Grand Theft of Author's Evidence
Widens AOL Internet Copyright Conspiracy
by
Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Counselor at Law, Federal Witness,
and Private Attorney General
All Rights Reserved
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 30, 2000
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Paul Andrew Mitchell -- exclusive author
of the book entitled "The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code of
Internal Revenue" since it was first published in the year 1992
-- today announced felony criminal complaints against Gary and
Diana Genco, a married couple living in Kona, Hawaii, for State
grand theft and several related federal offenses.
After introducing Mitchell to attorney and Orioles owner
Peter G. Angelos of Baltimore, Maryland, as a possible lawyer to
try Mitchell's copyright infringement case against America
Online, Inc. ("AOL"), and 179 other Internet domains, the Gencos
illegally confiscated many original documents and other
electronic evidence already indexed and assembled on Mitchell's
custom personal computer.
That computer was built to Mitchell's technical
specifications by experts at Computers Plus in Tucson, Arizona.
The research database on that computer alone has an
estimated value of $500,000.00, or ten years' worth of labor at
standard paralegal rates ($25.00 per hour, 2,000 hours of labor
per year).
The draft COMPLAINT against AOL, and key company employees,
alleges more than $120 million in actual damages, plus $360
million more -- in triple damages -- for falsely representing
facts, and for falsely designating the true origins of the
stolen and modified electronic editions of the book, in
violation of the Lanham Act and of the Copyright Act of 1976, as
recently amended. See the United States Code ("U.S.C."), Titles
15 and 17, respectively.
Attorney Angelos later declined to take the case, because
he is not admitted to practice where venue is proper, and his
office does not specialize in copyright cases.
Mitchell then sought the professional assistance of the
West Hawaii Mediation Services, an affiliate of the YMCA in
Kamuela, Hawaii, which is funded by the State judicial system.
When first contacted by a mediation specialist, however,
Gary Genco refused to mediate, and he also refused to pay the
nominal $15.00 fee for that voluntary service.
Mitchell did offer the $15.00 fee to the mediation
specialist handling the case, and recently paid it anyway, to
express his gratitude to the YMCA and to that specialist.
When the mediation option closed, for lack of enforcement,
Mitchell then approached Mr. Phil Edwards, long-time Citizen of
Ocean View, Hawaii -- site of the Gencos' picture frame factory.
Mitchell's computer, files, and evidence were last seen in the
back office of that factory.
Edwards agreed that probable cause existed to charge Gary
V. Genco with grand theft, at least, and that the matter was
serious enough to bring to the immediate attention of the Police
Chief in Hilo, Mr. Wayne G. Carvalho.
Carvalho recently thanked Mitchell, in writing, for
complimenting an officer and staff member for their
professionalism at the police substation in Na'alehu, Hawaii.
Mitchell's felony complaints against Gary and Diana Genco,
supported by affidavits that are verified under penalty of
perjury and supplemented with exhibits, have now been lodged
with Carvalho's office in Hilo, Hawaii; with the Hawaii State
Prosecutor's Office; and with a federal judge in Honolulu, as
required by 18 U.S.C. 4 (the federal misprision statute).
A courtesy copy has also been mailed to former California
State judge and now the elected District Attorney of Mendocino
County, California -- Norman L. Vroman -- Mitchell's very first
client in the year 1991. See pleadings at Internet URL:
http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/vroman/index.htm
Those formal complaints charge Gary and Diana Genco each
with one count of grand theft, in violation of Hawaii State
criminal statutes; and also with separate counts of obstructing
justice; tampering with, and destroying evidence in a federal
criminal case; conspiracy to violate Mitchell's fundamental
Rights; deprivation of those Rights; criminal copyright
infringement; and retaliation against a known federal witness
and victim -- all violations of the federal criminal Code, Title
18, U.S.C.
A private criminal investigation has been underway for 2 1/2
years, under auspices of the Supreme Law Firm, which Mitchell
founded to highlight the importance of the Supremacy Clause in
the Constitution for the United States of America.
Mitchell is not an informant under the federal witness
statutes, however, nor is he in the Federal Witness Protection
Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mitchell has since charged the Gencos also with theft of
professional services and slavery. He traded up to 35 hours of
labor per month, for a bunk in the Gencos' picture frame factory
in Ocean View, Hawaii.
When they discovered Mitchell's extensive legal experience,
they put him to work immediately on 4 of their own legal cases,
working overtime but without any pay.
Gary Genco even threatened to render Mitchell homeless
again, if Mitchell even quoted his professional rates to Genco's
business associate, civil co-plaintiff, and retired Stanford
University Professor -- Joseph E. Lepetich of Vineburg,
California.
In February, Mitchell worked 19 days for the Gencos, under
duress, with only one day of rest during that period of time.
The F.B.I. in various U.S. cities has already been served
with formal, verified complaints of criminal copyright
infringement against key principals in the conspiracy, including
Steve Case, CEO of AOL, and other direct infringers of the
Author's exclusive copyrights in the book "The Federal Zone"
(the short title).
In 1995, Justice Anthony Kennedy used the term "federal zone"
as a household word in his concurring opinion in the United States
Supreme Court case U.S. v. Lopez, giving that term a permanent
place in the history of American constitutional jurisprudence.
Mitchell is best known for creating and maintaining the
Supreme Law Library on the Internet -- a unique, public domain
resource of numerous court pleadings and related exhibits from
Mitchell's extensive judicial activism, which began in 1992 with
People v. Boxer, California Supreme Court docket #S-030016. The
pleadings in that case are published at Internet URL:
http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/boxer/index.htm
Fifty cases are fully documented there. Many key pleadings
-- like Gilbertson's masterful OPENING BRIEF to the 8th Circuit
Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri -- are fully linked to
other valuable Internet resources, like the excerpts from the
trial court record, and Cornell University's current copy of the
U.S. Code (abbreviated "U.S.C.") "The Federal Zone" was an
Exhibit in Gilbertson's appeal to the 8th Circuit.
The home page of the Supreme Law Library is at URL:
http://www.supremelaw.org
Gilbertson's OPENING BRIEF is at URL:
http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/gilberts/opening.htm
The book's appendices are available, for free, at URL:
http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm
Mitchell's professional resume is in a private (non-indexed)
file at Internet URL:
http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/mitchell/resume.htm
The Supreme Law Library was hit by a hacker attack on, or
about February 1, 2000, disabling that Internet website for
almost 3 full weeks. That period corresponded closely with
Mitchell's ordeal in the Gencos' Ocean View factory.
Mitchell is currently on an extended sabbatical in Hawaii,
after 10 full years of library research, writing, and case
development. He can be contacted, until further notice, via
U.S. Mail addressed to "Paul Andrew Mitchell, general delivery,
Na'alehu 96772, HAWAII, USA," or Internet email to:
supremelawfirm@yahoo.com
Mitchell is still accepting all cash donations, to further
the ambitious goals of the Supreme Law Library, especially
during the current crisis.
He appreciates all the financial aid and other crucial help
he has received in the past from many generous and courageous
Americans, particularly in mainland USA, and in Hawaii as well.
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