I am John E Foddrill Sr. the former Telecommunications Manager for the City of San Antonio. I will meet with you tomorrow and will turn over documents, CDs, audio recordings, etc. detailing the crimes and cover-up.

Here are some links that will provide some background information of the three decades of public/police corruption and the six year criminal cover-up. I will provide a CD of information proving the allegations made in the many reports listed here.

Summary:

In 1982 the City of San Antonio created a monthly billing account (commonly known as the variable) to consolidate and pay monthly department phone bills received from SBC (the phone company). http://www.sanantonio.gov/hr/admin_direc...AD6-12.pdf

Corrupt City employees and officials discovered that the unaudited account provided unlimited clandestine access to City Department, State grant and Federal grant telecommunications budgets. They discovered that they could spend money on anything they wished (including criminal schemes) and the Finance Department would simply transfer the funds to the IT Department- no questions asked.

They circumvented the law, the City Charter, the Texas Local Government Code, OMB regulations, etc. when they submitted fraudulent requests to the Finance Department under the guise of paying the monthly phone bills when in fact they were obtaining funds with no competitive bidding, no Council approval, no public review, no vote, no ordinance, no audit, no accountability, etc. that they spent on anything they wished having nothing to do with telephones, grants, 911, etc. The “variable” account grew with every illegal transaction until it totaled about $ 5.2 million annually.


As the City’s new Telecommunications Manager I discovered that the IT department had over 240 employees BUT the “telephone/pager/cell phone/voice group had just 5 employees and almost no money. Months of research exposed the illegal scheme to drain telephone budgets across the board over the past decades. Every report, audit, ledger, etc. I touched was false. I reported the fraud and theft that crippled my ability to support the City’s phone- 911 systems. The City immediately began to hide the crimes rather than investigate and expose the long term theft and fraud. They have been lying ever since (many times under oath in court and in sworn depositions/affidavits) to hide the massive fraud. The City removed my civil service protection in February 2006 and terminated me with no reason and no public hearing. They needed to keep the fraud/theft secret.

Three years later the City conspired to defraud our courts in a February 2009 whistleblower trial when city attorney Deborah Klein and attorney Mark Kosanovich coached numerous City witnesses to lie under oath to hide the three decades of criminal activity and ongoing illegal cover-up. I learned that as I reported the crimes to DA Reed her office was sending my information over to the City. Corrupt City Attorney Bernard and his staff took every crime and fabricated a CYA story to justify or hide the illegal act. The whistleblower trial was a series of soap opera/novella performances by City employees involved in the fraud/cover-up orchestrated for the court by corrupt city attorney Deborah Klein. CIO Richard Varn told the critical lies and others followed in his footsteps. Super Lawyer Malinda Gaul sat by and allowed the fraud to continue, never objected, never called for a mistrial, and refused to call for a new/fair trial. Gaul, Klein, Kosanovich, City Attorney Bernard, Judge Antonia Arteaga, Police Chief William McManus, City Manager Sheryl Sculley and many others have proof of the subornation of perjury, aggravated perjury, and obstruction BUT ignore it and continue the illegal cover-up. They must keep the crimes secret.


My appeal was denied as Super lawyer Malinda Gaul purposefully refused to preserve the error and never objected to anything. If there was no objection than the appeals court cannot even look at anything. We filed the appeal to preserve our right to ask for a review once the corruption is exposed and the lying within our local government and law enforcement community is halted.

DA Reed, Police Chief McManus, Sheriff Ortiz, etc. have proof of the fraud and ongoing criminal cover-up but refuse to reply to calls, letters, etc. They stall in an effort to allow the statute of limitations to expire as in the case of Watergate – the illegal cover-up has snared too many top level crooks. They must keepm the crimes/cover-up secret.


In June I filed police reports with SAPD and BCSO and delivered documents to City Hall proving the crimes and cover-up. My wife and I delivered the documents and set up meetings with Councilpersons with no problem, no disturbance, nothing. Within days on July 1, 2009 two SAPD officers came to my home and served me with a criminal trespass warning baring entry into City Hall and Council Meetings. Chief McManus and City Attorney Bernard signed the illegal/unconstitutional ban BUT will provide no reason, time limit, due process hearing, etc. Bernard has lied and stalled any effort by Attorney Edward Pina to get the ban lifted. He can't afford to have the crimes, the cover-up, his role in the criminal conspiracy, etc. made public.

On the night of July 4, 2011 – Independence Day- after 10pm two SAPD officers with the Mental Health Division came to my home to perform a mental health assessment. They routed my wife and me along with my neighbors from our beds. My wife and I spoke to the officers for almost two hours. Once Officer Ned Bandoske realized that he was being used to harass and intimidate a law-abiding citizen who had committed no crime, caused no disturbance, threatened no one, etc. he apologized and said that he was embarrassed. He published a factual report on July 5, 2011 stating that there was evidence of mental problems and that the allegations I discussed with him were backed up with documentation and that I was credible. SAPD has this report - SAPD 11167835/SAPD-2011-0702097 – on file since July 5 BUT still refuses to acknowledge the fraud/theft and cover-up. We believe that the City was attempting to fabricate some justification for the 25 month illegal ban making ALL Council meetings since July 1, 2009 illegal and ALL city business voidable. Officer Bandoske refused to participate in the criminal cover-up and told the truth - a first for the SAPD !

SAPD and the City ignore letters asking why Mental Health Division officers are available to harass law-abiding citizens who report public/police corruption BUT couldn’t assist mentally ill citizen Pierre Abernathy who recently died at the hands of the SAPD on August 4, 2011.


Editor Elaine Wolff with the SA Current wrote a few very informative articles BUT when she left any support from the Current evaporated.

The Express News refuses to cover the story, routinely erases any comments and bans anyone posting this information. Editor Rivard personally blocked emails containing information proving the crimes and cover-up.

KSAT and WOAI refuse to cover the story and sometimes censor comments.

The public/police corruption should have been exposed six years ago. The criminals inside the City should have been terminated and prosecuted. Efforts should have been made to locate and recover our money.

Instead, the corruption, fraud, theft, cover-up continues. The list of criminal conspirators grows.




http://www.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=69409

http://sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=69830

http://sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=70512



affidavit

http://www.ripoffreport.com/government-s...-b5e9f.htm



public funds

http://www.ripoffreport.com/government-s...-ce8d3.htm


varn

http://www.ripoffreport.com/government-s...-2c64e.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18400551@N04/