Tuesday, April 25, 2017

County Attorney PATRICK FRANCIS McCORMACK is STILL Evading Michelle O'Connell Open Records Request Since 2014

Will St. Johns County Commissioners reject renewal of controversial County Attorney PATRICK FRANCIS McCORMACK's contract at their May 2, 2017 meeting?



PATRICK FRANCIS McCORMACK, Esq.
(HCN)
Estimable St. Johns County Attorney, Coverup Artist, Constitutional Rights Violator, Obfuscator Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Evil Empire of Sheriff DAVID SHOAR (whose name was "HOAR" until 1994).
Is it time for this erstwhile Navy Captain and 1994 University of Florida Law School graduate to go work for land-raping, clear-cutting, fraudfeasing, foreign-funded "developers" directly, on their payroll, instead of encumbering our County payroll and wasting the public fisc?
What criminal, civil and administrative investigations should be instituted on McCORMACK's role in covering up the Michelle O'Connell case?
What do y'all reckon? 


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: mwanchick ; pmcormack
Sent: Tue, Apr 25, 2017 2:59 pm
Subject: Re: MICHELLE O'CONNELL HOMICIDE CASE COVERUP: Request No. 2017-103; Request Nos. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010

My dear Messrs. Wanchick and McCormack:
1. Please provide the documents and agree to the meeting.  
2. After nearly three years, continuing to ignoring this issue shows an overt intent to violate our Florida constitutional Right to Know under Florida Constitution Article I, Section 24, ratified by 83% of Florida voters (some 3.8 million) in 1992.
Thank you for calling to discuss this matter today.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 12, 2017 6:48 pm
Subject: Re: MICHELLE O'CONNELL HOMICIDE CASE COVERUP: Request No. 2017-103; Request Nos. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010
My dear Messrs. McCormack and Wanchick:
1. Where are your manners?  
2. Please respond to my many e-mails and telephone messages by close of business tomorrow, Holy Thursday, April 13, 2017.
3. When are you available to meet and discuss these requests, first made in 2014?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>; pmcormack <pmcormack@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Sun, Apr 9, 2017 9:15 pm
Subject: MICHELLE O'CONNELL HOMICIDE CASE COVERUP: Request No. 2017-103; Request Nos. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010


Dear Messrs. Wanchick and McCormack:
1. Please call me tomorrow (April 10, 2017) to discuss and set up a meeting on St. Johns County's refusal to provide these records.
2. Repeated efforts to obtain these records since 2014 have been unavailing.
3. Why?
4. Repeated telephone messages and e-mails have been ignored.
5. Why?
6. Telephonic efforts to file a complaint with the County Administrator Michael David Wanchick against County Attorney Patrick Francis McCormack have not yet been acknowledged by County Administrator Wanchick.
7. Why?
8. Not once has Mr. Wanchick ever responded to any telephone message that I have ever left for him.
9. Why?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Dixon <bdixon@sjcfl.us>
To: easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Cc: Regina Ross <rross@sjcfl.us>; Diane Lehmann <dlehmann@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Tue, Mar 14, 2017 11:19 am
Subject: Response RE: Request No. 2017-103; Request Nos. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010

Dear Mr. Slavin,
After a reasonable review, the County has found no records responsive to your request.
Thank you,
Betty A. Dixon
Betty A. Dixon
Records Management
Office of County Attorney
500 San Sebastian View
St. Augustine, FL. 32084
Office: 904-209-0817
Email: bdixon@sjcfl.us


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 11:57 am
Subject: MICHELLE O'CONNELL HOMICIDE CASE COVERUP: Request No. 2017-103; Request Nos. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010

Dear Mr. Wanchick:
1. Please respond today.
2. Nearly three years of delay is unacceptable.
3. This is a moral issue, as well as a legal one.
Thank you.

With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
From: Betty Dixon
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:51 AM
To: easlavin@aol.com
Cc: Regina Ross; Diane Lehmann
Subject: Acknowledgement RE: Request No. 2017-103; Request Nos. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010
Dear Mr. Slavin,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your public records request.  St. Johns County will determine if it has any records that are responsive to your request.  If any such records are located, we will compile them and redact any exempt material prior to providing them to you.  Should it be determined that the nature or volume of the public records requested requires the extensive use of information technology resources, or extensive clerical or supervisory assistance, or both, then we will first respond with an estimate of the additional charges for the actual costs incurred, and whether a deposit will be required.  In such instance, the records will be compiled only after you approve the charges and the County receives any required deposit.  Payment for the total or remaining costs can be made when the records are available.  If the actual cost is less than your deposit, you will be refunded the balance.
Thank you,
Betty
Betty A. Dixon
Records Management
Office of County Attorney
500 San Sebastian View
St. Augustine, FL. 32084
Office: 904-209-0817
Email: bdixon@sjcfl.us
From: Ed Slavin [mailto:easlavin@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 3:20 PM
To: Michael Wanchick
Cc: Patrick McCormack;
Subject: Request No. 2017-103; Request Nos. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010
Dear Mr. Wanchick:
1. Please provide me -- pursuant to our Florida Constitution, Article I, Section 24; F.S. 119; and F.S. 119.0701 -- any St. Johns County or its government contractor or subcontractor records related to St. Johns Utilities' Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) Smart Water Meter records of 4700 Sherlock Place hourly water consumption, September 2-3, 2010, which I have been seeking from you, St. Johns County Attorney Patrick Francis McCormack, St. Johns County Utilities and our St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners since June 2014, nearly three (3) years ago.  On the night that the late Ms. Michelle O'Connell was found shot in his home, Deputy Jeremy Banks told witnesses at the scene he had not showered. Witnesses said he "smelled like a fresh shower."  Sheriff David Shoar never obtained the water use record, one of numerous ways in which Shoar is guilty of breaching the standard of care for homicide investigations.
2. On this longstanding records request on the 4700 Sherlock Place September 2-3, 2010 water use records, I spoke with St. Johns County Attorney Patrick Francis McCormack in person, once again, on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 during the BCC meeting, at my desk in the back of the room, in the presence of two (2) witnesses.
3. Again, I have requested documentation for Mr. McCormack's assertions that the water use records could not be found on the server(s) by Johnson Controls, Inc. and Sensus, the County's contractor and subcontractor for smart water meter technology.  No response. Why?
4. No documents justify this bald assertion by County Attorney Patrick McCormack concerning purported inability to find our records, our right to which is engraved in our Florida Constitution, Article I, Section 24 and F.S. 119 et seq.  
5. St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar's coverup of the September 2, 2010 Michelle O'Connell two shot homicide case has continued for some 2367 days.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/death-in-st-augustine/  http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/two-gunshots/  
Sadly, County Attorney Patrick McCormack has shown himself in pari delicto with that coverup.  His record stinks.
6. County Attorney McCormack told me in 2016 that he sent our St. Johns County Utilities computer servers in quo to North Carolina.  I told him not to do so, and that he was endangering the chain of custody.  He ignored my concerns, without giving any principled reason. Why?
7. County Attorney McCormack et al. admitted in e-mails to me during 2016 that he sent our St. Johns County Utilities servers to an unknown location in North Carolina on a "truck," with no invoice, no bill of lading or any other documentation.  This is not worthy of belief.   It fails the laugh test and the smell test.
8. County Attorney McCormack appears to be guilty of legal malpractice, failing to comply with the applicable standards of care, again and again.  Mr. McCormack has endangered and violated our citizens' rights. 
9. Is it time that County Attorney McCormack be sent "back to law school for retreading?" (in the immortal words circa 1978 of one of my mentors, former USDOL Chief ALJ Nahum Litt, then Civil Aeronautics Board Chief Administrative Law Judge, concerning a CAB General Counsel who was insouciant to airlines' Due Process rights on deregulation).
10. If St. Johns County Attorney Patrick Francis McCormack will not comply with the reasonable expectations of probity, with Article I, Section 24 of our Florida Constitution and with F.S. 119, I am willing to recommend that our St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners kindly consider non-renewal of his contract when it comes up for SJCBCC review this year.  
11.  Mr. Wanchick, you have heard me speak several times to our BCC about this request.  What have you done to facilitate a response?  On the 4700 Sherlock Place water use records for September 2-3, 2010, as our United Nations Ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, said to the Soviet delegate to the United Nations on October 25, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, "I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that’s your decision. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room."  https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/adlai.htm  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoBTgLq40Ck
12. Will you please acknowledge today the complaint that I filed against Mr. McCormack yesterday, and kindly add this document to the personnel and disciplinary file for St. Johns County Attorney Patrick Francis McCormack?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>; pmccormack <pmccormack@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Mon, Sep 19, 2016 3:01 pm
Subject: Re: Requests No. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010
Dear Messrs. Wanchick and McCormack:
Please respond.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>; pmccormack <pmccormack@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Fri, Sep 9, 2016 4:11 pm
Subject: Re: Requests No. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010
Dear Messrs. Wanchick & McCormack:
1. Please respond.  Now.   Today.
2. Or are you invoking your self-incrimination privilege under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
3. "You have the right to remain silent," but we wish you wouldn't.
4. Talk to me.
5. Please call me to discuss the server that you put on a "truck," and the status of the search for this basic data, which was apparently never requested by the estimable Sheriff, DAVID SHOAR f/k/a "HOAR" or by FDLE or by three incurious Florida State's Attorneys.  
6. I am ready for your telephone call(s). 
7. The whole world is watching.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>; pmccormack <pmccormack@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Mon, Sep 5, 2016 10:23 pm
Subject: Re: Requests No. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010
Dear Messrs. Wanchick and McCormack:
What is the status of the work on the server(s) in quo?
Please respond.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>; pmccormack <pmccormack@sjcfl.us>
Sent: Fri, Aug 26, 2016 3:12 pm
Subject: Requests No. 2016-349, 2016-281, 2016-286-293, 2015-167 & 2016-57: 4700 Sherlock Water Consumption, September 2-3, 2010
Dear Messrs. Wanchick and McCormack:
Please provide the public records on hourly 4700 Sherlock water consumption, September 2-3, 2010.  
Now.  
We have been seeking them since 2014.  
No more delays or condescension is desired or required.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
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1 comment:

  1. Warren Celli2:41 PM

    Ed, thanks for all of your superlative efforts! Wow! Some days I am in awe of all of your fine work.

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