There Is Always Hope.
(this writing was edited on December 26, 2023)
Open Letter to the Honorable Governor of the State of Ohio, Gov. Michael DeWine, and his Attorney General, the Honorable Dave Yost.
You didn’t think I gave up chasing down corruption in my county, did you? James Flaiz, our Corrupt Prosecutor, and his sidekick, Nicholas Burling, certainly thought I would eventually fade away.
The following data was provided to me by my lawyer: “October 2, 2023, is the 10th Wrongful Conviction Day Event to raise awareness that since 1989 over 3,320 wrongful convictions have been revealed across the US with individuals losing 29,500 years of service time for crimes they did not commit. We cannot know with accuracy due to lack of transparency, how many innocent people remain in prison today; we estimate anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 people are wrongfully incarcerated at this moment.”
This is what NPR News published on 12/14/23. It appears that Prosecutorial abuse has invaded all of Ohio. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1216111092/ohio-court-prosecutor-misconduct-due-process-rights.
Here are just a few examples I can testify to:
A) It is not FAIR JUSTICE that our prosecutor allowed his now-fired investigator, Karen Sweet, to make up stories in a Sworn Statement submitted to Judge Terrie Stupica in order to secure a Search Warrant Raid of our home.
B) It is not FAIR JUSTICE that our prosecutor allowed himself to stand on our curbside during the Gun Point Raid before he had the real facts and before I was given a fair trial, Indict, Arraign, Try, Convict, and Sentence me on WKYC-TV.
C) It is not FAIR JUSTICE, that our prosecutor and my bench trial Judge Forrest Burt (whom I trusted when I waived a jury trial), secretly threatened my ex-legal counsel, Brendan Delay, demanding that he not vigorously defend me at trial and allow me to be convicted and sentenced to 30 days in solitary confinement in a 60-degree cell.
D) It is not FAIR JUSTICE, that my bench trial Judge Burt allowed our prosecutor to withhold 100% of the Exculpatory Evidence (all 2 Terabytes of it plus 20 legal boxes of paper documents seized at my home) at trial that would have exonerated me.
E) It is not FAIR JUSTICE that Judge Ondrey now sides with the prosecutor, preventing me from having my case reopened to clear my name.
F) It is not FAIR JUSTICE that the Ohio Disciplinary Counsel allowed Brendan Delay to slip by for his part in playing along with the illegal demands of the prosecutor and Judge Burt so as to have the prosecutor save face for his excursions in Fair Play.
G) It is not FAIR JUSTICE when the ND Reviewers Gaslight a neighbor on the grounds of “Public Shaming” and “Disrespectful” when the neighbor brings these things up.
If ya’ll think otherwise, let us allow our police to issue tickets indiscriminately to any driver they see, and let the courts gaslight the drivers when they protest!
On March 08, 2017, at our Case Management meeting, I warned Prosecutor James Flaiz and his assistant, Nicholas Burling that by pushing a bogus case against me they were playing with fire. Realizing his error, Flaiz continued with the case. Unless I accept a guilty plea of 30 days at the Safety Center, he threatened me with 18 months of Federal Prison (never mind that he lacks standing). When I refused for the 3rd time, his assistant, Nicholas Burling laughed. After a long silence, they retired to the judge's Chambers, and with the help of my bench trial judge, Forrest Burt, he and Burling pressured my then attorney, Brendan Delay to stand down at trial so I could be found guilty of an F5 and M1. As Delay was being investigated by the ODC and had lied to me about his qualifications, he quickly gave in, allowing Burt to deny my right to Due Process. He refused to hear my 15 witnesses to be examined.
2016 was an election year. Investigator Sweet had falsely reported to James Flaiz that I was an Iranian Muslim Royalty, whereas, in reality, I am a natural American Citizen, born in Flushing, NY, and a Christian. My father was Persian and my mother was French. Sweet falsified a FinCEN Report and used it to bring focus on me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c08p3hjxp00q7ff/FinCEN%20information_sheet.pdf?dl=0.
She misled the Feds and the Ohio AG that while my wife is a “White” [American] I am an “Iranian”. Young Flaiz believed it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9i7tw864rj6u0b8/Proof%20of%20Citizenship%20Mahvi_Redacted.pdf?dl=0. Flaiz wanted notoriety in an election year, and Tom Myers, then with WKYC-TV, wanted ratings. You see, these three words, “Iranian-Muslim-Royalty” are headline grabbers.
Flaiz and Myers went to town without any further investigation. To secure an illegal search warrant, Karen Sweet lied to Judge Terrie Stupica, claiming all sorts of falsities on September 1, 2016. During her gunpoint raid of September 2, Flaiz stood on my curbside, and helped by Tom Myers, proceeded to publically Indict, Arraign, Prosecute, Convict, and Sentence me to four years of Federal Prison time. “He has bank accounts ‘overland’ (sic)”, he said. “Mr. Mahvi is an Iranian Muslim Royalty who owns a Resort in St. Lucia,” he declared, “and he gamed the system and I believe he will see four years of Federal Prison.”
The broadcast went viral within 48 hours, reaching Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, damaging our ten shareholders, eight of whom are American citizens. During the raid, while my youngest son was sitting on his toilet, the police pointed a loaded gun, four inches from his head, ordering him to get up and clean up as they watched. Today he still suffers from PTSD.
Having discovered the truth about the threat against Brendan Delay, the withholding of my Exculpatory Evidence and Due Process Rights at trial was easy.
Late in December 2021, I filed my Motion to reopen the case, only to be blocked by Judge David Ondray. The Motion is here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kbo2strfa6p17y2/AAAsYehPFTkuuZHOy8v4cZXia?dl=0
I believe we are at a reenactment of our history of July 4, 1776. Though President George Bush Sr. never said it, I believe when the public finally does find out the extent of the corruption of these feckless and lawless Prosecutors, Judges, Congressmen, and Women and Senators, they “will chase these people down the street….”.
Between May 29, 2020, and January 15, 2021, I wrote eight articles dealing with the unbridled corruption at the Geauga County Judiciary, starting at the head, prosecutor James Flaiz, and his Assistant, Nicholas Burling, along with their stooge, the judge presiding over our courts and their investigator Karen Sweet https://pascalmahvi.medium.com/.
After a long pause, last night I responded to one of the comments made by a reader. Of late a new article was posted about a fraud Flaiz kept hidden. The article can be found here: https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2023/05/fighting-corruption-in-tiny-geauga-county-editorial.html?outputType=amp
The problem in our state is two-fold:
1- The “Home Rule” statutes prevent the State Attorney General from interfering with any illegal actions of our 88 county prosecutors. Indeed, the AG and the Governor, are figureheads against these elected kings, creating monsters who disrupt the lives of innocent Americans. We have seen several Liberal Federal Prosecutors bringing bogus Indictments against a past President of the United States to prevent him from running for office, despite the will of some 80,000,000+ American Republicans, Democrats, and Independent Citizens. https://twitter.com/PascalMahvi/status/1691592404103577712?s=20 )
2- A Ruling by the 8th District Appellate Court on January 8, 2015, immunized all County Prosecutors and their staff, preventing their victims from suing wrongdoers for their continued illegal activities and the State is powerless to correct these wrongs. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7uykg5w762cc82hlsu3vb/Judicial-Immunity-case-applied-to-cops-and-investigators-1.pdf?rlkey=499dtcegngo4h82xhslt5finr&dl=0
TROY HENDERSON, et al. PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS v. the CITY of EUCLID, et al DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES was never contested before the Ohio Supreme Court, likely because the latter only accepts 3 of 4 cases per annum.
In my case, James Flaiz is hell-bent to follow his ex-boss, Congressman Dave Joyce to Congress by collecting gunbelt notches and even went so far as accepting to employ Congressman Joyce’s daughter for browny points.
Mr. Attorney General, you should push the Ohio Supreme Court to overturn this broad immunity granted to the county prosecutors and their staff. Your new Motion will surely help curb these illegal excursions: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ddqqpkhrs4l1bqjq7bz3/15States-Amicus-BriefOAG.pdf?rlkey=kxmv98mfac40s8lgd4aljjz17&dl=0
As you know, on September 1, 2016, Deputy Sheriff Karen Sweet, prosecutor Flaiz’s ex-investigator, perjured herself in the court of Judge Terrie Stupica to obtain a gunpoint Search Warrant of my home, and previously filed a misleading and fraudulent FinCEN Report on August 12, 2016, with the Feds (and with you, Mr. Gov Mike DeWine, when you served as attorney General).
Last week my current attorney sent me an Ohio Disciplinary Counsel (“ODC”) Complaint against a sitting judge, the Hon. Timpthy Glendell. The link below is to the 61-page Complaint of the ODC against Timothy Grendell, a sitting judge at the Probate and Juvenile Division of Geauga County Common Pleas Court, filed by Mr. Joseph Caligiuri, with the Board of Professional Conduct of the Ohio Supreme Court on November 9, 2022. It states that Judge Grendell violated Ohio’s Judicial Conduct Rule 1.3. The Rule demands that judges not abuse the prestige of the judicial office to advance the personal and economic interests of the Judge and others. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y07v4jrvrmxb83hyt63i7/MisconductComplaint-grendell.pdf?rlkey=fyts5v6psdjg2f907pzh38cey&dl=0
This new ODC case reminds me of my multiple filings with the ODC against prosecutor James Flaiz, assistant prosecutor Nicholas Burling, their chief investigator Karen Sweet, and my bench-trial judge, Forrest Burt, now retired, but still standing in for other judges and still collecting his pension.
My question to you, Mr. Attorney General is simple: Why is the ODC going after Judge Grendell for violations of Rule 1.3, while the ODC ignored my case against this corrupt county, supported by four, 4" binders of Exculpatory Evidence, proving my innocence?
Mr. Governor DeWine, you approved my attorney to review my case and report back to you his findings, whereas he issued to you and the other state officials, some 500 pages in multiple reports indicating I was railroaded by a corrupt county judiciary, whereas he issued to you, and the Attorney General, a Letter of Attestation declaring my innocence of all the charges, why is it you remain silent on the issue? Why do you allow this travesty of justice to stand in our State? https://www.dropbox.com/s/iblemm76dggj7o7/Letter%20of%20Attestation%20April%207%202017.pdf?dl=0
Today I authorized the formation of a new 501(c)3 National Innocence Project organization / Conviction Integrity Unit by facilitating its initial budget of $10 Million in seed capital. My attorney will pick the name of the New Charity and file for its tax exemption.
“But for [my family and ] everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period …. surely from this period [since 1990 when my father was robbed] this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.” ~ adapted from the key passage of Winston Churchill’s speech.
Having experienced a revolution where spouses were dragged through the streets and murdered in front of their families, young children hung from the gallows for crimes against Allah, and my own father was financially raped by his countrymen during his sunset years, I am resolved to stand up for Convictions of Honor, Good Sense, Integrity, and Justice.
