QUIET BEFORE THE STORM - NEW POST!!!

QUIET BEFORE THE STORM

"UPDATE"

            I have been incarcerated for twenty-one months and I just recently got my first trial date for October 28, 2013, two (2) years after I was arrested. Rumor is, that even the government thinks it’s a soft date. I recently filed a motion for violation of my constitutional rights under my Eighth and Sixth Amendment Due Process rights. The issue for the court was I've been a pre-trial detainee for almost two years and during that time I was never given a trial date.  I still have no significant access to (discovery) evidence the government plans on using against me in court.

            With no violence anywhere in my past and with strict adherence to appear at all of my court proceedings, the court still believes that there is no combination of conditions that could keep the community economically safe as well as assure my presence in court.  Yet, my ten co-defendants, who are facing the same indictment, are free, free to be with their families, free to view their discovery, free to fight their case.

The court has a protective order in place which states the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which is the Justice Department, may not share any of my discovery with anybody else within the Department of Justice. The same promise was made to a defendant in this circuit (Eastern District of Pennsylvania) in 2010.  The court placed more than a protective order.  They also designed a protocol stipulation that the government had to abide by.

            Still, the government reviewed all of this defendant’s discovery, looked through all of his papers and listened to all of his conversations while he was under the impression it was protected by the court so he could prepare for trial.  He also was a pre-trial detainee at FDC.  Even though the government was under a court order and a specific protocol they still violated both and in doing so did not inform the District Judge of what they were doing.

            When it came out the government used the excuse that they thought the defendant was witness tampering. the court replied (District Judge) even so why would you violate this court order? The court stated that they specifically put this protective order in place so the defendant can prepare for trial without concern of the department of justice eavesdropping.  The court was also upset that the government ignored the court’s order.

In addition, the judge’s protective order can be "trumped" by a Grand Jury subpoena and/or by a discovery order from a federal bankruptcy court. To add injury to insult my co-defendants, whom for the most part are lawyers and accountants, will not permit me to have access to their discovery because i am a detainee at a Federal Detention Center.

            If we were able to find away to secure discovery and to get the co-defendants comfortable, we still would have the problem to overcome the fact that the discovery is made up of 30 terabytes of information. The C.J.A. act would have to approve building two computers, one for me and one for my other co-defendant detained. The beginning cost to present the initial discovery on these computers is at a cost of $38,000 a month X 18 months, with each month the cost rising as the additional discovery is added to the computers.

            Upon all of this (Government Wish List) being completed, me and my co-defendant will not be able to sit side by side and review the discovery with our counsel. The question is in how many ways does this affect my Constitutional Eighth and Sixth Amendment Due Process right to a fair trial?  I would like to point out the court has announced that they will be closing on Fridays for lack of funds.

There was an alternative, I could have been placed under house arrest reviewing my discovery with my counsel and preparing for trial at a cost of $27 per month of which I, the defendant (not tax payer), would have to pay, while under house arrest with an electronic bracelet.

            The warrants and the search and seizures were on May 8th, 2008. The indictment came 3 1/2 years later on October 26, 2011. My alleged charges were listed on the May 8, 2008 warrant. I knew the possibility of getting arrested was inevitable. My attorney during that time, with whom I remained in contact with, informed the government that I was willing to self-surrender if and when there was an arrest warrant. I also kept in direct contact with my attorney.  At all times he had a number to reach me at. The morning of the arrest he called that number to tell me I was indicted but by then I was already in custody.

What is the government afraid of? Why wont they let me under stringent conditions work on my case under house arrest.  THE TRUTH ALWAYS COMES OUT IN THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To-date it has cost the American taxpayers millions upon millions of dollars to get to the point where they are today.

        This indictment does not charge me with MURDER, GAMBLING, DRUGS, RAPE OR PROSTITUTION AND THERE IS NO VIOLENCE.  This is a securities (White Collar) case dressed up to be a "MOB" case.  The only problem is that there are no "MOB" charges.  Just two young men whose families had a history.  They are now tainted and being punished for some one else's sin's.

           Recently, the court sent a letter to my court appointed lawyer that stated I am not entitled to a perfect trial, just a competent trial.  The court also stated in the letter to tell my lawyer he is spending too much time on my case and because of the economic times, the court cannot guarantee payment of my court appointed lawyer’s legal fees (see letter attached)

            Although the government had millions of dollars (documented) to spend to investigate me for almost five (5) years, in addition to having $38,000+  per month to create an illusion they are upholding my rights. The government does not have the money for my court approved lawyers or investigator which this court appointed.

             If not for five years ago when the government illegally seized all my assets and making me indigent, I would happily pay for my own defense. This is the letter the court wrote to my lawyer and investigator. How much time would you spend on representing me and protecting my rights if you were not guaranteed to be paid?

            When I am in court, I find myself asking why did the prosecution show up in court today? The judge is doing a very good job on his own. We could save the taxpayers money by allowing the prosecution team AKA the three stooges Larry, Moe and Shemp to stay home.

I may joke and try to keep my sanity, only to give me the strength with God's help that one day this nightmare (injustice) will be over.

For now the fight goes on. I keep a good record of everything and with God in my corner I believe in the end I will prevail.

I wish these terrible injustices on no one. The real question is how can one man’s (the Prosecutor) ego and pride cause to corrupt so many decent and honorable people?

Then I remember men like, "JIM JONES" similar in nature to this prosecutor. In the end how many lives have to be destroyed or lost before everyone wakes up?

                                                

Did you drink your Kool-Aid today???

Salvatore L. Pelullo

GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT

Our country has advanced in the areas of civil rights, technology, medical advancement and world economics.

Yet, as a nation that advocates liberty, justice and freedom, we the people believe it is our government’s responsibility, no, obligation to find the truth in every situation and to right the wrong.

We the people of this great nation have turned a blind eye on our government for too long.  We have allowed our government to create a justice system that works and believes, “convict the accused because it is easier than finding the guilty.”

“Guilty Until Proven Innocent”

What happened to

“Innocent Until Proven Guilty”?

Is that not what separates our great country of democracy from the tyranny of a dictatorship or a communism society?

Our forefathers and founders of this great country gave us our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Our fathers, sisters and brothers have made the greatest sacrifice that could ever be asked of any one citizen.  They gave their lives to protect and uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

So, we as a nation can be free to speak, free to bear arms and have the right to due process.

With the great tragedy and loss of 20 angels and 6 guardians in Newtown, Connecticut, our government wants to use this what they call objectivity an opportunity to limit or strip our rights under the second amendment, which allows us to bear arms to protect our property and family.

Today it is the Second Amendment.  Maybe tomorrow it will be the First Amendment, the freedom of speech.  Or maybe it will be the right to peaceably assemble and protest.

This will be the legacy we leave for our children if we don’t stand up and say “NO MORE”.  Right now we have the power to control tomorrow if we do something today.  I want my children to grow up in a society that our forefathers envisioned.  The largest employer of our country today is our government.  When government becomes greater than a free capitalist society.  We the people then become governed by our government, stripped of our basic Bill of Rights.

This is the beginning of “BIG BROTHER”.  It is time to bind together one more time as a free nation by calling our congressmen and our state senators and telling them “NO MORE”.  If they don’t listen then in 2016 we can show them in a peaceful movement and nominate a president who is not for the Republicans or the Democrats but who is for The People.

The right to vote our leaders in and our of office is the power of our forefathers and founders gave to the people.  It may be time to remind our government and the various leaders that we the people govern them, not the other way around.

In the immortal words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last”.

God bless America.

BIG BROTHER

Big Brother

Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. – Convicted felon and son of Nicodemo Scarfo, Sr. who was alleged at one time to be the most feared Mafia Boss in the history of the Mafia in the United States.

Salvatore L. Pelullo – Convicted felon and alleged to be a known associate of Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. is presently being accused of being the alleged master mind of a take over of a public company, FirstPlus Financial Group, in Dallas, Texas.

Rajakumara ("Raj") Rajaratnam – Former co-founder of one of Wall Street’s most prominent hedge funds and respected man he was noted to be a renaissance man in the world of finance.  Mr. Rajaratnam's hedge fund at one time over saw billions of dollars that belonged to investors worldwide.

David Petraeus – Retired decorated 4 Star General who until recently was the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) one of our country’s front line defenses to terrorism and international espionage and continuity of the American people.

If I were to ask you the reader to figure out what the connection is between all of these men, could you?

There is one agency today that could tell you very quickly the connection of these men, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

If you think this article is about Government conspiracy, cover ups, and about our Government having too much control, you’re correct.

The American citizens privacy rights are front and foremost; it is the ink that binds our Bill of Rights.

On July 4th of 1776, our country’s independence was born.  How many men and women's lives were lost so we could have liberty, justice, and freedom of speech?  This is our First Amendment.  We as the people were guaranteed our privacy rights by our forefathers.  The Declaration of Independence that our forefathers wrote so elegantly and diligently to protect us, the American citizen and keep us safe.  Our Government has been slowly chipping away at our rights over the last two hundred years unless we stand up now and take notice like our forefathers did in 1776.  We could become not a country governed by the people, but instead controlled by the Government.

If you have not yet fallen into the hands of the system, you truly will not comprehend how much of your liberty has been taken.  

In today’s society it takes a crime for any person to understand how the changes of Government are affecting not only the guilty, which are easy targets, but now the innocent.  As time goes by and this majority grows they will become more visible to those citizens not affected by their quiet growth.   Will it be too late then?

           

In the beginning of the article, I mentioned four unique but distinctly different men that have one common connection between them.

The FBI listened to these men during their private conversations about the most intimate parts of their lives.  The FBI read what these men thought were private emails.

Even more intrusive than this is that the FBI then listened to and read their attorney-client privilege phone calls and emails.

The FBI will justify this by saying they had probable cause.  With probable cause and a warrant, under our present laws set by Congress, they are allowed to listen in.

If we, the People, put Congress in place, when did we authorize Congress to start listening in on us and reading our most intimate thoughts?

I understand that there may be a need for this type of investigation tactic.  If used and followed as Congress intended to be used.

When we entrust Congress to make a law for us (the People).  The law is to protect us from domestic and foreign enemies, not a law for the Government to spy on us and then say it is an investigative tactic.

The simple abuse of this law by the Department of Justice is in using this law to invade in what is quickly becoming the last line of privacy, the attorney–client privilege communication.

In the year 2004 the Department of Justice, with no congressional or Supreme Court guidance and approval, created a division with inside the Department of Justice called a “Taint Team”.

This allows a prosecutor during his investigation period to appoint a separate and distinct prosecutor to lead a “Taint Team” of agents and Government lawyers.  That will review and listen to attorney–client privilege calls and emails as well as review of any documents seized by the first prosecutor’s team.

The theory behind this most intrusive invasion of privacy is for the second team of prosecutors and agents to review said information from the attorney, then determine what would fit under the crime fraud exception rule.  Without the first team of prosecutors reviewing this information once the review has been completed by the “Taint Team” the lead prosecutor writes an opinion on why the conversation and emails should not be apart of the attorney–client privilege and why they should be released to the first prosecutor team.

This decision is decided b the same judge who already established probable cause to listen into the phone calls and emails in the beginning of the investigation.

How did our country get to the point where our conversations and discussions with our lawyers are now no more protected or private?  If you do not recognize that as a great loss of liberty, then what is?

All of the above is done prior to an indictment.

If we are one government, how is it possible two have two separate prosecutors within the same Department of Justice reviewing these highly confidential calls and Congress did not approve the intrusion into attorney – client calls nor is there a protocol set up for it by Congress?

Although the Government will argue that they established the appropriate protocols to protect the attorney – client privilege.  It is still being reviewed by a prosecutor in the same Department of Justice as the prosecutor that is prosecuting the case.

This is a perfect example of another liberty we are just closing our eyes and ears to because it is yet to affect “me”, the tax-paying American who abides by all its Country’s laws.

The day will come when you will need to assert your civil and constitutional rights.  When that day comes, don’t be shocked when a judge says you don’t have that right anymore.

If not for agencies like the American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital liberties advocacy group fighting everyday on the front line for yours and my liberties, who knows where Government legislation would be today on privacy issues.

If you want to get involved and make a difference and really feel the power of your voice and opinion, contact one of these agencies and ask, how can I help?

Technology is a moving car; the electronic laws that are in place by Congress today have been laws since the 1980s.

Technology demands for these laws to be updated.  In some respects through the Patriot Act, they have been revised but steered more towards foreign intelligence for the use to capture terrorists.

You may be asking yourself at this point what is the answer.  The answer is simple.  We need Congress to update their 1985 Electronic Communications Privacy Act.  As proposed in the Senate and House of Representatives by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

A simple gesture of an email or phone call to either one of these organizations asking how I can help will send a message to Congress to remind them “We, the People governed by the People”.

If you think I am being to extreme here is something for you to chew on.

In Early 2012 the Supreme Court made a landmark ruling in Jones v. United States.  The Supreme Court inducted as part of Law if a law enforcement agency obtains a G.P.S. mechanism to a vehicle for the purpose of tracking that individual they must obtain a warrant issued by a judge.

This law comes down from our Supreme Court who introduces laws and corrects laws known as the Court of the Land.

Yet, the lower courts are allowing local law enforcement and the FBI to continue allowing these agencies who did not obtain a warrant as the Supreme Court order to get around the law by calling the error a harmless error or the agent and or police officer did it in good faith.

If we as a Nation have to abide by the law and don’t have harmless errors or good faith intentions as a defense then why is the Department of Justice and law enforcement agency able to use this in their benefit to go around the law?

If local law enforcement is doing this, how can we expect an agency as powerful as the FBI to do what the Supreme Court says especially when they are supported by the attorneys across the country in the department of justice.

I send a plea of “help” out to the ACLU and the Frontier Foundation; I have been taken from my family, separated from society for one year now.  With no trial date in the near future, I am not one of those crazy conspirators running around saying I am innocent.  I am asking for your help because of the large amount of issues discovered by my attorneys and myself as they relate to the extensive amount of time and the numerous amount of electronics used in my case.  Time is of the essence because we are getting close to a date where suppression motions will be due.

When you see the type of constitutional and statutory violations that were done, you will be amazed on how this case even reached this point.

Your agency is the last line of defense in electronic surveillance privacy issues.

Help me because I am innocent because what and how they conducted their investigation violated my 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendment rights.  Help me because I am a convicted felon.  Help me because no one else will or cares.  Help me go home to my children and grandchild who I have not met yet.  Help me send a message to our government especially the Department of Justice, every citizen counts no matter who is or what he did in his past.  We all are entitled to the same justice.

Help me.  Don’t let me go quietly into the night where I am being kept detained in Philadelphia.  I can look out the window and see a sign on the building across the street. It says “The Guardians of Liberty”.  Who will be my guardian brave enough with valor in their heart to pick up the phone call my C.J.A. lawyer and confirm what I have said in this plea of help today.  Then and only then, help me before it’s too late and I end up spending the rest of my life in jail all because of a manufactured crime created by a small and insignificant sick individual who is in the position as as Assistant United States Attorney to take advantage of his authority to persecute me and eleven other people in a “movie script” indictment, just to get to say he arrested and prosecuted Nick Scarfo’s son.  This would allow him to redeem himself with his bosses in Washington, DC.

If this injustice is allowed to happen, this blatant disregard to the law, then no one is safe.  Shhhhhhssssssssh, they’re listening!!!

C.J.A. Lawyer Troy A. Archie.

DAVE ROBERTS - A PLEA FOR THE "TRUTH"

Dave Roberts - A Plea For The "Truth"                                                    

Detainee or Hostage you decide?                                                  

On November 1, 2011 I was arrested and charged with 24 criminal counts. It sounds and looks like I committed and violated a lot of laws. If you look close enough you will see that 16 of those 24 are wire transfers of funds. Each wire transfer represents one count. The balances of accounts (8) are similar in nature, made up of White Collar accusations.                                                                      

It is now November 1, 2012, one year to the day. I have been refused bail by Judge Kugler and have been accused of being a danger to the community and a risk of flight. During the past year, I have been locked up in a facility in Philadelphia. I was told by the Court that the Philadelphia Facility was a Detention center to house pre-trial detainees.

To my surprise, I come to find out that the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center is also prison for women.

I now understand why the guards call us inmates. Well anyway, let me tell you this is far from a detention center. This facility is more in the standards of a medium level prison. I am not a detainee as the picture has been painted. I am a "hostage", I cannot say I am a prisoner because I have not yet been convicted of a crime. So if I am
not an inmate or a prisoner and we have established I am not a detainee then the only thing left to believe is, I am a "Hostage".  Now the question to the Government is what is my ransom?

Whether you believe I am innocent or not, that is not the question for today. The Government's case is weak at best, made up of false statements coerced witnesses an lacks the fundamental element of (Probable Cause) a crime.

The facts I am prepared to share with you today are facts that neither the Court nor the Government can deny.

In the 12 months I have been a "hostage" the Government has not provided me with access to my discovery. In every day speaking terms, this means they yet to date have provided me with the evidence they are attempting to prosecute me with. 12 months of being handcuffed, shackled, assaulted by guards, and locked down. Kept from my family and society without any real understanding in how this case began or where it is going.

I don't recall reading anywhere in our Bill of Rights of the Constitution that what is being done to me is either legal or humane. Unless you have committed high crimes against our Government, like treason, terrorism, International Espionage, even then those detainees were able within far less then a year to be able to see the evidence that they are being charged with.

Alleged Danger to the Community

Fact 1— This case is not about murder, drugs, or even physical tactics of extortion in its true definition. This case is not about the Italian Mafia, Jewish Mafia, Chinese Mafia, or the African American Mafia.

If the Government felt I, Salvatore L. Pelullo, was a danger to the community, why then would they allow me to continue to be free for 3 ¹/2 years after they executed their nationwide search warrants? The Government has conceded in court since May 8, 2008 when they served the warrants that Mr. Pelullo has not participated in or committed any crime from then through the time he was charged and arrested three and half years later on October 26, 2011.

If my charges are based on events that occurred prior to May 8, 2008 what then makes me a danger to the community today November 1, 2012 that does not make me a danger of the community. On May 8, 2008, if I was a danger to the community then was it not Mr. D'Aguanno's job then to protect the community and detain me.

This obvious tactic, even to the most common citizen, is Mr. D'Aguanno trying to capture the upper hand in what is turning out to be a persecution of my liberty. Mr. D'Aguanno is afraid to allow me with the proper access and resources to fight my case giving him the obvious upper hand in my persecution could not be anymore clearer by his actions to date.

Fact 2 — The Government alleges I have committed one count of verbal extortion. Dave Roberts of Staten Island, NY was a man I called my friend. It was Dave's knowledge and contact hat led me to FirstPlus Financial Group. I did not know until later down the road that Dave was having financial problems with his own business.

Dave inquired with me the chance to want to be a part of the deal. At first, I thought this odd because traditionally a broker or agent would receive a success fee or a commission since he was bringing the deal — as they say "to the table" — and I for the most part was acting in capacity as a consultant. I felt more than inclined to accommodate Mr. Roberts in his request. At conclusion of the transaction Mr. Roberts ended up with a board position on the parent company, FirstPlus Financial Group. In addition to an officer position with the mortgage banking division and Mr. Roberts was responsible to run the Staten Island office with a financial budget of $55,000.00 a month, guaranteed by the parent company FirstPlus Financial Group. Shortly after September of 2007, four months from June 7th, the closing date of the transaction. There were serious accounting irregularities coming out of Dave Roberts' division in the Staten Island location. After it was brought to my attention by Special counsel, a surprise visit was decided to happen by Special Counsel, myself, as managing consultant for Special Counsel and an internal FirstPlus Financial Group auditor in early October of 2007 to confront Mr. Roberts with questions clearly related to embezzlement of public company funds. At the time the board was considering closing the Staten Island office and eventually did.

I am sure when Mr. Roberts was approached by either AUSA D'Aguanno out of the Camden Office and or Mr. Joe Gillison from the F.B.I. they were welcomed in by Mr. Roberts with open arms. I just hope Mr. Roberts’ cooperation deal with the Government included the $55,000.00 a month embezzlement scheme the company proved and was going to charge Mr. Roberts with.

Mr. Roberts told the Prosecutor and the F.B.I. in a statement that I, Salvatore Pelullo told him in early June of 2007 that if he were to rat his wife would be sexually assaulted by an African American and that his children would be sold off to prostitution. I do appreciate and admire Mr. Roberts’ imagination and creativity.

I allegedly said this statement to him at a bar in a Four Seasons Hotel in Erving, Texas. No one else heard the statement.  It was not captured on any Government wire tap. This also was the only allegation of extortion in what was a two to three year investigation. During the investigation there were 9,000 hours of physical surveillance, thousands of pictures and a large amount of videos, including confidential informant that on the record stated they neither know me or met me.

With all of this surveillance in place for two years the only statement the Government acquires is a hear say statement with no cooperating witness from a guy who embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the public company.

To add injury to insult, my wife at the time was Muslim.  In addition, I stood at my best friend’s son’s baptism who is African American and my lawyer, who I entrust my life to in this case, is African American.

Mr. Roberts has not been in the witness protection program nor has he been living on a army base or is being protected by US Marshalls. Mr. Roberts for the last four years has been living in Staten Island with his family as if nothing happened. I also prior to my arrest was living a normal life and had no contact with Mr. Roberts during the 3'/2 years we both were living our lives.

If I was a not threat or danger to Mr. Roberts then, why am I now? So with that question my lawyer hired a private detective and a retired Police Captain from the New Jersey Crime Division to interview Mr. Roberts. A sworn statement from that Police Captain is attached to this article. In short, when the Police Captain asked Mr. Roberts "Did Mr. Pelullo ever threaten you" his response was "No, Mr. Pelullo never threatened me.

Fact 4

The only people who believed Dave Roberts was threatened was Judge Kugler and AUSA D'Aguanno. It is clear there was no threat's of violence or physical violence in June of 2007, before June 2007, to date.

On a closing note, it sounds more like Steve D'Aguanno and Joe Gillson extorted Dave Roberts with intimidation and fear of a long prison sentence.

Fact 5 — Risk of Flight

Judge Kugler believes that I am a risk of flight because I have family in Russia, Paris and Italy.

a.              I have agreed to surrender my passport.

b.              I have agreed to sign an extradition order waiving my extradition rights if I flee to another Country.

c.              I have agreed to house arrest in Pennsylvania at my mothers house.

d.              I have agreed to where an electric bracelet and to pay for the cost of it. This will allow the Government to monitor all my movements.

Pre-Trial Services works for the Court under the supervision of Judge Kugler. They approved my bail for $150,000.00.  This internal probation department is whom Judge Kugler relies on for bail decisions. Ultimately it is the judge's decision if he wants to go along with Pre-Trial Services recommendation or not.

My mother agreed to post her house as collateral for the $150,000.00 bail. In retrospect the house also acts as additional security that I will not flee. If I were to flee, I would be putting my 84 year old mother and sister on the street leaving them homeless.

I do have two prior felonies on my record. One for security fraud and bank fraud; I served six (6) months in prison for this. I never missed a court date and my brothers drove me to prison on the day I had to self-surrender. I arrived at the prison three hours early. The second felony was for an insurance check in the amount of $21,000.00. I received 6 months house arrest for that charge. Both charges were done and completed over 11 years ago. I have no other State or Federal record.

I am the father of 5 children and one grand child whom I have not met yet. I am a believer of my innocence as I am a fighter for my freedom. To even entertain a thought of fleeing the area is so preposterous I can not put in words. Never to see my children, my mother, and my siblings if I flee, I'd lose a lot more then my freedom. Nothing is worth as much as my love for my family.

Fact 6

There is no opinion in the Court of why I should not get bail, just a blanket denied by Judge Kugler. Ironically, the lawyer that represented me has other clients on bail in front of my judge, those clients have gun charges and violent crimes yet, Judge Kugler released them back into society, why?

I am sharing with you, the public, my story because will be going for bail again. The material change that is allowing me to ask Judge Kugler for bail is the violation of 5^th,  6^th and 8^th Amendments which relates to my due process. I have been a hostage for a year, yet the Government has for whatever reason been incapable of presenting me with their evidence.

I pray and hope to be home for the holidays with my family. I pray everyday and hope that the Court, Judge Kugler can be a neutral and detached judge. If he can he will see that I am not a danger to the community.  I am not a risk of flight and by my actions to date the Government does not have an iron clad case they began to present one year ago.

My closing thoughts go out to Dave Roberts whom with prayer and the help of God I have forgiven for what he has done. I have no room for hate in my life or him or anyone. I understand he was afraid and did not want to be taken from his family. I am a father and a grandfather, I more then anything want to be reunited with my family. So with humility and grace I implore, no I beg and pray that Dave Roberts please come forward with a letter to the Court, a phone call to my lawyer with a statement of truth. I miss my children and my mother is ill too ill to visit me here. I know you are scared and you don't want to lose your family but please ask your God for strength to tell the truth and return me to my family. I want to go home, I am hostage with one letter or call you can free me. How can you look your children in the face and teach them right from wrong knowing you took my children from me. Make them proud of you as my children are of me. Redeem yourself. Free me.