9/11 truth : NY Judge Rules Against 9-11 Widow

Lawyer says court's decision designed to suppress Ellen Mariani's quest for

truth

By Mark Anderson

NEW YORK-Ellen Mariani is vowing to appeal a federal court order "preventing

her from having a direct role in the 9-11 wrongful death action arising from

her husband's murder on United Airlines Flight 175," her new attorney, Bruce

Leichty of California, informed American Free Press.

Flight 175 was flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center,

according to the official account of the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks.

This order of Judge Alvin Hellerstein has temporarily derailed Mariani's

attempt to challenge the mysterious settlement of her deceased husband's

claims against United Airlines, said Leichty. But he vowed that his advocacy

on behalf of Mariani's interests has just begun, and said that Hellerstein's

order shows "blatant prejudice" against the 9-11 widow.

"This New York federal court is supposed to be one of the most distinguished

in the nation," he said, "but it doesn't take any more than a glance at this

order to see its utter intellectual bankruptcy, and one could reasonably

suspect that the true motivation for the order is to suppress Ellen Mariani's

ongoing efforts on behalf of 9/11 truth."

Mariani retained Leichty to advise her on a tangled legacy of ineffective

and disloyal legal counsel and to protect her remaining interests as both a

beneficiary of her husband's estate and a 9-11 truth advocate, according to

Mariani. Shortly after retaining Leichty, she was informed that the claims

of her husband's Estate had been settled without her participation. (AFP

Oct. 1, 2007).

"The timing was very curious," Leichty informed AFP. "Judge Hellerstein also

took the unusual steps of closing both the case that Ellen had filed in

2001-the first wrongful death case filed against the airlines after 9-11-and

the case that had been filed by her stepdaughter, Lauren Peters."

These two cases were closed subject to the condition that any party who

objected by October 31 could ask the judge to restore them to his calendar,

Leichty noted. When Mariani objected, however, she was rebuffed. Federal

court cases are usually not declared "closed" at all until there is either a

judgment or a dismissal, which can be entered after a settlement. But

Leichty said neither a judgment nor a dismissal was entered in the more

active of the two Mariani cases that Judge Hellerstein closed.

"When I saw the judge's order closing these two cases and spoke with Ellen,

and realized that she had not been provided any details on a settlement, we

both smelled a rat," Leichty said. He then recognized that Judge Hellerstein

might not regard Mariani as a party in her deceased husband's action. She is

a beneficiary of her husband's Estate, but the administrator of that estate

has the responsibility for litigating Ellen's late husband's claims.

Leichty filed amotion on Oct. 31 with the cooperation of New York lawyer

Carl Person, to explicitly make Mariani a party in the pending NewYork 9-11

litigation. That motion for intervention was backed up by Mariani's

testimony that she was deprived of a voice in the litigation in 2004, and by

evidence that Mariani's own claim for her loss of spousal consortium had

nonetheless survived intact and needed to be protected by direct

intervention.

But, as Leichty noted, Judge Hellerstein on Nov. 5 ruled that the

intervention motion would be denied on the sole ground that Mariani was not

a party. "This is circular logic and nonsense since all intervention motions

are filed by persons who are not yet parties," Leichty pointed out.

According to Leichty, Mariani has the option of appealing this order and

also of protesting the way that the estate's claims have been handled in New

Hampshire Probate Court, where Mariani says that the current administrator

has squandered his opportunity to get at the truth about 9-11 and also the

value of her claims and those of the estate, by never seriously preparing

for trial.

"The New Hampshire administrator is a lawyer named John Ransmeier who has

repeatedly turned a blind eye to Ellen's requests since his appointment,"

Leichty alleged.

Mariani was essentially forced to step down from her position as

administrator of the estate in 2004 under "highly questionable

circumstances" after she began investigating possible U.S. government

complicity in the events of 9-11 and the cover-up, said Leichty. At the

time, her attorney in New Hampshire was a prominent former gubernatorial

candidate, Paul MacEachern, who suggested Ransmeier as a replacement

administrator.

"First MacEachern failed to protect Ellen, but even after that, based on a

clear order of the New Hampshire Probate Court, John Ransmeier had his own

duty to join Ellen as his co-plaintiff or to at least protect her consortium

claim, which he has failed and refused to do," alleges Leichty.

Instead, according to Leichty, Ransmeier's attorneys entered into an

engagement agreement without Mariani's consent with Donald Migliori, an

attorney from a large South Carolina law firm, Motley Rice, which employs

one of Mariani's former attorneys as a 9-11 plaintiffs' litigator-former

George H.W. Bush Department of Transportation appointee Mary Schiavo.

Mariani had accused Schiavo, among other things, of convening a secret

meeting with defendants' counsel without her knowledge, after which Schiavo

terminated Mariani as a client. Schiavo has the highest security clearance

permitted to plaintiffs' attorneys in the 9-11 litigation.

According to Leichty, his complaints about this conflict of interest "have

fallen on deaf ears."

Leichty says that the estate and its attorneys have confirmed to him that

there is nothing yet in writing-about 12 weeks after the alleged

settlement-to show that the case of Mariani's deceased husband has indeed

been settled, except for a single line written by attorney Migliori.

Leichty also discovered that when Migliori purported to settle the case for

the estate, Migliori was the last remaining "plaintiffs' liaison" attorney

in the consolidated New York litigation-and the liaison attorneys had

assumed responsibility for conducting any trials required.

Migliori told Judge Hellerstein that he settled 13 other cases along with

Mariani's.

"Speaking as someone who has both tried and settled cases, the circumstances

raise the question about what kind of pressure Ransmeier and Migliori were

under to agree to whatever settlement the airline and security company

defendants were offering at the time," said Leichty.

While Ransmeier is defending the [undisclosed] value of the settlement,

Leichty and Mariani say the proposed amount is much smaller than what one

would expect from a wrongful death action arising out of an event as epic as

9-11.

Hellerstein has said during the 9-11 litigation that he does not favor

trials but that plaintiffs should settle and "move on" with their lives,

Mariani observed. "Money is the universal lubricant," he was quoted as

saying at one hearing.

Leichty believes that the litigation in Hellerstein's courtroom has been

stacked against truth advocates from the inception, because much of the

evidence discovered is subject to confidentiality orders, or has been kept

from view by the government by being labeled "sensitive security

information," and also because Congress capped the liability of the airline

and security company defendants at the amount of their insurance

policies.That in turn has created "a limited pool of money for claimants,

who have reason to fear that if they wait for a trial, the pool will be

exhausted," said Leichty, who added that only law firms with the ability to

finance the huge cost of the litigation could meaningfully participate-and

for that reason they also have a built-in incentive to settle rather than

risk trials.

Leichty said that the plaintiffs' attorneys, including Mariani's attorneys,

have not argued the constitutionality of the secrecy and cap provisions as

they should have.

"The probate administrator may still need Ellen's consent to finalize his

settlement, so she is not powerless," added Leichty, "but the hour for truth

advocates is late."

Mariani has resisted pressure to simply "play along"-at considerable cost to

her and at some future risk, noted Leichty.

Mariani said she is dependent on the efforts of 9-11 truth advocates to

continue battling the various elements who would like to "buy off gadflies"

and sweep the events of 9-11 under the rug forever.

"I will never give up," said Mariani. "With enough support, I intend to do

whatever I can to get to the truth of what happened to my husband on

September 11, 2001, and to hold accountable all of those responsible."

For those who would like to support Mariani's ongoing efforts, please send

letters of support and donations to Ellen Mariani, P.O. Box 2792, Parker, CO

80134.

Mark Anderson can be reached at truthhound2@yahoo.com.

In article <u_nbj.514$si6.256@trndny08>, "John" <JohnDsena@nmail.comx>

wrote:

> Lawyer says court's decision designed to suppress Ellen Mariani's quest for

> truth

>

> By Mark Anderson

>

> NEW YORK-Ellen Mariani is vowing to appeal a federal court order "preventing

> her from having a direct role in the 9-11 wrongful death action arising from

> her husband's murder on United Airlines Flight 175," her new attorney, Bruce

> Leichty of California, informed American Free Press.

>

> Flight 175 was flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center,

> according to the official account of the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks.

>

> This order of Judge Alvin Hellerstein has temporarily derailed Mariani's

> attempt to challenge the mysterious settlement of her deceased husband's

> claims against United Airlines, said Leichty. But he vowed that his advocacy

> on behalf of Mariani's interests has just begun, and said that Hellerstein's

> order shows "blatant prejudice" against the 9-11 widow.

>

> "This New York federal court is supposed to be one of the most distinguished

> in the nation," he said, "but it doesn't take any more than a glance at this

> order to see its utter intellectual bankruptcy, and one could reasonably

> suspect that the true motivation for the order is to suppress Ellen Mariani's

> ongoing efforts on behalf of 9/11 truth."

>

> Mariani retained Leichty to advise her on a tangled legacy of ineffective

> and disloyal legal counsel and to protect her remaining interests as both a

> beneficiary of her husband's estate and a 9-11 truth advocate, according to

> Mariani. Shortly after retaining Leichty, she was informed that the claims

> of her husband's Estate had been settled without her participation. (AFP

> Oct. 1, 2007).

>

> "The timing was very curious," Leichty informed AFP. "Judge Hellerstein also

> took the unusual steps of closing both the case that Ellen had filed in

> 2001-the first wrongful death case filed against the airlines after 9-11-and

> the case that had been filed by her stepdaughter, Lauren Peters."

>

> These two cases were closed subject to the condition that any party who

> objected by October 31 could ask the judge to restore them to his calendar,

> Leichty noted. When Mariani objected, however, she was rebuffed. Federal

> court cases are usually not declared "closed" at all until there is either a

> judgment or a dismissal, which can be entered after a settlement. But

> Leichty said neither a judgment nor a dismissal was entered in the more

> active of the two Mariani cases that Judge Hellerstein closed.

>

> "When I saw the judge's order closing these two cases and spoke with Ellen,

> and realized that she had not been provided any details on a settlement, we

> both smelled a rat," Leichty said. He then recognized that Judge Hellerstein

> might not regard Mariani as a party in her deceased husband's action. She is

> a beneficiary of her husband's Estate, but the administrator of that estate

> has the responsibility for litigating Ellen's late husband's claims.

>

> Leichty filed amotion on Oct. 31 with the cooperation of New York lawyer

> Carl Person, to explicitly make Mariani a party in the pending NewYork 9-11

> litigation. That motion for intervention was backed up by Mariani's

> testimony that she was deprived of a voice in the litigation in 2004, and by

> evidence that Mariani's own claim for her loss of spousal consortium had

> nonetheless survived intact and needed to be protected by direct

> intervention.

>

> But, as Leichty noted, Judge Hellerstein on Nov. 5 ruled that the

> intervention motion would be denied on the sole ground that Mariani was not

> a party. "This is circular logic and nonsense since all intervention motions

> are filed by persons who are not yet parties," Leichty pointed out.

>

> According to Leichty, Mariani has the option of appealing this order and

> also of protesting the way that the estate's claims have been handled in New

> Hampshire Probate Court, where Mariani says that the current administrator

> has squandered his opportunity to get at the truth about 9-11 and also the

> value of her claims and those of the estate, by never seriously preparing

> for trial.

>

> "The New Hampshire administrator is a lawyer named John Ransmeier who has

> repeatedly turned a blind eye to Ellen's requests since his appointment,"

> Leichty alleged.

>

> Mariani was essentially forced to step down from her position as

> administrator of the estate in 2004 under "highly questionable

> circumstances" after she began investigating possible U.S. government

> complicity in the events of 9-11 and the cover-up, said Leichty. At the

> time, her attorney in New Hampshire was a prominent former gubernatorial

> candidate, Paul MacEachern, who suggested Ransmeier as a replacement

> administrator.

>

> "First MacEachern failed to protect Ellen, but even after that, based on a

> clear order of the New Hampshire Probate Court, John Ransmeier had his own

> duty to join Ellen as his co-plaintiff or to at least protect her consortium

> claim, which he has failed and refused to do," alleges Leichty.

>

> Instead, according to Leichty, Ransmeier's attorneys entered into an

> engagement agreement without Mariani's consent with Donald Migliori, an

> attorney from a large South Carolina law firm, Motley Rice, which employs

> one of Mariani's former attorneys as a 9-11 plaintiffs' litigator-former

> George H.W. Bush Department of Transportation appointee Mary Schiavo.

>

> Mariani had accused Schiavo, among other things, of convening a secret

> meeting with defendants' counsel without her knowledge, after which Schiavo

> terminated Mariani as a client. Schiavo has the highest security clearance

> permitted to plaintiffs' attorneys in the 9-11 litigation.

>

> According to Leichty, his complaints about this conflict of interest "have

> fallen on deaf ears."

>

> Leichty says that the estate and its attorneys have confirmed to him that

> there is nothing yet in writing-about 12 weeks after the alleged

> settlement-to show that the case of Mariani's deceased husband has indeed

> been settled, except for a single line written by attorney Migliori.

>

> Leichty also discovered that when Migliori purported to settle the case for

> the estate, Migliori was the last remaining "plaintiffs' liaison" attorney

> in the consolidated New York litigation-and the liaison attorneys had

> assumed responsibility for conducting any trials required.

>

> Migliori told Judge Hellerstein that he settled 13 other cases along with

> Mariani's.

>

> "Speaking as someone who has both tried and settled cases, the circumstances

> raise the question about what kind of pressure Ransmeier and Migliori were

> under to agree to whatever settlement the airline and security company

> defendants were offering at the time," said Leichty.

>

> While Ransmeier is defending the [undisclosed] value of the settlement,

> Leichty and Mariani say the proposed amount is much smaller than what one

> would expect from a wrongful death action arising out of an event as epic as

> 9-11.

>

> Hellerstein has said during the 9-11 litigation that he does not favor

> trials but that plaintiffs should settle and "move on" with their lives,

> Mariani observed. "Money is the universal lubricant," he was quoted as

> saying at one hearing.

>

> Leichty believes that the litigation in Hellerstein's courtroom has been

> stacked against truth advocates from the inception, because much of the

> evidence discovered is subject to confidentiality orders, or has been kept

> from view by the government by being labeled "sensitive security

> information," and also because Congress capped the liability of the airline

> and security company defendants at the amount of their insurance

> policies.That in turn has created "a limited pool of money for claimants,

> who have reason to fear that if they wait for a trial, the pool will be

> exhausted," said Leichty, who added that only law firms with the ability to

> finance the huge cost of the litigation could meaningfully participate-and

> for that reason they also have a built-in incentive to settle rather than

> risk trials.

>

> Leichty said that the plaintiffs' attorneys, including Mariani's attorneys,

> have not argued the constitutionality of the secrecy and cap provisions as

> they should have.

>

> "The probate administrator may still need Ellen's consent to finalize his

> settlement, so she is not powerless," added Leichty, "but the hour for truth

> advocates is late."

>

> Mariani has resisted pressure to simply "play along"-at considerable cost to

> her and at some future risk, noted Leichty.

>

> Mariani said she is dependent on the efforts of 9-11 truth advocates to

> continue battling the various elements who would like to "buy off gadflies"

> and sweep the events of 9-11 under the rug forever.

>

> "I will never give up," said Mariani. "With enough support, I intend to do

> whatever I can to get to the truth of what happened to my husband on

> September 11, 2001, and to hold accountable all of those responsible."

>

> For those who would like to support Mariani's ongoing efforts, please send

> letters of support and donations to Ellen Mariani, P.O. Box 2792, Parker, CO

> 80134.

>

> Mark Anderson can be reached at truthhound2@yahoo.com.

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i_ric.htm

December 23, 2007

Why Bush & Condi Rice Are So Nervous These Days (?)

By Bill Douglas

Why Bush & Condi Rice Are So Nervous These Days (?)

According to the Chicago Tribune, "TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION --Internet

blows CIA cover" article of March 12, 2006, when the Tribune searched

a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory

of more than 2,600 CIA employees.The 9/11 truth movement numbers at

least 230 professional engineers and architects. This is only the

membership of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. There are many

whistleblowers like Kevin Ryan a former department manager of

Underwriter Laboratories who inspected World Trade Center tower steel,

both before and after the collapses of the WTCs on 9/11/2001.

Other technical researchers include Jim Hoffman, author and webmaster

of wtc7.com, and former Brigham Young University Physics Professor,

Steven Jones.

The full number of 9/11 researchers worldwide including demolition

experts, physicists, engineers, architects, firemen, fire forensic

experts, and military and intelligence experts now investigating 9/11

may well likely exceed the entire working staff of the Central

Intelligence Agency.Many of the shills, or otherwise deluded

individuals, often claim, "why would the government members accused of

being involved in the attacks of 9/11 leave so many obvious clues, if

they indeed were involved in the 9/11 attacks?"

The answer is simple. They were arrogant, and had no idea the true

power of the internet for connecting researchers worldwide.In the last

month, Professor Steven Jones has discovered traces of actual

thermite, a controlled demolition military grade steel incendiary

device, in World Trade Center debris. Professor Jones had previously

discovered evidence of thermite in building steel melt temperatures,

the color of the molten metal coming out of the WTC towers, and the

chemical analysis of some debris from the WTC towers.However, now, he

has found traces of what appears to be "actual thermate" that failed

to incinerate on 9/11.In the below video, you'll see Professor Steven

Jones's recent announcement he's actually found what appears to be the

smoking gun of 9/11, actual traces of the controlled demolition steel

cutting agent, thermite, in WTC tower debris.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4186920967571123147&hl=en

Richard Gage, of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, recently

accused the entire NIST staff of continuing a 9/11 cover up.ENTIRE

NIST PRESS CONFERENCE & PUBLIC MEETING:

http://www.911blogger.com/node/13078

In the above link, you'll hear Richard Gage of ae911truth.org accuse

NIST of covering up the controlled demolitions of the WTC buildings.

It is increasingly likely that over time more and more physical

evidence of controlled demolition will surface.

At the same time, more and more high level military and intelligence

experts are announcing their convictions of 9/11 being an inside job,

or at the very least a disturbing cover up of intelligence and

military failures before and during the 9/11 attacks. See

http://www.PatriotsQuestion911.org

The genie is out of the bottle, and a growing 9/11 truth movement will

only grow more, and get louder and louder, both in the US and in

Europe.

Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, who challenged then Secretary of

Defense, Donald Rumsfeld on the multiple war games held on 9/11 that

enabled air craft to fly into the most protected air space in the

world with no Air Force interceptor jets doing their jobs on

9/11 . . . is now an announced national Green Party Presidential

Candidate. She will likely step up the pressure to discover:A) Who

ordered the multiple war games to occur on 9/11/2001?B) Why weren't

they called off when the first plane hit the first tower?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU Those within our

government who increasingly appear to have participated in, not only a

cover up of the events that enabled the 9/11 attacks, but appear to

have enabled or even enacted them . . . will become more damned by

continually surfacing facts and evidence.

The dominos of truth are falling. In time, some will step forward out

of guilt or out of self preservation to avoid prosecution. The truth

of the crimes of 9/11/2001 will out. It is only a matter of time.

Ron Paul's fundraising will continue to break records, and his

candidacy strength will only grow. Dennis Kucinich will continue

demanding 9/11 question answers. Demands for truth are not going

away. Visit: ae911Truth.org and PatriotsQuestion911.org and share

those two sites with everyone you know, in any way you can find to do

so.

Authors Bio: By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur

Parent - A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in

the Universe." Bill has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City

Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His past essays

include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of

the 9-11 Truth Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good

Night, and Good Luck - WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media

Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth."

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