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| The "force" is not strong with attorney "Darth" Newman's version of the timeline of his receipt of stolen Escambia County files and records.... |
The problem with lies is that they will always be found out. A liar who lies and tells lies will invariably lose track of the lies he tells and then the lies he or she told will be discovered. Then, that person will be discredited, ostracized, ridiculed and even made a pariah.
Or it could be worse.
Sometimes you lose a relationship when you get caught in a lie---- be it a business, personal, or other type relationship.
Worse than this--if a lie is told to a federal agent--that's a crime.
And if a lie is told under oath, that's perjury.
If a lie is told to a judge by an "officer of the court "-- well, there are professional ramifications that can be significant and career threatening or career ending: there could be sanctions up to and including a formal bar complaint, a reprimand, a sanction, or disbarment.
So liars ought to be careful about telling lies--lest they get wrapped up in their own webs of dishonesty and have to pay a price for it.
Currently---there are lots of lies flying around Escambia County as it pertains to stolen Escambia County files that contain lots of county records, medical records, personal identification information, attorney-client protected conversations, and a host of other records that are not public records and would never be released under any circumstances--let alone unredacted--- under any valid public records request ever. Yes, there may be a number of bonafide public records within the larger file of stolen records as well, any one or all of which would have been provided upon request because these files were saved from deletion via action taken by the county---but the majority of the file would not have been a public record.
Nobody ever asked, though, and no public records requests were made of the information in these files. until the whole thing was stolen.
And, again, the vast majority of what was stolen and disseminated inappropriately and unredacted by Jonathan Owens is NOT public record.
Webbed into all of these lies, potential crimes, and other problems are the issues of the separate, frivolous Federal Quitam and harrassment case brought by lawyers for former Medical Director Rayme Edler.
That case is baseless, meritless, and frivolous and will be defeated in court--that's my opinion.
And that separate federal lawsuit against the county, along with the previously settled cases of 5 former EMS employees (ALL but 1 of whom were NOT prosecuted) has apparently provided Gannett and the Pensacola News Journal with just enough cover for them to use (conflate) the stolen, unverified county text message files they now possess unlawfully---somehow----- with the 2019 EMS challenges and the former Medical Director's currently stalled case.
That's their pretext.
The thing is this, though. The files at issue, from my phone, were stolen from the county, and after being stolen--these files have been manipulated.
And this issue, this case, and this Escambia County lawsuit to recover these files are separate and distinct and have NOTHING to do with previously settled EMS cases or with Dr. Edler's current, frivolous and meritless lawsuit(s) against the county which will be defeated in court.
I have it on very good authority, from a source that knows, that manipulation to these stolen files has already happened, and there will be much more to come on this in the next 6-12 months as discovery, depositions, the currently confidential but soon-to-be released FBI investigation report, potential prosecutions, ethics violation investigations, and other evidence and information is brought forward, gathered and presented to the court to bolster the county's replevin lawsuit.
By contrast to the files the PNJ have---which have been manipulated---my original jump drive (provided to me and in my posession since imaged and copied by the county IT staff in February of 2022 and provided to investigators recently and upon their request) is an exact duplicate of what was on the county's harddrive after my phone was imaged. That has now been confirmed, again, by a source intimately familiar.
The file that Dr. Edler's attorney's have, by contrast, is NOT an exact copy, it has been manipulated, the hash signitures do not match. This, again, is the same file the PNJ has.
So as we do discovery for our replevin case, and we take depositions, we will find out how this happened as we ask a lot of questions about this. Lots. And we'll be asking questions of lots of people including the PNJ reporters and editors that have this manipulated copy of stolen files and ran with it in multiple stories they have manufactured and published as gospel truth anyway--never bothering to do what legitimate, honorable and reputable journalists do----- verify the authenticity of the data from the source-----the county or me----before publishing inaccuracies.
As bad as all of that is, (And it is REALLY BAD) worse is the fact that the timeline(s) of the "when" Dr. Edler's attorneys first received this manipulated, unredacted copy of my files to attempt to use in their separate, frivolous lawsuit(s) against the county does not add up with what Jonathan Owens----their lynchpin star witness himself-------- is saying.
The Story Doesn't Add Up and the Dates Don't Jibe, Either, "DARTH"
Lawyer Darth Newman from Pennsylvania has submitted an affidavit in Federal Court to Magistrate Hope Cannon in Rayme Edler's case that he (Newman) is working. In it, he states that he had no idea the stolen county text message data file was coming to him, did not request it (of Owens), and that it was emailed to him unsolicited, unannounced on March 15, 2023. "Darth" goes on to state he is the only one of Edler's co-counsels that have "substantially" (whatever that means) viewed it and that he notified the defense counsel "shortly after coming into possession of the file." Read his sworn statement, here. (Notably--the notification from Darth Newman to the County Attorney did not come until nearly two weeks later, on March 27th, and this notification was nonchalantly offered up multiple paragraphs into (buried) and within the body of a voluminous email full of legal mumbo-jumbo and minutae on a variety of ongoing, monotonous discovery gripes--AND obviously and conspicuoulsy NOT highlighted. Nevertheless--the notification should have been immediate, via a call to the county or a stand alone email as this was an important development. And county staff moved WAY too slow catching on and I was not told until nearly 3 Months later which was massively disappointing. But that is a separate issue which I have discussed at length with the county attorney privately.)
Meanwhile--Jonathan Owens has proudly, in cocky fashion like a weird sort of proud rooster, stated on the radio and in the press on August 7th of this year that he kept the file after he left county employment, read the files, was asked by Edler's lawyers if he had anything else that could help their case for Edler and against the county----------- AFTER he was interviewed by them and AFTER he provided an affidavit for their case against the county. Problem is--their interview and Owens' affidavit is dated April 3rd, 2023. Three weeks after Darth Newman said Owens sent him the file unsolicited on March 15th 2023. Read Owens' sworn affidavit, here
None of these tools have a time machine, so this is obviously a lie.
Someone is lying, obviously, and these timelines don't mesh. Owens even states in the transcript of his radio interview from August 7th of this year---on page 11 of the county's lawsuit filed against him and two others, here----that he provided Edler's attorneys a copy of the stolen files "Last year."
Wait-----That would have been 2022--way before "Darth" says he received the unsolicited email on March 15th of 2023. Did "Darth" get the file in 2022 as Jonathan stated, or is Jonathan lying? Or is "Darth" Newman Lying? Or did co-counsels actually have it and read it in 2022 as Jonathan clearly stated and did/does Rayme Edler actually possess this stolen file, too? If co-counsels to "Darth" had it "Last Year" like Owens proudly stated--this makes the entire affidavit submitted by "Darth" Newman inaccurate at best--a series of lies at worst. So, who is lying?
These stories do not jibe, people are lying, and timelines are changing, evolving, and revolving.
Lying liars are lying all over the place on this timeline, in affidavits, on the radio, and in the press using manipulated, stolen data to bolster their lies.
Did they even lie to the Federal Magistrate, Hope Cannon, with this "timeline?"
Wow---too many questions.
But make no mistake: between the FBI investigation report (which will be made public once the federal prosecutors and/or state prosecutors are done with it and have made decisions on prosecution(s)) and what the county will find and learn as we move forward with our replevin case and enter discovery and begin multiple depositions of multiple persons, we will get to the bottom of it all. All of it.
And folks will be under oath and they will answer the questions or invoke their 5th Amendment protection from self-incrimination, because that's how depositions work, folks have to answer the questions, objections can be noted but the questions will be answered lest the Judge in the case have to get involved---and that's not good when that happens. So understandably--- we'll be meticulous in our questions of multiple individuals we will depose as we seek to get back the property, every copy of it, that was stolen from the county and now possessed still to this day, unlawfully and unredacted, by multiple individuals and entities.
I have it on good authority and have been told by multiple persons with firsthand knowledge that clerk of the court Pam Childers unlawfully possesses a copy of this stolen, maniplutlated file. She will not answer direct requests of her made by the county attorney as to whether or not she has a copy-- so we
