The Smearing of Sandra "Sam" Grazzini-Rucki

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(Minnesota 1st Judicial District Judge David Knutson)

Below, find an email I sent to the FBI. Thus far, the FBI has done nothing.

First, this case has been covered in the media and all besides me have got it wrong, many wifully. 

The case comes down to this. Sandra Grazzini-Rucki and her five children were physicially, emotionally, and sexually abused for two decades and then when she got divorced the court hid it, forced her kids to live with their abusive father, and when two ran and hid, they charged the mother, once again making sure no evidence of abuse is ever introduced. 

First, below are two documents, 124 pages of evidence of abuse by David Rucki,

https://justice4grazziniruckifamily.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/druckipolicereports.pdf

https://www.scribd.com/doc/316692570/SamiRucki

There is no doubt that David Rucki is very violent toward everyone, his family included so the only way this is not shown court is if it is hidden. 

First, the divorce was supposedly finalized in 2011, here is that divorce decree, https://www.scribd.com/document/351985099/G168-1201-0005-1-1?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=725X238253X2c7f051b8c2387adcd8a21f04ecce897&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate

After that decree, Judge David Knutson not only placed himself on the divorce but all matters related to the Rucki's. He even once had a criminal matter which started in another county transferred to his court. 

He reversed the divorce, ordered Sandra Grazzini-Rucki out of her home, ordered the children to live with their father, conducted a custody trial while two were missing, and even made Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's attorney continue part of it in handcuffs. 

Then, he awarded 100% of a multi-million dollar estate to David Rucki. He also got sole custody and alimony.  This estate includes four homes, nine classic cars, and a multi-million dollar business. David Rucki got it all. 

Now, that is very compelling circumstantial evidence this judge is bribed, but I've been told that David Rucki's parents, Fred and Vicky Rucki, transferred $750,000 from their trust at Wells Fargo to him as well. I can't prove it but that is very specific and the FBI has the tools to find out if true. 

Second, after Sandra Grazzini-Rucki was arrested, Judge Karen Asphaug placed herself on her case, Dede Evavold also charged, and Doug and Gina Dahlen also charged. Again, a judge illegally placing themselves on cases. Though Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's crime is presumed probation, Judge Asphaug gave her $500,000 cash bond and sentenced her to the maximum, one year and one day, and even told her to serve it fifteen days at a time over six years, to maximize the punishment. 

Judge Asphaug disallowed almost all evidence of abuse, would only allow one of the two daughters to testify; Sandra Grazzini-Rucki was given a list of about twenty words she wasn't allowed to say like abuse, restraining order. She was not allowed to refer to any police reports, and her daughter who did testify testified by Skype, you can find news articles about it. 

Finally, the prosecutors engaged in a Brady Violation, refusing to turn over a critical police report from the day the girls were found, which stated, "On 11/19/15, Detective Coughlin and I met with Dakota County Social Services and David Rucki. Arrangements were made for the girls to be placed into foster care, as they continued to express that they would run away again if they were brought home." (this was never given to Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's defense)

https://www.scribd.com/document/348506627/13001278-N-Dronen-112115-for-merge that's a link to the police report. 

There is also witness tampering. Here is what Samantha Rucki, one daughter who ran, said to a cop during a police interview a month before the criminal trial of her mother: "They (her father and his sister) basically said I have to (go to the interview) and I have to be here and I have to recant everything I said and it’s going and that’s the way it’s gonna be- and they made me feel guilty about it and I started to cry"

Here is a link to this police interview, https://www.scribd.com/document/323533726/LakevillePoliceDeptDocs-1-1

Given all that, why was Sandra Grazzini-Rucki charged, let alone prosecuted at trial for this alleged crime? I don't believe it is merely an out of control prosecutor, I think this prosecutor has been ordered to go after her, regardless of the evidence, but only the FBI can prove this. 

Furthermore, I have found that when Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's case goes to appeal Judge Jill Flaskamps Halbrooks rules nearly every time and against her every time she rules, the same is true for the head of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Lorie Gildea. Either these two really don't like her arguments or they are being paid not to like it. 

Also, David Rucki has been allowed to commit mortgage fraud, https://ppjg.me/2018/01/21/david-rucki-commits-apparent-mortgage-fraud/ the documents I used to prove this are linked at the bottom of the article. He's been foreclosed on six times, and kept the house. Either that is foreclosure fraud or money laundering or both. Only the FBI can subpoena the right documents to prove it. 

Also, he has embezzled from his ex-wife's father's trust. Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's father made hundreds of millions of dollars and all his kids should have been set for life but she has nothing, because he has embezzled everything which he could not take in the divorce. 

https://www.scribd.com/document/369544885/Trust-Fund-Register-of-Actions-1 that's a registrar of actions for a trust set up by Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's father for his children. You will see David Rucki is listed as a petitioner. Why? You'll see that in November 2017, funds were disbursed. I believe they were disbursed to him. Why? He's not a child of Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's father. 

Finally, his propagandist, Michael Brodkorb, claims Sandra Grazzini-Rucki has money stashed in Canada. http://missinginminnesota.com/homeless-and-penniless-grazzini-rucki-stashed-money-in-canada/ I think if you track this account you will find it went to David Rucki. She knew nothing about it. 

Lastly, I'm attaching the most recent order which orders her to pay child support to David Rucki still, even though she is homeless. This continues to this day. https://www.scribd.com/document/386960918/Grazzini-Rucki-Fof-Cs-Order-8-22-1

https://www.commdiginews.com/news-2/did-judges-in-sandra-grazzini-rucki-case-previously-fix-husbands-cases-76928/ if you take a look at that article, I believe that Asphaug and Knutson have been fixing cases for David Rucki for years. Again, circumstantial evidence, but compelling. 

There is so much more, https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/sandra-grazzini-ruckis-private-flight-records-were-released-to-ex-87739/ this shows that David Knutson ordered the release of Sandra Grazzini-Rucki's private flight records to David Rucki. Again, why? 

So, hopefully, you will look at this. There is bribery, mortgage fraud, human trafficking, embezzlement and racketeering here. 

Sandra "Sam" Grazzini-Rucki Erased In Every Way Except Child Support

Even as David Rucki is chasing after his ex-wife for child support, he is also trying to collect on a trust her father set up for his grandchildren.

On March 14, 2019, David Rucki petitioned for a hearing in the Trust Created by First Amended and Restated Albert J. Grazzini Revocable Trust dated November 2, 1999.

Child Support by on Scribd

Albert Grazzini is the late father of Sandra “Sam” Grazzini-Rucki.

According to an affidavit, the hearing is to withdraw approximately $10,000 to reimburse expenses for his children which he paid out of TL Rucki Trucking, a company he claims he does not own.

“Petitions the court for an order to disburse funds in the amount of $10,243.68 to Samantha Rucki from her interest bearing account deposited with the District Court Administrator for reimbursement of college tuition and costs.” According to the affidavit.

Rucki also lists four checks written from the account of TL Rucki trucking for which he wants reimbursement and presumably this is the reason for the hearing.

As I have been describing, even as he raids the trust of his dead former father-in-law, David Rucki is chasing after his ex-wife, now homeless and jobless, for $215 per month in child support. 

Most recently, retired judge, Kathleen Gearin, denied Grazzini-Rucki’s stay to halt child support while the appeals court looks at the case.

“Petitioner’s Motion for a Stay of Proceedings is denied.” Gearin said in her March 4 order.

Even as that is occurring, David Rucki, who received a multi-million dollar business, four homes, and nine classic cars in his divorce, somehow qualifies for Minnesota Cares, which is “a health care program for Minnesotans with low incomes.”

In an August 2018 ruling, Magistrate Judge Jan Davidson estimated that David Rucki makes $10,000 per month; she estimated this because she did not require him to produce any income documents.

So, he has access to a trust from a multi-millionaire, a multi-million dollar business, and receives state aid, but, according to judges in Minnesota, he should also receive child support from his homeless ex-wife, left homeless by the terms of the divorce they set out.

That is not the most shocking part. It appears that Sandra “Sam” Grazzini-Rucki is only a mother to her five children for the purposes of child support; according to a posting her daughter, Gianna, lists no one as her mother.

(As you can see, no mother listed, but simply daughter of David Rucki)

This should come as a shock to the folks at 20/20 since David Rucki claimed he wanted his children's mother in their lives. Instead, he has erased her in every way including from official records. 

I reached out to all the usual suspects. The four Minnesota Judicial public affairs officers- Lissa Finne, Kyle Christopherson, Allysa Siems-Roberson, and Beau Berentson- but none of them responded. 

Jeff Shorba is the Minnesota Court Adminstrator and he did not respond. 

Sean Dooley and Beth Mullen were the two producers on the 20/20 episode about this case and they also did not respond. 

David Rucki's list Rucki of violent acts includes  a bar fight, a road rage incident, incidents of stalking, once stuck a gun to his son Nico’s head, and chased after his daughter Samantha on her thirteenth birthday

Paul Reitman "diagnosed", by having a twenty minute meeting, Grazzini-Rucki with parental alienation. He also did not respond. 

Laura Thomas is a professor at the University of Minnesota who was interviewed for a local story on this case in 2013; she claimed that, "Mom presents the child with a toy right before the father is schedule to come (for parenting time)” as an example of parental alienation.

Jim Gilbertson took over the case in September 2012. He was accused of getting off by then teenager Samantha Rucki. 

None of them responded either. 

Listen to Samantha's recording below. 

The news feature on the Rucki case in which Thomas makes that stunning assessment is also below.

No Explanation from David Rucki and His Band of Judicial Misfits

                                                          (Judge Phillip Kanning)

Judges continue to make curious decisions with little or no explanation in the Rucki case.

Judge Phillip Kanning Mysteriously Disappears

The most recent update is that Judge Phillip Kanning is no longer assigned to the case.

This, on its own, is not news, but the circumstances leading up to and including his departure raise numerous red flags.

Kanning was assigned to the case even though he is a retired judge.

Sandra Grazzini-Rucki filed a motion to stop her license from being taken for back due child support in October 2018.

Kanning and the court sat on it until late January when a hearing was suddenly called for February 12, 2019.

But Kanning, though he was assigned, would not preside over the hearing, that’s because he was out of country on vacation.

Heidi Carstensen is the Court Administrator for the 1^st Judicial District in Minnesota, where the David Rucki Vs. Sandra Grazzini-Rucki divorce has played out; she told me as much days before the hearing.

The hearing would instead be presided over by Judge Kathleen Gearin, also a retired judge.

Some time after the hearing, Kanning’s name was removed as the assigned judge, and a clerk at the 1^st Judicial District confirmed he is no longer assigned but had no more information.

I also left a voicemail for Jean Baldwin, the Operations Manager for the 1^st Judicial District Court, but she did not respond to my voicemail.

I sent separate emails to Baldwin and Carstensen, which were also left unreturned.

It’s not clear how or why his name was removed if he was out of the country.

Judge Kathleen Gearin Can’t be Bothered to Issue an Order

Meanwhile, the court hearing on February 12, 2019, turned into chaos.

Sandra Grazzini-Rucki filed several requests to have the hearing be postponed.

The judge never actually officially ruled on that request; worse yet, the court may have backdated a letter to cover it all up.

According to the court record, on February 07, 2019, there is an entry for “Request for Continuance needing approval.”

Ruck i Docket by on Scribd

But no order has been entered on this request.

Instead, the court sent a letter  Grazzini-Rucki dated February 8, 2019, but this date is dubious.

That’s because Grazzini-Rucki did not receive it until approximately a week after the hearing.

The letter is dubious in other ways; it wasn’t written by Gearin but by Baldwin on Gearin’s behalf.

The letter notes, “Per the instructions of Judge Kathleen Gearin, as she is involved in an unrelated hearing and unable to draft an order.”

Think about that, she is supposed to be retired; are they really saying the retired judge has such a busy schedule that she can’t “draft an order?”

I posed that question and others to Baldwin, Carstensen, and Gearin.

Also on this email were the four press people for the Minneosta Courts- Lissa Finne, Alyssa Roberson-Riems, Beau Berentsen, and Kyle Christopherson- and Jeff Shorba, the Court Administrator for the Minnesota Court System as a whole.

None responded to the email.

Baldwin’s letter continues, “Your request for a continuance has been denied but Judge Gearin is allowing you to appear via telephone.”

Because Grazzini-Rucki did not receive the letter until after the hearing she missed it.

The hearing appears to be a dud regardless. Lisa Elliott, David Rucki’s attorney, also needed to appear by phone and Judge Gearin would only say, “Taken under advisement,” also entered on February 12, 2019.

There is no update and it’s not clear what Gearin could do.

This case is being appealed with motions being filed in the appeals court simultaneously in which the parties are arguing the same issues.

Any decision by Gearin would be subjugated to the decision in the appeal’s court.

The appeal’s court is involved because rather than ruling on her motion right away, which is customary in district court, they waited months, with Grazzini-Rucki filing in appeal’s court subsequent to that.

Multi-Millionaire David Rucki Gets Benefits In Program for Low Income

Even more remarkably, I’ve recently discovered David Rucki receives aid under Minnesota Cares which is described as, “a health care program for Minnesotans with low incomes.” 

In his divorce, he received an estate which included 100% of a multi-million dollar business, four homes, and nine classic cars.

He is currently involved in at least two other civil actions trying to get money for pain and suffering related to his two oldest daughters running away and being hidden by Doug and Gina Dahlen from April 19, 2013 to November 2015.

He has received money as a result of Gina Dahlen and Doug Dahlen pleading guilty and Sandra Grazzini-Rucki and Dede Evavold being convicted.

Below is an aerial shot of one of his homes.

Minnesota's Wealthiest welfare recipient RUCKI second of 4 homes. 5 beds 2.5 bath. All at Mn taxpayers expense. He claims poverty in court, per court docs. #grazzinirucki #evavold pic.twitter.com/H1N8qyYI8N

— Jane Johnson (@johnsonmedia2) June 8, 2018

Here is a photo inside his long-time occupied home in Lakeville, Minnesota, an affluent suburb of Minneapolis.

I asked several people about this.

I asked members of the Dakota County Prosecutors office, Monica Jensen, the public affairs officer and James Backstrom the prosecutor, and neither responded.

I also asked Elliott, who also did not respond.

I asked members of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, which administers the program.

I asked Katie Bauer, the communication’s director for MDHS. I asked Shaneen Moore, the director of the Child Support Division in Children and Family Services for the Minnesota Department of Human Services. 

I also asked Julie Erickson, a supervisor of the Child Support Division  in Minnesota.  None of these folks responded either.

Rucki is simultaneously chasing after his ex-wife for back due child support.

In the last child support order, the judge, Jan Davidson, estimated that David Rucki makes $10,000 per month; she only estimated because she issued an order without forcing David Rucki to submit income documents. [

Grazzini Rucki Fof Cs Order... by on Scribd

"The obligee (David Rucki) applied for public assistance and currently receives medical assistance." Davidson said in the order.


This would mean that he is simultaneously defrauding MDHS, while using the assistance to support his child support argument.

I also left a message with the MDHS media department.

I received a call back from Tammy, from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, who said she worked with Minnesota Care.

She could not help me, she said, due to privacy issues but said I could file a fraud complaint with the MDHS, which I did.

More information on filing a fraud complaint with MDHS can be found here.

That David Rucki is committing fraud is self-evident- find more information here- whether or not anyone in MDHS will take it seriously is another matter. 

Dossier of Case Fixing in Minnesota

                                                               (Sandra Grazzini-Rucki)

The dossier was created by John Hentges, himself a litigant turned victim in Colorado and Minneosta. The dossier is below...

Case Fixing in Minnesota by mikekvolpe on Scribd