The retaliation and discrimination against people who report episodes of ‘elder cleansing’ is systemic in the now waging war against the Elderly and the Disabled.   I have previously focused on the disingenuousness of Mr. Jerome Larkin and those miscreants who are at all times relevant acting in concert with him (Larkin) in attempting to create a wall of silence.    Thusly I have not revealed the most sinister of the plots.    These maladies graduate from the benign humiliation by Mr. Larkin and the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (and the companion corrupt Judicial officials and public officials who just ignore the just complaints of the elderly and their loved ones who complain of the Americans with Disabilities violations and felonies) to outright discriminatory practices and felonies.    The felonies perpetrated are seemingly ignored by local law enforcement as the corrupt political and judicial officials are ‘above the law.’

The Barbara Stone, Janet Phelan, and Gloria Sykes sagas are clear and concise examples of the perfidy and arrogance of the ignored corrupt political and judicial officials.       The examples of what these three women have had to endure as retaliation for loving their parents and attempting to resist and report to law enforcement the discrimination and violations of the Americans with Disabilities act is shocking.     Resisting the whim and caprice [1] of the Florida miscreant guardians for profit of the State of Florida resulted in the retaliation of criminal charges for Stone.    Resisting the involuntary assisted suicide decreed by her mother’s California guardians Phelan has been stripped of her beneficial interest in her trust and literally forced to flee the United States of America.   Gloria Sykes similarly in Illinois has been not only stripped of her property, but is literally in hiding and openly and notoriously herself denied the reasonable accommodation of the Americans with Disabilities act.

Last week Ms. Sykes filed an Americans with Disabilities Act Federal Lawsuit.    A copy was previously spread of record and Filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.    The lawsuit only touches on the highlights of the travesty that Ms. Sykes has had to endure.

One day one of law school the novices are cautioned – “you take your plaintiff as you find him.”    Indeed, on day one the Judge and the appointed judicial officials had to take Ms. Sykes as they found her!   Even though Ms. Sykes was (and is) a respected award winning journalist she had a disability.    A reasonable accommodation was not to aggravate it or to make it worse.     Ms. Farenga (Guardian ad Litem) and Judge Connors were aware from the public record that the Lumberman’s insurance claim had been litigated long and hard by Ms. Sykes.    Sykes had successfully defended her homeowners insurance claim for damages and was engaged in repairing the damage that had been caused by the loss, yet, even though both were aware or should had been aware of Ms. Sykes disability ignoring the fact that it was in the best interest of everyone that the repairs be made, not only did Farenga obtain the ceasing of the repairs, but allegedly conspired with others to have loan payments not properly credited and other obvious stresses applied so as to injure Ms. Sykes.     In my opinion, the actions taken were not only ultra vires but clearly improper [2].

A person with a disability is particularly vulnerable to un-necessary stress and the In re: Sykes 09 P 4585 reveals a concerted and long term effort by a Corrupt Court and judicial authorities to increase the stress on Ms. Sykes.    The gambit of preventing both Mary and Gloria Sykes to have the aid of any attorney is most distressing and obvious from the record in 09 P 4585.    One example is the outrageous disqualification of Attorney JoAnne Denison under the absurd proposition that a ‘conflict of interest’ existed because Ms. Denison notarized Mary Sykes’ signature.     Another is found in the record of the “judge” attempting to intimidate the lawyers Ms. Sykes employed with threats of reports to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.     The most striking even is found in the record 09 P 4585 in regard to Attorney ****.    Attorney ***** was so cowardly as to turn turtle on Ms. Sykes and after collecting some twenty five thousand dollars plus or minus in attorney fees claimed openly and notoriously that she was bi-polar.    He then delivered his diagnosis after alleging conferring with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (Black) to the Court.    Of course he did not mention that during this period he was attempting to obtain more money from Ms. Sykes.   Mr. Larkin and the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission found nothing ethically challenged by Attorney **** conduct.

The retaliation was further manifest and is supported by the record in case 09 P4585 by the Judge (and some of the successor Judges) continuing to prevent Ms. Sykes from obtaining representation for either herself or her mother.     The sans jurisdiction Supreme Court Rule 137 sanction motion against me was much more than a technicality – a Court that openly and notorious attempts to intimidate attorneys and especially attorneys in the role as citizens is not worthy of any respect as it is at best a criminal enterprise.      Certainly the Judge (who has a primary obligation to determine if she has jurisdiction) and her appointees knew or should have known that 755 ILCS 5/11a – 10 was jurisdictional and no effort had been made to comply.    Even the form summons required was never served on Mary Sykes!     As late as early 2014 the Clerk of the Circuit Court did not even publish a form that met the requirements of 11a – 10.

Even though the Courts make due process a requirement for the appointment of a guardian, In Sykes due process was a total stranger.      So that the alleged incompetent is not railroaded, not only does a special summons have to be served, but the closest relatives have to be notified 14 days prior to any hearing on incompetency 755 ILCS 5/11a – 10.    The petition for incompetency did not specify two of the persons that the Statute required to be given 14 days prior notification and of course they and Ms. Sykes were not given any prior notification of any hearing to be held as to Mary Sykes’ competency. [3]   The fact that there is no record of any hearing or any specific factual finding of the extent of, if any, incompetency Mary Sykes may have had similarly is evident in the record.   [4]

Ms. Sykes mentioning this fraudulent lack of jurisdiction subjected her to even more retaliation.     Her privacy was invaded, her personal property was ravaged and one morning she found a strange man wandering in her home.    The uninvited intruder claim to be from Chase Bank (the claimed mortgage holder).    He further claim that Chase had been allegedly informed by one or more of the miscreants that the dwelling home that Ms. Sykes lived in was vacant.   The intruder fled when Ms. Sykes attempted to call the Police.     When one retaliation after another [5] had been unsuccessful in causing Ms. Sykes to cease her attempts to rescue her mother Ms. Sykes was evicted from her home, she was beaten by the guardian’s husband, and her property confiscated.     As in most of these retaliation cases so far attempts to obtain a remedy have been unsuccessful.    Local law enforcement refuses to prosecute this criminal activity including by not limited to Ms. Sykes’ beating.

As I’ve seen the marks and bruises that Ms. Sykes was gifted with by the beating, the e-mail from Mr. Stern, and the file in case 09 P 4585 and had to endure similar retaliation I have no doubt that the retaliation that Ms. Sykes has averred in the Federal Complaint is the tip of the iceberg.      The Room 1804 incident I witnessed and was absolutely shocking as I personally saw a sitting judges extremely rude, disrespectful and lacking in compliance with the standards of the United States of America.     In my over fifty years in the practice of law, I appeared before some extremely excellent and some extremely inappropriate jurists; however, the sitting judge was brimming with bias and total disrespect for a citizen.      The averments in Ms. Sykes’ ADA complaint must be classified as benign understatement.

The fact that this Sykes case is not an isolated case or incident is very disturbing.    Are American Probate Courts either ignorant of the Rule of Law or will they not comply with it?    How different are we from ISIS (ISIL) or North Korea?

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