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Joseph Zernik, PhD

PO Box 526, La Verne, CA 91750; Digitally signed by Joseph H Zernik
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Fax: 323.488.9697; Email: jz12345@earthlink.net email=jz12345@earthlink.net, c=US
Location: La Verne, California
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10-02-12 Complaint filed with the Sheriff’s Department re: Alleged

widespread corruption in bail/bond operations.
To the Honorable Lee Baca, Sheriff of Los Angeles County, by email.

Dear Sheriff Baca:

I am writing to file a new complaint and request its investigation by your good offices, in compliance with
procedures spelled out by Los Angeles County Ombudsman, concerning alleged widespread corruption in
bail/bond operations.

At least two cases came to my attention where individuals were informed that bail was set, and paid moneys
and/or provided collaterals, while the online Inmate Information Center listed them as released on bail of
$0.00. Moreover, in such cases the inmates were never able to obtain any record that documenting that funds
were in fact received by the Sheriff’s Department for the bail.

One of these cases pertains to a senior attorney, Ronald Gottschalk, who was subject of my complaint, and
your response to the Honorable Michael Antonovich, dated December 29, 2009. In your response, you
included a printout from the Inmate Information Center, which stated that Attorney Gottschalk was released
on $0.00 bond. In contrast, Attorney Gottschalk repeatedly stated, that he paid over $40,000 in first year bail,
and in addition was forced to provide a lean of around half a million dollars on real property in his possession.
However, Attorney Gottschalk was never provided with any record documenting that any funds were received
by the Sheriff’s Department as bond pursuant to the Law of California.

In our conversation today, Attorney Gottschalk further warned me that the operations of bond services related
to the Sheriff’s Department were controlled by organized crime, and that if I blew the whistle on the
corruption of such operations, I was surely going to be killed.

Separately, I received today an email from Ms Stephanie Maxberry, Ombudsman of County of Los Angeles.
In such email she described to me the Sheriff’s Department Complaint process as follows:
After a complaint is filed, the person receives a letter from the Sheriff Department stating the
matter is being investigated and a copy of their complaint on a form entitled, Watch
Commanders Service Comment Report. In the upper right hand corner of this form is a 5 or 6
digit number that can be referenced when calling or writing about the complaint. At the
conclusion of the complaint process, the person receives another letter informing him/her of the
outcome.
I therefore request that you accept this letter as a complaint and issue Watch Commander’s Service Comment
Report with a 5 or 6 digit number at its upper right hand corner.

Respectfully,
Dated: February 12, 2010
La Verne, County of Los Angeles, California Joseph H Zernik, PhD

By: ______________
JOSEPH H ZERNIK
Phone: 323.515.4583
PO Box 526, La Verne, CA 91750
Email <jz12345@earthlink.net>

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[1] Response by the Honorable Michael Antonovich in re: request for assistance by a constituent in obtaining from
Sheriff Lee Baca California Public Records, which were arrest and booking records of two falsely hospitalized attorneys:
Richard Fine and Ronald Gottschalk.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25555341/10-01-08-Supervisor-Antonovich-Los-Angeles-County-repeat-mailing-of-January-
8-2010-response-from-Sheriff-Lee-Baca-in-re-Richard-Fine-papers-inclu