Former Melbourne Cop Frank Carter: Revisiting the Cases

There have been numerous searches for information on Frank Carter, the former Melbourne PD officer fired long ago and now pursuing a civil suit in federal court, recently that have arrived at this blog. I figure that I may as well oblige the reading public and post an update and my synopsis of the entire situation. Have I changed my mind about Carter? I will let you decide.

To establish my own mindset you need only read through this blog. I really do not trust cops and for the most part, I do not like cops. If you have read many of my posts, this should be obvious to you. However, I also do not like selective and/or malicious prosecutions. I am not so sure that Frank Carter's story is either, but they did hang him out to dry and fail to follow through. They did end his career even though he still has his law enforcement certification. Who in the hell would hire the guy? (no one I hope)

In my opinion, prosecutors failed to follow through on prosecuting Frank Carter because to do so would open a monstrous can of worms, which is also why the judge on the criminal case refused to allow certain evidence in the case against him. What can of worms am I referring to? Ha – the many, many prosecutions and plea deals that were made as a result of Carter's legally insufficient (i.e. illegal) traffic stops and vehicle searches. They would have to deal with hundreds of appeals and civil suits as opposed to dealing with lone cop Carter. That is my opinion and you may do with it what you wish.

Was Frank Carter a Bad Cop?

Well absolutely – there is nothing good about a cop that uses creative reasoning (i.e. lies and/or falsifies information on reports) to make a traffic stop and then again to search a vehicle. We still have a Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution in this country, however diminished it is today.

I have encountered many cops similar to Carter over the years and my son has encountered many exactly like Carter in his many traffic stops in the State of Florida, most being in Brevard County. I know who Frank Carter really is, but I also know that he was allowed to proceed as he saw fit for far too many years. Face it – this guy should never have had a 20+ year career with the Melbourne Police Department to use as leverage in his quest for $millions today.

Maybe, just maybe, Frank Carter has experienced a revelation of sorts and secretly knows that his many illegal traffic stops and vehicle searches over the years were wrong and illegal. Maybe he has learned a lesson that he will never forget. We can only hope so.

Carter's civil suit that was filed in federal court in Orlando is now in mediation. Lucky him as he gets cop-friendly federal judge Anne Conway – she dismissed my civil suit against bad cops after having a luncheon with former Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary (a defendant in my suit) less than a week earlier. Coincidence? Maybe, but I doubt it.

I do not believe that Carter will get $millions as he so desires, but I do believe that there will be a settlement soon. And really, Carter needs the money to pay the many creditors that have filed suits against him. His life stopped when he was arrested and so did his ability to pay bills apparently as there are 10+ suits against him. We use the name “Frank Carter” but his actual name is Francis Carter, so if you were searching for information and didn't locate it, that may be why.

I also feel that his many victims did not do all that each could do to push prosecutors into pursuing the case against Carter. How many put it on paper and swore to it? It's hard to tell, but not many in my opinion or prosecutors wouldn't be able to play hide-n-seek on the case. Maybe Dienecia Johnson was the only one and now she will suffer for it as she probably is already. Been there and done that with a different gang of bad cops. So if the other alleged victims didn't follow through, well, we can't blame Carter. Lucky him that they all lost their backbone somewhere long ago. It is clear that he still has his (backbone).

If you want to read my previous posts about Frank Carter, go to the label on this blog: Frank Carter

If you are interested in what specifically prompted Frank Carter's arrest to begin with, read: Carteria

The amended complaint in the current civil suit is here:

Francis Carter Amended Complaint August 2011

The latest filing in reference to mediation is here:

Francis Carter Mediation Notice 12 January 2012

This is a case that offered serious lessons for many, including Carter. Hopefully he moves on in life and is able to put his former career behind him. I would not be surprised if Carter opted to finish a bachelor's degree and go to law school as it is really the only area of law to pursue that will benefit him in the future. May he decide to actually study constitutional law, especially in relation to the Fourth Amendment.

Orlando MBI: The Long War on Adults

The War on anything adult and all publishers of ads for anything adult in the Orlando metro area started over 3 decades ago for Orlando's Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) and continues today. The Orlando MBI's overzealous agents have left a trail of thousands of victims, many still in state and federal prisons. I was one of the lucky victims (lucky I'm not spending life in prison anyway) and Memoirs of an Accused Madam is my story.

The most vehement critic of the Orlando MBI was always the Orlando Weekly and the agency managed to silence the newspaper's investigative reporting with the October 2007 arrests of several advertising sales employees for selling ads to escorts and unlicensed massage therapists that offered more than the law allows.

Many around back in 1996 could testify to the fact that this was not a new strategy for the MBI, myself included. The War on publishers of ads for adult business began with the Yellow Pages Fiasco in 1996, when Sprint Publishing was threatened with a RICO case over a refusal to remove the “escort services” category in the Central Florida yellow pages. Sprint did remove the category, stopping the presses (literally) on the 1997 directories printed and distributed by November of 1996.

Someone stated to me back in 1993-94 that Orlando was a testing ground of some sort in relation to the eradication of anything involving adult business or vice, from gambling and bingo to escort services and X-rated movies. I believe it. The MBI's War on Adults has spread throughout the US these days with the attacks on Craigslist (an MBI priority before anyone else ever touched it) and now on Backpage.

Enjoy Bingo?

The MBI would have liked to make sure that you would never enjoy bingo in Orlando; however, Philip Furtney of Ontario fought the agency from 1995, until he died in late 2007, while in-process of a civil suit against members of the MBI Governing Board to retrieve his stolen property. Furtney's brother Bruce, on behalf of the estate, carried-on with the suit and won a judgment. As far as I am aware, Furtney's estate finally collected from the State of Florida.

I would like to keep Philip Leroy Furtney's criminal and civil cases alive in our memories forever and do so with the inclusion of links to posts on this blog. Never forget what the MBI is capable of:

The Bingo Racketeering Case

The Great Bingo Fiasco

Bingo Case Hearing

The Cost of MBI

Most Bizarre Racketeering Case Ever

True Investigative Reporting of a Renegade Agency

Over the years, the Orlando Weeklyand its investigative reporters were often nipping at the heels of the dogs at the MBI. Retaliation is hell and the Weekly and its employees paid dearly for placing the agency in the public eye. One day last week I did a search for MBI articles written by Weeklyreporters and each link was dead. A fear of sorts gripped me at the discovery, a fear that all the solid online information concerning the vicious pursuits of the MBI was being deleted and removed. Whew! It didn't happen and a few days later the links were all working. One other thought I had was that perhaps the Weekly had commissioned a book – that would have been wonderful; it would become a bestseller overnight. (Idea for the Weekly to help make-up for lost revenue!)

To keep the information out there I have compiled a list of important Orlando Weekly stories about the MBI over the last 10 years. Whatever the Weekly did last week with the links has made it so that the articles are on a dark red background with dark blue text – if you highlight the text it is much easier to read. They are in no particular order and searching the Orlando Weekly for stories on the MBI revealed 135 results so these are my picks:

29 Embarrassing Years: An MBI timeline

The Morality Police (scroll to view 2 images, 1 of the MBI director in 1989 and the other of Hitler's SA and both concerned over morality – scary stuff)

Operation MBI Shame: A close look at how Orlando's vice cops really operate

Cops in Cocoa stamp out sin

The MBI busts heads and Rich Crotty attempts to smile (smoke shop raids)

Our little Gestapo (MBI = "Central Florida's Church Lady with a Badge") (love this story!)

Score one for the MBI (about my federal civil suit being tossed with a twist at the end)

Something's Fishy (bad behavior of agents at a strip club)

Dirty Politics (on the Video Exposé takedown)

Operation Overexposed

Breasts out

Run 'Em Out of Town

Happytown Column (on The Original Bookstore raid)

The Booby Trap

Told You So (Part 2) (I can't locate part 1)

Legal Haze (smoke shop raids)

The links I have included reveal what the MBI really is, but there are many cases that even the Weeklywas not aware of and many defendants that have suffered at the hands of the overzealous agents of the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation. Few appreciate this agency in Orlando – the citizens did not ask for this whacked task force to eliminate all that is adult in Orlando. I will leave it to you to figure out what monster enterprise did.

I have written about a variety of cases in Memoirs that are not in any Weekly articles. In the past couple of months I've discussed the Orlando federal conspiracy trial of the 11 defendants from Eastern Europe on this blog – this is indeed an MBI case. MBI is not a local agency. I am not clear on how the agency has changed since former Director William Lutz retired, though at the conclusion of Memoirs I did believe there had been a significant change. Well, I have changed my mind.

I consider it important to keep the information out there and perhaps if I had given away free copies of Memoirs a couple of years ago after it was published, the most recent case involving the Eastern European defendants would never have happened; maybe, just maybe, they would have passed on Orlando. If not for the arrests of the Weekly employees in late 2007, there would be many more articles of cases that are now buried by the MBI.

If you are an adult that likes to gamble, play bingo, visit smoke shops, rent X-rated movies, read X-rated books, get a massage with a happy ending, patronize strip clubs, or call escorts... well, Orlando is not the place to be. We live in a fantasy land for children here - think about it - Disney shut down Pleasure Island (the nightclub theme park) in late 2008, after 20 years, because of demands by visiting families. The MBI has not been dissolved yet, with emphasis on yet, and we can only hope that one day...

If you do not like me, realize that it is the MBI that made me the person that I am today. I like who I am, but if you don't, well, you should know that I used to be a nice, mild-mannered woman. More than a decade of continuous harassment, interference in my life, and a show trial that rivaled many in the Stalin era did it. Change can be a good thing. I learned to kick back.

Jason Itzler of NY Confidential Fame: Clown or Killer?

I have never mentioned Jason Itzler on this blog for a couple of reasons. The main reason that I ignore him is that he sought fame as a result of mismanaging the escort business known as New York Confidential for two years (2003-04) and his mismanagement resulted in a plea bargain and prison sentence in 2005. It is so easy to open and operate an escort service the wrong way and end-up in prison so why did he get all of the attention that he demanded?

The secondary reasoning for never discussing him is that I have always considered him a clown. What moron calls himself the “king of pimps” publicly and to news reporters in interviews? Itzler does, or rather did. I find the entire concept absurd and would have renamed him the king of clowns. Beyond that, I have felt for some time that it is entirely possible that Jason Itzler is a confidential informant, though if he is, he sure didn't get a very good deal for whatever information he gave. Hell, this idiot is even the clown of CIs, if he is one.

I am only writing about Itzler now as something that I read yesterday was really disturbing. So that we are on the same level of understanding here, the articles that I found disturbing are:

'King of Pimps' linked to UW-L student's death

Private investigators have evidence to charge “King of Pimps” with student death

Date Rape Drug OD Death of Aspiring Model Julia Sumnicht Linked to “King of All Pimps” Jason Itzler

Jason Itzler was arrested on various charges in relation to a new business in New York, a companion service as he referred to it in court, just a couple of weeks ago (September 9^th I believe). There were drug charges included this round and he has been arrested on drug charges in past; smuggling ecstacy to be specific. This time the charges include selling cocaine to this alleged client of his new business. I must imagine that the “client” was a set-up to begin with.

According to the articles noted, Julia Sumnicht's family hired a private investigator that discovered Julia's last hours before she returned to sleep in her own bed were spent with Itzler and his Miami roommate Zoltan Prepszent, a photographer. Dumb as he is, Itzler has already been running his mouth to reporters in NY from jail in relation to this girl's death and the GHB he also ingested, but of course he didn't die, and there was no mention of whether Prepszent took the crap also, or not.

You'd think that after all of his previous arrests and his time in prison, Itzler would have learned to shut the hell up by now. He's so stupid that he apparently doesn't realize he's probably going to be facing a murder or wrongful death arrest in the near future.

So is he a clown or a killer? In my opinion he is a clown and as clueless as Julia Sumnicht was. So who drugged both of them or did they drug themselves? If this girl took the drugs of her own free will and Itzler did not provide them, can Itzler still be charged in her death? After all, we are all responsible for our own lives and behavior.

Beyond that, if the feds intended to use Itzler as a witness in Paul Bergrin's trial, well, he has indeed worn-out his usefulness and tanked his credibility forever.

The Good Old Days

Thinking about the good old days is something that people my age (51) do often, at least I do anyway. The world has changed so much and everything is different, nothing the same. My son is in his mid-twenties and surprised me yesterday when he referred to the “good old days”. The reference was to the 1990s.

Think about how different your life was throughout the 90s. The future held such promise for me. My son recounted the many ways life was better, even in 1999. The 90s was a great decade. Reflect on the music... yes, that is what my tour of the 90s songs is all about on both of my blogs. The Blueprint Blogcurrently has “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” by Eiffel 65 playing. This blog has “The Rhythm of the Night” by Corona playing in the header at this moment. She is so lively, so in love with life as many of us were back then.

What were you doing in the 90s?

Anyone remember World Cup Soccer in 1994? Orlando was one of the host cities in the US. For every game (before and after) I was partying at Church Street in downtown Orlando. I had various people that had no clue what they were doing answering my escort lines, which were ringing off the hook day and night.

While partying at the now defunct (yes, it is defunct no matter what anyone in Orlando claims or how much they attempt to revive it) Church Street, I met a wonderful group of guys from Ireland and Australia. These visitors were victim of a scam travel agency booking and had no hotel rooms so I offered to loan them my beach house for the week and they accepted. The house was smack on the beach in Cape Canaveral... One could step from the jacuzzi on its deck into the sand.

Each sent me a card to say hello and thanks when they returned to Ireland and Australia, and perhaps one was from the UK. I have those cards in a box in my storage, but if they're by chance reading this blog, contact me. We all had a falling out of sorts after the game – the Mexico vs. Ireland game in Orlando – but all was forgotten later. My cousins from Mexico were in town for the games too, and well, it was a competition thing that turned into a light brawl downtown. Hell, I don't even remember who won that game now. Cheers! and Salud!

That house was wonderful. A former love leased it for a year for me, but I spent less time there than anyone. My friends and family had barbecues regularly though. The last week that I had the house, I loaned it to a Jamaican friend to hold his birthday party and he had family from Jamaica and South Florida come in for a huge beach party. It was crazy during, but they left the house in perfect condition. What a house and what a time...

Moving forward... Remember all the hoopla over the 1999 to 2000 issue? Well on New Year's Eve 1999, I was in Times Square with my son and his sister Ruby. We stayed at the Marriott Marquis for the week, shopping till we dropped, and then New Year's Eve was the grand finale. One thing about Times Square on that particular night is that there are no bathrooms to use. We ended-up going back to the room for this reason and by then cops had the blockades up and we couldn't get back in so we had the balcony view.

The 1990s are filled with wonderful memories for me. This was before the War era. I think that the 2000s and 2010s should be called the War Era. From the moment Bush stepped into office, war was imminent. Life changed so much so quickly and has only gotten worse since.

My son remembers those years fondly. For this reason I am not sorry that I went into the escort business – we had lots of fun and a great life! But should a young man in his mid-twenties have to look back on the good old days? 

The End of the First Amendment

You may as well toss the Bill of Rights in the trash because it isn't worth the paper it is printed on these days. The opposition (i.e the state and federal government) will attempt to feed you a line of crap that police or judicial designated free speech zones are constitutional, but it is exactly that: a line of crap, especially in the context used in the case of Mark Schmidter of Orlando. Schmidter dared to pass out pamphlets on public property.

The only connection of Schmidter's case to the Casey Anthony fiasco is that an administrative order from Judge Belvin Perry in the Anthony case regarding a free speech zone was applied to anyone in or around the courthouse. The pamphlets that Mark Schmidter handed out outside of the Orange County courthouse had nothing whatsoever to do with Anthony's case and he had previously passed out the same pamphlets at the same location long before her trial. Don't believe it when they tell you this is related to the Anthony fiasco in any way, shape, or form.

So what are these pamphlets about? Jury nullification.

The pamphlets advised possible or potential jurors of their rights as jurors. The corrupt system representatives do not want jurors to know that they have any rights at all, but indeed they do. Mark Schmidter is actively involved in an organization called Florida Fully Informed Jury Association and frequently spends his own time passing out these pamphlets at courthouses across the State of Florida. Read the actual pamphlet (PDF) HERE.

The truth is that judges like Perry do not want jurors to know that they have any rights at all and in this respect, Schmidter was a disruption to the corrupt system in place. Jury nullification is term that describes a juror's right to refuse to enforce bad laws and bad prosecutions. The pamphlets explain the juror's right to judge the facts of the case and the law itself. Many have stated that I was a beneficiary of jury nullification, though only the jurors in my trial could know for sure.

Today Judge Belvin Perry held a trial without jurors, commonly referred to as trial by judge. The defendant was Mark Schmidter and Judge Perry convicted him on both counts of “indirect criminal contempt” for violating two administrative orders that he issued pertaining to the Casey Anthony case. Injustice was swift in this case – Schmidter was only arrested on June 29, 2011, and he sure didn't get his right to trial by jury. He lost (go figure) and was sentenced to 151 days on one count and 141 days on the other, to be served concurrently (simultaneously or at the same time).

So this man will spend around 151 days in the lousy Orange County jail for handing out pamphlets on the Orange County courthouse steps – something he and many have done for years at courthouses across the State of Florida. Schmidter's attorney, Adam Sudbury, will be filing the appeal on his behalf and working to get him an appeal bond so that he can get out of the Orange County hellhole.

One significant difference between this case and any that have passed judicial scrutiny in regards to free speech zones is that this was not a captive audience, though there is caselaw to back-up cases in which the recipients of the “speech” were indeed a captive audience. I believe that Schmidter will find justice outside of Orange County, either in the appeals court or if not then in US Supreme Court, as he did have the right to be heard by his desired audience: Schmidter was within his First Amendment right to persuade possible or potential jurors to know their rights as jurors.

While Belvin Perry somehow managed to give Casey Anthony a fair trial, he also managed to stomp on the Bill of Rights for anyone that was anywhere near the fiasco. Read the Orlando Sentinelarticle: Judge Perry sends man with pamphlets to jail

Never go to Trial on Theory

Let this be one more lesson for prosecutors in the State of Florida: Never go to trial on theory.

Casey Anthony was found not guilty on all counts except lying to law enforcement. We all knew she lied – the rest of it was pure theory from beginning to end.

The fiasco started by former Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary is finally over.

On Trial in Orlando: The Defense Rests

I haven't tuned-in to the Casey Anthony trial more than a few times this month, but I did today as the news reporters have been debating whether Casey would testify in her defense, or not. The debate itself was laughable to me; she has far to many lies going to testify. I don't pretend to have any clue what the truth is; however, spotted the lies long ago as most people did, including the agents.

When a defendant testifies in their defense in a trial they do have the right to plead the Fifth to questions asked by prosecutors and not answer, but of course it makes them look like they have something to hide as they do. Pleading the Fifth means that according to the Fifth Amendment, a defendant can refuse to answer a question that could incriminate and convict them. Anyone with anything to hide is better off not testifying in their defense to begin with. A witness in a trial also has the right to plead the Fifth during trial; however, this results in the end of the witness's testimony.

In my own trial in Orange County, Florida (Orlando), I did testify in my defense. Though seriously provoked by the prosecutor, I did not plead the Fifth in response to any question. The State of Florida's main witness, Theresa Isaacs, did plead the Fifth in testimony though. The judge ordered a long lunch break so that she could talk to her attorney and make sure that pleading the Fifth was a good move. She returned from that break smirking and stated to the judge that she would be happy to testify. After the next few questions from my attorney, Theresa pled the Fifth once again. The judge ordered her dismissed as a witness. Prosecutors sure did not look happy and she exited the courtroom with fake tears rolling down her ugly face.

Shortly after Theresa's exit she went into a private room with main case agent Brant Rose. They were in there for quite some time, according to my friend sitting in the hallway. Immediately after leaving the private room, Theresa cried to a woman juror in the ladies room. The juror was compelled to tell a court deputy who in turn informed the judge. The jury was led out of the courtroom with the exception of the one juror. She informed all of us (minus the rest of the jury) exactly what Theresa stated to her as she cried in the bathroom. It was damaging to me, of course. I always believed that Theresa did what she did at the direction of Agent Brant Rose – the state was not doing good in the courtroom and he had to throw a monkey wrench in the trial at that point. Tampering with a jury was certainly not beyond Rose's arsenal of tools.

As soon as the lady juror finished telling her story of what happened in the bathroom, she was excused from the courtroom and instructed to not discuss anything with the other jurors. Prosecutors whispered something to the judge (the audio did not pick it up as I later listened to the trial CDs, trying to figure out what the conversation was), and the next thing I knew, the judge was explaining to me that I had every right to a mistrial. He repeated this several times and explained it all thoroughly, at the urging of prosecutors. They all wanted a mistrial. I refused the mistrial and stated that I would rather continue.

No way in hell they were going to get a second chance to fine-tune the witness acts. Theresa Isaacs was an actress, if nothing else. The State of Florida brought me to that point and I'll be damned – we were going to finish the show trial. No second show trial for me!

After all of that happened it really went downhill for the state. We were all waiting to hear Rocky's testimony. Unbeknown to me at that moment, Rocky would be told to leave the courthouse for his refusal to lie on the stand. In a private room he told both prosecutors that there was no need to go over his testimony and that he knew what really happened and intended to tell the truth on the stand. Prosecutors would refer to this as a “refusal to testify” at Rocky's sentencing hearing a month later and he was sentenced to 36 months in a Florida prison and 10 years of felony probation.

Someone with the MBI or the Office of the Statewide Prosecutor (OSP) judge shopped when they arrested me. Judge Anthony Johnson was best known as a hanging judge that always sided with prosecutors. He was the icing on the railroad cake for me. On a few occasions during trial he attempted to appear impartial, but was barely successful. Judge Johnson clearly ran a kangaroo court. Casey Anthony has no such problem – Orange County Circuit Court Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. has no such biases and has conducted an actual fair trial.

I have read through most of the evidence in the Casey Anthony case and have come to several conclusions: She is guilty of something, though I am not so sure that it is first degree murder. The evidence does not prove murder in the first degree, no matter how you want to view it. Perhaps the evidence proves murder in the second degree or manslaughter, but that is not how she was charged. She was charged in the way that she was as prosecutors dangled the death penalty, figuring she would plead to a lesser charge (like second degree murder or manslaughter) to have the death penalty removed. She called their bluff.

Really I am hearing many theories from prosecutors in this case, but only a fool goes to trial on theory. In my opinion, even if this jury convicts Casey, the conviction would be overturned on appeal, if Judge Perry lets it fly, which I doubt that he would. And that is this former defendant's perspective on the Casey Anthony trial in Orlando.

The Food Not Bombs Arrests in Orlando

The arrests in Orlando of 13 members of Food Not Bombs (FNB) thus far is worse publicity than the City of Orlando realizes at this point. The news stories have been on the front pages of major newspapers around the world and the City would be better off backing down and letting it go, in my opinion. The FNB activists are exactly that and have no intention of backing down.

Many with FNB are active in other causes as well. I met several of the people at a rally for the Orlando Weekly downtown after the MBI arrested several in the newspaper's sales department over selling ads to massage parlors, escorts, and prostitutes. FNB is not a local organization and members from other areas are coming to Orlando to feed the homeless at Lake Eola downtown even though they realize they'll most likely be arrested for violating the city ordinance.

The City of Orlando prevailed in the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals, which isn't that hard as this circuit is friendly to government (city, county, state) and unfriendly to anyone challenging government or its agents. Been there and done that. I do hope to see the FNB attorney take it to the higher court.

I used to go to Lake Eola often, at least a few times a week, but have since moved and spend little time there these days. The reason for the city's fight in relation to FNB feeding the homeless at Lake Eola Park is the surrounding high-dollar real estate. The park is lined by expensive condominiums, restaurants, and street cafés on three sides and these wealthy downtown dwellers do not want the poor and downtrodden there at all, and certainly not to eat a meal.

If you can spare a few $s, consider giving to the Food Not Bombs cause – this is a really great organization and the money won't go to line the pockets of anyone involved as it does with most US charities like the Red Cross. The main link is Food Not Bombs. The link to donate is not all that easy to locate on the website and is referred to as A Dollar for Peace and it's is HERE.

A New MBI Priority

It appears that the new priority agenda for the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) in Orlando is busting pain clinics, or rather those doctors that do little more than sell prescriptions for oxycodone. It is an admirable agenda as Florida has a serious overdose problem and attracts addicts from across the southern US on pill-seeking missions. This drug is the new heroin just in case you're wondering what epidemic I am referring to here.

Today the MBI busted a so-called “pain management” clinic about 2 blocks from where I lived for a couple of years and it's about time someone did something. Of course the real culprit is big pharma for manufacturing so much of this drug. Surely these pharmaceutical companies knew what they have been profiting from, right?

State databases are often inaccurate on the drug overdose toll. A friend's (Dusty from Memoirs) boyfriend died with enough of this drug in his system to kill a horse back in early 2003, but I do not believe that anyone was bothering to keep track back then. Tom was originally prescribed this drug for back pain, but in short time the original problem was all but forgotten. My friend just dated him and had no idea how far his addiction had gotten; they didn't live together. In her own investigation, she located the doctor that had been prescribing Tom's pills and pursued prosecution, and Tom was far from alone, but she met only with resistance from any potential prosecuting authorities, including the State of Florida.

Back in 2003, the problem was swept under a rug and proliferated quickly. Tom's death was one of the earlier deaths and the first time I had heard about the prescription pain med problem in this state. So while I appreciate that the State of Florida and the MBI have taken notice the last year or two, this should have been a main agenda before Tom's death. Instead they were all busy going after people like me that abhor big pharma. How many died because they chose to pursue escort business operators and escorts instead of pill-mill fronts like the one busted today? How many are addicted today as a result of Florida's prescription drug epidemic that should have been derailed so long ago?

Make no mistake: These pain pill addicts are capable of just about anything to obtain their drugs, so real crime proliferated side-by-side with the pain med addiction and overdose problem. It really is the new heroin in the US, and the traffickers and doctors prescribing it should have been pursued a decade ago. Great agenda, but too little and too late in my opinion.

The Morals Crusade in Polk County Florida

Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida is back on his crusade, though it is unlikely that he has ever taken much of a break from it. Oh – before I forget: Phillip Greaves (the guy with the book) received probation in the case that directed national attention to Polk County and Judd's crusade. So much for actual results – obviously Judd is just an attention seeker in the grand scheme of things.

This is about an operation that Judd calls Operation Curtain Call that started on April 11th and continued through April 17, 2011. The morals crusaders managed to arrest a total of 60 people. Hard for me to imagine that there are 60 people naïve enough to go to Polk County for any encounter, but there were obviously.

With one of Grady Judd's operations the arrestee must only arrive at the specified location and not much, if any evidence at all, is required for an arrest. Polk County is another country to me, one that arrived through time travel from the medieval era of history (Middle Ages). In this case it is the area that is moving through time, sort of similar to Lost, a now discontinued tv show.

The only part of medieval history that I would love in my life today are the châteaux from the period offered for sale in France and any that I have found require an extensive amount of restoration. Too bad we cannot apply similar restoration to Sheriff Judd. The Black Death was also in the Late Middle Ages.

You know that song Straight Outta Compton? Well Grady Judd is straight outta the mid-14th century – private history joke.

I had imagined that most people involved in any type of adult business knew better than to advertise services on Backpage and respond to calls from Polk county by now, but what do I know.

For the full article, read the news release from Polk County Sheriff's Office here: PCSO Detectives Arrest 60 in operation targeting Online Prostitution. You could also read the Orlando Sentinel article here: Online sex sting leads to 60 arrests in Polk County

Former Cop Frank Carter of Melbourne: Expounding on the Issues

Many have arrived at this blog recently by searching for Frank Carter's name and it is time to expound on the issues and hope that you understand why I consider Carter a bad cop, regardless of inept prosecutors, collusion, or corrupt judges.

Most bad cops are never prosecuted; look how long it took prosecutors in Cook County, Illinois to try Jon Burge for a lousy perjury charge when we all know that he ordered and participated in torturing suspects to obtain confessions. Of course most of those confessions were false, but the defendants still languished in prisons for years. The fact that the farce of a corrupt system cannot manage to prosecute Carter means little to me.

I find it far-fetched and implausible that Brevard County prosecutors couldn't find any complainants that were willing to testify. From what I know there have been hundreds of complaints against Frank Carter over the years, but of course time is an issue and I am not sure of the statute of limitations on official misconduct charges or falsifying official records or documents, so all cases are no longer valid. They ignored this train wreck for years.; probably 20 years altogether or close to it.

The main case that prosecutors used to arrest Carter was questionable. Getting down to the basics here, Frank Carter was accused of making illegal traffic stops and conducting illegal searches. There is no doubt whatsoever that he has done this hundreds, if not thousands, of times in his 20+ year career. To me he is the definition of “bad cop”. He is the same as the Hernando County deputies that did the traffic stop on my son and his friend a couple of weeks ago. He is the same as several Cocoa P.D. officers that have done worse than the Hernando County deputies did to my son in the past five years.

Ever since my son got a driver's license he has experienced illegal traffic stops and illegal searches of any vehicle he drove. We have it down to a system because it happens so frequently. For the most part it has always happened in Cocoa with Cocoa P.D. officers. It has not happened in Cocoa for a couple of years though, not since my visit to the Cocoa Police Department to speak to a supervisor and request records.

On my last trip to Cocoa P.D. (it was far from the first), I encountered an intelligent supervisor. I'm not sure if he was a sergeant or a Lt, but this is immaterial anyway. A nice man that had recently relocated from NY and was attempting to reform the department, and he sure managed to smooth everything over with me. When I enter a police department under such circumstances I am angry, no doubt, but I am also intelligent enough to know that sarcasm with a smirk is the only tool available to me to get my point across.

In this particular traffic stop my son and a friend were pulled-over for no reason and held for 45 solid minutes while Cocoa P.D. waited on a dog to arrive – that dog was busy in Melbourne, as has been the case in past. That dog was probably busy with one of Frank Carter's illegal traffic stops. The officers were told clearly twice that they had no permission to search so instead they waited on a dog. Neat, except that holding a driver and passenger for 45 minutes is also illegal. Of course there was no reason to call a dog and of course the dog didn't find anything.

I was having a discussion with someone the other day about possible reasons that cops target my son. His last name is different so they do not know that he is my son when the siren and lights go on, so it isn't the usual hatred of me. For years it was stickers on the vehicles and the hour of night that he was driving, in my opinion. He has always been into music and had 10+ and closer to 20+ heavy metal band stickers on any car he has driven. He also worked for Papa John's from age 17 forward – first as an insider, then as a driver, and later as a manager. He has always had the latest shift and often didn't get out of work until 2am or 3am, so that is why he would be going to Walmart or driving down the road at that hour. Not everyone is a day person, as those late shift cops should know.

The recent Hernando County stop was different in that my son was in a rental car that was close to brand new, so no stickers. It also happened at 1am on a Saturday night and I do not consider that late.


Back to Frank Carter

The main case that prosecutors used to arrest him was of one Laura Cabrera. Of course I do not know Laura, but if you look at her record she has been charged with drug and drug-related counts more than once. I believe that she even pleaded to a count once. This woman has had a lengthy list of traffic stops, many probably care of Frank Carter. Carter probably found drugs when he illegally searched when he had no right by law to stop her to begin with. The law is the law and if officers like Frank Carter are not going to obey it, why should we expect Laura Cabrera to?

I didn't mention Cabrera's case in my previous posts as I preferred the case of Dienecia Johnson. She never pled to any drug charge and has had too long of a list of traffic stops for no reason. My previous discussion of her traffic stops is clear on why Carter could not have had reason to pull her over to begin with: She was charged with not having her driver's license or registration to show too many times. How in the hell could Frank Carter know that she didn't have either available when he pulled her over? He couldn't and in several cases she was not charged with anything else.

The situation with my son has been similar several times. He was pulled over for no reason whatsoever and a couple of times the offending cop actually created a traffic ticket for an offense that didn't exist to cover his illegal stop and illegal search. In one case the created ticket was for “running a red light” and my son took photos of the intersection, obtained the records of the pull-over, and argued it in court. The judge found him not guilty. I won't bother to explain how turning right on red without stopping at that intersection was absolutely legal, except to say that it had to do with the lane merging and no stop bar. During that stop my son was subjected to an angry Marine Drill Sergeant cop yelling at the top of his lungs throughout (30 solid minutes), throwing my son against the car to search him, and an absolutely illegal search of the vehicle – no permission and no reason. The dog was busy in Melbourne – again probably at one of Carter's illegal stop and search escapades

There are far too many of these bad cops on the road. Something must be done to stop this in our society. If supervisors don't give a fuck, then it is time to get rid of the supervisors with the bad boy cops.

If the Melbourne P.D. takes Frank Carter back they are in collusion with him and advocate criminal behavior. It is easy to look at his traffic stops and know that he doesn't give a rat's ass about following the law. This guy considers himself a superior being that makes his own judgment calls and totally disregards law.

I have so many additional examples of bad cops detaining my son, including two that involve pizza delivery, that this post could go on and on for pages. Perhaps I will bore you with more later, but hopefully I have made my point concerning Frank Carter.

A cop doesn't have to be dealing drugs or raping women to be a bad cop.

All Charges Dropped in Melbourne Bad Cop Case

Police abuse and misconduct is clearly acceptable in Florida. They have proved this time and time again, but many had high hopes that Frank Carter would finally pay his dues for all of his deeds against the motorists and residents in the predominantly Black University Boulevard area of Melbourne, Florida. Folks, it ain't happening and this guy will likely be back in a patrol car with $500K + care of Florida taxpayers in short time.

To Dienecia Johnson: Do yourself a major favor and move out of the Melbourne area. It is highly unlikely that this guy will let this situation go and you could be in real danger. They will probably be handing him his gun back soon. I have encountered too many cops just like him in Florida and they don't let anything go.

I am wondering if Frank Carter has a friend in the State Attorney's Office that cooked-up this entire bullshit scheme to put plenty of taxpayer money in Carter's pockets. Think about it – they wouldn't have made such an arrest of a high profile career cop with no evidence, but then suddenly some evidence was no longer evidence at all. Now there is no evidence whatsoever, they claim, and charges are dropped. Carter can indeed file a false arrest suit and most likely will – he should as they caused him extreme distress and cost him lots of money. Wouldn't you? Because the charges have been dropped he will collect on a false arrest suit.

A person acquitted by jury, such as me, has no such simple ordeal. They claim the jury was stupid until the cows come home.

I know exactly what Frank Carter was and will be once again, but with his behavior sanctioned by the State of Florida this time around.

What do we have here? Inept prosecutors or pal to Frank Carter or a corrupt Brevard County judge? Regardless of which one it is, I am totally disgusted. Read all the bullshit the State Attorney's Office representative stated here: Charges Dropped Against Former Melbourne Cop Frank Carter

Overzealous Scary Cops in Hernando County Florida

Last night my son and a friend had a frightening encounter with several (4) Hernando County Sheriff's Office deputies out in the rural area referred to as Ridge Manor, Florida. Either three or four patrol cars arrived at the scene with a total of 4 deputies. My son was driving a Toyota Prius and had the vehicle papers and his valid driver's license to hand the deputy and was puzzled as to the reason for the stop as he is ever so careful not to commit any sort of traffic infraction whatsoever.

Alex has learned to just stay a smart distance from cops and has been taught to understand that a police officer is more powerful than the POTUS. One must fear that a cop could plant drugs or shoot them dead as the result of a simple traffic stop in Florida. The only time I shake is if I am being pulled-over by a cop as there is no telling what will happen next. No one wants to die at the hands of a whacko cop that later claims to have seen a weapon and trust me, it happens too often in Florida. And we aren't even Black. I fear for the Black motorist in this lousy state – refer to my posts on former officer Frank Carter of the Melbourne Police Department.

Alex was driving at a speed of 52 mph and the speed limit before the stop was 60 mph, so he knew the pull-over had nothing to do with speeding. The car is almost new and sure didn't have any light out or faulty equipment issue. Knowing that he had done nothing illegal or even incorrect, he had his friend dial me the minute that he heard the siren and had the brights in his face as the cop turned around to come after him. The second that police vehicle #1 got behind my son, vehicle #2 and vehicle #3 (and possibly a #4) appeared from nowhere and were also behind him with flashing lights on.

Alex pulled to the grassy area on the side of the road right next to the intersection of Croom Rital Rd. and Kettering Rd. in Hernando County, Florida. I was on the phone with his friend at that point. This is exactly what happened next and Deputy #3 and Deputy #4 remained in the background throughout never saying anything to them. [my thoughts and Alex's descriptions are in brackets]:


Unknown Deputy #1: License and registration

Alex: Yes sir. May I ask why we were pulled over?

Deputy #1: We received a complaint of objects being thrown out this window at the vehicle behind you.

Alex: I don't know what you're talking about. We didn't throw anything.

Deputy #1: I'm going to be real with you. I'm a dickhead who doesn't give a fuck about anything. I don't have time for fucking games. If I find out one of you is lying I'm going to seize this vehicle and everything in it and you're both going to jail. The vehicle behind you has a witness, the vehicle behind them, that is willing to write statements. [took driver's license and car paperwork and walked back to his vehicle] [I heard the entire conversation - the deputy was loud, but not screaming as some do]

[within a couple (3) minutes]

Deputy #1: Passenger out of the vehicle. [brought my son's friend to side of deputy's car]. [I heard this].

Friend described: [The deputy asked what happened here and friend told him the story]

What really happened: We were behind a car driving about 15 mph under the speed limit. There was no lane to pass him, but two other vehicles went around both of us. I waited until there was a second lane to pass and went around the slow driver. The driver attempted to run me off the road by speeding-up as soon as he saw I was trying to pass him. I passed him anyway by speeding-up. He was right on my rear and turned on his brights and this went on for about five minutes. He pulled-off and about 10 minutes later I am being pulled-over, but have no idea why.

The friend thought the cop asked him to empty out his pockets and was starting to do this when 3 deputies went for their weapons and 1 grabbed him by the shoulder and pushed him against the car. The deputy told him to place his hands on the car and then patted him down, placing his hands in friend's pockets, and searched him. Scared him to death.

Deputy #1: Mr. -------

Alex [got out of car and walked towards deputy #1]

Deputy #2: GET OFF THE PHONE! [I heard this]

Alex: It's my mother. What...

Deputy #2: GET OFF THE PHONE NOW! You're 18. Hang it up.[I heard this]

[I had instructed my son to ask the deputy's name and where/what police department he was with as my son had no idea where they were specifically at that time]

Alex: Yes sir. [he hung-up on me]

Deputy #1: Your buddy over here admitted everything so you want to be smart as well and go ahead and confess to what happened.

Alex: [repeated story of what actually happened]

Deputy #1: Do you have any weapons, guns, drugs, hand grenades [?] paraphernalia?

Alex: No sir.

Deputy #1: PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE CAR! [deputy starts going through Alex's pockets and searching him and looked through his wallet]

Deputy #1: Do you have any drugs, weapons, guns, paraphernalia, hand grenades, or dead bodies [?] in the vehicle? So then I have permission to search, right? [exact quote]

Alex: Yes sir.

Deputy #1: Turn around and face my partner. [Alex no longer had any visual of vehicle] [deputy searched for about 4 minutes]

Deputy #2: [starts asking both Alex and friend questions]. [He pointed at a vehicle and asked both at the same time if they recognized it and both responded “no it doesn't look familiar”.

Deputy #2: What are you doing way out here?

Alex: Visiting a friend.

Deputy #1: [pulls out posters and flyers from back seat]

Deputy #2: Why do you have all of those?

Alex: I do some promoting for Club Firestone.

Deputy #1: [walks to his vehicle] You might want to stay in Merritt Island boys and don't come around here again. We are a bunch of fucking pricks who don't give a shit and will cause you some fucking problems. [Deputy threw Alex's driver's license in the grass]

Alex: [we got back in our vehicle and noted Deputy #1 walked to the vehicle that we couldn't identify].

So what in the hell is going on in Hernando County? Apparently they sure do not want anyone that doesn't live there entering the area. My son has had many traffic stops for no reason whatsoever, but none as scary as this one because they really do not know the area at all and even though he has met cops that were screaming like Marines throughout the encounter, they do not normally threaten to seize a vehicle and take the driver and passenger to jail – this is the unique issue here. Of course the search demand was because they expected to find drugs.

I have since dialed the non-emergency number for the Hernando County Sheriff's Office and the operator was helpful. She stated that the deputy that made the stop (deputy #1) is Deputy Genovese. She was unable to locate any information for the other deputies or did not offer the information if she did.


To Deputy Genovese with the Hernando County Sheriff's Office:

I have taught my son to always fear cops as truly you are more powerful than the POTUS and capable of absolutely anything. You prove my point. I also taught him to never give a police officer permission to search, no matter that there is nothing illegal or even incorrect in the vehicle. However, when I heard your threat of seizing the vehicle and taking them both to jail, I knew (from your own words) that you are indeed a total prick capable of anything and since we all knew there was nothing illegal in the vehicle, I told my son to agree to any search prior to him hanging-up the phone.

This is the United States and no one should be coerced into a search and threatened as you did to these two late last night (1am). Do you think you own Hernando County? Do you believe that you actually have the authority to tell any motorist to never return to Hernando County? Guess what prick – you don't own shit and I'll drive through Hernando County any fucking time I want to.

My son really feared that you would plant something in the vehicle (drugs). Why did you instruct him to turn around and face your partner so that the vehicle was no longer in his line of vision? That is something I have never run into and it shouldn't be considered legal.


I will offer a short scenario of the events to follow if you had taken them to jail last night:

Of course I would attempt to bond them out immediately, but not knowing anything about how it all works in Hernando County, well, I may or may not have been successful. No matter what, I would have them out on Monday before the morning was over. Each of them would then be filing a false arrest suit against you, the unknown deputies that joined you, and the Sheriff of Hernando County.

This is not a lawsuit worthy encounter and this is the last you'll hear of us Deputy Genovese, but someone needs to take some of your power away. Cops like you are why I have instilled it in my son's mind that he should never trust any cop anywhere for any reason. You really are a fucking prick – you said it.

Recent Surge in Adult Business Prosecutions

Feds Bust Operation in Houston

According to the Houston Chronicle, Feds bust East Houston sex-slave ring

This case is much different than the aforementioned case in that they are alleged to have used girls as young as 14 years-old and have been in business since 1999 and operated in Houston area bars and restaurants. The victims were all Mexican nationals and force, fraud, and coercion are alleged. Sounds like this is a real sex-trafficking case.

Read the press release from the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas:

Human Trafficking Investigation Leads to Indictment and Arrest of 10

“Maria Rojas, aka “Nancy,” 46, a co-owner of the La Costeñita Bar and El Club Restaurante, located at 8403 and 8037 Clinton Drive, respectively, in Houston and her brother, Jose Luis Rojas, 38, who operated the La Costeñita as well as the locations adjacent to the bar located at 8303 Clinton Drive where the prostitution allegedly took place, are charged with conspiring to hold persons in conditions of peonage and recruiting, holding, transporting and providing and obtaining persons for sexual services.”

“The remaining eight defendants, Javier Guevara Belmontes, 46, who also owned, controlled and operated La Costeñita Bar and El Club Restaurante; Maday Martinez, 34, aka “Yvonne” (full name Maday Martinez Lindero), and Evelin Carloine Aguera, 37, alleged managers at La Costeñita Bar and the adjacent property; Claudia LNU (real name: Claudia Perez Ramirez), 27, Silvano Santos, aka “Chivas,” 33, Francisco LNU, aka “Pancho” (real name: Francisco Midardi Maradiaga Jimenez), 33, and Olvan LNU (real name: Olvan Renieri Ramirez Caceres), 25, all of whom allegedly worked at La Costeñita Bar and at the adjacent property as “lookouts” alerting of police presence; and Aleyda LNU (real name: Aleyda Maria Juares), 27, who allegedly charged the young women and minors for condom and use of the rooms at a residence adjacent to the bar are charged along with Maria and Jose Luis Rojas conspiring to harbor illegal aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain.”

I see a world of difference between those two prosecutions.

If you read the article linked in the Houston Chronicle you will understand what I mean when I state that the Russian “sex-trafficking ring” is probably not sex-trafficking at all, at least not in any real sense. The Houston operation is an entirely different story.


Feds in Detroit have been busy

Veniamin Gonikman was indicted over 5 years ago on various counts including sex-trafficking and the feds (ICE) picked him up at JFK International Airport in New York in late January (January 27, 2011). Here is the ICE press release:

ICE most wanted fugitive arrested at JFK on human trafficking charges
Extorted more than $1 million in earnings from victims

“The indictment alleges that Gonikman, along with his co-conspirators, formed and operated Beauty Search as a corporate cover for a human trafficking operation which smuggled and harbored Eastern European women in the United States. The women were exploited and abused by forcing them - through threats, coercion and isolation - to work as exotic dancers for the economic benefit of the Beauty Search partners.”

“Gonikman's associates including his son Aleksandr Maksimenko, Duay Joseph Jado, Evgeniy Prokopenko and Michail Aronovo were previously convicted and sentenced on similar charges. They are currently serving prison sentences ranging from seven to 14 years. Three other defendants in this case were also convicted.”

The Ukraine deported him to the US the day before and according to ICE, Gonikman is a US citizen. Though I have not read the indictment, it looks like a real case of human trafficking, but sometimes the feds exaggerate to extreme so it is hard to tell.


Another bust in my backyard

Palm Bay, Florida police arrested Christy Morrison, owner of Prestige Escort Services based in Melbourne. This was a small operation with ads in the yellow pages in Brevard County, and according to the Florida Today article, Christy was a student at Brevard Community College. She was charged with transporting for the purpose of prostitution and living off the proceeds of prostitution – lucky her; no racketeering charge – still, she has a $50,000 bond.

BCC student accused of managing prostitution ring

My co-defendants were from Brevard County and the state's main informant in my case was also. I'd bet that one of Christy Morrison's competitors had something to do with this arrest – could even be Terri, the informant from hell: Whatever Happened to Ann?

There have been many additional arrests and indictments in the last month including 59 arrests during Super Bowl week in Dallas metro area – one on a human trafficking charge. Read a summary from the Chicago Tribune: 59 arrested in Super Bowl prostitution crackdown

I intend to tackle researching a few more federal prosecutions that I am not mentioning here in the coming week and will post on the topic in short time.

The Feds Won in Miami Companions Case

All parties indicted in the Miami Companions (MC) case have now made guilty pleas in federal court. Greg Carr was the last hold out and his plea was made today. According to Detroit Free Press writer Tresa Baldas, Carr now resides in Orlando. I must wonder why cause there sure ain't nothing here for him; trust me on that. Perhaps they are living in Fabiola's condo in Dr. Phillips area, the one Marco mentioned long ago. The articles:

Guilty plea for owner of Miami escort service

Miami companions co-owner pleads guilty, may get up to 27 months in prison

The article in Detroit Free Press also stated that Greg Carr's girlfriend, Fabiola Contreras also known as Antonella, kissed him on the cheek after he made his guilty plea. How fucking touching – we must wonder how Marco is doing. Gag – now they can all be informants together. I have little doubt that Fabiola Contreras played a significant part in getting Carr to plead in this case.

We all know what I think of informants and snakes: Informants and Snakes

As long as none of them dial me I don't give a rat's arse, and if they do I'll be blogging about it; you could bet your last $ on that - you would get the play by play of the conversation (I'm a great note-taker).

Most Bizarre Racketeering Case Ever

In my last post – Looking Forward in 2011 – I requested than anyone ever hearing of a more malicious racketeering / RICO prosecution with so little evidence that there was no search warrant or court order to wiretap involved to state the case and the court. I invited you to prove me incorrect in my statement that there is no case as ridiculous as the one I endured, and a relative of Philip Furtney came through.

He made no mention of my challenge, but the topic of the email was Philip Leroy Furtney of Ontario from The Bingo Racketeering Case. This man endured more than anyone in any of the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation's (MBI) absurd prosecutions abusing the racketeering statutes. Of course it is an MBI case in Orlando!

To read all about the long plight of Philip Leroy Furtney of Ontario, click on the links below. Mr. Furtney passed in September of 2007. He was described as a passionate man that never gave up.

The Bingo Racketeering Case

The Great Bingo Fiasco

Bingo Case Hearing

The Cost of MBI


May Philip Leroy Furtney of Ontario rest in peace and know that he won the 15-year fight! May agents and prosecutors with the MBI and the State of Florida rot in hell where they all belong.

Looking Forward in 2011

Many that read this blog may consider me negative, or one that views the glass as half empty instead of half full. Is that an understatement? Perhaps as I haven't experienced much good in life since the day of my arrest on November 20, 2001. Yes, the jury acquitted me on both first degree felonies, but it was a day of extreme emotion and not a day of happiness and joy.

They did so much to me. Physical torture would have been more acceptable. It was also the years that led to the arrest. I was literally stalked by agents from the MBI, mainly Brant Rose (retired care of Florida taxpayers shortly after my trial), but he was ordered – a mere soldier in the War on Adult Business that was far from alone. Hell, by the time they arrested me I had no tears left and only anger remained. The tears came only when I was acquitted.

I have never been vindicated; not really. Sure, I am not in a Florida prison for the rest of my life or already dead in one, but that isn't vindication. I appreciate the fact that the jury really listened to the case for the entire two weeks of trial and paid attention to all that I stated in testimony. Still, I was left broken from the experience and clearly it rules all that I do, say, and write – even today, and it has been just over 9 years since arrest. I doubt that this will ever change.

I am still missing pieces of that puzzle. Who ordered the pursuit and arrest? Who is really behind the telephone line blocking that has gone on in Orlando since before I ever entered the picture in late 1992? The blocking has evolved with technology over the years, but like Eddie Munoz in Las Vegas has stated, “When 100,000 + people are in town for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and the phone is ringing two or three times a day, you know you've got a problem.” It falls in the category of too damn obvious and it has for 20 years. That is a long time for a conspiracy to be ongoing.

I asked for answers in Memoirs because I need to finish the puzzle. Of course I have some answers and some educated guesses, but no proof. As far as I am concerned, the conspirators owe me $millions as they do Eddie in Las Vegas and many other escort business operators in Orlando and Las Vegas. There was also evidence of the blocks in several California cities, but I am totally out of touch on that.

The only time I have felt a semblance of vindication was after I discovered Eddie Munoz's various civil suits in state and federal court, and that discovery was in 2009. At least they cannot ridicule me and claim I have no clue what I'm talking about. Eddie and I do not really speak at the moment, but his existence (and many civil suits) saved my sanity and I will forever be thankful for that.

The investigation into the blocks has never ceased for me as I do not believe it has for Eddie Munoz. I doubt that I will be around to collect my $millions when the puzzle is solved, but my son will. He will pursue it in courts until he collects for all the lost money, the damage to his mother, the arrest and created case – every lousy fucking $dollar. Eventually conspiracies are exposed and the conspirators revealed. History is on my side whether time is or not.

The case was based on such flimsy evidence that the MBI and the State of Florida never even had enough evidence to get a wiretap or a search warrant. If any reader is aware of a RICO prosecution based on such a low level of evidence that a judge refused to sign a court order for a wiretap or a search warrant, please do step forward and name the case and the court. It is absolutely unheard of in legal circles. Prove me wrong – please.

So I move forward in 2011 with no more answers than I had in previous years. The anger is still there as is the sense of entitlement – I have paid my dues and I am entitled to answers to the missing pieces of the puzzle. Will I find those answers? We shall see.


Image: Communication Satellite 2009 © Natalia Silych / 2011 © iStockphoto.com

Most Corrupt Place on Earth

Disney is often referred to as the happiest place on earth, which is dubious at best and more likely an outright lie, unless you're a child with wealthy parents. The US is often referred to (by Americans anyway) as the land of the free and the home of the brave and is best known for its quest to spread democracy worldwide these days. You'd better watch out or we'll democratize you next!

To democratize sounds like an evil weapon that eliminates all in its path. Oh wait – it is, at least in the manner it is used today.

I have never encountered corruption as widespread as is obvious today. Everywhere you turn it is scams and bullshit artists disguised as sheep that want to lend a helping hand. The court system – civil and criminal – is one huge scam disguised as law and order in society for the misguided individuals (or wolves) that profit from it, enforce it, and participate in it. They have managed to suck the life out of the intentions of our Founding Fathers.

The creditors should be renamed the predators because that's what they are. The civil court system utilizes judicial assistants and process servers as corrupt as the predators they serve while judges cover their eyes or go golfing and pretend it all doesn't exist while the help rubber stamps their names on any documentation in front of their dirty, corrupt faces.

Anyone that ever believed we would have universal health care in the US should take a look at a home out in the Everglades – the wildlife comes right up to the door and it's so exciting!

I have a chronic health condition that I have dealt with since 1987. It was one of the main reasons I opened an escort service back in 1992 in Orlando. At the time I worked for Mears Transportation as a starter/dispatcher at Orlando International Airport (OIA). Mears is the main transportation company in Orlando and has the contracts to transport guests for Disney outside of Disney property. At the point I decided to open the service I had worked for Mears for 2 ½ years, but only for a year at OIA – I was a driver for the company and was promised health insurance within 90 days of changing positions, and so I did.

I would bother the airport manager monthly until finally I was given the answer that no pre-existing conditions would be covered. Well that's fucking worthless, right? Especially since it wasn't paid for by the company and I would have had money deducted from my barely stretchable paycheck. These people paid me around $8 per hour to deal with the flood of people arriving on the B-1 Delta station and coordinate vans and buses to the US Air B-2 station and the A-side.

I dealt with a radio used to contact the starters on B-2 and A-side, and a landline that rang off the hook from the old guy on B-2, a direct line to downtown dispatch, and of course the hundreds of passengers in front of me that had come from the Delta escalators. Oh, and airport rules were that any Mears passenger had to be off the dock (in a vehicle and out of there) within 20 minutes of initial contact with the Mears station. I won't neglect to mention that the company always ran out of vehicles in the airport between 11am and 1pm – never failed. This was in 1992 and hopefully they have a better grasp on it these days.

So all of that and they couldn't include fucking health insurance. Of course I always worked over 40 hours a week, so they sure couldn't call it part-time as so many businesses do today.

Back then I would have to go to the emergency room and sit for hours to get a refill of my necessary medicine for the chronic health condition. My income was too high (that's a joke) for any free clinic at the time and at $8 per hour, and being a single mom, of course I had no money to pay for lab work and doctor visits. Medicaid? Nope – income too high. They did give my son Medicaid, but it was worthless as no doctor (in the entire phone book) would accept a new patient.

Do you really wonder why I opted to open an escort service and get the hell out of the airport?

It wasn't too long after my arrest and trial that I ran out of medication and the doctors I had been seeing on a cash basis wouldn't refill me anymore without extensive lab work and office visits. They all insisted that the lab work must be done in their office and the lab cost alone was anywhere from $160 to $280, depending on the specific doctor's office I went to. Of course they absolutely fucking needed lab work every 1-3 months because of a claim that my tests were off. Nevermind that I have had to take this medication since 1987, and would have to take it until the day I died. Nevermind that I could actually go into a coma if I didn't take it.

I found a great clinic and a wonderful doctor that I went to for two years until the day they told me they could no longer help me as the contract had been given to this horrible place called the Brevard Health Alliance (BHA). For the entire 18 months that I was stuck going to BHA I never met a doctor, though there is a doctor's name on all the paperwork. I saw a nurse practitioner that was clueless as to what could (and did) happen when she chose to lower my dosage by 1/3 – she was so involved in her sister's condition, which was the opposite of my own, that she viewed slowing all of my organs down as better than speeding them up or attempting to regulate the dosage until the symptoms disappeared. Thanks a fucking lot Deborah Yesowitch and Leslie Hamilton.

Leslie Hamilton actually told me that my opinion didn't matter and that she did not want to hear about all of my symptoms and problems because of the lower dosage. Save the next patient by getting the hell out of medicine Ms. Hamilton. At least Yesowitch did care and believed she was doing the correct thing that was best for me. Someone might want to tell her that having all of your organs slowed to the point that you're sleeping 12 hours a day and feel like you're not even breathing at times isn't all that she might believe it to be.

I cannot neglect to mention that when I first went to BHA they refused to help me even though I was told that I was certainly eligible. They had a guard dog of a bitch in the lobby and I was far from the only one that couldn't get past her. There were lots of complaints, according to a private source. When the ER doctor refused to refill me and told me to go to a doctor's office at great expense, I gave-up and quit taking the medication for my chronic condition. I actually came about as close to a coma as one could get without crossing the line in the four months that followed. Eventually an administrator from the clinic I had gone to previously contacted someone and BHA helped me, but in the manner stated. They were angry from jumpstreet.

After a couple of years of deterioration I moved back to Orlando. For a year I was treated by wonderful doctors that donate their time through Florida Hospital. They treated me without issue. Why? Because it is a free clinic and the doctors donate time and one must sign a form that they understand no lawsuit is possible according to Florida statutes. In Florida a physician that is donating time or helping without compensation cannot be sued. This is fine by me as I never wanted to sue a doctor anyway – I simply needed my stupid medication refilled. Since I no longer reside in Orange County a return is not possible – one must have an Orange County residence. I have considered renting a closet.

So here I am in the same position again today. I did find a cheap place to have the lab work done, so no issue on that. If I chose to go to an ER they would only refill me once and give me a 30-day supply. That is it – again nevermind that it is a medication that I must take until the day I die. Same thing if I went to an Urgent Care clinic – one of those places where you pay $60-100 to see a nurse. One month supply and never come back again. I went to one today, but chose to skip it as one month of pills won't cure any issue in my case.

As a result of being undertreated for so long I'm a great candidate for congestive heart failure and various other organ and endocrine system disorders. Really I have the Brevard Health Alliance to thank for that, but then ultimately I must place the blame on the MBI and the State of Florida. At least I could pay for high dollar insurance or cash doctor visits before they came along and fucked-up my life. The only cure at this point is cash to see an endocrinologist on a regular basis.

The bottom line to all of that is there is definitely better health care in Cuba. So much for freedom and democracy.

I tried a return to booking escort calls, but living an hour away didn't work as for some strange reason the escorts thought I should be donating my time and resources so each could live well. With the exception of one person that wasn't available very often and left the state a while back, each did her best to beat me out of my fees with every call – you really couldn't imagine the wild stories I heard as reasoning. Now they're all on their own – I turned the website into a pay-for-an-ad site and I will never book a call for anyone again, mainly because they just didn't want to pay for my services. If I lived in Orlando and my health was better none would have gotten away with it for a minute. And I dont give a damn if anyone buys an ad or not - they could suffer over in the Backpage ghetto for all I care.

This has turned out to be lengthier than I originally intended. We could call it my rant and to summarize I'll say that 95 out of 100 people that I have encountered in this country are a walking scam, full of shit, a walking incurable disease, and a tiny peg in a corrupt system with no end in sight.

Wikileaks is under attack again. I must imagine that you've read about the federal grand jury in Virginia issuing subpoenas to Twitter and the US DOJ pressuring Facebook and Google. They want the names of supporters and record of all internet activities. Perhaps there is hope for me after all and the US government could be paying for that endocrinologist.

Greetings from the most corrupt place on earth.

More on Former Melbourne FL Cop Frank Carter

One of Carter's fans has posted a new response as “Anonymous” under my last Frank Carter post on this blog: A Discussion about Fired Melbourne Cop Frank Carter


Anonymous stated:

Just my $.02 ,
Defamation" is the general term used internationally, and is used in this article where it is not necessary to distinguish between "slander" and "libel". Libel and slander both require publication.

The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting form, as by spoken words or sounds, sign language, gestures and the like, then this is slander.

Libel is defined as defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures. The law of libel originated in the 17th century in England. With the growth of publication came the growth of libel and development of the tort of libel.

I looked up Dienecia Johnson record:
05/21/2005 NO DRIVER LICENSE
01/25/2006 COUNTY EVICTION
06/11/2006 DRIVING VEHICLE IN UNSAFE CONDITION
06/11/2006 FAILURE TO FURNISH PROOF OF INSURANCE
10/06/2006 TRAFF IN COCAINE 28 BUT LESS THAN 200 GRAMS
10/06/2006 POSS OF CANNABIS W INTENT TO SELL OR DELIVER
10/24/2006 DRIVERS LICENSE NOT CARRIED AND EXHIBITED
11/03/2006 DRIVERS LICENSE NOT CARRIED AND EXHIBITED
11/03/2006 OPER MOTOR VEHICLE WITH UNLAWFUL SOUND MAKING DEVI
05/15/2007 DRIVERS LICENSE NOT CARRIED AND EXHIBITED
07/04/2007 IMPROPER PASSING
07/04/2007 FAILURE TO FURNISH PROOF OF INSURANCE
09/21/2008 OBSCURED TAG
09/27/2009 316.2956.1 OPERATING WITH ILLEGAL SUNSCREENING 02/25/2010 DISMISSED 20098973GDW
09/27/2009 316.2956.1 OPERATING WITH ILLEGAL SUNSCREENING 02/25/2010 DISMISSED 20098972GDW
09/27/2009 316.2956.1 OPERATING WITH ILLEGAL SUNSCREENING 02/25/2010 DISMISSED 20098971GDW
09/27/2009 316.2956.1 OPERATING WITH ILLEGAL SUNSCREENING 02/25/2010 DISMISSED 20098970GDW
09/27/2009 316.2952.2 SIGN OR COVERING ON WINDSHIELD
09/27/2009 316.614.4.B SAFETY BELT VIOLATION OPERATOR
09/27/2009 316.610-C DRIVING VEHICLE IN UNSAFE CONDITION
05/19/2010 PATERNITY/DISESTABLISHMENT
07/30/2010 PATERNITY/DISESTABLISHMENT
10/30/2010 DRIVING W LIC SUSP REV CANC W O KNOWLEDGE
10/30/2010 FAILURE TO FURNISH PROOF OF INSURANCE
She was arrested for selling both cocaine and marijuana. That is fact, not fiction.

Also the FDLE has dropped all of the original charges yet added another. Florida Today paints a different picture.
Then why is there only one charge and not the original 8 or so? False information by the chief given to the FDLE. Also did you see who just retired early? The city manager.

Why would the arrest of Carter inspire so these two to retire?
I'll give you one clue, retirement benefits. They both could be subject to no retirement benefits.
What is Carter's sole charge standing? Giving someone a ticket for a poorly lit license plate. Florida read that a police offer must be able to read it from 50 feet.
Did you know that Florida Today was given the wrong video to post? I do

I responded:

So you want to continue the argument in reference to Carter? No problem.

Libel law in the UK is different from libel laws in the US. You left out one major point - truth is an absolute defense in a libel suit. If this were not the case I probably would have been sued for "Memoirs of an Accused Madam," but it is the case.

Look for my response post later this evening

And here we are again, though this “anonymous” is not the same person as the last “anonymous” as is obvious by the post content; either that or he was drunk when he responded earlier. Once again the victim, Dienecia Johnson, is the one being attacked. Isn't it always that way when a bad cop is seeking some absurd defense for his actions?

First let's again address Dienecia Johnson's arrest record, specifically the statement that, “ She was arrested for selling both cocaine and marijuana. That is fact, not fiction.”

No shit Sherlock. As I stated in the blog post that you responded to, the case was DROPPED by PROSECUTORS. Furthermore, the case had to be incredible – she was released on her own recognizance. Even the judge knew it was bullshit. So Ms. Johnson experienced a false arrest – this is a point against Carter, and you're not doing a great job at defense buddy.

In so far as the rest of that list of crap charges goes, I am well aware of how bad cops work. When they have no real reason for a traffic stop, they simply create one. How in the hell could anyone know she didn't have her driver's license in her wallet before pulling her over? There was no other charge in several of the listed cases making it clear that she was being harassed.

In a few of the cases there was the usual bullshit charge: obscured tag; sign or covering on windshield; and driving vehicle in unsafe condition. Obscured tag my ass – someone needs to get some glasses if he cannot see a tag with one of the two tag lights out.

My son was pulled over for the same crap by a whacko overzealous Cocoa P.D. officer several years ago. The jerk then used this to write a ticket for “running a red light” and held my son for over 30 minutes while waiting on the dogs – they were busy in Melbourne. Needless to say my son took the red light ticket to court and was found “not guilty” because right on red at that particular intersection was absolutely normal. Hint – he took photos of the intersection to court. As if any of this would give him probable cause for a vehicle search! (lucky for whacko cop the dogs were busy in Melbourne)

Obviously you are a cop, and perhaps you're Frank Carter – I have no idea – but if you do not have anything better to do than harass motorists in your sector, then Melbourne P.D. needs to toss your ass as well.

I do not pretend to know anything about videos given to Florida Today. I do know that Frank Carter is an overzealous whack cop that harassed Black motorists in his sector for far too many years. People in that area were petrified of him. I'm not in that area or I would have seen his bad cop ass in court long before.

You have the audacity to bring-up a drug charge that was dropped by prosecutors a while back? Denecia Johnson should be filing suit for false arrest. All of that bullshit traffic crap is exactly that – do not pretend she ever harmed anyone, had an accident, or actually did anything whatsoever wrong. Your list merely shows the many times that the woman has been a Carter victim.

In so far as libel goes – truth is an absolute defense in a libel suit. If you (or Carter) believes differently, then file away. I am not your typical victim and I will see your bad ass in court.