Why am I upset with George W. Bush?:

I mailed a letter to President Bush on 9-15-01 discussing the problems I was having. I was then attacked on my property 10-11-01 by a police informant. I pepper sprayed my attacker in my dark driveway. Police were right there to arrest me. If the Bush administration was not so deceitful and arrogant, I think I and so many other citizens would not have been ripped off needlessly and abused. Our economy and national reputation would also be better. My letter to Bush:



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The HUD response telling me Bush actually read my letter:


In the follow up report I am called the victim:


I was current on mortgage payments on 3 rental properties. Two of which I fixed up from a boarded up condition spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of my labor. I had also built up a contracting business over 2 decades. My reward was that a strong armed robber, a mugger, a felon, could threaten my life while demanding money in my own dark driveway, beat me, and he is not arrested, I am for using pepper spray and I go to prison.

A short video of my former properties [click]

My email:
stevengerickson@yahoo.com

My profile on Injusticebusters.com:

Steve Erickson

Whistleblower goes to Prison

August 25, 2003

An open letter to Stafford Springs, Connecticut asking why young and old criminals are rewarded and honest property/business owners are punished.

I was a successful bidder at a CT HUD auction in '94, buying a single family house on Brown Ave Ext, previously known as 'Cat Alley' in older town records and not because there were 'cats' in an alley. Moving into what was one of America's first Spa/Resorts (only in heyday which lasted until early 1900's) and did not know what I was getting into and how my life would be adversely impacted.

I had only owned the house for a matter of a week or so, when I discovered my mail opened with a child's writing with threats to leave town and a separate incident on coming home to a pry bar stuck in the door. I called Troop C State Police in Stafford Springs, the responding officer told me it was too bad I bought property in a crime/drug area, that there was nothing he was willing to do or investigate, and if it was youths, the police did not have time to deal with youth crime.

I joined the Crime Watch. The woman who started the Crime Watch could not even walk outside with her baby, battling teens that would swear at her. These teens would openly drink, sell drugs, smoke cigarettes. The ones I became aware of would openly vandalize houses, break into houses, sell stolen items, sell drugs from drive thru style/open air drug markets in Stafford.

Hold ups, break-ins, muggings went somewhat investigated, although most downtown residents knew the names of perpetrators, but most of them knew they were wasting their time reporting these individuals to police and would cause the teens and criminals to retaliate against the 'cop caller' and police would also become hostile to the caller. A couple that was part of the start of the Crime Watch got sick of the 24 drug market and teens wilding, could not get police to remedy the situation, just let the bank foreclose on their house to escape Stafford Springs, Connecticut, and the rampant teen, drug, and crime problem.

My wife fell down the stairs at our home as she had not drank enough fluids and was sick. I called for an ambulance. I was known to police from being vocal at crime watch meetings and they had become hostile to me. When an ambulance arrived with police, I tried to walk over to my wife to try to cover her up as she was exposed when she was on a stretcher and a Stafford police officer slammed me into my house and told me that they were going to arrest me as they thought I may have pushed my wife down the stairs. Rasa was a former Lingerie model I had met while in Europe and told police that I was not near her, so the officer could not concoct anything then.

In '95, we finally took our honeymoon in Hawaii, and took a month vacation to her native Lithuania, and then to Poland, Latvia, and Estonia for a month. After coming home I continued my rounds downtown as part of the crime watch. A 14 year old, Amanda F, propositioned me for sex for money which I reported. I stumbled on Peter P. and a powdered cocaine drug deal. Peter P. called me an undercover cop and told me to leave the area. I did not and Peter (6'3 or so, possibly 280 lbs, I was 175lbs, 5'9) picked me up by the neck, pummeled me, and tried to bite my ear off (blood trickled all the way down to my underwear). Peter took off from the scene after I dialed 911 as his friend told 'Pete' that he was holding drugs and the police soon would be there.

Pete's friend told police they did not see anything. I persisted calling police worrying I may have contracted a disease from the human bite from the drug dealer. Police relented and took me to all the bars in town where I found Pete. I then was arrested at my house in front of my wife six weeks later, as Peter P.'s friends who had previously told police they did not see anything and did not know my assailant, wrote statements saying I had attacked their friend without provocation and he is in fear of me.

I told the prosecutor my account and was told it was not whether I was guilty or innocent there was enough on her plate to collect a fine. I went to the Stafford LT that I had given information to. He told me I had interfered with a drug investigation and the police were looking to confiscate a bar and a house. The officer told me I was not allowed downtown unless I did drugs. The LT called the prosecutor to get my charges dropped, thinking I would now keep my mouth shut and stay out of the downtown in which I lived.

My wife told me I lacked good judgment locating us to Stafford, and we later divorced. I recovered from the break up in Paris, then bought a 2 family house in Somersville, CT, and the 3 and 4 family houses that were boarded up, next to my former single family house in Stafford Springs, Connecticut in Summer '98.

I had trouble getting teens and drug dealers to stay off my Stafford property as they told me they were there first and continued to have drug and alcohol parties breaking into my properties. 'Jaybone' D. pulled a gun on my and chased me into my house when I told him to not sell drugs off my yard. Jaybone would have drug/alcohol/sex parties with underage girls at his Brown Ave Ext apartment. John T. slammed my head into my house when I asked him not to sell drugs off my yard. As far as I know police did not do anything about either situation.

I started renting out the 9 apartments as I fixed them up. Stafford Police and Connecticut State Police would refuse to do anything when my property was destroyed, broken into, when I was attacked and threatened, when teens and tenants fought, had out of control drug/alcohol parties, sold drugs and stolen items to no avail. Police told me that they did not serve downtown property owners, especially landlords.

I got fed up and started writing letters to the editor describing the rampant drugs and crime in Stafford Springs and the lack of police help. I proposed civilian oversight of police to legislators. I wrote Bush September 15, 2001, about the teens drinking/fighting/selling drugs off my front yard all hours, how frauds flourished, and how all this hurt small downtown business and property investors. I got a response from that letter from the SBA and HUD. I had finally gotten all the apartments rented and had only one problem tenant I was in the process of evicting. I finally felt I turned the corner as I was finally having money coming in after years of hard work. I was happy that I had cleaned up my little corner of the world and had with my own efforts stemmed the tide of the drug trade myself on my end of the main drag of Stafford. I would own about $500,000 in real estate and could retire on the $6500 gross monthly rents in as little as 12 years when the mortgages were paid off.

Stafford Officers and Connecticut State Police began to tell me I was to leave town. An alleged police informant, Brian C., began to harass and threaten me. I would have to get to my vehicle quickly as he would chase me to my back door. He disturbed my neighbors after midnight banging on my door telling me he would cut my penis off if he caught me outside.

10-11-01, Brian C, told my tenant Don L. that he would not have a landlord as he (Brian C) was going to kill me when I got home. Brian C. left me a voicemail at 1PM telling me he would 'hurt' me when I got home. Brian C. left a threatening message on tenant, Sue J's answering machine. Brian C finally caught me on my yard at almost midnight. I had worked a double shift and was too tired to notice him when he beat me severely from behind demanding money or he said he would kill me.

I pepper sprayed Brian C. and police were right there to arrest me and refused to take my complaint against Brian C. The arresting officers committed perjury at trial and I was sent to prison losing everything. Police had allowed Brian C to harass, threaten, and attack me all the way up to trial. From my personal experience I can say hard work and property investment is punished with prison and being run out of Connecticut, and teen delinquency, alcoholism, vandalism, drug use, and their older criminal career parasites are also welcome and encouraged in Stafford Springs. I have lost my family, pets, and everything I have ever worked and saved for.

I was treated with the maximum harshness by the legal system after being declared the victim of a robbery/beating on my own property. I think the downtown drug and crime problem is the fault of the police and policy makers. Crime cannot be curbed by targeting the wallets and purses of honest taxpayers while almost ignoring criminal activity.

Steven G. Erickson

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Will police officers in Connecticut pay $10,000 cash to a police informant to kill you if you lodge a police misconduct complaint? [click here] for piece

Do the Connecticut State Police have a secret "Enemies List" where they arrest citizens for political reasons so they can be held as political prisoners in Connecticut's jails? [click here]

It is time to start busting judges for theft

When judges don't work the hours they are being paid for by taxpayers it is theft.

Police Officers can be charged with felony theft just for using the gas to go home at lunch time. It is time to bust Judges for felony thefts. Judges are wrecking America. Prosecutors and police can do as these please under corrupt judges that usually aren't punished or removed, no matter what. Qualified Immunity needs to be abolished. Defense lawyers that defend their clients against the wishes of judges get disbarred, face arrests, financial ruin, divorce, and in some cases prison.

2 Judges get suspended without pay for fleecing taxpayers. Hit click "watch this report" for this I-team undercover investigation in Massachusetts which might, hopefully, become a national trend to keep judges in line. [more]

Putting a Governor, the Judiciary, and Police on Hot Seat?

State Representative
Mary M. Mushinsky
Assistant Majority Leader [website]

Email: Mary.Mushinsky@cga.ct.gov

My open email to her:

Ms. Mushinsky,
I understand that you are a major member of the Program Review and Investigations Committee.

I would like the Governor, her staff, the Connecticut State Police, and the Connecticut Judiciary investigated for retaliation against internal whistle blowers and against citizens interested in receiving their tax dollars' worth with ethics and efficiency in State Government, its agencies, police, and in courts.

I would like you to review victims of the Governor's and Connecticut State Police secret "Enemies List", where victims that are critical of the Governor, her staff, police, and members of the judiciary are targets and then victims of the system.

This is not what our forefathers intended. I am asking for legislation to end this practice, help correct problems caused to children and families, expunge bogus criminal records, and review cases for compensation.

I went to State Senator Tony Guglielmo with my concerns regarding out of control Connecticut State Police Officers. I was then falsely arrested and imprisoned. [more information click]

Are you willing to help citizens in need of honest government and relief?

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson
972 Putney Rd. #156
Brattleboro, VT 05301
(former CT Political Prisoner # 305662 and refugee out of Connecticut)

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Program Review and Investigations Committee

[click for member list]

Legislative Program Review and Investigations serves as the General Assembly's "watchdog" over the executive branch of the State government. The committee is a bipartisan statutory group consisting of twelve members. The President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and Senate and House Minority Leaders each appoint three members to the committee.

By law, the committee is charged with the duty of examining "... State government programs and their administration to ascertain whether such programs are effective, continue to serve their intended purposes, are conducted in an efficient and effective manner, or require modification or elimination."

The committee is further mandated by statute to report to the General Assembly and to make administrative and legislative recommendations or procedures, inaccuracies, waste, extravagance, unauthorized or unintended activities or programs or other deficiencies ... " existing in any agency or program investigated by the committee."

In addition, the committee is authorized to conduct investigations on "any matter" when requested by a joint resolution of the General Assembly or when the legislature is not in session, by a joint standing committee, or at its own initiative, subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management.

The Executive Reorganization Act of 1977 expanded the committee's mandate even further to include performance reviews of nearly 100 boards, councils, committees and commissions scheduled for termination under the "Sunset" provisions of the Act. The first complete cycle of "Sunset" was completed in 1984.

Beyond Believable Legislator Misconduct

Soap Operas are one thing, but if this type of behavior is going on in your state legislature, it would not be if more people would just attend more public meetings. Gross sexual misconduct, corruption, and the across the board ripping off of taxpayers would not be so prevalent if more people actually went to town hall and legislatures during “public” events and witnessed what is really going on.


SD Sen. Dan Sutton tells a disciplinary committee that he did not grope a page during the 2006 legislative session. Video posted by V-Blogger hoghouseblog

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[click here] for High Bail and Felony Charges to Harass

Too many Connecticut Attorneys think they can get away with anything

Lawyer faces new sex charges involving a young girl

By: Heather Nann Collins, Journal Inquirer

03/02/2007

A Hartford lawyer accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl and videotaping it was again behind bars Friday after city police charged him with having sex and videotaping another 15-year-old - the first girl's cousin.

A prosecutor said the lawyer, Kweku J. Hanson, may face more charges involving other young girls.

Hanson, 45, of West Hartford, was held in lieu of $750,000 bond after his arraignment Friday in Hartford Superior Court on charges of second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.

Hartford police arrested Hanson at his Main Street law office Thursday morning.

Before the latest arrest, Hanson had continued practicing criminal and immigration law while free on bonds totaling $100,000 from the first case, in which he is charged with second-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a child, and third-degree possession of child pornography.

Hanson's bail in the new case was originally set at $1.5 million. But Judge Bradford Ward cut the amount in half.

Bloomfield lawyer Aaron Romano, who represented Hanson at Friday's appearance, asked Ward to let Hanson go without a bond, on a promise to appear in court.

The "absolutely outrageously excessive" $1.5 million bond was inappropriate for Hanson, a married father of two and a lawyer for 18 years, Romano said.

Hanson is representing himself in the first criminal case and has never missed a court appearance, Romano said.

Unable to post a large bond, Hanson would be prevented from continuing to prepare for the first case, which was nearly ready for trial, Romano said.

Romano said that may be the state's intention because of what he said were "flimsy allegations at best" supported by "a reluctant witness."

That claim drew a sharp retort from Senior Assistant State's Attorney Thomas J. O'Brien.

"There's no call for that," O'Brien said.

Victims of sex crimes are often reluctant to come forward, O'Brien said, causing delays in cases.

The two cases against Hanson are made stronger, O'Brien said, by a "similar pattern" of conduct: Police say Hanson had sex on video with Hispanic teenage girls.

There are leads on two other girls, O'Brien said, and additional charges are possible.

The Connecticut Law Tribune reported in August that, at a hearing into whether Hanson's law license should be suspended while he fights the criminal charge, Hanson said he routinely videotapes his sexual encounters to protect against rape claims.

The new case grew out of the police investigation of the original case.

Hanson was arrested in September 2005 and a computer at his office seized.

Police say they found "numerous" digital photos on the computer of girls having sex with Hanson and in provocative poses -often in Hanson's office.

The girl in the first case worked occasionally in Hanson's office as a clerk. Police say she was 15 and 16 when she had sex with Hanson. Having sexual intercourse with anyone under age 16 is illegal.

According to a police affidavit, officers located the first girl's cousin in January, and she identified herself as being in the photos on Hanson's computer. But the girl told police that she was 16 when she had sex with Hanson in his office. She also told police that she knew she was being photographed and videotaped during the encounters.

But police say they interviewed the girl's older sister, and she said her sister was 15 when the sex pictures and videos were taken.

The older sister told police she had met Hanson outside Hartford Superior Court in February 2005, when he was handing out his business card to prospective clients. She told police she called him later to ask him a question about immigration, and Hanson hired her to work for him.

She too later developed a sexual relationship with Hanson, the girl told police, and he videotaped the encounters. But she was of age, so that relationship hasn't been the subject of criminal charges.

A week after police interviewed the older sister, she tried to recant her assertion that her sister was 15 when she had sex with Hanson, according to the affidavit.

But police say the girl appeared to have been coached - and they are now investigating "potential charges of witness tampering" against Hanson.

Hanson, who successfully defended an attempt by the state's chief disciplinary counsel to suspend his law license, could again be the subject of a disciplinary action as a result of the new arrest.

©Journal Inquirer 2007