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posting
http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/original-brad-blog-whistleblower.html
the breaking news about Clint Curtis / Cong. Tom Feeney / Yang (YEI)
/ FDOT etc. Until further notice, I will be posting here.
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Original
BRAD BLOG "WHISTLEBLOWER AFFIDAVIT" Story
This
is a copy of the original story that I posted yesterday in this affair.
The story that has made it impossible to get to that site right now!
I
have many more documents and info, that I will try and dump on this
site shortly! Here's the original story again (some of the original
formatting
may have gotten lost in the translation here, I will try to fix as necessary
and noticed):
WHISTLEBLOWER
AFFIDAVIT: Programmer Built Vote Rigging Prototype at Republican Congressman's
Request!
CLAIM: Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) Asked Company to Create E-Vote Fraud Software!
*** A BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE! PLEASE CREDIT! ***
In
stunning revelations set to rock the vote from Tallahassee to Capitol
Hill -- and perhaps even a bit further up Pennsylvania Avenue -- a Florida
computer programmer has now made remarkable claims in a detailed sworn
affidavit, signed this morning and obtained exclusively by The BRAD
BLOG!
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/12/images/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf
Affidavit in .PDF format
The
programmer claims that he designed and built a "vote rigging"
software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S.
Congressman, http://www.tomfeeney.com
Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District. Clint
Curtis, 46, claims that he built the software for Feeney in 2000 while
working at a sofware design and engineering company in Oviedo, Florida
(Feeney's home district).
Curtis, in his affidavit, says that as technical advisor and programmer
at http://yangenterprises.com
Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) he was present at
company meetings where Feeney was present "on at least a dozen
occasions". Feeney, who had run in 1994 as Jeb Bush's running-mate
in his initial unsuccessful bid for Florida Governor, was serving as
both corporate counsel and registered lobbyist for YEI during the period
that Curtis
worked at the company. Feeney was also concurrently serving as a Florida
state congressman while performing those services for YEI. Feeney would
eventually become Speaker of the Florida House before being elected
to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He is now a member of
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
At an October 2000 meeting with Feeney, according to the affidavit and
BRAD BLOG interviews with Curtis over the past three days, Feeney inquired
whether the company could build a "vote fraud software prototype".
At least three YEI employees are said to have been present at that meeting;
Curtis, company owner, Mrs. Li Woan Yang, and her executive secretary,
Mike Cohen. Two other YEI employees may have come in and out at different
points of the meeting according to Curtis.
Curtis says that Feeney "was very specific in the design and specifications
required for this program. "He detailed, in his own words, that;
(a) the
program needed to be touch-screen capable (b) the user should be able
to trigger the program without any additional equipment (c) the programming
to accomplish this needed to stay hidden even if the source code was
inspected."
Though
there was no problem with the first two requirements, Curtis explained
to the Congressman that it would be "virtually impossible to hide
such code written to change the voting results if anyone is able to
review the uncompiled source code"Nonetheless, he was asked at
the meeting by Mrs. Yang to build the prototype anyway.
Curtis, "a life-long Republican" at the time, claims that
it was his initial belief that Feeney's interest was in trying to stop
Democrats from using "such a program to steal an election".
Curtis had assumed that Feeney, "wanted to be able to detect and
prevent that if it occurred."Upon delivery of the software design
and documentation on CD to Mrs. Yang, Curtis again explained to her
that it would be impossible to hide routines created to manipulate the
vote if anybody would be able to inspect the precompiled source code.
Mrs. Yang then told him, "You don't understand, in order to get
the contract we have to hide the manipulation in the source code. This
program
is needed to control the vote in South Florida." [emphasis in affidavit]Mrs.
Yang then took the CD containing the software from Curtis, reportedly
for later delivery to Feeney.
In other meetings with Feeny prior to the 2000 elections, it became
clear to Curtis that Feeney had plans to suppress the vote in strong
Democratic precincts. In the affidavit, Curtis claims that in those
meetings Feeney had "bragged that he had already implemented 'exclusion
lists' to reduce the 'black vote'." Feeney also mentioned that
"proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black
vote by as much as 25%." Curtis says that he submitted his resignation
to YEI effective December 2000, but stayed on until they had found someone
to replace him in February of 2001. He eventually became employed by
the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) after leaving YEI.
But the scandals didn't stop there.In May of 2001, while at FDOT, Curtis
and another FDOT employee, Mavis Georgalis, discovered and then reported
several allegations to the Inspector General at FDOT concerning over-billing
by YEI -- who had been an FDOT contractor -- and software that was never
delivered by the company. Allegations also included the employment of
a suspected illegal alien, Mr. Hai Lin Nee, who worked as
YEI's "quality control" manager. Both Curtis and Georgalis
were reportedly harassed after filing their complaints about malfeasance
at YEI and
pressure mounted on the FDOT -- purportedly from the powerful Feeney
who was still working with YEI -- to have them both fired.
In November 2001, after Curtis filed his complaints at FDOT, both he
and Georgalis' were subsequently sued by YEI "in retaliation"
for their complaints against the company. The charge was "theft
of intellectual property", which Curtis has catagorized as "ridiculous"
in interviews,
because the "intellectual property" in question was, in fact,
software that FDOT had long ago paid YEI to develop for them.
YEI was represented in the lawsuit by Congressman Feeney's law firm.When
the two had sought help from FDOT in fighting YEI's suit against them,
they were told that FDOT couldn't help them because FDOT had not been
named in the suit.After several rounds of court battles, Georgalis was
finally successful in having FDOT added to the suit as a third co-defendant.
The suit was originally filed in Seminole County, but moved to Leon
County upon the addition of FDOT.
In
April of 2002 -- on the very same day -- Curtis and Georgalis were both
fired by FDOT without explanation.The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported
extensively in 2002 on the case. They reported at the time that Curtis
had written to the Inspector General at FDOT to inquire why no investigation
had yet been made into YEI. As well, Curtis had contacted the Florida
Bar, since Feeney was a member, to inform them that "Feeney has
used his position to promote the profits of Yang Enterprises, from whom
he received compensation under the guise of lobbyist and attorney."
According to The Orlando Sentinel in 2001, of 160 Florida congressmen,
Feeney was the only known registered lobbyist. He would later be cleared
of all ethics violations brought against him in the Florida house on
these matters by the Ethics Committee which included four Republicans
appointed to the committee by Feeney. Curtis was never interviewed by
the Ethics Committee concerning his allegations. After Curtis and Georgalis
were fired by FDOT, each attempted to file "Whistleblower Suits"
in the state of Florida. Georgalis' suit was successful and FDOT was
eventually ordered, after lengthy court battles, to reinstate her with
full back-pay by the circuit court. Curtis' suit was not successful
due to having missed the filing deadline for the suit.
That suit, filed over three years ago, is still pending. The reason,
explained Curtis, is that YEI has since avoided all defendants attempts
to depose company employees in the case.
By May of 2002, the FDOT had finally taken up the investigation into
malfeasance by YEI.
In one particularly chilling paragraph in the affidavit, Curtis explains
what became of Raymond Lemme, the inspector at FDOT who was said to
be
pursing the allegations against YEI, Tom Feeney and the other reported
matters:
" [I]n June of 2003, he told me that he had tracked the corruption
'all the way to the top' and that the story would break in the next
few weeks and I would be satisfied with the results. A few weeks later,
on July 1st, Mr. Lemme was found dead with his arm slashed in a hotel
room in Valdosta, Georgia." The death was ruled a suicide by the
Valdosta Police. The BRAD BLOG has obtained and is currently reviewing
many official documents related to Mr. Lemme's death.
Mr. Hai Lin Nee, "the ilegal alien" who had worked at YEI
and was reported by Curtis, was arrested in March of 2004 on espionage
charges which
included "shipping radar guidance system chips for Hellfire Anti-Tank
Missiles to a company in Communist China."Curtis discussed in detail,
during our interviews, Mr. Nee having placed "wiretapping modules"
into software code created by the company. The secret "wiretapping
modules", Curtis claims, were to download information from programs
built by YEI for contractors, and then either copy or send that information
via Email back to YEI. Such software, Curtis claims, was created for
companies such as NASA with whom YEI held substantial contracts.
According to both the Curtis affidavit and email dated November 22,
2004 obtained by The BRAD BLOG, YEI is currently under investigation
by the FBI.
That
information was sent to Curtis after he had attempted on several occassions
to notify law enforcement authorities of his seemingly
remarkable story of espionage, possible vote tampering and other ethical
concerns.
In July of this year, in an email we've reviewed which purports to be
from a current YEI employee whose name we are withholding, Curtis was
sent the following message in regard to a book that the employee had
learned Curtis was working on:
They
know about the book. You should not have sent it to a bush supporter.
They are going crazy...like they weren't after you already. So I get
to warn you AGAIN. They will do everything thwey [sic] can to keep it
from getting published. They are also going to try to take you out again.
Don't be alone. They specifically want to limit casualities to just
you. As long as they can't catch you alone they won't touch you. You
are such a loser........Moi
In
what he describes as "an attempt to get this story out there",
Curtis told part of the tale on a website,
http://www.justaflyonthewall.com/ where he has changed the names
of some of the specific parties involved. (e.g. "Wong" is
substituted for "Yang" on the site) Additional charges by
Curtis also include that databases and information were routinely sent
by Mrs. Yang to her brother in China who, Yang had told Curtis on one
occasion, had previously been deported for "being a spy".
The BRAD BLOG has not yet been able to confirm the espionage charges
concerning Mrs. Yang's brother.Curtis' affidavit is being turned over
this afternoon to staffers at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. An
investigation into Curtis' story is pending.
While we've been working on this story for several days in order to
get it right, we had hoped to hold it a bit longer to confirm a few
more of the
details. As well, we had hoped to allow the Judiciary Committee and
others time to comment before making this story widely available.
However, as of late Sunday night, Curtis' story has been reported elsewhere
on the Internet http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html
by Wayne Madsen. His detailed account references an older, very short
affidavit that Curtis had made in regards to the information contained
in a self-published book on some of these matters.While Madsen's article
was independently researched and reported -- and offers some very good
detail in relation to Curtis, YEI, FDOT and Feeney, much of which that
we can confirm -- he then ties those stories to a much grander CIA/Bush
family conspiracy.While we have looked somewhat cursorily over the last
several weeks into some of the larger matters which Madsen discusses,
and has been reporting on for some time, we cannot confirm any of those
grander details as playing any part in this particular story. While
his claims may be true, The BRAD BLOG has seen no evidence to support
them as being related to the Curtis story at this time.
Frankly, we find the information related in Curtis' sworn affidavit,
and via our interviews with him and others directly related to his story
to be
rather stunning as is, and we will stand by our reporting of those matters
at this time.
Given
the importance of the many allegations in his story if they are true
-- and we have so far been unable to identify any major holes or
discrepancies in his information -- we thought it necessary to release
the full details contained in this sworn affidavit immediately so that
Curtis'
story and the explosive allegations contained therein could be more
accurately assessed.
DEVELOPING...HARD...
Brad
Friedman is a freelance writer, investigative blogger, software designer
and all around trouble maker. He broke the story of the "White
House Website Scrubbing" amongst other stories, and has been closely
following the story of "GRAND THEFT AMERICA" since Election
Day at his
site, <http://www.bradblog.com/>The BRAD BLOG, which can be read
-- when it's not being overwhelmed by traffic -- at BradBlog.com
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