Who killed Derwin Brown?
-- Colin
Campbell,
The DeKalb
Sheriff’s shenanigans seemingly never end. Dr. Phillip G. Jackson testified in DeKalb County Superior Court last Thursday, January 11,
2003, for "compassionate release" of an inmate with kidney failure
who Jackson said was not getting proper treatment. In a WSB-TV News interview with Dale
Cardwell, his face was hidden, because, as Cardwell reported, he was afraid of
winding up like Derwin Brown.
DeKalb Sheriff Thomas Brown responded by saying he is
"satisfied that we are continuing to make substantial progress in the
health care at the jail."
Regarding
Edward Thomas Godfrey, DeKalb County Jail employee,
habitual DUI offender, who was pardoned in 1994 after then-Sheriff Pat Jarvis
wrote a letter to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, now-Sheriff Thomas
Brown who has the authority to fire employees of his department, has not
terminated Godfrey, and said, "When I exercise that authority is when
somebody does something that compromises the integrity of the office, but not
without investigating it first. That gets you sued," he said. "My
management practice has been to conduct an investigation first, free from
outside forces pushing me."
Dorsey Did It, [or
did he?] Why
Dorsey went down, Ex-sheriff
convicted of murdering man who defeated him, Reported
by staff writers Dana Tofig, Don Plummer, Ben Smith,
Joe Earle and Mae Gentry and written by Tom Opdyke. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writers, ALBANY -- It was Sidney Dorsey's use
of county employees to deliver "Happy Meals" to his son at school
that got jurors thinking the former sheriff was a petty thief.
During
the trial of the accused “mastermind” of the assassination of
Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, former DeKalb Sheriff Sidney Dorsey, the president of a bail
bonding company at the jail, Shirley McMichael,
testified as to Dorsey’s approving her bail bonding company, Speedy
Bonding Co., in exchange for kickbacks and sex.
McMichael testified that Dorsey indicated Derwin
would die, by pointing his finger to his temple, 'Boom. I'm going to kill him,' and that Derwin would not
take office
Earlier
on, DeKalb District Attorney J. Tom Morgan decided to
drop an indictment count involving allegations that Dorsey
used DeKalb inmates to renovate homes in Sherry
Dorsey’s Atlanta City Council district, obfuscating links to other
bonding companies, Ebony Bonding and Atlanta DeKalb
Bonding, set up as phony minority companies and owned by Ray Suddeth, Jarvis’ longtime financier. Suddeth also owns
Colt Security Corporation which employed former sheriff, Pat Jarvis, as a guard
at the courthouse. Jarvis, who pleaded
guilty to public corruption charges, was released from prison two weeks before Derwin’s death.
These charges can be refiled separately, but
it is unlikely, given J. Tom’s lack of motivation in investigating Jarvis
and Judge Gail Flake, the Chief Executive officer of Shelburne &
Associates, Inc., a prison kick-back company Flake incorporated in between jobs
as State Court Judge and Superior Court Judge, which did meet the merit of the
feds after a decade of investigations.
Derwin
Brown on the vicious cycle, the prison industry
Shirley
McMichael's bonding license revoked, By MAE
GENTRY in Albany and ERIC STIRGUS in Decatur, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Staff Writers, Brown
cited a
Even
Big Easy can be shaken, Arrest of New Orleans judge not your average scandal,
Drew Jubera
– Staff, Wednesday, July 17, 2002, [This includes an investigation into the judge’s
relationship with the bail bonding industry.
Wish this would happen here.]
Federal investigation still
nips at Campbell, Colin
Campbell – Staff,
Sunday, June 16,
2002, “But
just as it's legitimate to sound a warning when the Bush administration decides
that the military can ignore the courts and seize U.S. citizens, so it's
legitimate to warn against open-ended federal criminal investigations of
politicians. Many speculate that the case will come to a head this fall. But
what if it doesn't?”
And
so it goes with Atlanta politics, investigations are for the powerful, and how
they avoid them….
After following J. Tom
Morgan’s disingenuous investigation of the 20-year veteran former sheriff
Pat Jarvis and his wife Superior Court Judge Gail Flake, it is doubtful that
any of the defendants were telling the truth.
Bottom line, J. Tom hasn’t been honest. After Jarvis pleaded guilty to federal public
corruptions charges, J. Tom appeared on WAGA-TV News, and when asked why he
could get an indictment, he said. “Sometimes it’s not politically
correct to prosecute certain people.”
I also have a problem with J. Tom
on WSB-TV Prime Time with John Pruitt recently, singing praises for Faye Yager’s Children of the Underground and repeating
false allegations, which are refuted as a matter of public record in Cobb
County and in the Northern District of
Georgia Federal Court. “Meet
the Girl Who Never Was”.
This is another orchestrated scam, extortion and kidnapping, designed to
protect yet another certain person who it’s not politically correct to
prosecute.
"I believe that our number one moral
responsibility is to our children," he [J.Tom
Morgan] said. "It's not to the criminal justice system. It's not to the
laws of the state of Georgia. It's to do what is necessary to protect our
offspring, and if that means that you have to go outside the legal limits,
then, my God, I'm sorry, that's what it is that you have to do."
Phyllis Brown, Derwin’s children, his grandchildren, his mother, sisters and brother, all deserve truth and justice. DeKalb citizens deserve an honest sheriff, one who isn’t maintaining the status quo. Considering that DeKalb’s new sheriff, Thomas E. Brown, Jr., hasn’t done much in his long unremarkable career, and even joined in with J. Tom by in ignoring a child molester, and J. Tom, the lead prosecutor, in the Dorsey trial, is a big mouthed liar, is justice possible in DeKalb County?
Getting away with
murder…., two defendants acquitted, 03/26/02, two others given
immunity, this leaves Dorsey….
"Brown's 18-year-old son, Michael, was happy about the arrests. "I'm glad they got somebody," he said. "More people are involved than that - a lot more people." Phyllis Brown learned two days ago that arrests were imminent. They might bring a resolution to the nearly year-old case but for Phyllis Brown, they never will make her complete."
"I'll never be satisfied because nothing will bring my Derwin back."
From unconscionable treatment by the former Public Safety Commissioner, Thomas
Brown, who is now the Sheriff, to the contemptible actions of the District Attorney,
J. Tom Morgan, who would have nothing to do with her after Derwin’s
death: “I am speaking out to
express my disappointment in the lack of respect and consideration shown to me
by the Dekalb Police Department, the Sheriff’s
Department and the District Attorney’s Office. I have never received an official courtesy
call or a letter of condolence in reference to my son’s death.”
Now the pieces of the puzzle are
complete. DeKalb
County officials are placed in office to protect the status quo, and that
status quo is former sheriff Pat Jarvis, his wife, Judge Gail Flake and best
friend, guardian protector, U.S. Sen. Zell
Miller. From covering up corruption at
the jail to setting confessed murders free to cleaning up after an alleged
serial child molester, and praising an extortionist kidnapper on WSB-TV, the
web of lies spread like a serpent squeezing the life out of
truth and justice.
For
those of you who didn't know Derwin or what he stood
for, he was a hero to most who met him , a man of integrity
and compassion and we miss him terribly. Derwin
promised to expose wrongdoing in DeKalb County once
he took office as sheriff and was subsequently gunned down, assassinated
December 15, 2000 on his wife Phyllis's birthday, in between benefits of the DeKalb police and Sheriff's office. Because ongoing, wrongdoing in DeKalb is so
widespread the list of motivated suspects is extensive. Following are
links concerning past and present crimes, including WSB-TV News' Dale
Cardwell's recent report implicating the same old, good old boys up to the same
old shenanigans uncovered by Derwin a decade ago,
which led him to dub the jail a "cesspool of corruption."
"As we move into the next millennium, the need for visionaries will become a necessity for the criminal justice and correctional system." -- Derwin Brown
Pledge your support for a reward and fund for Derwin's family left without a pension:
http://www.dekalbpubsafety.com/police/derwin_index.htm
http://www.dekalbpubsafety.com/police/
Finally, a month later, the Atlanta Constitution gets around to reporting the following story, February 20, 2001...
DeKalb is using private guards for security at courthouse, Don Plummer and Ben Smith - Staff
Colt's Suddeth has ties with DeKalb sheriffs, Give me a Break, according to sources, he lives in Avondale, and owns a 30-acre horse farm in Social Circle, with custody switcher, Judge Gail Flake. Don Plummer and Ben Smith - Staff, After Jarvis was released from prison, Suddeth gave his former patron a job in his private security firm, Colt Security. Suddeth says he was simply trying to help his old friend. "When he got out, he was making $6 an hour and living in a halfway house,” Suddeth said.
Dale
Cardwell, WSB-TV Action News,
Former Sheriff Pat Jarvis was convicted in 1999 of abusing his public post. Tonight the company implicated in his conviction is once again under investigation. While there is no information that the former sheriff is involved this time, critics say Jarvis' presence in that business reflects the deep-seated problems in the system.
Dale Cardwell: "Why is former sheriff Pat Jarvis, a convicted criminal, helping run the company that guards the county's courthouse?"
Pat Jarvis: "Yeah, I'm working here. I work here all the time."
Dale Cardwell: "Charles Shaw says it's part of a system that's now receiving investigators' attention."
Competing Bail Bondsman
Charles Shaw: The whole situation perpetuates that it is o-kay to engage in these kind of
wink 'n nod, good old boy politics.
Dale Cardwell: "Two years ago Pat Jarvis was convicted in
connection with a corruption probe of the DeKalb
County Jail. In this public report the DeKalb
district attorney says Jarvis helped his friend and current employer, Atlanta DeKalb Bonding Company owner, Ray Suddeth,
set up two fake minority companies for the purpose of making money off
contracts with the jail. But despite this collusion, which the DA calls
improper but not illegal, Suddeth still operates this
Richard Belcher: "Could they have their license pulled?"
Former Sheriff Sidney Dorsey: "It's very definitely. It could be. It could happen."
Dale Cardwell: "That's what former DeKalb County sheriff Sid Dorsey told our Richard Belcher nearly two years ago. You see in Georgia the sheriff controls what companies are allowed to write bonds for inmates, but despite Dorsey's promise to review Suddeth's license, public records show no action was taken, nothing was ever done."
Charles Shaw: "It stinks. It's mind boggling."
Dale Cardwell: "So what does interim sheriff Thomas Brown have to say about Suddeth? Well, despite our repeated requests, he never returned our calls."
Harry Ross: "First I'm shocked."
Dale Cardwell: "Harry Ross the political advisor to the late sheriff elect Derwin Brown. He said Derwin was going to revoke Suddeth's license and he said Thomas Brown, no relation, should do the same."
Harry Ross: "Severe the ties and make it known publically that he would not receive one dime from the bonding companies that are doing business with the sheriff's department."
Dale Cardwell: "Ross also includes political contributions in that reply. Neither Ray Suddeth nor Pat Jarvis would return our calls today. Sheriff Sid Dorsey is on record saying investigators will find no evidence of corruption in his former administration, but we know Suddeth's company is part of what the special grand jury will be looking at when it convenes in a few weeks.
John Pruitt: "These bonding companies are sources of political contributions, significant contributions to candidates running for sheriff."
Dale Cardwell: "We understand that at least $30,000 when it costs $50-70,000 to run for office. It's a lot of money."
For more on Derwin Brown:
http://team2000.netfirms.com/issues.htm
http://team2000.netfirms.com/biograph.htm
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2000-08-19/news_feature.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/12/21/phyllis.brown/
Jail program Derwin wanted to axe:
Funded by Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/OCE/LifeSkills/intro.html
similar to access/visitation programs at the courthouse
The Jarvis File -- a long list of old crimes and sordid liaisons
The Good 'Ole Boy Club,
Tell It Like It Is, by Derwin Brown, The Champion,
Wednesday, June 12-
June 18, 1996.
Flake's Got Problems,
by Derwin Brown, The
Champion,
Flake Sued Again!!!, by Phyllis
Brown, The Champion,
DeKalb's sheriffs have had trouble,
by Robin McDonald - Staff Monday • December 6
High
Court: Judge Flake must face residency challenge, by Ken Edelstein, Creative Loafing, Flake owns a Newton
County home, purchased by her and DeKalb County
Sheriff Pat Jarvis, who later transferred his share of the property to her.
Jarvis, a close friend of Gov. Zell Miller, has faced
a federal investigation over accusation of financial improprieties at the jail.
Injustice At Its Best, Good Old Boy Family Law, Southern Style, read how Georgia politicians, an ex-Braves Baseball player, his girlfriend the judge and Children of the Underground lawyers protect a child pornographer and quash Constitutionally protected due process rights for several maltreated children.
Creative Loafing "Losing Custody" 10/10/1998, by Donna Freydkin -- Abusive man wins custody through false reporting and ex parte, interstate communications between Judge Flake and her divorce attorney, Lois Shingler [wife of former state attorney general, Mike Bowers' senior assistant] whom Flake appointed as guardian ad litem.
Hilton/Marriott Serial Molester Composite Sketch, In the mid-90's a middle aged man in his 40's traveled the upper arc of Atlanta's I-285 Perimeter dressed in athletic shorts and a ball cap and assaulted children.
Elect Derwin Brown for DeKalb County Sheriff, Had Derwin been Sheriff the alleged serial Marriott child molester and the judge, Gail Flake, who protected him would be behind bars. Thanks to Derwin's dogged pursuit Flake's lover, now husband, former Sheriff and Braves pitcher, Pat Jarvis, was eventually prosecuted.
Georgia Lottery Lobbying
Funds subverted, Amid
speculation that Clinton might quit the race for the Democratic nomination, Georgia Gov. Zell Miller came to his aid, along with a
company called Integrated Strategies of
http://www.opic.gov/OPICNews/991021/ZellMillerStory.htm Clinton returns the favor
THE DIXIE MAFIA, how the good old boy moonshiners morphed into the KKK and beyond, a journey into southern politics, by Bobby Rogers and Rocky Scarfone.