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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
3580 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CA 9001 0
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Gr~rt Roberts
P.O. Box 8491
No. Hollywood, CA 91608 I
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210 w. Temple St . .
17th floor - L.A. CA j~
Name: GREG $OBERTS 90012
STATEMENT ATTN.: Special Investigations
Division (SID)
Date: .5-20-91
H/P .~VICTIM): Greg Roberts
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-= North Hollywood, Calif. 91005
Occupation: Freelance TJ~ri ter/pro-Publi~ Interest Phone: Same
Non-Lawyer Advocate;
ATTN: Head Deputy - SID
AIS_2-ATTN: J:!ead Dep:itlf,. Marsha Gonzales, L.A . . ci t~Atty. 's Special ·
Trials Division , ~ both .Agencies (IA DA/ SID and7or
· :-IA City Atty.) wer~thorized by Deputy State Atty. Gen.
Ms. r.·Kessel on orz about 6-9-89 to enforce the
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Jalif. Brown Act (Govt. Code Section 549.54 etc.)
Criminal Misd. J'rovision, particulafty City A tty. of L.·A ~
Special Trials/Special En.forcement Section (SES): . _
~ISO .IBGARDING: Pa~tern of' CRA (L.A. City;Community Redevel~pmen-~- ~ - ­Agency)
Board of Directors and/or Exec. Director to use IAPD Officer(s) ~
to harass, batter, intimidate, attack, ·terrorize. this U.S. Citizen
(GREG ROB~~TS) prior to and. since Jan. 1991 to the point that I am
personally fearful of returning to a CRA Board meeting even though I
reside in a CRA Project Zone in North Hollywood as a result of lat~st
:physfoal and/or "Verba~ assaults from LAPD Officer tr'yce Spafford . .
. in Jan. 1991 and/or (verbal) approx. Feb. 1991 ; LAPD Int~rnal Affairs _
Division (IAD) is refusing to take complaints from me and process them~
(Sergeants Bertrand, c. Fisher (female cauc.), Farrell and despite a _
dire~t~ order in-pe~son to Sgt. Bertrand from ~ IAD Lt. II Otis Dobine _
that he do so o~~-.5-6~91 as relayed to him by. myself and Se~ts : ..
(FNU) . Trujillo (phon. spelling) and Jim rJiiller ; Sgt. (FNU) K · Sanchez·- ... ,_ ·
of IAD 213/485-4151 refused to process a ·complaint from me 5-16-91
and effective 5=16-91, I notified LAPD Chief D.F. Gates office
and_ again on 5-17-91 that IAD's supervising Office of Adm. Services
(for~erly known as Office of Special Services) simply lacks control over
these I.lill sergeants who deliperately violate direct order(s) from . ·
male'black Lt. Otis ~obine of IADl (Sgt. Bertrand is a male white, .. ~
profile of the Chicago police in_ the 1930's - 1920's);
NOTS: The ~aA clerical staff for Board Secy. J.54 S. Spring St., 8th
floor, L.A. CA 90013, 213/977-1600 - Alice Lowe - deletes from the officia ~
minutes 'he continuing presence o~ LAPB Central Area Officer Br¥ce
Spafford as the 0RA's in fact ~ "master at arms" or sergeaniJ at
arms; LAPD Area Captain Jerry Conner told me on the phone on or about
1-16-91 that he is not responsible for ·what Off. Spafford does at the
C~A Board meeting(s) even though Off. Spafford is in uniform and then
goes to work at LAPD Central Area Station duties after the downtown L.A.
CRA Board meetings; even if he . is "off duty", Capt. Conner is still
responsibla. for proc~ssing his "work permit" for off-duty work and
8apt. Conner H is still responsible for what the officer does in terms of
illegal acts, misconduct etc. under these circumstances; ·
r·.1s. Lowe hung up on :ne on 5-17-91 when I brought up this subject .
-On or about 1-16-91, Off Bryce Spafford refused to ·investigate my
complaint· that r.Ir. Jim VJood, ·C~~A Board Chair, had a " .l~equest To Speak"
fror.i r.ie on an Item but failed to call on me; however, 1"1s . Lov.r§ did
--Con~n plain sheets of o'i?'.d"-- ~~
Prui:e o:f 5- ~ / P-MtM . . __ _
a SPECIAL INVES. DIVISION
(SID)
L.A. DA' s OFFICE
L.A. City Atty. ~ Special Trials Division - Head Deputy
.5-20-91
p at my request and point out to Mr. Wood he "overlooked" the
est to speak - he later called on me;
LA City Council meetings, the master-at-arms, Sgt. at Arms,
Officers Radavich and/or Curry, w~ll investig~ overlooked
"request to speak" form submitted but not Off. It Spafford~ at the CRA
B~d meeting(s) ;
~~~~or about 1-16-91, I was aware of LA City Fire Code overcrowding
regulations for public meetings in this type of (skid row CRA office
bldg. - 4th floor conference room); Off. Spafford refused to call the
LA. Oi ty Fire Dept., Public Safety Asse.mbly Inspectors and/or permit A o use the phone nearby him to contact LAFD;
1-16-91, Off. Spafford then stood up and smacked me in the chest
/ ruck me in the chest - he said later he toldim' me to "get out of
my face"; he sits in an area where you (public) have to walk over to
him - . the most spacious are·a is directly towards him rather than
ing over the persons seated to his left in the first row;
. Jerry Conner subsequently hung up on me when I called him
at Central Area Station to report misconduct and/or assault from
.. Spa~ford at the CRA Board meeting;·
his was reported to Sgt. (FNU) Beck of IAD (485-4151) - misconduct
by Capt. Conner ana misconduct/violation of 149 CFC on the part of
' • Spafford - assault under c~ of auft1ori ty without lawful
essity as he beat / struck me~ 1-16-91;
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he day befcre this hap&pened, at the CRA Board meeting, Off. Spafford
assigned to "polic-r=a demonstration at or near JOO N. Los Angeles
St., L.A. Fed. Bldg. -- the demonstration evidently was for "peace" in
Iraqi vs/ US military Pre. ~. Bush Adm. -- Off. Spafford advise~e that
the "sixties are starting owr again"; I am aware that in 1967•,
LAPD'offtcers~ressive-t-crree-a-t-ttte Century Plaza Hote!-rn
suppressing a "peac'e" demonstration at that time under former LAPD
Chief Thomas Reddin; Spafford's impression of the sixties and his role
as ~ LAPD officer may be to imitate Chief Reddin's officers and/or
Mr. ~eddin's eventual successor, Edw. rn. Davis, Chief from approx.
09 to 1977;
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-Sgt. Beck of IAD was instructed by Lt. Dave Smith of IAD to not pursue
my complaint about Off. Spafford and, Lt. Smith told me later,
" sue us ift you don't like it" and Lt, Smith fabricated a cover story
Off. Spafford~ the phone;
PD Cmdr. Jim Chambers advised me he would investigate the matter and
Capt. Conner's secretary on a later date trans. me to Capt. II
(FNU) Rullier. I explained to him I believe it is a legal fiction that
Off. Spafford is off duty at CRA Board meetings and in any case
he and Capt. III Conner are still responsible for what he does as . LAPD
issued him this so-called off duty work permit to work at C~A Board
meetings as the master/sergeant at arms; Capt. Rullier told me he "\\'ould
call Off. Spafford in for a in-person chat about my complaint(~
pursusant to SJ2. 5 cp:::; and LAF: re :; ulation2. ~
LA DA SID J
LA CITY ATTY. -- Special trials Div.
~-20-91 . J -Much of the above was ~epeated or stated by me previously on a Monday
when Hon. Gloria Molina·was still an LA 0ity · Council member at
a Monday CRA Sub-committee hearing of the LA City Council's CRA
Operations Review Committee; I recall Off. Radavich was present when I
spoke and he was listening to what I said.
am aware that at the next CRA Board meeting I attended, in about.
/91, before the meeting got underway, I was harassed in the mens'
om by Off. Spafford, who falsely claimed or implied in the presenc~
of .Jim Wood J_and others) that I haff M= supposedly "locked the door"
when in fact » Spafford knew he was making up an absolute~ 1alsehood -
a person on crutches had . a difficult time, getting into the mens' room
but the door was cleaily not locked and I brought this subject up
under public comment, limiting .the remarks to possible maintenance
defects although I doubt that there waiS anything wrong with the lock
oyoor but we can possibly stipulate that anything is poss~ble ...... ;
/~-~ ~ware that LAPD Chief D.F. Gates did not want to send his (our)
LAPD f icers to CRA Board meetings but did so at the insistenc~
of im Wood, L.A. Mayor Tom . Bradley, etc. etc.;
-I am xa;are that when Mr. Wood previously fileda:t "Citizens Arrest"
of William T. Hayes, a male black critic of CRA, I was subsequently
battered by LAPD Central Area Off. (FNU) Kessee - this was in approx.
1989, and I am aware that Deputy City Atty. Chris Lee (male) later
dismissed the "citizens arrest" charge against Hayes in the case I
witnessed and reported tei"l:.APD as a witness; DCA Lee dismissed the
alleged "probation violation" charge against ffayes in that instant
cas·e (LAPD DR # is not available to me in this instance right now but I
can research· it further and provide the D~ #); I complained to LAP~
Central Area Station and IAD about Kesseez.,'s conduct - on the street
he shoved a bag I was carrying into my chest as he got into his patrol
car to drive Tut 4ayes off to jail - Kessee told me at the time he didn't
thinl{ muchof Mr. Hayes and indicated he didn't approve of me stepping
forward as a witness - to the truth and the obvious trumped up charge 1:1 e ms citizens' arres·t · of Mr. Hayes in question Mr. Wood manipulated
his ongoing (perso.aal~ttle with Mr. Hayes (personality clash ??) ;
am aware that on 10-4-98 1989 at LA City Hall, in what was then the
public reception area of the City Council's Public Affairs Office,
Chief Gates was giving a press statemen'"'t tm. \answering news media
questions) about his remarks on a major drug arrests in Sylmar, Calif.
and the drug problem in general and I was verbally and physically assaulted
by Ronald Butcher, ~he City Council's photographer in the presence of
r-LAPD Commander Geo. Morrison with Cmdr. Wm. Booth nearby as at least a
partial eye-witness; one of the two LA.PD officers from Central Area who
took a battery report from me against Mr. Butcher, remturned a second time
and smacked/slapped me on "the after Mr. Bu-emle'r had earlier
illegally struck me on the chest while cussing me out in the presence of
LAPD officers and officials; this complaint was covered up by the LAPD's
Central Division Detectives' CAPS Unit staff; the officer in question, \
who came back to the City C.ouncil a second time on 10-4-89, later was a
"master at arms" at a CrtA Board meeting and he complained that I had
complained to Central Area Station supervisors andlor IAD about h~
conduct in committing a battery or physical assault on me on 10-4-fi989;
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LA ITY ATTY - Special Trials Division
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as aware prior to 5~16-91 that Items 14 and 15 on the CRA Board
agenda pertained to _the CRA' s North Hollywood. project but a major
factor in my not going down to the C~A Board meeting is the continuing
presence at the meeting of Off. Spafford and the continuing evidence
that the LAPD's IAD has been compromised by a an ster-type element
t~at act·vel~ ses IAD's mission as identified in J . CFC;
-On 5-6-91, I was threaten~d, slandered, etc. and offered a "ride on the
elevator" by Sgt. Jeff Bertrand of IAD (in police uniform) and
told by Sgt. Trijullo "if you don't get onfthe elevator we'll handcuff
yol:l"; Sgt. Trijullo, who has previusly hung up on me, was instructed
along with Sgt. Jim Miller of IA D on .5-6-91 to escort me to the IAD
(5th floor PAB) duty complaint room for the Duty Team to take a complaint
from me by Lt. II Otis Dobine. · Sgt. Berlb.ratD. responded "I don't care what
Lt.D binejt said for me (us - sergeants) to do" and Sgt. Bertrand then
or red me to leave the room as he insisted on chasing after me,
s andering me, threatening me, etc. etc. · ·
-~ I am JGB!Bn:t aware that on 5-14-91, Sgt. Candice Fisher of IAD hung up
on me when ·she realized I was the same person from her role in covering
up /J? ortions of a prior complaint I made to Sgt. Evans of IAD on
6-91 at PAE 1st floor;
am aware that on or about 5-15-91, I was told by Sgt. (FNU) Farrell
IAD that "we will not take any complaints from you" and he acknowledge d
he/th y are violating-r-section 832.5 CFC and Chief Gates' mid-April
199 memo on Officers' Reporting and Processing Misconduct complaints
( c.) ;
-I am/ aware that on 5-16-91, I was hung up on by Susie (ll1U), 485-41)1,
refused to re&connect me to Sgt. Sanchez of IAD Duty Team;
am aware that prior to 5-6-91, I have no recollection of ever meeting
person Sgt. Jeff Bertrand and nor can I recall ever meeting in person
S • (FNU) Farrell;
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I am aware that on 5-7-91, % Sgt. Bertrand described me as a
5" ~~U¥fd ~sshole" when he saw me when the elevator doors opened at PAB
00 when I was en route to LA.PD Press Relations section - 6th floor
PAB; Sgt. Bertrand announced this to his asoo ciates and said at the same
time, he wouldn't get on the elevator with me although I believe Sgt.
(FNU) Garner (male black) of IAD did get on the elevator but was polite
an unlike Sgt.'s Farrell, Fisher and others, not influenced by
S t. Bertrands' slander; ·
-As of 5-16-91, I do not believe I can rely on IAD for investigation of
a nor do I believe I can count on Capt. III Conner for any assistanee;
I m aware that Melanie Lomax , atty., was hired by the CaA Board to
st Murray Kane ift'-and Jim Wood in prosecuting Tut Hayes in prior
hs when Mr. Tuite was the CRA Administrator;
m aware that Corneilus Jenkins, the LA.PC civilian employee who
committed a technical assault on me on 2-26-91, after I spoke at t~e
L. A. Police Comm. Board me eting , in the ha llway, and then attemp ted to
" sic le" a LA F :) P ark er Cent e r J a il I:· iv . ~i'r o n t Desk Of f i c er on me , a c tual ly
wo rks f o r . te .L o. nie _.L o ma:- ~ ; -::>-.. .
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LA C TY ATTY. - Spec~al Trials Div.
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aware that on 10-4-89 ,_Tom LaBonge, LA . City Councilman John
Ferraro's primary liaison to L)_'con Construction Corp., witnessed and
approved of the assault/battery that Mr. Butcher committed on me;
-I am aware that the& City Atty's Special Trials Division has prosecuted
Lycan Construction officials for election code violations while/as ·
Lycan spreads money around LA City Hall - case atty. is DCA H. Burr of
SES or Special Trials division; · -~
-I am aware that a female black (Name Unknown) at the CRA's records
dept. hung up on me on 5-17-91 when she verified CRA received
my. 5-15-91 comp~t(s) about 2/91 election fraud in the North Hlyd.
CRA Project Area.I Committee elections; the letter also amounts to a
public records act request and complain±s about public speaking/Brown
Act violations at the 2/91 PAC - ~elections and during the 5-14-91
PAC meeting, etc. etc. ;
-I am aware that Councilman Ferraro now -represents the North Hlyd. CRA
PAC area as this was Councilman ~'\J"achs' district in 1977 when the
CRA project in North Hlyd. was set up;
-I am aware that Lycan Construction buys up property with zoning approvals
approved b}:.. CoUEcilman F'erraro' s of'I'ice a::ncl then tears down low and
moderate income housing and puts up new construction with outrageous
rental charges , no rent control on new construction in a ._ 0RA project
area. or elsewhere around the City;
-I am aware that Jim Wood claims to have told the Times Mirror Coro.
Boar of Directors recently that C~A under his regime has "redeveloped"
ov 7,000 acres of the City of L.A. and he/they haven't stopped yet;
-I am aware that the LAPD's geographic and Telephonic Report Center
in LAPD Communications Div. will not take battery and/or assault
repoct"s against LA.PD personnel and that this type of report can on~y
fficially generated within LAPD by a Lt. or above rank in IAD;
am aware that a pattern of established racketeering and/or civil
rig s violations is rampant in LAPD as highlighted finally by the
3- ~91 'beating of Rodkey King';
-I am unsure as to who I can call when the boy(s) in blu~ at ai78 out of
control such as Off. Bryce Spafford at a CRA Board meeting or on
remises or elseW:Nere he goes in Central Area.UOivision on or off-duty;
-I am aware that on or about 1=16-91, Inves", Henderson of the DA's
Bureau of Inves. Command Post refused to ~ offer me a form like this
one on page 1 to1 fill out regarding Off. Spafford and LAPD's refusal to
take a written battery complaint from me; he said LA DA SID now only
responds to reports of battery/assault under 149 CFC or perhaps 240/242
CFC when LAP~'s Internal Affatrs Div. accepts and then briggs. the reports
to them;
-I am going to "cc" the CRA Board (7) as Capt. Conner c.laimed they have.Jtf.1
control over Off. Spafford w:k&:n~~ before he rung up on me on 1-16-91;
~I decided to contact you (DA - ~ID) and you (City Atty. - Specia1 Trials ,
on 5-17-91 about these various illegal acts of CJA and/or LAPD ~
because of the "r~form" being order ed by LA.PD ~hief ~.F. GateS- nor;
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LA CITY ATTY. - Special Tbials Div.
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in view of the 'beating_ of Rodney King' by LAPD Foothill Officers
and supervisory Sgt. S. Koon on or about J-J-.91 / scandal aftermath;
anclii', because the LA City Att:ty. (elected official representing this
mun'l:Cipal corporation called tre City of Los Angeles - statement of
DCA Fred Merkin in the court of Hon. Superior Judge R. Shonigan
(phon. spelling) has formally replaced Murray Kane as the CRA's top
lawyer - in the form initially of Dov LaSell ofthe City Atty.'s
Housing Division;
-I .am also asking CRA to "cc" Mr. LaSell, CRA's General Counsel -
Deputy City Atty. even though the partial j~risdiction here is
City Atty. Special Trials Divieion and/or DA's SID and/or state
Atty. General and/or US Justice Dept. 8ivil ~ights Division, Wash,
D.C. 205JO.
-On 5-18-91, I was told by Mrs. Phyllus Roberts (no relation),
10756 Camarillo St., North Hlyd., Calif . . 91601 8JB~985-0656 that
on 5-12-91 a team of CRA agents reportedly arrived at her business
office at Lee's i: ·eB Jjreak shop, Vineland and i:Vlagnolia, SE corner ·,
and told the leased . tenant ."we ( CRA) have condemned this . property and
have taken possession ofit and you have two weeks to" get out of here!
I am aware that C:lA presently lacks eminent domain authority as thej{r
project authority for this expired some months ago and has not been
re-newed as of this date by the City Council; I am aware .this 80 year
old woman (Mrs. P. Roberts_} was not nreviously bluffed or~
. --~~ .~-JJ-~ng. __ her_pr.0-p.er_t~ __ a_t _ih~_QRA' s price offeredTwlJile she advised she
has retained an attorney, I believe this is yet another example of the
CaA's fit-into-a-pattern of civil rights violations and probable
white collar crime/racketeering. (C~A is turning much of the area
in North Hol·lywood CRA :project zone to the movie industry - the
'eminent domalfiN• and redeveloprn..ent laws were not designed to
commit public ~esources to JiH projects of no value to the general public,
commit destructive acts aimed at the poor.llHt:a working poor and middle
class, while benefiting the extra-wealthy _9:ev~lopers and the super­corporations
they « serve while giving some w temporary work to the
or .~anized labor CiD>nstruction unions; I am told that Dayi.d Gerred, on
5-l5-91 at the PAC meeting in North Hlyd., demanded Mrs-. Robert's ____ leave the PAS because of the actions of CRA agents Jzidiil)-12-91. ·
I don't believe - but I don't know for sure - if her lawyer,
Jerold Fadem of t"'lLA, is trained in Brown Act violations, civil rights
enforcements, or criminal law as it pertains to the pattern of
racketeering on the part of C ~f""A • officials, employees in terms of
civil rights violations and their ability to use the LAPD both in
Central Area and in North Hlyd. Div. to - in the . later c~ on
5~4-91 and/or 5-5-91, keep the public out of what two LAB) sergeants
and Howard Raphael said was a Tele. Arts & Sciences function(s) open to
the public - at the saRme time, a small army of rent a cops reporting to
Mr. (FNU) ~Iiley of Landmark ~ nt. Group were told to enforce a "by
invitation only" for a "private party" which was still "open to the public "
i~ the opinion of Sers eants Ornellus and Miller and Mr. Raphael but not
§~~~ famp~er, the.on ~he -~ ~e~n LAPD ~~i·B£fi~§1 in charge 5-4-91 and
9 evidently in view of misinformation,7'sup~!:tetl to Sgt. Wampler by
Mr. Wiley, a real estate agent of some type;
I:·T: 5-20-91 DATE MAILED: 5-20-91 ::: I GNED: G. Roberts - 818/984-1$,94
cc: CRA Board ( 7) cc: 1;/Ir. D . La.Sell, C ~-\.\ Gen. Counsel; -cc: LAPD Chief
D . F . G: t e2~ : ~ ·c_sar d in~ su3 j : c~ ~ in c :ud ~n ~ l a~ k of Lt. jJ~~:_ a~d O~
t o hav·~ COl J. v ... ol oVeL l1L oe_ ~ eant , . , ~ tc . e ve . etc.~ s-~o-'j/
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Note: After your reporter publicly
raised one's ' own suspicions abou~
the Greg Stone death as well as the ·
RFK assassination at the L.A. Police -,
Commission's recent February 26
Board Meeting, one was the victim of
a technical assault the ...,..,..,...;,., ..
committe by Cornelius Jenkins, the
LAPC staffer who audits the. LAPD's
Anti-Terrorist Division (ATD) records
for the Police Commission~ · · · .-
•My job is not to make life pleasant
for you,• said Jenkins, who then went.=~
and got the LAPD front desk officer, , [,,·'
Officer Murray, to leave the front desk
at Parker Center and come and force
one to leave the adjacent first floor .
hallway.
Officer Murray, at your reporter's ·
request, then contacted the LAPD's
lntern~I Affairs Division, where Sgt.
Evans, accompanied by a woman
IAD detective, later noted that Jenkins
is the subject of several other per­sonnel
complaints filed against him,
as he does the dirty work for Com­mander
Frank Piersol, the
Commission's Commanding Officer. r
Later, Piersol said he doesn't want ·
the Board Secretary, Nicki Lupo,
· acting as a public relations arrit for
the LAPC Board like her predecessor,
Bill Cowden, was. · · -
Jenkins said at the :time 11e o~ · "
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jected fo : yo~r ~eporter . asking Mrs: .. ·
Lupo if the Mathisons had already
left, as we had earlier been sepa·rated
in the hallway after the LAPC Board
meeting by Sgt. Nick Wade, who
earlier said it's his job to deal with us, ·
even though he k·nows little ~-r noth­ing
about the Police Commission's
operations. The Mathisons spoke on
what they said was poor policing of
street gangs in the Harvard Heights
section of the LAPD's Wilshire Divi­sion.
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"We want to forget about the
Kennedys and that (RFK) ass.assi- ·
nation," said Officer Sol~, LAP~9_hief
Daryl Gates' driver. le" -+ .
Obviously · that's not what." Greg
Stone wanted.- · · ,. . .. . ,.y.: /·:. . ----
. ~-~r~g Rob~rts .. ·. :L. ~ . -:~ _-._ ;: = p ·
Greg Roberts
Fmiaiia N~1
Ripom lllttOM
]OV! COMJltS
PO Box 8491
N. Hoilvwood.
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Mr. Corneilius Jenkins initially
approached ~/P (Victim; Greg rloberts)
from behind and stated he didn'~want
me to ask the Board Secy., Nicki
Lupo, if the Mathisons' and their woman
friend (Name Unknown) had already left
their meeting with Sgt. Nick Wade.
Earlier, U ad§L_ separated us in the
same firs:CE floor hallway adjacent
to the Commission offices, giving me 2
dirty look while he (Wade) took the
ivlatnsson's and the third uerson to an
adjacent room, where they- were not
visible from the hallway. Jenkins
took his uen in while uokin ~ x the oe~
within twOil:n_gllep of my one' eye, s~_id
"My job is not %± to make life pleasant
for you." uet. III ~~ichard .-tuddell of
!:ID ( 0om.-rnission Inves. Di vision) refuse ,:.
my request that he intervene and stop
Jenkins from having the desk officer,
Murray, remove me from the adjacent
hallway corridor under color of author~ ~ ­without
xlawful necessity. ~udd~ll and
later Det. (FNU) Bowman refused to
let me talk on the phone or in person t c
Lt. S. matson, their supervisor.
Presumably, ~uddell has been pressured ~
his commanding officer, Frank Piersol,
to halt the ~CID's ongoing investigati o ~
of Mayor Bradley's various violations o f
cam12aign laws_JRA l':Lw vio~ati?ns, etc:
coming under ~---:ID inve·stigati ve purvi e
Also recently hanging up on me was
Det. (FNU) Heisel of~ CID, at the
direction of auddell. Jenkins was the
acting Board Secy. at the Commission's
recent hear.hg, on the future of Chief = · ­Gates
on 3-20-91, when Ms. Lupo was
reportedly not present. Lt. Trundell of
IAD, Sgt. Evans' supervisor~t
taken a 1.81 against Jenkins ~ QRr
permitted a 240 CPC filing of an offici ~ ­police
report for assaulting Greg rtober ~
from Greg Roberts against Jenkins, the
suspect. (Knowledgeable sources suspect
Piersol wants to replace Gates as 0hief
and is consolidating his power at the
Commission, and also trying to run out
of Commission hearings honest people lik
G.R. Piersol, whom your reporter first
e~cou~tered as a supervisor in Hlyd. Di
Vice in.1974, brought these g oons in f o
one obvious reason.
TO(C. LAPC Cmdr. Frank Piersol
FROM: . 4-, 5-ll:_9 l
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N . . P.O. Box 8491
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PH. (818) 984-1894
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( I) (Greg Roberts) . wanted yo.u
to know that on Fri 5-10-91
I was arbitrarily hung up onK
by "Regina". at 485-J5Ji'""
at least twice and th~
A Sgt. B Nick Wade said•t do
subse uently he wou~dn
anyth~ng to stop this
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ongoing misconduct on Regina's part. Also, on Tues 5-7-91 I was told
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made a compaaint to Internal Affairs by Det. ~udell aka Ruddell
Division against / about both to "spellill my name right" --
Regina and Sgt. Nick Wade. ~sn't it a fact that you have
Are you saying you don't plan to ordered .hi:ln thru Lt. Matson
do anything about this - she and not to continue to probe
Wade are violating a direct order illegal activities of Mayor
they stoP'x this· type of misconduct Jradi~y's campaign committees?
by supervisor Rich Dameron. Why k Isn't it a fact that you
did you bring this sadistic Sgt: Wade have put CID in the position of
into LAPC and why do you keep him not having a real, true functioning
there in his role of "~ealing"with ~he Lt. in charge as Lt. Matson refuses
public when he knows little or nothing to make herself available to
about LA.PC policies, opers, «~tc. and . the public w/
thinks little of LAPD regulatians and recruits secy's like reports of
rtegina who think and act the same viay? .-CID Det. misconu c
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~ and Comm. Staff misconduct,
~ etc. Are we going back to thE
C~3 (: ".::rood ale da s of" Chief Harr e..
Is that, sir, your intention?
In 1974, you were assigned to
Hollywood Vice. Do you recall
nrior accusations of misconduct
by Sgt. Chas Stoker concerni~g
that divisio2 What do you think of
Sgt. Stoker's allegations and
Prof. Schlesinger's theory of
historical cycles/ repeiitive cycle
* DAILY NEWS I FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1991 I lmWS-3.
SAN FE RNANDO VALLEY I
edevelopment study approv~ . \.
Panel wants to hire firms to examine plan extending its authority in N. HolljJWood .
By Patrick McGreevy
Daily News Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Redevelop­ment
Commission voted Thurs­day
to pay $14 7 ,000 to two con­sultants
to draft and study the
feasibility of a 12-year extension
of the North Hollywood redevel­opment
area.
· The commission voted 4-0,
without discussion to hire the
consulti ng firm of Fugro-McClel­Jand
Inc. for $ 51,300 to help the
redevelopment agency draft the
ame ndment, which would extend
the agency's eminent domain ~u-thority.
The agency's authority
expired Feb. 27.
Through its eminent domain
powers, the agency has authority
to condemn land - usually to as­semble
small parcels into . larger
tracts suitable for development.
The amendment also would
raise the $89 million cap on tax
funds it can use to redevelop the
area, said Jerry Belcher, the
project manager for the North
Hollywood redevelopment pro­gram.
Belcher said officials want to
study raising the cap within the
range of '$300 million to $400
million, and said the consultant project," said commissio9 \Chair­would
help determine how high man Jim Wood.
the ceiling should be base~ on the For example, Wood said the
amount of redevelopment work agency has not yet completed ac­it
thinks should be done in the quiring land for the commercial
next 12 years. and office buildings proposed on
The commissioners also voted Lankershim Boulevard and Mag­Th
ursday to award a $95,930 nolia Avenue for The Academy
contract to Gruen Associates to project.
prepare an ~nvironmental impact He predicted a "healthy de­report
on the amendment. Both · bate~' at the council level and
contracts also mtJSt be approved once the plan is drafted and pub-by
the City Council. lie hearings are held.
"The underlying reason for the Critics of the North Hoilywood
amendment is we have not com- redevelopment program say that
pleted the redevelopment objec- officials needlessly have con­tives
of the North Hollywood demned the p~operties of thriv-
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ing businesses and lortgtf ~e resi- Tl
dents and transferred the land to !
wealthy developers at taxpayers' ;
expense. . .. ,, . /
· ~'I think it has been more de-- ; /
structive than constru~tive," said !
Greg Roberts, a North Holly- ~
wood resident and frequent critic : l' of the redevelopment program. ; /
Roberts said he .. thinks a 12- :
year extension is exd~ssive. . ',
If the council appro~ . the /
contract, the process for drafting \.
and approving the amendment
will take 18 months or more,
Belcher said.
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