Greetings to the  Esteemed Members of the Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council,

I cite the Mission Statement for the Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council  -

"To continuously review the system response to domestic violence and to identify and implement improvements to the system through policy development".

My name is Gordon Smith. You may remember me from several years ago. It was during that time that I fell victim to a serial false allegations artist....a malicious criminal  in every sense of the word--a criminal who would be aided and abetted by the system that you oversee, in the allocation of taxpayer money each and every year. From 2010 - to August 28, 2012 , as an innocent man, I would be terrorized and subjected to 9 arrests, resulting in 25 criminal charges on my record, which can put a bit of a damper on career aspirations.   I would face homelessness, 5 PFA's during this period.  End of sob story.  On August 28, 2012, some 2 hours after Judge Lou Ann Vari granted her favorite fraudulent victim yet another PFA, her malicious lust not yet quenched, she would go to her home, write threats, scratch her body with a sharp instrument, get into her car , drive her car directly across from Wild Quail Subdivision in broad day light, stripped down to her panties, where she would lie on the side of the road screaming that she was beaten, sexually assaulted and named me as being responsible for the attack.

Now bear in mind, from previously writing terroristic notes to herself and leaving them on her doorstep, car and framing me for it, I was subjected to a court ordered GPS Ankle Bracelet.  This would prove to be the mechanism that proved I was innocent, and she the quintessential "victim," was a malicious fraud. Ironically, had I not had this monitoring device strapped to my ankle, I would have been prosecuted for this alleged violent crime, which I did not commit. A Karmic Redemption:  On September 1, 2012 she would be arrested for multiple counts of filing false police reports and providing false information to the police.

By the efforts of Executive Director of DELGIS Peggy Bell and Senator Dave Lawson, and Representative Mike Ramone, the 25 charges were expunged from my record, with the State of Delaware waiving the fee for each of the expunged charges. Oh, and by the way, with the light now shining for the world to see, Judge Vari would, with greatest of angst, be compelled to grant a PFA against her favorite "victim" whom she had aided and abetted for over two years. I am the only male in the history of Delaware who had a PFA granted based exclusively on the emotional abuse resulting from false allegations.

I overcame your immoral and corrupt system. The river flows....life move on....Fast forward four years

I now live in Florida, work as a Security Professional and am married to literally the most amazing woman in the world. I did not end up serving years in James T. Vaughn Correctional Institute for crimes I did not commit. I overcame you and the criminal you, the Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council abetted.

What my experience revealed in the most clear fashion was that your system is incredibly flawed, to the extent that your system would allow one individual to squander court, police, prosecutors resources, free rent, free furniture with literally hundreds of thousands of tax payer money, torturing an innocent man and alienating him as a father to his two sons.

DAG Kenneth Haltom and the power structure of the Delaware DOJ sought to make this "victimless crime" go away as expeditiously as possible. It was an embarrassment to your system, showing what happens when you allow allegations and witch hunts to take precedence over due process, and perpetuate your "we don't want to frighten other women from coming forward" mantra.

She pled guilty, and DAG Kenneth Haltom allowed her to get off with just one year probation.

Yes, it was egregious what I went through.  But what is even more so egregious, is the fact that you defy your own mission statement,  Instead of  learning from this situation, and taking measures to improve , you essentially ignored it and silently applauded as DAG Haltom skillfully swept it under the rug. Your former Chairperson and former Senate President Pro Tempore Patricia Blevins refused to allow SB 99 to see the light of day. This Bill, introduced with bi-partisan support sought to address the issue of false allegations and perjury in Family Court.

Your collective actions are more in line with that of a cartel that seeks to protect its cash flow than that of the morally superior Council you purport to be. Disgraceful.

Sincerely,

Gordon Smith

Another Story From The Delaware Domestic Violence Cartel

If happened to me, it could have happened to any average person residing in your state.
Of what do I speak? The State of Delaware operates hand in hand with those who devise and make false allegations for reasons of custody, divorce, or just plain sociopathic maliciousness.
The lawyers, legislators and law enforcement in your state could care less. Its all about politics, federal funding and career enhancement.

The State, through its various agencies, rewards and enables the actual perpetrators.  It is nothing less than state sponsored racketeering, under the guise of "protection." They are indeed creating victims for federal funding.

My ex wife (the perpetrator) was arrested September 1, 2012, and charged with multiple counts of filing fabricated police reports.  In the last of these, she faked an "attack" on herself, with the intent of framing me for it. She accepted a plea deal offered by the State.

Scot Husbands - former Delaware educator was acquitted of  child molestation.  This acquittal occurred even though the Delaware Department of Justice threw everything they could to try to ignore and wit hold exculpatory evidence in their attempt to convict an innocent man.

You would think they  would learn from cases such as these, and attempt to correct their ways. Not so.  In fact , to the contrary, what they actually do is try new ways to circle the wagons in attempt to insulate and protect this maligned system.

Joe Faulkner was in bed asleep when his ex girlfriend allegedly received a FB message from a newly created photo-less (of course) profile, with Joe's name attached to it. In this message, the person (implication Joe) was issuing threats on the life of the ex girlfriend.

She would report this to the Delaware State Police.  The next day, a warrant would be issued for Joe's arrest.  This would occur without any investigation, by the way.  Of course, it is possible to acquire the exact location from which the FB account and message originated..  The DOJ knows this.  All that is required from FB is a subpoena from a government agency (Delaware DOJ)  to acquire the exact IP address of the FB account and message. This could have either exonerated or implicated Joe in the alleged FB terroristic threatening allegation.

Joe's repeated requests were - of course - denied, citing "out of scope".

The DAG would eventually drop the charges against Joe, but with no resolution as to who sent the fabricated FB message, in an attempt to frame him for terroristic threatening.
I'm sure--as is the pattern--the perpetrator of the fraudulent terroristic note will continue in their attempts, feeling now more emboldened to continue with no fear of scrutiny.

Again, the DOJ refused to issue the subpoena that could, in all probability, clear up in its entirety as to who sent it.

Who knows?  Maybe they did acquire this information from FB, but the identity of the person just didn't fit the pre-conceived narrative they were after.
 Of course all of this is business as usual, unless it happens to you.
The DV Cartel continues its trade.





Gordon Smith

"35% Of Domestic Violence Incidents Involved a Violent Act" Wait! What?

The Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council (DVCC) is a state agency created by an act of legislation in the 1990's. The main purpose of this state agency was to facilitate the allocation of federal and state money to the various agencies that are placed under their umbrella to address the issue of domestic violence.
Each fiscal year, the DVCC publishes their Annual Report which highlights specific data regarding initiatives and statistical information throughout the state regarding domestic violence.
I was looking through the report and this particular piece of data caught my eye​
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"In FY 2016, 35% of domestic violence incidents involved a violent act."

I  read it and re-read it, just to make sure I was accurately seeing these exact words.  I thought, "Surely, this has to be a typo!"  But, it wasn't.
This was the equivalent of saying -  35% "bank robbery incidents involved an act of robbery,  or 35% of automobile theft incidents involved an incident of theft.
So essentially 2 out of 3 of your defintion of domestic violence involves no act of violence?
Ludicrous, right?  With any other "crime," or study thereof, this type of asinine data would not be allowed to pass as public policy. But, because legislators are afraid of being labeled as soft on domestic violence, no one--not Republican, nor certainly not Democrat--ever dare question policy creation, or the ear marked allocated funds to the multiple state agencies.

From Legislative Hall to the DOJ, in cartel fashion, the DDVCC has created a perfect circle of protection for their promotion of illegitimate DV polices and funding allocations.
A clear example of this was during last years legislative session for the time in the history of the State Legislature, a bill
(SB 99) was introduced to confront and address the dirty little secret of the DDVCC - the State through tax payer money was rewarding false allegations of domestic violence - What the bill essentially said was perjury, false police reports, false allegations were criminal acts and should/would be treated as such.
The Bill would be "tabled" in committee or in other words thrown in the Legislative waste basket.
This type of legislative power and control is used under the guise of "protecting" victims but in reality it's primary focus is in protecting their well doctored numbers.

Domestic Violence does happen.  But, it is disingenuous, and down right criminal, the way the DDVCC has been able to erode due process, and perpetuate myth over facts.

The very powerful 18 member council operates above any eye of critique, and has successfully redefined, expanded and diluted the very definition of domestic violence--in that hurt feelings could fit into its (quite often) unquantifiable denotation of the crime of domestic violence.

It does not take a proverbial Einstein to see the -  "35% of domestic violence incidents involved a violent act"  from the annual report clearly show something is not quite right. 
If 2 out of 3 incidents of Domestic Violence involve no act of violence, it may be time to redefine the term in today"s politically correct landscape. 

Gordon Smith

HB 141 and the Judicial Objectivity of Madam Judge Vari

HB 141: This Act authorizes the Family Court to interview a child outside the presence of the parties for the purpose of obtaining the child's testimony and ascertaining the truth of a matter asserted by a party to a Protection from Abuse proceeding.
[HB141 2017 Detail][HB141 2017 Text][HB141

The above proposed bill sounds harmless enough, a bill that officially gives the a Family Court Judge the authority to speak privately with a child to determine the truthfulness of one parent's claim of domestic violence.

But the problem is not so much a question of the good intentions of the proposed statute, but it is the caliber of a certain Family Court Judge and her ability to execute proper Judgment in the courtroom.

August 28, 2012 - I cite (then) the "Honorable"Commissioner Lou Ann Vari:

I would stand accused of acts of Domestic Violence in the context of a Protection Order Hearing inside the Court room of Lou Ann Vari.

To prove my innocence, I subpoenaed the Dover Police Office who investigated the August 13, 2012 incident where it was reported to police that the subject had found a terroristic note written in a cryptic fashion with my name on the back of it - the note stated I was going to kill her.

The investigating Dover Police Officer concluded in his report that he believed she (the subject) fabricated the incident and he intended on arresting her for falsely reporting an incident to policed.

During the Hearing this Officer gave sworn testimony to this fact.

 Lou Ann Vari did the unthinkable:  she completely disregarded the Dover Police Officer's investigative findings and his sworn testimony, and would rule in favor of the accuser - the individual that the Police Offer had determined through probable cause, to be a fraud.

It gets better.  Three hours later, this accuser would (according to Police records) go home, and write another terroristic note. This time , however, she would use her own body as the stationery.   No, really.  She would take a marker and write--on her own body--life threatening words of terror, my initials and also scratch superficial marks on her body as well. She would then drive out across the road in front of Wild Quail Subdivision, strip down to just her underwear and fake an attack and attempt to implicate me as the attacker.

Now bear in mind this creator of fraudulent terroristic notes is the same person that Lou Ann Vari would define as her victim and would actually take the word of,  over that of a stellar Dover Police Officer who had conducted an actual investigation into the alleged incident.

Long story short - Four days later. Lou Ann Vari's "victim" would be arrested for the filing of false police reports and providing false information to police officers. I would be ultimately vindicated as the victim of the State and their false allegations artist.

But this redemption would not occur before being violently apprehended by a Law Enforcement and detained in a holding cell  for almost two hours, this, without absolutely no clue whatsoever why I was being subjected to this treatment.

From my documented experience, I can say without a doubt Judge Lou Ann Vari's  actions in my case were disgraceful, she is biased and incompetent.

The thought of her interviewing a child in private to "determine the truthfulness of one parents claim of domestic violence" is disturbing.

Gordon Smith

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Not Guilty: The Story of Scot Husbands

The State of Delaware is a perfect synthesis of corruption and incompetence. I could bore you with countless articles and independent studies which would bolster and confirm this commonly known assertion as fact. But, I will refrain and allow you (if you choose) to research it for yourself.

One of many examples is the Scot Husbands story:
Scot earned his graduate degree from Delaware State University.
A professional educator.
Worked his way up to Assistant Principal in Milford Delaware.
An impassioned supporter of his son and daughter in their athletic pursuits.

In the initial stages of his marriage dissolution, Scot was accused by three of his estranged wife's good friends of inappropriately touching their daughters at a sleep over.
The State of Delaware would throw all of its big artillery at Scot in what they were sure would be a slam dunk case for the State.
A year later, after losing his job as Assistant Principal, unable to acquire and gainful employment due to the pending charges and facing ostracism in his home community, a jury of 9 women and 3 men would sit and painstakingly listen to all of the evidence against Scot.
This jury of Scot's peers would find him Not Guilty.


Scot would not be sent to prison for 20 years. He could leave that court room a "free man".
So one would think. He would learn that being found "not guilty" in Delaware doesn't mean what you think it would. Restoration, redemption and getting one's life back together? No, not in Delaware you still have to fight a systemic injustice that cares not you were acquitted of all charges.
Scot would still face community persecution and ostracism. After his acquittal on three separate occasions Scot would be denied expungement of the charges of child molestation.
He would also have his teachers certification taken from him.
Thus, leaving him handicapped in his attempt to start life over again.
It seems society is more than happy to accept guilty decisions that are made by juries but somehow refuse to accept a jury's decision of not guilty with these type of cases. Its as if the presumption of innocence and the rule of law operate as proverbial myths in our society, instead reverting to base and vile nature of witch hunting as a de facto policy.

Tragic cases like Scots are definitely not unheard of, I cite the case of Tonya Craft, the Kindergarten teacher from Georgia who faced charges of fondling some of her female students.
She was acquitted and successfully sued all of those involved in her false allegations.
Locally, Family Law Commission member and Sussex County resident Lynn Kokjohn once stated in a 2010 Family Law Commission meeting that "False Allegations of child abuse have become the weapon of choice in custody battles."
A silver bullet , if you will.
We must resist the tendency to follow the ever popular witch hunt principle but instead embrace the principle of the rule of law.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/8/19/306473/Tonya-Craft-To-Tell-Her-Story-Of.aspx

https://nationalparentsorganization.org/blog/7880-tonya-craft-declares-7880

Gordon Smith

Ashley Biden - Stop Cherry Picking Public Policy

The Executive Director of the Delaware Center for Justice, and the daughter of (former) Vice President Joe Biden , at a recent fund raising event was asked - 'What do we need to do as it relates to Justice?"
Ms.  Biden believes it starts with recognizing the root of violence: poverty.  And she added that her agency - Delaware Center for Justice - seeks to utilize a holistic approach to confronting the issue of violence.
Although, some professionals would debate her belief, they, referencing such theories as Conflict Theory, Structural Functional Theory, getting tougher on crime, etc as the root causes of violence, but, nevertheless, poverty playing a definite role in the cause of violence.

I have found many times, as it pertains to the elusive search for  "justice," it is not so much  what we say or what we do , but it is what we ignore and/ or do nothing about a particular issue.
Such as Ms. Biden as she cites a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, she concluded that the “majority of crime are committed young males between the ages of 15 and 30.”
Statistically, this may be true, but something that I find ironic, if not down right disingenuous, is for Ashley Biden to reference the CDC study as a her source. But, when it comes to addressing Domestic Violence, both she (DCJ), her father (Sponsor of Violence Against Women Act), Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council and the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence ignore the same reputable agencies (CDC) findings that -

" According to a 2010 national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Justice, in the last 12 months more men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence and over 40% of severe physical violence was directed at men. Men were also more often the victim of psychological aggression and control over sexual or reproductive health. Despite this, few services are available to male victims of intimate partner violence."

http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-women-victims-of-partner-abuse/

In fact, in the seven years since this study came out, no one from these agencies has dared even mention these "inconvenient findings".
Why?
Because, all of their DV federal grants, funding, etc are directly linked to female victims, and earmarked for such.
The acknowledgement of female perpetrators, male victims and a system skewed to reward false allegations would greatly complicate their narrative, and consequentially, their unabridged carte blanche utilization of tax payer money.

Whether it is street violence or domestic violence it is infinitesimally counter-productive to the good of society to choose certain facts and ignore others based upon how well the findings fit your particular narrative. Stop cherry picking with public policy.

Gordon Smith
Port Orange , Fl. (Formerly Felton, De)


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Biden Abusive Marriage Shows Clear Double Standard

Mr. Biden,
 Real life has a way of teaching us things that neatly packaged narratives fall short of accomplishing. For instance, the dysfunctional and subsequent dissolution of your youngest son's (Hunter Biden) marriage is clear proof of the hypocrisy and double standard of your Domestic Violence policies.

You see, according to your (former) daughter - in law Kathleen Buhle Biden, Hunter engaged in activity that, in Delaware would be legally construed as Domestic Violence.
 In the Delaware Code below, I have high lighted below the three specific tenets which could be applicable to Hunter Biden's actions:.

Mrs. Kathleen Buhle Biden claims he squandered the couple's money on drugs, alcohol and prostitutes since the couple separated in 2015.
She asked a Washington, D.C. judge to order Hunter Biden to stop spending the couple's remaining assets imploring -
"Throughout the parties' separation, Hunter Biden has created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women whom he has sexual relations) while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills,outstanding debts described  as "shocking and overwhelming, and tax debt of more than $313,000."

Also, according to Court Records Kathleen Biden was so concerned regarding Hunters behavior on the the night of the 4th of July 2015, she asked him to leave the couple's Washington, D.C. home.

While a Senator from Delaware, Joseph Biden would be the driving force behind legislation such as the one above that sharpened the teeth of civil statues which some argue have been exploited for draconian purposes within the frame work of marital disputes.
He would continue this crusade as Vice President as well. But, it is enlightening to see the completely different response by Mr. Joseph Biden when it is his youngest son who is the subject of bad domestic behavior. A "private matter" we are told.


Hunter Biden - here is some insight for you: If you did not exist in a protected and well insulated environment and were a regular nondescript citizen of Delaware, you would be the subject of a Protection From Abuse order. Such a double standard.

Gordon Smith
Port Orange , Fl.
Survivor of the Delaware System

The Super Bowl Domestic Violence Hoax Continues Even in the Most Sacred Places

I was sitting in a capacity crowd church located in the state of Delaware the Sunday before Superbowl Sunday a few years ago. This was my first time in attendance, and I was there at the invitation of a friend who attended the church.
The congregation was was warm and friendly, and the music was beautiful. However, during the corporate prayer portion of the service, one of the staff ministers stood behind the pulpit to lead the congregation in prayer. Before she began the corporate soliloquy, she said something that--quite literally--hit me like a ton of bricks.
She implored that we remember that Superbowl Sunday was the one day in which the most acts of Domestic Violence would occur, and to please pray for those women caught in the throes of this national plague.
When I heard this, I nearly fell out out of the pew. Due to my past experiences with state-sponsored false allegations, it was extremely disconcerting for me to actually hear this "noble lie," this myth propagated in a house of worship  during its time of prayer.  You see, this very sincere but misinformed individual was perpetuating one of the many myths regarding Domestic Violence -
"The Great Super Bowl Hoax"

This myth ironically began the same year--1993--that (then) Senator Joseph Biden would sponsor Legislation to ratify the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) into law . The myth would spread like wild fire throughout the media. It has long ago been debunked, but continues to serve the purpose of radical feminist in their portrayal of the average guy as a violent predator and a product of a toxic pathological masculinity

Christina Hoff Sommers, American Enterprise Institute resident scholar and equity feminist, tracked the rumor from its inception and, along with such journalists as Washington Post reporter Ken Ringle, demonstrated that despite the hysteria, women have never been in any greater danger on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day.
Sommers explained that while such dramatizations may serve a purpose for some activists, domestic violence is too serious a problem for such exaggerations and opportunism.
See also:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-02-03-sommers04_st_N.htm

Whether through deliberate ingenuousness or sincere gullibility, the end result is the same:  the perpetuation of a "noble lie" for the furtherance of one's cause -some might even call it propoganda.

Gordon Smith
Port Orange, Florida (Formerly Felton, Delaware)
302-242-0299

How Delaware's Domestic Violence Policy Creates Monsters

Regarding the following account, I have the actual police reports and other official documents to completely verify its authenticity and complete veracity

On August 28, 2012, inside the Kent County Family Court, Commissioner Lou AnnVari would grant a Protection From Abuse (PFA) Order against me, the Defendant.
I, the Defendant, was accused of all types of malicious behavior--primarily the act of writing terroristic notes to my ex wife, threatening the lives of both my ex wife and my two sons.
This PFA would be granted despite the fact that I would have a Dover Police Officer subpoenaed and testify to the fact that on August 13, two weeks earlier, he had investigated the first of  the three terroristic notes. As a result of his investigation, he determined that she (ex wife) had fabricated the entire terroristic note incident.  In other words, she had written the note herself, and attempted to frame me.

At the conclusion of said PFA Hearing, the victorious Petitioner, would (according to Police reports) drive home take some form of writing utensil, write my initials, and various forms of threats and profane curse upon her body. She would at some point take some sort of sharp object and scratch parts of her body giving herself superficial wounds. She would then proceed to Westville Road, park her car on the side of the road directly across from the affluent Wild Quail neighborhood, strip down to just her underwear, lie face down in a ditch screaming for help until passer-by's stopped to render assistance to this individual lying face down in a ditch, essentially naked. She told law enforcement that I was responsible for the attack.

I had just pulled in to the parking lot of the Camden Texas Roadhouse and parked my car, when suddenly I was ripped from my vehicle by a law enforcement officer, There were four law enforcement present, one with a gun drawn pointed right at my center mass.
I was placed in the back of a patrol car, verbally berated, taken to Delaware State Police Troop 3, partially stripped, and placed in a jail cell where I  spent approximately one hour and thirty minutes.. In this condition, not knowing why I was kidnapped by law enforcement and placed in a jail cell,
I was horrified.

How were they able to ascertain my exact location to successfully affect their kidnapping of an innocent man? On August 19, 2012, another law enforcement officer would respond to her second attempt to frame me by fabricating a terroristic note (the first one August 13) he would disregard the previous officers findings that she fabricated the entire incident and he wanted to arrest her but the DOJ wanted him to hold off. The latter officer would have a warrant issued for my arrest and a condition of my $4,600.00 bail, I was placed on pre-trial supervision (Probation), issued a Probation Officer and forced to submit to a GPS Ankle Bracelet to monitor my location 24 hours a day.

She was unaware of the GPS. On August 24, she would write another terroristic note and place it on her windshield at an eating establishment. Within minutes, Law enforcement was able to confirm it was not me. I was nowhere near the location. I, thankfully was not arrested but she experienced no scrutiny, nor any negative repercussions.

Back to August 28 and her bizarre attempt to frame me for her fabricated attack  on the side of a busy road across from the affluent Wild Quail community in broad daylight.
 The GPS essentially saved me (as an innocent man) from prosecution and she, the fraudulent victim, would be arrested on September 1 on four counts of filing false police reports and providing false information law enforcement. She would plead guilty and the Attorney General seeing this as an embarrassment would allow her to a plea deal in which she was sentenced to a mere one year probation. This expedited the process, swept it under the rug and kept media coverage at a minimum.

This encapsulates a disturbing de facto systemic policy in the State of Delaware called
No prosecution for females who in all probability make false allegations of domestic violence"

There is no better example of this distorted Judicial activism than (former) Commissioner and current Family Court Judge Lou Ann Vari's blatant disregard for a law enforcement officer's sworn testimony that his investigation concluded she was a fraud and had fabricated the whole "terroristic note" incident.

This de facto policy of laissez faire for false allegations of domestic violence is a perversion of the rule of law that encourages malicious individuals to exploit and fraudulently use Protection Orders in Family Court. This results in the waste of tax payer money, police resources, court resources, prosecution of the innocent and creates irreparable damage through Parental Alienation.

You would think after such an egregious case as this, steps would have been taken on the legislative level to prevent others from experiencing the nightmare of state-sponsored false allegations, but sadly not a damn thing has been done to address this perversion of the rule of law. I have have redemption, exoneration and vindication but my story is but the tip of the ice berg in the state of Delaware.

Gordon Smith
302-242-0299

How To Get Appointed Delaware Family Court Judge?

What particular skill set is needed to be appointed Family Court Judge in Delaware?
Apparently, heading an Agency that the US DOJ Inspector General determined that $829,000 of tax payer money was essentially unaccounted for, citing theft and gross mismanagement as the causes.

At the end of the article I have provided the actual investigation and the results thereof.

James Mcgiffin was appointed as Judge in the Kent County Family Court last year.
He worked for the (Delaware) Community Legal Aid Society (CLASI) for a total of 27 years as Senior Staff Attorney and the Executive Director  from 1998 - 2005.


Over a four year period, the agency he directed - the Delaware Community Legal Aid Society received $891,000.00 in Federal grant money (tax payer), this dispensed by the Office of the Violence Against Women in Washington, D.C. (OVW) .

The OVW is the Federal Agency that is responsible for facilitating, allocating and distributing Federal funding to individual states and the respective agencies within the state.

The purpose of this particular OVW grant program was to provide legal services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking. The objective of the CLASI grant was to provide legal representation to victims in family court matters, including divorce and divorce-related matters, and other matters related to domestic violence

In 2010, the United States Department of Justice Inspector General conducted an official audit regarding the Federal Funds received from the Office of the Violence Against Women (OVW).
The audit covered the start of the initial grant award period in July 2005 to the closure of the final grant in September 2009.
During the time that James Mcgiffin was both the Senior Staff Attorney and the Executive Director of the Agency, there was a mystery as to how $829,000 dollars allocated to the his Agency was spent.
The US DOJ Inspector General determined there was documented theft and gross mismanagement, of which the Agency had become entangled.

The following are actual excerpts from the US DOJ Inspector General investigation:


The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Audit Division, has completed an audit of an Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program award, grant number 2005-WL-AX-0056, awarded to the Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI). Between July 2005 and September 2007, OVW awarded CLASI a total of $891,422 distributed through a grant and two supplements.

Because of the deficiencies identified,
we are questioning $829,340 of grant funded expenditures, or 93 percent of
the grant award, as unsupported and unallowable expenditures.

We determined that CLASI was in material non-compliance with the grant requirements we tested. Specifically, we reviewed CLASI’s compliance with eight essential grant conditions and found material weaknesses with its internal control environment, grant expenditures, monitoring of contractors, and budget management and control. Because of the deficiencies identified, we are questioning $829,340 of grant funded expenditures,

The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Audit Division, has completed an audit of an Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program award, grant number 2005-WL-AX-0056, awarded to the Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI). Between July 2005 and September 2007, OVW awarded CLASI a total of $891,422 distributed through a grant and two supplements.

Finding 07-3 Payroll Reconciliations – “…the payroll clerk was both recording and preparing the monthly reconciliations. [Because of turnover] during the year, and in response, the payroll clerk assumed greater responsibility. However, if payroll reconciliations are performed by individuals who have the ability to post payroll disbursement activities to the general ledger, the effectiveness of the control may be compromised.”

 Finding 07-4 Management Approval of payroll – “…the organization did not have a member of management approve the information that was submitted to the payroll company by the payroll clerk. Not having an approval of this information increases the risk of fraudulent activity within the payroll department. This condition was directly related to lack of risk assessment policies and internal control deficiencies within the organization. The ultimate effect of this deficiency was fraudulent activity within the payroll department.”

 Finding 07-5 Misappropriation of Funds – “…the payroll clerk overpaid herself a gross amount of $6,860.79. These overpayments were noted in four pay periods, May, July, September and December. In the employee termination-of-employment letter dated April 11, 2008, the organization identified all of the amounts misappropriated, the reasons for misappropriations and the dates of fraudulent activity. [The auditors] reviewed the documentation relating to the pending litigation and noted that the amounts agree to this termination letter. Per discussions with management and review of internal controls, the auditors noted that the reason this was possible was due to a lack of internal control within the business department. During the periods when the business department had appropriate personnel to adhere to internal control policies, the employee was unable to misappropriate funds. During the course of the audit, the former employee was found guilty of five of seven counts for misappropriation of funds.”

 Finding 07-6 Stale Checks – “…there were several stale checks being reported on the bank reconciliations. Stale checks are payments that have been outstanding for greater than 60 days. This situation occurred because there has been no policy in place during previous years to write off amounts.

Finding 07-16 Payroll Grant Allocations – “The employee who was performing this process was terminated on April 6, 2008. New Business Office personnel are following the procedure to correctly allocate time reported on timesheets to the grants.”

This following excerpt is a biggie the leadership of the Delaware Community Legal Aid Society was required to report any problems or issues experienced with the proper dissemination of the grant money. They, in essence kept the information from the OVW:

"We asked CLASI officials about whether any incidents of fraud or any other illegal acts or irregularities occurred during the period of the OVW grant we reviewed. We were told about a misappropriation of funds not specific to the OVW grant that involved unauthorized payroll disbursements made by a CLASI employee. CLASI officials identified the fraud and took appropriate actions to address the issue. We discussed this issue with OVW and determined that it was not aware of this misappropriation, nor was CLASI designated as a high-risk grantee as a result of such an issue. According to an OVW official, “OVW is in the process of inquiring as to why CLASI did not make the high-risk list which would have been a factor considered in determining their grant award. At the very least, their award would have contained the high-risk conditions.”

Yes indeed, welcome to the First State.

G.


https://oig.justice.gov/grants/2010/g7010005.pdf

Pedophile Judge William C. Bradley Has Been Served In Tax Payer Lawsuit

"On or about the evening of Dec. 28, 1975 and Dec. 29, 1975, while present in my home located in Townsend, Delaware, I molested Gregory Kelly, then age 11, through inappropriate sexual contact. I deeply regret any harm I have caused to Gregory Kelly and his family."

Judge William C. Bradley (bottom right).

Greg Kelley Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGFjUPVlKhA

A friend of mine has waged a war for truth and justice in the State of Delaware. He has gone against a nasty and corrupt system of Delaware Justice. The Delaware Attorney General's Office allowed an admitted Pedophile of two, with dozens of others prepared to come forward, completely escape prosecution and any accountability, with the exception of losing his six figure Judge's job, of course.
No Sex Offenders Registry for the Judge, but a hefty Retirement Pension.
On New Years Eve, this friend that I refer to has successfully had the former Judge served papers in a Tax Payer Lawsuit. This Lawsuit is based upon the fact that the Judge was allowed to live quite comfortably on tax payer money, this despite the fact he has molested little boys in Delaware.

This friend I speak of, despite lower Delaware Court denials, has also filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that a warrant be issued for the arrest of the Pedophile Judge.

The point is, the man was politically connected and should have been investigated, at minimum, in the 1990's when Greg Kelley sought to expose. The establishment "Justice system showed itself to be a disgrace to the very term "Justice".

Background:

1969 -1974:
 He (Judge Bradley) either worked with or had strong ties to the same Wilmington, Delaware Law Firm that the current Vice President Joseph Biden was a partner with.


1974 -1976:
William C. Bradley was appointed and worked as the Legal Counsel for Delaware Governor Sherman Tribbitt.
William C. Bradley admitted to sexually molesting the 11 year old Greg Kelley in 1975, while he was working as the Legal Counsel for the Governor of Delaware.

1976:
William C. Bradley was appointed as a Judge in the State of Delaware

1998:
As an adult, Greg Kelley would report his experience as a victim of child molestation to the Delaware State Police and the Attorney Generals Office. He would be ignored.

2009:
No Law Firm in Delaware will take Greg Kelley's case and several prominent law firms are hostile to Greg in his quest for the truth to be brought to light, actually issuing threats to him.
The local media are completely silent, in essence a media blackout.

2010:
Greg Kelley was able to find a young out of State Attorney from Pennsylvania - Brian Kent
Attorney Mason Turner, whom Bradley had worked with in the 70's represented Judge William C. Bradley. Initially, Mason was resistant to the legal proceedings but when some 25 other child victims were set to come forward, Mason Turner and his client William Bradley saw the handwriting on the wall and quickly moved to settle the two cases.
He is subsequently disbarred and retires. He will not be placed on a Registry to ensure the safety of other children but will simply subsist on a very nice tax payer provided pension.

2016:
Since 2010 - The Delaware Attorney General's Office has fought tooth and nail to prevent one other alleged victim's story from getting out and have fought his every effort to file a Law Suit and thus far have been successful in their disgusting effort to suppress the individuals quest for recourse.

Gordon Smith