Bruce Whitaker shamefully and cowardly removed Barry Levinson from his long term position on the Fullerton Parks and Recreation Commission without any formal written notice and without any reason given. Bruce has shown his hand and I believe Dan Hughes once again has too. Was Bruce in on this possible set up of Levinson gone bad with the FPD? Who knows but one thing is for sure, the way Bruce Whitaker handled this issue certainly provided an opportunity for a game of FPD “gotcha” that almost played out when no one was looking on a Monday night while everyone was home watching the ball game.
This speech by Barry Levinson is probably what got Bruce’s bosses up in arms. We all know that Nelson, Fitzgerald, and Bennett are as tight as a pipe wrench on a busted city water main. We know that Nelson and Bruce have been two peas in a pod for years with Bruce squandering all of the political capital of the recall on firework stands under Nelson’s direction. We all know Bruce has never publicly gone after Fitzgerald’s voting record or her blatant conflict of interest as a lobbyist for Pringle as she holds her next fundraiser at Pringle and associates office but Barry has. Bruce even voted for her to be mayor making it even more difficult to throw her out in November. Nice going Bruce. We all know Barry Levinson stands up for the residents of Fullerton and has selflessly given of himself for years with NO CONNECTIONS to the establishment and has foiled more of their plans to rip off the taxpayers and ruin Fullerton with the developers than anyone in Fullerton. He has been more effective than anyone up on the dais and they know it.
Barry Levinson
Well Barry showed up for the Monday June 13, 2016 Park and Recreation commission meeting for the first time in over 5 years as a citizen instead of a commissioner and sat in the audience. Seated in the audience in the back of the totally empty room in the south aisle were seated not one, not two but three Fullerton Police officers. Yes there were a supervisor and two patrol officers. Why were they there after hours on overtime on a Monday evening in an empty room?
Was Mike Chocek waiting for Barry to make a move so these three can make theirs?
So why were the microphones turned off for the better part of the meeting? The clerk was there typing away and running the computer. Why? What was scheduled to go down?
Was Mike Chocek waiting to present information that was never asked for, waiting to answer questions that were never asked or waiting for just another opportunity to set up Barry Levinson?
I believe the plan was to go down like this. Barry was given no formal written notice that he was removed from the commission. The three officers, including a supervisor, were to wait for Barry to take his seat up on the dais, wait for him to be asked to step down, and then upon the slightest inclination of his questioning or refusal, was to be arrested by these three officers. There is no other reason for not one not two but three officers to be there.
does this face look familiar? Here he is in the video below.
In this video, Veth Mam, a citizen was arrested and framed by the Fullerton police while recording the event. The DA brought the charges even when presented with video evidence refuting the lies of the Fullerton Police officers at the scene. Yes they lied on their police report alleging Veth Mam jumped the cop and started chocking him when in fact the officer grabbed and abused a totally innocent man filming a detainment. After jail time, attorney’s fees and a trial, Veth Mam was acquitted of all charges. He later sued and got nothing.
Barry and I had discussions prior to this meeting and knew that something was brewing considering how underhanded city officials have acted in the past. Our plan was to continue being citizen activists like we have all along. The meeting went on and the officers were never introduced, called upon for questions or even mentioned.
So at the end of the meeting, hours later on a Monday night, I took it upon myself to question this blatant waste of taxpayer resources and ask them personally why they were there, all three of them. As it turns out, Hugo Curiel invited them and I believe it was probably on the orders of Dan Hughes and on behalf of Joe Felz who Hugo repeatedly refers to as “the Boss”. Hugo was obviously the most unsettled I have ever seen him. He couldn’t sit still for most of the meeting, noticeably extremely uncomfortable and nervous. I believe his demeanor indicated that this was not going to be a normal evening. It was also a dead giveaway as Alice Loya kept smirking and smiling as acted as if she was the only one in the buffet line at the Bellagio.
Hugo Curiel and Alice Loya. Ms.Loya was apparently able to see through Travertine walls and an elevator shaft the night of the attempted framing of Levinson back in 2014.
So why all the cops with a supervisor just to sit in an empty room for hours in silence? Lying in wait to seize the moment for their boss Danny Boy, intimidation or for information? Well these three models of public service had jack shit for information folks. Listen up. Hugo invited them.
So when I asked them why they were there, they told me it had to do with the homeless issue at Pacific Drive Park. Funny not one staffer or commissioner had a question for the three of them who were probably all on overtime. How many officers does it take to answer staff questions? So as a member of the public, I proceeded to ask these officers questions about the issues at the park as they were supposedly there to answer questions about the park. They of course had no information about the park or anything related to crime or problems associated with the park that Felz wants to fence off and take away from the public possibly to sell it off to Grace Ministries along with the Hunt Library.
Commissioner Silva looks on as truth is being told
Yes sell off public property like the Hunt Library behind our backs to fund the out of control pensions and salaries for people like this.
So tell me how many officers does it take to answer questions of present information to a commission on issues regarding homelessness at a park that sat for hours in an empty room after hours that were never mentioned, introduced or called upon?
How many police officers are required to set up, frame and arrest Barry Levinson? Why do we need Mike Chocek, a supervisor and two patrol officers to sit for hours in a meeting in an empty room on a Monday night and never open their fly traps or answer any questions even when called upon by me after the meeting?
How many officers does it take to set up, frame and arrest Barry Levinson?
How many officers does it take to set up , frame and arrest Barry Levinson?
Why would the FPD’s Dan Hughes want Barry Levinson in jail? Dan Hughes hates Barry Levinson because Barry Levinson is a threat. He exposes corruption that Dan Hughes is involved in. How about “the Boss” Joe Felz?
How about “the Boss” Joe Felz?
Now you tell me after watching this video how the city council including Bruce Whitaker could have done anything but demand a full investigation into what went down with what appears to be the attempted framing of Barry Levinson. After Bruce delivered this speech, he was never the same man up on the dais, never mentioning this issue again and remaining silent on many serious issues that followed even though he promised Barry and I that he would. Obviously he got a talking to and it worked.
Don’t let the flag fool you. Stanford is an empty suit too.
BARRY HAS BEEN CALLING OUT CORRUPTION IN THIS TOWN FOR YEARS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Dan Hughes told Bruce Whitaker that he “HATES THE GUY” referring to Barry Levinson
Dan Hughes calls Barry Levinson “CRAZY AND UNSTABLE” at a city council meeting
Dan Hughes claims he can be objective while he hates Barry Levinson and personally runs the investigation, personally interviews the witnesses and writes the report himself and personally submits the complaint to the DA for prosecution but he can be objective right?
Barry was a former chairperson and two time appointee to the Fullerton Parks and Recreation commission. He was put there to do his job by Bruce Whitaker over 5 years ago. Here is just another example of Bruce Whitaker’s appointee Barry Levinson doing his job and for months, the person that put him there, Bruce Whitaker, has totally ignored what Barry has brought forward! So what does Barry get for doing his job? He gets fired by the one who holds himself out as a statesman on the council, Bruce Whitaker. Whatever happened to the audit committee Bruce was crying for? Barry repeatedly hands up the goods on a silver platter and gets set up like a bowling pin. City hall needs an enema like nobody’s business folks.
Ladies and gentlemen, like many of you, Barry and I will never rest until this town is cleaned up and you have our word on that.
Watch who you vote for in November and watch your backs with the FPD-anyone could be next. That is why you will see my name on the Ballot and I won’t take a dime or an endorsement from any of the establishment thugs that are still trying to ruin this town for their own selfish gain and political ambition. Fullerton is worth fighting for because it is our town folks. Lets make sure they never forget that. It is our town, yours and mine. Stay vigilant Fullerton.
#1 by Seriously? on July 17, 2016 - 11:34 pm
Whatever you say Joe. You run with that notion in your campaign and you’ll have a great chance. And make sure you promise the voters that you’ll make removing wireless technology from the schools and closing the downtown restaurants as top priorities.
#2 by Anonymous on July 17, 2016 - 11:52 pm
Don’t forget to remind the people that anyone who might possibly disagree with you is an establishment shill. That’ll surely win them over!
#3 by Joe Imbriano on July 17, 2016 - 11:58 pm
That is not my platform. Watch the council meetings.
Wireless in the schools is a decision made by the school boards. Watch the board meetings.
The restaurants you refer to are watering holes, not restaurants. I never said to close down restaurants. We all love to eat and we have to eat to survive. DTF watering holes evade all kinds of sales taxes and they put 1000 plus drunk drivers onto the highways and byways of So Cal every night. I told Dan Hughes publicly that he should have his boys line up buses with shackles on the floor, bring in the boys from Brea and OCSD and set up a check point at the exits of SoCO and the parking structures and arrest every driver that is drunk or jacked up on blow meth head cleaner oxys or whatever and do it until there are no more jacked, drugged or drunk drivers or the bars go out of business. They can still serve food. If they are truly restaurants, they will do just fine.
You really like to try to mix things up and muddy the waters don’t you. It wont work.
#4 by Anonymous on July 18, 2016 - 8:02 am
I agree Mr. Imbriano. Enough is enough of these so called business that are nothing but a black eye to our community.
#5 by Mat Caraffa on July 18, 2016 - 9:32 am
No, having a town fool like Joe think he’s got a chance at being elected to anything is a black eye on our community. Sane people need to laugh him out of school board and city council meetings, unless he’s brought in purely for his entertainment value.
#6 by Telling It Like It Is on July 18, 2016 - 5:43 pm
Mr. Imbriano and Mr. Levinson have already been successful in many areas such as
1. Stopping the original DCCSP in 2014.
2. Stopping the Revised DCCSP in 2016
3. Stopping the Richman Park Cell Tower in 2014.
4. Stopping the 2 decade lease extension on the Summit House through 2060 via a Consent Item in 2016.
5. Stopping the Zoning Change to a newly created Overlay Zone which hopefully saves Polly’s Pies
6. Stopping College Town
7. Etc, etc, etc.
Bruce Whitaker
1. Fireworks
2. nothing else…he has only been on the council for almost 6 years.
#7 by Joe Imbriano on July 18, 2016 - 7:11 pm
You forgot to add under Bruce Whitaker:
3. Jennifer Fitzgerald
#8 by Anonymous on July 19, 2016 - 9:43 am
Still waiting to hear something they’ve actually done for the community. Stopping things from happening doesn’t count.
#9 by Anonymous on July 18, 2016 - 8:24 pm
So all they’ve done is whine enough to delay things. Name one thing they’ve actually done to improve the city, rather than keep the status quo?
#10 by Telling It Like It Is on July 18, 2016 - 9:23 pm
One more thing Mr. Levinson and Mr. Imbriano stopped was the sale of the Hunt Branch Library.
Mr Levinson also helped to reopen the Independence Skate Park that had been closed for over three years.
#11 by Sloppy Joe on July 18, 2016 - 11:01 pm
What is this, the lie that wouldn’t die?
The Hunt Branch library has never been for sale. Joe and Barry stopped squat.
#12 by Joe Imbriano on July 18, 2016 - 11:09 pm
The sale was packaged up by Chris Meyer and Sean Padens campaign manager Ryan Cantor at the library board meeting for the June Council agenda. https://thefullertoninformer.com/the-church-in-bed-with-the-state-crossing-the-line-the-hunt-library-and-grace-ministries/
Well wonder what happened?
#13 by Sloppy Joe on July 19, 2016 - 7:48 am
No, it wasn’t.
You issuing a blatant lie, then repeating that lie over and over will never, ever, make it true.
I don’t really know why you feel a need to obscure the truth in order to propagate your world view. You’ve previously reported that these individuals voted to sell the library for $1,300,000, which never happened.
You owe these people a very public apology. That’s the decent thing to do.
I won’t hold my breath.
#14 by Anonymous on July 19, 2016 - 9:13 am
sloppy joe= Joe Felz having drinks with John Murray-
#15 by Barry Levinson on July 19, 2016 - 10:49 am
The people of the United States are so used to being lied to by their elected officials that they too often accept this as a fait accompli’. Sloppy Joe is extremely sloppy with the truth.
Well U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson has a higher standard. He just threw out the plea deal for former disgraced sheriff Lee Baca as being too lenient. He obviously believes that obstructing justice and lying to the FBI are serious matters. Our law enforcement personnel should be held to the highest standards not be given light sentences or probation because of their working relationships with local prosecutors. The inmates who were savagely beaten by sheriff’s jailhouse personal were not shown any compassion by their law enforcement attackers.
Yes there will be some twisted souls who will claim that they do not care how badly or wrongly prisoners are treated by law enforcement. If our law enforcement personnel are guilty of crimes as bad and sometimes worse then the people they are guarding in prison, we as a society have a problem that must be addressed. My attitude toward dealing with all people who break the law is to be tough but fair.
I know there are so many good people out there just going to work everyday to feed and house their families. I say that is your main job, but it should not be your only responsibility. If you cherish all the things in America that we all sometimes take for granted, then all of you need to get more involved beyond the boundaries of your family and close friends.
We need a rebirth in this country that once again puts honor, justice, integrity and good citizenship at the forefront of everything we do. We the American people need to lead the way but going forward we must demand the same from our elected and appointed government officials. If we fail to do so, I am afraid that are national decline will continue and so much that we hold dear as Americans will be lost, maybe forever.
P.S. I will now wait for Reality Is, Sloppy Joe and Seriously to defend the indefensible and call me names. How sad are those individuals?
#16 by Anonymous on July 19, 2016 - 12:19 am
City Manager Joe Felz not only recommended the sale of the Hunt Branch Library but recommended a sole source sale to Grace Ministries at a Library Board meeting earlier this year.
#17 by Reality Is.. on July 18, 2016 - 11:37 am
So when Joe gets elected all bars, restaurants hat serve alcohol, liquor stores, and tobacco shops will be closed immediately. Interesting. Lol
#18 by Reality Is.. on July 18, 2016 - 9:51 am
So you want to shut down businesses lol and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on overtime for checkpoints. You know Travis lost his career because he was so against checkpoints? Interesting platform. You hate cops but now also want them to make so much more in overtime too.
#19 by Fullerton Lover on July 18, 2016 - 10:19 am
Here’s a 21 year old woman that was coming from a “girls night out” in Downtown Fullerton that ended with her driving 100 MPH and going the wrong way and killing six innocent people.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Four-Dead-After-Wrong-244620001.html
#20 by Reality Is..... on July 18, 2016 - 2:56 pm
So once person drives DUI from a bar and you want to shut down all that cities bars? Before the investigation is complete? Did ABC investigate and find the bartender at fault? I mean this girl could have had 2 beers and you want to hang all the bars in Fullerton? Billions and billions of drinks served and you feel one accident and it’s over?. Strange thought process for sure. I mean with that thought process you probably should just shut down all bars and liquor stores across the country right? Because it’s the alcohols and the clerks fault?. Wow. The more I listen to you Fullerton Lover, Joe, and Barry it all makes sense. I used to blame this thought process on smoking too much weed, Tony Bushala, but I’m not sure what causes this thought process.
#21 by Joe Imbriano on July 18, 2016 - 3:01 pm
It is called being rational. The bar owners are a tax evading mafia whose rackets are a magnet for crime that is sucking our resources dry, ruining our youth, and getting people killed. By the way, on your way back from working on making your cavity breath worse and your hairline recede further from the sludge and slop at the slime bar, hang a left and tell that creep Joe Florentino that we want our damn sidewalk back.
#22 by Anonymous on July 18, 2016 - 3:10 pm
Those are some pretty serious charges. Do you have any evidence for that?
#23 by Fullerton Lover on July 18, 2016 - 9:41 pm
It’s pretty evident to any one that looks at “Florentine’s Grill/Palapas” on Harbor and Chapman to see for themselves that the city council allowed Joe Florentine to expand that building six feet out and onto a public right of way/sidewalk.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/S+Harbor+Blvd,+Fullerton,+CA/@33.8707309,-117.9242429,3a,43.8y,151.29h,77.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4TwcmY7Rib-iltB6pPQuXg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D4TwcmY7Rib-iltB6pPQuXg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D392%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D142.13545%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x80dcd7dd7dc007cb:0x44c1e630ed071f4b!8m2!3d33.87036!4d-117.9243532
#24 by Anonymous on July 19, 2016 - 7:54 am
I was more referring to the “tax evading mafia” line as a serious charge, but if you want to fixate on something minor, go right ahead.
#25 by Fullerton Lover on July 18, 2016 - 3:52 pm
You sure have a strange way of consistently rationalizing the bad behavior of the downtown bars in Fullerton Reality Is.
Did you actually watch the news clip showing the horrific aftermath of that 21 year old’s “girl’s night out” in downtown Fullerton?
The girl was driving 100 MPH going the wrong way on the 57 freeway and ended up killing six other people, one of which was her sister, in the accident.
Note that her sister was also a young mother.
I think we can rule out that she only was served two beers all that night in downtown Fullerton
#26 by Reality Is..... on July 19, 2016 - 10:54 am
There you go assuming again. You have no clue how many she was served or how drunk she was. Girls can be trashed on 3 drinks or even 2. Yes, i agree bars are there for people to party and have a good time and drink it up. As much as you want that to go away, it never will. Ever. Even though Joe’s campaign platform is now to get rid of every establishment or store or anything else that serves alcohol or tobacco, even if he gets elected that won’t happen.
#27 by Fullerton Lover on July 19, 2016 - 3:40 pm
Delusional Is:
I believe it’s you again that is guilty of assuming, because you couldn’t possibly be agreeing with me that bars are there for people to party and have a good time and drink it up, because I never said that.
You did.
Sober up before getting behind that keyboard next time.
#28 by Reality Is..... on July 19, 2016 - 8:11 pm
Yes. I like to enjoy those places at times too. But I’m of age. That’s the issue with what you said and referred to facts, versus what is actually fact. Underage drinking may occur less than 1% but the bars aren’t the issue with underage drinking. Your neighbors are.
#29 by Reality Is..... on July 19, 2016 - 10:55 am
And you broad brush is comical as well. So just because Kelly’s Army had a few whack jobs or people that wanted to riot and loot and hurt people, are you saying that all of Kelly’s Army was now that way too? We know the leader was a crook from the start that everyone worshipped, but that’s another topic where you all were wrong about.
#30 by Fullerton Lover on July 18, 2016 - 4:05 pm
Note that statistically speaking that Fullerton has the HIGHEST rate of alcohol related crashes for ALL mid-size cities throughout all of California.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/cities-348774-crashes-among.html
You still fuzzy about my thought process?
Further questions????
#31 by Reality Is..... on July 18, 2016 - 11:00 pm
2012 is pretty old data. Anyways, show me where Fullerton has the highest rate of alcohol related crashes again? I must be missing it. I see something about Fullerton having a high number of underage drinking related crashes which has nothing to do with the bars. I might be missing what you are pointing out though, so I won’t accuse you of lying again or falsely representing a point that you want to be there and it’s not.
#32 by Fullerton Lover on July 19, 2016 - 1:52 am
How about the latest data regarding alcohol related crashes in California cities from the California Office of Traffic Safety?
It shows that we slipped from #1 to #2 in alcohol related crashes, yet still #1 in hit and runs…
http://www.ots.ca.gov/media_and_research/rankings/default.asp
#33 by Reality Is..... on July 19, 2016 - 10:58 am
hit and runs are primarily by unlicensed drivers, illegal aliens. Trump will handle that part.
Clear to me from these stats is that OTS needs to ship $5 million a year to Fullerton for overtime to do DUI details. Checkpoints, roving patrols, etc. They need more arrests.
Get on that. Maybe Joe and Barry will make that their platforms. Wait? That’s a trick bag huh? Wanting more arrests but that’s more overtime money for cops, and they both can’t stand cops and they think they make too much already. LOL