When Ernest Oliver saw white toxic fluid flowing into Chattanooga Creek, he knew the company that had hired him as lab director was headed for trouble. That was 1990. Since then, he has been entrenched in litigation that led all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Most recently, his former boss, William Foxworth, a ninth grade dropout, was convicted and pled guilty to two of his minor felonies in federal court, but a major cover-up has occurred in Chattanooga related to Foxworth's major crimes. The reason for the conspiracy here is the fact that Foxworth's dumping and the illegal activity surrounding said dumping, has contaminated Little Debbie® products baked in the Chattanooga area by McKee Foods Corporation, a fortune 500 company with sales exceeding $100,000,000 per month worldwide. Many state and federal officials are involved including judges, prosecutors, mayors, city officials, and most importantly newly elected US Senator Bob Corker from Chattanooga, who was Mayor of Chattanooga at the time of Foxworth's dumping. Oliver can prove that Bob Corker was directly involved in a criminal cover-up of the contamination of Little Debbie® products and the attempt by the McKee brothers to defraud the NorthWest Georgia Bank and the Chattanooga taxpayer of $114,000. This money is required to clean-up the contamination of the Chattanooga Summit Landfill which was caused by the illegal dumping at the landfill and the illegal operation of an incinerator placed on top of the landfill by the McKee brothers. The criminal activity provable against Senator Bob Corker could serve to impeach Senator Corker and remove him from the US Senate.
Ernest A. Oliver is a trained former toxicologist for the state of Tennessee. Oliver spent most of his career as a forensic scientist in the crime laboratories of Tennessee and Michigan. In this capacity he was qualified as an expert witness and testified in 504 criminal courts in these two states during the period of 1972-1986. Recently, Oliver completed a three semester postgraduate course
in molecular biology and DNA testing at Michigan State University and is now certified in molecular biology from the MSU Department of Medical Technology.
In 1977, while working as a crime laboratory scientist for the state of Michigan, Oliver blew the whistle on the Michigan State Police headquarters laboratory where he was employed. This action resulted in his dismissal for conduct unbecoming of a state employee and for being disloyal to the state police.
Fact: Oliver lost his job for blowing the whistle on mishandling of evidence and improper laboratory procedures. Even a secretary had access to the lab evidence. After special hearings by the Republican senate whip where Oliver was the key witness, the procedures were changed and the State Police chief " admitted that Oliver's allegations to the newspaper were factually accurate," according to the Lansing State Journal. The chief and several other high ranking officers resigned shortly afterwards. Oliver was awarded $400,000 by the out of court settlement. A bound volume of Michigan Court of Appeals now contains the case of Oliver vs. Michigan State Police (132 Mich App 558) where the court says "the undisputed factual evidence is that petitioner's (Oliver's) allegations to the newspaper were substantially true." That senate whip, John Engler became the governor of Michigan.
Fact: During the period 1977-1985 while Oliver was fighting the state police over his illegal dismissal, Oliver was employed by the chemistry department of Michigan State University. In this capacity, Oliver was in charge of the department's mass-spectrometry facility. Mass-spectrometry is the heart of the EPA environmental hazardous waste laboratory testing for which Oliver is a recognized expert in the field.
Oliver was reinstated to his job as a crime laboratory scientist with the Michigan State Police receiving full back pay and no loss of seniority in 1985. Oliver worked in this capacity until he resigned in 1986 and returned to his home in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 1990 Oliver was hired to be the laboratory director of a non-hazardous wastewater treatment company in Chattanooga known as Hydro-Vac Services, Inc. Just a short 6 months later Oliver, blew the whistle on the owner, William Foxworth, discussed in the first paragraph above, for illegal dumping that was occurring at Hydro-Vac. He was fired from Hydro-Vac and maintains that illegal dumping continues to this day and that the non-action of local officials both state and federal to clean up the poisons and stop the dumping continues to threaten the health and welfare of the public.
Fact: The U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich ruled in 1995 that Oliver had been illegally fired. He also agreed with Oliver's accusation that hazardous materials were being dumped into the Tennessee River. The poisons Oliver named included arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, barium, benzene(found in gasoline), trichloroethane, and mercury. Benzene and mercury are known to cause cancer in humans.
Fact: Oliver showed that these poisons were also mixed with solid wastes and sent to the Summit Landfill in Collegedale, Tennessee, the home of McKee Foods Corporation and Little Debbie® baking products. The City of Chattanooga determined in 1993 that ground water around the Chattanooga Summit Landfill was contaminated with benzene, dichloroethylene, and three
metals--mercury, cadmium, and barium. Mckee Foods Corporation received it's water to manufacture Little Debbie® products from it's Chattanooga area baking plants, from wells in the same general area as the landfill. In 1995, in a panic, the East Side Utility was forced to take it's water from the less polluted Tennessee River. An illegal environmental cleanup operation at the Summit Landfill, has been burning hazardous sludge from the Chattanooga water treatment plant. This hazardous sludge, containing huge amounts of hazardous metals like mercury, has been illegally dumped on top of the closed Summit Landfill. The burning of this sludge at 1500 degrees, has released ionized mercury directly above the Mckee baking plants in a methane rich atmosphere from the Summit Landfill. McKee Foods Corporation's chief executive officer, Jack McKee, and his lawyers, have ignored Oliver's warnings and demands for monitoring Little Debbie® products on a daily basis. The state of Tennessee has refused to monitor for mercury. Only recently did Oliver discover that the illegal incinerator now closed by the EPA in Atlanta, was owned by the McKee brothers.
Fact: On April 29, 2003, Ellsworth McKee, owner of McKee Foods Corporation, filed a lawsuit in Hamilton County Circuit Court in Chattanooga, Tennessee, demanding payment of the $16,000,000 dollars he had loaned his former son-in-law and Plilip Martin to set up the environmental company that has now been contaminating Little Debbie® products from the Chattanooga Summit Landfill. (See lawsuit at legal briefs) This lawsuit proves that Ellsworth McKee was directly responsible for the contamination of his own Little Debbie® products, and evidence in Tennesseegate links a host of prominent persons, including newly elected US Senator Bob Corker in Chattanooga to, a cover-up to protect these facts.
McKee Foods Corporation has KNOWINGLY manufactured their DIRTY LITTLE DEBBIE® products with full knowledge that on any given day they have the potential to contain mercury and benzene compounds known to cause cancer in humans. The problem was brought to the attention of McKee Foods Corporation's lawyers in 1995(See the Gary Lander Audio) and ignored after several meetings. McKee Foods has acquired the protection of officials from the City of Chattanooga and the State of Tennessee to protect and cover-up the contamination of Little Debbie® products. Both governments have refused to monitor for mercury at the Summit Landfill. McKee Foods Corporation has refused to monitor it's Little Debbie® products on a daily basis for the presence of mercury and benzene compounds. AS LONG AS NO ONE IS FALLING DOWN DEAD, MCKEE FOODS CORPORATION DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE CANCER RISK TO IT'S CUSTOMERS. Little Debbie® products are sold all over North America, and in Russia, Canada, Mexico, and all of the United States military bases worldwide.
The cover-up and protection of the contamination of Little Debbie® products and the dumping of WalMart's hazardous used oil from 350 WalMart auto stores in the southeast has now included the offices of US Attorney Harry S. Mattice, now federal judge Harry S. Mattice, and Tennessee Senator and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist during 2003. Efforts to bring the facts to Harry S. Mattice and Majority Leader Frist have been met with cover-up and STONEY INDIFFERENCE! Tape recorded conversations of Senator Frist's Chattanooga based staff member Tyler Owens, and documents from US Attorney Harry Mattice, prove absolutely, that these federal officials INTEND TO COVER-UP THE FACTS OF THE 16 YEAR DUMPING OPERATION IN CHATTANOOGA.
After losing his job at Hydro-Vac, Oliver was employed at Chattanooga State Technical Community College as a lab instructor in chemistry and microbiology. After teaching 6 semesters Oliver again lost his job due to his whistle-blowing activities against the illegal dumping affecting McKee Food Corporation.
Fact: Chattanooga Human Rights Department Investigator Alice Ford granted Oliver the right to sue Chattanooga State. Ford was instructed by her headquarters in Nashville to change her ruling to a no cause against Chattanooga State. She refused. Within forty-five minutes of her refusal, the entire Chattanooga Human Rights office was then shut down.
Fact: Ford then threatened to sue and stated in an affidavit that her removal was due to her ruling on Oliver and that Tennessee Senior Senator from Chattanooga, Ward Crutchfield told her Oliver was "crazy." But before the case went to court, the Chattanooga Human Rights Office was reinstated and Mrs. Ford was promoted from Investigator to Director of the office. Mrs. Ford, who is black, lost her job standing up for the rights of Oliver a white man. Later, she was named a Tennessee Hero. State Senator Ward Crutchfield, a democrat, is a close friend of former Vice-President Al Gore, Jr. from Tennessee. Senator Crutchfield was indictment by a federal grandjury and sentenced {http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DEED61039F934A15756C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1} for conspiracy and extortion.
Fact: Hydro-Vac Services, Inc. owner, Bill Foxworth, was charged and pled guilty to environmental felonies in federal court in Chattanooga related to his dumping facility. Oliver confronted him publicly for 16 years. Foxworth was sentenced for his crimes in 2002 but allowed to walk on his more serious felonies in order to protect the reputations of the Mckee and Walmart corporations. Foxworth was dumping Walmart's hazardous "used" oil from 350 auto stores in the Southeast. Senator Bob Corker protected the reputation of Walmart regarding the illegal dumping of their oil, while twisting their arm and forcing Walmart to build a Superstore on his property making him a profit of over $4,000,000. The illegal activity involved in these transctions and cover-up could provide the evidence for Corker's impeachment from the senate.
In the hearing following Foxworth's recent plea-bargain before Federal Judge Allen Edgar, Assistant U.S. attorney Guy Blackwell told the judge "this is all there is" against Foxworth. But Oliver has certified mail and tape recordings proving that assistant U.S. attorneys Blackwell and McCoon , and Senior FBI agent in charge of white collar crime at the time, Chuck Stevens, received the massive amounts of evidence documenting ongoing flagrant violations by Foxworth and local officials protecting the dumping. Newly appointed U.S. Attorney Sandy Mattice, now a federal judge, in a meeting with Oliver, promised an investigation of Oliver's formal charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy against McCoon, Blackwell, former FBI agent Stevens, and a host of lawyers and politicians in Chattanooga who have protected this massive dumping operation of Bill Foxworth. Over 100 companies including WalMart, Goodyear Tire And Rubber Company, Valvoline, Inc., Westinghouse Environmental, Shaw Carpets, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and the United States Army at Fort Lee Virginia were involved in supplying waste products(Generators) to Foxworth. Instead, Harry Mattice did everything in his power to cover-up the criminal activity to protect the reputations of the companies and their protectors. Federal Judge Harry S. Mattice should also be impeached for his criminal activity against the citizens of the United States of America.
This story called "Tennesseegate" has absolute proof in the form of pictures, video tape, state and federal documents, and tape recorded conversations of judges, prosecutors, politicians, mayors, city councilmen, and others, to prove state and federal protection of hazardous waste dumping on a grand scale.
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