From the December 2000 Idaho Observer:

Abused in custody: Jay Kimball needs your help now

See links and contact information below.

By The Idaho 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