Visit our Photo Tribute to Sheena Villa at Facebook. Sunday, March 11, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Sheena Villa Spaghetti Dinner, March 18
Remembering Sheena ... we have 16 works of very cool art, all donated by celebrated area artists, for the March 18 Sheena Villa Spaghetti Dinner & Silent Auction Scholarship Fundraiser. See Facebook gallery for a roll-out of the pieces being offered for silent auction purchase and meet the artists here.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
TRUTH & CONSEQUENCES ON TOUR
[UpDate: January 28, 2012] Listen to the broadcast archive, the Bill Villa segment starts with a new Villas song about Allentown, "So Low," and closes with another new Villas song, "My Occupation." In between, exposé bitch slaps are delivered to DA Jim Martin, The Morning Call "newspaper," Gross McGinley, 69 News, AOL Lehigh Valley Patch, Allentown Ethics Board, Cedar Crest College "ethics" professor (for now) Michael Donovan, attorney (for now) and pussy David Najarian, and others. Stay tuned to LVS for more Truth & Consequences national tour dates. **********************
Having a daughter killed is plenty bad enough. But then what if your hometown's "Powers That Be" side with your daughter's killer and his crony-connected insider family and try to screw you out of justice?
HEAR MY STORY GO NATIONAL, Friday, January 27, 8:00pm to 9:00pm ...
on "Turn Up the Night with Kenny Pick," LIVE, from Cleveland, 7-10PM EST, Friday Jan. 27th at TUTN w/ Kenny Pick & Radio Or Not
Simulcast at Talk Radio One - Talk Radio One
VILLAS: WHY WE FIGHT
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Lehigh Valley Somebody's most-read, most influential blog posts of the year in review
* In August, it was very rewarding forcing DA Jim Martin into action on a drunk driving death. With no local media scrutiny, DA Jim Martin has historically and routinely (hiccup) ignored DUI homicide cases for months, a year or more, and in some cases, several years. Not this case, Jimbo ... LVS exposé prods DA Jim Martin into filing charges against DUI baby killer Randy Teets ... in 34 days* In March, our SiteMeter(R) registered the highest readership spikes in LVS's history, as we exposed the laughably obvious and grossly unethical DA Jim Martin/Gross McGinley law firm crony connection in a series of three highly revealing blog posts.
* Five months after violently killing my daughter Sheena, malice-sodden and remorseless drunk driver Robert LaBarre, son of Gross McGinley lawyer Donald LaBarre, escaped to Belize, Central America. Was he coming back? Was he a fugitive from justice? In any other city in America, this would have been an above-the-fold, front page lead story in the local newspaper: GRIEVING FATHER DISCOVERS DAUGHTER'S KILLER AWOL IN BELIZE. But curiously, The Morning Call "newspaper" in Allentown PA steadfastly refused to cover this story. Interested in knowing why? Hint: it has something to do w/ the DA Jim Martin/Gross McGinley/Morning Call crony connection. Read our series of three eye-popping exposé blog posts from January ...
Good Ol' Boy DA Jim Martin arranged a "bargain" and secret plea deal w/ Sheena's killer and his family and excluded the Villa family from the court hearing, read the inconvenient & shocking facts in ...
Watch DA Jim Martin accidentally admit to Robert LaBarre's third degree murder malice on TV (!) and witness Robert LaBarre inadvertently confessing to third degree murder in Judge Robert Steinberg's courtroom (!) as you read ...
* Sheena Villa's 3rd Degree Murder [Note: Martin & Steinberg refused to charge Gross McGinley attorney Don LaBarre's son Robert LaBarre w/ the crime they both knew he had committed against my daughter Sheena, third degree murder]
In February, thanks to LVS's exposing of DA Jim Martin's incompetence and collusion baggage (which would not play well outside of the Lehigh Valley) and despite Jim Martin's lobbying, pandering, ass-kissing, and begging for the cushy and temporary state attorney general's job vacated by Martin's pal Tom Corbett >>> Corbett Rejects 'Gentleman' Jim Martin, Picks Irish Lassie Linda Kelly For AG Job
* In early May, when DA Jim Martin's Chief Deputy DA and lapdog Renee Smith tried to run for Lehigh County judge, LVS exposed Renee Smith's blatant violations of the PA Judicial Code, for which the Judicial Conduct Board, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania sent Renee Smith a stern warning letter [JCB Complaint No. 2011-184]. Although the Judicial Conduct Board was very interested in, and officially disturbed by, judicial candidate Renee Smith's unethical and violative behavior, LVS could not arouse any interest in covering this story in either The Morning Call "newspaper" or 69 "News." The End Result: Renee Smith spent the most campaign money ($113,935) by far and came in dead freakin' last. Booya. Just walk away, Renee ... Judge Wanna-Be Adra Renee Smith Plays Fast & Loose w/ Judicial Codes of Conduct
* In the same May primary election, three of the "Gang of Four" GOP candidates for Lehigh County Commissioner made the cut, and the November general election ballot, but thanks to LVS exposé reporting, the gang's 4th candidate, Morning Call blogger and attorney (for now) and pussy David C. Najarian came up short. 5'4" to be exact.
* LVS's All-Time Single Most-Read Blog Post (by far) is our late May 2011 exposé ... Here's How DA Jim Martin Fixes DUI Homicide Cases for Connected Cronies
* This October post was LVS's 2nd most-read blog post in 2011 and is our 1st Favorite LVS Blog Post Of The Year ... DA Jim Martin KO'd, pulverized by Bill Villa at West End Youth Center campaign debate
Throughout the year, every year, LVS exposes and bitch-slaps elected incompetents, self-absorbed phonies, crooked colluding cronies, "anonymous" (wink wink) and declared sadists, and pussies. In 2011, it was our pleasure to publicly humiliate w/ devastating uppercut comeuppance the following highly deserving dishonored individuals and institutions ...
* Ex-Morning Call "newspaper" Editorial Gatekeeper, Secret Keeper, and DA Jim Martin Boot Licker Glenn G. Kranzley
* Former and current Morning Call "newspaper" "reporters" Kevin "Cubby" Amerman ... Debbie Garlicki ... Paul Carpenter ... Jarrett Renshaw ... Manny Gamiz ... Mike Miorelli ... Darryl Isherwood ... Christine Schiavo ... and Paul Carpenter again ... joining previously exposed Morning Callers Tremblin' Wally Trimble ... Bill White ... Jarrett Renshaw ... and John Micek
* The Dick Dean-owned 69 "News"
* Overly well-connected criminal defense attorney (incredulously, he sits on DA Jim Martin's reelection campaign fundraising Host Committee and he crony-double-dips as Secretary of the Lehigh County Bar Association), Gavin P. Holihan
and ...
* Cedar Crest College "ethics" professor Michael Donovan's wife (for now) Diana Morse Donovan
* Ex-Allentown City Councilor Michael Donovan's son Ned Donovan [Warning: Vile, X-Rated Content]
* Team Martin/Morning Call 24/7 LVS blog stalker and vile anonymous commenter, "Anonymous" (wink wink)
and the ...
LVS is proudly (yet humbly) finishing up 2011 the same way we started it ...
* Speaking Truth To Power and letting the colluding crony bastards know that they can run, and they can hide behind their Morning Call and 69 News, but they'll never get away. We'll keep a floodlight on them as we chase 'em to the gates of hell and it's only a matter of time until somebody catches them real good.
Happy New Year.
* Our favorite Magazine Cover of 2011
* Our favorite TV Spot of 2011
VILLAS: WHY WE FIGHT
Thursday, November 24, 2011
STONEWALL STEINBERG: Lehigh County judge shields DA Jim Martin from scrutiny
This
is
a
letter
I'm
politely
re-mailing
to
Judge
Steinberg's
office
[Judge Steinberg "responds," see December 7, 2011 UpDate]
Read: The Back Story
November 26, 2011
Re-mailed on the following dates: December 5, 2011 ...
December 12, 2011 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
December 19, 2011 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
December 30, 2011 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
January 6, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
January 13, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
January 20, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
January 28, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
February 3, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
February 10, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
February 18, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
February 24, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
March 5, 2012 [Revised per 12/7/11 UpDate, see below]
Susan Unangst
Special Assistant to the Court
For the Honorable Robert L. Steinberg
Lehigh County Courthouse
455 West Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18101
Dear Ms. Unangst:
Upon receiving and reading your letter to me dated October 20, 2011, I was immediately struck by the misrepresentation that was perpetrated on me by Judge Steinberg and you. In phone conversations with you on January 20, 2011, and with Judge Steinberg on February 25, 2011, I was told by both of you that Judge Steinberg had "requested permission" from an unnamed authoritative board regarding meeting with me.
As it turns out, the authoritative board is an advisory committee that is co-chaired by a Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas colleague of Judge Steinberg’s, Judge Edward D. Reibman, who has in the past quashed information access on behalf of Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin, see IN RE: CHARLES CULLEN LITIGATION, NO. 2005-C-3330.
UpDate: In a 12/7/11 letter to me from Judge Steinberg's law clerk, Ramma Barakat, Barakat claims that at the time of Judge Steinberg's "inquiry" to the advisory committee, Judge Steinberg's Lehigh County colleague, Judge Edward D. Reibman, was "Chair, Zone 2." In their 12/7/11 letter, Barakat and Steinberg do not address any of the other points or requests in my letter(s) dated 11/26/11 and 12/5/11 so I'll be sending more letters to Judge Steinberg [see below] requesting an in-person meeting with him to discuss the Chris Squires DUI homicide case, its curious, and unilateral, night before trial bargain plea deal, and what appears to be subsequent cover-up collusion involving DA Jim Martin and then Morning Call reporter (and current DA Jim Martin Executive Aide), Debbie Garlicki.
Although I perceive Judge Steinberg’s decision to not meet with me as a similar stonewalling tactic designed to quash information access and shield DA Jim Martin (and himself) from scrutiny regarding the prosecution and sentencing of my daughter Sheena’s killer, Robert Edward LaBarre, I will honor Judge Steinberg’s decision to not meet with me, for now, but I will re-commence requesting an in-person meeting with him at a later date, when all probation and parole inquiries to Judge Steinberg regarding Robert Edward LaBarre have been resolved.
In the meantime, I am now requesting an in-person meeting with Judge Steinberg to discuss a DUI homicide case that is already closed, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Christopher Stephen Squires, Docket Number: CP-39-CR-0005610-2006, and I will of course restrict my communication with Judge Steinberg to this case, and to this case only, when we meet.
Let me know Judge Steinberg’s answer, and FYI, I will perceive an answer of "Mr. Villa has 'no standing' in this case" as another stonewalling tactic designed to quash the truth from getting out.
Also, please advise Judge Steinberg that I am taking my verifiably factual findings of favoritism and collusion regarding the prosecution and sentencing of DUIs and DUI homicides in Lehigh County to objective media and publishers far beyond the protective and cooperative, crony-colluding media bubble of the Lehigh Valley, and that I will not stop until my inconvenient facts, and its colluding players, are exposed to a national audience.
In closing, I am totally receptive to being shown by Judge Steinberg where and why my findings of favoritism and collusion may be faulty, or outright wrong, which could be best communicated during an in-person meeting.
Conversely, continuing to stonewall me will make it look like Judge Steinberg is quashing the truth and shielding DA Jim Martin, and himself.
Sincerely,
Bill Villa
610.428.xxxx
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March 5, 2012
Dear Ms. Unangst:
I respectfully request an in-person meeting with Judge Steinberg to discuss a Lehigh County DUI homicide case, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Christopher Stephen Squires, Docket Number: CP-39-CR-0005610-2006, over which Judge Steinberg presided.
I would like to discuss this case’s curious, and unilateral, night before trial bargain plea deal, and what appears to be subsequent cover-up collusion involving DA Jim Martin and then Morning Call reporter (and current DA Jim Martin Executive Aide), Debbie Garlicki.
I will restrict my communication with Judge Steinberg to this case, and to this case only, when we meet.
Additionally, I am totally receptive to being shown by Judge Steinberg where and why my findings of case-fix favoritism and collusion may be faulty, or outright wrong, which could be best communicated during an in-person meeting with me.
Sincerely,
Bill Villa
610.428.xxxx
Thursday, November 10, 2011
What Message Does This Election Send?
DA Jim Martin's re-election would not have been possible without the countless and priceless collusions of The Morning Call "newspaper" [w/ a dishonorable mention to "reporter" Kevin Amerman] and the Dick Dean-owned 69 "News."
The profound shame is how The Morning Call "newspaper" and 69 "News" keep cheerleading for Jim Martin, never questioning him, never challenging him, and never publishing anything negative about him without preemptively adding a Martin-helpful excuse. After 14 years of Jim Martin truth concealing, they've succeeded in comprehensively bamboozling the "Super Voters" who re-elected Jim Martin on Tuesday. LVS can't see anybody ever running against Jim Martin again. It's seemingly impossible to beat the crony-crooked combination of Good Ol' Boy dough, the local lapdog media monopoly in his back pocket, and 28,000 media-bamboozled Super Voters. Jim Martin's got the DA job until he chokes on a cheese steak at Seward's and explodes or smashes head-on into a bridge driving drunk.
If The Morning Call "newspaper" and 69 "News" had reported honestly on even 10% of what this blog has exposed about Jim Martin over the past 3 years (see right sidebar content), we believe this election would have had a very different outcome. Spend some time here reading our inconvenient and verifiable facts and we're sure you'll agree.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Good Ol' Boy Network buy$ their snoozy & boozy DA Jim Martin another 4 year term
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Side:
Watch curiously prepared 69 "News" "reporter" Jaccii Farris lobbing 'softball' scripted questions and blowing kisses to Jim Martin on the Dick Dean-owned 69 "News."
Pictured w/ crooked and incompetent Lehigh County DA Jim Martin (right) is Martin's Good Ol' Boy Network mentor, the "Honorable" William H. Platt.
Cash Contributing Members of DA Jim Martin's reelection Finance Committee include Abe Atiyeh, Dexter Baker, Dean Browning, Joseph A. Bubba, Esq., Gene Buckno, Greg Butz, Judge Edward Cahn, Jack Daddona, Bob Ford, Dave Helmer, Mike Keenan, Jamie Musselman, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Esq., Bill & Phyllis Grube, David Jaindl, Mark Lieberman, Scott Pidcock, Wm. Platt, Esq., JB Reilly, Charles Snelling, Matthew Sorrentino, Esq., Joel Spira, John Waldron, Esq., Wayne Woodman & Lisa Scheller.
Cash Contributing Members of DA Jim Martin's reelection Host Committee include Air Products PAC, Angelo Almonti, Esq., Dr. John Altobelli, Hon. Patrick Browne, Lee Butz, Hon. Charles Dent, Howard Epstein, Jane Ervin, The Very Rev. Daniel G. Gambet, Sally Gammon, Elmer Gates, Malcolm J. Gross, Esq., Hon. Julie Harhart, Anne Harrity, Rev. Grant E. Harrity, William Heydt, Gavin P. Holihan, Esq., James T. Huber, Esq., Tony Iannelli, Bob Lovett, Hon. Bob Mensch, Michael Moyer, Esq., Michael Pessina, Dr. Raymond Singer, A. Renee Smith, Esq., Robert G. Tallman, Esq., Judge Thomas A. Wallitsch, and John Yurconic.
Generous 2011 repeat cash contributors include JB Reilly, Lee Butz, Abe Atiyeh, Gene Buckno, Joe Brake, Larry Beans, Bob Kelly, Michael Pessina, Wayne Woodman & Lisa Scheller, Gavin P. Holihan, Esq., Father Daniel Gambet, attorney (for now) David Najarian, Judge Maxwell Davison, Judge Edward Cahn, Merrily Starkey, David Jaindl, Anne Jaindl, and Catherine Jaindl-Leuthe. [Source:LehighCounty.org, Jim Martin 2011 Campaign Finance Reports]
What Message Does This Election Send?
DA Jim Martin's re-election would not have been possible without the countless and priceless collusions of The Morning Call "newspaper" [w/ a dishonorable mention to "reporter" Kevin Amerman] and the Dick Dean-owned 69 "News."
The profound shame is how The Morning Call "newspaper" and 69 "News" keep cheerleading for Jim Martin, never questioning him, never challenging him, and never publishing anything negative about him without preemptively adding a Martin-helpful excuse. After 14 years of Jim Martin truth concealing, they've succeeded in comprehensively bamboozling the "Super Voters" who re-elected Jim Martin on Tuesday. LVS can't see anybody ever running against Jim Martin again. It's seemingly impossible to beat the crony-crooked combination of Good Ol' Boy dough, the local lapdog media monopoly in his back pocket, and 28,000 media-bamboozled Super Voters. Jim Martin's got the DA job until he chokes on a cheese steak at Seward's and explodes or smashes head-on into a bridge driving drunk.
If The Morning Call "newspaper" and 69 "News" had reported honestly on even 10% of what this blog has exposed about Jim Martin over the past 3 years (see right sidebar content), we believe this election would have had a very different outcome. Spend some time here reading our inconvenient and verifiable facts and we're sure you'll agree.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Spooked Good Ol' Boy Network spends $157,000 to keep DA Jim Martin in power
$157, 356.21 (so far) to be exact [Source: LehighCounty.org, Jim Martin 2011 Campaign Finance Reports]All this big & greasy Good Ol' Boy money is being frantically spent on Jim Martin campaign signs, TV spots, direct mailers, radio ads, political campaign consulting (although apparently not debate coaching), polling, two campaign events hosted by The Brew Works ($2,248.08), etc., etc., etc., $157,356.21.
W-O-W. For a guy who's being dismissed by DA Jim Martin in Martin's deceit-laden campaign mailers as being "uniquely unqualified" to be Lehigh County District Attorney, the Good Ol' Boy Network sure is spooked by the ED KOREN challenge, eh? $157k-worth (so far) and counting.
That's because Ed Koren is in fact uniquely qualified to be Lehigh County DA and the Good Ol' Boys know it.
Watch the 'haymaker' ED KOREN TV SPOT that has them all a-quiverin' like Jaindl turkeys in October or an ex-Morning Call Editorial Board Czar.
Then read the transparently deceitful diarrhea that's being pooped out by DA Jim Martin lapdog and Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman, what a stench.
And which Good Ol' Boys, specifically, have ponied up the $157,356.21 (and counting) to keep their Good Ol' Boy DA Jim Martin on his (hiccup) throne?
All the usual (vested interest/pay-to-play) suspects.
Cash Contributing Members of DA Jim Martin's reelection Finance Committee include Abe Atiyeh, Dexter Baker, Dean Browning, Joseph A. Bubba, Esq., Gene Buckno, Greg Butz, Judge Edward Cahn, Jack Daddona, Bob Ford, Dave Helmer, Mike Keenan, Jamie Musselman, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Esq., Bill & Phyllis Grube, David Jaindl, Mark Lieberman, Scott Pidcock, Wm. Platt, Esq., JB Reilly, Charles Snelling, Matthew Sorrentino, Esq., Joel Spira, John Waldron, Esq., Wayne Woodman & Lisa Scheller.
Cash Contributing Members of DA Jim Martin's reelection Host Committee include Air Products PAC, Angelo Almonti, Esq., Dr. John Altobelli, Hon. Patrick Browne, Lee Butz, Hon. Charles Dent, Howard Epstein, Jane Ervin, The Very Rev. Daniel G. Gambet, Sally Gammon, Elmer Gates, Malcolm J. Gross, Esq., Hon. Julie Harhart, Anne Harrity, Rev. Grant E. Harrity, William Heydt, Gavin P. Holihan, Esq., James T. Huber, Esq., Tony Iannelli, Bob Lovett, Hon. Bob Mensch, Michael Moyer, Esq., Michael Pessina, Dr. Raymond Singer, A. Renee Smith, Esq., Robert G. Tallman, Esq., Judge Thomas A. Wallitsch, and John Yurconic.
Generous 2011 repeat cash contributors include JB Reilly, Lee Butz, Abe Atiyeh, Gene Buckno, Joe Brake, Larry Beans, Bob Kelly, Michael Pessina, Wayne Woodman & Lisa Scheller, Gavin P. Holihan, Esq., Father Daniel Gambet, attorney (for now) David Najarian, Judge Maxwell Davison, Judge Edward Cahn, Merrily Starkey, David Jaindl, Anne Jaindl, and Catherine Jaindl-Leuthe (gobble gobble).
Not listed were the countless and priceless kind considerations of The Morning Call "newspaper" and 69 "News."
Come on, Lehigh County, don't let the monied insider 1% Good Ol' Boys victimize the 99% of us with 4 more years of crooked and incompetent DA Jim Martin just so they can get their special favors.
Vote: Ed Koren for Lehigh County District Attorney on November 8.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
On November 8 ...
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Vote: Ed Koren for Lehigh County District Attorney on November 8.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Morning Call unleashes DA Jim Martin lapdog Kevin Amerman to smear Ed Koren
Here's Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman's 100% spin, non-story smear story. Readers, obviously, like 69 News, and DA Jim Martin, The Morning Call "newspaper" is scared shitless of their pal DA Jim Martin's challenger Ed Koren. So they're trying to destroy Ed Koren. Anybody not seeing through this? I mean anybody other than DA Jim Martin cash contributors and fellow Good Ol' Boys like Lee Butz, Greg Butz, David Jaindl, Mal Gross, Rev. Grant E. Harrity, Tony Iannelli, John Yurconic, Elmer Gates, Don Cunning-Ham, Judge Wm. Platt, etc., etc., disgraceful.
Vote: Ed Koren for Lehigh County District Attorney on November 8.
Readers, don't miss "reporter" Kevin Amerman's clever "analysis" of both candidates' campaign claims, and since when do reporters provide unsolicited analysis for us? Amerman (with a straight face) dismisses candidate Koren's campaign claims as being "False," while concluding that the truthfulness of candidate Martin's campaign claims are "nearly impossible to ascertain." And isn't that convenient? For candidate Martin. Now I mean, come on, isn't there some Journalism Integrity 101 police whistle that should have gone off here?
11/4 UpDate: Amerman Cuddles w/ Home Team
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Ed Koren's new 'haymaker' TV commercial has Team DA Jim Martin wetting its panties
Watch Ed Koren's Hard-Hitting New TV Spot #2 and Ed Koren's "Bio" Spot #1.
Then watch 69 News's carefully edited, and totally rigged, 2-Part, Ed Koren vs. Jim Martin "debate" that Ed Koren still wins handily, even w/ both hands tied behind his back by an obviously DA Jim Martin damage-controlling 69 News that, with this John Craven produced segment has, sadly, proven itself to be as crony-cozily in the bag for Jim Martin as is 69 News's cross-town cahoots club colleague, The Morning Call "newspaper."
10/26, 7:30 pm UpDate: Readers, "Part 2" of the Ed Koren vs. Jim Martin "rigged debate" that was originally broadcast on 69 News at 6:00 pm yesterday was, curiously, not originally included in 69 News's online version that we link to above. LVS today inquired as to why "Part 2" was omitted from 69 News's online version, and a 69 News spokesperson told us via email that "the person doing the posting wasn't paying attention and didn't realize the two parts were distinct. I'm told it's all in one piece now. If you play the video, part one plays into part two." A plausible explanation that we don't buy for a second. "Part 2" was purposefully omitted, in our opinion, because 69 News's longtime pal DA Jim Martin comes off like an embarrassingly tired and cranky old gas bag alkie in Part 2, while his challenger Ed Koren comes off like one tough former cop, and modern lawyer, who will make a great Lehigh County District Attorney. Watch Part 1 and Part 2 that now immediately follows Part 1 (thanks to LVS) and you'll see what we mean, and take note of the obvious "rigging" and futile attempts at Jim Martin damage control by the Dick Dean-owned 69 News > Part 1 & Part 2 [Note: 69 News has it rigged so that our links to their Part 1 & Part 2 rigged debate won't work via some smart phones so please use your desktop or laptop]
Vote: Ed Koren for Lehigh County District Attorney on November 8.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
DA Jim Martin is looking sorta stressed ... was it something I said?
In a direct mail flyer sent out recently, Lehigh County District Attorney (for now) Jim Martin deceptively takes personal credit for "60,000" prosecutions and further deceives recipients w/ a phony "97%" conviction rate claim. In doing so, dim bulb DA Jim (hiccup) Martin inadvertently admits to blowing 1,800 prosecutions (3% of 60,000 = 1,800), so far, during his stumble-bum reign as DA. Here's a case Martin blew. Here's another one. Here's another one. And according to Jimbo there are 1,797 more DA Jim Martin losses where criminal defendants walked. Thanks for sharing, Jim. Vote: Ed Koren for Lehigh County District Attorney on November 8.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
DA Jim Martin KO'd, pulverized by Bill Villa at West End Youth Center campaign debate
Readers, as you can see by clicking on and enlarging this post's revealing photo, Lehigh County District Attorney (for now) Jim Martin (left) was not pleased to see me in attendance at his Guest Speaker gig at the West End Youth Center on Tuesday evening. Right before I snapped this picture, all-bark no-bite Jim Martin barked at me, "Don't take my picture, Villa!" I told DA Martin that I was actually taking Republican judicial candidate Doug Reichley's photograph (that's Doug Reichley event-crashing and vote-pandering on the right) and that I would crop him (Martin) out of the picture "just like the voters will crop you out on November 8." Pow! The crowd roared. Sort of. Actually, some dizzy duped dunce dame seated to my right motioned to me while saying to Martin, "We can have him thrown out." To which Martin snorted, "We just may do that," and he motioned to a policeman standing guard behind his estimated 500+ pound girth. I counter-punched back at DA Martin, saying, "on what legal grounds would you have me thrown out, Jim?" Bully Martin seemed flustered by my directly in-his-face challenge question, so he socio-pathologically lied, "I didn't say that." "You don't need any grounds, do you Jim," I upper-cutted Martin and snapped his head back in my direction. "You do pretty much anything you want around here, isn't that right, Jim?" Pussy DA Jim Martin back-pedaled, and flailed, wildly,"Villa, I'm not going to debate you at this forum here tonight!" To which I grinned broadly and calmly back at Martin and said, "Oh I know, Jim, you wouldn't debate me anywhere."
And that ended the pre-fight 'trash talk' segment of our debate which was still ringing in Martin's swollen red ears when he was introduced moments later to the crowd of about 25 all white people, and mostly skittish seniors, by the President of "The West Watch Neighborhood Group," Pam Palmer (pamp@thewestwatch.org).
Evoking both Broderick Crawford and Foster Brooks, Martin blustered and staggered his way into an obviously canned, very stale, and bone dull boring recitation of what a district attorney does ("first there's a crime, then there's an arrest," Zzzz) while strongly implying that in Lehigh County, only He can do the job. Foolishly, and recklessly, punch drunk DA Jim Martin did not edit out (on the fly, say for my benefit) this part of his memorized rote speech:
"I don't mind being interrupted by on-topic questions." -DA Jim Martin
Oopsie. My first debate haymaker came flying seconds later when Martin tried to brag about a "97% conviction rate." I told those assembled that after watching DA Martin for the past 5 years, "it's obvious to anyone paying attention that DA Jim Martin routinely takes the easiest (for him) route possible to a conviction, and that easiest route is "Bargain" Plea Deals w/ Criminals, and that his "97%" conviction rate column was filled, mostly, with these kinds of "bargain" plea deals, and as such, "97%" is a highly deceptive "conviction rate" percentage and wouldn't you agree with me on this, Mr. Martin?"Astutely not taking the bait, Martin disagreed w/ me and said, stumblingly,"Sometimes you uh have to settle for uh half a loaf," to which the dizzy duped dunce dame to my right nodded her head up and down enthusiastically (not Parkinson's I don't think) and mouthed to Martin, basically, "good answer."
That we set the bar so (hiccup) shamefully low for our elected officials in Lehigh County should also be sadly obvious to anyone paying attention but I digress.
At this juncture, DA Martin attempted to introduce me to the crowd. Martin brayed that, "Mr. Villa has a vendetta against me for not charging third degree murder against the guy who killed his daughter" and that "Mr. Villa has been libeling me for 5 years."
At this juncture, I stood up .. and told the crowd that DA Jim Martin had "just made an outrageous accusation in claiming libel," and then turning to Martin I said to him,"Jim, you're the District Attorney (for now), if I'm LIBELING you, why don't you file charges against me?" Pusillanimously, so only the hearing aids in row 1 could hear it, Martin muttered,"One day, Villa, civil suit, one day." DA Martin then tried to continue slandering me to the crowd so I started walking toward the front of the room while saying, "Jim, if you're going to tell this crowd about me, I'm going to tell them a few things about you, so I'm coming up there to join you ..."
Well. Allentown's finest was on me faster than an Allentown City Council Facts & Truth about Michael Donovan Muzzling. With The West Watch's President Pam Palmer screeching for my ouster by the policeman, and an attendee behind me hissing "get lost," and nobody in the crowd of 25 sheep protesting or questioning why I was being physically ejected for merely asking questions that DA Jim Martin had just invited ... something quite unexpected, but most welcome, happened next.
One person made a difference.
Paul Krempasky, the President of the West End Youth Center (where I've assistant-coached my rifle arm son Gianni's baseball team the past 2 seasons), spoke up from his perch on a bar stool in the back of the room. Krempasky basically told Martin's goon squad cop that his strong-arm tactics were premature and inappropriate and that I should be allowed to speak, from my seat. As the 25 sheep in the room watched, I released myself from the policeman's grip (and a likely handcuffed and railroaded ride to Lehigh County Prison) and returned to my seat where I continued to mop the fuckin' floor w/ crooked and incompetent DA Jim Martin.
First, I told the crowd that a charge of third degree murder for my daughter Sheena's killer would have been appropriate. Then, I insisted that Martin tell the crowd who the father of the guy who killed my daughter is (Gross McGinley attorney Don LaBarre) and what law firm Martin chose recently (Gross McGinley) to defend him in a court action, out of all the law firms in Allentown he could have chosen. Reluctantly, but obediently, Big Bad Jim owned up to the glaringly obvious crony connection. The room got so quiet the guy behind me stopped hissing at me to "get lost."
Side Note: DA Martin developed a noticeable facial tic when I referred to The Morning Call "newspaper" as "your press agent."
FYI: The Morning Call's longtime law firm is Gross McGinley and if a Gross McGinley lawyer's son kills your daughter, please be advised that DA Jim Martin will let him leave the country and go on vacation to Belize, Central America, while out on bail for homicide and helpful Gross McGinley client, The Morning Call "newspaper," won't ever report that. And if you ask them why, they won't answer you, 229 times.
From here on ott, the debate beating only got worser & worser for Dumbo Jumbo Jimbo (left) pictured w/ his much obliged lapdog Democrat, Don Cunning-Ham.
On Martin's topic of "prudent use of taxpayer resources," I figuratively pounded a wobbly Martin senseless all over the ring regarding why he insisted on appealing his "outrageous" Shiatsu Massage Parlor Sex Case all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (they rejected it too), after having been rejected in Lehigh County Court and Pennsylvania Superior Court.
"Jim, was this a prudent use of taxpayer resources?"
Martin's answer: "Yes, it was."
On Martin's topic of "our good Lehigh County judges, and having a good working relationship with them," to the now mounting interest of the sheep crowd, I noted that "in addition to showing up Judge Steinberg by appealing his rightful rejection of your 'outrageous' sex case all the way to the PA Supreme Court, now you're appealing and showing up Lehigh County Judge Michele Varricchio's ruling against you that Mayor Rick Hoffman, and not you, is the chief law enforcement officer in Macungie. Jim, does this kind of petty and vendetta-driven head butting of our good Lehigh County judges foster having a good working relationship with them?"
Martin, visibly sweating, guffawed nervously at the notion he has a vendetta against any Lehigh County judges but the inconvenient facts indicate otherwise. Read between the lines of Lehigh County Judge James T. Anthony's recent, rare, and very public bitch slapping of DA Jim Martin for Martin's lazy, "bargain" plea deals with criminals. Judge Anthony voiced his incredulousness a second time during his sentencing of one of DA Jim Martin's "bargain" plea deal recipients on April 25, 2011.
I closed in (and knocked Martin out cold) with Michael Eric Ballard, the guy who slit an Allentown man's throat in 1991, killing him, and who DA Jim Martin enabled to knife, and slaughter to death, 4 more innocent people in Northampton last year by failing to respond to a letter from the parole board requesting DA Jim Martin's opinion on whether murderer Michael Eric Ballard was a risk to society or not. Turns out he was. But DA Jim Martin never opened or responded to the memo from the parole board ... so they set Michael Eric Ballard free and he murdered 4 more people.
Trapped like a 500-pound rat, Martin admitted to the crowd that, "Mr. Villa is completely correct about this, there was a breakdown in my office, and we regret that, but we've fixed it, and ... bla bla bla."
I then noted that, time line-wise, while 5-time murderer Michael Eric Ballard was falling through the cracks at DA Jim Martin's office, Martin himself was "cracking up," laughing, while listening to audio recordings of the State Police's paid informant who was "wearing a wire" while enjoying a "smorgasbord of sex" (Judge Steinberg's quote) on 4 different "outrageous" occasions (again, Judge Steinberg's quote) at a Whitehall Shiatsu Sex Massage Parlor, as was reported in The Morning Call. Here's my knockout punch in slo-mo ...
"Ladies and gentlemen, DA Jim Martin was too busy laughing at sex tapes to open and answer his mail."
By now, the vibe in the room felt like some of the 25 sheep had possibly meandered over to my side.
When nobody had any more questions about gang crime that DA Jim Martin could not answer to anyone's satisfaction, The West Watch President/Moderator Pam Palmer actually, and politely, asked me if I had any additional questions.
I said, "I'm finished with Mr. Martin."
After the debate was over, quite unlike unrepentant and remorseless DA Jim Martin sycophants Michael Donovan, and attorney (for now) Dave Najarian, both the guy who had hissed "get lost" at me and the cop who had tried unsuccessfully to muzzle and eject me ... apologized to me.
I appreciated that.
Ditto Paul Krempasky for doing the right thing and making a difference.
Following DA Jim Martin and his gargantuan and gaudy, black & silver Cadillac SUV [PA Lic. Plate # FMN7795] out of the parking lot in my Honda Fit Sport, I noticed that, when turning left or right, Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin does not use his turn signals.
On November 8, let's kick Jim "above the law" Martin and his crooked colluding cronies off the throne and out of power.
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