Former Google executive throws his weight around in California courts

Allan Thygesen has moved mountains to make sure his grandson is where Thygesen wants him.

A former Google executive has been throwing his weight around, and courts, prosecutors, and social services in multiple states are willing to do his bidding.

Allan Thygesen is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DocuSign.

Prior to that, he was in the C-Suite at Google, where he ended his tenure as president of Americas and global partners, according to CNBC.

“In that role he was responsible for $100 billion in Google advertising revenue, according to his LinkedIn profile. He sits on the board of cloud communications company RingCentral.” CNBC noted in a story announcing his move to DocuSign.

I reached out to Alan Thygesen by email, but he did not respond.

In February 2018, Thygesen’s son, Christoffer, met Kailin Wang for a date through Tinder.

That date did not lead to a relationship, but it did lead to Wang getting pregnant.

This was a problem for Chris, who initially pressured Kailin into an abortion. Below is a few of several text messages pressuring Kailin into an abortion.

She refused and their son was born in November 2018.

Chris was not in the delivery room, not on the birth certificate, and he wouldn’t meet his son until months later.

None of that stopped him from getting a lawyer, walking into the chambers of a San Francisco judge, Rick Darwin, for an ex-parte order granting Chris sole legal and physical custody of the son he’d never met. The order was in the form of a restraining order. The pertinent parts are below.

Chris did have a paternity test confirming he was the father, but there was one more remarkable part of this order.

Judge Richard Darwin, he may be doing the bidding of the Thygesesn family

Kailin lived in Utah at the time. As such, a judge in California granted custody to someone who had never seen his child while that child was being raised in another state.

California quickly involved Utah authorities and the boy, about four months, was taken forcefully from her.

Since then, when Kailin is allowed to see her son, it is only in supervised settings.

The lawyer who represented Chris at the time was Darrick Chase; I reached out to Mr. Chase by email, but he did not respond.

The Thygesen family has also employed Doug Rappaport, who has said he charges $800 per hour and is working on all aspects of the case: including criminal.

I reached out to Mr. Rappaport, but he also did not respond.

Chris is not charged with any crimes. Here is where everyone can assume that while he may technically be the biological father, Chris is not making many decisions.

Mr. Rappaport wasn’t hired to handle any defense work for Chris, but rather to help get Kailin charged with crimes. Here is part of a letter written by Rappaport.

That letter, four pages total, was written to Donald DuBain.

Who is Donald DuBain? He is an Assistant District Attorney (DA) with the San Francisco County DA’s Office, but he’s no ordinary DA.

He was the former DA in Solano County, before he left under a cloud of scandal.

The race became especially heated as controversy swirled around the handling of documents and information connected to the dismissal of a former forensic pathologist. Abrams ran on a platform that called for restoring credibility and trust in the office. She garnered 51 percent of the vote in an mid-year election that only saw 27 percent voter turnout.

Despite a campaign war chest that included more than $300,000 of his own money, Abrams defeated du Bain at the polls having raised less than $100,000.

On election night, du Bain said he would do everything he could to ensure a smooth transition, however, his departure raises the question of who will lead the office in his absence.

In this case, Kailin was charged with stalking and harassment, related to sending emails, other communications, and starting blogs trying to shame Chris into acknowledging his son.

Normally, this is not the sort of charge a high profile guy like DuBain would take on, but then again, normally cyberstalking charges don’t lead to a $750,000 bond.

Things get a bit tricky here; that’s because Kailin was already facing similar charges in Utah with another person from 2017. Once San Francisco got their charges going, they somehow transferred everything into their jurisdiction.

Kailin told me that at a previous child custody hearing representatives of three DA’s offices showed up: Utah County, San Francisco County, and San Mateo County.

I reached out to all three for some clarification and San Mateo County issued the following response.

The information you received from Kailin Wang is not accurate.  Almost two years ago we received an incident report regarding a fictious subpoena for a custody case in our county involving the parties.  One of our investigators conducted a brief investigation and forwarded the information to the Utah authorities for whatever action they wanted to take.  We have had no further contact with the case in the interim.  None of our inspectors has been in court on the case and Inspector John Warren retired almost two years ago.    

John Warren was an investigator for the San Mateo DA’s Office and Kailin is certain she has seen him in the last two years.

The person who provided me this statement is Stephen Wagstaffe, and he is the elected DA: the top person in the office.

Stephen Wagsfaffe, he may also being doing the bidding of the Thygesen family

To paraphrase from Andy Dufresne; DA Wagstaffe is being obtuse, and it’s probably deliberate.

The San Mateo County DA’s Office has done more than just a cursory amount of work on this case.

The above is part of a three page report filed in January 2021. It mentions Mr. Warren, the same inspector Mr. Wagstaffe said had retired two years ago: though the events technically took place less than two years.

That brings me to the other charges: those include filing this false subpoena, forgery, and more filed in Utah.

Kailin now faces multiple charges, still outstanding, in two states and she has a public defender.

Chris can hire a criminal lawyer to get charges filed on someone else.

Finally, Chris’s mom is Terry Thygesen; she was previously on the Menlo Park School District for two plus decades. I reached out to her by email, but I also received no response.

Terry Thygesen, from her campaign website

Shortly, after Kailin’s son was taken, Terry wrote a letter to the local social services.

Ms. Thygesen must be clairvoyant, though she did not share what facts were on her side with me. No one from the Thygesen side did.

Lastly, check out my previous article about another Big Tech executive getting special treatment by California courts.

Postscript:

Find the previous articles in this series: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3., Article 4, Article 5, and Article 6.

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