Thanks so much Ron - I tried to predict your answer a bit as I got this list before I asked the question -
Ron's Refin' Record.
Of course I was wrong and I'm glad you gave me another name to check out!
Was the main reason you stopped reffing due to being frozen out by the in-crowd?
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I will give you an answer which is public knowledge already and although it seems lengthy it is brief as to what I have against the persons responsible for this blackballing under the color of law.
I am a lifetime civil rights award winner and an N.A.A.C.P. award winner and a decent person. I have asked Melvina Lathan not as an African American woman but as the Chairman of the NYSAC to put a stop to this ongoing unethical prevention of my license renewal.
Too many people responsible who are still there which is hard to fathom may be influencing her to do otherwise. If I was in charge I would never stand for what was done as it is so obvious it is insulting to anyone's intelligence to claim otherwise.
Depending on what the NYSAC does now, this will go to Fed court with defendants from A-Z with what we have.
I had won a lawsuit V a local police department where I was a member, for speaking out against their extremely racist behavior to drive all minorities out of their venue by the worst kinds of police harassment, in addition to drawing swastikas on my property and being inexorably connected to KKK members.
I won the case when they settled after one day of my testimony in Federal Court in White Plains NY. I won 3 more Federal civil rights suits connected to the multiple reprisals from the same friends of the NYSAC administration attempting to create and tamper with phony cases which ended in disaster for them.
Several local police who were friends of the defendanats who had a direct friendship with NYSAC members who lived in the area and worked with them and knew them and a local judge socially, threatened to make sure I never referee again in retaliation.
They made this statement to the editor and publisher of a local newspaper who they thought would remain silent. The editor and his wife came forth and told me the truth. The friends of the NYSAC members who were involved in trying to have me beaten up, lost the fight, then the case, then they tried to have me attacked again this time by 3 bigger and younger men.
I hit one of them while I was driven off the road, being grabbed and held to be beaten, and my one punch hurt the guy. The responding female cop who had a personnel complaint previously made against her by me and her other female cop friend who was Russo's pal did not charge the attackers who had a coke spoon on their neck but charged me and tampered so badly with the case the Interanl Affairs had to step in and investigate them. The attackers fled the scene and were not heard from for over two hours because they were high and admitted they did not go to a hospital but to a diner.
This time one high ranking member of the NYSAC's best friend the local judge was not assigned to the case, but it was arranged for him to come out of a sickbed with a metal halo wired into his skull like Paz after the judge had a DWI accident, to hear my case of self defense against 3 younger and stronger men who were recruited to beat me up. They filed 4 phony charges against me and 3 had to be dismissed but the one punch in self defense.
The disbarred judge allowed every atrocity in the world to take place in this little courtroom the least of which was shutting off the stenographer to prevent any successful appeal, allowing the NYSAC's friend to tape sequestered testimony and play it for waiting witnesses down the hall, and getting caught, then letting the same cop go without charging her, preventing me from telling the jury anything of what happened to the point the newspapers wrote it up saying he shut me down not allowing the truth to be told of what happened.
During the case the NYSAC's pal yelled at the judge in front of me and others in the hallway when the judge was forced to ask her about a hidden tape recorder on her person in front of us in chambers, she jumped up out of the chair ran outside yelling at him, that he better watch it or she would bring up the judge's DWI accident, domestic disputes etc. I was stunned, and reported it to judicial conduct, who later disbarred him for theft and dishonesty as stated. I have all the newspaper articles. He can never be a judge again.
He also let the friend of Russo the local female cop to stand up in the audience during summation and yell to the court in front of many, "Don't listen to them, this guy is evil." They go one misdemeanor conviction out of it with this tampering and not permitting me to tell the truth about anything that happened.
One attorney who was watching from the audience jumped up and yelled to the judge, "Tim, Jesus christ what are you doing." The judge as I said was later disbarred when caught stealing. The NYSAC used this misdemeanor they created as a reason for blackballing me, although they had promised to do so before the creation of the very case their friends were involved in up to their necks.
If Melvina Lathan, who knows all this now from written documents sent to her by me, allows another license denial along with the other new NYSAC member or two then they will be part of this in full.
If she lets the blackballing go on anymore blaming this scurrilous misdemeanor, it will only help me in Federal Court. I hope not but I do not see anything good or just or of any concern coming from them while my application has been sitting there for two months or so.
Tony Russo had been the director of security for a local mall and knew the local police involved as well all as he did the other NYSAC members who all lived near him and have been involved in this. Others who shilled for the Mercantes were from Long Island NY, Stevens et al.
The editor of the newspaper out here confirmed this threat from the frirend of the NYSAC to make sure I never referee again years ago made to him prior to any false charges filed against me. He confirmed this again this year and will testify to this. I am sure a federal jury will clearly see they made good on their threat with the very phony court cases in their own venue they threatened to create before they existed.
We also will find out if the NYSAC allowed Russo to be employed after he was allegedly convicted and or involved in a Federal kidnapping case years before.
I have now lost 11 years of my referee carreer because of them.
I also have evidence that Larry Hazzard Sr called my home and told me that the NY boys were going to ease me out and not use me anymore because of me speaking out prior to them ever denying my license renewal and prior to any phony low misdemeanor charge existing.
Also that he would go along with it to get work for his guys in NY. How this was done between NY and NJ will also have to come out in court if the denail of my license continues. The NJSACB under him never answered one of my letters to them in 10 years and that claim by others can be proven. A state agency cannot do that and not remain culpable.
Remember once again that this call was made and documented before any false charges or any phony misdemeanor was obtained for throwing one punch in self defense against three men who attacked me while I was riding with a woman who was the former girlfriend of one of the attackers and whose sister had dated a married NYSAC member who was very jealous.
As you can see several combined factions acting together for different agendas caused all this and are culpable. Refereeing big fights on HBO, Pay per View and in national telecasts are looked upon as belonging to the friends of the NYSAC who had staked out that territory even if they were killing fighters and ruining fights.
When a better referee comes along and was given a chance by Floyd Patterson, that is when they tried to destroy me and get it back for themselves as they felt they owned it through their friends even if they were not there anymore.
First the individuals responsible for initiating the DLH v Leija referee assignment protest with articles and press conferences were exposed to have illegally and unethically approached the cornermen and promoter while maligning me publicly and violating me with public slander and public libel. I have retained all that evidence. Every baseless word and print of it.
They wanted to take Floyd Patterson's assignment of me away and get it for the Mercantes and or Tony Perez and one other NY referee. When I protested this several factions went into action to silence me and blackball me in NY and NJ. while "Making deals for themselves."
How and why this was attempted is a case winner in my opinion and smacks of the worst scurrilous tampering with baseless reasons of motivation.
This aspect of it will be dealt with in court if my license is again denied and each person who did this will be sued unless I am shown they tried to put a stop to this.
I am confident the exclusionary rule will not be a procedural hurdle because the chronology of how this was done to me and why is admissable under Federal law. My attorney agrees as do other Fed Civil rights suit experts.
When I exposed more of it, they arranged created and tampered with several court cases, tampered with a crooked local judge who was later disbarred for theft and dishonesty and was and is best friends with a NYSAC member who is still there, literally going into his restaurant and cooking in his kitchen with him. Furthermore in two separate cases where I was attacked, both cases had a strong nexus to NYSAC members who knew both attackers (Who got the hell knocked out of them in self defense.)
The specifics of the case and the connection to the NYSAC members I am sure will infuriate any impartial jury as to how this was done to an innocent person.
The now deceasaed Tony Russo and his friends who are still there were heavily involved with others in this and the NYSAC under Stevens continued the blackballing with a new plea for justice from me to Melvina Lathan.
If necessary a State Senator and another lawyer will be brought in as to a meeting which took place between Russo, his friend presently on the NYSAC right now and me, and everything the NYSAC did and was exposed for afterward involving the character of these people while on the job.
Additionally how they got it, and their involvment in blackballing me and my unanswered requests for ethical intervention to stop this from all of them and the assigning of the worst officals regardless of their performances.
Unless you pay or help these people with money or favors you do not work at the NYSAC and that is how these clowns got their jobs and were exposed for it in the NY post at one time by Jack Newfeld.
Being a good referee or the best referee means nothing including giving assignments to refs who caused ring deaths. We will see how a Fed jury reacts to the films of who they have been using from NY and NJ and mine.
However,as to any requests for justice to Melvina Lathan, it seems that the same people are working with her now, so it comes down to someone putting a stop to it or continuing it into a messy court case with the estate of Russo involved and his history with others taking questionalbe trips, fixing weighins, and trying to silence me regarding other issues by making good on the threats of their friends to make sure I never referee again. Look at what they did to poor Joey Gamache, same people. He is suing them and I could very well be a witness, although I have been threatened in the past to remain silent by Russo and I refused. They continued to misuse the agency to blackball me. Will Melvina Lathan continue it, who knows if she is being hoodwinked by these guys who are not going to admit what they did.
I could not have been more polite to Melvina Lathan in my communications AND I DO MEAN POLITE, FAIR AND RESPECTFUL asking for my license to be renewed without this crap of we have too many people now BECAUSE I had seniority that has been illegally removed and I am not someone new applying, I wanted my status restored which I earned long ago and was removed insidiously. I am in good shape and refereed every day in the gym and 6 years ago in Vermont. I could handle a title fight now with no problem whatsoever.
So we are waiting to see. If my application was just handed over by the NYSAC to the unaware Asst. Atty General who deals with the Article 78 and no one stopped this injustice, then let them all be defendants sitting in Federal court. I will ask my attorney to bring in the former Inspector General Joe Spinelli who knows how unfair this was and how he tried to stop it and the present Atty General whose other members were told about this injustice long ago.
If it was just fluffed off by the new NYSAC and no one will help, then the hell with it I want it in court and not just the Article 78 petition.
This is all over a $50 license and the present Commission putting a stop to ruining an innocent person's boxing life in the most unfair way imaginable.
And I have to ask - What did Roy say to you prior to stopping Bryant Brannon?
Reply: Prior to the fight at the rules meeting Brannon and his cornermen made a big point of not stopping the fight too soon if he was wobbled. I told them I don't take direction from any corner and would use my best judgment as a former fighter who knew both their styles to give each man the best chance to continue without injury. All agreed that they wanted to fight it out without any premature intervention.
When Jones had him on the ropes before the final stoppage, the films show clearly that he was missing shots by inches which I could see but different people at ringside could not. He mumbled through his mouthpiece "Ok?"
and I saw Brannon was wobbled but still alert so I could not stop it without another Roy Jone Jr v Merqui Sosa melee when the ref jumped in too soon.
It was a title fight, Brannon wanted to go and I said Finish up. He did and when clipped with the last left hook it was over. When watching the films again and again you can clearly see Roy missing the shots on the ropes and to stop it then for the title was the wrong time. I came in very quick when he clipped him and that was that.
Let me for one say if Ricky Hatton doesn't take you on as a trainer, he should DEMAND you ref his fights - It was a pleasure to watch that fight and see fighters actually given the opportunity to "punch out" of an exchange on the inside and let them work it out rather than a Nady-esque quick break.
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