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Report: California Newspaper Group Helping Hide CIA-Designate Leon Panetta’s Abuse of Public Official PowerBadger Flats Gazette investigative reporter Gene Forte says MediaNews Group intentionally not reporting facts. badgerflats.com - January 28, 2009
(PRNewsChannel)
/ Monterey, Calif. / First, members of
Congress and the media received some investigative material from the
Badger Flats suggesting Leon
Panetta was linked to an abuse of public official power. Then, there
was a suspicious delay in the confirmation hearings of Panetta as the
new CIA director. But still, no official report – other than in
the Badger Flats
Gazette – has been published providing the public with knowledge
of the abuse of official power. Forte
gained national recognition when McClatchy Newspapers credited him for
breaking the story of Los Banos Mayor Tommy Jones violating
California’s Fair Political Practices Commission Disclosure laws by
failing to disclose loans from a local, powerful real estate developer. Now,
the reporter has revealed “investigative work that reads like an
indictment for dummies,” he says. Instead
of waiting by the newsstand for a story that has yet to print, Forte is
taking the message to the people. More than 150,000 copies of the
investigative proof against Panetta are actively being distributed all
over Monterey, California and surrounding areas. Forte hopes his
grassroots approach will help the public read all about the cover up. “I’m
not afraid to go to print like the MediaNews Group newspapers (http://www.medianewsgroup.com/properties/),”
he says. “This is a serious abuse of public official power by
Panetta’s hometown/home state bipartisan cronies with Panetta acting
like he doesn’t know anything about it. It’s time everyone knew
about it.” Forte
says even after two daily editions of the Monterey County Herald have
been printed since the delay in Leon Panetta’s hearings was announced,
the Herald has yet to publish a single word about it. Panetta is a
contributing columnist to the paper and Forte believes it’s quite
clear MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton, who also chairs the Associated
Press (http://www.ap.org/pages/about/board.html),
is helping Panetta keep the story under wraps. The
Badger Flats
Gazette has reported that Leon Panetta, regretfully, got caught up
in helping to cover up obstruction of justice in a real estate trial
before the Monterey Superior Court. Forte claims attorneys from the
Fenton & Keller Law Firm where Panetta’s son, Christopher Panetta
works, fixed the trial with judges on the case. Forte
says he personally told Leon Panetta of the incriminating evidence
against his son’s law firm in a conversation (http://www.badgerflats.com/transcripts/) on
Oct. 10, 2003. Since
releasing all of this information, no paper has been brave enough to
report the facts they are seeing, Forte says. “They’re
keeping the story under wraps…not because it’s not important but
because they don’t want to reveal the truth,” he says. “Leon
Panetta is just another candidate for a job and President Obama must be
a boss of integrity and look into this situation. The president needs to
contact me so we can review this material together.” As
a former highly respected executive recruiter, Forte says he is appalled
that Panetta is still even in the running for the top spot at the
Central Intelligence Agency. “The
papers might be silent, but I’m not. I’ll keep going until
someone proves me crazy or proves me wrong,” Forte says. About
The Badger Flats Gazette: The Badger
Flats Gazette, a paper dedicated to taking on public official
corruption. It always comes out when the Good ol' Boys least
expect it, and discusses issues such as unethical attorneys,
unscrupulous public officials and other unsavory types skimming money
off the top of projects intended for the public good. Glenn
Selig, ThePublicityAgency.com This
press release was sent by the press
release distribution service PRNewsChannel, the first and only press
release newswire created by journalists.
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