Chapter #3: Hope I Get Elected Governor, So I Don’t Go to Prison.
Contributed by David Haeg
On August 16, 2022, Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Daniel Winfree wrote a letter thanking “Attorney General Treg Taylor” for “establishing procedures for grand jury investigations and reporting…an issue of some concern to both the Alaska Court System and the Department of Law [DOL].”
A November 22, 2022 Supreme Court “Memorandum” states, “SCO 1993 would clarify and set procedures for grand jury investigations…the proposed effective date is December 1, 2022, so the grand jury procedures can be used right away.” It also states, “the rule changes were important and serious changes of a constitutional nature.”
What caused AG Taylor and the Supreme Court to rush through a Grand Jury rule change “of a constitutional nature” so it “can be used right away”?
A Kenai Grand Jury (KGJ) had started investigating the DOL (which AG Taylor headed) and the Court System (which the Supreme Court heads) for corruption. Particularly that judges, DOL attorneys, law enforcement, and private attorneys were conspiring to rig court cases; the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct, Bar, DOL, Supreme Court, and Court System were conspiring to keep this covered up; and DOL attorneys and judges were tape-recorded ordering Grand Juries to stop investigating the foregoing, when Alaska’s Constitution states, “The power of Grand Juries to investigate and make recommendations concerning the public welfare or safety shall never be suspended.”
SCO 1993 changed Rule 6.1 so Grand Juries are prohibited from investigating “a court case of any type, whether open or closed.” But for the KGJ to uncover the truth, it would have to investigate court cases. And the 55 Delegates who wrote Alaska’s Constitution stated, without a single dissent, “The Grand Jury can be utterly vital in its investigative power as well as for the fact it is sitting there as a panel sometimes is the only recourse for a citizen to get justice, to get redress from abuse in lower courts… it is the only safeguard a citizen occasionally has when for any reason and very often for political reasons, a case is not dealt with properly.” (Alaska Constitutional Convention, transcript page 1328.)
SCO 1993 also changed Rule 6.1 so citizens, individually or in groups, are banned from appealing to the Grand Jury “directly” and are required to give all their evidence to the DOL, which decides if it will be given to the Grand Jury. But for the KGJ to uncover the truth, citizens would have to appeal directly to the Grand Jury, because the evidence directly implicates the DOL in felony crime and cover-up. And the 55 Delegates who wrote Alaska’s Constitution stated, without a single dissent, “The Grand Jury can be appealed to directly, which is an invaluable right to the citizen.” (Alaska Constitutional Convention, transcript page 1328.)
Judge Thomas Matthews used SCO 1993 to permanently seal the public KGJ report/recommendation before the public could ever see it. Then Judge Matthews dismissed the Grand Jury’s indictment of a judge.
AG Taylor, citing SCO 1993, launched a new Grand Jury process that makes the AG “gatekeeper” to Grand Juries. On August 18, 2025, and just three days before announcing his Governor candidacy, AG Taylor held a Town Hall meeting to “restore public confidence in the system,” but was virtually eaten alive by angry citizens when he could not refute that SCO 1993, Rule 6.1, and his new process are unconstitutional and eliminate citizen and Grand Jury constitutional rights. Meeting video: youtube.com/watch?v=pGeAV9ooaig
Constitutional violations are crimes under AS 11.76.110. Jury Tampering is a Class C felony under AS 11.56.590. Attorney General Treg Taylor and the Alaska Supreme Court violated both and appear to have conspired to do so. Obvious motive: they would be implicated in corruption if they didn’t stop the Kenai Grand Jury.
Some citizens take their constitutional rights very seriously and will defend them at all cost. Honorable Treg Taylor, we intend you see the inside of a prison long before you see the inside of our Governor’s mansion.
We also plan a peaceful sit-in at noon on December 11, 2026 (after the new Governor takes office) in Anchorage’s Atwood Building (Governor’s office), until citizens receive the KGJ report/recommendation, Rule 6.1 is rescinded, and until the new Governor appoints an independent “Mollen” type commission that publicly investigates. Citizens planning to join the sit-in or help with forums, please text/email your name, phone number, and email to (907) 398-6403 or haeg@alaska.net.
It’s time for “The Sleeping Giant” to wake up and kick ass. For too long we have “walked softly.” It’s time to swing, with the full might of an outraged public, the “big stick.”
Articles containing facts justifying a sit-in will be archived at alaskastateofcorruption.com