Mr. Matthew Siegler below was a staff member in Congressman Henry Waxman's DC office in February 2008. Please read the email below in its entirety. What excuse can Congressman Waxman offer our association membership, given that it has been many months since this email was sent and the Security and Exchange Commission Inspector General H. David Kotz has just confessed the shortcomings of the SEC Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in stonewalling our filing of a Sarbanes-Oxley report in November 2007? Congressman Waxman has oversight of all government organizations, less the Justice Department, which is overseen by the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
It has been a while since we corresponded via
email or talked on the phone. In our last phone conversation you had advised me
that, due to Government Oversight Committee excessive workload addressing higher
priority issues, Congressman Waxman would be unable to address our association
concerns. In the attached subsequent correspondence to him, I expressed our
collective dismay and disappointment regarding this decision.
Since that time, I have publicly declared
myself a federal whistleblower with Senator Levin's and SEC Chairman Cox's
offices under the auspices of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as much additional
evidence has been recently disclosed, which supports our allegations of
white-collar criminality in the United Airlines bankruptcy.
While we, the people, realize that we do not
directly control political party strategies, timelines, or agendas, you surely
realize our collective shock and dismay while watching Congressman Waxman'
hearings last week regarding Roger Clemens alleged illegal steroid usage as a
major league player, while tens-of-thousands of disenfranchised airline workers
are struggling to financially survive after we have been told that there are
more pressing political issues that must be addressed. Is this exposure and
conviction of one overpaid major league baseball player infinitely more
important than the victims of the largest airline bankruptcy in aviation
history, that resulted in one of the largest pension defaults ever, and which
was allegedly effected by illicit means? We think not.
But this isn't my reason for writing you.
Senator Levin's office staff contacted me today and I gave staffer Kata Sabenga
your name and told her that we had talked last fall. She may give you a call.
Our association has moved much further down the road legally since I talked
to you last. Additionally, we are privately consulting with investigative
reporters from major print media outlets. We are also in contact with numerous
civic whistleblowing and other legal organizations. The following is not posed
to you as a threat, but merely a promise.
Our story will be told and the crimes will be
exposed, with or without the aid of Congress and law enforcement, and in spite
of the corporate-owned media. Having said that, neglecting what you had
previously advised me regarding staff shortages, we are going to be successful
in our mission and, in so doing, will eventually implicate Congressman Waxman's
committee in the end. Another grassroots committee is presently in consultation
with Senators Akaka and Inouye regarding PBGC pension issues. We have also
demanded FOIA information from the PBGC Inspector General's office yesterday, as
it appears this agency may be balking at the production of FOIA requested
data.
ON February 14th, I filed a criminal complaint
with the white-collar criminal division of the Chicago FBI and will arrange a
meeting at an undisclosed location of our choosing in the not too distant
future, with certain protective convenants, of course. We are apprised that the
Department of Justice will not provide witness protection to federal
whistleblowers until the evidence and witness testimony is provided so that they
may evaluate the risk posed to whistleblowers, since federal marshals are too
costly. This alone presents a Catch-22 scenario that threatens whistleblowers
who come forward, but subsequently are not afforded physical protection as a
result of the DOJ evaluation.
Kindly peruse the attached correspondence to
apprise you of where we are headed both legally and politically. In the end, if
neither DOJ nor Congress engages in this honest process, the truth will be
exposed before a jury trial in a civil RICO suit, which could prove politically
awkward for both Congress and the Department of Justice, particularly with the
media exposure afforded by such a controversial litigation.
If you would like to chat, I can be reached at
(678) 463-4390 or (770) 254-8972. Members of our association are collectively
in agreement on one matter, the government belongs to the people, and not the
special interests and K-Street lobbyist. They may have the money and hence, the
power, but we have something they don't have...people power...and in large
numbers. We will not relent; we will not fail. Won't you join us now vice
later?
