Human Error: Election Fraud

By Mel Ladner

Human Error proves beyond any reasonable doubt that our United States elections are rigged.

Follow our investigation into the New York City-wide fraudulent election, beginning with the step

by step appeal process all the way to the US Supreme Court.

After a six-year federal court proceeding, the shocking in

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliant Books Literary
• Release date: May 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781641337076

Mel Ladner

Mel Ladner is a father and grandfather, and now a retired New York Citypolice officer that spent most of his adult life in law enforcement. Heloved every day patrolling the city of New York in a police car, fightingcrime, helping the sick and disadvantaged, and arresting felons. He found asecond love in writing.

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To all the veterans and patriots from George Washington to the present-day soldiers who served and died defending our rights for free and fair elections, the very bedrock of our democracy. God bless you!

To my great children, my son Dan, my daughter Noel and her husband Dan. I gave them a very tough homework assignment when they were very young. They wrote legal briefs to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the United States Supreme Court. Thanks you for putting up with my zest and zeal to shine a bright light on our rigged elections! Hopefully Human Error can have a positive impact to established free and fair elections in our great country?

To my wife of forty-four years Julia Ladner who passed away. I will always miss you. Thank you for a wonderful life together.

And to my new love, Cindy Schuler, thank you for pointing me in the right direction and remember that in life, always look for better seats.

Please enjoy the book Human Error

God Bless the United States of America.

Human Error

CHAPTER ONE

LET’S START THE JOURNEY

My name is Mel Ladner. I ran as a candidate in the 1993 school-board election and gave it my best shot to shine light on the corruption in New York City in the education and election system. I found out that the system works for only a chosen few, so why would anyone want to change it? I won half the case against Proportional Counts Associates, Inc. and Bruce Hogenauer, who ran the school-board election and was awarded $76,741,095.49 (CV96-2190 ILG) by Federal District Judge I. Leo Glasser.

The federal court, in its wisdom, separated the case into two parts—one against Proportional Counts Associates, and the other against the people who were responsible for the rigged 1993 school-board election and for hiring convicted felons to run the citywide school-board elections in the city of New York. The Federal District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and even the U.S. Supreme Court all ruled that all corrupt and fraudulent acts in the school-board election was just human error, and I wasn’t entitled to a trial. I went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, case number 99-5301, asking and fighting for a trial for over six years—Melvin Ladner v. City of New York, 99- 5301. The U.S. Supreme Court denied me that trial. Everyone should remember that a trial is a search for the truth. No court ever cited U.S. Marshal Bob Meltzer’s sworn testimony in any decision regarding Bruce Hogenauer, the count director for the Staten Island election. He was a convicted felon. I asked why the courts never mentioned Meltzer’s testimony about Bruce Hogenauer, prisoner number 03263018, FBI number 486105F in all their rulings, because that would have opened a can of worms. The parents of children who attended the New York City public schools, the taxpayers, and the voters would have seen that the system wasn’t working. The case would have brought thousands of lawsuits and perhaps protests in the streets. The amazing part of the story is that the parents of George L. Ebert, of Intermediate Junior High School, 333 Midland Avenue, Staten Island, New York still don’t know that their children came into contact with a kidnapper and child molester for five days when the school was in session. The federal courts and the city of New York kept it a secret by not informing the parents that their children were at risk. Bruce Hogenauer fled to Great Britain for three years, where he lived a life of crime. He was apprehended and extradited by Detective Theodore Theologes of the New York City Detective Squad and U.S. Marshal Bob Meltzer on an arrest warrant for kidnapping a minor across state lines to face those criminal charges in a United States court. While being extradited for kidnapping, Hogenauer assaulted Meltzer on the six-and-a-half-hour flight from Great Britain back to the U.S. While he punched and kicked Meltzer on the plane, he screamed that he wanted the marshal to feel what the kidnapped boy felt. Hogenauer may have tried to escape being extradited to the U.S.

He spent time in prison for kidnapping when he was hired as the count director to run the 1993 Staten Island school-board election. Who would hire such a man to be in charge of the city’s paper ballots? It was the City of New York. Hogenauer’s criminal record included: 1966 for destruction of private property. 1966 twice for disorderly conduct in New York. 1972 for altering a driver’s license in Jersey City, NJ. 1975 for breaking and entering in Mountainside, NJ. 1980 for aggravated harassment in the town of Woodbury, NY. 1983 for kidnapping a minor and crossing state lines in Tampa, FL. For assaulting a federal U.S. marshal. If that wasn’t enough, he also used aliases: Bruce William Hogenauer Bruce Hoenover Bruce Anderson Bruce Jack Hogenauer He was held in Her Majesty’s Prison at Pentonville, Great Britain, before being the count director for the 1993 school -board election. Robert A. Meltzer, Supervisor Deputy of the United States Marshal’s Service, gave his sworn deposition on August 6, 1997, to my lawyer, Jeff Motelson.

The transcript begins on page seven, line two:

Jeff: In the course of your duties for the Unites States Marshal’s Service, have you been assigned any tasks involving one Bruce Hogenauer?

Bob: Yes, I have.

Jeff: When were you first assigned any duties concerning Mr. Hogenauer?

Bob: In 1987.

Jeff: What duties were you assigned at that time?

Bob: I was assigned to be involved in the extradition of Mr. Hogenauer from England, Great Britain, to the United States.

Jeff: Who gave you that assignment? Bob: That was from headquarters.

Jeff: At the time that you were assigned to such duties, was Mr. Hogenauer under apprehension?

Bob: Yes, he was.

Jeff: Where had he been apprehended, Sir?

Bob: He was apprehended in Great Britain, and they were holding him in the jail there for extradition.

Page eight, line five, to page eight, line twenty-one:

Jeff: From which authorization or jurisdiction?

Bob: New York City had a kidnapping warrant on him.

Jeff: For approximately what period of time had there been an outstanding warrant for the arrest of Mr. Hogenauer for kidnapping at the time of apprehension?

Bob: Since approximately 1984, I believe. Jeff: Were the kidnapping charges domestic or United States charges concerning the kidnapping?"

Bob: Yes, they were.

Jeff: At the time that Mr. Hogenauer was known to have left the country, was he a fugitive from justice?

Bob: I believe he was.

From page eleven, line twenty-three, to page twelve, line fifteen:

Jeff: At the time you took Mr. Hogenauer into custody, did he initially make any attempt of flight from your custody?

Bob: When we first got on the plane, the English police officers turned Mr. Hogenauer over to myself and Mr. Theologes, and they left, of course, and the plane started to back from the gate. At that point, I was sitting in the middle seat of three seats. There were seats in the plane on the left side of the plane, and Mr. Hogenauer was in the window seat, and my partner was in the aisle seat. At that point, Mr. Hogenauer proceeded to strike me in the head with his fists, and I don’t know if that was an escape attempt or not, but it could be construed as one.

From page thirteen, lines fourteen to twenty five:

Jeff: Following that attack on you, what did you do?

Bob: I restrained him, subdued him, and he was handcuffed.

Jeff: Immediately prior to, during, or immediately after the attack upon you, did Hogenauer say, shout, or otherwise communicate with you verbally?

Bob: Yes. He said after the attack that he did it because he wanted me to know what the boy was going through. I took that to mean the boy that he kidnapped.

From page fifteen, lines two through ten:

Jeff: As of the time of your extradition of Mr. Hogenauer back to the United States, did Mr. Hogenauer have a prior criminal record?

Bob: Yes, he did.

Jeff: What did that consist of?

Bob: Numerous charges from forgery to, I believe, assault.

The 1993 school-board election count was held in George L. Ebert Intermediate School, Midland Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10306 on Staten Island while the school was in session. The count lasted five days, and Hogenauer and his staff set up for three more days in the school gym while school was in session. Children from the ages of five to eleven came into contact with a child molester, kidnapper, and forger, not only in school but in the bathrooms. I went to the nearest bathroom in the school during the count. As I walked down the hall to the bathroom, I heard two boys screaming, as they ran out of the bathroom. I barely glanced at them running down the hall.

When I opened the door, I saw Hogenauer washing his arms, which had bleeding scratches on them. I asked if he was OK. He said he cut himself opening boxes. I didn’t make anything of it until I found out years later he was a kidnapper and child molester. If someone advertised in the Sunday New York Times looking for someone to commit election fraud, he wouldn’t find a better candidate than Hogenauer to be the count director for the Staten Island school-board election. With a résumé like his, it would be hard to find someone else with an arrest record for fraud, destruction of private property, arson, altering a driver’s license, breaking and entering, assault, the use of aliases, and harassment. There was a bonus in the hiring of Hogenauer, because he was also a child molester, kidnapper, and fugitive from justice who assaulted a federal officer. Who in his right mind would hire such a person as count director? The New York City Board of Elections did.

Archibald Robertson of Proportional Counts Associates was Hogenauer’s supervisor, who referred to Hogenauer as being between situations. That meant jail. Robertson’s sworn testimony with Jeff Motelson, my lawyer, on April 2, 1997 included these lines from pages 102-3, lines eighteen to ten: (Ms. Le Goff, the attorney for New York City, objected to the form of a question.)

The 1993 school-board election was city wide. Millions of New York City residents were eligible to vote. The City of New York was responsible for a free and fair election. After reading the evidence presented in this book, the reader can decide if the city should be held criminally responsible for failing to hold a free and fair election. An open trial would have established that. By having an open trial, it would have brought to light that the election was far from being fair and honest. The