action. It allows evidence of fraud to be the anchor that should keep the action from being thrown out of court by the judges’ immunity theory bulldozer. By the same token, the bankruptcy fraud members of the class should be able to provide invaluable leads for the investigative journalists’ Watergate-like Follow the money! investigation of bankruptcy money fraudulently channeled into concealed assets and illegal contributions, political or otherwise.
31. Evidence of the judges’ support or toleration of a bankruptcy fraud scheme would show bias and disregard for the rule of law as well as engagement in a continuing criminal activity and the consequent need to cover it up. Such evidence would lend credence to the claims that the non-bankruptcy class members made both in their judicial misconduct complaints, to wit, that the judges in their respective cases, regardless of their subject matter, showed bias and disregard for the rule of law, and subsequently in the class action, that is, that the judges that received those complaints systematically dismissed them too without any investigation or consideration of their merits so as to prevent any investigation of a judge that could open the way to the exposure of the judges’ coordination to do wrong, for example, to participate in a bankruptcy fraud scheme. Hence, all the members have mutually reinforcing claims arising from the same source: judicial wrongdoing made possible by the coordination not to discipline each other.
32. The outrage provoked by the media reporting on coordinated wrongdoing by judges can force the FBI, the Department of Justice, and finally Congress to launch their own investigations. Current events support this expectation. Indeed, Congress held hearings within a month after the revelation that to identify the source of leakage of classified corporate information, the top officers of Hewlett-Packard had orchestrated pretexting –posing as members of the board of directors to obtain private information about directors- and unlawful wiretapping of journalists. Likewise, less than a week after the scandal broke that Representative Mark Foley had sent salacious e-mails to underage Congressional pages and that the House leadership had known for three years that he had sent other improper e-mails to pages, the FBI opened an in-depth investigation into what Congressional leaders knew and when they knew it.
33. Official investigations can lead to the impeachment or prosecution and conviction of judges as well as other bankruptcy fraud schemers and to the tactical retirement of other judges in anticipation of being charged. This will cause the removal or exiting from the bench of wrongdoing judges and have a cautionary effect on the conduct of those remaining in office.
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