WHEN IS EVIDENCE “SUFFICIENT?” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 29, 2018) — In the case of State of Tennessee v. Roy Cook, 2013-CR-197, which was dismissed by the prosecution in June of last year, the question of information missing from an email exchanged between Cook’s accuser and the prosecutor was left unresolved. The case began in […]
“THIS IS WHY I’M ON P.C. STATUS” by Sharon Rondeau (May 16, 2018) — A copy of a memo received by this publication on Tuesday states that an inmate at the Morgan County Correctional Complex (MCCX) is being extorted for money and threatened with physical harm as a result of his cousin, also an inmate […]
“I HAVE PROOF OF BEING EXTORTED” by Sharon Rondeau (May 7, 2018) — In an interview on Monday, an acquaintance of an inmate housed by the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) told this writer that he/she has made extortion payments to gang members in the hope of providing some measure of safety to the inmate […]
“IF ROY HADN’T DONE THOSE ARTICLES, THEY WOULD HAVE DISMISSED THE COMPLAINT” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 6, 2017) — A four-year-old Roane County, TN extortion case closed without a trial in late June continues to reveal new information which the former defendant, Roy Cook, is pursuing through the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (BOPR) in […]
“DON’T GIVE IN; IT’S WORTH THE FIGHT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 28, 2017) — On Monday, a case arising in April 2013 accusing Roy E. Cook of “extortion” was dismissed in the Roane County, TN Criminal Court by Judge Jeffery H. Wicks of Tennessee’s Ninth Judicial District. The allegation of extortion was made by Cook’s […]
BANK PRESIDENT & CEO, FORMER GRAND JURY FOREMAN, ADMITTED VETERAN DID NOT COMMIT PERJURY by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 14, 2017) — A sign saying “We Salute Our Vets” outside of the Athens Federal Community Bank in Athens, TN is belied by the actions of the bank’s president and CEO, Jeffrey L. Cunningham, who was the […]
TANGLED WEBS: GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, FACEBOOK, THE INTERNET GIVEAWAY, AND THE WILD, WILD WEST OF INFORMATION by Steven Neill, ©2016 (Nov. 21, 2016) — The use of lies and deception has been a standard tool of the trade for over a century by the government and their willing and/or unwilling stooges in the mainstream media. (1) A […]
“THE SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 31, 2016) — On October 3, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a review to a petition for a Writ of Certiorari filed by Atty. Van R. Irion, representing petitioner Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III in a case rejected by the Tennessee Supreme Court. The petition was filed […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (May 8, 2016) — “There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.” Walt Whitman, American Poet and Journalist, 1819 to 1892 * * * * * […]
FOUR-YEAR-OLD CASE CONTINUES WITH NO ANSWERS AS TO WHY EVIDENCE “EVIDENTLY” TAMPERED WITH by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 20, 2016) — On Friday, Roane County, TN citizen Roy Cook attended a scheduled hearing in a case arising in April 2013 charging him with extortion which has not yet gone to trial. Roane County is one of […]
THREE ATTORNEYS REFUSE TO FILE MOTION TO DISMISS by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 13, 2016) — On April 25, 2013, Roane County, TN citizen Roy Cook was indicted by the county grand jury on one count of “extortion,” a charge brought forward by his twin brother, Andrew Cook, who resides in Costa Rica. Roane County is […]
AFTER TENNESSEE HIGH COURT REFUSES TO HEAR APPEAL by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 17, 2016) — On November 4, 2015, Atty. Van Irion filed an Application for Permission to Appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on behalf of Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, who was incarcerated on August 19, 2014 […]
IN STATE OF TENNESSEE V. ROY COOK by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 26, 2015) — At the conclusion of court proceedings on August 18 at the Roane County, TN courthouse in Kingston in the case of State of Tennessee v. Roy Cook, a new hearing date was set for November 16 during which Cook’s allegations against […]
“MORE AKIN TO A NEWS BLOG” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 1, 2015) — As The Post & Email has reported, a hearing has been scheduled for November 16 in the case of State of Tennessee v. Roy Cook. In 2013, Cook’s twin brother, Andrew, alleged to the Roane County grand jury that Roy had committed […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2015 (Aug. 30, 2015) — It seems not a day goes by without more stories of the IRS’s incompetence, gross negligence and outright criminal behavior. Somehow a Russian got into the IRS computers and stole the private, personal data of over 300,000 taxpayers. The […]
DO TENNESSEE PROSECUTORS FOLLOW THE LAW OR CREATE THEIR OWN? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 18, 2015) — On Friday, a hearing took place in the prosecution of Roy Cook of Roane County, TN, on a charge of “extortion” dating back to April 2013. In a previous article dated June 27, The Post & Email reported […]
“NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE ALLEGATION” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 13, 2015) — On July 6, The Post & Email reported that a Tennessee resident contacted State Rep. John Forgety‘s office regarding the allegations made in several successive letters by TDOC prisoner #54003, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, who alleged that an instructor at the Northwest […]
“I DIDN’T START THIS FIGHT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 27, 2015) — In March, The Post & Email learned of a case brought against a Roane County, TN man, Roy Cook, by his twin brother Andrew, resulting in a grand jury indictment for extortion. Ninth Judicial District chief prosecutor Russell Johnson is pursuing the indictment […]
“NAME, RANK, SERIAL NUMBERS…” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 26, 2015) — The Post & Email has just received a mailing from CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.), who is imprisoned at the Northwest Correctional Institution (NWCX) in Tiptonville, TN, stating that on June 19, he was “backed into a corner” by a prison instructor, verbally […]
ATTY. VAN IRION: GRAND JURY WAS DEFECTIVE FROM THE OUTSET by Sharon Rondeau (May 21, 2015) — On Tuesday, oral argument was heard in the appeal of State of Tennessee v. Walter Fitzpatrick, 14CR69, in which CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) was convicted of “aggravated perjury” and “extortion” by a McMinn County, TN trial […]