A cesspool of Judicial Corruption

FOURTEEN how and when did this all begin?

In 2000, former Idaho County Prosecuting Attorney (PA) Dennis Albers, was again running for re-election. The Idaho Supreme Court ordered him never seek that office again because of his corrupt performance in the 1980 trial involving one Elven Joe Swisher, who later became the government’s star witness against David.

David had learned that the Idaho Supreme Court permanently barred this prosecutor from ever running for the Prosecutor’s Office again and used that information to oppose the election of Albers as the Idaho County PA.

Unfortunately, David had a run-in with Albers over a case where a non-employee sued David for half of his business. The case resulted in David having to pay over $100,000 in damages and created some bad blood between David and Albers.

Annette Hasalone, a former employee of WaterOz, who later admitted she stole David's formulas, had also stolen his product promotion tape and gave it to Dr. Joel Swisher (no relation to Elven Joe Swisher). He plagiarized the tape for a company called ENIVA (He died a couple of days later). But Annette Hasalone ultimately sued ENIVA for firing her once they learned of her incompetence. She admitted in their trial that she stole David's trade secrets to promote ENIVA products.

David's product marketing information helped ENIVA immediately grow from marginal sales into a million dollars per month. Only because of the suit, did Annette admit her theft. She even testified in Court that she had taken Dave’s trade secrets and sold them to ENIVA.

During the election campaign David sent out 10,000 letters to the voters in Idaho County reciting the fact that Albers had been admonished by the Idaho Supreme Court never to seek election as the PA again. The reason for the restriction was Albers past serious ethics violation in speaking to a juror during the 1980 criminal trial against Joe Swisher. Albers was soundly defeated, crestfallen from the loss of an assured victory, and he swore to take it out on Hinkson–which he did.

“You belong in jail and I’ll put you there and take your business,” Albers swore. Thereupon Albers orchestrated an unrelenting attack on David by conspiring with others, including the woman, Annette Hasalone, who claimed she had once been a WaterOz employee. Ironically, the dietary supplement products which David had invented, including ionized metals such as silver, gold, zinc and copper, all helped this woman recover from a serious illness, a lung infection, which nearly took her life. But as the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished, so she, along with others, proceeded with their attempts to destroy David and steal his business.

Jodi Walker of the Lewiston Tribune reported that Dennis Albers, the feds and court records were her major source of negative information on David. When Jodi revealed her news source to Linda Duran by saying that Albers had much more information about David that had not been printed in her newspaper, Attorney Hoyt declared, "She waived her First Amendment Newspaper Reporter Privileges. It also confirmed that Albers was behind the scenes stirring the pot as one of her major sources of information."

Albers was the district attorney in Grangeville during Joe Swisher Trial in the 1980s for allegations of Swisher raping, over a ten year period, all four of his daughters. Albers spoke to one of the jurors during the trial (while passing time during a recess)–That conversation caused a mistrial. Neither Albers nor any other justice entity ever pursued the charges. The Idaho Supreme Court castigated Albers by informing him that he could never hold public office again (which he later ignored). One of Swisher's daughters testified, years later, about her agony. She was fearful of possible retaliatory acts by her father.

David paid over $6,000 to print and mail a letter exposing Albers' past bad deeds to every voter in Idaho County. Polls indicated that Albers had a 30% lead. When David's letters arrived in the mailboxes of voters the day before the election Albers lost by minus 30%. Albers swore he'd get even. “I’ll put you in jail and get your business,” he threatened.

He made good on the threat–a prosecuting attorney has absolute, unfettered control of all criminal cases; he can file or not file; he can dismiss at will, and there is no one who can question him. After all, David cost Albers a $60,000 per year (as I recall) for the four year term, and since he planned to retire thereafter, he lost a lifetime pension. But now we understand that a "deal" was later made so that Albers as a deputy prosecutor will be able to put in the additional years needed to fully fund and receive his PERA retirement.

Dennis Albers and employees of WaterOz, Dan Gautney and Phil Kofahl (an independent contractor), began supplying false information to IRS Agent Gerald Vernon (alias Morgan) and IRS Agent Steven Hines about David being the head of two militias, storing sniper rifles, machine guns and 100 pound bags of gun powder in the factory, about making threats against various people, etc. From other evidence, it is clear that Albers is one of the key individuals who started the rumors. But he hid behind others as fall-guys to blame for his source of information.
Agent Vernon (who had worked closely with Albers–when Annette Hasalone first started her campaign against David) sent the same type of information to the Idaho Department of Labor (IDOL). Working together these collaborators corroborated each other’s stories and painted a picture making David look like an extremely dangerous cult-terrorist leader.

There was a woman named Mariana Raff, a pathological liar, who had stolen $6,600.00 cash from David. She worked as his house keeper for a time and learned where David kept his money. Further, Mariana helped her family members steal over $80,000.00 from David in a Mexican real estate purchase scam. Part of the motivation for Mariana to lie against David was that she recognized that with David in jail, neither this woman nor her family would be accountable or responsible for the stolen funds. The government finally had to admit their knowledge of the fraudulent stories manufactured by Ms. Raff with the help of the FBI when her credibility was finally destroyed by repeated criminal acts she committed such as burglarizing a drug store and a post office, to mention a few of her crimes.

There is an expression, "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned;" but it is equally true of men with power.