and brought the American fugitive R.C. Horsch, posing as the chemist Stanley Stokowski, to New Zealand to build a whey-ethanol plant.
• 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.
• 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.
• Kenneth Starr Former Solicitor General and Whitewater independent counsel who, as Kirkland & Ellis of counsel, fought the victim notification terms of Epstein's 2007 agreement and was removed as Baylor president in 2016.
• Laura Menninger Denver trial lawyer of Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, formerly a Goldman Sachs analyst and law clerk to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who defended Ghislaine Maxwell in Giuffre v. Maxwell and United States v. Maxwell.
• Lawrence Wechsler Washington defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor who assembled BCCI's legal team after the 1988 Tampa indictment, negotiated its 1990 plea agreement and lobbied the Senate on the bank's behalf.
• 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.
• Lilly Ann Sanchez Former Miami federal prosecutor who represented Jeffrey Epstein from 2006, co-signed his 2007 non-prosecution agreement, and had briefly dated the Criminal Division chief who made the office's first plea overture to her.
• Lois Battistoni Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division.
• Lowell Jensen Alameda County district attorney, then associate and deputy attorney general under Edwin Meese, named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the taking of the PROMIS software.
• 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.
• Mark Grobmyer Lawyer with Arnold Grobmyer & Haley and godson of Jackson Stephens who did legal work for Stephens Inc., sat on the Clinton-Gore Arkansas Finance Council in 1992 and introduced Clinton to Al Gore in 1988.
• Martin Weinberg Boston criminal defense lawyer who argued United States v. Chadwick, represented Jeffrey Epstein from 2007, filed his 2011 FBI and CIA records requests, and appeared at his 2019 New York hearings.
• Marvin Rudnick Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force prosecutor who twice convicted MCA's middleman Sal Pisello of tax evasion and was removed from the Justice Department by letter on July 6, 1989.
• Michael Abbell Former head of the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs who became a Washington lawyer for the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers of the Cali cartel and was convicted in 1998 of conspiring to launder its money.
• 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.
• Nicholas J. Bua Special Counsel appointed in 1991 to investigate the Inslaw/PROMIS allegations, whose 1993 report found no credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
• Paul Cassell Utah law professor, former Reagan Justice Department official and former federal judge who, after leaving the bench in 2007, represented Epstein's victims in the Crime Victims' Rights Act case against the United States.
• Paul Wilcher On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton.
• Paul Zalis Zalis also reported that Fred Alvarez, Joseph R.
• Phillip Hawes Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal.
• Raymond Banoun Former head of the fraud division of the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington who defended BCCI from 1988 and whom the Senate subcommittee found may have willfully misled it.
• Richard D'Amore Richard D'Amore is a partner in Hambro International Equity Partners ('Hambro'), a venture capital company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that invests in existing businesses.
• Richard Stavin Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force prosecutor who took over the record-industry payola case and investigated MCA home video president Eugene Giaquinto, and who resigned in May 1989.
• Richard Thornburgh Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 under Presidents Reagan and Bush, succeeding Edwin Meese, and was named alongside Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the PROMIS software theft, ignored two court findings against the DOJ, and refused to seek appointment of an independent counsel.
• Robert Altman Washington lawyer, Clark Clifford's partner and president of First American Bankshares, indicted in July 1992 over BCCI's secret ownership of the bank and acquitted by a Manhattan jury in August 1993.
• 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 Morgenthau Manhattan District Attorney from 1975 to 2009 who opened the BCCI investigation in 1989 on information from Senate investigator Jack Blum and indicted Abedi, Naqvi, Clifford and Altman.
• Roy Black Miami criminal defense lawyer who won William Kennedy Smith's 1991 rape acquittal and was part of Jeffrey Epstein's defense team from 2007 through the non-prosecution agreement and its aftermath.
• 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.
• Sally A. Kocher Federal defender in Philadelphia who represented R.C. Horsch at his 1985 sentencing for methamphetamine manufacture and bail-jumping.
• 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.
• Steve Dunbar County Assessor in Mariposa County, closely associated with Curry Company's Ed Hardy, DA Bruce Eckerson, and Congressman Tony Coelho.
• Steve Rios Attorney scheduled to meet Fred Alvarez to investigate Cabazon tribal affairs two days before Alvarez and two others were executed in the 1981 triple homicide.
• Terry D. Miller In January 1991, Miller sent a letter to FBI Director William Sessions, stating his belief that FOIMS was stolen.
• Terry Sullivan Terry Sullivan served as the lead prosecutor in the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Cook County, Illinois.
• Thomas A. Flannery Thomas A. Flannery was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1970 who, in 1969, directed the commissioning of the computer-based case management system that became PROMIS, and subsequently served as a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia from 1970 until his death in 1993, including as Chief Judge from 1977.
• 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 Olmstead Olmstead questioned Peter Videnieks during the trial about his knowledge of the Wackenhut Corporation-Cabazon Indian Reservation joint venture, his relationship with Earl Brian, and his involvement with Hadron Company.
• 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 Barr Former CIA employee who became Attorney General in 1991 and again in 2019; he appointed the INSLAW and BNL special counsels and urged the Iran-Contra pardons of 1992.
• William Bradford Reynolds William Bradford Reynolds served as Reagan's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1981 to 1988 and in 2005 authenticated a May 16, 1985 letter he had signed directing U.S. Attorney William F. Weld that PROMIS software equipped with a surveillance back door was to be distributed to a Saudi sheikh via arms dealers Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage, with funds routed through Credit Suisse and the National Commercial Bank.
• William Callaway Cabazon tribal member who discovered the bodies of the 1981 Alvarez/Boger/Castro triple homicide linked to the PROMIS scandal.
• William Cole Los Angeles attorney hired to investigate the links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino operations.
• William F. Weld This document advised Weld that the PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution in his region, contingent upon specific conditions, including a 'soft arrival' without paperwork or customs delays, and equipped with a special data retrieval unit.
• William Sessions William Sessions was the Director of the FBI.
• William Shockley U.S. Attorney in San Francisco who reportedly authored a letter stating Ben Kalka did not obtain methamphetamine precursors from the U.S. government.
• Yitzhak Tunic Israeli lawyer who defended Michael Dennis Rohan in the 1969 El Aqsa Mosque arson case, later became Israel's state comptroller.