| The second letter by M.A.
Edwards on December 29, 2003, delivered by hand to the
AAWC Offices on East Plumb Lane in Reno, Nevada, goes
into greater detail in regards to the complicity that is
alleged to exist between the Airport Authority of Washoe
County (AAWC) and the Reno Air Racing Association, not to
mention Attorneys for the AAWC and the Office of State
Senator Bill Raggio (R), who serves as Nevada State
Senate Majority Leader and is a member of the
Jones-Vargas Law Firm, along with RARA Board member John
Sande III. Edwards, Paul
January and Clyde Blincoe are pursuing Civil and Criminal
Complaints against members of the Airport Authority of
Washoe County (AAWC), including Raymond "Skip"
Polak, Airport Manager for Reno-Stead Airport; Patti L.
Edgington, his assistant and a Notary Public for the
AAWC; Mr. Fred Christle, of Water Works Inc.; and
Attorney-at-Law John F. Murtha, regarding Fraudulent
Conveyance, Property Theft and Federal issues involving
the jurisdictions of the Department of Transportation,
FAA, Homeland Security, TSA and FBI.
Edwards has verbally requested
the local FBI office to begin its investigation, but AAWC
personnel have stated to the FBI that there is no
problem, and that only a civil matter exists, if any
matter exists at all. Edwards has pointed out to the FBI
that the statements are not borne out by the facts, and
that a more formal, written complaint will issue
including relevant documents proving the break-ins,
thefts, and unlawful destruction of property. Edwards is
unaware of who at the AAWC has made representations to
the FBI, but believes that act in and of itself may be
even more egregious than flattening his building after
stealing its contents.
The FBI had previously advised
Edwards, a former Washoe County Sheriff's Reserve Deputy,
along with January, to exercise personal protection
precautions for themselves in regards to their complaints
against a then-anointed, but now disgraced, District
Court Judge some ten years ago. With the confirmed
death threats made by Mr. Christle against Edwards,
January, their friend, service-connected, Vietnam-era
Disabled Veteran Blincoe, and others, as detailed by the
Court-appointed Medical Examiner, they have again been
forced to take those same protection precautions for
themselves and others. Christle, who was made a Ward of
the Court and twice institutionalized, has twice been
declared sane (the second time, following a relapse after
the first release...) and is currently living somewhere
in the Reno-Sparks community:
HAND DELIVER TO 2001 EAST PLUMB
LANE, RENO, NEVADA
December
30, 2003
Michael W. Caryl
Chairman, Board of Trustees
Airport Authority of Washoe County
2001 East Plumb Lane
Reno, Nevada 89502
Reference:
5875 Alpha Avenue, Stead Airport
Subject:
Missing property, criminal report
Dear
Mr. Caryl:
Enclosed
you will find our quarterly payment for the
referenced property ground lease. You will also
find my letter to John F. Murtha, Attorney, of
Woodburn and Wedge, hired to represent the
Authority’s interests regarding that ground
lease.
As you
can see from that letter, we have begun formal
complaints, both civil and criminal, concerning
the Airport Authority of Washoe County’s
(AAWC) breaking and entering of our building, the
theft of the property within, and the subsequent
destruction of that building. As Mr. Murtha will
admit, there is no court order, or even a filing
with the appropriate court so that the matter
could be heard, that would begin to authorize
such outrageous conduct. Obviously Mr. Murtha
could not approach the Justice Court, which
handles eviction matters, as we have already in
hand an order from that Court allowing us to
continue our operations. I guess the AAWC is of
the opinion it can just do as it wishes, without
regard to the niceties of due process and court
orders. We are about to disabuse you of that
notion.
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The issue of failure to provide for inspection
of what are Public Records is shocking. This is another
violation of Nevada Revised Statutes and Court procedures
where a case is involved that can be construed as
interfering with the Discovery process -- one that can
backfire with a Judge in a Court of Law overseeing such
cases. For attorneys involved in this type of conduct,
sanctions (Court imposed penalties) can be severe and can
include disbarment:
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concerns us most in all this is the refusal of
the AAWC to allow the inspection of public
records and files. When we finally recognized
that we were going to be shafted regardless of
any attempts to deal fairly and forthrightly with
the AAWC or its hired guns, we demanded to view
those records to determine the true facts and
bring the agenda to light. To date, not one
record or file has been opened to public access
as required by law. Absent that access, we simply
began to examine the various parties and entities
involved. We have discovered what we believe to
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festering
cesspool of corruption within the agency,
requiring the active, knowing, and willing
cooperation and participation of others in order
to continue. When the attempted eviction failed
despite the best legal arguments of Mr. Fred P.
Christle, Esq., J.D, legend in his own mind and
proud graduate of Stanford, cum laude in
Constitutional Law (an imaginary matriculation
according to the Registrar), failed miserably
before the Justice Court, Mr. Raymond Polak,
Stead Airport Manager, took up the banner by
furnishing false information to the Reno Air
Racing Association (RARA) showing Mr. Christle as
the leaseholder even though he knew better,
having received a copy of the Court’s order.
This, in turn, allowed Mr. Michael Houghton,
President and CEO of RARA, to give all
credentials for access to Mr. Christle
effectively preventing access to our leasehold,
building and businesses by the principles,
customers, clients and others. Mr. Houghton
stated that RARA had nothing to do with it, that
it was strictly between the AAWC and us. He
claimed there was nothing he could do even after
we provided to him all documents as to our
rightful possession of the property as well as
the order supplied to Mr. Polak. We find that
assertion fascinating based upon closer
examination:
•
Mr. Polak sat on the Board of Directors of RARA.
•
Mr. Houghton and RARA Board of Directors member
Thomas Gribbin sat on the Board of Trustees of
the AAWC.
•
Mr. Polak was the Stead Airport Liaison to RARA,
and Mr. Houghton served the same function for
RARA to the AAWC.
It is
beyond belief the two people specifically
involved in the issue could not resolve it and
allow access to the building upon absolute proof
of their errors. Obviously there was another
agenda in play here, and given the fiasco that
befell John Parker this year, I have no doubt
that it continues to this day.
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Edwards alleges
and has documented to SSNS that AAWC and RARA aided and
abetted Mr. Christle in his misconduct, despite a Court
Order indicating that Edwards and January were the
rightful Lease holders and Tenants at the former Water
Works building and grounds parcel at Reno-Stead Airport.
In fact, January and Edwards owned the building in that
location, which was demolished in mid-2003 without
apparent proof of cause by the AAWC.
The AAWC ignored the Court order
and gave Mr. Christle access to Edwards' and January's
building, permitting him to lock the two out, before the
AAWC entered to confiscate and destroy equipment,
business records, evidence for pending litigation in
Court -- all of which belonged to the pair's business,
P&B Enterprises.
This, in addition to Blincoe's
In Stead Sky Sports, where he worked as an FAA-approved
Parachute Rigger, which requires the maintenance of
Federal records. Edwards indicates that the AAWC disposed
of Federal Government documents that directly relate to
Air Safety and are lawfully identified as Federal
property due to FAA mandates:
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after the constructive eviction, the continued
harassment of personnel, visitors, customers,
clients, contractors and others forced us to move
public operations off the field. The AAWC decided
to break into the facility one evening, lock it
up so that we had no access, and then, with
absolute arrogance, inventory our property within
our building. I will remind you that the building
is not one that belongs to the AAWC, nor did any
property locked within it. At no time did the
AAWC seek leave of any court to allow such
actions. During our inspection of the
building, allowed only at Mr. Polak’s
convenience and with his presence required, we
found that much of the valuable, inventoried
property was missing from the building. Mr. Polak
professed ignorance of the loss, surprising as he
was the only person with a key for access.
Contact with Mr.
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Christle’s
legal guardian’s attorney also professed
ignorance of the loss and suggested we report the
theft and/or burglary. We are doing so now, and
in doing so, Mr. Polak has admitted that he took
some of our property to the dump before
destroying the building. Mr. Polak is unable to
state what authority he has to have taken our
property and flatten the place.
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According to
Edwards, the AAWC has been attempting to takeover the
parcels of land at Water Works and John Parker's American
Air Racing facility, an Air Racing, Speed Modifications
and Propeller balancing center, which is located adjacent
to the contested grounds and building. There is an
additional undeveloped parcel immediately behind Parker's
custom Aircraft Build and Speed Modifications center that
Parker himself has been attempting to acquire, with the
same results as January and Edwards. Edwards indicates
that an unidentified individual or group wanted that
parcel, Parker's facility and that of Edwards and
January. This fits into just one of the scenarios that
Silver State News has been pursuing during its
investigation, that the AAWC wanted to claim Parker's
facility and throw him and American Air Racing out of
Reno-Stead to accomodate another party.
Likewise, in regards to
corruption, collusion, complicity, duplicity -- and
frankly "triplicity, quadplicity and
pentaplicity," though definition and use has only
reached "triplicity" in the English dictionary;
the complexity of the collusion reaching five-sided
proportions thus, we may have to invent the new words
right here -- Edwards cites the substantial network of
"cross-pollution" between the AAWC Boards and
the Attorneys representing AAWC while simultaneously
serving on the RARA Board.
Thus, you have 1) a connection
between the AAWC and RARA where the AAWC does RARA's
bidding, 2) RARA doing the bidding of the AAWC, 3) AAWC
Attorneys doing the bidding (illegal) of their client, in
violation of the State Bar, 4) the hiring of outside
Attorneys by Jones Vargas, such as Woodburn Wedge's John
F. Murtha, and 5) an AAWC Attorney now the Senate
Majority Leader, though still a member of the
Jones-Vargas Law Firm and on their staff list, doing the
bidding of the AAWC in his bills and actions before the
Nevada State Senate and as Senate majority Leader:
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we have the same tactics used against Mr. Parker.
Speak up against the conduct of the AAWC and RARA
jumps right into the middle of the fray,
exercising its excessive control over the airport
operations and the rights of the tenants. One
must wonder how that can occur. In addition to
the cross-pollution of the Boards by Mr. Houghton
and Mr. Polak, we find: • John P.
Sande, III, Esq., is a member of the Board of
Directors of RARA.
•
Mr. Sande is the Resident Agent for RARA.
•
Mr. Sande is the lobbyist for the AAWC.
•
Mr. Sande is a member of Jones Vargas, a
Professional Corporation providing legal services
in Nevada.
•
Mr. Sande is the Resident Agent for the Reno Air
Racing Foundation (a non-profit organization
formed by RARA Board members Tom Gribbin, Frank
Monroe, and Bill Leonesio) wishing to obtain tax
dollars from specialty Nevada automobile license
plates in order to create an air museum in some
undisclosed location. It has yet to be determined
if Mr. Sande is the lobbyist that has approached
the legislature in this endeavor.
•
Jones Vargas is the General Counsel for the AAWC.
•
State Senator William Raggio is a member of Jones
Vargas.
•
Senator Raggio has introduced bills in the
legislature that directly affect the way the AAWC
is governed.
•
Jones Vargas has, in large part, hired additional
law firms to handle normal AAWC business affairs
and litigation.
•
The AAWC refuses to allow access to the records
that would reveal the amount paid to Jones
Vargas, Mr. Sande, or any hired law firm.
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So precarious have their (RARA/AAWC/Attorneys)
dealings become in context of over a decade and a half of
collusion, that -- in an analogy that this Editor
personally finds distasteful based on his well-known
nickname and...since he himself must write it -- they are
like a 600-pound Bear on a weak limb at the top of a
Redwood tree (seemingly untouchable), trying with all
their greedy might to reach the beehive dangling at the
end from the thread of a broken twig...
...for the
honey that lies within.
No thought
by the Bear in regards to the peril he now faces for his
gluttony and greed, nor the peril he causes to the
Community that lives within the hive, nor thought given
to those who could really benefit from the honey, i.e.,
the truly needy.
This, of
course, based on the Editor's personal belief that a
600-pound Bear generally does not appear in or out of the
woods in a "needy" state, other than to
"diet." (Editor's note: There are 350-pound
Bears that the Editor knows personally who quite frankly,
could use a better "diet" -- and fast! So,
"no mercy" for the 600-pound ones.)
In regards
to recent rumors surrounding the predicted and
anticipated move of the Reno Air Races to the Las Vegas
area, an act which would literally result in the theft of
the Air Races from the People of the City of Reno, who
founded them, Edwards cites more information than we
previously knew from other sources in regards to this
move.
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