Part 1: Alaska’s Organized Government Corruption; How to Expose and End It
Contributed by David Haeg
Recently, a source provided inside information on what is contained in the sealed 2021-23 Kenai Grand Jury report/recommendation, that they wrote after their 2-year investigation into organized judicial corruption in Alaska:
“It [report/recommendation] documented corrupt government activity…judges appeared to be covering for each other and the system itself.”
This confirms citizen fears that Alaskan judges sealed the report/recommendation to cover up for corrupt judges and organized judicial corruption.
For decades, evidence mounted of organized corruption taking root in Alaska’s judicial system. Citizen efforts to address this through traditional agencies/officials (courts, FBI, DOL, ACJC, AJC, Bar, Troopers, Legislature, Governor, AG, etc.) met a brick wall of denial and refusal to investigate.
In 2017, citizens realize Grand Juries were enshrined in Alaska’s Constitution to investigate public officials when other agencies refuse. Alaska Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: “The power of Grand Juries to investigate and make recommendations concerning the public welfare or safety shall never be suspended.” Commentary to Alaska Constitution Preamble: “The Grand Jury is preserved, for all purposes, particularly for investigation of public officials.”
Citizens go through years of hell just to get an investigation: Judge Jennifer Wells ordered the first Kenai Grand Jury to stop investigating, and permanently dismissed them from service, after the majority voted to investigate government corruption. Citizens organized a peaceful courthouse sit-in, to be continued even after closing time and until the Grand Jury was re-impaneled and allowed to investigate. The day before the sit-in, citizens were informed a Kenai Grand Jury would be allowed to investigate.
Kenai Grand Jury goes through hell: FOIAs show the Alaska Supreme Court conspired with AG Taylor to issue SCO 1993 to unconstitutionally cripple the Grand Jury in the middle of their investigation (Jury tried forcing the Supreme Court to testify about this); a vanished Juror, still not found to this day, was used to dismiss the Jury’s indictment of a judge; etc.
One way to address this is to obtain the report/recommendation. But since recordings prove the Kenai Grand Jury was intentionally provided corrupt counsel, the report/recommendation is unlikely to fully expose and uproot the corruption. But NYC found another way to combat government corruption:
New York City’s 1994 Mollen Commission (appointed by Mayor Dinkins to publicly investigate): “To cover up their corruption, officers created even more: they falsified official reports and perjured themselves to conceal their misdeeds. In the face of this problem, the Department allowed its systems for fighting corruption virtually to collapse. It had become more concerned about the bad publicity that corruption disclosures generate than the devastating consequences of corruption itself. As a result, its corruption controls minimized, ignored and at times concealed corruption rather than rooting it out. Such an institutional reluctance to uncover corruption is not surprising. No institution wants its reputation tainted – especially a Department that needs the public’s confidence and partnership to be effective. Since no entity outside the Department was responsible for reviewing the Department’s success in policing itself, years of self-protection continued unabated until this Commission commenced its independent inquiries.”
Requests (that included Borough Mayors) to meet with Alaska’s Governor or AG have been unsuccessful, even though it was simply to present evidence requiring appointment of a “Mollen” type commission. Deputy AG Cori Mills claimed neither she nor AG Taylor has authority to investigate corruption. (Video and evidence at alaskastateofcorruption.com)
Because it took a looming sit-in to obtain a Grand Jury investigation, citizens believe it will take another to obtain the report/recommendation and a “Mollen” type commission.
Citizens are organizing a peaceful sit-in at noon on December 11, 2026 (after Alaska’s new Governor takes office) in the Robert B. Atwood Building in Anchorage, where our Governor’s office is located, until citizens receive the report/recommendation and until (s)he appoints a “Mollen” type commission. They are organizing forums at which Governor candidates will be asked about the above and what they pledge to do if elected. If you are willing to join the sit-in; can help with forums; or ask candidates to pledge, please text or email your name, phone number, and email address to (907) 398-6403 or haeg@alaska.net
This battle will decide if We-The-People rule government or if government rules us. We must see what our brave Kenai Grand Jury wrote to us after their 2-year investigation into organized government corruption. We must demand an independent commission publicly investigate the forces that assaulted and overwhelmed our brave Kenai Grand Jury. It’s time for “The Sleeping Giant” to wake up and take charge.
This, future articles containing facts which should galvanize citizens into action, and hard evidence of corruption, will be archived at alaskastateofcorruption.com
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