From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Feb 27, 2015 1:39 PM
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Subject: Fw: Join Us for a Complimentary Bribery and Corruption CLE Webinar – March. 3

Here’s an interesting definition of the word “sharp practice”

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sharp+practice

I am posting this because it seems to fit the problems seen by many of you–opposing counsel that lies, threats, barely (if at all legal) tactics much of which is designed to churn legal bills and do little in the way of “best interests” of the disabled person or those that love and support her or him.

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Feb 21, 2015 8:58 AM
To: JoAnne M Denison , Tim Lahrman
Cc: Probate Sharks , Nasga Us , “J. Ditkowsky” , Eric Holder , Matt Senator Kirk , “FBI- ( (” , Chicago FBI , BILL DITKOWSKY , “ComplaintAdmin ADA (CRT)” , Janet Phelan , Ginny Johnson , “ABAJournal.com” , ISBA Main Discussion Group , Bev Cooper , FOX News Network LLC
Subject: Re: Fw: Responding to your inquiry

http://www.inquisitr.com/1844013/over-2000-u-s-government-torture-photos-could-be-released-soon/

While the ACLU sues to ensure that our democracy is functioning the way it should, with complete transparency regarding the actions of the powers that be, apparently BOTH the Bush and the Obama administration have been playing hide the sausage with photos that might be even more disturbing that already released.

Why the CIA pretends that treaties against war crimes, and the Nuremberg trials do not exist is beyond me.

Even children in grammar school seem to know more about how torture is wrong and illegal than grownups with decades of experience in international law and degrees from Ivy League institutions.

Apparently the publication of these photos were held up with motion after motion filed by the government to delay, delay, delay.  What the delays buy them is not understood because they are delaying the inevitable.  And if the government is so heck bent on delaying the release of these videos then why weren’t they properly managing the CIA staff in the first place, and what provisions have they put in place to ensure this does not happen again.

Will the Obama administration release new policy changes with the photos to ensure there is no repeat of this embarrassing and volatile situation.

The government constantly claims release would inflame or incite violence, but I think they should have thought of  that years ago when the war crimes were being committed.  2,000 photos are more than an “isolated incident” from one or two out of control employees.

JoAnne

to explain.  When a proceeding is “in personnam” personal jurisdiction is obtained by service of a summons and complaint upon a person or corporation.  An “in rem” proceeding (such as a foreclosure) can take place ask long as you have served the property by notice and the court attains jurisdiction over the property or “rem.” (for examply posting on an apartment for eviction or a home for foreclosure but only AFTER you have validly attempted to serve the owners and after a diligent search cannot find them.

In Mary’s case, the court knew where she was, but never served her.  So the only notice was by a court order handed out to a few people.

Of course, this meets none of the standards for either in personnam or in rem jurisdiction, but that does not stop the court appointed/connected miscreants from taking over Mary’s life, property, civil and human rights and sending her to a remote location (Naperville) with a daughter when her last POA said she wanted to live in her home until she died and have both daughters care for her there.

But the property was sold, and at my ARDC trials, one of the main cover ups was to deny that some $160k in attys fees to Peter Schmeidel and Fischel and Kahn–or the bulk of the estate would go to attorneys fees.  The ABA Journal covered this up by pulling comments on their blog from family members who related the lack of service of summons and complaint upon Mary and notice to Mary’s family, which is required to take in personnam jurisdiction over her.  The ARDC covered this up by banning most of my witnesses (experts and fact witnesses) but presenting Judge Stuart, who lied on the stand and then “suddenly retired” soon afterward, Peter Schmeidel who is covering up telling the court all of Mary’s assets have to be liquidated “for her care”, but the vast majority have already gone to attorneys fees ($700k home appraised in January sold for $220k in Mar, then they grabbed daughter Gloria’s assets of some $200k falsely claiming they belonged to Mary, and $60k from the home sale went to attorney’s fees and over $100k from Gloria’s funds went to attorneys. You figure.  The cover up continues with the ARDC having witnesses lie, transcripts changed, audio tapes documenting the changes supressed–it’s all fraud on the court.

Best thing about fraud on the court?  It has NO LIMITATIONS PERIOD.  That’s right, like jurisdiction, it’s a scab over a huge festering boil waiting to be picked — any time, any day.

The hue and cry from probate victims will not stop as long as we have a free and open and democratic society and open internet.  They are banding together and publishing popular blogs ( this blog, Probate Sharks, NASGA, John Wyman’s, Candice Schwagers, Stop Guardian Abuse and others)

Everyday, the ARDC flings more and more paper at me and I don’t care.  All I think of is the suffering and horrors these probate victims and the families have gone thru and will go thru unless and until all this nonsense in the courtrooms stop.

In the ARDC decision, the tribunal insulting stated “the Respondent does not know about basic concepts of law…..”  Sorry I have to disagree with the Tribunal, but their “basic concepts” of lies, coverups, banning crucial witnesses, treating the Sykes family members like dirt–I don’t  need their “basic elements” in my craw.  The Tribunal can keep that for themselves.

I know what a summons and complaint is and notice to all next of kin.  I know the alleged disabled respondent must receive a “notice of rights” in large bold type to take jurisdiction.  It’s the Tribunal that does not know basic concepts of due process and free speech that a 6th grade student must know on her or his US civil rights exam to pass to the next grade.

I don’t see any of the tribunal offering to take on all my cases for pro bono, but I will ask them, and Mr. Sanders can pull his money out of his pocket to sponsor lawyers to do the same thing I do for free or low cost each and every day to protect the human rights, civil rights and elderly of our seniors.  This is karma they have to make up.

Mr. Splitt just asked for an extension of time for his brief to the review board.  He said the “record is too big” to get his brief done.  I wonder when he will finally realized that he is prosecuting an innocent, honest attorney and all this is bad karma for him, and he should just refuse to write the brief and quit.  While everyone deserves representation, what the ARDC wants him to write is a huge pack of lies and a cover up.  When the fraud on the court is finally heard by an open and honest legal forum, hasta lasanga, don’t get it on ya.

Respectfully Mr. Splitt, no extension of time will allow you to search that entire record for some reason to discipline me.  Keep on going, but you won’t find it.  And if you do what the ARDC asks of you to convict a wholly innocent attorney, like Ken Ditkowsky and Mr. Amu, maybe it’s time to just walk off the job.  If your heart is in the right place, the angels will protect you.

Each and every day, I work for low cost or free and do not turn people away.  I help them against the liars and the cheats and the thugs hanging in the court room hallways.  It’s not always easily and I have my critics (the ARDC talking about all the good I do in a huge paragraph, but it ends with “all of that is misplaced.”)  No, Mr. Larking, goodness and kindness and helping others is NEVER misplaced.  I’d rather have a ton of that than the lies propagated during my trial, and the exclusion of crucial witness, the lying and the cover ups

JoAnne

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Feb 14, 2015 7:36 AM
To: Janet Phelan
Subject: The In Rem guardianship/ or the application of the Dred Scott Decision to Seniors and the Disabled in Illinois and some other miscreant States.

Today, from the Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-reinstein-kickback-plea-20150213-story.html#page=1

$600k in kickbacks, a prolific prescriber, he once prescribed 490 prescriptions in 5 days!

And we wonder why the Tribunals at the ARDC and Jerome Larkin at the ARDC are engaged in a massive coverup.

They either knew or should have known of the kickbacks–just like Gov. Ryan went down for.

No one ever proved that Gov. Ryan took a kickback from any $200 no test CDL, but he was convicted and sent to prison for many years nonetheless.

Jerome Larkin has received dozens and dozens of client complaints of cottage industry schemes in probate, and ignores them all, sending out nonsensical letter in Sykes, Gore, Tyler, etc.  He and his staff do not file Ethics Reports under the mandatory reporting act of 2009.  If you complain to the Ill. Supreme Court, they send you to Atty Zimmerman, who I am told was placed there to do nothing.  He is a do nothing kind of guy.

Let’s applaud the feds for going after Dr. Reinstein.

Let’s set up a Bastille day for all the elders drugged against their will, forced to live in nursing homes, deprived any independent third party supervisor by court order (Frake), feeding tube in one end laced with drugs because the patient eats to slowly and a diaper on the other and forced to stay in bed or a wheel chair with alarms.

Disgusting, worse the the most horrid state run Chinese orphanages with dying rooms (youtube.com)

joanne

this judge is publically lambasted for doing so.

Take a look at this article:

http://www.wfxg.com/story/28088174/judge-denies-production-of-court-hearing-audio-recordings

The question is, why is the news so negative on him, when my Tribunal thought it had the right to refuse my motion to turn over tapes, and then just told me to submit my own notes, then when I did, they ignored them.

Like the judge in this article, Jerome Larkin has had many past accusations of covering up fraud, ignoring valid client complaint results in severe financial exploitation (in the millions–Sykes, Gore, Tyler, etc.) and also severe injury to disabled persons via the court appointed guardians and attorneys (Sykes being severely ill, Carol Wyman–attempted murder, read the book, Alice Gore isolated and then 29 gold teeth pulled, a feeding tube implanted because she ate to slow and she was infused with psychotropic meds and starved/dehydrated to death, etc.  We now have a list in Illinois.

How is it Gov. Ryan’s brand of corruption (selling CDL’s for $200) results in his imprisonment for years when 5 young children burn up to death, but Larkin’s cover up and refusal to investigate the near murder of Carol Wyman in one of Illinois’ worst nursing homes and then the starvation/dehdration and drugging continues? (Frake).

Which reminds me, I just got an order today in response to my allegations of severe abuse (a once vibrant man is reduced quickly to a wheel chair, a mysterious fall after entering the nursing home is unattended to, then he is drugged to the point his eyes are dilated in daylight, he can’t lift his head up, he says he wants to die–the court covers all this up by saying they will simply limit any visitors (ie, witnesses to illegal psychotropic drugging, etc.) (Frake).  See below.  Carl Kettler of Bright Star — a professional nursing firm that does not believe in abuse, is now banned from coming near Mr. Frake.  Carl Kettler was to be used as a witness.  Imagine he is banned by Judge Quinn?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwVC1FX3l0dVdNOGJhS3dBdURTdkdjRGlSTDh3/view?usp=sharing

JoAnne

So Barbara Stone and I were wondering, what is this “probate exception” that keeps normally tough and anti corruption Federal Courts from providing a second look at what is going on in Probate Court that sometimes can only be described as utterly down the rabbit hole.

Where does this come from?  How does “probate exception” scare even the toughest of judges when the public is clamoring for a RICO presumption in probate, the Federal Court judges cower and dump anything that mentions probate as a regular course of business.

I mean, by that measure, they should dump all personal property disputes that liquidate and divide assest, maybe there should be a business partnership exception (probate is much like winding down a business, assets are sold and liquidated and disputes between the partners as to valuation and ethics in transactions are carefully scrutinized by Federal Court judges all the time when there is diversity, etc.)  I just don’t see the dichotomy why the Federal Courts won’t step in when the State Probate Courts are ablaze with fraud, problems and issues in some cases with a lot of money.  If the Federal Courts can decide multi million dollar cases, tens of millions of dollars of cases, why do they (fallaciously) claim they “don’t do probate” they don’t “have the expertise” (ie, it’s too hard for them to think about probate), when you know all the judges are mostly brilliant, went to ivy league law schools, and/or they have a bevy of brilliant law clerks.  What gives?

Here is a good article from Tim Lahrman on what this animal is, when did it evolve and what are the various standards from state to state.

Click to access 074602.pdf

Read and enjoy.

So is this a probate exception or just a probate excuse from accusations of abuse of civil and human rights?  Why aren’t the federal courts stepping in when the state courts do nothing to protect civil and human rights.? Why do the federal courts now only want large corporate disputes and have forgotten the real reason they exist–for the citizens and not the mega corporations of the US.

joanne

From Eliot Bernstein, this article explains how some protestors, who engage in peaceful protest, work to protect citizen’s rights, are first advising to ditch cell phones when arrested.

Technically, an arrest is anytime the police start talking to you and you believe you must respond and cannot walk away.  You should always ask the officer, “may I leave now?”  If the answer is “no” at anytime, you’re under arrest.  And it’s not that I don’t love talking to strange and new police officers, but you have to be sure to talk about the weather, tell jokes, ask if you can help them with anything, ask if they’d like a free knitting or crocheting lesson, but general talk about crimes and criminality is off limits.  I just tell them I’m not a PD or prosecutor, so I don’t know anything about X so I can’t answer any questions, but if they send me interrogatories in written form, I’d be glad to answer them in 30 days.

In any case, keep a lock on your cell phone.  Do NOT leave it unattended.  DO use Google cell phone wiper if it gets out of hands which enables you to wipe your cell phone remotely. DO fill your cellphone with stupid stuff like pet videos and junk no one is interested in.  I like to fill my computer files and cell phone with knitting and crocheting patterns and videos, so that would keep them busy learning the strange instructions like 3tr, 2dc, repeat * to *, use Tunisian hook, pm, etc..  I”m sure they’re think it a great secret code to take hours to unravel.

Regardless, here;s the article and thanks, Eliot:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-warrantless-smartphone-searches-20150211-story.html

I do, however, think the key to getting better behavior out of our police, which means better behavior from citizens on the street, because police should be the example, is to require them to either go to the law library for 2 hours each week or do 2 hours of online study of caselaw and statutory laws.  It would solve a lot of the problems we are seeing now with police over reaching, abusing authority and then the city, county, states or feds pay for it.

This is not North Korea, this is not the mideast or Egypt with severely dwindling human and civil rights!  In Iran they take away a woman lawyer’s children when she advocates for equal rights!

In the US, Mr. Amu was found guilty of practicing law while black!

’Lanre O. Amu

The Peoples ’ Lawyer

Agbẹjọ́rò

B.C.E. (UMn,’84), M.S.C.E. (UMn ’86), M.B.A.(UIC,’89), J.D.(’95)

Lawyer Amu is Innocent, Reinstate His Law License Now!

A Call for an Independent Investigation of Judicial Corruption!

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This is a Peaceful Petition to Reinstate Lawyer Amu’s Law License Now; to Investigate Corruption in the Judiciary, the Entire Court System, the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC); and to Reform Our Court System for the Betterment of Our Lives. Given the Impact These Institutions Have on the Lives of Everyone in Our Society, We the People Must No Longer Consent to be Held Hostage by the Lawless any Longer. The People Must Organize to Take Action to Eradicate Corruption in these Institutions. Unless We are Hypocrites, Our Consciences Must Alert Us that Neo-slavery, Racism, and/or Institutionalized Oppression are Violations of Human Rights, Barbaric, and Have No Place in America the Land of the Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants!

Judicial Corruption is a Far More Serious Crime by these Elites than an Individual’s Armed Robbery, Rape, and/or Murder, Because a Lot More People are Victims from Just One Single Corrupt Judge! To Eradicate Judicial Corruption, Judges Must be Held to Not Just the Letter, But Also the Spirit, of the Solemn Oath of Office they Took When They Assumed the Position of Judges. Judges Must also be Objectively Held to High Moral, Ethical, and Legal Standards in their Stewardships. Judges Must Have Integrity, be Honest, Accountable, and Transparent in their Decision Making and Dealings.

Have You Ever Wondered Why Our Court System is Often so Intimidating, Complicated With Legalese, Motions, Codes, Rules, Statutes, Acts, Ordinances, Case Law upon Case Law, Long-Winded, and/or Financially Beyond the Reach of the Average Joe Blow Litigant? Answer: If Our Court System is More Straight Forward and Transparent to the Average Joe Blow, there Will be Less Need for Lawyers, there will be less Expense, Less Monies Floating Around, Joe Blow Can Easily Decode Legalese, Understand Fully What is Happening, Spot and Resist Corruption! Don’t Be Fooled! Our Court System Can be Reformed to Root Out Corruption, Cut to the Chase, With Less Expense, and in Less Time! But Does the Will Exist to Implement Such Reforms? Ask your Lawmakers!

In 16 Years of Legal Practice, in Which I Had the Honor of Serving Our Peoples of All

Races, and from all Walks of Life, Concerning their Affairs in Our Courts, I have Come

A Call for an Independent Investigation of Judicial Corruption!

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Across Many Judges with Integrity Who are Capable of Reforming Our Court System if Given the Opportunity. But Sadly, I Have Also Come Across Many Corrupt Judges and

Justices Who Will Rather Perpetuate the System as it is, and Persecute Anyone Who Dares to Expose How Bad the Court System Really is! Under Our Current System, Justices Sit in Judgment of Lawyers, Deciding Who Can or Cannot Practice Law. But Who Judges the Judges When they are Corrupt? Right Now, No One! As Such, There is Virtually No Risk or Cost to Being a Corrupt Judge. But the Financial and Social

Benefits of Being a Corrupt Judge are Real! Unprincipled Human Beings Regardless of Title or Position Will Do that Which is Beneficial to Him or Her as Long as the Risks or Costs Do not Outweigh the Benefit! Reform is Needed Such that the Risks or Costs of Judicial Corruption NOW Outweigh the Benefits! That is the Key to Deterrence!

Unfortunately, Lawyers Like Myself Who “Naively” File Complaints Against  Corrupt Judges Thinking they are Working to Improve Our Legal System Receive the Shock of their Lives! They are Defamed, Ostracized, Harassed, Suspended and/or Disbarred! By Making a Public Example of Us “Naive” Lawyers, these Justices Impose a Conspiracy of Silence on the Entire Bar! Many People and Entities, Including Practicing Lawyers, are Afraid to Publicly Talk About Judicial Corruption Out Fear for Their Livelihood and/or Other Consequences Should They End Up Before The Judges or Justices! These Judges and Justices Close Ranks and Live in Denial of the Obvious. Who Will Alert Our Emperors that they Have No Clothes? Who Will Bell the Cat?

Without Integrity, Honesty, Transparency, and Accountability in Our Courts, Everyone in Our Society is at Risk of Being a Victim! Judicial Corruption Endangers Savings, Property, Liberty, and Even Life Itself. No One is Safe in a Corrupt Legal System! Today, John Q. Public is the Victim of Judicial Corruption, tomorrow it Could be You! The Next Time you see a Homeless Person on the Street, Think Twice Before You Criticize and/or Look Down on that Person. You May be Looking at a Victim of Failings in Our Court System! On the other hand, the Judge You See in Expensive Suit or Black Robe, Whom Everyone Including deputy sheriff is Rising up For, May Well be an Imposter who Deserves to be Unmasked, and Apprehended, if not in US Courts Perhaps at the International Court of Justice at the Hague! These are Some of the Paradoxes, Inconsistencies, and Contradictions of Our Society While Our Elected Leaders Preach so Called American Style Democracy, Human Rights, and Justice Abroad! Why Preach What is not Practiced in Our Society Abroad? Does Charity Not Begin at Home?

Some Examples of the Effects of Judicial Corruption:

* Imagine Being Sued for All you have in a Corrupt Legal System!

* Illegally Fired Employee Denied Justice in a Corrupt Legal System! 

*Pension and Disability Payments Can be Arbitrarily Denied in a Corrupt Legal System!   

* Injured Persons Denied Justice in a Corrupt Legal System!   

* Elderly can be Wiped out in Guardianship in a Corrupt Legal System!

* Patient Injured by a Hospital May Have no Recourse in a Corrupt Legal System!

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http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/349866/suit-man-beaten-guards-northwestern-memorial-cafeteria-basement

Very scary.  An elderly man eaten in the cafeteria was drug into the basement of the hospital and beaten, after he was told to leave the hospital.

One of the problems with security guards is they often have no background checks done, they have little or no training and are not certified in their jobs to prevent issues before they arise.

If anyone knows more details, please contact me.

JoAnne

All without meeting the standards of In Re Tiffany, and all over objections of the family members, and the Judge, Carolyn Quinn, just hands back reports of abuse to the abuser!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwTWtIZ3VjWHhnSGc/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwSV9LOExtb1RpZXM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwYWRhQzFRSDFFckk/view?usp=sharing

What this means is YOU can be stripped of your paid up home, placed in Sunrise Nursing Home in Park Ridge, be given these drugs–if your “crime” is being a pain in the butt:

The ward has no known drug allergies [NKDA] and takes the following medications:
Effexor (antidepressant); Lithium Carbonate (mood stabilizer); Donepezil (dementia); Risperdal (mood stabilizer); Tegretal (mood stabilizer); Metoprolo! (blood pressure); Simvastatin (cholesterol); Ducosate (stool softener) and Vultaran Cream (facial
erythema).

(just for everyone’s edification, Effexor, Lithium, Risperdal and Tegretal are all basically horse tranquilizers.  They are derived from Thorazine, a horse tranquilizer developed in the 1930’s. )

In prior weeks this blog reported excessive drooling and a drool bib.  The court appointed attorneys replied, “drooling is just saliva pooling in the mouth.”  Outrageous.

At first, I was told Mr. Frake received no psychotropic drugs.  Then I pushed for more information, drugs and doctors.  Then I found out Mr. Frake was given  “some but not enough to alter his personality.”  Preposterous.  Then on Thursday I was outraged to find in the annual report, the above cocktail of strong psychotropic meds.  I stayed up all night ran to court early Friday morning to deliver the report to Judge CQ, but she appeared more concerned that the report did not have the proper 2 business day’s notice and she scowled at it as the concerns of the family meant nothing, absolutely nothing and she was tired of having to read these reports. Sigh. Glad I stayed up for that one.  So much tiresome work to produce a quality cover up.

Son Gary reported over and over how his father’s head hung quite low and his father could not raise it upon request, Gary also reported Father Frake’s nearly inaudible speech, his wish to die, the atrophy of muscles in his legs–all denied by everyone else in the court room, but Gary has witnesses.  Father Frake went from a stong, tough, assertive (sometime abusive) man who spoke his mind (not always pleasant), to someone that sits in a wheelchair all day long, head drooping, no high cognitive abilities, saying things he never said before–all on a strong cocktail of psychotropic drugs!

Of course, the court’s vermin blame dementia, but how would anyone know with that cocktail of strong psychotropic drugs/sedatives.

At least In re Tiffany had a diagnosis of mental illness. Father Frake has no diagnosis, at least not in his report.

According to Fla statutes, they declared:

28)(a) “Restraint” means a physical device, method, or drug used to control behavior. A physical restraint is any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent to the individual’s body so that he or she cannot easily remove the restraint and which restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one’s body.
(b) A drug used as a restraint is a medication used to control the person’s behavior or to restrict his or her freedom of movement and is not part of the standard treatment regimen of a person with a diagnosed mental illness who is a client of the department.

Here, Mr. Frake was never even diagnosed with a mental illness to anyone’s knowledge.  He was just a pain in the butt, so Sunrise and their docs shot him up until he shut up and drooled.

I tried to talk to atty JF, who is representing P & B, and he told me he didn’t want to talk about it.  I also tried to talk to him about how the bank–Guardian of the Estate got $69k for managing the Trust of Father Frake for a year–collecting social security checks and a few rents, paying a few bills, but got no comment on that either.  Not a good topic I suppose.

Mr. Alan Frake’s demeanor in the past was not one of passivity.  He could be hostile, rude, obnoxious and prone to outbursts.  So what does Sunrise/the court do?  Drug him until he is stripped of his personality.

The Ward’s mental condition is: Mr. Frake presents a calmer demeanor as compared to what he was demonstrating in 2012 and 2013. His anger, hostility andaggressive behaviors are absent. He no longer has explosive outbursts, and he does not make verbal or gestural threats. His confusion and loss of short-term memory ismore pronounced and in keeping with a patient who presents with a progressive cognitive loss. The ward does not speak in terms of [still] “running his business, getting
quotes or doing jobs”. However, he always asks his visitors “how’s business or how’s your business going”? This part of Mr. Frake, business, lies at his core and will remain with him for as long as he is able to verbalize. (From Annual Report on Ward)

This court’s vermin de jour connected therein, have a long history of ignoring the civil rights and liberties of any person, esp. as illuminated in In re Tiffany, and they head any disobedient elder right to the drug bottle, wheel chair and nursing home.

I have not heard the case In re Tiffany mention anytime in Probate court, so it is a civil rights case keeping the law in pristine condition because it is never used.

From a harrowing plight–

BOSTON (AP) — She was 19, a brand-new mother with a developmental disability. Two days after giving birth to her daughter, the state took the infant away and placed her in foster care.

 

Massachusetts child welfare officials contend the young woman couldn’t properly care for a newborn and insist they acted in the child’s best interests. But the federal government disagrees: It says the state violated her civil rights by discriminating against her because of her disability.

In a new report, the Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services say the state Department of Children and Families — which has moved to terminate the mother’s parental rights — needs to compensate her and give her a chance to prove she can care for her daughter, or it could face a federal lawsuit.

Finally, someone admits that these types of state actions are illegal, discriminatory and a horror show. Let’s pray for this mother and child, that they soon be reunited.

from the article

http://news.yahoo.com/feds-state-wrongly-took-moms-child-2-days-154328655.html

read the whole story

A good link to see what the Federal Government intends to do about all of these problems:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?324176-1/hearing-financial-exploitation-seniors

While the chair from Maine talks mainly (pun intended?) about family members taking finanacial advantage of elders, it is our experience that combined with these issues are then the probate courts and guardianships take advantage of that senior in their target-isolate-medicate-drain and eliminate programs now bustling in the nation’s probate courts and for which victims are becoming mightly vociferous in their objections to having a feeding tube implanted at one end, a diaper at the other and then the nursing home does little to nothing for $5k, $10k and sometimes even $15k per year.

If that isn’t severe abuse, torture and financial exploitation, I don’t know what else is.  Atty Helen Stone’s case is a classic example of that. Brother takes $625k and she reports it, and a g-ship is opened.  Two miscreants are appointed that drain $1.4 million in 20 months.  Mrs. Helen Stone now has a feeding tube at one end and a diaper at the other.  While paying for a nursing home, she is assigned aides to ensure the case is never documented, that the family is isolated from her, and the feeding tube is laced with a deadly combination of psychotropic drugs never dispensed in accord with Florida law which declares in Section 364 that chemical restraints, incluidng holding a person down to shoot them up with psychotropic drugs is never a part of any approved therapy or treatment for a mental disease or defect–and in Mrs. Helen Stone’s case, she never even had a mental disease or defect.  She should have a guardianship limited to the recovery for financial exploitation and nothing else.

So, we will keep on writing to these Senators and keep on documenting these cases.

Thanks

JoAnne

For those of you that are familiar with the Petition for my suspension under Sup. Ct. Rule 774 based upon the ARDC’s allegations that I and this blog is a danger to the public and to my clients because this blog contains numerous false and misleading statements or false statements made with “disregard for the truth”, now is your chance to tell the ARDC and the Supreme Court of Illinois that is a preposterous allegation.

Please print out and sign the below declaration if you disagree.  EVEN IF YOU AGREE WITH THEM, AS LONG AS YOU PROVIDE SOME REASONABLE BASIS FOR YOUR DECLARATION, I WILL SUBMIT.

This blog is honest, accurate and truthful.  We do not hide the truth. We believe in human rights, civil rights and liberties, and most of all, free speech.

Go ahead and let me know your thoughts and I will send them along.

thanks

joanne

see below, change as YOU desire.  don’t let the ARDC or the Supreme Court of Illinois let YOU think.  Don’t let them make their speech your speech.  You say what you want, and what you know.  You have YOUR truth, now speak YOUR truth. Change as you want and I will send it to the Supreme Court of Illinois.

BEFORE THE ILLINOIS ATTORNEY REGISTRATION AND DISCIPLINARY COMMISSION

In Re:

JOANNE MARIE DENISON

Attorney-Respondent
Reg. No. 6192441

Commission No. 2013 PR 0001

DECLARATION TO ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT

The undersigned doth deposes and saith:

1.     My name is _________________________ and my address is   ____________________________________________________________________, and this is in regard to the ARDC’s current mission to take away the law license of Attorney Joanne Denison (“Ms. Denison”) for merely running a blog that tells the truth about the fraud on the court and the lack of respect for the US and State Constitutions and the Illinois Probate Act in and without the Illinois Probate System.
2.   ______ I am very familiar with Ms. Denison’s blog and have read about ____ posts on it.
3. _______ I have read the complaint in Ms. Denison’s case and am familiar with it.  I understand that the ARDC desires to take away Ms. Denison’s law license because she blogs about fraud and corruption in Probate and other cases.  I believe it is wrong to go after someone who exposes only the truth.  I have read the blog and Ms. Denison’s blog is extremely helpful to Probate Victims and their families.  I am very familiar with her work, and she does in fact tell the truth.
4.________ I have read the ARDC’s petition for an Immediate Suspension of Ms. Denison’s Law License and I know that she helps many, many people without any payment demands, and many cases she takes are pro bono with no expectation of payment.  No other attorney admitted to the bar in Illinois does that.  Without her assistance, dozens of indigent and lower middle class families would have no help and no hope in these horrific guardianship cases.  She helps everyone that comes to her as best she can.
5. ________ I have been helped by and rely upon Ms. Denison on a pro bono basis or for what I can pay, which is only a small portion of the true legal bill.  Without her, her I would not have any representation.  Prior to using Ms. Denison, I had sought help from approx   ____ number attorneys and paid $_______________–all to no avail in my case.
6._______ I know the Sykes family well or Gloria Sykes and what Ms. Denison says about the Sykes family is true and accurate.
7._______ I have read the Petition for Immediate Suspension of Ms. Denison’s law license and I strongly disagree with it.  This document falsely states that Ms. Denison is a danger to the public and to her clients and that she makes false statements against judges and judicial officials, none of that is true.
8.________ The immediate suspension of Ms. Denison would leave dozens and dozens of clients without help or representation, including myself.
Her suspension must not happen.  She is not a danger to anyone other than those that want to cover up the truth.
9.  Other comments:
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10.  I give Ms. Denison permission to post my comments and declaration but not the ARDC.
Further declarant saith not.
I hereby declare that the above statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge; if called to testify, I would testify as to the same.

Respectfully submitted;

_____________________________________
Name printed: ________________________________
Dated __________________, 2015

From Ms. Theresa Lyles, another probate victim in Florida, for being terrorized by the probate court system there, and I believe Judge Genden, Barbara Stone’s abusive judge:

IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE 8’h JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ALACHUA
COUNTY, FLORIDA
AFFIDAVIT
I, Teresa A. Lyles, after being duly sworn deposed and states to the best of my own personal knowledge and belief hereby state the following:
1. I am an interested party in the matter of the Guardianship of Carmen Tozzo, (hereafter referred to as “My Family Member”) who is my mother and who currently resides in Ocala, Florida. and is currently being held at Memory Lane (a lock-down facility).
2. My Family Member, was placed into a court ordered guardianship on the date 6th day of June 2011 ( emergency temporary gship- Bonnie DiVito),  November, 2011 (1 51 plenary – Marilyn ‘Lynn’ Belo), 16th day of August, 2013 (2nd plenary – Carol J. Preiss), and (Andrea Wolfkill, 2nd emergency temporary and 3rd plenary) in April 2014 in the City of Gainesville Probate Court by Judge Victor Hulslander (! 51 temporary). Judge Stan Griffis (! 51 plenary). Judge Mary Day Coker (2nd temporary and 2nd and 3rd plenary). [Preiss and Wollkill were appointed though they did not have the proper guardianship credentialing at the time of appointment.]
* My Family Member’s home was paid for, she had great care in her home, and sufficient assets to continue care as such. She did NOT need a guardian, but was the target of an attack on her assets.
3. PARTIES INVOLVED IN THE GUARDIANSHIP:
a. The Guardian(s) appointed were: Bonnie Divito (] 51 temporary); Marilyn ‘Lynn’ Belo (! 51 plenary); Carol J. Preiss (2nd plenary), and Andrea Wolfkill (2nd temporary and 3rd plenary).
b. The attorney(s) for the Guardian(s) was/were Monica Brasington (DiVito), Judith Paul
(Belo), Virginia Griffis (Belo, Preiss, and Wolfkill).
c. My Attorney(s): Joshua Silverman (fust and current); Nancy Baldwin (my second attorney), Zena Dupee (my third attorney).
d. Judge(s) were: Judge Victor Hulslander, Judge Stan Griffis. Judge Mary Day Coker
e. Others involved in the case were. John Ramsey. attorney appointed to my mom (not present and not notified of competency hearing); Carmen Julian and Elena Clark (sisters) – retained M. Brasington to file for mental competency hearing.
4. PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOTROPIC CHEMICAL ABUSE:
a. My Family Member suffered the following physical abuses:
* trauma bruising to face/head, cuts/abrasions to right hand/left hand;
* bruising on left arm (above elbow)/left knee/right knee;
• un-bathed for long periods of time, left unkempt and in dirty diapers (dirty/stained clothes);
* left with UTI (infection/fever);
* dehydration (multiple times);
* more than a dozen falls in two facilities;
* refusing to provide proper medical attention after falls/head injury;
* multiple visits to Emergency Room with overnight hospital stays (North Florida Regional
Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, and West Marion Community Hospital, Ocala, FL);
* withholding/discarding dentures and prescription glasses.
[I contacted DCF and Ombudsman on first facility, but My Family Member continued to
experience injuries and visits to the ER – all 3 guardians FAILED to investigat/be proactive
about continuous injuries and lied to me, and had the staff provide inconsistent information to me, about cause(s) of My Family Member’s injuries].
b. My Family Member suffered the following emotional abuses:
* isolation from family for long periods of time (children, grandchildren, niece, nephews,
cousins);
* restriction from church/church members/pastor/prayer group members;
* verbal abuse by guardian (Belo) in front of paid caregivers and other family;
* locking bedroom doors/limiting access to room/bathroom at Harbor Chase;
* restriction from mom’s normal diet (food/drink);
* verbal abuselharassment toMy Family Member children/grandchildren in front of My Family Member; changing locks on home door (more isolation);
* changing/cutting off telephone; restriction of communication on any phone in either facilities;
* hiring an abusive caregiver while still in home;
* restricting My Family Member and other family with use of native language and threatening loss of visitation if not compl iant;
* isolating My Family Member in hospital, refusing to allow others to see her in hospital;
restricting any touchinglhugginglpbysical contact (cburch);
* deception about moving My Family Member from her home (“we’re going to a hotel while
we paint your house”) and moving My Family Member from first facility (“we’ re going to
lunch”);
* not allowed access to mail on a regular basis;
* not allowed access to finances/any of her money to spend;
* allowing abusive man (David D. Clark, Ms. Julian’s boyfriend) to be in close proximity to
My Family Member despite a ‘no trespass’ order on home/property.
c. The My Family Member suffered cruel and abusive isolation, overmedication and chemical restraints as follows:
* as of May 2012, My Family Member was on the following medications – Amloclipine,
Atorvastatin, Citalopram, Metropolol, Lisinopril, Hydrochiororthiazide, multiple narcotics. My
Family Member has only one kidney, with most of these drugs being potentially lethal were to her health. My Family Member has appeared to be heavily medicated, incoherent, and with slurred speech on numerous occasions since May 2012. [NOTE: I have been kept completely in the dark as to her medication regimen. My Family Member continues to be on two anti-depressants, and to my knowledge has NEVER been diagnosed with depression.];
* blocking the phone number of The Family Member’s nephew and his family in Miami;
* disconnecting phone number and not providing new number to My Family Member’s
children/grandchildren;
• changing locks on My Family Member’s home and hiding the key;
* removed My Family Member’s bed and replacing it with a small and constrictive hospital bed where she suffered bruising to her arms and head on this bed) in her home;
• placing My Family Member in a ‘lock down’ mental section offsite nursing home without
EXPERT medical diagnosis of dementia (criteria for placement in the unit was dementia,
mental illness, and/or flight risk);
* not allowing visits for holidays (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and birthdays) with children and grandchildren; PROHIBITING My Family Member from attending her own church;
* isolation from prayer groups/spiritual leaders;
* changing My Family Members medical providers (primary care) of 13 years to someone
handpicked (friend) of guardian.
5. FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION/ABUSE:
a. My Family Member’s estate suffered the following financial abuses/loss/dissipation:
* The estate was valued at approximately $250,000, including savings/checking/value of the house and husband’s social security/law suit settlement with current value at less than $30,000;
* guardian did not have real estate license, but sold home well below market value without the knowledge or consent of My Family Member (house not flipped to my knowledge);
* sale of the home without the consent of beneficiaries;
* frivolous motions/expenses filed by Belo to drain My Family Member’s account;
* hiring a “private” sitter from June 2012 to November 2012 (employed by Belo) to sit in first facility after the My Family Member was removed from her home;
* demanding multiple emails weekly on visitation time/visitors when the schedule was the
same (done to charge $75 + to read each email);
* guardian’s fees varied from reading emails to filing bogus motions/petitions in court (making mistakes, then refilling);
* guardian filed a motion to restrict family to grave sight of My Family Member’s deceased
husband (paid herself to file motion);
* to date, I have not seen or been allowed to see any financial statements/spending ledgers either via the guardian or the courts;
* My Family Member has NEVER been in possession of Or allowed any of her money to
spend.
b. The family and rightful heirs of the My Family Member suffered:
* slander, harassment/threats of arrest and call DCF on me (at my daughter’s wedding, which My Family Member attended with guardian’s permission);
* slanderous and libelous law suit filed against me (February 2013);
* violation of civil rights (free speech/religion);
* malicious persecution and target of malfeasance;
• severe stress, loss of sleep, depression, loss of income;
* physical restriction from seeing My Family Member without court hearing;
* isolation from My Family Member with restricted visits in home (always in the presence of a caregiver) and in the first facility (only allowed to sit in a limited area and rarely allowed in My Family Member’s bedroom/outside);
* not allowed to take My Family Member outside for fresh air or walks (first and second
facilities);
* restricted my visitation after seeing mom in church and hugged/kissed her (guardian claimed this was a “violation” of visitation);
* harassing a business associate (sending a threatening letter by mail) claiming My Family
Member owned stock in associates company (did not have a public company).
[Until October 2013, visits were always in the presence of a staff member/guardian’s employee who constantly interrupted and oftentimes harassed me and my children. When My Family Member left Harbor Chase, and when asked about the harassment by her and her staff, the assistant director (Edith) stated that she was ‘just doing what she was told to do by guardian’].

6. FRAUD, PERJURY:
a. The fraud that commenced the guardianship proceedings included:
* inappropriate filing of court documents (motions/petitions);
* removing My Family Member from home and the first facility without notification to
children/beneficiaries;
• no hearing to revoke the privileges of the legal health care surrogate (Lyles-Harris);
* not allowing My Family Member to view her mail/financial statements on a regular basis
(done rarely);
* filing law suit against me on behalf of My Family Member (against provisions of mental
competency) – and guardian placed herself as My Family Member’s attorney with fees paid to herself for filing law suit;
* perjury in court as to “misconduct” of family members daughter;
* failure to provide consistent medical/medication information about My Family Member to
her children/legal health care surrogate;
• sale/removal of My Family Member’s personal belongings
(furniture/clothes/jewelry/pictures) from home and first facility without consent and
knowledge, and without the knowledge and consent of the children/beneficiaries;
* failure to act in the best interest of the My Family Member (all 3 guardians);
* failure to PROTECT the My Family Member from abuse/neglect (at facilities and in home);
• moving My Family Member to a facility without court order/permission (from home to
Harbor Chase and Harbor Chase to Memory Lane).
7. JUDICIAL ABUSE OF POWER, VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS, VIOLATION OF
CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND COLOR OF LAW ABUSE:
a. Judicial abuse of power included:
• no legal representation present for My Family Member at competency hearing (or ever);
* not given the opportunity to be at the hearing or be heard in a timely fashion;
* no evidentiary hearings;
* rarely given the opportunity to testify/speak in court, and ignored when I was able to speak;
* not following proper courtroom procedures (timely submission of motions/petitions);
* physical restriction of My Family Member’s children without any legal or medical
basis/foundation;
* allowing sale of My Family Member’s home without consent/notice to My Family Member
and legal beneficiaries;
* allowing guardian to make health care decisions without hearing to investigate terms of legal will or My Family Member’s preferences;
* judges giving guardian(s) power to abuse/sequester My Family Member and to isolate family (via terms of visitation);
* no audit performed by Court Clerk or by court monitor;
• appointing guardians Preiss and Wolfkill without the proper guardianship credentialing in
place (Judge Coker);
* violation of guardianship statute in Florida;
* violation of constitutional right to worship;
• violation of constitutional right to free speech (speak our native language);
* violation of the right to have a say in health care/health care providers;
* violation of the right to legally reside/maintain residence in My Family Member’s own home;
* violation of civil and constitutional rights of parties were: Carmen Tozzo, Teresa Lyles,
LLH, BL, ML, AH, RH,
members of St. Patrick’s Church, Pastor Fr. Roland Julien;
* to my knowledge, My Family Member was never served with the “Petition to Determine
Capacity” nor were her rights read to her by any process server. I was never properly served with the “Petition to Determine Capacity”, and received paperwork in the mail shortly before the competency hearing;
* refusal of Judge (Griffis) to grant me the guardianship of My Family Member (filed by Mr.
Silverman on my behalf June 2011), without any substantiated reason/cause;
* refusal of my request to meet/interview appointed guardians;
* retaliation from the court/attorneys included restricting visitation (i.e., 6 weeks from June -July 2012);
* restrictions of where My Family Member and family could sit/visit;
* restricting My Family member and family from touching/bathing her or attending to
bathroom needs;
* restricting My Family Member from leaving facility with her family (needed attendant if
leaving home);
* allowing guardian to place restrictions without substantiating accusations against My Family Member’s extended family;
* approving “no objection” motions to appoint guardians (April 2014) without my knowledge
or consent;
* complaints against Belo were sent to Judge Griffis and Hulslander (by myself, Mr.fMrs.
Hernandez in Miami, and by Mr. Silverman) and were answered with further
retaliation/isolation from My Family Member. [NOTE: numerous objections in court were
made to Judge Griffis and Coker, but were denied any resolution regarding selection of
guardian and visitation restriction].
* the Advance directives in place were not honored and there was no statutorily required
hearing (Fl St 765) to rule on the Advance Directives even though they were known to the
court. [My Family Member’s legal and signed WILL was dated October 30.2007. in which
granddaughter named as health care surrogate, and myself as Executor, but courts/guardians did not adhere to document. Advanced directives were prepared by Belo and signed in 2013.]
* attorneys hired by me were ineffective or possibly complicit – Nancy Baldwin and Zena
Dupee (who literally took $3500 + for doing NOTHING) were useless, did not defend my best interests, and tried to negotiate/force me to negotiate with the guardian against my wishes and knowledge; [although he got Belo to resign, Mr. Silverman was not responsive to many of my requests.]
* The examining committee (May 24, 2011) consisted of Brian Cooke, MD (psychiatrist),
Arlene Nichols, RN, and Gerrie Scully, RN, and Carlos Rodriguez, MD (Fellow, observer. did not participate)’ who are licensed as MD and RNs. Each examiner spent approximately
~minutes with My Family Member (total time was I hour and 5 minutes). [NOTE: My
Family Member was never evaluated/tested for illicit drugs in her system or delirium.
There were no Geriatric/Neurology MD’s present, and diagnosis of ‘dementia’ is
inconsistent with proper diagnosis pattern for this condition, According to Alzheimer’s
Association – “diagnosing dementia is difficult. Becoming forgetful does not necessaril y mean that you have dementia, and could be a sign of stress or depression. Diagnosis is made through a complete assessment that considers all possible causes, including medical history, physical exam, neurological exam, mental status tests, brain imaging, and diet patterns.”
8. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST:
* Ms. Brasington was hired by my sisters (Julian and Clark), but Brasington was also the
attorney for Ms. DiVito;
* Ms. DiVito was personal friends with Ms. Clark – not revealed until September 2011
hearing, but Judge Griffis did nothing;
* continued personal letters and emails from Belo to Clark and Julian regarding status of My Family Member;
* personal emails and letter to Julian from Ms. Virginia Griffis – this is professionally unethical and constitutes bias;
* Belo continued to be copied on emailslIetters after her resignation as guardian in June 2013;
* Ms. Griffis being the attorney for all three guardians;
* allowing some family members visitation and travel privileges with My Family Member
(violation of court order) and restricting other family members from doing so.
* Abusive stay away court orders were issued at the request of Marilyn Belo without due
process or evidentiary hearing, and the only person that was threatened with suspension of all visitation was me and my children.
* Preiss sent a letter to Memory Lane (November 2013) restricting ONLY me from seeing my mom, and did not see my mother until Christmas Day.
This affidavit is based on personal knowledge, court documentation, letters and emails from 20 I 0 to current date.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO
BEFORE ME, a notary public in Dade-Miami Florida

Theresa Lyles, signature

I would like to thank Ms. Lyles personally for sharing her story on this blog, the affidavit being published with her permission.  It is very, very difficult to get these probate victims to share their horror stories publicly, even if I offer to publish anonymously.  Theresa deserves our kudos today.  Her story is also well documented and the affidavit she prepared is an excellent enumeration of the stripping away of the human and civil rights and liberties of the elderly and concerned family members who should have been a part of all of this.

Thank you so much Theresa for all your brave work. You are a heroine to others.

JoAnne

From an Atlantic article wherein a NSA admitted that they had provided “cute” or “aggressive” interpretations of the law to wrongfully expand their spying abiltites:

http://news.yahoo.com/nsas-director-civil-liberties-renounces-secret-law-110951711.html

If the NSA can admit that what they did was wrong (spying on everyone without a court order or only rubber stamped court orders) this will be a step in the right direction.

The courts are also there to funnel the efforts of agencies so that American taxpayers are not spending too much for spying efforts.  Qui Tam action, anyone?

http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/id=1202716740634/Legal-Aid-Supporters-Point-to-Guardianship-Case?slreturn=20150103154101

This poor woman was denied guardianship, it was scheduled on a day she could not attend court, then she started filing a flury of pleadings to present her side of the case.

The probate judge responded by barring her from coming to court and filing pleadings!

As most of you know from this blog, it is my position that pro se people are citizens that actually own and pay for the court system, so such rulings are an unconstitutional insult and an Abuse of Power.

Fortunately, the court of appeals turned one of her “writes” into a Notice of Appeal and then reversed that judge.  They acknowldeged there are far too few lawyers for low and middle class citizens to present their cases, esp. in probate.  While they think solving the problem is a $100 per year increase in bar dues to fund legal aide, it is the experience of this blog that is like throwing a handful of grain in front of an elephant.

Many courtrooms and judges are experiencing severe troubles with fraud on the court and troubles following the law to arrive at just results.  Simply put, more attorneys have to run blogs and speak out to help the public and the court system, and in addition, sign up and serve on probate cases pro bono or for low cost.

JoAnne Dension