Showing posts with label Exposing Crooked Colluding Cronies in an Election Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exposing Crooked Colluding Cronies in an Election Year. Show all posts

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]

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

DA Jim Martin KO'd, pulverized by Bill Villa at West End Youth Center campaign debate



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. Nice work, Chief.  

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 'Ballard' 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.


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.


VILLAS: WHY WE FIGHT

2017 UpDate: The Allentown Policeman who tried, unsuccessfully, to arrest & muzzle me during Q & A and shield DA Jim Martin from me was then APD Captain, and now Chief, Keith Morris.  Some things never change in crooked, colluding-crony-connected & complicit Lehigh County. See Related Story. And another Related Story. And another Related Story. And one more. And a bunch more.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Glenn Kranzley refused Bill Villa a "Welcome Mat" meeting 229 times to shield DA Martin

Glenn Kranzley is the former longtime editorial and opinions editor, and VP, at The Morning Call "newspaper."

These days he's a freelancer who also teaches "journalism" part-time at Lehigh University with Morning Call cronies that include Lehigh U adjunct "journalism" professor Christine (Press Agent for Celebrity Criminals) Schiavo ... Lehigh U adjunct "journalism" professor and "opinion columnist" William "Bill" White ... and Lehigh U "journalism" professor and elusive Morning Call "editor" Wally Trimble [Note: we didn't knock Wally's tooth out.]

Kranzley also moonlights ironically as an "instructor in communications" at Penn State Lehigh Valley.

But in happier times, Glenn G. Kranzley ruled the editorial and opinions roost at The Morning Call w/ a fist as stubbornly inflexible as iron.

Kranzley was especially powerful and influential as a member of the (now disbanded and defunct) Morning Call Editorial Board that annually and magnanimously boasted (in print) of having its:

"welcome mat always out for those who want to be heard." [See: paragraph 4 ]

FYI, I was one of "those who wanted to be heard."

My first born, and only daughter, Sheena Villa, was killed by the son of a prominent Allentown attorney who is a partner in the politically over-connected Allentown law firm, Gross McGinley, that has represented The Morning Call for many years.

I had some questions about the favoritism tactics being employed by sometime Gross McGinley client and Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin regarding several cases I had been following closely, in addition to my daughter Sheena's case.

In October 2007, Morning Call Investigations Editor Tim Darragh discussed my questions w/ me over the phone, for two hours, and told me my questions were ...

"excellent questions that deserved to be answered."

Although answers (acquired via Morning Call investigative reporting) would have been nice, at the time I was willing to settle for just discussing my excellent questions with The Morning Call Editorial Board after politely wiping my feet on their extended-to-everyone-else-who-wanted-to-be-heard welcome mat.


In all, Glenn Kranzley rejected 229 polite email requests from me for a "welcome mat" meeting w/ his Editorial Board.

Along the way, Kranzley also rejected numerous outreaches from City and County elected officials questioning him as to why he was denying me a meeting. Incredibly, Kranzley even blew off a gracious offer from then Chairman of the Lehigh County Commissioners, Percy Dougherty, PhD who volunteered to act as a moderator at a "welcome mat" meeting involving The Morning Call Editorial Board and myself.

Kranzley's only communication to me on this was a purposefully inflammatory 2-word email saying, "We'll pass."

Team Martin gatekeeper Kranzley's overt wagon-circling was briefly 'challenged' by the Lehigh Valley blogosphere. Kranzley's response was to invite most of the 'dissenting' bloggers to become affiliated w/ The Morning Call "newspaper" and have their blogs featured on The Morning Call's website. Predictably, all of the publicity-aquiver bloggers' challenging questions stopped immediately and their allied and malicious 'straw party' litigation led by diminutive Morning Call blogger, election loser, and attorney (for now) David C. Najarian started soon after but was ultimately defeated by us in court. Sadly, Morning Call-affiliated malice and harassment against us continues. Ditto DA Jim Martin's Villa Vendetta and The Morning Call purposefully looking the other way on phony trumped-up criminal charges that were rigged against me by DA Jim Martin and Tom Corbett but were ultimately defeated by us in court.

In the two years since Glenn Kranzley's karmatic shit-canning, I've succeeded in answering most of my own excellent questions about DA Jim Martin's tactics ... definitively.



VILLAS: WHY WE FIGHT

Glenn Kranzley refused Bill Villa a "Welcome Mat" meeting 229 times to shield DA Martin

Glenn Kranzley is the former longtime editorial and opinions editor, and VP, at The Morning Call "newspaper."

These days he's a freelancer who also teaches "journalism" part-time at Lehigh University with Morning Call cronies that include Lehigh U adjunct "journalism" professor Christine (Press Agent for Celebrity Criminals) Schiavo ... Lehigh U adjunct "journalism" professor and "opinion columnist" William "Bill" White ... and Lehigh U "journalism" professor and elusive Morning Call "editor" Wally Trimble [Note: we didn't knock Wally's tooth out.]

Kranzley also moonlights ironically as an "instructor in communications" at Penn State Lehigh Valley.

But in happier times, Glenn G. Kranzley ruled the editorial and opinions roost at The Morning Call w/ a fist as stubbornly inflexible as iron.

Kranzley was especially powerful and influential as a member of the (now disbanded and defunct) Morning Call Editorial Board that annually and magnanimously boasted (in print) of having its:

"welcome mat always out for those who want to be heard." [See: paragraph 4 ]

FYI, I was one of "those who wanted to be heard."

My first born, and only daughter, Sheena Villa, was killed by the son of a prominent Allentown attorney who is a partner in the politically over-connected Allentown law firm, Gross McGinley, that has represented The Morning Call for many years.

I had some questions about the favoritism tactics being employed by sometime Gross McGinley client and Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin regarding several cases I had been following closely, in addition to my daughter Sheena's case.

In October 2007, Morning Call Investigations Editor Tim Darragh discussed my questions w/ me over the phone, for two hours, and told me my questions were ...

"excellent questions that deserved to be answered."

Although answers (acquired via Morning Call investigative reporting) would have been nice, at the time I was willing to settle for just discussing my excellent questions with The Morning Call Editorial Board after politely wiping my feet on their extended-to-everyone-else-who-wanted-to-be-heard welcome mat.


In all, Glenn Kranzley rejected 229 polite email requests from me for a "welcome mat" meeting w/ his Editorial Board.

Along the way, Kranzley also rejected numerous outreaches from City and County elected officials questioning him as to why he was denying me a meeting. Incredibly, Kranzley even blew off a gracious offer from then Chairman of the Lehigh County Commissioners, Percy Dougherty, PhD who volunteered to act as a moderator at a "welcome mat" meeting involving The Morning Call Editorial Board and myself.

Kranzley's only communication to me on this was a purposefully inflammatory 2-word email saying, "We'll pass."

Team Martin gatekeeper Kranzley's overt wagon-circling was briefly 'challenged' by the Lehigh Valley blogosphere. Kranzley's response was to invite most of the 'dissenting' bloggers to become affiliated w/ The Morning Call "newspaper" and have their blogs featured on The Morning Call's website. Predictably, all of the publicity-aquiver bloggers' challenging questions stopped immediately and their allied and malicious 'straw party' litigation led by diminutive Morning Call blogger, election loser, and attorney (for now) David C. Najarian started soon after but was ultimately defeated by us in court. Sadly, Morning Call-affiliated malice and harassment against us continues. Ditto DA Jim Martin's Villa Vendetta and The Morning Call purposefully looking the other way on phony trumped-up criminal charges that were rigged against me by DA Jim Martin and Tom Corbett but were ultimately defeated by us in court.

In the two years since Glenn Kranzley's karmatic shit-canning, I've succeeded in answering most of my own excellent questions about DA Jim Martin's tactics ... definitively.



VILLAS: WHY WE FIGHT

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Will DA Jim Martin "Executive Aide" and ex-Morning Call "reporter" Debbie Garlicki face The Inconvenient Facts this week?

[UpDate: Garlicki still hiding, ducking me]

Email, Outgoing, to DA Jim Martin "Executive Aide," Debbie Garlicki, cc'd to DA Jim Martin (left).

On Saturday 9/24/11 at 11:40am Bill Villa wrote:

Subject Heading: You Getting Back To Me

Hi Debbie, on Sept 20, I spoke (briefly) w/ deputy DA Craig Scheetz who, after refusing to answer a query by Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman also refused to speak w/ me (a Lehigh County taxpayer) about the stunning upset acquittal of Roberto Rios.

Instead, deputy DA Craig Scheetz directed me to speak w/ you, Debbie.

As you know, I left you a polite and detailed voicemail message on Sept 20 that not even former PA State Attorney General Tom Corbett and your boss (for now) DA Jim Martin could construe as (wink wink) "harassment."

When you blew me off, I politely emailed you on Sept 22 asking when can I expect you to get back to me-- per deputy DA Craig Scheetz's directive to me that I speak w/ you, Debbie, and I'm not one to ignore a directive from law enforcement.

Again you blew me off.

Debbie, as a taxpayer and citizen exposé journalist, I am politely asking you for a [3rd] time to please arrange a time to speak w/ me in person, or over the phone, to discuss the stunning acquittal of Roberto Rios and also your role in DA Jim Martin's and chief deputy DA Renee Smith's blatant, 11th hour fixing of the Chris Squires DUI homicide case.

As of now, my Monday 9/26 is wide open, let me know.

Relentlessly,

Bill Villa
610.428.xxxx

Will DA Jim Martin "Executive Aide" and ex-Morning Call "reporter" Debbie Garlicki face The Inconvenient Facts this week?

[UpDate: Garlicki still hiding, ducking me]

Email, Outgoing, to DA Jim Martin "Executive Aide," Debbie Garlicki, cc'd to DA Jim Martin (left).

On Saturday 9/24/11 at 11:40am Bill Villa wrote:

Subject Heading: You Getting Back To Me

Hi Debbie, on Sept 20, I spoke (briefly) w/ deputy DA Craig Scheetz who, after refusing to answer a query by Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman also refused to speak w/ me (a Lehigh County taxpayer) about the stunning upset acquittal of Roberto Rios.

Instead, deputy DA Craig Scheetz directed me to speak w/ you, Debbie.

As you know, I left you a polite and detailed voicemail message on Sept 20 that not even former PA State Attorney General Tom Corbett and your boss (for now) DA Jim Martin could construe as (wink wink) "harassment."

When you blew me off, I politely emailed you on Sept 22 asking when can I expect you to get back to me-- per deputy DA Craig Scheetz's directive to me that I speak w/ you, Debbie, and I'm not one to ignore a directive from law enforcement.

Again you blew me off.

Debbie, as a taxpayer and citizen exposé journalist, I am politely asking you for a [3rd] time to please arrange a time to speak w/ me in person, or over the phone, to discuss the stunning acquittal of Roberto Rios and also your role in DA Jim Martin's and chief deputy DA Renee Smith's blatant, 11th hour fixing of the Chris Squires DUI homicide case.

As of now, my Monday 9/26 is wide open, let me know.

Relentlessly,

Bill Villa
610.428.xxxx

Thursday, September 22, 2011

DA Jim Martin frees drunk driver who hit police car, fled, fought with officers, had prior DUI and careless driving arrest


["Reporter" Manny Gamiz responds. See comments.]

[UpDated 9/25/11] Readers, turns out accused drunk driver/cop car crasher Christopher Nobile had a prior DUI on 2/8/05 and a prior (same date) arrest for careless driving and public drunkenness. Q. Did DA Jim Martin, the cops, or the arraigning judge check for priors prior to bailing out and releasing Chris "Crash" Nobile?

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Possibly thinking (?) that people who live in glass houses shouldn't (hiccup) throw stones, on Saturday night 9/17/11 local police and DA Jim Martin curiously OK'd granting bail to, and releasing, a Lower Macungie Township man who, driving drunk, had crashed into a police car and then drove off with the cops in hot pursuit, at one point driving the wrong way on Route 100 and forcing other cars off the road, and then resisting arrest and fighting with the police officers who eventually captured him.

Chris Nobile, 43, admitted to the roughed-up cops he had been drinking.

He was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude police, drunk driving, simple assault, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, harassment and accidents involving damage to attended vehicle or property.

Nobile was also charged with a number of traffic violations, including careless driving, reckless driving, driving the wrong way, running stop signs, driving without lights to avoid identification or arrest, failing to stop at a red signal and failing to yield for an emergency vehicle.

He was released after posting just $25,000 bail, i.e., only $2,500 of his own money via bail bondsman.

As mentioned above, defendant Christopher Nobile had a prior DUI on 2/8/05 and a prior (same date) arrest for careless driving and public drunkenness.

Q. Would you or I have been granted the same leniency? On our third offense. It's not likely, and LVS is in the process of trying to find out what makes Chris Nobile so special to DA Jim Martin. Not surprisingly, The Morning Call "newspaper" has no interest in finding out-- that's the distinct impression I got after speaking on the telephone w/ Morning Call "reporter" Manny Gamiz.

Read Manny's (helpfully, 3 days late) Morning Call "newspaper" account from 9/20/11: Police: Alleged drunk driver fled after striking police car

69 News has not yet covered this story in any way.

DA Jim Martin frees drunk driver who hit police car, fled, fought with officers, had prior DUI and careless driving arrest


["Reporter" Manny Gamiz responds. See comments.]

[UpDated 9/25/11] Readers, turns out accused drunk driver/cop car crasher Christopher Nobile had a prior DUI on 2/8/05 and a prior (same date) arrest for careless driving and public drunkenness. Q. Did DA Jim Martin, the cops, or the arraigning judge check for priors prior to bailing out and releasing Chris "Crash" Nobile?

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Possibly thinking (?) that people who live in glass houses shouldn't (hiccup) throw stones, on Saturday night 9/17/11 local police and DA Jim Martin curiously OK'd granting bail to, and releasing, a Lower Macungie Township man who, driving drunk, had crashed into a police car and then drove off with the cops in hot pursuit, at one point driving the wrong way on Route 100 and forcing other cars off the road, and then resisting arrest and fighting with the police officers who eventually captured him.

Chris Nobile, 43, admitted to the roughed-up cops he had been drinking.

He was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude police, drunk driving, simple assault, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, harassment and accidents involving damage to attended vehicle or property.

Nobile was also charged with a number of traffic violations, including careless driving, reckless driving, driving the wrong way, running stop signs, driving without lights to avoid identification or arrest, failing to stop at a red signal and failing to yield for an emergency vehicle.

He was released after posting just $25,000 bail, i.e., only $2,500 of his own money via bail bondsman.

As mentioned above, defendant Christopher Nobile had a prior DUI on 2/8/05 and a prior (same date) arrest for careless driving and public drunkenness.

Q. Would you or I have been granted the same leniency? On our third offense. It's not likely, and LVS is in the process of trying to find out what makes Chris Nobile so special to DA Jim Martin. Not surprisingly, The Morning Call "newspaper" has no interest in finding out-- that's the distinct impression I got after speaking on the telephone w/ Morning Call "reporter" Manny Gamiz.

Read Manny's (helpfully, 3 days late) Morning Call "newspaper" account from 9/20/11: Police: Alleged drunk driver fled after striking police car

69 News has not yet covered this story in any way.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Morning Call lets DA Jim Martin get away with "No Comment" on stunning acquittal

Readers, don't let the purposefully dizzying and convoluted coverage by The Morning Call "newspaper" bamboozle you.

Try reading their September 15 article: Man acquitted of kidnapping

Editor's Note: The Morning Call "newspaper" has deleted this article from its archives to shield DA Jim Martin from scrutiny. It originally ran on September 15, 2011. Poof. It's not there anymore, click here and have a look.

This one's pretty simple really.

Either ... a guilty kidnapper walked in this case because increasingly erratic and incompetent prosecutor DA Jim Martin failed to convince the jury of his guilt.

Or ... an innocent man was falsely charged by an increasingly erratic and incompetent DA Jim Martin and the jury saw right through it quickly.

It was one or the other.

And curiously, according to Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman ...

"Attempts to reach the prosecutor [from DA Jim Martin's office] in the case, Craig Scheetz, for comment after the verdict were unsuccessful."

Yo ... Cubby ... don't give up so easily.

In fact, tell ya what ...

We'll work on this story together this week.

I'll phone you first thing Monday morning.

This case stinks to high heaven and I want answers.


Morning Call lets DA Jim Martin get away with "No Comment" on stunning acquittal

Readers, don't let the purposefully dizzying and convoluted coverage by The Morning Call "newspaper" bamboozle you.

Try reading their September 15 article: Man acquitted of kidnapping

Editor's Note: The Morning Call "newspaper" has deleted this article from its archives to shield DA Jim Martin from scrutiny. It originally ran on September 15, 2011. Poof. It's not there anymore, click here and have a look.

This one's pretty simple really.

Either ... a guilty kidnapper walked in this case because increasingly erratic and incompetent prosecutor DA Jim Martin failed to convince the jury of his guilt.

Or ... an innocent man was falsely charged by an increasingly erratic and incompetent DA Jim Martin and the jury saw right through it quickly.

It was one or the other.

And curiously, according to Morning Call "reporter" Kevin Amerman ...

"Attempts to reach the prosecutor [from DA Jim Martin's office] in the case, Craig Scheetz, for comment after the verdict were unsuccessful."

Yo ... Cubby ... don't give up so easily.

In fact, tell ya what ...

We'll work on this story together this week.

I'll phone you first thing Monday morning.

This case stinks to high heaven and I want answers.


Friday, September 16, 2011

It's Official: Judge Michele Varricchio rules that DA Jim Martin doesn't know the law


Today's Morning Call "newspaper" reluctantly reports the news of a humiliating defeat for their longtime colluding crony pal DA Jim Martin ...


Finally, bully DA Jim Martin's shameful and media un-challenged public harassment of Macungie Mayor Rick Hoffman is over.

Or is it?

The Morning Call notes that a curiously un-named "spokeswoman" for DA Jim Martin named Debbie Garlicki said DA Martin is considering an appeal!



Yeow. Readers, FYI, last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to even hear a frivolous and vexatious appeal filed by DA Jim Martin that had already been rejected resoundingly by the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Lehigh County Common Pleas Court.

That case involved DA Jim Martin's hardened, wide-stance insistence that he had the ultimate authority to pay undercover informants to have tape recorded sex with prostitute masseuses as many times as he liked.

Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg disagreed disgustingly and tossed Martin's case out of his sight calling it 'outrageous.'

Frustrated, and engorged, DA Jim Martin then pumped countless taxpayer dollars and county man hours into appealing Judge Steinberg's ruling to the Pennsylvania Superior Court where he lost BIG again.  Incredibly, Martin then appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In refusing to even hear DA Jim Martin's Superior Court ruling appeal, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court basically told DA Jim Martin to take his already twice-tossed Shiatsu sex case and beat it ... and then (presumably) to have a cigarette.


Locally, only LVS covered the outcome of DA Jim Martin's "Shiatsu Sex" scandal and you can re-enjoy our money shot, exclusively, by clicking this link ...

It's Official: Judge Michele Varricchio rules that DA Jim Martin doesn't know the law

















Today's Morning Call "newspaper" reluctantly reports the news of a humiliating defeat for their longtime colluding crony pal DA Jim Martin ...


Finally, bully DA Jim Martin's shameful and media un-challenged public harassment of Macungie Mayor Rick Hoffman is over.

Or is it?

The Morning Call notes that a curiously un-named "spokeswoman" for DA Jim Martin named Debbie Garlicki said DA Martin is considering an appeal!



Yeow. Readers, FYI, last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to even hear a frivolous and vexatious appeal filed by DA Jim Martin that had already been rejected resoundingly by the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Lehigh County Common Pleas Court.

That case involved DA Jim Martin's hardened, wide-stance insistence that he had the ultimate authority to pay undercover informants to have tape recorded sex with prostitute masseuses as many times as he liked.

Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg disagreed disgustingly and tossed Martin's case out of his sight calling it 'outrageous.'

Frustrated, and engorged, DA Jim Martin then pumped countless taxpayer dollars and county man hours into appealing Judge Steinberg's ruling to the Pennsylvania Superior Court where he lost BIG again.  Incredibly, Martin then appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In refusing to even hear DA Jim Martin's Superior Court ruling appeal, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court basically told DA Jim Martin to take his already twice-tossed Shiatsu sex case and beat it ... and then (presumably) to have a cigarette.


Locally, only LVS covered the outcome of DA Jim Martin's "Shiatsu Sex" scandal and you can re-enjoy our money shot, exclusively, by clicking this link ...