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Authorities and other entities contacted
regarding this situation
Last revised 12/07/05

 

This page includes

Requests and appeals to authorities and other entities
also see
05/14/04 - Rumfeld's new boots
06/17/04 - 1) Words in Acts and Federal Codes louder than action

 


WORK ON THIS PAGE IS IN PROGRESS
Actually, the question should be "Who hasn't been contacted?"  But that would be a very difficult question to answer because anyone who could possibly be contacted has been.  The exception is INS, because of widespread reports of that agency being well-known for it's inappropriate response to this type of situation, additional  rumors of  possibly coercion/infiltration, combined with the fact that, reportedly, trafficker's often use a threat to report a victim to INS as one of the many means to maintain control over the victim. 

So, that said, even the list, below, of those contacted is probably not all inclusive.

However, in most cases, it is very easy to summarize the response as being within three categories:

1 - Not going to investigate on advice of Town of Stonington, CT Police Department

2 - Claims to not investigate such matters, not within their jurisdiction/scope of services/geographical area, etc.

3 - Didn't even respond.

In addition, less than a handful of these entities responded in writing, and those who did not, but who were asked to provide a written response, either said that they would but didn't or outright refused to so do in writing.

Also, because most of these entities were contacted via either fax or email, there is documented proof that they were, indeed, contacted.  If by phone only, there are phone records.


Requests and appeals to authorities and other entities


Entity
(See relevant emails/information below)

Date and request

 

Response/comments

Town of Stonington Police Dept.

Lt Raymond Curioso

Officer James Colandrea

08/16/02 - police called for assistance in possible rescue/escape attempt and for request for investigation

08/16/02 stand-off & failed rescue attempt 

08/16/02 SPD arrest incidents

 

Town of Groton Police Dept.

08/16/02 - request for investigation also made by me to Groton Police, when they arrived at the scene

GPD later denied that anyone had received report

Groton Police Department 081602 Dispatch Review

 

Town of Stonington Police Dept.

Captain Jerry Desmond

Sgt Beebe

Lt. Darin Stewart

 

08/26/02 - meeting requested with Captain Desmond to reiterate request for investigation and to rescind false arrest.

SPD agrees to investigate on condition that I submit to a psychological investigation, which I do 

08/26/02 Stonington Police Incident

 

Town of Stonington Police Dept.

Lt. Darin Stewart

09/02/02 - Upon continued follow-up with SPD, Lt. Stewart agrees to work with GPD to investigate

 

09/06/02 SPD trafficking inquest

 

Town of Groton Police Dept.

Lt. Graves

Lt Curtis 

09/02/02 - Request to investigate David's situation received by GPD from SPD

 

09/06/02 GPD trafficking inquest

 

 

Irish Embassy Offices

Washington, DC

New York, NY

Boston, MA

 

August 2002

David would have to report this to them himself

FBI

New Haven, CT

( See 03/06/03 - OK. I Get it. email.) 

 

09/06/02

"Go tell it to the judge!"

State's Attorney's Office G.A. #10, Prosecutor Office, New London County Court House

 

9/9 - 10/21/02

"Stay away from those people."

Peter Dibble, First Selectman, Stonington

 

10/29/02

"I don't know anything about any of this and I don't WANT to know anything about it."

 

Interpol

03/14/03

Only handles requests that come through law enforcement

 

National Major
Gang Task Force 

03/14/03

Contact information posted on their web site was not good

 

various other organizations

08/2002 to present !!!!!!!

No response or contact information posted on their web site was not good

 

Irish Consulate in Boston

Vice Consulate Seamus

 

03/25/03 Contact information for David's family

Could not do that.

Dept of Foreign Affairs, Dublin, Ireland

03/29/03

03/31/03

Reluctantly contacted Dave's family but did not provide them with my contact information.

 

See 04/19/03 - Family [modified]

US Attorney, Connecticut District, Kevin O'Connor

Maria Kahn, Federal Prosecutor

 

03/31/03

told that a request for investigation I may submit would probably not be given high priority because it had been so long since Dave's alleged abduction (this was a little over 7 months after the 08/09/02 abduction.)

 

State Representative Andrea Stillman - Democrat, 38th Assembly District, Waterford and Montville

 

03/31/03

Directed me back to US Attorney, Connecticut District, Kevin O'Connor

CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal

Kevin Mullan, Asst. Attorney General (CT)

 

04/14/03

That that office, i.e., the Ct Attorney General's office, doesn't "get involved with that type of thing." 

US Congressman, Rob Simmons, Second District, Connecticut

Legislative Clerk, Lee Hightower

Jane Dauphinais

 

 

04/14/03

No response.

SPD issued reports, forwarded 05/13/03 to FBI NH, 08/12/03 to FBI HQ, of my contact w/Simmons' office implying that Simmons' office had filed a complaint against me w/SPD

 

FBI, New Haven

(Reference FBI FOI Request# 099372-000)

05/09/03 - formal telephone request to investigate David's situation

Refused to investigate on advice of Stonington Police.  
09/10/03 Obstruction of Justice Complaint

 

U.S. Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division

Albert Moskowitz, Chief

(case # DJ 144-14-0)

 

06/13/03 - formal request to investigate submitted based on 6/10/03 response received by hotline voicemail#(888) 428-7581 approx. 06/07/03

either David has to report this himself or, if I am saying he was taken/is being held by force, I have to submit medical records proving that
(see web page for additional developments, etc..)

 

U.S. State Dept

Marsha Liss,

Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

 

06/17/03 ( ?) - request for advocacy and/or advise.

Advised to "ping" as many authorities as possible.

US Attorney, Connecticut District, Kevin O'Connor

 

06/23/03 - formal complaint to investigate

No response.

Judge Kevin P. McMahon

CT Superior Court, G.A. 10

New London, CT

( See Connecticut State Statute Sec. 54-47c. Application for investigation into commission of crime)

 

07/07/03 - Material submitted relating to situation

12/01/03 - Verbal request to investigate pursuant to Connecticut State Statute Sec. 54-47c. Application for investigation into commission of crime

Something like, "No, no way.  I've been that route before!  I choose my OWN battles."

FBI, New Haven

(Reference DOJ, Civil Rights Div FOI Request# 2004-024)

 

09/05/03 - complaint against conspiracy against rights including threat to livelihood

 

No response and possibly not recorded.

FBI, New Haven

(See 09/11/03 - ACCOUNTABILITY )

(Reference FBI FOI Request# 099372-000)

 

 

09/10/03 - obstruction of justice complaint against members of gang holding David and against FBI Special Agent Pat Ford

No response and possibly not recorded.

US Attorney, Connecticut District, Kevin O'Connor

(See 09/11/03 - ACCOUNTABILITY )

09/10/03 - request for restraining orders pursuant to obstruction of justice complaint against members of gang holding David and against FBI Special Agent Pat Ford

 

No response.

Town of Stonington Police

Chief of Police David Erskine

(See 09/18/03 - Stonington CAN'T plead IGNORANCE! and ee 02/17/04 - crazy > integrity - Pt 1 [modified & reformated])

 

09/17/03 - request to cease

No response.

Groton Detective Div, Lieutenant Illinger, Fax & Phone: 4416701

09/19-09/26/03 - formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

Via phone via his assistant, "not going to investigate."

Stonington Detective Div, Sergeant Knowles, Fax: 599-7570, Phone: 599-7550

09/19-09/26/03 - formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

No response.

North Stonington Resident State Trooper, Fax: 535-1977

09/19-09/26/03 - formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

No response.

Foxwoods Casino, Daniel S Collins, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Security, Fax: 396-6664

09/19-09/26/03 - formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

No response.

Mohegan Sun Casino, Jeff Hotsky, Mohegan Tribal Police, Fax: 8626194

09/19-09/26/03 - formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

No response.

Westerly Detective Div, Detective Sgt. Wright, Fax: 401- 5964641

09/19-09/26/03 - formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

No response.

New London Police, Detective Captain Dittman, Fax: 437-6531, Phone: 447-1481

09/19-09/26/03 - formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

No response.

Coast Guard Intelligence (CGIS), SA Mark Dixon, Fax: 860/4448332

09/24/03 formal request to investigate, in conjunction with other jurisdictions

 

No response.

FBI, Director Mueller, Washington, DC
Subject: Obstruction of investigation by FBI, New Haven

(Reference FBI FOI Request# 099372-000)

10/10/03 - request for case numbers and action

No response, although originally told Mueller was personally reviewing the information.

 

Town of Groton Chief of Police David Vanesse, Groton Police Department

Detective Lieutenant Illinger, Groton Detective Division

( See 11/07/03 - More refusals by "authorities" to investigate [modified])

 

10/24/03 - An Investigation request into incidents related to Groton Police Arrest 10/23/03 for Breach of Peace, pertaining to the sequence of events that led to my arrest by Groton Town Police on 10/23/03

On 11/5/03, Groton Detective Graves told me that he had been instructed by Detective Lieutenant Illinger to relay to me that “It does not warrant investigation.” Follow-up phone calls later that day indicate that Illinger is refusing to put that in writing.

 

CT Department of Public Safety

Organized Crime Unit

(See 11/01/03 - Eulogy for the U.S. of A. [modified]  and 11/07/03 - More refusals by "authorities" to investigate [modified])

 

10/30/03 - formal request to investigate

Phone communication from Commander:  will not investigate, based on advise from SPD

 

CT Chief State Attorney Chris Morano

 

10/31/03 - request to investigate with advice of SPD inhibiting investigation and info going to SPD and GPD may be passed to perpetrators

 

12/1/03: Advised by Paul Murray, of Morano's office, that the request had been sent to Kevin Kane's office.
CT State Attorney Kevin Kane, New London District

 

12/1/03 RFI forwarded by CT Chief State Attorney Chris Morano

12/18/03: Advised by Rhett Damico, of Kevin Kane's office, that they are not going to investigate on advice from SPD

 

CT Chief State Attorney Chris Morano 12/18/03 2nd appeal to Morano for investigation, that RIF to Kevin Kane's office was again squashed by SPD

 

Letter dtd 01/06/04 from Murray, Deputy Chief State's Attorney, "As you have previously been advised, all of your correspondence has been referred to State's Attorney Kane in the Judicial District of New London.  Mr. Kane is the chief law enforcement officer for that judicial district and would be in charge of any action that might be needed related to your concerns...."

Morano later states, on commenting on CT Bill# HB-5358 PH, AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PERMANENT INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, "there have been no reported cases of trafficking in CT"
(see 07/07/04 - Christopher Morano: on record versus reality [modified])

 

CT Department of Public Safety

Eastern District Major Crime 
Squad

( See 11/01/03 - Eulogy for the U.S. of A. [modified]  and 11/07/03 - More refusals by "authorities" to investigate [modified])

 

11/05/03 formal request to investigate

Phone communication from Commander:  will not investigate, based on advise from Town of Stonington PD

 

DOJ, Civil Rights Div

(Request# 2004-0241)

03/09/04 request for FOI case file for 6/9/03 complaint and what was supposed to be a separate investigation related to information regarding possible evidence of infrastructure involvement

 

"Will take 'months' for response."

FBI,  Washington, DC

(Request# 099372-000)

03/09/04 request for FOI case files for 3 complaints filed plus 10/10/03 request to Mueller

 

"Will take 2 months to a year for response."

Various grass roots organizations

requests for:

  • advocacy in investigation requests, 

  • assistance in victim location/identification/rescue

No response or out of scope of operations/jurisdiction

 

Example of some of the grassroots (NGO: non government organization) contacted:

  • U.S. NGOs

    • American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU)
    • Americans for Effective Law Enforcement (AELE)
    • American Conservative Union
    • Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking (ALERT)
    • Boat People SOS
      • Pharia Le, HR Coord Boat People SOS 
    • Boston Coalition Against Trafficking, Slavery & Victims of Violence
      • Carole Gomez 
    • Break The Chain Campaign
    • Capital City Partners
      • Paul Resnick 
    • Catholic Bishops, U.S.
      • Laurie Latuda
    • Catholic Charities, U.S. - Venice FL 
    •  
    • Civil Aviation Apostate
    • Coalition of Immokalee Workers 
    • Covenant House
      • Gil Ortiz 
    • Center for Advancement of Human Rights, Florida University (?)
      • Robin Thompson, Program Director 
    • Chaos Across America 
    • Citizen Corps 
    • Democratic Underground 
    • Expat
      • Carol Milinsky 
    • NYC Trafficking
      • Lauren Heller 
    • Florida Center Against Sex Violence
      • Terri Poor 
    • Florida Center for Victims of Torture
      • Janet Blair
    • Florida Freedom Partnership
      • Joy Braun 
    • Libertad Latina.org
      • Chuck Goolsby 
    • Lutheran Services of Florida
      • Danielle Kearney 
    • Missing Adults.org
      • Tanya 
    • New York Assoc (NYAC)-W&F
      • Rabina Niaz 
    • NYC Trafficking
      • Lauren Heller
    • National Organization of Women (NOW)
    • Obscure.org Right Web
    • Polaris
      • Derek Ellerman
    • Racine Dominicans
      • Sr Ann Kelley 
    • Safe Horizon
      • Flori Burke 
    • Salvation Army, Tallahassee FL
      • Captain Alan Phillips, Salvation Army of FL 
    • Sisters of the Divine Savior
      • S. Jeane Schafer 
    • Texas Equisearch Mounted Search and Recovery (Equisearch)
    • Urban Justice Ctr, Sex Workers Project
      • Juhu Thukral
    • Vital Voices Anti-Trafficking Network
      • Wenchi Yu Perkins, Trafficking Program Officer



  • International NGOs

    • Amnesty International
      • Amnesty International Headquarters
      • Amnesty International - U.S.
    • Anti-Slavery International 
    • Human Rights International
      • Mark Erik Hecht, Executive Director HRI 
    • Human Rights Watch
      • Rory Mungoven, HRW Advocacy Director (NY) 
    • International Committee/Council of the Red Cross (ICRC)
      • Christophe Girod, Head of U.S. Regional Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross 
    • International Peace Movement 
    • International Rescue Committee 
      • Rita, Director IRC - Boston 
      • Don, Director IRC - San Francisco 
      • Jane Kim, Contact Director, Anti-Trafficking IRC-NY 
      • Melynda Banrhart, IRC - Phoenix 
    • Organization of American States (OAS)

      • International American Committee on Human Rights

    • Save a Slave 

    • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

  • Numerous newspaper reporters and editors throughout the U.S. and other countries

  • Others

    • Heritage Foundation 
    • Peter Brookes 
    • Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D 
    • Professor Zhao 

     

 

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