Kathleen Kane brings down the house... Her next appearance should be Wilmington.

   The massive scandal brewing just across the border with embattled Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane fending off a career ending attack - that could land her in the pokey - by powerful government interests should be a wakeup call. It should serve notice on the arrogant, corrupt, entrenched bureaucrats, appointed and elected officials in Delaware who believe they are above the law. 

   With these inept, recycled legal hacks in key policy making roles Delaware has become little more than an open sewer, a cesspool of corruption, where disinterested individuals passing through - on their way to actual cities like DC or Philly - stop only long enough in Wilmington (its largest city and seat of business) to take a stinking, steaming shit or release a hot load right into the willing orifice of some eager young girl... or boy. (Delaware is third in the nation for reportable sexually transmitted diseases in young people 15-24 years of age.) Most of these miscreants are close personal friends or have served in senior policy making roles within Jack Markell's administration. (The nomination of Jennifer Ranji - under whose failed tenure The Children's Department was run into the ground - for an open Family Court Judge berth is case-in-point.)

   Nevertheless, it has become fairly apparent that policy within Delaware Department of Justice under the abysmal mismanagement of Attorney General Matthew Denn is not driven by best practice or even by law but by hubris with stakeholders and policymakers unaccountably and imperiously doling out "services" to favored constituents while unethically denying them to less favored ones they have deemed to be persona non grata.

   Like Patricia Dailey Lewis in her role as Chief of the Family Division. Lewis headed up this division during the Thomas Matusiewicz incident. As a seasoned, competent prosecutor, she should have seen it coming. She fucked up because she is arrogant and incompetent and, as a result, innocent people got killed. I had an unproductive practically acrimonious meeting with Ms. Lewis in the wake of another intentionally botched prosecution.

   A complaint to Denn (who was lieutenant governor during the Thomas Matusiewicz incident) regarding his reappointment of Lewis to her role as head of the family division resulted in an inapt response by an entry level correspondence type disingenuously stating that the agency has had “extensive” contact with me. I had only had one meeting with Lewis. The other contacts were 2 or 3 at best e-mail exchanges with the prosecutors complained about, which hardly constitutes "extensive" contact. 

   Like Christian Douglas Wright, Director, Consumer Protection Unit, who directed an office manager to send me a belligerent e-mail after I respectfully requested that criminal charges be lodged against the owner of a business I had filed a formal consumer protection complaint against. The business owner dismantled my car and refused to reassemble it, stole thousands of dollars in parts, and misappropriated $1,500 he was supposed to pay another vendor to rebuild the motor. (We still do not know what he did with the motor.)

   Wright’s office sent out one form letter to the crooked business. The business responded expectedly. Wright unilaterally decided that his office would take no further action (though the three consumer protection lawyers I had exchanged e-mails with all said to a person that was not the procedure for processing consumer complaints within this agency). All we hear in response to these egregious service failures, unlawful denial of access, and official misconduct is silence from Denn who allows these managers to run amok with no accountability within the DOJ, which is supposed to be lead law enforcement - prosecutorial - agency in Delaware.

     “U.S. law enforcement officers and other officials like judges, prosecutors, and security guards have been given tremendous power by local, state, and federal government agencies—authority they must have to enforce the law and ensure justice in our country. These powers include the authority to detain and arrest suspects, to search and seize property, to bring criminal charges, to make rulings in court, and to use deadly force in certain situations. 

   Preventing abuse of this authority, however, is equally necessary to the health of our nation’s democracy. That’s why it’s a federal crime for anyone acting under “color of law” willfully to deprive or conspire to deprive a person of a right protected by the Constitution or U.S. law. “Color of law” simply means that the person is using authority given to him or her by a local, state, or federal government agency.”

   Call me naïve but it is outrageous an unethical culture of government has sprouted up in Delaware sanctioning an unbelievable lack of accountability. The government is supposed to be accountable to the people – honest, hardworking citizens whose taxes handsomely compensate them. It should not be encouraging, defending or enabling stakeholders, policy makers, appointed officials, and agency heads to ignore correspondence; and, insult constituents with mean e-mails, contemptuous letters and clever excuses torturously rationalizing a failure to perform an official duty. 

   Unaccountably and imperiously doling out "services" to favored constituents while unethically denying them to less favored ones they have deemed to be persona non grata is unlawful when done under color of law. These pompous, officious functionaries who refuse to discharge their sworn obligations, without reasonable explanation that passes the smell test because it reeks of corruption, cast a cloud of disrepute over government that cause the civil service to devolve as it has into a nonfunctioning bastion of mediocrity.

   Like Kathleen Kane in Pennsylvania, whose scorched earth exit from state service has already caused the resignation and investigation of a state environmental secretary, state police superintendent, three judges (one a Supreme Court Judge) and several former top officials in the attorney general's office leaving many embittered and fearful, it often only takes a single nudge to cause the dominoes to fall. I hope to provide that nudge to the federal government to launch a widespread "public integrity investigation" in Delaware. Public officials engaging in this sort of institutionalized malfeasance: odious misadventures that bring opprobrium to their office severely diminishes the public trust.