Florida, Thompson - More details on Miami Judge Dava Tunis loyalty oath forgery
Bob Hurt
Immediate News Release – May 22, 2008
Miami-Dade State Attorney Keeping the Lid on Forgery Scandal Involving Countless Florida Judges
Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Janet Reno’s hand-picked successor to that post in 1993, has decided to look the other way from a scandal involving the forging of three Miami-Dade Judges’ state loyalty oaths. That became official this week when Rundle’s office released a “Close Out Memo” admitting the forgeries had occurred but declining to prosecute.
This is remarkable conduct by the protégé of Janet Reno who famously and often said, “We will follow the facts and the law wherever they lead.” Ms. Rundle will not follow the facts and the law because this is a scandal that will engulf the entire judiciary of the State of Florida and beyond its borders into other states, as will be seen, below.
The simple version of the instant facts: A Miami-Dade Court employee by the name of Syed A. Shah forged the signatures of three judges on federally-mandated state loyalty oaths. Even the judges say they are forgeries, as does a world-renowned forensic documents expert retained by Miami lawyer Jack Thompson who blew the whistle on this scandal. Rundle’s office, despite the fact that these are clearly forgeries, refuses to prosecute Shah, claiming that the statute of limitations has run on any prosecution. The statute of limitations has not run on making false statements to investigators, and Shah should be prosecuted for that at least, as this employee claimed that all three judges signed the oaths and he simply notarized the signatures. This is a lie, and all three judges say it is a lie. Making a false statement to a state law enforcement investigator is a crime. Shah should be squeezed on that so that he comes clean as to what is going on here.
Rundle and her office do not want to “go there” because prosecuting Shah will lead to dramatic proof of a dirty little secret known to experts in this field throughout Florida and throughout other states: State loyalty oath laws mandated by Congress are routinely flouted by judges and other officials even though the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld them and endorsed them. Does it sound familiar that judges are violating our laws?
Failure to execute a state loyalty oath strips the office holder of his/her office, and because this is routinely done by judges in Florida as in other states as well, these incumbent judges would be thrown out of office if proof was found that they either did not sign their oaths. Does a Democratic State Attorney want a Republican Governor, Charlie Crist, to remake the state judiciary in his Republican image by appointing new judges to replace the old ones kicked out for loyalty oath violations?
Crist, who is being alerted to this situation today and who apparently wants to be on John McCain’s ticket, should be interested in this scandal, since Senator McCain states that we must do something about judges who think they are above the law. Crist now has the chance in Florida to do just that. It would instantly make Crist a political superstar and household name.
Contact Jack Thompson for the smoking gun State Attorney’s Close Out Memo and other information at 305-666-4366, amendm...@comcast.net .
Jack Thompson, Attorney
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As to be hated needs but to be seen.
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Alexander Pope
"If a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, as Mayor Koch once said, then a civil libertarian is a Republican who has been indicted." Jack Thompson
John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law
5721 Riviera Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
May 22, 2008
The Honorable Bill McCollum
Attorney General, State of Florida
The Capitol PL-01
Tallahassee, Florida 32399 Via Fax to 850-410-1630
Dear Attorney General McCollum:
Several months ago I uncovered the fact that a Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge by the name of Dava J. Tunis was the beneficiary of a forged state loyalty oath. I retained a world-renowned forensic documents expert to determine that the oath was forged, and sure enough the Miami-Dade County State Attorney has just issued a memo affirming that conclusion. Three judges have been caught up in this scandal. To try to contain the damage, they have improperly executed what they hoped would be remedial oaths, which panicked move has only served to make matters worse for them.
Miami-Dade Chief Judge Farina has brazenly violated Florida’s Public Records Law by refusing to produce documents that would have revealed this scandal sooner, so now he is caught up in a cover-up.
What should concern you deeply is that this “Judge” Dava Tunis, who must be removed from the bench because of her misconduct and cover-up in this regard, is using the free legal services in the person of Chuck Fahlbusch in your Ft. Lauderdale offices to extend the cover-up. The Attorney General of Florida has issued a number of Official Opinions about the necessity of executing valid state loyalty oaths, and here is your subordinate being used by a scofflaw judge to violate the Attorney General’s Opinions!
This is outrageous. The Attorney General, as the state’s top lawyer, should be involved in making public officials accountable to the people. Instead, your office has been hijacked by a renegade judge into covering up governmental misconduct. Your office ought to be proceeding against these judges under Florida Statute 760.51. Instead, your Mr. Fahlbusch is being used as an accessory to violate our state’s civil rights laws.
If you think this is a joke, then I will come up to Tallahassee and explain it to your able staff. I am sure that they will understand that your own lawyers are sabotaging your office.
Regards, Jack Thompson