Abused in custody: Jay Kimball needs your help
now

See links and contact information below.

By The Idaho Observer
http://proliberty.com/observer 

TAMPA-- After his October 19, 2000 conviction for
violating U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
labeling laws, Liquid Deprenyl Citrate (LDC)
developer Jay Kimball, 60, while in the custody
of the U.S. Marshal's Service, was handcuffed,
waist-chained, leg-ironed and, for no apparent
reason, transported 150 miles from the
Hillsborough County Jail (HCJ) here to the Hendry
County Jail in LaBelle. Kimball was returned to
HCJ Nov. 20 with numerous injuries.

An HCJ employee reportedly stated that Kimball
must have been transported in error as,
considering his age and the nature of his
conviction, he should never have been sent to
LaBelle. LaBelle is a facility that has been
described as a deplorable, inhumane and bacteria-
infested hell hole.

Kimball was sentenced by Florida District Federal
Judge Richard Lazzara to serve 13 years for
"misbranding" LDC-a crime which would ordinarily
earn a three-year prison stay. On one hand the
judge said to the prosecutors, "you had thousands
of names and phone numbers, you failed to produce
one complaint of harm or loss, to the contrary I
have seen testimony and received letters about
how good the product is. NO HARM DONE."

Then on the other hand he states "Mr. Kimball
does not respect authority, he does not respect
the law. "

Lazzara also stated that Kimball's actions were
"ANARCHY" in order to justify sentencing Kimball
to serve more than four times federal sentencing
guidelines for such a crime.

Though the FDA has been persecuting Kimball since
LDC became available to victims of degenerative
diseases such as Parkinson's in 1990, the federal
agency admits that there has never been one
consumer complaint or even one reported adverse
reaction attributable to LDC. To the contrary,
the court and the FDA have been provided with the
results of 3,000 clinical case studies conducted
by the University of Toronto which proved the
product's safety and efficacy. The court was also
provided hundreds of letters from LDC users who
have had their quality of life returned to them
with the help of the natural nutritive plant
product derived from the ephedra plant.

After Lazzara arbitrarily passed sentence on
Kimball based primarily on his defiance of non-
scientific federal authority, U.S. marshals took
custody of the 60-year-old man and justified
further abuse with a false charging report
produced by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's
Department.

The report, which follows Kimball through the
"justice" system, stated as of 11/20/00 that
Kimball had been convicted in federal court for
manufacturing, distributing, dispensing and
possessing cocaine.

The speedometer in the transport van containing
six male and two female prisoners with no seat
belts in the vehicle except for the marshals,
reportedly reached 100 mph as it careened through
traffic en route to LaBelle. Kimball was
catapulted out of his seat two times and suffered
injuries to his shoulder for which he was denied
medical attention when he arrived at the LaBelle
facility. He also lost his voice and experienced
difficulty breathing but was not allowed to see a
doctor the entire time he was behind bars in
LaBelle.

U.S. Marshal Vasquez, one of the transport
deputies, reportedly subjected Kimball to a five-
minute stream of extremely profane verbal abuse
in front of LaBelle officials immediately prior
to Kimball's return trip to Tampa. During the
return trip Vasquez caused Kimball to fall again
and injured his tailbone. Kimball did receive
proper medical attention upon his return to HCJ.

Robin Hill of the U.S. Marshal's Service office
in Tampa refuses to comment on her agency's
treatment of Kimball but she did see to it that
the charging report was changed. The report,
which is available on-line at

http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/pub/default.asp?/online/qdisp/BN=00064435

has been changed to reflect a conviction for the
manufacture, distribution and possession of
"synthesized narcotics" -- which is also false as
Kimball was not convicted of that crime and LDC
is not a synthesized narcotic.

The U.S. Marshal's Service is apparently
insistent upon incorrectly identifying the nature
of Kimball's conviction so that hardened prison
officials who only know Kimball by what the
"official" report tells them will treat him in
the worst possible manner. In the court of common
sense, Kimball was convicted in federal court for
helping people to overcome degenerative disease
without federal approval. Since his conviction
for having the courage to continue helping people
regardless of his own safety, he has been
physically and mentally tormented by a prison
system that believes him to be a convicted drug
manufacturer/dealer.

Attached for your consideration are two articles
written over a year ago. They serve as an
accurate overview of a decade of events that led
to Kimball's federal conviction.

Please help us to stop the cruel and unusual
abuse of Jay Kimball. The names and numbers
provided below should hear about this. Call them.
We need to flood these people, particularly the
politicians, with phone calls so that they
understand Kimball is not alone. For more
information or verification of this example of
how the federal government really views its
citizens, call Don Harkins of The Idaho Observer
at: (208) 255-2307.

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Previous articles on the Jay Kimball persecution:

Health product developer sentenced to 13 years

November 2000

http://proliberty.com/observer/20001104.htm


Michael J. Fox Foundation: Parkinson's research fraud?

September 2000

http://proliberty.com/observer/20000914.htm


State, federal agents wage war against Florida
pharmaceutical research company

6,000 pages of grand jury evidence indicate state
complicity in federal conspiracy to ruin Liquid Deprenyl
Citrate inventor and give confiscated trade secrets to
competitor Somerset

July 1999

http://proliberty.com/observer/19990706.htm


Florida Grand jury hears murder tale
FDA, DOJ, Somerset aware of contaminated Eldepryl

July 1999

http://proliberty.com/observer/19990705.htm


See also:

THE REAL LIQUID DEPRENYL STORY

http://www.liquid-deprenyl.com/


Google Search: "Liquid Deprenyl Citrate"


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JUDGES

JudgeRichard A. Lazzara (Trial and Sentencing Judge)
801 N Florida Ave.
Tampa,FL 33611
tel:(813)301-5350

MagistrateThomas B. McCoun,III
801 N Florida Ave
Tampa,FL 33602-4500
tel:(813)301-5553


NEWSPAPERS

St.Petersburg Times
Jane Peppard- Tampa Publisher(813)226-3354
Neville Green- Tampa Managing Editor(813)226-3370
TimesPublishing Co. Fax:(813)226-3381
490 First Ave. S.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Tampa Tribune
Reid Ashe- Publisher & President
S. Bruce Witwer- Managing Editor
202 S. Parker St.
Tampa, FL 33606-2395
Phone:(813)259-7600 (Editors & Reporters)
(813)259-7711(all other calls)


AGENTS
Rande Matteson, FDA Special Agent
865 S.W. 78th Ave.,Suite 201
Plantation,FL 33324
tel:(954)476-5434
Fax:(954)476-5435


Agent Lang,FDLE(I.D.# 00283)
Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement
Criminal Investigation Division
4211 Lois Ave.
Tampa,FL 33611
Tel:(813)878-7300
"workedin conjunction with Matteson"
ConfidentialInformant and Discovery's
LegalAdvisor and Compliance Officer

Louis Tredwell Smith
4318Foxwood Blvd.
WesleyChapel, FL 33543
tel:(813)782-4670
email: eaglesmith@aol.com

Deborah Orr, HRS Agent
Florida Dept. of Health
905 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Suite340
Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
tel:(727)942-5405

PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS

Michael L. Rubenstein, Esq.
U.S. Dept. of Justice
Assistant U S Attorney
400 N. Tampa St.,Suite 3200
Tampa,FL 33602
tel:(813)274-6000
fax:(813)274-6125

Jennifer Bragg Jones
Special Assistant U S Attorney
for the FDA
U S Dept. of Justice
400 N. Tampa St.,Suite 3200
Tampa, FL 33602
tel:(813)274-6000
fax:(813)274-6125


Dennis Degan
Investigator and Senior Litigation Specialist
1560 East Jefferson
Detroit,MI 48207
tel:(313)226-6260ext 135


SENATORS
Bob Graham
524 Senate Office Bldg.
WashingtonDC 20510
(202)224-3041
graham.senate.gov

Connie Mack
517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
WashingtonDC 20510
(202)224-5274
mack.senate.gov

REPRESENTATIVES
Michael Bilirakis
4111 Land O' Lakes Blvd., Ste 306
Land O' Lakes, FL 34639
tel:in LOL (813)996-7441
in DC (202)225-5755
house.gov/bilirakis/

Charles Canady
124 Tennessee Ave.,Ste125
Lakeland,FL 33801
tel:in Lakeland(863) 688-2651
in DC (202) 225-1252

Jim Davis
3315 Henderson Blvd.,Ste 100
Tampa,FL 33609
tel:in Tampa(813)354-9217
in DC (202)225-3376

Dan Miller
2424 Manatee Ave.,Ste 104
Bradenton,FL 34205
tel:in Bradenton (941)747-9081
in DC (202)225-5015

Governor Jeb Bush
The Capitol
Tallahassee,FL 32399-0001
tel:(850)488-4441
fax:(859)487-0801

U S MARSHAL
Vasques transported Jay from La Belle to Tampa
Robin Hill, Supervisor

Don R Moreland (Marshal in charge)
(for middle district of FL)
U S Courthouse
801 N Florida Ave
Tampa,FL 33602-4519
tel:(813)274-6401

John W Marshall
(in Washington DC)
U S Courthouse
333 Constitution Ave N W
Washington,DC 20001
tel:(202)353-0600

or

SuperiorCourthouse
500 Indiana Ave N W
Room C250
Washington,DC 20001
tel:(202)616-8600

Captain Susan Cybil (Runs the facility)
Hendry County Jail in La Belle
PO Box 579 Dep.
La Belle, FL 33975
tel:(863)674-4060
fax:(863)674-4070

Steve Washam