Ken Ditkowsky, Esq.

Ken is a lawyer who was suspended for 4 years because he exercised his First Amendment Rights and reported elder abuse to law enforcement.   He is a University of Chicago and Loyola University graduate and has practiced general law for over fifty years.

As a lawyer he has tried hundreds of cases many before juries in both State and Federal Courts.   He has appeared a number of times before the Illinois Supreme Court and in the case of Terrazas v. Vance before the Supreme Court of the US.

While the Illinois Atty Regn and Disciplinary Commn accused him of lying about probate cases, they “proved” he lied by stating a letter to a ward’s doctor falsely indicated he was her attorney when in fact he was not.  The ARDC refuses to publish or link to the letter which is clear on its face he was only investigating the case based upon numerous complaints from the “ward’s” former friends and neighbors who claim Mary was in danger and being isolated.  Atty Ditkowsky was haled before that judge in probate court for $5,000 in sanctions for merely investigating the Mary Sykes case– a case where neither Mary Sykes nor her elderly sisters were ever served with 14 days advance notice of the time, date and place of hearing–all of which are required to take jurisdiction under Illinois state law and case law (In re Soldini).  Ken’s sanctions were later dismissed by the Illinois Court of Appeals for lack of jurisdiction since Ken had never even stepped in that court for that case.  That did not stop the ARDC from prosecuting Ken for the sanction sans jurisdiction though.  The tied in probate attorneys bringing the motion, on the other hand, were never investigated and never disciplined for bringing a false sanction claim.  Their behavior was excused and routinely dismissed as “understandable.”

Ken was blamed for sending out emails about the GAO report criticizing probate cases as a “national disgrace”.  He was ostracized during his trial and persecuted for merely speaking out for the victims, and in particular, one Mary G Sykes whose entire estate and all her assets have been liquidated for attorneys fees–some $350k.  The probate attys in this case were so greedy, they went after the bank accounts of the younger daughter, an award winning investigative reporter, for opposing and speaking out against this greed.  Gloria Sykes would be chained by this judge until she disclosed all her assets so they could be seized by the probate court and used for attorneys fees.  Later, at Ms. Denison’s ARDC hearing, this judge would later deny she chained Gloria.  Gloria’s home was looted and laid to waste.  In Chicago, deals are made in advance on the 18th floor of courthouse, and no one dares to stop the process of liquidation and annilation of both the ward and the estate–or else.

Gloria Sykes’ case is the main feature of a popular probate blog http://www.MaryGSykes.com written and operated by another Illinois Atty (Joanne Denison) and the blog has been officially declared “misconduct” by the ARDC.  In their quest and zeal for outlawing the First Amendment to the US Constitution of 1780, the Illinois ARDC is now outlawing attorney blogs on the subject matter of probate–a subject they find to be repugnant to their quest to perfect a “code of silence” for favored attorneys and judges on the 18th floor of the Chicago Courthouse.  They blame the media for the mess they foment.  They kill the messenger and destroy human and civil rights with the stroke of a pen. They crush all dissident among attorneys they find to blog about “subversive content” on the internet.  Of course, the continued string of felonies against the elderly and their families perpetrated by attorneys and judges in probate court are per se “subversive content” which cannot ever be published to the public to warn them about the goings on in Illinois Probate Courts.