Carten & Gibbs Lawsuit Targets American Corporation, Maximus, Inc.

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The Federal Court of Canada lawsuit launched by John Carten and Karen Gibbs, in January 2008, took another nasty turn, yesterday, with Mr. Carten and Ms. Gibbs delivering of a Motion Record to opposing legal counsel seeking leave to proceed with an application to find the Defendant, Themis Program Management and Consulting Ltd., in contempt of the Federal Court of Canada.   NAFTAwaterwarcrimes.com

At issue is the bizarre conduct of Themis employee, Joanne Platt, who was witnessed engaging in some form of secret non verbal communication with Mr. Justice Peter Leask on August 22, 2008, when Mr. Carten was defending himself on a charge of criminal harassment brought against him by the Governments of Canada and British Columbia on the basis of a fraudulent statement given to the police by a British Columbia government employee who, like Themis, is a Defendant in the Federal Court of Canada lawsuit.

Mr. Carten was eventually acquitted but the conduct of Ms. Platt remains unexamined and Themis has refused, for several months, to explain why its employee, a lawyer, attended the court proceeding and engaged in secret communications with the assigned trial judge. Witnesses saw the trial judge vigorously shaking his head at Ms. Platt who was sitting in the gallery making gestures and facial expressions but not saying anything. There are unconfirmed reports the Mr. Justice Peter Leask is a Freemason and it has been suggested by investigators that Ms. Platt may have been using secret Freemasonic signals to communicate with Justice Leask who clearly refused to co-operate in what appears to have been an attempt to fix the outcome of the prosecution.

Mr. Carten and Ms. Gibbs have accused Themis of attempted obstruction of justice, a criminal offence that carries a 14 year penalty in Canada, and they are asking the Federal Court to make a finding that Themis was in contempt of court by using its employee, a Federal Court Officer, to attempt to manipulate the outcome of a judicial proceeding that was related to the Federal Court lawsuit.

Themis is a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of the publicly traded American corporation, Maximus, Inc., that has had issues with the authorities in the United States involving fraud by its employees. However, this is the most serious public complaint made against an operation of Maximus, Inc. to date.

In previous correspondence, Mr. Carten had contacted legal counsel for Maximus, Inc. at its head office in the United States asking for an investigation of these matters but Maximus, Inc. has stonewalled and refused to respond to the allegations.