Click here for my Oath of Truth to law enforcement and to the public
that everything on this website is true .

ABOUT MY FAMILY’S FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY

This website is about my family’s work for social justice and civil rights

on the House Judiciary Committee and throughout the world,

and my work for thirty-two years as a federal research engineer

with the US Department of Energy and as a civil rights activist in Pittsburgh.

BREAKING NEWS: The theft of my intellectual property, my US Patent 8,391,552, by the richest family in the world: The Saudi Royal Family.  See the section below with this photo of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) meeting with Donald Trump in The Oval Office on March 20, 2018.

Anthony with wife Julianne
and their children

On January 8, 2014, Anthony was driven to commit suicide in a barren woodland near the Pittsburgh site of the DOE NETL. He is dearly missed by his family and friends.

I believe this to be the work of the NETL Law Department.

Anthony with granddaughter

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It is always darkest before the dawn…

Dr. Douglas Shaffer, MD; Jennie M. Shaffer, VP of the WVEA;

Rev. Dr. Dallas B.  Shaffer; Vera Shaffer PharmD; and Franklin D.

Vera, Douglas and Franklin D.

Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer

US Army veteran

Episcopal Priest

My father, Reverend Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, was an honorable US Army veteran who served on foreign soil; a Professor of US History and Political Science; campaign manager and senior advisor to Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr on how the House Judiciary Committee should interact with the Supreme Court; and an Episcopal Priest.

My mother, Jennie M. Shaffer, was a high school teacher, a civil rights activist, and VP of the West Virginia Education Association. 

My mother leading the WV teachers’ strike in 1990

Both of my parents were children of West Virginia coal miners. Every man in my family served in the U.S. military before returning home to work in the coal mines of WV.

Except for my father. He joined the US Army and served in Guam and Korea. When he returned home, he used his GI Bill to get a Degree in History from the University of Richmond.  He then worked as a Teaching Assistant while he earned a PhD in US History from West Virginia University.

My mother rallying 5000 striking teachers on the steps of the West Virginia State Capitol, 1990

Every prayer I heard my father say in my life ended with this

“and let us always be mindful of the poor”

During the Great Depression his family in WV often went without food.

Our parents raised me and my little brother to get as much education in the sciences as we could, then to serve our country as federal employees.

ABOUT MY LITTLE BROTHER’S FEDERAL SERVICE

For his education in the sciences, Doug earned a Pharmacy Degree and a Medical Degree from WVU, and  a Master’s Degree in Hospital Administration from Duke University.  He served as a federal employee with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. 

In 2003, he helped Dr. Anthony Fauci start the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Program. To implement the PEPFAR Program, Doug lived in Kenya and Rwanda for 20 years with some of the poorest people in the world suffering from HIV/AIDS.

The PEPFAR program has now saved 25 million lives.

In 2024, after 27 years of federal service, Doug retired as the Associate Director of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Global Policy and Strategy.

The FDA is the largest and most powerful regulatory agency in the world.

Dr. Douglas N. Shaffer, MD
Deputy Director of Global Affairs, International Vaccine Institute

Doug’s new job in the private sector:

“Doug Shaffer, a public health leader whose heart is as big as Africa itself. We at the FDA Office of Global Strategy & Policy are honored to have had the opportunity to know him as a colleague.”

The International Vaccine Institute

  appoints Dr. Douglas Shaffer as

Deputy Director General of Global Affairs

July 24, 2024 – SEOUL, Republic of Korea –   The International Vaccine Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Douglas Shaffer will join as IVI’s Deputy Director General of Global Affairs & Communications on August 26, 2024.

The International Vaccine Institute accelerates the development of vaccines for poverty-associated infectious diseases that sicken or kill millions of people every year, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. Though they have limited commercial potential, these vaccines are vital to global health. Through training and the transfer of knowledge, technology, and resources, we work with countries to achieve vaccine security and protect their people.

Doug also served as an Attending Physician treating our military personnel at the

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

I was raised in a small town of 4000 souls, Keyser, in West Virginia.

My family was close with, and worked closely with, Congressman Harley O. Staggers Sr and his son Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr. 

President Harry Truman campaigning in Keyser to elect Harley O. Staggers Sr to Congress in 1948

First Lady Rosalynn Carter and President Carter with Congressman Staggers Sr & wife Mary Casey Staggers

Congressman Staggers Sr campaigning to elect John F. Kennedy as our 35 ^th President.

  Click here for my tribute and thanks to my hometown heroCongressmen Staggers Sr and a nuclear submarine engineer named Jimmy Carter for inspiring me to become an engineer, then to serve our country
in the United States Department of Energy .

For my education in the sciences, I earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from WVU.  In 1986, I entered federal service with the US Department of Energy’s Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. In 1990, I invented, and in 1994 patented ( US Patent 5,333,044 “Fluorescent Image Tracking Velocimetry” ) an imaging technology to visualize and measure the flow of organic and inorganic particles through power plants, and the flow of blood cells in artificial hearts and lungs.    

My US Patent 5,333,044 was made possible by my access to nuclear weapons technologies from the US’s and UK’s premier nuclear weapons labs.

Our Sixth Secretary of Energy

Four Star Admiral James D. Watkins

   
I am in the photo on the right in my lab with
Admiral Watkins and Dr. Harvey S. Borovetz

Admiral James D. Watkins was a protégé of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Rickover is known as the
“Father of the Nuclear Navy”

Our Twelfth Secretary of Energy

Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Chu

   
I am seated in the photo on the right. We are with The Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu.

Dr. Chu won a Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a technology to capture and levitate atoms with coherent electro-magnetic waves.

On September 1, 2023, we lost a great champion for our country, our ninth Secretary of Energy
and twenty-first Ambassador to the United Nations

The Honorable Bill Richardson-Lopez III

Click here to see a letter I received from
Secretary of Energy Richardson

“Make no mistake. We will fight this with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused, and we will do whatever is necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy.  Because there has never been a leak of this size, at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology. That's why I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge”   President Barack H. Obama

I was one of those engineers. 

US Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen, National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the DWH crisis

I was on the lead team responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis: the Plume Team of the Flow Rate Technical Group of the National Incident Command .  Our team was led by Dr. Marcia McNutt.  At that time, she was the first woman to serve as the Director of the US Geological Survey since it was founded in 1879.  She is now the first woman to serve as the President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS was founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to serve as pro bono “Advisers to the Nation” on all scientific matters

Dr. Marcia McNutt

then Director of the US Geological Survey, now President of the National Academy of Sciences

The Plume Team of the National Incident Command at the
NOAA Command Center in Seattle.   Dr. McNutt is in the middle.
I am on the far right.

An award from the Director of the US Geological Survey for my
“Exemplary Service to the Nation”

Click here for more about the important role I played in stopping the damage being done to 1000 miles of US shoreline of five Gulf States, and in causing British Petroleum to be fined $20.8 billion.  It is the largest single fine of a single entity in US history .  

Those funds went to the fifty million people of five Gulf states to recover and rebuild from the damage done by British Petroleum.   The technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 was a critically important tool I used. Independent experts reviewed the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 and found it to be “ a huge breakthrough ” and
“ something the petrochemical industry had sought for 50 years.

Prof. Ömer Savaş, UC Berkeley

About my research on deep sea oil leaks at Naval Weapons Station Earle, UC Berkeley, and the
USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory.

My work at Naval Weapons Station Earle was funded ($738,000) by the USDOI Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

BSEE is a federal law enforcement agency.

Dr. Ray Cocco

CEO of PSRI

• Click here to see my contract with BSEE
• Click here to see my Final Report to BSEE
• Click here to see the DOJ Litigation Hold I was under for five years

THE THEFT OF MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
MY US PATENT 8,391,552, BY THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY

Each year from 2009 through 2012, independent experts reviewed the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 and found it to be

“something the petrochemical industry had sought for 50 years”

On January 20, 2017, Trump became President of the United States. On the same day, he appointed the Director of the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Dr. Grace Bochenek, as his interim Secretary of Energy. 

Two weeks later, on February 3, 2017, the attacks began at the Pittsburgh site of the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The goal of the attacks was to remove me from federal service, unjustly discredit me, and silence me so the Saudi Royal Family could use the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 for free.

Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) is now using the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552, to improve the performance of their petrochemical processing facilities.  The improved performance is producing increased profits for the richest family in the world, The Saudi Royal Family.

THE ATTACKS

The $20.8 billion fine was ordered on October 5, 2015, by the Honorable US District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

It is the largest single fine of a single entity in US history.

Those funds went to the fifty million people of five Gulf States
to recover and rebuild from the damage done by British Petroleum.

I played an important role in causing the $20.8 billion fine.

I was immediately attacked in retaliation.

I have been under color-of-law attacks since the $20.8 billion fine was ordered.

The attacks were

1.       in retaliation for my civil rights work in Pittsburgh
2.     in retaliation for causing the $20.8 billion fine, and
3.     to silence me so the Trump could give the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 as a free gift to The Saudi Royal Family.

Independent experts reviewed the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552

and found it to be “something the petrochemical industry had sought for 50 years”

When Trump took office on January 20, 2017,

his first foreign visit was toThe Saudi Royal Family. 

THE DESTRUCTION OF MY LIFE SO THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY

COULD USE MYUS PATENT 8,391,552 FOR FREE

To get away with this crime, I, the inventor, would have to be removed from federal service, discredited and silenced.  On January 20, 2017, Trump assumed the Office of the President of the United States. On the same day he appointed NETL Director Dr. Grace Bochenek as his interim Secretary of Energy.  Two weeks later, on February 3, 2017, the attacks began to remove me from federal service and discredit me.

After 17 months of attacks at the NETL, on July 9, 2018, I was forced to flee the NETL to protect my life.  The same month, Dr. Tingwen Li and other NETL contractor employees were hired by Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) to implement the technology of 8,391,552 to improve the performance of their petrochemical processing facilities.  I can find no contractual agreement governing the transfer of technology from the United States NETL to Saudi Arabia’s SABIC.

After I fled from the NETL, to discredit and silence me NETL Chief Counsel Susan E. Malie designated me as a State Terrorist (another of her despicable lies) and banned me from ever again associating my name with the DOE.  She failed.

The NETL then tried to discredit my work and my US Patent 8,391,552 by having NETL federal employees Dr. Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Dr. Bill Rogers, and others, give presentations and publish papers claiming that the technology of 8,391,552 was not unique and that it was no better than a host of other technologies. 

This is not true and they know it.

Breault and Rogers funded my work and watched me develop 8,391,552.

After fleeing from the NETL, I was subjected to ten years of color-of-attacks by the Magistrate of Bethel Park Ronald Arnoni, Allegheny County Solicitor Luke C. Kelly, common pleas Judge Hugh F. McGough, and other lawyers in Pittsburgh. 

Solicitor Kelly tried to cause my death and make it appear to be by natural causes so his clients, Troy Halo the owner of Pittsburgh Lumber and the wife he stole from me, Dr. Nancy J. Shaffer, would gain control of my US Patent 8,391,552 and the royalties it produced.  She was my sole beneficiary.

They sought the same thing sought by the Saudi Royal Family.

Click here to read more about the theft of my intellectual property

Click here to read about the hate crimes against me
by Allegheny County Solicitor Luke C. Kelly

Secretary of Energy Bochenek spent 25 years developing advanced weapons for the US Army.  All I have is a pencil to defend myself with.

Click here or on the many headed Snake to see the names of the Snakes who’ve attacked me for the past ten years.

NEW: The Snakes have been under investigation since March 6, 2025

One hundred and forty-two days after the $20.8 billion fine,
two of the Snakes  desecrated my father’s funeral
in the Episcopal Church where he was a Priest

The failure of DOE National Nuclear Security Administration EEO Counselor Orlando Sepulveda to protect me from the snakes (pdf file)

About being married to a German Jew who lost family in the holocaust, and being attacked immediately after the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue (pdf)

About getting “papers” for Russian Jewish scientists who were the subject of antisemitic persecution in Moscow.  The Tree of Life brought them to the US

ALL GAVE SOME

SOME GAVE ALL

A tribute to the great Vietnam Veterans
I knew, loved, and worked with, including
US Air Force Pilot Joe Kittinger.  He was in the cell next to John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton

YOU ARE NOT

FORGOTTEN

About my Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
including the first CRADA between the USDOE and an outside organization,
the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine .

FUN FACT:CRADA’s were the brainchild of a love affair between

President George H.W. Bush and Margaret “The Iron Lady” Thacher            

About my work as a civil rights activist in Pittsburgh with the Thomas Merton Center and as an Executive Officer in the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1916 (pdf).

About my work forecasting the US economy and energy sectors
twenty-five years into the future using the DOE Energy Information Administration’sNational Energy Modeling System

FOUNDING THE 15TH DOE NATIONAL LABORATORY

I was a member of the Institutional Strategic Planning Team that created the 15th National Laboratory of the United States, the USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory. 

Click here or on the images below  to see my name on the original charter for the DOE NETL, and a letter from Senator Robert C. Byrd (Senate Majority Leader, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senate Pro Tempore) to a junior WV State Senator, Attorney Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr

Saturn V Engine

Click here for more about the applications of my US Patents 5,333,044 &8,391,552,including my work on the world’s first micro-turbine heart pump. It was invented by the great rocket engineer Kenneth Clark Butler.

FUN FACT: Ken was an engineer on the team at Aerojet Rocketdyne that developed the main engine for the Saturn V rocket

that sent the first three astronauts to the moon.

On April 7, 2019, I tried to end my life to escape The Attacks by the Snakes in retaliation for causing BP to be fined $20.8 billion and in the theft of my intellectual property. I was in the ICU and hospital for five days.

After the Snakes forced me to flee from the NETL to protect my life, I was homeless for several years. I struggle everyday with the PTSD they caused. 

Suicidal ideations are always just a moment away.

If you are having thoughts of ending your life,
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