Honorable Alaska State Legislators (click here),
On March 14, 2023, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly passed Resolution 2023-026 (click here), calling for our Legislature to investigate citizen concerns of systemic corruption within our judicial system. See KPBA Memo (click here) See also QR Code flyer (click here)
Citizen concerns include:
- That the Alaska Supreme Court issued Order 1993 to suspend the power of Grand Juries to investigate and make public recommendations concerning judge and systemic judicial system corruption.
Alaska Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 states: “The power of Grand Juries to investigate and make recommendations concerning the public welfare or safety shall never be suspended.” - The Supreme Court did this immediately after a Kenai Grand Jury subpoenaed implicated judges and Marla Greenstein, Alaska’s only investigator of judges for the last 33 years. Evidence indicates that Ms. Greenstein (who has conducted all 8000 judge investigations since 1989) has falsified official investigations and certified documents to keep corrupt judges on the bench and ruling over WE-THE-PEOPLE. This Kenai Grand Jury has been investigating for over 8 months already and is still empaneled to this day.
- That SCO 1993 strips individual citizens of their constitutional right to appeal to the Grand Jury directly.
- That Deputy Attorney General John Skidmore and Alaska Court System General Counsel Nancy Meade are currently meeting with and deceiving elected officials: (A) to cover up how blatantly illegal and unconstitutional SCO 1993 is; (B) to make sure citizens cannot get evidence of government corruption to a Grand Jury; and (C) to make sure government officials can stop a Grand Jury from investigating government corruption when the government officials desire to do so.
Examples include:
On March 14, 2023, Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade met with the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly and on March 22, 2023 they met with the Senate Judiciary Committee. Over and over Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade testified they have read the Alaska Constitutional Convention transcription to find out exactly what the rights of Alaska’s citizens are. Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade testify there is not, nor ever has been, a right for a citizen to appeal to the Grand Jury “directly”. (Recording and transcription of meetings)
Yet page 1328 of the Alaska Constitutional Convention transcription states this: “The Grand Jury can be appealed to directly, which is an invaluable right to the citizen.” Not a single one of the 55 Delegates who wrote our Constitution disputed this statement.
It appears Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade are deceiving our elected officials. Could it be so WE-THE-PEOPLE cannot complain directly to the Grand Jury when government officials commit willful misconduct in office?
Over and over Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade testified there never has been any written procedures of how citizens get complaints and evidence to the Grand Jury; or any written procedure so the Grand Jury itself knows what its powers and duties are.
Yet the original Alaska Grand Jury Handbook, given to all Grand Jurors for decades, has this process written out in great detail. (See original Handbook at alaskastateofcorruption.com) But now, the Alaska Court System and Supreme Court has removed all this information out of the Handbook, while Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade now claim these rights never existed. (See current Handbook.)
It is clear that Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade have been deceiving our elected officials – if you examine the evidence provided, including the previously published edition of the Alaska Grand Jury Handbook, along with their patently false statements in support of their argument to limit the rights of all Alaskans.
Mr. Skidmore testified: “The only screening function that the Department of Law engages in is whether or not the particular complaint qualifies as a public welfare or safety issue. Beyond that, it’s not the role of the Department of Law to prevent things from going to the grand jury, and nor would we do so.”
Yet the Alaska Department of Law and court system kept the complaint and certified evidence against Ms. Greenstein (proving she was falsifying official investigations and certified documents to cover up for corrupt judges) from the Grand Jury for decades. (See alaskastateofcorruption.com for evidence)
Again, it appears Mr. Skidmore is deceiving our elected officials. To cover up corruption on an industrial scale?
What WE-THE-PEOPLE Respectfully Ask of Our Legislators
Please initiate an independent, public investigation into the allegations and evidence above; an investigation with the power to subpoena, swear witnesses in, and grant immunity. (See KPBA Resolution)
Please carefully consider and independently verify the facts alleged by Mr. Skidmore and Ms. Meade.
At the end of your investigation, we ask that you rescind Alaska Criminal Rule 6.1 in its entirety and that you modify Alaska Criminal Rule 6 so that any and all restrictions, no matter how small, on Alaska Grand Juries, and on a citizen’s right to appeal directly to them, are eliminated.
Please recognize that we have a serious issue regarding the rights of Alaskans. Please take action to protect and defend our constitution so that Alaskan citizens will once again enjoy the protection and safeguards from public corruption afforded by Article 1, Section 8 of Alaska’s Constitution.
And Please Join our April 19 Alaska Courthouse Sit-In!
As our March 15 state-wide courthouse Sit-In was such an immense success, alerting tens of thousands of Alaskans across the entire state to the danger we now face, WE-THE-PEOPLE have decided to conduct another Sit-In on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, starting at 8 AM. (Grand Juries around the state convene on Wednesday mornings in numerous different courthouses.)
We respectfully ask that all legislators plan on joining us, so we may present a united front in our quest to protect and defend Alaska’s Constitution from what appears to be domestic enemies.
Conclusion
WE-THE-PEOPLE of Alaska have an undeniable obligation to exhaust all established and traditional remedies, and seek help from all available sources, before we consider trying to enforce our laws and constitutional rights ourselves.
And there is only one reason why WE-THE-PEOPLE must fight so hard to enforce these basic rights, to keep from being made into the slaves of government officials. Alaska’s Founding Fathers knew this day would come: : “The power of Grand Juries to inquire into the willful misconduct in office of public officers, and to find indictments in connection therewith, shall never be suspended. The Grand Jury is preserved, for all purposes, particularly for investigation of public officials.”
Quotes From Others Who Predicted the Danger We Now Face
Long-time Alaskan Attorney Dale Dolifka: “The corruption will go on and get worse until ‘the sleeping giant’ [the public] wakes up.”
New York City’s 1994 Mollen Commission: “To cover up their corruption, officers created even more: they falsified official reports and perjured themselves to conceal their misdeeds. In the face of this problem, the Department allowed its systems for fighting corruption virtually to collapse. It had become more concerned about the bad publicity that corruption disclosures generate than the devastating consequences of corruption itself. As a result, its corruption controls minimized, ignored and at times concealed corruption rather than rooting it out. Such an institutional reluctance to uncover corruption is not surprising. No institution wants its reputation tainted – especially a Department that needs the public’s confidence and partnership to be effective. Since no entity outside the Department was responsible for reviewing the Department’s success in policing itself, years of self-protection continued unabated until this Commission commenced its independent inquiries.”
United States Founding Father Samuel Adams: “The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards: and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger, and expense of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”
Respectfully,
Alaska Grand Jurors Association
Legislator Info: Alaska Constitutional Convention, transcript pages 1323-1328, 1330, 1344, 1404-1406; Original Alaska Grand Jury Handbook (at ); The Investigative Grand Jury in Alaska (1987) , pages I-II, 9-24; The Reportorial Power of the Alaska Grand Jury, pages 295-326; David Ignell’s highlighted book on Alaska’s Grand Juries (on website); Nov. 22, 2002 Alaska Supreme Court internal memorandum (on website); recording of Deputy AG John Skidmore ordering Grand Juror Ray Southwell to not inform his fellow Grand Jurors of government corruption, and then lying to Rep. Mike Chenault and Senator Peter Micciche about what had occurred (on website); and Paul Nelson affidavit (click here).
