THE BALLEW SYNDROME
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The "little shell game" and the "big shell game".

Few know that there are two levels of civil fraud on the government; intrinsic and extrinsic. When Bruno the Boxer "takes a dive", it's the little game; intrinsic fraud. If you discovered that promoters worked together to control the betting odds by "fixing" all boxing fights worldwide, it would be called extrinsic fraud. We document the "big shell game" and present a strong case of why the DOJ and FBI cannot be trusted with any more secret powers. And, it uses their documents to do it.

Citizenship requires patriotism and intelligence, not blind faith and support. Your citizenship has a cost. It requires involvement. Parts of our government are badly broken but it can be repaired. That job belongs to all of us. And so does the money the DOJ and FBI help divert from the "miscellaneous receipts" account of the U. S. Treasury. Read, think and decide for yourself.

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Complex tax dollar shenanigans can be described quite simply,
but if you prefer more details, please read the long version of the introduction
and a more detailed discussion of the Ballew Syndrome.

      My favorite newspaper cartoon has the Wizard of Id holding court. The palace guard drags a sloppy businessman in and accuses him of charging the King a thousand dollars for a hammer. The King shakes his hand, sets him free, and screams at the guard to bring him the person that approved the check. Common sense and simple justice.
      The "little shell game" and this "big shell game". Like street hustlers, they know exactly what they are doing with your money and your family's safety.
      These shell games have caused our government to become the biggest warehouse of undisclosed "fraud identification and detailed information" in the world. And, they won't tell you about it. More than anything else, the never expected you to see one of their secret internal reports that explains the "big shell game's rules". (The Freedom of Information Act still works. Even undisclosed, conflicting and crucifying reports on their "little game" can be found if you look long enough and hard enough.)
      Fraud proceeds are recovered but delivered directly back to the defrauded government agency without the checks and balances the lawmakers put in place. The agency fouls up and then receives a hidden windfall for it while the press release reports a very small portion of the "fraud proceeds" recovery.
      Congress and the Courts never know what hit them and you pay for it. Over and over...
      You can't make the government tell you about these immense fraudulent actions and the Courts don't want to publish caselaw about what happens to your tax dollars. It is government by stealth. The end result - commercial systems and products thrive while their sister-product in the government world is banned as defective and unsafe.
      "Use it or loose it" is and has always been the dominant rule when inept or devious Government Agencies, the FBI, the Congress, the Courts, and the DOJ get together and "DON'T" do their jobs.
      When repetitive fraud and bulldozers full of taxdollars are involved, mountains of mistakes are minimized, berms of beauracracy are built, dens of deceipt are devised, and buckets of "bull-manure" are bailed.
      The United States Treasury Department is responsible for enforcing the strong but seldom used laws already in place to punish government employees that abuse the care, custody and control of government money or assets delivered to a government employee. There are even current laws to handle press conference lies and other misrepresentations. Where is the Wizard of Id when we need him?
      Every citizen should (but will not) call or email the Secretary of the Treasury Department and insist that the job is done and the crooks are prosecuted. Contact your Senators and Congressperson and insist on this being investigated and stopped. It is your government and your money.
      99% of all Government employees are dedicated, hard-working, under-paid, over-worked, and under-appreciated. I, first and foremost, wish to express my unwaivering appreciation for their dedicated service to our country. Then there is the 1%. These boys and girls of government employment could and should be referred to as the bad apples, the 1%'ers, or the GAFCO-CODs. Only the fresh aroma of the 99% could cover the stench of the 1%.
      The GAFCO-COD's collective mission is to "hide it" and "shoot the messenger" when this illustrious team gets in a bind. When they see trouble coming their lawyers start their damage control and "three card monte".
      The Ballew Syndrome is my name for identifying this easily recognizable and laughable "bull-manure".
      It seems that the FBI and DOJ do this same "Three Card Monte" on the taxpayers over and over, all over the country.
      Congress knew they would try this and even clearly stated their Congression intent while originally drafting the law. Did you understand that. Congress clearly stated that the DOJ could not play the games they are playing.
      The red line in the chart below shows exactly how the three card monte works. When the 1% don't do their job, get caught and are about to get punished, this is how they keep from loosing their allowance, their lunch money, their jobs and their freedom. Simply stated, they prevent their "parents" from discovering it.
      Stated more maturely, it is their intenional and "knowing" encroachment upon the Legislative Branch's constitutional designation as lawmakers and an aggrandizement of their role in our government. If they don't like a law, they fight it. It simply eliminates the "checks and balances" built into our government. It is the big shell game called Ballew Syndrome.
      Please understand part of my motive. I am a proud citizen of my United States and it is my obligation and my job to try to help repair it when part of my government is broken. This is called "citizenship".


      My goal is simple. Tax dollars to Treasury and jerks to jail.
      I intend to expose the GAFCO-COD's* and demonstrate just how often you can find The Ballew Syndrome.
      Then I'll attempt to establish why the Treasury Department is not doing their enforcement job.
      The first time I successfully did this on their little game, it wasn't about a gray area. These people knew exactly what they were doing.
      They knowingly hid critical reports and documents.
      They knowingly shreaded documents.
      They knowingly delivered wrong parts and modules.
      The same memo said that they, and their parent company in France, knowingly overshipped illegally substituted "in-lieu-of" parts.
      The Defendant's Government Contracts Comptroller finally and personally made a trip to the site and described what he saw as "horrendous". Like I said, it wasn't a mistake and it wasn't an error, no matter what the FBI, DOJ and Coast Guard would tell you.
      The final results was that he government almost beat my brains out emotionally. Now, with every reservation in the world, I'll attempt to use the internet for it highest and best purpose, shared citizen journalism. I'm going after their big game. I tried to do it within their rules. I went to the FBI with a well researched, documented complaint about the big game, but they just destroyed the records.
      Accepted caselaw includes a thing called "badges of fraud". The Springfield Terminal Court explained that the inference of fraud requires recognition of but two elements: a misrepresented state of facts and a true state of facts. Quite simply, this says that there cannot be two different sets of facts. It is either fact or not. Two government documents cannot say two different things, and be fact. I'll show you the government documents. They don't match. Did the the defrauded agency, the FBI and the DOJ misrepresent the facts? Could they be badges of fraud? Is it an agency problem or a personnel problem?
      It is up to the 99%'ers to do the rest. I have spent every bit of a documented $1,000,000.00 and ten years of my family's life doing this research and getting to this point. I can prove that the GAFCO-COD's have cost me, individually, approximately $160,000,000.00.
      That is one citizen. How much have they cost all of you?

* - Government Agencies, the FBI, the Congress, the Courts, and the DOJ.

Can our DOJ and FBI be trusted with more secret powers?

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GOTCHA "BIG GAMERS".
MOTIVE AND OPPORTUNITY - Here is the "no-holds-barred" answer and summary of why government agencies play the "big shell game" and why the Treasury Department and Congress has to stop it.

GOTCHA FBI.
You say you can't find the fraud, then you say there is no fraud, and then you destroy the original disclosure files documenting the fraud. Then you claim that you misfiled the disclosure files. Then you admit that the FBI policy violates the law... but you'll check into it. I copied the documents and recorded our telephone calls. Which errors are true and what the hell are you doing about the fraud in the mean time?

GOTCHA GOVERNMENT AGENCY.
You said cash payments for future damages" wasn't part of the fraud case, but your document clearly states and brags that you bartered it for a "Power-By-The-Hour" contract that was, in your own words, "the meat of the settlement..." for the Government. Then you admit that you "specifically requested this as a part of any settlement". Your weak claims forced you to use DOJ and "the little game" and then deny it. It certainly makes your letters saying "the majority of the recovery wasn't related" appear to be a flat lie. Before you deny it, just admit that the courts have caught the DOJ doing this to help its client, the defrauded agency, over and over again. Finally, you paid the defendant $45,000,000.00 to fix his own defects or as you say "the very expensive technical modifications that should mature the engine".

GOTCHA MAIN JUSTICE (DOJ).
You tell another District Court in Washington, D.C., that you aren't part of a case until you intervened in ours on July, 10, 1990, but your client's documents says he "worked closely with trial attorneys from the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice" earlier the November 3, 1989. Your Civil Division attorney lied to the public, courts, and Congress, and Treasury; then you helped cover-up dollars given the agencies which have not been reallocated to them by Congress. You repeat this behavior and the courts have caught you over and over. How much money is recovered as "proceeds of the action or settlement of the claim"? How much future work, forfeitures, waived administrative claims, and free work are secretly bartered between the DOJ and defendents? You neither itemized and disclosed to the court nor delivered to the "general account" of the Treasury the majority of the recoveries. Do your internal, annual reports of recovery (including both defense industry and medical fraud recoveries) even come close to matching? Where does the "DOJ-defendent-agency-bartered alternate remedies" get reported?

GOTCHA DISTRICT AND APPEALS COURTS.
Biased Judges don't recluse themselves and biased District Courts don't publish cases that let the public know about Government shenanigans.

GOTCHA CONGRESS AND TREASURY DEPARTMENTS.
Knowingly allowing and delivering windfall profits to government contractors makes you a major part of the BALLEW SYNDROME. You're responsible for monitoring, preventing, and punishing the BALLEW SYNDROME! Do your job and stop the BALLEW SYNDROME!