On Doing Your Own Investigation: The Central High School of Philadelphia

Yet another letter copied to the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia, Michael R. Stiles, Esq.  Why was there no law enforcement response?

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/house_bio.cfm?id=139

I suppose this means, as far as the Justice Department is concerned: talk about violence all you want, just don't you dare quote a federal official's official pronouncements.  I still believe that the Justice Department was trying to intimidate me into ceasing my blogging activity.  But then, as we all know, I suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.

July 7, 1997
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
#136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

Hon. James R. Roebuck
President
Associated Alumni of Central High School
of Philadelphia
P.O. Box 58819
Philadelphia, PA 19102

RE: Weapons Possession - Intent to Inflict Grievous Bodily Harm/Possible Intent to Commit Murder - D.C. Corporation Counsel Affirmation - Possible Concealment of State and/or Federal Weapons Law Violations

Dear Mr. Roebuck:

During the period March 1988 to October 1991 I was employed as a legal assistant in the Washington, DC office of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld ("Akin Gump"). Attorney managers at Akin Gump terminated my employment effective October 29, 1991 upon determining, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that a complaint of harassment I had lodged against several co-workers was attributable to a psychiatric symptom ("ideas of reference") prominent in the psychotic disorders and typically associated with a risk of violent behavior. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. of Human Rights, D.C. Superior Court no. MPA 95-14 (final order issued June 10, 1996) (name of state court judge redacted at the implicit direction of the Justice Department). In the period immediately after my job termination senior Akin Gump managers determined that it was advisable to secure the office of my direct supervisor against a possible homicidal assault, which it was feared I might commit.

In pleadings filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court, the District of Columbia Office of Corporation Counsel (Charles F.C. Ruff, Esq.) affirmed that Akin Gump personnel had geniune concerns that I might have had plans to procure firearms for an unlawful purpose and possessed the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm or commit murder. Mr. Ruff currently serves as chief White House Counsel to President Clinton (telephone no.: 202 456 1414).

I have been under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service as a potential security risk to President

Clinton, and was interrogated at the Washington Field Office by Special Agent Philip C. Leadroot (202 435-5100) as recently as February 1996, about 16 months ago. Questioning by Mr. Leadroot centered on the issue of presidential assassination.

I am a 1971 graduate of Central High School (230th class). I have formed the (unsubstantiated) belief that Akin Gump's attorney managers may have contacted an acquaintance of mine in the 230th class, Sheldon S. Cohen, in August 1993, to obtain background information about me in connection with my employment. The yearbook for the 230th class lists Mr. Cohen's home address while attending Central as 1435 West End Drive, Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Cohen earned a B.S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University in May 1975.

I request that you provide the FBI (David M. Bowie, Supervisory Special Agent, Washington Field Office, 202 252 7801) any address or telephone information you have on Sheldon S. Cohen (230th class) to assist the Bureau in contacting him.

If Akin Gump did contact Mr. Cohen, he may possess information pertinent to a criminal investigation conducted by the U.S. Secret Service during the period December 1994 to February 1995 relating the security of the President of the United States.

Attorneys who may have directed inquiries to Mr. Cohen include Earl L. Segal, Malcolm Lassman, or Laurence J. Hoffman (managing partner), among others.

Enclosed are some additional documents that provide background to the matters discussed in this letter.

Be advised: President Clinton's own lawyer, chief White House Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff, is talking real guns, real bullets, real brain tissue.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

cc: Michael R. Stiles, Esq. (Office of U.S. Attorney, Philadelphia)