CASTROGATE.COM CORRUPT CHIEF INFORMATION RICHARD VARN
Presidential Appointee at the Center for Advanced Technology and Neuroscience at Educational Testing Services
Chief Information Officer City of San Antonio TX 2005 and 2007 to 2010
Now that the umbrella of “protection” by corrupt officials and law enforcement evaporated once President Trump took office many unscrupulous officials, judges, attorneys, cops, etc. will be investigated and prosecuted . Richard Varn, the Presidential Appointee at the Center for Advanced Technology and Neuroscience at Educational Testing Services is once such dishonest, unethical, corrupt person.
Corrupt City of San Antonio, Texas officials / employees have since 1982 secretly , illegally dumped invoices, bills, fake statements, altered documents, etc. into an internal telephone billing account – the “telephone variable” and used the City’s Avaya Telephone Contract to fraudulently bill individual city departments, state/federal agencies and others for “ghost” expenses. These bogus invoices and bills were not for 911 / telephone costs, were not associated with state/federal grants, were not the responsibility of the department/entity being billed, were altered to hide the true identity of the user, contained known fraudulent accounting of hours worked and other expenses, were used for illegal contracts with unauthorized vendors containing huge markups and were NEVER approved by Council / taxpayers. Since 1982 up to $5.2 million a year was spent with no Council approval, no public input, no open bidding, no Finance Dept approval, no City ordinance, etc. Fraudulent use of the “variable” violated the Law, City Administrative Directive 6.12, City ordinances, open bidding regulations, state/federal grants rules, Local Government Code, OMB regulations, HUD regulations, c. Internal City documents describe the magnitude of the fraud as “a bottomless pit of money” and “millions of dollars of goods and services”. Up to $5.2 million a year for EVERY year since 1982 was funneled through the “variable”- most of the money for illegal purposes. …Instead of addressing the criminal activity and exposing the three decades of fraud / theft officials ( led by City Attorney Michael Bernard – brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard ) , law enforcement, judges, attorneys, etc. conspired to conceal the RICO-like criminal conspiracy.
City Attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard) , Attorney Malinda Gaul and other attorneys concealed the 2007 deposition of CIO Richard Varn, Administrative Directive 6.12 and other material evidence from the Court. Judge Antonia Arteaga concealed the document and refused to grant a motion for a new and fair trial. Varn’s deposition shows that he knew nothing of the variable billing account or budget procedures BUT that he went on to present false testimony to the Court after ALL attorneys conspired to conceal the deposition and other critical material evidence.
Gaul and other attorneys kept City Administrative Directive 6.12 hidden from the Court thus allowing CIO Varn and others falsely testify that the “variable” billing account was created to help balance the budget, to pay for “pop-up” expenses and to allow Department Directors a means to get funding outside of the budget – all lies…… AD 6.12 shows that the “variable” billing account was created in 1982 to simply consolidate and pay the City’s Centrex ( 207 #s) phone bills. Prior to 1982 each department received their won bill and many times bills were not being paid on time. The Finance Department set up a procedure for the IT Department to pay the bills and charge each department for their fair share of the cost…nothing more. AD 6.12 shows that CIO Varn and others presented known false testimony to the Court when they said that the “variable” was a legal means to get funding outside of the budget, to pay for “pop-up” costs and to adjust department budgets during the fiscal year…all lies. With the expert coaching from the City’s attorney table Varn falsely testified that it was legal and an approved practice for Department Directors to wander over to the IT building and pick up millions of dollars to help balance their budgets when they ran out of funds hallway through a budget cycle with no public input, no Council vote, no Finance Dept. approval, no ordinance, etc……all lies. Varn falsely testified that it was legal for the IT Dept. to provide funding to Departments outside of the budget process and then to spread the $5 million a year expenditures across all city departments via the “variable” telephone billing account……all lies.
When deposed in 2007 CIO Varn admitted that he knew nothing about how a department would obtain funding if the money ran out during the budget year. Varn admitted that he knew nothing about an account created for that purpose. Varn admitted that the did not even recognize the term “variable” and did not know of any such account……In 2009 City Attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard), attorney Deborah Klein, attorney Mark Kosanovich, Attorney Malinda Gaul and others concealed Varn’s deposition thus allowing him to falsely testify under oath before Judge Antonia Arteaga that he investigated the “variable”, found nothing illegal, found that it was created to help balance the budget and to help pay for “pop-up” expenses….all lies.
Complete copies of CIO Richard Varn’s 2007 deposition and his 2009 Courtroom testimony are posted below. A review of his deposition and his courtroom testimony will show that CTO Hugh Miller, attorney Deborah Klein and attorney Mark Kosanovich coached Varn to present a well-rehearsed false testimony to the Court while attorney Malinda Gaul allowed the “fraud upon the court” to proceed with no objections, no call for a mistrial, no call for an evidentiary hearing, no call for criminal charges and no call for a new trial. ALL attorneys in the courtroom conspired to conceal Varn’s deposition and other material evidence. When Judge Antonia Arteaga was made aware of the aggravated perjury she played along with the fraud and denied a motion for a new trial. Judge Arteaga , City Attorney Michael Bernard , ALL attorneys inside the courtroom and many others have conspired to conceal Varn’s deposition , Administrative Directive 6.12 and other material evidence proving the “fraud upon the court” for the past eight years.
San Antonio TX City Attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of Obama White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard), San Antonio Mayor / HUD Secretary Julian Castro , Joaquin Castro D – Texas and other corrupt persons conspired to conceal a RICO- like criminal conspiracy extending from San Antonio TX to the White House hiding ONGOING efforts to cover up the theft / misappropriation of tens of millions of dollars , Judicial Fraud hiding the criminal activity, HUD fraud, state/federal grant fraud, “cooked” books, official oppression, Constitutional / Free Speech abuses ,municipal bond fraud ,aggregated perjury , a decade of critical 911 failures when maintenance funding was denied and other crimes. The RICO-like criminal conspiracy continues.
Instead of following the law, addressing the criminal activity and exposing the three decades of fraud / theft officials ( led by City Attorney Michael Bernard – brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard ) , law enforcement, judges, attorneys, etc. conspired to conceal the RICO-like criminal conspiracy. Attorney Bernard, SAPD Chief William McManus and others used the power of their offices to retaliate against law-abiding whistleblowers , illegally ban them from City Hall / public meetings and defame them in an effort to discredit their reports of criminal activity inside local government and law enforcement.
Corrupt City of San Antonio, Texas officials / employees have since 1982 secretly , illegally dumped invoices, bills, fake statements, altered documents, etc. into an internal telephone billing account – the “telephone variable” and used the City’s Avaya Telephone Contract to fraudulently bill individual city departments, state/federal agencies and others for “ghost” expenses. These bogus invoices and bills were not for 911 / telephone costs, were not associated with state/federal grants, were not the responsibility of the department/entity being billed, were altered to hide the true identity of the user, contained known fraudulent accounting of hours worked and other expenses, were used for illegal contracts with unauthorized vendors containing huge markups and were NEVER approved by Council / taxpayers. Since 1982 up to $5.2 million a year was spent with no Council approval, no public input, no open bidding, no Finance Dept approval, no City ordinance, etc. fraudulent use of the “variable” violated the Law, City Administrative Directive 6.12, City ordinances, open bidding regulations, state/federal grants rules, Local Government Code, OMB regulations, HUD regulations, etc. Internal City documents describe the magnitude of the fraud as “a bottomless pit of money” and “millions of dollars of goods and services”. During a time when “ONE IN FOUR” or “ONE IN FIVE” 911 calls failed to reach a call taker, requests for maintenance funding was denied as all the money had been stolen or misappropriated for three decades. The crippled 911 system failed for over a decade, putting lives at risk while City officials lied to conceal the scandal. Up to $5.2 million a year for EVERY year since 1982 was funneled through the “variable”- most of the money for illegal purposes.
As in the case of WATERGATE, the criminal conspiracy to conceal the original crimes casts a net around the White House, the FBI, the DOJ , HUD and many other corrupt participants.
Pro-Amnesty, Pro-Dreamer, Open Border Agendas take a front seat to the US Constitution and other laws while our women and children are raped and slaughtered by illegals who Hillary, Castro and Obama welcome with open arms.
Unlike the Washington Post who exposed Water Gate, the San Antonio Express News and other local media organizations ( KABB, KSAT,WOAI,KENS, TPR, etc. ) conspire with criminals on our public payroll to conceal the illegal cover-up , protect their friends in City Hall and keep the money flowing with their “fake news” .
THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY CONTINUES
Corrupt City of San Antonio, Texas officials / employees have since 1982 secretly , illegally dumped invoices, bills, fake statements , altered documents, etc. into an internal telephone billing account – the “telephone variable” and used the City’s Avaya Telephone Contract to fraudulently bill individual city departments, state/federal agencies and others for “ghost” expenses. These bogus invoices and bills were not for 911 / telephone costs, were not associated with state/federal grants, were not the responsibility of the department/entity being billed, were altered to hide the true identity of the user, contained known fraudulent accounting of hours worked and other expenses, were used for illegal contracts with unauthorized vendors containing huge markups and were NEVER approved by Council / taxpayers. Since 1982 up to $5.2 million a year was spent with no Council approval, no public input, no open bidding, no Finance Dept approval, no City ordinance, etc. fraudulent use of the “variable” violated the Law, City Administrative Directive 6.12, City ordinances, open bidding regulations, state/federal grants rules, Local Government Code, OMB regulations, HUD regulations, etc. Internal City documents describe the magnitude of the fraud as “a bottomless pit of money” and “millions of dollars of goods and services”. Up to $5.2 million a year for EVERY year since 1982 was funneled through the “variable”- most of the money for illegal purposes. Instead of addressing the criminal activity and exposing the three decades of fraud / theft officials ( led by City Attorney Michael Bernard – brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard ) , law enforcement, judges, attorneys, etc. conspired to conceal the RICO-like criminal conspiracy
In February 2009, City Attorney Michael Bernard ( brother of White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard) conspired with corrupt Bexar County 57th District Judge Antonia Arteaga, attorney Malinda Gaul, attorney Mark Kosanovich, attorney Deborah Klein, City IT Director Hugh Miller, City CIO Richard Varn and others to defraud our Judicial System, to conceal material evidence and to present a well-rehearsed, totally fabricated “soap opera skit” to the Court in an effort to conceal the ongoing RICO-like criminal conspiracy inside City Hall, SAPD, the DA’s Office, BCSO and our Courts. On July 1, 2009, illegal, unconstitutional acts were committed to cover up the criminal activity when all proof of the crimes was confiscated from City Council , instructions were issued by City Attorney Bernard and Chief McManus not to discuss the criminal activity and an unconstitutional “Criminal trespass Warning” letter was issued by Bernard and SAPD Chief McManus barring entry into City Hall, Main Plaza ( City Council chambers), etc. The illegal, unconstitutional ban lasted almost four years – July 2009 to April 2013 during which time Julián Castro and other corrupt
officials knowingly participated in illegal meetings in violation of the Texas Open Meeting Act, the US Constitution and other laws.
On July 2, 2013 , Mayor Julian Castro ( representing the City of San Antonio), SAPD Chief William McManus, city attorney Michael Bernard and attorney Shawn Fitzpatrick defrauded the Federal
Court of corrupt Judge Xavier Rodriguez in an effort to conceal the ongoing criminal conspiracy by submitting false statements saying that there is no conspiracy and there was no perjury in the 57th District Court….two LIES. In typical Bexar County fashion, Judge Rodriguez, attorney Joseph Hoelscher and attorney Dan Moore played along with the fraud upon the court, refused to call for an evidentiary hearing and refused to call for criminal charges . While corrupt Judge Rodriguez was helping McManus, Bernard, Castro and Fitzpatrick defraud our Judicial System and hide the ongoing criminal conspiracy he was acting as a liaison and negotiating a deal with the Defendants and the City of San Antonio, TX for a building site for a new Federal Courthouse. City ordinances concerning the transfer of land /money were approved during illegal city council meetings ( July 2009-April 2013) that would be declared null /void by a ruling against the Defendants .
Other Involved Parties
Whistleblower/Court Victim John Foddrill Sr
Other Corrupt involved Parties
Congressman Joaquin Castro
Mayor Julian Castro
City Attorney Michael D. Bernard
District Attorney Da Nico LaHood
Police Chief William McManus
Deputy City Manager Peter Zanoni
Chief Information Officer Michael Armstrong
Chief Information Officer Richard Varn
MORE INFO
“The Variable” Telephone Billing Account
Fraud upon the court
Texas Meeting Act Violations, and other “Closed Meetings”
911 Failure Scandal
HUD Fraud
Theft of Public Funds
Municpal Bond Fraud City of San Antonio, Texas
AACOG Scandal
San Antonio Police Department Raid July 4, 2011
Audio and Video Recordings
FBI & DOJ Cover Up
County Courthouse Probe
Council on Police Community Relations
Murder in the Bexar County Jail
“Fake News” The Cover up continues
Depositions
