Why One Whistleblower is Important to the Safety, Security and Economic Welfare of All

The story of Boeing Whistleblower, Gerald Eastman, is a compelling one, the outcome of which will have far reaching effects on both employees of industry as well as government. In observing Mr. Eastman’s struggle, I see we have reached a significant turning point. Either we will achieve more transparency in our business (and government) operations or we will submerge into the swamp that is now business and contracting in America. I have become aware of Mr. Eastman's Boeing Whistleblower case, via my interest in whistleblower issues. I have his permission to send out his first press release and website address in order to better publicize his experiences as a legitimate whistleblower caught up in a most unpleasant relationship with his former employer.

His case is singularly important as unlike many, he chose to stand up to his company about the fraud he saw happening on the line at Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Eastman was a Quality Assurance Inspector and oversaw the assembly line for airliners. Thinking it was just a few corrupt and irresponsible low level supervisors, he began an odyssey which led him through each level of the Boeing Company to the very highest levels of management, finding anger, corruption, avoidance, cowardice, and retribution against himself, for daring to not shut up and look the other way, all the way to the top of his corporate structure. After exhausting all internal paths for addressing the problems he then went to the oversight authorities in the U.S. government whose job it is to inspect and oversee the safety and integrity of manufacturing and found they were similarly corrupted and impotent. His former employer, the Boeing Company has done their best with every kind of retribution imaginable, to destroy Mr. Eastman. In spite of this Mr. Eastman believing that the fraud and the safety risks the fraud represented to the American public, military and anyone else who would fly on Boeing airplanes, continued to try to get the problems honestly addressed and resolved. Mr. Eastman was fired from Boeing, was essentially blacklisted in his field due to Boeing’s influence, and when he finally did get another job, was fired from that job as well, ostensibly because the small company he worked for had a large customer (ostensibly Boeing) who was not happy with him being employed there. He has lost the integrity of his family, and much else has been permanently and negatively changed in his personal life. It has been a devastating experience. I hope that there will be more media and Internet attention to his story and more of you will present it to your readers. The public should know what is going on around them and see how destructive this kind of greed and corruption is to all of us.

The truth is that Boeing has a lot to lose. The situation is doubly interesting due to the settlement agreement the U.S. Government maintains with Boeing from the end of the Darleen Druyun/Michael Sears/Original Tanker Deal. In order not to lose the ability to bid on more contracts Boeing had to promise to keep themselves clean and ethical. The current issue is that they have not been doing that. There are in addition to Mr. Eastman’s situation, several whistleblower cases and even criminal investigations ongoing at the current time against Boeing. These cases have been slowed, thwarted, and corrupted or crippled; oversight agencies including the Justice department itself, (think federal prosecutors) have been totally dysfunctional in many cases, leaving these cases open, but not going anywhere, and poised to wait for the applicable statute of limitations to run out. This is the functional (or dysfunctional) state of things under the current administration. Those who are a part of the corruption, or are under the control of the corrupted officials, which I am told go all the way to the top of our government, continue to try to keep any of these cases from being investigated, and if that is not successful, from being prosecuted. Unfortunately, at the current time, they are quite successful in that effort.

Mr. Eastman's case however has reached a fevered pitch as Boeing, frustrated they could not shut him up by destroying his life, has tried to deny he is a whistleblower, used their economic and political power to control things and seek high stakes retribution. It appears that Boeing has managed to corrupt the King County Prosecutor’s office and Justice (judges and attorneys) as well. Only the jury refused to go along with Boeing's planned execution. The first trial ended in a hung jury, as several jurors could see what was happening, and seemed to be frustrated with the judge not allowing them to fully consider all appropriate elements of the case, such as Mr. Eastman's whistleblower status and current whistleblower law. To the credit of American jurors, many do not like to be herded to a predetermined end by the prosecutor or judge. The jury also advised the court that they felt the case should not be retried. Boeing, on a roll applying the bully tactic, has since tried to force Mr. Eastman into an out of court "deal" which he has detailed on his website in his Press Release, while threatening to prosecute him again in a second trial, and more recently threatening to move the trial to the federal level, even naming the U.S. attorney, who is interested in taking it on, which flies in the face of any logic, considering the facts of the alleged case, and the well known state of Justice in the U.S. Attorney General’s office.

The truth about campaign contributions from the Boeing Company to politicians in Congress is important, but so is their ample contributing to campaigns or other convenient causes in local jurisdictions where they have business presence, such as in prosecutor’s offices or police agencies. The Boeing Company has used all of these efforts well to garner power - much too much power. They have used that power to prosecute, or more accurately, railroad Mr. Eastman criminally for his efforts to stop the fraud he saw occurring while working at Boeing. Like some other companies I’ve read of just recently, Boeing appears to hope that by trying to criminalize him, they will evade accountability on his whistleblower charges against the company. And, they hope to punish him severely, putting him away and silencing him, as well as using him as a terrifying example to the rest of their employees, to derail anyone else from even thinking about reporting fraud or other criminal activities.

The travesty that has been witnessed in Seattle, masquerading as justice, needs to be exposed. I hope you will be able to help make that happen.

You will find his press release at his website:
http://www.thelastinspector.com You may also contact him at that site.

Please do what you can to help bring this kind of corruption into the light; it is the right thing to do.

-GFS

Connections Count in Government Contracting, Especially Defense Contracting: Big Contracts Went to Big Donors in Quid Pro Quo Deals

CBS News reported in 2003 that a report released by the Center for Public Integrity, concluded, “that most of the 10 largest contracts the government awarded went to companies that employed former high-ranking government officials, or executives with close toes to members of Congress and even the agencies awarding their contracts.

The report describes no bid contracts awarded by the Bush administration, top contract recipient-KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary former headed by Vice President Dick Cheney,

Other Contract Contacts listed from 2003 included:

(Editor Note: These names and attributions are from the original 2003 article. Especially due to the high degree of revolving door and mobility of personnel moving from contractor to contractor, these people are most likely not in the same positions now.)

George Schultz who was a member of Bechtel’s board of directors.

Riley Bechtel, who was named to the Presidents Export Council, which advises the President (GW Bush) on programs to improve U.S. trade.

Jack Sheehan, senior vice president in Bechtel’s petroleum and chemicals business. He served on the Defense Policy Board, which advises the defense secretary on a variety of issues.

David Kay, head of the Bush administrations search for weapons of mass destruction, former vice president of Science Applications Int. Corp.

Christopher “Ryan” Henry left Halliburton in Feb. 2003; at the same time Cheney did, and became principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.

Scott Spangler, principal owner of Chemonics International, was a senior U.S. Agency for International Development official during the first Bush administration. His company received 90 percent of its business from USAID.

Sullivan Haave Associates Inc. was founded by Carol Haave, currently the deputy assistant secretary of defense for security and information operations. Ms. Haave left the government and has served on the boards of several corporations in the defense-contracting arena since.

Link to original article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/30/iraq/printable580998.shtml

I found this editorial recently while doing a search. It appears that not all is rosy for Boeing in Chicago. It appears it is not just Seattle where the public may disapprove of certain types of business practices. I post it here, as I found it for your consideration. GFS

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Chicago Sun Times
http://www.suntimes.com/news/simpson/1039484,CST-EDT-simp04.article
Boeing as amoral as firms that aided Hitler
July 4, 2008

DICK SIMPSON simpson@uic.edu

When Boeing chose Chicago over Seattle, Dallas and Denver as its corporate headquarters, there was rejoicing in the city. The Boeing symbol on our West Loop Skyline is one sign that we have made it as a global city.
We regret Boeing losing key defense contracts as we do losses by the Cubs and Sox.
Boeing pretends to be a good corporate citizen supporting Chicago arts groups and community organizations with grants. The company is listed prominently in playbills and annual reports.
But Boeing also abets torture. It is, after all, a defense contractor as well as a provider of civilian passenger jets. It is locked at the hip and the bottom line with the U.S. government.
Despite our pride in Boeing as a global corporation, it is as amoral as the German corporations that aided Hitler. Only money and contracts count with Boeing.
Boeing's subsidiary, Jeppesen Dataplan, since 2001 has provided flight and logistical support for at least 15 aircraft making 70 clandestine flights for the CIA. Jeppesen allows the CIA to transport prisoners such as ACLU plaintiffs Binyam Mohamed, Abou Elkassim Britel, and Ahmed Agiza to secret locations where they were tortured as part of our government's "war on terror."
The fact that kidnapping and torture is given the more benign name of "rendition" changes nothing. The CIA uses civilian planes and Boeing's and Jeppesen's planning and collaboration to avoid legal procedures in other countries. It is illegal to use European facilities such as airports to spirit prisoners away to be tortured without due process. U.S. taxpayer money is being paid to Jeppesen and Boeing for "travel services" to transport prisoners, some kidnapped and others turned over for bounty payments. All of the CIA prisoners were tortured in countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan and Morocco.
Other American companies, such as phone companies, help the government monitor our "private" phone calls. These companies and Boeing, like German companies 70 years ago, help our government undermine human and civil rights.
On April 28, Boeing stockholders met at the Field Museum. They were greeted by a small band of protesters, including Chicago author Sara Paretsky. She wrote about the protest in her blog, "At the end of [a good] novel, justice somehow triumphs. At the end of the morning [protest] in Chicago, money won."
For now, Boeing continues to aid in rendition and torture. And the stockholders, mostly unknowingly, go along.
A few days before the stockholder meeting, an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against Boeing was dismissed in federal court. The CIA claimed the need to protect "state secrets." But the basic facts are disputed by neither Boeing nor the CIA. As ACLU attorney Ben Wizner argued in court, "No interrogation method . . . is secret. Every one of those has been disclosed and confirmed and in the public record." And the record implicates Boeing. As Meg Satterwaite, an attorney for one of the tortured prisoners has said, "Corporate complicity is actually a crucial part of the CIA program."
While management won the stockholder meeting and first court confrontations, the Coalition to Ground Boeing Torture Flights was born. The next steps in the anti-Boeing campaign will be teach-ins on college campuses and demands for the sale of Boeing stock by pension funds and universities. The coalition is calling on Congress investigate Boeing's role and on the Chicago City Council to pass a resolution condemning Boeing.
Boeing is a giant global corporation, a Goliath. It is opposed by a handful of protesting Davids. I, for one, want to be counted among the Davids.
Like any other citizen, our Chicago corporate citizens should oppose, not abet, torture.

I just found an interesting site regarding Boeing and the Tanker Controversy. Here is a link: http://tankerwankers.blogspot.com/2008/07/another-boeing-lie.html This was posted by someone calling him or herself “Tanker War, Major “Snuffy” Wilco. I don’t know how accurate his/her information is, but it is something to think over.
-GFS

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Update: I was informed by someone that the link posted above was not longer found on the internet. I went in this morning, 7-7-08 to see what was up. Since I found this document and blog on 7-6-08, there has been a sudden change. The author has removed the post in which he described the ways in which he said Boeing had lied about things related to tanker contracts etc. I have contacted the author to see what happened, but as of yet, have not received a reply. It is possible I suppose he was receiving threats or pressure to make it disappear. I'll keep you posted once I know what happened.

The author still has a blog at: http://tankerwankers.blogspot.com and has other interesting posts there.

-GFS

News Release—No Bounds—Boeing's Powerful Outside Hired Gun Attorney, Perkins Coie's Marc Boman, Uses His Close Friendship with Assistant United States Attorney Carl H. Blackstone to Pressure Blackstone to Prosecute Me in Federal Court, Absent a Case.
Friday, June 27, 2008, 10:46 AM
Posted by Administrator

Note: those getting to this page by coming from the www.thelastinspector.com website will want to skip the following section and begin reading just after the seperation line below it if they have already read this intro to my Press Release on my website main page:

This is my first ever Press Release (just issued in a very raw form on Friday). It concerns major developments in the continuing war by Boeing executives and their hired outside counsel (both private and public) against whistleblowers like me that is shown in detail in my individual case of Boeing whistleblower retaliation--possibly the most severe case of Boeing whistleblower retaliation in the United States, if not in the entire world.

The following Press Release details both how and why my case is now threatened to be taken to the federal level by yet another U.S. Attorney of highly questionable integrity, who is only resorting to such threats in response to his extremely rich and powerful close personal friend's request.

The noted U.S Attorney couldn't possibly have reviewed the facts of my case before he acted to accede immediately to that improper request from someone who just happens to be the high level Perkins Coie partner that Boeing hired to guide me into prison without nary a trial, and who's arse is still smarting, apparently, from losing the last trial Boeing and him thought they had so far in the bag, due to similarly illegal and extremely unconstitutional shenanigans, that they started to celebrate their win even before the jury had begun to deliberate on the merits of the case presented to them in court.

They had began celebrating much too early what they thought to be an impending long prison term for me, a whistleblower they saw as a serious danger to the continuance of their own fraudulent schemes and a serious threat to them personally being rightly exposed for the powerful and eminently corrupt RICO-esque group they were.

They indeed also celebrated so heartily and so far before the "gun" of that trial's jury's deliberations over my guilt or innocence had even been "fired" because they thought they had just Aced their own "get out of prison" cards by engaging in the heavy handed rigging of the King County "justice" system they also had unfair (and illegal) access to the "controls of" behind the scenes.

And this Press release shows that they hired this high level Perkins Coie partner quite apparently also in order to work such unethical if not illegal "magic" behind the scenes of both propriety and legality to ensure Boeing remains forever on the offensive against all whistleblowers like me--whistleblowers who, perhaps, are only now just starting out on their one way "whistleblower journeys" as hopelessly naive as I once was at that same point.

Perhaps such "beginning" whistleblowers naively fully expect their senator, representative, CEO, and/or relevant government oversight agency to act to stop the fraud they report rather than simply ignore those reports (however detailed and obviously serious is the reported fraud), just as my reports were ignored by those whose job and responsibility it was to investigate them in an unbiased manner.

Perhaps they also naively trust that Boeing's CEO won't arrogantly direct Boeing's Chief Counsel to retaliate against them to stop them from further "protected" whistleblower actions if their identity as a whistleblower against Boeing fraud becomes known to Boeing's CEO, as was unfortunately my experience in my case of whistleblowing on the deadly serious fraud I witnessed as an inspector at Boeing.

Perhaps these naive whistleblowers are just now beginning to form even the first tenuous train of thought about bringing their intimate knowledge of just a tiny part of Boeing's vast plethora of frauds across the enterprise to the light of day for relevant action in order stop just the one fraud that they have intimate knowledge of.

If so, then the actions noted in this Press Release as performed by Boeing, Perkin's Coie, the King County Prosecutor, and now apparently even a much, much too friendly U.S. Attorney to one of Perkin's Coie's chief partners that Boeing hired to ensure that this whistleblower was sent to prison by hook or by crook, are meant to not so subtlety deter such whistleblowers from coming forward and endangering Boeing's continuing fraudulent activities, however unlikely such endangering of Boeing's continuing fraudulent activities is in today's changing but still extremely compromised political and agency oversight landscape.

What such potential whistleblowers incorrectly assume (as I once falsely assumed to be the case in my case of whistleblowing, as well) is that the fraud they witnessed was only committed by a few of the lowest level Boeing management layers and such fraud was therefore unknown and unsupported by every layer of Boeing management from Boeing's CEO on down.

Nothing could be further from the truth still in today's eminently corrupt Boeing management culture, rotten from the CEO on down, where whistleblower hunting is a blood sport enjoyed as much by these corrupt executives as their blue-blooded forefathers enjoyed the sport of fox hunting.

See the noted Press Release to see the actual email this apparently quite compromised U.S. Attorney sent off (only per his rich and powerful close personal friend's face to face request) to threaten me with a similarly biased and unbalanced federal prosecution if I did not accede to his corrupt friends' wishes and sign away my rights to a fair trial by a jury and/or judge in their effort to do an end run around such a jury or hypothetically unbiased King County Superior Court judge.

This is an obviously "last gasp" effort on their part in order to get me sent to prison without the "inconvenience" (to them) of a constitutionally required fair trial on the patently unfair charges against me.

All they would need to do after I was pressured by the compromised U.S. Attorney into signing their meticulously crafted to entrap me agreement would be for them to get any one of several biased King County Superior Court Judges to pronounce I had technically violated the agreement--an easy task for these people that find it absolutely normal after too many years of all too corrupting power for them to work only for corrupt Boeing management's every whim (no matter how illegal or unethical each such "request" is on its face) and to therefore to work in opposition to the public's interests they are statutorily and constitutionally instead supposed to be serving.

Could this be an echo of the U.S. Attorney corruption scandal of the recent past where politics, money, and power entered into the decisions and even the very appointments and terminations of U.S. Attorneys that are supposed to be above such reproach? I think it may quite well be. That U.S. Attorney corruption scandal is not yet fully investigated due to foot dragging (literally) by the executive branch of "our" government, nor, therefore, have corrective actions taken place in full or even in partiality, it seems, from this U.S. Attorneys actions as noted in my following Press Release:

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http://eastmans.web.aplus.net/pblog/index.php

For Immediate Release: Friday, June 27, 2008
Contact: Gerald Eastman, gerryeastman2477@msn.com

In these last few months before what appears to be a landslide that will sweep corrupt politicians of the present out of power, you would think that entities that depend on those doomed politicians' corruption in order to continue to perform their chosen frauds would be beginning to throttle back on such illegal relationships.

Not so--at least not so in the case of Boeing's continuing reliance on the ongoing corruption of our elected and appointed government officials to continue to allow them to engage in their frauds of choice.

Boeing is arrogantly even now "putting the pedal to the metal," not only on the frauds they continue to commit (as they know there is still no politician or government entity uncorrupted enough not to just continue to look the other way), but also in their connected attempts to retaliate against any whistleblower like me (who they were unable to intimidate into keeping quiet and to look the other way on perhaps the most deadly serious and systemic fraudulent act that Boeing is involved in at the moment--the Boeing Quality Assurance management fraud as noted on my website, www.thelastinspector.com, that makes Boeing's Production Certificate and related certifications and FAA delegations such as Boeing's ODA delegation and each individual airplane's Airworthiness Certificate, effectively worthless pieces of scrap paper).

Arrogantly bold and baseless threats and illegal punitive actions against even the most obvious of protected messengers--whistleblowers like me--are the course of action chosen by corrupt Boeing management even to this very day.

These are actions taken by Boeing against whistleblowers like me who are/were naive enough to try to end those Boeing frauds themselves in the political and agency climate of the past several years that was so conducive to abetting such corporate fraud, however serious and deadly it was.

I learned this continuing effort by Boeing and its outside counsel at whistleblower retaliation was being kicked up to a whole new level as of last Thursday, when my attorney sent me the following email concerning my continuing legal persecution by Boeing's King County Prosecutor's Office, and we later discussed it:

From: Ramona Brandes
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:59 AM
To: gerryeastman2477@msn.com
Subject: New info on federal jeopardy

Gerry-
See Below.

Ramona Brandes
Attorney
Northwest Defenders Association
Ramona.Brandes@nwdefenders.org
206-674-4700 Ext 3116

This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is emailed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If the reader of this communication is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribuiton or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by phone or email. Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peterson, Scott
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:00 AM
To: Ramona Brandes
Subject: Eastman

Ramona,

I just got a call from Carl Blackstone, US Attorney's Office, who asked about Eastman's case. He said they may be interested in prosecuting him federally if he won't resolve the case here. He said you could call him to discuss, 206-553-2905.

Scott

(End of email)

Interesting, huh?

Needless to say this new threat against me in the long and continuing saga of Boeing's illegal retributions against me for my ground breaking whistleblowing against Boeing's both illegal and unethical conduct in the Boeing/FAA fraud as noted on my website, www.thelastinspector.com, piqued my interest, to say the least.

But what I learned outside this email later was several times more shocking.

But first, to understand events, you must be brought up to date on what has happened since the King County Prosecutor, Dan Satterberg, Boeing, and one of Perkins Coie's most powerful partners failed to secure what they thought would be a walk in the park style conviction against me in April, when my trial on 16 felony counts of first degree "computer trespass" ended in a 10-2 mistrial that began as a 9-3 mistrial early in the jury's deliberations.

Even before those deliberations had begun, the gleeful "embrace" (which was a female version of the "male" high five, I suspect) by Vanessa Lee (Boeing Legal's attorney who sat in the courtroom next to Perkins Coie's partner Marc Boman through the trial while she desperately tried to help ensure my conviction by any means possible from that back court bench) of Scott Peterson, King County Senior Prosecuting Attorney, just after Peterson's closing statement to the jury in that trial, was the beginning of the "celebrating before the game was up" that I noted in the introduction to this press release.

Incidentally, during the trial, Boeing and their bought and literally paid for King County Prosecutor's office had pulled out every stop in order to prevent me from even being considered a whistleblower, or my whistleblowing activities and whistleblower laws from even being considered during the trial by the jury. The jury themselves thought this was wrong, as they sent a question from the jury room to the judge asking whether they could consider such whistleblower protection laws during the deliberations.

After the disappointment and inconvenience of the jury's mistrial, instead of the pre-rigged win Boeing thought they had ensured by the unfair trial they "guided" by spending vast sums of money on Perkins Coie's best available counsel (partner Marc Boman) before and during the trial, Boeing was not as happy and giddy as they were before their expensive inside and outside counsel had remembered (apparently only after the announcement by the jury that deliberations were deadlocked) that I had to be pronounced guilty by the jury before they actually had me in prison with that trial's very friendly County Superior Court Judge to both Boeing and the prosecution's every whim.

A short time later, the King County Prosecutor put forth an "offer" for me to plead guilty to lesser charges of 2nd degree criminal trespass, the same kind of trespass someone would be charged with if a prosecutor wanted to prosecute someone for stepping on somebody's lawn, in order for me to avoid the added insult of a threatened second and similarly unfair trial.

I refused that "deal." It was clear that Boeing badly wanted me to accept one of these "offers," which were obviously not in my best interests, as I had done nothing wrong other than "the crime" of being too naive in thinking that some politician, government agency official, and/or Boeing Board of Directors member would do something to end Boeing's fraud that placed (and still places) untold lives at much extra risk in order to maximize the bottom line. I certainly thought one of those numerous powerful people I contacted before my arrest would at least grow a spine and do something to make things right for the public's sake well before I would find myself thrown to the wolves that are corrupt Boeing management and those that they hold the reigns of in "public" office for the whistleblower retaliation that was the trial I was put through per Boeing's "requests" and for the current King County Prosecutor's Boeing and Perkins Coie donations to his campaign.

But before the prosecutor set the case for the second trial, my attorney decided to negotiate a "continuance for dismissal" with the King County Prosecutor's office.

My attorney and the prosecutor Scott Peterson have been negotiating such an agreement since then, at least up to Thursday's throwing of a monkey wrench into the deal by Marc Boman's calling for the favor of a federal prosecution of me from his close friend, U.S. Attorney Carl H. Blackstone, before the case setting hearing Thursday that my attorney and I attended at the King County Courthouse.

Read the last draft of the "continuance for dismissal" my attorney and the King County Prosecutor were working on before Marc Boman (Perkins Coie) and Boeing killed any chance of such an agreement with Thursday's shenanigans to try to threaten and intimidate me into taking the agreement just as they had rewritten it by threats of a federal prosecution by a buddy of theirs in the U.S. Attorney's office if I did not accede and sign it, at the following link (under construction):

Link (in work).

In a nutshell, the continuance for dismissal would have brought the lesser charges of 2nd degree criminal trespass against me and leave them hanging over my head until January, 2008, upon which all charges against me would be dropped, if I kept to the terms of the agreement.

Those terms were to sit down to an interview with Boeing where I would answer all questions, keep the contents of that interview confidential, keep the exact method (already public) I used to remove the files from Boeing for my whistleblowing activities a secret, show them exactly where the files were on my seized computer that I had given to the Seattle Times, and my attorney making a good faith effort to retrieve those same files from The Seattle Times.

In the agreement they are trying so desperately to coerce me into signing, however, there was a trap—-the central and only part of the agreement that I strongly believe Boeing, Perkins Coie, and the King County Prosecutor actually wanted. That clause stated that I, by signing the agreement, gave up the right to a jury trial or trial before a judge on the charges against me if they determined I had violated the agreement. One of the stipulations that would be a violation is if I "committed another crime" during the term of the agreement.

If they later got any one of numerous "friendly" King County Superior Court Judges to determine that I had violated the agreement in any way, then that judge would simply read the "facts" of the case as written in a "Stipulation of Facts" of the case agreed to by my attorney and the prosecutor's office and then immediately decide if I was guilty or innocent of the charges. Upon a guilty decision by the judge, I would go straight to jail or prison for the term decided by the judge.

It is my strong belief that their only interest in this "continuance for dismissal" was for that clause in which I would give up my right to a trial if I "violated" the agreement.

Boeing, Marc Boman of Perkins Coie, and their similarly corrupt puppets in the King County Prosecutor's office, wanted simply to get me to sign the agreement so that they could then find a way to claim that I had violated the agreement, at which point they would get the case before a friendly judge in King County Superior Court.

In so doing, they would have thusly steered around what they saw as an insurmountable problem hereto now. They knew that no jury would convict me as there would always be several people on the jury that actually deliberated the trial on the facts my attorney and I put forth at trial rather than just the mistruths that Boeing, Perkins Coie's attorney, and the prosecutor had made up and/or had allowed to be put forth to the jury and judge.

Too bad I saw through their plot. In fact, I believe that Boeing had Marc Boman talk his close personal friend, U.S. Attorney Carl H. Blackstone, in order to ask Blackstone to make the threat of a federal prosecution if I didn't fall into that trap easily on my own, which made the agreement all the more unreasonably a risk for me to sign.

Then, interestingly, before I left for court yesterday (and before I ultimately found out that it was Marc Boman, Boeing's outside counsel and Perkins Coie partner, that had called on his own personal friend, U.S. Attorney Carl H. Blackstone, to threaten me with federal charges if I did not take the noted entrapment deal) I thought a bit more about the prospect of such federal charges and sent the following email both to my attorney and King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg's office to ensure that she shared the full message with their office:

From: gerryeastman2477@msn.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:48 PM
To: attorney.prosecuting@kingcounty.gov
Subject: Fw: New info on federal jeopardy

From: gerryeastman2477@msn.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:38 PM
To: Ramona Brandes
Subject: Re: New info on federal jeopardy

Ramona,

I just thought of something important "Federal Jeopardy" I see could be a good thing. Boeing is not popular in Federal Court. If my case is brought before a prosecutor that is not bought and paid for literally like Satterberg and Peterson are, it may well be Boeing that ends up being prosecuted, and not me. As Boeing's GSA expires sometime in August, it would only take one charge of a high ranking official at Boeing to get the whole GSA invalidated, and Boeing prosecuted as the criminal entity they are (and narrowly avoided culpability for with that GSA). They are also up on all of the numerous Federal whistleblower protection laws, and so, if Peterson forces it into that realm because he is being unreasonable and I think not treating you with the respect and credibility you deserve by trying to use such thinly veiled threats to force your hand, even if you or Peterson don't believe I am a whistleblower, I think I can show them I am, and show both Peterson, Satterberg, and Boeing were retaliating against me illegally (with the email they sent to themselves on 4/12/06 and everything they did to me before and after it. So, it could come out that if Mr. Blackstone is not in Boeing's or Satterberg's pocket securely enough that Mr. Satterbeg, Mr. Peterson, and Boeing may end up being the one's prosecuted. I suggest strongly you have Mr. Peterson take these facts into account and clear his actions in this regard with Boeing before he places both himself and Boeing at significant Federal jeopardy themselves. Certainly, if Peterson or Satterberg feel they could do no federal time for their actions in following a corrupt corporations every illegal whim against me, then they still owe it to Boeing to advise them of the risk he would be placing them in (criminal charges filed against them as a corporation and any of numerous Boeing executives involved in the original fraud Mr. Satterberg never took an interest in even looking into himself, much less prosecuting, and the retaliation lodged against me by Boeing for trying to bring their Southwest Airlines/FAA-like fraud on steroids to an end) by breaking the GSA) by thusly "taking it up a notch." Because I still care about Boeing's employees (not its largely and provably corrupt management), please have Mr. Satterberg or Peterson get word from Boeing that they want to "take it up a notch" thusly. If they do want to force it to Federal court, I may finally be allowed a real hearing, absent all of the withholding of evidence and bias by King County Superior Court of the past.

Thanks,

Gerry

(End of email)

I do not wish to repeat all of the points I made in the email again here, so I will let you take from the email what statements within it are of interest to you.

However shocking the news was I later learned, that Boeing and Perkins Coie's Marc Boman had used Boman's personal friendship with a U.S. Attorney to communicate threats--threats he wouldn't have obviously have made absent his close friend's urgent request. And these were threats he made while absent the facts of the case, as U.S. Attorney Carl H. Blackstone couldn't possibly have had full access to those facts at the time he decided to act exactly per his close friend Marc Boman's overtures and improper requests.

I believe it is quite common knowledge that the U.S. Attorneys have been politicized under this administration for Republican and special interests--as in their penchant for being biased for giving even demonstrably corrupt corporations like Boeing whatever they want, no matter how corrupt their wants are. One only has to stay reasonably informed by reading the news to understand that.

Could this pressuring of U.S. Attorney Carl H. Blackstone by his own personal friend for his friend's client, Boeing, be yet another of numerous such illegal if not highly unethical acts?

Was it an act based not on the merits of the case, but instead only on who knows who, who has the most money, who is perceived to have the most power, who is Republican and who is not, and/or who is a corporation and who is just a common citizen trying to stand up to and end corporate corruption?

Of course.

It almost assuredly is thusly unethical if not illegal.

Everyone knows that power corrupts, and the longer that someone has unbridled power, as in Boeing's case, the more corrupt they seem to become. Let's just say that U.S. Attorneys, Boeing, the current King County Prosecutor, and even a Perkins Coie attorney, apparently, have much too much power, for far too long.

Well, that is it for now. I will be adding to this News Release constantly, so check back often, especially if you are a reporter or editor.

I do think this is newsworthy. I hope you decide it is as well.

I think that the public has the right to know just why such back alley deals, as occurred in my case between Boeing's hired counsel, Marc Boman, and an apparently ethically and/or legally challenged U.S. Attorney, Carl H. Blackstone, are made (based on powerful and not so moneyed friends helping powerful and moneyed friends in the personal interests of friendship, abuse of power, and quite possibly even the transfer of money and/or power from the moneyed friend to the not so moneyed friend at a present or future date, rather than the actual consideration of merits or lack or merit of the case imposed on one friend from another) and therefore serve the opposite of justice.

The public also needs to know that corrupt and arrogant corporations like Boeing will not relinquish such corruption or arrogance even if their corrupted friends in government will be swept from power in just a few months.

Contact me as noted above if you wish to cover these latest important twists in this important case for every other of numerous other potential whistleblowers at just Boeing itself, not to mention those at other corporations that similarly resort to try to "kill the messenger" when that messenger attempts to communicate their frauds to the relevant organization in order to have them stopped before consequences occur, like more people and troops dying because of such fraudulent activities, as are the consequences for the fraud continuing that I tried to stop as noted on my website.

Of course, I will take the actions outlined in my email and attempt to rightly have Boeing and certain officials in the King County Prosecutor's office prosecuted for their corruption if my case is moved to the federal arena (or even if not at this point).

Any possibility that there was for the agreement noted above being signed by me has been killed by Marc Boman's possibly illegal and certainly unethical actions on the behalf of Boeing, as well as my knowledge of the likely intentions of the true criminals involved in this matter--both Boeing and the King County prosecutors from Dan Satterberg on down in the hierarchy there.

My goal would be to have the Boeing GSA (the Boeing Global Settlement Agreement for the Boeing CFO/Druyun tanker fraud and the Lockheed competition sensitive data theft by Boeing which was then used by Boeing to rig and win the EELV (Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle) contract competition) entered into in August 2006 invalidated by such rightful (based on the facts, and not just friendships) charges against the corrupt Boeing executives involved in covering up the fraud I attempted to bring to light by falsely testifying against me and colluding with a similarly corrupt King County Prosecutor in order to ensure that I (the "protected" whistleblower) was the one confined to prison before I saw to it that they and other Boeing management were rightly sent there by a fair and "facts and data" based prosecution for their fraud in which they intentionally placed the public at much greater risk by ignoring the laws and regulations meant to protect the public's very lives simply in order to maximize the bottom line.

Federal prosecutors may actually interview me and check into Boeing's corruption as documented on my site and in letters to Congress and federal agencies before they decide who it is that committed the actual wrongdoing in this matter that merits prosecution. That was something the King County Prosecutor's office never did or even considered doing as they were so beholden to the unbridled power and money that is Boeing for their own personal interests, and they therefore intentionally hid behind a similarly biased Seattle Police Department's "investigation" into this matter that also intentionally only focused where corrupt Boeing management wanted them to look, and came to the conclusions that Boeing management wanted them to make.

Thanks for your time,

Gerald Eastman

The Last (Boeing) Inspector

www.thelastinspector.com