• Mark J. Mershon
• Federal Bureau of Investigation

Charles H. Clements 1741 Dallas Street Aurora, Colorado 80010-2018 303.364.0403 (vox) 303.739.9824 (fax) e-mail: gryphons@attbi.com

Mark J. Mershon Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation Denver, Colorado

15 Feb 02

Special Agent Mershon: Sir:

This to bring to your attention criminal complaints of Witness Tampering, Evidence Tampering, Civil rights abuse under color of authority, False arrest, Unlawful Detention, and a failure to rise to minimal standards of professional responsibility on the part of members of the MultiJurisdictional Domestic Terrorism TaskForce, in particular to include two of your Special Agents; Mark Hostlaw and Kurt Maleri.

I have tried to prefer charges with the Attorney General’s Office, the Denver District Attorney’s Office, the Denver Police Department, the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office and with the presiding judge, Hon. Leland P. Anderson, to no avail.

While those I spoke with agreed with me that I had been victimized, none would take jurisdiction over any of the persons involved or the events that have transpired.

It would seem that your Bureau is charged with investigating and charging on such criminal complaints, and I would enjoin you to investigate and proceed with the appropriate measures to institute a prosecution.

My situation and history are as follows:

I have been subjected by officers of the law and prosecutors, to a deliberate and malicious attempt to improperly coerce, intimidate and influence me, as a Witness in complaints to Federal District court and to the appropriate authorities of charter, through actions, threats, intimidation and defamation. The ‘MultiJurisdictional Domestic Terrorism TaskForce has constructed a character of pure fantasy, assigned that fantasy to me and investigated, indicted, arrested, detained me, required surety bond, compelled my taking counsel for representation, and to defend myself against vigorous prosecution with no cause whatsoever, none.

Their motivation stems from my position before the Courts as a 3^rd Party Witness for a Plaintiff in Federal Complaints, Mr. Steve Douglas Gartin. He is complaining of various abuses of his civil rights in the Federal Court. Whether Mr. Gartin is right or wrong in his complaints is of little or no relevance to the abuses against me. My witness on his behalf consists solely of observing meetings with administrators and investigators, witnessing the service of legal process and documents and, by now, being privy to the process as it has proceeded. I am not a principal in any of the disputes; neither gain nor lose by any decision on either side of the question.

Over some good period of time, four years or more, I have been threatened by lawyers, a police officer, Sheriff’s Deputy, and an FBI agent, Mark Hostlaw, that my witness (presumably against them) for Mr. Gartin would ‘lead to trouble’. They have uniformly been individuals that are Respondent to Mr. Gartin’s complaints in Federal Court, or representatives of agencies or other group interests. I have been investigated by: the Federal Protective Service (Threat Assessment Division; Scott Tuttle), the U.S. Marshall’s Office (Dep. US Marshall Randy Martin), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (an unknown agent, Special Agent Kurt Maleri, Spl. Agent Mark Hostlaw), the Intelligence Unit of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department (Dep. Sheriff Don Estep), the Colorado State Attorney General’s Office (Senior Investigator Gary Clyman), the Greenwood Village Police Department (Det’s. Carr, Stadterman, Lt. Fisher) and have been thoroughly vetted for any criminal involvement or ‘political incorrectness’. All of those people are either respondents to Mr. Gartin’s complaints or represent the interests of such other respondents as have organizational associations.

On February 19^th, 2001, I was surprised to be arrested at my home in Adams County by the Fugitive Felon Apprehension Team from Jefferson County on a, previously unknown to me, Fugitive Felony Arrest Warrant issuing from a Sealed Grand Jury Indictment (00CR001) issued 60 days prior (23 Dec 00). There were sixteen charges; fifteen Felonies and one Misdemeanor of violence; Attempt to Influence a Public Official, Filing False Instruments (multiple counts), Computer Crime, Criminal Extortion (multiple counts) and Carrying a Concealed Weapon on a Jefferson County School Ground. (Ref. Jefferson County Case number 00CR3373)

The prosecutor for that Indictment was Attorney General Ken Salazar and Senior Deputy Attorney General Marlene M. Langfield, Esq. of the Colorado State Attorney’s Office. The fifteen felony charges and the misdemeanor were carried forward by the Jefferson

County District Attorney’s Office with Marleen M. Langfield prosecuting under the rubric of ‘Special Deputy District Attorney of Jefferson County Colorado’. Her investigative team; Senior Investigator Gary Clyman of the Attorney General’s Office, Senior Intelligence Investigator Don Estep of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s

Department and Special Agents Kurt Maleri and Mark Hostlaw of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, were operating under the rubric of the ‘MultiJurisdictional Domestic Terrorism TaskForce’, which seems to be an adjunct of your JTTF group, if not an

alternative name for that entity.

I was represented by Cynthia Sheehan, Esq. of Cynthia Sheehan Law Practice.

Immediately upon Attorney Sheehan’s appearances in the first months after my arrest, the first fifteen felony charges were summarily dropped; as was the misdemeanor CCW. The charges were utterly unfounded, they comprised a hazard of some one hundred and thirty years in prison. Nothing in the indictment reflected any testimony against me by any complainant. The charges were groundless, abusive of the process and done under the color of their authority for personal, as well as professional reasons.

The surviving felony indictment, Criminal Extortion, was carried by Special Deputy State Attorney General Marlene Langfield for several months until a petition was made by the District Attorney’s office to dismiss. The charging was inappropriate by any measure- even if events had transpired as was alleged- which they had not.

I was thoroughly cooperative throughout the experience.

One night in jail, the two lead investigators, Gary Clyman and Don Estep, took me to my home in Aurora to get computer information from me. They told me about all the felony charges in the sealed Indictment, how they presently could charge me with ‘aiding and abetting a Federal fugitive’, and would proceed with all the personal power they could bring to prosecution if I did not give them my security passwords, remote access to my computer, Gartin’s possible passwords, e-mail addresses, website addresses and other data. I complied with their threats because I knew already that they were capable of falsely charging me with felonies, arresting me, holding me in a ‘cold cell’, leaving me without a blanket and engaging other custodial abuse based for the jailers, I believe, on the charge of ‘Carrying a Concealed Weapon on a Jefferson County Schoolground’.

Sometime after the first part of March, I began to realize that all my business webpresence had been destroyed. My webspaces were no longer available to me because the passwords had been changed. This included my two webaddresses that were very desirable and valuable. At the same time, all of Mr. Gartin’s webpresence was destroyed; business, personal, legal evidence/documentation, political and social commentary, religious information, archival storage and so on.

Only the Attorney General’s Office’s MultiJurisdictional Domestic Terrorism TaskForce Investigators Clyman and Estep had the requisite four separate and distinct passwords (constructions of alphabet and type ornament, case sensitive) and credit card number that were necessary to raze both sets of sites or access my computer and Internet Service Provider from a remote station. Nothing whatsoever on any of the sites was of any relevance to their investigation and destroying them was not only simple malice, but the crushing of any financial means to aid any meaningful defense against their false charges, or pay simple living expenses, as well as obstructing the recovery of evidence and documentation that was in data storage.

Further, they released to the media and on the World Wide Web Internet, that I

am a ‘Patriot’, with ties to the Christian Identity group. That media release was parroted

by the ADL and SPLC types of groups, newspapers, FBI special interest releases all across the world- all sorts of individuals and institutions have deliberately been led to infer by this defamation and false information, that I am a racist, a bigot, a religious zealot; armed, violent supporter of bombers and robbers with a religious justification and fervor.

In fact, I am a longtime civil rights observer, trained by the Government as a GS15 during the ‘Model Cities’ years, on subjects ranging from race questions, anti-war, the environment; community involvement, gender equality and parity. I am a professional artist and craftsman for many years, long in residence at my home. I have never known any of those kinds of people, never been to any sort of meeting or gathering, never read their literature except at the most superficial level of the popular press, never donated to any of them; never anything to do with them whatsoever.

I have been falsely and maliciously charged by Marleen M. Langfield, recklessly and contemptuous of the law, and the those charged dropped when sustenance to them was required in Court. I have been arrested on these false charges, detained, and bond required of me on charges that were knowingly and deliberately proffered by Senior Deputy Attorney General Langfield. They have destroyed my businesses on the Internet, defamed my reputation by accusing me of crimes and of heinous social views, knowing that it was wrong in every manner.

In the late summer of last year, 2001, I was witness to a meeting with Mark Hostlaw and Kurt Maleri in which meeting they were informed of multiple charges of civil rights abuse and enjoined to proceed with a civil rights complaint to your appropriate department. That meeting had four witnesses giving complaint to Spl. Agents Hostlaw and Maleri, and we were assured by Spl. Agent Hostlaw that the civil rights complaint was going forward. I checked with Agent Hostlaw on several occasions about the

progress of the complaint. During our last conversation, he reassured me; ‘Don’t worry about it, stay quiet, there are things going forward that you don’t know anything about.’

Of course, what was going forward were the false charges, and the civil rights complaint was buried. Spl. Agents Hostlaw and Maleri are close friends of Don Estep, Gary Clyman and the other Complaint Respondents, and it is my contention that their professional judgment and demeanor was inappropriately influenced and conflicted by that relationship.

Please proceed with an investigation on these complaints with the intention of instituting criminal charges or administrative discipline as appropriate.

Thank you for your kind consideration; I am at your convenience for such supporting documentation, eye-witness interviews, and any explication your Office might require in support of these complaints.

Charles H. Clements