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Dr. Uche Akwuba, LCE

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The Strange Case of the Unlawful Imprisonment
of a peace-loving Medical Doctor In the United States

Is there a hidden agenda?

http://www.drucheakwuba.net

Report by Cta. Emani Stewart, LCE

A law-abiding family man who teaches and practises nonviolent peace, good deeds, and unconditional love, was unlawfully imprisoned by agents and employees of the United States government, on trumped-up charges based on the false evidence, which they themselves had fabricated. We suspect a hidden agenda.

.Introductions...		Please switch to Full Screen
1	Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice, fabricated the false evidence. The Agents were led by Special Agent Michael Keeley, who is attached to the FBI’s New York City office.
2	Two United States federal government lawyers, known as prosecutors, trumped up the false charges and prosecuted the case. The two prosecutors on the case are Mr. Richard Strassberg and Mr. Marc Mukasey. Their official title is ‘Assistant United States Attorney’.
3	A United States federal court judge, who is an employee of the government’s Judiciary, sat in judgment. She is Hon. Shirley Wohl Kram, United States District Judge, in New York City.
4	The defense lawyer was Mr. Jacob Evseroff, a New York City lawyer with over 45 years’ experience. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
5	The unlawful sentence of imprisonment was for 46 months in prison, to be followed by 36 months of probation. As required by American law, 85% of the 46 months was actually served in prison, therefore the actual prison time came to 39 months (from July 1998 to November 2001 [4-02 MSD to 9-01 MSD]).

The medical doctor is Dr. Uche Akwuba (pronounced ‘Ak-woo-bah’). He holds medical degrees, with Honors, from the University of London, England; he has been a lawful and law-abiding resident of the United States since 1966 (4-34 MSD). Those who have met him confirm that his words and actions verify, time and again, that he loves and respects the United States, its people and its government. He is certain that the people and government of the United States love him in return. “It is a great and wonderful country”, he says.

So, what could have gone wrong here? Why would anyone trump up criminal charges against a good and innocent man? Something strange seems to be underway.

It appears that certain agents and employees of the United States government, working under the cover of governmental authority, have been (and, no doubt, are still being) driven by some kind of a perverse desire to ruin the doctor’s family life, his livelihood, and his good name. Why else would they wreak so much havoc on an innocent man, who has nothing but love and respect for the United States and for his fellow human beings? He has lived peacefully and productively in the United States for more than 34 years, and has raised a beautiful family here.

The actions of these agents and employees run completely counter to the democratic principles of the United States, as a country. What the agents are doing is so completely different from what the United States stands for, that one must conclude that this particular group of agents and employees could not possibly be working for the people and government of any democratic government, let alone the government of the democratic United States. Judging by their actions, they are clearly “marching to the beat of a different drum”, an unidentified private drum at that.

I have strong support for this thesis: During his imprisonment, Dr. Akwuba made, at least, two requests (and one appeal for review) under the United States Freedom of Information Act, to the FBI, for a copy of the FBI’s records on him. The Freedom of Information Act obligates the FBI to provide a copy of its files to the subject of the FBI’s investigation. However, the doctor’s request yielded a surprising response. The FBI wrote in its response, as late as 2001 (9-01 MSD), that “Dr. Akwuba has never been of investigatory interest to the FBI”. In view of this unexpected response by the FBI, two questions naturally arise:

2. If the “official FBI” is telling the truth - and it is supposed to - who is Special Agent Michael Keeley working for? Where are his files on his fabricated case? If he is using the FBI for cover, who then is his real employer?

After extensive discussions with Dr. Akwuba on the subject, I will now refer to Mr. Keeley’s unidentified real employer as “the Club”. The Club must also be the employer of a well-placed staff of “government” agents and employees who perform its bidding. Since the Club is obviously not the true government of the United States, it must be working towards some hidden agenda. But what could its hidden agenda be?

Consider this critical question: If there had indeed been a genuine criminal case against Dr. Akwuba, why did the Club not proceed against him through a lawful prosecution? Why did the Club, instead, choose to break the law by resorting to the fabrication of false evidence and to perjury? Why did the Club block the expert analysis of an audiotape, which turns out to be the Club’s only “proof” of wrongdoing by Dr. Akwuba? (The doctor insists that it is because such analysis by a government-approved expert, would have conclusively documented the fabricated nature of the Club’s “proof”.) And why did the Club resort to blackmail in successfully preventing a witness from testifying in Dr. Akwuba’s favor?

It is significant that the Club’s FBI Agents, led by Special Agent Keeley, arrested Dr. Akwuba in February 1996 (4-04 MSD) but began his court trial only in September 1998 (4-02 MSD), more than two and a half years later. It took the Club more than two and a half years to marshal its evidence against the doctor but, in the end, it found that Dr. Akwuba had not broken any law. The Club then proceeded to break the law by illegally charging and prosecuting the doctor on the basis of the false testimony and the fabricated evidence which it had, by itself, manufactured.

The trial of the innocent doctor, at the United States federal courts in New York City, lasted for 21 days in the month of September, 1998 (4-02 MSD). It turned out to be a sham trial, shamelessly staged by the Club. The average United States citizen would have been ashamed and disgusted. All lovers of democracy, everywhere, would have been shocked and angry. Consider the following: Though New York City is teeming with Africans (Dr. Akwuba is one), and though a jury is supposed to reflect the population mix of its area, the case against the doctor was decided by a 12-person federal jury that included not even one African.

Years ago, the people and government of the United States passed democratic laws, which officially outlawed racial discrimination. Since then, federal juries are no longer officially permitted to be biased and, consequently, no responsible person will, without clear evidence, suggest that the jury at the doctor’s trial was biased. But as everyone knows, America (of which this writer is a native-born citizen) has a difficult history in the matter of race. And since any country’s history is an indelible part of its essence, two questions become relevant here:

(a) Why did the prosecutors fight so openly and so hard to exclude all Africans from the jury? By Africans here, I mean African-Americans; there was no African-born African in the jury pool.

(b) Prosecutors, as representatives of a prestigious government, are obligated to obey the law and uphold justice. Why did they not carry out their routine obligation by helping to ensure that all 12 members of the jury were African? After all, with regard to any defendant, American law requires that the jury be a “jury of his peers”. Africans are Dr. Akwuba’s peers; Europeans, technically, cannot be.

The European jury was not deliberately biased, but, because of its composition, it probably did not care enough to become aware of the Club’s lies and all the play-acting. A jury that included some of the doctor’s peers, may have cared more; it may have cared enough to recognize the legalistic tricks that were being played in open court.

At the trial, and as the court records show, Dr. Akwuba personally and repeatedly brought to the attention of the judge, the fact that the Club was using fabricated evidence against him. In spite of his persistent efforts in this regard, the judge chose to do nothing about this clear misconduct of the prosecutors and their witnesses. She could, however, not help referring to the doctor, according to the same court records, as “a most unusual defendant”.

“I was quote-unquote most unusual”, says the doctor, “because I was innocent and shocked to see myself accused of a crime and being robbed of my freedom and denied justice, by those whose duty it was to guarantee me those American values. I suppose the judge may have been concerned by the fact that, in spite of my lack of knowledge of the law, I continued to put items on the record that prove my innocence.”

People who do not have any direct personal experience, may not realize that defendants in federal criminal trials in America are under the constant threat of physical injury. That threat of violence is at the hands of the federal government employees who are known as marshals. Federal marshals operate among defendants as thinly disguised bullies. Because of that ever-present threat of physical violence, defendants in American federal criminal courts are deathly afraid to speak out without the judge’s express permission. Even when they know that their constitutional rights to a fair trial are being trampled upon. If they speak out, they face the swift and certain penalty of severe physical injury at the hands of federal marshals, outside the court room.

In Dr. Akwuba’s case, the judge’s permission to speak out on critical issues was expressly denied. As a result, the doctor was absolutely prevented from ever bringing to the attention of the jury, four crucial facts that would certainly have changed the outcome of the trial.

The following four facts would have changed the outcome of the trial, had Dr. Akwuba been allowed to present them to the trial jury. Judge for yourself:

.	Four Facts That Would Have Changed The Outcome...
1	The indictment against Dr. Akwuba was obtained through the perjury of the Club’s FBI Agent, Agent Michael Keeley. The Agent had lied in his testimony before the grand jury. Assuming that an FBI Agent would not lie under oath, the grand jury accepted the lies as true and issued the indictment. But according to American law, if an indictment is obtained through perjury, that indictment is illegal and, therefore, void and of no effect. Consequently, Dr. Akwuba could not, lawfully, have been arrested, charged, or tried.
2	The prosecutor’s case against Dr. Akwuba was based on false, fabricated evidence. The fabrication of evidence is itself a crime under American law.
3	The Club’s leading FBI Agent, Special Agent Keeley, was again telling lies under oath during his testimony at this trial. Agent Keeley was the government’s principal witness against Dr. Akwuba, at the trial. In lying to the trial jury during his testimony, Special Agent Keeley committed a serious criminal offense under American law. His testimony of lies cannot be accepted by the court, once exposed.
4	Dr. Akwuba was ready to provide to the jury, absolute proof of these facts. But his defense attorney, the prosecutors, and the judge, acting in concert, completely denied him the opportunity to do so, though such an opportunity is absolutely guaranteed to him, by American law.

At the same strange trial, Dr. Akwuba was, as mentioned in the ‘Introductions’ box, represented by Mr. Jacob Evseroff, a senior, private lawyer whom he had retained, at the recommendation of a friend, Ms. Harriet W. Thomas. But unbeknownst to the doctor, Mr. Evseroff had decided to send him to prison. With no prior experience in any criminal procedure to guide him, the doctor had no idea what his lawyer was doing. Dr. Akwuba assumed that, like any professional man, such as himself, the lawyer was duty-bound to genuinely defend his client. But he was sadly mistaken. In the two months that the doctor was held in prison just prior to the trial, his conversations with other prisoners opened his eyes to his lawyer’s real interest. Mr. Evseroff’s interest was in total conflict with his own; Dr. Akwuba wanted to win, Mr. Evseroff wanted him to lose.

Mr. Evseroff brazenly informed this writer, at least 15 times, both before and during the doctor’s trial, that he would not lift a finger to help Dr. Akwuba. Mr. Evseroff, by his actions, proved to be a man of his word.

The doctor was fortunate that some of his fellow prisoners were what lawyers derisively refer to as “jailhouse lawyers”. Jailhouse lawyers are prisoners who have acquired some legal knowledge and are happy to share what they know with their fellow prisoners. The jailhouse lawyers, who are, in fact, highly respected fellow prisoners, (in New York City and Otisville federal prisons) helped Dr. Akwuba to begin to understand what his real situation was. He soon realized, to his shock and dismay, that contrary to his expectations, his lawyer was, instead, cooperating with the Club’s unlawful effort to send him to prison and thereby violate his freedom, destroy his business, and saddle him with the perceived burden of a criminal record.

With that realization, Dr. Akwuba had no choice but to dismiss his conflicted, two-faced lawyer and engage another, conflict-free lawyer. While still in prison, he immediately interviewed another attorney for that purpose, and requested to see the judge in order to make the change.

The doctor’s realization (of his lawyer’s true interest) occurred about 2 weeks before the trial was scheduled to begin. At his earliest opportunity and in accordance with American law, Dr. Akwuba requested the judge’s permission to dismiss Mr. Evseroff, his conflicted lawyer, and replace him with another. Such a request, known as a ‘motion’, is, by law, routinely granted. Strangely, and to Dr. Akwuba’s utter surprise, the judge refused the request, or as they say in law, she “denied the motion”. The denial of the motion allowed the conflicted attorney to stay on and “defend” Dr. Akwuba. Therefore, at his trial, the doctor had a defense attorney who was in open conflict with him, but who was, at the same time, cooperating under the table with the other side. Mr. Evseroff was playing this double role while pretending, to the jury, that he was conscientiously defending Dr. Akwuba.

It was quite a performance. With over 45 years of criminal law experience behind him, the “defense” attorney was able to appear to be doing all the right things. He made a lawyer’s objections at certain points during the trial, and he made other “right” but meaningless, superficial moves. And, by deftly using his long experience as a trial lawyer, Mr. Evseroff was easily able to deceive the unsuspecting jury as to his true interest.

Even more strangely, Mr. Evseroff, the doctor’s defense attorney, chose to cooperate with his client’s accusers, though he knew their accusation to be false. The defense attorney, by his own choice, became an eager and hardworking employee of the Club.

The ultimate result of Judge Kram’s denial of Dr. Akwuba’s motion was, therefore, to guarantee a guilty verdict even before the trial began. And a guarantee of an unjust verdict before any trial, makes the trial itself a blatant sham.

Dr. Akwuba was held in the maximum security federal prison in New York City and taken back and forth to court, for each of the 21 days of the trial. After the trial and still in prison, the doctor began his appeals of the illegal charges, the illegal conviction, the sham trial, and the unlawful imprisonment. His hopes were that the federal government’s other employees, who are not working for the Club, would become aware of his case and insist that justice be done. (He also sent letters on the case to the Chairmen of Committees of the Congress of the United States, to individual United States Senators and to members of the United States House of Representatives, to the Director of the FBI, to Amnesty International, and to leading newspapers.)

Now, here is a truth that Dr. Akwuba says might be hard for those, who have no direct personal experience, to believe. “I would not have believed it myself, absent my own personal experience”, he says. “It is a surprising fact that the United States prison system is physically and psychologically loaded with restrictions and obstacles that make it almost impossible for a prisoner to appeal his or her conviction, no matter how tainted the process of conviction might have been. This is why we sometimes hear about a prisoner who, after spending many years on death-row, is finally released because DNA evidence finally confirms that he could not have committed the crime for which he was awaiting execution. Who knows how many were not so lucky and were wrongly executed, while their genuine protestations of innocence were attributed to their lack of remorse?”

“Every federal government prisoner”, continues Dr. Akwuba, “is supposed to have the right to free and full access to the courts, and that sounds good. But, in practice, that right is so extensively whittled down that it essentially does not exist. No system is perfect, of course, but this fatal weakness of the American criminal justice system would work to the advantage of any undemocratic clique that sets out to abuse the system”. I postulate that the Club is such a clique.

Prisoners, who appeal their cases, do what they can, under the difficult conditions of prison, and so did Dr. Akwuba. But on top of those routine difficulties and restrictions, the doctor’s appellate process has been intentionally delayed by the Club. Consider this example:

A habeas corpus motion is an application to the court which tried the case, to release the movant from unlawful imprisonment by dismissing trumped-up and other unlawful charges, and by correcting other serious errors. Such an application would follow the denial of a prisoner’s direct appeal by the United States Court of Appeals (which, because of its narrow focus on technicalities, is so easy for prosecutors to mislead). The doctor’s direct appeal was, again, strangely mishandled by a court-appointed (court-paid) Club lawyer, named Ms. Nancy Lee Ennis. After the Court of Appeals denied his deliberately mishandled direct appeal, Dr. Akwuba filed his habeas corpus motion in March, 2001 (9-01 MSD). He filed the motion this time (how else?) as his own jailhouse lawyer.

On one occasion, the prosecutors requested the judge to extend the time within which they were required, by law, to respond to the doctor’s habeas corpus motion. But they made their request some six weeks after the expiration of an earlier extension, which the judge had previously granted them. (Dr. Akwuba opposed the extensions by writing Judge Kram that “the prosecutors were asking for more time in order to deliberately prolong the unlawful imprisonment of an innocent man”.)

Now hear this: ignoring the fact that the prosecutors were asking for 60 more days, after being already late by some 45 days, the judge granted them another extension. But note this: she granted them another extension of 63 days, 3 days more than they had dared to request. The word “dare” is appropriate here because the prosecutors knew that their efforts at further delay were clearly unreasonable. Even they could not bring themselves to ask for more than 60 days.

“There is a perverse and powerful clique that works to subvert the true essence of America...”

On the surface, 3 days are not a lot of time; it is the message embedded in the granting of those extra days that makes all the difference. The judge chose to grant the prosecutors more time than they had dared to request. Granting less time than requested, is the norm. Granting exactly what is requested, is fairly common. But granting more time than requested, now that is very unusual. This is just one example of the many strange actions of Judge Kram.

Because of all these manufactured delays, Dr. Akwuba’s appeal is still in process as of January 2002 (9-02 MSD) and is proceeding very slowly, almost 6 years after he was arrested. With the additional 3 days they were granted, the prosecutors were ordered by Judge Kram to respond on or before December 18, 2001 (9-01 MSD) or be in default. This is January, and they have failed to respond; they are therefore in willful default and have, by American law, forfeited their right to respond.

Dr. Akwuba says, “I have absolute faith in the system, and I fully expect to win because I am completely innocent”. But then, he also cautions, “It appears that there is a perverse and powerful clique that works to subvert the true essence of America, the same America that the world has come to recognize and love through its movies, its television, and its legend”.

Dr. Akwuba goes on to say, “As everyone with my real-life experience definitely knows, such a subversive clique can destroy the freedom and justice which America represents in the eyes of the world. In spite of the good intentions of the American government, and in spite of the will of the vast majority of the citizens of these United States, perfidy is alive and well. That perfidious element clearly has direct access to power, an alarming access to destructive power. Knowing what I know now, and I know it through the hot crucible of personal experience, I expect my ultimate (and inevitable) victory to be slow and costly, and my path to success to be filled with fabricated obstacles.”

Continues Dr. Akwuba, “I have recently been advised to file, in the American federal courts and under American law, criminal charges against the government agents and employees who have so brazenly violated my constitutional rights. These rights are the same basic human rights which, all the world knows, are guaranteed by the United States Constitution. But these are also the same courts that seem to be so strangely controlled by those against whom my case would be directed. Does it even make sense to consider such a lawsuit?”

“They stand guilty of unprovoked attempts to work undeserved hardship on an innocent man...”

The doctor adds, “Needless to say, the resources of the people I would be going up against, if I were to decide to file such a lawsuit, are unlimited, their reach, power and influence unequaled. They would be the same strange individuals who, under the false cover of governmental authority, appear to be pursuing a private, hidden agenda.”

Dr. Akwuba concludes by saying, “But, no matter what these unusual individuals do, no matter how much they may be able to abuse a system that was intended to be fair, they all stand guilty in Natural Law, before their Creator. Before the Source of all things, they stand guilty of unprovoked attempts to work undeserved hardship on an innocent man. They broke the laws of their country and, above all, they broke the unchangeable and inflexible Laws of Nature. And they did so in broad daylight. These people may therefore find it hard to understand that, in spite of what they are doing, I do love all of them unconditionally.”

Dr. Akwuba, also known as ‘the Teacher’, reminds everyone that the Source of all things has placed the entire universe under unchangeable Natural Law. Natural Law includes physical natural laws, such as the laws of gravity and of electromagnetism. Physical natural laws are many and they control the physical, chemical, and biological relationships in the physical world. But there is also a specific group of these immutable natural laws which controls human relationships. This specific group controls, without exception, all human relationships. The specific, human-relationship controlling group consists of four natural laws which are, together, known as ‘the Four Great Natural Laws’. The first of the four, the First Great Natural Law, is also known as ‘the Law of Personal Responsibility’.

The Law of Personal Responsibility states that you alone are responsible for your every action, and you alone will be rewarded for your Good Deeds and punished for your evil deeds; the rewards and punishments always begin in this life, not later. Your reward or punishment is always in proportion to the seriousness or the significance of your deeds. It is just as important to also realize that from these Great Natural Laws, no one is exempt, no one can escape. No one can escape from the Great Natural Laws, just as no one can escape from the natural physical law of gravity, in spite of the well-known illusion of weightlessness in orbiting spacecraft.

While the slow process of his pursuit of justice continues on its strangely obstructed way, Dr. Akwuba says, “I should mention this: I do not drink, I do not smoke, I do not take any drugs, and I am not suicidal. Should anything untoward happen to me, all those involved in executing the fabricated and unlawful case against me (plus their contacts, agents, and hired hands) must be the prime suspects.” This statement by the doctor puts the Club where it does not want to be: under the spotlight.

So what could the Club’s hidden agenda be, seeing that it has wrought so much harm on an innocent, peace-loving man? What could be the secret agenda of these strange people who are able to operate so confidently and so openly under color of government authority?

Dr. Akwuba himself says that the strange secret may lie in an extraordinary message known as the Message of the Morning Star. (Here is your key to the free gift, which the doctor promised you for reading this Report. Please complete your reading, then come back to this paragraph and click the key for your free gift. Congratulations!)

For detailed information on the Message of the Morning Star, please click http://www.wemsa.net. When you do, you will be viewing the introductory Report on the Message, at the website of the World Morning Star Association. The World Morning Star Association, also known because of its initials as WeMSA, is a worldwide cultural organization that teaches and practises Nonviolent Peace, Good Deeds, and Unconditional Love. Membership in the World Morning Star Association is open to everyone, registration is free, there are no membership dues, and membership carries no obligations, though membership guarantees valuable privileges. (You can join WeMSA, online, at the website of the World Morning Star Association: http://www.wemsa.net.)

Dr. Akwuba, who lives by the Four Pillars of the Morning Star, says, “The Club would be much better off, if it would begin to live by the same Four Pillars.”

The strange case against Dr. Akwuba is a prime example of the abuse of lawful authority by an arrogant clique. The government of the United States has nothing but respect for the doctor, and the doctor has nothing but love for the government and people of the United States. In the criminal prosecution of the innocent doctor, we see a vicious clique’s abuse of the criminal justice system of a great and powerful country. All Americans, and indeed all lovers of justice and fair-play everywhere, must be outraged.

This Report will be updated as significant information on the case becomes available. (Please click here for an update.)