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Why Are All of David Rucki's Apologists and Propagandists Afraid of Me

As I recently described, Jeff Long, Police Chief at the Lakeville Police Department, recently forbade me from using email to file a Freedom of Information Act request. I am also forbidden from using their police services however that is unnecessary because I will not be anywhere near Lakeville in my life.

Mr. Volpe,

Any future emails addressed to any Lakeville Police Department employee will now be blocked.

Any data requests must be made, in person, at the Lakeville Police Department. We will not accept any email or phone requests from you.

Our department will not have any discussions with you over the phone.

If you are the victim of a crime, or have emergency while in Dakota County, call 911. That call will be received by the Dakota County Communications Center in Rosemount. They will

dispatch Police Officers, from the proper jurisdiction, to you. You are not being denied police services.

Again, in summary, your emails are now blocked, any response to this email will not be seen. If you call our Police Department you will be reminded that our administration is not accepting your calls.

The call will then be terminated without further discussion. Any repeated calls will be denied.  Call 911 if you require police assistance. Any data requests from our Police Department must be made in person. 

What is remarkable about the so-called police chief's email is that it continues a pattern from many of the David Rucki apologists and propagandists who I contact. 

Allison Mann

Mann is the paralegal for David Rucki's attorney, who is now an author, but when I ask her questions about her book, she threatens to call the cops. Here is part of a recent email I sent her as well as Long, and Lakeville Police Officers Michelle Roberts and John Haiger. The title of the email is "I heard a Lakeville Cop claimed that SGR was drunk because she spoke loudly and used her hands a lot"

Is that true? I also heard he- or maybe she- claimed that this was based on their training. 

I also heard that Allison Mann put this in her book. Is this all accurate?

Are Lakeville cops trained that someone who speaks loudly and uses their hands a lot is someone who is drunk, because I know a lot of people who speak loudly and use their hands and they aren't always drunk? 

Ms. Mann responded by threatening to call the very same cops I included on the email, "Mr. Volpe, 

Once again please stop contacting me. You are engaging in repeated, unwanted, intrusive communication. This is harassment. Do not contact me again. By copy of this email, I have notified the Lakeville Police."

This was the second time, she threatened to call the cops, the first time Michelle Roberts left me this voicemail. 

What did the email in question say? What was this so-called sexually explicit and offensive thing I said?

So, I guess when David Rucki told 20/20 the kids needed their mother in their lives what he meant was he would encourage his children to sue their indigent mother presumably because four homes and nine classic cars is not enough all while getting a lifetime restraining order. 

I'm pretty sure the quack Reitman would call this parental alienation in any other context right? Maybe he can ask the dead squirrel in his lawn. What say you Gilbertson; is suing your parent a form of parental alienation; does this lawsuit give you a bulge in your private area? 

The reference to the bulge in the pants was directed to Jim Gilbertson who is middle aged but got a bulge in his pants when he touched then teenager Samantha Rucki, one of five Rucki children. Gilbertson is the so-called psychologist which the so-called judge, David Knutson, appointed during the Rucki divorce. That reference is in the audio here.

When that didn't work, she published an article on her blog suggesting I was a pervert.



20/20

After 20/20 did its hatchet job on the Rucki case in 2016, I asked some pointed questions. I received one response in the form of a near seven hundred word statement from producer, Sean Dooley.

Find the response here.

They have remained silent since, except reaching out to my then editor to instruct me not to contact them again, here is part of my editors email to me, " I understand the 20/20 reporter has asked you to stop communicating with him. Please respect that. We don't want to write about 20/20...we can mention it where it is appropriate, but again, the point is the information itself and not 20/20."

Remember, this is a news program which dedicated an hour to this story, which asks another reporter to stop asking them about the story they did. 

Regardless of how the email makes it sound, they never reached out to me; like in high school, they told someone else to tell me to stop talking to them. 

Paul Reitman

Paul Reitman was appointed to the Rucki case in August 2013. He spent approximately thrity minutes with Sandra "Sam" Grazzini-Rucki and four of her five children before issuing a scathing letter demanding the court take immediate action to remove the mother from her children's lives. 

That led to a telephonic conference on September 5, 2012. 

G168-1201-0669 by on Scribd

Though neither Rucki parent attended this telephonic conference- neither did Reitman for that matter- so-called Judge David Knutson issued an order two days later forcibly removing Grazzini-Rucki from her home and barring her from having any contact with her children.

I confronted Reitman about this in an email.

Dr. Reitman,

my name is Michael Volpe and I'm an investigative journalist. I've done a lot of work on the Rucki case. You also did some work and were even interviewed in a 2013 story on the local fox you were quoted as saying words like what is the alternative to tell the child to at 10 or 13 end their relationship with a parent. You are aware that none of the Rucki children have seen their mother since 2013. Isn't the end result of the Rucki case exactly what you claimed you were trying to stop. I think that's called a quack. 

My reference is to an appearance on this news story about the Rucki case. 

He responded initially with this, "If you did so  much work did you check the judges decisions,did you check her kidnappping, did you check with Dr. Gilbertson or did you just want to make a name for yourself and reinforce her sense of victimization.  where do you come from."

This would apparently be the same judge who forcibly removed Ms. Grazzini-Rucki from her home based on this telephonic conference and the same Gilbertson who got a bulge in his pants touching a teenager. 

I responded by providing him some documents.

I have a question. 

If David Rucki is not an abusive monster, how do you explain this dossier, https://justice4grazziniruckifamily.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/druckipolicereports.pdf 99 pages of documented abuse which you willfully looked the other way on. 

I also like this 25 page report of CPS complaints, https://www.scribd.com/doc/316692570/SamiRucki I especially like the complaint by then 16 year old Nico, "Nico (aged 16) told reporter today that one time father held a gun to child's head."

You know, Nico who now claims he's never seen his father be violent. 

That's the man you made certain not only has access to children but unfettered access.

Who do you think you're talking to? If Dakota County wasn't so corrupt you'd be spending the rest of your life in jail. You'd be exposed for the monster you are, but mark my words, the whole truth will come out and when it does, you will be held accountable for your role in this monstrosity. 

You and I know the truth. The only way you can sleep at night knowing what you've done is because you're no better than David Rucki. 

He responded, like Ms. Mann, by threatening to call the cops, "I am forwarding this to my attorney.  You are warned leave me alone. Dr. Reitman" He said in one email followed shortly by, "I am contacting the police as I have in the past this is harassment.Dr. Reitman."

Suffice to say, neither the police nor his attorney ever contacted.

Dave Oney at the US Marshals

I first contacted Dave Oney to find out why the US Marshals using the SWAT team raided Ms. Grazzini-Rucki's time share, where she was staying after a flight. 

This was inexplicable since she was being charged with parental deprivation which is barely a crime, presumed probation. 

Oney, a public affairs officer with the US Marshals, issued this statement, "There was a warrant issued by Dakota County.  Dakota County is a member of our task force.  You can probably get more information from the Dakota County Sheriff’s office or the Lakeville Police Department where the crime was originally committed.  There was a Federal UFAP (Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution) warrant in place but that was dismissed once she was arrested in Florida.  She was only booked into the jail on the state charges. "

There was one glaring problem with his statement; the warrant he is referring to is sealed. See below.

Warrant Order Sealing (1) by on Scribd

Another time, I caught Oney lying again, this time he claimed that the US Marshals were involved for a failure to appear for a non-existent hearing, his response was this, "You may wish to speak with our Office of Professional Responsibility."

He no longer responds to any of my emails either and the Office of Professional Responsibility, the USDOJ of which the US Marshals is a part of- their version of internal affairs- that office also has failed to respond. 

What is the lesson here? Corrupt people, when cornered, either threaten to call the cops or claim you are harassing them.

The other lesson is that all these people are part of a massive and unprecedented cover-up. I know it, I can prove it, and that is what all of them are afraid of. 

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I've Been Blocked By Jeff Long, Lakeville Police Chief

I just received this email from Jeff Long, the so-called Police Chief of Lakeville Minnesota.

Mr. Volpe,

Any future emails addressed to any Lakeville Police Department employee will now be blocked.

Any data requests must be made, in person, at the Lakeville Police Department. We will not accept any email or phone requests from you.

Our department will not have any discussions with you over the phone.

If you are the victim of a crime, or have emergency while in Dakota County, call 911. That call will be received by the Dakota County Communications Center in Rosemount. They will

dispatch Police Officers, from the proper jurisdiction, to you. You are not being denied police services.

I don't know why he blocked me; all I did is send him and others an email with the document below attached, with this note,

You all definitely picked the winning horse and there is absolutely no evidence (you are not willing to cover up) of David Rucki being violent. 

Requested Reports (3) by on Scribd

I may be rude but Jeff Long and his entire Lakeville Police Department has ignored decades of violence and abuse by David Rucki. Also, this is not my first tangle with the police force. After another email to Allison Mann, she called the Lakeville Police Department and I received a call from Michelle Roberts. That voicemail is below.


The only cop who should fear me is a corrupt one.

Rucki Girls Wanted Foster Care Over David Rucki

(Judge Michael Mayer)

After being found in November 2015, the two Rucki girls told the court they preferred foster care over living with their father, David Rucki.

“The girls feel it is in their best interest for Dakota County to stay involved in this case, to remain in local foster care. They promise not to run from foster care.” Said Tanya Derby, a Dakota County Assistant Public Defender who attended a hearing on November 30, 2015.

The hearing was presided by Judge Michael Mayer of the 1^st Judicial District in Minnesota.

Judge Mayer Transcripts (1) by on Scribd

Mayer, along with the four representatives of the Minnesota Judicial District’s press team- Beau Berentson, Kyle Christopherson, Alyssa Roberson-Riems, and Lissa Finne- all did not respond to an email for further explanation.

Indeed, several times Mayer and others who participated in this hearing made mention that the girls were threatening to run again if they were placed with their father.

“The agency’s primary concern is the safety and well being of the concern that there is a flight risk or a run risk,” said Jennifer Jackson, an Assistant Attorney for Dakota County.

“But the bottom line is, I’m concerned for the kids. I’m very concerned about them running.” Said Judge Mayer.

“The girls have indicated to me that they will run, and I have indicated to them that I can’t stop that from happening,” Judge Mayer says at another point, recalling a conversation he had with the girls in chambers. 

"I can't make them not run," Judge Mayer said at another point. 

"It's true that the girls have said they will run if returned to their father's care," said Lisa Elliott, David Rucki's attorney at another point in the hearing. 

The girls repeated insistence that they would run squares with what they told the police when they were first found, “Samantha and Gianna came down, and immediately told us that they would not go back to their father.  We told them that our first concern was their safety.  I did ask them about the last time that they had heard from their mother, and they told me that they would not say anything without a lawyer.” The police report stated when the girls were first found.

The two Rucki girls, Gianna and Samantha, ran on April 19. 2013, after 1^st District Judge David Knutson forced them to live with their father, despite their insistence they were afraid of him and that he is violent.

The evidence of David Rucki’s violence is overwhelming: Rucki-  a bar fight, a road rage incident, incidents of stalking, once sticking a gun to his son Nico’s head, and chasing after his daughter Samantha on her thirteenth birthday

As I discussed here, all these incidents were covered up by the courts and later by the media, particularly 20/20 and their broadcast "Footprints in the Snow" which conveniently left out all these documented incidents of abuse, all while claiming they could find no evidence. 

Judge Mayer did not seem to have any appetite to figure out why they insisted they would run; instead, he forced them into reunification therapy with Rebecca Bailey.

I discussed Bailey further here.

Bailey reunifies, if that is what you call it, children who she and the courts deemed alienated from a parent.

In reality, she threatens children, demeans them, and tells them they can’t leave her camp until they admit the so-called alienating parent is putting thoughts in their head and the alienated parent really loves them.

Here’s one of the stories I told.

Jaime’s oldest daughter, then 12, came home from a visit to their father in February 2014 with a shocking accusation; her father had allegedly molested her.

Days later, she took her daughter to the police who took her statement but when the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office refused to prosecute, the alleged molestation became a family court matter.

Though they’d been divorced since 2006, with Jamie receiving physical custody, her ex-husband, now facing allegations of child molestation, first accused his ex-wife of parental alienation in response.

A laundry list of court professionals was assigned to the case, and in April 2016 Dr. Rebecca Bailey was assigned as the reunification therapist.

“When I asked her if my daughter told her of abuse as a mandated reporter would you report it, she said ‘no’”. Gay remembers Bailey’s position on allegations of abuse. “Then, she immediately asked if I was recording it.”

Dr. Bailey quoted an initial $45,000 for the reunification program but Jaime Gay doesn’t know how much it costed because her ex-husband paid all the bills.

Gay was initially not allowed to see any of her three children for ninety days after Bailey was put on the case and she has had sporadic contact with her children since.

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