A woman sat in the back of the cold, outdated courtroom. She appeared to have no purpose. I was there seeking a restraining order against my neighbor Tiffany Berg in Brookings, Oregon two years of conduct that I consider harassment, culminating in what I perceived as a threat involving a firearm.

 

Over two years, several incidents occurred that caused me concern. On one occasion, while I was driving on Highway 101, Tiffany Berg passed multiple vehicles on Highway 101 to pull up behind me to videotape me. I filed a police report, but the Brookings police did nothing.On another occasion, while I was walking into Cascade Home Center, Tiffany drove into the parking lot in her large white SUV and made gestures at me. I believed she might strike me with her vehicle as she zoomed away without stopping to enter the store. So why was she there? Again, I filed a police report, and again the police did nothing.

 

On yet another occasion, Berg's flew a drone near my head while I was on my own property. I filed a police report and they did nothing.For the restraining order, I submitted a notarized affidavit from a former worker who stated that, while working on my property, without interacting with Tiffany, she yelled, “I fear for my life and I am armed.” She then repeated the statement to me without being provoked.

 

Therefore, because Tiffany has made many false statements about me, I believe she might shoot me to get her way, I was behind a 6-foot fence and not armed. What, was I going to jump over a 6-foot fence? So, I filed for a restraining order, which the Brookings police told me to do. However, despite presenting a lot of evidence, my request was denied. After the ruling, I left, asking the middle-age brunette woman bearing eye glasses sitting in the back of the courtroom whether she was there on Tiffany's behalf. She said no.

 

When I first purchased property in Brookings, I hired a local worker, who had been recommended. Although this worker frequently failed to appear as scheduled, I continued working with him. Early on, he told me he did not have a driver's license but was in the process of obtaining one, which I needed for my 1031.After months without receiving the documentation, I filed a small claims action. Later, I tried to dismiss the case but was denied.

 

At the small claims hearing, Tiffany Berg attended with her husband, Robert which was confusing because neither testified, and neither had knowledge of my business relationship. They simply sat in the back of the courtroom. But why, to influence Judge Margolis - the same judge who denied my protective order - just by sitting in back of the court - they would influence this judge by their mere presence?

 

These experiences reminded me of an earlier experience in Santa Barbara. I remember wondering, who was sitting in back of the court room that Judge Denise deBellefuille kept looking at.When my son was 14, I sought reasonable child support, more than the $250 a month I received for 14 year. This amount was determined while my son's father's former wife, Debra Mullin, worked for Santa Barbara Child Support Services. She was 1 of 3 attorneys.

 

Years later, I discovered that my son's father owned an apartment complex and that the property manager Valerie Sweatt submitted net income to SBCSS rather than gross as the law required, which is why I received so little. Therefore, I filed suit.During my hearing before Judge Denise deBellefuille, I noticed a couple sitting in the back of the courtroom. Throughout the proceeding, the judge kept looking at them. Who were they?

 

So, pay attention to who is sitting in back of the room.

 

Regarding my son’s apartment, the trustee Eric Babian (I think) filed that my son’s father Eric Johnsen is the trustee of the Johnsen trust after my son's father died. But how can a dead man be a trustee? This is fraud.In my case, the Santa Barbara Tax Accessor didn’t hesitate to strip me of my Proposition 13 rights – and didn’t tell me about it for 2 years where then I couldn’t do anything about the reassessment that caused my yearly property tax to go from $8,000 to over $18,000 a year.

 

I filed a criminal complaint with the Santa Barbara DA because filing that a dead man is a trustee is fraud designed to steal my son’s property left to him by his dad. It also puts my son at risk by the trustee Eric Babain of Woodland Hills not identifying himself for an apartment that is falling apart as the property manager Valerie Sweat and Eric Barbain suck the money out of the apartment that is earning almost $20,000 monthly; an apartment 1/2 block from the entrance of the University of California in SB.

 

The motive for deeming a dead man a trustee is that generally when one dies or a transfer from an irrevocable trust occurs as in my case, proper paperwork with the tax accessor is required such as the parent/child exemption form and a copy of the trust designating my son, my son's father's only child, as beneficiary. By avoiding this paperwork thru fraud, Eric Barbain avoids making the trust, which in my opinion is not what my son's dad intended, public and identifiable if an accident were to occur at the dilapidated apartment the trustee and property manager refuse to maintain.

 

So, why is the DA not doing anything? No one close to my son’s father witnessed the trust that Eric Babian drafted. Is he stealing my son’s inheritance by drafting a document that benefited him instead of my son - taking advantage of an old man with caner during Covid? Is Eric Babaian of Woodland Hills, an attorney above the law in Santa Barbara? It appears so.

 

What for my PodCast about this. I interviewed the tenants of the apartment and took pictures of the apartment building that the trustee is NOT maintaining.

 

But is this how our courts work?Where is justice? When will we hold our judges accountable for fraud and the District Attorneys who refuse to hold the well-connected accountable?

 

Who is sitting in the back of the court room?