For Immediate Release
July 17, 2007 / Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
Steven E. Ibison Named SAC in Tampa
Steven E. Ibison has been named Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI’s Tampa Division. Director Robert S. Mueller III appointed him to this position to replace retiring SAC Carl Whitehead Jr. Most recently, Ibison served as an inspector in the Inspection Division.
Ibison entered on duty as a special agent of the FBI in July 1988. Upon completion of training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he was assigned to the Albuquerque Division, Gallup Resident Agency, were he investigated Indian Country and violent crime matters. In 1991, Ibison was transferred to the Houston Division, Bryan-College Station Resident Agency, were he was assigned to white collar, violent crime, and drug investigations. In June 1997, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., were he had program management responsibilities for significant drug investigations occurring along the Southwest border.
In June 1999, Ibison was designated a field supervisor in the Indianapolis Division, Merrillville Resident Agency, where he supervised white collar, violent crime, and drug investigations occurring in northern Indiana. In January 2003, he was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the San Antonio Division, McAllen Resident Agency, where he provided oversight for all the FBI's investigative programs along the U.S. border with Mexico from Brownsville, Texas, to Del Rio, Texas. In June 2005, Ibison was promoted to the ranks of the Senior Executive Service by Director Mueller and assigned as an inspector in the Inspection Division. As an inspector, Ibison led inspection teams in the review of FBI field divisions, FBI Headquarters divisions, legal attache offices, and critical shooting incidents.
Born and raised in Santa Paula, California, Ibison earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Fresno State University in 1983. He began his career as a police officer in Weatherford, Texas in 1983, and in 1987 earned a Masters degree in public administration from Tarleton State University in Stephensville, Texas. Ibison and his wife, Beverly, are the parents of four children.
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NOTE: IT WAS AN AGENT NAMED "CARL" WHITEHEAD-? that met myself and a friend at the Tampa Regional Headquarters on 3-16-2007. I complained about this agent "Carl" to Director Mueller, in my 2-6-2008 Letter to Director Robert S. Mueller. He looked a lot like (SAC) Steven Ibison, though.I had been referred to the Tampa FBI's Public Relations person, Carol Mikhalic through her pastor in Dunedin, FL. I spoke to Carol (From a phone booth on Belcher Road) on Feb. 7 & 8 th 2007 and she promised to put the agency on to this. She did, because I noticed MANY additional intrusions ("Multiple" clicking sounds with all calls) into "Eavesdropping".
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Foreclosure News
Erin Collins Cullaro Being Investigated by her Boss The Attorney General
posted May 9, 2010 4:37 PM by Bill Trudelle [ updated Jun 6, 2010 12:50 PM ]
Erin Collins Cullaro is a former employee of the Echevarria Law Group now known as The Florida Default Law Group and now acting as an expert witness for Florida Default.
Erin Collins Cullaro now works for the The Florida Attorney Generals office in the economic crime division, a division of the Attorney General that is charged with the intake of complaints against Cullaro’s former employer, The Florida Default Law Group. William Trudelle, a long time mortgage professional, rallied against the activity of Florida Default dating back to 2004. Trudelle filed a complaint at the request of the office and never understood why his detailed complaint never received any attention, until he discovered that Cullaro, who was assigned to Trudelle’s complaint, actually worked for the very people who were the subject of Trudelle’s RICO and Racketeering allegations. The current Cullaro's investigation started because of her multiple different mysterious signatures appearing on Florida Default documents.
Trudelle’s complaint named several high ranking members of the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers (FAMB), their CPA Morris Berch, President Didier Malagies, Lawyer Anthony Woodward, all as systematically performing mortgage fraud and hiring known convicted drug traffickers as loan officers (a fact proven 3-years later by the Miami Herald). Berch lost his CPA license in 2004 but maintained his membership with the FAMB and his Mortgage Broker license til 2009. Malagies and Woodward were terminated from doingFHA loans in 2005 but kept his mortgage brokers license. Woodward was suspended from practicing law for filing tens of thousands of false affidavits for The Florida Default Law Group. Trudelle states “it all makes sense now, the very person who was suppose to investigate these crimes used to work for Florida Default and is currently helping them commit these crimes”. Trudelle references court filings that prove Erin Collins Cullaro took over doing the same illegal activity that got Anthony Woodward suspended. Trudelle also references his June 2009 filings with the Second District Court of Appeals that named Erin Collins Cullaro. Trudelle comments, “Its a shame I had to wait until lawyers like Matthew D. Weidner, Esq and Ice Legal discovered what i always knew, I'm glad they kept the pressure on, perhaps now my five year appeal floating in limbo will finally be resolved favorably”.
Trudelle claims soon after he filed his RICO and Racketeering complaint, associated with hundreds of millions in damages and penalties regarding Anthony Woodward and THe Florida Default Law Group, he was the subject of; stalking, physical attacks, death threats, and frivolous lawsuits by judgment proof drug addicts verifiably associated with the parties within Trudelle’s complaint. Trudelle had filed complaints with the AUS Attorney Denise Barnet,FBI area chief Carl Whitehead, State Attorney Mark Ober, Florida Attorney General and the Department of Financial Regulation Bob Tedcastle. "Soon after I discussed my case with Cullaro the Department of Finance dropped their 8 month investigation into my complaint, why did so many Floridians have to suffer," Trudelle asks?
Soon Trudelle was brought to trial on multiple battery charges filed by his adversaries, one instance Trudelle was actually attacked by a violent lunatic with a long criminal history, where the eye witnesses vouched that Trudelle was attacked, yet the State Attorney Mark Ober filed charges against Trudelle. The charges were dropped on the day of trial. The other instance was by Anthony Woodward who Trudelle testified, “Woodward had put out a credible death threat against me and my wife and the State’s Attorney had failed to investigate or protect us in the past, he took the word of a know lunatic over ey-witness and me”.Woodward was even caught threatening Trudelle in the witness area at trial stating“I am pursuing this in case I have to blow Trudelle away some day, I want the paper trail”,evidence kept from the jury. Mark Ober’s entire case against Trudelle was, "William Trudelle attacked Anthony Woodward in his office while he was working as an attorney suing Trudelle". Prior to trial Judge Gaston Fernandez ruled that Trudelle was not allowed to introduce that Anthony Woodward was actually suspended from practicing law on the day in question (a felony) who was suspended for the very allegations of Trudelle’s RICO complaint against Woodward. Trudelle was also precluded from proving that any lawsuit was won by Trudelle 14 months prior. Judge Fernandez then ruled Trudelle was entitled to a jury instruction on self-defense, then failed to charge the jury. The case has been on appeal for five years because the day after trial Mark Ober removed all the evidence from the file, and the exculpatory evidence has disappeared completely.
Trudelle bought Woodward’s expired domain plus to chronicle Florida’s foreclosure fraud, the Florida Bar’s inadequacy to stop unethical lawyers ,and the inappropriate power lawyers hold.
The Daily Judge
© 2006 Burton Randall Hanson / Archives - 08.26.2006 - 09.10.2006 / "All the news that gives judges and lawyers fits."
FBI says its investigation of courthouse uncovered no corruption. "No officials at the Hillsborough County Courthouse will be charged with any crimes at the conclusion of a lengthy investigation into possible corruption. Carl Whitehead, special agent in charge of the Tampa office of the FBI, said: 'I am very confident that we have conducted a thorough and exhaustive investigation into [certain] allegations. We were not able to substantiate those allegations. I believe the public should feel comfortable and have a sense of confidence that they can deal with their state court system. I have no information that would indicate otherwise.'" More (Miami Herald 09.08.2006). Comment. Read the rather-lengthy article for details.
A Prosecution Driven To Keep Secrets
By JOHN W. ALLMAN and MICHAEL FECHTERThe Tampa Tribune
Published: Jul 18, 2005
Delores Crooks should have known better. She had spent most of her adult life surrounded by judges and lawyers, and she was executive director of the Tampa chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
But Crooks also had spent years using a Make-A-Wish credit card to charge thousands of dollars in personal expenses.
She wasn't alone, she said when she was arrested in September 1999; others affiliated with the charity also had taken liberties, and she could name names.
In fact, Crooks was already naming names. On the advice of one of her attorneys, she had begun telling federal and state authorities what she knew, records show.
Crooks won't detail what she told the agents. But among other things, she helped them understand Tampa's sometimes complex social fabric - who was related, whose families were joined by marriage, who went to law school together, even who might be having affairs.
Many of Crooks' meetings with the agents are documented in her probation file, which the Tribune reviewed under Florida's public records law. Her last meeting recorded in the file occurred in May 2004, just before her probation ended.
Almost immediately upon her 1999 arrest, some of the people in the legal system Crooks had served for much of her adult life began a campaign to vilify her, a Tampa Tribune investigation has found. They saw Crooks declared a felon and sent to jail, although many in similar cases have been treated more leniently. She was ruined - a pariah.
Those who led this effort included former Hillsborough County Chief Judge F. Dennis Alvarez and former Maj. Rocky Rodriguez of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the Tribune found. Both were recently named by Circuit Judge Gregory P. Holder in sworn testimony as targets in a major federal and state corruption investigation, which focuses in part on allegations of case-fixing at the Hillsborough County Courthouse.
Alvarez and Rodriguez have been out of public service for several years. Holder has said that there is no indication a sitting judge is suspected of wrongdoing. The testimony came as Holder successfully defended himself against an accusation of plagiarism.
The corruption investigation is active, Carl Whitehead, special agent in charge of the FBI's Tampa office, said recently.
``These types of investigations are very complex,'' Whitehead said in an interview. ``And they do require a little bit of time to investigate. Wherever the allegations may take us, we're going to do that.''
Meanwhile, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the finances of the Make-A-Wish chapter, FDLE spokesman Rick Morera said.
Others who had hands in what happened to Crooks were a controversial state attorney, the late Harry Lee Coe III, and a local defense lawyer, Robert A. Herce, the Tribune found.
The four had strong social, professional and political ties that went back years. Beyond that, Herce was president of the local Make-A-Wish chapter, Rodriguez was vice president, and Alvarez's wife, Doris, worked in the chapter's office.
As chief judge, Alvarez played a pivotal role in nearly every major aspect of the Crooks case, records show.
He did so despite prohibitions against such involvement in the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct and even though he and Crooks had been close since high school. Crooks had been his first judicial assistant in the early 1980s and had managed his campaigns for the bench from 1980 through 1998. Alvarez is her son's godfather.
Alvarez hasn't responded to repeated calls from the Tribune. But his involvement was documented in hundreds of pages of sworn statements and interviews conducted under oath as the Crooks case headed toward court.
When Crooks decided to quit fighting and pleaded no contest, the material was packed into six cardboard boxes and put into storage in the custody of the state attorney's office. It remains there today.
The Credit Card
Alvarez learned about Crooks's abuse of the credit card the day Herce suspended her, Alvarez said in a deposition he gave as part of the Crooks investigation. Herce called him, and Alvarez met with Herce the next day at Herce's office. Alvarez's wife, Doris, was there, too. Herce showed him an important piece of evidence, Alvarez recalled: the application for the credit card Crooks used.
Herce began the telephone call by saying that he wanted Alvarez to know what was happening before gossip started.
``When he called me Monday, he says, you know, he says, `It's a heartbreaker.' He says, `I'm mad.' He says, `I think you ought to know because you're very close to her and Doris works'' at Make-A- Wish, Alvarez said.
``So I went down to his office Tuesday afternoon. ... That's when I first saw that document. It looked to me like a credit card application, okay. It was a very, very bad copy, either a faxed copy or a Xerox copy.''
Crooks' attorney at the time, Lynn Cole, asked Alvarez why Herce showed it to him.
``I think basically he was saying that he had no knowledge of the credit card being issued to Delores,'' Alvarez answered, even though Herce's signature was on the application.
Herce, in his deposition, said he also met about this time with three others on the Make-A-Wish board: Rodriguez, the sheriff's deputy and chapter vice president; Frank de la Grana, a fellow lawyer with whom Herce shares office space; and Charles Santana, an accountant who was the chapter treasurer. Santana's company had just started doing the chapter's audits and tax returns.
They decided together to take the case to the state attorney's office, Herce said.
The Courthouse
Once it got into the judicial system, the Crooks case went first to Judge Robert J. Simms, who held himself so far apart from everyone else at the courthouse that many there regarded him as an unpredictable maverick.
Cole soon asked Simms to let her subpoena records from the Make-A-Wish auxiliary in Sarasota. They would show that Crooks' prosecution was ``predicated upon the fear'' that Crooks had warned others about ``ongoing, improper conduct,'' Cole wrote in a motion. That might lead to ``action being taken against those individuals,'' the motion stated.
Simms granted it.
Coincidentally, Simms, a 10- year veteran, asked Alvarez about this time to transfer him from criminal to civil court. Alvarez complied in December 2000, then tapped a rookie judge, Herbert Baumann, to succeed Simms - even though Baumann had told Alvarez in writing that he had no criminal experience and preferred civil court, which was his specialty as a lawyer.
Baumann had been a judge for less than a year and had been assigned to family law, where many new judges start. When he moved to criminal, the Crooks case became his.