Lane James Lloit, a 55 year old US citizen, was found dead in the International Hotel in Colon. The authorities are investigating to determine if there was a criminal hand in his death. The hearse was located at the rear of the hotel so as to not attract the attention of those who were passing by the street where the hotel is located. A source involved in the investigation said a syringe with heroin was found in room 102, and that the deceased had a head injury. Presumably he could have died from a drug overdose. (Source - La Critica)

Editor's Comment: The Panamanian newspapers very often get the name wrong in these initial reports. The person's name might be "Lane James Lloit" however I suspect the last name might be "Elliot" or "Elliott" or something like that. In addition they also frequently get first-middle-last name wrong. For example, there's a guy named Elliot J. Lane who's a lawyer in Hartford, Ct (and, I hope he's just fine.) Anyway, I'll follow up to either confirm or correct the identification of this person. If anyone knows this person, please contact me via email - don@panama-guide.com - thanks.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Jerry Ray Hall has established a gonzo website in an attempt to continue his slanderous lies and attacks against myself and the others in Panama who have unmasked him for the fruitcake that the is. However, it takes a special kind of lunatic to fabricate horrendous lies about someone, such as trying to say my friend Clyde Jenkins is a pedophile. On his website Jerry Ray Hall has placed the words "Clyde Jenkins Conviction For crime with a child" above this photo:

But You Can't Read That, Right? Of course not, you're not supposed to be able to read it. I downloaded the image and zoomed in, and you can see it came from the Sex Offender's Registry in the state of West Virginia. When you go to that registry and do a search, you find a record for a 46 year old, 210 pound white male named CLYDE FREDERICK JENKINS JR. You can see that record for yourself, and I've included a screenshot below:

That's Not Our Clyde: In case you had any lingering doubts, I've posted a photo of "our" Clyde Jenkins that I took during a walkabout in Casco Viejo below.

The Truth Bothers Jerry Ray Hall: Yes, there happens to be a man named Clyde Jenkins in West Virginia who is a sex offender, and the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall knows full well that this is not the same man as Clyde Jenkins who lived in Panama, however in true "scumbag" form he's trying to twist reality in order to do as much damage as possible to his cyber-enemy. This kind of trick is the worst stunt anyone can pull in my opinion. When faced with the truth and facts, the nut-job Jerry Ray Hall creates vicious lies and slander about his enemies, with no regard whatsoever for the potential consequences. As a man who (falsely) claims to be a conservative Christian, this is truly despicable conduct. I have no idea how anyone could stand to be in the same room as this man. I hope that by now the entire community of English speaking expatriates in Panama knows exactly who and what he is. Anyone who supports his actions in anyway should be ashamed of themselves. He's crazy and dangerous.

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - I consider the fact that Jerry Ray Hall is mad at me to be a badge of honor. He's a bullying punk who has been slamming around the members of the English speaking expatriate community in the Republic of Panama for quite some time with little or no downside. Well, he's on my shit-list. More specifically he will have a dis-honored place on the Panama Guide Rogue's Gallery forever more. Since Jerry Ray Hall got is ass kicked in the Texas Republican Primary a week ago he's been doing what he always does when challenged - running around the Internet, fabricating lies about his accuser, and doing anything and everything he can think of to cause harm to my good name. The sad part is - apparently Jerry Ray Hall suffers from some kind of mental illness and he's quite literally incapable of seeing the obvious - that these childish antics are a confirmation and demonstrated manifestations of every accusation I have ever made against him. (Jerry, slow down, go back, and read that last sentence three times until you understand it.) In other words, by doing what he's doing, Jerry Ray Hall is proving through his own actions every accusation I leveled against him was spot-on. Therefore, I was right, he's nuts, and getting nuttier. He might continue on forever more. And, ask yourself this - who really cares about the crazy man screaming in the basement? Nobody.

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - It gets better and better. This afternoon the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall sent an email to some of the companies who advertise on my website, saying they should not advertise with me. In doing so he used several email addresses and IP addresses which can be easily linked to him using computer science forensic investigation techniques. Cable Onda has already been notified, together with a formal request to not erase or destroy any of their computer logs, which will be requested by the criminal prosecutor in this case. Jerry Ray Hall created a new email address on their server and sent out an email, "faking" that it came from me. Cable Onda now knows that all of his activity will be part of both the civil and criminal legal actions I am taking against him here in Panama. In addition (and, this is the best part) Jerry Ray Hall has just handed me a 100% iron-clad connection to economic damages. If someone slanders or defames you then that's a criminal action, but until this afternoon my civil case against him was relatively weak or nonexistent. But now - thanks in no small part to the new evidence Jerry Ray Hall has handed to me on a silver platter - my civil case against him for damages just got much, much stronger. And of course all of my advertisers are also avid readers of Panama-Guide.com, so most of them just forwarded copies of the email to me (together with the complete and raw headers for forensic analysis) with a note saying "look what Jerry Ray Hall sent us about you." And no, none of them cancelled their accounts. So thanks, Jerry. Every time you pull another stunt like this my legal cases against you get much stronger. Please, by all means, keep it up. I'll take all of the evidence I can get. Cases like this are slam-dunks, and the stuff my lawyer eats for lunch.

And this is the part where anyone who might be considered "normal" would knock it off, however Jerry Ray Hall is apparently incapable of normal civil responses in situations such as this. The only thing he knows how to do is attack, attack, attack (and lie, lie, lie). Not very "Christian like" - eh? Jerry Ray Hall painted himself to be an ultra-conservative bible-thumping Christian - when in fact he only put on those (fake) robes because he thought it would earn him a few more votes in the conservative Republican part of Texas where he was campaigning. Again, more fake from the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall.

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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Is it any surprise failed congressional candidate, the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall lied to the Dallas Morning News about his campaign spending in the weeks leading up to the Republican Party Primary election? On 5 February 2010 the Dallas Morning News published an article entitled "Candidate trying to unseat Hall says he's waiting to funnel cash." In the article the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall claimed (lied) that he was going to spend $500,000 dollars of this own money on his effort to unseat longtime Republican incumbent Ralph M. Hall. When asked about Federal Election Commission requirements to report campaign spending and funds, Jerry Ray Hall lied again and said he was waiting until just before the election to spend the money on his campaign. He told the reporter from the Dallas Morning News that he was trying to leave his opponents guessing. "It's called a plan of action," he said. "There is nothing like being on a stealth mode."

More Lies from Jerry Ray Hall: Of course, now that the election is over, it's perfectly clear that all of these claims about spending $500,000 on his campaign were nothing more than another pack of lies from Jerry Ray Hall. Today on his Jerry Hall for Congress website, Jerry Ray Hall says he only campaigned for six weeks, and he only "spent a total of $600 on the campaign." Well, even that was a lie. He actually spent more than that just on plane tickets, motel rooms, and rental cars, because he actually lives in the Republic of Panama and he had to fly up there in order to participate as a candidate. So, he's lying when he says he only spent $600 dollars. He was trying to say that he only spent that much money but still managed to get about 3,000 votes, so therefore he ran an efficient campaign. Only his brain could cook up a way to put a positive spin on a fourth place public humiliation. So which is it, Jerry. Did you spend $500,000 dollars in "stealth mode" or did you spend just $600 dollars on your campaign? Or, will you just say anything at any time if you think it might suit your immediate needs at that moment in time? Jerry Ray Hall is a pathological liar - there's no longer any doubt about that (if there ever was.)

Internet Rant and Childish Pout Session: After the election, Jerry Ray Hall has now embarked on the same kind of crazy crap he always pulls when someone confronts him, questions him on his lies. He has set up a website to slander me (which I refer to as "evidence") and he's trying to pull other childish stunts, like trying to increase the amount of spam I receive at my personal email address. Of course he's wasting his time. My email address, don@panama-guide.com, has been out there for years, and I established methods and filters a long time ago to deal with morons like him. However, it's illuminating to see how his growing frustration manifests itself in continued childish attacks against me. Jerry Ray Hall is a childish punk who thinks he can bully others, particularly with lies published on the Internet. He threatens to notify the authorities about offenses he himself invents in his wracked and addled brain. He flashes a phony badge and presents himself as a member of law enforcement.

Jerry Ray Hall Never Answered The Question: For the record, Jerry Ray Hall never answered the one simple question I have for him - why does he call himself a "doctor"? Jerry Ray Hall has strung behind him such a long and endless pile of lies that it's actually very easy for a person like me to uncover the truth about him. All you have to do is poke gently into any of the crap he says and almost instantly you uncover problems, lies, and inconsistencies. In spite of everything that's been written and uncovered about the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall in the past month or so, he still has apparently never considered the possibility that maybe, just maybe - the person with the problem is him. While I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist, I suspect Jerry Ray Hall suffers from some kind of mental health malady which prevents him from seeing or understanding reality - even when it's still smacking him right between the eyes. In other words, I think he is quite simply incapable of comprehending the truth about his situation. He continues to take these kinds of childish actions against me in attempts at retribution and vengeance - even to his own detriment and ignoring the possibility (probability, certainty) of significant negative consequences. And while I don't have any training as a mental health professional, I can't wait to see what the Panamanian psychiatrists and psychologists have to say about this whack-job. He's got some kind of problem, that's for damn sure. And when I get a copy of that report, I'm going to publish it right here. "Read all about it - Panamanian Doctors Confirm Jerry Ray Hall Is Completely Nuts." Well, they might choose other words, but I'll be doing the translation so let's see how that works out in th long run. Do you think it might hurt his chances for 2012?

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HELENA — A young girl has returned with her mother to Panama after a federal appeals court said a judge overstepped his authority in awarding custody to her father in Montana. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said if Richard Joyce, a professor at Montana Tech in Butte, wants to seek custody of his nearly 4-year-old daughter, he will have to do so in the girl’s home country. “I am very disappointed by the results and am considering the option of seeking custody through the Panamanian courts,” Joyce wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Leyda Cuellar filed a petition under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction after Joyce brought his daughter to Butte without her permission in December 2007. The convention seeks to deter parents from abducting their children across national borders by severely limiting the reasons a judge in another country could grant custody to the abducting parent. In December 2008, U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull of Billings agreed with Joyce’s argument that “slum-like” living conditions, poor nutrition and medical care available to his daughter in Panama were a threat to her health and well-being. Cuellar lived in Butte from January through May 2009 and again from November through February, visiting her daughter while she awaited the results of her appeal. On Feb. 19, the 9th Circuit said Joyce’s “feeble showing ... falls far short of clear and convincing evidence” that the girl faced physical or psychological harm by living in Panama — conditions that would justify bypassing international custody laws. “I believe that the District Court’s conclusion was correct, even though the 9th Circuit points out that perhaps the evidence was not as strong as the 9th Circuit would have liked to have seen,” Joyce’s attorney, Ron Waterman, said. Kevin Ashby, the New York attorney for Cuellar, said they were pleased with the ruling, “which ordered the immediate return of our client’s abducted daughter back to her home country of Panama as required in these circumstances by both federal and international law.”    

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - This morning I drove the "close family member" of Denise Mullen Hiller - the American expatriate who was murdered in her apartment in Paitilla on Thursday evening, 18 February 2010 - back to the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City. She had finished testifying and providing information to homicide detectives from Panama's Directorate of Judicial Investigation (DIJ) and inspectors from the Third Superior Prosecutor's office, and it was time to take Denise home. Those two offices are working together to compile evidence against the primary suspect in this case, a Panamanian named Daniel Moreno Melendez who had worked as a bartender at the Marriott Hotel in Panama City. Denise met Daniel at the bar in the hotel when she first arrived in Panama in September 2009, on contract as a consultant for the CH2M Hill company to work on the expansion of the Panama Canal. Denise and Daniel eventually became involved in a romantic relationship which turned lethal on that Thursday night. Denise's "close family member" who had the crucial information about the suspect flew to Panama and spent about a week here supporting the investigation and providing information about Denise's life here. She left Panama this morning, escorting Denise's remains back to Phoenix, Arizona for burial. On the way to the airport she told me homicide detectives using Luminol discovered traces of blood in Daniel's vehicle, on the floor carpet and pedals on the driver's side of his car. At this point there's very little doubt in anyone's mind the prosecutor's have charged the right guy with murder. Now, it will take at least a year or more before he's taken to trial where prosecutors will present their evidence in order to obtain a conviction. In the meantime, the suspect will remain behind bars in Panama's notorious "La Joya" prison, locked up with some of the worst Panama has to offer. It's not a nice place at all - more like "hell on earth" - and at this point it seems those accommodations seem appropriate. And once again, our heartfelt condolences to the friends and family members of Denise Mullen Hiller.

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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - It's a wonderful, sunny, bright and clear post-election day here in the Republic of Panama. In reviewing the official election results from the Office of the Secretary of State in Texas, I see the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall received only 3,134 votes in the Republican Primary election held yesterday, less than half the number of votes he received the last time he tried this trick. I can only assume my campaign to unmask this fruitcake had some effect. Jerry Ray Hall, who actually lives in the Republic of Panama and who has been living in a motel room since January, received only 4.6% of the total 67,344 votes cast in this election. The election was won by the long-standing Republican incumbent for this position, Ralph M. Hall, who received more than 57% of the vote. Steve Clark came in second with 29.8%, and John Cooper came in third with 5.3%. Jerry Ray Hall came in fourth out of six candidates, managing to get a few more votes than Lou Gigliotti and Joshua Kowert. It should be noted the only reason the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall even tries to run in these elections is because he happens to share the same last name as the incumbent Ralph M. Hall, and it should be noted that Jerry Ray Hall is no relation to Ralph M. Hall whatsoever. Jerry Hall is not from this area - he did live in Houston for awhile but he has no real ties to the 4th District in Texas which is North and East of the Dallas - Fort Worth area, making him the worst kind of carpetbagger. Anyway, the election is over and Jerry Ray Hall got literally drubbed in the election and was publicly humiliated during the campaign. How many politicians have to run and hide from journalists and reporters who were trying to ask simple questions - like "do you live in Texas?" He can now come slinking back to Panama where he actually resides, where he will be facing a series of criminal and civil complaints, filed by me, for having made untrue allegations in public and trying to connect me with criminal activity, in an attempt to deflect questions and criticism leveled against him by me and other investigative journalists. He will now learn what happens when you try to bully and intimidate someone, like me, who is completely and totally unimpressed by his bullshit. Come on home, you friggin' weasel, I'm waiting for you. I need to introduce you to Melvis Ramos, my red-meat-eating, undefeated Panamanian attorney. Let's dance.

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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Well, the big day is upon us. The "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall will be handed a humiliating defeat in the Republican Primary election in the 4th District in Texas, no doubt. Thanks to the reporting from yours truly, and with backup provided by Susan Guberman-Garcia, Clyde Jenkins, and Jay Lewis - as well as a handful of others who preferred to work from the shadows - Jerry Ray Hall now officially has a "snowball's chance" of winning the election tomorrow. The voters in Texas now know their candidate better than ever. As a matter of fact they have seen Jerry Ray Hall's true colors. When questioned about his exceptionally questionable claims and supposed qualifications, he responded as he always responds - by ignoring the question and by making up lies and outlandish slanders against the person who is asking the questions. He's now posing as a conservative Christian, another fake and fraud which he has exposed by his very own actions. What he has done is anything but "Christian-like" to say the very least. Now tomorrow he will come slinking back to Panama, where he will be facing a series of criminal and civil complaints, filed by me. Anyway, it's nice to have a chance to do a little public service every now and again. To the people of Texas I say - "You're Welcome."

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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Well, it's nice to see that my efforts to unmask the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall have paid off. He's now going bat-shit crazy, making up stuff about me left and right. Jerry simply doesn't think like a normal person. He apparently continues to believe that he can just continue to lie and lie and lie, and as long as he launches counter-attacks against the person who is unmasking him, then everything will work out in the end. Well, I found an election site online that says Jerry only got 6,258 votes in 1998 District Four Republican Primary, the last time he ran in an election there. If he gets less votes this time around, then I'll consider that to be a victory. He doesn't have a snowball's chance of actually winning this election, which is now just four days away. I've been significantly distracted by the murder investigation, but now I've got some spare time to dedicate to my old pal the "Doctor of Fake" Jerry Ray Hall. Once the election is over and he comes back to Panama then I'll spend the next couple of years executing a series of criminal and civil complaints against him here for slander and defamation of character. You see, in these cases the "truth is the ultimate defense." The things I've published about him are true. However, he's published lies about me. You see, Jerry Hall is a liar. There's truth #1.

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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Last night Panama's Third Superior Prosecutor Argentina Barrera charged Panamanian Daniel Moreno Melendez with murder as the primary suspect in the 18 February 2010 killing of American expatriate Denise Mullen Hiller in the Republic of Panama. Denise Mullen Hiller's body was discovered in the kitchen of her Fifth floor apartment in the Torres del Parque apartment building in the Paitilla neighborhood of Panama City on Friday morning, 19 February 2010. Maintenance personnel notified the police and fire department after Denise did not respond to repeated calls from a company driver and coworker who came to pick her up for work last Friday morning. When they went upstairs to knock on her door there was a very strong smell of gas in the hallway and near the elevator. Firemen broke into her apartment through a sliding glass door on the balcony and discovered her lifeless body in the kitchen, lying in a pool of blood. When news of the murder broke in local media, Panama-Guide.com picked it up and began to cover the story in English. Family members close to Denise provided additional details over the weekend which directly led to the apprehension of the primary suspect, Daniel Moreno Melendez, at his home in Arraiján on Monday evening. Police and prosecutors worked literally around the clock from Monday through last night to quickly compile the evidence needed to formally charge the suspect with murder. After he was charged, Daniel Moreno Melendez was returned to prison where he will remain until trial. (more)   Click Here To Read The Full Article (1,122 words)

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Last night homicide detectives arrested Daniel Moreno Melendez at his home in the "Platinum Park" neighborhood of Arraiján, a suburb to the West of Panama City, as the primary suspect in the brutal murder of American Denise Mullen Hiller. One of Densie's close family members who visited her in Panama twice held time sensitive intelligence information highly relevant and critically important to the investigation - this person knew who had most likely killed Denise. Upon seeing initial reporting of Denise's murder in Panama-Guide.com, family members wisely sent the information they held to me over the weekend via telephone calls and email. I reached out to my law enforcement contacts in the US Embassy in Panama City, as well as to the Direction of Judicial Investigation, to relay the information to them. Armed with the intelligence information provided, and acting directly on that information, Police Commissioner Manuel Moreno, the Chief of the Homicide Division of Panama's Direction of Judicial Investigation (DIJ), in coordination with the Third Superior Prosecutor of Panama Argentina Barrera, arrested Panamanian Daniel Moreno Melendez as the primary suspect in the murder of Denise Mullen Hiller last night. The entire evolution, from my first meeting with the DIJ detectives early Monday morning, to the suspect's arrest last night, took less than twelve hours. Daniel Moreno Melendez worked as a bartender at the Champion's Sports Bar of the Marriott Hotel in Panama City. He had been involved in a romantic relationship with Denise Mullen Hiller since at least September 2009 when she first met him while staying in the Marriott Hotel after taking a job as a contractor on the project to expand the Panama Canal. Daniel Moreno Melendez was eventually fired from his job as a result of that relationship, because he had violated a hotel policy against fraternizing with guests. After he was fired from his job at the hotel Denise loaned him some money. There was apparently an argument or conflict, which ended with Denise Mullen Hiller being beaten to death in her rented 5th floor apartment of the Torres del Parque apartment building, located in the exclusive Paitilla neighborhood of Panama City on Thursday evening, 18 February 2010. (more)   Click Here To Read The Full Article (2,930 words)

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - American expatriate Denise Mullen Hiller was apparently murdered, beaten to death in her apartment in the Paitilla neighborhood of Panama City on Thursday night, 18 February 2010. Her body was discovered on Friday morning by a young lady who works for the Panama Canal Authority who carpools to work with Denise every day. Yesterday the Panamanian media started reporting on the story, and now the Direction of Judicial Investigation (DIJ) is investigating the apparent murder. One of the ranking police officers who responded to the scene said it was "apparent" Denise had been beaten to death. Since I started reporting on this crime I have been contacted by about a dozen people, all friends and family members, who are providing additional information about Denise and her life here in Panama. I am now channeling that information to the proper authorities to aid in their investigation. However, at this point I am not going to discuss the details of what I am learning because it might harm the investigation. I guess I would say "keep it coming" and I know that many of the key points and elements of information being provided will be very important if not critical to the ongoing investigation. I'll report more when one of two things happens. I'll echo whatever the Panamanian press can pick up. My friend William Sala has this case for La Prensa and he's one of the best investigative journalists in the country - especially for this kind of a story - so I won't be a bit surprised if he digs out a lot of it on his own. Anyway, if it "gets out" in the local press then I'll talk about it. Or, if a suspect is arrested then I'll be able to open up. But in the meantime my priority is on doing whatever is necessary to help the authorities to find the person who did this. To that end, I'm keeping a lid on it for now.

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - This one should be fun. One of the favorite tactics of the "fake doctor" Jerry Ray Hall, who is currently running for a seat in Congress in Texas, is to create a new email address and to post things on the Internet that are supposedly coming from someone else. This kind of thing is exactly at the root of all of his problems here in Panama. Back in 2006 the "fake doctor" Jerry Ray Hall appeared on one of the Yahoo! email groups used by the members of the English speaking expatriate community in Panama to discuss issues and topics, promoting the idea of creating or establishing a new school that would cater to the children of the people who are moving to Panama. He then posted immediately after using a fictitious character named "Vivian Albright" who would say "why, that's a great idea, Dr. Hall, please tell us more." We now know that "Vivian Albright" was just another email alias used by Jerry Ray Hall, and he was simply trying to manipulate the traffic on the group for his own monetary gain. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to "collect" all of the different personalities and aliases used by Jerry Ray Hall over the years on the Internet. I have a few laying around here somewhere, but I know the people who have been following this soap opera have an even better collection than I. Please submit your entry using the comments section below. Include the email address used by Jerry Ray Hall and a brief description of "why" - what were the circumstances and why or how would he benefit from assuming a second identity or by hiding his. This should be fun...

• Email Address - amediatorjrh@yahoo.com - Jerry Ray Hall used this email address to sign up to the Americans in Panama Yahoo Group on 28 January 2005.
  
  

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A woman, about 50 years old, was found dead in her room in her fifth-floor apartment of the Torres del Parque building. Early reports indicated it was a U.S. citizen who had lived in the building for three years. At present, the authorities are at the scene to recover the body and to start their investigations into this strange incident. Meanwhile, neighbors and area residents complain there is little security. They urge more vigilance because more and more violent cases are recorded. (Source: TVN Noticias)

Editor's Comment: This short story appeared yesterday afternoon on Channel 2 TVN news. There's really not much new in it that has not already been reported in other media, but I've been contacted by Denise's friends and family members in the US and they want as much information as possible so I'm going to put up every little snippet I can find. Also, for those folks, please ask Eric to resend his email address to me. Thanks.   

Authorities are investigating whether the death of an American woman in an apartment on the fifth floor of a building in the Paitilla neighborhood of the San Francisco district of Panama City on Friday morning was due to a homicide or an accident. Denise Mullen Hiller, 48 years old, was found with a head injury in a pool of blood by a friend who had plans to meet with her yesterday morning. Her friend tried to communicate with her via the intercom and telephone for more than an hour, and finally she sought assistance from the concierge, who upon opening the apartment discovered the unfortunate scene. The incident occurred in the Torres del Parque building. (Source: La Critica)    

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - No matter where I turn, there's something else wrong with Jerry Ray Hall. He is currently registered as a Public Notary with the State of Texas. At one point here in Panama he advertised his services to the members of the English speaking expatriate community, saying something akin to "just to let everyone know, I'm a Notary in the State of Texas, so if you need anything notarized let me know." Question - can people who live in Panama notarize documents for Texas? I have to learn more and find out what Texas law states in that regard, and I expect this angle will get even more interesting. I found the following in the Notary Search section of the webpage of the Texas Secretary of State:

• Name: Jerry Ray Hall
• Address: 11323 Olympia Dr
• Houston, Tx 77077
• Expires: Mar 21, 2010
• County: Harris
• Agency: American Association Of Notaries
• Surety Company: Western Surety Company
• History As Effective Expire Date
• Commissioned Notary Public - Jerry Ray Hall - 03/21/2006 - 03/21/2010
• Commissioned Notary Public - Jerry Hall - 04/14/1998 - 04/14/2002
• Recommissioned - Jerry Hall - 04/03/1994 - 04/03/1998
• Commissioned Notary Public - Jerry R. Hall - 04/03/1990 - 04/03/1994

But, There's A Problem: First of all, Jerry Ray Hall moved to Panama in 1996. According to Zillow.com, the home address that is still listed on the website of the Texas Secretary of State was sold in 1987 for $85,000 and since then it has been sold twice more, on 10 July 2006 and 16 April 2008. However, there's this one little detail:

• CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Tex. Gov't. Code Ann. § 406.019 requires a Notary Public to notify the Secretary of State of any change of address within ten (10) days of the date on which the change is made. You may fill out a Notary Public Change of Address form or send a letter with your name, social security number, old address, and new address to: Secretary of State, Notary Public Unit, P. O. Box 13375, Austin, Texas 78711-3375.

Did Jerry Tell Texas He Moved to Panama in 1996? I doubt it. I'm going to have to take a much harder look at the sections of this website dealing with "how to file a complaint about a notary."

What Was That Part Again About Being A Harvard Lawyer? According to Texas Law:

• Criminal Offenses. Effective September 1, 2001, a violation of § 406.017 of the Government Code, concerning a notary public’s representation as an attorney, becomes a criminal offense. A first-time conviction is a Class A misdemeanor. A subsequent conviction is a felony of the third degree. In addition, notaries public are "public officers." As such, they can be charged with "official misconduct" under the Penal Code. Criminal complaints may be filed with the District or County Attorney, as appropriate. Additionally, some violations by notaries may also be handled as deceptive trade practices under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (see above under Attorney General's Office).

It's Getting Deeper and Deeper for Jerry: Now, I just have to file the criminal complaint with the District Attorney. There's no doubt that Jerry Ray Hall has been misrepresenting himself as a lawyer for years. There's also no doubt that he actually did move to Panama in 1996 and has been living here full time ever since. He has been keeping this Texas Notary status "alive" all of this time. Of course I suspect Jerry Ray Hall had some kind of a "reason" for wanting to keep the Notary thing alive. Like, do you think he might have been using that stamp in some kind of untoward manner? And you know what? I want to see what's in Jerry's books, because according to Texas law "Entries in the notary's book are public information. A notary public shall, on payment of all fees, provide a certified copy of any record in the notary public's office to any person requesting the copy." The fee is .50 cents per page. I want to see all books, all pages. Who do I make the check out to? I'm serious here...

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - According to this evening's Channel 13 Telemetro news broadcast, the body of Denise Mullen Hiller was found by family members in her apartment this morning. She had a blow to her head and her corpse was found lying in a pool of blood. A police major on the scene told reporters that she had "several blows" to her body and it was "apparent" that she had been beaten to death. The 48 year old American woman was in Panama working as a consultant to a company that has something to do with the project to expand the Panama Canal. Her apartment is located in the exclusive Paitilla neighborhood of Panama City in the Republic of Panama, in a building called the "Torre del Parque." After the body was discovered the fire department was called to the scene, because in the apartment the knobs on the stove were all found left wide open, there was a strong smell of gas in the apartment, and several candles were found burning in the apartment. Authorities investigating the murder presume the killer intended to first flee the scene and then to start a fire in an attempt to destroy evidence. Currently police investigators are searching for the man who was last known to be with Denise Mullen Hiller, because the security guard who was on duty saw him both enter and leave the building. She was apparently beaten to death, and at this point robbery is the presumed motive.

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By Bill Oram, The Oregonian - Philip Leland Riley will be transported to the Washington County Jail Saturday, 15 months after fleeing the country to avoid sexual assault charges. Riley, 68, was found hiding and using a fake name in Panama earlier this month by the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was transported to Houston on Feb. 3 and Saturday will return to Oregon, Det. Pam Yazzolino, a department spokesman. Riley was first arrested on Nov. 16, 2008, after a 9-year-old boy said Riley sexually assaulted him in the shower of a Beaverton YMCA. An America's Most Wanted segment on Oct. 10 elevated Riley's case to the national spotlight. Yazzolino said earlier this month that the show elicited many tips that were vital to finding Riley in Panama.

Editor's Comment: Score one for the Legat and ICE.   

By JIM HARDIN for the Rockwall Herald Banner - ROCKWALL — (Editor’s Note: A large portion of the content reviewed for the writing of this article comes from online correspondence and e-mail. In the instances where quotes are derived from written sources, these quotes are reproduced without regard to case, spelling or grammar. An attempt was made to contact Jerry Ray Hall and allow him to present his side of this story. To date, he has not done so.) Jerry Ray (TEA) Hall is making his second run at unseating Ralph Hall as the U.S. Representative of House District 4. The first time around, in 1996, Jerry Ray Hall easily won the Republican nomination for the office, but lost to then-Democrat Ralph Hall in the general election. Associating himself with the popular TEA Party movement, Jerry Ray is on the campaign trail again. Representing himself as a staunch Republican and devout Christian, Jerry Ray Hall touts himself as having been "TEA when TEA wasn't cool." His campaign press releases state, "Jerry acquired his name because in his 1996 campaign he was saying stop the spending then and cut taxes so much his friends started calling him Texas Tea Hall jokingly and the name stuck as Tea Hall." But in the past week, a group of individuals claiming to know Hall from their dealings with him in the Central American nation of Panama say that this is the least bothersome discrepancy they can think of regarding Jerry Ray. (more)   Click Here To Read The Full Article (2,068 words)

Maria Cristina Gonzalez, the Director of Immigration in Panama, said the lawyer who uses two names, ether Jorge Puello or his real name Jorge Orellana, entered the country on 5 November 2007 but there is no record of his departure. "We are working together with the authorities to verify if he is in the country. According to the information we have available there is no record if him having left the country, and therefore we are cooperating in the search," she said. She said that if he is found then he will be sent to the Dominican Republic to be processed. The lawyer is charged with kidnapping and is wanted in the Dominican Republic, and he is also sought by Interpol in El Salvador. He is accused of being an advisor to a group of missionaries who attempted to leave Haiti with 33 orphans. (Source: Panama America)

Editor's Comment: Great. Why does Panama seem to attract every form of scum known to man? This guy is wanted in at least four different countries on charges of human trafficking. His primary gig was enticing underage girls from Nicaragua to go to El Salvador, and then they were forced into prostitution. He was jailed in Canada while the US tried to extradite him on money laundering charges. Then he pops up in Haiti and offers his services as a lawyer (but he's not a lawyer, sound familiar?) to help the ten US missionaries who were jailed there. Why would anyone who has warrants for his arrest out in four different countries seek the limelight in such an outlandish manner? I don't understand what makes guys like this tick. Anyway, there's a chance that he might be running around here somewhere. He almost certainly speaks English, so you might run into him at a McDonald's someplace. If you do, drop a dime...   

MIAMI -- A man who was wanted on attempted murder charges in Miami has been arrested in Panama. Pablo Guzman was wanted after a shooting outside Club MIA during Super Bowl weekend. Police said Guzman had been fighting with another man inside the club. He is accused of shooting the victim several times outside the building along Biscayne Boulevard. A police officer who witnessed the shooting fired shots, but at the time investigators did not know if the shooter was hit. Guzman was arrested Thursday in Panama City, Panama, after he flew in from Cancun, Mexico. He was brought back to the U.S. Friday to face the attempted murder charges. (Source: justnews.com)   

A 62-year Dutch woman died Monday while enjoying the waters of Cayo Coral in Bocas del Toro. She apparently had a heart attack. Her husband and other people who were with the woman, who were doctors, tried to keep her alive until they could reach the pier of the Fire Department on Isla Colon, and from there she was taken by an ambulance of the Ministry of Health to the hospital, but unfortunately she passed away. (Source: La Critica)

Editor's Comment: Emergency medical services, and in particular ambulances and medical evacuation services, are extremely lacking throughout the entire Republic of Panama. Even if you had a heart attack in the middle of downtown Panama City, your chances of quickly receiving efficient and effective emergency care - sufficient enough to keep you alive until you can get to an Emergency Room or an operating table - are slim. If you like to get off of the beaten path, remember your trip to a hospital in case of an emergency or accident will most likely mirror what you had to do to get there in the first place. If that means three hours in a 4x4 followed by two hours on a horse, then try that in reverse with a broken ankle. There is no helicopter medical evacuation capability in this country. Just remember, everything is perfectly fine until it all goes to shit. Our heartfelt condolences to the friends and family members of this Dutch woman who died in Bocas del Toro.   

Rockwall voters: Know your candidate - By Tod Robberson / Editorial Writer for the Dallas Morning News - The Republican primary for the 4th congressional district, currently held by GOP Rep. Ralph Hall, contains some real characters. And I don't mean that in a flattering sense. At least two of these characters have lied in big ways about their backgrounds, and that's troubling. It just goes to show that voters owe it to themselves to know their candidates before casting a ballot.

First, let's briefly look at candidate Steve Clark, who told us in his candidate questionnaire that he had never been arrested. Oops. It turns out that, in fact, he was arrested in 1986 and charged with assaulting his ex-wife. Odd that he would forget that little detail.

Now let's look at Jerry Ray (Tea) Hall, aka "Dr." Jerry Hall (no relation to Ralph Hall). When you look at his candidate questionnaire, he claims to have built a "successful" business that apparently experienced some un-success at some point, and he said he was "forced" to sell it. He doesn't name the company. But some curious eager-beavers down in Panama, where Hall used to live, have really done their homework. The best work on this is being done by Don Winner at Panama-Guide.com, an online newspaper/chat room. Panama is a very small place, and there's no such thing as a secret there.

Here's one of the Big Concerns: Jerry Hall lists himself on the Board of Advisors of the International Association of Mediators and Arbitrators as "Jerry Hall, Ph.D." He claims to be a graduate of the "Harvard School of Law negotiations." I'll attach his full resume on the following page, but some of his claims are quite inventive. Mysteriously, nowhere in the background he filed with The Dallas Morning News does he claim to be a Ph.D or a graduate of Harvard Law School. It's also noteworthy that Hall is listed as owner of the IAMA's Web site, and the IAMA's address also is one of Hall's listed Houston addresses. So any mistakes on that site go straight to Hall's doorstep.

While we're on the subject of addresses: I can't find any evidence that Hall actually lives in District 4 or anywhere in Rockwall. The only address listed anywhere for him in Rockwall is a post office box. I tried to call Hall on the home phone he listed for us. The conversation started off fine, but when I got to these questions, he interrupted me with, "Hello? Hello? I can't hear you. I'm on a cellphone out in the country and the signal's going in and out." Then he hung up.

So, here's how Hall describes himself on the IAMA Web site: Jerry Hall, Ph.D. Dr. Hall holds a Doctorate degree is Psychology from Columbia State University and is a graduate of the Harvard School of Law negotiations. A certified mediator, since 1980, Dr. Hall has operated ADR Services International for the past twenty-four years, providing mediation training to over 5,500 individuals and providing mediation and arbitration procurement services throughout the U.S. and other parts of the world. Dr. Hall serves on the International Dispute Committee for Ethics, and Procedures of the ADR Section of the American Bar Association and is a member of the Texas Roundtable of Mediators. He has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Justice Department U.S. Postal Service, EEOC, OSHA, and NASA, assisting these organizations in implementing internal mediation programs. In July 2000, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law. A frequent teacher and lecturer on topics pertaining to ADR, Dr. Hall was a keynote speaker at the 1999 National Conflict Management Conference. He is currently working on developing Mediation practices in Latin American.

I am amazed at his qualifications. But, bizarrely, none of these qualifications appears on "Dr. Hall's" campaign Web site. Check out his BIO page. Nowhere is there a mention of his PhD and his Harvard law degree. In the answer to his questionnaire regarding funding, he claims to have "over $350,000" in donations, which is significantly more that Rep. Hall himself. And I can't find any mention of Jerry Hall on the American Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution committee Web Site. I also can't find any mention of the committee he claims to be on. There is no Texas Roundtable of Mediators that I can find. There is a Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable, but Hall is not listed as a member.

I tried to call Jerry Hall back, but he didn't answer.

So, here's what I still need to know:

1. What is the source of Hall's large campaign treasure chest, and where will that money go in the likely event he doesn't win the primary?

2. Where, exactly, does Jerry Hall live in Rockwall? I mean, isn't it really hard to sleep at night inside one of those tiny post office boxes? How does he shower or brush his teeth?

3. How is he able to make his home phone ring out in the countryside?

4. Why does he seem to have one identity on his IAMA Web site, and a completely different one on his campaign Web site?

5. What, exactly, is truthful about anything he claims?

I'm probably not the only one who wants to know these things. Considering that Hall's campaign site includes some very old endorsement letters from prominent people like Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, maybe we should get to the bottom of this really quickly.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - My investigation of Jerry Ray Hall continues. When I first started looking into his false claims and statements, one of the most prominent was that he had supposedly donated more than $1 million dollars to poor children in Panama. I've been living here for more than 23 years, and I can tell you that if any foreigner actually had donated that much money it would have generated headlines. My questions for Jerry Ray Hall are simple - when did he supposedly make this donation. To whom did he donate the money? What school or community benefited from the donation he claims to have made? Jerry Ray Hall did not respond to my requests for additional information about his supposed donation, but rather he ran to remove that false claim from his website. He knows full well that it would be a simple task for me to verify any such claim, so he just pulled it down and now he's hoping that his lie will eventually go away, now that he's been discovered. But Jerry Ray Hall still wants to be seen or perceived as a philanthropic person. After he removed the false claim of having made a donation to poor school children in Panama, he later posted the following news clipping;

There's Always A Problem: Fact checking Jerry Ray Hall's activities is actually a pretty simple task - it seems like no matter where he turns and what he tries to do, there's always some kind of a problem. Nothing is as it seems. For example, in this article Jerry Ray Hall is identified as the President of a company called PSA Temporaries. And since Jerry Ray Hall wants to point to the $4,000 dollar donation he made as the President of that company, it occurred to one of the people who is following this soap opera to check into the company in the State of Texas. And guess what? The company is listed as "Not In Good Standing" by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. You can see the complete listing for this company yourself by clicking this link. If you want to see a screen snap - an image taken from the website of the Comptroller's office in Texas about PSA Temporaries, you can click this link. And, I'll just include the same information here in the article as well;

• Franchise Tax Certification of Account Status
  
  
• Entity Information: PSA TEMPORARIES INC
  
  
• 7706 MEADOWGLEN LN
  
  
• HOUSTON, TX 77063-4812
  
  
• Status: NOT IN GOOD STANDING
  
  
• Registered Agent: JERRY HALL
  
  
• 7706 MEADOWGLEN LANE
  
  
• HOUSTON, TX 77063
  
  
• Registered Agent Resignation Date:
  
  
• State of Formation: TX
  
  
• File Number: 0119187600
  
  
• SOS Registration Date: May 6, 1991
  
  
• Taxpayer Number: 17603457478

To see this image full size, simply click on the image above, then click on the image again when it comes up in the Media Gallery.

Does Jerry Ray Hall Owe Taxes To The State of Texas? Apparently. I don't really know what "not in good standing" means, legally speaking, in the State of Texas. Hold on, let me find out... Ah, here it is. According to their website;

• "Not In Good Standing" means an entity has not met all of its franchise tax filing requirements. Below are the top three reasons an entity is shown to be "Not in Good Standing":
  
  
• The Comptroller's records reflect that the required franchise tax reports have not been filed, or the appropriate amount due (tax, penalty, or interest) has not been paid by the entity.
  
  
• The Comptroller's records reflect that Public Information reports or Ownership Information reports have not been filed for the entity.
  
  
• A beginning date for a non-Texas entity's business activities in the state has not been provided to the Comptroller's office.

ADR Services Inc. Is Also "Not In Good Standing: The logical next step is to check all of Jerry Ray Hall's companies in Texas. Is anyone surprised that another company he owns, ARD Services, is in the same "Not In Good Standing" condition?

• Franchise Tax Certification of Account Status
  
  
• Entity Information: ADR SERVICES INC
  
  
• 107 N GOLIAD ST STE 204
  
  
• ROCKWALL, TX 75087-2565
  
  
• Status: NOT IN GOOD STANDING
  
  
• Registered Agent: JERRY RAY HALL
  
  
• 107 N. GOLIAD, STE. 204
  
  
• ROCKWALL, TX 75087
  
  
• State of Formation: TX
  
  
• File Number: 0141015700
  
  
• SOS Registration Date: August 15, 1996
  
  
• Taxpayer Number: 30118901757

Now, I'm No Politician... But isn't it generally a good idea to pay all of your state taxes if you want to run as the Tea Party candidate in the State of Texas? Don't good old boy Republicans make sure they file all required forms and pay their taxes on time? And since Jerry Ray Hall's ADR Services is supposedly "one of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America" and he supposedly had income of more than $34 million dollars in 2007, then I'm sure the State of Texas would want to collect their part of that, right? Like I said, when it comes to Jerry Ray Hall, there's always something wrong...

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - No matter which way you slice it, Jerry Ray Hall is lying again. He posted on his website that supposedly I am under investigation by the Attorney General in Florida for the alleged crimes of prostitution, on-line gambling, and child pornography. Of course, I am involved in none of those things, and Jerry Ray Hall just made those allegations up out of thin air in an attempt to "kill the messenger." I just got off of the phone with the Office of the Attorney General in Florida, and they will determine if Jerry Ray Hall has in fact filed some kind of a complaint against me. If he has, they will be sending me a copy. If he has not, then they will let me know that as well. No matter what happens, Jerry Ray Hall is lying again. For his sake he better be lying about having filed the complaint - because simply saying something that's not true on a website is generally not a crime. However if he has filed a complaint and if he has lied in that complaint, then that's a criminal offense, and he will be prosecuted for making a false official statement. I'll let you know what response I receive from the Attorney General's office. They said they would get back to me in 48 hours or less. Making a false allegation that another person is supposedly involved in child pornography is absolutely despicable, abhorrent conduct that should not be tolerated in any sense. I will be responding with every possible legal tool at my disposal, both it Panama and in the United States, using both civil and criminal channels.

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Every time I try to step away from the keyboard, another Jerry Ray Hall gem hits my screen (thanks, guys...) This one came from the Friends and References section of his campaign website:

• "It just seems like the world has to have proof to believe anyone any more. It is a sad day that everyone is a suspect and no one tries to find the truth."

Are You Friggin' Kidding Me? No one tries to find the truth? About you? That's all I am trying to do. Find the truth. Like - the truth about you supposedly being a "Doctor" and having a PhD. And the truth about you supposedly being a "Harvard Lawyer." And about supposedly donating "$1 million dollars to kids in Panama." And that your company is supposedly one of the "5,000 fastest growing companies in America." All of those are lies - simply, not true. Jerry Ray Hall has no moral ground to stand on when it comes to telling the truth. None. "I'ts a sad day that everyone is a suspect..." No, it's a happy day. It's only sad for lying sacks of shit like you, when you get caught lying. Un-friggin-believable... The gall of this man never ceases to amaze me.

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - On 7 December 2009 an article entitled U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall to seek re-election to 16th term in office appeared on topix.com. To date this article has generated 45 comments. Two of these comments were posted by Jerry Ray Hall on 22 December 2009. He used the profile name "amediator" (Jerry Ray Hall is a mediator) and he posted the comments from his Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Pueblo Nuevo, Panama where he lives. Notice, Jerry Ray Hall made these comments from Panama in the end of December 2009, before he came back to Texas to register to run as a candidate in the Republican Primary election of 2 March 2010. Jerry Ray Hall made two comments to the article about Ralph M. Hall running for reelection;

• "When Ralph Hall of Texas switched parties in early 2004 he did maintain his seat on the committee (ironically, he was the ranking member of the committee at that time when he left the Democratic Party; he's now the ranking member again ..."
  
  
• Gosh, this guy was going to retire over 16 years ago, what happened, man, these people need to get real jobs and stop living off the government.

Great Advice: Get a real job and stop living off the government? Great advice, coming from a guy who wants to replace Ralph M. Hall in congress. And again, Jerry Ray Hall made these comments using an alias, and he never thought that anyone would be smart enough to put two and two together and figure out they were coming from him. To that I can only say "Howdy, Jerry!" Why don't you check out the Topic profile for amediator and you will see all nine of his posts. Every one of them are self-serving and in one way or another would help his campaign effort in Texas. And once again, this is an example of Jerry Ray Hall's "true colors" - he loves to try to hide behind an alias or a false front and attempt to manipulate things from behind the scenes. In addition, Jerry Ray Hall's Twitter page is amediator however he has taken it down and blocked his tweets, once I started investigating his lies and false statements. You can see on that page how Jerry Ray Hall is following his close friend in Panama Okke Ornstein. There's no doubt - "amediator" is in fact Jerry Ray Hall, and he said that Ralph M. Hall should "get a real job" and "stop living off of the government." Would someone please ask him about this comment at the next Town Hall event? Please?

Now He Will Run Like Hell: And of course, in response to his article Jerry Ray Hall will run like a rabbit to try to clean up the Internet and find more places where he stuck his foot in his mouth using this "amediator" alias. Run Jerry, run. You better be quick, because there are a lot of pissed off people out there looking for new leads to follow up on. I guess it's going to be a kind of race. I like races.

But Wait - There's More: Jerry Ray Hall created an account on the Fox News channel in Dallas / Fort Worth in order to make comments to news reports there. On that profile he listed his location as "Rockwall, TX, United States" which is where he's basing his campaign for congress. Here's what he wrote using that account:

• 44 Years as a Democrat, then to keep his job he switched, so another party switcher, shouldn't he retire so that we can get some new blood in Congress, one that is not a lawyer. A businessman that understands that reducing taxes will draw back the companies that have gone overseas to reduced their tax burden. It would bring jobs and businesses back to the good old US of A. We need a Congressman who stands for what is right not just what is popular and starts a movement to stop all this craziness. Ralph has been a non-descript Congressman for over 45 years. Just stays in the background and never makes a noise good or bad. Is that what we want in Congress or someone who will shake up the world. IT SHOULD BE GOD AND COUNTRY and be proud of it. Stop giving money to the people who have not contributed, secure our boarders not just for illegals but from people who are coming to harm us. Throw out the criminals that are not American immediately, and allow our police to do their jobs and ask if you are a citizen, bring God back to our schools and work place so the violence stops. Values are what are important to everyone except the crazies out their and they are a very small part of America. We need to stop letting the tail wagg the dog. It is time for a new movement to take back America and we need Congressmen who will do that, not just set on the sidelines. SOME ONE WITH GUTS...not popularity.
  
  
• "I was wondering is Ralph a Democrat or Republican, he is a party switcher so who Konws????"
  
  
• (Then he rated a photo of Ralph M. Hall with one star out of a possible five).

Kinda Takes On A New Flavor, Doesn't It? The comment posted by Jerry Ray Hall about the career of Ralph M. Hall, the incumbent for the position he is seeking, takes on a whole new flavor when you know it's actually coming from Jerry Ray Hall. I mean, on one hand it kinda sounds like a "standard Jerry rant" and I'm sure he would not have the guts to stand up and say any of this stuff to Ralph M. Hall's face. Jerry Ray Hall loves to hide behind the curtain and toss bricks from a hidden position. That's simply what he does. Can anyone else find more of these gems?

Don't Forget YouTube: Remember that Jerry Ray Hall is trying to sell his house in Panama by using a YouTube video he posted? Want to take a wild gander at his profile name there? You guessed it - amediator. All of this details are there, about his company, he lives in Texas, etc. Same dude, same handle.

And Then There's Facebook: Jerry Ray Hall's Facebook page was "amediator" until he pulled it down this week. He didn't like the fact that I snatched a "real" photo of him from there to use in these articles. The photo he would try to have you believe was apparently taken before the age of digital imagery. Jerry Ray Hall has a dilemma - he wants to be all over the Internet, but the footprints he leaves behind can easily be used to unmask his attempts to defraud others and hide his real self. In this case, it's almost a literal unmasking. Anyway, no more Facebook page for Jerry Ray Hall (amediator). Too bad.

Check Out Jerry on Quickbooks: Jerry Ray Hall likes Quickbooks. He signed up for an account with them using the standard "amediator" handle, and this time he posted all kinds of information about his personal life and his company. You can see the profile by clicking this link and since I know he's going to run to take it down, here's what it says (before he has the chance to yank it):

• Public Profile for amediator
  
  
• Jerry
  
  
• President
  
  
• ADR Services International, Inc.
  
  
• Line of Business: Legal Services
  
  
• Address: Doral, FL United States
  
  
• Business Contact Information
  
  
• Address: 3537 NW 82nd Avenue
  
  
• PMB 1539 PTY
  
  
• Phone786-866-9900
  
  
• Websites: www.adrservicesintl.com
  
  
• www.panam-zone.com
  
  
• About ADR Services International, Inc.
  
  
• Business Description: Providing Mediation Service Internationally
  
  
• Years in Business20
  
  
• Top Selling Product or Service: Mediation Service
  
  
• What Inspired My Business: need to resolve legal disputes quickly and equitably
  
  
• Most Unusual Client or Client Story: NASA, handling the Space Shuttle Dallas Disaster mediation
  
  
• Recent Business Surprise: Inc 5000 award
  
  
• Fun Facts About amediator
  
  
• Personal Bio: I love knowledge and learning at all levels. Always going to classes to improve myself
  
  
• Coolest Personal Item on My Desk: Clock from my employees BEST BOSS
  
  
• Where I Plan to Retire: Panama
  
  
• Best Network Tool: One-On-One
  
  
• I’m an Expert In: ProSeries
  
  
• I’m Interested In: Scuba diving, and photography

Biggest Surprise? Isn't it kind of hard to be surprised when you lied about the size and revenue of your company in order to defraud inc.com into placing your company on their list of the "5,000 fastest growing companies in America"? Jerry Ray Hall has already retired to Panama. When he says his address is "Doral, Florida" that's because many people who live in Panama use a mail forwarding service, and our US mail goes through Doral Florida before it ends up in Panama. And the funniest part about this whole thing - is that Jerry Ray Hall is working as a mediator (amediator) in the first place. This is the dude who screamed at me on the phone that he was going to have me killed if I published anything about him or if I put his name in print. Don't you think a real mediator would have used a slightly less confrontational tactic to address this kind of an issue? Hey, just asking... Do you think he threatened to kill anyone at NASA?

And Then, Along Those Lines: Apparently Jerry Ray Hall wrote his own article for Wikipedia, and when others went in to modify it and to describe him as an "unsuccessful politician" and a "non noteworthy mediator" he (you guessed it) went nuts. There was then a debate among Wilipedia moderators over whether or not the article should be deleted. And of course, in these discussions Jerry Ray Hall was using the handle "amediator" --

• Jerry Ray Hall - Jerry Ray Hall (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View AfD)
  
  
• Non-notable mediator and unsuccessful political candidate. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. No WP:RS that his mediation efforts satisfy WP:NOTABILITY. Google search reveals an obit for a different Jerry Ray Hall, but nothing else that I can see, save his unsuccessful candidature. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. —Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:30, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• I should like to add that the article creator's response has been to attempt to blank the Afd and then insult me and Wikipedia on my talk page. Not terribly reassuring from someone whose user name is User:Amediator. Remind me not to hire him. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• Delete. Not notable, no references for a biography. -- Mikeblas (talk) 22:52, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• Delete I can find nothing on the net about his work with Panama, apart from a Yahoo! groups thing I can't get into. I can find his unsuccessful candidature. I can find nothing in connection with mediation. There may be more in the name of his company, but I can't find this. With no references given in the article, I have to judge on what I can find, which is very little. Peridon (talk) 23:00, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• Delete - Non-notable beyond a very narrow niche, and that's assuming any of that is actually true, since he gave no sources whatsoever. §FreeRangeFrog 05:27, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• It's funny that you would insult the subject by calling him a "non-notable mediator" and then get upset when the article creator insults you in return. Good for him, frankly. However the subject does seem to fail the relevant guidelines, so we still need to delete the article. RenegadeMonster (talk) 15:20, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• You're right, good for him. Actually, I'd considered whether this article was written by Hall when nominating it for deletion and decided it wasn't: it seemed to be too poorly written for someone with his claimed academic background. Obviously, in retrospect, he did write it. I will be more careful in the future in how I describe articles when nominating for deletion, especially if I suspect they're vanity pieces. No point in adding insult to injury. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• I thought mediators were supposed to mediate not insult. The author is 'Amediator', which says something to me about the whole subject. Peridon (talk) 20:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
  
  
• Delete per nom. --Sc straker (talk) 22:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, the Guys at Wikipedia Had Him Nailed: This discussion just about sums up my efforts with regards to Jerry Ray Hall, an unsuccessful politician and a "non-notable mediator." Now I have to contact the person who Jerry Ray Hall attacked (Shawn in Montreal). I'd love to see what he said... Ah, wait. Here it is...

• Posted by amediator (Jerry Ray Hall) - "I think Shawn of Montreal is nothing more than a geek with no life in Montreal, do you have any sense of history there were only a few times that people with the same last name ran for congressional seats, have you done anything with your life other than condemn others for their accomplishments. I think not lets just see if you can see you on the web someplace, as having done anything, and I will bet not. Instead of automatic deletions, it would be better to help modify documents and get additional information from the author. BUT YOU DONT, WHY BECAUSE YOU CAN HIDE BEHIND YOUR COMPUTER. THIS WHOLE WEB SITE IT NOTHING BUT A JOKE RUN BY WANT-A-BE'S WHO HAVE DONE NOTHING IN THEIR LIFE."

So, Jerry's Pissed at Wikipedia: He couldn't manipulate it, so it's a joke. No Jerry, that's called "the truth." There has to be a million of these out there, all over the place...

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.   

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - I love it how Jerry Ray Hall changes his tune once he's confronted with the facts. Last week when I first started looking into his congressional campaign in Texas, his websites claimed he had "donated $1 million dollars to poor children in Panama." When I started asking hard questions, like "where, when, how, to whom was this money donated, please provide specifics" he literally ran to yank that claim down from his website. Now, with regards to his donations in Panama, he has put up the following statement on his official Jerry Hall for Congress website:

• "Jerry worked to develop a program over several years that cost to produce over $1,000,000 in time and development costs in association with various organization, which upon completion was made available to Third world countries for free. This is a complete conflict resolution program from grades K1-12th Grade. This program is free if requested. The first program was given to Ministry of Education at the time of presentation the education system was under the Presidency of Torrijos in Panama."

First of all, huh? Jerry Ray Hall, for supposedly being both a "Doctor" and a "Harvard Lawyer" seems to have one hell of a time with the English language. I mean, much of the stuff he writes is quite simply impossible to understand. Let me try to break that one down for you. I think he means...

• Jerry Ray Hall ... worked over several years to develop ... a computer program ... at a cost of more than $1 million dollars ... in both time and development costs ... he worked together with ... several other organizations ... and when the program was ready ... it was made available to third world countries for free. This is a complete conflict resolution program which can be used for grades K - 12. This program is free if requested. The first program was given to the Ministry of Panama during the administration of former Panamanian President Martin Torrijos.

Ah, That's Better: So "Jerry Ray Hall Donated $1 million dollars" turns into "I donated a computer program to the Ministry of Education that other dudes developed." No sweat, at least now I know what I'm looking for. On Wednesday afternoon I'm going to visit the Panamanian Ministry of Education and talk to Minister Lucy Molinar. Lucy was a popular television journalist on TVN Channel 2 in Panama City before he was tapped by newly elected President Ricardo Martinelli to be his new Minister of Education. I've known her for years, and it should be relatively easy to find out just exactly what this "donation" actually consisted of. My favorite part of Jerry Ray Hall's recently modified statement is the part where he says "in association with various organizations." What, exactly, does that mean? Anyway, I don't want to jump the gun. I'll just ask Lucy if the Ministry of Education is using this program at all, anywhere. I want to get my hands on the actual materials, discs, books, or whatever was donated. I have high expectations, since it supposedly cost more than $1 million dollars to put together. I'll let you know what I find (grin.)

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.