Why We Are Picketing This Federal Court Building

Printed notice handed out by Vincent and Sophie Germano while picketing the
U.S. Court in Houston, Texas, beginning Feb. 21, 2001 protesting abuse of
power and violation of civil rights by Judges who are sworn to defend our
Constitution and Bill of Rights

"The people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts - not to
overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it".
Abraham Lincoln

Since the Constitution of the United States of America is the Supreme Law of
the Land and superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, including
Congress, any law repugnant to the Constitution is null and void -
Marbury v. Madison, 5 (Cranch) U.S. 137, 174, 176. Constitutional rights
must be interpreted in favor of citizens-Byars v. U.S., 273 U.S. 28.

As the result of the outrageous, indefensible corrupt conduct in the courts
in Oklahoma as shown in case history page attached hereto, we filed a
civil Rico

suit in this Federal Court-docketed a civil rights case. The Bank is named
defendant and our prior lawyers co-conspirators. The suit demands a trial by
jury to set aside a series of fraudulent judgments and seeks compensation for

the seizure of our American Inn property representing all that we worked a
life time for. The corrupt legal actions drove us out of a life long
business and our only source of income.

As in each of our prior failed efforts for a trial by jury, the Bank moved
for summary dismissal of our law suit. A Judge in this building also abused
his discretionary powers, settled law and ignored the true facts and
displayed his bias against these pro se Germanos to strike our suit. This
Judge based his decision on the Bank's feloniously perjured affidavit,
motion, brief and court orders - shown to have been obtained by "intrinsic"
fraud by court records and two affidavits filed in support of our complaint
and in opposition to appellees motion for summary judgment.

We appealed the judgment of this court's Judge to the U. S. Court of Appeals,
Fifth Circuit. Upon review of Appellees' opening brief, we filed a "motion to
supplement the record containing 42 exhibits that are vital to defending our
appeal against appellees' slanderous attacks upon our integrity and to expose

their assertions of fact and case law as fraudulent, and grounds for remand
for
a trial by jury denied us since summoned as defendants in the Bank's
feloniously perjured foreclosure in 1985.

THE DECISION TO PUBLICIZE OUR STORY AND PICKET THIS COURT, however, stems
from the likely defeat of our appeal as indicated by the deceptive orders by
the Clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, that are not listed on
the Case Docket. The clerk corruptly deprived us of "en banc"
reconsideration of a single Judge's denial of our motion to supplement the
record in accord with the court's prior decisions, and refused to file our
motions complaining of the Clerk's wrongdoing and Appellee's attorneys'
violation of ABA'S Model Rules of Professional Responsibility. Leave to
supplement the record with the appellees'and our attorneys' paper trail of
corrupt conduct, fraud upon the court that is beyond comprehension would
compel an independent Judge to remand our case for a trial by jury denied us
since 1985.

Vincent and Sophie Germano

Case History

CASE HISTORY OF CORRUPT CONDUCT AND FELONIOUSLY PERJURED INSTRUMENTS ON WHICH
JUDGES OF STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS IN OKLAHOMA LEVIED SUMMARY JUDGMENTS
AGAINST US

In 1981, together with our life savings and a loan secured by a mortgage &
personal guarantees by The First Bethany National Bank, Bethany Oklahoma, now
First Bethany Bank and Trust, (Bank), we constructed the American Inn located
at Interstate-40, Oklahoma City, OK. On January 4, 1985, without default or
notice the Bank filed a lawsuit in foreclosure. What happened to us from that
date to this day must be publicized as a warning to all Americans.

We sought legal services of lawyers of nine (9) Oklahoma City law firms, who
instead, corruptly conspired with Bank's insider-lawyer in awarding Bank
judicial foreclosure and dismiss our counterclaims - based on feloniously
perjured statements that another lender's commitment to pay-off Bank's Note &
mortgage, obtained for a $19, 500.00 consideration, "had expired."

Seeking protection under CH-11 Bankruptcy, we helplessly witnessed two
corrupt Trustees join the bankers & lawyers in taking full, fraudulent
control of American Inn's proceeding in which they criminally prosecuted a
fraudulent adversary suit against us; finalized the foreclosure and defeated
our appeal from their pre-petition fraud and American Inn's reorganization
under Title 11, U.S.C. in such cases.

Our attempts to obtain justice were again thwarted by the corrupt Trustees'
who filed false affidavits in support of the bankers and lawyers who
corruptly moved federal and state district courts for summary
judgment[s]-dismissing our Federal lawsuit against the Bank and our Cross
Petition in the Bank’s lawsuit against us and defeated appeals of the open
court crimes.

We sought relief in the U.S. Supreme Court only to have it's Clerk ignore the
court's prior decisions to deny our pro se plea for relief because it arrived
one day out-of -time! As a result of the extortionate lending and corrupt
legal actions, the Comptroller of the Currency obtained a foreign judgment
against us in the Harris County ,TX, District Court. After filing our
federal suit in Houston TX, the Federal Agency assigned the judgment to
a third party in 1999.

Thus, having been defrauded of our assets without a trial by jury by the
corrupt conduct of our prior attorney[s], ethical representation has been
denied us to this day. Exhibit (b) lists the names and addresses of 94 of
over 200 lawyers contacted since 1985, who have declined our cause on
a contingency fee basis.

See our Web site showing our lawyers incredulous violation of trust as they
conspired with Bank's insider-lawyer Peter Pierce's felonious legal actions
in moving the courts in Oklahoma for a total of seven (7) summary judgments.

Vincent and Sophie Germano
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