Tag: undue command influence
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Criminal Complaint from 1998 Remains Unanswered in Fitzpatrick Forgery Case
“THIS HAS GOTTEN SO VERY, VERY BIG” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 7, 2013) — In 1989, CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) was said to have misused ship’s funds in the amount of $10,400 and subjected to a Special Court-Martial after he refused to admit wrongdoing. His admiral, John Bitoff, used his staff to construct…
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U.S. Marine Corps Retaliates Against Judge Advocate Whistleblower
IN CASE EERILY SIMILAR TO THAT OF CDR WALTER FRANCIS FITZPATRICK, III by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 27, 2013) — On Friday, the Marine Corps Times reported that Marine Corps Maj. James Weirick, a staff judge advocate who alleged undue command influence on the part of Marine Corps Commandant James Amos against eight Marines accused of…
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Scars and Stripes!
AN OPEN LETTER TO FOUR STAR ADMIRAL RONALD JOSEPH “ZAP” ZLATOPER by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, ©2013 September 17, 2013 Admiral Zlatoper, Rear Admiral John W. Bitoff, working closely and primarily with his staff JAG officer, Timothy William Zeller, began an unceasing flogging of me and what once was my family in 1989. Bitoff and…