Note: Many of the evidentiary documents referred to on this page are from the MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund) special collection at Stanford University's Green Library in California. Unfortunately, we are only able to provide you with summaries of those documents. We requested permission from Stanford to scan in and post the documents from their collection, and received a letter in response stating that they do not legally hold the copyright for these materials.

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Directory of Documents: This is a quick guide to the approximately 200 documents shown below and their contents. (work in progress)

• President Johnson in the 1960’s initiated a number of amendments to the 1935 Social Security Act, providing additional federal support for certain classes of needy Americans. [more]
• Ultimately, the entitlement program encompassed welfare, social security, medicare, and child services [more].
• In 1969 MALDEF (Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund) was born in San Antonio. Its mission: the use of litigation to correct injustices that frustrate Mexican-Americans. MALDEF grew to CA, TX, AZ, CO, NM, Chicago, and NY. [more]
• Two types of idealisms comprised MALDEF membership: true benevolence and a malevolent desire toward Mexican nationalism in the US a la radical groups. [Aztlan rising, Aztlan, Hispanic homeland?]
• Both MALDEF and AIM/NARF (American Indian Movement) relied on litigation to change federal law, rendering it more amenable to the goals of their peoples. [Order of Dismissal: Navajo Nation v. Donald Hodel et al., Status Report to Court: Navajo Navajo Nation v. Donald Hodel et al., Judgment: Navajo Nation v. State of New Mexico, Appeal: Navajo Nation v. State of New Mexico, Order of Judgment: Navajo Nation and Watchman, et al. v. State of New Mexico, Memorandum Opinion and Order: Navajo Nation v. State of New Mexico, Deposition: Craig Dorsay for Navajo Nation, Trial Brief: Navajo Nation and Watchman, et al. v. State of New Mexico, Opposition to Motion to Dismiss: Navajo Nation and Watchman, et al. v. State of New Mexico, Memorandum Opinion and Order: Navajo Nation v. State of New Mexico, Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief can be Granted: Navajo Nation and Watchman, et al. v. State of New Mexico, Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief Can Be Granted: Navajo Nation v. State of New Mexico, MALDEF Legal Resources Development Committee report re: need to recruit more law-trained people]
• Donations to MALDEF provided scholarships for Mexican-Americans to attend top law schools. Activism and financial need were selection criteria. [Evaluation of Prospective 1978 MALDEF Scholars, Reginald Heber Smith Fellowships 72-73, MALDEF Scholarship Recipients 76-77, MALDEF Scholarship Recipients 86-87, MALDEF Scholarship Recipients 87-88, MALDEF Educational Loan Recipients 75-79, MALDEF Scholarship Recipients by State, MALDEF Loan Recipients 78-79, MALDEF Loan Forgiveness Requests, 1976 MALDEF Annual Report Recipients, MALDEF Donation Request Letter and Recipients List, Letter from William Huff, Prof U. Denver School of Law to MALDEF re: legal prep program for Chicano law students, Letter from Joe Ortega, MALDEF atty, to UCLA re: accept MALDEF scholar into law program, MALDEF letter re: repayment of student loans, Letter Casso (MALDEF) to Sen Ted Kennedy re: increasing number of Mex-Amer law students in US, MALDEF Educational Loan Recipients 78-79, MALDEF Educational Loan Recipients 76-77, MALDEF conditional qualification for financial aid 76-77, MALDEF Scholarship Program report 69-70, MALDEF educational grants 69-70 and 70-71, MALDEF educational grants report 72-73, MALDEF list of southwest foundations]
• Many later MALDEF scholarships paid for relatives (children) of practicing MALDEF attorneys, judges, and government officials rather than the needy.
• In 1974, federal standards required that certain performance standards were met with respect to federal entitlements. A NM pilot program was born combining welfare, Medicaid, (AFDC), Indian Health funds, child services, and tribal assistance.
• The 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act dramatically changed certain child legal proceedings involving Native Americans, trumping long-standing state laws and guidelines. Custody matters (termination of parental rights, foster care, adoption, guardianship, etc.) were impacted. Then-U.S. Representative for New Mexico Bill Richardson and Senator Pete Domenici played key roles in this legislation. [25 USCS 13d: Limits on the use of appropriated funds by Bureau for general or other welfare assistance, Navajo Nation FY98 Detail Objects of Expenditure ICWA-NMCYFD, Prevention and Intervention Division Procurement Planning Process]
• Thomas Marin, U.S. Surgeon General under Nixon/Ford, moved to Albuquerque (1978) and became involved with Lovelace HMO and Sandia National Laboratories.
• The Indian Children’s Program was founded by Thomas Marin – another vehicle by which federal money poured into New Mexico for medical treatment and education. [Decision: Lincoln v Vigil, USSC, 508 US 182 (1993), Testimony: Dr. Charles W. Grim, Director, Indian HealthServices; Topic: S.1057 - Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2005; Before: Committee on Indian Affairs, Testimony: Michael H. Trujillo, Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian HealthServices; Topic: S.1057 - Indian Health Care Improvement Act; Before: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs]
• MALDEF greatly increased donations, annually funding over a hundred law students. MALDEF graduates populated ever more powerful positions in all three branches of local, state, and federal government. [Betty Rivera Bio (MALDEF), Graciela Olivarez Bio (MALDEF), Jerry Apodaca Bio (MALDEF), Raymond Sanchez and Eric Serna Bios (MALDEF), Robert Rivera]
• In the 80’s, federal rulings resulted in Native American tribes’ acquisition of the right to directly administer federal dollars as sovereign powers - bypassing state laws, departments, guidelines and certain federal oversight. In New Mexico, such funds were then contracted for services off the reservation to non-Indians affiliated with the state courts and departments. [Statement of Work: The Navajo Tribe Home Care (Exhibit A), Financial Information Sheet Home Care Fixed Rate Contract The Navajo Tribe (Exhibit B), General Provisions Applicable to All Social Service Contracts, Amendment No. 2 Purchase of Services Contract 97-690-0314-02, Revised Exhibit A Statement of Work Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc.
  Family Preservation/Family Support Services Ramah Navajo Social Services, Revised Exhibit B Line Item Budget Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. 4/1/97 through 7/31/97, Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. 8/1/97 through 7/31/97, State of NM Purchase Document Vendor: Navajo Nation Ship to: CYFD, Navajo Nation Child Support Enforcement Program, Navajo Nation Detailed Objects of Expenditure FY99, Navajo Nation Program Organizaton Structure FY98 Child Support Enforcement Program, Service Specification Parenting Skills Training, Exhibit A Line Item Budget]
• MALDEF members with top law school degrees began heavily populating the New Mexico Courts, State offices, and Legislature at all levels, working together as a bloc.
• New Mexicans, aware of court case fixing, misuse of funds, and widespread state corruption, were unsure of the source. The MALDEF-NM relationship was so cozy that the NM Governor hosted a MALDEF meeting at the State mansion. [Press release: NM Gov Toney Anaya to speak at MALDEF 15th Anniversary dinner, Letter Rivera to MALDEF President re: bio of NM Gov Jerry Apodaca, future Board member, Letter MALDEF to NM Gov Toney Anaya re: thanks for hosting 1985 MALDEF Board dinner at NM Governor's mansion]
• The University of New Mexico (UNM) law school, an initial training ground for most successful NM attorneys and judges, espoused MALDEF and NARF goals.
• NARF (Native American Relief Fund) attorneys used UNM funds in the American Indian Law Center to create a series of documents supporting the scheme. [Model Tribal-State Indian Child Welfare Agreement, The Indian Child Welfare Act and Laws Affecting Indian Juveniles, 1992 Update to The Indian Child Wefare Act & Laws Affecting Indian Juveniles Manual]
• Joint Powers Agreements between NM and the Navajo Nation allowed contracting between the two regarding federal funds earmarked for child services, Medicare, welfare, child support enforcement, Indian Child Welfare and other monies. [Joint Powers Agreement Between NM Human Services Department and The Navajo Nation, TOC: Identification of Agency: Certification of Compliance, NM AFDC State Plan Log, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC, AFDC State Plan Log, Transmittal & Notice of Approval of State Plan Material: AFDC Amendment, Resolution of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee of the Navajo Nation; RE: Accepting and approving Joint Powers Agreement, Resolution of the Health and Social Services Committee of the Navajo Nation RE: Recommendation to accept and approve Joint Powers Agreement, Joint Powers Agreement Between Children, Youth and Families Department and The Navajo Nation Division of Social Services, Joint Powers Agreement Between NM Human Services Department and The Navajo Nation, Partnership Agreement: Navajo Nation NM Child Support Division and Administration of Chldren and Families Office of Child Support, Proposed Amendment: Amendment No. 1 Joint Powers Agreement Between HSD and Navajo Nation
• Most NM counties were declared Indian Country, bypassing protections for citizens such as due process and other Constitutional rights.
• This step opened up a new and unique avenue for federal money in addition to those provided in all other states, including NM. The flow of money dramatically increased, the barriers to Indian tribal payments came down, funds could be applied to both Indians and non-Indians, and it was much less regulated.
• Several years ago, an Arizona federal district court set somewhat of a precedent by ruling that if such a circumstance actually occurred, judges who acted as administrators by doling out money as opposed to acting in the normal judicial capacity were not protected by immunity. [links will be added]
• MALDEF members and sympathizers from the federal government to New Mexico were intimately involved in the set up and operation of this scheme. The list herein is not meant to be all-inclusive. Major players included Bruce Babbitt, Graciela Olivarez, and Anne Kass. Manny Aragon (President Pro Tem of the NM Senate), Raymond Sanchez (Speaker of the NM House), Eric Serna, Jerry Apodaca, Tony Anaya, and many others were involved. [Article: ABQ Journal, "Cultures Color NM Politics", Press release: AZ Gov. Bruce Babbitt to speak at Denver MALDEF Awards Dinner, Federico Pena is Honorary Chairman]
• President Pro Tem Manny Aragon rose to become a powerhouse in New Mexico on the crest of the wave created by this huge, combined flow of unregulated federal money. His law firm includes two other MALDEF members. Manny has strong connections to Highlands University, the educational institution contracted for training Navajo social workers under the joint powers agreements. Manny was recently indicted for his participation in a courthouse construction scheme, a small token of his long-term and pervasive racketeering activities via MALDEF connections here in New Mexico. [links will be added]
• MALDEF members of the judiciary and legal community abound at all levels of the NM courts and in the Tenth Circuit Federal Court. [links will be added]
• The kicker to this whole scheme was that in order to make money, or convert the public funds to private pockets, it was necessary to “spend” it on family- and child-related services. There was so much money that schemes were developed to maximize the use of federal funding. Most of the schemes involved destroying families. [links will be added]
• For example, scores of Navajo children were removed from the reservation and put in a school in Santa Fe for education and medical care purposes. [links will be added]
• Other families had children removed from their homes and were required to use many child services-related practitioners before being allowed any sort of relationship with their children again. (For example, 4 hours per day at Peanut Butter and Jelly, every day, for months, for “parenting classes”.) These parents were the “lucky” ones. Children all over New Mexico were ripped from their homes and put in foster care. Children and the elderly were committed to institutions with no justification, and kept there indefinitely. [links will be added]
• Title IV-E Waiver documents show the amounts in monthly payments from federal funds that were provided to foster homes and institutions. More money was needed if a child was permanently separated from family than if reintegration was pursued. And the best way to pull a lot of money out of the federal coffer was to institutionalize a person, either for their entire childhood or for life. The waiver documents show that a new scheme for paying from the federal coffers was invented: “assisted guardianships”. [New Mexico Title IV-E Wiaver Evaluation, New Mexico Title IV-E Wiaver Evaluation, New Mexico Title IV-E Wiaver Evaluation, Application for a Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project; Submitted by NMCYFD]
• State courts (children’s, criminal, and domestic relations) implemented large-scale destruction of the nuclear family. MALDEF or MALDEF-sympathetic judges at the next higher level affirmed appeals against their colleagues of the lower courts regardless of the severity or consequences of “errors”. Immunity cloaked judge participation in the scheme from District court through state appeallate courts and federal district court. [links will be added]
• Attorneys at the lower levels abandoned zealous representation of their clients for the “higher” calling of feeding the system, insuring by their participation or the lack thereof that cases resulted in the removal of parental rights – the safety net for children to protect them from this scheme. • Court-appointed guardians spoke eloquently before the court about what an emotional mess the children were and how much therapy (or institutionalization) would be required to meet their needs. Over time, other crooks in attorney guise joined the system and cooperated with the MALDEF base. [links will be added]
• Social workers and court-appointed therapists played their part to feed the system, making false reports of child abuse. [links will be added]
• Court-appointed custody evaluators enjoyed accrual of revenue while doing their part to declare parents and/or children psychological disasters. These professionals left trails of devastation in their wake for decades. [links will be added]
• Thousands of complaints to a variety of state and law enforcement offices about the problem have fallen on deaf ears. [links will be added]
• The oppressive environment led the media and law enforcement to take a back seat, declining to delve into the issues and either passively or actively condoning illegal behavior. [links will be added]
• The real hey day for the Joint Powers Agreements and flow of money was in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Anne Kass became the head of the Bernalillo County Family Court, helping to usher in the agreements and explicitly denying parents constitutional rights under the Indian Country doctrine. [links will be added]
• State law and a signed petition led to plans for an Anne Kass grand jury appearance for possible indictment. The District Court directly intervened, asking for a dismissal, and the MALDEF-dominated higher courts complied, violating state law. [links will be added]
• NM higher courts have no regard for state law, making unbelievable claims in formal opinions, endowing themselves with the right to override state statutes and US Supreme Court case law regarding parental rights and attorney protections. [links will be added]
• Anne Kass’ husband, Bill Kass, worked for Sandia National Laboratories for years and had access to special nuclear material. As late as 2002, although he was retired, he was still on site at the Labs as a contractor. [SNL-procurement-rept-FY99, SNL-procurement-rept-FY02 ]
• In 2004, Henry J. Casso approached the leadership of CFJ, asking that we highlight certain judges prior to elections including Ernesto Romero and Ross Sanchez. CFJ declined. We later discovered that Casso and both judges were MALDEF.
• Casso told CFJ’s President: “I can bring to the table the entire Catholic church”, “Join me at Judge Lang’s brother’s funeral and I will introduce you around”, “I funded the education of judges in high places, such as your judge, Ernesto Romero, and [NM] Supreme Court Justice Petra Maes, and I will introduce you to her”
• Once CFJ refused Casso’s urgings, CFJ President Leslie Cumiford’s legal case went down the tubes and many CFJ members began to experience retribution. Discussions with members of a former group, GAIN (Grandparents are Indeed Necessary) reveal the same pattern with respect to MALDEF member Judge Ernesto Romero. Appeals to the MALDEF-dominated NM Appellate and Supreme courts were denied. [links will be added]
• Leslie became sick in mid 2005. After months of illness with no identifiable cause, medical tests revealed that she was high in arsenic. [ldc-arsenic-results-fall-2005, ldc-arsenic-results-all-4-16-06]
• In March 2006, Leslie became very ill. Eventually it was discovered that a fine, white powder was mixed in with the table salt in her home. Certified tests revealed six constituent substances found together only in special nuclear material. Leslie recalled one of several threatening calls she received in 2003 when CFJ was initially forming, reported to the Albuquerque Police Department but ignored. [links will be added]
• Leslie’s search for qualified physicians revealed some interesting results including untimely deaths of certain qualified NM toxicologists and a complete lack of talent throughout the state, except for physicians associated with Sandia National Laboratories. [links will be added]
• Over the next several months, Leslie reported the finding to the Department of Energy Inspector General, the Albuquerque Police Department (APD), Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, a variety of NM State offices, UNM Poison Control, Sandia National Laboratories’ top security, and the Albuquerque FBI office. [ DOE-IG-complaint-4-18-06, DOEIG-madden-response-4-18-06, APD-Mock-report-5-2-06, fax-APD-Todd-Mock-7-11-06, fax-APDlt-Joe-Hudson-7-12-06, fax-mayor-Chavez-office-7-12-06, FBI-medical-release-form-envelope-7-28-06, ltr-medical-rel-to FBI-8-2-06, ltr-FBI-Raymond-8-3-06, ludwig-fax-IG-complaint]
• Leslie, an employee of Sandia National Laboratories at the time, was unexpectedly harassed by upper management, particularly the legal department, who appeared to be very supportive of opposing counsel Maria Garcia Geer in a family court case, attempting to provide protected information without adhering to the law. A number of bizarre events occurred, leading to Leslie's termination without warning, cause or valid explanation.[ fax-SNLHR-Gallegos-2-28-06, LM-ethics-complaint-2-23-06, SNL-mtg-notice-discuss-issue-4-27-06, notes-mtg-Cook-4-29-06, SNL-fax-Becky-Kraus-6-26-06, Jansma-termination-7-12-06, ldc-resp-Jansma-7-20-06, badge-receipt-8-1-06]
• As a result, APD met with the certified metals lab and pressured them to “revise” their uranium findings. APD and the FBI (Albuquerque agent David Raymond and an alleged FBI expert from Washington, DC named, conveniently, Tyrone Powers) claimed that they could not investigate because there was “no uranium” in the sample.
• The FBI told the DOE Inspector General and Sandia National Laboratories security to stop their investigations because the FBI was taking jurisdiction, obstructing two other federal investigations and subsequently telling Leslie that they had no jurisdiction to test a sample of the material. No official was willing to confiscate the material, acknowledge concern over the test results, or test a sample of it. [links will be added]
• In 2007, Leslie discovered in notes from previous employment at Sandia National Laboratories that FBI agent David Raymond worked on site at Sandia National Laboratories with a Labs office, telephone, and email account – a considerable and undisclosed conflict of interest in the investigation. [ SNL-calendar-mtg-FBI-Raymond-7-7-05, SNL-draymond-mtg-notes-7-7-05]
• The metals lab, in revising its report after pressure from APD, claimed that its machine was improperly calibrated and retracted only the uranium measurement. Results regarding all other substances in the sample remained certified. This is not at all the same as stating that there is no uranium in the sample as both APD and the alleged FBI expert Tyrone Powers claimed. It does not take a nuclear material expert to realize the difference – a light chemistry background will suffice.
• Even with the uranium measurement removed, the presence of five other substances in the sample uniquely identify it as special nuclear material since they are not found in combination for any other purpose and the combination does not naturally occur.
• The lead in the sample alone was concentrated enough to significantly poison a person if ingested in slightly higher amounts or over a longer period of time, and warranted a poisoning investigation.
• Apparently, alleged national FBI nuclear materials expert Tyrone Powers was ignorant of these three finer technical issues.
• Leslie traveled down to a federally-funded Monitoring Center in Carlsbad, NM to undergo measurement of radioactive particles in her body via special equipment. Results were consistent with exposure to the materials identified in the certified report, including uranium. [bioassay-results-5-8-06, bioassay-results-6-18-07, monitoring-center-results-6-18-07]
• Over the next year, two other CFJ Board members contracted forms of cancer characteristic of toxic radiological exposure: thyroid cancer and an aggressive and unusual kidney cancer. All three of us were very healthy before the current illness.
• A trip to the Monitoring Center in 2007 with the CFJ Board member having thyroid cancer revealed that Leslie exhibited particles consistent with radioactive thallium, and the second Board member exhibited Californium, a man-made radioactive material found only in weapons labs and other nuclear facilities. After that trip, the DOE-funded Center refused to conduct further testing. [links will be added]
• We have been informed that this is not the first time persons close to revealing what we provide herein have been poisoned with radiological material. Federal attorney and leading water- and Indian-rights expert Lana Marcussen, who has been involved in lawsuits against the state and federal government regarding FOIA requests for documents related to the scheme, had to leave New Mexico. [Letter: David Iglesias, US Attorney to Lana Marcussen; RE: USDC New Mexico Civil Action Nol CIV 04-1429 JB/DJS, Letter: David Iglesias, US Attorney to James O. Browning; RE: USDC New Mexico Civil Action No. CIV 04-1429 JB/DJS, Letter: Lana Marcussen to James O. Browning; RE: CIV 04-1429 JB/DJS, Letter: Lana Marcussen to Cynthia Weisman, Assistant US Attorney; RE: Information to help clarify search for Title IV-D and Title IV-E agreements & possible ISDA 638 contract, Letter: David Iglesias, US Attorney to Lana Marcussen; RE: USDC New Mexico Civil Action No. CIV 04-1429 JB/DJS, Letter: Rosario Cirrincione, Director, VOI/Privacy Acts Division, HHS to Lana Marcussen; RE: Case No. 2004-1102JW, Letter: David Iglesias, US Attorney to Lana Marcussen, RE: USDC New Mexico Civil Action No. CIV 04-1429 JB/DJS]
• Steve Schiff, working with a Senator from Ohio, made changes via federal legislation a number of years ago as the first steps to closing the loopholes allowing this scheme to operate. Actions were aimed at preventing child support enforcement to proceed as it had been in NM, outside of the confines of the Uniform Child Support Enforcement Act. Thousands of NM parents were bilked by this scheme because of the incentive of matching federal funds for every dollar coerced out of parents for child support. The other entitlements remained. The State of NM Child Support Enforcement Division did not follow the new federal laws for some time. [links will be added]
• NM Governor Gary Johnson was in office when AFDC was changed to TANF. Certain changes incorporated into TANF closed up some of the loopholes. NM Legislative leaders Manny Aragon and Raymond Sanchez attempted to go around Gov. Johnson directly to U.S. Health and Human Services to undo the “damage” wrought to the money-making scheme. Navajo Nation attorneys fought the changes at the federal level through litigation, and ultimately failed. [Complaint: Navajo Nation v. Secretary HHS; CIV 98-0336-PCT-RGS, Navajo Nation Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TSNF); P.L. 93-638 Contract Proposal, Resolution of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee of the Navajo Nation RE: TANF (PL 93-638), Resolution of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee of the Navajo Nation RE: TANF (PL 93-638), Letter: Donna Shalala, Secretary HHS to Albert A. Hale, President, Navajo Nation Re: refusal of request to operate TANF program on Navajo reservation, Decision to Dismiss: Navajo Nation v. Secretary HHS IBIA 98-34-A, Response Motion to Dismiss: Navajo Nation v. Secretary HHS USDC AZ Civ. 98-0336-PCT-RGS, Opinion: USCA Ninth Circuit; Navajo Nation v. Depart HSS, Secretary; No. 99-16129 C.C. No. CV-98-00336-RGS, Letter: Gary Johnson, Governor, NM to Leon McCowan, Regional Hub Director; RE: TANF block grant dated 7/1/97, Progress New Mexico Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) FY97-FY98 Biennial Plan, Letter: Robin Dozier Otten, Secretary-Designate, NM HSD to Leon McCowan, Regional Hub Director, HHS, New Mexico Works: New Mexico's TANF State Plan, Letter: Robin Dozier Otten, Secretary-Designate, NM HSD to Leon McCowan, Regional Hub Director, HHS RE: Amendments, Letter: Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS to Pamela Hyde, Secretary, NM HSD, Letter: Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS to Robin Dozzier Otten, Secretary Designate, NM HSD, Letter: Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS to Robin Dozzier Otten, Secretary Designate, NM HSD, Letter: Robin Dozier Otten, Deputy Secretary, NMHSD to Leon McCowan, Director, ACF Regional Hub, USDHHS, New Mexico Works: New Mexico's TANF State Plan; Amended 7/1/01, Letter: Robin Dozier Otten, Secretary Designate, NMHSD to Leon McCowan, Director, ACF Regional Hub, USDHHS, Fax: Sharon Rogonsbert, Bureau Chief Program Policy &Dev. HSD-Income Support Division to Bob Shellborne; RE: TANF State Plan for New Mexico, Letter: Robin Dozier Otten, Deputy Secretary, NMHSD to Leon McCowan, Director, ACF Regional Hub, USDHHS, State of NM HSD Human Services Register Vol. 23 No. 19, Excerpt: Identifying TANF Eligible Households Using Tax Data, Letter: Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS to Robin Dozzier Otten, Deputy Secretary NM HSD, New Mexico Works: New Mexico's TANF State Plan; January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2002, State of NM HSD Human Services Register Vol. 22 No. 52, Fax: Sharon Rogonsbert, Bureau Chief Program Policy &Dev. HSD-Income Support Division to Albuquerque Journal, Legals; RE: Public Notice, Letter: Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS to Robin Dozzier Otten, Secretary NM HSD, Letter: Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS to Wiliam Johnson, Jr., Secretary, NMHSD, Letter: Robert Sluss, State Program Specialist, HHS, Regional Office VI to Karen Clairmont, Office of Family Assistance, Administration for Children and Families, Washington, DC, Letter: Wiliam Johnson, Jr., Secretary, NMHSD to Leon McCowan,ACF Regional Administrator, HHS, New Mexico Works: New Mexico's TANF State Plan; July 1, 1997 - December 31, 1999, Letter: Robert Sluss, State Program Specialist, HHS, Regional Office VI to Karen Clairmont, Office of Family Assistance, Administration for Children and Families, Washington, DC, Letter: Gary Johnson, Governor, NM to Leon McCowan, Regional Hub Director, Letter: Wiliam Johnson, Jr., Secretary, NMHSD to Leon McCowan,ACF Regional Administrator, HHS, New Mexico Works: An Amendment to New Mexico's TANF Plan; FY97-FY98 Biennial Plan, Letter: Gary Johnson, Governor, NM to Leon McCowan, Regional Hub Director, Letter: Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS to Duke Rodriguez, Jr., Secretary, NMHSD, Letter: Senator Manny Aragon, NM State Senate to Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS, Letter: Raymond Sanchez, NM House of Representatives to Leon McCowan, Regional Administrator, HHS, Citation: Navajo Nation v. Department HHS, Secretary No. 99-16129]
• Senator Pete Domenici and others incorporated language into the federal Budget Reconciliation Act of 2006 precluding states from directly contracting with Indian tribes, effectively closing up the remaining loopholes that had allowed the flow of federal funding outside of the normal channels. [links will be added]
• Most of the “legal” crooks, along with the MALDEF infrastructure, remain. In a desperate attempt to keep the money flowing, attorneys and judges have stooped to new lows, grabbing at any assets of parents and children they can, including trust funds, college funds, savings, property, automobiles, business assets, etc. Certain real estate players obtain property through unfair court proceedings, quickly selling it off to banks in MALDEF cities New York and Chicago.
  • After understanding the why and how of the massive corruption here in New Mexico, CFJ did a few statistical studies as test cases to show that other government offices refuse to investigate or mitigate the problems. No responses were received after letters containing specific evidence of case fixing involving two NM Supreme Court Judges (MALDEF members Petra Maes and Patricio Serna) were provided to Governor Bill Richardson, NM Attorney General Gary King, and acting U.S. Attorney for NM Larry Gomez. No responses were received to any of our letters. A face-to-face meeting with Gary King yielded nothing but lip service. [links will be added]
• We describe herein one of the largest, most horrifying schemes that the government has ever conducted against its own citizens in the history of the United States. The fascist underpinnings of combining government and financial means is right out of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s textbooks. It has been going on for decades right under our noses. The sense of oppression experienced in the midst of this system is hard to describe, but those who have emigrated here from communist and fascist systems recognize it right away, sometimes with weeks of arriving in New Mexico. For the American-born, victimization by this system results in a deep sense of shock that many never overcome. Part of our task in the Center for Family Justice is to assist help family members to come out of shock and get a grip quickly enough to fight before losing their loved ones at the hands of their own government. Even then, so many vital parent-child ties have been permanently destroyed under false pretenses for greed and power. It is very difficult to endure at close range. None of us ever imagined that the United States of America would come to this.
• Truly, it is only by the grace of God that we have received all of this information and been able to provide it to you. It has come at great risk to many through the last several decades. If you have more information, we urge you to contact us, particularly if you have documents to back your claims. Please be aware, however, that our (snail) mail and telephone communications have been tampered with in recent weeks.
• There is so much information to impart, such as symptoms we saw from the beginning starting in 2003 that quickly led us to believe, that there was something in New Mexico that was more pervasive, insidious, and alarming than the court-related problems in other states. Please peruse our website for examples of a much bigger body of evidence of judicial and attorney crime that grows with every passing week.
• What can YOU do to insure that this appalling situation is corrected? We ask the following:

1. Contact the Department of Justice in Washington, DC (local NM offices have done nothing for decades) and demand an internal affairs investigation of the NM FBI, the US Attorney’s office for NM, and all three branches of the New Mexico government, along with Bruce Babbitt and other affiliated MALDEF persons in federal offices.
• by mail Correspondence to the Department, including the Attorney General, may be sent to:

  U.S. Department of Justice

  950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

  Washington, DC 20530-0001

  E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

by phone: Department of Justice Main Switchboard - 202-514-2000; Office of the Attorney General - 202-353-1555

2. Contact your national-level AND local media outlets and demand coverage of this story, regardless of your place of residence.
3. Contact your state and federal legislators and demand legislation that will prevent this occurrence in the future by abolishing judicial immunity, eliminating oversight by members of the bar of disciplinary actions against judges and attorneys, and making public all complaints against judges, attorneys, and court-appointed officials. Ask them to call for criminal charges against radical groups within the United States who openly declare civil war against our country.
4. Finally, forward this story to all of your friends, family members and acquaintances. Add a personal note encouraging them to review our site, and let them know that we have documentary evidence on the site to back up our claims.