Alleged Corruption in Oregon's Courts
Roderic Schmidt
from the Oregon Observer, Nov. 1994 (re-published with permission)
The Oregon Observer is printing this story as presented by
Roger Weidner, an ex-prosecutor with the Multnomah County District
Attorney's office.
Investigators with the Oregon Observer have searched for denials
from the principals in this case to no avail. We would urge any of
the parties involved to come forward with any evidence that disputes
the validity of the claims in this story.
As a hard-hitting investigative newspaper, the Oregon Ob-
server wishes to expose the truth, unconver the facts, and present
them to the People of the entire State of Oregon. It is with this
mission in mind that this story appears in our pages.
To lend some credibility to the claims which Roger Weidner has
made in many courts, on the record, we add the following quote
from Martha Hicks, a prominent attorney at the offices of the
Oregon State Bar:
"I am prosecuting Milton Brown and have been for quite some time."
This quote was made to investigative reporter Ed Snook with
the Oregon Observer from her office on October 25, 1994.
CLAIMS OF CORRUPTION ON A GRAND SCALE
Exposed in the Oregon Supreme Court by Roger Weidner, Governor Barbara
Roberts, Attorney General Ted Kulongowski, Multnomah County District
Attorney Micheal Schrunk and other Federal, State and local officials
subpoenaed to appear before a special Grand Jury convened by Roger
Weidner on October 14, 1994 to inquire into the cirminal conduct of
attorneys and judges covering up the alleged murder of attorney Don
Kettleberg by his business partner, attorney Milton Brown and Dr.
Charles Hahn, and the conversion by Brown and Hahn of $35 million in
Kettleberg estate assets. None of the above appeared before the Grand
Jury.
Roger Weidner, an attorney on inactive status with the Oregon
State Bar and while serving on jury duty in Multnomah County on
October 14, 1994, subpoenaed not only the public officials
mentioned above but also the following:
* All justices of the Oregon Supreme Court
* All Judges of the Oregon Court of Appeals
* The entire Oregon congressional delegation
* Portland Mayor Vera Katz
* City Attorney Jeff Rogers
* All City Commissioners
* Clackamas County Commissioners and Counsel
* Mr. Teitsworth with the FBI
* Caroline Leonard, Director of the local IRS office
* Ray Taylor with the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS
* Robert Skipper, Multnomah County Sheriff
* James O'Leary, Clackamas County District Attorney
* Charles Moose, Portland Police Chief
They were all to appear to show cause why Roger Weidner,
as a member of the Multnomah County Juror Panel, should not
convene a special Grand Jury to investigate the alleged ongoing
criminal conduct of attorneys and judges in Multnomah
and Clackamas County Oregon.
The ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE and the SUBPOENA sent to those public
officials appears at the end of this article.
Weidner appeared before the Oregon Supreme Court with 40
of his supporters including Dal Ferry, editorial writer with the
Oregon Observer.
The attentive and courteous Justices sat in stunned silence as
an animated Weidner described in detail his allegations that:
1. Portland Attorney Milton Brown abd Dr. Charles Hahn
murdered their business partner Don Kettleberg by writing "do
not resuscitate" on his hospital records to cause his death before
Janette Kent, Kettleberg's fiancee, returned to Portland.
Weidner contends it was necessary Kettleberg be dead when Kent returned
so Brown and Hahn could execute their forged buy-sell agreements.
2. How Brown placed his secretary Caroline Brune in as personal
representative of the Kettleberg estate while she was still on
Brown's payroll and had her prepare an estate inventory
showing the $21 million estate assets worth only $1.6 million.
3. How Brown and Hahn, with the aid of Brune and her
attorney Michael Gentry, through a series of sham transactions.
4. How Weidner has been repeatedly ordered arrested in the
presence of 40-50 supporters, when he has appeared in the
courts of Judges Lee Johnson, Don Londer, Philip Abraham,
James Ellis, Joseph Ceniceros, Gregory Milner and Steven
Mauer to make a record of the scandalous criminal conduct of
attorneys and judges in stealing all the Kettleberg estate assets
and $1.5 million in preperty belonging to New World Ministries.
5. How Weidner was violently arrested on orders of
Judge Philip Abraham when he attempted to appear in
Multnomah County Presiding Court and make a record of the
fact that he had been subpoenaed into that court by Milton
Brown and believed that a trap was being set to take his life.
6. How Weidner has been arrested 6 times in Multnomah
County Circuit Courts and 3 times in Clackamas County Circuit
Courts and incarcerated a total of 112 days on the orders
of Judges Lee Johnson, Donald Londer, James Ellis, Phillip
Abraham, Joseph Ceniceros, Steven Mauer and Gregory
Milnes when he has attempted to appear in their court and
make a record of their criminal behavior in aiding and abetting
attorneys Brown, Schmit and others in looting the Kettleberg
estate and New Wine Ministries.
7. How real estate salesman Linn Springer with the aid of
Lake Oswego attorney Ken Schmit and Kathy and George
Mason enticed pastors Helen and Chet Jones to purchase a
farm in Beavercreek, Oregon on which the debt exceeded the
value of the property.
8. How Clackamas County Judge Alan Jack ordered the
pastors off the property after they had made over $200 thousand
dollars in improvements.
9. How Clackamas County Sheriff Sergeant Terrence
Schaeffer ordered the pastors off the property at gun point and
refused to allow them to remove over $1 million in store fixtures
and inventory stored on the property. How all property
belonging to New Wine Ministries, valued in excess of $1.5 million,
was looted by Kathy Mason, Ken Schmit and others.
10. How Don Calkins, former husband of Kathy Mason and
the true owner of the property, sold his interest in the property
to Weidner in an attempt to block Schmit and others' attempt
to steal the property.
11. How Weidner was arrested by Sgt. Schaeffer when
he walked on the property, was tried and convicted of criminal
trespass by Judge Mauer and sentenced to 10 days in jail and
two years of probation.
12. How Weidner was forcibly arrested in front of 40 supporters
by Captain Sherwood Stillman and 6 armed deputies when he attempted
to appear before Judge Gregory Milnes to set aside the order
dismissing the complaint he had filed against Judges Alan Jack,
Patrick Gilroy, Sid Brockley, John Lowe, and Ken Schmit, Linn
Springer, Kathy Mason, George Mason, Capt. Stillman, Sgt.
Schaeffer, Clackamas County counsel Miles Ward and Martha
Hicks with the Oregon State Bar for racketeering.
13. How Captain Stillman locked the courtroom doors and
shuttered the windows on the doors to seal Weidner and his
supporters in the courtroom prior to forcibly arresting
Weidner.
Jane Angus was prosecuting Weidner for the Oregon State
Bar. During her 5 minute presentation tot he court, she did
not refute the truthfulness of the charges being leveled against the
attorneys and Judges named above. Nor did any of the Justices
hearing the charges question Weidner about the charges
he was making.
"It is simply intolerable that this condition in our courts and
government be allowed to continue," states Weidner. "As the
state director of the Constitutional Defenders I am asking that each person
reading this paper make it available to at least one other person.
I am also asking that each person reading this paper make a
demand on Senators Hatfield and Packwood, as well as the newly
elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Oregon to compel a congressional investigation of this massive
corruption in our courts."
Our children and posterity will surely and rightfully condemn
each of us if we let it be said, that we were born free but
because of our apathy, timidity or indifference we let our Rights
protected by the Bill of Rights, that our fore-fathers fought so
hard to secure, to be taken from us without a fight.
We must all act immediately to restore adherence to the state
and U.S. Constitutions!
The Oregon Observer
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Larry Caldwell
rsch...@reed.edu (Roderic Schmidt) wrote:
> The Oregon Observer is printing this story as presented by
> Roger Weidner, an ex-prosecutor with the Multnomah County District
> Attorney's office.
This is truly astonishing. So astonishing in fact, that it is apparently
the work of a deranged mind. Careful reading indicates that Mr. Weidner
presented no evidence whatsoever to support his claims.
-- Larry Caldwell lar...@teleport.com
Myrtle Creek, Oregon
