Bad Minds, High Places” is the story of America’s failed legal culture and the FBI raids on Cleveland from 2008 to the present. It portrays the foibles of American public life from Ohio to Washington State and the ethos under which its legal system operates. The book is an absorbing, non-fiction account of an attorney subjected to fraudulent charges, arrest, extradition, jail and coordinated aggression on a national basis after he published an editorial critical of a Cleveland, Ohio judge. The author forces the reader to see a new model for state judiciaries as self-serving interest groups with the most gruesome failures in jurisdictions where judges are elected and heavily politicized. “Bad Minds”, is not only about individual failure on the part of one judge. It tells how politicized judges, prosecutors, attorneys and police cooperated at the state and federal level to commit serial offenses and obstruct accountability for their failures. The originality of the book is in the magnitude and irony of the failures it exposes and the uncomprehending persona of the author as a character distinct from the consensus which created the failures besetting him.

Today, Norwood Park Crippen House, Newark and Bryn Mawr Aves, Chicago. Noon to one pm.

Please call, text or email Gloria if you are coming. Gloami@msn.com.  773 910 3310.

If you cannot attend, please send a card, if you cannot send a card, please pray for Mary Sykes and those that loved her.

Thank you very much to Gloria for arranging this with her cousin Kathie Bakken and Aunt Yolanda Bakken.

I will be there.

http://thefullcourtpress.org/attorneys-who-expose-judicial-corruption-in-md-get-disbarred/#

In late February, the Maryland Court of Appeals (which is the highest court in Maryland) disbarred a long-time Maryland attorney, James Albert Frost, for alleging in emails that several Maryland judges had engaged in misconduct. The decision, Attorney Grievance Commission v. Frost, outlines the pertinent facts:

Respondent was admitted to the Maryland Bar on June 29, 1972. He does not maintain an office for the practice of law. On April 23, 2012, Respondent wrote an email to his ex-wife, stating, inter alia:

With regard to Case #110082-C, you know or should know that: (1) Ann S. Harrington, a

James Albert Frost

lawless judge, arranged for deputy sheriffs of the Montgomery County, MD, Sheriff’s Office to illegally arrest me on May 13, 2008, with no probable cause to do so and there by committed the crime under State of Maryland law of making a false report to an agency of the state with police powers; . . . (3) There was no basis in law or in fact for Judge Stephen P. Johnson, a weak man and corrupt judge acting under improper and political influence, to have me locked up in the county jail on a “no bond” order for 87 days and 87 nights but that’s what was done; and (4) The crooked State’s Attorney for Montgomery County, MD, John J. McCarthy, Esq., a protégé of Douglas F. Gansler, Esq., the corrupt Attorney General of Maryland, and a political ally of Maryland Governor O’Malley, a pretty-boy hack politician, didn’t let his assistant prosecutors drop the phon[y] charge against me until August 8, 2008.

With regard to Case #11041-C . . . you know or should know that the Maryland State Police deceived District Court of Maryland Commissioner Kaitlyn Boyle into signing a warrant to arrest me and then deceived Circuit Court Judge Joseph A. Dugan, Jr., into signing a search and seizure warrant by and through perjury on the warrant applications signed on August 13, 2008, by Maryland State Trooper Michael Brennan, who was ordered to do that by Maryland State Police Captain Clifford T. Hughes, his supervisor, and Maryland State Police Superintendent Terence B. Sheridan, who were acting under improper and political influence exerted (through an intermediary) by Governor O’Malley and his wife, Judge of the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City Catherine Curran O’Malley.

Respondent made the April 23, 2012 statements regarding the Honorable Ann S. Harrington, specifically calling her a “lawless judge” and accusing her of “arrang[ing] for deputy sheriffs of the Montgomery County, MD Sheriff’s Office to illegally arrest [him]” knowing the statements to be false and with reckless disregard as to their truth or falsity. Respondent has no facts to support the statements made regarding Judge Harrington.

Respondent made the April 23, 2012 statements regarding the Honorable Stephen P. Johnson, Retired Judge for the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County, specifically calling him “a weak man and corrupt judge acting under improper and political influence . . .” knowing the statements to be false and with reckless disregard as to their truth or falsity. Respondent has no facts to support the statement regarding Judge Johnson.

Respondent made the April 23, 2012 statement regarding John J. McCarthy, State’s Attorney for Montgomery County, specifically calling Mr. McCarthy a “crooked” State’s Attorney, knowing the statement to be false and with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity. Respondent has no facts to support the statement regarding Mr. McCarthy.

Respondent made the April 23, 2012 statement regarding Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General of Maryland, specifically calling Mr. Gansler “corrupt,” knowing the statement to be false and with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity. Respondent has no facts to support the statement regarding Mr. Gansler.

Respondent made the April 23, 2012 statement regarding Governor O’Malley, specifically that he exerted “improper” influence over members of the Montgomery County Police Department, knowing the statement to be false and with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity. Respondent has no facts to support the statement regarding Governor O’Malley.

Respondent made the April 23, 2012 statement regarding the Honorable Catherine Curran O’Malley, Judge [for the] District Court of Baltimore City, specifically that she exerted “improper” influence over members of the Montgomery County Police Department, knowing the statement to be false and with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity. Respondent has no facts to support the statement regarding Judge Curran O’Malley.

On or about May 2, 2012, Respondent mailed a copy of the April 23, 2012 email to George Meng, Esquire. Prior to May 2, 2012, Respondent had no relationship or communication with Mr. Meng. On or about May 2, 2012, Respondent forwarded a copy of the April 23, 2012 email to Paul Carlin, Esquire. On or about May 2, 2012, Respondent forwarded a copy of the April 23, 2012 email to Katherine Kelly Howard, Esquire.

On May 4, 2012, Mr. Meng emailed Respondent asking why the April 23, 2012 email was sent to him, directing him to Rule 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 of the Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct and requesting a response as how the April 23, 2012 email did not violate Rules 8.2 and 8.4 and did not require reporting to Petitioner pursuant to Rule 8.3. On May 10, 2012, no response having been received to his May 4 email, Mr. Meng again emailed Respondent requesting a response to the questions posed on May 4, 2012. On May 18, 2012, Respondent emailed Mr. Meng stating, “You should have something from me in your mail Monday.” On May 18, 2012, Respondent mailed Mr. Meng a letter directed to Chief of Police J. Thomas Manger, Montgomery County, Maryland. The May 18, 2012 letter did not, in any way, respond to the questions posed by Mr. Meng in his emails of May 4 and May 10. Mr. Meng received the May 18, 2012 letter on May 21, 2012. On May 21, 2012, Mr. Meng emailed Respondent again requesting a response to his May 4 and May 10 emails.

On May 23, 2012, no further communication having been received from Respondent, Mr. Meng filed a complaint with the Petitioner and enclosed: (1) Respondent’s April 23, 2012 email, (2) Mr. Meng’s May 4, 2012 email to Respondent, (3) Mr. Meng’s May 10, 2012 email to Respondent, (4) Mr. Meng’s May 18, 2012 email to Respondent, (5) Respondent’s letter of May 1, 2012 to Chief of Police J. Thomas Manger, and (6) Mr. Meng’s May 21, 2012 email to Respondent.

Attorney George Meng was no ordinary member of the Maryland Bar.  He was a long-time member of the Attorney Grievance Commission.  Meng’s complaint was forwarded to Frost by Bar Counsel. Frost responded:

“The statements of mine concerning which objections have been presented to your office are protected from state action by the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

The most interesting aspect of the article is it notes, as Ken  Ditkowsky and I have noted, that attorneys in the Kids for Cash program, apparently kept silent about the Program because they didn’t want to prosecuted under Rule 8.3 which prohibits lawyers from criticizing judges.  This is despite the fact, that has not been the law since the 1951 In Re Sawyer SCOTUS decision which allowed a Hawaii law professor to criticize a judge, a lawyer, a decision and a statute and said it was all protected by the First Amendment.  Recent cases have made it clear attorney occupational speech is protected by the First Amendment also (Virginia Bar v. Hunter Hogan, In re Weddigen (4th Dist, Illinois 2015). IRS v. Loving (IRS has no jurisdiction over requiring tax preparers to be tested and licensed), Alvarez SCOTUS–man can lie about the fact he claims falsely to have a Medal of Honor from Congress, Citizens United — PACs can put out sleezy fake movies about the Clintons right before elections.

But the Kids for Cash in Penn. and the Seniors for Cash in Probate across the nation is one of the biggest reasons to let attorneys speak out and, as granted them in the Sawyer case, criticize a judge, a law or a court decision.

We have to end the code of silence for attorneys.  It does no good, it engenders public mistrust of the law and legal system and judiciary, and with the prevalence of blogs and social media, it is near impossible to control when people can tweet and create blog posts right from a cell phone.

Worse, when a lawyer remains silent while the public records and videos lawless court proceedings that are little more than cash grabs for clouted attorneys and judges, it creates a situation where if an attorney does not speak out and reveal the wrongdoing, the attorney, as in Kids for Cash faces severe liability later when the authorities ask why scores of lawyers did not speak out to the FBI and states attorneys and to the public, warning everyone that the courtroom is corrupt and to expect that.

In fact, every courtroom should, like the internet, have a “take a survey” email sent out after every court appearance and that information should be made public where every professional present can rate the other party.

Our courtrooms are stuck in ye old England where silence and secrecy reigned and star chambers (ones where you were hauled in without notice, had no hearing, no discovery and were put in prison or stripped of your assets).  That system never worked and in 1776 the Colonies of America said enough was enough and created a new nation with a new constitution where the First Amendment in rights granted to the people was Free Speech and a free press.

Our ancestors had it right in 1779 when the US constitution was provided with a First Amendment for free speech and a free press which was passed unanimously and without comment. Prior to that, the 13 colonies had various forms of free speech and free press written into their own constitutions.

I guess it’s simply time to go back to the 1780’s when lawyers understood what a free and open democracy meant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-bland/corporate-americas-latest_b_8305902.html

Scary info:

Nursing homes have complete control over some of the most vulnerable and fragile people in the entire country: people who are gravely ill, who are often cognitively impaired in ways that make it hard for them to protect themselves, are completely at the mercy of these institutions. Unfortunately, nursing homes are increasingly being taken over by huge corporate entities that are often driven more by profit than a sincere commitment to taking care of residents. Thousands of nursing homes across the country have been snapped up by large Wall Street companies. Sixty percent of the market is now occupied by for-profit entities, increasingly private equity groups. One report discovered that in 60 percent of the homes purchased, managers cut the nursing staff to the point where they were providing only one clinical registered nurse for every 20 residents.

John Mitchell, only 69 years old, was recovering from a stroke at a nursing home in Dennis, Massachusetts when — one week after he was admitted — staff dropped him while moving him from his bed to a chair. A call to an ambulance was made, but then cancelled when his vital signs seemed to stabilize. Later that night, John became unresponsive. After he was rushed to the hospital, doctors discovered that the fall had caused extensive bleeding in his brain; he died a few days later. It was only after his sons hired an attorney to investigate the circumstances surrounding their father’s death that they found — among dozens of pages in the admission contract signed by John’s guardian — a pre-dispute arbitration agreement.

Fortunately for John’s family, a court ruled the clause in their contract unenforceable. But that isn’t always the case.

The Obama Administration is seriously considering doing something about this. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has an opportunity to say that nursing homes can no longer receive federal funding if they use arbitration clauses in their contracts. If CMS will take this step, it will return to the nation’s most vulnerable population their basic constitutional rights, and let people hold nursing homes accountable in case of abuse and neglect. My organization, Public Justice, just filed extensive comments with CMS urging it to take this opportunity to protect these vulnerable residents.

The US Supreme court has already ruled that arbitration clauses must be enforced under the US Constitution (where the word “arbitration” is found in the Constitution is unknown at this time).

Nonetheless, businesses (generally the most dangerous ones with the highest profits) routinely use tons of contract filler, and fine print about how all litigation must go to arbitration, and most often, they rig it to an arbitrator corporation that is favorable to their position of no liability, ever.

Of course, the US constitution does not say that if someone breaches a contract they must submit to a tied in provider, but that is often the effect.

Let’s hope the consumers can get some relief from the Concepcion case which dictates that consumers must arbitrate, and often with anti-consumer arbitrators that throw consumer fraud cases right into the circular file.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/officials-seek-clampdown-on-elder-fraud-1451434278

This is regarding financial planners that scam the elderly and churn accounts or recommend poor investments.

But we all know the real people that need to report are:

1. the ARDC should file its ethics reports
2. professional guardians should file ethics reports
3. court appointed vendors (both probate and divorce court) should file ethics reports and have independent 3rd parties provide an internet forum for families to rate them on price, budget, effectiveness, etc.
4. the JIB should justify dismissing valid citizen complaints.
5. the ARDC should strip judges engaging in wrongdoing of their law licenses.  It should not be an excuse they were sitting on the bench when they committed a fraud against the public.  “Kids for cash” and “seniors for cash” is a good example.

The Wall Street Journal is on the right track holding financial assistants and planners accountable for what they do, but they can add in the vendors (leeches) of both custody court and probate court.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2014/06/30/judge-rules-public-guardian-immune-lawsuit/11807381/

A circuit court judge has ruled that a Hendersonville woman placed in a conservatorship without her knowledge can sue Davidson’s former public guardian for not acting in her best interests.

In an 8-page ruling, Judge Hamilton Gayden ruled that former Public Guardian Jeanan Stuart is not immune to a suit charging that she failed to fulfill her duties.

Gayden had previously ruled that Ginger Franklin, the Hendersonville woman, could not sue based on allegations that Stuart mishandled her financial affairs. But late last week, he found that Franklin could sue for the personal toll Stuart’s handling of her affairs had taken.

That includes “mental anguish” and other damages.

This means that if this case is adopted in Illinois the OPG will undoubtedly be the subject of numerous lawsuits for cases they have been involved in.

This case is obviously a first step in the right direction.  Why should the Public Guardians have immunity when private parties do not.  What special privileges should they have when charging estates $250 per hour or more for attorneys fees and why should they be acting and preferred in the court system when there are already private attorneys who can competitively bid to take on these cases?

Public Guardians should not be immune from suit.  Period.  Far too many cases in Illinois have run amok without jurisdiction, massive tied in vendor and attorneys fees and no place to complain.  Tim Evans does nothing about complaints in guardianships, other than toss them in the circular file.  There is no oversight board, and no probate attorney or vendor is rated, publishes their price to family members and often family members cannot choose and both attorneys for the ward and vendors are tied in and are not rated.

Time to end all of this nonsense.  This hot mess of an attorney, public guardian, unrated vendors and tie ins with tie ins has to end in Illinois.

Mary G. Sykes was narcotized to death on May 23, 2015, as have other seniors been killed off in probate when the money ran out. Alice Gore lost 29 gold teeth and had a feeding tube inserted laced with drugs when she took too long to eat and the nursing home just wanted to plunk a tray in front of her and pick it up 15 minutes later.  The nursing homes charge the US govt and family members $5,000 to $15,000 per month for care services and provide one caretaker for 10 patients. That’s far too low a ratio.  Nursing home routinely pay kickbacks to those forcing them to live there against their will.  The system must end.  Lawyers must be able to file suit to protect their human and civil rights.

And this blog, Mr. Larkin and Grogin, must be protected by the First Amendment.  Your actions in prosecuting myself and Mr. Lanre Amu and Mr. Ken Ditkowsky are utterly reprehensible and a scourge on the history of US democracy.

Apparently there is one federal court judge that is doing his job in rebuking city attorneys for withholding evidence in a jury trial.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/citing_lawyer_misconduct_federal_judge_grants_new_trial_in_cop_shooting

In his opinion, Chang ordered a new trial after finding that city attorneys had engaged in misconduct by intentionally withholding a recording of a police transmission that took place before the shooting. The officers had claimed that the transmission in question had alerted them that a car matching the one Pinex was driving had been involved in a shooting earlier that night. According to the Tribune, lawyers for Pinex had requested the recording prior to trial, only to be told that the city couldn’t find it. During the fourth day of trial, however, the city revealed the recording of the transmission, which talked about a different car that was not tied to a shooting. The presence of the recording forced Pinex’s attorneys to scramble for a new theory to present to the jury during the middle of the trial.

The Mayor has asked that the feds not investigate the City of Chicago lawyers.  He asserts they need “better training and supervision”–an absolutely ridiculous assertion for an individual that has 7 years or more of college, has to take a bar exam and also has to take 40 hours of CLE every 2 years.  Seems to me all these City Lawyers have learned to do is better manipulate a situation.

These attorneys, Jordan Marsh and Thomas Aumann, despite costing the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay the costs of a new trial, will likely go unpunished by the ARDC, but this blog, that tells you the truth has to be shut down for doing just that–revealing the Truth.  Now the Truth always comes out in the end, but Jerome Larkin’s job (together with Chief Counsel James Grogin appears to be to keep it hidden for as long and possible and hope that judicial and lawyer wrongdoing is forgotten or just goes away despite the high cost of corruption to the public–now approaching some $100 million according to recent articles when you add in Burge’s torture scheme.

I want to know what is the difference between “forgetting about”, withholding and suppressing evidence and the lack of jurisdiction over Mary Sykes in her case, repeatedly quashing discovery and refusing to open an honest, thorough and complete investigation of 09 P 4585– a case where Mary was narcotized to death on May 23, 2015 when Judge Aicha McCarthy was presiding and the probate miscreant attorneys–Stern, Farenga, Schmeidel, Waller and Soehlig have never been investigated by the ARDC for missing assets, lack of jurisdiction, invading a safe deposit box without court order, seizing Gloria’s $200k when it was in Indiana when it was clearly her money from a lawsuit, then invalidating her Power of Attorney without Notice, filing a Petition for Partition, Hearing and Discovery?

Explain to me, Attorney Larkin and Grogin, how suppressing evidence of the loss of nearly $1 million in valuable coins and having the court repeatedly quash discovery (we still need to get the vault video tapes of what Carolyn Toerpe came in and out with, the bag of coins was sizeable, and I’d like to talk to the lady who signed her in and out of the vault area, and the banker who told Mary to get a Protective Order when Carolyn swiped $4,000 out of her account without authorization.  How does the ARDC get away with this?

And how is it that Thomas Aumann and Jordan Marsh have no disciplinary complaints lodged against them for suppressing crucial video evidence in a wrongful death trial, but Denison and Ditkowsky do for reporting on a string of improprieties, breaches of the law, quashing discovery of crucial evidence.

If there is anyplace the feds MUST investigate, it MUST be the ARDC and Jerome Larkin and James Grogin. What is going on there?  Numerous court decisions (Alvarez, Citizens United, Virginia State Bar v. Hunter Hogan, In re Sawyer, In re Weddingen and Rosemont v. Markham make it clear the authorities cannot discipline a professional for what is written in the news, but the ARDC is adept and skilled at changing black to white and white to black.

So here’s some clues for the feds: 1) take a look again at Peter Schmeidel and the people who died in the 2003 fire at the OPG in Chicago; 2) go and look at how my Chair Sang Yul Lee manipulated my proceeding and “fixed it”;  3) go take a look at Anna M Loftus* and if she fixed the proceedings of both Ditkowsky and Amu and then was awarded with a judgeship for that.  In each of the Denison, Ditkowsky and Amu cases where lawyers told the truth about judicial and lawyer wrongdoing, in the end black became white and white became black.  The judicial improprieties were proved in the end, but those revealing the Truth were disciplined for it.

The feds MUST investigate the city lawyers and MUST investigate the ARDC.  it is not doing its job, and because the ARDC is not doing its job, seniors in probate are being killed without investigation, and the city is being drained to the tune of over $100 million for a system of wrongdoing and improprieties that result in the deaths of innocent citizens because wrongdoing officers and management “know” they will be protected, valid citizen complaints may be lost and evidence destroyed and suppressed.

This must end.  Chicago deserves much better.

*Anna Loftus was on both the Ditkowsky and Amu cases.  She is a friend of Ann Burke on the Illinois Supreme Court.  Sang Yul Lee’s business partner is Matyas–a relative of Lisa (Murray) Madigan who “doesn’t do corruption cases” in Illinois, together with Anita Alvarez who is now under fire for her “I don’t do corruption cases”, and Diane Saltoun who sits on the same side of this argument.  Unfortunately that lets wrongdoing run amok, everyone knows they will not suffer any consequences (see ARDC lack of discipline for Seth Gillman, and now Aumann and Marsh) and it has cost lives in Cook County’s probate division and in police brutality liabilities of more than $100 million to date in settlements and judgments against the city which can ill afford these amounts.  A huge chunk of the city’s children live in poverty and routinely go hungry, often are homeless and without hats, gloves and mittens.  This is not even to mention the lack of  a good education where class sizes must be much smaller to give more attention to distressed children.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-mayor-rahm-emanuel-met-0106-20160106-story.html

Whoever has read this blog is not shocked at all by this nonsense.  We know that the fish stinks from the head in Chicago, and that means, if the White House has promised a prompt and thorough investigation of all judical, police and legal wrongdoing, all aspects of the violations of laws must be looked at. The feds must examine the City Law Department, talk to the judges involved and the attorneys involved in the courtrooms and ask their opinion about how videos of police murders and brutality are suppressed for many long months by the city.

For sure, if I were a federal investigator, I for certain would want to pull every complaint and grievance filed against every police officer, every judge and every lawyer in Chicago and determine how and why these complaints are routinely lost, dismissed without an investigation from the following agencies:   CPD grievance intake, Illinois Atty Regn and Disciplinary Commission and the Judicial Inquiry Board, and the city of Chicago Inspector General.  I would also pull records from the Mayor’s office, the Chicago FBI office, the CPD and letters to the Presiding Judge Timothy Evans and all Federal District Court judges complaining of judicial wrong doing and wrong doing by attorneys practicing there.

I am not surprised the Mayor said “please don’t investigate our lawyers at the City of Chicago” because that’s probably where the fish stinks the most.

I am certain that honest citizens have filed numerous complaints over police wrongdoing and brutality, and that lawyers at the City figured out ways to cover these issues up.

I have no doubt that James Larkin and perhaps others at the ARDC were consulted with to avoid any public backlash when the City lawyers were worried about such topics as 18 USC sec 4 or misprison of felony, obstruction of justice and spoliation of evidence.

For example, during my trial, Judge Stuart changed her testimony on whether or not she chained Gloria Sykes so that Gloria had to hand her funds over to her mother’s Guardianship Estate so the lawyers there could be paid some $150,000 in fees.  At first she said absolutely not, she had never chained anyone before.  Then later when I asked her how many people had she done this to, she said, “you know this was the first—- let me change that—I have never”.  It was a Perry Mason moment for me which was short lived when the crooked court reporters (whom I had admonished not to change the transcript) did in fact change the transcript and those words were missing from the transcript.  No matter, 6 weeks later she “suddenly retired” for her misdeeds.

In the Ramona DeGante estate, counsel for the Guardian asked for an Order of Possession from the court to kick out Ramona’s 80 year old wheel chair bound husband, and Judge Dole handed it out, no questions asked, as if it were a piece of halloween candy and the attorney–Rod Mollison, had just said “trick or treat.”  Never mind the fact that the Husband, Carlos Sr was entitled to Notice, a Complaint for Eviction, discovery and a hearing.  None of that happened.  Accordingly his civil and human rights were clearly violated.

But not to let that stop her from doing this again, I just received another case,  a certain DS complained that Judge Dole has done it again and has handed over funds held in a joint back account, between a husband and wife, where the wife was guardianized, the Temp Guardian was allowed to dip into funds in a joint account between husband and wife, without Notice, Discovery, a Petition to Partition and a Hearing on the merits.  No need for that, the judge and the Temp Guardian just dipped right in and slammed the woman into a nursing home against her will.  The husband is not allowed to see her.  When the police repeatedly tried to remove them from a $1 million surburban home the OPG has targeted for their own coffers, consent to a guardianship, the couple steadfastly refused, and in the process, both were bruised, so what did APS and the OPG do? Charge a loving, kind husband with domestic violence and slap him with a criminal complaint–at age 80, no less.  The whole mess is an appalling lack of justice and smacks of seniors for cash, which is what Probate in Illinois, and Probate on the 18th floor of the Daley center actually has become.

Now that’s TWICE Judge Dole has handed out orders without due process and has violated an 80 year old man’s human and civil rights.  The feds should look into those cases too.

And if you complain to the ARDC or the JIB you hear nothing but excuses back.  In the last letter I published from the ARDC a senior counsel said she “did not know” what Attorney Ethics Violations would be for felonious violations of state and federal laws.  Amazing.  Now the ARDC admits they do not go after attorney felons, just like Lisa Madagin (a/k/a Murray, daughter of a criminal atty that represented drug king pins in New York) –“does not do corruption”, and neither, apparently does Inspector General Diane Saltoun, or states attorney Anita Alvarez, who has also been asked to step down in the wake of the MacDonald-Jones-Legrier mess of 27 bullets pumped into innocent Chicago citizens.

The upshot?  If Mayor Emanuel says “please don’t investigate our saintly city attorneys”, that for sure is the best reason to go there.  And the ARDC too please, investigate how they routinely violate the human and civil rights of Chicago Citizens, including Denison, Ditkowsky and Amu.  Don’t skip that one.  It’s an easy one for them.  No brainer.

(edited only for typos and grammar)

From Gloria Sykes

Dear Friends and Foes,