| Alan Fenster |
Beverly Hills defense attorney who represented Ricky Ross throughout his legal troubles, including the DEA reverse sting case. |
| Alan Michael May |
Former Northern California field director for Nixon's presidential campaign found dead in 1991 after being linked to an alleged Republican plot to bribe Iranian officials to delay hostage release. |
| Allan Boyak |
After law school, Boyak joined a Hollywood law firm and became involved in criminal defense work, representing a number of 'well placed West Coast drug traffickers.' He later moved to Utah, maintaining a part-time law practice in California. |
| Arnold Burns |
Burns and Weld submitted their resignations to President Ronald Reagan on March 29, 1988, after meeting with Howard Baker. |
| Arnold Overoye |
Overoye's 'procedure' of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County. |
| Baruch Weiss |
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Ari Ben-Menashe for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran. |
| Ben Wagner |
Wagner filed two civil rights lawsuits with the U.S. |
| Brad Brunon |
Los Angeles attorney who represented Danilo Blandón and provided firsthand observations about Contra fundraising through cocaine trafficking. |
| Brian Leighton |
Leighton's efforts against 'The Company' were significant, and he was described as the most effective person in formulating a strategy within the Justice Department to pursue this group. |
| Bruce Eckerson |
Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in MCA Entertainment Corporation. |
| Carl Stern |
Public relations man for Attorney General Janet Reno who interviewed Paul Wilcher about DOJ cover-up allegations from the Reagan-Bush era. |
| Celerino Castillo |
Celerino Castillo III was a DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department. |
| Chris Cannon |
San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government. |
| Chris Moore |
Former reserve police officer and office manager for Pyramid International Security Consultants who witnessed the company's El Salvador operations firsthand. |
| Chuck Jones |
DEA agent who served as Danilo Blandón's primary handler from 1993 to 1995 and denied any knowledge of Blandón's Contra drug trafficking history during a contentious meeting with Gary Webb. |
| Craig Chretien |
DEA Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego regional office who met with Gary Webb in October 1995 in an attempt to dissuade him from publishing the Dark Alliance story, and who was later promoted to head the DEA's International Division. |
| Crossan Andersen |
Federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who took the Danilo Blandon case to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and described it as "a sensitive matter" involving CIA allegations. |
| Daniel Garner |
LASD Majors II deputy and court-certified money-laundering expert whose prosecution for corruption nearly exposed the Contra-CIA drug connection through documents he had seized from Ronald Lister's home in 1986. |
| David Margolis |
Margolis was the chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force at the DOJ. |
| David Mayer |
Mayer's attorney/client files reportedly contained documentary evidence from his client, Ben Kalka, regarding Kalka's business ties with Michael Riconosciuto at R & R Research, at the laboratory facilities at Hercules, California, and Dr. |
| David Zornow |
Attorney who represented Robert Maxwell and Nicholas Davies, and was part of Lawrence Walsh's prosecution team against Oliver North. |
| Dexter Leitenen |
Assistant U.S. Attorney and former Green Beret who served as legal confidant to Allan Boyak before Boyak approached the FBI about Robert Booth Nichols. |
| Douglas Aukland |
FBI agent in Riverside, California, whose walk-in informant exposed the Blandon-Meneses Contra drug connection but who was given minimal resources to investigate. |
| Dr. Arthur Dahlem |
Mariposa doctor who prescribed heavy sedatives to Roderick Sinclair, central to the Queen's Accident investigation. |
| E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. |
Former federal prosecutor who served as chief counsel for the October Surprise Task Force investigating allegations by Ari Ben-Menashe. |
| Ed Hardy |
President of Curry Company in Yosemite National Park, closely associated with Mariposa County officials linked to local corruption. |
| Eric Swenson |
Eric Swenson was a former assistant U.S. attorney who reported Norwin Meneses's Contra drug activities to the Justice Department and stated that the CIA was fully aware of Meneses's criminal operations. |
| George Vinson |
Regional director of the Fresno FBI who was accused of refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County. |
| Harland Braun |
Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order. |
| Harry Connick |
Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s. |
| Henry Hans Holthuis |
Henry Hans Holthuis served as a Dutch district attorney during the 1990s, holding a position of significant authority within the Netherlands' judicial system. |
| James L. Byrnes |
DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General under Arnold Burns who was alleged to have close ties to Edwin Meese and involvement in the PROMIS software conspiracy. |
| James White |
White revealed that the original CHP report on the 'Queen's accident' was sent to the State Attorney General's office (John Van de Kamp), who told his assistant to 'discard' it. |
| Jerry Brown |
California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley. |
| Jerry Guzzetta |
Bell Police Department narcotics detective whose personal vendetta against drug dealers led to the Torres brothers investigation, codenamed Project Sahara, which uncovered the massive Blandon-Ross cocaine network. |
| John Newcomer |
Head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles who advised investigator Marvin Rudnick that he was under investigation for including MCA in his organized crime probe. |
| John Powers |
Powers' investigation into the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger, and Patricia Castro uncovered a complex web of connections involving clandestine government agents and organized crime figures. |
| John Van de Kamp |
Three consecutive grand jury foremen and Ben Wagner, an attorney representing deputies exposing corruption, sought help from Van de Kamp's office, but to no avail. |
| Joseph Garofalo |
Individual named in FBI wiretap affidavits during the investigation into organized crime influence at MCA. |
| Joseph Kozenczak |
On December 21, 1978, Joseph R. |
| Ken Mattheys |
In October 1984, Mattheys recruited private investigator Raymond Jenkins and retired FBI agent Tom Walsh from Merced to investigate Van Meter's disappearance and help him clean up the Sheriff's Department. |
| Kiki Camarena |
DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985, an investigation that uncovered CIA collaboration with Mexican drug cartels providing support to the Contras. |
| Leonard Garment |
Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney and former aide to Richard M. |
| Leonard Joy |
Lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York who visited Ari Ben-Menashe in jail offering to broker a plea deal. |
| LJ Oneale |
Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Ricky Ross and represented the government in efforts to suppress evidence of Danilo Blandón's Contra connections during the trial. |
| Lucky Jordan |
Reserve deputy who reported corruption to the FBI on the same day Ron Van Meter reported to the California Attorney General's office. |
| Marilyn Huff |
Federal judge who presided over Ricky Ross's 1996 trial in San Diego, allowing the government to conduct classified testimony at sidebar and denying defense motions to obtain records about Danilo Blandón's Contra connections. |
| Marvin Rudnick |
Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA. |
| Michael DeFeo |
DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989. |
| Michael Havers |
Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. |
| Mike Murphy |
On July 1, 2010, Murphy requested that the case against Jimmy Hughes be dismissed under Penal Code 1385. |
| Raymond Jenkins |
Jenkins' investigation also led him to MCA (Music Corporation of America), parent company to Curry Company, where a major drug network had surfaced in Yosemite National Park. |
| Richard Stavin |
Stavin quit his job after the DOJ sealed the wiretaps and no prosecutions were pursued in the MCA organized crime investigation. |
| Robert E. Coyle |
In the civil trial that followed the 'Queen's accident,' Judge Coyle ruled that both Roderick Sinclair and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault. |
| Robert Nieves |
DEA agent who served as Norwin Meneses's control agent in Costa Rica, was accused of drug trafficking by multiple informants, and later rose to head the DEA's International Division before joining Oliver North's company. |
| Robert Sobel |
LASD Majors I supervisor who led the Freeway Rick Task Force targeting Ricky Ross, nicknamed "El Diablo" by his detectives for his relentless work ethic and fierce demeanor. |
| Robert Stutman |
Head of the DEA's New York office who deliberately created the 1986 crack media panic by cultivating reporters to pressure Washington into taking the drug seriously. |
| Ron Williams |
Williams was the man who had tried to pull Roderick Sinclair out of the sheriff's vehicle on the day of the accident. |
| Rudolph Giuliani |
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. |
| Sandalio Gonzalez |
Sandalio Gonzalez was a DEA agent in Costa Rica who handled Norwin Meneses as an informant and kept him off official DEA records while Meneses continued drug trafficking operations. |
| Stephan LaPalm |
Individual in the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento who received trial transcripts and drug affidavits regarding the Queen's Accident, preserving evidence of possible cover-up. |
| Steve Polak |
LAPD narcotics detective who patrolled South Central Los Angeles from the earliest days of crack cocaine and developed an intense personal vendetta against Ricky Ross, ultimately planting a kilo of cocaine to frame him. |
| Terry Sullivan |
Terry Sullivan served as the lead prosecutor in the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Cook County, Illinois. |
| Thomas F.X. Dunn |
Dunn was assigned to Ben-Menashe's case pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act after Ben-Menashe had spent 75 days in jail. |
| Thomas Gordon |
LASD Major Violators detective who led the investigation into the Blandon-Ross cocaine network after receiving Jerry Guzzetta's Project Sahara reports. |
| Tony Coelho |
Coelho purchased property in partnership with one member of the Mariposa Board of Supervisors. |
| Vivian L. Wagner |
Her letter detailed the alleged corruption within the Mariposa County local government, including unlawful and corrupt activities by officials and departments, and the failure of the State Attorney General John Van de Kamp and federal agencies to investigate these allegations. |
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| William Hundley |
Hundley had recently joined Strauss's firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. |
| Yitzhak Kahan |
As a result of the commission's findings, Maj. |
| Yitzhak Tunic |
Israeli lawyer who defended Michael Dennis Rohan in the 1969 El Aqsa Mosque arson case, later became Israel's state comptroller. |
