It is December 5, Saturday, noon. Valley Fair shopping mall in San Jose is bustling with holiday shoppers. A private security guard unlicensed to carry a gun is standing in front of the mall’s parking garage, directing traffic exiting the mall. The guard sees a car drive over an orange cone. He abandons his post, […]
Police Abuse —
Civil Rights Violations —
Nose, Jaw & Mouth Shot Off in California Highway Patrol Traffic Arrest
As a result of extraordinary police incompetence and his own tragic decision, Donald Coca, 45, an employee of the San Jose Mercury News, had his nose, jaw and mouth brutally destroyed by a shotgun, following an arrest for a traffic violation. Short of death, Don’s lifelong injuries represent the most brutal penalty imposed on a […]
Police Brutality —
San Jose Police Tortured & Suffocated A Deranged Man
On March 16, 1981 the San Jose Police Department brutally tortured and killed 44 year-old Hugh Rushin. Hugh Rushin, a father of four was licensed as a nurse. He was struggling with alcoholism and ten days earlier his wife Margaret had left him with their three children because of his drinking. Facing the reality of […]
Stanford, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford Healthcare are Accused of Bilking Medicare with Falsely Inflated Charges
Have you notice an increase in advertising by Stanford recently? I have. There is a reason. In December 2017 a scathing complaint was filed under the federal False Claims Act against Stanford in federal court. It has now been unsealed and is a public document. The complaint alleges Stanford misused its “Epic” electronic records system which […]
Delivering A Miracle —
$4.5 Million Settlement During Trial After Refusing To Pay $30,000 Policy
George Liu, age 24, a college senior, was driving his Kawasaki motorcycle en route to classes at San Jose State University. George was on a two-lane road that curved to the left and was following a Ford van. Both the van and the motorcycle were in the left lane. Ahead of George and the van, […]
