By Wallace Pate, Esq.
To: San Bernardino Board of Supervisors
Re: Citizens’ Demand for Immediate Investigation of Fraud, Waste, Corruption, by Law Firms Under Contracts with the Board That Systemically Violate the Contract, Public Contracts Code, Public Law 96-272, CRC 5.534, CRC 5.660, CRC 5.682, WIC 317, WIC 355, and Title IVE of the SSA to Deny Children and Parents Due Process, & Impartial Tribunals to Keep Children in Foster Care, the Child Sex Trafficking Pipeline, to Collect More Legal Fees
Date: 6-24-2026
We, a coalition of parents, civil rights advocates, lawyers, grass roots organizers, and researchers, investigated and documented the decades-long fraud, scam, conspiracy, lying, cheating, and stealing perpetrated upon this Honorable Board, upon our children, mothers, fathers, and taxpayers by numerous law firms and lawyers with legal services contracts with the Board totaling millions each year.
This is unprecedented, ongoing fraud perpetrated upon this Board by law firms, leading to foster care of 6,000 children ordered by judges without due process, with devastating consequences – rampant and severe abuse and rape ten times greater than in the general population. Currently, this Board is facing a class action on behalf of raped foster children. This class action is one of many that will continue unabated, making many civil lawyers rich as they sue and drain San Bernardino dry, unless strategic and immediate action is taken as set forth in the Blueprint herein, with guaranteed success.
The Board has the power and authority to end this Humanitarian crisis by dismantling the source – the law firms that represent the children in the dependency proceedings, denied them due process, railroaded, and abandoned them, leaving them in harm’s way to be raped in the well-known foster child sex trafficking pipeline. The law firms cannot avoid accountability, leaving the Board to pay the damages caused by the lawyers. They continue to deny due process to 6,000 children and 12,000 parents each day, causing more children to enter the pipeline leading to more rape, more lawsuits, and more class actions if the law firms paid by the Board continue to run this “Kids for Cash” operation in dependency court.
Currently, more than 6,000 children are in San Bernardino foster care in harm’s way, ordered by judges without trials/due process, under color of law. American foster care is the world’s largest child sex trafficking pipeline, according to at least 50 published articles since 2024 on the connection between foster care and child sex trafficking. According to a recent article published by the San Bernardino American News as part of an unprecedented investigation into dependency court corruption, fraud, and waste, “Exposing and Dismantling the Supply Chain to Sex Traffickers – American Foster Care 2026” by veteran civil rights lawyer Wallace Pate, Esq., the common thread in the foster child sex trafficking pipeline nationwide and in the pending San Bernardino sex assault cases, are court appointed lawyers who represented the children in dependency cases for years.
The San Bernardino court-appointed lawyers deny children and parents due process/impartial tribunals, thereby depriving judges of jurisdiction, rendering all orders for foster care, guardianship, and adoption void when uttered. The passage of time does not cure void/lawless/unconstitutional orders on 6,000 children and 12,000 parents that cost the Board $54 Million to run each year. That number would decrease by at least 85%, i.e., to $10 Million, when the rule of law is restored by removing the court-appointed contract lawyers who defrauded the Board. The lawyers cannot continue to represent 6,000 children whom they railroaded into the foster child sex trafficking pipeline/supply chain without due process to collect legal fees. These children cannot remain in unlawful foster care in harm’s way and must be reunified with their families to prevent further damage.
Unbeknownst to the San Bernardino Board, the lawyers under contract are con artists with no intention of complying with the contract. They violated it 100 %, railroaded the children into foster care without due process, abandoned them in the foster child sex trafficking supply chain, appeared in court every six months making representations to the court that the children were not safe at home and had to remain in foster care, where they were being raped, trafficked, and physically abused. The rape claims will keep coming until the supply chain is disabled by terminating the source – corrupt lawyers – and reunifying the children with their families.
Minor’s counsel are experts in child abuse and neglect. They know the signs of abuse and neglect, especially sexual abuse. Regular contact with the child establishes a bond and a baseline to recognize abuse and neglect and remove the child. The fact that no lawyer removed a raped foster child proves the lawyers had no contact with the children after violating their rights to due process, impartial tribunals, WIC 317, CRC 5.660, and B & P 6069. Had the lawyers followed the law, the children would not be in foster care in the sex abuse supply chain in the first place. Had the lawyers followed the law, they would have had regular contact with the children, and immediately recognized the child was abused, especially sex abuse, and removed the child from harm’s way. Given that foster care rape is highly foreseeable and given that the lawyers had little to no contact to ensure the children were not raped, the lawyers are clearly liable. They knew the children would be raped and abused when they violated the legal services contract and their civil rights and did it anyway.
With regard to pending foster care abuse litigation, the court-appointed lawyer for each raped/abused child should be identified and audited by reviewing minute orders to verify whether the lawyers cross-examined the CSW in accordance with WIC 317 and CRC 5.660. These enactments require the children’s lawyers to cross-examine the CSW at the jurisdiction hearing, and CRC 5.534 requires them to do so at all subsequent review hearings every six months until the permanent plan is established. CRC 5.534 requires the parents’ lawyers to cross-examine the CSW at the jurisdiction hearing and all subsequent review hearings every six months until the permanent plan.
In addition, CRC 5.660 imposes a fiduciary duty on the children’s lawyer to protect the child from abuse by establishing a trust relationship necessary for the disclosure of foster care abuse and immediate removal. In addition, WIC 317 imposes a fiduciary duty on the children’s lawyer to report foster care abuse to the judge for assignment to outside counsel for investigation. The minute orders prove the lawyers failed to cross-examine the CSW in violation of WIC 317 and CRC 5.660, and failed to report, covered up the rape of their child clients, and allowed it to continue unabated for years.
Given that the vast majority of WIC petitions are perjured by social workers per the 1994 Legislative Digest, most of the WIC petitions filed in San Bernardino are perjured, subject to dismissal had the lawyers cross-examined the CSW at the jurisdiction hearing in accordance with WIC 317 and CRC 5.660. Otherwise, Judges are authorized to deem perjured petitions true when the lawyers don’t cross-examine the CSW in accordance with WIC 317 and CRC 5.660. It’s just a matter of time before the next civil action is filed for rape of a child, railroaded into foster care for years, forgotten, and abandoned by law firms paid by the Board. The foster care cost for 6,000 children is $5 million each year. That should be 1,000 children and $5 million each year. This is highway robbery.
The sex abuse lawsuits will continue unabated, leading to financial ruin unless the Board destroys the root cause – corrupt lawyers who must be held accountable for the damage they caused. The law firms that represented the raped children must be audited. To the extent the minute orders prove no compliance with WIC 317 and CRC 5.660, the lawyers/firms must be removed from all cases pending a full investigation and the contract terminated to protect 6,000 railroaded children who must be released to their families to prevent foster care abuse and further damages.
The Board has the power and the Blueprint to hold corrupt lawyers accountable, terminate their contracts, restore the rule of law, release 6,000 children from the foster child sex trafficking pipeline, end the foster child sex trafficking pipeline in San Bernardino, and end a Humanitarian crisis created entirely by lawyers, and restore $54 million to the Board’s budget. We have hundreds of parents with minute orders that prove lawyers violated WIC 317 and CRC 5.660, who want to work with the Board to end this evil injustice and secure the release of their children.
Historic Perspective
The violation of civil rights by lawyers and dependency judges has been going on for decades as documented in the 1994 Legislative Digest. Statewide hearings were held that found: 1) the vast majority of dependency petitions are perjured by social workers; 2) lawyers do not cross-examine social workers; 3) judges “rubber-stamped” the perjury; and 4) judges ordered foster care. The Legislature enacted Govt Code 820.21 to curb social worker perjury by removing absolute immunity from social workers who committed perjury, thereby allowing civil suits for damages. Nothing changed.
At all times, judges and lawyers know lawyers are violating the civil rights of children and parents to due process/impartial tribunals, codified in WIC 317, WIC 355, CRC 5.534, CRC 5.660, CRC 5.682, and In re Malinda S. and judges are violating CRC 5.534, CRC 5.682, WIC 355, and In re Malinda S. that prevent jurisdiction from attaching leaving Judge without authority to make any orders except to continue the case and order the CSW to appear in court and testify under oath on cross examination. Instead, Judges order foster care for 6,000 children without legal authority, which costs the Board $54 Million annually.
It cannot be overstated that this humanitarian crisis is created entirely by corrupt lawyers paid by this Board, that this Board has the power to end immediately by conducting an audit to prove the monthly invoices from the law firms falsely certified compliance with WIC 317, WIC 355, CRC 5.534, CRC 5.660, CRC 5.682, and In re Malinda S. to collect legal fees rendering the claims false. As stated above, these critical enactments codified due process and mandate lawyers to cross-examine the CSW at all hearings where a court report is filed until after the permanent placement order.
As stated above, the minute orders prove that the lawyers never cross-examined the CSW, the judges never asked the parents whether they waived their right to cross-examine the CSW, and the parents never waived said rights. Consequently, jurisdiction never attached, rendering judges’ orders void when uttered. These critical facts documented in minute orders conclusively prove lawyers falsified monthly invoices, committed fraud and waste, denied 6,000 children and 12,000 parents due process/impartial tribunals. When this Board restores the rule of law, foster care will be reduced by 85 %, and class actions against the Board for foster care abuse will not exist.
The corrupt law firms with legal services contracts with the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors include:
1) Inland Juvenile Panel Attorneys, Inc. CEO Stacy Wolcott, Board of Directors;
2) Juvenile Defense Panel [JDP], Liseth Maria Robledo # 290256, 9991 County Farm Rd., Riverside, CA 92503, [Riverside Juvenile Courthouse] Certified Specialty Juvenile Law Child Welfare – National Assn/Counsel for Children;
3) Marina Camille White # 262975, 220 Haflinger Norco, CA 92860 marina.wht@gail.com;
4) Friedman & Cazares LLP
5) Juvenile Court Attorneys of San Bernardino, 1585 S D Street, Suite 101, San Bernardino, CA, Gloria Sook Kim-Chung
6) Moore Assoc.
7) Children’s Advocacy Group, 685 East Carnegie Ste 200, San Bernardino, CA 92408
8) Denis Moore Inland Empire Juvenile & Criminal Defense Panel
9) Denise Adigun, Esq.
10) David M. Levy, Esq.
Our strong parent-driven coalition includes parents represented by each firm, with minute orders that prove falsified certification of compliance on monthly invoices to collect legal fees for services not performed.
Discussion
This Board paid the above law firms to comply with WIC 317, WIC 355, CRC 5.534, CRC 5.660, CRC 5.682, and In re Malinda S. Instead, the firms violated said laws in every case and then lied in monthly invoices to this Board to get paid for services they did not perform to keep the gravy train moving. The judges intentionally order children into foster care, terminate parental rights, order guardianship and adoption without trials, impartial tribunals, due process, jurisdiction, or authority, rendering the orders void when uttered. The rule of law is gutted. No trials. No defense. No impartial tribunals. No due process.
Under the Public Contracts Code and the express terms of the legal services contracts, the law firms are mandated to submit detailed monthly invoices on each case to the Board to document compliance. In addition, the law firms certify compliance with the contract and the above-cited law on each monthly invoice for each case, even when minute orders prove otherwise. The minute orders prove non-compliance with said law, which rendered hundreds of thousands of monthly invoices fake, sham, false, and fraudulent. It should be noted that violations of these laws not only breach the contract but also violate due process under the landmark 1923 US Supreme Court case, Meyer v. Nebraska. The Supreme Court held that violations of legislative enactments governing the court process to transfer child custody to the state constitute “due process” violations.
The judges have actual knowledge that the lawyers violate WIC 317, WIC 355, CRC 5.534, CRC 5.660, CRC 5.682, and In re Malinda S., denying the parties due process/impartial tribunals. The judges know the lawyers’ violations are due process violations that prevent jurisdiction from attaching, leaving the judge with no authority to make any orders except to continue the case and order the CSW to appear in court and testify under oath on cross-examination. Instead, judges “rubber-stamp” unopposed perjured child abuse allegations and order foster care, as documented in 1994.
We’re back to Legal Slavery before the 14th Amendment, when Slave babies were ripped by the roots from their families without due process, without impartial tribunals. In 1866, after the Civil War, Congress enacted the 14th Amendment to prevent the removal of children from families without due process. In 1866, Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 242, Violation of Civil Rights Under Color of Law, to criminalize violations of the 14th Amendment by anyone acting under color of law [law enforcement]. In 1867, to defeat the rise of the KKK, Congress enacted 18 USC 241 Conspiracy to Violate the Civil Rights of a Person, to criminalize the conspiracy between two or more people, not acting under color of law like the KKK, to violate the 14th Amendment rights of another.
Consequently, the Board ends up with 85% more children in foster care due to fraud and corruption in courtrooms hidden behind walls of confidentiality. That means 85% more legal fees, more judges, more social workers, more foster parents, more abused and raped foster children, all stemming from one root cause – the lawyers who violated due process to increase the number of children in foster care to collect more money – “Kids for Cash”.
San Bernardino Dependency court is nothing more than a crime scene, a criminal operation, another “Kids for Cash” scandal like the one in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 2014. In the much-publicized Penn “Kids for Cash” scandal, featured on American Greed and a documentary, two delinquency judges ordered thousands of children detained without impartial tribunals for kickbacks from the detention centers. The US Attorney prosecuted the judges under 18 U.S.C. § 242 [1866], Violation of Civil Rights Under Color of Law. The judges were convicted and sentenced to 29 and 17 years, respectively. The San Bernardino dependency judges also ordered thousands of children detained without impartial tribunals to collect Title IVE for foster care and legal fees.
The San Bernardino dependency judges are as guilty of 18 USC 242 Violation of Civil Rights Under Color of Law as the two delinquency judges in Lucerne County, Penn. The consequences are catastrophic: mass separation of children from families to state-run foster care, where abuse and neglect are rampant and covered up by judges and lawyers, families destroyed forever, children and parents profoundly traumatized.
The law firms are guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 241 [1867] of conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights for violating the due process rights of 6,000 children and 12,000 parents. The criminal penalties range from a fine to life in prison to death, depending on the severity of the crime.
The Board has reached the Rubicon, the “point of no return”: follow this Blueprint, restore the rule of law, terminate the corrupt law firms, reunify 6,000 children with 12,000 parents, end the foster child sex trafficking pipeline, end future lawsuits, and save $ 50 million in foster care costs each year.
This is our “Call to Action”! We will be heard! We will make “Good Trouble” until the rule of law is restored, the lawyers removed, and our Children released! We will attend every meeting and bring more voices and more media until this Board protects our families and answers this urgent and hopeful “Call to Action”! June 23, 2026
