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Black Wednesday
July 26, 1989 Washington DC

the US Marshals Office's Fall From Grace
   Continuing story by Sophia Savary    WHOT News, Pittsburgh

AAG Valerie Stratford Resigns over US Marshal Murders

Dateline: Washington DC.
   The Law Enforcement community took another blow this week when charismatic Justice Dept spokesperson and California based Asst AG Dr. Valerie Linsey Stratford chose to resign her position and step down from the Organized Crime Task Force she has successfully lead for the last 2 years. An example of fallout from the recent scandals that have rocked the US Marshals branch of the the Dept of Justice.
  Local critics of the Justice Dept have attributed some of the recent mishaps directly to the office of the Attorney General himself. Allegations of "Rubber Stamped Warrants" and pressures to conceal and destroy evidence are being made in Congress.
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Senate Inquiries begin over US Marshal Murders

Friday, August 18, 1989
Dateline: Washington DC.
   Former Asst AG Dr. Valerie Linsey Stratford spoke to the Senate Oversight Committee this week in closed sessions concerning recent allegations about Attorney General Edwin Meese's connection to Deceased Deputy US Marshal Paul Gibbons. Gibbons, a former USN SEAL Team member, linked to escaped fugitive Justin Daniels (also a former Dep US Marshal), is at the centerpiece of an investigation into Evidence Tampering and Destruction and Murder.
   Inspector Gibbons was recently killed in a June 5 mob-style massacare at a latino restaurant that left several other lawmen dead and injured and reduced the establishment to rubble. Gibbons, along other former Dep US Marshals, had been seen in undercover surveillance footage taken at the King of Spades Night Club in NYC allegedly performing an execution style slaying of Gambino Lt. Tolvar Solerdaro and his bodyguards along with numerous others. New York crime reporters believe this indicates both a possible link to other NYC organized crime families and a motive for a vicious return attack in Los Angeles on June 5, 1989.
  Attorney General Meese's office is said to have directly assigned the errant Federal Agents to Stratford's Task force. Meese had no comment to reporters on the question of whether or not their placement was an attempt to sabotage the career of one of the few prominent female law enforcement officals in the US today.
 
Former Asst AG Dr. Valerie Linsey Stratford had this say today:
  "I am in Shock, I just can not believe the Atttorney General of the United States would attempt to do this...That he would lack the integrity to claim responsibility for his own actions, instead he has tried to blame others - that in my book is the definition of a coward. "

  Meanwhile the hunt for Gibbons co-conspirators in the NYC Massacare continues. Sightings of Corelli continue to spring up around the country, mainly it seems, wherever dead bodies appear. Reports of dead drug dealers double tapped to the eyes have lead investigators to check recent "gang related" slayings as well. Which raises questions in reporters' eyes: "Is it a gang war or is it Corelli?"
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  Tuesday September 26, 1989

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[First]
Medius
[Middle]
US Marshal Rank
Benson Daniel  Detective [PJ]
Corelli, Anthony James Detective [DT]
Daniels, JustinCarlosInspector [June 5, 1989][CC 3]
Hemlock,Jonathan Chief Detective [AP]
Jessair, Alastaria Detective [KS]
Nakagomi,Tomi  Detective [AP]
Shishikura,Toru   Detective [RH]


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