In Part 5, the “Outsiders” continue their undercover investigation into Liberty County Officials and others who have perpetuated fraud upon the people of our county. Now for the rest of the story!
Our report begins in "Taking Liberty, Part 2," wherein Constable Royce L. Wheeler, denied he was in charge of the gun range while the Outsiders were locating hidden records demonstrating Constable Wheeler was in fact in charge of the gun range. (See Attachment #1, a letter indicating Wheeler runs the range) Eventually, while under pressure of our investigation, Constable Wheeler suggested we direct our attention towards our County Clerk, Ms. Delia Sellers. According to Wheeler, Ms. Sellers maintains the requested PIA records showing who manages the range.
On 05-09-2010, a PIA request was sent to Ms. Sellers who was “non-responsive” to our request. (See Attachments #2 and #3, our PIA Request and Sellers’ Non-responsive Response) During this time of “non-responsiveness” on Ms. Sellers’ part, a complaint was filed with the Texas Attorney General's Office. The Texas Attorney General's Office then started their investigation into Ms. Sellers attempt to hide and conceal records. (See Attachments #4 and #5, our Complaint to A.G. and the A.G.’s letter to Ms. Sellers) To date, as previously reported, our Liberty County Clerk, Ms. Sellers, remains non-responsive to our PIA request regarding who manages the gun range. Additionally, Ms. Sellers remains non-responsive to questions posed by our Texas Attorney General.
At first, the investigation was without explanation as to why Ms. Sellers remains so evasive to our PIA request and that of the Texas Attorney General’s office. Then, we uncovered evidence demonstrating Ms. Sellers as a co-conspirator to fraud perpetrated on innocent people in Liberty County. This fraud will ultimately cause families and their children to lose their homes during hard economic times. We bring this issue to the forefront first, because it involves the innocent, often forgotten after falling victim to a crime by criminals.
This undercover investigation first began to produce fruit while researching the origins of the gun range via its property Deeds. We had determined in “Taking Liberty, Part 2” there had been an inappropriate taking of land from a convicted drug dealer; allegedly out of “natural love and affection which I have and bear for the COUNTY OF LIBERTY, TEXAS” for the purpose of building a law enforcement gun range. (See attachment #6, DEED OF GIFT) During our search, we discovered evidence of missing Deeds and other documents throughout Ms. Sellers' office. That discovery produced court documents demonstrating attorneys with the law firm of Pickett & Pickett, P.C. of Liberty, Texas, Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, of Houston, Texas, Stephen J. Zayler, Attorney and U.S. Trustee for the Eastern District of Texas who made numerous attempts to obtain certified copies of land Deeds, but failed to find them. Additionally, we received Affidavits from two witnesses, Mr. John Stockton and Ms. Susan Barton who, while under oath stated that on July 17, 2002, they discovered that Ms. Sellers removed or caused to be removed several property Deeds. At first glace, it would appear this was just the same old story involving Stockton vs. Fairchild legal battle. However, following the evidence and the patterns/MO of Ms. Delia Sellers’ not responding to requests were repetitive, and often there were other sources to substantiate the accusations of her participation as a co-conspirator. The following incidents, in chronological order, are just some of the examples of non-responsiveness by Ms. Delia Sellers’ office. Upon careful review of Sellers perpetual personal policy of her “non-responsiveness” to legal request for information; People of Liberty County, the State of Texas and the Attorney General’s Office, including but not limited to U.S. District Judge, are examples the Outsiders use to determine the patterns of non-responsiveness were in fact deliberate acts to perpetuate fraud on the public in exchange for her personal monetary gain paid to her we now believe by Fairchild.
One Texas law firm, COTTON BLEDSOE TIGHE & DAWSON, P.C., on 06-19-2000, requested certified copies of land Deeds from Ms. Sellers that produced a non-responsive response and costing $600.00 in attorney fees for the request. Cause # 60,720, John E. Stockton, William Burton and his Wife, Susan Burton v. Russell J. Fairchild; in the 75th Judicial District Court of Liberty County, Texas. (See attachment #7, Statement letter for legal services depicting attorney’s fee for search of Fairchild Deeds) The fact of the matter is, when the attorney cannot locate the requested certified copies of Property Deeds from Ms. Sellers, someone is hiding the records of Russell Fairchild and someone was receiving money for their services. This was one of the first of many acts as a Co-conspirator of Russell Fairchild by Ms. Sellers.
Moreover, the United State District Courts Trustee, (Mr. Stephen J. Zayler, Chapter 7 Trustee Eastern District of Texas, Attorney at Law located at 123 E. Lufkin Ave. Lufkin, Texas 75915) made numerous requests of Ms. Sellers in Bankruptcy case number 02-10536 for certified copies of the Fairchild property Deeds to no avail, demonstrating Ms. Sellers’ non-responsiveness once again. Do we detect a pattern here regarding Ms. Sellers and her non-responsive responses? Remember folks; our Co-conspirator Ms. Sellers is the only one in charge of our records and holds the key for access to those records 24-7. Keep reading folks because the conspiracy between Fairchild and Sellers thickens.
Mr. Zayler, frustrated with Ms. Sellers, filed a Motion to Pay Kip Price and Smithcorp Real Estate Services $8,625.00 for their professional investigation of the land Deed documents sought after. Folks, Mr. Zayler is a well respected attorney with 14 plus years of experience as a US Trustee. Additionally, Mr. Zayler has collected thousands of deeds to properties over the years. It is obvious at this point that a lawyer of this caliber must have experienced serious problems with Ms. Sellers and her filing system. (See attachment #13, Trustee’s Motion to Pay Kip Price and Smithcorp Real Estate Services, L. C.) This attempt produced nothing from Ms. Sellers’ record retention system. Please note that the #13 attachment (Motion/Order) includes an Affidavit from the Real Estate Abstractor demonstrating his competency and that the Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge, Bill Parker, approved the motion on 08-29-2008 and had adjudicated that Kip Price and Smithcorp Real Estate Services, L. C. was competent to do the deed searches.
Moreover, in chronological order, the Outsiders began their investigation into allegations of Ms. Sellers hiding and/or removing records from the public's eye. A PIA request sent to Ms. Sellers on 05-09-2010 only to fall upon deaf ears with her typical non-responsive response to our request. (See Attachments #2 & #3, mentioned earlier)
Then on 07-19-2010, the Outsiders filed a Complaint with the Texas Attorney Generals Office regarding Ms. Sellers' non-responsive response to their request. (See Attachments #4, mentioned earlier) Meanwhile, we, the Outsiders, were noticing the pattern of non-responsiveness by Ms. Sellers’ Office. So we looked further into the matter.
It was discovered via court documents in the Russell Fairchild bankruptcy case that Federal District Judge Bill Parker had ordered that all of the property located in Liberty County formerly owned by Russell Fairchild be sold. The U. S. Bankruptcy Trustee was then authorized to sell the property. (See attachment #14, the authority given to the Bankruptcy Trustee) However, it is important for the reader to know that Russell Fairchild was barred from selling his properties from the moment he filed bankruptcy. This is called an automatic stay, which means you can do nothing with the property without the court's permission.
Please note that this series of evidence against Ms. Delia Sellers spans over a 10-year period. The records show that in this bankruptcy case # 02-10536, Ms. Delia Sellers’ Non-responsiveness has cost numerous people many days and hours of searching and over $9,225.00 dollars in cost directly relating to searching for the missing Deeds belonging to Fairchilds. After 10-years of non-responsiveness, we wondered what it would take to change Ms. Sellers’ belligerence short of paying her off.
Then, the Texas Attorney Generals Office sent a letter to Ms. Sellers on 08-09-2010 suggesting she simply answer the question and reminded her that the Texas Attorney Generals Office was empowered by law to enforce PIA Statutes and laws. (See Attachments #5,) Ms. Sellers has remained moot on that subject matter ever since. However, Ms. Sellers, her office staff, and many other government officials now knew that the Texas Attorney General was watching them. Additionally, the Outsiders were now demonstrating a knack for finding hidden documents and were now publishing their findings on a regular basis for the people of Liberty County to read.
It was also discovered via court documents in the Russell Fairchild bankruptcy case that the Thomas family had recently purchased all of the property from the U. S. Bankruptcy Trustee by Order of the Federal District Judge Bill Parker.
Upon further investigation, we contacted the Thomas family where we discovered that they too had difficulty getting the Deed records to the property, but after paid professionals had failed to get the records, the Thomas family succeeded. It seemed that the pattern of non-responsiveness had changed. However, when they looked at the deed records they were surprised to see pictures of houses. It was then apparent that after Russell Fairchild had lost the rights to his properties in bankruptcy court, he managed to hide those property records with the help of Ms. Delia Sellers. Then Russell Fairchild sold the properties he no longer owned to several local families. Meanwhile, Ms. Delia Sellers and several other government officials continued to hide those property records to perpetuate the fraud upon their victims.
The Outsiders know there will be trouble for the families who bought properties from Russell Fairchild as they are living in homes they think they are purchasing, yet clearly belong to someone else. Ms. Delia Sellers and several other government employees have worked together to obfuscate the records in order to help Russell Fairchild perpetuate his fraudulent acts upon Mr. Stockton, the United States District Courts, several local families within Liberty County, and now the Thomas family. We asked the Thomas family for a statement and we were told that they would be filing a complaint with the Sheriff’s Office. Ms. Thomas said she felt bad for the families now living in the homes, some of the people have children, and it just breaks our heart. It’s a shame... criminals never think about the families they harm.
We are continuing our investigation, but a quick drive by of the properties in question showed us all we needed to know: Toys in front of one house, elderly on the front-porch of another. There are many innocent victims of this fraud and we, the Outsiders, can’t help but weep for them. Ms. Delia Sellers recently made a political statement about re-electing her as County Clerk because “we can trust her with our wills after we die.” It seems we can’t even trust her with our land deeds while we’re still alive and living on what we think is our own land.
We put a lot of trust in the people we hire as public servants, perhaps now the public can understand why we, the Outsiders, are working so hard to put an end to government related Organized Criminal Activity.
Stay tuned for our new series, Taking Liberty Back, Part 1. “The tide turns.”
#1 11-19-2009 Wheeler agreement with Sheriffs Office regarding Range Contract.pdf
#2 05-09-2010 TORA request to Sellers requesting Delegation of Authority to Manage Range & info on Keys.pdf
#3 06-03-2010 Sellers Unresponsive Response Letter and Envelope.pdf
#4 07-19-2010 Complaint to Texas AG with Attachments and copy of envelope.pdf
#5 08-09-2010 Letter from Texas AG to SELLERS.pdf
#6 05-11-2010 Response from County Atty for Hunt regarding Deed of Gift.pdf
#7 09-15-2000 Statement letter for legal services.pdf
#8 10-18-1999 Letter from Russell Fairchilds Atty Carl Pickett with attached phoney Deed to secure loan from Stockton.pdf
#9 True Copy of unaltered Deed - Tract 1 of Exhibit A page 1 of 7 - Edward Tanner Survey of 36.5 Certified Copy.pdf
#10 True Copy of unaltered Deed - Tract 2 of Exhibit A page 1 of 7 - Samuel Stong Two-Third League, A-110 130 Ac tract.pdf
#11 Affidavit of John Stockton.pdf
#12 Affidavit of Susan Barton.pdf
#13 Trustees Motion to Pay Kip Price to find Fairchild Land Deeds 08-28-2008.pdf
#14 06-23-2010 Order on Motion by Trustee for Attorney to sell Debtor's Interest in real Property.pdf
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