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Apparently a lot of people are concerned about The North Country Gazette and the false imprisonment of people who dare to exercise their First Amendment rights in challenging wrongdoing and corruption in government.
Especially people who work in government.
A lot of employers in the private sector might want to monitor how their employees are spending the time that they are getting paid to work---like those at Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company who seemed to be spending a lot of time reading The North Country Gazette while at work.
This is the innovative bank whose employees in Chestertown, NY don't know what PayPal is.
Computers are a valuable tool and statistical information is invaluable. Since The North Country Gazette was hijacked last week and after the numerous harassing and threatening messages being received, the newspaper added more statistical information and services to the website that allows tracking of Internet Service Providers, IP numbers of specific computers-all kinds of information.
Following the publication of the editorial Wednesday entitled "False Imprisonment" about the efforts of Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland and Warren County Court Judge John S. Hall to unlawfully incarcerate North Country Gazette publisher June Maxam, monitoring of the statistical information has been very revealing.
EDITORIAL - Warren County Sheriff Trying To Jail Publisher
The statistics have also allowed the newspaper to definitively track "Daryll Suseman" one of several individuals who has been sending harassing messages for months in regard to the coverage of the Terri Schiavo case by The Empire Journal and North Country Gazette, stepping up his abuse in the last two weeks. MSN gave notification Thursday that his Hotmail account has been canceled for abuse and Yahoo is currently investigating the situation. Security reports have also been filed with the ISPs that are being utilized by the harasser, with copies of the headers from the email messages which are just like fingerprints. Don't forget, sending harassing anonymous messages is now a federal offense.
The stats also showed that the Florida Department of Banking and Financial Services has had an inordinate interest in the Schiavo case this week and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement stops by frequently.
And then there's the Pinellas County Courthouse---the 6th most frequent visitor to the site during the past week, reading the articles regarding the impeachment of George Greer and "Convincing Violations".
Judging George Greer
Schiavo Judge's Alleged Campaign Violations Clear and Convincing
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There have been numerous TV stations visiting the website, both local and out-of-state. The Glens Falls Post-Star, owned by Lee Enterprises, notorious for their biased and quite frequently incorrect coverage, is interested in the coverage about Cleveland and Warren County. Although they have cautiously sidestepped reporting the harsh state audit of the Warren County Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Larry Cleveland, The Post-Star seems to have an inordinate interest in the coverage being presented by The North Country Gazette. Although The Post-Star published numerous false statements and information about publisher June Maxam during the 7 ½ years that Maxam's constitutional rights were being violated by the courts, the sheriff's department and Cleveland, assisted by The Post-Star, Post-Star management has refused to publish any article reporting the dismissal of the charges. That's called reckless disregard for the truth and malice---the standards for libel. The Post-Star has covered for Larry Cleveland many times and has engaged in a reckless disregard for the truth in reporting issues concerning Maxam. Makes one wonder what else The Post-Star is covering up in Warren and Washington Counties.
The state Unified Court System is a frequent visitor to The North Country Gazette and the state Assembly, Governor's Office, multiple state agencies including the Office of the State Comptroller and Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) visited Thursday to read "Warren County Sheriff Trying To Jail Publisher".
The computer is an invaluable tool, absolutely no question about it. "Corrections Captain" Michael Gates of the Warren County Sheriff's Department might want to try computerizing his jail records so that he doesn't cause unlawful imprisonments and legally obligate the county taxpayers. If he was in doubt if the North Country Gazette publisher had served the sentence imposed in the case in which Queensbury Court Clerk Carol Finamore submitted three false written instruments to the court and then perjured herself in order to gain a false conviction against Maxam, he might have done a Google search and found some relevant articles that appeared on the Internet at the time that Maxam completed her sentence.
What is even more troubling is that Michael Gates was fully aware of Maxam's incarceration in Saratoga County Jail from Dec. 19, 2003 to Jan. 4, 2001 because he and CO Michelle LaBarron transported Maxam from the jail to Queensbury Court on Jan. 4, 2001 when she was released after serving 17 days on convictions which were reversed and dismissed because Queensbury town justice Michael Muller had violated Maxam's constitutional rights by denying her Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Those 17 days were applied to the charge that she had filed a false harassment complaint so as of Jan. 4, 2001, Maxam had served 97 days of the 180 days claimed due.
And when Maxam was incarcerated at the Warren County Jail from Feb. 7, 2003 until April 30, 2003 during which time Larry Cleveland personally visited Maxam in the facility on at least three occasions with witnesses present including numerous corrections officers, Gates was a sergeant and was involved in the matter when Maxam was assaulted by another inmate, Christine Blakeman, and sustained a head injury.
Makes one wonder if Gates has this kind of problem with records and his memory if he should be in the capacity of "corrections captain". Or is he just following orders of Cleveland to submit a false statement to the court in order to cause the false imprisonment of Maxam. According to the court attorney, the court received a directive from Cleveland ordering the publisher's incarceration.
Maxam conducted a phone interview from the jail in March 2003 with Jennifer LaFleur, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a national press organization based in Arlington, Va. The two articles published by the Reporters Committee and which appear online, clearly document the fact that Maxam completed the 180 days of incarceration and help to substantiate the fact that Capt. Michael Gates and Sheriff Larry Cleveland of the Warren County Sheriff's Department have intentionally filed false statements with the court for the intent of causing a false imprisonment and to cause serious emotional and physical distress for Maxam.
Using the official position to intentionally file false statements for the express purpose of causing he false imprisonment of someone is not only a constitutional violation under the color of law but is also an impeachable offense under the State Constitution.
The first RCFP article, entitled "Publisher Jailed for Filing False Harassment Complaint", was published on March 27, 2003, and states the Maxam was completing at that time a nine-month sentence in the Warren County Jail---the nine months sentence that Gates has falsely certified that Maxam did not complete. http://rcfp.org/news/2003/0327maxamj.html
On May 21, 2003, The Reporters Committee published another article titled "Publisher Released From Jail After Serving 180 Days Of Sentence" which states that the publisher of The North Country Gazette since 1981 "was released from the Warren County Jail April 30 (2003) after completing six months of a nine month sentence. Her latest incarceration was for 100 days. She served 80 days of the sentence in 2000 before being released on a stay". http://rcfp.org/news/2003/0521newyor.html
Gates used his official position to file a false certification with the court attesting that Maxam hasn't been incarcerated since Aug. 11, 2000.
In New York State, one is credited with "good time" and serves only two thirds of the sentence if there are no disciplinary actions recorded against the inmate during their incarceration. With Maxam's sentence for nine months, with good time credit awarded, she was required to serve six months or 180 days to fully satisfy the conviction of judgment under the law. She did.
Maxam was arrested, indicted and found guilty because of a typographical error in the harassment complaint that she had filed against Eleanor and Donald Lambert who had harassed her and her family for months at the direction of Cleveland the sheriff's department. Maxam was acquitted following trial of a third complaint filed by Chestertown import Jay Becker when it was proven that he had lied under oath. However, Warren County officials refused to bring charges against Becker and court clerk Finamore even though proof beyond a reasonable doubt was demonstrated at trial that both had lied in order the obtain the fraudulent conviction against Maxam.
Cleveland has adopted an unconstitutional policy in which members of the sheriff's departments are prohibited from taking a complaint against anyone from Maxam, regardless of the witnesses and documentation available that a criminal offense has occurred. After Maxam's attorney had tried to file the complaint against the Lamberts and Becker for harassment and Cleveland refused to allow her to do so, violating her due process and equal protection rights, Maxam's attorney advised her to file it directly with the court.
Once she did so and trumped Cleveland, Cleveland exercised one of his infamous temper tantrums, ordered Maxam arrested for filing a false complaint without any investigation and without even interviewing Maxam. There was no proof presented at trial that Maxam's complaints were false, only Lamberts and Becker claiming that they were, and the court clerk's false instruments which were exposed at trial as being false. Instead of a mistrial being declared and the charges dropped, Maxam was pronounced guilty and sentenced by acting Warren County Court judge Jerry Scarano to nine months in jail.
Computers are a powerful tool and in this case, prove beyond all doubt that the Warren County Sheriff's Department has engaged in an unconstitutional, illegal attempt to incarcerate Maxam.
Any attorney authorized to practice in the federal courts who is interested in assisting Maxam in filing a 42 USC 1983 against against Warren County and Cleveland in this matter and the county's attempt to punish her for exercising her First Amendment rights is asked to contact Maxam at news@northcountrygazette.org.
It's time to give Larry Cleveland and Warren County a meaningful education about the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. 1-19-06
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