Congressional Testimony Follow UP #2 - Aggravated Retaliation #LCPS #LCSO #PritiKhanna #KhannaLawPLLC #LoudounCounty #LoudounCountyGovernment

 Congressional Testimony Follow Up #2

On June 2, 2026, I provided my second follow up to my initial Congressional submission to refute the testimony of Dr. Aaron Spence and the Loudoun County School Board. 

The submission outlines that I endured aggravated retaliation for filing my initial testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Education and The Workforce on May 29, 2026. 

Please note, that I included Priti Khanna and Khanna Law on this email. I only added the U.S. House Committee email to this letter. In future posts, I will show that these two facts represent why Priti Khanna undertook aggravated retaliation in response to my Congressional testimony.

Steven Rubis <stevenrubis@gmail.com>
FORMAL SUBMISSION FOR THE RECORD: Forensic Evidence of Civil Rights Violations and Administrative Fraud regarding June 10 Hearing Witness Dr. Aaron Spence (LCPS)
Steven Rubis <stevenrubis@gmail.com>Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
To: EWR.oversight@mail.house.gov
I delivered the email below directly to Loudoun County Public Schools at 8 am ET on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. The notice outlines that I was subjected to aggravated retaliation by LCPS and related parties, Khanna Law, who sponsors the Lowes Island PTO, for submitting my evidence and testimony related to Superintendent Dr. Aaron Spence's schedule testimony before the Committee on June 10, 2026. I bring this to your attention because Dr. Spence and LCPS have completely revoked and criminalized my joint custodial rights and have expressly prohibited me from participating in my children's education without any legal predicate or due process to revoke my rights. I am concerned that I have been prohibited from participating in IEP processes and subjected to ongoing and egregious Federal Civil Rights violations by LCPS and several related-party actors. I should not be enduring the criminalization of my parental rights in order to protect Dr. Aaron Spence and allow him to expressly lie to Congress that LCPS cares about parental rights.

FORMAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT & PROCUREMENT INTEGRITY DEMAND

DELIVERED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL AND USPS CERTIFIED MAIL

TO: Marc Bergin, Chief of Staff; John Clark, Director of Safety & Security; Loudoun County School Board; LCPS Department of Human Resources and Talent Development (HRTD)

RECIPIENT FOR FORENSIC NOTICE: Priti Khanna, Esq. (Khanna Law, PLLC) <pkhanna@khannalaw.com>

CC: EWR.oversight@mail.house.gov (U.S. House Committee on Education & the Workforce)

DATE: June 1, 2026

SUBJECT: NOTICE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST, PROCUREMENT COLLUSION, ANTI-SLAPP STATUTORY IMMUNITY, AND AGGRAVATED RETALIATION VIA INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORSHIP ACTOR

Dear Mr. Bergin, Members of the Administration, and Ms. Khanna,

This correspondence serves as a formal administrative complaint, a non-negotiable demand for an immediate procurement integrity audit, and an explicit Notice of Anti-SLAPP Protection and Federal Safe Harbor Designation. I demand the immediate termination of all corporate sponsorship ties between Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), its embedded sister organizations—specifically the Lowes Island Elementary School PTO—and the commercial law firm Khanna Law, PLLC.

The forensic timeline documents a direct pincer movement utilizing an active LCPS commercial underwriter to execute a retaliatory litigation strike exactly one business day after my formal federal testimony was submitted to the United States Congress on Friday, May 29, 2026.

1. The Underlying Protected Complaints and FOIA Record Requests Regarding Lowes Island PTO

The District has been on explicit, written notice for months regarding a series of formal civil rights and workforce grievances identifying the Lowes Island Elementary PTO as a hostile administrative environment. These documented complaints include:

  • The October 2025 Halloween Bingo Incident: Formal grievances filed against LCPS documenting that the Lowes Island PTO purposefully and selectively prohibited my parental participation at an official on-site school event.

  • The Nick Cottone Pretextual Campaign: Formal complaints documenting the PTO's weaponization of on-site administrative resources, specifically organizing a "Meet and Greet" with Principal Nick Cottone at Lowes Island Elementary to intentionally foster a hostile administrative environment.

  • The Falsification Audit (FOIA Request R002437-121125): On December 11, 2025, I filed a formal Virginia Freedom of Information Act request targeting all communications between Dr. Kate Ridgeway and Principal Nick Cottone regarding this PTO "Meet and Greet". On January 15, 2026, FOIA Officer Dan Adams confirmed the search returned 394 potential emails, and I formally authorized the $154.65 processing expenditure. This database directly exposes a material misrepresentation by Dr. Ridgeway, who explicitly denied to me on November 11, 2025, that she had "anything to do with" Seneca Ridge Middle School or Principal Cottone.

2. Commercial Procurement Collusion and Larceny by Trick (Va. Code § 18.2-178)

On Monday, June 1, 2026, the Complainant was served with an aggressive, highly pressured legal demand and financial ledger from newly retained counsel Priti Khanna (Khanna Law, PLLC).

  • The Financial Underwriting Nexus: Khanna Law, PLLC is the most prominent, active corporate sponsor and financial underwriter of the Lowes Island Elementary School PTO infrastructure.

  • The Larceny by Trick Mechanism: The District accepted and retained my personal funds for FOIA Request R002437-121125 ($154.65) and related requests totaling $559.70. The District subsequently deployed the February 24, 2026, No-Trespass Order to implement a complete "Digital Blockade," criminalizing my access to the statutory GovQA portal where these paid-for records are stored. Utilizing a fraudulent safety guise to retain citizen funds while using police power to withhold the resulting incriminatory records constitutes a complete conversion of property and Larceny by Trick under Va. Code § 18.2-178.

  • The Institutional Conflict (Policy 2350): The District cannot legally or ethically enforce a police lockout against a whistleblower parent while simultaneously partnering with, accepting underwriting capital from, and corporate-branding a private law firm that is actively using that school network to target the locked-out parent. This represents a per se violation of LCPS Policy 2350 (Commercial Relationships).

3. Statutory Anti-SLAPP Immunity & Safe Harbor Protection

  • Virginia Anti-SLAPP Application (Va. Code § 8.01-223.2): Statements made in my previous complaints and VFOIA requests regarding the Lowes Island PTO, the Halloween Bingo exclusion, and the corporate collusion of school administrators constitute protected speech regarding matters of public concern, procurement integrity, and child welfare. Under Virginia law, I am entirely immune from civil liability for these statements. Any attempt by LCPS, the Lowes Island PTO, or private counsel Priti Khanna to utilize legal threats to penalize or silence this public advocacy will be met with immediate "SLAPP-back" claims for fees, costs, and punitive damages.

  • Federal Retaliation & Whistleblower Safe Harbor (34 C.F.R. § 100.7(e)): This record is actively filed under the formal safe harbor provisions of federal and state whistleblower and civil rights statutes. Federal law strictly prohibits public entities from intimidating, threatening, coercing, or retaliating against any individual for the purpose of interfering with protected civil rights petitions or information requests.

  • The Temporal Retaliation Nexus (18 U.S.C. § 1512): My formal submission hit the U.S. House Committee on Education & the Workforce on Friday, May 29, 2026, at 8:00 AM ET. Khanna Law’s contradictory demand letter was served on Monday, June 1, 2026, at 1:19 PM ET. The execution of this high-pressure legal maneuver within exactly one business day of a federal congressional filing constitutes Witness Intimidation (18 U.S.C. § 1512) and Conspiracy Against Rights (18 U.S.C. § 241).

REQUIRED REMEDIES & MANDATORY ADMINISTRATIVE DEMANDS:

  1. Immediate Debarment of Sponsor: I demand that LCPS and its sister organizations, including the Lowes Island Elementary PTO, immediately terminate all sponsorship contracts with Khanna Law, PLLC, remove their corporate branding from all school-managed platforms, and bar the firm from any future commercial underwriting within this division.

  2. Remediation of FOIA Larceny: I demand the immediate electronic or physical delivery of all 394 responsive records from Request R002437-121125, alongside all other paid-for public records currently withheld behind the digital blockade.

  3. Integrity Audit of PTO Commingling: Launch an immediate internal investigation into the communications and financial exchanges between Principal Dr. Kate Ridgeway, the Lowes Island PTO executive board, and Priti Khanna to determine the extent of the data exchange regarding the Rubis family.

  4. Preservation of ESI Evidence: You are hereby directed to place a strict litigation hold on all emails, text messages, and internal memos involving Lowes Island staff, the Lowes Island PTO, and Khanna Law, PLLC from the begnning of the 2025-26 school year to the present.

FORENSIC NOTICE TO PRITI KHANNA: By copy of this administrative complaint, you are formally placed on notice that your firm’s commercial underwriting status with LCPS entities strips you of purely private counsel protections and satisfies the state-actor nexus under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Any further attempts to weaponize your commercial PTO partnership to execute an extrajudicial "show of force," interfere with court-ordered custody baselines, or paper over a documented record of public records withholding will be presented directly to federal civil rights investigators and state bar disciplinary boards.

Evidence available upon request.

Sincerely,

Steven Rubis

Joint Legal Custodian

(214) 681-7991

(202) 997-4815


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