Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, NUJ - Open Letter
Independent investigation by law enforcement agencies involves an alleged pattern or practice of joint and several illegal or criminal activities by: National Union of Journalists (NUJ) executives, lawyers, and staff; National Executive Council (NEC) officers; and, London Freelance Branch (LFB) officials.
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I have repeatedly informed you that I will not deal with Claire S Kirby and Roy M Mincoff, successive NUJ in-house-solicitors, while they remain subject to a complaint for professional misconduct now under investigation by Solicitors Regulation Authority. However, Mincoff continues to contact me despite several requests for you to keep him on a leash while SRA investigates sub judice issues. Law enforcement agencies also have Kirby and Mincoff under investigation which means that any provocation of me interprets as harassment or tampering with a potential witness.
Mincoff, in a consort with Bernard Roche, NUJ Finance Manager has established a fraudulent "bait and switch" for which he used a proxy, a pseudonym, and an email alias. A check with sources found neither the people nor the addresses he used exist: an offense under UK Fraud Act 2006 especially when the content involves legal issues. I now demand that you order Mincoff and all other officials and staff to cease and desist email harassment. Mincoff has published disinformation by email on issues subject to complaints for which you hold ultimate responsibility, either now or later in a court of law.
I understand that Thompsons Solicitors and Mincoff have recently filed an ex parte argument with the Law Society (Legal Complaints) not addressed in the SRA resolution documents. This subverts due process and interprets as an unlawful attempt to exonerate themselves from blame. Their action effectively leaves you personally responsible for the damage caused over the past seven years and a plethora of both civil and criminal complaints.
Mincoff and Roche again frustrated access to NUJ documents permitted under Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (the Act) after demanding payment of an administrative fee in advance. Other officials continue to confuse the issues by using false and misleading aliases in a perpetual merry-go-round.
In an attempt to muddy the waters, you and Roche have misleadingly answered questions not asked. Roche volunteered irrelevant and immaterial information which misquoted you to frustrate a request for access to financial records. You may find that very amusing: I do not and neither will any responsible judge.
Moreover, your lying for fun only accents your own inability to address issues legally and with respect for the people who pay your salary. This process is not a fun game. Your participation in “shell games” only accents comments by several NUJ members about your sociopathic dysfunction. Documents prove pathological lying. My own post-doctoral research with a leading emotional intelligence psychologist into antisocial personality disorder among people in authority supports my conclusions. You opened the door to this personal analysis by publicly derogating my psychological and intellectual standing without need or provocation.
[Sociopath] [Ravening Sociopath]
You continue to stonewall access to accounting records requested in accordance with the Act:
29.—(1) A trade union shall keep available for inspection from their creation until the end of the period of six years beginning with the 1st January following the end of the period to which they relate such of the records of the union, or of any branch or section of the union, as are, or purport to be, records required to be kept by the union under section 28.
30.—(1) A member of a trade union has a right to request access to any accounting records of the union which are available for inspection and relate to periods including a time when he was a member of the union. In the case of records relating to a branch or section of the union, it is immaterial whether he was a member of that branch or section.
The issues as they stand define as civil; however, by your machination they have arguably reached criminal proportions. You have not listed the documents that you will make available for access under the Act prior to convening a meeting to address the four categories:
1. UK Government “Strategic Grant Agreement”
Government “strategic grant agreement” (£262,000.00) "to promote greater awareness of global poverty".
2. British Embassy, Kiev, Ukraine.
The Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine (IMTUU) NUJ funds and/or British Embassy In Ukraine sources. UK Embassy in Kiev claimed that it funded NUJ/IMTUU training programmes and employed NUJ members, officers, and officials.
3. NUJ Education and Training Programme.
All accounts relating to educational or training services or programmes provided to members and non-members (whether NUJ charged fees or not) and names of administrators and instructors of courses.
4. Sally Murrer, Milton Keynes Citizen.
All accounts relating to, but not limited to, NUJ Crown Court legal action and other support in behalf of Sally Murrer 2007 through 2009. The request includes all payments to third parties and should detail all legal fees, NUJ staff time, cost of articles in Journalist magazine including estimated costs attributable to pro bono or other legal services.
I have started the procedure that will allow a certified chartered accountant employed by Metropolitan Police to attend to review the documents and ascertain whether the content of them warrants criminal action. The attendance of a police officer will mean that any machination and disinformation by you or NUJ employees will become evidential in either civil or criminal proceedings that result from the level of compliance at that meeting.
The request includes all financial and operating statements in progress for the years 2005 through 2009, including detailed income and expenditure accounts (which name all recipients and/or beneficiaries of fees and/or other emoluments including out-of-pocket expenses and subsistence in cash or in kind) relating but not limited to the four listed topics. It includes all accounts relating to payments to third parties and details of all legal fees, NUJ staff time, and estimated costs attributable to pro bono or other legal services.
I have already published details of the abnormal situation relating to access to documents (01 Jul 09) after giving you adequate time to review a prepublication draft for accuracy and refutation. You did not confute the content.
The URLs access the article published last week (updated 08 Jul 09) on the new web site. It gives the up-to-date position regarding access to NUJ documents and other breaches of rules and law. With the JournoScam web site, it is usually more efficient to read the actual web page then print the attached PDF. The web page could contain supplementary information not available in the PDF and vice versa
http://contracabal.com/880-43-00.html
The continually updated web site ranks as a work in progress. Any comments by you, or non-compliance with rules and regulations, will become public. If you wish to turn legal proceedings and processes into a trial by media, then so be it. Your personal behavior determines whether the content affects your reputation either negatively or positively. You can treat this document as a prepublication notice.
I will hold publication for ten days (Deadline 23 Jul 09 17:00) to give you adequate time to respond in compliance with the Act. You must use an NUJ letterhead for your reply, personally sign it with your recognized signature, and add your NUJ title. Send the document in PDF format to me by email attachment also by Royal Mail to my London address.
Paul Trummel PhD (RPI ABD), PhD (UW ABD), MS (RPI), MSc (UK), BSc (UK)
Associate Professor, Communication and Rhetoric (Retired)
Int. Federation of Journalists, Brussels, International Press Card #GB 8953.
National Union of Journalists, London, Press Card #025057.
Society of Authors, London - #00039806.
Fellow, International Society of Typographic Designers (FISTD)
Fellow, Institute of Paper Printing and Publishing (FIOP).
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