Full Record — Alexandria Collusion Network
THE CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE — The Full Record
City of Alexandria, Virginia
David Lordd and Cheran Cordell Ivery — City Attorneys
Section 1 — Role & Conduct
The City Attorney’s Office of Alexandria, Virginia, represented by David Lordd and Cheran Cordell Ivery, was formally notified in writing that an active arrest warrant against Valerie Gagnon was invalid under Virginia law and demanded its withdrawal. The office refused to act. Their inaction directly prevented Valerie Gagnon from traveling to care for her cardiac mother, Gaétane Gagnon, who subsequently died.
The refusal to withdraw a warrant they were on notice was legally defective is a failure of the most basic duty of the City Attorney’s Office. That choice also fits the broader pattern documented on this site: institutions in Old Town and Bulfinch Square aligning with systemic cruelty, even when the human cost is explicit, immediate, and irreversible.
Section 2 — Documentary Record
The documents below record the moments when the City Attorney’s Office was placed on written notice that the warrant against Valerie Gagnon was invalid under Virginia law, and the opportunities they had to correct that defect before and after the death of Gaétane Gagnon.
Letters Sent to the City Attorney’s Office
- Letter to the City Attorney’s Office (2025) — formal written notice that the active warrant against Valerie Gagnon was invalid under Virginia law, demanding its withdrawal.
- Letter to City Attorney Cheran C. Ivery — August 23, 2026
On August 23, 2026, Valerieanne Gagnon addressed a formal and urgent letter to incoming City Attorney Cheran C. Ivery — her third and final documented attempt to obtain two forms of relief: the withdrawal of an outstanding arrest warrant she maintains is legally void following the death of the complainant, and full unredacted access to Adult Protective Services file W023408-050124. The letter sets out a documented timeline of failed prior attempts, including retained Alexandria counsel at a cost of US $4,000 and a personal plea to then-City Attorney Joanna Anderson Cordell on June 27, 2025 — a plea that went unanswered. Nineteen days later, on July 16, 2025, Gaétane Gagnon died alone, without her daughter present, because the warrant prevented Valerie from crossing the border. The letter closes with explicit notice that failure to respond within thirty days will trigger formal complaints to the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia FOIA Advisory Council, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Section 3 — Applicable Law
- Virginia Code § 19.2-76 — Recall of invalid warrants.
- Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct — Rule 3.8, special responsibilities of prosecutors.
Together, these provisions make clear that when a warrant is known to be defective, it must be withdrawn, and that attorneys acting in a prosecutorial role have an ethical duty to prevent the continued use of unlawful process. The City Attorney’s Office had a legal and ethical obligation to withdraw a warrant it knew to be defective. Refusal to do so, with full knowledge of the warrant’s impact on Valerie Gagnon’s ability to care for her dying mother, raises serious questions of professional misconduct and situates this conduct within the broader pattern of systemic cruelty documented on this site.
