I wrote extensively about my friend Barbara O'Sullivan's case.
After Barbara O'Sullivan reported misconduct of Delaware County Judge Carl Becker in Glenford Hull's murder trial, Barbara, her family and her friends suffered the following repercussions:
1) custody of granddaughter was taken from her daughter - by Judge Becker;
2) death threat against her was dismissed contrary to her wishes (and despite the Delaware County DA's policy of always consulting victims before dismissing complaints) by Judge Becker's former law partner John Hubbard; John Hubbard reprimanded Barbara for hiring me for her daughter's custody case and told her that whatever Becker decides must be right;
3) Becker used the death threat against Barbara to punish her further to block her from seeing her granddaughter - without her even being a party of the proceedings or being notified; that decision was reversed by a Pennsylvania court;
4) vehicular assault and attempted murder upon her by Delaware County Deputy Sheriff Derek Bowie (nephew of Delaware County DA's investigator Jeff Bowie) never brought;
5) the Delaware County financing, at taxpayers' expense, opposition to the lawsuit of Barbara O'Sullivan against Bowie and had Judge Lambert vacate the clear default by Bowie - which had nothing to do with the County, Barbara did not sue the County, and the County did not owe any indemnification to Bowie when he was sued for intentional misconduct;
6) Criminal charges were fabricated by Derek Bowie against Barbara O'Sullivan and prosecuted by Dick Northrup and then John Hubbard - until Judge Gumo was caught fabricating the arrest warrant, and charges were dismissed;
7) Barbara's daughter Alecia Bracci was criminally charged on fabricated charges, went all the way to a jury trial and was acquitted by the jury.
8) Derek Bowie tried to destroy the evidence of his wrongdoing and tried to get the dog killed through a "dangerous dog" proceeding - that Gumo refused to do, dismissing that case on a technicality.
9) A Binghamton TV station that initially reported the arrest of Barbara and her daughter - on the false warrant from Gumo - first told Barbara that they will call the initial reporter to the phone, then immediately claimed she is no longer working with the paper, and refused to run an announcement that Barbara's case was dismissed.
10) At the beginning of Barbara's criminal case, right after Judge Gumo, who was supposed to dismiss it at the stage of the felony hearing because he knew that the warrant was fabricated, committed her to jail - and the jail that is permeated by relatives and friends of Derek Bowie immediately invented for me a new rule not applicable to other attorneys, that my attorney files must be subject to search if I want to see my client, see also the audio recording of my conversation with Delaware County Chief-of-Jail Lt. Stanton and Delaware County Attorney Porter Kirkwood about search policies of attorney files here.
11) My law license was suspended, just in time not to be able to help Barbara out at her criminal trial.
12) In early February of 2016, Alecia was acquitted by a jury - reportedly quite unexpectedly for Judge Gumo who facially expressed frustration and then blocked release of security tapes that would show it.
13) Right after the acquittal, Alecia received a threatening text message that the police refused to investigate.
14) At the end of February, 2016, the fabricated case against Barbara was dismissed.
And - you know what happened then?
First, Christmas lights were cut up on the outside of Barbara's house that is located in a remote wooded area, and those Christmas lights was the only lighting available, on the perimeter of the house.
The lights were cut not once, but twice.
Then, when the two women started to let their dogs out at night on their own, on March 8, 2016, the International Women's day, one of Alecia's dogs was killed outside, under circumstances suggesting that the dog was killed intentionally.
Here is what Barbara wrote on her blog on March 8, 2016.
These people who are doing all of this to Barbara and Alecia are cowards.
They are retaliating against two innocent women at night, and they are hitting where it hurts the most, against the innocent pets, members of the family.
And, dear residents of Delaware County, if you do not get up and demand the local government to find perpetrators who are making life hell to a person who is trying to clean up the government in your county, anything can happen to anybody in the same position.
Do you want to be ruled by fear?
It is not the "Sopranos" show.
It is life and it is getting too serious.
So, what should we expect next in our glorious Delaware County?
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