In early 2025, a group of five individuals, including Borough Mayors Edna DeVries (Mat-Su) and Peter Micciche (Kenai), asked to meet with Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and State Attorney General Treg Taylor, so the group could present evidence of corruption that required the appointment of an independent commission to investigate in public.

In particular, the group wished to present the following:

— Evidence that Marla Greenstein, Alaska’s sole judge investigator for over three decades, is falsifying official investigations to keep corrupt judges on the bench.

— Evidence that Deputy AG John Skidmore and judges are illegally stopping Grand Jury investigations into Ms. Greenstein.

However, the governor’s office asked that the group meet instead with Deputy AG John Skidmore. When the group countered with evidence of Mr. Skidmore’s corruption, the governor’s office asked that they meet with Deputy AG Cori Mills. However, during the February 12, 2025, meeting, Mills, in opposition to the governor’s request, refused to discuss the evidence that Greenstein is covering up for corrupt judges. Further, she refused to discuss the evidence that Skidmore is covering up for Greenstein. [Click here for critical excerpts of meeting.]

Citing Deputy AG Mills’ refusal to comply with the governor’s request, the group renewed their request for a meeting with the governor and AG. [Link to Governor letter] [Link to AG letter]

Unbelievably, the governor and AG refuse to respond, even though the evidence of cover-up now includes the disappearance of a Kenai Grand Juror (still missing to this day) which was used by Alaskan judges to dismiss the Kenai Grand Jury’s felony indictment of a judge who was exonerated by Ms. Greenstein.

Ms. Greenstein herself lawyered up and refused to testify after the Kenai Grand Jury subpoenaed her – which is concerning since she “personally investigated” all 8,000-plus citizen complaints filed against Alaskan judges since 1989.

After dismissing the indictment, the judges then sealed the Kenai Grand Jury’s report and recommendations to Alaska’s citizens, before any citizens could actually see it. This directly violates Article 1, Section 8 of Alaska’s Constitution, and effectively negated everything the Kenai Grand Jury did during their year-long investigation into corrupt judges, and a cover-up.

On June 5, 2025, citizens tried visiting the Gov. Dunleavy’s office, to urge him to meet with the borough mayors. However, the governor’s representatives refused to allow anyone up to the governor’s office and refused to send someone down to speak with the citizens, leaving them angry and confused.

What could explain the Governor and AG refusing to meet with Borough Mayors on this issue?

— The governor and AG are benefiting from the corruption.

— The governor and AG fear retaliation by corrupt judges, Ms. Greenstein, Mr. Skidmore, and others. So, rather than participate in a meeting which would result in their having to admit and address judicial corruption in Alaska, they refuse to meet – so they can claim they didn’t know there was a problem.

Or perhaps the Governor and AG fear the loss of citizen confidence if citizens knew the truth. This is reminiscent of New York City’s 1994 Mollen Commission, which was appointed by NY City Mayor Dinkins to investigate in public. The Mollen Commission found: “To cover up their corruption, officers created even more: they falsified official reports and perjured themselves to conceal their misdeeds. In the face of this problem, the Department allowed its systems for fighting corruption virtually to collapse. It had become more concerned about the bad publicity that corruption disclosures generate than the devastating consequences of corruption itself. As a result, its corruption controls minimized, ignored and at times concealed corruption rather than rooting it out. Such an institutional reluctance to uncover corruption is not surprising. No institution wants its reputation tainted – especially a Department that needs the public’s confidence and partnership to be effective. Since no entity outside the Department was responsible for reviewing the Department’s success in policing itself, years of self-protection continued unabated until this Commission commenced its independent inquiries.”

Conclusion

There is absolutely no legitimate reason for the governor and AG to not meet with two borough mayors wishing to discuss evidence that Alaska’s judge investigator is falsifying investigations to keep corrupt judges on the bench; and that a deputy AG is covering up. Alaska’s governor and AG have no greater duty than protecting the public. By refusing to act, they are facilitating incalculable harm to innocent citizens.

Mat-Su Mayor Edna DeVries has announced she is running for governor. I urge every Alaskan citizen to consider voting for her. For upon learning of the above problem, she jumped at the chance to join the group asking for an independent commission to investigate publicly, even trying to rearrange her schedule so she could attend the above meetings in person. 

In my humble opinion, Edna DeVries would make a legendary governor: honest, straightforward, and most importantly, BRAVE – willing to protect Alaska’s citizens no matter which way the political winds blow or how many government officials appear to be implicated in corruption.

On July 9, 2025, governor candidate Bernadette Wilson publicly stated that if she were elected, she would appoint an independent commission to publicly investigate the above, so she may also be a good choice.

Who will benefit from an independent commission that publicly investigates the forgoing corruption? (1) those who desire the PFD mandated by Constitution and law; (2) those who successfully voted (twice!) to move our capital; (3) those who require everyone to obey our constitution and laws; and (4) those who claim judges or other officials unjustly took their property, living, freedom, or children.

If you wish to help: (1) post and forward this document to everyone possible; (2) ask all candidates if they will appoint an independent commission to publicly investigate, then publish/post their response; and (3) support only candidates that pledge to appoint an independent commission that publicly investigates.

The views expressed here are those of the author.

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