Bennett's Litigation Score Card - If you've ever lost a case in Contra Costa County

The Contra Costa District Attorney
Murder for Hire 

Updated: Nov. 11, 2017 

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Around 1979 I got my first dose of litigation.  
After a few court room losses I got better at running my business and by 1985 things were better.  

In a nutshell my litigation history four murders near me and/my case or my attorneys

 

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Litigation Scorecard

1. Bennett V. Southern Pacific - Forced Adverse Settlement 
1. Bennett's cabinet shop attacked with break-ins, shootings and arson - Bennett loses business 
2. Fang v. Bennett 1987 - down the middle losses over $35,000 
1. Fang Murdered in 2000 
2. Bennett as Witness suppressed by Lt. Lawrence  refused to take statement  
3. Bennett V. Collins - Danville Police and Town of Danville hid Collins from service 
1. Documents handed to Chief Bryden on Nov 1st 2011 incriminating police officers, attorneys, and investigators plus Collins 
2. Weeks Later CNET Witness Collins is dead plus two other divorces - Collins knows Butler, and Tanabe from Danville PD  Murder By Accident 
4. Tarrant v. Bennett - Counsel Dax Craven - lied that he knew my ex-wife (Mormon)
5. Charter Collections v. Authentic Technologies - Don Moats - disbarred but Moats offices burned down in 2001 - FBI investigated case too bad for Walnut Creek Police 
6. Bennett hit with restraining orders by San Ramon Unified School District 
7. Bennett's attorney in Collins matter beaten, threatened and left the area 
8. Bennett's Attorney Moats wife murdered in Walnut Creek 1989
9. Bennett's Attorney Dax Craven brother in-law Nate Greenan murdered on April 18th 2012 in Orinda

Other cases known to Bennett 

1. Portue v. Dan Terry Contra Costa County Sheriff - Attorney Stu Stafine forced into adverse settlement loses case - Stafine dead within days. 
2. Attorney Daniel Horowitz wife murdered in 2005 
3. Attorney suing Seeno killed in car crash 
4. Department of Elections two suicides connected to this department- with widows permission Bennett asks questions - you bet they didn't like those questions - The Head of the DOE suddenly announces retirement (very suddenly)

Check out "The Superior Court Murders" 

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Arson Index - The real truth about Contra Costa County - clearing court calendars by Arson

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/21/2014

Walnut Creek CA: As I've stated in this blog many times about the endless go nowhere Police Reports going back to 1980 it was becoming obvious there the County has some type of Golden Hand orchestrated incidents and controlling their outcomes.  

What's missing the Police Report where my truck exploded in flames at 90 mph but what's critical about this missing police report was that five men were burned alive three months later and the key witness in that fire is deceased.  The key witness in my 2004 assault was dead less than 60 days from when documents were handed to Chief Joel Bryden connected Gary Vinson Collins to the CNET Scandal.  

The arson fires have continued along unabated but the most recent case was this poor kid who was set on fire at the Concord BART station on January 16th 2014.  Reading between the lines I noticed the driver left the scene.  This is another of many extraordinary examples of unchecked mayhem.  The way I see this if my Arson Case had been investigated in 2004 then the Serial Arsonist would have faced investigation - but my opinion is the Serial Arsonist is part of rouge badge flashers who burned down Hair By Jim, threw a Molotov cocktail through the window but in 1986 they hung a few blacks near the Concord and Lafayette BART stations.


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To Contra Costa Times Readers - Tanabe's Political Connections

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

 
Dear Contra Costa Times Readers: 

In 2004 I sued Danville Building Inspector Gary Vinson Collins who nearly killed me in my house.  I was being beaten, I was outsized, and outmatched but managed to push Collins off of me.  The assault was covered up and years later Butler surfaces in the Divorce Scandal.  

Over the last 30 years I've paid close attention to divorces in the County.  In the 80s I built kitchens who'd on occasion be caught in a family battle.  Long ago I noticed that spouse were killing spouses but I also noticed it was concentrated in East County.  

When my divorce broke out in 2004 it had been well planned.  The net result is my sons now live in a trash trailer, my inheritance forged away, my lawsuit against Contra Costa County thwarted when cops in Walnut Creek connected to CNET (A known Domestic Terrorism Cell) that were out to fleece everyone in sight. 

On my blog I've found local retirees (Elderly Targets) that collectively lost about 25 millions.  Someone please call APS as these persons were ripped off of over 25 million via an investment scheme that should have been detected by Walnut Creek Police over ten years ago (proper jurisdiction) but just like my inheritance investigations thwarted.  

On July 20th 2011 my car was totaled by a cop who once showed me pictures of the Piedmont Lumber Fire in Walnut Creek that were clearly within the first alarm fire.  I also tried to get copies of the Arson Fire on 1776 Ygancia Valley Road (WC) from 2001 which happened to a different attorney's offices, the one day I discovered that his wife was the likely murder victim in Walnut Creek.  

Last month in front of the Duncan Street Starbucks at N. Main (B of A) an officer Burns appeared and was quite pissed at me asking me questions with accusations I'd attacked someone on the street, that was just identical to when Captain Shultz, Sergeant 

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Removal Instructions: and Response to Restraining Orders - what to expect

Removal Instructions:  

If you want your information removed please put in writing what is incorrect. The goal of the blog is to prevent more deaths, arson cases, deaths by suspicious accidents and murder suicides.  I've reached the conclusion that some pipelines require regular patrols until a comprehensive safety plan is developed.  The pipelines are too close to the schools planned over 40 years ago long before Domestic Terrorism was a household word.  

Please send request or call

Pete Bennett Office: 510-460-5641 Walnut Creek CA 94596
www.petebennett.net/myresearch

pete@petebennett.net 

Restraining Orders: 

In response I intend to raise many complex issues as follows:

1. Prior representation and events  
1. Civil Attorney: Donald Gene Moats - Offices burned down during case in 2001 - Arson.  
2. Attorney Intimidation:  Attorneys Wife: Tamara Moats - murdered in Walnut Creek 1989 
3. Dax Craven who is the son in-law of James Greenan former leadership role at Contra Costa Bar Association who has blocked access to over 1,600 attorneys.  The attorneys not connected to the Bar get targeted.  
4. Murder or Accident:  The relationship between Nate Greenan who was killed on April 18th 2012 a week after the Pipe Bomb found on the trail and Seeno who obviously knows Greenan
5. Attorney Intimidation: Sage Sehapi - beaten in Walnut Creek 2005 - case that would exposed CNET defeated
6. Safeway Petitioner beaten to defeat public referendum 
7. 1987 Litigation: Dr. Fang - murdered in 2000
8. 2004 TRO Gary Collins Murder or Accident 
9. 2006 Bennett v. Collins Murder or Accident 
10. Bennett v. Collins attorney retained to sue Contra Costa County, Danville and LP2a (firm)
11. Contra Costa Bar Association:  What effect have they played on Contra Costa Litigation and Cases
2. Adjacent Cases 
1. Michael McNulty - Nephew of Sherriff/Senator/Former FBI Agent - Suicide or cover-up
2. Catherine Perata - does business with Seeno  - open case 
3. Dino Ghilotto - does business with Seeno  - open case 
4. Roma Bhatia - 12/12/11 Murder by Accident - Real Estate Agent
5. Loretta Hale - 12/11/11 Murder by Accident labeled a suicide - Real Estate Agent
6. Gary Vinson Collins - CNET Witness falls and then dies.  12/19/11
3. Domestic Terrorism 
1. PG&E Fire - the Benny Chetcuti Jr. connection 
1. What happened to my PG&E laptop loaded with critical pipeline data end up in the hands of the Walnut Creek Bombs Squad
2. How come WCPD Captain Schultz, Sgt. Mike Chan, and a detective end up cornering me in front of the Walnut Creek Library with hands placed on guns?  Fuck you Tim as you wanted to shoot me dead - I know that clearly.  
3. Does anyone in this department know Wielsch, Butler, Tanabe, or Marina Evans the divorcee mugging victim that was beaten just as bad as the 49r fan was.  She lost her house, opposing counsel shared offices with my attorney Don Moats. 
2. Kinder Morgan Pipeline Fire 2004 
1. How did the first person witness Ellen Sabaduquia, 54, of Walnut Creek die?
1. Fire: Nov 09/2004 - DOD: 12/25/2005
2. Did she even testify or was she deposed?
3. Witness: How did a person connected to a Federal Investigator who a fire witness who was never interviewed nearly get T-boned in a deliberate hit and run? 
4. How did another witness end up in jail? 
3. Doc's Pharmacy 2001 
1. Are the facts accurate? 
2. Witness: How and why did the witness in the Doc's Pharmacy Jamies Sheet's commit suicide the following year.  
4. My 2004 Arson fire known to Attorney's Craven, Golub (former judge), Greenan, Contra Costa Times Editor Steve Proctor, Loretta Hale (deceased), Patricia Noel (deceased), Kristie Ferraro (deceased), 
5. The Hillgrade Ave Pipe Bomb Event that could have killed hundreds but with Terrorist Event extrapolations could have been students at more than 10 schools.  The event timing was during school on a windy day.  The same agencies that can't find my 2004 Fire investigated that. 
1. That places nearly ten years of investigation in tainted bucket.  
6. Raise whether the Plaintiff's attorneys are deliberately creating accidents to generate revenue on public and private entities for fee generation. 
1. Specifically: 
1. San Bruno Gas Explosion 2010
2. TWA Flight 800 1996
3. Kinder Morgan 2004 fire 2004
4. Caldecott Tunnel Fire 1985
5. BART Tunnel Fire 
6. Asiana Crash 2013
7. Chevron Refinery Fire 
8. School Bus Incident on Lilac Drive Dec 2004 - connected to the plaintiffs attorneys
9. The 1979 Arson/ Arson/Murder and Murder next to my property - another cold but conveniently forgotten case.  But the property was sold just like the Geary Road Property that I used to live in from 78-79.  
7. Then last but not least I'd love to ask about Michael McNulty, Chuck Silverman, David Schafer, Jamie Sheets, Catherine Perata, Dino Ghilloti, Michael Taugher, or perhaps if you any of you know SVP Special Investigator that knows CNET or perhaps three people over ten years with 
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4. DOD Believe it or not there are several persons connected to my story that have DOD clearances.  I once had Low Level DOD and DOE (GE Nuclear). 
1. TOP SECRET CLEARANCE that are operatives working for CNET, or we can chat about the Spinal Meningitis Deaths of three public officials.  

Someone once called the restraining order the All Mighty Motion anything goes motion.   I've used this in my responses several times recently. That's how I got my charges dismissed and change the course of one criminal case to dismissed.  

For those of considering legal action an additional element anyone faces in Qui Tam - government fraud, welfare fraud, crimes against the state and federal government.  By defrauding me and my family the net result is you put them and me on welfare.  

Contra Costa Attorney Go Round - 

The rest of us call attorneys tell them our story, we file claims, we go to the courtrooms, but attorneys with connections they just get paid - really, really easily - no fuss, no muss.  It's clear they slice and dice the deals but tell others that we're sorry you don't have a case - 

Example Todd Cambra run over by Trader Joes Walnut Creek and nearly killed (February 2012), he was baited with an attorney, he was expertly handled by persons connected to my hit and run, for 10 months he was told 

  that's why this number leading to the Contra Costa Sherriff's department is not a murder tip line.

Dead letter box for murder investigations.  I should know I developed the application that is connected to this story but was fired over nothing even though I completed it in three weeks. 

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Due or Process or Process Intimidation at Safeway Nordstrom's, Neiman Marcus, Metro Phone Store

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons 

Date: Spring 2012
Chico CA: In response to yet another tactical motion filed in Butte County I went to the Safeway on Esplanade to make copies.  Just like all good political movements this slightly pushy petitioner did his job "hey do you want to sign my ..... "  Having done petitioning said I was Walnut Creek and homeless dealing with Butte County Court Motion.  Once I placed the CNET story in my motion was the last time my ex appeared and thanks to this mess  

I made copies then remember I don't know anyone here for "Proof of Service by Mail", so I went back out and asked the petitioner.     

Attack on the process  When he looked at my address on Sierra he immediately told me about his experience where he attacked in front of the Walnut Creek Safeway at 500 S. Broadway Walnut Creek where Walnut Creek Police arrived who said it was just mentally disturbed (5150) person who they just let go home.  

Course Changing Tactics
2013 Resident/Activist Pete Bennett attempts to appear at Public Meeting (12/10/13) 

So excuse me but why do you need the police when I was just standing there talking with a council member.  The last time that happened my friend David Schafer turned up dead on WB24 on August 3rd 2012 the same day as the Conference of Mayors.  Here is a sample of the ones killed on 2012.  Chuck Silverman, Michael McNultly,Peter Branagh, John Newman, Nate Greenan and David Schafer.   There isn't a single explanation that fits why I know all these people near me were killed. There are more.

Subject Bennett: Was informed by Police that this particular meeting had ... 

• NO Public Comment 
• That a CITY OFFICIAL DELIBERATELY MISLED OFFICERS 
• That CITY ATTORNEY UPON LATER ARRIVAL Bennett Right To Speak 
• That Bennett was told 
• Would be arrested for being unruly at meeting 
• That there was no public - that this was closed meeting 

Just in Case you don't know the rules 
http://www.walnut-creek.org/citygov/city_council/default.asp

• Public Hearings, Appeals, Council Considerations:
  • 15 minutes for applicants/appellants
  • 10 minutes for an organized presentation by a group spokesperson
  • 3 minutes for individual speakers
  • 5 minutes for rebuttal by applicant/appellant

This is just Walnut Creek and not all the incidents 

2013-Oct | Local Businessmen (telecom) beaten at Walnut Creek Safeway at 9:30 AM days after near fatal accident on Iron Horse Trail at Mt. Diablo at Walker
2013-Sept | Resident/Activist Pete Bennett nearly run over and Killed at Walker at Sierra 
2013-Sept Resident/Activist Pete Bennett facing false charges by Sgt Burns in front of Starbucks
2013-Sept Resident/Activist Pete Bennett guitar stolen in front of Starbucks Officer Rabonowitz drives Bennett around in circles - 

• Accurate suspect description matches Starbucks Barista
• Investigation stalled at the gate

2013-Sept - B & D Towing Firebombed where Bennett's truck was towed (Dec-2012) from Broadway Pointe garage when tickets issued by Regional Parking who know Benny Chetcuti the prime connector Bennett's attorneys offices burned down in 2001. 

2013 Resident (no name) Beaten/sent to ER with serious head injury (Med Bills $12,000)
2013-Sept  Resident/Activist Pete Bennett attacked in Panera Bread Locust Street by Former Walnut Creek Employee from Buildings and Grounds
2013-Sept  Resident/Activist Pete Bennett placed in dangerous situation at Peets Coffer 

2012-July Laptop with PG&E Gas Transmission Group pipeline data stolen at Walnut Creek Safeway  
2012-April - Brother -in-law of Bennett's divorce counsel Dax Craven killed in highly suspicious accident on WB 24 in Orinda CA 
2012-Aug: David Schafer killed highly suspicious accident on WB 24 in Orinda CA moments after leaving Round Up Bar Lafayette 

2012 - Havana Bartender Chuck Silverman high school friend of Butler Decoy found on CBS 48 hours killed on Pleasant Hill Road

2012-April - Brother -in-law of Dax Craven killed in highly suspicious accident on WB 24 - a definite murder - Attorney Craven has become non-responsive 

• Victim: Nate Greenan is likely the son of Paula Tarrant (ex-wife) was a 15 year Nordstrom Employee who likely knew 
• Victim: Jason Watts the other W-2 Employee killed in Walnut Creek in 2001 - I met Jason's Wife in 2009 at a local staples - The Nordstrom family should step up and give her daughter the best Christmas ever.  They've suffered alone for over a decade - just ask her relative Supervisor Glover who's other relative is Bernard Bynum killed in 1982.  
• Victim; Norstrom Jumper - why is so important? A thousand feet away but within view the strange accident of Tim Hogan and the bizarre disabled school bus accident 

2011-Nov  PG&E Employee kidnapped at Gas Transmission Group on Wiget 

2011-Aug - Bennett facing arrest for allegedly attacking city worker riding law mower - an event that deliberately staged that endangered a City Employee as Captain Schultz use or attempted to use veiled threat of force by placing hands upon service revolver.  

2011-Dec - Building inspector Gary Vinson Collins falls then dies from injuries FIVE WEEKS AFTER CHIEF BRYDEN was given specific information on Collins connections to local attorneys, police officers and 

2011-July PG&E Contract Employee (Pete Bennett) at Gas Transmission Group whose work locations have been Concord (Gateway), Wiget Lane, Newman and Modesto.  

The Car purchased from Ravenel Enterprises totaled in Hit and Run by retired SF Cop connected to Piedmont Fire in 2010 who knows PG&E High Performance Engineer in Bennett's offices in 2010 days after the biggest Pipeline fire in country blew up over over pressurization of the lines  

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2005 
2005 Attorney Sage Sepahi Beating Walden Park
2001 Attorney Don Moats Arson Victim at 1776 Ygnacio Valley Road 


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WALNUT CREEK, CA (KGO) -- Two million dollars has been spent on the campaign around a November 3 ballot measure that would bring a new Nieman Marcus store to downtown Walnut Creek. The money is coming from two competing mall developers.

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With a flurry of phone calls and flyers, the final push is on over Measure I, which would bring a new Nieman Marcus store to Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza.
The estimated annual tax revenue to the city would be $400,000.
"This sales tax revenue is really, really important to revitalize our local economy," supporter Carole Wynstra said.

But opponents doubt the tax revenue and dispute the measure's claim that it will add 175 new parking spaces.

"The main problem I have is the lack of new parking," opponent Selma King said. "They want to put in mechanical lifts and valet parking and I'm opposed."
Pouring $600,000 into the "No" campaign is Taubman Centers, which had hoped to lure Nieman Marcus to their planned mall in San Ramon.
Macerich, owner of Broadway Plaza, has spent $1.3 million on the "Yes" campaign.
"Nieman Marcus is extremely committed to this community, they have a signed lease with us, a very long term lease and they're ready to come in," Broadway Plaza spokesperson Shelly Dress said.
But Taubman claims Walnut Creek gave unfair advantage to Macerich by waiving longstanding parking requirements.
Taubman's Al Abrams told ABC7 ""We've always strived to have a level playing field. When our interests align with those of local citizens, it makes sense to work together."
"I see that this outside developer has galvanized our community and we're going to use this as a stepping stone to become a stronger community," Walnut Creek Mayor Gary Skrel said.
The original plan for the Nieman Marcus store called for 107,000 square feet of retail space. That has since been scaled down to 92,000.
That is still too big for some people.
"We live here and we have to put up with the problems that occur as a result," opponent Ed Dimmick said.
If voters approve Measure I, Neiman Marcus could open in the spring of 2012.

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COLLINS, VINSON A. Member of the Ku Klux Klan KKK

Known KKK associate connected to Gary Vinson Collins the former now deceased Town of Danville CA.  The name is from days gone by but there are lynching committees in Contra Costa County.  The inner circle of conspirators is about to be outed. 

COLLINS, VINSON A.

COLLINS, VINSON A. (1867–1966). Vinson Collins, attorney and legislator, was born near Honey Island, Texas, on March 1, 1867, to Warren J. and Eboline (Valentine) Collins. After graduating from Sam Houston State Normal College (now Sam Houston State University) in 1893, Collins taught for six years in Grand Saline and studied law in his spare time. He passed the bar examination in 1901 and opened a law practice in Beaumont. During three terms in the Texas Senate (1910–14, 1916–17) he supported prohibition, woman suffrage,^qqv and an eight-hour workday. In 1913 he wrote the state's first workmen's compensation laws. He was defeated by Martin Dies, Sr., in a subsequent race for the United States House of Representatives. Although he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Collins entered the 1924 gubernatorial election without securing support from the Klan hierarchy. In the absence of official backing, he fought a bitter, unsuccessful campaign against the official Klan candidate, Felix D. Robertson^qv. Collins was among the many Texas Democrats who bolted from the party rather than endorse Alfred E. Smith during the 1928 presidential race. He served on the board of regents for state teachers' colleges from 1935 to 1950. He maintained an active law practice in Dallas, Beaumont, and Livingston until his retirement in 1957. He first married Lizzie Hopkins, who died in 1900; he later married Nannie Kuykendall of Grand Saline. Collins died in Dallas on July 5, 1966, and was survived by six children. He was buried at Livingston.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

Norman D. Brown, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921–1928 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984). Dallas Morning News, July 6, 1966.

Robert Wooster

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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.

Robert Wooster, "COLLINS, VINSON A.," Handbook of Texas Online(http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fco27), accessed December 10, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 10/06/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons


The reason I know so much about this story is I went to the FBI in 2004 and convinced them FBI that my attackers had returned from the 1980's and that these attacks were related to events connected to the 2001 Murder of my former customer Dr. Fang in 2000 but. 

As the events near CNET unraveled I began to piece together events from 1989 the San Pablo National Guard Armory robbery where 850 M-16's and military explosives were taken.   But in my efforts to discover details I realized that perhaps a SAM missile was taken.  

With conjecture it could lead to the TWA Flight 800 crash and the PG&E San Bruno Fire which leads to another case in 1979 that the Pleasant Hill Police don't want to talk about.  

There were a series of incidents on a farm known locally the Cabbage Patch Farm which leads to my developing article about the "The Cabbage Patch Murders" which is long forgotten case but matches slew of fires spanning 30 years. 

Given the width and breadth of the interconnected agencies known as CNET, SWAT and the BOMB SQUAD I've reached a personal conclusion that could be hard to argue away.  

Meet my former Neighbor Stephen Tanabe a former Danville Officer who knows Gary Collins who died within months of being linked to CNET with former Chief of Police Joel Bryden.  

The events I'm writing about will be easier to understand by visiting my research site at petebennett.net/myresearch/default.aspx where I'm using Business Intellingence Tools to present this story via Google Earth, Timeline Tools and supporting information that would be considered a mix of document management (ECM) Content Management Systems (CMS) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and besides no one will hire me which becuase of all the havoc CNET heaped on my life.  

Ex-cop Tanabe convicted in 'dirty DUI' scandal

Justin Berton

Updated 11:16 pm, Tuesday, September 3, 2013

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  Defendants Christopher Butler, center stands before the judge with , Stephen Tanabe and his attorney Dan Russo to enter a plea in the co-conspiracy case at the Contra Costa Superior Courthouse, Thursday June 23, 2011, in Walnut Creek, Calif. All four defendants plead not guilty and will return to court in October. Photo: Lacy Atkins, The Chronicle

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  A former Contra Costa County deputy sheriff was convicted Tuesday on charges that he accepted a pistol from a private investigator in exchange for arresting two men who the investigator had baited into driving drunk in elaborate stings known as "dirty DUIs."

However, jurors acquitted the former officer of a charge stemming from one of the private investigator's most startling claims - that the ex-deputy also accepted cocaine to facilitate a third drunken driving arrest.

Stephen Tanabe, 50, of Alamo, appeared dejected after the jury in U.S. District Court in San Francisco delivered a verdict that marks one of the final chapters in a lurid saga that has now resulted in the conviction of five former Bay Area law enforcement officers.

Two and a half years after his arrest, Tanabe, a former Danville patrol officer, turned to his family in the front row of the gallery, exhaled hard, and shook his head. He was convicted on one count of conspiracy, two counts of extortion and three counts of wire fraud, and will be sentenced in December.

Tanabe's involvement in the unseemly world of former investigator Christopher Butler, 52, began in the mid-1990s, when both men were officers for the Antioch police force.

Tim Pori, Tanabe's attorney, maintained that Butler - the government's star witness, who testified in exchange for leniency in his own case - was a master manipulator who made a living framing people. He deemed Butler a "sociopathic narcissist" who made Tanabe his latest mark.

"This was another 'designed coincidence,' " Pori said outside court, employing a term coined by the private investigator, "where Butler took the available evidence and framed Tanabe."

In closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hartley West portrayed Tanabe as an officer who'd sold his badge when he allegedly accepted an eighth of an ounce of cocaine and a Glock pistol from Butler to ensure the drunken driving arrests.

"His integrity was for sale," West told jurors. "And it was for sale for cheap."

Butler was the architect of "dirty DUIs," prearranged busts of men he had been hired to tarnish. Three targeted men who testified at Tanabe's trial - a Livermore winemaker, a Verizon executive, and a former software salesman - were in the midst of divorce or custody disputes with ex-wives who sought to gain an advantage.

The women, prosecutors said, paid Butler to design stings in which female "decoys" approached the men online or in bars. Or actors would pose as reporters, inviting the marks out for an "interview" over drinks.

In two stings involving Tanabe, Butler said, he arranged for his friend to park outside a Danville wine bar and arrest the victims on Butler's cue.

The sprawling scandal around Butler, which included allegations of drug dealing and prostitution, sparked an FBI corruption probe and led to the federal convictions of Bay Area police officers from four different agencies.

One defendant remains: Mary Nolan, a divorce attorney who, according to prosecutors, hired Butler to install listening devices inside the car of a client's ex-husband.

During his testimony at the Tanabe trial, Butler said he was hired by Nolan to conduct a "dirty DUI" sting on a Clayton man, who was arrested and convicted. Nolan has pleaded not guilty.

Justin Berton is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: jberton@sfchronicle.comTwitter: @justinberton

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Walnut Creek Litigant Kill Team - Don't you dare sue us!

Posted: 09/29/2013


Dear Council Members:

On June 16th 2013 I appeared at city hall in regards to my ongoing problem with the Walnut Creek Police and other agencies connected to CNET.

I believe my plea was pretty desperate where I'm reflecting the endless mayhem near me. Mostly little things like a 25 million dollar investment scheme loss where it's becoming obvious as this is bigger than me but clearly leads to your police department and attorneys near that same scandal.

In 2004 I was nearly killed by Gary Collins but early that year my truck was on fire, then just prior to that my ABS system was tampered with nearly causing me to flip over on 680 near my former cabinet shop in Fairfield CA.

When I learned years later that Collins father owned Big O Tires in Lafayette CA which was directly across from Gregg's Muffler on Mt. Diablo Blvd. Of course the chief of Lafayette police didn't want to take that into consideration when he investigated my 2011 car accident but the fact is they never investigated that accident.

I am going to move part of this blog my site (see insert below)where I've implemented a database system that is a hybrid CMS, CRM and ECM application. Never mind thanks to Lt. Jay Hill's friend retired San Francisco Police Department Lt. David Oberhoffer turning my business efforts into a business nightmare.

On September 28th 2013 someone once again tried to run me over in Walnut Creek. This time it was different I had four witnesses who are also on camera with me at Safeway at 500 S. Broadway,

No one is helping me financially, my food stamps cut off, I've lost my housing again and getting a job with this much bullshit going on well that doesn't work well for long if I even get to the door. No one hires a homeless programmers who's been arrested with back child support that doesn't have clean clothes or access to a regular bath.

Perhaps I should apply for a job with the Contra Costa Bar Association - I'd like to see how far that goes - the pro-bono attorneys have been really helpful or that great bar referral system where they pre determine which cases reach the county. At this point with my story alone this Association should be investigated by the State Bar, SAG, US Grand Jury and the Contra Costa Grand Jury because my suspicions are my attorney was beaten and hospitalized in 2005 to prevent CNET from being discovered then that means members of the bar are all suspect

My day in court will never happen because the Contra Costa Bar Association is a culpable participant which leads to what is known as Conspiracy which leads to RICO charges and maybe a Qui Tam case as the attorneys representing and defending the cities counties and public agencies are connected to "The Club" and if the club won't help me sue these agencies then "the club' has conspired to obstruct justice.

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The FBI letter to Foray Technologies

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 09/27/2013

Walnut Creek CA: Earlier this year around June an important connection was made regarding this endless CNET nightmare.  When I learned that James Greenan's son Nate was killed on April 18th 2012 but became more concerned as by then Dino Ghilloti, Loretta Hale, Roma Bhatia, Catherine Perata, Ian Scott, Peter Haas, Peter Branagh all died of unusual cause.

Nate Greenan's fatal accident occurred on April 18th on WB 24 but oin Orinda CA (map link)  in the same stretch of HWY 24 my other friend 

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David Schafer was killed at 2 AM on August 3rd 2012 nearly a year to the date of my July 20th 2011 hit and run accident.  

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_21217630/motorcycle-crash-near-orinda-leaves-rider-dead

David Schafer, 22, of Oakland, was headed westbound on Highway 24 near the Orinda exit when he crashed around 1:30 a.m. Preliminary reports suggested he was then run over, a dispatcher said

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The Danville Council has known about CNET since 2004

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

Many reading my blog will wonder why this litigant is upset, first take a look at my son here and see the near emaciated state in 2008 .  In 2007 my son melted down at the Pinewood Derby but what happened would be Violation of my Civil Rights Under 

Tanabe was present, as was Judge Joel Golub and unknown to me a slew of police officers who used the Boy Scouts of America event to cover their connections to CNET as they all knew that Butler knew Tanabe, they all knew that my I was beaten in my house, they all knew my truck was set ablaze, they all knew Gary Vinson Collins was the assailant, they also knew Loretta Hale, many would know attorneys at Greenan via his representation of Contra Costa County and Seeno Construction.  

I would surmise that many appear to be glaring light so bright it's hard not see that I told an officer of the court that a Danville Building Inspector nearly killed me and that someone rigged my truck for arson.  What gives Joel is it possible that you unfairly fined me over 12,000 for tickets when you gave out $75 fines to the guys here illegally working in the Gardens of Contra Costa County.  According to the Cannon of Ethics you screwed up. 

When a truck erupts in flames at 90 mph chances of survival are slim but I was lucky. Nearly ten years later the Alamo 1st Mormons suspected then are living large and apparently guilt free of a near attempted murder.  









The Danville Town Council knew about CNET long before Tanabe was arrested

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/ca/code/CA_CODE.HTM

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Fired Deputy Howard Fights Back or maybe his truck will blow up like mine did

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 925-399-1082
Posted: 08/07/2013

Walnut Creek CA:  The bowels of CNET once again will flush our tax dollars down the drain.  We, us and the Tax Payer gets the financial enema that could have been avoided with Bennett v. Collins filed on Sept 26th 2011.  

The Danville Town Council prefers to escape litigation with brute force, extortion, witness intimidation and extortion by beating residents (me), arresting them (me), accusing them of being a drug dealer (me, falsely), stealing tools (me) then systematically targeting resident into financial ruin (me) but while they were at person no longer close me arranged a series of accidents, a little bacteria and some high speed police tactics.  

So Mr. Howard we've spoken before and I'm sure you remember all the chaos with divorcees in Danville, I'm sure you like many how a kid could flip and kill his mom, how perfectly normal families would come apart at the seems, how the owner of the Dry Cleaners on Diablo decides to commit suicide over business problems, how a mom that once lived on La Questa Drive could get arrested for hiring a hit man that vanishes after dropping 100K on a local fleecing attorney, or better a Mom with children would end up 680 without car when she makes a tidy six figure sum. 

Perhaps Mr. Howard you might want to drive up Valle Vista turn right on Plaza Circle where two houses burned the foundation or drive over the BlackHawk where that Doctor lost his son in that attic fire (newspaper quote) that looks just like another attic fires on Donegal Way near that drive by shooting but also near a local business in Walnut Creek whose Piano Player died recently which sounds just like Tyler the former Meenar's bartender who stroked out ten years back at 36, or perhaps Arturo Cruz the San Pablo Councilman who also at 36 stroked.  which Then if you really want ponder look at Cigarettes Cheaper five time award winning fire bomber victim.   

We need to start a prize system for the best arsonist award in Contra Costa County.  When you're an arson victim like I am where sworn police officers and highly paid Fire Personnel who are listen the dispatch calls where I was told over 10 callers stated flames were shooting back behind my truck.  I called the State Fire Marshall and sort of got somewhere, but I called other departments outside of Contra Costa County who kinda what you are saying, your truck was blazing with flames and the oil plug was down 2 1/2 turns and they let you go?  

I get it burn baby burn but I've also got a Contra Costa County Fireman stalking me from Hillside Covenant Church who took my sons two years and have run interference which is a violation of my civil rights but try getting an attorney from the Contra Costa Bar Association to take your case.  All they've said for years is sorry - well perhaps you guys might have connected your Bar Association to a murder/arson conspiracy case?  

Sorry for the strong opinions but it's been two years since my car was totaled that was uninsured so Lafayette Police told me it was unfortunate.  

Mr. Howard here are a couple of pointers for you to you survive a lawsuit against Contra Costa County.  

1. Look over your shoulder daily. 
2. If you've got a CCWP then bring the equalizer tool along.
3. Learn the facts about Bennett v. Collins they beat up my counsel] 
4. Check your brakes I have police report on file with WCPD 
5. Check your oil plug for temperature sensitive wax and accelerant (fuel for your tail pipes) 
6. Make sure you inform your family that in 2004 a high speed driver (deliberately accident) nearly killed me and my sons on SB 680
7. Be careful where and what you eat - for almost ten years I kept saying I was poisoned but CCCMRC doesn't get it that all these homeless and downtrodden are being hit with bacteria.  They die at night or they foam at the mouth on the Contra Costa Trail. 
8. If you see have valuables lock them up as someone within CCSO or SRVFPD will steal them - my article about my stolen Krugerrands matches another former Danville Real Estate Agents said about her 4 carat ring.  I bet its another one of those special Danville Fires - funny Chris Spence, Loretta Hale, Roma Bhatia, Brian Schewling, Glen Langstrom, Peter Branagh and John Kelly were real estate agents and this other guy Billion have all died.
   The reason Glen is in here is like Brian he carried a huge debt load, the reason is here is he was friends with Craig Wilson who died with Eric Nunn who potentially would be a of great influence on the Concord Naval Weapons Station planning plus he was a planning Commissioner.  
9. Please don't fly as I knew Peter Branagh and Eric Nunn - sorry can't prove it because I was blindsided in 2010 and once again forced to shut down my operations.  The Walnut Creek Police made sure that even though I was attacked in the Farmers Market that nothing would happen to the assailant must the Neiman Marcus Petitioner.  

So remember if they can't get you they will get to your family unless you think Catherine Perata, Dino Ghilloti, Nathaniel Greenan, or former Sheriff Richard Rainey nephew Michael McNulty was just "Uncle Fester" the fun guy at some of my open mics.  

The 2011 car accident where I was blinded appears to have damaged my eyesight.  I can't explain the light source other than it's brighter, a warm light that was more like a pulse which became plausible when I read the comments about Asiana.  

Perhaps the Department of Homeland Security might want to read my well documented letters send to the Chief and Several Sergeants - they are in really deep now - I mean really deep as.the Banta Shooting Inquest is out.  Seems like we've got a problem enveloping our towns and cities where the best solution is commandeer a toe clipper chasers over at the TSA.  

My accident particulars might explain why so many cars are just running off the road and killing the occupants where their cars just catch on fire (Cherry Lane at Treat), 680 at Hwy 4 (Grayson Creek) or that nice kid that was killed on Stone Valley Road or Nate Greenan.  

By the way Mr. Howard, James Greenan is this super lawyer who is a member of Alamo 1st on Stone Valley, who knows the Lafayette repair shop whose mechanic by some divine intervention just happened be right behind me and actually saw me, who knows my former Mormon employer whose employee Phil nearly died of Spinal Meningitis, just Shimansky, just like Pollecek, and most likely is what killed Gary Bell.  

My police report filed in 2009 stands which paints a chilling scenario of the perfected murder.  That is why I wrote Murder By Bacteria as a warning to residents that someone with Great Expertise in Bio-Weapons, Bio-Toxins or Pharmacology that is able to create undetectable designer drug.  My hallucination article precedes the Anthony Banta Jr. fatal police shooting by weeks.  

By the way there are more deaths in the Music Community that bear a resemblance to profiling model. 

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